At His Right Hand

One of my favorite passages in my Bible is found in the book of Jeremiah. I'd like to open this passage up to you this evening, friends. If you will turn in your Bibles now to the book of Jeremiah, we'll be in chapter 29 and in in verses 11 through 14.

The title of my message this evening is At His Right Hand. This is a message of hope and comfort. There are trying times in one's life where circumstances become too hard, weights become too heavy, and obstacles seem insurmountable.

You feel like a punch-drunk fighter who's merely surviving by hanging on the ropes while you were continually pummeled by your superior opponent, and when you pray you feel that God is a million miles away and seemingly disinterested in your current troubles and even in you. You feel alienated and alone, hopeless and helpless, tired and weary. When I get that way, I open my Bible to the 29th chapter of the book of Jeremiah, and I wrap it around me like a warm cloak of comfort.

Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet. He seemed to always be in a jam, either shut up in prison or tossed down into a miry pit. His ministry lasted about 50 years, and his message was unpopular with the people as well as the rulers.

Because the message he preached his life, he was often in jeopardy. He preached for 50 years without seeing one convert. There is often a sadness in his message coupled with occasional depression, and I believe it is for this reason he was called the weeping prophet.

His name Jeremiah means whom Jehovah has appointed. He was a God-called prophet who preached to a nation hell-bent on sin. I can relate to the old boy, and his words often comfort me.

I want to break open this passage right now, friends. Here now is the word of God, and may the Spirit of the Lord be pleased to attend the reading of his holy word. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord.

Let me pause here, friends, to say to those of my hearers who feel forgotten of God that he implicitly states here that he is constantly thinking of you. Dear friend, you are on his mind and on his heart. What is he thinking concerning us? He tells us thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

In the Hebrew language, it reads, to give you an end, an expectation. There is hope here, friends. Then God goes on to lay out the process of reaching him by prayer.

Step by step, he tells us how to best approach him to gain his ear and favor. He also offers us a direct promise to seekers and answers promised. What a glorious passage to behold and to camp out in until we're safely up on his throne and in his lap, if I may so speak of our father who tenderly loves us as his children.

Here are the stair steps to the heavenly throne room, if you care to climb, friends. Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

And I will be found of you, saith the Lord, and I will turn away your captivity. I will stop there, friends. That power-packed passage gives me thrills of the grand possibilities that are available to those earnest seekers of God.

There are three aspects I'd like to draw out from our passage this evening, friends, and I believe they're loaded with comfort and hope. Number one, God has good intentions toward us, ones of peace and blessings. Number two, that he desires us to call upon him in prayer in an earnest seeking of him with our whole heart and all of our affections.

Number three, that God will answer desperate prayer and be found by those unfortunate and believing seekers who will attain God's ear and receive a blessing for God's word is true, and God is true to his word. Now, you're probably wondering why I touted my sermon at his right hand. This I will now unfold to you, friends, for here is the very best part of this message.

Picture in your mind the son seated at the right hand of the Father. He heard that right by way of a bloody cross. Now I'm gonna take my case before the Lord Jesus and present it to him and leave it with him, for he is my advocate with the Father.

If you want to listen in to my prayer to my Lord Jesus, feel free, friends, as I close this message from the book of Jeremiah. Let us pray. Lord Jesus, you have access to the Father because of your relation to him as the Son.

I have access to the Father by the blood of the Son. Jesus, you are seated at the right hand of God right now in the heavenly throne room. All you have to do is lean over and tell him about my desperate need to gain his ear in favor.

I leave it in your nail-pierced hands. Amen.