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Jeremiah began in 626 b.c. under Josiah, one of the good kings; in fact, one of the greatest. The Jews were involved in mental idolatry. Then Jehoahaz, who was his second son, put on the throne by Pharaoh Necho, who put Jehoahaz on the throne after defeating Josiah. A switch in rulership, and then Nebuchadnezzar came to Israel. 598–586 b.c. was a new rulership, with Josiah’s 3^rd son.

This is the first of 6 oracles given by Jeremiah during the rulership of Josiah. The Jews, again, are seen as the right woman of Jesus Christ. God says to the Jews, “Am I boring you? Am I disturbing you? Why do My people say, ‘We roam freely. We will not come again to You’ ” Does God bore you? Do you find coming to church very boring? Is it painful? If that is true, we are in the same boat as these Jews from Judah. This is strictly between ourselves and God. We are the only ones who can answer this. If we don’t care for doctrine, then we have no capacity for love and we are bored with doctrine.

Do you love your bf, gf, children, parents? Or do they bore you? That means no capacity for love. When you are bored, you are saying, “I am dull.” It is not that we are boring you; it is that you have no capacity for life; you have no capacity for God.

Jer. 2:31 “O generation [or, race], concentrate on the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness [a dried up land] to Israel, or a land of fear-darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We roam freely; we will come no more to You?’

There was a point in the history of Israel when they loved God; they loved Bible doctrine. Sometimes, it is in the memory center that we need to go to. The ornaments found in v. 32 are grace gifts from God; because He loves Judah, he has given great gifts.

If a gal wants to be snotty with her guy, she will take up all of the little gifts and send them back or box them up or something like this. The rw treasures these things because she associates them with her rm.

The bride of the ancient world had a fabulous gown. Around the middle was an ornamental belt, keshur is the word and it is called a girdle, but it is worn on the outside. It gave the robes style. This is a moment of great memory for rm/rw. God says, “Can you forget the wonderful gifts and blessings from association with Me?” A women with a right man will leave the rm at times, but she will never forget him. However, the people of Israel have forgotten God.

Jer 2:32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments [gifts from her right man], or a bride her ornamental wedding girdle? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

There is a Hebrew idiom here. They are trying to find their way, but they cannot find it apart from their rm, Who is God. A woman is trying to fake out everyone with the wrong man, to act like she is doing well; however, it means nothing. She is seeking to gain from her wrong man, but she cannot. There is no substitute for God’s plan or God’s way. Spiritually, you will head off after some substitute. You try to get into some movement of some sort. All of these things are cheap substitutes. Believers who are negative toward doctrine are unhappy but trying to find happiness; even, if it involves self hypnosis. Just like a woman giving her body to the wrong man, but she does not find happiness, but soul torture.

The more that you attempt to find happiness apart from God; and you try any substitute and you will never be happy apart from Bible doctrine. There are things which are considered legitimate and illegitimate; but it does not matter; you cannot chase after substitutes and expect to find happiness. Believers go through the tongues movment, some victorious life thing, or some alternate approach; but the only way is to go after Bible doctrine through grace apparatus for perception. The emphasis in Berachah is the teaching of the Word of God.

Who has to train you how to witness if you love Jesus Christ? You don’t have to think in terms of systems or answer this if they say that, etc. There is no substitute for Bible doctrine. Anything which is substituted for doctrine is evil; even if these things are not sinful. Even mental stimulation is not a substitute for loving Jesus Christ. No Bible doctrine and we are running around with cheap substitutes.

You cantry to fake love of God by singing, witnessing, praying, etc. However, there is only one way; we have to love a person Whom we have never seen, and we must know Him through the Word. This is the only way that we can know Jesus Christ. Our capacity to love Jesus Christ is based upon the intake of Bible doctrine.

Jer 2:33 How good [or, how nice] you make your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught [or trained your ways to] a principle [or, system] of evil women your ways.

The next few verses give us the results. Kanaphim = the long, flowing robe of a judge about to pronounce a verdict. 1Sam. 15:27 and two other places, this is used the same way.

The system of justice found in the Word of God is the most objective law anywhere. It calls for several witnesses; people were convicted on the basis of laws of evidence. Questions were eliminated with regards to self-incrimination (really?). There were specific punishments for specific crimes.

Two great systems of law: SPQR the law of the Roman empire. Innocent until proven guilty. If a lower court finds you guilty without following correct juris prudence, then you could appeal to a higher court. Jewish law was also exceptionally objective. Roman law was infiltrated with expediency and the Jewish law had been filled with legalism. These two great systems of law met for tor the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. These two great systems of law were used to persecute born again believers as well. In Jeremiah, some were burned for not participating in idolatry. The law was distorted.

Jeremiah went to prison many times and they wanted to kill Jeremiah, but God’s plan called for Jeremiah to be kept alive. Those who are guilty of crime go free (those who sacrifice their children); but these robes of judges have been dipped in the blood of innocents. The people who demonstrate their love for the Lord, the law is used to persecute innocent people 2Kings 21:16. Jeremiah is speaking of his day; but there is also Menasseh, Jeconiah, Zedekiah, Jehoaikim would all do the same things which are found here.

When believers do not truly love Jesus Christ, they always find some system for self-justification. When believers do not truly love Jesus Christ, they always seeks to justify whatever cheap substitute that they pick up. Self justification is a must for those types.

Jer 2:34 Also in your flowing robes [of judges] is discovered [or, found] the blood of the souls of the poor innocents [believers]; I did not find them by breaking in, but on all these.

Josiah said, “Well, God has not brought tthe 5^th cycle of discipline to us, so He is not angry with us.” They will think up a system and then use it to justify themselves. “I have been innocent; I have been blameless. God does not change His character or His grace to accommodate your negativism, your sin. “If this is true, then why aren’t we dead right now? We are still alive so we must be okay.” This is how they justify their own lives. You can go through all kinds of cheap substitutes and say, “I am innocent.” But you are not; if you don’t take in God’s Word, then you are not innocent.

You think that God is like you. Step out of line and He is going to turn on us. The worst people are those who sound holy.

Now, we may think that God is going to get on His knees and plead with us, but the word is shaphat, in the Niphal. I myself with judge you. The judgment is already beginning, but we don’t know.

Jer 2:35 Yet you say, Because I am innocent [or, blameless], surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I myself will judge you, because you say, I have not sinned.

This results in a disastrous foreign policy. Azah is to be impetuous to go down to Egypt. Isaiah warns over and over agin about going down to Egypt. One form of human viewpoint leads to another. A self-righteous people, which he have in the world council and national council of churches. They are going to depend upon Egypt, and Egypt will let them down. In the days of King Ahaz, they depended upon Assyria.

Jer 2:36 Why do you depart impetuously [or, go about so much] to change your way? You also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

The national coucil of prophets and priests are very much in favor of depending upon Egypt. Hands over the head is a sign of slavery. We find it in 2Sam. they depended upon things which God has rejected. They reject Bible doctrine which gives them capacity. God does not love our cheap substitutes; and their confidences in Egypt would result in slavery.

Salak + the negative: they would never succeed. Our capacity to love in every facet of life, it depends upon Bible doctrine. There is no substitute for Bible doctrine.

Jer 2:37 Yes, you shall go out from this place, and your hands on your head. For Jehovah has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.

We will also study a passage in Jeremiah and get more of the true story of Pearl Harbor and what really happened. Brains, ingenuity and a year of planning at Pearl Harbor.

Bob just back from Wichita, Kansas; some of them drove 300 miles one way, listened to 3 hours of teaching, and then hung out and asked questions for an hour. People came from Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and as well as, pardon the expression, Arkansas. A marvelous auditorium with the temperature at 60; one could be exhausted and sleepy, and still able to take in the Word of God.

A grace appeal in v. 1; grace can overturn a lot of things. If a man puts away his wife means to divorce. Shalach; it also means to dismiss. This is ish dismissing his ishshah. She ran away from him and was unfaithful. She was unfaithful before he dismissed her. RM/RW is the analogy. Jesus Christ is the RM and Judah is His RW. Once a woman become unfaithful to her RM, certain principles come into play. His love is short-circuited and she suffers soul pain. The paramours here are idols; the Jews have gone in for idotlary. Apostasy is comparable to divorce. The man did not divorce the Ishshah until she went and slept with another man.

After a woman commits adultery, may the man return to her? The Mosaic Law recognizes that he can’t. However, there is a grace answer in this situation: “May He yet return to her?” Under these conditions, would not the land suffer? In Deuteronomy, this answer is, the land would suffer. Lev. 18:6– teaches the same concept. It now looks like a hopeless situation. In Jer. 2:25 (which was studied last Sunday?).

In category #2 love, this would pollute the land; however, not under cat. #1 love. Qal perfect of zanah, which means to fornicate; this has been done in the past. In the analogy, the woman goes to several different men. The people of Judah is like the footed filly camel in heat. The female ass keeps smelling the air, hoping to pick up the scent of a male ass.

Here is a woman who has fornicated all over the place; one had some funny lines; another was very serious; another is blonde, another has dark hair; and she goes from one bed to another.

Many lovers, yet return to Me again, says the Lord. Qal infinitive absolute of shub, which is a stronger imperative than an imperative. You have been unfaithful and indiscriminant and a man can dump a woman who has slept with another man; but, God will take Judah back. We should get the idea that the Jews do not earn or deserve God’s love. The literal rendering is very strong. The woman has been highly unfaithful. No amer and no dabar but the word here is naam, which means to speak in a low, pleasant voice. A Qal passive participle. This is a phenomenal grace invitation. When you return to the Lord, you come back to something which is incredible and perfect. If you stay out, you will be as bad as the Arab in the desert.

Jer 3:1 They say, If a man puts away his wife, and [because—a causal wâw] she goes from him and will be for another man, may he [yet] return to her? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah.

Qal imperative of to lift up, which means to lift up your head when you look up. There are bare topped mountains all over. These were mountains used for the phallic cult. These hills are higher than those found around Jerusalem. Hos. 4:13 1Kings 4:23. The woman Ashterah, Ishtar; and the man over the oven, Baal (Molech?). You make an offering first and then join in with the group sex orgy.

When this does not work, you dance erotically with others and put your children into the fire and get excited while they scream. Temples of bestiality. Shagal, which even Bob won’t translate. Pual stem means to have violent sex without true satisfaction. This is in the name of idolatry? “On which hill have you not been ravished?”

Along the highways, you have cohabited with others; even after coming back from having sex on the high places. The Bedouine lies in wait in the desert to rob those who come by; this woman waits along side the road desiring anyone who comes along for sex. He does it for money and the woman tries to gain happiness from it.

Capacity for happiness and for life come from Bible doctrine. A minister came from Manhattan, Kansas. “You teach over an hour? Every night?” When he heard the schedule, he said, “Gosh, you never have any fun.” The further you go from the Lord, the less details will make you happy. The closer you are to God, the more you can enjoy the details of life. Once you develop the capacity to love doctrine, your capacity for life increases as well. If you go the other way, you are like an Arab lying out in the desert. It would be like Bob looking us right in the eye and calling us an SOB. The Jews did ot appreciate being called Arabs in the desert. It is strong language.

You have polluted the land with your whoredoms; idolatry and fornication wen together. Sometimes they mixed it all up.

Jer 3:2 Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see where have you not been lain with [or, ravished]? By the highways you have had sex for them, like the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have defiled the land with your fornications and with your wickedness.

When showers are held back, that means there is an economic depression. The economy of the nation has been hurt. You have a whore’s forehead—what does that mean? Bob heard it once at Dallas as some kind of a mark. Commentaries have nothing to offer here. They go off on weird tangents. The people of Jeremiah’s time understood. If the woman’s forehead is smooth, no matter what she says, she is not satisfied. The woman cannot hide her feelings from her RW. If she is happy, this can be seen in her forehead. There is no way a woman can have this series of ridges; it cannot be faked. She can make all of the proper noises and all of the proper declarations, but if she does not have it in the forehead, then she is not telling the truth. The prostitute could care less; her forehead would be smooth, even though she might be convincing her John that he is the greatest lover ever. Here, the jews are compared to a whore faking out some character (as they tried to fake out God). This is strapping it on God; this is doing these things for some other reason other than capacity #1 love. To say that you love the Word and to cry out how much they love Jesus is phoney. You do not love Jesus Christ with 1 cc of doctrine. This is one of the great takeouts in history.

You refused to suffer disappointment. Even though they just give lip service and even though it is a lie, they are just strapping it on.

Jer 3:3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed [or, to suffer disappointment].

When you have gotten to the lowest point, then you can come and call to God. You only have to do it once. The Qal perfect means you just have to do it once. This is a prayer, and it is addressed to the Father. Aloof, is used here; not guide but right man. Call to Me, “My Father, you are the right man of my youth.”

God does not take us back and ask us to review our failures over and over again, as we might get in marriage.

Jer 3:4 Will you not from this time call to Me, “My father, You are the guide [right man] of my youth?

Qal imperfect of natar. “Will He always bear a grudge?” This is the rejection of Jeremiah’s ministry. Well He God always bear and grudge and cherish this grudge?” God keeps on saying, come back. God cannot change. He does not change His perfect character.

Jer 3:5 Will He keep His anger [or, bear a grudge] forever? Will He keep it to the end?” [God answers them]: “Behold, you have spoken and done all the evil things you could do.”

Dec. 7, 1941, a bosan’s mate named Milligan glanced up and saw planes above and he did not think much of it, since there had been air force and air personal training lately. He saw 20-25 circling planes. This group had arrived before the rest. 1750 lb. torpedo and they have practiced this for about 2 months.

6000 b.c. a japanese prophet said that his people would conquer the world; all 8 corners. This militaristic group would soon dominate Japan. If we are going to understand why Pear Harbor, we need to understand this doctrine, used for many attacks.

In 1926, Hirohito came to power, and this meant the militaristic groups came to power. Shoah in the Japanese, which means enlightened peace, which means subjugation to the Japanese. There are many things which must be omitted tonight. There was a treaty about a ratio of ships and how the Japs got around it.

American ambassador to Japan, there is a lot of talk around town that in case of a break with the US, they are planning to go all out in a surprise attack against Pear Harbor. Jan. 27, 1941 treaty with Russians, which released Japs from Manchuria. Roosevelt put Japs under an oil embargo and locked American japs up. FDR knew this, if the Japs are cut off from oil, and they get their oil from us, it inevitably means war. They would have to attack us or the Dutch East Indies. And we were a part of rainbow 5, which meant we would fight no matter what.

If the Japs attacked the Philippines, Hongkong, Singapore, etc. and when FDR cut off oil, war as inevitable. To show this would require 8 types of documentation to show this.

Japanese knew about rainbow 5 and they began making preparations long before this.

Less than a month before pearl Harbor, General Karache and Admiral Yamamoto. Karache had charge of all Jap troops for beach attacks.

Simultaneous amphibious landings on several beaches. Yamamoto in paragraph 2 was going to attack Pearl Harbor. Paragraph 3 attacks against several major cities. Already 423 pilots had been in training for 30 days at that time in preparation to attack Pearl Harbor.

The younger officers knew that war was inveitable. Admiral Stark to Admiral Kimmel: This dispatch is to be considered a war warning. An aggressive move by Japan is expected within the next few days. Execute appropriate defensive deployment. Response was to be in accordance with War Plan 46.

Best poker player, excellent chess player, Yamamoto was one of the few who believed in carrier warfare. He out talked the whole Jap navy and came to the top in the 1930's.

Different types of planes given, their speed and what they could carry...and their range as well. If the Japs were going to attack Pearl Harbor, they had to get within 300 miles. They had to launch somewhere 300 miles out. Some could be far enough to be 500 miles out.

Yamamoto sold the Japs on the idea. 10 aircraft carriers in their Navy and 6 used in Pearl Harbor. 8-9 battle wagons all tied up in Pearl Harbor with most of the Pacific fleet, all anchord in Pearl Harbor.

In Jan. Of 41, Yamamoto knew an attack would be necessary and began to put plans ono the table.

4 battleships and 9 destroyers. They met up in the Carilles. Coming down through the central islands, there would be too much of a chance of being seen. They started out on Dec. 2 during a great storm. Refueled under very difficult circumstances. Then the Jap fleet went to condition 3. They bagn to sail without radio useage. When they came out of the storm, and they hoisted the Z flag, the good luc, flag.

Before dawn, in the darkness, the command was given, climb Mount Nataka. That coded message launched the attack. They had prepared for this years before, intensive before this.

Pearl Harbor has a long neck entrance, which can be jammed up to keep a whole fleet tied up. Ford Island sits right in the middle of Pearl. Then there is Pearl city. The main attack was against the battleships. The Japs at 1 day out, they got a coded message that the aircraft carriers were gone. Battleship row anchored near Ford Island. Sticking out of Ford Island was the Nevada. The Tennessee and the West Virginia. The Japs could not come through in shallow water from one direction.

The advance attack, 27 itai subs had been sent out the night before. They had a range of 1200 miles. Midget subs which could launch a mean attack.

A young ensign named McCloy. He patrolled and was 2 miles outside of Pearl and said there was a midget sub, although everyone told him, no way. They found the sub and sank it and a coded message was sent. They could have had a few hours warning along this line.

The Japs had excellent navigation and moved in close 230 miles, so they could strafe, which made the attack double tough.

Generaly speaking, the highest ranking person on board was a luitenant and an ensign who had control fro 33 hours.

Japs came in from behind on two mountain rangers. The first ship to get it was the W. Virginia. Torpedo bombers and dive bombers. WV took quite a number of hits. Though hard hit, 3 officers saved the WV. They would have bull sessions, and one was on damage attack, and one guy had the idea of what do to. Counter flooding keeps a ship fo capsizing. The WV was in serious trouble. By the time it had a 35 degree lisp, it went straight down as a diver’s dream, and very few casualties this way.

The Tennessee was attacked next with a phenomenal crew. WV in the way to keep them from being hit by torpedoes, so they got bombers that hit them. Very few casualties and the Tennessee went back to get fitted for real combat.

Arizona is sitting there by itself, and the vestal was no protection. Torpedo hit below the armor belt. 2^nd bomb went down the turret. Over and 1000 men killed and 47 officers. Arizona no longer used.

Nevada super structure destroyed. 10-15 ensigns, who managed to beach the Nevada, and they were able to use the ship again.

Attack on the Oklahoma, hit by 3 torpedoes. The trouble was, they had no time to set condition Zed. They had even 150 degree list, but it did not turn over completely, because its mast got stuck in the mud, keeping it from rolling over. One command saved the dead from being double.

Short was bout to write some Christmas cards, but he heard the attack and shot down a torpedo plane. The other men manned their stations and the courage was so unusual, they only lost 2 officers and 2 men. Superb men on the Maryland. They had never been under fire before and they met the attack with great courage.

The California was the least prepared the most of the officers were shored and it was in a complete unbuttoned condition. No counter flooding, no counter-zedd, and those from the other ships helped California. He managed to keep the ship from capsizing, but using an unorthodox method. Then the other ships came to help the California and they kept it from sinking to 3 days, and then when it sunk, they sunk it in such a way to salvage it again.

Chaplain in the army air force and when the zeeks began to strafe them, he mounts a machine gun on his pulpit and begins shooting.

There were a generation of Americans, not a bunch of long-haired sissies, not on dope and under the worst possible pressure conditions, they knew how to fight. 2 hour attack, and the Japs made a lot of mistakes. They went for anything that moved, but they should have gone for the oil tanks. The main part of the fleet was at sea. the means of refueling them still ar Pearl, so 5 out of the 7 battleship fought in WW2 and the Japs got the pants beat off of them at Midway.

Pearl Harbor will look like a clam bake the next time that this happens. It will either be Russian Communists or Chinese Communists, and they are vicious.

The temple in Jeremiah’s day represented the edification complex The baskets of figs. We still have a structure before the Temple and we still have two baskets of figs.

Jer 24:1 Jehovah made me see, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the rulers of Judah, and the craftsmen, and the smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

The basket of good figs refers to believers of Judah who will survive the destruction of Judah. Good figs are believers with doctrine in the right lobe. Evil, degenerate traitor figs are the other ones. No mental attitude like, better Red than dead. They fought well. Where can you find men to man ships today like that? Our country is filled with traitors right now. It will just take some power to come along and they will back right down.

On Pearl Harbor day, it was a quiet, beautiful day. These were men ready for the occasion. bad figs were so bad, they could not even be eaten.

Jer 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like first ripe figs. And the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten from their badness.

God asks Jeremiah what he sees and he says, I see figs, and the good figs are very good and the evil figs are very evil; In a time of disaster, there is nothing in between. Pressure never leaves anyone in the middle. If you spend your life walking a fence, pressure knocks that fence down and then where will you walk?

Jer 24:3 And Jehovah said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad are very bad, so that they cannot be eaten from their badness.

A large group of young people will be energized as good figs. Causative stem. I will look upon them with love and compassion and grace.

Those carried away captive as the death march of Psalm 119, which over and over again, refers to the importance of the Word of God. Bible doctrine, the importance of the resources of God’s grace. Those young people who marched in a 22 death march became the nucleus for a great nation, with prosperity based upon Bible doctrine. When the chips are down, what is important is Bible doctrine.

V. 6 will be the recovery of the good figs. Many of them must have heard of this land. God is going to put them in the cruciful of testing.

Jer 24:4–6 Again the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Like these good figs, so I will acknowledge the exiles of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good. For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. And I will build them and not tear down; and I will plant them, and will not pluck up.

Bob’s been asked to repeat the doctrine of Figs, having been shocked about Pearl Harbor. Those who lived in Judah when the country was still in tact and the fifth cycle of discipline had not yet occurred.

Jeconiah had been ruling for 100 days. There were two baskets of figs. Fig leavess are associated with the first act of human good. Poltice of figs applied to Hezekiah, which cured him, which describes the cross. Fig tree is used for the production of Israel in Matt. Israel as the fig tee was the custodian of divine truth. Pattern of Israel in the Tribulation; putting out leaves is evangelism.

Jeremiah keeps studying these figs. He shows kindness or favor on the basis of having knowledge of someone. Those carried away captive is Psalm 119.

Jer. 24:6a: I will set [Qal perfect of sum; when used of God, it combines an anthropomorphism and an anthropopathism. It explains a divine action] My eyes upon them for good.

The doctrine of the Eyes of the Lord

1. Related to Noah in his preservation. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Gen. 6:8

2. The eyes of the Lord are associated with prosperity of a nation. Deut. 11:12

3. Grace plan of God.

4. Related to national deliverance. 1Sam. 26z;24

5. Related to the fulfillment of the plan of God. 2Chron. 14:2

6. Related to the character of God in 2Chron. 16:9 Zech. 4:10

7. Related to provision for believers. 1Peter 3:12

8. Related to Bible doctrine. Prov. 22:12 Jer. 5:3

9. Related to reflected glory. Isa. 49:5

Sometimes, people can look into your eyes and figure out things. People do that and can tell a lot of things. A doctor can look into your eyes and make a medical diagnosis. Eyes indicate the character of the person. We can tell something about the character of God from this idiom. Noah was preserved because of the grace of God. The land had prosperity because of God’s grace. Grace plan of God and His character is behind His plan. His eyes are related to deliverance, which is because of who and what God is. It emphasizes the character of the Lord. All provision is based up the grace of God. Doctrine expresses who and what God is. Reflected glory. All of these points are related to who and what God is.

They will return to the land with an edification complex and inner happiness. Qal imperfect of haras, which means to destroy; God will not destroy what He builds. It is incompatable with His character. He builds it through Bible doctrine. The edification complex cannot be destroyed by God. There is only one person who can destroy an edification complex. God cannot tear down what God builds up. Only the person who is negative can tear it down. Dope is a quick way to destroy anything in your soul. God will never touch one brick in your edification complex. If you get an edification complex, and it starts to go down, you did it yourself; when you are miserable, you did it all by yourself. Don’t blame anyone else. God cannot make anyone miserable. We can have God’s happiness He also gave us free will. RM/RW. The RM begins to reflect the glory of the RM. However, if she goes in the opposite direction, then she tears down. There are a number of women parked at a bar stool tonite who are shot and they do not reflect anyone’s glory. They walked away from it. Whatever it takes to build freedom is also what it takes to destroy freedom. The woman can take the same free will and tear it up. The God of Israel was their RM and Israel walked out on God.

There were some Jews, young people, who were learning under Jeremiah, and they developed an edification complex before returned to the land. God says, I will not pull it down. The only attack that we can ever have from an edification complex is from our own free will. The sovereignty of God will not tamper with the edification complex.

The edification complex also preserves the national entity from the fifth cycle of discipline.

God will never take doctrine out of your soul. God never fights anything which He builds. If there is a fight, He does it. We can tear down, but God never does. He does not fight doctrine or the edification complex. If we lose it, we can blame ourselves.

Jer. 24:6b: I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them up and I will not tear them down. I will plant and I will not pluck it up.

The good figs are those who will rebuild the nation. Category #1 love of the good figs. In spiritual phenomenah, the doctrine is built up and fed into the right lobe and into the frame of reference. This is where we have fragrance of memories with regards to category #1 love and category #2 love. Fragrance of memory is based upon something in the right lobe. Some day, Bob wants to figure out why the heart is shaped like a heart. Looks like a tomato which got punched. The heart in the Bible never refers to the physiological pump. The heart refers to the right lobe of the brain. Doctrine must reside there to form divine viewpoint of life. Most people associate “You gotta have heart” with emotion but it is associated with doctrine.

Nathan is the verb of grace. This is the key to love. You cannot love God unless you know Bible doctrine. Knowing the Lord means that you know who and what He is. When the people come back into the land, they will be occupied with Christ. Relationship is based upon love, love is not based upon relationship. That is the difference between true love and pseudo love, the difference between fun and something which is fantastic.

The good figs then returned, when they have a heart to know God. They will return to God with their whole heart, which is maximum love (and a completed edification complex).

The good figs have doctrine. They leave with some love for God and they will leave with maximum love for God.

Jer 24:7 And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am Jehovah. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.

Doctrine of Category #1 love

1. Category #1 love is a response to the love of God. All believers are responders to God. Deut. 6:5 We do not just sit down passively and respond to God all the time. There is action in response. Bob has confused some with RM/RW. The woman does not just sit around and wait for the man to initiate everything. We really have to be dumb or have the wrong man to think that way. The idea that the woman does not lift a finger is grossly stupid. Bob recalls a man who quit his job and sat on a park bench in order to faith rest another job. The wife came in. Thieme had to go out and kick the park bench from under him. That is not faith rest, that is stupidity. We respond to God in Bible class. We got up and came to church to hear Bible doctrine. We don’t just come in and sleep. A person who responds, responds from their free will. They are free to respond to God. When we love God, we will. Some may have trouble about witnessing, but when you love or hate someone, it is easy to talk about them. Witnessing simply means that you can talk about them. Pseudo love is out of sight and out of mind. If the bf leaves and you don’t think about him, then you need to move on. That is the way it is with Judah. The Jews had to learn some doctrine. They had to have maximum doctrine to respond. If you love someone, you think about them. If you love God, you talk to Him in prayer. The Jews had to learn some doctrine. The land had to operate under grace. Church Age is occupation with Christ.

2. Capacity for category #1 love stems from gap. Col. 3:1-2

3. Category #1 love results in the edification complex Philip. 1:20

4. Believers in the Church Age category #1 love responds in the filling of the Holy Spirit. That is our first response. Being a responder. We will never be filled with the Spirit the first time unless we take the initiative to rebound. We are the responder. The Lord Jesus Christ is the RM in the analogy. Believers in the Church Age are responders, as the man is the responder in RM/RW. Our first ability to respond to God is the filling of the Holy Spirit. The first time that we sin we are out of fellowship. We cannot respond until we rebound. The more doctrine, the more intense the response. A responder has free will. A woman is not responding when she acts like she has had a frontal lobotomy. You can get more response out of a lonely dog than out of a zombie. You have free will. Rebound is non-meritorious. We would never learn to respond to God at all without rebound.

5. Like the RM in category #2 love, Jesus Christ is the aggressor in category #1 love. He initiates the grace. Eph. 5:25-27 1John 4 The only way to respond is through doctrine. You cannot get cranked up to love God through hypnosis. It comes only through Bible doctrine. We must have volition toward Bible doctrine, which is why most of us are here in class.

6. Capacity for love is based upon the daily function of gap. 2Tim. 1:13 We need doctrine every day. That is the only way that we can do it.

7. The believer who does not love Christ in category #1 love is under a special curse and perpetual discipline. Aramaic phrase Anathema maranatha; under the curse until the rapture. If you do not get with doctrine, you do not love Jesus Christ. There is no way that you can commit sins. You cannot change God. Sooner or later, God will change us. Happiness is potential, on paper, in the Word. Most people can make of list of six things that will make them happy. Bob would like to give us this list of six to prove that they would not be happy with these things. What actually will make us happy is the capacity to enjoy the things which we want. Why don’t I have money, success, a bf, etc.? it is because I lack the capacity to enjoy life and to enjoy these blessings. We can enjoy almost anything and we can endure almost anything. There are believers in the tongues movement, those running off to victorious life conferences; anathema maranatha.

8. Category #1 love is the true motivator for Christian service. We can talk about someone that we love.

9. Divine love is initiated through grace. So capacity of category #1 love intensifies grace in your life. Dan. 9:4 Psalm 119:132

10. It is the basis for happiness.

11. Category #1 love is commanded to all Old Testament saints.

12. Basis for capacity to enjoy life.

13. Category #1 love provides courage in battle.

14. The object of category #1 love is God is since God is invislble, we must see God through His Word.

Let’s take a look at the bad figs. Bob does not like figs at all. He can understand how we might not like a bad fig at all.

Pharaoh Necco killed Josiah, and he did not like Josiah’s oldest son, so he puts his second oldest on the throne and he puts his eldest son on the throne. Jehoakim revolted, and then Coniah came to the throne. Coniah take to chains to Babylon. Then Nebuchadnezzar looks for someone else to put on the throne, which is Zedekiah. Nebuchadnezzar returns and besieges Jerusalem and destroys the Temple and Jerusalem. Zedekiah is shown his sons being killed, then he is blinded and he was taken to Babylon to die in slavery. Zedekiah was a bad fig.

Jer 24:8 And like the bad figs which cannot be eaten from badness, so says Jehovah: So I shall make Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his rulers, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt;

They are going to be upset and given to agitation. They will be a reproach and a proverb. A proverb, which means their failure will be inculcated into the culture. What happens to the bad figs? They end up in a mess. The woman who leaves her RM makes everyone miserable, including herself. Wherever they go, there will be trouble. Any guy who is smart, will stay away from a woman who was unfaithful to her man.

Believers who are negative toward doctrine are trouble-makers. Are you a good or a bad fig? Do you create trouble wherever you go?

Jer 24:9 I will even make them a horror among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil, for a reproach, and a proverb, a gibe, and a curse, there in all places where I will drive them.

What happens when a nation goes negative. God sends war, economic disaster and disease. We have been in war in Vietnam long enough to have killed off every single person in Vietnam, the snakes, the elephants, the rice. There is no excuse for any viet cong to still be alive. When the enemy is in battle, they should be killed. Grace came before judgment.

Jer 24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the plague among them until they are consumed from being upon the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.

There were other things about Pearl Harbor. Yesterday, Bob had a telephone call from Barry Goldwater. He asked if Bob knew what they were doing 29 years ago. Someone gave Barry a tape of the Pearl Harbor. He spoke to a number of people in Lamarque. He said, when you make that fatal decision to go to war, you should do so with the intention of winning it. To not do so is the mistake of 3 American presidents. The air force will be in Vietnam for a long time after Nixon takes them out. The way to get Hanoi to negotiate is to bomb the hell out of them.

Some of you were in Berachah church way back. The senior Jap flying officer is Futshita. He flew in that attack as a full captain. He was the highest rankig officer in Pear Harbor. He came to Berachah church in the 50's he speaks very good English. He believed in Jesus Christ. He was summoned to MacArthur. A missionary gave him a tract. “I was a prisoner” and he explained the effect that the tract had upon him. He read about the crucifixion and he began to investigate these things further. A crowd was giving an evangelist a hard time. He stood up and said who he was and told them, “I have now given my heart to Jesus Christ.” He gave a very short talk, an excellent talk when in Berachah and he spoke of how important Jesus Christ was to him.

He was going to go to Hawaii and lay a wreath on the Arizona. And 7 months will the house of Israel be burying them that they may cleanse the land. The bad figs have to go. The 3 ways for this to happen. The man who led this attack on Pearl Harbor, he gave this Scripture and applied it to Japan. A lot of bad figs had to die so that there could be the gospel and the good figs in Japan. “I am no longer an enemy, but a brother of the United States.” was one of the things which he inscribed.