1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,980 Thank you. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:59,980 Thank you. 3 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:29,980 Thank you. 4 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:59,980 Thank you very much. 5 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:29,980 Thank you. 6 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:59,980 I'm not going to be able to get out of the way that I'm going to be able to get out of the way that I'm going to be able to get out of the way that I'm going to be able to get out of the way. 7 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:07,760 I'm going to talk a little bit about this, but I'm going to talk a little bit about that, but I'm going to talk a little bit about this, but I'm going to talk a little bit about it. 8 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,720 I'm going to talk a little bit about it. 9 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,560 I'm going to talk a little bit about it. 10 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,080 I'm going to talk a little bit about it. 11 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:27,320 This is how we're going to get out of here. 12 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:28,320 We're going to get out of here. 13 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:29,320 We're going to get out of here. 14 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:30,320 We're going to get out of here. 15 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,320 I was like, "Oh, that's what I was going to be doing." 16 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:50,320 I was like, "Oh, that's what I was doing." 17 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,320 I was like, "Oh, that's what I was doing." 18 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,320 I was like, "Oh, that's what I was doing." 19 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:56,320 And I was like, "Oh, that's what I was doing." 20 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,320 And I was like, "Oh, that's what I was doing." 21 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,320 And I was like, "Oh, that's what I was doing." 22 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,320 I'm going to take a look at the table. 23 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,320 I'm going to take a look at the table. 24 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,320 I'm going to take a look at the table. 25 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,320 But to have an answer to some of the questions, 26 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,320 because it's not a problem that it's not, 27 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,320 it's not a problem, it's not a problem, 28 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,320 it's not a problem that it's not a problem. 29 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,320 It's not a problem, it's not a problem. 30 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,320 It's not a problem. 31 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,320 It's not a problem. 32 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:05,320 It's not a problem. 33 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:17,320 And that was one of the most important things that we had was that we had to ask for a specific 34 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:22,320 call, because of this piece that's not going to tell us we had to tell you a lot. 35 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,320 And that was the fact that we don't know how to do this. 36 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,320 It's not going to tell you a lot. 37 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,320 It's not going to tell you a lot. 38 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,320 It's not going to tell you a lot. 39 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,320 It's going to tell you a lot. 40 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,320 It's going to tell you a lot. 41 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,320 It's going to tell you a lot. 42 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:45,320 The most important thing is what is the best thing to do with the children. 43 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,320 The children are not just the best. 44 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,320 The children are not just the best. 45 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,320 The children are not just the best. 46 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,520 I don't know if you're talking about this one. 47 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:07,560 This one is coming to me. 48 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:08,900 I don't know if you're talking about this one. 49 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:10,700 I don't know if you're talking about this one. 50 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:15,240 I don't know if you're talking about this one. 51 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:36,240 Because our school was in the bathroom because we found people crazy. 52 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,240 And we have to use the bathroom because of the business. 53 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,240 We have to use the bathroom. 54 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,240 And we have to use the bathroom. 55 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:45,240 And we have to use the bathroom. 56 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,240 And we have to use the bathroom. 57 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,240 So there's no one in front of the camera. 58 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:06,240 And then the camera's just going to be right to the camera. 59 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:09,240 And the camera's just going to be right. 60 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:12,240 And the camera's just going to be right. 61 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,240 And the camera's just going to be right. 62 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:29,740 I think it's important to see what's going on in the future. 63 00:08:29,740 --> 00:08:33,740 I think it's important to see what's going on in the future. 64 00:08:33,740 --> 00:08:37,740 I think it's important to see what's going on in the future. 65 00:08:51,740 --> 00:08:57,740 I'm not sure how I look at, but I think it's important to me to be able to write it down. 66 00:08:57,740 --> 00:09:00,740 Why do you think it's important to me? 67 00:09:00,740 --> 00:09:03,740 I think it's important to me. 68 00:09:03,740 --> 00:09:06,740 I think it's important to me. 69 00:09:06,740 --> 00:09:09,740 I think it's important to me. 70 00:09:18,740 --> 00:09:48,720 Thank you. 71 00:09:48,740 --> 00:10:18,720 Thank you. 72 00:10:18,740 --> 00:10:48,720 Thank you. 73 00:13:18,740 --> 00:13:44,540 I have carried what was never mine to hold 74 00:13:45,820 --> 00:13:51,620 Running hard on roads that leave me worn and cold 75 00:13:51,620 --> 00:13:58,360 But you finished it, you spoke and said it's done 76 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:05,420 The seventh day you rested, you the Holy One 77 00:14:05,420 --> 00:14:12,560 If even you could stop and breathe 78 00:14:13,820 --> 00:14:19,480 And who am I to say I have no need? 79 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:25,580 Come to me, you weary. 80 00:14:25,580 --> 00:14:30,600 Lay your burden at my feet. 81 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:37,720 I am not the God of endless striving. 82 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,100 I am rest. 83 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,580 I am peace. 84 00:14:44,580 --> 00:14:52,420 Now fast, let your soul breathe. 85 00:14:52,420 --> 00:14:57,220 The work is done, the weight is lifted. 86 00:14:57,220 --> 00:15:02,220 Come and catch your breath in me. 87 00:15:02,220 --> 00:15:09,860 The servant and the stranger got to rest. 88 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:17,780 David at the Jordan, broken spin 89 00:15:17,780 --> 00:15:24,040 You give your breath to the lowest and the least 90 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:31,420 Lord, I come to you now, nothing more to prove 91 00:15:31,420 --> 00:15:38,160 If even kings could stop and breathe 92 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:45,860 And here I kneel, I'm coming home to thee 93 00:15:45,860 --> 00:15:51,520 Come to me, you weary 94 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:56,480 Lay your burden at my feet 95 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:03,700 I am not the God of endless striving 96 00:16:03,700 --> 00:16:10,840 I am rest, I am peace 97 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:18,400 Now fast, let your soul breathe 98 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:23,200 The work is done, the weight is lifted 99 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:28,260 Come and catch your breath in me 100 00:16:28,260 --> 00:16:35,680 Times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord 101 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:40,440 Not a dream of what once was 102 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,940 A gift in Jesus' word 103 00:16:43,940 --> 00:16:47,940 He who rested on the seventh now 104 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:51,000 Has risen from the grave 105 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:56,240 The rest he offers now is everlasting 106 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,680 It is safe to come to me 107 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,100 You weary 108 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:08,060 Lay your burden at my feet 109 00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:15,120 I am not the God of endless striving 110 00:17:15,120 --> 00:17:19,000 I am rest 111 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:24,800 I am peace 112 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:29,940 Now flash, let your soul breathe 113 00:17:29,940 --> 00:17:34,760 The work is done, the weight is lifted 114 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:39,780 Come and catch your breath in me 115 00:17:39,780 --> 00:17:48,180 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden 116 00:17:48,180 --> 00:17:51,720 And I will give you rest 117 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,980 Matthew 11, 28 118 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:54,780 Thank you. 119 00:18:54,800 --> 00:19:24,780 Thank you. 120 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:54,780 Thank you. 121 00:19:54,800 --> 00:20:01,760 I have carried what was never mine to hold 122 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:08,780 Running hard on roads that leave me worn and cold 123 00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:15,540 But you've finished it, you've spoken, said it's done 124 00:20:15,540 --> 00:20:22,560 The seventh day you rested, you, the Holy One 125 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:29,740 If even you could stop and breathe 126 00:20:29,740 --> 00:20:36,680 Then who am I to say I have no need 127 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:42,760 Come to me, you weary 128 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,780 Lay your burden at my feet 129 00:20:47,780 --> 00:20:54,920 I am not the God of endless striving 130 00:20:54,920 --> 00:21:01,760 I am rest, I am peace 131 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:09,580 Now fast, let your soul breathe 132 00:21:09,580 --> 00:21:14,420 The work is done, the weight is lifted 133 00:21:14,420 --> 00:21:19,640 Come and catch your breath in me 134 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:27,040 The servant and the stranger, God to rest 135 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:35,100 David at the Jordan, broken spent 136 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:41,220 You give your breath to the lowest and the least 137 00:21:41,220 --> 00:21:45,000 Lord, I come to you now 138 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,640 Nothing more to prove 139 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:55,460 If even kings could stop and breathe 140 00:21:55,460 --> 00:21:59,280 And here I kneel 141 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:03,100 I'm coming home to thee 142 00:22:03,100 --> 00:22:08,680 Come to me, you weary 143 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:13,640 Lay your burden at my feet 144 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:20,880 I am not the God of endless striving 145 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,300 I am rest 146 00:22:24,300 --> 00:22:28,020 I am peace 147 00:22:28,020 --> 00:22:35,600 Now fast, let your soul breathe 148 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:40,380 The work is done, the weight is lifted 149 00:22:40,380 --> 00:22:45,420 Come and catch your breath in me 150 00:22:45,420 --> 00:22:52,880 Times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord 151 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:57,620 Not a dream of what once was 152 00:22:57,620 --> 00:23:01,120 A gift in Jesus' word 153 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:05,100 He who rested on the seventh now 154 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:08,140 Has risen from the grave 155 00:23:08,140 --> 00:23:13,420 The rest he offers now is everlasting 156 00:23:13,420 --> 00:23:17,880 It is safe to come to me 157 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,300 You weary 158 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:25,220 Lay your burden at my feet 159 00:23:25,220 --> 00:23:30,920 I am not the God of endless 160 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:41,980 I am rest, I am peace 161 00:23:41,980 --> 00:23:47,140 Now flash, let your soul breathe 162 00:23:47,140 --> 00:23:51,940 The work is done, the weight is lifted 163 00:23:51,940 --> 00:23:56,960 Come and catch your breath in me 164 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:08,920 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 165 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:14,180 Matthew 11, 28 166 00:24:30,920 --> 00:25:00,900 Thank you. 167 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:30,900 Thank you. 168 00:25:30,920 --> 00:26:00,900 Thank you. 169 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:09,500 I have carried what was never mine to hold 170 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:16,560 Running hard on roads that leave me worn and cold 171 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:23,300 But you've finished it, you've spoken, said it's done 172 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:30,300 The seventh day you rested, you, the Holy One 173 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:37,220 If even you could stop and breathe 174 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:30,280 Thank you. 175 00:28:30,300 --> 00:29:00,280 Thank you. 176 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:29,440 Thank you. 177 00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:16,780 We're going to be for a few minutes this morning 178 00:34:16,780 --> 00:34:21,000 in the second chapter. 179 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,160 Before we do that, let's go ahead 180 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,900 and go to God in prayer one more time. 181 00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:29,840 Heaven, we thank you so much for your people. 182 00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:38,600 We thank you that you are the fountain of water that satisfies our souls. 183 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:45,060 May we drink deeply and continually. 184 00:34:45,060 --> 00:34:51,440 May we not chase after and go dry after just a few moments. 185 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:59,740 As you've reminded us that you're with us both in our good and in our broken. 186 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:03,500 And so we ask that your hand this morning as we look at your word. 187 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:06,860 It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 188 00:35:06,860 --> 00:35:14,720 So Jeremiah 2 through Jeremiah chapter 4, 189 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:23,560 we have this sort of legal case that unfolds against the people of God 190 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:25,520 from the hand of God himself. 191 00:35:26,780 --> 00:35:29,820 And it's something that I think our culture is often 192 00:35:29,820 --> 00:35:32,800 fascinated with. We have 193 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,140 books, even news stories 194 00:35:36,140 --> 00:35:38,840 or famous court cases. Maybe we 195 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,080 follow out of interest to what 196 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:42,880 will happen. 197 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:49,040 And what's interesting about the case that 198 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,880 God brings to his people and against his 199 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:55,880 people, it's easy to look back and 200 00:35:56,780 --> 00:36:00,440 Say, isn't that the people signing against? 201 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:09,620 But the reality is this case could very likely be brought against one of us. 202 00:36:09,620 --> 00:36:18,720 In the courtroom, in Jeremiah chapter 2, we find a legal argument facing God. 203 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:26,060 For I will still contend with you, and it's a legal word for bringing a case against God's people, declares the Lord. 204 00:36:26,140 --> 00:36:32,080 And with your children, I will contend. 205 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:36,760 People are answering, why do you contend with me? 206 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,640 You have all against me, declares the Lord. 207 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:45,640 You say, surely his anger has turned from me. 208 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,680 Behold, I will bring you to judgment. 209 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:55,680 That's a picture of bringing to this legal case for saying, I have not sinned. 210 00:36:56,140 --> 00:37:00,920 And what's interesting about the case that God is about to bring 211 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:06,420 is it's very different from any modern case that we have experienced, right? 212 00:37:06,420 --> 00:37:09,440 It's easy to think about what's about to happen in these verses. 213 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,660 I don't know if you've spent much time, 214 00:37:11,660 --> 00:37:16,600 but most of us have seen depictions and dramas of the courtroom. 215 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:24,820 It's very much based upon faith and separation. 216 00:37:26,140 --> 00:37:29,100 ...wearing different clothes. 217 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:34,600 And the two sides sit back and separated, 218 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,400 and you can only approach the judge with permission. 219 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,640 And those who are observing or who there may be to testify later 220 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,100 are sitting behind another rail further back in the courtroom. 221 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:50,960 And our courtrooms are a picture and distance and decorum. 222 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:55,200 And what I want you to see about this court case 223 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,500 is yes, God is bringing a formal case against the man 224 00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:04,820 in a cold and distant... 225 00:38:04,820 --> 00:38:08,320 The legal drama that plays out over the next several chapters 226 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:13,880 is very different than what we see in the modern world. 227 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,780 The ancient legal system is very different. 228 00:38:17,780 --> 00:38:22,260 In fact, it often happens when Boaz goes to negotiate 229 00:38:22,260 --> 00:38:25,120 with the other kinsmen for Ruth's hand. 230 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,320 And he meets him at the city gates. 231 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:28,940 And from the people who are there, 232 00:38:28,940 --> 00:38:31,140 he calls out some elders who sit, 233 00:38:31,140 --> 00:38:32,280 and they are witnesses, 234 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,040 and they adjudicate the case. 235 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,760 It wasn't distant, and it wasn't formal, 236 00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,600 but it was a true and legal case. 237 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:41,400 I want you to understand 238 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,740 that this is not just simply a legal argument, 239 00:38:43,740 --> 00:38:46,800 but these chapters are filled with a deep emotion 240 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,480 that runs through every part. 241 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,680 I didn't think as we look through these words 242 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:58,440 that this is some kind of dry, distant, legal, intellectual case 243 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,240 that God is bringing against his people, 244 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:07,020 but rather it comes from the depths of his life for and towards. 245 00:39:07,020 --> 00:39:12,420 In fact, I want you to hear how this begins. 246 00:39:12,420 --> 00:39:15,920 Jeremiah, go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, 247 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:16,920 Thus said the Lord, 248 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,020 I remember the devotion of your youth, 249 00:39:20,420 --> 00:39:23,640 Your love is the bride and how you followed me in the wilderness. 250 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:31,620 So God begins by saying three things about his people that you were devoted to. 251 00:39:31,620 --> 00:39:35,840 You followed me wherever you wanted to go. 252 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,500 And then God responds like this. 253 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:41,540 Israel was holy to the Lord. 254 00:39:41,540 --> 00:39:46,660 The firstfruits of it incurred guilt and disaster came upon them. 255 00:39:46,660 --> 00:39:49,520 God says, I responded to your love. 256 00:39:50,420 --> 00:39:54,600 and your devotion and your folly by protecting you and making you holy 257 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:59,280 in the same way offering you to God, and anyone who ate it was judged. 258 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:06,180 He says, that was Israel, that anyone who touched you with everything that I have. 259 00:40:06,180 --> 00:40:11,780 And so as we see these words of God do a peep to you and poured out 260 00:40:11,780 --> 00:40:17,180 and leaking from everything that they have tried to fill the depths of their heart with, 261 00:40:17,180 --> 00:40:24,160 This is not some sort of, remember your love for me 262 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:28,160 and remember my devotion and protection to you, 263 00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:29,700 that this is not happening to me. 264 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:33,460 The picture, the main picture of chapter 3 is that 265 00:40:33,460 --> 00:40:40,740 of a broken-hearted husband looking to his beloved wife 266 00:40:40,740 --> 00:40:44,040 who has left for someone else. 267 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,720 This is a passage of Scripture. 268 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:55,900 And so the love that God is showing is going to make the case. 269 00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:59,460 His love and protection. 270 00:40:59,460 --> 00:41:01,140 I want you to hear God's article. 271 00:41:01,140 --> 00:41:06,460 He's going to bring it forth, first of all. 272 00:41:06,460 --> 00:41:11,300 He's going to go back to their history, their fathers. 273 00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:15,540 What wrong did your fathers find? 274 00:41:15,540 --> 00:41:21,520 They went far from me and went after worthlessness and became what God is asking. 275 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,800 Very simply, he says, I do to deserve this. 276 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,540 In what way have I failed you? 277 00:41:26,540 --> 00:41:27,800 What way have I let you down? 278 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,200 I brought you through the wilderness. 279 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:29,960 I fed you. 280 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:30,740 I protect you. 281 00:41:30,740 --> 00:41:32,600 I brought you out of Egypt. 282 00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:42,200 In fact, he answers this in verses 6 and 7, saying, I brought you from slavery out of Egypt into a place that is plentiful and full. 283 00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:45,860 What have I done that you would turn your back on me? 284 00:41:45,860 --> 00:41:50,180 And you can hear in this case where God is at one point bringing a charge, 285 00:41:50,180 --> 00:41:54,960 he's doing so with a broken and a hurting heart for his people. 286 00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,380 And here's the thing. 287 00:41:57,380 --> 00:42:00,900 You haven't just ignored me. 288 00:42:00,900 --> 00:42:03,180 You've actively opposed me. 289 00:42:03,180 --> 00:42:08,060 When you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination. 290 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,020 And what you'll find next. 291 00:42:13,020 --> 00:42:16,440 God's not just being just. 292 00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:22,060 He's showing the brokenness of a relationship that brings just an accuser. 293 00:42:22,060 --> 00:42:24,260 This is a broken hearted husband. 294 00:42:24,260 --> 00:42:27,520 And then he brings forth the evidence. 295 00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,080 He doesn't just bring an accusation. 296 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,000 He brings evidence. 297 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,420 And it's this. 298 00:42:35,420 --> 00:42:39,640 For the cross to the coast of Cyprus and to Kemp. 299 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:47,180 are east and west and examine with care see if there has been changed its gods even though 300 00:42:47,180 --> 00:42:54,180 they are no gods but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit 301 00:42:54,180 --> 00:43:00,500 and what he is saying just very simply is there is no pagan nation with their false gods 302 00:43:00,500 --> 00:43:06,320 who has done as you as you have done he says the people who follow these false gods they don't 303 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:07,940 They don't change their gods. 304 00:43:07,940 --> 00:43:10,460 They're loyal to them even though they are no gods. 305 00:43:10,460 --> 00:43:15,740 And the God who has loved you and protected you and brought you out of you and through the wilderness 306 00:43:15,740 --> 00:43:18,200 and has given you every good thing. 307 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,220 And in your brokenness, you have turned your back on him. 308 00:43:21,220 --> 00:43:34,260 God rules being broken, but the fact that this is so bad that the nations around them 309 00:43:34,260 --> 00:43:36,380 don't even engage in this kind of behavior. 310 00:43:36,380 --> 00:43:38,480 And then God calls 311 00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:39,960 and says that this be shocked, 312 00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,420 be utterly desolate, 313 00:43:41,420 --> 00:43:44,600 desolate is covenant language. 314 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:46,380 Throughout the whole 315 00:43:46,380 --> 00:43:48,140 book of Deuteronomy, 316 00:43:48,140 --> 00:43:50,200 God calls upon the heavens 317 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:50,980 to witness. 318 00:43:50,980 --> 00:43:53,940 And in ancient documents and covenants, 319 00:43:53,940 --> 00:43:56,220 heavens were called to witness 320 00:43:56,220 --> 00:43:58,440 because they see and they last. 321 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,020 And so God here 322 00:44:00,020 --> 00:44:01,860 just so very simply 323 00:44:01,860 --> 00:44:03,440 calls his people to court. 324 00:44:04,220 --> 00:44:06,860 As a betrayed husband, he lays out the case. 325 00:44:06,860 --> 00:44:10,680 What has been done, the depth of their depravity, 326 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,040 the fact that it was not witnessed by the heavens. 327 00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,660 And so he lays out his case. 328 00:44:17,660 --> 00:44:22,920 And then we hear his accusation. 329 00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:28,600 For my people have two evils. 330 00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:32,560 They have forsaken me, the living waters, 331 00:44:33,020 --> 00:44:36,240 And he hewed out cisterns for themselves. 332 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:39,340 Broken cisterns that can hold no water. 333 00:44:39,340 --> 00:44:45,300 Essentially, they have turned their backs on God and tried to desire their own effort. 334 00:44:45,300 --> 00:44:48,220 They have turned their hearts to something else. 335 00:44:48,220 --> 00:44:59,260 And it's in these verses, this verse specifically, we begin to see this case against God's people is not just a Jeremiah thing, but it's a humanity thing. 336 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,560 Jeremiah 2.11, my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. 337 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:12,200 Romans chapter 1, they exchanged the glory of God and worshipped and served the creation rather than the creator. 338 00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:17,100 God's heartbreaking charge against his people is not just an Old Testament problem. 339 00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:26,820 It's an us problem where our hope and our joy and our refreshment has left the God who satisfies us to the deepest part of our being and we've chased something else. 340 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:36,020 Something else has captured us in a way that moves us like God should have moved us. 341 00:45:36,020 --> 00:45:44,460 And the question here is, how can something else capture our heart? 342 00:45:44,460 --> 00:45:48,540 And at this, right, gradual distance. 343 00:45:48,540 --> 00:45:54,400 This speaks of the people in verse 6. 344 00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:55,400 they did not say, 345 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,700 Where is the Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt 346 00:45:58,700 --> 00:45:59,700 and led us in the wilderness, 347 00:45:59,700 --> 00:46:01,140 in a land of deserts and pits, 348 00:46:01,140 --> 00:46:03,720 in a land of drought and deep wind where no man dwells? 349 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:06,620 They stopped asking about God, 350 00:46:06,620 --> 00:46:10,320 despite the fact he brought them through the darkest moments of their life. 351 00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:16,360 And it wasn't just the people, it was the priests. 352 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,140 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? 353 00:46:19,140 --> 00:46:21,900 Those who handle the law did not against me. 354 00:46:22,020 --> 00:46:24,180 prophets prophesied by 355 00:46:24,180 --> 00:46:26,020 Baal and went after things 356 00:46:26,020 --> 00:46:26,560 that did not be a prophet. 357 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,040 And the two accusations here 358 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:31,180 are just simply this. 359 00:46:31,180 --> 00:46:36,080 They did not say, where is the Lord? 360 00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,060 And this is not looking for God, trying to 361 00:46:38,060 --> 00:46:40,040 find him, but looking to 362 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,240 him, to be in relationship 363 00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:44,180 with him and to be close to 364 00:46:44,180 --> 00:46:46,100 him. We've all had those 365 00:46:46,100 --> 00:46:48,300 relationships, right? I talked to 366 00:46:48,300 --> 00:46:49,980 maybe once a year 367 00:46:49,980 --> 00:46:51,580 one person from high school. 368 00:46:52,020 --> 00:47:01,080 Because what happened, changed locations, changed jobs, and what happened, like, more years than I want to count. 369 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,560 I just did the math in my head, and we're not going to talk about that, right? 370 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,880 More years than I want to count has gone by. 371 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:11,100 And at first, you're really close, and then over time, less and less and less. 372 00:47:11,100 --> 00:47:19,100 The picture of God's people in this accusation is not that one day they woke up and turned their back on God, 373 00:47:19,100 --> 00:47:21,160 but over time it became less 374 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,700 and less asking 375 00:47:22,700 --> 00:47:24,960 where God was. 376 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,180 Then 377 00:47:27,180 --> 00:47:29,140 it continues with a 378 00:47:29,140 --> 00:47:31,040 lack of thankfulness. 379 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,320 We read 380 00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,240 these verses a moment ago in verses 6 381 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:35,820 and 7 382 00:47:35,820 --> 00:47:39,100 where you look at how God has delivered 383 00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:40,780 out of and brought into 384 00:47:40,780 --> 00:47:46,220 there is this place 385 00:47:46,220 --> 00:47:48,900 where God has done great 386 00:47:49,100 --> 00:47:56,480 things and it's so easy to stop and so when thankfulness ends it then moves to continual 387 00:47:56,480 --> 00:48:03,260 dissatisfaction and one of the ways that it happens and we see it throughout the book of 388 00:48:03,260 --> 00:48:11,920 Jeremiah is in terms of thirst we stop satisfies us and begin to seek everything else which brings 389 00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:17,380 us to this my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters 390 00:48:17,380 --> 00:48:23,560 They have hewed out broken cisterns that can hold pictures. 391 00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,080 There is living water and it is good. 392 00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:30,540 But over time you have separated and you've forgotten. 393 00:48:30,540 --> 00:48:33,540 And now you are filled with runoff. 394 00:48:33,540 --> 00:48:35,980 That's what a cistern was. 395 00:48:35,980 --> 00:48:41,340 It was just a pit dug down deep and it required work to be sealed. 396 00:48:41,340 --> 00:48:45,900 And instead of going to the living and the fresh and the refreshing stream, 397 00:48:45,900 --> 00:48:50,260 They were digging these pits and let her during the rainy season fill them up. 398 00:48:50,260 --> 00:48:54,680 And it turns out they were, right? 399 00:48:54,680 --> 00:49:00,220 It's not just a charge against them, right? 400 00:49:00,220 --> 00:49:01,660 It's a charge. 401 00:49:01,660 --> 00:49:04,720 It's not just found in this charge against them, 402 00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:06,700 but what you find is they're continually doing this. 403 00:49:06,700 --> 00:49:09,920 And there's an interesting moment in Israel's history that happens next 404 00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:11,940 where they make an alliance with Assyria, 405 00:49:11,940 --> 00:49:14,360 and they don't like how Assyria treats them, 406 00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,680 and so they make an alliance with Egypt 407 00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:18,920 and then Assyria comes 408 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,940 and there's this fight between them 409 00:49:20,940 --> 00:49:22,940 and look at how God describes 410 00:49:22,940 --> 00:49:24,480 this political maneuvering 411 00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,780 and now 412 00:49:26,780 --> 00:49:28,960 what do you gain by going to eat the waters of the Nile 413 00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,440 what do you gain by going to Assyria 414 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,080 to drink the waters 415 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:34,580 of the Euphrates 416 00:49:34,580 --> 00:49:36,880 not just an illustration 417 00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,500 of waters and rivers 418 00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:41,200 of God's people in this moment 419 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,360 going let's go to Assyria 420 00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:44,280 and trust in them. 421 00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,300 Let's go to Egypt and trust in them. 422 00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:52,660 And you and I do this in those moments of brokenness. 423 00:49:52,660 --> 00:49:55,500 If we have begun to distance ourselves from God, 424 00:49:55,500 --> 00:49:56,960 stopped being thankful, 425 00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,480 we begin to try to find refreshment. 426 00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:04,820 And we're seeking and running after it 427 00:50:04,820 --> 00:50:09,920 over and over again. 428 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,600 And notice what the true extreme for a cistern. 429 00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,400 They have forsaken me. 430 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:23,840 The true exchange here isn't about literal water, 431 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:27,580 changing God for our own selves. 432 00:50:27,580 --> 00:50:29,780 The journey to begin with distance, 433 00:50:29,780 --> 00:50:31,940 discussing God's blessing, 434 00:50:31,940 --> 00:50:34,760 seeking to satisfy our own needs, 435 00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,800 ultimately ends in brokenness because the system holds no water. 436 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,280 And historically, you would dig down into stone. 437 00:50:42,300 --> 00:50:44,460 And limestone wouldn't hold water very well. 438 00:50:44,460 --> 00:50:48,040 And so we have some history where you would mix together lime and some mud. 439 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:49,920 You would come up with this coating. 440 00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,620 And you would paint the inside of your cistern with this water. 441 00:50:53,620 --> 00:50:59,380 And the hope was that during the rainy season that would fill up and it would seal. 442 00:50:59,380 --> 00:51:03,520 You wouldn't have water again until the next rainy season. 443 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:07,980 The problem is in this coating or the cistern, maybe the ground settled. 444 00:51:07,980 --> 00:51:11,360 Maybe you just didn't get it all when you were painting it. 445 00:51:12,300 --> 00:51:18,000 You go out one day in the heat of the summer to find water and your cistern is empty. 446 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:24,200 All the water is water, but it's life and death. 447 00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:31,500 And ultimately, it ends in hopelessness. 448 00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:34,040 Listen to what Jared says. 449 00:51:36,140 --> 00:51:40,660 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from its feet, 450 00:51:40,660 --> 00:51:43,880 but you have saved foreigners and after them I will go. 451 00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:48,840 Here, seeing the hopelessness of their situation, 452 00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:52,540 and God goes, stop running after them. 453 00:51:52,540 --> 00:51:55,360 Come to the place where you won't be thirsty. 454 00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,540 And they're saying, there's no hope. 455 00:51:57,540 --> 00:52:00,100 I'm just going to keep doing what I've always... 456 00:52:00,100 --> 00:52:04,460 The depth of despair in the heart of the people as this leap comes against them. 457 00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:06,200 David says something similar. 458 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:11,900 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 459 00:52:11,900 --> 00:52:13,900 For day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. 460 00:52:13,900 --> 00:52:17,760 My strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. 461 00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:23,300 So the road these people have walked, and that you and I walk is this. 462 00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:25,300 It starts with distance to a lack of thankfulness. 463 00:52:25,300 --> 00:52:31,420 We ultimately find ourselves far away and broken and thirsty. 464 00:52:31,420 --> 00:52:33,160 And we get there's no hope. 465 00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:34,640 I'm just going to keep going forward. 466 00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:40,480 and step at it and what i love so much i want you to hear this about this text 467 00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:48,460 who have seen God's deliverance they've tasted his goodness they have now walked away from him 468 00:52:48,460 --> 00:52:55,760 and they are hopeless God doesn't say fine you've brought it on yourself he doesn't say good luck 469 00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:59,940 He doesn't give them steps to fix it. 470 00:52:59,940 --> 00:53:01,900 Instead, there is good news. 471 00:53:01,900 --> 00:53:05,760 From Jeremiah 3, verse 1, verse 4, 472 00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,940 there is one word that's repeated over and over again. 473 00:53:08,940 --> 00:53:13,260 And it's fascinating because it's repeated in every form in the English. 474 00:53:13,260 --> 00:53:14,340 So it's a verb. 475 00:53:14,340 --> 00:53:15,940 It's a noun. 476 00:53:15,940 --> 00:53:16,980 It's an adjective. 477 00:53:16,980 --> 00:53:24,120 And the word is simply this, turn. 478 00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,920 So as a picture of sin, it's used as turning away. 479 00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:35,300 It's used as a condition, faithlessness, and to turn to God. 480 00:53:35,300 --> 00:53:39,740 And immediately we hear that we are to turn to God and we're faced with a problem. 481 00:53:39,740 --> 00:53:42,040 I can't go back. 482 00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:48,240 In fact, Deuteronomy 3, verse 1, in the picture of the husband and the wife, 483 00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:49,900 God's saying, I can't go back. 484 00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:56,760 Verse 8, God presents his people with the certificates 485 00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,500 that are part of the same family. 486 00:53:59,500 --> 00:54:07,600 But hear God's words in the midst of the north and say, 487 00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,600 Return, faithless Israel, declare the Lord. 488 00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:15,900 I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the Lord. 489 00:54:15,900 --> 00:54:18,440 but I will not forever. 490 00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:25,960 Right, we can return not because we're good. 491 00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,520 It is good. 492 00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:35,020 Return, O faithless sons. 493 00:54:35,020 --> 00:54:37,300 I will hear your faith. 494 00:54:37,300 --> 00:54:38,320 See what's just happened. 495 00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:42,140 God has called us to bring those people to the city gates. 496 00:54:42,140 --> 00:54:44,780 The charges have been made, they've been proven, 497 00:54:44,780 --> 00:54:50,480 they've been shown how terrible they were the heavens have testified and the sentence brought 498 00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:56,720 to us is this right not a task not a prison sentence not a punishment but this this is the 499 00:54:56,720 --> 00:55:09,940 verdict return will heal it's a glorious promise that God calls to the people who have done 500 00:55:09,940 --> 00:55:14,160 everything wrong and nothing right who are broken who are in the midst of darkness who are 501 00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:18,960 deeply thirsty, seeking to satisfy their soul, looking for anything to hope in. 502 00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,760 And he says, come to me. 503 00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:24,700 And notice, it comes with a call to action. 504 00:55:24,700 --> 00:55:26,920 Jeremiah chapter 4 begins with a list. 505 00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:34,740 Remove, don't waver, deal with your treacherous hearts. 506 00:55:34,740 --> 00:55:36,920 And we hear, I do that. 507 00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:41,660 And once again, we find ourselves struggling. 508 00:55:42,860 --> 00:55:44,320 There are two things 509 00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:46,760 that I want you to see. 510 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,720 First of all is the treasure of God's goodness. 511 00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:51,040 I think as Christians 512 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,760 we begin to take 513 00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,640 God's goodness for granted. This week we were 514 00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:55,780 fishing on 515 00:55:55,780 --> 00:55:58,060 Thursday night with the kids. 516 00:55:58,060 --> 00:56:00,640 We went down to Lake Time and I always 517 00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,800 forget how beautiful 518 00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:04,700 the lake is. Especially 519 00:56:04,700 --> 00:56:06,740 as the sun began to change 520 00:56:06,740 --> 00:56:08,740 and you got the trees, you got the water 521 00:56:08,740 --> 00:56:10,660 and we just got done fishing 522 00:56:10,660 --> 00:56:11,960 and I'm just looking out and 523 00:56:12,860 --> 00:56:14,920 It's just beautiful, and I had totally forgotten. 524 00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:19,680 And one of the things that especially in our lives 525 00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:21,940 when we've been around God's goodness 526 00:56:21,940 --> 00:56:24,100 is to just be like, well, it's always been there. 527 00:56:24,100 --> 00:56:28,220 And part of the call that we need to our hearts 528 00:56:28,220 --> 00:56:31,900 is to return and to see that goodness again, 529 00:56:31,900 --> 00:56:34,960 to be astonished and amazed by the glory of God. 530 00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,320 That's why we say, turn your eyes this morning. 531 00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:39,840 The power of His provision. 532 00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:46,100 We're faced with these things to return, to remove, to not waver, 533 00:56:46,100 --> 00:56:47,420 to deal with your treacherous hearts. 534 00:56:47,420 --> 00:56:51,600 And the first step is to see God's goodness in this is provision. 535 00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,160 Because he says two things. 536 00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:57,400 You've got to break up the hard soil of your heart, 537 00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,560 and then you need heart Scriptures. 538 00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:06,160 I know, and I've read historical accounts of guys who've been isolated, 539 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:07,860 and they've taken out their own opinion. 540 00:57:08,940 --> 00:57:12,640 And it was actually at the South Pole, medical training and a bottle of whiskey, right? 541 00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:19,320 I can take out my own appendix, but you can't do heart surgery on yourself no matter how hard you try. 542 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,060 But hear what God says. 543 00:57:22,060 --> 00:57:26,220 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days. 544 00:57:26,220 --> 00:57:32,600 Declare to the Lord, I will put my law within them, and they shall be my people. 545 00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:36,940 This isn't just a Jeremiah thing. 546 00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:40,880 Peter writes this as he preaches in the temple. 547 00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:42,900 Repent therefore and turn back. 548 00:57:42,900 --> 00:57:46,780 That your sins may be blotted out. 549 00:57:46,780 --> 00:57:50,000 The times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord. 550 00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,800 And he may send the Christ appointed for you. 551 00:57:52,800 --> 00:58:03,660 And here Peter, centuries later, preaches in the temple before some of those same people shouting crucify him. 552 00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:09,580 And he says this, see God's goodness, 553 00:58:09,580 --> 00:58:15,360 see the power of his provision, and turn back to him. 554 00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:21,240 The hopelessness doesn't begin in Jeremiah, it begins in Genesis, 555 00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:26,260 where something we thought looked better, and since then, everything has been broken. 556 00:58:26,260 --> 00:58:31,000 Jeremiah, in chapter 3, points to hopelessness. 557 00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:34,500 In Provision, and here's the thing, he doesn't ignore yourself, 558 00:58:34,900 --> 00:58:36,400 and he doesn't pretend it's not there. 559 00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:39,320 He doesn't overlook it and excuse it. 560 00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:43,940 What sin is blotted out. 561 00:58:43,940 --> 00:58:49,440 And you who are dead in the trespass of your flesh, 562 00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:52,960 God has made it alive together with you, 563 00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:58,600 given us all our trespasses by canceling the record of the debt 564 00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,140 that stood aside us with its legal demands. 565 00:59:01,140 --> 00:59:02,140 Listen to this. 566 00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,320 This he set aside by nailing it to the cross. 567 00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:09,380 Your hope is in Jesus. 568 00:59:09,380 --> 00:59:12,240 I want you to hear these. 569 00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:16,120 Christian, there are things that are going to pull at your heart. 570 00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:21,260 They're going to try to grab your eyes, try to engage your hands. 571 00:59:21,260 --> 00:59:24,980 And the call in the midst of this is to see you. 572 00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:32,820 See how he takes you from hopeless to hopeful. 573 00:59:32,820 --> 00:59:37,800 It's not always temptation that tries to grab us and pull us away. 574 00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:41,480 Sometimes it's the brokenness of life that tries to wait. 575 00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:49,560 And the answer to both of these struggles is the fact that God is good and he has made a provision for you. 576 00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:54,900 So many times it's easy to find ourselves digging for our own salvation. 577 00:59:54,900 --> 00:59:56,900 Peter does it in Galatians chapter 3. 578 00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:04,760 Almost as he begins to turn aside from the Gentiles and eat only with the Jews. 579 01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:11,140 Almost without thinking, he seeks salvation somewhere else, and we will. 580 01:00:11,140 --> 01:00:15,300 We sing, prone to wander, Lord, I feel it. 581 01:00:15,300 --> 01:00:17,360 Prone to leave the God I love. 582 01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:19,760 Take it and seal it. 583 01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:23,020 Seal it for thy courts above. 584 01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:30,020 The call here for us is to return to the one who saves because we can't do it. 585 01:00:30,020 --> 01:00:31,540 And we've been seeing his provision. 586 01:00:31,540 --> 01:00:35,200 And if you are not a Christian, there is hope. 587 01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:41,780 Jeremiah chapter 2, 3, and 4 tells us no matter how far, no matter how deep, 588 01:00:41,780 --> 01:00:48,960 there is a place for healing, for transformation, and for hope. 589 01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:51,360 Here are the sins. 590 01:00:53,100 --> 01:00:59,000 And the uncircumcision of your flesh and God made alive together with him, 591 01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,220 having forgiven us all. 592 01:01:01,220 --> 01:01:05,360 As he said to the death that stood against us with his legal demands, 593 01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:08,140 this he set aside, nailing it. 594 01:01:08,140 --> 01:01:14,880 Father, we thank you that you refresh us. 595 01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:19,120 We have chased our own hope and our own living water. 596 01:01:19,620 --> 01:01:21,440 been turned aside 597 01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,440 either 598 01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,100 by difficulty 599 01:01:25,100 --> 01:01:26,680 and may we see 600 01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:28,720 that you are 601 01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:30,900 and may we see that you 602 01:01:30,900 --> 01:01:33,320 provide. So calm 603 01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:35,260 our weary hearts, satisfied 604 01:01:35,260 --> 01:01:36,960 by our thirsty souls 605 01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:39,220 and may we see your 606 01:01:39,220 --> 01:01:41,000 goodness. It's in Jesus' 607 01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:43,540 name we pray. Amen. 608 01:01:43,540 --> 01:01:45,500 We're going to 609 01:01:45,500 --> 01:01:46,840 stand and we're going to sing 610 01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:48,460 All Who Are Thirsty 611 01:01:48,460 --> 01:02:18,440 Thank you. 612 01:02:18,460 --> 01:02:48,440 Thank you. 613 01:02:48,460 --> 01:03:18,440 Thank you. 614 01:04:18,460 --> 01:04:24,320 We'll be here Wednesday night for our Wednesday evening. 615 01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:31,480 I'm going to read from Jeremiah, chapter 7, verses 7 and 8. 616 01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:31,700 It says, 617 01:04:31,700 --> 01:04:36,920 Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is in the Lord. 618 01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:41,040 He is like a tree planted by the water that sends out roots by the stream 619 01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:46,380 and does not fear when the heat comes, for its leaves remain green, 620 01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:55,280 year of drought for it does not cease to bear fruit now may the God being the fountain of living 621 01:04:55,280 --> 01:05:04,200 water the one who calls you home and in some cases calls you home with the very words of 622 01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:10,340 your wandering that's the return may he send you out today with your life refreshed and when the 623 01:05:10,340 --> 01:05:12,240 heat comes, and when the year turns 624 01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:14,120 dry, may your leaves stay 625 01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,360 green. You're never found 626 01:05:16,360 --> 01:05:18,420 in your own cisterns, but it was found 627 01:05:18,420 --> 01:05:19,800 in the goodness of God. 628 01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,500 So we return to him 629 01:05:22,500 --> 01:05:24,400 and he 630 01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:26,180 says, and he will heal our 631 01:05:26,180 --> 01:05:28,000 faithlessness. Let's pray. 632 01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:30,220 Father, thank you 633 01:05:30,220 --> 01:05:32,220 for Jesus and for grace and for 634 01:05:32,220 --> 01:05:34,440 hope. Restore 635 01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:35,240 our souls 636 01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:38,400 deep with the way we not 637 01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:39,060 leave 638 01:05:39,060 --> 01:05:45,400 Your living wants, it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. 639 01:06:09,060 --> 01:06:20,200 It is weak and shall never fail. 640 01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:31,900 Praise God who raised the nation's sins. 641 01:06:31,900 --> 01:06:40,300 Praise Him for Christ the way to the end 642 01:06:40,300 --> 01:06:46,780 His joy shall never end 643 01:06:46,780 --> 01:06:55,500 All praise forever unto Him 644 01:07:01,900 --> 01:07:31,880 Thank you. 645 01:07:31,900 --> 01:08:01,880 Thank you. 646 01:08:01,900 --> 01:08:31,880 Thank you.