Jeremiah 46:1-49:39 "God's Unchanging Character"

1:29Then the strange Who had been lying in a huddled heap on the deck sat up and burst out into a horrible, screaming laugh. And in the midst of the horrors and the uncertain circumstances, Lucy whispers to Aslan, the god figure, the god representation in the series. She whispers, Aslan, if you ever loved us at all, send us help now. While Lewis's account of the dark island is fictional, I can only imagine that the people of Judah felt like they had arrived on the island where nightmares come true. Their homes, their homes, they had been taken from their homes and brought to exile as slaves in Babylon.

2:24As they made the journey to Babylon, they were carrying the grief and the sorrow of all that they've lost and of all of the people that they have lost. You can only imagine the family and the friends who died as the armies of Babylon overtook Jerusalem. Their homes and their hometowns had been destroyed. Life as they knew it would never be the same. They would never visit their favorite restaurants in Jerusalem. They would never go for walks around the city again. The temple had been destroyed. The very center of their identity, of their daily lives, the very center of their whole world. Had been destroyed.

3:02And on top of all of this, everywhere they looked, the nations were prospering. No one else seemed to be suffering like them. What would you be thinking or feeling in this situation? Perhaps you'd be feeling picked on by God, wondering why in the world has he singled us out? It's not like we're worse than any of the other nations. Maybe you begin questioning God's heart for you. I mean, if he really loved me, things wouldn't be this way. Does he even really care?

3:39Maybe your mind goes straight to all of the promises of God that now seem to be just empty words. As your grief turns to anger, do you begin to accuse God of lying to you about who he is? He told you he was merciful and gracious, but you know now that that's not true. He told you that he was slow to anger, and yet here you are in Babylon. He told you he would by no means clear the guilty, and yet all of these other nations are getting off scot-free.

4:19Considering their circumstances, it is 100% understandable that these thoughts would cross their minds. I wonder, sisters and brothers, if Any of you can relate with the people of Judah this morning. As you consider the uncertain circumstances of your life, situations that maybe have you feeling like you've arrived on the island where nightmares come true, does it have you asking the same questions, feeling the same things? Perhaps as you consider the circumstances of your life, as you look around at the lives of those around you, do you feel perhaps singled out or picked on by God?

5:04You wondering where God is and if he even cares? You questioning God's character. All of these things that he told us is true about him. As you look at your life, are you wondering, is that true at all? Do you find yourself whispering like Lucy, God, if you ever loved me, send help now? Well, the good news this morning, sisters and brothers, is that God knows and understands our hearts. He knows that from time to time in the circumstances of our lives, we will feel this way. We will question who He is and who He is for us. And in Jeremiah this morning, God wants to reassure our hearts. God wants to speak into the uncertain circumstances of our lives and give us comfort.

6:01He wants to lift our eyes from our circumstances and to look to him to see who he is and who he is for us. In our passage this morning, we're going to see that in uncertain circumstances, we can rest in God's unchanging character. In our uncertain circumstances, we can rest in God's unchanging character. In this passage here, God wants to remind us who he is. He wants to remind us that who he is and who he is for us has not changed. And he's going to do that as he points to two aspects or two features of his character that remain unchanged. We're going to see two of God's attributes that are at the center of his self-revelation to us that have not and that will never change.

7:01In seeing this, we will be able to rest and to keep trusting in God in the midst of uncertain times. So the first aspect of God's character that he wants us to see is that God will justly judge all peoples. Our passage opens in Jeremiah 46, 1. We read, the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. In Jeremiah 1.10, we were told that Jeremiah was told that he would be a prophet to the nations, and that through his word, nations and kingdoms would be uprooted and torn down. However, for the first 45 chapters, almost exclusively, Jeremiah, the prophet to the nation, has focused almost exclusively on Jeremiah being the prophet to Judah, calling down God's judgment upon the nation of Judah. But here in chapters 46 to 51, as the book begins to come to a close, we see Jeremiah turn his attention from the nation of Judah to the surrounding nations.

8:12And here in these chapters, we see that God will judge ten nations, the nations immediately surrounding the nation of Judah, and reaching out to the nations that were at the end of the known world. Here, God wants us to see that he hasn't forgotten the nations who have also sinned against him. This section here shows us that God is an equal opportunity judger. He wasn't showing favoritism either towards his own people, as we've seen, and he wasn't showing favoritism towards the nations. But all of those who have sinned against his good word, all of those who have rebelled against his life-giving commands, will face his just judgment. And so, exactly, why is God judging? The nations. Well, the story for each of the nine nations in our passage this morning, Jeremiah 46 to 49, each of God's judgment on those nations is unique to them. It is very specific to their context, to the ways that they sinned and rebelled against God. But as we look at these four chapters, two common themes emerge. They begin to bubble up to the top as you read through God's judgment on nation after nation. As we see that there were two common sins that these nations had committed against God. First was the sin of pride.

9:38All throughout Jeremiah's pronouncement on these nations, we see the people's arrogance and their hubris on full display as the nations thought that they were above God, that they were beyond his reach of judgment. Now, we're not going to go nation by nation, but I'm just going to do a survey of these passages here. So it'll be kind of shotgun style here, but follow along if you can. We see this first with the nation of Egypt in Jeremiah 46, verses 7 and 8. Jeremiah writes, Who is this rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge? Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.

10:31Here, speaking of this language of the waters rising, was speaking to the reality that every year as the rains would come, the Nile would overflow and flood and it would water all of the fields. And here, Egypt is saying that in the same way the Nile will overflow and covers all of the land of Egypt, the armies of Egypt are going to overflow out of Egypt and are going to cover the entire known world. It's their arrogance, their pride here.

11:00They were saying, Look, we are the superpower, and we are going to do whatever we want, wherever we want it, and no one is going to be able to stop it. They say, I will rise, I will cover the earth. But in light of their pride and their hubris, we read in Jeremiah 46:19, God tells them, Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt. For Memphis, that is the capital of Egypt, shall become a waste, a ruin without inhabitants. Egypt, who thought that they would cover the known world, is actually told, you know what, you are going to overflow out of Egypt, but it's not going to be in power over all of the nations. It's going to be as exiles. So pack your bags, because you're leaving home and you're never coming back. And it's not going to be the way you thought it was.

12:00The clearest example of this throughout God's judgment on these nations is seen in Jeremiah 48, verse 29. The entire chapter of Jeremiah 48, 47 verses, is God's longest judgment against the nations in our passages here, as he just speaks word of judgment after word of judgment against the nation of Moab. And here in verse 29, we see the reason, we see the cause for this judgment. God says, we have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. Here at the very center of God's word of judgment against Moab is he is calling them out using five different words to speak to their pride and to their arrogance, to speak, to call them out for the ways that they thought that they were above the ways of God, that they were beyond his reach. We see here that Moab was constantly exalting themselves against God, living with no regard for him or for his ways.

13:17But in Jeremiah 48, verse 46, this shows their end. God says, Woe to you, O Moab, the people of Chamash, that is their God. Are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity. Here we see very clearly that those who set themselves against Israel's God will be undone. God here wants his people and all of the nations to know that he is the one true God, and all others who pursue autonomous, god-like power will end up as nothing. They will end up as exiles. They will end up destroyed. The second sin that we see in God's judgment on these nations is the sin of idolatry. Here we see the people trusting in their fake gods, thinking that they would protect them. In Egypt, in Jeremiah 46, verse 25, which Sneha read for us earlier, this is God's summary statement of his judgment on Egypt. He says, The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, said, Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him. Ammon was the chief god of the Thebes. That was the major city in southern Egypt. And here we see that Amon and all of Egypt's gods will be judged. Just like Idols here. These so-called gods are powerless against Yahweh, the God of Judah. Here we see that he will destroy all false gods.

15:14The story with Moab is very similar. In Jeremiah 48, 13, we read, Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chamash, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence. Chamash was Moab's national god, and he was a vicious one, regularly demanding child sacrifice to be appeased. And this God, who they gave everything to, thinking that he will protect them, ends up being exiled with the people when Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon and the Babylonian armies destroy Moab. They will end up ashamed that they ever look to this false God, this idol, for safety. Because of their pride and idolatry, God will judge the nations. He will bring them to nothing. We've just barely scratched the surface of all of God's judgments. Feel free to read them yourselves this afternoon. But I hope that what you're seeing here is that God wants us to see that he will justly judge all peoples for their sin and their rebellion against him. Now we need to ask, why is it that God wants us to see this? Why is it that God wants his people in Babylon to see that he will judge the nations?

16:38Well, brothers and sisters, it's because as they found themselves in exile, as they found themselves living in the island where nightmares come true, questioning where God was and why he allowed these things to happen, he didn't want them questioning his character. He didn't want them thinking that somehow he had changed. As you may be aware, the passage that Pastor Cody read during our call to worship this morning was the most important passage in the Old Testament. For any Israelite, for any Jew growing up, this would have been one of the most common verses that they heard. This would have been one of the first verses that they ever memorized. I mean, you can almost think of it like John 3, 16 for you and me today. Just as easily as we heard that around, that's what the Israelites would have heard as they grew up. It would have been the first thing that came to mind for them when they thought about God. Because it's this passage where God reveals himself to his people. I just want to read this passage again for us to hear, for us to remember who God wants us to know that he is. In Exodus 34, verses 6 and 7, we read, The Lord passed before him, passed before Moses, and proclaimed, the Lord, the Lord. The Lord, that is Yahweh, that is his personal, his covenant name that he gave to his people. He says, Yahweh, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin. But who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation. Central to Yahweh's proclamation of his character is the fact that he will not clear the guilty.

18:51But he will visit the iniquity. He will visit the sin of the people on the fathers, on the children, to the third and fourth generation. And so while the people in exile here were experiencing firsthand God's judgment on themselves, it seemed to them like all of the other nations were getting off scot-free. It's very likely that they had been thinking to themselves, I thought that God had promised that he would judge all those who disobey. Certainly these other nations are no better than we are. They've messed up too.

19:30And while they were there in exile in Babylon, thinking, while they were there in exile in Babylon, they would be looking out and seeing that all of these other nations that seemed as if not just were they surviving, but that they were thriving. And given all of this, they could only conclude that God has changed. That God told us he would visit iniquity on all those who sin, but it's only true for them. It doesn't apply to other people. But here in these chapters, as we read of God's judgment on nation after nation for their sin, he's wanting his children to see that he hasn't changed. He's the same God so they can keep trusting in him.

20:17And not just that he's the same God he's always been, but that even in what appeared to them like his delayed judgment on the nations, even then, as his judgment on the nations was slow, even then we see that he was being true to his character. Because God, who told us that not only will he by no means clear the guilty, he told us in verse 6 that he is slow to anger. You see, unlike you and me, God is always in control of his anger. God doesn't fly off the handle. He doesn't slam the door. He doesn't storm out of the house. He doesn't lose it. He doesn't explain.

21:01But he is patient and long-suffering. He's continually holding out, wanting to see if people will repent and turn to him. And so, in some sense, we see that the nation of Israel, the people in Judah, they could question what was taking God so long to judge the nations. But in asking that question, they were showing a fundamental misunderstanding of who God was towards them and also towards the nations. Because the God that they worshiped is a God who is slow to anger. Seems as they found themselves in exile that they had forgotten the hundreds of years that God was slow to anger with them. But as our passage makes clear, while God is long-suffering, he is not forever suffering. And just as he judged the nation of Israel, he's promised that he will judge the nations too. God's character has not changed. He is the same God that he has always been. Now, before we look at the second thing that God desires to show us here, I just want to briefly just speak to the reality that there might be some here who might not like the idea of a God who judges, who might not like the idea of a God of wrath that we see portrayed here in Jeremiah 46 to 49. Perhaps you are more. More comfortable with a God of love, a God who's there when we need Him, a God to help us in times of emergency or when we really, really want something. But other than that, you would just prefer for Him to leave you alone. Well, that might be what we initially think of, or what might be behind some of our revulsion of a God who does get angry and a God who does judge. The reality is, deep inside, we all desire a God who judges. We all want to believe in a God who will judge evil because we all long for justice. I mean, just think of the last time you heard that story on the radio, or you read that article online about the latest mass shooting, political violence, terrorist attack, a scam artist who's targeting elderly people. As you thought about that or any other injustice, have you ever thought to yourself, will someone please do something about this? Why does this keep happening?

23:42It's that response, it just highlights our inward desire for justice. I just finished a book this last week by the author Nancy French, an adult survivor of childhood sexual abuse, who told the story of her abuse. And the many ways that the church leaders and people in her city covered it up. And not just her, we know that it happens, all others. In fact, in her book, she was the one who originally broke the story of the abuse cover-up at Camp Kennecook. So she was behind us, and so she's detailing and unpacking all of these stories of sexual abuse, her own, and for many others, and the cover-ups that were involved in that. And just hearing her story, my whole body just longed for justice for her and for all others who've been abused.

24:39That feeling that we get, that churning in our stomach, it just highlights this desire for justice that we have. I'm not seeking to make a political statement here, but the protests on college campuses all over the U.S. that we see here are a great example of this. We don't have to agree with any or all of what they're protesting, but the mere fact that they're protesting is a great example. It's a great sign of just this inward longing for justice we all have. We get this sense that something is wrong and it needs to be made right. And the good news, brothers and sisters here, is that God is telling us that longing for justice, that desire we have for everything to be made right, is actually going to happen. And God is the one who's going to do it because He's going to be the one to perfectly. Carry out justice. That is the good news of this passage and the whole Bible, as it reveals to us a God who has promised to bring about justice. There are moments when this justice is carried out in the here and now, but one day when Jesus returns, he will finally say, Enough is enough. No more violence, no more injustice, no more killing and raping and enslaving and stealing. All sin and all evil will be defeated once and for all. This is our great longing.

26:08Hope you're seeing here God's purpose, God's heart, and judgment. He desires a world of perfect justice where there is no evil. And here in our passage, he's reminding us that the God of justice, the God who will by no means cover up iniquity, that he will bring it about. And so, God's people in exile, and you and me today, as we face uncertain circumstances, we can rest and we can trust and we can find comfort in God's unchanging character. But God's just judgment isn't the only facet of his unchanging character that we see in this passage, because as we also see that God will graciously restore peoples from every nation, God has promised that he will bring about just judgment on all peoples. And all throughout this passage here, God shows us that he will graciously restore peoples from every nation. In this section here, otherwise filled with judgment, there are multiple glimmers of hope as God promises salvation and restoration for the people of Judah, yes, but astonishingly, for the nations too. We see God's promise of restoration for the people of Judah in Jeremiah 47, or 48, verses 26, sorry, in Jeremiah 46, verses 27 and 28. In that passage, God promises that he will not make a full end of the nation of Israel, or of the people of Judah, but that he will be with them, and that they will return to the land, that they will have quiet and ease. God promises that he will be with them. He promises them their presence, and so they need not be afraid. We've covered God's promise of restoration to the nation of Israel, so I'm just, that's all I'm going to say about it. If you've forgot it or weren't there, you can go back and listen to the sermons on Jeremiah 31 through 34, but there's just so much more here I'd like for us to focus on this morning. So in Jeremiah 46, God makes it clear that he will graciously restore his people, the people of Judah. But as I've mentioned in this passage, it's not just his people that he promises to save, because we see that God will give him save. Graciously restore people from all of the nations. You see, God's grace was not just limited to the nations of Israel and Judah. It was never intended to be this way. Even as far back as the Abrahamic covenant, God was promising that he was going to bring salvation to all peoples, to all nations. And that's exactly what we see here in our passage. As four times we read of God promising to restore the fortunes of these nations. Follow along or listen as I read these passages.

29:04In Jeremiah 46, verse 26, God says, Afterward, Egypt shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, declares the Lord. God promises Egypt that they shall be inhabited. They will not be destroyed, but they will once again be restored to the land. In Jeremiah 48, verse 47, God says, Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the later days, declares the Lord. In Jeremiah 49, 6, we read, But afterward, I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, declares the Lord. And in the last verse of our passage here, Jeremiah 49, verse 39, we read, But in the later days, I will restore the fortunes of Elam, declares the Lord. See that there? Four times in this passage, God promises that he will restore the fortunes of these nations. Just like God showed mercy and grace to his covenant people, promising them that they will be restored and that he will be with them. Here God promises that he will show mercy and grace to the nations. Here again, God is wanting us to see that his character has remained unchanged. Let's look again at Exodus 34, verses 6 and 7. Let's see again God's revelation of himself to us. He says, The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, The Lord the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation. Earlier, we looked at the second half of that verse, and now we want to look at how God begins his declaration of himself. He says that he is a God who is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. The word or Here is very important. The first thing that God wants us to know and to see about Himself, the most important thing that we need to know about Him, is that He is merciful and gracious. Merciful speaks to His His feelings of compassion towards His people. This is the feeling of a mother or a father toward their child, just this feeling of inward compassion that one has for another. He's a God who is merciful, who's compassionate, and He's a God who is gracious. This just speaks to the impulse in God to show grace and favor to those children that He loves.

32:17This speaks of God desiring to help someone in their time of need, like a friend rescuing you in your time of need. In promising to restore the fortunes of Judah and the nations like Egypt and Moab, God showing us that who He is and how He relates to His people has not changed. He was merciful and gracious, and He will continue to be merciful and gracious. But we don't just see His merciful and gracious heart and His promise of future restoration, but we also see it in the midst of the judgment. In preparation for this sermon, I was just blown away. By Jeremiah 48, where God judges the nation of Moab, but to read about God's heart for the people of Moab, even in the midst of his judgment. If you have your Bibles, look to Jeremiah 48, verses 31 and 32.

33:22As we've seen here, God is justly judging the nation of Moab for their sins. And in the midst of this judgment, we read: this is God speaking. Therefore, I will wail for Moab. I cry out for all Moab. For the men of Kir Heriseth, I mourn. More than for Jazair, I weep for you. Wailing, crying out, mourning, and weeping. In Jeremiah 48, verse 36, God again speaking, he says, Therefore, my heart moans for Moab like a flute.

34:12My heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir Heriseth. Sisters and brothers, what we see here is nothing short of astonishing. In the midst of judging Moab, we don't see a God who is excited about. It, rubbing his hands together, thinking, finally, they're finally going to get what they have coming to them. No, what we see here is a picture of God weeping and lamenting. In verses 31 and 32, he uses four different words to describe his anguish over his judgment. He wails and cries out. He mourns and weeps for the Moabites. God does not want us to miss his heart. Far from being a God who rejoices in judging, Jeremiah wants us to see that it brings him no joy at all. Just hear what Jeremiah writes in Lamentations 3:33. This is Jeremiah's lament over the destruction of Judah, of Jerusalem, and the temple. At the very center of his lament, Jeremiah writes, For he, for God, does not enjoy bringing affliction or suffering on mankind. God takes no pleasure in bringing affliction or suffering. As Ezekiel tells us, God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. And here in Jeremiah 48, we see that God actually weeps over those experiencing his judgment. It's passages like these that prompted Jonathan Edwards, one of the greatest American theologians. And pastors to say that God's judgment is his strange work.

36:08Judgment to God is strange. By that, Edwards meant that it just doesn't come natural to him. God judging the peoples does not come natural to him, but what comes most natural to God is showing mercy. It's being a God who is merciful and compassionate, a God who is gracious and slow to anger, who is abounding in steadfast love. That is what is most natural to our God. As we read in Jeremiah 32, God says, I will rejoice in doing them good. I will plant them in this land in faithfulness with all my heart and all my soul.

36:54That is what is most true of your God. He is a God who rejoices in doing good to you. While the Bible says that God is provoked to anger, it never says that he needs to be provoked to love or compassion. They just flow out of him. He just simply can't not be loving and gracious, compassionate and slow to anger. Brothers and sisters, this was true of him then, and it is true of him today. Right here and right now. What great comfort and correction that this would have been to the people in exile, and that it is to you and me this morning as well. God wants us to see that He is unchanging in His character. And it is just so important that we see this because, as Dane Ortland points out in the book Gentle and Lowly, one of Satan's greatest tricks, one of His favorite attacks, is to get us to think dark thoughts of God.

38:08He knows that in the midst of hard and challenging situations, when our circumstances are unfortunate, or when our circumstances are uncertain, that it is very easy for you and me to think dark thoughts of Him. It is very easy for us to question God's heart for us. It's very easy for us to assume that God's default disposition towards us is one of anger or frustration, of annoyance, or even of distance. We can picture God as angry, always looking down at us, just waiting for us to mess up so that He can jump on us and punish us. Or we can think that God just merely tolerates us, that He keeps us around because for some reason He has to. We might say, Sure, God loves me, but I don't know that He likes me.

39:01Because all too often, that is just how we can think that God relates towards us. He keeps us at a distance. He just tolerates us. But in this passage, God will just simply not allow us to think of him this way. It won't allow us to picture God as anything other than merciful and gracious, anything other than abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness towards you and towards me right now, if you are trusting in Jesus. You hear this morning in the uncertain circumstances of life, have you questioning God's heart towards you? Have you questioning who God is and who He is for you?

39:45You can relate with the exiles in Babylon who thought that perhaps they had arrived at the island where nightmares come true. That's where you are right now. God wants you to see very clearly his gracious and merciful heart towards you. There's no promise that things will never be difficult. God hasn't promised us that things aren't going to be hard. He's told us in his word that he will discipline us out of love when we do sin and rebel against him. But in the midst of all of those things, he continues to be merciful and compassionate towards you and towards me.

40:27See who your God is. Rest in His Unchanging character. Rejoice in his mercy and grace that he's shown you. As we think about God's just judgment and the fact that he is merciful and gracious, we do see a tension. If God is just, how can he restore the fortunes of these nations? If God is just, how can he be merciful to you and to me when we have sinned? The truth is, we know that God cannot overlook sin. He is holy and he is just. But as we look to the New Testament, we see that this tension between God's justice and God's mercy is resolved for us in the person of Jesus. As Paul tells us in Romans 3, it is through Jesus' death on the cross that God is able to be both just and the justifier of the one who puts their faith in Jesus. You and me this morning can be recipients of God's mercy and grace. We can never truly know his justice because on the cross, Jesus bore the penalty for the sins that you and me deserved. And so now we will only know God's grace. We will never experience his full justice, his full judgment on our sin.

41:46And so, friends, if you are here and you are not trusting in Jesus, if you have not placed your faith in Christ, just out of love, God wants you to hear that the day is coming when every Person will stand before him, and they will either face his just judgment on their sin, or they will experience his compassion and grace, his steadfast love and faith and faithfulness because of Jesus. And so, if you have not trusted in Jesus, if you have never grieved the ways that you have sinned against God and repented, turning from your old ways and turning to Jesus, this morning I want to invite you to do so now. God is long-suffering, but he is not forever suffering. But the good news is, as we've seen this morning, that God delights to show grace. That is what is most natural to him. You do not need to clean yourselves up before you come to him, but you can come as you are, receive his forgiveness, his compassion, and his mercy towards you right now. Let's pray.

42:59Oh, Father, we give you thanks that in the midst of just all of the questions of life, in the midst of the difficulties surrounding our day-to-day experience of life in this fallen world with fallen hearts, in those moments where we are tempted to question who you are and who you are for us, that in your love and your mercy, Lord, you have given us this passage. You've given us these chapters to remind us, Lord, that you are the God, that in your character will remain unchanged. Oh, Spirit of God, help us to believe that you are merciful and gracious towards us.

43:47Give us the faith to believe who you are for us, and give us the grace to live in the good of it. Amen. Thank you for listening to the sermon audio from New Life Baptist Church in College Station, Texas. For more information or to support our ministry, visit us online at newlifecs.net.