Let It Go And Leave It - Bro Caleb Roadcap 6-1-2025

Lord this morning, I'm not very thankful for our pastor's

fled to being back when.

You miss our pastors like very much, but so thankful

of our musicians home. It's truly not the same without him.

I mentioned of the other service that when you're when

you realize how much everyone pulls and just how much

how the service person goes everything around them more. We

were looking, Jeremiah jap A thirty four, so much of

this startyment said.

This morning again, I'm so thankful.

For what brother Jesse had to say, Brother Nathana, They

truly could have.

Went on with it. I was looking for a year

pastor hearing somebody else this.

Morning, But I'm trying to give give y'all what the

Lord has put on our part. Me this morning, Jeremiah

thirty four be looking at Verses ten and eleven. It says,

now and all the princes and all the people which

had entered into.

The covenant heard that everyone should let his.

Man servant, and everyone is made servant, go free, that

none should serve themselves of them anymore.

Then they obeyed and let them go.

But afterward they turned and cause the servants and the

handmaids whom they had let go free to return and

brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids again

right there at the beginning of verse eleven. But afterward

they turned this morning, if God have helped me, I'd

like to preach you and let it go, and then

leave it alone. Let's prayer this way. Our scripture this

morning comes from an Old Testament book of the Bible, Jeremiah.

This book does bear the name of its author, Jeremiah,

and he was the prophet who.

Had many things to say to the nation of Judah

on behalf of the Lord God.

And for this, because he has so much to say,

he is considered a major prophet. Jeremiah prophesied of pending judgment,

although he also offered hope if the nation would turn

and repent, if the nation would let go of their

sins and then.

Leave them alone.

Two things of importance here this morning, as we dive

into this, to keep in mind are number one, the

events in the Book of Jeremiah are not always in

chronicological order.

I discovered this this year as I began my bibery

and plan. I did a chronicological reading plan.

Because there's many books in the Bible that are happening

at the same time, or there's instances like Jeremia where

things aren't necessarily recorded in the events that had happened

on so and then also number two in our text,

while Jeremiah is preaching through the remnant of Judah, he's

preaching to a group of people that have not yet

been carried.

Away into Babylon.

And at the same time, the sequel as his contemporary,

he's preaching to those in Babylon. So that's just something

to bear in mind here this morning. But thirty four

here is our primary text, and the context of these

two scriptures is that Jeremiah had came, but he warns

King Zedekiah, kingo for Judah, that Babylon is coming, and

Babylon is gonna burn this city, the remaining cities of

defenses that were left after the first invasion. Babylon's coming,

They're gonna burn it, and that no one is gonna escape.

Jeremiah does offer kings Atekiah some hope, he said, he

tells him that he'll die a natural death, he'll die

in captivy, but he will die in natural death. So

King Zadekaia has a little bit of hope and then

as this chapter continues, Babylon does rise up and they

come against Judah and the remaining cities, as I've said,

and that just as Jeremiah had prophesied. But then we

read that just as this city is about to be

taken by the Babylonian's kings Aatekaia and the people of Judah,

they try to make.

A deal with God for generations.

It should not surprise us, because for generations, time after time,

we can see it today. How when something comes against people,

when the enemy rises up in a kind of a sickness,

in the form of a trial, whatever it is, people

will begin to make a deal with God.

And there's so many times we're seeing it where they

may seem to do okay for a space of time,

they may.

Seem to really be sincere and really get a hold

of it and really leave things behind them for a

space of time. But then we'll, as we'll see later,

then they go back to what they used to do.

And it's because it's not in their heart.

And man, if they would have.

Let they they've let it go, but they don't leave it.

It's said they return to it. It's still at arm's length,

and you know, they go back to it, just like

the God returns to its vomit or the peak to

the wall and in the mire.

Right.

Again, this is not the first time that this happened

to God's people. Then we read so many times in

the Old Testament where they go to idolatry, and then

they'll come back to God when when persecution arises, when

their enemies come.

Against them, or they'll go after this and then God says, no, you.

Gotta do it by way, and they'll come back to

God after a trial again after the enemy dries up.

So here are the people. They make a deal with God.

An they make a deal with God and.

They say Lord.

Back in Deuteronomy, back in I believe the first time

was in Exodust, Exous, Viticus, and Deuteronomy. God had told

them that in that year of Jubilee, every seven years

that any of the any of the servants, or any

of the any of the slaves that were of Hebrew,

they were their brothers that they had taken, and that

had said, hey, I'm gonna be.

In servant to to you.

That every seven years they were supposed to free them. However,

we read that this is not was not that they

did not always follow this, and for the iterations they

had failed to do so. So these the people of Judia,

they say, God, we're gonna do it your way. We're

gonna be obedient to you. You want to do this,

And we read as the battelunions. It says here, hellelujah, hell,

it says the It says where the it began to

it began to let up, if you want, the battle

began to let up just a bit.

And the people, instead of going, okay.

We have a chance of victory, we have a chance

of freedom, we have a chance of liberty again, they say, oh,

now that heats up.

A little bit.

Now, thanks were going my way a little bit. Now

I'm comfortable again. So I'm going to go back to

what else I was doing when I was comfortable.

I'm gonna go back to the way that things.

Were before, because it was still at arms reach. So

the people of Junia, they had let their fill of

people go free. At first they freed them from their servitude.

And then, as I said, the siege above on let

up slightly.

Amen.

But then the people went back on their vow. In

verse eighteen, it says here and I will amen, and

I would give the men that have transgressed my covenant,

which have not performed the words of the covenant, wish

they had made before me. When they cut the captain's

wain and passed between the parts.

They're of this Latin part of verse eighteen.

It describes this, this covenant that they made. It describes this,

this religious ceremony, if it would of cutting this captain's

way passing before it, and from my studies, it was

to be if anybody would go back after doing such

an app if anyone ever go.

Back to God would curse them.

They went through all the religious ceremony, They went through

all the form, all the show.

They did it all, and they.

Knew the consequences are falling back on this promise. They

decided to be obedient. But then again they chose their

disobedience and going back.

Then we read that the Babylonians came in and they

took them away this morning.

Since the people would not leave their sin and their disobedience,

they might have let it go for a space of time,

but they would not leave it. They just couldn't seem

to leave it alone. They mad they might have temporarily

let it go, but it was still at their arms reach.

As I'm beginning to think of this going back, we

know the version of the Bibles recorded twice where Jesus

himself said that when a temple, when a vessel has

been cleaned, and the evil spirits have been cast out,

and the evil spirits will go here and there, and

they'll come back, and they'll ring back seven more wicked.

After they've come, they found it swept, garnished. But in

one place it says empty.

God.

I know, after they've done this, this ceremony, after they've

they've paint, the done the show, done the paint, the vows,

made the covenant.

But yet they were they were truly empty of obedience

this morning. So then they went back, then went back

a man once.

As I was praying last night, I was like, Lord,

how do we had the the chapter if you would

had the the general idea of our obedience and then

returning to our disco means to turning on to what

we want to do.

I was like, Lord, how can we're gonna drive this home?

Make this more personal?

And as I was praying, I began to realize that

once you've let go in a sense, you've received salvation.

You've let go of your sin.

God saves you, right, God is God. When God saves us,

will let go of our sin. But we must move

along into sanctification. But we must leave behind the things

of the past and pursue more of God.

You.

So this morning, the pastor said during journal revolt, this

is continued to just ring in.

My ears, and it's been on my heart so much.

As Pastor said during our last revival, delete it, uninstallid, unsubscribed,

with no thought or intention of going back.

We're gonna go.

Into homecoming next Sunday, or willing will be going into

a revival. Even though this is a revival, is a

scheduled revival. It's not spontaneous as the last one. I

feared and this isn't criticizing out of ignorance. I was

once this way, but I fear that there could there

could be people, There could be someone that that's something

that you got rid of in the last revival is

the something that is still gonna hinder you with this

upcoming revival. It's the something that made me hinder your

victory in this morning, It's the something that's made.

Keeping you back from all that God has for you,

because you haven't yet left it behind, and are not

yet leaving it alone this morning. Ecclease ask these five

versus four very familiar says, when now voust.

A vow to God, defer not to pay it, for

he hath thought pleasure in fools, pay that which thou.

Hast vouled better?

Is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou

shouldst vowl and pay it not? And Matthew again, very

very similar to this, It says, Matthew five, again have

you not heard that has been said of them in

old time? Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but thou shalt

perform unto the Lord thine oaths.

But I say unto you.

Swear not at all, neither by Heaven, for it is

God's throne, nor by earth for instance, footstore, neither by Jerusalem,

for it's the city of their great king. Neither shalt

thou swear by thy head, because thou can'st not make

one hair white?

Or what? But let your communication be yay, hey, nay, nay,

for whatsoever.

It's more than these cometh of evil when we say

it to God, when we give it to God, when

we let go, and God comes and he does the world. God,

we saw how the Babylonians, the battle seemed to let up,

the attack of the enemy seemed to let up. Truly, God,

he's seen their repentance. But yet they hadn't moved on.

They had it moved past it, and they come back.

And the Bible says, that is of evil. Amen again

the book of Jeremiah. It's not entirely chroniclogtical. So we

read in chapter thirty four. But if we go back

into Jeremiah, chapter twenty one, we read.

And this is how my Bible plan had it play out.

If we go back to chapter twenty.

One, we read where eazeque, where king's Anekiah, he comes

and he says, inquirer, I pray of the Lord for us, for.

Never can answer the king of battle and maketh war

against us.

If so be that one that the Lord will deal

wonder would deal with us according to all his wondrous works,

that he may go up from us, Then say Jeremiah

to them, this show you say to Zedekiah.

TH's say it, the Lord God of Israel, behold, I

will turn back the weapons of war that are in

your hands. Wherewith you fight again, the King of Babon

against the counties which we seech you without walls, and

I will.

Assemble them in the midst of this city, and I

myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand, with

a strong arm.

Even in anger and in fury and in great wrath.

When I read this, this, this, this begin to burden me,

and I begin to think of what it would be

for God to break down the hedge of protection. Not

only break down the hedge of protection, not only say

you've chose this, you won't leave this alone, so I'll

leave you alone. Not just that, but then for him

to come and say, I'm want to fight again. And truly,

at the end of this, brother Sarah talk so well

this morning, Surely at the end of this there's either

a heaven or a hell. There's the heaven that we

talked about. We say it about this morning. We said

we're leaving this world. Amen, But truly if we're if

we choose to not follow in obedience to God and

submission to God, then God will fight against us. But

leaven ours. There's some hope though, that I wanted to

bring to the saints.

I wanted to speak to somebody this morning.

Again, I would have much rather our Pastor have been

here and have been able to preach for us this morning,

or again.

One of the brothers.

I loved everything that was said this morning, but this

morning I just want to speak to somebody and just

some total submission, total obedience to God.

That word obedience or this obedience.

That's what has been bringing on my heart ever since

Pastor asked this stuff to preach this morning before the same.

Even for the one who's struggling. There's hope you dad.

We read in chapter thirty four was our primary verses.

In chapter thirty five, there's the wonderful account of the Recabites.

We read of these people whom their father had commanded

them a certain thing of abstained from alcohol, abstained from wine.

It didn't form abstained from it. This was a fowl,

and this was something that they were to be obedient.

This was a covenant that they had made, if you

would that we shall abstain.

And Jeremiah the Lord say in to the record bites

and Turmi says, hey, come and eat and and enjoy

this wine. And they said we cannot. Basically we that

we've made a covenant and we will not go back

on it. And so God, and in turn God blesses

them for their loyalty to this commandment.

Amen, when we when we let go of things, and

like the Recordites, they left it alone. They wouldn't go back,

they wouldn't taste of it.

Some of them never experienced it, and they would never

experience it. Some of them at some point they had

experienced it.

But they let it go, and they turned to leave

it alone.

Man, and in turn God blessed him.

He said, John had to have the son of break

Cap shall not want for a man to stand.

Before me forever, right down. But I believe it was

Matthew Henry's commentary at the time of his writing. He

said that there was.

Travelers that had been in the area, and the tribe

of Freak the record Bites were still their own tribe

to that.

Day of his writings. I thought that was a base.

When your obedience to God, he will establish you. When

you stay in obedience and submission to God, he will

establish you.

And his promises. A brother Chester would come around, I

wrote down.

Before before this service got going this morning, and and

then brother Phillips saying what he did.

I already had. Now one day, this.

Spiritual body is gonna let go of the natural. Yeah,

we're gonna leave behind our troubles and our cares. The

trumpet is gonna sound the dead and Christ shall rise first,

and those that are alive and remain will be caught up.

We're gonna let go of the life that we've had here,

and we're gonna leave it behind.

They met him, brother Sarah, this first, and I loved

it this morning at Sunday school. And behold, I come quickly.

My reward is with me to give every man according

as his work shall be. Will we be rewarded for

our obedience this morning? Or will we be rewarded for

our disobedience? Jesus says I am Alpha Omega, the beginning

of the end, the first and the last. Blessed are

they that do his commandments, and they that they may

have right to the tree of Us, and they may

enter in through the gates into the city.

To anyone this morning, that as we just go on

with this service and the service tonight, the service win saying,

as we approach.

Revival and approach convention, as we approach the coming of

the Lord, is there anyone if.

Anyone is to hold him on anything in your.

Disobedience, it will keep you grounded. I believe somebody already

said this morning, I want to be ready for liftoff.

I want to be ready to go Amen. And that's

truly how I want to be. I want to be

ready to leave this world. I want to be ready

that when God calls me that there's nothing holding there's

no disobedience holding me back.

And when we come and we pray, as we all

stand here this morning, if there is something, and God.

Begins to move, and God begins to o, because he will.

He is faithful.

He is sure.

Though he will not always shine with the man, he

is sure. He's faithful. Now this morning, let's not go back.

Let's legal where it is and move on to greater

deaths in God's anglification, and just hire.

Policies words to come and pray. God bless your church.

I wouldn't make kid man, and prepare ourselves for coming God.

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way it used to be before your presence.

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to be before your presence came and changed. I've been changed, free.

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I've been changed, I've been chased. I have waited for

this moment to come.

And I will past.

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I can't go back to the way used to be

before your presence then changed me. I won't go back.

I can't go back to the way it used to

be before your presence came and changed me. Oh, I

won't go back. I can't go back to the way

used to be before your presence came it changed.

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