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760. Bible Study: Jeremiah 1 ("The Word of the Lord came to me") · Faith by annm2705

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  The next prophet in. Order of.
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  Timeline is the prophet Jeremiah, and we're starting
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  that book today, though this one is pretty long as far as.
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  Chapters go there are 50. Two chapters in the book of
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  Jeremiah. So we are going to be a couple
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  months going over Jeremiah more than likely.
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  So today I'm going to read the introduction in chapter 1 and
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  because of the topic that's covered in chapter 1, I am
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  going. To talk about these.
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  Recent events or lack of events? Today is September 27th, 2025
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  and there was a viral prediction of a rapture.
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  That was set to occur. On the 23rd of September, which
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  has not happened and it was also declared to be during Rosh
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  Hashanah, which is. Also passed so I.
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  Do want to talk about that? Because this.
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  Chapter first chapter of Jeremiah addresses that, so I'm
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  going to do. The.
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  Jeremiah chapter first and then after that talk about the
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  remainder of this. So here's the introduction from
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  the Study Bible. Why read this book?
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  If you've ever wondered what God wants.
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  Or if you felt you. May you might have missed.
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  His purpose for your life? You're in good company.
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  Jeremiah was a young man who struggled to know God's plan for
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  his life even after. He had made his choice.
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  Additional pressures made him wonder if he had done the right
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  thing. But what Jeremiah discovered can
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  give us insight and perspective when we feel stressed out about
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  serving God during difficult times.
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  Who wrote the book? Jeremiah, a prophet and member?
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  Of a priestly household. Jeremiah's aide Baruch.
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  Actually recorded the words of. Jeremiah's prophecies, as
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  Jeremiah dictated them, it is also.
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  Possible that Baruch. Was responsible for the final
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  compilation of the book. When was it written?
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  Over the course of Jeremiah's ministry in Judah 626.
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  To 585 BC. The last.
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  Verses were added after 561 BC about. 25 years after the
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  destruction of Jerusalem, what were the key events of
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  jeremiah's Life and Times Born in a village about an hour's
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  walk from Jerusalem, Jeremiah was.
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  Called by God to be a prophet. When he was young, Jeremiah saw
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  his nation disintegrating morally from within and being
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  destroyed militarily from without he He saw Jerusalem
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  attacked in 586 BC and many of its people taken captive to
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  foreign lands during this time his warnings and.
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  Pleas for Judah. To turn back to God fell on deaf
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  ears after Jerusalem fell Jeremiah was.
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  Forced to flee to Egypt. Where it is assumed he died?
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  What to look for in Jeremiah Jeremiah's grim prophecies in
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  both poetry and prose continually warned Judah about
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  God's approaching judgment. Because of the people's.
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  Constant wilful disobedience. Yet intermingled with all the
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  dark messages were words of hope about Jeremiah.
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  Sorry about Judah's future redemption.
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  Watch for Jeremiah's encouragement.
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  Prophecies that are still. Being fulfilled today whenever
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  sinful hearts are transformed by God.
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  So, chapter 1, let's start with a prayer.
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  Dear God, please be with us and let the Holy Spirit give us
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  wisdom and insight. As we read through your.
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  Words and as I discussed today. About this chapter.
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  I want to be influenced. By the Holy.
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  Spirit and your words only to come out, so guide me in the
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  appropriate way. I ask for this.
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  In Jesus name Jeremiah chapter 1, the words of Jeremiah son of
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  Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of
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  Benjamin. So I noticed when I was reading
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  this that Jeremiah is coming from the territory of Benjamin.
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  It's it's always interesting that's where Paul came from.
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  Also, he was somewhat from the tribe of Benjamin, and Benjamin
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  was one of the two. Tribes.
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  That were in the southern portion of the Kingdom when they
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  were separated. So the 10 tribes were in the
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  Northern Kingdom and then Judah and Benjamin were in the
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  Southern Kingdom. It just helps sometimes in
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  understanding these things. Our seeing how God works.
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  Continuing on the. Word of the Lord.
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  Came to him in the 13th year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon,
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  king of Judah, and through the reign of Jehoiakim, son of
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  Josiah king of Judah, down to the fifth month of the 11th year
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  of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, when the people of
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  Jerusalem went into exile. So the study Bible says.
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  When did Jeremiah preach? Jeremiah preached during the
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  reigns of 5 Kings. Only the most important ones are
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  noted in. Verses 2 through 3.
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  He preached in Judah from 6:26. To 585 BC.
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  Sometime after the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC, Jeremiah.
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  Was exiled to. Egypt, where he continued to
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  preach. According to Jewish tradition,
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  Jeremiah was stoned to death in Egypt by his fellow countrymen.
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  A few years. After Jerusalem's fall.
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  So OK, let's continue with verse 4.
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  The word of the Lord. Came to me saying before I
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  formed you in the womb, I knew you before you were born, I set
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  you apart. I appointed you as a prophet to
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  the nations. I will stop here a.
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  Few things came to mind as I was reading this.
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  First of all, when God, God. Creates all of us.
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  God does have a purpose for each of us.
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  Now in other. Parts of the scripture it talks
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  about. God being the Potter and us
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  being the clay and. It also talks about just.
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  As a Potter can make some. Pieces of pottery for special
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  purposes. And some for common purposes.
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  That's the same for us too. Sometimes God has special
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  purposes for those he he creates, and sometimes they're
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  just common purposes. And so Jeremiah obviously was
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  one of those that was set. Apart for special purposes.
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  And it's very interesting because in the way.
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  This is described this. Was like a conversation between.
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  The Lord. And Jeremiah, so often we.
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  Say we hear people today. You can find people who say the
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  Lord told me, and I'm always. Skeptical of those people
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  because I wonder how did he say that to you?
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  Was it audible? How do?
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  You know it's from God. How do you know it's not your
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  own thoughts? How do you know it's not from
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  the enemy? All those questions and because
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  there's so many people that say that now.
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  Also, the other thing I've noticed.
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  Too, though, is a lot of people who.
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  Say those kinds of things today that I've seen are saying a
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  similar message to what Jeremiah is saying.
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  So I'm not saying that God didn't tell them.
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  It's just that there's a. Lot of people.
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  Saying that and we can't I'm we all know that it's 100% of the
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  people who are saying that are not being.
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  Told by God. They're being told in another.
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  Way either by their. Own desires or by the enemy and
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  that's. The that's the tricky.
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  Part There's There's three potential sources for.
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  What people? Think it's either their own
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  thoughts, something from God, or something from the enemy.
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  And the important thing for everyone to have is discernment.
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  How do you tell if something is from God, if something is from
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  your own or something is from the enemy?
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  And there's information in the Bible about those things on ways
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  to do that. So number one is whatever comes
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  from the word. Of the Lord of the Lord.
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  Will not contradict scripture, so that's a really easy one to
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  rule out when I say. Easy.
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  It's easy. To say well in scripture.
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  It says this. And the words.
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  That you're. Coming up with are saying that,
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  so if you see something that doesn't align with.
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  God's word, that's. Easy to say.
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  It doesn't matter if it's that person or if it's the enemy
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  trying to say it, but it's easy to know that it's not from God.
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  However, not everyone knows. Scripture really well, so it's
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  easy. For.
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  People to be deceived, that's. Another reason why it's really
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  important for all of us to know what scripture actually says.
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  So then when we hear someone saying something opposite from
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  what scripture says and speaking it.
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  As if it's the truth. Then we can call it out for the
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  benefit of other people. So that other people.
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  Are not misled. We don't call it out.
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  Just because we feel a. Certain way, but we need
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  scriptural support to say no, this is not true.
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  Because this is what scripture says.
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  Because we know scripture is true.
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  So we're in this time right now. Obviously we all know that with
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  AI, with technology. There it's very, very easy.
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  To deceive people. And God actually warned us about
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  that, and we'll talk about that later in some.
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  Verses because it says. In in scripture it says if.
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  Possible. To deceive even the elect
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  through signs and wonders that. They're going to be so.
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  Strong that, if possible, would deceive even the elect.
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  The elect are God's chosen people.
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  So this is a warning from God telling us that we're easily
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  deceived. So this means that we need to
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  know Scripture better than we ever have.
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  We need to have to know the. Truth.
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  So that we can spot the deception because the deception
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  is very subtle and people don't recognize it when you are not
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  well versed in scripture. And anyway, so let's.
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  Let's go back. To what we were talking about is
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  about God forming Jeremiah, and he had set Jeremiah apart as a
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  prophet. He appointed him and this.
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  Was God's. Plan for him.
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  So I'll continue reading. Alas, Sovereign Lord, I said.
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  I do not know how to speak. I am too young.
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  I thought this was kind of funny, but not really funny, but
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  interesting because that is anytime God seems to use, not
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  anytime or not every time, but often it seems when God wants to
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  use somebody for his purpose, they think, no, not me.
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  That's somebody else. Somebody else can do that.
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  That's not I'm not called to that.
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  I can't do this. I can't.
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  No, I can't do that. So that's something that maybe
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  we should pay attention to the humbleness of a person because
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  there's some people that are out there.
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  That's like love to say. God told me this and you know, I
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  was appointed for this, you know, and and they just.
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  There's all this. Pride in there and God.
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  Hates pride. But what you see is God uses the
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  humble. And here we can see that
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  Jeremiah is really humble. He's like, I do not know who,
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  how to. Speak.
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  I'm too. Young like, you know, don't tell
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  me to be a prophet and be speaking to people.
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  I don't know how to do that. I'm just I'm young and and God,
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  you know, this is. God.
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  Choosing him as a young person, if you remember that Moses had
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  that same reaction. Moses said I can't talk.
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  I mean, I don't know if there's some I heard and I don't
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  remember. This is in Scripture or
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  somebody's speculation that Moses stuttered maybe or he had
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  some kind of a speech trouble and and God actually let.
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  His I. Think it was his cousin Aaron go
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  with him so that he could speak for Moses in those times because
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  he was Again, Moses was not confident in himself and and we
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  see that we see that often. In fact, I think it's when
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  Samuel was being 1st called by God that he wasn't.
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  Sure, he thought, Eli the priest was.
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  Calling him like he didn't recognize that.
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  So there are times where. God starts.
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  Speaking to someone and these. People, obviously.
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  Apparently heard an audible. Voice.
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  Or it was just like something in their mind.
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  Maybe they didn't hear an audible voice, but they heard
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  something, words in their mind that they didn't think were
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  their own. Anyway, that's what God does,
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  and God talks to people. Or he has.
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  Talked to people. In the past, we'll see that
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  because I did a word search of the.
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  Word of the Lord. So there's like probably. 5 or 6
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  different pages. Where it was just the.
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  Word of the Lord and you'll see some repetitions here.
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  So going back into the book of Jeremiah.
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  Where he says I. Did not know how to speak.
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  I am too young. But the Lord said to me, do not
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  say I am too young. You must go to everyone I send
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  you and say whatever I command you.
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  Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will.
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  Rescue you, declares the Lord. So there's several things we can
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  see about. God here.
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  He gives confidence to Jeremiah. He says don't say I'm too young.
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  Don't come up with excuses. This is similar to Jonah when
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  God wanted Jonah to go to Nineveh and and speak to them,
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  but Jonah didn't want to go there.
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  He knew Nineveh was full of sinners and he didn't want to be
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  a part of it. He went the opposite direction,
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  but then God caused some trouble out in the seas and they were
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  about to drown, and Jonah realized that.
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  All. Of this was happening because he
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  was disobeying God. God had something he wanted
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  Jonah to do, Jonah didn't want to do.
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  It because he probably had. Prejudices against the sinful
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  people that were in Nineveh that he didn't, He didn't want to.
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  Do with, deal with. Them he wanted to do his own
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  thing and just leave them be. But God was like, Nope, I want
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  you to go there. And so Jonah refused God.
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  And so God made it challenging for him, and God would probably
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  keep pursuing Jonah. And then, finally, Jonah got the
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  message. It's like, OK, God, I'll do what
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  you say. So God didn't really force Jonah
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  to do it, but God had to humble Jonah to say I am God, you are
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  not, you know, that's that's what God I think does with a.
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  Lot of us, I feel. I certainly feel like God did
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  that with me where He had to humble me because I feel like in
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  my life there have been many times where there was.
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  Probably like a a. Calling from God to do something
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  and I was like, ah, not right now.
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  I've got, you know, this going on and, you know, pushing off
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  things that I probably should not.
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  Maybe I'm not really sure, but I certainly wasn't consulting God
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  at the time to ask do you want me to do this or not?
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  I was just saying no to things and and so looking back in
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  hindsight, that may have been God and God did make my life
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  pretty darn challenging before. I decided to obey God.
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  And to surrender to Him because I didn't want to.
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  And, and so I see that when I'm reading through this, I see
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  that's how God. Works with a lot of people.
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  He'll he'll. Give us the insight that you
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  know this is probably what you need to do, but he.
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  Still lets us have. The decision A.
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  Choice he get lets. Us have the choice and we can
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  say Nope, I'm not doing it right now, or we can be obedient ones
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  and do what he says and when we are disobedient to him, he can
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  make our life as hell because God seems to do that he.
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  Lets trials. Tribulation and stuff occurred
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  to. People who are rebellious to.
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  Him, it's very clear in Scripture.
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  Just like Nona, he, just like Jonah, He made his life.
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  Pretty chaotic. When he wasn't going to listen
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  to God. And so God will do the same to
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  ours to get our attention. To get rid of that pride.
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  Get what? Rid of that.
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  Rebellion and turn US towards him we see throughout.
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  Scripture that that's what God. Wants.
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  He wants us to turn to Him. He doesn't want us to be
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  disobedient to Him. OK, going back to Scripture then
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  The Lord. Reached.
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  Out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, I have put
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  my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over
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  nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and
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  overthrow, to build and to plant.
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  That would be pretty scary. To have God tell you as a young
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  person, this is all you're going to do, this is what you're going
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  to do. It's a pretty daunting task and
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  but you know God when he uses a person.
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  He lets us have our free will to decide whether we will.
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  Go along with him, but. He he always says.
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  Don't be afraid. And he?
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  Basically says I will equip you with whatever.
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  You need, you don't have to. Fear if I tell.
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  You to do something, don't even worry about it, just do it
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  because. I will equip you this is.
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  Pretty much what God says. And he was saying I don't know
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  how to speak. So God said I'm putting words in
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  your mouth. Jesus said to his disciples.
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  Don't worry. About what you have to.
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  Say when they would get brought in front of the officials.
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  Because he said the holy. Spirit would speak for them so.
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  All we have to do is be. Obedient to God and then God.
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  Will take care of the. Rest and then when we get into a
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  place or a point where we're like, well, I don't know what to
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  do. Like I can't, I don't, I don't
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  know what to say. That's when we just like.
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  Say God take over. Give me the words to say because
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  I don't know what to say. And God does that because we are
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  being obedient to him. And obedient to him is not a
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  legalistic thing. It's a.
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  Way that we show love. God said.
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  Jesus. Said to us, said to his
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  disciples, to his followers, he said if you love me, obey my
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  commands. So that is showing love to be
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  obedient. And it's not being legalistic,
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  it's showing love. If someone you love says can you
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  do this for me? That's showing love back to the
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  person so. The word of the Lord.
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  Came to me. What do you see?
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  Jeremiah So here God is testing Jeremiah.
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  I see the branch of an almond. Tree, I replied.
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  The Lord said to me, You have seen correctly, for I am
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  watching to see that my word is fulfilled.
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  So there's a little note in here about the Hebrew.
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  Word. For watching sounds like the
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  Hebrew for almond tree so we won't pick up that when we read
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  it in this version of the Bible that I'm reading, but in.
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  Actual Hebrew there is. Some like rhyming I guess, or
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  some similar sounding thing, is that God's using something
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  symbolic that sounds like something to get a message, you
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  know, to probably ingrain that in somebody's thoughts, to
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  commit it to memory. So that he.
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  Remembers an almond tree, but then it sounds like you have
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  seen correctly for I am watching to see that my word is
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  fulfilled. God is watching us.
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  He is watching what we do the. Word of the Lord.
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  Came to me again. What do you see?
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  I see a pot that is boiling, I answered.
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  It is tilting towards us from the north, the Lord said to me.
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  From the north, disaster will be poured out on all who live in
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  the land. I am about to summon all the
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  peoples of the Northern kingdoms.
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  Declares the Lord. So we see a couple of things
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  here. First of our.
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  All God, when he's speaking to Jeremiah, he's using symbols are
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  symbolic things, are metaphors of things.
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  And he's showing Jeremiah, you know, does that help?
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  Committed to memory perhaps that he's showing them this is what's
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  going to happen. So Jeremiah will see something
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  and then God explains it. He doesn't leave them in the
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  dark and he says that there's going to be disaster from the
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  north and it's God is about to summon them.
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  Now God is the one doing this. So it's not just the enemy, not
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  when I say just, but it's God. God is in control of things.
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  That's what we have to also reflect.
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  Upon because I think if we reflect upon this, it might
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  make. Us or lead?
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  Us not make us, but lead us into repentance because when we see
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  God's pattern of interacting with people.
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  He protects those. Who are obedient to Him and
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  those who are rebellious to him, to Him get to experience some
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  challenges in life and not to. Say that people who are.
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  Obedient to God don't get challenges because there is the
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  enemy that does come against. The people of God.
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  That brings about those trials. So.
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  You know, sometimes it's God, sometimes it's the enemy.
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  But specifically here it says. I am about to summon all the
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  peoples of the Northern Kingdom, and when God summons them, he
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  often he's, he's not taking over somebody's free will.
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  These northern kingdoms already want to do this, but God is
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  using their desires for his purpose.
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  So again, this is how God uses people's own desires to
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  accomplish something that He's done.
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  He could also stop it, but in this case, He's going to let
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  those people who want to come against Jerusalem for them to be
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  successful because he's trying to.
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  It'll say why he does. This too, he said, their kings
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  will come and set up their Thrones in the entrance of the
• 24:47
  gates of Jerusalem. They will come against all her
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  surrounding walls and against all the towns of Judah.
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  I will pronounce my judgments on my people.
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  It gives you. Why?
• 25:00
  Because because of their. Wickedness in forsaking me
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  because the people turned away from God.
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  That's why he's doing this and he's allowing this to happen
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  because they turned away from him.
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  When I read through scripture, I think about these things and I
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  think about in our rebellious times.
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  I, I've been kind of watching since I observed this in
• 25:25
  Scripture in my own life and in lives of other people around me,
• 25:30
  people who are rebellious, including me.
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  When I was being rebellious because I wanted to be do what I
• 25:36
  wanted to do. I didn't necessarily want to do
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  what I knew God probably wanted me to do.
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  And and so I suffered the consequences of that.
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  We do suffer consequences of our behavior.
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  And so when people are knowingly doing rebellious things and they
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  know that God doesn't want them to be doing it, but they do it
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  anyway. They should really expect.
• 26:04
  Judgment, They should expect some challenges in their life.
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  They're kind of giving it up. They're giving up the protection
• 26:10
  of God and rebelling against Him, and that brings about
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  judgment, we can see. That repeated over.
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  And over and over again. So ultimately, it's very foolish
• 26:23
  for us to rebel. Against God for us to have our
• 26:28
  own way and say, well, I'll do what God wants me to do later.
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  Maybe you will. Maybe as as long as God has
• 26:37
  mercy on you and he doesn't let your life, you know, get taken
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  by somebody, because you'd have to know that the enemy will
• 26:43
  probably want to take. Your life if you call yourself a
• 26:46
  child of God, or if you. Think you're close to God and
• 26:49
  you? Just stay rebellious.
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  Do you think that, I mean, God does have mercy on those?
• 26:56
  He wants to have mercy, but there's also the enemy.
• 26:59
  Think about what the enemy might be thinking.
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  If the enemy's observing what's going on knows that somebody's
• 27:05
  close to. God, but they've.
• 27:07
  Slipped away. They've backslidden.
• 27:09
  Whatever it is, don't you think the enemy's goal might be to?
• 27:13
  Try to take that. Person out because if that
• 27:15
  person gets taken out and they never repent of what they've
• 27:19
  done, they are not in the Kingdom of God and so God can
• 27:26
  use but then we as we. Will see through job or if
• 27:29
  you've read. Job, God didn't allow Satan.
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  Because Job was a righteous. Man, he didn't allow Satan to.
• 27:36
  Take his life, but he. Allowed Satan to inflict him in
• 27:40
  various ways, not because of anything Job had done, but
• 27:44
  because Satan, who is the accuser, was in front of God and
• 27:49
  was telling him that, you know, he could turn Job away.
• 27:54
  That's Satan's whole goal is to turn people away from God.
• 27:59
  And anyway. Let's get back to this.
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  So, and it's because of their wickedness.
• 28:05
  The reason, the only reason I bring that up is that when we
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  rebel against God. This is not in Scripture.
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  This is an opinion that I've established, but it seems like
• 28:16
  there is some. Legal access that we give to
• 28:19
  God. 'S enemy if we are forsaking
• 28:22
  God. Just like he says here this.
• 28:25
  Is when He brings on judgments for people when they forsake
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  him. If we are ignoring God or we are
• 28:31
  rebelling against God, we can't be on the fence.
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  We can't be like anybody who's on the fence.
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  I've heard it described several times.
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  You are. It's a black and white thing.
• 28:42
  It's not a Gray area. You are either with God.
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  Or against God. So if you are on the fence, you
• 28:49
  are against God, even though you might think, well, I'm not
• 28:53
  really, you are and God warns about that.
• 28:59
  You, you can't stay on the fence.
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  In fact, God, even, you know, talks.
• 29:03
  About the church Laodicea the. Lukewarm church because the
• 29:07
  Laodicea was a town and their water was lukewarm.
• 29:11
  It it was mixed between Hot Springs and cold springs, so it
• 29:13
  was kind of a lukewarm and and. So it was like a.
• 29:17
  Literal but in symbolic meeting meaning and Jesus said you know,
• 29:21
  if you don't change your ways. I wanted to spit you out of my
• 29:23
  mouth. That doesn't sound like you're
• 29:25
  being. Close to God.
• 29:27
  When the Son of God is saying I'm going to spit you out of my
• 29:30
  mouth. So it doesn't sound very
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  pleasant, I don't think God says.
• 29:36
  Oh well, you're halfway there. You're you're good.
• 29:39
  No, I don't think so. God is very much this is black
• 29:43
  and white. We don't get to be halfway in
• 29:45
  God's Kingdom. We're either in God's Kingdom or
• 29:48
  we're not. And if we're be in rebellion,
• 29:51
  unrepentant rebellion, we're not in God's Kingdom.
• 29:55
  So that's kind. Of a big wake up.
• 29:57
  Call nobody. Likes to hear that.
• 29:58
  No churches. Will tell you that because.
• 30:01
  Then they might not have anybody sitting in their seats giving
• 30:03
  them money, so they're not going to tell you that.
• 30:06
  So then it's up. To all these other people who
• 30:08
  read the Bible, who? Speak the truth to say hey.
• 30:13
  This is what the Bible says. Search it for.
• 30:15
  Yourself because the. If your church is not telling
• 30:20
  you this, then do you think I mean they're really doing their
• 30:25
  job? I mean, God's going to take care
• 30:27
  of them for not preparing people for the Kingdom.
• 30:31
  But hopefully you. Get the message some other way.
• 30:35
  Anyway, this is just it. It alarmed me when I read this
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  stuff and. So because of that, because.
• 30:44
  It affected me, it impacted me, it impacted my life and it.
• 30:49
  Says the fear of. God is the beginning of wisdom.
• 30:51
  When your eyes are open to this stuff, you're not going to mess
• 30:54
  around with God. So anyway, he says, I will
• 30:58
  pronounce my judgement on my. People because of their.
• 31:01
  Wickedness and forsaking me in burning incense.
• 31:05
  To other gods. So this is like idolatry.
• 31:10
  This is the number one thing that it seems like.
• 31:14
  Really. Really.
• 31:15
  Really gets God angry with us and it says and in worshipping
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  what their hands have made so. We have to be very careful.
• 31:26
  With, you know, we get. All of our.
• 31:28
  Gifts from God. God created us a certain way,
• 31:31
  anything that we are. Good at It's because God gave us
• 31:34
  those skills. Everything good?
• 31:37
  Should be the. Glory should be given to God
• 31:41
  like it's only. Through God?
• 31:43
  Through what? He's done through us like how he
• 31:46
  made different people. That people have abilities to do
• 31:49
  what they do. And can do beautiful things
• 31:52
  because God is very creative and does amazing things.
• 31:57
  And he creates people in his image.
• 32:00
  But the problem comes in when we start worshipping what our own
• 32:05
  hands have made that doesn't that's that offends God
• 32:10
  obviously, because he's bringing judgment on people.
• 32:13
  And that's where we get into idolatry When?
• 32:16
  So people are really creative. You know, either with something
• 32:20
  they build, something they make, something they draw, music they
• 32:24
  make. Whatever.
• 32:24
  People are creative because. We are made in God's image, but
• 32:29
  then that starts going to our head, right?
• 32:31
  That's like pride. Oh, I'm really good at.
• 32:34
  This or whatever it is. You know, if it's art, if it's
• 32:37
  music, if it's building something, whatever, or just,
• 32:43
  you know, I don't know, mathematical gifts, who knows?
• 32:46
  You know it's all from God, so whatever.
• 32:49
  We excel at. And then we start thinking that
• 32:52
  we did. This I did this.
• 32:55
  I did this. You think God's really thrilled
• 32:57
  by? He's like, no, I gave.
• 32:58
  That to you so really. We should be thanking God
• 33:02
  anytime something stands out because it's only through.
• 33:05
  God, that whatever it is. Stands out and God gets upset
• 33:09
  with it. He's not sharing the limelight.
• 33:11
  He we need to know our place in. Creation We are a created.
• 33:16
  Thing we are the clay God is the Potter.
• 33:21
  So then he says, get yourself ready, stand up and say to them,
• 33:26
  whatever I command you, do not be terrified by them or.
• 33:31
  I will terrify you before. Them How would I like God to
• 33:34
  tell you that? Don't be afraid of these.
• 33:37
  People but be. Afraid of me because if if you,
• 33:43
  if. If you.
• 33:44
  Are and you don't do what I ask you to do, then I'm going to
• 33:48
  terrify you. I don't think I'd want to be.
• 33:51
  Terrified by God. So he says today I have made.
• 33:55
  You a fortified. City, an iron pillar and a
• 33:58
  bronze wall to stand up to No, to stand against the whole land,
• 34:04
  against the kings of Judah. It's.
• 34:05
  Officials. It's priests and the people of
• 34:08
  the land. They will fight against you but
• 34:13
  will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you.
• 34:20
  Declares the Lord. That's the end of chapter 1.
• 34:24
  So God says that they're not going to overcome.
• 34:30
  Because he. Put Jeremiah in this position,
• 34:32
  he's equipping Jeremiah with what he needs and he said that I
• 34:37
  am with you, so we have to. We have to have.
• 34:41
  Trust in God. Jeremiah needed to have trust in
• 34:43
  God and he said, and I will rescue you like that's something
• 34:48
  to you know, God is spirit, so we don't see.
• 34:51
  God, but yet God is. Saying.
• 34:53
  We'll rescue you. This is what?
• 34:54
  He's saying to Jeremiah, so if any one of us.
• 34:57
  Got a word like that? Then we need to fully.
• 35:00
  Trust. God in that way and also make.
• 35:03
  Sure that that word was. From God and not from our own
• 35:06
  self or from the enemy too. So that's that's discernment is
• 35:11
  so important because as we will talk about later why it's so
• 35:19
  important. So I'm going to read through the
• 35:21
  questions and answers for this chapter and then get into the
• 35:24
  discussion discussion about that.
• 35:26
  Rapture date of. September 23rd that went 2025,
• 35:30
  that went viral and didn't happen, so OK.
• 35:35
  How? How old was?
• 35:36
  Jeremiah, when he sensed. God's call.
• 35:39
  Jeremiah described himself as being too young, but being young
• 35:43
  had a broader meaning in that time than it does today.
• 35:46
  It probably referred to anyone who is not yet fully mature.
• 35:51
  Jeremiah may have been in his early teens to his early 20s.
• 35:56
  What exactly did God want Jeremiah to?
• 35:58
  Do four of the six. Words used to describe Jeremiah
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  are spastic. The bulk of Jeremiah's preaching
• 36:07
  involved announcing Judah's destruction.
• 36:10
  To uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow.
• 36:15
  But Jeremiah was also called to proclaim hope to announce a
• 36:20
  redemption. That was to follow to build.
• 36:24
  And to plant Jeremiah himself did not do the destroying or
• 36:28
  building, God did. Jeremiah's ministry was to
• 36:32
  announce the things that God would do in Judah.
• 36:36
  Was Judah under attack during Jeremiah's lifetime?
• 36:39
  Yes, Judah lived under constant. Threat of attack as successive.
• 36:44
  Empires gain power over it, first Assyria, then Egypt, and
• 36:49
  finally Babylon. Jerusalem came under direct
• 36:53
  attack in 586 BC when Babylon destroyed it and LED most of its
• 36:58
  people into exile. Why use a pun?
• 37:01
  This is from 1:00, verses 11 through 12.
• 37:06
  That's where it talks about. The almond tree and I see the
• 37:11
  branch of an almond tree. I replied the.
• 37:13
  Lord said to me, You have seen it correctly, for I am watching
• 37:16
  to see that my word. Is fulfilled word play was a
• 37:21
  popular literary. Technique used by several
• 37:23
  prophets it it not only got people's attention but also
• 37:28
  helped them remember the message and you know, maybe.
• 37:34
  This was actually what occurred. Between God and Jeremiah.
• 37:38
  So I wouldn't say it was just literary technique.
• 37:41
  Maybe God used that literary technique to commit, you know,
• 37:46
  to commit it to someone's mind. So I.
• 37:49
  I take the Bible pretty. Literally in what it says, but I
• 37:55
  also see symbology in it. Like I know that not everything
• 37:59
  is literal. It's sometimes it's a literal
• 38:05
  and a symbolic meeting. So I think it just takes
• 38:08
  discernment to know which is which, because the Bible.
• 38:11
  Does have both of those? Things so God.
• 38:15
  How can God appoint someone not yet born?
• 38:20
  God appoints. People before they are.
• 38:22
  Born in a sense that he has a plan and a purpose for each
• 38:26
  person. Galatians 115.
• 38:30
  Some think this divine plan cannot be resisted.
• 38:34
  They look to Paul's argument for support.
• 38:37
  God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens
• 38:41
  whom he wants to harden. In this view, Jeremiah had no
• 38:46
  choice. He couldn't help but do what God
• 38:49
  intended for his life. I kind of.
• 38:51
  Disagree with what the study? Bible here says ultimately.
• 38:56
  God's. Will will be done so.
• 39:01
  But then we've also seen that when someone rebels against God,
• 39:06
  for example, let's take Saul King, the first king that the
• 39:10
  people wanted. Saul had Samuel giving him.
• 39:16
  Words of God to do it like this is what you need to.
• 39:21
  Do Saul and so Saul. Would do.
• 39:24
  He would be the. Lukewarm leader.
• 39:27
  He would do part of what God wanted, but not all of it.
• 39:31
  And he'd say, well, I, I did these things.
• 39:33
  And then Samuel would say, yeah, but you didn't do this or you
• 39:37
  did that. You weren't.
• 39:38
  Supposed to do that like. Taking the spoils from a A when
• 39:42
  he was capturing someone are an entry, you know, when they were
• 39:47
  going against another country or nation or.
• 39:49
  Tribe or group of people? When they were going at war, the
• 39:53
  plunder sometimes. God would say destroy it.
• 39:57
  All sometimes God would let them keep it.
• 39:59
  Well, there are certain times where God said destroy
• 40:02
  everything, but Saul decided I'm just going to keep.
• 40:05
  The best stuff because. It's good stuff basically.
• 40:09
  And and Samuel was like, no, that's not what God said.
• 40:13
  Doesn't matter if it's good stuff.
• 40:15
  God said get rid of it. All and Saul had a habit of
• 40:20
  doing that, and in fact some of the.
• 40:22
  Search that I did today. Looking up.
• 40:24
  The word of the Lord it did say that the.
• 40:27
  Lord. Let Saul die.
• 40:30
  Because he was disobedient. So going back to this, Jeremiah
• 40:34
  had no choice. I believe Jeremiah still had a
• 40:37
  choice. Jeremiah chose to follow God.
• 40:42
  And if Jeremiah said no, I'm not going to, God could continue to
• 40:48
  test him. Like he did.
• 40:50
  Jonah when he told Jonah to go to Nineveh.
• 40:53
  Or God could say, OK, fine, I will end your life.
• 40:57
  That's it. If you don't want to, if you
• 40:59
  want to, you know, keep disobeying me and rebelling
• 41:02
  against me and not doing what I ask, then you can do that.
• 41:08
  So. I see God.
• 41:12
  Not forcing people to do something.
• 41:15
  He can make their life difficult, but ultimately.
• 41:18
  I still believe that God. Gives us free will and that we
• 41:22
  are responsible for the choice we make.
• 41:25
  We can't say God made me do that.
• 41:28
  We can't say the devil made me do it or Satan made me do it.
• 41:32
  We are. All responsible for our own
• 41:35
  choices. We are influenced.
• 41:37
  By God we are. Influenced by We can be
• 41:41
  influenced by evil, but we have the ultimate choice.
• 41:45
  We can't blame anybody else. We have to be accountable for
• 41:48
  our own actions and that's. The way I believe.
• 41:52
  Based on. Scripture because I see those.
• 41:54
  Examples that I talked. About so that's where I would
• 41:56
  say I would disagree with this study Bible.
• 41:59
  Because others think that. Although God has a specific
• 42:02
  purpose for each of us, He also gives gives each of us.
• 42:06
  The freedom to either. Accept or reject his purpose,
• 42:09
  OK? So that's what I think.
• 42:11
  They look to biblical passages. Suggesting that God.
• 42:14
  Gives people a free. Will one example is a statement
• 42:18
  made by Jesus. How often I have longed to.
• 42:22
  Gather your. Children and you were not
• 42:25
  willing. Yep.
• 42:27
  See, that's what I mean. Scripture.
• 42:28
  There's another example. Because Jesus didn't force them
• 42:32
  otherwise. Jesus could have just.
• 42:34
  Done anything he wanted, he. Could have just said that's.
• 42:37
  Enough. I'm just taking all of you, but
• 42:41
  it's this whole thing about us living here on Earth is all I
• 42:45
  think it. Seems like it's to see what.
• 42:50
  Choice we make and for God to give us time, a certain amount
• 42:54
  of time for each of us to make a decision.
• 42:57
  To either accept God's. Authority and submit to it.
• 43:03
  Do. What God wants us to do or rebel
• 43:07
  against it, and we all kind of start out as.
• 43:10
  Rebellious. To God until a certain point and
• 43:13
  it's a different time in everybody's life and I don't
• 43:16
  know. Why?
• 43:19
  But God does. And and we have a time frame,
• 43:24
  but when we are feeling like. We.
• 43:27
  Should probably submit to God. I think that's probably wise.
• 43:31
  To do it. Because I think at that point
• 43:34
  things are only going to get worse in our life.
• 43:36
  If we resist it. If God knows.
• 43:39
  That our heart is really. With Him, but we're just
• 43:41
  struggling with some things. We're going to struggle with a
• 43:43
  lot more. I think that's just what I've
• 43:46
  seen. So the sooner we turn to God and
• 43:50
  ask for forgiveness for rebelling against Him, and the
• 43:54
  sooner we become obedient. The better off we will.
• 43:58
  Be because God does not give us a.
• 44:01
  Spirit of fear, we won't be. Afraid anymore and.
• 44:06
  We will have God's. Protection God will be with us
• 44:09
  through whatever comes across our path.
• 44:13
  So let's see this the debate will undoubtedly continue of.
• 44:18
  Course it will. Like some people think God just
• 44:21
  makes people do things. Other people think we have free
• 44:23
  will. As for Jeremiah, though he tried
• 44:26
  to back out of the calling at least once, he found that he
• 44:30
  couldn't. If I say I will not mention His
• 44:33
  word or speak any more in His name.
• 44:35
  His word is in my heart like a fire, A fire shut up in my
• 44:42
  bones. I am weary of holding it in,
• 44:44
  indeed I cannot. So I think that's.
• 44:48
  Kind of like the Holy Spirit, I think the holy.
• 44:50
  Spirit. Just when when we've aligned
• 44:55
  ourselves with God or maybe accepted God, the Holy Spirit is
• 45:00
  within us and the Holy Spirit's going to keep on giving us that
• 45:04
  feeling of like, I just can't do this anymore.
• 45:08
  I've got to be obedient to God. And I think that's what Jeremiah
• 45:12
  was that that's my own personal opinion, but OK.
• 45:15
  What northern kingdoms would attack Judah in Babylon along
• 45:20
  with her allies, although Babylon was actually.
• 45:22
  Located east of Judah. The normal military route from
• 45:26
  Babylon to Judah was not a straight line east to West.
• 45:30
  Instead, the Babylonians had to travel around the expansive
• 45:34
  Arabian desert that lay between Babylon and Judah.
• 45:38
  The attackers from the east would therefore enter Judah from
• 45:42
  the north, and then, it says, because of their wickedness.
• 45:49
  Read the. Read about the wickedness
• 45:51
  Jeremiah confronted during his early years in Second Kings
• 45:55
  Chapter 23 and Second Chronicles chapter. 30. 4 These passages
• 46:00
  show the extent. Of Judah's idolatry.
• 46:03
  And King Josiah's attempts to curb it, both before and after
• 46:08
  Jeremiah's call. How could Jeremiah get ready he
• 46:13
  needed? To be utterly.
• 46:14
  Realistic about the tough challenge ahead, his words would
• 46:17
  be unpopular and the. People would be hostile.
• 46:21
  He would have to prepare mentally and emotionally for
• 46:24
  opposition and challenge. More important, Jeremiah needed
• 46:28
  to commit himself completely to God, who promised to keep him
• 46:32
  strong. Whatever happened.
• 46:35
  So that is everything from the study Bible now to actually I
• 46:41
  might just stop. This.
• 46:42
  Recording and then do a short separate talk about this.
• 46:49
  Word of God. And the word of the?
• 46:52
  Lord. Which came to mind when I was
• 46:57
  thinking about our, when we were talking about Jeremiah, because
• 47:02
  the word of the Lord came to him.
• 47:04
  And, and that's what I think I'll just do a separate one
• 47:07
  because it's already 45 minutes long and maybe somebody doesn't
• 47:10
  want to make it much longer than that.
• 47:12
  So I'll stop here. And next time we'll do chapter
• 47:17
  2. And in between I will have a
• 47:19
  talk about the the Rapture.