00:00 Pastor PJ's Promotion to Junior Pastor

00:54 Discussion on Systematic Theology

03:07 Book Recommendation: The Deep Things of God

05:17 Insights on Writing and Sermon Preparation

06:27 Daily Bible Reading: Jeremiah 26-29

13:10 Jeremiah's Prophecies and False Prophets

16:21 Jeremiah 29:11 and Its Context

21:14 Conclusion and Prayer

21:59 Closing Remarks and Podcast Information

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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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And now your host Pastor Rod and

his assistant, Junior Pastor PJ!

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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Hey.

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Thanks there, Bernard.

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That's that's really, he

only speaks the truth.

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Does he?

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He only speaks the truth.

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Yeah.

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That's what you programmed

him to say is it did.

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Did you ever grow up

watching home improvement?

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I did.

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Yeah.

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I loved it.

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I feel like Bernard is taking

some shots maybe towards me, like

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Tim took shots at Al in, in that.

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I don't know.

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I don't know why I get that impression.

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Just that is Hey.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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It's weird.

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I don't think so.

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Bernard, I think you're.

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I think you're feeling attacked.

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Am I?

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But it's only in your head, man.

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I need to calm down.

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I think so, man.

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Yeah.

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I This is what they, this is this part

of that paranoia that we talked about.

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Yeah.

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You're afraid and concerned about things

that aren't really happening and, yeah.

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It's, Hey it's you.

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It not me.

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It, yeah.

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Yeah.

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I guess I just need to shake it off.

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I don't know.

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I think so.

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Yeah.

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Maybe, anyways midweek Thursday.

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Hey, last night we don't know

how it went, but Adventure Club

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kicked off midweek and it did.

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I'm sure it was fantastic.

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I'm sure I trust.

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If not, then we will let you

guys know when we hear about it.

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But no, we, I'm sure it was great.

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We're excited about it.

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It's it's like ana e except

different in that it's a, an

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approach of systematic theology.

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Ana spends a lot of time focused on

memorizing scripture, which is great.

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Awesome.

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And this does as well.

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We love it.

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Yeah, this does as well.

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But it also marries it with the

component of systematic theology.

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And so our kids are gonna

be learning big topics.

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And so systematic theology, if

that's a term that you're going,

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okay, what does that look like?

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It takes a subject about God and traces

it through the full corpus of theology.

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Of the Bible.

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The Bible, yeah.

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And so you're gonna be

looking at a system of God.

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So for example, soteriology

is the study of salvation.

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So you're gonna look at, from beginning

to end the study of salvation all

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the way through, you're gonna look

at ology, which is the study of sin.

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You're gonna look at that

from the beginning to end.

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What do, how can we see the

doctrine of sin develop?

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Throughout.

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And so it's just a one way

of looking at theology that's

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really helpful to be able to do.

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And it's gonna be great for our kiddos.

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They're gonna be learning big things

about God, which they're capable

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to do of doing we trust and it's

gonna be a great time for them.

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Did you learn systematic theology

when you were just a tyke?

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No.

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I would kill for this opportunity.

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Totally.

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This is in fact, if you're a teacher

for this thing, you're gonna love it.

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You're gonna learn so much, just

learning the things that you

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have to teach to your children.

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So this is such a good thing.

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If you're not taking part of it,

man, we would love to have you.

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Consider that.

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Yeah.

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And I don't even know why

you wouldn't at this point.

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Maybe it's a bad night of the

week, but this is worth it.

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There are so many things that are gonna

ask for your time, sports and other cool

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curricular, extracurricular activities.

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Fantastic.

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God bless those things.

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This is really awesome though.

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They're really sweet.

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I'm really glad my kids get to be part

of this and I can't wait to see what

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comes about from all of this teaching

and I don't even know what's the first

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category of theology we're covering?

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Do you know?

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I don't know.

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Me neither.

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We probably should know that though.

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We'll find out.

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I wonder it.

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My, my guess would be theology,

proper, the study of God.

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That would make sense.

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That's usually the first place to start.

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Yeah.

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Unless they're like super systematic

theology and they're doing ProGo.

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I was wondering, yeah, ProGo, which

means don't even worry about it guys.

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This is the first things.

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First.

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First things.

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Yeah.

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Like here's setting the table, setting

the context, that kind of thing.

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Hey, a book that I'm working through

that I would commend to people out

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there is called The Deep Things

of God, and it's by Fred Sanders.

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And so I've been enjoying that so far.

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What are some of those deep things?

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Give us a few highlights.

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Somewhat readable.

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The book is focused on the Trinity.

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He has another book that he

wrote on the Trinity, but this

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one it also focuses on that.

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And one of the things that I've just

appreciated early on is just how he

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connects the idea of the Trinity,

our concept of the Trinity to the.

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Gospel itself and basically says

if you know the gospel, then

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you've experienced the trinity.

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Whether you realize it or not, he

says this, he says, anyone who has

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encountered God in Christ through the

Holy Spirit has come to know the Trinity,

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but not everybody in this position

knows that they know the Trinity.

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So part of his whole, our argument here

is trying to remove the trinity from

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the realm of the academic and bring

it into the realm of the relational,

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which is great, and it's something

that's needed because the concept

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of the Trinity can be terrifying.

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It can be one of these big, frightening.

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Obtuse things that we don't

really know how to explain.

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And that's, that is true in part,

but it also does show up in how

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we relate to God on a daily basis.

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And so we are to his point, interacting

with the Trinity even without realizing

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we're interacting with the Trinity.

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So true.

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And I think it doesn't get a lot of hang

time because in part it is a difficult

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subject to broach and to do well, and

there's ways that you can talk about the

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Trinity that are automatically heresy.

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You gotta be careful with that.

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Yes.

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But you just preached on that this

coming Sunday or this last Sunday rather.

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Yes.

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You talked about the

Trinity and their role.

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They as in the Tri Trinity, but singularly

God, his, the way that he saved us.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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So you guys can come back to

our church and listen to the

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Trinity being talked about.

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There you go.

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Yeah.

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In fact, he makes the point that

Evangelicals by and large have kind of

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kept this doctrine on the shelf because

when, because of that, because of the

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fact that we're uncomfortable with it.

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And he said when we should be because

of its connection with the gospel that

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Evangel, which is where we get our

name evangelical, that we should be

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some of the ones that are championing

the doctrine of the Trinity the most.

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And yeah, I'm five or six chapters

in, but so far really enjoying, it's.

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Pretty readable.

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Fred Sanders.

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It's called The Deep Things of God.

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Subtitle, how The Trinity

Changes Everything.

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So there you go.

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Wow.

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Let's, how about you?

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What are you reading right now?

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Any recommend recommendations

you throw out there?

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Mostly lately I'm reading

books about writing.

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Yes.

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And I thank God for that all of my reading

has been assigned and it's about how to

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write like an academic, how to write with

clarity, how to edit yourself and one

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here's one freeing idea and it relates to

preaching and it relates to sermon prep.

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I have found that there's

no one right way to do it.

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And in terms of truth, the way that people

approach it, there are certain principles

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that are true always in forever.

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And I, that's the same thing

when it comes to writing.

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There's grammar, there's syntax.

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You can't get rid of those.

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But the way that people get to

the product, that's different.

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And that's been freeing for me.

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'cause I always thought, I hate writing.

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I'm not a great writer.

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I can't believe that this is so hard.

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Why is this so hard?

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I give up, I shouldn't be alive.

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Those things, and I felt

that way a lot of times.

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And I've been writing sermons

and I've come to find out that.

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It's supposed to be really hard,

and if you'll push your way through

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it and learn some approaches that

work for you, it'll get better with

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time, they may not be easier, but the

experience of psychological torture

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and hatred will lessen over time.

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Psychological torture.

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Yes.

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Sometimes it does feel that way.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but it's a work of love.

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Let's jump into our DBR for today.

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We've got Jeremiah 26 through 29.

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The famous, I almost said infamous.

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It's not infamous, the

famous Jeremiah chapter 29.

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So we'll get there in just a minute, but

Jeremiah 26 opens with some persecution

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coming after Jeremiah, and we are about 12

years earlier than we were in chapter 24.

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So we're about 6 0 9 BC now, and dealing

with the reign of King Jo Hoya Kim.

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And that's why these markers

are helpful for us to look at.

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Okay, who's on the throne and then

we can get the date based on that.

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But Jeremiah has been prophesying and

Jeremiah's been prophesying against

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Judah and been telling the people,

Hey, this is what's gonna happen.

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This is what you need to do.

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Even in verse three he says, it

may be that they will listen in.

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Every one of them will

turn from his evil way.

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God still giving an opportunity at

this point for the people to repent,

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and he would relent from his judgment.

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And yet the people's response is

gonna be that they are going to.

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Want to kill Jeremiah.

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It doesn't necessarily go well

for Jeremiah here, but Jeremiah's

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brought before the officials.

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The people are gonna do this by

the book, at least at this point.

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And so they gather the officials

at the city gate and that would've

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been where cases were heard it.

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They would, the elders of the town would

come and sit in their seats outside the

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gate and the arguments would be made.

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And that's where they would

issue their judgments there.

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That's where court was held.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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They didn't have the big buildings

like we have or anything like that.

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Jeremiah, the whole time though, is

gonna remain confident in the Lord.

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You'll notice in verse 12 he says,

the Lord sent me to prophesy against

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this house, and he's still gonna

say, Hey, you need to repent.

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Verse 13, recommend your ways and your

deeds and obey the voice of the Lord.

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So even as they're trying to kill

him, he's still faithful to God's

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purpose in his life, which is to

go out and call them to repentance.

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And from this point the officials,

after hearing this things out

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are gonna say, you know what?

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He's not done anything worthy of death.

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And this is a time of God sparing

Jeremiah through the, even the wisdom

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of these earthly rulers, being able

to see the fact that Jeremiah had not

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done anything that was worthy of death.

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And God uses a man named ah, hiku,

or a Hiku who was with Jeremiah

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so that he was not given over the,

to the people to be put to death.

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Verse 24.

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And this man served under Josiah.

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We find out in two Kings verse 22.

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You've got a guy who had the influence

of Josiah such a positive in Godly King

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who's gonna be useful to Jeremiah here to

help make sure that the people don't end

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up executing Jeremiah for his prophecies.

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Yeah.

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One of the cool things about

this chapter in addition to

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the fact that it's really rad.

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I I love the way that Jeremiah

responds to the crowd here, but

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I think important for you to know

is why we're jumping back in time.

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What's happening here?

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What are we doing?

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Why is Jeremiah.

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Putting all this content together,

why not just splice it in?

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And I think probably the easiest reason

is that Jeremiah's intention was not to

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depict the people's response entirely.

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Here in this next section of chapters

that we're gonna look at 26 through about

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29, we're gonna find out how the people

have been responding to his ministry.

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And so now we're gonna see what is

conflict with Judah has looked like,

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and I think remarkably you find

that Jeremiah responds so admirably.

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I love the fact that he says in verse 14,

but as for me, behold, I'm in your hands.

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You do what seems good to you.

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You make your decisions, you go through

your court case, but rest assured if

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you put me to death, you're bringing

innocent blood upon yourselves.

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And so that's fascinating.

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All by itself, this man's life is in

his hands, and that's what he says.

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You do what seems good.

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You do business with the Lord about that.

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But I also love that the way

that they argue to, to save him

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is through biblical precedence.

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I think that's really cool.

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And not to mention, they're quoting Micah.

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They're using the prophet Micah

to say, look, we didn't kill Micah

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when he was speaking against us.

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Why are we gonna kill Jeremiah?

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I love that biblical precedent, and I

think for you and I that's so helpful,

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you ought to get used to practicing

pulling out scripture to justify the

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way that you think about something.

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This is what God has

given us the word for.

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He's given us these examples

so that we can learn how to

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live and learn how to interact.

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And God uses this example

to protect Jeremiah's life.

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And I think that's important for us to

see because this is what a Christian does.

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We look at the whole corpus

of scripture and utilize it.

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To make decisions and

to learn how to think.

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This is a good example of that,

pulling out scripture, but not

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pulling scripture out of context.

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That's right.

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Exegesis versus is esis.

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No, we didn't say eggs and

Jesus, what did we say?

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Exegesis, which means what?

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PPJ.

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What's exegesis versus is esis.

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Exegesis is drawing truth

out of the scripture.

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I said Jesus is reading

truth into the scripture.

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What's the difference?

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Reading our desires into the scripture.

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So we, we are a church that's an

expository preaching church that's

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based on exegetical preaching.

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That is, we're gonna go to the text

and we're gonna draw the truths outta

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the text and preach those truths.

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We're not gonna come to the text with

our preconceived ideas or biases or,

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I wanna preach a message on money.

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So let me go find a passage that

fits what I want to say about money.

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And I'm gonna preach that regardless

of the context around it, regardless

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of what it meant in its original time.

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I'm just gonna make it say

what I want it to mean today.

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That's, I said, Jesus, that's reading.

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Our wisdom, our desires, our

plans into God's word, rather than

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submitting all of that to God's word.

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Here's a good example.

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Let's say you're an MMA fighter.

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And on your boxing shorts, I don't have

to work hard to figure this one out.

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Okay.

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That's right.

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This is exactly, this

is basically you, yes.

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You put on your boxing

shorts, Philippians four 13.

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Yes.

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Which says, I can beat up all

people in the face through

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his power who strengthens me.

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Totally.

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Something like that right now that, I.

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It's funny, but I think that's happened.

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Oh yeah.

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And I think that's an inappropriate

use of Philippians four 13.

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It may be a little bit and I think

that's a good example of I of Jesus.

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Yeah.

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And it's a really comforting

verse and certainly I understand

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why someone would wanna do that.

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'cause it's way when your flag a

little bit saying, this is my God.

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Yeah.

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I serve him.

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And I think people might misunderstand

what the meaning of your boxer shorts

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mean if you're saying Philippians

four 13 as you're pounding a

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guy in the face with your fist.

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Yeah.

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We will have another really

good example in Jeremiah 29.

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In just a few minutes here.

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That's true.

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Yep.

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Exegesis versus Isis.

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Versus isis.

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Just tuck that one away.

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Alright.

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Hey, chapter seven real quick.

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Here is 27.

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27.

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Thank you.

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Chapter 27.

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We are in Zet, Kai's reign.

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So we're now forward, we're in 5 97

BC and Yahweh is basically going to

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deliver the message to the nation's.

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And to zakiah that babylon's coming

and they best not resist that

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this is part of his plan, that

this is what he is doing here.

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And so he has the prophet do another

living parable where he puts him

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in a yoke and the prophet walks

around in a yoke, basically is

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saying, this is what God is doing.

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God is gonna bring you under

this yoke, and you cannot resist.

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You should not resist.

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And so this is what Yahweh is gonna tell

both the nations, and again, Zakiah.

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That he needs to make sure that to, to

subject himself to what God is doing here.

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Now remember, Eze Kai

is not gonna do this.

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Zika is one of the bad figs from

chapter 24 verses eight through 10.

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And Zaka is not going to listen

and he is gonna face the famine and

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the pestilence and the sword that

God is gonna bring in response.

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But this is another uncomfortable moment

for the prophet Jeremiah when he has

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to put on this yoke and walk around

to show the people what God's gonna do

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through the nation of Babylon coming.

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Chapter 28.

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Not everybody was a fan of this method

though, and so we run into another

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guy who is a false prophet named

Nia, and this false prophet Nanaya.

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He is going to, it says

in the same year, so 5 97.

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He is going to decide that.

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That he disagrees with the the

message that's being delivered here.

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So he's gonna lie and prophesy peace,

and he's gonna come and he's gonna

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break the yoke from off of Jeremiah,

and he's gonna say, in two years,

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God's gonna make everything better.

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In two years, the people that were

taken away, they're gonna come back.

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And so this guy is giving

kinda a moving target.

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He's given him some, himself, some space

here, so that if it doesn't happen right

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away, and he's probably hoping that

he can work something out for himself

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in the meantime, but he just doesn't

want to hear from Jeremiah anymore.

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Jeremiah then says you've broken a.

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A yoke of wood, God's gonna make a yoke

of iron, and things are actually gonna

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get far worse than you can even imagine.

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And oh, by the way, Hannah and I,

you're gonna die because you've

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been found opposing God and

prophesy the lies in his name.

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How do you know?

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If you're Jeremiah's audience, how do

you know that this guy, Hananiah isn't

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telling the truth besides the fact that

Jeremiah's saying, Hey, this guy's not

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telling the truth, and we have the benefit

of being able to look at chapter 28 and

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say, oh, yeah, okay, this is not the Lord.

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Jeremiah tells us and he's clearly

operating by the power of the Spirit.

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Was there any tell for the people

of Israel to say, oh man, Hania is

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clearly not a correct teacher in this?

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I think if they were students

of the full corpus of prophetic.

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The prophetic ministry.

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You mentioned earlier that they knew about

Micah at the time and they had known about

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some of the other prophets at the time.

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I think if they had been paying

attention to the messages that God was

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consistently sending, then I think they

would know, okay, this doesn't line up

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even with the rest of what Jeremiah had

already been prophesying in the book.

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And in that sense, they would have.

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At least had to have been bring,

brought to the crossroads of

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saying, what am I gonna choose?

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What am I gonna do here?

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Am I gonna choose to believe Jeremiah

or am I gonna choose to believe Nia?

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And what have I seen God doing?

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What have I seen God fulfilling more of

Hanna's messaging or Jeremiah's messaging.

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Yeah, that's really helpful.

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You're gonna, essentially what

we're talking about is comparing

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scripture with scripture.

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They wouldn't have used

this terminology because.

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That they didn't have that.

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But we can say that when someone comes

to you in the name of the Lord and

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says, here's what God says to you.

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Here's how God says to live your marriage.

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Here's how God says

you should do your job.

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You're always gonna say what

does scripture say about that?

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Does it correspond to what I

know to be true about this?

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Here's another question you

may not be able to answer.

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I don't know if he can.

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Jeremiah 28, this he and

I have false prophet guy.

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Is he doing this from his own volition or

is he being compelled by demonic spirit?

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Yeah.

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Either are possible or a combination

of those two things are possible.

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Interesting.

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Yeah.

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He may be deceived into making

himself available as a tool of

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the enemy not realizing that.

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And he probably wanted

this to be the case, right?

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I don't think he's just.

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Out there because he's nefarious

and wants to throw a wrench in

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everybody's plans and deceive people.

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He probably wants this to be the case.

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Just like we, we look around our

nation and we're like after this next

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administration, yeah, it'd be great to

have another four years of a conservative

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administration that's gonna continue

things in a good direction for us.

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Yeah.

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And so you'd be tempted to

say, yeah, I wanna believe that

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because that's what I want.

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I don't want what this

guy's saying over here.

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I want what this guy's saying here.

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And that requires a lot of

discernment, our, on our end.

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But it could be.

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That.

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Yeah.

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He was not realizing that he was

being used by the enemy, but being

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used by the enemy nonetheless.

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Interesting.

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Let's get to chapter 29.

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Since we've alluded to it a couple times.

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Jeremiah's gonna write a letter to

those that were already in exile,

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so still around 5 97 and 5 96 bc and

he's writing to them to give them an

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understanding of what they were to do.

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This is the good figs.

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So he's writing to the faithful

remnant there, and he's gonna tell

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them, and this is where he tells them

here, Hey, build houses there, live in

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them, plant gardens, eat the produce.

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This is interesting.

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He says, take wives and have sons

and daughters and take wives for

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your sons and give them to give

your daughters and marriage that

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they may bear sons and daughters

and multiply and do not decrease.

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We read that now, I think.

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There's still an unspoken parameter

there that would be in place

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in accordance with God's law.

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I don't think Jeremiah, in other words, is

commending them or telling them they need

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to intermarry with the Babylonian people.

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A hundred percent.

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Yeah.

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So when he says this, he's saying

amongst yourselves as the Israelites

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and even there when he says, so that

you do not decrease, the implication

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would be that the nation would continue

to increase, which would mean they

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would be marrying within the parameters

of the law in obeying the law.

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Still in that absolutely.

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But at the same time, they should

seek the welfare of the city.

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So not just of them as Israelites, but

the welfare of the city as a whole.

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Paul's gonna talk in

first Timothy chapter two.

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He's gonna say, Hey, pray for

the governing authorities,

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that it would go well for us.

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So that ministry may multiply more quickly

in, in essence is what he says there,

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so that it can go well for the church.

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And so he's saying the same

thing there for the Israel.

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Seek the welfare of the city.

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In verse 10 he mentions the 70

years again and says, you're

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gonna come back in 70 years.

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And then we get to verse 11.

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And verse 11 is the one that says,

for I know the plans I have for

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you, declares the Lord, plans for

your welfare and not for evil.

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To give you a future and a hope.

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And that's the one we talked about.

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Iso Jesus, putting that on

my boxer shorts when I fight.

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There we go.

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Yeah.

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Or the tape underneath

your eyes or whatever.

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Yeah.

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Yeah and it sounds so great.

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The problem is contextually, this was

as we've just been talking about for

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the exiles in Babylon, and God is making

them a promise, saying to them, saying,

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to exile to Israel, Hey, I have a future

for you and I'm gonna, I'm gonna work

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for your welfare and not for your evil.

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Now, does God tell us as Christians

that he has a future force us that's

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gonna be good, that's gonna be for our

plan, our benefit, and not for our evil?

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Maybe not in so many words,

but the concept is there

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biblically in other passages.

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And so it's not wrong to believe, Hey, God

is gonna deliver us into eternity, right?

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Let's talk about that for as second.

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Let's talk about Revelation 21.

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Like that future is ours and

it's guaranteed and it's secure.

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When Paul says this light, momentary

affliction is preparing for me an

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eternal weight of glory, that's a

similar concept to Jeremiah 29 11.

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And yet we don't need to take a verse out

from Jeremiah that doesn't apply to us

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and make it say what we want it to say.

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That's ISO Jesus, not exegesis.

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Yeah, and I guess maybe the

challenge for you is, it's a

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great verse, I'm not gonna lie.

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I like it.

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I'd like to wear that on my shirt.

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It's just not helpful for you to develop

the kind of approach to scripture where

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you're taking passages and putting it.

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For you when it really isn't for you.

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I heard someone say multiple times,

different people saying all the scripture

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is not to you, but it is for you.

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And there's different audiences in view.

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And so I could say, okay, what is

the application for Jeremiah 29 11?

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If you were gonna use it for

something, what would you use it for?

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PPJ?

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I think just God's sovereignty.

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I think even dispensationalism

our understanding of what

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God's doing on the national.

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On the geopolitical scene as we think

about the future, as we think about

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a future for Israel, verse like,

Jeremiah 29 11 helps us, and it's for

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us because it helps us understand how

we think about God's people today.

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Absolutely.

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And I think that's a more

appropriate application of it.

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It's a better, it's more direct because

you're not having to go through hoops

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and say God's people really, were not

just Israel, it's also the church.

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And then the church by

extension can also claim this.

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There's an element of truth to that.

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I wouldn't deny it, but it's.

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To, it's to the exiles who are suffering

under the their exilic existence and

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saying, Lord, have you forgotten us?

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And Jeremiah saying, no, I haven't.

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I'm gonna bring you back.

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Yeah.

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I've got plans for you

that will not be exhausted.

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And that again, to your point, fits so

nicely with our dispensational mindset.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I, and in defense of our covenant

brothers and sisters, I don't

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think they look at this verse and

claim it for themselves either.

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A lot of them don't.

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Yeah.

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I think most people understand.

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Who this was meant for in the time there.

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After this note in verse 12, he's gonna

say, you're gonna call upon me at the same

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time and pray to me and I will hear you.

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And I only point that out because of how

many times God has told Israel recently.

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I'm not gonna listen.

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I'm not gonna hear your prayers anymore.

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So this is gonna be a time of

restoration for the nation of Israel,

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but it's not always gonna be good.

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There's gonna be the bad figs as well.

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In fact, he even mentions them.

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And those bad figs are gonna be a problem.

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They're gonna do die by the sword,

by the famine, by the pestilence.

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And God is gonna bring

all of these things bound.

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And then chapter 29 ends with

another false prophet shamiah.

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And shamiah rises up and speaks.

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In opposition to all of this and speaks

into opposition to the Lord wants more,

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and this is another calling out of

somebody specific here where God is gonna

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say, this is not right, this is not good,

and this is not in accordance with what

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Jeremiah is saying is going to take place.

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Let's pray and then we will

be done with this episode.

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God, we like we, we prayed yesterday,

we need wisdom to know so many

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things and wisdom to be able

to discern what the text means.

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And we need wisdom to make sure that we're

not misapplying a passage or claiming

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something to be true of us, that wasn't

intended to be specifically for us.

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And so we thank you that you've given

us your spirit to, to help us understand

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the text, but also other resources

too, to consult commentaries and other

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books and things to be able to know.

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What these passages mean and

even how to take some of their

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truths and apply 'em to our lives.

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And so give us wisdom in our use of those

resources and protect us from error as

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we seek to interpret the word faithfully.

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And we pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye folks.

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Bye.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said