WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.679 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys, and 4 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:18.199 we are excited to launch another week of hopefully good stuff. 5 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:20.000 Launch. Launch, that's a good word. 6 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:21.679 Well, we're kicking off launch. 7 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:25.120 Just nobody comes out to like watch grass grow or something, 8 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:26.839 but people come out and watch rockets launch. 9 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:27.719 Yeah, they really do. 10 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:28.320 Yeah. Yeah. 11 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:31.440 I had a good friend who used to go to 12 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:34.119 the Keney Center and actually whenever they would launch a 13 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:36.280 space shuttle or something, and he would just go take 14 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:36.840 pictures of it. 15 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.039 Yeah, phenomenal. So I saying it's gonna be super be 16 00:00:39.079 --> 00:00:39.359 like that. 17 00:00:39.719 --> 00:00:42.920 Yes, this week, it's. 18 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:44.399 Just like a great big rocket picking up. It's gonna 19 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:47.520 be amazing. Ground's gonna rumble, yeah, make a big mess. 20 00:00:47.960 --> 00:00:50.079 Hey, we have a theme this week. We're talking about 21 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:53.000 God's purpose and future for us. 22 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.000 Yeah, that's gonna be purpose in future. I'm looking forward. 23 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:59.000 So yeah, before we dive into that, though, Desiree wants 24 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:00.439 us to do Who's most likely? 25 00:01:01.159 --> 00:01:02.479 Which we like? Yes? 26 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:03.079 Which we like? 27 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.079 So I literally just open this a few seconds ago. Yes, 28 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:07.200 I haven't even read these yet. 29 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:08.920 No, I haven't read them either. I knew we were 30 00:01:08.959 --> 00:01:11.680 doing Who's most likely, but I have not read them. 31 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:13.400 So you want to take. 32 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.000 The who's most likely to dress their pet in an 33 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:17.599 embarrassing Christmas costume? 34 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.120 That would definitely be you? 35 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:21.799 Is it is me? Well? We Yeah, I don't know. 36 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.920 Gucci has been wearing a lot of bandanas lately. 37 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:28.280 There you go that I rest my case your honor. 38 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:33.040 That is the defense rest. I have never put a 39 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.200 single piece of clothing on any of my animals, and 40 00:01:35.239 --> 00:01:37.959 your animals are named Gucci Chanel. 41 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:38.599 That's right. 42 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.599 Yeah, so you win. You're most likely. By the way, 43 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:45.680 my father though, would have dogs and he would dress 44 00:01:45.719 --> 00:01:48.439 them up all the time. Yeah. Yeah, and so the 45 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:52.120 most recent dog just passed away. I don't know why 46 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:54.560 I said that, but there you go. All right. Number two, 47 00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:59.079 who's most likely to panic wrap gifts at eleven fifty 48 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:02.719 nine pm on christ See, that'd be you two. 49 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:08.000 Yes, okay, I've I've been wrapping presents way after eleven. 50 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:12.280 Fifty right right on Christmas Day? Yeah, at one a m. 51 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:14.400 Yeah, that's what about you? Are you? 52 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:15.240 Well? 53 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:20.800 I would say our entire married life, Liz has just 54 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:24.199 been on it, right, So, uh so she is in 55 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:28.560 early like right now, I think everything is purchased for Christmas. Wow, 56 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:33.159 and she'll wrap several days before and they'll be under 57 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:34.759 the tree well before Christmas Eve. 58 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:36.680 Oh wow. Yeah yeah, that's awesome. 59 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.159 Yeah. And by the way, growing up, we never wrapped 60 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:41.280 our gifts. Well we did, we didn't, We didn't. We 61 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:44.039 went through a phase where we didn't as kids, but 62 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:45.000 then later on we did. 63 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:45.360 Yeah. 64 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:49.639 So, anyway, who's most likely to recret We request Mariah 65 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:51.039 Carrey at every party. 66 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:53.599 That would definitely that's gonna be you. That would definitely 67 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:58.120 be me. And I think you know somehow. 68 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.960 That Christmas I think it's Christmas party, right, every good party. 69 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.599 But by the way, I think I think, uh, I 70 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:05.560 think Desiree probably knew that. Did I tell you I 71 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.000 was a part of the Mariah Carey fan club? 72 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.039 Yes, I knew that. You told us on this on 73 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:10.360 this show yeh yeah yeah. 74 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.199 And and and it was uh until I did it, 75 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:15.840 until I realized what it was, and I was like, 76 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:18.360 get me out of this thing as fast as I 77 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:21.240 can get out. So but yeah, when she first came out, 78 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:25.319 I was I was pretty uh taken with her voice, okay, 79 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:27.840 and then how about this one? Who's most likely to 80 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:31.240 wrap a gift so badly that it looks like a 81 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:32.360 crumpled burrito. 82 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:34.479 I'm struggling with this question. 83 00:03:35.879 --> 00:03:37.199 I didn't know the fact that it looks like a 84 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:38.879 crumpled burrito means it's wrapped badly. 85 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:43.159 Oh, I'm struggling with this question. Hey, I've done it 86 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:43.639 on me too. 87 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:45.039 I'm a varible wrap. 88 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.039 Have you ever rolled something and then just grabbed the 89 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:49.639 ends and twisted them and then just take it? It works? Yeah, 90 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.439 I've done it, so I think maybe it's a tie. 91 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:55.919 Well, definitely you. Then let's let's give that one to you. 92 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.919 Okay, all right? Why definitely need when you've done it too? 93 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:03.479 Because you gave a specific example. I was just admitting it, 94 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:05.159 but it was a confusing question to me. I'm like, 95 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:06.360 everything I rap looks. 96 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:08.319 Like a crumble over. That's so funny. 97 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:09.199 All right. 98 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:12.400 Who's most likely to start a debate about whether Diehard 99 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:13.240 is a Christmas movie? 100 00:04:13.319 --> 00:04:18.519 Oh? God, probably me, because I care about those conversations. 101 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:20.759 Yeah, and you're you're a big movie guy, so is it? 102 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.240 And well, Chris Bruce Willis, I'm not kidding when I 103 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.800 say this. I literally watched a clip two days ago 104 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:31.279 of Bruce Willis at some award show and he was 105 00:04:31.279 --> 00:04:33.000 sort of making a joke. But he got up there 106 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:34.680 and he goes, I just want to set the record straight. 107 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:38.759 He goes, die Hard is not a Christmas movie, and 108 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:41.639 the whole audience started laughing. But he could have said 109 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:45.319 it is, but he said it's not. So I'm going 110 00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:46.720 to go on record and say it's not. 111 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:47.240 It's not. 112 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:49.959 I think of it as a Christmas movie and I 113 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:51.639 try to watch it at Christmas. 114 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:54.800 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so so yeah. 115 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:56.680 The boss of me it says that he didn't pay 116 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:59.519 for the movie, nor was he the director of the movie, 117 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.360 a producer or a director. Right, he's just an actor. 118 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.399 He don't know. He didn't write the screen. He don't know, 119 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:06.560 he didn't write the script. He doesn't know what these 120 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:07.519 people's intention was. 121 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:12.040 Yeah. Well, the ending, the ending song when the credits 122 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:15.360 roll up is oh the weather outside is fried for right, 123 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.600 And I'm thinking, like, I'm like, you know, he dresses 124 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.399 the bad guype and a Santa hat ho ho ho. Right, Yeah, 125 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:24.480 I mean it's definitely at Christmas, and all that takes 126 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:27.639 place on Christmas Eve, So I mean. 127 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:29.720 It's like growing up Home Alone. 128 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.600 Yeah, right, right, I can tell me Plaza alone. 129 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:36.959 Yeah that is so funny. 130 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:41.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would definitely say for me, I 131 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:44.560 think it is a Christmas movie. But Bruce Willis says no, but. 132 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:49.240 So it's not about Christmas. Correct, But neither is Home Alone? 133 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:51.600 So is Home Alone a Christmas movie? 134 00:05:51.720 --> 00:05:56.040 It sure is? Okay, Yeah, they're the same, they are 135 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:59.199 the same. Wait a minute, I have never made that comparison. 136 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:04.600 You have opened my mind, and it is. It is amazing. 137 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:08.839 It's amazing. Die Hard is a grown up Home Alone. 138 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.839 It is and and and just like Kevin takes out 139 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.319 the two bad guys, yes, rus Willis stakes out. 140 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:17.720 The whole army, twelve bad guys with rocket launchers. 141 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:24.959 Yeah, holy cow wow, it's the same. Yeah. And Kevin 142 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:25.759 protects the home. 143 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.639 He protects thoughts about Christmas. It's just set at Christmas time. 144 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:31.399 That's right. Wow. 145 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:33.959 I'm just telling you. If Home Alone is a Christmas movie, 146 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:36.920 then so is die Hard. That's how I feel about it. 147 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:37.319 Okay. 148 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:38.879 None of the other die Hard movies, I don't I 149 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:39.600 don't think that they are. 150 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.639 But this one, well, you said that, I'm likely to 151 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:45.279 start a debate and I did start the date, but 152 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.399 you ended it. There you go, because you have convinced 153 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:50.920 me I will no longer ever have this debate. 154 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.519 Yeah, it's just his opinion, but he don't know. Yeah, 155 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:56.959 most of those people. Have you ever you've heard him before. 156 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:03.439 I was listening to the thing recently, Kevin U not Bateman, 157 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:08.199 Jason Jason. Jason Bateman was talking about how much he 158 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:12.199 likes directing. He enjoys acting, He loves directing, and he 159 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:13.639 said the director knows the whole story. 160 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:15.279 And a lot of times actors. 161 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.279 Because they shoot it out of order, have a hard 162 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:19.360 time imagining how the movie's going to turn out, right, 163 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:21.000 And so he said, there's a lot of anxiety as 164 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:22.879 an actor, going, I don't know how this is going 165 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:23.360 to turn out. 166 00:07:23.600 --> 00:07:26.560 I think it was good, you know, and then they're surprised. 167 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:28.480 When they see the editing and it's edited well and 168 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:29.480 the shots were great. 169 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:30.959 Then you go, that was amazing. 170 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:33.079 He said, it's really is that the producers the I mean, 171 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:35.120 it's the directors and the editors that make it great. 172 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:38.800 And he said he said, I like it because I'm 173 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.399 I feel like I'm steering the whole story. And so 174 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.480 maybe Bruce Willis just reading the script and then doing 175 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:47.360 it out of order, felt like it wasn't a Christmas movie. 176 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:50.480 But well this was twenty years later, so I mean, you. 177 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.720 Know, anyways, he should have known, he should have he should. 178 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:55.160 Have consulted me first before he went on the record. 179 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:56.639 There you go, made a fool of himself. 180 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:00.639 And right now he's you know, he's he strugg one. Yeah, 181 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:01.279 he's struggling. 182 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.600 Well, well, hey, that was a great segment, riveting. 183 00:08:04.759 --> 00:08:05.279 We solved it. 184 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.759 We we definitively solved this major issue. 185 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.680 And you're you are oh no, I won three to two. 186 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:14.800 Yeah, it was three to two. 187 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:19.000 Yeah, all right, well that's good segment. Well, Jeff, we 188 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:22.839 are you know, you know, you know what else is 189 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:24.240 not a Christmas thing? 190 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:29.920 That's your transition. 191 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:33.559 Jeremiah. 192 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.120 Okay, yeah, that's true. 193 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:38.960 Well Jeremiah is the Weeping Prophet, Yes he is. Yeah, 194 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:40.960 and uh and by the way, how would you like 195 00:08:41.080 --> 00:08:43.879 to you know, have that name and it's and it's 196 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.360 attached to you like we get to heaven and it's 197 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.360 like doubting Thomas, the Weeping Prophet Jeremiah. It's like these 198 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.679 guys who have the bad reputations, right, It's like that's 199 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:55.480 pretty sad. Do you think you think maybe he gets that, 200 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.240 like or do you think we do away with that 201 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:02.200 in heaven we longer like attached weeping to him, because. 202 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:07.360 Yeah, the weeping prophet doubting Thomas, Hey, doubting, Hey dt. 203 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:11.000 You remember last year on Christmas you talked about doubting Thomas, 204 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.799 and I go, I said, we're gonna get to heaven 205 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:16.080 and we're gonna go up there and say, hey, dowbting Thomas. 206 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:18.080 He's gonna go dude, just it was one time. 207 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.679 It's just Thomas, I did it one time. There you go. 208 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:25.480 So yeah, but anyway, So Jeremiah chapter twenty nine, Yeah, 209 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:27.639 we're focusing on verse number eleven, that's. 210 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:28.759 Right, and I think we're just going to read a 211 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:35.759 few verses here. The prophet is telling the people about 212 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.519 the fact that they're going to be exiled to Babylon. 213 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:41.960 It's going to last seventy years. He's grieving over the 214 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:47.039 fact that it's just his worst nightmare is about ready 215 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.039 to happen. The people don't believe it, that people don't care. 216 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:54.559 They're refusing to repent all these things. And then God 217 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:59.559 speaks through Jeremiah and he says this and. 218 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:01.240 By the way, this this is the same exile where 219 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.480 Daniel was taken captive, right to Babylon. 220 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:08.360 Right, yes, so he writes a letter. You know, I'll 221 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:10.519 just start at verse one and we'll read through like verse. 222 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:12.440 Thirteen or I agree or something. 223 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.240 Jeremiah wrote a letter from Jerusalem to the elders, priests, prophets, 224 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:18.440 and all the people who had been exiled to Babylon 225 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:23.000 by King Nebukinezer. This was after King Jehoiakin, the Queen mother, 226 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:26.159 the court officials, the other officials of Judah, and all 227 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:28.600 the craftsmen artisans have been deported from Jerusalem. And he 228 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:33.039 sent the letter to Elisa son of Schaifan and Gameria 229 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:36.399 son of Hilkiah, when they had been went to Babylon 230 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:40.559 as King Zadekia's ambassadors to Nebukinezer. This is what Jeremiah's 231 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.000 letter said. This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies, 232 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:45.720 the God of Israel, says to all the captives he 233 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:49.399 has exiled to Babylon from Jerusalem. Build homes and plan 234 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.159 to stay, plant gardens and eat the food they produce, 235 00:10:52.519 --> 00:10:55.559 marry and have children. Then find spouses for them, so 236 00:10:55.600 --> 00:10:58.559 that you may have many grandchildren multiply. Do not dwindle 237 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.000 away and work for the He's some prosperity of the 238 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.440 city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the 239 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:06.519 Lord for it, for its welfare will determine your welfare. 240 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:09.039 This is what the Lord of Heaven's armies set, the 241 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:11.480 God of Israel says. Do not let your prophets and 242 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:13.000 fortune tellers who are with you in the land of 243 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.679 Babylon trick. You don't listen to their dreams, because they're 244 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.320 telling you lies in my name. I have not sent them, 245 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:21.440 says the Lord. This is what the Lord says. You 246 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:25.000 will be in Babylon for seventy years, but then I 247 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.440 will come and do for you all the good things 248 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.159 I've promised, and I will bring you home again. For 249 00:11:30.279 --> 00:11:32.360 I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. 250 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:35.519 There are plans for good and not for disaster, to 251 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:37.919 give you a future and a hope in those days 252 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:40.440 when you pray, I'll listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, 253 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:42.840 you will find me. I will be found by you, 254 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:45.639 says the Lord. I will end your captivity and restore 255 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:47.919 your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations 256 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:49.799 where I sent you, and I will bring you home 257 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:54.519 again to your land. Then he goes on he complains, 258 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:56.320 there's going to be all these fake prophets going no, no, no, 259 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:59.120 God's gonna let us go right now, or no no, no, 260 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.879 God's never gonna gonna, you know, set us free. 261 00:12:02.200 --> 00:12:02.559 Whatever. 262 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:05.399 So he's sending to these people they've already been captured, 263 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:08.559 they've already been taken to Babylon, they had rebelled against God. 264 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:11.440 He's been grieving over that. But now he's saying, listen, 265 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:14.360 God says it's temporary. It's not gonna last forever. It's 266 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:17.720 gonna be this one long generation seventy years. And then 267 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:20.720 when it's over, it's over, and God's going to restore you. 268 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:25.120 But don't listen to these fake guys. And then when 269 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:27.519 you get to the rest of this letter, it's the same, 270 00:12:27.759 --> 00:12:29.120 but false prophet is going to come and tell you 271 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:29.720 something other than. 272 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:30.200 What I told you. 273 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:34.080 Now. Now, Jeremiah is known to be a prophet that 274 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:38.039 no one listened to. Technically right, right, right, So do 275 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:43.559 you think that his words were received with authority? And 276 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:47.799 like they're like I read this and I think to myself, well, 277 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:51.080 no one probably listened, yeah, right, because I mean, I 278 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:53.399 mean obviously when they say no one listened, they're talking 279 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:58.000 about converts, right, right, So maybe maybe he did carry authority. 280 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:01.559 Besides that, I don't know, but but I very much 281 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:04.840 whenever I am in Jeremiah at all, I very much 282 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:09.240 think to myself, out of all the ministry experience that 283 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.120 I hear about poor Jeremiah, you know, having an entire 284 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:16.879 ministry and not having one single convert, I always feel 285 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:18.480 bad for Jeremiah. 286 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:19.960 Well, I think it's one of those things. You know, 287 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:23.120 you had Daniel, he was a young man. You had 288 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:25.240 the guys who became shadrag me shake in a bed 289 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:30.039 and to go yep, that right. You have these guys 290 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:33.840 that are are following God too. There's always a remnant. 291 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:38.240 And I think godly people tend to pay attention to 292 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:40.720 other godly people. They're trying to They're probably trying to 293 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.679 do that. So they probably recognized. 294 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:43.559 What he wrote. 295 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:45.919 They were hopeful they believed him, But it would have 296 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:50.080 been afterwards when what Jeremiah said was true came true, 297 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:52.840 right that the other rabbis, the other godly men that 298 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:55.879 were trying to figure it out, go hey, Jeremiah told 299 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:59.360 us this seventy years ago, right, right, and then that's 300 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.720 when they would have life. But yeah, during his lifetime, 301 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.440 it was a tremendous burden I think for him to 302 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:06.559 carry it, to never really have any he never felt 303 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:07.519 like he had any success. 304 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.399 Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that's a that's a tough that's 305 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.679 a tough gig, and you know it. I think that 306 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.840 there's a sermon. I mean, obviously I've preached sermons in Jeremiah, 307 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:21.279 but you know the idea of like thinking that God's 308 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:25.600 not working, God's not doing anything. I'm trying, I'm serving him, 309 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:29.320 you know, it feels like a one way relationship. You know, 310 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:31.519 It's like I'm giving, given, giving, and I feel like 311 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:33.720 I'm not getting anything in return. I mean, those are 312 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:37.679 some pretty desperate feelings, and there have been seasons of 313 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:40.639 my life where I have definitely felt like that. In fact, 314 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.960 in the lowest point of my life, one of the lowest, 315 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:46.639 in fact, maybe the lowest, No, one of the lowest. 316 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:51.120 I would definitely say I actually said to God that 317 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:55.720 I felt like Jeremiah. Yeah, so I definitely relate to it, Yeah, 318 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:58.360 or at least the feeling not. I mean, I can't 319 00:14:58.440 --> 00:14:59.879 compare myself to Jeremiah, that'd be so. 320 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:02.480 But you know what I mean, Yeah, sure, that's what 321 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:04.279 it felt like. You were identifying with him. 322 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:05.279 Yeah that moment. 323 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:07.519 Yeah, Well, that's why God gives us all these people, 324 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:11.039 he says multiple times. Peter reminds us of this. They 325 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:12.720 tell us in the Book of Acts that God gave 326 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:16.600 all of these for our benefit, for our understanding, so 327 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.360 that we would understand how God works. Right, So all 328 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:23.240 the stories in the Old Testament are there for our example. 329 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.080 And so you're looking at going I identify right now. 330 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:28.720 I'm not identifying with David killing Goliath. I'm identifying with 331 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:31.799 Jeremiah feeling like there's nobody on my side right right, 332 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:34.480 and the reason why he gives it. So even like this, 333 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:36.759 this promise that we have today for I know the 334 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:39.000 thoughts I have towards you, the plans I have for you, 335 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:41.320 says the Lord. Their plans for good and not for disaster, 336 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:43.000 to give you a future and hope. I know we 337 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.159 love to claim those. God wasn't saying that directly to me, 338 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:49.840 I directly. He was talking directly to the Hebrew people, 339 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:50.919 the Jewish people that. 340 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:51.720 Were in Babylon. 341 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:54.240 But what I am able to do is I can 342 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:57.639 take the principle and see how God, even when these 343 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.240 people are under judgment or in the worst time of 344 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:05.200 their entire lives. God, I can look at the principle 345 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:07.159 of how God deals with it goes. But I still 346 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:08.440 know what I want to do with you. I haven't 347 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:10.679 given up on you yet. And if you come looking 348 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:12.960 for me, you'll find me. I'll be found by you, 349 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:13.519 says the Lord. 350 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:15.240 Right. So the principle is. 351 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:17.759 If I turn and come to God, I can find 352 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:19.639 him again, even though I've walked way away from him, 353 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:23.000 And even when he has to bring me under difficult circumstances, 354 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:26.000 he's still forming, not against me. Those principles apply to 355 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.240 me and everybody else, right, And so I love the words. 356 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:33.679 I love those things. And so it's all for our example. 357 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:35.639 Even though it wasn't written directly to us. We can 358 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:38.039 see how God acts with the people he loves. 359 00:16:38.120 --> 00:16:40.240 And so let me play, let me play a little 360 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:44.120 bit of an advocate here or devil's advocate. So then 361 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:47.720 if that's true, if God, or if Jeremiah wrote this 362 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:54.120 specifically for the future of the of the people, then 363 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:56.720 when we read Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven, which by 364 00:16:56.720 --> 00:17:00.279 the way, is a very very popular version, right. And 365 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:04.039 people always say, hey, God's plans for you are to 366 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:08.160 give you a prosperous future and success, and they quote 367 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:10.880 verse number eleven, which says, for I know the plans 368 00:17:10.920 --> 00:17:12.799 I have for you, says the Lord, their plans for 369 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.240 good and offer disaster to give you a future and 370 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:19.119 a hope. Yeah. I guess that's what the NLT says. 371 00:17:19.160 --> 00:17:23.240 Huh so, and I know what you're saying. You're saying 372 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:27.240 the principles of God are true. But that was a 373 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:31.400 specific prophecy for them. He was saying, Hey, it's not 374 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:35.240 going to last forever. It's seventy years and then I 375 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:38.640 will prosper you. And that's the promise for those people. 376 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:40.640 So can we transfer that to us? 377 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:41.880 Yeah? I think that. 378 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.240 So I can't transfer this promise and you'll be in 379 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.519 Babylon for seventy years, because you've got to remember this promise. 380 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:50.480 There are no. 381 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:54.119 Verse endings here, right, So this is a whole big 382 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:56.279 comment God's making. And he starts off going, you're going 383 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:58.240 to be in Babylon for seventy years. If you're not 384 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:00.319 going to be in Babylon for seventy years, then the 385 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:02.880 rest of it's not rate directly at you either, right, 386 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:09.480 But the principle is, even when you're under correction from God, 387 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:13.000 even when you're in your worst situations in life, even 388 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:16.720 God's saying, hey, that'll come to an end and I'm 389 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:20.839 for you, not against you, and that that principle applies 390 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:23.160 to all of us, even though we're not specifically in 391 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:24.680 Babylon for seventy years. 392 00:18:24.920 --> 00:18:26.839 Right. Yeah, yeah, So. 393 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:29.039 There is something I like, you know, I've been writing 394 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:31.519 this little, this devotional thing. I don't think I've ever 395 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:33.720 said this on the podcast. I've been writing this devotional 396 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:37.640 thing about it's just called the Man Book right now. 397 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:39.440 I haven't decided what I'm going to call it, but 398 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:41.799 that's just what it is in my notes. And it's 399 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:47.440 kind of like this devotional about biblical manhood or whatever. 400 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:49.759 And I'm just kind of going through different character traits 401 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:55.640