so what are these health inspectors anyway we're saving these two seats if they turn up they can
sit right the front what's going on new south wiles health this is what happens when you work
for the government all right and they're never on time they never get the job done right i mean
they're just just frustrating to deal with sometimes these government departments what's
that they'll be in six months that's that's what happens with the government departments okay
getting donuts i don't think they're cops coming
all right uh jeremiah chapter 8 verse number 13 uh if you have a look at that verse it says i
will surely consume them sayeth the lord the title for the sermon this morning is i will
surely consume them could you imagine the lord saying that about us don't forget you know as
we're reading from jeremiah yes we are looking at a wicked nation but don't forget that the people
the jews the people of israel this time were god's people now they aren't god's people today in the
new testament but in the old testament they were still god's people all right and god is telling
his people that i will surely consume them another way of saying that is i will surely destroy you
okay and these are coming from the words of god and of course jeremiah as i've said many times
is quite a negative book and if you were paying attention there toward the end jeremiah is
feeling that you know jeremiah is really uh you know upset and concerned for his nation you know
even though he's the one preaching these things at the same time he's not like yeah just just burn
down you know this wicked nation just burn and and just just become destroyed he's really worried
about it you see uh later as we go through this chapter just how concerned jeremiah becomes but
let's start there in verse number one jeremiah chapter eight verse number one at that time saith
the lord they that the day he are the babylonians so when the babylonians come in they shall bring
out the bones of the kings of judah and the bones of his princes and the bones of the priests and
the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of jerusalem out of their graves
what was telling us here babylonians are going to come in and they're going to go to the graveyard
and basically dig up the graves they're going to open open up you know and take out the bones
take out these dead bodies you know you know if you go to a grave site i'm sure there are many
bones but also there'll be people that have recently died there's going to be decomposing
flesh i mean get this idea in your head you know it's not just ransacking ransacking a city not
just burning down a city but they're going to defile the land you know normally when you think
about a place a grave you know you think of a place where where people go and pay their respects
for those that have gone before the generation that have gone before you know you give people
a burial you know to respect their body to respect their legacy as i said it's a place
where you can go and think about you know maybe a loved one that has gone before and look these
are kings these are princes these are these are prophets of the past so i'm sure many of these
bodies are people that served god faithfully all right and so there's a there's a legacy there
when the israelites look at their grave they say man look at the great prophets we had look at the
great kings we had the babylonians going to come and defile it's like you think that's great
you think your past is great we're just going to dig up the graves we just let the bodies
decompose there on on the land all right and look at verse number two it says and they shall spread
them that spread the bodies before the sun and the moon and all the hosts of heaven so the sun
and the moon it's going to like cause the sun's going to decompose think about the stench right
of these heat on these dead bodies and all the hosts of heaven you know that's the stars and so
so the babylonians would worship the sun the moon the stars whom they have loved so they've loved
those things and whom they have served and after whom they have walked and whom they have sought
and whom they have worshiped so they were again they worship the sun moon and stars
they shall not be gathered nor be buried for they shall be for done upon the face of the earth
so these these bodies are just going to be done they're going to decompose on the land
and it's kind of this idea that you know the jews in these days they would glory in their
historical past as i said to you they would glory in their in their in their profits they would
glory in their kings they would glory in the past say look what great nation we were in the past
with the babylonians they glory or they worship the sun moon and stars and it's kind of like
you're defiling the history of judah uh to appease your sun god and your moon god and
your stars and it's kind of shown hey you know the things we worship have a greater priority
over these things that are going to be smelling and decomposing so what we get out of that breath
and a lesson that we can definitely get out of this is that we should not rely on past victories
you know we should never be a church that says well you know we've gone over two years now you
know yeah you know two years ago we did great works as a church you know two years ago we had
this many people saved you know two years you know you know thinking about the past and thinking
about the great days hey you know we're an independent fundamental baptist church you know
it's it's not good to get stuck oh man you know the the baptist of the past and the 40s and the
50s the great missionary works why are we doing those kinds of things look forget the past the
past is great the past is a great place to to be a stepping stone for the future but the jews here
they were just fixed on the past they'll fix how god had served them how god had uh you know uh
you know pulled you know got him out of the land of egypt how god had saw them uh uh sorry helped
them through many victories and they're relying on that rather than thinking about the future
rather than thinking hey what can we do from this day forward you know great the generations of the
past are great hey but what can we do today what can we do tomorrow keep your finger there let's
go to matthew chapter three let's go to matthew chapter three the past is good brethren but let's
not live in the past okay let's look to the future and here's the the problem with the jews in these
days they were stuck in the past you know and god was basically allowing the babylonians to just dig
up your past and defile your past it means nothing because you're not serving me today
all right in matthew chapter three verse number nine these are the words of john the baptist
he says to the jews of those days and think not to say within yourselves we have abraham to our
father for i say to you that god is able of these stones to raise up children unto abraham and so
once again you see that the jews in this time they thought well we're descendants of abraham
we're god's chosen people isn't that what they say today isn't that what they say today well
we're children of abraham you know and god you know made all these promises to abraham
and we deserve all those promises as well you know we're the special people of god
listen stop living in the past the reason why you know your land is so messed up the reason why
you know your religion is a false religion that doesn't worship the true god is because they're
still living in the past and they're not ready to receive christ as savior and move on with their
lives we can't become like that brethren we can't become like that okay because if we just live in
the past expect god to come in and allow his judgment to fall and for the past to be ripped
up and you're left with nothing all right and so what i what i get out of this especially for my
children because you know my children are growing up as pastor's children's right pastor's kids
and boy how many times have i seen pastor's kids be like the worst kids in the church i mean i
don't know can anyone testify of that you know these are the pastor's kids and like the worst
kids the most disobedient kids right they get they get into and here's the thing they might
say well we have abraham to our father hey our dad's a pastor so what so what right you're still
children you still have foolishness bound up in the heart you know heart of a child you can still
the sure things you know god's not impressed that your father's a pastor god's impressed if you
serve god god's impressed if you get you know uh you know submit yourself to the will of god
and follow after god's ways you can't just rely on the past you can't just say well i grew up in
a christian home oh i came from generations of christians you know my father was faithfully
serving the church yeah but are you serving the church oh i used to be you know i used to be in
the church uh i i used to be the sunday school teacher i used to sing in the church choir okay
that's great that's the past but what are you doing today for the lord that's what matters
you know god god i'm going to reward you for the past don't worry about that okay but you still
have many days you have still have many years to serve god what are you doing with your time today
so that's the lesson we can get out of this the jews were not serving god today they were relying
on the past thinking well god's come through in the past before he's going to come through for
us again it's not going to happen right let's go back to jeremiah chapter eight verse number three
jeremiah chapter eight and verse number three
and death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil
family which remain in all the places whither i have driven them saith the lord what it's saying
here after the destruction and the captivity people are going to wish they died instead of
instead of living and being taken into captivity and being dispersed on the land people are just
going to be like i wish i just died when the babylonians came okay i mean that's the kind
of destruction you're going to think of right just the defiling of the land verse number four
moreover thou shall say to them thus saith the lord they shall fall sorry shall they fall and
not arise shall he turn away and not return god is saying look again you know don't forget
the captivity the babylons come at the end of the chat at the end of this book chapter 52 of
jeremiah we're still in the early days we're still in jeremiah chapter 8 even though all
this destruction is being prophesied of god is still telling them there's still time there's
still time before you become this rejected nation that's going to be in babylonian captivity for
some 70 years there's still time and he's saying look it says look it's you know god's asking just
a very basic common question shall they fall and not arise he's saying look when you fall down
don't you just get back up normally like if you're walking and you trip and you fall
are you just going to stay full are you going to stay in that state where you have fallen
and look judah had fallen they had fallen in the eyes of god and god's saying look are you
going to just stay in this same position aren't you going to get up listen little babies know
they get up when they fall right little baby little toddlers that are learning to walk i'm
sure you've all seen them when they start to they get up on their legs they're holding on eventually
they let go and they start taking their steps listen they fall time and time again sometimes
they even hurt themselves but listen if they don't get back up they're never going to walk are they
you know if they just fall once say well this is too hard i'm going to just stay in a state of on
the floor you know they're not going to grow they're not going to develop not common sense
tells us when we fall we get back up but judah had got to a point where they were so fallen from god
and they were not getting up they were not you know coming back to the lord and god's saying
look can't you do this don't you understand this is a basic concept and in you know problems 24
verse 16 i'll just read it to you it says for a just man full of seven times a just man you know
a just man is someone that is justified before before god this is a righteous man this is someone
that serves god you know you can fall seven times you know you can we will continue to fall we will
continue to sin we're going to continue to make mistakes in our life but when we make those
mistakes it says for a just man full of seven time and rise up again that's what a just man does
when you fall you get back up it says but the wicked shall fall into mischief so when the
wicked fall okay when they get into a bad state when they commit wicked things they're going to
stay in that wickedness okay but the just man our job reverend is to get back up you know dust the
dust the you know the dirt off our feet right get back up and just serve god judah was not doing
this and here's the danger verse number five the danger there in jeremiah 8 verse number five is
this why then is this people of jerusalem slid them back now stop there for a moment slid them
back what do you get what's your idea there backsliding yeah backsliding okay and we know
that as christians we can backslide all right now i already preached on backsliding before
but there's a real danger if you get to a place of backsliding if you don't get back up okay if you
don't if you don't you know fix yourself you'll continue to backslide okay and think about think
about a slide you know when you go down a slide you know i try not to go down slides too much now
because i'm a lot heavier than i was before but you know you go down a slide you know it's a quick
descent right it's a quick descent but here's the thing about a slide once you get off a slide
you're done and you can get back on the slide and have fun go up the slide again well when it comes
to backsliding the the real danger is i'll just read verse number five again it says here why then
is this people jerusalem slid them back by a perpetual backsliding what does perpetual mean
continuous it continues it never ends what god is saying here is if you get to a point where
you're backslidden as a christian you've got time to get back up but if you keep sliding down there
comes a time when it's a perpetual backsliding you just cannot get back up right you slide you
backslide god's saying hey get back up get back up and get back up you're like no i'm not going
to go to church no i'm going to stop reading my bible no i'm not going to pray i'm not going to
pray at some point boom even as a christian you can just be completely out of the will of god
and god's done with you it's a perpetual backsliding you can't get back up you're
no longer are used to god is what i'm trying to say so you don't want to get to that point where
you just fall off the cliff you know if you're backsliding let that be a warning to you and say
i don't want to get to that point where it becomes perpetual right just i can't get back up you know
and if you're in a backslidden state listen just just open up the bible confess your sins to god
go and say sorry get back in church start reading your bible again start praying start going soul
winning again hey just start serving god again and he'll get you back up where you used to be
he'll help you get back where you are right but judah here perpetual backsliding it says here they
hold fast deceit verse number five they refuse to return i hearkened and heard but they spake not
aright no man repented of his wickedness they're doing wicked they don't repent they don't say
sorry to god saying what have i done they're saying what what what wickedness i mean that's
we talked about a reprobate now these aren't you know we know this became a reprobate nation
again a lot of these people are that they are the people of god as far as the old covenant goes
some are saved many are not saved okay but you get to a point where you know even when you're
doing wickedness you know you get so used to your sin so used to your wicked behavior and you're
like what have i done well it's all good right i mean you know a pastor might get behind the
pulpit a preacher might get behind the pulpit and preach against your sin and you're like well it
doesn't bother me you know that's that's the danger of being backslidden you don't you you
start forgetting the laws of god you start forgetting what is right and wrong so we have
to be careful right what have i done everyone turned to his course as the horse rushed into
into battle all right can you please go to matthew chapter five for me matthew chapter five
and again this is probably not a teaching that is commonly heard in your average church
but as i said to you even a christian can get to a point where they backslide so much that they
literally fall off the cliff never to get back up again no use to god ever again okay now they're
saved they go into heaven praise god you can't lose your salvation i don't want to give you
that idea but i'm just saying the service that you can do for god on this earth is over because
you're that backslidden matthew chapter 5 verse number 13 matthew 5 13 reads ye are the salt
of the earth now what do we use salt for normally for cooking right for flavor bring out the flavors
maybe for my mom used to put salt on mosquito bites i get mosquito bites i get they get itchy
and put a bit of salt there you know to help you overcome the itchiness right and kills any kind
of germs and stuff like that hey salt has a lot of you know preservatives but so it has a lot of use
and you know what we are the sort of the earth god has a lot of use for us you know we ought to
we ought to be you know people that preserve this nation we ought to be people that add a
bit of flavor to this to this wicked world right uh and uh sometimes salt can be irritating though
right ever you know if you ever jumped in in uh in the ocean had a bit of swim you get that
salt water in your eyes uh you know your eyes go red it's a bit irritating sometimes christians
can be a bit irritating to the world so be it that's what salt does right all right you're
the sort of the earth but look at this but if the salts have lost his savor wherewith shall it be
salted it is henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden underfoot of men
boy if you lose your savor if you lose your saltiness brethren what did it say there it
says where wherewith shall it be salted it can't be salted again okay it is henceforth good for
nothing boy if you get to that point of a perpetual backsliding but god's telling us
you are good for nothing like you're walking the earth you know you're christian you're going to
heaven but you're not able to do anything for god you're not useful to god anymore what a scary place
to be as a christian all right like no more rewards in heaven you're not going to do anything
you know i don't know how much god's going to protect you in that case you know you're good
for that look to be cast out and to be trodden on the foot of men that's what you're good for
just to be stepped on all right please go to john chapter 15
john chapter 15 verse number four john chapter 15 and verse number four
brethren just get into the habit please get into the habit of just confessing your sins
every single day just just get into the habit you sin every day i sin every day just get into
the habit every day lord please forgive me for my sins name your sins name the wrong don't be
or what have i done don't be like that say lord i've done these things i'm probably going to do
them tomorrow because i'm a wicked man can you help me lord i'm sorry lord i'm you know i've got
this sinful flesh with me but lord i don't want to get to that point where i'm perpetually
backsliding at least if i come before you and confess my sins at least i know for that brief
moment lord that i'm walking with you for that brief moment i know that my sins have been forgiven
and we can have fellowship lord you know can you please help me so i don't get to that point where
i just perpetually backslide you know but if you don't confess your sins brethren you know and you
walk away from the lord who knows what could happen to you john chapter 15 verse 4 john
chapter 15 verse 4 jesus says abide in me and i in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself
except it abide in the vine no more can ye accept ye abide in me so jesus saying look abide in me
stay with me stay in fellowship with me verse number five i am the vine ye are the branches
he that abideth in me and i in him the same bring forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing
brethren we had a few souls saved yesterday you know we're able to bring forth some fruits
yesterday you know why because those soul winners that went out were abiding in christ praise god
all right hey yeah nothing wrong we can throw in the fruit of the spirit here if you want
the more you abide in christ the more the holy spirit can work in your life and you can be
more christ-like absolutely but we need to abide in christ we need to stay in fellowship with jesus
christ right verse but look at verse number six if a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch
and is withered you think well maybe this branch can be saved no and men gather them and cast them
into the fire and they are burned okay so if you're a gardener and you you know you're trying
to grow this tree and you notice like this tree is there the branches are withered what are you
going to do you need that room for something that is fruitful you're going to you know break those
those branches you're going to cut down that tree whatever it is you're going to throw it into the
fire you're going to burn it up right and it's going to be useful no good for nothing you know
god will replace you with somebody else that can be fruitful and again i'm not talking about
salvation here just because it says burn with fire is not saying you're going to go to hell
okay these are illustrations do we build our doctrines on illustrations alone
absolutely not okay that's what i'm teaching the men on fridays you know that i've seen people take
this passage and say we can lose your salvation if you lose yourself you're going to go to hell
if you don't abide in christ it becomes a workspace you know uh gospel anyway you got
to be careful with those kinds of illustrations but you see here that christians can get to a
point in time where they are no longer fruitful for god they are no longer salty they've lost
the saltiness you're better off you're no good for nothing except to be burnt like a like a
like a branch okay that's a scary thought i don't want anybody in this church to get to that point
you know i would be so saddened if anybody in this church got to a point where they were no
longer any use to god and they're still walking this earth it's amazing back to jeremiah chapter
eight verse number seven jeremiah chapter eight and verse number seven
we're going to read a whole bunch of birds here it says yea the stork
in the heaven knoweth her appointed times what we're looking at here the point of times
you know how birds tend to migrate you know they kind of know the seasons and the weather
and they know to uh you know to reproduce and uh to find food they have to migrate sometimes
north and south things like that but that's what this is about okay yea the stork in the
heaven knoweth her appointed times and the turtle it says turtle they're talking about the turtle
dove not not the you know what is a turtle it's a reptile right it's a reptile it's not that not
that kind of turtle but the turtle dove and it says and the crane and the swallow observe the
time of their coming but my people know not the judgment of the lord okay so what this is teaching
us is you know birds know as i said when to migrate there's something instinctive in a bird
to know when they have to travel right and uh you know even when springtime comes something
instinctive in birds you often see birds gathering uh twigs and sticks because they're they're ready
to nest right they've got this instinct in them they know when the time is right right and so
look even even dumb animals know when the time is when the time is you know for them to act and for
them to move and when them to perform and do their duties but it says but my people know if
not the judgment of the lord so he's saying look out god's people doesn't even know when god's
judgment is falling upon them and i've had to meditate on this passage quite a lot you know
thinking about jeremiah thinking about babylon thinking about our restrictions think that covid
19 and uh you know i've come to just my my own understanding this whole thing to me is the
judgment of god on this wicked world i how much more wicked can this world get honestly
how much more wicked can our nation get and expect god's judgment not to fall upon us
now what whatever your thoughts are on covid 19 let's say it is a pestilence a legitimate pestilence
i know it's real i know that's real i don't know how how real as far as the media portrays it to
be it's definitely real right and we know that god sends pestilences as his judgment okay we
definitely see that multiple times in the bible but even if you don't believe it's necessarily
you know it's blown out of proportion i think it's blown out of proportion but even seen how
the governments in this world right even the fact that we're going to be inspected by new
sapphire's health okay by by the powers that be in this world right this can also be a judgment
of god this can also be a judgment that falls upon uh god's people or the nations that are
under god because again we see that it's the babylonians coming right the babylonians are
coming and doing despicable things they're doing crazy things digging up dead bodies out of graves
i mean how how crazy can you get i mean but god is sending the babylonians
and so i've had to sort of think about this a little bit think about what is the judgment of
god you know i don't want to be someone where god will say pastor kevin don't you know god's
judgment has fallen don't you know hey even the birds know even they have an instinct even they
understand when it's time to migrate and to nest etc now you know i've been brought to think about
this right you know god's judgment what is god's judgment like and you know what jeremiah is a
faithful man jeremiah is the prophet of god hey there are other prophets of god during this time
doing great things there are i'm sure there are other priests in the temple that want to serve
god properly but there's corruption lord in the house of god there's corruption in the government
i'm sure there are great people of god in this land but listen as far as the nation goes it's
been rejected by god god said in his judgment and unfortunately sometimes god's people are going to
get caught in the middle of it now we expect god to look after these people you know what else you
know when the babylon's come we know the story of that of daniel you know daniel's such a great man
a lot of people love preaching about daniel god gave daniel so much wisdom so much knowledge
we know the story of shadrach meshach and abednego his free friends okay these are all godly men all
right who decided to just die in in the furnace if they had to you know instead of bowing down
and worshiping a false idol all right these are great men hey but they were taken into captivity
were they not hey that was stripped out of their homes that was stripped away from their families
they were taken as young men right i'm sure they probably thought they had a great future
for themselves in the land of judah that they were people that loved god but unfortunately
sometimes god's people are just caught in the middle of god's judgments but even when you
are caught in the middle of god's judgments god used those men in a powerful way did he not
in the babylon kingdom yeah so you know who knows i don't know what to expect brethren i don't know
if 2020 is going to be the end of it i don't know if 2021 is going to be back to normal
part of me kind of starting to think maybe 2021 is going to be even worse
i don't know do you think so brother could be could be okay and we just have to prepare
ourselves i don't want to be like the like this but my people know not the judgment of the lord
i think we need to just accept this may very well be god's judgment you know on australia
not just australia but the whole world the whole world's going crazy verse number eight
how do you say we are wise and the law of the lord is with us lo certainly in vain made he it's
the pen of the scribes is in vain this is of course sarcasm it says lo certainly in vain made
he it's talking about the law of god it's saying like god must have made his laurels laws in vain
of course god did not make his laws in vain of course they serve a purpose of course they're
profitable but the people of this land they're saying we are wise we've got the law of god
we've got the bible we got the scriptures he says it's all in vain if you've got it all right and
the pen of the scribes they're the copiers the people that were copying the manuscripts right
you've all got a bible in your hands you know now we've used we have technology we have the
printing press verse number nine the wise men are ashamed they are dismayed and taken lo they have
rejected the word of the lord and what wisdom is in them so they have the word of the lord
they think they're wise because they have the word of the lord all right but it says here they
have rejected right they have rejected the word you know i i i my wife before she got saved she
was a roman catholic and uh she used to tell me that she she had all these things she had all
these uh the rosary beads she had some cloth thing that you put on uh she had all the all
her statues and her images and uh she had she had it all you know she had it all but the one thing
that she did also do she had a bible i don't know what kind of bible she had but she had a bible
and she would leave it on her bedside table opened opened say why like for good luck
you know uh you know for protection from from you know devils from demons particularly opened and
if you ask my wife did you read the bible no it was there though right and that's what catholics
thinks oh we got the boy got the word well it's not really the word of god that they hold but
anyway they think they have the word of god that they they open it up it's going to give us luck
it's going to give us protection they don't read the word of god they reject the word of god and so
it is vain for them but brethren what about us i can see right now you all have a copy of the
bible in your hands praise god i'm glad you bring it to church and i thank god for that that's
awesome but what about at home is it open at home do you read the bible at home do you open it up in
the morning and see what god has to say to you or is it all in vain you got the bible there you
think of wise because you know a few things in the bible you know some doctrines but if you're not
picking up and reading it brethren and not just reading it listening to what god has to say to you
and doing what god has to say to you it's all in vain it's all in vain it's a sad thing because
we all have bibles in that day and age they didn't all have bibles you know in the day of
jesus christ you had to go to the synagogue to just hear god's word being preached because you
know it had to be written down by scribes could you imagine you know making copies today we're
blessed we have the printing press as i said we're blessed we have the whole bible all 66 books
all the old testament all the new testament we have the king james bible we have the perfect
word of god in our own language and it wouldn't surprise me people in our church still don't pick
up their bibles and read it probably happens right maybe you can say to me there's been a
day this week pastor kevin that i did not pick up my bible this week and read it maybe there's
been two days three days four days five days in fact pastor kevin maybe sunday is the only day
i brought my bible and opened it well that's that's a shame and it's all in vain okay it's
all in vain so please love the word of god that you have in your hands let's not be let's learn
the lessons from judo right let's not be those those people verse number 10 therefore will i
give their wives unto others that's the saddest thing i think so wives are going to be stripped
away from their husbands and given to other men during this captivity period and they're
filled to them that shall inherit them for every one of the least even unto the greatest is given
to covetousness from the prophet even unto the priest everyone dealeth falsely for they have
healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace peace when there is no peace
were they ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not all ashamed
neither could they blush therefore shall they fall among them that fall in the time of their
visitation they shall be cast down saith the lord so the reason i read all that is most of
that is a repetition maybe you're familiar with those verses already it's a repetition of chapter
6 verses 13 to 15 which i've already preached a lot of that is very similar there is one key
difference there that i want to talk about though and if you go back to verse number 10 it said
halfway through for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness
so this entire nation had become covetous from the from the greatest from the one that has a lot of
wealth even the poorest people were given to covetousness now please take your bibles and
turn to uh hebrews chapter 13 again keep your finger there in jeremiah 8 but turn to hebrews
13 for me um isabel could you just bring me the bottle of water
go to hebrews 13 and uh covetousness what is covetousness
covetousness is desiring what somebody else has all right now it's it's one of the ten commandments
i'll just read to you one of the ten commandments there exodus 20 verse 17 says there shall not
covet thy neighbor's house hey that's covetousness you look at your neighbor they've got a wonderful
double story mansion or something oh man i wish i had that hey that would be covetousness
it says here they shall not covet thy neighbor's wife oh wow i can't believe he married that
woman i'm not you know i wish that was my wife hey that's covetousness nor his man servant nor
his maidservant nor his ox nor his ass okay so the things his possessions his he has servants
all right he's got uh tools he's got you know the ox and the ass to plow the ground and to do work
you know the things that he possesses oh man i wish i had what he has hey that's covetousness
okay it's one of the ten commandments nor anything that is thy neighbors if you desire
what somebody else has brethren that's covetousness say what is the problem with
covetousness you're in hebrews 13 verse number five look at this hebrews 13 verse 5 it says let
your conversation conversation is like your behavior your lifestyle let your conversation
be without covetousness why should it be without covetousness and be content with such things as
you have for he have said i will never leave thee nor for safety you know what the problem
with covetousness is you're not going to be content with what you have and brevin how many
australians are not content with what they have how many boy listen just go to africa
listen go to one of these third world nations go to chile i wouldn't call chile a third world nation
go go to one of these nations you guys know what i'm talking about just have brother you've been
to brazil have you seen the poverty there listen just go somewhere else outside of australia
well you can't go outside australia now can you you got to take the vaccination to go international
go on youtube and look it up now okay go to youtube and look it up all right have a look
how these people live have a look how they go hungry have a look how corrupt their governments
are you think our government's corrupt boy go to one of these southeast asian countries and see
how corrupt they are you want anything done by the government you've got to bribe these people
that's common everyone knows you've got to bribe the government to have your documents you know
certified or whatever i mean just go and have a look how wicked some of these nations are
have have a look at how uh some of these gangs have basically taken over uh the the these worlds
and their people are suffering you know some of these communist countries where people can't even
have their own possessions right and then you come back to australia and i promise you this
even if you don't own a house you know even if you're just a renter you're just going to be
content with what you have you're going to look at the space you have in your house you thought
he was small listen i thought my house was small it kind of is with you know 13 people but you know
i thought he was smart so i went to chile and had a look at some of how they live you know it feels
like you know probably this space they're probably happy to have this space that we have right here
to live in you know but australians are not content they want more and more and more you
want to buy a house it's going to cost you over a million dollars now in sydney to buy a house i
mean people just want more and more and more and brevin is it no wonder that god's judgment has
fallen upon this land we're not content with what we have we've been blessed by god we've been
blessed by god god has blessed this nation but if we're not going to be content with what we have
and we turn to covetousness then god's going to say well look if you're not happy with what
i've given you let me take it all away let me dig up your graves let me dig up all the things
you've had in the past and just lay it out there for waste back to jeremiah chapter 8 please
covetousness please brevin be careful of covetousness
nothing wrong with owning a house nothing wrong with having nice things brethren
nothing wrong you work hard brevin god's blessed you you have a paycheck you're able to get
yourself something nice praise god for it give thanks to god for it right but don't look on
others and say man i wish i had what they have that would be covetousness right verse number 13
i will surely consume them that's the title for the sermon say if the lord there shall be no
grapes on the vine nor figs on the fig tree and the leaf shall fade and the things that i have
given them shall pass away from them why do you do we sit still assemble yourselves and let us
enter into the defense cities and let us be silent there for the lord our god have put us to silence
and give us given us water of gold to drink because we have sinned against the lord
uh so you can see the take drinking uh waters of gold gold to drink that's uh bitter waters
man look we still have this you'll tell me about the water you buy brother how pure it is now thank
god we still have this water to drink imagine the judgment of god fallen upon you and you had no
choice but to drink disgusting bitter dirty water you know that's what they have listen godson look
wake up the judgment's coming get yourself defended get yourself in a place where you
can get at least some level of protection you know god's warning his people he's put them to
silence put them to silence i think about this uh five people limit whatever it was to sing in
churches or some churches that i know of just a song leader singing has god put in his people to
silence i don't know just just you know you know i'm studying for german i just think too many
parallels now not to the extent that they have right not to that extent you know but i'm seeing
these parallels and i just i just read german i just think this is this is australia this is this
is 2020 this could be 2021 right get into your defensed cities right there's bitter water to
drink you know the idea here is kind of like drink uh like take your own medicine you know that saying
take your own medicine you know you you know as a nation we have turned our backs against
god as a nation we're killing babies in the mother's womb as a nation we're allowing these
freaks you know this lgbt abc community to to have all their rights and we're just allowing
all this stuff to go ahead you know and and women we're forcing our wives to go and work to because
we need to buy the big house you know instead of letting our mothers raise their children you know
and you know in the nurture and admission of the lord you know we're doing so much weakness
brethren in this land you know and sometimes you just go it's time to just take your own medicine
that's what you wanted then that's what you're going to have you're going to be put to silence
you're going to have to drink bitter waters it is bitter isn't it the restrictions are bitter
they're bitter but i guess what we get out of that brethren is that you know jeremy's
telling the people here hey get into the defended cities it's not time to fight you fight the
babylonians you're going to lose sometimes it's time to just defend yourself right instead of
going and fighting just get into the defensive position just take the take the medicine drink
the bitter waters that's what you need to do in this situation that fine if that's what that
needs to be that needs to happen then that's what needs to happen verse number 15 this is why i
think 2021 might be worse we looked for peace i'm hoping 2021 is peaceful i'm hoping christmas
is going to be wonderful i'm hoping all the restrictions are gone and things are back to
normal we're looking for peace hey we ought to pray for peace right we ought to pray that we
live a quiet and peaceful life don't forget nothing we still pray for those things right
but we looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health but behold trouble
so we're looking for things to get better but things may only get worse in fact for them things
only got worse things only got worse so you know 2020 has been a challenging year no doubt
challenging year but don't get comfortable thinking that 2021 is going to be better
don't get comfortable it may get worse i'm not prophesying that it's going to get worse i'm not
saying that we're just looking at the word of god so let's just get our heads you know settled
let's make sure we're just we're mindful all right god i don't know this is a strange year
strange things going on lord i'm sure it would have been strange to know that babylon's going
to come in and wipe you out it's going to be strange to know that your graves are going to
be digged up and bodies are just going to lay around decomposing it's all strange things
but things may very well get worse may very well get worse so reverend just just get right with god
just bow your head in prayer and ask god to protect his people
get into the defended cities and you know our defense is god that's our defense you know here's
our strong fortress here's our deliverer we ought to go to that defense all right we need god's
defense verse number 16 the snorting of his horses was heard from dan the whole land trembled at the
sound of the name of his strong ones for they are come and have devoured the land and all that is
that is in it the city and those that dwell therein so the people of the land they're
hearing the sound of war and destruction they're hearing the sound of the horses
verse number 17 and behold i will say this is god i will send serpents cockatresses among you
which will not be charmed and they shall bite you save the lord now i don't believe this is literal
serpents at this point in time i think it's talking about just the babylonians are in that
sense those vipers those serpents that are going to come and bite you right it says look which will
not be charmed have you guys ever seen a snake charmer i watched this video just like just
yesterday i was there was a video in india have you seen that yeah where they have a little i
don't know the little instrument and they've got these uh you know what do you call the cobras
right and they're like they're doing this kind of like you know thing
and they're not striking they're not striking but you can see that the snakes are agitated
you can see right but that's that's they call that a snake charmer they put the snake on the
hypnosis or something they think some type of hypnosis with that kind of music and and like
you know uh they don't strike out that's the idea behind it right and it's quite a show it's quite
quite amazing but what it's saying here is that these serpents that are going to come you're not
going to be able to charm them okay so i don't know when the health inspectors turn up we may
not be able to charm them okay they might strike i don't know right you know they're expecting when
the baboons come they maybe we can make peace with them maybe we can charm them maybe we can satisfy
them hey maybe maybe hopefully hopefully they come we say hey look we surrender we don't want
to fight leave us alone it's not going to happen you're not going to charm them they're still going
to strike they're still going to attack get ready for it right get ready for it and then you can see
verse number 18 jeremy's response when i would comfort myself against sorrow my heart is faint
in me so look jeremy could not find comfort in in all this well you know it was a bit too much for
him you know taking in this prophecy that god was given him right the lord's hand of blessings and
protection has been removed from the land you know and so jeremy is struggling with this and
brethren again you know if if you're if you're struggling and i've struggled you know i'll just
be honest with you from the very beginning i've struggled with this whole thing you know i'm at
peace don't get don't get me wrong i'm at peace today i'm not like ah man i can't but you know
the first few weeks when we uh couldn't have church here and up there i could not sleep i
could not sleep you know i'd be tossing and turning my bed i get up and i'd be like i'd
just be miserable because i'm thinking man because i was like in queensland i'm like god i'm up in
queensland all right i've left my comforts of sydney i've left my families my family and said
i've left my friends in sydney i've gone up there lord to serve you to start this church and now i
can't even have church like this is the reason i went up there okay i mean i i enjoy the place
it's wonderful but lord the reason i'm here and not having church i felt useless
now i was unsettled i was really unsettled by it i'm at peace now i'm just saying at the very
beginning i was very unsettled right you see jeremiah he's unsettled and they can't find
comfort and uh maybe you today still can't find comfort you know don't let that get you down you
can see even a great man of god was struggling all right with the judgment of god that's fallen upon
that's fallen upon his nation verse number 19 behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of
my people because of them that dwell in a far country is not the lord in zion they're asking
the question jerusalem's asking this question is god not here in zion isn't he going to protect us
from the babylonians hey we saw this at the very beginning of jeremiah god had departed from them
god was god was over it was it was over for them right god has left them it's not the lord in
zion is not her king in her why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images
and with strange vanities so they've got their false religion that they're they're graven images
the strange vanities empty things that they worship whatever it is and then you're coming
and asking where are you god isn't that what our nation does they hate god they they they they
they're against the bible they mock christians but listen everybody in this land and in this world
when they're going through difficulties they say god where are you why don't you help us
i knock on the doors of people you say i don't believe anymore why oh because god did not help
me in this situation you know i had a child or i had a wife i had someone that i love and they
got lost and where was god and all that what do you think god is if you're worshipping false gods
if you're turning your back against god you think you god's just gonna you just you just
yell out to god he's just gonna turn up whenever you like that's what that's what they were
behaving they knew god but they were worshiping these false gods and when trouble came now they
were oh god where are you what you've got you know let those graven images save you then if
that's what you want yeah verse number 20 the harvest is past the summer is ended and we are
not saved so you're saying look things are over there's not going to be no more harvesting right
the summer's over you know we now get get get used to the cold weather get used to
you know some tough days coming up up ahead you know things are not going to return back to normal
is what's happened what's being said there i hope things return back to normal for us
i don't know if it's going to happen that's all right but things were not going to return back
to normal you know even after they left the babylon captivity and came back and rebuilt
everything it was not the same they did not regain all their glory you know in the nature
that they once held but anyway things are not going to turn back to normal verse number 21
for the hurt of the daughter of my people am i hurt so this is jeremiah again so look you know
just thinking about you know the daughters the the children the young ladies that are going to suffer
right they're going to be taken away into captivity who knows what's going to happen to them
jeremiah saying look i'm hurt because of that no he's feeling the pain right he says i am black
it's kind of the idea of mourning he's upset he's mourning about it astonishment have taken
hold of me it's it's too much to bear he's astonished at god's judgment and again i think
christians in australia can be astonished at god's judgment because god's judgment is not preached
just the love of god is preached everything's going to be fine brethren it's not like that all
the time god's judgment is severe okay god hates sin god casts souls that reject jesus christ
into fire to burn for all eternity think about his wrath for a minute and when you think about
god's judgment and his wrath i don't want to be facing his wrath even as his child i just would
protect me defend me lord help me walk with you let's not get into that perpetual backsliding
state hope that never happens to you brethren but it happened to them happened to god's people here
in the old testament verse number 22 there is no balm in gilead balm is like a soothing balm right
it's like if you get sunburned maybe put up some type of balm you know to heal right he goes look
there is no balm there is no healing is there no physician there there are no doctors like no one's
going to fix this situation now for judah there's no no one's going to fix this pain okay why then
is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered all right so as i said to you you know
judah basically here has a terminal illness you know it's a terminal sickness that they go into
they're going to perish okay there's nothing there's no medicine there's no balm there's no
physician there's nobody that can help judah in this time because god god's judgment is falling
upon that nation and they're going to be wiped out they're going to be destroyed many there's
going to be great slaughter there's going to be destruction you know the the i i we can't see you
know we don't know we don't have history books we don't have photographs we don't have videos of this
time but as we go through this isn't it going to be horrible for them i mean it's a complete and
utter destruction of the people of god all right and hey non-believers absolutely deserve it deserve
the judgment of god don't forget that god's people are also caught up in this judgment
and brethren 2020 god's people we are god's people we are caught up in this judgment
we are caught up okay is it time to fight i've taught before you know and i think here no it's
time to just find defense just find somewhere safe to get to and the safest place you can get to
is just being god's will just just do what god asks us to do see it through you know i'm the
pastor of this church this afternoon i'm going to be preaching on the the office of the of the
sorry the order of the local church and you know it's my job at least to to help you guys
to get through this time you know and help myself and my own family so you know if any of you guys
are struggling with this and you know we're not always going to see eye to eye it's strange
strange days right lots of opinions we're not always going to see eye to eye but you know please
understand that i i love you as your pastor i love you guys and i hope you love me you know
i'm praying for you guys every day every day i'm praying for you guys i hope you're praying for me
as well you know and we just have to find the solution we have to find what are we going to do
you know like jeremiah you get upset about these things right and sometimes well god's judgments
coming and we're just going to have to take it we're just going to have to drink that medicine
with the rest of this wicked nation and maybe it's it's a good thing we need the fear of god
to come back to this land we really need the fear of god back in this world you know when we
look at the the end times i'm not saying the end times around the corner i don't know when the end
times are could be hundreds of years away who knows right but when the end times comes jesus
says that the gospel of his kingdom will be preached throughout all the nations okay you know
what when things get difficult that's going to be the time that god's people are going to be able
to do the greatest works so let's just see this through let's just get into the defense right now
okay let's just protect ourselves all right let's just walk closely with god
let's not get in that backseat state okay and just accept that this is god's judgment okay
let's not be like the people of god that don't know the judgment of god i think we need to wake
up to it it is the judgment of god it is the judgment of god let's just do the best we can
serve god and ask god to protect us and ask god that even if 2021 is worse than 2020
that it'll be the best year for us as god's people all right let's pray
heavenly fire lord thank you for the great truths in jeremiah and lord it's hard to preach for
these things it's hard to sort of absorb it lord and sometimes it's easy to read the bible lord
thinking about well that's another nation that's another people but lord those things are written
for our profit for our admonition lord and lord i just pray that we would pause and meditate on
these words and consider where we are lord lord help us not to be people that are filled with
covetousness