00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:47 Church Setup and Transform Conference

01:51 Discussing the Certainty of Christianity

07:43 Jeremiah's Prophecies and Lessons

11:44 Prophecy and Disobedience in Egypt

12:29 Jeremiah's Confrontation with the Refugees

13:31 God's Judgment and Mercy

14:18 Lessons for Modern Believers

15:00 The Fickleness of Human Nature

17:43 Transactional Relationship with God

19:54 Baruch's Chastisement and Promise

21:36 Final Reflections and Prayer

Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to Wednesdays.

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Addition to the daily Bible podcast.

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Hey, Hey.

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Hey.

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Hey.

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Yeah.

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Hey, Hey, there it is.

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I told everybody you were

going to come back with that.

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I was listening to old episodes.

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And then you said, oh yeah,

I should, I should do that.

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You should bring.

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Fulfill the prophecy that prophet pastor.

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Mr.

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PJ is now issuing.

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Yeah, I'm not as good as Jeremiah, but.

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Close enough.

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Uh, poor mid-year mind.

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I'm still calling really, really,

really poor man's prophet.

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Uh, dude, we get so much

ground to cover today.

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More than I think we can

actually cover in 20 minutes.

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Or even according to your 20 minutes,

I don't know that we could read.

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We can do 20 minutes.

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We should just give up then.

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Just call it, it, it gone to

Gritstone into town today, guys.

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Thanks for joining us.

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Keep it, keep it going

to bring your Bible.

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Read your.

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I'm not even going to pray.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Hey, we had a new setup at

church on Sunday, which was.

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That was a, it was, it was a good

test run for our trans con coming

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down in November transform conference.

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Do you transform conference?

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I said that.

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Yeah.

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I said, don't call Transcon though.

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That's a, that's going to show up

on Google hits for people that are

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searching for something totally

different than what we're bringing.

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And if they came, I think it.

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I'd be delighted by what they year.

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I would like to see Dr.

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Mueller.

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Uh, just tackle that head on and

I'm sure he would, he, he would, I

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wouldn't fully expect that he would.

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Yeah.

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It was a good dry run.

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We were S if, if you're sitting

out there going, yeah, it was good.

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I liked this, but you know,

I don't know if I love this.

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Listen, we were there with you.

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W we were rehashing that even

as we're recording this on

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a Tuesday, Staff meeting.

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No.

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We're trying to tweak things.

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We're going to be tweaking things.

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We're going to try to make it

better and better as we go along.

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But overall, I thought

it was a good change.

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Yeah, it had a good feel to it.

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It felt good to have people.

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More compressed, even though it was

spread around the kind of halves he donut.

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But that compression felt good.

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I liked that.

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Yeah.

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I did too.

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Yeah.

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It made it easier to connect with people

on the back row and yeah, it was good.

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Yeah.

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It was good.

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Well, right before we hit record, we were

talking about whether or not you can be.

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Objectively 100% certain about

the veracity of Christianity,

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the truthfulness of Christianity.

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Um, and in how faith.

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Factors into that.

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So I think it's a helpful

conversation for us to kick around.

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It came up because we were talking about.

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Some, some academic out there

that takes an opposing view of

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Christianity and argues against

some things that we hold to be true.

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And, and he's very effective at it.

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He is.

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And winning a lot of, uh,

I don't know, adherence.

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Yeah, I guess one way, I was just

thinking about Christians who are more

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info, influenceable influenceable.

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Sure.

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Is that the right word?

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Influenced by things like that.

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So he's yeah.

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He's a, he's a he's dogmatic.

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He's very strong.

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I mean, gracious.

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In some ways he's got a gracious

demeanor, but also very dogmatic.

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A formidable foe.

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And one of the things that he challenges

is the certainty of Christianity.

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You really can't know.

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Can't no, there's lots of religions.

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There's different kinds of religions.

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And therefore, I mean, I'm really

simplifying has already been.

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I'm not doing it justice at

all, but you get the idea.

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So how can a Christian?

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No.

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Can they know can a Christian

know with certainty?

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That Christianity is true.

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What would you say to that?

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Pastor PJ?

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I think.

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Uh, a Christian can.

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And the reason I define it that way,

first Corinthians two says the natural

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man receives not the things of the spirit

of God for they're foolishness to him.

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Neither can he know them because

they are spiritually discerned.

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So in a situation like this, you have

somebody who is an intellect and a strong

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intellectual mind that brings to the

table arguments against Christianity.

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That too.

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Somebody who is not, is not saved,

are going to seem plausible.

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Um, And.

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Even appealing because this

guy again is not, he's not an

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idiot, he's a smart individual.

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And so you're gonna have people that

are gonna want to go after that.

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And yet for you and I, when you S you

and I sit down and we hear those same

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arguments, we understand the appeal to

the unsaved person, but we also can see

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through them and see the holes in them

and say, this is why they're wrong.

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And this is why they're incorrect.

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And so in that sense, I think

because of the fact that the spirit

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doesn't dwell us and we're able to

spiritually discern the things of God.

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We're able to have a greater degree of

certainty about the truthfulness of what

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we believe, but can you prove to somebody.

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Who's outside the faith.

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Christianity is objectively 100%

true before they come to faith.

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I don't know that you can,

and I would amen to that.

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And I think the way that you're using

certainty is probably different than

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how people understand the word today.

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When people use the word certainty,

they're usually talking about

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this kind of Cartesian certainty.

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Rene Descartes.

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It's a certainty that is built upon

evidence and facts and periodical data.

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Can you look at a number

and cross check that number?

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Can you test it in a laboratory?

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Is it repeatable?

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Um, it's kind of the, you know,

the scientific revolution in

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a nutshell, and that's good.

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We should welcome that.

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God designed the world.

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He made it so that there are things

that are repeatable and knowable.

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Um, but when it comes down to our

Christian faith, we call it a faith

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because at the end of the day is

what it requires to humble yourself

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before what God has revealed to us.

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And I would agree with you that the

primary difference between us and someone

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else who doesn't receive and accept what

God says is the spirit, the Spirit's work.

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Now it's not to say that Christianity

is a blind faith, but you have

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often said things against that

in the pulpit and other places.

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But the Christian faith

is rationally plausible.

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It's it's plot.

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It's something that can be understood

and said this, this makes sense.

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It's cohesive.

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It's not a fool's errand to believe in it.

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But that said, I think that's the

most that you can get from just the

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bare basics of what our faith offers

at the end of the day, the spirit

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has to cross us over the goal line.

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So to speak, to say, okay,

I'm going to save you.

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And then you're going to,

you're going to buy this fully.

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You're willing to die for this now because

you've been regenerated by the spirit.

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You've been made alive together

with Christ and now you'll believe

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everything that's said here with.

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Do you use a word differently

than the world uses it?

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Certainty.

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Right.

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And in.

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Christian for you listening to this.

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If you have people in your life that

are either professing, believers,

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or unbelievers who are dabbling in

some of the realms of some of these

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false teachers out there that you

might know to be false teachers.

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Well, that's what Judy.

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Excuse me, Jude is talking

about at the end of his letter.

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Uh, when he says, keep yourselves in the

love of God, waiting for the mercy of our

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Lord Jesus Christ, that leads to eternal

life and have mercy on those who doubt.

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Save others by snatching them out

of the fire and to others, show

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mercy with fear, hating even the

garment stained by the flesh.

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And so the mercy on those who doubt

that's the person that's, that's doubting

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the truth of Christianity and maybe

there's another option that's out there.

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That's the person that

you have mercy on them.

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How by pursuing them in

others, you're going to be

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snatching them out of the fire.

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Some may have already bought into these

false teachings and you're going to be

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going after them with the gospel and

praying that God will open their eyes.

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They will see the error of this

teaching that they've been believing

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in, in return or come to faith for.

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The first time and then even hating

the garment stained by the flesh

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means, Hey, we gotta be careful not

to become corrupted ourselves by

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dabbling too far into this realm.

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And that's something.

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Apologetics is great.

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But I've also seen people go so

far down the path of apologetics

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that they find themselves mired

in super niche views of, of.

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Christianity or they find

themselves crossing over and in.

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Starting to buy into some of the opponents

that they've been researching, how to

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debate and how to contradict now a true

believer is not going to fall away, right?

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But sometimes that's regulatory for

somebody who is not as anchored in the

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faith as they should be when they love

apologetics so much, they can drift.

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By giving themselves over to those things.

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Yeah, there's definitely an order.

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An order of operation for most Christians

getting into the realm of apologetics

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is probably really helpful after you've

been trained or trusted with the basics,

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the foundation of what our scriptures

teach and why we believe what we believe.

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It can be a dangerous enterprise if you're

not well-grounded I agree with that.

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And that's probably where a lot

of, uh, Apologists go wrong.

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They can make it a purely

intellectual pursuit.

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When there's much more going

on than what meets the eye.

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And I, I really appreciate

noble and helpful apologists.

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They help us to see that the Christian

faith is again rationally, plausible.

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It's not foolish.

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But it doesn't go very far.

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People can still put their

fingers in their ears and say,

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Nana nananana, I'm not listening.

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I'm not listening.

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Right.

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And it becomes ineffective and

unhelpful at the end of the day.

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It's the word of God that does the tree,

the changing of the transformation.

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That's what we depend upon that.

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Yup.

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Speaking of the word,

let's jump into the word.

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Let's do it, Jeremiah.

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Jeremiah 41 through 45, lots

of ground to cover Jeremiah 41.

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We talked about this, I think

in the last episode or so,

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but, uh, get a lie is murdered.

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This is the recording of that

here in Jeremiah's prophecy.

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So verse two, he's murdered by Ishmael.

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Along with, uh, Any of the Judeans

or Babylonians who were with them?

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We talked, I think you asked the

question a couple episodes ago.

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Why was Gedaliah murdered in yeah.

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I think we see some of it here, Ishmael.

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Smile is I think jealous.

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And I think you brought this up for.

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The four Judea he's,

he's jealous for Israel.

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And so these Judeans that had kind of

gone along with Gedaliah's rule and reign.

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He's considering them to

be traders and turncoats.

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And so he's going to kill them.

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As well as these other Babylonians

that are there with him.

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On, uh, on that side and in

siding with get a lie there.

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Ishmael in verses four through seven,

then in his bloodless murder, some

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Pilgrim worshipers who would come

morning to Jerusalem to worship,

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even though the temple was no more.

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So he's just, he's really

kind of lost control.

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In a lot of ways here.

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Uh, verses eight through 18, then in

chapter 41, his power graph stalls.

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When this guy named Johanan sets

out to pursue him and recover

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those who get taken captive.

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So Ishmael had even taken captives there.

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Um, And the schedule hunting goes

out to, to restore them and to

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free them from the captivity.

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So the people flee to

Johanan, but, uh, issue.

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Ishmael kind of runs

away and kind of escapes.

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For the time being at least with his life.

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Uh, with eight others into the territory

of the Ammonites, one of the enemies of

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Israel here, and then the chapter ends

with the people fearful over how Babylon's

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going to respond to Israel's actions.

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So Ishmael kind of really.

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Handicaps the people of Judah there,

uh, in, in a large way with their

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Babylonian oppressors, because he murders

the government, they put in charge.

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He stirs the pot for sure.

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Not a good guy.

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No, not a good guy.

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And he's really going to kind of set

in motion, a chain reaction of things

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that are not going to go well, because

in chapter 42, that people then come

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to Jeremiah and they want word from

the Lord as to what they should do.

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And they say, Hey, we're going

to do whatever the Lord says.

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Whatever the word directs.

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Yeah, whatever he says, we're

going to do it a hundred percent.

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Yeah.

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Stop us.

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If you've heard that before.

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Yeah.

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And, uh, so Jeremiah gives them

the message and the message.

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He receives instructs, the people to stay

in the land and to stay there in Judea.

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And they would be kept safe by the Lord.

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But if they fled to Egypt,

which is what they wanted to

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do, they would die by all that.

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They feared the sword famine, pestilence.

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It was all gonna come after them.

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And so this was really a test of

their trust to see if anything

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had changed in their hearts.

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God is continuing even.

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After the fall of Jerusalem to test the

people, test the remnant, so to speak.

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To see if they would obey him and

trust in him, rather than looking

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over their shoulder to Egypt

thinking, Hey, Egypt is going to be

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able to keep us safe from Babylon.

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Yeah, I think.

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Are we looking at chapter 42 right now?

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Yeah, we are.

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That's what I thought.

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Okay.

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I want to make sure, yeah.

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Verse 15 or actually

verses 14 through verse 15.

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And one of the things I noticed

here is that Jeremiah tells these,

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these posts, uh, exilic people

are actually more exile people.

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He's saying, look, you can trust.

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You can trust that Egypt's got your back.

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Uh, they don't, they don't,

but hear the word of the Lord.

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Oh, remnant.

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Thus as the Lord, the God of Israel.

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If you set your faces to enter

Egypt and go live there, then the

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sword that you fear shall overtake

you there in the land of Egypt.

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And one of the things I noticed here

is that fear promises, preservation,

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sin promises, idolatry promises,

preservation, but actually delivers debt.

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This is not a new thing.

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This is not a new theme.

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That's within scripture, but this

is a repeated thing which tells us

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that one of the things that God is

really intent on is understanding.

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Is that you go anywhere

else besides God himself.

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And you're gonna find yourself at an

empty, an empty, well, a thing that can

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not deliver the thing that it promises.

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And that's always the case

with us, even for today.

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Even though we're not the exiles.

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We're not Jeremiah.

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But it is still true that idols

promise some kind of protection,

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some kind of prosperity.

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And yet they deliver only death and

depravity, which is how the book opened.

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Right.

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Which am I saying?

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My people have committed two evils.

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They have forsaken me the

fountain of living waters.

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Call back in, have turned to broken

cisterns that can hold no water.

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That's right.

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Yup.

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Well, chapter 43 surprise.

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The people reject God's word and

they choose to flee to Egypt and

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they take Baruch and Jeremiah

with them, force them to go.

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Yeah.

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These scoundrels.

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Yep.

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Jeremiah's like, I I'd rather not.

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I'd rather stay here and obey God.

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I'm his prophet and he told

all of us, we shouldn't go.

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And.

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Yeah, that's what they do.

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Verse seven, they came into the land

of Egypt for, they did not obey the

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voice of the Lord and they arrived at.

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Uh, Tiffany's T Japanese.

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It sounds like an Australian restaurant.

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God bless you.

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Yeah.

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Thanks man.

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I appreciate that.

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Anyways, they arrive there in

Egypt verses eight through 13.

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Then the word of the Lord comes

to Jeremiah while they're there.

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And he prophesies that Nebuchadnezzar

would come for Egypt and do to Egypt.

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and this comes to fulfillment

eventually in 5 68, 67 BC.

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So that, which they feared is that which

was going to come upon them because their

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sin, like you were just talking about.

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Is a facade.

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It's a house of cards.

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It's like leaning on a

spider's web for, for support.

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It's not going to hold you up in the end.

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In fact, it's going to prove to be

their undoing in their collapse.

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Chapter 44 then, uh, Jeremiah.

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44 7 through nine finds the

Lord confronting these refugees,

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these same people that fled

Egypt with a series of questions.

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And this series of questions that he asks

here are, uh, provocative to the people

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in there, their indictments against

the people he says in verse seven,

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he says, now says the Lord of hosts.

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Why do you commit this great

evil against yourselves?

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To cut off from you, man, and

woman, infant child in the midst of

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Judah and leaving you no remnants.

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So you have forfeited your, your status

as the remnant is what he's saying

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there in verse seven, verse eight.

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Why do you provoke me to anger with the

works of your hands making offerings

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to other gods in the land of Egypt?

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So.

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The rebellion was not just ignoring

the word of God, but now they're

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provoking God by worshiping the false

gods there in Egypt and trusting them

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over, trusting him again, that, that

broken sister and that empty well.

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And you've become a curse in the top.

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And then verse nine, have you

forgotten evil of your fathers,

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the evil, the Kings of Judah.

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Have you forgotten what just

happened with the fall of Jerusalem

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and why that all happened?

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And so God is indicting them with these

rhetorical questions that he's asking.

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Uh, through the prophet

verses seven through nine.

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Versus 11 through 30.

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He declares.

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Hey, you know what?

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Just as I judged your fathers,

I'm going to judge you as well.

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He says, he's going to

set his face against them.

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That's scary.

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That's a horrible phrase.

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Yeah.

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Anytime.

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And you read it time and

time again in the profits.

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I will set my face against you.

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You never want God's face set against you.

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Yeah.

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He would bring the

sword, bring pestilence.

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Every one of them against every one of

them who had disobeyed, the people had

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wrongly concluded that it was because

they had seized to making offerings

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to their false gods, that they were

suffering and they blamed the Lord for it.

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But the few who would escape Egypt

and returned to Judah would return

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to knowing God and knowing him as

the true God and worshiping him.

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So.

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You get again, wrath and then

mercy, you remember the prayer

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of Habakkuk in your wrath.

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Remember mercy.

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So even here, he's still not going

to exterminate his people completely.

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There are going to be some that return.

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And they're going to understand

that they're gonna return

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in repentance in that.

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Let's do some biblical counseling

here, at least try to try to

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take some of this in a plat.

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To people today.

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If you think about what did

Jeremiah charges, these people,

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what do you think Basser PJ.

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What do you think is behind.

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Okay.

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A lot of repetition here.

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Don't don't go to the false idols.

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They're not going to help.

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You're going to, you're going to die.

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It's going to be bad for you.

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Um, and if you do the things that your

ancestor did, you're going to suffer the

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same fate that your ancestors suffered.

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What, why do we not.

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Why did they not get it?

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And what can we learn

about our own hearts?

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And today's realm.

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So if we're looking at our lives today,

we don't look like this, but we can say we

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share something similar constitutionally

of our human nature what's happening and

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what, what do we need to look out for?

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I think it goes back to what

we were talking to at the very

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beginning that Christianity is

a religion of faith in the end.

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And there are so many things that require

us to believe in the promises of God.

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Uh, more than we believe in the

promises that the world offers us.

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And so, uh, when we face

temptation, it's, it's one thing.

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In church on Sunday morning to hear a

message on living a godly life and sit

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there and not in agreement, say, amen.

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Yes, I need to do that.

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And even I have the

motivation and the heart.

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That's there to say, I want it.

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I want to live an

obedient life to the Lord.

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But then to show up at work

and you step into work and you.

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Uh, maybe are not as intentional

and not as thoughtful about

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your preparation for that.

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And now you're around all your

coworkers who, you know, talk

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like sailors and everything else.

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And.

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And it just kind of, you slipped

back into it because it's, it's easy.

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And the, the it's easier to do that than

it is to fight, and it is to battle.

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So the desire you had on Sunday

morning, I want to live a godly life.

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Is.

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Uh, desire that you have there in

the area where it's easy and it's.

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Contained and it's,

it's, it's not sterile.

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Sterile is not the right,

like you're in your incubator.

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So to speak there, when, when you're

with the church, it's easy to be

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like, yeah, I want to be godly.

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But then when we get out into the

world and the rubber meets the road

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on that it's are we discipline?

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Are we self-controlled?

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Do we have.

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Are we cultivating a life in the

spirit and reading our word and being.

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Reading God's word and being in prayer

on a regular basis, such that we're

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ready to bear the fruit of the spirit.

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If not, we're going to be.

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Sidelined.

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And so when the, when the people come

to Jeremiah and they say, we'll do

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whatever the Lord wants to wants us

to do, or even think back to the, the.

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The wilderness generation.

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The Lord has declared all

these things and we'll do them.

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These are, these things are very good.

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But then when rubber meets the road

in the cost comes into play on what

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it costs to actually obey God versus

what it costs to disobey him and

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the pleasures that we get there in.

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We're quick to forget our

resolve that we want to be godly.

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So it's kind of.

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I think what you're getting

at is this fickle nature.

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We can be all in one day, especially

on a Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.

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So.

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So to speak.

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And then on Monday at eight o'clock,

we just were in a different head space.

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We're in a different context.

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And so our hearts can be fickle

strong and stout hearted one day.

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And then we can fragile the next day.

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Yeah.

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I find an interesting, that's

a really helpful insight.

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Verse seven.

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He says, you, you commit this

great evil against yourself.

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Why don't you do this?

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Right.

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It's I don't, you don't have

siblings, so you never did this.

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And I'm not saying I did this,

but there may have been a time

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where I took my brother's own

hand and hit his face with it.

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Stop hitting yourself.

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Stop.

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Any one of those things.

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Uh, I'm not saying I did

that just saying I might've.

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Uh, it's God is saying that to

these guys, stop hitting yourselves.

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I'm hurting you.

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What are you doing right?

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The knucklehead.

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I just, I mean, the human

heart is just so fascinating.

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Especially the fallen human heart.

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I know that in heaven, we're

going to have a new heart.

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That's not tainted by sin, but I look

at this and say, why don't we do that?

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And that's a helpful insight.

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We're fickle.

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That's one thing.

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If fickleness is the problem,

what would you say as a solution?

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Again, I think it's it's we.

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Again, talking to our community

group last week about this.

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And I mentioned it on Sunday and the

message that I think we have such a

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transactional relationship with God.

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And I think we, we have this mind

mindset or mentality that like you

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remember that the turbo in a, in

Mario cart you'd get the mushroom

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and it would shoot you and you you'd

have the turbo and you'd go faster

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than everybody else on the racetrack.

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Everyone's played that.

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Yeah.

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But then eventually that

turbo, what happens to it?

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It runs out.

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But then sometimes you got the infinite

turbo and you could just match the expert.

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Yeah.

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Just send you all the way through.

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And I think we treat our time

in the word like that sometimes

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we think, okay, I got my turbo.

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So I can coast through this week.

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I showed up at church.

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I can coach through this week.

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I did my DVR this morning.

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I can coast through this weekday.

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I prayed this morning.

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I can coast through the rest of my day.

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And we have this transactional

relationship with the Lord.

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When we think, if we do those things,

then somehow my flesh, isn't going to be

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a problem for me for the rest of the day.

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I'm going to be fine.

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And, and when we do that,

we we've misunderstood what

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those things are meant to do.

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They're meant to be a relational.

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Element of R oh.

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Of our pursuit of the Lord.

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It's meant to be about actually

communing with God and actually communing

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with a living savior in deepening

our affection and our love for him.

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We read the word, we spend that time

in the word because we love him.

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Not because we're doing this.

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So then.

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I'll be wholly throughout

the rest of the day.

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It that's a by-product.

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But that's a by-product because we're

learning more about Christ, who we love.

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We're learning more about the God

who cares about us, and that's

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going to then curious through

the rest of the day in that.

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Desire to honor him love him, glorify him.

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And the other thing too

is we can find it to this.

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Corner of our day.

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And spend the rest of our day.

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Not mindful of our

relationship with them at all.

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And that's why we fall.

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Cause we give them 15 minutes in

the morning and think that that's

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enough and that's not enough.

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So I think what's the solution.

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I think it's reevaluating our priorities.

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In St.

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Mint does my pursuit of

Christ really matter to me.

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Does my godliness really matter to me.

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And if it does, what

is it going to cost me?

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To grow in that area.

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And I need to give more

time to those things.

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And maybe not respond like the people

here in Jeremiah 44 as for the word

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that you have spoken to us in the name

of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

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Yeah.

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That's it guys or bolt.

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It's not a good thing to say.

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Don't say that to the Lord.

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No.

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Yeah.

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Well, chapter 4 45 is a short one, only

five verses and it deals with Baruch.

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And in this short chapter, Baruch

is, is chastised for, uh, the desire

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for desire, the wrong things, and

promised that his life would be

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spared wherever he should go, though.

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So this is kind of an up and down.

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Uh, small chapter here, uh, because the

Baruch in verse three, what was me for

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the Lord has added sorrow to my pain.

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I'm weary with my groaning.

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I find no rest, thus.

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There's the Lord.

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Behold I've.

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What I've built on breaking

down what I planted.

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I'm plucking up that

that is the whole land.

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And do you see great things for yourself?

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And so there's again,

there's the chastisement.

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And then he says, listen, you're

going to have your life and be

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grateful with that kind of there.

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So.

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Yeah, I think it's a, that's a good word.

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Even for us who we live in a time of

prosperity, where you can potentially

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see great things for yourself.

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Yeah.

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I think his word to Baruch is a bit of a

chastisement, but it speaks to us as well.

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Uh, God may give you greatness in some

form or another sports or academic or

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whatever else you might be pursuing.

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But I think that should be a by-product

of your pursuit of God's greatness.

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Yeah.

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I heard of this Olympian

recently who won a medal and she

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was out there preaching, man.

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I mean, I'm a complementarian, so I

couldn't say preach, but I wanted to.

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Her husband is that master 70.

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That's amazing.

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I didn't realize that I

didn't catch that connection.

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Well, that's an incredible,

I mean, that's the kind of.

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Uh, seeking greatness for God.

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And it just happens that

he put her on the pedestal.

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I mean, that's amazing.

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I think that's, uh, our, the platform.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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That's the way to do it, man.

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I was proud of her for that.

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I didn't know her, but I was proud of her.

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Yep.

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Sidney McGlaughlin live Roan.

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That's what I was thinking.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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That.

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That was on the tip of my tongue.

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Her husband is a student

at master seminar.

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Yeah.

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We should hire that guy.

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Hey.

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Send in your resume.

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PJ at best pasture ever.

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Doc.

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I can't believe that still exists.

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Uh, Hey, let's pray.

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And then, uh, we'll wrap up this episode.

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God, we pray for hearts that are,

uh, like we were just talking about.

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Uh, consumed with wanting a

dynamic living active relationship

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with you on a daily basis.

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I pray that you'd keep us

from, uh, the presumptive of a

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transactional relationship with you.

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Thinking that if we give you.

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A certain amount of time in the

morning that, and check that

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box that somehow we're good.

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And it doesn't matter the rest of

the day, we don't treat any other

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relationship that we care about.

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That way we don't treat our marriages

that way we don't treat our kids that way.

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At least we shouldn't.

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Eh, they won't be in any state of

health if that's how we treat those.

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And yet, so often we treat you that way.

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And so forgive us for that.

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And also impress upon our hearts.

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Just a desire to grow in godliness

in the importance of that as well.

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So we ask this, we pray

this in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Exciting.

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Can you bring your Bibles?

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Bye bye.