Jeremiah 45

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Dave Burnette's Commentary

Jeremiah Chapter 45

Written By: God through Inspiration
Penned By: Jeremiah
Date Penned: (627-586 BC)
Overview: To Urge God's People to Turn from Sin to God (c 1-52)
Theme: God's Judgement on Judah (c 1-45)
Message: An Admonition to Baruch (v 1-5)

Jeremiah 45 Commentary

(45:1-5) Baruch - The event relating to this chapter is recorded in 36:1-8. The chapter was written in 605 or 604 BC. Baruch was the scribe who recorded Jeremiah's words on a scroll.

(45:5) Keep Our Eyes on the Lord - Baruch had long been faithfully serving this unpopular prophet, writing his book of struggles and judgments, and now he was upset. God told Baruch to take his eyes off himself and whatever rewards he thought he deserved. If Baruch did this, God would protect him. It is easy to lose the joy of serving our God when we take our eyes off him. The more we look away from God's purposes toward our own sacrifices, the more frustrated we will become. As you serve God, don't focus on what you are giving up. If you do, ask for God's forgiveness, and then redirect your attention to the incomparable privilege of serving him.

David Burnette's Life Application

Keep Your Eyes on Jesus

Each day we walk through the Bible chapter by chapter making an application of our text to help us grow in the Lord. Many applications can be made from each day's text. Today we continue in the Book of Jeremiah 45. In our text today we see Baruch who was the scribe of Jeremiah being upset in the service of the Lord as he took his eyes off Jesus. In making application we see how that we can loose our focus and joy when we get eyes off Jesus. All who are saved will have a ministry or service of the Lord and if we take our eyes off Jesus we will be as Baruch, upset in the service of Sarah. How about you? Do you get frustrated in your service to the Lord? Let us learn from out text today and the example of Baruch to see that if we take our eyes off Jesus we will have the tendency to loose our joy as we attempt to serve the Lord in our flesh verses serving them in the power of the Lord.

Jeremiah 45

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Jeremiah 45

¹The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

²Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch:

³Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

⁴Thus shalt thou say unto him, The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

⁵And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

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