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Episode: “Faith Abandoned and Reimagined”
Jeremiah’s message to repent went unheeded. Consequently, judgment came to those who had abandoned the Lord. Jeremiah took comfort in knowing that following destruction, restoration would come through the New Covenant.
Series: “Jeremiah”
Hope over the horizon
Known as the weeping prophet, Jeremiah received the assignment of warning his countrymen of the coming judgment and deportation at the hands of the Babylonians. A message of hope and deliverance is woven through Jeremiah’s writings.

Caption transcript for Jeremiah: “Faith Abandoned and Reimagined” (4/9)

  • 00:01 David Hart: When the southern kingdom of Judah refused to repent, her fate was sealed and judgment was coming. But Jeremiah saw future
  • 00:11 restoration and a new covenant. Coming up next on "Our Jewish Roots."
  • 00:20 male narrator: In the sixth century BC,
  • 00:22 one man stood alone against the pervading wickedness of God's
  • 00:26 people in the land of Judah.
  • 00:29 The prophet Jeremiah was chosen by the Lord to warn of impending
  • 00:33 judgment that would come at the hands of the Babylonians.
  • 00:38 Visions of an exile left him heartbroken and in tears,
  • 00:43 but Jeremiah remained faithful to his calling and recorded a
  • 00:46 message that would speak to generations yet to come.
  • 00:51 Standing tall with faith in God, he understood better days were
  • 00:57 coming and there was hope over the horizon.
  • 01:05 David: Thank you so much for joining us today.
  • 01:06 I am David Hart.
  • 01:07 Kirsten Hart: I'm Kirsten Hart.
  • 01:09 Dr. Jeffery Seif: I am Jeffrey Seif.
  • 01:10 Kirsten: Dr. Seif, I love joy.
  • 01:14 I love hope.
  • 01:15 I love happiness.
  • 01:17 Today's program is a little harsh, isn't it?
  • 01:20 Dr. Jeffery Seif: It's a little tough, you know.
  • 01:22 Kirsten: It's not quite that happy, warm, fuzzy.
  • 01:24 Dr. Jeffery Seif: I mean, there is a light coming through the
  • 01:26 fog, and it's not a train to run you over,
  • 01:30 but it's a tough one.
  • 01:32 Sometimes there's a tough story that needs told,
  • 01:36 and Jeremiah was up to the task.
  • 01:39 Kirsten: Judgment, destruction,
  • 01:42 I wouldn't want to be that one having to tell the world about
  • 01:44 that, or at least, people.
  • 01:46 Dr. Jeffery Seif: Billy Graham said if there was more talk
  • 01:48 about hell from the pulpit, there'd be less hell in the pew.
  • 01:52 And sometimes, you know, church is just all about the
  • 01:55 happy-clappy, but you gotta roll it out and put it in front of
  • 02:00 people and challenge people to adjust their lives according to
  • 02:03 biblical vision, value, and virtue.
  • 02:06 Jeremiah, that's what he was all about.
  • 02:08 David: And all that he went through in his life,
  • 02:10 he didn't have a whole lot of people behind him.
  • 02:13 But he did have one faithful guy,
  • 02:16 Baruch, who was there for him all the time.
  • 02:18 Dr. Jeffery Seif: Yeah, if you're not going around blowing
  • 02:20 stardust in people's faces, you're not gonna
  • 02:22 make a lot of friends.
  • 02:24 People are gonna be offset by you.
  • 02:26 David: Not real popular.
  • 02:27 Dr. Jeffery Seif: No. It's a tough place to stand in.
  • 02:31 But to your point, it's great to have people to stand with you.
  • 02:34 Kirsten: He wasn't allowed to have a wife,
  • 02:36 but at least God gave him a best friend, a good friend.
  • 02:38 Dr. Jeffery Seif: Good point.
  • 02:40 David: Dr. Seif, more from you soon.
  • 02:41 But right now, let's hear more
  • 02:43 about his faithful friend, Baruch.
  • 02:49 narrator: Jeremiah's prophetic walk has been
  • 02:51 a dark and lonely one.
  • 02:54 For many years, no one has given him an ear,
  • 02:58 no one except a scribe named Baruch who faithfully records
  • 03:03 the message of judgment as given by the Lord.
  • 03:10 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:17 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:27 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:37 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:47 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 03:57 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 04:09 Dr. Jeffery Seif: I can understand why they killed him.
  • 04:13 I don't approve it.
  • 04:15 I don't even like having to say that.
  • 04:17 But when I look in Jeremiah chapter 11,
  • 04:20 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 04:22 was his message in Hebrew.
  • 04:25 Cursed is the man, and people don't like prophets
  • 04:31 that speak that way.
  • 04:32 People prefer individuals that blow stardust in their face,
  • 04:37 but that was not our man Jeremiah.
  • 04:41 In chapter 11, verse 3,
  • 04:43 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 04:45 say to them,
  • 04:46 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 04:48 thus says the Lord God of Israel,
  • 04:51 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 04:54 cursed is the man,
  • 04:55 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 04:58 Cursed is the one that doesn't hear,
  • 05:03 that doesn't respond to this covenant.
  • 05:08 What did it mean?
  • 05:10 How did they understand cursing in his day?
  • 05:14 It was a tough message.
  • 05:16 Jeremiah explained what he meant by it.
  • 05:18 He was explicit in his prophetic inventory.
  • 05:22 If you look at the first 24 chapters of Jeremiah,
  • 05:25 it's an anthology.
  • 05:27 Baruch has assembled his scribe, his helper,
  • 05:31 his messages, that were put to print and read,
  • 05:35 and then destroyed and then put to print again.
  • 05:38 He wasn't a popular fellow, to be sure.
  • 05:40 People turned on him, and you can understand why he did not
  • 05:43 have a happy-clappy message.
  • 05:46 His Word was, repent or else curses will come upon you.
  • 05:52 And what were curses?
  • 05:53 You know, people labor to build a future.
  • 05:56 The curse was pulling out the rug underneath it.
  • 06:00 People labor to build a family.
  • 06:02 They want to see their children be successful.
  • 06:04 The curse was death to the children and misfortune for
  • 06:08 those that weren't claimed by death.
  • 06:11 People work hard, they want to prosper.
  • 06:13 They want their economies to go well.
  • 06:16 No, the word here, the curse, was all that would evaporate.
  • 06:20 And why is that?
  • 06:22 Because they did not adhere to the covenant.
  • 06:28 It was made explicit in Jeremiah,
  • 06:30 the Lord says, "When you go into the land,
  • 06:32 if you adhere to the terms of endearment,
  • 06:35 I'm gonna be with you and bless you."
  • 06:37 It was a covenant promise to a nation state that was built on a
  • 06:41 biblical foundation.
  • 06:43 The Word was, "I will bless you if you obey it.
  • 06:45 Conversely, I'll curse you if you don't."
  • 06:47 And you can see what happened
  • 06:49 to Israel through time and circumstance.
  • 06:51 The question is, does it have any bearing to the world that we
  • 06:55 live in today?
  • 06:57 I mention that because there is wholesale abandonment of
  • 07:02 Biblical faith and virtue in culture.
  • 07:05 It's ubiquitous. It's everywhere.
  • 07:08 Deceit, raises its hoary head all over the world.
  • 07:12 You can't trust what you see on television.
  • 07:15 You can't trust what you read in newsprint.
  • 07:19 You can't trust what you hear your friends say.
  • 07:22 People pass on information that's misinformation.
  • 07:25 This will not end well.
  • 07:29 That was Jeremiah's message to hit people and,
  • 07:32 you know, it is a message that applies today.
  • 07:36 Is there a remedy?
  • 07:38 Is there a way to wrap up this wound?
  • 07:41 Is there a way to cure it?
  • 07:43 Well, the answer to that question is yes,
  • 07:45 but Jeremiah here doesn't always just give the good news.
  • 07:49 You know, Billy Graham once said,
  • 07:51 "If there was more preaching about hell from behind the
  • 07:53 pulpit, there'd be less hell in the pew."
  • 07:56 A lot of people are afraid to talk straight like this,
  • 07:58 but this prophet wasn't.
  • 08:01 Oh, it's a tough Word. It's a straightforward Word.
  • 08:04 And as I open up the Book of Jeremiah and bring it to you,
  • 08:07 I wanted to hear it just the way he said it.
  • 08:11 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 08:14 cursed is the man,
  • 08:16 and he goes on to speak in verse 8 of
  • 08:19 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 08:21 He spoke of a stubborn, an evil heart.
  • 08:26 Oh, there are people like that in the world.
  • 08:28 Let it not be me.
  • 08:30 Let it not be you.
  • 08:36 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 08:44 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 08:54 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 09:04 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 09:14 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 09:24 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 09:34 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 09:44 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 09:54 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Jeremiah lived in a tough day.
  • 09:57 He had a tough Word.
  • 09:59 He just had a tough road it all around,
  • 10:01 and I gotta give voice to that to take a look at him.
  • 10:04 Now that wasn't just him.
  • 10:06 There's good news in Jeremiah 2 on the other end of all of this
  • 10:09 about a great restoration, not just of the Hebrew people.
  • 10:14 God's gonna do a great work in their heart and make a new
  • 10:16 covenant, but not just with the Hebrew people,
  • 10:19 the whole world is brought into this.
  • 10:21 So to be sure, the prophet sees a happy ending,
  • 10:25 but he doesn't always do the happy ending.
  • 10:28 You gotta look at the whole book.
  • 10:30 There's some tough moments in it,
  • 10:32 and I want to do credit to Jeremiah,
  • 10:37 even if it can throw some people on their heels.
  • 10:40 Whoa, wait a minute, that's a little intense.
  • 10:42 Yes, it is, but I only work here.
  • 10:46 Not only did Jeremiah give voice to curses to come upon the land,
  • 10:50 but he said that people are going to curse me.
  • 10:57 It wasn't very popular.
  • 10:58 In fact, in chapter 15, verse 10,
  • 11:02 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 11:06 They curse me.
  • 11:11 Isn't that tough?
  • 11:12 We want to be liked.
  • 11:14 It's human nature, but sometimes you stand up for truth and there
  • 11:20 is pushback, there is adversity.
  • 11:25 I've seen that in my own life,
  • 11:27 wanting to speak truth in the world.
  • 11:28 Isaiah said, "Truth is lacking in the public square and those
  • 11:34 who depart from evil, make themselves a prey."
  • 11:39 You stand up for truth, others are gonna want to shoot you down
  • 11:44 for so doing.
  • 11:45 It's a rather tough assignment, but,
  • 11:48 you know, we have to be strong.
  • 11:52 In Hebrew, chazak, be strong, take a stand.
  • 11:57 The Lord says, and he says to Jeremiah here,
  • 12:00 it's a Word for him and indeed, it's a Word for us that stand
  • 12:04 for him.
  • 12:05 He says in verse 21, "I will deliver you out of the hand of
  • 12:11 the wicked, and I will redeem you out
  • 12:15 of the hands of the terrible."
  • 12:20 There are people in this world who are wicked.
  • 12:24 There are people in this world who are terrible.
  • 12:28 It's striking.
  • 12:30 If you've run into unscrupulous people,
  • 12:32 you know exactly what I'm talking about.
  • 12:35 People don't just disappoint.
  • 12:37 People can out and outright betray.
  • 12:41 The good news, however, the Lord is on record here saying,
  • 12:44 "Jeremiah, look, I'm gonna accomplish
  • 12:47 my purpose through you."
  • 12:50 And what was the purpose through Jeremiah at the end of the day?
  • 12:55 I'll tell you what it was.
  • 12:57 We'll see it the more so as we work our way through the end of
  • 13:00 the series.
  • 13:01 The principal purpose in Jeremiah's message was to,
  • 13:06 arguably more than any other prophet,
  • 13:10 give voice to the fact that the other end of this,
  • 13:13 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 13:15 after the death,
  • 13:16 after the destruction, after it runs its course,
  • 13:19 God had a plan to do something new to involve me and you.
  • 13:25 Were gonna see it.
  • 13:26 "Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord,
  • 13:29 I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
  • 13:35 the house of Judah, and I will put it on their hearts.
  • 13:38 No longer will they say know the Lord.
  • 13:41 They'll all know me from the least to the greatest."
  • 13:44 Oh, there's a new beginning.
  • 13:47 Do you ever hear the term, "being born anew?"
  • 13:50 Jesus is on record in the newer testament in the third chapter
  • 13:53 of John's gospel speaking to Nicodemus,
  • 13:56 a ruler of the Jews.
  • 13:57 And he said, "You must be born anew," and Nicodemus didn't
  • 14:00 understand what he was talking about.
  • 14:02 And Yeshua, Jesus is on record saying,
  • 14:04 "And you're a teacher of Israel, you don't understand this?"
  • 14:07 You should because Israel's greatest prophet--
  • 14:11 well, greatest prophet.
  • 14:12 I don't want to insult Isaiah.
  • 14:13 There are a number of greats but definitely Jeremiah is up there
  • 14:16 at the top of the list, even though in his own day and time,
  • 14:21 not everyone enjoyed what he had to say.
  • 14:23 His words proved true, not only in his own day,
  • 14:27 but into the future when he gave voice to the fact there was a
  • 14:30 new day coming, a new way coming.
  • 14:33 And it's a way that you and I are privy to if we've turned to
  • 14:37 the Lord, repented of our sins, asked him into our hearts.
  • 14:41 We've experienced the new life that we have in him,
  • 14:44 a life that Jeremiah spoke of many,
  • 14:47 many years ago when he looked beyond the darkness of the
  • 14:51 moment and he saw hope over the horizon.
  • 14:55 ♪♪♪
  • 14:57 ♪♪♪
  • 15:07 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Our Creator chose certain places on the
  • 15:09 planet to reveal himself and his message of redemption to us,
  • 15:15 Mount Sinai, Moriah, Olives, the Mount of Beatitudes,
  • 15:19 as well as various seas, rivers, and deserts.
  • 15:22 These were the places.
  • 15:24 Some are now only ruins, yet they continue to tell of the
  • 15:28 Lord's faithfulness and love.
  • 15:31 These sacred backdrops have been beautifully captured in our
  • 15:34 resource this week, the book, "Heaven And Earth: Landmarks Of
  • 15:40 The Bible From Genesis To Revelation."
  • 15:44 Our producer and director Ken berg has assembled some of his
  • 15:47 favorite photographs taken during his four decades of
  • 15:52 travel through the lands of the Bible.
  • 15:56 Contact us and ask for the book, "Heaven And Earth."
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  • 16:37 David: As you'll see in this series,
  • 16:39 Jerusalem went through some destructive times and we've been
  • 16:43 there many times, and it's the opposite.
  • 16:46 It is peaceful.
  • 16:48 Our son lived there for three years and had no worries with
  • 16:52 him living there.
  • 16:53 People ask us all the time, "What's it like in Jerusalem is?
  • 16:58 Is it peaceful? Is it scary?"
  • 17:00 And we tell them, "It's so peaceful,
  • 17:03 and we would love for you to join us."
  • 17:04 Kirsten: It's the most beautiful city in the world.
  • 17:07 Yes, it was destroyed in Jeremiah's time,
  • 17:10 but it's been rebuilt and we can walk there safely.
  • 17:14 We would love for you to go with us.
  • 17:15 We go, as you said, two times a year,
  • 17:18 in the fall and in the spring.
  • 17:20 You make those tours happen,
  • 17:22 and you also make this program happen.
  • 17:25 And we just want to take just a minute
  • 17:26 to say in Hebrew it's todah, thank you.
  • 17:30 Thank you so much for keeping us
  • 17:32 on the air and this program going.
  • 17:35 We will hear more teaching from Dr. Seif coming up but first,
  • 17:39 here's our special guest for the whole series,
  • 17:41 Dr. Michael Brown with more insight on The Weeping Prophet.
  • 17:49 Dr. Michael Brown: It says in the Psalms in Psalm 126,
  • 17:51 "Those who sow with tears reap with joy."
  • 17:55 Think of Jeremiah.
  • 17:56 Jeremiah was called the weeping prophet.
  • 17:59 Jeremiah was a man of tears.
  • 18:02 Jeremiah had to prophesy judgment on his own communities,
  • 18:05 on his own family.
  • 18:06 He had to look at a mother of seven and says,
  • 18:09 "Your children will be without parents."
  • 18:11 He had to look at people that he knew and say,
  • 18:13 "You're gonna die in battle."
  • 18:15 He had to tell kings of the nation,
  • 18:18 "God is against you and judgment is coming,
  • 18:21 and the best thing that you can do is submit to Nebuchadnezzar
  • 18:24 and the Babylonians."
  • 18:25 He sounded utterly unpatriotic when he said,
  • 18:29 "God says Nebuchadnezzar," this man that's murdering the people
  • 18:33 of Judah, "is my servant.
  • 18:35 God calls him my servant."
  • 18:37 No wonder Jeremiah's called the weeping prophet.
  • 18:39 No wonder in certain chapters, in the 13th chapter,
  • 18:42 he says, "I'm gonna weep."
  • 18:44 In the 14th chapter, "Let my eyelids pour forth tears."
  • 18:48 And, in fact, you see he's so caught up with God's burden,
  • 18:51 that he carries the pain of God, and he weeps on behalf of God.
  • 18:56 But here's something marvelous.
  • 18:58 Jeremiah is the prophet of the New Covenant.
  • 19:02 In Jeremiah 31, verses 31 to 34, Jeremiah declares that God will
  • 19:07 make a new covenant with the house of Israel
  • 19:08 and the house of Judah.
  • 19:10 And this passage is quoted in full
  • 19:12 by Hebrews in the 8th chapter.
  • 19:14 It's the longest passage from the Hebrew Bible quoted straight
  • 19:17 through in the New Testament.
  • 19:19 The prophet who was the weeping prophet,
  • 19:21 the prophet who declared that Jerusalem would be destroyed and
  • 19:24 the temple burned to the ground,
  • 19:26 that's the prophet of the New Covenant.
  • 19:29 Yeshua quotes his words at the Last Supper,
  • 19:31 "This is the new covenant of my blood."
  • 19:34 Those who sow with tears really do reap with joy.
  • 19:37 ♪♪♪
  • 19:44 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: I can't tell you how excited I am to do
  • 19:46 a section in this program wholly dedicated to good news,
  • 19:53 good news from the pen of the Jews here.
  • 19:55 If you look in chapter 16, verse 19,
  • 19:59 Jeremiah, amidst the turbulence of difficult times he says,
  • 20:03 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 20:07 "To you the nation shall come."
  • 20:10 It's not only that the Hebrew people are gonna be reconciled
  • 20:13 to God, but women and men from the nations similarly are going
  • 20:18 to be reconciled to him.
  • 20:20 We're told,
  • 20:21 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 20:24 "From all the ends of the earth."
  • 20:29 What a great story?
  • 20:31 And pray tell, how does that happen?
  • 20:36 Because there's nothing like it
  • 20:38 that's ever happened in Judaism, per se.
  • 20:42 I love my Jewish friends and co-religionists
  • 20:45 in the Jewish world.
  • 20:46 I'm indeed sympathetic.
  • 20:48 But if you look at what's brought the world into the
  • 20:53 biblical world, well remember Jesus is on record saying,
  • 20:57 "When the Son of Man is lifted up,
  • 20:59 he will draw all men to himself."
  • 21:04 And that's really good news.
  • 21:07 And here, the good news comes from a prophet to the Jews.
  • 21:12 Oh, friends, I love it.
  • 21:15 If you look at the very end of the chapter,
  • 21:18 and I want to go there now, and he says,
  • 21:20 [speaking in Hebrew]
  • 21:23 "And they shall know that my name is the Lord."
  • 21:30 This prophet sees, not only a restoration of the Hebrew
  • 21:34 people, but of the world.
  • 21:39 We're midway through the series right now,
  • 21:41 and we're gonna explore that gateway
  • 21:45 in the next part of the series.
  • 21:47 But here in the very middle of it,
  • 21:49 I want to remind you that there's good news indeed.
  • 21:54 All that said, I'm not ashamed to have brought you some bad
  • 21:57 news and some tough news.
  • 21:59 Because if it's in the Bible,
  • 22:01 it ought to be in biblical conversation.
  • 22:04 It can't just be all happy-clappy and stardust.
  • 22:06 At the end of the day, there's some serious stuff here,
  • 22:09 but there's good news as well.
  • 22:10 Friends, before this program finishes,
  • 22:13 if you're at a place in your life where you need some good
  • 22:16 news, get on your knees, look up to the Lord,
  • 22:19 reach up to him, ask him to forgive you.
  • 22:22 Ask him to come into your heart, into your life,
  • 22:25 make your way to a Bible-believing church.
  • 22:27 And you know what?
  • 22:28 You're gonna find there's good news indeed,
  • 22:30 even for you.
  • 22:33 ♪♪♪
  • 22:43 Kirsten: This is not the easiest book to teach on or
  • 22:47 easiest series to bring, but Jeremiah,
  • 22:52 Dr. Seif, I believe, was one of the first to say the gospel will
  • 22:57 also be for all nations.
  • 22:59 Is that--am I correct?
  • 23:01 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Well, he definitely comes out,
  • 23:03 but that's part of the seminal promise to begin with.
  • 23:07 And by that I mean, if you look at early Genesis,
  • 23:10 the promise to Abraham in the 12th chapter,
  • 23:13 "Through you, all the families of the earth will be blessed."
  • 23:16 It was always supposed to be cosmopolitan.
  • 23:19 God is all about the world.
  • 23:21 It's just not a Jew thing. It's a new thing for the world.
  • 23:24 And Jeremiah tells that story.
  • 23:26 He brings it forth, so I think it's important to tap into it
  • 23:29 like you're doing.
  • 23:31 Kirsten: And there's a lot of judgment,
  • 23:33 a lot of destruction.
  • 23:35 I might want to just jump into Jeremiah's mind for a moment.
  • 23:40 I don't think he really wanted to say all that,
  • 23:43 but he had to, didn't he?
  • 23:45 He had to give the Word that the Lord was giving him,
  • 23:48 and that's not always easy.
  • 23:50 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: No, it isn't, but the politics was all bad.
  • 23:54 People made wrong political choices.
  • 23:57 The religion was worse than the politics.
  • 24:00 It's characterized by abandonment.
  • 24:02 And this sensitive priest isn't going to let it go.
  • 24:06 He's gonna be a truth teller, and he's gonna get knocked
  • 24:10 around by virtue of so doing.
  • 24:12 He's gonna see individuals of non-Jewish extract come and be
  • 24:17 the agent of destruction to the Jewish nation state and against
  • 24:22 that backdrop to envision all the peoples of the earth coming
  • 24:27 to Jerusalem.
  • 24:29 And a good note, really, is seeing over the horizon.
  • 24:33 And by the way, that is so clear in the gospel story.
  • 24:37 It's Jesus to the Jew sending forth out to the whole world.
  • 24:42 And now, we live in a world today where women and men of
  • 24:47 non-Jewish extract have joined themselves to the God of Israel
  • 24:51 through the Messiah of Israel.
  • 24:53 And you, our friends that support us
  • 24:55 in this work, thank you.
  • 24:56 David: Yes, so a lot that
  • 24:57 he shared with those folks back in the day
  • 25:00 really wasn't pleasant, but necessary for them to hear.
  • 25:03 Dr. Jeffrey Seif: Yes.
  • 25:04 And by the way, I think it's a mistake personally that I think
  • 25:07 too much religious communication is characterized by pleasantry.
  • 25:11 "Oh, I wouldn't want to offend anyone.
  • 25:13 Goodness, we need people to help pay the bills to keep this
  • 25:16 program on the air."
  • 25:17 Pastor says, "Well, I don't want to offend people.
  • 25:19 Goodness, the rent's due on Monday,
  • 25:21 and my salary, my paycheck, is due next Friday."
  • 25:25 You know, there's a sense in which people
  • 25:26 are a little reluctant.
  • 25:29 But I think sometimes you just gotta put it out there and let
  • 25:33 the chips fall where they will.
  • 25:36 And all that matters is the truth.
  • 25:39 And that's really where Jeremiah placed himself and would that we
  • 25:44 had more Jeremiah's today.
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Episodes in this series

  1. Young Man’s Visions
  2. Sounding the Alarm
  3. Corruption and Closed Minds
  4. Faith Abandoned and Reimagined
  5. No Escape
  6. Promises Made
  7. Ruin and Renewal
  8. Hope and a Future
  9. Jeremiah in Retrospect

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