God's Promises: Faithfulness Through Tribulation and Restoration

1. "And we see all these things. We see all these promises and God calling his shot. And those come true. They come to fruition. But do you know in Jeremiah 30, it's like if God's purposes were a golf ball, it's like God gets up on the tee and he tees up that golf ball and he hits that golf ball into the stratosphere. And we're going to see in Jeremiah 30 that God doesn't abandon the short game, but he's going to give us. He's going to give us a unique bird's eye view." [37:53] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "And here's what I believe to my core is that God is a promise-keeping God. God is a promise-keeping God. So here's what happens when you look at some of these passages like Jeremiah 30, and you can go and you can see the short game. Of what God had in store for his people. And just to give us an idea, when we talk about the short game of God, we're talking about a 70-year period of time, right? So it's just, again, a reminder that many times we can get impatient, we can grow weary, we can get frustrated, we don't see how all the pieces of our life are coming together." [38:49] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "And we can look with expectation. And we can look with excitement, believing that God is going to make good on his promises. He's done enough in the revealed promises that he gave us about his Messiah, Jesus Christ, and what Christ came to do. And you look at the Old Testament, and you look at all those prophecies that were fulfilled in Christ. Some of them are yet to come. But we can look at what happened. And in the life, the death, the resurrection of Jesus. And we can have hope that not a single one of those promises is going to be left undone. And we get to look with expectation and hope today." [40:39] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "And there's a complete fulfillment that's going to happen. And when we look at the day, which we will in a minute, and we look and we see what is meant by that, it lets us know there was something that happened, right? And it's not just a day. In 537 B.C., after the three generations passed, as God had declared through Jeremiah, as we've been looking through the book of Jeremiah, there would be an event in 537, where King Cyrus of Persia would defeat the Babylonians, and there would be a partial fulfillment. The people would return back to the land. The temple would be rebuilt. But we know that it's not the end of the story." [44:49] (55 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "And why is this important for us? You know where I stand, right? And there's godly people that have different perspectives, right? So, I mean, we can engage and have godly Christ-like conversations around how the end times are going to play out. But I think Jeremiah 30 is important for us to recognize that these are future promises because we still look with anticipation of what God is going to do and these promises that are going to be fulfilled. And as I understand, I understand the scripture and I go back to books like Jeremiah." [50:22] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "Because do we want a God that really turns a blind eye to all the evil and all the injustice that's in the world? I don't. I don't. And there's coming a time... When what is broken and wrong in this world will be made right. And we have to continue to believe that. You know, a reason why, again, why I think these are events that are yet to come in Jeremiah 30 is there... It begins, it says, we have heard a cry of terror, of dread. There is no peace. There is no peace. There is no peace in the world." [01:03:25] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "And when Jesus breaks a yoke, when Jesus breaks the chains, it's a permanent breaking. There is no turning back. And did you see it says they will serve and serve the Lord. And when Jesus breaks the yoke, when Jesus breaks the chains, he unfamiliarlyじゃない to the ways of the law and the law in the kingdom of God. are diminish enslave him you are future. These are promises that are a future promises for the people of God. That we can lean into even today." [01:06:10] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "And when we look at this passage right here it says this is the declaration of the lord of armies i believe we're talking about a a pre-incarnate example of jesus christ right here and it makes sense because humanity is encased and is capable of breaking the chains there is nothing on this earth that is able to break the chains of what's being referred to here because ultimate captivity can't come through a person or another human being right we we become captive to our sin we had a sin problem that was a yoke there was a chain that couldn't be dealt with it had to be dealt with through God himself and this is what we see here this is a permanent breaking of those chains that only happened through Jesus Christ and what God has done for us" [01:09:13] (66 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "And why we have to be confident that what God starts from his bird's eye view even if things look like they're falling off track or even if things look like how in the world is this going to work out for some good we can be confident from God's bird's eye view that he's going to finish the work that he has started in each one of us and isn't it great to know we can take that pressure off of ourselves we don't have to be the ones that are that are clinging and it was such a transformative thought in my mind when i finally understood one day because i spent a lot of my life feeling like i was trying to cling and hold on to god like i just can't let go i gotta cling and i gotta hold on and while there's an aspect of that that's true what john says is that we can't be snatched out of his hand so what that means is that as much as we might think we've got to hold on and grasp god you know he's he's the one that's doing the gripping and holding on to us we can be reminded of that today that god loves us enough that he's he's holding on to us he's got us in his grasp ensuring that the work that he started will be made complete on the day of christmas christ jesus the day of christ jesus the day of the lord just like we see back prophesied in jeremiah 30 the day of the lord" [01:14:43] (110 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "And it's important for us to go back and look at these old testament promises because they still hold true today father we come before you we love you we thank you and we're reminded today lord that again you're in control we pray for rick lord that you would continue to heal his body thank you that we can be reminded today that sometimes we just need to be the church family and we can be interrupted lord so that we can gather together and pray in an intentional way so thank you" [01:18:16] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)