00:00 Do You Like Simon?

01:22 Pastoral Work and Weekly Routine

01:56 Introduction to First Peter

02:45 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 18-22

04:23 Jeremiah's Struggles and God's Sovereignty

09:55 Judgment and Prophecies Against Israel

18:03 Conclusion and Prayer

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Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

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We're terribly glad you've joined us.

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And now, your hosts,

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod

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Hey, so you just heard our brand

new announcer guy that we just hired

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straight off the streets from the uk.

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Did we he's making double what,

Bernard was making and he's he

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sounds a little bit more dignified.

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We'll see if he sticks.

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I don't know.

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I've grown partial to Bernard's good.

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He feels like a local, yeah, he

feels like an older gentleman

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that might attend our church.

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I like him and I'm gonna

miss him if we don't.

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Stick with him.

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This is Simon.

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So everybody meets Simon.

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Everybody say hi, Simon.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, Simon's here and Simon says

there's at least one person says, one

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person wants me to have your voice.

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But that, that the he's asking

and begging that we do that.

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And I said, you know what, bro?

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I can only pray so hard.

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I'm trying by God's grace to

encourage Pastor Pge to let me

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have his voice and he doesn't want,

okay, so who is this one person?

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I can't tell you.

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He would, he, I can't.

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You can.

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He would be mortified.

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Would he would, yeah.

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He doesn't want me to text.

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He doesn't.

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Is it Bernard?

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Bernard?

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Is Bernard's mad that he got canned?

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I'm just gonna tell you

that well sidelined.

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At least if your car is keyed.

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I just, I can't be held responsible

for his disgruntled responses.

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All right.

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Anyways, if this is your first time

listening to the Daily Bible Podcast,

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you have no idea what's going on.

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No.

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Welcome though.

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We're glad that you're listening.

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Hey, it's it's Tuesday and

so we're back in the office.

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Yeah, you guys, we've

mentioned this before, but.

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We typically as pastors,

we'll take Monday off.

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Although I think Pastor

Mark is doing Saturdays.

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I think he comes in on Mondays.

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But Pastor Rod and I are usually

out on Mondays, and so Tuesday's

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our first day back in the office.

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We do a lot of meetings on Tuesdays.

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We've got our staff meetings.

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I meet with pastor Mark, I

meet with Kelly our admin here.

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And we do podcasting on Tuesdays

for the rest of the week.

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So Tuesday's kind of a busy

administrative day for us, but it's

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a good day to get back in the office.

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Everybody get on the same

page and move forward.

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And we're excited.

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And God's got a new week for us

here and we're looking forward

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to what's what's in store.

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We're officially into first Peter.

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We're rolling forward now.

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We've got a new series.

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We only did a one week series

to enter, introduce the book.

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So we've got a new series called A Living

Hope coming up this weekend, and it's

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gonna be a two-parter and can't wait.

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This is some of the best text

in the book of first Peter.

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Is what we get right off the bat.

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And so it's only downhill

from here, folks.

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No, it's it's first Peter.

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So Rich, it's got so many good passages,

even like we talked about on Sunday.

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But this is gonna be, I'm

really excited about this.

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Some of my favorite.

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Passages in the book happen right off the

right outta the gates with First Peter.

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Let's get into our DBR for today,

unless you've got more googly

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that you wanna bring to the table.

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I don't, I always have lots of googly at

the ready, but at as of this moment, I

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think it's best that I don't contribute.

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You know what Brief days with Les Googly

makes the days with more Googling, more

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enjoyable for those that enjoy the googly.

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We'll see.

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Yeah, we'll see.

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Yeah.

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Hey 18 through 22 is our text today.

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So we open up with another living parable

here from the book of Jeremiah, and

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this has to do with the as the text is

gonna say here, the potter and the clay.

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Jeremiah is gonna be told by the Lord

to go to the house of the Potter, and

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essentially here it's a common metaphor.

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It's a metaphor that's picked

up in the New Testament as well.

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It's a one that we've already seen

and I believe Isaiah talked about it.

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And that is that it.

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Depicts God as the potter

who has the prerogative to do

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what he wishes with the clay.

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He's able to wipe out the vessel, to start

over, to recreate, to do something new.

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And that's what God is saying, that he has

the right, he has the divine prerogative

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to do with the nation of Israel.

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That it's no one else's

right to do this but his own.

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And he does possess that.

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And so God is going to.

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Do that.

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And that's what he's

saying to Jeremiah here.

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If you jump down to verse 11, notice

there's still calls for repentance

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here, and your point that you made

the other day I think is still

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valid here, that these are genuine.

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Otherwise, I don't think they would

be there when God says, behold,

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I'm shaping disaster against you

and devising a planet against you.

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Return everyone from his evil way

and amend your ways and your deeds.

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This is not Jeremiah the prophet speaking.

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This is God speaking through Jeremiah.

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He's saying, I have the right to judge

and I'm going to judge, repent and return.

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Now, he said yesterday in yesterday's

reading that he was weary of relenting so.

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This is potentially a call to

repent, to join the faithful remnant.

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Not a call to repent in the

sense that he's going to stop the

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plans for judgment that he has.

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Maybe this is, I will spare your life,

you'll survive much like Jeremiah

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and the remnant was gonna survive.

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But this is a call to repent to the people

here still, even in the midst of the

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threaten threatenings of judgment here,

this concept of being potter and clay.

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We're gonna see this later in the Bible.

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Speaking of those whom God chooses and

those whom God does not how do we wrap

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our minds around something like this?

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This is hard.

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I, granted, we read over it in our bibles

and maybe we didn't even think twice about

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this analogy, but scripture uses this to

talk about God's rights over humanity.

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It's a heavy weight to bear when we

think about the fact that it feels.

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Like you have no choice.

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It feels like it doesn't matter what

you do, God's gonna do what God's gonna

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do regardless of all of your efforts.

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Correct some of that thinking.

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Yeah we talked about this on Sunday

actually in one Peter one, two one Peter

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one, two says that we are the elect

exiles according to, and then he lists

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three things, the foreknowledge of God.

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Okay?

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So that's his sovereignty.

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That's in eternity past.

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He determined not just, he knew what

choice would be made down the corridor

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of time, but he determined he planned for

us what would happen in eternity Pass.

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And then it talks about

sanctified by the spirit.

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That's regeneration.

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That is that, that, as Paul

says in Ephesians one, we are.

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Dead in our trespasses and sins.

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A dead body can't bring itself to life.

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Life.

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It needs life before it can be

brought to that point of faith.

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And that is the spirit's work.

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But then that third part where it says,

for obedience to Jesus, to Christ and

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the sprinkling with his blood, that

brings in our participation in this.

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And I made the point on

Sunday, and I'll stand by it.

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You have a part to play in whether

or not you are part of the elect.

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And that sounds counterintuitive because.

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The elect by definition, those whom God

for knew and the spirit regenerates.

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And yet we also find that it's part

of those who, that act of obedience

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that he talks about obedience to

Christ is putting our faith in Jesus.

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So that's our responsibility.

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And that from the point of view

of humanity is a real choice that

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has to be made by men and women to

repent from their sins and choose

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to trust Jesus for salvation.

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If you don't do that, then

you're not part of the elect.

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If you do that.

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Then guess what?

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You're part of God's elect.

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And so it, it is true that God

is fully sovereign over this, and

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yet on the ground level, we are

calling men and women everywhere.

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We are able to repent and put their trust

in Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior.

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And that is a real call,

that is a real offer.

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And those that respond are those that,

yes, God chose an eternity pass, but

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that's not our job to sit there and

parse out who that is and who that isn't.

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Our job is to go and

call everyone to that.

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And if you're there on the other side of

that going, what if I'm, what if I'm not?

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I would ask you, do

you desire to be saved?

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Do you recognize your sin

and the holiness of God?

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And are you sitting there

saying I see that Jesus Christ

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died on the cross for my sins.

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I believe that, and I believe that

has granted me forgiveness, and I

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believe that he rose in the dead so

that I will live with him forever.

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Then don't make it harder than it is.

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We can get lost in the ivory towers of

the theories of atonement and all these

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other things, which are good and right

in their context, but for the individual

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soul out there, if you have decided and.

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He said, I wanna trust

Christ for salvation rest.

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In that, there's rest that you can have

there and you can let the sovereign

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part of that be God's to determine.

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'cause it is his right.

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It is his prerogative.

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He is the potter and we are the clay.

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But that doesn't mean that we don't

have, from our viewpoint and perspective,

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something to bring to the table in that.

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Yeah, sometimes it's easy to

use good theology in bad ways.

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And this might be one of those

places where we look at God's

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sovereign rulership in our.

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Description as a clay pot and look

at God in a way that suggests that

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he's not fully good or that maybe

we're suspicious of whether or not

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we have the stamp of election on

our chest or something like that.

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It's important for us to

read the Bible biblically.

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Can you say it that way to let

scripture speak and not to.

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Not to let it get contorted or

twisted, even in our own minds

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as we seek to understand it.

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The role of reading your Bible and

interpreting it, man, those are

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difficult things to do because it's

so easy to contort it and twist it

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when you have partial knowledge,

which is why spending time in your

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Bible like this is so important.

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'cause over the course of years, years

and years, you begin to develop mastery.

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We're.

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In our forties now, and I feel

like I'm starting to get it.

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I'm just starting to get it.

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And I've been in the Bible for years and

I've studied it, and now I'm pursuing

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higher education for it, and I still

feel like I'm a novice in so many ways.

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So if that resonates with you at

all, take heart, this is part of

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what it is to be a Christian who's

trying to follow the Lord faithfully.

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Yeah.

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Rest of chapter 18.

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We get some interesting developments here.

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There's plots against Jeremiah's life,

which God told Jeremiah at the beginning

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of his prophecy that he would face that.

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And so here it comes.

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And Jeremiah prays some imprecatory

prayers against these men and their

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families that are pretty intense here.

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He is going after them and it almost

seems that it is more personally

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motivated than anything else here.

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He says, for they have dug a pit to

take me and laid snares for my feet.

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He's not saying for they have

rejected you, God, for they

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have turned their backs on you.

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He's saying They're coming after me,

so God, I want you to grow after them.

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Him this is Jeremiah the

prophet, writing these things.

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This is not God speaking through

Jeremiah the prophet at this point.

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So is this right from Jeremiah to

have this mentality and this mindset?

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I would say in so far as it's, it is

in keeping with what God promised,

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that God promised, he would preserve

him and protect him and take care

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of those that come against him.

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Beyond that, I can't go

any further than that.

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I, I.

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Jeremiah was not a perfect man.

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I get where he is coming from on this.

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I understand it, but I wonder if

this is a little bit of the fallen

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nature of Jeremiah that's coming

out here in his imprecatory prayers.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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Because.

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Before this.

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He's oh Lord, save them, protect them.

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And they're coming after him.

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He's you know what?

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His second thoughts, yeah.

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Actually go after them

actually, please defend me.

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Absolutely he's a prophet,

but he's not perfect.

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Only God is perfect.

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And so everything that comes out

of his mouth that is not, thus say

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it, the Lord is fair game for us to

say, okay, what do we do with this?

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And in this case, I think he's afraid.

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Yeah.

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And he's angry because all he's

ever done is cared for them.

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And I think he's beginning to feel

a little bit of what God feels now.

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Yeah.

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Yeah chapter 19 then God says to Jeremiah,

Hey, I've got another task for you.

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So now we've done to the potter's wheel

and everything like, like that the

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loincloth now he's gonna take a flask.

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And so probably, presumably he gets

this from the same potter that he's

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hanging out at his house and he goes

out to the pot shed gate, which is

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where they would've taken the trash.

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The refuge of the city would've

gone out through this gate, and it

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would've, it got its name because

there were a lot of broken vessels.

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By this gate.

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And so God is gonna use that.

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And this flask that Jeremiah has

to demonstrate what he's about

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to do to Israel and it's awful.

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Verse nine, it just is I just

wrote next to it in my Bible.

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Horrors.

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This is the judgment of God

that's coming upon the people that

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Jeremiah's prophesying about here.

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I'll leave you to read it just

because you may want to fence

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that a little bit with your kids.

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It's awful.

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It's terrifying.

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It's horrific to think about what

they were going to go through.

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And then God tells Jeremiah,

take the flask and break it.

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And he says, so I will break this people

and this city as one breaks a potter's

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vessel so that it can never be mended.

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And and adding to this, probably

to all of the different.

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Pieces of pottery on the ground there.

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Even if Jeremiah wanted to pick up the

pieces, they would've been mixed in with

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all the others and unable to find them

all to mend it and put it back together.

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So God is saying this is this is

judgment that's coming full and

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furious against the people here.

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So chapter 19 is pretty sobering.

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Chapter 20, then we get the

name of somebody who was one

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of Jeremiah's greatest enemies,

and that is Ur the priest.

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I would put priest in,

in scare quotes there.

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And he's gonna come against Jeremiah

and not just in Word, he's now,

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Jeremiah's gonna suffer physically.

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He's beaten and he's put

stocks and he is is left there.

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And then eventually he's released.

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And then he goes after PE and says, the

Lord calls you terror on every side.

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And then Jeremiah goes after not just

him, but all of the rebellious people and

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talks about Babylon over and over again.

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Now, and this is where we really get very

plainly, this is what's gonna happen.

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Babylon's gonna come, people

are gonna be carried to Babylon.

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Treasures are gonna be carried to Babylon.

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The Babylonians are the

people that God is gonna use.

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In the judgment against Judah

here, and PA is the one that

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elicits this response from the Lord

through his treatment of Jeremiah.

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Verse seven is a challenging one.

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Yes.

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Can you speak to what you think

is happening in Jeremiah's heart?

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Is this legitimately true?

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Did God deceive Jeremiah

into being his prophets?

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What's happening here and

how do we interpret it?

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I think this is the humanity of Jeremiah.

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Again, I think this is again, Jeremiah

just wrestling with his situation

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coming off of the beating, coming off

of the imprisonment in the stocks.

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He says in verse eight, for the Lord,

the word of the Lord has become, for me,

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a reproach and derision all day long.

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It's almost Lord, I didn't

understand what I was signing up for.

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And God had told him this, but I

think the deficiency is more with

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Jeremiah than it is with God.

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So is it normal to question your

calling in life or is this an

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aberration in Jeremiah's life and

that, that's interesting because

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we use the word calling, broadly.

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Yeah.

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I mean if you're out making widgets and

you end up in a difficult spot making

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widgets for a living y you may question

God, is this really what you have for me?

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Is this really what you want

me to be doing right now?

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I think that's pretty common

for people to be there.

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It, let's take it into ministry.

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There are people that have gone

into ministry, that you go through

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rough seasons in ministry and you're

like, God, is this really what you

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want me to do in my life right now?

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And yeah, no matter where you are I

think this is a common human experience

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because we all have our vision of what

we feel like things will look like, and

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God has his version, which is reality

of what things are actually gonna be

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like, and we're tempted to say God.

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What are you doing?

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The thing that we have to do at

the end of it is just be willing

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to trust him regardless of the

circumstances that we find ourselves in.

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Yeah.

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I find it fascinating that Jeremiah

questions his calling when things

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are going poorly, and I think

we're all tempted to do the same.

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Totally.

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When things are hard is when

we start saying, Lord, really

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is this really the right thing?

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Is, and it really

betrays this expectation.

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Of a soft prosperity gospel.

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Yep.

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That if we are doing what God wants

us to do, then surely he's going to

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bless us and make our path straight

as Proverbs chapter three says.

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But the reality is that because God loves

us, he's going to take us through seasons

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that will strengthen us and improve us

and cause us to be better and not worse.

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So it's perfectly fair, I think, to

question am I doing the right thing?

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I think that's a good thing.

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Self-check, am I doing right?

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Am I sitting against God in any way?

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But if the answer's no, I don't

think I'm sitting against God.

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I think I'm doing what he wants me

to do, then I don't think you should

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look at these difficult seasons

as something outta the ordinary.

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God does this because he loves us.

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In fact, the rest of Proverbs,

chapter three is not.

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You're gonna experience

unmitigated blessing, but do not

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despise the Lord's discipline.

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Yeah.

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And don't be wary of his reproof

because he does it as a father.

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Delights in his son.

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There's always discipline

because he loves his son.

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And the same thing is true with all of us.

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So Jeremiah questions his calling

when he's going through rough

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time, you're gonna do the same.

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And I think the right response

is what he says in verse 11.

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The Lord is with me.

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Yeah.

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He says, here is a dread

warrior, but the Lord is with me.

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I can trust him.

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He's got my back.

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Like someone recently sang in a song

when he literally broke his back.

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I think we need to trust that the

Lord is with us in every season.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You get a little bit of job in verse

14, KIS me the damn which I was born.

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Yeah.

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This is Jeremiah not in a

good spot, but yeah, we, that

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trust is so important there.

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Chapter 21, then we get

a new situation here.

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He's gonna be sent to Zia King Tiah,

and the Zetia is gonna say, Hey

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can you entreat the Lord for us?

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And notice p is there again the

same guy that beat him and he's

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Hey, can you do us a favor now?

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Can you go to the Lord and see if

he can turn Nebu EZ Israel away?

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And God's response is actually,

I'm gonna do the exact opposite.

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And what's so chilling is he

says that he's going to actually

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fight against the Israelites.

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He says in verse five, I myself will

fight against you without stretch.

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A hand in strong arm in anger and

fury and great wrath down to verse

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10, for I've set my face against

this city for harm and not for good.

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Declares the Lord, it shall be given

to the hand of the king of Babylon,

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and he shall burn it with fire.

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So they're initially coming to

Jeremiah saying, Hey, help us out.

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Go to the Lord, see if

he can stop all this.

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And Jeremiah says, O okay.

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And then God says no,

I'm not gonna stop it.

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In fact, I'm gonna fight against you.

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That is terrifying.

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Absolutely terrifying.

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A really quick clarification.

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The P here in chapter 21

seems to be a different one.

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Oh, this is for sure.

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Son of Malca.

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Chapter 20, it's Ur, son of Immer.

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That is a great catch.

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And that's why reading the

Bible carefully is so important.

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Yeah.

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It's understandable.

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When you're reading quickly through

like we are, you're gonna, you're gonna

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do the same thing and we recognize

that same spelling of the name.

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Yep.

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Different sun.

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Different sun for sure.

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Must have been a popular

name back in the day.

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Thank you though.

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That makes way more sense.

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Yeah.

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Chapter the rest of chapter 21, and then

chapter 22, deals with the Kings here.

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And it gets, it can get confusing

because he was just talking to Zetia.

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But then in, in chapter 22, he's gonna

be talking to multiple kings here, and

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he's gonna be talking to Je Jolla King.

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He's gonna be talking to Kaia.

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You've got Zetia.

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So just real quick, here's

the progression here.

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Of the last handful of kings of Israel.

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So we have Hezekiah, who we've talked

about, the Good King Manassa, his son.

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He's the bad dude.

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Amon or Amon, he only ran two years.

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Remember?

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Then you have Josiah's, the Good King.

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He's the last Good King After Jo.

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Josiah comes a series of kings.

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You've got, Jehovah has the

second, and that there is Jo Hoya.

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Kim, or no, Jo Hoya.

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Forgive me.

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I forgive you.

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Yeah.

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Thank you.

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Jehovah's Joha is the second.

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You've got Je Hoya Kim, who we

read about here in chapter 22.

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Then you've got Je Hoya Chin.

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Now, JE Hoya Chin and

Kania are the same people.

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Aya Joa Chin are the same people there,

so Je Hoya, Kim Kaia, or Je Chin,

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and then Zika is the very last one.

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So Jeremiah is talking to

Zedekiah in chapter 21.

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Chapter 22.

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It is like we jump back a little

bit and he's gonna be talking to Je

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Jolla Kim, and he's gonna be talking

about Kaiah Jo Jolla, Kim's son, and

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then is gonna come Zedekiah there.

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So it's a little bit of a timeline

curve, fluffle, and I think what's

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happening is that God is cataloging

the sins that are coming to fruition.

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Yeah.

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In other words, God is saying I'm

not acting off the handle here.

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I'm not acting in a way that is just.

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Hey, I don't like what you did.

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You looked at me funny.

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I'm coming after you.

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Now.

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This is God saying, no, I'm

meticulous in the way that I count.

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And I'm showing you that there are

generations of kings that have given

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me every reason to judge you the way

that I'm going to judge you right now.

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So God is showing that he is fair.

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Let me correct that.

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God is showing that he's just, fairness

and justice are not the same thing.

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He's just, and that's what

we're seeing here in chapter 22.

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They have a history of this and now

God's coming to call them to account.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And.

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Yeah, I think that's a good

summary there for for chapter 22.

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Let's pray and then we'll be

done with another episode.

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God, thanks for your word and the

time that we got to spend in it today.

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I do pray that if there's anybody that's

echoing the sentiments of Jeremiah

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right now, questioning your hand and

their circumstances your sovereignty

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as the potter and them being the clay

and where you've brought them and the

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position that they're in right now.

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God, I pray that you'd bring them

comfort even through this passage.

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Just even a reminder that you are

sovereign and maybe it doesn't mean that

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everything's gonna get better overnight.

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In fact, often it doesn't, but

they can trust you just like

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Jeremiah did in the meantime.

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And Jeremiah is such an encouragement

for us in that, because again, he's

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gonna watch the city fall, he's

gonna watch the city burn, and yet

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he's gonna write in limitations.

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Your mercies are new every morning.

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Great is your faithfulness.

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And God I pray that we as a people

would be willing to be there more

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often than not, that we would be

willing to say, what Jeremiah great

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is your faithfulness, no matter what

happens to us here on this earth.

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So we pray this, we ask

this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Bye.

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Just kidding.

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Thanks for reading Bibles with us

like tomorrow for another edition.

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That was abrupt, I guess We're

done of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Bye for real.

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Cheerio!

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said