Classes 1 & 4 from this series were used in GCT Episodes 388 & 394, respectively.<\/p>\n
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\nJohns, as he speaks to us to
\nthis title. <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah Suffering the reproach
\nof Christ in youth. <\/p>\n
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\nMy dearly beloved brethren and
\nsisters in our Lord Jesus Christ<\/p>\n
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\nand dear young people, Jeremiah.
\nBy any account and by any <\/p>\n
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\nmeasure, was one of Israel.
\n‘S greatest prophets. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he lived in the time of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\n‘S.
\nWorst Apostasy. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was born in the reign of the
\nworst king that Judah ever had <\/p>\n
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\nand grew up most of his young
\ndays in the reign of 1 of <\/p>\n
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\nJudah’s greatest kings, Josiah.
\nIn his days when he was growing <\/p>\n
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\nup both the world at large, in
\nthe nations, and also within his<\/p>\n
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\nown nation and society, there
\nwas constant change and great <\/p>\n
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\nturmoil, great uncertainty.
\nAnd if that doesn’t match our <\/p>\n
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\nday, I don’t know what does.
\nConstant change, great <\/p>\n
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\nuncertainty and turmoil.
\nWe can scarcely imagine the <\/p>\n
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\ndepths to which Judah had
\nreached during the times of <\/p>\n
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\nManassa’s long 55 year reign
\nover Judah. <\/p>\n
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\nThis man systematically
\ndestroyed any effective <\/p>\n
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\ngodliness within the nation.
\nHe erected altars to the <\/p>\n
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\nAssyrian gods, right?
\nIn the middle. <\/p>\n
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\nOf the.
\nTemple and pray Pagan practices,<\/p>\n
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\nincluding sacred prostitution,
\nwere brought right into the <\/p>\n
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\nmiddle of the nation, into the
\ntemple precincts themselves. <\/p>\n
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\nHe incorporated every single one
\nof the ways of the nation. <\/p>\n
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\nThat you could possibly imagine
\ninto the life of everyday <\/p>\n
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\nordinary Jiites.
\nHe even sanctioned and supported<\/p>\n
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\nthe occult.
\nThat’s how low he got. <\/p>\n
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\nHe encouraged human.
\nSacrifice, and when any voice <\/p>\n
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\nwas raised against anything that
\nhe did. <\/p>\n
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\nThe voice was silenced.
\nAs the head was removed, he <\/p>\n
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\ndecimated the priesthood, all
\nthe active prophets. <\/p>\n
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\nWere in hiding.
\nAnd. <\/p>\n
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\nTo top it all off, in his.
\nDay, Brethren and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Bible was lost in the House
\nof God. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was lost.
\nAnd it’s an amazing thing in his<\/p>\n
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\nlife that at the end he
\nrepented. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s not the amazing thing.
\nThe amazing thing was that God <\/p>\n
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\naccepted his repentance after.
\nAll. <\/p>\n
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\nThat he had done to his people.
\nAnd though he. <\/p>\n
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\nTried in the last few years to
\nreform the nation, it was to no.<\/p>\n
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\nPractical effect.
\nHe had destroyed everyone that <\/p>\n
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\ncould help him, and lamelessly
\nhe went about trying to put back<\/p>\n
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\ninto place what he’d
\nsystematically destroyed through<\/p>\n
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\n50 years of abominable apostasy
\nand in his reign with that <\/p>\n
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\nlegacy.
\nJeremiah was born and his son <\/p>\n
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\nAmmon came onto the throne and
\nfor only two years before he was<\/p>\n
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\nassassinated, immediately turned
\nthe nation back to where they’d <\/p>\n
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\ncome.
\nFrom. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were so steep, you know,
\nthat’s where they wanted to go <\/p>\n
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\nand he just took the people
\nstraight back to where they <\/p>\n
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\nwanted to go and after.
\nHis death. <\/p>\n
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\nJosiah, an 8 year old lad.
\nTakes up the throne. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it was during these years,
\nJosiah’s early years, that <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah, too, was a young boy.
\nIt wasn’t easy to grow up and <\/p>\n
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\nlove God in those days.
\nThe Bible was lost. <\/p>\n
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\nNobody loved righteousness.
\nAlmost throughout the whole of <\/p>\n
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\nthe nation.
\nOf course, there was always a <\/p>\n
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\nremnant.
\nThere were a few individuals. <\/p>\n
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\nHere or there.
\nThat had hidden for many years. <\/p>\n
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\nThrough through Manassas reign,
\nbut the whole of society in <\/p>\n
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\ngeneral was corrupt to the core.
\nThere was no sense of morality. <\/p>\n
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\nLeft just like today, idolatry
\nwas was abounding everywhere <\/p>\n
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\njust like today, and there was a
\ncontinual self-interest and self<\/p>\n
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\nseeking from the highest to the
\nlowest strata of society just <\/p>\n
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\nlike today.
\nYet in a Royal Court in <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem and in a little
\nvillage to the north of <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem, a little village
\ncalled Anathoth, God was <\/p>\n
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\npreparing 2.
\nSerious young Minded 6. <\/p>\n
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\nOr 7 year olds.
\nTo take on monumental tasks in <\/p>\n
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\nthe nation.
\nThe environment was ungodly to <\/p>\n
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\nsay the least.
\nIt was seductive and corrupt. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s remarkable that these
\ntwo lads ever sought Yahweh at <\/p>\n
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\nall, But even more remarkable
\nthat by the time they got into <\/p>\n
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\ntheir early teens, they had
\nalready set the direction of <\/p>\n
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\ntheir lives to seek with all
\ntheir heart the God of David, <\/p>\n
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\ntheir father.
\nWhat an amazing thing that is. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Josiah, at the age of 16, we
\nread, began to seek the God of <\/p>\n
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\nDavid his father, with all his
\nheart and soul and might. <\/p>\n
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\nAt 16 young people, his life was
\ncommitted. <\/p>\n
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\nThe direction of his life was.
\nFixed and he never deviated. <\/p>\n
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\nYou look at the record.
\nOf his life and it says and he <\/p>\n
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\nturned up to the left or to the
\nright all his days from 16, he <\/p>\n
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\nnever deviated.
\nThink about him at school, young<\/p>\n
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\npeople or at work.
\nAnd at 18, he began the most <\/p>\n
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\nincredible purge that Judah had
\never seen 18 years of old. <\/p>\n
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\nEight years of age and he’s out
\nthere not dictating from the <\/p>\n
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\npalace.
\nHe’s out in the field saying I <\/p>\n
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\nwant this idol smashed, I want
\nthis fall down. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is not.
\nThey can’t learn anything about <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh when this is here.
\nGet rid of it. <\/p>\n
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\nTake that out of that person’s
\nhouse. <\/p>\n
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\nThis has got to go.
\nChange this. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he was there pulling it
\ndown, right? <\/p>\n
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\nWhere it needed to be done.
\nHe was no theorist Josiah, and <\/p>\n
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\nit was at that time that
\nJeremiah enters the scene. <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 1 of Jeremiah, verse
\none. <\/p>\n
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\nThe words of Jeremiah the son of
\nHilkiah of the priests. <\/p>\n
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\nThat were in.
\nAnathoth of the land of <\/p>\n
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\nBenjamin, to whom the word of
\nYahweh came in the days of <\/p>\n
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\nJosiah the son of Ammon, king of
\nJudah, in the 13th year. <\/p>\n
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\nOf his reign, Josiah is 21 years
\nof age, and Jeremiah is called <\/p>\n
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\nby God.
\nVerse 4 says And then the word <\/p>\n
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\nof Yahweh came unto me, saying,
\nBefore I formed thee in the <\/p>\n
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\nbelly, I knew thee, and before
\nthou camest forth out of the <\/p>\n
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\nwomb, I sanctified thee, and
\nordained thee a prophet unto the<\/p>\n
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\nnations.
\nThen I said, Ah, I don’t know <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh.
\nBehold, I cannot speak. <\/p>\n
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\nFor I’m a child or a youth.
\nI’m only a youth. <\/p>\n
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\nThe RSV says.
\nGod called him from the womb <\/p>\n
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\nbecause the depth of wickedness
\nwas so great that he needed to <\/p>\n
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\ninfluence this man in his very,
\nvery young days, just like he <\/p>\n
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\nhad to influence Josiah, whom
\nGod had foreseen many. <\/p>\n
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\nYears.
\nBefore and prophesied of his <\/p>\n
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\ncoming.
\nAnd he says I’m only a youth. <\/p>\n
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\nWe don’t know exactly his age.
\nHe was probably in his late <\/p>\n
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\nteens or very early 20s.
\nAnd I like to think that he’s <\/p>\n
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\naround about Josiah’s age.
\nHe certainly was, of that <\/p>\n
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\napproximate age, about 20 at the
\ntime. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd all of our young people.
\nWould be able to cite second of <\/p>\n
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\nPeter chapter 1 and verse 21.
\nDon’t need to turn to it. <\/p>\n
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\nWe all ought to be able to cite
\nit. <\/p>\n
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\nA verse that we might use very
\noften in lectures that says <\/p>\n
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\nprophecy came in old time, came
\nnot in old time by the will of <\/p>\n
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\nman, but holy men.
\nOf God spake as they were moved <\/p>\n
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\nby the Holy Spirit, holy men of
\nGod and we have a a 20 year. <\/p>\n
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\nOld.
\nThrough whom God moved in the <\/p>\n
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\nmidst of this apostate nation, a
\nholy man of God. <\/p>\n
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\nAt that age he’s called a holy
\nman of God. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat a tremendous testimony that
\nis to the character and to the <\/p>\n
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\nmind of this young individual.
\nRemember that the law of God is <\/p>\n
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\nlost.
\nThe principles of the truth had <\/p>\n
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\nbeen passed on by faithful
\nparents. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s an amazing thing that
\nthrough all of those years of <\/p>\n
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\nManassas reign and before
\nHezekiah’s time, all the years <\/p>\n
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\nof apostasy before that, that
\nthere was any semblance and any <\/p>\n
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\nknowledge of Yahweh’s will and
\npurpose still. <\/p>\n
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\nLeft that there was.
\nAnyone still in the nation? <\/p>\n
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\nBut there obviously was, and we
\nfind by carefully reading <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the times of Jeremiah
\nand the historical records in <\/p>\n
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\nChronicles and Kings.
\nWe find that there were a few <\/p>\n
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\nvery faithful individuals.
\nWho upheld Yahweh’s way and <\/p>\n
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\nnurtured some of these?
\nYoung men who came on to the <\/p>\n
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\nscene at this time, you know
\nwhen the law of Yahweh was <\/p>\n
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\nactually found in the temple.
\nIn the house. <\/p>\n
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\nOf God, of all places, chapter
\n15 tells us. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, Jeremiah himself tells us.
\nWhat he thought. <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah 15 and verse 16.
\nI believe this is a reference to<\/p>\n
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\nthe finding of the Book of the
\nLaw and the House. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he says, thy words were
\nfound, and I did eat them, and <\/p>\n
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\nthy word was unto me the joy and
\nrejoicing of mine heart, for I <\/p>\n
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\nam called by thy name, O Yahweh,
\nElohim of hosts. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat an amazing thing the Word
\nof God was found when he was in <\/p>\n
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\nhis early 20s Possibly.
\nAnd he found he saw it as a <\/p>\n
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\ndelight that he ate up.
\nVery quickly, how many of us, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters and young
\npeople, could truly say those <\/p>\n
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\nwords with all honesty, without
\na twinge of conscience? <\/p>\n
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\nThy word is unto me a joy and.
\nRejoicing of mine heart. <\/p>\n
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\nAll we say, we’re people of the
\nbook, and very often you’ll hear<\/p>\n
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\nat lectures, in introductions to
\nour lectures that <\/p>\n
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\nChristadelphians are a group of
\nBible students. <\/p>\n
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\nAren’t we, brother and sisters?
\nHave we got that spirit? <\/p>\n
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\nThe word of Yahweh was unto me
\nthe joy and rejoicing of mine <\/p>\n
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\nheart.
\nWhere do we? <\/p>\n
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\nSpend our time That’ll tell us
\nwhether it’s the joy and <\/p>\n
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\nrejoicing of our heart.
\nWhat we’re thinking about day by<\/p>\n
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\nday will tell us whether it’s
\nthe rejoicing. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd thinking of our hearts, but
\nit was to him and when he found.<\/p>\n
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\nIt he ate it up.
\nBut you know why he was so <\/p>\n
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\nexcited?
\nWell, look at the last part of <\/p>\n
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\nthat verse.
\nFor I am called by thy name, O <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh, Elohim of hosts.
\nHe saw himself as as being <\/p>\n
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\ncalled to be part of.
\nThat glorious throng in the <\/p>\n
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\nfuture when God will be
\nmanifested in a group of mighty <\/p>\n
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\nones in the earth.
\nHe’s been called and he saw <\/p>\n
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\nhimself there.
\nAnd anything that had to do with<\/p>\n
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\nYahweh’s purpose.
\nThat God had revealed had to <\/p>\n
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\ninterest him.
\nNo wonder God chose that man and<\/p>\n
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\nHe told him back in chapter 1
\nwhen he gave him his Commission <\/p>\n
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\nin his youth in verse.
\nSeven, he said to him. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Yahweh said unto me, Say
\nnot, I am a child, for thou <\/p>\n
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\nshalt go to all that I shall
\nsend thee, and whatsoever I <\/p>\n
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\ncommand thee, thou shalt speak.
\nBe not afraid of their faces, <\/p>\n
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\nfor I am with thee to deliver
\nthee, saith Yahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nThen Yahweh put forth his hand
\nand touched my mouth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Yahweh said unto me, Behold,
\nI have put my words in thy <\/p>\n
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\nmouth.
\nSee, I have this day set thee <\/p>\n
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\nover the nations and over the
\nkingdoms, to root out, to pull <\/p>\n
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\ndown, to destroy, to throw down,
\nto build and to plant. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat a Commission.
\nBut out of all that, there would<\/p>\n
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\nhave been one thing that stuck
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\nBe not afraid of their faces.
\nHe knew what the men of Judah <\/p>\n
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\nwere like.
\nHe knew how ungodly he’d seen <\/p>\n
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\nhis own father in.
\nTrepidation, no doubt, in the in<\/p>\n
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\nthe days of Manasseh.
\nThere were faces in Judah, <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren and sisters, make no
\nmistake about it, there were <\/p>\n
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\nfaces in Judah that you would be
\nafraid of with just ’cause. <\/p>\n
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\nThere were some awful.
\nFaces Zedekiah, the son of <\/p>\n
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\nChenaniah Pasha the priest.
\nCruel and ruthless men, ungodly <\/p>\n
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\nto the core.
\nThere was Jehoiakim, Josiah’s <\/p>\n
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\nson.
\nZedekiah They were faces to be <\/p>\n
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\nafraid of, but God said.
\nDon’t be afraid because I’m with<\/p>\n
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\nyou, Jeremiah.
\nI will be with you and I’ll put <\/p>\n
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\nmy words in your mouth and
\neverything that I tell you, <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ll speak.
\nBut you know, it also meant this<\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters and young
\npeople. <\/p>\n
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\nThen you would have to speak
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\nYou remember we were talking
\nthis afternoon about about <\/p>\n
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\nSamson.
\nAnd it was a. <\/p>\n
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\nDifferent issue altogether.
\nWhen it came face to face with <\/p>\n
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\nindividuals was different.
\nIt’s different when we get into <\/p>\n
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\nthe world face to face.
\nThat’s not a matter here of <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah’s Commission saying I
\ntaking Yahweh’s word and written<\/p>\n
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\ndown on a leaflet and poking it
\nin someone’s letter letterbox <\/p>\n
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\nand moving on or or writing a
\nletter and saying now you should<\/p>\n
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\ndo this and Yahweh says this.
\nHis mission was. <\/p>\n
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\nPersonal He had to go up and
\nfront people to their face and <\/p>\n
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\ntell them what Yahweh said, and
\nit was to hostile men, ungodly <\/p>\n
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\nmen, people who didn’t want to
\nhear what Yahweh thought and <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t want to hear what he
\nthought, and as soon as any <\/p>\n
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\nrestriction.
\nWas out of the way. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’d knock him to the ground.
\nWell, there we get an insight, <\/p>\n
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\nbrethren and sisters, to the.
\nDrama of jeremiah’s life he was <\/p>\n
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\ntorn apart by his allegiance and
\nobedience and tested to the <\/p>\n
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\nvery.
\nLimit by the work that Yahweh <\/p>\n
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\nhad asked him to do.
\nTo be a. <\/p>\n
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\nWitness in the midst of the
\nnation for godliness, and if <\/p>\n
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\never there was a young man under
\nextreme pressure, pressure that <\/p>\n
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\nwas brought about just because
\nhe believed the truth, here it <\/p>\n
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\nis.
\nPressure to conform, pressure to<\/p>\n
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\ndeny the truth.
\nTo give up a godly. <\/p>\n
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\nLife pressure from ungodly men,
\nfrom unprincipled, hostile men, <\/p>\n
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\nfrom immoral men.
\nAnd Jeremiah lays his. <\/p>\n
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\nSoul bare In his prophecy it’s
\nmore. <\/p>\n
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\nThan just a series.
\nOf projections into the future, <\/p>\n
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\nJeremiah’s prophecy has got very
\nmany personal insights into the <\/p>\n
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\ncharacter of this man.
\nBut look at verse 8 which we <\/p>\n
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\njust looked at.
\nBe not afraid of their faces. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s picked up again.
\nIn in verse 17, a little further<\/p>\n
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\non in the chapter, when God says
\nin summing up what his mission <\/p>\n
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\nwas.
\nThou will therefore gird up thy <\/p>\n
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\nloins, and arise and speak unto
\nthem all that I command thee, <\/p>\n
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\nand be not dismayed at their
\nfaces. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s repeated again, lest I
\nconfound thee before them. <\/p>\n
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\nFor behold, I have made thee
\nthis day at a fenced city, in an<\/p>\n
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\niron pillar and brazen walls
\nagainst the whole land of <\/p>\n
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\nagainst the whole land.
\nNow you think of these words, I <\/p>\n
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\nwant you to remember them
\nbecause we’re going to come. <\/p>\n
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\nBack to them again a little
\nlater tonight. <\/p>\n
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\nIs to be an iron pillar of
\nbrazen walls against the whole <\/p>\n
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\nland, against the kings, against
\nthe Princess, against the <\/p>\n
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\npriests, and against the people.
\nFrom the very, very top of <\/p>\n
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\nsociety to the very bottom.
\nEveryone’s going to be against <\/p>\n
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\nhim.
\nHow would you like that laid <\/p>\n
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\nupon your shoulders at the age
\nof 20? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd goes continues Yahweh.
\nAnd they shall fight against <\/p>\n
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\nyou, Jeremiah, but they shall
\nnot. <\/p>\n
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\nPrevail, for I am with thee to
\ndeliver. <\/p>\n
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\nThem are there’s.
\nConsolation in that is there <\/p>\n
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\nnot, brethren, sisters,
\nconsolation on which Jeremiah <\/p>\n
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\nrested very heavily in later
\nlife? <\/p>\n
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\nBut faith is no academic matter.
\nJeremiah’s told to not worry or <\/p>\n
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\nbe deflected by what he saw,
\nwhat he felt, what he heard, but<\/p>\n
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\njust to remember the promise.
\nAnd there’s enormous faith <\/p>\n
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\nrequired for that.
\nThat’s faith against all odds to<\/p>\n
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\nmaintain a line and to.
\nStick with it. <\/p>\n
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\nDespite what people are saying,
\ndespite what they’re doing, <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s the sort of faith that
\nendures. <\/p>\n
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\nTo the end and to the end, he
\nendured. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 3 It came, the word of
\nYahweh came in the days of <\/p>\n
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\nJehoiah Kim, the son of Josiah
\nthe king of Judah, unto the end <\/p>\n
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\nof the 11th year of Zedekiah the
\nson of Josiah, unto the carrying<\/p>\n
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\naway carrying away of Jerusalem
\ncaptive. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the 5th month this.
\nWas not just to be a five day <\/p>\n
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\nwonder for more than 40 years.
\nFor more than 40 years, Jeremiah<\/p>\n
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\nface to face was to bear the
\nopposition, which came because <\/p>\n
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\nhe stood up for truth.
\nGod wanted to in fact, a. <\/p>\n
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\nSingle.
\nConsistent and faithful witness <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the turbulent period of
\nthe death throw of Judah’s <\/p>\n
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\nKingdom.
\nAnd in Jeremiah he found such a <\/p>\n
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\nman, And Jeremiah entered, as we
\nsaid, a minute. <\/p>\n
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\nAgo, on to the scene.
\nAs a young man in the early time<\/p>\n
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\nof Josiah’s reforms, he was no
\ndoubt attracted to this man, to <\/p>\n
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\nthis king.
\nAnd felt keenly he was of the <\/p>\n
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\npriestly family and would have
\nhad much to do with what <\/p>\n
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\nhappened in Jerusalem.
\nBeen in very close contact and <\/p>\n
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\nit’s.
\nHighly likely that his father <\/p>\n
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\nHilkiah was influential anyway
\nin the court of Josiah and had <\/p>\n
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\nsome quite important input into
\nhim and the direction of his <\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nAnd so it’s likely that there <\/p>\n
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\nwas a very close relationship
\neven in boyhood between these <\/p>\n
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\ntwo.
\nBut as soon as Josiah’s reform <\/p>\n
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\ngot going, it’s evident that
\nJeremiah got swung his. <\/p>\n
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\nWhole weight right behind it and
\nthe early chapters of his. <\/p>\n
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\nProphecy and through.
\nAt least to chapter 6 and maybe <\/p>\n
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\na little further than that are
\nset in the times of Josiah. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we find that he denounced
\nthe people and warned them and <\/p>\n
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\nexposed the sins of the nation.
\nAs Josiah went around and <\/p>\n
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\nsmashed the idols and tried to
\nreform the people and and to put<\/p>\n
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\nthe worship of Yahweh in place.
\nSo Jeremiah was coming along <\/p>\n
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\nbehind and encouraging the
\npeople. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the streets.
\nIn their houses, wherever they <\/p>\n
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\nmet, wherever they were,
\nJeremiah was there to tell them,<\/p>\n
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\nand Josiah was there too.
\nYou know, Josiah didn’t sit on <\/p>\n
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\nhis throne and give orders.
\nHe moved. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom one end of the land to the
\nother. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd imagine, you can imagine a
\nbond forming between this young <\/p>\n
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\nking and the young prophet in
\ntheir early 20s. <\/p>\n
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\nThey both had an intense hatred
\nfor the iniquity which had swept<\/p>\n
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\nthe nation and had brought it,
\nbrought it to its knees. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they both had a desire, an
\nintense desire for what was <\/p>\n
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\nright.
\nAnd true and godly and honest. <\/p>\n
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\nThey had an enthusiasm and
\noptimism. <\/p>\n
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\nBoth of them.
\nTo bring the nation finally back<\/p>\n
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\nto God and they.
\nNever, ever lived up. <\/p>\n
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\nThrough all their life trying to
\ndo do that, they had boundless <\/p>\n
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\nenergy, commitment, commitment,
\nyoung people to A cause. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they both had their lives in
\norder at 16, you know, and <\/p>\n
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\naround Josiah and hence Jeremiah
\ngathered. <\/p>\n
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\nA group of remarkable, there’s
\nno other word for it, remarkable<\/p>\n
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\nyoung godly men.
\nThere was Zedekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nSorry, Zephaniah, who was
\nJosiah’s cousin? <\/p>\n
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\nProbably Habakkuk was.
\nYoung at this time. <\/p>\n
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\nThere is a.
\nHiacam the the son of Shaphan <\/p>\n
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\nwho we read about in the
\nprophecy itself. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was Bayrak.
\nAnd a little later. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was Ezekiel.
\nThere was Daniel. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was Daniel’s friends,
\nthere was Mordecai. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s not to mention some of <\/p>\n
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\nthose.
\nWho were a little. <\/p>\n
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\nOlder like Holder the prophetess
\nand Schaffen and Hilkiah and the<\/p>\n
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\nRacobites and Uriah the Prophet
\nthere were. <\/p>\n
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\nQuite a significant number who
\nemerged with faithful hearts to <\/p>\n
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\nsupport Josiah.
\nAnd to get. <\/p>\n
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\nBehind jeremiah’s call to the
\nnation to reform young. <\/p>\n
336
\n00:24:32,360 –> 00:24:37,960
\nPeople, let’s stop.
\nFor a moment, in youth, young <\/p>\n
337
\n00:24:37,960 –> 00:24:43,320
\npeople can have an enormous
\neffect not only on their peers, <\/p>\n
338
\n00:24:44,840 –> 00:24:47,800
\nbut on older brethren and
\nsisters as well. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:24:48,160 –> 00:24:53,680
\nWhen there is enthusiasm and
\nzeal and a godly spirit. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:24:55,120 –> 00:24:59,600
\nAnd here we have a young king in
\nhis early 20s and a young <\/p>\n
341
\n00:24:59,600 –> 00:25:03,120
\nprophet in his early 20s, and
\nthey’re going about trying to <\/p>\n
342
\n00:25:03,120 –> 00:25:06,280
\nreform the nation.
\nAnd we know very well that they <\/p>\n
343
\n00:25:06,280 –> 00:25:10,280
\ndidn’t ever succeed in doing
\nthat totally on the outward <\/p>\n
344
\n00:25:10,280 –> 00:25:12,800
\nappearance.
\nIt appeared that the nation had <\/p>\n
345
\n00:25:12,800 –> 00:25:16,160
\nturned.
\nEverybody was doing exactly what<\/p>\n
346
\n00:25:16,160 –> 00:25:20,720
\nJosiah wanted, but it was
\nfaintedly they hadn’t affected <\/p>\n
347
\n00:25:20,720 –> 00:25:23,800
\nthe hearts because for
\ncenturies. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:25:24,520 –> 00:25:31,040
\nSin had eaten away the vitals of
\nthat nation and the people just <\/p>\n
349
\n00:25:31,040 –> 00:25:38,120
\ngravitated back to those things.
\nBut that enthusiasm of Josiah <\/p>\n
350
\n00:25:38,120 –> 00:25:43,200
\nand Jeremiah, which was
\ncontagious, developed around <\/p>\n
351
\n00:25:43,200 –> 00:25:50,240
\nthem some very precious gems who
\nwere inspired by Jeremiah and <\/p>\n
352
\n00:25:50,240 –> 00:25:54,280
\nJosiah particularly.
\nAnd they in turn encouraged the <\/p>\n
353
\n00:25:54,280 –> 00:25:59,560
\nreforms and Josiah’s great work
\nto go forward, encouraged him to<\/p>\n
354
\n00:25:59,560 –> 00:26:01,160
\nmove forward, to do exactly
\nthat. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:26:01,480 –> 00:26:03,440
\nAnd though there was
\ndisappointment during the <\/p>\n
356
\n00:26:03,440 –> 00:26:05,360
\nreforms, they didn’t.
\nGet up, give up. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:26:05,360 –> 00:26:08,480
\nYou have a look at chapter 5 and
\nat verse one. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:26:10,360 –> 00:26:12,920
\nAnd here’s what Jeremiah says
\nhere. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:26:12,920 –> 00:26:23,160
\nAnd during the time of Josiah,
\nJosiah’s reforms, God says, run <\/p>\n
360
\n00:26:23,160 –> 00:26:25,640
\nye to and fro through the
\nstreets of Jerusalem and see now<\/p>\n
361
\n00:26:25,640 –> 00:26:27,800
\nknown.
\nSeek in the broad places thereof<\/p>\n
362
\n00:26:28,080 –> 00:26:30,960
\nif you can.
\nFind a man, if there be any <\/p>\n
363
\n00:26:30,960 –> 00:26:33,760
\nthat.
\nExecute judgement that seeketh <\/p>\n
364
\n00:26:33,760 –> 00:26:42,200
\ntruth, and I will pardon it.
\nAnd Jeremiah and Josiah <\/p>\n
365
\n00:26:43,720 –> 00:26:46,160
\ntragically knew the truth of
\nthat. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:26:47,840 –> 00:26:52,920
\nThey knew they could run through
\nall the streets of Jerusalem and<\/p>\n
367
\n00:26:52,920 –> 00:26:56,320
\nthey wouldn’t find any who
\nsought truth. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:26:57,240 –> 00:26:59,800
\nDespite the fact that they all
\nlooked as though they were doing<\/p>\n
369
\n00:26:59,800 –> 00:27:03,760
\nthe right thing in the.
\nHearts things had not changed. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:27:04,680 –> 00:27:06,800
\nVerse 2 and though they say
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:27:06,800 –> 00:27:09,320
\nLiveth.
\nSurely, he says, they swear. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:27:09,320 –> 00:27:14,520
\nFalsely, O Yahweh, are not thine
\neyes upon the truth. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:27:15,680 –> 00:27:18,360
\nThou hast stricken them that
\nthey have not grieved. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:27:18,360 –> 00:27:20,000
\nThou hast consumed them, but
\nthey have. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:27:20,000 –> 00:27:23,160
\nRefused to receive.
\nCorrection, they have made their<\/p>\n
376
\n00:27:23,160 –> 00:27:24,960
\nfaces.
\nHarder than rock, they have <\/p>\n
377
\n00:27:24,960 –> 00:27:28,400
\nrefused to reform.
\nAnd you can feel the spirit of <\/p>\n
378
\n00:27:28,400 –> 00:27:31,520
\nthis man who wanted to change
\nthe nation had tried. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:27:31,920 –> 00:27:35,600
\nFor as long as he could with
\nJosiah and the other faithfuls <\/p>\n
380
\n00:27:35,600 –> 00:27:38,280
\nwho supported him to turn that
\nnation around. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:27:38,800 –> 00:27:42,360
\nAnd and all they met.
\nWith was outward external <\/p>\n
382
\n00:27:42,360 –> 00:27:45,320
\nchange.
\nNothing changed inside. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:27:45,840 –> 00:27:50,520
\nBut they never gave up.
\nAnd for 19 years, Josiah pushed <\/p>\n
384
\n00:27:50,520 –> 00:27:54,240
\nforward resolutely with the
\nsupport of Jeremiah and others. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:27:55,280 –> 00:27:58,600
\nBut you know, brothers and
\nsisters, it was Jeremiah and not<\/p>\n
386
\n00:27:58,640 –> 00:28:02,280
\nJosiah that bore the brunt of
\nwhat was happening at the <\/p>\n
387
\n00:28:02,280 –> 00:28:03,320
\ncoalface.
\nWhat? <\/p>\n
388
\n00:28:03,320 –> 00:28:06,240
\nWas happening down there in the.
\nStreets and in the houses of <\/p>\n
389
\n00:28:06,240 –> 00:28:11,680
\nJerusalem and all the cities
\nacross Judah, there was, there <\/p>\n
390
\n00:28:11,680 –> 00:28:15,120
\nreally, certainly still was
\nostracism and barbed words and <\/p>\n
391
\n00:28:15,120 –> 00:28:19,080
\nhateful looks and threats.
\nAnd Josiah didn’t receive those.<\/p>\n
392
\n00:28:19,080 –> 00:28:23,280
\nHe was the king, and if anyone
\ndared speak against the worship <\/p>\n
393
\n00:28:23,280 –> 00:28:26,640
\nof Yahweh in his presence, he
\ndealt with them. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:28:28,520 –> 00:28:31,560
\nAnd the people knew that.
\nBut they could say what they <\/p>\n
395
\n00:28:31,600 –> 00:28:36,080
\nliked to Jeremiah.
\nThey could say what they felt <\/p>\n
396
\n00:28:36,720 –> 00:28:39,560
\ncouldn’t touch him because they
\nknew he was the King’s friend. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:28:39,560 –> 00:28:44,960
\nAnd in some ways, Jeremiah’s
\ntask, though subordinate to <\/p>\n
398
\n00:28:44,960 –> 00:28:48,440
\nJosiah’s in the reforms, was
\nmuch more difficult. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:28:49,400 –> 00:28:53,200
\nDon’t be afraid of their faces,
\nsaid Yahweh. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:28:54,440 –> 00:28:56,600
\nTheir faces were something to be
\nafraid of. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:28:58,040 –> 00:29:06,240
\nHe had to meet them face to face
\nand take it on the cheek just <\/p>\n
402
\n00:29:06,280 –> 00:29:10,560
\nbecause he stood up for what God
\nsaid was right. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:29:13,080 –> 00:29:14,680
\nAnd he believed that God was
\nright. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:29:14,680 –> 00:29:17,040
\nAnd that’s.
\nWhy he took it and if we <\/p>\n
405
\n00:29:17,040 –> 00:29:20,440
\nprepared young people and
\nbrothers and sisters to stand up<\/p>\n
406
\n00:29:20,480 –> 00:29:24,360
\nand to.
\nSpeak what we know is right, not<\/p>\n
407
\n00:29:24,400 –> 00:29:28,560
\narrogantly.
\nThere will inevitably be <\/p>\n
408
\n00:29:28,640 –> 00:29:31,200
\nridicule.
\nInevitably be ridicule. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:29:31,200 –> 00:29:36,200
\nAs Jesus said, if the world
\nhates you, you know that it <\/p>\n
410
\n00:29:36,200 –> 00:29:38,760
\nhated.
\nMe before it hated you if. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:29:38,760 –> 00:29:41,960
\nYou were of the world.
\nThe world would love you. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:29:43,120 –> 00:29:44,720
\nBut because you’re not of the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:29:45,760 –> 00:29:48,040
\nAnd because.
\nI have chosen you, he said. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:29:49,520 –> 00:29:53,920
\nThe world hates you, and we feel
\nthat at times, don’t we? <\/p>\n
415
\n00:29:54,760 –> 00:29:59,240
\nWhen we’ve got the courage to
\nsay what we think, we feel like <\/p>\n
416
\n00:29:59,240 –> 00:30:03,280
\nJeremiah.
\nPerhaps not the intensity, but <\/p>\n
417
\n00:30:03,280 –> 00:30:04,600
\nwe feel it.
\nPerhaps we. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:30:04,800 –> 00:30:06,800
\nOught to feel.
\nThe intensity of it a little <\/p>\n
419
\n00:30:06,800 –> 00:30:10,000
\nmore.
\nBut we ought never. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:30:10,000 –> 00:30:13,280
\nYoung people to be afraid of
\ntheir faces, of the faces of <\/p>\n
421
\n00:30:13,280 –> 00:30:20,000
\nyour school mates or those at
\nwork never be afraid of. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:30:20,240 –> 00:30:25,640
\nWhat they think.
\nIt’s very real these days, <\/p>\n
423
\n00:30:25,640 –> 00:30:31,680
\nparents in schools, our young
\npeople face a very real <\/p>\n
424
\n00:30:31,680 –> 00:30:37,720
\nchallenge, a very real challenge
\namongst a generation that I <\/p>\n
425
\n00:30:37,720 –> 00:30:45,760
\nwould call a moral.
\nThey have no morals in general. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:30:48,240 –> 00:30:51,480
\nThere are many growing up,
\ncoming into their teens these <\/p>\n
427
\n00:30:51,480 –> 00:30:57,720
\ndays who would not have really
\nheard anything about biblical <\/p>\n
428
\n00:30:57,720 –> 00:31:00,480
\nmorality at all.
\nAnd our young people are <\/p>\n
429
\n00:31:00,480 –> 00:31:07,920
\nstanding against that.
\nStand up and say what’s right. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:31:09,440 –> 00:31:16,880
\nAnd don’t be afraid of their
\nfaces, because God is true. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:31:17,800 –> 00:31:20,760
\nHe is alive and He is.
\nStill working. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:31:20,920 –> 00:31:22,720
\nAnd Jeremiah had to hang on
\nthat. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:31:23,040 –> 00:31:26,000
\nHe had to believe with all his
\nmight and keep on reminding <\/p>\n
434
\n00:31:26,000 –> 00:31:28,360
\nhimself and go back to the
\npromises and remember. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:31:28,360 –> 00:31:33,960
\nWhat God had said to him.
\nAnd for 19 years, he went on and<\/p>\n
436
\n00:31:33,960 –> 00:31:40,600
\non trying to turn that nation.
\nAnd in the 31st year. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:31:41,000 –> 00:31:46,760
\nOf Josiah when Jeremiah was in
\nhis 30s things. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:31:46,760 –> 00:31:50,680
\nTook a dramatic turn.
\nJudah was plunged into war <\/p>\n
439
\n00:31:50,680 –> 00:31:55,280
\novernight, and Josiah.
\nFoolishly meddled in a conflict.<\/p>\n
440
\n00:31:55,280 –> 00:31:58,880
\nOf the superpowers and was Lot
\nand was shot and killed, and <\/p>\n
441
\n00:31:58,880 –> 00:32:01,200
\novernight the face of the nation
\nchanged. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:04,920
\nThe facade was lifted instantly,
\nthe true character of the people<\/p>\n
443
\n00:32:04,920 –> 00:32:09,640
\nwere revealed, and there began A
\ndownward run that gained <\/p>\n
444
\n00:32:09,640 –> 00:32:13,080
\nmomentum from that time until
\nNebuchadnezzar finally. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:32:13,080 –> 00:32:16,440
\nPut the knife through the heart
\nof Judah and stopped its beating<\/p>\n
446
\n00:32:16,440 –> 00:32:24,440
\nheart.
\nBut Jeremiah, above all of <\/p>\n
447
\n00:32:24,480 –> 00:32:30,200
\nJosiah’s companions, felt that
\nloss more keenly than anyone <\/p>\n
448
\n00:32:30,200 –> 00:32:33,360
\nelse.
\nFor 19 years, he’d laboured <\/p>\n
449
\n00:32:33,360 –> 00:32:36,840
\nalongside that man from their
\nteens. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:32:37,040 –> 00:32:38,280
\nThey had worked.
\nTogether they. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:32:38,720 –> 00:32:41,920
\n‘D traversed the lengths, length
\nand breadth of the land together<\/p>\n
452
\n00:32:42,240 –> 00:32:44,720
\nto try and turn the people and
\ncleanse it from idols. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:32:44,920 –> 00:32:47,040
\nThey’d appealed to the people’s
\nhearts. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:32:48,160 –> 00:32:52,680
\nAll to no avail and now.
\nJeremiah’s inspiration, <\/p>\n
455
\n00:32:54,440 –> 00:32:59,920
\nJeremiah’s inspiration and the
\nnation’s inspiration has gone. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:33:01,240 –> 00:33:06,160
\nAnd he must have sat down and
\nwept and wept. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:33:07,680 –> 00:33:11,280
\nWhy did God take him at this
\ncritical stage? <\/p>\n
458
\n00:33:11,640 –> 00:33:13,480
\nLet’s come back to Second
\nChronicles. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:33:14,280 –> 00:33:19,360
\nJust feel for this man who had
\nvery few companions, who’d tried<\/p>\n
460
\n00:33:19,360 –> 00:33:23,040
\nso earnestly for so long and
\nthought that. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:33:23,360 –> 00:33:25,480
\nIn the end that they.
\nMight be getting there. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:33:25,480 –> 00:33:29,120
\nThey might be getting somewhere.
\nBut in Second of Chronicles <\/p>\n
463
\n00:33:29,120 –> 00:33:38,360
\nchapter 35 and in verse 24, his
\nservants, that is, Josiah’s <\/p>\n
464
\n00:33:38,360 –> 00:33:41,320
\nservants, therefore took him out
\nof the chariot, Second of <\/p>\n
465
\n00:33:41,320 –> 00:33:45,640
\nChronicles 3524, and put him in
\nthe second chariot that he had. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:33:45,640 –> 00:33:47,480
\nAnd they brought him to
\nJerusalem, and he died. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:33:48,080 –> 00:33:50,920
\nAnd they buried him in one of
\nthe sepulchres of his father’s. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:33:51,480 –> 00:33:55,880
\nAnd all Judah and Jerusalem
\nmourned for for Josiah. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:33:56,160 –> 00:33:59,480
\nIsn’t that interesting?
\nThe people really knew he was a <\/p>\n
470
\n00:33:59,480 –> 00:34:03,160
\nman of character and.
\nAll the city and all Judah <\/p>\n
471
\n00:34:03,560 –> 00:34:12,960
\nmourned for Josiah and Jeremiah.
\nVerse 25 lamented for Josiah. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:34:13,679 –> 00:34:15,360
\nAnd the word is different to
\nmourned. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:34:16,440 –> 00:34:19,560
\nIt really has the idea of
\nwriting a song and and repeating<\/p>\n
474
\n00:34:19,560 –> 00:34:26,000
\nit over and over again.
\nHe lamented for Josiah, and all <\/p>\n
475
\n00:34:26,000 –> 00:34:29,600
\nthe singing men and wing singing
\nwomen spake of Josiah and their <\/p>\n
476
\n00:34:29,600 –> 00:34:33,400
\nlamentation to this day, and
\nmade them an ordinance in <\/p>\n
477
\n00:34:33,400 –> 00:34:36,080
\nIsrael, and behold.
\nThey’re written in the <\/p>\n
478
\n00:34:36,080 –> 00:34:40,320
\nlamentations.
\nThat lamentation of that day is <\/p>\n
479
\n00:34:40,320 –> 00:34:45,280
\nlikened to the one when Judah
\nand Israel will laments in grief<\/p>\n
480
\n00:34:45,639 –> 00:34:49,520
\nwhen they realise they’ve slain
\nthe Messiah in the time that he <\/p>\n
481
\n00:34:49,520 –> 00:34:54,040
\nhas been revealed.
\nJeremiah’s grief was intense <\/p>\n
482
\n00:34:54,040 –> 00:34:56,280
\nindeed.
\nLet’s come to Lamentations <\/p>\n
483
\n00:34:56,280 –> 00:34:59,080
\nchapter 4.
\nLamentations was actually <\/p>\n
484
\n00:34:59,080 –> 00:35:03,400
\nwritten at the end of Jeremiah’s
\nlife, but in Lamentations <\/p>\n
485
\n00:35:03,400 –> 00:35:06,320
\nchapter.
\nFour, we find what he really <\/p>\n
486
\n00:35:06,320 –> 00:35:10,840
\nthought of this man and just
\nthink of this in the <\/p>\n
487
\n00:35:10,840 –> 00:35:18,280
\ncircumstances that he was in.
\nJust think about how Jeremiah <\/p>\n
488
\n00:35:18,360 –> 00:35:29,600
\nthought of Josiah verse 20.
\nThe breath of our nostrils, the <\/p>\n
489
\n00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:32,600
\nanointed of Yahweh was taken in
\ntheir pits. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:35:33,880 –> 00:35:39,560
\nOf whom we said, under his
\nshadow, we shall live. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:35:39,560 –> 00:35:43,520
\nAmong the nations what?
\nTragic words. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:35:44,920 –> 00:35:47,040
\nWhat?
\nPathos there is there, brethren <\/p>\n
493
\n00:35:47,040 –> 00:35:50,320
\nand sisters, the breath of our
\nnostrils. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:35:51,680 –> 00:35:55,360
\nThis man, to Jeremiah, was the
\nlife of the nation. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:35:55,720 –> 00:35:57,680
\nHe was the air that they
\nbreathed. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:35:57,680 –> 00:36:01,760
\nAnd when the air was gone, the
\nnation was dead. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:36:01,760 –> 00:36:04,760
\nAnd he knew it.
\nHe knew there was no hope, no <\/p>\n
498
\n00:36:05,600 –> 00:36:09,640
\nhope for his people anymore.
\nAnd he’s still alive. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:36:10,480 –> 00:36:12,080
\nHe’s still got Yahweh’s
\nCommission to. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:36:12,080 –> 00:36:15,400
\nSpeak to the people.
\nTo a rotting pulse because <\/p>\n
501
\n00:36:15,400 –> 00:36:18,440
\nthere’s no air left in it.
\nThat’s how Jeremiah saw that <\/p>\n
502
\n00:36:18,440 –> 00:36:24,240
\nnation, and he saw him as the
\ngreat protector under. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:36:24,440 –> 00:36:28,400
\nHis shadow we shall live.
\nAmong the the nations now in <\/p>\n
504
\n00:36:28,400 –> 00:36:33,120
\nJeremiah’s mind, brother and
\nsister Josiah was almost to the <\/p>\n
505
\n00:36:33,120 –> 00:36:38,520
\nstatus of God.
\nHe was the breath and the shadow<\/p>\n
506
\n00:36:38,520 –> 00:36:41,160
\nthat covered the nation and kept
\nthem alive. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:36:41,760 –> 00:36:46,480
\nTo whom could he now turn?
\nHe was his closest companion, <\/p>\n
508
\n00:36:46,680 –> 00:36:51,000
\nthe only one in the nation who
\nreally understood the. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:36:51,000 –> 00:36:55,160
\nDepth of his soul.
\nBut as if that wasn’t enough. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:36:55,720 –> 00:36:59,200
\nBrethren, sisters and young
\npeople, if that tragedy in his <\/p>\n
511
\n00:36:59,200 –> 00:37:03,560
\nlife wasn’t enough for him to
\nget over on Jeremiah, from that <\/p>\n
512
\n00:37:03,560 –> 00:37:06,600
\nday came the brunt.
\nOf an intense. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:37:06,920 –> 00:37:10,960
\nCampaign of hatred and venom
\nthat never ever never all of his<\/p>\n
514
\n00:37:11,000 –> 00:37:14,040
\nrest of his life.
\nYou see, while Geron, while <\/p>\n
515
\n00:37:14,040 –> 00:37:19,600
\nJosiah was alive, the opposition
\nwas restricted to threats and <\/p>\n
516
\n00:37:19,600 –> 00:37:23,560
\nverbal abuse.
\nBut now Josiah’s arm restraining<\/p>\n
517
\n00:37:23,560 –> 00:37:27,400
\narm was gone.
\nOut came all the barbs in full <\/p>\n
518
\n00:37:27,400 –> 00:37:31,120
\nforce the protection.
\nNow being gone, there was fury <\/p>\n
519
\n00:37:31,120 –> 00:37:34,120
\nunleashed against anyone who
\nwanted to speak in Yahweh’s <\/p>\n
520
\n00:37:34,120 –> 00:37:38,600
\nname.
\nAnd for 18 years, <\/p>\n
521
\n00:37:39,280 –> 00:37:42,800
\nunrighteousness had been
\nsuppressed, boiling in the midst<\/p>\n
522
\n00:37:42,800 –> 00:37:46,160
\nof the nation.
\nAnd on the day that Josiah. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:37:46,160 –> 00:37:48,680
\nWas buried and out of the way
\nand morning stopped. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:37:48,960 –> 00:37:52,720
\nIt flared like a Bush fire.
\nAll through the nation and now <\/p>\n
525
\n00:37:52,720 –> 00:37:56,520
\nJeremiah and the other prophets.
\nWere in grave physical danger <\/p>\n
526
\n00:37:56,520 –> 00:37:58,680
\nevery day of their life.
\nTheir lives. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:37:58,680 –> 00:38:02,200
\nHung in a balance.
\nThere was fear and uncertainty, <\/p>\n
528
\n00:38:02,480 –> 00:38:06,080
\nand it happened overnight when
\nhis mourning for his beloved <\/p>\n
529
\n00:38:06,080 –> 00:38:09,200
\nfriend.
\nBut he didn’t stop speaking. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:38:09,840 –> 00:38:13,760
\nHe rose up early and.
\nSpoke to them we find recorded <\/p>\n
531
\n00:38:13,880 –> 00:38:17,280
\nin his prophecy.
\nOh, but there’s a desperation <\/p>\n
532
\n00:38:17,280 –> 00:38:19,960
\nthat comes to his voice.
\nYou have a look at chapter 18 of<\/p>\n
533
\n00:38:19,960 –> 00:38:28,720
\nJeremiah, chapter 18, then verse
\n18, then they said Jeremiah 18 <\/p>\n
534
\n00:38:28,720 –> 00:38:33,080
\nand verse 18.
\nCome and let us devise devices <\/p>\n
535
\n00:38:33,080 –> 00:38:36,120
\nagainst Jeremiah, for the law
\nshall not. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:38:36,120 –> 00:38:38,080
\nPerish from the.
\nPriest, nor the counsel from the<\/p>\n
537
\n00:38:38,080 –> 00:38:42,920
\nwise, as Jeremiah is saying, nor
\nthe word from the prophet. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:38:43,080 –> 00:38:46,720
\nCome and let us smite him
\nMargin. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:38:47,160 –> 00:38:51,240
\nFor the tongue, because of what
\nhe’s saying. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:38:51,760 –> 00:38:54,000
\nAnd let us not give heed to his
\nwords. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:38:56,840 –> 00:39:01,400
\nAnd Jeremiah cries out, Give
\nheed unto me, O Yahweh, and <\/p>\n
542
\n00:39:01,400 –> 00:39:04,320
\nhearken to the voice of them
\nthat contend with me. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:39:05,120 –> 00:39:07,200
\nShall evil be recompensed for
\ngood? <\/p>\n
544
\n00:39:08,600 –> 00:39:11,280
\nFor they have digged a pit for
\nmy soul? <\/p>\n
545
\n00:39:12,120 –> 00:39:15,240
\nRemember.
\nThat I stood for thee to speak. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:39:15,240 –> 00:39:19,400
\nGood for them, and to turn away
\nthy wrath from them. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:39:20,280 –> 00:39:23,840
\nWas no good answering the people
\nand he turns to Yahweh. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:39:23,920 –> 00:39:25,800
\nHe’d only been speaking for
\ntheir good. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:39:26,440 –> 00:39:31,000
\nHe was only concerned about
\nsaving his brethren, and this is<\/p>\n
550
\n00:39:31,000 –> 00:39:36,800
\nwhat happened and it becomes a
\nmagnificent type of the <\/p>\n
551
\n00:39:36,800 –> 00:39:44,200
\nsufferings of Christ when those.
\nHe came to save, turned all the <\/p>\n
552
\n00:39:44,200 –> 00:39:49,400
\nvenom of their hatred on him,
\nand the pressure mounted. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:39:50,280 –> 00:39:53,280
\nEven further.
\nAnd got more vicious. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:39:54,120 –> 00:39:57,880
\nNow we may not experience.
\nThe physical persecution that <\/p>\n
555
\n00:39:57,880 –> 00:40:04,320
\nJeremiah underwent but at times
\nthe circumstances of our lives <\/p>\n
556
\n00:40:05,440 –> 00:40:09,440
\nare just as perplexing as the
\ncircumstances that Jeremiah <\/p>\n
557
\n00:40:09,440 –> 00:40:12,760
\nfound himself in.
\nWhen tragedy strikes, when <\/p>\n
558
\n00:40:13,120 –> 00:40:19,200
\npressures that we can’t cope
\nwith are brought upon us, often <\/p>\n
559
\n00:40:19,280 –> 00:40:22,560
\nfor.
\nNo reason of our own. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:40:23,480 –> 00:40:30,120
\nSometimes the pressures of life
\nare caused by our own folly or <\/p>\n
561
\n00:40:30,120 –> 00:40:33,800
\nour own sinfulness, but not in
\nJeremiah’s time. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:40:35,640 –> 00:40:38,840
\nAnd when trouble strikes in our
\nlives, sometimes, brethren and <\/p>\n
563
\n00:40:38,840 –> 00:40:42,680
\nsisters, it’s not deserved, it’s
\nbrought. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:40:42,680 –> 00:40:46,760
\nBy the hand of Yahweh, turn back
\na few pages to Chapter 15. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:40:47,840 –> 00:40:55,720
\nChapter 15.
\nAnd at verse 15, O Yahweh, he <\/p>\n
566
\n00:40:55,720 –> 00:40:59,400
\nsays, thou knowest Remember Me,
\nand visit me, and avenge me, of <\/p>\n
567
\n00:40:59,400 –> 00:41:03,000
\nrevenge me of my persecutors,
\nand take me not away in thy <\/p>\n
568
\n00:41:03,000 –> 00:41:07,040
\nlong-suffering, and know that
\nfor thy sake I have suffered <\/p>\n
569
\n00:41:07,040 –> 00:41:10,840
\nrebuke.
\nAnd here’s those words we read <\/p>\n
570
\n00:41:10,840 –> 00:41:12,560
\nearlier, for thy words were
\nfounded. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:41:12,560 –> 00:41:15,760
\nI did eat them, and it was the
\nrejoy and rejoicing of my heart.<\/p>\n
572
\n00:41:16,000 –> 00:41:20,520
\nVerse 17 And I sat not in the
\nassembly of the mockers, nor <\/p>\n
573
\n00:41:20,520 –> 00:41:24,880
\nrejoiced.
\nI sat alone because of thy hand,<\/p>\n
574
\n00:41:25,920 –> 00:41:27,280
\nfor thou hast.
\nMe. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:41:27,880 –> 00:41:31,040
\nWith indignation, because he’d
\ntaken and rejoiced at the word <\/p>\n
576
\n00:41:31,040 –> 00:41:35,040
\nof Yahweh, God had made him sit
\nalone. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:41:36,200 –> 00:41:39,120
\nVerse 18 Why is my pain
\nperpetual, and my wound <\/p>\n
578
\n00:41:39,120 –> 00:41:41,920
\nincurable, which refuseth to be
\nhealed? <\/p>\n
579
\n00:41:42,120 –> 00:41:45,440
\nWill thou be altogether unto me
\nas a lion, as waters that fail? <\/p>\n
580
\n00:41:46,280 –> 00:41:47,960
\nOh, look at the desperation
\nthere. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:41:48,920 –> 00:41:52,280
\nHe’s struggling to understand
\nthe severity of all that’s <\/p>\n
582
\n00:41:52,280 –> 00:41:56,120
\nhappening in his life, and he’s
\nstriving to understand pleading <\/p>\n
583
\n00:41:56,120 –> 00:41:58,640
\nwith Yahweh.
\nHe now had no one else to whom <\/p>\n
584
\n00:41:58,640 –> 00:42:01,960
\nhe could turn.
\nAnd he says, Therefore thus all <\/p>\n
585
\n00:42:01,960 –> 00:42:05,440
\nYahweh answers him in verse 19.
\nTherefore thus saith Yahweh, if <\/p>\n
586
\n00:42:05,440 –> 00:42:08,320
\nthou return, then I will bring
\nthee again, and thou shalt stand<\/p>\n
587
\n00:42:08,320 –> 00:42:10,600
\nbefore me.
\nAnd if thou take forth the <\/p>\n
588
\n00:42:10,600 –> 00:42:13,040
\nprecious from the vial, thou
\nshalt be as my mouth. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:42:13,920 –> 00:42:16,960
\nLet them return unto thee, but
\nreturn not unto them, and I’ll <\/p>\n
590
\n00:42:16,960 –> 00:42:20,360
\nmake thee as a fenced brazen
\nwool. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:42:20,400 –> 00:42:23,240
\nRemember those words and they
\nshall. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:42:23,240 –> 00:42:25,760
\nFight against thee, but they
\nshall not prevail, for I am with<\/p>\n
593
\n00:42:25,760 –> 00:42:28,200
\nthee to deliver thee.
\nAnd so the original. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:42:28,200 –> 00:42:31,720
\nCommission that he was given is
\nreiterated by God and he says, <\/p>\n
595
\n00:42:31,720 –> 00:42:34,640
\nJeremiah, yes, I know all that.
\nI’ve seen it all. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:42:35,440 –> 00:42:40,080
\nI’ve seen it all, Jeremiah.
\nBut not just yet. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:42:41,040 –> 00:42:44,000
\nJust.
\nKeep on telling them, Jeremiah, <\/p>\n
598
\n00:42:45,120 –> 00:42:49,240
\nthe time for the end is not yet,
\nand as Brother Robert Roberts <\/p>\n
599
\n00:42:49,240 –> 00:42:54,400
\nonce said, we are being prepared
\nunder the hand of Yahweh, day by<\/p>\n
600
\n00:42:54,400 –> 00:43:02,400
\nday, by evil and delay, and
\nJeremiah felt both of. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:43:02,680 –> 00:43:07,160
\nUs and felt the influences of an
\nevil generation. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:43:07,800 –> 00:43:09,240
\nThat.
\nPressed hard. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:43:09,680 –> 00:43:14,640
\nAnd the delay at Yahweh acting
\nand moving to alleviate that <\/p>\n
604
\n00:43:14,640 –> 00:43:15,920
\nsuffering.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
605
\n00:43:15,920 –> 00:43:19,440
\nDid he let it keep on going?
\nLet’s turn over to chapter 20, <\/p>\n
606
\n00:43:22,520 –> 00:43:25,440
\nverse one.
\nThis is in the days of <\/p>\n
607
\n00:43:25,720 –> 00:43:32,520
\nJehoiakim, now Pasha, the son of
\nIMA, the priest who was the <\/p>\n
608
\n00:43:32,520 –> 00:43:34,240
\nchief governor of the House of
\nYahweh. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:43:34,400 –> 00:43:38,920
\nHow he got to be where he.
\nDid no one knows heard that <\/p>\n
610
\n00:43:38,920 –> 00:43:42,840
\nJeremiah prophesied these
\nthings, then Pasha. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:43:43,520 –> 00:43:46,160
\nScourged.
\nThe word should be. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:43:46,160 –> 00:43:51,680
\nJeremiah the prophet and put him
\nin a dungeon not stocks that <\/p>\n
613
\n00:43:51,680 –> 00:43:57,240
\nwere in the high gate of
\nBenjamin Jeremiah experienced. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:43:57,240 –> 00:44:00,880
\nMore.
\nThan just a little verbal abuse.<\/p>\n
615
\n00:44:02,240 –> 00:44:05,040
\nAnd in verse 7, he cries out,
\ntrying to understand. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:44:05,360 –> 00:44:08,520
\nWhat’s happening to him?
\nOh Yahweh, he does deceive me, <\/p>\n
617
\n00:44:08,960 –> 00:44:12,960
\nand I was deceived.
\nThou art stronger than I and has<\/p>\n
618
\n00:44:12,960 –> 00:44:15,840
\nprevailed.
\nI am in derision daily, and <\/p>\n
619
\n00:44:15,840 –> 00:44:19,880
\neveryone mocketh me.
\nOh, what an amazing verse that <\/p>\n
620
\n00:44:19,880 –> 00:44:23,040
\nis, brethren and sisters.
\nGoing through these intense <\/p>\n
621
\n00:44:23,040 –> 00:44:26,240
\ntrials, Jeremiah trying to come
\nto grips with all that God is <\/p>\n
622
\n00:44:26,240 –> 00:44:29,040
\ndoing in his life.
\nBut what a recognition it is <\/p>\n
623
\n00:44:29,040 –> 00:44:31,080
\nwhen he says.
\nYahweh though it’s. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:44:31,080 –> 00:44:35,080
\nStronger than me, he knew.
\nThat he had been convinced to go<\/p>\n
625
\n00:44:35,080 –> 00:44:37,840
\ninto the work of Yahweh because
\nhe knew it was right and Yahweh <\/p>\n
626
\n00:44:37,840 –> 00:44:42,640
\nhad convinced him, as the word
\nDeceived really means persuaded.<\/p>\n
627
\n00:44:42,840 –> 00:44:46,720
\nYahweh had persuaded him, and he
\nnow realized that Yahweh really <\/p>\n
628
\n00:44:46,720 –> 00:44:49,920
\nwas greater than him because he
\nhad been persuaded. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:44:49,920 –> 00:44:52,480
\nTo go into that work and now he
\nwas there and had to continue <\/p>\n
630
\n00:44:54,080 –> 00:44:55,920
\nand the pressure never let up.
\nDaily. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:44:55,920 –> 00:45:00,200
\nDid you notice verse 7 daily
\nit’s repeated in verse 8. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:45:00,200 –> 00:45:02,840
\nHe was on derision daily under
\nthe people. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:45:02,960 –> 00:45:06,200
\nEverybody not mocks him.
\nYou know, words are difficult to<\/p>\n
634
\n00:45:06,200 –> 00:45:08,720
\ntake, aren’t they?
\nAnd it’s it’s only natural for <\/p>\n
635
\n00:45:08,720 –> 00:45:14,200
\nus to be accepted by others.
\nBut every day, every day he was <\/p>\n
636
\n00:45:14,200 –> 00:45:16,080
\nin derision.
\nPeople never ever left him <\/p>\n
637
\n00:45:16,080 –> 00:45:20,520
\nalone.
\nThey cried verse 8 violence and <\/p>\n
638
\n00:45:20,520 –> 00:45:24,280
\nspoil and took it out on.
\nHim. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:45:25,840 –> 00:45:28,920
\nAnd he knew how to stop it.
\nHenry had to stop that <\/p>\n
640
\n00:45:28,920 –> 00:45:31,520
\npersecution.
\nAll he had to do was shut his <\/p>\n
641
\n00:45:31,520 –> 00:45:35,480
\nmouth.
\nVerse 9 Then I said, I will not <\/p>\n
642
\n00:45:35,480 –> 00:45:40,480
\nmake mention of him, nor speak
\nany more in his name, but his <\/p>\n
643
\n00:45:40,480 –> 00:45:45,960
\nword was in my heart as a
\nburning fire shut up in my <\/p>\n
644
\n00:45:45,960 –> 00:45:50,840
\nbones, and and I was.
\nWeary for holding it in and I <\/p>\n
645
\n00:45:50,840 –> 00:45:53,960
\ncould not.
\nBut he had to tell. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:45:54,400 –> 00:45:57,480
\nHe couldn’t hold it in.
\nHe couldn’t prevent. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:45:57,600 –> 00:45:59,680
\nThe word of Yahweh coming out of
\nhim it had. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:45:59,680 –> 00:46:01,640
\nConvicted him and youth and he
\nhad. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:46:01,640 –> 00:46:04,960
\nTo go forward, oh, what a
\ntremendous lesson there is in <\/p>\n
650
\n00:46:04,960 –> 00:46:07,080
\nthat.
\nNow, sometimes we do tend to <\/p>\n
651
\n00:46:07,080 –> 00:46:08,760
\nhold back, don’t we?
\nBrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:46:08,960 –> 00:46:11,080
\nBecause of the reactions that we
\nmight get. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:46:11,240 –> 00:46:13,280
\nOr what other?
\nPeople might think of us. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:46:13,800 –> 00:46:17,440
\nI wonder how many of us in our.
\nWorkplaces or our schools, our <\/p>\n
655
\n00:46:17,520 –> 00:46:21,920
\nassociates really do know.
\nWhat we think and what we are <\/p>\n
656
\n00:46:21,920 –> 00:46:25,720
\nreally.
\nLike or what we would like them <\/p>\n
657
\n00:46:25,720 –> 00:46:29,360
\nto think we really are like.
\nNow sometimes they know we’re <\/p>\n
658
\n00:46:29,360 –> 00:46:33,840
\ndifferent but don’t know why.
\nWell, tell them why. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:46:35,240 –> 00:46:39,200
\nJeremiah couldn’t hold it in.
\nHe didn’t do it arrogantly. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:46:39,520 –> 00:46:46,320
\nThere was a fire burning in his.
\nWell, tell them why. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:46:47,760 –> 00:46:51,680
\nJeremiah couldn’t hold it in.
\nHe didn’t do it arrogantly. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:46:52,040 –> 00:46:55,360
\nThere was a fire.
\nBurning in his bones, he knew <\/p>\n
663
\n00:46:55,360 –> 00:46:59,280
\nGod’s word was right and true.
\nIt was the only thing that could<\/p>\n
664
\n00:46:59,280 –> 00:47:01,880
\nsave anyone.
\nAnd we, above all people in the <\/p>\n
665
\n00:47:01,880 –> 00:47:04,440
\nface of the earth, have a
\nknowledge that can save people <\/p>\n
666
\n00:47:04,480 –> 00:47:09,960
\neternally, and we hold it in.
\nWhere’s? <\/p>\n
667
\n00:47:09,960 –> 00:47:14,720
\nJeremiah’s spirit, whosoever
\nsaid Christ. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:47:15,640 –> 00:47:20,360
\nWhosoever shall be ashamed of me
\nand of my words, think about <\/p>\n
669
\n00:47:20,360 –> 00:47:28,120
\nthat in this adulterous and
\nsinful generation, said Jesus of<\/p>\n
670
\n00:47:28,120 –> 00:47:30,440
\nhim.
\nAlso shall the Son of Man be <\/p>\n
671
\n00:47:30,440 –> 00:47:32,280
\nashamed when he cometh in the
\nglory of his angels. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:47:32,880 –> 00:47:37,720
\nIf in a sinful and adulterous
\ngeneration, we cannot say what’s<\/p>\n
673
\n00:47:37,760 –> 00:47:40,600
\nright, Christ.
\nWill have none of us. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:47:42,160 –> 00:47:44,360
\nThe truth’s not just ideas on
\npaper. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:47:44,560 –> 00:47:46,640
\nIt’s not just words, brethren,
\nassistance. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:47:46,640 –> 00:47:50,560
\nIt’s daily living.
\nIt’s a reality and people. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:47:50,560 –> 00:47:53,800
\nMust see it.
\nNot only in our lives, but hear <\/p>\n
678
\n00:47:53,800 –> 00:47:57,280
\nit from our mouths.
\nWhat a remarkable man we find <\/p>\n
679
\n00:47:57,280 –> 00:48:01,600
\nhere in verse 10.
\nFor I heard the defaming of many<\/p>\n
680
\n00:48:01,600 –> 00:48:04,560
\nfear on every side.
\nReports say they and I were. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:48:04,600 –> 00:48:07,560
\nWe will report it.
\nAll my familiars watched me for <\/p>\n
682
\n00:48:07,560 –> 00:48:11,600
\nmy halting saying, Peradventure
\nhe will be enticed, and we shall<\/p>\n
683
\n00:48:11,640 –> 00:48:14,960
\nprevail against him, and we will
\ntake our vengeance on him. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:48:16,080 –> 00:48:18,960
\nBut.
\nYahweh is with me as a mighty <\/p>\n
685
\n00:48:18,960 –> 00:48:21,320
\nand terrible.
\nI’m not the spirit of this man. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:48:21,520 –> 00:48:24,120
\nTherefore my persecutor shall
\nstumble, and they shall not <\/p>\n
687
\n00:48:24,120 –> 00:48:27,480
\nprevail.
\nThey shall be greatly ashamed, <\/p>\n
688
\n00:48:27,720 –> 00:48:28,760
\nfor they shall.
\nNot. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:48:28,760 –> 00:48:31,600
\nProsper.
\nTheir everlasting confusion <\/p>\n
690
\n00:48:31,600 –> 00:48:33,360
\nshall never be.
\nForgotten. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:48:34,280 –> 00:48:36,360
\nWhat an amazing individual he
\nwas. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:48:36,640 –> 00:48:39,320
\nAnd amidst the the hatred and
\nthe personal hurt. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:48:39,480 –> 00:48:42,160
\nHis mind focuses back on the
\npromises of Yahweh. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:48:42,360 –> 00:48:45,360
\nAnd he sees.
\nBeyond the the faces of these <\/p>\n
695
\n00:48:45,360 –> 00:48:48,000
\nmen, he’s not afraid of them
\nanymore. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:48:48,920 –> 00:48:50,760
\nHe sees to the end.
\nHe sees. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:48:50,760 –> 00:48:54,760
\nYahweh as a mighty and strong
\narm who’s more powerful than all<\/p>\n
698
\n00:48:54,760 –> 00:48:57,720
\nthose who were around him.
\nIn fact, his mind goes back. <\/p>\n
699
\n00:48:57,720 –> 00:49:01,800
\nDid you notice?
\nIn those words, Did you notice? <\/p>\n
700
\n00:49:03,320 –> 00:49:09,640
\nHis own references to the words
\nthat were spoken to him 20 years<\/p>\n
701
\n00:49:09,720 –> 00:49:14,840
\nbefore by Yahweh.
\nNow here’s another key. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:49:15,480 –> 00:49:20,680
\nWe’ve seen it already in the
\nlife of Joseph, something <\/p>\n
703
\n00:49:20,680 –> 00:49:26,080
\nembedded very firmly in youth.
\nYahweh’s ways in His principles <\/p>\n
704
\n00:49:26,080 –> 00:49:33,120
\nand His promises can be a
\ntremendous support to enable US <\/p>\n
705
\n00:49:33,120 –> 00:49:38,480
\nagainst all odds to hold on.
\nSee, just hold your hand down. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:49:38,480 –> 00:49:41,440
\nGo back to chapter 1 and verse
\n19. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:49:45,640 –> 00:49:48,600
\nNotice the similarity with those
\nwords we just read. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:49:50,640 –> 00:49:52,240
\nHe said they shall fight against
\nthee. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:49:52,240 –> 00:49:55,520
\nThey shall.
\nNot prevail, for I am with thee,<\/p>\n
710
\n00:49:55,520 –> 00:50:01,800
\nsaith Yahweh, to deliver thee.
\nAnd over here in when he speaks <\/p>\n
711
\n00:50:01,800 –> 00:50:06,840
\nto God in verse 11 of chapter
\n20, he recognizes Yahweh as a as<\/p>\n
712
\n00:50:06,840 –> 00:50:11,480
\na mighty and terrible one.
\nAnd they shall not prevail. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:50:11,480 –> 00:50:15,560
\nHe says, when did that come but
\nfrom his original promise that <\/p>\n
714
\n00:50:15,560 –> 00:50:17,880
\nGod had given him.
\nAnd they shall be greatly <\/p>\n
715
\n00:50:17,880 –> 00:50:20,160
\nashamed, and they shall not be
\nforgotten. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:50:21,040 –> 00:50:23,880
\nHis mind went back to the
\npromise that he’d been given. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:50:24,040 –> 00:50:26,560
\nAnd rehearsed that.
\nOften, he’d thought about it <\/p>\n
718
\n00:50:26,560 –> 00:50:28,880
\nevery day.
\nAnd it was necessary. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:50:28,880 –> 00:50:30,520
\nFor him to do that, and that’s
\nwhat. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:50:30,600 –> 00:50:34,680
\nFaith is all about.
\nIt’s that kind of faith, young <\/p>\n
721
\n00:50:34,680 –> 00:50:42,280
\npeople, that God is looking for
\nand it’s impossible to please <\/p>\n
722
\n00:50:42,280 –> 00:50:48,280
\nhim without it, to believe
\nagainst all on what he has said.<\/p>\n
723
\n00:50:50,880 –> 00:50:54,560
\nBut James, when writing to the
\nbelievers in the 1st century <\/p>\n
724
\n00:50:54,560 –> 00:51:00,360
\nsaid this.
\nHe said, Take my brethren, the <\/p>\n
725
\n00:51:00,360 –> 00:51:05,480
\nprophets, who have spoken in the
\nname of the Lord, for an example<\/p>\n
726
\n00:51:05,480 –> 00:51:09,120
\nof suffering, affliction, and of
\npatient endurance. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:51:09,440 –> 00:51:13,800
\nTake, my brethren, the.
\nProphets who’ve spoken in my <\/p>\n
728
\n00:51:13,800 –> 00:51:19,840
\nname, and who better could be
\nchosen but Jeremiah? <\/p>\n
729
\n00:51:20,720 –> 00:51:24,840
\nAs an example of suffering.
\nAffliction and of patient <\/p>\n
730
\n00:51:25,040 –> 00:51:27,960
\nendurance.
\nAnd when we get to. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:51:28,000 –> 00:51:31,640
\nThe end of Jeremiah’s life we.
\nWant to go there at the moment <\/p>\n
732
\n00:51:32,120 –> 00:51:42,870
\nto Lamentations Chapter 3.
\nHe’s not young now, he’s an old <\/p>\n
733
\n00:51:42,870 –> 00:51:50,790
\nman, but he looks back.
\nAnd let’s. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:51:50,790 –> 00:51:56,230
\nTake this man as an example as
\nJames says verse one. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:51:56,670 –> 00:52:00,960
\nOf Lamentations Chapter 3.
\nI am the man that hath seen <\/p>\n
736
\n00:52:00,960 –> 00:52:03,880
\naffliction.
\nBy the rod of his wrath He led <\/p>\n
737
\n00:52:03,880 –> 00:52:05,760
\nme.
\nHe He hath led me, and brought <\/p>\n
738
\n00:52:05,760 –> 00:52:07,600
\nme Into Darkness, but not into
\nlight. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:52:07,920 –> 00:52:12,760
\nSurely against me is He turned.
\nHe turns His hand against me all<\/p>\n
740
\n00:52:12,760 –> 00:52:15,200
\nthe day.
\nMy flesh and my skin hath He <\/p>\n
741
\n00:52:15,200 –> 00:52:17,560
\nmade old.
\nHe hath broken my bones. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:52:17,600 –> 00:52:19,880
\nWho’s the He?
\nNone other but Yahweh. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:52:20,080 –> 00:52:23,080
\nBut he realizes that Yahweh.
\nIt’s all Yahweh’s doing. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:52:23,080 –> 00:52:28,320
\nIt didn’t matter what men did to
\nhim, God was doing something in <\/p>\n
745
\n00:52:28,320 –> 00:52:32,080
\nhis life.
\nHe has builded against me. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:52:32,080 –> 00:52:35,160
\nHe’s compassed me with gall.
\nHe’s set me in a dark place. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:52:35,160 –> 00:52:39,560
\nHe’s hedged me about when I cry.
\nShuts out my prayer. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:52:39,720 –> 00:52:41,440
\nThis is how he felt all through
\nhis life. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:52:43,040 –> 00:52:46,080
\nHe thought that God had.
\nPut a lion in his path and <\/p>\n
750
\n00:52:46,080 –> 00:52:48,560
\nturned him away, and bent his
\narrow against him, and caused. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:52:48,560 –> 00:52:51,400
\nHim to to fall and stumble.
\nAll through his life read those <\/p>\n
752
\n00:52:51,400 –> 00:52:54,480
\nwords.
\nIt’s a terrible description of <\/p>\n
753
\n00:52:54,480 –> 00:52:57,480
\nhow he felt.
\nAt various times in his life. <\/p>\n
754
\n00:52:57,480 –> 00:53:02,240
\nBut come down to verse 20 and he
\nsays, My soul hath, hath them. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:53:02,240 –> 00:53:07,320
\nStill in remembrance and is
\nbowed down in me as the word <\/p>\n
756
\n00:53:07,320 –> 00:53:10,600
\nhumbled there means is bowed
\ndown as he thinks about. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:53:10,600 –> 00:53:14,200
\nAll the all the circumstances.
\nOf life that have rolled. <\/p>\n
758
\n00:53:14,200 –> 00:53:18,480
\nAcross him.
\nBut here’s the true Jeremiah in <\/p>\n
759
\n00:53:18,480 –> 00:53:21,200
\nverse 21.
\nThis, he says, I recall to mind,<\/p>\n
760
\n00:53:21,200 –> 00:53:26,120
\nand therefore have I hope.
\nOf Yahweh’s mercies that we are <\/p>\n
761
\n00:53:26,120 –> 00:53:29,360
\nnot consumed because his
\ncompassions fail not. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:53:29,920 –> 00:53:32,760
\nThey are new.
\nEvery morning, great. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:53:32,800 –> 00:53:38,240
\nIs thy faithfulness Yahweh is my
\nportion, saith my soul. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:53:38,960 –> 00:53:40,960
\nTherefore will I hope in.
\nHim. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:53:41,920 –> 00:53:46,240
\nWhat a tremendous spirit, though
\nhe felt like all the verses up <\/p>\n
766
\n00:53:46,240 –> 00:53:50,000
\nto verse 20 say.
\nYet he turns his mind and and <\/p>\n
767
\n00:53:50,000 –> 00:53:53,840
\nsaw through all of that the
\nreason why God was doing. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:53:53,960 –> 00:53:56,560
\nAnd there’s a.
\nKey to his survival through <\/p>\n
769
\n00:53:56,560 –> 00:53:58,000
\nvery.
\nTrying and difficult <\/p>\n
770
\n00:53:58,000 –> 00:53:59,800
\ncircumstances because he
\nrecalled. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:53:59,800 –> 00:54:03,400
\nTo mind things that he had
\nlearned in youth, that’s. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:54:03,400 –> 00:54:04,080
\nWhat?
\nHe recalled. <\/p>\n
773
\n00:54:04,080 –> 00:54:07,840
\nTo mind the ways and the
\ncharacter of Yahweh, the purpose<\/p>\n
774
\n00:54:07,840 –> 00:54:09,560
\nof Yahweh.
\nAnd he’d seen it in a man, <\/p>\n
775
\n00:54:09,560 –> 00:54:13,320
\nJosiah, and he’d seen it in some
\nfaithful brothers and ancestors <\/p>\n
776
\n00:54:13,320 –> 00:54:16,920
\nand listen to the words.
\nAnd it had lodged there. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:54:17,000 –> 00:54:20,960
\nAnd he thought about it, and the
\npower of faith grew and enabled <\/p>\n
778
\n00:54:20,960 –> 00:54:25,960
\nhim to endure a life of absolute
\ntragedy and agony. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:54:27,520 –> 00:54:32,520
\nThere was hardly a moment of
\nrejoicing unless he was <\/p>\n
780
\n00:54:32,520 –> 00:54:38,320
\nrejoicing in the purpose of God.
\nBut still it begs the question, <\/p>\n
781
\n00:54:39,640 –> 00:54:44,240
\nwhy?
\nWhy did? <\/p>\n
782
\n00:54:44,440 –> 00:54:51,920
\nGod do it to him.
\nWhy did God allow all that to <\/p>\n
783
\n00:54:51,920 –> 00:54:56,440
\nhappen to one man?
\nWhy not share that tragedy <\/p>\n
784
\n00:54:56,440 –> 00:54:58,120
\nbetween others?
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
785
\n00:54:58,320 –> 00:55:02,080
\nWhy?
\nIt’s a question that we all ask <\/p>\n
786
\n00:55:02,080 –> 00:55:05,160
\nin life, young or old.
\nYoung people, if you haven’t <\/p>\n
787
\n00:55:05,160 –> 00:55:09,040
\nasked that question, the days
\nare coming when you will, and <\/p>\n
788
\n00:55:09,040 –> 00:55:12,320
\nGod will put you through the
\nmill and you’ll feel like <\/p>\n
789
\n00:55:12,320 –> 00:55:16,440
\nJeremiah and you’ll say, my God,
\nare you doing this? <\/p>\n
790
\n00:55:17,000 –> 00:55:19,880
\nThat’s exactly how he felt,
\nexactly how he felt. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:55:20,800 –> 00:55:25,280
\nYou come to Romans chapter 8.
\nYoung people learn this <\/p>\n
792
\n00:55:25,280 –> 00:55:31,920
\nprinciple in youth.
\nRomans chapter 8 the apostle <\/p>\n
793
\n00:55:32,440 –> 00:55:39,160
\nbeautifully expounds a wonderful
\nprinciple that we all have to <\/p>\n
794
\n00:55:39,160 –> 00:55:41,800
\ncome to grips with.
\nIn verse 20 he says. <\/p>\n
795
\n00:55:42,520 –> 00:55:45,600
\nFor the whole.
\nCreation was made subject to <\/p>\n
796
\n00:55:45,600 –> 00:55:50,760
\nvanity, to emptiness,
\nfrustration, not willingly, but <\/p>\n
797
\n00:55:50,920 –> 00:55:54,920
\nby reason of him who hath
\nsubjected the same in hope, <\/p>\n
798
\n00:55:55,920 –> 00:55:57,800
\nbecause the creation itself.
\nShall also be. <\/p>\n
799
\n00:55:57,800 –> 00:56:01,240
\nDelivered from the bondage of
\ncorruption into the glorious <\/p>\n
800
\n00:56:01,240 –> 00:56:06,680
\nliberty of the children of God.
\nFor we know that the whole <\/p>\n
801
\n00:56:06,680 –> 00:56:10,120
\ncreation groaneth and travaileth
\nin pain together. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:56:10,840 –> 00:56:15,680
\nUntil now, what’s he saying?
\nThat God has put this <\/p>\n
803
\n00:56:15,680 –> 00:56:20,040
\ndispensational, made this
\ndispensation in which we live <\/p>\n
804
\n00:56:20,240 –> 00:56:23,720
\nbecause of sin?
\nHe’s made it subject to vanity <\/p>\n
805
\n00:56:23,720 –> 00:56:28,520
\nand frustration in order that we
\nmight lift our eyes and have <\/p>\n
806
\n00:56:28,520 –> 00:56:32,800
\nhope for something better.
\nThat’s what He’s done it for. <\/p>\n
807
\n00:56:32,800 –> 00:56:35,240
\nBrethren and sisters, it’s not
\nto punish us. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:56:36,360 –> 00:56:41,000
\nIt’s not to crush us, it’s to
\nmake us hope because we see <\/p>\n
809
\n00:56:41,000 –> 00:56:44,600
\nthere are higher, more eternal
\nprinciples involved. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:56:44,880 –> 00:56:48,120
\nGod is a moral creature.
\nHe’s everlasting and he wants us<\/p>\n
811
\n00:56:48,160 –> 00:56:55,600
\nto lift out and say yes, God, I
\nknow this is not all the bill <\/p>\n
812
\n00:56:55,600 –> 00:56:58,920
\nand end all of existence, but
\nthere is something greater and <\/p>\n
813
\n00:56:58,960 –> 00:57:01,920
\nI’ll wait for it.
\nThat’s what he’s done it for. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:57:02,120 –> 00:57:04,840
\nIt’s an imperfect state and
\nwe’re now going through the <\/p>\n
815
\n00:57:04,840 –> 00:57:06,320
\nbirth.
\nTangs. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:57:06,800 –> 00:57:08,640
\nIt’s the language of verse 22,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n
817
\n00:57:09,080 –> 00:57:12,880
\nFor birth pangs to bring forward
\na new creation. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:57:13,240 –> 00:57:16,040
\nHave you ever heard of a birth
\nthat wasn’t painful and <\/p>\n
819
\n00:57:16,040 –> 00:57:19,320
\nagonizing?
\nWell, this one that we’re in is <\/p>\n
820
\n00:57:19,320 –> 00:57:22,240
\ntoo.
\nAnd Jeremiah felt those pangs <\/p>\n
821
\n00:57:22,240 –> 00:57:24,600
\nkeenly.
\nLook at verse 24. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:57:25,000 –> 00:57:28,320
\nFor we are saved by hope, but
\nhope that is seen is not. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:57:28,320 –> 00:57:31,640
\nHope have you been, since it’s
\nnot hope. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:57:32,520 –> 00:57:35,560
\nFor what a man singeth.
\nWhy does he yet hope for? <\/p>\n
825
\n00:57:36,560 –> 00:57:40,920
\nBut if we hope for that we see
\nnot, then we we do with <\/p>\n
826
\n00:57:40,920 –> 00:57:43,920
\npatience, with patient
\nendurance. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:57:43,920 –> 00:57:48,440
\nIt’s the same word James used
\nwhen he was telling us to look <\/p>\n
828
\n00:57:48,440 –> 00:57:52,080
\nat the prophets.
\nOh, if there’s something coming <\/p>\n
829
\n00:57:52,080 –> 00:57:55,040
\nand we have to wait.
\nFor it, we will do it with <\/p>\n
830
\n00:57:55,040 –> 00:57:59,800
\npatience if we think it’s
\nworthwhile and God wants us to <\/p>\n
831
\n00:57:59,800 –> 00:58:02,480
\nlift our eyes and to look beyond
\nthe present. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:58:03,640 –> 00:58:08,400
\nJust come back to Lamentations
\nchapter 3 and look what Jeremiah<\/p>\n
833
\n00:58:08,400 –> 00:58:10,360
\ngoes on to say.
\nAnd look at the link. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:58:10,360 –> 00:58:13,840
\nThere is between that and Romans
\nchapter 8, Jeremiah, sorry, <\/p>\n
835
\n00:58:13,840 –> 00:58:17,920
\nLamentations chapter 3.
\nAnd I’d like you to keep for a <\/p>\n
836
\n00:58:17,920 –> 00:58:21,760
\nmoment something in a piece of
\npaper or something in <\/p>\n
837
\n00:58:21,760 –> 00:58:25,080
\nLamentations Chapter 3, because
\nwe’re going to have a look. <\/p>\n
838
\n00:58:25,120 –> 00:58:26,800
\nAt just a.
\nCouple of other references and <\/p>\n
839
\n00:58:26,800 –> 00:58:30,200
\ncome back here from in the next
\nfew minutes. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:58:33,320 –> 00:58:43,080
\nBut verse 25 says Yahweh is good
\nunto them that wait for him, to <\/p>\n
841
\n00:58:43,080 –> 00:58:46,760
\nthem that seek him, to the soul
\nthat seeketh him. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:58:47,400 –> 00:58:53,200
\nIt is good, he says for a man,
\nthat a man should both hope and <\/p>\n
843
\n00:58:53,200 –> 00:58:58,600
\nquietly wait for the salvation
\nof Yahweh. <\/p>\n
844
\n00:58:58,800 –> 00:59:02,680
\nHe’s come to understand at the
\nend of his life. <\/p>\n
845
\n00:59:03,720 –> 00:59:05,320
\nThough I.
\nBelieve in measure, he <\/p>\n
846
\n00:59:05,320 –> 00:59:08,840
\nunderstood at the beginning.
\nHe’s come to understand from. <\/p>\n
847
\n00:59:08,840 –> 00:59:13,720
\nExperience what God is doing.
\nIt’s good to. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:59:13,720 –> 00:59:18,640
\nWait for Yahweh.
\nYou know, make a note of this. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:59:18,640 –> 00:59:21,640
\nWe haven’t got time to turn to
\nit, but in James chapter 5, the <\/p>\n
850
\n00:59:21,640 –> 00:59:24,200
\nvery same place that he was
\ntalking about the prophets as <\/p>\n
851
\n00:59:24,200 –> 00:59:27,960
\nbeing an example in verse seven
\nand eight, he makes an analogy <\/p>\n
852
\n00:59:27,960 –> 00:59:32,600
\nand he says this.
\nHe says the reason that God is <\/p>\n
853
\n00:59:32,600 –> 00:59:38,760
\nmaking us wait is the same
\nreason that a husbandman waits <\/p>\n
854
\n00:59:38,800 –> 00:59:43,080
\nfor the former and the latter
\nrain, that it might bring forth <\/p>\n
855
\n00:59:43,080 –> 00:59:45,520
\nfruit.
\nSee, brothers and sisters, the <\/p>\n
856
\n00:59:45,520 –> 00:59:48,560
\nfather is.
\nWaiting, waiting, waiting. <\/p>\n
857
\n00:59:48,640 –> 00:59:50,040
\nAnd he’s making us.
\nWait for the. <\/p>\n
858
\n00:59:50,040 –> 00:59:54,200
\nDevelopment of fruit in our
\nlives, and he’s coming back. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:59:54,480 –> 00:59:58,720
\nTo see if that fruit is there.
\nOne day, Jeremiah came to the <\/p>\n
860
\n00:59:58,720 –> 01:00:00,920
\nsame conclusion that.
\nThe. <\/p>\n
861
\n01:00:00,920 –> 01:00:09,720
\nProcess of patient endurance in
\ngodliness develops the fruit of <\/p>\n
862
\n01:00:09,720 –> 01:00:13,000
\nthe Spirit.
\nIt develops character. <\/p>\n
863
\n01:00:13,320 –> 01:00:15,280
\nThat.
\nCould not otherwise be <\/p>\n
864
\n01:00:15,280 –> 01:00:18,160
\ndeveloped.
\nBut it’s only remember, look <\/p>\n
865
\n01:00:18,160 –> 01:00:22,080
\nwhat Jeremiah says here.
\nIt’s only verse 25 to the soul <\/p>\n
866
\n01:00:22,080 –> 01:00:24,560
\nthat seeks.
\nHim, all those things could <\/p>\n
867
\n01:00:24,560 –> 01:00:27,120
\nhappen to a man in the world and
\nit wouldn’t produce character, <\/p>\n
868
\n01:00:27,280 –> 01:00:30,840
\nit would produce bitterness, but
\nin the faithful that seeks him <\/p>\n
869
\n01:00:30,840 –> 01:00:35,040
\nit will produce.
\nQualities and characteristics <\/p>\n
870
\n01:00:35,680 –> 01:00:39,680
\nwhich he loves.
\nIt’s not a matter of waiting for<\/p>\n
871
\n01:00:39,680 –> 01:00:42,960
\nChrist and doing our own thing,
\nbut patient endurance. <\/p>\n
872
\n01:00:43,120 –> 01:00:46,400
\nBut you know, there’s another
\ndimension to patient endurance. <\/p>\n
873
\n01:00:46,640 –> 01:00:54,160
\nCome over to Romans chapter 5.
\nRomans chapter 5, verse one. <\/p>\n
874
\n01:01:01,030 –> 01:01:05,310
\nHe says we’re.
\nFor being justified by faith, we<\/p>\n
875
\n01:01:05,310 –> 01:01:09,400
\nhave Prince with God through our
\nLord Jesus Christ, by whom we <\/p>\n
876
\n01:01:09,400 –> 01:01:12,880
\nalso have access by faith into
\nthis grace wherein we stand and <\/p>\n
877
\n01:01:12,880 –> 01:01:14,760
\nrejoice in hope.
\nOf the glory of God. <\/p>\n
878
\n01:01:15,720 –> 01:01:22,080
\nAnd on our baptism.
\nThat is the truth justified by <\/p>\n
879
\n01:01:22,080 –> 01:01:27,680
\nfaith, peace with God, access by
\nfaith into the grace in prayer, <\/p>\n
880
\n01:01:28,280 –> 01:01:31,240
\nand we rejoice in hope of the
\nglory of God. <\/p>\n
881
\n01:01:33,480 –> 01:01:37,280
\nBut Paul didn’t stop there.
\nAnd. <\/p>\n
882
\n01:01:37,600 –> 01:01:46,240
\nNot only so he says, but we
\nglory, we rejoice in <\/p>\n
883
\n01:01:46,320 –> 01:01:52,720
\ntribulations, pressures.
\nThe word means knowing that <\/p>\n
884
\n01:01:52,800 –> 01:01:58,360
\nprecious work, patient endurance
\nand patient endurance works <\/p>\n
885
\n01:01:58,360 –> 01:02:01,640
\nexperience.
\nCharacter proof of <\/p>\n
886
\n01:02:01,640 –> 01:02:05,920
\ntrustworthiness and experience
\nproduces hope. <\/p>\n
887
\n01:02:06,560 –> 01:02:09,280
\nAnd the hope makes us not
\nashamed in the end. <\/p>\n
888
\n01:02:09,480 –> 01:02:12,560
\nThere’s a great process after
\nwe’re baptized that we have to <\/p>\n
889
\n01:02:12,560 –> 01:02:15,920
\ngo through, brethren, sisters,
\nbefore we’re really truly of <\/p>\n
890
\n01:02:15,920 –> 01:02:19,440
\nvalue to God, before we start
\nhoping in His. <\/p>\n
891
\n01:02:19,440 –> 01:02:24,560
\nMercy.
\nAnd here is the reality of daily<\/p>\n
892
\n01:02:24,560 –> 01:02:28,160
\nliving the truth.
\nNow that word patient endurance <\/p>\n
893
\n01:02:28,160 –> 01:02:32,560
\nthat was used by.
\nJames and is used here is a word<\/p>\n
894
\n01:02:33,320 –> 01:02:39,920
\nthat Bullinger says means.
\nOr he defines as it’s not a <\/p>\n
895
\n01:02:40,080 –> 01:02:47,360
\npassive endurance, he says, but
\na virtue which can transmute the<\/p>\n
896
\n01:02:47,360 –> 01:02:53,800
\nharvest trial into glory because
\nbeyond the pain, it sees the <\/p>\n
897
\n01:02:53,800 –> 01:02:58,680
\ngall and the pressures and
\ntroubles of life that came upon.<\/p>\n
898
\n01:02:58,680 –> 01:03:01,800
\nJeremiah and that come upon us
\nfrom time to time, brethren, <\/p>\n
899
\n01:03:01,800 –> 01:03:04,960
\nand.
\nSisters can develop that same <\/p>\n
900
\n01:03:04,960 –> 01:03:09,600
\nquality and that will develop
\ncharacter and hope. <\/p>\n
901
\n01:03:09,600 –> 01:03:14,360
\nAnd in the day to come, we will
\nnot be ashamed because God uses <\/p>\n
902
\n01:03:14,360 –> 01:03:19,000
\nthe experiences of this life,
\nthe oppositions of men unjustly,<\/p>\n
903
\n01:03:19,000 –> 01:03:23,800
\nvery often the abuse, the
\ncircumstances of our life, the <\/p>\n
904
\n01:03:23,800 –> 01:03:30,920
\nfrustrations inside the ecclesia
\nand out to produce patient <\/p>\n
905
\n01:03:31,920 –> 01:03:36,720
\nendurance.
\nAnd those, all of those. <\/p>\n
906
\n01:03:36,720 –> 01:03:41,480
\nThings are are there as an
\nopportunity for us to develop a <\/p>\n
907
\n01:03:41,480 –> 01:03:45,640
\nquality that the Father sees to
\nbe of real value. <\/p>\n
908
\n01:03:46,560 –> 01:03:51,480
\nIt’s a quality, brethren and
\nsisters, that he wants, He wants<\/p>\n
909
\n01:03:51,480 –> 01:03:56,760
\nand needs in the Kingdom.
\nAnd there’s only one way to <\/p>\n
910
\n01:03:56,760 –> 01:04:01,000
\nproduce patience, and that’s
\ngive opportunity for it to be <\/p>\n
911
\n01:04:01,000 –> 01:04:03,880
\nproduced.
\nYou can’t learn patience by <\/p>\n
912
\n01:04:03,880 –> 01:04:07,440
\nreading the Bible, young people.
\nYou can’t do it. <\/p>\n
913
\n01:04:08,520 –> 01:04:11,680
\nYou can’t learn to love somebody
\nby reading about it. <\/p>\n
914
\n01:04:12,200 –> 01:04:16,880
\nThere has to be real experience.
\nThere has to be life lived. <\/p>\n
915
\n01:04:17,840 –> 01:04:22,080
\nThere has to be difficulties in
\norder for us to experience. <\/p>\n
916
\n01:04:22,080 –> 01:04:27,080
\nThose things, and God knows it.
\nCount it all joy, said James, <\/p>\n
917
\n01:04:27,160 –> 01:04:29,280
\nwhen he’d fall into divers
\ntrials. <\/p>\n
918
\n01:04:29,480 –> 01:04:35,760
\nKnowing this, knowing this, that
\nthe trying of your faith is not <\/p>\n
919
\n01:04:35,760 –> 01:04:40,640
\nout to destroy us, but works
\npatient endurance. <\/p>\n
920
\n01:04:40,640 –> 01:04:44,280
\nAnd he says, but let it have its
\nwork. <\/p>\n
921
\n01:04:44,280 –> 01:04:48,520
\nDon’t turn bitter.
\nLet patient endurance work in <\/p>\n
922
\n01:04:48,520 –> 01:04:52,360
\nyour life.
\nShut your mouth when brethren <\/p>\n
923
\n01:04:52,360 –> 01:04:57,760
\naccuse you falsely when the kids
\nat school say things against <\/p>\n
924
\n01:04:57,760 –> 01:05:00,960
\nyou, and bless being God.
\nTake it on the cheek. <\/p>\n
925
\n01:05:01,880 –> 01:05:08,960
\nLet patient endurance work that
\nG may be complete and entire, <\/p>\n
926
\n01:05:08,960 –> 01:05:11,640
\nwanting nothing.
\nGod is not doing it to us to <\/p>\n
927
\n01:05:11,640 –> 01:05:14,720
\ncrush us to pieces.
\nHe’s not doing it because He <\/p>\n
928
\n01:05:14,720 –> 01:05:17,480
\nhates us.
\nIt’s because He wants us in the <\/p>\n
929
\n01:05:17,480 –> 01:05:22,040
\nKingdom.
\nAnd he’ll give us circumstances <\/p>\n
930
\n01:05:22,040 –> 01:05:27,880
\nin order that we might be able
\nto demonstrate divine qualities <\/p>\n
931
\n01:05:27,880 –> 01:05:36,520
\nand not fleshly qualities.
\nRobert Roberts once said that <\/p>\n
932
\n01:05:36,520 –> 01:05:41,640
\nman is made.
\nIts constitution is such that he<\/p>\n
933
\n01:05:41,640 –> 01:05:46,320
\ncannot ever be complete without
\nexperience. <\/p>\n
934
\n01:05:48,600 –> 01:05:54,000
\nAnd one of the critical
\ncomponents of experience is <\/p>\n
935
\n01:05:54,000 –> 01:06:01,000
\ntrouble.
\nGod has not offered young people<\/p>\n
936
\n01:06:02,000 –> 01:06:06,160
\nto make a star-studded path to
\nthe Kingdom. <\/p>\n
937
\n01:06:08,000 –> 01:06:12,440
\nThe road is the road that
\nJeremiah went to the faithful. <\/p>\n
938
\n01:06:12,640 –> 01:06:17,600
\nThat’s the path.
\nYou see, a man without <\/p>\n
939
\n01:06:17,920 –> 01:06:22,040
\nexperience is a man without
\npatience. <\/p>\n
940
\n01:06:23,240 –> 01:06:25,960
\nIt’s a man.
\nWho’s brought no fruit to the <\/p>\n
941
\n01:06:25,960 –> 01:06:33,840
\nglory of God, of no use to God,
\nRevelation says. <\/p>\n
942
\n01:06:34,080 –> 01:06:37,800
\nThey that have.
\nCome out of great tribulation, <\/p>\n
943
\n01:06:37,800 –> 01:06:40,360
\nand have watched their robes,
\nand made them white in the blood<\/p>\n
944
\n01:06:40,360 –> 01:06:42,520
\nof the Lamb.
\nAre those that form the part of <\/p>\n
945
\n01:06:42,520 –> 01:06:48,080
\nthe regime, those that have come
\nout of great pressures that <\/p>\n
946
\n01:06:48,080 –> 01:06:49,600
\nhave?
\nLearnt not only. <\/p>\n
947
\n01:06:49,920 –> 01:06:56,840
\nThe theory of the truth.
\nBut the daily endurance in well <\/p>\n
948
\n01:06:56,840 –> 01:06:59,280
\ndoing.
\nLife is a preparation. <\/p>\n
949
\n01:06:59,280 –> 01:07:03,240
\nYoung people learn it in youth.
\nLife is a preparation. <\/p>\n
950
\n01:07:03,240 –> 01:07:06,320
\nIt’s not an end in itself.
\nIt’s a preparation for something<\/p>\n
951
\n01:07:06,320 –> 01:07:09,040
\ngreater.
\nAnd the trials the the <\/p>\n
952
\n01:07:09,040 –> 01:07:12,960
\ntribulations that Jeremiah
\nunderwent are just typical. <\/p>\n
953
\n01:07:13,320 –> 01:07:20,040
\nOf God’s.
\nWay in preparation, but come <\/p>\n
954
\n01:07:20,040 –> 01:07:23,840
\nback.
\nTo lamentation because Jeremiah <\/p>\n
955
\n01:07:23,840 –> 01:07:24,880
\ndidn’t stop.
\nThere. <\/p>\n
956
\n01:07:26,680 –> 01:07:35,920
\nHe says in verse 27, having just
\nsaid in verse 26, It’s good for <\/p>\n
957
\n01:07:35,920 –> 01:07:38,880
\na man that he should both hope
\nand quietly wait for the <\/p>\n
958
\n01:07:38,880 –> 01:07:41,920
\nsalvation of Yahweh, he says.
\nIt is good. <\/p>\n
959
\n01:07:42,600 –> 01:07:48,080
\nFor a man that he bear the yoke
\nin his youth. <\/p>\n
960
\n01:07:51,240 –> 01:07:54,320
\nThat’s our thing for the series
\nof stakes. <\/p>\n
961
\n01:07:55,880 –> 01:07:59,720
\nWhat’s a yoke?
\nWell, just consider the the <\/p>\n
962
\n01:07:59,720 –> 01:08:03,080
\nanalogy of oxen or animals yoked
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
963
\n01:08:04,440 –> 01:08:10,920
\nThink about this.
\nWhat the yoke was meant for was <\/p>\n
964
\n01:08:10,920 –> 01:08:14,920
\nto channel the energy and the
\naction of that animal, of those <\/p>\n
965
\n01:08:14,920 –> 01:08:18,240
\ntwo animals that were yoked
\ntogether for some useful. <\/p>\n
966
\n01:08:18,399 –> 01:08:25,760
\nPurpose for their master, so
\nthat fruit might come to the <\/p>\n
967
\n01:08:25,760 –> 01:08:31,200
\nmaster.
\nNow isn’t that absolutely <\/p>\n
968
\n01:08:31,399 –> 01:08:36,720
\nremarkable because it was meant
\nto remove the self will? <\/p>\n
969
\n01:08:37,040 –> 01:08:38,880
\nAnd the independence of the
\nanimal. <\/p>\n
970
\n01:08:38,880 –> 01:08:41,479
\nRunning hit her and thither,
\nwasting energy. <\/p>\n
971
\n01:08:41,960 –> 01:08:45,520
\nIt was meant to constrain the
\nanimal and to teach it to <\/p>\n
972
\n01:08:45,520 –> 01:08:48,960
\ncooperate with the master, and
\nif it didn’t cooperate in the <\/p>\n
973
\n01:08:48,960 –> 01:08:51,760
\nmaster.
\nIn bringing fruit to the master,<\/p>\n
974
\n01:08:52,080 –> 01:08:54,279
\nit would rub so much that it
\nwould. <\/p>\n
975
\n01:08:54,279 –> 01:09:00,600
\nEventually cooperate and the
\nnatural is the basis of the <\/p>\n
976
\n01:09:00,640 –> 01:09:03,439
\nspiritual.
\nAnd Jeremiah says it’s good for <\/p>\n
977
\n01:09:03,439 –> 01:09:06,840
\na man to bear the yoke.
\nIn his youth and you know. <\/p>\n
978
\n01:09:06,920 –> 01:09:09,960
\nJesus took up.
\nThat analogy from here he took <\/p>\n
979
\n01:09:09,960 –> 01:09:11,439
\nup.
\nJeremiah’s words. <\/p>\n
980
\n01:09:11,760 –> 01:09:16,439
\nIn Matthew, hold your hand in in
\nlamentations and go to Matthew <\/p>\n
981
\n01:09:16,439 –> 01:09:19,160
\nChapter 11.
\nThey’re words that we all know <\/p>\n
982
\n01:09:19,160 –> 01:09:24,399
\nand probably can cite many of us
\nin Matthew Chapter 11, but there<\/p>\n
983
\n01:09:24,399 –> 01:09:32,160
\nis no question that Jesus is got
\nJeremiah in mine here and he <\/p>\n
984
\n01:09:32,160 –> 01:09:35,680
\nsays in verse 28, come unto me
\nall ye that labour and are heavy<\/p>\n
985
\n01:09:35,680 –> 01:09:38,160
\nladen and and I will give you
\nrest. <\/p>\n
986
\n01:09:38,840 –> 01:09:43,840
\nTake my yoke upon you and learn
\nof me, for I am meek and lonely <\/p>\n
987
\n01:09:43,840 –> 01:09:47,000
\nin heart, and ye shall find rest
\nunto your souls, for my yoke is <\/p>\n
988
\n01:09:47,000 –> 01:09:49,800
\neasy, and my burden is life.
\nWe can read straight across that<\/p>\n
989
\n01:09:49,800 –> 01:09:52,560
\nand it all sounds a very nice
\nnice. <\/p>\n
990
\n01:09:52,560 –> 01:09:57,760
\nWords, doesn’t it?
\nBut let’s notice a few things in<\/p>\n
991
\n01:09:57,760 –> 01:10:00,920
\nverse 28, he says take my yoke
\nupon you. <\/p>\n
992
\n01:10:01,440 –> 01:10:05,360
\nThat means it’s voluntary.
\nWe have to decide to take it, <\/p>\n
993
\n01:10:05,360 –> 01:10:10,800
\nyoung people, And notice
\nsecondly that it’s his yoke. <\/p>\n
994
\n01:10:11,600 –> 01:10:15,040
\nHe’s not asking us to take on
\nsomething on our necks that he <\/p>\n
995
\n01:10:15,040 –> 01:10:19,240
\nhasn’t got on his.
\nAnd in fact, the analogy is that<\/p>\n
996
\n01:10:19,240 –> 01:10:22,640
\nwe are yoking ourselves with
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
997
\n01:10:22,720 –> 01:10:25,440
\nThat’s the analogy.
\nHe’s saying He’s saying take on <\/p>\n
998
\n01:10:25,440 –> 01:10:30,880
\nmy yoke with me.
\nSo we’re yoking. <\/p>\n
999
\n01:10:30,880 –> 01:10:32,840
\nOurselves.
\nAnd there’s an invitation for us<\/p>\n
1000
\n01:10:32,840 –> 01:10:36,200
\nto yoke ourselves with this.
\nAnd he says you yoked yourself <\/p>\n
1001
\n01:10:36,200 –> 01:10:40,160
\nwith me, and you will find rest.
\nWhat a conundrum. <\/p>\n
1002
\n01:10:40,480 –> 01:10:44,400
\nWhat an amazing yoke that is.
\nYokes always hurt, they always <\/p>\n
1003
\n01:10:44,400 –> 01:10:47,000
\nrubbed while the animal got used
\nto them. <\/p>\n
1004
\n01:10:47,760 –> 01:10:53,120
\nBut Jesus says you take my yoke
\nupon you and you’ll find rest. <\/p>\n
1005
\n01:10:53,760 –> 01:10:56,480
\nWhoever heard of a yoke giving
\nrest? <\/p>\n
1006
\n01:10:57,640 –> 01:11:01,600
\nAll it did was brought more
\nwork, more pain and more <\/p>\n
1007
\n01:11:01,600 –> 01:11:06,480
\nsuffering.
\nBut this yoke will bring rest. <\/p>\n
1008
\n01:11:06,920 –> 01:11:08,200
\nThis is something.
\nUnique. <\/p>\n
1009
\n01:11:08,200 –> 01:11:09,920
\nIt’s worth finding out something
\nabout. <\/p>\n
1010
\n01:11:10,720 –> 01:11:13,520
\nAnd you know what?
\nDo you know where Jesus picked <\/p>\n
1011
\n01:11:13,520 –> 01:11:15,440
\nthose words up for when you?
\nLook at the margin. <\/p>\n
1012
\n01:11:15,440 –> 01:11:19,440
\nJeremiah, chapter 6.
\nThere’s no doubt he’s got it in <\/p>\n
1013
\n01:11:19,440 –> 01:11:20,720
\nmind.
\nHold your hand. <\/p>\n
1014
\n01:11:20,720 –> 01:11:23,240
\nYou got three hands.
\nHold your hand in Matthew. <\/p>\n
1015
\n01:11:24,520 –> 01:11:27,520
\nYou can drop Lamentations if you
\nlike, and go back to Jeremiah <\/p>\n
1016
\n01:11:27,520 –> 01:11:31,040
\nchapter 6 just for a moment.
\nJeremiah. <\/p>\n
1017
\n01:11:31,040 –> 01:11:34,920
\nChapter 6.
\nBecause Jesus quotes Jeremiah <\/p>\n
1018
\n01:11:34,920 –> 01:11:37,240
\nChapter 6.
\nIn those words. <\/p>\n
1019
\n01:11:38,920 –> 01:11:43,960
\nNow Jeremiah chapter 6 is a very
\ninteresting context. <\/p>\n
1020
\n01:11:44,480 –> 01:11:46,840
\nVerse 16 are the words that
\nJesus quotes. <\/p>\n
1021
\n01:11:47,520 –> 01:11:51,000
\nAnd there we read.
\nThus saith Yahweh, stand ye in <\/p>\n
1022
\n01:11:51,000 –> 01:11:53,840
\nthe ways, and see and ask for
\nthe old paths. <\/p>\n
1023
\n01:11:54,240 –> 01:11:57,800
\nWhere is the good?
\nWay and walk therein, and ye <\/p>\n
1024
\n01:11:57,800 –> 01:12:01,200
\nshall find rest for your souls.
\nThere’s the words that Jesus. <\/p>\n
1025
\n01:12:01,200 –> 01:12:02,960
\nQuoted, and he shall find rest
\nfor your souls. <\/p>\n
1026
\n01:12:03,400 –> 01:12:05,840
\nBut matter.
\nBut Jesus didn’t didn’t didn’t <\/p>\n
1027
\n01:12:05,840 –> 01:12:10,360
\ncite the first part of Jeremiah,
\nand whenever he cites just part <\/p>\n
1028
\n01:12:10,360 –> 01:12:11,800
\nof a.
\nVerse in the middle of it. <\/p>\n
1029
\n01:12:12,080 –> 01:12:14,120
\nWe’ve got to ask ourselves why.
\nDid. <\/p>\n
1030
\n01:12:14,120 –> 01:12:19,840
\nHe not, it seems that Jesus put
\nin place of seek out the old <\/p>\n
1031
\n01:12:19,840 –> 01:12:26,080
\npaths and walk in the good way.
\nHe put, Take my yoke upon you <\/p>\n
1032
\n01:12:26,080 –> 01:12:33,520
\nand learn of me.
\nSo taking Christ’s yoke on us in<\/p>\n
1033
\n01:12:33,560 –> 01:12:38,120
\nJesus terms is exactly the
\nequivalent of what Jeremiah was <\/p>\n
1034
\n01:12:38,120 –> 01:12:43,560
\nsaying, to look out for the old
\npath, the good paths, and to <\/p>\n
1035
\n01:12:43,560 –> 01:12:47,080
\nwalk therein.
\nWell, what was people doing in <\/p>\n
1036
\n01:12:47,080 –> 01:12:48,840
\nJeremiah’s day?
\nYou have a look. <\/p>\n
1037
\n01:12:49,120 –> 01:12:51,960
\nAt Jeremiah chapter 6 and verse
\n13 this. <\/p>\n
1038
\n01:12:51,960 –> 01:12:54,800
\nIs what they were.
\nDoing when God said those words <\/p>\n
1039
\n01:12:55,320 –> 01:12:58,320
\nfrom the least of them, under
\nthe greatest of them, everyone <\/p>\n
1040
\n01:12:58,320 –> 01:13:02,040
\nis given to covetousness.
\nFrom the prophet even to the <\/p>\n
1041
\n01:13:02,040 –> 01:13:05,160
\npriest, everyone deals falsely.
\nWhy are you given to <\/p>\n
1042
\n01:13:05,160 –> 01:13:07,120
\ncovetousness and.
\nWhy are you out? <\/p>\n
1043
\n01:13:07,120 –> 01:13:10,520
\nDealing falsely if.
\nIt’s not for your own gain. <\/p>\n
1044
\n01:13:10,840 –> 01:13:13,680
\nAnd that’s all Jeremiah’s
\nsociety we’re out for. <\/p>\n
1045
\n01:13:13,680 –> 01:13:17,360
\nTo get what they wanted for
\nthemselves, they thought of #1 <\/p>\n
1046
\n01:13:17,360 –> 01:13:20,120
\nand nothing else.
\nAnd then Jeremiah said. <\/p>\n
1047
\n01:13:20,520 –> 01:13:25,840
\nLook, think of the old way, walk
\nin the good old paths and you’ll<\/p>\n
1048
\n01:13:25,840 –> 01:13:28,520
\nfind rest to your souls.
\nAnd they said at the end of <\/p>\n
1049
\n01:13:28,520 –> 01:13:32,960
\nverse 16, we will not walk
\ntherein. <\/p>\n
1050
\n01:13:33,320 –> 01:13:37,280
\nWe’re going to walk where we
\nwant to walk and we won’t listen<\/p>\n
1051
\n01:13:37,280 –> 01:13:41,080
\nto you.
\nWhat an amazing thing you come <\/p>\n
1052
\n01:13:41,080 –> 01:13:45,240
\nback to to Matthew Chapter 11.
\nAnd Jesus quotes the whole <\/p>\n
1053
\n01:13:45,240 –> 01:13:50,360
\ncontext of Jeremiah here in
\nthese words, because Jesus <\/p>\n
1054
\n01:13:50,360 –> 01:13:53,800
\ninstead of saying seek out the
\nold paths and walk in them, he <\/p>\n
1055
\n01:13:53,800 –> 01:14:04,960
\nsays, You take my yoke upon you
\nand learn from, not of, from me.<\/p>\n
1056
\n01:14:06,040 –> 01:14:12,800
\nAnd now the old path and the
\ngood way and how to walk it are <\/p>\n
1057
\n01:14:12,800 –> 01:14:17,120
\nembodied in a man.
\nJesus was not going to say, <\/p>\n
1058
\n01:14:17,360 –> 01:14:20,480
\nlook, take the old path and walk
\nin it. <\/p>\n
1059
\n01:14:20,720 –> 01:14:25,960
\nHe said, Come here, yoke
\nyourself alongside me and learn <\/p>\n
1060
\n01:14:25,960 –> 01:14:29,880
\nfrom me.
\nI’ll show you in my life what it<\/p>\n
1061
\n01:14:29,880 –> 01:14:33,200
\nmeans to walk the good path and
\nthe old. <\/p>\n
1062
\n01:14:33,200 –> 01:14:36,280
\nWay.
\nAnd what was the good path and <\/p>\n
1063
\n01:14:36,280 –> 01:14:38,800
\nthe old way?
\nIt was exactly the opposite of <\/p>\n
1064
\n01:14:38,800 –> 01:14:40,400
\nwhat they were doing in
\nJeremiah’s day. <\/p>\n
1065
\n01:14:40,600 –> 01:14:44,280
\nAll they were possibly doing in
\nJeremiah’s day was seeking their<\/p>\n
1066
\n01:14:44,360 –> 01:14:49,880
\nown interests from the highest
\nin the land to the very bottom <\/p>\n
1067
\n01:14:49,880 –> 01:14:52,800
\nof society.
\nThey were doing nothing else out<\/p>\n
1068
\n01:14:53,120 –> 01:14:56,840
\nfor self.
\nSelf #1 all the time. <\/p>\n
1069
\n01:14:57,120 –> 01:14:59,560
\nAnd you know what we’re going to
\nlearn if we yoke ourselves to <\/p>\n
1070
\n01:14:59,560 –> 01:15:01,800
\nChrist?
\nRead His words. <\/p>\n
1071
\n01:15:01,960 –> 01:15:05,120
\nYou yoke yourself to me and
\nlearn from me. <\/p>\n
1072
\n01:15:05,800 –> 01:15:15,280
\nFor He says, I am meek.
\nAnd lowly of heart. <\/p>\n
1073
\n01:15:17,920 –> 01:15:22,960
\nAnd that’s the good way seen in
\na man’s life. <\/p>\n
1074
\n01:15:23,880 –> 01:15:28,120
\nThe hardest lesson that we’ll
\never have to. <\/p>\n
1075
\n01:15:28,120 –> 01:15:33,000
\nLearn in life to empty ourselves
\nof. <\/p>\n
1076
\n01:15:33,240 –> 01:15:43,080
\nSelf-interest because God can’t
\nwork in us while we are <\/p>\n
1077
\n01:15:43,080 –> 01:15:47,920
\nenthroned.
\nIn our own eyes, meekness and. <\/p>\n
1078
\n01:15:47,920 –> 01:15:54,760
\nLowliness are the exact opposite
\nof seeking self, and the very <\/p>\n
1079
\n01:15:54,760 –> 01:16:00,800
\npurpose of a yoke was to
\nconstrain the self-interest of <\/p>\n
1080
\n01:16:00,800 –> 01:16:08,240
\nthe animal, to follow the
\nmaster’s way, to give up self, <\/p>\n
1081
\n01:16:08,920 –> 01:16:12,640
\nand to deny.
\nSelf, I’d like you to come to <\/p>\n
1082
\n01:16:13,000 –> 01:16:14,760
\nIsaiah.
\nChapter 57. <\/p>\n
1083
\n01:16:15,800 –> 01:16:22,240
\nBecause in one verse here.
\nIsaiah puts his finger on the <\/p>\n
1084
\n01:16:22,240 –> 01:16:27,080
\nissue at stake.
\nIt’s the fundamental issue of <\/p>\n
1085
\n01:16:27,080 –> 01:16:30,400
\nour lives, brethren and sisters
\nand young people. <\/p>\n
1086
\n01:16:31,920 –> 01:16:34,680
\nAnd I would like to talk to
\nyoung people more particularly <\/p>\n
1087
\n01:16:34,680 –> 01:16:38,560
\nat the moment, because it’s in
\nthe context of that verse that <\/p>\n
1088
\n01:16:38,560 –> 01:16:41,600
\nwe’re talking about the yoke and
\non Isaiah. <\/p>\n
1089
\n01:16:41,600 –> 01:16:46,840
\nChapter 53.
\nSorry, 57 and verse 15. <\/p>\n
1090
\n01:16:51,120 –> 01:16:55,840
\nVerse 15 of Isaiah 57.
\nFor thus sits behind lofty one <\/p>\n
1091
\n01:16:55,840 –> 01:16:58,200
\nthat inhabit eternity, whose
\nname is holy. <\/p>\n
1092
\n01:16:59,080 –> 01:17:02,440
\nI dwell with the High and Holy
\nin the High and Holy place with <\/p>\n
1093
\n01:17:02,440 –> 01:17:07,360
\nhim.
\nAlso, that is of a contrite and <\/p>\n
1094
\n01:17:07,360 –> 01:17:11,360
\nhumble spirit.
\nGod can work with that spirit. <\/p>\n
1095
\n01:17:12,520 –> 01:17:15,600
\nHe can’t work.
\nWith anything else and see what <\/p>\n
1096
\n01:17:15,600 –> 01:17:21,680
\nthe verse goes on to say.
\nTo revive the spirit of the <\/p>\n
1097
\n01:17:21,680 –> 01:17:27,120
\nhumble and to revive the heart
\nof the contrite ones God. <\/p>\n
1098
\n01:17:27,120 –> 01:17:30,840
\nCan do something with
\nindividuals, young people, <\/p>\n
1099
\n01:17:30,840 –> 01:17:33,760
\nespecially in their youth.
\nWho are prepared? <\/p>\n
1100
\n01:17:33,760 –> 01:17:40,760
\nTo forget themselves.
\nAnd that was Jeremiah Let. <\/p>\n
1101
\n01:17:40,760 –> 01:17:44,160
\nThis mind be in you, said Paul.
\nWhen he wrote to the <\/p>\n
1102
\n01:17:44,160 –> 01:17:51,000
\nPhilippians, he made himself of
\nno reputation and took upon him <\/p>\n
1103
\n01:17:51,000 –> 01:18:01,000
\nthe form of a slave, and humbled
\nhimself and became obedient unto<\/p>\n
1104
\n01:18:01,000 –> 01:18:04,400
\ndeath.
\nBecause self wasn’t there to <\/p>\n
1105
\n01:18:04,400 –> 01:18:08,440
\ncompete.
\nGod highly exalted him and gave <\/p>\n
1106
\n01:18:08,440 –> 01:18:10,200
\nhim a name above every other
\nname. <\/p>\n
1107
\n01:18:10,680 –> 01:18:15,520
\nBecause he emptied himself, God
\ncould manifest himself in him. <\/p>\n
1108
\n01:18:16,200 –> 01:18:20,160
\nAnd Jesus said, yoke yourself
\nwith me. <\/p>\n
1109
\n01:18:21,160 –> 01:18:30,160
\nLearn from me what it means to
\nbe lowly and meek. <\/p>\n
1110
\n01:18:32,600 –> 01:18:36,480
\nHow do we do it?
\nWe’ve got to know what he’s <\/p>\n
1111
\n01:18:36,480 –> 01:18:37,840
\nlike.
\nBrethren and sisters and young <\/p>\n
1112
\n01:18:37,840 –> 01:18:41,080
\npeople, we’ve got to consider
\nthe Lord’s life. <\/p>\n
1113
\n01:18:43,960 –> 01:18:46,720
\nIf we don’t give.
\nAttention during our life to the<\/p>\n
1114
\n01:18:46,720 –> 01:18:52,000
\nlife of our Lord that receives
\nattention in four books of the <\/p>\n
1115
\n01:18:52,000 –> 01:18:56,080
\nBible specifically, and
\nallusions all over Scripture. <\/p>\n
1116
\n01:18:57,160 –> 01:19:01,120
\nWe do ourselves a great
\ndisservice because therein we <\/p>\n
1117
\n01:19:01,120 –> 01:19:07,440
\nsee his selflessness and his
\ndevotion to others and to the <\/p>\n
1118
\n01:19:07,440 –> 01:19:12,520
\nFather demonstrated in a life.
\nThat we yoked together and every<\/p>\n
1119
\n01:19:12,520 –> 01:19:15,640
\nday, young people, we’ve got to
\nyoke ourselves to him and to <\/p>\n
1120
\n01:19:15,640 –> 01:19:18,440
\nremove that self will, that
\nself-expression. <\/p>\n
1121
\n01:19:19,200 –> 01:19:22,800
\nAnd Jeremiah bore that yoke, and
\nit wasn’t easy. <\/p>\n
1122
\n01:19:32,810 –> 01:19:38,450
\nThey’re the next. 2 verses after
\nLamentations chapter 23, verse <\/p>\n
1123
\n01:19:38,450 –> 01:19:42,930
\n27 from the RSV.
\nThe RSV captures the poetry of <\/p>\n
1124
\n01:19:42,930 –> 01:19:44,850
\nthose words.
\nIt’s good. <\/p>\n
1125
\n01:19:44,850 –> 01:19:46,450
\nFor a man.
\nThat he bear the yoke in his <\/p>\n
1126
\n01:19:46,450 –> 01:19:51,880
\nyouth.
\nLet him sit alone in silence <\/p>\n
1127
\n01:19:52,240 –> 01:19:56,440
\nwhen he’s laid it on him.
\nThat’s what the yoke’s going to <\/p>\n
1128
\n01:19:56,440 –> 01:20:00,880
\ndo at times, young people.
\nLet him put his mouth in the <\/p>\n
1129
\n01:20:00,880 –> 01:20:03,920
\ndust.
\nIt may be there may be hope. <\/p>\n
1130
\n01:20:03,920 –> 01:20:07,360
\nOut of that.
\nLet him give him his cheeks to <\/p>\n
1131
\n01:20:07,360 –> 01:20:09,160
\nthe smite and be filled with
\ninsults. <\/p>\n
1132
\n01:20:09,840 –> 01:20:12,600
\nAnd remember that Yahweh will
\nnot cast off forever, but though<\/p>\n
1133
\n01:20:12,640 –> 01:20:14,840
\nbecause grief, He will have
\ncompassion according to the <\/p>\n
1134
\n01:20:14,840 –> 01:20:20,200
\nabundance of His steadfast love.
\nYahweh is not out to crush us, <\/p>\n
1135
\n01:20:21,760 –> 01:20:28,600
\nbut it may mean hardship and
\npain and it’s good to bear it in<\/p>\n
1136
\n01:20:28,600 –> 01:20:32,560
\nyouth.
\nWhy is it good to bear in youth?<\/p>\n
1137
\n01:20:33,400 –> 01:20:35,520
\nAny conclusion?
\nI want to give you 4 in. <\/p>\n
1138
\n01:20:35,800 –> 01:20:39,800
\nThere are many, many others and
\nno doubt through the several <\/p>\n
1139
\n01:20:39,800 –> 01:20:43,160
\nstudies that we’ve had already,
\nyou can start to see some of the<\/p>\n
1140
\n01:20:43,160 –> 01:20:46,120
\nreasons why God called
\nindividuals in youth. <\/p>\n
1141
\n01:20:46,840 –> 01:20:53,440
\nBut let me give you just four
\nsummary reasons why it’s good to<\/p>\n
1142
\n01:20:53,440 –> 01:20:57,400
\nbear that yoke in youth.
\nBecause firstly, young people, <\/p>\n
1143
\n01:20:57,600 –> 01:21:01,120
\nyouth is the most productive and
\nenergetic time of life. <\/p>\n
1144
\n01:21:01,120 –> 01:21:06,160
\nIt’s a time of independence of
\nof great enthusiasm and strength<\/p>\n
1145
\n01:21:06,160 –> 01:21:08,200
\nthat you’ll have at no other
\ntime of your life. <\/p>\n
1146
\n01:21:08,840 –> 01:21:13,840
\nPotentially, I say the most
\nproductive time, but do you know<\/p>\n
1147
\n01:21:13,880 –> 01:21:21,240
\nin youth most of the energy and
\nmost of the strength of most of <\/p>\n
1148
\n01:21:21,240 –> 01:21:25,240
\nthe world’s youth is totally
\nwasted? <\/p>\n
1149
\n01:21:25,720 –> 01:21:29,120
\nWhat a tragedy that is.
\nBut the yoke will channel that <\/p>\n
1150
\n01:21:29,120 –> 01:21:34,480
\nenergy and direct it to great
\nprofits, to bringing fruit to <\/p>\n
1151
\n01:21:34,520 –> 01:21:39,200
\nthe glory of the Father.
\nIt’s good to bear the yoke in <\/p>\n
1152
\n01:21:39,200 –> 01:21:44,320
\nyouth where the strength and
\nvitality where something can be <\/p>\n
1153
\n01:21:44,320 –> 01:21:48,160
\nachieved and quickly.
\nDon’t waste your youth young <\/p>\n
1154
\n01:21:48,160 –> 01:21:51,320
\npeople while you still have it.
\nInstead of lazing around till <\/p>\n
1155
\n01:21:51,320 –> 01:21:55,000
\n10:30 on a Saturday morning, get
\nup and do 2 hours of Bible study<\/p>\n
1156
\n01:21:55,240 –> 01:21:57,920
\nor go and see some sister and
\nhelp her in the garden. <\/p>\n
1157
\n01:21:58,600 –> 01:22:01,880
\nDon’t spend your Saturday
\ntinkering around with your car <\/p>\n
1158
\n01:22:01,880 –> 01:22:04,200
\ntrying to do this little thing
\nor that. <\/p>\n
1159
\n01:22:04,880 –> 01:22:07,560
\nLook for somebody you can do
\nsomething for. <\/p>\n
1160
\n01:22:07,800 –> 01:22:15,040
\nLearn to bear the yoke of
\nmeekness and lowliness, crushing<\/p>\n
1161
\n01:22:15,040 –> 01:22:19,280
\nself-interest in youth.
\nIt’s the hardest thing. <\/p>\n
1162
\n01:22:19,560 –> 01:22:27,880
\nYouth fills the freedom, Freedom
\nof independence of self, will of<\/p>\n
1163
\n01:22:27,880 –> 01:22:32,280
\nthe turn of nation.
\nAnd God says it’s the best time <\/p>\n
1164
\n01:22:32,280 –> 01:22:37,600
\nto yoke it.
\nThe best time to yoke it. <\/p>\n
1165
\n01:22:38,600 –> 01:22:40,920
\nInstead of thinking of self,
\nthink of others. <\/p>\n
1166
\n01:22:41,560 –> 01:22:45,120
\nInstead of just thinking of your
\nown enjoyment. <\/p>\n
1167
\n01:22:45,120 –> 01:22:47,240
\nAfter supper, have you ever
\nthought that there’s? <\/p>\n
1168
\n01:22:47,480 –> 01:22:50,160
\nPeople picking things up and
\ndoing things and carrying things<\/p>\n
1169
\n01:22:50,160 –> 01:22:52,960
\nand and doing all manner of
\nthings and often it’s older <\/p>\n
1170
\n01:22:52,960 –> 01:22:56,880
\npeople.
\nStop to watch that, young <\/p>\n
1171
\n01:22:56,880 –> 01:22:59,080
\npeople.
\nWhen you’re at a fraternal, you <\/p>\n
1172
\n01:22:59,080 –> 01:23:00,760
\nwatch.
\nAnd see who sweeps the floor and<\/p>\n
1173
\n01:23:00,760 –> 01:23:02,800
\nwho puts the tables away.
\nYou watch in. <\/p>\n
1174
\n01:23:02,800 –> 01:23:11,560
\nFact, I say don’t watch you put
\nthem away #2 youth is the most <\/p>\n
1175
\n01:23:11,560 –> 01:23:14,080
\nmouldable and responsive time of
\nlife. <\/p>\n
1176
\n01:23:14,400 –> 01:23:16,680
\nYou’ve taken a great.
\nBough of A. <\/p>\n
1177
\n01:23:16,680 –> 01:23:22,520
\nTree that’s been there for 20
\nyears, twig that’s young and <\/p>\n
1178
\n01:23:22,520 –> 01:23:25,320
\nfresh and virile.
\nWhich can you train? <\/p>\n
1179
\n01:23:26,640 –> 01:23:30,320
\nIf you try hard enough for long
\nenough, you might change the <\/p>\n
1180
\n01:23:30,320 –> 01:23:34,040
\nposition of that bow.
\nBut that little twig can be bent<\/p>\n
1181
\n01:23:34,040 –> 01:23:38,640
\nand moved into any direction the
\nmaster wants any direction, <\/p>\n
1182
\n01:23:39,000 –> 01:23:42,800
\nwithout great pain and without
\ngreat undue stress. <\/p>\n
1183
\n01:23:43,040 –> 01:23:45,800
\nYou know, youth is the time when
\nlife’s patterns and habits and <\/p>\n
1184
\n01:23:45,800 –> 01:23:48,560
\nattitudes are being formed.
\nSet your direction. <\/p>\n
1185
\n01:23:48,560 –> 01:23:50,840
\nThat’s the lesson young people
\nin life. <\/p>\n
1186
\n01:23:51,080 –> 01:23:53,880
\nMake the daily readings.
\nDaily readings. <\/p>\n
1187
\n01:23:54,160 –> 01:23:57,360
\nMake prayer a daily.
\nNecessity. <\/p>\n
1188
\n01:23:58,040 –> 01:24:01,560
\nMake time for meditation.
\nYou’ll never have as much time <\/p>\n
1189
\n01:24:01,560 –> 01:24:05,400
\nas you have in your youth.
\nAnd look outside, learn of me, <\/p>\n
1190
\n01:24:05,400 –> 01:24:08,640
\nsaid Jesus.
\nLearn to support, to look <\/p>\n
1191
\n01:24:08,640 –> 01:24:13,280
\noutside your own life, to talk
\nto older ones, to help support <\/p>\n
1192
\n01:24:13,280 –> 01:24:16,240
\nother younger ones.
\nIt’s much, much more difficult <\/p>\n
1193
\n01:24:16,240 –> 01:24:20,960
\nin aged, older life to change
\nentrenched ways and attitudes. <\/p>\n
1194
\n01:24:21,200 –> 01:24:25,400
\nIt’s an enormous blessing, on
\nthe other hand, to bear that <\/p>\n
1195
\n01:24:25,400 –> 01:24:28,320
\nyoke in youth and thank God for
\nit. <\/p>\n
1196
\n01:24:28,320 –> 01:24:30,960
\nYoung people don’t.
\nEver despise it? <\/p>\n
1197
\n01:24:32,280 –> 01:24:37,520
\nThe apostle Peter said, Humble
\nyourself under the mighty hand <\/p>\n
1198
\n01:24:37,520 –> 01:24:43,240
\nof God.
\nAccept his way when it comes <\/p>\n
1199
\n01:24:43,680 –> 01:24:46,840
\nhowever it comes, as Jeremiah
\ndid. <\/p>\n
1200
\n01:24:48,920 –> 01:24:52,440
\nBut you know, there’s a negative
\nside to all that the yoke <\/p>\n
1201
\n01:24:52,440 –> 01:24:55,720
\nconstrains.
\nPrevents youthful lusts, It <\/p>\n
1202
\n01:24:55,760 –> 01:25:01,840
\nconstrains the flesh and
\nprevents the formation of deep <\/p>\n
1203
\n01:25:01,880 –> 01:25:04,240
\nmental.
\nPaths that are caused by sin, as<\/p>\n
1204
\n01:25:04,240 –> 01:25:06,520
\nwe saw in in Samson this
\nafternoon. <\/p>\n
1205
\n01:25:06,720 –> 01:25:10,000
\nYou know, bad habits formed in
\nyouth are almost impossible. <\/p>\n
1206
\n01:25:10,920 –> 01:25:14,000
\nNot impossible, but very, very
\ndifficult to break. <\/p>\n
1207
\n01:25:15,000 –> 01:25:18,680
\nThat’s utter folly for anyone to
\ngive advice to any young. <\/p>\n
1208
\n01:25:18,680 –> 01:25:21,640
\nPeople to try the world and try
\nthe truth. <\/p>\n
1209
\n01:25:21,640 –> 01:25:25,440
\nAnd make up your mind.
\nThat is never counselled in <\/p>\n
1210
\n01:25:25,440 –> 01:25:28,000
\nScripture.
\nIt’s absolute folly. <\/p>\n
1211
\n01:25:28,480 –> 01:25:31,040
\nThe Scripture says bear it in
\nyouth. <\/p>\n
1212
\n01:25:31,520 –> 01:25:37,000
\nThe yoke before the exposure and
\ninvolvement in sin and evil has <\/p>\n
1213
\n01:25:37,000 –> 01:25:40,880
\nscarred the mind and cut
\npathways that you’ll never be <\/p>\n
1214
\n01:25:40,880 –> 01:25:43,760
\nable to get out.
\nYou know Samson found himself in<\/p>\n
1215
\n01:25:43,760 –> 01:25:46,880
\nthat situation.
\nHe was scarred. <\/p>\n
1216
\n01:25:46,880 –> 01:25:49,080
\nFor life by some of his
\nexperiences. <\/p>\n
1217
\n01:25:49,520 –> 01:25:52,160
\nAnd those who’ve come into the
\ntruth in later life can testify <\/p>\n
1218
\n01:25:52,600 –> 01:25:55,120
\nthere are things that come back
\nin their minds that they don’t <\/p>\n
1219
\n01:25:55,120 –> 01:25:57,200
\nwant to be there, and they come
\nback. <\/p>\n
1220
\n01:25:57,400 –> 01:26:00,560
\nBecause of their previous.
\nExperience youth is the best <\/p>\n
1221
\n01:26:00,680 –> 01:26:05,160
\ntime to constrain the flesh
\nbefore sinners hardened paths <\/p>\n
1222
\n01:26:05,160 –> 01:26:09,880
\nand patterns in your in your
\nthinking and in youth reason <\/p>\n
1223
\n01:26:09,880 –> 01:26:13,320
\nnumber.
\nThree, your minds are much more <\/p>\n
1224
\n01:26:13,320 –> 01:26:16,080
\nalert.
\nMuch more able to quickly <\/p>\n
1225
\n01:26:16,080 –> 01:26:19,560
\ncomprehend, to understand.
\nDon’t sell that to the world. <\/p>\n
1226
\n01:26:19,880 –> 01:26:24,240
\nDon’t sell it to the boss.
\nGive it to God. <\/p>\n
1227
\n01:26:26,880 –> 01:26:29,840
\nAnd if you’re doing tertiary
\nstudies or studies at school, <\/p>\n
1228
\n01:26:30,200 –> 01:26:33,760
\nlearn to plan your time.
\nDon’t let life slip through your<\/p>\n
1229
\n01:26:33,760 –> 01:26:36,040
\nfingers.
\nThere’s a lot of young people <\/p>\n
1230
\n01:26:36,040 –> 01:26:39,040
\nthat get into their 20s and 30s
\nand they’ve done nothing with <\/p>\n
1231
\n01:26:39,040 –> 01:26:41,160
\ntheir life.
\nThey know nothing about the word<\/p>\n
1232
\n01:26:41,160 –> 01:26:43,720
\nof God.
\nIt should never be so. <\/p>\n
1233
\n01:26:43,800 –> 01:26:48,760
\nIt should never be so young
\npeople, you know, if you learnt <\/p>\n
1234
\n01:26:48,760 –> 01:26:52,720
\njust one verse of the Bible a
\nday, just one, just one little <\/p>\n
1235
\n01:26:53,080 –> 01:26:57,080
\nverse of the Bible every.
\nDay by the end of the year. <\/p>\n
1236
\n01:26:57,560 –> 01:27:02,280
\nYou would know off by heart all
\nof the Psalms from Psalm 1 to <\/p>\n
1237
\n01:27:02,280 –> 01:27:07,840
\nPsalm 28 in one year, one verse
\na day. <\/p>\n
1238
\n01:27:08,320 –> 01:27:10,680
\nWe’re a generation that’s
\nmentally lazy. <\/p>\n
1239
\n01:27:11,640 –> 01:27:13,640
\nUse your time while you’ve got
\nit. <\/p>\n
1240
\n01:27:15,000 –> 01:27:21,720
\nAnd reason number. 4 is that the
\nproductiveness for God in later <\/p>\n
1241
\n01:27:21,720 –> 01:27:27,720
\nyears will be significantly
\nenhanced if you bear the yoke in<\/p>\n
1242
\n01:27:27,720 –> 01:27:30,400
\nyou.
\nIf you’re still fighting with <\/p>\n
1243
\n01:27:30,400 –> 01:27:35,680
\nthe the very basic issues of
\nself will and the importance of <\/p>\n
1244
\n01:27:35,680 –> 01:27:38,320
\nyour own power and prestige, and
\nyou’re still thinking of <\/p>\n
1245
\n01:27:38,320 –> 01:27:45,120
\nyourself at 60 or 70.
\nYou’re not much use to God, but <\/p>\n
1246
\n01:27:45,120 –> 01:27:50,240
\na man that has learned in youth
\nto bear that yoke and to give <\/p>\n
1247
\n01:27:50,240 –> 01:27:57,000
\nhis life and to commit himself
\ndespite the pain, despite the <\/p>\n
1248
\n01:27:57,000 –> 01:28:00,160
\ncost.
\nWe will be of enormous use to <\/p>\n
1249
\n01:28:00,160 –> 01:28:03,760
\nGod and.
\nThat above all is the reason we <\/p>\n
1250
\n01:28:03,760 –> 01:28:07,640
\nfind in Scripture why God above
\nall is the reason we find in <\/p>\n
1251
\n01:28:07,640 –> 01:28:12,200
\nScripture why God called men
\nlike Jeremiah, Josiah, Joseph, <\/p>\n
1252
\n01:28:12,320 –> 01:28:15,600
\nSampson, Timothy, Paul, you name
\nthem in youth. <\/p>\n
1253
\n01:28:16,440 –> 01:28:20,360
\nHe didn’t use them immediately.
\nBut he prepared them for a great<\/p>\n
1254
\n01:28:20,360 –> 01:28:25,040
\nand marvellous work amongst his
\npeople, and 1 Yet in the future <\/p>\n
1255
\n01:28:25,280 –> 01:28:30,880
\nthat is even more marvellous.
\nWe will be more productive for <\/p>\n
1256
\n01:28:30,880 –> 01:28:35,040
\nGod in the end if we give our
\nlives in youth. <\/p>\n
1257
\n01:28:36,960 –> 01:28:40,160
\nYeah, we may be tempted to think
\nthat Jeremiah’s life was <\/p>\n
1258
\n01:28:40,160 –> 01:28:42,520
\nunproductive, that he didn’t
\nreally achieve anything. <\/p>\n
1259
\n01:28:42,520 –> 01:28:47,680
\nAfter 40 years, the whole nation
\nwas still wayward, even though <\/p>\n
1260
\n01:28:47,680 –> 01:28:50,720
\nhe’d faithfully borne that.
\nYoke all his days. <\/p>\n
1261
\n01:28:51,720 –> 01:28:58,840
\nKnow what he did?
\nHe had a profound effect upon <\/p>\n
1262
\n01:28:58,840 –> 01:29:04,080
\nsome young people and during his
\nlife. <\/p>\n
1263
\n01:29:04,880 –> 01:29:13,240
\nDaniel Hananiah Azariah Mishael
\nwent into captivity at 17. <\/p>\n
1264
\n01:29:13,240 –> 01:29:17,480
\nThey’d only known Jeremiah for
\nthe 1st 17 years of their life <\/p>\n
1265
\n01:29:18,080 –> 01:29:19,480
\nand they went into captivity and
\nlater. <\/p>\n
1266
\n01:29:19,480 –> 01:29:22,080
\nEzekiel and Mordecai and others
\nwent into captivity, into <\/p>\n
1267
\n01:29:22,080 –> 01:29:28,080
\nBabylon, and all of those young
\nteenagers were inspired by <\/p>\n
1268
\n01:29:28,160 –> 01:29:32,720
\nJosiah and more particularly I
\nbelieve, by Jeremiah, because <\/p>\n
1269
\n01:29:32,720 –> 01:29:36,280
\nthey got into Babylon and they
\nhad a vision in Babylon that was<\/p>\n
1270
\n01:29:36,280 –> 01:29:40,080
\ninspired by Jeremiah because
\nDaniel tells us that they did. <\/p>\n
1271
\n01:29:40,480 –> 01:29:44,080
\nAnd they had an example of
\npatience, endurance in well <\/p>\n
1272
\n01:29:44,080 –> 01:29:48,840
\ndoing because they’ve seen those
\nmen in action in their teens and<\/p>\n
1273
\n01:29:48,840 –> 01:29:52,800
\nthey in turn inspired others in
\nBabylon and 70. <\/p>\n
1274
\n01:29:52,800 –> 01:30:00,200
\nYears later. 50,000 Jews having
\nfaith in what Jeremiah said, <\/p>\n
1275
\n01:30:00,320 –> 01:30:03,160
\nleft Babylon and went back and
\nre established a nation. <\/p>\n
1276
\n01:30:03,560 –> 01:30:08,200
\nWhat an inspiring testimony that
\nis to Jeremiah’s life and his <\/p>\n
1277
\n01:30:08,200 –> 01:30:14,280
\nbody achieved nothing. 50,000
\npeople uprooted their lives and <\/p>\n
1278
\n01:30:14,280 –> 01:30:20,280
\nwent back to build the temple
\nagainst great opposition and one<\/p>\n
1279
\n01:30:20,280 –> 01:30:24,120
\nday that man will be raised to
\ndo a great work again. <\/p>\n
1280
\n01:30:25,040 –> 01:30:30,560
\nBut this time, not as an
\noppressed, tearful man, but <\/p>\n
1281
\n01:30:30,560 –> 01:30:33,880
\nhaving come through all the
\ntribulations of life and learned<\/p>\n
1282
\n01:30:33,880 –> 01:30:39,640
\nthe value of patient endurance,
\nhe will rejoice for evermore <\/p>\n
1283
\n01:30:41,440 –> 01:30:43,360
\nwith the greater who’s gone
\nbefore. <\/p>\n
1284
\n01:30:50,610 –> 01:30:56,490
\nWhat have we seen?
\nThe Word of God must be our <\/p>\n
1285
\n01:30:56,490 –> 01:31:01,920
\ndelight daily.
\nDon’t be afraid of their faces. <\/p>\n
1286
\n01:31:04,320 –> 01:31:07,880
\nPressure and tragedy, whatever
\ncircumstances come upon us and <\/p>\n
1287
\n01:31:07,880 –> 01:31:11,320
\ntrouble are used by God to
\ndevelop character of the Saints <\/p>\n
1288
\n01:31:12,120 –> 01:31:14,920
\nand it’s our job to wait to wait
\npatiently. <\/p>\n
1289
\n01:31:15,920 –> 01:31:18,800
\nWhile God’s work is done.
\nAnd to bear that. <\/p>\n
1290
\n01:31:18,800 –> 01:31:21,960
\nYoke, yoke, yoke with meekness
\nand humility, looking forward to<\/p>\n
1291
\n01:31:21,960 –> 01:31:24,280
\nredemption and the rest that
\nwill come. <\/p>\n
1292
\n01:31:25,680 –> 01:31:29,280
\nAnd young people.
\nDon’t ever let anyone tell you <\/p>\n
1293
\n01:31:29,320 –> 01:31:35,400
\notherwise.
\nYouth is the best time to serve <\/p>\n
1294
\n01:31:35,400 –> 01:31:35,680
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