00:00 Introduction and Exciting News

01:20 Being an Ambassador for Christ

03:48 Marriage and Its True Purpose

05:03 Jeremiah 35: The Rechabites' Faithfulness

08:39 Jeremiah 36: The Burning of the Scroll

14:06 Jeremiah 37: Zedekiah's Reign and Jeremiah's Imprisonment

18:23 Conclusion and Prayer

Hey, what's up.

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Part of people.

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It is Saturday, August 17th, 2024.

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And you're back with us for another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Now I said us again.

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Listen.

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I've got good news because hold on.

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It's not as good news as you news,

as you might think, because you

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might be thinking, wait a minute,

pastor, rod he's back right now.

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He's not yet.

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It's still the Royal us, but

he's going to be back tomorrow.

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Tomorrow's episode, you're going to fire

it up and you're going to hear him back.

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He's going to do like his fat

Albert thing where he's like, Hey.

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You know, or whatever.

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He's going to do something, but password's

going to be back tomorrow with us.

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Lord willing on the daily Bible podcast.

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I know you've missed him.

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I've missed him.

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It's going to be great.

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I can't wait for him to be back.

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It's going to be awesome.

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Uh, he's chomping at the bit.

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We've been texting back

and forth a little bit.

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He's had a great vacation, but

man, I know he misses y'all.

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He misses his microphone, uh,

and he misses just being able to,

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to be with you on a daily basis

with the daily Bible podcast.

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So that's tomorrow, you're

not going to want to miss it.

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And if you've been tracking with me

and hanging out with the Royal we for

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the last couple of weeks, thank you.

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I appreciate that.

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I appreciate that.

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You've been along for the

ride through the ups and the.

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And a lot of more the downs and.

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It's been, it's been fun.

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It's been real.

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It's not necessarily been real

fun, but it's, it's been both of

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those things at different times.

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And, uh, man, I'm just, I'm here

to say I'm, I'm excited that he's

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going to be back with us tomorrow.

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Can't wait for that.

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It's Saturday.

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I don't know what you're doing because

it's a hundred and hot outside.

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And.

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Who knows.

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Maybe you've got sporting

events with your kids today.

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Hey, if you do remember that you're going

there as an ambassador for Jesus Christ.

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Remember?

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Uh, that there are people on that

soccer team who don't know Jesus, and

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God has you there to be his ambassador.

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That's why your kids on that team.

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Your kid's not on that team because

he's going to sign a contract

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and play professional soccer.

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Your kids on that team, not so

that he can be active and it's

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healthier for kids to be active.

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Your kid's not on that team.

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Because you need to, to, to wear out

their energy and make sure that they're

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not as, as bouncing off the walls as

they normally on, know your kids on

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that team, because that team is a place

that needs the gospel and God sent you.

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God commissioned you to

go out there in the hot.

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Texas summer and say, Hey.

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Uh, Well, let's grab dinner.

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Uh, our kids are the

same number on the team.

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Our kids are a couple of numbers apart.

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We should have dinner, whatever,

find some common ground.

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Invite a family over for dinner.

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And find them to go out after

a soccer game on one of these

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days to go get a meal together.

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Whatever it is just build into those

relationships and, and look for

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ways to get the gospel out there.

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And if you're coaching

the team, I know some.

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Eh, in our Mr.

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Our coaching, then what an awesome

opportunity that you've got there

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to be a light and a witness to

those parents on that team as well.

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But yeah, whatever you're doing

today, maybe you're doing yard work.

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If you're doing yard work and

you're outside, remember your

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neighbors are not your enemies.

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Your neighbors are not, uh, the, the

combatants on the other side of the HOA.

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Uh, Boundary lines.

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There they are.

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They're people that need Jesus too.

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So, uh, be on beyond witness,

be a missionary for, for Jesus,

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wherever you find yourself today.

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Love people and point them to Jesus

in call them to faith in Christ.

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Uh, in, in pray for opportunities,

man, pray, pray that God

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will cause somebody to say.

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Uh, Hey.

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Why.

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Why do you go to church?

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It causes pray that God will

give you an opportunity to speak

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truth into somebody's life.

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That.

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Pray for the S the cookies on the

bottom shelf, evangelistically, pray

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that God will make it so easy that

you will have to be just willfully in.

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And, and, and stubbornly disobedient,

not to step into sharing the gospel,

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pray those types of prayers and

God with delight to answer them.

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I promise you, he wants to bring people

in your life who need to hear the gospel.

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And he will do that if you'll

pray those prayers, but you

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gotta be willing to do it.

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You gotta be willing to, to step

into the answer to those prayers

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and say, okay, here it goes.

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We're going to talk about it.

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We're going to talk about Jesus.

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Wherever you're at whatever you're doing.

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Make sure that you're

there to talk about Jesus.

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Uh, that's what I'm

going to be doing today.

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I'm doing a wedding today.

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And so I'm going to be, uh, preaching

his bride and groom about how their

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marriage is really not about them.

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It's about Jesus.

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And that's true for all

of you guys listening.

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If you're married and you're a Christian.

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Your marriage isn't ultimately about you.

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It's not, it's about Jesus.

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It's a platform for you to glorify

him, to exalt Christ into, to display

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the gospel in the way that you love

each other, the way that you forgive

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each other, the way that you care for

each other, man, your marriage is,

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is a blessing and you can enjoy it.

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You should enjoy it.

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Marriage is a good thing, right?

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But ultimately at the end of

the day, it's not about you.

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It's about Jesus.

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And if you've made your marriage

about you, then my guess is you're

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out there going, man, my marriage

is not satisfying me and I, I.

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I get it.

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I get it because you

know why you're a sinner.

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And so is your spouse and the two of

you trying to live this out together

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and beat each other savior and be

each other source of satisfaction.

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That's never going to work, but if you're

out there and you're going, man, my

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marriage is about Jesus and yeah, I'm

married to a sinner and I'm a sinner too.

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But man, the gospel at work in my marriage

means that we're quick to forgive and

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we want to serve the Lord together.

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And we want to have kids that, that

we raised it to follow Jesus together.

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And then, then that's where true

joy and marriage comes from.

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So anyways, all that to say, I don't

even know how we got on this topic.

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We talked about it being hot outside,

and that got us all the way to talking

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about how marriage is not about you.

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It's about Jesus.

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Anyways.

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We're in Jeremiah 35 to 37.

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Uh, and this is the last time.

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For a while, at least until, uh,

Pastor rod comes back tomorrow.

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He's going to be back with us.

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So good.

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Anyway, Jeremiah 35 35, we get this

family that comes onto the scene.

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Uh, and this, this family

is the wreck wrecker bites.

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It's, uh, that's why we

need pastor, rod back.

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He is much more guttural than I am.

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He does that way better than I do anyways.

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Uh, as chapter 35 opens we're we're

now back before, is that a Kai's rain?

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We're back in Jehovah Kim's rain.

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Okay.

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So Julia Kim was on the throne

from about 609 to 5 97 BC.

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Uh, so this is Um, and it's during

his reign that we're flashing back

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and in, God's going to hold up,

this family called the record bites

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and they're going to be commended

for their loyalty to their father.

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And he, again, object blessing, right?

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Just like we talked about in

yesterday's episode with Jeremiah.

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Uh, buying the field.

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This is a different kind of object lesson

focusing in on this earthly family.

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The record bites.

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Uh, the record bites, they were

descendants of a guy named John a dab.

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And in Jonah dab or

Jonadab, uh, or Jonah dab.

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However you want to say it.

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He lived towards the end of Ahab's reign.

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So you remember king

Ahab, bad dude, but a.

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Hubs rain was.

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He lived back around eight 50 BC.

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So 850 BC we're in almost 600 BC.

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So we're dealing we're

about 250 years later.

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That this group of his descendants

called the record bites.

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And they're being held

up here as commendable.

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Because of how faithful they

had been to his charges.

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Eh, Jonadab as the, the other

Joe NEDA, we'll go with that.

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Joe Nate app, he had, he

had given charges almost.

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250 years ago.

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And these charges were obeyed by

his descendants in stark contrast to

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the disobedience of the Israelites.

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To the charges that God, their

father, the one that formed

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them had provided for them.

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And so the record bites and chapter

35 are held up as this example to

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say, look how obedient they were.

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That's who you should have been Israel.

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But, but you're not, you're not them.

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Verse 11.

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We see they were a nomadic people,

Nebuchadnezzar presence had probably

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driven them to seek safety in Jerusalem.

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And so that's, that's why they're there.

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Uh, other than that, they were people

that would go from city to city and

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lived throughout the territory's there.

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And.

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In Israel in the north and in the

south there, but, but never can,

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as this impending threat probably

caused them to take refuge.

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They're in the city of Jerusalem.

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Uh, verses 12 through 16, the sons

of Um, cause that's what we're going

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with, how to obey his commands.

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But, but you always, children had

refused to do the same with him.

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And that that's what this is saying again.

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They had been so faithful

to their ancestor.

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And yet the Israelites had rejected.

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The God of creation had said, yeah,

we're not going to listen to you.

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And they were loyal to an earthly man.

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The Israelites rejected

the God of the universe.

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And so verses 17 through 19 as

a result, God was going to judge

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Israel, but the record bytes,

they would forever be blessed.

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And it says in the text, they

would always have a man who

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would stand before the Lord.

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That phrase usually implies

some sort of temple service.

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priest.

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Levi's.

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It seems like maybe God took somebody

from, from their tribe and conscripted

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them in and, and would always do that now.

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That's interesting because the

temple is about to be destroyed.

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Uh, for 70 years.

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Eh, of captivity.

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And then when Israel comes back,

they're going to rebuild, but

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it's not going to be the same.

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So exactly.

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What does that look like?

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Does that mean in the temple?

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I don't know.

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Exactly except that, that God

had identified this family and

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said, man, their faithfulness.

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I had put them into a special

place in the heart of God.

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And that's such a good thing because

Israel had found themselves in a

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special place in the wrath of God.

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Which was a bad thing.

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So that's Jeremiah 35, the record bites.

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Jeremiah 36 then.

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Uh, yeah.

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Joey Kim.

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Uh, this is one of the

scenes that causes me.

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Great.

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Vexation I'm terribly vexed.

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Anyways.

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Uh, Jehoiakim he.

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Not a good king and that's, that's

safe to say for all of them now

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at this point, there's no more

Hezekiah's there's no more.

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Josiah's it's just, they're

they're just all bad.

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They're just all bad from here on out.

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And Jehovah came his particular bad.

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We open up in the fourth year of his

reign, so we're about 6 0 5, 6 0 4 BC.

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Uh, verse two, Jeremiah had apparently

not inscribed or written down any

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of his prophecies until now, because

God tells him to do just that.

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So he had been giving these prophecies.

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But he hadn't necessarily

written them down just yet.

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Uh, verse three, if, if judo would

truly repent, God would truly relent.

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I've mentioned that before.

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This is, again, it may be that

the house of Judah will hear the

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disaster that I intend to do to them.

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So God wanted them to.

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These words to be written down in an

active preservation so that somebody

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somewhere might read them and think,

oh, no, And maybe that, that would

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bring about a national repentance.

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Now, does God's sovereignly know

that that's not going to be the case?

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Yes.

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Does that mean this?

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Offer's not genuine?

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No.

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Again, if the people were truly

repent, God would truly be relent.

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And that's verse three of chapter 36.

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Uh, jumped out of verse nine

through 10 in December 6 0 4.

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So, uh, December of six or

four, it's cold in, in, by the

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way, it gets cold in Jerusalem.

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I don't know what your

picture of the middle east is.

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You, you may just think heat.

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Uh, my family and I, well,

my wife and I were there in.

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Uh, February, March timeframe,

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freezing on the temple Mount.

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So it got down into the thirties on

the temple Mount there in Jerusalem.

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So December.

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Baruch.

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Uh, is, is summoned to read the scroll.

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Uh, to the people who were gathered

for a fast there in Jerusalem.

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And so he shows up there.

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And in the wintertime and he reads the

scroll and the scroll, the Jeremiah

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made waves verses 11 through 26 here.

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It makes waves and news of it eventually

reaches the king and his officials.

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And initially these officials,

they call for Baruch to read it

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in their presence, which he did.

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So they weren't there apparently at the

first reading, but they'd heard about it.

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And so they're like, okay, we want

to know what this guy has to say.

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So they, they summon him and

he shows up and he reads it.

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They're in, in their presence.

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And their response is, Hey man,

you've got to put that away.

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You've got to put that away.

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That's not going to go well if Julia

Kim gets a hold of that and hears

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about that, it's not going to go well.

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So they tell them, Hey, you need to.

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To conceal this thing, Barry.

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Get rid of it.

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Well, king Jehoiakim does hear of it.

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And when he hears of it, he summons.

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Uh, the, the scroll to be read to him.

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And it's not by Baruch it's by, uh,

somebody else, one of his servants there.

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And he demands that it's read to him.

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And so as one of his servants,

does that takes the scroll?

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And reads it.

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Uh, Joey can begins to cut

off the sections of Jeremiah's

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prophecy and throw it in the fire.

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As though.

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He was destroying somehow the,

the con the scroll itself.

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And, and in doing that, he was going

to stop its contents from happening.

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Th the pride, the arrogance.

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The, the boldness.

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Uh, is, is just it's it's plain.

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It's a little more needs

to be said than that.

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I mean, this is just the

sin of, of joy came there.

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As he's cutting the scroll.

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The word of God.

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And burning it.

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Uh, and then after this, the king tries

to have Jeremiah and Baruch arrested,

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but the Lord protects them in Heights.

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Them.

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Uh, the King's like, all right, fine.

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I'm going to end them after this.

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And, and yet God doesn't let them happen.

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Let that happen to them.

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Uh, but, but in this.

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King's arrogance.

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He thought, man, if I can, if I

can destroy the scroll, then the

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things that the scroll talks about,

I'm going to show that, that,

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that this isn't going to happen.

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I'm going to flex on this and show

that that I'm not worried about it.

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And that God can't do anything

to me because look, I can even

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take his word and destroy it.

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Spoiler alert.

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It's not going to happen verses 27

through 32, the Lord tells Jeremiah

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to dictate another copy to Baruch

who would make another scroll and in.

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And we might be thinking,

man, how did he do that?

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How did you remember all of these things?

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Well, a couple of things, number one.

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We have to remember that, that the

spirit was involved, that, that

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the doctrine of inspiration, the

God-breathed words are involved here.

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And so this isn't just like you and

me sitting down to write something

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out that we talked about at lunchtime.

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No, this is there's something

divine happening here.

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But then the other thing too

is this was an oral culture.

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This was a culture that was used to.

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Uh, remembering large swaths

of information verbally in

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memorizing it and giving it again.

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So those two things combined are how

your mind can just give this a second.

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Dictation and Baruch is able to write out

another school and he also, the Lord does

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sends word that Jehoiakim is going to die.

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And he's going to die without an air

and his body is not going to be buried.

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So Jehovah came, this sinfulness

here is going to result in, uh,

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just a, a tragic end for him.

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He may remember that, that

he's talked about, uh, being

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thrown out on the trash heap.

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Uh, and when he's thrown out in the trash

heap, it's like the barrel of a donkey

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that's back in Jeremiah 22, 18 and 19.

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That's also talking about the death of

Jehoiakim that because of, of his boldness

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and brashness and arrogance and, uh,

just the audacity that he would take

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in destroy the word of God and think

that somehow he's going to stop it.

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I mean, his death is, is just met with,

uh, with, with shame and humiliation

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and he's cast out on the trash heap,

just like he's a donkey at that point.

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Um, yeah, so Jeremiah 36.

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The burning and destruction of the scroll.

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Uh, from Jehoiakim chapter 37, then.

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All right.

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Chapter 37.

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We're jumping forward again because

now Zedekiah is on the throne.

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So 5 97 instead of Kira

is put on the throne.

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It's important for us to

know this by Nebuchadnezzar.

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So Nebuchadnezzar, deposes the king

before him, it sets him in his place.

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Uh, and, and he reigns instead

of, uh, Kanaya the son of joy.

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So instead of Jack and I are

there now you get, is that a case?

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Is that a cause on the throne 5 97

is the year, and this is important

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because that guy is going to rain for

11 years and the end of his reign is

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going to be the fall of Jerusalem.

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It's going to be 5 86.

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That's the fall of Jerusalem.

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That's going to end.

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And he's the last came here.

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So is that a cause on the throne

37, 1 verses six through 10.

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Of 37, uh, after initially warnings

that have kind of fear the Lord

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and being met with rejection.

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Uh, Jeremiah prophesies of the impending

attack and destruction of the city

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at the hands of the Babylonians.

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In fact so inevitable was this, that

even if Babylon were to only attack

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with the wounded men, they would

overthrow the city that that's.

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Verse 10, even if you should defeat

the whole army of the Cal DNS, that.

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Even if you should go out

and hamstring, all of them.

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If you should deal them all a blow

such that they were all wounded.

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So sure.

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Is this because this is a

thing of God, not of men.

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That even wounded, they would be able

to come in and over through the city.

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So the inevitability of this

destruction that's coming.

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Verses 11 through 16.

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Uh, Jeremiah is falsely accused

in this context of desertion.

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And so we'll hit on this in chapter

38, but chapter 37 and 38, some see

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that these are parallel accounts.

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And, and we'll talk through this tomorrow.

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I'm curious to get past Rod's

insight on this as well.

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I don't know that I'm there.

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I think we're going to see two very

similar things happen in chapter

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one in chapter 37, 1 chapter 38.

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But, but by and large, I think

these are two separate things.

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I don't think it's the same thing

in chapter 37 as chapter 38.

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But what we're talking about

is verses 11 through 21.

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That's what chapter 38

is very close to, but.

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In chapter 37.

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Jeremiah is, is, is going out, but he's

not going out to, to dessert, but they,

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they accuse him as he's leaving the city

of, of, of deserting to the Babylonians.

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And he is falsely accused of this.

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He's beaten and he's thrown in

prison in the house of Jonathan.

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Now that's important because in

chapter 38, when he's thrown in

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prison, he's thrown in a cistern.

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In somebody else's house.

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So we've got some, some inconsistency

there that we'd have to jump through if

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this is the same account, but here he's

thrown in prison in the house of Jonathon

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and he is thrown into one of the dungeon

cells that even talks about in the text.

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There.

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Uh, in verse 16.

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So he's imprisoned there in verse 17.

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Is that a Kaia?

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Instead of kinda just got such a weird

relationship with Jeremiah, is that

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a kind of summons, the prophet, he

calls Jeremiah to himself secretly

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to see if anything has changed.

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He doesn't want news getting out

he's he's like hush, hush kind

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of under the table type of thing.

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Like, Hey Jeremiah, why don't you?

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I want you to come.

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I, yeah.

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Why don't you come over here and look

at this nail, but I hammered it into

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the wall and then when they're together,

he's like, Hey, so has, has anything

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everything's still the same, like

Babylonians me anything changing there.

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And he finds out, well, of

course, no nothing had changed it.

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Hadn't in Jeremiah asks him.

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Hey, by the way, is.

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Is that kind of, where

are your profits now?

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The ones that were telling you

about all the peace and comfort that

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you were going to enjoy, where are

they, if you don't think that that

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God has, uh, sometimes sarcastic.

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Uh, passengers like this,

show us quite the opposite.

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God does have a little bit

of that sense of humor.

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And even the sarcasm here.

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He's exhibit K, where are your profits?

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Where are the ones that you

chose over the prophets of God?

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Where are they now?

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And then in, uh, in that moment,

in, at that, that time, Jeremiah.

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Does implore, is that a Katy?

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He says, please don't send

me back to Jonathan's house.

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Don't send me back to the dungeon

there, which just tells us how

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bad it was for him to be there.

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I mean, this is a situation that he's

saying, please put me anywhere else.

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Just don't put me back

in Jonathan's house.

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And so he ends up in prison

with the palace guard.

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There is something that we've been seeing.

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In some of these other passages.

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Uh, that we've been talking about,

even yesterday's Texas, he's in

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prison in the palace guard during

Zedekiah's reign it's it's.

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This is what's going on.

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There is that a I'm a favor,

so to speak by having them

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in prison, they rubbed them.

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Then sending them back to Jonathan.

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This.

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House here.

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So.

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That's 37.

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Uh, yeah.

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Jeremiah is imprisoned.

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Is that a guy wants to

know if anything's changed?

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Nope, hasn't changed king, but uh, can

you not send me back to Jonathan's house?

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Is that a kind of says, sure.

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I'll do your favor.

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I'll just put you in

prison here in the palace.

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And so that's what happens there.

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In Jeremiah 37.

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That's what we got.

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Let's pray.

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And then we've got another

episode in the books.

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God, thank you for.

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Your truth.

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Thank you for another day

that we get to read it.

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And as I was talking about at the

beginning of the podcast, I do pray that

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we would be on guard for evangelistic

opportunities today that we would be

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mindful of them, that we'd be praying

for them, that you'd present them

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to us, and that we would be able to.

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Uh, to seize them and to share the gospel

with people that need to hear the truth,

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the life saving truth of Jesus Christ.

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And so give us that we

pray, we ask in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles

and tune in again tomorrow.

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For another episode of the daily

Bible podcast with pastor Rob.

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We'll catch you then.

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Bye.