Well, hey, hey, good morning, good morning. Welcome to Coffee and Devotions. This morning we're going to finish up Jeremiah chapter 51, and it's gonna kind of conclude this whole section and wrap up talking about Babylon. So let's have some, Nathan had us make chai today. So we have some chai, and we'll pray, and we'll get into God's word. unsweetened chai. Okay, let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for this day. We pray that you would please help us. Lord, we need your Holy Spirit to teach us. We need you to be the one who makes us to be able to understand and believe and live in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Here we go. Jeremiah chapter 51. And you want me to put that on the desk there? in my chapter 51, and we'll be looking at verses 59 through the end of the chapter. So 59 through 64, only a few verses. 59? 49, or yeah, so verse 59. Yeah, you've missed it. You got away scot-free. The other kids and I have been doing huge chunks. Oh no, I did like a whole huge chunk. Okay. Alright, so he's just finished all these judgments that are going to come on Babylon. And so here's the conclusion. I'll let you read it. The Lord which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Sarah, the son of Elijah, the son of Messiah, when he went with the Zedekiah. the king of Judah to Babylon, the fourth year of his reign, and Zerahiah was the court master. So Jeremiah wrote in the book all the evil that would come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon. And Jeremiah said to Zeriah, When you arrive in Babylon, and see it, and read all these words, then you shall say, O LORD, you have spoken against this place, to cut it off, so that none shall remain in it, either man or beast, but it shall be desolate forever. Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates. Then you shall say, thus Babylon shall sink and not rise from the catastrophe that I will bring upon her. They shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah. Alright, so this Saraiah guy, Saraiah is most likely Baruch's brother. Baruch is Jeremiah's scribe. But they're going to be going to Babylon, the very place that all of chapter 50 and 51 was the judgment against Babylon. And so he's going to go, and he's going because Zedekiah, the king, has to answer most likely for the junk he's been doing that Jeremiah talked about in chapter 27. So he's getting called. Nebuchadnezzar wants an answer for his behaviors. And now Jeremiah sends him with something. What's he send him with? What book? I think he's sending him with essentially chapter 50 and 51. And what's he supposed to do when he goes there? He's supposed to say, like, this is going to happen to you. This book's going to happen to you. Yeah. So he goes and he reads about the destruction of Babylon. It's going to be desolate forever, right? And then what's he supposed to do with the book? No, I was thinking about the phrase, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me. You're so silly. I don't think that's true. That's not what this is talking about, but it's an interesting phrase to tie in. Okay. What's he supposed to do with these? You got words and stones mentioned here. Put a stone on the words and throw them in the Euphrates. Yeah, throw them in the river, right? Like this is the certain destruction Babylon's going to be sinked down like these words sink down in the water. All right. And this concludes this portion of the book. So summarize that about what he's going to say this is about. I think it's about Jeremiah. And the thing is, the thing is, he says, like, this is the woes, but like, you can tell this is really the woe of speaking in like lots of these portions. Jeremiah, for me, it's very hard to follow who's speaking because many times it sounds like this might be Jeremiah, but then, then he says something that's like, thus says I, and then it's like, wait, it's like, this kind of sounds good. There's often a smooth, a smooth transition between when Jeremiah is speaking, when the Lord speaks, and then you hear Jeremiah's voice again. But it's definitely the Lord's, right, thus saith the Lord type sentences. But tell me what this section is about. The destruction of Babylon. Okay. I would have put the destruction of Babylon in chapter 50 and earlier in 51. Well, it's been like that. establishing the death and destruction of Babylon. Okay, yeah. So if you want to write that, the establishment, I would probably put something like, Jeremiah sends Baruch's brother to actually deliver the woes against Babylon. Maybe something like that, but that's the whole point, right? You're trying to put in your own brain, in your own words. All right, so let's go ahead and what verse would you underline as the best verse to summarize this section? I'm gonna go with 62. Yep. I would probably do 63 myself, but I could see anybody doing 63 through 64. So 62 to 64 I think kind of gets at the heart of it. Hard to just underline one verse. All right, so let's talk about see calling. What does that call us to do? How does it point us to Jesus Christ? I think it can point to the finishing when Jesus died on the cross. He finished the sin. He finished it. That was it. Okay, so you want to go to the destruction of Babylon and God destroying the last enemy, sin and death, and Jesus saying it is finished. He's taken the curse on himself. The work is done. I had not thought about that. The destruction of Babylon. God even giving up his own son for us. That's an interesting way to go to Christ. Yeah, interesting. Very much true, right? Because their rebellion is because, or their judgment and destruction is because of their rebellion against the Lord. That was an interesting way to get there. I wouldn't have thought about that. I was thinking about like the Lord's word is true. He does what he say he's going to do. And so when he says something, I ought to listen to it. He doesn't take some lightly. But then I would say, he doesn't take sin so lightly. He sent his own son to say it is finished, right? Dying on the cross for us, so good, yeah. It's easy, I think, sometimes to think about, well, the day of the Lord's coming someday, so what's the pressure today? Yeah, the pressure is because the day of the Lord is at hand. All right, you ready to pray? God, thank you for a good day. Thank you for teaching us a lot about how we should live and how Jesus took the punishment for us. And even in this short section of Jeremiah, we learn a lot about how you were kind and took sin so seriously, you said you're only son. and please help us to remember that through the rest of our day. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. May God bless you. May you walk in the joy and peace of Jesus Christ. We'll see you next time. Bye.