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All right, my Bible in 365. 
Brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at the book of Jeremiah,
and this is one of my favorite 

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prophets of all time. 
I love Jeremiah for a bunch of 

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reasons, and there are so many 
places we can go that I could 

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emphasize this was a struggle 
for me. 

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OK, because there's so much I'd 
like to talk about here, but I 

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am going to do my absolute best 
to give you the basics. 

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Let me simply say this, I just 
finished teaching through the 

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book of Jeremiah. 
Please go online jamescadiz.com 

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I it took me almost two years to
go through. 

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You will love every bit of what 
you hear, and I think it will 

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absolutely bless you. 
Now, what is Jeremiah all about?

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Well, first and foremost, we 
have to start with where 

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Jeremiah ministered. 
He ministered during the final 

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decades of the Kingdom of Judah,
the southern Kingdom of Judah. 

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God called him while he was 
still young. 

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He preached, by the way, for 
roughly 40 years through the 

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reigns of several kings. 
His ministry actually leads 

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right up to the Babylonian 
destruction of Jerusalem on the 

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9th of of 586 PC. 
As a matter of fact, the book of

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Lamentations is Jeremiah 
lamenting over the destruction 

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that he saw on that day. 
Because it was on that day that 

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a lot of people believe that a 
half million men, women and 

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children were killed on that day
in Jerusalem at the hands of the

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Babylonians. 
And Jeremiah repeatedly warned 

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Judah that judgment was coming. 
The people that turned to all 

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kinds of crazy things, 
immorality and idolatry and 

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false religion. 
And by the way, they were making

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political alliances that were 
just absolutely insane instead 

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of trusting in the true and 
living God. 

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And Jeremiah's message was 
extremely unpopular because he 

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had told people what they 
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Matter of fact, he was jailed 
for it. 

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He was beat up for IT. 
People had actually burned his 

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writings and God said you need 
to write them again. 

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I believe that the reason why he
is referred to as the weeping 

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prophet is because of his grief 
that he had over Judah and the 

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judgment that was coming. 
Jeremiah had a heart for the 

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people and he cried over it. 
Yet Jeremiah, he's not simply 

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about destruction. 
He's not. 

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That's not all he talks about 
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God promises restoration, by the
way, including the tremendous 

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promise that's made of the new 
covenant that we read about in 

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Jeremiah chapter 31. 
Judah's fundamental problem, the

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southern Kingdom of Judah was 
not Babylon and the destruction 

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that Babylon gave to them. 
Their fundamental problem was 

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that they had stopped trusting 
in the true and living God and 

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they rebelled against him and 
God judged them, not Babylon. 

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Look what it says in verse 5 of 
Jeremiah chapter 17. 

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It says thus saith the Lord 
cursed be the man that trusteth 

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in man and maketh flesh his arm,
and whose heart departed from 

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the Lord. 
That's heavy. 

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Notice the progression that God 
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Notice the person who's cursed. 
He trusts in man. 

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He makes flesh his strength. 
In other words, he relies upon 

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himself. 
I got this. 

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He becomes his own greatest 
resource. 

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Eventually his heart departs 
from the Lord. 

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That described the whole 
southern Kingdom of Judah. 

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When danger came, instead of 
turning to God, they looked 

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toward human solutions. 
They trusted in political 

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alliances. 
They went to Egypt and Egypt 

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folded. 
There's so many other stories 

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about this. 
They they trusted in military 

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strength, which in essence they 
had none. 

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They even trusted in other 
foreign nations and false 

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prophets. 
Their own religious system void 

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of God was something they 
trusted into. 

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It's, it's crazy. 
I mean, think about this. 

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Jeremiah talked to them about 
this. 

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It was one of his very first 
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They still had the temple. 
They had religious activity that

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they were giving themselves to, 
yet their hearts had departed 

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from God. 
And Jeremiah said that the very 

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beginning of the book, he says 
that you can have religion 

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around you while your heart is 
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And that's dangerous. 
Jeremiah also tells us what 

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happens to the person who ends 
up trusting in man instead of 

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the Lord. 
And that's very important that 

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we understand it. 
Look what he says, for he shall 

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be like the the, the heath in 
the desert. 

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What does that mean? 
It means Jeremiah says the 

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person who does that is going to
be dry. 

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There's going to be barrenness. 
They're going to be isolated. 

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There's going to be a unique 
inability to flourish. 

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The the problem is not nearly 
his circumstance. 

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It's the fact that his very 
source is wrong. 

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If your confidence, please 
listen to me when I tell you 

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this, and I know I'm preaching 
to the choir, to most of you, 

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but if your confidence rests 
entirely upon something that's 

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human, eventually you will 
discover that human strength 

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actually has limits. 
OK, If it's a human government 

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or if it's money, whatever it 
might be, they all have limits. 

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And that's exactly what Judah 
was about to discover when 

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Jeremiah was speaking to them. 
Look at it, verse 17, sorry, 

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chapter 17, verse seven. 
Look what he says. 

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Blessed is the man that trusteth
in the Lord and whose hope the 

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Lord is. 
I want you to notice that that 

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Jeremiah does not say blessed is
the man who never experiences 

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trouble. 
That's an insane assertion. 

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The issue is who do you trust in
times of trouble and in times of

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happiness. 
Look what he says that person 

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will be like he shall be verse 
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He shall be as a tree planted by
the waters and that spreadeth 

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out her roots by the river sank.
Kind of sounds like the Psalms. 

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I just love it. 
Notice something important about

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what I just read and shall not 
see. 

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When heat cometh. 
Did you notice that the heat 

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still comes? 
Think about that for just a 

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second. 
The person who trusts God is not

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promised a life without 
difficulty, without heat. 

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Jeremiah talks about the year of
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The difference between people 
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God is going to be where their 
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One depends upon circumstances 
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and the moment and the other is 
drawing from a source that 

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circumstances cannot take away. 
That is our God. 

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He is the source of living water
that we drink from. 

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If you look at verse 9 of 
Jeremiah 17, it says the 

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hardest, deceitful above all 
things. 

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Notice this and desperately 
wicked. 

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The question that he asks is, 
who can know it? 

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I think that this verse makes 
perfect sense when you read it 

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in its context. 
Why do we repeatedly put our 

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confidence in the wrong things? 
That's the question that's being

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answered here. 
Because why? 

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Because we cannot blindly trust 
our own hearts. 

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Our hearts can easily deceive 
us. 

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We can literally convince 
ourselves that we are trusting 

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God. 
What we're actually trusting in 

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ourselves or money or people or 
many of the other things that we

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tend to trust. 
Verse 10 gives us the real 

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answer here. 
Verse 10 says I, the Lord, 

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search the heart. 
I try the reins. 

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We may deceive ourselves, but 
the reality of it is we cannot 

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deceive God. 
And that's the message of 

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Jeremiah. 
I love what he says. 

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Blessed is the man that trusteth
in the Lord. 

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Here's the question that I would
ask you, and this is an 

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important question to be 
confronted with. 

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Where are your roots? 
Because let me tell you 

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something, the heat's going to 
come. 

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The time of drought is going to 
come. 

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Your circumstances will 
undoubtedly change. 

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People will undoubtedly fail 
you, and they will fail 

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themselves. 
Human strength is only tied to 

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just a few circumstantial 
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It never lasts. 
The question is yet again, when 

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the drought comes, OK, where are
your roots? 

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Are your roots deeper than the 
drought itself? 

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Blessed is the man who trusted 
in the Lord, whose hope the Lord

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is. 
That's what Jeremiah says. 

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That's why I love Bible and 365.
I love this ministry because it 

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teaches us. 
It teaches us to trust God by 

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knowing His Word and doing what 
His Word says. 

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That's what's happening to you. 
God is molding and shaping you 

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every single day. 
It is exciting. 

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God bless you.