In Jeremiah 32, the prophet Jeremiah is in prison. I always like to talk about or write about people in prison or people about to die just so you’ll know that following Jesus doesn’t always end up with you being wealthy and healthy and everyone loving you. There’s a bit of that out there today, and I just want to continually point out that actually, in the Bible, it rarely, if ever, works that way. So here’s one of those cases. Jeremiah, like Paul centuries later, says everything God wants him to say. He has been obedient to all God asked him to do, and he finds himself imprisoned by his own
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