Old Testament
Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, was appointed before birth to proclaim God's word to a Judah determined not to hear it, through forty years down to the exile. His great diagnosis is the human heart: 'deceitful above all things and exceedingly corrupt' — which is why Judah cannot reform itself and why judgment comes. Yet Jeremiah is also a prophet of hope. Even announcing exile, God sends word of 'thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.' He promises a 'righteous Branch' for David who will be called 'the LORD our righteousness,' keeping the messianic hope alive. And at the book's summit stands the new covenant — God will put his law within his people and write it on their hearts, all will know him, and he will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more. This is the answer to the deceitful heart: not external law but inward transformation, inaugurated by Jesus and fulfilled, says Hebrews, in his blood.
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