Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Jeremiah 38 through 41, and I am in the podcast studio with the watermark member, Andrew Templeton.

What is up, family? So glad to be here. My first time here with Emma.

First podcast appearance. First podcast appearance. It's going to be an awesome one. here with emma first podcast appearance first podcast appearance

it's going to be an awesome one lord willing if he's right in the midst of it hopefully he will be um

i think so share a little bit about yourself what's god done in your life what do you do at watermark

amazing god has been so good in my life i have been blessed that grew up in the church had faithful people

disciplining whether my grandparents my parents uh at a young six years old, I remember giving my life to him, saying, Jesus, I know I hit my brother and my sister. I asked for forgiveness. I want to be in heaven with you forever. At that point we saved, got back at a few weeks later, and then really at 15 is when my relationship with him took off, just became all in with him, just making disciples in high school, making disciples in college, young adult years were spent mission trips doing stuff for him and ultimately let me just

go on for ministry purposes. Yeah, I love it. So now you're on staff here at Watermark. Now I'm on staff

in one of the newer positions, the mission sending coordinator. So I say getting people excited

about the Great Commission here, as in Dallas, there, as in the United States, and everywhere across the globe where he needs to be proclaimed.

I love it. And you have an event coming up. We do. We have a class actually coming up called Discover Missions, which 10-week class starting in September in the fall. And it's really, what is God's heart for the whole world and how do we as his people be a part of that. Amazing. If you're listening and that interests you or you feel the spirit stirring something in your heart or you're curious, sign up, check it out. We'll put the link in the episode description. I know Andrew and his team would love to see you there and answer questions, help you wrestle, help you discern. What is God's will for your life in light of this call that we all have to respond to? And God's heart for the nations. Yes, amen. But we got to talk about Jeremiah. Jeremy, I mean, Jeremiah. And we're kind of like, Jermaine said. Did he say that? When he taught Jeremiah on Sunday, he was like, I don't know if he did it at all the services, But he said, I'm teaching Jeremiah, which is funny because when people forget my name, they call me Jeremy. That's too good. That's too good. That's good. But we're going to focus on chapter 38. And Andrew, we gave you a prompt, which was like a fragmented sentence. But I think the idea was, what is this rescue from a cistern? Yeah, and who uses the word cistern these days?

Yeah, right?

Unless you're like a homesteader.

You're like, yeah, I got this cister underneath my house.

It's like rainwater kind of that's great, so you can water the fields. There's a few people here like, yeah, I've been thinking about putting one in. But yeah, Jeremiah 38, it's a crazy chapter, which most of Jeremiah is.

Jeremiah being the faithful servant and prophet of the Lord, he's just telling the city, repent, repent, repent, and all of Israel, and they're not doing it. Gets to the point where he's telling them, hey, everyone here's going to die, but if you would actually turn yourselves in over to the Chaldeans, the Babylonians, you'll live. And that's a crazy message. You're like, hey, if you just walk out

of these gates, go give yourselves over, you will live. And that's God's last way saying, if you believe the message of the Lord's messenger and repent and walk out of these gates, the Lord will save you. If you don't, you will die in the city. And of course, this is not good for warfare. No. It makes no sense.

It makes that. Not good for warfare. So the King's advisors are like, yo, this is not good for warfare. No, it makes no sense. It makes it not good for warfare.

So the king's advisors are like, yo, Jeremiah, not helping us out. Let's put him, like, we gotta get rid of him. And so they go to the king and the king's like, hey, he's in your hands. I can't really do anything about it because the king's weak-minded. The counselors are really ruling everything. And so they take Jeremiah and they throw him into a cistern.

Well, they kind of lower him down a little bit with some ropes because I think the fall would be far.

Mm-hmm. are really ruling everything. And so they take Jeremiah and they throw him into a cistern. Well, they

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