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Episode 71 — Jeremiah 25:17–26 “The Cup of Judgment: No Nation Is Beyond God’s Reach” · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 2: up in chapter 25 and we're going to try to
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  Speaker 2: go through verse 17 through 26. I don't know. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: in our last episode, Jeremiah introduced us to the cup
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  Speaker 2: of God's wrath. Today, we see that cup being passed
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  Speaker 2: from nation to nation. Have you ever been in a
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  Speaker 2: party where they would pass, you know, the puff puff
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  Speaker 2: pass right remember that I mean I know that's in
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  Speaker 2: our past and something that we were not proud about
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  Speaker 2: but just think about passing the cup of God's wrath
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  Speaker 2: from nation to nation Jerusalem would face judgment but God's
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  Speaker 2: judgment would not stop there the nations surrounding Jerusalem Israel
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  Speaker 2: powerful kingdoms distant peoples would also be held accountable. So
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  Speaker 2: there is a lesson here and we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: into it. But first, let's go before our Father in prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Heavenly Father, we thank you for this platform. We thank
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  Speaker 2: word that our listeners need to hear today to come
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  Speaker 2: straight from you, straight from the Holy Spirit. Take over
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  Speaker 2: this microphone. We ask for a fresh anointing and fresh
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  Speaker 2: wind to blow. We ask that you will attach a
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  Speaker 2: blessing to this episode to everyone who would listen, follow, like,
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  Speaker 2: We ask this in the mighty name of your son, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Amen and amen. I tell you what, I love being
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  Speaker 2: a part of the family business. All right. So we're
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  Speaker 2: going to hit verses 25, 17 through 18. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of scriptures. I'm going to try to go
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  Speaker 2: fairly quick, but I'm not going to skip over the
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  Speaker 2: important points and the important lessons to this chapter. So
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  Speaker 2: verse 17 and 18, then I took the cup that
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  Speaker 2: the Lord's, I took the cup at the Lord's hand
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  Speaker 2: and made all the nations to drink. unto whom the
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  Speaker 2: Lord has sent me. Now, I'm not going to stumble
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  Speaker 2: over these names. I'm going to try to pronounce the
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  Speaker 2: names that I think I pretty much got, but I
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  Speaker 2: might skip over the names. I will allow you on
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  Speaker 2: your own study time to try to pronounce these names, right?
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  Speaker 2: To go over these names, but these names are important.
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  Speaker 2: It would be, I would, I recommend that you would
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  Speaker 2: look up these nations, where they are and how they
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  Speaker 2: relate to the nation of Israel and their significant role
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  Speaker 2: in history. But here we go. To wit, Jerusalem and
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  Speaker 2: to the cities of Judah and the kings thereof and
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  Speaker 2: the princes thereof to make them a desolation, an astonishment,
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  Speaker 2: a hissing and a curse as it is today. Now,
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  Speaker 2: 19 through 21, we have Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his servants,
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  Speaker 2: his princes, and all his people, and all the mingled people,
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  Speaker 2: and all the kings of the land of Uz, and
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  Speaker 2: all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Akalon,
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  Speaker 2: and Azar, and Ekron and the remnant of Ashut. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I think I got those. Edom and Moab and the
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  Speaker 2: children of Amnon. Ammon 22 through 24. I'm kind of
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  Speaker 2: summing it up so we can kind of get through
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  Speaker 2: all these scriptures. And all the kings of Tarsus and
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  Speaker 2: all the kings of Zidon, the kings of the Isles,
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  Speaker 2: Which are beyond the sea. Now the Isles are usually.
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  Speaker 2: Considered islands. Like the islands. Dedan. And Tama. And Booz.
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  Speaker 2: And all that are in the utmost corners. Now highlight that.
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  Speaker 2: All that are in the utmost corners. And all the
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  Speaker 2: kings of.
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  Speaker 4: Arabia.
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  Speaker 3: Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: And all the kings, the Mingle people that dwell in
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  Speaker 2: the desert, 25 and 26, and all the kings of Zimri,
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  Speaker 2: and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings
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  Speaker 2: of Medes, and all the kings of the north far
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  Speaker 2: and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms, now
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  Speaker 2: I like this, all the kingdoms of the world, which
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  Speaker 2: are upon the face of the earth, and the king
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  Speaker 2: of Sashis shall drink after them. I think God was
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  Speaker 2: pretty thorough. I think there was no stone unturned in this.
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  Speaker 2: And You can look at this as a prophetic prophecy.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah took a trip in a time machine. And so
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  Speaker 2: I believe he's talking about the great tribulation. I believe
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  Speaker 2: that all the nations of the world are getting ready
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  Speaker 2: to enter into this prophetic word. So we all need
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  Speaker 2: to listen up. Amen. Verse 17, the cup is passed
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  Speaker 2: to nations. Tenation. Now. The prophet. Receives a cup from
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. And carries the message out that God has
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  Speaker 2: given him. This message represents divine judgment and is to
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  Speaker 2: all the nations. The consequences of rebellion against God is declared.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah says he took the cup from the Lord's hand
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  Speaker 2: and made the nations to drink it. There's a drink
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  Speaker 2: that is coming that we're not going to like, right?
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  Speaker 2: The nations are not going to like the taste of it,
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  Speaker 2: the smell of it, but they're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: drink it. Now, this is a prophetic imagery, prophetic sign.
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  Speaker 2: The cup represents the judgment God had determined to bring
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  Speaker 2: upon the nations. Now, notice this. that Jeremiah did not
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  Speaker 2: invent this message. He was delivering what God had instructed
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  Speaker 2: him to deliver. Now, if we had more pastors and
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  Speaker 2: more ministers, if they just faithfully delivered what God told
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  Speaker 2: them to, I believe that a lot of lives can
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  Speaker 2: be saved. A lot of societies could be preserved and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of souls saved. would not enter into judgment
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  Speaker 2: if we just only say and stay faithful to God's word.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of pastors, they want to change it. They
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  Speaker 2: want to water it down. They don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: too harsh, but no, you got to look at it
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  Speaker 2: for what it is, right? This is a very important
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  Speaker 2: lesson for anyone who teaches the Bible. We are not
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  Speaker 2: called to change God's message to make people comfortable. We
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  Speaker 2: got to stop being concerned about The comfort of people.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want someone to be comfortable on a bus
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  Speaker 2: that is headed over a cliff? Are you going to
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  Speaker 2: prop their pillow and give them a blankie? Right? We
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  Speaker 2: are called to handle his word faithfully. Speaking the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Speak it with humility, love, but with courage. Don't hold back.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it could be easy for me right
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  Speaker 2: now because I'm behind a microphone. I'm not in front
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  Speaker 2: of a crowd of people. I'm on this podcast, but
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  Speaker 2: I know on the other side of this microphone could
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  Speaker 2: be someone going through, someone contemplating suicide, someone thinking about
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  Speaker 2: leaving their wife or their husband, a child that wants
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  Speaker 2: to run away, someone who's struggling in their faith, thinking
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  Speaker 2: about giving up. Don't give up. Amen. It is worth
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  Speaker 2: it to stay faithful, run to God. And as we
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  Speaker 2: see in today's episode, God is sovereign over all the nations.
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  Speaker 2: He has the ultimate power. So he can help us
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  Speaker 2: in our individual situations, right? But as we see in this,
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  Speaker 2: these passages that God's judgment is not random or outside
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  Speaker 2: of his authority. He is the righteous judge who sees
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  Speaker 2: what people do. We cannot hide from his eyes. He
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  Speaker 2: sees what we do in secret. He sees what rulers
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  Speaker 2: permit and what the nations celebrate. So here's a question
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  Speaker 2: for us. Are we willing to hear God's truth even
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  Speaker 2: when it confronts our behavior? Are we willing to take correction?
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  Speaker 2: Some people are difficult to correct. Some people are hard
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  Speaker 2: to correct. But if you have somebody in your life
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  Speaker 2: that is willing to correct you, that is somebody who
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  Speaker 2: loves you. That is somebody who cares about you. Those
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  Speaker 2: are people that you want to hold on to because
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  Speaker 2: they truly care about you, care enough to correct you.
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  Speaker 2: And not to see your life head down destruction. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Now we also see that Judah's privileged position is God's
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  Speaker 2: covenant people did not exempt that nation from discipline. Persistent
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  Speaker 2: disobedience brought consequences to the entire nation of Judah, even
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  Speaker 2: for Jerusalem and its rulers. Now, Jerusalem and Judah are
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  Speaker 2: named First, this is significant because God's judgment begins with
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  Speaker 2: the people who had received his law, his prophets, and
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  Speaker 2: his repeated warnings. They could not claim that God had
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  Speaker 2: never spoke to them. Jeremiah had been warning them for years.
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  Speaker 2: For over 20 years, Jeremiah had been prophesying against them.
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  Speaker 2: their behaviors and warning them about the judgment. So the
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  Speaker 2: passage describes desolation, astonishment, mockery, and a curse. The city
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  Speaker 2: that had been associated with worship in the temple would
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  Speaker 2: experience devastation because the people had continued in rebellion. So
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  Speaker 2: we can be close to the things of God but
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  Speaker 2: also be disobedient at the same time. The human heart
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  Speaker 2: is just so wicked. We can attend church, listen to
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  Speaker 2: Christian music, quote scripture. We can talk the Christian language
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  Speaker 2: while still refusing to surrender areas of our lives to
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. God wants our whole heart and he deserves it.
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  Speaker 2: He just wants us to walk humbly before him and
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, bring those areas to him where you
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  Speaker 2: do struggle and he will help. I just did this
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  Speaker 2: like the other day. I just brought on areas in
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  Speaker 2: my life where I was just struggling and I feel
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  Speaker 2: his grace in those areas now. Amen. The secret is
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  Speaker 2: to stay in the secret place with the Lord. That's
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  Speaker 2: a whole nother podcast, but Remember that the secret is
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  Speaker 2: the secret place. If you want to make it through
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  Speaker 2: this battle, this war, everything in life can be hashed
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  Speaker 2: out in your secret place, your prayer closet, the time
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  Speaker 2: of your communion with him. Amen. Being close to the
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  Speaker 2: things of God is not the same as being obedient
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  Speaker 2: to the Lord. And trust me, you will not be
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  Speaker 2: obedient if you don't have a secret place. Because that's
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  Speaker 2: arrogance there. That's thinking that if we don't need a
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  Speaker 2: prayer life, if we don't need to be in a
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  Speaker 2: secret place, if we think we can handle life on
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  Speaker 2: our own, then that is deception. We can attend church,
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  Speaker 2: listen to Christian music, quote scripture, and still be far
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  Speaker 2: from God. So the lesson is clear. Spiritual privilege brings responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing the word means you are accountable for how you
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  Speaker 2: respond to it. Let me say that again. Knowing the
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  Speaker 2: word means you are accountable for how you respond to it.
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  Speaker 2: So even though you're listening to this podcast, you still
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  Speaker 2: have to respond to the truth that is being taught.
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  Speaker 2: That's why we go verse by verse, chapter by chapter.
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  Speaker 2: We have to conform our lives to what the Lord
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  Speaker 2: is teaching us here. Amen. Now, there's something I want
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  Speaker 2: to point out before we go a little further. They
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  Speaker 2: mentioned Judah first. They mentioned Israel first. They were the
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  Speaker 2: first to be judged. And then now we're going to
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  Speaker 2: turn the corner and we're going to judge Judah. the
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  Speaker 2: entire world, all the kingdoms of the world. That's why
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  Speaker 2: I told you to highlight that. Now in the book
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  Speaker 2: of Romans, Paul tells us that Israel was cut off
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  Speaker 2: as a natural branch and the Gentiles were grafted in.
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  Speaker 2: But if Israel would have been faithful, then the whole
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  Speaker 2: branch would have been blessed right and so what I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying is Israel I don't know why the nations well
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  Speaker 2: I do know why these nations hate Israel so this
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  Speaker 2: anti-semitic rhetoric that is out there we can see now
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  Speaker 2: that if Israel were faithful to the Lord they could
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  Speaker 2: have spared these nations that are being judged Israel is
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  Speaker 2: in a way, was responsible for the entire world. We
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  Speaker 2: can see this now as the judgment starts with them
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  Speaker 2: and it goes to everyone else. Israel was meant to
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  Speaker 2: be salt and to be light. And so Israel could
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  Speaker 2: have held back the judgment of God and could have
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  Speaker 2: saved the nations. They would have seen undeniably the awesomeness
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  Speaker 2: of God through the nation of Israel. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: God wanted to do, right? Look at his work for
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  Speaker 2: the church. God wants to save the nations. And so
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  Speaker 2: we can apply that to our lives. Who is going
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  Speaker 2: to be judged or who is going to miss the
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  Speaker 2: kingdom if we are not faithful to to what God
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  Speaker 2: has called us to do and what us to be.
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  Speaker 2: God has called the church to be the salt and
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  Speaker 2: the light of the earth. And so because Jerusalem fell,
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  Speaker 2: now look at what's about to happen to the entire world, right?
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  Speaker 2: In verse 19, Pharaoh and Egypt, right, are accountable. Now
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go through all the nations now. But
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  Speaker 2: Egypt and its people are included in this announced judgment.
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  Speaker 2: Political strength and royal authority cannot place a nation outside
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  Speaker 2: of God's rule. So Pharaoh was a powerful ruler in
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  Speaker 2: his time. Egypt had military strength. They had resources and
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  Speaker 2: a long history of influence. Yet Pharaoh. is named alongside Judah.
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  Speaker 2: Does that remind you of the United States of America?
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  Speaker 2: God is not intimidated by a throne, a military, or
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  Speaker 2: a powerful government. We often measure nations by their wealth,
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  Speaker 2: their weapons, their influence, and their ability to control events.
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  Speaker 2: God measures people in nations according to his righteous standard.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot forget that. Amen. I remember there was a
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  Speaker 2: time in the United States where they just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: prosper and they didn't care how they prospered. Right? They
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  Speaker 2: didn't care about morality or righteousness or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: They just wanted to prosper and pursue riches and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. We should pray for our leaders in our society.
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  Speaker 2: We should not neglect justice. God is a just God.
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  Speaker 2: And remember that no human authority is ultimate. No one
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  Speaker 2: has the ultimate final say. I don't care who you are.
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  Speaker 2: Only Jesus has that. God has a final authority, even
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  Speaker 2: when earthly leaders act as if they do not answer
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  Speaker 2: to anyone. We know a lot of dictators, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of leaders, they think that they are above the law.
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  Speaker 2: They are not outside of God's reach. Verse 20, the
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  Speaker 2: Philistine cities and other peoples. Now, if we remember. The
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  Speaker 2: story of David and Goliath. Goliath was a giant. He
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  Speaker 2: was a Philistine. In the early stages of Israel, they
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of problems with the Philistine nations. They
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  Speaker 2: were their rivals per se, right? The judgment extends beyond
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  Speaker 2: the most prominent kingdoms to other peoples and their cities.
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  Speaker 2: The list demonstrates that God's Announced judgment is not limited
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  Speaker 2: to one political center, right? Jeremiah names the Philistines in
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  Speaker 2: several of their cities, including Ashkelon, Gaza, called Azu, or
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  Speaker 2: King James, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod. These were
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  Speaker 2: familiar centers in the region. And the Philistines had a
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  Speaker 2: long history of conflict with Israel. God's message reaches across
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  Speaker 2: old rivalries. These people opposed Israel for centuries. But God
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  Speaker 2: was going to judge them too. Judah's enemies were not
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  Speaker 2: automatically righteous simply because they were enemies of Judah. They
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  Speaker 2: too We're accountable to God. Everyone is accountable to God.
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  Speaker 2: We sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that if
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  Speaker 2: someone opposes the people we oppose, that person must be
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  Speaker 2: a righteous person. But God does not judge by our loyalties,
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  Speaker 2: political preferences, or our personal grudges. He judges. stands for
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  Speaker 2: righteousness and his standards are higher than ours. His ways
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  Speaker 2: are above our ways, are above finding out. Amen. So
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  Speaker 2: we must never confuse God's justice with our desire to
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  Speaker 2: see our enemies punished. What we need to desire is righteousness, repentance,
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  Speaker 2: and truth, not simply victory over The people who hate
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  Speaker 2: on us, right? We need to pray for our haters.
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  Speaker 2: We need, the Bible says, to love your enemies. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a tough one, beloved. I'm not going to lie.
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  Speaker 2: That's something that I struggle with. But we got to
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  Speaker 2: get into the place of love because the Bible warns
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  Speaker 2: us that if we don't forgive, we shall not be forgiven.
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  Speaker 2: And hell is not worth anyone's Man, I forgive right
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  Speaker 2: now over this podcast. I forgive and love you. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care who you are.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 21, Edom, Moab, and Amnon, the neighboring nations of Edom, Moab,
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  Speaker 2: and Amnon, if I'm pronouncing it right, Now, they're also
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  Speaker 2: including the judgment, their proximity to Judah did not exempt
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  Speaker 2: them from God's accountability. Edom, Moab, and Amnon were neighboring
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  Speaker 2: peoples with complicated historical relationships with Israel in Judah. Their
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  Speaker 2: names appear in this judgment because God's authority extends beyond
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  Speaker 2: the boundaries of his covenant people, right? Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: if Israel would have remained faithful, I believe they would
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  Speaker 2: have been able to reach the entire world. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: up to the church to reach the world, and the
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  Speaker 2: church has been struggling for centuries. We don't have a
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  Speaker 2: good church history. If you read the history of the church,
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  Speaker 2: it's quite embarrassing. But this is important because correction is
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  Speaker 2: comes to human pride. We cannot afford to be prideful.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be humble and know that our lives
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  Speaker 2: are accountable. We have to give an account one day.
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  Speaker 2: That should change how we live. That should change our decisions.
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  Speaker 2: That should change how we behave. We may divide people
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  Speaker 2: into insiders and outsiders, friends and enemies, people who belong
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  Speaker 2: and people who We do not know, but no group
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  Speaker 2: gets to establish its own standard of righteousness apart from God.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord sees every nation and every person. This should
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  Speaker 2: make us cautious about judging others while ignoring our own sin.
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  Speaker 2: We can't be hypocritical judgers of others. Before we point
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  Speaker 2: out the failures of another person, family, church, or community,
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  Speaker 2: we should be willing to let God examine us. Accountability
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  Speaker 2: begins with the willingness to be accountable ourselves. That's why
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  Speaker 2: we started the Accountability Partner on this podcast today. Because
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  Speaker 2: the most dangerous place you could be is thinking that
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  Speaker 2: you don't need accountability. Thinking that, okay, well, I'm good
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  Speaker 2: on my own. I don't need to check in or
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  Speaker 2: I don't need someone to pour into me. No, we need,
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  Speaker 2: this is a lifetime until we get into, until we
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  Speaker 2: go home to heaven, we need that accountability partner. As
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, that is when Satan gets us
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  Speaker 2: is when we leave the safety of accountability. That's why
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  Speaker 2: we need to fellowship. He wants to isolate us and
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  Speaker 2: think that we're good and then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: we fall. The prophecy includes the kings of Tyre and
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  Speaker 2: Sidon as well as the islands of coastal regions beyond
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  Speaker 2: the sea. God's reach extends to every people, every distance,
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  Speaker 2: every trading center. Tire and cider were important because they
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  Speaker 2: were off the coast or off the scene. And people
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  Speaker 2: used to trade there. They were very wealthy, very prosperous people.
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  Speaker 2: It gave them influence far beyond their territory, but commercial
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  Speaker 2: success cannot purchase immunity from God's judgment. Now that's relevant today, beloved.
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  Speaker 2: People build businesses. People accumulate wealth. They develop businesses. powerful
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  Speaker 2: networks and become influential in their communities. Those accomplishments may
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  Speaker 2: be valuable, but they do not replace character or obedience
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  Speaker 2: to God. I mean, if you look on YouTube today,
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  Speaker 2: now I have a subscription and normally I don't, get
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  Speaker 2: to see the commercials. But lately I've allowed my subscription
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  Speaker 2: to lapse. I got to make a payment to start
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  Speaker 2: it back up. But I've been watching YouTube and I've
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  Speaker 2: been seeing commercial after commercial and I see people passionate
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  Speaker 2: about the next business and get this AI tool and
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  Speaker 2: you can make $ 500 a day. And there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: to say about finances on YouTube. There's people that are
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  Speaker 2: willing to teach you the stock market, how to buy
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  Speaker 2: stocks and how to prosper and how to get your
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  Speaker 2: money in order. But, and people spend a lot of
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  Speaker 2: time and energy in it. And I'm not saying it's wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a place for that, but they're missing it.
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  Speaker 2: They're missing it. They need to put that same energy
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  Speaker 2: in their relationship with the Lord. They should be teaching
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  Speaker 2: people how to enter into their secret place and how
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  Speaker 2: much the secret place matters. Just think the day of judgment,
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  Speaker 2: God is going to bring everything that is secret to light.
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  Speaker 2: There is no such thing as a secret place because
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  Speaker 2: there's an audience. There's people watching you, not people, but
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  Speaker 2: God is watching you and Satan is watching you when
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  Speaker 2: you're in your secret place. So I'm just giving you,
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  Speaker 2: there's a, I don't know if I'm going to do
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  Speaker 2: a podcast or write a book, but God has touched
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  Speaker 2: my heart about redeeming the secret place. So stay tuned
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  Speaker 2: for that. I'm just giving you tidbits right now. So
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  Speaker 2: my point is people put a lot of energy in
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  Speaker 2: building businesses and prospering and being faithful. But what good
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  Speaker 2: is that if you go to hell? God is not
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  Speaker 2: against honest work or success. The warning is against trusting
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  Speaker 2: success as if it makes us untouchable. Never allow prosperity
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  Speaker 2: to convince you that you no longer need God. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And God places his people in your life as safeguards. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in verse 23, the prophecy continues with peoples and settlements
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  Speaker 2: further away, right? The list emphasizes the broad reach of
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  Speaker 2: the judgment announced through Jeremiah. Now, there's a broad reach
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  Speaker 2: right here. Dedan, Timah, and Booz, from pronouncing those right. Now,
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  Speaker 2: they remind us that This prophecy is not restricted to
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  Speaker 2: the nations immediately surrounding Jerusalem. The further the list reaches,
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  Speaker 2: the more clearly we see the point. God's authority is
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  Speaker 2: not confined by geography. People often act as if distance, isolation,
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  Speaker 2: or being outside the center of attention means they are
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  Speaker 2: beyond accountability. God does not need a human observer to
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  Speaker 2: know what is happening. Right? Now, we often say, I
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  Speaker 2: say that leaders are held to a higher strict of accountability,
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  Speaker 2: but the point is we're all accountable. Whether you're a
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  Speaker 2: leader or not, your life, you will have to give
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  Speaker 2: an account. You are accountable before God. Right. That's why
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  Speaker 2: God has given us time and space to get it
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  Speaker 2: right now before we are appointment. Right. It's appointed for
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  Speaker 2: a man once to die. After that, the judgment. God
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  Speaker 2: sees what is happening in public and in private. He
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  Speaker 2: sees the decisions and the injustice that no one reports.
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  Speaker 2: The choices that people assume will never be discovered. The
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  Speaker 2: decisions that are made in secret. He knows our innermost thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: He knows why we did what we did. This is
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  Speaker 2: both a warning and it's a comfort. It is a
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  Speaker 2: warning because wrongdoing cannot be hidden from God. It is
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  Speaker 2: a comfort because faithful people who are overlooked or mistreated
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  Speaker 2: are not invisible to him either. So the God who
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  Speaker 2: sees the wrongdoing also sees those who suffer from it.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 24, the kings of Arabia in the desert peoples.
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  Speaker 2: Now the kings of Areba and the peoples living in
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  Speaker 2: the desert are included in this prophetic announcement. Even people
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  Speaker 2: living far from Judah's political center remain under God's authority.
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  Speaker 2: Think about how far we are in the United States
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  Speaker 2: from Israel. And we think because there's an ocean or
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  Speaker 2: there's distance that we are exempt or we're safe. But no,
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  Speaker 2: we're not. We are held just as accountable as them.
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  Speaker 2: And look at how we're living today. Look at how
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  Speaker 2: we are getting right there. We need to turn United States,
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  Speaker 2: my beloved country, the land of the free and the
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  Speaker 2: home of the brave. We need to turn back to
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  Speaker 2: the lord before it's too late hopefully everyone can hear
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  Speaker 2: this podcast before that happens right the message continues to
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  Speaker 2: widen right whether if people lived in a city a
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  Speaker 2: trading center, or a remote desert region, they were not
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  Speaker 2: outside of God's rule. Now, sometimes we imagine that God
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  Speaker 2: is merely concerned with the places and people we know best,
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  Speaker 2: but scripture repeatedly shows that his concern and authority extends
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  Speaker 2: beyond our immediate world. Now, that matters for ministry too.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot limit our compassion to people who look like us,
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  Speaker 2: speak like us, worship in our buildings, or share our background.
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  Speaker 2: If we believe God sees all people, then we should
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  Speaker 2: care about people beyond our own circle. So God's authority
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  Speaker 2: is universal and our concern for people should not be
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  Speaker 2: confined to our comfort zone. We're going through this pretty quick.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We're at verse 25. Zimri Elam Elam in
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  Speaker 2: the meads from pronouncing that right.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So these are additional kingdoms right here, including Ilium and
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  Speaker 2: the Medes. Their conclusion reinforces that the judgment reaches major
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  Speaker 2: peoples and political powers beyond Judah's immediate neighbors. Ilium and
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  Speaker 2: the Medes were associated with the regions east of Judah.
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  Speaker 2: They were far east. Jeremiah continues to name people who
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  Speaker 2: would not necessarily have viewed themselves as part of Judah's history,
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  Speaker 2: yet they are included in the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: So this reminds us that God's plan is larger than
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  Speaker 2: what we can see at any moment. Jeremiah's announcement I mean,
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  Speaker 2: his audience might have focused on the immediate danger faced
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  Speaker 2: in Jerusalem, but God's declaration covered a much broader horizon.
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  Speaker 2: God's declaration covered the entire world. I wonder if they
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  Speaker 2: missed that. We often make the same mistake. We see
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  Speaker 2: what is happening in our own household, our city, our country,
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. our generation and assume that this is the
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  Speaker 2: entire picture, but God sees history from beginning to end.
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  Speaker 2: So we do not need to understand every part of
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  Speaker 2: his plan to trust his character. At the same time,
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  Speaker 2: we should be careful not to claim that every current
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  Speaker 2: event is specific fulfillment of prophecy without sound biblical support.
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  Speaker 2: Trust God's sovereignty, but do not pretend to know more
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  Speaker 2: than he has revealed. Now, one of my favorite Bible
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  Speaker 2: teachers is Pastor Chuck Smith from Calvary Chapel. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that he says is when the Bible
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  Speaker 2: is silent, we need to stay silent. Don't try to
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  Speaker 2: add stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That is not necessarily in the Bible or take things
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  Speaker 2: that are outside the Bible. So if the Bible is
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  Speaker 2: silent on a matter or on a topic, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to try to make something up. I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to file it away to, okay, need more information. But
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: be careful if you're trying to take a scripture and
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: you're trying to build a whole new religion out of
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: just one scripture. Like, that's crazy. Verse 26, the kingdoms
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord in, I mean, the kingdoms of the
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  Speaker 2: world in Shishak. Shishak. How do you pronounce that? So
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: now it reaches its climax with the kingdoms of the
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  Speaker 2: world in the kingdoms of Shishak. Shishak is generally understood
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  Speaker 2: as a symbolic name for Babylon. The prophecy shows that
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  Speaker 2: the power used in judgment will not ultimately escape accountability itself.
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  Speaker 2: This verse is especially important because the prophecy moves from
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  Speaker 2: the individual kingdoms to all the kingdoms of the entire world.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot play with God in his word, beloved. The
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  Speaker 2: cup is not reserved for Judah's enemies alone. The scope
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  Speaker 2: is universal. The Jeremiah names the king of Shishak commonly
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: understood as Babylon under a symbolic destination, right? Babylon would
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: become the instrument of judgment against Judah, but Babylon itself
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  Speaker 2: would later face judgment, right? Now, that is a powerful
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: biblical principle. God can use a nation or a people
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  Speaker 2: to accomplish a person with a purpose without approving everything
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  Speaker 2: that nation or that person does. So Babylon's role in
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Judah's judgment did not mean Babylon was morally perfect or
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  Speaker 2: permanently protected. God remained sovereign over Babylon as well. So
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  Speaker 2: we should remember this. Whenever a powerful person, organization, or
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: government appears to be succeeding, success does not prove that
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  Speaker 2: God approves of everything being done, nor does temporary power
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: mean permanent security. God may allow human power to rise
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  Speaker 2: for a reason and for a season, but no kingdom
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  Speaker 2: has the final word over history. The final word belongs
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  Speaker 2: to the Lord and to the Lord alone. So our
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  Speaker 2: big takeaway here is number one, God holds his own
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  Speaker 2: people accountable. So being familiar with scripture, or connected with
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: a faith community does not excuse disobedience. Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, God sees every nation, no border, throne, desert,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: or distant coastline places people beyond his authority. Number three,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: power does not equal righteousness. Wealth, military strength, Political influence
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: and commercial success cannot replace obedience to God. Number four,
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: God's justice is not the same as human revenge. We
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: must not use scripture to justify our personal grudges or
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: celebrate the suffering of our enemies. Point number five, God's
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  Speaker 2: instruments are still accountable. Babylon could be used in judgment
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: and still face judgment itself. God is a righteous judge.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: So do not spend so much time examining someone else
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: that you ignore what God is saying to you. So
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: ask the Lord to examine your heart. Are you being honest?
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Are you treating people fairly? Are you listening when scripture
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: corrects you? Are you trusting your own strength more than God?
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: The purpose of hearing God's word is not merely to
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: gain information. It is to respond to him with repentance,
• 47:38
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  Speaker 2: what accountability helps us to do. Don't hop that fence
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  Speaker 2: and get chased by that bull. And of course, we
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  Speaker 2: know the bull is the devil. We do have an
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: enemy out there, an enemy of our souls. So in
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: the mighty name of Jesus, we need to band together
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  Speaker 2: and resist him. And our hearts deceive us. We cannot
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: even our biggest enemy is ourselves, to be honest. We
• 54:00
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  Speaker 2: word over our thoughts, over our desires, over our emotions.
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  Speaker 2: That's where accountability comes in because somebody can say, brother,
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  Speaker 2: you're in sin. That's not the will of God for
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• 54:27
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  Speaker 2: let's look up yesterday's question. Yesterday's question was in Jeremiah 25, 15.
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  Speaker 2: What specific object does God tell Jeremiah to take from
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  Speaker 2: his hand? And what does Jeremiah have to do with it?
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  Speaker 2: Zone post in the community. If you're listening, you got
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  Speaker 2: to go to the community to see it. In the community,
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  Speaker 2: he said, take this wine cup of fury from my
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  Speaker 2: hand and cause all the nations to whom I send
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  Speaker 2: you to drink it. So let's give Zone a hand clap.
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  Speaker 2: He is a trivia champ once again. Now let's see
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  Speaker 2: who gets today's question today. Which three groups of kings
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  Speaker 2: are named together immediately before Jeremiah mentions the kings of
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  Speaker 2: the north? So we're looking for three kings. Which three kings?
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  Speaker 2: Which three groups of kings? We're looking for three groups
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  Speaker 2: of kings are named together immediately before Jeremiah mentions the
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  Speaker 2: kings of the north. All right. You know, the rules
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  Speaker 2: of first one to get the right question is a
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  Speaker 2: trivia champ for today. We don't know if there's a
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  Speaker 2: challenger out there. If someone can actually give zone three
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  Speaker 2: a run for his money. Maybe today might be the day.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see who gets it. Are you doing that? I
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  Speaker 2: want to get up our community shout out. We just
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  Speaker 2: had a great meeting yesterday. We have a pastor that
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  Speaker 2: just joined us just last night, actually. We're planning our
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  Speaker 2: December 19th event. December 19th. So mark it on your calendars.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to open up our registration forms so people
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  Speaker 2: can register. Let them know. We're working out and hashing
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  Speaker 2: out the details we are planning. on having a lot
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  Speaker 2: of toys this year. Trying to get sponsors. We're trying
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  Speaker 2: to reach out to people. Vendors. People like that. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to be passing out toys. So if you need
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  Speaker 2: toys and resources this year. Go to our website, HisHopNation.com
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  Speaker 2: and fill out the form. Make sure you do that.
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  Speaker 2: the HisHopRadio app and get familiar with that and start
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  Speaker 2: listening to the radio station because we are going to
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  Speaker 2: be announcing things and talking about things and getting things
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  Speaker 2: going with that as well. So, That's our community shout
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  Speaker 2: out for now. We also want to let you know
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  Speaker 2: that His Hop Nation is a nonprofit organization. We are
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  Speaker 2: a 501c3, a public charity. We opened up a Christian
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  Speaker 2: club back in 2012 and we were able to operate
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  Speaker 2: for seven years. We were in a 5,000 square foot building.
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  Speaker 2: And we're looking to relaunch. We open. We want to
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  Speaker 2: open up in other areas. God is giving me a
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  Speaker 2: vision to see clubs open in different cities. And I
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  Speaker 2: am not giving up on that vision. So if you'd
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  Speaker 2: public charity We did that because we want to be
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  Speaker 2: able to be a blessing. We don't want to just
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  Speaker 2: ask people for money. But we want people to be
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  Speaker 2: able to get something out of it. Of course, more
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  Speaker 2: than just money, we get to see lives changed. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: With that, let's go to our closing remarks for today's episode. So,
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah 25, 17 through 26, we have seen the cup
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  Speaker 2: of judgment pass from Jerusalem to Judah, to Egypt, to
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  Speaker 2: neighboring peoples, distant kingdoms, and finally the kingdoms of the world.
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  Speaker 2: No nation was beyond God's authority, not even Babylon, the
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  Speaker 2: power that would be used to bring judgment upon Judah.
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  Speaker 2: Remember God's justice is real. So is his mercy. When
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  Speaker 2: his word corrects us, we should not harden our hearts.
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  Speaker 2: We should humble ourselves, repent where necessary and seek to
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  Speaker 2: walk in his way. So don't use this passage only
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  Speaker 2: to point fingers at the world. Let it challenge you personally.
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  Speaker 2: Ask God, Show you where you need to grow, where
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  Speaker 2: you need to repent and where you need to trust
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  Speaker 2: him more deeply.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Because just because God is using you doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 2: you're right with him. Doesn't mean you're surrendered or submitted
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  Speaker 2: or that you're growing in your faith. Remember, it's not
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  Speaker 2: the outward, it's the inward that matters. So, beloved, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for spending time with us again. We pray that
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  Speaker 2: you got a lot out of this. Read ahead. I
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  Speaker 2: believe we're almost through this chapter. We're halfway through. Keep
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  Speaker 2: reading chapter 25 until we come back together on the
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  Speaker 2: next episode, Lord willing. And remember, It's not about us.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about the Christ in us. God bless.
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