00:00 Introduction and Weather Talk
01:02 Fall Season Anticipation
02:00 Coffee Preferences and Humor
03:19 Transition to Bible Reading
03:20 Jeremiah's Third Message
06:29 Jeremiah's Fourth Message
10:01 Jeremiah's Complaint and God's Response
13:50 Parables and Impending Exile
17:07 Conclusion and Prayer
Hey, everybody.
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:Welcome to August 10th, 2024, and another
edition of the daily Bible podcast.
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:We are back it's Saturday, and I
hope you're having a great Saturday.
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:It's it's hot these days.
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:I feel like I've had some conversations
with people recently, just
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:talking about how mild the weather
has been in Texas this summer.
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:And for us, it has been, but recently
I feel as though Texas is flexing
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:a little bit on its heat muscle.
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:There it is.
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:Uh, it's, it's, it's hot out there.
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:It's a furnace.
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:And my son's been mowing lawns and
doing that for work over the summer.
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:And he's, he's struggling.
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:We're making sure he's taken as
much water as he possibly can.
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:And, and even then it's brutal
out there and I'm ready.
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:I don't know about you,
but I'm ready for fall.
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:I don't know who you are or what type
of person that you are, whether you're
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:a fall person or a summer person or
a winter person or a spring person.
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:Uh, spring and summer.
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:Not my favorite seasons.
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:Spring has some nice weather.
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:Don't get me wrong.
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:For me, it's all about fall and winter.
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:That's that's where if I could
live perpetually in a season,
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:it would be fall probably.
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:Uh, winter is great
too, but probably fall.
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:And so I was excited the other day.
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:I was out at a store
and I saw on the shelf.
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:A bag of ground coffee.
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:That was pumpkin spice flavor.
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:Now I didn't buy it because I
don't like bad tasting things.
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:Uh, but it, the nostalgia of the
pumpkin spice showing back up,
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:it was like, okay, All right.
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:Falls right around the corner.
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:We're within striking distance.
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:Now I get it.
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:It's only August.
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:Uh, what day is today?
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:August 10th.
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:It's only August 10th.
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:So it's not as though we can put
the pumpkin's outside and start
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:opening up windows or anything,
but it was just a reminder.
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:Hey, fall's coming.
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:It's it's coming.
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:It's right around the corner.
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:Uh, and so that was a comfort to my
soul to know that fall is coming in.
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:Maybe you're that way too.
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:I think at the end of this month, pumpkin
spice officially comes back to, uh, you
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:know, Starbucks and, and all those places.
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:And so if you like bad coffee, you
can go get that and you can enjoy
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:that pumpkin spice latte, you and
Erin and everybody else that, that
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:enjoys those things, which I know is
a lot of people don't get me wrong.
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:It's a lot of people that's just not me.
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:Um, for me, it's just
black coffee like that.
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:That's my jam black
coffee or an Americano.
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:Don't need anything in it.
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:Don't put milk in it.
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:Don't don't definitely don't put any
sugar or any syrup or anything like that.
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:And it, that that's an abomination.
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:To the point, the point is just
to enjoy the coffee for what it
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:is in the flavor of the coffee.
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:And if you're, if you're with
me, then I, you, you get it.
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:If you're not, then you
don't and that's fine.
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:God makes us different
and you can be wrong.
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:And that's okay.
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:When you, when we get to heaven.
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:And you step foot in heaven.
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:And Peter offers you a cup of black coffee
and you taste it and you're going, oh man.
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:I guess my taste buds were just
fallen even more so than, than other
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:peoples on earth, because I didn't
enjoy this the way I do right now.
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:Then then your eyes will be opened
and you will know, you will see
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:and, and you will taste and see that
the coffee is good just by itself.
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:Just don't put pumpkin in it.
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:Don't don't put, don't put stuff.
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:Don't put vanilla.
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:It doesn't.
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:Enjoy the coffee.
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:She let the coffee be the coffee.
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:So there's my, there's
my rant for the morning.
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:Uh, false coming.
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:I'm excited about that
because man, it is, it is hot.
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:It's hot.
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:It's it's hot.
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:There's no other way around it.
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:It's hot.
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:There you go, Texas.
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:You win.
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:Uh, w we recant of saying
that you were mild?
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:Um, you're not, you're extra.
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:Uh, and you're hot.
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:So.
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:Anyways.
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:Let's get into the Bible.
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:Jeremiah 10, 11, 12, and 13, Jeremiah
10 finishes up the third message.
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:We.
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:We talked about that yesterday, that
that message goes seven through 10.
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:Uh, this is the temple sermon as
it's sometimes called because he was
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:delivering this from the temple Mount
will chapter 10 verses one through 16.
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:The Lord basically here just opens up
and mocks the idols of the land and
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:in doing so contrast his power and
eternality with the impotency of these
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:wooden carvings made by those who.
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:Uh, we're themselves created.
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:And so he's, he's just
taking shots at them.
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:I mean, verse five, their idols are
like scarecrows and a cucumber field.
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:That's one of my favorite
verses in Jeremiah.
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:Their idols are like scarecrows and a
cucumber field and they cannot speak.
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:They have to be carried for.
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:They can't walk.
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:Don't be afraid of them for, they cannot
do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
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:So not only can they not do any harm,
but they're powerless to do any good.
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:And then for six there's none
like you O Lord, you are great.
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:And your name is great.
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:Who would not fear you?
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:And that's the problem.
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:Isn't the people of Judah
weren't fearing God.
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:They were loving the idols and
trusting the idols that were powerless
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:instead of trusting in God, verse
10, the Lord is the true God.
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:He is the living God and the everlasting
king at his wrath, the earthquakes
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:and the nations cannot endure.
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:His indignation.
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:He made the earth verse 12 by its power.
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:He established the world by its wisdom.
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:And by his understanding, he's the
one who stretched out the heavens.
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:And so again, there it's, it's
the idols didn't do any of that.
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:God did.
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:And so God is just going on the
offensive and talk about flexing, Texas.
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:Heat's got nothing on God.
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:God is the one that's flexing in
verses one through 16 of chapter 10.
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:For 17, then the captives are allowed
to, uh, often carry a bundle with them.
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:And so when they go into captivity,
that was common to see people
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:carrying a bundle of their.
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:Poultry possessions with them that the.
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:The, the conquering army allowed
them to take from their homes.
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:And so when you see that in verse 17,
gather up your bundle from the ground.
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:Uh, this is telling Judah, Hey,
get ready to go into captivity
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:because that's where you're heading.
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:Verses 19 through 21, Jeremiah,
again, laments, the prophet was
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:broken over the fate of his people.
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:And so he's lamenting for
his land and his people.
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:Verse 22, because Babylon is coming.
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:Uh, verse 22, a voice, a rumor behold,
it comes a great commotion out of the
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:north country to make the cities of
Judah, a desolation that's talking
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:about Babylon, Babylon was coming,
and that's why Jeremiah is lamenting.
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:In mourning over this verses 23 through
25, then, uh, as the third message
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:ends, Jeremiah is pleading with the
Lord for mercy in the midst of wrath.
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:Uh, he says in verse 24,
correct me your Lord.
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:He acknowledged.
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:Okay.
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:I understand correction has to come,
but in justice, not in your anger,
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:unless you bring me to nothing.
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:In other words, Lord measure out
appropriately what we deserve here and,
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:and don't completely consume us is what
the prophet's asking the Lord to do there.
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:And we know that that's true of God
because we know that that's who he is.
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:The problem is.
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:That our sin is, is worthy of
the infinite degree of his wrath.
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:That there's, there's no
amount of our, uh, of our good
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:works that can make up for it.
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:And the sin that we commit does
deserve the fullness of his wrath.
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:So they're in.
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:Uh, we find that the problem
there, and that brings to an end,
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:the third message of Jeremiah.
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:Yeah.
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:The fourth message that begins in
chapter 11 and covers chapters 11,
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:12, and 13, which is conveniently
the rest of our reading for the day.
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:So in chapter 11, we get into this
fourth message and it starts out the
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:word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.
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:Again, this is the.
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:The, uh, the signal that this is a new
segment, a new section, a new message.
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:And so the Lord is again, addressing
Jeremiah with this, this message
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:that he's to deliver to the people.
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:And Jeremiah is commissioned
to go and remind them.
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:Of.
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:The people of Jerusalem and the
surrounding cities have their obligation
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:to keep God's covenant and the dangers
of what happens when they disobeyed.
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:So, uh, God, again, it's not th this is
another one of those offers to say, Hey,
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:remember what, what you're supposed to do.
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:And yet the reality is
they didn't do that.
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:And, and they rebelled and
verses nine through 13, God says,
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:Hey, judgment is coming because
they had forsaken the covenant.
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:No one could stop it, especially not the.
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:Multitude of false gods that
the people have been worshiping,
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:because again, the Lord had just
been mocking them previously.
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:And they can't help the people.
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:And so what you're going to turn to them.
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:Are you going to go in.
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:Uh, beg that they'll save you.
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:They're not going to be able to save you.
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:They can't do anything.
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:Uh, for you.
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:And so then in verses 14
through 17, God is basically
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:saying, look, I'm done Jeremiah.
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:Don't pray for the people
don't intercede for them.
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:Uh, don't don't do this any longer.
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:They've made their decision.
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:They've rejected their creator,
and now they're going to pay
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:the penalty for their decision.
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:That's chapter 11, verses 14 through 17.
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:Uh, verse 19, rather than repenting,
the people sought to kill Jeremiah.
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:So it goes from some
bad or bad to batter to.
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:T to baddest, to worstest, to all of it.
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:Uh, yeah, they're not going
to listen to Jeremiah.
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:In fact, they're going to kill him.
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:They, they want to, they want to
end his life and this is going to
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:happen multiple times to Jeremiah.
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:But verse 19, I was like a
gentle lamb led to slaughter.
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:I did not know that it was against
me, that the device scheme seeing, let
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:us destroy the tree with its fruit.
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:Speaking of Jeremiah.
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:So they want to kill him.
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:Uh, verse 20 Jeremiah praise, not for
the people, but he prays for him and
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:a preparatory prayer against them.
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:So chair, Mike gets God's
message loud and clear.
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:God says, don't pray for them any longer.
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:Don't intercede for them.
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:Jeremiah goes check Roger.
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:And so he prays judgment upon them.
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:Uh, and this imprecatory
prayer in verse 20.
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:And again, this is not the first
time that he's going to do this.
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:He says in verse 20, let me see your
vengeance upon them for, to you.
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:I have committed my cause.
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:It's not the first.
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:Uh, the only time that he's going to
be praying imprecatory prayers against
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:the people that are seeking his life.
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:This is again, just an indicative of the.
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:The wickedness of the people.
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:This is not an innocent people.
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:That Jeremiah is praying.
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:Uh, we'll suffer.
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:This is a wicked evil people who
are now trying to kill him in,
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:in openly rejecting God's word.
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:And he's praying God punish
them in accordance is basically
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:what he's doing there.
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:Versus 21 through 23.
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:Then we find out that these people
were from Jeremiah's hometown,
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:even that were seeking to kill him.
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:And so the Lord sends this message.
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:Uh, to them through Jeremiah
that they, their sons and their
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:daughters are gonna end up dying
in the judgment that's coming.
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:And so it's, it's, uh,
the men of Anathoth or.
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:Yeah.
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:There is a, is the.
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:The hometown of Jeremiah he's from there.
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:So if you go back to the beginning of the
book, that's where Jeremiah comes from.
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:And so it's his own people that
are seeking to kill him now.
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:Interesting because in the future,
Um, from here from this point, our
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:past, but, but Jeremiah's future,
there's going to be another one.
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:Who's going to say a prophet is not
without honor, except in his hometown.
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:And who is that?
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:That's Jesus, right.
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:And so Jesus was in Nazareth and
being rejected there, Nazareth,
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:even though that was his hometown.
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:And so Jeremiah.
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:Here.
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:And this is a foreshadowing of the
rejection that Christ is going to
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:suffer at the hands of the people
of his own hometown when he goes
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:to them in, uh, in the gospels.
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:Jeremiah chapter 12, then.
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:Uh, verses one through four in the
midst of his prophetic ministry, he
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:issues a complaint that things seem
to be going well for the wicked.
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:Uh, they seem to be flourishing while
the devoted prophet is suffering.
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:There's Jeremiah has these
pockets where he falls into a.
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:I'm not going to go as far as to
say it's self pity or woe is me.
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:But, but it's a little bit of that mindset
where he says, God, what are you doing?
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:W why is this my lot in life?
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:Uh, verse chapter 12, verse one.
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:Why does the way of the wicked prosper
and why do all the treacherous thrive?
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:Uh, it seems as though God is, is
enabling this and allowing this to be.
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:And so Jeremiah, just in his
honesty here with the Lord at St.
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:God, I'm not.
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:It's not measuring up verses five through
six, rather than answer the prophet.
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:He gently chastises him.
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:God does in, in, in asks how he intends
to make it through what's coming.
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:If he can't handle these things.
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:He says in verse five, if you've raced
with men on foot and they've we read you,
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:how are you going to compete with horses?
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:If it's safe land you're so trusting.
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:What are you going to do in
the thicket of the Jordan?
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:In other words, when judgment
comes an exile comes, are you
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:going to be able to stand Jeremiah?
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:Are you going to be able to survive?
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:Because talk about.
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:When it's going to look like
the wicked are thriving.
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:I'm bringing Babylon to judge the people.
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:Are you going to trust me
through, this is basically what
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:he's asking the prophet there.
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:For seven, all doubt about
what was coming is removed.
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:He says very blatantly there in verse
eight, he says, I hate her verse seven.
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:I forsaken my house, abandoned my
heritage, given me the beloved of
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:my soul into the hands of her enemy.
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:So God is just saying, here it is.
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:This is the finality.
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:Verse eight.
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:I hate her even.
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:I mean, just strong language
vitriol from the Lord.
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:Against the people for their
sinfulness and their wickedness.
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:And honestly, they.
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:They're there they're there acts their
behavior, their wickedness, their evil.
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:I deserve this response from the
Lord because the Lord is just, and
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:holy and he can't, but punish sin.
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:And when they're not repentant,
This is what happens.
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:Verse nine.
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:The thrust of the imagery here is of
Judah being surrounded by the birds
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:of prey, ready to pounce on her after.
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:The destruction that was coming.
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:And so, uh, verse nine is my heritage
to me, like a high-end is a layer
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:that the Highness layer would have had
the carcasses of dead animals there.
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:And the scavenging birds would have
come in and surrounded the layer,
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:waiting for the hyena to leave, and
then they would have gone in and they
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:would have devoured what was left.
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:And so that's the image.
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:God is painting as.
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:Is uncomfortable and kind of gross is
that, is he thinks that's going to be.
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:That's going to be Judah.
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:Uh, the birds of prey are going
to be coming in to take what the
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:left after I'm done with you.
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:Uh, verses 10 through 13 judgment
was coming and judgment would be as
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:thorough as the defilement had been.
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:And so as, as the defilement
had been thorough, the judgment
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:was going to be thorough.
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:Verse 10, many shepherds
have destroyed my vineyard.
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:They've trampled down my portion.
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:They've made my pleasant
portion at desolate wilderness.
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:Verse 12 upon all the bear Heights
and Jerusalem destroyers have come
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:for the sword of the Lord devours
from one end of the land to the other.
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:No flesh has peace.
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:So as, as much as the.
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:The leaders of Israel and Judah had
failed and turn the land, the pleasant
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:land into a desolate wilderness.
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:He was going to do the
same thing with judgment.
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:And so the judgment was going to be as
thorough as the defilement had been.
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:And then in verses 14, through
17 of chapter 12, the nations,
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:we're going to have an opportunity
to repent and to be brought into
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:God's people when they're restored.
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:But if not, they too would face his wrath.
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:And so this is one of those kind of
interludes where we're looking forward
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:to this time where Israel is going
to be restored, and there's going to
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:be a light in the nations are going
to have an opportunity to repent
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:and that's coming yet future for us
too, during the millennial kingdom.
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:But for now, It's it's the wrath of God
is the judgment of God that's coming.
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:And so this, the chapter does end
with a little bit of a glimpse of
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:a bright light forward-looking.
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:Uh, but for, for the, the main thrust
of it is, Hey, judgements, chemic Dodge,
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:just reminding him there in the end.
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:He's not going to completely
devour the people.
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:There will be.
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:Uh, remnant left.
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:Chapter 13 then, uh,
verses one through 11.
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:We get, uh, this, this parable,
um, It's in the form of, of, uh, of
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:a loincloth that, uh, Jeremiah is
told to take and he's told to take
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:in and carried away and bury it.
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:And it.
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:This parable here in
these verses, basically.
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:It, it serves to represent the pride
of the people that they were going
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:to be taken from their Homeland.
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:So this, this clean garments
is going to be taken and it's
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:in, it's in a good state.
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:It's in.
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:Uh, pristine state and God wants
Jeremiah to take it and go bury
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:it, but he doesn't want him to just
to take it and bury it anywhere.
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:You want them to go all
the way to the Euphrates.
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:So this would have taken almost four
months round trip, and he ends up
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:doing this twice in this parable.
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:And this is going to make quite
the impression on the people.
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:Uh, the direction of the Euphrates
being far to the north, as indicative
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:of the fact that that's where the
exile is going to come from and
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:where they're going to be taken to.
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:And so in, in this parable that that
God uses of the loincloth, the loincloth
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:represents that the pride of the
people, and it's going to be defiled.
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:The people are going to end up.
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:That, which they boasted
in is going to end up.
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:Like something they don't want anymore.
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:And so the, the verse 10, this
evil people who refuse to hear my
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:words, who stubbornly follow their
own heart and gone after other gods
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:to serve them and worship them.
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:She'll be like this loincloth.
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:Which is good for nothing.
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:It was, it started out great.
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:It started out as something
that was not evil was not bad,
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:was not anything like that.
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:And yet now, The Lord had had taken it
and through this parable defiled it, and
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:that's what he was going to do with the
people with the Israelites, uh, verse 14.
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:Th there's another parable
here, jars filled with wine.
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:I will dash them one against
the other fathers and sons
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:together declares the Lord.
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:I will not pity or spare
or have compassion.
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:That I should not destroy them.
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:And so just again, that.
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:The anger of the Lord, the
wrath of the Lord is clearly
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:seen here against the people.
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:And it is.
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:It is troubling and it's, it's
frightening and it should be frightening.
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:The rest of, of chapter.
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:Uh, 13 here speaks to the,
the impending threat of exile.
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:Um, Verse 21.
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:What will you say when they said to the
head over you, those whom you yourself
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:have taught to be friends to you?
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:Uh, we'll not pangs take hold of
you like those of a woman in labor.
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:If you say in your heart, why
have these things come upon me?
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:It's for the greatness of your inequity.
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:That your skirts are lifted
up and you suffer violence.
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:And so he's saying, look.
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:What's coming upon you don't be
shocked when it, when it happens.
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:Don't be shocked.
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:If you are taken away, don't be shocked.
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:If verse 19, all Judah
is taken into exile.
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:Holy taken into exile.
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:Those who come from the
north verse 20 Babylon.
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:Don't be surprised at this because this
is happening for your inequity verse 23.
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:Can the Ethiopian change
his skin or the leopard?
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:His spots?
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:The answer of course is, is no.
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:In, in what that saying is your NyQuil.
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:Has run so deep in you that is
becoming ingrained part of who
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:you are then also you can do good.
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:Uh, who are accustomed to do evil,
I will scatter you, uh, like Shaf.
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:And driven by the wind from the desert.
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:The exile is coming.
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:This is your lot verse 25.
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:The portion that I've measured
to you declares the Lord.
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:And so chapter 13, really, uh, and with
this, uh, this fourth message with just
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:the warning that this is what's coming.
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:And understand it and be ready for it.
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:Well, let me pray and then we'll
be done with another episode
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:of the daily Bible podcasts.
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:God, we thank you for today.
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:We thank you for this word.
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:We thank you for, um, just
your greatness and who you are.
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:And I'm so grateful.
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:Like we started in, in chapter 10.
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:This morning, looking at, uh,
the fact that, that you're
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:not like these other gods.
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:You're not like the false
idols in this world.
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:And that's such a good thing
for us to be able to rejoice
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:in that you are a true God.
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:Um, that you are not a God that we
have to carry from place to place.
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:You are not a God with eyes that
doesn't, don't see your ears that
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:don't hear you are a God who hears us.
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:Uh, God who holds all things together.
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:As you say in Colossians one.
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:And so we're so thankful for that reality.
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:And so help us today to.
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:And increase our faith in you.
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:Uh, load in those areas that
we need to trust you more.
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:May we do that today?
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:I pray in Jesus name.
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:Amen.
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:Uh, keeping your Bibles and tune
back in tomorrow for Sunday's edition
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:of the daily Bible podcast, bio.