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>>GOOD MORNING,
FRIENDS, AND WELCOME TO
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SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY
HOUR. A VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO
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OUR FRIENDS JOINING
US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND
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AROUND THE WORLD - OUR
EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL
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BIBLE STUDY CLASS.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO WELCOME
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THE MEMBERS AND THE
VISITORS HERE AT THE
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GRANITE BAY
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
JOINING US THIS MORNING.
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AS YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE
BEEN COMING ON A REGULAR
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BASIS, WE HAVE BEEN
STUDYING THROUGH THE BOOK
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OF JEREMIAH, WHICH IS
OUR LESSON QUARTERLY, AND WE
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FIND OURSELVES
TODAY ON LESSON #9, CALLED
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JEREMIAH'S YOKE .
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AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO
INVITE OUR SONG LEADERS TO
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COME FORWARD AND LEAD
US IN A FEW HYMNS OF PRAISE
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BEFORE WE GET TO OUR STUDY.
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(MUSIC) >>HAPPY
SABBATH AND WELCOME.
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IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY HERE
AT GRANITE BAY SEVENTH-DAY
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ADVENTIST CHURCH AND I'D
LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO TURN
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IN YOUR HYMNALS TO
#476 - BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
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CALVARY - AND AREN'T WE
ALL THANKFUL THAT WE CAN
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ACTUALLY TURN OUR
CARES AND OUR WORRIES OVER TO
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THE GOOD LORD? JOIN WITH US.
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(MUSIC)
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>>DAYS ARE FILLED
WITH SORROW AND CARE
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HEARTS ARE LONELY AND DREAR.
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BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
CALVARY, JESUS IS VERY NEAR.
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BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
CALVARY, CALVARY, CALVARY
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BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
CALVARY, JESUS IS VERY
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NEAR. CAST YOUR CARE ON JESUS
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TODAY, LEAVE
YOUR WORRY AND FEAR.
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BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
CALVARY, JESUS IS VERY
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NEAR. BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
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CALVARY, CALVARY,
CALVARY BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
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CALVARY, JESUS IS VERY
NEAR. TROUBLED SOUL, THE SAVIOR
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CAN FEEL EVERY
HEARTACHE AND TEAR.
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BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
CALVARY, JESUS IS VERY NEAR.
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BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
CALVARY, CALVARY, CALVARY
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BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT
CALVARY, JESUS IS VERY
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NEAR. >>AMEN.
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I'D INVITE FOR YOU TO
TURN TO #469 - OUR LAST SONG
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HERE TODAY - LEANING
ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS .
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I KNOW YOU LIKE TO SING WITH US.
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YOU CERTAINLY WRITE IN
AND LET US KNOW HOW MUCH YOU
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ENJOY THESE SONGS SO
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO JOIN
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US AT THIS TIME. (MUSIC)
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>>WHAT A
FELLOWSHIP, WHAT A JOY DIVINE,
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LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING
ARMS; WHAT A BLESSEDNESS,
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WHAT A PEACE IS MINE,
LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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LEANING, LEANING, SAFE
AND SECURE FROM ALL ALARMS;
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LEANING, LEANING,
LEANING ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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O HOW SWEET TO WALK IN
THIS PILGRIM WAY, LEANING
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ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS;
O HOW BRIGHT THE PATH GROWS
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FROM DAY TO DAY LEANING
ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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LEANING, LEANING,
SAFE AND SECURE FROM ALL
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ALARMS; LEANING,
LEANING, LEANING ON THE
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EVERLASTING ARMS.
WHAT HAVE I TO DREAD, WHAT
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HAVE I TO FEAR, LEANING
ON THE EVERLASTING ARMS?
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I HAVE BLESSED PEACE
WITH MY LORD SO NEAR, LEANING
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ON THE EVERLASTING
ARMS. LEANING, LEANING, SAFE
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AND SECURE FROM
ALL ALARMS; LEANING,
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LEANING, LEANING ON
THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
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>>AND I'D LIKE TO WELCOME
BACK UP PASTOR JËAN ROSS.
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>>AMEN. THANK YOU
SINGERS. THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL.
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I INVITE YOU TO BOW
YOUR HEADS AS WE OPEN WITH A
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WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR
FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE
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ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR
THE OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER
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TOGETHER TO STUDY THE
BIBLE - TO STUDY THIS BOOK
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IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
- THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH.
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THERE ARE SO MANY
IMPORTANT LESSONS FOR OUR
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TIME TODAY AND, ONCE
AGAIN, WE ASK FOR THE HOLY
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SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE
OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS,
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FOR WE ASK THIS
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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WELL, AT THIS TIME,
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR LESSON
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BROUGHT TO US BY THE
ASSISTANT AFCOE DIRECTOR,
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OUR VERY OWN CARISSA MCSHERRY.
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SHE'S GOING TO BE
SHARING WITH US IN OUR STUDY OF
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JEREMIAH. THANK
YOU. COME ON UP, CARISSA.
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>>GOOD MORNING. >>GOOD MORNING.
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>>HAPPY SABBATH. IT'S A
HAPPY SABBATH, ISN'T IT?
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>>YES. >>THIS IS THE DAY THAT
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THE LORD HAS MADE.
LET US - >>REJOICE.
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>>REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT.
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DO WE HAVE A
REASON TO REJOICE TODAY?
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ABSOLUTELY. I PRAISE GOD FOR HIS
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BLESSINGS AND
FOR HIS MERCY THAT IS
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NEW EVERY DAY.
TODAY WE ARE GOING TO BE
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CONTINUING OUR STUDY
IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH.
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WE ARE CONTINUING
WITH LESSON #9 - JEREMIAH'S
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YOKE AND WE'RE GOING TO
LOOK AT HOW AN OLD STORY,
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WRITTEN THOUSANDS OF
YEARS AGO APPLIES TO OUR LIVES
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TODAY. BEFORE
WE BEGIN, WOULD YOU
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BOW YOUR HEADS
WITH ME IN PRAYER?
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HEAVENLY FATHER, LORD, WE
THANK YOU FOR THE LIFE AND
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THE JOY THAT IS IN JESUS CHRIST.
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LORD, I THANK YOU FOR
THIS BEAUTIFUL PRIVILEGE TO
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STUDY TOGETHER, TO
LEARN FROM YOUR WORD.
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AND FATHER, I PRAY
THAT YOUR SPIRIT MAY BE
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SPEAKING THROUGH US
TODAY. LORD, TEACH US YOUR WORD.
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DRAW US CLOSER TO
YOU IS OUR PRAYER.
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IN CHRIST'S NAME, AMEN.
IF YOU HAVE YOUR QUARTERLY
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WITH YOU, PLEASE OPEN
UP TO THAT FIRST PAGE AND
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WE ARE GOING TO READ
OUR MEMORY TEXT TOGETHER.
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OUR MEMORY TEXT IS
FOUND IN LUKE CHAPTER 9 AND
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VERSE 23 - LUKE
CHAPTER 9 AND VERSE 23.
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WOULD YOU READ IT
TOGETHER WITH ME, PLEASE?
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"AND HE SAID TO THEM
ALL, IF ANY MAN WILL COME
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AFTER ME, LET HIM DENY
HIMSELF, AND TAKE UP HIS
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CROSS DAILY, AND FOLLOW ME."
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LET HIM DENY HIMSELF,
TAKE UP HIS CROSS, AND FOLLOW
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ME. WE SEE THAT THIS TRULY IS
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THE STORY OF JEREMIAH'S
LIFE. JEREMIAH'S LIFE IS A LIFE
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OF COMPLETE AND
ABSOLUTE SURRENDER.
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THE STORY WE'LL BE
LOOKING AT TODAY IS FOUND IN
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JEREMIAH CHAPTERS 16, 27,
AND 28, BUT BEFORE WE LOOK
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AT THESE CHAPTERS, I
WANT TO SET THE FOUNDATION -
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GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF
BACKGROUND INTO THE LIFE
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AND STORY OF
JEREMIAH. SO IN ORDER TO DO SO,
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PLEASE TURN WITH ME
TO JEREMIAH CHAPTER 1.
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WE ARE IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER
1 AND THIS IS A VERSE THAT
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MANY OF US HAVE
CLAIMED IN OUR OWN LIVES.
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WHEN WE HAVE BEEN NERVOUS,
WHEN WE HAVE BEEN SCARED,
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WE HAVE CLAIMED THE WORDS
OF JEREMIAH, BUT I WANT TO
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LOOK AT THE CONTEXT
TODAY AND THEN SEE IF WE STILL
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WANT TO CLAIM IT.
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JEREMIAH CHAPTER 1,
VERSE 4, "THEN THE WORD OF THE
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LORD CAME UNTO ME,
SAYING: 'BEFORE I FORMED YOU IN
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THE WOMB I KNEW YOU;
BEFORE YOU WERE BORN I
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SANCTIFIED YOU; I
ORDAINED YOU A PROPHET TO THE
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NATIONS.' THEN
SAID I: 'AH, LORD GOD!
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BEHOLD, I CANNOT SPEAK,
FOR I AM A YOUTH.' BUT THE
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LORD SAID TO ME: 'DO
NOT SAY, 'I AM A YOUTH,' FOR
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YOU SHALL GO TO ALL
TO WHOM I SEND YOU, AND
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WHATEVER I COMMAND
YOU, YOU SHALL SPEAK.
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DO NOT BE AFRAID OF
THEIR FACES, FOR I AM WITH YOU
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TO DELIVER YOU,' SAYS THE LORD."
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO
RECEIVE A CALLING LIKE THAT?
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ABSOLUTELY. TO HEAR
GOD SAY 'DON'T BE AFRAID.
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I AM WITH YOU.
IN FACT, I KNEW YOU
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BEFORE YOU WERE
BORN. I HAD A PLAN
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FOR YOUR LIFE.
DON'T BE AFRAID OF WHAT
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YOU NEED TO SPEAK. I
WILL SPEAK THROUGH YOU.'
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AND WE CLAIM THIS PROMISE
AND WE SAY, 'LORD, MAKE THAT MY
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REALITY.' AND YET,
IF WE CONTINUE INTO
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VERSE 10, WE MAY
JUST CHANGE OUR STORY.
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JEREMIAH - CONTINUING
IN CHAPTER 1 AND VERSE 10,
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"SEE, I HAVE THIS DAY
SET YOU OVER THE NATIONS AND
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OVER THE KINGDOMS, TO
ROOT OUT AND TO PULL DOWN, TO
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DESTROY AND TO THROW
DOWN, TO BUILD AND TO PLANT."
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DO YOU STILL WANT
THIS CALL OF JEREMIAH?
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IT SOUNDS NICE TO THINK
THAT GOD'S WORD IS IN YOU
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AND HE'S USING YOU AS A
MESSENGER AND YOU GET TO
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BE THAT CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY.
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YOU KNOW, OFTEN WE
THINK OF BEING A CHILD OF GOD
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AND WE THINK OF
GIVING ALL TO JESUS.
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WE HAVE THESE PICTURES
OF GOING OFF AND BEING AN
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INCREDIBLE MISSIONARY
OR A FAMOUS EVANGELIST, OR
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MAYBE YOU THINK OF
BEING THE NEXT GEORGE MUELLER
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WHO SETS UP AN
ORPHANAGE IN EUROPE - A MAN OF
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FAITH. BUT WE DON'T OFTEN WANT
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THE EXPERIENCE OF
VERSE 10. 'LORD, YOU WANT
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ME TO DESTROY? LORD, YOU WANT
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ME TO PULL DOWN?
LORD, THAT'S NOT REALLY
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THE JOB I APPLIED FOR.'
I PRAISE GOD BECAUSE AS YOU
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FIND IN THE END OF
VERSE 10, IT COMPLETES WITH
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THESE WORDS: "TO
BUILD AND TO" - DO WHAT?
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>>PLANT. >>TO PLANT.
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YOU SEE, GOD DOES NOT
LEAVE US IN THAT POINT OF
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DISCOURAGEMENT - OF
DESTRUCTION - HE SAYS, 'I
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AM DESTROYING SO THAT I
CAN BUILD AGAIN - SO THAT
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I CAN GIVE YOU SOMETHING
SO MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL.'
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I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU
BUT I, UNFORTUNATELY, WAS NOT
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BLESSED WITH A GREEN THUMB.
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I KILL JUST ABOUT
ANYTHING I RECEIVE.
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I AM WORKING ON THIS - I
PROMISE - BUT ONE THING I
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DO KNOW ABOUT A GARDEN
- LET'S SAY THAT I WANT TO
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GO PLANT TOMATOES, SO I
GO OUT TO THE GARDEN THAT HAS
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BEEN OVERGROWN WITH
WEEDS AND IT HAS BEEN LYING
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DORMANT FOR YEARS, AND
I START TO TRY AND MAKE
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LITTLE HOLES TO
PLANT MY TOMATO PLANTS.
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WILL THAT WORK? NO, WHY?
ALL THE WEEDS - ALL OF THE
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WEEDS - ALL OF THE SOIL
THAT HAS NOT BEEN DUG UP
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WILL DESTROY MY TOMATO
PLANTS. SO BEFORE I CAN PLANT,
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BEFORE I CAN BUILD, I
NEED TO FIRST DO WHAT?
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I NEED TO
DESTROY. I NEED TO CLEAN
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OUT THAT SOIL.
AND, YOU SEE, IT IS THE
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SAME IN OUR LIVES TODAY.
IT IS THE SAME AS JEREMIAH
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SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE OF
JUDAH. HE SAYS, 'YOU CANNOT BE
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BUILT - YOU CANNOT HAVE
THIS NEW EXPERIENCE IN GOD
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UNTIL ALL THAT OLD
SOIL IS DUG UP - UNTIL THOSE
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WEEDS ARE DESTROYED.
YOU SEE, EVEN IN THIS
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MESSAGE OF
DESTRUCTION THERE IS HOPE.
00:14:29.43\00:14:33.84
EVEN IN THIS MESSAGE,
GOD GIVES HIS PEOPLE A
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PROMISE. SO NOW
WE'LL DIG INTO THE
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HEART OF JEREMIAH -
OUR LESSON FOR TODAY.
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TURN WITH ME TO
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 16 - JEREMIAH
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CHAPTER 16. IN
THIS STORY, JEREMIAH,
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AGAIN, RECEIVES A CALL
FROM GOD - SOMETHING THAT
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WAS QUITE A
RESTRICTION ON HIS LIFE.
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TURN WITH ME TO
JEREMIAH 16 AND WE ARE GOING TO
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LOOK AT VERSES 1 THROUGH 5.
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AND THE BIBLE TELLS US,
"THE WORD OF THE LORD ALSO
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CAME TO ME, SAYING, 'YOU
SHALL NOT TAKE A WIFE, NOR
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SHALL YOU HAVE SONS OR
DAUGHTERS IN THIS PLACE.'
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FOR THUS SAYS THE LORD
CONCERNING THE SONS AND
00:15:22.75\00:15:25.22
DAUGHTERS WHO ARE
BORN IN THIS PLACE, AND
00:15:25.22\00:15:26.79
CONCERNING THEIR
MOTHERS WHO BORE THEM AND THEIR
00:15:26.79\00:15:28.36
FATHERS WHO BEGOT THEM IN
THIS LAND: 'THEY SHALL DIE
00:15:28.36\00:15:31.49
GRUESOME DEATHS; THEY
SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED NOR
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SHALL THEY BE BURIED,
BUT THEY SHALL BE LIKE
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REFUSE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
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THEY SHALL BE CONSUMED
BY THE SWORD AND BY FAMINE,
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AND THEIR CORPSES SHALL
BE MEAT FOR THE BIRDS OF
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HEAVEN AND FOR THE
BEASTS OF THE EARTH.' FOR THUS
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SAYS THE LORD: 'DO
NOT ENTER THE HOUSE OF
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MOURNING, NOR GO TO LAMENT
OR BEMOAN THEM; FOR I HAVE
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TAKEN AWAY MY PEACE
FROM THIS PEOPLE,' SAYS THE
00:15:52.48\00:15:56.22
LORD." NOW AGAIN, IMAGINE IN
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JEREMIAH'S TIME,
RECEIVING THIS CALLING FROM GOD.
00:16:01.16\00:16:07.30
MY SISTER WAS JUST
MARRIED IN JUNE AND ALREADY SHE
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CAN HEAR THE LADIES
WHISPERING, 'I WONDER WHEN
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THEY'RE GOING TO
HAVE CHILDREN.' RIGHT?
00:16:15.24\00:16:18.87
MAYBE YOU REMEMBER BEING
THERE AS A YOUNG NEWLYWED
00:16:18.87\00:16:21.14
COUPLE, BUT ESPECIALLY THAT
WAS TRUE IN JEREMIAH'S LIFE.
00:16:21.14\00:16:26.82
YOUR LINEAGE AND
YOUR OFFSPRING WERE SO
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IMPORTANT TO YOUR IDENTITY.
00:16:31.15\00:16:33.56
THAT WAS HOW YOU
HAD YOUR RETIREMENT.
00:16:33.56\00:16:37.29
YOUR CHILDREN
WERE YOUR INVESTMENT.
00:16:37.29\00:16:39.43
OTHERWISE, WHEN YOU
REACHED OLD AGE YOU WOULD
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BE OUT ON THE
STREET AS A BEGGAR.
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THEY NEEDED EACH OTHER -
THAT WAS THEIR LIVELIHOOD
00:16:43.73\00:16:46.84
AND, IN FACT, IT
WAS ALMOST INSULTIVE FOR
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JEREMIAH NOT TO GET
MARRIED, NOT TO HAVE
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CHILDREN. YOU CAN IMAGINE PEOPLE
00:16:54.01\00:16:57.38
COMING TO JEREMIAH AND
SAYING, 'WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?
00:16:57.38\00:16:59.85
WHY AREN'T YOU MARRIED?
WHY HAVEN'T YOU FOLLOWED
00:16:59.85\00:17:01.78
IN THE
TRADITIONS?' AND THAT IS THE
00:17:01.78\00:17:04.85
OPPORTUNITY FOR
JEREMIAH TO OPEN UP AND SAY,
00:17:04.85\00:17:07.82
'LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT
THE LORD'S PLAN FOR MY LIFE.
00:17:07.82\00:17:11.16
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT
THE DESTRUCTION THAT IS GOING
00:17:11.16\00:17:13.43
TO COME TO JERUSALEM AND
WHY I AM NOT MARRIED.' YOU
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SEE, GOD USES HIS
PROPHETS AS OBJECT LESSONS.
00:17:17.07\00:17:23.04
GOD USES HIS PROPHETS
TO DEMONSTRATE HIS WORD AND
00:17:23.04\00:17:27.71
HIS GOSPEL. DOES GOD USE US AS
00:17:27.71\00:17:31.11
OBJECT LESSONS
AS WELL? ABSOLUTELY.
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DID JESUS USE
ILLUSTRATIONS AS HE SHARED
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THE WORD? HELP ME OUT
HERE. WHAT ILLUSTRATIONS
00:17:39.39\00:17:42.76
DID JESUS USE? HE USED PARABLES.
00:17:42.76\00:17:47.36
HE USED THE
PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE.
00:17:47.36\00:17:50.57
HE USED THE
PARABLE OF THE SAMARITAN:
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'CONSIDER THIS MAN
- WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?'
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IN FACT, THE BOOK
CHRIST'S OBJECT LESSONS PAINTS A
00:17:57.61\00:18:00.21
BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF
JESUS, ONE DAY, SITTING ON
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THE MOUNTAINSIDE,
SITTING THERE WITH HIS DISCIPLES
00:18:04.81\00:18:08.25
AND HE'S JUST THINKING,
'HOW DO I EXPLAIN TO THESE
00:18:08.25\00:18:12.22
MERE MORTALS THE BEAUTY
- THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF
00:18:12.22\00:18:17.63
GOD AND OF HIS KINGDOM?'
IMAGINE FACING THAT TRIAL.
00:18:17.63\00:18:23.33
JESUS UNDERSTOOD - HE
HAD BEEN IN THE PRESENCE OF
00:18:23.33\00:18:25.37
GOD AND NOW HE HAS TO
EXPLAIN SUCH AN INCREDIBLE
00:18:25.37\00:18:28.40
CONCEPT TO SUCH FINITE MINDS.
00:18:28.40\00:18:33.44
AND THERE, AS JESUS SITS
CONSIDERING THIS DILEMMA,
00:18:33.44\00:18:38.21
HE LOOKS OVER AT THE
FLOWERS OF THE FIELD AND
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HE SAYS, 'CONSIDER THE LILIES.
00:18:40.88\00:18:45.99
CONSIDER THE LILIES.
CONSIDER HOW THEY GROW.
00:18:45.99\00:18:48.69
LOOK AT THE LILIES TO
SEE A PICTURE OF THE KINGDOM
00:18:48.69\00:18:51.63
OF GOD.' AND YOU SEE
JESUS USED SIMPLE ILLUSTRATIONS
00:18:51.63\00:18:56.56
TO POINT US BACK TO HIS WORD.
00:18:56.56\00:19:00.37
BUT I BELIEVE THE MOST
POWERFUL ILLUSTRATION IS
00:19:00.37\00:19:03.71
THE ONE THAT GOD USED
WHEN ACCUSATIONS WERE BROUGHT
00:19:03.71\00:19:07.94
TO HIM AGAINST HIS SERVANT JOB.
00:19:07.94\00:19:12.41
'IS THERE ANYONE
THAT TRULY LOVES YOU, GOD?
00:19:12.41\00:19:15.08
I THINK IT'S JUST
BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU GIVE THEM.'
00:19:15.08\00:19:17.89
AND YET, GOD COULD POINT
DOWN AND SAY, 'WELL, HAVE
00:19:17.89\00:19:21.02
YOU CONSIDERED - HAVE YOU
LOOKED AT MY SERVANT JOB?'
00:19:21.02\00:19:28.80
HOW INCREDIBLE TODAY TO
THINK THAT YOU ARE GOD'S
00:19:28.80\00:19:32.70
OBJECT LESSON.
THAT GOD CAN POINT AT US
00:19:32.70\00:19:36.97
TODAY AND SAY, 'HAVE YOU
CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOE?'
00:19:36.97\00:19:41.21
'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED MY SERVANT
TIM?' 'HAVE YOU CONSIDERED
00:19:41.21\00:19:45.38
HOW MY LIFE IS BEING
LIVED OUT THROUGH THEM?'
00:19:45.38\00:19:51.05
CONTINUING - HOW MANY
OF YOU HERE ARE PARENTS?
00:19:51.05\00:19:56.42
ALRIGHT, THE MAJORITY
HERE. HAVE YOU EVER TOLD YOUR
00:19:56.42\00:19:59.59
CHILDREN - I'M GOING
TO EVEN PUT IT ON YOUR
00:19:59.59\00:20:01.00
TEENAGE SON - HAVE
YOU EVER TOLD YOUR TEENAGE
00:20:01.00\00:20:03.80
SON, 'I'M GOING TO BE
GONE FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS.
00:20:03.80\00:20:06.94
WHEN I COME HOME, I
WANT TO SEE A CLEAN ROOM THAT
00:20:06.94\00:20:10.74
SMELLS GOOD'? HAVE
YOU DONE THIS BEFORE?
00:20:10.74\00:20:16.31
AND YOU GO AND YOU RUN
YOUR ERRANDS AND YOU COME
00:20:16.31\00:20:18.65
BACK HOME AND WHAT THAT
MOTHER DISCOVERS IS YOUR
00:20:18.65\00:20:22.08
SON HAS TAKEN HIS DIRTY
SOCKS AND SHOVED THEM INTO
00:20:22.08\00:20:25.85
THE CLOSET. AND
ALL THOSE OLD WRAPPERS
00:20:25.85\00:20:29.36
WITH HALF-EATEN
FOOD ARE NOW HIDDEN
00:20:29.36\00:20:32.39
UNDERNEATH THE BED.
AND HE TOOK YOUR CAN OF
00:20:32.39\00:20:35.93
AIR FRESHENER AND
HE EMPTIED OUT HALF THE
00:20:35.93\00:20:38.17
CONTAINER IN THAT
LITTLE TEN BY TEN ROOM.
00:20:38.17\00:20:41.60
DOES THAT ROOM
SMELL BETTER OR WORSE?
00:20:41.60\00:20:46.78
>>WORSE. >>IT'S WORSE, RIGHT?
00:20:46.78\00:20:50.31
NOW IT'S EVEN A
GREATER STENCH BECAUSE YOU ARE
00:20:50.31\00:20:52.98
TRYING TO COVER A STENCH
WITH SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL,
00:20:52.98\00:20:57.69
WHICH MAKES IT WORSE.
00:20:57.69\00:21:00.62
CAN WE EVER DO THAT IN
OUR CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE?
00:21:00.62\00:21:04.66
GOD IS CALLING US TO
BE PERFUME AND SO WE SAY,
00:21:04.66\00:21:07.00
'OH, IF WE JUST SPRAY
MORE OF THAT CHRISTIAN PERFUME
00:21:07.00\00:21:09.53
ON OURSELVES, THEN
EVERYONE CAN SEE HOW
00:21:09.53\00:21:12.77
BEAUTIFUL I AM AND
HOW GOOD I SMELL AND HOW
00:21:12.77\00:21:15.50
WONDERFUL OF A CHRISTIAN
I AM.' AND WE SPRAY THAT
00:21:15.50\00:21:19.41
PERFUME AND WE HIDE
THOSE DIRTY SOCKS AND THOSE
00:21:19.41\00:21:21.88
SKELETONS BACK IN
THE CLOSET, BUT WE END UP
00:21:21.88\00:21:25.61
SMELLING LIKE A WRETCHED MESS.
00:21:25.61\00:21:29.32
YET AGAIN, I THINK
THAT PRINCIPLE IS FOUND IN
00:21:29.32\00:21:32.35
CONSIDERING THE
LILIES. YOU SEE, THE FLOWERS DO
00:21:32.35\00:21:37.23
NOT WORK - THEY DO
NOT TRY TO SMELL PRETTY.
00:21:37.23\00:21:42.63
THERE IS NO EFFORT TO
IT, RATHER IT IS JUST BECAUSE
00:21:42.63\00:21:46.20
THEY ARE STRONG - IT
IS BECAUSE THEIR ROOTS ARE
00:21:46.20\00:21:48.47
SOLID - THAT THAT
BEAUTIFUL ESSENCE BEGINS
00:21:48.47\00:21:52.04
TO FLOW FROM WITHIN.
IT'S NEVER TOO STRONG.
00:21:52.04\00:21:56.91
IT'S ALWAYS THE RIGHT AMOUNT.
00:21:56.91\00:22:00.38
YOU SEE, IT'S TRUE
IN OUR LIVES TODAY.
00:22:00.38\00:22:02.55
GOD IS CALLING US TO BE PERFUME.
00:22:02.55\00:22:04.42
HE'S CALLING US TO SMELL
NICE SO THAT ALL THE WORLD
00:22:04.42\00:22:07.42
CAN SEE HIS KINGDOM
AND HIS GLORY REVEALED, BUT
00:22:07.42\00:22:10.23
THAT CAN'T BE BY ME
TRYING TO MAKE MYSELF LOOK GOOD.
00:22:10.23\00:22:14.13
IT CAN ONLY BE AS I ALLOW
GOD TO DO THAT WORK THROUGH ME.
00:22:14.13\00:22:19.83
I'M SO THANKFUL THAT GOD
PROMISES TO DO JUST THAT.
00:22:19.83\00:22:24.37
WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE
NOW IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 27
00:22:24.37\00:22:29.68
- JEREMIAH CHAPTER 27 -
AGAIN, NOW WE'RE GETTING
00:22:29.68\00:22:33.05
INTO THE MEAT OF
OUR LESSON TODAY.
00:22:33.05\00:22:37.42
JEREMIAH 27 - AGAIN, A
WARNING IS GIVEN TO THE
00:22:37.42\00:22:41.22
PEOPLE OF GOD THROUGH
YET ANOTHER OBJECT LESSON.
00:22:41.22\00:22:47.13
JEREMIAH 27,
BEGINNING IN VERSE 1.
00:22:47.13\00:22:53.17
AND THE BIBLE SAYS, "IN
THE BEGINNING OF THE REIGN
00:22:53.17\00:22:55.40
OF JEHOIAKIM THE SON
OF JOSIAH, KING OF JUDAH,
00:22:55.40\00:22:59.27
THIS WORD CAME TO
JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, SAYING,
00:22:59.27\00:23:02.98
'THUS SAYS THE LORD TO
ME: 'MAKE FOR YOURSELVES BONDS
00:23:02.98\00:23:07.08
AND YOKES, AND PUT THEM
ON YOUR NECK, AND SEND THEM
00:23:07.08\00:23:11.55
TO THE KING OF EDOM, THE
KING OF MOAB, THE KING OF
00:23:11.55\00:23:15.06
THE AMMONITES, THE KING
OF TYRE, AND THE KING OF
00:23:15.06\00:23:17.03
SIDON, BY THE HAND OF
THE MESSENGERS WHO COME TO
00:23:17.03\00:23:19.89
JERUSALEM TO
ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH.
00:23:19.89\00:23:23.53
AND COMMAND THEM TO SAY
TO THEIR MASTERS, 'THUS SAYS
00:23:23.53\00:23:25.97
THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE
GOD OF ISRAEL - THUS YOU SHALL
00:23:25.97\00:23:28.94
SAY TO YOUR MASTERS: 'I
HAVE MADE THE EARTH, THE
00:23:28.94\00:23:32.41
MAN AND THE BEAST THAT
ARE ON THE GROUND, BY MY GREAT
00:23:32.41\00:23:35.58
POWER AND BY MY
OUTSTRETCHED ARM, AND HAVE
00:23:35.58\00:23:37.61
GIVEN IT TO WHOM IT
SEEMED PROPER TO ME.
00:23:37.61\00:23:41.18
AND NOW I HAVE GIVEN ALL
THESE LANDS INTO THE HAND
00:23:41.18\00:23:43.99
OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR
THE KING OF BABYLON, MY
00:23:43.99\00:23:46.59
SERVANT; AND THE BEASTS
OF THE FIELD I HAVE ALSO
00:23:46.59\00:23:49.49
GIVEN HIM TO SERVE
HIM.'" FINALLY, IN VERSE 7, "SO
00:23:49.49\00:23:55.83
ALL NATIONS SHALL
SERVE HIM AND HIS SON AND HIS
00:23:55.83\00:23:58.23
SON'S SON, UNTIL THE
TIME OF HIS LAND COMES; AND
00:23:58.23\00:24:02.17
THEN MANY NATIONS AND
GREAT KINGS SHALL MAKE HIM
00:24:02.17\00:24:05.54
SERVE THEM." YOU
SEE, HERE, JEREMIAH IS
00:24:05.54\00:24:09.94
GIVING A VERY UNPOPULAR
MESSAGE. HERE HE IS TELLING THE
00:24:09.94\00:24:14.78
PEOPLE OF JUDAH THAT
'YOU NEED TO SERVE THE
00:24:14.78\00:24:19.05
KING OF BABYLON.
THE KING OF BABYLON WILL
00:24:19.05\00:24:22.29
COME IN AND YOU
MUST ACCEPT HIS YOKE.'
00:24:22.29\00:24:27.10
NOW HERE IS JEREMIAH
WITH THE WOODEN YOKE UPON HIM.
00:24:27.10\00:24:32.93
NOW THIS YOKE IS NOT -
NOT KEY CHAIN SIZED, RIGHT?
00:24:32.93\00:24:37.87
THIS YOKE IS
ABOUT FIVE FEET LONG.
00:24:37.87\00:24:42.31
CAN YOU IMAGINE WALKING
AROUND ALL DAY LONG WITH A
00:24:42.31\00:24:45.91
GIANT YOKE ON YOUR SHOULDERS?
00:24:45.91\00:24:49.35
DO YOU THINK YOU
MIGHT BE NOTICED?
00:24:49.35\00:24:52.42
ABSOLUTELY. AND
THAT'S, AGAIN, WHAT
00:24:52.42\00:24:55.16
CHRIST IS TRYING TO
PORTRAY THROUGH JEREMIAH'S LIFE.
00:24:55.16\00:24:58.46
HE WANTS HIM TO BE
NOTICED. HE WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO
00:24:58.46\00:25:00.96
UNDERSTAND THIS
MESSAGE OF WARNING.
00:25:00.96\00:25:04.37
SO HERE IS JEREMIAH
WITH HIS YOKE UPON HIM.
00:25:04.37\00:25:07.87
AND IF YOU CONTINUE
READING THROUGH JEREMIAH
00:25:07.87\00:25:10.11
CHAPTER 27 YOU WILL SEE
THAT JEREMIAH IS STRONGLY,
00:25:10.11\00:25:15.71
VEHEMENTLY WARNING THE PEOPLE
OF GOD. HE IS WARNING THEM THAT
00:25:15.71\00:25:21.38
THERE WILL BE FALSE
PROPHETS THAT WILL COME
00:25:21.38\00:25:24.35
AND THEY WILL
PROPHESY SMOOTH WORDS.
00:25:24.35\00:25:27.82
THEY WILL TELL YOU
THERE IS PEACE AND THERE IS
00:25:27.82\00:25:30.16
SAFETY. DON'T
WORRY ABOUT BABYLON.
00:25:30.16\00:25:32.96
DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS YOKE.
00:25:32.96\00:25:35.83
THERE ARE MANY
BEAUTIFUL YEARS AHEAD OF YOU AND
00:25:35.83\00:25:39.27
JEREMIAH WARNS AGAIN
AND AGAIN AND AGAIN, 'DON'T
00:25:39.27\00:25:43.00
BELIEVE IT. DON'T TRUST THEM.
00:25:43.00\00:25:46.37
DON'T ACCEPT THE LIES.'
AND YET, WHAT DO WE FIND
00:25:46.37\00:25:51.55
THEM DOING IN
CHAPTER 28? BELIEVING A LIE.
00:25:51.55\00:25:58.02
A PROPHET BY THE NAME OF
HANANIAH COMES BEFORE THE
00:25:58.02\00:26:02.39
PEOPLE OF GOD. NOW
HANANIAH IS THE SON
00:26:02.39\00:26:06.23
OF A PROPHET - SAME
AS JEREMIAH WAS - SO WE
00:26:06.23\00:26:10.90
SEE THEY BOTH HAVE THIS
LINEAGE. THEY'RE BOTH RELIGIOUS
00:26:10.90\00:26:14.24
LEADERS AND THEY BOTH
ARE BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND
00:26:14.24\00:26:17.74
YET THEY HAVE TWO VERY
CONTRADICTORY MESSAGES.
00:26:17.74\00:26:23.38
YOU SEE, JEREMIAH IS
TELLING THE PEOPLE THAT IF
00:26:23.38\00:26:25.51
YOU DON'T SUBMIT TO THIS
YOKE, YOU WILL BE DESTROYED.
00:26:25.51\00:26:29.95
THERE WILL BE
SEVENTY YEARS OF CAPTIVITY.
00:26:29.95\00:26:32.89
AND YET HANANIAH COMES
AND HE SAYS, 'OH, NO, NO, NO,
00:26:32.89\00:26:36.39
DON'T LISTEN TO ALL
THESE HORRIBLE FOREBODINGS.
00:26:36.39\00:26:40.50
THAT IS NOT
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:26:40.50\00:26:42.60
THERE WILL BE TWO MORE
YEARS AND THEN ALL OF OUR
00:26:42.60\00:26:46.90
POSSESSIONS WILL COME
BACK.' HE IS PROPHESYING
00:26:46.90\00:26:51.64
PEACE AND JOY AND PROSPERITY.
00:26:51.64\00:26:56.54
NOW IMAGINE THAT YOU
WERE IN THAT AUDIENCE.
00:26:56.54\00:27:01.55
OR LET ME MAKE IT A
LITTLE MORE PERSONAL.
00:27:01.55\00:27:04.35
IMAGINE, TODAY, THAT TWO
PROPHETS CAME UP ONTO THE
00:27:04.35\00:27:07.86
STAGE AND ONE WAS
PROPHESYING AND SAYING THE
00:27:07.86\00:27:11.86
UNITED STATES IS GOING
TO CONTINUE TO BE A WORLD
00:27:11.86\00:27:15.33
POWER. WE WILL
HAVE MANY YEARS OF
00:27:15.33\00:27:18.53
PROSPERITY AND THE
ECONOMY WILL IMPROVE AND -
00:27:18.53\00:27:22.50
BEAUTIFUL THINGS AHEAD
OF US - A LAND OF PEACE.
00:27:22.50\00:27:27.44
AND YET ANOTHER PROPHET COMES
UP AND SAYS, 'OH NO, NO, NO.
00:27:27.44\00:27:31.35
SEVENTY YEARS OF CAPTIVITY.
THE TRIALS ARE COMING.
00:27:31.35\00:27:37.39
TERRORISM WILL DESTROY THE
COUNTRY.' NOW WHICH OF THESE TWO
00:27:37.39\00:27:43.16
PROPHETS WOULD YOU
BE INCLINED TO BELIEVE?
00:27:43.16\00:27:47.20
I WANT THE FIRST OPTION, RIGHT?
00:27:47.20\00:27:49.80
GIVE ME THE PEACE.
GIVE ME THE PROSPERITY.
00:27:49.80\00:27:53.84
NOT THAT SECOND
OPTION - SEVENTY YEARS AND
00:27:53.84\00:27:56.27
DESTRUCTION AND
PAIN AND TURMOIL?
00:27:56.27\00:27:58.11
NO, NO, NO, I CHOOSE
THIS GUY.' AND, YOU SEE, THIS
00:27:58.11\00:28:02.78
IS EXACTLY WHAT
HAPPENED WITH GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:28:02.78\00:28:05.38
THEY LOOKED AT THESE
TWO MESSAGES AND THEY SAID,
00:28:05.38\00:28:08.02
'AH, ONE OF THOSE IS
JUST NOT PLEASING TO ME.' I'M
00:28:08.02\00:28:11.49
GOING TO CHOOSE HANANIAH.'
WHAT I FIND SO INTERESTING
00:28:11.49\00:28:16.89
ABOUT THIS STORY IS
JEREMIAH'S APPROACH.
00:28:16.89\00:28:21.96
TURN WITH ME, AGAIN, TO
VERSE 28 - WE ARE IN JEREMIAH
00:28:21.96\00:28:28.90
CHAPTER 28 AND WE'LL BE
PICKING UP THIS STORY IN
00:28:28.90\00:28:34.44
VERSE 5 - JEREMIAH 28
AND VERSE 5 AND THE BIBLE
00:28:34.44\00:28:40.45
SAYS, "THEN THE
PROPHET JEREMIAH SPOKE TO THE
00:28:40.45\00:28:44.25
PROPHET HANANIAH IN
THE PRESENCE OF THE PRIESTS
00:28:44.25\00:28:47.52
AND IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL
THE PEOPLE WHO STOOD IN THE
00:28:47.52\00:28:50.03
HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND THE
PROPHET JEREMIAH SAID, 'AMEN!
00:28:50.03\00:28:55.53
THE LORD DO SO; THE
LORD PERFORM YOUR WORDS WHICH
00:28:55.53\00:28:58.53
YOU HAVE PROPHESIED, TO
BRING BACK THE VESSELS OF
00:28:58.53\00:29:01.97
THE LORD'S HOUSE AND
ALL WHO WERE CARRIED AWAY
00:29:01.97\00:29:04.81
CAPTIVE, FROM
BABYLON TO THIS PLACE."
00:29:04.81\00:29:09.21
NOTICE JEREMIAH'S RESPONSE.
00:29:09.21\00:29:12.71
WAS JEREMIAH TREATED
KINDLY BY THE PEOPLE OF
00:29:12.71\00:29:17.05
JUDAH? NO. HE HAD BEEN SCOURGED.
HE WAS BEAT. HE WAS IMPRISONED.
00:29:17.05\00:29:24.53
AND YET, HERE HE IS
SAYING, 'OH, WOULD TO GOD
00:29:24.53\00:29:28.96
THAT YOUR MESSAGE WAS
TRUE.' HE DOES NOT WANT A
00:29:28.96\00:29:33.44
CURSE TO COME ON
THE PEOPLE OF GOD.
00:29:33.44\00:29:35.37
HE WOULD LOVE IT TO
BE PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
00:29:35.37\00:29:38.47
'OH MAY IT BE TRUE!'
YOU SEE, JEREMIAH DID NOT
00:29:38.47\00:29:44.31
HAVE ANIMOSITY - EVEN
THOUGH HE HAD BEEN HURT
00:29:44.31\00:29:48.68
TIME AND AGAIN, HIS
ONLY DESIRE WAS TO SPEAK
00:29:48.68\00:29:51.99
THE WORD OF GOD.
HIS ONLY DESIRE WAS TO
00:29:51.99\00:29:55.29
REACH OUT AND SAVE HIS
PEOPLE. CONTINUING IN VERSE 7,
00:29:55.29\00:30:03.47
"NEVERTHELESS HEAR NOW
THIS WORD THAT I SPEAK IN
00:30:03.47\00:30:07.47
YOUR HEARING AND IN THE
HEARING OF ALL THE PEOPLE:
00:30:07.47\00:30:11.34
THE PROPHETS WHO HAVE
BEEN BEFORE ME AND BEFORE YOU
00:30:11.34\00:30:13.64
OF OLD PROPHESIED
AGAINST MANY COUNTRIES AND GREAT
00:30:13.64\00:30:16.44
KINGDOMS - OF WAR AND
DISASTER AND PESTILENCE.
00:30:16.44\00:30:20.82
AS FOR THE PROPHET WHO
PROPHESIES OF PEACE, WHEN
00:30:20.82\00:30:23.15
THE WORD OF THE PROPHET
COMES TO PASS, THE PROPHET
00:30:23.15\00:30:25.85
WILL BE KNOWN AS ONE
WHOM THE LORD HAS TRULY SENT."
00:30:25.85\00:30:31.53
IN OTHER WORDS, JEREMIAH
IS NOT DEFENDING HIMSELF.
00:30:31.53\00:30:36.97
HE IS NOT SAYING, 'YOU
ARE HURTING MY PRIDE. I GAVE
00:30:36.97\00:30:40.77
THIS MESSAGE AND I'M GOING
TO STAND STRONG BEHIND IT.'
00:30:40.77\00:30:44.34
RATHER, HE IS SAYING,
GOD WILL BE PROVEN TRUE.
00:30:44.34\00:30:50.51
OTHER PROPHETS OF OLD
HAVE PROPHESIED PEACE AND IT
00:30:50.51\00:30:53.21
HAS FAILED. TODAY WE WILL WATCH
00:30:53.21\00:30:56.58
AND SEE WHICH OF
THESE PROPHECIES COME TRUE.'
00:30:56.58\00:31:01.62
YOU KNOW, THE SAME THING
OCCURS IN OUR LIVES TODAY.
00:31:01.62\00:31:05.19
SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO
SIT BACK AND WATCH AND SEE
00:31:05.19\00:31:08.23
WHICH OF THOSE
MESSAGES WERE TRULY FROM GOD.
00:31:08.23\00:31:11.33
WHICH OF THOSE
CAN TRULY BE TRUSTED?
00:31:11.33\00:31:16.00
CONTINUING IN VERSE 10:
"THEN HANANIAH THE PROPHET
00:31:16.00\00:31:21.38
TOOK THE YOKE OFF THE
PROPHET JEREMIAH'S NECK AND
00:31:21.38\00:31:25.95
BROKE IT. AND HANANIAH SPOKE IN
00:31:25.95\00:31:29.58
THE PRESENCE OF ALL THE
PEOPLE, SAYING, 'THUS SAYS
00:31:29.58\00:31:31.85
THE LORD: 'EVEN SO I
WILL BREAK THE YOKE OF
00:31:31.85\00:31:35.12
NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF
BABYLON FROM THE NECK OF
00:31:35.12\00:31:37.83
ALL NATIONS WITHIN THE
SPACE OF TWO FULL YEARS.''
00:31:37.83\00:31:42.96
AND THE PROPHET
JEREMIAH WENT HIS WAY."
00:31:42.96\00:31:48.47
SO HERE HE COMES TO
HIM AND RATHER VIOLENTLY
00:31:48.47\00:31:51.94
BREAKS THAT WOODEN
YOKE OFF OF HIS NECK.
00:31:51.94\00:31:55.91
DOES JEREMIAH THROW UP
HIS FISTS AND SAY, 'ALRIGHT,
00:31:55.91\00:31:58.98
THE FIGHT'S ON!'?
HOW DOES HE RESPOND?
00:31:58.98\00:32:05.22
HE WALKS AWAY. HE LEAVES.
00:32:05.22\00:32:09.86
IS THERE A TIME TO BE SILENT?
00:32:09.86\00:32:15.53
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN
PEOPLE ARGUE AGAINST US -
00:32:15.53\00:32:19.90
WHEN THEY REBUKE US -
WE WANT TO FIGHT BACK.
00:32:19.90\00:32:23.24
BUT THERE ARE
TIMES TO HOLD OUR PEACE.
00:32:23.24\00:32:26.71
THERE ARE TIMES
TO SIMPLY WALK AWAY.
00:32:26.71\00:32:31.51
YOU SEE JEREMIAH WAS
REVILED AND YET HE DID NOT
00:32:31.51\00:32:37.29
REVILE AGAIN. CAN
YOU THINK OF ANOTHER
00:32:37.29\00:32:40.79
MAN IN SCRIPTURE WHO DID
THE SAME THING? JESUS CHRIST.
00:32:40.79\00:32:46.43
PICTURE HIM, AGAIN,
STANDING BEFORE HEROD.
00:32:46.43\00:32:50.33
HE COULD HAVE
GIVEN A BEAUTIFUL SERMON.
00:32:50.33\00:32:52.87
HE COULD HAVE WORKED
A MIRACLE LIKE HEROD WAS
00:32:52.87\00:32:54.97
COMMANDING HIM TO,
AND YET HE DID WHAT?
00:32:54.97\00:32:58.97
HE REMAINED SILENT.
WHY? BECAUSE THE GREATEST
00:32:58.97\00:33:04.71
PROPHET HAD SPOKEN TO
HEROD OF OLD - JOHN THE
00:33:04.71\00:33:08.12
BAPTIST - AND
HEROD WOULD NOT LISTEN TO
00:33:08.12\00:33:11.19
THAT MESSAGE. WHY
THEN SHOULD JESUS SPEAK?
00:33:11.19\00:33:16.26
SOMETIMES THE STRONGEST ARGUMENT
YOU CAN MAKE IS SILENCE.
00:33:16.26\00:33:24.73
SOMETIMES THE BEST
THING YOU CAN DO IS WALK AWAY.
00:33:24.73\00:33:30.77
THAT IS WHERE TRUE
HUMILITY IS DEMONSTRATED.
00:33:30.77\00:33:35.54
IN NUMBERS CHAPTER 16 THE
STORY IS TOLD OF HOW MOSES
00:33:35.54\00:33:42.58
WAS APPROACHED BY
KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM.
00:33:42.58\00:33:47.19
AND AS THESE MEN CAME TO
HIM, THEY CLAIMED, 'WHO DO
00:33:47.19\00:33:50.93
YOU THINK YOU
ARE? YOU ARE TRYING TO
00:33:50.93\00:33:53.80
SET YOURSELF AS GOD.
YOU ARE EXALTING YOURSELF.
00:33:53.80\00:33:57.17
YOU ARE NO BETTER
THAN THE REST OF US.
00:33:57.17\00:33:59.67
ANY OF US COULD DO YOUR
POSITION.' WHAT AMAZES ME
00:33:59.67\00:34:04.04
IS THE APPROACH -
THE RESPONSE OF MOSES.
00:34:04.04\00:34:08.71
YOU SEE, MOSES DID NOT
SAY, 'BRING IN THE TROOPS.
00:34:08.71\00:34:13.21
LET ME DESTROY
YOU. LET ME SHOW YOU
00:34:13.21\00:34:17.15
HOW STRONG I AM. LET
ME CALL DOWN FIRE FROM
00:34:17.15\00:34:19.79
HEAVEN.' RATHER, YOU SEE,
IN NUMBERS CHAPTER 16 THAT
00:34:19.79\00:34:26.36
MOSES FELL ON HIS FACE.
MOSES IS BEING ATTACKED.
00:34:26.36\00:34:35.40
MOSES IS BEING REBUKED
AND HIS RESPONSE IS TO FALL ON
00:34:35.40\00:34:39.91
HIS FACE FLAT.
THAT IS A POSITION
00:34:39.91\00:34:44.78
OF HUMILITY. THAT
IS THE LAST POSITION
00:34:44.78\00:34:48.92
YOU WANT TO BE IN WHEN
YOU ARE FACING AN ENEMY.
00:34:48.92\00:34:53.25
BUT HE WENT DOWN ON
HIS FACE TO DEMONSTRATE THE
00:34:53.25\00:34:58.09
BATTLE IS THE LORD'S AND NOT
MINE. TOMORROW WE WILL SEE WHICH
00:34:58.09\00:35:03.83
LEADER GOD HAS
CHOSEN. YOU SEE, THAT IS THE
00:35:03.83\00:35:08.27
HUMILITY THAT GOD
IS CALLING US TO TODAY.
00:35:08.27\00:35:12.21
OFTEN, WE HAVE PEOPLE
COME TO US AND THEY SAY, 'YOU
00:35:12.21\00:35:14.78
KNOW, I'M TRYING TO
WITNESS TO MY LOVED ONES
00:35:14.78\00:35:16.75
AND I KEEP TELLING THEM
ALL ABOUT THE MARK OF THE
00:35:16.75\00:35:18.95
BEAST - ALL ABOUT THE
PROPHECIES OF REVELATION
00:35:18.95\00:35:22.52
AND THEY'RE JUST NOT
LISTENING TO ME.' AND
00:35:22.52\00:35:26.52
SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO
REMIND THEM THAT, IN THAT
00:35:26.52\00:35:29.86
SITUATION, THE BEST
APPROACH YOU MIGHT TAKE IS
00:35:29.86\00:35:33.43
SILENCE. BE THE LIVING EXAMPLE
00:35:33.43\00:35:39.23
OF JESUS
CHRIST. BE THAT PERFUME.
00:35:39.23\00:35:43.34
SOMETIMES THE BEST
APPROACH IS SILENCE.
00:35:43.34\00:35:47.18
I'VE HAD PEOPLE COME UP
TO ME BEFORE AND SAY, 'HOW DO
00:35:47.18\00:35:49.61
YOU KNOW WHEN IT IS
THE RIGHT TIME TO REBUKE
00:35:49.61\00:35:53.52
SOMEONE? THE RIGHT TIME TO
00:35:53.52\00:35:56.05
CORRECT SOMEONE?'
AND MY RESPONSE IS WHEN
00:35:56.05\00:36:01.86
YOU HAVE TEARS IN YOUR
EYES. YOU SEE, JESUS, EVEN WHEN
00:36:01.86\00:36:08.96
GIVING HIS
STRONGEST REBUKES, DID SO WITH
00:36:08.96\00:36:13.90
TEARS IN HIS EYES. IT HURT HIM.
00:36:13.90\00:36:18.04
HE DIDN'T WANT TO SAY
THESE THINGS BUT IT WAS
00:36:18.04\00:36:19.94
THE ONLY WAY TO HELP
THEM REALIZE THEIR CONDITION
00:36:19.94\00:36:23.95
AND POINT THEM TO THE CROSS.
00:36:23.95\00:36:27.75
SEEK OTHERS WITH
TEARS IN YOUR EYES.
00:36:27.75\00:36:34.09
A POWERFUL QUOTE I
WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU FROM
00:36:34.09\00:36:35.99
MANUSCRIPTS 24  - THIS IS FROM
1887.  AND WE ARE TOLD WE MAY
00:36:35.99\00:36:42.16
EXPECT THAT FALSE
REPORTS WILL CIRCULATE ABOUT US.
00:36:42.16\00:36:47.84
NOT 'IT COULD HAPPEN.' WE
MAY EXPECT IT WILL HAPPEN.
00:36:47.84\00:36:54.08
"BUT IF WE FOLLOW A STRAIGHT
COURSE, IF WE REMAIN INDIFFERENT
00:36:54.08\00:36:57.81
TO THESE THINGS, OTHERS
WILL ALSO BE INDIFFERENT.
00:36:57.81\00:37:02.38
LET US LEAVE TO GOD
THE CARE OF OUR REPUTATION.
00:37:02.38\00:37:06.45
SLANDER CAN BE LIVED
DOWN BY OUR MANNER OF LIVING.
00:37:06.45\00:37:10.93
IT IS NOT LIVED DOWN
BY WORDS OF INDIGNATION.
00:37:10.93\00:37:14.93
LET OUR GREAT ANXIETY BE
TO ACT IN THE FEAR OF GOD
00:37:14.93\00:37:19.33
AND SHOW BY OUR
CHARACTER THAT THESE REPORTS ARE
00:37:19.33\00:37:23.44
FALSE. NO ONE CAN INJURE OUR
00:37:23.44\00:37:26.41
CHARACTER AS
MUCH AS WE OURSELVES.
00:37:26.41\00:37:29.31
IT IS THE WEAK TREES AND
THE TOTTERING HOUSES THAT
00:37:29.31\00:37:32.51
NEED TO BE
CONSTANTLY PROPPED UP.
00:37:32.51\00:37:35.12
WHEN WE SHOW OURSELVES
SO ANXIOUS TO PROTECT OUR
00:37:35.12\00:37:38.02
REPUTATION AGAINST ATTACKS
FROM THE OUTSIDE, WE GIVE
00:37:38.02\00:37:42.26
THE IMPRESSION THAT IT
IS NOT BLAMELESS BEFORE GOD
00:37:42.26\00:37:44.93
AND THAT IT
NEEDS, THEREFORE, TO BE
00:37:44.93\00:37:46.46
CONTINUALLY
BOLSTERED UP." POWERFUL WORDS,
00:37:46.46\00:37:50.90
ARE THEY NOT? ABSOLUTELY.
00:37:50.90\00:37:54.14
WE DON'T HAVE TO
DEFEND OUR CHARACTER.
00:37:54.14\00:37:56.17
WE DON'T HAVE TO
DEFEND OUR REPUTATION.
00:37:56.17\00:37:58.94
WOULD TO GOD THAT WE
LIVE TODAY ONLY TO SEEK
00:37:58.94\00:38:02.68
APPROVAL FROM
OUR FATHER'S HEART.
00:38:02.68\00:38:05.81
IMAGINE HOW THAT
COULD CHANGE OUR DAILY
00:38:05.81\00:38:08.55
EXPERIENCE.
WE'RE GOING TO TURN NOW
00:38:08.55\00:38:11.49
TO 2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 4,
VERSES 3 THROUGH 5 - AND
00:38:11.49\00:38:16.09
SCARLET IS GOING TO READ
THAT FOR US THIS MORNING -
00:38:16.09\00:38:19.13
2 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 4 - WE
ARE IN VERSES 3 THROUGH 5.
00:38:19.13\00:38:23.60
>>FOR THE TIME WILL COME
WHEN THEY WILL NOT ENDURE
00:38:23.60\00:38:26.13
SOUND DOCTRINE, BUT AFTER
THEIR OWN LUSTS SHALL THEY
00:38:26.13\00:38:29.37
HEAP TO THEMSELVES
TEACHERS, HAVING ITCHING
00:38:29.37\00:38:32.01
EARS; AND THEY SHALL
TURN AWAY THEIR EARS FROM THE
00:38:32.01\00:38:34.91
TRUTH, AND SHALL
BE TURNED UNTO FABLES.
00:38:34.91\00:38:38.18
BUT WATCH THOU IN ALL
THINGS, ENDURE AFFLICTIONS,
00:38:38.18\00:38:41.75
DO THE WORK OF AN
EVANGELIST, MAKE FULL
00:38:41.75\00:38:44.02
PROOF OF THY
MINISTRY. >>THANK YOU.
00:38:44.02\00:38:47.66
DO WE SEE THIS
HAPPENING IN CHRISTENDOM TODAY?
00:38:47.66\00:38:52.69
HOW MUCH MORE
POPULAR IT IS TO HEAR THESE
00:38:52.69\00:38:55.16
PROSPERITY SPEAKERS WHO
GET UP AND THEY SAY, 'OH,
00:38:55.16\00:38:59.03
IF YOU GIVE YOUR LIFE
TO JESUS, GOD WILL GIVE YOU
00:38:59.03\00:39:01.94
THAT NEW BMW. GOD WILL
GIVE YOU THAT NEW MANSION.
00:39:01.94\00:39:07.04
JUST GIVE ALL YOUR MONEY
TO ME AND GOD'LL DO IT.'?
00:39:07.04\00:39:08.91
RIGHT? AND PEOPLE ENJOY THESE
00:39:08.91\00:39:12.95
MESSAGES AND THEY
HAVE THOSE ITCHING EARS.
00:39:12.95\00:39:15.78
'PREACH SMOOTH WORDS TO ME.
00:39:15.78\00:39:17.25
I WANT TO HEAR GRACE.
I WANT TO HEAR BEAUTY.
00:39:17.25\00:39:19.82
LORD, REBUKES?
AFFLICTION? THAT'S NOT WHAT
00:39:19.82\00:39:25.23
I'M LOOKING FOR.'
AND YET, THAT MAY BE THE
00:39:25.23\00:39:28.56
VERY MESSAGE THAT GOD
IS GIVING US TO TRULY WIN
00:39:28.56\00:39:32.03
AND BRING OUR
HEARTS BACK TO HIM.
00:39:32.03\00:39:37.64
HANANIAH, HIS NAME MEANS
'GOD HAS BEEN GRACIOUS' -
00:39:37.64\00:39:45.25
HERE IS THIS FALSE PROPHET WITH
THE NAME 'GOD HAS BEEN GRACIOUS'
00:39:45.25\00:39:52.09
PREACHING A MESSAGE
OF PEACE AND JOY AND
00:39:52.09\00:39:56.46
PROSPERITY.
IMAGINE BEING THERE AND
00:39:56.46\00:40:02.43
WATCHING NOAH BUILD AN
ARK. WAS NOAH'S MESSAGE A
00:40:02.43\00:40:07.30
MESSAGE OF LOVE
AND PEACE AND JOY?
00:40:07.30\00:40:11.27
IT WAS A MESSAGE OF
DESTRUCTION, WAS IT NOT?
00:40:11.27\00:40:13.91
'GET IN THE ARK OR
YOU WILL BE KILLED!
00:40:13.91\00:40:17.25
THIS IS THE WAY OF
SALVATION; WALK YE IN IT.'
00:40:17.25\00:40:21.28
AND YET I IMAGINE
THERE WERE PROBABLY OTHER
00:40:21.28\00:40:23.12
PREACHERS THERE STANDING
BESIDE THE ARK, TRYING TO
00:40:23.12\00:40:27.16
TELL THE CONGREGATION
GATHERED THERE, 'DON'T
00:40:27.16\00:40:29.69
LISTEN TO THIS FOOL.
DON'T STRESS ABOUT THIS -
00:40:29.69\00:40:33.33
THIS END-TIME MESSAGE.
DON'T ALLOW IT TO SCARE YOU.
00:40:33.33\00:40:39.23
THERE ARE MANY MORE
BEAUTIFUL DAYS AHEAD OF YOU.
00:40:39.23\00:40:43.44
NATURALLY WE WOULD
DESIRE TO LISTEN TO THOSE
00:40:43.44\00:40:45.87
PREACHERS, BUT ONLY
THOSE WHO LISTENED TO NOAH WERE
00:40:45.87\00:40:50.95
SAVED. AND GOD
IS CALLING US TOO,
00:40:50.95\00:40:55.65
TO LISTEN TO HIS WORD,
TO ALLOW IT TO BE APPLIED
00:40:55.65\00:40:58.99
INTO OUR LIVES SO THAT
WE ARE NOT DECEIVED BUT THAT
00:40:58.99\00:41:02.32
WE WILL BE READY
FOR THE TIMES AHEAD.
00:41:02.32\00:41:05.73
IMAGINE THAT I WAS A
DERMATOLOGIST AND YOU CAME
00:41:05.73\00:41:09.86
INTO ME WITH THIS STRANGE
SKIN RASH ON YOUR ARM AND
00:41:09.86\00:41:14.27
I LOOK AT IT AND
IMMEDIATELY I RECOGNIZE
00:41:14.27\00:41:17.24
THAT IS CANCER. BUT
I'M A FRIEND OF YOURS.
00:41:17.24\00:41:22.48
WE'VE BEEN FRIENDS
FOR YEARS AND IT'S ALMOST
00:41:22.48\00:41:25.48
THANKSGIVING - I
DON'T WANT TO MAKE YOU SAD.
00:41:25.48\00:41:28.98
I DON'T WANT TO HURT
YOUR FEELINGS AND SO I LOOK AT
00:41:28.98\00:41:31.49
YOUR CANCEROUS RASH AND I
TELL YOU, 'OH NO, NO, IT'S
00:41:31.49\00:41:35.32
JUST - JUST A LITTLE
RASH - MAYBE A LITTLE ALLERGY.
00:41:35.32\00:41:38.56
IT'LL GO AWAY IN A FEW DAYS.'
00:41:38.56\00:41:41.56
WOULD I BE A FAITHFUL FRIEND?
00:41:41.56\00:41:45.23
NO, NOT AT ALL. I
WOULD BE DELAYING YOUR
00:41:45.23\00:41:51.47
HEALING BY
PREACHING A MESSAGE OF GRACE.
00:41:51.47\00:41:56.11
AND GOD IS SAYING
AGAIN, 'DON'T COVER MY WORDS.
00:41:56.11\00:41:58.61
SPEAK IT IN TRUTH,
BUT SPEAK IT IN LOVE.'
00:41:58.61\00:42:03.15
MANUSCRIPT 33 CONTINUING,
"WE ARE TOLD THAT THE
00:42:03.15\00:42:06.96
PRESENT TRUTH - THE
SPECIAL MESSAGE GIVEN TO
00:42:06.96\00:42:10.43
OUR WORLD, EVEN THE
THIRD ANGEL'S MESSAGE,
00:42:10.43\00:42:13.86
COMPREHENDS A VAST
FIELD CONTAINING HEAVENLY
00:42:13.86\00:42:16.53
TREASURES. NO
ONE CAN BE EXCUSABLE
00:42:16.53\00:42:20.30
WHO SAYS, 'I WILL NO
LONGER HAVE ANYTHING TO
00:42:20.30\00:42:24.41
DO WITH THESE SPECIAL MESSAGES.
00:42:24.41\00:42:26.34
I WILL JUST PREACH
CHRIST.' NO ONE CAN PREACH
00:42:26.34\00:42:30.58
CHRIST AND PRESENT THE
TRUTH AS IT IS IN JESUS,
00:42:30.58\00:42:33.98
UNLESS HE PRESENTS THE
TRUTHS THAT ARE TO COME
00:42:33.98\00:42:36.62
BEFORE THE PEOPLE AT
THE PRESENT TIME WHEN SUCH
00:42:36.62\00:42:41.09
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS ARE
TAKING PLACE." DO WE SEE THAT IN
00:42:41.09\00:42:45.19
OUR WORLD TODAY? >>AMEN.
00:42:45.19\00:42:47.30
>>ARE IMPORTANT
DEVELOPMENTS TAKING PLACE?
00:42:47.30\00:42:49.36
>>AMEN. >>DO YOU SEE PROPHECY
00:42:49.36\00:42:51.33
BEING FULFILLED? >>AMEN.
00:42:51.33\00:42:53.64
>>WE LOOK AT MATTHEW
CHAPTER 24 - WE LOOK AT
00:42:53.64\00:42:56.50
THE PROPHECIES IN
REVELATION AND WE SAY,
00:42:56.50\00:42:58.31
'THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING.'
00:42:58.31\00:43:00.94
IN OUR TIME, TODAY, THE
SIGNS ARE BEING FULFILLED
00:43:00.94\00:43:05.38
AND YET SOME
MAY SAY, 'LET IT GO.
00:43:05.38\00:43:09.48
LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT LOVE
AND JESUS.' BUT HERE WE ARE
00:43:09.48\00:43:13.96
REMINDED THAT IT IS
BECAUSE OF LOVE THAT
00:43:13.96\00:43:18.93
GOD HAS WARNED US OF
THE THINGS BEFORE US.
00:43:18.93\00:43:23.16
IT IS BECAUSE OF LOVE
THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US THESE
00:43:23.16\00:43:26.43
MESSAGES SO THAT OUR
HEARTS CAN BE PREPARED FOR
00:43:26.43\00:43:29.20
HIS COMING. IT IS
FROM THE LOVE OF GOD.
00:43:29.20\00:43:36.08
YOU SEE THIS IN
THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
00:43:36.08\00:43:39.65
OFTEN WHEN PEOPLE
PICTURE THE BOOK OF REVELATION,
00:43:39.65\00:43:41.95
THEY'RE
PICTURING WHAT? >>BEASTS.
00:43:41.95\00:43:44.62
>>BEASTS - THESE
INCREDIBLE CREATURES
00:43:44.62\00:43:48.69
COMING UP OUT OF
THE SEA - OF ARMAGEDDON.
00:43:48.69\00:43:52.69
AND THEY MAY BE
TERRIFIED AND YET WE FIND IN
00:43:52.69\00:43:54.83
REVELATION CHAPTER 1
THAT REVELATION IS TO BE A
00:43:54.83\00:43:58.43
REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:43:58.43\00:44:03.20
IN OTHER WORDS,
PREACH THE TRUTH.
00:44:03.20\00:44:07.18
SHARE THE PRESENT TRUTH.
PRESENT BEFORE THE PEOPLE
00:44:07.18\00:44:11.25
THE PROPHECIES THAT
ARE BEING FULFILLED TODAY.
00:44:11.25\00:44:16.15
BUT IN THE MIDST OF IT
ALL THERE MUST BE JESUS.
00:44:16.15\00:44:19.95
IN THE MIDST OF IT ALL
REVEAL THE LAMB BECAUSE
00:44:19.95\00:44:23.83
THAT IS THE ONLY WAY WE
CAN HAVE SALVATION - THE
00:44:23.83\00:44:28.73
REVELATION
TODAY OF JESUS CHRIST.
00:44:28.73\00:44:32.50
YOU SEE, AFTER HANANIAH
CUT OFF THAT WOODEN YOKE,
00:44:32.50\00:44:37.31
THE LORD SENT ANOTHER
MESSAGE TO JEREMIAH AND HE
00:44:37.31\00:44:41.34
SAID, 'NOW TAKE A YOKE
OF IRON AND PUT IT UPON
00:44:41.34\00:44:45.18
YOURSELF AND YOU WILL
SHOW THE PEOPLE THAT THAT YOKE
00:44:45.18\00:44:49.95
WILL NOT BE BROKEN.
YOU SEE, BEFORE IT WAS
00:44:49.95\00:44:52.29
ONLY WOOD, MUCH MORE
COMFORTABLE AND LIGHTER TO
00:44:52.29\00:44:57.26
CARRY, BUT NOW IT IS OF IRON.
00:44:57.26\00:45:01.43
NOW YOUR BURDEN WILL BE
SO MUCH GREATER.' TURN WITH
00:45:01.43\00:45:06.80
ME BACK TO JEREMIAH
CHAPTER 28 AS WE FINISH
00:45:06.80\00:45:10.11
THE STORY HERE IN
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 28 AND WE WILL
00:45:10.11\00:45:18.45
PICK UP IN VERSE 15 -
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 28 AND
00:45:18.45\00:45:26.82
VERSE 15, "THEN THE
PROPHET JEREMIAH SAID TO
00:45:26.82\00:45:31.09
HANANIAH THE PROPHET, 'HEAR NOW,
HANANIAH, THE LORD HAS NOT SENT
00:45:31.09\00:45:36.03
YOU, BUT YOU MAKE
THIS PEOPLE TRUST IN A LIE.
00:45:36.03\00:45:41.20
THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE
LORD: 'BEHOLD, I WILL CAST
00:45:41.20\00:45:43.97
YOU FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
00:45:43.97\00:45:46.21
THIS YEAR YOU SHALL
DIE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TAUGHT
00:45:46.21\00:45:50.01
REBELLION AGAINST THE
LORD.'' SO HANANIAH THE
00:45:50.01\00:45:53.62
PROPHET DIED THE SAME
YEAR IN THE SEVENTH MONTH."
00:45:53.62\00:46:00.62
AGAIN WE SEE THAT
BECAUSE HANANIAH PROPHESIED
00:46:00.62\00:46:04.63
FALSELY, HE WAS CUT
OFF. HIS LIFE WAS CUT SHORT.
00:46:04.63\00:46:11.30
YOU SEE, HANANIAH GOES TO
A PROPHET AND SAYS, 'DON'T
00:46:11.30\00:46:14.64
WEAR THIS YOKE, GOD IS
PROMISING PEACE.' A VERY
00:46:14.64\00:46:20.01
SIMILAR MESSAGE WAS
GIVEN FROM THE DISCIPLES TO
00:46:20.01\00:46:23.45
JESUS CHRIST.
'JESUS, WHY DO YOU KEEP
00:46:23.45\00:46:26.51
TALKING ABOUT THIS
CROSS? WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
00:46:26.51\00:46:29.85
THE CRUCIFIXION AND HOW
YOU'RE GOING TO BE KILLED?
00:46:29.85\00:46:33.86
AND JESUS, THAT
DOESN'T SOUND SO NICE.
00:46:33.86\00:46:37.09
JESUS, YOU COULD
BE THE EARTHLY KING.
00:46:37.09\00:46:40.56
JESUS, YOU COULD
SIT ON THE THRONE.
00:46:40.56\00:46:42.70
YOU COULD DESTROY
THE ROMANS.' YOU SEE, THE
00:46:42.70\00:46:46.50
DISCIPLES WERE LOOKING AT
A CROWN, BUT JESUS SAW THE
00:46:46.50\00:46:53.31
CROSS. IN OTHER WORDS, SOMETIMES
00:46:53.31\00:46:59.68
OUR FUTURE - OUR PLANS
DO NOT GO AS WE ANTICIPATE.
00:46:59.68\00:47:05.75
OUR LIFE MAY NOT BE
LIVED OUT AS PLANNED AND WE MAY
00:47:05.75\00:47:09.42
QUESTION IT. BUT
IF WE COULD BE IN
00:47:09.42\00:47:13.09
HEAVEN - IF WE COULD
LOOK THROUGH HEAVEN'S EYES,
00:47:13.09\00:47:16.26
WE WOULD HAVE IT NO OTHER WAY.
00:47:16.26\00:47:19.43
GOD KNOWS WHAT IS BEST
FOR US AND, AS ISAIAH 58 - 55
00:47:19.43\00:47:23.81
TELLS US, 'FOR MY
THOUGHTS ARE HIGHER THAN YOUR
00:47:23.81\00:47:27.81
THOUGHTS AND MY WAYS ARE
HIGHER THAN YOUR WAYS, FOR
00:47:27.81\00:47:32.71
AS THE HEAVENS ARE
HIGHER THAN THE EARTH, SO ARE MY
00:47:32.71\00:47:35.08
WAYS HIGHER THAN YOUR
WAYS AND MY THOUGHTS THAN YOUR
00:47:35.08\00:47:38.29
THOUGHTS.
WHATEVER YOUR THOUGHTS ARE
00:47:38.29\00:47:40.99
TODAY, WHATEVER YOUR
PLANS ARE, GOD'S PLANS FOR YOU
00:47:40.99\00:47:46.56
ARE SO MUCH GREATER. >>AMEN.
00:47:46.56\00:47:51.83
>>TURNING AGAIN IN OUR
BIBLES TO 2 THESSALONIANS,
00:47:51.83\00:47:54.64
CHAPTER 2, WE ARE IN 2
THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2.
00:47:54.64\00:48:05.18
AND AGAIN, WE'RE GOING
TO SEE THAT IT'S NOT JUST A
00:48:05.18\00:48:07.35
KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH
THAT SAVES US, THERE IS
00:48:07.35\00:48:10.32
MORE TO IT THAN THAT.
WE ARE IN 2 THESSALONIANS
00:48:10.32\00:48:14.49
CHAPTER 2, VERSES 10 THROUGH
12. 2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 2,
00:48:14.49\00:48:22.16
VERSES 10 THROUGH 12,
AND THE BIBLE SAYS, "AND WITH
00:48:22.16\00:48:26.80
ALL UNRIGHTEOUS DECEPTION
AMONG THOSE WHO PERISH,
00:48:26.80\00:48:30.14
BECAUSE THEY DID NOT
RECEIVE THE LOVE OF THE
00:48:30.14\00:48:34.04
TRUTH, THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
00:48:34.04\00:48:37.15
AND FOR THIS REASON
GOD WILL SEND THEM STRONG
00:48:37.15\00:48:39.15
DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD
BELIEVE THE LIE, THAT THEY
00:48:39.15\00:48:42.75
ALL MAY BE CONDEMNED WHO
DID NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH
00:48:42.75\00:48:45.79
BUT HAD PLEASURE
IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS."
00:48:45.79\00:48:49.59
NOW NOTICE WITH ME, WE
ARE LOOKING IN VERSE - LET'S
00:48:49.59\00:48:58.97
SEE - VERSE 10.
LOOK WITH ME IN VERSE 10
00:48:58.97\00:49:05.34
AND THE BIBLE SAYS
THEY DID NOT RECEIVE A
00:49:05.34\00:49:07.81
LOVE OF THE TRUTH.
IN OTHER WORDS, DID
00:49:07.81\00:49:12.21
THEY HAVE THE TRUTH? YES.
00:49:12.21\00:49:17.02
THEY HAD THE TRUTH BUT
THEY DID NOT HAVE WHAT?
00:49:17.02\00:49:20.92
>>LOVE. >>THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH.
00:49:20.92\00:49:25.43
YOU SEE, I CAN HAVE THE TRUTH.
00:49:25.43\00:49:27.30
I CAN UNDERSTAND ALL
THE PROPHECIES OF REVELATION
00:49:27.30\00:49:29.80
AND UNDERSTAND EVERY
WORD OF THE BIBLE, BUT IF I
00:49:29.80\00:49:33.13
DON'T LOVE IT, I
WILL BE DECEIVED.
00:49:33.13\00:49:40.48
THE STORY IS TOLD OF A
MAN WHO WALKED THROUGHOUT
00:49:40.48\00:49:44.65
JERUSALEM YELLING
OUT, 'WOE UNTO JERUSALEM!
00:49:44.65\00:49:48.92
WOE UNTO JERUSALEM!
YOU WILL BE DESTROYED!'
00:49:48.92\00:49:52.85
FOR SEVEN YEARS HE
CONTINUED THIS RITUAL,
00:49:52.85\00:49:56.86
'WOE UNTO
JERUSALEM! WOE UNTO JERUSALEM!'
00:49:56.86\00:50:00.80
MANY OF THE PEOPLE
LOOKED AT HIM AS THOUGH HE WAS
00:50:00.80\00:50:02.93
CRAZY - HE HAD LOST HIS
MIND - AND HE WAS BROUGHT
00:50:02.93\00:50:05.93
IN BEFORE THE
COURTS. HE WAS BEATEN.
00:50:05.93\00:50:09.67
HE WAS ARRESTED.
HE WAS THROWN IN JAIL.
00:50:09.67\00:50:12.97
AND YET, HE NEVER REBUKED THEM.
00:50:12.97\00:50:15.94
HE WAS SILENT
BEFORE HIS ACCUSERS.
00:50:15.94\00:50:18.88
FINALLY THEY RELEASED
THE MAN AND HE CONTINUED THIS
00:50:18.88\00:50:21.32
PATTERN OF GOING
THROUGHOUT JERUSALEM,
00:50:21.32\00:50:23.15
'WOE UNTO JERUSALEM!
YOU WILL BE DESTROYED!
00:50:23.15\00:50:25.45
WOE UNTO
JERUSALEM!' AND YOU SEE, THIS
00:50:25.45\00:50:28.42
MAN WAS RIGHT.
JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED
00:50:28.42\00:50:34.23
AND WHEN IT WAS
DESTROYED, HE TOO WAS KILLED.
00:50:34.23\00:50:40.64
YOU SEE, HE KNEW ALL THE SIGNS.
00:50:40.64\00:50:43.74
HE KNEW THAT IT
WOULD BE DESTROYED.
00:50:43.74\00:50:45.71
HE KNEW THAT IT WOULD
HAPPEN, BUT HE DID NOT
00:50:45.71\00:50:48.24
HAVE THE LOVE OF
JESUS CHRIST IN HIS LIFE AND
00:50:48.24\00:50:52.25
BECAUSE OF THIS
FACT, HE WAS KILLED.
00:50:52.25\00:50:57.09
I BELIEVE IT'S
THE SAME FOR US TODAY.
00:50:57.09\00:50:59.69
DO WE HAVE THE LOVE
OF CHRIST IN US TODAY?
00:50:59.69\00:51:01.72
DO WE LOVE THE
TRUTH? YOU KNOW, TODAY, AS
00:51:01.72\00:51:04.63
YOU LOOK AT YOUR OWN
EXPERIENCE, YOU MAY SAY,
00:51:04.63\00:51:08.70
'YOU KNOW, IT'S
NOT GOING AS I PLANNED.
00:51:08.70\00:51:11.67
THIS IS NOT HOW I
ANTICIPATED MY LIFE TO BE.
00:51:11.67\00:51:15.40
I WAS LOOKING TOWARDS THE
CALL OF JEREMIAH CHAPTER 1.
00:51:15.40\00:51:19.24
'I HAVE PUT MY
WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH.
00:51:19.24\00:51:21.54
I HAVE A PLAN FOR YOUR
LIFE.'' AND YOU LIKE THAT.
00:51:21.54\00:51:24.71
BUT THEN YOU READ VERSE
10 AND THOSE TRIALS COME AND
00:51:24.71\00:51:28.22
THOSE STRUGGLES COME AND
YOU MIGHT BEGIN TO DOUBT GOD.
00:51:28.22\00:51:32.99
BUT YOU SEE, GOD HAS A
GREATER PLAN IN MIND FOR
00:51:32.99\00:51:38.49
YOU THAN YOU CAN EVEN IMAGINE.
00:51:38.49\00:51:41.56
LOOKING THROUGH THE EYES
OF HEAVEN, WE WILL HAVE NO
00:51:41.56\00:51:44.97
REGRETS. TWO YEARS AGO MY LITTLE
00:51:44.97\00:51:51.97
NEPHEW DECLAN - A
LITTLE OVER TWO YEARS AGO -
00:51:51.97\00:51:54.78
MY LITTLE
NEPHEW DECLAN WAS BORN.
00:51:54.78\00:51:57.71
AND SOON AFTER HIS BIRTH
THE DOCTORS REALIZED THAT
00:51:57.71\00:52:00.58
HE HAD SEVERAL
HOLES IN HIS HEART.
00:52:00.58\00:52:04.92
THEY WOULD TRY TO
HAVE HIM GROW AS MUCH AS HE
00:52:04.92\00:52:07.52
COULD BEFORE HAVING THE
OPEN HEART SURGERY - IT'S
00:52:07.52\00:52:11.06
BETTER IF THEY'RE
A LITTLE BIT OLDER.
00:52:11.06\00:52:13.26
BUT AFTER A WHILE HE
BEGAN TO HAVE CHALLENGES WITH
00:52:13.26\00:52:15.26
BREATHING AND OTHER
ISSUES AND THEY REALIZED THEY
00:52:15.26\00:52:16.97
COULDN'T PUT OFF
THIS SURGERY ANY LONGER.
00:52:16.97\00:52:20.50
SO THERE WAS MY NEPHEW
DECLAN AT TEN MONTHS OLD -
00:52:20.50\00:52:25.77
MY SISTER, MY
BROTHER-IN-LAW TAKING THAT
00:52:25.77\00:52:29.78
PRECIOUS LITTLE BABY
AND HANDING HIM OFF TO THE
00:52:29.78\00:52:32.65
ANESTHESIOLOGIST, KNOWING
THAT SOON HIS CHEST WOULD
00:52:32.65\00:52:37.49
BE CUT OPEN, KNOWING
THAT HE WOULD BEAR THOSE SCARS
00:52:37.49\00:52:41.66
FOREVER, KNOWING THAT
HE WOULD BE GOING THROUGH
00:52:41.66\00:52:44.23
TREATMENTS AND MEDICATION
- THIS ONGOING PROCESS.
00:52:44.23\00:52:48.00
BUT, YOU SEE, THE
PARENTS HANDED THE CHILD OVER
00:52:48.00\00:52:52.03
BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT
WAS THE ONLY WAY THEIR CHILD
00:52:52.03\00:52:54.74
COULD BE HEALED.
THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THEIR
00:52:54.74\00:52:57.94
CHILD COULD
EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF LIFE.
00:52:57.94\00:53:03.08
COULD THE PARENTS EXPLAIN
TO THAT TEN MONTH OLD WHAT
00:53:03.08\00:53:06.15
WAS OCCURRING? NO,
THE CHILD COULD NOT
00:53:06.15\00:53:10.19
POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND.
IMAGINE JESUS STANDING
00:53:10.19\00:53:17.09
BESIDE THAT HOSPITAL BED.
HE WANTS TO EXPLAIN TO THE
00:53:17.09\00:53:20.50
CHILD WHAT'S HAPPENING.
HE WANTS TO EXPLAIN TO US
00:53:20.50\00:53:24.17
WHY WE'RE GOING
THROUGH THE TRIALS AND THE
00:53:24.17\00:53:25.93
PROBLEMS WE MAY
BE GOING THROUGH.
00:53:25.93\00:53:28.07
BUT HE LOOKS AT US
AND HE SAYS, 'YOU WOULDN'T
00:53:28.07\00:53:30.67
UNDERSTAND. YOU'RE BUT A CHILD.
00:53:30.67\00:53:34.74
MY PLANS ARE SO MUCH GREATER.
00:53:34.74\00:53:36.78
I KNOW THAT THE ONLY
WAY YOU CAN EXPERIENCE TRUE
00:53:36.78\00:53:39.38
HEALING IS BY GOING
THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE.'
00:53:39.38\00:53:43.25
AND SO GOD ALLOWS US TO
WALK, BUT WE DO NOT WALK
00:53:43.25\00:53:47.02
ALONE. >>AMEN!
00:53:47.02\00:53:49.79
>>AND I WANT TO PRAISE
GOD TODAY THAT, AS WE GO
00:53:49.79\00:53:52.26
THROUGH THIS JOURNEY, AS
WE SHARE HIS WORD, GOD IS
00:53:52.26\00:53:55.16
THE ONE THAT
WILL KEEP US FAITHFUL.
00:53:55.16\00:53:57.67
IF WE KEEP OUR EYES
FIXED ON JESUS - AS WE LOOK FOR
00:53:57.67\00:54:00.94
THE LAMB REVEALED IN
THE BOOK OF REVELATION, GOD
00:54:00.94\00:54:04.47
WILL CONTINUE TO
LEAD US INTO TRUTH.
00:54:04.47\00:54:08.84
TODAY WE HAVE A FREE
OFFER - REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE - SO
00:54:08.84\00:54:14.05
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO
CALL FOR THIS FREE OFFER, YOU
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CAN CONTACT AMAZING
FACTS FOR THAT FREE OFFER.
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SO WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO
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AND OTHER RESOURCES
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00:54:25.06\00:54:28.66
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR
JOINING US TODAY AS WE
00:54:28.66\00:54:30.60
CONTINUE THIS
STUDY OF GOD'S WORD.
00:54:30.60\00:54:33.23
MAY GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL
WE MEET AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:54:33.23\00:54:38.17
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>>HAVE YOU EVER
HEARD THE EXPRESSION
00:55:24.95\00:55:26.09
BEFORE, 'THEY EAT
LIKE A BIRD' TALKING ABOUT
00:55:26.09\00:55:28.49
SOMEBODY WHO HAS A
MINUSCULE APPETITE?
00:55:28.49\00:55:31.19
WELL YOU MIGHT WANT TO
THINK TWICE NEXT TIME YOU
00:55:31.19\00:55:33.09
USE THAT EXPRESSION.
FOR EXAMPLE, TAKE THE
00:55:33.09\00:55:35.60
HUMMINGBIRD: IN ORDER
FOR IT TO MAINTAIN ITS
00:55:35.60\00:55:38.77
INCREDIBLE
METABOLISM, IT HAS TO EAT ABOUT
00:55:38.77\00:55:41.30
50-PERCENT OF ITS
BODY WEIGHT EVERY DAY.
00:55:41.30\00:55:44.47
TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, IF A
00:55:44.47\00:55:46.37
HUNDRED-POUND WOMAN WAS
TO EAT LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD,
00:55:46.37\00:55:49.14
SHE WOULD HAVE TO EAT 50
POUNDS OF SUGAR A DAY JUST
00:55:49.14\00:55:52.15
TO MAINTAIN HER BODY
WEIGHT. IMAGINE THAT.
00:55:52.15\00:55:54.68
MAYBE YOU DON'T WANT TO
IMAGINE THAT, BUT PERHAPS
00:55:54.68\00:55:58.25
YOU'LL WANT TO
CONSIDER THIS ANOTHER WAY: THE
00:55:58.25\00:56:00.46
HUMMINGBIRD TYPICALLY
CONSUMES BETWEEN FOUR TO
00:56:00.46\00:56:02.62
SEVEN CALORIES A DAY,
ON THE OTHER HAND, A HUMAN:
00:56:02.62\00:56:05.66
ABOUT 3,500 CALORIES A DAY.
00:56:05.66\00:56:08.16
BUT IF YOU WERE TO
EAT LIKE A BIRD - A
00:56:08.16\00:56:10.10
HUMMINGBIRD - YOU'D
HAVE TO EAT OVER 150,000
00:56:10.10\00:56:13.94
CALORIES A DAY.
THAT'S LIKE A MAN -
00:56:13.94\00:56:18.11
170 POUNDS THAT WOULD BE
EATING 3,000 OREO COOKIES.
00:56:18.11\00:56:22.14
UNDER NORMAL CONDITIONS, A
00:56:22.14\00:56:24.38
HUMMINGBIRD NEEDS TO EAT
EVERY FIVE OR TEN MINUTES,
00:56:24.38\00:56:27.02
BUT THERE'S ACTUALLY
ONE TIME DURING THE YEAR THE
00:56:27.02\00:56:29.05
HUMMINGBIRD WILL EAT ITS
ENTIRE BODY WEIGHT EVERY DAY.
00:56:29.05\00:56:32.82
YOU SEE, ONCE A YEAR THEY MAKE
THIS MIGRATION 500 MILES ACROSS
00:56:32.82\00:56:37.36
THE GULF OF MEXICO FROM
TEXAS TO THE YUCATAN PENINSULA.
00:56:37.36\00:56:41.73
IN ORDER TO DO THAT,
THE HUMMINGBIRD FEASTS ON
00:56:41.73\00:56:45.40
NECTAR AND GORGES
THEMSELVES ON THIS NECTAR
00:56:45.40\00:56:48.27
FOR ABOUT A WEEK,
DOUBLING THEIR BODY WEIGHT.
00:56:48.27\00:56:51.67
THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THEY
CAN STORE ENOUGH CALORIES
00:56:51.67\00:56:53.34
TO HELP THEM WITH THEIR
70-WING BEATS PER SECOND
00:56:53.34\00:56:57.15
OR ROUGHLY 4 MILLION
WING BEATS ON THAT JOURNEY.
00:56:57.15\00:57:01.35
YOU KNOW, IN THE SAME
WAY, FRIENDS, AS WE NEAR THE
00:57:01.35\00:57:03.08
END OF TIME, WE NEED
TO BE FEASTING AND GORGING
00:57:03.08\00:57:05.75
OURSELVES ON THE
NECTAR OF GOD'S WORD.
00:57:05.75\00:57:08.29
WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO
HAVE THAT STRENGTH TO GET
00:57:08.29\00:57:10.09
US THROUGH THE TIMES
OF TROUBLE THAT ARE AHEAD.
00:57:10.09\00:57:12.49
SO WHEN IT COMES TO
THE BIBLE AND YOUR PERSONAL
00:57:12.49\00:57:14.20
DEVOTIONS, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO EAT LIKE A BIRD, EAT
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LIKE A HUMMINGBIRD. (MUSIC)
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
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FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE
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SEVENTH DAY OF THE
WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS
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OF PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
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WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
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DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
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WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
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DISCOVER THE TRUTH
BEHIND GOD'S LAW AND HOW IT WAS
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CHANGED. VISIT
SABBATHTRUTH.COM .
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(MUSIC)
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