Sermon Notes

The Prophets - Hearing and Responding to the Voice of God
“Understanding Brokenness ”

Jeremiah 31:18-20, 31-33
November 11, 2007 – Pastor Dave Scherrer

Introduction

Prayer

"I have surely heard Ephraim's moaning:
       'You disciplined me like an unruly calf,
       and I have been disciplined.
       Restore me, and I will return,
       because you are the LORD my God.

 After I strayed,
       I repented;
       after I came to understand,
       I beat my breast.
       I was ashamed and humiliated
       because I bore the disgrace of my youth.'

 Is not Ephraim my dear son,
       the child in whom I delight?
       Though I often speak against him,
       I still remember him.
       Therefore my heart yearns for him;
       I have great compassion for him,"
       declares the LORD.

 "The time is coming," declares the LORD,
       "when I will make a new covenant
       with the house of Israel
       and with the house of Judah.

 It will not be like the covenant
       I made with their forefathers
       when I took them by the hand
       to lead them out of Egypt,
       because they broke my covenant,
       though I was a husband to them,"
       declares the LORD.

 "This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
       after that time," declares the LORD.
      "I will put my law in their minds
       and write it on their hearts.
       I will be their God,
       and they will be my people.

Brokenness defined

The Brokenness of the Fall – the Broken Condition of Humankind

The Brokenness of Repentance – The Heart Broken by the Work of Grace

The Brokenness of my Will – Emptied of Self and Filled with the Spirit

Less of me and more of you!