God's People and the Redemption Plan | April 26, 2026

Well, it's been an interesting four

months now in the elder

weight household between.

Pam's adventures and my adventures.

And somebody asked her the

other day, said, why are you

guys getting back to normal?

And she said, oh yeah.

And I said, oh no, we're,

we're not back to normal.

So, but we're on our way.

So Andy asked me if I would

preach this morning, and, uh,

it worked out all right, because

I think, you know, we like to

preach series around here now.

So this is a continuation

of my last series

from a long time ago,

from whatever it was.

Uh, but the last series was really

about the war that we are in.

And one of the things that I, huh, I'm

learning a lot about my new Bible here.

I keep looking at that page saying,

oh, there's that piece of paper.

I'm gonna put a marker there

that's part of the front page.

I can't take that out.

And somebody saw me writing in this

one, and if you see my old Bibles,

they're scribbled all over the place.

And when I get a new one,

somebody asked me, well, why

don't you underline those verses?

And I said, no, this is a new Bible.

I'll start and underline new

things as they come to me in there.

And some of the old things be

copied and some of them won't.

Well, as I was sitting here, I don't

know whether I'm getting older.

I've been.

Really struggling with what, uh,

would be good to share this morning.

And Pam asked me earlier in the

week, is this thing working right?

It feels like it's going everywhere.

Uh, what I was gonna preach on.

And I told her that we were probably going

to talk about why is being really good

to your husbands and making sure you did

what God wanted you to do and obeying him.

And she was unimpressed with my topic.

She said, well, there's been there too.

And I said, well, I'm sure

they'll appreciate it.

So that was the end of that.

That Herman's gone.

So I had to come up with

something else then.

So

I thought we'll have a history lesson.

This morning because I love history and

these days there's a lot of questions

that are being asked about things that

we knew to be absolute fact and it's

being questioned over and over and over.

So my question for you would be, have

you ever wondered why there is so

much conflict around Jewish people?

You know, they seem to be a

magnet for trouble all the way

through history on every side.

If, if there's a really massive

problem, they're in it, um,

they're at the center of the conflicts.

Let's go back to Genesis chapter three.

This one I think is safe, even though it

does talk about, yeah, it does talk about

ladies here and some of the things that

they've brought to us under my breath.

Now, chapter three, verse one.

Now, the serpent was more crafty than any

of the wild animals the Lord God had made.

He said to the woman, did God

really say you must not eat

from the tree in the garden?

And the woman said to the serpent,

we may eat fruit from the trees in

the garden, but God did say, you must

not eat fruit from the tree that is

in the middle of the garden and you

must not touch it or you will die.

And you will not certainly die.

The serpent said to the woman, for

God knows that when you eat from it,

your eyes will be opened and you will

be like God knowing good and evil.

And when the woman saw the fruit of the

tree was good for food and pleasing to

the eye, and also desirable for gaining

wisdom, she took some of it and ate it.

She also gave some to her husband

who was with her, and he ate it,

you know, and to this day, we struggle.

If you go out with your wife,

first question is, where

do you want to go to eat?

It all started right here,

Genesis chapter three.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened.

And they realized they were naked,

so they sewed fig leaves together

and made coverings for themselves.

The man and his wife heard the

sound of the Lord as he was walking

in the garden in the cool of the

day, and they hid from the Lord

God among the trees of the garden.

But the Lord called to

the man, where are you?

He answered, I heard you in the garden.

And I was afraid because I was naked.

So I hid and he said, who

told you that you were naked?

Have you eaten from the tree that

I commanded you not to eat from?

And the man said,

as a, any bold, strong man would

say, the woman you put here with me.

She gave me some fruit

from the tree and I ate it.

I did not want to go to that

place that's sold, sold noodles.

But my wife wanted to, and

so I had to eat noodles.

What is this that you have done?

And the woman said, the

serpent deceived me and I ate.

So it goes, excuse, excuse, excuse.

Well, now, from this moment

on, from the fall, God had a

plan to redeem his creation.

He was ready to do whatever needed

to be done to get that there, just

as I am, you know, singing from,

from, uh, all the

revivals that were there.

It wasn't just Billy Graham that

became the song that everybody sang.

You know, for sometimes half

an hour at the end of the camp

meeting, they're still going on.

Just one more verse.

If there's just one person who wants

to come sing it again, you know,

over and over and over and over.

But you did that because trying

to get people to come and give

their lives to Jesus, and that was

the way it was done in the days.

Now,

from the time that Satan fell, he

was diametrically opposed to God.

And God loved his creation.

He loved what he had made.

And so Satan came along and he

says, I want to hurt God, so I'm

going to destroy his creation.

So he did.

And all of mankind was cursed

from that day on because of

what happened in the garden.

And through that one act of sin, sin

entered into the world and entered in

to every one of us from that point on.

But there's a verse over in John that

you may know where it says, for God so

loved the world, that he gave his only

begotten son so that we would not perish.

And God is a lot more organized than I am.

You know, somebody asked me this

morning, what are you gonna preach on?

And I said, I can't wait to

get up there and find out.

You know?

That's it.

It it'll be exciting for all of us.

Now that's probably, I probably

am more organized than that.

Maybe I've got little

things in my Bible here.

I can remember where to go to

Over in Deuteronomy 14.

Yeah, Deuteronomy 14.

That's why I got the thing

stuck in the book of Jeremiah.

Deuteronomy 14 versus one and two.

And God is speaking to the children

of Israel, said, you are the

children of the Lord your God.

Do not cut yourselves or shave the

front of your heads for the dead.

For you are a people.

Holy to the Lord your God.

Out of all the peoples

on the face of the earth.

The Lord has chosen you to

be his treasured possession.

Now,

this is what leads us to the point in

your history lesson here and why the Jews

are just in, in the midst of everything

that goes on over in Deuteronomy 26,

Deuteronomy 26:16

verse 16, the Lord Deuteronomy 26 16, the

Lord your God commands you this day to

follow these decrees and laws, carefully.

Observe them with all your

heart, with all your soul.

You have declared this day that

the Lord is your God, and that

you will walk in obedience to him.

That you will keep his decre commands

and laws and that you will listen to him.

And the Lord has declared this day

that you are his people, his treasured

possession as he promised, and that

you are to keep all his commands.

Now, that just kind of sounds like here's

the whole bunch of stuff you're supposed

to do, but he has declared that he will

send you in praise, fame, and honor

high above all the nations that he has

made and that you will be a people holy

to the Lord your God, as he promised.

Now we hear a lot about the Jewish

people being God's chosen people.

Okay?

What does that mean?

They're, they're more

special than everybody else.

They're built differently.

They can run faster, jump higher.

They can, they're smarter.

Uh, what the world always

said, they're good with money.

All of those things, you know, okay.

That's not why they were chosen,

and that is not what makes them special.

Remember I said that God's

more organized than I am.

If you go

into the New Testament, well, in fact,

if you wanna read the book of numbers

and you want to go through Leviticus and

you want to go through all of the SEP two

agent, and it's laid out generationally

from one generation to the next, to the

next, to the next, to the next, and all

of these people who are there, they're

all tied all the way back to Adam.

Where sin came into the world, and

through that one man, that sin came into

the world through one man sin can be

erased from the world, which is Jesus.

But in God's total wisdom here, this

group of people that were wholly

unto the Lord were the Jewish people.

And so he kept that lineage in line

and right in the very beginning,

in the garden is where Satan

tried to destroy the lineage.

From that point on, understanding

clear back in Genesis where the

promise was given of a redeemer.

That would come through the Jewish people.

From that point on, Satan knew if he could

stop the redeemer from getting there.

He wins.

So how do you do that?

You try to wipe out an entire people.

We fought in the crusades seeds,

you know, Europe and the quote unquote

Christian nations went and they fought

over Jerusalem because Jerusalem

was holy, Jerusalem was not holy.

Jerusalem represented God's kingdom

on earth physically, which was

the home to the Jewish people, so

that that lineage continues on.

Okay.

His plan wasn't just that

a redeemer would come.

But that little thing from Rich

Mullins that you were saying,

I'm coming back.

That's the end of the story.

And until that very moment, the

Jewish people are God's chosen people

to deliver all of those things.

And so throughout history, you will find

the places and the rulers, not that God

raises up, but that the enemy raises

up to destroy that from happening.

You know, uh,

you heard me share about

the Valley of Henan.

Okay?

That's where the Baal worship

that was in Israel took place.

It's outside the gates of Jerusalem

and it's into a valley where

they would take the children.

I don't know how you got to be one

of the select, but one of your select

children, you'd bring them down there

and they had big brass monuments, I

guess you'd call 'em idols with pans

that were outstretched and this immense

fire that just burned continually.

And they would take their infants

and they would put 'em out there

on that altar to bail, which is not

more than demonic worship, and it

would instantly just fry their skin.

And as soon as they felt that they would

roll off and roll down into the fire,

and then Satan would be,

Baal, excuse me, would be.

Satisfied with the

sacrifice that they made.

And there were kings in Israel

who allowed that to happen.

They put up, ask for a polls in the

high places so that they would worship

and know to worship that, and they

would bring their children down here

and this would take place.

And God raised up a king who

came along by the name of Josiah

and he tore down the poles

and he shut off the worship,

and he brought back the celebration of

the Passover to the Jewish people so that

they would honestly worship God again.

Now, it's interesting to me that, you

know, Jerusalem gets established and

they didn't celebrate the Passover 'cause

the scrolls were lost in the temple.

And so the, the priest and the

scribes and the people didn't

even know where they were.

And so Josiah comes along and he

does all this stuff and Josiah dies

and the guy comes along and for

four years, takes his place.

Just a Army general because Josiah's

son, Manassas is down in Egypt.

And that guy does something

that nobody else does.

And he marches into the Valley of

Henan and he destroys all the altars.

He opens up all the, the gravestones

for the, the great priests of

veil and he incinerates everything

and destroys everything.

And God brings, God brings peace to

Israel for four years and then he's gone

and Manassas comes back.

And being a godly son of his father

re institutes the worship of Baal.

Now, as I was praying

and talking to God about what on earth.

To talk about this morning, and I've

got a whole lot more to go on this, but

this chosen people of God woke me up

in the middle of the night and he said,

didn't tell me I had to preach on it.

But Reed, Jeremiah, chapter

Jeremiah 19 · chapter mention

19, now Jeremiah is known

as the weeping prophet and

he could be a weeping prophet for more

than one reason, because he was to

prophesy to the king, to kings because

they had more than one in those days

of the different places in Israel and

Jerusalem and what he had to tell them

pretty much sounds like chapter 19.

Says this is what the Lord God says,

go buy a clay jar from a potter.

Take along some of the elders of the

people in of the priest, and go out to

the valley of Ben Nan near the entrance

of the pot, shared pot, shared gate there.

Proclaim the words I tell you and say,

here are the word of the Lord, the

kings of Judah and people of Jerusalem.

This is what the Lord Almighty the God

of Israel says, listen, I'm going to

bring a disaster on this place that

will make the ears of everyone who hears

it tingle for they have forsaken me

and made this a place of foreign gods.

They have burned incense in it to Gods

that neither they nor their ancestors,

nor the kings of Judah ever knew.

And they have filled this place

with the blood of the innocent and

they have built the high places

of bail to burn their children in

the fires as offerings to bail.

Something I did not command or

mention, nor did it enter my mind.

So because these days are coming declares

the Lord, when people will no longer

call this place top hath or the valley of

been hidden, but the valley of slaughter.

In this place I will ruin the

plans of Judah and Jerusalem.

I will make them fall by the sword

before their enemies at the hands of

those who want to kill them, and I

will give their carcasses as food to

the birds and the wild animals, and

I will devastate this city and make

it an object of horror and scorn.

All who pass by will be appalled and

will scoff because of all its wounds,

and I will make them eat the flesh of

their own sons and daughters and they

will eat one another's flesh because

their enemies will press the siege

so hard against them to destroy them.

Then break the jar.

Those who go with you are

watching and say to them, this

is what the Lord Almighty says.

I will smash this nation and this city.

Just as this potter's jar is smashed and

cannot be repaired, they will bury the

dead in tope until there is no more room.

This is what I will do to this place and

to those who live here declares the Lord.

I will make this city like tope

the houses in Jerusalem and those.

Of the kings of Judah will be defiled,

like this place toit all the houses

where they burned incense on the roofs

to all the starry hosts and poured

out drink offerings to other gods.

Then Jeremiah returned from Toit, where

the Lord had sent him to prophesy and

stood in the court of the Lord's temple

and said to all the people, this is

what the Lord Almighty the God of Israel

says, listen, I am going to bring on

this city and all the villages around it.

Every disaster I pronounced against

them because they were stiff necked

and they would not listen to my words.

Now,

those were his chosen people.

Those are the ones.

Those are the ones that he was

expecting to do what he needed them

to do, what he had called them to

do, what he had chosen them to do,

what he had empowered them to do.

They were carried off by Nebu can

answer, and Jerusalem was left in a mess.

Now, if you don't remember, Jeremiah

died somewhat of a brutal death.

They butchered him.

They sawed his body and sunder

while he was alive, until he wasn't.

And over in the first chapter of Jeremiah.

You know, if you wanna be called to do

something that God wants you to do, verse

seven says, do not say, I am too young.

You must go everywhere I send

you, say whatever I command you.

And do not be afraid.

I will.

Verse 16, I will pronounce my

judgments on my people because of

their wickedness in forsaking me in

burning incense to other gods and in

worshiping what their hands have made.

Now, if he took that, that

serious for his own people, think

of the world in which we live.

People often today get to the point where

they're saying, okay, we don't believe

that the modern day Jewish people are

the same as the biblical Jewish people.

If you follow the ancestry,

that would be just like saying,

Jed isn't part of my beam,

although he came from my

son, I came from my father.

We're all part of that same limit lineage.

Okay?

If we will hear people say today,

if you stand with Israel, then

you're just a Jewish national.

We choose Judaism over being an American.

Well, God says in his word that those

who stand with Israel, stand with him.

That's a weight paraphrase.

It's not perfect, but.

They also want to know going back

into history, how come there is

so much animosity between the Jews

and the Arab worlds or the Muslims

back here where we said that the

Jewish people were God's chosen people

who are, who were the two sons

there where a choice was made?

Isaac, Isaac, and Ishmael.

Ishmael, okay.

Who is Ishmael considered the father

of the Arab world, the Muslim world.

And God chose Isaac, not Ishmael.

So there has been animosity

from that point forward.

Now the devil likes a

good brand of hatred.

He can use that with almost

any group you can find.

So just as clear, back in the Middle Ages,

when we went and fought over Jerusalem,

who was fighting over Jerusalem,

the quote unquote Christians and the

Muslims, because you know there is a

Muslim capital of the world over here.

There's a Christian capital

of the world over here.

So why was, why were the

Muslims fighting over Jerusalem?

Because the Jews needed to not be

there and the devil works that out.

And so to this very day,

that fight continues.

World War I, not two.

World War I brought

tremendous antisemitism.

Some of you like movies, right?

I know my wife and Susie do.

This is one of their favorite movies.

Lord, help me.

Ah, Fiddler on the Roof.

Yeah.

You guys know all that?

Okay?

That's the story of persecution

of the Jews in Russia during

World War One and all over Europe.

By the time we get to World

War Two, what happens?

Okay?

The Jews are the problem.

The Jews are the problem

in Germany, right?

Basically the Jews are the

problem in the whole world.

Germany just becomes really

active in what is going on,

and they are going to rid

the world of the problem.

And so they killed the

Jews by the millions.

We had Nazi parties right here in

the US that was one of our political

groups during that timeframe.

Okay.

We had massive anti-Jewish rallies

all over the northeast of our country.

There is another movie, I don't

even remember the name of it,

but it's about a true event of

a, of the last ship that allows.

The Jews to leave Germany, and

they're all loaded on this ship, and

that ship travels all over Europe,

south America, Africa, the United States,

and no one will allow the ship tord all

of those Jewish people in its scent.

Back to Germany

and to the concentration camps.

There were God's chosen

people to get the job done.

Do you remember when Jesus is born

and the king sent out an edict that

you're gonna go to that place where he

was born and you're gonna kill what?

All the babies, boys, two years

and younger, because if that

was the Messiah, I kill him.

I cut off the head of the enemy over

here, and redemption doesn't come.

So all the way along, you do all

these things to try to do what

will thwart God in his plan to redeem man.

Now

people say, well, there was some

good things that came out of all of

the horror of World War II and all

of the persecution of those Jews.

Okay?

Do you know that medical science

is still using the information that

the Germans gained in World War ii?

Do you know how we know that the

body temperature of a person can

only get so high before they die

because they ran those

tests on the Jewish people?

Do you know how cold a person has

to be before they can't recover?

Do you know how long you can be underwater

and drowned before they

can bring you back to life?

This is all part of our medical books that

we study and use today in the free world,

and the man who is in charge

of all of those things.

Died in a, in a prison camp.

You know why?

Because he said this information,

I mean, he was a sadistic human

being, but he said, this information

needs to be shared with the world,

so we know about this stuff.

And Hitler had him put in a

prison camp until he died because

that was not for the world.

That was for the Aryan people.

Remember Hitler's book there?

Mine comp.

Do you know?

There's an Arabic version of that book.

While Hitler in Germany was still living,

they sent a representative to the Arab

world that they were allied with, and

they turned that into an Arabic mine comp.

It is studied today.

It is the second book below the Quran.

There is a plan by the enemy, and

guys, when I say we are at war, we're,

we're, we're not physically at war

with, you know, another country.

We are at war with an enemy that wants to

destroy everything that God has a part of.

He hates the Jewish people

for the plan of salvation.

He hates Christian people because we take

part in that and that God has come along

and given us the job to spread the gospel.

He brought the gospel through those

people, and the Jews will be the

last people on earth who will be

evangelistic in the midst of the

tribulation to everything else.

That plan is different and we are

setting here today in our own country.

We are we.

We have people in Congress, we have.

People in different states that are

doing everything they can to set

up Sharia law to turn our country

towards the Muslim religion in the

United States of America, the fastest

growing religion is what Muslim.

Okay, now that makes a lot of sense.

All you ladies like to, to wear

shorts or a short skirt or a halter

top or go swimming, one piece,

two piece, 10 piece bathing suit.

That's a death sentence.

You

can't do that.

You have to wear and cover yourself

if you speak up.

I mean, we've got these.

Excuse me, I may get a

little off topic here.

We have these absolute idiots who are

in political positions standing up

here saying, this is what we want.

If they had that this

minute, they're dead.

We have people at our colleges and

universities that are protesting

on behalf of the Muslim people, who

are the people that are protesting.

It's a great big thing.

You know, the L-G-B-T-E-Q

uh plus, whatever.

Okay.

It's that group four Muslims.

Do you know if you are an admitted.

Person of any of those groups,

you get to live in the penthouse

of every high rise building

for about 60 seconds

before you learn to fly,

because that is what happens to you.

That is under Sharia law.

That is the pronouncement of judgment.

You're thrown off a tall building.

Okay?

When women,

you know this, it's a,

it's a wonderful religion,

okay?

Women of an enemy or women who

are just decided that you are

not, uh, you're not appropriate.

And you're put to death in a very

humiliating death, but put to death.

But you know what the procedure is?

You are raped or gang raped,

and then you are executed.

You know why that is?

Because if you weren't, they could

kill you and you could go to heaven.

But if you were raped, you go to hell.

So they do that to you.

Then they do the other thing.

Cut off your head, hang you, shoot you.

It doesn't matter.

We are not understanding.

That God has a plan of redemption

and love for all of Mankin,

and the enemy wants nothing but

destruction and terror and horror.

We're at war.

You've heard me say that.

Dozens, those of you've been here a long

time, hundreds and hundreds of times.

We are at war

and we are fighting against an enemy that

has no compassion, no mercy, nothing.

That is why when the children of

Israel went against what God was

trying to get them to do, that

boy, he pronounced judgment on

them because we are not doing this.

You are going to change

those of you who live.

Nehemiah comes back later

and he rebuilds Jerusalem

and God restores that lineage in that line

wherever it went.

See, we are a part of his plan, but

that war isn't over in the Middle East.

The war is here it is now,

and we are fighting it.

And we either stand and

the idea of stand isn't.

Well read your Bible, you better

read your Bible, or you don't

have anything to be armed with.

It's not, well, read your Bible and get

up in the morning and have your devotions.

Guys.

We are either fighting for the souls

of men on a daily basis, or we're

just enduring life until it's over.

I'm struggling myself right now because

when I had some big heart and blood

pressure issues, you know, they came and

sat on me and said, you gotta listen to

your wife, and that'll ruin any guy's

day right there, because she'll tell you

what you can do and what you can't do.

And I mean, just last night,

just last night.

I sat down and I said, I'm hungry.

And she said, you're not hungry.

So I guess I wasn't hungry.

It's amazing.

You, you, you can't tell anymore what,

what you are and what you're not.

But I've had to slow down and the

doctor says, you're gonna, you're

gonna lose weight or all the medicine

I give you isn't gonna help at all.

So I've lost 15 pounds

and it's working better.

Well see, that's the way

I feel about it, you know?

That's great.

And he says, well, that's a good start.

You know, I mean, they, they

don't have anything nice to

say to you at times like that.

Oh, so.

You know, I, I, I can't work

as hard as I wanna work.

I can't sleep very long.

I can't eat like I want to eat.

Life's just wonderful, you know?

But no matter what that's like, I've

got to be about my father's business.

And so do you.

Heaven needs to be different

because you're here.

The goal for God's people

isn't to get there.

It's to get others there with you.

And if we're not doing that, then God's

whole plan falls apart right here.

It's me.

It's you.

We have got to be a part of that.

I don't want God sitting here

saying, okay, this is what is

gonna happen, and I'm gonna send

the prophet over here to tell you

later on as you go along as Jeremiah,

he says, go and go and tell the king and

all the people that are in his group.

You're gonna die, period.

I'm gonna send the most hideous

plague that you've ever seen, and

you're gonna die of the plague.

If anybody that survives that, then you're

gonna get murdered with your own weapons

and say to the people, if you stay in

Jerusalem, same feat for you if you leave.

You get to become a slave and

you're carried away into captivity.

There you go.

Here's your choice.

And what I get out of Jeremiah

is God isn't fooling guys.

This is war.

And in war

we either win or we're destroyed and

we are living at a time in our country

where guys, it's, we got it pretty much

easy compared to the rest of the world.

Some of you remember Gil, who lived

with us for a while, worked for me.

Ronnie got deported.

He's down in, he's down

in Honduras because he

had a guy work with him and left

the guy leave his stuff in his car

overnight to pick him up the next day

to go over and help at your house.

The guy had marijuana in his bag, and

so Ronnie got stopped for driving.

Without a license, he

would've got a $50 fine,

but there's marijuana in the bag.

So Ronnie was in possession,

worked him for seven years, doesn't

drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't

use any kind of drugs, nothing.

No trial.

He's there.

No chance to come back.

His wife, his daughter was

born here and his son are here.

Gil called this week and

Ron helped him with a plane ticket.

We're helping him with a bus ticket to get

there, to the plane to get to Costa Rica.

And the day that he talked to me, he said.

Cartel killed 14 people

today in our little place.

They're after me,

and so he is hiding out at his

mother's place up in the mountains,

less than 50 miles from Acapulco.

For those of you who like to go and

have a great time on the beach and

do all the stuff, this one's going

on half an hour away from where

you're soaking in the sun.

You know the world's a dangerous place.

Not so much here.

Not so much.

But if I read God's plan

and what the Devil's design is for

God's plan, we're living in a lot

more dangerous place than we think.

And as long as we just keep going through

the day by day work that we need to

do and going on every day, we do that.

An enemy that is trying to destroy

everything that we believe in

and everyone that we believe

in are working round the clock.

No sub, no give up.

We're at war and God's people are

either on their knees and have their

sword and going out and trying to

take territory from the enemy, or

we're just sitting back and waiting

until the enemy comes to our door.

Lord, help us not.

To live in the days of Jeremiah,

help us to live in the days of Elijah.

Help us put on that full

armor of God and go to war.

Help us as your people, not to be

the ones saying we're ready to fight.

When the fight comes,

the fight's already here.

It's around us.

It's everywhere.

Everywhere.

Open our eyes.

Help us to see what we, we can't see.

Humanly speaking.

Help us to see thunder and hear lightning.

You designed this world.

You designed a plan.

You chose the people, and you said

we could be a part of that plan.

But restoration redemption,

we need it.

We need you.

We need you to break our hearts.

We need you to just

work in us in ways that

we are not used to.

Don't let us be satisfied.

Don't let us

feel like, Hey, I'm doing enough.

You paid it all.

Jeremiah came along to follow you and you

said, here, I'm gonna give you a message.

It will cost you everything

that you have, including you.

Now, don't be afraid, 'cause

I'm gonna be with you.

Get out there and get it done.

Sounds like a coach telling his team

what to go do against a much, much

bigger opponent than they think.

If we relate to that, then we can

relate to Jeremiah and we can relate

to you as a true life coach for us.

Do something in us.

Lord, do it today.

Your name, amen.