(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you all all right it's great to have you all back here with us this evening for the Baptist Church. This time we'll go through announcements if you don't have bulletin just slip your hand up real high we'll make sure that we get one out to you if you open up to the first page we'll go through this quickly we got the service time Sunday morning at 1030 Sunday evening again at 5 p.m. then Wednesday night 7 is our Bible study we'll be in Psalm 58 this week we've got the soul winning opportunities listed there as well as the salvation and the baptisms I forgot to count up the salvation for the week so prior to today if you had a salvation just earlier in the week slip your hand up real quick we those count yes sir one for Saturday amen all right anyone else have anything prior to today yeah mark reports all the numbers for the group for the for his scheduled time he sends those to me so yeah I appreciate that you had a chance to go out there cool all right very good so how about then for today if you went out so winning today and had some salvation step your hand up yes sir one two one there and one back there one and one over here and am I missing one over here anybody else I think I could see everybody now sorry we're gonna we're gonna adjust this is this a little a little bit of news you know we're gonna the Pope it's not gonna stay here I'm actually gonna move it here where I could you got to see like like everybody but before we do that I need to I want I want this to look nicer so we've got plans for for making things look nicer along this wall in general so just a little heads up what we're planning on doing you don't quote me on any time frame on that I've got a few things on my plate but it is in the works it'll get done hopefully this year if you're gonna hold me to anything try to hold me to getting it done this year we want to add a lot more things so there's a lot more artwork and just colorful walls and things we're gonna have around the building I have the inspection scheduled for Tuesday so Tuesday morning we should be getting our good to go which is also I've been waiting for before we start any more projects is just getting the clearance from the the fire marshal and getting that inspection taken care of so looking forward to that prayer goes well I'm pretty confident and it will especially if we get the same guy that was out here last time he made the notes told us what we had to do completed all those things that he that he required including our brand new doors which by the way if you come in early especially if you come in early and open up try to make a chance to talk to me about opening the doors it's it's not a big deal I'll explain later why there's a special way I kind of want you to do it but most of you don't shouldn't care at all it shouldn't matter to you at all if you're not here either opening up or locking up it doesn't matter and if you ever were to come here on an off day or something I need to get access to the building you don't need to know a special way to do things it's literally only for when we're having service but I'll go over that if I haven't talked to you about it please come and talk to me about it so I can just show you how I want you to do that and why and why I want to do it that way so all right enough of that housekeeping stuff counted up our salvation offering totals were listed down there on the bottom through the month of May prayer requests we heard all the updates this morning from brother DJ with his family and then we added Jimmy on here sorry he didn't get in print but but we I put him I wrote him down again here for the the break-in that he experienced and trying to get his his his goods back and stuff like that and then we've added holdfast Baptist Church to the prayer list any other updates anything new since this morning all right continuing on here we've got our five-year anniversary planned June 24th 25th it's gonna be a lot of fun try to make it out here if you if you travel if you're traveling distances to get here talk to me about hotels for the like especially if you're gonna go soul winning the key is the soul winning here we we do our best and we'll offer oftentimes we'll offer hotel stays for people who are traveling long distances when we're doing so winning events that if you're gonna put in the work you're gonna put in the labor and go out soloing with us that we will you know usually provide at least a meal and then provide some lodging as well so talk to me about that if that's if that's you if you're in that camp of making longer distance to get here and you want to be a part of these efforts so we do that any big soul winning event or thing like this isn't a huge soul winning event but it's still a big enough event we got three hours of soul winning in the morning and if you want to become come and be a part of that and get out here to make sure you're here on time and here for church the next day talk to me about that and we'll look at getting some hotels booked for you for that event but it's gonna be awesome pastor Mihiel be here great preacher it's a good friend looking forward to being out here and you won't want to miss that so when we go out to especially we go out soul winning in the coming weeks as you're inviting people to come to church let them know that we're having this big event here there's gonna be a free lunch provided after the service it'll be just really nice laid-back it'll be fun things to do fun things for kids so especially you talk to people talk families to be like hey you know we'd love to have you come and visit you come visit us today but you know you know there's a special event I just really want to make sure you're aware of that's gonna be our anniversary on June 25th so just kind of plant that in your mind so you could bring that out when you're when you're preaching the gospel and in the local areas here to let people know we're gonna have a bigger day so really looking forward to that may challenge is a baptism challenge so if you have been involved in encouraging someone with getting baptized that is you get a prize for that now this just reminded me of something else I decided to do and I'm gonna make this retro active too so I I've decided with baptisms here in our church you know other churches I know I've received like a certificate of baptism and other churches do things like that but what I decided that I want to do is our church will provide you with a nice Bible with your name imprinted on the front so we'll get you a nice Bible with your name imprinted if you get if you get baptized here at our church and I will apply that retroactive so if you if you're still an active member so if people came we got baptized and left our church hey get your butt back in church and we'll get that Bible for you all right but yeah it's it's I think I think it's pretty cool is something I did personally for my son and I was thinking you know what this is something that would be a nice thing for for just a church and maybe even incentivize people say hey you know we get someone saved come get baptized and we'll make sure that you get a nice you know a nice Bible for yourself they'll have your name on it and everything else and then we could record in the Bible the date of the of the you know if their salvation if they know it or the definitely the day of their baptism and present it as a nice Bible for you so that is something cool that I just wanted to let people be aware of now give me some time give me some show me some grace with with getting things ordered and taken care of if you've had baptisms here get just just letting you know right now I plan on doing this but give me a little bit time to get it you get all the backlog now complete and brought up to date so but it's just one more incentive I think it's gonna be helpful also like I said telling people hey another reason to get them in a church and another reason then to come back to church so you get baptized here sometimes people come for one service they get baptized we don't see them again be like hey man you're gonna get a Bible a really nice Bible so come back and what you know we'll get that to you I don't know hopefully it works either way someone's born again they're baptized they need a nice Bible anyways read the Word of God so we will we'll start doing that here real soon you know effective now June challenge attempt to give the gospel at least one person every single day of the month I went over that in detail this morning if you have any questions about that just let me know there was one thing that's come up in the past if you're if you're sick like if you're just if you're ill okay don't worry about missing the challenge we won't count those days against you if you're literally like like ill and you shouldn't be going out in the public we will give you a pass okay we don't want you you know going out and you know vomiting or something as you're trying to give the gospel to someone or whatever like just take it easy you know they take a day to get well whatever but I know you want to be real hardcore about this but let's just be reasonable so the challenges are all about the spirit of the challenge anyways that's the whole point is I hope everyone's learning and growing and and applying these things to our lives so that we can we can be focused on things more spiritually minded in our life all right Bible memory passage Hebrew 7 verses 15 through 28 the deadline is tonight who has already completed this and quoted it and you're done and you're just waiting for a prize now one who is going to have this done one two okay good to know I might actually have prizes for you next week so there's not a huge number of people then then I still have some prizes sitting around that might be good for that so you but you got some midnight tonight next week if you wanted to quote the entire passage verses 1 through 28 because that's what we had done previously was verses 1 through 14 so if you want to put it all together there's another opportunity to get a prize for the whole chapter and then we'll be starting into Hebrews chapter 8 so if you didn't do chapter 7 you're not gonna do it you can get a head start on chapter 8 now to to try to get that done before the deadline before we start that upcoming birthdays and anniversaries listen there through the month of June and on the back we've got more of our events we've got the men's preaching class June 17th Saturday 10 a.m. make it here for that if you want to come and and join us for that class we've got the soul winning of course on the 24th the anniversary celebration and 25th and Pastor Steven Anderson from faith word Baptist Church will be here on July 5th to preach for us during that evening service that's about it for our announcements so I'm gonna pass the service back over to brother Peter who will lead us in our next song Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh in church while the offering plates are being passed around Jeremiah chapter 42 that is Jeremiah chapter 42 Jeremiah chapter 42 then all the captains of the forces and Johannon the son of Korea and Jezzaniah the son of Hoshia and all the people from the least even to unto the greatest came near and said unto Jeremiah the Prophet let we beseech thee our supplication be accepted before thee and pray for us unto the Lord thy God even for all this remnant for we are left but a few of many as thine eyes do behold us the Lord thy God may show us the way wherein we may walk and the thing that we may do then Jeremiah the Prophet said unto them I have heard you behold I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words and it shall come to pass that whatsoever thing the Lord shall answer you I will declare it unto you I will keep nothing back from you then they said to Jeremiah the Lord be a true and faithful witness between us if we do not even according to all things for which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us whether it be good or whether it be evil we will obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we send thee that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God and it came to pass after ten days that the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah then called he Johannon the son of Korea and all the captains of the forces which were with him and all the people from the least even to the greatest and said unto them thus say of the Lord the God of Israel unto whom he sent me to present your supplication before him if ye will still abide in this land then will I build you and not pull you down and I will plant you and not pluck you up for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you be not afraid of the king of Babylon of whom he are afraid be not afraid of him say of the Lord for I am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand and I will show mercies unto you that he may have mercy upon you and cause you to return to your own land but if you say we will not dwell in the land now they'll be the voice of the Lord your God saying no but we will go into the land of Egypt where we shall see no war nor hear the sound of the trumpet nor have hunger of bread and there will be where we dwell and now therefore hear the word of the Lord ye remnant of Judah thus say of the Lord of hosts the God of Israel if he wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt and go to sojourn there then it shall come to pass that the sword which he feared shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt and the famine where of you were afraid shall follow close after you there in Egypt and there ye shall die so shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there they shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them for thus say of the Lord of hosts the God of Israel as mine anger and my fairy hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall shall my fury be poured forth upon you when ye shall enter into Egypt and ye shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach and ye shall see this place no more the Lord hath said concerning you oh ye remnant of Judah go ye not into Egypt know suddenly that I have admonished you this day for ye dissembled in your hearts when you set me unto the Lord your God saying pray for us unto the Lord our God and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say so declare unto us and we will do and now I have this day declared it to you but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God nor anything for the which he has sent me unto you now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence in the place whither he desired to go and to sojourn let's pray father God we just praise you and thank you and we thank you for Pastor Burzins and the word he'll be bringing forth onto this congregation filled him with your spirit with boldness to be able to preach the word that you have sent for him and God would just praise you and thank you in Jesus name Amen all right so much to unpack here in Jeremiah chapter 42 we actually want to want to give you the context here a little bit more you just read the entire chapter out loud but where we're at here in history just in general if you recall Jeremiah is the preacher that was preaching to Israel preaching to Judah prior to the captivity into Babylon and not just prior to the captivity but during that invasion and while they were then defeated and overthrown and then even afterwards so where we find ourselves in Jeremiah 42 is after the vast majority people have already been taken captive okay and what why won't you understand about Jeremiah just specifically is that he was not a positive only preacher right he was preaching the Word of God and he preached the whole counsel of God he preached exactly what God wanted him and told him to preach he preached the Word of the Lord he gave a lot of warnings but his message was a lot of doom and gloom it was a lot of get right with God because judgments coming hey we're gonna get judged right there we're gonna be invaded we're gonna get taken over this is gonna happen and people hated him for it and he was thrown into prison for it and you know people are telling him not to say that and they were saying that he's conspiring with the enemies and everything else and all these false accusations and lies and people didn't want to hear what he had to say and they didn't listen to him and what I'm gonna be preaching about this evening is godly counsel godly counsel and really it's about receiving godly counsel and being able to receive it Jeremiah is is preaching and trying to give the people godly counsel trying to advise them hey this is what God wants you to do and especially in Jeremiah was specifically what he wants them to do we tell them whether to fight whether or not to fight what is it what is it exactly that they need to do now after the captivity or say when I say after the captivity after the invasion of Babylon into Judah into Jerusalem when they when they conquer them Jeremiah is basically at that point finally set free he was a prisoner during that invasion and then was able to be set free of course the Babylonians were basically like hey Jeremiah you could do whatever you want they let you want to come back with us come back with us you want to stay here stay here they set up who was supposed to be the ruler over Judah at that time because they'd taken the king captive already and brought him back and they were setting up who they wanted in charge of that area at that time now what ended up happening is this man named Ishmael it was rumored that he was going to try to take the power back he was of the seed royal he would have been in the succession of kings and he wanted the throne but the man that they put in charge you know he he got wind of this one of his one of his supporters said hey you know Ishmael is planning on doing this and the guy's like no no no you're wrong you speak falsely about Ishmael he's not gonna do that and what happens Ishmael did it and he kills him okay so then what happens is Ishmael has now killed the leader that the Babylonians put into place they're the ones that placed him there so now he's gonna stink before Babylon and they're gonna be mad they're gonna be upset that he killed the leader that they wanted in place now that they're in charge of the land and what he did then was he just decided that he was gonna take everybody captive basically all the rest of the people there and lead him out and that's where I want to pick up here in chapter 41 because it just precedes 42 rest read that entire chapter in verse 13 of chapter 41 will pick up reading here the Bible reads now it came to pass that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Korea and all the captains of the forces that were with him then they were glad so these were other people that had come out that were not with Ishmael they didn't like Ishmael they found out what he did and that he's taken all his people captive and they came out now to free the captives and to deal with Ishmael so when the people that were taken captive by Ishmael they see this they've got rejuvenated a little bit thinking like great now finally here's someone to help us and stand for us because they didn't want to go with Ishmael either either they didn't really want anything to do with the guy but he had just defeated the leader and he's kind of just making up what he wants to do and people are going along with it unwillingly so when the people saw that they had a deliverer show up it says in verse 14 so all the people that Ishmael carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned and went on to Johanan the son of Korea so the people just like see you later Ishmael we're out of here right they didn't they didn't even need to physically be freed they're just like you know nuts to you but these people they didn't they didn't know what to do they kind of followed him they didn't really want to but if they felt they kind of feel like if they stayed behind they're just gonna feel the wrath of Babylon now because the leader is dead and they didn't really know where to go and who to follow and Ishmael was was you know taking them captive and then they see Johanan show up so they all run to Johanan they're like we know this guy we like this guy and then it says in verse 15 but Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites so Ishmael just flees he escaped with eight of his guys and he's done he's out of the picture he flees to Ammon and stays there verse 16 then took Johanan the son of Korea and all the captains of the forces that were with him all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah from Mizpah after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahicham even mighty men of war and Gedaliah son of Ahicham was a guy that Ishmael slew he's the guy that was set up in charge and he died it says even mighty men of war and the women and the children the eunuchs whom he had brought again from Gibeon so this is that whole crew now that Johanan is bringing back with him and they departed verse 17 and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham which is by Bethlehem to go to enter into Egypt so after all this is said and done Johanan the son of Korea he's saying okay here's the plan we want to go into Egypt now and the reason why they want to go into Egypt is because they're afraid of Babylon they're afraid they're gonna come in now and and cause even more damage since like I said the the man they put in charge was killed and they're you know they don't know where blame is gonna be cast and what's gonna happen to them like the best thing we could do now is flee into Egypt Egypt can protect us Egypt hasn't been defeated yet they feel safe they feel like this is a strong place we could be safe in Egypt that was their mindset that was their plan that was the intention was to go to enter into Egypt verse 18 says because of the Chaldeans for they were afraid of them because Ishmael the son of Netheniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahicham whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land that's why they wanted to flee into Egypt now we get into chapter 42 where we read the entire chapter out loud I wanted to give the backstory so you know who is this Johanan the son of Korea how did he even get to this position what are they planning on doing what all happened before we get to because it's important this is important understanding as we see what they're doing here and why what they're doing is wicked and wrong and everything else so look at verse number one in chapter 42 the Bible reads then all the captains of the forces and Johanan the son of Korea and Jezeniah son of Oshaiah and all the people from the least even under the greatest came near and said unto Jeremiah the prophet let we beseech thee our supplication be accepted before thee and pray for us unto the Lord thy God even for all this remnant for we are left but a few of many as thine eyes do behold us that the Lord thy God may show us the way wherein we may walk and the thing that we may do so they're they're doing the right thing by going to Jeremiah and saying hey we want to know what's the right thing to do what is it that we should do Jeremiah now look Jeremiah as I mentioned he's been hated he wasn't popular people didn't like what he had to say he was preaching a negative message but he's pretty vindicated at this point okay you know he's prophesying stuff that was going to happen people hated him for that but the invasion already happened they've already been defeated all the other prophets were saying oh yeah God's with us we're gonna fight the Babylonian army that God's gonna push him back and we're not gonna be defeated and we're gonna stay here and this Jeremiah guy he's the one that's the false prophet also they're so right well we found out who's true right where are all those guys now that we're saying peace peace when there is no peace right they were the ones prophesying peace Jeremiah is the one saying no doom and gloom right we're not gonna win this God is judging us because we've been wicked us and our fathers and no one's listening to the word of the Lord and everyone's going after idols yeah we're being judged but it makes sense now to go to Jeremiah Jeremiah has been elevated and hopefully in the eyes of the people in the sense that what he said was right he must have you know communication with the Lord he must be a real prophet well what do we do before we decide to leave and to go into Egypt let's ask the Prophet what do we do now the problem with this people as we're gonna see as we're gonna uncover is that they really don't care what's the right thing to do they're only interested in hearing one answer which is the answer that they've already determined of what they're going to do why am I making a point of this because people still do this today people like to have a show one of being godly of going to the man of God and asking what should I do in this issue what would you do I don't know what to do here what should I do and then when wisdom is provided so many people just like well that's not what they wanted to hear so they just do what they were going to do anyways and just pay no regard to well here's what the Bible says here's what we're you know what that's not what you really wanted anyways was it because some people all they want is confirmation if it's going to fit what they're planning on doing to just feel like oh yeah cool well that's what I'm gonna do anyways so great I'm glad it fits in with God's plan but that should never be our approach to deciding what we should do or trying to seek hey is this something that I should do or not it doesn't matter what you were thinking before if you can see clearly this is God's counsel this is the counsel of the Lord then you follow that but let's keep reading here because it just gets worse and worse with these people and the statements that they make I mean they start off just by saying hey we want you to inquire of God go ask God for us what should we do because we just want to know what's the right way okay verse 4 then Jeremiah the Prophet said unto them I have heard you behold I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words and it shall come to pass that whatsoever thing the Lord shall answer you I will declare it unto you I will keep nothing back from you know that's the man of God that you want to find if you want counsel if you want advice about something find the guy that's gonna say whatever God said is what I'm gonna tell you and I won't hold anything back from you that is who you want providing you with counsel you don't don't seek out the guy that everybody loves that the world loves right we see that who was it that was was a Jehoshaphat and he's like he was going to help Ahab and they're going to battle and there's all these prophets saying yeah yeah you know God's with you and telling them how great words of it and John's like do we have a prophet of the Lord here besides like is there is there is there someone else here that we could talk to like yeah you got these guys over here but like can we like get a prophet of the Lord around he's like well there's just got one guy my Kaia but you know I hate him he always says things that are bad about me you know he's always prophesying evil against me it's like yeah but is it true I mean he's not holding back he's telling you what you need to hear and we need more of that what we need we need more counselors that are not afraid to tell the truth you know nowadays more than ever it's like no you're not a man you're a woman like like you need you peoples need to be able to tell people this is the truth we're not gonna play games we're not gonna dance around the issue and try to all pretend that we're gonna make-believe land and that somehow it's gonna be helpful to people and oh no kids you can't they have a different pronoun that they want to be called by so you better just start calling something else look it's confusion it's weird it's bizarre it's a lie look people need to be told the truth and if it hurts their feelings too bad and the heroes the receivers need to be prepared to receive what's true no matter how it makes you feel no matter what the consequence ends up being for you you need to know what's right and if anyone is planning on being a man of God and being someone who wants to preach the word whether behind the Pope or not it doesn't matter you need to be prepared to just give the whole truth and not hold back there's an instance that came up earlier in my ministry in Arizona in in Prescott Valley and I had a couple start coming to church to go met him out soul winning led one of them to Christ they came to church and they were engaged to be married and they had questions for me after a church service and so I was I was answering some of the questions and it came up that one of them was married and divorced in the past and they were looking at getting married and and all this other stuff so I said well look I have to tell you this and I showed him the Bible now look I didn't even tell them what I thought I literally turned to the passage in Matthew where Jesus talks about you know he that that marrieth her that is put away committed adultery okay and it's like the woman got it and she started to have tears welling up in her eyes and the man just still didn't get it and she even just told I didn't even do any expounding I just read the verses for him before I could even speak she started crying a little bit and he's like what's wrong you know like what she's like we can't get married she got it she understood it was it was right there as clear as black and white and you know what those people never came back to our church but you know what they got they got what they needed and they heard what they needed to hear they needed to hear the truth and who would I be if I withheld going oh I don't know if they could handle this I don't know if they could take this to censor the Word of God and to not provide them what God says about a subject but of course you have to tell them look all I can do is provide you are you seeking counsel you're seeking you have questions here's what the Bible says now you do with that what you will now those people I have no idea if they ever got married or what happened to them or anything like that don't know but you need to be able to find out and seek out counsel for someone who's not afraid to hold back the truth from you you need the truth and Jeremiah is promising that it's like whatever it is like I'll go talk to Lord for you but I will tell you what God says you could you could count on that okay I won't hold anything back from you verse 5 then they said to Jeremiah the Lord be a true and faithful witness between us if we do not even according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us now that's a pretty bold statement as God is our witness you know we will do according to everything that you say that God's gonna send to us through you I rephrase that but that's what he's saying there we'll do it whatever it is whatever God tells you we're gonna do it and as God is our witness we swear to do this is essentially what they're saying sounds great right because that would be absolutely right and the right way to approach it and the right thing to do if you mean it verse 6 whether it be good or whether it be evil we obey the voice of the Lord our God to whom we send thee that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the Lord our God yeah you've got that right it would be well with you if you obeyed God that's what he wants you to do listen to what he has to say and then follow it and just do it and they're saying it if it's good if it's evil doesn't matter we will do it and the hyper spiritual people they want to talk the talk all day long of how much I follow God and I read my Bible so much I know it's like and then it's like you're faced with something that God wants you to do or God's commanding you to do you know well that's not what I want to hear I'll do anything the Bible says yeah well you know what it says to preach gospel every creature yeah well I'll still I'll do whatever God that's not what God wants for me God didn't give me that gift God might have given you that give you didn't give me that gift here's what it says jump down to verse number 19 we already read the whole thing I don't want to reread the whole chapter again we're gonna see now Jeremiah's response verse 19 the Lord had said concerning you over you remember remnant of Judah go ye not into Egypt remember that's where they wanted to go that was what was in their heart go not into Egypt is anything unclear about that statement like no the answer is no but what if we know but we only want to know okay don't go in Egypt he's not he's not dancing around any he's not he's not you know being careful his words don't go in Egypt no certainly that I have admonished you this day just understand I told you very clearly today I advise you don't go into Egypt I know that's where you want to go and God said no for ye dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me unto the Lord your God saying pray for us unto the Lord our God and according unto all that the Lord our God shall say so declare unto us and we will do it he's calling him out saying I knew you were faking in any ways from the very beginning you dissembled in your heart we told me to go ask God for you you already were going back in your heart you didn't really mean it and now I have this day declared it to you but you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God nor anything for the which he has sent me unto you it's like you've already shown how much you care about the Word of the Lord I mean Jeremiah is going like I've been preaching to you guys for all these years and you still haven't listened what makes you think you're gonna listen now verse 22 now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence in the place whither you desire to go into sojourn and you know what at the end of the day that's all the preacher can do the counselor the one who's gonna give the wisdom here is just say all right I mean look people are gonna make the choices you're gonna do but just know this hey judges are you're so judgmental Jeremiah what do you oh yes the sword family oh yeah it's so bad to go into Egypt huh Jeremiah you're so judgmental why do you have to say things like that can't you just see that being being the case if this was like happening today in America yeah it's judgmental because it's God's judgment coming on you because you're not obeying him okay yeah judgmental and you know what there's many sins and many things that people can do that could bring the same exact punishment on you and and we need to hear that counsel from the Lord too and people shouldn't be getting offended by it and people shouldn't just think well it doesn't apply to me and I'm just gonna do whatever I want anyways and oh is it okay for me to shack up with my boyfriend before we get married I mean we're playing I getting married anyways but I mean is it okay you ask that question you've already signed the lease for your apartment you're gonna move in together but now you're like you don't you just want to be told yes it's okay because if you're told it's not okay you're gonna do what you want to do anyways don't even ask the question then what's the point you want to you want to pretend like you're spiritual and pretend like you care no you need to really care let's flip over to chapter 43 so Jeremiah gives them the warning he tells them look this is what you are told to do is what your command to do I've admonished you I've told you don't go in Egypt chapter 43 verse number one about says and it came to pass that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking on all the people all the words of the Lord their God for which the Lord their God had sent him to them even all these words so and look Jeremiah did what he said he was gonna do everything that God said he didn't hold anything back he told him and he might have even added a few of his own words but you know he told them everything that God said so that's it he did it all chapter 43 confirms this he says everything they needed that that he said to do then verse 2 says then spake Azariah the son of Oshaiah and Johanan the son of Korea and all the proud men saying unto Jeremiah thou speakest falsely the Lord our God hath not sent thee to say go not into Egypt a sojourn there you're saying you're lying God didn't say that to you got that to drop really well then why did you ask because they just want Jeremiah to be the yes man and notice too it says and all the proud men and we literally were just dealing with this today brother Dakota was dealing with this outsold in today the people who are proud don't want to hear anything different than what they think they already know I mean the proud people well we we want to go and do this we think this is right for us we think we need to go into Egypt but we'll just go ahead and ask Jeremiah anyways is to say that we asked the man of God and and inquire of the Lord and you know put on this big show like we'll actually listen to what God said but then if you come back and say something different well then it must not be of God because I mean we know that God wants us to do this anyways why did you ask it's like I know what God wants for my life and I'm just not gonna open up the Bible anyways I'm just not gonna look at it and see and then you do open up the Bible like oh well that maybe I shouldn't do that well no I need to do that anyways this this must be a false version now the scribes made a mistake scribal error that's not right you know let me find another Bible that says whatever it is that I want to do or want it to say like the people who want to say that the book I literally had someone I brought this up before who doesn't say anything about homosexuality it's like are you kidding me what perversion of the Bible are you reading it doesn't say anything that's what everyone gets all mad about it does say something it's like well but it doesn't say anything about it okay pride is one of the main reasons that people don't accept counsel and if you have a problem accepting counsel for people you say you know it'd be a good idea you have this thought and say you know it'd be a good idea to get some biblical advice on this and you go and seek counsel check your pride so that if you hear something you don't really want to hear you can still accept the godly counsel you can still expect except what's right the problem is that people still just want to say that they know better and you know even if it's not godly just think about this if you have one person that has tons of experience in an area and you have like very little to none and you want to go ask the advice of someone who's been doing this for all these years hey what would you do if it you know and they tell you what they would do why would you turn around then just like well I'm just gonna do something different anyways or I'm not gonna listen I'm not gonna it's stupid right I mean seriously like like like if I were to go to this is a perfect example if I were to go to brother Matt well Matt works really well with with small engines and motors and stuff carburetor all this stuff I know almost nothing okay I've taken apart a little motor one time and tried to watch a video on YouTube on how to put it back together and stuff but like so like that's my whole experience and if I were to say hey man what would you do if you're having this problem and you've got this backfire and this other stuff and then he tells me well it sounds like it's this and I think you should you should open this up and check this and clean this out and do you know and I was okay yeah thanks Matt I'll do that and then I go home and it's like that Matt like I know I know what I need to do it's foolishness maybe stupid be stupid but this is like what people do with the Word of God and a lot of times people who don't know that much about the Bible maybe they've never even read the Bible for themselves cover to cover and you know they ask a question of someone who's much more experienced much more versed been doing this for a long time read the Bible multiple times has you know at least some level of respect in the sense that you could hear them have a conversation talk about the Bible make sense talk about things that are not just crazy whatever and then you ask them for their advice and then it's just like take it take the council way too often it doesn't happen now you know the Bible says in Proverbs 12 say in Jeremiah 40 we're gonna go to actually chapter 44 we kind of do a little Bible study mini Bible study through this these passages in Jeremiah Proverbs 12 15 says the way of a fool is right in his own eyes but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise you know the fool just thinks that everything that they think is right and look you're not right all the time if you think that you are a fool if you're just right all the time you're a fool because nobody is right all the time there's plenty of areas that we don't have knowledge of and it's makes sense and it's wise to seek counsel from someone else you know it's a good example of this too like you want to seek counsel from someone like how about on raising children right you want you want counsel for someone who's raising children you know you don't go you don't you wouldn't necessarily go the person has no children to get the counselor you go the person has the most children and their children are always really well behaved that's what you want to go to you want marriage advice you want marriage counsel and vice and hey man you know like like what does it take to just have commit your life to someone and spend just decades together and stay married and and through all the seasons of life and having children and having children move out and all these various areas and points where people might tend to get divorced how do you stay through it all well you don't go to the person who's been married five times on advice on how to stay married you know what not to do right you don't know if they have it right the fifth time go to the person who's only been married to one person for 50 years or whatever you know go to go to that couple ask them go to people who succeed go to people who know and then when you ask don't just forsake their knowledge or treat it like it's nothing and just look for the for the answer that you want chapter 44 look at verse number 10 Jeremiah so we write about the proud men right saying that Jeremiah is wrong oh no no you're lying Jeremiah because you just decided to start lying then for some unknown reason it says all the proud men look at verse number 10 they are not humbled even unto this day talking about the same group people they're not humbled these people aren't humbled neither have they feared nor walked in my law nor in my statutes that I set before you and before your father so this is the Lord talking about these people you said they're still not humbled like they've been defeated they've been conquered they've been the vast majority of them taken captive they're still not humbled they still don't care about about what God says that's pretty stiff-necked verse 11 therefore thus said the Lord of Lord of hosts the God of Israel behold I will set my face against you for evil and to cut off all Judah now before I even continue I forgot to because we didn't read it all we read it in the whole chapter but when Jeremiah got the word from the Lord saying not to go into Egypt because you could either he also prophesied hey Egypt's gonna be conquered too and he even actually hid a rock in some clay and some mortar and he said you know what I'm this rock right here that the king of Babylon is gonna set up his throne like right here like right in this spot he's gonna be here and set up his throne right here because Egypt's gonna be destroyed you think you could have this confidence in Egypt uh-uh not gonna work for you so it's kind of like you asked the question we think we should go here it's not gonna turn out for you just listen to God listen God's already telling you the right thing to do and he promised them look if you just stay there I'll protect you you'll be okay you'll be able to plant down you'll be able to do that was the word of the Lord to Jeremiah just stay and it's like why wouldn't you wanted that they wanted to stay in you they didn't want to go into Egypt for any other reason than out of fear of what they thought might happen to them but really they wanted to stay home I mean they should have wanted to stay home it was the best answer anyways it's like the best answer to what must I do to be saved is just believe believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you know some people just don't want to accept that think you gotta do something look that's the best answer you could possibly even even if you were to choose how is it that a person should be saved and it's up to you it's not up to God well you make it really easy right and God already did that for you he made it easy it's not up to you it's up to God but he made it easy for you it's like the best the best option ever I can't lose it I mean he's already bought and paid for I see it acceptance it's a gift great cool thanks just accept it humble yourself verse 11 therefore thus said the Lord of hosts the God of Israel behold I will set my face against you for evil and to cut off all Judah and I will take the remnant of Judah that have set their faces to go in the land of Egypt a soldier in there and they shall all be consumed and fall in the land of Egypt they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine they shall die from the least even under the greatest by the sword and by the famine and they shall be an execration and an astonishment and a curse and a reproach for I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt as I have punished Jerusalem by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence so that none of the remnant of Judah which are gone into the land of Egypt a soldier in there shall escape or remain that they should return into the land of Judah to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there for none shall return but such as shall escape so he's saying they want to come back they should have just listened the first time but now you're not gonna come back you made up your mind you've chosen Egypt guess what now you're gonna die there is basically what God's saying you you want to come back but it's too late for you you've already rejected the word of the Lord verse 15 then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods and all the women that stood by a great multitude even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt and path rose answered Jeremiah now I'm sorry for not reading more of the context here but it's a lot I mean we're kind of going through some of these chapters and a lot of stuff here I'm trying to make this as quick as possible but the people weren't regarding the Lord from the beginning they asked the question because they felt for some reason that they should but they didn't accept the advice the advice and this is one of the reasons why Jeremiah already knew they weren't gonna accept it these people had been involved in their idolatry and they worshiped the queen of heaven there is no queen of heaven it's a false god and they were burning incense and and here's the other thing that was happening and this is kind of a whole nother rabbit hole to go down which we're not gonna we're not gonna invest time down that rabbit hole tonight but it's this backward society where we see the women are all in charge and kind of dictating what's gonna happen and the men are just these henpeck men doing whatever the women want to do the women are the one that are burning their wives to the queen of heaven because I'll tell you what a man isn't gonna just choose to follow some God that like if you're gonna just pick some false God to make it a woman to be the great leader of everything and the creator of everything God's a man I mean God is God but but God is male there's God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and those are male masculine you know man was created in God's image and the woman was recreated from man but man was created in God's image anyways I don't want to go too deep down that rabbit hole but what we see here is the the the women the wives are burning incense and the women stood by a great multitude even all the people that dwelt the land of Egypt pathos answered Jeremiah saying as for the word that thou has spoken unto us in the name of Lord we will not hearken on thee we're not gonna listen to you there's loudmouth women just doing we're gonna do what we want to do we're gonna burn cakes in the Queen of Heaven and you can't stop us and the men are just like yeah but we will certainly do whatsoever thing go a fourth of our own mouth to burn incense unto the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her as we have done we and our fathers our kings and our princes in the city of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem for then had we plenty of vittles and were well and saw no evil so saying everything was going good when we did this before and look I love women and I love godly women okay and when people are in their proper roles it's the best thing possible I'm not saying these things because oh I hate women but you know God already ordained that women are not to be the rulers that the woman is not to usurp the authority over the man it is the power structure that God is ordained for this earth okay so if you don't like what you're hearing it's because maybe you don't know the Bible well enough and that's okay but learn it okay read the Bible from cover to cover and see what is the authority structure that God has placed in every aspect of this world men are in charge the patriarchy oh it's so evil no it's ordained of God it's the way things are it's a natural state that God created them to be and things get backwards when you have women ruling and women in charge things get backwards when the children are in charge and you know what when a nation becomes perverted and weird and everything else and those things happen God the Bible already says it's a curse when women and children are leading you the men ought to be in charge the men ought to be leading the people you know shame on the men for not standing up and and filling the gap and doing what they're supposed to be doing at the end of the day it's their responsibility it's weak man that cause for the failure so this is what they're doing and they make this this false connection here now of saying well when we were offering incense under our idols everything was good and they say see look and since we because we stopped doing that now things are bad so we need to go back to the way things were when they were good we need to just burn incense these idols and then things will be okay for us the real superstitious but they're not seeing the truth of the matter here they're they're just look very short-sighted in their understanding let's read what Jeremiah says let's keep reading your verse number 40 or number 18 but since we left off to burn incense the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings under her we have wanted all things and have been consumed by the sword by the famine Jeremiah already warned you about these things and you didn't listen to him and they came right he already told you the queen of heaven didn't tell you these things were gonna happen wait Jeremiah did who was speaking in the word of the Lord verse 19 and when we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings under her did we make her cakes to worship her and pour out drink offerings under her without our men so the women are all just up saying like well weren't our men with us too like yeah but can't they speak for themselves verse number 20 then Jeremiah said unto all the people to the men and to the women and to all the people which had given him that answer saying the incense that he burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem ye and your fathers your kings and your princes and the people of land did not the Lord remember them and came it not into his mind so that the Lord could no longer bear because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed therefore is your land a desolation and an astonishment and a curse without inhabitants as at this day because ye have burned incense and because you have sinned against the Lord and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord nor walked in his law nor in his statutes nor his testimonies therefore this evil has happened unto you is at this day he's like you got it backwards it's because you've been burning incense you because you've been worshiping these well because you've done all this look God is most of a long suffering but you know what the day came because he was sick of you doing this stuff which is why you have desolation now it's not because you stopped offering it's because you had been offering the incense unto these idols verse 24 but you know some people they just don't want to hear it and some people you can't talk to them you can't reason to them and these are the same people that don't want to take the council verse 24 moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people and all the women hear the word of the Lord and I'll tell you what back to the the the woman aspect of this you don't really see this like specifically just pointing out the women like like you know Isaiah said this to the people and to the women you know like like specifying that he's specifically talking to like a group of women it's not in there all the normally the preaching is just the preaching to the people but it keeps pointing out the fact that he's like bringing up and to the women they all like because these are the people who are mainly causing the problem they're the ones driving the idol worshiper they're the ones driving the queen of heaven stuff and the men are just going along with them and look they're in sin for it absolutely but it's it's making a point to say like he said unto all the people and all the women hear the word of the Lord all Judah that are in the land of Egypt thus said the Lord of hosts the God of Israel saying ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hand saying we will surely perform our vows that we have vowed to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto her ye will surely accomplish your vows and surely perform your vows he said yeah when you said that you were gonna you know pull out the drink offering do all this stuff I know you're gonna you are gonna do it you're gonna perform that vow you're gonna do it and I know that and you're telling me that you're gonna keep doing that I know you're gonna do that I believe you that is something you're saying true you will keep doing that verse 26 therefore hear ye the word of the Lord all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt behold I have sworn by my great name saith the Lord that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt saying the Lord God liveth he's saying I know you're gonna keep on doing this and you know what my name won't be named among you anymore and that doesn't sound that bad maybe on the surface but it is when God's name is now just removed from even being referenced and talked about and among the people that's pretty scary okay you know what you've got your queen of heaven there you go we'll see how good that false God who's not even real is gonna do anything for you in the name of the Lord now is removed scary place to be verse 27 behold I will watch over them for evil and not for good and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine until there be an end of them these are people that had already received grace because they didn't die the first time when Babylon came in and destroyed and took captive and everything else they could have been consumed by the sword by the famine by pestilence then because a lot of people did they they had this second chance and they blew it and they blew it like you could have just stayed in your land and and and stayed there and prospered and God would have protected you and he was looking to that happen and you blew it turn if you would to Proverbs chapter 1 I just want to reference a couple other places here now the Bible talks about rejecting God's counsel because that's ultimately what they did they received it they said they wanted it but when they heard it they didn't want it anymore and there is a high cost to rejecting the counsel of the Lord and this is a council or this goes beyond even like asking me a question of what I think or my opinion about something that has nothing to do with this when it's all about rejecting the counsel of the Lord like this is God's Word people just rejecting what God said that is really bad I think seeking out a counselor that might be able to help you know where you can't specifically say God said this obviously it's good to seek out people who could give you better understanding and lead you in the right way but it doesn't carry the same weight as like thus saith the Lord obviously right so I'm not standing up here trying to give an implication like well if you don't listen to what I say this is gonna come on you no no no only if God said that and I'm just repeating it or reading it right Jeremiah 1 verse 20 Jeremiah 1 sorry Proverbs Proverbs 1 excuse me Proverbs 1 verse 20 wisdom crieth without she uttered her voice in the street she crieth in the chief place of concourse in the openings of the gates in the city she uttered her word saying how long you simple ones we love simplicity and the scorners delight in her scorning and fools hate knowledge turn you at my reproof behold I will pour out my spirit unto you I will make known my words unto you so allow yourself to be corrected with wisdom allow yourself to be corrected with the counsel of God allow for that right you're wrong but turn at my ear for a proof repent right get right and he says you know what I'll pour out my spirit unto you I'll make known I'll give you wisdom I'll give you that knowledge just respond correctly to the correction respond the right way when you hear the rebuke from the Word of God listen to it and when you do that God sees great now I'm gonna give you a lot more wisdom now I'm gonna give you more understanding because you accepted something that was true that you had to be corrected on that you rebuked about now you you took that you you took it to heart I'll give you more that's where we want to be but then look at this okay he's saying that's what I will do but then verse 24 they didn't do that because I have called and you refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at naught all my counsel so you treated it like nothing when I was giving you counsel telling you what's right giving you wisdom and would none of my reproof didn't want the correction didn't want to be told you were wrong I also will laugh at your calamity remember this is funny because this word calamity just came up in our Wednesday night Bible study remember David was talking about being in calamity but see David hearkened unto the Lord so the Lord is there for them and he has full confidence that God will be there for him in his calamity but when you just completely reject what God is telling you and then you have calamity God's gonna laugh at you well that doesn't sound very nice I know well it wasn't nice to just disregard God's Word either I will also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh when your fear cometh as desolation in your destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me but they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord look there are consequences for your actions for your decisions for knowing the right way for hearing the right way and then not doing it anyways there are consequences Jeremiah preached all about the consequences and they didn't care anyways and some people will never care and you know what you can't fix everyone you can't make everybody believe this stuff you can't make everyone believe the Bible but you definitely can warn them about it you could give them the opportunity you could give the good counsel it's not up to you whether they're gonna accept it or not Jeremiah couldn't control whether the people were gonna accept his counts or not they didn't accept it but you know it was his job anyways not to hold anything back and even what he's doing he's saying like I know that you're not gonna accept this but you know what here you go anyways and I know when I preach sermons and I preach truths out of the Word of God some people out there it is gonna be like nope not don't want to do it not gonna accept it there's still some people I bet you after this morning sermon it's still gonna go and kick back some beers I still don't think that's that big of a deal okay I could give you the warnings I could show you in a scripture over and over and over again how bad it is how poisonous it is how deadly it is what it's gonna do to you it's gonna make you a whole tree but it doesn't matter some people they just don't want to hear it but I'm gonna preach it anyways because some people will and it doesn't matter the subject when you're confronted with the Word of God especially things that are sin versus not sin things that are right to do in your life or is not right you know don't disregard the counsel from the Lord because you will come into a time of need there's gonna be times when things get out of your control quickly in this life and you're gonna want to turn to God if God's just like you haven't been listening to me why should I listen to you it's what we see here in Proverbs chapter 1 look I already stretched out my hand to you you didn't want to have anything to do with it you just knocked it away like I don't need that yeah you felt all proud and high and mighty when things are going well for you and now things aren't going so well and you're gonna see God and God's like I tried I tried to tell you now I'm just gonna laugh it's just kind of funny welcome to the God of the Bible by the way this is truth verse 28 then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek merely but they shall not find me for that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord they would none of my counsel they despised all my reproof therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices they're gonna they're gonna sleep in the bed they made they're gonna get what's coming to them they're gonna reap what they've sown just what's gonna happen they didn't want to hear the council first to avoid the traps to avoid the pitfall proverbs 11 14 the Bible says where no counsel is the people fall but in the multitude of counselors there is safety proverbs 19 20 turn if you want to first Kings chapter 12 proverbs 19 20 here the council and receive instruction that thou mayest be wise in thy ladder and hear counsel receive instruction it brings wisdom just one example here of one other person rejecting wise counsel and even after hearing it and just choosing foolishly I think it's probably because of pride but we'll look at this real quickly it's and it's the the council that Rehoboam received Rehoboam was the the son of Solomon you know king of Israel and this is at the time of the the splitting up of the kingdom right around that right before that time where God splits the kingdom into the northern kingdom of Israel in the southern kingdom of Judah so you had we had a King Saul and then King David and then his son King Solomon they all reigned with a united kingdom and then Rehoboam Solomon's son is goes to reign and he's now trying to figure out what to do because they said hey the people came to Solomon or the people came to Rehoboam now he's this new king going look man you know we love Solomon and all but but he really he really worked us really hard he kind of worked us to the bone we need a little bit of a respite here we need a break what what can you do for us you know we please can you can you hear us can you help us out we really have had some hard time some struggles under Solomon as king what can you do for us right can you help us out so he gets consulted consults with old men and then the young men that grew up with him now mind you the to the the circumstance under which Rehoboam grew up is much different than the circumstances under which Solomon grew up David was on the run a lot David was this warrior he fought a lot of battles he was going leading the people in and out and fighting these battles and victories and doing all this fighting right and fighting fighting fighting and and didn't you know things weren't really settled for David for most of his life but Solomon on the other hand he enjoyed an entire kingdom of peace like his whole reign was just full of peace and prosperity and all of this blessing of God and he had this wisdom and all this stuff and he built up his own house and the house of the Lord and everything else he had all these great works that he had done you can read about Ecclesiastes and all the things that he had done and all the the weird gifts and and different things and the peacocks and apes and all these other whatever all these things that he had read these Kings have all these weird treasures right and Rehoboam's growing up with all this stuff so he's growing up as the rich kid not having to struggle not having to you know just it's basically having everything handed to him instead of going to the advice of the older man when it comes to people look man we've been working our fingers at bone and they've been working for him they've been working for his family for Solomon for his dad for him right like we've been doing all this work for you buddy you haven't lifted a finger but they don't entreat him that way they entreat him the right way they're humbly going to him and asking him and saying hey what can you do for us right but in reality that's what they were doing they were working for him so he seeks out the council of the old of the old man that had been there before him and in the days of his dad and then the young man look at verse number six I was in King Rehoboam consulted with the old man that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived and said how do you advise that I may answer this people and they spake on him saying if thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day and wilt serve them and answer them and speak good words to them then they will be thy servants forever that was the good advice that was a good counselor saying look you're a young king they're asking you a favor now they're asking you to do something for them if you will just humble yourself and serve them they will love you for that they will respect you for that they will they will be your servants they will serve you forever you will win over their hearts by just showing kindness to this people in this area that their request making a petition of you for you do that man they are your people and really it wasn't that big of a deal for him to even do this like this wasn't some massive request that's gonna have some huge impact on the kingdom but says in verse 8 but he forsook the council of the old man which they had given him and consulted with the young men that were growing up with him and which stood before him so these are all the guys oh yeah I know what's right I know it yo we all know what's right these young punks that are growing up with them and have everything given to them and and have a skewed view of reality and he said unto them what counsel give ye that we may answer this people who have spoken to me saying make the yoke make the yoke which thy father did put on us lighter so they were just saying hey can you give us a little bit of a break maker what do you say that I should say to these people who are asking for this and the young men that were growing up with him spake on him saying thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee saying thy father made our yoke heavy but make that with lighter unto them my little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins and now whereas my father did laid you with a heavy yoke I will add to your yoke my father a chastise you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpion so he's like just double down and just be mean and this cruel tyrant because they won't respond to anything but fear and you just make this people fear you and hate you know like well that wasn't good counsel and obviously wasn't because he took that counsel and then what happened the people are just like okay okay Israel let's go to our tents now like forget this guy and then he goes and tries to send a tax collector and they kill him like sorry you pushed the people a little too far you didn't take the wise counsel right but and that was of the Lord but but here's the thing you know when you just reject good counsel and wise counsel it's gonna have an effect it's gonna have it could have very serious repercussion here Rehoboam lost the kingdom I mean he literally only then was granted Judah and that wasn't even for his own benefit is because of David like every other tribe basically like like it was it was split less than in half like like really lopsided there was like nine tribes and three tribes that's that's that's how it was split up essentially right so so he didn't have much left over and it was a result of his own pride and not following good godly counsel and not not accepting it for what it is and just wanting to do his own thing and and like I said I think that probably had to do with his pride to of not humbling himself to do something for the people you know they answered him hey well be a servant oh I'm not a servant I'm a king it's the it's the guy like the the manager that's a manager in name only right the boss the supervisor you all know who I'm talking about everyone's probably experienced one of those the guy that lets the the title go to his head and he's literally just a boss in name only in position only because they just love being that in charge and they're gonna tell everyone what to do and everyone hates them and no one wants to work for them because they're not actually a good leader they just like the title and want to tell everyone else what to do good leaders work with the people and are gonna be good examples and work all the way through and have good understanding and you have mutual respect what does that have to do with godly counsel I don't know it just kind of rubs me wrong no I'm just kidding because the godly counsel is to act like a good leader right and that was what he was refusing was how to act like a good leader he was given the right counsel he rejected it and it cost him dearly and you know Jeremiah 41 we see a lot of people Jeremiah 42 43 44 this whole deal with Jeremiah Jeremiah was a man of God he didn't hold back from the people that people should have cherished that they should have loved that they should have embraced that how much wisdom could they have gained from a man who was willing to just tell them everything that God said and not hold back in a whole world where there's a whole bunch of people that are bail worshippers and in false prophets that only care about tickling the ears and preaching for money right what a great gem what a great treasure to find someone who doesn't care about that but will give you that wisdom appreciate that love that don't reject that and and you know obviously the greatest treasure is the Word of God God preserved his words for you that which he delivered unto other faithful men do not treat it flippantly your Bible read when you go to receive counsel don't just well I mean if I get around to reading a Bible I get around to it did you know what you're dealing with here God's counsel that that can that that is the light for your life I mean that is the ultimate counsel above any other counselor the Word of God is gonna tell you what God wants for your life what to do what not to do in exactly the perfect way the right way for you to do things and help you avoid miseries and heartaches and all kinds of problems that you could have if you would go to it seek it and listen to it well that's gonna ruin that's gonna ruin my Memorial Day weekend if I can't go out and get drunk no it's gonna save your Memorial Day weekend it could save your life that's one example I mean just you fill in the blank on the sin on the truth from the Word of God we all have our own you know what yours is okay don't reject God's counsel it won't turn out well for you let's borrow as I board a prayer Lord we love you thank you so much for giving us this truth giving us this instruct these instructions giving us a wisdom especially from the Proverbs and Ecclesiastes your Lord and in the great wisdom we learned from your prophet Jeremiah I pray you please help us not to be a stiff-neck people like we read about of the children of Israel who just would not hear the rebuke and the chastening and the preaching from Jeremiah the Prophet dear Lord and I pray that you would please just just help us to have reverence for your word and that we would treat it with the gravity and respect that we ought to and set aside the time where we could read your word without distraction and and really listen to what you have to tell us Lord we love you it's in Jesus name we pray amen all right we're gonna sing one last song before we're dismissed Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh You