September 26, 2025 • 49 mins
Judgment may be at the door, but mercy is still on the line. We open with Jeremiah’s long obedience—twenty-three years of warning a people who traded covenant for idols—and watch God rise early, again and again, to call them home. When the king burns the scroll in Jeremiah 36, the word returns with “many like words.” You can silence paper, not truth. That moment becomes a mirror: how often do we want a God who agrees with us rather than a Savior who tells the truth that sets us free?
From there we move to the hard, hopeful counsel of Jeremiah 38: submit to God’s judgment and live. It’s not surrender to chaos; it’s surrender to reality with God still in it. We talk about waves of consequence, false prophets promising easy outs, and the surprising mercy inside a painful path. Then we connect it to Romans 5, where the gospel speaks with breathtaking clarity—while we were without strength, Christ died for the ungodly. The cross is love in motion: not God demanding our blood, but God offering His own to justify, to save from wrath, and to bring us into joy and peace that actually hold.
This is a message for anyone standing on the edge—tired of idols, wary of religion that flatters but cannot save, ready for a word that won’t burn away. We invite you to respond now: turn, trust, and live. Let’s trade bravado for humility and fear for fellowship, because God still knocks and still sets a table for those who open the door.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Glory.
Precious uh gathering to theLord's house tonight.
Um welcome members and visitorsalike.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Welcome.
Uh we're glad you're here withus in the room, and um blessed
to have you with us um now onevery continent except
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Antarctica, amen.
Around the world, blessed be thename of the Lord for that.
About sundown, September 24th,2025.
And uh, if you're listening tothis on the audio, um wearing a
red, white, and blue shirt andthe death for reason tonight.
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And so we're blessed to have youwherever you're joining us.
Um at the same time, I reallyhope America listens um to this
message.
And listens to this message now.
And in case you need to listento it later, listen to it later.
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Hallelujah.
Um, but the Lord is speaking nowuh to you uh whenever you're
going to hear this and whereveryou're going to hear this.
And I want to open it up withjust an observation from the Old
Testament to now.
God never just lets anyone go.
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Genesis 3 happened.
Adam, you know, Eve wasdeceived, and Adam followed her
into that transgression.
God didn't just let them go.
He didn't just say, Well, that'sit.
Um, I'll wipe out this creationto make a new one.
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No, he didn't do that.
He didn't let them go.
Cain preached on Cain about amonth ago.
God didn't just let him go.
Even after the murder, he didnot just let the man go.
In the days of Noah'sgeneration, the eighth
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generation from Adam, God didn'tjust let that generation go.
He didn't just say, Well, yeah,I'm just gonna flood it.
No, Noah preached while he builtthe ark, and he didn't preach to
nobody.
People heard, people interacted.
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He didn't just let thatgeneration go.
How many examples through thehistory of Israel?
He never just let Israel go.
Even on their lowest moments, henever let them go.
Even at their worst, when thesin was just raging, he never
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let them go.
And he has not let them gotoday.
Open up to the book of yeah, Imean, you can go to the book of
Revelation.
We won't plan to go theretonight, but all of a sudden the
Gentile church fades away in therapture, and the focus is
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squarely on God and Israel.
God has not let Israel go.
Hallelujah.
And today, my friend, right herein the year 2025, he hasn't let
the church go.
And he hasn't let you go ifyou're not in Christ, if you're
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not born again, if you're notsaved, if you're not filled with
the Holy Ghost and washed by theblood.
He has not let you go.
He's not a God who just letspeople go.
And I want to show you this inJeremiah.
And we're gonna start inJeremiah chapter 25.
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And come over to Jeremiah 25,and let's start in verse.
We'll start right in verse 1 andwe'll read a few verses here.
The word that came to Jeremiah,now it doesn't say this, this
came from the Holy Spirit.
This came direct to Jeremiahthrough the Holy Spirit to give
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to other people.
The word that came to Jeremiahconcerning all the people of
Judah, that's everybody, in thefourth year of Jehoiakim, the
son of Josiah, king of Judah,that was the first year of
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,the which Jeremiah the prophet
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spake unto all the people ofJudah and to all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, saying, From thethirteenth year of Josiah, the
son of Ammon, king of Judah,even unto this day, that is the
three and twentieth year, theword of the Lord has come to me,
and have spoken to you, risingearly and speaking, but you have
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not hearkened.
And the Lord hath sent unto youall his servants, the prophets,
rising early and sending them,but ye have not hearkened, nor
inclined your ear to hear.
They said, Turn ye again now,every one from his evil way, and
from the evil of your doings,and dwell in the land that the
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Lord has given unto you, and toyour fathers, forever and ever,
and go not after other gods toserve them and to worship them,
and provoke me not to anger withthe works of your hands, and I
will do you no hurt, quite theopposite if you read the Old
Testament.
Not only will God not do hurt,God will bless and bless and
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bless.
And verse seven continues, yetye have not hearkened to me,
saith the Lord, that ye mightprovoke me to anger with the
works of your hands to your ownhurt.
Twenty-three years Jeremiah hadministered up to this point.
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Twenty three years of just thisone man.
Twenty three years of God'spursuit of a people, beloved,
who had walked away from him.
And not only did they walk away,they embraced other things.
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They embraced idolatry, theyembraced murder, they embraced
adultery, they embracedpolitical corruption and
oppression, they embraced theoppression of the poor, they
embraced sexual perversion, theyembraced lust, they embraced
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bribery, they embracedextortion.
Matter of fact, when the tippingpoint came under King Manasseh
before Josiah, the Bible tellsus he filled Jerusalem with
innocent blood one end to theother.
And yet, for twenty three years,God used Jeremiah.
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He doesn't just let anyone go.
He didn't let this people go.
And it says Jeremiah rose upearly and spoke.
And then in verse four, therewere others.
Hallelujah and amen.
There were others that Godraised up to this people.
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And and it says, The Lord hassent you all his servants and
the prophets, rising early.
The Lord rose early.
That meant this was top priorityto God.
That he was going to speak tohis people.
Now his people, they they'dturned their back and they'd
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embraced other things.
But first priority to God, nomatter what these people were
going to do, God was going tospeak.
And he was going to chase afterhis adulterous bride.
He was going to go after hislost son.
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He was going to go after hispeople.
And he would show them the evil,yes.
But he wouldn't stop there.
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And what words he would speak.
If you go through the prophetsbefore Jeremiah, Northern
Kingdom and Southern Kingdom.
You go all the way back toSamuel.
You go all the way beforeSamuel.
I mean, you go back and back andback.
The Lord spoke and the Lordspoke and the Lord spoke and the
Lord spoke and the Lord spoke.
And it was always thus saith theLord.
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It was always from him.
It was from not only the king ofIsrael, but also the husband of
Israel.
Also the lover of Israel.
Also, has said we can go back toall those messages.
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The mercy and the grace and thelove.
Always return to me, alwaysreturn to me, always return to
me.
And yet it says here they hadnot hearkened.
And now come on over.
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Jeremiah 36.
And I want you to keep that inmind.
God just doesn't let people go.
And I want you to begin to seeyourself.
God just doesn't let you go.
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Now this is Jeremiah 36.
You gotta start to put somepieces together in the prophets.
And it came to pass in thefourth year of Jehoiakim, same
year.
Same king, same year.
Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, kingof Judah, that this word came
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unto Jeremiah from the Lord,saying, Take thee a roll of a
bulk and write therein all thewords that I have spoken to you
against Israel and against Judahand against all the nations,
from the day that I spoke toyou, from the days of Josiah,
even to this day.
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Now listen to this.
The house of Judah will hear allthe evil which I purpose to do
unto them.
And it goes on.
He doesn't just want you to hearthe evil.
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That they may return every man,not a single one of them lost,
that they may return every manfrom his evil way.
And it goes on.
So that I may forgive.
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So that I may forgive theiriniquity and their sin.
The judgment is at the door inIsrael.
Judgment is at the door in yourlife.
And yet here comes God.
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He spoke earlier in the year, itwasn't good enough for him.
Now he's speaking, and he wantsthis man, this prophet, to write
it down.
Write down 23 years ofpreaching.
Write down 23 years of propheticministry and go read it again to
the people.
Nebuchadnezzar is at the door.
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Babylon is at the door.
They're seeking after Egypt, andtheir hope is in Egypt at this
point.
But God is coming in one moretime.
Oh, is he coming into your liferight now?
God is coming in one more time.
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It may be that you will hear.
It may be that you will turn tothe Lord, that he may forgive.
That he may forgive you.
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See yourself in this.
That he may forgive, that I mayforgive.
Let it blow your mind.
God's got the judgment, and Godhad announced earlier to and
through Jeremiah.
Even this judgment, thisdesolation that Nebuchadnezzar
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would bring, it was limited.
Seventy years.
Seventy years of captivity.
It says all nations in herebecause it wasn't just Israel.
Nebuchadnezzar was going to rulethe region.
Seventy years.
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And yet it would not be acomplete desolation and
destruction of Israel.
This is a limited judgment.
This is a judgment.
It involves death, it involvesdestruction.
Yes, but the life the life andthe purpose.
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And my friend, he's still cryingout to them on the eve of this
happening.
Jeremiah, write it down and readit in the ears of all the
people.
It may be that they'll turn.
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How do you respond to him?
This night, this morning,earlier today, last week, how do
you respond to the Lord speakingto you?
How do you respond to the HolyGhost?
How do you respond to the wordthat he gives?
How do you respond to thewritten word?
How do you respond to thepreached word?
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How do you respond to thoseprecious, sweet moments where
the Holy Ghost rises up on theinside of you and He says a word
personally and directly to you?
How do you respond?
Because my friend Jeremiahresponded well.
Jeremiah called Baruch the sonof Nariah.
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A friend.
Bless God Jeremiah needed afriend.
Bless God some of us evangelistsneed friends too.
Amen.
But he called Baruch the son ofNariah.
And Baruch wrote from the mouthof Jeremiah.
This had to be a time.
Because the Holy Ghost, hedidn't let one word fall.
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You know, Jeremiah is a man.
And yet this is the Holy Ghostgoing back from the first day
that Jeremiah ever got a wordfrom the Lord, preaching it
again.
And this man's writing it down,writing it down, writing it
down, writing it down.
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And it had to be a mighty role.
I mean, it had to be a mightylarge book.
And then they read it.
And then famously the scroll wasburned by Jehoiakim.
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But God had spoken one moretime.
God had spoken one more time,and that was the king's
response.
To burn the book.
Then if you come to this the endof this chapter, chapter 36, 32,
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at the direction of the HolyGhost, Jeremiah took another
role and gave it to Baruch thescribe, the son of Nariah, who
wrote therein from the mouth ofJeremiah all the words of the
book which Jehoiakim, king ofJudah, had burned into fire.
And there were added besidesunto them many like words.
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My friends, you can burn thebook, but you can't burn the
word of God.
You can throw it aside, but youcan't diminish the word of God.
You can ignore it, but thatdoesn't make it any less the
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word of God.
You can pretend like you neverheard it.
It's still the word of God.
And my friends, you can receiveit.
That's what this king didn't do.
The sticking point was when itgot to the part about Babylon.
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Because Egypt had installed himand he taxed the people and they
paid tribute to Egypt everyyear.
And he didn't want to hear aboutBabylon.
And so he burned it.
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And hallelujah, the Lord'slooking for that.
Because life went on.
The judgment began to come.
Jehoiakim was likely killed inan uprising.
But another king was installed.
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Chapter 37 tells us KingZedekiah the son of Josiah
reigned instead of Kaniah, theson of Jehoiakim, and
Nebuchadnezzar made Zedekiahking in the land of Babylon.
The judgment began.
And it didn't happen all atonce.
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It happened over the course ofseveral years.
There were waves of captivity.
There were waves, and there weretimes when Babylon came.
It didn't all just happen in aday.
A lot like your life.
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But should you reject the wordof the Lord, hallelujah, you'll
find God will come continue tocome.
The Holy Ghost will continue tocome.
The Holy Ghost will continue todraw.
The Holy Ghost will continue tospeak.
Sometimes over the course ofdecades.
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He'll speak to you as a child.
He'll speak to you as ateenager.
He'll speak to you in yourtwenties.
He'll speak to you in yourthirties.
He'll speak to you in theforties.
He'll speak to you and come anddraw and woo again and again and
again.
Always toward life, alwaystoward healing, always toward
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salvation, always towardrestoration, always toward
fruitfulness and joy and hopeand peace.
And we see it again throughJeremiah.
You see, if you come down,chapter thirty-eight, verse two.
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Thus saith the Lord.
He that remaineth in this cityshall die by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence,but he that goeth forth to the
Chaldean shall live.
Nebuchadnezzar is here.
Nebuchadnezzar is the servant ofthe Lord.
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You will see that other in otherplaces in Jeremiah.
God sent him.
And Jeremiah gets strong withit.
Nebuchadnezzar, my servant.
It's earlier.
I raised a few eyebrows.
God sent Nebuchadnezzar there.
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What Jeremiah is doing in theHoly Ghost and through the Holy
Ghost, he's telling this king,he's telling this people, submit
to God's judgment.
He that goes, if you stay inthis city and try to outlast it,
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if you stay in this city andfight, if you stay in this city
and listen to the otherprophets, which were saying
things like, God's going to sendthe Egyptians.
They're saying things like,God's going to send away
Babylon.
They're saying things like allthat stuff that Babylon took
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from the temple, God's going tobring it back, and God's going
to bring all those people back,and God's going to deliver us
from Babylon.
No, Nebuchadnezzar was theservant of God.
God was telling his people,submit to this.
If you go to the Chaldeans, youwill live, you will have your
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life for a prey, and he doublesdown, ye shall live.
That's what God wanted.
Thus saith the Lord, this cityshall surely be given into the
hand of Babylon's army, whichshall take it.
Therefore the princess said tothe king, We beseech thee, let
this man be put to death.
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And the hands of all the people,speaking such words to them.
This man seeketh not the here wehave it.
This man seeketh not the welfareof the people, but the hurt.
He's trying to save their livesin the Lord.
And they're saying, kill him.
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He doesn't care about us.
He's hurting us.
He's bringing us down.
All this Babylon talk.
Aren't we supposed to be thepeople of God?
He's bringing us down.
Kill him.
You go to the king, huh?
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My friends.
How much do you personally youlook for a God figure in your
life.
You look for religion in yourlife.
You look for some authority inyour life.
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And you look for an authoritythat looks exactly like you.
You look for a God who soundslike you.
You look for a God who likeswhat you like.
You look for a God who affirmseverything you think, everything
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you do, everything you sayacross the board.
And all the while you deny Jesusand you're missing life.
You're missing life.
And then you start calling theGod of that denomination, or the
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God of that preacher, or the Godof that church.
You start you start blaming andyou start accusing.
They were calling Jeremiahbasically an enemy of the state.
And the enemy of people.
And what God is doing, Jeremiahwasn't doing a thing, but
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pouring out the word of God.
And what God is after is all ofyou who are still fighting me,
all of you who are stillresisting me, all of you who are
still just buying into whateverscratches your itching ears and
missing the point of everything,you're going to die.
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Unless you go out to Babylon.
If you go out there, if youfollow my judgment, go back and
ask Jeremiah.
He'll tell you 70 years it's acaptivity.
But if you submit to myjudgment, how many times did he
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say it?
38 2.
He that goes forth to theChaldeans, number one, shall
live, number two shall have hislife for a prey, number three
shall live.
He wants people to live.
He wants you to live.
And we've got to tie this alltogether.
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In the blessed book of Romans,hallelujah.
Romans chapter five.
Romans chapter five, starting inverse six.
For when we were yet withoutstrength, in due time,
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hallelujah, Christ died for theungodly.
And may well be you tonight.
Christ died for the ungodly.
Christ died for the one whooffends the very person of God.
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That's ungodly.
Unrighteous offends the word.
Ungodly offends the person.
Christ died for the one tonightwho calls God a liar.
Christ died for the one tonightwho calls God the oppressor.
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Christ died for the fornicator.
Christ died for the sexuallyperverse.
Christ died for the murderer.
Christ died for the proud.
Christ died for the people whoslander his name and slander his
people.
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Christ died for the ungodly.
Every single solitary one,leaving nobody out.
Christ died for the ungodly.
We were without strength.
We couldn't call up from down.
All we sought out was a God whowould bless our fornication.
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All we sought out was a God whowould agree with our murder.
All we sought out was a God wholooks like me, sounds like me.
All we sought out was a God whowould make us feel good about
every single solitary thing weever did, we ever thought, or we
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ever felt.
Truth be damned.
We sought out a God who was notGod at all.
We sought out a devil to callGod.
We sought out a devil to follow.
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We sought out a devil to wagewar against God in the name of
Jesus.
We sought out a devil who wouldmake us feel great.
We sought out a devil who wouldmaybe set some bars for us so
that we could jump over them andfeel good about ourselves, pat
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ourselves on the back.
Feel like we're we're goodreligious people.
I mean, feel like we really putin the effort.
Or we sought out a God who wasjust there to make our guilt go
away.
We sought out a God, above all,who would not change us, but
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would bless us in our ruggedindividualism, would bless us in
our societal angst, would blessus in our thirst for revolution,
would bless us as we sit in ourhouse and more religiously
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observe sports teams than give arip about God or whatever he has
to say.
I mean, God better like it.
Or I'll just find anotherchurch.
And my friend, idolatry isarguably the most prevalent sin
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in America.
And I just described to you andshowed you exactly how it works.
We were without strength.
We couldn't find God if welooked for him.
We couldn't identify the realtruth.
We could identify what wethought to be true.
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We could identify our morality,our personal moral code.
And bless God, we can do that.
That's part of the fall.
We know what's we know thatthere is a good and we know that
there is an evil.
And it just in America becomes amatter of personal taste.
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But as far as what the truthreally is, we're clueless.
I was, my wife was, my motherwas.
And so are you.
And I don't say that to put youdown.
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The Holy Ghost doesn't put pointthat to put you down.
Because the verse doesn't endthere.
In due time, Christ died for onthe behalf of the ungodly.
God did not let the ungodly goand continue on in ungodliness.
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He did not, he sees the end ofthat, and that's a devil's hell.
Ungodliness ends in a devil'shell.
God sees the end of that.
He looks at you, he's like, Isee that, I see you.
Why should you die?
I see that, I see you.
Hey, you're made in my image.
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I didn't make that for you.
I made that for Satan.
I made that for his angels.
I didn't make that for one thatI put together in my own image.
I didn't make that for thepeople I love.
And John 3 tells us he loves thewhole world.
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You write your name there.
I didn't make that for youbecause I love you.
I don't want to see you there.
But you're going that way.
So I'm not gonna allow it.
I'm gonna stop you from goingthat way.
I am going to show you my love.
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Verse 8.
God commends his love toward us.
God commends his love towardsyou tonight, my friend.
Commends his love, shows you hislove, acts out his love, his
affection.
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You see, my friend, God is loveand God sees you, and God is
moved.
English calls that affection.
It's love in motion.
It's not just love sittingthere.
God saw you on the cross.
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You write your name there, myfriend.
When Jesus hung there, oh, songshave been written about it,
poems have been written aboutit, he saw you on the cross.
He saw you in your ungodliness.
He saw you, however, you expressthat.
He saw you, and he was moved todo something about the
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ungodliness.
He was not moved to destroy you.
He was moved to do something foryou.
He he was moved to to give yousomething.
Bless God, that's the kind ofGod he is.
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And he's moved.
And part of how he is moved isright here.
To give you something.
You know, while we were yetsinners, yet ungodly, Christ
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died for us.
Then we see some of what thataccomplished in verse 9, much
more than being now justified byhis blood, we shall be saved.
This is God's heart for you.
We shall be saved from wraththrough him.
We shall be saved, because oneday God was moved in affection
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to give us his only begottenSon.
One day God was moved.
And Jesus followed him.
Jesus followed the Father inthis to go to the cross and to
shed blood.
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Shed blood.
Why would God do such a thing?
He doesn't want your blood.
He doesn't want your efforts.
He doesn't want your misery.
He doesn't want your torment.
He doesn't want your sacrifice.
He made his own.
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That's how moved God was to dealwith you in kindness and in
mercy and in grace and in truthand in love.
He deals with you in truth.
That's why Jesus died.
Sin had to go somewhere.
There had to be a death.
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And God looked at you and Hesaid, I don't want you to die.
So I'll die.
I don't want you to die.
I'll die in your place.
So that we could live, you andme together.
So that we could have lifetogether.
So that we could laugh together.
So that we could cry together.
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So that we could rejoicetogether.
So that we could work together.
Co-laborers with Christ, Church.
That's who you are.
Co-laborers with Christ.
We could work together.
We could accomplish thingstogether.
We could be on the earthtogether.
You could have a family.
You could have a wife.
You could have a husband.
You could have children.
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And we could have it my way.
And because your way, the waythe world's just going to be
messed up.
But my way, it's heaven onearth.
So that we could rejoice andjoy.
And so so you could know me.
So that you could evenexperience the fellowship of my
sufferings.
And can so that you could betempted.
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We sang a song earlier.
I've got to replace some of thelyrics in it.
So we even when you're temptedby the enemy.
You know what just cut throughthat like a knife from me
earlier?
Count it all joy.
Count it all joy.
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Even when Satan comes and triesto derail you.
Even you call, even when thathappens, you don't get all hung
up on the temptation.
I'm tempted by the enemy.
Oh, everything's around me.
Count it all joy just slicesright into that.
And so you laugh.
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And you rejoice in the Lord.
And the enemy flees.
That's the life God has for you.
That's a small sliver of it.
That's kind of all that'sregular joy.
And there's fullness of joy.
And there's joy unspeakable andfull of glory.
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Hallelujah.
There's a peace that he's gotfor you.
There's a strength that he's gotfor you.
There's an authority that he'sgot for you.
There's blessing upon blessingupon blessing upon blessing upon
blessing upon blessing uponblessing that he's got for you.
And do you see the differencebetween death and life?
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And do you see the difference?
Following an idol can't do this.
Following an idol, it may makeyou feel better for a time.
Scripture will tell us therethere are people successful by
the world's standards, but onlyfor a time.
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Because one day your foot willslip.
God will be the one who does it.
And I bet, even if you've maybeyou're at that day right now and
you're falling.
But God is still talking to you.
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You denied me a year ago.
You denied me five years ago.
You denied me ten years ago.
You denied me twenty years ago.
But today is the day of yoursalvation.
Today is the day I'm talkingtwenty years ago doesn't matter
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at that point.
All the times you denied Godbefore doesn't matter.
God's speaking to you today.
Even how how can he speak toyou?
The cross.
The blood.
But I don't believe that.
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I don't believe him.
I don't even want that.
Oh, he didn't ask you.
He went ahead and put your sinon Jesus in advance.
He went ahead and put yourpresent sin all on him.
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And the only reason you're stillunder his wrath is because you
resist him.
Because you fight him, becauseyou you're in unbelief.
You're embracing other things.
But God is coming to you in whatwe call the New Testament time.
Sort of like how he came toIsrael in the days of Jeremiah.
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Nebuchadnezzar was right thereand it was starting to happen.
So maybe you're in that positiontoday.
You're in that position today.
Where you're falling.
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And the consequences arecatching up.
Whatever your flavor of sin is.
The judgment is at the door.
The Lord is returning.
He will not let your sin goanother day.
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He will not let the sin of yournation go.
This is a call.
To America, yes, but to youpersonally.
That judgment is at the door.
But God is talking to you whileit's still at the door.
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Not inside yet.
Coming inside the walls, notthere yet.
At the door.
And saying, Today is the day ofyour salvation.
I am the Lord your God, and Ilove you with a fierce, strong,
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passionate love.
And I expressed it in Jesus.
And I'm reaching to you in theHoly Ghost right now.
I'm saying, return to me.
This is Revelation 3.20.
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That's what Revelation 3.20isn't for the lost.
Revelation 3.20, when Jesusstands at the door and knocks,
that's for the church.
To the lost, you see Jesus.
Your Savior.
Will you trust him tonight?
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Amen.
And church, will you let him in?
Because when he comes into achurch, he's not going to wreck
the place, he's going to restorethe place.
You know what he says inRevelation?
Um open the door to me, youknow, and we'll sit, we'll sit
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down.
And we'll have supper together.
That's what he says.
I'll have supper with you.
We'll break bread together.
We'll fellowship.
Like we maybe haven't fellowshipwith you in a long time.
Maybe you're lukewarm tonight.
Well, God doesn't want to speeyou out of his mouth.
Um, he wants you to dine withhim.
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Hallelujah.
So have a supper with God thatyou'll never forget.
At his invitation, on his dimethat he already bought and paid
for.
And here's the he's giving it toyou.
Amen.
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Hallelujah.
And lost man, lost woman, lostchild, whether you're here
tonight or whether you'reabroad, whether you're watching
this on a video or listening toit on a radio, um, and bless
God, a lot of outlets we're in.
And I believe God's juststarting that.
I believe we'll see more in thecoming year.
Um, but I hope you've heard ofthe passionate love of God for
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you.
He doesn't want you to die.
He wants you to live.
He doesn't want you to be lostunder his wrath.
He wants you to be saved andfull of his joy.
Um, he wants you to be bornagain and healed and forgiven
and strong in the Lord.
Put your faith in him.
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That's all he asks.
He already furnished everythingelse.
Will you, using the capacity tobelieve that God gave you
willingly, joyfully,desperately, honestly, turn to
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him and trust him.
God loves you.
Do you love him?
Amen.
And if that's you tonight, Iwant you to come forward if
you're here.
But if you're abroad, just stopeverything and talk to Jesus.
Ask him to be saved, ask him tobe born again.
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Even use this verse.
Lord, I'm without strength, andyou died for me.
You love me.
I'm a sinner.
Save me.
If your words fail you, just usehis.
Hallelujah.
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Amen.
But um, thank you for being heretonight.
And thank you for for beingthere abroad.
Um, keep on liking and sharingand subscribing and all that
good stuff.
And may the Lord continue torichly bless us.
Amen.
Amen.
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Glory.
Precious uh gathering to theLord's house tonight.
Um welcome members and visitorsalike.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Welcome.
Uh we're glad you're here withus in the room, and um blessed
to have you with us um now onevery continent except
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Antarctica, amen.
Around the world, blessed be thename of the Lord for that.
About sundown, September 24th,2025.
And uh, if you're listening tothis on the audio, um wearing a
red, white, and blue shirt andthe death for reason tonight.
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And so we're blessed to have youwherever you're joining us.
Um at the same time, I reallyhope America listens um to this
message.
And listens to this message now.
And in case you need to listento it later, listen to it later.
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Hallelujah.
Um, but the Lord is speaking nowuh to you uh whenever you're
going to hear this and whereveryou're going to hear this.
And I want to open it up withjust an observation from the Old
Testament to now.
God never just lets anyone go.
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Genesis 3 happened.
Adam, you know, Eve wasdeceived, and Adam followed her
into that transgression.
God didn't just let them go.
He didn't just say, Well, that'sit.
Um, I'll wipe out this creationto make a new one.
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No, he didn't do that.
He didn't let them go.
Cain preached on Cain about amonth ago.
God didn't just let him go.
Even after the murder, he didnot just let the man go.
In the days of Noah'sgeneration, the eighth
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generation from Adam, God didn'tjust let that generation go.
He didn't just say, Well, yeah,I'm just gonna flood it.
No, Noah preached while he builtthe ark, and he didn't preach to
nobody.
People heard, people interacted.
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He didn't just let thatgeneration go.
How many examples through thehistory of Israel?
He never just let Israel go.
Even on their lowest moments, henever let them go.
Even at their worst, when thesin was just raging, he never
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let them go.
And he has not let them gotoday.
Open up to the book of yeah, Imean, you can go to the book of
Revelation.
We won't plan to go theretonight, but all of a sudden the
Gentile church fades away in therapture, and the focus is
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squarely on God and Israel.
God has not let Israel go.
Hallelujah.
And today, my friend, right herein the year 2025, he hasn't let
the church go.
And he hasn't let you go ifyou're not in Christ, if you're
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not born again, if you're notsaved, if you're not filled with
the Holy Ghost and washed by theblood.
He has not let you go.
He's not a God who just letspeople go.
And I want to show you this inJeremiah.
And we're gonna start inJeremiah chapter 25.
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And come over to Jeremiah 25,and let's start in verse.
We'll start right in verse 1 andwe'll read a few verses here.
The word that came to Jeremiah,now it doesn't say this, this
came from the Holy Spirit.
This came direct to Jeremiahthrough the Holy Spirit to give
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to other people.
The word that came to Jeremiahconcerning all the people of
Judah, that's everybody, in thefourth year of Jehoiakim, the
son of Josiah, king of Judah,that was the first year of
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,the which Jeremiah the prophet
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spake unto all the people ofJudah and to all the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, saying, From thethirteenth year of Josiah, the
son of Ammon, king of Judah,even unto this day, that is the
three and twentieth year, theword of the Lord has come to me,
and have spoken to you, risingearly and speaking, but you have
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not hearkened.
And the Lord hath sent unto youall his servants, the prophets,
rising early and sending them,but ye have not hearkened, nor
inclined your ear to hear.
They said, Turn ye again now,every one from his evil way, and
from the evil of your doings,and dwell in the land that the
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Lord has given unto you, and toyour fathers, forever and ever,
and go not after other gods toserve them and to worship them,
and provoke me not to anger withthe works of your hands, and I
will do you no hurt, quite theopposite if you read the Old
Testament.
Not only will God not do hurt,God will bless and bless and
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bless.
And verse seven continues, yetye have not hearkened to me,
saith the Lord, that ye mightprovoke me to anger with the
works of your hands to your ownhurt.
Twenty-three years Jeremiah hadministered up to this point.
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Twenty three years of just thisone man.
Twenty three years of God'spursuit of a people, beloved,
who had walked away from him.
And not only did they walk away,they embraced other things.
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They embraced idolatry, theyembraced murder, they embraced
adultery, they embracedpolitical corruption and
oppression, they embraced theoppression of the poor, they
embraced sexual perversion, theyembraced lust, they embraced
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bribery, they embracedextortion.
Matter of fact, when the tippingpoint came under King Manasseh
before Josiah, the Bible tellsus he filled Jerusalem with
innocent blood one end to theother.
And yet, for twenty three years,God used Jeremiah.
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He doesn't just let anyone go.
He didn't let this people go.
And it says Jeremiah rose upearly and spoke.
And then in verse four, therewere others.
Hallelujah and amen.
There were others that Godraised up to this people.
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And and it says, The Lord hassent you all his servants and
the prophets, rising early.
The Lord rose early.
That meant this was top priorityto God.
That he was going to speak tohis people.
Now his people, they they'dturned their back and they'd
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embraced other things.
But first priority to God, nomatter what these people were
going to do, God was going tospeak.
And he was going to chase afterhis adulterous bride.
He was going to go after hislost son.
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He was going to go after hispeople.
And he would show them the evil,yes.
But he wouldn't stop there.
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And what words he would speak.
If you go through the prophetsbefore Jeremiah, Northern
Kingdom and Southern Kingdom.
You go all the way back toSamuel.
You go all the way beforeSamuel.
I mean, you go back and back andback.
The Lord spoke and the Lordspoke and the Lord spoke and the
Lord spoke and the Lord spoke.
And it was always thus saith theLord.
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It was always from him.
It was from not only the king ofIsrael, but also the husband of
Israel.
Also the lover of Israel.
Also, has said we can go back toall those messages.
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The mercy and the grace and thelove.
Always return to me, alwaysreturn to me, always return to
me.
And yet it says here they hadnot hearkened.
And now come on over.
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Jeremiah 36.
And I want you to keep that inmind.
God just doesn't let people go.
And I want you to begin to seeyourself.
God just doesn't let you go.
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Now this is Jeremiah 36.
You gotta start to put somepieces together in the prophets.
And it came to pass in thefourth year of Jehoiakim, same
year.
Same king, same year.
Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, kingof Judah, that this word came
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unto Jeremiah from the Lord,saying, Take thee a roll of a
bulk and write therein all thewords that I have spoken to you
against Israel and against Judahand against all the nations,
from the day that I spoke toyou, from the days of Josiah,
even to this day.
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Now listen to this.
The house of Judah will hear allthe evil which I purpose to do
unto them.
And it goes on.
He doesn't just want you to hearthe evil.
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That they may return every man,not a single one of them lost,
that they may return every manfrom his evil way.
And it goes on.
So that I may forgive.
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So that I may forgive theiriniquity and their sin.
The judgment is at the door inIsrael.
Judgment is at the door in yourlife.
And yet here comes God.
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He spoke earlier in the year, itwasn't good enough for him.
Now he's speaking, and he wantsthis man, this prophet, to write
it down.
Write down 23 years ofpreaching.
Write down 23 years of propheticministry and go read it again to
the people.
Nebuchadnezzar is at the door.
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Babylon is at the door.
They're seeking after Egypt, andtheir hope is in Egypt at this
point.
But God is coming in one moretime.
Oh, is he coming into your liferight now?
God is coming in one more time.
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It may be that you will hear.
It may be that you will turn tothe Lord, that he may forgive.
That he may forgive you.
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See yourself in this.
That he may forgive, that I mayforgive.
Let it blow your mind.
God's got the judgment, and Godhad announced earlier to and
through Jeremiah.
Even this judgment, thisdesolation that Nebuchadnezzar
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would bring, it was limited.
Seventy years.
Seventy years of captivity.
It says all nations in herebecause it wasn't just Israel.
Nebuchadnezzar was going to rulethe region.
Seventy years.
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And yet it would not be acomplete desolation and
destruction of Israel.
This is a limited judgment.
This is a judgment.
It involves death, it involvesdestruction.
Yes, but the life the life andthe purpose.
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And my friend, he's still cryingout to them on the eve of this
happening.
Jeremiah, write it down and readit in the ears of all the
people.
It may be that they'll turn.
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How do you respond to him?
This night, this morning,earlier today, last week, how do
you respond to the Lord speakingto you?
How do you respond to the HolyGhost?
How do you respond to the wordthat he gives?
How do you respond to thewritten word?
How do you respond to thepreached word?
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How do you respond to thoseprecious, sweet moments where
the Holy Ghost rises up on theinside of you and He says a word
personally and directly to you?
How do you respond?
Because my friend Jeremiahresponded well.
Jeremiah called Baruch the sonof Nariah.
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A friend.
Bless God Jeremiah needed afriend.
Bless God some of us evangelistsneed friends too.
Amen.
But he called Baruch the son ofNariah.
And Baruch wrote from the mouthof Jeremiah.
This had to be a time.
Because the Holy Ghost, hedidn't let one word fall.
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You know, Jeremiah is a man.
And yet this is the Holy Ghostgoing back from the first day
that Jeremiah ever got a wordfrom the Lord, preaching it
again.
And this man's writing it down,writing it down, writing it
down, writing it down.
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And it had to be a mighty role.
I mean, it had to be a mightylarge book.
And then they read it.
And then famously the scroll wasburned by Jehoiakim.
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But God had spoken one moretime.
God had spoken one more time,and that was the king's
response.
To burn the book.
Then if you come to this the endof this chapter, chapter 36, 32,
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at the direction of the HolyGhost, Jeremiah took another
role and gave it to Baruch thescribe, the son of Nariah, who
wrote therein from the mouth ofJeremiah all the words of the
book which Jehoiakim, king ofJudah, had burned into fire.
And there were added besidesunto them many like words.
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My friends, you can burn thebook, but you can't burn the
word of God.
You can throw it aside, but youcan't diminish the word of God.
You can ignore it, but thatdoesn't make it any less the
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word of God.
You can pretend like you neverheard it.
It's still the word of God.
And my friends, you can receiveit.
That's what this king didn't do.
The sticking point was when itgot to the part about Babylon.
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Because Egypt had installed himand he taxed the people and they
paid tribute to Egypt everyyear.
And he didn't want to hear aboutBabylon.
And so he burned it.
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And hallelujah, the Lord'slooking for that.
Because life went on.
The judgment began to come.
Jehoiakim was likely killed inan uprising.
But another king was installed.
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Chapter 37 tells us KingZedekiah the son of Josiah
reigned instead of Kaniah, theson of Jehoiakim, and
Nebuchadnezzar made Zedekiahking in the land of Babylon.
The judgment began.
And it didn't happen all atonce.
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It happened over the course ofseveral years.
There were waves of captivity.
There were waves, and there weretimes when Babylon came.
It didn't all just happen in aday.
A lot like your life.
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But should you reject the wordof the Lord, hallelujah, you'll
find God will come continue tocome.
The Holy Ghost will continue tocome.
The Holy Ghost will continue todraw.
The Holy Ghost will continue tospeak.
Sometimes over the course ofdecades.
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He'll speak to you as a child.
He'll speak to you as ateenager.
He'll speak to you in yourtwenties.
He'll speak to you in yourthirties.
He'll speak to you in theforties.
He'll speak to you and come anddraw and woo again and again and
again.
Always toward life, alwaystoward healing, always toward
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salvation, always towardrestoration, always toward
fruitfulness and joy and hopeand peace.
And we see it again throughJeremiah.
You see, if you come down,chapter thirty-eight, verse two.
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Thus saith the Lord.
He that remaineth in this cityshall die by the sword, by the
famine, and by the pestilence,but he that goeth forth to the
Chaldean shall live.
Nebuchadnezzar is here.
Nebuchadnezzar is the servant ofthe Lord.
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You will see that other in otherplaces in Jeremiah.
God sent him.
And Jeremiah gets strong withit.
Nebuchadnezzar, my servant.
It's earlier.
I raised a few eyebrows.
God sent Nebuchadnezzar there.
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What Jeremiah is doing in theHoly Ghost and through the Holy
Ghost, he's telling this king,he's telling this people, submit
to God's judgment.
He that goes, if you stay inthis city and try to outlast it,
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if you stay in this city andfight, if you stay in this city
and listen to the otherprophets, which were saying
things like, God's going to sendthe Egyptians.
They're saying things like,God's going to send away
Babylon.
They're saying things like allthat stuff that Babylon took
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from the temple, God's going tobring it back, and God's going
to bring all those people back,and God's going to deliver us
from Babylon.
No, Nebuchadnezzar was theservant of God.
God was telling his people,submit to this.
If you go to the Chaldeans, youwill live, you will have your
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life for a prey, and he doublesdown, ye shall live.
That's what God wanted.
Thus saith the Lord, this cityshall surely be given into the
hand of Babylon's army, whichshall take it.
Therefore the princess said tothe king, We beseech thee, let
this man be put to death.
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And the hands of all the people,speaking such words to them.
This man seeketh not the here wehave it.
This man seeketh not the welfareof the people, but the hurt.
He's trying to save their livesin the Lord.
And they're saying, kill him.
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He doesn't care about us.
He's hurting us.
He's bringing us down.
All this Babylon talk.
Aren't we supposed to be thepeople of God?
He's bringing us down.
Kill him.
You go to the king, huh?
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My friends.
How much do you personally youlook for a God figure in your
life.
You look for religion in yourlife.
You look for some authority inyour life.
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And you look for an authoritythat looks exactly like you.
You look for a God who soundslike you.
You look for a God who likeswhat you like.
You look for a God who affirmseverything you think, everything
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you do, everything you sayacross the board.
And all the while you deny Jesusand you're missing life.
You're missing life.
And then you start calling theGod of that denomination, or the
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God of that preacher, or the Godof that church.
You start you start blaming andyou start accusing.
They were calling Jeremiahbasically an enemy of the state.
And the enemy of people.
And what God is doing, Jeremiahwasn't doing a thing, but
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pouring out the word of God.
And what God is after is all ofyou who are still fighting me,
all of you who are stillresisting me, all of you who are
still just buying into whateverscratches your itching ears and
missing the point of everything,you're going to die.
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Unless you go out to Babylon.
If you go out there, if youfollow my judgment, go back and
ask Jeremiah.
He'll tell you 70 years it's acaptivity.
But if you submit to myjudgment, how many times did he
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say it?
38 2.
He that goes forth to theChaldeans, number one, shall
live, number two shall have hislife for a prey, number three
shall live.
He wants people to live.
He wants you to live.
And we've got to tie this alltogether.
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In the blessed book of Romans,hallelujah.
Romans chapter five.
Romans chapter five, starting inverse six.
For when we were yet withoutstrength, in due time,
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hallelujah, Christ died for theungodly.
And may well be you tonight.
Christ died for the ungodly.
Christ died for the one whooffends the very person of God.
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That's ungodly.
Unrighteous offends the word.
Ungodly offends the person.
Christ died for the one tonightwho calls God a liar.
Christ died for the one tonightwho calls God the oppressor.
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Christ died for the fornicator.
Christ died for the sexuallyperverse.
Christ died for the murderer.
Christ died for the proud.
Christ died for the people whoslander his name and slander his
people.
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Christ died for the ungodly.
Every single solitary one,leaving nobody out.
Christ died for the ungodly.
We were without strength.
We couldn't call up from down.
All we sought out was a God whowould bless our fornication.
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All we sought out was a God whowould agree with our murder.
All we sought out was a God wholooks like me, sounds like me.
All we sought out was a God whowould make us feel good about
every single solitary thing weever did, we ever thought, or we
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ever felt.
Truth be damned.
We sought out a God who was notGod at all.
We sought out a devil to callGod.
We sought out a devil to follow.
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We sought out a devil to wagewar against God in the name of
Jesus.
We sought out a devil who wouldmake us feel great.
We sought out a devil who wouldmaybe set some bars for us so
that we could jump over them andfeel good about ourselves, pat
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ourselves on the back.
Feel like we're we're goodreligious people.
I mean, feel like we really putin the effort.
Or we sought out a God who wasjust there to make our guilt go
away.
We sought out a God, above all,who would not change us, but
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would bless us in our ruggedindividualism, would bless us in
our societal angst, would blessus in our thirst for revolution,
would bless us as we sit in ourhouse and more religiously
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observe sports teams than give arip about God or whatever he has
to say.
I mean, God better like it.
Or I'll just find anotherchurch.
And my friend, idolatry isarguably the most prevalent sin
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in America.
And I just described to you andshowed you exactly how it works.
We were without strength.
We couldn't find God if welooked for him.
We couldn't identify the realtruth.
We could identify what wethought to be true.
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We could identify our morality,our personal moral code.
And bless God, we can do that.
That's part of the fall.
We know what's we know thatthere is a good and we know that
there is an evil.
And it just in America becomes amatter of personal taste.
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But as far as what the truthreally is, we're clueless.
I was, my wife was, my motherwas.
And so are you.
And I don't say that to put youdown.
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The Holy Ghost doesn't put pointthat to put you down.
Because the verse doesn't endthere.
In due time, Christ died for onthe behalf of the ungodly.
God did not let the ungodly goand continue on in ungodliness.
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He did not, he sees the end ofthat, and that's a devil's hell.
Ungodliness ends in a devil'shell.
God sees the end of that.
He looks at you, he's like, Isee that, I see you.
Why should you die?
I see that, I see you.
Hey, you're made in my image.
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I didn't make that for you.
I made that for Satan.
I made that for his angels.
I didn't make that for one thatI put together in my own image.
I didn't make that for thepeople I love.
And John 3 tells us he loves thewhole world.
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You write your name there.
I didn't make that for youbecause I love you.
I don't want to see you there.
But you're going that way.
So I'm not gonna allow it.
I'm gonna stop you from goingthat way.
I am going to show you my love.
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Verse 8.
God commends his love toward us.
God commends his love towardsyou tonight, my friend.
Commends his love, shows you hislove, acts out his love, his
affection.
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You see, my friend, God is loveand God sees you, and God is
moved.
English calls that affection.
It's love in motion.
It's not just love sittingthere.
God saw you on the cross.
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You write your name there, myfriend.
When Jesus hung there, oh, songshave been written about it,
poems have been written aboutit, he saw you on the cross.
He saw you in your ungodliness.
He saw you, however, you expressthat.
He saw you, and he was moved todo something about the
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ungodliness.
He was not moved to destroy you.
He was moved to do something foryou.
He he was moved to to give yousomething.
Bless God, that's the kind ofGod he is.
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And he's moved.
And part of how he is moved isright here.
To give you something.
You know, while we were yetsinners, yet ungodly, Christ
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died for us.
Then we see some of what thataccomplished in verse 9, much
more than being now justified byhis blood, we shall be saved.
This is God's heart for you.
We shall be saved from wraththrough him.
We shall be saved, because oneday God was moved in affection
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to give us his only begottenSon.
One day God was moved.
And Jesus followed him.
Jesus followed the Father inthis to go to the cross and to
shed blood.
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Shed blood.
Why would God do such a thing?
He doesn't want your blood.
He doesn't want your efforts.
He doesn't want your misery.
He doesn't want your torment.
He doesn't want your sacrifice.
He made his own.
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That's how moved God was to dealwith you in kindness and in
mercy and in grace and in truthand in love.
He deals with you in truth.
That's why Jesus died.
Sin had to go somewhere.
There had to be a death.
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And God looked at you and Hesaid, I don't want you to die.
So I'll die.
I don't want you to die.
I'll die in your place.
So that we could live, you andme together.
So that we could have lifetogether.
So that we could laugh together.
So that we could cry together.
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So that we could rejoicetogether.
So that we could work together.
Co-laborers with Christ, Church.
That's who you are.
Co-laborers with Christ.
We could work together.
We could accomplish thingstogether.
We could be on the earthtogether.
You could have a family.
You could have a wife.
You could have a husband.
You could have children.
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And we could have it my way.
And because your way, the waythe world's just going to be
messed up.
But my way, it's heaven onearth.
So that we could rejoice andjoy.
And so so you could know me.
So that you could evenexperience the fellowship of my
sufferings.
And can so that you could betempted.
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We sang a song earlier.
I've got to replace some of thelyrics in it.
So we even when you're temptedby the enemy.
You know what just cut throughthat like a knife from me
earlier?
Count it all joy.
Count it all joy.
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Even when Satan comes and triesto derail you.
Even you call, even when thathappens, you don't get all hung
up on the temptation.
I'm tempted by the enemy.
Oh, everything's around me.
Count it all joy just slicesright into that.
And so you laugh.
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And you rejoice in the Lord.
And the enemy flees.
That's the life God has for you.
That's a small sliver of it.
That's kind of all that'sregular joy.
And there's fullness of joy.
And there's joy unspeakable andfull of glory.
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Hallelujah.
There's a peace that he's gotfor you.
There's a strength that he's gotfor you.
There's an authority that he'sgot for you.
There's blessing upon blessingupon blessing upon blessing upon
blessing upon blessing uponblessing that he's got for you.
And do you see the differencebetween death and life?
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And do you see the difference?
Following an idol can't do this.
Following an idol, it may makeyou feel better for a time.
Scripture will tell us therethere are people successful by
the world's standards, but onlyfor a time.
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Because one day your foot willslip.
God will be the one who does it.
And I bet, even if you've maybeyou're at that day right now and
you're falling.
But God is still talking to you.
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You denied me a year ago.
You denied me five years ago.
You denied me ten years ago.
You denied me twenty years ago.
But today is the day of yoursalvation.
Today is the day I'm talkingtwenty years ago doesn't matter
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at that point.
All the times you denied Godbefore doesn't matter.
God's speaking to you today.
Even how how can he speak toyou?
The cross.
The blood.
But I don't believe that.
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I don't believe him.
I don't even want that.
Oh, he didn't ask you.
He went ahead and put your sinon Jesus in advance.
He went ahead and put yourpresent sin all on him.
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And the only reason you're stillunder his wrath is because you
resist him.
Because you fight him, becauseyou you're in unbelief.
You're embracing other things.
But God is coming to you in whatwe call the New Testament time.
Sort of like how he came toIsrael in the days of Jeremiah.
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Nebuchadnezzar was right thereand it was starting to happen.
So maybe you're in that positiontoday.
You're in that position today.
Where you're falling.
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And the consequences arecatching up.
Whatever your flavor of sin is.
The judgment is at the door.
The Lord is returning.
He will not let your sin goanother day.
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He will not let the sin of yournation go.
This is a call.
To America, yes, but to youpersonally.
That judgment is at the door.
But God is talking to you whileit's still at the door.
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Not inside yet.
Coming inside the walls, notthere yet.
At the door.
And saying, Today is the day ofyour salvation.
I am the Lord your God, and Ilove you with a fierce, strong,
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passionate love.
And I expressed it in Jesus.
And I'm reaching to you in theHoly Ghost right now.
I'm saying, return to me.
This is Revelation 3.20.
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That's what Revelation 3.20isn't for the lost.
Revelation 3.20, when Jesusstands at the door and knocks,
that's for the church.
To the lost, you see Jesus.
Your Savior.
Will you trust him tonight?
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Amen.
And church, will you let him in?
Because when he comes into achurch, he's not going to wreck
the place, he's going to restorethe place.
You know what he says inRevelation?
Um open the door to me, youknow, and we'll sit, we'll sit
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down.
And we'll have supper together.
That's what he says.
I'll have supper with you.
We'll break bread together.
We'll fellowship.
Like we maybe haven't fellowshipwith you in a long time.
Maybe you're lukewarm tonight.
Well, God doesn't want to speeyou out of his mouth.
Um, he wants you to dine withhim.
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Hallelujah.
So have a supper with God thatyou'll never forget.
At his invitation, on his dimethat he already bought and paid
for.
And here's the he's giving it toyou.
Amen.
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Hallelujah.
And lost man, lost woman, lostchild, whether you're here
tonight or whether you'reabroad, whether you're watching
this on a video or listening toit on a radio, um, and bless
God, a lot of outlets we're in.
And I believe God's juststarting that.
I believe we'll see more in thecoming year.
Um, but I hope you've heard ofthe passionate love of God for
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you.
He doesn't want you to die.
He wants you to live.
He doesn't want you to be lostunder his wrath.
He wants you to be saved andfull of his joy.
Um, he wants you to be bornagain and healed and forgiven
and strong in the Lord.
Put your faith in him.
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That's all he asks.
He already furnished everythingelse.
Will you, using the capacity tobelieve that God gave you
willingly, joyfully,desperately, honestly, turn to
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him and trust him.
God loves you.
Do you love him?
Amen.
And if that's you tonight, Iwant you to come forward if
you're here.
But if you're abroad, just stopeverything and talk to Jesus.
Ask him to be saved, ask him tobe born again.
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Even use this verse.
Lord, I'm without strength, andyou died for me.
You love me.
I'm a sinner.
Save me.
If your words fail you, just usehis.
Hallelujah.
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Amen.
But um, thank you for being heretonight.
And thank you for for beingthere abroad.
Um, keep on liking and sharingand subscribing and all that
good stuff.
And may the Lord continue torichly bless us.
Amen.
Amen.
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