Hope can sound like a pleasant fantasy—especially when life feels like it’s under siege and nothing seems to change. In this episode, we walk through Jeremiah 32:1–15 and ask, Is hope for real, or is it just religious wishful thinking? As Babylon surrounds Jerusalem and Jeremiah sits in prison, God asks him to do something that looks utterly ridiculous: buy a field in a war zone as a public act of hope in God’s promise to restore His people.
In this week’s episode, we explore:
- The bleak setting of Jeremiah 32: a city under siege, a prophet in prison, and a nation on the brink of collapse
- How Jeremiah’s message of judgment and long exile made the promise of restoration sound too distant to be meaningful
- The way modern people, like King Zedekiah, place their hope in politics, leaders, systems, or progress—and why those hopes always disappoint
- God’s strange command for Jeremiah to buy a worthless field and store the deed in a jar, and how that concrete, costly act proclaimed, “Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land”
- Why genuine hope always looks a little crazy in the short term and often costs us something—our money, our comfort, our reputation, our sense of control
- How 1 Peter calls us to “set our hope fully” on the grace to come, and what it means to think clearly and live differently because of a coming kingdom that cannot be shaken
- Paul’s argument in Romans 5: if God loved us enough to send Christ to die for us while we were His enemies, how much more can we trust Him now that we are His children
- The cross as our once-for-all proof that Christian hope is not a fairy tale but anchored in a real act in history
After listening, you’ll see Jeremiah’s “crazy” land purchase as a picture of what it means to live like God’s promises are actually true. You’ll be invited to examine where you’ve misplaced your hope, to anchor it instead in the God who has already proven His love at the cross, and to take the kind of daily, concrete steps that only make sense if resurrection hope is real—and certain.
Series: Questions Jeremiah Answered
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