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Episode 68 — Jeremiah 25:8–11 Title: “When God Says Enough: The Consequences of Ignoring His Word” · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 4: mr his hop and today we're continuing our journey through
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  Speaker 4: the book of jeremiah and we are in chapter 25
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  Speaker 4: we're going to take it from verse 8 to 11
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  Speaker 4: four verses today in our last episode we saw how
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  Speaker 4: God had repeatedly warned Judah to turn away from evil
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  Speaker 4: and to turn to him we saw Jeremiah he had
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  Speaker 4: been delivering God's message for 20 plus years but the
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  Speaker 4: people refused to listen Now, the message takes a serious
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  Speaker 4: turn in today's episode. God announces that judgment is coming
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  Speaker 4: through Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and the land would
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  Speaker 4: be devastated. The people would serve Babylon and the familiar
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  Speaker 4: sounds of everyday life would cease. They would not hear
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  Speaker 4: it anymore. That's why we cannot take for granted even
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  Speaker 4: the small blessings that God gives. So this message reminds
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  Speaker 4: us that God's patience is real, but so is his judgment.
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  Speaker 4: So here's a question for today's episode. What happens when
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  Speaker 4: we keep ignoring the truth God has already made clear?
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  Speaker 4: before our father in prayer, Heavenly Father, we thank you
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  Speaker 4: for another day. Thank you for another opportunity today. to
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  Speaker 4: get right with you today. Father, draw us into the
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  Speaker 4: secret place. Oh God, let us not be distracted. Let
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  Speaker 4: us focus. Let us meet you in that secret place. Lord,
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  Speaker 4: let us sit at your feet and let us walk
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  Speaker 4: under your anointing, under your blessing. As we seek to
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  Speaker 4: apply your word and to live a life of obedience,
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  Speaker 4: we cancel every assignment of the enemy. No weapon formed
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  Speaker 4: against us shall prosper. I proclaim that over everyone listening
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Let's do this thing. So, Jeremiah. Jeremiah. chapter
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  Speaker 4: 11 we're gonna pick it up in verse 8 and
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  Speaker 4: i'm coming at you from the new king james says
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  Speaker 4: therefore thus says the lord of hosts because you have
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  Speaker 4: not heard my words let's do verse 92 behold i
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  Speaker 4: will send and take all the familiar uh all the
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  Speaker 4: families of the north says the lord and nebuchadnezzar the
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  Speaker 4: king of babylon my servant and will bring them against
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  Speaker 4: this land against the inhabitants and against these nations all
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  Speaker 4: around and will utterly destroy them and make them an
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  Speaker 4: astonishment a hissing and perpetual desolations.
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  Speaker 1: Alright it looks like you lost another one.
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  Speaker 4: Let me read it again in the King, the old
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  Speaker 4: King James. Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, because
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  Speaker 4: ye have not heard my words. Behold, I will send
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  Speaker 4: and take all the families of the north, says the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: And Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
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  Speaker 4: bring him against his land and against the inhabitants thereof.
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  Speaker 4: and against all those nations round about and will utterly
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  Speaker 4: destroy them and make them in astonishment and in hissing
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  Speaker 4: and a perpetual desolation. All right, let's do verse 10
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  Speaker 4: and 11 while we're at it. Then we'll come back
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  Speaker 4: and break it all down. Moreover, I will take from
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  Speaker 4: them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness
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  Speaker 4: the voice of bride broom and the voice of the
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  Speaker 4: bride the sound of the millstones in the light of
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  Speaker 4: the lamp and this whole land shall be desolate and
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  Speaker 4: an astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of babylon.
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  Speaker 3: 70 years.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. All right.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to verse eight because you have not heard
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  Speaker 4: my words, right? So right here, God identifies the people's
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  Speaker 4: refusal to listen as the reason for the coming judgment.
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  Speaker 4: Judah received repeated warning through Jeremiah and and other prophets
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  Speaker 4: as well. Yet, the people continued in disobedience. Their problem
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  Speaker 4: was not simply a lack of information. They were refusing
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  Speaker 4: to respond to the message God had given them. Now,
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  Speaker 4: there's a Bible verse that says that my people perished
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  Speaker 4: through lack of knowledge, but that was not their issue.
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  Speaker 4: They had the knowledge. They had the information, but still
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  Speaker 4: they chose outright rebellion. Now let's start with those words,
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  Speaker 4: because you have not heard my words. In scripture, hearing
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  Speaker 4: often means more than physically receiving a message. The people
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  Speaker 4: had heard the prophets speaking. They had Not listen in
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  Speaker 4: the sense of accepting and obeying God's instructions. Now, let's
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  Speaker 4: take a second and think about how this should apply
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  Speaker 4: to us today. We can listen to sermons every week.
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  Speaker 4: We can read. devotionals every morning and hear biblical teaching
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  Speaker 4: on the radio or through podcasts. And we can still
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  Speaker 4: refuse to change. And that is dangerous. That's where deception
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  Speaker 4: comes in. We know what the Bible says about forgiveness
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  Speaker 4: while holding on to bitterness. We can know what it
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  Speaker 4: says about honesty while continuing to lie and to lie
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  Speaker 4: to people. We can know what it says about pride
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  Speaker 4: while refusing to admit when we are wrong. The issue
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  Speaker 4: isn't always that we don't know the truth. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 4: know it, but we don't want to submit to it.
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  Speaker 4: That's when we allow our emotions and our feelings to
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  Speaker 4: lead our lives and our decision making instead of the
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  Speaker 4: word of God. Now, that's what makes today's episode a
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  Speaker 4: little uncomfortable. It challenges us. To look beyond how much
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  Speaker 4: scripture we've heard and examine how much we actually obey.
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  Speaker 4: And when we know the truth, we are accountable for
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  Speaker 4: what we know. That's why teachers get a stricter judgment.
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  Speaker 4: So we should always be careful not to use these
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  Speaker 4: verses to assume that every hardship someone experiences is a
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  Speaker 4: punishment from God. Jeremiah is describing a specific judgment against
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  Speaker 4: Judah because of persistent rebellion. The principle for us is
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  Speaker 4: that God's word deserves a response. That's why when we
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  Speaker 4: witness and we tell people about Jesus, we need to
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  Speaker 4: bring them to a response. We need to tell them
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  Speaker 4: that they must repent and submit their lives and turn
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  Speaker 4: from their wicked ways. It's not enough just to know
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  Speaker 4: about Jesus or to hear the good news. They have
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  Speaker 4: to accept the good news, which is Jesus himself. So
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  Speaker 4: do not measure your spiritual growth by how much truth
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  Speaker 4: you've heard. Measure it by how faithfully you're allowing that
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  Speaker 4: truth to shape your life. Verse nine, Nebuchadnezzar, God's instrument
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  Speaker 4: of judgment. Now. God announces that he will bring Nebuchadnezzar
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  Speaker 4: and the armies from the north against Judah and the
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  Speaker 4: surrounding nations. Nebuchadnezzar is called God's servant because God would
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  Speaker 4: use Babylon to carry out his announced judgment. Now, this
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  Speaker 4: designation describes Babylon's role in God's plan. It does not
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  Speaker 4: mean that Nebuchadnezzar was a faithful worshiper of the Lord
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  Speaker 4: or that God approved of everything Babylon did. Now, I
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  Speaker 4: believe it was the book of Joel where when he
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  Speaker 4: announced that he would bring Babylon to judge Judah, he
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  Speaker 4: questioned him And the simple fact, like, why would you
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  Speaker 4: use a nation more wicked than us to judge us? Well,
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  Speaker 4: for one, if all the nations are wicked, like, what
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  Speaker 4: does God have to use? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, of course, God is not limited. He could,
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  Speaker 4: you know, make a nation out of a rock. You
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  Speaker 4: know what I'm saying? But as God is a righteousness,
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  Speaker 4: God and their righteous judged. Even though he used a
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  Speaker 4: nation more wicked than them, he had a specific purpose
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  Speaker 4: for them, just like he uses Satan, right? Ultimately, Satan
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  Speaker 4: is serving God. Even though Satan fell, God could send
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  Speaker 4: him to judgment and Immediately, even though he was kicked
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  Speaker 4: out of heaven, he's not bound up. He is not
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  Speaker 4: in hell yet because God has a purpose for him. Now,
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  Speaker 4: these verses contain a surprising statement. God calls Nebuchadnezzar the
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  Speaker 4: king of Babylon, my servant. We have to understand it
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  Speaker 4: carefully here, right? He was not being described as a
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  Speaker 4: prophet or a godly Israelite. He was a pagan ruler.
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  Speaker 4: Yet God declared that he would use Babylon as an
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  Speaker 4: instrument of judgment against Judah. This teaches us that sometimes
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  Speaker 4: God through his sovereignty, can accomplish his purposes through people
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  Speaker 4: and events that do not operate according to his revealed
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  Speaker 4: moral standards. It does not mean that every action taken
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  Speaker 4: by a powerful person is approved by God, nor does
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  Speaker 4: it mean we can confidently declare that every modern war, disaster,
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  Speaker 4: or political event is a specific act of divine judgment.
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  Speaker 4: In Jeremiah's situation, God explicitly explains what he is doing.
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  Speaker 4: He would not claim the same certainty about events today
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  Speaker 4: without biblical groundings, right? So the verse also reminds us
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  Speaker 4: that Judah's national identity did not exempt it from accountability.
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  Speaker 4: God's people had received his instruction, but their repeated rebellion
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  Speaker 4: still had consequences. So if you are associated with the
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  Speaker 4: church and ministry, a Christian community, that doesn't mean You
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  Speaker 4: can ignore God's word or assume everything will be fine.
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  Speaker 4: We must not confuse spiritual privilege with permission to be
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  Speaker 4: disobedient to his word. Verse 10, the sound of joy
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  Speaker 4: will cease. God describes a coming devastation through the loss
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  Speaker 4: of ordinary sounds associated with daily life. Just think about
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  Speaker 4: the things we take for granted today. We have the
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  Speaker 4: ability to wake up in the morning and turn on
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  Speaker 4: the radio or we can turn on TV and check
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  Speaker 4: out the news before we leave out the door. We
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  Speaker 4: can hear the children laughing in our house or we
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  Speaker 4: can see people jogging. down the street. We can go
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  Speaker 4: by our favorite coffee shop or donut shop on our
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  Speaker 4: way to work. Right? There's a lot of small things
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  Speaker 4: that we can enjoy. We can just hear the birds chirping. Celebration, weddings,
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  Speaker 4: food preparation. And the light of household lamps would disappear.
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  Speaker 4: So the MGC communicates the scale of the destruction that
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  Speaker 4: would affect homes, families, and the wider community. Now, this
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  Speaker 4: verse makes the judgment personal. God doesn't merely talk about
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  Speaker 4: armies and political power. He describes the everyday sounds of
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  Speaker 4: life that would disappear. The voice of celebration would cease.
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  Speaker 4: Weddings would no longer fill the streets with joy. The
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  Speaker 4: sound of millstone grinding grain would stop. The light of
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  Speaker 4: the candle would go out. It would be complete darkness.
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  Speaker 4: Think about what those images represent. Think about family reunions.
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  Speaker 4: I got one coming up soon, right? Family gatherings and
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  Speaker 4: food being prepared, homes being occupied in carrying on with
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  Speaker 4: ordinary life. War and destruction would interrupt all of this.
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  Speaker 4: That's why we need to be thankful and we need
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  Speaker 4: to keep our nation in prayer. We had a taste
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  Speaker 4: of this during 9-11, but we haven't had an all
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  Speaker 4: out war on our soil against our country. Now, sometimes
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  Speaker 4: when we read the Old Testament, we focus so much
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  Speaker 4: on kings and nations that we forget ordinary people were
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  Speaker 4: affected also. Behind the historical events were parents, children, employees, workers, neighbors,
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  Speaker 4: and families whose lives were turned upside down. So this
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  Speaker 4: should remind us not to treat God's warnings carelessly. And
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  Speaker 4: it also should remind us that choices have consequences. When
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  Speaker 4: leaders make destructive decisions, communities can suffer when people repeatedly
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  Speaker 4: reject what is right. The damage can spread far beyond
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  Speaker 4: the individual making the choices. And we should also recognize
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  Speaker 4: the contrast between outward celebration and inward faithfulness. A society
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  Speaker 4: may appear prosperous and busy while serious moral spiritual problems
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  Speaker 4: are ignored. So this is not a call to fear
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  Speaker 4: every difficult event. It's a call to take truth, justice, obedience,
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  Speaker 4: and responsibility seriously. Never assume that because life looks normal
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  Speaker 4: today that we can ignore the choices that shape tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Verse 11, 70 years of Babylon rule. So God declares
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  Speaker 4: that the land would become desolate in the nations which
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  Speaker 4: serve Babylon for 70 years. years. This period makes a
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  Speaker 4: major chapter in Judah's history, demonstrating the seriousness of the
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  Speaker 4: announced judgment while setting a defined period of Babylonian dominance.
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  Speaker 4: The prophecy later becomes important in understanding the hope of
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  Speaker 4: restoration described in Jeremiah in and the events surrounding the
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  Speaker 4: return of the exiles. Now, these are major events in
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  Speaker 4: the history of the nation. So we come to the
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  Speaker 4: 70 years. God tells Jeremiah that the land would be
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  Speaker 4: desolate and the nations would serve the king of Babylon
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  Speaker 4: for 70 years. This was not a minor setback right
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  Speaker 4: here Judah would experience the consequences of its long standing
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  Speaker 4: rebellion and Babylon would dominate the region now the 70
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  Speaker 4: years were significant in the Babylonian account of the exiles
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  Speaker 4: because Jeremiah later refers to the period in chapter 29
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  Speaker 4: Daniel 9 and 2 records Daniel reflecting on Jeremiah's prophecy
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  Speaker 4: as the period of desolation approached the end of that period.
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  Speaker 4: He was able to know that the judgment in the
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  Speaker 4: exile would soon end because he read faithfully the prophets.
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  Speaker 4: And no doubt he read the book of Jeremiah. It's
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  Speaker 4: important because God's warnings and his promises must both be
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  Speaker 4: taken seriously. Judah could not simply ignore the warnings and
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  Speaker 4: expect no consequences. But the 70 year period also placed
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  Speaker 4: a boundary around Babylon's dominance in God's announced plan. For us,
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  Speaker 4: the lesson is not that every painful season would last
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  Speaker 4: a predicted number of years. We should take the 70
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  Speaker 4: years and apply them as a timetable for our personal
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  Speaker 4: struggles is not that we should apply the 70 years
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  Speaker 4: to us if we're going through a difficult time, right?
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  Speaker 4: Some of us are not even that old or who
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  Speaker 4: knows if we will live to be 70 years, but
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  Speaker 4: instead we learn that our choices matter. God's word is
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  Speaker 4: trustworthy and human power is not ultimate. Babylon was powerful,
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  Speaker 4: but it was not sovereign over history. the Lord remained sovereign.
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  Speaker 4: The consequences of disobedience can be serious, but no earthly
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  Speaker 4: power is greater than God. Also, concerning the 70-year period,
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  Speaker 4: God commanded the nation of Israel to have a Sabbath.
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  Speaker 4: Every seven years, they were supposed to allow the land
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  Speaker 4: to rest. Now, when they would plow the land and
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  Speaker 4: till the land and work the land, there's a principle
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  Speaker 4: to where if you just allow the land to rest
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  Speaker 4: on the seventh year, the land would become even more,
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  Speaker 4: what word am I looking for? Profitable or there would
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  Speaker 4: be more of an abundant harvest. There's just a principle
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  Speaker 4: of allowing it to rest. Remember, God wanted us as
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  Speaker 4: men to rest every seventh day of the week, the
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  Speaker 4: Sabbath day. Six days we would work, the seventh day
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  Speaker 4: we would rest. And so there is a principle of that. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the nation ignored, I believe it was the year of Jubilee.
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  Speaker 4: And it's history. And so it calculated to 70 years
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  Speaker 4: that they did not allow the Lord to rest. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the land to rest. And so the Lord said, you
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  Speaker 4: know what? The land is going to get its Sabbath.
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  Speaker 4: It owed the land 70 years. And so it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: pay the gift. God, God is going to get his
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  Speaker 4: due one way or another. I know times that when
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  Speaker 4: I was struggling financially, that I withheld the tithes and
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  Speaker 4: then some would break or some would come up and
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  Speaker 4: then I would end up spending the money somewhere else
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  Speaker 4: other than just being faithful to my tithes. And so
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  Speaker 4: this is something that I've struggled with. You know, I'll
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  Speaker 4: be faithful for a while. Then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 4: something came up. And it's been a hard lesson for me.
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  Speaker 4: So keep me in prayer. Sometimes, you know, taking care
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  Speaker 4: of a family and things happening now. I know there's
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  Speaker 4: different controversies about paying tithes and we're not going to
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  Speaker 4: get into it. Some people think it was an Old
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  Speaker 4: Testament thing and we don't have to pay in the
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  Speaker 4: New Testament. But remember, Jesus was in the temple and
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  Speaker 4: he saw God. they're watching their giving. And he said
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  Speaker 4: that the widow woman gave more than everyone else. And
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  Speaker 4: so giving is, was important to Jesus. He didn't say
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  Speaker 4: stop the giving because we don't do it no more.
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  Speaker 4: He looked at it and he made a point. And
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  Speaker 4: he spoke about money a lot. And so giving is
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  Speaker 4: a blessing. It's a biblical principle that, And so I
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  Speaker 4: believe that we will be better off paying our tithes
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  Speaker 4: and offering and giving. It's just a personal struggle that
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  Speaker 4: I've had through the years of not being as consistent
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  Speaker 4: as I should be. So keep me in prayer. Amen.
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  Speaker 4: So the big lesson today is don't ignore God. God's warnings, right?
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  Speaker 4: Hearing God's word is not the same as obeying it.
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  Speaker 4: Judah had repeated warnings, but the people refused to respond.
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  Speaker 4: We must examine whether we are putting scripture into practice
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  Speaker 4: or merely becoming familiar with its words. Number two, God
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  Speaker 4: holds people accountable. Judas history reminds us that spiritual privilege
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  Speaker 4: does not give anyone permission to reject God's truth. Our
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  Speaker 4: responsibility is to walk humbly and take correction seriously. Point
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  Speaker 4: number three, God's sovereignty extends beyond the powers of this world.
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  Speaker 4: Babylon became the instrument of judgment in this historical setting,
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  Speaker 4: but his power was not ultimate. God remains in control
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  Speaker 4: of the larger story. The main takeaway is simple. Don't
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  Speaker 4: wait until the consequences of stubbornness become overwhelming before you
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  Speaker 4: respond to God's truth. When scripture exposes something in your life, listen.
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  Speaker 4: When you recognize that you've been wrong, repent. When you
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  Speaker 4: need to make a change, take the next faithful step. Amen.
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  Speaker 4: as I've heard it before, either turn or burn. We
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  Speaker 4: need to constantly examine ourselves to see whether or not
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  Speaker 4: we are in the faith. All right, let's take a break, beloved.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to The Light of Las Vegas. This
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  Speaker 2: is the HizHop Radio Show.
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  Speaker 1: Ahem. Oh, my bad.
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  Speaker 4: It's Zaha, man. So check me out.
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  Speaker 3: As soon as I hit this space bar, the song
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  Speaker 3: starts immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all ready?
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  Speaker 4: Say hello.
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  Speaker 3: Hello. These days I'm way more bold. I've been saying
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  Speaker 3: way more boundaries. A lot of people stuck at the border.
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  Speaker 3: I was in a rut when they found me. I
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  Speaker 3: ain't ask for nothing, not a quarter. I know my
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  Speaker 3: worth like a bounty. All my life I tried to
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  Speaker 3: be supportive. Had to switch roles, Robert Downey. I ain't
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  Speaker 3: trying to be a Mighty Morpher. Power range over 9,000.
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  Speaker 3: School kids used to give me torture. Daddy used to
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  Speaker 3: bring mom flowers. Used to take pictures and enjoy. Grandma
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  Speaker 3: used to be around. I've been embracing getting older. I
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: got more layers than an organ. Now the cake getting
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  Speaker 3: way too high. That's a greater risk of falling over.
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  Speaker 3: Must be something in the wine. Can Jesus turn it
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  Speaker 3: into soda? I'm on my business. I ain't social. Finally
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  Speaker 3: learned to keep a smile over. I done been counted
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  Speaker 3: out so many times. I don't even know the total.
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  Speaker 3: I was still there when I was local. Rapper, but
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  Speaker 3: I like to keep it self. I've never been afraid
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  Speaker 3: to let it sing. Throw some auto-tune on my vocals. Like, ooh, ooh.
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  Speaker 3: My soul is made of steel My spirit.
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  Speaker 4: Can't be killed, killed, killed, killed, killed.
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  Speaker 3: Killed, killed Okay, I'm living in this world Ain't mad because.
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  Speaker 4: It's real, real, real, real, real, real Hold.
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  Speaker 3: On, some things you just can't fake Some swears you
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  Speaker 3: just can't take That's way too fast, now watch them
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  Speaker 3: turn Bound to hit them brakes Don't comment with no
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  Speaker 3: fake chickens I'm frosted like them flakes, I'm great Hold on,
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  Speaker 3: cool These days, I'm way more patient. Everything comes in
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: due time. And TikTok, learn to embrace it. Might as
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: well create and stop crying. You depend on praise, validation.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: I've been giving praise to something higher. What's the biggest
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: motive of a hater? Deepest root of all of their desires.
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  Speaker 3: The ending, the answer is attention. Your participation is required.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the show, Brandon Serkis. I don't learn from
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  Speaker 3: David in the live. Used to want to be the
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  Speaker 3: bigger person. Slingshot, pop my style. Out the loop, I've
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: been staying focused. Other people's business doesn't pay me. Heard
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: it got some kids who holla toast. Cover up, your
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: mouth is getting crazy. Ain't nobody come to see you, whoa.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: This temptation, gotta fight it daily. Know it all, so
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: you'll probably notice. If not, I gladly demonstrate it. Cause
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: I done fell and rose by some times. Called that
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: a Tom Brady. They done gave those nippers to the
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: fat ladies.
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  Speaker 2: So, nah, it ain't over.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe in superstitions.
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  Speaker 4: I got them scared, hopeless, pocus. Like, ooh. My soul
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  Speaker 4: is made of steel.
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  Speaker 3: My spirit can't be killed, killed, killed, killed, killed, killed, killed. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I'm living in this world. They mad because it's real, real, real, real, real, real.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on. Some things you just can't fake. Some swears
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  Speaker 3: you just can't take. That's way too fast.
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  Speaker 4: Now watch them turn.
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  Speaker 3: Bound to hit them brakes. Don't comment with no face.
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  Speaker 3: Shake hands on frogs to light them flakes.
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  Speaker 4: I'm great.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: is the His Hop Radio Show.
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  Speaker 4: Yo yo we are back from the break that's our
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: brother aha gazelle and now these artists they have to
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: prove that they're not using ai to record their songs
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: that's why you heard in the beginning he said oh
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  Speaker 4: yeah as soon as i hit this space bar this
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  Speaker 4: song is going to continue So we're living in an
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  Speaker 4: age where artists have to prove that it's them on
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  Speaker 4: the record. All right, y'all. Well, I'm going to also
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  Speaker 4: give a huge shout out to those in the live chat.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Shout out to our brother Zone 3 showing up. Let
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: us know that he is in the replay. My brother Corinth.
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  Speaker 4: My brother who comes in and he bombs us with comments.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: He's like one of those stealth bombers, right? You don't
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: know he's there. And all of a sudden, boom, boom, boom.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: You got 10 comments coming out of him in the
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: live chat. We appreciate you, brother, and everyone else. If
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: you're new to the podcast, make sure you download the
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: His Hot Radio app. Go to the homepage to the
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: top left menu. Hit that drop down and scroll down
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  Speaker 4: until you see live chat. Hit the register. Get registered
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: and go down to the community tab. And also get
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: registered to that as well. And on the podcast, we
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: believe in accountability. That's why we have the accountability partner segment.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: We need to have people that can speak into our lives,
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: people that can speak truth, people that can hear and
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: understand the Holy Spirit and speak the word in us.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Especially when there's things that need to be corrected. Even
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: in today's episode, we can understand how judgment can happen
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: when we ignore God's moral standards for our lives. God
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: desires obedience. We have to live, even though we might
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: have been delivered out of sin, we still have to
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: be sanctified. Sanctification cost us, right? in order to maintain
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: our relationship with the Lord. The Bible says without holiness,
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: no one will see the Lord. Amen. And so that's
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: what the accountability segment helps us with because the Bible
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: tells us a narrow road is the road that leads
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  Speaker 4: to life. And there's only a few who find it.
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  Speaker 4: The broad road is a road that leads to destruction.
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  Speaker 4: If we want to be prideful and arrogant and all
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: these things, That is where destruction happens. So if you
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: don't have an accountability partner, you can connect with us
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: here on the podcast. You can go to the top
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: left menu, hit this time, go to podcast, click on
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: my podcast, his hot radio. And then what you want
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: to do is. Scroll down until you see the accountability
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: partner link. Go through the questions. You can request a
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: follow up. And also, we would love to get you
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: on a podcast and help you with your walk. If
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: you would like to share and explain. There's a setting sin.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: It might be drugs, alcohol, lying, anything like that. And
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: as we help each other grow. You could be a
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: blessing and you can touch others as well. So, and
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: we also give you challenges on the podcast. So if
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: you do have a partner, accountability partner, go to them,
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: call them, text them, email, and go over these questions
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: with them. And you can also find these questions on
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: the app in the community section below. Ask them, what
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: biblical truth have I heard repeatedly but struggle to put
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  Speaker 4: into practice? That is a good one to go over.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: What excuse have I been using to avoid making that change?
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  Speaker 4: And the last one, what is one specific action I
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: can take this week to bring my behavior into alignment
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  Speaker 4: with God's word? Amen. Those are good. I pray and
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: hope that you do have someone that can help you
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: with this process. Amen. Also, we want to remind you
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: that His Heart Radio is a monitored and a reporting
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: radio station. We don't just play music over the Internet.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: We do have our own chart and we report to
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: three different charts. If you want to get that exposure,
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: if you want to climb on the His Hot Radio charts,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: submit your music to our website, hishotnation.com. Go to the
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• 40:14
  Speaker 4: submit your music. And then check out our promo packages
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: is very affordable to advertise with us. And that will
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: help you achieve your goals. I did say three charts,
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: but one of the charts, the BDS chart, or should
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: I say the media based chart? We're having some issues
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: with that one. So just to let you know, throw
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: it out there. Now it is time for the trivia challenge.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: Shout out to Zone 3. He has been our trivia champion,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: our reigning champ for almost this whole year. We've had
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: a couple of challengers who tried to step up, but
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: they ended up falling off. I don't know. I guess
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: my brother Zone just scares them. You know, he gets
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: a little competition and knocks them out. So this is
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  Speaker 4: how it works. The first one. To answer the question,
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  Speaker 4: you get bragging rights. You are the trivia champion for today. Also,
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: we have a lot of prizes and things like that
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: that we would like to give to those who participate.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: And so you never know what you can win. So,
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: here's today's question. Be the first to answer and you'll
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  Speaker 4: get it. Try to beat Zone 3.
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  Speaker 3: What?
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: What? is one warning actually okay I got the question
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: wrong but here's the question right here how many years
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: would the nation serve the king of Babylon let me
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  Speaker 4: ask it again how many years Will the nations serve
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  Speaker 4: the king of Babylon? Be the first to answer. Be
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  Speaker 4: the trivia champ for today. All right, it's time for
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  Speaker 4: our community shout out. That's where we share community love,
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  Speaker 4: the things that we are doing in the community as
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: a blessing. Amen. Also, We want to share what you
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: guys got going. So if you submit your announcements to us,
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: the way you do that is go to our website, HisHiveNation.com.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Click on our podcast page and you'll see the public
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: service announcement section where you can click on it. So
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: if you have something coming up, we would love to
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: announce it. We are a community radio station. Things going
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: on in our community. We love to make people aware
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: of that. And also our whereabouts and things we're doing.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: We were just invited to come and support another business mixer.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: The date that we will be there will be November
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: the 7th. We will come and DJ and we will
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: be there to also do some interviews. This is in
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: addition to the one we are already a part of,
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: the LVB & M Mixer at the College of Reno.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: here in Vegas it was at the Santa Fe Hotel
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: it was in Summerlin it kind of moved around shout
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: out to Paula Jackson and also we have an event
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: with Metro coming up this weekend actually this Saturday where
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  Speaker 4: we're going to spin our tunes we're going to try
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: to bring our 360 booth out there as well and
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: we're going to try to make it happen that way So,
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: if you want to come out, if you want to volunteer,
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: all that good stuff, check us out. You can contact
• 44:30
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• 44:35
  Speaker 4: We would love to see you in the spot. Also,
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: we want to Bring awareness to our nonprofit organization. His
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: Hop Nation is a 501c3 organization. We opened up a
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: Christian club in 2012, a 5,000 square foot warehouse, and
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: we turned it into a Christian hip hop nightclub called
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: His Hop Las Vegas. You can look us up on
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  Speaker 4: the internet. We have been on the news, the newspaper,
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  Speaker 4: and God has blessed us. to bless our community. We're
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  Speaker 4: looking for supporters, monthly donors, sponsors. We're looking for grants
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  Speaker 4: and grant writers, those who would apply for those grants.
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  Speaker 4: We're looking for those who would love to come and
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  Speaker 4: be a part of the vision and help us relaunch
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  Speaker 4: and reopen the club. If you have building space, we
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  Speaker 4: would love to come and turn it into a Christian venue.
• 45:45
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  Speaker 4: is a legitimate one. This could be the difference between
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  Speaker 4: owning taxes and having the IRS owe you, right? It's
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: all about those write-offs and your dependents and all that
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: good stuff. I'm not a tax professional, but I know
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: that this has been my experience. All right, beloved, that
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  Speaker 4: is it for me today. But I do have some
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: closing remarks. Now, the people have been warned. They had
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: opportunities to turn away from evil and return to the Lord.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: But they continued in rebellion. and the consequences were devastating.
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  Speaker 4: We should not read these passages as a reason to
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  Speaker 4: live in constant fear. We should read it as a
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: call to take God's truth seriously. Don't confuse God's patience
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  Speaker 4: with approval of everything you do. Don't assume that hearing
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  Speaker 4: the word means you have Obeyed it. Don't allow pride
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  Speaker 4: to keep you from making a choice. You know, is necessary.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: God's word is meant to guide us, correct us and
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  Speaker 4: lead us towards faithful living. If this passage has exposed
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  Speaker 4: something in your heart, take it serious. Pray, seek wise
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  Speaker 4: biblical counsel. We're needed and take a practical step towards obedience.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, beloved, for joining me for another episode of
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: the His Heart Radio podcast presents verse by verse, continue
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: to study the word, keep growing in Christ and encourage
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• 48:42
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• 49:04
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  Speaker 4: us it's all about the Christ in us God bless.
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  Speaker 2: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
• 49:32
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