See note Jer. 17:26¹.

This indicates that although Jerusalem and Zedekiah would be captured, God would still keep the Holy Land with His people. In God’s intention the Holy Land would remain a fit place for His people to live.

This eternal covenant is the new covenant (Jer. 31:31-34; Heb. 13:20). It is by this covenant that God will not turn away from us and will plant us in Christ, our good land (see note Deut. 8:7¹ in ), and Christ in all His aspects will be bought by us (vv. 40-44), i.e., gained by us through our paying the price to forget the things that are behind and pursue Christ (Phil. 3:8-14).

We, the chosen people of God, should all have one heart — to love God, to seek God, to live God, and to be constituted with God that we may be His expression — and one way — the Triune God Himself as the inner law of life with its divine capacity (Jer. 31:33-34; John 14:6a). This one heart and one way are the one accord (Acts 1:14; 2:46; 4:24; Rom. 15:6). Divisions result from having a heart for something other than Christ and taking a way other than Christ.

Here Jeremiah came to know God’s intention, and His intention, revealed in His word to Jeremiah, became His promise to the prophet.

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