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We're live Monday night, Jeremiah 37. Let's sing happy birthday to Rob. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Rob. Thank you very much. Happy birthday to you. Here we go. We got Felicity. Happy birthday, Felicity. Who else? Anybody else? You're somebody's aunt? So you honk. Alright. Alright. Let's pray now. Aunt Lonnie, we're praying for her. Father, we lift her aunt Lonnie. We pray for her cancer treatments. It'd be the last that she needs, that you'd heal her. We pray for Sally, that you'd heal Sally and comfort James. Be with Alan Goff, be with my wife, Kathy, and Ronnie and Fred, and anybody else that's getting the sniffles, the coughs, the serious cancer, whatever else is going on, Lord, you're the you're God who heals. You're the same yesterday, today, and forever. And, God, we hold up these loved ones, and we ask that you touch their bodies and heal them. Lord, we pray that you administer to us tonight as we study through Jeremiah 37. We thank you for another opportunity together in your name, In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. God sent him. God sent his son. They call him Jesus. Happy birthday, Ram. Alright. Do you have a birthday wish you'd like to share? Jesus, come back soon. Come back soon? Okay. Alright, Lord. Come quickly. Come quickly, Lord. Alright. Jeremiah 37. And what's Sheryl's favorite song? What's that song? This is the day. This is the day. Oh. You guys wanna sing that? Alright. Go ahead, girls. This is the day. This is the day. This is the day. Alright. Alright. Jeremiah 37. Here we go. And she survived a polar baptism. How's your life changed? How's it changed? Last week was really hard for me. Yeah? Yeah. It it was good, though. Good, but hard. Yeah. Okay. It was a tough week. Alright. I won't make fun of you. Emotionally. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, father, we lift up Cheryl. We thank you that she's getting the victory. We thank you, Lord, that she's so zealous about being in love with you and being baptized and testifying how she wants to identify with you, your death, your burial, your resurrection. And, as the enemies come along to steal her joy, she's had a tough week. We pray, Lord, that she walk by faith, not by sight, and continue to focus upon you, fall more in love with you, and that you'll sort out all the changes and the attacks that are coming against her, that you'll sort it all out, Lord, that you're on the throne in control. And, you're working all things together for good to those who love you and are called according to your purpose. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Alright. The king, Zedekiah, the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim from Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah. So the problem here is that Coniah was king, he lasted about three months. And you can see in second Kings twenty four five through 17. And he very, very evil and wicked and all. And so what Nebuchadnezzar did is he put Zedekiah in, a cousin of his, to be king with the understanding that Nebuchadnezzar pulled away a bunch of the nobles like Daniel and a bunch of them, and then Zedekiah is to watch over Jerusalem and be in submission unto Nebuchadnezzar and not fight against them and all, and and they rebelled. And so they brought the siege against him again, so this can be the final siege. So we're gonna see from Jeremiah 37 through 39 the consequences of that rebellion and how this is the final point in time where the city's gonna be burned, May, be burned to the ground, and Nebbe's had enough with these people. A lot of false prophets false prophets just kinda ruling over king Zedekiah. Zedekiah seems really intimidated. Zedekiah is a hypocrite. He should have kept god's word. He should have did what he said, what he promised to do, and it would have went better for everybody else, but but he didn't. And so and so it's gonna get it's it's gonna come down to the point of the whole city being burned. Now Koniah, this is the Koniah where this curse put upon him, and he's in the lineage of Joseph. Joseph in Matthew one is in the legal as the stepfather of Jesus, the legal line of Jesus, being messiah in the house of David. But, because of Coniah's sin, the lord cursed his line, and nobody in his in his lineage would ever sit upon the throne. And so the lord moved it in the direction of Nathan, another son of David's, and we see that lineage in Luke three through Mary. And so we have the royal legal line, and then we have the the line going all the way back to Adam proving that Jesus is, you know, the messiah and the seed of David, the Davidic covenant. So that's a little tidbit there. So this is also the end in these three chapters. By the time we get to 39, it'll be the end of what Jesus called in in, Luke twenty one twenty four, the times of the Gentiles. Now we've talked about the times of the Gentiles many times, many times. Get it? Times of the Gentiles. So you guys tell me what the times of the Gentiles means. Vicky knows. Yeah. Rob knows. Gentile rule on the earth. Jews Israel is not ruling the the nations. Okay. So and who comes in? So this is about twenty six hundred years ago. May, Jerusalem's destroyed. Right? So Jerusalem is self governing at this point. Right? But they're going to become subservient to the Gentiles. 05/14/1948, Israel's back in the land and in our life in in before I was born, but they're in the land presently, fulfilled of Ezekiel thirty six and thirty seven. But the ultimately, it's finally going to be realized when Jesus returns because of all The US involvement, the world involvement, the Palestinian divided up, and the whole thing. Jerusalem being divided. There's a lot of issues with the Gentiles still encroaching upon Israel's sovereignty. So as Vicky said, and as Rob was winking, he knew Israel was gonna lose their right to rule, and and the Gentiles were going to dominate. So the Babylonian empire, and then it was replaced by what empire? Medo Persians? Persians. Cyrus. And then after the Medo Persian empire? And where is the Medo Persian empire? Where is that at today? Iran. Iran. Okay. After the Medo Persian empire? Greece. Greece. Greek. And after Greece? Rome. Rome. And Rome will be reborn. What do we mean by that? The rebirth of the Roman Empire. Imperial. Imperial during the tribulation period. Seven years. Right? So at the end of that seven year period of time, the time of Jacob's trouble, Jesus will return, and he will be king of kings, lord of lords, and Israel will be dominant over all the Gentiles and the entire planet. Right? So that's the picture there. So at this point, in the next three chapters, Israel is going to lose the right of self rule. So when the Romans were there in the first advent of Christ, the Jews were wanting really bad for Jesus to overthrow the disciples to overthrow the Romans. They were tired of being subjugated to the Romans. And and so Peter, James, John, early disciples, they misconstrued. They misunderstood. They thought that Jesus was there to, you know, overtake the Romans, and they're fighting over who's gonna sit on your right hand, who's gonna sit on your left hand and rule and all that. Every time he'd tell them about the cross, suffering, serving, all that, they didn't know Psalm 22. They didn't know Isaiah 52. They didn't know Isaiah 53. They didn't see that Jesus would be cut off. They didn't know Daniel nine twenty five through 27. They they're students of the Bible, but somehow it didn't click for them. You know? And it didn't click until after the resurrection. And after the resurrection, things began to click. They got excited. The holy spirit came upon them, and they they realized that it's in his second coming that he will came at his first coming to do away with sin, to pay for the sins of humanity, and in his second coming, he's gonna take possession of the planet that he created, and he's gonna actually rule and reign. And so so at this point, the best thing that the nation of Israel could do is what? Obey Nebuchadnezzar. Which we would say surrender. At this point, presently, every single human being on the planet, the best thing he could do is what? Repent. Surrender to Jesus. Repent. Surrender. Believe in Jesus. Right? To continue this charade of we don't need God and we can do it our way is has a bad ending. And that's the same thing with these guys here. It's gonna end really bad for them because of their rebellion in their heart. So so the church today in America, the church that we're immersed in, is describing the Bible as the Laodicean church. It's the last days apostate church. And what's happening is Zedekiah is not a very strong ruler, so the people are usurping authority. The people are putting pressure. The false prophets are putting pressure on him, and he can't seem to rule. He can't seem to lead this country toward doing the right thing. And he's leaning toward them doing what they want, which is in rebellion to, you know, Nebuchadnezzar, which is going to go bad for him, because ultimately resisting Nebuchadnezzar is resisting God. And so so too the Laodicean church. Laodicean church, does anybody know what the word Laodicean means? Brenda does. People rule. People rule. So what's that mean people rule, Vicky? Where's Jesus? They kicked Jesus out of church, and he's on the outside knocking to get in. So the solution for America is what? Let Jesus Let Jesus back in to the church his church. Right? So so quit trying to rule. Quit telling Jesus, hey. We're rich and increased with goods in need of nothing, and kicking him out, and give him his church back. You know? He purchased you. He made you. So let him back in. So surrender to his rule and reign in your life. Come to repentance and surrender to his rule and reign. It's real simple. The church in America is delusional and thinking because they're so blessed financially that it must be God's blessing on their life. And Jesus said, no. You're you're oh, thank you. You're wretched, poor, blind, naked. You know, you're miserable, and you can't even see. I counsel you to buy at me, you know, some eye salves so that you can see. You know? They're blind to the truth. And so the same sorts of situations, patterns continue throughout history. America doesn't need a political solution, doesn't need a a false prophet to come in there and to make America great. Israel has the same sort of false prophets telling them that Nebuchadnezzar's not gonna take over. You're not gonna you're not gonna go down. And so the people's got itchy ears. They wanna hear what they wanna hear. And what do they wanna hear? They wanna hear that the Egyptians are gonna come and help them, and Nebbe's not gonna burn this place down. Jeremiah's crazy. So everything Jeremiah says comes true. Everything comes true. And what kind of thanks does he get? Prison. Just thrown in a dungeon. Thrown in prison. Right? I mean, good lord. You know? Sign me up. So verse two. But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land did hearken unto the words of the Lord, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. So what do you do when people just won't listen? What do you do? They have to give up. Pardon me? Give up and pray. Pray? Give up and pray. We all have kids. We all have family members, loved ones that just just won't listen, and nobody's nobody's willing to listen. So typically, pain is a good way to get people's attention. Right? Formulate What's that? Formulate a whooping. So we are we are headed toward a whooping. We are headed toward a humility, a time where God's gonna humble the proud. And in a lot of ways, it's it's the best thing that could happen to us because we'll probably a vast majority of people turn to God when nine eleven happens or which was an engineered collapse by our own government. But, anyway, when a calamity, when something really difficult happens out of the norm, people tend to turn back to god. They tend to go back to church and say, well, I'll since they canceled the football game, I guess I'll go to church today, you know, sort of that thing. And but the religious service at the football field is really, really important. And I love football, but I love Jesus more. Amen. Amen. Which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah. And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal, the son of Shalamiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Messiah, the priest to the prophet Jeremiah saying, pray now unto the lord our god for us. So it's a little too late to be praying now. So we've been wanting to for god to do it our way and telling God to do it our way. So Jeremiah, pray to God and tell God to do it our way. Tell him tell him we want him to to fix this, you know, and cause the economy to flourish again, cause our enemies to flee and quit, you know, don't let us fall. Don't let us fall at this point. And so Proverbs 29 says, He that turns his ear from hearing the law, even in prayer, shall be an abomination. And so, you're you're turning your heart from the lord. You're not listening. And Psalm a 118, eight and nine, it's better to trust in the lord than to trust in man. It's better to trust in the lord than to put your confidence in princes. The American conservative Christians are being set up for the biggest fraud ever, and they just don't get it. They just don't get it. They keep putting their confidence in princes, you know, orange haired princes, clowns. And it's if your eyes are open, it's just sad to watch. Mhmm. It's just sad to watch how a country can be so incredibly deceived. And these are people that I respect, people that should know better, that should have discernment. And I think part of the reason why people lack discernment is because everything's gone too well for them. And discernment comes when you let go of this world, when you've gone through a hard period of time, like Jeremiah's going to go to. And Jeremiah and those in Hebrews 11, the others, the others of a different kind that are like Jeremiah got thrown in prison. Now, they didn't get thrown in prison because they did anything wrong. They get thrown in prison because they were doing right. And one of the things you'll see is that when Jeremiah is in prison, or the January 6 guys are in prison, you don't see any real criminals in that prison. None of the Epstein Island people are in that prison. None of the politicians that fermented you know, designed that evil of stealing the election. None of them are in prison. It's only these good people that are in prison. And when that happens, all of a sudden, whole world's turned upside down, and you have your Jesus moment, and the lord begins to teach you things. You begin to learn things you'd never ever know had things not become so, you know, upside down for you. So those in Hebrews 11, they they were in dens and caves, and they were tormented. They were mistreated and all, whom this world was not worthy. And so they begin to look at the world, and the world has no appeal to them anymore because their eyes are open. So like Abraham, Sarah, they're looking for a city whose builder and maker is god, and the Lord reveals more of himself to them as they're in that condition, and they're yearning we would say they're yearning for the rapture. You know, these are old testament people that are lined up there in Hebrews 11, but we would say they're yearning for the rapture. Their eyes are on Jesus. They don't care about any clown coming along and giving them a better life, you know, now or whatever. And I saw where Joel Olsteen, a false prophet, where he just paid off his stadium of a $100,000,000 debt. You know? That's a big debt. But they paid it off. And unlimited funds. The devil will give you unlimited funds. Devil make you rich if you bow down and worship the devil, if you throw Jesus under the boat. And so the the only time the false prophets finally get theirs is when judgment comes. Mhmm. When finally they can't hide hide anymore, behind their money, behind their military, behind all the things that prop them up, and that's what Nebuchadnezzar's coming. He's coming with a bigger stick, and the military for Judah isn't big enough. It's can't handle it. There's enough money. There's enough government people. There's nothing that can save them from the judgment that God's bringing through his instrument, Nebuchadnezzar. And then later, God's gonna judge Nebuchadnezzar with Cyrus, the Persian, the Medes and the Persians, and Darius. And so so pray now unto the lord our god for us. Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people for the land had not put him in prison. So he's not in prison yet, but he's gonna be. Then Pharaoh's army was come out of Egypt, and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem. So this pharaoh, his name is Hephra, and in chapter 44 verse 30 names him. So he comes out, and the Chaldeans that are surrounded and besieging the city hear of this, and so they leave the city of Jerusalem and head toward, you know, Egypt to stop them. And when they see the Chaldeans coming, the Egyptians run back. Now this gives great opportunity for all the false prophets to say, see? We told you so. Makes Jeremiah look really bad for a moment. Right? Like, he was a false prophet. But Jeremiah is saying, quit tripping. Quit tripping out. They're gonna come back and burn you. And it's God's word. So he's not in prison yet, but he's gonna be. And the the judgment against against the Jews, they're gonna spend 70 years in Babylon. So Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, they're already there. They've already been taken in the prior siege that was put upon the city. He took many of the nobles and all them out, so there's no missing out on the destruction that's coming. Now had they had they not continued to rebel against against Nebuchadnezzar, they could have had, like, a governor that's watching the city be subservient to Nebuchadnezzar, and he wouldn't have had to burn the city to the ground. And if Ukraine would surrender to Putin and Russia, they wouldn't need to see their entire country obliterated. All they need to do is is surrender. But Zelenskyy and NATO and our government is hell bent on destroying them. So who do they work for? They work for the globalist. Right? And Russia, the Ukrainians, they speak Russian. And so what happens is the the commanders of the of the Ukraine, guys, when they get hit, when they get hurt and they're in the hospitals and all and you can't get them supplies and can't help them all and they're in jeopardy of dying, they contact by radio the Russians, and they just the Russians take them and care for them. You know? So it's like they're brothers, but but they're they're being forced. And so now NATO is pushing real hard in rebellion against Russia, and now NATO's gonna get into a war if we're not careful. Our government's pushing for war with Russia. So if that persists, then pretty soon the Russian troops are gonna be all the way to Poland. And much like what's happening in America where we're being invaded and we're gonna be taken down, it looks like the globalists wanna take down NATO and any kind of threat they have in Europe, and they're gonna use Russia. Now Russia is also a globalist. They're subservient to the Rothschilds and all. So it's just interesting how the people all the peoples are are the threat, and the globalists have to have a way of taking everything down. And BlackRock's buying up all that wonderful soil in Ukraine, buying up all the assets and and everything. And Zelensky, he's a full blown like Obama. He's he's just like Obama, and they're they're taking it down. So it's it's just sad when, the stage being set for the antichrist for all these people, 14,000,000 Ukrainians have already fled, and, half a million, have died in this war, and there's only 40,000 Russians that have died. So it's a huge disadvantage for Ukraine. And, and yet it's our state department that keeps pushing this thing and, given tons of money to Zelensky and all that, but they're not done. They won't stop. So they're they're gonna they're gonna I I read today where 90,000 US troops are gonna go over there and, can try to continue this fight. It's it's ludicrous. It's crazy. But it's it's and that's kinda what these guys are doing. They're ludicrous. They're crazy to keep fighting with Nebuchadnezzar, but they won't stop. So so the Chaldeans are concerned about the home front. They're vulnerable. So they they drop the siege because of the of the Egyptians. Then came the word of the lord under the prophet Jeremiah saying, verse six, thus saith the lord, the god of Israel, thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you unto me to inquire of me. Behold, Pharaoh's army which has come so here's your answer. You asked for Jeremiah the prophet to pray. Now you and I, we don't need to go to a priest and ask a priest to pray for us. You don't need to go through any man. You and I have direct access to God. You don't need to go through me. My prayers are no more effectual than yours. If you want me to pray for you, I will. But your prayers, you have just as much access. God's no respecter of persons. And but it does come with relationship. And if Nebbe if Zedekiah doesn't have a relationship with God, then maybe he needs to go through the prophet Jeremiah. But you and I, we can boldly come before God's throne of grace to find help in our time of need. And he's asking us to ask, to seek, to knock, to keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking, and god wants you to give you, you know, an ear to hear. So Jeremiah the prophet is is mixing that up in politics, isn't he? He's being political. He's dealing with the king. And we as Christians, we spray to all fields. There's no facet of society that is a separation of church and state. It's all open. It's because god loves the people. Now the state would want you to think that you can't you gotta stay out of secular life, but that's the very place we need to be because those are the people that need to be saved. And Mhmm. When I'm studying for next Sunday's message, and I'm looking at it, I'm looking at this today. I'm going over my notes and checking this all out. Basically, what we're in is a war for ideas. Next week, Sunday, we're gonna talk about the philosophies of the Greeks. They had belief systems. They had they were into wisdom. They come up with wisdom, various systems of wisdom that the people would follow and and follow thereby. Well, Klaus Schwab and Noe Yuval Harari and Freud and Reud and, you know, Nazis, all of them have had various philosophies. They've had various ideas or communism is an idea. Socialism is an idea. And the globalist at Davos, the number one thing they want to do is they want to censor, they want to, stop what they describe as, misinformation. So they're projecting lies. They're propagandizing. And then when they get caught in those lies, because remember, it's an idea. As a man thinking in his heart, so is he. So if Greta gets on there and she can convince you that we're destroying the planet and that we gotta do this to save the planet, a certain segment of society will be seduced by those lies and be thinking, yeah. I better give up meat. You know? I better give up, you know, my gas engine, and I better follow this because after all, we're destroying the planet when, in actuality, the truth is the globalists are destroying the planet. They're the ones spraying the skies. They're the ones doing the chemicals. They're the ones doing the radio waves and everything that kill all the butterflies and the bees and all everything and ruining food production and everything. But if you catch them in their lie, they call that misinformation, and now they want to arrest you for catching them in their lie. So Jeremiah is not passive. You're gonna see that Jeremiah is gonna go to prison. And when he gets out of prison, even after getting out of right here, he's gonna tell him this place is gonna burn. And then he gets put in prison, and they didn't break his will. And then he tells them again, this is gonna burn. You know? You you can't break his will. He's only going to tell the truth. You know? So so one thing the devil hates is is the truth, and we have the truth. We have have no fellowship the unfruitful works of darkness, Ephesians five eleven, but rather expose it. And when you expose the devil, when you expose the lies, you're setting people free. And had the had Jeremiah been able to get through to these people to counteract the false prophets, their lies, and their philosophies, you know, maybe more people would've got saved. But the false prophets were so strong in their lies and the people so wicked in their hearts. They didn't want to believe. They wanted to they wanted to believe that peace was coming, that an orange haired clown would give them their country back. You know? And he can prance around and tell them all the right things, but let me ask you this. Can he do it alone? No. Because it's a uni party. The Republicans aren't gonna help him. They didn't help him last time. You know? Pence stabbed him in the back. So what do you think? He's he's gonna get elected president? We, the people, are gonna be able to help him? He he needs he needs support. You can't do this alone. So it's just a it's a ruse, and it's a deception to draw the people into hate and into we talked Sunday about a civil war, but I think maybe you could use the word revolutionary war, a war where did Jim leave because I was coughing on him? Is that what he's afraid of? Oh. I'm sorry. I'm sorry to cough on you guys. Look. They all laugh. No. She's coming back. Coming back. I'm getting coughing. I don't have COVID. I got I got the booster shot. I'm okay. Not gonna die. I might die, but you won't. Okay. So so it's just ludicrous to fall into the trap of divide and conquer. United, we stand. Divided, we fall. And harmony. Yes. And and but it really needs to be a revolutionary war rather than blue state against red state and white, black, and brown against each other. It really needs to be go after the traders, go after the treasonous government, go after the globalists. But people won't figure that out till it's too late, and cutting the head off the snake would save a lot of lives, you know, the wickedness and evil there. So as long as the people continue to hold on to Jerusalem, continue to hold on to as the economy's stupid, continue to hold on to, at least I'm getting my paycheck while we're being demoralized, while we're we can see the handwriting on the wall, Everything's engineered for collapse, but we won't believe it's gonna collapse, so we keep putting our hope in, you know, a man that failed the first time. And but now, you know, we're gonna fulfill the definition of insanity, doing the same thing, expecting a different result. Mhmm. So who appointed Fauci? Who who who inaugurated the Warp Speed Jab? Anybody can anybody talk about those ideas, those philosophies that I mean, who's who are they in bed with? How can anybody think this through? Why why can't they think it through? It's just so obvious, but these a lot of these pastors are gonna jump on board because it's what the people wanna hear, and they're gonna keep the people silent till the city burns to the ground. Mhmm. It's just so sad. It's just so inquire of me, behold, pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into your own land. So God said, hey. They're coming back, and now would be a good time for you guys to flee. If anybody wants to get out of 1938 Germany, you better get out now because it's gonna be really bad here. And many of the many of the Jews did get out. Many of others got out before it locked down in 1938. And so I believe that when I believe the point in time that you're gonna see the border fence go up is when? November when the martial law takes over. Yeah. They're gonna put the fence up to keep us in Yep. Mhmm. Once once they're they get this thing going with wanting to take out good looking white men, you know, and Christians, European descent males as who they're who they're demonizing. You know? And somehow we're the ones to blame for everything that's wrong in the world. So behold, Pharaoh's army, which has come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. So they're still proud. They're rebellious. And the Chaldeans shall come again and fight against this city and take it and burn it with fire. Thus saith the lord. Now this is a good name for a podcast right here. Thus saith the lord. Not deceived. That's it right there. Here's a reality check. Here's a reality check. Be not deceived. Jesus said in Matthew 24, take heed that no man deceive you. Right? We are in a war for information. We are in a war for truth or lies. Right? It's real simple. Jesus said if you know the truth, the truth will set you free. Right? Amen. If if you're living a lie, if you're living in denial, delusional, Jeremiah six fourteen, peace peace where there is no peace. First Thessalonians five five verse three, it's it's peace and safety, then sudden destruction. So the world's being set up to trust in an impostor, the Antichrist. And when the antichrist comes along, he's gonna be a peacemaker. So a guy being a peacemaker between now and then means there's a whole lot of wars coming. Our government's pushing for war, wanting war with everybody. They're suicidal in wanting to destroy everything and everyone so they can get their way even though people are awakening. They're they're in this frenzy demonic frenzy to take it all down. And so be not deceived. And so what's Psalm a hundred and eighteen eight and nine say again? It's better to put your confidence in God than in man. It's better to put your confidence in God than to trust in princes. So can you trust your government? Do you trust your government? I do. No. Just go away. And it's supposed to be a constitutional republic, and you're supposed to be the government. They're supposed to represent you. Mhmm. But you are called the contemptibles. You are called the useless eaters. You are the ones they wanna get rid of. They flipped it on you with the tyranny. Not me, though, because I'm going to heaven. The Chaldeans yourself saying the Chaldeans surely shall depart from us for they shall not depart. So think of the false prophets, all the delusional things people are saying today, saying what people wanna hear. You know? Everything's gonna go back to normal, man. Oh, man. He's gonna win, and we're gonna get our country back. You know? And what have you been smoking? What kind of gummies are you eating? You know? And I think it's Nayyavar Hari that said he's gonna try and get all the young people to be give them all the drugs they want and let them stay home and play games all day. You know? Much that appeals to people to live in smart cities and not have to work? So this is the truth. This is reality, and it's not a conspiracy. Don't ever be afraid of somebody calling you conspiracy theorist. It's a badge of honor. The CIA is the one that coined that phrase to stop people from investigating the assassination of JFK and then of Robert Kennedy and of, Martin Luther King and, three in a row. And you were made to be ridiculed and mocked if you even questioned it. And I think that kind of pressure is on people today with COVID and the enormous amount of people that have died, from the shots and people who have family members that have died or been maimed or whatever. It's like they're afraid to talk about it afterwards. Everybody's afraid to admit to it. It's like, if I do that, then then they're gonna call me a conspiracy theorist. They're gonna say that, you know, I'm I'm a part of the COVID cult. You know? So I say stand on the rooftop and shout it. To start to put some pressure on them with the truth. For through ye had for though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained and look look at the hyperbole here. Look at the the way God's mocking these people now. He says, it's a done deal. You can for though he had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans, let's say you could smite all of them that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them. Won't make it even even we'll say, and there's only wounded women and children, Lev. Alright. No. You girls are strong. Yet should they rise up every man in his tent and burn this city with fire. So, I mean, even if they're reduced to just hardly any military, just so whatever's left, the residue of these guys, the weakest of them, the most maimed and heard of them would still defeat you. Why is that? Because God's gonna do it. If God before us, who can be against us? God said it. I believe it. That settles it. Right? Do you can you settle it in your heart? I mean, do you know absolutely sure the Lord's coming for you? You know? It's just settle in your heart. Don't let anybody take away the joy that you have of looking up knowing your redemption draws nigh. Don't let them make you feel stupid or crazy or, oh, they've been saying that forever. You know? Mhmm. They're mockers. They're scoffers, and Peter talked about them. There'd be scoffers in the last days. Right. So God said it. I believe it. That settles it. And we're gonna keep going for the looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior. So this city with fire, so it's a done deal. It's it's burn, baby, burn. This place is gonna burn. It's over. Put a fork in it. Gonna burn it with fire. And so fire is a form of judgment. Fire is also a means of purifying. You're gonna go through the fire. The nation of Israel is gonna go through the fire. The fire of the tribulation period. Sometimes that's how life starts again. Yeah. It'll start again. Yeah. A new beginning. So the false prophets are gloating. They're rejecting this info, and they you you don't have my attention. Look. We're right. They're not they're not gonna mess with us, man. They're not gonna get us. And so when it came to pass that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army so this is just what we would call the calm before the storm. Do you feel like we're at the point of the calm before the storm in 2024? What kind of things do you think are up ahead for us in 2024, you prophets? I think there's a lot that's gonna be divided. You think the country's gonna be divided? Mhmm. And we're already divided red and blue states? We never heard that before. A new one. Right? That's a new one. It's crazy. Yeah. Don't you have friends in blue states? I think there's gonna be such a disarray because some want Trump, others don't want him, and It's hate. Pardon me? It's hate. Yeah. Mhmm. It's just the hate for one man. Mhmm. That's what they They're they're creating the hate. Right? Yeah. They will. Now that that hate is directed toward Jesus. It's directed toward Christians, directed toward the nation of Israel. It's from the devil. That's where it stems from, from the devil. They don't want anything good to continue. They wanna destroy it and make it in the image of the devil. Right? Mhmm. And they hate the truth. They hate the truth. Oh, do they ever. Yep. So we're gonna be marked. We're gonna be we're gonna be put in prison. What else do you guys see? Do you see an economic collapse? Yeah. Yes. Indeed. Is that coming? Yeah. Is it in motion? Food shortages? Yes. I do. Do you see social credit scores? You you're gonna reach that point? Will we be raptured before that happens? Yes. Hope yeah. Hope we will. Yeah. Alright. Well, I'm glad you guys your eyes are open. You guys must attend a really good church. You're so so awake. You're so awake. And it came to pass that when and don't you love that? It came to pass. It came, but it came to pass. Ever saw that before? It came it came, but it came to pass. It didn't get to last forever. Right? Mhmm. That when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army, Then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin. Why is he going there? Checking up on his property. There you go. He's got some property in Anathoth out there that he'd purchased earlier in chapter 32. And so he's gonna flee. He's gonna try and get out of town and travel in on business. Right? Yeah. To separate himself there in the midst of the people. There were times where Jesus would be with the multitudes. There were times where he would get away with the 12. And there were times where he'd get away with James Peter, James, and John. And then there are times where he'd get away by himself. You know, there's times where you need to get away. Get away from people, get away from the crazies, and spend some time alone with the Lord. Spend some time with friends in the church, family, take walks, do things where you get where you can reconnect with the Lord and where you can hear what the Lord's wanting to say. Take your phone and throw it in a pail of water. That's what I do. And and then nobody can text you, and you're ready to rumble. Right? So Jeremiah, he's a man, and he he wants to get out of he's been trapped there. Been trapped, and he's got a a thought like, you know, I just bought some land. Sinai. I think I'm gonna head toward Anatham. Gonna head toward home and see see what I purchase, you know, see what I got. And remember, his family hates him. His family wants to throw him in jail. They don't wanna be anywhere near Jeremiah. And so he's he's he's gonna try and get out of Dodge. Now, he's eventually, when the city collapses and it's all burned to the ground and all, he's gonna he's gonna go into prison again. He's gonna go into a dungeon. He's gonna be in the court. He's gonna wind up making it through. And in the book of Lamentations, he'll describe it for us. And tradition tells us that there's a certain group of Gedaliah and a certain group of men that grab hold of him and take him and flee to Egypt where they kill Jeremiah. They're such sore losers that in the end, they've got case after case after case where he's been absolutely correct, 100% correct, and they just don't want every time they look at his face to be reminded of how wrong they were. So they want to get rid of the messenger. So separated himself there in the midst of the people, travel on business. And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Erijah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Hananiah. Remember Hananiah that died? And and he took Jeremiah, the prophet, saying, thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. This is desertion. You're a traitor. You're treasonous. You're you're a spy for the Chaldeans. You're running toward them. So this TSA guy comes over and starts groping them and patting them down, and you're on the no fly list, you know? We got you. We're looking for you. We got facial recognition. You're trying to leave the you're trying to leave the country, leave the city, whatever. You're we got we got your your photo for you were there at January 6. You were there. We're gonna throw you in jail. So he's accused unjustly, and Satan's the accuser of the brethren. Satan stands before God's throne accusing you day and night, reminding God of what a wretched person you are and how you don't deserve heaven, and how you just sinned. And fortunately, we have Jesus there as our defense attorney, and he looks at the record. There's no record of wrongs. There's nothing there. You've been justified just as if you've never sinned. There's no record. And but the devil comes to steal, to kill, to destroy. So, in your living out your Christian life, there's gonna be people that come into your life that condemn you, that point you to the pit of hell, and point toward your weaknesses, and try to destroy you, neutralize you, ruin you. And you need to remember to keep your eyes upon Jesus, and that the devil's a liar. That's they're not speaking for God. People come to me all the time with their their trips, and and I'll listen to them, and then I have to say, you know, is that from God? Is that person sent by God? And when I see the direction of where they're pointing their their accusations, when it points toward condemnation, I know that's not from God. I know it's I know it's from the pit of hell, and it's designed to discourage us to the point that, oh, I I should just quit. I I should I shouldn't I shouldn't even go on, you know? And But that's a lie from the pit of hell. So don't don't let your life, your family, your ministry be judged by somebody else, you know? Who do they think they are? You know? Mister Big Shot, you know? So and I don't I don't even let it really bother me anymore. Praise the Lord. So it's lot of talkers. So many people just talkers, talkers, talkers. I like to say, well, what have you done? How much can you bench? You know? It's just all you guys can do is talk. You know? Just show me something. So thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. Then said Jeremiah, it is false. I fall not away. So he's trying to he's trying to, you know, speak up, you know, speak up and say, that isn't true. That isn't true. He's trying to explain himself. They've already made up their mind. They're they're gonna just haul him away and to the Chaldeans. They're using lies. But he hearkened not to him. So Reijah took Jeremiah and brought him to the princess. So the guys with the January 6 lies, they're all there, and it's our own government. That's our own Republicans. It's our own Trump administration that led all these sheep to the slaughter to contest the election, the fraudulent election. And all these years later, three years later, the Republicans have done nothing Mhmm. To rescue those January 6 people falsely accused. They've done nothing to fix the Dieboldt machines or any of the ways in which election the votes are stolen. And they think that we're gonna go back a second time to the same well and get a different result. And but I wouldn't be surprised, as I said Sunday, that they if we even get to the elections, that they allow Trump to win, and then they crash everything, and then they blame it on Trump on his watch and all of us. All the conservatives get blamed for the demise of the country. And if you guys would have just done it for globalism, if you had just went with globalism, everything would have worked. You know? But because you're nationalistic, because you love America, because you're patriots, you brought it all down. But he Harkon, and that's what Rosh Chao just said, and that's what Nayuval Harari said is that it will it will stop. If Trump's elected, it'll it has a great threat against the globalism we're trying to create. Well, duh. Duh. Who said we want your globalism? You know? We never voted for it. We we say no to globalism. You know? Amen. So it's false. I fall not away to the Chaldeans, but he hearkened not to him. So Elijah took Jeremiah and brought him to the to the princes. I've had a situation where the states lied and where people have lied, lots of lies, and there was nothing I could do about it. Nothing I could do to, you know, get my innocence, you know, to have my day, to be exonerated, you know. Instead, I I had to take the abuse and and then just plot on through. Just just don't quit. The best thing you can do is be faithful what God's called you to do, and recognize that the Lord's allowing them to get away with it. And these guys are getting away with it. They're gonna put him in jail. Wherefore the princes remember? Psalm a hundred eighteen eighty nine. Better to trust in God than to put your confidence in princes. Mhmm. Right? So wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison. So look at the thanks he gets for telling the truth. What thanks he gets beaten? And so when you get beaten and you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're a truther and they wanna control the narrative and they're angry at you, they're wanting to censor, and they're using AI to single you out as a hate speech person. You know? Linda told me that they're gonna start to give citations. T Mobile's gonna help give citations as they watch your phone, your texting, and all the things you do, and send you a $100 citation for saying COVID kills people, something like that. You know? Hate speech. Interesting that the AI algorithms and all their different ways of of doing that would try try even think of trying to do that. Now that's gotta mean they've already gone to Central Bank Digital Currency to get away with that because there's no way any of us are gonna write a check and send it in, you know? Mhmm. You're not gonna send it in. Not gonna give into that, but they take it right out of your bank. That's another story. Mhmm. And then if you're associated with me, your social credit score is gonna really drop, you know, so you're gonna be guilty by association. So, they take Jeremiah and they put him into a prison at Jonathan the scribe's house where they would have these cisterns underneath the house. So, the water would come off of the surface level, and then these houses would be built up like on stilts or just a little bit above the flat part, and they'd have these dugout limestone holes in the ground, and the water would go into there, and that would be their water source in many of these homes. Well, this is a place where the water wasn't in there, but later he's gonna be putting one where he's in the mud at the bottom of one of these, in the mire, you know? So this is the prison that he's gonna go in. Jesus said in John 16 verse two, they shall put you out of the synagogues. Yet the time comes when whosoever kills you will think he doeth God's service. So look at the look at the church people, the apostate church. They're going to snitch on you. They're gonna snitch on you and tell people where you are, and you have stored up food, and you have, you know, a means of fresh water. And I read where an Amish guy got arrested again. He got swatted again. An Amish guy just trying to grow food, you know? Mhmm. And all of a sudden, you're not allowed to grow food unless you get permission from the government. And you're gonna hurt the environment or whatever. Growing too much meat. You're raising too much meat. And the Amish are just absolute experts at this, experts at they they perfected it better than anybody. And that's why the government doesn't like somebody that can come up with better milk, you know, better meat, better cheese, better whatever. They want everyone eating their their poison. So so he's in prison. But, again, as I said, there's no false prophets in prison. False prophets never go to prison. Why is that? You say why? So in Germany, there was a guy named Niemruller, and he used to be an admiral in the German the German Navy, Bonhoeffer was in prison, and Niem Roller was in prison, and one of the soldiers saw him there in prison and said, Admiral Niem Roller, pastor Niem Roller, because he became pastor, why are you in prison? And he said, why are you not? All you have to do to stay out of prison is keep your mouth shut. Just don't speak up for Jesus. Just don't say anything. Go along to get along. Just just, you know, find a church where they're in denial, and it's all about food and fellowship. Food and fellowship. Let's go have food together, and let's let our kids play at our feet, and talk about good things. And nobody ever bothered you. These are the churches that put tents outside, people come and get their jabs, and they're the churches that get the money. They're the churches that shut down during COVID and didn't open back up whatever time, you know. These are the ones that'll do it again. These are the ones that are part of the clergy response team that will turn us in when we say, no, we're not we're not going to your meeting, we're not going to your FEMA camp, we're not going there. We hold to the constitution of The United States. We're not the lawbreakers, you know? And that's what we need to have drilled home is that these tyrants, they think they have unlimited power. They don't understand that their power is limited, chained to the constitution. There's checks and balances, you know. They can't just mandate stuff, and they can't give away our sovereignty and circumvent the constitution with treaties, you know, to the World Health Organization and World Economic Forum, which are not even, you know, governing bodies, you know. The United Nations would cease to exist if America would just not even fund it. You know? So they're implementing all these global policies that go against the constitution, our bill of rights, and very few Americans understand the law of the land is the constitution. It's a constitutional republic. It's not your elected leaders that get to arbitrarily act like they're a governor tyrant. And because I said it, all you churches need to quit meeting. You have to all wear masks. You have to wear plexiglass. No. You don't. Who said that? Yesterday, we went to the store, and I backed the church van up and I backed into a spot. And the back end is real long, and I purposely back in because it's so long, and I'm kind of hanging over this plant that's there, there's a plant. And I moved it to get this old couple, they're real old, I'm really young, but they're old, and their car was like, I was kind of close to them, so I moved it to give them more room to get back in, and I thought they were going to be so happy that I moved it, and this lady looks at me, talking to her husband and all that, and then she walks to the back and looks to see if I was hurting a plant. You know? And and I was like, is this a Karen? Is is this what I'm seeing? Is this lady really thinks she's gonna get away with this with me? And and, fortunately, she didn't, you know, knock on the door, do anything, and I was feeling so good. It was Rob's birthday, and that was just really Felicity's birthday. And and I'm like, I don't I don't wanna be rude or mean to this this old people. They're old. You know? But what where does she come off? You know, when I told Kathy about it, Kathy was like, who's she think she is? You know? I guess Kathy was ready to go. But it was like, you know, he was like, I don't even wanna express, but it it's just like, didn't wanna have to be mean. I didn't wanna have to, you know, defend myself. It's just like, me alone. Just leave me alone. Let me have my freedom. You know? I'm not doing anything wrong. Why do you gotta pick on me that I'm doing something wrong? I just parked the car. So that which I was trying to do to be kind to them and good, she's gotta find fault in it. And that's how the devil is. He's always gonna try and find fault. He he judges according to the letter of the law. The letter of law kills. And if somebody holds up the law to you, the devil, he can always find something that you're doing wrong. Mhmm. You know? Always. Because we're not perfect. But the spirit of the law, the spirit is we turn to Christ. We're gracious. We we we don't major on minors. You know? Now if if I backed up on a kitty cat or a child, that's serious. You know? I'd have to I'd have to tick her up on it, but this was just a short plant that I went over. You know? It was gonna be okay. I love plants. Alright. So so, anyway, he's in prison. So when you're mistreated and you're feeling really bad because some injustice has happened to you, one of the things I always say to you and to myself is, and I say to Kathy, Kathy, how is Jesus treated? How was Joseph treated by his brothers? Joseph went to prison because of lies, because these guys sold them. They sold him like Jesus for 20 pieces of silver, and Jesus was sold out for 30 pieces of silver, you know, by Judas. How was Paul treated? He was beaten, was put in prison. Why do we present Christ to people and lie to them and say that your life's gonna go really well now. Why don't we why don't we help them to count the cost that you probably lose all your friends right now? You know? You're you're you might lose your job if you speak up, you know? And we gotta let them know that that all they that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Mhmm. If you're not living godly, you're not gonna suffer persecution. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all. Jesus said, in this world you will have tribulation. Right? But be of good cheer, I've overcome the world. So expect adversity. Expect that you're a target of the wicked one. If you're going with the world in a life of compromise, just claiming to be a Christian but not living it, you'd be left alone, and you'd be allowed to prosper, and probably nothing will ever happen to you. But if you you live for Jesus, people are gonna hate you. If you speak up for Jesus, they're gonna hate you. And the more radical you get to live for Jesus, the more you're gonna be hated. Mhmm. And so Joseph was put in prison. Paul was put in prison. Peter, John, and James, and many, many other Christians throughout history have been thrown into prison simply for being a Christian. Yep. Simply for telling the truth. And the other thing is Jeremiah has no friends to come help him while he's in prison. And I think of the apostle Paul when he was taken away from Jerusalem, and James, the brother of Jesus and the big Kahunas could have came to help him. He's just at the Antonio Fortress there for two years. You know? And then he goes to Caesarea. They could have taken a trip there to go see him and encourage him. Nope. They nobody went there. You know? And at the very end now he had some good friends that were there from time to time, but at his second imprisonment, he said, no man stood with me. Everybody fled. And he prayed, Lord, that it wouldn't be laid to their charge, that God wouldn't hold it against them. You know? But what did he say after that? But you never left me. You were always with me. The Lord was always with me. He yeah. He said, but the Lord stood with me. Right? The Lord was with him. And so who would you rather have with you, your friends or Jesus? You know? You know? So we're never alone, and the Lord's gonna be there with us in that fiery furnace. And there's a fourth, he says, the son of man, they be said. You know? And and it's during that time that probably we'll get to know the Lord better than we ever have because that's what he does. He he likes to fellowship with us, and that I might know him in the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death. And the power of his resurrection. We get to experience the power of his resurrection to lift us above the norm, above the natural into the life of the spirit. And part of that has to do with our fellowship with him and filling up his sufferings. When you suffer for Jesus, people are reminded of the cross. They're reminded of Jesus. This is how his people this is how he was treated. And so you're representing him. You're his witness. And that's Jeremiah. He's in prison. Remember back in chapter 20 when he was mistreated, how he said, I'm not gonna speak in your name anymore. Do you know who I am, God? I didn't sign up for this. And it says his word was in him like a fire and he couldn't refrain. Right? Mhmm. So that's how you know you're called. The way you know you're called is woe is me if I don't preach the gospel. You can never quit. If you try to refrain, it makes you crazy because God's word is just stirred up in your heart. So, then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out, and the king asked him secretly in his house and said, is there any word from the Lord? So you what do you think, king? Who wants to read Matthew twenty five thirty six? Is there any word from the lord? What's the future look like? Tell me the future. Is there any false prophets that can tell me the future? Can I dial 1900? You know? Can somebody tell me? I was in prison and you visited me. Matthew twenty five thirty six. I wanna read it in the King James. Alright. 25 I was in prison at your visit. I was in the hospital. You visited me. 25. I was thirsty. You gave me drink. That's a long one. Hungry. You gave me drink. Naked and you everything you've been saying. Naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came unto me. And so Jesus said, in as much as you've done it unto the least of these my brethren, you've done it unto me. So when we go visit people that are in the hospital, people in prison, when we clothe people, feed people, give them give them a drink, especially if we help Israel when they're under fire. Jesus is identifying with his brothers, with Israel, with you and I. You've done it unto me. And so he's got nobody visiting him. Nobody coming to help him. Robbie's got a friend that she goes and visits every month and helps him out. That's gotta mean so much to him. You know? If your family and friends aren't there, if they forget about you, you're unjustly accused and mistreated and thrown in as one of the January 6 people, your life's ruined Mhmm. And people forget about you. What about the people in Lahaina right now? Does anybody remember Lahaina? Anybody remember what happened there, the injustice that happened there? I heard Biden said I he's gonna give them $700. Yeah. You believe what a good deal that is? Yeah. So what are the aliens getting? $2,200 just getting across that border. $2,200 a month. I don't even make that. I don't even make that. I know. I know. 2,200 a month just to get here. But the people in Lahaina, $700. Well, what can $700 buy in Maui? Oh, probably some vanilla bean ice cream. You know? Mhmm. It's about it. Pretty expensive. They got kicked in. They stole their land stolen from them. You know? Governor's gonna build a smart city there, and the media's silent. They have no advocacy. They have nobody speaking out of the outrage. The January 6 people, no outrage. Why? Why? Because you'll get swatted. You gotta be quiet about this. You'll be swatted. If you're a doctor and you speak up, you lose your license. Right? Mhmm. Everybody's quiet. Fight people killed, but does that matter? Yes. Yeah. It's not the it's the property they're seizing. They're stealing. They're stealing the property. So these are old families that never wanna give up their land, but if you're gonna put a smart city there, you gotta figure out how to get them off the land. So directed energy weapons just burn the whole thing down. So then, is there a word from the Lord? And Jeremiah said, there is. So the guy's like, leaning forward. Now you would think that Jeremiah would be softened up, that his will would be broken. Right? That you throw somebody in prison, you beat them. They're gonna alright. I better tell the king what I wanna hear. I'm going back in there. You know? Over and over again, twenty eight years here, twenty eight years here, I've always known the formula. Rick, don't be so intense. A lot of things you say makes people uncomfortable. Water it down, Rick. Water it down. The church will grow. Don't speak for an hour, Rick. Make it a twenty minute sermonette. They can't handle an hour, you know, an hour long sermon. You know? So you know what will make the church grow bigger, but you can't do that because the people won't grow. They won't be stronger. They won't get through what's coming. So the lack of people or the lack of giving or the lack of help, the lack of whatever, I had people for a time there wouldn't give because I wouldn't budge. They were leveraging me. And well, we're going to watch him, you know, scramble as he loses his house. We're going to watch him, you know, just beg for help, you know, because I had guys on my board threaten me that they were going to take my kids away if I didn't, you know, cooperate with them. Bunch of liars. And so each and every time I had to trust the Lord. There's no way I'm going to throw Jesus under the bus. There's no way I'm going to put my confidence in man. Amen. Absolutely not. So I'd rather the odds be just me and Jesus and Kathy and a 100 people against me. I don't care. Because I know if I've got the Lord's favor that he's going to provide, he's going to protect us, he's going to, you know, get us through it. And we're going to have as many people as he wants us to have. You know, it's his church. He's the one that builds the church. And I don't want to come up with any schemes or scams or I don't want to appease proud, arrogant, professing Christians. That's the last thing I want to do is try to appease them. I would rather preach the gospel and watch them squirm and be angry as they're being convicted by the Holy Spirit. And then maybe, if they're honest with themselves, they'll repent, and they'll come up to me and they'll say, you were talking to me, weren't you? So I don't even know you. Well, the Holy Spirit was something was happening, man. You were talking directly at me. And, you know, that kind of encounter is a wonderful thing when a person recognizes that God's speaking to them and that they need to be honest enough to come clean rather than me appeasing them in their sin year after year, day after day. Well, you know, that guy gives a lot of money. I better not offend him. I better I better I better make him a guy on my board. Let's put him on the board. And and that's what a lot of these guys do. So Jeremiah, he's not for sale. Amen. Watch what he does. And Jeremiah said, there is. For said he, thou shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. Oh, bar. Bar. All he can do is the truth. That's all he can do. All he can do is tell you the truth. There there is. Yeah. I got a word for you, buddy. I got a word for you. And so no compromise. Compromise is the key to being liked. He could've he could've got that king to like him. You know? And Balaam was there with Barak, and Barak was trying to Balak, and Balak was trying to bribe, you know, Balaam, the prophet. And and Balaam said, I can only speak what the lord gives me to speak. Nothing more, nothing less. You know? But he was a false prophet, Balaam. So Balaam taught Balak how to get what he wanted because Balaam wanted the money, and this is how get the nation of Israel to compromise, and God will smack them. So he taught Balak how to get them was put your Midianitesh women out there, seductive, seduce them, and get them seduced into idolatry with these naked women and cause an orgy to take place, and God will judge his own people. And that's that's what happened. So but a true prophet of God. John the Baptist, how did he die? What did he die from? Tell him the truth. To the king. Yep. Tell him. He had a real headache, didn't he? Had a headache. Yeah. Lost his head. Yeah. Why did he lose his head? What what did he say that was so terrible? Tell McKinney's going around with his brother's wife. Yeah. And so that was that was something that got him put in prison. And had he not said that, you know, he'd be alive today. No. I'm just kidding. So he delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon truth. Moreover, Jeremiah said unto the king Zedekiah, what have I have I offended you? Have I offended against thee or against thy servants or against this people that you have put me in prison? Because I'm being I'm being treated like a false prophet. I'm a true prophet. And why why am I in prison? Why why why are you doing that? Did I offend you? Is there something we could talk about here? Something I can make right? Where are now your prophets who prophesied unto you saying the king of Babylon shot against you nor against this land. So your false prophets tell you what you wanna hear, and they're false, but they get away with it. Nothing happens to them. But me, I tell you the truth, help you to get ready, help you to realize you need to surrender. You know, and you and I, we need to be the same way. We need to encourage people to surrender to Jesus. We can't we can't water down the gospel and compromise the gospel just so they'll like us and attend church with us. Well, what if they're an unbeliever attending church? We need to bring them to the cross. Therefore, hear now, I pray thee, O Lord the king. Let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee, that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. So Jeremiah is about 60 years old now. He's asking to be freed. Would you please free me? Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison and that they should give him daily a a piece of bread. So he's able to move about. He's not down in the hole, and it's a time of famine, but the king's edict is that you're gonna have a piece of bread. You're gonna be fed till there's no more bread from the bakers out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus, Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. And so when a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs 16 verse seven. So he's fed daily bread in a time of famine. And we're we're taught in the Lord's Prayer to live that way. Do you know that in the Lord's Prayer? We're given the only choice. Us this day our daily bread. And so a lot of times we wanna live in such a way that we have years of bread stored up, and Jesus told him Matthew six to trust him day by day. Right? And seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things be added unto you. So we walk by faith day by day. Many of these people are day laborers, and they would work today. They'd have enough money from the day's work to go purchase a meal, and that's how many of them lived, you know, at that time. So the rich at the top, many common people, they needed to learn to live in that way by faith. So in Matthew six, Jesus said the pagans, the heathen, they worry about what am I gonna eat, what am I gonna drink, what am I gonna wear? Always worried. And Jesus said, you don't need to live that way. Look at the birds. Look how I provide food for the birds. Look at the fields. Solomon in all of his glory was never close so beautifully as the flowers that are covering covering, you know, these fields. And he says, there isn't one bird that falls to the ground that I don't know about. And of a huge, greater value are you, not one hair of your head is gonna ever be touched. You know? And and so he he told him, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added unto you. What what can your worry do? Can your worry add 18 inches to your stature? Can you make yourself 18 inches taller by worrying? You know? So he's coming after the worry, the anxiety. And so you have a choice to live with fear and anxiety and worry as things get worse or to train yourself, condition yourself as a habit of life to trust the Lord moment by moment, day by day, and not waste time, waste energy by worrying. You the food isn't gonna just show up at your doorstep. Birds work real hard. They go out and they have to gather the food. Right? They have to go find the worms. Right? But the worms are there. The food's there. The Lord provides the food for them. So our part is we work, we do our part, and we trust the Lord that he's gonna provide. Right? And and he does, and he will. And Paul goes on to say, With food and raiment therewith be content. So food and raiment. Food and clothing. So you might not even have a house. So he's teaching contentment in that I've learned to be content in whatever state I'm in, whether I'm abased or I'm abounding. I've learned the secret of contentment. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And godliness with contentment is great gain. We brought nothing into the world, it's certain we're gonna carry nothing out. Right? And so beware of covetousness. Right? And people that are pursuing money and love money, pierce themselves through with many sorrows. So Jeremiah is in the palm of God's hand. For I formed you in your mother's womb, you know, I knew you, and I ordained you a prophet unto God. So he's got a calling on his life as a prophet, and all the way through, no matter what happens, he's dependent upon God. Right? The Lord is gonna take care of Jeremiah all the way through. So too with you and I, God's gonna complete that work that he's begun in our lives. And the key is walking by faith. You'll ruin your day if you succumb to fear. Mhmm. But faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Saturate yourself in the word of God and your faith will grow. The confrontation, the the adversary is gonna try and take you out of your game. And you remember Hebrews eleven six, without faith, it's impossible to please God. For they that come to him must believe that he is and that he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. So faith is the key. It's trusting Jesus, trusting in God, honoring God that vain is the help of man. So remember Psalm 118, eight and nine? Better to trust in God than to put your confidence in man. Better to trust in God than to put your confidence in princes. Right? So trust in God. So replace Trump with God. Replace the Republicans and all these princes and these pretenders and all these people you can't trust in. Replace them with Jesus and look to Jesus. And Jesus is gonna comfort your heart and give you his peace that surpasses all understanding. Jesus is just waiting for us to trust him instead of these pretenders. How how it must grieve his heart to watch us be so deceived, you know, and trusting in these pedophiles. You know? Just why would you trust in these pedophiles? Why would you trust in these guys who've been to Epstein Island? Don't you see who you're trusting in? You know I mean? This is Yeah. But the other thing is who do we trust? There's nobody to trust. That's the I know God God's the one to trust. I understand that. Yeah. But if we have Trump and Biden, who do we trust? Well, that's the dilemma. That's that's the beauty of this is the Lord is waking us up because in the past, we were deceived Mhmm. And we really believed in this whole system. Now we see the system's broke, and the beauty is we might be on the verge of real awakening if people begin to look to Jesus because this system's broken, and so we might be like Nineveh that turn from our sins and cry out to God and God raises up, you know, new leaders or whatever because we're given leaders who reflect who reflect who we are. That's the kind of leaders we're given. So when you look at Trump and Biden them, they mirror us. They mirror the culture. And so who they are if you look at Trump, he appeals to who? People that want money, people that want, you know, the good life now. He represents the good life, you know. If you look at Biden, what's that? I don't know what that is. I don't know. I I can't even think why anybody would be attracted to that, but there's a certain what's that? Free. The migrants coming across New York. Free free. Everything's free. Yeah. I don't so you you the lies put out there, and these guys represent the lie, and none of them represent Jesus. None of them are are God. Right? Pointing the pointing the nation to Jesus. So You lose focus. Yep. You can't lose that focus, man. We gotta keep our eyes on Jesus. I need him every day. Alright. Let's pray. Father, we come before you. Lord, we do pray for our nation. We love America. And, we love you more. And so, Lord, we pray that you would be the uppermost in our heart and life. We know you got this, Lord. You're on the throne. You're in control. We don't need to worry about it. We can lift up our leaders to you. We lift up our all of our elected leaders, and we pray, God, that they would be held accountable by you, that, God, you would speak to them just as you spoke to the pharaoh, told them told the the pharaoh, don't put don't touch Sarah. Don't lay a finger on her. And, Lord, you're able to get through to Nabbi. You're able to get through to all these global leaders all throughout history. And, Lord, we pray that that you'd raise up a godly man, a godly woman, somebody, Lord, that would stand in the gap and call the nation under repentance. And, Lord, I pray that it would spread, that courage would increase, that people would see the demonic aspects of what's being sold, the lies, the philosophies of men, the demonic Luciferian cult that's trying to take and destroy all that's good. And Lord, we pray that as the people hear and understand the truth, Lord, the truth would set us free, and Lord, that you'd be exalted, that you would shine bright. And Lord, these refugees, all these people invading our country, Lord, we do pray that they come to know you, Lord. We pray that they're like the immigrants of old that that want their wives and their children, their families to come here for a better life, that they experience freedom. We pray they'd be led to Christ, they'd come to know you, and that the church should take advantage of this opportunity to present Christ to the people that are coming. We don't need to go to them. They're coming to us, Lord. And so we pray that you would raise up a standard against the wickedness and all that the enemy meant for evil, Lord. You turn around for good. Cause them just like in in Iran, Lord, people coming to Christ. And so, God, we pray that you would give us a vision, show us how we might be salt and light, and how we might destroy the works of the wicked ones simply by being salt and light, by proclaiming the truth. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Alrighty.
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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.
