00:00 Intro

00:23 Back to School Reflections

01:09 Pastor Rod's Doctoral Pursuit

03:33 Bible Cliff Notes?

04:01 Deep Dive into Jeremiah 30-31

09:44 The New Covenant Explained

11:29 God's Plan for Israel

15:22 Closing Prayers and Final Thoughts

16:15 Outro and Podcast Information

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Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

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We're so glad you've joined us.

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And now your hosts, Pastor

PJ and Pastor Rod...

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition,

the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bernard, thanks for

whatever you just said.

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I'm sure it's gonna say something now that

I wish I hadn't thanked you for, but just

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in case, it's just the normal status quo.

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Good job, Bernard.

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Welcome back to, the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yes.

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Welcome back.

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Happy Friday everybody.

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It's Friday.

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Congrats students out there.

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You guys made it through the first week

back in school for the majority of you.

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And you survived, which is great.

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It's I know it's been a long week in

some regards and yet first week of

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school was always nice 'cause it was

like, man, there's not, I don't really

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have much in the way of work to do, much

assignments to do first week of college.

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Radically different syllabus shock.

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It's like, how am I ever gonna be

able to figure out all of this?

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That's in front of me.

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Seminary, same thing.

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Wailing your doctoral program.

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I'm sure you were looking at

that going, I'm still shocked.

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This is impossible.

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I still feel like it is impossible.

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I may not finish this program

with man, it's impossible, but

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with God, nothing is impossible.

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I don't know if God is with me in this.

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I'm just saying, do you not think so?

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I don't know.

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I don't know, man.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, you are pursuing that.

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I think we've talked about that a little

bit but give us an overview right now.

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What are a couple of classes

that you're taking or what

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are you focused on right now?

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Yeah we have talked about it,

but I guess so I, here's what

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I know, it's three years long.

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At the end of it, I produce a

dissertation that's that's done with

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supervision by one of my seminary

profs, and I'll find out who that is.

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I think in the next semester,

maybe the second one I took.

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I took an intro class intro to

doctoral writing and research.

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I've taken a class about

the cooperative program.

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I've taken a seminar about the

theological process of biblical

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counseling, which was super enjoyable.

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Loved that.

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It was a long, it was long days.

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I was in a seminar from, I think

Tuesday through Friday from 8:00 AM

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to 4:00 PM or 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM and

the class all day is awesome in some

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ways and also very taxing in others.

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But that was fantastic.

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I really enjoyed that.

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That's good.

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And right now I'm in a contextualized

writing class, which is, I'll take

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this class, I think four times over

the course of these three years.

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And it teaches me how to write the paper.

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And so the unique thing about

this program is that you write

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the paper from the very beginning.

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So you start working on it, you start your

presentation, you start thinking about

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all the things that you could write about.

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You narrow it down, you pick something.

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And then over the next three years, I'm

writing it the whole time basically.

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That's super helpful.

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'cause at Masters they didn't.

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They didn't give us an idea

of what our final project was

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gonna end up looking like.

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They basically said, Hey, just focus

on your classes right now, the modules

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and just know that everything you're

doing now is going to factor into that

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final project that you're gonna do.

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But they didn't tell us about it

until going into our last module set.

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Yikes.

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And they're like, oh, by the

way here's what you're gonna do.

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It's like a hundred page paper, please.

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Yeah.

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So yeah, thankfully I get to

have some help all along the way,

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and I really appreciate that.

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In fact, I've already read, I don't

know, five or six books about how

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to write a paper that's awesome.

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Things to avoid, how to do it right?

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Lots of emphasis on avoiding plagiarism.

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And what's interesting is that none of

these books are talking about ai, right?

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Which, of course, they're

all published before that.

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Right now it's a very hot button

issue because AI can make it so easy

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to do that in, at least in theory,

in an indiscernible way, right?

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And so your character and integrity

on are on the plate right now

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to say, look, don't do that.

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You're paying to learn

how to think and to write.

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Don't export that's your job right now.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's like growing up in high school,

it was the Cliff notes or the Pink

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Monkey notes or the Spark Notes Yeah.

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Of the book.

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It was like you can do that, but

you're robbing yourself in the end.

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But not, and I don't think, I

think those books, in addition to

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reading, would be really helpful.

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I understand there the whole.

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Point is to learn how to read and

understand it well by yourself,

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but sometimes you just need help.

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I was so opposed to them

because of that very reason.

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They had such a stigma around them.

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If you read them, you use

them, you're cheating.

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You're not doing the right thing.

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But I'm thinking, man, if I could

just get help to understand it

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going into it, it's kinda like

what we're doing right now, right?

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You could look at what we're doing

is cliff notes to understanding

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the Bible, but we're trying to help

you so that you can read it better.

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And if that approach was taken in so

many of my English lit papers and so

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many of my English lit books, I think

that would've been really helpful to

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me and caused me to like it a lot more.

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Yep.

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Yeah, Bible cliff notes maybe that

maybe we should rebrand our podcast.

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We'll see what Bernard thinks about that.

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Yeah, probably not though.

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Probably not.

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Let's jump into speaking of the Bible.

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Let's jump into our DBR for today.

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Jeremiah 30 and 31.

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Big chapters in front of us,

especially chapter 31, but chapter

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30 is going to begin to forecast.

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31 is going to de develop more.

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And that is the the

return of the remnants.

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And this is gonna have both a near

term focus and a long-term focus

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Near term, they're gonna come back

under the reign of Cyrus of Persia.

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So Cyrus is gonna be the one

that's gonna send the exiles back.

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And so when he says there, God

does, in verse three, I will

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restore the fortunes of my people,

Israel and Judas says the Lord.

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And I will bring them back to the

land that I gave their fathers, and

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they shall take possession of it.

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That happened partially under Cyrus,

but there's still a future, there's a

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long-term fulfillment of this that we

read about down in verse nine, but they

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shall serve the Lord their God and David

their king, whom I will raise up for them.

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And so this is looking forward to the.

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Ultimate David, the anti type to the

type the type being King David was

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the prototype, he was the example.

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And the anti type is the

one that fulfills that.

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And so that is the one that is gonna

be the true David, that is Jesus as

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we know him, the descendant of David.

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And so that's verse nine is looking

all the way forward to the reign of

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Christ during the millennial kingdom.

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And so God is forecasting this

regathering of the people.

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And in the meantime, he is going

to also announce that judgment is

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gonna come against the enemies.

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He says in verse 11, I'm

with you to save you.

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I will make a full end of all the

nations full end should stand out

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to us because so many times he tells

Judah, I won't make a full end of you.

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But here he says, of the enemies

of Judah, of the enemies of God.

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He says I will make a full end of.

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Them.

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God is prophesying through Jeremiah the

good times that are coming for Israel,

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both on the back end of the 70 years of

captivity, but even more at the millennial

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kingdom and the regathering that's

gonna take place during that season.

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Chapter 31 then is significant

because of what it contains really

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in the back half of the chapter.

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And so he opens with some

language that reminds us of God's

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faithful promises to Israel.

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Verse three, he says, I

have loved you with an.

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Everlasting love.

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Therefore, I've continued

my faithfulness to you.

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Those are important words

for us to understand that God

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has not abandoned his people.

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In fact, in verse nine, he talks about

a return that is going to involve

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repentance from the nation of Israel.

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With weeping they shall come and with

pleas from mercy, I will lead them back.

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I will make them walk by Brooks

of water and then he goes on.

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He says, for I'm a father to Israel in.

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Eem is my firstborn.

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Verse nine, the weeping return.

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I don't think that's talking

about the return under Cyrus.

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I think that's talking about the return

that Zechariah chapter 12 is prophesying

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about when he says that they're gonna look

on him, whom may have pierced, and they're

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gonna mourn, they're gonna weep over

the crucifixion of Jesus and realizing

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the part that they played in that.

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And that mourning over that is

gonna lead them to a repentance

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and to a genuine faith.

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And I think that's what he's

talking about there in verse nine.

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And so the first half of the chapter

is dealing with the millennial

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kingdom themes there Matthew two 18,

a voice is heard in Ramah lamentation.

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Bitter weeping.

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Rachel is weeping for her children.

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She refuses to be comforted for her

children because they are no more.

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This is talking about

the dark before the dawn.

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This is what takes place in is fulfilled,

at least in part according to Matthew.

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In Matthew chapter two, when Herod

goes after the firstborn, or not

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the firstborn, but the children.

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Ages two and under he quotes

that as a reference there.

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So up until verse 31, we get just

these allusions to these comments

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about this future that's gonna be

good for the people of Israel when so

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much had gone wrong for them so far.

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Yeah.

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A couple of quick comments on

chapter 31 that I think are.

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Interesting.

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First of all, in verse two, he

says, thus, as the Lord, Jeremiah,

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the people who survived the sword

found grace in the wilderness.

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And I love that imagery.

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The fact is, we sometimes think that grace

is only available to us in certain times,

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in certain seasons of life, but what we

see here, God's power isn't localized.

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We don't have to go to

church to be blessed.

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You should go to church 'cause

that's what God wants you to do.

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But his power is not.

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Only localized to one specific location.

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It's not the temple, it's not the church.

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His power is everywhere

available, even in the wilderness.

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And I can imagine so many different

scenarios that we would go through

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where we are in a wilderness kind of

situation and we need God to provide.

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Here we see God is the God of the

heavens, the earth, the land, the

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seas, and here in the wilderness.

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So don't wherever you are, God

can find you and he can supply

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the strength that you need.

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Another interesting note here I find

in verse nine, you referenced it here.

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I'm a father to Israel and

Ephraim is my firstborn.

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I find it interesting because he's

not talking to the southern kingdom.

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This includes the southern kingdom.

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But I do find it fascinating that we're,

we have to conclude, he's talking about

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more than the southern kingdom, and this

has to be further than the immediate

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return that we'll see in about 70 years.

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We can believe that and understand

that because the Northern

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Kingdom is basically obliterated.

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They're scattered.

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You cannot gather them right

now because they don't exist.

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They exist.

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They exist actually, but you

don't know where they are.

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They're all over the place and

God says, I'm gonna regather you.

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We have to believe then that this is

not talking about the return after

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exile, the post exilic return, but

the ultimate return, which Pastor PJ

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you just talked about a second ago.

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So I would agree for the, for

that reason, 'cause he's talking

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about the Northern Kingdom here.

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I guess my curiosity is why he

speaks to the Northern Kingdom.

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Why not Southern Kingdom as well?

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And I that's a question I don't have an

answer to, but I do find that fascinating.

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So two things that I saw, but

of course the highlight of this

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chapter is coming very soon.

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Yeah.

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And on that note too, verse 15 that I was

citing Rachel's children were Joseph and

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Benjamin and they were the representatives

really of the northern kingdom.

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Joseph, specifically his son, em, was

representative of the northern kingdom.

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So you're right, he is

addressing the north.

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And maybe because the assumption was.

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That the southern kingdom would be

there because the southern kingdom

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was gonna still be there post exile.

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The southern kingdom was gonna be the

kingdom that's realized post exile.

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So maybe this is God saying, Hey, don't

forget even the northern kingdom, I

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still have a future in view for them too.

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That's a great point.

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Chapter 31, verse 31, though

it's a good way to remember.

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This is a key passage in the

Bible, Jeremiah 31 31, and

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following there because this is

what's called the New Covenant.

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And so you've got the mosaic

covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, the.

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Covenant.

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You've got the Levitical covenant,

you've got all these different

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covenants that we find in scripture.

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This one's the new covenant, which

is significant because it's been

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partially inaugurated for us today.

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At the cross, when Jesus is in the

upper room, he says, this cup is the

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blood of the new covenants and so has

been partially inaugurated, but this

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is the covenant that's gonna be fully

inaugurated at the millennial kingdom.

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And last into eternity as well.

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And so we get some of the promises

that are made here specifically

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for Israel, where he says, I

will put my law within them.

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I will write it on their

hearts, and I will be their

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God, they shall be my people.

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That will be fully

realized in Revelation 21.

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In fact, that is quoted in

Revelation 21 when God is gonna say.

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I am their God.

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And they are my people now in that

permanence of relationship there verse

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34, no longer shall each one teach

his neighbor saying, know the Lord.

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For they shall all know me from the

least to the greatest, declares the Lord.

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I will forgive their iniquity and

I'll remember their sins no more.

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There's gonna be other passages,

including in Ezekiel that expound

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upon the new covenant, but this is

this promise that God is gonna have

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a unique relationship with Israel,

one that they've never known before.

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And it's not going to revolve around

the Mosaic covenant any longer.

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It's not gonna.

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Revolve around the sacrificial

system of the temple any longer.

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It's going to be a relationship that

God is entering into with his people.

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And we know from the New Testament

that the means of inaugurating that

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covenant is not gonna be the blood

of bulls and goats as the writer of

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Hebrews says in Hebrews chapter nine.

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But rather the blood of Jesus, the great

high priest, he's gonna bring his own

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blood to the table, and that is going to

be, that's what he's alluding to there

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in the upper room with his disciples.

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That's gonna be what inaugurates the new

covenant and makes such a significant

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relationship between God and his people.

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And it's hard to ignore.

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Verse 36 and following.

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You see here it says, if the fixed order

departs from before me, declares the Lord,

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then shall the offspring of Israel cease

from being a nation before me forever.

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God is appealing to the fundamental

nature of things, how things work.

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The sun rising, the sun is heading the,

you see here in verse 35, the fixed order,

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the moon and the stars and light by night.

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He says if those go away,

then you can suspect that I'm

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going to give up on Israel.

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Short of that, though,

I have a plan for them.

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I will fulfill it.

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How do you read this?

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And not walk away saying, I think

God's got a plan for Israel.

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Totally.

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I feel like a hundred percent

feel that's the, we talk about

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nails in the coffin of PSA.

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This is the nail in the coffin

in my view, things like this.

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This is obviously not the only place that

we would appeal to, but God's care for

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Israel as a nation, as an ethnic people

group seems to be highlighted here.

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Now, we're not saying that Israel, as she

is today, as a nation, is exactly God's

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people A as we see here in scripture.

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They're certainly part of them, though.

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And we're not gonna excuse them and say

that all that they're doing militarily

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is the right thing we're gonna say.

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They have a right to be a nation

and a right to defend themselves.

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But that doesn't mean everything

that they do say, think, smell, is

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suddenly justified by scripture.

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What we are saying to be clear is

that God has a plan for Israel.

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He's gonna protect them,

he's gonna preserve them.

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And in the last days, in fact,

the millennial kingdom, he's gonna

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regather them and he's gonna show

himself faithful to all the commands

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that he made in the promises here.

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Yeah.

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And another thing that I've seen

recently is some will accuse

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dispensationalist of making the

argument that God cares about Israel

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more than he cares about anyone else.

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That he loves Israel more than

he loves the church, and that the

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church is second to Israel and will

always be second class citizens.

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I don't think that's our argument at all.

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I don't think you find

that taught in scripture.

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We're simply saying God still

has a future for his people.

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He does care about them.

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He does also care about the church.

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The thing that God cares about more than

anything else though, is his own glory.

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And that's what he's after

more than anything else.

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And it's gonna show up in the way that he

regather Israel, just as it shows up in

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the way that he saves the church today.

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The argument's not, Hey, God cares

about one more than the other.

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It's that he cares about both and he's

not done, he's not done with Israel yet.

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And God's okay with caring

about people differently.

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Yeah.

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Let's just be clear about that.

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God is just, but he's not always.

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Yeah.

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Are we okay with that?

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Are we okay with the fact that

God is, he distributes his

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blessings in different ways?

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We live in a different

dispensation than they did.

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Our blessing arguably is far greater.

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We have exactly what Jeremiah

31 31 was pointing to.

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Yeah.

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We enjoy the very blessing that

God promised to his people, saying,

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this is what you're going to know.

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Someday.

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Yeah.

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That someday is today.

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For us, what an incredible blessing

that is, and I think we, we can't

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look at history and say those guys

had it better than I did, or can't

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look at the future and say, those guys

are gonna have it better than I do.

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We all have different blessings

and different privileges at

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our time and in our station.

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I think we need to acknowledge that

and be okay with the fact that God

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distributes blessings as he sees fit.

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Yeah.

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Some people are taller, some

people are shorter, some people are

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stronger, some people are weaker.

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All those things.

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God factors.

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God factors, and he determines it.

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Yeah.

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Something that is probably also worth

noting here, because we're talking about

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covenant language here, new Covenant.

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There's a brand of theology, new covenant

theology that emphasizes the new covenant

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above and over all other covenant

relationships that God has made with

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his people throughout the scriptures.

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And so here we have the new covenant

being forecast, and I've already said

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that it's being, it's inaugurated

there at the crucifixion of Christ.

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It's important to note that the new

covenant does not in and of itself

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abrogate or set aside every other covenant

that God has made with his people.

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For example, the Abrahamic covenant

we believe is still in effect.

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The new covenant has not superseded that

it's not replaced it the Davidic covenant

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has yet to be fulfilled in completion.

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The new covenant has not superseded

that it's not replaced, that rather

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the new covenant is now operating

alongside of both the Davidic

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Covenant and the Abrahamic Covenant.

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The mosaic covenant has been fulfilled

in Christ, all of us, regardless of where

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you fall, dispensationalism, covenant

theology, all of us can agree on that.

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But as far as the new covenant is

concerned it's not something that you

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look at all the other covenants and

say they find their terminus, they find

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their fulfillment in the new covenant.

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It's operating in parallel with some

of these other covenant promises that

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still are yet to be fulfilled by God,

including the land promise to Abraham and

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the Abrahamic Covenant and the throne of

promise to David in the Davidic Covenant.

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Amen.

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Hey, let's let's pray and then

we will be done with this episode

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we are so richly blessed to know you

through the new covenant that we get to

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enjoy because of Christ, because his blood

has indeed inaugurated that on our behalf.

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And we get to approach you as our Father.

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We get to know the forgiveness

of sins that you talk about here.

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We get to know you in a much deeper

way Lord than Israel ever was

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able to know you during that time.

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And we are so thankful

for those blessings.

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Help us not to take them for granted.

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Help us not to treat them with

contempt and to think that these

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are just things that we will always

have and we're we're we deserve them

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rather than seeing them as what they

are such a rich blessing from you.

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And so we pray that we would take

advantage of one of those rich blessings,

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which is to have the word of God and

your spirit dwelling within us to help

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us understand it on a daily basis,

and that we would give ourselves

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over to the study of your word every

single day, we pray 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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Bye y'all.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another magical episode

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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