1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,240 Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,480 where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,840 gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,520 heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,600 changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,760 Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers. 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,920 We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,479 understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,840 life. Let's join the service already 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:46,440 in progress. Chapter 20, verse #1 Says Now 11 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:52,120 Pashur the son of Emma the priest, who was also chief 12 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:55,920 governor in the House of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah 13 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:01,000 prophesied these things. Then Pastor smote Jeremiah the 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,440 prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high 15 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:10,080 gate of Benjamin, which was by the House of the Lord. 16 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:15,360 And it came to pass on the Morrow that Pastorum brought 17 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:20,000 forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. 18 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:26,640 Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord have not called thy name 19 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:34,160 Pashor, but Magora Misabim. For thus saith the Lord, Behold, 20 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:39,960 I will make thee A terror to thyself and to all thy friends, 21 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:44,960 and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies. 22 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:51,880 And then I shall behold him, and I will give all Judah into the 23 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:56,800 hands of the king of Babylon, and he should carry them captive 24 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:02,040 into Babylon, and shall slay them with this sword. 5 25 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:07,760 Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city, all the 26 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,520 laborers thereof, and of the precious things thereof, and of 27 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:14,840 the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand 28 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,760 of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them and 29 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,240 care of them to Babylon. 6 And thou, or you, Pasha, and all 30 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,920 that dwell in your house, shall go into captivity, and thou 31 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:33,560 shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shall be 32 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:39,360 buried there, you and your friends, to whom your prophesied 33 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:45,600 lies. Verse 7 O Lord, Thou hast 34 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:50,760 deceived me, and I was deceived. Thou art stronger than I, and 35 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:52,440 has prevailed. I am in dare vision. 36 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:58,120 Every day everyone mocketh me. A For since I spake, I cried 37 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,320 out. I cried violence and spoil, 38 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,080 because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a 39 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,920 dare is. And daily Then I said, I will 40 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:14,240 not make mention of him nor speak anymore in his name, but 41 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:20,000 his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my 42 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000 boats. And I was very with forbearing. 43 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,480 And I could not stay the word of God for the people of God. 44 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,520 Thanks be unto God. Help me out as you turn to a 45 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:38,280 neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, are you OK? 46 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,080 OK, all right, all right, help me out with turn to other 47 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,720 neighbors. Say hey, neighbor, are you OK? 48 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,560 Nope. OK, we got one over there. 49 00:03:53,560 --> 00:04:00,560 OK, Praise the Lord. You know, after I dropped this 50 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,240 time. I just need y'all to hit it real 51 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:07,000 hard after after I drop this. It's going to help push me where 52 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:14,120 I need to go for the next few fleeting moments. 53 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:21,839 If you don't mind, I'm going to preach from the thought I almost 54 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:33,240 quit but I got a new fire. Thank you. 55 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,280 I just, I just need to hear the right sound as I get started 56 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,040 because my dear brothers and sisters, every generation has 57 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,840 had to face this question. Is it even worth it anymore? 58 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,960 The truth of the matter is, the numbers do not lie. 59 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,960 According to the American Psychological Association, 40 to 60 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:56,800 50% of first marriages fail. They said one of two marriages 61 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,640 in the United States and then divorce. 62 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,120 They say. According to George Bonner, the 63 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:06,800 Bonner group in tuning 23 state of passes that 42% of pastors 64 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,960 seriously consider quitting full time ministry almost every year. 65 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,840 the US Bureau of Labor just yeah, still here, right. 66 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:19,840 The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says 50% of of 67 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:23,360 entrepreneurs shut down their businesses within five years. 68 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:29,160 And then also in 2023, the American Psychological 69 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:33,120 Association had also put out a report called the Stress in 70 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,080 America Report, and they had confirmed that Gen. 71 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:40,120 Z's have the highest stress level of any generation by 72 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,760 millennials in genetics report. Historic burnout. 73 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:48,360 So according to the support across generations from boomers 74 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,520 to Gen. Z's, burnout, breakdowns and 75 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:54,080 silent suffering are on the rise. 76 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,760 And if we all can be honest in the room that there's some that 77 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,360 did not almost quit a job or relationship. 78 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,920 There's some here that can always say that, you know, I 79 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,760 really almost quit my faith. You know what? 80 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:11,120 Almost quit praising because it didn't seem to change my pain. 81 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:16,440 Almost, almost, almost quit sewing because the harvest 82 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,000 seemed stuck in heaven. Almost quit studying my Bible 83 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,840 because I felt like God went silent and I just kept getting 84 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:26,760 sleepy. Almost quit fasting and 85 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,600 travailing praying because the breakthrough felt like all that 86 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,360 was broken was sweat and spit. And and even some say they 87 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:36,680 almost quit going to church because they were tired of 88 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:42,360 pretentious, phony, prideful people who sin more on accident 89 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,720 than they love purposely themselves. 90 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:50,080 And some even say they almost even quit tuning into the cyber 91 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:53,960 church online because even that was becoming too much with 92 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,400 people singing, oh, happy day, but looking sad while doing it, 93 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:04,880 yet still spelling through it. There's many in the room and 94 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,840 online that that that posted through it, that worked through 95 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:11,120 it. But inside you and I might have 96 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:16,840 been 2 steps from saying I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm 97 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,680 done. I, I don't know the author of 98 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,120 the quote. Maybe it was an adaptation from 99 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:24,000 one by Johnny Depp. But it was said people don't 100 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,800 quit because they're weak. They quit because they're tired 101 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:33,400 of being strong for too long. And minding brothers and 102 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,120 sisters, Deacon Glenn, that's where we find ourselves in 103 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,160 between the black and white pages of the book before us or 104 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,480 the electronic device which you may be reading from exactly with 105 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,640 this prophet, this man named Jeremiah who was not weak, not 106 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:55,360 faithless, not rebellious. He's just tired of being strong 107 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,520 for too long. He's tired of speaking what God 108 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,200 said about getting no applause but only attacks. 109 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,440 He's, he's tired of crying out for people who never cried to 110 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,720 God for him. He's tired of preaching the 111 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:13,560 glory down and getting thrown in shackles and tired of, of waking 112 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,160 up obedient and going to bed broken. 113 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:22,280 And and it's the famous words of Fannie Lou Hammer who said I'm 114 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:27,000 sick and tired of being sick and tired. 115 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:32,679 And here, my new brothers and sisters, I and Jeremiah chapter 116 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,320 20, we don't meet the bold prophet calling down fire from 117 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:41,200 heaven, but we meet the broken man in the stocks. 118 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,920 He's between the mantle that's on him and the entire mess all 119 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:51,480 around him. And it is right here, here in 120 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,400 your Bible, my Bible, my name. Brothers and sisters, between 121 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,760 life and God's purpose, we see Jeremiah in the breaking point. 122 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:02,240 I promise you I won't be before you long if you holler back at 123 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,040 me. But we find 3 movements in the 124 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,720 text that are worth exploring in your Bible. 125 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:13,040 Jeremiah chapter 20 verse #1 says Now pass sure the of Immor 126 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:16,720 the priest who was also chief governor in the House of the 127 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:22,080 Lord heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. 128 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:27,320 Verse 2 Then Pashor smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put 129 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,560 him in the stocks that were in the high gates of Benjamin, 130 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,840 which was by the House of the Lord. 131 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:39,600 Verse 3 And it came to pass on the Morrow that Pashur brought 132 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,880 forth Jeremiah out of the stocks then. 133 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:48,040 Jeremiah said. Unto him the Lord have not 134 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,320 called thy name Pashur, but not God I miss a bit. 135 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:56,560 For for thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee A 136 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:00,920 terror to thyselves and to all thy friends, and they shall fall 137 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,560 by the sword of thy enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it. 138 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:08,360 And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, 139 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,800 and I should carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay 140 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,360 them with the sword. The very first movement of this 141 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,000 Texas he's persecuted for proclaiming. 142 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:26,440 He's persecuted for proclaiming. God gave Jeremiah a hard word, 143 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:30,760 not a revival word, not a trending word, not a seeker 144 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:36,600 friendly word, a costly word. God gave Jeremiah a 145 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:41,600 confrontational word, and he had just finished preaching in the 146 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:47,240 valley of that old slaughter in chapter 19, a word of divine 147 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,640 judgment on Judah and the desecration of the temple. 148 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:55,840 He had even smashed a claim pot in a prophetic act to symbolize 149 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,120 how God will shatter their nation for their sin. 150 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:02,160 That's Jeremiah chapter 1910 and 11. 151 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:07,440 And now here in chapter 20, he is punished by the church. 152 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:12,320 He's punished by the church. And notice in your Bible after 153 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,280 the establishment of time, we see Pastor, pastor. 154 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:20,200 Pastor was not just a priest. He was the chief governor in the 155 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,720 House of the Lord. The Hebrew word here calls him 156 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,280 Pakid Nagid. It means the chief officer or 157 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,000 the overseer of order. He was important in church 158 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,880 pasture. He didn't just attend church, he 159 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:42,240 was on staff at he wasn't just in leadership, he enforced 160 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,080 leadership. Are you still with me? 161 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,440 And when he had heard Jeremiah proclaim, but thus said the 162 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,760 Lord, the Bible says that he didn't repent. 163 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:56,160 He didn't inquire. But this priest's name pastor 164 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:02,280 had retaliated because Jeremiah spoke a word that made religious 165 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,320 people uncomfortable. And sometimes I am. 166 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,440 This life true doesn't get you celebrated. 167 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:16,840 Instead, it may get you silence. Because Pashure had position, 168 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,320 but Jeremiah had power. Pashure had the keys to the 169 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,000 church, but Jeremiah had the word of the Lord. 170 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,920 Let me help everybody that's in the room and that's online. 171 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,120 For those in the Silent Generation, you may be watching 172 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,040 and listening and you might have even seen how some people keep 173 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,160 their titles even when they lost their integrity to others. 174 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,120 You, you, you, you, you, you. You might have been taught to 175 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:45,000 respect those of the cloth even when the clothes were dirty and 176 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:48,560 and then others in the room. You you might have might have 177 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:52,480 got yourself caught between the tradition and the faith or or 178 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:56,800 you're still impacting how church heard and control mask 179 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,720 itself as community. I get it. 180 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:03,520 You may even be wondering if you can love God without being by 181 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:08,360 his people or you may be just trying to figure out how this 182 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:11,600 church thing works and you you really just want truth. 183 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,080 That's how you want you want truth. 184 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,520 And then there are those are trying to hold everything 185 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:19,640 together, pain and purpose. But let me give you just a 186 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,440 little bit of revelation real quick. 187 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,000 God will always raise up a voice. 188 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,960 That position can't be Muslim. Hallelujah. 189 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,000 Thank you, Jesus. You don't need a title. 190 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:31,520 Uh huh. To carry the truth. 191 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,400 You don't need the platform to have power. 192 00:13:33,560 --> 00:13:35,520 You don't even need the mic to make movement. 193 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:36,520 But I do. I do. 194 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:38,800 I do, I do. I do want to show you something 195 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,520 the Bible says in Jeremiah. I feel like preaching. 196 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,840 I'm sorry. Chapter 20, verse 2 A it says 197 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:50,680 then pastor had smoked Jeremiah. Lord, it's a fight that's broke 198 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:52,080 out in church. Did you see it? 199 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,480 I'm a reader one more time. It says pastor smoked Jeremiah. 200 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:01,120 This Hebrew Hebraic word for smote is naka. 201 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:04,920 Naka means to strike means wound. 202 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,440 It means to punish violently. It's almost to to hit, but 203 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:12,960 intent to kill. This was not a rebuke, it was a 204 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,280 beating. This was not a conversation, it 205 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,760 was a condemnation. And the Bible says after the man 206 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:25,520 in God's house had beat the man of God up when the preacher was 207 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:28,360 fighting the other preacher in that round. 208 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,760 And the Bible says here that the word preacher then put him in 209 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,800 stocks. That's Jeremiah chapter 20 in 210 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,400 the B claws and put him in the stocks. 211 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,240 Put them in the stocks, Put them in the stocks. 212 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:47,360 The word stocks there shows us that it is a device that twists 213 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:54,560 and contorts the body publicly shame a person by applying 214 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,560 pressure. He was put in the Highgate 215 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:02,120 Jeremiah in the Highgate of Benjamin, the main entry of the 216 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:06,720 church, so that everybody walking around, in and out of 217 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:11,920 church as they were walking around would see him stuck, 218 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,760 stiff and shamed. But here's the part we need to 219 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,760 unpack together for those in the room and online. 220 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:21,560 What if you've never been beaten in church? 221 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,200 What if you've never, never, never, never found yourself in 222 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,720 stocks made of wood? Let's tell the truth. 223 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,360 Some of us have been put in mental stocks by our family, 224 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,760 bound by their silence, twisted by their expectations, and 225 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,200 bruised by their betrayal. OK, come here. 226 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,840 That wasn't you. Some of us have been placed an 227 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:46,600 emotional stocks at work, punished for being ethical, 228 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,360 overlooked for being excellent, and even boxed out because you 229 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:52,680 didn't blend in that it's not you either. 230 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:55,240 OK, come here. Maybe it's for somebody online. 231 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:59,440 You've been place to end, placed in academic stocks, suffocated 232 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,240 in classrooms where you were too gifted for the level. 233 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,200 You've been in there but, but, but, but but not seen, not seen 234 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,440 enough to be actually accelerated. 235 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,960 And some, some have found themselves in some social stocks 236 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,160 where you've just suffered for standing up, found yourself 237 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,200 isolated for telling the truth and not for your integrity. 238 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:20,640 And then some of you, some of you are just tired. 239 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:22,560 Yeah. Thank you. 240 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,400 Deacon Hauser. I think one out of three. 241 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:27,120 Come on. Tired. 242 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,000 Tired of tired. Tired of trying to hold it all 243 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,640 together. Tired of being the strong one. 244 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:37,600 Tired of being the one who was always forgiving, always 245 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:42,920 praying, always always smiling. But bleeding, bleeding and still 246 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,600 sinking. The truth is, you're not weak. 247 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:57,080 You're just over it. The text says here Jeremiah was 248 00:16:57,080 --> 00:17:01,880 in the stocks. But check this out because this 249 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:05,599 is what's even more crazy. Sister Mary and Jeremiah, 250 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:12,880 Jeremiah chapter 20, verse 3, it says, and it came to pass on the 251 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:21,160 Morrow, the next day, that passion sure hadn't brought 252 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,440 forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. 253 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:31,600 Then Jeremiah has said unto him, the Lord have not called thy 254 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,480 name pashur, but magar misabem. Now, now check this out. 255 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,120 Jeremiah just came out of the stocks. 256 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:44,080 He's still sore, he's still humiliated, he's still hurting. 257 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:47,240 But the moment he's released, he does not cower. 258 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:51,880 He confronts look, look, look, look, look. 259 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:56,600 But he says, he says, he says, the Lord gave me a new name for 260 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:00,080 you. He said, I know you say your 261 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:08,040 name is Pasha verse three, he says, but your name really is my 262 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:12,160 God. Miss a miss a beep, which means 263 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:18,120 terror on every side. Jeremiah says you look like 264 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:20,920 stability, but God sees your fear. 265 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:27,000 Jeremiah says you're hiding behind religious structure, but 266 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:33,480 God sees your spiritual chaos. And so whenever we're in study 267 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,040 mode, looking at our Scriptures in our Bible, we see often times 268 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,720 that people are are renamed and they're renamed because it is to 269 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,600 reveal the essence of who they are. 270 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:49,720 Jeremiah says you wear priestly rose, but you're trembling 271 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,600 behind that curtain. And he says you might have 272 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,400 silenced me, but God's just unmuted your judgment because 273 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:58,240 you aren't who you really say you are. 274 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,400 I think I better get on that, this first movement. 275 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,000 But some people only know how to function and control. 276 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,200 So when you walk in truth, they call you a problem. 277 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,640 And I'm going to let you know that the system doesn't hate you 278 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,960 for being loud and hates you for being clear. 279 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,080 So the stocks didn't silence Jeremiah, they staged him for 280 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,840 his next word. Because God will use your public 281 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,240 pain to reveal someone elses private panic. 282 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,760 God, I feel like preaching. That's why I ain't got time 283 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:28,280 though. I got 15 minutes. 284 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,280 So so so so so I'm gonna let you know. 285 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,080 I'll let you know that if you've been doing silent suffering, if 286 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,760 you worked hard but still find yourself overlooked, if you're 287 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,320 parenting through pressure, if you try to to fight and then you 288 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:45,120 really find yourself tired out of fighting to be heard. 289 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,000 If, if you you've been serving as systems that celebrate 290 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,400 mediocracy and punish truth. If you feel like nobody sees 291 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,560 you, then you too. You, you, you, you in the Pew, 292 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:59,000 you online, you. You know what it means to be 293 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:05,160 persecuted for proclaiming. So it's here we find ourselves 294 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,280 now into the second movement of the text. 295 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,920 I've already read verse 4 for you, but the second movement is 296 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,560 that there was a pronounce, a pronouncement of judgment with 297 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:18,440 precision. You would think Jeremiah would 298 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,200 have been done by now. You really thought at? 299 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:25,480 Going through all of this in just a matter of a few verses, 300 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,080 that he had really just tapped out. 301 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:31,560 You would think after being beaten, after being locked in a 302 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:34,720 contorting device, after being humiliated in front of the 303 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,960 temple crowd, that he'll come out with his head down and his 304 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:40,560 mouth shut and his confidence crushed. 305 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:46,400 But no Bible says he comes out of the stocks still clear and 306 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:51,200 still called because when the system tried to strip his 307 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,880 dignity, God gave him a word so sharp it will cut through the 308 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:58,880 road ranks and respectability of even the religious elite. 309 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,800 Because such I got to remind you today that there has to be 310 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,000 prophetic precision. Jeremiah begins by adjusting 311 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,520 Pashore. Check this out directly. 312 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,000 But no sub tweets but no sneak tacks. 313 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:20,840 Yeah, he came to him directly, not as a peer, not as a priest. 314 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:24,000 But that's a problem God has marked for judgement. 315 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,560 Come here, let's read it again. We're in verse #4 He says the 316 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,960 Lord have not called thy name pastor. 317 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:35,120 But not gore, Misabin. Terror on every side. 318 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:40,920 Terror on every side, He said. He said the name that you said 319 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,360 you were pastor, which means freedom, liberation. 320 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:48,800 No, he said you really are a terror on every side. 321 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,800 Jeremiah renames him not to embarrass him, but to expose 322 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,720 him. I guess I better go down the 323 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,440 list real quick and help you out because sometimes you're going 324 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,920 to walk into to school and and you're going to feel like nobody 325 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,680 sees the fear you carry. But God sees every hallway, 326 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,600 every class, every bully, every weights, and he will never call 327 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:14,320 you to something that you're not able to handle. 328 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:18,880 OK, you've learned how to keep it cool on the outside by chaos 329 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,200 surrounds you on the inside. You look like ease on your 330 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,360 timeline, but inside it's tear on every side. 331 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,320 And that's that's for sure. But I want to let you know how 332 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,320 about for the young folks in the room, maybe, maybe the 333 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,240 middle-aged people, you find yourself working hard with your 334 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,120 little side business and you know, working hard, hard which 335 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:43,120 on your enterprise skill, smiling through anxiety, trying 336 00:22:43,120 --> 00:22:47,400 to build a life with pressure, pressure, pressure pressing on 337 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,360 every angle. You know what it's like to be 338 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:51,640 productive when panic rise your back. 339 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,720 OK, let me find another group 'cause I ain't found the group 340 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,440 yet in the room. Maybe if you spent your years 341 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,600 holding the house down, carrying both kids and parents faith and 342 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:05,240 frustration, and now the panic's on the inside and nobody knows. 343 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,720 Let me go a little far farther up in the age rank and see if I 344 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,960 can find you. Maybe you're the person that 345 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,840 you're. You find your pieces constantly 346 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:15,080 threatened. You've navigated the pressure of 347 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:19,080 aging, maybe retirement or or health issues. 348 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,000 You've, you watch the world shift faster than your body can 349 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,360 catch up. That ain't it. 350 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,520 Let's go a little bit higher. Maybe the silent generation. 351 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,240 You don't leave your house much anymore. 352 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,560 You're not fighting crowds, but you're fighting loneliness. 353 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:38,080 You're fighting the fear that your life no longer has meaning. 354 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,040 I'm going to let you know that panic doesn't always show up in 355 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,120 the body. It often hides behind 356 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:48,040 performance. I thought I'd find you 357 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,720 somewhere. God used Jeremiah to rename, but 358 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,200 the system refused to confront and look at this. 359 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,320 Look at this. And here he tells him. 360 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,880 He tells him that thus saith the Lord. 361 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:06,320 He does not say God might. He says to the man, thus saith 362 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,520 the Lord. Verse #4 thus saith the Lord. 363 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,080 This word is not open to interpretation. 364 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,520 It's precise as to Jackie, it's personal sister Jackie, it's 365 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,840 piercing. Sister Jackie, God is saying, 366 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,320 you've manipulated my church. My temple long enough Dick and 367 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,600 Davis, you silence prophets, prophets and preachers and 368 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,320 platform liars in this text. You've called yourself free 369 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,960 pastor, but I see fear coming from every side of you. 370 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,080 And now the punishment will fit the potential. 371 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,760 Check this out. But God doesn't just judge lies. 372 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:41,400 He just the systems that let them that that keep working. 373 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,600 The lies work. And I and I had to say that 374 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,200 because I know the world we live in, we keep trying to figure, 375 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,840 Lord, when will it in? But I want to let you know that 376 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,600 we serve the righteous judge and his timeline is not ours. 377 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,560 Get out of God's business. I hear my grandmother can't 378 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,640 nobody do it like him. And God says to him, he says 379 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,160 you're going to Babylon and you would Dang them. 380 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:13,600 I'm Papillon so specific almost surgical system Mary now this 381 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,200 divine accountability, but no anesthesia. 382 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:20,520 He says you and yourself go get on out of here. 383 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:25,120 Well, well, OK, you may not be past sure, praise the Lord. 384 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:28,000 But have you, have you ever had to deal with consequences from 385 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,520 someone else's compromise? You, you were the child, but 386 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,480 they, they made you care of the brokenness. 387 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,120 You were, you were the employee, but but leadership lied and you 388 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:41,920 lost your peace. OK, you were the faithful one, 389 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:44,600 but the family dysfunction keeps dragging you back. 390 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,080 And here's the tension of the text. 391 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,920 What happens when you're caught in someone else's collapse? 392 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:55,480 OK, but there's good news. Even if you live around fear, 393 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,920 you don't have to live under it. I think I better rewind that one 394 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:01,400 back right there. That was good, huh? 395 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:07,240 Even if you live around fear, you don't have to live under it. 396 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,200 So Jeremiah releases this judgment. 397 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,280 There's something shifts, and then I believe his voice 398 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,560 trembles, his spine softens, his chest collapse. 399 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,960 And all of a sudden, from finally confronting Pastor, 400 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,840 giving the word of the Lord, your Bible says in verse #7 to 401 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:30,440 chapter 20, the book of Jeremiah, he says, 0 Lord, yeah, 402 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:35,120 that has deceived me and I was deceived. 403 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:38,920 I was deceived. The word deceived means 404 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:43,200 persuaded or seduced. This isn't doctrinal doubt. 405 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:48,280 This is deep disappointment. Jeremiah says, God, you didn't 406 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:54,640 tell me it will feel like this for every kid going back to 407 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,880 school this week and next week and you got butterflies, but 408 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,680 they don't see your burden. To every college student that 409 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,880 said yes to that major, but now you're wondering if you chose 410 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,040 the wrong one. To every teacher that's got to 411 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,680 go back to teaching who loves their kids, but the system is 412 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,520 choking your joy out. To every single parent in 413 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,000 another state or in another area who's doing everything they know 414 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,120 to do right and it still feels like something's wrong. 415 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:22,560 To every business owner and entrepreneur who follow the 416 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,360 vision, but the bills are louder than your calling, OK? 417 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,760 To every retiree at the house that you still got this wonder 418 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,600 going on in your mind if your life matters. 419 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,000 To every pastor that's watching and listening, every mentor, 420 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,200 caregiver that's on the line, who's pouring, trying to figure 421 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,440 out who's feeling you. God is what? 422 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:46,240 Jeremiah cried out. Then he said you checked me into 423 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,920 this calling. He said you tricked me and you 424 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,560 didn't show me the pain. Can I give you a quick 425 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,360 homiletical highlight? I only got two people talking. 426 00:27:56,360 --> 00:27:59,320 It's OK, I ride with it. I'm going to let you know that 427 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,960 sometimes God will let your calling break your heart. 428 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:05,840 So your heart will never break covenant with your calling. 429 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:11,200 I Did you go to sleep on me? What happened to you? 430 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:14,360 I'm preaching harder than you talking. 431 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,840 I said sometimes God will let your calling break your heart. 432 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,520 So your heart will never break covenant with your calling. 433 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,520 I'm not ready, John. Hold on now. 434 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,640 Jeremiah didn't get. He didn't keep going because 435 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,440 ministry felt fair. He kept going because the 436 00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,600 calling was too sacred to surrender for comfort. 437 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:35,720 And here's rare. Here's rare. 438 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,400 I got to really help us out. The name Pashor means ease, 439 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,000 liberation of freedom. But don't miss this Pashor is 440 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,160 the name that tries to convince you that you don't deserve 441 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,640 exemption from pain because you're anointed. 442 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,200 Pastor is the voice that says I shouldn't have to suffer like 443 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,200 this. Pastor is entitlement in 444 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,120 priestly robes and garments. And some of us are not at war 445 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,760 with the enemy. We're at war with our own 446 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:07,640 expectations of ease. We've confused favor with 447 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,840 insulation. We've mistaken calling for 448 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,360 comfort. I feel your Lord. 449 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:18,720 We've idealized the idea of serving God, but we despise the 450 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,640 reality of obeying him under pressure. 451 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,600 And the truth of the matter is entitlement must be eradicated. 452 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:31,920 Because if you're going to carry this word of God with power, if 453 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:36,480 you're going to find yourself doing the real of God, yeah, you 454 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,360 have to bury the lie that you're owned. 455 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:46,240 A painless journey. This is not about what you're 456 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,760 old. This is about the honor of being 457 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:53,320 entrusted with God's truth even when it hurts. 458 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,960 You're entrusted with God's glory even when it hurts. 459 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,720 You're entrusted with this salvation even when it hurts. 460 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:05,680 So Jeremiah says yes, yes, yes. He says yes, but, but, but, but, 461 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,280 but, but he didn't understand, didn't understand that the yes 462 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:13,760 will lead to bruises. He yeah, Jeremiah obeyed, but he 463 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,000 didn't know his obedience. But get him overlooked. 464 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,680 Yeah. Jeremiah spoke up, but he didn't 465 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,040 know that the truth will get him isolated. 466 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:28,280 And yet now Jeremiah says, God, I love you, but I'm tired. 467 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,800 He says, yeah, dear Lord, I trust you, but I'm triggered. 468 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:38,120 He says, God, I follow you, but I feel fooled. 469 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,800 Have you ever found yourself there? 470 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,800 Sometimes you don't feel like quitting the call, you just feel 471 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:49,280 like quitting the cost. I know Mother was hollering. 472 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:50,920 You couldn't hear me. I better say it again. 473 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,280 Sometimes you don't feel like quitting the call, you just feel 474 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:59,560 like quitting the cost. It's not the word that's heavy, 475 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,640 it's the wounds that came with it. 476 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,080 Oh, I like that sound. Yeah, sometimes the biggest test 477 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,360 is not if you'll preach or share. 478 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,440 It's if you'll stay pure while being punished. 479 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,200 God can handle your honesty. That's all I need you to know. 480 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,960 So don't hide behind a fake Hallelujah. 481 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,200 Don't hide behind this fake praise. 482 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,360 Don't hide behind that. Because Jeremiah shows that you 483 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:30,600 can be powerful and processing it at the same time. 484 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,680 You can prophecy and still wrestle with pain. 485 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,400 You can be strong in public and stretched out in private. 486 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,200 And you're not less anointed because you find yourself 487 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:48,240 crying. See you. 488 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,200 I've got to get out of here. My last few moments sharing with 489 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,560 you that the last movement of this text. 490 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,120 Sometimes you have to be pressed by the pain. 491 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,320 Come, you got to be pressed by the pain. 492 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,640 I better skip this text because I ain't got much long. 493 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,640 Let's go to verse #9 Verse 8 says. 494 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:18,600 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak 495 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:24,840 anymore his name. Jeremiah makes a decision in his 496 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,640 soul. I'm done. 497 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:33,680 Not because he doesn't believe, but because belief has been 498 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,640 costly. Not because he's lost his 499 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:42,280 calling, but because he was losing himself. 500 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,120 He didn't walk away from God. Yeah. 501 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,400 He just tried to retreat from the weight of obedience. 502 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:56,800 And let's be real. Real in the room. 503 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,640 Yeah. That sometimes it's not the 504 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:05,160 enemy that exhausts us. It's the expectations of being 505 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:11,400 faithful. It's not the cold, cold, cold. 506 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,520 Yeah, that breaks us. Yeah. 507 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,320 It's the silence that follows obedience. 508 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:25,480 You prayed and it got worse. You fasted and still got laid 509 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,640 off. You stayed faithful and still 510 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,360 got misunderstood. You're not a weak. 511 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:36,400 You're just human. And Jeremiah shows us in the 512 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,120 text that you can be real with God. 513 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,480 Yeah, I'd still be righteous before him. 514 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:50,440 I've got to get out of here now. But I'm reminded of a story of 515 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:57,280 this old man who was a world famous violinist who had came on 516 00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:02,160 stage one time with this priceless violin in his hand. 517 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:08,480 The orchestra was tuned up real good, the lights had dimmed real 518 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,560 low. Sister Chris, the audience had 519 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:16,239 waited breathlessly and the man begin to play. 520 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:22,239 Yes, Lord, he played so well, Mother, that the sound he was 521 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,800 playing was like heaven kissing the earth. 522 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:31,840 The notes seem to dance all around the walls of that concert 523 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,760 hall, and the crowd was mesmerized. 524 00:34:36,639 --> 00:34:42,800 Then suddenly, the man stopped and he smashes the violin 525 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:49,719 against the floor. Yeah, and he's smashing it until 526 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,760 it's crushed into pieces. Sister Sherry, the crowd is 527 00:34:53,760 --> 00:35:00,760 looking like your eyeballs up in amazement at the story, gasping 528 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:08,760 at what happened, This violinist calmly reaches around and behind 529 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:12,760 him. He pulls out the real violin, 530 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,880 and he takes a second and he yells out to the audience. 531 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:26,080 He says what you just heard came from a cheap imitation, he said. 532 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:30,160 But I want you to know, yeah, that it's not about the the 533 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:37,880 instrument, but it's about the fire in the hands of the one who 534 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,760 plays it. I got to get out of here for 535 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:46,120 real now. But God will let life press down 536 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:52,160 on you to prove the power. They come from you. 537 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:57,640 And there'll be moments, yeah, you feel broken. 538 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:07,120 And when you find find yourself in that place, when he breathes 539 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,880 through you, you still release glory. 540 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:16,600 Don't know how I'm going through it, but I still got glory. 541 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:25,920 Glory to the Lord, but I'm so glad that he even thought 542 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:30,240 Jeremiah had been through this ordeal. 543 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:37,520 Jeremiah shows us him that says that he didn't just stop 544 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:43,840 preaching, he just shut down. He he didn't just leave the mic. 545 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:49,240 He had buried the message, but there's something about burying 546 00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:55,120 the message because at the core of the message is the word. 547 00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,560 And you can't walk away from the platform. 548 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:06,960 Oh my God, let me say it again. You can walk away from the 549 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:13,200 platform, but you can't walk away from what's pulsing in your 550 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:18,960 bones. I believe Bible's so real. 551 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:27,280 Yes, Lord, Jeremiah shares his ordeal with God. 552 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,840 Jeremiah shares his complaints with God. 553 00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:42,680 But as he's there, yes, Lord, He feels the pool of purpose in the 554 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:46,200 middle, in the middle of pressure. 555 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:55,880 The Bible says in verse #9 Then I said, I will not make mention 556 00:37:55,880 --> 00:38:07,760 of Him, not speak anymore in His name, but His word was in my 557 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,920 mind. No, that ain't what your Bible 558 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,360 says. I want to see if you had it 559 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:20,000 open. It says but his word was in my 560 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:23,480 pinky toe. No, that ain't what it said. 561 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:32,320 It says box. His word was in my heart as a 562 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:42,040 burning I. AM shut up in my bones, my Lord, 563 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:46,920 you're. Trying to hold it in turned, 564 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:54,960 tried to sit down. But something stood up inside. 565 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,960 Something. Got a hold of them? 566 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:11,480 Something we ignited him and. Somehow, I'm sorry the word 567 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:20,200 didn't just visit him, but the word inhabited him and I. 568 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:25,240 Got to let you. Know you can't quit when. 569 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:33,680 God made your body. His Tabernacle you can cancel 570 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:40,840 coming to church. You can quit watching online, 571 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,760 but I. Want to let you know. 572 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:51,280 You may even find yourself following the Sunday school. 573 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:57,200 Book away but his word but his. Word. 574 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:08,880 But his word was. Somehow we ignite you even when 575 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:15,520 life has snubbed out the flame of your life. 576 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,520 I can hear. Mama now cooking in the kitchen. 577 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:28,840 And sometimes the flame will go. Out on the stove but. 578 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,680 Mom. But say don't. 579 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:39,720 Wear it, all you got it do is re lighted the pilots. 580 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:48,480 Already on. Don't worry, God is still 581 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:56,280 working in your life. Don't worry, God. 582 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:04,520 Is going to use his word. Like a match and he going to 583 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,200 light you up. That's all I came to tell you. 584 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,120 Happy 1st Sunday, have a good week. 585 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:19,800 But whatever you do, but whatever you do, but whatever 586 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:25,160 you do, don't forget the word of God. 587 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:32,320 Because here's where here's a lap potato shot, a lapid to my 588 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,840 feet. Here's where it is a light to my 589 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,880 path. It may be dark. 590 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:41,920 Come here deep. Help me preach. 591 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:50,960 It may be hard, but I want you to know that God will steal you, 592 00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:57,360 light you up. You may feel cold, you may feel 593 00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:09,000 like you've lost your feeling, but God, God, God, God, God, God 594 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:15,800 will use his own word to light you back up. 595 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:25,040 I don't know how bad it is for you now, but I got one word. 596 00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:30,160 I got one way. I got one way. 597 00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:34,560 I got one way I don't. Want to know what? 598 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,320 It is, I said. I got one word. 599 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,280 Oh y'all don't? Like surprises, I talked. 600 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,480 To my own child. But I got a one word. 601 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:50,600 I almost quit but I got a new fire and I. 602 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:57,200 Came to tell somebody. Quitting might have happened for 603 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:04,680 a moment, but I got a new fire. I found the fire that Moses 604 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:11,640 found him, the burning Bush. I found the fire that fell on 605 00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:14,880 the church on the day of Pentecost. 606 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:22,200 I found the fire that said I'll never leave you nor forsake you. 607 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:37,560 Found the new fire, Somebody said, what's the new fire? 608 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:45,600 Well, the new fire needed some wood, and that wood had a lure 609 00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,400 to it. That wood had to be nailed 610 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:55,160 together, but they put the fire with the wood. 611 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:04,200 I lifted it up and his name was Jesus, and he died. 612 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:07,120 Didn't he die? I. 613 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,360 Don't know what I tell, I didn't decide. 614 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:15,200 No, I said. He died on our old rugged cross. 615 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:21,680 He died just long enough to light me up. 616 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:30,800 He died, but that's not all the story is. 617 00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:37,240 He might have died, but they buried him trying to contain his 618 00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:44,400 fire. But early someday morning, early 619 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:51,880 someday morning, it seemed like it was cool as a cucumber. 620 00:44:52,480 --> 00:45:02,000 But somehow on a Sunday morning, the fire came out The Cave, the 621 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:12,040 fire came out the grave, and the fire is now burning, burning, 622 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:18,960 burning, burning. Help me appreciate, I said. 623 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,280 It's burning and I'm trying to figure it out. 624 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,680 You say Anybody yelts in the room? 625 00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:33,400 Yelts online. That's the Lord I want the Fire 626 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:39,160 Lord. I need the Fire Lord. 627 00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:46,680 Light my fire Lord. I can't stay here. 628 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:57,760 Lord, I need your help. Lord, Lord, Lord. 629 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:02,680 Thank you for tuning in to the Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 630 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,960 Podcast. We pray today's message planted 631 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,480 something in your spirit and gave you the strength to keep 632 00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,960 growing here at the Rock Hill Baptist Church 2. 633 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,440 We're a growing church, and growth starts with one step. 634 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,720 If you're ready to go deeper, visit us online at 635 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:25,360 www.myrockhill2.org and click Next Steps to get connected, 636 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,760 join a ministry, or give your life to Christ. 637 00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:33,240 Be sure to follow the podcast so you never miss a message and 638 00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:36,320 share this episode with someone you know is ready to grow too. 639 00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,080 And remember, no matter what comes your way, you were built 640 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,360 to elevate. Until next time, walk in 641 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,760 purpose, live in power, and grow in grace.