December 8, 2025 • 23 mins
Episode 831:
In this episode, we delve into the Book of Lamentations, specifically focusing on the emotional turmoil expressed by the prophet Jeremiah. We discuss how Jeremiah laments the suffering of his people and the impending destruction of Jerusalem, yet he finds hope in God's faithfulness. We read several verses that illustrate the depth of his despair, followed by the powerful declaration of hope in God's mercies, which are renewed every morning.
In this episode, we delve into the Book of Lamentations, specifically focusing on the emotional turmoil expressed by the prophet Jeremiah. We discuss how Jeremiah laments the suffering of his people and the impending destruction of Jerusalem, yet he finds hope in God's faithfulness. We read several verses that illustrate the depth of his despair, followed by the powerful declaration of hope in God's mercies, which are renewed every morning.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in to the
Bible guys. Today's Monday, somebody those mondays. Yes, we're excited
to start a good week with you. And we're in
the middle of the series about God's promises, and we're
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having a theme this week called God's Faithfulness and Unchanging Nature.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Excellent, Yes, super excited.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, you know remember that old hymnal, Great is Thy Faithfulness.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That's a good one, A good one. Yeah, everybody's so
happy that you sing.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You remember what page it was on?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
No, I don't remember thirteen. I think I'm pretty sure.
I'm pretty confident.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Our hymnals were different.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So when you were a worship leader,
did you lead from hymnals? Set up and saying wow?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Okay, So here's a thirty second answer. I started off
leading with hymnos, but my goal was to bring our
church out of the olden times into the more modern times. So,
believe it or not, my good buddy who you know,
Josh Eisenhart, we actually ready for this, we ditched the choir,
we sold the organ were doing that in a small
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that destroy sold the organ added drums, added all band
guitars and everything else, and then added change the sound system,
and then added, uh, you know the screens. It it
wasn't I meg, but it was like, you know, screens
with the words on them. So we did that, and
we did all that, and then and then and by
the way.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And how much time?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Like a year and a half?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Wow? And then how how long did you stay after that?
Because there will be blood and it will be yours.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
During that time. During that time we went from full
suits and ties down to nobody in the whole church
had a suit a year later.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, yeah, so you feel like that's better.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
At the time, Yeah, yeah, because you know, you know,
it depends on your goal.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So how how long were you there after you did
all that?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Probablybout well. I was a worship leader for three years,
so I guess another year and a half and then
and then I then I resigned after that. But it
had nothing to do with that. In fact, I thought
the church came along very nicely. Nice. I mean, it's
a pretty good day when you could talk to the
organists who had been playing the organ for fifteen years,
and then somehow leave her house in the evening and
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have her say you know what, I agree? Wow, And
I sold it the new song.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Remember yeah, yeah, remember that? Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, yeah, you know the band new song.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, it's all about it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
For our listeners who may not know, and we sold
it to them.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Cool. Yeah, good for you, man, because that can be brutal,
making that, making that change back then.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, you know it's actually, you know, they always say
love covers the multitude of sins.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So I probably loved you.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They did, and I think I think I probably did
it clumsily, but people knew the heart, so I think
they followed because they loved me.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Wow. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, it's great. Hey, by the way, that's that that
ate into our segment time.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But this is thankful.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This is a wild segment.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
This is a good one.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
We've never had this segment before. It's character switch. I'm
not sure I feel about it. Jeff It says, you'll
each take on a goofy persona like a pirate or
ready for this, a Victorian schoolboy.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That one's you know what that is?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Monotone?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Ai you know please, sir, May I have another remember that?
Oh that that's from Dickens. That that that's it. It's
like a Dickens character.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
May I have some mold? Yeah yeah, okay, and talk
about something you're grateful for. So we got to talk
about gratefulness right last week with Thanksgiving for us lifetime
and uh and then it says, uh, we got to
do it in some weird voice. So what voice you
want me to do? The really the Oliver voice?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, because I want to do the pirate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, you want to do the fire. You got to
use all the phrases.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Je y yeah, well I used chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh good for you.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I told chet GPT what I wanted it to be.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, all right, so let me think what am I
grateful for? Okay, here we go, so you should go ahead.
So you should have seen my wife and I went
downtown and we stayed at a hotel called the Whitney.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That's a nice hotel.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It was so nice I couldn't believe it. I had
a bed, some covers and some heat.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
There you go, that's great. I think we should just
stand there.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I think, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, you've rented
us up for the pirates.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I asked it to help me. Uh say what I'm
happy for in a pirate's voice.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay, did you tell it what you were happy for?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yes? Okay, And so it says I'd be happy for
the good Lord guiding me, ship, the wind at me,
back me, crew by me side, and another blessed day
above the waves.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That sounds like SpongeBob. That's mister crabs. You literally did
your best. Mister Pineapple under he's.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
The one that goes got that's great. Good for you
now that we have three listeners left.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right, because who would want to stay tuned out?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh man, Well, we did the best we could crazy desert.
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But thank you for the challenge. Yeah, we're always up
for a challenge.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Talking about a challenge. You know what challenges me? The Bible?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I know you're lamentations the Bible. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Lamentations is a very uh under read, underpreached about, I
would say, wouldn't you say, because it's all about lamenting,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yes, jercisely people love spending time lamenting.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, I'll tell you what people actually do lament a ton.
They just don't like to read about other people's lament.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Lamentations, Well, he's a little miserable in here. Oh yeah,
So the book Lamentations just to kind of catch people up.
The book Lamorations was written by Solomon, the wisest man
that ever lived, one of the wealthiest kings, one of
the wealthiest humans that's ever lived, incredibly powerful, peaceful borders.
Everything about his life was great, and he was miserable
because he had begun trusting in his wealth, he'd begun
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trusting in his own wisdom. He'd begun just kind of
indulging in every physical pleasure that he could, and he
started feeling like life was a waste. Right, yeah, oh,
I wrote in Lamentations, I'm thinking Ecclesiastes. Yes, Jeremiah wrote it.
This is your opportunity to go ahead, buddy, say it.
Say it.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Hey, I'm the Bible guy and you're my side.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Hey, you're right the wrong guy. But here's the thing.
You know so much. You're so intellectual. To be honest,
this is not a this is totally genuine. You have
so much more knowledge than the average human that, as
you said, Solomon, I know this is Jeremiah, and in
my mind, I go, am I wrong? I'm like, I
think this is Jeremiah.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm starting to make you question your own reality. Yeah,
it is Jeremiah. I know that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Ecclesiastes is Solomon a
written proverb, the Song of Solomon, and then Ecclesiastes. And
Ecclesiastes is sort of a different kind of a book
than the other two. And really, if you think about it,
Lamentations is that to Jeremiah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So it's like it's like sort of like the other book.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Isn't it. So I'm gonna pull a Chris and go,
do you think we should go back and just edit
this whole thing?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And then I'll say no, no, people love it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
People love it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
People love it. Jeff, that's what you say to me.
So now you know, just be yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now you know how good that feels.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Don't you just eat a slice of humble pie?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay? Yeah, So where are we starting from?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I eat humble pie all the time. Well, we didn't
make a decision.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Well I'm not accustomed to that.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
We didn't make a decision about that. But honestly, I
would read verses one through twenty three because really, he
sort of shifts gears, right, So the first two laments
of the plight of the city and then of the people,
you know, it's sort of chapter one, chapter two. But
then he sort of turns a corner and he talks
about the hope in God's faithfulness, which is where our
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main promise comes from. And yeah, okay, I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So it's kind of interesting. Can I tell you one
more thing I just read in the notes. I love
these notes things. Yeah, it says there's sixty six verses
in this chapter.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And it says in the original Hebrew text of this book,
the first four chapters and Lamentations are acrostic poems. Oh,
so they start off with A and they go to
B and they go to see the beginning of each
line of the poem. Yeah, only not in English but
in Hebrew, right, So it's in their alphabet. And it
says each verse in each chapter begins with a successive
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letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Lamentations three has sixty six
verses rather than twenty two because it's a triple acrostic.
The first three verses begin with the equivalent of A.
The next three verses begin with the equivalent of B
and so on, and this was a typical form of poetry.
So he wrote this whole thing as a poem.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The first three the first three lines being first three verses,
are their equivalent of A. The next three verses.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Aabbb CCC yeah, and then neat. Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's kind of cool artistic. So Jeremiah no wonder he was.
He's called the weeping Prophet, right, Yeah, he's kind of
an emotional guy just because he's an artist.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, are you saying that all of us artists are weepy?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh whatever. You don't have to be an artist to
be a weepy person.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I know, but I don't know many artists that aren't,
is all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Very emotional? Yeah, you're tapping into a side of your
your heart and your mind and your emotions. The rest
of us don't tap into. That's where beautiful art comes from,
comes from the soul. You're just like bearing your soul
for us.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Do you think that's why I cry like every day?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yes, because you're an Artist's all.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Have we gone?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Anyways, I would not have attached to my tears to artistry.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It is your beautiful soul, Chris. Everybody knows that well.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Thanks Jeff.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Here we go. Verse one says, I am the one
who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod
of the lord's anger. He has led me into darkness,
shutting out all light, and he has turned his hand
against me a and again all day long. He's made
my skin and flesh grow old, and he's broken my bones,
and he's besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress,
and he has buried me in a dark place like
those long dead. He has walled me in and I
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cannot escape. He's bound me in heavy chains, and though
I cry and shout, he has shut out my prayers,
and he has blocked my way with a high stone wall.
He has made my road crooked. He's hidden like a
bear or a lion, waiting to attack me. He's dragged
me off the bath, tore me in pieces, leaving me
helpless and devastated. He's drawn his bow and made me
the target for his arrows. He shadows arrows deep into
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my heart. My own people laugh at me all day long,
they sing their mocking songs. He's filled me with bitterness
and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
He's made me chew on gravel, He's rolled me in
the dust. Piece has been stripped away, and I've forgotten
what prosperity is. I cry out, My splendor has gone.
Everything I'd hoped for from the Lord is lost. Well,
I'm sure, dude, I'm super glad we started Verse one.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Thought the turn was quicker than this.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.
I will never forget this awful time as I grieve
over my loss here it is. Yet I still dare
to hope when I remember this. The faithful love of
the Lord never ends. His mercies never cease. Great is
his faithfulness. His mercies begin afresh every morning. And I
will say to myself, the Lord is my inheritance. Therefore
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I will hope in him. The Lord is good to
those who depend on him, to those who search for him.
So it's good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.
And it's good for people to submit at an early
age to the yoke of His discipline.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I think you got to go to thirty three.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Honestly, let them sit alone in silence, beneath the Lord's demands,
and let them lie face down in the dust, for
there may be hope at last. Let them turn the
other cheek to those who strike them, and accept the
insults of their enemies, for no one is abandoned by
the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he also shows
compassion because of the greatness of his unfailing love, for
he does not enjoy hurting people or causing them sorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That's a good place to stand.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So, yeah, did take a turn. I just know the
turn came earlier.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But wow, yeah, well there is a reason why this
book's called lamentations.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah and uh yeah, no kidding, because that was about
as lamentful as just about anything. You know what, if
you were watching, by the way, on video, the lights
just what it was just for lack of motion, but
they turn them back on, and if you're listening, nobody cares.
But you know what, I love. I've quoted this before.
I remember on an Easter message. I remember I pulled
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this out. Goodness gracious, it was years ago. It's probably
like twenty eleven or so, and I focused on the
verse number twenty one yet I still dare to hope.
When I remember this, well, I mean think about it.
It's like it's like, think about every discouraging thought you've
ever had, every really bad experience, every desperate moment that
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you've ever gone through where you think God has either
forgotten you, abandoned you, or even punished you, and you
start to question, you know, is there going to be
any joy? Is there is? There? Is there ever going
to be any happiness in my life? And then he says,
inspite all those just really awful, lamenting thoughts, he's at
you on gravel, yeah, at chew on gravel, Yeah she is.
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And then he says, yet I still dare to hope.
I love it because I'm a dare kind of guy. Yeah,
double dog dare Yeah, you know, I dare you. I
dare you to hope. I dare you to still serve God.
I dare you to still believe in Him and still
be faithful, you know, rise up to the calling. And
Jeremiah says, I dare to hope knowing this, and then
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he goes, I remember this, The faithful love of the
Lord never ends, His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness,
his mercies begin fresh every morning.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, powerful, right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And of course that is another hemn. Right. Great is thy.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Faithfulness such a good one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Great is thy.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Faithfulness morning by morning.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Oh you didn't sing it, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah. So it's interesting he didn't actually go through these afflictions. No,
he was emotionally feeling them because the Lord let him
see the destruction that was coming to Judah. So he's
one of the prophets. He's one of the major prophets.
God used him and a few others to warn Judah
that if you keep going down the same path the
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nation of Israel is going down, you're going to suffer
the same consequences. They had abandoned the true God in
heaven and they began worshiping idols. They'd begun going through
all of the horrible, sadistic rituals and things that they
were doing, and they were God. Finally he warned them
a bunch of times, and then finally sent judgment and
the Assyrians came in and wiped them out. So now
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Judah is going down the same path, and so God's
using these prophets like Jeremiah to say, don't do to
turn around, and God let Jeremiah see what was going
to happen to Jerusalem, and so it's the agony of
just knowing, you know, what's what's coming next, that this
is what just puts him into this horrible depression. But
even then he says, you know, I know God's not
going to give up on us. Even then, God's God's mercies,
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you know, never cease. And in the same way that
he offers mercy to everybody who's sinning, even when there's consequences,
he does the same for Judah. And that's why he
felt so confident to be able to turn. It's not
always going to be horrible. And this is the difference,
quite honestly, between those who are believers and those who
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are not, is we have the hope that people who
don't know God don't have, and that is his mercy's
doing endure forever, that he's not going to give up
on us, that if we turn from our sin and
we turn to him, he will restore us. And that's
exactly the hope that Jeremiah had for Israel at the time.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So, yeah, well, I love the idea that every morning
when you wake up, your mercies began afresh.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, you know, that.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
God has a brand new day for you, but also
a brand new bucket of blessings, a brand new list
of mercies. And I think that you know the idea
that God never changes too, right, because this this week's
theme is not only his faithfulness but his unchanging nature. Right.
So when it says great is his faithfulness, his love
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never ends, his mercies never cease. That is true back then,
but it's also true now. So thousands of years later,
the Bible says that God is the same yesterday, today,
and forever. So just know that the promises even way
back then can be claimed now. Right. Jesus quoted the
Old Testament and claimed the promises of the Old Testament.
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The apostle Paul quoted the Old Testament. There were several
other writers of the New Testament who quoted these promises,
especially when it comes to the nature of God. So
God will never ever run out of mercies and will
give us his mercies fresh every morning.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah. Life Applications Study Bible note says, each day when
we wake up, God's mercy greets us. No other faith
has a fresh outpouring of grace each day. God always
willingly responds with help when we.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Ask think about that. Think about that. No other what
does it say another faith.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
No other faith has has a fresh outpouring of grace
each day.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, think about that. Yeah, you know it is It
is interesting, isn't it? Because when people talk about the
different faces of the world, and they also they say,
you know, hey, don't all roads lead to heaven? And
Jesus made the claim right in John fourteen six, I'm
the way the truth in the life. No one gets
to the Father except through me. And and if you
think about all the different ways that you know, different
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faith communicate getting to heaven. And some faiths say, oh,
you got to jump through hoops. Yeah, you got to
be part of a special group. You got to be selected,
you have to be uh, you have to perform right.
And but but God says, no, no, no, no, no, like
everybody's falls short. I'm going to pay the price for everyone. Yeah,
and he says Romans ten thirteen, for for all who
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call up on the name of the Lord, she'll be saved.
So everyone is invited. Everybody gets in, and then he
says He's gonna give us mercy. And so it says
ours is the only faith. Christianity's the only faith.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah. My wife and I were talking about this the
other day that we were making a joke. She helps
oversee my calendar, both my office calendar and our home calendar.
She works in our office, and so she mentioned something
and I said, I don't know. I didn't even look
at my calendar for tomorrow. She sai, why didn't you
look at calendar? I said, I never look at my
calendar until the day of. She's like, why, and I said,
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because tomorrow's problems are tomorrow's problems. Let me just I
spend all my time. Do you ever see the boy?
Here's a callback. Do you remember the Carol Burnett show?
Oh wow, yes, okay. Do you remember at the end
of the show there was like that little cartoon ending
and there's a big parade going and the elephants are there,
and then there's a guy behind and he's just got
the little shovel.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And he's the big can, he's got the big mustag he's.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Got to be, and he's just shoveling up all the
mess that those eleph left. The parade was amazing, right
and it was, but somebody's got to clean up the mess.
I feel like that's my most of my life is
I just walk around to shovel right behind all these
elephants in the big parade. And so what I love
about this his mercies are new every day is I
don't need God to solve all of my tomorrows, right
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because I'm not living in tomorrow. I'm living today. And
there's a lot of peace in that when you just go, okay, God,
you're in charge of today, and then when tomorrow is today,
you'll be in charge of today again, because his mercies
are new every morning. And then the fact that I
know this, my past is gone. He says, what sin
are you talking about? Right? My sin is as far
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as the east is from the west, it says, deep
as the deepest sea. God says, he chooses not to
remember my sin anymore. Right, So, anything that I regret
in my past, it's over. It's in the past. I
don't need mercy free Yesterday. He forgave me yesterday when
I asked, And then today his mercy is good enough
for me. Today it's all I need. And then when
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tomorrow is today, he'll give me his mercies again. It's
every day refreshed. I'm not relying on yesterday's mercy, And
I'm not hoping for tomorrow's mercy. I just need today's mercy.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, and keep in mind too, the technical definition of
the word mercy is God not giving us what we deserve.
That's right, right, So, if we deserve punishment, if we
deserve judgment, if we deserve hell, if we deserve eternal separation,
if we deserve you know, whatever it is, right chastisement.
God chooses not to do those things and his you know,
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he spares us because he loves us. And oftentimes in
the scripture it says he spares us because Jesus paid
the full price in the weight of our sin. So
because that price has been paid, God spares us from
that punishment. Right. So yeah, I mean there's a difference
in grace and mercy. Grace actually gives us what we
don't deserve, right, which is God's love, God's faithless. It's
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the first half of that, right, God's God's love and
his faithfulness endures. What does it say. It says it's faithful.
The faithful love of the Lord never ends. So he
gives us what we don't deserve. That's called mercy. But
that he doesn't give us what we do deserve. Oh,
I messed that up. Good gravy, I said, hang on, said,
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he gives us what we don't deserve. That's called grace,
and that he doesn't give us what we deserve, and
that's called mercy. So it's grace that nailors us and
mercy that spares us.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good job, that's the that's it. No,
it was good. So then it's interesting because it says
the Lord's good to those who depend on him and
to those who search for him. And so a lot
of times what we feel like is God's good to
those people who are particularly good boys and good girls,
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the church kids. Right, And that's not the threshold God
puts in place. God says, are you depending on me?
And are you searching for me? And so we can
all qualify that, regardless of what our past is, regardless
of our current mistakes, we can all be searching God
for God. We can all be depending on God. And see,
he says, so it's good to wait quietly for salvation
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from the Lord. And I think there's something too that.
A lot of times when life is getting full of pressure,
when we're feeling guilty or when we're feeling stressed or
when we're feeling like we can't cope, what we want
to do is rush in make a whole bunch of
big decisions. Just go riping and tear and trying to
solve a thing. And Jeremiah saying, hey, when you're under
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a tremendous amount of pressure, whether it's pressure from yourself
or pressure from God, pressure your circumstances, he says, it's
good to wait. And I've always cautioned I just had
conversations with some family members about this. Don't make a
decision while your decision maker is broken. It's okay to wait.
God's mercies are new again today. He'll take care of
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you today. He'll protect you. His faithfulness is great. He's
not going to forget you. Don't go rushing in to
make some decision that doesn't have to be made today.
If your decision maker is broken, don't make it. Just
wait on the Lord. And then the Lord will close
the doors that need to be closed. He'll open the
doors that need to be opened if you're depending on
him and searching for him and instead. Most of the
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time people make mistakes, and they ruin family relationships, or
they ruin business opportunities because they're in a hurry. They
feel like they got to do something right now. A
salesman saying, you got it, you got to buy it
right now, do it right now. And we just feel
this instant pressure to do something right now. But if
you're depending on him and you're searching for him and
you're waiting quietly for him, he'll give you the solutions
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that every time.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's great, Hey, that is our time. So that's a
great thought to wrap up with, I think, and so
hopefully we will see you tomorrow. All the Bible, gosh,
You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a
couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in
practical ways. Hey, everybody, thanks for tuning in to the
Bible guys. Today's Monday, somebody those mondays. Yes, we're excited
to start a good week with you. And we're in
the middle of the series about God's promises, and we're
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having a theme this week called God's Faithfulness and Unchanging Nature.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Excellent, Yes, super excited.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, you know remember that old hymnal, Great is Thy Faithfulness.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That's a good one, A good one. Yeah, everybody's so
happy that you sing.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You remember what page it was on?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't either.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
No, I don't remember thirteen. I think I'm pretty sure.
I'm pretty confident.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Our hymnals were different.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So when you were a worship leader,
did you lead from hymnals? Set up and saying wow?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Okay, So here's a thirty second answer. I started off
leading with hymnos, but my goal was to bring our
church out of the olden times into the more modern times. So,
believe it or not, my good buddy who you know,
Josh Eisenhart, we actually ready for this, we ditched the choir,
we sold the organ were doing that in a small
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that destroy sold the organ added drums, added all band
guitars and everything else, and then added change the sound system,
and then added, uh, you know the screens. It it
wasn't I meg, but it was like, you know, screens
with the words on them. So we did that, and
we did all that, and then and then and by
the way.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
And how much time?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Like a year and a half?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Wow? And then how how long did you stay after that?
Because there will be blood and it will be yours.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
During that time. During that time we went from full
suits and ties down to nobody in the whole church
had a suit a year later.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, yeah, so you feel like that's better.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
At the time, Yeah, yeah, because you know, you know,
it depends on your goal.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So how how long were you there after you did
all that?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Probablybout well. I was a worship leader for three years,
so I guess another year and a half and then
and then I then I resigned after that. But it
had nothing to do with that. In fact, I thought
the church came along very nicely. Nice. I mean, it's
a pretty good day when you could talk to the
organists who had been playing the organ for fifteen years,
and then somehow leave her house in the evening and
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have her say you know what, I agree? Wow, And
I sold it the new song.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Remember yeah, yeah, remember that? Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, yeah, you know the band new song.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, it's all about it.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
For our listeners who may not know, and we sold
it to them.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Cool. Yeah, good for you, man, because that can be brutal,
making that, making that change back then.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Well, you know it's actually, you know, they always say
love covers the multitude of sins.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So I probably loved you.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
They did, and I think I think I probably did
it clumsily, but people knew the heart, so I think
they followed because they loved me.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Wow. Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, it's great. Hey, by the way, that's that that
ate into our segment time.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But this is thankful.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
This is a wild segment.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
This is a good one.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
We've never had this segment before. It's character switch. I'm
not sure I feel about it. Jeff It says, you'll
each take on a goofy persona like a pirate or
ready for this, a Victorian schoolboy.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That one's you know what that is?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Monotone?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Ai you know please, sir, May I have another remember that?
Oh that that's from Dickens. That that that's it. It's
like a Dickens character.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
May I have some mold? Yeah yeah, okay, and talk
about something you're grateful for. So we got to talk
about gratefulness right last week with Thanksgiving for us lifetime
and uh and then it says, uh, we got to
do it in some weird voice. So what voice you
want me to do? The really the Oliver voice?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, because I want to do the pirate.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, you want to do the fire. You got to
use all the phrases.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Je y yeah, well I used chat GPT.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Oh good for you.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I told chet GPT what I wanted it to be.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, all right, so let me think what am I
grateful for? Okay, here we go, so you should go ahead.
So you should have seen my wife and I went
downtown and we stayed at a hotel called the Whitney.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That's a nice hotel.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
It was so nice I couldn't believe it. I had
a bed, some covers and some heat.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
There you go, that's great. I think we should just
stand there.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I think, no, no, no, no, no, no, yeah, yeah, you've rented
us up for the pirates.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I asked it to help me. Uh say what I'm
happy for in a pirate's voice.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay, did you tell it what you were happy for?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yes? Okay, And so it says I'd be happy for
the good Lord guiding me, ship, the wind at me,
back me, crew by me side, and another blessed day
above the waves.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That sounds like SpongeBob. That's mister crabs. You literally did
your best. Mister Pineapple under he's.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
The one that goes got that's great. Good for you
now that we have three listeners left.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Right, because who would want to stay tuned out?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh man, Well, we did the best we could crazy desert.
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
But thank you for the challenge. Yeah, we're always up
for a challenge.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Talking about a challenge. You know what challenges me? The Bible?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I know you're lamentations the Bible. Yeah, yeah, you know.
Lamentations is a very uh under read, underpreached about, I
would say, wouldn't you say, because it's all about lamenting,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yes, jercisely people love spending time lamenting.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, I'll tell you what people actually do lament a ton.
They just don't like to read about other people's lament.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Lamentations, Well, he's a little miserable in here. Oh yeah,
So the book Lamentations just to kind of catch people up.
The book Lamorations was written by Solomon, the wisest man
that ever lived, one of the wealthiest kings, one of
the wealthiest humans that's ever lived, incredibly powerful, peaceful borders.
Everything about his life was great, and he was miserable
because he had begun trusting in his wealth, he'd begun
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trusting in his own wisdom. He'd begun just kind of
indulging in every physical pleasure that he could, and he
started feeling like life was a waste. Right, yeah, oh,
I wrote in Lamentations, I'm thinking Ecclesiastes. Yes, Jeremiah wrote it.
This is your opportunity to go ahead, buddy, say it.
Say it.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Hey, I'm the Bible guy and you're my side.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Hey, you're right the wrong guy. But here's the thing.
You know so much. You're so intellectual. To be honest,
this is not a this is totally genuine. You have
so much more knowledge than the average human that, as
you said, Solomon, I know this is Jeremiah, and in
my mind, I go, am I wrong? I'm like, I
think this is Jeremiah.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm starting to make you question your own reality. Yeah,
it is Jeremiah. I know that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Ecclesiastes is Solomon a
written proverb, the Song of Solomon, and then Ecclesiastes. And
Ecclesiastes is sort of a different kind of a book
than the other two. And really, if you think about it,
Lamentations is that to Jeremiah.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Really?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
So it's like it's like sort of like the other book.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Isn't it. So I'm gonna pull a Chris and go,
do you think we should go back and just edit
this whole thing?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And then I'll say no, no, people love it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
People love it.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
People love it. Jeff, that's what you say to me.
So now you know, just be yourself.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Now you know how good that feels.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Don't you just eat a slice of humble pie?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay? Yeah, So where are we starting from?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I eat humble pie all the time. Well, we didn't
make a decision.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Well I'm not accustomed to that.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
We didn't make a decision about that. But honestly, I
would read verses one through twenty three because really, he
sort of shifts gears, right, So the first two laments
of the plight of the city and then of the people,
you know, it's sort of chapter one, chapter two. But
then he sort of turns a corner and he talks
about the hope in God's faithfulness, which is where our
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main promise comes from. And yeah, okay, I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
So it's kind of interesting. Can I tell you one
more thing I just read in the notes. I love
these notes things. Yeah, it says there's sixty six verses
in this chapter.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And it says in the original Hebrew text of this book,
the first four chapters and Lamentations are acrostic poems. Oh,
so they start off with A and they go to
B and they go to see the beginning of each
line of the poem. Yeah, only not in English but
in Hebrew, right, So it's in their alphabet. And it
says each verse in each chapter begins with a successive
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letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Lamentations three has sixty six
verses rather than twenty two because it's a triple acrostic.
The first three verses begin with the equivalent of A.
The next three verses begin with the equivalent of B
and so on, and this was a typical form of poetry.
So he wrote this whole thing as a poem.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
The first three the first three lines being first three verses,
are their equivalent of A. The next three verses.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Aabbb CCC yeah, and then neat. Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's kind of cool artistic. So Jeremiah no wonder he was.
He's called the weeping Prophet, right, Yeah, he's kind of
an emotional guy just because he's an artist.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, are you saying that all of us artists are weepy?
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, let's go ahead and get started.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh whatever. You don't have to be an artist to
be a weepy person.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I know, but I don't know many artists that aren't,
is all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Is that true?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Very emotional? Yeah, you're tapping into a side of your
your heart and your mind and your emotions. The rest
of us don't tap into. That's where beautiful art comes from,
comes from the soul. You're just like bearing your soul
for us.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Do you think that's why I cry like every day?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yes, because you're an Artist's all.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Have we gone?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Anyways, I would not have attached to my tears to artistry.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It is your beautiful soul, Chris. Everybody knows that well.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Thanks Jeff.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Here we go. Verse one says, I am the one
who has seen the afflictions that come from the rod
of the lord's anger. He has led me into darkness,
shutting out all light, and he has turned his hand
against me a and again all day long. He's made
my skin and flesh grow old, and he's broken my bones,
and he's besieged and surrounded me with anguish and distress,
and he has buried me in a dark place like
those long dead. He has walled me in and I
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cannot escape. He's bound me in heavy chains, and though
I cry and shout, he has shut out my prayers,
and he has blocked my way with a high stone wall.
He has made my road crooked. He's hidden like a
bear or a lion, waiting to attack me. He's dragged
me off the bath, tore me in pieces, leaving me
helpless and devastated. He's drawn his bow and made me
the target for his arrows. He shadows arrows deep into
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my heart. My own people laugh at me all day long,
they sing their mocking songs. He's filled me with bitterness
and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink.
He's made me chew on gravel, He's rolled me in
the dust. Piece has been stripped away, and I've forgotten
what prosperity is. I cry out, My splendor has gone.
Everything I'd hoped for from the Lord is lost. Well,
I'm sure, dude, I'm super glad we started Verse one.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Thought the turn was quicker than this.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The thought of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyond words.
I will never forget this awful time as I grieve
over my loss here it is. Yet I still dare
to hope when I remember this. The faithful love of
the Lord never ends. His mercies never cease. Great is
his faithfulness. His mercies begin afresh every morning. And I
will say to myself, the Lord is my inheritance. Therefore
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I will hope in him. The Lord is good to
those who depend on him, to those who search for him.
So it's good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.
And it's good for people to submit at an early
age to the yoke of His discipline.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I think you got to go to thirty three.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Honestly, let them sit alone in silence, beneath the Lord's demands,
and let them lie face down in the dust, for
there may be hope at last. Let them turn the
other cheek to those who strike them, and accept the
insults of their enemies, for no one is abandoned by
the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he also shows
compassion because of the greatness of his unfailing love, for
he does not enjoy hurting people or causing them sorrow.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
That's a good place to stand.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
So, yeah, did take a turn. I just know the
turn came earlier.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But wow, yeah, well there is a reason why this
book's called lamentations.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah and uh yeah, no kidding, because that was about
as lamentful as just about anything. You know what, if
you were watching, by the way, on video, the lights
just what it was just for lack of motion, but
they turn them back on, and if you're listening, nobody cares.
But you know what, I love. I've quoted this before.
I remember on an Easter message. I remember I pulled
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this out. Goodness gracious, it was years ago. It's probably
like twenty eleven or so, and I focused on the
verse number twenty one yet I still dare to hope.
When I remember this, well, I mean think about it.
It's like it's like, think about every discouraging thought you've
ever had, every really bad experience, every desperate moment that
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you've ever gone through where you think God has either
forgotten you, abandoned you, or even punished you, and you
start to question, you know, is there going to be
any joy? Is there is? There? Is there ever going
to be any happiness in my life? And then he says,
inspite all those just really awful, lamenting thoughts, he's at
you on gravel, yeah, at chew on gravel, Yeah she is.
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And then he says, yet I still dare to hope.
I love it because I'm a dare kind of guy. Yeah,
double dog dare Yeah, you know, I dare you. I
dare you to hope. I dare you to still serve God.
I dare you to still believe in Him and still
be faithful, you know, rise up to the calling. And
Jeremiah says, I dare to hope knowing this, and then
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he goes, I remember this, The faithful love of the
Lord never ends, His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness,
his mercies begin fresh every morning.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, powerful, right.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
And of course that is another hemn. Right. Great is thy.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Faithfulness such a good one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Great is thy.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Faithfulness morning by morning.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Oh you didn't sing it, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah. So it's interesting he didn't actually go through these afflictions. No,
he was emotionally feeling them because the Lord let him
see the destruction that was coming to Judah. So he's
one of the prophets. He's one of the major prophets.
God used him and a few others to warn Judah
that if you keep going down the same path the
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nation of Israel is going down, you're going to suffer
the same consequences. They had abandoned the true God in
heaven and they began worshiping idols. They'd begun going through
all of the horrible, sadistic rituals and things that they
were doing, and they were God. Finally he warned them
a bunch of times, and then finally sent judgment and
the Assyrians came in and wiped them out. So now
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Judah is going down the same path, and so God's
using these prophets like Jeremiah to say, don't do to
turn around, and God let Jeremiah see what was going
to happen to Jerusalem, and so it's the agony of
just knowing, you know, what's what's coming next, that this
is what just puts him into this horrible depression. But
even then he says, you know, I know God's not
going to give up on us. Even then, God's God's mercies,
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you know, never cease. And in the same way that
he offers mercy to everybody who's sinning, even when there's consequences,
he does the same for Judah. And that's why he
felt so confident to be able to turn. It's not
always going to be horrible. And this is the difference,
quite honestly, between those who are believers and those who
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are not, is we have the hope that people who
don't know God don't have, and that is his mercy's
doing endure forever, that he's not going to give up
on us, that if we turn from our sin and
we turn to him, he will restore us. And that's
exactly the hope that Jeremiah had for Israel at the time.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So, yeah, well, I love the idea that every morning
when you wake up, your mercies began afresh.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, you know, that.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
God has a brand new day for you, but also
a brand new bucket of blessings, a brand new list
of mercies. And I think that you know the idea
that God never changes too, right, because this this week's
theme is not only his faithfulness but his unchanging nature. Right.
So when it says great is his faithfulness, his love
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never ends, his mercies never cease. That is true back then,
but it's also true now. So thousands of years later,
the Bible says that God is the same yesterday, today,
and forever. So just know that the promises even way
back then can be claimed now. Right. Jesus quoted the
Old Testament and claimed the promises of the Old Testament.
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The apostle Paul quoted the Old Testament. There were several
other writers of the New Testament who quoted these promises,
especially when it comes to the nature of God. So
God will never ever run out of mercies and will
give us his mercies fresh every morning.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah. Life Applications Study Bible note says, each day when
we wake up, God's mercy greets us. No other faith
has a fresh outpouring of grace each day. God always
willingly responds with help when we.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Ask think about that. Think about that. No other what
does it say another faith.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
No other faith has has a fresh outpouring of grace
each day.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah, think about that. Yeah, you know it is It
is interesting, isn't it? Because when people talk about the
different faces of the world, and they also they say,
you know, hey, don't all roads lead to heaven? And
Jesus made the claim right in John fourteen six, I'm
the way the truth in the life. No one gets
to the Father except through me. And and if you
think about all the different ways that you know, different
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faith communicate getting to heaven. And some faiths say, oh,
you got to jump through hoops. Yeah, you got to
be part of a special group. You got to be selected,
you have to be uh, you have to perform right.
And but but God says, no, no, no, no, no, like
everybody's falls short. I'm going to pay the price for everyone. Yeah,
and he says Romans ten thirteen, for for all who
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call up on the name of the Lord, she'll be saved.
So everyone is invited. Everybody gets in, and then he
says He's gonna give us mercy. And so it says
ours is the only faith. Christianity's the only faith.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah. My wife and I were talking about this the
other day that we were making a joke. She helps
oversee my calendar, both my office calendar and our home calendar.
She works in our office, and so she mentioned something
and I said, I don't know. I didn't even look
at my calendar for tomorrow. She sai, why didn't you
look at calendar? I said, I never look at my
calendar until the day of. She's like, why, and I said,
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because tomorrow's problems are tomorrow's problems. Let me just I
spend all my time. Do you ever see the boy?
Here's a callback. Do you remember the Carol Burnett show?
Oh wow, yes, okay. Do you remember at the end
of the show there was like that little cartoon ending
and there's a big parade going and the elephants are there,
and then there's a guy behind and he's just got
the little shovel.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
And he's the big can, he's got the big mustag he's.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Got to be, and he's just shoveling up all the
mess that those eleph left. The parade was amazing, right
and it was, but somebody's got to clean up the mess.
I feel like that's my most of my life is
I just walk around to shovel right behind all these
elephants in the big parade. And so what I love
about this his mercies are new every day is I
don't need God to solve all of my tomorrows, right
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because I'm not living in tomorrow. I'm living today. And
there's a lot of peace in that when you just go, okay, God,
you're in charge of today, and then when tomorrow is today,
you'll be in charge of today again, because his mercies
are new every morning. And then the fact that I
know this, my past is gone. He says, what sin
are you talking about? Right? My sin is as far
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as the east is from the west, it says, deep
as the deepest sea. God says, he chooses not to
remember my sin anymore. Right, So, anything that I regret
in my past, it's over. It's in the past. I
don't need mercy free Yesterday. He forgave me yesterday when
I asked, And then today his mercy is good enough
for me. Today it's all I need. And then when
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tomorrow is today, he'll give me his mercies again. It's
every day refreshed. I'm not relying on yesterday's mercy, And
I'm not hoping for tomorrow's mercy. I just need today's mercy.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, and keep in mind too, the technical definition of
the word mercy is God not giving us what we deserve.
That's right, right, So, if we deserve punishment, if we
deserve judgment, if we deserve hell, if we deserve eternal separation,
if we deserve you know, whatever it is, right chastisement.
God chooses not to do those things and his you know,
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he spares us because he loves us. And oftentimes in
the scripture it says he spares us because Jesus paid
the full price in the weight of our sin. So
because that price has been paid, God spares us from
that punishment. Right. So yeah, I mean there's a difference
in grace and mercy. Grace actually gives us what we
don't deserve, right, which is God's love, God's faithless. It's
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the first half of that, right, God's God's love and
his faithfulness endures. What does it say. It says it's faithful.
The faithful love of the Lord never ends. So he
gives us what we don't deserve. That's called mercy. But
that he doesn't give us what we do deserve. Oh,
I messed that up. Good gravy, I said, hang on, said,
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he gives us what we don't deserve. That's called grace,
and that he doesn't give us what we deserve, and
that's called mercy. So it's grace that nailors us and
mercy that spares us.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
That's correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good job, that's the that's it. No,
it was good. So then it's interesting because it says
the Lord's good to those who depend on him and
to those who search for him. And so a lot
of times what we feel like is God's good to
those people who are particularly good boys and good girls,
(21:50):
the church kids. Right, And that's not the threshold God
puts in place. God says, are you depending on me?
And are you searching for me? And so we can
all qualify that, regardless of what our past is, regardless
of our current mistakes, we can all be searching God
for God. We can all be depending on God. And see,
he says, so it's good to wait quietly for salvation
(22:12):
from the Lord. And I think there's something too that.
A lot of times when life is getting full of pressure,
when we're feeling guilty or when we're feeling stressed or
when we're feeling like we can't cope, what we want
to do is rush in make a whole bunch of
big decisions. Just go riping and tear and trying to
solve a thing. And Jeremiah saying, hey, when you're under
(22:34):
a tremendous amount of pressure, whether it's pressure from yourself
or pressure from God, pressure your circumstances, he says, it's
good to wait. And I've always cautioned I just had
conversations with some family members about this. Don't make a
decision while your decision maker is broken. It's okay to wait.
God's mercies are new again today. He'll take care of
(22:54):
you today. He'll protect you. His faithfulness is great. He's
not going to forget you. Don't go rushing in to
make some decision that doesn't have to be made today.
If your decision maker is broken, don't make it. Just
wait on the Lord. And then the Lord will close
the doors that need to be closed. He'll open the
doors that need to be opened if you're depending on
him and searching for him and instead. Most of the
(23:16):
time people make mistakes, and they ruin family relationships, or
they ruin business opportunities because they're in a hurry. They
feel like they got to do something right now. A
salesman saying, you got it, you got to buy it
right now, do it right now. And we just feel
this instant pressure to do something right now. But if
you're depending on him and you're searching for him and
you're waiting quietly for him, he'll give you the solutions
(23:36):
that every time.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's great, Hey, that is our time. So that's a
great thought to wrap up with, I think, and so
hopefully we will see you tomorrow. All the Bible, gosh,
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