2. Planting Season – Each Seed With Hope

3. Hope Itself Can Be Seed

4. Jeremiah Sowing Seed of The Word of God Seed of Judgment Seed of Hope

5. I. The Sower - Jeremiah 1-2 ~626 – 586 BC Called by God 1:5-10
Instructed not to marry 1,2
Instructed not to mourn, feast, party 5, 8
FOR US – Jeremiah not a health and prosperity prophet like some today.

6. II. Seed of Judgment – Part One 3-13
Seed of warning and judgment in earlier chapters
Death coming to all 3-4
Lord take away His peace, lovingkindness and mercies 5-8
Lord remove all sounds of happiness 9
Lord take them out of their land 10-13
FOR US – We are sinners too, need to hear, repent. Many today do not see their own sin.

7. III. Seed of Hope 14-15, 19
In the middle of seed of judgment is seed of hope 14-15
Hope for the people and the land 14-15
The Lord lives
Days coming no longer talk of out of Egypt but out of North
Bring people back to their land
Hope for Gentiles 19
FOR US – Christian message is hope. Hope helps.

8. IV. Seed of Judgment – Part 2 16-18, 20-21
Back on message for people 16-17
But first the Lord God 18a
The Lord God will judge sin 18b
The Lord God will cause them to know 20-21
FOR US – The Babylonian judgment and exile are a timeless reminder that God judges national sin.