Ramsey Creek Baptist Church

In Jeremiah 22:4-5, Jeremiah is holding out a promise or a threat, prosperity or destruction. The prophets of old confronted wickedness & warned of judgment, but they also proclaimed God’s truth with confidence and held on tightly to hope. They reminded God’s people of the promise of a lasting, eternal kingdom found in the distant hope that a “righteous Branch” will be raised up for David. But the kings of Israel & Judah were, by and large, not good at leading God's people in His ways. They earned judgment after judgment due to their disobedience and self-centeredness. And yet, there’s hope nestled here in the midst of all these guarantees of hard judgment. God would install a King who would reign and rule with wisdom and justice and righteousness throughout the earth. He would be our righteousness, and He would bring about peace with God.