During Jerusalem’s waning years, the officials of king Zedekiah threw one of the cities’ few righteous men into a deep, dark, ineffective cistern. As it turns out, the cistern that served as Jeremiah’s prison also served as an excellent metaphor for the king’s psychological state. Throughout Jeremiah chapters 37-38, Zedekiah wears a number of “faces,” all revealing his weakness as a leader over God’s people.

How do you know when someone's lying to you? The truth is pretty important, so we must have some way of knowing whether or not a person is lying to us. Jeremiah dealt with liars. They were misleading the nation he was appointed to guide. What did he do to expose their falsehood? In this lesson we will learn the tactics and the demise of those who twist the truth.

Jeremiah chapter 1 serves as the prologue to a long, difficult life as a prophet for Jeremiah. In this first episode on Jeremiah we cover the text of Jeremiah's call in chapter 1, offer a brief introduction of the time period, the historical figures and themes of the book, and apply the lessons learned from chapter one in closing.