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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