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Jeremiah Episode 27 "Foolish Shepherds & Fervent Prayer: The Cost of Ignoring God" 10"20-25 · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 4: And so welcome to his Hot movement. So right now
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  Speaker 4: we're going through the Book of Jeremiah. We're in chapter
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  Speaker 4: ten and we're looking at the judgment, the warnings. Jeremiah
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  Speaker 4: is considered the weeping Profit. We're looking at all these
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  Speaker 4: things and we're asking our fire to give us understanding
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  Speaker 4: and revelation and see where do we stand. Where do
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  Speaker 4: we stand in our own individual lives, and where do
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  Speaker 4: we stand as a nation? Where do we stand? Hopefully
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  Speaker 4: we do not cross that line to where we can't return.
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  Speaker 4: Like we are reading here in the Book of Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 4: Judah was warned over and over again. They did not
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  Speaker 4: take the warnings to heart, and so judgment finally came
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  Speaker 4: and now they're freaking out. Now they realize the reality
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  Speaker 4: of it that they are about to be disciplined severely.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's where we pick up the story. So
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  Speaker 4: let's pray, Father, we ask for your hand to be
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  Speaker 4: over this podcast. We ask Father God, that you will
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  Speaker 4: take it, and that you will prosper it and let
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  Speaker 4: it be used for your purposes. And no one else
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  Speaker 4: Lord will gain glory but you, oh God, for you
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  Speaker 4: deserve it. You deserve all the glory, all the honor,
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  Speaker 4: and all the praise. O God. If anything has been
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  Speaker 4: this platform, Oh God, it's only because of you, Lord,
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  Speaker 4: and we give you the glory, O God. We thank you,
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  Speaker 4: Father God. We praise you God. We pray for a
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  Speaker 4: fresher ninety and a fresh outpouring and the mighty name
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  Speaker 4: of Jesus. Amen. All right, So we are in the
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  Speaker 4: Book of Jeremiah, chapter ten, and we left off on
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  Speaker 4: verse twenty one. We're actually going to finish the chapter today.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to cover five verses, and then when we
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  Speaker 4: come back together we will be in chapter eleven. Amen.
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  Speaker 4: So in this chapter we see that the coming captivity
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  Speaker 4: of Judah is upon them, like they're about to be
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  Speaker 4: flung out of their inhabitants as we read in the
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  Speaker 4: last chapter. If you don't get anything else, understand that
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  Speaker 4: God is not playing around. It doesn't play to trifle
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  Speaker 4: with God. If God has warned us if he's dealing
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  Speaker 4: with us a different area in our lives, we need
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  Speaker 4: to get it right. We can't just keep prolonging it,
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  Speaker 4: prolonging it. There's area I don't know about you, but
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  Speaker 4: there's areas in my life where I've been stuck in cycles. Right,
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  Speaker 4: I give it to God, then I take it back.
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  Speaker 4: I give it to God, then I take it back.
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  Speaker 4: This book is open my eyes to the fact like
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  Speaker 4: God doesn't play. If he says give it up, we
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  Speaker 4: better give it up. And we need to do that
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  Speaker 4: with the quickness. Amen. And so as understand this and
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  Speaker 4: as we read it, let it penetrate our heart. Help
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  Speaker 4: us to get the message, and help us to apply
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  Speaker 4: this message. Holy Spirit. All right, I just want to
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  Speaker 4: back it up to verse twenty because that is a
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  Speaker 4: good scripture, and I believe it's worth meditating over one
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  Speaker 4: more time. We touched on it on the last episode.
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  Speaker 4: But in verse twenty it says, my tint is plundered
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  Speaker 4: and all my cords are broken. My children have gone
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  Speaker 4: for me, and they are no more. There is no
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  Speaker 4: one to pitch my tent anymore or set up my curtains.
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  Speaker 4: Now that is a lament that is a cry out
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  Speaker 4: of God's heart. How would you feel if you come
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  Speaker 4: home one day and all your children were gone? You know,
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  Speaker 4: those of us who raised children, we remember their laughter,
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  Speaker 4: their voices when they were young. We remember how they
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  Speaker 4: used to run through the house and play with their toys.
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  Speaker 4: And remember how they used to come up to us
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  Speaker 4: and my children when I used to come home from work,
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  Speaker 4: they used to play a game who can get the
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  Speaker 4: first hug? And it was awesome how I was just
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  Speaker 4: basically get tackled before I can get through the door.
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  Speaker 4: And I always used to tease my wife like, how
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  Speaker 4: come you never win? You always get the last hug,
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  Speaker 4: you know, And that is priceless. You know, you can
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  Speaker 4: remember times like this and God is saying that who's
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  Speaker 4: going to set up my curtain? Who's going to take
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  Speaker 4: care of the house? My children are gone from me,
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  Speaker 4: And he's talking about the whole nation of Judah. Right,
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  Speaker 4: So that's his heart. He doesn't want to judge, right,
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't. He takes no pleasure and judging his children.
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  Speaker 4: But he's also a just god, which we're going to
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  Speaker 4: see here verse tweeny one. For the shepherds have become
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  Speaker 4: dullhearted Now, this is an indictment to our leaders. If
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  Speaker 4: you are a pastor, a Bible study leader, a mentor,
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  Speaker 4: we really need to pay attention to the scripture. That's
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  Speaker 4: why I want to hit it all over again on
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  Speaker 4: this episode because leaders are held to a higher standard
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  Speaker 4: and will be judged at a higher standard. Leaders have responsibility.
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  Speaker 4: We are responsible for the people who are coming after us. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I like to watch videos on YouTube of people who
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  Speaker 4: have near death experiences, people who go to hell. They
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  Speaker 4: describe it, They even feel the fire, they feel the flames,
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  Speaker 4: and they are visited by Jesus, and Jesus even speaks
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  Speaker 4: to them and show them different things and explain to them,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you don't get it right, this is
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  Speaker 4: where you'll end up. And it was one particular time
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  Speaker 4: this brother was explaining that he saw himself in his cell,
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  Speaker 4: but underneath him was like a whole bunch of other
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  Speaker 4: cells that opened up. And this guy was a rapper
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  Speaker 4: and his content was not godly and he was going
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  Speaker 4: to hell himself. But the Lord was showing him that
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  Speaker 4: the content of his music, his influence the people that
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  Speaker 4: following him, the people that basically worshiped him. Right, because
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  Speaker 4: people have a habit of worshiping celebrities and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: They were in cells underneath him. He was responsible. The
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  Speaker 4: blood was on his hands all the people that he
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  Speaker 4: led to astray. And that same responsibility is on pastors
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  Speaker 4: and leaders. I mean, I always even consider myself in
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  Speaker 4: that category because I have been able to impact and
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  Speaker 4: influence a lot of people through our Christian hip hop
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  Speaker 4: club right here in Las Vegas Club His Hop, and
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  Speaker 4: there's been people all over the world. We've had people
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  Speaker 4: even allway from China who has come and minister that
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  Speaker 4: club his Hop. And if I don't walk this walk right,
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  Speaker 4: then who knows who I could affect in a negative light.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I'm taking all the steps I can to
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  Speaker 4: correct my actions, my mistakes. It's a sober responsibility to
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  Speaker 4: be a leader in the kingdom, and now we cannot
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  Speaker 4: afford our hearts to be dull. And so I've always
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  Speaker 4: been taught that leaders are readers. We need to constantly
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  Speaker 4: be reading books, especially men who are leading their families
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  Speaker 4: and pastors, and if you are raising children or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: we need to always be reading books, reading books that
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  Speaker 4: will help us and strengthen us. And of course the
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  Speaker 4: Bible is the number one, and it says, and have
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  Speaker 4: not sought the Lord, we are responsible as leaders to
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  Speaker 4: seek God. I'm coming to realize more and more that
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  Speaker 4: I need to seek God more when it comes to
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  Speaker 4: making decisions in my family, making decisions of my own life,
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  Speaker 4: making decisions in every area at work, business, ministry, our
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  Speaker 4: job and responsibility. And it's not just leaders. Everyone has
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  Speaker 4: called to seek after the Lord. And if we don't
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  Speaker 4: seek the Lord, our hearts will be dulled. We won't
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  Speaker 4: be able to lead anyone out of a webon paper
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  Speaker 4: bag if we're not seeking God. Therefore they shall not prosper,
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  Speaker 4: and all their flocks shall be scattered. I would hate
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  Speaker 4: to be in a position where my leadership doesn't help anyone,
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  Speaker 4: that I'm not prospering, and then to see the flock scattered,
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  Speaker 4: the people that God has given to me to oversee
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  Speaker 4: as a responsibility, to be an example, to help bring deliverance,
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  Speaker 4: to help bring them out, to help them get victory,
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  Speaker 4: to help them in the areas in their lives. Because
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  Speaker 4: I'm not seeking the Lord, they will be scattered. See,
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  Speaker 4: your relationship with God is not just for you. Your relationship
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  Speaker 4: with God is for others, others who are gonna look
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  Speaker 4: towards you, others that need you to live in victory.
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  Speaker 4: There's people out there that need you. They need you
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  Speaker 4: to reason this temptation. They need you to pray and
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  Speaker 4: to develop a prayer life. They need you to pray
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  Speaker 4: for them. They need you to teach and to witness.
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  Speaker 4: We never know who's looking at our lives. And if
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  Speaker 4: we scatter them, or if we bring them into the fold,
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  Speaker 4: it's on us Amen. Verse twenty two. Behold, the noise
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  Speaker 4: of the report has come. And now this is sobering. Right.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever heard bad news? Have you ever heard
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  Speaker 4: that somebody so and so is looking for you? Have
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  Speaker 4: you ever been in a fight right and or been
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  Speaker 4: in a situation and someone is seeking you because they
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  Speaker 4: want to fight you. They want to you know, you
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  Speaker 4: got to answer for it, this and that and the other.
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  Speaker 4: And I've been in situations like that. But this is
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  Speaker 4: a report about the Babylonian army that is invading the land.
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  Speaker 4: And it says in a great commotion out of the
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  Speaker 4: northern country. That means it's getting close, that's right at
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  Speaker 4: their doorstep. As we said before, the most northern tribe
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  Speaker 4: would have been the tribe of Dan, and Dan was
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  Speaker 4: the first tribe to introduce taking worship to the nation
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  Speaker 4: of Israel, and so it kind of makes sense that
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  Speaker 4: they would be the first tribe to be dealt with.
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  Speaker 4: But not only that. And you read the Book of
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  Speaker 4: Revelation and they go over the section in that book
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  Speaker 4: of the one hundred and forty four thousand, and it's no,
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  Speaker 4: it's not the one hundred and forty four of the
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  Speaker 4: Jehovah's witnesses. Is that is not correct doctrine that tells
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  Speaker 4: you right there who they are. There are different tribes
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  Speaker 4: from the nation of Israel. And if you read it,
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  Speaker 4: it's interesting that the tribe of Dan is missing. The
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  Speaker 4: tribe of Dan is not named.
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  Speaker 2: In that.
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  Speaker 4: And so I always thought that that was interesting that
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  Speaker 4: the tribe of Dan was the first tribe to fall,
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  Speaker 4: and they were omitted in that record, in that account.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm gonna leave you, leave you to steady that
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  Speaker 4: out for yourself. But I always thought it was interesting.
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  Speaker 4: So a great commotion out of the northern country to
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  Speaker 4: make the cities of Judah desolate and then of jackals.
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  Speaker 4: Now this is how God looked at them. This was
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  Speaker 4: his assessment, This was his evaluation. In his card about
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  Speaker 4: the nation in the city of Judah at the time. Now,
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  Speaker 4: if we can remember, Jesus said the similar thing when
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  Speaker 4: he cleansed the temple and the gospels, he has said
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  Speaker 4: that you've made my father's house a din of thieves.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, as we think about this, what is his
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  Speaker 4: report concerning us our lives? Are we a den of jackals?
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  Speaker 4: Are we a den of thieves? When he looks into
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  Speaker 4: our lives? What does he see? What does he say
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  Speaker 4: about our dwelling place? The Bible tells us that we
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  Speaker 4: are supposed to be a city on a hill, right
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  Speaker 4: to allow our life to shine before men? Are we
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  Speaker 4: a city that he can place on the heel? And
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  Speaker 4: if he places on us on the hill, are we
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  Speaker 4: gonna get puff full, puffed up with pride, get prideful
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  Speaker 4: and arrogant because oh we're on a hill? Or are
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  Speaker 4: we going to shine bright? Can he use us to
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  Speaker 4: be a beacon of light to a dark world? And
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  Speaker 4: that's what he wanted for the nation of Judah. He
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  Speaker 4: wanted them to shine, But as we see, they were
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  Speaker 4: a dim of jackals. In verse twenty three, Oh Lord,
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  Speaker 4: I know the way of man is not in him.
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  Speaker 4: It is not in man who walks to direct his
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  Speaker 4: own steps. Now that's a verse. We need to memorize,
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  Speaker 4: and we need to understand. What do we have control over.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard people say that control is an illusion. We
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  Speaker 4: really don't have control over anything. We don't even have
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  Speaker 4: control over our own breath. We breathe involuntarily. Right, Just
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  Speaker 4: think of how lack of control we truly have. Only
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  Speaker 4: thing that we really have is our hearts, and we
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  Speaker 4: need to submit our hearts over to God. Amen. Even
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  Speaker 4: these bodies we live in, we can't control if our
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  Speaker 4: hair turns gray or black. I mean, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: us die our hair right. Try to wash the grays out,
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  Speaker 4: but we can't control that. We can't control if we
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  Speaker 4: want to stay twenty one years old? You know where
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  Speaker 4: the years go by a lot of us we're at
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  Speaker 4: the age where we never thought we would be. If
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  Speaker 4: it was up to us, we would be twenty one
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  Speaker 4: or thirty, we would stay young, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: A lot of our lives are the consequences and the
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  Speaker 4: choices we made over the years. If we see that,
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  Speaker 4: and if we understand that, I believe that we would
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  Speaker 4: make better choices. Amen. But even our way it says
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  Speaker 4: are of the Lord, that he directs our steps, but
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  Speaker 4: he gives us free choice, and he tells us to
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  Speaker 4: choose life. I say all the time on this podcast
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  Speaker 4: that the pathway to life is narrow. It's a narrow road, right,
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  Speaker 4: only a few will find it. I've seen videos, like
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  Speaker 4: I said, near death experiences. In one particular one I'm
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  Speaker 4: thinking of, this guy said that he was in front
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  Speaker 4: of the gates of Heaven and thousands of people went
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  Speaker 4: before at the gates of Heaven as far as trying
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  Speaker 4: to get in and out. Of thousands of people, only
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  Speaker 4: a few actually entered. Now to me, that is sobering. Like,
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  Speaker 4: you have to be intentional to enter the kingdom. Nobody
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  Speaker 4: is really going to accidentally end up there. Amen, Like
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be numbered with the multitude that
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  Speaker 4: don't make it. I want to do put into work,
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  Speaker 4: do what we need to do now to enter the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 4: So on that day, Heaven's gates are open wide. Amen.
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  Speaker 4: Verse twenty four. Oh Lord, correct me, but with justice,
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  Speaker 4: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. Now,
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  Speaker 4: this is Jeremiah the prophet. He is crying out to
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  Speaker 4: the Lord. And this is something I never asked for
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  Speaker 4: I never asked for justice, right, because if we call
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  Speaker 4: out for justice, that means God would kill everybody on
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  Speaker 4: his planet. We've all done things that deserves judgment, right,
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  Speaker 4: There's none righteous, no, not one. But in this passage,
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  Speaker 4: he's comparing justice to his mercy, or not even his mercy,
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  Speaker 4: excuse me, to his anger. He says, do not correct
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  Speaker 4: me in your anger. And what he's saying, and what
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  Speaker 4: he's trying to say here is that if God corrects
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  Speaker 4: us and we provoke his anger and his wrath, we
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  Speaker 4: will be nothing. We would be consumed, we would be
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  Speaker 4: utterly destroyed, We would fall into the very pits of
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  Speaker 4: hell if we want to provoke the anger and wrath
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  Speaker 4: of God. And I do believe that as a country
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  Speaker 4: in the United States of America, that is exactly what
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  Speaker 4: we're doing as a nation. We are provoking the wrath
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  Speaker 4: of God. And I believe God is going to deal
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  Speaker 4: with us before the whole world if we don't get
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  Speaker 4: our act together, we do not mess around and slap
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  Speaker 4: God in the face and think we're going to get
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  Speaker 4: away with it. And America has turned away, America has
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  Speaker 4: become sexually immoral, has become corrupt, and the churches are
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  Speaker 4: not preaching the word. The churches, the church is responsible
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  Speaker 4: for the spiritual health of the nation. And when the
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  Speaker 4: pastors and the leaders they stop preaching the word, they
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  Speaker 4: stop preaching the truth, then the nation is going to
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  Speaker 4: fall down a slippery slope. And so we need to
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  Speaker 4: pray that God will not through out his wrath in
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  Speaker 4: our country, but that He will deal with us and
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  Speaker 4: his mercy. It's a good thing to be corrected by
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  Speaker 4: God because it shows that we are his children. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 4: you don't get by with corruption when people in your
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  Speaker 4: office are people at work. When they cheat and they
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  Speaker 4: lie and they do certain things, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 4: When we try to do it, we get caught. And
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: to be honest, I got in trouble for something that
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  Speaker 4: I've been doing for years that I didn't realize that
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  Speaker 4: it was. You know, I was doing something wrong. But
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  Speaker 4: by the grace of God, you know it was corrected.
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  Speaker 4: You know that they just didn't get rid of me
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  Speaker 4: and fire me. But because I'm the child of God,
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  Speaker 4: God is gonna call me on the carpet. So the
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  Speaker 4: Bible says, do not grow weary when God chasing us,
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  Speaker 4: because he does not correct other people's children. Man, and
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  Speaker 4: the prophet that says, not in your anger unless you
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  Speaker 4: bring me to nothing. Hey, man, we don't want that smoke.
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  Speaker 4: We don't want the anger of God. Verse twenty five,
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  Speaker 4: pour out your fury on the gentiles who do not
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  Speaker 4: know you. Now the prophet is calling out against the
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  Speaker 4: nation of Babylon, because the irony of this thing is
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  Speaker 4: that God is using an ungodly nation to punish a
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  Speaker 4: godly nation, supposedly godly at least Judah. They had the law,
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  Speaker 4: they knew about God, they had the Word, and outwardly
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  Speaker 4: looking in you said that they were closer to God
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  Speaker 4: than the Babylonians were. But God looks at the heart,
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  Speaker 4: and so he's saying, pour out your feary on the
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  Speaker 4: gentiles who do not know you, and on the families
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  Speaker 4: who do not call on your name. Now that's an
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  Speaker 4: indictment right there, the families who do not call upon
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  Speaker 4: his name. How many families do we know that are
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  Speaker 4: not actively calling up on the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: Have we considered that? Have we considered that these families,
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  Speaker 4: if they don't get right, they're gonna be headed to judgment.
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  Speaker 4: This could be their indictment. This could be something that
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  Speaker 4: would condemn them forever. As a family, we need to
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  Speaker 4: be calling upon the name of the Lord, and as men,
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  Speaker 4: we need to be leading the charge. We need to
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  Speaker 4: lead our families into worship. We need to lead our
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  Speaker 4: families into prayer. Aymen, For they have eaten up Jacob,
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  Speaker 4: devouring him and consumed him and made his dwelling place desolate.
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  Speaker 4: So the prophet Jeremiah is calling on the Lord pringing
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  Speaker 4: against the nation of Babylon. They didn't show any mercy.
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  Speaker 4: They just tore up the place. And I just keep
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  Speaker 4: my heart keeps crying out for the United States of America.
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  Speaker 4: This could be us, beloved, This could be us. Our
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  Speaker 4: dning place could be desolate, like God doesn't play, we
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  Speaker 4: think because we're a large nation and we've been the
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  Speaker 4: world power and all this, like we can't be touched. No,
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  Speaker 4: do not take this for granted. Do not listen to
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  Speaker 4: the pastors that teach greasy grace to where you can
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  Speaker 4: live a life of sin and God is just gonna
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  Speaker 4: wink at you know. We need to repent and turn
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  Speaker 4: from sin and turn to the Lord. America needs to
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  Speaker 4: be on our knees crying out to our heavenly Father,
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  Speaker 4: those of us we need to be praying for our
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  Speaker 4: nation that God would be merciful a man, my prayer
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  Speaker 4: is that at least the layed judgment until we as
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  Speaker 4: a church as a body fulfill all that we've been
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  Speaker 4: called to. Hey man, all right, family, let's take a break.
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  Speaker 5: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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  Speaker 5: is the hiss hop radio show.
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  Speaker 3: Hey and I go walk, put on nine rest all
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  Speaker 3: like cologn. Hey, anybody block, I'm good on next en Busues.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I stood on rap gang, got my foot on. I
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  Speaker 3: ain't the one that you stunt on street state limit
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  Speaker 3: like Jesus and their church state.
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  Speaker 6: That in on Meeviel, hold up?
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  Speaker 3: And when I go walk, put on ninet rest all
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  Speaker 3: like Cologne.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, anybody block, I'm good on next in Venus.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I stood on rep gang, got my foot on.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't the one that you stunt on.
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  Speaker 3: Street state limit like Jesus and the church state that
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  Speaker 3: gain on Meeviel, hold up street state limit like Jesus.
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  Speaker 6: I used to trap on that block with the.
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  Speaker 3: People serving that din bag to the key, shall give
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  Speaker 3: me your contact for the I used to play ball
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  Speaker 3: with the ballers. I was a team player, not a
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  Speaker 3: hall ger. I was a street runner, not a job
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  Speaker 3: I was a big step up ja like Paul was.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't perfect, but they showed me little. I walked
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  Speaker 3: through the hoods, they giving me hugs. I needed connection.
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  Speaker 3: They saw me up plugs. I stood on that business
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  Speaker 3: at what it was said, I'm going clean. They saw
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  Speaker 3: me up to the church on the corner where nobody
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  Speaker 3: it was.
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  Speaker 6: I walked through the building and I.
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  Speaker 3: Made a change, came back to the streets and they
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  Speaker 3: street made the same.
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  Speaker 6: That's why.
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  Speaker 3: And where I go walk? Put on nine restrat like
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  Speaker 3: colo on, Hey, anybody block up?
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  Speaker 2: Good on?
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  Speaker 6: Next in business?
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  Speaker 3: I stood on rap gang got my foot on. I
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  Speaker 3: ain't the one that you stand on street state limit
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  Speaker 3: like Jesus and the church state thinking on me?
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  Speaker 4: Eevil?
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  Speaker 2: Pull up?
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  Speaker 3: And where I go walk? Put on nine restraw like
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  Speaker 3: colo on, Hey, anybody block up?
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  Speaker 2: Good on?
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  Speaker 6: Next in business?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: I stood on Yeah, rap gang got my foot on.
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  Speaker 3: I ain't the one that you stand on street state
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  Speaker 3: limit like Jesus and the church state thinking on me.
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  Speaker 3: Eevil call up church state thinking I'm evil because I
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  Speaker 3: still ride around with that heater. I know the streets
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  Speaker 3: hot like a fever. I keep that sword on me
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  Speaker 3: j like Peter. They sent that shot set me like
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  Speaker 3: I need. I'm trying to y'all my that's he was
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  Speaker 3: walking in the church, no church clothes on.
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  Speaker 6: Now, don't think I'm a believe it.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: They see the tattoos, so they figure on bad news.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: When I walked in the building, I knew it was fishing.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: They serving no word like it's fast food, all business.
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  Speaker 3: It ain't no more ministry going sin. I can't lett
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  Speaker 3: no more sin in me. So this world they close
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  Speaker 3: to the enemy, plying water en.
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  Speaker 6: It ain't no more hennessy.
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  Speaker 2: He crazy and I go, I.
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  Speaker 6: Put on, I ain't restroant like colo on. Hey, anybody
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  Speaker 6: block up? Good on next end business.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: I stood on rap gang, got my foot on.
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  Speaker 6: I ain't the one that you stand on.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Street state limit like Jesus and the church state that. Again,
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  Speaker 3: I'm evil up and I go, I put on that
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  Speaker 3: ain't restrot like coloun Hey.
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  Speaker 6: Anybody block I'm good on next end business.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: I stood on rap gang, got my foot on. I
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: ain't the one that you start on street state limit
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: like Jesus and their church state that and I'm evil.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: You are listening to the Light of Las Vegas. This
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right, we are back from the music break.
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  Speaker 4: That was the artist d Rango Streets. It was the
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  Speaker 4: name of the song. And I'm your brother, I'm your host,
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  Speaker 4: mister his Hop. Welcome to His Hop Radio podcast. Once again.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I want to give a huge shout out to the
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  Speaker 4: brother's Own and everyone else who are faithful. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the God calls us to be faithful a man. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: it's a small things that we're faithful to that will
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  Speaker 4: take us to the next level in the Kingdom. Amen.
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  Speaker 4: God loves it to see that we are men and
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  Speaker 4: women of our word, that we can keep a commitment,
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  Speaker 4: or that we can develop a character that he can
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  Speaker 4: trust and he can work with that. Amen. I believe
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  Speaker 4: that God has some great things in store for you,
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  Speaker 4: my Brother's Own, for just being faithful. Hallelujah, Very encouraging.
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  Speaker 4: And with that being said, it's time to transition into
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  Speaker 4: our next segment, which is our accountability Partner segment. And
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: the question today is our challenge today has called your
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  Speaker 4: excuse me, my thust Sole. So call your accountability partner
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: today and see if you can identify any idols in
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: your life. Right, Well, that was from the last episode,
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: but this episode we're talking about leadership. So whether if
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  Speaker 4: you're a parent, or if you're a pastor, teacher, a mentor,
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: or just someone that people look up to, the question
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: is are you seeking God in your leadership? Remember we
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: have to be intentional. If you know that God has
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: called you the leadership, and if you know that God
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: has allowing you to pour into people, are you seeking
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: God for that or are you just running on fumes?
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Are you running on yesterday's a ninety right? Are you
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: praying over the people that God has allowed you to
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: lead or are you just going to the emotions? Right?
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  Speaker 4: So this week find your accountability partner. Even though we
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  Speaker 4: are leaders. Our pastor says all the time that he's
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: accountable to other pastors ask them, do you see me
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  Speaker 4: seeking God or do you see me drifting?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 4: Be honest and be vulnerable because accountability does not work
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: if we don't have integrity, if we're not at least
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: honest with ourselves. Right, Because if you are drifting, your
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: people will scatter to the people that you're leading, your
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: family members, your loved ones, the wolf will come right
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: in and eat them up. And that's not a threat,
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: that is just reality. And so we gotta be We
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  Speaker 4: can't be selfish, We can't just think about ourselves. We
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  Speaker 4: got to think about how others will be affected if
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  Speaker 4: we fail to seek after the Lord. Amen. So the
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  Speaker 4: question is my leader seeking God? If not, it might
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: be time to find a new leader. Is your pastor
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: seeking God? Is your mentor seeking God? Do you see
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: evidence of these people that you fellowship in with seeking
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  Speaker 4: the Lord? That should be the number one question when
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: we fellowship and when we allow people to pour into us. Amen.
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  Speaker 4: what God is given to us. And man, now it's
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: time for trivia. Now. I did a little trick question
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: last on the last episode. I was talking to Zone
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  Speaker 4: about it the other day and that the question was
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: how many times is Jeremiah called the Weeping Prophet in
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  Speaker 4: the Bible? How many times? And Zone said he had
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  Speaker 4: to look it up and the answer was zero zero times.
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  Speaker 4: Is not actually in the Bible. It's a title that
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  Speaker 4: we gave him because of his heart, because he felt
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: the burden of God's message, because he wept over God's
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: people and he wept over their sin. That the title
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: Weeping Prophet was given to him, But you're not gonna
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  Speaker 4: actually find it in the Bible. So we'll shout out
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  Speaker 4: to Zoom for participating in that. But today's question is
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: how many books of the Bible did Jeremiah write? So
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: how many books in the Bible did Jeremiah write? The
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  Speaker 4: first one who answer that is the trivia champ for
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: today and you can find this also in the Life
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  Speaker 4: we give updates on events or events. If you have
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: an event coming up, we want to hear from you
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  Speaker 4: as well. Love to shout you out. We will be
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  Speaker 4: with the NBA Chapelains at the Detention Center this Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna go down there to minister them minister of
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  Speaker 4: the Word. We have artists coming out. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 4: on the ones in Tuesa once again ministring and serving
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  Speaker 4: the Lord. Obviously that's not open to the public, but
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: in August August twenty ninth, we have an event book
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  Speaker 4: for the Resort World that will be open to the public.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to come out and hang out with
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: us and hang out with his Hot Crew, we would
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  Speaker 4: love to see you there. We will give more details
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: as the dates draw closer. Amen in his Hot Maketion.
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  Speaker 4: We'd like to just let everyone know that we are
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  Speaker 4: a five O one ced three our a nonprofit organization.
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  Speaker 4: Our history is that we opened up a Christian club
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  Speaker 4: back in twenty twelve, a five thousand square foot warehouse.
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  Speaker 4: We turn it into a venue, a stage and lights
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  Speaker 4: and all that stuff. Smoke, DJs and all that. We
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  Speaker 4: did it all so that we can share the gospel
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  Speaker 4: of Christ in our community. And as long as this
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  Speaker 4: guys will, we will be opening another club. But we
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  Speaker 4: also need help from our community. We need help from
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  Speaker 4: our brothers and sisters. If you'll like to help us
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  Speaker 4: grant writers, volunteers. And the cool thing is that it's
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  Speaker 4: can sew into good ground at the same time. All right,
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  Speaker 4: belove it. That is my time. But before we get
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  Speaker 4: out of here, we got some final comments. Now she
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  Speaker 4: finished Jeremiah chapter ten. We went from idols to leadership
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  Speaker 4: to prayer. And here's what I want you to take
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  Speaker 4: away from this episode. One, identify your idols, ask the
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: Holy Spirit to examine your life. Examine your heart. What
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: is your master passion? What are you so in love
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  Speaker 4: with that it's taking you away and out of God's will? Right?
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  Speaker 4: It could be a person, place, or thing that you're
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  Speaker 4: worshiping more, that you're loving more than you love the Lord. Right.
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  Speaker 4: Number two, check your leadership. Right, who is leading you?
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  Speaker 4: Who are you allowing to pour into your life? And
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  Speaker 4: who are you leading? Are you going before God on
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  Speaker 4: the behalf of the people that are in and around you?
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  Speaker 4: And Third, pray like Jeremiah, not with arrogance but with humility,
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  Speaker 4: not with revenge but with justice, Not with doubt but
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  Speaker 4: with faith. Amen, let's pray Emily. Father. We just thank you,
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  Speaker 4: Father God, for this opportunity once again to come before you,
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  Speaker 4: to get in your word. God, help us to examine
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  Speaker 4: our lives. Oh God, help us to make the corrections
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  Speaker 4: that need to be made. Help us to be that
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  Speaker 4: city on the hill. Help us to be faithful leaders,
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  Speaker 4: and help us, Father God, Lord, to seek your faith,
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  Speaker 4: O God, in every situation of life, Lord, keep idols
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  Speaker 4: out of our hearts. Lord, we return to our first love.
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  Speaker 4: We want you to be the master passion. We want
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  Speaker 4: you to be the reason we wake up in the
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  Speaker 4: morning to praise you into fellowship and to be in
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  Speaker 4: your presence. O God. We thank you, Lord. We ask
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  Speaker 4: it you'll bless every person who is listening in Jesus' name. Amen,
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  Speaker 4: and remember it's not about us, It's all about the Christ. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: God bless show.
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  Speaker 5: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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