SermonStudio
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Preaching
Preaching And Reading The Old Testament Lessons
With an Eye to the New
Few accounts are more instructive of the ways of God with his people Israel and with us than is the record of the prophetic ministry of Jeremiah that we find in the Old Testament. Jeremiah was called by God to be a prophet probably in 626 B.C. during the reign of good King Josiah in Judah. Jeremiah was a very young man at the time, unskilled in speaking and exceedingly reluctant to accept the call. The Lord equipped him with words, however, and set him under an irresistible compulsion to preach, assuring Jeremiah that he would always be accompanied and guarded by the presence of his Lord (cf.
