00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:15 Introduction to the Book of Jeremiah

00:43 Coffee Talk and Personal Updates

02:15 Current Events and Biblical Perspective

06:49 Jeremiah's Call and Commission

11:09 Jeremiah's First Message: Indictment of Judah

15:01 Jeremiah's Second Message: Call for Repentance

18:36 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Wednesday's edition

to the daily Bible podcast.

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That's a Wednesday, August 7th, 2024.

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In case you were wondering,

and you forgot what day?

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What, what month?

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What, uh, what year it was there you go.

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August 7th, 2024.

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Uh, w we're back, we've got more.

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In fact, we're starting

a brand new book today.

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The book of Jeremiah we're

still in the prophets.

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Jeremiah is a major profit.

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So minor profits, major profits, think

not so much their weightiness as far

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as the content, but their length is

really what we're talking about there.

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And so Jeremiah.

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Uh, Isaiah Zeke yield.

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Those are major profits, longer books.

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Whereas you've got some of the

smaller books like Nate, whom that

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we just read recently or Zephaniah.

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Uh, even Jonah Micah,

those are our smaller.

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In length.

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And so there, the, the

quote unquote minor profits.

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So we're in a major prophet

again, as we get started, but, uh,

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man, I'm, I'm finishing up some

coffee brewing here in honor, the

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Olympics, I'm doing a French press.

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And so.

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Uh, coffee, such a good thing.

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It's such a gift from the Lord,

in fact that if you're out there

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and you don't drink coffee, Okay.

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Like I don't fully understand why not.

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Um, And I, I get it.

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People are like, well, it's caffeine

and you know, it's bad for you.

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Um, it's a common grace.

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Yeah.

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That's what it is.

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It's, it's something

that God has given us.

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And the whole, like there was

this five-hour energy drink.

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Uh, I think it still exists out there.

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I tried it once.

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It was not good and I didn't

want it ever again, but.

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Their argument was, you know, nobody

wants the two 30 feeling and it's this

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guy poured himself another cup of coffee.

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I'm like, that's I want that.

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I want the coffee.

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I need the it's good.

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It it's comforting.

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It's not just the flavor or the caffeine.

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It's the experience of just having a

warm cup of coffee and a, and reading my

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Bible or doing the daily Bible podcast.

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This happens to be the case now.

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So.

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Hopefully you enjoy coffee too.

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Like I said, I'm doing the French

press in honor of the French people.

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It's a little bit pretentious

in the coffee style, which I

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guess kind of fits, uh, that the.

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The model, the motif of, of, uh, Paris.

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I don't know.

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I've never been there.

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I've been to the airport there once.

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And I was there for like eight hours as I

was trying to get home from Israel after.

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Uh, being on a trip there, but haven't

left the airport in France or Paris.

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And.

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There you go.

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So that that's, what's new here.

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If you're wondering what is

happening with pastor PGA, that's

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what pastor Peter is doing.

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I'm having some coffee and we're

doing the daily Bible podcast, the

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world who knows what's going on there?

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I mean, you've got this new

vice presidential candidate.

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That's been nominated they're

from Minnesota, the governor

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they're up in Minnesota.

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Uh, yeah, I mean, I'm going

to leave the talking heads to

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give their 2 cents on that.

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Um, but from what I understand,

it's, it's just not a good thing.

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Uh, yeah, you've got that.

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You've got what's going on with

Iran and Israel, which okay.

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Let's stop down I guess.

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And talk about that for a second.

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Uh, Iran.

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He has made no bones about it and they've

made it absolutely clear that their agenda

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is the complete annihilation of Israel.

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And, uh, this fits with what

we're reading about right now in

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the daily Bible podcast, because.

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In the old Testament that the Assyrians

and the Babylonians after them, they

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were kind of after the same thing.

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In fact, when we get to the book

of Daniel, we're going to see

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that when Nebuchadnezzar takes.

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Captives back to Babylon.

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He's not doing that thinking to himself.

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Oh, well this is going to be the

remnant that God is going to spare.

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Even though that's what comes of it

with Daniel and his faithfulness and his

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three friends and their faithfulness.

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Uh, no, never can answer takes them

back because he wants the cream of

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the crop from Israel to brainwash

them essentially, by putting them

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into the Babylonian education system.

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And make them Babylonians.

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He wants to benefit from this conquered

nation by in grafting their people,

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into the nation of Babylon and in

making Babylon stronger as a result.

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God had different plans, but I see that.

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To remind us that this is not the first

time in history that somebody has said, I

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want to see Israel completely destroyed.

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And yet God has been faithful to

preserve and protect his people.

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I don't pretend to know what's going

to happen even by the time that this

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podcast comes out tomorrow morning.

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I don't pretend to know.

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Uh, what will have happened with

Yuron and, and that the threats and

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the missiles, and th the, the nations

surrounding Israel and in what's referred

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to so often as the ring of fire there.

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I don't know.

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And it could very well be that

an attack is launched and it

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could be a devastating attack.

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Uh, to the, the nation of Israel there,

but we have to remember that the, the

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true Israel, that there will be a faithful

remnant that God is not done with Israel

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as we've been seeing in the profits.

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And even if the national identity

of Israel, which came back into to

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fruition in 1948, I believe it was

even if that goes away off the world

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scene for a period of time, that

doesn't mean that that Israel's gone

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and that God has forgotten his people.

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Just like when Israel was in

exile in Babylon, it didn't

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mean that Israel was gone.

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They'd got it forgotten as people.

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So keep some perspective, some

biblical perspective on the events

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and things going on right now.

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There's nothing new

under the sun right now.

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Uh, and so we can continue to trust

in God's sovereign plan and listen.

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Do I think that we should

continue to support Israel as

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a nation, a hundred percent.

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I do.

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I think it, that the Abrahamic covenant

even speaks to that, that there's

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blessings on those who bless Israel.

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And there's, cursings on those who don't.

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So.

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I think it's a good thing.

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I think it's a right thing

for us to support Israel.

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Uh, but as far as what's going to happen

here and how do we understand that?

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And what if this, and what if that.

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We don't have to, to be chicken little

and say the sky is falling and oh no,

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this, that, and the other thing I think

we can continue to trust in the Lord.

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And you're going to see a lot right now

from different people and hear a lot from

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different pastors that are talking about.

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End times prophecy.

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And here's what I'll tell you.

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I think what we do need to do is we do

need to be reading the, the, the sides.

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We do need to be aware.

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We need to be watching out.

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And that's what Jesus commands

us to do in the new Testament.

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In the gospels.

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He says, we need to be ready

for his return at any time.

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And so as we look around the world

and see, and hear rumors of wars,

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and we hear about famines and

earthquakes and all of these things.

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Uh, yeah, w we need to say,

okay, the Lord said, this is the

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beginning of the birth thing.

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So we need to remember that even John

in first, John said, it's the last hour.

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And what he meant by that is

there's nothing left between

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now and the return of Christ.

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Uh, Jesus has ascended to heaven

and is now simply waiting for the

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fullness of the Gentiles to come in.

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He's waiting for that

final person to be saved.

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And then the Lord, the father

is going to look at the sun and,

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and send him back for the church.

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So that's where we're at.

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And that's.

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If you're looking at the world

events right now, and if it's

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causing you to think, man, Jesus

could come back at any moment.

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Good.

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I'm glad that that's the right

thing for us to be doing.

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As we consider everything

happening right now.

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I think when we press it beyond that, and

we try to say, well, this is this, and

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this is this, and this is this person.

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This is Gog.

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And this is Megan.

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This is what's gonna happen.

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I think we're, we're, we're

playing above our pay grade.

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At that point, we don't know God

is going to unfold the plans for

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the times and the way that he

unfolds the plan for the end times.

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I have a conviction that the church is

not going to be here for all of that.

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And all of the tribulation period, I have

conviction that the church is going to

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be raptured prior to the tribulation.

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But at the end, God is the one that,

that is the one that changes the

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seasons and we can trust in him.

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And so on that note, it's helpful

for us to turn to a study of a book

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like Jeremiah, because Jeremiah

is known as the weeping prophet.

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And the reason being is Jeremiah

was the prophet during the

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fall of the Southern kingdom.

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And even afterwards into exile.

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Uh, Jeremiah was a priest and prophet.

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And so unlike, uh, the, the prophet.

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That would just look that I

believe Zephaniah or Naomi.

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Ah, memory is failing.

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Uh, I believe it was F and I,

it was a descendant of Hezekiah.

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And so he had Royal blood in him.

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He was.

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Profit king here with Jeremiah,

we see a prophet priest.

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And so remember Jesus, the one that's

coming in the future is going to be

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priest, prophet and king, all three.

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And we haven't seen that to date and we

won't until Jesus comes and fulfills that.

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Uh, but he was the lament, the weeping

prophet, the lamenting prophet.

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In fact, he wrote the book

limitations as well as we'll

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find out in a little bit here.

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But the reason why is because he

was sorrowful over the destruction

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of Jerusalem and Judah and the

exile of his people, and he

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got the job of, of prophesying.

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The impending judgment and in overseeing

all of that actually take place.

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He had a scribe, his scribe's name

was Baruch, and we're going to

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encounter Baruch in the book as well.

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And he was the one that wrote

down the words that, that the Lord

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gave to Jeremiah, that Jeremiah

then passed on there to Baruch.

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Uh, he was persecuted.

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Uh, we're going to find

that out to be the case.

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He was delivering a message that people

did not like, and they went after him.

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You've heard the phrase.

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I'm just the messenger.

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Don't don't shoot the messenger.

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Well, they wanted to shoot the

messenger when it came to Jeremiah.

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He prophesied from Josiah's 13th year.

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So, uh, 6 27 BC.

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And remember Josiah was a good king.

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So he prophesied during, at the

beginning during the reign of a good

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king in king Josiah and your 6 27.

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A BC.

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Uh, all the way until after

the fall of Jerusalem.

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So at least to 5 86 and beyond if 5

86 BC being the fall of Jerusalem.

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So he was contemporaries with

Habakkuk and Zephaniah and.

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Uh, Daniel.

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And so, uh, that's who we see

here with the prophet, Jeremiah.

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Uh, setting for his ministry has found in

what we've been reading lately in the end

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of second Kings and second Chronicles.

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In other words, things really aren't good

for Judah, even with your size reforms.

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Remember the Lord said because

of the scene of Manasseh.

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Uh, he's going to bring judgment.

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And so things are not good for Judah.

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And after Josiah, the Kings just, they.

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They go downhill from there, they, they

fail their armies, fail the prophets

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and priests fail and ultimately their

resistance is going to fail as well.

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And that's what the book

of Jeremiah here is about.

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And so when we get into the book, Jeremiah

chapter one, we find Jeremiah's call.

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Uh, Jeremy has called

verses one through three.

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We find the timeframe of the book.

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Again, he lays out that the Kings

during which he was prophesying and

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during which his ministry took place.

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Uh, verses four through 10, we find the

call in the equipping of the prophet.

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And there's some parallels

there with Moses and Isaiah.

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Um, The prophet says

there in verse six, I.

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I don't know how to speak.

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I'm only a youth.

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Remember Moses told the Lord I can't go.

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I have the speech impediment.

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I can't go.

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And then the, the prophet.

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The parallel with Isaiah there.

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Is when the Lord says, Hey, I'm going

to send you in and look at verse

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nine, the Lord, put his hand on and

touched his mouth, Jeremiah, his mouth.

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And the Lord said to me, behold,

I have put my words in your mouth.

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You'll remember with Isaiah.

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It was a similar thing.

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It was a coal from the altar that

touched his lips to a tone for his sin.

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So.

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There's some parallels there, but

this is the calling and the equipping

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of the prophet, the Lord saying, I'm

going to send you and it's going to be

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my words that you're going to speak.

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You don't have to worry

about your words, Jeremiah.

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Verses 11 through 19, then the Lord

commissions, Jeremiah for the work and

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tells him of the impending judgment coming

against Judah in the form of visions

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that he has here involving two things.

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Number one, being the almond

branch and number two.

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Being the boiling boiling cauldron.

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And so, uh, the almond branch and

the boiling cauldron of both of those

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representing the impending judgment that

was coming against the people of Israel.

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And so.

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Jeremiah's commission was, is

found there in verse 17, but

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you dress yourself for work.

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Arise and say to them, everything that I

command you do not be dismayed by them.

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Lest I dismay you before them.

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So the prophet.

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Let's give it a pretty sober charge here

before the Lord be faithful to my message.

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Let's not come after you.

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Uh, verse 19, he's told

this is going to be a labor.

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This is going to be a difficult ministry.

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They will fight against you, but they

shall not prevail against you for, I am

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with you declares the Lord to deliver you.

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So Jeremiah is reminded, Hey, this

is going to be a difficult message.

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People aren't gonna like you for

it, but fear not for, I am with you.

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Chapter two, then we

get the opening message.

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And so there's multiple messages that

Jeremiah gets in the book and there

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they're set apart for us with the

phrase, the word of the Lord came to me.

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And so we're going to find that

multiple times throughout the book,

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but the first one shows up here.

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Jeremiah two verse one, the

word of the Lord came to me.

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Uh, verses one through eight after all of

God's kindness to lead the people through

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the wilderness and to the promised land,

the people thank him by forsaking him

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and turning to the gods of the nations

that he had driven out from before them.

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And so.

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Here, the Lord is saying,

this is, this is the charge.

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This is the indictment.

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Verse eight.

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The priest did not say, where is the Lord?

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Those who handle the law did not know me.

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The shepherds transgressed against me and

the prophets prophesied by, by all, they

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all went after things that do not profit.

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And so the Lord is saying,

here's the problem.

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This is the indictment verses nine

through 19 that never before had

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a nation for sake in their gods

for the gods of another people.

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But that's exactly what Judah had done.

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They had forsaken the true God,

the fountain of living waters,

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Jeremiah two 13 is a verse that is.

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It's chilling and, uh, and in

such a strong charge against

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Israel, in fact, backup.

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Verse 11, let me start.

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There has a nation changed its gods,

even though they're not gods, but

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my people have changed their glory

for that, which does not profit.

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So he's saying, look at

even the pagan nations.

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They've been abandoned their gods.

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The way that you've abandoned me is what

God is telling the Israelites there.

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And then he says this in

verse 12, be appalled.

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Oh, heavens be shocked.

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Be utterly desolate declares.

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The Lord for my people have committed two

evils and here's the two evils number one.

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They have forsaken me the

fountain of living waters.

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And so they had neglected to

continue to trust the Lord.

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The one that had provided everything

that they need from the time of the

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exit, us onwards, the one that had

preserved them in the wilderness, they

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looked at the fountain of living waters

and said, thanks, but no, thanks.

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And then second, the second evil, they

had been unfaithful with the false

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gods of the nations, which were the

broken cisterns that can hold no water.

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So you think about the

picture there of, of.

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Thirst and you have an option.

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You can go to the fresh living water.

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Or you can go to a broken cistern.

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And the bottom of the broken

system that can hold no water,

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it would just have been sludge.

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And in fact, your mind is going to

find himself in a situation where

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he's in a broken sister and later

on in the book, but just sludge

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and mud and muck and stagnant

pools in the bottom of that sister.

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And you're given a choice.

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What do you want, do you want the

fountain of living waters or do

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you want water from that stagnant?

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Gross sludge at the bottom of the

broken cistern, of course you'll

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choose the fountain of living waters.

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And yet God is saying

that's how tragic this is.

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Israel has instead chosen the

broken cisterns of the false

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gods, rather than choosing me in

the fountain of living waters.

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Verses 20 through 25, the Lord's

provision and kindness had been met

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with unfaithfulness unrestrained pursuit

of the other nations at other gods.

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Again.

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The indictment is laid out there,

that the charges laid out there.

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This is what you've done

specifically verses 26 through 28.

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He basically says, you've got your gods

and let them save you from what's coming.

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If they're able, you want them fine.

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It turned to them.

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See if they can spare you

from the rat that's coming.

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Versus 20, 19 32, then Judah

ignores correction in murders.

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The prophets God sent a

warn that made, got it.

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God's even saying, look,

I even tried to warn you.

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I sent you profits and instead

of welcoming them in, in hearing

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their message and repenting.

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Eh, what did you do?

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You murdered them, you

killed the prophets instead.

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Uh, versus 30, 60, 37, Judah would

look for help from even Egypt.

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And God says don't don't trust in Egypt.

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Because Egypt would not deliver her.

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Her trust in Egypt would be eventually

part of her downfall in the end.

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But here God sinked

don't, don't go to Egypt.

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Don't look back over your shoulder and

think like you did coming out of the

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wilderness that they're going to help you.

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Just like they didn't help you, then

they're not going to help you here.

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Uh, verses one through five that the

imagery of chapter three here, the imagery

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and the conclusion of this first charge

is first message is similar to Hosea.

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The charge ends with

the chilling statement.

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You have done all the evil that you could.

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You've done all the evil that

you could each just, there's no

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doubt in the mind of the Lord.

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And there should be no doubt in

our mind or that in the minds of

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the Israelites, listening to this.

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And that they are in trouble.

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They have done evil.

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They've done wickedness and

the Lord was done with it.

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Chapter three.

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Then we get into the start of the second

message to that opening message was

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here's my charges against you, Judah.

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This is what you've done, and you need

to come face to face with the gravity

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and the absurdity of the decisions that

you've made for seeking me the fountain

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of living waters for broken cisterns.

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Second message then begins

in chapter three, actually.

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Ch.

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Stretches all the way beyond

our reading for today, all

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the way through chapter six.

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So we'll finish that up.

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And tomorrow's reading, but here in

chapter three, Uh, verses six through 11.

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Judah.

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Judah did not learn from Israel, but

instead made matters worse by persisting

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in her sin and feigning repentance.

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And so here, the Lord is saying you

could have learned from the nation

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of Israel, you could have looked and

seen what I did there and learned.

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And yet.

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Verse eight yet her treacherous

sister, Judah did not fear, but she

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too went in and B became unfaithful.

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Uh, verse 10 yet for all of this,

her treacherous sister, Judah did not

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return to me with her whole heart,

but in pretense declares, the Lord.

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There's that.

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That fake, that faults, that pseudo

repentance, feigning, repentance.

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So the Lord is saying you have

committed the same senses as

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Israel and even worse because you

had the example of Israel there.

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And that even did not cause you to repent.

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Versus 12 to 15, that there is this

call for repentance that still,

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that goes out and yet notice who

it goes out to the Northern tribes.

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So that's interesting.

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Go proclaim these words

towards the north in verse 12.

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So he's appealing to the,

those that are in exile.

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Those that have suffered under

the judgment that Judah was

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about to suffer and sing to them.

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Hey, are you ready to repent?

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Will you, will you come in

and provide an object lesson

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for Judah even in saying, Hey.

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Come back to the Lord.

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We wish we had come back

to the Lord earlier.

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Verse 14 implies that this is not going

to be a large number, but one from

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this place two, from that, if they

would return, God would give them good

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shepherds who would care for them.

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So God is, is.

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Perhaps even provoking jealousy

from Judah at this point.

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And having Isaiah turned to

the Northern kingdom and say,

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Hey, are you ready to repent?

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Now that you've experienced the wrath

that Jude is about to experience?

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Will you come back?

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And he says some will one

from here, two from there.

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So it's not going to be a national

repentance, so to speak from the

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Northern kingdom, but there are

going to be some faithful among

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them that are going to return.

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Verses 16 through 18.

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Then we get a picture of the

millennial kingdom mixed in here.

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And it's the hope that that

Jeremiah holds out here.

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And it's, it's a hope that has both Judah

and the, the remnant of Israel re gathered

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and the Lord reigning from Jerusalem.

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So we've seen this in other

profits where they will mix into

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judgment this vision in the future

when things are going to be good.

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And it's the carrot at the end of

the stick, which why the carrot

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it's the cookie it's listen,

it's the Christmas tree cake from

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hostess at the end of the stick.

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Eh, or from little Debbie

and that's what it is.

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And we want that.

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And so it's like, this

is what you could have.

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But you need to repent.

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Uh, verse 20, the name Israel

is now applied to Judah here.

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And so sometimes it's like, okay,

are we talking about Israel, Northern

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kingdom, Israel, Southern kingdom.

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Kind of, from this point forward,

we're going to be talking

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about the Southern kingdom.

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So Israel Judah one in the same

now, beginning in verse 20 in moving

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forward as the only real remaining

representation of God's people.

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Now, the Northern

kingdom is off the scene.

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So now when you read Israel, I

understand he's, he's pretty much

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talking about Judah at this point.

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Uh, verses 19 through 25, though,

in this broader section, Israel

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had rejected the Lord, but again,

Judah had rejected the Lord.

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And, and though that day of future

blessing will eventually arrive.

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The present picture

was much darker indeed.

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Call for those listening to

Jeremiah's message to repent

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because judgment was coming.

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So.

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Chapter three, it wasn't, this book is not

all just like, Hey, look how bad you are.

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And God's going to punish you.

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There's messages of hope and

repentance that are mixed in here.

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If the people would listen and yet

tragically, we're going to find

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that they're not going to listen.

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They're not going to listen to the Lord.

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And so judgment will come.

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Let me pray for us.

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And then we'll be done with today's

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Father.

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I pray that we would not be like,

uh, like Judah and like Israel.

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Uh, that we would not be slow

to repent, but quick to repent.

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Got to pray that we would heed

your word and not reject your

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word, not cast it behind our backs.

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As you sales were in

your, your scriptures.

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I pray that we would be sensitive.

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To our sin and the damage it does

to our relationship with you.

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And I pray that it would be quick to

repent quick, to put it to death and

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quick to seek, to obey you with all

we are and love you with our, all of

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our heart, soul strength and mind.

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And God, I pray that you'd be

pleased with us as a result.

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And so Lord, we know ultimately

that you're pleased with us because

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of Jesus, but I just pray that our

relationship, our day in and day out,

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we would experience your favor, that

we would experience your pleasure.

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Uh, as we pursue godliness in response

to, uh, just who we are now in Christ.

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And so we, we trust you.

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Uh, with our lives and we thank

you for this day in, she pray.

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Uh, that you'd help us to

live it to faithfully to you.

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We pray this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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All right.

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Keep, bring your Bibles tune in

again tomorrow for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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Bye all.