00:00 Bernard

01:47 Church Updates and Celebrations

03:17 Gratitude to Sending Church

05:29 Jeremiah 10: Idols vs. God

10:27 Jeremiah 11: Broken Covenant

14:52 Jeremiah 12: Jeremiah's Complaint

19:07 Jeremiah 13: The Spoiled Loincloth

22:05 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

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We're so glad you've joined us.

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Here's a fun fact: shrimp's

hearts are in their head.

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And now, your hosts,

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello, and thank you, Bernard, for

another incredible introduction.

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I find that he's developing a

pretty large fan base, and before

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long this will be his podcast.

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You think so?

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I think so.

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Okay.

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It would save us time.

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It would, and.

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The development of ai.

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I'm not accusing Bernard of being ai,

but I'm just saying the development

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of AI in including the release of the

new chat, GPT five, which I know is

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at the top of everybody's mind right

now, everyone's been thinking about it.

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Everybody has it won't be long before

people are able to say, Hey, come

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up with a 15 minute summary Bible

podcast for this passage of scripture.

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You could probably

already do it right now.

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Yeah, you can't.

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Yeah.

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It's just a matter of feeding him the

right lines and having him say the things.

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Right now it's all.

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Human intelligence.

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What was that called?

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Hi, it's, hi.

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So it's someone behind the

voice, someone, which I'll let

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you guess who that might be.

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Who could that be?

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There's a few options, but I'm still

okay with if you gimme your voice.

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And I put my voice into the system.

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I think we could have

something really fun.

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Yeah.

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See, it's the giving you my voice thing.

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I know there's plenty

of it out there already.

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You could do it on your own.

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I could, I just feel but

I'd like to do it ethically.

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And so I, I trust that that you will.

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'cause I, I don't I don't wanna do that.

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Someone's gonna do it though.

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It might as well be me.

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I see.

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Why Let someone else beat me to the punch?

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No.

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Now people are doing it with

MacArthur and other people like that.

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I'm not on the radar and I'm

happy to be not on anyone's radar.

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Alright.

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Nobody's putting fake YouTube

channels of me out there.

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Not preaching, not yet.

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Sermons about how women should

be pastors and the such.

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Not yet.

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Let's keep it that way.

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We'll see.

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Let's keep it that way.

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Anyways, yeah.

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What else is going on?

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Hey, happy Birthday Church.

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We we were remiss in that we forgot

your birthday on August 6th, but we

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have flowers in hand right now and

we're asking for your forgiveness.

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Yes.

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Please forgive me.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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No man.

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It's I was thinking about it that morning.

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It's a, it is a huge deal because it's

God's faithfulness to bring us through

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another year and he has done great things

and even just we think back on this

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last year and moving to a new facility.

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We got new offices this year.

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We, our VBS was even better

than it was the year before.

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And the year before was, it was great.

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Then our student ministry is growing.

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We're seeing taking new ground.

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Yeah.

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We're seeing God do awesome things and

it's so good for us to pause and remember

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his faithfulness to us over the last year.

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So we wanna celebrate.

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That.

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And yet, some people have said, are we

doing another church birthday party?

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Things like that.

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And the answer there is no.

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We're doing this back to school

celebration today actually at church.

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And so the Kona Ice Trek's gonna

be out there but really, this is.

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A church should, if they're doing

their job and being faithful to

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what the word has called up to a

church should continue to progress.

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And that's our goal here.

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We're grateful for God's faithfulness.

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We will always remember

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We've been around much

longer than I realize.

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The years have gone quickly.

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2023 2006 is my anniversary.

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August 26th.

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Anyways, you know that yes it is.

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We'll always remember that date.

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And we will always look back on

it and be able to say, okay, year

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three, year four, year five, should

the Lord Terry not return, but.

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Yeah it's, we're just, we're doing

ministry and you guys are all doing

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ministry and this is a good thing.

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And so God has been faithful to us and

that's something to celebrate and rejoice

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in for sure as we continue to look forward

to what he's gonna do this next year too.

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Yeah.

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We're thankful to av Elisa Viejo.

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Yes.

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We often say AV.

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To be clear, so everyone

knows who's listening.

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CIO Viejo is our sending church.

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They're the original Compass Bible Church.

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And we're thankful to Pastor Mike

and the crew that still supports

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us in so many ways, not just

financially, but also with their

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prayers and with their encouragement.

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So thank you for planting us.

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We're honored, we're privileged.

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We love what we do.

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We could not do it without you.

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We really could not.

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And that's.

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Sincerely I offer no

joke in that is sincere.

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We could not do it without you.

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We are grateful to God for your

partnership and for your love.

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We are grateful and hopefully we'll

honor you and make you proud by

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the work that this church does.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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And one of the things that we wanna do,

in fact this morning at church, we're

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talking about the difference between being

a church on vacation in a church in ex.

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Oh, and we want to be the church in exile.

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And that sounds weird.

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We, it sounds like you'd wanna

be the church on vacation.

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That sounds more appealing.

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But one of the markers that we're

gonna talk about is the church in

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exile is a church that is passionate

about growing and we want to continue

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to grow as we're in year two.

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And we're seeing, grow trends

year over year, which is awesome.

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We don't want that to, to plateau.

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We don't want to get con complacent, we

want don't wanna grow contempt or, yeah.

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Complacent.

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And look with contempt on where we're at.

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And so hopefully when you show up at

church and you look around the room

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and you see some empty seats, you're

thinking about people that you can invite.

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We're gonna talk this morning about

invite cars and in inviting people to

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church, in fact, we're gonna have a

challenge during the summer to invite

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a person to, to church each week.

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Oh like a challenge.

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And make that your goal to say, okay, I've

got a stack of invite cards in my car.

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I'm gonna hand it to somebody

and invite them to come be a

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part of our church this week.

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We want to see God's church

here at Compass Bible Church

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North Texas, continue to grow.

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We wanna be sitting here a

year from now going, man,

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we've got so many space issues.

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We have headaches.

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This is keeping us up at night.

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We're losing sleep over this.

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We'd welcome that.

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But we want, we don't want to be a church

that wastes our impact, that wastes our

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opportunity with where God has put us.

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We're excited to see what

he's gonna do this next year.

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You remind me.

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Our sending pastor used to say something

like, if we don't utilize what God

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has given us, he might take it away.

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Yep.

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There's no guarantee that the

space that we have, the building

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that we have, the people that we

have, the resources that we've been

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entrusted with will always be there.

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So we ought to do our part and

make sure that we're taking full

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advantage of the gifts, time, and

talents that he's entrusted to us.

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Yeah.

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If we don't use it.

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We'll lose it, right?

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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There's another church that could

come behind and say, Hey, we can make

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use of that space and beyond mission.

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That's right.

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Let's jump into our DBR passage today,

which is Jeremiah 10 through 13.

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Jeremiah 10 through 13.

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Jeremiah chapter 10, basically in summary

is just, here's the idols and here's God.

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This is this is God.

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This is Yahweh who is contrasting

himself with these false

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gods and in calling them out.

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He says in verse five the idols

are like scarecrows in a cucumber

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field, and they cannot speak.

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They have to be carried.

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They cannot walk.

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This is familiar language for us by

now in our time in the Old Testament.

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God has multiple times in the prophets

called out the idols for what they

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are, and that is they're powerless.

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The statues themselves.

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We've talked about that fact that

there are likely demons behind these

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false gods that are responsible

for a lot of the things that

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lead the people to worship them.

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But the idols themselves, God is

saying that they have no ears.

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They can't speak, they can't walk.

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And the contrast there,

Jeremiah holds out in verse six.

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There's none like you, oh God,

for you are great and your name

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is great and might in might.

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And what is he owed?

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Verse seven is fear.

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Who would not fear you?

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Oh, king of the nations

for this is your due.

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And so in chapter 10 God is saying,

here's the idols, and here am I.

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And he lays out in the second part

here his identity as the creator.

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The one that created informed everything.

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And again the context is in contrast

to Beal and Asra and all these

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false gods that the Israelites

were going after in worshiping.

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He says, none of them are

like me for he is the creator.

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And then Jeremiah, towards the end

of the chapter we see his grief here.

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Jeremiah is interesting.

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He's the mouthpiece of God, and yet the

message that he conveys so often causes

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him distress and angst in his heart.

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And we see that here at

the end of chapter 10.

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He is bemoaning what is happening here and

bemoaning the state of the people as well.

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He delivers God's message and also

gives us a glimpse inside his own heart.

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As he's delivering the message

about how he feels about all this.

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Yeah.

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Interesting.

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On verse five, in verse five, rather

he says, don't be afraid of those.

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I idols.

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Whether they're scare crows in a cucumber

field or something like that, they

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can't speak, they can't do anything.

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They are effectively

powerless, even though.

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In reality, they do possess a spiritual

power if they are in fact demons that

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are operating behind these idols.

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And that's what we believe.

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That's what Paul says

in the New Testament.

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So in verse five, he says,

don't be afraid of those.

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In fact, be afraid, as you pointed out

in verse seven, be afraid of the Lord.

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The king of the nations.

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You are the ones whom

all people should fear.

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And in fact, let me remind you, the

fear that you have over idolatry or even

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let's say someone casts a spell on you.

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You have a neighbor who's bowing

down at an idol in their living

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room, let's say, and they.

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Pray to their God to hurt you in some

way because you've offended their

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sensibilities or something like that.

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Christians have no reason to fear.

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There is no demon strong enough to violate

God's will for your life and say, I'm

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gonna go attack this Christian and I'm

gonna do it apart from Yahweh's permission

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or his good purpose and will for me.

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You have nothing to fear.

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I love this idea because what

it does is it neutralizes any

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threat in the Christian life.

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Nothing can hurt me, no harm can befall

me, except that which God, Yahweh decides

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is good for me and good for his glory.

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That ought to free you.

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So the fear that you might have against

an idol or something else, let's just

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put it outside the realm of the idolatry.

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You might fear catastrophe, financial

collapse, or maybe you fear for

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your health or something like that.

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You have nothing to fear.

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The only one that you should fear is God.

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And even the fear that you have toward

God is not a trembling in your boots

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kind of fear, knocking of the knees.

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It is a fear of love and

adoration and respect.

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That's the fear that you should

cultivate, and you do that by spending

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like a lot of time in your Bible,

praying to that same God, worshiping

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that same God, which you hope that

you're gonna do this morning with us

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and then loving him with your life.

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That's the kind of fear

that you wanna cultivate.

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Speaking of worshiping with him this

morning, we we do worship not only

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in the preaching of the word, but.

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Song, which is how most

people think about worshiping.

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It's true.

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And you have something that you provide

each week as a resource for that.

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I do.

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And I'm so grateful that 42 of

you at least are listening to

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this playlist, or at least have

the playlist in your Spotify.

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So we use Spotify and

I publish a playlist.

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It's only four, sometimes three

songs depending on the week.

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Four songs long and it's gonna

be all the songs that we're

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gonna sing on the weekend.

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So if you are looking, if you're looking

to be prepared for Sunday Worship and

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occasionally for Pro, probably more

frequently in the coming weeks and months

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ahead, I'll have new songs in there.

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If you wanna be prepared for

those, you can sign up to

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listen to our songs beforehand.

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In fact, this morning you're gonna

hear a new song called I Am Not My Own.

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It's one of my favorite songs.

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It's such an earworm, it's so

catchy, but it's a new song.

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If unless you listen to the Gettys,

if you happen to listen to the

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Gettys, you'll know the song probably.

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But if you don't, I would

strongly encourage you.

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Listen to this playlist.

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It's called Compass, NTX Weekend Set List.

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And you'll see that I am

the author, rod Gomez.

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I own the playlist.

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Sign up for that.

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Listen to it.

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And you'll do your heart well as

you prepare to show up to worship.

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In fact, if you're wondering,

how do I get there?

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On Fridays we send out an email for

our weekend service each week on

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Friday, that details, Hey, here's

what the weekend's gonna be like.

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There's also a link to that same

playlist in there every single week.

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In fact, I think it embeds itself

in the email as it's sent out.

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So you can click directly on that

and it'll take you to Spotify.

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Hit subscribe and follow that playlist.

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That's right.

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Chapter 11 starts a new.

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A new address, a new

message from the prophet.

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This is the fourth one in the

book that he's going to give here.

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This is gonna go from chapter 11 all

the way through chapter 13, which is the

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remainder of our reading for today's DBR.

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And in chapter 11, he's gonna

address the basis for the judgment

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that's coming against the people,

and that is the broken covenant.

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And.

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It seems to be, and I think it

fits contextually with what we

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read about in the Mosaic Covenant.

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It seems to be that this is the

mosaic covenant that he has in mind.

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There's a lot of different

covenants that are there.

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We're gonna get later on, I think in a

couple days here, we're gonna be reading,

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he's gonna be talking about another broken

covenant in the context of the kings.

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I would still say there it's the

mosaic covenant, although it.

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Could potentially be the

Davidic Covenant as well Here.

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I'm pretty sure this is the Mosaic

covenant that he's addressing and

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you think back to the blessings and

cursings that are given there in

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Deuteronomy, in the Mosaic Covenant.

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And a lot of that had to do with

whether or not they stayed true and

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faithful to worship God and God alone.

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And if they didn't, one of the

things that God promised to

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do is to send them into exile.

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And Chapter 11 details that as well.

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In verses 10 and following there he

says, the House of Israel, the house

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of Judah, have broken my covenant

that I made with their fathers.

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Therefore.

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Behold, I am bringing disaster

upon them that they cannot escape.

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That disaster is going to be exiled.

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They're gonna be taken away,

they're gonna be carried away,

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their city is going to be destroyed.

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And God is sovereign over all of this.

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And that's what's you mentioned.

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We are untouchable unless

something comes from God.

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And that's what's true

here as well for Judah.

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You look at verse 17, the Lord

of hosts who planted you has

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declared this disaster against you.

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And so God says, I formed you and

yet I'm the one that's going to.

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For lack of a better

word, inform you here.

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Now he's gonna spare a remnant, but this

is significant judgment coming against

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them because of the broken covenant there.

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The mosaic covenant and the breaking

of it is so significant and so

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devastating that he says in verse 14

to Jeremiah, do not pray for this.

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People do not lit up a cry or

pray on their behalf, or I will

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not listen when they call to me

in the time of their trouble.

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Awful.

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But here's what it teaches us.

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Number one, God takes

his covenant seriously.

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He upholds the words of his covenant,

which is incredibly comforting to

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those of us under the new covenant.

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If he is covenanted with us to say,

I will love you to the very end,

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which is what Jesus has said, we can

take that to the bank and know with

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confidence he will fulfill his word.

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It is impossible for God to lie.

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He cannot do that.

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Secondly, though.

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This is interesting.

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Verse 14, do not pray for these people or

lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf.

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In other words, God's telling Jeremiah,

look, I don't want you to let your

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feelings for these people cause

you to intercede for their good.

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Do not intercede for their good.

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How devastating is that?

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But that tells us there is a category

in God's mind where there is someone

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who is so far gone that he does not

want us to appeal to them for their good

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because they're violating his covenant.

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They're violating and rebelling against

all that is right, true and good.

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I think this tracks for today.

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There's a book that came out recently.

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I still think it's helpful even

if you might quibble with some

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of the things that he says.

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It's Joe Wrigley's book

called The Sin of Empathy.

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I think it's helpful.

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I know there's another one by

Ali Beth Stuckey out there called

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Toxic Empathy, if I'm not mistaken.

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Idea simply is this, there are

certain categories of sin that

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you should not feel bad about.

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It's not that you don't love the people.

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We're not saying that

you should hate people.

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But that because God's word speaks so

clearly about certain categories of sin,

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that we are wrong to feel badly when

those categorical sins are judged and

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held as guilty because they are, again,

it doesn't mean we don't love people.

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It doesn't mean we don't care about them.

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It doesn't mean we don't

pray for their salvation.

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It just means that we are clear

about the boundaries of right and

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wrong, and it is wrong for us to

offer pity to someone who does not.

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Warrant that, that kind of response.

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In fact, most of the time, sins that

are against the Lord don't warrant

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Christian's pity, but a Christian's anger,

you're violating this good Lord's law.

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You're violating his covenant,

you're rejecting him.

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That's a bad thing in fact it's

even unloving to love somebody by

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showing them pity in that state

because it's as though you are.

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Agreeing with them.

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And that's part of Joe's point in that

book is it's almost like you're agreeing

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with their objection to why they're

in the place that they are by coming

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in and showing them pity and trying to

empathize in the world sense with them.

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Yeah.

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I love that illustration

you uses of the quicksand.

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I've gone back to that so many times.

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It's, they want you to jump both

feet in the quicksand where what

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they need is for you to keep one

foot on dry land, on solid ground

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and to pull them outta the quicksand.

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And that's that calling to repentance,

calling to godliness, all of that.

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So yeah, I would endorse

that book as well.

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Yeah.

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Helpful.

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Chapter 12 this is again, a glimpse

into Jeremiah's heart in the midst

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of all this and this is Jeremiah

and God talking to each other, and

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Jeremiah's gonna go to the Lord and

say, Lord, this does not seem right.

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I hear everything that you're talking

about, and yet I'm looking around.

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He says in verse one of Chapter 12,

righteous are you, that's gonna establish

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the foundation of his complaints.

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And similar to Habak, he's gonna say,

yet, why does the way the wicked prosper.

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The treacherous are thriving.

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You're near in their mouth

and far from their heart.

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I underline that because that was just

such a poignant description for the

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fraudulent religion that we see so

often of people who are Christians on

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Sundays and anything but that the rest

of the week he says you're near in

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their mouth, but far from their heart.

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And so he is asking the questions,

God, when are you gonna do this?

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Essentially?

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And the Lord answers him in the remainder

of the chapter and reminds him of his

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sovereignty and even his passive judgment.

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He's already judging them in the sense.

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In verse seven, he says,

I have forsaken my house.

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I've abandoned my heritage.

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I've given the beloved of my soul

into the hands of her enemies.

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Some of God's judgment was already

active in a passive sense because

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he was withdrawing his hand.

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He was withdrawing his revelation.

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He was withdrawing his protection

and also ordaining the people to

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come and defeat them in the process.

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Reason being.

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Things like verse 10, many shepherds

have destroyed my vineyard.

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The spiritual leaders had failed.

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In other words, they've made my pleasant

portion a desolate wilderness, and yet.

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In spite of all this, in his judgment of

this coming, he's not gonna make a full

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end, and that's the end of the chapter.

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There is hope still for a remnant and

even hope for the nations if they will

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repent if they will John Deere, to him.

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If they will forsake their idols

and their faults, gods as well.

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There's hope for not just the

remnant, but also for the nations.

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I love that idea that God can't help

but say, but I'm gonna restore you.

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Even amidst all the judgment and

it's clear that God's going to do it.

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He's saying, don't pray for these people.

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I'm bringing the judgment, Jeremiah,

but I'm also gonna restore them.

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I love that.

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But I have a question for you now.

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Verse eight says to Jeremiah,

this is God speaking.

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He says, if you've raced with men on

foot and they have wearied you, how

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then will you compete with horses?

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In other words, don't get

weary, don't get discouraged.

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You're gonna not only do this,

but you're gonna actually

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have to go further than this.

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How do we compare that passage to

something that Christians often recall

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in their minds at God will never give

you more than what you can handle.

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Have you heard that before?

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Of course you have people say

that here, it doesn't look

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like that's what's happening.

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It says, it seems like God is giving

Jeremiah more than he can handle

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and saying, buddy, toughen up.

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We've got even further to go here.

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How do we put those two passages together?

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Won't give you more than he can handle.

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Jeremiah toughen up.

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You can do this.

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Yeah.

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The won't give you more than you can

handle is not actually a passage.

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Oh.

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Good catch.

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Distort it.

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Because we go to Paul's words I

think in one Corinthians 10 13.

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10 13 or 10, 12 or 13.

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Yeah.

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Let me, lemme pull it up here.

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Let me just read it since we're here.

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Yeah, please.

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No temptation.

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This is one Corinthians 10 13.

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No temptation has overtaken you.

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That is not common to man.

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God is faithful and he will not let

you be tempted beyond your ability.

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But what the temptation will

also provide the way of escape.

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You may be able to endure it.

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Yeah.

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So he won't let you be

tempted beyond your ability.

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Meaning you can never, at the end

of the day say I couldn't resist.

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I couldn't flee temptation.

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I couldn't help but sin.

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God is not gonna put you

in a position like that.

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That passage has been distorted

to God's never gonna give you

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more than you can handle in life.

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That's actually not the case at all.

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Oftentimes he will do that to

cause us to be broken to the point

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of going, God, we, I need you.

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I think the Apostle Paul, when

he, in second Corinthians chapter

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11, is going through his laundry

list of all of his sufferings.

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We even mentioned it the other

day the thorn in his flesh.

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That was the lesson God was teaching

him, is getting Paul to go, okay,

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God, then I'm gonna trust you.

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Your strength has to show up because

my strength isn't enough right now.

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And we don't know what that

thorn was, but still I God will

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give us more than we can handle.

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And so I think that's just a

confusion of those two passages.

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I'm glad we brought that up.

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Then.

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Let the record show God does

give us more than we can handle.

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Yes.

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All the time.

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Yes.

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That's the way that he operates with us.

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This is not just a Jeremiah thing.

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This is the way that God treats his kids.

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So if you feel like you, you have

a burden on your shoulders that you

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can't carry, hey, welcome to the club.

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This is what it is to be a Christian.

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The point is not to make you

trust in your own strength.

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The point is exactly the opposite is

to make you trust in his strength.

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So it's a good thing if you

feel overwhelmed and you feel

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heavily laden, take it to Christ.

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Yeah.

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He's here to carry the burden for

you and help walk you through the

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season, even if it's incredibly

challenging like it was for Jeremiah.

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Yeah.

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Alright.

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Chapter 13, let's talk about loin cloths.

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Are you wearing what?

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Nope.

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Okay.

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Yeah, Jeremiah said is told by the Lord

to go out and get a loin cloth, which was

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an Old Testament undergarment, basically.

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And he says, Hey, go and bury it in

the muddy bank, and then go dig it up.

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And Jeremiah says it's spoiled now.

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And God basically says,

yep, that was Judah.

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Judah was the loin cloth.

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I had made it clinging to me as a lo

cloth clings to the waste of a man.

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And in other words, the intimacy of the

relationship between God and his people.

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And and he says and yet,

Judah has become spoiled.

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It's become good for nothing.

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It's become worthless.

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And so as a result of

this, here comes the.

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Poignant part about exile.

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Exile is coming.

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There's still an opportunity.

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Verse 16, give glory to the Lord your

God before the he brings darkness.

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Before your feet stumble on

the twilight and the mountains,

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while you look for light.

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He turns it to gloom it.

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It seems there's still

an offer of repentance.

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There's still a hope that they

might turn and avoid this, and yet.

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What seems that is, is inevitable at

the same time is their stubbornness and

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heart is gonna lead them into exile.

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And he even projects what they're

gonna say when they are in the exile

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in verse 22, if you say in your heart,

why have these things come upon me

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jump down to verse 25 because you

have forgotten me and trusted in lies.

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So God is answering this question.

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The loin cloth is Judah.

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And as a result, because it's

worthless, they're gonna be cast

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out just like Jeremiah's to cast

out that loin cloth that people

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are gonna be cast away from God.

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They have become, in so much as

they're offering such vain worship,

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they've become worthless in God's

eyes as far as the people that he

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had originally intended them to be.

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I would encourage you to make

sure your theology doesn't ruin

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what you read in this chapter.

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When God offers repentance and

forgiveness, I think it's sincere.

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Yes, it is a sincere and real offer.

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What we also know though, is theologically

God knows what they're going to do.

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It is as good as done because God

knows the end from the beginning.

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But I would be careful as you hold

these two precious truths, namely

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A, that God is sovereign, and

B, that man makes real choices.

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I'd be careful not to bang them

together such that you lose the.

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The weightiness and the truthfulness

of both, hold them gently.

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Understand that this is

a real offer from God.

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He's saying if you would turn,

things would be different, but

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they're not going to, and that's

why God can speak like this.

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We often talk about passages

like this under the terminology,

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the prophetic perfect.

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In other words, he speaks about

it like it's already done.

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Because prophetically we know

that this is going to be the case.

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It is God's will being disclosed to us.

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And in this passage, you also

have the famous passage here.

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Can the Ethiopian change his

skin or the leopard, his spots?

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And then also can you do good

who are accustomed to do evil?

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This showcases the fact that our

human need is deep and grave.

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We are in desperate need for God

to intervene, and unless he does,

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things won't be any different.

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This is often the doctrine

that we call total depravity.

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Total depravity.

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To be clear, he's not.

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Does not mean that you are as

bad as you could possibly be.

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That's not true for anybody, probably.

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But it does mean that every part

of who you are is touched by evil.

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It is touched by sin, and therefore

we desperately need God to change

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us if we're gonna be changed.

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Yes.

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And amen.

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And.

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If you haven't yet listened to the

sermon today, that may have something

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to do with some of the stuff.

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We're covering the sermon today too.

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Oh, maybe it will.

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Hey let's let's pray as we wrap up another

episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Let's do, God, we are just in awe of

our, of your magnitude and our finitude

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are your greatness and how small we are.

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We understand, but a sliver of

who you are, the fringes of your

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garment as scripture talks about.

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And sometimes we pretend to know

so much of more of you than we do.

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Keep us humble, Lord, keep us teachable.

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Lord, keep us soft to what your word says.

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Help us to always come to your word

as the authority and not to what

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our feelings say or not to what

we've heard some pop theologians

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say or anything else like that.

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We wanna be guarded.

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Guarded and guided by your word

and by the truth contained therein.

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And so help us to understand what we're

able to and to know our limitations

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there and when we should step back

and say, God, I trust you that you

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know exactly what's going on here.

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And we're thankful that you do.

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And so help us to trust you more.

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We pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep your Bibles tuning again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said