Jeremiah 32: God Can Do a Rubik’s Cube Blindfolded

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Introduction: God’s Power and Trust

Speaker 1 0:00

Hello everybody, welcome back to the Bible Breakdown podcast with your host, pastor Brandon, today, jeremiah, chapter 32, and today's title is God Can Do a Rubik's Cube Blindfolded. God can. I said that terribly. God can do a Rubik's Cube blindfolded. Hopefully that will make sense here in just a moment. But, as always, if you have your Bibles, want to open up with me to Jeremiah 32,. While you're doing that, if you're new here, make sure you like, share and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the podcast. Make sure you're telling somebody about the YouTube channel and the podcast. Leave us a five-star review. I love the fact that we get to do this together, and one of the ways we do this together is by going to the Bible Breakdown Discussion on Facebook. The more we dig, the more we find, and they are just helping us understand God's word more and more every single day. Well, once again, if you have your Bibles, I want to open up with me to Jeremiah 32. The reason why I say God can do a Rubik's cube blindfolded is because, to me, the hardest thing in the world and here's the thing I've seen somebody do this. I know someone personally who can do this, but one of the hardest things ever is to do a Rubik's Cube. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do this thing. What's even more just outrageous is I have seen people who will look at that Rubik's Cube for a moment. They'll look at two of them, one in each hand, and then they will blindfold themselves and then inside 60 seconds, just moving their fingers around, they will figure them out. And I'm telling you, I am certain they are cheating. They have to be. It is the most amazing thing ever and, as a matter of fact, I want to put the challenge out to our entire Bible Breakthrough Nation that if you can do two Rubik's Cubes blindfolded, please I would love for you to do that blindfolded. Post a video and tag us and I will. I will give you the very first Bible breakthrough t-shirt or breakdown t-shirt. Okay, I've got to see it. It is one of the most crazy things I can think of, and yet someone can do it.

Speaker 1 1:58

Well, that's what I think about when I think about this chapter, because in in chapter 32, the Bible is telling us, god's telling us, through Jeremiah in his word, he is saying that I'm going to do some amazing stuff that you're going to think is impossible. You're going to think how in the world is God going to do this? Well, because I'm God. That's why you couldn't do this, but I can because I'm God. As a matter of fact, he tells Jeremiah to buy some land because this is going to be worth something. One day I'm going to restore all of this. And there are times in our life when we get ourselves into a situation or a situation gets around us and we think, man, there is no way that God can fix this mess. Well, imagine the mess that the nation of Israel is in. They have been deported, so many of them to all these other nations out of defeat. All these bad things are happening to them and yet, in the middle of all of this disaster, god is saying one day I'm going to bring them back together. As a matter of fact, that's the theme of Jeremiah that God gives us a hope and a future. He gives us a light in the middle of darkness. So we're going to read this together and watch how God is saying I'm telling you I can do the impossible. Watch me do it, you ready.

Speaker 1 3:08

Jeremiah, chapter 32, verse 1, says this the following message came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the 10th year of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah. This was also the 18th year of the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. Jerusalem was then under siege from the Babylonian army and Jeremiah was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard of the royal palace. King Zedekiah had put him there, asking why he kept giving this prophecy. This is what the Lord says. This is what Jeremiah would say. This is what the Lord says I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon and he will take it. King Zedekiah will be captured from the Babylonians and be taken to meet the king of Babylon face to face. He will then take Zedekiah to Babylon and he will deal with him there, says the Lord. If you fight against the Babylonians, you will never succeed. At that time, the Lord sent me this message and he said your cousin Hanumanel, son of Zolam, will come to you and say Buy my field at Anathoth. By law, you have the right to buy it before it is offered to anyone else. Now pause, there's a lot going on there.

Speaker 1 4:20

First of all, jeremiah then got arrested. He got arrested because Nebuchadnezzar's army, babylon, had surrounded Jerusalem, and they kept saying listen, if you surrender, we will not kill most of you, I mean some people are going to die. That's what this is. This is a battle, but the rest of you are going to live and we're going to take your king. We're going to do what we did, and Jeremiah is saying God is not going to deliver us out of this. We have done too much, we've gone too far, too much blood is on our hands. We need to give up. Well, obviously that's bad for morale, even though it's the truth, and so Zedekiah had him arrested and he's about to starve him to death too. We're going to find out later, but even while that's happening, some relative of Jeremiah is going to come to Jeremiah while he's in prison.

Speaker 1 5:04

He said hey, you want to buy my land? Yeah, the land is worth pretty much nothing right now because we're being overrun. Would you want to buy that land? Well, if you've ever read the book of Ruth, he had to, because the way it would work is is, if you ever wanted to sell your land, there was a line of people. You had to sell it to, one after the other, depending on who was your closest relative. It's just the way they did that, because they wanted to keep the land in the family, because it'd been given to them by God after they came out of Egypt, right? So he didn't have a choice. So here's Jeremiah, he's in prison because he's telling the truth. And this guy comes up and he's like hey look, man, you want to buy my land? Well then, verse eight says this.

Speaker 1 5:41

Then, just as the Lord had said he would, my cousin Hanamel came and visited me in prison. He said please buy my field at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. By law, you have the right to buy it before it is offered to anyone else, so buy it for yourself. Then I knew that the message I had heard was from the Lord. So I bought the field at Anathoth, paying Hanumanel 17 pieces of silver for it. I signed and sealed the deed and purchased it before witnesses weighed out for silver, and then I paid them. Then I took and sealed the deed and an unsealed copy of the deed which contained the terms and conditions of the purchase, and I handed them to Baruch, son of Neriah, the grandson of Mashiach. I did all this in the presence of my cousin Hanumanel and the witness who had signed the deed and all the men of Judah who were there in the courtyard of the guardhouse. Then I said to Baruch, as they all listened. This is what the Lord of heaven's armies, the God of Israel, says take both the sealed deed and the unsealed copy and put them into a pottery jar to preserve them for a long time. For this is what the Lord of heaven's armies, the God of Israel, says. Someday, people will again own property here in this land and will buy and sell houses and vineyards and fields. Now pause.

Speaker 1 7:02

Another thing is Baruch, the guy we just mentioned. That was like Jeremiah's secretary. He would write down a lot of the prophecies and so it's kind of like his right-hand man. And so he tells them this. And this is a wonderful thing, even though it's looking like you know, the enemy is going to take over. They're never going to have peace again. He's saying I want you to go ahead and put this away, because one day, better times are coming. I know it may seem impossible. Better times are coming. Let's go. Verse 16.

Speaker 1 7:29

Then, after I had given these papers to Baruch, my father, my secretary, I pray to the Lord. Oh, sovereign Lord, you made the heavens and the earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you. You show unfailing love to thousands, but you also bring the consequences of one generation's sin upon the next. You are a great and powerful God, the Lord of heaven's armies. You have all wisdom to do great and mighty miracles. You see the conduct of all the people. You give them what they deserve. You performed miraculous signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. Things still remember to this day. You have continued to do great miracles in Israel and all around the world, and you have made your name famous to this day, in Israel and all around the world. And you have made your name famous to this day.

Understanding Jeremiah 32: Context and Significance

Speaker 1 8:24

You brought Israel out of Egypt with mighty signs and wonders, with a strong hand and a powerful arm, with overwhelming terror, you gave the people of Israel this land that you promised their ancestors long before, a land flowing with milk and honey. Our ancestors came and conquered it and lived in it, but they refused to obey you or follow your word. They have not done anything you commanded. That is why you have sent this terrible disaster upon them. See how the siege ramps have been built against the city walls. Through war, famine and disease, the city will be handed over to the Babylonians who will conquer it. Everything has happened just as you have said. Yet, oh sovereign lord, you have told me to buy the field, paying good money for it before these witnesses, even though the city will soon be handed over to the babylonians. Then this message came to jeremiah from the I am the Lord, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me? Therefore, this is what the Lord says I will hand this city over to the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. The Babylonians outside the walls will come in and set fire to the city, will come in and set fire to the city. They will burn down all these houses where the people provoked my anger by burning incense to Baal on the rooftops and by pouring out liquid offerings to other gods.

Speaker 1 9:46

Israel and Judah have done nothing but wrong. Since their early days, they have infuriated me with all their evil deeds, says the Lord. From the time this city was built until now, it has done nothing but anger me, so I am determined to get rid of it. The sin of Israel and Judah, the sins of the people of Jerusalem, the kings and the officials, and the priests and the prophets have stirred up my anger. My people have turned their back on me and refused to return, even though I diligently taught them they would not receive instruction or obey. They have set up their abominable idols right in my own temple, defiling it. They have built pagan shrines to Baal in the valley of Ben-Hinnom and there they sacrificed their sons and daughters to Molech. And I have never committed such a horrible deed. It's never even crossed my mind to do such a thing. What an incredible evil causing Judah to sin so greatly.

Speaker 1 10:40

But now I want to say something more about this city. You have been saying it will fall to the king of Babylon through war, famine and disease. But this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says I will certainly bring back my people again from all the countries where I have scattered them in my fury. I will bring them back to this very city and let them live in peace and safety. They will be my people and I will be their God. I will give them one heart and one purpose to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants. I will make an everlasting covenant with them. I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their heart to worship me and they will never leave me. I will find joy doing good for them and will faithfully and wholeheartedly replant them in this land. This is what the Lord says. Just as I have brought all these calamities on them, so I will do all these good things I have promised them. Fields will again be bought and sold in this land, about which you now say it has been ravaged by the Babylonians, a desolate land where people and animals have all disappeared. Yes, fields will once again be bought and sold, deeds signed and sealed and witnessed in the land of Benjamin and here in Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, and in the hill country and in the foothills of Judah and the Negev too, for someday I will restore prosperity to them. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Speaker 1 12:14

Wow, I love how God is saying and he says this in verse 27,. He says is there anything too hard for me? Is there anything too hard for me? Well, what an interesting question. Because, you know, can we be really honest for a second? Just really honest. Sometimes we think the answer is yes. God is saying is anything too hard for me? Is there anything I can't do? And you say well, you know, god, you can do a lot of things. I mean, there's a lot of things you can do, god, but you know, there's that Rubik's Cube, then there's two Rubik's Cubes, then there's two Rubik's cubes, then there's two Rubik's cubes blindfolded, and God, there's a certain point. I just don't think you can do it, and some of us listening or watching this today would say I have never said that, but haven't we, haven't we said that?

Speaker 1 13:00

By the way we live our lives, when we get into a mess, when everything's going wrong, we think that God can do some things. But there's some things we just don't think God can do because we live as though there's no way. We don't trust him. Can I speak about myself first, and that is there are some things that it's easy for me to trust God with. It's usually the things I can already do by myself, and it's more about trusting God to give me the strength to do things rather than doing miracles. But there are things it's the two Rubik's cubes blindfolded.

Speaker 1 13:35

Sometimes I struggle to trust God with, not because he has ever given me one single reason to doubt he's able. It's more about just struggling to trust. Are you there too? Is there ever been a time in your life when there's been some things? No problem. I trust God. He can do this, no problem.

Speaker 1 13:55

Then there's some things, god, I know you can. I just don't know if you will. There's some things I feel like maybe are too hard. Well, maybe when we finish our time together, maybe that needs to be our prayer. God, I'm so sorry that I sometimes doubt what you're able to do. I sometimes struggle to truly believe and trust. Forgive me, I repent of that and I want to believe you can do anything and then live as though he can Live, as though what God says he can do he can truly do. What would it look like in your life if you lived the next 24 hours as though all the promises of God are yes and in him, amen. Let's pray together right now.

Speaker 1 14:36

God, thank you so much for today. Thank you, god, for your word. Thank you, god, that there is nothing too hard for you, that anything, anything is possible with you. You walk with us, you are with us and you are for us in all things. I celebrate you today in Jesus. Jesus' name, we pray Amen, amen. What God's word says, say it with me. Jeremiah, chapter 29, verse 13. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. My hope is that we find God fresh and new every day. I love you. I'll see you tomorrow for Jeremiah chapter 33.