00:00 New Book: Jeremiah

00:43 Church Updates and Prayer Requests

03:21 Jeremiah's Calling and Commission

05:11 Pro-Life Implications and End-of-Life Ethics

12:16 Jeremiah's Message to Judah

16:28 Hope and Repentance

20:56 Closing Thoughts and Prayer

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welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

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And now, your hosts,

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod...

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Howdy and hello, we are back

into a, another new book.

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So I know yesterday we were in a

whole book z aniah, but today we start

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another new book and it's another major

profit this time, not a minor profit.

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So we did Isaiah.

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Not long ago.

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Finished up that one.

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Now we are in the book of Jeremiah,

and so we're excited about that.

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But let's see, what day is today's

Thursday as you're listening to this.

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And so hopefully your week is going well

last week before school starts back up.

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And so soaking up that that sweet

time with kiddos and everything before

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they get back, after going to school.

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But yeah, everything else is is

pretty status quo around here.

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We're.

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Going right along.

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We had the, those projectors on Sunday,

so hopefully you, you enjoyed those.

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That was something that we had

long been wanting to get, but we

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didn't know how to make it work.

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And thanks to a few people in our

church that gave some extra time and

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efforts and talents to zero things in,

we're able to have those projectors

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up there on the curtains now.

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Should help line of sight issues

and the texts be a little bit

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bigger on the screens, which should

be an improvement for everybody.

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We're still trying to

dial a few things in.

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I know the lighting was a

little bit darker on Sunday

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and maybe even a little sleepy.

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But we're not quoting anybody or anything.

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No, I'm not quoting anyone.

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But we're still trying to dial some of

that in to figure out how do we maintain

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the crisps of the projector, but also we

don't wanna make it, pitch black in there.

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We want you to have your Bibles with you

on Sunday mornings to be able to look

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at the text and follow along with us.

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And I know a lot of people.

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Lot of y'all still use your

physical bibles in church

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on Sunday, which is great.

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Some of you have screens or tablets

or devices that you bring also fine.

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But you could get a book light.

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I guess that's what I have

here, that's what Pastor Rad is

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showing me since in your office.

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It's always so dark and

romantic, some might say.

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That's what I go for.

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Yep.

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I always bring a book light from my

Bible so I can know what I'm saying.

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I'm glad you and your

Bible have your light.

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So lemme tell you what I've added

to my prayer list and what have

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you added, which by the way, just

really quick here, I've been using

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PrayerMate for time and eternity it

feels like decades as my prayer app.

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They recently put out a beta that

vastly improves their sync engine.

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Not that kind of beta.

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And now I can sync between all my devices

with my prayer app, so I can update it on

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my computer using their iOS app, and then

I can have it synchronized to my iPad and

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then have it synchronized to my iPhone.

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Oh, finally, I feel like I'm

living in a whole new world.

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I thought they were already doing that.

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They attempted to do that, and

it was really hit and miss.

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Gotcha.

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Andy, the developer knows that.

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So you see, finally they put out this

beta that they feel really good about.

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Anyway, long story short, I've updated

my prayer list specifically for our

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church since we have a great building.

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We're in a great area.

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It's in our target demographic, our

target geographic area that is, so

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I'm updating it to now reflect the

fact that we're hoping for a building.

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And the interesting thing is that we

have to pray for a building that isn't

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so large, it doesn't make sense, but

isn't so small that it's constricting.

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So I'm praying for the building

that's the goldilock zone.

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It's just right, a 24 7 facility that

fits us presently, but also leaves

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room for us to grow in the future.

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So if you wanna join me in praying

for that would be a great thing.

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We love the projectors, we love the

stage, we love everything that we're

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doing and enjoying at the Prosper FCA.

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But let's be honest, that is not

the end game we'd like to see.

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A place that we can call our own.

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So pray with us about that.

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We'd love to see what God does.

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Yep.

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Yeah, that's a great thing to

add to your prayer request.

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Yeah.

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I was reminded recently that we don't

have, because we don't ask and so let's

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make sure that we are asking on that

and we can trust the Lord with the

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working out of the details on that.

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That's right.

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Let's jump into Jeremiah.

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Jeremiah one through three.

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Today as we get in here.

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Jeremiah is unique because he is a

priest prophet, so he's both, and he

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has a scribe that he uses called Baruch.

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And Baruch seems to be the one

that's writing down the message here.

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He's gonna be, we're gonna

find out a persecuted prophet.

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And so the people are not

gonna what he has to say.

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And not only are they not

gonna listen to him like with

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Isaiah, but now they're gonna.

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They're gonna go further.

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He's gonna suffer physical

persecution, harm for his message,

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and he's going to prophesy during

the reign of three different kings.

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You've got Josiah, Jo,

Hoya, Kim and Zakiah.

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So he's timeframe here is about 6

27 BC all the way through the fall

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of j Jerusalem, the fall of Judah.

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5 86 bc give or take.

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His contemporaries, some of

them are gonna be Habakkuk,

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Zephaniah, Ezekiel, and Daniel.

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All of them Ezekiel and Daniel

towards the end of his time there.

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But prophesying around

the same setting here.

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And the setting is what we've been

reading recently at the end of second

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Kings and second Chronicles is what

we'll get into more even after Josiah.

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Is that the kings and their failures

and their attempts to escape God's

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impending judgment and Jeremiah's

there the whole time kind of

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saying, Hey, this is not gonna work.

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God's judgment is coming.

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And so in chapter one, he's

called and commissioned he's

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set apart by God uniquely even.

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From the womb, it says in verse five,

before I formed you in the womb,

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I knew you before you were born, I

consecrated you Before you were born I

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appointed you a prophet to the nation.

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So even before birth, he was

known consecrated and appointed.

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We're gonna be talking this

week about, on Sunday morning

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about the doctrine of election.

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And here you see an Old

Testament allusion to that or.

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Version of that, and it

operated differently.

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I think during this old covenant, during

the Mosaic covenant, but here God was

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saying of Jeremiah, even before he was

born, I've got a purpose for you and

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I'm gonna use you for that purpose.

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And so the rest of chapter one is

that call and that commission for.

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Jeremiah to go and be used by God.

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It's an interesting language that he

uses when he speaks about God choosing

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him while he was still in the womb.

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Does this have any ramifications

or any implications for those of

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us who would consider ourselves

part of the pro-life movement?

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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This is a reminder that these lives

are gods from the very outset.

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And so even before, Jeremiah can

understand or hear or understand the

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words, audible words spoken to him, he's.

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God's sign sealed and delivered him

over for the role that he has to play.

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And so this is not God saying

once you become a, once your

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fetus stage reaches this level,

then I consider you to be viable.

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And then I'll tell you what

I have planned for you.

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Or once you're born and once

you're out in the open air, then

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you'll be viable and I'll be able

to tell you what I have for you.

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Or once you can take care of

yourself, then you're viable.

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And I can tell you what I have for you.

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Now, this is back in his mother's womb.

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God is saying I've got a plan and I'm.

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Purposing something for you specifically.

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So 100%.

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This does fit in line and fall in

line with our view of being pro-life.

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You just mentioned election.

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Would you change your opinion at all

if the, this wasn't an elect child?

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No e everybody has value.

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Every life has value and it's

not ours to decide the beginning

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or the terminus of a life.

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That is an act of God.

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If you talk to any couple that has

battled infertility, they will be

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ready to tell you we can't control.

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The beginning of a life.

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There are certain things that can

be done on a husband and wife's

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part to, to do that, but that's God.

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That's his him, his timing, his and just

as we can't decide the beginning, it's

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not on us to be able to decide the end.

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It's murder, right?

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Just like we can't kill somebody

outside the womb because it's not our

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right to take anybody else's life.

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We can't kill somebody inside the

womb because that is a life that God

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has created and it's not our right or

prerogative to be able to end that life.

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Can you add some more clarification and.

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Specification, be specific

about the end of life issue.

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Thank you for clarifying

the beginning of life.

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We're in a hundred percent agreement.

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Talk more about the end of life then,

when there are questions about whether

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to sustain a life with a machine

or whether there's, little to no

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brain activity for a certain person.

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How does a Christian

navigate those issues?

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Because yeah we're talking about

beginning of life issues, right?

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But what about when you're near the end?

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And it's hard to know if a peer person

would even remain alive if it were not.

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For some of the medical technologies

that we have, are we obligated to use

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medical technologies to further life?

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At the end of life.

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And that's where, God has number one.

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First, let me say that is an insanely

difficult position for anyone to be in, to

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have especially a loved one in a position

where they are being sustained by machines

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and you have power of attorney and it's on

you to decide when to unplug the machines.

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Thankfully God has given us.

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Get your pastors involved.

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Yeah.

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Get your pastors involved.

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A hundred percent in that.

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We wanna walk through

situations like that with you.

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God has given us doctors, he's

given us, he's given us science.

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He's given us the ability to

look at different things like

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brain activity, things like that,

to be able to determine, okay.

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Is this something where, if.

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Unplugged this machine that

this person would end up dying.

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There's nothing left.

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There's no viable signs of life left.

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We have to be sure that we aren't bringing

about death, that we aren't changing

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anything circumstantially about a person's

life from the outside that is, is causing

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them to, to fall into a degraded state

that would end up causing them to die.

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And I separated that out from, if you

unplug a, for example, a breathing

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machine and that breathing machine is

no longer gonna move the lungs for them.

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You are not actively.

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Executing that person because

that person can't sustain that

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life on their own anymore.

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And so I know this is confusing

the way I'm describing it 'cause

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it, it's probably not as clear

as I'm meaning it for it to be.

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There's a difference between

that and suffocating somebody,

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is what I'm trying to say.

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Sure.

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So whether you're actively participating

in their death or whether you're

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passively letting it happen,

is that what you're getting at?

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What about if it's a food issue?

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If they're being fed through a tube and

you cease the tube feeding because they

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can't chew and swallow for themselves.

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That would be in some

ways, participating in it.

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And yet you're not, it gets more tricky.

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It's with some of those questions.

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How do you feel about that there?

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I think a lot of it comes down

to the cognitive awareness.

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I think if you see somebody that is

able to, even in a state where maybe

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they can't talk, if they can respond if

you talk to them and say, Hey, squeeze

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my hand, and they squeeze your hand.

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I think you're dealing with somebody

whose brain activity is still there.

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Yeah.

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You're dealing with it.

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That life is still present there.

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That soul is still there

with within the body.

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I think when you get into a state,

when a person's truly in a vegetative

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state where there's no response they're

not responding to you at all, that

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they're not showing any sort of brain

activity to physical stimuli either,

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running a pin up the foot or something

like that, that they'll often do.

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There's nothing there, and yet you're

feeding them on a feeding tube and you're

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keeping the breathing machine going.

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I think at that point you realize, okay.

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This is us sustaining a life that God has.

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Already taken away.

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I don't think it's necessarily wrong.

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I wouldn't say, Hey,

you need to stop this.

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I don't know that I would get to that

point, but I also don't know that I

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would look at a family who's decided

we're gonna let them go and go to be with

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Jesus and say that you're doing something

that's wrong by doing that either.

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Yeah, this gets really challenging

really quickly for sure.

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'cause there are so many different

layers of questions that we're

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asking a hundred percent stewardship,

responsibility, ethical responsibility.

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What is our role and how

do we interact with this?

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And part of this is a blessing

that we have so many advanced

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technologies that give us insight

that we've never had before.

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On the other side of this,

we're on holy ground.

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We're interacting in an area that

usually, and for most of human

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history, this has been God's domain.

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Yep.

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It's only up until the last 100 years.

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And even closer than that, when

we started getting into functional

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magnetic resonant resonance, we talked

about the prick test on the foot.

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We could do that and as possible

that nothing registers on the.

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On the scale, but inside there's

still something happening.

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There's so much about the human

body and the human mind that

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we still don't know, right?

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We just have to confess ignorance.

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So we would suggest that in all these

things, you're prayerfully pursuing

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this with your pastors in tow with

obviously, there's so many other

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questions with your doctors getting their

medical advice and input and then tread

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carefully and tread faithfully before

the Lord as you make these decisions.

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Yeah.

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One thing we know to be sure 100% is.

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We've seen a lot of, they call it

made MAID medical assistance and

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dying, and that's on the rise that

we would say a hundred percent

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is out of bounds for a believer.

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That is not ours to participate in for

us as individuals to say of ourselves.

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Yeah, I want that.

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Or to say for somebody that we love,

yeah, we're okay with them doing that.

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Either we need to speak out

against that because that is.

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That is taking a life before God is de

deemed, that's time to take that life.

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It's called suicide.

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Exactly.

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And the Bible frowns on that.

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Exactly.

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God frowns on that more specifically.

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Yeah.

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Because life is a gift and even

though it's a hard gift sometimes

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sometimes there's a dark providence.

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But he's given it to you for good.

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He will glorify himself through it.

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And he will do good in your

life if you allow him to.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Jeremiah receives a little bit of

a commission similar to Isaiah's

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except a little bit more intensely.

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In verse 18, he says, I God says this.

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I behold, I this day make you a fortified

city and iron pillar, bronze walls

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against the whole land, against the

kings of Judah, it's officials, it's

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priests, and the people of the land.

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They will fight against you, but

they shall not prevail against you.

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For I am with you, declares the

Lord to deliver you that's the

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commission that Jeremiah receives.

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Not much better than Isaiah's, and with,

in fact, probably worse 'cause Isaiah

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was told, Hey, go and talk to them.

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They're just not gonna listen to

you, and they're not gonna see

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what you have to say for Jeremiah.

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He's saying they're

gonna fight against you.

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This is going to get they the opposition's

gonna be pretty intense, but I'm gonna

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be with you to to, to protect you and

to preserve you through all of this.

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That's where he goes in chapter

two is this first message.

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The word of the Lord came to me saying, go

and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem.

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So we're talking to the southern nation,

we're talking to the southern kingdoms.

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This is what God says.

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And so this is the announcement

of his impending wrath.

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God asks a rhetorical question

in verse four, what wrong

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did your fathers find in me?

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That they went far from me and went after

worthless in things and became worthless?

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God's saying, can you point

out my fault, my failure?

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And that's why I say it's rhetorical

because there is no fault or failure

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with God, the fault or failure.

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Was with the people, not with the Lord.

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He indicts the priests,

the religious leaders.

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In verse eight, the priest

did not say, where's the Lord?

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Those who handle the law did not know me.

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The shepherds transgressed against me.

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The prophets prophesied by Baal and

went after things that do not profit.

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And so again, God is calling them out.

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And then the absurdity of it all in

verse 11, has a nation changed its Gods,

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even though they are no gods at all.

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But my people have changed their

glory for that which does not profit.

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And then the main indictment

here in verse 13, for my people

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have committed two evils.

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They have forsaken me the

foun of living waters.

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And hued out cisterns for themselves,

broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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They've rejected Yahweh, in other

words, and turned to faults.

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Gods turned to things that will never

satisfy, nor can they ever deliver.

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And Jeremiah's opening messages

is pretty direct and pretty

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confrontational here from the word go.

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This is not an easing into anything here.

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Look across the page at verse 19.

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He says of the people here, he

says, your evil will chastise you.

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Your apostasy will approve you

or reprove you, not approve.

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You, reprove you.

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No one.

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See that it's evil and bitter for

you to forsake the Lord your God.

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And then here's another layer to this.

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The fear of me is not in you

declares the Lord of host.

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And so not only have they.

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Rejected God and gone after idols.

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But underlying that is the fact

that they don't fear the Lord.

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And we talked about that

a little bit in Zephaniah.

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They thought the Lord was complacent.

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God's not gonna do anything.

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You brought up second Peter three.

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When they say, where's

the promise of his coming?

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Similar here there's no fear of Yahweh.

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He's not, he doesn't care if I

forsake him and go after broken

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cisterns that can hold no water.

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And yet the reality, God does care.

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He's compares the vineyard,

again a familiar metaphor.

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In verse 21, similar to Isaiah five,

he says, I planted you a choice vine,

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holy, pure seed, but you've turned,

degenerate and become a wild vine.

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Similar again to Isaiah five

when they produced wild grapes

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instead of the good grapes.

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And so in the end, God is gonna say

in chapter two, Hey, let your gods.

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Deliver you, you've

turned your back to me.

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Hey, where are your gods

that you made for yourself?

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Let them arise.

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This is verse 28.

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If they can save you for as many

as your cities are, your gods owe.

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Judah, my people, verse 32, have

forgotten me days without number.

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And so God is coming out double

barreled here against the people

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of Judah here and confronting them

specifically on the rejection of

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him and their turning to the idols.

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And I guess it's always a helpful

reminder for us to recognize

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that idolatry never satisfies.

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We always talk about the fact that

idolatry does look different today

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than it did yesterday, but it's

still the same kind of heart sin.

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And ultimately, what it looks like

is us replacing God with something

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else, something lesser, because

there's nothing higher than God.

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I love the words that Jeremiah utilizes.

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It's just as relevant for us

today as it was yesterday.

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We don't wanna forsake the

fountain of living waters.

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God himself is the fountain from

which we derive thirst, quenching

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joy and gladness, thirst satisfying.

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Fullness.

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I can't think of a better way to put this.

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I'm just trying to, I'm reaching for all

my vocabulary here, and yet so often we

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go to so many lesser things, and I'm glad

that you're reading your Bible today.

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I'm glad that you're spending

time here because this is the

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Fountain of Living waters.

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The Bible directs us to Christ.

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You just talked about the vine analogy.

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Jesus says, I am the v.

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And when you're connected to me, you

produce great fruit, and that takes time.

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That takes time.

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Producing fruit is not

an automatic process.

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Finding your thirst satisfied

and quenched doesn't happen.

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The moment you put your lips to

the water, it takes sometimes a

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few seconds to finally say, yeah,

my, my thirst is being quenched.

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My, my hunger is satisfied.

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This is where it's at, guys.

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This is so often what we get wrong.

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We overcomplicate it, we make it

more difficult than we need to.

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Jeremiah chapter two reminds us

that there are so many different

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options and avenues for us.

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The world's gonna present us

different ways to satisfy our

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flesh, but the only thing that

satisfies us is actually internal.

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And that's what God offers through

Christ by the power of His spirit.

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So it's a good thing.

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You're in your Bible.

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This is how God feeds us.

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This is how God satisfies us.

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Stay at it.

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It is worth it.

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In chapter three, he continues from

where he left off in, in chapter two,

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and he confronts their unrepentant or

their lack of repentance in chapter

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three, their false repentance.

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Verse one, towards the end, you

have played the immoral woman

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with many lovers, and would you

return to me declares the Lord?

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In other words, you think you can

come back here and you can come

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back and just give me lip service

and everything's gonna be okay?

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And we know it's a lack of repentance

because in verse three, therefore

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the showers have been withheld.

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The spring rain has not come yet.

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You have the forehead of.

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An immoral woman and you

refuse to be ashamed.

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And so he's confronting them in

their shame and saying, you don't

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even know enough to be ashamed.

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You don't sense your sin enough to

feel that you have done something wrong

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and stupid, and chasing after these

idols and these faults of gods who

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can't do anything and can't save you.

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But I mentioned I believe yesterday

Jeremiah is a book where God does hold

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out some hope still to the stubborn

nation for the remnant, and that's

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where he turns in the rest of chapter

three during the time of King Josiah.

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So again we talked about when

did this take place because.

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Where does it fit in all of

this negativity, similar to

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the negativity in Josiah too.

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But he's going to call to her

and he's going to say initially,

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Hey, you didn't learn from what

you saw happen in Jerusalem.

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In fact, you've sinned even greater

than those in Jerusalem or in Israel.

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Rather, you didn't learn

from what you saw in Israel.

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You've sinned even more greatly

than they did because you didn't

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learn the lesson from them.

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But still come back to me.

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Come back to me, and that's the call

and the promises beginning in verse

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15, that God would restore the people.

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And this is looking forward, anticipating,

I believe, the millennial kingdom here.

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Again, I will give you shepherds

after my own heart, who will feed

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you with knowledge and understanding.

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Remember back in chapter one,

that was one of the indictments.

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God had the shepherds were not

shepherding them, not leading

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them the way they should.

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And looking verse 17, and at that

time in Jerusalem shall be called

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the throne of the Lord in all

nations shall gather to it, to the

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presence of the Lord in Jerusalem.

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So again I think this is another

reference where we could see how

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the Messiah is going to be divine.

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But to your point too, this

could just be an illusion.

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Like he used to talk about his

named dwelling in the temple

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with the people in Israel.

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But we know because this is talking about

the millennial kingdom, that this is

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the Messiah, that this is gonna be Jesus

sitting on the throne and that Jesus.

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Is one with the father,

he's one with Yahweh.

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And so he's able to claim that

name, that divine title as well.

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And so in, in chapter three he's

calling for them for repentance.

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And yet unfortunately

it's not gonna go well.

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They're not gonna heed this at this time.

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There's a faithful remnant that will

but by and large not the people as a

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whole will not heed the call to repent.

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Sad as it seems.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Anything else on, on chapter three?

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Isn't it amazing that the fact that

they were so obstinate, we can always

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look at them and I struggle with this.

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I see them like, what are you guys doing?

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Why do you do this?

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Why are there are so many

things wrong with you?

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What is wrong with you?

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I have to remember, and maybe you

need this reminder too, you as an

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audience, not you as a new No, I do too.

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Yeah, no, for sure.

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You probably need it too.

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Yeah.

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We are products of grace.

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Yeah.

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What we see by God's grace, our

obedience is a work of God's grace.

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Our understanding, if we have more

understanding than the next Christian,

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that's a work of God's grace.

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And every time we see the failures

of Israel, it is a reminder to

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us that you're not a big hotshot.

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This is you, Israel, is you.

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Israel went astray.

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Not because they didn't have

sufficient knowledge, not because

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they didn't have the blessings.

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Romans chapter two tells us that they

were the recipients of those blessings.

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They had everything, and yet they toss

it aside in part because they did not

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have something that you and I now have.

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Under the new covenant, which is of

course God's grace, but manifest by

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the Son through his spirit, we now

have the spirit of God residing in us.

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Just like the temple pointed to

the spirit's dwelling with us.

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We now get to enjoy the fact

that the Spirit is with us.

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He propels us forward.

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He moves us into a closer

relationship with him.

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He's the one that sustains us.

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So every time you see their

failures and you think ts, tsk.

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Why couldn't you be as good as I am?

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Remember, you are a

product of God's grace.

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Everything about you is

him working for your good.

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Everything.

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There's nothing good that you enjoy.

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That is not him, the

degree that you earned.

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He did that through you, the

family that you have with the

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discipline, kids that you have.

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He did that.

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Through you all the good.

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The car that you drive,

he gave that to you.

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Everything's a matter of God's grace.

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So don't forget that as you read

through this, maybe thank God for

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the fact that you have what you have.

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Maybe not in a boastful way, but to

recognize, man, I'm a product of God's

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grace and I should thank him for that.

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There's that song, what is it?

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Citizens, kids of Grace.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think that's a, I think that's Lewis.

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Are Zuma's favorite song?

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Is it I one of favorite songs?

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Yeah.

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Favorite song right there.

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Hey, let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God we thank you for that rich

reality that we are children of grace,

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sons and daughters of grace, and we

pray for humility in keeping with

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that, that we would remember that.

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And Lord, I'm even reminded of.

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Times that things can look so simple.

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And the reminder of second Corinthians

chapter four, which says, the God

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of this world has blinded the eyes

of the lost to keep them from seeing

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the light of the glory of Christ in.

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If we think that we stumbled

upon that in our own wisdom,

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then we're fooling ourselves.

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It's simply a work of you in our lives

to remove that veil so that we could see.

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And we are eternally

grateful to you for that.

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And we pray that you would cause

that to be true of more people.

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And use us to be the mouthpiece, the

messengers, to proclaim that truth

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that more might come to faith as well.

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And we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keeper in your Bible.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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Yeehaw!

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said