(MUSIC)
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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS.
WELCOME, AGAIN, TO SABBATH
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SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. A
VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO OUR
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FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE
COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD -
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OUR EXTENDED
SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS, TODAY.
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ALSO A WARM WELCOME TO THE
MEMBERS HERE OF THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH AND THOSE WHO ARE
VISITING ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
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AND I UNDERSTAND WE EVEN HAVE
SOME INTERNATIONAL VISITORS HERE
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THIS MORNING SO A VERY
WARM WELCOME TO ALL OF YOU.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE STUDYING
OUR LESSON QUARTERLY - IT'S A
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BRAND-NEW ONE DEALING WITH THE
BOOK OF JEREMIAH. SO FOR THOSE
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OF YOU HERE IN THE AUDIENCE,
YOU CAN OPEN UP YOUR LESSON
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QUARTERLY TO LESSON #1 ENTITLED
THE PROPHETIC CALL OF JEREMIAH .
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AGAIN, THAT
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ASK FOR THE BOOK CALLED
THE TWO WITNESSES . AND FOR OUR
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THE BOOK, AGAIN, IS
CALLED THE TWO WITNESSES .
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WELL, AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO
INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO COME
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OUT AND THEY WILL LEAD US AS WE
LIFT OUR VOICES IN PRAISE BEFORE
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WE GET TO OUR STUDY.
>>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS, AND
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HELLO TO THOSE OF YOU WHO
ARE JOINING US AROUND THE WORLD.
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WE'RE KIND OF KEEPING IN THEME
WITH OUR NEW QUARTERLY AND WE'RE
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GOING TO SING #568 - MAKE
ME A CAPTIVE, LORD - THIS IS A
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BEAUTIFUL SONG; NOT ONE THAT
WE TYPICALLY SING ALL THE TIME.
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WE'RE GOING TO DO ALL THREE
STANZAS. #568 - JOIN WITH US.
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(MUSIC)
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>>MAKE ME A CAPTIVE,
LORD, AND THEN I SHALL BE FREE;
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FORCE ME TO RENDER UP MY
SWORD, AND I SHALL CONQUEROR BE.
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I SINK IN LIFE'S ALARMS WHEN
BY MYSELF I STAND; IMPRISON ME
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WITHIN THINE ARMS, AND
STRONG SHALL BE MY HAND.
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MY HEART IS WEAK AND POOR TIL IT
A MASTER FIND; IT HAS NO SPRING
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OF ACTION SURE; IT
VARIES WITH THE WIND.
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IT CANNOT FREELY MOVE TIL THOU
HAS WROUGHT ITS CHAIN; ENSLAVE
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IT WITH THY MATCHLESS LOVE,
AND DEATHLESS IT SHALL REIGN.
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MY WILL IS NOT MY OWN TIL THOU
HAST MADE IT THINE; IF IT WOULD
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REACH A MONARCH'S THRONE IT MUST
ITS CROWN RESIGN; IT ONLY STANDS
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UNBENT, AMID THE CLASHING
STRIFE, WHEN ON THY BOSOM IT HAS
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LEANT AND FOUND
IN THEE ITS LIFE.
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>>WE HAVE A SPECIAL SURPRISE
FOR YOU AND ECHOES OF MERCY ARE
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JOINING US TODAY. ECHOES
, I KNOW IS NOT UNFAMILIAR
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TO MANY OF YOU. THEY
ARE OUR WONDERFUL FRIENDS
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FROM A PLACE VERY NEAR AND DEAR
TO MY HEART, SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
AND THEY HAVE BEEN BLESSING MANY
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PEOPLE WITH THEIR
BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL MUSIC.
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AND SO, TODAY, THEY'RE GOING
TO BE SINGING FOR US A BEAUTIFUL
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SONG THAT WE ALREADY HEARD
THEM REHEARSE, CALLED HOLY .
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SO WELCOME ECHOES
OF MERCY . (MUSIC)
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>>HOLY, HOLY, HOLY,
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY
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LORD HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY,
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD
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HOLY LORD OF POWER, HOLY LORD
OF MIGHT HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE
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FULL OF YOUR
GLORY. HOLY, HOLY, HOLY,
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HOLY, HOLY, HOLY,
HOLY, HOLY, LORD, HOLY LORD.
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>>AMEN, THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
WELL, AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO
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INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS
AS WE ASK GOD'S SPECIAL BLESSING
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UPON OUR STUDY TOGETHER.
DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE
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AGAIN WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE
OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER TOGETHER
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ON THIS, YOUR
SABBATH, TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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AND AS WE BEGIN OUR NEW STUDY IN
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH, WE ASK IN
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A SPECIAL WAY FOR YOUR HOLY
SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE OUR
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HEARTS, OUR MINDS, AND LEAD US,
LORD, INTO A DEEPER AND FULLER
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UNDERSTANDING OF THIS VERY
IMPORTANT MESSAGE CONTAINED IN
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THIS BOOK. FOR WE ASK
THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO INVITE
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, WHO WILL
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BE LEADING US IN OUR STUDY
TODAY. THANK YOU, PASTOR DOUG.
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>>AND THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS.
AND THANK YOU FOR THAT BEAUTIFUL
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MUSIC. WE APPRECIATE THAT.
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MORNING EVERYONE. >>MORNING.
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>>WE'RE GOING TO START THE STUDY
OF A NEW QUARTER'S LESSON AND I
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WANT TO WELCOME THOSE WHO
ARE PART OF THE CLASS THAT ARE
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WATCHING FROM HITHER
AND YON AROUND THE PLANET.
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IF YOU'RE VISITING, WE ARE
STUDYING THE FIRST LESSON IN THE
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NEW QUARTERLY DEALING
WITH THE SUBJECT OF JEREMIAH.
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AND I'M VERY
EXCITED ABOUT THIS LESSON.
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YOU KNOW, PERIODICALLY, SOMEONE
WILL COME UP TO ME AND THEY'LL
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ASK IF I WILL SIGN
OR AUTOGRAPH A BOOK.
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AND THEY SAY, CAN YOU
PUT IN YOUR FAVORITE TEXT?
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AND MY FAVORITE TEXT
COMES FROM THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH.
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IT'S, IN PARTICULAR, JEREMIAH
29:13, WHICH IS "YOU WILL SEEK
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ME AND FIND ME, WHEN YOU SEARCH
FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART."
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AND SOMETIMES I'LL ACTUALLY
INCLUDE VERSES 11 THROUGH 13.
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THERE ARE MANY BEAUTIFUL
PROMISES IN THE BOOK OF
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JEREMIAH. ANOTHER
GREAT ONE YOU CAN FIND
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IN JEREMIAH 9:23 AND IT SAYS,
"THUS SAYS THE LORD: 'LET NOT
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THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS
WISDOM, LET NOT THE MIGHTY MAN
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GLORY IN HIS MIGHT, NOR LET THE
RICH MAN GLORY IN HIS RICHES;
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BUT LET HIM WHO GLORIES GLORY
IN THIS, THAT HE UNDERSTANDS AND
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KNOWS ME, THAT I AM THE
LORD, EXERCISING LOVINGKINDESS,
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JUDGMENT, AND
RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE EARTH.
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FOR IN THESE I
DELIGHT,' SAYS THE LORD."
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THAT WAS REALLY THE MESSAGE
OF JESUS: 'THIS IS ETERNAL LIFE,
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THAT YOU MIGHT KNOW ME.' NOW
I SAY THAT BECAUSE, WHEN SOME
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PEOPLE TALK ABOUT JEREMIAH HE'S
REFERRED TO AS 'THE CRYING' OR
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'THE WAILING' PROPHET BECAUSE SO
MUCH OF HIS MINISTRY HE WAS IN
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MOURNING ABOUT THE CONDITION
- THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF
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ISRAEL, WHICH
WAS VERY DIFFICULT.
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HE LIVED THROUGH ONE OF THE MOST
DEVASTATING DESTRUCTIONS THAT
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TOOK PLACE IN
THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
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NOW THE NAME JEREMIAH MEANS 'THE
LORD; EXALTATION OF THE LORD' -
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WHEN YOU SAY 'AH' - LIKE
JEREMI-AH - 'AH' IN THE BIBLE -
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ELIJ-AH - USUALLY IS A
DERIVATIVE OF THE NAME YAHWEH
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AND SO THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS.
THE NAME OF HIS BOOK, IN THE
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LATIN VULGATE OF THE BIBLE, IT'S
CALLED THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH
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. IN THE SYRIAC - OR
ARABIC VERSIONS, IT'S CALLED THE
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PROPHECY OF THE
PROPHET JEREMIAH .
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HE WAS BORN - WE'RE JUST GIVING
YOU SOME BACKGROUND HERE -
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JEREMIAH WAS BORN ABOUT 643 B.C.
AND THE BIBLE'S A LITTLE VAGUE
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ABOUT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH, BUT
AS NEAR AS WE CAN TELL HE BEGAN
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TO PROPHESY IN THE THIRTEENTH
YEAR OF JOSIAH'S REIGN, OR ABOUT
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627 B.C. HE WAS
STILL WHAT - BIBLICALLY
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THEY CALLED IT A YOUNG MAN,
IF YOU STARTED BEFORE YOU WERE
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THIRTY. HE BEGAN
TO PROPHESY IN THE
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THIRTEENTH YEAR
OF JOSIAH'S REIGN.
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THE DURATION OF HIS PROPHECY WAS
PROBABLY MORE THAN FORTY YEARS.
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HE PROPHESIED DURING THE REIGN
OF THE SPAN OF KINGS JOSIAH,
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JEHOAHAZ, JEHOIACHIM,
JEHOIACHIN, AND ZEDEKIAH.
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AND THEN, OF COURSE, DURING SOME
OF THE CAPTIVITY OF THE TIME OF
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR. HIS LIFE
OVERLAPS THE LIFE OF DANIEL.
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DANIEL WAS A YOUNG MAN DURING
THE TIME WHEN JEREMIAH WAS
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PROPHECY - PROPHESYING - AND
HIS LIFE OVERLAPS THE LIFE OF
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EZEKIEL. WE DO
NOT KNOW EXACTLY HOW
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JEREMIAH DIED OR
EXACTLY WHAT THE AGE WAS.
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AFTER HE GOES OFF INTO
EGYPT NEAR THE END OF HIS LIFE,
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THERE'S NO FINAL
RECKONING OR ACCOUNT.
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ALL WE HAVE IS SPECULATION
ABOUT WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED.
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ALMOST NOBODY QUESTIONS WHETHER
JEREMIAH IS THE AUTHOR OF THE
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BOOK JEREMIAH. SOME
PEOPLE QUESTION WHETHER HE
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WROTE THE VERY LAST VERSES.
MATTER OF FACT, I MIGHT GO THERE
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REAL QUICK. IF YOU
HAVE YOUR BIBLES, TURN TO
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THE BOOK OF
JEREMIAH. GO TO CHAPTER 52.
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JEREMIAH IS ONE OF THE
FOUR MAJOR PROPHETS IN THE OLD
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TESTAMENT, THAT BEING ISAIAH,
JEREMIAH, EZEKIEL, AND DANIEL.
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NOW SOME HAVE ARGUED THAT DANIEL
SHOULD BE LISTED AMONG THE MINOR
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PROPHETS BECAUSE DANIEL'S GOT
TWELVE CHAPTERS AND ZECHARIAH'S
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GOT FOURTEEN CHAPTERS, BUT
DANIEL'S CHAPTERS ARE LONGER.
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DANIEL IS PROBABLY
ONE OF THE MAJOR PROPHETS.
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THERE ARE TWELVE MINOR PROPHETS.
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JEREMIAH IS UNIQUE AMONG
THE MAJOR PROPHETS OF THE OLD
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TESTAMENT BECAUSE
HE WROTE TWO BOOKS.
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HE WROTE JEREMIAH AND
THEN HE ALSO WROTE THE BOOK OF
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LAMENTATIONS. BUT
IF YOU GO TO JEREMIAH
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CHAPTER 52, THERE'S
SOMETHING INTERESTING HERE.
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YOU CAN READ IN VERSE 31,
"AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE
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THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF THE
CAPTIVITY OF JEHOIACHIN KING OF
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JUDAH, IN THE TWELFTH MONTH,
ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF THE
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MONTH, THAT EVIL-MERODACH
KING OF BABYLON," - NOW THIS IS
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THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS
AFTER JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED.
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JEREMIAH WOULD HAVE BEEN
NINETY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE AT THIS
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POINT, IF HE WROTE
THIS PART OF THE BOOK.
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BUT THIS PART OF JEREMIAH ALSO
APPEARS IN 2 KINGS, ALMOST WORD
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FOR WORD, AND MANY HAVE BELIEVED
THAT IT'S REALLY AN APPENDIX -
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AN EPILOGUE THAT THEY TOOK TO
JUST SHOW THE FULFILLMENT OF ONE
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OF JEREMIAH'S FINAL
PROPHECIES AFTER THE DEATH OF
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND
IT'S PUT THERE FOR EXAMPLE.
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WHO WROTE THE
BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY?
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>>MOSES. >>MOSES.
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DID MOSES WRITE THE PART OF
THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY WHERE IT
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SAYS, 'AND THE LORD BURIED MOSES
AND THERE WAS NO PROPHET LIKE
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MOSES'? >>NO.
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>>OR PROBABLY JOSHUA OR SOMEBODY
WROTE THAT LITTLE EPILOGUE AT
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THE END, RIGHT? AND SO
HE WROTE THE ENTIRE BOOK
00:15:26.12\00:15:28.66
- JEREMIAH WROTE ALL OF
JEREMIAH, BUT HE MAY NOT HAVE
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WRITTEN, OF COURSE,
THIS - FROM VERSE 31 ON.
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LIKE I SAID, HE WOULD
HAVE BEEN NINETY-FIVE.
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HE WAS IN EGYPT AND SO IT WAS
JUST NOT LIKELY, BUT ALMOST NO
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SCHOLAR QUESTIONS
THAT HE'S THE AUTHOR.
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MATTER OF FACT, IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT, OTHER OLD TESTAMENT
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WRITERS REFER TO
JEREMIAH AS A PROPHET.
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IN THE NEW TESTAMENT,
JESUS CALLS HIM 'THE PROPHET
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JEREMIAH.' WELL, THAT WOULD BE
A PRETTY GOOD ENDORSEMENT, DON'T
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YOU THINK? AS WELL
AS THE OTHER APOSTLES,
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IN THEIR WRITINGS, THEY
REFERENCED THE WRITINGS OF
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JEREMIAH AND SO JEREMIAH IS ONE
OF THE BEST ENDORSED PROPHETS OF
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SCRIPTURE. ONE
REASON IS HE LIVED TO SEE
00:16:06.63\00:16:10.10
MANY OF HIS
PROPHECIES COME TRUE.
00:16:10.13\00:16:13.03
THEY OVERLAP WITH HISTORICAL
EVENTS THAT WE CAN PROVE AND WE
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KNOW FROM THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
THAT THE THINGS THAT JEREMIAH
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WROTE WERE WRITTEN BEFORE THEY
HAPPENED AND THEN YOU CAN LIVE
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TO SEE THE FULFILLMENT OF THOSE
THINGS. AND SO, GREAT PROPHET
00:16:24.91\00:16:28.75
OF THE BIBLE.
SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING ABOUT
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JEREMIAH IS THAT HE
ENDS HIS LIFE IN EGYPT.
00:16:31.42\00:16:36.76
HE SORT OF IS THE REVERSE
OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE EXODUS.
00:16:36.79\00:16:39.39
BECAUSE THEY TURNED TO THE LORD,
THERE WAS THIS GREAT EXODUS.
00:16:39.43\00:16:42.90
THEY WERE BROUGHT FROM THE
SLAVERY INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:16:42.93\00:16:45.27
JEREMIAH LIVED DURING A TIME
WHEN THEY TURNED FROM THE LORD.
00:16:45.30\00:16:47.90
THEY'RE CONQUERED AND THEN THE
REMNANT GOES BACK TO EGYPT - THE
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VERY PLACE GOD
TOLD THEM NOT TO GO.
00:16:52.57\00:16:55.28
AND SO, IT'S JUST A VERY
INTERESTING - AND THE OTHER
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THING IS JEREMIAH WAS PROBABLY
ONE OF ONLY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE
00:16:59.48\00:17:04.82
THAT TOOK TO THE GRAVE THE
SECRET OF WHERE THE ARK OF THE
00:17:04.85\00:17:09.32
COVENANT WAS HIDDEN.
NOW EVERYBODY SAYS THEY KNOW
00:17:09.36\00:17:12.73
WHERE THE ARK IS, BUT YOU -
NOBODY'S PRODUCED IT, RIGHT?
00:17:12.76\00:17:16.06
THE ARK IS
PROBABLY STILL HIDDEN.
00:17:16.10\00:17:18.10
JEREMIAH, KNOWING THAT JERUSALEM
AND THE TEMPLE WERE GOING TO BE
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DESTROYED - YOU CAN READ ABOUT
THIS IN THE BOOK PROPHETS AND
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KINGS - HE AND SOME OF THE
FAITHFUL PRIESTS HID THE ARK IN
00:17:24.54\00:17:28.14
ONE OF THE MANY CAVES THAT
HONEYCOMB THE CITY OF JERUSALEM.
00:17:28.18\00:17:32.01
THE ARK WAS A BIG GOLDEN BOX.
THEY COULDN'T TAKE IT VERY FAR.
00:17:32.05\00:17:34.68
JERUSALEM WAS SURROUNDED BY
NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HIS ARMY AND
00:17:34.72\00:17:37.72
THEY DIDN'T WANT THEIR MOST
SACRED OBJECTS - NOT THE ARK,
00:17:37.75\00:17:42.99
BUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS INSIDE
- TO FALL INTO ENEMY HANDS OR BE
00:17:43.02\00:17:45.76
DESTROYED. IT HAD
FALLEN INTO ENEMY HANDS
00:17:45.79\00:17:48.03
ONCE DURING THE TIME OF SAMUEL
WHEN THE PHILISTINES CAPTURED
00:17:48.06\00:17:50.67
THE ARK. THEY WERE
NOT GOING TO LET THAT
00:17:50.70\00:17:52.70
HAPPEN AGAIN AND
SO IT WAS HIDDEN.
00:17:52.73\00:17:55.07
AND THEY SOMEHOW COVERED - HID -
SEALED THE CAVE - THE TOMB WHERE
00:17:55.10\00:17:59.41
THEY PUT IT AND IT
HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND.
00:17:59.44\00:18:03.45
THERE COULD BE ONE REASON THAT
GEDELIAH AND THE OTHERS, WHEN
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THEY TOOK JEREMIAH, THEY ALMOST
TOOK HIM FORCIBLY TO EGYPT.
00:18:07.78\00:18:10.25
HE DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO GO -
IT COULD BE BECAUSE THEY KNEW HE
00:18:10.29\00:18:14.02
WAS ONE OF THE ONLY LIVING
PEOPLE THAT STILL HELD THIS
00:18:14.06\00:18:16.02
SECRET. TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, THAT
SECRET HAS NEVER BEEN WRITTEN
00:18:16.06\00:18:19.43
ANYWHERE OR IF - THE MAP HAS NOT
BEEN FOUND AND THE ARK IS STILL
00:18:19.46\00:18:22.70
HIDDEN. BUT
JEREMIAH LIKELY KNEW WHERE
00:18:22.73\00:18:24.97
THE ARK OF THE
COVENANT WAS HIDDEN.
00:18:25.00\00:18:28.17
HE SOMETIMES IS REFERRED TO
AS 'THE CRYING PROPHET' - 'THE
00:18:28.20\00:18:32.64
LAMENTING PROPHET' BECAUSE
HE - WELL, HE WROTE THE BOOK OF
00:18:32.67\00:18:36.61
LAMENTATIONS, BUT HE LIVED
DURING A TIME OF GREAT APOSTASY
00:18:36.64\00:18:39.71
BUT, IN SPITE OF THAT,
HIS BOOK IS ALSO FILLED WITH
00:18:39.75\00:18:42.95
ENCOURAGEMENT AND HOPE. A
LOT OF VERY POSITIVE THINGS
00:18:42.98\00:18:46.35
HAPPENED DURING HIS TIME.
SOME OF THE GREAT PROMISES IN
00:18:46.39\00:18:49.39
THE BIBLE ARE IN
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH.
00:18:49.42\00:18:51.93
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
SOME OF THE PROPHECIES AND WE'LL
00:18:51.96\00:18:54.83
GET TO JEREMIAH
1 IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:18:54.83\00:18:56.63
JEREMIAH 7, VERSE 5, "FOR IF YOU
THOROUGHLY AMEND YOUR WAYS AND
00:18:56.67\00:19:02.64
YOUR DOINGS, IF YOU THOROUGHLY
EXECUTE JUDGMENT BETWEEN A MAN
00:19:02.67\00:19:06.98
AND HIS NEIGHBOR, IF YOU DO
NOT OPPRESS THE STRANGER, THE
00:19:07.01\00:19:10.85
FATHERLESS, AND THE WIDOW, AND
DO NOT SHED INNOCENT BLOOD IN
00:19:10.88\00:19:14.48
THIS PLACE, OR WALK AFTER OTHER
GODS TO YOUR HURT, THEN I WILL
00:19:14.52\00:19:18.12
CAUSE YOU TO DWELL IN THIS
PLACE, IN THE LAND THAT I GAVE
00:19:18.15\00:19:22.12
TO YOUR FATHERS FOREVER AND
EVER." YOU'LL SEE - AND THIS IS
00:19:22.16\00:19:25.96
UNDER THE HEADING OF THE
PROPHETS - THAT THE PROPHETS HAD
00:19:25.99\00:19:29.56
A MESSAGE AND THEIR MESSAGE
WAS USUALLY ONE OF REVIVAL.
00:19:29.60\00:19:32.47
I REMEMBER PASTOR JOE CREWS WHO,
OF COURSE, WAS THE FOUNDER OF
00:19:32.50\00:19:36.60
AMAZING FACTS - HE SAID THAT ANY
GOOD SERMON SHOULD SAY SOMETHING
00:19:36.64\00:19:39.94
ABOUT SIN AND SALVATION BECAUSE
THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE IS
00:19:39.97\00:19:43.78
THERE'S A PROBLEM
BUT GOD HAS THE ANSWER.
00:19:43.81\00:19:47.12
EVERY DAY IN OUR LIVES WE
DEAL WITH TEMPTATION, STRUGGLE,
00:19:47.15\00:19:52.45
VICTORY - THE STORY OF THE
GOSPEL IS THE STORY OF SIN AND
00:19:52.49\00:19:56.16
SALVATION AND THE MESSAGE OF THE
PROPHETS WAS 'GOD HAS A LAW BUT
00:19:56.19\00:19:59.33
WE'VE BROKEN HIS LAW, BUT IF YOU
TURN AND REPENT, THROUGH GOD'S
00:19:59.36\00:20:02.26
POWER, OF YOUR SINS, TURN TO
GOD, RECEIVE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS,
00:20:02.30\00:20:06.50
YOU WILL BE BLESSED. IF
YOU REBEL, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:20:06.53\00:20:09.50
HAVE PROBLEMS,' WHICH IS
PROBABLY A GOOD PLACE TO READ
00:20:09.54\00:20:12.57
EZEKIEL 18:23 -
WE'LL DO THAT NOW.
00:20:12.61\00:20:16.11
>>"'DO I HAVE ANY PLEASURE AT
ALL THAT THE WICKED SHOULD DIE?'
00:20:16.14\00:20:19.45
SAYS THE LORD GOD, 'AND NOT THAT
HE SHOULD TURN FROM HIS WAYS AND
00:20:19.48\00:20:22.92
LIVE?'" >>YES,
AND THEN, OF COURSE,
00:20:22.95\00:20:25.69
HE GOES ON AND SAYS, 'TURN
YE, TURN YE, WHY WILL YOU DIE?'
00:20:25.72\00:20:28.46
SO THE MESSAGE OF THE PROPHETS,
THOUGH SOMETIMES STRONG, WAS A
00:20:28.49\00:20:31.96
MESSAGE OF MERCY. IF
YOU'RE WARNING A PERSON TO
00:20:31.99\00:20:36.46
AVOID A ROAD WHERE THE BRIDGE IS
OUT ON A RAINY NIGHT, YOU MIGHT
00:20:36.50\00:20:40.64
BE ACCUSED OF BEING NEGATIVE,
BUT YOU'RE DOING IT TO SAVE
00:20:40.67\00:20:45.07
THEIR LIVES. AND SO,
THE PROPHETS WERE OFTEN
00:20:45.11\00:20:47.94
GIVEN MESSAGES OF WARNING
AND SOMETIMES AT GREAT RISK.
00:20:47.98\00:20:52.78
I'LL, FOR INSTANCE, READ ISAIAH
1 - ANOTHER ONE OF THE MAJOR
00:20:52.81\00:20:56.05
PROPHETS - NOW WE'RE READING
EZEKIEL, A MAJOR PROPHET;
00:20:56.08\00:20:58.32
JEREMIAH, A MAJOR PROPHET;
ISAIAH, MAJOR PROPHET - HE SAYS
00:20:58.35\00:21:01.59
IN ISAIAH 1:19, "'IF YOU ARE
WILLING AND OBEDIENT, YOU SHALL
00:21:01.62\00:21:06.09
EAT THE GOOD OF THE LAND; BUT IF
YOU REFUSE AND REBEL, YOU SHALL
00:21:06.13\00:21:10.47
BE DEVOURED BY THE SWORD';
FOR THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HAS
00:21:10.50\00:21:14.10
SPOKEN." NOT ONLY
DOES JEREMIAH FORETELL
00:21:14.14\00:21:17.07
THE GREAT JUDGMENT WHEN THE CITY
WOULD BE DESTROYED, JERUSALEM
00:21:17.11\00:21:22.08
WOULD BE BURNT, THE GREATEST
TEMPLE THAT'S EVER BEEN BUILT -
00:21:22.11\00:21:25.28
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON - WOULD BE
DESTROYED, BUT HE ALSO TOLD THEM
00:21:25.31\00:21:30.62
IF THEY TURNED, THEY'D LIVE.
ISAIAH ALSO PROPHESIED THAT.
00:21:30.65\00:21:34.19
IT SAYS, 'IF YOU REFUSE
AND REBEL. YOU'LL BE DEVOURED.
00:21:34.22\00:21:37.06
IF YOU'RE WILLING, YOU'LL EAT
THE GOOD OF THE LAND.' THIS WAS
00:21:37.09\00:21:40.10
THE MESSAGE OF JEREMIAH.
HE SAID, 'YOU'LL DWELL IN THE
00:21:40.13\00:21:42.90
LAND FOREVER AND EVER IF YOU
REPENT.' NOW, WAS THAT JUST THE
00:21:42.93\00:21:45.53
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DWELLING IN
THE PROMISED LAND, OR DOES THAT
00:21:45.57\00:21:49.27
MESSAGE APPLY TO
CHRISTIANS IN OUR DAY?
00:21:49.30\00:21:52.41
IS THERE A LAND
THAT WE WANT TO DWELL IN?
00:21:52.44\00:21:55.24
YEAH, IT'S THE PROMISED LAND
STILL AND WE WANT TO DWELL IN
00:21:55.28\00:22:00.15
THAT LAND. AND SO, THESE
MESSAGES APPLY TO US TODAY.
00:22:00.18\00:22:02.68
IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
ETERNAL BLESSING THAT GOD HAS.
00:22:02.72\00:22:05.39
YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE,
IN MATTHEW - NOW THIS IS ANOTHER
00:22:05.42\00:22:08.46
PROPHET. WAS JOHN
THE BAPTIST A PROPHET?
00:22:08.49\00:22:10.99
MATTHEW CHAPTER 3, VERSE 7,
"BUT WHEN HE SAW MANY OF THE
00:22:11.03\00:22:15.90
PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES COMING
TO HIS BAPTISM, HE SAID TO THEM,
00:22:15.93\00:22:19.83
'BROOD OF VIPERS! WHO WARNED YOU
TO FLEE FROM THE WRATH TO COME?
00:22:19.87\00:22:23.91
THEREFORE BEAR FRUITS WORTHY OF
REPENTANCE, AND DO NOT THINK TO
00:22:23.94\00:22:27.91
SAY TO YOURSELVES, 'WE HAVE
ABRAHAM AS OUR FATHER.' FOR I
00:22:27.94\00:22:31.71
SAY TO YOU THAT GOD IS ABLE
TO RAISE UP CHILDREN TO ABRAHAM
00:22:31.75\00:22:34.48
FROM THESE STONES. AND
EVEN NOW THE AX IS LAID TO
00:22:34.52\00:22:37.79
THE ROOT OF THE TREES. THEREFORE
EVERY TREE WHICH DOES NOT BEAR
00:22:37.82\00:22:41.59
GOOD FRUIT IS CUT DOWN
AND THROWN INTO THE FIRE."
00:22:41.62\00:22:44.89
I JUST WANT TO PAUSE AND REMIND
YOU OF SOMETHING: IN THE VISION
00:22:44.93\00:22:48.10
THAT DANIEL HAD ABOUT THE TREE,
THE TREE IS CUT DOWN, BUT THE
00:22:48.13\00:22:52.43
ROOT IS LEFT IN THE GROUND
SO THAT IT WOULD COME BACK.
00:22:52.47\00:22:56.07
JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS PREACHING
A MESSAGE SAYING, 'NEXT TIME
00:22:56.10\00:22:59.94
JUDGMENT COMES, THE TREE IS
GOING TO GO, ROOT AND BRANCH.'
00:23:00.04\00:23:03.68
THE NATION WOULD BE UPROOTED.
AND SO HE HAD A VERY DIFFICULT
00:23:03.71\00:23:08.38
MESSAGE TO PREACH AND IT WASN'T
POPULAR. IF IT'S NOT BEARING
00:23:08.42\00:23:12.92
THE RIGHT KIND OF FRUIT, IT IS
CUT DOWN AND THROWN IN THE FIRE.
00:23:12.95\00:23:15.52
HE GOES ON TO SAY, 'I INDEED
BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER UNTO
00:23:15.56\00:23:19.89
REPENTANCE, BUT HE WHO IS COMING
AFTER ME IS MIGHTIER THAN I,
00:23:19.93\00:23:22.86
WHOSE SANDALS I AM
NOT WORTHY TO CARRY.
00:23:22.90\00:23:25.93
HE WILL BAPTIZE YOU WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE."
00:23:25.97\00:23:28.64
WHO IS HE TALKING ABOUT? JESUS.
00:23:28.67\00:23:31.37
SO THESE MESSAGES - THESE
PROPHETS - OFTEN HAD TOUGH
00:23:31.41\00:23:34.28
MESSAGES. NOW,
WHAT HAPPENED TO ISAIAH
00:23:34.31\00:23:37.61
BECAUSE OF HIS PROPHECY?
HE WAS SAWN IN TWO BY KING
00:23:37.65\00:23:42.88
MANASSEH. WHAT
HAPPENED TO JEREMIAH
00:23:42.92\00:23:46.02
BECAUSE OF HIS
DIFFICULT PROPHECIES?
00:23:46.05\00:23:48.72
HE WAS PUT IN PRISON - MORE
THAN ONCE, PUT IN A CISTERN,
00:23:48.76\00:23:54.46
THREATENED WITH
DEATH, PERSECUTED.
00:23:54.46\00:23:58.03
WHAT HAPPENED TO
MICAIAH THE PROPHET?
00:23:58.07\00:24:01.84
WHEN HE GAVE A
DIFFICULT PROPHESY?
00:24:01.87\00:24:04.27
AHAB HAD HIM PUT IN PRISON AND
SAID, 'FEED HIM WITH THE BREAD
00:24:04.31\00:24:09.71
OF AFFLICTION AND THE WATER OF
AFFLICTION UNTIL I RETURN AGAIN
00:24:09.74\00:24:11.58
IN PEACE.' AND AHAB
NEVER DID COME BACK.
00:24:11.61\00:24:14.22
MATTER OF FACT, MICAH SAID, 'IF
YOU RETURN IN PEACE, GOD HAS NOT
00:24:14.25\00:24:17.19
SPOKEN FROM ME.' PROPHETS WERE
ASKED TO GIVE UNPOPULAR MESSAGES
00:24:17.22\00:24:22.56
AND SOMETIMES THEY PHYSICALLY
SUFFERED FOR THE MESSAGE, BUT
00:24:22.59\00:24:27.13
THEY NEEDED TO BE
BRAVE AND BOLD TO GIVE IT.
00:24:27.20\00:24:29.63
WHAT HAPPENED TO JOHN THE
BAPTIST BECAUSE OF HIS MESSAGE?
00:24:29.66\00:24:33.10
PREACHING THE TRUTH IS NOT
POPULAR AND GOD NEEDS PEOPLE WHO
00:24:33.13\00:24:38.44
WILL BE FAITHFUL TO PROCLAIM THE
TRUTH WHETHER IT'S POPULAR OR
00:24:38.47\00:24:41.48
NOT. JEREMIAH WAS
ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
00:24:41.51\00:24:44.25
LOOK AT VERSE - OR CHAPTER 11,
VERSE 2 - JEREMIAH 11, VERSE 2 -
00:24:44.28\00:24:47.92
AND MEANWHILE, SOMEBODY'S
GOING TO READ JEREMIAH 1:1.
00:24:47.95\00:24:50.69
WHO HAS THAT VERSE? OVER
HERE. WE'LL GET YOU NEXT, OKAY?
00:24:50.72\00:24:53.25
ALRIGHT, JEREMIAH 11, VERSE
2, "'HEAR THE WORDS OF THIS
00:24:53.29\00:24:57.93
COVENANT, AND SPEAK TO THE MEN
OF JUDAH AND TO THE INHABITANTS
00:24:57.96\00:25:01.20
OF JERUSALEM; AND SAY TO
THEM, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD OF
00:25:01.23\00:25:03.80
ISRAEL: 'CURSED IS THE MAN WHO
DOES NOT OBEY THE WORDS OF THIS
00:25:03.83\00:25:07.50
COVENANT WHICH I COMMANDED YOUR
FATHERS IN THE DAY I BROUGHT
00:25:07.54\00:25:10.74
THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF
EGYPT,'''" - YOU MEAN EVEN
00:25:10.77\00:25:13.68
JEREMIAH, HUNDREDS OF YEARS
AFTER THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT, IS
00:25:13.71\00:25:17.91
STILL SAYING THEY NEEDED TO
OBEY THAT COVENANT - ABOUT EIGHT
00:25:17.95\00:25:21.28
HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THEY
CAME OUT, THE COVENANT WAS STILL
00:25:21.32\00:25:23.85
THERE AND HE SAID THERE'S A
CURSE ON THOSE WHO DO NOT OBEY -
00:25:23.89\00:25:26.82
WHEN "'''...I BROUGHT THEM OUT
OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, FROM THE
00:25:26.86\00:25:30.56
IRON FURNACE, SAYING, 'OBEY MY
VOICE, AND DO ACCORDING TO ALL
00:25:30.59\00:25:33.29
THAT I COMMAND YOU; SO SHALL YOU
BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE YOUR
00:25:33.33\00:25:36.53
GOD.' THAT I MAY ESTABLISH THE
OATH WHICH I HAVE SWORN TO YOUR
00:25:36.56\00:25:39.67
FATHERS, TO GIVE THEM 'A LAND
FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY,' AS
00:25:39.70\00:25:43.07
IT IS THIS DAY.' AND I ANSWERED
AND SAID, 'SO BE IT, LORD.' THEN
00:25:43.10\00:25:47.18
THE LORD SAID TO ME, 'PROCLAIM
ALL THESE WORDS IN THE CITIES OF
00:25:47.21\00:25:51.31
JUDAH AND IN THE STREETS OF
JERUSALEM, SAYING: 'HEAR THE
00:25:51.35\00:25:54.45
WORDS OF THIS COVENANT AND
DO THEM.'" NOW, THE REASON THAT
00:25:54.48\00:25:58.02
JEREMIAH - HIS PROPHECY IS
FOCUSING ON JERUSALEM AND JUDAH,
00:25:58.05\00:26:02.16
IS BECAUSE JEREMIAH LIVED
WHEN IT WAS STILL FRESH IN THEIR
00:26:02.19\00:26:05.79
MEMORIES THAT THE TEN TRIBES
HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY BECAUSE OF
00:26:05.83\00:26:09.00
THEIR DISOBEDIENCE. AND
SO, ALL YOU'VE GOT LEFT NOW
00:26:09.03\00:26:12.13
ARE THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH -
THE PRIESTS - AND BENJAMIN.
00:26:12.17\00:26:16.47
AND SO, THE MESSAGE OF JEREMIAH
WAS PRINCIPALLY TO WHAT WE WOULD
00:26:16.50\00:26:19.67
CALL THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM,
BECAUSE THE NORTHERN KINGDOM,
00:26:19.71\00:26:22.78
BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE
AND IDOLATRY, HAD BEEN CARRIED
00:26:22.81\00:26:25.48
OFF BY THE ASSYRIANS.
ALRIGHT, AND SO SOMETIMES THESE
00:26:25.51\00:26:29.62
MESSAGES OF PROPHETS WERE
DIFFICULT, BUT YOU FIND ALL OF
00:26:29.65\00:26:32.75
THEM ARE TALKING ABOUT 'GOD
HAS MADE A COVENANT WITH YOU,
00:26:32.79\00:26:35.06
BELIEVE THE WORD OF THE LORD.
OBEY THE COVENANT, YOU'LL BE
00:26:35.09\00:26:37.99
BLESSED. YOU
DISOBEY, THERE'S GOING TO BE
00:26:38.03\00:26:39.79
CONSEQUENCES.
PROPHETS OFTEN TALK ABOUT - I
00:26:39.83\00:26:42.56
REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, KAREN,
SHE ALWAYS LIKED USING THE WORD
00:26:42.60\00:26:45.43
CONSEQUENCES EVEN WHEN
THE KIDS WERE VERY LITTLE.
00:26:45.47\00:26:48.04
AND I THOUGHT, 'DO THEY EVEN
KNOW WHAT CONSEQUENCES MEAN?'
00:26:48.07\00:26:50.87
THEY FIGURED IT
OUT PRETTY QUICK.
00:26:50.91\00:26:52.41
YEAH, THEY - IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG
BEFORE THEY LEARNED A WORD WITH
00:26:52.44\00:26:54.84
FOUR OR FIVE
SYLLABLES. FOUR SYLLABLES, YEAH.
00:26:54.88\00:27:00.12
I HAD TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
00:27:00.15\00:27:02.62
ALRIGHT, LET'S READ - NOW WE'RE
IN SECTION 2 - JEREMIAH'S FAMILY
00:27:02.65\00:27:05.45
BACKGROUND - LET'S GET A
LITTLE MORE BACKGROUND ON HIM.
00:27:05.49\00:27:07.72
SOMEONE'S GOING
TO READ JEREMIAH 1:1.
00:27:07.76\00:27:10.13
>>"THE WORDS OF JEREMIAH THE SON
OF HILKIAH, OF THE PRIESTS WHO
00:27:10.16\00:27:14.83
WERE IN ANOTHOTH IN
THE LAND OF BENJAMIN," -
00:27:14.86\00:27:17.27
>>ALRIGHT, THERE WAS A TOWN
JUST NORTH OF JERUSALEM CALLED
00:27:17.30\00:27:22.60
ANATHOTH AND IT WAS - IT
WAS IN THE LAND OF BENJAMIN.
00:27:22.64\00:27:26.91
BENJAMIN AND JUDAH BORDERED EACH
OTHER - IT WASN'T THAT FAR FROM
00:27:26.94\00:27:29.71
JERUSALEM. LET ME
GIVE YOU A LITTLE MORE
00:27:29.74\00:27:31.71
BACKGROUND ON THIS: WHEN JOSHUA
00:27:31.75\00:27:33.52
BRINGS THEM INTO THE PROMISED
LAND AND THE LAND IS BEING
00:27:33.55\00:27:35.92
DIVIDED AMONG THE TWELVE TRIBES
- YOU CAN READ IN JOSHUA 21:17,
00:27:35.95\00:27:40.09
"AND FROM THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN,
GIBEON WITH ITS COMMON-LAND,
00:27:40.12\00:27:44.63
GEBA WITH ITS COMMON-LAND,
ANATHOTH WITH ITS COMMON-LAND,
00:27:44.66\00:27:51.17
AND ALMON WITH ITS
COMMON-LAND: FOUR CITIES.
00:27:51.20\00:27:54.07
ALL THE CITIES FOR THE CHILDREN
OF AARON, THE PRIESTS, WERE,
00:27:54.10\00:27:57.71
THIRTEEN CITIES
WITH THEIR COMMON-LANDS."
00:27:57.74\00:28:00.74
SO WHAT THE LORD DID, WHEN
HE PUT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN
00:28:00.78\00:28:03.48
THE PROMISED LAND, AS THEY
DIVIDED UP THE LAND AMONG THE
00:28:03.51\00:28:06.51
TWELVE TRIBES - HOW
MANY TRIBES WERE THERE?
00:28:06.55\00:28:08.38
THIRTEEN, REALLY. I
KNOW THAT'S CONFUSING.
00:28:08.42\00:28:12.35
JACOB HAD HOW MANY SONS? >>WHO?
00:28:12.39\00:28:15.59
>>JACOB - TWELVE SONS, RIGHT?
ONE DAUGHTER WE KNOW OF, DINAH.
00:28:15.62\00:28:21.30
BUT WHAT HAPPENED IS, WHEN
JOSEPH WAS SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS
00:28:21.33\00:28:25.27
- JACOB, ONE OF HIS DYING
COMMANDS WAS - BECAUSE I'VE BEEN
00:28:25.30\00:28:29.47
SEPARATED BY THIS BELOVED SON,
I AM GOING TO GIVE EACH OF YOUR
00:28:29.50\00:28:33.11
SONS EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH
AN INHERITANCE EQUAL TO THEIR
00:28:33.14\00:28:37.48
BROTHERS. WELL THAT
CHANGED THE NUMBER TO THIRTEEN.
00:28:37.51\00:28:42.15
BUT WHEN THEY ENTERED THE
PROMISED LAND, THEY DIVIDED IT
00:28:42.18\00:28:46.12
TWELVE WAYS. WHY?
00:28:46.15\00:28:48.66
BECAUSE LEVI DID
NOT GET AN INHERITANCE.
00:28:48.69\00:28:51.53
THE SONS OF AARON AND THE
LEVITES, BECAUSE THEY WERE TO
00:28:51.56\00:28:54.46
SCATTER AMONG THE TWELVE TRIBES,
TO MINISTER AS PRIESTS TO TEACH
00:28:54.50\00:28:57.70
THE LAW, THEY WERE ALL
GIVEN PORTIONS AMONG THE TWELVE
00:28:57.73\00:29:02.00
TRIBES. THEY WERE
THE PRIESTLY CITIES,
00:29:02.04\00:29:05.11
AND SOME CITIES WERE FOR
THE LEVITES AND SOME FOR THE
00:29:05.14\00:29:07.48
DESCENDANTS OF AARON.
THE LEVITES ALL COULD HELP IN
00:29:07.51\00:29:10.55
THE TEMPLE, BUT ONLY THE SONS
AND DESCENDANTS OF AARON COULD
00:29:10.58\00:29:13.18
SERVE AS PRIESTS. THERE
WERE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
00:29:13.21\00:29:16.48
THE LEVITES AND THE PRIESTS,
JUST LIKE THERE MIGHT BE BETWEEN
00:29:16.52\00:29:19.32
A DEACON AND AN ELDER,
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:29:19.35\00:29:21.72
PRIESTS WERE KIND OF LIKE THE
ELDERS, THEY WERE THE PASTORS.
00:29:21.76\00:29:26.09
AND SO ANATHOTH WAS ONE
OF THESE PRIESTLY CITIES.
00:29:26.13\00:29:32.63
THIS IS WHERE
JEREMIAH CAME FROM.
00:29:32.67\00:29:34.50
THEY WERE JUST BUILDING A
CASE HERE THAT HE WAS OF THE
00:29:34.54\00:29:37.01
PRIESTHOOD. HE WAS ACQUAINTED
WITH THE WORD OF THE LORD.
00:29:37.04\00:29:41.48
HE HAD ACCESS TO
THESE SACRED TEACHINGS.
00:29:41.51\00:29:43.78
IF YOU LOOK IN 1 KINGS, FOR
INSTANCE, VERSE 25 - I WANT TO
00:29:43.81\00:29:48.85
GIVE YOU A LITTLE STORY -
WHAT FAMILY JEREMIAH WAS FROM.
00:29:48.88\00:29:53.05
HE DESCENDED FROM THE
FAMILY OF ABIATHAR THE PRIEST.
00:29:53.09\00:29:57.19
ABIATHAR STARTED OUT GOOD, AS
A PRIEST - MOST OF HIS LIFE WAS
00:29:57.23\00:30:00.53
VERY GOOD. HE
KIND OF MADE ONE MAJOR
00:30:00.56\00:30:02.80
BLUNDER NEAR
THE END OF HIS LIFE.
00:30:02.83\00:30:04.63
YOU'LL REMEMBER THAT WHEN SAUL
WAS KING, ONE OF THE TERRIBLE
00:30:04.67\00:30:08.20
THINGS THAT SAUL DID, HE FELT
THAT THE PRIESTS WERE ON THE
00:30:08.24\00:30:11.01
SIDE OF DAVID AND SO SAUL HAD
ALL OF THE PRIESTS KILLED - THE
00:30:11.04\00:30:16.38
DESCENDANTS OF ELI'S FAMILY
- ONE OF THEM ESCAPED WITH THE
00:30:16.41\00:30:21.18
EPHOD FROM THE TEMPLE AND
RAN TO DAVID FOR PROTECTION.
00:30:21.22\00:30:23.99
HIS NAME WAS ABIATHAR.
ABIATHAR WAS WITH DAVID THROUGH
00:30:24.02\00:30:28.06
ALL OF HIS RUNNING FROM
SAUL, THROUGH ALL OF HIS TRIALS.
00:30:28.09\00:30:30.73
FINALLY, WHEN DAVID WAS
INSTALLED AS KING, ABIATHAR
00:30:30.76\00:30:33.43
BECAME THE HIGH PRIEST AND
HE SERVED WITH DAVID FOR FORTY
00:30:33.46\00:30:36.06
YEARS. HAD A LONG
LIFE. HE EVEN OUTLIVED DAVID.
00:30:36.10\00:30:38.53
BUT THE PROBLEM WAS, WHEN DAVID
WAS GETTING OLD AND HE WAS GOING
00:30:38.57\00:30:41.60
TO DIE, DAVID SAID, 'I WANT
SOLOMON TO BE KING.' ABIATHAR
00:30:41.64\00:30:44.64
JOINED A REBELLION OF
ADONIJAH, ALONG WITH JOAB.
00:30:44.67\00:30:50.31
SO THAT REBELLION DIED, ADONIJAH
WAS SLAIN, JOAB WAS SLAIN, BUT
00:30:50.35\00:30:59.85
KING SOLOMON SAID TO ABIATHAR -
AND I CAN READ IT TO YOU HERE IN
00:30:59.89\00:31:04.49
1 KINGS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 26,
"AND TO ABIATHAR THE PRIEST THE
00:31:04.53\00:31:09.80
KING (SOLOMON) SAID, 'GO TO
ANATHOTH, TO YOUR OWN FIELDS,
00:31:09.83\00:31:14.84
FOR YOU ARE DESERVING OF DEATH;
BUT I WILL NOT PUT YOU TO DEATH
00:31:14.87\00:31:17.77
AT THIS TIME, BECAUSE YOU
CARRIED THE ARK OF THE LORD GOD
00:31:17.81\00:31:20.44
BEFORE MY FATHER DAVID, AND
BECAUSE YOU WERE AFFLICTED EVERY
00:31:20.48\00:31:23.45
TIME MY FATHER WAS AFFLICTED.'"
JEREMIAH, NOW IS A DESCENDANT OF
00:31:23.48\00:31:28.98
THIS LINE OF AARON. YOU
REALIZE THERE WERE SEVEN
00:31:29.02\00:31:31.69
DIFFERENT STREAMS OF AARON THAT
YOU GET A FAMILY TREE THAT GROWS
00:31:31.72\00:31:35.69
AS TIME GOES BY. DO
YOU KNOW THAT JOHN THE
00:31:35.72\00:31:38.26
BAPTIST'S MOTHER - IT SAYS THAT
ELIZABETH WAS OF THE DAUGHTERS
00:31:38.29\00:31:42.73
OF AARON. SO JOHN
THE BAPTIST ALSO HAD
00:31:42.76\00:31:45.93
THIS PRIESTLY
LINE IN HIM AS WELL.
00:31:45.97\00:31:49.77
AND YOU CAN READ IN THE BOOK
PROPHETS AND KINGS , "A MEMBER
00:31:49.80\00:31:55.81
OF THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD,
JEREMIAH HAD BEEN TRAINED FROM
00:31:55.84\00:31:59.01
CHILDHOOD FOR HOLY
SERVICE. IN THOSE HAPPY YEARS OF
00:31:59.05\00:32:02.65
PREPARATION, HE LITTLE REALIZED
THAT HE HAD BEEN ORDAINED FROM
00:32:02.68\00:32:06.72
BIRTH TO BE A PROPHET UNDER THE
NATIONS AND WHEN THE DIVINE CALL
00:32:06.76\00:32:10.49
CAME, HE WAS OVERWHELMED WITH
A SENSE OF HIS UNWORTHINESS.
00:32:10.53\00:32:14.20
'AH, LORD GOD,' HE EXCLAIMED,
'I CANNOT SPEAK, I AM A CHILD.'"
00:32:14.20\00:32:18.13
NOW WE'RE GETTING AHEAD OF
OURSELVES, BUT WE'RE GOING TO
00:32:18.17\00:32:21.24
READ THAT NEXT. SO HE
CAME FROM THE PROPHETIC
00:32:21.27\00:32:23.87
LINE - UNFORTUNATELY, ABIATHAR
WASN'T ALWAYS A FAITHFUL PRIEST.
00:32:23.91\00:32:29.34
JEREMIAH DESCENDED FROM
HILKIAH, WHO ALSO WAS NOT
00:32:29.38\00:32:33.45
ALWAYS FAITHFUL. HE
WAS DURING THE TIME OF
00:32:33.48\00:32:35.98
JOSIAH, BUT NOT AFTERWARD.
AND SOME OF THE PRIESTS KIND OF
00:32:36.02\00:32:42.39
WENT BACK AND FORTH,
DEPENDING ON WHO WAS THE KING.
00:32:42.42\00:32:45.86
ELI WAS A GOOD PRIEST, BUT HE
WASN'T VERY GOOD IN THE WAY HE
00:32:45.89\00:32:49.73
TRAINED HIS SONS AND SO
THAT'S THE KIND OF BACKGROUND.
00:32:49.76\00:32:53.57
SO JEREMIAH COULD
HAVE GONE EITHER WAY.
00:32:53.60\00:32:55.57
NOW IT TALKS HERE, UNDER
THE NEXT SECTION, ABOUT THE
00:32:55.60\00:32:58.67
PROPHETIC CALL OF JEREMIAH.
SOMEONE IS GOING TO READ FOR ME,
00:32:58.71\00:33:01.41
IN JUST A MOMENT,
LUKE 1:15 - WHO HAS THAT?
00:33:01.44\00:33:04.51
BACK THERE? OKAY,
JUST GET YOU LOCATED.
00:33:04.55\00:33:07.05
ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ
JEREMIAH 1 THROUGH 5 AND THIS IS
00:33:07.08\00:33:10.72
THE CALL OF JEREMIAH: "THE WORDS
OF JEREMIAH THE SON OF HILKIAH,
00:33:10.75\00:33:16.09
OF THE PRIESTS WHO WERE
IN ANATHOTH IN THE LAND OF
00:33:16.12\00:33:19.83
BENJAMIN, TO WHOM THE WORD
OF THE LORD CAME IN THE DAYS OF
00:33:19.86\00:33:22.76
JOSIAH THE SON OF AMON, KING OF
JUDAH, IN THE THIRTEENTH YEAR OF
00:33:22.80\00:33:27.14
HIS REIGN." - NOW I
WANT TO PAUSE RIGHT HERE.
00:33:27.17\00:33:29.77
JOSIAH - GOOD KING/BAD
KING? WHICH WAS IT? GOOD KING.
00:33:29.80\00:33:34.88
NOT JUST SORT
OF GOOD, VERY GOOD.
00:33:34.91\00:33:39.51
IN FACT, THERE'S REALLY NOTHING
THAT CAN BE FOUND WRONG WITH
00:33:39.55\00:33:44.02
JOSIAH - THE ONLY THING WAS HE
KIND OF WENT INTO BATTLE AT THE
00:33:44.05\00:33:47.52
END - GOT KILLED FIGHTING
AGAINST THE EGYPTIANS AND HE
00:33:47.56\00:33:49.99
PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE GONE
INTO THAT BATTLE BUT HE WAS NOT
00:33:50.03\00:33:54.46
WANTING EGYPT TO START
GETTING A FOOTHOLD IN ISRAEL.
00:33:54.46\00:33:58.93
HE - IT SAYS, MATTER OF FACT,
FROM A LITTLE CHILD HE BEGAN TO
00:33:58.97\00:34:01.77
SERVE - I THINK IT
WAS SEVEN YEARS OF AGE.
00:34:01.80\00:34:03.81
THERE WERE TWO KINGS THAT
STARTED SERVING VERY YOUNG -
00:34:03.84\00:34:06.27
WELL THREE - MANASSEH, THEN
YOU'VE GOT JOSIAH, THEN YOU'VE
00:34:06.31\00:34:11.08
GOT JOASH. JOSIAH WAS
FAITHFUL ALL THROUGH HIS LIFE.
00:34:11.11\00:34:15.62
JOASH LATER APOSTASIZED -
STARTED GOOD BUT WENT BAD.
00:34:15.65\00:34:18.62
JOSIAH WAS FAITHFUL THE WHOLE
TIME - RESTORED THE WORSHIP OF
00:34:18.65\00:34:22.52
GOD, RESTORED THE TEMPLE OF GOD,
RESTORED THE PASSOVER, BROUGHT
00:34:22.56\00:34:25.33
ABOUT A REVIVAL, TORE UP THE
IDOLS, DUG UP THE GRAVES OF THE
00:34:25.36\00:34:29.26
FALSE PRIESTS, BURNT THEIR BONES
- I MEAN, HE JUST REALLY HAD A
00:34:29.30\00:34:33.13
ZEAL FOR PURIFYING THE LAND.
HE NOT ONLY PURIFIED JUDAH AND
00:34:33.17\00:34:36.47
JERUSALEM, AFTER TEN OF THE
TRIBES WERE CARRIED OFF HE WENT
00:34:36.50\00:34:39.27
UP INTO THE NORTH AND HE DID
SOME PURIFYING THERE AS WELL.
00:34:39.31\00:34:42.41
I MEAN HE JUST WAS VERY ZEALOUS
FOR A RETURN TO THE TRUE GOD.
00:34:42.44\00:34:46.58
HE'S THE ONE THAT CRIED, YOU
KNOW, WHEN THEY READ THE BOOK
00:34:46.61\00:34:49.55
THAT THEY HAD FOUND IN
THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD.
00:34:49.58\00:34:51.45
HE WAS A GOOD PRIEST - A GOOD
KING, RATHER. SO JEREMIAH BEGINS
00:34:51.49\00:34:56.29
TO PROPHESY DURING THE TIME
"...OF JOSIAH, THE SON OF AMON,
00:34:56.32\00:35:02.00
KING OF JUDAH, IN THE
THIRTEENTH YEAR OF HIS REIGN.
00:35:02.03\00:35:04.73
IT CAME ALSO IN THE DAYS OF
JEHOIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH,
00:35:04.77\00:35:08.67
KING OF JUDAH, UNTIL THE END
OF THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH
00:35:08.70\00:35:11.84
THE SON OF JOSIAH, KING OF
JUDAH, UNTIL THE CARRYING AWAY
00:35:11.87\00:35:15.04
OF JERUSALEM
CAPTIVE IN THE FIFTH MONTH.
00:35:15.08\00:35:17.28
THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME
TO ME, SAYING: 'BEFORE I FORMED
00:35:17.31\00:35:21.12
YOU IN THE WOMB I KNEW
YOU; BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I
00:35:21.15\00:35:24.89
SANCTIFIED YOU; I ORDAINED
YOU A PROPHET TO THE NATIONS.'"
00:35:24.92\00:35:30.33
WHAT IS THAT
TEACHING, PREDESTINATION?
00:35:30.36\00:35:33.93
OR DOES THAT MEAN THAT GOD'S GOT
A PLAN FOR EVERYBODY AND WHEN HE
00:35:33.96\00:35:38.57
CALLED JEREMIAH, JEREMIAH
CHOSE TO LISTEN TO THAT PLAN?
00:35:38.60\00:35:42.37
ARE THERE EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE
OF PEOPLE THAT WERE INITIALLY
00:35:42.40\00:35:45.24
CALLED AND THEN
TURNED AWAY FROM THEIR CALL?
00:35:45.27\00:35:48.58
WAS SAUL CHOSEN TO BE A KING?
KING SAUL? WHO CHOSE HIM? GOD.
00:35:48.61\00:35:57.49
WAS HE GIVEN THE HOLY
SPIRIT? DID HE EVEN PROPHESY?
00:35:57.52\00:36:01.79
BUT THEN DID HE NURTURE A PROUD
HEART AND EVENTUALLY TURN AWAY?
00:36:01.82\00:36:06.96
WAS BALAAM
INITIALLY A PROPHET OF GOD?
00:36:07.00\00:36:10.50
BUT HE, CONSUMED WITH
COVETOUSNESS, EVENTUALLY SOLD
00:36:10.53\00:36:14.57
HIS SOUL, AS DID JUDAS.
WHEN JESUS SENT OUT THE TWELVE
00:36:14.60\00:36:20.68
APOSTLES PREACHING, TEACHING,
CASTING OUT DEVILS, WAS JUDAS
00:36:20.71\00:36:23.01
ONE OF THE TWELVE
THAT WENT OUT DOING THAT?
00:36:23.04\00:36:25.28
DID HE EVER FEEL HIS HEART BURN
WITHIN HIM AS HE HEARD JESUS
00:36:25.31\00:36:28.12
PREACH? DID HE
EVER FEEL THE STIRRINGS
00:36:28.15\00:36:30.45
OF THE SPIRIT AND GO OUT AND
PREACH AND ENJOY SEEING PEOPLE
00:36:30.49\00:36:33.59
TURN FROM THEIR SINS?
PROBABLY, BUT HE WAS STRUGGLING
00:36:33.62\00:36:37.43
WITH A SECRET SIN HE WOULD NEVER
RELEASE AND HE SELF-DESTRUCTED.
00:36:37.46\00:36:40.96
SO JEREMIAH WAS
CALLED - HE HAD A CALLING.
00:36:40.96\00:36:45.20
BY THE WAY,
YOU'VE GOT A CALLING.
00:36:45.23\00:36:46.80
GOD HAS A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE AND
HE WILL MOBILIZE AND ACTIVATE
00:36:46.84\00:36:50.87
THAT PLAN AS YOU SURRENDER
TO HIS CALL ON YOUR LIFE.
00:36:50.91\00:36:54.81
HE MAY NOT TELL YOU, RIGHT AWAY,
WHAT IT IS. JEREMIAH - HOW OLD
00:36:54.84\00:36:58.85
WAS HE WHEN HE WAS
CALLED? WELL, WE DON'T KNOW.
00:36:58.88\00:37:01.28
NEAR AS WE CAN TELL, YOU BEGIN
TO SERVE AS A PRIEST AT 30.
00:37:01.32\00:37:05.89
HE FELT HE WAS TOO
YOUNG. HE WAS NOT QUITE 30 YET.
00:37:05.92\00:37:08.89
KING SOLOMON,
WHEN HE BEGAN TO RULE -
00:37:08.92\00:37:12.36
NOTICE THAT SOLOMON ALSO
SAID, 'I AM JUST A CHILD.
00:37:12.39\00:37:15.13
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO OUT
OR COME IN.' SOLOMON WAS ALSO
00:37:15.16\00:37:17.83
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN
TWENTY-FIVE AND THIRTY.
00:37:17.87\00:37:19.93
YOU WEREN'T REALLY CONSIDERED
A MAN UNTIL YOU WERE THIRTY.
00:37:19.97\00:37:22.40
JESUS DID NOT BEGIN HIS
MINISTRY UNTIL HE WAS THIRTY.
00:37:22.44\00:37:24.57
YOU COULDN'T SERVE AS A
PRIEST UNTIL YOU WERE THIRTY.
00:37:24.61\00:37:26.64
DAVID BEGAN TO
REIGN WHEN HE WAS THIRTY.
00:37:26.68\00:37:28.78
JOSEPH WENT OUT OVER ALL
OF EGYPT WHEN HE WAS THIRTY.
00:37:28.81\00:37:32.31
UP UNTIL THEN YOU SORT OF FELT
LIKE YOU WERE STILL LEARNING.
00:37:32.35\00:37:37.65
YOU COULD GO TO WAR AT TWENTY
YEARS OF AGE, BUT YOU COULD NOT
00:37:37.69\00:37:43.36
SERVE AS A PRIEST. SO
JEREMIAH WAS SOMEWHERE
00:37:43.39\00:37:45.53
BETWEEN TWENTY-TWO AND THIRTY
YEARS OF AGE WHEN HE GOT THIS
00:37:45.56\00:37:50.43
CALL AND HE SURRENDERED
IT. 'BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE
00:37:50.47\00:37:54.10
WOMB.' ALRIGHT, LET'S TALK ABOUT
SOMEONE ELSE WHO GOT A CALL.
00:37:54.14\00:37:57.47
WHO'S GOT LUKE 1:15? BACK HERE.
00:37:57.51\00:37:59.91
>>FOR HE WILL BE GREAT IN
THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, AND SHALL
00:37:59.94\00:38:02.84
DRINK NEITHER
WINE NOR STRONG DRINK.
00:38:02.88\00:38:05.18
HE WILL ALSO BE FILLED WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT, EVEN FROM HIS
00:38:05.21\00:38:08.55
MOTHER'S WOMB."
>>WELL THAT SOUNDS SOMETHING
00:38:08.58\00:38:11.32
LIKE WHAT GOD SAID TO JEREMIAH,
'BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB
00:38:11.35\00:38:16.26
I KNEW YOU.' DOES
GOD KNOW ALL THINGS?
00:38:16.29\00:38:20.26
ALL KNOWLEDGE -
EVERY DETAIL OF OUR LIVES.
00:38:20.30\00:38:24.47
AND JOHN THE BAPTIST ALSO, FROM
HIS MOTHER'S WOMB HE WAS FORMED
00:38:24.50\00:38:29.30
- HE WAS CALLED. YOU
CAN READ ISAIAH 44, VERSES 1
00:38:29.34\00:38:32.54
AND 2. IT SAYS,
"YET HEAR NOW, O JACOB
00:38:32.57\00:38:36.41
MY SERVANT, AND
ISRAEL WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN.
00:38:36.44\00:38:38.95
THUS SAYS THE LORD WHO MADE YOU
AND FORMED YOU FROM THE WOMB,
00:38:38.98\00:38:42.22
WHO WILL HELP YOU: 'FEAR NOT,
O JACOB MY SERVANT; AND YOU,
00:38:42.25\00:38:45.52
JESHURUN, WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN.'"
- THAT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF
00:38:45.55\00:38:48.39
TALKING ABOUT JACOB. WHEN
DID GOD DECLARE THAT JACOB,
00:38:48.42\00:38:52.09
THE YOUNGER, WOULD
RULE OVER ESAU, THE OLDER?
00:38:52.13\00:38:56.23
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN REBEKKAH
WAS PREGNANT - WHILE THEY WERE
00:38:56.26\00:39:01.10
STILL IN THE WOMB - SHE FELT
THEM HAVING - KICKING INSIDE -
00:39:01.14\00:39:05.24
AND IT LOOKED LIKE THEY WEREN'T
JUST KICKING HER, THEY WERE
00:39:05.27\00:39:07.04
KICKING EACH OTHER. AND
THE LORD SAID, 'YOU'VE GOT
00:39:07.08\00:39:09.74
TWO NATIONS INSIDE YOUR WOMB.'
BOY, TALK ABOUT INDIGESTION.
00:39:09.78\00:39:13.52
(LAUGHTER) HAVING TWO NATIONS AT
WAR INSIDE - TO GO THROUGH NINE
00:39:13.55\00:39:19.09
MONTHS OF THAT AND - BUT THE
ANGELS SAID, BEFORE THEY WERE
00:39:19.12\00:39:22.62
EVEN BORN, THAT THE
OLDER WOULD SERVE THE YOUNGER.
00:39:22.66\00:39:25.96
AND SO, EVEN FROM THE WOMB,
JACOB, WHICH ENDED UP BEING THE
00:39:25.99\00:39:29.60
NATION OF ISRAEL, WAS
CALLED. AND SO GOD IS SAYING TO
00:39:29.63\00:39:32.47
JEREMIAH, AND HE SAYS TO ISAIAH,
AND HE SAYS TO US, AND JOHN THE
00:39:32.50\00:39:35.77
BAPTIST, THAT 'I HAVE A PLAN
FOR YOUR LIFE EVEN FROM THE VERY
00:39:35.80\00:39:40.14
BEGINNING AND I'VE CALLED YOU.'
AND IF YOU SURRENDER TO THAT
00:39:40.18\00:39:43.55
PLAN - YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME
PEOPLE, THEY RESIST GOD'S PLAN
00:39:43.58\00:39:48.65
FOR THEM FOR YEARS.
DID JONAH RUN FROM GOD?
00:39:48.68\00:39:53.42
IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE FIRST
TIME WHEN YOU READ ABOUT IT.
00:39:53.46\00:39:57.19
SOMEONE IS GOING TO
READ FOR ME ISAIAH 6:5.
00:39:57.23\00:40:01.36
WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
RIGHT UP FRONT HERE?
00:40:01.40\00:40:04.07
IN JUST A MOMENT
WE'LL GET TO YOU.
00:40:04.10\00:40:05.60
I'M GOING TO START OUT BY
READING JEREMIAH 1, VERSE 6.
00:40:05.63\00:40:09.60
WE READ VERSES 1 THROUGH 5.
IT SAYS IN VERSE 6, "THEN SAID
00:40:09.64\00:40:12.41
I: 'AH, LORD GOD!
BEHOLD, I CANNOT SPEAK, FOR I AM
00:40:12.44\00:40:15.28
A YOUTH.'" NOT TOO OFTEN
DOES A PERSON WRITE AN EMOTION.
00:40:15.31\00:40:19.68
BUT YOU REALIZE, WHEN YOU SAY
'AH' IT ALMOST - WHAT DOES THAT
00:40:19.71\00:40:26.19
MEAN? 'AH' -
DOESN'T THAT MEAN THE
00:40:26.22\00:40:30.36
SAME THING IN EVERY LANGUAGE?
OR WHEN YOU RIGHT THE WORD 'OH'
00:40:30.39\00:40:34.96
- WHEN GOD SAYS, 'OH, THAT THERE
WAS SUCH A HEART IN THEM THAT
00:40:35.00\00:40:38.53
THEY WOULD FEAR ME AND KEEP MY
COMMANDMENTS.' ALMOST COMES FROM
00:40:38.57\00:40:41.77
THE WORD - GOD
SO LOVED THE WORLD.
00:40:41.80\00:40:44.74
IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU'VE GOT A
WORD WITH AN EMOTION BUILT IN.
00:40:44.77\00:40:47.28
HE SAYS, 'AH, LORD
GOD! I'M JUST A CHILD.
00:40:47.31\00:40:53.78
I'M A YOUTH. I CAN'T
SPEAK. I'M NOT ELOQUENT.
00:40:53.82\00:40:56.95
I LIVE IN THIS, YOU KNOW
- IT SAYS ANATHOTH AND ITS
00:40:56.99\00:41:00.56
PASTURE-LANDS. DID
YOU CATCH THAT EARLIER?
00:41:00.59\00:41:02.49
IT WAS A FARM TOWN WHERE
THE PRIESTS WOULD GROW THEIR
00:41:02.52\00:41:05.76
VITTLES. WHAT DID
MOSES SAY WHEN HE WAS CALLED?
00:41:05.79\00:41:09.86
AND THIS IS EXODUS 4, VERSE 10,
MOSES SAID, 'OH, LORD MY GOD, I
00:41:09.90\00:41:16.07
AM NOT ELOQUENT.' YOU
CAN JUST HEAR THE ANGUISH.
00:41:16.10\00:41:19.37
'I AM NOT ELOQUENT, NEITHER IN
THE PAST NOR SINCE YOU'VE SPOKEN
00:41:19.41\00:41:23.91
TO YOUR SERVANT; BUT I'M SLOW
OF SPEECH AND OF TONGUE.' SEE,
00:41:23.95\00:41:27.15
MOSES STRUGGLED A LITTLE BIT
BECAUSE HE LIVED THE FIRST FOUR
00:41:27.18\00:41:30.39
OR FIVE YEARS WITH
HIS MOTHER HEARING HEBREW.
00:41:30.42\00:41:33.49
THEN HE GOT DUMPED IN THE
PALACES AND NOW HE'S GOT TO
00:41:33.52\00:41:35.79
LEARN EGYPTIAN SO HIS HEBREW'S
NOT GREAT AND HIS EGYPTIAN IS
00:41:35.82\00:41:38.16
NOW MUDDLED BECAUSE, DURING
THOSE FORMATIVE LINGUAL YEARS,
00:41:38.19\00:41:41.10
HE'S BEEN LEARNING HEBREW AND
HE NEVER CLAIMED TO BE ELOQUENT.
00:41:41.13\00:41:45.70
NOW GOD SAID - NOW HE HASN'T
SPOKEN EGYPTIAN IN FORTY YEARS.
00:41:45.73\00:41:49.14
YOU KNOW, YOU START TO LOSE IT.
HE'S BEEN SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE
00:41:49.17\00:41:52.34
OF MIDIAN - SOME ARAMAIC - AND
NOW HE'S GOT TO GO BACK AND TALK
00:41:52.37\00:41:56.14
TO THE PHARAOH. HE
SAYS, 'I CAN'T SPEAK THAT
00:41:56.18\00:41:57.98
TONGUE ANYMORE.'
DID HE FEEL WORTHY?
00:41:58.01\00:42:01.52
THE LORD SAID TO HIM,
'WHO HAS MADE MAN'S MOUTH?
00:42:01.55\00:42:05.95
WHO MAKES THE MUTE OR THE
DEAF, THE SEEING OR THE BLIND?
00:42:05.99\00:42:09.09
IS IT NOT I, THE LORD?'
DID SOMETHING HAPPEN WITH THE
00:42:09.12\00:42:12.89
APOSTLES WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT
CAME ON THEM WHERE THEY SUDDENLY
00:42:12.93\00:42:15.60
- FISHERMEN
BECAME VERY ELOQUENT?
00:42:15.63\00:42:17.83
CAN GOD GIVE YOU
THE WORDS TO SPEAK?
00:42:17.87\00:42:20.87
DID JESUS SAY, AT ONE POINT,
'WHEN YOU'RE BROUGHT BEFORE
00:42:20.90\00:42:23.20
KINGS AND RULERS FOR MY NAME'S
SAKE, TAKE NO THOUGHT WHAT
00:42:23.24\00:42:26.31
YOU'LL SAY FOR IT'S NOT YOU THAT
SPEAKS, BUT I WILL SPEAK THROUGH
00:42:26.34\00:42:28.94
YOU'? I HAVE TO
CLAIM THAT PROMISE
00:42:28.98\00:42:31.75
WHEN I GET UP TO PREACH.
YOU'RE GOING TO READ FOR US
00:42:31.78\00:42:34.12
ISAIAH 6:5 - WHO
HAS THAT? RIGHT HERE.
00:42:34.15\00:42:36.82
>>"SO I SAID: 'WOE
IS ME, FOR I AM UNDONE!
00:42:36.85\00:42:41.19
BECAUSE I AM A MAN OF UNCLEAN
LIPS, AND I DWELL IN THE MIDST
00:42:41.22\00:42:44.86
OF A PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN LIPS; FOR
MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE KING, THE
00:42:44.89\00:42:49.33
LORD OF HOSTS.'" >>AND
SO THIS HAPPENS ALSO TO
00:42:49.36\00:42:52.00
ISAIAH WHEN HE GETS HIS
CALL, HE SAYS, 'OH, WOE IS ME!
00:42:52.03\00:42:56.04
I CAN'T DO THIS. I'M A'
- PARDON ME - 'I'M A MAN
00:42:56.07\00:43:00.28
OF UNCLEAN LIPS AND I DWELL IN
THE MIDST OF A PEOPLE OF UNCLEAN
00:43:00.31\00:43:03.18
LIPS.' SO WHAT DID GOD DO
FOR ISAIAH TO HELP DEAL WITH THE
00:43:03.21\00:43:07.85
UNCLEAN LIP PROBLEM? AN
ANGEL IS SENT WITH A COAL
00:43:07.88\00:43:11.45
FROM THE ALTAR AND
PLACES IT WHERE? ON HIS LIPS.
00:43:11.49\00:43:14.82
AND HE EMPOWERS HIM TO PREACH.
YOU FIND SEVERAL TIMES, THOSE
00:43:14.86\00:43:19.69
WHO ARE CALLED BY THE LORD, THEY
DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY'RE WORTHY.
00:43:19.73\00:43:22.06
IN LUKE CHAPTER 5, WHEN JESUS
IS CALLING THE APOSTLES AND HE'S
00:43:22.10\00:43:27.60
SAYING, 'FOLLOW ME AND I'LL MAKE
YOU FISHERS OF MEN.' HE FILLS
00:43:27.64\00:43:29.97
PETER'S BOAT WITH FISH AND WHEN
THEY SEE THIS MIRACLE - YOU CAN
00:43:30.01\00:43:33.27
SEE IN VERSE 8, WHEN SIMON PETER
SAW IT, HE FELL DOWN AT JESUS'
00:43:33.31\00:43:38.38
KNEES AND HE SAID, 'DEPART FROM
ME LORD, FOR I'M A SINFUL MAN.'
00:43:38.41\00:43:41.95
'I CAN'T DO THIS.'
AND WHAT DOES JESUS SAY?
00:43:41.98\00:43:45.35
'DON'T BE AFRAID, FOLLOW ME AND
I'LL MAKE YOU A FISHER OF MEN.'
00:43:45.39\00:43:49.16
AND SO YOU CAN ALMOST ALWAYS
SEE THAT WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE
00:43:49.19\00:43:53.16
CALLED TO THESE GREAT CALLINGS,
THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE UNWORTHY.
00:43:53.19\00:43:57.53
THAT'S A GOOD THING. >>AMEN.
00:43:57.57\00:44:01.44
>>ARROGANCE IN
MINISTRY IS A BAD COMBINATION.
00:44:01.47\00:44:05.57
I HEARD ABOUT A PROUD YOUNG
PREACHER THAT GOT UP TO SPEAK
00:44:05.61\00:44:08.94
ONE DAY AND HE WAS JUST SO SURE
THAT HE WAS GOING TO KNOCK THE
00:44:08.98\00:44:11.48
BALL OUT OF THE PARK WITH
HIS SERMON, HE GOT UP THERE JUST
00:44:11.51\00:44:14.35
VERY COCKY AND TRIED TO PREACH
AND JUST REALIZED THAT WITHOUT
00:44:14.38\00:44:18.12
THE SPIRIT OF GOD -
UGH - HE WAS FIRING BLANKS.
00:44:18.15\00:44:21.86
HE JUST WASN'T GETTING THROUGH
AND AFTER HE MUMBLED THROUGH AND
00:44:21.89\00:44:25.33
MUTTERED THROUGH HIS SERMON, HE
LOST HIS PLACE IN HIS NOTES AND
00:44:25.36\00:44:28.40
HE KIND OF BOWED HIS
HEAD AND HE CAME BACK DOWN.
00:44:28.43\00:44:31.43
AND AT THE DOOR, ONE OF THE
OLD TIMERS IN THE CHURCH SAID,
00:44:31.47\00:44:36.04
'YOUNG MAN, IF YOU HAD GONE UP
THE WAY YOU CAME DOWN, YOU WOULD
00:44:36.07\00:44:41.11
HAVE COME DOWN THE WAY YOU
WENT UP.' IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A
00:44:41.14\00:44:46.21
SUCCESSFUL MINISTRY, ONE OF THE
GOOD THINGS IS TO NOT BE DOING
00:44:46.25\00:44:49.45
IT TRUSTING IN YOURSELF, BUT
TO HAVE A SPIRIT OF HUMILITY IN
00:44:49.48\00:44:53.69
THAT. SO YOU'LL
NOTICE THAT ALL THESE
00:44:53.72\00:44:56.42
GREAT PROPHETS ARE SAYING, 'I AM
NOT ABLE TO DO IT.' IT'S A GOOD
00:44:56.46\00:45:00.30
THING THAT WE HAVE THAT PROMISE
OF JESUS, 'I AM WITH YOU UNTO
00:45:00.33\00:45:02.40
THE END OF THE
WORLD.' AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:45:02.43\00:45:04.40
>>ALRIGHT, LET'S GO INTO THE
ALMOND BRANCH . THIS IS ONE OF
00:45:04.43\00:45:07.14
THE PROPHECIES OF JEREMIAH YOU
FIND IN CHAPTER 1 - JEREMIAH 1
00:45:07.17\00:45:10.24
VERSES 11 THROUGH 19 - I'M
JUST GOING TO READ THROUGH THIS.
00:45:10.27\00:45:14.38
JEREMIAH 1:11 - 19, "MOREOVER
THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME,
00:45:14.41\00:45:20.68
SAYING,
'JEREMIAH, WHAT DO YOU SEE?'
00:45:20.72\00:45:23.39
AND I SAID, 'I SEE A BRANCH OF
AN ALMOND TREE.' THEN THE LORD
00:45:23.42\00:45:27.09
SAID TO ME, 'YOU HAVE SEEN WELL,
FOR I AM READY TO PERFORM MY
00:45:27.12\00:45:30.36
WORD.'...DO NOT BE DISMAYED
BEFORE THEIR FACES, LEST I
00:45:30.39\00:45:33.43
DISMAY YOU BEFORE THEM. FOR
BEHOLD, I HAVE MADE YOU THIS
00:45:33.46\00:45:37.47
DAY'" - NOTICE THE
PROMISE HE MAKES TO JEREMIAH.
00:45:37.50\00:45:40.74
YOU'VE GOT SOME TOUGH THINGS
TO SAY, BUT DON'T BE AFRAID.
00:45:40.77\00:45:42.80
I AM MAKING YOU - "'A FORTIFIED
CITY AND AN IRON PILLAR, AND
00:45:42.84\00:45:47.14
BRONZE WALLS AGAINST THE WHOLE
LAND - AGAINST THE KINGS OF
00:45:47.18\00:45:51.35
JUDAH, AGAINST ITS PRINCES,
AGAINST ITS PRIESTS, AND AGAINST
00:45:51.38\00:45:52.78
THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND.'" - IN
OTHER WORDS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:45:52.81\00:45:55.75
BE AFRAID. I'M
GOING TO GIVE YOU STRENGTH
00:45:55.78\00:45:57.89
AND RESILIENCE.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:45:57.92\00:46:00.19
JEREMIAH, AGAINST ALL THE
PERSECUTION - FORTY YEARS OF
00:46:00.22\00:46:03.53
PREACHING AN UNPOPULAR MESSAGE
- HE SURVIVED THE KINGS, THE
00:46:03.56\00:46:07.46
PRIESTS, THE FALSE PROPHETS
AROUND HIM THAT KEPT PREDICTING
00:46:07.50\00:46:10.30
HIS DOOM - THEY ALL PERISHED.
WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME AND THE
00:46:10.33\00:46:14.17
CITY WAS DESTROYED AND THE
TEMPLE, THEY TOOK JEREMIAH OUT
00:46:14.20\00:46:17.74
OF THE PRISON AND KING
NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID, 'I HEARD
00:46:17.77\00:46:20.94
THAT YOU TOLD THEM
TO SURRENDER AND LIVE.
00:46:20.98\00:46:24.05
BECAUSE - AND YOUR PROPHECIES
HAVE ALL COME TRUE, YOU ARE FREE
00:46:24.08\00:46:27.95
TO GO. HERE'S A
CREDIT CARD' - HE
00:46:27.98\00:46:32.09
BASICALLY GAVE JEREMIAH A BUDGET
- HE SAID, 'YOU CAN GO WHEREVER
00:46:32.12\00:46:34.79
YOU WANT.' AND ALL THOSE WHO
WERE GIVING JEREMIAH A HARD TIME
00:46:34.82\00:46:39.69
AND PERSECUTING HIM, THEY
WERE ALL JUDGED BY THE KING.
00:46:39.73\00:46:42.86
THAT'S THE
SCENARIO FOR YOU AND ME.
00:46:42.90\00:46:45.43
HERE IN THIS LIFE, THE DEVIL MAY
GIVE YOU A HARD TIME BUT IF YOU
00:46:45.47\00:46:47.87
STAND UP FOR JESUS, WHEN THE
KING COMES, YOU WILL BE REWARDED
00:46:47.90\00:46:53.41
AND THEY WILL BE PUNISHED.
WHAT HAPPENED TO JEREMIAH WILL
00:46:53.44\00:46:57.48
ALSO BE THE LOT OF THOSE
THAT SERVE THE LORD FAITHFULLY.
00:46:57.51\00:47:00.45
EZEKIEL 2, VERSE 6, "AND YOU,
SON OF MAN, DO NOT BE AFRAID OF
00:47:00.48\00:47:05.39
THEM NOR BE AFRAID OF THEIR
WORDS, THOUGH BRIERS AND THORNS
00:47:05.42\00:47:09.16
ARE WITH YOU AND YOU DWELL AMONG
SCORPIONS; DO NOT BE AFRAID OF
00:47:09.19\00:47:12.19
THEIR WORDS OR DISMAYED BY
THEIR LOOKS, THOUGH THEY ARE A
00:47:12.23\00:47:16.03
REBELLIOUS HOUSE."
HAVE YOU EVER HAD TO WALK
00:47:16.06\00:47:18.50
THROUGH BRIERS AND THORNS?
YOU HAVE TO JUST PICK YOUR WAY
00:47:18.53\00:47:21.04
THROUGH VERY CAREFULLY
SO THAT YOU'RE NOT INJURED.
00:47:21.07\00:47:22.84
THAT'S WHAT HE'S
SAYING TO EZEKIEL.
00:47:22.87\00:47:24.54
YOU MIGHT LOOK LIKE YOU'RE
HEDGED IN WITH BRIERS AND THORNS
00:47:24.57\00:47:26.44
ON EVERY HAND, SURROUNDED
BY SCORPIONS - DON'T BE AFRAID.
00:47:26.47\00:47:30.51
YOU EVER CAMP WHERE
YOU KNOW THERE'S SCORPIONS?
00:47:30.55\00:47:32.25
YOU'VE GOT TO CHECK
YOUR SHOES IN THE MORNING?
00:47:32.28\00:47:34.88
HE'S TELLING EZEKIEL, "DO
NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR WORDS OR
00:47:34.92\00:47:38.95
DISMAYED BY THEIR LOOKS, THOUGH
THEY ARE A REBELLIOUS HOUSE.
00:47:38.99\00:47:42.56
YOU SHALL SPEAK MY WORDS
TO THEM, WHETHER THEY HEAR OR
00:47:42.59\00:47:46.06
WHETHER THEY REFUSE,
FOR THEY ARE REBELLIOUS."
00:47:46.09\00:47:48.26
I KNOW ONE PASTOR SAID, 'I'M
AFRAID TO MAKE ALTAR CALLS AT
00:47:48.30\00:47:51.40
THE END OF MY SERMONS BECAUSE
WHAT IF NOBODY COMES UP?'
00:47:51.43\00:47:54.14
AND THE OLD EVANGELIST
TOLD HIM, DON'T BE AFRAID.
00:47:54.17\00:47:56.77
THAT'S NOT YOUR PROBLEM.
YOU INVITE PEOPLE TO COME.
00:47:56.81\00:47:59.74
YOU PREACH ABOUT SIN AND
SALVATION AND THEN WHETHER THEY
00:47:59.77\00:48:02.71
COME OR NOT, YOUR SOUL IS CLEAR.
YOU ARE TO GIVE THE WORD OF THE
00:48:02.74\00:48:05.15
LORD. IF THEY RESPOND, GREAT.
00:48:05.18\00:48:07.68
IF THEY DON'T,
THAT'S BETWEEN THEM AND GOD.
00:48:07.72\00:48:09.85
CAN YOU IMAGINE
HOW BAD NOAH FELT?
00:48:09.88\00:48:13.32
TALK ABOUT A
DIFFICULT ALTAR CALL.
00:48:13.36\00:48:15.19
(LAUGHTER) I MEAN, THERE HE
STANDS AT THE DOOR OF THE ARK
00:48:15.22\00:48:17.79
BEFORE IT SHUTS - PREACH FOR
A HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS, MAKE
00:48:17.83\00:48:20.16
AN APPEAL, AND NO ONE
COMES BUT YOUR FAMILY.
00:48:20.20\00:48:22.36
BUT HE DID WHAT GOD
TOLD HIM TO DO, RIGHT?
00:48:22.40\00:48:26.84
AND SO THAT'S WHAT GOD SAYS
TO HIS PROPHETS, 'YOU PREACH.
00:48:26.87\00:48:29.64
YOU LEAVE THE
RESULTS WITH ME. DON'T WORRY.
00:48:29.67\00:48:32.27
IF THEY DON'T LISTEN, THEY DON'T
LISTEN.' AND SO - AND THEN, YOU
00:48:32.31\00:48:36.54
KNOW, THE OTHER THING THAT YOU
WANT TO NOTICE ABOUT THIS IS GOD
00:48:36.58\00:48:39.15
WANTS HIS PROPHETS TO BE BOLD.
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME
00:48:39.18\00:48:44.05
ACTS 4:31. WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
00:48:44.09\00:48:46.89
ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET TO YOU
IN JUST A MOMENT - ACTS 4:31.
00:48:46.92\00:48:49.86
HE WAS ASKING JEREMIAH TO BE A
BOLD PROPHET - TO NOT BE AFRAID.
00:48:49.89\00:48:54.56
YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS PREACHED,
WAS HE TIMID OR WAS HE BOLD?
00:48:54.56\00:48:59.30
YOU CAN READ IN
JOHN 7:26, "BUT LOOK!
00:48:59.33\00:49:03.07
HE SPEAKS BOLDLY AND
THEY SAY NOTHING TO HIM.
00:49:03.10\00:49:06.14
DO THE RULERS KNOW INDEED
THAT THIS IS TRULY THE CHRIST?"
00:49:06.17\00:49:08.51
JESUS PREACHED WITH BOLDNESS
AND, THOSE THAT FOLLOW HIM, WE
00:49:08.54\00:49:12.21
MUST HAVE THAT
SAME KIND OF COURAGE.
00:49:12.25\00:49:14.45
ACTS 4:13 - HOW DID THEY
KNOW THAT THEY WERE FOLLOWERS OF
00:49:14.48\00:49:17.82
JESUS? IT SAYS,
"NOW WHEN THEY SAW THE
00:49:17.85\00:49:20.86
BOLDNESS OF PETER AND JOHN, AND
PERCEIVED THEY WERE UNLEARNED
00:49:20.89\00:49:23.99
AND IGNORANT MEN, THEY
MARVELED; AND THEY TOOK
00:49:24.03\00:49:26.66
KNOWLEDGE OF THEM, THAT
THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS."
00:49:26.70\00:49:29.46
JESUS SAID SOME VERY UNPOPULAR
- WAS JOHN THE BAPTIST BOLD?
00:49:29.50\00:49:31.87
>>YES. >>'THE
WICKED FLEE WHEN NO MAN
00:49:31.90\00:49:35.34
PURSUES, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS ARE'
- DO YOU KNOW THE REST OF THAT?
00:49:35.37\00:49:39.07
- 'AS BOLD AS A LION.' ACTS
4:29 - LISTEN TO WHAT THEY PRAY
00:49:39.11\00:49:44.25
ABOUT, "AND NOW, LORD, BEHOLD
THEIR THREATENINGS: AND GRANT
00:49:44.28\00:49:47.42
UNTO THY SERVANTS, THAT WITH
ALL BOLDNESS THEY MAY SPEAK THY
00:49:47.45\00:49:50.55
WORD." THEY'RE PRAYING FOR WHAT?
00:49:50.59\00:49:52.82
PREACH THE WORD FOR BOLDNESS.
DON'T WE NEED MORE OF THAT HOLY
00:49:52.85\00:49:55.79
BOLDNESS TODAY? >>AMEN.
00:49:55.82\00:49:58.43
>>ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US ACTS 4:31.
00:49:58.46\00:50:00.30
>>"AND WHEN THEY HAD PRAYED, THE
PLACE WAS SHAKEN WHERE THEY WERE
00:50:00.33\00:50:04.33
ASSEMBLED TOGETHER; AND THEY
WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY
00:50:04.37\00:50:07.34
GHOST, AND THEY SPAKE THE
WORD OF GOD WITH BOLDNESS."
00:50:07.37\00:50:11.07
>>SO WHAT DOES GOD WANT TO
DO WITH US WHEN HE FILLS US WITH
00:50:11.11\00:50:13.71
THE HOLY GHOST? THEY
SPOKE THE WORD WITH WHAT?
00:50:13.74\00:50:16.98
>>BOLDNESS. >>THE
HOLY SPIRIT WILL GIVE YOU
00:50:17.01\00:50:19.78
BOLDNESS AND THAT'S
WHAT THESE PROPHETS HAD.
00:50:19.81\00:50:22.48
WOULD WE ALL AGREE
PROPHETS HAD THE HOLY SPIRIT?
00:50:22.52\00:50:24.19
THE HOLY SPIRIT GAVE THEM
COURAGE TO SAY WHAT NEEDED TO BE
00:50:24.22\00:50:28.06
SAID FOR GOD EVEN
THOUGH IT WASN'T POPULAR.
00:50:28.09\00:50:30.73
GOD NEEDS TO GIVE US THIS HOLY
AUDACITY TO SAY THINGS THAT MAY
00:50:30.76\00:50:36.03
NOT BE POLITICALLY CORRECT, THEY
MAY NOT BE WELL RECEIVED, BUT
00:50:36.06\00:50:39.00
IT'S THE WORD OF GOD.
HEBREWS 4:16, "LET US THEREFORE
00:50:39.03\00:50:43.37
COME BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE
OF GRACE, THAT WE MAY OBTAIN
00:50:43.41\00:50:47.01
MERCY," - NOT ONLY DO WE PREACH
BOLDLY - WHAT DID PAUL SAY WE DO
00:50:47.04\00:50:49.51
WITH THE ARMOR OF GOD?
"PRAYING" - AND THIS IS
00:50:49.54\00:50:53.82
EPHESIANS 6:18 - "PRAYING ALWAYS
WITH ALL PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION
00:50:53.85\00:50:58.35
IN THE SPIRIT, BEING WATCHFUL TO
THIS END WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE
00:50:58.39\00:51:01.42
AND SUPPLICATION FOR ALL THE
SAINTS - AND FOR ME," - NOW WHAT
00:51:01.46\00:51:05.36
DOES PAUL WANT THE
CHURCH TO PRAY FOR?
00:51:05.39\00:51:07.30
- "AND FOR ME, THAT UTTERANCE
MAY BE GIVEN TO ME, THAT I MAY
00:51:07.30\00:51:10.00
OPEN MY MOUTH BOLDLY TO MAKE
KNOWN THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL,
00:51:10.03\00:51:14.77
FOR WHICH I AM AN AMBASSADOR IN
CHAINS; THAT IN IT I MAY SPEAK
00:51:14.80\00:51:19.17
BOLDLY, AS I OUGHT TO SPEAK."
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU PRAY FOR?
00:51:19.21\00:51:22.91
WHAT YOU ARE TEMPTED NOT
TO HAVE. AND FOR CHRISTIANS,
00:51:22.94\00:51:27.55
WE ARE TEMPTED TO BE
TIMID ABOUT OUR FAITH.
00:51:27.58\00:51:30.89
THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO PRAY THAT
GOD'LL GIVE US THIS BOLDNESS AND
00:51:30.92\00:51:34.22
JEREMIAH IS A GREAT EXAMPLE IN
THE BIBLE OF SOMEBODY WHO LIVED
00:51:34.26\00:51:38.13
DURING A VERY DIFFICULT TIME,
BUT HE STOOD UP FOR THE LORD.
00:51:38.16\00:51:41.90
SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
VERSES IN THE BIBLE, YOU'RE
00:51:41.93\00:51:44.53
GOING TO FIND IN THE FIFTY-TWO
CHAPTERS OF JEREMIAH, AND SO
00:51:44.57\00:51:48.54
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO
STUDYING THIS TOGETHER AS WE
00:51:48.57\00:51:50.64
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AND YOU CAN FIND THE BOOK THE
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TWO WITNESSES . THANK
YOU FOR STUDYING WITH US,
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FRIENDS. GOD
WILLING, WE'LL STUDY HIS
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WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
>>MY GREATEST WISH IS THAT MY
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CHILDREN WILL SEE ME THE
WAY I SEE MY - MY OWN FATHER.
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HE - HE'S A VERY DEVOTED MAN AND
THAT KIND OF FRAMED MY CHILDHOOD
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GOING FORWARD FROM THERE, WHERE
I WAS ALWAYS INVOLVED IN CHURCH
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WORK AND I HAD A VERY RICH
EXPERIENCE WITH THE LORD AT A
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YOUNG AGE - ALL THE
WAY UP THROUGH COLLEGE.
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AND AFTER I GOT MARRIED I GOT IN
A COMPANY CALLED COMCAST AND I
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SPENT THE PAST, ROUGHLY, EIGHT
AND A HALF YEARS - NINE YEARS -
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AT COMCAST AND I WAS ACTUALLY
WATCHING TELEVISION WITH MY SON
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AND A COMCAST COMMERCIAL CAME ON
THE AIR AND HE SAID, 'OH, DADDY,
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THAT'S COMCAST.
THAT'S WHERE YOU WORK DADDY.'
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AND MOST FATHERS WOULD BE PROUD
OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT IT
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REALLY STRUCK ME THAT, YOU KNOW,
MY SON'S GETTING OLDER AND HE
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DOES NOT SEE ME AS A SERVANT
OF THE LORD. HE SEES ME AS A
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SERVANT OF MY COMPANY AND I KNEW
THAT I WOULD HAVE TO MAKE SOME
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CHANGES BECAUSE I WANTED
HIM TO KNOW ME AS A MAN OF GOD.
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I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE A
PREACHER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT,
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BUT I KNEW THAT THERE WAS ROOM
IN THE WORK FOR ME AND FOR MY
00:53:51.79\00:53:56.90
TALENTS AND I WANTED MY SON
TO SEE ME OPERATING IN THE WORK.
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THAT'S WHEN I KNEW THAT MY
TIME THERE WAS COMING TO AN END.
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I WAS SITTING IN MY OFFICE ONE
DAY AND I WAS KNEELING IN PRAYER
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AND I SAID, 'GOD, YOU KNOW,
SHOW ME WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO
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BECAUSE THIS SEEMS LIKE A
BIG MOVE HERE AND, YOU KNOW,
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EVERYONE'S THINKING I'M CRAZY
AND I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW,
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YOU KNOW, THINGS ARE GOING TO
GO IF THEY DON'T GO WELL.' CRAZY
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THOUGHT WHEN
YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT GOD.
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AND I LIFTED MY HEAD UP IN
PRAYER AND THERE WERE JUST LIKE
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A FLOCK OF OH, MAYBE THREE
HUNDRED BIRDS THAT WERE JUST
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FLYING AND THEY WERE SWOOPING
DOWN OVER THE WATER AND THEY
00:54:51.02\00:54:56.83
WOULD FLY BACK UP AND THEN THEY
WOULD CHASE EACH OTHER AROUND
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AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST
LOOKING AT THE PATTERN OF THE
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GIANT FLOCK AND THE PROMISE
OF THE LORD CAME TO ME WHERE HE
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SAYS THAT, YOU KNOW, HE TAKES
CARE OF THE SPARROWS AND YOU
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DON'T SEE THEM WORRYING ABOUT
HOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE TAKEN
00:55:12.67\00:55:17.51
CARE OF FROM DAY TO DAY.
YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T, YOU KNOW,
00:55:17.55\00:55:21.75
WRING THEIR HANDS WONDERING, YOU
KNOW, WILL THERE BE ANY WORMS TO
00:55:21.78\00:55:24.19
EAT TOMORROW. AND
THAT PROMISE REALLY STOOD
00:55:24.22\00:55:28.89
OUT TO ME AND HE SAID,
'HOW MUCH MORE DO I LOVE YOU?'
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YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO SEND
YOU ON A MISSION TO DO MY WORK
00:55:32.33\00:55:36.46
AND LEAVE YOU HIGH AND
DRY, BECAUSE YOU CLAIM TO BE MY
00:55:36.50\00:55:41.20
CHILD, YOU CLAIM TO BE MY SON,
AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT.' THAT
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ASSURANCE ALLOWS ME TO KNOW THAT
WHATEVER HAPPENS HERE, WHATEVER
00:55:47.31\00:55:51.38
HAPPENS AFTER HERE, WE'RE SONS
OF GOD AND THERE ARE CERTAIN
00:55:51.41\00:55:58.65
THINGS THAT WE
SHOULDN'T WORRY ABOUT.
00:55:58.69\00:56:00.49
FROM THE DAY WE ARRIVED AT
AFCOE, IT'S BEEN OBVIOUS THAT
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GOD HAS BLESSED THE AMAZING
FACTS MINISTRY, THE AFCOE
00:56:07.46\00:56:10.63
PROGRAM, AND I WILL BE USING
MY AFCOE EXPERIENCE, NO MATTER
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WHERE I GO, TO REACH PEOPLE,
BECAUSE THE PERSONAL TOUCH OF
00:56:16.94\00:56:21.08
FACE-TO-FACE EVANGELISM,
SPEAKING AND SHARING THE WORD OF
00:56:21.11\00:56:27.42
GOD OUT OF YOUR OWN MOUTH,
THERE'S NO REPLACEMENT FOR THAT
00:56:27.45\00:56:31.22
AND AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN VERY
INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING ME FIND
00:56:31.25\00:56:35.86
THE AREA OF THE WORK OF GOD
AND SHOWING ME HOW LARGE AND HOW
00:56:35.89\00:56:44.80
BROAD IT IS. IT'S
BEEN A TREMENDOUS BLESSING
00:56:44.83\00:56:47.04
TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE WE'RE
AROUND PEOPLE SEEKING TO DO
00:56:47.07\00:56:51.87
GOD'S WILL AND LISTENING FOR HIS
VOICE IN THEIR LIFE AND THAT'S
00:56:51.91\00:56:54.78
VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TODAY.
>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
00:56:54.81\00:57:07.39
GOSPEL MUCH
FARTHER THAN EVER BEFORE.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
>>SOMEONE ONCE SAID, 'PICK YOUR
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HEROES VERY CAREFULLY OR
YOU MIGHT BECOME LIKE THEM.
00:57:19.07\00:57:22.20
SADLY, MOST PEOPLE TODAY IN THE
WORLD ADMIRE THE WRONG CLASS OF
00:57:22.24\00:57:25.91
HEROES - STRONG ATHLETES,
TALENTED ACTORS OR SINGERS WHOSE
00:57:25.94\00:57:29.88
PERSONAL LIVES ARE OFTEN
EXPOSED FOR VIOLENCE, DRUGS, OR
00:57:29.91\00:57:33.55
IMMORALITY. THIS IS NOT NEW.
00:57:33.58\00:57:35.95
THE WORLD TYPICALLY
CHOOSES THE WRONG HEROES.
00:57:35.98\00:57:38.19
REMEMBER, THE PEOPLE
CHOSE BARABBAS INSTEAD OF JESUS.
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WELL, IF YOU'RE READY TO MEET
A NEW BATCH OF POSITIVE ROLE
00:57:41.46\00:57:44.93
MODELS, I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU
TO PARTICIPATE IN AN INSPIRING
00:57:44.96\00:57:48.73
NEW SERIES OF MEETINGS THAT WILL
BE BROADCAST LIVE FROM LANSING,
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MICHIGAN, OCTOBER 2ND.
IT'S CALLED HEROES OF FAITH .
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THIS NEW EVANGELISM SERIES IS
FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY AND IT'LL
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HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE
REAL HEROES OF HISTORY FROM THE
00:57:59.84\00:58:01.58
BIBLE. PLAN NOW
TO ATTEND WITH YOUR
00:58:01.61\00:58:04.25
FRIENDS AND FAMILY AS WE LEARN
FROM THE PAST HOW WE CAN BE
00:58:04.28\00:58:07.08
HEROES OF FAITH TODAY.
TO FIND OUT MORE OR REGISTER
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YOUR HOME OR CHURCH, GO TO
THEHEROESOFFAITH.COM AND BECOME
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A HERO BY
BRINGING A SOUL TO CHRIST.
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