Subject: Serving God against all Odds!! - Jeremiah 47-52

Jeremiah 51:61-64 (ESV Strong's)
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words, and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.’ When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, and say, Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.’”
Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Subject:  Serving God against Great Odds!!

Jeremiah is finishing the message God gave him.  The final position of the message was to Babylon was that, despite your current reign and victory over all nations, you will soon be destroyed.   God is about to bring in another nation that will destroy it.  The reason?  Because Babylon had, like all these other nations, lifted her head in pride and did not give God glory.   This message of doom and destruction, however, was to be delivered to the nation by Seraiah.  We don't know a lot about him, but his job was to read the words that Jeremiah penned in this book to the fierce Babylonians.   This was not to be an easy task.  When God asks us to deliver His word, it is often not easy.  They only way Seraiah could do this job was to be completely dependent upon God and to know that God was in charge and large enough to deal with Babylon.  This would be an act of faith.   He would have to trust that God had, indeed, sent him and that in sending him, God would also enable him to survive.   This is an act of faith.   We can't deliver God's word without trusting that God is faithful to His Word and to those who deliver it.