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The Book of Jeremiah, episode 57. Jer 22:18–23 “When Pride Refuses to Listen” · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 3: have fun as we grow together. And our walk with
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  Speaker 3: the Lord, the Bible tells us that the narrow path
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  Speaker 3: is the path that leads to life. And so that's
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  Speaker 3: that narrow path and if you want to find life. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Because that is the most important thing. Once we leave
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  Speaker 3: this earth, the most important thing is what did we do?
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  Speaker 3: With Jesus Christ, right? Did we walk that narrow path?
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  Speaker 3: And it also says that broad is the road that
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  Speaker 3: leads to destruction. And many are those who go by
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  Speaker 3: that way. And so God gives us a choice. He's
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  Speaker 3: always given us a choice. Even in the Garden of Eden,
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  Speaker 3: there were two trees, the knowledge, the tree of life
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  Speaker 3: and the knowledge of good and evil. So we have
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  Speaker 3: the choice as well, the broad road or the narrow road.
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  Speaker 3: And so on the narrow road, we're going to need encouragement.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to need people who will pray for us,
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  Speaker 3: people who will hold us accountable, people who will share
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  Speaker 3: God's word because our hearts get jumbled up a lot.
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  Speaker 3: We need to renew our minds. We need to guard
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  Speaker 3: our hearts with all diligence. Like this stuff is real.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a game. And so this is the purpose
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  Speaker 3: of our platform. We want to walk with you and
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  Speaker 3: walk through life. the narrow gates together. We have a blueprint.
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  Speaker 3: We have a map. It is called the Bible. And
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  Speaker 3: the Bible says that the engrafted word is able to
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  Speaker 3: save our souls. So if you haven't noticed by now,
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  Speaker 3: the word of God is our backbone and our fellowship
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  Speaker 3: with one another, a life of prayer, everything that Jesus
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  Speaker 3: said to go and make disciples. This is what we
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  Speaker 3: do on this platform. Also, we do encourage you to
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  Speaker 3: find a home church. We know that there's bad churches
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  Speaker 3: out there, but there's also some good churches out there.
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  Speaker 3: Ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to one because
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  Speaker 3: you're going to need that too. You need more than
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  Speaker 3: just this platform. You're going to need a covering of
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  Speaker 3: a church, a godly pastor and brothers and sisters, godly leadership.
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  Speaker 3: God is giving gifts to the church and God has
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  Speaker 3: not changed his mind. church is still his plan. So,
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  Speaker 3: amen with that. Let's go ahead and pray. Heavenly Father,
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  Speaker 3: we just thank you for another time, another opportunity, Father,
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  Speaker 3: to get right today. Let us not go to bed
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  Speaker 3: tonight with sin in our hearts. Let us not go
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  Speaker 3: to bed tonight with pride still embedded in our DNA.
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  Speaker 3: Let us get it right, Lord. Let us repent. Let
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  Speaker 3: us make the adjustments, oh God. Let us change in
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  Speaker 3: the areas where we need to change, oh God. We ask, Lord,
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  Speaker 3: in every area where we struggle, we ask for help
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  Speaker 3: of the Holy Spirit. We ask for empowerment by the
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  Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. We ask for grace, oh God, so that
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  Speaker 3: we can, oh Lord, become the men and the women
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  Speaker 3: that you desire us to become, your children. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 3: mighty name, amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I didn't give you background, but today we're going
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  Speaker 3: to continue through Jeremiah chapter 22. We're going to start
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  Speaker 3: at verse 18 through 23. Now, in our last episode,
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  Speaker 3: we saw God expose King Jehoiakim's heart. If you can remember,
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  Speaker 3: he was all about the palace. He was building an
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  Speaker 3: oppressive house, but was not doing the right things. He
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  Speaker 3: was doing it in unrighteousness. He wanted the luxury status
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  Speaker 3: while people were suffering because of his actions. He didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to pay. He felt like he didn't have to
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  Speaker 3: pay people. He felt like because he was a king
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  Speaker 3: that everybody owed him. Right. Leadership is responsibility and people
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  Speaker 3: just want the privileges of it. And God contrasts him
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  Speaker 3: with his father, Josiah. who judged the cause of the
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  Speaker 3: poor and the needy. Now, beginning in verse 18, God
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  Speaker 3: tells Jeremiah what will happen to Jehoiakim. Now, there's a
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  Speaker 3: powerful warning in this episode. A person can surround himself
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  Speaker 3: with luxury, but he cannot hide from the consequences of
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  Speaker 3: rejecting God. Amen. We see so many people do this
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  Speaker 3: today we see billionaires and millionaires they think they're above
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  Speaker 3: the law they think they're untouchable they think they're safe
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  Speaker 3: and we even see celebrities celebrities do crazy things a
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  Speaker 3: lot of these celebrities have nasty deeds and they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to give an account every crooked politician every crooked
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  Speaker 3: celebrity every crooked pastor false prophet It doesn't pay to
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  Speaker 3: go against God. Amen. God wants righteousness. He wants integrity.
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  Speaker 3: He wants fairness. He wants justice. And all those things
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  Speaker 3: are attached to his loving heart. He loves all of us.
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  Speaker 3: How would you like it if somebody mistreated your child?
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  Speaker 3: You would be upset, right? Amen. Just think of our
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  Speaker 3: heavenly father. All right, let's start together in verse 18.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm coming at you from the New King James.
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  Speaker 3: Verse 18. Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim, the
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  Speaker 3: son of Josiah, king of Judah. They shall not lament
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  Speaker 3: for him. Wow. So that means this guy is about
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  Speaker 3: to get taken out and nobody is going to cry. saying, Alas,
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  Speaker 3: my brother, or alas, my sister, they shall not lament
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  Speaker 3: for him, saying, Alas, master, or alas, his glory. Wow. Now,
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  Speaker 3: let's break this down. So God gives his judgment concerning
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  Speaker 3: Jehoiakim and notice that What's missing? Honor. There would be
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  Speaker 3: no great honoring celebration or ceremony. In other words, this
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  Speaker 3: is a king who's going to die with no honor.
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  Speaker 3: There's no heartfelt public celebration of his life. at all.
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  Speaker 3: No cries of, ah, my brother, or, ah, Lord. No
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  Speaker 3: celebration of his glory. Why? Because simply he had used
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  Speaker 3: his position for himself instead of using it Now, that
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  Speaker 3: is a serious lesson for us today, right? We spend
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time thinking about how people will remember us.
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  Speaker 3: What will they say about us once we're gone, right?
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  Speaker 3: What will they post about us on social media? We
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  Speaker 3: just had a brother pass away. Shout out. to our
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  Speaker 3: brother Rare Breed. He has been a supporter of His
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  Speaker 3: Hot Nation. I got him on the radio. I got
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  Speaker 3: an interview with him, a couple of drops. And he's
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  Speaker 3: been out to the club and he's had a heart. Man,
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  Speaker 3: I've watched him do things in LA. He tried to
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  Speaker 3: stop the violence and things like that. And I believe
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  Speaker 3: it was a natural passing thing And he was all
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  Speaker 3: over social media. And so I want to send my
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  Speaker 3: flowers and send my love as well. Someone contacted me
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  Speaker 3: to let me know about him. And, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: send our love from his nation to our brother. And
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  Speaker 3: there were a lot of people who were saying a
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  Speaker 3: lot of positive things about him as he passed away.
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  Speaker 3: So what will they post about us? Are we leaving
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  Speaker 3: a legacy? What will people say at our funeral? But
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah focuses, he forces us to think deeper, right? What
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  Speaker 3: does God think about the way we live? And that's
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  Speaker 3: what really matters. You can have people praising you while
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  Speaker 3: God is correcting you. You can have a large platform
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  Speaker 3: while your character is still falling apart. And we see
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  Speaker 3: this all the time. We have people calling you successful
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  Speaker 3: while God is calling you to repent. A public reputation
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  Speaker 3: and God's evaluation are not always the same thing. Remember that, beloved.
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  Speaker 3: That's why we need to care more about character than
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  Speaker 3: getting applause. You know, even in my ministry, I've had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of complaints. The number one complaint was that
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  Speaker 3: I did not go out to support other people's events.
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  Speaker 3: when people came out to support my event. And yes,
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  Speaker 3: I will admit, I was not able to go to
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  Speaker 3: everyone's event. One reason was because the people that I
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  Speaker 3: was discipling and working with at the time, they could
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  Speaker 3: not afford to come to theirs. And I could not
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  Speaker 3: afford to pay for all of us to get in.
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  Speaker 3: And so there were different reasons. And also my heart
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  Speaker 3: was the outreach. You know, I my attitude. Well, if
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  Speaker 3: God is you got God there and God's presence there,
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  Speaker 3: why are you upset that I didn't show up? But
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  Speaker 3: now that I think about it, you know, I could
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  Speaker 3: have been a little more supportive. I mean, there's nothing
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  Speaker 3: wrong with supporting our brothers and our sisters in the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe I should have made more of an effort.
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  Speaker 3: So I would say that would be immaturity on my part.
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  Speaker 3: And then I did find out later that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I could have donated like five bucks and all of
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  Speaker 3: us could have gotten in. But if they would have
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  Speaker 3: just came and we would have had that conversation, all
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  Speaker 3: the foolishness could have been squashed. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: So there's always a way to cover each other. And
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  Speaker 3: especially in the church and ministry, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: There's always a way. Go to your brother or sister.
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  Speaker 3: Go and say, hey, you know what? I need you
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  Speaker 3: to come and support what I'm doing. And then I
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  Speaker 3: would have been like, well, you know, there's, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a group of us and I can't pay for everyone.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people that were in my crew were
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  Speaker 3: from the rescue mission that I was picking up and
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  Speaker 3: ministering to. Awesome people. You know what I mean? And
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  Speaker 3: we just didn't have it that way. So. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just some nuggets, some wisdom from my past experience. Don't
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  Speaker 3: just listen to the gossip and don't just assume things.
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  Speaker 3: Go and have that conversation that could bring, that could
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  Speaker 3: keep unity in the body. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Especially if we are outreaching. All right. Verse 19 says,
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  Speaker 3: He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey,
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  Speaker 3: dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem. Now,
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  Speaker 3: how many of us can tell that the Lord is upset? Right?
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  Speaker 3: This is one of the strongest statements in this passage.
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  Speaker 3: Jehoiakim wanted a magnificent house. He wanted cedar. He wanted status.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted the appearance of greatness. He wanted people to
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  Speaker 3: think of him as something great. But God says his
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  Speaker 3: end would be dishonorable. The king who wanted to live
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  Speaker 3: like royalty would not receive the royal burial he wanted
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  Speaker 3: to experience. Now, think about the contrast. A beautiful house,
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  Speaker 3: a dishonorable burial. A royal position, a humiliating end. Luxury
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  Speaker 3: and then judgment. Public power, personal accountability. Jehoiakim focused on
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  Speaker 3: what he could build. God was looking at what he
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  Speaker 3: had become. Now, this is a wake up call for
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  Speaker 3: all of us right here, right? Now, Joachim had been
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  Speaker 3: given tremendous privilege as king, but he abused that privilege.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of following the example of his father, Josiah, he
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  Speaker 3: pursued his own interest. You know, people are placed in
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  Speaker 3: our lives to be examples, to show us the way.
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  Speaker 3: to give instruction. And a lot of us feel like
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  Speaker 3: we are not teachable. We know it all. We rather
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  Speaker 3: do it our own way. That is a horrible spirit
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  Speaker 3: to have.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: People are there for our protection and for our own good. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this man was disgraced and the disgrace described in 19
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  Speaker 3: demonstrates how completely his earthly glory would disappear, right? Human
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  Speaker 3: status is temporary. Nobody cares about how big your house
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  Speaker 3: is once you pass away, right? A king may sit
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  Speaker 3: on the throne today, but if God rejects him, or
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  Speaker 3: if he rejects God rather, the throne cannot protect him
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  Speaker 3: from God's judgment. The passage reminds us that earthly glory
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  Speaker 3: is temporary while our accountability before God is real. Now,
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  Speaker 3: can you imagine the Lord says he's going to get
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  Speaker 3: the burial of a donkey? Like, we got to understand
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  Speaker 3: God's character. People don't imagine, they can't think of God
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  Speaker 3: saying things like this, right? But this is God. This
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  Speaker 3: is his revealed word. That's why we got to stay
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  Speaker 3: in the word. I definitely don't want the burial of
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  Speaker 3: a donkey or to be judged or dishonored because I
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  Speaker 3: did not work on my character and who I am.
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  Speaker 3: I did not seek or pursue the Lord. I did
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  Speaker 3: not fast or pray. Amen. These are commandments. And God
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  Speaker 3: is not planned. Verse 20, go up to Lebanon and
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  Speaker 3: cry out and lift up your voice. And Bashan, cry
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  Speaker 3: for Abraham. try to butcher those names for all your
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  Speaker 3: lovers are destroyed hallelujah now God tells Jeremiah to cry
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  Speaker 3: out from different elevated places Lebanon Bashan And the passages
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  Speaker 3: or these are mountain routes. These are routes and passages
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  Speaker 3: through mountains. Now, these locations give the picture of crying
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  Speaker 3: out across the land. There's another important phase right here.
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  Speaker 3: All thy lovers are destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the language of lovers can describe the nations and
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  Speaker 3: the allegiances of Judah. And instead of depending and trusting
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  Speaker 3: in God, Judah had looked outwardly for security. Those relationships
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  Speaker 3: could not save them. They looked to places like Egypt
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  Speaker 3: where Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Egypt. They looked to other countries that
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  Speaker 3: would help protect them instead of looking towards the Lord,
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  Speaker 3: their God. Now, this is where we do need to
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  Speaker 3: examine ourselves right here. When things happen, where do we
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  Speaker 3: look when we are afraid? I'm going through situations myself, beloved,
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  Speaker 3: and they're very scary. Very scary. But who do we
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  Speaker 3: trust when things fall apart? Our financial situations, right? Our connections,
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  Speaker 3: our political power, a job, a business, a relationship, our
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  Speaker 3: own abilities. None of these things are necessarily wrong, but
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  Speaker 3: none of them can take God's place. So resources are useful,
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  Speaker 3: but they are not God. People can help you. Businesses
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  Speaker 3: can provide opportunities and friends can support you. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: our trust belongs to God and to God alone. Verse 22. No,
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  Speaker 3: verse 21. I spoke to you in your prosperity, but
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  Speaker 3: you said I will not hear. This has been your
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  Speaker 3: manner from your youth. That you did not obey my voice. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Now this. It may be one of the most important
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  Speaker 3: verses in today's episode. God says, I spoke to you
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  Speaker 3: in your prosperity. Now notice that God didn't only speak
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  Speaker 3: when things were going badly. He spoke while they are
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  Speaker 3: going good. And they refused him. So now that's a
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  Speaker 3: very important verse. prosperity can cause us to stop listening
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  Speaker 3: to God. Once you do get that job and that house,
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  Speaker 3: that car that you've been praying for, did you stop
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  Speaker 3: serving God? And what will you do? What will go?
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  Speaker 3: Where will you go if you lost that job, that
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  Speaker 3: house or that car? God is still the same, right?
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes we think we need God more when we're struggling,
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  Speaker 3: but when the bills are paid, when the business is
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  Speaker 3: doing well, when the career is moving, when the family
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  Speaker 3: is comfortable, and when the ministry is growing, we can
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  Speaker 3: become less dependent on God. And that's dangerous, beloved. So
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  Speaker 3: the test is only when you go through the storm,
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  Speaker 3: the test is also when you receive your blessing. Can
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  Speaker 3: you still pray when everything is going well? That is
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  Speaker 3: the question. Can you still see God when you don't
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  Speaker 3: have an emergency? Can you still obey when obedience costs
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  Speaker 3: you something? That's a good question, right? And can you say, Lord,
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  Speaker 3: what do you want when you already have what you wanted? Amen.
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  Speaker 3: And they said, I will not hear. That's how they
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  Speaker 3: responded to God. Now, That is stronger than simply saying
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  Speaker 3: they didn't understand. They refused to listen. And there's a
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  Speaker 3: difference between ignorance and a rebellion. You cannot know something.
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  Speaker 3: But when God shows you the truth and you deliberately
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  Speaker 3: reject it, that's another matter. There's a stricter judgment for
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  Speaker 3: those who know and still refuse to be obedient. Now,
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  Speaker 3: one of the most dangerous statements a person can make isn't,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, is I know what God says, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to do what I want anyway. That's an
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  Speaker 3: attitude Jeremiah is confronting. And that is the spirit that
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  Speaker 3: he was trying to break the whole time. And we
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  Speaker 3: need to be careful not to read this passage only
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  Speaker 3: as a message from somebody else. We should ask, Lord,
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  Speaker 3: where have I stopped listening? And beloved, don't get it wrong.
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  Speaker 3: You see it in church all the time. We see
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  Speaker 3: it in our church where we hear the word. preached
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  Speaker 3: time and time again, even to the point where our pastor,
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  Speaker 3: you can tell he gets frustrated, our leadership, that the
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  Speaker 3: people are not changing, that people are not putting things
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  Speaker 3: into practice. The people are not taking the instruction. There's
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  Speaker 3: a lack of integrity. And I ain't gonna lie. I
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  Speaker 3: struggle with this too. There's things that I know I
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  Speaker 3: need to get right and I need to do. And
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  Speaker 3: I struggle back and forth. My struggle is, And my
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  Speaker 3: temptation is always in the realm of finances. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not easy to provide and take care of a
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  Speaker 3: family and try to also take care of a ministry
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  Speaker 3: at the same time. And you have goals, you have dreams,
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  Speaker 3: you have desires. And it's not easy all the time.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 3: But the truth is, we can trust God. And we
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  Speaker 3: can change. Amen. Verse 22, the wind shall eat up
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  Speaker 3: all your rulers and your lovers shall go into captivity.
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  Speaker 3: Surely then you will be ashamed and humiliated for all
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  Speaker 3: your wickedness. Wow. Amen. So the wind shall eat up
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  Speaker 3: all your pastors and thy lovers shall go into captivity.
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  Speaker 3: This is the old King James. Surely then shall thou
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  Speaker 3: be ashamed and confounded by all your wickedness. Now the
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  Speaker 3: word pastors here referred to shepherds or leaders. God says
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  Speaker 3: the leaders in the aliens world. Or the allies, excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: Judah had depended upon will not be able to protect them.
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  Speaker 3: So have you had someone who puffed themselves up as
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  Speaker 3: your leader and they give you false security, false hope?
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  Speaker 3: That is what a lot of pastors do when they
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  Speaker 3: excuse sin in your life. They allow you to sin
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  Speaker 3: and you say, oh, well, God knows your heart. These
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  Speaker 3: leaders cannot protect you on the day of judgment. They're
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  Speaker 3: supposed security will just disappear in and they will experience
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  Speaker 3: shame and confusion because of their wickedness. Now, leadership matters
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  Speaker 3: in our lives. This connects directly to what we've already
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  Speaker 3: seen in chapter 22. Leaders matter. Kings matter. Shepherds matter.
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  Speaker 3: Parents matter. Pastors matter. Mentors matter. Artists matter. Business owners matter.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody with influence has responsibility. That's what we went over
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  Speaker 3: in our last chapter. I think of Spider-Man, right? With
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  Speaker 3: great power comes great responsibility. So when leaders refuse God's correction,
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  Speaker 3: other people can suffer because of that. That's why leadership
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  Speaker 3: should never be treated as simply a privilege. Leadership is stewardship.
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  Speaker 3: God gives influence and God can hold people accountable for
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  Speaker 3: how they use that influence. Amen. Amen. All right, let's
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  Speaker 3: get the last verse. Verse 23. Oh, inhabitant of Lebanon,
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  Speaker 3: make your nest in the cedars. How gracious, how gracious
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  Speaker 3: will you be when hands come upon you like the
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  Speaker 3: pain of a woman in labor? Pain, let me read
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  Speaker 3: that again. O inhabitant of Lebanon, make your nest in
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  Speaker 3: the cedars. How gracious will you be when pains come
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  Speaker 3: upon you like the pains of a woman in labor.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what it looks like in the King James.
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  Speaker 3: O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makes thy nest in the cedars.
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  Speaker 3: How gracious shalt thou be when pains come upon you,
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  Speaker 3: upon thee, pains as a woman that travails. Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 3: just getting the sentence together. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's break it down. See, God describes Jerusalem as
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  Speaker 3: someone making a nest amongst the cedars. Now, that gives
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  Speaker 3: us the picture of comfort and security. Cedar trees are
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  Speaker 3: always attached to luxury. Just like I said in the
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  Speaker 3: last episode, Lebanon was known as a lush place. King
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  Speaker 3: Solomon built the temple with the wood from Lebanon. And
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  Speaker 3: so they were living high and comfortable. They were, you know,
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  Speaker 3: living in Green Valley or Seven Hills or Summerlin, right?
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  Speaker 3: They were living in the best areas of the communities.
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  Speaker 3: They built themselves a beautiful and a nice environment. But
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  Speaker 3: then God asks, how will you respond when trouble comes?
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  Speaker 3: So now here the picture changes immediately. Comfort becomes pain.
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  Speaker 3: Security becomes fear. Our luxury cannot prevent judgment. Amen. Our luxury.
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  Speaker 3: our celebrity status, our money, and just think people are
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  Speaker 3: selling their souls to achieve these things. I just saw
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  Speaker 3: a video the other day saying that now social media
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  Speaker 3: creators and influencers are compromising, giving their bodies away to
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  Speaker 3: represent brands. Now, that's funny how that happens because normally,
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  Speaker 3: if you have a big following, the brands will come
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  Speaker 3: and seek after you. If you have a big platform,
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  Speaker 3: just like athletes, social media influencers, people like that, normally
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  Speaker 3: the brands are knocking down their doors so that they
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  Speaker 3: can use their platform to promote their brand and their company,
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  Speaker 3: that now something is happening to now these influencers, they're
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  Speaker 3: losing their, I mean, they still have their fame, right?
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  Speaker 3: But now they're not getting paid. Something has happened with
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  Speaker 3: the social media and I don't know exactly how to
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  Speaker 3: explain it. I haven't really done my due diligence to
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: study it so I'm not an authority that can speak
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  Speaker 3: on it but they are losing money they're not getting
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  Speaker 3: as much as they were before so some of them
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  Speaker 3: are doing all they can they're selling their souls to
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  Speaker 3: keep these brands around and these people are taking advantage
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  Speaker 3: of it they know that they're hurting so they're making
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  Speaker 3: them do disgusting things to represent their brand and this
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  Speaker 3: is sad is this the society that we want to
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  Speaker 3: live in is this the world we want to live
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  Speaker 3: in beloved we need to pray we need to ask
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  Speaker 3: God to clean this up we all need to change
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  Speaker 3: this we need to preach Jesus so that hearts can
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  Speaker 3: be changed and people can be delivered amen All right,
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  Speaker 3: let's take a quick 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 His Hop Radio Show.
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  Speaker 3: And what y'all want with me, man?
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Say, man, you finna deny God or we gonna shoot
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: you on foot? Y'all can all shoot me right now.
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  Speaker 4: I'll never switch up on God.
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  Speaker 3: I bet.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Be so hard, just know I made it I'ma step.
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  Speaker 4: In the spirit, no weed box I be checkin' the
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: time with a G-Shock Matter of fact, I just need
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: me a detox I could run up the bands, but
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I need God How you Christian, but still like the gossip?
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Matter of fact, they gon' run up the teapot Open
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: poppers 11 and 13 Before I start lettin' that.
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  Speaker 4: Heat talk Mm, mm, mm, yeah Yeah, get it, 20
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  Speaker 4: up Uh, uh, uh, baby.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, this way, uh Mm, mm, mm, mm, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Driving this whip so fast my brain is clutch. Matter
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  Speaker 4: of fact, Christ gon' fill my cup. There was a
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  Speaker 4: time when I ain't had trust. Down so bad that
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  Speaker 4: I ain't had luck. Trying to lock in, kept losing
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: the lust. I went up to God and he still
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: told me that we running it up.
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  Speaker 3: I'm back in the cup. I don't need a duck.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: I'm feeling like Jabba the Hutt. I don't gotta rush.
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  Speaker 3: I'm spreading the word. I might just start speaking in Dutch. F-150,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: the car so pretty, I might just hop in the truck.
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  Speaker 3: And Jesus right there. When I was down on my
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  Speaker 3: last night, I ain't had a book. Mm, mm, mm, mm, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You get it.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: You are listening to The Light of Las Vegas. This
• 37:38
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  Speaker 3: Yo, yo, we are back in. That's one of our
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  Speaker 3: favorites here on the His Hop radio station. Alex Gene.
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  Speaker 3: He said that he will never turn his back on Christ. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: We got to keep this party turned up for Jesus.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: I like that little skit in the beginning. Like, you
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: know what? If you don't reject Christ, we won't take
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  Speaker 3: you out. He's like, you know what? I'll never switch
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  Speaker 3: up on God. Hallelujah. How many of us can say that?
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  Speaker 3: That when that day comes and we see it ever approaching,
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  Speaker 3: we might have to give our lives for what we
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  Speaker 3: believe in. Are we that committed? And I'll tell you
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: a secret now. We're supposed to be giving our lives
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: every single day. So if you're not giving your life
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: to Christ now, what makes you think you lay down
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: your life when it is going to cost you everything
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: to follow Christ? Then there's something to think about. Amen.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: As we think about that is it's time for the
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  Speaker 3: accountability partner. Call him, text him. We do have a
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  Speaker 3: spot on the app. If you go to the top
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: left menu in click on this time click on podcast
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  Speaker 3: when it drops down click on yours truly the his
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  Speaker 3: hot radio podcast scroll down you find the accountability partner
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  Speaker 3: link right there you can go over the questions it's
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: very helpful it's like a self confrontation type of form
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: will you answer the questions honestly and just examine yourself
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: and submit those questions we can request a follow-up myself
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  Speaker 3: or someone from my team would love to pray with
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  Speaker 3: you and help you walk through if you ever be
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: setting sin in your life if you're trying to change
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  Speaker 3: that's where that helps us and that's where that comes
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  Speaker 3: in now of course we prefer that you do it
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  Speaker 3: with a pastor or someone like that. But if you
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  Speaker 3: don't have a church yet or someone in your life,
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  Speaker 3: then we will help you in, help you with the
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  Speaker 3: steps and hopefully help you find a pastor or a
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: minister that can truly pour into your life. Amen. And
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: we also give daily challenges. Now, if you're in the
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  Speaker 3: Let's read the challenge together. As your accountability partner has
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  Speaker 3: success or comfort ever made me less dependent on God. Amen. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this is something that maybe your wife or your spouse
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: could really give you insight on. Then ask, is there
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  Speaker 3: something God may be trying to correct in me right now?
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: And give your accountability partner permission to be honest. And
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: when they answer, don't. Be defensive. Just listen. Pray. And
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: ask God. what needs to be changed. And if you
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: don't have an accountability partner, ask the Holy Spirit. Ask
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit to show you your heart and the
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  Speaker 3: we are not by ourselves. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: All right, here is the question. In these verses, name
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  Speaker 3: the three places Jeremiah tells Jerusalem to cry out from
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  Speaker 3: and identify what happened to the people or allies Judah
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  Speaker 3: had depended upon? Let me ask that again. In these passages,
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  Speaker 3: in these verses, name the three places Jeremiah tells Jerusalem
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  Speaker 3: to cry out from and identify what happened to the
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  Speaker 3: let's see who's gonna reign supreme on today also our
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  Speaker 3: is my time for today, but I do have some
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  Speaker 3: closing remarks Today's episode on the His High Radio podcast
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  Speaker 3: presents verse by verse Jeremiah 22 18 through 23 gives
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  Speaker 3: us a picture of what happens when pride comfort and
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  Speaker 3: success become more important than obedience Jehoiakim wanted glory God
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  Speaker 3: wanted righteousness Jehoiakim wanted security God wanted their trust. They
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  Speaker 3: had prosperity, but they refused to listen. So here's the challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Stay humble when you're blessed. Stay faithful when you are successful.
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  Speaker 3: Stay teachable when you're influential. And more importantly, keep listening
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  Speaker 3: and God speaks. Amen. Amen. got to keep listening when
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  Speaker 3: God speaks. I mean, think about this. Jehoiakim, he had
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  Speaker 3: the power. He had a throne to sit upon. He
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  Speaker 3: had a beautiful house to live in. He had the cedar.
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  Speaker 3: He had status. But none of those things could protect
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  Speaker 3: him from the consequences of rejecting God. That is the warning.
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  Speaker 3: Don't confuse comfort with security. Don't confuse success with God's approval.
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  Speaker 3: God just may bless us with resources, but those resources
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  Speaker 3: don't replace him. God may give us influence, but influence
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  Speaker 3: doesn't make you accountable to nobody. God may allow you
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  Speaker 3: to build something impressive, but what matters is whether you
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  Speaker 3: built it with righteousness or when God speaks, did you listen?
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  Speaker 3: Don't wait until everything falls apart before you decide to
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  Speaker 3: obey the voice of the Lord. And I just can't
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  Speaker 3: get over the fact that God says that he will have.
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  Speaker 3: Here is the king with all this impressive stuff. All
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  Speaker 3: these things that we would desire. And God said that
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  Speaker 3: he will have the burial of a donkey. Like, wow.
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  Speaker 3: I just can't get over that verse. All right, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: God bless. This is Mr. His Hop. And remember, it's
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  Speaker 3: not about us. It's all about the Christ in us.
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  Speaker 5: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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