00:00 Welcome Back to the Daily Bible Podcast

01:13 The Art of Vacationing

02:00 Cherishing Family Time

03:40 Exploring Dallas

05:19 Best Food Spots in Dallas

08:11 Diving into Jeremiah 38-40

09:18 Questions and Challenges

09:28 Jeremiah's Ordeal in the Cistern

09:58 Ebed-Melech's Intervention

10:42 Jeremiah's Prophecy and the King's Fear

11:09 Moral Dilemma: Jeremiah's Partial Truth

14:03 The Fall of Jerusalem

15:36 Consequences of Sin

16:27 Jeremiah's Release and Gedaliah's Governance

16:46 God's Attention to Faithfulness

19:22 Psalm 74 and 79: Lament and Hope

22:05 Concluding Prayer and Reflections

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to a special edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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It's special because guessing is back.

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Yup.

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JD missed me.

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Yep.

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Shady is back.

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I think it was referencing slim, shady.

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You know, just a little bit.

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Just keeping it, keeping it real keeping.

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Okay.

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Well, yes, I'm back.

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It's been great.

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So thank you guys for tolerating.

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My absence.

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I think you held it down pretty well.

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I mean, I saw 30, 45 minute episodes.

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Every day, I think.

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Clearly my, my presence

here keeps you short.

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That's that's one of my big roles here

is just to make sure I don't get, make

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sure you don't talk for 45 minutes.

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Don't get on my high horse.

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I mean, Yeah, your horse is quite tall.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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It really can't be it's 45 minutes tall.

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It's.

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Many occasions.

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I felt like I did an okay job.

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I cut it at like 20.

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25 30.

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I mean within the ballpark.

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Right.

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I set out every, every

episode to keep it short.

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And then it's just the

spirit led well, okay.

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Which spirit?

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I don't know.

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We're not keeping track

of which spirit it is.

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Just a spirit, a spirit.

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Yeah.

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Whichever one decided to

influence you that day.

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But dude, you're back.

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You were gone for like three

months and now you're back.

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Feels like it.

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Yeah, no, but you had a good time.

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I had a great time.

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I mean.

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Vacations are there, they're a skill.

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They're a discipline and they are work.

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Um, which, which might be surprising

because a good vacation takes.

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Skill to plan it well, and to

execute, it takes discipline, not

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to do things that you ordinarily

would do or even would want to do.

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And then it takes work because vacation

isn't, the cessation of activity

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is actually just a, kind of a, it's

just a different form of activity.

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So I've loved it.

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I got to spend a ton

of time with my family.

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I was talking to somebody, um,

Today, I guess maybe yesterday.

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Saying that one of the things that

I thought of this vacation and in

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part, because I read a, an article

that CJ Mahaney wrote about how to

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vacation well, and he directed it

to fathers, I highly recommended.

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In fact, maybe I'll find the link

and I'll put it in the show notes.

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If I can remember.

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But he talks to dads and say,

basically, dads, your job is to do

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this for the sake of the family.

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They deserve your presence.

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They deserve your engagement.

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They deserve your work.

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And so I took that to heart and I

really worked hard to love my family

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well, and to serve them well, because

one of the reasons that it motivated

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me is that I realized this is one of

the last summers I'm going to have my

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kids in this particular season of life.

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Yeah.

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Maybe in the future

we'll vacation together.

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And I would, I would,

I would welcome that.

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I'd love that.

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But my son, Jacob, he's getting

older and he's trying to get a job

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he's actively working toward that.

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I'm sure he will at some point soon.

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And then next summer he might be

working toward a car or something

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else that he wants to buy.

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And so my time with the family

in this particular season

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of life is coming to an end.

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Which is bitter sweet and wonderful.

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It's one of those things where I'm,

I'm grateful for the opportunity.

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So thank you for giving me the time off.

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Um, even though, I mean, I begged

you pastor Pete, you to let me have

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time off and you very reluctantly.

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Well, yes.

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When you're gone, everything falls apart.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Clearly.

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No you talking about that.

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There's a song by, uh, the

great theologian, Brad Paisley.

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Called so many summers.

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Oh, and it's about that whole idea.

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You only get so many summers.

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And one of the things that always hits

me in the fields, there's a line where

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he, this old man is sitting, watching

his grandchildren play on a playground.

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And a dad comes up and sits down next

to the old man and the dad they'll

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man, the grandpa looks at the data

and says, Hey, soak up this time.

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You only get so many summers with them.

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Right.

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And it's like, Ooh.

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And so the course is all about, Hey,

go throw the ball, swim with the

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kids, have fun, play with them because

you want me to get so many summers.

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I mean, it's gone life, man.

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Life is so fleeting and fragile.

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And I think that's one of the

themes of my, my, my year so far

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is just appreciating that and

recognizing like, I don't get a lot

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of these and I want to make sure

that I don't look back with regret.

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I'm sure there's going to be regret.

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I can't, I can't avoid that.

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Yeah.

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But I can avoid not regretting

the moment saying I'm going

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to do this as well as I can.

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So yeah.

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Great.

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A great vacation.

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My family, we explored Dallas.

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We didn't, we didn't go anywhere.

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You know that people always

ask where'd you guys go.

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And I say, we go home.

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We went home every night.

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It was great.

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Uh, and part of the reason is that

we're still new to the, to the area

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that we didn't know about anything.

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So we've got to explore some really

cool places that Dallas has offered.

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In fact, If you come, I know people

are going to say, go here, go there.

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But this is one of the

places you should check out.

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That was surprising to us

was the Dallas aquarium.

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Yeah.

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Have you been there yet?

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Uh, I have not, but it was it, the Dallas

court, one of the aquariums suffered

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quite a lot of dead fish recently.

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Uh, Fort worth, man.

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One maybe is Fort worth because

I didn't see any dead fish here.

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Well, that's good.

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And in fact, Contrary to the name.

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You might expect a lot

of fish at this place.

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There's not, there's not, it's

actually quite a number of birds.

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Which I don't know what the deal

is with that, but it was, it was.

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It was well-designed

and it was a lot of fun.

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Aviary.

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Yeah, I don't understand why they call it.

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Uh, I mean, there's, there's fish,

there's, there's some aquatic

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animals there, so I'm not going to

say that there's none, but it was

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surprising how few there were, as

opposed to how many birds there

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were, and that wasn't mad about it.

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It was, there was a slot

in one of the places and.

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I mean, there was cost, there

was, there was a shark area.

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Really cool.

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I've heard sharks.

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You can't necessarily

keep them in captivity.

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Some of them like the great white

shark will die in captivity.

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Oh, that's sad.

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Yeah.

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Well, Oh, he's not so great.

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If you guys activity, cause

Shamoon his fan like flops over.

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Yeah, I heard that.

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And the documentary made

a big deal about that.

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The black fish or whatever.

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Yeah.

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So anyway, I'm back.

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I'm glad to be back.

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I was, I was itching by, I mean, by two

days ago, my kids went back to school.

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I was just itching to come back

into the office and I almost

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did, but I'm glad you didn't.

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I stayed home.

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Like, you know what?

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They don't want me there anyway.

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I'm happy here.

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Let me just soak up these last few days.

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We're glad to have you back, but I'm glad

that you got that full amount of time.

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The best food that you

had while on vacation.

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Not cooked by your wife.

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That's yeah.

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It's just always the right answer.

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Isn't it.

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So we went to several spots.

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In fact, I probably gained

about 10 pounds on vacation.

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I think it's going to say something,

but I thought better of it.

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No, man.

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I did it right.

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I said to myself, self we're

going to enjoy this thing.

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So I'm going to let loose a little bit

and enjoy the family and enjoy some food.

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And anyway, so I did that.

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Uh, one of the places I went that

I really liked was burger house.

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You ever been there?

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Yep.

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Their fries are amazing.

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I mean, yeah, they're a little fried Jews.

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Certain have Jews.

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Powder.

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Yeah, she's sitting.

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That's the one.

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Yeah.

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No, it was really tasty.

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I was surprised I was.

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It was good.

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And so we went to the one near SMU.

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There's a couple spots,

I guess the one near SMU.

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And I heard about it from this guy

named or this channel called Daytripper.

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And so he goes around different spots in

Texas and he reviews different things.

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And so he led us to this

and we went actually to the

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George Bush library as well.

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The museum.

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Yeah.

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And so we went to the burger house.

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It was great.

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It was a really hot day.

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So we ended up having to park far

away, which didn't work out so nicely.

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Uh, but we ended up doing it.

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We walked, we went to the burger stand.

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It was fantastic.

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We really enjoyed it.

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It's a good burger is not a great burger.

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It's a good burger.

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And we liked that.

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That was one of the best for sure.

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Yep.

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Burger house is good.

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There's another place

called burger street.

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That is also a good burger.

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Okay.

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And the same area.

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Uh, th th that one, they've

got a couple of locations,

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other places in Dallas, but no.

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Yeah, hold on.

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I forgot one big way to send you.

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Wait, wait, hold the record.

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You push pause, Bedo and sons.

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Wait, what?

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Beethoven son rather not plural.

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Beethoven son be ETO and son

like the guy that's running

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for governor against Abbott.

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Not that beta.

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Okay.

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But yes.

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Downtown Dallas.

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Okay.

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Beta and sun, neck TexMex,

but Mexican, mostly.

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Some of the best Mexican

I've had in Texas hands down.

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That's a big compliment from you.

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That's like going to California.

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And I found good barbecue,

which will never happen.

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And it would be like, Duty.

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I was, I was so, and I

had no expectations going.

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Yeah.

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Because the owners.

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Uh, our parents to one of our members.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Now I know what you're talking about.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So I didn't go with expectations

of this is going to be amazing.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah, that'd be cool.

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You know?

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Yeah.

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It go to the restaurant, enjoy

them, enjoy the whatever.

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So I went just thinking

this is gonna be fun.

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It'll be fun to get to know their food.

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And I was not that I was shocked

that it was tasty, but I was just

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like, man, I didn't expect anything.

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And this is everything.

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I loved it.

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I w I w I will go back there

every vacation, so help me, God.

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Yeah.

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I want to go someday.

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I've heard should yeah, you should.

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We're visiting them.

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And I didn't realize that he

walked in wearing his shirt and

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everything about the restaurant.

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I was like, oh, we need to go.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I really enjoyed.

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That's cool.

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I think at walking away from

it, I was just, I was impressed.

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So go with minimal expectations

and you'll have it.

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Well, good.

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Good.

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Well, we're glad to have you back, man.

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I'm glad to have you in the office.

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Thank you for indulging my,

my, my recalling of the event.

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I know everyone's been asking,

everyone's been wanting to know.

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How's vacation going.

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But I did miss this.

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I D I D I love routine.

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I love the Bible.

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I love the daily Bible podcast.

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I'm glad to be back.

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Well, I'm glad to have you back.

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And so our people, I guarantee you.

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All right.

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Hey, Jeremiah 38 through 40.

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We're giving the Jeremiah 38.

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And like I said, in yesterday's

episode, we we've got to get

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pastor rod to insights here.

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On 38 and 37.

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So 37, 11 through 21 records, a

situation where Jeremiah is arrested.

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He is beaten and he's thrown

in prison in Jonathan's house.

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Yup.

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Uh, he then.

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This is called by Zedekiah.

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Is that a kayak kind of has a

secret meeting with them, says,

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Hey, has anything changed?

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No.

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Uh, and then he's in

prison in the palace guard.

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Well then chapter 38

opens and in chapter 38.

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Hey guess what?

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Jeremiah is arrested again.

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And he's, he's imprisoned, not

in Jonathan's house though,

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but he's thrown in a sister.

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So many parallel event.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 37 38.

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I kind of showed my cards yesterday.

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Um, PR I'm curious to get your thoughts.

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Alright.

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Parallel events or different events.

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No, totally different.

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I mean, yeah, totally different there.

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And they're placed next to each other

because they're at the magically similar.

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Yeah.

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So Jeremiah clearly thought for his

life on multitude, multiple occasions.

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And this is one of those, in fact, I

think the sister was meant to kill him.

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I think that was the intention.

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Yeah.

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Clearly.

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Uh, so this is different and yet same

in that it's the magically similar,

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but I'll, I'll see your question and

I'll raise you one when we get to

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it, because I have questions as well.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I didn't miss those questions.

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Cause I got to just say whatever I want.

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And I didn't get to ask myself.

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Challenges whatsoever.

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I'm going to tell you now I

got some questions for you.

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No doubt the sister was made to and

meant to be the death of Jeremiah.

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I mean this, this sister.

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And if you look at verse six, I

mean, he's, he sinks down into the

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mud when he's lowered down into it.

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Um, And this is a situation where they

were going to lead him to starve to death.

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And there's a sense in which

there's parallels here in.

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In Joseph's life, right.

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Joseph was taken and thrown into a

sister and as well by his brothers.

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And then they thought, you know what?

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We can make some money off of him and

not just kill them by selling them to the

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Ishmaelites and God ordained all that.

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But here.

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You've got this guy named EBID Mellick.

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now.

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That is not servant to the king.

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Exactly.

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That that's not his actual name.

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Uh, It's a euphemism it's a nickname.

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It's that means servant of the king.

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Yeah, Evan Mellick.

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And so he, uh, being the servant of the

king, he has a soft spot in his heart

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for Jeremiah, perhaps it overheard

conversations between Zedekiah.

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And uh, Jeremiah in the past,

but he goes to and says, Hey,

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something bad has happened.

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This is what they've done.

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We need to rescue.

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And the king and what's interesting

is, is in the proceeding chapter.

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It makes it very obvious.

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The king has very little power.

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Uh, that he kind of fears the.

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The cronies.

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Yeah.

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But here he says, okay, yeah, go get him.

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And he sends Evan.

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Ebedmelech.

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Melik with 30 people and

they go and they bring.

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Jeremiah up out of the cistern.

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And then again, Jeremiah is brought

back before the king again, and

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the king wants to know again, Hey,

is all this still going to happen?

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Jeremiah says you have 14 through 23.

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Yeah.

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It's going to happen.

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Uh, this is what's going to happen

in and you need to be ready for that.

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Um, verses 24 through 28, then the

King's afraid of the people and tells

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Jeremiah, Hey, don't, don't tell any

of the people, what we talked about.

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If they ask you, just tell them

that you implored that I not send

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you back to Jonathan's house.

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So that's a difficult one.

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I'm wondering if that's where your

question is, is coming into play.

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It certainly is.

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Yeah.

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Because it seems like the

king is weak-willed king.

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We can limp wristed king

is telling Jeremiah to lie.

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And Jeremiah seems to suggest that

he accepts that and he uses that.

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He says that basically.

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Yeah.

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That's that's what happened.

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This is, this is what took place.

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God doesn't comment on it.

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At least according to the text, as

we understand it, God's not saying,

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Hey, Jeremiah, don't do that.

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Trust that I got this under control.

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So is this a line number one?

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And if two, it is a lie.

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What do we make of that?

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Come on pastor and residents.

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Yeah.

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It's so.

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Not to fall back on MacArthur, but I will

just, in this instance here at MacArthur

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says in his commentary, he says, Jeremiah

didn't fall into line deception here.

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What he said was true that

we did not divulge all the

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details of the conversation.

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Johnny Mack.

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I love you.

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I respect you, but Billoni so the

reason he says it's true is because

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if you look back and Jack chapter 37,

verse 20, Jeremiah does indeed say.

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please.

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Oh, Lord my king.

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Let my humble plea come before you do not

send me back to the house of Jonathan.

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So in Jeremiah 37 20.

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He did actually plead

on a different location.

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Don't send me, yeah.

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Different different.

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Occasion, right?

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Yeah.

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So it seems to me then if

this is the truth, it's a very

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malleable approach to the truth.

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And so I, I, I get it.

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He's a prophet.

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He's a man of God.

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I understand that.

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Yeah.

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I guess it's just goes back to my initial

thinking that perhaps in, in the mind of

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God, Slicing the details of the truth,

or even, uh, giving enemies the truth.

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Uh, isn't always, isn't always necessary.

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Yeah.

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If I'm going to escape, you know, if

I'm going to protect you as you know,

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that whole situation, if I'm going

to, if I'm going to protect a life in

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this case, Jeremiah's own life, then

giving those who would take my life

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or those who had threatened my family.

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The truth isn't necessary.

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And this is a text I look

at, I can't say for sure.

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God ordained this, but God

has her silent on this.

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And Jeremiah seems to be okay with

it, which gives me the sense of okay.

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Maybe there's a way of thinking

about this and I'm just not

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privy to in this case, I think.

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I mean, the silence is

pretty, pretty glaring.

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It is it's deafening I'm with you

in, in, I initially thought to myself

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kind of the same thing, like, Hey,

Uh, this doesn't seem legitimate here.

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It seems like he is being

deception deceptive.

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Uh, and he's, he's not, he's

certainly not telling the full truth.

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Uh, it's a partial truth at best, at best.

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It's a partial truth, which shows

that a godly man can in fact do

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this, it seems and get away with it.

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There's no commendation.

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I'll give you that.

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There's nothing in the Bible.

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It says, Hey, Jeremiah.

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Yeah, but Jeremiah does it.

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That's my point.

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He does it now that he's

invaluable, but he's the man of God.

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Right?

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He doesn't have any qualms with it and

God doesn't reprimand him for that.

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True.

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However, Church.

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If you're listening to this, I don't

think we're going to find ourselves

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in too many of those situations.

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Sure.

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That sure that we can apply this and be

like, well, Afraid for my family's life.

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So.

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But, yeah, I'm just saying if there is

a time, maybe the, yeah, you're right.

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This is, this is kind of dancing on the

head of a pen situation with the angels.

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Yeah, I get all that.

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I'm just saying there's, there's a

category in God's thinking here that

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there's, there's a place for this fair.

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Totally fair.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Chapter 39 then, uh, in chapter 39.

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So again, just to rehash chapter

38, 37 different events, uh,

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similar themes, different events,

different imprisonments there.

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Chapter 39, this, this chapter details.

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The, the fall of Jerusalem,

which began in 5 88, 5 87, and

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came to completion at 5 86 BC.

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It's a 30 month siege is.

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It is what it ends up being

as a Nebuchadnezzar comes in,

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in lay siege to the city here.

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Well verses four through seven.

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Is that a guy doesn't surrender,

even though that's what

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Jeremiah had committed him or.

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We told him he should do in that,

that this would go well for him.

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If he did.

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Uh, but he doesn't surrender, but

he ends up fleeing for his life and

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he is captured by the Babylonians.

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And endures quite a horrific

punishment before being taken

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captive back to Babylon.

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So I mentioned it in one of

the previous episodes where.

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Is that.

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Is is taught by Jeremiah.

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Hey, you're going to die in

peace in Babylon, but he's he's

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death was anything but peaceful.

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Because some of the last things

that this king ever sees is

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that the death of his children.

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The Babylonians end up executing

his children in front of him.

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And then they take his eyesight

just to keep things, uh, as, as.

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As clean as we possibly can.

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They take his eyesight after

executing his children.

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And so that, that's the last

image that ever has in his mind.

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So yes, he is eventually taken captive

to Babylon and he dies in Babylon.

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But I think it's far from a peaceful

death, aside from the fact that

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he's not executed in a militaristic

kind of way, or in a, uh, you

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know, execution as far as lethal

execution or anything like that goes.

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Uh, in a prison in prison or anything

else, this is a, this is a bad

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debt that he has to die because

he's left to suffer with that in

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his mind for the rest of his life.

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And this goes to show what would it

cost someone and rarely do we ever

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think about when I sin, when I, when

I disobeyed God, it's going to result

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in missing these horrific tragedies.

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We, we don't think in these

terms and I'd probably it's.

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Generally speaking, not going to be

the case, but we should think then

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what is the consequences of my sin?

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I can't anticipate exactly

how this is going to fall out.

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Just take a look at His life.

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Which I think God has severe consequences,

even if not immediately in the moment.

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Eventually your sin

will catch up with you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Verses eight through 10, the

survivors of the seizure taken

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captive by Nebuchadnezzar as captives.

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This is the final, well, not

the final one, I guess this is

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the third of four deportations.

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And so the, the, a lot of them are taken

captive at this point back to Babylon.

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Um, There's a few poor people left

in Judah who are going to pose.

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Essentially no significant threat, so

never can Azure leaves them there to tend

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to the fields and things along that line.

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Uh, those lines, but they're left there

verses 11 through 14 African Ezra orders.

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The release of, of Jeremiah who was

entrusted to this guy named Gedaliah

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and allowed to return to Judah.

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And so Jeremiah is a lot of stay back in

Judah, uh, under the reign of Gedaliah.

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Who's not a king, but a governor

and he's a Babylonian official here.

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Uh, and we're gonna find out

what happens to get alive.

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It doesn't spoiler.

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It doesn't go well for him.

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Uh, but verses 15 through

18 then is chapter 39.

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And the faithfulness of Ebedmelech

is rewarded by the Lord here.

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And so he's commended for

his intercession there to.

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To deliver Jeremiah from

the cistern and the author.

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Jeremiah makes note of that here for us.

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And I think one of the important points

here is that no act of faithfulness

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goes unnoticed by God, by the Lord.

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Yup.

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He goes so far as to say Jesus.

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Uh, that even a cold cup of water given

to a Saint is, is going to be rewarded.

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Yep.

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So I think one of the things

that you should see in this is

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God's attentive, attentive nature

to the details of our lives.

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Small acts of charity of

kindness are not overlooked.

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And I know for some moms, you know,

they were working behind the scenes.

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No one sees them there.

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You know, literally behind closed

doors, you know, taking care of

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kids, wiping noses, changing diapers,

raising up the next generation.

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You know, it's not, it's not the

glamorous kind of job that, you know,

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A C-level executive would get, who's

making a million vagina dollars a year.

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But it's important work that God sees.

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And for those who are faithful in the

small things where no one sees man,

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God sees and that's what's worth it.

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Yup.

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Yeah.

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A reward.

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Jeremiah chapter 40.

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Um, There's this chapter expands a

lot on Jeremiah's release and kind of

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dives into the conflict that remained

for Gedaliah after the siege ended.

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So this is kind of meanwhile, back in

Jerusalem, as, as the captives are gone.

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And, and is that a case

has been carried away?

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This is focusing back here in

Judah and, and things are it's.

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Unrest is basically the way that

it would describe chapter 40.

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Uh, Jeremiah goes back here.

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Uh, but there's more to Jeremiah's

trials that are in front of him.

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Uh, there's going to be a fleet,

a flight to Egypt that he doesn't

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really want to go on because he

knows what the Lord said about Egypt,

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but now get allies on the throne.

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Or raining as governor, at

least there's going to be.

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Disruption and an unrest

amongst the people.

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Chapter 40 is kind of setting up that,

that the conflicts, not over, even

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though that the seizures done, the

city has fallen, the walls are done.

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The Temple's gone.

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Uh, everything is not copacetic.

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Now at this point, there's

still trials to count here.

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Yeah.

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And it's important for us

to see here that got it.

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Tell us the faithful,

those who are still there.

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Look.

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Don't be afraid to serve the Cal DNS.

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He says here in verse nine, dwell in

the land, serve the king of Babylon

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and it shall be well with you.

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This is going to be God's means

of protection, which should tell

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us something about the future.

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Suppose that your worst.

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Political candidate makes makes

office and they're in the they're

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in the driver's seat here.

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Uh, you can see here that God is not

afraid to send his people through the

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midst of adversity and that's his plant.

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That's his purpose.

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He wants him to do that.

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And to trust that his hand of governance

is not gone, it's not like he's

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looking away from the wheel and say,

oh, I didn't realize that the steering

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wheel ended up in the left-hand lane.

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No, God is well aware of

what's happening over there.

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Our job is to be faithful, no matter

who's in office, no matter who's leading.

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And part of it as Jeremiah is telling the.

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Those who are left behind,

like be, be faithful.

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God knows what he's doing.

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Trust him.

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And it's going to be well with you.

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Yeah.

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So trust the Lord, whatever the season is.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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So I'm 74 and 79.

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Uh, these two Psalms have a lot of

similarities between the two of them.

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And I think they fit in this context.

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It does seem that this is, uh, something

that's written during this season.

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And we read about that.

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For example, in Psalm 74, 3, the enemy

has destroyed everything in the sanctuary

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for seven, they set your sanctuary.

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Uh, which we have every reason to

believe is, is the temple here on fire.

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And they profaned the dwelling place of

your name, bringing it down to the ground.

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And so this does seem to be written

during this season, during this time

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when the temple has been destroyed

when the city is lying in ruins.

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And so the Psalm laments the destruction

here of Jerusalem and in questions.

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Okay.

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How long Israel?

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Uh, should bear the reproach of

the nations and the shame that it's

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suffering under, but then the Psalmus

remembers God's power and his might,

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and he turns to a prayer for him

to act and defend his name and his

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glory among the people remembering.

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Uh, the covenant is 74 twenties.

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He pray specifically have

regard for the covenant.

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And I think this is probably

the Abrahamic covenant there.

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Uh, if not the Davidic covenant and

one of the two wearing this almost is

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asking for God to remember his promises

to the people and not forget them.

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And we've talked about this recently in

the last couple episodes, why God has not

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still even today forgotten his people,

Israel, but still has a future for them.

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Yeah, I really appreciate verse 12.

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It seems to be the change in the chapter.

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Kind of a, I think of it,

the new Testament, but God.

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Um, and that's what you see here yet.

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God is the word, but, but God is the idea.

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But even though we're in trouble, but God,

even though things are looking bad, but

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God, and I think that that'll preach, man.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Well, Yes.

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It's Psalm 79.

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Again, very similar to the medically to

what we just talked about in Psalm 74.

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Uh, do note though, uh, verses eight

and nine, just the mentality that

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is possessed there by the Psalmist,

which is good for us to remember

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about our own salvation as well.

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When he says, do not remember against

us, our former iniquities, let your

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compassion come very speedily to

meet us for war brought very low,

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but then he says this help us.

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Oh God, of our salvation

for the glory of your name.

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Deliver us in a tone for our

sins for your name's sake.

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And so that the prayer that God would

forgive us or deliver us, or when we

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think about our own salvation, uh it's,

it's not for us at the end of the day.

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It's not ultimately about us.

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We benefit from it.

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No doubt about that, but ultimately

it's for the glory of God.

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And as the Salma Supreme, that God would

deliver Israel nationally corporately,

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it was again for the glory of God.

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And so too, for us, our individual

salvation is also for the glory

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of God as he forgives our sins.

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Yes.

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And amen.

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Yeah, it's going to be back.

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It's going to have you back.

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To put another one.

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In the cancer to speak

well, hopefully it recorded.

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Because our software is not acting.

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21 49, 21.

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But then we went 51.

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But it's not moving.

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2150, the audio input thing is not moving.

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Maybe we didn't record anything.

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We'd have to do this

whole thing over again.

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And they were gonna have to pretend

like we're starting this all over

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again for the first time, and it's

not going to sound as authentic

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because it's not going to be exactly.

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Let's pray right now

that that didn't happen.

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Okay.

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All right, God, we pray that our equipment

just continues to work and we want to

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be mindful of that, that we get these

microphones and these computers and.

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It's such a blessing.

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And yet we also know that if

these things went away, A ministry

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could continue, maybe not this

podcast, but, but other ministry.

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Could continue, but we do thank

you for these things and these

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instruments, these implements that

we get to use on a regular basis.

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God, we do pray that we

would possess the mentality.

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As a people that we are.

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Uh, grateful for salvation that is

ultimately about you and about your glory.

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And even as we read through Jeremiah,

as pastor rod was talking about having

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that mentality of, of trust in you,

that says, okay, even if, if the wrong

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person wins, so to speak in the election,

We're not going to threaten and say,

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we're going to leave the country or

we're going to do any of this, this,

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that, or the other thing, but we're

going to trust you and be here and

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work for the good work for the welfare.

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Even as you instructed in previous

passages, pray for the welfare of

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the city, pray for the welfare of the

nation so that the church can continue

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to do the work that it needs to do.

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And so that's what our

desires, our heart is.

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So help us to do that.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Are you guys will keep honoring

your Bibles and tune in again

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tomorrow for another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Bye.

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Bye.