00:00 Bernard is an Authentic Texan
02:16 Forrest Frank's Miraculous Healing!
03:25 Does God Still Perform Miracles?
05:55 Praying for Miracles and God's Will
09:41 Jeremiah's Message to the People
11:03 The Danger of False Confidence
12:44 When to Stop Praying?
17:53 Boasting in the Lord
19:39 Conclusion and Prayer
20:16 Outro and Farewell
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Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast, ya'll!
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:You ready for a rootin' tootin' good time?
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:Hey, Pastor PJ told me he loves
Lucille's Bar-B-Q and cats now.
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:Don't tell him I told ya.
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:And now, your hosts,
Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod...
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:Hey everybody.
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:You got Pastor PGA and
Pastor Rod, as Bernard said.
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:Thanks Bernard for that intro.
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:I think you may have your facts
a little bit wrong there on that.
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:Whoa.
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:We're not gonna call into
question his character.
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:We need to be establishing
this character at this point.
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:I think hes spiting out lies,
is what I'm just gonna say.
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:We don't know what he's saying.
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:Bernard is a liar.
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:I'm just saying that right now.
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:If he, man, if he attributed Lucille's
barbecue and me, and in any positive
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:connotation, I think everybody
listening to this knows enough to say.
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:I is a liar.
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:I'm flabbergasted.
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:I just, I don't know.
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:I don't know.
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:We don't know how he gets his information.
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:We just know that he says it
with authority and it sounds,
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:that sounds authoritative.
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:I had to listen to him.
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:Bernard sounds a lot like you though.
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:He just sounds like he's,
no, he sounds like Dr.
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:Burner.
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:He sounds like Pete Burner and Morgan
Freeman, and that's pretty clear.
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:Totally.
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:He sounds like Texas is all I'm saying.
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:He sounds like a Texan.
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:I love it.
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:You have a skewed view of
what a Texan sounds like.
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:I am just feeding into the stereotype
that so many people have about Texans,
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:and I'm happy to contribute to that.
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:Yeah.
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:I'm glad that you're doing that.
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:Actual local Texans love it.
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:I don't think they do.
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:And people that aren't
from Texas also love it.
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:I, that's yet to be determined.
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:Hey, you guys let us know.
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:If pastor PJ should keep on using Bernard.
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:Yeah, because it's me.
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:It's me, but I'm the one
Yeah it's totally me.
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:Lemme tell you.
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:It's all me.
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:Lemme I gave you a chance to record
into the a, into the application so I
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:could use your voice instead of Bernard.
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:And you've chosen not to.
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:That's the worst idea ever.
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:For whatever reason, to give you
full access to just whatever you
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:want me to say in my voice I don't
understand why you don't trust me.
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:We've been together now for years.
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:I feel like there are contests.
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:I trust you.
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:Implicitly, I trust you to, this is just
not one of those gimme feedback, the
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:least important context in the pulpit.
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:I trust you, as a brother in Christ,
but on the podcast, think about
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:the ratings, bro, on the podcast.
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:I don't trust you.
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:People would be like, this is the
most amazing things PPJ has ever said.
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:It would empty the pews.
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:I doubt it.
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:I think you'd have more people than
ever the things that you would say.
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:They'd be profound and provocative.
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:Yeah.
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:Okay hey, something pro.
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:Pro profound.
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:Okay.
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:One of my favorite artists I don't
know, probably everybody would say this
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:guy's one of their favorite artists.
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:Forrest Frank.
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:Yeah.
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:He's topping the charts billboard.
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:He and Brandon Lake.
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:They're doing a lot of good music.
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:I guess I don't really
know Brandon Lake as much.
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:Yeah.
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:But I know Forrest Frank.
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:Yeah.
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:So he's popping out new
songs left and right.
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:Even when he was in his bed with his back
broken, he was popping out new music.
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:One of those was called Lemonade.
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:Really great song.
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:Actually.
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:He didn't write it.
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:He contributed to it.
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:But these other guys who's the figs?
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:Yeah, the figs.
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:They wrote the song saying, what
would a Forrest Frank song sound like?
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:And they did it and it
sounds like that lemonade.
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:And it was wonderful.
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:And so he published that well recently.
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:Forrest Frank went on his social
media and said, God healed his back.
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:Yep.
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:He broke his back two weeks ago.
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:God didn't.
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:Maybe he did, I guess wait.
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:It is God.
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:'cause he's ultimately
the cause of all things.
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:The approximate cause was Forrest Frank.
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:He was riding a skateboard, but
the ultimate cause was God anyway,
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:whether Forrest or God broke his back.
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:Contributed.
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:His back was broken two weeks ago,
and now Forrest says his doctor
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:confirmed his back is healed.
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:What do we do with that?
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:God, it's a miracle.
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:Does still do miracles today?
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:If so, what should we expect?
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:Is this an aberration?
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:Is this an expectation?
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:What do we do?
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:Yeah, let's start right outta the gate.
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:Does God still do miracles today?
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:Yes, 100% he does.
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:The question is.
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:What are the means of those miracles?
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:And let's define miracle for a second,
because I think sometimes we can say
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:it's a miracle when really it's not.
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:When we're talking miracles, we're talking
about things that, that def define natural
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:law, where there's an intervention,
there's a suspension of what you expect.
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:Not that odds are defined.
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:Odds are defined all the time.
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:But that natural law is suspended so
that something that you would expect
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:to happen doesn't actually happen.
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:It's a different result altogether.
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:Like somebody who breaks their back
two weeks later, being able to be
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:up and walking around and seemingly
back to full strength, right?
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:That defies natural law.
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:Natural law would say it takes longer
than that for the back to heal.
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:Would we categorize that as a
miracle, not having all of the medical
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:files and details in front of me.
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:On the surface value, we would
say, yeah, God healed his back.
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:God suspended natural law to heal his
back faster than natural law would
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:dictate that his back should be healed.
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:And you would say how did that happen?
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:Benny Hint didn't show up at his bedside
and lay his hands on him and say I command
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:you to be healed in the name of Jesus.
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:What happened is people were praying,
lots of people were praying for him.
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:He requested prayer from a lot of
people on his Instagram page, and
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:people were pouring in saying,
Hey we're praying for you.
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:We're praying for healing.
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:We're praying for swift recovery.
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:And I think God answered prayer and
healed him in a way that was beyond what.
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:Natural law would dictate.
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:That's the way that we would
say miracles still happen today.
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:Is it always in response to prayer?
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:No, it doesn't have to be.
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:God's not dependent or
contingent upon our prayers.
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:What I would say that we have to
be careful in and what I would
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:cautious us against is saying
I have the gift of healing.
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:I have the gift to be able to go into St.
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:Jude's Hospital and heal the
children that have cancer there.
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:By laying my hands on them and
saying, in the name of Jesus,
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:the cancer needs to be gone.
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:We're not seeing that happen.
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:Can God heal a kid who's got
cancer that's terminally ill?
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:A hundred percent he
can No doubt about it.
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:Can he heal that kid, even if
nobody's praying for that child?
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:100% He can no doubt about it.
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:But is there somebody in the
church that has the gift of healing
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:to be able to go and do that?
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:We would say no.
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:That, that, that's something that is
not in operation today, the way that
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:it was during the apostolic era when
Paul and Peter were active and Peter
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:was walking up to the Temple Mount
and saw the lame man and said, I stand
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:tell you, stand up and be healed.
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:Long answer, yes.
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:He was healed, and I do
think it was miraculous.
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:I think it was God doing it.
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:Should we expect that kind
of interaction from God?
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:Then do we need to believe enough
for him to do something like that?
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:Do we get enough people to pray for us?
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:And then God heals what are the rules of
the game so that we know whether or not
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:to ask for it and what to expect from it?
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:That's a great question.
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:So let's turn to the Bible
passage that tells us and answers
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:us all those questions for us.
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:Okay.
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:I'm waiting.
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:Yeah, it's not there.
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:It's not there.
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:And that's instructive for us because if
it was there, we could say thus says the
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:Lord, you need to have this much faith.
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:In order to be healed, you need to
have this many people praying for you.
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:In order to be healed, you
need to go through this
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:routine in order to be healed.
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:So the answer there is.
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:This is at God's will in
God's prerogative, and
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:sometimes he's not gonna heal.
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:Take somebody like Johnny Erickson.
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:Johnny Erickson was paralyzed as
a young, younger woman when she
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:dove into a lake that was too
shallow and she didn't realize it.
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:And she's been in, in a
wheelchair ever since.
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:And I guarantee you not only has she
prayed, but other people, faithful
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:believers have prayed for her.
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:Early on and probably even later
on in her life that God would do a
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:miracle and heal her and he hasn't.
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:Has Johnny been faithful to the Lord?
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:Absolutely.
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:She's used her platform and her testimony
to testify to God's goodness and his
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:faithfulness and his sovereignty, and even
walking through her own frustrations with
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:that whole experience and going through
all that trial Johnny's been faithful
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:and yet God chose not to heal her.
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:Why?
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:It's above our pay grade.
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:We don't know.
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:God is using her in a different
way than he would've had.
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:He healed her and she had been able
to walk and she'd be, been able
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:to run and do all those things.
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:He's still using her.
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:You may know loved ones in your
life that have cancer and you've
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:prayed, God please heal them from
their cancer and he hasn't done that.
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:It doesn't mean that he's not
powerful enough to be able to do it.
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:It doesn't mean that he doesn't care.
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:It doesn't mean that he
doesn't love you or them.
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:It just means that his will is
beyond our comprehension in that
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:situation, to be able to understand
how it's a better part of his plan
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:for that person not to be healed than
it would be for them to be healed.
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:Sounds like you're saying that
we should say your way is better.
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:Yeah, that would be a good
song too, I feel like.
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:I think that would be a good song.
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:Serious question, but you're not
gonna have any good answer to this
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:one because I feel like Christians
struggle with this one all the time.
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:I'm praying for that healing,
for that job, for that thing,
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:and God's not answering yet.
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:How long do I pray before I
stop praying for that thing?
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:Yes.
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:Yeah, you're right.
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:Okay.
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:I don't have a great answer
for that ask answered.
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:That's super hard.
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:It because it's hard because
Jesus does caution us against
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:multiplying and repetitive prayers.
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:But he also says that the persistent
widow that went to the judge over and
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:over again was heard eventually because
she was persistent in her prayers.
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:So I think it, it has to
come down to our heart.
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:Are we praying with the right
heart posture before the Lord?
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:Are we bringing the request before the
Lord with the posture that says, Lord.
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:Not my will, but your will be done.
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:And I'm willing to let this go.
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:And if you feel that it's right for
me to let this go, if you would,
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:lead me towards that contentment with
my CIR circumstances or with this
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:person's circumstances, okay, so be it.
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:But in the meantime, I'm gonna continue
to come to you praying that you're able to
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:do this if it's in keeping with your will.
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:Amen.
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:And I think that's the
hardest takeaway for us.
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:At some point, we do have to say,
I'm gonna stop praying for this, and
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:there is a time and place to do that.
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:We just can't tell you when, right?
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:We don't have a definitive answer
to say three times, and that's it.
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:Somebody use that.
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:In two Corinthians 12, Paul prayed
three times for the Lord to deliver him.
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:God said, no.
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:Now we don't have the benefit or
the privilege of Jesus coming to our
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:room and saying, Hey, that's enough.
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:You can stop now.
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:So until then, we have to rely on
the subjective leading of the spirit
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:to say it's a good time to keep
praying, or it's a good time to stop.
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:We can't give you a hard and
fast rule to say it's time to
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:stop or it's time to keep going.
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:Let the spirit lead.
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:Yeah, And I think Paul stopped eventually
because he realized the lesson that
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Thorn was a greater dependence upon
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:Jesus also told him, and that's
my grace is sufficient for you.
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:That's one of those things that I
feel like he had a slight advantage
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:George Mueller prayed for.
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:What, 50 years for a couple of his
friends to be saved over and over again,
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:every day and didn't give up, and God
eventually answered those prayers.
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:All right.
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:Let's jump into Jeremiah
seven, eight, and nine.
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:Jeremiah seven is a new
message from Jeremiah.
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:This is now the third I believe, in the
book here in, in chapter seven through 10.
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:And I think it's poignant for us because
man, Jeremiah indicts the people with a.
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:A pseudo sense of confidence saying to
them, basically, you think you're fine
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:because you've got the temple here.
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:You think you're fine?
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:Because God would never do anything
to his people and his temple.
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:And yet Jeremiah is gonna
say it's the opposite.
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:Je, Jeremiah seven, four says, do
not trust in these deceptive words.
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:This is the temple of the Lord, the temple
of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
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:Don't just sit here and points
at the temple and think that
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:Meanwhile, verse nine, you steal murder,
commit adultery, swear falsely, make
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:offerings to bail, go after other
gods, and then you come and stand
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:before me in this house, only to go
on doing all of these abominations.
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:In other words, God is
not gonna be mocked.
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:What we sow.
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:That is what we will reap.
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:And so that he, later on in the chapter,
beckons them to say, think about Shiloh.
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:Look at where I once had my name
reside, my presence, reside in Shiloh.
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:Wrath will come.
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:And the problem is that the people
were trusting in their proximity
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:to the temple as though somehow
that was going to be all the.
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:The justification they needed to continue
on in their ways without concern.
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:And so God was going to bring
his wrath and they were going
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:So that's just a good reminder I think,
for us that our confidence in our
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:trust can't be in our morality or our,
we're here in the South where cultural
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:So I guess as we see more different
cultures and everything move in the area,
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:but there's still that temptation to think
I've always gone to church, so I'm fine.
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:I've.
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:I go to a church with good
doctrine, so I'm fine.
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:I, whatever it may be.
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:And we have to remember, we can't
disconnect our worship from the Lord
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:with, from our, the pattern of our lives.
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:And God is saying to the people,
just because you show up at the
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:temple with your sacrifices and
offerings, don't think that we're good.
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:The temple is not gonna save you.
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:Being a cultural Christian is not
gonna save you being a just a.
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:A part of the church, because you
were born with parents that brought
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:you to church from the word go is not
in the end going to save you from the
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:wrath of God if you never repent and
have a genuine relationship with him.
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:So chapter seven is quite an
indictment against the people there.
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:Chapter seven also shows us something
that is really tough to read.
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:We're just talking about prayer.
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:But notice in verse 16 it says, as for
you, Jeremiah, the implied audience here.
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:Do not pray for this people or lift
up a cry or prayer for them and do not
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:intercede with me for I will not hear you.
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:This is terrifying.
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:In fact, this is not the first time
God's gonna say this to Jeremiah.
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:He's gonna say it multiple times.
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:Jeremiah seven, Jeremiah 11,
Jeremiah 14, Jeremiah 15.
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:There's different ways that
God appeals to Jeremiah.
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:Tell him to stop praying for these people.
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:This is hard.
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:So with what we just said how
would you sprinkle this in here?
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:Is there a time for us to stop
praying for people, especially
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:when it relates to something like
this, where this is judgment.
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:Jeremiah's trying to pray off their
judgment, pray off their their.
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:Soon coming, destruction.
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:What about under the new Covenant?
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:Is there any ever a time for us
to stop praying for somebody?
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:I.
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:I don't know that I would ever counsel
someone to stop praying for someone.
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:I think this is unique because
God audibly tells Jeremiah,
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:stop, I'm not gonna listen.
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:God's not gonna show up
and say to you, stop.
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:I'm not gonna listen.
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:I do think we can learn some things
though, and that is that we shouldn't pray
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:for somebody to be removed from God's hand
of discipline in their life without them.
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:Reaching the end of that discipline,
which should be repentance and faith.
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:So if you've got somebody that you love
that's not a believer who maybe is at
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:rock bottom or maybe is suffering or
maybe headed that direction, I would say
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:I, I would caution you against praying
that God would relieve those things and
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:remove those burdens if that's part of
how he's trying to get ahold of them.
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:We don't wanna pray for God's
purposes to be short circuited.
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:Now, they will never be short
circuited, but we don't want to be
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:those that are taking the posture of
saying, God, I, I don't want you to
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:And I think that's part of what
he's telling in Jeremiah is,
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:I've made my purposes clear here.
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:Don't pray that my purposes
won't be what they are.
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:Yeah, that's a really helpful
clarification because that's not gonna
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:be the case for us in the New Testament.
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:God's not telling us what
he's going to do in terms of
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:judgment for this or that person.
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:Only cross reference I can think
of potentially is one John five.
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:The sin that leads to death.
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:Exactly.
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:And that is what?
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:One John five.
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:But what is that sin?
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:And that's the debate
that's so hard, right?
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:That is the debate.
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:What is the sin that leads to death?
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:And clearly it's some kind of, it's
some kind of sin of apostasy, I think.
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:It's a sin that leads to death, as
in there's a sin that's unforgivable.
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:A sin.
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:And that's why some people have
connected it to the unforgivable
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:sin blaspheming against the spirit.
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:And maybe there is a relation there but
whatever it is, it's something that is a
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:person who is rejected the gospel, that
in God's eyes there's no coming back.
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:Yeah, and I think that's my point,
this passage here, what we're seeing
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:in Jeremiah is that in God's mind,
there is a point of no return.
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:In our mind.
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:We don't know where that is, right?
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:It's like crossing a line that you
never knew existed, but God knows,
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:and this is the danger with closing
your heart against the gospel.
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:This is the danger for everybody.
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:Whenever you resist the Holy Spirit,
there is a sense in which you can harden
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:yourself beyond the point of no return.
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:That's terrifying.
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:That is terrifying.
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:God's telling Jeremiah, you're
gonna pray for them, but I'm
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:telling you not to because they're
past the point of no return.
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:Yeah.
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:And that is a scary place to be.
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:Here's the comfort in this.
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:You don't know what it is.
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:I don't know what it is.
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:Thank God.
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:Which means for us, I think by
and large, the inclination should
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:generally be pray for the person.
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:Because you don't know, right?
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:I'm gonna pray.
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:I may not pray for them
as much as I used to.
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:Maybe I pray for them weekly at first, but
then it turns into monthly, then it turns
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:into quarterly, and who knows what else.
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:But we just don't know.
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:But there is a point, and I
think that's the most sobering
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:thing you can learn from this.
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:There is a point of no return.
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:And make sure ever cross that.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:And for Israel, their punishment at
this time, temporarily speaking in
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:chapter eight, was gonna be exile.
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:And that's where he goes and describes
there, verse three, deaths shall be
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:preferred to life by all the remnant
that remains of this evil family.
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:And all the places where I have
driven them to declares the Lord.
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:And then what was the sin that was
the unpardonable sin, so to speak,
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:or the hardening of their hearts is,
I think, described right after this.
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:He says, why is this people turned away
in perpetual backsliding, and so they are.
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:We've talked about backsliding a
couple times before, but they're
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:continually not moving towards
the Lord, but away from the Lord.
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:They're persisting in their
sin and they're unrepentant.
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:Verse six, no man relents of his evil.
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:The willful ignorance.
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:Verse seven, my people.
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:No, not the rules of the Lord.
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:Verse 10 from the least
of to the greatest.
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:Everyone is greedy for unjust gain.
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:They've healed the wound of my
people lightly saying, peace.
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:Peace when there is no peace.
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:And so I think this fits with
the description that you were
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:just talking about there.
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:This is a people that has crossed that
line and God had sent them the prophets.
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:God had sent them the word of God.
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:And you think about the opportunities
that they had to listen into repent.
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:And they had been stubbornly,
resisting and refusing to do that.
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:And God had gotten to the place
where he said, okay, now it's done.
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:Here comes Babylon.
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:I've called from Nebuchadnezzar.
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:He's coming.
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:It's going to happen.
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me because under the leadership of
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clear symbiotic relationship between
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of the leader and the strength and
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generally speaking, I think that's true.
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here is it wasn't systemic.
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the others were out for themselves
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because King Josiah told us to.
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and I think that's what's hard.
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us to, chapter seven, you talk about the
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the Lord here, the temple of the Lord.
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temple, but I took communion this week.
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to church faithfully.
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and I think that's Jeremiah's point.
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that are not gonna save you, and
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talking about what we put our trust in.
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be reminded of that because so
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that's how God designed our bodies.
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most efficient way to go
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to put our trust not in the things,
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preaching, not in the church.
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ultimately is what will save us.
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skip to chapter nine, verse 23.
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for the impending judgment.
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prophet in this, but I wanna build
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about because in verse 23 he goes
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seven, he's talking about, don't
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this building, the temple is here.
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to put your confidence, verse 23.
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man boast in his wisdom.
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but let him who boast in this, that he.
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:Understands and knows me, that I
am the Lord who practices steadfast
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:love, justice, and righteousness
in the earth for, in these things
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:idle light to declares the Lord.
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put our confidence in.
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relationship with the Lord.
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more than a head knowledge.
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talking about in Matthew chapter
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in our relationship with the Lord, not in
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we might be tempted to trust him.
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:Yeah, I love this passage because one
of the things that I would focus on
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positive is boast in this.
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think of off the top of my head of
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:This isn't a command,
technically speaking.
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:I can't think of anything that says
boast in something except for the Lord.
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connect that with praise.
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:We're boasting in the Lord,
we're celebrating his worthiness.
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:That's really cool.
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:That's falling upon me afresh,
and I love the idea about that.
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:Hey, let's let's wrap this up unless
you've got anything else that you wanna
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:I've got so much, but we
probably should wrap it up.
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:We had a lot of googly at the beginning.
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:Good googly, but an extended period
of now that Bernard's joining us too.
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:Hey, let's pray and then
you'll hear from Bernard.
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:We are our thankful for that reality
that we can boast in our knowledge
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:of you, our relationship with
you, and that changes everything.
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but everything that you've done for us,
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:from giving us the faith to believe to
sanctifying us, to making us more like c
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:Christ, to eventually delivering us into
your presence, glorifying us, giving us
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:our glorified bodies and preparing an
eternity for us with you on the new Earth.
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:And Lord, we are anxious for
the culmination of all of that.
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:But in the meantime,
here we find ourselves.
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:Help us to not put our confidence
in the wrong place, but to always
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:We pray this in Jesus' name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep in your Bibles.
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:Tune in again tomorrow for another
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:Yeah, bye.
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:Bernard: Well, thank you for
listening to another rousing episode
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:We're honored to have you join us.
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:This is a ministry of Compass
Bible Church in north Texas.
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:You can find out more information
about our Church at compassntx.org
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:or, learn more about Pastor PJ
by going to BestPastorEver.com.
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:you again tomorrow for another
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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