A Great Future Foreseen. Worship: October 27, 2024

The prophet Jeremiah was alive and witnessed the deportation of God’s people into exile. That is not the end of the story, however. Today’s Old Testament Reading previews a day when God’s mercy and grace would be outpoured upon the remnant of God’s people who returned. The Gospel builds on this, as we see Jesus’ healing those whom Jeremiah foresaw God’s grace and mercy would one day be poured out upon in abundant measure. In the cross, we have the greatest healing of all—the forgiveness (not covering) of sins in the cross of Jesus Christ.