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The Book of Jeremiah, episode 51 Jer 20:11–18 — “The Lord Is With Me” · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 5: The last time we were together in the book of Jeremiah,
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  Speaker 5: we saw our prophet at one of his lowest points
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  Speaker 5: so far. He had been beaten, mocked, rejected and persecuted
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  Speaker 5: for delivering God's word. Jeremiah even reached a point where
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  Speaker 5: he said, I don't want to speak anymore. But God's
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  Speaker 5: word was burning inside him like an inferno, like a fire.
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  Speaker 5: He could not hold it back. And that is a
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  Speaker 5: good problem. Now, in today's passage, we're going to see
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  Speaker 5: Jeremiah move from discouragement to confidence. And then back into
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  Speaker 5: deep despair. Now I can relate with him because he
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  Speaker 5: had a mood swing. He was up and down. How
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  Speaker 5: many of us have been there, right? How many of
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  Speaker 5: us can relate? He was up one second. He was
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  Speaker 5: down the next. He was on top of the mountaintop.
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  Speaker 5: And then he's down in the valley. That goes to
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  Speaker 5: show you that he is human. That Jeremiah had true emotions.
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  Speaker 5: that this was a true character, somebody that we can
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  Speaker 5: let's go to the Father in prayer. Heavenly Father, we
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  Speaker 5: come before you. We ask, Father God, for your blessing.
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  Speaker 5: We ask for your grace. We ask for your presence,
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  Speaker 5: O God. that you will breathe upon this podcast, oh God,
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  Speaker 5: that you will use it for your glory, oh God.
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  Speaker 5: We ask, Lord, that you'll bless the hero, oh God.
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  Speaker 5: We ask, Lord, that you give us the rainbow word,
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  Speaker 5: the spoken word, the word of knowledge, oh God, Lord.
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  Speaker 5: Touch the hearers where they are today, Father God. Touch
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  Speaker 5: us all where we are today, Lord, as we examine
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  Speaker 5: your word, as we look into your prophet, oh God.
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  Speaker 5: And we ask this in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, let's dive into it.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to pick it up in Jeremiah chapter 11 today.
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  Speaker 5: And it says, but the Lord is with me as
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  Speaker 5: a mighty awesome one.
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  Speaker 1: Now, don't forget what I said in the intro.
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  Speaker 5: Jeremiah was at his lowest low. Jeremiah was just beaten, mocked.
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  Speaker 5: People are conspiring against him. They want to take him out.
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  Speaker 5: They want to stop his ministry. They threw him in
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  Speaker 5: a dungeon. They threw him in the stocks. And Jeremiah
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  Speaker 5: feels like he was deceived by the Lord. Because if
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  Speaker 5: you remember at the beginning of his calling, God told
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  Speaker 5: him that they would harden their hearts and harden their
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  Speaker 5: faces against the prophet, against the message. But he persuaded
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  Speaker 5: Jeremiah because Jeremiah at first was reluctant. He said that
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  Speaker 5: he was too young to speak. But God told him
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  Speaker 5: that they will fight against him, but they will not prevail.
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  Speaker 5: And so Jeremiah interpreted as that he wouldn't go through
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  Speaker 5: nothing at all, that they wouldn't be able to beat him.
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  Speaker 5: and to mock him in the stuff that he was
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  Speaker 5: going through. So he's like, you deceived me. You persuaded me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to speak in the name of the
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  Speaker 5: Lord anymore. But now we see the prophet and he's
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  Speaker 5: at the place where he is encouraged at this moment
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  Speaker 5: and that he's going back up. And when we get
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  Speaker 5: our eyes off the problem and get our eyes on
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  Speaker 5: the Lord and then that is definitely an improvement. Amen.
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  Speaker 5: So in verse 11, that's where we were at. We're
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  Speaker 5: at an upward climb. He's climbing up to the mountaintop again.
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  Speaker 5: And he says, but the Lord is with me as
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  Speaker 5: a mighty awesome one. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and
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  Speaker 5: will not prevail. Hallelujah. They will be greatly ashamed for
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  Speaker 5: they will not prosper. Their everlasting confusion will never be forgotten. Hallelujah. Now,
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  Speaker 5: that is a good prayer to pray when we are
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  Speaker 5: going through our situations. Amen. I'm putting that on my
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  Speaker 5: prayer list. Let's break it down word for word. But
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  Speaker 5: the Lord is with me. So Jeremiah, after expressing all
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  Speaker 5: his frustration, like I just said, Jeremiah makes a powerful declaration.
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  Speaker 5: But the Lord is with me as a mighty, terrible one. Now,
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  Speaker 5: that is a major shift right here in his attitude, right?
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  Speaker 5: In his focus, in his heart. He's speaking faith right now.
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  Speaker 5: Jeremiah knows that. Although people are against him, God himself
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  Speaker 5: is with him. And if God before us, who can
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  Speaker 5: be against us? His enemies may be stronger. They may
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  Speaker 5: be more in number. Jeremiah may feel like he is surrounded.
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  Speaker 5: And I felt that before. I felt like I was
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  Speaker 5: surrounded by snakes and wolves. His enemies may have political influence.
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  Speaker 5: They may even have authority over him or authority in general, right?
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  Speaker 5: They don't have God on their side. And Jeremiah does.
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  Speaker 5: And that is the big difference. Same for us. Whatever
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  Speaker 5: we're going through, if God is on our side, our
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  Speaker 5: enemies will will fall to the wayside one by one
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  Speaker 5: amen now Jeremiah recognizes that although he was surrounded by
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  Speaker 5: opposition the Lord remained his strength and his defender his
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  Speaker 5: confidence wasn't based upon his own ability but upon God's
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  Speaker 5: presence with him Amen. And that is where our confidence
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  Speaker 5: should lie. And that should be a word for us today, right?
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  Speaker 5: We may look around and see everything that's going on.
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  Speaker 5: But the question that we need to ask is who
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  Speaker 5: is with me? God is with me. You're never truly alone. Now,
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  Speaker 5: that doesn't mean you're never going to have trouble. It
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  Speaker 5: doesn't mean everybody is going to like you. It doesn't
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  Speaker 5: mean that you're never going to cry. But, It means
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  Speaker 5: that your troubles don't have to be the final word.
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  Speaker 5: Your troubles do not have to define you. Amen. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 5: Then it says, therefore, my persecutors shall stumble. We're still
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  Speaker 5: in verse 11, right? Jeremiah says those who persecute him
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  Speaker 5: will not ultimately prevail. Now that is very encouraging. They
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  Speaker 5: will be ashamed because they won't succeed. I've seen God
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  Speaker 5: embarrass a lot of my haters time and time again.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen God bring to shame those who were in
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  Speaker 5: opposition against me time and time again, this word is true.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm so thankful for it. And Jeremiah was confident
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  Speaker 5: that God saw what he was going through. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 5: want God to immediately deal with everybody who has wronged us,
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  Speaker 5: but sometimes God doesn't do it on our timetable, right?
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  Speaker 5: God has his own timetable. Now, that's where we need
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  Speaker 5: to trust the Lord. That's where trust kicks in on
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  Speaker 5: our part. We don't have to spend all our energy
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  Speaker 5: trying to prove ourselves to everyone. We don't have to
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  Speaker 5: answer every accusation. We don't have to win every argument.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes we just need to step back and say, God
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  Speaker 5: knows the truth. And let God handle what we cannot handle. Amen.
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  Speaker 5: I love the fact that we need God on a
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  Speaker 5: daily basis. Verse 12. But O Lord of hosts, you
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  Speaker 5: who test the righteous and see the mind and the heart,
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  Speaker 5: let me see your vengeance on them For I have
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  Speaker 5: pleaded my cause before you. Now check this out. Jeremiah
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  Speaker 5: calls upon the Lord to examine the hearts and minds
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  Speaker 5: of the people. Now he knows God sees deeper than
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  Speaker 5: outward appearance. God can see, but we cannot see. God
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  Speaker 5: knows what's really happening. inside of a person. And that's comforting.
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  Speaker 5: People only see what you allow them to see. God
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  Speaker 5: sees everything. He knows your motives. He knows your intentions.
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  Speaker 5: He knows when you're being falsely accused. He knows when
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  Speaker 5: you're wrong as well, right? I always try to be
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  Speaker 5: transparent and confess when I'm wrong. And that's why we
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  Speaker 5: need to be careful. You shouldn't simply say God knows
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  Speaker 5: my heart as an excuse for bad behavior. We should
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  Speaker 5: say it is or we should pray Lord, you know
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  Speaker 5: my heart. If there's anything wrong in me, show me.
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  Speaker 5: Now that is a completely different attitude than God knows
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  Speaker 5: my heart. And to excuse bad behavior, we need to
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  Speaker 5: ask God to expose the filth and the wickedness that
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  Speaker 5: is in our heart. Amen. Verse 13 says, Sing to
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  Speaker 5: the Lord, praise the Lord, for he has delivered the
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  Speaker 5: life of the poor from the hand of the evildoers. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, Jeremiah. He's climbing that mountain. He's at the
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  Speaker 5: mountain peak. He's at the point where he's ready to
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  Speaker 5: break out in praise into worship, seeing unto the Lord.
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  Speaker 5: But why? Why is he at that place? Because God
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  Speaker 5: has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand
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  Speaker 5: of the evildoer. Now let's take a look at this.
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  Speaker 5: Jeremiah is still dealing with opposition. His circumstances haven't necessarily
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  Speaker 5: changed at this point, but his perspective changes. He starts
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  Speaker 5: praising God. Now that's powerful. And that's something that our
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  Speaker 5: pastor teach in church all the time. Like we need
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  Speaker 5: to be true worshipers. We need to worship God through
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  Speaker 5: the fire. You know, worship confuses our adversary. You got
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  Speaker 5: to worship God when we're going through something good and
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  Speaker 5: blessing as well as going through something tough and difficult.
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  Speaker 5: That's where our victory lies. And that's where our breakthrough is. Now,
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  Speaker 5: sometime praise is Praising God doesn't begin because your situation
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  Speaker 5: has changed. Sometimes praise begins because you remembered who God is.
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  Speaker 5: You can praise God while you're waiting. You can praise
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  Speaker 5: God while you're hurting. You can praise God because you
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  Speaker 5: see the answer and you can see it by your faith. Amen.
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  Speaker 5: That's a beautiful thing. Verse 14, cursed be the day
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  Speaker 5: in which I was born. Now, wait a minute. What
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  Speaker 5: just happened? He was at the mountain peak praising God.
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  Speaker 5: And now he's in the valley. What? Cursed be the
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  Speaker 5: day in which I was born. Let that day not
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  Speaker 5: be blessed in which my mother bore me. Now, who
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  Speaker 5: else in the Bible says, said cursed be the day
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  Speaker 5: I was born. Doesn't that sound like our brother Job
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  Speaker 5: in the book of Job? Job was at his lowest low.
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  Speaker 5: We can get there, beloved. And maybe you're there today. Well,
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  Speaker 5: there's help for you in God's word. Because if even
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  Speaker 5: the prophet Jeremiah can say that and get through, then
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  Speaker 5: we can say that and go through that. And there's
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  Speaker 5: hope for us as well. Cursed be the day when
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  Speaker 5: I was born. This is a swing, right? Our emotions
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  Speaker 5: can take us up and down. Now he's cursing the day.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: This is one of the reasons I appreciate the honesty
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  Speaker 5: of scripture. The Bible doesn't present Jeremiah as somebody who's
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  Speaker 5: always had everything detailed. like he was perfect. He just
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  Speaker 5: went through this thing like it was nothing. No, he struggled.
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  Speaker 5: The prophet could praise God for his faithfulness while feeling
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  Speaker 5: overwhelmed by the pain associated with this calling. Jeremiah reflects
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  Speaker 5: the death of his discouragement rather than A rejection of God. Now,
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  Speaker 5: sometimes Christians think, if I'm really trusting God, I shouldn't
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  Speaker 5: feel like this. And that is a lie straight from
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  Speaker 5: the pit of hell. That is not true at all.
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  Speaker 5: Faith doesn't mean you never experience emotional pain. Faith means
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  Speaker 5: you know where to take that pain. Jeremiah took it
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  Speaker 5: to God. And that is important. And that's a word
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  Speaker 5: for you today. If you're experiencing excruciating pain, don't take
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  Speaker 5: it to the bottle. Don't take it to drugs. Don't
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  Speaker 5: try to find comfort in food, in relationships. Take your
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  Speaker 5: pain directly to God.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 5: Verse 15 and 16 says, Let the man be cursed
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  Speaker 5: who brought news to my father saying a male child
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  Speaker 5: has been born to you, making him very glad. and
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  Speaker 5: let that man be like the cities, which the Lord
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  Speaker 5: overthrew and did not relent. I'm thinking of, uh, maybe
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  Speaker 5: Sodom and Gomorrah that was, uh, you know, burn fire
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  Speaker 5: from heaven came down and burned up Sodom and Gomorrah
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  Speaker 5: because of the sin of homosexuality.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 5: He's talking about this man that brought news to his
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  Speaker 5: father about his birth. He says, let him hear the
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  Speaker 5: cry in the morning and the shouting at noon. Man,
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  Speaker 5: our brother is going down to the valley, right? He
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  Speaker 5: spoke about the man who brought his father the news
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  Speaker 5: of his birth. Now he wished that that man be
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  Speaker 5: like the cities that God overthrew. These are strong words,
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  Speaker 5: incredibly strong words. Jeremiah is basically saying, I wish I
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  Speaker 5: had never been born. He was overwhelmed at this time.
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  Speaker 5: Now let's slow down right here. Jeremiah isn't giving us
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  Speaker 5: a command. He's given us a picture of how deep
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  Speaker 5: his despair had become. And that is a important distinction
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  Speaker 5: right here. The Bible records people's emotions without necessarily approving
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  Speaker 5: everything that they say. All right. David had emotions of despair,
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  Speaker 5: just like Job. As I mentioned a few minutes ago,
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  Speaker 5: Elijah became discouraged and he said that he wanted to die.
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  Speaker 5: And Jeremiah became discouraged, just like these other prophets in
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  Speaker 5: the Bible. God's servants have always been human. So if
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  Speaker 5: you're going through something difficult, Don't be ashamed to admit it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm struggling. Bring that struggle to God. Bring it to
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  Speaker 5: the Lord. It's a safe place. And God wants us
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  Speaker 5: to be honest and transparent. All right. Verse 17. Because
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  Speaker 5: he did not kill me from the womb. That my
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  Speaker 5: mother might have been my grave. And her womb always
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  Speaker 5: enlarged with me. Man, now this is tough. And Maya
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  Speaker 5: is really going through right now. It kind of sounds
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  Speaker 5: like abortion, right? That my mother's womb would be my grave.
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  Speaker 5: He wishes he was never born. Why? Because his calling
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  Speaker 5: had brought him so much suffering. His pain is coming
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  Speaker 5: from the circumstances surrounding his calling. He didn't choose this
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  Speaker 5: assignment because it was easy. Actually, he didn't even choose
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  Speaker 5: it at all. God chose him. God called him to
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  Speaker 5: deliver an unpopular message to people who did not want
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  Speaker 5: to hear this unpopular message. So Jeremiah paid a price
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  Speaker 5: for being faithful to God. Now, here's something that we
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  Speaker 5: need to remember. Sometimes obedience is costly. Following God doesn't
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  Speaker 5: mean every road is going to be comfortable, but difficulty
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  Speaker 5: doesn't mean God has abandoned you.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 5: Amen. All right. Verse 18. And then we will finish
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  Speaker 5: a whole nother chapter.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 5: Why did I come forth from the womb to see
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  Speaker 5: labor and sorrow that my days should be consumed with shame? Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Now that is a, a place that is a weird place. Well,
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  Speaker 5: not weird. This is scripture, but we leave this chair,
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  Speaker 5: this chapter in Jeremiah is in this place of despair
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  Speaker 5: asking why was he even born? Now, I believe this
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  Speaker 5: chapter is this word, should I say, is for us
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  Speaker 5: today because no doubt, The days ahead of us as Christians,
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  Speaker 5: as believers, are about to become more difficult. Now, the
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  Speaker 5: Bible tells us, the scripture tells us, the Bible speaks
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  Speaker 5: of the Antichrist beast system that is coming upon the earth.
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  Speaker 5: And the Bible speaks of a great tribulation. Now, the
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  Speaker 5: great tribulation is for the world, but It has been
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  Speaker 5: difficult for the body of Christ, for believers, for 2,000 years.
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  Speaker 5: We just don't see it because we live in the
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  Speaker 5: United States of America. We live in a free country.
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  Speaker 5: But countries all around the world have been persecuting Christians.
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  Speaker 5: Our brothers and sisters have been experiencing difficult times all
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  Speaker 5: over the country, all over the.
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  Speaker 6: World, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: But the day will come. And because the Bible tells
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  Speaker 5: us that our calling and our faithfulness to the Lord
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  Speaker 5: in the United States one day will be very difficult
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  Speaker 5: and unbearable without the help of the Lord. We got
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  Speaker 5: to be just like our brother Jeremiah. Even though we
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  Speaker 5: may be going through it, we need to bring our
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  Speaker 5: troubles to the Lord.
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  Speaker 6: Amen.
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  Speaker 5: Now, what we can take away from today's lesson is
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  Speaker 5: God is with you even when people are against you. Amen.
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  Speaker 5: Aren't you glad for that? You can praise God while
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  Speaker 5: you are still in the midst of your struggles. Faith
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  Speaker 5: doesn't mean you never feel discouraged. Amen. And God knows
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  Speaker 5: your heart better than anyone else. Your emotions are real,
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  Speaker 5: but they don't have to control you. We don't have
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  Speaker 5: to make our permanent decisions based on emotions. Obedience can
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  Speaker 5: be costly, but God remains faithful. Now, don't confuse a
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  Speaker 5: difficult season with God's absence. Even though Jeremiah felt overwhelmed,
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  Speaker 5: God did not abandon him. And that may be true
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  Speaker 5: for you today. You might feel overwhelmed. But God has
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  Speaker 5: not abandoned you either. Amen. Let's take a quick break.
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  Speaker 2: in the oven of another chick. Now you got a
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  Speaker 2: couple kids by a couple chicks.
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  Speaker 6: Got them papers.
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  Speaker 2: Now you up against the government. You ain't want the covenant,
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  Speaker 2: but now look at the one you in. Now they
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  Speaker 2: cuffing you and it don't matter if you cuffing them.
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  Speaker 2: I'ma tell you get it poppin' with a ton of
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  Speaker 2: chicks That have a problem when it ain't no fathers
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  Speaker 2: in a bunch of cribs You say I sound like
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  Speaker 2: a hater but what's funny is If I'm a hater
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  Speaker 2: what I'm supposed to tell you if I love you
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  Speaker 2: then I just wanna see you go I just wanna
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  Speaker 2: see you grow Wanna see you hit your goals But
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  Speaker 2: if you never knew love before I can see how
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  Speaker 2: you be thinkin' I be hatin' on the low If
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  Speaker 2: they never knew love, they can hate you on the low.
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  Speaker 2: on the low what if what you call love's really
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  Speaker 2: hating on the low uh i could have told you
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  Speaker 2: let that chopper loose man that's his fault he should
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  Speaker 2: be watching who he talking to gassing you to mash
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  Speaker 2: him like that's how you let him talk to you
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  Speaker 2: then sat up in my mansion with the fan while
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  Speaker 2: they was locking you ain't nobody locked with you squad
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  Speaker 2: that you was on don't keep a dollar on the
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  Speaker 2: phone so you can't even put no holler through swear
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  Speaker 2: to god they rock with you Same kind of dudes
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  Speaker 2: that made you feel soft and keeping your cool like
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  Speaker 2: you ought to do a lot of dudes will try
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  Speaker 2: to put a devil out of you i promise you
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  Speaker 2: i'm just trying to speak to the god in you
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  Speaker 2: and they gonna tell you i'm a hater but what's
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  Speaker 2: funny is if i'm a hater what i'm supposed to
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  Speaker 2: tell you if i love.
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  Speaker 6: You then I just want to see you go. I
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  Speaker 6: just want to see you grow. I want to see
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  Speaker 6: you hit your goals.
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  Speaker 2: But if you never knew love before, I can see
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  Speaker 2: how you be thinking I be hating on the low.
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  Speaker 2: On the low. If they never knew love, they can
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  Speaker 2: hate you on the low. On the low.
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  Speaker 6: On the low. What if what you call love's really
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  Speaker 6: hatin' on the low?
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I could've told you you was broke. Cotton to please.
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  Speaker 6: Know if you ain't rockin' knees, you a joke. Rockin' knees.
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  Speaker 6: Only language I can speak is you slow. Follow me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm what you should try to be. You should go.
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  Speaker 2: Get your hands on the brick. Weather weed or some coke.
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  Speaker 6: White or green. They can either hit the trees or
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  Speaker 6: the slopes. Yeah. Or for the love of money in
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  Speaker 6: the green. Sell them both.
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  Speaker 2: And while you in the mood to sell, sell your
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  Speaker 2: dreams and your hopes.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: What if I just wanna see people grow And I
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  Speaker 2: believe if you ain't planted in Jesus you won't And
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  Speaker 2: if that makes me a hater, what's funny is I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what I'm supposed to tell you if I
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  Speaker 2: love you then I just wanna see you go I
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  Speaker 2: just wanna see you grow, wanna see you hit your
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  Speaker 2: goals But if you never knew love before I could
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  Speaker 2: see how you be thinking I be hating on the
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  Speaker 2: low On the low, if they never knew love, they
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  Speaker 2: can hate you.
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  Speaker 6: On the low.
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  Speaker 2: On the low, what if what you call love's really
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  Speaker 2: hating on the low?
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to the light of Las Vegas. This
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  Speaker 5: All right. All right. We are back from the break. Hey,
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  Speaker 5: chillin' alone. That is our brother Bizzle. on our music
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  Speaker 5: break today. One of the generals in this genre, Bizzle
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  Speaker 5: has been out multiple times to club his hot laws
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  Speaker 5: of Vegas when the club was operational. Love to see
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  Speaker 5: our brothers staying faithful to the call. Amen. Want to
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  Speaker 5: give a huge shout out to the live chat and
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  Speaker 5: to our community partners. our online community that we are building.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: We are holding each other accountable. We're praying for each other.
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  Speaker 5: We are sharing the scriptures and the word, our Trivia
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  Speaker 5: Champ challenges and all that. So we have two. We
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  Speaker 5: have a live chat that we log into. We log
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  Speaker 5: each other as the podcast is going. And then we
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  Speaker 5: go to the community page so that we can do
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  Speaker 5: our contest, our trivia challenges, and so that we can
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  Speaker 5: every day at 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. Amen. All right,
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  Speaker 5: now it's time for the accountability partner. So we give
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  Speaker 5: you a daily challenge in today's challenge. Call your partner, text, email,
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  Speaker 5: however you communicate and ask them. When I become discouraged,
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: what do you notice about me that I may not
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: recognize in myself? Once again, when I become discouraged, what
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: do you recognize or notice about me? But I do
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  Speaker 5: not recognize within myself and then let them answer honestly.
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  Speaker 5: Don't interrupt the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Just listen. Let them talk. It could be your wife.
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  Speaker 5: It could be your child.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 5: It's good for us to allow ourselves to be held accountable.
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  Speaker 5: Do not defend yourself. Just listen. Then ask, what can
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  Speaker 5: you do to help me stay focused when I'm discouraged? Now,
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: that is what accountability is supposed to do. Not just
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: celebrate your victories, but help you survive when you're going
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  Speaker 5: through your most difficult seasons. Amen. We are supposed to
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: help each other get through these difficult times. Alright, now
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  Speaker 5: I want to remind you that His Hot Radio is
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  Speaker 5: Get registered if you need to. because it's time for
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  Speaker 5: our trivia challenge. So today's challenge is in verse 11,
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: what specific description does Jeremiah use for the Lord? And
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: in verse 13, what does Jeremiah tell the people to do?
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  Speaker 5: Because the Lord has delivered the soul of the poor
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  Speaker 5: from the evil doers. Let me read that again. In
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  Speaker 5: verse 11, what specific description does Jeremiah use for the Lord?
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  Speaker 5: And in verse 13, what does Jeremiah tell the people
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  Speaker 5: to do? Because the Lord has delivered the soul of
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  Speaker 5: the poor from the evil doers. The first one to
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  Speaker 5: answer will be trivia champion for today also I want
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  Speaker 5: to give a huge community shout out if you have
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  Speaker 5: an event or if you have an outreach or something
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: like that going on let us know we would love
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  Speaker 5: to announce it here in the radio we are a
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  Speaker 5: community radio station we just had a great event at
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  Speaker 5: the resort world We have another event coming up at Doolittle.
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  Speaker 5: I still need to put the fire out. I have
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  Speaker 5: to do that today. I said that last episode, but
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  Speaker 5: I definitely got to do it today because I want
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  Speaker 5: y'all to come out. If y'all want to minister zone three,
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  Speaker 5: if you are available, this would be a great shot.
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  Speaker 5: We could do is going to be outside. There's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of momentum build up for this event. So check
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  Speaker 5: out our calendar after this podcast. It should be up.
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  Speaker 5: It should be up. I need to put it out there.
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  Speaker 5: Start putting it on social media. Let the community know
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  Speaker 5: that we are coming. And also, if you want to
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  Speaker 5: on the top left menu. Click on events and then
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  Speaker 5: you can click on event recap and you can just
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  Speaker 5: of the highlights of the events that we've already done.
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  Speaker 5: All right, beloved. At this point, I want to let
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• 38:47
  Speaker 5: should I say a light club, a Christian hip hop club.
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  Speaker 5: We poured into our community. We saw people saved, healed,
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  Speaker 5: delivered and set free. And so we're looking to reopen
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  Speaker 5: We have a monthly raffle that we do. 50-50 raffle.
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  Speaker 5: You can buy your raffle ticket on the app or website.
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  Speaker 5: let us know. So with that, beloved, let's close out.
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  Speaker 5: I have some remarks. Right, Jeremiah says, the Lord is
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  Speaker 5: with me. Then he praises God. Then he says, cursed
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  Speaker 5: be the day when I was born. That is being
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  Speaker 5: completely human, right? That's a lot of emotion in just
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  Speaker 5: a few verses right there. But that's what makes this
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  Speaker 5: passage so relatable. Sometimes our faith And frustration exists at
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  Speaker 5: the same time, right? The kid occupies space in the
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  Speaker 5: same heart, but you can know God is with you
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  Speaker 5: and still have a hard day. Man, I can completely
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  Speaker 5: relate to this brother. You can praise God and still
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: be hurting. You can trust him and still have questions,
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  Speaker 5: but The key is not pretending that everything is OK.
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  Speaker 5: The key is taking your pain to God instead of
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  Speaker 5: allowing your pain to take you away from God. Amen.
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  Speaker 5: That's a T-shirt right there. Take your pain to God
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  Speaker 5: and not allow your pain to take you away from God. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: Jeremiah was hurting, but he kept talking to God. And
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  Speaker 5: that's what I want us to do. If you're discouraged,
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  Speaker 5: talk to God. If you're angry, talk to God. If
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: you are confused, talk to God. If you're tired, talk
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: to God. Do not isolate yourself. Don't make permitted decisions
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  Speaker 5: based on temporary emotions. And don't assume that because the
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  Speaker 5: road is difficult, God isn't with you. Sometimes the greatest
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: evidence of faith isn't that you never struggle. Sometimes is
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: that you keep coming back to God in the middle
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: of the struggle. So keep going, praying, trusting. And remember
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  Speaker 5: Jeremiah's declaration, the Lord is with me. Hallelujah. Remember, it's
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  Speaker 5: not about us. It's all about the Christ in us.
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  Speaker 5: God bless.
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  Speaker 6: You are listening to.
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  Speaker 3: The Light of Las Vegas. This is the HizHop Radio Show.