Jeremiah // Pastor Gene Pensiero

Jeremiah 52 – Don’t It Make My Blind Eyes Blue

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The last thing Zedekiah sees before he is blinded is the murder of his sons by their Babylonian captors (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 51 – The Original Sunk Rockers

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After reading aloud Jeremiah’s prophecy of the destruction of Babylon, Seraiah ties a rock to the scroll and throws it into the Euphrates River to illustrate the nation’s sinking (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 50 – Immortal Combat

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Warfare rages in which God reveals Himself as the Redeemer to either deliver those who repent or to destroy those who rebel (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 49 – Keep Your Friend Close But Your Enemy Conquered

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A series of God’s judgements against Judah’s enemies encourages us that we can be more than conquerors as we walk with Him (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 48 – Days Of Wine And Posers

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Jeremiah uses a vineyard metaphor to describe the false pride of the Moabites (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 47 – Talk To The Sword Hand

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God’s judgment against the warlike Philistines is personified as a sword that Jeremiah has a conversation with (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 46 – Jews Of DeNile

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The Jews refused to believe Jeremiah that they would find no refuge from King Nebuchadnezzar by fleeing to Egypt (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 45 – The Bare(uch) Necessities

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Baruch, Jeremiah’s secretary, expresses that he wanted more out of life than he was going to get serving The Lord (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 44 – A Good Day To Die Hardheartedness

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Jeremiah rebukes the Jews who have fled to Egypt for their hard hearts (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 41:16-43:13 – To Flee Or Not To Flee

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The Jews ask The Lord if they should continue fleeing to Egypt even though they have no intentions of obeying Him if He says “No” (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 40:13-41:15 – Kill Me Ishamel

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Governor Gedeliah ignores the warning that Ishmael is going to kill him (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 40:1-12 – Choosey Prophets Choose Judah

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In the aftermath of Jerusalem’s fall Jeremiah is given a choice to live in either Babylon or Judah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 39 – Two Men And A Babylon

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Two men – Jeremiah and Ebed-Melech – are singled-out by God for special treatment in Babylon (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 38 – Pit Stopped

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The princes of Jerusalem throw Jeremiah into a pit in order to stop him from preaching (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 37 – Dungeons And Dramatics

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Zedekiah secretly visits Jeremiah in a makeshift dungeon to discuss the fate of Jerusalem (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 36 – Jehoiakim The Ripper

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King Jehoiakim takes a knife and cuts the Word of God as it is read then throws the fragments in the fire (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 35 – You Can Lead A Rechabite To Wine, But You Can’t Make Him Drink

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Knowing the Rechabites won’t drink it, God instructs Jeremiah to set wine before them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 34 – Let’s Put Christ Back In Crisis

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The Lord asks His besieged people to obey Him in the midst of the crisis (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 33 – Might As Well Face It, God’s Predicted To Love

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As the fall of Jerusalem rapidly approaches God insists His love for Israel & Judah is unwavering (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 32 – Tell God How You Field

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Jeremiah questions God when he is asked to buy a seemingly worthless field (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 31 – Our God Is A Drawsome God

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God illustrates His everlasting love by showing how He continually draws you to Himself (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 30 – Doom And Bloom

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Despite the impending and inevitable destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah shows the Jews it wasn’t all doom and gloom by giving them a glimpse of their future prosperity in the land (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 29 – A Mindset Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

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The Lord encourages His chosen people to set their minds on seeking Him during their seventy year captivity in Babylon (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 28:1-17 – The Man In The Iron Yoke

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When Hananiah breaks Jeremiah’s wooden yoke he replaces it with one made of iron (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 27 – Where There’s Yoke, There’s Holy Fire

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Jeremiah tells Judah and the surrounding Gentile nations that The Lord will preserve and bless them if they wear the yoke of submission to Babylon (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 26 – Temple Stand-In

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Jeremiah is told to stand in the Temple and deliver God’s Word (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 25:1-38 – Vintage Jeremiah

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Jeremiah pours-out wine to represent the coming pouring-out of the wrath of God against sin (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 24:1-10 – The Basket Case Scenario

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Jeremiah is shown two baskets of figs, one ripe, one rotten, that illustrate the people of Judah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 23:9-30 – Habitat For Profanity

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God tells Jeremiah that the prophets and the priests are profane men who have have profaned His house, the Temple of the Lord (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 23:1-8 – Pasture, Present & Future

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God promises Judah that in the future He will regather them as a Shepherd leads sheep to their pasture (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 22:1-30 – We The Kings Disoriented Are

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Jeremiah comments on the awful administrations of the last four kings to rule Judah before the Babylonian captivity (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 21:1-14 – Now You Siege Me, Now You Don’t

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Jeremiah is consulted as the Babylonian armies begin their final siege of Jerusalem (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 19:14-20:18 – The Bone-Fire Of The Prophecies

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Jeremiah tried to quit delivering God’s prophecies only to find that God’s word was a fire in his bones (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 19:1-13 – Jar-Jar Breaks

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Jeremiah is told to take a jar from the potter’s house and break it in the presence of the elders and the priests of Judah as a sign of the destruction prophesied against the nation (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 18:18-23 – You Can’t Handle The Trial

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Jeremiah is so overwhelmed by the news his life is in danger that he starts praying against the people of Judah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 18:1-17 – Holy Potter And The Deathly Hardening

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God likens His relationship with the nation of Israel to that of a potter working with hardened clay (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 17:19-27 – No Sabbath For You!

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The Jews are exhorted by Jeremiah to quit saying “No” to God with regards to His command that they keep the Sabbath (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 17:1-18 – The Not So Comic-Con

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God tells Jeremiah we all have a deceitful heart and that we therefore tend to con ourselves into departing from the Lord (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 16:1-21 – Lifestyles Of The Righteous And Faithful

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God spells-out the righteous lifestyle He had chosen for His prophet (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 15:10-21 – The Bad News Bearer

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Like many prophets before and after him, Jeremiah complains to God that he was being persecuted as a bearer of bad news (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 14:1-15:9 – What We Have Here Is A Savior To Communicate

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Although Jeremiahʼs prayers are largely ineffective, God considered him one of the Bibleʼs great intercessors and their talk in these verses communicates volumes about our intimacy with God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 13:1-27 – One Man’s Sash Is Another Man’s Typology

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Jeremiah is told to wear a sash around his waist to symbolize Godʼs relationship with the nation of Judah (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 11:18-12:17 – A Horse Is A Horse, Of Course, Of Course, Until You’re Empowered To Race The Horse

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When a weary Jeremiah feels as if he is in a race against footmen God tells him that he will soon have to run against horses (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 11:1-17 – It’s A Whole New Baal Game

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Even though Godʼs Word had been rediscovered, the people of Judah continued to burn incense to Baal (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 10:17-25 – Back To The Paddle Again

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Jeremiah describes God as a loving Father, Who therefore disciplines His children for their own good (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 10:1-16 – MetallicApostate

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Jeremiah shows the futility of apostate Judah worshipping dead idols adorned by their metal smiths (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 9:2-26 – The Call Of The Wilderness

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Jeremiah lamented that the disobedience of Judah had them on a course that would force God to turn their beautiful land into a desolate wilderness (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 8:4-9:1 – Revival Of The Faintest

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Jeremiahʼs heart grows faint as he longs for revival among Godʼs people (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 7:1-8:3 – Don’t Pray For Me, Jeremiah

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The people of Judah are so deep into their sin that at one point God tells Jeremiah to not even pray for them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 6:1-30 – Need I Assay More?

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God appoints Jeremiah an assayer to test Judah just as you would precious metals (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 5:1-31 – A Running Commentary

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God sends Jeremiah on a run through Jerusalem then tells him what He has in store for the unrepentant Jews (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 4:5-31 – The Lion, The Wind And The Harlot’s Wardrobe

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God compares the Babylonians to a devouring lion or a fierce windstorm that will catch Judah off-guard and dressed as a harlot (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 3:3-4:4 – Little Sister, Don’t Do What Your Big Sister Done

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God reminds Judah what happened to her sister, Israel, and warns her to learn from it and turn away from sin before itʼs too late (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 2:32-3:5 – Judah, Don’t Take Your Love To Town

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While God remains faithful to her, Judah is described as an adulteress on a constant search for her next partner (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 2:20-31 – Folly, Folly, Oxen Free

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God describes the people of Judah as oxen who have foolishly broken their yoke in order to be free to pursue their own rebellious lusts (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 2:9-19 – The Backslide Of Water

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God illustrates Judahʼs backslide into sin as an exchange of fountain water for rainwater and run-off collected in reservoirs (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 2:1-8 – An Affiance To Remember

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God remembers the love of His betrothal to the people of Judah and encourages them to do the same (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 1:9-19 – Jeremiah Was A Bulwark

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God tells Jeremiah that He will make him like a walled city (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jeremiah 1:1-8 – I Think I Can’t, I Think I Can’t!

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God gives Jeremiah his lifeʼs mission but Jeremiah thinks he canʼt accomplish it (Pastor Gene Pensiero)