00:00 Introduction and Bernard Discussion

01:08 Missionary Update: Garrett and Kirsten

03:03 Bible Translations Explained

08:54 Jeremiah's Trials and Teachings

18:36 Psalms of Lament and Prayer

22:05 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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Thanks Bernard.

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We appreciate you.

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I took Bernard off today.

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You took Bernard off today?

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Yeah.

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So it was really funny.

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I might leave this in actually.

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Okay.

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Talking to Bernard is not there.

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He's not there.

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We're just Okay.

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We're just going cold Turkey.

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We don't have, I'm still experimenting.

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Okay.

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So I'm not settled.

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I'm still kinda working out and someone

this week said, I don't like Bernard.

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Really?

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I said, I just fast forward past Bernard.

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I said, what?

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So I guess we, he has his haters.

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Is this the same person that

doesn't like our googly?

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No.

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Okay.

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No, it's not.

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Alright, just checking on that.

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I like him.

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I think he feels warm and Yeah.

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Biting.

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I feel like he just sets the

tone for us and he's certainly

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the best of the other options.

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I agree.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Unless we get your voice.

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Nope.

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In which case I think everybody

would be much happier.

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But I don't need, we don't, yeah,

we don't need it to be live.

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If it's just like we don't need to have

it recorded, I can just say these things.

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Yeah, you could, but you can save

yourself, but you wouldn't be able to

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make me say whatever you want me to say.

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No, you can save yourself

the breath and the thinking.

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I don't think you can just export

all that to ai, I don't think,

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and let it do the work for you.

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Yeah.

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No, I don't think so.

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Hey we wanted to let you guys know

just a, an update here because they

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are a part of our church fa and we are

actually getting texts on the fly live

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as we're recording this here on Saturday.

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Ah, whats happening?

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Our missionaries that we commissioned

and sent out, prayed for, and that

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we're still praying for Garrett and

Kirsten, they have reached their training

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post down in Mexico, so unbelievable.

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Yep.

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They are down there and they're

gonna be be there for a year.

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We're gonna see them probably again, Lord

wheeling around Christmas time and we will

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be able to connect with them and catch up.

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But they'll be there for a year

before they head over to Chad and

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begin to serve overseas there.

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And I know so many of you are

partnering with them in prayer

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or giving or whatever it may be.

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But know that they made it down

there and they got to spend some

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time with with her family in Hawaii.

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Before going, and they were sending us

pictures to make us jealous of the pretty

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scenery and everything else that they were

experiencing down in Hawaii on the way.

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But yeah, they're there.

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And so be praying for them as they

get equipped, as they jump into this

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training program that it would be good.

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And and just a what they need

to get ready to go overseas.

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But Garrett and Kirsten, yeah.

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I don't know if you guys are

able to listen to the podcast.

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If you are, we miss you guys.

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We we're praying for you

and we miss you guys.

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If you could say that in Spanish,

they would appreciate it.

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I don't know Spanish.

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Neither do I.

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My daughter is learning Spanish for

school this year, and she comes home

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and she says things to me as though she

expects me to respond to her in Spanish.

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I'm like, what is she saying?

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Y that's the question.

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That's the question.

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You better figure that out.

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Yeah.

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You don't know what you're saying.

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Yeah.

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My son's taking a culinary

class at his school.

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Oh yeah.

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That's fun.

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Yeah.

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Have him tested out at home.

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Yep.

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Makes him good food.

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Yep.

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He's also taking a bible class

in his public high school, so

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that's a little nerve wracking.

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Yeah, his, he's.

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Teacher is one of the baseball coaches.

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Okay.

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And he told us, he told Josh, he was

like, Hey, I know your dad's a pastor.

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If he wants to come in and teach his class

at any point, let him come in and do it.

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It's fine.

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So that's great, man.

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Get to it.

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What are you doing?

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Jump on that.

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So one of their first assignments

was like, here's just a printout of a

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bunch of different Bible translations.

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Just read through this text and a

bunch of different Bible translations.

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I'm still trying to figure

out what the goal of that was.

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But Joshua was like, Hey dad, have

you heard of this translation?

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I was like, Nope.

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The message, the pigeon version,

but the passion translation, it was

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a good opportunity to talk about

the difference in translations.

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Yeah.

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So we talked about, so there's

really three categories.

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Three main categories.

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You've got formal equivalence.

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Which we would put like the NASB,

new American Standard Bible.

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The legacy Standard Bible King

James version, those would be NA,

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those would be formal equivalents.

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Then you've got dynamic equivalents, and

that's where we would categorize the ESV.

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Though the ESV would probably be a

hybrid between formal and dynamic.

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The dynamic is still gonna be

faithful to the original languages,

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but it's gonna be more readable.

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They're gonna change up some of the

word order, maybe some of the grammar

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not altering the content, but just.

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Helping it read a little bit

better in English than it does

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in Hebrew or Greek or Aramaic.

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So ESV, Christian Standard Bible

would be in that category as well.

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NIV would probably be a little

bit more towards the last category

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of text, but still in the dynamic

equivalent range for sure.

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And then the last category is what

I, we would probably call thought for

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thought or something along those lines.

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And that means they're not.

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So much concerned with the word for word

or the translation of the text to be an

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directly accurate representation of each

sentence in every word in the passage.

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But they're going more for the

general gist or tone of the

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particular passage or paragraph.

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And a lot of times there you're

gonna find text that wouldn't even

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necessarily come out and say, this is a.

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Bible, for example, Eugene Petersons,

the message that you just referenced

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a second ago, it's a paraphrase.

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It's not meant to be a word

for word or even verse by verse

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representation of what the Bible is.

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You're not gonna be able to look up

a chapter and verse necessarily in

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the message the same way that you can

in the NIV or the ESV or the NASB.

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So there's those broad

categories out there.

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If you're gonna be studying, we would say,

Hey, dynamic equivalents, at least ESV or

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up, we would say would be a good place for

you to be studying the scriptures reading.

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NIV is a readable bible

for sure, which is good.

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We both like the Christian Standard

Bible a lot for its readability.

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But that's just 2 cents on different

Bible translations out there.

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Yeah.

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All of them are good for different

reasons and all of them are

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bad for different reasons.

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It really comes down to the intention

behind your reading, even though

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we as a church have chosen to use

the ESV for everything that we do,

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whether it's preaching or whether it's

teaching I, I really like different

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versions because they give you a

different flavor of the passages that

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you're reading and maybe things are

exposed that you took for granted.

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Maybe you didn't realize that there's

a certain slant to a translation that

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you're reading that you are only able

to see when you read another take.

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On that same verse.

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So I really have liked different

passages, different versions.

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Anyway, I've, I was raised with the NKJV.

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I loved that.

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I've been with the ESV for, I

don't know, 10 years now, 12 years.

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I really love that one.

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I was on the NIV for

several years before that.

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But I've also been reading the NLT lately.

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And the new living translation,

for those of you who are unaware of

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what that stood for, and it's great.

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I really appreciate it because it

helps smooth out some of the thinking.

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And I realize as I read the ESV,

there's often a distance between

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the object and the subject.

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In a sentence someone will be

introduced and then you have

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several pieces of information

between, and then they add it later.

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It really is hard for a Western

mind who reads the way that we do

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and understands sentences the way

that we do to put pieces together.

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So all that to say, we highly

encourage you to have different

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translations available.

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And a software like logos is always

great because you can buy them for

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pretty cheap and have them at the ready.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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There, there are translations out

there to avoid, you referenced the

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passion translation a minute ago.

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I, we would say stay away from that.

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That is in fact why?

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Because it's, what they've done is

they've not only tried to translate

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the text, but then they've added

glosses and they've added explanatory

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material, not as footnotes in the

text, but within the text itself.

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And so some passages are even up to 50%

longer in the passage translation than.

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Are in the original text in the

original Greek, in, in Hebrew

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because they've added their own

interpretive statements around it.

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And it's also coming from a tradition

of Hillsong and their church.

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I forget what their

church is in Australia.

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It may just be Hillsong Church

where there's some aberrant

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teaching that takes place there.

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And so we would caution you

because of that against pursuing

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the passion translation.

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Let me qualify that just a tad.

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We would say that the passion

translation, in addition to having

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source issues the primary, and I

think the only translator behind that

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passion translation is not credible.

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Sure.

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That's a, that's an issue.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's a far bigger

issue than saying he goes to

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this church or that church.

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One of the things that makes some

of these translations that we

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reference so helpful is that they're

usually done by a group of people.

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It's not just one person.

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Behind the translation, you have

different men and sometimes women

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from different Christian backgrounds.

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It has different traditions.

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And so when you have that,

there's a safety in that.

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There's a protection against.

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Endorsing your pet doctrine and enshrining

that in scripture Instead, you have a

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plurality of people coming together to

say, look we think this passage says this.

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Here's the goal of our translation.

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And so that's true for the

ESV, the LSB, the CSV, the NLT.

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We're talking about

all these translations.

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Not all of them are good.

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And that's a really great point.

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I should have said that.

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And the passion translation

suffers in part because it's

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done by one guy who doesn't have

training in biblical languages.

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That's a big problem.

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Yeah.

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'cause at that point then you might

as well just call it something else.

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Yeah.

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You shouldn't call it a translation.

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You shouldn't.

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Translation is a very specific word.

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It means something.

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And that's not a fair word to

append to the word passion Bible.

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Fair.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Good.

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Good qualification there.

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Let's get into our DBR for today.

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We're in Jeremiah 38 through

40, and we've got a couple of

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Psalms thrown in there as well.

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So Jeremiah 38 I mentioned this

love-hate relationship here

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between Ticia and Jeremiah.

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Jeremiah's gonna be thrown into this.

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Pit into this cistern.

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And that's gonna be a

bad situation for him.

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King Zaka is the one that

gives the okay for this.

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And so Jeremiah's thrown into the cistern.

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Now, cistern was a pit that

was meant to hold water.

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This one doesn't have any water.

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It's just a muddy bottom.

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Jeremiah sinks into this mud that's in

the bottom of this, and in the writings

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on the wall that he's gonna die.

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And this man named Ed Melek.

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Now that may have been his

name, but it also is a word

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that means servant of the king.

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So it could have just been a

title, but he's an Ethiopian.

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Here he goes and he, his heart goes out to

Jeremiah and he goes to, to ask permission

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and says, listen to the king here.

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If we don't do something,

then he's gonna die.

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And so he's given permission.

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They go out and they make this system of

ropes out of old rags and cloths, and they

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lower it down to Jeremiah in the cistern.

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Jeremiah puts it under his

armpits and they pull him up out

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of this pit, out of the cistern.

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And then here comes

the inconsistency here.

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Zaka calls for Jeremiah again and wants

to know from Jeremiah, okay, hey can

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you tell me what's gonna happen here?

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And I just think to

myself, man, that's bold.

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Like you, you've been, he,

you've rejected him, you've

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rejected his prophecies already.

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You've had him cast into this cistern.

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Yeah.

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You let him be pulled outta the cistern

but you're gonna really do this.

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And Jeremiah says, here's the message.

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Surrender or die basically is what it is.

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You can surrender to the

Babylonians or you can die.

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It's going to be up to you.

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And then there's this troubling

scene towards the end of this where

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says, okay, I'm gonna send you back.

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And when you go back, if they ask you,

what were you talking to the king about?

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I want you to tell them that you were

making sure that you weren't gonna be

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sent back to the house of Jonathan.

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And that's what your request was here.

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The troubling part to me

is that Jeremiah does that.

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He and we've talked about

this, when is it o okay to lie?

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And I struggle with this one.

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I struggle with this one a lot.

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I don't see why this is an appropriate

one when you've got a wicked and evil king

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as the one telling Jeremiah to lie about

this, and Jeremiah still lies about it.

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Thoughts?

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I agree that it's muddy.

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Pun intended.

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Yeah, I don't, I don't have a great

answer 'cause I've struggled with

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this for, I know as long as we've

been talking about scripture together,

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I've always wrestled with the

lines between truth and deception.

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And I've, I still hold to the fact

that not saying everything you

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could say is not inherently wrong.

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Telling you the truth versus

saying everything I know about a

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certain situation is different.

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And even though.

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I think that's happening here.

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I think God's silence on it tells us that

it's neither F forbidden nor endorsed.

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And I think it's hard to say with any

kind of certainty God was okay with this

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because he doesn't rebuke him for it.

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We just don't know.

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And so I'm gonna stick

with that one for this one.

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Yeah.

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Jeremiah.

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It.

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God is not mad with Jeremiah to the

point that he turns him over to, death or

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destruction or anything else like that.

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So it's not as though this is

represents total compromise.

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This is not Jeremiah abandoning

his call or his prophetic role.

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It just seems inconsistent with

the rest of Jeremiah's life.

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Jeremiah was never one

to run from a conflict.

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Yeah.

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And here it seems that he's.

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Going along with the king and not

doing what God had called him to.

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Not standing up for what he knew

to be right, knew to be true.

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Did he owe these wicked men?

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The truth though, I think

that's an important question.

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If you have someone break into your

house, we've talked about this one

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before, and they're bad people, right?

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Do you owe them the truth?

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And I don't think that's always the case.

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Yeah.

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Would you disagree with that?

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No.

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It, depending on the stakes and that's,

I don't know what would've happened

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here to Jeremiah if Jeremiah had been

like, oh yeah, he wanted me to tell him

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about what was gonna happen to the city.

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I mean it maybe Jeremiah's thought

process is meant this would

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throw the whole city into chaos.

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If this, because there might be

an uprising against the king if

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they found out that the was now.

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Believing this prophecy and

they're gonna overthrow the king,

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wanna assassinate him, and then

what's gonna happen at that point?

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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It's, it is just a, it's

a head scratcher for sure.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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I agree.

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Yeah.

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I think the thing about this

you talked about Zakia, that it

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confuses me, but it also gives me

a sense of this is how people work.

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I think we're full of contradictions.

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Yeah.

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People are often this way, on Sunday

there are a certain mentality and of a

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certain persuasion, and then on Monday

they change, there's a different.

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I don't know.

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There's a lot of dynamics that happen

within the human heart, and I think

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Zedekiah maybe at this point is sincere.

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I really want to know, okay, tell me

again, what's the Lord say about this?

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And then his heart is swayed back to

its normal default setting, which is,

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I'm gonna do everything I can against

the Lord in disregarding what he says.

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I think tiah is a lot like us.

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We are filled with contradictions,

and some days we're hot,

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other days we're cold.

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And I think he shows us how desperately

we need the Lord to sustain us.

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He's the one who's consistent.

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He's the rock of ages.

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We're not my rock rolls

left and right all the time.

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I need to support myself on him and

build my life upon his word, because

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that's really the only kind of stability

that we're able to sustain when he

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himself is doing the sustaining.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 39.

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Then we get the downfall of Jerusalem

the fall under Nebuchadnezzar.

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This is 5 87.

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5 86 bc.

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This reminded me I think a few days

ago we mentioned Haze Kai is gonna die.

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It says in the text, in peace.

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This reminds us that it wasn.

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It wasn't in peace in the sense

that he was super comfortable,

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because what happens, the Zia

in this chapter is really awful.

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In the, this season, in this time,

5 86, that the wall is breached.

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The people inside the city flee, including

Zakia, but they're eventually tracked

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down by the Babylonians and the Zakiah

is brought before the king, as well as

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his sons are brought there in the king.

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Executes his sons in front of Zeki and

then takes Zika's eyesight from him.

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So that the last thing that he

saw is the death of his children,

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which would be an awful thing

regardless of how wicked you are.

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And so the king of Babylon,

this is just a reminder.

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Nebuchadnezzar is a cruel individual

and sometimes we can think of

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Nebuchadnezzar like Daniel, and we can

domesticate Nebuchadnezzar because we

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think about the good things from the

book of Daniel that we see from him.

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And yet this was a wicked, evil, cruel,

fear-inducing man that we see this.

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From him here in chapter 39.

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Meanwhile, Jeremiah is going to be he's

known here and he's gonna be preserved,

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Alaya is gonna be made king, or not king,

but ruler of the city, the son of heke.

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Remember, Ahki had been crucial

in preserving Jeremiah's

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life earlier in the book.

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And so here you have a situation

again where the Lord is

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gonna be caring for Jeremiah.

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He's also gonna care for Evan Melek.

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The servant of the king, the one

who rescued Jeremiah out of the ci.

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He's not gonna be executed either, and so

God is going to care about these people.

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And it's just a reminder that.

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Though there's corporate judgment

that's being brought against a nation.

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He, God does care about

those that are faithful.

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He does reward those that are faithful.

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And so that's something

for us to think about too.

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When we look at the depravity

of the world around us.

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It's not as though we should just

say, judgment is gonna come across

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come against this nation as it is.

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Let's just shrug our shoulders

and throw up our hands.

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Now, God is gonna reward those

that are still faithfully

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pursuing him, faithfully pursuing

righteousness and not, which is good.

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And I think we see that in chapter 39.

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Yeah.

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It's been observed before that

Zakiah is a great image of what

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happens when you give yourself over

to sin, when you reject the Lord.

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There's both blinding and

binding effects and it.

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Also has fallout effects

on those whom you love.

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Because of Dee's position, his

sin was not isolated to him alone.

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The fallout hit everybody in his city.

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All the territory that God had entrusted

to him had been compromised because

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he himself was a compromised man.

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Would that be a fair warning to you?

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Sin is not satisfied, but just.

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Having a small compartment in

your life, it will eventually bind

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you because that's what sin does.

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It enslaves us.

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It will blind you, it will

deceive you such that it continues

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to increase in your life.

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And finally, it will have an effect

on everyone else that you love.

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So beware.

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Be killing sin or sin will kill you.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 40 Jeremiah is

gonna be given a choice.

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Does he want to go or does he wanna

stay when it comes to Jerusalem?

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Should I stay in Judah?

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Should I go now?

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And he's gonna stay,

he's gonna stay there.

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He's gonna go to get Aya, the son of

Akim at mitzvah and live with him among

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the people who were left in the land.

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And so there's this remnant

it's not the who's who by any

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stretch of the imagination.

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It's a lot of the poor and the destitute.

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And Jeremiah's gonna say, this is my home.

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This is where I wanna stay.

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And I think that's just a reminder

too of how important the homeland was.

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We, again, we can look at.

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Daniel Han Ra and Misha, which we will

shortly here and think that it was, how

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great is that they got to go live in the

King's Palace and everything else, but

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they were taken away from their homeland.

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The Abrahamic Covenant promised land.

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This is still a place that matters.

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And even though the temple was

gonna be destroyed, the walls

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were gonna be broken down.

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I think there was something

about this being God's people,

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God's place, God's land.

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That caused Jeremiah to

say, no I want to stay here.

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The rest of the chapter in Chapter 40

explains a lot of the administration

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under gal and Gal is gonna rule for a

little while, but not for very long.

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And so this is not a king that's

important to remember here.

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Gal is not a king in Judah.

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Zah was the last king of

Judah before the exile.

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And so GAL is in place as a royal

official here as a vice regent serving

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at the whim of, of Nebuchadnezzar,

but he's not gonna have a very long

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administration, as we'll see in our

reading in Second Chronicles tomorrow.

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Let's let's pray Or no, sorry.

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We got psalms.

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I almost skipped the Psalms.

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That would've been, that would've

been, I don't know if we could

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have recovered from that.

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We would've just given up.

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We can't, we wouldn't have been able

to say, we've done the whole Bible.

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We almost skipped over.

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Yeah, it's true.

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Psalm 74 really, and Psalm 70 79.

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Together, both of them have

a very similar feel to them.

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Both of them are psalms of lament,

they're psalms that are mourning

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over the destruction of Jerusalem,

and that's why they're here.

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When you read the language of these

psalms, both of them bear indicators

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of the fact that the city of God has

been laid and ruins that the temple

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is destroyed, the wall is broken down.

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In fact, those things are mentioned

in these Psalms, and so it

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makes sense that they would've

been written during this time.

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I don't know of another time.

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In Israel's history that these two

psalms could have been written.

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So even though they don't necessarily

have the super script that says these were

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written by Jeremiah, these were written

by Baruch, or these were written by,

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one of these people, Evan Milick maybe.

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It does really fit this context as to

when these psalms would've been written,

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perhaps at some point other during the

time of exile by one of the remnant living

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there while the temple was destroyed.

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But it seems that these are psalms

of lament that are written during

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this season, whatever it is.

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The timeframe.

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They're both Psalms of Asaf which I

think was earlier than this timeframe.

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And if that's the case, then Asaf just

wrote in a prescient way, he Prophetic.

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Prophetic way.

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Yeah.

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So either way it doesn't make

a difference a whole lot.

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But I think one thing for you,

as you read through things like

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this, I just want you to notice.

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He doesn't pull punches.

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ASAP is honest with the Lord.

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He's raw, he's vulnerable.

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He's speaking to the Lord

like a familiar friend.

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And then in both of these, he's asking,

how long, Lord, what are you gonna do?

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What?

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What's happening?

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I think this is helpful

for your prayer life.

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Don't get so routined and so

formulaic in your prayers that you

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just stopped talking to the Lord.

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Like a person.

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He is a person.

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In fact, he's three persons.

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In one essence you need to

learn to use the Psalms as your

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springboard to talk to the Lord.

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This was a ruinous event, and

of course we don't know that.

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We don't know the half of it.

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We've never had this kind of

catastrophic event in the United States.

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Certainly not for as long as any of us

who are listening have been alive, but

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this kind of event evokes raw, painful

emotion, and I think the lesson for us is

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that God wants us to bring that to him.

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It's messy.

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It's not perfect.

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You're not gonna say everything, right?

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But I think I take great comfort in

the fact that these psalms say things

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that we would probably not say.

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If we're gonna get theologically

precise, if we're gonna get

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precise, we're gonna say asap.

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Verse one of 74, oh God, why

do you cast us off forever?

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Asap.

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He doesn't cast off forever.

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Dude, come on, be precise here.

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That's not good theology.

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Why does your anger smoke against

the sheep of your pasture?

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Oh, come on, Asaf.

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Your sins are atoned for through these

sacrificial works and or through Christ.

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The experience that he's

confessing is real to his emotions,

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if not real theologically.

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My point simply is this, when you're

praying to the Lord, bring the reality.

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Don't try to pretend, bring your true

heart, your true mindset to the Lord.

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Let him work on you from that point.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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Yeah, I was just doing a little bit

of reading too as a, there's question.

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Is this the historical ASAP

or was there other asaps?

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Yeah, it's probably more than one asap.

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That's becauses.

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Interesting.

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Yeah.

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Could have been you, did you write these?

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I didn't write them.

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I didn't write them.

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The only reason I bring that

up is just because of how.

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What you're saying here, right?

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If this is historical Asaf, he

really is getting in touch with

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this future destruction of the

temple and the situation there.

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W why do you cast this off forever?

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This language to your point it's.

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It's indicative of the same

language of the lamentations,

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of the ones that are witnessing

these things as it's taking place.

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So yeah, but it does say Selma Asaf.

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Interesting.

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Interesting.

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We'll find out, I guess One

day in eternity we'll say,

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Hey, Asaf, did you write these?

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Was there another one?

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Anyways, let's pray.

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God, we are grateful for your word and the

clarity of your word and the honesty of

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your word, even as we read these psalms.

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And to be reminded that that we

can ask hard questions and yet at

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the same time, to to trust you.

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And that's so important for us to

come back and remember the things

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that are true and our theology should

inform our laments, our theology.

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Theology should inform

our sorrows and our pain.

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And God, you are good.

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And I pray that we would always remember

that even as we walk through the trial,

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as we walk through the valley, and

that we would continue to trust you.

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And even as we learned about yesterday,

that trust would be a source of

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assurance for us, that would prove

to be more precious than gold.

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Though it perishes.

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When tested by fire.

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And so God, give us a faith that is strong

in you regardless of our circumstances.

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We pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said