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August 9, 2025 | Jeremiah 7-9
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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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Bernard:

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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Yeah.

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Okay.

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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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God was trying to teach him with at

Thorn was a greater dependence upon

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him and less dependence upon himself.

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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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because you look at George Mueller.

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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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So yeah.

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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 this one comes from the temple.

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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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In other words.

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Don't just sit here and points

at the temple and think that

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you're going to be fine.

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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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Look at what it is now.

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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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to be called out for that.

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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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Christianity is the norm, less and less.

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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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do what you've purposed to do here.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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Yeah.

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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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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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This is what's so confusing for

me because under the leadership of

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Josiah, they were doing fairly well.

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I'm challenged by it.

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At the very least.

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I have always understood a pretty

clear symbiotic relationship between

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the strength and the faithfulness

of the leader and the strength and

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faithfulness of the people, and

generally speaking, I think that's true.

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But I think the problem

here is it wasn't systemic.

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It, maybe it was just Josiah.

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And the priests and the prophets and

the others were out for themselves

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and maybe going through the motions

because King Josiah told us to.

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But on the inside they were struggling

and I think that's what's hard.

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And also something that's helpful for

us to, chapter seven, you talk about the

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temple, you know we got the temple of

the Lord here, the temple of the Lord.

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I think for us, we can maybe not have a

temple, but I took communion this week.

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I served I've been going

to church faithfully.

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We can take confidence in the wrong things

and I think that's Jeremiah's point.

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You're putting your trust in things

that are not gonna save you, and

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that's the danger for all of us.

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In fact, this Sunday you're gonna be

talking about what we put our trust in.

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Yeah.

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And how we trust.

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I think that's so helpful.

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We need to hear that and constantly

be reminded of that because so

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often we go on autopilot because

that's how God designed our bodies.

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We're looking for the easiest,

most efficient way to go

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from point A to point B.

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And then we stop thinking about things.

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We stop remembering that we need

to put our trust not in the things,

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not in the communion, not in the

preaching, not in the church.

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We put our trust in Jesus and that

ultimately is what will save us.

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Yeah.

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And forgive me, let me, lemme just

skip to chapter nine, verse 23.

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Real quick.

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Chapter nine, Jeremiah is grieving

for the impending judgment.

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He knows what's coming down.

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He's mournful.

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To your point, he's a compassionate

prophet in this, but I wanna build

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on what you were just talking

about because in verse 23 he goes

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to where our confidence should be.

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So chapter eight he's, or chapter

seven, he's talking about, don't

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just put your trust in the fact that

this building, the temple is here.

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Instead, if you want to know where

to put your confidence, verse 23.

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He says, let not the wise

man boast in his wisdom.

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Let not the mighty man boast in his might.

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Let not the rich man boast in his riches,

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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And so that's the key.

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That's what we have to

put our confidence in.

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It's not in any of these other things.

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It's in our knowledge and

relationship with the Lord.

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And that's an, a knowledge that's

more than a head knowledge.

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That's the knowledge that Jesus is

talking about in Matthew chapter

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seven, where he says, depart from me.

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I never knew you.

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And so that's where our boast lies, is

in our relationship with the Lord, not in

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all of these other things that otherwise

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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is, hey, don't boast in these things.

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But I love that the

positive is boast in this.

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Yeah.

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I don't think there's any, I can't

think of off the top of my head of

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any bible command or even implication.

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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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I think you can probably

connect that with praise.

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We're boasting in the Lord,

we're celebrating his worthiness.

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But this is a really cool way to put it.

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Boast in your knowledge of God.

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That's really cool.

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That's a really cool thought.

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Yeah, that's just coming.

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That's falling upon me afresh,

and I love the idea about that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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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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throw in there from these passages.

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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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Yeah.

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Hey, let's pray and then

you'll hear from Bernard.

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Yeah.

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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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And that boast is ultimately.

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Anchored not to something that we do,

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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boast in our knowledge of you.

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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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of the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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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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We would love for you to leave a

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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

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