Jeremiah chapter number seven the Bible reads in verse number one the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying
Stand in the gate of the Lord's house and proclaim there this word and say hear the word of the Lord all ye of Judah
That enter in at these gates to worship the Lord
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this
Place trust ye not in lying words saying the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord
Are these now of course the greater context of the book of Jeremiah?
Is that Jeremiah is preaching to the sinful Jews at that time in the nation of Judah that have forsaken the Lord?
They're about to be destroyed as a nation
They're about to be brought to Babylon as captives where they're gonna spend 70 years in exile
Then of course at the end of that 70 years when they get right with God
God's gonna bring them back and they're gonna be reestablished as a nation and they're gonna rebuild the temple
Rebuild the wall, but that's way off in the future. That's their descendants right now
They are in big trouble with God God's angry God's warning them
And so Jeremiah is preaching against them in most chapters here now here
He brings up this lying statement that had been going around
Somebody had been preaching this apparently
This statement of the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord are these and say, you know
What does that mean?
Well, if you think about what he means by the temple of the Lord
the temple of the Lord would be basically a dwelling place for the Lord if you think about it and
In the New Testament the Bible talks about how our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in us
And we are not our own but we're bought with a price and so forth
Then the Bible also talks about the church and it says that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house
of God
Which is the church of the Living God the pillar and ground of the truth
so the assembly of God's people when they congregate together make up the house of God a
Dwelling place for God in a sense and then obviously we know that God is everywhere
But the house of God in the New Testament is the local church
Our body is called the temple of the Holy Ghost why because the Holy Ghost is in us
Okay, so when they're saying the temple of the Lord or the temple of God are these what they're saying is that
God is dwelling among us or God is among these people
These is obviously referring to these people and saying the temple of the Lord are these these are God's temple meaning that God
Dwells among them. They are the people of God now the Bible says that that was a lie
That these people were not the temple of God now, who are these people
Well, he's saying in verse number two that this is being preached to all ye of Judah at the end there
That enter in at these gates to worship the Lord and he says to these people in verse number three
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel
Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place
Now is he saying you're gonna dwell in this place no matter what you do
No matter how you live no matter what you believe you're gonna dwell with no he says if you straighten out
You'll dwell in this place and don't listen to this lie that these people are just automatically the temple of the Lord
These people are just automatically the people of God or that God is among them
Look at verse 5 for if ye
Throughly amend your ways and your doings if ye thoroughly
Execute judgment between a man and his neighbor if you oppress not the stranger the fatherless and the widow and shed not innocent blood in
This place neither walk after other gods to your hurt
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever
Is he saying here? Well, I gave it to your fathers forever and ever therefore no matter what you do. You're gonna dwell in it. I
Mean I made an everlasting covenant with Abraham Isaac and Jacob
Therefore you have a carte blanche
You can do whatever you want
You can lie and cheat and steal and be wicked and because you're Jewish you're just God's people and you're gonna dwell in this
I mean, this is your land because God promised it to Abraham and you're the descendants of Abraham. No, there are a lot of ifs there
That was a big list
If ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings me through Lee means
Within and without all the way through I mean basically, what do we change God everything? I
Mean you guys are doing virtually everything wrong
you would have to just thoroughly amend your ways and
through Lee
You would have to execute judgment between a man and his neighbor not oppress the stranger not oppress
The fatherless not oppress the widow not shed innocent blood not walk after other gods
Then I'll cause you to dwell in this place in
The land that I gave to your fathers forever now, but people today are teaching that well because he gave it to their fathers forever
and ever
Well, that means the descendants automatically have a right to it. But is that what the Bible says?
Not even close and this is just one scripture of many. I mean I've preached on this subject a whole bunch of times
But I've never used this scripture to preach on it
You know why because there was just such an abundance of other scriptures to turn to
That I didn't even need to turn to this group. This is just another scripture that's saying the same thing
He says behold you trust in lying words that cannot profit will you steal
murder and commit adultery and swear falsely and burn
Incense unto bail and walk after other gods whom ye know not and come and stand before me in this house
Which is called by my name and say we're delivered to do all these abominations
Is this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your eyes behold even I've seen it sayeth the Lord
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh
Where I did set my name at the first and see what I did do it for the wickedness of my people Israel
So God's saying look I destroyed Shiloh their Israelites
There of Abraham Isaac and Jacob it didn't stop me from wiping out Shiloh from wiping out
The place where the tabernacle had dwelt from wiping out God's people by bringing in the Assyrians to judge them
Think not to say within yourselves we have Abraham to our father
John the Baptist said for I say unto you that God is able of these stones to raise up children of Abraham and now also
The axe is laid under the root of the trees therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast in
The fire that doesn't sound like you can just do whatever and you're a child of Abraham
You're you dwell in the land
You're God's people the temple of the Lord are these I mean this sounds like a John Hagee sermon the temple of the Lord
The temple of the Lord I said the temple of the Lord of these
Hey, man, you know, but it's a lie. Those are lying words
And they were saying it back then and
John Hagee and all these other Zionists are saying it now and it was just as much of a lie then as it is now
In fact, it's even more of a lie now
Because they don't they don't even come close. They don't even have the right name anymore
I mean they used to at least have the name right Jehovah
They actually now they don't they don't even have the name because the name is Jesus
They don't have that name and if they don't have the son
They don't have the father and neither is their salvation any other for there's none other name
There's none other name given among men whereby we must be saved that name is Jesus
Jesus is a well the Yahweh no Jesus
That's the name that's above all names as the only name you can't sit there and say well
We're just gonna call on the Lord. We're just calling on the Father
We're gonna bypass the son. No man cometh unto the Father, but by me Jesus said
Now if you would
Well, let's flip over to John 8 just quickly
I don't want to spend too much time on this because I've I've preached about this so many times
But it needs to be preached because this is a big lie that's out there
I don't want to go on and on about it, but I do want to touch on it quickly here John chapter 8 verse 37
Jesus said I know that you're Abraham's seed. So he's acknowledging that they're the physical descendants
I know that you're Abraham's seed, but you seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you. I
Speak that which I've seen with my father and you do that which you have seen with your father
They answered and said unto him Abraham's our father
Jesus saith unto them if you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. Is he saying that they are or are not?
Saying you're not if you were you do the works of Abraham
But now you seek to kill me a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God. This did not Abraham
Ye do the deeds of your father then said they to him we be not born of fornication we have one father even God
Jesus said unto them if God were your father you would love me
For I proceeded forth and came from God neither came I of myself, but he sent me
Why do you not understand my speech even because you cannot hear my word?
You're of your father the devil and the lusts of your father you will do
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lie
He speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it and because I tell you the truth you believe me not
This is clear go back to Jeremiah 7. It's clear in the Old Testament
It's clear in the New Testament and yet people have bought into this pro-israel
the Jews are God's chosen people well, they're in unbelief right now, but
There's no if you're an unbelief you're nothing right. I mean without faith. It's impossible to please him
Yeah, and not only that but without faith. You're not God's people sort of grandfathered in because of old Grandfather Abraham. No
If you don't believe in Christ
You have God's wrath abiding on you. I mean whatever happened to
He that believeth nots condemned already
Whatever happened to he that hath the son hath life
But he that hath not the Son of God hath hath not life what happened to you know whosoever believeth
That Jesus is the Christ is born of God
I mean whatever happened to just saying if you believe you're saved and if you don't believe the Bible says
But the wrath of God abideth on it
Does that not apply to Jews and what's funny is that they'll say well no they have God's blessing on them even though they believe
Not but wait a minute if you don't believe you have God's wrath on you
If you don't believe you have God's wrath abiding on you so they have this mixture of like God's wrath and blessing
He's angry with them and punishing them and blessing them at the same time
Which one is it because on one hand they'll tell us oh, yeah, God's mad at them
You know that's why they went through the Holocaust and then and then on the other hand they'll turn around and tell you this oh
Well, God's blessing them. That's why whenever they go to battle. He performs all these miracles that they always win
It's like well, which one is I mean are you being are they being punished are they being blessed?
I mean look they're not God's people
They're not even under his blessing one iota because they don't even they haven't even taken the first step
How do I get blessed in my life? How do you get blessed?
Step one you got to be saved you got to believe in Jesus
Right and then step two if you want God to bless you I mean salvation is just believe that's it
But if you want to be blessed by God if you want to you know be in his favor
Then another step would be baptism
Right because that's obedience God commands us all to be baptized. It's not optional
He he commands baptism and then he commands us to obey all all the teachings of Christ
All the the teachings of of the Word of God and we're supposed to obey and keep those commandments
That's how I get blessed. That's how you get blessed
How does a nation receive blessing from God? Well, first of all by acknowledging the Lord and
then by keeping his commandments and
Then by not murdering all the things that he listed not oppressing the poor not oppressing foreigners not
Hurting people and ripping people off and stealing and murdering and doing all this stuff. That's how and not fornicating committing adultery
That's how I get a blessing. That's how you get a blessing. That's how our nation gets blessed
So, what is it? What is this other group of people that just gets this automatic blessing free pass?
Just get out of get out of God's wrath free card
Over there just because Abraham's their father. It's meaningless
Meaningless avoid genealogies. I don't even care who your father is
Well, we're not born a fornication. Hey, bro. Okay. I don't care if you are born a fornication
If you believe on Jesus, you're saved
Amen
Nuts to you know this thing of who who gave birth to you means you're God's people or you're not God's people
It's meaningless if you believe in Jesus, it's only faith that profiteth. It's not circumcision that profiteth
It's not uncircumcision that profiteth. It's faith which worketh by love the Bible says so here in
Jeremiah 70 is rebuking them for thinking that they can just dwell in the land no matter what
That they are just the temple of the Lord no matter what and he's making it really clear to them
There's a whole bunch of things you have to fix and you have to stop worshiping a false God
Then you'll dwell on the land then you'll be the temple of the Lord and then I'll dwell among you
I'll be your God you'll be my people etc
Look at verse number 13 and now because you've done all these works
Sayeth the Lord I spake unto you rising up early and speaking but you heard not and I called you but you answered not
Therefore will I do unto this house which is called by my name wherein ye trust and
Under the place which I gave to you and to your fathers as I have done to Shiloh
I think it's interesting how he says that they trust in the place
They trust in the house itself
And this is something that Jesus also rebuked in Matthew 23 when he talked about how foolish and blind they were
To say well whosoever sweareth by the the temple it is nothing
But you know if you swear by the gold of the temple
You're guilty
They're basically elevating the gold of the temple above the temple itself
Right, I mean that just shows you the money the lust of money that these people had in their hearts that would even cause them
To elevate the monetary value of God's house
Above the spiritual value of God's house just it shows you a wicked heart there because the love of money is the root of all evil
okay, and
He rebukes them for this and he talks about the fact that they basically say well
You know don't you know you swear by the temple? That's one thing
But don't swear by the goal of the temple or you know you swear by the altar
That's one thing, but don't swear by the gift. That's on the altar
Okay, but he says look if you swear by the temple you're swearing by him that dwell at their end
You know it's it's it's about it's the Lord that makes the temple what it is
So here's the thing without the Lord the temple is just a building
The gold is there the altars there the animals are there
But it's only the fact that God's presence showed up at the temple that gave it value in the first place
You know if you remember when they first built the temple because before that they had the tabernacle and when they built the tabernacle
God's presence came and dwelled in the tabernacle in the form of the the cloud
That filled the house okay, then when Solomon built the permanent temple building in Jerusalem
Again when Solomon finishes dedicating the house and praying
God's spirit comes and dwells in the house and the cloud remember the cloud by day the fire by night
The cloud of God's glory and God's presence filled the house in
That passage in in second chronicles five through seven where the the temple is being dedicated
That's the significance of the temple
It's not oh the goal look at all the gold and silver and this is what the disciples were even impressed by they wanted to show
Jesus a tour of the temple
Look at all these buildings look at all this this wealth look at the gold and the Sun and he said you see all these
Things he said there shall not be here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down
Why because if God's spirit isn't there if God's Word isn't being preached there
You know he's gonna he's gonna put the axe to the root of the tree and
Cast that thing down because you see this already in this passage
where he says in
verse number
14 therefore I do unto this house
Which is called by my name where in ye trust and under the place which I gave you and to your fathers as I have done
To Shiloh and I'll cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your brethren
Even the whole seed of Abraham or Ephraim rather therefore pray not thou for this people neither lift up cry
Nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee so again
people today they put great emphasis on the land and
When you try to say well
You know the Jews aren't God's chosen people because they don't believe in Jesus
And if they don't have the son they are the father well, but you know God has a special relationship with the land
but
I mean that's such a joke like God is just so concerned about the land
The dirt like it's the dirt and the soil there's something special about it the only thing that's special about it is just because God
Chose it
that's what makes it special and
the fact that those people were chosen is what made them special when they were chosen and
It's what makes us today special because we're the chosen people because we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
we are the elect according to the New Testament, so it's just bizarre this emphasis on a building or
emphasis on the actual land like the physical literal land and
Emphasis upon these carnal things and a total disregard for the spiritual condition. Just what's your genealogy?
What's your pedigree?
And what's funny is that you know a lot of these Jews that you talk to so called they'll even tell you that they're
a proselyte
Where they converted to Judaism and people have been doing that throughout history
They've been converting to that stupid religion for the last 2,000 years, and it is a stupid religion
It's a stupid meaningless religion. It's a religion that that says oh our holy book is the Torah
Which tells you like hundreds of times to make animal sacrifices, but you never make an animal sacrifice
That's a stupid religion. It doesn't even make any sense
and
There are a lot of other foolish things about that really, but people have been converting to that foolish stupid religion
And you say well, how dare you call to it with Jesus call it stupid. I mean Jesus said
The Pharisees are fools and blind
What is what does a fool mean?
Fool means you're stupid
Okay, that's what I mean in fact fool is even a stronger word than idiot
Or stupid person foolish is even worse
Foolish is a pretty strong word and Jesus said to the Pharisees you fools and they go well
We're Abraham seed your your father is the devil
that's what Jesus taught and
people have converted that foolish religion, and they're not even they're not even
You know of their pedigree that they think that they have that goes back
Matrilineal or patrilineal or however they want to calculate it. I mean what about Sammy Davis jr.
Who knows who Sammy Davis jr. Is
Is he one of the chosen ones because you know Sammy Davis jr. Converted to Judaism
Does that make him the chosen people?
I
Mean Madonna's into the Kabbalah is she one of the chosen ones what about what about Captain Kirk and Spock?
Are they the chosen people?
Because they're both Jewish quote unquote
So the bottom line is that you know this whole carnal doctrine of
The Jews being God's chosen people and then and then you try to pin people down are we talking a physical descendant?
and
Then it's like well
Well, how do they know if we're told to avoid genealogies how we're gonna figure out how legit they are and then you try to
Pick up well, no, no, it's just it's the Jews, you know, you know, just the Jews, you know
You know, you know Sammy Davis jr. David Lee Roth, you know
Captain Kirk Spock Larry Curley and Moe
You know
You know Billy Crystal Adam Sandler, you know what Jews are come on Jeff Goldblum
Steven Spielberg
You know
Don't act like you don't know what Jews are, you know what they are
but then it's like okay, well if you're not talking about a
Genealogy that goes back. Are you just saying if they just live in that land?
Is that what makes them a Jew because then all the Palestinians are Jews in?
So then you'd have to support the Palestinians
Well, no, no because they're Muslim but but wait a minute is Muslim any farther from Christianity than Judaism
No Muslim is is no more unsaved than a Jew is unsaved
At least a Muslim says that Jesus was a prophet. That's a step, you know, I mean that's not enough to get you to heaven
It's not enough to get you saved. You gotta believe he's the Son of God, but at least at least they say he's a prophet
I mean, that's a starting point
Whereas the Jews?
You know teach that all kinds of wickedness about Jesus. They blaspheme Jesus. They hate Jesus
So, you know, they're not even they're not even to first base to getting saved. They're not even close. All right
And then it's like well is it is it living in the land is oh, it's the religion
So basically you join a false Christ rejecting religion and that's how you become God's people
So you're a black guy like Sammy Davis jr. You're a white guy
Like, you know whoever and and you join this false religion and that's how you but well
What if I want to be God's chosen people do I have to go join a false religion? Oh
So if I deny Christ and go join the religion then I get to be one of those people
Yeah, but then you don't go to heaven. So it's like
Do I want to be one of the chosen ones?
Live a charmed life or do I want to go to heaven?
Well, guess what? I can have both
Because the Bible said if I believe on Christ all blessings
Are available unto me
You know, so so anyway, I'm just you know
The reason I spent a little time on that is just just to illustrate to you just how foolish and ridiculous
This teaching is that you can reject Jesus and you're still the temple of the Lord
You're still God's people you're still under his blessing
It's it's madness and folly and you know what a lot of people are waking up to it, frankly
You know, we've been sending out the marching design film
We sent it out. We sent a copy of it to every independent fundamental Baptist pastor in America. Did you know that?
Over 6,000 churches we sent a copy of March tonight, and I'm constantly getting emails and people saying that
Our church got this film and now our church is teaching that the Jews are not God's people and that they and they've changed on
I've gotten multiple messages brother Baker. You got you saw some of those messages right multiple messages of hey
This was taught in my Sunday school class or hey, I'm a pastor and I'm teaching this now
and your video really opened our eyes and we're experiencing revival now and and and our church is really doing great and we really
Appreciate we just want to thank you for that film. Why because that film is
irrefutable
No one can even begin to refute it. It's right. It's all right there. It's ironclad and
You know, once you see the truth on this you're you know, I'll tell you this. I
first figured this out back in
2006 is when I
Realized wait a minute, you know, I've been wrong about Israel, you know, I've been wrong about the Jews
I've been taught this my whole life
but it's just not true and I realized that around the summer of
2006 and I'd already been pastoring for six months and I hadn't really preached about it one way or the other
it just it was not a big emphasis of mine, but I was preaching one time about six months into into this church and
Something started to come out of my mouth about the Jews or Israel and as it was starting to come out of my mouth
I just thought is this really true or am I just repeating this what I've heard and then I went home and
Studied it and and but you know, I'll tell you what I'll tell you my reaction once I studied this subject and
And I knew the Bible when I started the church. I mean I'd read the Bible 24 times cover to cover
I'd memorized over a hundred chapters of the Bible of the New Testament even and I remember just
When I saw this how the Jews aren't God's chosen people how they how God has taken that away from them and
Given that unto believers in the New Testament
My thought was just like how could I have ever?
Been wrong on this, you know, I felt kind of dumb like well good night
Like how could I have read the Bible so many times?
I've read you know, I'm looking at chapters that I'd memorized and I'm thinking I memorized this I mean
Those of you who've memorized a full chapter
For example, those of you who just memorized Daniel chapter 12. It's a lot of work, isn't it?
I mean, it's it takes a long time. How many times would you guess?
Who who's done with who's done with Daniel 12 put up your hand?
Who's done with it? Okay, how many times you think?
You read it and or quoted it or repeated each phrase of that in order to memorize the whole chapter
I mean, what do you think?
If you did it in 20 then you are a genius
Because if I read through that 20 times, I wouldn't have it memorized
Not even good Garrett said 500
Okay, and I would say it has to be
Several hundred times each phrase each verse is repeated at least me
Maybe I'm an idiot but it take it took me several hundred times
You know people think I have some magical gift for memorizing scripture
No, it's called just repeat it hundreds of times
It's just though though the hard way just the old-fashioned way. I don't really have any tricks nothing up the sleeve here. So honestly
In order to have learned Daniel 12, you know, except for the few geniuses among us
In order to learn Daniel 12 you went through it
Hundreds of times and I don't know about you
But when I memorized Daniel chapter 12 a whole bunch of things jumped out at me that I'd never thought of
Or never seen I mean all kinds of things are popping out at you
You're like, whoa, because when you really just go over it hundreds of times, I mean
You notice everything, right?
You have plenty of time to think about each verse as you're learning it. Okay, and
I
looked at passages that I'd known for years that I could quote up one side and down the other and just thought like
How could I have not seen?
I
What this is saying
You know Romans 2 28 and 29. I mean just Romans 9
Just the beginning of Romans 11. I mean just so many things
I'm just like what in the world was I thinking when I read it and quoted and learn this and
I felt just like an idiot like what in the world?
How could I fall for this because that's how clear it is in Scripture, you know, and that's why
There's a real strong agenda in the media and in churches to basically keep people from talking about this and it you know
There's a lot of opposition when you come out with a movie like marching design or when you
When you try to speak out about this, I mean you're not gonna be on TV unless it's you know
Can you believe this horrible racist anti-semite or whatever? They're gonna call you
Even though I don't have a racist bone in my body
But they come at you with all these threats and intimidation and they hold little press conferences in the city of Tempe about how
bad your church is and
I mean they had a they had a little they had a press conference where a
transvestite got up and spoke about how bad our churches and
Ramon Ventura was down there and he filmed the press conference and he's like, oh I filmed that press conference
I get ten minutes into it and all of a sudden this woman walks up to the podium and starts talking with a man's voice
Whoa
what in the world and
They had that the congressman our congressman stood in front of the door of our church building
With a camera crew from the media saying this guy needs to stop
And he's saying all those hateful things and it's gotta stop and blah blah blah, you know, you know his name happens to be Shapiro
hmm
But anyway, our representative Shapiro he is out there
You know railing on our church and they had a big press conference where they got all the leaders together
What are we gonna do about this guy, you know, pastor Anderson why it was all because
We were in production of marching design. That's what it was all about
Just this horrible film and everything, you know, they want to
scare people where they don't want to watch it or they're afraid to watch it or they you know, they don't want to talk about
it and
because they're gonna call you all these names and everything like that because of the fact that they know that a
Somebody watches that video and has a brain in their head
They're gonna walk away saying these aren't God's people
at all
You know, that's true
Nobody I mean I defy anyone to watch anyone who's saved and has an IQ in the triple digits
you know, I
To watch that film and then walk. I still think they're God's people. I
Still think they're praying to Jehovah God, I mean you're nuts if you think that that's not what it you know
But anyway, I went a little too far off on that. Let's get back to the chapter here
But it is what the first half of the chapters about so it was worth talking about
But look what he says in verse 16 says therefore pray not thou for this people
Neither lift up cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee now
Here's the thing sometimes when you're reading the Bible you run into scriptures that seem to contradict each other, right?
But and if you would keep your finger here and go to 1st Timothy chapter 2 now
I believe that there are no contradictions in the Bible because I believe that the Bible is a perfect book
And I believe that any time we see something that looks like a contradiction. It's just that we're not understanding
What's being said and so we think it's contradiction for example, the Bible says in one gospel
You know that Jesus crucified at this hour and in another gospel
It's another hour and in one gospel at the 12th hour
He's on the you know, he's on the cross and then over here. It's it's the sixth hour and what you know, and you're looking at it
and
And and you're confused about this. Okay, and it seems like a contradiction
You know when you compare John with Matthew Mark and Luke, but but then you realize oh
It's just that you're not understanding that John is on a different clock
John is on the world's clock that starts at midnight and
Matthew Mark and Luke are on the Jewish clock which starts at 6 a.m
So, you know when you're starting at 6 a.m. The sixth hour is noon
But in in the world's system, that'd be for us the 12th hour 12 o'clock, you know
So you realize that it's two different books written by two different authors both inspired by God both geared toward two different audiences
So they look at things in a different way. Okay, but there is no contradiction. It's just two different
Ways you reckon time or for example the Bible will say, you know answer not a fool according to his folly lest
thou be like unto him and
To answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceits
And those are back-to-back verses right next to each other
But what's he saying there? Well, I believe what's being said there is just you can't win when you're dealing with fools
Because if you answer them you end up being like them in
People's sight that is and if you don't answer them they walk away wise there. No one can refute me
You know, so it's like, you know, you can't win
Or other people have said that their interpretation of that verse is that hey there's situations where you should answer in situations
Where you shouldn't answer, you know, which I think that's a valid interpretation
Also, my interpretation is that it's just telling you you can't win with these people
Just pick your poison, you know, but you're gonna lose
You want to look like an idiot or do you want them to go away and wise in their own conceit you pick? Okay
So basically, you know, there are all kinds of things in the Bible that could appear to be a contradiction
but what you have to do is
Synthesize these two things what I mean by that is that you basically understand how they both can be true
How they can both be true
Because if they're not both true then something's wrong with your Bible and we know that there's nothing wrong with the Bible
That's our starting point is we have faith in the Bible
so these things need to be brought into harmony or we are understanding them wrong and if there's
Disharmony and contradiction we have our wires crossed somewhere and it like for example over here
It says that Jesus rose again on the third day on the third day and then over here
it says he's going to be dead for three days and three nights and
And a lot of people think oh that's a contradiction but again
It's the reader that has a misunderstanding because when the Bible says on the third day, he doesn't mean what we mean
He means after three days and and you can prove that from the Bible because for example Esther she basically says
You know fast for three days and then on the third day
She's gonna go into the king what meaning after three days and then for example Elijah
After
Three and a half years. He goes and presents himself to a app but in the Old Testament it's portrayed as in the third year
Even though it's three years and six months. So from a biblical reckoning three years and six months is in the third year
Whereas we would think of it in America as in the fourth year
okay, so for example in
America when we go to a building the first floor is the one that's on the ground, right?
And if we go upstairs, we're on the second floor
But in Germany you walk into a building you go upstairs to the next level and that's called the first floor
What in the world?
How can this be the first floor when it's not the first one, you know, but it's because that's the way they did it
Well, that's the ground floor and then the first floor so think about it what they call
The third floor is our fourth floor
Are they wrong?
Are we wrong? No, so basically when the Bible says on the third day
You're misunderstanding that on the third day means basically the day after we're done with three days
That next day is the third day because they're not counting the the day that they're on
The first day is tomorrow then the second then the third sort of like the building floors
So look what the Bible says here in 1st Timothy chapter 2
The Bible says in verse 1 I exhort therefore that first of all
Supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men
for Kings and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty for this is
Good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior who will have all men to be saved and to come into the knowledge of
The truth so in this scripture here, he's telling us to pray for everybody. Isn't that what it says pray for all men?
Kings all that are in authority so we can lead a quiet and peaceable life
But then over in Jeremiah 7 and this isn't the only place but in Jeremiah 7 16
It says therefore pray not thou for this people
Neither lift up prayer and cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee
But then over in 1st Timothy said Oh prayers and intercessions should be made for all men
Now here's what most people do when when faced with these type of contradictions quote unquote
They'll just pick the one that they like and ignore the other one
Pick the one I like ignore the one I don't like
So they usually pick the one that's more positive and throw out the one that's more negative
Like for example, the Bible says for God so loved the world
Which that'd be everybody right the world but then over here it says
You know that God hates certain people and I will love them no more. I hated them
Now what people will do often is just pick the one that they like
Okay, or number two. Here's what they'll do
They'll just throw out the Old Testament and just take whatever is New Testament and throw out the Old Testament
With no rhyme or reason or explanation why?
It would be any different now are there some things that are different in the New Testament
Yeah, but there's most things are the same a lot of things are the same
Okay, otherwise, why are we even preaching through the book of Jeremiah?
I mean, why do you even go to a church where we spend you know?
An hour going through each chapter of Jeremiah because all scripture is profitable for doctrine. That's why and
There's nothing in the New Testament that would say oh, well, this has changed
Okay, see here's what's really going on
Here's a real understanding because even and here's and here's what's foolish about saying
well
Jeremiah's in the Old Testament throw it out because we could find New Testament scriptures of praying against people
How about Romans 11, you know, for example and there are places throughout Scripture in the New Testament that would back up these concepts
Of the Old Testament, so the bottom line is when we run into two scriptures that seem to contradict each other
We need to bring them into harmony. How can they both be true?
How can God so loved the world but yet over here it talks about God not loving people anymore and hating them
Well, here's why because it doesn't say God loves the world
says God loved
The world and the truth of the matter is that God loves everybody at some point in their life
God
Loves everybody. Yeah, but here's the thing. He doesn't continue loving people for all eternity that reject him
You understand what I'm saying? So yeah, God so loved the world every single person
Who's born on this earth and is a little baby and a little child is growing up. God loves that person
But then the Bible also teaches that you can get to a point
Where God doesn't love you anymore and where God actually hates you
But here's the thing if you're a believer in Christ that would never happen because once you're saved
The Bible says nothing can separate us from the love of Christ
Once we're saved. He said he'll never leave us nor forsake us and that nothing can separate from the love of Christ
But let me ask you this, is that promise made unto unbelievers that nothing can separate them from the love of Christ?
No, there is a way where they could push things too far and become what the Bible calls reprobate and
And here's the thing you'd have to ignore a whole bunch of scripture and
Just say well, I'm just gonna pick the positive only in order to deny that that's what the Bible says
Now it's the same thing in this situation
these two ideas need to be brought into harmony and the answer is very clear because here in
Jeremiah chapter 7 verse 16. He says therefore pray not thou for this people
Neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee but then just a few chapters later
He makes the exact statement same statement, but he adds something
He says therefore pray not thou for this people for their good
So when he says don't pray for them and don't make intercession for them he's saying don't pray for God to bless them
Don't make intercession for them in the sense of on their behalf
Because he says don't pray for them for their good
So by comparing scripture with scripture in Jeremiah, we see two statements that are identical except one of them
Just adds don't pray for them for their good a clarification of what he meant. Does everybody understand? So when we're in
Romans chapter 11, for example
And you don't have to turn that you can stay in 1st Timothy 2
but then it says in
Romans chapter 11 in
Verse 2 God hath not cast away its people which he foreknew
What ye not what the scriptures saith of Elias watch this how he maketh intercession to God against Israel
Saying Lord, they've digged down thine altars and so forth. So that's an example of
Elijah making intercession
For Israel for their good
No, he's making intercession against Israel
he's praying against Israel and here's the if we go to Psalms we get in a lot of examples of the prayers of David and
In the prayers of David there are 19 of them
Where he is specifically praying against people and praying doom upon them
Okay. Now obviously we're not supposed to pray doom on our enemies
We're supposed to love our enemies meaning people who personally do us wrong
People who we have an in for but the Bible does say do not I hate them Oh Lord that hate thee
So again, there are God's enemies there are those who hate the Lord and then there are personal enemies
What do we do with our personal enemies? We love them. We pray for them. We bless them
We try to overcome evil with good. What do we do with the evil reprobate enemies of the Lord haters of God?
You know, we should not pray for their good. We shouldn't pray
Oh God, would you please bless Jack the Ripper Lord?
Would you please let Jack the Ripper be blessed today? I mean with that wasn't that just stupid
That's not what the Bible well love your enemies
But here's the thing and obviously Jack the Ripper's been dead for a long time
But the point is the jet that the Jack the Rippers of today
Should I pray for God to bless them? Is that really what God's saying? And here's the thing
Why is it that first Timothy 2 told us to pray for all men?
Because he said it's his will that all men would be saved
So if a person is past the point of being saved if a person is a reprobate according to Romans 1
Then it wouldn't really make any sense to pray for that person if God's not gonna hear you anyway
That's what he's saying in Jeremiah 7. So there's no contradiction here. It's just two different situations
I exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all that
Are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life and all godliness and honesty
This is not necessarily saying that we should pray for God to bless all Kings and for God to bless all those that are in
authority
No, the prayer is that we would live a quiet and peaceable life and all godliness and honesty
We should pray that God works in our leaders
So that it benefits us as God's people
So that we can lead a quiet and peace of life because think about it
their laws affect us if
They make some law in DC
That raises our taxes through the roof that affects us or if they make a law that says hey you can't preach against
Homosexuality or you can't knock doors and preach the gospel or you can't spank your kids if they make these type of laws
We can't lead a quiet and peaceable life anymore because we're gonna have all these problems
So
Our prayer for our leaders is not just oh god, please just bless that
Faggot II president that we have Obama Lord. Just please just bless him and give him a good day today
Just keep him safe Lord. It's more like, you know, it's more like hey
Let his days be few and let another take his office. I mean, that's a prayer from souls
You
Know
And you know, I thought there was a bumper sticker that I saw a lot of people had out there
it said pray for Obama and
Then it said Psalm
109 verse 8
And you know, let his days be few and let another take his office. See that's a legitimate prayer for a Christian to pray
Because he's not helping us lead a quiet and peaceable life. He's not being a blessing to us
He's not punishing the evildoers he's leading our country
To hell in a handbasket. He's appointed a special LGBT
Ambassador and all these things. He's not helping our country. He's damning our country
Therefore, you know, it wouldn't be wrong to pray Lord. Let his days be few and let another take his office
And in fact, if you prayed for God to bless him you're exhibiting a total lack of understanding of Scripture
When the Bible tells you that look
Some of these people are reprobate
It's when they're going after strange flesh when they're when they when they're attracted to other dudes and that's Obama
Okay, it's it's it's come out
many times about his how
Everyone who went to college with him that's pointing out that he's a homo and and all his different past
Homo lovers have come out and and and then they died mysterious deaths, you know, Larry Sinclair and whoever so, you know
Basically, we have this evil present and people say oh pray for God to bless him
No
I'm gonna pray that he dies, you know and that another person could step in. So anyway
The point is that yeah, we we should pray for our government
That it does what it's supposed to do. That's the prayer. I mean the the prayer is Oh God
Please let the government leave us alone
So we can lead it quite a piece of blood we just want to do what's right God
We just want to be married to our wives and just raise our children
and we just want to go to church and we just want to go soul-willing and we want to serve you God and
Please just don't let these people stop us from doing that
And send us all to prison. Yeah, see that actually makes sense
and
Here's the thing if there are leaders
That actually have
An ounce of decency in their body and actually have some human semblance of a soul left
Then it would make sense to pray for them to be saved
You know, but when they're just already a total reprobate
You know, what's the point at that point? You're wasting your time
He's saying don't pray for people because I'm not gonna hear you, you know
When it's just when it's these total people because remember get the context folks. Look at Jeremiah chapter 7 where we were
And the reason that this preaching goes against the grain with a lot of people is is twofold number one
they have a very simple understanding of Scripture in the sense that
Everything like this is too complicated for them
Like they just want to just it's just real simple. Okay. God just loves everybody just everybody's good
Okay, we just pray for everybody to be blessed. Just bless everybody God bless Charles Manson Lord
You know, just just bless Kim Jong-un or ill or whatever Kim Jong is in there, right? Just bless him Lord
So what if he's torturing and killing people just just help him to have a good bowl of rice today over in North Korea
You know, I mean is that really is that do you do you are you gonna pray for Kim Jong? What's his name?
Kim Jong-un. All right. Yeah. So I mean are you gonna pray for Kim Jong-un to be blessed?
Now what if you're living in North Korea everyone around you starving to death?
Christians are being murdered
There's no Christianity allowed people are being tortured and put in gulags. And then what if somebody's just like man
I'm just gonna pray that that
Short ugly little
You know, whatever
Just that he just slips on a banana peel and falls down the stairs and dies and may he go quickly into hell
I mean, would you really blame those people for praying that hello?
No, just bless him. It's the Christian thing to do
No, the Bible says that if you bless the covetous whom the Lord abhorth, that's a sin
You know, so the Bible says that if you bid Godspeed unto false prophets people who are preaching another gospel
You know besides the gospel of Jesus he says if you bid them Godspeed
Which is a blessing you're partaking of their evil deeds
so people want to take this overly simplistic view of scripture pick the part that they like and
Ignore the part they don't like instead of realizing. Hey, let's bring this into synthesis. Let's bring this into harmony
But they want to have an overly simple
Understanding or number two they want to fit in in this adulterous generation. So they're afraid of being called hateful
So they're being taught that we were supposed to act loving
Toward even the worst possible. Look at the context. Look at Jeremiah 6 verse 30
Reprobate silver shall men call them because the Lord hath rejected them
So these are people that the Lord has rejected and those are the same people where he says pray not for these people
Because they're reprobate. Okay, so it's not that we just pick and choose
It's people that God has given up on and you say well, how are we gonna know that?
Well read Romans 1 and you can see the outward
manifestations of a person who is reprobate and that's a whole nother sermon and I've preached it many times and
So we need to get off this overly simplistic
positive only message and and it's amazing to me how you know, somebody somebody sent me this video and
They said oh man this this Christian pastor just tore up this homo pastor on TV
I mean, he just tore him up
And they have this, you know, the the Christian pastor, okay
Who makes a cameo in marching design by the way on the wrong side of the issue the Christian pastor is?
Just like so nice and loving to this homo pastor. He's like he's calling him pastor
It's like well, well, listen pastor. Let me it's like do you think that I would call some filthy homo pastor?
You know pastor is a is a is a title of respect
You say to someone pastor you're basically
Acknowledging their position. I mean a dirty sodomite and he's called. Well, well pastor
You know, let me ask you this, you know, he's not quoting Scripture. He's not quoting Leviticus 13. He's not quoting Romans 1
He's just trying to logic with this guy
And and honestly, I was just shaking my head and then the the the homo pastor says well, it's not a choice. We're born that way
Right, and then the the the Christian pastor says well, no
It's any activity that we perform, you know in that regard is a choice even at whether we're hetero or homo
It's all a choice and he says no if you're talking about inclinations though. Yeah, that'd be another story
So he basically acknowledges to this guy that people are born with homo inclinations. I don't do do you believe that? I don't believe that. Oh
But he tore him up
No, he admits to the guy that he believes that people are born with or could be born with homo inclinations
You know, that's another sub, you know, yeah, okay, but but doing the acts is a choice
You know actually acting on it
No
the Bible says that the even in their heart the reason that they even burned in lust toward another dude is
Because God gave them over to a reprobate mind. That's what it says in Romans 1
But this guy is just tiptoeing through the tulips with
Pastor, you know and and arguing with them with all man's logic about why they shouldn't get married and and yada yada yada
And whether they should have to bake a cake for them and all this
stupidity
But this is but this is the world that we live in and I and I saw all the comments on the video where people
Say oh you handled that so well because you're so loving
So loving good job. You spoke the truth in love, but here's the thing
We shouldn't express love to filthy haters of the Lord who are blaspheming Christ
I mean think about how think about how wicked a person is
To be a sodomite in the first place number one
But number two to be a filthy homo a filthy sodomite and then to get up and say like I'm a man of God. I
represent Jesus Christ
I'm coming to you and teaching you in the name of Jesus
I mean think I mean think about how people in the Bible reacted to this kind of stuff think about how Paul and Peter and
James and John and all the Old Testament prophets reacted to people who did things that were far less offensive to that than that. I
Mean, what about when the king of Israel comes in to talk to Elisha and Elisha says, you know what?
I have no respect for you. And if it weren't for the king of Judah being here, I wouldn't even look at you
That's
What he said
You know, I mean in the Bible they they broke down the houses of the sodomites just for being too close to God's house
And now it's like oh bring in the sodomites into God's house. So it's just people have taken an overly simplistic
view of the Bible and they just they just want to hear no evil see no evil as
Our country goes to hell in a handbasket because the homo agenda is all out and proud and
We're like cowering in fear
Well, well pastor, you know instead of actually letting it rip
And here's the thing. I have zero I have zero regard for whether what I say is politically correct
It means nothing to me
I mean if the Bible says that they're filthy if the Bible says they're reprobate if the Bible says that they're haters of God
And that we should hate those who hate the Lord and the Bible says shouldest thou help the ungodly or love them that hate
The Lord therefore is wrath upon thee from the Lord thy God because you love them that hate the Lord
He said well am I supposed to ignore that scripture?
or shall I not
Read the whole scripture and and obey the whole scripture. So we as a nation
Have become dumbed down on our spiritual knowledge. We need to get back to reading the whole Bible. We need to read Jeremiah
We need to read all the books of the Bible
That we might have a complete view of Scripture and not a one-sided view
So this is a great opportunity in Jeremiah 7 16 where we see something that a lot of Christians have never heard
Where he says therefore pray not thou for this people neither lift up cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession me for I will
Not hear the understanding that we do not pray for God to bless every person in this world
And that that is actually false and and you know
You can study and and read the examples and figure out the difference between the two, but it's there
You can't just cross this verse out of your Bible like it doesn't exist
It's there and it has meaning and it needs to be taught in church
Or else we're not teaching all the doctrine
And well God was wrong back then or God was mean back then but now he's nice
He's always been mean and he's always been nice. It just depends on which side of his
His
Character you're on I mean, he's mean to people that are mean and he's nice to people that are nice to him
You know, it's that simple. So
You know, I got it. I got to hurry up. I'm totally I'm already totally out of time
So I'll just kind of explain to you briefly what the rest of the chapters about a lot of it is, you know, very similar
To what we've seen in other chapters and we did read the whole chapter at the beginning
But he basically just talks about the fact that the children of Judah are living in sin
They've gone backward their backslidden. They're provoking him to anger
He tells them your animal sacrifices aren't making me happy. You need to get your heart, right?
You need to do the right thing and keep my commandments then I'll even care about your sacrifice and then you know
I like those two words at the end of verse 21 eat flesh
That's a motto that I have I'm not a vegan and then in verse 29
Cut off fine harrow Jerusalem and cast it away. What's he saying there?
He's he's talking about in the Bible when people would be mourning they would shave their heads and rend their garment
He said you ought to be weeping you ought to be mourning if you knew the bad things that are about to happen to you
you'd be crying and
Then he talks about in verse 31 how they're sacrificing their sons and daughters to devils
They're actually murdering their own children we talked about that last week as well and
Then he talks about how they are going to be murdered as a result, you know because they murdered babies
Because they made their sons and daughters pass through the fire
He says you will be slaughtered as a result
The Babylonians are gonna come slaughter you because you slaughtered the unborn and or the newborn in that case
But you know what slaughtering the newborn and the unborn is the same thing. This is murder and and if God
Slaughtered them for murdering their unborn or
Newborn then God's gonna slaughter and there's gonna be a slaughter someday in the United States where God's gonna require all the innocent blood
That's been shed. That's a New Testament Old Testament concept
I mean the Lord is the same in both Testaments same God. He has the same character
Let's bar rides and have a word of prayer Lord
We thank you for the book of Jeremiah Lord because if we only had a New Testament in our hand our knowledge
Of you would be incomplete Lord. And so thank you for giving us these important books all
66 of them Lord help us to read every single one of them and help us never to just scoff at or ignore a verse
And just say oh well that you know, let's just negate that Lord help us to understand what that verse means why it's there and
Help us to understand that
although
Although Lord you love everyone
When they're born when they're a child as they're growing up and and many people their entire lives Lord
I hope us understand that there are some people
That get to a point where they're they're past that Lord and and where there there's hatred and wrath upon them Lord help us to
Study to show ourselves approved Lord and not take an overly simplistic view of your word because we're living in perilous times
Lord and these these dangerous people with their dangerous agendas are trying to creep into our churches and
They they creep in as preachers and as teachers of the Bible Lord and inwardly they are ravening wolves help us
To stay by the stuff Lord and not be deceived and and help us to keep our church safe and our children safe from these
Deceptions and wickedness and in Jesus name we pray amen