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Episode 66 — Jeremiah 24:1–10 Title: “Good Figs, Bad Figs: When God Separates the Faithful from the Rebellious” · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 2: We're going to start chapter 24 today. It's a short chapter,
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get into it. I was thinking about
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  Speaker 2: just doing the first five verses, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I might make this an extended podcast. There's only like
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  Speaker 2: 20 something verses in this chapter. It's kind of short.
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  Speaker 2: So bear with me as we embark on this today.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So Jeremiah chapter 24. And we're going to start.
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  Speaker 2: In verse 1 here. The Lord showed me, and behold,
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  Speaker 2: two baskets of figs were set before the temple of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. After that, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried
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  Speaker 2: away captives, Jehoiakim and his son, the son of Jehoiakim,
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  Speaker 2: King of Judah, excuse me for... I know I keep
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  Speaker 2: messing up these names. And the princes of Judah with
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  Speaker 2: the carpenters, the smiths from Jerusalem and he had brought
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  Speaker 2: them to Babylon. So basically, he took all the noble people,
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  Speaker 2: all the skilled workers, Carpenters were very valuable back then.
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  Speaker 2: They're valuable now. Carpenters are the ones who will build
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  Speaker 2: the buildings, build your houses. We all need a place
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  Speaker 2: to dwell. A carpenter position is very important. Jesus himself
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  Speaker 2: was a carpenter. I'm in the trades myself. And I
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  Speaker 2: just want to say something as a side note. I
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  Speaker 2: know that For the past, I don't know, I want
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  Speaker 2: to say past 50 years or so, parents have been
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  Speaker 2: pushing their children to go get college degrees, to go
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  Speaker 2: to school. And there's nothing wrong with education, but they
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  Speaker 2: overlook the trades. You can make a great living if
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  Speaker 2: you learn to trade, if you're good at it, And
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  Speaker 2: you're not in debt while you learn it. You actually
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  Speaker 2: are getting paid to do it. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That's just a side note, just a thought. But these men,
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  Speaker 2: these trade men, these craftsmen, these carpenters were valuable and
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  Speaker 2: they were taken to Babylon. There were some of the
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  Speaker 2: first group to go. All right. Verse two. One basket
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  Speaker 2: had very good figs, even like the figs that are
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  Speaker 2: first ripe. And the other basket had very naughty figs,
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  Speaker 2: which could not be eaten. They were bad. In the
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  Speaker 2: New King James, it said very evil. These figs were evil.
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  Speaker 2: The other figs were good. Verse three. Then said the
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  Speaker 2: Lord unto me, what seest thou? Jeremiah. And I said, Figs,
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  Speaker 2: the good figs, very good, and the evil, very evil,
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  Speaker 2: that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Again the
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  Speaker 2: word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Thus says
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figs,
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  Speaker 2: so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive
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  Speaker 2: of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place
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  Speaker 2: into the land of the Chaldeans for their good. And man,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to jump into that in a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Verse six, for I will set my eyes upon them
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  Speaker 2: for good and I will bring them again to this
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  Speaker 2: land and I will build them and not pull them down.
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  Speaker 2: and I will plant them and not pluck them up
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  Speaker 2: verse 7 and I will give them a heart to
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  Speaker 2: know me that I am the Lord and they shall
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  Speaker 2: be my people and I will be their God For
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  Speaker 2: they shall return unto me with their whole heart. Let's
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  Speaker 2: pause right there. Father, we ask that you will give
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  Speaker 2: us a heart to know you. That we shall be
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  Speaker 2: your people, my Lord. And that our hearts will turn
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  Speaker 2: to you wholeheartedly, oh God. We ask that you do it, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: In this podcast, in this episode, everyone listening, oh God,
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  Speaker 2: touch every heart. Let us, oh God, oh Lord, come
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  Speaker 2: out with a new heart, a heart to know you.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, amen. That is beautiful. That's a memory
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  Speaker 2: verse right there. Verse 8. And as the evil figs,
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  Speaker 2: which cannot be eaten, they are so evil, surely, thus
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  Speaker 2: says the Lord, So I will give Zedekiah, the king
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  Speaker 2: of Judah and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem
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  Speaker 2: that remain in the land, and them that dwell in
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  Speaker 2: the land of Egypt. Verse 9. And I will declare
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  Speaker 2: them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the
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  Speaker 2: earth from their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb,
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  Speaker 2: a taunt and a curse in all places where I
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  Speaker 2: shall drive them. Verse 10. And I will send the sword,
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  Speaker 2: the famine, the pestilence among them till they be consumed
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  Speaker 2: from off the land that I gave unto them and
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  Speaker 2: to their fathers. Okay. Amen. Let's break it down. We're
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  Speaker 2: just going to do the first 10 verses. I'm coming
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  Speaker 2: at you from the new King James, I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: old King James today. So, verses one through three. Let's
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  Speaker 2: break those down real quick, right? You see the vision, right?
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  Speaker 2: God gives Jeremiah the vision. And his vision came right
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  Speaker 2: after the departing of the kings, King Jehoiakim. Also, in scripture,
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  Speaker 2: they call him Jehoiachin. And many leaders and skilled workers
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  Speaker 2: from Judah to Babylon Now, this was the first captivity
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  Speaker 2: that came out of the city. Now, the vision also
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  Speaker 2: represents two contrasting baskets of figs, right? One containing good
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  Speaker 2: fruit and the other containing fruit that is evil, completely spoiled.
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  Speaker 2: So God uses these ordinary images to communicate a spiritual
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  Speaker 2: truth about two different groups of people and their destinies,
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  Speaker 2: their future. What is going to happen to these two
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  Speaker 2: groups of people? You need to be aware of what
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  Speaker 2: group of people that you hang out with, because there
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  Speaker 2: is a destiny. There's a destination for each group. We
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  Speaker 2: need to be in the right group. Amen. So let's
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  Speaker 2: put this in historical context real quick, right? Judah had
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  Speaker 2: been rebelling against God for generations. They would not listen
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  Speaker 2: to the word of the Lord. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: in the next chapter, we're going to look at the timeline.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah started prophesying at the age of 17 and he
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  Speaker 2: prophesied for 20 years. years like 20-25 years and they
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  Speaker 2: did not take heed to the message at all the
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  Speaker 2: Lord had sent prophets to warn the people but many
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  Speaker 2: refused to listen so Babylon was becoming the instrument through
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  Speaker 2: which God's judgment would come upon the nation did you
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  Speaker 2: imagine hearing a message for 20 years get right, get right,
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  Speaker 2: get right. And then finally, what happens is our hearts
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  Speaker 2: get hard or we get to the point where we
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  Speaker 2: think we're familiar. Oh, I've heard that before. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know what they're going to say. I know what
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  Speaker 2: that's all about. Yeah, I've heard it before. I've done that.
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  Speaker 2: Never surrender or giving your life over to the Lord
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  Speaker 2: and then finding yourself in judgment. And it's not just
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  Speaker 2: Israel that We're going to find out in the next
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  Speaker 2: chapter that the whole world is going to be judged.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll save that for our next other episode. All right.
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  Speaker 2: So judgment will come upon the nation in this particular deportation.
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  Speaker 2: You have the king, you have members of the royal family,
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  Speaker 2: you have leaders, you have skilled workers. They were all
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  Speaker 2: taken to Babylon, yet the people who remained in Jerusalem
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  Speaker 2: might have looked at those captives and assumed that they
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  Speaker 2: were unfortunate.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: While those still living in their homes We're in better positions.
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  Speaker 2: Would you say that? Now, this is where we got
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  Speaker 2: to look at things in a spiritual lens. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: look at the outward situation of a person and think
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  Speaker 2: that this person may be unfortunate. We can even get
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  Speaker 2: prideful and think that we're better off, that we're better,
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  Speaker 2: smarter than in a better position because we have a
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  Speaker 2: bigger home, a better car, more money, and we're living
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  Speaker 2: comfortably while other people are struggling and suffering. But spiritually,
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  Speaker 2: you could be the one that is getting fattened for
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  Speaker 2: the slaughter. The comfortable people, I believe, are the people
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  Speaker 2: who are in more danger because we are in a
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  Speaker 2: spiritual war. Right? When you go to buy a steak,
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  Speaker 2: you want the one that is most juicy, the biggest,
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  Speaker 2: the fattest steak. And a lot of people who are comfortable,
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  Speaker 2: they just get big, they get fat. Now I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about fat people because I got pounds to lose myself,
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  Speaker 2: but you know what I mean? It's like they're just
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  Speaker 2: comfortable and they think everything in life is to make
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  Speaker 2: them comfortable, but spiritually... they're in danger. Now, even though
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  Speaker 2: this group of people went into captivity and they seem
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  Speaker 2: to be the ones that are in trouble, God shows
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah something different. Now, one basket contained good figs representing
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  Speaker 2: people God would preserve, and ultimately restore. The other contained
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  Speaker 2: bad figs representing people who would face future judgment. I
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  Speaker 2: cleaned up. We did some yard work the other day
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  Speaker 2: at the house. And I have an area on the
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  Speaker 2: side of the house where there's dirt, there's rocks. This
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  Speaker 2: is where we put our trash cans out. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: trash and debris will fall out of the cans and
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  Speaker 2: whatnot before garbage day gets here. And we have to
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  Speaker 2: go out and rake it up. And so my method
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  Speaker 2: was instead of trying to pick the trash out of
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  Speaker 2: the rocks, I just raked everything to the driveway. Dirt, rocks, trash,
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  Speaker 2: I raked it all. Now, while they're in the driveway,
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  Speaker 2: it was easier to pick the trash out. I was
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  Speaker 2: able to sweep the rocks away from the trash. I
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  Speaker 2: was able to isolate and separate the trash from the
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  Speaker 2: rocks and the dirt. So the trash I got rid of,
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  Speaker 2: I threw in the trash can. Then I swept the
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  Speaker 2: rocks and the dirt back into the yard. This is
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  Speaker 2: exactly what the Lord did with the nation. He swept
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  Speaker 2: away the good figs were the people that he was
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  Speaker 2: going to restore and he separated the bad figs. The
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  Speaker 2: ones that were going to judgment ultimately would find their
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  Speaker 2: destination in hell. We need to talk about hell and
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  Speaker 2: more often, beloved, because there's people who don't even believe
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  Speaker 2: it exists. But if we warn you, then you will
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  Speaker 2: have a better opportunity to avoid going there than trying
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  Speaker 2: to be hush-hush about it, right? So here's the first lesson.
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  Speaker 2: Your circumstances do not always tell the full story of
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  Speaker 2: what God is doing in your life. You may be
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  Speaker 2: going through difficult circumstances, but There could be some good
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  Speaker 2: that God wants to work out for you. Someone can
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  Speaker 2: be going through a difficult season and still be under
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  Speaker 2: God's care and someone else can appear comfortable and even
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  Speaker 2: successful while ignoring God's warnings. That's why even when you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for a church, you cannot judge the church because
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  Speaker 2: it may be a big church. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: members there. We call them the mega churches, right? Because
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  Speaker 2: it's a mega church does not necessarily mean that God
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  Speaker 2: is there and that God is moving. The pastor could
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  Speaker 2: be resisting God on every side. So we need to
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  Speaker 2: pray and ask God for discernment. So we cannot assume
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  Speaker 2: that every hardship is punishment or that every blessing proves
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  Speaker 2: a person is walking faithfully with God. The important question
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  Speaker 2: is not simply how comfortable is my life? The deeper
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  Speaker 2: question is, am I responding to God when he Is
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  Speaker 2: calling me? And do I have a heart that is
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  Speaker 2: willing to obey? That's the question that we need to
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  Speaker 2: ask ourselves. Now, verse four through five is the captivity
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  Speaker 2: for the good. Now, God explains the meaning of the
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  Speaker 2: good figs. And I think this is. A very good practice.
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  Speaker 2: Will we receive a word, a vision, a dream? Ask
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  Speaker 2: God to explain the meaning to us. Hey man, I
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  Speaker 2: just had a dream last night. I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 2: God about it. Ask God, what is the meaning behind
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  Speaker 2: the dream? And I believe that God will give the explanations.
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  Speaker 2: And so he explains the people who had been carried
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  Speaker 2: into Babylon, the captivity, those who are captives would not
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  Speaker 2: be abandoned by God. God would acknowledge them and watch
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  Speaker 2: over them. Their removal from Judah, though it was painful,
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  Speaker 2: would serve a purpose within his plan for their future. Now,
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  Speaker 2: remember this group, would also have Daniel and the three
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  Speaker 2: Hebrew boys, right? And look at the great witness that
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  Speaker 2: Daniel was for the Lord. Look at all that Daniel
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  Speaker 2: did for the kingdom. And the Hebrew boys that were,
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  Speaker 2: they renamed them Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. But they have
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  Speaker 2: an amazing story, if you've not read it, where Nebuchadnezzar
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  Speaker 2: threw them in the fiery furnace But they did not
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  Speaker 2: get burnt. Only the ropes were burned. And God preserved them.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And so sometimes it could be for your good, even
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  Speaker 2: though it's uncomfortable. And I think about the history of
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  Speaker 2: the United States. There's no secret that there was slavery
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  Speaker 2: in this country. And the majority of it was black Africans.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They were taken out of Africa. Even though slavery is
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  Speaker 2: not fun and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. But
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  Speaker 2: has anyone ever thought that it may have been for
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  Speaker 2: our good to come to this country? Because we know
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  Speaker 2: that in Africa, they were worshiping idols and false gods.
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  Speaker 2: Witchcraft is rampant out there. even though even now there's
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  Speaker 2: been great movements of Christianity, praise God. But what, 200
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  Speaker 2: years ago, who knows what kind of wickedness was just
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  Speaker 2: running rampant on that continent. And so if you look spiritually,
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  Speaker 2: while America was having revival, God didn't want us to
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  Speaker 2: be left out. And that's my opinion. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: it's scripture or biblical. I'm not saying that I have
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  Speaker 2: a revelation. But I am all for going through a
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  Speaker 2: difficult circumstance if God is going to bring something good
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  Speaker 2: out of it for our eternal benefit. Amen. And I
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  Speaker 2: hope you're on the same page with me.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like you lost another one.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So we have to pay attention to the surprising words
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  Speaker 2: in verse five. God says he sent these captives away
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  Speaker 2: for their good. That's my very point. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean that captivity was pleasant. It meant that God
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  Speaker 2: will use even this painful situation to accomplish his very purposes. Now,
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  Speaker 2: imagine being forced to leave your home. You have to
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  Speaker 2: leave your community, leaving your family. You might wonder whether
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  Speaker 2: God had forgotten you. I can imagine the tears and
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  Speaker 2: the outcry. Yet, God was telling these captives that their
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  Speaker 2: story was not over. Now, keep in mind, these are
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  Speaker 2: the good figs. Sometimes, the righteous are going to go
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  Speaker 2: through more things than the wicked. Sometimes we struggle because
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  Speaker 2: we measure God's goodness by how quickly he changes our circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: We pray for the door to open, for the problem
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  Speaker 2: to disappear, or even the difficult season to end. And
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  Speaker 2: when it doesn't happen, we may wonder whether God is
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  Speaker 2: still with us, right? So this passage reminds us that
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  Speaker 2: God's purpose can extend beyond our immediate comfort. Let me
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  Speaker 2: say that again. God's purpose can extend beyond our immediate comfort.
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  Speaker 2: We want instant relief. We want to be comfortable with
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  Speaker 2: And God's purpose may not include that at the moment. However,
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  Speaker 2: we must be careful not to apply this verse as
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  Speaker 2: a blanket promise to every painful event.
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Just because you're going through something does not mean it's
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  Speaker 2: going to lead to a reward or God is going
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  Speaker 2: to do something good. There could be something else attached
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  Speaker 2: to it. Jeremiah was delivering a specific message about Judah's exiles.
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  Speaker 2: The broader lesson is that God can remain at work
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  Speaker 2: even when our circumstances are painful and confusing. And I've
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  Speaker 2: been there so many times, more often than I would
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  Speaker 2: like to be.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. So a difficult season doesn't mean God has abandoned you.
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  Speaker 2: Keep seeking him even in the midst of it, obeying
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  Speaker 2: his word and trusting him even when you cannot yet
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  Speaker 2: see the outcome. Verse six, I will build them and
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  Speaker 2: not pull them down. So God promises to watch over
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  Speaker 2: the exiles. He promised to restore them and to establish them.
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  Speaker 2: once again. Now, the language of building and planting communicates stability, renewal,
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  Speaker 2: and a future beyond their present circumstances. Hallelujah. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that the Lord will speak over us, every
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  Speaker 2: one of us living, well, living, every one of us
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  Speaker 2: listening to this podcast. Yeah, you got to be living too, amen,
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  Speaker 2: in order to listen, but everyone listening to this podcast,
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  Speaker 2: I speak building, planting, renewal, stability, and all of our futures, amen,
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  Speaker 2: as we Listen and apply the word. Now, God always
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  Speaker 2: gives wonderful promises in the Bible. This promise is powerful.
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  Speaker 2: It's a promise of restoration. How many of us need
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  Speaker 2: the restoration, the restoring grace of God in our lives? Amen.
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  Speaker 2: So God says that he will build rather than pull down.
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  Speaker 2: Implant rather than uproot. The people who had lost their
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  Speaker 2: homeland were being told that their present circumstances will not
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  Speaker 2: have the final word. Hallelujah. And that's encouraging. That's encouraging
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  Speaker 2: because I don't know about y'all, but I'm getting ministered
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  Speaker 2: to because I've been going through. I've been going through circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: I've been having a season. of my own, and it
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  Speaker 2: has been prolonged. I'm not where I would like to be,
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  Speaker 2: at least in my own eyes, but God, he sees
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  Speaker 2: something different. So you got to notice the timing and
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  Speaker 2: the context. This promise concerned God's plan for the exiles
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  Speaker 2: of Judah. It was not a guarantee that every believer
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  Speaker 2: will receive every earthly possession back or experience an immediate turnaround.
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  Speaker 2: The principle is that God is able to preserve his
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  Speaker 2: people and carry forward his purpose even after devastating loss.
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  Speaker 2: Even if we have to lose, God is still able
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  Speaker 2: to to restore, amen, to rebuild what the world has
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  Speaker 2: destroyed in our lives, amen. So maybe you've been experiencing
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  Speaker 2: a season when something you depended on was taken away
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  Speaker 2: from you, right? Maybe you had a plan and it
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  Speaker 2: fell apart. Maybe you had a relationship that could have
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  Speaker 2: been a spouse or a friend or someone that you
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  Speaker 2: really cared about in a relationship ended. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 2: opportunity that you were counting on and the opportunity ended
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  Speaker 2: up disappearing. Now, I'm going to say one thing, beloved.
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  Speaker 2: We do not have to pretend like it doesn't hurt.
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  Speaker 2: We need to acknowledge the hurt to our Heavenly Father.
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  Speaker 2: And when I'm hurt and beloved, I've been going through
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  Speaker 2: some hurtful circumstances lately. But I've learned to cry out
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  Speaker 2: for healing because if we don't get healed, our hearts
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  Speaker 2: can start to get hardened. The circumstance can start to
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  Speaker 2: affect us to where we're short with people. We're rude
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  Speaker 2: with people. We're not loving. Our love will begin to
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  Speaker 2: be sapped out. The Bible tells us to love even
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  Speaker 2: our enemies. Amen. So our faith, it doesn't require us
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  Speaker 2: to deny the reality of the situation. Instead, we can
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  Speaker 2: bring our pain to God and remain open to what
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  Speaker 2: he wants to teach us in the moment. Sometimes restoration
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  Speaker 2: means circumstances changes. And sometimes God rebuilds our character. Strengthen
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  Speaker 2: our faith and redirect our steps. We should not dictate
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  Speaker 2: the exact form that God's work will take, right? You
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't say, God, if you don't do it this way,
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  Speaker 2: I will be disappointed. You need to be open to
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  Speaker 2: the working of the Lord. We need to trust his
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  Speaker 2: wisdom and remain faithful while he leads us. Verse seven,
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  Speaker 2: a heart to know God. Now, this is beautiful right here. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the promise goes deeper than a physical return to the land.
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  Speaker 2: God says that he will give his people a heart
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  Speaker 2: to know him. The restoration would involve a renewed relationship
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  Speaker 2: with him. So maybe you lost that car, that house,
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  Speaker 2: that job. And God has blessed you with a better car,
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  Speaker 2: a better house and a better job. It is all
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  Speaker 2: worthless if you don't have a renewed heart to have
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  Speaker 2: a relationship with him. Right. Right. That is the best
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  Speaker 2: restoration that we could have. And to return to him wholeheartedly.
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  Speaker 2: For me, this is the heart of the entire passage
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  Speaker 2: right here. This is the heart of this entire episode.
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  Speaker 2: God doesn't merely promise to relocate the people. He promises
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  Speaker 2: to work on their hearts. That is so beautiful. And
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  Speaker 2: we need to ask the Lord to work on our
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  Speaker 2: hearts every day. single day. So listen to what he says,
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  Speaker 2: and I will give them a heart to know me
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  Speaker 2: that I am the Lord. The ultimate need of Judah
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  Speaker 2: was not simply a better political situation or a return
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  Speaker 2: to normal. The deepest need was a right relationship with God. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Can we say this about the United States of America?
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  Speaker 2: We hear so much about the dollar is going to decrease,
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  Speaker 2: is no longer going to be the world standard, or
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  Speaker 2: let's make America great again. We hear all of these things,
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  Speaker 2: but the greatest thing that we need is a heart
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  Speaker 2: to know the Lord. America needs to get back in
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  Speaker 2: right relationship with God. That is so true for us today.
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  Speaker 2: We can spend all our energy asking God to change
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  Speaker 2: our circumstances while ignoring the condition of our very own heart. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: fix my finances. Lord, change my workplace. Lord, remove this
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  Speaker 2: difficult person from my life. Those prayers may express real
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  Speaker 2: needs that we have. And we can bring them to God,
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  Speaker 2: which is not a problem at all. But we should
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  Speaker 2: also pray, Lord, change me. That's a t-shirt right there.
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  Speaker 2: Teach me to know you more deeply. Show me where
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  Speaker 2: I need to repent. Help me follow you with my
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  Speaker 2: whole heart. heart. Amen. That is good. I think I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to post this in our community so that we
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  Speaker 2: can add this to our prayer list. This is beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: So notice that verse seven describes a restored relationship. They
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  Speaker 2: shall be my people and I will be their God.
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  Speaker 2: This is about belonging to the Lord and returning to
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  Speaker 2: him wholeheartedly. And I would do a word search on
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  Speaker 2: that word wholeheartedly because this is what God desires. He
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  Speaker 2: desires our whole hearts whole. So what does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: That means we can give half our heart. We can
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  Speaker 2: give a portion. We can give a piece. But God
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  Speaker 2: wants the whole thing. So we need to examine. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: we'll do a study on giving our hearts holy to him. Now,
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  Speaker 2: maybe we're going to do that, a blog or something.
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  Speaker 2: So for Christians today, also reminds us of the importance
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  Speaker 2: of the new covenant and the transforming work of God
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  Speaker 2: in our hearts right we cannot reduce faith to outward
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  Speaker 2: religious activity God desires genuine trust, obedience, and a sincere
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  Speaker 2: relationship with Him. It's not about religion. It's about relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Just think about how amazing it is to have a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with Almighty God. He wants to sit with us.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to speak with us. He wants to teach us.
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  Speaker 2: And He deserves our whole heart. Amen. There's nothing on
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  Speaker 2: earth That is worthy to give our hearts over to.
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  Speaker 2: Other than the Lord. He's not merely interested in changing.
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  Speaker 2: What surrounds us. He wants to change our hearts. Verse 8.
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  Speaker 2: The bad figs. In King Zedekiah. Now, God identifies the
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  Speaker 2: bad figs with King Zedekiah, his officials, those remaining in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: and people living in Egypt. Their outward location did not
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  Speaker 2: guarantee safety at all. The group that remained behind would
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  Speaker 2: face consequences of continued rebellion and God's Announce judgment on
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  Speaker 2: the land. Now I think about the rapture, right? There
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  Speaker 2: is a group of people who will be left behind.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that we could take a look at
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  Speaker 2: this passage and we could identify those who were left behind.
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  Speaker 2: Those who are in constant rebellion against the Lord. What
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  Speaker 2: has the Lord been telling you to do that you
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  Speaker 2: have not done yet? Oh, beloved, this is convicting even
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  Speaker 2: for me. Right. God takes rebellion seriously. He looks at
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  Speaker 2: it as a sin of witchcraft and divination. God loves obedience.
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  Speaker 2: He blesses obedience. Amen. So here is where the vision
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  Speaker 2: will challenge our assumptions, right? The people who remain in
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  Speaker 2: Judah might have believed that they were better off than
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  Speaker 2: those that have been taken to Babylon. They were still
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  Speaker 2: in the land. They had not been forced into exile
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  Speaker 2: during that particular departation. They still lived in their own houses.
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  Speaker 2: They were still amongst familiar surroundings, but God reveals that
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  Speaker 2: remaining in Jerusalem did not automatically mean they were in
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  Speaker 2: a better spiritual position. The king would later rebel against
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  Speaker 2: Babylon and Jerusalem would face further destruction. The remaining population
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  Speaker 2: would experience the consequences of the nation's continued disobedience. We
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  Speaker 2: should not confuse familiarity with faithfulness. A person can be
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  Speaker 2: in a church every Sunday and still refuse to obey God.
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  Speaker 2: Someone can have a ministry title. and still need repentance.
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  Speaker 2: A person can appear successful while neglecting the condition of
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  Speaker 2: their own heart. Remember, the Bible tells us to guard
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  Speaker 2: our hearts for out of it are the issues of life. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: we must not judge someone who is suffering as though
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  Speaker 2: we know the reason of their hardship. Now, the point
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  Speaker 2: of the two baskets is not that we can look
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  Speaker 2: at people and declare who God favors. God reveals the
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  Speaker 2: meaning of this vision. We should not pretend we have
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  Speaker 2: the same specific revelation about everyone around us. Our responsibility
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  Speaker 2: is to examine our own selves in this. Stay close
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  Speaker 2: to the scripture and to respond faithfully to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 9. Reproach among the nations. So God warns that
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  Speaker 2: the people representing the bad figs would become a source
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  Speaker 2: of disgrace and ridicule amongst the nations. Their rebellion would
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  Speaker 2: bring consequences that would be visible beyond Judah itself. Now
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  Speaker 2: that is strong. See, sin rarely affects only the person
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  Speaker 2: that commits it. So we have to think of our
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  Speaker 2: loved ones, our family members, when we are tempted to
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  Speaker 2: give in to that sin. Maybe it's lust, pornography, or drugs,
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  Speaker 2: or alcohol. Whatever you're tempted to, take a second and
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  Speaker 2: think about the people that you are going to hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Your wife, your children, and especially your children coming after
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  Speaker 2: you because the children... They tend to pick up the
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  Speaker 2: sins of their parents and they go further in it.
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  Speaker 2: When leaders reject truth, the people under their influence can suffer.
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  Speaker 2: When someone uses their authority in a selfish way, others
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  Speaker 2: may pay the price for that. When a nation continually
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  Speaker 2: rejects God's warnings, the consequences can reach across the entire community.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we need to pay for our leaders. We
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  Speaker 2: need to pray for our president. We need to lift
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  Speaker 2: up the United States. Amen. So the same principles apply
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  Speaker 2: to Christian leadership. When a pastor, a ministry leader, a
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  Speaker 2: Christian artist or a public believer behaving in hypocrisy or hypocritically,
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  Speaker 2: it can damage trust and have people depart from the faith.
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  Speaker 2: Or they can have a distorted picture of faith to
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  Speaker 2: where they don't even want anything to do with faith.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen this happen in generation after generation right but
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  Speaker 2: that does not mean that every accusation against a christian
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  Speaker 2: is true at all or that our goal should be
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  Speaker 2: to maintain appearances at all costs our responsibility is to
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  Speaker 2: live with integrity acknowledge our failures repent when necessarily and
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  Speaker 2: represent Christ faithfully. That's why I share very transparently on
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  Speaker 2: this podcast the areas where I struggle. That's why it's
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  Speaker 2: good to have that accountability partner as well. We cannot
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  Speaker 2: control every opinion that people may have about us, but
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  Speaker 2: we can control whether We pursue honesty, humility, and obedience.
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  Speaker 2: We can control our response. So let us not bring
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  Speaker 2: disaster to God's name through stubbornness or hypocrisy. All right.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: The last verse, verse 10, the consequences of continued rebellion, right?
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: the chapter concludes with God's warning of a sword of
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  Speaker 2: a famine and of pestilence. That's a threefold warning right there.
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  Speaker 2: We need to pay attention to this. These judgments would
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  Speaker 2: continue against the rebellious people until the land was devastated. Wow.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: So the warning emphasizes the seriousness of persistently rejecting God's correction.
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  Speaker 2: So this final verse is very sobering. God had warned
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  Speaker 2: Judah repeatedly Like I said, Jeremiah had like a 20-year ministry.
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  Speaker 2: And the people had opportunity to listen. They had the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to repent and turn back to God. Yet the
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  Speaker 2: nation continued to rebel. And so judgment followed. So we
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't read this as though every modern hardship is direct
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  Speaker 2: punishment from God. This was a specific judgment against Judah
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  Speaker 2: in a particular historical setting. But the principle still remains.
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  Speaker 2: We should never mistake God's patience for permission to continue
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  Speaker 2: in our rebellion. God's warnings are not given just to
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  Speaker 2: simply frighten us. They reveal the seriousness of sin and
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  Speaker 2: the need to return to him. Sin can deceive us.
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  Speaker 2: And we can think it's not a big deal. A
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: lot of people think that they can handle it when
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  Speaker 2: God says don't have nothing to do with it. So
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  Speaker 2: when the scripture exposes something in our lives that we
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  Speaker 2: need to get right, At that point, we have a choice.
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  Speaker 2: We can become defensive. We can make excuses and continue
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  Speaker 2: because we think that God will excuse it or wink
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  Speaker 2: at it. Or we can humble ourselves and repent and
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  Speaker 2: turn from it. Correction can be the opportunity to change.
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  Speaker 2: So don't wait until the consequences become overwhelming before you
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  Speaker 2: take God's words seriously. Respond while there is still an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to make things right. To make a difference. Amen.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: God sees beyond the surface. So. Key things that we
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  Speaker 2: can take away from today's podcast. Do not measure God's
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  Speaker 2: work by outward circumstances. God desires a changed heart, not
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  Speaker 2: merely changed circumstances. We need to take God's warning seriously.
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  Speaker 2: Our job is not to label everybody around us. Our
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  Speaker 2: job is to seek God, obey his word, and allow
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  Speaker 2: him to shape our lives. Amen? I can't believe that.
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  Speaker 2: We just got through all 10 verses. Now it's time
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  Speaker 2: for a break, beloved.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to The Light of Las Vegas. This
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  Speaker 3: is the HizHop Radio Show. I'll see you next time.
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  Speaker 5: Look to the star to show hairline. May not come
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: when I want him, but he always on time. Never
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: miss the deadline. Got me soaring like an eagle, red-eyed.
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  Speaker 5: Be the great shepherd.
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  Speaker 3: Got peace, he.
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  Speaker 5: Watching for the records. And the whole gang got angels
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  Speaker 5: to pop in.
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  Speaker 4: Look what's popping.
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  Speaker 5: We locked in. Please no plotting. Got wisdom from the risen.
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  Speaker 5: That's good doctrine.
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  Speaker 3: Do it all.
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  Speaker 5: Still care my hair high. Don't just read the word,
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  Speaker 5: I apply. I'm prepared when my savior crack the sky.
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  Speaker 5: That's the type of faith that leave the devil mortified.
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  Speaker 2: We ain't done yet.
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  Speaker 4: Childlike CC.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to him, sis.
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  Speaker 4: Yo.
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  Speaker 5: Do it all. To get my AI, AI Dreams shattered,
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  Speaker 5: gossip and chit-chatter Fake men and fake women and fake
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: friends Few exes messed up, won't do again Real lessons,
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: God won, I'm still blessed God is so strategic Went
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  Speaker 5: to the label for professionals and found collegiate Went to
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: relationship for love, I was so mistreated Open for Olympians
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  Speaker 5: in fear and found deeper meaning.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: We'll build a secret.
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  Speaker 5: He said this one for the ones in any circumstance.
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  Speaker 5: We'll build a house on a rock so they forever stand.
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  Speaker 5: He said this one for the ones that know it
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  Speaker 5: through it all. When your help come from the Lord,
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: you got the upper hand. We'll do it all to
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: cut my hair out. Do it all to cut my
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: hair out. Do it all to cut my hair out.
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: Do it all to cut my hair out. Dream shattered,
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: gossip and chit-chat up. Fake men and fake women and
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: fake friends. Few exes messed up, won't do again. Real lesson,
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  Speaker 5: God won, I'm still blessed.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go! SB!
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  Speaker 2: Childlike CC!
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  Speaker 5: You put in the work, sis!
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  Speaker 4: We see you! Go!
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: You are listening to The Light of Las Vegas. This
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: is the HizHop Radio Show.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Yo, we are back from the break. Thank you for
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: hanging out with us a little longer. This was kind
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: of an extended episode because the chapter was kind of short.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: And I wanted to get through a lot of it.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: That was Childlike CC with Head High on the musical break.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your brother, Mr. His Hop. And I want to
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  Speaker 2: give a shout out to the live chat. Shout out
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  Speaker 2: to our brother Zone 3. Shout out to our brother Corinth.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, brother? I saw your messages, man. You was
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: blowing it up the other day. Nah, I wasn't talking
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: to myself in the live chat. I accidentally... typed my
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: name in the live chat as if I was talking
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  Speaker 2: to me. That was just a typo, brother, but I
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: appreciate y'all. Now it's time for the accountability partner segment.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: So if you're in the live chat, head on over
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  Speaker 2: Hit that drop down, click on community. Get registered in
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  Speaker 2: that one so you can participate with these other segments
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  Speaker 2: that are coming up. So we give you a weekly challenge.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: We tell you to call, text or email your accountability
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: partner and allow them to speak into your life. Allow
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  Speaker 2: them to correct you. The idea of it is to say,
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  Speaker 2: you know what was in your heart does not line
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  Speaker 2: up with the word. And then bring the scripture right
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  Speaker 2: to replace your thoughts, to replace what is trying to
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  Speaker 2: occupy our hearts. We just read that the Lord wants
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  Speaker 2: our whole heart. There's no room for the enemy. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: At all. So we pray for each other. We confess
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  Speaker 2: to one another so that we may be healed. And
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  Speaker 2: I give you challenges on each episode. Some topics you
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  Speaker 2: can use to talk about. These are just suggestions. If
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  Speaker 2: there's other issues in your life you need to talk about,
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  Speaker 2: definitely talk about those. But Our challenge is this. Check
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  Speaker 2: the fruit and examine the heart. Take some time this
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  Speaker 2: week to answer these three questions and answer them honestly.
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  Speaker 2: Have I been judging my spiritual life by whether things
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  Speaker 2: are going well or bad? Am I asking God only
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  Speaker 2: to change my circumstances or am I also asking him
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  Speaker 2: to change my heart? Is there an area where God
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  Speaker 2: has been correcting me, but I have been resisting that correction?
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  Speaker 2: So discuss this, pray. Remember, it always works with integrity.
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  Speaker 5: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And that will help you in your spiritual growth. All right, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's head on over to the community once again so
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  Speaker 2: that we can go over the trivia challenge. And we
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  Speaker 2: have a question. concerning today's episode which king of Judah
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  Speaker 2: does God specifically identify among those represented by the bad
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  Speaker 2: figs let me ask it again which king of Judah.
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  Speaker 4: Does God Specifically identify among those represented by the bad things.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know how we do the first to get
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  Speaker 2: it right. Here's the trivia champion for today. Shout out
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  Speaker 2: to our brother Zone 3. Who keeps holding it down.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate you brother. Amen. Alright now. It's time for
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  Speaker 2: our community shout out. This is where we give you
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  Speaker 2: updates of our events, things we got going. We just
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  Speaker 2: had an amazing event last Saturday with the mayor of
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  Speaker 2: Henderson and other elected officials. We had judges, councilmen, councilwomen,
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  Speaker 2: people who are running for office. They all came out
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  Speaker 2: and partnered with Rise Up Church. And we had other
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  Speaker 2: vendors that came out. We came as the DJ. We
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  Speaker 2: provided the service and the sound. Shout out to our
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  Speaker 2: sound man over there, Joe. Shout out to our brother
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  Speaker 2: D for connecting us with this event. It was great.
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  Speaker 2: It was a blessing. I learned some stuff as well
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  Speaker 2: as a DJ. Where to position the speakers better. And
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  Speaker 2: there's some chords that I want to get an ad
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  Speaker 2: to my equipment. Our next event coming up is this Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be working with Metro Police Department once again. And
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be a trunk or treat type of event.
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  Speaker 2: With that being said... Let's close it out today. So
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  Speaker 2: the people carried away to Babylon looked like they had
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  Speaker 2: lost everything, yet God had a purpose for them still.
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  Speaker 2: Those who remained in Judah might have believed that they
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  Speaker 2: were secure, but their continued rebellion would bring further destruction.
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  Speaker 2: Judgment upon them. Future judgment. So the lesson is not
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  Speaker 2: that we can look at someone's circumstance and determine whether
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  Speaker 2: they are good figs or bad figs. The lesson is
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  Speaker 2: that God sees the whole picture. And we must take
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  Speaker 2: his word seriously. Amen. Don't spend all your time asking
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  Speaker 2: God to change your situation. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: you are ignoring your own heart. Ask him to help
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  Speaker 2: you know him more deeply, to obey him more faithfully
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  Speaker 2: and to return to him wholeheartedly. Amen. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going through something myself and I'm going to apply
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  Speaker 2: this myself. So let's pray out today. Heavenly Father, we
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  Speaker 2: just give you our difficult relationships, our difficult circumstances, financially, physically, mentally,
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  Speaker 2: whatever we may be struggling with, the people under the
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  Speaker 2: sound of my voice, whatever they may be struggling with.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Lord, yes, we do want better circumstances. We want
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  Speaker 2: to be in a better situation, whether it be a
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  Speaker 2: better job, whether it be a better house, a car.
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  Speaker 2: We do have some legitimate needs, Lord, but we also acknowledge,
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  Speaker 2: more importantly, is we need our hearts to be renewed
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  Speaker 2: and restored. We need our hearts to be touched. We
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  Speaker 2: need to seek you wholeheartedly, so we ask for your
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  Speaker 2: grace and your strength. We ask for faithfulness and consistently
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  Speaker 2: to give you first place in our hearts, Lord. Nothing
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  Speaker 2: else matters, Lord. We ask, Lord, help us to guard
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  Speaker 2: our hearts for out of it are the issues of life,
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  Speaker 2: oh God. No matter what we're going through, help us
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  Speaker 2: to forgive, help us to love. We need your grace,
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  Speaker 2: oh God, that we will not be shaken. We ask
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  Speaker 2: this in Jesus' name, amen. And remember, it's not about us.
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