00:00 Googly

01:55 Jacob Has a Car!

03:40 Discussion on Heavenly Rewards

07:57 Jeremiah's Prophecies and God's Judgment

13:04 The Faithful Remnant and Assurance

18:20 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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Pastor PJ told me to tell you that

he has no input on what I say.

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And now, your hosts,

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod

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Hey, thanks Bernard.

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We appreciate you as always.

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We hope that you feel our gratitude

for you because we wouldn't be who

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we are without you's at this point.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And everything that he says, 100%

true and reliable every time.

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See I don't know that I would go that far.

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In fact, we go any further

is what you're saying.

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As you're saying that, I'm gonna go ahead

and check and see what he just said.

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We don't know what he just said

yet, because he is still yet to

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be programmed, yet to chime in.

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Okay.

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Alright.

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'cause right now, as I'm looking

at it, it looks like this is

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a pretty generic opening from

Bernard for us for this episode.

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But maybe his friends know that you read

these things and so perhaps it's possible

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that the things could change before

they actually get out to processing.

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A couple days ago when you threw

in cats, in addition to Lucille's

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barbecue, the fact that you were

onto him made it necessary that

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we spice it up a little bit.

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Yeah.

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So that you're thrown for a curve ball.

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Yeah.

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So you're just, I just wanna be clear,

so everybody hears this, that I have

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no input in what Bernard has to say

before these episodes go out on it.

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You have.

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All the input 'cause we have

the same access to the machine.

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No but I don't see

that's where you do that.

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No, because you go from here and you

go and type in your things that you

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or you know, Bernard decides what

he wants to say and then you hit

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export into the MP three file that

goes up onto our captivate system.

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You could change it anytime you wanted to.

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You, in fact, you have

greater access than I do.

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It's under your account.

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So really?

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I think you're hoping that I put these

things out there so that you can finally

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come out and say, you know what guys?

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You got me.

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I don't.

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Lucille's actually is wonderful.

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See I own all the cats.

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No, I trust that I don't need to

go back and reinvent the wheel.

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I trust your first round

of production on this.

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Okay.

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See if you trust me, then you'll

give me your voice so I can help.

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I don't trust you that far though.

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I think okay.

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Anyway, anyways.

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Happy Monday.

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My kids start school this week.

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That's a huge praise.

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Not because I'm excited

to get rid of my kids.

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I love my kids.

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I love having them home for the summer.

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I actually get a little sad when

I have to send them to school.

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Yeah.

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But we're really excited this year

because for Jacob, he's now 16.

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He has his license like Josh does.

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I remember when you posted the

obligatory photo on Facebook

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saying, I didn't watch out.

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Drivers Josh burners on the road.

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No, I didn't post that.

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When you posted that, I was so moved

by it that I thought, you know what?

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I'm gonna do something similar.

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Anyway, Jacob has his license.

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And you heard me talking about it a few

days ago saying, yeah, we're looking

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for a car, and God has blessed us.

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He has given us a family at our church

who has graciously given us their car.

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They're getting a new vehicle.

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They're like, Hey, we could trade the

sin, or we could bless you guys with it.

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And they decided to give it to us.

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And so we are so enthusiastically

grateful for that.

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I don't wanna.

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Use their name 'cause I

wanna protect their blessing.

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And if they wanna talk about it, and

maybe you'll talk about it during the

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sermon at some point in the future.

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But I'd really like to let them enjoy the

heavenly blessings that come with that.

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So thank you fam for doing that.

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Jacob is pumped.

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We just took it to one

of the local mechanics.

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In fact, if you are local.

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Bobcat Automotive has been great to us.

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And this is not Christian Brothers.

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We really appreciate Christian Brothers.

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They've been helpful to us.

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But Bobcat Automotive came up

'cause we were looking for multiple

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pricing points for a certain

fix, and he came out pretty good.

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And so far we've had a

great experience with him.

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His name is Lawson and we've

really enjoyed using him.

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So he fixed a lot of the

things on the vehicle.

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We're not out of the woods yet,

but some of the things that

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needed to be done were done.

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He took care of us and he

said, I'm gonna quote him.

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He said.

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I think you can get three

years outta this car.

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Okay.

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When another mechanic was saying,

we think that you guys would

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do better by just selling it.

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So we're gonna trust him.

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'cause we like what he's

saying better anyway.

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What would Bernard say about it?

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That's what everybody wants to know.

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Know, we don't know

what Bernard would say.

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I'll have to think about that.

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He'll have to think about that.

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Hey, you mentioned, you don't want

to say the names 'cause you want

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to wanna protect their blessing.

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Their blessing.

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I want them to enjoy the blessing.

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Is that a thing?

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Is there are, because I had a prophet

college who he, and he was tongue in

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cheek, but anytime we would go to him

and say, Hey, thanks for something

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or say, Hey, we really appreciate the

lecture, he'd be like, oh, stop that.

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You're stealing my heavenly rewards.

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Stop doing that.

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And it was a joke.

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But is that a thing?

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Do people lose their heavenly blessings

because people are grateful for the

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things that they do or they get.

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Acclaim here on Earth.

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So everyone utilizes this thought.

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It's kinda like what we were talking

about in the last podcast where they

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have a phrase that they throw out, right?

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And they think, oh yeah, that's

a biblical thought, right?

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But it's not.

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However, I think this one has a little

bit of bearing, and I'll explain why.

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So this comes from the idea where Jesus

says, look, if you fast and make your

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face look dirty and you're trying to

like, oh, my stomach hurts, right?

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Oh what's going on?

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Pastor pj?

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Oh, it's 'cause I'm fasting today.

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Oh, don't worry about me, dude,

this seems really personal.

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So Jesus says, look if that's what

you're doing, you have your reward.

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Yeah.

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If you want the physical, if you want

the earthly blessing, then great.

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You can have that.

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So when I do it I'm conscious

that I know they didn't do it

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for the earthly human praise.

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I know they do it for God's praise.

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They want his reward.

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And so I'm trying to be complicit

with that and be sensitive if

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they want to let people know.

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We're not hiding it by any stretch.

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We're telling people like, yeah,

this car, this came from that family.

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It is just in a setting

like this it's different.

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Yeah.

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I don't want it to appear like we're

trumpeting something and that they're

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behind it or maybe they're encouraging

me to say things 'cause they want people

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to know it's not like that at all.

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So I'm really trying to protect them

because I don't want them to lose

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the reward, but not because, not

because they're in some way behind

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that, am I being clear about that?

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How would you accent that?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I get what you're saying.

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The problem Jesus was addressing

with the Pharisees is that their

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motivation for doing what they were

doing was to get the acclaim of man.

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Yeah.

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Matthew, chapter six.

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Yeah.

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They do this in order to be seen by

them, that they may be praised by others.

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And Jesus says they

have the reward in full.

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If another family comes

along and does something.

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Generous like this, and

you say, Hey, thank you.

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And you happen to tell somebody

else, Hey, they did it.

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They, their heart motive

was still the beginning.

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Hey, I, we just wanna bless you guys.

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Yeah, we just want you to use this because

you can use it and it's a need there.

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So I, in that sense, I don't think their

heaven, heavenly reward is lessened or

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tainted by that, unless they wanted that.

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Unless they want, unless

that's what they're going for.

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And we don't know.

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And we don't know.

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That's a great point.

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Yeah.

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You never know someone's heart motivation.

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So is it even worth then, protecting it?

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Yeah.

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I think so because you're

erring on the side of caution.

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You're like, Hey, I love you enough

to protect you from potentially

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giving you something that.

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Was the wrong motivation for this?

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I don't know.

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Maybe your motivation changes

could maybe, initially you do

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it with the right heart and then

suddenly you're like you know what?

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That was pretty great.

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Wasn't it you like I did do that.

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I did.

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Yeah.

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Tell me more about that.

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You a t-shirt made.

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It's I did this.

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I don't have a third car

because you know what?

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Now that I say this and I'm

talking it out loud with you.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if it's my responsibility.

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To care.

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To care for that.

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Okay.

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Because I don't know their heart.

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That's true.

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I can say, man, praise be to

God for this particular act

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of generosity by this person.

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Yes.

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And if someone.

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Does it for that purpose?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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I guess there's your reward, but

if someone gets attention and they

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find out, oh man, you did that

special thing that is so you, they

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can respond in one of two ways.

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They can say, yeah, that was kind of me.

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Thank you.

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Tell me more about that.

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Tell me more about me, or they can

say, Hey, praise be to God, man.

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We were just in such a

great position, or Yeah.

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Was a sacrifice and we did it

because we love the Lord, we love

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our pastors, or whatever it is.

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I wonder if it's even my

responsibility to care.

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I mean care.

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Yes.

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But if it's my responsibility

to protect that, I wonder.

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It's like when pastor Mike said once,

pastor Mike is our former pastor from

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Viejo he's the one who's sent us he said

something to the effect of, look, when

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you're giving somebody a compliment, it's

not your responsibility to protect their.

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Pride or their humility, right?

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It's up to them, right?

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It's up to you to say, look, I'm gonna

receive that and give glory to God, or

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I'm gonna receive it and feed my pride.

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You can't protect that.

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You can't guarantee that all you can

do is be faithful to God by encouraging

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your brother and your sister in the

Lord, and so it's up to them to really

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referee that in their own hearts.

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I think that's probably the right posture.

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Yeah, there's probably

gradations to that, right?

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Like there's a difference in you

having a conversation with somebody

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at church and saying, it was this

family that, that did this for me.

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Yeah.

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And you putting it on the podcast

where there's a lot of people and it's

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more of a public platform saying it

was this family that did it for me.

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There, there's gradations of, you

know that praise there and Yeah.

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But that's interesting.

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Yeah, I'm gonna think more about this now.

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Yeah.

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Hey, let's think about God's

word and our DBR today is going

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to be Jeremiah 14 through 17.

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Chapter 14 is going to reveal

that God is going to use more

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than Babylon to judge his people.

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In fact the pestilence,

the famine and the sword.

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I don't remember exactly how it goes.

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The famine sword, pestilence, I guess

that's the the heading there is a

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common way that, that we find God's

judgment represented in the prophets.

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And it's this threefold.

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It's not just through armies,

but it's also through, we read

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about drought in chapter 14.

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We read about the extreme hunger

and then the disease that's gonna

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ravage to the people as well.

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God's wrath is gonna

come in different forms.

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In other words Jeremiah is gonna.

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Struggle with this.

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Again, he's going to protest.

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He's gonna say in verse seven, there

are iniquities testify against us.

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Acto, Lord, for your name's sake

he's clinging to hope in God's mercy.

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Still, even as God is saying, this is

what's going to happen, and yet God's

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response in verse 10 is, you know what?

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It's too late.

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It's too late.

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He says, therefore, the

Lord does not accept them.

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He will not.

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He will now, he will, excuse me, remember

their iniquity and punish their sins,

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god is gonna tell him again in verse 11.

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As Pastor Rod, you've pointed out a

couple times, don't pray for them.

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Jeremiah, don't intercede.

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Don't keep clinging to

this hope for for mercy.

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They've had lying prophets,

they've had false leaders.

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They've had all of this.

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And now God says, I'm going to judge

the sword, the famine, the pestilence.

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It's going to come upon them and

the people still towards the end of

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the chapter are going to protest.

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Have you utterly rejected?

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Judah?

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Does your soul loathe?

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Zion, we acknowledge our wickedness.

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Oh Lord.

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Iniquity of our fathers.

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Do not spur us for your namesake.

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Are there any other false gods of

the nations that can bring rain?

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Only you can.

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In other words, there, there's this

maybe from some of the remnant here.

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Their voice is being lifted up here

in, in protest and maybe Jeremiah

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is participating in that as well.

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But still God is going to reveal as these.

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Future chapters unfold it.

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It's too late.

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There is no more mercy to be found, which

is fascinating to me for a few reasons.

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And the first one being that there

is a real dynamic in relationship

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between God and us, even though God

has decided this is going to be the

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course of action, he still entertains.

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In some way, Jeremiah's prayers, he

invites them because he doesn't tell a

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Jeremiah, Hey, just stop coming to me.

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He does chastise him.

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And I wonder if part of the reason why

is because Jeremiah appears to be praying

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on behalf of the people, as the people.

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He's identifying with them corporately and

saying, Hey, though our iniquities testify

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against us, Acto Lord, for your namesake.

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Maybe he's getting around what

God had told him to not pray.

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And he's saying look, I'm praying for us.

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And God's saying that's still not.

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What gonna what?

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That's still not gonna work.

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I don't want you to do that.

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So it's interesting

that God entertains it.

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He allows it, and I think the part

of the reason why is because God

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himself is a person He en enjoys

interacting with us as people, which

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is amazing because God Himself is God.

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There's no one else like him.

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He is the high King and

ruler of heaven and earth.

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He's the one who made everything.

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And yet he talks to peons like us.

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He allows us to be in

conversation with him.

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We get to approach as.

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The book of Hebrew says The Throne of

grace and find help in time of need.

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Jeremiah is showing us a glimpse of this

under the old covenant showing us that

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God does really care that we interact

with him, even though right now, again,

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judgment in view, but God still entertains

and enjoys the interaction of his people.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And the answer comes quickly

in verse or chapter 15.

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He is gonna say, even if Moses and

Samuel were here, David, I still

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wouldn't relent bring it out to

heaven, even if John MacArthur and RC

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sprawl were preying on your behalf.

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I would not answer your prayers, right?

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Yeah, that's, yeah.

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Sobering.

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For sure.

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And we get his sovereignty, those who

are for pestilence to pestilence, those

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who are for the sword to the sword,

those who are for famine to famine.

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So God has sovereignly, doled out

this punishment and he's bringing it.

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He says, I will appoint them

for kinds of destroyers.

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He talks about there for the

sins of notice, man, nasa.

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Now, this goes back to one of

the questions that we had asked

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would, wouldn't it have been

better if Hezekiah had just died?

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And this is an indication.

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Yeah, it would've, because Manas

was born in that 15 year period

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when Hezekiah's life was extended.

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And it seems that Manassa

wouldn't have been born.

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Maybe things are different.

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Who knows?

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It's easy to play the what

ifs, but certainly this is is

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an indictment against that.

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But God is done and he makes this clear.

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Verse six, you've rejected

me to clears the Lord.

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You keep going backward.

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So I've stretched out my hand

against you and destroyed you.

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I'm weary of relenting.

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God says I'm, I've grown tired.

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And again, God's immutable.

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So this is.

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Anthropo pathic language to help us

understand his emotional state, his

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in a way that we can comprehend it.

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But gotta send I'm done.

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I'm not going to relent anymore.

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And judgment is gonna come.

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And that leads again to Jeremiah

opening up his heart for us and

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the rest of the chapter saying,

okay, but Lord, but what about me?

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And Jeremiah's pleading is integrity.

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He says in verse 16, your

words were found and I.

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Them, I devoured them.

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And your words became to me, a joy.

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The delight of my heart for I'm called

by your name, a Lord God of hosts.

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What about me?

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And God is gonna answer him and say to

him, Hey Jeremiah, I will be with you.

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I will protect you.

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I will deliver you.

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And he's gonna be true to that word.

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Jeremiah's gonna survive.

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The onslaught.

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He's not gonna fall prey to the

sword the famine or the pestilence.

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And he's gonna see to much to his

dismay and his grief as the Book

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of Lamentations records for us the

downfall of the city to the Babylonians.

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Yeah.

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Jeremiah's interaction with God here

demonstrates something that is often

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referred to as the remnant, the

faithful few that God does approve

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of and that God is pleased with.

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And Jeremiah is among those people,

obviously during this timeframe

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during the kingship of Zeek Kayah.

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And so I think one of the

translating principles here is that.

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Even under the new covenant.

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And Jesus says, remember there

are few that find it, few that

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find the narrow road, and there

are many who go in the other way.

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And so I think it's important for us to

recognize that even though there's lots of

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Christian churches and denominations that

operate under the banner of Christianity,

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not all of them are equally good.

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Or equally true.

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And therefore, it's important to

find yourself as the faithful few.

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Now I start to ask the question,

how do I know that I'm part of that?

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How do I know that I'm in a church

that is part of the remnant?

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You're gonna know in part because

you're gonna see the Bible held high.

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You're gonna see the spirit operating by

providing repentance and providing faith,

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and showing people demonstrating the fruit

of righteousness the fruit of the spirit.

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Galatians 5 22 and 23, you're gonna

see love as you preached on last week.

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You're gonna see love for

God and love for people.

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You're gonna see things that demonstrate.

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God is at work among these people and

it's gonna center around his word and the

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operation of his spirit among his people.

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So if you wanna know if you're part of

the remnant or if you're part of the

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faithful few, look for these signs.

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God gives promises of assurance.

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I'm gonna take care of you.

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I will be with you.

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I'll never leave you nor forsake you

for those who are the faithful remnant

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and not just for those who go to church.

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Chapter 16.

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Then we get into more of

this judgment that's coming.

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We find out Jeremiah was a single guy.

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He says there in 16, two,

you shall not take a wife.

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Neither shall you have sons

or daughters in this place.

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And so Jeremiah's not gonna be married.

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He is not gonna have children.

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At least not at this point in time.

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And we've talked about how God

said, don't pray for the people.

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He's now gonna say when the people begin

to die, he says, don't grieve for them.

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Don't go into the house in morning

don't when they're celebrating, when

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they're having feast, when there's

joy, he says, don't go there either.

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Don't go participate in the

false joy that the world provides

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that they're celebrating in.

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And why?

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Because your fathers have forsaken me.

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Verse 11, that the judgment is coming.

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And Jeremiah, when the judgment

comes, when they try to escape it,

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maybe through their mirth and their

frivolity don't participate in that.

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When they're weeping in their mourning,

they're grieving because judgment

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has taken away their children and

their spouses and their loved ones.

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Don't mourn with them because

they're dying for the sins that

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they've committed against me.

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Difficult for sure.

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After this though, God is going to

hold out that the hope still, and

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this is verses 14, and following

that there is gonna become a

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restoration period for Israel.

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That remnant that we were just talking

about this is looking forward to the

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millennial kingdom, but this is going

to be language of the Exodus again.

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Notice he says in verse 15, for I will

bring them back to their own land that

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I gave their fathers as the Lord lives,

who brought the people out of Israel,

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out of the north country, out of all

the countries that he had driven them.

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This is the language of the Exodus again.

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And God is gonna regather his people.

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He's gonna bring them back in, and he's

going to be their Lord and their king.

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But verse 18, not before judgment,

but first I will doubly re repay

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their iniquity and their sin.

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This is the message that we see in

Jeremiah and also now or in that we

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saw in Isaiah rather, and also now

in Jeremiah, that God is a God who is

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going to judge, but he's also a God

that is not yet done with his people.

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One of the main reasons why

we remained dispensationalist.

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Amen to that.

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And on top of that, another reason

why we love God's grace, it's only

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when you see the judgment that

his grace makes a lot of sense.

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And that's why I

appreciate books like this.

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They help anchor me and remind

me of who God is, apart from the

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grace that is offered in Christ.

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God is angry at sin and

righteously, so he is not a tyrant.

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He's not flying off the handle

because he can't control his emotions.

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He has a God measured and precise

in his judgment, and that happens

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because of our sin against him.

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Praise be to Jesus that we have him to

rely on and not our own righteousness.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 17 then is sobering

because he says the sin of Judah

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is written in a pen of iron.

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And so this is an indictment against them.

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In the contrast in verse seven, he

says, blessed is the man whose trust is

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in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

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This is language of Psalm.

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He's like a tree planted by water that

sends its roots out by the stream.

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Contrast that in verse nine.

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With the wicked, the heart is deceitful.

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It's a famous verse, right?

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The heart is deceitful above

all things and desperately sick.

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Who can understand it?

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People saying, follow your heart.

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Follow what your heart wants.

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Whatever your heart wants,

that's what you need to have.

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Jeremiah would say no.

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God would say no.

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The heart is deceitful and can deceive us

into thinking that these are good things.

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A question though, pr he.

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It goes to the Sabbath and it almost

seems outta place here because he's

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dealing with judgment and everything

else, and then all of a sudden he's

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going, Hey, you know what you need to do?

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You need to keep the Sabbath.

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My thoughts are that was one of

the most basic commands, one of the

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earliest commands that Israel was given.

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And so it's given as a representation if

you can't even do this, then who are you

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to think that you can obey me in every

other command that I've given to you?

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But I, I'd be curious to get your thoughts

as to why you think he goes to the

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Sabbath here in, in the end of chapter 17.

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Yeah, I think.

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I appreciate that.

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I didn't see it with that particular

angle, but I like that because it does

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suggest that this is one of those commands

that ought to be the easiest, and for

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that reason ought to be one of those

commands that they cherish and pride

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themselves on keeping, because what God

among the pantheon of Gods ever said,

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I want you to rest and to enjoy me.

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I want you to not carry burdens.

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I want you to let me carry your burdens.

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I appreciate that.

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I found myself saying, okay,

this is a mosaic structure.

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This is one of the most

basic mosaic commands.

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But I never put the two and two together,

as in this is one of the easiest.

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And interestingly enough, it's

also one of the hardest 'cause

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it takes such great trust Yeah.

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To stop what you're doing, to say, I'm

gonna just let God be God and I'll be me.

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Yeah.

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Let's pray and then we will

down with another episode.

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Lord we don't want to find ourselves

as Judah did, as those that

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were going through the motions.

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Those that were, as we talked about maybe

in yesterday's episode whose mouth is

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closed to you, but heart is far from you.

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We don't wanna trust our heart even as we

just read, because the heart is deceitful

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above all things and desperately sick.

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And that's gonna mean that there are

sometimes that we're gonna have to

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overcome how we feel and choose instead.

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To do what we know intellectually

even is right by you.

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And how to worship you, how to obey

you, how to follow your commands.

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And so help us to do that, Lord, and

not to be led astray by our emotions

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or feelings or anything else, but to

be anchored to your word as the guide.

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And so we pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We'll see you folks.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said