Andrew Bramhill – Class 1: Making Sense of it All

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This is the 2016 Manitoulin
Family Bible Camp.

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Our speaker for this session is
brother.

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Andrew, Bram Hill, from
Birmingham, surely UK, Ecclesia

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his theme.
This week is, in the days of

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Jeremiah.
This is his first class on the

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subject.
Entitled making sense of it all

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are reading was taken from
Jeremiah chapter one brother

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Andrews.
Thank you, brother.

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Brian.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters.
I’d say it’s a rather ambitious

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title.
Isn’t it making sense of it all?

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I’m not sure if we’ll get to
11:00 and feel.

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We’ve appreciated we’ve
succeeded in this particular

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Mission, but let’s see how we
go.

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We set the scene a little bit
last night that the back.

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Ground to Jeremiah, I think
comes in first Samuel chapter 3,

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if you’ve got your Bibles.
Let’s have a look at first

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Samuel chapter 3, please.
In, in this little account, we

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have Hannah and elkanah leaving
their son to grow in the temple.

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A young, man, of course, growing
up at the feet of Eli, the Lord

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speaking to him and we remember
how work that the Lord

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communicated to him during the
night.

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And there was this lovely
exchange, where Samuel didn’t

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know, it was the Lord who was
speaking to him, but when the

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Wednesday, the prophecy, Came,
it was something special verse

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11 of 1st Samuel 3.
The Lord said to Samuel behold,

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I will do a thing in Israel at
which both the ears of every one

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that heareth, it shall tingle.
I’m going to give you a

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prophecy, Samuel here.
That when you do that, when you

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relate it to others, it’s going
to be such an astonishing thing

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that it will make ears.
Tingle we only come across that

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phrase in three places
throughout our old.

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Testament prophecies and here.
The prophecy is about the

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downfall of the House of Eli and
Samuel who’s been raised by Eli.

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Here’s this prophecy, which is,
which is quite difficult, isn’t

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it?
If you just look from verses 12,

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13 and 14, it’s all about Eli
sons, who had made themselves

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vile and he had not restrained
them.

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It’s about their sins being so
bad that there’s going to be no

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sacrifice that can take away
their Sins.

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And therefore, it’s a prophecy
about Eli’s house coming to an

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end.
It will be destroyed and Samuel.

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It says in verse 15, he lay on
till the morning, that’s just

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not a little instruction that he
went back to bed for the rest of

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the night.
He lay worried about this until

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the morning.
He’s got to communicate this to

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Eli and tell him that his house
is going to be destroyed and

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that will be the end of it.
So it’s a very a very difficult

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thing that he has to communicate
and of course, when Samuel does

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so and Eli accept that, this is
the word of the Lord then

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fulfillment came swiftly.
Didn’t it off night?

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And Finny has destroyed on the
battlefield in the same day.

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We read together in this room on
Saturday about Saul encouraging

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doeg.
The Edomite to lift his sword

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and 85.
Priests were killed.

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That was the destruction of Nice
house.

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It came quickly and it was
brutal and Savage, and it was a

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very sudden and Bleak end, we
also read, of course, that

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abiathar was to escape on that
occasion.

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That was just one out of the
house of Eli, who managed to get

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away and abiathar went and spent
his days with David and was very

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Faithful Servants to David, of
course, wasn’t he was the one

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who had the ephod and he was the
one who helped David.

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In his decision-making, 10 of
women to First Kings chapter 2,

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please.
If you would Because after the

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reign of David you will
remember, there was then a

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question mark about who would be
king you.

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You remember they’re
encountering these first two

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chapters a by author decided to
support a du Niger and not

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Solomon at this particular time
and therefore when Solomon was

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established on the throne, he
was to banish abiathar.

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This last man of the house of
Eli I’m out of the city of

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Jerusalem, he would no longer be
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So First Kings, chapter 2 verse
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And unto a bias of the priest,
said the king get Z2 anathoth

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unto thine own fields for Thou
Art, Worthy of death.

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But I will not at this time put
thee to death because thou

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bearest the Ark of the Lord God
before David, my father.

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And because thou Hast been
Afflicted in all we’re in my

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father was afflicted, so because
of his loyalty to David, and

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because of his role, as priests
Solomon banished, It’s him you

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are worthy of death, he says,
but I’m not actually going to

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kill you that there’s almost a
threat in that still isn’t that

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I’m not going to kill you yet
you step out of line again and I

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will that’s the kind of
inference here, but the

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instruction is you go to
anathoth, you are disgraced.

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You are not in favor.
You leave this place and you go

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to anathoth, and, and I’m
suggesting to you that this This

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is then the home of Jeremiah
Jeremiah, the priest that we

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come across May.
Well, be able to trace his

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ancestry back to this particular
man who is banished from

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Jerusalem and raises his family
in his own fields at anathoth.

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And when we get into Jeremiah,
as we will do this morning.

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We come across this young man,
whose hearing the word of the

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Lord.
Worried about what he has to say

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just like Samuel was he’s got to
communicate a difficult message

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and the three occasions where
this phrase about the ears

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tingling, one of them comes here
in Samuel as we’ve seen, another

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comes in Second Kings where it’s
prophets, talking about the

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destruction of Jerusalem and
let’s just turn over to Jeremiah

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chapter 19.
Please just.

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So we’ve completed the set, it’s
part of the prophecy that

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Jeremiah He has to give as well
so Jeremiah 19 and chapter 3 and

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chapter 19 and verse 3.
This is in the chapter about the

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the Earthen vessel The Potter’s
House and say, verse 3 hear, ye

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the word of the Lord O Kings of
Judah and inhabitants of

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Jerusalem.
Thus, saith the Lord of hosts,

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the god of Israel behold, I will
bring evil upon this place the

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which whosoever heareth is his
ears shall tingle.

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So here is Jeremiah now, just in
the position that Samuel was in

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having to communicate a
difficult message.

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Having to communicate a message
that his people would not like

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to hear.
And you can imagine he would lie

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awake, all night worrying about
this, so that just gives us a

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flavor for the difficult
position.

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That Jeremiah was in coming out
of a disgraced family, banished

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to anathoth having to
communicate a message.

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Just like Samuel did, which the
people didn’t want to hear.

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And when, They hear it.
It’s such an astonishing

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prophecy that it will make ears,
tingle.

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So that’s, that’s the the
background to it.

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Let’s, let’s open our Bibles and
in chapter one, and we’re just

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going to do a little bit of
flicking, between Jeremiah and

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Kings for a, for a short time in
Jeremiah chapter 1 of then we we

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come across Jeremiah who lived
in amethyst and a soft was one

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of 13 cities that were given to
Aaron of Levi in.

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In The Tribe of Benjamin can
read that in Joshua chapter 21.

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It was very close by Jerusalem,
only three miles Northeast of

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Jerusalem.
So it was close enough for

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Jeremiah to know what was going
on.

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It was close enough for anyone
living in amethyst, just to know

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what was happening in the big
city.

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What was happening around the
priest of what was happening

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around the temple.
What was happening around the

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king’s Palace?
Those in anathoth were close

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enough to know what was
happening.

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We read in our reading this
morning of chapter 1.

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That he was a young man when he
was called to begin his mission.

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Just like Samuel in verse 6 of
chapter 1.

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The Lord says sorry, Jeremiah’s
response was then said, I O our

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Lord God behold, I cannot speak
for.

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I am a child, but the Lord said
unto him, say not, I am a child

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for Thou shalt go to all the
times I shall send thee and

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whatsoever.
I command thee.

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Our shalt speak so it’s not
uncommon.

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Is it for those who are called
by the Lord to undertake a

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particular mission to feel that
they are hopelessly inadequate?

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Perhaps everyone sitting in the
seats this morning is feeling

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well, I like that that’s just me
and why is the Lord called me to

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do this particular piece of
work?

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Why is the Lord asking me to
embark on this particular

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action?
And we look at ourselves and we

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see our own qualities?
Is amounting to this much, and

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we look around and we see that.
But that brother can do this,

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and that sister can do that, and
they’re much better equipped to

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do it.
It’s interesting.

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Isn’t it that the Lord chooses
those who are weak and seemingly

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inadequate?
And he does that deliberately,

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he does that because this is his
work, it would be absolutely no

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good.
If we got to the end of a piece

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of work for the almighty and we
could say that was because of my

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skill, that was because of my
Pro s.

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Because of all my talents what
what kind of work would that be

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for the Lord.
But you get to the end of it and

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we feel we don’t quite know how
we manage that, but it was the

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Lord working with us and we’ll
all working through as and

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that’s how he does it, isn’t it?
So, Jeremiah starting out on

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this Mission, you choosing me?
Did you not know how young I am?

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What about all these other
experiences Brethren?

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Why aren’t they being called
now?

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I’m calling you Jeremiah to do
this.

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And as inadequate, as he felt,
he was going to undertake Take

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this particular work.
We have the historical

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information in the first two
verses of this chapter, don’t

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we?
First three verses verse 2.

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So whom the word of the Lord
came, in the days of Josiah, the

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son of Amon in the 13th year of
his Reign.

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It also came in the days of
jehoiakim, the son of Josiah,

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king of Judah and also unto the
11th year of zedekiah.

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So those are the three
principles.

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Pull Kings, who were on the
throne when Jeremiah was

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prophesying that a couple of
other kings come in between.

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As I’m sure you’ll recognize
when we put those on the board

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in a moment but that broad span
comes to a 40-year prophecy.

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Jeremiah was actively speaking
to the people of Judah, the

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nation of Judah for 40 years and
the principal Kings who were

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raining at the time which are
Saya.

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Jehoiakim M + ZD Kaya.
This is this is the broad

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timeline.
If you can see that, Josiah

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rains from 640 BC to 609 BC and
Jeremiah starts his prophecy.

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His work part way through
Josiah’s rain, and you will know

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that this was a period of great
reform.

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Jeremiah might be happy to be
engaged in his work.

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When a king like Josiah is on
the throne He was someone

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special wasn’t, he was a man who
got the word, who was moved by

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the word, who wanted to
implement the word who wanted to

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change others because of the
word, and that was his great

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motivation.
So it’s a Jeremiah as a prophet

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of the word would connect with
Josiah and would be comfortable

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in his Reign.
He would be excited by what was

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going on that the wider World.
However, was a very Unstable

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place.
You remember Assyria the nation

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that had come and taken Israel
into captivity.

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Getting on for 100 years
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Well they were now in Decline
and when a mighty Empire starts

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to decline, Other Nation start
to rise, they start to position

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themselves.
They start to nibble at the

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edges of the diminishing Empire,
they start to try and take land

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themselves and in 625 BC, the
medes came and they Attacked

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Nineveh of the Assyrians and
while they were doing that that

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allowed the Babylonians to start
breaking free and establishing

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themselves.
And in 612 BC the Babylonians

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finally took Nineveh and they
became in the north certainly

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the empire in the ascendancy but
but other nations weren’t

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weren’t letting Assyria just
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Take any action, the Egyptians.
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capitalise.
Capitalize and they were the

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ones who came North to try and
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nation of Assyria.
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between the the nation of Egypt
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Josiah got involved.
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killed in a battle which didn’t
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in 609 BC it’s very brief reign
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Has it was only for three You
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So it was very brief period that
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said, no, you’re not staying on
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And put jehoiakim on the throne
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particularly evil, man?
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contrast to Josiah.
He was to rain for 11 years in

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605 BC, we have the first in
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of Babylon.
Of course, these dates are there

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or thereabouts.
I wouldn’t ask you to quote them

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as being absolutely accurate.
It seems you can get variances

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of two or three years on some of
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around this time.
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Invasion, this was a time when
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Daniel and his friends when
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were taken captive.
Have and Nebuchadnezzar was

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taking the best of the land back
to Babylon in 598 BC he comes

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again.
This was when Ezekiel was taken

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and this was a time when
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very brief reign of jehoiakim.
His son again only for three

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months but he was taken captive
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throne for 11 years and it was
only when zedekiah became such

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Such a hopeless servant of
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Nebuchadnezzar invaded for a
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And that’s when we get this
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the destruction of the temple
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So that’s the that’s the little
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If you like a lot of that, you
will know a lot of it isn’t key

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to understanding, Jeremiah, but
it is helpful to have that

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background in mind as we turn
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I alluded to this yesterday
evening which was the chronology

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of the book.
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aren’t dated, they’re not pinned
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when you get to the chapters
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us to scratch our heads a lot.
So I’ve just put the broad

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outline of the book there from
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And you can see that it just
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way, doesn’t it?
And and that’s reflective of the

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first 20 chapters.
You know, that the first 20

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chapters that we get aren’t
following a particular prompt

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chronological sequence and we
might look at that and we might

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say what’s going on here and you
turn to your turn to

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commentators to see if they’ve
got any ideas.

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They’re hopeless and sorry, I
can’t put it any other way.

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What one of them said?
Well, it’s as if Jeremiah and

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Bay Rook had to leave Jerusalem
in a rush and they gathered

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their papers and drops them all.
But then they scoot scooped them

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all up and publish them in the
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off the floor.
Thanks very much.

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That’s very helpful.
Yeah, so I’ll share what, I’ll

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share that with the good
brothers and sisters at

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Manitoulin and see what they
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But it is interesting.
Isn’t it?

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What, why is the Book of
Jeremiah coming to us like Like

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that because ours is not a god
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As is not a god of disorder, as
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and reason, and at everything he
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Now the fact that we can’t get
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doesn’t mean he’s at fault, it
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So I’m not sure.
I’m equipped to do this at all

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brothers and sisters, but I’ll
share with you wanted to little

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thoughts which have come my way
whilst I’ve been preparing this.

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That there’s a there’s a little
fashion if I can call it that in

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the UK at the moment to look at
bible chiasma.

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See if I say that word do I get
some?

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I get getting some nods around
the audience.

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Okay?
Which is which is helpful and

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this is a structure that you
find in a lot of Hebrew text and

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Hebrew poetry.
And some of the brethren in the

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UK brother, Steven Palmer has
done a lot of work on this and

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there is a lovely website that
you can go to.

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And you can spot these chiasma
sand.

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Upload your own if you, if you
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So I share this with you.
This isn’t actually one that

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came from that website, but it
is it is worth looking at and

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you can see that these are of
benefits I think.

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So, would you just join me as we
look through one or two

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references in these early
chapters and just begin to see a

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little theme that’s developing
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So You know, Silly verses of
chapter 1, we have an

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introduction and in that
introduction, we’ve got

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Jeremiah’s call.
We’re going to read about his

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family.
We’re going to read about him

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being at anathoth, we’re going
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So this so this is an
introduction, which sets the

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scene for us, and it’s going to
be followed by condemnation of

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Judah, which runs through
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And some of the things you need
to look at here from verse 4

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onwards, we have a comment about
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The unfaithfulness to the god of
Israel verse for hear, the word

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of the Lord O House of Jacob and
all the families of the House of

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Israel.
Thus saith the Lord God.

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What iniquity have your
father’s?

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Found in me that they are gone
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That this is God’s point and
it’s almost As if in God’s point

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of view he can’t understand
what’s going on.

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Have I been unfaithful to you?
He’s saying to these people if I

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ever let you down.
Look through your history.

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Look through your your records
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time.
When I as God of your nation has

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has failed you And if that’s the
case, why are you as a people

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failing me and you get to verse
11 and he saying have a half a

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nation changed their gods which
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But my people have changed their
glory for that which does not

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profit it in other words and
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They’ve got all their false gods
but at least they’re loyal to

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them.
At least they’re not changing

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their gods all the time.
Whereas you sometimes, your

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worship me, sometimes they
don’t, sometimes you’re choosing

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other gods.
You Completely fickle in your

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worship of me.
So it’s a great condemnation of

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Israel of Judah in these verses
and then an interesting little

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comment in verse 28, but where
are thy gods, that thou Hast

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made the let them arise if they
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their trouble.
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thy cities are thy Gods o Judah.
So, cut call on all these other

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gods that you’ve got.
Have a look at them and see what

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they have.
Have to have to offer by way of

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Salvation because you have as
many gods as you have cities,

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you multiply God’s to you.
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So this is this little section
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We then from verse 6 of chapter
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and into chapter 4, we have
condemnation of Israel for her

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idolatry.
We’re not, particularly going to

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lift any versus out of that.
You could have a look at that in

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your own time.
But here is the prophet talking

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about Israel’s idolatry in.
This is the nation that, of

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course, has been taken away into
captivity and the consequence of

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this.
The consequence of this is Going

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to be a great disaster from the
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And remember, last night I said,
we need to be inserting

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ourselves.
Always into the text here, we

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are a people who understand
about a Godless Society.

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We are a people who understand
about the wickedness of mankind

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in the eyes of Almighty of the
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And we know what his remedy is.
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north, which is coming down on
the people of Israel is the

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message that we ought to be
witnessing to and This Disaster

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from the north.
If I Just bring one or two,

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little versus to your attention.
Here verse 5 of chapter 4,

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declare ye in Judah, publish in
Jerusalem and say, blow ye the

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trumpet in the land cry gather
together and assemble yourselves

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and let us go up to defensed
cities, that’s the natural

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reaction isn’t.
If you’re out in the fields and

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some armies coming.
Get yourself into a walled City

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where you have some kind of
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would be able to help.
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If you look at verse verse 15,
there’s reference to a voice

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declaring from Dan.
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northernmost tribe.
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the front line.
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north, while it’s someone like
Dan and the people of down who

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are going to suffer this first.
So they are going to be

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declaring.
They are going to be saying the

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horses are on their way and and
and there’s a from verse.

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Sorry it in chapter 6 all Out of
this, same section about

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destruction and disaster from
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If you look at verse 12 onwards,
we’ve got prophets who are

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saying the false messages to the
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That’s coming in verse 12, their
houses shall be turned unto

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others, their fields and wives
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I will stretch out my hand upon
the inhabitants of the land,

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saith the Lord for from the
least of them, even unto the

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greatest.
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Everyone is given to
covetousness and from the

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prophet even unto the priests
everyone dealeth falsely, they

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have healed.
Also the hurt of the daughter of

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my people slightly saying peace,
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When there is no peace, were
they ashamed when they had

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committed Abomination?
Now, they were not at all

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ashamed, neither could they
blush?

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So the people were speaking this
at the prophets in the priest

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was speaking this false message
and and saying things that the

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people wanted to hear Yeah.
Not what was truth from God and

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that there’s a lesson simply
there for all of us to make sure

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we’re saying the right things so
you can see how this is building

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brothers and sisters and and
then in chapter 7, which we will

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come back to in a little while.
We have Jeremiah speaking about

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repentance such through these
early chapters of Jeremiah,

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there are three occasions where
he goes to the temple and

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delivers.
There’s a Temple address and

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this is his first, and it’s a
call to repentance to the people

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and, and the prophet gives that.
Now, if you’re familiar with

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chiasma, then you, you know,
what comes next and it’s it’s

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the same kind of pattern but for
the bottom half of the table so

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we’d expect them the following
verses to talk about disaster

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from the north and that’s
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chapter 9 and verse. 26.
And if you look here in verse

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14, for example, Why do we sit
still 8:14 assemble yourselves

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letters into into the defense
cities?

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Let us be silent there.
So, here in the people saying,

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the same things we need to get
into the Fortified cities, that

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will be a place of safety for us
verse 16 for the snorting of his

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horse.
We was heard from Dan.

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So there again, Dan were hearing
these, invading armies coming

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and they were crying and raising
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And if you go back up to To
verse 10, we have quoted here,

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verbatim the words that we read
together from verse 6, look at

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verse 11.
For example, for, they have

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healed the hurt of the daughter
of my people slightly saying

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peace, peace.
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11, and 12 are quoted verbatim
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So you can see it’s the same
kind of message here.

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That’s been repeated for the
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to the end of end of that
chapter.

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Nothing particular to draw to
your attention there.

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Let’s concentrate on the
condemnation of Judah.

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We picked out one or two verses
there didn’t we have a look at

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it, 11 verse 13.
This way, would people for 11

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verse 13 for, according to the
number of Vice City’s.

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With I Gods o Judo.
We’ve read that before, haven’t

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we?
And the same kind of language is

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coming out here, and the
conclusion is rather similar to

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00:27:51,500 –> 00:27:54,200
the introduction.
It takes us back to Jeremiah, it

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00:27:54,200 –> 00:27:58,000
takes us back to his home.
It takes us back to anathoth and

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00:27:58,000 –> 00:28:03,200
it takes him back to Texas, back
to a family who reject him for

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00:28:03,200 –> 00:28:07,200
his message.
So, I lay that out before you as

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a Biblical chiasm has, which
then starts to put at least a

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00:28:11,500 –> 00:28:12,900
pattern to it, doesn’t it
brother?

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And sisters.
And of course if you if you are

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familiar with this sort of
thing, then that middle line is

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00:28:20,500 –> 00:28:24,500
the bit, that’s the focus, we’re
trying to get into that little

448
00:28:24,500 –> 00:28:28,100
bit, aren’t we?
Which is the call to repentance?

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00:28:28,200 –> 00:28:32,600
That’s the bit that this is all
pointing towards and maybe then

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00:28:33,100 –> 00:28:35,800
that’s one way in which we could
look at the book and if we can

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if we can do that with the first
11 chapters of Jeremiah, is it

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possible to do with other parts
of Jerry?

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00:28:44,100 –> 00:28:45,700
Maybe there’s an exercise there
for us.

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All to have a look and see if
there are other patterns that

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00:28:49,300 –> 00:28:53,900
might come out here.
I think there is one for the

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whole lot of the book itself and
maybe as we progress the week

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together, we’ll have a look and
see on what that says for us.

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Let’s go back to the, let’s go
back to the beginning for a

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00:29:07,108 –> 00:29:08,000
little while.
Shall we?

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To work to chapter 1 and just
make sure we’ve got some of the

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00:29:12,200 –> 00:29:14,300
information.
That we need to have here.

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00:29:15,100 –> 00:29:18,400
We’ve been introduced to this
young man who was a nervous

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00:29:19,100 –> 00:29:24,100
profit but we need to get his
first Vision which is in chapter

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1 and verse 11.
Which is an emphasis on the word

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00:29:28,400 –> 00:29:31,800
of the Lord.
Everything we do everything,

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00:29:31,800 –> 00:29:35,200
this man was to do everything
that that drives Our Lives

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00:29:35,200 –> 00:29:39,100
brothers and sisters has to be
founded on the word.

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00:29:39,100 –> 00:29:42,600
Moreover, verse 11 of chapter 1.
The word of the Lord came unto

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me saying, Jeremiah, what seest
thou.

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And I said, I see a rod of an
almond tree then said the Lord

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00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:51,300
unto me, thou Hast.
Well, seen for, I will haste him

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00:29:51,300 –> 00:29:55,800
my word to perform it.
You’ve seen this, this tree

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00:29:55,800 –> 00:29:59,400
that, but Quickly that bods
early, my word will now be

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00:29:59,400 –> 00:30:03,100
hastened to pay attention
because I’m going to speak my

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00:30:03,200 –> 00:30:07,600
word and of course the the word
that he’s going to bring to

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00:30:07,600 –> 00:30:09,800
fruition and bring to
completion.

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00:30:09,800 –> 00:30:14,200
Here, is this great stirring
from the north is great Invasion

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00:30:14,200 –> 00:30:16,000
from the north.
In the next thing that Jeremiah

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00:30:16,000 –> 00:30:20,100
sees is this this bubbling
cauldron which is pointing

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00:30:20,100 –> 00:30:24,100
towards the North and is this
seething pot which is shortly

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00:30:24,100 –> 00:30:28,300
due to spill over and Run
through the land bringing

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00:30:28,300 –> 00:30:33,400
disaster and that’s the first
sign that Jeremiah sees and has

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00:30:33,400 –> 00:30:37,900
to deal with what we will, not
read it, but verses 14 15 and 16

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which were read earlier.
Today this is the seething pot

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00:30:41,300 –> 00:30:46,500
from the north that will run
over the land of Israel and the

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00:30:46,500 –> 00:30:48,900
Lord says and that’s the message
I want you to go and share.

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00:30:49,700 –> 00:30:52,600
That’s what I want you to warn
the people about and we

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00:30:52,600 –> 00:30:56,100
sometimes Overlook the mercy of
God.

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00:30:56,300 –> 00:31:00,300
Don’t wait in, in sharing his
plans and his message with

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00:31:00,300 –> 00:31:03,400
people that we are an enormously
privileged position.

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00:31:03,400 –> 00:31:06,400
To have some understanding of
the way, the almighty is at

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00:31:06,400 –> 00:31:09,000
work, we might not know all the
details, we might not know all

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00:31:09,000 –> 00:31:13,400
the timing, but he’s got this
all sorted out, and he shared it

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00:31:13,400 –> 00:31:18,700
with us.
And he’s saying to us, will you

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00:31:18,700 –> 00:31:22,100
share it with others?
I want others to know about

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00:31:22,100 –> 00:31:23,400
this.
He is not a God.

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00:31:23,400 –> 00:31:26,600
Who wants to bring destruction?
He is not a God who wants to,

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00:31:26,800 –> 00:31:31,300
who wants to kill and destroy.
He is a God who wants to save so

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00:31:31,300 –> 00:31:34,100
much, so that he allowed his
only beloved Son to die.

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00:31:34,100 –> 00:31:36,400
And he’s saying, will you go and
share that message?

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00:31:36,400 –> 00:31:38,800
Will you tell them that
destruction is coming from the

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00:31:38,800 –> 00:31:41,000
north?
Jeremiah is natural.

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00:31:41,000 –> 00:31:43,600
Reaction is why I’m too young
I’m to inadequate.

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00:31:43,600 –> 00:31:45,700
I don’t want to do that and the
Lord.

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00:31:45,900 –> 00:31:48,800
No, I’m asking you to do it.
So maybe he’s saying that to

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00:31:48,800 –> 00:31:51,600
each of us sitting here today.
This is the message that you’ve

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00:31:51,600 –> 00:31:56,400
got go and share it with others.
And the qualities of the prophet

508
00:31:56,400 –> 00:31:59,700
in verse 17, which we would read
very quickly and not really pay

509
00:31:59,700 –> 00:32:01,700
attention to their worth
dwelling on, aren’t they?

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00:32:01,700 –> 00:32:09,000
In verse 17, therefore, gird my
loins arise speak to them that

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00:32:09,000 –> 00:32:13,700
all that I command thee, be not
be dismayed, be not thou

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00:32:13,700 –> 00:32:17,000
dismayed.
So That the Lord is saying here,

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00:32:17,000 –> 00:32:21,100
prepare yourself arise and get
on with it.

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00:32:21,700 –> 00:32:26,500
Deliver the message, speak it to
them and keep going, don’t be

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00:32:26,508 –> 00:32:28,400
dismayed.
Plenty of people will say that’s

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00:32:28,400 –> 00:32:29,500
nonsense.
You’re speaking.

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00:32:29,500 –> 00:32:32,800
Plenty of people will not listen
to what you have to say, but the

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00:32:32,800 –> 00:32:34,700
Lord is saying, keep going with
it.

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00:32:34,700 –> 00:32:39,100
Do not be dismayed, just keep
working away at this.

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00:32:40,200 –> 00:32:45,600
So that was Jeremiah’s message
that he was now going to take.

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00:32:45,800 –> 00:32:51,800
Forward and he’s going to do it
at a time when when Israel had

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00:32:51,800 –> 00:32:56,500
gone into captivity, when the
people of Judah were largely a

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00:32:56,500 –> 00:33:00,100
poor nation under under Godless
Nation.

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00:33:01,000 –> 00:33:03,800
But there were signs
particularly under the hand of

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00:33:03,800 –> 00:33:09,200
Josiah, that good men were
coming to the fore and we can

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00:33:09,200 –> 00:33:11,500
pick them up from the biblical
record.

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00:33:11,500 –> 00:33:14,200
Can’t, we saw people like
hilkiah the high priest people

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00:33:14,200 –> 00:33:19,000
like Shay fans The Scribe, I
just put his family tree on

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00:33:19,000 –> 00:33:23,800
there, which is, which is, well,
worth looking at names on that

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00:33:23,800 –> 00:33:27,600
family tree that we’re going to
come across certainly in our

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00:33:27,600 –> 00:33:31,400
studies together and certainly
as we read the book of Jeremiah

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00:33:31,900 –> 00:33:34,400
in the next month or so get
Mariah.

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00:33:34,400 –> 00:33:37,600
Certainly get a liar.
My key is these are people who

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00:33:37,600 –> 00:33:43,200
were all actively trying to be
Godly men or supporting Jeremiah

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00:33:43,600 –> 00:33:45,700
in the work that he was trying
to do.

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00:33:46,700 –> 00:33:50,800
Amongst the Godless Nation,
there were good things that were

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00:33:50,800 –> 00:33:54,500
going on.
Come with me to work Second

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00:33:54,500 –> 00:33:57,500
Kings. 22.
Yeah.

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00:33:57,600 –> 00:34:00,800
Second Kings. 22 please and
you’ll need a little bookmark in

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00:34:00,800 –> 00:34:05,000
Second Kings, 22.
As we docked back and forth for

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00:34:05,000 –> 00:34:12,800
a few minutes.
Second Kings 22 were at the time

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00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:18,199
of Josiah’s, reforms.
And you’ll remember how how the

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00:34:18,199 –> 00:34:23,500
temple was being rebuilt.
So, if you just look from verse

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00:34:23,500 –> 00:34:28,600
3, onwards in Second Kings, 22,
in the 18th year of King,

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00:34:28,600 –> 00:34:32,300
Josiah, King sent Chafin the son
of as Elijah.

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00:34:32,300 –> 00:34:34,900
The son of mechelen, describe to
the house of the Lord saying,

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00:34:35,000 –> 00:34:38,000
got to help either high priest
that he met some, the silver,

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00:34:38,000 –> 00:34:39,800
which is brought into the house
of the Lord.

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00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:42,800
Which the keepers of the doors
had gathered of the people and

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00:34:42,800 –> 00:34:47,600
let them deliver it into the
hand of the doers of the work.

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00:34:47,900 –> 00:34:51,300
So those who were in charge of
the the restoration of the

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00:34:51,300 –> 00:34:55,600
temple, this was to be given to
them in order.

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00:34:55,600 –> 00:34:59,800
The work could be undertaken and
it was going to be something

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00:34:59,800 –> 00:35:02,400
quite special.
The temple is going to be

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00:35:02,400 –> 00:35:05,000
rebuilt.
Josiah had got in mind to

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00:35:05,000 –> 00:35:08,700
restore the house of the Lord
collections have been made plans

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00:35:08,700 –> 00:35:12,400
have been taken.
And this work was now underway.

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00:35:13,800 –> 00:35:19,300
Plenty of people Godless people
were happy for the temple to be

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00:35:19,300 –> 00:35:23,300
rebuilt.
Lots of idolatry was going on

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00:35:23,300 –> 00:35:27,500
here, lots of worship of false
gods was going on here and the

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00:35:27,500 –> 00:35:31,700
people generally, not the people
who followed God, but the people

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00:35:31,700 –> 00:35:35,000
generally were very happy for
the temple to be restored.

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00:35:35,400 –> 00:35:38,100
Yeah, let’s have a lovely place
for all these different gods to

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00:35:38,100 –> 00:35:40,800
be worshipped.
No difficulty at all.

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00:35:41,400 –> 00:35:44,900
Have a bookmark in in King’s
there, and come with me to

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00:35:44,900 –> 00:35:50,500
Jeremiah chapter 7, this, this
first temple address that

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00:35:50,500 –> 00:35:55,600
Jeremiah makes.
So here he is now called from

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00:35:55,700 –> 00:35:59,600
anathoth coming into the city of
Jerusalem and he’s standing in

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00:35:59,600 –> 00:36:03,300
the temple at the time of all
this great restoration work

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00:36:03,300 –> 00:36:08,100
going on and he’s got Words
which are going to cut through

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00:36:08,100 –> 00:36:11,100
this and say you’re missing the
point.

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00:36:11,600 –> 00:36:16,100
Comes out very strongly in
chapter 7, the word that came to

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00:36:16,100 –> 00:36:18,800
Jeremiah from the Lord saying
stand in the gate of the Lord’s

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00:36:18,800 –> 00:36:22,400
House and Proclaim their this
word and say, hear the word of

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00:36:22,400 –> 00:36:26,200
the Lord, all ye of Judah that
enter in at these gates, To

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00:36:26,200 –> 00:36:28,500
Worship the Lord.
Thus, saith the Lord of hosts,

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00:36:28,500 –> 00:36:32,400
the god of Israel amend, your
ways and your doings, and I will

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00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:34,000
cause you to dwell in this
place.

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00:36:34,100 –> 00:36:37,600
Trust you not in lying words
saying the Temple of the Lord.

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00:36:37,600 –> 00:36:41,000
The Temple of the Lord, the
Temple of the Lord are these

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00:36:41,500 –> 00:36:44,600
For, if you thoroughly and make
the throughly amend your ways

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00:36:44,600 –> 00:36:47,800
and your doings if you through
the execute judgment between a

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00:36:47,800 –> 00:36:51,000
man and his neighbor, if you are
pressed, not the stranger and

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00:36:51,000 –> 00:36:54,400
the fatherless and the Widow and
shed, Not Innocent blood in this

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00:36:54,400 –> 00:36:57,600
place, neither work after other
gods, to your heart to your

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00:36:57,600 –> 00:36:59,700
hurt.
Then, I will cause you to dwell

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00:36:59,700 –> 00:37:02,400
in this place in the land that I
gave to your father.

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00:37:02,400 –> 00:37:05,400
So it’s very powerful address
and he’s saying and don’t put

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00:37:05,400 –> 00:37:08,900
your thumb, put your faith in
the bricks and mortar, that’s

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00:37:08,900 –> 00:37:12,400
being restored, behind me.
Matching standing there and all

591
00:37:12,400 –> 00:37:15,400
this building work going on.
Don’t put your trust in this

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00:37:15,600 –> 00:37:19,100
because if you are not changed
people, its of no value.

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00:37:19,200 –> 00:37:22,600
If you are still people who are
going to behave in this way, if

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00:37:22,600 –> 00:37:25,200
you are still people who are
going to worship other gods,

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00:37:25,200 –> 00:37:28,300
then any coming in here is of no
value at all.

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00:37:28,700 –> 00:37:31,400
So he’s trying to get through to
the heart of their faith here,

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00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:34,700
which was very weak thing in a
very inadequate thing and he’s

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00:37:34,700 –> 00:37:38,800
warning them that they cannot
put their trust in the temple

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00:37:39,400 –> 00:37:43,300
and actually as it Carries On
Down at verse 12.

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00:37:43,400 –> 00:37:47,400
I think about our earlier verses
about Samuel and Eli, but go ye

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00:37:47,400 –> 00:37:52,600
now on to my place, which was in
Shiloh where I set my name at

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00:37:52,600 –> 00:37:55,700
the first and see that I did to
it for the wickedness of My

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00:37:55,700 –> 00:37:58,000
People Israel.
And and it’s generally thought

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00:37:58,000 –> 00:38:01,100
that Shiloh was destroyed and
uninhabited.

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00:38:01,700 –> 00:38:03,800
And that was where the priest
was, that was where the

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00:38:03,800 –> 00:38:06,000
Tabernacle was nuts.
Where the Lord dwelt?

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00:38:06,000 –> 00:38:07,600
And now it’s destroyed.
It’s gone.

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00:38:07,900 –> 00:38:09,400
Go and have a look and see what
I did there.

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00:38:09,400 –> 00:38:11,100
If you’re putting your trust in
this.

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00:38:11,200 –> 00:38:14,800
Thing that’s going on here.
Then you’re wasting your time.

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00:38:14,800 –> 00:38:19,200
Go and look and see what I can
do to these places and verse 14.

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00:38:19,200 –> 00:38:24,000
Therefore, will I do unto this
house which is called by my name

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00:38:24,000 –> 00:38:27,500
wherein ye trust and unto the
place which I gave to you and

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00:38:27,500 –> 00:38:30,500
your father’s as I have done
unto Shiloh.

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00:38:31,200 –> 00:38:36,300
So there’s a key message here
that the outward show of the

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00:38:36,300 –> 00:38:40,900
religion that they had was of no
value, they needed to change

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00:38:40,900 –> 00:38:43,500
them.
Needed to be different people.

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00:38:45,300 –> 00:38:48,900
Interestingly, they would not
listen.

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00:38:50,400 –> 00:38:54,400
And one of the reasons they
would not listen, which isn’t

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00:38:54,400 –> 00:38:57,500
absolutely Apparent from
scripture, but you can just step

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00:38:57,500 –> 00:39:00,200
outside scripture and look into
history books and see what was

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00:39:00,200 –> 00:39:04,800
going on at the time.
And you can see that the people

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00:39:05,300 –> 00:39:09,500
did not believe Jeremiah.
And, and around this time, we’re

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00:39:09,500 –> 00:39:12,600
introduced not not within
scripture, but outside scripture

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00:39:12,600 –> 00:39:18,300
to a people called the Sith
Ian’s who were a great nomadic

626
00:39:18,300 –> 00:39:23,000
fearsome.
Fighting Army that travel

627
00:39:23,000 –> 00:39:27,300
through the steps of central, a
show that had no intention of

628
00:39:27,600 –> 00:39:30,300
moving into lands and conquering
and settling.

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00:39:30,300 –> 00:39:34,700
All they wanted to do with sweep
through collect, whatever they

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00:39:34,700 –> 00:39:38,700
could take whatever they
possibly could and then move

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00:39:38,700 –> 00:39:42,800
back to their Homeland
fast-moving always on Horseback

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00:39:42,800 –> 00:39:46,000
no intent no infantry.
They weren’t weighed down at all

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00:39:46,200 –> 00:39:50,000
by this sort of thing when
Nineveh was surrounded by By

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00:39:50,000 –> 00:39:53,000
Babylon in 625 BC, it was the
city ins.

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00:39:53,000 –> 00:39:55,700
Who swept through and save
Nineveh?

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00:39:55,700 –> 00:39:58,500
It wasn’t taken at that
particular time and lots of

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00:39:58,500 –> 00:40:03,700
historians Herodotus and the
Babylonian records make mention

638
00:40:03,700 –> 00:40:06,900
of this.
And there was a time when they

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00:40:06,900 –> 00:40:10,900
swept through Canaan and they
came straight down the Jordan

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00:40:10,900 –> 00:40:12,400
Valley.
They were taking whatever they

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00:40:12,400 –> 00:40:14,100
wanted.
They didn’t come up to

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00:40:14,100 –> 00:40:16,200
Jerusalem.
They went straight down to the

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00:40:16,200 –> 00:40:22,500
Egyptian border where the
Pharaoh there met them and gave

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00:40:22,500 –> 00:40:24,900
them things.
So they didn’t come into Egypt

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00:40:24,900 –> 00:40:27,500
and take them, they just gave
them what they wanted and they

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turned around and went back
North And the people of

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Jerusalem who witness this that
they they sort of coward in

648
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their city as this massive Army
swept down, the Jordan Valley

649
00:40:39,800 –> 00:40:42,700
took, taking, whatever they want
to learn swept off back up

650
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north.
They thought that was it was it

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that that was the invasion from
the north it’s been and gone.

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And here you are telling us not
to put our trust in this Temple

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and we can forget that.
We’ve had your message.

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We’ve endured, we’ve overcome
will now carry on.

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We were before, thank you very
much and you can see that, that

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kind of mentality.
Can’t you of course to the

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people of God?
That should be a warning.

658
00:41:12,200 –> 00:41:14,700
That was a near thing.
That was a that was a near Miss

659
00:41:14,700 –> 00:41:17,900
up to a close call Will to
prepare ourselves.

660
00:41:18,700 –> 00:41:22,900
And of course, because because
we view signs, from a position

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of God’s word, we’re seeing all
sorts of things happening and we

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00:41:26,700 –> 00:41:31,100
think all this might be it, oh
maybe it’s not, maybe it’s to

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00:41:31,100 –> 00:41:32,900
come again.
You know we have those moments

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where there’s excitement and
then it just drops a little bit.

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00:41:35,800 –> 00:41:38,400
These are sent to encourage
brothers and sisters not for us

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00:41:38,400 –> 00:41:42,500
to say was that?
It and then give up.

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00:41:43,200 –> 00:41:46,500
And I’m sure that would have
been men of this time.

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00:41:46,700 –> 00:41:51,000
Who would be interested by what
had happened and think?

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00:41:51,000 –> 00:41:55,000
Well, that was a close call.
Wonder what’s coming next?

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The move me back to 2nd Kings.
Will you please while we just

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resume with Josiah and his
reforms?

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00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:08,900
Because of course it was, it was
in this period, wasn’t it?

673
00:42:08,900 –> 00:42:13,300
That They discovered the book of
the law.

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The book of the covenants often
thought to be the book of

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00:42:18,000 –> 00:42:23,700
Deuteronomy second Kings,
chapter 23, the first two verses

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00:42:23,700 –> 00:42:29,500
here, when they’ve discovered
this book because Josiah was a

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man of God, you know, how he
reacted, he wanted to, to read

678
00:42:33,800 –> 00:42:37,000
it and find out and assess
himself against it to see

679
00:42:37,000 –> 00:42:39,300
whether he was doing the things
of God.

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00:42:39,800 –> 00:42:42,600
Wanted to share it with others
to make sure that others knew

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00:42:42,600 –> 00:42:45,600
the word of Truth.
And they could understand it and

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00:42:45,700 –> 00:42:48,700
it’s always astonishing that the
word of God had become lost in

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00:42:48,700 –> 00:42:50,600
the first place, isn’t it?
But here it is.

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00:42:50,600 –> 00:42:53,100
It’s been found and it’s going
to be shared.

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00:42:53,100 –> 00:42:56,800
And according to the Kings
rules, they’re going to try and

686
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follow it as best they can.
So verse 1 of chapter 23, the

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king sent, and they gathered
unto him, all the Elders of

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00:43:05,100 –> 00:43:08,300
Judah and Abdul rasul.
Mm, and the King went up unto

689
00:43:08,300 –> 00:43:12,000
the house of the Lord.
And all the men of Judah, all

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00:43:12,000 –> 00:43:16,000
the inhabitants of Jerusalem
with him, all the priests, all

691
00:43:16,000 –> 00:43:20,100
the prophets, all the people,
both small and great and he read

692
00:43:20,100 –> 00:43:23,000
in their ears.
All the words of the book of the

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00:43:23,000 –> 00:43:27,800
Covenant, which was found in the
house of the Lord.

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00:43:29,100 –> 00:43:30,400
Lovely.
Now, isn’t it?

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00:43:30,700 –> 00:43:34,900
Jeremiah almost certainly was in
that crowd.

696
00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:39,200
Jeremiah who’s been commissioned
by the almighty to speak to the

697
00:43:39,200 –> 00:43:40,900
people?
Coming destruction.

698
00:43:41,100 –> 00:43:44,200
Here is a king on the throne
whose found the word of the Lord

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00:43:44,200 –> 00:43:47,000
and wants it to be shared.
He’s gathered everybody

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00:43:47,000 –> 00:43:51,200
together.
And he has arranged for this

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00:43:51,200 –> 00:43:57,000
word to be read so that everyone
can hear the word of the Lord

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00:43:57,800 –> 00:44:02,500
without doubt.
Jeremiah heard this book read

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00:44:02,700 –> 00:44:05,200
come with me to Jeremiah chapter
seven, please.

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00:44:10,600 –> 00:44:15,400
Verse 21.
Thus, saith the Lord of hosts.

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The god of Israel.
Jeremiah says, in verse 21, put

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00:44:19,300 –> 00:44:23,000
your burnt offerings unto your
sacrifices and eat flesh for I

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00:44:23,000 –> 00:44:24,900
spake.
Not into your father’s nor

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00:44:24,900 –> 00:44:27,600
commanded them in the day that I
brought them out of the land of

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00:44:27,600 –> 00:44:30,100
Egypt, concerning burnt
offerings or sacrifices.

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00:44:30,300 –> 00:44:35,200
But this think Amanda died them
saying obey my voice and I will

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00:44:35,200 –> 00:44:39,200
be your God and you shall be my
people and Walkie in all the

712
00:44:39,200 –> 00:44:42,800
ways that I have commanded you
that it may be well unto you.

713
00:44:42,800 –> 00:44:47,100
But Hearken not nor inclined
their ear but walked in their

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00:44:47,100 –> 00:44:50,900
councils and in the imagination
of their evil heart and went

715
00:44:50,900 –> 00:44:54,500
backward, and not forward.
And now just cast your eye, down

716
00:44:54,500 –> 00:44:58,400
your margin, and look at the
references to Deuteronomy there,

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00:44:58,400 –> 00:45:02,300
and you’ll see that all sorts of
phrases that Jeremiah is using

718
00:45:02,300 –> 00:45:07,500
here, are contained in the book
of Jeremiah at verse 23, for

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example, three phases of
phrases, here, hearken unto my

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00:45:11,400 –> 00:45:17,900
voice is from Deuteronomy.
Ami 6 verse 3, Walk in the ways

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00:45:17,900 –> 00:45:22,800
that I command you, Deuteronomy
5 verse 33, that it may be well

722
00:45:22,800 –> 00:45:25,100
with you, Deuteronomy 4 verse
40.

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00:45:25,400 –> 00:45:29,000
It’s just language of the book
of the covenants that Jeremiah

724
00:45:29,000 –> 00:45:32,100
has heard and, of course, under
inspiration.

725
00:45:32,100 –> 00:45:35,200
It’s now been used in his
preaching.

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00:45:35,500 –> 00:45:39,200
This is the message that he is
communicating.

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00:45:40,300 –> 00:45:44,500
Turn over to chapter 11 please.
If you would, I’m sorry with

728
00:45:44,500 –> 00:45:46,200
dotting around, but that’s the
nature.

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00:45:46,200 –> 00:45:47,700
Of the book.
I’m trying to just build the

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00:45:47,700 –> 00:45:52,100
picture for you here so Jeremiah
has come to Jerusalem.

731
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He’s given his first temple
address and he’s now heard

732
00:45:56,600 –> 00:46:00,200
Josiah’s reading of the law.
And you can see that Jeremiah’s

733
00:46:00,200 –> 00:46:05,000
prophecy in Jeremiah’s messages
is now seep through with the

734
00:46:05,000 –> 00:46:09,400
book of Deuteronomy.
And in chapter 11, we have

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00:46:09,400 –> 00:46:16,000
Jeremiah receiving instruction
after the reading of the law. so

736
00:46:16,000 –> 00:46:20,900
in Jeremiah chapter 11, the word
that came to Jeremiah from the

737
00:46:20,900 –> 00:46:25,500
Lord saying hear, ye the words
of this Covenant.

738
00:46:26,500 –> 00:46:29,300
All right, so that’s not just a
general introduction to what God

739
00:46:29,300 –> 00:46:32,000
is saying.
Next, God is saying here now,

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00:46:32,000 –> 00:46:34,800
you’ve heard the words of the
book of the Covenant that’s

741
00:46:34,800 –> 00:46:37,400
being read out.
Jeremiah, you’ve heard that

742
00:46:37,700 –> 00:46:39,600
hurt.
Yes, as Jeremiah well, this is

743
00:46:39,600 –> 00:46:43,700
what I want you to do so.
So chapter 11, here is the Lord.

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00:46:43,700 –> 00:46:47,300
Instructing, Jeremiah, who’s now
heard this book of the Covenant.

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00:46:47,600 –> 00:46:51,300
He’s telling him what to do.
This to hear ye the words of

746
00:46:51,300 –> 00:46:54,800
this Covenant and speak unto the
men of Judah and to the

747
00:46:54,800 –> 00:46:58,000
inhabitants of Jerusalem and say
thou unto them, thus saith the

748
00:46:58,000 –> 00:47:00,700
Lord God of Israel.
Cursed be the man that are

749
00:47:00,700 –> 00:47:05,200
bayeuth not the words of this
Covenant direct quote from

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00:47:05,200 –> 00:47:11,600
Deuteronomy 27, of course.
So here is Jeremiah receiving

751
00:47:11,900 –> 00:47:14,700
this message and the Lord is
saying I want you to go and

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00:47:14,700 –> 00:47:18,600
speak it.
And in verse 6, then the Lord

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00:47:18,600 –> 00:47:24,500
said unto Meet Proclaim, all
these words in the cities of

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00:47:24,600 –> 00:47:28,100
Judah.
And in the streets of Jerusalem,

755
00:47:28,100 –> 00:47:30,200
there’s two aspects here to his
preaching.

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00:47:30,400 –> 00:47:33,200
One is to the cities of Judah
and then to the streets of

757
00:47:33,200 –> 00:47:37,400
Jerusalem.
Now, the cities of Judah, that’s

758
00:47:37,400 –> 00:47:39,700
great, that’s Jeremiah’s home
territory.

759
00:47:39,700 –> 00:47:43,300
He was raised outside Jerusalem,
he was raised in the cities of

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00:47:43,300 –> 00:47:45,100
Judah.
He was raised in anathoth.

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00:47:45,500 –> 00:47:48,900
This is this is his bag.
This is his home territory.

762
00:47:49,100 –> 00:47:51,300
Go and speak to the people of
Judah gone.

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00:47:51,300 –> 00:47:55,100
Tell them this book of the
Covenant bring repentance among

764
00:47:55,100 –> 00:47:58,000
these people.
So Jeremiah I suggest at this

765
00:47:58,000 –> 00:48:00,400
point is excited about this
Prospect.

766
00:48:00,700 –> 00:48:05,300
He’s going to visit his his home
territory and he’s going to

767
00:48:05,300 –> 00:48:11,600
preach to the people about the
renewal of this Covenant.

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00:48:12,800 –> 00:48:18,400
Chapter 11 has unfortunately the
reaction of the people And it’s

769
00:48:18,400 –> 00:48:21,400
not good.
You you knew that, but it’s

770
00:48:21,400 –> 00:48:23,200
disappointing when we read it
isn’t it?

771
00:48:23,200 –> 00:48:28,800
Verse 21 of chapter 11 verse
saith, the Lord of the men of

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00:48:28,800 –> 00:48:36,400
anathoth that seek thy life
saying, prophesy not in the name

773
00:48:36,400 –> 00:48:41,300
of the Lord, that thou die.
Not by our hand.

774
00:48:42,400 –> 00:48:45,100
Isn’t that sad.
He’s gone back to his hometown

775
00:48:45,100 –> 00:48:47,700
where he was raised.
He’s got the word of life.

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00:48:47,900 –> 00:48:50,200
Nice hand.
He wants to share it with them.

777
00:48:50,200 –> 00:48:56,500
He has got the key to life,
initially, a key to being saved

778
00:48:56,500 –> 00:48:59,800
from this Invasion to the north,
but more the key of Salvation.

779
00:48:59,800 –> 00:49:03,900
And he wants to share it with
his, his brothers, who he grew

780
00:49:03,900 –> 00:49:07,200
up with his his citizens of
anathoth.

781
00:49:07,700 –> 00:49:11,900
And they say, if you don’t stop
speaking this word, we’re going

782
00:49:11,900 –> 00:49:16,100
to kill you.
And at such a low point, isn’t

783
00:49:16,100 –> 00:49:20,400
it that such a disappointing
response that Jeremiah has to

784
00:49:20,400 –> 00:49:26,600
deal with and his own family had
come up with that Versa.

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00:49:26,600 –> 00:49:34,100
If you’re going to 12:7 I have
forsaken, mine house.

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00:49:34,700 –> 00:49:39,300
I have left mine Heritage.
I have given the dearly beloved

787
00:49:39,300 –> 00:49:42,300
of my soul into the hand of her
enemies.

788
00:49:43,000 –> 00:49:46,500
It’s almost as if Jeremiah is
feeling what the almighty is

789
00:49:46,500 –> 00:49:52,000
going through here.
And he is leaving his family and

790
00:49:52,000 –> 00:49:55,400
his inheritance and he’s tried
to preach the cities of Judah

791
00:49:55,700 –> 00:49:59,100
and he’s now going to go into
Jerusalem and he’s going to try

792
00:49:59,100 –> 00:50:04,800
and preach to the people.
All in Jerusalem, our time is

793
00:50:04,800 –> 00:50:06,800
almost gone at just a moment or
two.

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00:50:06,800 –> 00:50:09,700
If you’ll come back with me to
chapter 5, please, because we

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00:50:09,700 –> 00:50:15,000
get a little inkling as to how
he gets on in Jerusalem.

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00:50:21,300 –> 00:50:26,500
Verse 1 of chapter 5, he’s going
to run to and fro through the

797
00:50:26,500 –> 00:50:29,800
streets of Jerusalem.
You remember how it was

798
00:50:29,800 –> 00:50:32,500
instructed to go to the cities
of Judah and preaching the

799
00:50:32,500 –> 00:50:34,500
streets of Jerusalem?
Well, here he is.

800
00:50:35,000 –> 00:50:37,900
This is the one who’s got the
message, and he’s now going to

801
00:50:38,100 –> 00:50:41,300
despite his setback in in
amethyst he’s coming into

802
00:50:41,300 –> 00:50:43,400
Jerusalem is going to travel
throughout the streets of

803
00:50:43,400 –> 00:50:47,000
Jerusalem and he’s going to try
and preach to the Ordinary

804
00:50:47,000 –> 00:50:49,900
People.
This is preaching to the man in

805
00:50:49,900 –> 00:50:52,200
the street.
He’s got the message of

806
00:50:52,200 –> 00:50:56,600
Salvation and is going to run to
and fro throughout the city of

807
00:50:56,600 –> 00:51:02,800
Jerusalem and he’s going to try
and communicate but they are not

808
00:51:02,800 –> 00:51:06,100
interested.
He can’t make any progress.

809
00:51:06,100 –> 00:51:10,100
No one wants to listen to this
word that he’s he’s bringing

810
00:51:10,700 –> 00:51:14,800
maybe you can relate to that.
And Jeremiah has an explanation

811
00:51:14,800 –> 00:51:19,100
doesn’t in verse 4.
Therefore, I said, surely, these

812
00:51:19,100 –> 00:51:23,500
are poor.
They are foolish for, they know,

813
00:51:23,500 –> 00:51:27,200
not the way of the Lord, nor the
Judgment of God.

814
00:51:27,800 –> 00:51:32,400
So, I will get me onto the Great
Men and I will speak unto them

815
00:51:32,400 –> 00:51:34,700
for they have known the ways.
What I’ve gone, try somewhere

816
00:51:34,700 –> 00:51:36,800
else, I got to speak to Men of
renown.

817
00:51:36,800 –> 00:51:39,600
I got to speak to man.
Men in position, man, in

818
00:51:39,600 –> 00:51:41,900
Authority.
I’ll see if I can communicate

819
00:51:41,900 –> 00:51:47,100
with them and of course, he gets
to them and they are just This

820
00:51:47,100 –> 00:51:50,200
disappointing.
So in the end, he denounces them

821
00:51:50,200 –> 00:51:56,000
in verse 6 and talks about the
things that would come upon them

822
00:51:56,000 –> 00:52:00,500
because of their refusal to
listen to the words of the Lord.

823
00:52:00,500 –> 00:52:05,700
So it’s a, it’s a very
disappointing situation that

824
00:52:05,700 –> 00:52:06,800
we’re picking up here, aren’t
we?

825
00:52:06,800 –> 00:52:09,400
We’ve got a profit who’s been
given the word of the Lord.

826
00:52:09,400 –> 00:52:12,500
He’s been given a commission, he
knows what’s going to happen is

827
00:52:12,500 –> 00:52:16,300
being a given a commission to
travel throughout Judah and in

828
00:52:16,900 –> 00:52:21,600
Absalom and the reaction is the
same at whatever tier of

829
00:52:21,600 –> 00:52:23,900
society.
He takes his message to.

830
00:52:24,200 –> 00:52:28,300
This is the reaction he gets,
you can think about the Lord,

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00:52:28,300 –> 00:52:29,900
Jesus Christ.
Can’t you in all this?

832
00:52:29,900 –> 00:52:31,900
We haven’t yet.
Mentioned him.

833
00:52:32,600 –> 00:52:34,900
He had the word of life.
He traveled throughout the

834
00:52:34,900 –> 00:52:38,900
cities of Judah and Israel,
proclaiming these things.

835
00:52:38,900 –> 00:52:42,200
He went to Jerusalem, he spoke
to the man in the street.

836
00:52:42,200 –> 00:52:46,700
He spoke to those in authority
and the reaction was the same.

837
00:52:47,200 –> 00:52:52,800
And yet, he kept at it until the
mission was accomplished and

838
00:52:52,800 –> 00:52:55,500
Jeremiah has just tried the same
road before him.

839
00:52:56,900 –> 00:53:02,000
And Jeremiah therefore is being
given the privilege of sharing

840
00:53:02,000 –> 00:53:06,300
in the work of Messiah.
He’s going to do the same

841
00:53:06,300 –> 00:53:09,100
things, he’s going to know what
Messiah will go through, he’s

842
00:53:09,100 –> 00:53:12,700
going to understand what it’s
like when those of his own home

843
00:53:12,700 –> 00:53:16,100
reject him when his own
brother’s cast him out and say,

844
00:53:17,000 –> 00:53:20,000
why don’t you go to Jerusalem
because they wanted him to be

845
00:53:20,000 –> 00:53:23,700
kill their a Jeremiah’s
experiencing all that.

846
00:53:24,100 –> 00:53:29,000
So, with this profits, we Lonely
man, but a very dedicated man.

847
00:53:29,800 –> 00:53:33,700
And through him, we see the
dedication and the determination

848
00:53:34,100 –> 00:53:37,700
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I think there is probably a

849
00:53:37,700 –> 00:53:40,300
sensible points to stop brothers
and sisters and we’ll resume our

850
00:53:40,300 –> 00:53:43,100
story of Jeremiah tomorrow.
God willing.