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.