Andrew Johns – Examples of Youth in Service & Action – Class 3 – Jeremiah – Suffering the Reproach of Christ in Youth

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We now have much pleasure in
calling forth our brother Andrew

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Johns, as he speaks to us to
this title.

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Jeremiah Suffering the reproach
of Christ in youth.

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My dearly beloved brethren and
sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ

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and dear young people, Jeremiah.
By any account and by any

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measure, was one of Israel.
‘S greatest prophets.

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And he lived in the time of
Israel.

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‘S.
Worst Apostasy.

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He was born in the reign of the
worst king that Judah ever had

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and grew up most of his young
days in the reign of 1 of

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Judah’s greatest kings, Josiah.
In his days when he was growing

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up both the world at large, in
the nations, and also within his

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own nation and society, there
was constant change and great

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turmoil, great uncertainty.
And if that doesn’t match our

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day, I don’t know what does.
Constant change, great

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uncertainty and turmoil.
We can scarcely imagine the

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depths to which Judah had
reached during the times of

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Manassa’s long 55 year reign
over Judah.

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This man systematically
destroyed any effective

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godliness within the nation.
He erected altars to the

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Assyrian gods, right?
In the middle.

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Of the.
Temple and pray Pagan practices,

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including sacred prostitution,
were brought right into the

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middle of the nation, into the
temple precincts themselves.

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He incorporated every single one
of the ways of the nation.

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That you could possibly imagine
into the life of everyday

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ordinary Jiites.
He even sanctioned and supported

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the occult.
That’s how low he got.

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He encouraged human.
Sacrifice, and when any voice

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was raised against anything that
he did.

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The voice was silenced.
As the head was removed, he

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decimated the priesthood, all
the active prophets.

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Were in hiding.
And.

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To top it all off, in his.
Day, Brethren and sisters.

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The Bible was lost in the House
of God.

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It was lost.
And it’s an amazing thing in his

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life that at the end he
repented.

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That’s not the amazing thing.
The amazing thing was that God

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accepted his repentance after.
All.

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That he had done to his people.
And though he.

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Tried in the last few years to
reform the nation, it was to no.

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Practical effect.
He had destroyed everyone that

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could help him, and lamelessly
he went about trying to put back

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into place what he’d
systematically destroyed through

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50 years of abominable apostasy
and in his reign with that

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legacy.
Jeremiah was born and his son

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Ammon came onto the throne and
for only two years before he was

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assassinated, immediately turned
the nation back to where they’d

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come.
From.

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They were so steep, you know,
that’s where they wanted to go

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and he just took the people
straight back to where they

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wanted to go and after.
His death.

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Josiah, an 8 year old lad.
Takes up the throne.

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And it was during these years,
Josiah’s early years, that

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Jeremiah, too, was a young boy.
It wasn’t easy to grow up and

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love God in those days.
The Bible was lost.

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Nobody loved righteousness.
Almost throughout the whole of

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the nation.
Of course, there was always a

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remnant.
There were a few individuals.

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Here or there.
That had hidden for many years.

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Through through Manassas reign,
but the whole of society in

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general was corrupt to the core.
There was no sense of morality.

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Left just like today, idolatry
was was abounding everywhere

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just like today, and there was a
continual self-interest and self

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seeking from the highest to the
lowest strata of society just

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like today.
Yet in a Royal Court in

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Jerusalem and in a little
village to the north of

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Jerusalem, a little village
called Anathoth, God was

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preparing 2.
Serious young Minded 6.

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Or 7 year olds.
To take on monumental tasks in

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the nation.
The environment was ungodly to

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say the least.
It was seductive and corrupt.

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And it’s remarkable that these
two lads ever sought Yahweh at

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all, But even more remarkable
that by the time they got into

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their early teens, they had
already set the direction of

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their lives to seek with all
their heart the God of David,

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their father.
What an amazing thing that is.

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And Josiah, at the age of 16, we
read, began to seek the God of

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David his father, with all his
heart and soul and might.

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At 16 young people, his life was
committed.

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The direction of his life was.
Fixed and he never deviated.

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You look at the record.
Of his life and it says and he

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turned up to the left or to the
right all his days from 16, he

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never deviated.
Think about him at school, young

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people or at work.
And at 18, he began the most

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incredible purge that Judah had
ever seen 18 years of old.

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Eight years of age and he’s out
there not dictating from the

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palace.
He’s out in the field saying I

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want this idol smashed, I want
this fall down.

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This is not.
They can’t learn anything about

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Yahweh when this is here.
Get rid of it.

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Take that out of that person’s
house.

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This has got to go.
Change this.

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And he was there pulling it
down, right?

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Where it needed to be done.
He was no theorist Josiah, and

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it was at that time that
Jeremiah enters the scene.

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Chapter 1 of Jeremiah, verse
one.

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The words of Jeremiah the son of
Hilkiah of the priests.

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That were in.
Anathoth of the land of

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Benjamin, to whom the word of
Yahweh came in the days of

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Josiah the son of Ammon, king of
Judah, in the 13th year.

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Of his reign, Josiah is 21 years
of age, and Jeremiah is called

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by God.
Verse 4 says And then the word

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of Yahweh came unto me, saying,
Before I formed thee in the

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belly, I knew thee, and before
thou camest forth out of the

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womb, I sanctified thee, and
ordained thee a prophet unto the

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nations.
Then I said, Ah, I don’t know

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Yahweh.
Behold, I cannot speak.

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For I’m a child or a youth.
I’m only a youth.

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The RSV says.
God called him from the womb

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because the depth of wickedness
was so great that he needed to

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influence this man in his very,
very young days, just like he

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had to influence Josiah, whom
God had foreseen many.

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Years.
Before and prophesied of his

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coming.
And he says I’m only a youth.

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We don’t know exactly his age.
He was probably in his late

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teens or very early 20s.
And I like to think that he’s

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around about Josiah’s age.
He certainly was, of that

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approximate age, about 20 at the
time.

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And all of our young people.
Would be able to cite second of

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Peter chapter 1 and verse 21.
Don’t need to turn to it.

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We all ought to be able to cite
it.

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A verse that we might use very
often in lectures that says

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prophecy came in old time, came
not in old time by the will of

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man, but holy men.
Of God spake as they were moved

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by the Holy Spirit, holy men of
God and we have a a 20 year.

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Old.
Through whom God moved in the

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midst of this apostate nation, a
holy man of God.

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At that age he’s called a holy
man of God.

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What a tremendous testimony that
is to the character and to the

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mind of this young individual.
Remember that the law of God is

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lost.
The principles of the truth had

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been passed on by faithful
parents.

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And it’s an amazing thing that
through all of those years of

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Manassas reign and before
Hezekiah’s time, all the years

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of apostasy before that, that
there was any semblance and any

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knowledge of Yahweh’s will and
purpose still.

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Left that there was.
Anyone still in the nation?

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But there obviously was, and we
find by carefully reading

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through the times of Jeremiah
and the historical records in

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Chronicles and Kings.
We find that there were a few

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very faithful individuals.
Who upheld Yahweh’s way and

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nurtured some of these?
Young men who came on to the

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scene at this time, you know
when the law of Yahweh was

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actually found in the temple.
In the house.

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Of God, of all places, chapter
15 tells us.

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Well, Jeremiah himself tells us.
What he thought.

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Jeremiah 15 and verse 16.
I believe this is a reference to

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the finding of the Book of the
Law and the House.

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And he says, thy words were
found, and I did eat them, and

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thy word was unto me the joy and
rejoicing of mine heart, for I

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am called by thy name, O Yahweh,
Elohim of hosts.

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What an amazing thing the Word
of God was found when he was in

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his early 20s Possibly.
And he found he saw it as a

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delight that he ate up.
Very quickly, how many of us,

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brothers and sisters and young
people, could truly say those

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words with all honesty, without
a twinge of conscience?

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Thy word is unto me a joy and.
Rejoicing of mine heart.

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All we say, we’re people of the
book, and very often you’ll hear

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at lectures, in introductions to
our lectures that

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Christadelphians are a group of
Bible students.

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Aren’t we, brother and sisters?
Have we got that spirit?

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The word of Yahweh was unto me
the joy and rejoicing of mine

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heart.
Where do we?

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Spend our time That’ll tell us
whether it’s the joy and

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rejoicing of our heart.
What we’re thinking about day by

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day will tell us whether it’s
the rejoicing.

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And thinking of our hearts, but
it was to him and when he found.

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It he ate it up.
But you know why he was so

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excited?
Well, look at the last part of

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that verse.
For I am called by thy name, O

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Yahweh, Elohim of hosts.
He saw himself as as being

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called to be part of.
That glorious throng in the

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future when God will be
manifested in a group of mighty

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ones in the earth.
He’s been called and he saw

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himself there.
And anything that had to do with

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Yahweh’s purpose.
That God had revealed had to

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interest him.
No wonder God chose that man and

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He told him back in chapter 1
when he gave him his Commission

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in his youth in verse.
Seven, he said to him.

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But Yahweh said unto me, Say
not, I am a child, for thou

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shalt go to all that I shall
send thee, and whatsoever I

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command thee, thou shalt speak.
Be not afraid of their faces,

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for I am with thee to deliver
thee, saith Yahweh.

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Then Yahweh put forth his hand
and touched my mouth.

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And Yahweh said unto me, Behold,
I have put my words in thy

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mouth.
See, I have this day set thee

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over the nations and over the
kingdoms, to root out, to pull

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down, to destroy, to throw down,
to build and to plant.

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What a Commission.
But out of all that, there would

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have been one thing that stuck
in his mind.

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Be not afraid of their faces.
He knew what the men of Judah

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were like.
He knew how ungodly he’d seen

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his own father in.
Trepidation, no doubt, in the in

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the days of Manasseh.
There were faces in Judah,

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brethren and sisters, make no
mistake about it, there were

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faces in Judah that you would be
afraid of with just ’cause.

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There were some awful.
Faces Zedekiah, the son of

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Chenaniah Pasha the priest.
Cruel and ruthless men, ungodly

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to the core.
There was Jehoiakim, Josiah’s

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son.
Zedekiah They were faces to be

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afraid of, but God said.
Don’t be afraid because I’m with

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you, Jeremiah.
I will be with you and I’ll put

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my words in your mouth and
everything that I tell you,

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you’ll speak.
But you know, it also meant this

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brothers and sisters and young
people.

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Then you would have to speak
face to face.

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You remember we were talking
this afternoon about about

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Samson.
And it was a.

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Different issue altogether.
When it came face to face with

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individuals was different.
It’s different when we get into

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the world face to face.
That’s not a matter here of

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Jeremiah’s Commission saying I
taking Yahweh’s word and written

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down on a leaflet and poking it
in someone’s letter letterbox

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and moving on or or writing a
letter and saying now you should

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do this and Yahweh says this.
His mission was.

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Personal He had to go up and
front people to their face and

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tell them what Yahweh said, and
it was to hostile men, ungodly

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men, people who didn’t want to
hear what Yahweh thought and

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didn’t want to hear what he
thought, and as soon as any

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restriction.
Was out of the way.

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They’d knock him to the ground.
Well, there we get an insight,

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brethren and sisters, to the.
Drama of jeremiah’s life he was

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torn apart by his allegiance and
obedience and tested to the

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very.
Limit by the work that Yahweh

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had asked him to do.
To be a.

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Witness in the midst of the
nation for godliness, and if

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ever there was a young man under
extreme pressure, pressure that

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was brought about just because
he believed the truth, here it

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is.
Pressure to conform, pressure to

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deny the truth.
To give up a godly.

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Life pressure from ungodly men,
from unprincipled, hostile men,

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from immoral men.
And Jeremiah lays his.

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Soul bare In his prophecy it’s
more.

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Than just a series.
Of projections into the future,

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Jeremiah’s prophecy has got very
many personal insights into the

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character of this man.
But look at verse 8 which we

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just looked at.
Be not afraid of their faces.

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That’s picked up again.
In in verse 17, a little further

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on in the chapter, when God says
in summing up what his mission

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was.
Thou will therefore gird up thy

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loins, and arise and speak unto
them all that I command thee,

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and be not dismayed at their
faces.

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It’s repeated again, lest I
confound thee before them.

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For behold, I have made thee
this day at a fenced city, in an

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iron pillar and brazen walls
against the whole land of

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against the whole land.
Now you think of these words, I

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want you to remember them
because we’re going to come.

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Back to them again a little
later tonight.

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Is to be an iron pillar of
brazen walls against the whole

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land, against the kings, against
the Princess, against the

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priests, and against the people.
From the very, very top of

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society to the very bottom.
Everyone’s going to be against

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him.
How would you like that laid

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upon your shoulders at the age
of 20?

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And goes continues Yahweh.
And they shall fight against

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you, Jeremiah, but they shall
not.

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Prevail, for I am with thee to
deliver.

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Them are there’s.
Consolation in that is there

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not, brethren, sisters,
consolation on which Jeremiah

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rested very heavily in later
life?

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But faith is no academic matter.
Jeremiah’s told to not worry or

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be deflected by what he saw,
what he felt, what he heard, but

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just to remember the promise.
And there’s enormous faith

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required for that.
That’s faith against all odds to

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maintain a line and to.
Stick with it.

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Despite what people are saying,
despite what they’re doing,

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that’s the sort of faith that
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To the end and to the end, he
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Verse 3 It came, the word of
Yahweh came in the days of

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Jehoiah Kim, the son of Josiah
the king of Judah, unto the end

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of the 11th year of Zedekiah the
son of Josiah, unto the carrying

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away carrying away of Jerusalem
captive.

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In the 5th month this.
Was not just to be a five day

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wonder for more than 40 years.
For more than 40 years, Jeremiah

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face to face was to bear the
opposition, which came because

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he stood up for truth.
God wanted to in fact, a.

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Single.
Consistent and faithful witness

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through the turbulent period of
the death throw of Judah’s

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Kingdom.
And in Jeremiah he found such a

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man, And Jeremiah entered, as we
said, a minute.

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Ago, on to the scene.
As a young man in the early time

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of Josiah’s reforms, he was no
doubt attracted to this man, to

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this king.
And felt keenly he was of the

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priestly family and would have
had much to do with what

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happened in Jerusalem.
Been in very close contact and

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it’s.
Highly likely that his father

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Hilkiah was influential anyway
in the court of Josiah and had

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some quite important input into
him and the direction of his

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life.
And so it’s likely that there

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was a very close relationship
even in boyhood between these

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two.
But as soon as Josiah’s reform

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got going, it’s evident that
Jeremiah got swung his.

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Whole weight right behind it and
the early chapters of his.

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Prophecy and through.
At least to chapter 6 and maybe

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a little further than that are
set in the times of Josiah.

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And we find that he denounced
the people and warned them and

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exposed the sins of the nation.
As Josiah went around and

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smashed the idols and tried to
reform the people and and to put

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the worship of Yahweh in place.
So Jeremiah was coming along

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behind and encouraging the
people.

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In the streets.
In their houses, wherever they

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met, wherever they were,
Jeremiah was there to tell them,

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and Josiah was there too.
You know, Josiah didn’t sit on

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his throne and give orders.
He moved.

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From one end of the land to the
other.

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And imagine, you can imagine a
bond forming between this young

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king and the young prophet in
their early 20s.

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They both had an intense hatred
for the iniquity which had swept

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the nation and had brought it,
brought it to its knees.

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And they both had a desire, an
intense desire for what was

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right.
And true and godly and honest.

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They had an enthusiasm and
optimism.

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Both of them.
To bring the nation finally back

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to God and they.
Never, ever lived up.

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Through all their life trying to
do do that, they had boundless

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energy, commitment, commitment,
young people to A cause.

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And they both had their lives in
order at 16, you know, and

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around Josiah and hence Jeremiah
gathered.

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A group of remarkable, there’s
no other word for it, remarkable

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young godly men.
There was Zedekiah.

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Sorry, Zephaniah, who was
Josiah’s cousin?

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Probably Habakkuk was.
Young at this time.

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There is a.
Hiacam the the son of Shaphan

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who we read about in the
prophecy itself.

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There was Bayrak.
And a little later.

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There was Ezekiel.
There was Daniel.

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There was Daniel’s friends,
there was Mordecai.

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And.
That’s not to mention some of

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those.
Who were a little.

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Older like Holder the prophetess
and Schaffen and Hilkiah and the

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Racobites and Uriah the Prophet
there were.

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Quite a significant number who
emerged with faithful hearts to

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support Josiah.
And to get.

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Behind jeremiah’s call to the
nation to reform young.

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People, let’s stop.
For a moment, in youth, young

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people can have an enormous
effect not only on their peers,

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but on older brethren and
sisters as well.

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When there is enthusiasm and
zeal and a godly spirit.

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And here we have a young king in
his early 20s and a young

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prophet in his early 20s, and
they’re going about trying to

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reform the nation.
And we know very well that they

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didn’t ever succeed in doing
that totally on the outward

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appearance.
It appeared that the nation had

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turned.
Everybody was doing exactly what

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Josiah wanted, but it was
faintedly they hadn’t affected

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the hearts because for
centuries.

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Sin had eaten away the vitals of
that nation and the people just

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gravitated back to those things.
But that enthusiasm of Josiah

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and Jeremiah, which was
contagious, developed around

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them some very precious gems who
were inspired by Jeremiah and

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Josiah particularly.
And they in turn encouraged the

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reforms and Josiah’s great work
to go forward, encouraged him to

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move forward, to do exactly
that.

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And though there was
disappointment during the

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reforms, they didn’t.
Get up, give up.

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You have a look at chapter 5 and
at verse one.

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And here’s what Jeremiah says
here.

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And during the time of Josiah,
Josiah’s reforms, God says, run

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ye to and fro through the
streets of Jerusalem and see now

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known.
Seek in the broad places thereof

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if you can.
Find a man, if there be any

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that.
Execute judgement that seeketh

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truth, and I will pardon it.
And Jeremiah and Josiah

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tragically knew the truth of
that.

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They knew they could run through
all the streets of Jerusalem and

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they wouldn’t find any who
sought truth.

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Despite the fact that they all
looked as though they were doing

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the right thing in the.
Hearts things had not changed.

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Verse 2 and though they say
Yahweh.

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Liveth.
Surely, he says, they swear.

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Falsely, O Yahweh, are not thine
eyes upon the truth.

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Thou hast stricken them that
they have not grieved.

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Thou hast consumed them, but
they have.

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Refused to receive.
Correction, they have made their

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faces.
Harder than rock, they have

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refused to reform.
And you can feel the spirit of

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this man who wanted to change
the nation had tried.

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For as long as he could with
Josiah and the other faithfuls

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who supported him to turn that
nation around.

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And and all they met.
With was outward external

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change.
Nothing changed inside.

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But they never gave up.
And for 19 years, Josiah pushed

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forward resolutely with the
support of Jeremiah and others.

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But you know, brothers and
sisters, it was Jeremiah and not

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Josiah that bore the brunt of
what was happening at the

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coalface.
What?

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Was happening down there in the.
Streets and in the houses of

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Jerusalem and all the cities
across Judah, there was, there

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really, certainly still was
ostracism and barbed words and

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hateful looks and threats.
And Josiah didn’t receive those.

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He was the king, and if anyone
dared speak against the worship

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of Yahweh in his presence, he
dealt with them.

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And the people knew that.
But they could say what they

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liked to Jeremiah.
They could say what they felt

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couldn’t touch him because they
knew he was the King’s friend.

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And in some ways, Jeremiah’s
task, though subordinate to

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Josiah’s in the reforms, was
much more difficult.

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Don’t be afraid of their faces,
said Yahweh.

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Their faces were something to be
afraid of.

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He had to meet them face to face
and take it on the cheek just

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because he stood up for what God
said was right.

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And he believed that God was
right.

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And that’s.
Why he took it and if we

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prepared young people and
brothers and sisters to stand up

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and to.
Speak what we know is right, not

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arrogantly.
There will inevitably be

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ridicule.
Inevitably be ridicule.

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As Jesus said, if the world
hates you, you know that it

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hated.
Me before it hated you if.

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You were of the world.
The world would love you.

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But because you’re not of the
world.

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And because.
I have chosen you, he said.

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The world hates you, and we feel
that at times, don’t we?

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When we’ve got the courage to
say what we think, we feel like

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Jeremiah.
Perhaps not the intensity, but

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we feel it.
Perhaps we.

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Ought to feel.
The intensity of it a little

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more.
But we ought never.

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Young people to be afraid of
their faces, of the faces of

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your school mates or those at
work never be afraid of.

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What they think.
It’s very real these days,

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parents in schools, our young
people face a very real

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challenge, a very real challenge
amongst a generation that I

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would call a moral.
They have no morals in general.

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There are many growing up,
coming into their teens these

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days who would not have really
heard anything about biblical

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morality at all.
And our young people are

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standing against that.
Stand up and say what’s right.

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And don’t be afraid of their
faces, because God is true.

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He is alive and He is.
Still working.

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And Jeremiah had to hang on
that.

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He had to believe with all his
might and keep on reminding

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himself and go back to the
promises and remember.

435
00:31:28,360 –> 00:31:33,960
What God had said to him.
And for 19 years, he went on and

436
00:31:33,960 –> 00:31:40,600
on trying to turn that nation.
And in the 31st year.

437
00:31:41,000 –> 00:31:46,760
Of Josiah when Jeremiah was in
his 30s things.

438
00:31:46,760 –> 00:31:50,680
Took a dramatic turn.
Judah was plunged into war

439
00:31:50,680 –> 00:31:55,280
overnight, and Josiah.
Foolishly meddled in a conflict.

440
00:31:55,280 –> 00:31:58,880
Of the superpowers and was Lot
and was shot and killed, and

441
00:31:58,880 –> 00:32:01,200
overnight the face of the nation
changed.

442
00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:04,920
The facade was lifted instantly,
the true character of the people

443
00:32:04,920 –> 00:32:09,640
were revealed, and there began A
downward run that gained

444
00:32:09,640 –> 00:32:13,080
momentum from that time until
Nebuchadnezzar finally.

445
00:32:13,080 –> 00:32:16,440
Put the knife through the heart
of Judah and stopped its beating

446
00:32:16,440 –> 00:32:24,440
heart.
But Jeremiah, above all of

447
00:32:24,480 –> 00:32:30,200
Josiah’s companions, felt that
loss more keenly than anyone

448
00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:33,360
else.
For 19 years, he’d laboured

449
00:32:33,360 –> 00:32:36,840
alongside that man from their
teens.

450
00:32:37,040 –> 00:32:38,280
They had worked.
Together they.

451
00:32:38,720 –> 00:32:41,920
‘D traversed the lengths, length
and breadth of the land together

452
00:32:42,240 –> 00:32:44,720
to try and turn the people and
cleanse it from idols.

453
00:32:44,920 –> 00:32:47,040
They’d appealed to the people’s
hearts.

454
00:32:48,160 –> 00:32:52,680
All to no avail and now.
Jeremiah’s inspiration,

455
00:32:54,440 –> 00:32:59,920
Jeremiah’s inspiration and the
nation’s inspiration has gone.

456
00:33:01,240 –> 00:33:06,160
And he must have sat down and
wept and wept.

457
00:33:07,680 –> 00:33:11,280
Why did God take him at this
critical stage?

458
00:33:11,640 –> 00:33:13,480
Let’s come back to Second
Chronicles.

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00:33:14,280 –> 00:33:19,360
Just feel for this man who had
very few companions, who’d tried

460
00:33:19,360 –> 00:33:23,040
so earnestly for so long and
thought that.

461
00:33:23,360 –> 00:33:25,480
In the end that they.
Might be getting there.

462
00:33:25,480 –> 00:33:29,120
They might be getting somewhere.
But in Second of Chronicles

463
00:33:29,120 –> 00:33:38,360
chapter 35 and in verse 24, his
servants, that is, Josiah’s

464
00:33:38,360 –> 00:33:41,320
servants, therefore took him out
of the chariot, Second of

465
00:33:41,320 –> 00:33:45,640
Chronicles 3524, and put him in
the second chariot that he had.

466
00:33:45,640 –> 00:33:47,480
And they brought him to
Jerusalem, and he died.

467
00:33:48,080 –> 00:33:50,920
And they buried him in one of
the sepulchres of his father’s.

468
00:33:51,480 –> 00:33:55,880
And all Judah and Jerusalem
mourned for for Josiah.

469
00:33:56,160 –> 00:33:59,480
Isn’t that interesting?
The people really knew he was a

470
00:33:59,480 –> 00:34:03,160
man of character and.
All the city and all Judah

471
00:34:03,560 –> 00:34:12,960
mourned for Josiah and Jeremiah.
Verse 25 lamented for Josiah.

472
00:34:13,679 –> 00:34:15,360
And the word is different to
mourned.

473
00:34:16,440 –> 00:34:19,560
It really has the idea of
writing a song and and repeating

474
00:34:19,560 –> 00:34:26,000
it over and over again.
He lamented for Josiah, and all

475
00:34:26,000 –> 00:34:29,600
the singing men and wing singing
women spake of Josiah and their

476
00:34:29,600 –> 00:34:33,400
lamentation to this day, and
made them an ordinance in

477
00:34:33,400 –> 00:34:36,080
Israel, and behold.
They’re written in the

478
00:34:36,080 –> 00:34:40,320
lamentations.
That lamentation of that day is

479
00:34:40,320 –> 00:34:45,280
likened to the one when Judah
and Israel will laments in grief

480
00:34:45,639 –> 00:34:49,520
when they realise they’ve slain
the Messiah in the time that he

481
00:34:49,520 –> 00:34:54,040
has been revealed.
Jeremiah’s grief was intense

482
00:34:54,040 –> 00:34:56,280
indeed.
Let’s come to Lamentations

483
00:34:56,280 –> 00:34:59,080
chapter 4.
Lamentations was actually

484
00:34:59,080 –> 00:35:03,400
written at the end of Jeremiah’s
life, but in Lamentations

485
00:35:03,400 –> 00:35:06,320
chapter.
Four, we find what he really

486
00:35:06,320 –> 00:35:10,840
thought of this man and just
think of this in the

487
00:35:10,840 –> 00:35:18,280
circumstances that he was in.
Just think about how Jeremiah

488
00:35:18,360 –> 00:35:29,600
thought of Josiah verse 20.
The breath of our nostrils, the

489
00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:32,600
anointed of Yahweh was taken in
their pits.

490
00:35:33,880 –> 00:35:39,560
Of whom we said, under his
shadow, we shall live.

491
00:35:39,560 –> 00:35:43,520
Among the nations what?
Tragic words.

492
00:35:44,920 –> 00:35:47,040
What?
Pathos there is there, brethren

493
00:35:47,040 –> 00:35:50,320
and sisters, the breath of our
nostrils.

494
00:35:51,680 –> 00:35:55,360
This man, to Jeremiah, was the
life of the nation.

495
00:35:55,720 –> 00:35:57,680
He was the air that they
breathed.

496
00:35:57,680 –> 00:36:01,760
And when the air was gone, the
nation was dead.

497
00:36:01,760 –> 00:36:04,760
And he knew it.
He knew there was no hope, no

498
00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:09,640
hope for his people anymore.
And he’s still alive.

499
00:36:10,480 –> 00:36:12,080
He’s still got Yahweh’s
Commission to.

500
00:36:12,080 –> 00:36:15,400
Speak to the people.
To a rotting pulse because

501
00:36:15,400 –> 00:36:18,440
there’s no air left in it.
That’s how Jeremiah saw that

502
00:36:18,440 –> 00:36:24,240
nation, and he saw him as the
great protector under.

503
00:36:24,440 –> 00:36:28,400
His shadow we shall live.
Among the the nations now in

504
00:36:28,400 –> 00:36:33,120
Jeremiah’s mind, brother and
sister Josiah was almost to the

505
00:36:33,120 –> 00:36:38,520
status of God.
He was the breath and the shadow

506
00:36:38,520 –> 00:36:41,160
that covered the nation and kept
them alive.

507
00:36:41,760 –> 00:36:46,480
To whom could he now turn?
He was his closest companion,

508
00:36:46,680 –> 00:36:51,000
the only one in the nation who
really understood the.

509
00:36:51,000 –> 00:36:55,160
Depth of his soul.
But as if that wasn’t enough.

510
00:36:55,720 –> 00:36:59,200
Brethren, sisters and young
people, if that tragedy in his

511
00:36:59,200 –> 00:37:03,560
life wasn’t enough for him to
get over on Jeremiah, from that

512
00:37:03,560 –> 00:37:06,600
day came the brunt.
Of an intense.

513
00:37:06,920 –> 00:37:10,960
Campaign of hatred and venom
that never ever never all of his

514
00:37:11,000 –> 00:37:14,040
rest of his life.
You see, while Geron, while

515
00:37:14,040 –> 00:37:19,600
Josiah was alive, the opposition
was restricted to threats and

516
00:37:19,600 –> 00:37:23,560
verbal abuse.
But now Josiah’s arm restraining

517
00:37:23,560 –> 00:37:27,400
arm was gone.
Out came all the barbs in full

518
00:37:27,400 –> 00:37:31,120
force the protection.
Now being gone, there was fury

519
00:37:31,120 –> 00:37:34,120
unleashed against anyone who
wanted to speak in Yahweh’s

520
00:37:34,120 –> 00:37:38,600
name.
And for 18 years,

521
00:37:39,280 –> 00:37:42,800
unrighteousness had been
suppressed, boiling in the midst

522
00:37:42,800 –> 00:37:46,160
of the nation.
And on the day that Josiah.

523
00:37:46,160 –> 00:37:48,680
Was buried and out of the way
and morning stopped.

524
00:37:48,960 –> 00:37:52,720
It flared like a Bush fire.
All through the nation and now

525
00:37:52,720 –> 00:37:56,520
Jeremiah and the other prophets.
Were in grave physical danger

526
00:37:56,520 –> 00:37:58,680
every day of their life.
Their lives.

527
00:37:58,680 –> 00:38:02,200
Hung in a balance.
There was fear and uncertainty,

528
00:38:02,480 –> 00:38:06,080
and it happened overnight when
his mourning for his beloved

529
00:38:06,080 –> 00:38:09,200
friend.
But he didn’t stop speaking.

530
00:38:09,840 –> 00:38:13,760
He rose up early and.
Spoke to them we find recorded

531
00:38:13,880 –> 00:38:17,280
in his prophecy.
Oh, but there’s a desperation

532
00:38:17,280 –> 00:38:19,960
that comes to his voice.
You have a look at chapter 18 of

533
00:38:19,960 –> 00:38:28,720
Jeremiah, chapter 18, then verse
18, then they said Jeremiah 18

534
00:38:28,720 –> 00:38:33,080
and verse 18.
Come and let us devise devices

535
00:38:33,080 –> 00:38:36,120
against Jeremiah, for the law
shall not.

536
00:38:36,120 –> 00:38:38,080
Perish from the.
Priest, nor the counsel from the

537
00:38:38,080 –> 00:38:42,920
wise, as Jeremiah is saying, nor
the word from the prophet.

538
00:38:43,080 –> 00:38:46,720
Come and let us smite him
Margin.

539
00:38:47,160 –> 00:38:51,240
For the tongue, because of what
he’s saying.

540
00:38:51,760 –> 00:38:54,000
And let us not give heed to his
words.

541
00:38:56,840 –> 00:39:01,400
And Jeremiah cries out, Give
heed unto me, O Yahweh, and

542
00:39:01,400 –> 00:39:04,320
hearken to the voice of them
that contend with me.

543
00:39:05,120 –> 00:39:07,200
Shall evil be recompensed for
good?

544
00:39:08,600 –> 00:39:11,280
For they have digged a pit for
my soul?

545
00:39:12,120 –> 00:39:15,240
Remember.
That I stood for thee to speak.

546
00:39:15,240 –> 00:39:19,400
Good for them, and to turn away
thy wrath from them.

547
00:39:20,280 –> 00:39:23,840
Was no good answering the people
and he turns to Yahweh.

548
00:39:23,920 –> 00:39:25,800
He’d only been speaking for
their good.

549
00:39:26,440 –> 00:39:31,000
He was only concerned about
saving his brethren, and this is

550
00:39:31,000 –> 00:39:36,800
what happened and it becomes a
magnificent type of the

551
00:39:36,800 –> 00:39:44,200
sufferings of Christ when those.
He came to save, turned all the

552
00:39:44,200 –> 00:39:49,400
venom of their hatred on him,
and the pressure mounted.

553
00:39:50,280 –> 00:39:53,280
Even further.
And got more vicious.

554
00:39:54,120 –> 00:39:57,880
Now we may not experience.
The physical persecution that

555
00:39:57,880 –> 00:40:04,320
Jeremiah underwent but at times
the circumstances of our lives

556
00:40:05,440 –> 00:40:09,440
are just as perplexing as the
circumstances that Jeremiah

557
00:40:09,440 –> 00:40:12,760
found himself in.
When tragedy strikes, when

558
00:40:13,120 –> 00:40:19,200
pressures that we can’t cope
with are brought upon us, often

559
00:40:19,280 –> 00:40:22,560
for.
No reason of our own.

560
00:40:23,480 –> 00:40:30,120
Sometimes the pressures of life
are caused by our own folly or

561
00:40:30,120 –> 00:40:33,800
our own sinfulness, but not in
Jeremiah’s time.

562
00:40:35,640 –> 00:40:38,840
And when trouble strikes in our
lives, sometimes, brethren and

563
00:40:38,840 –> 00:40:42,680
sisters, it’s not deserved, it’s
brought.

564
00:40:42,680 –> 00:40:46,760
By the hand of Yahweh, turn back
a few pages to Chapter 15.

565
00:40:47,840 –> 00:40:55,720
Chapter 15.
And at verse 15, O Yahweh, he

566
00:40:55,720 –> 00:40:59,400
says, thou knowest Remember Me,
and visit me, and avenge me, of

567
00:40:59,400 –> 00:41:03,000
revenge me of my persecutors,
and take me not away in thy

568
00:41:03,000 –> 00:41:07,040
long-suffering, and know that
for thy sake I have suffered

569
00:41:07,040 –> 00:41:10,840
rebuke.
And here’s those words we read

570
00:41:10,840 –> 00:41:12,560
earlier, for thy words were
founded.

571
00:41:12,560 –> 00:41:15,760
I did eat them, and it was the
rejoy and rejoicing of my heart.

572
00:41:16,000 –> 00:41:20,520
Verse 17 And I sat not in the
assembly of the mockers, nor

573
00:41:20,520 –> 00:41:24,880
rejoiced.
I sat alone because of thy hand,

574
00:41:25,920 –> 00:41:27,280
for thou hast.
Me.

575
00:41:27,880 –> 00:41:31,040
With indignation, because he’d
taken and rejoiced at the word

576
00:41:31,040 –> 00:41:35,040
of Yahweh, God had made him sit
alone.

577
00:41:36,200 –> 00:41:39,120
Verse 18 Why is my pain
perpetual, and my wound

578
00:41:39,120 –> 00:41:41,920
incurable, which refuseth to be
healed?

579
00:41:42,120 –> 00:41:45,440
Will thou be altogether unto me
as a lion, as waters that fail?

580
00:41:46,280 –> 00:41:47,960
Oh, look at the desperation
there.

581
00:41:48,920 –> 00:41:52,280
He’s struggling to understand
the severity of all that’s

582
00:41:52,280 –> 00:41:56,120
happening in his life, and he’s
striving to understand pleading

583
00:41:56,120 –> 00:41:58,640
with Yahweh.
He now had no one else to whom

584
00:41:58,640 –> 00:42:01,960
he could turn.
And he says, Therefore thus all

585
00:42:01,960 –> 00:42:05,440
Yahweh answers him in verse 19.
Therefore thus saith Yahweh, if

586
00:42:05,440 –> 00:42:08,320
thou return, then I will bring
thee again, and thou shalt stand

587
00:42:08,320 –> 00:42:10,600
before me.
And if thou take forth the

588
00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:13,040
precious from the vial, thou
shalt be as my mouth.

589
00:42:13,920 –> 00:42:16,960
Let them return unto thee, but
return not unto them, and I’ll

590
00:42:16,960 –> 00:42:20,360
make thee as a fenced brazen
wool.

591
00:42:20,400 –> 00:42:23,240
Remember those words and they
shall.

592
00:42:23,240 –> 00:42:25,760
Fight against thee, but they
shall not prevail, for I am with

593
00:42:25,760 –> 00:42:28,200
thee to deliver thee.
And so the original.

594
00:42:28,200 –> 00:42:31,720
Commission that he was given is
reiterated by God and he says,

595
00:42:31,720 –> 00:42:34,640
Jeremiah, yes, I know all that.
I’ve seen it all.

596
00:42:35,440 –> 00:42:40,080
I’ve seen it all, Jeremiah.
But not just yet.

597
00:42:41,040 –> 00:42:44,000
Just.
Keep on telling them, Jeremiah,

598
00:42:45,120 –> 00:42:49,240
the time for the end is not yet,
and as Brother Robert Roberts

599
00:42:49,240 –> 00:42:54,400
once said, we are being prepared
under the hand of Yahweh, day by

600
00:42:54,400 –> 00:43:02,400
day, by evil and delay, and
Jeremiah felt both of.

601
00:43:02,680 –> 00:43:07,160
Us and felt the influences of an
evil generation.

602
00:43:07,800 –> 00:43:09,240
That.
Pressed hard.

603
00:43:09,680 –> 00:43:14,640
And the delay at Yahweh acting
and moving to alleviate that

604
00:43:14,640 –> 00:43:15,920
suffering.
Why?

605
00:43:15,920 –> 00:43:19,440
Did he let it keep on going?
Let’s turn over to chapter 20,

606
00:43:22,520 –> 00:43:25,440
verse one.
This is in the days of

607
00:43:25,720 –> 00:43:32,520
Jehoiakim, now Pasha, the son of
IMA, the priest who was the

608
00:43:32,520 –> 00:43:34,240
chief governor of the House of
Yahweh.

609
00:43:34,400 –> 00:43:38,920
How he got to be where he.
Did no one knows heard that

610
00:43:38,920 –> 00:43:42,840
Jeremiah prophesied these
things, then Pasha.

611
00:43:43,520 –> 00:43:46,160
Scourged.
The word should be.

612
00:43:46,160 –> 00:43:51,680
Jeremiah the prophet and put him
in a dungeon not stocks that

613
00:43:51,680 –> 00:43:57,240
were in the high gate of
Benjamin Jeremiah experienced.

614
00:43:57,240 –> 00:44:00,880
More.
Than just a little verbal abuse.

615
00:44:02,240 –> 00:44:05,040
And in verse 7, he cries out,
trying to understand.

616
00:44:05,360 –> 00:44:08,520
What’s happening to him?
Oh Yahweh, he does deceive me,

617
00:44:08,960 –> 00:44:12,960
and I was deceived.
Thou art stronger than I and has

618
00:44:12,960 –> 00:44:15,840
prevailed.
I am in derision daily, and

619
00:44:15,840 –> 00:44:19,880
everyone mocketh me.
Oh, what an amazing verse that

620
00:44:19,880 –> 00:44:23,040
is, brethren and sisters.
Going through these intense

621
00:44:23,040 –> 00:44:26,240
trials, Jeremiah trying to come
to grips with all that God is

622
00:44:26,240 –> 00:44:29,040
doing in his life.
But what a recognition it is

623
00:44:29,040 –> 00:44:31,080
when he says.
Yahweh though it’s.

624
00:44:31,080 –> 00:44:35,080
Stronger than me, he knew.
That he had been convinced to go

625
00:44:35,080 –> 00:44:37,840
into the work of Yahweh because
he knew it was right and Yahweh

626
00:44:37,840 –> 00:44:42,640
had convinced him, as the word
Deceived really means persuaded.

627
00:44:42,840 –> 00:44:46,720
Yahweh had persuaded him, and he
now realized that Yahweh really

628
00:44:46,720 –> 00:44:49,920
was greater than him because he
had been persuaded.

629
00:44:49,920 –> 00:44:52,480
To go into that work and now he
was there and had to continue

630
00:44:54,080 –> 00:44:55,920
and the pressure never let up.
Daily.

631
00:44:55,920 –> 00:45:00,200
Did you notice verse 7 daily
it’s repeated in verse 8.

632
00:45:00,200 –> 00:45:02,840
He was on derision daily under
the people.

633
00:45:02,960 –> 00:45:06,200
Everybody not mocks him.
You know, words are difficult to

634
00:45:06,200 –> 00:45:08,720
take, aren’t they?
And it’s it’s only natural for

635
00:45:08,720 –> 00:45:14,200
us to be accepted by others.
But every day, every day he was

636
00:45:14,200 –> 00:45:16,080
in derision.
People never ever left him

637
00:45:16,080 –> 00:45:20,520
alone.
They cried verse 8 violence and

638
00:45:20,520 –> 00:45:24,280
spoil and took it out on.
Him.

639
00:45:25,840 –> 00:45:28,920
And he knew how to stop it.
Henry had to stop that

640
00:45:28,920 –> 00:45:31,520
persecution.
All he had to do was shut his

641
00:45:31,520 –> 00:45:35,480
mouth.
Verse 9 Then I said, I will not

642
00:45:35,480 –> 00:45:40,480
make mention of him, nor speak
any more in his name, but his

643
00:45:40,480 –> 00:45:45,960
word was in my heart as a
burning fire shut up in my

644
00:45:45,960 –> 00:45:50,840
bones, and and I was.
Weary for holding it in and I

645
00:45:50,840 –> 00:45:53,960
could not.
But he had to tell.

646
00:45:54,400 –> 00:45:57,480
He couldn’t hold it in.
He couldn’t prevent.

647
00:45:57,600 –> 00:45:59,680
The word of Yahweh coming out of
him it had.

648
00:45:59,680 –> 00:46:01,640
Convicted him and youth and he
had.

649
00:46:01,640 –> 00:46:04,960
To go forward, oh, what a
tremendous lesson there is in

650
00:46:04,960 –> 00:46:07,080
that.
Now, sometimes we do tend to

651
00:46:07,080 –> 00:46:08,760
hold back, don’t we?
Brothers and sisters.

652
00:46:08,960 –> 00:46:11,080
Because of the reactions that we
might get.

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00:46:11,240 –> 00:46:13,280
Or what other?
People might think of us.

654
00:46:13,800 –> 00:46:17,440
I wonder how many of us in our.
Workplaces or our schools, our

655
00:46:17,520 –> 00:46:21,920
associates really do know.
What we think and what we are

656
00:46:21,920 –> 00:46:25,720
really.
Like or what we would like them

657
00:46:25,720 –> 00:46:29,360
to think we really are like.
Now sometimes they know we’re

658
00:46:29,360 –> 00:46:33,840
different but don’t know why.
Well, tell them why.

659
00:46:35,240 –> 00:46:39,200
Jeremiah couldn’t hold it in.
He didn’t do it arrogantly.

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00:46:39,520 –> 00:46:46,320
There was a fire burning in his.
Well, tell them why.

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00:46:47,760 –> 00:46:51,680
Jeremiah couldn’t hold it in.
He didn’t do it arrogantly.

662
00:46:52,040 –> 00:46:55,360
There was a fire.
Burning in his bones, he knew

663
00:46:55,360 –> 00:46:59,280
God’s word was right and true.
It was the only thing that could

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00:46:59,280 –> 00:47:01,880
save anyone.
And we, above all people in the

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00:47:01,880 –> 00:47:04,440
face of the earth, have a
knowledge that can save people

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00:47:04,480 –> 00:47:09,960
eternally, and we hold it in.
Where’s?

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00:47:09,960 –> 00:47:14,720
Jeremiah’s spirit, whosoever
said Christ.

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00:47:15,640 –> 00:47:20,360
Whosoever shall be ashamed of me
and of my words, think about

669
00:47:20,360 –> 00:47:28,120
that in this adulterous and
sinful generation, said Jesus of

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00:47:28,120 –> 00:47:30,440
him.
Also shall the Son of Man be

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00:47:30,440 –> 00:47:32,280
ashamed when he cometh in the
glory of his angels.

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00:47:32,880 –> 00:47:37,720
If in a sinful and adulterous
generation, we cannot say what’s

673
00:47:37,760 –> 00:47:40,600
right, Christ.
Will have none of us.

674
00:47:42,160 –> 00:47:44,360
The truth’s not just ideas on
paper.

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00:47:44,560 –> 00:47:46,640
It’s not just words, brethren,
assistance.

676
00:47:46,640 –> 00:47:50,560
It’s daily living.
It’s a reality and people.

677
00:47:50,560 –> 00:47:53,800
Must see it.
Not only in our lives, but hear

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00:47:53,800 –> 00:47:57,280
it from our mouths.
What a remarkable man we find

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00:47:57,280 –> 00:48:01,600
here in verse 10.
For I heard the defaming of many

680
00:48:01,600 –> 00:48:04,560
fear on every side.
Reports say they and I were.

681
00:48:04,600 –> 00:48:07,560
We will report it.
All my familiars watched me for

682
00:48:07,560 –> 00:48:11,600
my halting saying, Peradventure
he will be enticed, and we shall

683
00:48:11,640 –> 00:48:14,960
prevail against him, and we will
take our vengeance on him.

684
00:48:16,080 –> 00:48:18,960
But.
Yahweh is with me as a mighty

685
00:48:18,960 –> 00:48:21,320
and terrible.
I’m not the spirit of this man.

686
00:48:21,520 –> 00:48:24,120
Therefore my persecutor shall
stumble, and they shall not

687
00:48:24,120 –> 00:48:27,480
prevail.
They shall be greatly ashamed,

688
00:48:27,720 –> 00:48:28,760
for they shall.
Not.

689
00:48:28,760 –> 00:48:31,600
Prosper.
Their everlasting confusion

690
00:48:31,600 –> 00:48:33,360
shall never be.
Forgotten.

691
00:48:34,280 –> 00:48:36,360
What an amazing individual he
was.

692
00:48:36,640 –> 00:48:39,320
And amidst the the hatred and
the personal hurt.

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00:48:39,480 –> 00:48:42,160
His mind focuses back on the
promises of Yahweh.

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00:48:42,360 –> 00:48:45,360
And he sees.
Beyond the the faces of these

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00:48:45,360 –> 00:48:48,000
men, he’s not afraid of them
anymore.

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00:48:48,920 –> 00:48:50,760
He sees to the end.
He sees.

697
00:48:50,760 –> 00:48:54,760
Yahweh as a mighty and strong
arm who’s more powerful than all

698
00:48:54,760 –> 00:48:57,720
those who were around him.
In fact, his mind goes back.

699
00:48:57,720 –> 00:49:01,800
Did you notice?
In those words, Did you notice?

700
00:49:03,320 –> 00:49:09,640
His own references to the words
that were spoken to him 20 years

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00:49:09,720 –> 00:49:14,840
before by Yahweh.
Now here’s another key.

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00:49:15,480 –> 00:49:20,680
We’ve seen it already in the
life of Joseph, something

703
00:49:20,680 –> 00:49:26,080
embedded very firmly in youth.
Yahweh’s ways in His principles

704
00:49:26,080 –> 00:49:33,120
and His promises can be a
tremendous support to enable US

705
00:49:33,120 –> 00:49:38,480
against all odds to hold on.
See, just hold your hand down.

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00:49:38,480 –> 00:49:41,440
Go back to chapter 1 and verse
19.

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00:49:45,640 –> 00:49:48,600
Notice the similarity with those
words we just read.

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00:49:50,640 –> 00:49:52,240
He said they shall fight against
thee.

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00:49:52,240 –> 00:49:55,520
They shall.
Not prevail, for I am with thee,

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00:49:55,520 –> 00:50:01,800
saith Yahweh, to deliver thee.
And over here in when he speaks

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00:50:01,800 –> 00:50:06,840
to God in verse 11 of chapter
20, he recognizes Yahweh as a as

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00:50:06,840 –> 00:50:11,480
a mighty and terrible one.
And they shall not prevail.

713
00:50:11,480 –> 00:50:15,560
He says, when did that come but
from his original promise that

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00:50:15,560 –> 00:50:17,880
God had given him.
And they shall be greatly

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00:50:17,880 –> 00:50:20,160
ashamed, and they shall not be
forgotten.

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00:50:21,040 –> 00:50:23,880
His mind went back to the
promise that he’d been given.

717
00:50:24,040 –> 00:50:26,560
And rehearsed that.
Often, he’d thought about it

718
00:50:26,560 –> 00:50:28,880
every day.
And it was necessary.

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00:50:28,880 –> 00:50:30,520
For him to do that, and that’s
what.

720
00:50:30,600 –> 00:50:34,680
Faith is all about.
It’s that kind of faith, young

721
00:50:34,680 –> 00:50:42,280
people, that God is looking for
and it’s impossible to please

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00:50:42,280 –> 00:50:48,280
him without it, to believe
against all on what he has said.

723
00:50:50,880 –> 00:50:54,560
But James, when writing to the
believers in the 1st century

724
00:50:54,560 –> 00:51:00,360
said this.
He said, Take my brethren, the

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00:51:00,360 –> 00:51:05,480
prophets, who have spoken in the
name of the Lord, for an example

726
00:51:05,480 –> 00:51:09,120
of suffering, affliction, and of
patient endurance.

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00:51:09,440 –> 00:51:13,800
Take, my brethren, the.
Prophets who’ve spoken in my

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00:51:13,800 –> 00:51:19,840
name, and who better could be
chosen but Jeremiah?

729
00:51:20,720 –> 00:51:24,840
As an example of suffering.
Affliction and of patient

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00:51:25,040 –> 00:51:27,960
endurance.
And when we get to.

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00:51:28,000 –> 00:51:31,640
The end of Jeremiah’s life we.
Want to go there at the moment

732
00:51:32,120 –> 00:51:42,870
to Lamentations Chapter 3.
He’s not young now, he’s an old

733
00:51:42,870 –> 00:51:50,790
man, but he looks back.
And let’s.

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00:51:50,790 –> 00:51:56,230
Take this man as an example as
James says verse one.

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00:51:56,670 –> 00:52:00,960
Of Lamentations Chapter 3.
I am the man that hath seen

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00:52:00,960 –> 00:52:03,880
affliction.
By the rod of his wrath He led

737
00:52:03,880 –> 00:52:05,760
me.
He He hath led me, and brought

738
00:52:05,760 –> 00:52:07,600
me Into Darkness, but not into
light.

739
00:52:07,920 –> 00:52:12,760
Surely against me is He turned.
He turns His hand against me all

740
00:52:12,760 –> 00:52:15,200
the day.
My flesh and my skin hath He

741
00:52:15,200 –> 00:52:17,560
made old.
He hath broken my bones.

742
00:52:17,600 –> 00:52:19,880
Who’s the He?
None other but Yahweh.

743
00:52:20,080 –> 00:52:23,080
But he realizes that Yahweh.
It’s all Yahweh’s doing.

744
00:52:23,080 –> 00:52:28,320
It didn’t matter what men did to
him, God was doing something in

745
00:52:28,320 –> 00:52:32,080
his life.
He has builded against me.

746
00:52:32,080 –> 00:52:35,160
He’s compassed me with gall.
He’s set me in a dark place.

747
00:52:35,160 –> 00:52:39,560
He’s hedged me about when I cry.
Shuts out my prayer.

748
00:52:39,720 –> 00:52:41,440
This is how he felt all through
his life.

749
00:52:43,040 –> 00:52:46,080
He thought that God had.
Put a lion in his path and

750
00:52:46,080 –> 00:52:48,560
turned him away, and bent his
arrow against him, and caused.

751
00:52:48,560 –> 00:52:51,400
Him to to fall and stumble.
All through his life read those

752
00:52:51,400 –> 00:52:54,480
words.
It’s a terrible description of

753
00:52:54,480 –> 00:52:57,480
how he felt.
At various times in his life.

754
00:52:57,480 –> 00:53:02,240
But come down to verse 20 and he
says, My soul hath, hath them.

755
00:53:02,240 –> 00:53:07,320
Still in remembrance and is
bowed down in me as the word

756
00:53:07,320 –> 00:53:10,600
humbled there means is bowed
down as he thinks about.

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00:53:10,600 –> 00:53:14,200
All the all the circumstances.
Of life that have rolled.

758
00:53:14,200 –> 00:53:18,480
Across him.
But here’s the true Jeremiah in

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00:53:18,480 –> 00:53:21,200
verse 21.
This, he says, I recall to mind,

760
00:53:21,200 –> 00:53:26,120
and therefore have I hope.
Of Yahweh’s mercies that we are

761
00:53:26,120 –> 00:53:29,360
not consumed because his
compassions fail not.

762
00:53:29,920 –> 00:53:32,760
They are new.
Every morning, great.

763
00:53:32,800 –> 00:53:38,240
Is thy faithfulness Yahweh is my
portion, saith my soul.

764
00:53:38,960 –> 00:53:40,960
Therefore will I hope in.
Him.

765
00:53:41,920 –> 00:53:46,240
What a tremendous spirit, though
he felt like all the verses up

766
00:53:46,240 –> 00:53:50,000
to verse 20 say.
Yet he turns his mind and and

767
00:53:50,000 –> 00:53:53,840
saw through all of that the
reason why God was doing.

768
00:53:53,960 –> 00:53:56,560
And there’s a.
Key to his survival through

769
00:53:56,560 –> 00:53:58,000
very.
Trying and difficult

770
00:53:58,000 –> 00:53:59,800
circumstances because he
recalled.

771
00:53:59,800 –> 00:54:03,400
To mind things that he had
learned in youth, that’s.

772
00:54:03,400 –> 00:54:04,080
What?
He recalled.

773
00:54:04,080 –> 00:54:07,840
To mind the ways and the
character of Yahweh, the purpose

774
00:54:07,840 –> 00:54:09,560
of Yahweh.
And he’d seen it in a man,

775
00:54:09,560 –> 00:54:13,320
Josiah, and he’d seen it in some
faithful brothers and ancestors

776
00:54:13,320 –> 00:54:16,920
and listen to the words.
And it had lodged there.

777
00:54:17,000 –> 00:54:20,960
And he thought about it, and the
power of faith grew and enabled

778
00:54:20,960 –> 00:54:25,960
him to endure a life of absolute
tragedy and agony.

779
00:54:27,520 –> 00:54:32,520
There was hardly a moment of
rejoicing unless he was

780
00:54:32,520 –> 00:54:38,320
rejoicing in the purpose of God.
But still it begs the question,

781
00:54:39,640 –> 00:54:44,240
why?
Why did?

782
00:54:44,440 –> 00:54:51,920
God do it to him.
Why did God allow all that to

783
00:54:51,920 –> 00:54:56,440
happen to one man?
Why not share that tragedy

784
00:54:56,440 –> 00:54:58,120
between others?
Why?

785
00:54:58,320 –> 00:55:02,080
Why?
It’s a question that we all ask

786
00:55:02,080 –> 00:55:05,160
in life, young or old.
Young people, if you haven’t

787
00:55:05,160 –> 00:55:09,040
asked that question, the days
are coming when you will, and

788
00:55:09,040 –> 00:55:12,320
God will put you through the
mill and you’ll feel like

789
00:55:12,320 –> 00:55:16,440
Jeremiah and you’ll say, my God,
are you doing this?

790
00:55:17,000 –> 00:55:19,880
That’s exactly how he felt,
exactly how he felt.

791
00:55:20,800 –> 00:55:25,280
You come to Romans chapter 8.
Young people learn this

792
00:55:25,280 –> 00:55:31,920
principle in youth.
Romans chapter 8 the apostle

793
00:55:32,440 –> 00:55:39,160
beautifully expounds a wonderful
principle that we all have to

794
00:55:39,160 –> 00:55:41,800
come to grips with.
In verse 20 he says.

795
00:55:42,520 –> 00:55:45,600
For the whole.
Creation was made subject to

796
00:55:45,600 –> 00:55:50,760
vanity, to emptiness,
frustration, not willingly, but

797
00:55:50,920 –> 00:55:54,920
by reason of him who hath
subjected the same in hope,

798
00:55:55,920 –> 00:55:57,800
because the creation itself.
Shall also be.

799
00:55:57,800 –> 00:56:01,240
Delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the glorious

800
00:56:01,240 –> 00:56:06,680
liberty of the children of God.
For we know that the whole

801
00:56:06,680 –> 00:56:10,120
creation groaneth and travaileth
in pain together.

802
00:56:10,840 –> 00:56:15,680
Until now, what’s he saying?
That God has put this

803
00:56:15,680 –> 00:56:20,040
dispensational, made this
dispensation in which we live

804
00:56:20,240 –> 00:56:23,720
because of sin?
He’s made it subject to vanity

805
00:56:23,720 –> 00:56:28,520
and frustration in order that we
might lift our eyes and have

806
00:56:28,520 –> 00:56:32,800
hope for something better.
That’s what He’s done it for.

807
00:56:32,800 –> 00:56:35,240
Brethren and sisters, it’s not
to punish us.

808
00:56:36,360 –> 00:56:41,000
It’s not to crush us, it’s to
make us hope because we see

809
00:56:41,000 –> 00:56:44,600
there are higher, more eternal
principles involved.

810
00:56:44,880 –> 00:56:48,120
God is a moral creature.
He’s everlasting and he wants us

811
00:56:48,160 –> 00:56:55,600
to lift out and say yes, God, I
know this is not all the bill

812
00:56:55,600 –> 00:56:58,920
and end all of existence, but
there is something greater and

813
00:56:58,960 –> 00:57:01,920
I’ll wait for it.
That’s what he’s done it for.

814
00:57:02,120 –> 00:57:04,840
It’s an imperfect state and
we’re now going through the

815
00:57:04,840 –> 00:57:06,320
birth.
Tangs.

816
00:57:06,800 –> 00:57:08,640
It’s the language of verse 22,
isn’t it?

817
00:57:09,080 –> 00:57:12,880
For birth pangs to bring forward
a new creation.

818
00:57:13,240 –> 00:57:16,040
Have you ever heard of a birth
that wasn’t painful and

819
00:57:16,040 –> 00:57:19,320
agonizing?
Well, this one that we’re in is

820
00:57:19,320 –> 00:57:22,240
too.
And Jeremiah felt those pangs

821
00:57:22,240 –> 00:57:24,600
keenly.
Look at verse 24.

822
00:57:25,000 –> 00:57:28,320
For we are saved by hope, but
hope that is seen is not.

823
00:57:28,320 –> 00:57:31,640
Hope have you been, since it’s
not hope.

824
00:57:32,520 –> 00:57:35,560
For what a man singeth.
Why does he yet hope for?

825
00:57:36,560 –> 00:57:40,920
But if we hope for that we see
not, then we we do with

826
00:57:40,920 –> 00:57:43,920
patience, with patient
endurance.

827
00:57:43,920 –> 00:57:48,440
It’s the same word James used
when he was telling us to look

828
00:57:48,440 –> 00:57:52,080
at the prophets.
Oh, if there’s something coming

829
00:57:52,080 –> 00:57:55,040
and we have to wait.
For it, we will do it with

830
00:57:55,040 –> 00:57:59,800
patience if we think it’s
worthwhile and God wants us to

831
00:57:59,800 –> 00:58:02,480
lift our eyes and to look beyond
the present.

832
00:58:03,640 –> 00:58:08,400
Just come back to Lamentations
chapter 3 and look what Jeremiah

833
00:58:08,400 –> 00:58:10,360
goes on to say.
And look at the link.

834
00:58:10,360 –> 00:58:13,840
There is between that and Romans
chapter 8, Jeremiah, sorry,

835
00:58:13,840 –> 00:58:17,920
Lamentations chapter 3.
And I’d like you to keep for a

836
00:58:17,920 –> 00:58:21,760
moment something in a piece of
paper or something in

837
00:58:21,760 –> 00:58:25,080
Lamentations Chapter 3, because
we’re going to have a look.

838
00:58:25,120 –> 00:58:26,800
At just a.
Couple of other references and

839
00:58:26,800 –> 00:58:30,200
come back here from in the next
few minutes.

840
00:58:33,320 –> 00:58:43,080
But verse 25 says Yahweh is good
unto them that wait for him, to

841
00:58:43,080 –> 00:58:46,760
them that seek him, to the soul
that seeketh him.

842
00:58:47,400 –> 00:58:53,200
It is good, he says for a man,
that a man should both hope and

843
00:58:53,200 –> 00:58:58,600
quietly wait for the salvation
of Yahweh.

844
00:58:58,800 –> 00:59:02,680
He’s come to understand at the
end of his life.

845
00:59:03,720 –> 00:59:05,320
Though I.
Believe in measure, he

846
00:59:05,320 –> 00:59:08,840
understood at the beginning.
He’s come to understand from.

847
00:59:08,840 –> 00:59:13,720
Experience what God is doing.
It’s good to.

848
00:59:13,720 –> 00:59:18,640
Wait for Yahweh.
You know, make a note of this.

849
00:59:18,640 –> 00:59:21,640
We haven’t got time to turn to
it, but in James chapter 5, the

850
00:59:21,640 –> 00:59:24,200
very same place that he was
talking about the prophets as

851
00:59:24,200 –> 00:59:27,960
being an example in verse seven
and eight, he makes an analogy

852
00:59:27,960 –> 00:59:32,600
and he says this.
He says the reason that God is

853
00:59:32,600 –> 00:59:38,760
making us wait is the same
reason that a husbandman waits

854
00:59:38,800 –> 00:59:43,080
for the former and the latter
rain, that it might bring forth

855
00:59:43,080 –> 00:59:45,520
fruit.
See, brothers and sisters, the

856
00:59:45,520 –> 00:59:48,560
father is.
Waiting, waiting, waiting.

857
00:59:48,640 –> 00:59:50,040
And he’s making us.
Wait for the.

858
00:59:50,040 –> 00:59:54,200
Development of fruit in our
lives, and he’s coming back.

859
00:59:54,480 –> 00:59:58,720
To see if that fruit is there.
One day, Jeremiah came to the

860
00:59:58,720 –> 01:00:00,920
same conclusion that.
The.

861
01:00:00,920 –> 01:00:09,720
Process of patient endurance in
godliness develops the fruit of

862
01:00:09,720 –> 01:00:13,000
the Spirit.
It develops character.

863
01:00:13,320 –> 01:00:15,280
That.
Could not otherwise be

864
01:00:15,280 –> 01:00:18,160
developed.
But it’s only remember, look

865
01:00:18,160 –> 01:00:22,080
what Jeremiah says here.
It’s only verse 25 to the soul

866
01:00:22,080 –> 01:00:24,560
that seeks.
Him, all those things could

867
01:00:24,560 –> 01:00:27,120
happen to a man in the world and
it wouldn’t produce character,

868
01:00:27,280 –> 01:00:30,840
it would produce bitterness, but
in the faithful that seeks him

869
01:00:30,840 –> 01:00:35,040
it will produce.
Qualities and characteristics

870
01:00:35,680 –> 01:00:39,680
which he loves.
It’s not a matter of waiting for

871
01:00:39,680 –> 01:00:42,960
Christ and doing our own thing,
but patient endurance.

872
01:00:43,120 –> 01:00:46,400
But you know, there’s another
dimension to patient endurance.

873
01:00:46,640 –> 01:00:54,160
Come over to Romans chapter 5.
Romans chapter 5, verse one.

874
01:01:01,030 –> 01:01:05,310
He says we’re.
For being justified by faith, we

875
01:01:05,310 –> 01:01:09,400
have Prince with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we

876
01:01:09,400 –> 01:01:12,880
also have access by faith into
this grace wherein we stand and

877
01:01:12,880 –> 01:01:14,760
rejoice in hope.
Of the glory of God.

878
01:01:15,720 –> 01:01:22,080
And on our baptism.
That is the truth justified by

879
01:01:22,080 –> 01:01:27,680
faith, peace with God, access by
faith into the grace in prayer,

880
01:01:28,280 –> 01:01:31,240
and we rejoice in hope of the
glory of God.

881
01:01:33,480 –> 01:01:37,280
But Paul didn’t stop there.
And.

882
01:01:37,600 –> 01:01:46,240
Not only so he says, but we
glory, we rejoice in

883
01:01:46,320 –> 01:01:52,720
tribulations, pressures.
The word means knowing that

884
01:01:52,800 –> 01:01:58,360
precious work, patient endurance
and patient endurance works

885
01:01:58,360 –> 01:02:01,640
experience.
Character proof of

886
01:02:01,640 –> 01:02:05,920
trustworthiness and experience
produces hope.

887
01:02:06,560 –> 01:02:09,280
And the hope makes us not
ashamed in the end.

888
01:02:09,480 –> 01:02:12,560
There’s a great process after
we’re baptized that we have to

889
01:02:12,560 –> 01:02:15,920
go through, brethren, sisters,
before we’re really truly of

890
01:02:15,920 –> 01:02:19,440
value to God, before we start
hoping in His.

891
01:02:19,440 –> 01:02:24,560
Mercy.
And here is the reality of daily

892
01:02:24,560 –> 01:02:28,160
living the truth.
Now that word patient endurance

893
01:02:28,160 –> 01:02:32,560
that was used by.
James and is used here is a word

894
01:02:33,320 –> 01:02:39,920
that Bullinger says means.
Or he defines as it’s not a

895
01:02:40,080 –> 01:02:47,360
passive endurance, he says, but
a virtue which can transmute the

896
01:02:47,360 –> 01:02:53,800
harvest trial into glory because
beyond the pain, it sees the

897
01:02:53,800 –> 01:02:58,680
gall and the pressures and
troubles of life that came upon.

898
01:02:58,680 –> 01:03:01,800
Jeremiah and that come upon us
from time to time, brethren,

899
01:03:01,800 –> 01:03:04,960
and.
Sisters can develop that same

900
01:03:04,960 –> 01:03:09,600
quality and that will develop
character and hope.

901
01:03:09,600 –> 01:03:14,360
And in the day to come, we will
not be ashamed because God uses

902
01:03:14,360 –> 01:03:19,000
the experiences of this life,
the oppositions of men unjustly,

903
01:03:19,000 –> 01:03:23,800
very often the abuse, the
circumstances of our life, the

904
01:03:23,800 –> 01:03:30,920
frustrations inside the ecclesia
and out to produce patient

905
01:03:31,920 –> 01:03:36,720
endurance.
And those, all of those.

906
01:03:36,720 –> 01:03:41,480
Things are are there as an
opportunity for us to develop a

907
01:03:41,480 –> 01:03:45,640
quality that the Father sees to
be of real value.

908
01:03:46,560 –> 01:03:51,480
It’s a quality, brethren and
sisters, that he wants, He wants

909
01:03:51,480 –> 01:03:56,760
and needs in the Kingdom.
And there’s only one way to

910
01:03:56,760 –> 01:04:01,000
produce patience, and that’s
give opportunity for it to be

911
01:04:01,000 –> 01:04:03,880
produced.
You can’t learn patience by

912
01:04:03,880 –> 01:04:07,440
reading the Bible, young people.
You can’t do it.

913
01:04:08,520 –> 01:04:11,680
You can’t learn to love somebody
by reading about it.

914
01:04:12,200 –> 01:04:16,880
There has to be real experience.
There has to be life lived.

915
01:04:17,840 –> 01:04:22,080
There has to be difficulties in
order for us to experience.

916
01:04:22,080 –> 01:04:27,080
Those things, and God knows it.
Count it all joy, said James,

917
01:04:27,160 –> 01:04:29,280
when he’d fall into divers
trials.

918
01:04:29,480 –> 01:04:35,760
Knowing this, knowing this, that
the trying of your faith is not

919
01:04:35,760 –> 01:04:40,640
out to destroy us, but works
patient endurance.

920
01:04:40,640 –> 01:04:44,280
And he says, but let it have its
work.

921
01:04:44,280 –> 01:04:48,520
Don’t turn bitter.
Let patient endurance work in

922
01:04:48,520 –> 01:04:52,360
your life.
Shut your mouth when brethren

923
01:04:52,360 –> 01:04:57,760
accuse you falsely when the kids
at school say things against

924
01:04:57,760 –> 01:05:00,960
you, and bless being God.
Take it on the cheek.

925
01:05:01,880 –> 01:05:08,960
Let patient endurance work that
G may be complete and entire,

926
01:05:08,960 –> 01:05:11,640
wanting nothing.
God is not doing it to us to

927
01:05:11,640 –> 01:05:14,720
crush us to pieces.
He’s not doing it because He

928
01:05:14,720 –> 01:05:17,480
hates us.
It’s because He wants us in the

929
01:05:17,480 –> 01:05:22,040
Kingdom.
And he’ll give us circumstances

930
01:05:22,040 –> 01:05:27,880
in order that we might be able
to demonstrate divine qualities

931
01:05:27,880 –> 01:05:36,520
and not fleshly qualities.
Robert Roberts once said that

932
01:05:36,520 –> 01:05:41,640
man is made.
Its constitution is such that he

933
01:05:41,640 –> 01:05:46,320
cannot ever be complete without
experience.

934
01:05:48,600 –> 01:05:54,000
And one of the critical
components of experience is

935
01:05:54,000 –> 01:06:01,000
trouble.
God has not offered young people

936
01:06:02,000 –> 01:06:06,160
to make a star-studded path to
the Kingdom.

937
01:06:08,000 –> 01:06:12,440
The road is the road that
Jeremiah went to the faithful.

938
01:06:12,640 –> 01:06:17,600
That’s the path.
You see, a man without

939
01:06:17,920 –> 01:06:22,040
experience is a man without
patience.

940
01:06:23,240 –> 01:06:25,960
It’s a man.
Who’s brought no fruit to the

941
01:06:25,960 –> 01:06:33,840
glory of God, of no use to God,
Revelation says.

942
01:06:34,080 –> 01:06:37,800
They that have.
Come out of great tribulation,

943
01:06:37,800 –> 01:06:40,360
and have watched their robes,
and made them white in the blood

944
01:06:40,360 –> 01:06:42,520
of the Lamb.
Are those that form the part of

945
01:06:42,520 –> 01:06:48,080
the regime, those that have come
out of great pressures that

946
01:06:48,080 –> 01:06:49,600
have?
Learnt not only.

947
01:06:49,920 –> 01:06:56,840
The theory of the truth.
But the daily endurance in well

948
01:06:56,840 –> 01:06:59,280
doing.
Life is a preparation.

949
01:06:59,280 –> 01:07:03,240
Young people learn it in youth.
Life is a preparation.

950
01:07:03,240 –> 01:07:06,320
It’s not an end in itself.
It’s a preparation for something

951
01:07:06,320 –> 01:07:09,040
greater.
And the trials the the

952
01:07:09,040 –> 01:07:12,960
tribulations that Jeremiah
underwent are just typical.

953
01:07:13,320 –> 01:07:20,040
Of God’s.
Way in preparation, but come

954
01:07:20,040 –> 01:07:23,840
back.
To lamentation because Jeremiah

955
01:07:23,840 –> 01:07:24,880
didn’t stop.
There.

956
01:07:26,680 –> 01:07:35,920
He says in verse 27, having just
said in verse 26, It’s good for

957
01:07:35,920 –> 01:07:38,880
a man that he should both hope
and quietly wait for the

958
01:07:38,880 –> 01:07:41,920
salvation of Yahweh, he says.
It is good.

959
01:07:42,600 –> 01:07:48,080
For a man that he bear the yoke
in his youth.

960
01:07:51,240 –> 01:07:54,320
That’s our thing for the series
of stakes.

961
01:07:55,880 –> 01:07:59,720
What’s a yoke?
Well, just consider the the

962
01:07:59,720 –> 01:08:03,080
analogy of oxen or animals yoked
together.

963
01:08:04,440 –> 01:08:10,920
Think about this.
What the yoke was meant for was

964
01:08:10,920 –> 01:08:14,920
to channel the energy and the
action of that animal, of those

965
01:08:14,920 –> 01:08:18,240
two animals that were yoked
together for some useful.

966
01:08:18,399 –> 01:08:25,760
Purpose for their master, so
that fruit might come to the

967
01:08:25,760 –> 01:08:31,200
master.
Now isn’t that absolutely

968
01:08:31,399 –> 01:08:36,720
remarkable because it was meant
to remove the self will?

969
01:08:37,040 –> 01:08:38,880
And the independence of the
animal.

970
01:08:38,880 –> 01:08:41,479
Running hit her and thither,
wasting energy.

971
01:08:41,960 –> 01:08:45,520
It was meant to constrain the
animal and to teach it to

972
01:08:45,520 –> 01:08:48,960
cooperate with the master, and
if it didn’t cooperate in the

973
01:08:48,960 –> 01:08:51,760
master.
In bringing fruit to the master,

974
01:08:52,080 –> 01:08:54,279
it would rub so much that it
would.

975
01:08:54,279 –> 01:09:00,600
Eventually cooperate and the
natural is the basis of the

976
01:09:00,640 –> 01:09:03,439
spiritual.
And Jeremiah says it’s good for

977
01:09:03,439 –> 01:09:06,840
a man to bear the yoke.
In his youth and you know.

978
01:09:06,920 –> 01:09:09,960
Jesus took up.
That analogy from here he took

979
01:09:09,960 –> 01:09:11,439
up.
Jeremiah’s words.

980
01:09:11,760 –> 01:09:16,439
In Matthew, hold your hand in in
lamentations and go to Matthew

981
01:09:16,439 –> 01:09:19,160
Chapter 11.
They’re words that we all know

982
01:09:19,160 –> 01:09:24,399
and probably can cite many of us
in Matthew Chapter 11, but there

983
01:09:24,399 –> 01:09:32,160
is no question that Jesus is got
Jeremiah in mine here and he

984
01:09:32,160 –> 01:09:35,680
says in verse 28, come unto me
all ye that labour and are heavy

985
01:09:35,680 –> 01:09:38,160
laden and and I will give you
rest.

986
01:09:38,840 –> 01:09:43,840
Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me, for I am meek and lonely

987
01:09:43,840 –> 01:09:47,000
in heart, and ye shall find rest
unto your souls, for my yoke is

988
01:09:47,000 –> 01:09:49,800
easy, and my burden is life.
We can read straight across that

989
01:09:49,800 –> 01:09:52,560
and it all sounds a very nice
nice.

990
01:09:52,560 –> 01:09:57,760
Words, doesn’t it?
But let’s notice a few things in

991
01:09:57,760 –> 01:10:00,920
verse 28, he says take my yoke
upon you.

992
01:10:01,440 –> 01:10:05,360
That means it’s voluntary.
We have to decide to take it,

993
01:10:05,360 –> 01:10:10,800
young people, And notice
secondly that it’s his yoke.

994
01:10:11,600 –> 01:10:15,040
He’s not asking us to take on
something on our necks that he

995
01:10:15,040 –> 01:10:19,240
hasn’t got on his.
And in fact, the analogy is that

996
01:10:19,240 –> 01:10:22,640
we are yoking ourselves with
Christ.

997
01:10:22,720 –> 01:10:25,440
That’s the analogy.
He’s saying He’s saying take on

998
01:10:25,440 –> 01:10:30,880
my yoke with me.
So we’re yoking.

999
01:10:30,880 –> 01:10:32,840
Ourselves.
And there’s an invitation for us

1000
01:10:32,840 –> 01:10:36,200
to yoke ourselves with this.
And he says you yoked yourself

1001
01:10:36,200 –> 01:10:40,160
with me, and you will find rest.
What a conundrum.

1002
01:10:40,480 –> 01:10:44,400
What an amazing yoke that is.
Yokes always hurt, they always

1003
01:10:44,400 –> 01:10:47,000
rubbed while the animal got used
to them.

1004
01:10:47,760 –> 01:10:53,120
But Jesus says you take my yoke
upon you and you’ll find rest.

1005
01:10:53,760 –> 01:10:56,480
Whoever heard of a yoke giving
rest?

1006
01:10:57,640 –> 01:11:01,600
All it did was brought more
work, more pain and more

1007
01:11:01,600 –> 01:11:06,480
suffering.
But this yoke will bring rest.

1008
01:11:06,920 –> 01:11:08,200
This is something.
Unique.

1009
01:11:08,200 –> 01:11:09,920
It’s worth finding out something
about.

1010
01:11:10,720 –> 01:11:13,520
And you know what?
Do you know where Jesus picked

1011
01:11:13,520 –> 01:11:15,440
those words up for when you?
Look at the margin.

1012
01:11:15,440 –> 01:11:19,440
Jeremiah, chapter 6.
There’s no doubt he’s got it in

1013
01:11:19,440 –> 01:11:20,720
mind.
Hold your hand.

1014
01:11:20,720 –> 01:11:23,240
You got three hands.
Hold your hand in Matthew.

1015
01:11:24,520 –> 01:11:27,520
You can drop Lamentations if you
like, and go back to Jeremiah

1016
01:11:27,520 –> 01:11:31,040
chapter 6 just for a moment.
Jeremiah.

1017
01:11:31,040 –> 01:11:34,920
Chapter 6.
Because Jesus quotes Jeremiah

1018
01:11:34,920 –> 01:11:37,240
Chapter 6.
In those words.

1019
01:11:38,920 –> 01:11:43,960
Now Jeremiah chapter 6 is a very
interesting context.

1020
01:11:44,480 –> 01:11:46,840
Verse 16 are the words that
Jesus quotes.

1021
01:11:47,520 –> 01:11:51,000
And there we read.
Thus saith Yahweh, stand ye in

1022
01:11:51,000 –> 01:11:53,840
the ways, and see and ask for
the old paths.

1023
01:11:54,240 –> 01:11:57,800
Where is the good?
Way and walk therein, and ye

1024
01:11:57,800 –> 01:12:01,200
shall find rest for your souls.
There’s the words that Jesus.

1025
01:12:01,200 –> 01:12:02,960
Quoted, and he shall find rest
for your souls.

1026
01:12:03,400 –> 01:12:05,840
But matter.
But Jesus didn’t didn’t didn’t

1027
01:12:05,840 –> 01:12:10,360
cite the first part of Jeremiah,
and whenever he cites just part

1028
01:12:10,360 –> 01:12:11,800
of a.
Verse in the middle of it.

1029
01:12:12,080 –> 01:12:14,120
We’ve got to ask ourselves why.
Did.

1030
01:12:14,120 –> 01:12:19,840
He not, it seems that Jesus put
in place of seek out the old

1031
01:12:19,840 –> 01:12:26,080
paths and walk in the good way.
He put, Take my yoke upon you

1032
01:12:26,080 –> 01:12:33,520
and learn of me.
So taking Christ’s yoke on us in

1033
01:12:33,560 –> 01:12:38,120
Jesus terms is exactly the
equivalent of what Jeremiah was

1034
01:12:38,120 –> 01:12:43,560
saying, to look out for the old
path, the good paths, and to

1035
01:12:43,560 –> 01:12:47,080
walk therein.
Well, what was people doing in

1036
01:12:47,080 –> 01:12:48,840
Jeremiah’s day?
You have a look.

1037
01:12:49,120 –> 01:12:51,960
At Jeremiah chapter 6 and verse
13 this.

1038
01:12:51,960 –> 01:12:54,800
Is what they were.
Doing when God said those words

1039
01:12:55,320 –> 01:12:58,320
from the least of them, under
the greatest of them, everyone

1040
01:12:58,320 –> 01:13:02,040
is given to covetousness.
From the prophet even to the

1041
01:13:02,040 –> 01:13:05,160
priest, everyone deals falsely.
Why are you given to

1042
01:13:05,160 –> 01:13:07,120
covetousness and.
Why are you out?

1043
01:13:07,120 –> 01:13:10,520
Dealing falsely if.
It’s not for your own gain.

1044
01:13:10,840 –> 01:13:13,680
And that’s all Jeremiah’s
society we’re out for.

1045
01:13:13,680 –> 01:13:17,360
To get what they wanted for
themselves, they thought of #1

1046
01:13:17,360 –> 01:13:20,120
and nothing else.
And then Jeremiah said.

1047
01:13:20,520 –> 01:13:25,840
Look, think of the old way, walk
in the good old paths and you’ll

1048
01:13:25,840 –> 01:13:28,520
find rest to your souls.
And they said at the end of

1049
01:13:28,520 –> 01:13:32,960
verse 16, we will not walk
therein.

1050
01:13:33,320 –> 01:13:37,280
We’re going to walk where we
want to walk and we won’t listen

1051
01:13:37,280 –> 01:13:41,080
to you.
What an amazing thing you come

1052
01:13:41,080 –> 01:13:45,240
back to to Matthew Chapter 11.
And Jesus quotes the whole

1053
01:13:45,240 –> 01:13:50,360
context of Jeremiah here in
these words, because Jesus

1054
01:13:50,360 –> 01:13:53,800
instead of saying seek out the
old paths and walk in them, he

1055
01:13:53,800 –> 01:14:04,960
says, You take my yoke upon you
and learn from, not of, from me.

1056
01:14:06,040 –> 01:14:12,800
And now the old path and the
good way and how to walk it are

1057
01:14:12,800 –> 01:14:17,120
embodied in a man.
Jesus was not going to say,

1058
01:14:17,360 –> 01:14:20,480
look, take the old path and walk
in it.

1059
01:14:20,720 –> 01:14:25,960
He said, Come here, yoke
yourself alongside me and learn

1060
01:14:25,960 –> 01:14:29,880
from me.
I’ll show you in my life what it

1061
01:14:29,880 –> 01:14:33,200
means to walk the good path and
the old.

1062
01:14:33,200 –> 01:14:36,280
Way.
And what was the good path and

1063
01:14:36,280 –> 01:14:38,800
the old way?
It was exactly the opposite of

1064
01:14:38,800 –> 01:14:40,400
what they were doing in
Jeremiah’s day.

1065
01:14:40,600 –> 01:14:44,280
All they were possibly doing in
Jeremiah’s day was seeking their

1066
01:14:44,360 –> 01:14:49,880
own interests from the highest
in the land to the very bottom

1067
01:14:49,880 –> 01:14:52,800
of society.
They were doing nothing else out

1068
01:14:53,120 –> 01:14:56,840
for self.
Self #1 all the time.

1069
01:14:57,120 –> 01:14:59,560
And you know what we’re going to
learn if we yoke ourselves to

1070
01:14:59,560 –> 01:15:01,800
Christ?
Read His words.

1071
01:15:01,960 –> 01:15:05,120
You yoke yourself to me and
learn from me.

1072
01:15:05,800 –> 01:15:15,280
For He says, I am meek.
And lowly of heart.

1073
01:15:17,920 –> 01:15:22,960
And that’s the good way seen in
a man’s life.

1074
01:15:23,880 –> 01:15:28,120
The hardest lesson that we’ll
ever have to.

1075
01:15:28,120 –> 01:15:33,000
Learn in life to empty ourselves
of.

1076
01:15:33,240 –> 01:15:43,080
Self-interest because God can’t
work in us while we are

1077
01:15:43,080 –> 01:15:47,920
enthroned.
In our own eyes, meekness and.

1078
01:15:47,920 –> 01:15:54,760
Lowliness are the exact opposite
of seeking self, and the very

1079
01:15:54,760 –> 01:16:00,800
purpose of a yoke was to
constrain the self-interest of

1080
01:16:00,800 –> 01:16:08,240
the animal, to follow the
master’s way, to give up self,

1081
01:16:08,920 –> 01:16:12,640
and to deny.
Self, I’d like you to come to

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01:16:13,000 –> 01:16:14,760
Isaiah.
Chapter 57.

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01:16:15,800 –> 01:16:22,240
Because in one verse here.
Isaiah puts his finger on the

1084
01:16:22,240 –> 01:16:27,080
issue at stake.
It’s the fundamental issue of

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01:16:27,080 –> 01:16:30,400
our lives, brethren and sisters
and young people.

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01:16:31,920 –> 01:16:34,680
And I would like to talk to
young people more particularly

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01:16:34,680 –> 01:16:38,560
at the moment, because it’s in
the context of that verse that

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01:16:38,560 –> 01:16:41,600
we’re talking about the yoke and
on Isaiah.

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01:16:41,600 –> 01:16:46,840
Chapter 53.
Sorry, 57 and verse 15.

1090
01:16:51,120 –> 01:16:55,840
Verse 15 of Isaiah 57.
For thus sits behind lofty one

1091
01:16:55,840 –> 01:16:58,200
that inhabit eternity, whose
name is holy.

1092
01:16:59,080 –> 01:17:02,440
I dwell with the High and Holy
in the High and Holy place with

1093
01:17:02,440 –> 01:17:07,360
him.
Also, that is of a contrite and

1094
01:17:07,360 –> 01:17:11,360
humble spirit.
God can work with that spirit.

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01:17:12,520 –> 01:17:15,600
He can’t work.
With anything else and see what

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01:17:15,600 –> 01:17:21,680
the verse goes on to say.
To revive the spirit of the

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01:17:21,680 –> 01:17:27,120
humble and to revive the heart
of the contrite ones God.

1098
01:17:27,120 –> 01:17:30,840
Can do something with
individuals, young people,

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01:17:30,840 –> 01:17:33,760
especially in their youth.
Who are prepared?

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01:17:33,760 –> 01:17:40,760
To forget themselves.
And that was Jeremiah Let.

1101
01:17:40,760 –> 01:17:44,160
This mind be in you, said Paul.
When he wrote to the

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01:17:44,160 –> 01:17:51,000
Philippians, he made himself of
no reputation and took upon him

1103
01:17:51,000 –> 01:18:01,000
the form of a slave, and humbled
himself and became obedient unto

1104
01:18:01,000 –> 01:18:04,400
death.
Because self wasn’t there to

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01:18:04,400 –> 01:18:08,440
compete.
God highly exalted him and gave

1106
01:18:08,440 –> 01:18:10,200
him a name above every other
name.

1107
01:18:10,680 –> 01:18:15,520
Because he emptied himself, God
could manifest himself in him.

1108
01:18:16,200 –> 01:18:20,160
And Jesus said, yoke yourself
with me.

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01:18:21,160 –> 01:18:30,160
Learn from me what it means to
be lowly and meek.

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01:18:32,600 –> 01:18:36,480
How do we do it?
We’ve got to know what he’s

1111
01:18:36,480 –> 01:18:37,840
like.
Brethren and sisters and young

1112
01:18:37,840 –> 01:18:41,080
people, we’ve got to consider
the Lord’s life.

1113
01:18:43,960 –> 01:18:46,720
If we don’t give.
Attention during our life to the

1114
01:18:46,720 –> 01:18:52,000
life of our Lord that receives
attention in four books of the

1115
01:18:52,000 –> 01:18:56,080
Bible specifically, and
allusions all over Scripture.

1116
01:18:57,160 –> 01:19:01,120
We do ourselves a great
disservice because therein we

1117
01:19:01,120 –> 01:19:07,440
see his selflessness and his
devotion to others and to the

1118
01:19:07,440 –> 01:19:12,520
Father demonstrated in a life.
That we yoked together and every

1119
01:19:12,520 –> 01:19:15,640
day, young people, we’ve got to
yoke ourselves to him and to

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01:19:15,640 –> 01:19:18,440
remove that self will, that
self-expression.

1121
01:19:19,200 –> 01:19:22,800
And Jeremiah bore that yoke, and
it wasn’t easy.

1122
01:19:32,810 –> 01:19:38,450
They’re the next. 2 verses after
Lamentations chapter 23, verse

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01:19:38,450 –> 01:19:42,930
27 from the RSV.
The RSV captures the poetry of

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01:19:42,930 –> 01:19:44,850
those words.
It’s good.

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01:19:44,850 –> 01:19:46,450
For a man.
That he bear the yoke in his

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01:19:46,450 –> 01:19:51,880
youth.
Let him sit alone in silence

1127
01:19:52,240 –> 01:19:56,440
when he’s laid it on him.
That’s what the yoke’s going to

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01:19:56,440 –> 01:20:00,880
do at times, young people.
Let him put his mouth in the

1129
01:20:00,880 –> 01:20:03,920
dust.
It may be there may be hope.

1130
01:20:03,920 –> 01:20:07,360
Out of that.
Let him give him his cheeks to

1131
01:20:07,360 –> 01:20:09,160
the smite and be filled with
insults.

1132
01:20:09,840 –> 01:20:12,600
And remember that Yahweh will
not cast off forever, but though

1133
01:20:12,640 –> 01:20:14,840
because grief, He will have
compassion according to the

1134
01:20:14,840 –> 01:20:20,200
abundance of His steadfast love.
Yahweh is not out to crush us,

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01:20:21,760 –> 01:20:28,600
but it may mean hardship and
pain and it’s good to bear it in

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01:20:28,600 –> 01:20:32,560
youth.
Why is it good to bear in youth?

1137
01:20:33,400 –> 01:20:35,520
Any conclusion?
I want to give you 4 in.

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01:20:35,800 –> 01:20:39,800
There are many, many others and
no doubt through the several

1139
01:20:39,800 –> 01:20:43,160
studies that we’ve had already,
you can start to see some of the

1140
01:20:43,160 –> 01:20:46,120
reasons why God called
individuals in youth.

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01:20:46,840 –> 01:20:53,440
But let me give you just four
summary reasons why it’s good to

1142
01:20:53,440 –> 01:20:57,400
bear that yoke in youth.
Because firstly, young people,

1143
01:20:57,600 –> 01:21:01,120
youth is the most productive and
energetic time of life.

1144
01:21:01,120 –> 01:21:06,160
It’s a time of independence of
of great enthusiasm and strength

1145
01:21:06,160 –> 01:21:08,200
that you’ll have at no other
time of your life.

1146
01:21:08,840 –> 01:21:13,840
Potentially, I say the most
productive time, but do you know

1147
01:21:13,880 –> 01:21:21,240
in youth most of the energy and
most of the strength of most of

1148
01:21:21,240 –> 01:21:25,240
the world’s youth is totally
wasted?

1149
01:21:25,720 –> 01:21:29,120
What a tragedy that is.
But the yoke will channel that

1150
01:21:29,120 –> 01:21:34,480
energy and direct it to great
profits, to bringing fruit to

1151
01:21:34,520 –> 01:21:39,200
the glory of the Father.
It’s good to bear the yoke in

1152
01:21:39,200 –> 01:21:44,320
youth where the strength and
vitality where something can be

1153
01:21:44,320 –> 01:21:48,160
achieved and quickly.
Don’t waste your youth young

1154
01:21:48,160 –> 01:21:51,320
people while you still have it.
Instead of lazing around till

1155
01:21:51,320 –> 01:21:55,000
10:30 on a Saturday morning, get
up and do 2 hours of Bible study

1156
01:21:55,240 –> 01:21:57,920
or go and see some sister and
help her in the garden.

1157
01:21:58,600 –> 01:22:01,880
Don’t spend your Saturday
tinkering around with your car

1158
01:22:01,880 –> 01:22:04,200
trying to do this little thing
or that.

1159
01:22:04,880 –> 01:22:07,560
Look for somebody you can do
something for.

1160
01:22:07,800 –> 01:22:15,040
Learn to bear the yoke of
meekness and lowliness, crushing

1161
01:22:15,040 –> 01:22:19,280
self-interest in youth.
It’s the hardest thing.

1162
01:22:19,560 –> 01:22:27,880
Youth fills the freedom, Freedom
of independence of self, will of

1163
01:22:27,880 –> 01:22:32,280
the turn of nation.
And God says it’s the best time

1164
01:22:32,280 –> 01:22:37,600
to yoke it.
The best time to yoke it.

1165
01:22:38,600 –> 01:22:40,920
Instead of thinking of self,
think of others.

1166
01:22:41,560 –> 01:22:45,120
Instead of just thinking of your
own enjoyment.

1167
01:22:45,120 –> 01:22:47,240
After supper, have you ever
thought that there’s?

1168
01:22:47,480 –> 01:22:50,160
People picking things up and
doing things and carrying things

1169
01:22:50,160 –> 01:22:52,960
and and doing all manner of
things and often it’s older

1170
01:22:52,960 –> 01:22:56,880
people.
Stop to watch that, young

1171
01:22:56,880 –> 01:22:59,080
people.
When you’re at a fraternal, you

1172
01:22:59,080 –> 01:23:00,760
watch.
And see who sweeps the floor and

1173
01:23:00,760 –> 01:23:02,800
who puts the tables away.
You watch in.

1174
01:23:02,800 –> 01:23:11,560
Fact, I say don’t watch you put
them away #2 youth is the most

1175
01:23:11,560 –> 01:23:14,080
mouldable and responsive time of
life.

1176
01:23:14,400 –> 01:23:16,680
You’ve taken a great.
Bough of A.

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01:23:16,680 –> 01:23:22,520
Tree that’s been there for 20
years, twig that’s young and

1178
01:23:22,520 –> 01:23:25,320
fresh and virile.
Which can you train?

1179
01:23:26,640 –> 01:23:30,320
If you try hard enough for long
enough, you might change the

1180
01:23:30,320 –> 01:23:34,040
position of that bow.
But that little twig can be bent

1181
01:23:34,040 –> 01:23:38,640
and moved into any direction the
master wants any direction,

1182
01:23:39,000 –> 01:23:42,800
without great pain and without
great undue stress.

1183
01:23:43,040 –> 01:23:45,800
You know, youth is the time when
life’s patterns and habits and

1184
01:23:45,800 –> 01:23:48,560
attitudes are being formed.
Set your direction.

1185
01:23:48,560 –> 01:23:50,840
That’s the lesson young people
in life.

1186
01:23:51,080 –> 01:23:53,880
Make the daily readings.
Daily readings.

1187
01:23:54,160 –> 01:23:57,360
Make prayer a daily.
Necessity.

1188
01:23:58,040 –> 01:24:01,560
Make time for meditation.
You’ll never have as much time

1189
01:24:01,560 –> 01:24:05,400
as you have in your youth.
And look outside, learn of me,

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01:24:05,400 –> 01:24:08,640
said Jesus.
Learn to support, to look

1191
01:24:08,640 –> 01:24:13,280
outside your own life, to talk
to older ones, to help support

1192
01:24:13,280 –> 01:24:16,240
other younger ones.
It’s much, much more difficult

1193
01:24:16,240 –> 01:24:20,960
in aged, older life to change
entrenched ways and attitudes.

1194
01:24:21,200 –> 01:24:25,400
It’s an enormous blessing, on
the other hand, to bear that

1195
01:24:25,400 –> 01:24:28,320
yoke in youth and thank God for
it.

1196
01:24:28,320 –> 01:24:30,960
Young people don’t.
Ever despise it?

1197
01:24:32,280 –> 01:24:37,520
The apostle Peter said, Humble
yourself under the mighty hand

1198
01:24:37,520 –> 01:24:43,240
of God.
Accept his way when it comes

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01:24:43,680 –> 01:24:46,840
however it comes, as Jeremiah
did.

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01:24:48,920 –> 01:24:52,440
But you know, there’s a negative
side to all that the yoke

1201
01:24:52,440 –> 01:24:55,720
constrains.
Prevents youthful lusts, It

1202
01:24:55,760 –> 01:25:01,840
constrains the flesh and
prevents the formation of deep

1203
01:25:01,880 –> 01:25:04,240
mental.
Paths that are caused by sin, as

1204
01:25:04,240 –> 01:25:06,520
we saw in in Samson this
afternoon.

1205
01:25:06,720 –> 01:25:10,000
You know, bad habits formed in
youth are almost impossible.

1206
01:25:10,920 –> 01:25:14,000
Not impossible, but very, very
difficult to break.

1207
01:25:15,000 –> 01:25:18,680
That’s utter folly for anyone to
give advice to any young.

1208
01:25:18,680 –> 01:25:21,640
People to try the world and try
the truth.

1209
01:25:21,640 –> 01:25:25,440
And make up your mind.
That is never counselled in

1210
01:25:25,440 –> 01:25:28,000
Scripture.
It’s absolute folly.

1211
01:25:28,480 –> 01:25:31,040
The Scripture says bear it in
youth.

1212
01:25:31,520 –> 01:25:37,000
The yoke before the exposure and
involvement in sin and evil has

1213
01:25:37,000 –> 01:25:40,880
scarred the mind and cut
pathways that you’ll never be

1214
01:25:40,880 –> 01:25:43,760
able to get out.
You know Samson found himself in

1215
01:25:43,760 –> 01:25:46,880
that situation.
He was scarred.

1216
01:25:46,880 –> 01:25:49,080
For life by some of his
experiences.

1217
01:25:49,520 –> 01:25:52,160
And those who’ve come into the
truth in later life can testify

1218
01:25:52,600 –> 01:25:55,120
there are things that come back
in their minds that they don’t

1219
01:25:55,120 –> 01:25:57,200
want to be there, and they come
back.

1220
01:25:57,400 –> 01:26:00,560
Because of their previous.
Experience youth is the best

1221
01:26:00,680 –> 01:26:05,160
time to constrain the flesh
before sinners hardened paths

1222
01:26:05,160 –> 01:26:09,880
and patterns in your in your
thinking and in youth reason

1223
01:26:09,880 –> 01:26:13,320
number.
Three, your minds are much more

1224
01:26:13,320 –> 01:26:16,080
alert.
Much more able to quickly

1225
01:26:16,080 –> 01:26:19,560
comprehend, to understand.
Don’t sell that to the world.

1226
01:26:19,880 –> 01:26:24,240
Don’t sell it to the boss.
Give it to God.

1227
01:26:26,880 –> 01:26:29,840
And if you’re doing tertiary
studies or studies at school,

1228
01:26:30,200 –> 01:26:33,760
learn to plan your time.
Don’t let life slip through your

1229
01:26:33,760 –> 01:26:36,040
fingers.
There’s a lot of young people

1230
01:26:36,040 –> 01:26:39,040
that get into their 20s and 30s
and they’ve done nothing with

1231
01:26:39,040 –> 01:26:41,160
their life.
They know nothing about the word

1232
01:26:41,160 –> 01:26:43,720
of God.
It should never be so.

1233
01:26:43,800 –> 01:26:48,760
It should never be so young
people, you know, if you learnt

1234
01:26:48,760 –> 01:26:52,720
just one verse of the Bible a
day, just one, just one little

1235
01:26:53,080 –> 01:26:57,080
verse of the Bible every.
Day by the end of the year.

1236
01:26:57,560 –> 01:27:02,280
You would know off by heart all
of the Psalms from Psalm 1 to

1237
01:27:02,280 –> 01:27:07,840
Psalm 28 in one year, one verse
a day.

1238
01:27:08,320 –> 01:27:10,680
We’re a generation that’s
mentally lazy.

1239
01:27:11,640 –> 01:27:13,640
Use your time while you’ve got
it.

1240
01:27:15,000 –> 01:27:21,720
And reason number. 4 is that the
productiveness for God in later

1241
01:27:21,720 –> 01:27:27,720
years will be significantly
enhanced if you bear the yoke in

1242
01:27:27,720 –> 01:27:30,400
you.
If you’re still fighting with

1243
01:27:30,400 –> 01:27:35,680
the the very basic issues of
self will and the importance of

1244
01:27:35,680 –> 01:27:38,320
your own power and prestige, and
you’re still thinking of

1245
01:27:38,320 –> 01:27:45,120
yourself at 60 or 70.
You’re not much use to God, but

1246
01:27:45,120 –> 01:27:50,240
a man that has learned in youth
to bear that yoke and to give

1247
01:27:50,240 –> 01:27:57,000
his life and to commit himself
despite the pain, despite the

1248
01:27:57,000 –> 01:28:00,160
cost.
We will be of enormous use to

1249
01:28:00,160 –> 01:28:03,760
God and.
That above all is the reason we

1250
01:28:03,760 –> 01:28:07,640
find in Scripture why God above
all is the reason we find in

1251
01:28:07,640 –> 01:28:12,200
Scripture why God called men
like Jeremiah, Josiah, Joseph,

1252
01:28:12,320 –> 01:28:15,600
Sampson, Timothy, Paul, you name
them in youth.

1253
01:28:16,440 –> 01:28:20,360
He didn’t use them immediately.
But he prepared them for a great

1254
01:28:20,360 –> 01:28:25,040
and marvellous work amongst his
people, and 1 Yet in the future

1255
01:28:25,280 –> 01:28:30,880
that is even more marvellous.
We will be more productive for

1256
01:28:30,880 –> 01:28:35,040
God in the end if we give our
lives in youth.

1257
01:28:36,960 –> 01:28:40,160
Yeah, we may be tempted to think
that Jeremiah’s life was

1258
01:28:40,160 –> 01:28:42,520
unproductive, that he didn’t
really achieve anything.

1259
01:28:42,520 –> 01:28:47,680
After 40 years, the whole nation
was still wayward, even though

1260
01:28:47,680 –> 01:28:50,720
he’d faithfully borne that.
Yoke all his days.

1261
01:28:51,720 –> 01:28:58,840
Know what he did?
He had a profound effect upon

1262
01:28:58,840 –> 01:29:04,080
some young people and during his
life.

1263
01:29:04,880 –> 01:29:13,240
Daniel Hananiah Azariah Mishael
went into captivity at 17.

1264
01:29:13,240 –> 01:29:17,480
They’d only known Jeremiah for
the 1st 17 years of their life

1265
01:29:18,080 –> 01:29:19,480
and they went into captivity and
later.

1266
01:29:19,480 –> 01:29:22,080
Ezekiel and Mordecai and others
went into captivity, into

1267
01:29:22,080 –> 01:29:28,080
Babylon, and all of those young
teenagers were inspired by

1268
01:29:28,160 –> 01:29:32,720
Josiah and more particularly I
believe, by Jeremiah, because

1269
01:29:32,720 –> 01:29:36,280
they got into Babylon and they
had a vision in Babylon that was

1270
01:29:36,280 –> 01:29:40,080
inspired by Jeremiah because
Daniel tells us that they did.

1271
01:29:40,480 –> 01:29:44,080
And they had an example of
patience, endurance in well

1272
01:29:44,080 –> 01:29:48,840
doing because they’ve seen those
men in action in their teens and

1273
01:29:48,840 –> 01:29:52,800
they in turn inspired others in
Babylon and 70.

1274
01:29:52,800 –> 01:30:00,200
Years later. 50,000 Jews having
faith in what Jeremiah said,

1275
01:30:00,320 –> 01:30:03,160
left Babylon and went back and
re established a nation.

1276
01:30:03,560 –> 01:30:08,200
What an inspiring testimony that
is to Jeremiah’s life and his

1277
01:30:08,200 –> 01:30:14,280
body achieved nothing. 50,000
people uprooted their lives and

1278
01:30:14,280 –> 01:30:20,280
went back to build the temple
against great opposition and one

1279
01:30:20,280 –> 01:30:24,120
day that man will be raised to
do a great work again.

1280
01:30:25,040 –> 01:30:30,560
But this time, not as an
oppressed, tearful man, but

1281
01:30:30,560 –> 01:30:33,880
having come through all the
tribulations of life and learned

1282
01:30:33,880 –> 01:30:39,640
the value of patient endurance,
he will rejoice for evermore

1283
01:30:41,440 –> 01:30:43,360
with the greater who’s gone
before.

1284
01:30:50,610 –> 01:30:56,490
What have we seen?
The Word of God must be our

1285
01:30:56,490 –> 01:31:01,920
delight daily.
Don’t be afraid of their faces.

1286
01:31:04,320 –> 01:31:07,880
Pressure and tragedy, whatever
circumstances come upon us and

1287
01:31:07,880 –> 01:31:11,320
trouble are used by God to
develop character of the Saints

1288
01:31:12,120 –> 01:31:14,920
and it’s our job to wait to wait
patiently.

1289
01:31:15,920 –> 01:31:18,800
While God’s work is done.
And to bear that.

1290
01:31:18,800 –> 01:31:21,960
Yoke, yoke, yoke with meekness
and humility, looking forward to

1291
01:31:21,960 –> 01:31:24,280
redemption and the rest that
will come.

1292
01:31:25,680 –> 01:31:29,280
And young people.
Don’t ever let anyone tell you

1293
01:31:29,320 –> 01:31:35,400
otherwise.
Youth is the best time to serve

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01:31:35,400 –> 01:31:35,680
God.