00:00 Intro

00:54 Magazine Feature and Photo Shoot

02:45 Questions from Young Listeners

03:08 Discussion on Satan and Scripture

06:57 Clarifying God's Justice and Fairness

10:29 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 35-37

16:37 Trusting God's Plan in Difficult Times

18:25 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

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We're so glad you've joined us.

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And now your hosts,

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod.

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Hey everybody.

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Bernard, appreciate your

intro there and it's Sunday.

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And so we are back at church today.

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We are gonna be continuing first Peter.

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So first Peter one, three through

seven today as we actually launch a

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new series called Our Living Hope.

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It's gonna be a two week series within our

broader series of the book of one Peter.

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So excited about getting

in and preaching that.

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And I heard you, you're dressing

up in a pretty flamboyant jumpsuit.

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Is that.

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Is that to be expected?

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I don't know.

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I'm still undecided.

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Okay.

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If it's Sunday morning as you're listening

to this, I'm deliberating right now.

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Yeah.

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We have the press coming today to take

pictures of You do a headshot, glam shots.

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They wanna put you on the cover of

a magazine as they understand it.

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So that's why we're all thinking

about what we're gonna wear.

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'cause we might end up in the background

of one of Pastor PJ's photo shoot.

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I don't think that's accurate.

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I think it's no.

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We are having Salina Living Magazine

come out to do a, a story on our

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church, which is pretty exciting.

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A glamor shot of you?

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No.

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Not a glamor shot.

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Not a glamor shot.

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But they're gonna come out

and do a story on our church.

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And this is something to be praying for.

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So if you see people today, if you're

listening to this before you go to

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church, if you see people with cameras

today please don't get the wrong idea.

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This is not a hey we're trying to be, all

glitzy and glamorous and servicey here.

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This is a local publication that goes

out to, I believe, 22,000 homes, I

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think is what we found out about this.

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I thought it was 22 million, but, okay.

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Million thousand, same thing,

but 22,000 homes in the area.

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And it's an opportunity for us.

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They're gonna do an interview this week.

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They're gonna talk to us about the church.

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It's an opportunity for us to get

our name out in those 22,000 homes in

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the area around our our church here.

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So we're jumping at this opportunity,

this chance, and should be a great time.

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But that's what.

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You're seeing, if you notice people around

with cameras and stuff, they're there

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as part of this article that they're

gonna run in the Salina Living Magazine.

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If you don't see anybody, that's fine too.

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We'd actually love if all this

was in the background, they will

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definitely be there after church.

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After church, yes.

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We don't know if they're

gonna be there before church.

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Or during church.

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But they will be there.

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So at some point, if we're, if we

escape from you, it's not because

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we're trying to be rude, it's

because Pastor PG needs a glam shot.

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This is not, make sure

that we get those in there.

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That's only half true.

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It's not a glam shot.

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But they do need you 'cause

they're taking photos of you.

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Is that not true?

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That is true.

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No, that is true.

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So we are also working on a.

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TV pilot.

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We're not, we're trying to do

a real, what's that called?

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A reality show TV thing.

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Real house pastors Of North Texas.

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Real house pastors of North Texas.

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Yes.

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We're working on it.

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We're pitching it.

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We think it has potential.

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Oh, we're not sure if

it'll fly, but we'll see.

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So if you see TV cameras

in addition to the.

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Cameras that are taking photos

of Pastor PJ and the team,

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that's what's happening here.

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Yeah.

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And that may all not be accurate at all.

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That may be totally fabricated.

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So not all of it actually.

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It's only some of it.

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Only some of it.

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Hey, we got a couple questions

just about the TV show.

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The TV show is not true, but the photos

and the glam shots, most of that is true.

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Yeah.

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Questions.

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Questions.

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Okay.

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So I got one here from someone A.

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A young listener.

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Young listener.

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Her dad sends it in on her behalf,

and I think it feels like Al Mueller

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when Mueller's I love when the

children answer the ask the questions.

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We love when the children

ask the questions.

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That's exactly what I was gonna get to.

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So here's the question and

I'm gonna pitch it to you.

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Okay?

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Knock it outta the park.

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Here it goes.

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In the Bible.

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Satan uses scripture

to try to tempt Jesus.

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Does that mean Satan has memorized the

whole Bible and should we be worried about

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people that know, but misused the Bible?

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Yeah.

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So first thing that we should know, and

this is a great question, insightful

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question from somebody especially

so young, is let me establish

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Satan's limitations before I talk.

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His power.

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Satan is not omniscient.

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Okay?

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Only God is omnisci.

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What does that mean?

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Omni meaning knows all things.

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God is the only one that knows all things.

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God is the only one that is omnipresent,

which means he's everywhere all at once.

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Satan is bound by space.

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He's bound by time.

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He does not exist outside of time.

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He's a created being.

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And though he's an immortal

being, he's a created being.

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Nonetheless.

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And so Satan is not like God, however.

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The power that Satan possesses is that

Satan is a very intelligent being.

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Satan was one of God's angels, one

of the chief angels that God created

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at the outset of the dawn of time.

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And Satan fell due to his pride.

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We believe if some of the descriptions

in the Old Testament are accurate

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of his fall, which we don't have

any reason to doubt that it would

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be and because of that Satan.

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With his knowledge of God

would know God's word as well.

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And so Satan knows that one of the

best ways that he can come after

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the followers of God's people is to

take the word of God and twist it.

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In fact, he's been doing

that from the very beginning.

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That's what he came to

Eve with and he said, did.

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Did God really say don't

eat from that tree.

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Don't touch it.

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And he begins to pervert God's word.

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And so Satan has been doing that

from the very beginning, and

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he's known as the father of lies.

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And so he's also gonna lie when

it comes to how he uses the Bible.

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And so when he comes to Jesus and the

wilderness, yeah, he knows the Bible, he

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knows the word of God, and he's trying to.

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Think maybe I can trip up the son of

God by quoting the Bible to him and

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making him do what I want him to do.

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Now he underestimates his opponent

there and doesn't understand that

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the one that he is addressing is the

very author of the word, or at least

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if he did, he underestimated his

ability to withstand the temptation.

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So the second part of the question that

should we be concerned about people

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today who know the Bible but misuse it?

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Yes.

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Absolutely unqualified yes to that,

and that is why it's so important

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to find a good church that's

gonna teach the Bible faithfully.

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That's why it's so important to

find pastors that are knowledgeable.

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I know a lot of young men who have had

the desire to go into the ministry,

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but have thoughts to themselves, you

know what, I don't need seminary.

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I don't need Bible College.

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I don't need this training.

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I just wanna go tell people about Jesus.

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The passion is commendable.

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The zeal is commendable, but the

impetuousness that the desire to go

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and just start doing it is concerning

because you can fall into error that way.

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And so we need to be

following leaders who.

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Have been well-trained to handle the word

of God and are doing it in a good way.

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And then also, you need

to know your Bible.

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And so as this young listener asks,

you're being raised to, to know your

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Bible in a young age, you need to know

your Bible really well, because then

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you're gonna know when you're sitting

under someone's teaching whether

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or not that's biblically faithful.

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That's to be a berean, as it's

talked about in the Book of Acts.

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So yes, Satan does know the Bible.

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Yes, Satan twists the Bible.

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And yes, we also need to be concerned

about other people that claim to know the

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Bible, but mishandle it at the same time.

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Did the devil have to memorize

the Bible then, or was this just

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something that he knew because

he was around God, the Father?

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At some point in time I think he

probably had to apply himself to know

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it, to study it, and to learn it.

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Ooh.

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So just like we should, right?

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He mastered it.

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In fact, by all accounts, he probably

knows it better than we do, right?

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He's had a lot more time at it, and

therefore we should not be surprised

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when he uses the Bible in bad ways.

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So we should be really prayerfully

knowledgeable about the Bible so

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that we avoid people that misuse it.

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What a great question Ri.

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Yep.

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Thank you for sending that in.

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Yep.

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Excellent.

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Do we want to address this other

clarification question or do we

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want to Oh, take that one tomorrow.

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I throw that one in there.

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That's fine.

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Okay.

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So another young listener says in today's

DBR, you said, God is just, but not fair.

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I believe.

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Understand what you're saying and

agree, but would be appreciated if

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you could expound on what it means or

what you mean by God not being fair.

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Go for it.

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PPGA you're the one who made this

comment, so I have an answer, but I

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wanna hear from you since you're the

one that, that put this out there.

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Then let me clarify it

after you take a shot.

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'cause maybe we would say it differently.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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He, his justice is not always

gonna seem like it's fair to us,

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and there's no guarantee that

it's going to be fair to us.

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In fact, we talked about it

recently, God will never give

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you more than you can handle.

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That's not a true statement.

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In fact, I'm, we're gonna talk about

that even today in church this morning

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as we're talking about trials and

how God brings trials into our lives

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there are gonna be things that we're

gonna have situations where we're

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gonna feel like this is not fair.

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But that does not mean that God

is not just, that he's not doing

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the right thing from our point

of view, bound by the limitations

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of our finitude as the creature.

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Not the creator.

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We may sit here and say, this is not fair.

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And yet God knows as he's working

out things from his point of view,

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from an eternal perspective, that

what he's doing is the just act.

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What he's doing is the right act.

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What he's doing is working in accordance

with his plan, ultimately for his glory.

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And I think when we get to eternity,

we will, part of the privilege and

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blessing of being in eternity is we'll

have the opportunity to look back

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on different situations in our life.

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Just like we can't even already before we

get to eternity and see the way that God

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was doing things and at work in situations

that maybe at that time we thought, man,

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this isn't fair, and yet we see the good

that he was working, that it was still

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just, even though from our perspective

maybe it felt man this seems not fair.

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Amen to that.

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I would say probably the easiest

way to wrap your mind around this

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is the way that God designs people.

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Some are taller, some are shorter,

some are faster, some are slower,

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some are incredibly intelligent.

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They have to do so little work to

memorize facts and figures, and they

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just knock it outta the ballpark when

they're tested, and yet others have

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to work really hard just to memorize

the basics and get a C on the test.

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Those inequalities are not morally.

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Significant for God to say that he's

in some way wrong, but they're unfair.

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There's unfair advantages and there's

unfair disadvantages that all of us

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can be born into the fact that we're

Americans, most of us I trust listening

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to this, we have an unfair advantage over

most people who live in other places.

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We have an unfair advantage

being English speakers where

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we have a plethora of Bible.

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Translations to choose from.

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We have commentaries and all

these wonderful resources.

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So I would say those are unfair things

that we could say God's okay with, that.

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God has designed unfairness.

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He gives more blessings here

and less blessings there.

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The people of Israel are probably

one of the best examples.

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The people of Israel were chosen

among all the different people groups

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that lived at that point in time.

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He chose Abraham.

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He could have chosen anybody.

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He chose Abraham.

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And some could say, man, that's.

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Unfair, and I would agree with that, but

it's not unjust because God's justice

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means he will always do what's right.

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But when it comes to our understanding

of fairness, we think all people, if we

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if my kid gets one ice cream scoop, the

other kid should get one ice cream scoop.

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If if one kid is six foot five, the

other kid should be six foot five.

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It's one of those things that's a

childish way to look at fairness.

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But God's okay with distributing

gifts as he sees fit.

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Righteous.

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Good.

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Perfect.

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But he does certainly give

some people more than others.

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We ought to be okay with that.

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I think God's okay with that.

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As is evidenced by the fact that all of

us have different bank account numbers.

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All of us have different intelligence.

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All of us have different skill sets

that God has baked into our DNA.

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And that's all I was trying to say.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Thanks for asking the

clarifying question though.

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If we ever say anything like that

and you guys are going, wait a minute

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write in, ask the follow up for us.

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We'd love to, to clarify 'cause

you're probably not the only

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one that has that question.

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Yeah.

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Two young listeners asking

two great questions.

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Thank you guys for doing that.

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We are so grateful for those.

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Jeremiah 35 through 37 is our

DBR for today, chapter 35.

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We find ourselves back

in the reign of Eze Kaya.

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Before the reign of Zaka, sorry,

during Johan Jo Hoya Kim's reign,

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which is 6 0 9 to 5 97 bc and the

only reason I bring that up is because

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the people that are mentioned in this

chapter that God uses to provide a

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stark contrast between faithfulness

and the unfaithfulness of Israel are

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this people called the record bytes.

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And the record bytes were

descendants of Jon Dab who lived

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towards the end of Ahab's Reign.

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So we're back in about.

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Eight 50 BC was when Jon Daab was living.

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So Jon Daab gave his descendants

this charge to live in

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accordance with his wishes.

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In the recites for over 200 years,

had been faithful to what this man,

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Jon Daab had tasked his descendants

with being faithful to, and so God.

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Sends Jeremiah to commend them and also

to point out to the rest of the people

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there to say, look, how, if they could

be faithful to their father a mere man,

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how much more should you, Israel have

been faithful to me, the God of everyone.

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And so this is a lesser to the greater

argument that God is going to use.

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It's similar to the living parables that

he does with Jeremiah, except this time

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Jeremiah doesn't have to get a loin cloth

or a yoke or anything else like that.

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He's pointing to a family

saying they've been faithful.

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To a man's wishes for over 200 years.

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And yet Israel, we have

been faithless to our God.

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And there's judgment that's coming.

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Yeah.

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And there's nothing wrong

with human tradition.

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Clearly.

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God held them up as at

least worthy of emulation.

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Yeah.

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So I think that's interesting

and important to see.

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Tradition has its place and we're

not against tradition even as.

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Bible believing evangelicals, a

lot of us carry traditions through.

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The problem is not tradition per se,

as such, the problem is when tradition

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circumvents or even usurps God's word,

and that's the problem that we see here.

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The record bytes were

awesome for what they did.

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God honors them.

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At least by way of using them

as an example, saying, look how

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they honor their father, and am

I not worthy of much more honor?

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And of course the answer is yes,

and Jesus will later charge the

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Pharisees and the scribes with putting

tradition over the word of God.

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And that's a danger for us today as well.

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The problem is that most of us are unaware

of the traditions that we iib upon.

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We go through the.

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The formality of our religion,

we go through the routine of it,

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and rarely do we think about why.

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Why do we do it that way?

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Why do we not sit, stand and kneel as

some other Christian traditions do?

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Why do we sing the songs that we do?

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Why do we preach the

Bible the way that we do?

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Or why do we not have these big cathedral

like buildings, like other traditions do?

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And there's a lot of answers

to that, and many of them, many

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are biblically reasoned answers.

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I would encourage you as you go through

your Christian life, to ask questions

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of yourself and maybe of others to say,

why do we do the things that we do?

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When did that start?

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What's behind that?

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That'd be a really good

thing for you to do.

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Yeah.

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The trouble we get into is when our answer

is because we've always done it that way.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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Or if it says, we like it this way, even

though the Bible says something different,

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we want to do it this way instead

because we're more comfortable with it.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 36, we we found a bad

scene unfold in chapter 34.

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36.

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In the, it says in the fourth year

of Jo Hoya Kim, so we're 6 0 5 to

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6 0 4 bc Jeremiah has given the

instructions that he needs to write

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down the things that the Lord has been

dictating to him, the things that the

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Lord has been prophesying through him.

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And so the Lord is gonna, through

Jeremiah, use a man named bar.

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And Baruch is gonna be Jeremiah's scribe.

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And Baruch is gonna write down on the

scroll everything that the Lord desired

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for him to write down the things that

the Jeremiah had been prophesying

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because he wanted it to be recorded

so that more people could read it

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and come to understand it, and even

hear it as it's read out loud and.

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Perhaps potentially respond to

it in repentance, the way that

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God had desired that they should.

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It's finished there, verse nine.

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In the fifth year of Jo Hoya Kim.

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And that Cro scroll is

going to be read aloud.

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And this is, it reminded me though this

contrast again, is stark here between the

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faithfulness and unfaithfulness motif.

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It reminded me of when Josiah found

the scroll in the temple and he

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read it out loud to the people.

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And yet the responses are

dramatically different.

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When this scroll is read out loud by

Baruch the officials, they get Baruch and

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they say, Hey, look, you guys need to run

and hide because this is not gonna go well

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for you when the king hears of this and

catch his word of what you're prophesying

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and all the judgment that's coming.

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And so they tell Jeremiah there in

verse 19 you need to go and take cover.

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You need to get outta here because

the king's going to be mad.

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And so the scroll is taken.

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The scroll is.

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Put away and the king requests it.

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And this is where just this fear

inducing scene takes place where

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the king has the scroll red.

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And as the scroll is being read, the

king pulls out his sword and or has one

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of his servants do this and cuts off.

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Portions of this scroll and throws it

in the fire pot nearby and burns God's

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word as it is being read out loud to him.

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And the end of it is Jeremiah then takes

out another scroll, gives it to Baruch

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and records everything over again.

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But this is one of the final nails

in the coffin for the judgment

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of God coming against the people.

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Chapter 37.

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Then we get into an in interesting scene

here is Zeki had a love-hate relationship

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with Jeremiah Zeki is enraged at him.

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He's cutting up the scroll.

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He's throwing it in the fire pot.

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But then the other thing here is

Zeki is going to be sorry, JE Joa.

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Kim was throwing it in the fire pot.

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My bad.

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That was my mistake.

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Zetia still has a love-hate

relationship with Jeremiah.

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'cause he's gonna see him

imprisoned and pull him out

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and everything else like that.

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Jeremiah goes to Zetia.

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So we're 5 97 BC right now.

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And he's gonna warn him and he's gonna

say, Hey look, this is what's happening.

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And he's gonna say up at.

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It.

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The verse 10, he says, even if you

should defeat the whole army of the

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Chaldeans who are fighting against you,

and there remained of them, only wounded

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men, every man in his tent, they would

rise up and burn the city with fire.

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In other words, God's judgment

is inevitable at this point.

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It's inescapable.

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It's going to happen.

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There's nothing you can do about it.

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As that Aki gets upsets with Jeremiah and

has him imprisoned, and so he's gonna be

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imprisoned there in the house of Jonathan,

the secretary for it had been made.

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It says there in verse 15 into a prison.

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King Zaka later is gonna

give orders about Jeremiah.

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He's gonna be committed there

to the court of the guard.

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He had said, do not send me back to the

house of Jonathan, lest I die there.

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And Jeremiah and Zika begin this

relationship that we're gonna

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find out more about as the the

chapters continue here in Jeremiah.

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I really appreciate the facts that it was

the very thing that Jeremiah did not want,

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that God uses to provide for Jeremiah.

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Verse 21.

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That a loaf of bread was given him

daily from the Baker Street until

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all the bread of the city was gone.

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God did that by delivering

Jeremiah to the prison.

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And it's amazing.

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God provided through prison and

God protected him through prison.

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God preserved his life by sending him

through a very terrible situation,

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and it is this very thing that God

uses to bless and preserve Jeremiah.

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I think that's fascinating and

I think it's really worth us.

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Taking to heart the fact that if you're

in a difficult season, that might be

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the very thing that's God, that God is

using to protect you and PR preserve you.

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The challenge is we have our Bible.

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We could look at what's happening here.

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We know the end for Jeremiah's story.

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You don't know the end of your story.

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You don't have a Bible that you can

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pastor pj, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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None of us have that.

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And that's probably a good thing.

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Honestly, you don't want information

about your future, let God handle that.

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But the point is you need to be able

to trust that God is using every

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circumstance for better and for worse to

accomplish his good purposes in your life.

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Even if that means, like Jeremiah,

you're in prison situation, God

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used prison to bless Jeremiah.

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And I wonder if Jeremiah knew it in the

moment or if he had to wait for his book

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to be written to say, you know what?

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On second thought, that

was actually a good thing.

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And to bring things full circle.

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Jeremiah probably sat there and thought

to himself in prison, this isn't fair.

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Oh, yeah.

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And yet God was just, and it was

still a good situation, even though

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from Jeremiah's perspective early

on, this isn't fair, Daniel h and

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i, Azariah, Misha, this isn't fair.

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We've been taken away from our

family, from the temple, from

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everything else, and we're here.

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And yet God was using that to

spare them, put them in positions

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to be able to influence nations

and and preserve his people too.

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Yeah.

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All, let's pray and then we

will wrap up this episode.

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God, we confess our limitations,

even just as we're talking about

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that of our inability to know

exactly how you're at work.

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And so help us to trust you.

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Increase our faith in those

situations when times are difficult.

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Even as we're gonna talk about today at

church that you bring trials in our lives,

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that the tested genuineness of our faith,

which is more precious than gold may be

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found to result in praise and honor and

glory of the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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Lord, what an amazing reality that is.

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And it's so hard for us to.

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Embrace that mindset.

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When we're in the midst of the trial,

on the backside of the trial, or when

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we're not in a trial, we can think

about that and think sure, that makes

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all the sense in the world, but when

we find ourselves suffering so often,

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we can be so tempted to get out of

it by any means possible instead of

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enduring it and asking, okay, God, what

are you doing in the midst of this?

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And so increase our faith

to be able to do that.

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We ask and we pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for listening

to another POWERFUL episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said