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From Bremerton, we're live Monday night, bible study. Let's pray. Father, come for you, Lord. We commit this bible study in your hands. We thank you for the nice meal, the fellowship. And Lord, we ask that you bless this time as we worship you in song. And thank you so much for the Koinonia, Lord, that where we can gather together in your name and experience the oneness, the communion of fellowship with you, Lord, and one another. So bless, Lord. We ask for your blessing to be poured out upon us. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Praise the lord. Celebrate. Give thanks with a grateful heart. Give thanks to the holy one. Give thanks because he's given Jesus Christ his son and now let the weak say I am strong let the poor say I am rich because of what the lord has done for us and now let the weak say I am strong let the poor say I am rich because of what the lord has done for us give thanks give thanks for us and now let the weak say I am strong let the poor say I am because of what the lord has done for us. Never let me go. I lay it all down again to hear you say that I'm your friend. You are my desire. Never let me go I lay it all down again to hear you say that I'm your friend. Oh, yeah. You are my desire. No one else will do there's nothing else could take your place to to feel the warmth of your embrace. Help me find my way. Bring me back to you, where you're all I want, oh, no, you're all he trembles at his voice how great our god he how great is our god sing with me how great is our god beginning Alright, thank you Rob. Praise the Lord. This is a little light of mine. Alright, Did anybody have the blessing of leading somebody to Christ today? No? Leading somebody to Christ today? I almost did. He almost did. You did? All dogs go to heaven. It's the cats that are going to yeah. The harps in heaven, we know that cats are there because they make the strings from their guts so they're there. Alright. You cat lovers. If there is such a thing. Alright. Pardon me? Yeah. Well, that's good. That's good. Somebody from seventeen years ago recognized. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So if you did have the opportunity to share the gospel, how would you do that? Okay. Somebody was listening. Okay. Now that I want you to write next to that. That is called the Roman's Road. Okay? I didn't say that yesterday. The Roman's Road. It's just one of many ways to lead people to Christ. And so on your leaflet, it's called the Roman's Road. It'll it'll help you cover the basis. Now the first one, let's look at it. Somebody tell me what Romans three twenty three is. You're talking to somebody, you want to lead them to Christ. Why Romans three twenty three? Why is that important? They don't really they think they're good people. That's exactly right. Do hear what Marlene said? People think they're going to heaven because they think they're good. Yeah. And they're, you know, they're they're kinda thinking that god grades on the curve that there's some real Yeah. They'll say, I didn't kill anybody. I didn't do this. But Right. Their smallest sin is sin. Right. Yeah. That's right. So what else? I appreciate you asking the question because it is what we need to do. But sometimes you have to I'm finding my somebody away. Because I stopped doing it for years because I didn't to push someone away. But I wanna ask them if I can I have the permission to ask them a question? When I ask them if they're a praying person, if they say yes, and if you continue on, if they say no, I'll just say, would you at least ask him if he's real? Wait. Could you do that? They all say that. And so it's feeling comfortable. It's feeling more comfortable, not so awkward. If I ask permission and then they aren't so uncomfortable, like, is she a bubble bible thumper? Is she just gonna preach to me? Or is she gonna listen to what I need? And so I do find it not more natural than trying to get all this out. And maybe I'm just planting a seed. So I'm just saying that there's a lot of people that say, you gotta do this. You gotta do all this stuff. You gotta be this. You gotta be that. How to do it? Is what I'm wanting to hear is how to do this. So how does this does it work for you? Do it? How did Jesus do it? He loved them, didn't he? Loved people. But how did he do it? You answer that then. It's your question. Because I wanna follow the instructions. Answer. So Did did he ask him, hey. Can I please pray for you? Can I please share the gospel with you? Sure. How did he do that? He did all of you. Reacted. I don't know any spot where he said, can can I can I tell you something? Now now he can draw the faith out of people. He can come to the woman at the well and he can begin to ask her questions like you're saying. He can identify what her need is in that she's trying to fill a void, an emptiness that she had five men. And he's going to bring her to the place of analyzing what's it mean to have water that you'll never thirst again. So he's gonna draw the Syrophoenician woman. He's drawn the faith out of her when it's it's it's inappropriate to give the children's food to the dogs, which is an insult, but to the puppies. And so but and she says and she and he's drawn the faith out of her and she says, well, Lord, even the little puppies get the scraps that fall from the table. And then he says, great is thy faith. So you're correct in that you can draw you can cause somebody to come to a certain place, but at some point, you're going to need to say to the woman caught in a very active adultery, Go and sin no more. You're going to offend them. The cross is offensive. So you're going to have to bring them to Romans three twenty three to where all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Because we don't want so called friendship evangelism that, hey, alright, they came to church and I prayed with them and we had lunch together, but they've never been born again. The church is filled with unbelievers right now because people are not confronting people with sin and so it's what I feel. Everything is what I feel. But everyone has a different way of approaching people and Lord's gifted you in a way to get that conversation at least started and moving in the direction, then where were we at recently? We asked somebody if they go to church and oh, we're at Fujiyama's and she said no, I don't go to church. And then afterwards I said to Alan, I said well you know, it doesn't matter if she goes to church or not, we should have asked her do you know Jesus, right? Because a lot of people go to church. So alright, so Romans three twenty three, Marlene says we have to establish that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God because a lot of people think they're good and good people go to heaven, bad people go to hell. And so for me, I I always knew that I wasn't good enough, that I was a sinner, but I always also knew that I was better than all of you. So so when someone comes along and says they're going to heaven because they're good or they act good or I was the kid that didn't go to church but they all went to church, I could see right through that facade. You know better than me. You know better than my family. You know better than anybody. So it kinda incensed me that people thought they were better and they were going to heaven because they went to church, you know. And and you gotta be careful that you gotta be careful that way. We as Christians act like we're better than everybody. And that's that's not that's not the way to communicate the love of God. Wretched man that I am. The closer you get to the Lord, if you look in the Bible, every single person that drew near to God was overwhelmed with their sinfulness. Not self righteousness. When Isaiah saw the Lord in Isaiah six, high and train filled the temple, you know, he says, I'm a man of unclean lips among the people of unclean lips. When Peter saw Jesus, you know, throw the net on the other side, the nets were full of fish, he says, away from me from a sinful man. Right? Job says, I abhor myself for repenting dust in the ashes. So every single person that you see with that humility is a person that truly has drawn close to the Lord. God resists the proud, that prideful self righteousness, and but those that are humble are the ones that draw near to the Lord, Lord draws near to them. So so we established all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Then at 03:23, you're writing what? What's the next one? And what's that say, Kathy? So another one that people do, don't they say, I'm just not good enough yet. You invite them to church, you invite them to come. Well, when I get better, when I start doing better, then I'll go, you know. But he commends or demonstrates his love toward us why we were sinners. He died for us. He didn't wait for you and I to get worthy to die for. Right? We're unworthy. And then what's after that, Kathy? Romans six twenty three. Alright. Somebody do that one. Romans six twenty three. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Oh, okay. Say that again? For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So what if somebody says, God's so unfair. He's so unfair. I can't believe in him because he's unfair. Because, you know, how could a loving God allow this little kid to this lady, this man, this whatever, whatever kind of injustice they see. So basically, they're saying they want a just God. They want justice. Do you want justice? The wages of sin is what? Death is eternal separation of God. You don't want justice. Right. Right? So what's the next part of that? But the gift of God, Salvation is a gift. He's going to give. So he makes us all guilty, so nobody can boast, so that salvation can be a free gift. And the only glory goes to him. Right? And so the ways of sin is death, but the gift of God's eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. It is finished upon the cross. All the work is finished. You can't work or be good enough to get there, right? So that humbles people because really secretly a lot of us think we're better than other people. And we're always sizing people up. We're always, well, you know, their kids are like this and their kids are like that. You know, that whole thing. Right? And you go through all that. And but if you level the playing field, that there's only one righteous person, that's Jesus. There's none righteous, no, not one. He's the only one. Mhmm. Then we all come the same way. We all come by grace through faith alone. So what's the next verse, Kathy, after that? Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Alright. So whosoever means whoever. Romans ten thirteen. Right? Jew, Gentile, barbarian, Scythian, bonder, free, male, female, right? Doesn't matter what color of skin, doesn't matter what economic background, none of that, you know, whosoever will. So now they're now you're dealing with Calvinists, and they're saying that, you know, no man can come unto me, Jesus said, except the father which has sent me draw him, and I'll raise him up at the last day. So, well, how do I know if I'm called? How do I know if I'm predestined? How do I know if I get to be a Christian? That's not the argument. The argument is go preach. It doesn't matter if they believe or not. You got that duty to go. That's right. Well, that's a good part. That's good. We'll come back to that. That's a good thing he's saying. Where are you supposed to go? Where? Wherever, right? Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, the outermost, right? Right. Okay. So and we have the privilege of going. He didn't he didn't enlist the angels yet, right? Right. In the tribulation period, there'd be an angel that flies overhead with everlasting gospel, right? So we have the privilege, not AI, it's us. We as human beings, as Jesus didn't come back as an angel, he came back as the son of man, right? And the last Adam, so he our champion. He's our perfect federal head. And so, whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And so, now Jesus said, all that come to me, I'll know why it's cast out. So whosoever will, do you will? The problem in John three is not that you can't understand, it's that you will not. Why won't you? Because you love your sin, Because your deeds are evil. So because if you love your sin and your deeds are evil and you love darkness rather than light, now you'll start making excuses of why you won't come, why you won't surrender. And so it's until you get sick enough of your sin and humble enough before God to cry out to God, God be merciful to me a sinner. So it's the message is a very simple message. It's not an intellectual problem. There's a spiritual problem. But that spiritual problem is alleviated because the holy spirit gives you that measure of faith to believe and in your will, you decide whether you will or not. It's not a problem here. It's a problem here. So as Thomas is saying, one man sows another waters, God brings the increase. My job is to spread the seed. Your job is to spread the seed and somebody waters it. And then we pray and we ask the Lord because we know it's a spiritual battle. We pray that the Lord soften their heart, open their eyes, open their ears, open their heart because the natural man first Corinthians two fourteen, the natural man what? Natural is body and soul. The natural man Yes. So the natural man, he he doesn't understand these things. It's you know, people say, I've read the bible twice. Well, they're not born again, are they? They still don't understand. They're natural man. But what about the spiritual man? Pardon me? First Corinthians two nine and ten, eyes not seen. See? Through the natural faculties, you can't see God, right? Now you have creation, that's one form of revelation. You know, Psalm 19 or Romans one, you're without excuse simply because of that revelation. But God now reveals, is revealing himself unto us through his son, right? We celebrate Christmas, we're responsible for the incarnation, the baby at Bethlehem, right? We celebrate Easter in this culture, we're responsible for the death, the burial, the resurrection, right? Knowledge brings responsibility. So we're not without, you know, revelation, if you will. So eyes not seen nor ear heard, neither has it entered in the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them that love him, right? Right. So you're not going to preach on heaven on that one, are you? Eyes not seen or heard neither is in the heart of man things which God has prepared for them that love him. Are you going to preach on heaven on that one or are going keep going? I'm going to preach on heaven and hell. Alright. We're going to do a lot about hell tonight. So but God has revealed them unto us by his spirit. Nicodemus, you must be born again. He can't get it. How can a man that is old go into his mother's womb? Yeah. He's thinking in the natural. Right? And so often so that's where prayer comes in. It takes a it takes a miracle of God for the light bulb to go on in people. And when it does, it's it's so amazing when the light bulb goes on. Isn't it? Yeah. There's nothing greater. And so we have to we have to realize we're in a spiritual battle that the devil and the demons are trying to keep that person from surrendering to Jesus. And we're walking in obedience, as Thomas said, we just go and we share and we broadcast the seed and we could continue to talk about the four types of soil and all that, but I think you got it because we're in Jeremiah chapter 19. So that's by way of review. All right. Father, we thank you. We ask that you open Jeremiah do able ir going lives. To be to what Thomas said, go. Jesus And said to go. So why is it so hard for us to understand the word go? What don't we understand about the word go? Pardon me? I think rejection is huge. Rejection or ridicule, mocking me, all those kind of things are like, oh, yeah, yeah. We worry about things before they happen. Yeah. And as we step out in faith and we share the truth, a lot of the way that they're trying to silence us is through ridicule, mockery or conspiracy theorists and all those kind of things. So we as Christians, we some have said we need to have the skin, not be so thin skin, have a real strong hide on our skin that it just bounces off, but a soft heart. Don't let your heart get hard. So, and go forth under the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entrance of the East Gate and proclaim there the words that I will tell thee. So what a blessing that Jeremiah's commissioned by God to go. And you and I are commissioned by Jesus, right? Matthew twenty eight nineteen, Jesus said to go, what? And teach all nations. Teach all nations. So our objective is to preach and teach. Teach all nations, meaning discipleship. So churches are to be first and foremost places of teaching. Teaching the word of God to believers. Right? So he says, go and preach the gospel to every creature in Mark's account, Mark 16. But in Matthew's account, twenty nineteen, go into all the world and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit. And then he says, teach them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you, along with you always, even at the end of the age. We're in the church age. We're at the end of the age. He's still here. He hasn't changed his mind. We still have what's called the great commission. It shouldn't be the great omission. Right? Right. You like that, You write that down. You can use that. You can use that. All right. So he's an evangelist, is Thomas. He's an evangelist. This is right up his wheelhouse right here. All right. So Jeremiah, before I formed you in your mother's womb, God tells him in Jeremiah one, right? I ordained you a prophet. I knew you before you were even formed in your mother's womb, I predestined you to be a prophet, a a prophet under the nations. And Jeremiah is not so hip and cool about doing this. Know, that's not what I want to do. I want to live by the beach. Well, when did God ever ask you what you want to do? Right? Right? Is it about what you want to do? Is that your Jesus? Is that your Christianity? You became a Christian because he's your ticket to get what you want? Or is it, if any man come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me? Oh, let's get that out of the Bible. That doesn't sell. What do mean deny myself? God's got a lot. He wants to bless me. He wants to give me all my dreams and everything. So we can be so self absorbed and looking inward that Jesus is like a genie that we rub and we three wishes. This is what I want. But Jeremiah is going to be so incredibly content and fulfilled by simply doing and being who God has made him. There's a point where things get really tough for Jeremiah. His own family members are thinking of of executing them. And and he's, you know, he's wimping out. In chapter 12, the Lord said, are you getting weary with the footmen, with the foot soldiers? Jeremiah, what are you going to do in the time of the swelling of the Jordan and when the horses and the chariots come in? You ain't seen nothing yet, boy. It's going to get a lot worse. Get your big boy bridges on. And then later, when one of the false prophets throws Jeremiah into a pit, throws him into a dungeon type situation and it's mired and everything, he's so angry at God. You ever been angry at God in your calling, what he's called you to do? Hey, I didn't sign up for this. It stinks down here. And he purposed in his heart that he wasn't going to speak in God's name anymore. I'm not going to speak in your you can't make me speak. Well, you remember the story of Jonah Jeremiah? He was unwilling too, but I got a fish ready for him and he became ready. He became willing, right? So we think we have this free will and we do, but God can make us willing. And so Jeremiah, at this point, chapter 19 is willing. He's going to go. He's going to do what he's told to do. And I discovered that the best way is to do what God's telling you to do. That you're going to be like a fish out of water if you try to go your own way. And there's times where you'll so fight with God over and over and over and over. And you don't want to win that fight. Because if you win that fight with God, your will against his will, if ever he says, alright, not my will but your will be done, you're going to discover that there's a leanness in your heart, that all that stuff you thought you had to have, it doesn't bring fulfillment and joy and blessing because it's outside of his will. And so we want to make sure that we're just simply doing what he's called us to do. Stay in your lane. Just stay in your lane and do what God's called you to do. Thus saith the Lord, go and get a potter's earthen flax. So in chapter eight, we talked about the potter and the clay that were the clay. The circumstances of the wheel as it goes around and he's the potter and we're the clay and he's fashioning us as a vessel. We talked about vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor. Now he wants to take an object lesson and he wants Jeremiah to take a clay pot and take it to this Valley Of Hinnom and that's the object lesson. And go near the East Gate, proclaim there the words that I tell thee. So you don't want to speak your words. You know, I'm not interested in your opinion. I'm not interested in the pastor's opinion or what the pastor thinks. When they start going, I, I, I, I, I, shut them off. I think, I think, I think. I'm not here to hear what you think unless you preface it with, you know what, this is something I've been thinking about, you know. You can throw it out there maybe for people to analyze it But don't speak in the first person like you know better than everybody else. When the bible is silent, you remain silent. And these YouTube prophets and all these prognosticators and people, they should be taken out in stone if they're not 100% accurate. They have to be 100% accurate if they're going to tell you, hey, the Lord showed me. Alright, he showed you? What's the time frame? By Thursday next week? Okay. If that doesn't happen like you're saying, then we're going to take out and stone you, alright? And that shut them guys up. But they're going after a whole lot of vulnerable people. So say what the Lord has you to say. Stick with the word of God. Not your books, not your psychology, not your therapy, not what your mom said or your dad said. David, I love David and David right now would be interjecting. He'd be saying, you know what my dad told me? You know what my dad told me? And I used to love it, but I miss David. And as long as it's consistent with God's word, that's fine. So he needs to go with God's word, not Jeremiah's word or Jeremiah's opinion or any of those kind of things. The Lord has a message for us. The message is simple, Jesus Christ and him crucified for the remission of sins and that's what we're to go with. And so, take this the ancients, take of the ancients of the people and of the ancients of the priests and go forth into the valley of the son of Hinnom. And so this Valley Of Hinnom, the Greek word is Gehenna. This Valley Of Hinnom is a place of perpetual burning. This is outside the East Gate Of Jerusalem. It's a place that became a dump. But early on, it became a place where altars were erected where they would worship Moloch and Baal and they would offer little babies there to sacrifice these babies to these false gods. So very, very evil practice and go to the Valley of the Son Of Hinnom, which is by the entrance of the East Gate. The East Gate is all bricked up right now. And so this is the place in Ezekiel where Jesus can return and come through the East Gate into the city. Proclaim the words that I shall tell thee and say, hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, thus saith Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will bring evil upon this place. Does God really bring evil? I mean, can send Satan as his hit man, but he's responsibility for this. I'm gonna bring Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonians. It's gonna be so bad, the siege around the city that you tender hearted women are going to be driven to the end of yourself to the point that you're actually going to boil your little babies and eat them. Can you imagine anything more indignant, more heinous than being a mother and brought to the place where you would boil your own baby to live another day. That's the depravity. That's the judgment that God's bringing upon these people. And they're his own people. These aren't Muslims. These are the Jews. These are his people. And notice what he says, I'll bring evil upon this place concerning which whosoever hears, his ears shall tingle. When they hear this, when word gets out there, all over Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and the television, everybody talks about what happened at Jerusalem. Did you hear what happened at Jerusalem? When they hear what happens, their ears are going to tingle. So we want to back this up with some other verses. Who wants first Samuel three eleven? You guys got your Bibles ready? First Samuel three eleven. And then second Kings twenty-one 12. Okay. Then Habakkuk one five. For Shannon. Habakkuk one five? Habakkuk one five. Okay. And so first Samuel three eleven, this phrase, your ears shall tingle. And the Lord said to Samuel, I'm about to do a shocking thing in Israel. I'm going to carry out all my threats against Eli and his family. I have warned him continually that judgment is coming for his family because his sons are blasphemous are blaspheming God, and he hasn't disciplined them. So I have vowed that the sin of Eli and his sons will never be forgiven by sacrificing their offerings. So Hophni and Phineas, sons of Eli, were very, very corrupt, kinda like the Biden boys, and they got away with it for a while. And when when Eli, the Biden heard about it, he fell over backwards because he was a heavy man and he broke his neck. The the the shock of what had happened that his boys were dead and that the Ark of the Covenant was taken by the Philistines, it just shocked him. So very shocking. Second Kings twenty one twelve. Oh, hold on. Hold on. Therefore, thus saith the Lord of God Lord God of Israel, behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. Oh, tingling ears. Tingling ears. Ever had tingling ears? How about one five? You can. Not one five, right? Behold ye among the heathen and regard and wonder marvelous marvelously. For I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe though it be told you Be told you. So I told you guys many times that I used to use that verse against Kathy and I used to tell her, God's going to do such a great work that if I told you, you wouldn't even believe me, Kathy. He's going do such a great work. Well, it's not in the positive. It's in the negative. I'm going do a work that's so bad and now she's lived that. But I'm going do work that's so bad that you wouldn't believe me if I told you. Now, if God told you ahead of time all the scrapes and all the heartache and all the everything you're going go through when you go, when you obey Him to go, you wouldn't go. So you go by faith and you trust Him day by day. I mean, most of you guys wouldn't have got married if you would have known what marriage was like. Right? This is what I envisioned. For saith the lord. Daddy's just nodding her head. She's just nodding her head. That man's a prophet. Yeah. Alright. I'm sorry, honey. I'm sorry. Alright. Verse four. Because they have forsaken me. The only sin is you've forsaken God. When you get into idolatry and you get into all the other stuff, the root cause is you forsook the Lord. You left the Lord. You backslid. You apostatized. You fell away from the truth because they have forsaken me and have desecrated this place and have burned incense in it under other gods whom neither they nor their fathers have known nor the kings of Judah and have filled this place with the blood of the innocence. How many millions of babies have we sacrificed in the name of pleasure, convenience? 73,000,000 since, you know, more than all the wars. And if you add up around the world, the various ways that you can get money, if you're in Africa or some of these countries, One of the ways you can be sanctioned and not receive money anymore is if you were to outlaw abortion because the globalists want a depopulation, right? So it's the vaccines. A lot of the abortions, lot of the killing of the babies are from the vaccines now and a lot of the sterilization and such. And so you remember when saline abortions were in vogue, you're actually burning the baby in the womb. So they are taking these babies and they are putting on the arms of Molech. The arms are red hot and then they take the baby, the baby that was birthed through the sexual idolatrous worshipping of Balanastra, so they would be in these groves and there would be these occultic orgies taking place and then the priestesses would get pregnant because it is male and female and they menstruate, the girls menstruate, not the men. And they have wombs, the men don't. It's been that way for a long time. And so when they get pregnant, those babies are unwanted pregnancies and then they take and they offer them in a demonic way and that's what God's people were caught up in, these innocents, babies that didn't do anything wrong, you know. So they have built also the high places of Baal to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings on the Baal, which I commanded not, watch this, which I commanded not nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind. Has God ever asked you to sacrifice your children? Why? Why not? Because he sacrificed his son. He's not asking you to sacrifice yours. He sacrificed his son. So in Islam and a lot of these other religions, many of them move in a direction of making themselves martyrs for Allah, sacrificing their lives, blowing stuff up and they're doing it for a lie and very tragic. But we'll sacrifice our lives for the truth if the Lord asked us to, but us, not our children. Grown adults, we make that decision if that's what the Lord wants. If we're to be a martyr, if we are threatened, we will kill you. Well, to be asked in the bodies to be present with the Lord and you do me a favor. So inconceivable, it hasn't even entered into my mind that somebody would do this. Who wants to read two Kings twenty-three 10? Second Kings twenty three ten. What, buddy? I said, someone have that verse already? That Thomas is fast. Twenty-three 10. Quick draw. And then you guys can turn to Jeremiah seven thirty one and thirty two. Be ready after Marlene. And he defiled Tobeth, which is the valley of the children of Hinneh, and that no man can might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech. So pass through the fire to Molech. So are we talking about Manasseh? Let's look at Manasseh. We're there at Manasseh? 2nd Kings 21. You told me 2310. Oh. We read 21. Alright. We'll go back there. So 2310. 20? Yeah. I just read it. Okay. So I need to back up. Okay? Okay. Alright. So let's look at 21. Chapter 21. Yes, two Kings. And it says in verse eight, Neither will I make the feet of Israel move anymore out of the land which I gave their fathers if only they will observe to do according to all that I commanded them and according to all that the law that my servant Moses commanded them. But they hearken not and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. We talked about the ears tingling in verse 12 and verse 16, Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another besides his son by which he made Judah to sin and doing evil in the sight of the Lord. And then Manasseh dies. And now Manasseh is the result of King Hezekiah who is a godly king. King Hezekiah got sick and King Hezekiah wept before the Lord and asked the Lord to heal him. God sent Nathan the prophet and said after he told him to get his house in order, take a fig and put it as a balming thing on wound or whatever and healed him and give him fifteen more years. And in that fifteen more years, Manasseh was born. Manasseh reigned for fifty five years and was worst king that they've ever had and prelude to that was Solomon who apostasized and began to build all these altars to foreign deities because of the many wives that Solomon have in order to please his wives. 700 wives, 300 concubines, that's a whole lot of wine going on. And so he had to build all of these. They were pagan women. A lot of them were pagan women. So he has to build these pagan temples that fit with their belief system, these foreign women, and stayed in and polluted the land. And so then after Manasseh, you've got the grandson which is called Josiah. He's called Josiah. And Josiah brought reform. Josiah, as you continue to read here, brought reform which means he tried to clean things up. And notice two Chronicles 36. He's a young king. Yeah, he died at the hands of Pharaoh Necho going into battle he shouldn't have. So moreover, all the, verse 14, Moreover, all the chief of the priests and the people transgressed very much after their abominations of the nations and polluted the house of the Lord, which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers rising up early and sending because he had compassion on this people and on his dwelling place. So God always ripens us for judgment. God always gives us space for repentance. So what God does is he sends you. He sends me. He sends us to remind people of his sovereignty, to remind people of his love, for God so loved. And as we remind people and as they reject and reject and reject and reject and reject, there comes a point in time where the Lord says, alright, ripened under judgment. Now I'm just and judging you. Right? And so that's what he did with the nation of Israel. He sent Jeremiah. He sent Habakkuk. He sent Isaiah. He sent Ezekiel. He sent the prophets to warn the nation. And don't let anybody ever tell you, you can't talk politics. Every single one of these guys talk politics to the king. Every single one of them pointed their finger at the king and said, you need to stop doing what you're doing. Just as John the Baptist did and lost his head, you know. There's no separation of church and state. No such thing, you know. We serve a king. He's almighty king. Nebuchadnezzar found that out. There's no tyrant that is in charge and then tells you, you can't talk about your Jesus. He's in charge. They're not in charge. So don't don't back down and and be a secret agent Christian like, oh, I can't talk politics, man. But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his prophets until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people till there was no remedy. So he's going to bring them into captivity. And down here it says, seventy year captivity, the whole point of them going through that. They didn't allow the land to rest for four ninety years so the Lord put them in captivity of the Babylonians for a seventy year period of time. So two Chronicles, yeah, they mocked them. So Manasseh did more evil. Manasseh caused his own son to go through the fire and then Josiah comes along and he tries to bring reform. The reform was too little too late. Couldn't save the nation. Too little, too late. So is America at the point, it's too late? I love Betty. That's right. Maybe not. Now, the Ninevites, Jonah had a message. What was his message? Forty days and you're going to perish. There was no repent. There was no good news. It was forty days and you guys are going to perish. That's it. And from the king on down, pagans, pagans, the Assyrians, from the king on down, they all repented, sackcloth and ashes. And God repented of the evil that he was gonna bring upon the Ninevites. And that's why patriot Jonah was so angry because he loved Israel and he hated the Assyrians. And he knew when he got back home that all of his patriot friends would be so angry because God didn't judge the Assyrians, right? Because we're the chosen people. So we see that God gave the Ninevites an over one hundred years reprieve. God gave them over one hundred years. They have America could have a reprieve. We could have another twenty, thirty years maybe if the right situation happened, which would be judgment begins at the house of God, right? If the church has led the nation in repentance. But as long as we think we're great, and we're better, and exceptional, and there's no need of repentance, then you're clueless. You're clueless what's happening. The Lord's given you leaders after your own heart. And so you don't focus on the politicians changing them, you focus upon, Lord, me, change us, work in our hearts. And so he says, Verse five, it was inconceivable. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall be no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter. And so, this word Topheth, notice in verse six, notice verse 11, verse 12, verse 13, verse 14, Topheth. Topheth means a fire pit. So Hinnom is the Hebrew form of the Greek Gehenna. Gehenna is found 12 times in the New Testament. Jesus warned of Gehenna to those that would reject him. And so in Matthew five twenty two, he spoke of Gehenna. And now when you see the word hell in the King James or in your bible, you in the old testament, it's the Hebrew word Sheol. Sheol is the grave or holding compartment. When we talked about Luke 16 the other day, yesterday, we used the word Hades. Hades is the Greek form of the Hebrew shield, which was which was the grave. So you die and you go into hell. Hell used hell was a double compartment until Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead. So Luke 16, the rich man of Lazarus, there's a great gulf there. It's a place of torment for the rich man. But Lazarus was in Abraham's bosom. Jesus told the thief on the cross, this day will be with me in paradise. In Ephesians four, he that ascended first descended lower part of the earth, he emptied out Abraham's bosom. They were awaiting the crucifixion. All the old testament saints were awaiting the crucifixion so that they then could have their be asked from the body to be present with the Lord. So the wicked dead are still there in a place called Hades or Sheol. The eventual abode is gonna be in Revelation chapter 20 where there's gonna be the great white throne judgment and the wicked dead are going to be bodily resurrected from the dead. They're gonna stand before God and give an account of what they did whether good or bad. And basically, it's what did you do with my son. And then the abode will be the same place that the Antichrist and the false prophet are which is the lake of fire which is Gehenna. The lake of fire in that Hinnom outside the city, the East Gate was a perpetual fire, a pit, a perpetual burning place, a dump if you will, the pit, the fire pit, tophet. Hinom, Gahena in the Greek, so perpetual burning. Jesus described it as a place where the worm dieth not and the fires never quenched. So no annihilation, no cessation of being. You're in the fire and you feel it. And the rich man said, send Lazarus to touch his finger in the water and touch my tongue because I'm in grievous torment. So tremendous torment and then eventually, that one's emptied out and the final abode is the lake of fire that of Gehenna. So Matthew five twenty two, Matthew five twenty nine, Matthew five thirty, Matthew ten twenty eight, Matthew eighteen:nine, Matthew twenty-three 15, Matthew twenty-three 33. Get the tape. Mark nine forty three, Mark nine forty five, Mark nine forty seven, Luke twelve:five and James three:six, 12 times in the New Testament, the Greek word Gehenna for hell. Now there's another place called the abyss. Where is the abyss? The abyss is the bottomless pit. Luke eight thirty one, Romans ten:seven, Revelation nine eleven, Revelation eleven seventeen, Revelation seventeen:eight and Revelation twenty thirteen. So the abyss is the place that Satan is held for a thousand years. Then Satan is loosed at the end of the millennium to torment or to seduce the earth dwellers, the Gentiles that begin to repopulate the planet during that thousand year rule of reign. The Jews are all saved. The Jewish remnant that comes out of Petra, out of Basra, that come into the millennium are all saved. But the Gentile who come in, they're saved, but they have offspring. They're still in their human bodies and they start to repopulate the planet. The curse is reversed. Well, Jesus is rule and reigning with the rod of righteousness. You and I rule and reigning with him as kings and priests. And so now, the Lord is going to bring the devil out of the abyss to tempt them and they get together with their armies to try and overthrow Jesus, consumes them with fire. Then we go into Revelation twenty one and twenty two, the eternal state, New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem, all that. Okay. So that's the abyss that the devil has held. Also, Revelation nine eleven, there are some really bad angels, some bad angels at the time of the flood that are also being held back, reserved for a time in Revelation nine where they are going be unleashed against the earth dwellers, the people upon the earth. And Revelation eleven seventeen, Revelation seventeen:eight and twenty thirteen. And so Sheol is found 65 times in the Old Testament, New Testament is Hades. There's another place, another word that's used called Tartarus. Tartarus is in second Peter two verse four and Jude six and it's the abyss or the pit. It's a place where some of these really bad angels are being held presently, held back and then during the tribulation period, all hell is going to break loose upon the earth dwellers. So the picture here is that of all hell breaking loose on these guys and Jeremiah seven thirty one, They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire which I commanded them not neither came into my heart. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor the valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter for shall they in Topheth, till there be no place And the carcasses of this people shall be food for the fowls of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth and none shall frighten them away, the vultures. They will like cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem, voice of myrrh and the voice of gladness, voice of the bridegroom, voice of the bride, but the land shall be desolate. So no more parties. The party is almost over. And we sense that the party is almost over. And we're wanting to get the last vestiges of the life that we've known our whole lives as much as we can. We want to take that nice vacation. We want to do those things that we've been putting off because we sense that pretty soon the light switch is going to be shifted and life is going to be radically changed here in America. And so people can sense it. They don't quite know how to articulate it maybe, but those who put their hope in the politicians, they don't have any hope anymore. There is no hope. And those who put their hope in Jesus, they can still smile because it's the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, right? So the valley of slaughter. Now, you remember in Revelation 19 that the Lord is going to give over the globalists, the kings of the earth over to a king slaughter, where the carnivorous birds are going to feast upon their bodies after Armageddon in the Valley Of Megiddo when Jesus destroys them, the blood is high as the horse's bridle. And I'll make the voice of the council of Judah and Jerusalem in this place and I'll cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hands of those who seek their lives and their carcasses will I give to be food for the fowls of heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And so Revelation nineteen eighteen, that supper, same sort of supper. Northrop Grumman, today I saw an article, came out with divulging a weapon that they have that is now being they're saying it's already been happening, but basically directed energy weapons, laser weapons upon the airplanes and such. And so, some trust in horses, some in chariots, but we'll trust in the living God. The horses and the chariots and the amount of when David numbered his men, it's your military. Hey, we trust in our military. We have the most powerful military in the world, you know. We trust in our dollar. In God, we trust, you know. What makes America great? But if we would trust in the living God, he says, I'm going to give you over to your enemies. If God is for us, who can be against us? But if you turn your back upon God, you don't have his help anymore. So now you got to try and navigate it on your own. And if he raises up a nation, simply raises them up as an instrument of judgment against you, what are you going to do against them, you know? So, I mean, he's given them plenty of time. So you're going to fall by the sword before their enemies and it's the sword, the plague, the pestilence and beasts beasts of the forest and stuff come after him. So and I'll make this city desolate and a hissing. Everyone that passes by shall be appalled and hiss because of all of its plagues. So this happens in May. The children of Israel go into Babylon for seventy years. After seventy years, Cyrus comes. Cyrus, the Persian and Darius, the Mede, and they take the city and wipe out the Babylonians. Right? Belteshazzar, Daniel chapter five, many, many, Tegre Gufarsen. You know, your kingdom, your kingdom is done. You've been waiting the balance and found wanting. Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians. That done. You're done. So the Medes and the Persians, they rule and reign. Then Alexander the Great comes along about 30 years old and he wipes them out very swiftly, very quickly. And then after Alexander the Great, he dies. He doesn't have any more places to conquer. And so many feel that he was assassinated but his kingdom is divided under his generals, four different generals. And then after that, the Romans come along and the Romans defeat the Greeks and then the Greek culture culturally is dominant even though the Romans are there. So we have the Koine Greek language that our bible is written in. We have a lot of Greek culturally in the times of the bible being written. We have Jewish culture, we have Roman culture. But we have Jesus coming along during the time where the Pax Romana is happening, the gospel can go forth because the peace that the Romans established, the people could travel and all. And so he comes along at this time, the time of Caesar Augustus, right? And that all the world should be taxed. And so Mary who is great with child and Joseph head back to Bethlehem and according to Micah five verse two, know, we have a babe that's born in Bethlehem, prophesied five hundred years before the babe was even born and we celebrate even to this day. We have the wise men coming from Babylon. How did they know? We saw the star, the star of David and they followed the star. Could be that Daniel, part of the book of Daniel is written in Aramaic, could be that Daniel and some of his teaching what was left in the book of Daniel was there for the Babylonians who are the present day Iraqis and that these wise men came, the Magi and the religious leaders wouldn't even travel six miles from Jerusalem to Bethlehem, the house of bread to see if it was so, but said, go and go and see King Herod the Great and all. And and they didn't come back. They were warned in a dream to not go back that way, so they went back to Babylon a different way. And then Jesus, that time, two years later, is living in a house and the Magi brought gold, myrrh, frankincense. So let's have Christmas tonight. What's the goal for? I just need to pause and need to swallow. What's the goal for? Tax for a king? What's the myrrh? Burial of a prophet. What's the incense? Priest. Prophet incense, incense, frankincense. Prophet, priest and king. So they bring that. Now that money is used by Joseph and Mary because they have to flee down to Egypt after the babes of Bethlehem are killed, right? How do we get over here? So they got some money to, you know, the golden sets to finance their trek away. King Herod the Great, they get word that he's died and they come back. And then Jesus lives to be, he is 12 years old and his parents are lost, he is not lost and that's the last we hear of him from 12 years old. We know that his brothers didn't believe in him until after the resurrection had a big family. Joseph, there is no more to hear of Joseph. We have the lineage in Matthew one and Luke three. There is no lineage of anybody else except for him because in seventy AD, Jesus is weeping over the city, right? And he's weeping over the city because the temple is there, The second temple period because this temple, five eighty six, has been wiped out. Second temple period in his first advent, he's coming. They're crying out, Hosanna, Hosanna, save now. They're crying out, Crucify him, crucify him, let his blood be upon us. He is rejected officially by the nation and now he is weeping over the city knowing that what happened in May was going to happen once again and that the people within forty years, he died in about thirty two AD. At seventy AD, General Titus, the Roman general, put a siege upon the city of Jerusalem and they estimated a couple million Jews within that city would die and that not one stone would remain upon another. A fire broke out in the temple. The temple was filled with enormous amounts of gold, the same in the time of the Babylonians, and the soldiers would pry bar each and every stone to get after that molten gold that went down in the rocks, went down in the cracks. And so not one stone remain upon another, Jesus said, He is weeping over the city, how often I would have gathered you together as mother hen does gather her brood but you would not. So now, we have talk of the third temple being built. You've been hearing about that? The ashes of the red heifer being developed. Some cows from Texas are in Israel and they're waiting to see if genetically they're pure enough to be able to start the process of the priest being able to offer the ashes of the red heifer. The temple, in order for the Antichrist to come along, the Antichrist doesn't come on the scene and sign the peace treaty of Daniel 09/27 and then everything happened in a short seven year period of time. The beast system is already being put in place. The one world economic currency is being developed. The one world religious system, as we've talked about, the Abraham Accord are taking place with Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other religions. And the 10 toes, the 10 crowns, the 10 horns, the 10 kings, the I believe and I said that I there, this isn't the word of God. It could be that these are technocrats, unelected technocrats, very wealthy technocrats in the technical world that geographically have regions, the world divided up into 10 regions along with these oligarchs, this cabal, these globalists. They are finally going to want to be kings. King, what's his name, was he Prince Philip before? Who is he now? King what? The Queen died? Charles. Charles said that there's a man coming along that's going to need trillions of dollars. This man is going to need trillions of dollars to be able to rule and to implement what's coming. So I mean, have they met with this Antichrist guy yet? But in any event, at this point, the Lord is going to allow the Babylonians to destroy this temple. Nehemiah is going to go back later and help rebuild the walls as with the priest, help get the religious temple aspects going and the Judaism rebooted. And the people really aren't interested, very few are going back. They are not so interested. Like commerce. They like when they're in Babylon. They like the amount of money they're able to make and they're very good at it. And they didn't really have a desire to go back to Jerusalem and suffer in that place as they have throughout history. God allowed six, seven, 8,000,000 Jews to be killed. 05/14/1948, they reestablished as a nation. It's in that time of terrible, terrible holocaust type thing that the Jews began to feel sense be drawn back to their land. Unprecedented in history, Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven fulfilled. And now you and I are watching as people are talking about rebuilding the temple. They have all the garments for the priests made. They have all the implements and everything for everything they need to do from a Judaistic standpoint. I don't know where they're going to get the stones from, who's doing the mason work and all that sort of thing. But a whole lot of talk about this. So I'm not looking for that temple, but these are birth pangs. When you see those birth pangs, the birthing of a new day, the birthing of the return of Christ, it's going to increase in frequency and intensity, these birth pangs when finally it's delivered. So here, you have the first temple, Solomon's Temple, which David wanted to build God a house, but God said, Your hands are too bloody. So David store up the resource resources, give them to Solomon and Solomon's temple, gold was just so incredibly plentiful. Was, you know, they were extremely wealthy in the time of Solomon. So I'll make the city desolate and hissing everyone that passes by it shall be appalled and hiss because of all of its plagues. And I'll cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend in the siege, and you guys are going to get a lot from me, and distress with which their enemies and they that seek their lives shall distress them. In the time of the second world war in Russia, Leningrad, when the Germans put a siege upon the city of Leningrad, the only people that weren't emaciated, I read this, the only people that weren't emaciated and suffering from starvation were those who were practicing cannibalism. So they say that you'd find bodies with the glutes missing, the glutes missing. So I don't know. The glutes, the rear end, your rear end, your flank. So there were still enough meat there for people to eat. Oh, the rump roast. There you go, Rob. Thank you, Rob. He's as sick as I am. So cannibalism, cannibalism. And everyone that pass by shall be appalled and hissed because of its plagues and I'll cause him to eat the flesh. So let's look at this. So after Jeremiah finishes this book, okay, and it really happens. Now, he's writing the book of Lamentations. So turn to Lamentations. Somebody read Lamentations two twenty and somebody else read Lamentations four ten. So Lamentations went it over. Everything that he prophesied for forty one years has come to pass. And I mean, I'm learning that no matter how much ahead of the curve the Lord allows me to be, letting people know things that are that the bible is saying is going to happen and trying to warn and everything. When it finally does happen, nobody cares. This is so strange. It's so strange that you could spend your whole life trying to prepare people for something that's going to happen and then it starts to happen and they're just like, we still don't care. We still don't care. Now you could have spent your whole life lying to them like the false prophets and patting your bank account and big houses and all that big churches, but you spend all that time, Jeremiah does, in the trenches telling them the truth and then it happens and you know what they do? They're such sore losers, they take them to Egypt and kill them. Sore losers, these people. But anyway, Lamentations two twenty. Leviticus twenty six twenty nine, God warns them that this is what will happen if you turn your back upon me, cannibalism. Lamentations two twenty? Who's doing it? Steve? Steve. Hold on. Here comes the mic. Hold on. Oh, we got plenty of time. Hold on there, Boba Louie. The big one is four ten. Lamentations four ten is the big one. It's tragic, four ten. Lamentations Behold, two oh Lord and consider to whom thou has done this. Shall the women eat their fruit and the children of the span and the children of a span long? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword. Thou has slain them in the day of thine anger. Thou has killed and not pitied. You notice what tense that's in? Past tense. We're watching future tense, right? That's prophecy. The more sure word of prophecy. We know that he's God. We know that the Bible is real because he tells us ahead of time what's going to happen. Lamentations four ten. Lamentations four ten. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children. They were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. And that's just sad. It's sad. So what's the Mosaic Law concerning boiling a calf in its mother's milk? It's cruel, isn't it? So God forbids it. God forbids for that to happen. And here, people are brought to the point of, you know, boiling their own children to try and survive. And so Solomon, he's smart enough. He says, alright. Two women came and they ate the one lady's baby one day and then they came back and wanted to eat the other lady's baby and she says, no way. And how did Solomon in his wisdom determine who the mother was? What's that? Right, right, right. You are the mother. Give the child to her. Yep. Okay. It goes against mother instinct, right? Wei. So their daughters and they shall eat every one of the flesh of his friend and the siege and distress, which their enemies and they that seek their lives shall distress them. Then shalt thou break the flask. So here's the clay pot that we started with. Here's the vase. So you're at the very area of Hinnom. It's garbage heap. It's an abyss, it's a pit, it's a perpetual burning, it's Gehenna, it's Topheth, it's where bodies are burned and now take that flask in front of the leadership, we are going to give you an object lesson, in the sight of the men that go with thee, so this illustration and shalt thou say to them, thus saith the Lord of hosts, even so will I break this people in this city as one breaks a potter's vessel, that it cannot be made whole again and they shall bury them in Topheth till there be no place to bury. And so there's going to be so many bodies, they're going to be bringing them not to tombs, not to places where like Joseph's bones, take my bones out of Egypt here and bring them into Canaan. You know, the bones in the sarcophagus, these tombs, the outer flesh, you know, would go away, but then the bones would still be there. And in this case, you don't get Joseph of Jesus needed the or excuse me, doesn't need anything. But Joseph of Arimathea offered his brand new hewn out tomb, never man laid for Jesus to be buried in, right? Jesus only needed it for the weekend, right? So it's good. So, jars of clay, jars of clay. So thus saith the Lord of hosts, even so will I break this people and this city as one breaks a potter's vessel that it cannot make whole again, and there they shall bury them in Topheth till there be no place to bury. Now in Acts chapter one eighteen and nineteen, Judas, his body burst asunder, hung himself and the body burst on the ground from the corruption. And the 30 pieces of silver, Jesus was valued as a gourd ox is the value or a slave was the value they placed on him. Joseph was sold by his brothers for 20 pieces of silver. Jesus, according to Zechariah 11, for 30 pieces of silver and that's exactly what the religious leaders gave to Judas or Pence, we call him now. And so he was buried at Akkadama, which is the field of blood. And so we talked about how Jesus purchased the potter's field and that the broken lives that you and I represent, these men can't Jesus, the Lord's illustrating, I'll break this pot, nobody's going be able to put it back together. There's no super glue. There's no way to put this culture back together. This culture is broken. The nation is broken. And it's over, the shelf life is over. But for us, is able to take us and if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things are passed away, all things have become new. So he can restore your marriage. He can restore your family. He can take your life that's broken and he can create a new thing. He can take the years that locusts and the cankerworm have eaten and He can restore a sweetness to your home, a sweetness to your life and a sense of purpose. He can take a drug in potter's vessel that cannot be made whole again and they shall bury them in Topheth till there will be no place to bury. Thus will I do unto this place, will I do, saith the Lord and to its inhabitants and even make the city like Topheth. So the whole city is going to be like a junk heap, a perpetual burning, a pit, a burning. And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth, just like Topheth, your homes, your pristine homes, you wealthy people are going to be defiled like Topheth because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense under the host of heaven and have poured out drink offerings under other gods. And so they have these flat roofs and they go on top of their flat roofs and they would do all of this occultic offering and burning of incense and stargazing and the whole occult stuff. And when it says other gods, little g gods, in first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 20, Paul said that which the Gentiles offer in these temples, they're actually offering on the demons. It's demons that are behind the occult activity that these people think that they're getting into where they're channeling voices and, you know, being possessed and and what was it Mark Dinsmore told you guys, maybe it wasn't him, the fastest growing religion in America is Luciferian, witchcraft. And when you get into Revelation chapter 18, when Mystery Babylon is destroyed, they were seduced with sorcery. What's sorcery? It's pharmaceutical. The pharmaceuticals, right? And so the all the different drugs that are being used to seduce people, to control people, to bring them into an altered state of consciousness. And So terrible times ahead. How many people die from fentanyl? From heroin? How many people from LSD and all the different pharmaceutical drugs that people are on? Oxycodone, right? Just so many different drugs that possess people. And that's in Revelation 18 that he says. And so they've got their flat roof altars and we have our flat screen altars. And we watch and worship and engage in and allow into our homes movies from Disney, right? Not you, not me, not anymore, right? No matter what BlackRock says, uh-uh, uh-uh. No more shopping at Target. No more Bud Light. No. Only Coors for me. Alright. Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to prophesy. And he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people, thus saith the Lord. There you go. Lord speaking. These aren't Jeremiah's words. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words. Man, it's hard to get through to people today. It's so hard. The sun that softens the wax hardens the clay. So we just keep preaching, right Thomas? Keep teaching, we preach and teach. We preach to the unbeliever. We teach the believer. Our job is to disciple the believers. The believers, healthy sheep that are taught God's word, reproduce. They're evangelists. They go out there preaching the gospel to the lost. And so, that's my job description in Acts 20, to bring the full counsel of God. Or in John 21, where Jesus asked Peter, Do you love me? Feed my sheep. What's the food? It's not Freud and Roy, right? It's not psychology. It's not self help stuff. It's not therapy. It's not something new that people think they never heard of before, right? It's the word of God. The word of God lives and abides forever. Now, turn to Psalm 106. Thought you were done, didn't you? I got more time. Psalm 106. So notice verse 34. A lot of times people say, God, it's really harsh that the Lord, when they when he brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, that he commissioned them to just annihilate the Canaanites, wipe them out, get rid of them. Saul, when he came back from being told later to wipe out the Amalekites, the Amalekites being a type of the flesh, Egypt, the type of the world, he didn't obey the Lord. They he didn't kill King Agag, you know, this guy in a 13 foot bed. This guy is a big giant. And Og, Bashan. And Samuel says, what's that bleeding of the sheep that I hear in my ears, you know? And all the people, the people wanted to keep the spoil. Well, God said don't keep anything, kill it all. And and well, we kept the best of it so that we could sacrifice it under the Lord. And what did God say? What did Samuel say through what did the Lord say through Samuel? Obedience. Obedience is better than sacrifice. Don't religiously cover your sin by going to church and singing the song. Oh, we're just going to sacrifice it under the Lord. No. Obey the Lord. Do what he's told you to do first and foremost, you know. In Isaiah one, the Lord says, I'm sick of your sacrifices. You're trying to cover your sins with your religiousness, but you don't obey me. You don't you're not obeying me in the way that you're living. So notice verse 34. Moses and them were supposed to wipe all these guys out. Moses gets called home up on Mount Nebo. He wasn't going to get to go into the Promised Land. But Joshua and the boys, with Caleb and all, they were going to get to go in and be used to the Lord. And so they did not destroy the nations concerning whom the Lord commanded them. And so during that time, everybody was singing, you know, Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? And love your neighbor. Wear the mask. Take the jab. And it's all about love. Love wins. And as the homosexuals are are being declared fit for marriage by Obama, Love wins. You guys got it wrong twice when you voted against it. But we're mingled, so you're mingling. So come out from among them, be separate, sayeth the Lord. Touch not the unclean thing, and I'll receive you. So they're corrupted, they're mingling. What does light have in common with darkness? What does a believer have in common with the unbeliever? So we're in the world but not of the world. We're not isolated away from everybody. We're in the world because we have a job to do and a bunch of you guys are trying to figure out a way out of here. There's no way out. There's a job to do. Right? There is a job to do. We talked about it yesterday. Go. And so, and they served the idols which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons. These idols, the idolatry, it's actually demons in the occult that's behind, these occultic practices. And they shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters whom they sacrificed under the idols of Canaan and the land was polluted with blood. Thus were they defiled with their own works and played the harlot in their doings. Notice how it's not a foreign enemy wiping these guys out, A military force. It's corruption. It's poison that they're allowing in their culture. So how did the Roman Empire fall? From within. The corruption took over, right? So too with us, right? It's the corruption. When the salt has lost its savior, what did Jesus say? What's the right purpose of the salt? What was it used for in that time? How would it preserve? Stopped Corruption. Stave off the putrefaction, right? So the salt, you put it on the meat, you salt the meat, you hunters, right? And you learn how to cure it and how that meat can last longer because it has the salt to stave off the corruption. So we're to be a purifying influence. When the Lord removes the restrainer in second Thessalonians two, all hell's gonna break loose like people never seen before. We, the church, as weak and anemic as we are, we still, with the work of the holy spirit and through us, are slowing down the corruption of this culture that's moving toward Luciferianism, right? They're moving toward the worshiping of the devil. But we're the ones slowing it down. They don't want us Christians here anymore. Well, God has a way to rapture us out of here. And the work of the Holy Spirit through the church is that restrainer that's one day going to be removed. But in this time of apostasy where much of the professing church, those that profess to know him but in works they deny him, are falling away from the truth. And it's the truth that keeps you free. If you don't know the truth, then you're deceived. Jesus said, take heed that no man deceive you. We're living in a time of exponential deception. The greatest weapon of the devil is deception. Our weapon to counteract is truth. You just expose it. So have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. When you expose it, they get mad. They fact check you. Oh, we fact checked and that's not true. Yes, it is true. They on me, they they shut me down on Facebook and all that stuff and you guys grab it and send it around. And a lot of us, we just don't stop. But Rob was talking today about when he's in the yard that this is top secret. So I've got to be careful. If you tell me something, remember, you're going to hear it from the pulpit, right? So get ready. All of the COVID stuff's coming back, he's told today. Now yesterday, I wore the smock and the mask and Doctor. No Jabba and all that. People are looking at me like, what's he doing? Well, didn't you hear they're doing COVID two point zero and it's the new BS variant. Don't you know that? And so but people are looking at me strange, but now it's coming out the media have their talking points again to drive this narrative, this false narrative, this fallacy, this fraud. So Rob's told today, hey, get ready. It's all coming back. What are you going to do and all that? And we know the truth. Now interestingly, he and I were talking, if they would just get Robbie's statistics, she systematically been pointing out all the people that are dying, that have been dying from this jab. The clot shot, the myocarditis, young people, exponential amount of young people. And if we can't get Robbie's statistics that she's compiling, get the insurance companies. Insurance companies have documents of the enormous amount of people sixty percent greater than normal that are dying. Go to the mortuaries. Go to the crematoriums. Enormous. How could you possibly get away with talking points of two point o? You know? But the discussion, nobody will talk about all the people that have died. But you and I know the truth. So fool me once. Me. Fool me twice? No. Shame on you. That's it. But once, shame on you. Twice, shame on you. Doesn't we keep getting close. That's true. Nor did the mask help. But Robbie's got a new one from Stanford University. Tell him, Robbie. Biden said tell him what Biden said and then then give him the she's tired. Let her sleep. I'll I'll tell him. Look at her. That blanket, man. I know. It's got bug bed bugs. It was a I got what? Never mind. Don't listen to him. So Stanford came out with a study that said they they did a study on whether they could deliver the mRNA vaccine vaccine through aerosol, and it was very successful. So then a few days later after that, Biden comes out and says, whether you want it or not, everyone's gonna get the vaccine even if you've already had it. And so they're just they're gonna go into venues, and they're gonna spray it. And, I mean and that's their method of delivery. So So what can we do? Now it's time for all of us to buy a gas mask. Come to church with a gas mask. If somebody's at the back shooting shooting some aerosol in the room, put the mask on. A real not that little mask. Put the big one with the filters there. You know? We're gonna have to have our white space suit on. Alright. So well, thank you, Robbie. So we these were defiled with their own works and played the harlot in their doing. Now I've said many, many, many, many, many times, the greatest enemy that I face is me. Nobody can take me out of my marriage. Nobody can has the power to separate me from the love of Jesus. But I can. I can ruin everything. I can ruin everything in a heartbeat if I so choose. So I thank the Lord that each and every day, He protects me from me, right? Because man, you don't know what you're capable of, do you? I mean, moly. So yes, so anyway, I look at this and it's like they brought it on themselves. It's not a foreign enemy. It's not the Chinese or the Russians or any foreign entity that's going to take America down. It's from within. It's our own federal government who are selling this out to the globalist. It's just so sad, so tragic to see the corruption of our society, communist revolution of the demoralization. We're being demoralized. We used to be a moral culture, to speak, a Judeo Christian ethic that we're built upon. But I mean, we send out the pornography. We send out the abortions. We send out the transgenderism and all the different, you know, these other countries don't do this stuff. Know, These other countries aren't into all this with their kids and all that kind of stuff. But we are, only in the West. In the name of health. Yeah. Health is the way and climate. Now it's climate too. The planet, the planet and health. Yes. And that's why in May, there is legislation pending, right, where these nations are going to sign a treaty with the World Economic Forum and with the World Health Organization surrendering our constitution, our sovereignty over to the World Health Organization, which is controlled by who? Bill Gates and the other globalists, right? And so then, it will be international law declaring a state of emergency with the next variant or whatever it is, Ebola, whatever he wants to release. And so it's all fear, fear, fear, fear, fear. And so he says, therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against this people in so much that he abhorred his own inheritance and he gave them into the hand of the nations and that they had hated that ruled over them and so they went into bondage. Their enemies also oppressed them and they were brought into subjection under their hand. Many times did he deliver them but they provoked him with their counsel and they were brought low for their iniquity. Nevertheless, he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry and he remembered for them his covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercies. He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captive after the holocaust, the Zionist movement and all. Save us, oh, Lord, our God, and gather us from among the nations to give thanks unto thy holy name and to triumph in thy praise. And so 05/14/1948, the nation of Israel is regathered. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting and let all the people say, amen. Praise the Lord. So never stop praising him. And so God's not done with Israel, but boy, he sure took them to the woodshed, didn't he? And so we have a lot to be thankful for, too much is given, much is required. We've lived in an unparalleled period of prosperity, my generation, post World War II as people that grew up in America. Our standard of living, the opportunities, the middle class, everything just unbelievable. And And what did God get for it? I know. So let's pray. Father, thank you, Lord, that you have a remnant. You always have a remnant of believers. It's so precious to be here tonight and to cover 4,000 verses tonight. And I just thank you for that. I thank you that we could be men and women of your word and allow you to speak to us. I think of sweet time that we could worship You in song, the meals, the laughter, just the friendship that's here, Lord, that's knit, that's centered in You. You're the glue, Lord. You're the one that holds all things together. And we thank you for holding us in the palm of your hand that no one can snatch us out, Lord. We thank you that nothing can separate us from your love, Lord. We thank you the work that you've begun that you're gonna complete it, Lord. This is your work. So Lord, anoint and use us, help us to go forth with the glorious gospel. Give us opportunities with questions, with preaching, with teaching, with illustrations, object lessons, however you want to communicate your love to a world that's perishing. Give us the wisdom to factor in the gospel, to bring the gospel, Jesus Christ and him crucified for the remission of sins. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
