Sermon Recap
Written on the Palms of His Hands
Part 1 of 9 in Unbreakable
Parte 1 de 9 de la serie Unbreakable
Brian Hunter · January 18, 2026
“The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.”
“See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.”
“This is what the Lord says: Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done.”
Scripture Referenced
Recap
This is where the series got its name. Brian told the room that the conversation they would be having for the next several weeks was called Unbreakable, and then spent the morning establishing what the word is doing. It is not describing Israel’s toughness. It is describing a covenant that God has refused to break.
The text was Jeremiah 31, verses one through twenty two, read start to finish before anything was said about it. Brian’s counsel was to go back and read it regularly rather than once. It is a chapter about a people who will be gathered, who will be radiant because of the Lord’s good gifts, and who are loved with what the text calls an everlasting love.
He put the weight on two lines. The first is Isaiah 49:16, where God says he has engraved you on the palms of his hands and your walls are continually before him. Brian slowed down on the pronoun. The you is collective. It is a nation, not just an individual, and reading it only as a personal comfort verse quietly removes the thing it was written to say.
The second is the last verse of Jeremiah 31, and it is the strongest sentence in the chapter. God stakes his rejection of Israel on two impossible conditions: measuring the heavens and searching out the foundations of the earth. The rhetorical structure is the point. The condition cannot be met, so the rejection cannot happen.
Brian also named the objection before anyone in the room had to raise it. Why are we talking about Israel again. His answer was about proportion, not preference. Weigh how much of scripture is given to this and it is not a side topic, and correct thinking about Israel results in closer communion with the Father, because what you believe about how God keeps this promise shapes what you believe about how he keeps every other one.