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Live Monday night. We're in Jeremiah thirty three three. Call unto me and I'll answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which you know not here in Bremerton. God can hear their saints in Bremerton even. Can you believe that? Alright. Let's pray. Father, thank you for this night that we can gather in your name. We commit this night into your hands. We thank you for the excitement, Lord, of, fast approaching the celebration of Christmas, and we pray we all have a merry Christmas watch over and keep a hedge of protection around each and everyone. And, Lord, we pray for Sally. You continue to heal her. Thank you that Fred's getting stronger. And Lee with his knee, help his knee to heal, and Nancy, and just be with each and every person in the fellowship that's been battling health issues and make them strong and healthy, ready for the holidays, Lord. Bless this bible study tonight in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Righteousness righteousness is what I Amen. Amen. Ready? Yeah. K. We're in Jeremiah 33. Alright. Thank you for the sweet time, Lord, that we've already spent here having some holiday chili and limerine pie, corn muffins, and and time of worshiping and analyzing and talking about prophecies being fulfilled, the times we're living in, that none of these things would overtake us unaware. And then now as we study your word, we pray that you'd open the scriptures to understanding that you'd give us ears to hear heavenly father. And, that we would grow and then be encouraged and be filled to overflowing with your holy spirit. Be with those that couldn't be here tonight, and I just pray that you bless those on Facebook and such and those are gonna hear it, you know, on Telegram and Rumble and all that. Just pray that people would be blessed by your word, Lord. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. So he says, moreover, the word of the lord came unto unto Jeremiah the second time while he was yet shut in the court of the prison. So Jeremiah's in prison. We saw last week the word of the lord came to him, and and so he's there in the prison, thus saith the lord, the maker of it, the lord who formed it to establish it. The lord is his name. And so Genesis one one, in the in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. So who are we talking to? Who's speaking to him? The God of all creation, the God of redemption, the God that's gonna pardon the nation of Israel, the God that made a new covenant for them. And and so he says, excuse me, call unto me, and I'll answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not. So this Jeremiah last week, we saw that Jeremiah was in verse six. The lord spoke and said to Jeremiah, the word of the lord came unto me saying, behold Hamanel, the son of Shalom, thine uncle shall come unto thee saying, buy my field that is in Anathoth for the right of redemption is thine to buy it. So a picture of the purpose of an illustration that, your nephew's gonna come, your cousin's gonna come, and he's gonna offer you to buy a worthless piece of ground because the whole city's coming down, but it's not worthless because it's part of your family, part of a a right of redemption. And and so it's it's a message to the people that in the future, prophetically, that you're gonna be back in the land, and this land is is gonna belong belong to you. Is that your phone again? No. Oh, that's okay. My smartphone. I'm just kidding. Alright. So verse six, he says the lord spoke to me. Now how does god speak to us? Through his word. Through his word. Yep. Through other people. Did did the lord speak to Jeremiah in an audible voice in that courtyard, their prison courtyard? Probably. Have you heard the lord speak to you in an audible voice? I have. Rob has. Were you sure it was the Lord? Mhmm. Why isn't Jeremiah sure? Why is he unsure? Notice what he says down here. Verse eight. So Hananel Hanamel, mine uncle's son, came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the lord and said unto me, by my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathos, which is in the country of Benjamin, for thou for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is is thine, buy it for thyself. Then notice he says, then I knew that this was the word of the lord. So he had confirmation when the cousin came just as the lord previously told him. So if you hear the Lord audibly, there should be no doubt that you heard the Lord. Right? If Top drawer. I was just wiping on my jacket. Yeah. Oh, there. Thanks, man. Alright. Thank you very much, Rob. Thanks of everything. It does. Got wet wipes over in this drawer here. If it gets worse, it gets worse, man. I mean, wet wipes. Alright. But there are no masks over here. This is a no mask zone. Alright. Okay. So I've never heard the Lord speak to me audibly. There's times where I've been in a trance like Peter was in acts 10, and I heard Kathy say, Rick. And I thought it was the Lord speaking to me, but it was really Kathy. And so I've never heard the Lord audibly. That time I fell asleep when I was counseling those people getting married, it was on Sunday after church, and I was really tired. Had concerts since that Friday, Saturday. I'm listening to this young couple tell me all their trouble. It was the afternoon on Sunday in the Roxy in my office, and Kathy's there with me. And I'm talking I'm I'm the one talking. And then all a sudden, I went. And then I heard Kathy go, Rick. You know? So I can hear that. I can still hear that sound. But Alan tells me there's Alan tells me there's a couple times that the lord spoke to him audibly. Rob tells us that the lord spoke to him audibly. For me for you, how has how does the lord prayer is not a monologue. Prayer is a dialogue. Right? So he's inviting us to call unto me, and I'll answer thee. So when you when you maybe maybe you visually get a dream and the lord says right? So you do that. Well, just in I mean, when you're in your prayer or your quiet time, something the Holy Spirit quickens something to you. Might not yeah. It's not. But you just go, what? You know, you might question it, but then you, you know, sometimes you have a confirmation from it or just in your in your heart, you know that it's from the Lord. So there's an impression upon your heart. There's a lot of voices in my head. That's exactly Lot of voices in my head. Right? Yep. I'm schizophrenic. I got a lot of voices in my head. Right? Which one's you, Lord? Because his word, you know. Yeah. Gotta line up with the word. So it's gotta line up with the word. So let's oh, golly. Prayer, call unto me, and I will answer thee. The Lord's gonna answer you. How's he gonna answer you? And show thee great and mighty things which you know not. So here we go. I'll be going through somebody else. So there's a poster found in a church in France. A poster found in a church in France. When you enter this church, it may be possible that you hear the call of God. However, it is unlikely that he will call you on your mobile. Thank you for turning off your phones. If you want to talk to God, enter, choose a quiet place, and talk to him. If you want to see him, send him a text while driving. Yeah. I've seen that. I was wondering what you're building up to there. No. I still have a point. I still have a point. I got it. So so let's think in terms of let's look. Moses, the Lord spoke to him face to face. He's a friend of God. He got the tail end, the afterglow. Now we've got Elijah the prophet. He's running away from Jezebel. Just killed the 450 prophets of Baal, and he thinks he's the only guy left. I'm the only one that's faithful to you. And the Lord he's in a cave, and the wind went by, first Kings nineteen twelve. The wind came by and the Lord wasn't in the wind. We're looking for a great way for God to speak to us. Make it big, Lord. Make it big. And then there was an earthquake. The Lord wasn't in the earthquake. Then there was a fire. Lord, write it in the sky. Right in the sky. Fire. You know, the sky. Wasn't in the fire. So then how did the Lord communicate to Elijah? Still small. That's what you hear. That's what you hear. Yes. That's what we hear. Yes. Sometimes, Rob, others, they'll hear the real spiritual guys will hear an audible voice. But the rest of us, most of us, there's an impression. There's a but I have to Jesus went in Revelation Revelation chapter two verse 17. He that has an ear to hear, let him hear what the spirit is saying, you know, to the churches. So you need a spiritual ear because when we're in first Corinthians two, we've talked a lot about verse 14, the natural man, the body and soul man, the guy that's praying, the Pharisee and the publican. Remember that in Luke? Mhmm. Luke 18? The Pharisee and the publican, it says the publican, the Pharisee prayed thus with himself. So something's coming out. It's just hitting the ceiling and coming down. He doesn't have a dialogue. He doesn't have a relationship with God because he's an unbeliever. Right? But publican wouldn't so much as lift up his eyes to heaven and say, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. And Jesus said, this man went away justified. So the illustration is that God resists the proud, gives grace to the humble. The unbeliever doesn't have access. So if we're in Hebrews four, we can boldly come before his throne of grace. So, when the veil of the temple was rent in two, it symbolized you now have access. You have access to come boldly before that throne of grace. Mhmm. So so, Elijah, even in the old testament before the veil was rent, he's able to pray, and the Lord's able to communicate to him. And that's what we call, you know, true prayer would be a dialogue, not just a monologue. It's not just us petitioning God. And there's various aspects of prayer that are petitioning, where you're asking him for what you need, ask, seek, not. There's praise, so you're praising God in prayer, supplication, many different ways. We can pray in our prayer language, sing in our prayer language. Holy Spirit makes utterance which can't be uttered or prays for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And and so when we see Peter and the disciples in Acts one, and Judas has went out and killed himself and became the, you know, the the Judas, the Pence, they were supposed to be 12, and now they're 11. And how did they communicate with God to find direction? Tick a lot. Took lots. They took a lot, and they were casting lots. And that's an old testament way to discern God's will or not. So that means what's that mean? It means they they can pray, but they can't hear the Lord instructing them. They can't hear. They don't have ears to hear yet. They're they're not in tune. Doesn't mean the access isn't there. They just haven't learned yet. So then in chapter two, the holy spirit's poured out upon them, and they're hearing the wonderful things of God with 16 different dialects, people praising God and all. But now we go to chapter 13 of book of acts, and the men of Antioch are praying and fasting. And as they're praying and fasting, the holy spirit said, now these guys have ears to hear now. The Holy Spirit said, separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work where I've called them. Mhmm. You never hear the church after Pentecost casting lots again. Don't have to cast lots. You don't have to do like Gideon did, put a fleece out there. None of that. You have the privilege of prayer. So Jesus said in Luke eleven two, ask to seek to knock. Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. Right? So prayer is asking, seeking, knocking, the privilege of prayer. And everyone that asks, receives. Everyone that seeks shall find. Everyone that knocks, the doors open unto him. And he illustrates. He says, which of you fathers, if your son came and asked for bread, would you give him a stone? If he asked for fish, would you give him a serpent? If he asked for an egg, would you give him a scorpion? Then he goes on to say, if you then being evil so you're not good. Right. You're not good. Your problem isn't low self esteem. Your problem isn't, you know, I gotta be good for God to hear me. If you then being evil know how to give good gifts at Christmas to your kids, how much more your heavenly father will give the holy spirit to them that ask him. And the Greek tense is keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. And you have not because you ask not, because you ask amidst desiring to consume these things upon your own lust. So Psalm 50 verse 15 says, call unto me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and you shall glorify me. So in many cases, the Lord's waiting for us to call. How do we call him? How do we how do we reach the Lord? There's corporate prayer, the church praying corporately. There's individual prayer. There's husbands and wife praying, praying over where you're gonna live, the job, so many decisions, your kids, and and intercessory prayer. And Psalm ninety one fifteen, if you're in trouble, dial 911. And again, he says, you know, call unto me. He says, call upon me, and I and I will answer him, and I'll be with him in trouble. I'll deliver him and honor him. I'm reminded of the Lord Jesus in the Garden Of Gethsemane. Father, if you're willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but thy will be done. He's praying three times and he's sweating as it were great drops of blood, and Peter, James, and John are falling asleep. The spirit's willing. Flesh is weak. Prayer, intercessory prayer, is a lot of work, and it's a lot of there's a battle going on. The flesh is warring against the spirit, spirit against the flesh. So back at first Corinthians chapter two verse 14, the natural man, body and soul, he can't hear. He doesn't know what's going on. But back at verse nine ten, eye has not seen. Eye, the natural eye, has not seen. The natural ear has not heard the things which God has prepared for them that love him, but God has revealed them unto us by his spirit. You're asking the Lord, you're seeking, you're knocking, asking the Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit. Now you've got spiritual ears to hear the spiritual things. And what's interesting here is, God wants you to know prophecy. Call unto me, and I'll answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which you know not. Future. Future things. You guys are getting wasted. You guys are getting taken down by Babylon. But as I move through this chapter, I'm gonna let you know what I'm what I plan to do with this new covenant and with this the Messiah that I'm gonna bring, the root and the offspring of David, we're talking about the kingdom. We're talking about the millennial rule and reign as we saw in Isaiah chapter 11. Right? In Isaiah chapter two, God is indicating to these people who may be losing hope. Don't give up hope. I'm gonna pardon you. I'm gonna restore you, and I want you to call upon me. I want to have fellowship with you. I want you to seek my face even even when you're in prison. The apostle Paul, he was in prison, in second Timothy chapter two verse nine, he said, the gospel's not bound. In Philippians, he talked about how he was in Caesar's palace, you know, the prison of Caesar's household, and many of the those in the household came to know the Lord. And and Paul saw himself as a prisoner of Christ, as a prisoner of Jesus, that he was in God's will. So we're talking about prayer. A lot of times people will treat it as a formula to get what I want. And true prayer is discovering what God wants. So you have a messenger of Satan in second Corinthians chapter 12 that's buffeting you, that's beating on you. It's like a tent stake. You're getting hammered. You had the apostle Paul, and you went on some missionary trips, and you got malaria. And that malaria is just hammering your head, and it's causing ophthymalia. Your eyes are oozing puss, and you can't see. It's affecting your your vision, and you're getting these terrible, terrible headaches and debilitating headaches, and you're praying that the Lord you're praying, and you're the apostle Paul, and you're praying, Lord, remove this ailment, remove this sickness, Lord, heal me, and the Lord answers your prayer. You've got ears to hear, and you can hear the Lord say, no, I'm not gonna do that. And you pray again, he says, no, I'm not gonna do that. Well, that goes against many of the charlatans today that say prayer is a means by which you get your will done, you know, everything you want. So sometimes we can look at it in the standpoint, delight thyself in the Lord. He'll give you the desires of your heart. We also are told to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling for it is the Lord who puts in you both to will and to do his good pleasure. So the things we pray for are desires and things he places in our heart. Mhmm. They're not always bad things. They can be things like, Lord, you know, bring a mate to me. Lord, help me buy a house. Lord, help me find a new job. Lord, heal my wife. Heal my husbands. All these things are good things and should brought be before the Lord. And if the Lord says no, then we learn that his grace is sufficient for his strength's perfected in weakness. And so we accept his sovereign will for our lives, and we hold on to his promises that all things are working together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose. Like he has something better for us or something. Something better in what sense, George? Well, if you ask for something and you you don't, you know, you don't see that you answered it, I always look at, well, then you have something better planned for me. That's what I look at. I think I think that's true. And it's not necessarily what we think is better. Yeah. But better might be becoming more dependent upon him, growing in grace, growing in the mercies of the Lord, growing in faith. It might mean you're poor, but you're gonna learn to grow in faith, and it might mean you're gonna suffer. But but the flip side of that, what's good, like you're describing, is, oh, how I'm getting to know the lord better than I did before because I'm dependent on the lord. Yeah. Relying upon him more. I'm I'm anticipating I talked with somebody today that's a a police officer. This time of year, a whole lot of people melt down. They're really melting. And with the economy and everything that's coming, they're feeling the pressure. And and I believe in many cases, what's happening is the things that we lean upon and use to cope with pressure are going away. So more and more people are realizing that, so they're turned into drugs, alcohol. They're ingratiating the flesh to try and be able to get rid of the anxiety, the worry, the pain maybe they're under. And and we're there, we want them to know Jesus. We want to just strip Christianity of all the stuff that we've added during our years of prosperity and say Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He's still here to help you. You can turn to him, and he hasn't abandoned yet. So I anticipate for some, their faith is gonna grow. For others, they're gonna get angry. They're gonna get real angry that that they're gonna lose their retirement or lose their home or lose their car or whatever material thing it is that's going by the wayside, and they're gonna they're gonna go through an adjustment period. And they're gonna discover I've said this several times recently, they're gonna discover that God's not gonna apologize to him. Number two, they're gonna discover they're not gonna win the fight. Gonna you're gonna have this attitude, I'm gonna fight with God. He can't do this to me, and you're gonna just wear yourself out. You're just you're just gonna wear yourself out. And then finally, you're gonna say, you know, Lord, I need you. I just need you, and he'll be there. But that's that's where each of us needs to be, and and part of that comes with call upon me, and I'll show you great and mighty things like George saying that you know not. I have plans with you. You know, I have good plans for you. So we saw earlier we saw earlier I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil to bring you to an expected end. Right? So his intentions are good. I know the thoughts I think toward you. Lord's thinking on you. And now he's saying, call unto me, and I'll answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which you know not. Now, if you notice in my notes, I've got first Thessalonians five one through nine, second Thessalonians two one through 12, very familiar with what we've been going through, and these are passages that speak of, I'll show you things, call unto me, I'll answer thee, and show thee things which you know not. This is a prophetic picture of what's gonna happen. The Lord's telling us what's gonna happen, that the tribulation period's coming, the antichrist is coming, you're a child of light, not of not of darkness, the rapture's coming. All these things that are coming that are prophecies being fulfilled. The Lord saying, call to me, I'll answer thee and show you great and mighty things, you know not. You've never been a student of prophecy. You've never checked these things out. You're losing hope in the world. I wanna show you what I have intended. You know? And and so these guys are losing their homes. They're losing their city. They're losing their country, and the Lord's come along and saying, hey. I've got a great future plan for you guys. A great future. Study prophecy. Study the the promises, you know, that I have. And Ephesians three verse 20. He's able to exceedingly, abundantly above all we could ask or think, right, according to the power that works in us. And so great things, call me in honesty and show thee great and mighty things, powerful things. Sometimes we're praying for our children that are alcoholics or drug addicts or, you know, gone through a divorce. They're messed up, and we need a mighty outpouring of God's spirit. We don't need a wimpy wimpy display. I'll show you great and mighty things which you know not. I've been setting the stage to do something great. And so, basically, unlocking the secret prophetic view, the future plans of God. And through prayer, he can give you a vision, he can give you a dream, he can speak to in that still small voice, he can speak to you through his word, because you're calling upon him as you read his word, and he through his word can reveal to you the things in a general way, what's intended for the saints, what's intended for the church, what's intended for Israel, but also in a specific way, a personal revelation that God, you know, speaks to you specifically, and and that happens all the time. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, and we go through a really hard time. We got our hopes up, high hopes, and things don't work out the way we were hoping. The tendency is to not pray anymore, to not get all excited, to kinda just be like Eeyore and just like, oh, well, you know, and not be as happy as Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh had high hopes. Right? You tell my grandpa. Alright. Verse any other thoughts on prayer? The listening part of it where where you talked about it a lot of times in what you just said now. Sometimes that's the hardest thing is because we we kind of would like to hear something immediately, but look at Daniel. It took him twenty one days. You know, sometimes our we don't get the answer right away. Right. We still have to just believe that when we ask in faith, it's gonna we're gonna get an answer. We may it may not be the one we want. Yeah. You know? Because that's the thing. Some like you said, it's according to his will. Yeah. So so Like Abraham and Sarah or even Joseph, God spoke to him Yeah. About the future. Yeah. And Abraham and Sarah, twenty five years waiting, and Joseph, seventeen or thirteen years. Mhmm. David, ten years. Moses had to wait forty years to be installed as the deliverer. You know, he spent forty extra years in the deserts of Midian. He tried to deliver the Israelites by killing an Egyptian, but it made him a fugitive, and the Lord came to him when he's 80 years old. And so that which the Lord put within his heart, tried to fulfill in the arm of the flesh, and you can't fulfill it in the arm of the flesh. So God had to empty Moses of his confidence and his prime years and bring him to a place where he was content just to be tending his father in law's sheep, Jethro's sheep. And the Lord said, the Lord, you know, raised them up. So we tuck those dreams away. Sometimes we have to wait, and we get so excited about our kids. We have such dreams for our kids and praying over our kids and our grandkids, and and we wanna protect them and shield them from all the heartaches and things like that. And and and we just don't give up. We just continue to pray. Gloria continues to pray for her husband, Michael. He's an unbeliever, and she's praying and praying and praying and praying that God will save him. You know? And and so you just never give up. Who wants to read Isaiah fifty five six through 11 and Psalm one forty five eighteen? Isaiah what? I got a Psalm. Psalm one forty five eighteen and Isaiah fifty five six through 11. I'll take that. Isaiah fifty five six through 11. Okay, George. Go ahead. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous man who sought, and let him return to the Lord. And he will have compassion on him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon. He's a good one here. For my thoughts Are not your thoughts? For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as a rain and snow comes down from the heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, and making it bear and sprout and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be which goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return to me empty without accomplishing what I desire and without succeeding in the manner for which I said it. Amen. Yeah. And then Psalm one forty five. One forty five. The Lord is close to all who call on him. Yes. All who call on him sincerely. And then Isaiah 59. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that he cannot say, neither his ear heavy that he cannot hear, but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you that he will not hear. So we, as Christians, we have access, and part of our access can be hindered by quenching, grieving the spirit, or, you know, sinning. So if we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us of our sin and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. So we, as Christians, before we go into prayer, we prepare our heart. Right? We prepare our heart and, Lord, search me and know me. See if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. So we prepare our heart in going to church. We prepare our before we take communion, Lord speaking us as we're doing worship. We don't want anything that of defilement that's in the way that would hinder fellowship. You don't lose your salvation. It can hinder your fellowship. It can hinder your prayer. Husbands are warned by Peter that their prayers can be hindered. How can the husband's prayers be hindered? By by not taking knowledge of his wife. By not taking knowledge of your wife. Is that what you said, Rob? Yeah. And what's it mean to take knowledge of your wife? To to know her and know her as a as a particular vessel that she is, to lift her up to the Lord, to love her as Christ loved the church. He says, likewise, your husbands dwell with them according to knowledge. Knowledge. Giving honor unto the wife as under the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindered. So what's gonna hinder your prayers, man, is selfishness. Just selfishness and being a lording over and force and cruelty and trying to force your wife to do whatever you wanna do, but instead to take knowledge of her, live with her according to knowledge, and try to discover what makes her tick, what she enjoys, what she likes. And you're going through this together. It's not a one way thing. You know? And she's not a slave, you know, to the guys. And lest your prayers be hindered. What are some other ways your prayers can be hindered? Disobedience. Disobedience. Yeah. We talked about that. Disobedience. In your life. Sin in your life. Yeah. Sin in the camp, things going on. And if the Lord convicts you about something, he's really, really getting your attention about something. Whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and he scourges every son, you know, or daughter. He'll spank you. He'll he'll discipline you. And like he did David in Psalm 32, Psalm 38, Psalm 51, and God got his attention by sending Nathan the prophet and saying, David, you're the man. And David went through a time of repentance, and he cried out, you know, Lord, restore to me the joy of my salvation. Right? Create in me a clean heart, o God, and renew a right spirit within me. So David was coming to that place of repentance that God would restore that fellowship that David once knew. So all these things can hinder prayer, prayers of privilege, a blessing. We're told in first Thessalonians to pray without ceasing, chapter five. And how do we do that? How do we pray without ceasing? Let your thoughts and your your your mind be stay on the Lord at all times. So multitaskers? Yeah. Everybody's like, yeah. That's what I was doing Sunday morning, Pastor Rick. I was multitasking. My boss is calling me. Was still listening. Was still listening. Right? Right? Multitasker for sure. Yeah. For sure. We're multitaskers. Still taking notes. Yeah. Okay. Verse four. For thus saith the lord, the god of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the king of Judah, which are thrown down by the siege mounds and by the sword. They used to shore up the walls. Now they're being thrown down they're were they're tearing them down to shore up the walls, and, you can't stop it. So they come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with dead bodies of men. So these houses, you're trying to shore up the walls, those siege the siege is coming against the walls, but really your house is the only use for them is to stack the bodies. Whom I have slain in my anger. So the Lord said, I've slain these bodies. I've done this. It's in my anger. Nebuchadnezzar and his armies are just instruments of my anger against you guys, in my fury, and because of all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city. So doomed to destruction. Doomed. And then now prophetically, call to me and I'll answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which you know not. So you're going through this time of discipline. You've been living in a time of denial and disobedience. Disobedience and denial. You've been rejecting the word of the Lord that comes through Jeremiah. No way we're ever gonna be taken over by Nebuchadnezzar, And you're listening to all the false prophets that tell you what you wanna hear, but now reality's biting you. Now it's biting you. And so you can no longer live in denial. You can choose to live in disobedience still if you want, but there's no denying the destruction that's coming. He says, behold, I will bring it health and cure. So now hope is a confident expectation for good. So presently, what's lacking in the church is hope. People are losing hope because the pastors are not teaching prophecy. They refuse to teach prophecy. So the people that are propping themselves up on this world system and the world and the worldly church and stuff. It's going bye bye, and they know it. And they're losing hope because they've been hoping in the almighty dollar. They've been hoping in, you know, a deliverer like Trump and somebody that will keep the gravy train going, and and they know it's coming to an end. They know that things are slipping, but they don't believe in the rapture preterb rapture. They don't believe a lot of them a lot of them don't believe a second coming of Jesus, you know, and they they just don't study the scriptures. They don't study one third of the Bible and the pastors are dishonoring god. God doesn't get the glory when you teach the word in such a way that the church is gonna go through the tribulation period. There's no hope there. Why would you call upon them? I'll show you great and mighty things, which you know not. What's a great might yeah. I'm gonna put you through the tribulation period. Yeah. Boy, I don't think I'll be calling upon you. That's not a whole lot to be showing me. Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I'll cure them and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. So the Lord's gonna have to take them down, and that's what he told Jeremiah at the very beginning to root out, tear down, and then the globalist got the phrase build back better, but it's really God is gonna build back better. And so they're gonna be taken down, then he's gonna build it back better, not war, the chaos, the lies. And and I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and we'll build them as it is to the first. And so the future restoration, and we'll see that in part with Ezra and Nehemiah, Zerubbabel's temple in part, and later second temple period with continuing with Herod the Great, the time of Christ in seventy AD wiped out. And then we see it continuing 05/14/1948, Israel in the land, the fulfillment of Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven. And then it continues to telescope on into the millennium. As we move on through here, we're gonna see that future restoration. So when Paul's given his gospel, we've been studying Romans nine. What's chapter nine? Ten and eleven. Chapter nine is Israel's what? Past, present, and future. Israel's past. Past election. Election. Chapter 10, present present rejection. And 11, future restoration. So that's what he's speaking of here. And blindness and partons happened unto Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. And so the fullness of the Gentiles at the church age, verse 25 of chapter 11, and then then the sometime thereafter, not necessarily right after the rapture, but sometime thereafter, very very soon thereafter, there's gonna be an antichrist that signs a peace treaty with the nation of Israel who's already in the land. That's the time of Jacob's trouble. That's the 77 of Daniel. And after that, Jesus is gonna return after that seven to seven 77 of Daniel. Amen. And he is going to restore the nation of Israel. They're gonna enter into all the promises that he's made with them. And geographically, spiritually, the curse is gonna be reversed. He's gonna rule and reign as king of kings and lord of lords for a thousand years. You and I are gonna rule and reign with him as kings and priests, and the nation of Israel is gonna be in the land, David as a prince. And so the land and they're gonna discover that he's lord, and I will cleanse them from all their iniquity. So as we talked about prayer and in our relationship with god, he's a holy god. It's your sins that have separated, you know, you from me that I will not hear you. So they're gonna need to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. They're gonna need to be born again. They're gonna need the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse them of all their sins. So again, we go back to first John. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's son continually cleanses a man of all sin. Right? It's important. You see the Greek tense is continuing to cleanse us. So you have a positional righteousness. Once and for all, it is finished. Justification just as if you've never sinned. That's your positional righteousness you can't improve upon. That's what makes you saved. For fellowship, you and I still sin. First John says, say you have no sin, you're a liar, the truth isn't in you. We still sin. I have a relationship with God. I can't just blow off my sin like it's no big deal. If I want fellowship with God, then I come to God in humility and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal to me, to convict me. That's why when you come to Calvary Bremerton, you get convicted because the word of God's taught. The word of God convicts you. It's not me. It's the word of God convicts. So the whole word of God wants to bring correction in your life. Not you get a free pass and continue sinning, you know, and acting like, you know, you might you might not be saved if you're in a a that sort of a place. You know? And at the very least, you're in an arrested Sated development. You're not growing. You're not growing. Right? So you wanna grow. And so as Chuck Messer would call first John one nine, it's the Christian's bar of soap. Now it's also illustrated in John 13. Remember? Jesus and the disciples come into the house, and the lowliest job of the slave would be to wash the people's feet. Now you're walking out there and you're getting defiled. You go to work tomorrow, you go into the community tonight, then you're gonna hear things, smell things, things be done, and it's going to vex you. Lot's soul was vexed living in Sodom and Gomorrah. So you come into the house, you don't need to be take a whole bath, Peter. You've already been washed, w a s h e d, a playoff of two Greek words. You just need a washing. You just need to wash that defilement away. So that's a that's a transparent heart before God that, Lord, I'm being convicted about what I said. I'm being convicted about this. Lord, please forgive me. Please wash and cleanse me. And and the holy spirit will remind you of the cross. The holy spirit's not gonna show you the pit of hell. Holy spirit's gonna remind you of the cross that it's the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son that continually cleanses you of all unrighteousness. And then you probably sing with Dennis Agajanian, what can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Right? Okay. So so continually washing away that defilement, reminding us that we're dealing with a holy god, just and a holy god. He commands us to be holy. Commands us to be perfect. We can't get there in and of our own strength, but that is the standard. That is the standard. And we don't get there by works. By the works of the flesh shall no man be justified. We get there through humility, brokenness, and by faith, grabbing hold of the finished work of Jesus upon the cross. By faith, we ask the Lord to help us to live the Christian life in the power of the Holy Spirit because we can't do it. It's not a legal relationship. It's a love relationship. So we don't want to keep on sinning because we love him. And so I'll cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities in which they have sinned and in which they have transgressed against me. And so by the blood of Jesus, just isn't it so great to be cleansed of all your sin, all your iniquity, all your guilt, all your human frailty? One of the things that's a bummer as a Christian is still having this corpse that we have to carry, this old man, the flesh. So that's why with the flesh, when we're talking about the other day, David and Ziklag, and he's the Amalekites have come come there. Saul was instructed to totally annihilate the Amalekites. Saul didn't. He Samuel told him to obey is better than sacrifice. He was gonna sacrifice some of them, and Samuel took and hacked up king Agag and all, but the Amalekites continued to live. Egypt is a type of what? The world. The world. The Amalekites are a type of what? The flesh. The flesh. The flesh. So what happens is love not the world. Don't go back to Egypt. Love not the world neither things are in the world. All that's in the world, lust flesh, lust lust flesh, lust it's pride of life, not of the father, but of the world. And the world perish and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God shall abide forever. Lest the flesh, lest the eye, the pride of life. So the world, we know we're not gonna go back to the world. Christians are miserable if they try and go back to the world. Once you taste to see that Jesus is good, the world never never is gonna taste good again. You can lie to yourself and say, hey, the food's much better than this manna. We want some savory food, you know, but you were you were slaves to sin. You know? You're making bricks with no straw. Quit lying to yourself. Now the flesh, the Amalekites, we're told to we're not gonna restore this flesh. There's no going to prison and have the prison system restore me. There's no pill that Pfizer can make to restore me. There's no formula to restore me. This flesh, God's prescription for this flesh, this old fallen nature is death. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. The old things are passed away. All things have become new. But I still have this corpse. I'm born again, but I've got a corpse I gotta carry around. So that's why the picture is mortify. What's what's a mortician? Mortify the deeds of the flesh. Crucify the flesh. Right? What's another one? Reckon the old man dead. So you're gonna reckon him dead. So the Amalekite in your life, dead old corpse, but you can't let you can't give them mouth to mouth and revive them. Don't allow the flesh to revive. Keep the flesh, starve the flesh, keep the flesh down, sow to the spirit, feed the spirit, read your bible, go to a church that teaches the word, live the life of the spirit. Right? Don't try to do both. Don't try to I want all that the world has and all my flesh desires, and then I I want Jesus so I can make it to heaven. You know? It's inverted. Right? It's it's wrong. You gotta put him first, and the the real fulfilling life is the life of the spirit. You can't get no satisfaction from the world and the flesh as a Christian. So I'll cleanse them, is I'll pardon them in all their iniquities in which they have sinned, in which they have transgressed against me. So how do you issue a pardon? How does God, a just and a holy God, issue a pardon? By his god. Replacement. He has a he has a replacement. He has a he has somebody else. He has his son that he's gonna punish. His son pays the price, and then he's just and holy and able to pardon us that we don't get what we deserve. He's gonna pardon our sentence and forgive our sentence, mercy towards us, grace towards us, but that pardon came at a price. Jesus came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and give his life a ransom. Jesus paid the ransom price, the redemptive price so that we wouldn't so the charges against us wouldn't stick. And so fully just in pardoning us. And it shall be to me a name of joy, of praise, and of honor before all the nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all of the prosperity that I procure unto it. And so love, the love being poured out, divine favor, the blood of Jesus, all things working together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. And God's name is gonna shine bright, name above all names, wonderful counselor, mighty God, prince of peace. Thus saith the Lord again, there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate without man and without inhabitant and without without beast. So you're gonna go from being humbled, just totally wiped out, to them being exalted. And what did Jesus say? Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and he will lift you up. Right? God resists the proud, gives grace to the humble. The greatest among you be the servant of all. The voice of joy so, again, you're going to the voice of joy and gladness. Your present predicament is like I promised you, you're gonna be humbled. So the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, the voice of the bride, the voice of them who shall say, praise the Lord of hosts for the Lord is good, for his mercy endures forever, and of those who shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. What's the sacrifice of praise in Hebrews? Thirteen fifteen, who's got that? Hebrews thirteen fifteen. Fruit of our lips. Fruit of our lips singing. Exactly. Worship. We're offering to God the worship, the fruit of our lips, the singing. Christians are a singing group of people. Right? Some of you guys are musicians. You sang before you got saved. Guys like me, we we sang when we were drunk. When we're drunk, we sang in our cars. We try we tried to sing. We tried to sing. In the showers. In the showers. Yeah. But when I became a Christian, I was sober. And imagine that. And and you're standing there in in a church and everybody's singing, and it's like infectious. It's infectious. Now, mean, I never was around anything like that or any close like that, and now you're you're you're singing. And, you know, you don't and it's it's fun. It's exciting. It it edifies you. It builds you up. It's encouraging. And when I went to plant a church out in Oregon, the guy said, you know, don't use that boombox. It's hokey. You know? I said, we have to worship. We need to worship. We gotta worship. We're a worshiping church. That's what we do. We sing. You know? And it doesn't matter. Make a joyful noise unto the lord. It may not sound good, but make a joyful noise. Mhmm. And in a lot of churches, what they'll do is they'll turn the sound system up loud enough so that each person can't hear their own voice. You know? So it kinda blends. It kinda gets together so that people be more inclined to sing. Because for a lot of people, if you can hear yourself sing, you won't sing. You hold back. Right? And so it's it's easier to sing when the whole congregation is singing, when everybody's singing. And so it's the sacrifice of praise, the the the and the Lord's saying, you guys are gonna be a singing church again, a singing nation. For I'll cause to return the captivity of the land as at the first, saith the Lord. So the rebirth of the nation in Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven. Thus saith the Lord of hosts again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all of its cities shall be in a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down. So it's gonna get so bad, so desolate that all it's good for during the time where you guys are in Babylon is for the nomadic shepherds to just graze their sheep around the city. A city that used to be filled with people, the sheep, the shepherds are gonna bring their flocks through here, and they're gonna be eating the grass that's growing up, you know, all over the place, you know, and that's all it's gonna be good for for a while, for a period of time. So in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the Shephelah, which is in the West, in the cities of the Negev, which is in the South, and in the land of Benjamin, which is in the North, and the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that counts them, saith the Lord. So there's not gonna be any lost. Jesus said, you know, the good shepherd will leave the 99 to go find the one that's lost. He's saying this is very soon. And Jesus said, I am the door. And, Rob, you guys know what that means. Right? When Jesus said, I'm the door in John 10, what's that mean? He's the door of the sheep, the shepherd. He sleeps across the threshold. No wolf can get to the sheep. They have to go past the shepherd. And these shepherds, they're David was able to kill a lion and a bear. You know? So they're not to be messed with. Somehow they got clubs. Somehow they got slingshots they killed Goliath with. Somehow they have a spear, something some something to keep the wolves away. And and so they'll lay their life down for the sheep. Right? They'll the wolf has to come. I wish we had more people like that today, people willing to lay their lives down, people willing to stop the evil, stop the wolves, stop them preying upon the children. Mhmm. Someone that can't be bought, that's not a hireling, that'll say, I don't want your money. What you're doing is wrong, and I'm gonna dedicate myself to stopping you. We we need people like that. We need to hold these evil criminals accountable. But if we're indifferent, if we don't care, and we're easily persuaded by money, then all these generals, all these military people, all these politicians, all these people that could stop them don't stop them because they've taken the money. The doctors took the money. Hospitals took the money. Churches took the money. Everybody's grabbing the printed money. The printing press is going full speed to buy off and pay off everybody that will move in the direction of globalism. Mhmm. Nobody's standing up. At least Michael Jordan said, no. I'm not gonna help you go woke to Nike. You know? We need more people like that. And in those days and at that time, I will cause the branch oh, well, let's look at verse 14. Hold the days come, saith the lord, that I will perform that good thing which I had promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. And so what's that good thing? Christ. Yep. The Davidic covenant, second Samuel seven twelve through 16. David wanted to build god a house, and David was just so stoked that he was king. And he's come out of Hebron. He's in Jerusalem, and god's blessed him in every way. And the lord didn't have a house. He didn't have a temple. Didn't have a church building. We call what we mean in a church building. And so later, it's gonna be called Solomon's Temple because his son's gonna be the one that builds it. Right? But, David, your hands are too bloody. You can't build me a house, but I'm gonna build your house. What did he mean by that? Lineage. Dynasty. I have a dynasty. The dynasty. The messiah is gonna come forth through your lineage, like Marlene said, your loins. So the messiah, Jesus, is gonna be the root and the offspring of David. He's described as being the branch in Isaiah and then also here, and that's the Davidic covenant. Isaiah four verse two, Isaiah eleven one, Jeremiah 23 verse five, Jeremiah twenty three five and six, Jeremiah fifty thirty four. So in those days, those days, looking future, call unto me and I'll answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which you know not. God's letting you know prophecy. God's telling you the future. How much money would you pay to know the future? How important is knowledge of the future? And if you're connecting dots today, and the Lord's given you eyes to see and ears to hear, and you're in the know, and if you're in, you know, first Thessalonians chapter five, you're children of light that that day doesn't overtake you unaware, but the antichrist, the tribulation period, even the return of Jesus, he comes as the thief in the night to those who are children of darkness. They don't see the prophecies. They don't understand the prophetic picture. But you do, and you call upon him. Lord, open my eyes. Lord, give me ears to hear. Lord, help me understand the times in which we're living. So a lot of people bring up the sons of Issachar. Right? And they were they were wise in that they were students of the times in which they were living. Right? And I heard a pastor, he was he was he was driving in his car, he did a video, and I sent it to Mark Dinsmore. But it he was priding himself on knowing prophetically what's happening, and yet he was deceived. He he didn't understand. He he's taken the false narrative, and he's run with the false narrative, and he can't connect the dots because he's blind to reality. He's blind to the false flags and the things that have already happened. So he's taken the bait. And by taking the bait, now he's like a pastor after 09:11 that gets up in the pulpit and has taken the bait, and the whole country heard the president say, if you're not with us, then you're with the terrorists. So immediately, there's this pressure for everybody to conform to the official narrative that the government's laying out for you. That nine eleven happened because these guys with towels around their head flew airplanes into two buildings and one into the Pentagon. And oh, by the way, Building 7 never got hit by an airplane, but it went down too. So you're told to believe that. Now here's the sad part. The really sad part for me is when a pastor takes that. I can see politicians manipulating. Giuliani had previously set up an office, an emergency office, emergency headquarters before nine eleven happened, knowing nine eleven was gonna happen. So this is another one of those reasons why when you see Giuliani with Trump today, why you can't trust them because they were a part of nine eleven. Do you see what I'm saying? So, anyway, the pastors at the time, and I believed them, it's kinda like Pearl Harbor when Pearl Harbor happened. The pastors would get up in the pulpit and say, we gotta go get those Japanese. We gotta go get them. So the pastors are there. They took the bait, the propaganda. They didn't have ears to hear. They didn't they didn't connect the dots. They didn't pray. They just looked at the mainstream media, and they said, we gotta go get them. If and and you repeat the phrases you hear on the TV. If we don't get them and fight that over there, then we're gonna have to fight them here. Mhmm. Oh, right. Right? So now you're getting all your boys, Brandon, Wayne, everybody signing up to go over to Iraq, you know, Afghanistan. And what did you accomplish? You voted a Muslim homosexual in for two terms. The guy that filled up a $7.47 with $100 bills and took a Tyran, but now you want us to believe Iran's the enemy? You know? You you got this guy doing his Arab Spring and invading, you know, countries, and you bail on Afghanistan and leave $80,000,000 worth of armaments. What did you accomplish? Your troops were guarding poppy fields. Poppy fields, you know? What did you why did you do that? Oh, you did it for the bankers. You did it for globalism. But here's what happens now. Now the pastor's saying, Israel was surprise attacked. No. They weren't. There's no way Israel could be surprise attacked. And so now you're being told, if you don't get behind Israel, if you don't get on board to go bomb Iran in these countries that hate Israel, then these terrorists are gonna hit your country. See, that's what that's predictive programming. You're being told if you don't support our war effort, then now but your border's open, and 800,000 refugees have come to America since Biden became president three years ago. They get $3,000 credit card, cell phones, and housing when they get here. And many of them, according to redacted news, are are being signed up for the military because our military is decimated by the guys who've got the vaccinate vaccines, and they can't get guys to sign up. So now you're gonna do a and Obama got rid of 400 senior level officers by asking the question, would you fire on Americans if so commanded? And, no, they won't. They're sworn to uphold the constitution, you know, against enemies foreign and domestic, but the people aren't the enemy. No. We're not gonna fire on the people. And, so they're relieved of duty. So look at the guys you have in command now. Look at the peep kind of people they put in, you know, into blinking, and I can't even say their names and stuff. I can't watch it. But it's a form of judgment. It's a form of America being judged. And so prophecy is so incredibly exciting. I've been being very silent. I've been keeping my mouth shut because I disagree with what the pastors are saying. I can't I can't jump on that board. I favor Israel. I love Israel, but I see globalism. I see globalism above all of this. I see Ukraine, the war there started by our country and Britain and Germany against Russia. And so for me, if if they wanted me to talk, I would say be be prepared for your own government in a treasonous manner to allow China, Russia, the barbarians to invade America and take us down once they collapse the dollar. Mhmm. Everybody's emboldened to come in here. That's what I see. But if the way that they have to sell the war is by attacking Iran, demonizing Iran, then I want one pastor to say I just want one pastor to say, the fastest growing church in the world is in Iran. I'm not hearing that. All I'm hearing is war. War. War. Well, that falls right into the plans of the globalists, and, yes, it falls into the plans of what God said would happen, wars and rumors of wars. But I don't have to endorse it. I don't have to endorse Israel if they're immoral. I know ultimately they're going to enter into all that God promised them because he because of him, not because they were obedient. In their disobedience and their rebellion against God, God allows two thirds of them to be wiped out. A one third remnant is finally brought to the brink, brought to the edge, and they cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. It's not because they've been so moral and obedient unto God. And so so here ultimately is what's going to happen beyond what's presently happening where where they're gonna be reborn, they're gonna have a new covenant, and the true Israel of God is in Isaac shall thy seed be called. So it's those who believe in Jesus that are the true Israel of God. Mhmm. And so in those days at that time will I cause the branch of righteousness to grow up unto David, speaking of Jesus, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. Is there ever a time that we need someone to execute righteousness and justice in the land? I mean, the antichrist is the lawless one in second Thessalonians two. He's the lawless one, and they're gonna make it legal to prey upon children. So the phileo, the Greek word for love, phileo, Philadelphia, brotherly love, Philanthropy, what kind of love is that? Love of people? What's what's the word pedophilo mean? Pedophila mean? Child love. Oh, child. Yeah. Children. But it's not a good love, is it? It's a it's a bad word, but they twist it to say they love these kids. Mhmm. And the kids love them, and they're trying to normalize it. Who's gonna stop that? Who's going to stop these politicians who are lusting after children? Who's gonna stop them? Lord. Only the Lord. Only the Lord Jesus. In those days shall Judah be saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name by which she shall be called the Lord our righteousness. Exodus 34 verse six, second Corinthians five twenty one, Jeremiah twenty three five and six, Jeremiah fifty thirty four. Who wants to read those? I'll say them again. Who wants Exodus thirty four six? The Lord our righteousness. So, you know you know the names for god? Mhmm. Jehovah Tasidkenu. What's that one? Righteousness. There we go. There's his name. Jehovah Tasidkenu. What's the one for the lord will provide that he said to Abraham? Jehovah Jireh. Jehovah Jireh. And we can sing that song. Right? Jehovah Jireh. See? Great way to remember the bible. Right? Put it to song. Absolutely. So Jehovah, the lord our righteousness. Alright. So we got Exodus thirty four six, second Corinthians five twenty one. I got it. Okay. Who has Exodus thirty four six? Thirty four. I got that. Okay. And then how about Jeremiah fifty thirty four, George? Okay. And how about Jeremiah twenty three five and six, Nancy? What was that? Jeremiah twenty three five and six. Got it. Okay. So we're going with Exodus thirty four six. Exodus thirty four six. He passed in front of Moses and said, I am the lord. I am the lord, the merciful and gracious god. I'm slow to anger, rich in unfailing love and faithfulness. Praise the lord. Second Corinthians five twenty one. For he hath made him to be sin for us, which knew with no sin that we might be made the righteousness of god in him. The righteousness of god in him. And let's see. The Lord our righteousness. So if somebody's condemning me like the devil, and he's slamming me with a letter of the law, and he doesn't have to lie about me. He's telling the truth about me. He's found my faults. He's found my sins. He's condemned me. I need to learn to respond, the lord my righteousness. No. I'm not righteous. My righteous is Jesus. Yeah. The lord my right and then you can't battle anymore. He can't argue with me anymore. Right? I don't have to be engaged in a in a battle I can't win. Right? Jesus won. Jeremiah fifty thirty four. The redeemer is strong. The lord of hosts in his name. He will vigorously plead their case so that he may bring rest of the earth or turmoil to the heavens of hell. So Israel's no greater sinner than any other nation Mhmm. But nor are they any more righteous than the other nation. Mhmm. So when we look at Israel, we recognize all have sinned, including Israel. But God has made unconditional promises to them, and it's gonna go real bad for you if you try to hurt Israel. Right? Gonna go real bad for you because he will defend them. And but you don't blindly go along with all their policies and everything they're doing simply because they're Israel. You know? You have wicked evil leaders in Israel, and so the Lord's gonna have to remove them, and he's gonna be the righteous branch, the righteous one, the Lord our righteousness. Jeremiah twenty three five and six. Jeremiah twenty three five and six. The days are coming, declares the lord, when I will raise up to David's righteous branch, a king who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In his days, Judah will be saved, and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called the Lord our righteousness. Amen. Praise the Lord. Verse 17, for thus saith the Lord, David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel. So it's Jesus is gonna rule and reign. Neither shall the priests, the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle meal offerings and do sacrifice continually. Now is the nation of Israel supposed to build a temple? Is God telling them anywhere, I want you to build a temple? No. No. No. The nation of Israel is still practicing or wanting to reinaugurate Judaism. Judaism is dead. Jesus came. So he fulfilled all the promises that Judaism pictured or or showed. You know? And but in their disobedience to Jesus, they're gonna wanna get the ashes of the red heifer and start to do the sacrifices again. And even the day of Yom Kippur, different feasts and stuff. Presently, they observe the feasts. Can you imagine observing Passover and remembering and telling your children about Egypt and the angel of death passed over, and we had unleavened bread, and we took blood from the lamb, and we put it on the doorpost and probably don't realize it in the shape of a cross, and you're still participating in that, but you don't realize like John the Baptist said, behold the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Right? You know, it doesn't register because you don't have you're not spiritually awakened enough to understand what's happening there. So all the feasts, search the scriptures, and them you think you have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. The volume of the book is written about Jesus. So even these things they're doing, it doesn't make any sense. It doesn't come to life unless you factor Jesus into it. Mhmm. And so they're gonna build the temple, and the temple's gonna be built because the bible prophesies it's gonna be built, not commanding them to build it, but they build it on their own. And the antichrist helps them to build it, then he goes into that temple at the midpoint of the tribulation, declares himself to be god, demands to be worshiped as god, so desecrating of the temple. And this is the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. And then twelve sixty days after that, Jesus can return, and he's got a seventy five day interval after his return where he's gonna clean all this stuff up. He's going to clean up all the desecration of the temple and all the everything and get rid of it. And then we have in the millennium what's called Ezekiel's temple chapter 40 through 48. So here, notice, neither shall the priests, the Levites lack a man before me to offer burnt offerings and to kindle meal offerings and to do sacrifice continually. Now, why in the millennium do you have sacrifices? This would be something Jesus does want to happen. Why? And notice the type of sacrifices here. Notice what's missing. There's no sin offerings. No offerings for sin. Yeah. So these are consecrated offerings. These are worshipful offerings. These are memorials. Just as we partake of communion, these are memorials pointing back to the cross of what Jesus went through. That new generation that's coming up in the millennium, they're going to learn about the past that that king bearing the scars is the one that went to the cross to be crucified. And all those all those sacrifices are types of his sacrifice of what he went through. And so Abraham was instructed to offer his son as a as a burnt offering, and to kindle meal offerings and to do sacrifice continually. So Numbers twenty five twelve through 13. And the word of the Lord came under Jeremiah saying, don't you love that? Well, don't you love the Lord speaking to you? And the word of the Lord came under Nancy saying, the word of the Lord came unto George and Rick, know. Ain't that amazing that God wants to speak to me? Mhmm. Do do I give God God the time to be quiet before him and listen? Will I sit at the lord's feet and just listen? See, prayer isn't always talking. Prayer is also listening. Right? Let the lord speak. It's not you speak dialogue. Lord, I'm telling you what to do. If you do this, we're out of this jam. I figured it out. Right? That's so much of how we pray is directed prayers. Right? So much better to say, Lord, teach me to pray. Lord, what would you have me pray? And a lot of times we just start praising the Lord. We just praise the Lord. We don't we don't know when to pray. It's beyond our comprehension. His ways aren't our ways. They're past finding out. So with our human understanding and wisdom, we try to, you know, ask the lord as best we can. Give us this day our daily bread. Right? It's okay to have petitioned him and ask him for provision. It's okay to ask for protection. You know? And remind ourself of his kingdom come, his will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And the word of the lord came out of Jeremiah saying, thus saith the lord, if you can break my covenant of the day and my covenant of the night, so morning and evening, and there should not be day and night in their season, we saw this once before, Genesis one fourteen through 19, Then may also my covenant be broken with David and my servant that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne and with the Levites, the priests and the ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered. So Jesus is the root of David. David came from Jesus, right? And the offspring, root and the offspring of David, and that he's the babe of Bethlehem, and he was born in Bethlehem after David was born. Right? So as the host of heaven cannot be numbered, all the stars, all the angels, neither is the sand of the sea measured. So will I multiply the seed of David, my servant and the Levites who minister unto me. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah saying, don't you love that? I love it. The word of the Lord. Mhmm. Consider thou not what this people have spoken saying that two families with the Lord have chosen and he has cast them off. Has God cast off Israel? God forbid. That's Paul's whole point of chapter nine, ten, 11 of Romans. There's no replacement theology. There's no preterist. There's no replacing Israel. The church does not replace Israel. God has not cast them off. God's promises to them are yay and amen, and he's gonna fulfill them. Thus, they that's what people were saying here. God's cast them off. Thus, they have despised my people that they should be no more a nation before them. And, you know, if that were to happen, if they were to be cast off, that that would mean it'd have to be the end of night and day. Mhmm. So that's not gonna happen. Thus saith the Lord, if my covenant be not with day and night so all this global warming, crazy stuff in Dubai and Saudi Arabia and I mean, Dubai and these climate summits they're having, it's just bold faced lies, bold faced lies to to bring about tyranny, to lie to people, to get them on board that, oh, the planet's falling apart. Thus saith the lord, if my covenant be not with day and night and if I be not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, then will I cast away the seed of Jacob and of David, my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham. So now we have the Abrahamic covenant. You got the Abrahamic covenant, the Davidic covenant. Right? So the Davidic covenant is that the messiah would come through David's loins. The Abrahamic covenant tells us why the nation of Israel is so important. God said, I chose you guys not because you're the best, not because you're the biggest. You know, I chose you simply. I chose you because I love you. And God chose a man first, Abraham. And through Abraham, in this Abrahamic covenant now Abraham's a father of many nations. He had Ishmael also. And with Keturah, he had some other children, sons that became, you know, other nations. But the seed of Abraham, in your seed, all nations of the earth will be blessed, speaks of the Messiah, that Jesus would be a Jew. And later we see that he would be from the tribe of Judah, which is the kingly tribe. And so rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for I will cause their captivity to return and have mercy, you know, on them. And so those that are captive are gonna return, and there's gonna be a restoration, and then they're gonna God reiterated his covenant with Abraham in Genesis 12, Genesis 15, gen Genesis seventeen twenty two, 26, and 28. He kept reconfirming his covenant, the Abrahamic covenant. And so it looks like after seventy AD, the Diaspora where the Jews were dispersed all over the planet and that you would never get back to square one. There were some commentators in the eighteen hundreds that prophesied and looked that were biblical scholars that said, yes. One day Israel's gonna come back into the land. Imagine somebody saying that. Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. And so 05/14/1948, they called the Zionist movement. Nevertheless, Rothschilds, whoever was helping bring Israel back into the land, it definitely was a god thing, and they're back in the land. And they're regathered in unbelief, but the stage is being set for the faith to be infused into the lives of the remnant and for that remnant of people, that one third remnant in Zechariah thirteen eight and nine, that one third remnant is going to flee from Jerusalem, and they're going to cry out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. And Jesus, except those days be shortened, no flesh would be saved, but for the elect, for that remnant, Jesus is gonna intervene and set up his kingdom. And so that is the prophetic picture. You and I are not walking in darkness that that day would overtake us unaware. We're children of light. And he's privileged us to pray, to ask, to seek, to knock. So let's finish by you can sing or say it. The our father prayer. George, wanna lead it? Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, glory, forever. Amen. Amen. Can I can I see your zone? Sure. Interesting thing about this last piece. I love from from fifth 10 on. That last bit there, I think, is fantastic because God is saying, I could no more change the laws of day and night that I'm not gonna fulfill my promises to Israel. And the part where he says before he what he's gonna do, well, a word second word came to to to Jeremiah, the destruction. And then at the end, God cannot deny himself. He then he prophesies that this is what's gonna happen, though. I'm gonna bring you back in. I'm gonna restore you. There's a time of whooping, but his intent, because he cannot deny himself, he is promising restoration. Yeah. And that's the joy that god, he ends it with the joy. He's gonna restore them. Yep. Because that's what he truly wants for them. That's how he started it. Call me, I'll answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which you know not. That is amazing. I've got some great promises for you. It isn't over. It isn't over. It isn't over. And that's what's so great. They're not left with, oh, I guess we're gonna have to stay here in treachery and misery and destruction the rest of our lives. No. It's a time of whooping in case you didn't listen, but I have great things for you. Mhmm. And for us on a positive. Yeah. He always tells that this is what he's gonna do, but he's always a positive at the end. Yeah. Yeah. Because that's that that's that hope, the confident expectation for good, and the faith is there that keeps us believing and trusting and and waiting upon the lord. So, yeah, it's it's yay and amen. That's why we we don't need to vacillate or be double minded. It's an absolute. You know? It's an absolute. These these promises the word that we use is called the immutability of God. It's impossible for God to lie. Yeah. And if he's promised these things, and then he uses an illustration day and night, If you guys could stop the cycle of day and night, the covenant, he says, of day and night, then you could stop this covenant, unconditional covenant that I have with Israel. Right? And you can't do that. Yeah. Yeah. Gonna happen. So you bank on it. You know? Bank on it. So that's why no matter what Bill Gates and Soros and all them do, that's why you look at Psalm two, and you look at it, oh, how the heathen rage and imagine, Noah, Imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his anointment. What are they plotting? What are they scheming? What are they wanting? They're wanting a utopia, a new age, a new globalism, a new messianic age, a new Reich, whatever you wanna call out there, like Hitler had it, without God. Yeah. And they wanna be as God. Yeah. And they and they lie to themselves saying they're never gonna die. Henry Kissinger just died. Yeah. Yeah. Rockefeller died right before that, and Zabrinsky died. Bill Gates is gonna die. Yeah. You know? They're all gonna die, but you and I are gonna live forever. Amen. Amen. And then how do I know that? Yeah. Are you confident we're gonna live forever? Oh, yeah. Are you confident in the resurrection? Is there anything any reason to doubt? No. No reason to doubt. And that's what I love about Jeremiah. He his his how did he know the Lord told him the truth? He was gonna buy some land, and he said, this is my proof. What is what also happens? God says, you can't change in the day or the night. I have a covenant with them just as I have a covenant with Abraham with Israel. So that's the same proof. God proves himself by that very thing. Yep. He says it quite often. The God of creation is is also the God of redemption. So in Romans one, if they don't honor him as creator and they worship and serve the creature rather than the creator, then as they suppress the truth of creation, he says they're without excuse because Without excuse. Creation tells you who he is. Yes, sir. But if you suppress the we talk about revelation. There's a revelation that comes to the unbeliever called creation, and that creation shows who God is. He's a loving God. And if you suppress that truth and you teach Darwinian evolution or that we're gonna be gods or anything other than that, he says, I'm gonna give you over to your base desires. That's the judgment that I'm gonna humiliate you with your men with men, women with women. And that's why they try to normalize it. Right. Normalization of that behavior because part of the judgment is, you're not normal. This isn't normal. You're going against the design. You're going against the designer, the creator. You see what I mean? Mhmm. So that's that's Romans one. That's why they hate for us to read it. It spells out their rebellion. Yeah. Yeah. So Praise God. Yeah. Alrighty. Praise the Lord. Should I read this thing about the cell phone again? No. Not the cell phone. We love Vicky. No. Alright. Let's pray. Father, we come before you. Alright. And, Lord, we thank you that we have access to you, that we can call upon you while you're near. And, Lord, we thank you that you're only a prayer away. And, Lord, you you you hold our very breath in the palm of your hand, Lord. And, Lord, before we even pray, before we think or do anything, Lord, you know what we're thinking. You know you you know us before the foundation of the earth. You're eternal. Nothing is hidden from you, Lord. Everything is naked and open before the eyes with whom we have to do. And so, Lord, we just thank you so much that you know everything about us and you still love us. And we're so thankful that your love is an unconditional love. And and, Lord, we simply wanna respond in worship. We wanna respond in obedience and faith and surrender unto you and your plan and purposes for our life. Lord, we pray that you would use us for your kingdom and your glory. We pray that you'd reveal more and more of who you are and the prophetic times in which we're living that we might be able to give an answer to those around us of the hope that's within us, Lord, the hope of your soon return. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. 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.
