WEBVTT 00:00.560 --> 00:06.720 Men, 2 Kings chapter 22 we get into the reign of Josiah and this is another one of those 00:06.720 --> 00:09.720 kings that becomes a king as a very small child. 00:10.180 --> 00:15.360 If you remember last week we talked about Manasseh who was a really bad example where 00:15.360 --> 00:17.900 he was 12 years old when he began to reign. 00:18.320 --> 00:20.200 He did evil in the side of the Lord. 00:20.640 --> 00:26.000 He reigned 55 years and just really just ruined the whole nation. 00:26.120 --> 00:27.820 Just destroyed it in that time. 00:27.820 --> 00:32.680 And although he did get right with God at the very end of his life and it appears that he 00:32.680 --> 00:38.480 got saved and we'll see him in heaven, the damage that he had done was so grievous that 00:38.480 --> 00:41.840 it didn't really end up undoing all that he had done bad. 00:42.140 --> 00:46.640 And then his son Amon was the same way as Manasseh, super wicked. 00:46.800 --> 00:50.360 He only reigned for two years and then you have Josiah now. 00:50.800 --> 00:55.720 Well, Josiah is an eight-year-old and as we said with Manasseh, when children are 00:55.720 --> 01:00.720 this young and they're becoming a king, usually they're not necessarily going to have all 01:00.720 --> 01:05.360 the power themselves because you never see eight-year-olds and 12-year-olds even running 01:05.360 --> 01:10.500 their own lives, having their own apartments or houses or having a career and everything 01:10.500 --> 01:10.940 like that. 01:11.060 --> 01:13.800 That doesn't exist for obvious reasons. 01:14.100 --> 01:20.300 And so there are other people that are typically manipulating them or guiding them 01:20.300 --> 01:23.300 if you want to look at it in a positive way or a negative way. 01:23.300 --> 01:28.020 Because with Joash, when he was eight years old and he began to reign, of course, we know 01:28.020 --> 01:29.420 that it was Jehoia to the priest. 01:29.780 --> 01:32.380 There was a really good influence on Joash. 01:32.740 --> 01:37.720 And so all the days of Jehoia to the priest, Joash did what was right in the side of 01:37.720 --> 01:38.060 the Lord. 01:38.300 --> 01:44.400 But then as soon as Jehoia died, other bad influences came over Joash and he ended 01:44.400 --> 01:46.860 up taking the nation a wicked direction himself. 01:47.200 --> 01:49.440 Well, in this case, we have an eight-year-old boy. 01:49.440 --> 01:54.200 We don't really know of any Jehoia-type character, but we can assume that there 01:54.200 --> 01:57.820 must have been some good influences in his life somewhere because although he's only 01:57.820 --> 02:02.760 eight years old when he begins to reign, Josiah does that, which was right in the 02:02.760 --> 02:03.320 side of the Lord. 02:03.480 --> 02:04.340 It mentions his mother. 02:04.580 --> 02:06.000 Maybe his mother was a great influence. 02:06.280 --> 02:10.880 Other men in his life, whoever's kind of running things politically, is apparently 02:11.520 --> 02:13.620 somebody that's pushing him in the right direction. 02:14.060 --> 02:17.940 And so Josiah ends up doing right in the side of the Lord in all the way of 02:17.940 --> 02:23.700 David his father, it says in verse two, and turn not aside to the right hand or to 02:23.700 --> 02:24.100 the left. 02:24.440 --> 02:27.840 So, you know, when I was growing up, we would say about churches and preachers, 02:27.940 --> 02:30.560 we'd be like, man, that guy is straight down the line. 02:30.920 --> 02:35.180 That was a saying that my dad would constantly use in our house about good 02:35.180 --> 02:38.260 preachers, like, he is straight down the line. 02:38.340 --> 02:39.380 And that's where this comes from. 02:39.720 --> 02:44.040 He didn't turn to the right hand or the left because you see you could go into 02:44.040 --> 02:45.980 problems either to the right or the left. 02:46.400 --> 02:50.600 And a lot of people have this kind of left right way of thinking where it's 02:50.600 --> 02:53.400 like, well, if you're not left, you've got to be right or vice versa. 02:53.580 --> 02:57.360 When in reality, you know, a lot of times the path is neither right nor 02:57.360 --> 02:59.780 left, it's straight ahead is where we need to be. 03:00.380 --> 03:05.620 And so people could make mistakes sometimes by being too lenient or 03:05.620 --> 03:06.380 too strict. 03:06.580 --> 03:07.300 What do I mean by that? 03:07.500 --> 03:11.480 Well, obviously, when it comes to, let's just throw an example out there. 03:11.760 --> 03:13.000 Let's say women's clothing. 03:13.360 --> 03:16.760 You know, on the one hand, we could be too lenient and just have this 03:16.760 --> 03:20.800 anything goes attitude and just, yeah, we'll just have all our wives and 03:20.800 --> 03:25.580 daughters just wearing short shorts and putting on a bikini and wearing 03:25.580 --> 03:30.420 many skirts and just looking like absolute Hootie mamas and hookers and 03:30.420 --> 03:34.360 whores, you know, and the Bible talks about the attire of a harlot. 03:34.720 --> 03:38.200 We don't want our daughters and wives in the attire of a harlot. 03:38.400 --> 03:42.480 The Bible says that women should be adorned in modest apparel with 03:42.480 --> 03:44.540 shame-facedness and sobriety. 03:44.820 --> 03:50.240 We're to cover our nakedness and be modest and women should be feminine and so forth. 03:50.600 --> 03:55.460 But let's face it, a lot of Christians today have zero clothing standards. 03:55.720 --> 03:59.720 And so it's just totally acceptable for them to put on men's clothing, 04:00.200 --> 04:05.720 for them to put on short shorts, super revealing outfits, skin tight yoga pants, 04:05.860 --> 04:08.300 which it's like, you know, it's like you almost might as well be wearing 04:08.300 --> 04:12.300 nothing sometimes, the way is just so skin tight and whatever. 04:12.720 --> 04:18.400 And so that would be a mistake to just have no clothing standards and 04:18.400 --> 04:19.920 to go all the way to that extreme. 04:20.160 --> 04:24.640 And then it would also be a mistake to go to the extreme of Islam, for example, 04:24.660 --> 04:28.500 where you have the women just completely covered head to toe, 04:28.640 --> 04:32.420 looking like a trick or treater coming to your house with this big black 04:32.420 --> 04:35.600 tent like they're one of the ghosts from Pac-Man coming at you or 04:35.600 --> 04:38.080 something and just a little slit for the eye holes. 04:38.560 --> 04:42.160 Okay, that's also a wrong extreme claiming that, oh, 04:42.200 --> 04:43.600 this is what women need to be modest. 04:43.900 --> 04:47.300 They need to look like a small child trick or treating. 04:47.700 --> 04:49.180 And that's obviously false. 04:49.820 --> 04:54.660 Okay, and then also another extreme would be like the Amish or the FLDS, 04:55.140 --> 05:00.120 where they put on these bizarre prairie dresses from hundreds of years ago 05:00.500 --> 05:02.000 that just make no sense. 05:02.360 --> 05:04.800 They're not any more or less modest. 05:04.800 --> 05:09.300 They're just weird and anachronistic and just coming up with all these 05:09.300 --> 05:14.220 arbitrary rules that women have to cover their ankles or cover their wrists or 05:14.220 --> 05:16.840 something, stuff that's not mentioned in the Bible. 05:17.240 --> 05:21.080 So you can see how you could screw up by going either to the right hand 05:21.080 --> 05:21.720 or to the left. 05:22.160 --> 05:23.160 And that's just one example. 05:23.260 --> 05:26.960 We could bring up a whole bunch of other examples where you could fail 05:26.960 --> 05:29.280 by going to the right hand or to the left. 05:29.640 --> 05:31.740 Okay, we want to do what the Bible says. 05:31.740 --> 05:35.520 We don't want to go beyond the Bible, but we also don't want to fall short 05:35.520 --> 05:36.600 of what the Bible is saying. 05:37.020 --> 05:39.280 We want to do what the Bible says. 05:39.420 --> 05:44.780 We need to follow the Word of God and not add to it or diminish therefrom. 05:46.140 --> 05:48.320 You know, and when we talk about salvation, by the way, 05:48.660 --> 05:52.860 we talk about salvation being by grace through faith, not of works, 05:53.040 --> 05:53.940 let's say any man should boast. 05:54.340 --> 05:55.980 And often we will use this statement. 05:56.440 --> 06:01.020 Salvation is by grace through faith plus nothing and minus nothing. 06:01.020 --> 06:02.740 Okay, and what do we mean by that? 06:03.080 --> 06:04.160 Plus nothing, minus nothing. 06:04.560 --> 06:07.240 Plus nothing means you don't have to do good works to be saved. 06:07.520 --> 06:09.720 The Bible specifically says it's not of works, 06:09.820 --> 06:10.520 let's say any man should boast. 06:11.000 --> 06:12.880 And in fact, it says in Romans 4-5, 06:13.300 --> 06:16.840 but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him 06:16.840 --> 06:20.700 that justified the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. 06:21.840 --> 06:25.260 And people say, well, if you really believe you're going to have 06:25.260 --> 06:26.600 the works too, really? 06:26.760 --> 06:29.800 Because the Bible says him that worketh not, but believeth. 06:30.200 --> 06:31.860 On him that justified the ungodly, 06:32.140 --> 06:33.900 his faith is counted for righteousness, 06:34.240 --> 06:36.860 even as David also described with the blessedness of the man 06:36.860 --> 06:40.640 unto whom God imputed righteousness without works. 06:41.380 --> 06:43.700 Saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven 06:44.260 --> 06:45.540 and whose sins are covered. 06:46.220 --> 06:49.040 Blessed is he to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 06:49.920 --> 06:53.440 Okay, that's salvation by faith without works. 06:54.080 --> 06:57.020 So it's plus nothing, but it's also minus nothing 06:57.020 --> 06:59.000 because a lot of people come along and say, 06:59.000 --> 07:01.620 well, you don't have to do works, 07:01.660 --> 07:03.980 but you do have to stop sinning. 07:04.200 --> 07:06.100 And so you don't have to plus anything, 07:06.200 --> 07:08.900 but you have to minus the sin out of your life 07:08.900 --> 07:10.580 and you have to turn from your sins 07:10.580 --> 07:13.180 and turn over a new leaf and stop doing this 07:13.180 --> 07:15.400 and stop doing that, that still works 07:16.100 --> 07:18.460 because obeying negative commandments 07:18.460 --> 07:21.020 is called quote the works of the law 07:21.020 --> 07:22.080 in the book of Galatians, 07:22.300 --> 07:24.680 not just doing what God told you to do, 07:25.020 --> 07:28.120 but also not doing what God told you not to do, 07:28.120 --> 07:32.200 those are both classified as quote the works of the law 07:32.200 --> 07:34.080 and by the works of the law, 07:34.220 --> 07:36.920 there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. 07:38.020 --> 07:40.160 So we don't wanna go to the right hand or the left. 07:40.680 --> 07:42.300 We don't wanna add, we don't wanna subtract, 07:42.800 --> 07:44.340 we don't wanna add to the word of God, 07:44.440 --> 07:46.120 we don't wanna take away from the word of God 07:46.680 --> 07:49.540 and we could just give examples of that all day. 07:49.740 --> 07:50.280 That's a whole sermon. 07:50.400 --> 07:51.580 Dang it, I should have just done that 07:51.580 --> 07:52.860 as a whole sermon some other day. 07:53.260 --> 07:55.620 I just blew through a perfectly good sermon idea 07:56.140 --> 07:58.440 about not turning to the right hand or to the left. 07:59.600 --> 08:00.800 That's what Josiah did. 08:00.940 --> 08:03.440 Josiah is a straight down the line kind of a guy 08:03.940 --> 08:05.180 following the Bible. 08:05.700 --> 08:07.060 Look what the Bible says in verse three. 08:08.140 --> 08:11.280 Came to pass in the 18th year of King Josiah 08:11.740 --> 08:14.760 that the king sent Shefan, the son of Azaliah, 08:14.860 --> 08:17.660 the son of Mesholem, the scribe to the house of the Lord 08:17.660 --> 08:20.140 saying, go up to Hilkiah, the high priest, 08:20.300 --> 08:21.940 that he may sum the silver 08:21.940 --> 08:23.700 which is brought into the house of the Lord 08:23.700 --> 08:26.300 which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people 08:26.300 --> 08:29.560 and let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work 08:29.560 --> 08:31.420 that have the oversight of the house of the Lord 08:31.420 --> 08:33.480 and let them give it to the doers of the work 08:33.480 --> 08:34.480 which is in the house of the Lord. 08:34.580 --> 08:37.640 Watch this to repair the breeches of the house. 08:37.780 --> 08:40.120 So Josiah, the righteous, godly king, 08:40.740 --> 08:43.220 if he's gonna bring revival to the nation, 08:43.620 --> 08:46.820 he's gotta repair the breeches of the house of the Lord. 08:46.900 --> 08:48.180 This is the first order of business. 08:48.560 --> 08:50.480 Hey, he started when he's eight years old, 08:50.700 --> 08:53.200 now he's an adult, he's deep into his reign 08:53.200 --> 08:56.340 and he's like, okay, we are gonna straighten things out, 08:56.580 --> 08:59.320 we are going to repair the breeches of the house of God. 08:59.720 --> 09:01.320 Now, obviously, literally, 09:01.620 --> 09:03.840 we're talking about a physical building 09:04.460 --> 09:06.640 that has maintenance issues, okay? 09:07.080 --> 09:09.260 But we always wanna take the spiritual application 09:09.260 --> 09:10.700 because in the New Testament, 09:10.960 --> 09:13.220 the local church is the house of God. 09:13.460 --> 09:17.700 And so the house of God often has breeches in it, 09:18.120 --> 09:20.640 gaps, problems, issues, 09:20.760 --> 09:21.900 and I'm not talking about physically, 09:21.900 --> 09:24.660 I'm not talking about, hey, there's a leak in the roof 09:24.660 --> 09:25.660 and water's dripping 09:25.660 --> 09:27.240 because there's a breach in the house of God. 09:27.560 --> 09:29.280 I'm talking about spiritually, 09:29.740 --> 09:32.420 we could have some leaks in our doctrine. 09:32.740 --> 09:34.840 We could have some leaks in our practice. 09:35.220 --> 09:36.400 We could have some gaps 09:36.400 --> 09:38.800 because a breach is really like a gap. 09:39.180 --> 09:40.180 Something is missing. 09:40.960 --> 09:43.540 And so we all could have blind spots 09:43.540 --> 09:45.020 or gaps or breeches 09:45.020 --> 09:47.160 and we gotta plug up those holes 09:47.160 --> 09:49.020 and fill in those gaps 09:49.020 --> 09:51.320 and even the Bible has the famous verse 09:51.320 --> 09:53.760 talking about how God sought for a man among them 09:53.760 --> 09:56.560 to make up the hedge and to stand in the gap, 09:57.100 --> 10:00.380 to make up the breach, to fill the gap, to do, 10:00.640 --> 10:03.680 and look, what I've striven to do as a pastor 10:04.200 --> 10:07.340 is I've striven to preach sermons that need to be preached. 10:07.720 --> 10:10.140 And sometimes I'll feel like, man, nobody's saying this, 10:10.640 --> 10:13.120 somebody needs to say this, let's fill that gap. 10:13.700 --> 10:17.560 And look, I came up, thank God, in a Christian home 10:17.560 --> 10:19.160 and I'm super thankful for the fact 10:19.160 --> 10:20.840 that I was raised by Christian parents 10:21.220 --> 10:23.460 and grew up in Bible-believing churches 10:23.460 --> 10:25.480 and listened to spirit-filled preaching 10:26.040 --> 10:28.580 about the gospel of Jesus Christ as I grew up. 10:29.020 --> 10:30.400 But here's the thing, unfortunately, 10:31.020 --> 10:32.900 no tradition is ever gonna be perfect. 10:33.540 --> 10:36.360 No church or movement or group is ever gonna be perfect. 10:36.600 --> 10:38.020 And so as I was growing up 10:38.020 --> 10:39.340 and reading the Bible on my own, 10:39.660 --> 10:41.580 I identified some breeches. 10:41.820 --> 10:44.460 And I'm not talking about massive, huge, 10:44.720 --> 10:45.900 terrible things necessarily, 10:46.300 --> 10:48.440 but just little breeches here and there 10:48.440 --> 10:50.340 and little things that need to be fixed, 10:50.340 --> 10:52.220 little things that need to be tightened up. 10:52.500 --> 10:55.400 And so I have sought to tighten those things up 10:55.400 --> 10:58.760 and to be a reformer and not to just be somebody 10:58.760 --> 11:02.260 who just says, well, this is what the previous generation did, 11:02.360 --> 11:04.280 I'm just gonna do it exactly the same 11:04.280 --> 11:08.100 and just do it identical and just assume 11:08.100 --> 11:10.080 that they were right about every single thing. 11:10.220 --> 11:11.680 Well, you know, we gotta prove all things. 11:12.640 --> 11:15.160 Prove all things, hold fast that, which is good. 11:15.440 --> 11:18.940 And so every generation has to examine 11:19.540 --> 11:21.440 the Christianity that they were handed, 11:22.080 --> 11:23.780 the traditions that they're handed 11:24.360 --> 11:26.920 and look at them and see if they match the Bible 11:26.920 --> 11:29.620 and not just say, well, we just have to stay 11:29.620 --> 11:32.800 exactly the same as our parents and grandparents. 11:33.060 --> 11:34.840 No, we need to test those things with the Bible. 11:35.100 --> 11:36.820 We need to hold on to that, which is good. 11:37.120 --> 11:40.000 We need to discard that, which is not biblical. 11:40.560 --> 11:42.060 Every generation has to do this. 11:42.260 --> 11:45.220 And so there's a repair that constantly needs 11:45.220 --> 11:46.960 to be made to the house of God. 11:46.960 --> 11:49.320 Through much idleness of the hands, 11:49.460 --> 11:52.260 the house dropeth through, the Bible says, right? 11:52.660 --> 11:54.080 And look, we all that are homeowners, 11:54.640 --> 11:57.140 we know that there are maintenance issues 11:57.140 --> 11:59.120 that have to be dealt with at your house 11:59.120 --> 12:01.000 and that if you just ignore them, 12:01.140 --> 12:02.860 eventually the house will deteriorate. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.340 You have to fix things eventually, you know? 12:06.500 --> 12:10.120 And maybe us husbands are a little slow at this 12:10.120 --> 12:11.820 and it's like, our wives, 12:12.200 --> 12:13.220 here's the message to the wives, 12:13.480 --> 12:15.780 we don't need you to remind us every six months, 12:15.780 --> 12:17.160 you know, we'll get it done, okay? 12:18.260 --> 12:23.860 But the point is that maintenance is an issue with your home 12:24.500 --> 12:27.780 and over time, things fall apart, 12:28.000 --> 12:29.800 things decay, things deteriorate. 12:30.040 --> 12:31.620 Well, it's the same thing in a church. 12:32.140 --> 12:33.880 It's the same thing in your life spiritually. 12:34.520 --> 12:35.900 You've got to be vigilant 12:35.900 --> 12:38.400 and you've got to be making repairs and fixing things 12:38.400 --> 12:41.540 and constantly correcting yourself, correcting others 12:41.540 --> 12:44.840 and not just allowing everything to just go. 12:45.520 --> 12:47.000 You don't let yourself go. 12:47.200 --> 12:48.420 You don't let the house go. 12:48.720 --> 12:50.700 You have to tighten these things up. 12:50.760 --> 12:52.600 We're not gonna let the church go either 12:53.020 --> 12:56.740 and churches will deteriorate and degenerate over time 12:56.740 --> 12:59.960 unless someone is constantly pushing a reset button 13:00.480 --> 13:02.120 and preaching the hard sermons 13:02.120 --> 13:05.180 and cleaning up bad doctrine, cleaning up bad practices. 13:05.740 --> 13:07.380 And you know, and sometimes it might seem like 13:07.380 --> 13:08.660 we're in a lot of fights and stuff, 13:08.740 --> 13:11.780 but you know, sometimes we're fighting for truth 13:11.780 --> 13:15.280 to fix problems because we don't wanna just sit back 13:15.280 --> 13:17.560 and let the enemy ruin things. 13:17.800 --> 13:19.160 So we're gonna fight back 13:19.160 --> 13:20.920 and we're gonna stand up for what's right 13:21.620 --> 13:26.220 and teach things and hammer things and improve things 13:26.220 --> 13:28.380 and try to be better and better 13:28.380 --> 13:30.240 and to be the best we can be as a church. 13:30.480 --> 13:32.920 And then someday we're gonna pass all this down 13:32.920 --> 13:35.480 to the next generation and then it's gonna be their job 13:35.480 --> 13:37.020 to examine what we've handed them 13:37.020 --> 13:40.820 and decide, okay, which of this is 100% 13:40.820 --> 13:42.460 and which of it needs to be tightened up. 13:42.740 --> 13:44.160 And then hopefully they'll tighten up 13:44.160 --> 13:45.620 what needs to be tightened 13:46.180 --> 13:48.700 that has deteriorated at that time as well. 13:48.820 --> 13:50.360 And that's just life, that's the way it is. 13:50.680 --> 13:52.300 And so that's what I see here 13:52.300 --> 13:55.220 when I see him fixing the breaches in the house of God. 13:55.860 --> 13:57.060 You know, what are some of the breaches 13:57.060 --> 13:58.200 of the previous generation 13:58.200 --> 13:59.260 of Independent Fundamental Baptist? 13:59.840 --> 14:00.980 You know, some of the breaches is 14:00.980 --> 14:02.880 they're wrong on the timing of the rapture. 14:03.780 --> 14:06.260 They were wrong, they don't have a biblical leg 14:06.260 --> 14:08.820 to stand on, proving them wrong from the Bible 14:08.820 --> 14:11.340 is like taking candy from a baby, okay? 14:11.820 --> 14:13.300 The pre-tribulation rapture 14:13.300 --> 14:15.740 never was even close to being biblical. 14:16.140 --> 14:17.860 Now a lot of people are starting to realize that. 14:18.160 --> 14:19.220 But then there are some people 14:19.220 --> 14:21.160 who just wanna stubbornly hang on to that 14:21.160 --> 14:23.340 even though it's already been debunked 14:23.340 --> 14:24.780 six ways to Sunday, okay? 14:25.360 --> 14:28.180 Another breach is they bought into the hype 14:28.180 --> 14:31.620 about the state of Israel and Zionism 14:31.620 --> 14:33.640 and they got totally deceived and sucked in 14:33.640 --> 14:36.280 on that issue by the Rothschild, 14:36.280 --> 14:38.900 United Nations, Zionist state. 14:39.560 --> 14:41.240 You know, they were wrong about that. 14:41.720 --> 14:43.220 They made all these predictions 14:43.760 --> 14:46.160 about how all these Jews are gonna get saved 14:46.160 --> 14:47.340 and there's this big revival 14:47.340 --> 14:48.380 about to happen in Israel. 14:48.820 --> 14:50.560 Their predictions didn't come true. 14:51.020 --> 14:53.620 They were wrong, hey, we all make mistakes. 14:53.820 --> 14:56.360 It's time to take the L as the young people say 14:56.360 --> 14:59.100 and move on and get it right 14:59.100 --> 15:01.140 instead of just being stuck on stupid. 15:01.440 --> 15:03.720 You know, as a bad doctrine needs to be discarded. 15:03.800 --> 15:04.660 It was never biblical. 15:05.320 --> 15:07.040 You all got duped. 15:07.140 --> 15:08.440 You got sucked in. 15:08.800 --> 15:11.300 You got deceived, okay? 15:11.540 --> 15:13.740 Other issues had to do with the fact 15:13.740 --> 15:15.660 that the previous generation, 15:16.040 --> 15:17.200 the baby boomer generation 15:17.200 --> 15:18.660 of Independent Fundamental Baptist 15:19.220 --> 15:21.860 totally bought into that second wave of feminism, 15:22.520 --> 15:23.920 totally bought into it 15:23.920 --> 15:27.020 and they're popping birth control pills like their PEZ 15:27.440 --> 15:28.940 and they're just going crazy 15:28.940 --> 15:32.620 with all of this women's lib feminist garbage 15:32.620 --> 15:33.640 and they won't say that. 15:33.640 --> 15:35.240 They'll be like, oh, we're against feminism 15:35.240 --> 15:38.220 but then it's like you look at de facto what they believe 15:38.760 --> 15:40.280 and it's all the same stuff, 15:40.520 --> 15:43.580 the same easy divorce, the same principle 15:43.580 --> 15:46.060 and I'm not gonna repreach those feminism sermons 15:46.060 --> 15:46.620 that I've preached 15:47.060 --> 15:49.160 but you know, we can go down the list of things. 15:49.300 --> 15:53.320 Now look, when it came to the main doctrines of salvation, 15:54.140 --> 15:57.980 the Trinity, the Bible, the inerrancy of scripture, 15:58.180 --> 16:00.420 you know, they had a lot of great things going for them 16:00.420 --> 16:02.260 and they did soul winning 16:02.260 --> 16:04.180 and they're going out, knocking doors, 16:04.360 --> 16:04.940 preaching the gospel. 16:05.280 --> 16:07.460 So there are a lot of great things about that generation 16:07.460 --> 16:09.860 but there were a few things that needed to be tightened up 16:09.860 --> 16:12.080 and that's not a full list by the way. 16:12.380 --> 16:13.560 There are other things we could, 16:13.780 --> 16:14.620 that's a whole nother sermon 16:14.620 --> 16:15.920 that shall be preached at another time. 16:16.460 --> 16:18.360 So let's get back into the chapter here. 16:19.120 --> 16:21.180 Repairing the breaches of the house of God, 16:22.120 --> 16:23.820 verse number seven, 16:24.000 --> 16:25.920 how be it there was no reckoning made with them 16:25.920 --> 16:27.620 of the money that was delivered in their hand 16:27.620 --> 16:29.280 because they dealt faithfully. 16:29.340 --> 16:31.160 It's always beautiful when you can deal with people 16:31.160 --> 16:32.640 that you just trust and you don't have to, 16:32.700 --> 16:35.400 you know, worry about every nickel and dime with people. 16:36.800 --> 16:37.680 But it says, 16:38.020 --> 16:39.100 and Hilkiah, the high priest, 16:39.320 --> 16:40.500 Senator Shefan the scribe, 16:40.600 --> 16:44.380 I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. 16:44.980 --> 16:47.600 And Hilkiah gave the book to Shefan and he read it 16:47.600 --> 16:49.760 and Shefan the scribe came to the king 16:49.760 --> 16:51.560 and brought the king word again 16:51.560 --> 16:53.720 and said, Thy servants have gathered the money 16:53.720 --> 16:55.040 that was found in the house 16:55.040 --> 16:57.220 and have delivered it into the hand of them 16:57.220 --> 16:58.540 that do the work, 16:58.720 --> 17:00.400 that have the oversight of the house of the Lord 17:00.400 --> 17:03.340 and Shefan the scribe showed the king saying, 17:03.760 --> 17:07.280 Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book 17:07.720 --> 17:09.380 and Shefan read it before the king. 17:09.740 --> 17:10.880 Now, here's the thing about this 17:10.880 --> 17:14.380 is that apparently this book of the law 17:14.380 --> 17:16.440 had fallen into disuse. 17:17.140 --> 17:18.080 It was always there, 17:18.300 --> 17:20.140 it was always sitting there in the church house 17:20.140 --> 17:20.940 or in the, you know, 17:21.000 --> 17:22.000 obviously we're talking about the temple 17:22.000 --> 17:25.440 but I like to bring it into the modern day. 17:26.100 --> 17:28.660 The idea is that the book was always there, 17:29.090 --> 17:32.060 it had just fallen into neglect and disuse 17:32.430 --> 17:34.960 and this is a book that not even King Josiah 17:34.960 --> 17:35.940 is familiar with. 17:36.180 --> 17:38.960 So even though he is worshiping the Lord, 17:39.440 --> 17:40.200 loving the Lord, 17:40.560 --> 17:41.400 following the Lord, 17:41.960 --> 17:44.060 you know, he didn't have this book of the law 17:44.060 --> 17:46.880 that was just in the house of God being neglected. 17:47.200 --> 17:50.340 And so I think that some people could maybe exaggerate this 17:50.340 --> 17:51.760 or misunderstand this, 17:52.080 --> 17:54.020 like, oh, the word of God had just disappeared. 17:54.260 --> 17:55.800 You know, here's the thing, 17:56.120 --> 17:57.700 it doesn't mean that nobody else had 17:57.700 --> 17:58.700 this part of the word of God. 17:58.820 --> 18:00.820 It was just they were unaware of it. 18:01.180 --> 18:02.060 Okay, number one. 18:02.680 --> 18:04.880 And remember, the Bible is not complete at this point. 18:05.200 --> 18:07.720 This is the time when the Bible is being written. 18:08.100 --> 18:10.120 They obviously didn't have the book of Second Kings. 18:10.500 --> 18:12.400 Otherwise they'd be reading about their own lives 18:12.400 --> 18:13.520 and that would be super weird. 18:14.140 --> 18:14.900 So, you know, 18:15.100 --> 18:16.840 obviously they don't have the whole Bible 18:16.840 --> 18:18.160 and at this time, 18:18.320 --> 18:21.720 the whole Bible is not one solid leather-bound book 18:21.720 --> 18:24.620 and so I don't believe for one second 18:24.620 --> 18:26.520 that they didn't have the word of God at all 18:27.080 --> 18:28.100 because, you know, 18:28.440 --> 18:30.520 faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 18:31.340 --> 18:33.940 Josiah's clearly got faith, he's fallen God. 18:34.260 --> 18:35.660 There were a lot of prophets 18:35.660 --> 18:37.680 that are preaching the word of God orally. 18:37.940 --> 18:38.460 Number one. 18:39.620 --> 18:41.320 Number two, it doesn't say 18:41.320 --> 18:44.020 that they did not have any written scriptures whatsoever. 18:44.600 --> 18:46.260 It just says that they did not have 18:46.260 --> 18:50.160 this particular book of the law in their library. 18:50.500 --> 18:51.620 At least they weren't reading it 18:51.620 --> 18:54.720 because it was just kind of collecting dust in the temple. 18:55.060 --> 18:57.700 A lot of people believe that the book of the law 18:57.700 --> 19:00.040 that they find is the book of Deuteronomy 19:00.040 --> 19:02.180 just because the book of Deuteronomy 19:02.180 --> 19:05.060 would elicit the exact reaction 19:05.060 --> 19:07.440 that you see that they have when they read it 19:07.440 --> 19:09.420 seems like they're reading Deuteronomy. 19:09.800 --> 19:12.700 You know, maybe they're reading the entire Torah. 19:13.280 --> 19:16.500 Maybe it's just a copy of the book of Deuteronomy. 19:16.860 --> 19:18.720 Maybe it's a copy of the whole Torah, 19:19.000 --> 19:19.880 the first five books, 19:20.200 --> 19:22.460 but this doesn't mean that they didn't have access 19:22.460 --> 19:25.580 to books like Psalms and Proverbs 19:26.000 --> 19:27.740 and that they don't have other prophets 19:27.740 --> 19:30.020 preaching to them and other books 19:30.020 --> 19:32.480 and we don't know what they had and didn't have. 19:32.580 --> 19:34.720 But I would not ever believe for one second, 19:35.040 --> 19:36.140 oh, they just don't have the Bible. 19:36.320 --> 19:37.300 They just don't have the word of God at all. 19:37.480 --> 19:39.240 Well, then it'd be impossible to function 19:40.100 --> 19:42.380 as a believer without the word of God. 19:44.240 --> 19:45.640 Because remember, in the Old Testament, 19:45.800 --> 19:47.880 a lot of it, they're getting it orally from preaching. 19:48.080 --> 19:49.340 They're getting it orally from prophets. 19:49.340 --> 19:51.980 So I guarantee you Josiah is listening to prophets 19:52.500 --> 19:54.260 preaching him the word of God orally. 19:54.700 --> 19:56.240 Spirit of the Lord comes upon them, 19:56.400 --> 19:57.260 they preach the word of God. 19:57.620 --> 20:01.540 Also, I would be willing to bet that he had written copies 20:01.540 --> 20:03.100 of other parts of the Bible, 20:03.460 --> 20:05.500 other than this particular book of the law 20:05.960 --> 20:07.160 that is found in the house of God, 20:07.220 --> 20:09.760 which is quite possibly just the book of Deuteronomy. 20:10.200 --> 20:11.700 You know, or something else. 20:11.840 --> 20:13.800 Maybe it's another piece of the Mosaic law 20:14.280 --> 20:15.500 or maybe it's the whole thing. 20:16.120 --> 20:16.580 We don't know. 20:16.860 --> 20:18.920 So don't exaggerate this though, 20:18.920 --> 20:22.140 but the point is that when they read this book, 20:22.200 --> 20:23.320 which I would lean toward, 20:23.520 --> 20:25.240 it's probably Deuteronomy that they're reading. 20:25.380 --> 20:26.380 Maybe it's more than that, 20:26.460 --> 20:28.540 but it seems to definitely include Deuteronomy. 20:28.980 --> 20:31.120 And the reason I say that is because the big message 20:31.120 --> 20:34.220 that Deuteronomy hammers over and over again 20:34.220 --> 20:37.020 is all the blessings that are gonna come upon you 20:37.020 --> 20:38.480 if you follow the law of God 20:38.480 --> 20:40.840 and all the curses that are gonna come upon you 20:40.840 --> 20:43.120 if you don't follow the law of God. 20:43.700 --> 20:48.780 It is the preachiest part of the Mosaic law. 20:49.460 --> 20:50.900 And it just chapter after chapter, 20:51.020 --> 20:53.340 especially like the first nine chapters or something 20:53.340 --> 20:57.300 is just really preaching hard that exact subject. 20:57.600 --> 21:00.520 So it seems like, okay, we got this book of the law 21:01.040 --> 21:03.220 and we get it, we give it to Josiah. 21:03.820 --> 21:08.480 And it says in verse number 13, 21:08.980 --> 21:09.940 or let's look at verse 11, 21:10.080 --> 21:11.080 it says, and it came to pass 21:11.080 --> 21:14.040 when the king had heard the words of the book of the law 21:14.040 --> 21:15.840 that he rent his clothes. 21:16.120 --> 21:19.040 So he tears his clothing and it says, 21:19.220 --> 21:21.660 the king commanded Hulkiah the priest and a heichem, 21:22.180 --> 21:25.000 the son of Shefan and Akbor, the son of Micaiah 21:25.560 --> 21:27.880 and Shefan the scribe and Azahiah, 21:28.020 --> 21:28.680 servant of the king saying, 21:29.100 --> 21:31.060 go ye inquire of the Lord for me 21:31.060 --> 21:33.100 and for the people and for all Judah 21:33.100 --> 21:36.660 concerning the words of this book that is found 21:36.660 --> 21:39.460 for great is the wrath of the Lord 21:39.460 --> 21:40.620 that is kindled against us 21:40.620 --> 21:43.160 because our fathers have not hearkened 21:43.160 --> 21:44.280 under the words of this book 21:44.280 --> 21:46.420 to do according unto all that 21:46.420 --> 21:48.220 which is written concerning us. 21:48.280 --> 21:50.320 So they're like, oh man, we just read this book 21:50.320 --> 21:52.600 and it's just telling us how screwed we are 21:52.600 --> 21:55.480 because we've been so disobedient to the word of God 21:55.480 --> 21:58.120 and our fathers have been disobedient to the word of God 21:58.120 --> 22:00.520 we need to inquire of God. 22:00.800 --> 22:05.220 And as I said, Josiah is getting the word of God 22:05.220 --> 22:06.580 not just from written texts, 22:06.660 --> 22:08.740 like we get from the written Bible. 22:08.740 --> 22:12.300 We have the whole Bible, 66 books, leather bound, 22:12.400 --> 22:14.280 that'll keep you busy all year long. 22:15.660 --> 22:17.840 Right, you're not gonna run out of word of God 22:18.260 --> 22:19.700 when you got Genesis the Revelation 22:19.700 --> 22:21.560 and you can read it every day 22:22.060 --> 22:23.540 and you can read it for decades 22:23.540 --> 22:26.720 and you're never gonna run out of word of God 22:26.720 --> 22:28.020 to study, read, learn 22:28.020 --> 22:29.960 because you gotta do it over and over again. 22:31.800 --> 22:35.160 But as I said, they're also being ministered unto 22:35.160 --> 22:38.160 by prophets that are preaching the word of God 22:38.160 --> 22:39.960 to them orally, okay. 22:40.540 --> 22:42.700 The Bible says God who at sundry times 22:42.700 --> 22:43.660 in a diverse manner, 22:43.780 --> 22:47.020 spake in time past under the fathers by the prophets 22:47.020 --> 22:49.960 had then these last days spoken of us by his son. 22:50.420 --> 22:51.640 So in the Old Testament, 22:51.760 --> 22:55.320 it was a lot of just prophets speaking the word of God. 22:55.840 --> 22:59.440 So they go to inquire of God and look who they go to. 22:59.620 --> 23:02.620 It says in verse number 14. 23:03.000 --> 23:05.360 So He'll chide the priest and Heicam 23:05.360 --> 23:07.280 and Acbor and Shefan and Azohiah 23:07.280 --> 23:10.560 went unto Holda the prophetess, 23:10.800 --> 23:13.220 the wife of Shalom, the son of Tikvah, 23:13.560 --> 23:15.440 the son of Harhass, keep her the wardrobe. 23:15.940 --> 23:17.680 Now she dwelled in Jerusalem in the college 23:17.680 --> 23:19.640 and they communed with her. 23:19.800 --> 23:21.340 Now at first you might look at this and say like, 23:21.580 --> 23:25.580 well that's weird, why is it a female prophet? 23:25.760 --> 23:26.820 Why is it a prophetess? 23:26.960 --> 23:28.060 But here's what we have to understand 23:28.060 --> 23:30.660 is that the Bible is very clear 23:31.160 --> 23:33.400 on the subject of male leadership. 23:33.880 --> 23:36.140 The king is supposed to be a man. 23:37.060 --> 23:39.820 The home, the head of the home is the man. 23:40.120 --> 23:42.540 The Bible says the husband is the head of the wife 23:43.100 --> 23:44.300 as Christ the head of the church. 23:44.980 --> 23:46.660 The man is the head of the woman 23:46.660 --> 23:49.080 like God is the head of Christ. 23:49.500 --> 23:50.500 That's what the Bible says. 23:50.960 --> 23:53.540 And so we have very clear teaching on that 23:53.540 --> 23:55.680 and the fact that in the church, 23:55.680 --> 23:57.400 women are to keep silent in the church, 23:57.480 --> 23:58.280 that's the assembly. 23:58.820 --> 24:00.700 So when we're all assembled here 24:00.700 --> 24:02.100 and we're all in here 24:02.100 --> 24:03.660 and there's hundreds of us in here, 24:04.100 --> 24:05.340 we're not gonna have a woman getting up 24:05.340 --> 24:06.680 and preaching the Bible to us. 24:07.400 --> 24:09.720 We're not gonna have women talking back to me 24:09.720 --> 24:11.640 while I'm preaching and giving their opinion, 24:12.060 --> 24:13.720 raising their hand and asking questions. 24:14.160 --> 24:15.480 The Bible says if they have a question, 24:15.820 --> 24:16.920 if they will learn anything, 24:17.020 --> 24:18.420 let them ask their husbands at home 24:18.420 --> 24:21.080 because it is a shame for women to speak in the church. 24:21.500 --> 24:22.940 That's what it says in 1 Corinthians 14. 24:23.500 --> 24:26.700 1 Timothy 2 says I suffer not a woman to teach 24:26.700 --> 24:28.460 nor do you serve authority over the man 24:28.460 --> 24:29.600 but to be in silence. 24:29.920 --> 24:31.660 So when it comes to leadership, 24:32.100 --> 24:34.740 when it comes to public church services, 24:34.740 --> 24:36.560 when it comes to running the church, 24:36.760 --> 24:38.020 running the home, running the nation, 24:38.400 --> 24:41.080 obviously the Bible teaches male authority, okay? 24:41.660 --> 24:42.620 Nothing could be clearer. 24:43.660 --> 24:45.620 But does that mean that women 24:46.120 --> 24:48.620 do not have a role spiritually? 24:49.640 --> 24:51.580 And look, if you would flip over to, 24:51.720 --> 24:53.420 we could, again, this is a whole sermon, 24:53.900 --> 24:56.140 but go if you would to Acts chapter two 24:56.640 --> 24:58.480 and let's see what the Bible says about this. 24:58.840 --> 25:00.100 You know, we shouldn't be bothered 25:00.100 --> 25:01.880 by the fact that there's a prophetess 25:01.880 --> 25:03.480 because there's really no issue 25:03.980 --> 25:05.800 with a prophetess at all. 25:06.100 --> 25:07.080 And I'm going to show you that 25:07.080 --> 25:08.220 from the New Testament even. 25:09.840 --> 25:11.780 But then a lot of people will look at this 25:12.440 --> 25:14.180 and they'll see this prophetess 25:14.180 --> 25:15.680 and they'll say, oh, that means 25:15.680 --> 25:17.020 we can have a female pastor. 25:17.640 --> 25:20.060 That means that the wife is the boss of her husband. 25:20.480 --> 25:21.720 That means that, you know, 25:21.780 --> 25:23.160 we're going to have this lesbian marriage 25:23.160 --> 25:25.620 where the husband and wife are both in charge 25:25.620 --> 25:27.100 and they both submit to each other. 25:27.640 --> 25:31.280 Hey, let's just elect women to run our government and stuff. 25:31.280 --> 25:34.680 You know, again, we don't want to go to the left hand 25:34.680 --> 25:36.260 or to the right hand from what the Bible's teaching. 25:37.040 --> 25:38.920 We don't want to go to the left 25:38.920 --> 25:42.960 and just have female pastors, female preachers, 25:43.200 --> 25:44.580 full-blown feminism. 25:45.240 --> 25:48.700 Okay, but then we also don't want to go to the right hand 25:48.700 --> 25:50.560 and basically say, oh, women 25:51.100 --> 25:52.940 can never expound the word of God 25:52.940 --> 25:56.620 or women can never win souls or preach the gospel 25:56.620 --> 26:00.680 or be used of God in any kind of a spiritual capacity 26:00.680 --> 26:02.040 doing spiritual work. 26:02.540 --> 26:05.320 Yes, women can actually preach 26:05.320 --> 26:08.720 and teach the word of God just not in church 26:09.220 --> 26:11.900 because the woman is supposed to keep silent in the church. 26:12.060 --> 26:14.780 It doesn't say, hey, women just need to keep silent everywhere. 26:15.440 --> 26:17.040 It says women need to keep silent in the church. 26:17.740 --> 26:20.720 It says that they're not to usurp authority over the man. 26:21.000 --> 26:21.860 They're to be in silence. 26:22.000 --> 26:22.920 They're to learn in silence. 26:23.820 --> 26:26.540 But what about what we see in Acts chapter two? 26:26.840 --> 26:28.520 Okay, and now we're in the New Testament now. 26:28.520 --> 26:30.140 Let's see what the Bible says. 26:31.300 --> 26:34.140 In verse number 16, it says, 26:34.360 --> 26:36.620 but this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel. 26:37.480 --> 26:39.960 And it came to pass in the last days, sayeth God, 26:40.720 --> 26:43.320 I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh 26:43.320 --> 26:44.960 and your sons and your what? 26:46.680 --> 26:48.080 Daughters shall what? 26:48.960 --> 26:49.480 Prophesy. 26:49.740 --> 26:50.500 So here's the thing. 26:51.100 --> 26:54.100 Wouldn't you say that a daughter who prophesies? 26:54.320 --> 26:57.040 You could call her a prophetess in that sense, right? 26:57.040 --> 27:00.540 So she is prophesying and she's female. 27:01.120 --> 27:03.780 So she is being a prophetess in that moment, 27:04.240 --> 27:05.340 in a manner of speaking. 27:05.760 --> 27:06.980 And so the Bible says here, 27:07.160 --> 27:09.280 so really this isn't really any different 27:09.280 --> 27:10.840 than what we're seeing in the Old Testament 27:10.840 --> 27:13.100 in 2 Kings chapter 22, 27:13.460 --> 27:15.860 when we see hold of the prophetess, okay? 27:16.160 --> 27:18.060 When we look here, it says your sons 27:18.060 --> 27:20.680 and your daughters shall prophesy 27:20.680 --> 27:22.980 and your young men shall see visions 27:22.980 --> 27:24.720 and your old man shall dream dreams 27:24.720 --> 27:30.020 and on my servants and on my handmaidens, again female, 27:30.740 --> 27:33.140 I will pour out in those days of my spirit 27:33.140 --> 27:34.720 and they shall prophesy. 27:34.940 --> 27:36.780 Now, what is the context? 27:36.920 --> 27:38.880 Because we're seeing here that women will prophesy 27:39.580 --> 27:42.680 and their spirit filled and it's sanctioned by God. 27:43.180 --> 27:44.180 But here's the question. 27:44.460 --> 27:47.060 Is Acts chapter two a church service? 27:47.440 --> 27:50.240 Are we in church and women are getting up 27:50.240 --> 27:52.920 and preaching in church in contradiction of scripture? 27:53.580 --> 27:55.700 Are women usurping authority over men? 27:56.100 --> 27:58.000 No, because if you actually got the context, 27:58.340 --> 27:59.840 you wanna know what's actually happening 27:59.840 --> 28:03.400 in Acts chapter two is evangelism is happening, 28:03.800 --> 28:05.780 soul winning is happening outside, 28:06.480 --> 28:10.820 out there among the lost, these women in Acts two, 28:10.920 --> 28:11.520 what are they doing? 28:11.900 --> 28:13.800 They're giving the gospel to unsafe people. 28:14.560 --> 28:15.680 That's what's going on. 28:15.900 --> 28:17.780 Because remember in chapter one, 28:18.160 --> 28:20.960 we talked about how in verse 15, 28:21.780 --> 28:23.940 that the number of names together 28:23.940 --> 28:27.580 at the end of verse 15 chapter one were about 120. 28:28.020 --> 28:29.040 And who did that include? 28:29.320 --> 28:30.340 Well, it says in verse 14, 28:30.880 --> 28:32.520 they were all continued with one accord 28:32.520 --> 28:35.020 in prayer and supplication with the women. 28:35.360 --> 28:38.180 So including the women, they're in the assembly 28:38.180 --> 28:40.300 with the women, 120 people. 28:40.520 --> 28:43.180 Then in chapter two, the Bible says 28:43.180 --> 28:45.280 they're all with one accord in one place. 28:45.520 --> 28:47.440 But then they end up going out 28:47.440 --> 28:49.320 into the streets of Jerusalem 28:49.320 --> 28:51.960 where all these devout men have gathered 28:51.960 --> 28:53.180 from all over the world 28:53.680 --> 28:55.900 and not just the men are soul winning, 28:56.380 --> 28:57.900 not just Peter is soul winning, 28:58.500 --> 28:59.920 but all of them are. 29:00.060 --> 29:02.560 The Bible says that they were all filled with the Holy Ghost 29:02.560 --> 29:04.900 and they spake with other tongues 29:04.900 --> 29:06.740 as the spirit gave them utterance. 29:07.000 --> 29:09.100 That's not Peter, it's they. 29:09.680 --> 29:12.020 And the they includes both men and women. 29:12.340 --> 29:13.720 And so what you see here 29:13.720 --> 29:16.700 is that women do have a legitimate role 29:17.300 --> 29:19.040 going out there in the streets, 29:19.280 --> 29:20.400 in the highways and hedges, 29:20.720 --> 29:22.420 preaching the gospel to the lost. 29:23.420 --> 29:27.100 This is totally valid for them to walk up to men, 29:27.280 --> 29:29.620 devout men from all over the place, 29:29.940 --> 29:32.140 a woman walking up to a man 29:32.140 --> 29:34.400 and preaching the gospel to that lost man 29:34.400 --> 29:36.140 and getting him saved is 100% biblical. 29:36.500 --> 29:37.980 And you know what the Bible calls that? 29:38.360 --> 29:40.220 He said, well, this is a fulfillment of 29:40.860 --> 29:42.300 the daughters will prophesy. 29:42.640 --> 29:45.380 This is a fulfillment of the handmaidens 29:45.380 --> 29:47.000 will be filled with the spirit and prophesy. 29:48.000 --> 29:51.140 So again, it's not the preaching of God's word 29:51.140 --> 29:52.880 by females that is the problem. 29:53.640 --> 29:56.720 The problem is usurping authority over men 29:56.720 --> 29:59.180 in the home and in the church and in the government. 29:59.560 --> 30:00.520 That is the problem. 30:00.880 --> 30:02.300 That is what the Bible condemns. 30:02.540 --> 30:05.900 The Bible never condemns a woman opening her mouth 30:05.900 --> 30:09.080 and speaking of scripture, preaching scripture, 30:09.520 --> 30:11.980 getting people saved, going out there 30:11.980 --> 30:14.740 and just talking to people and preaching the gospel. 30:14.740 --> 30:15.660 And so here's the thing. 30:15.960 --> 30:19.620 There's also no issue with the man of Josiah 30:19.620 --> 30:22.180 going and talking to hold all the prophetess. 30:22.200 --> 30:24.220 They go to her house and sit down with her 30:24.220 --> 30:26.360 and she's filled with the spirit of God 30:26.360 --> 30:28.700 and she can expound the word of God to them 30:28.700 --> 30:30.760 and she can explain truth to them. 30:31.020 --> 30:34.840 This is not a woman that is having a public ministry 30:34.840 --> 30:36.880 that usurps the authority of man 30:36.880 --> 30:39.720 or that leads in the assembly or the congregation. 30:40.180 --> 30:42.580 You know, there's nothing wrong with men and women 30:42.580 --> 30:44.940 having conversations about the Bible 30:44.940 --> 30:48.820 and especially women preaching the gospel to the lost. 30:49.140 --> 30:51.460 And it's not only is it appropriate, 30:51.860 --> 30:54.140 you know, I would argue that it's commanded by God, 30:54.540 --> 30:56.800 that all of us, man, woman, boy and girl, 30:57.040 --> 30:58.620 that we all preach the gospel. 30:59.740 --> 31:01.580 You know, I don't think it'd be right for a woman 31:01.580 --> 31:02.880 to just go through her whole life 31:02.880 --> 31:03.700 and just be like, well, 31:03.960 --> 31:06.020 I'm gonna leave the soul winning to the men folk 31:06.460 --> 31:08.840 and I'm just gonna totally abstain from soul winning. 31:08.980 --> 31:10.340 It's like, well, no, I mean, 31:10.420 --> 31:11.340 we should all be soul winning. 31:11.840 --> 31:14.540 You know, and why would you not be giving the gospel 31:14.540 --> 31:15.560 in your personal life? 31:15.680 --> 31:17.820 And you know what, my wife has often given the gospel. 31:18.020 --> 31:19.560 Obviously she's gone soul winning 31:19.560 --> 31:21.200 and mission strip and stuff like that. 31:21.440 --> 31:24.720 But also just sometimes there'll be some dude 31:24.720 --> 31:25.920 that comes to the house 31:25.920 --> 31:29.400 and he's maybe doing the pest control or whatever 31:29.820 --> 31:31.740 and she's given the gospel to people like that 31:31.740 --> 31:34.380 over the years or customers of her bakery or whatever 31:34.380 --> 31:36.360 and she'll give the gospel to people like that 31:36.360 --> 31:38.380 over the years and get them saved. 31:38.920 --> 31:39.880 You know, that's great. 31:40.360 --> 31:42.280 That's what, you know, we all wanna be, yeah, 31:43.280 --> 31:44.680 evangelizing through the church 31:44.680 --> 31:46.640 and going soul winning and going on mission strips, 31:46.860 --> 31:48.480 but also in our personal lives, 31:48.560 --> 31:51.240 there could be opportunities to give the gospel 31:51.240 --> 31:52.500 whether you're a man or a woman. 31:52.740 --> 31:55.020 And you get back, oh, I'm a woman and this is a man. 31:55.220 --> 31:57.640 So I can't talk to him about the Bible. 31:57.780 --> 31:58.860 I can't give him the gospel. 31:59.760 --> 32:00.440 And here's the thing, 32:00.740 --> 32:02.520 let's say some guy was already saved 32:02.520 --> 32:04.500 and he's goofed up doctrinally 32:04.500 --> 32:06.120 or using the wrong Bible or something 32:06.120 --> 32:08.560 and my wife just like straighten bro out 32:08.560 --> 32:10.520 on the King James issue or something is like, 32:10.740 --> 32:12.140 well that's not her place, she's a woman. 32:12.820 --> 32:14.020 You know, the Bible is not saying 32:14.020 --> 32:16.400 that all women need to submit to all men. 32:17.100 --> 32:19.160 The Bible is teaching that wives need to submit 32:19.160 --> 32:20.060 to their own husbands. 32:21.020 --> 32:24.760 It's not just saying women can never talk down to men 32:24.760 --> 32:25.620 because guess what? 32:25.740 --> 32:28.580 In the Bible, the wife is of a higher status 32:28.580 --> 32:30.460 than some kind of a servant in the house. 32:30.800 --> 32:32.400 You know, in the Bible, honestly, 32:32.940 --> 32:35.280 wives are gonna be ordering around male servants 32:35.280 --> 32:36.280 that work for their husband. 32:37.360 --> 32:38.400 Is anybody home? 32:39.280 --> 32:41.480 You know, and by the way, when sons grow up 32:41.480 --> 32:43.360 and they're teenage boys and young adult men, 32:43.820 --> 32:45.460 mom is still telling them what to do. 32:45.500 --> 32:48.480 That's a woman telling a man what to do, okay? 32:48.780 --> 32:50.180 So the idea is that no, 32:50.460 --> 32:53.080 women do not need to be subservient to all men. 32:53.660 --> 32:55.920 Wives need to be obedient to their own husbands. 32:56.360 --> 32:58.400 Wives need to submit to their own husbands. 32:58.840 --> 33:00.220 Obviously in the church, 33:00.440 --> 33:03.420 it's a male run, man run church. 33:03.600 --> 33:05.900 That's what the Bible clearly says, okay? 33:05.900 --> 33:08.000 But that doesn't mean that a woman 33:08.000 --> 33:10.880 can never straighten somebody out on the Bible 33:10.880 --> 33:12.020 out there in the world, 33:12.320 --> 33:14.380 get somebody saved or whatever. 33:14.680 --> 33:16.400 They should be doing that, okay? 33:16.520 --> 33:17.700 There's no issue with that. 33:18.040 --> 33:19.600 And so we wanna make sure, again, 33:19.980 --> 33:22.140 that we don't deviate to the right hand or to the left 33:22.540 --> 33:23.320 in this, okay? 33:23.740 --> 33:25.260 And so there's, I have no issue 33:25.260 --> 33:27.000 with holdup being a prophetess. 33:27.280 --> 33:30.160 You know, you could argue that it's kind of strange 33:30.160 --> 33:32.000 that this is the first place that they go 33:32.500 --> 33:34.720 or that maybe there aren't really a lot 33:34.720 --> 33:36.180 of great options necessarily 33:36.660 --> 33:38.880 because you wouldn't think that this would be like 33:38.880 --> 33:41.420 the top prophet that they can think of in that moment. 33:41.880 --> 33:44.440 But hey, whatever, at the end of the day, 33:44.840 --> 33:47.260 I don't see holdup being the pastor of a church. 33:48.080 --> 33:49.740 And that's what's so stupid is be like, 33:49.940 --> 33:51.700 oh yeah, you don't believe women should be pastors? 33:51.860 --> 33:52.460 What about Deborah? 33:52.760 --> 33:54.280 It's like, Deborah's not the pastor of a church. 33:55.740 --> 33:58.660 You know, it's the same kind of stupid logic that says, 33:58.940 --> 34:00.480 well, of course, single man 34:00.480 --> 34:03.000 who don't have a wife and kids can be a pastor. 34:03.000 --> 34:04.620 What about the apostle Paul? 34:04.840 --> 34:07.320 It's like, the apostle Paul is not the pastor of a church. 34:08.000 --> 34:10.080 Apostle Paul is the apostle Paul. 34:10.200 --> 34:12.440 He's not pastor Paul, okay? 34:13.740 --> 34:14.740 What about Jesus? 34:15.140 --> 34:17.080 Jesus, you know, wasn't married and didn't have kids. 34:17.360 --> 34:18.920 Look, the Bible specifically says 34:18.920 --> 34:21.840 that the pastor needs to be married and have kids. 34:22.380 --> 34:23.200 It's that simple. 34:23.480 --> 34:26.160 And so to sit there and just pull out people 34:26.160 --> 34:28.300 that are apostles, prophets or whatever, 34:28.700 --> 34:30.660 you know, you're mixing ideas here 34:30.660 --> 34:31.740 because you need to understand 34:32.120 --> 34:34.440 that there's this job and there's this role 34:34.440 --> 34:36.820 and you can't convolut these things. 34:37.200 --> 34:39.320 You've got to understand what the Bible is saying 34:39.320 --> 34:40.780 in its context, okay? 34:41.180 --> 34:43.680 So again, they go to see Hoda the prophetess 34:43.680 --> 34:46.380 in 2 Kings chapter number 22. 34:46.980 --> 34:48.960 They commune with her, okay? 34:49.580 --> 34:52.060 So they're sitting around having a coffee clutch 34:52.720 --> 34:54.340 with Hoda the prophetess. 34:54.780 --> 34:55.900 And she said unto them, 34:56.100 --> 34:57.500 thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel, 34:57.960 --> 34:59.380 tell the man that sent you to me, 34:59.540 --> 35:00.380 thus sayeth the Lord, 35:00.380 --> 35:02.820 behold, I will bring evil upon this place 35:02.820 --> 35:04.380 and upon the inhabitants thereof, 35:04.740 --> 35:06.140 even all the words of the book 35:06.140 --> 35:07.460 which the king of Judah had read. 35:07.620 --> 35:08.540 And you know, I would argue 35:08.540 --> 35:10.840 that this woman has probably already read this book 35:10.840 --> 35:12.680 and it's probably not new to her. 35:12.780 --> 35:14.820 It's probably just new to Josiah and them. 35:15.420 --> 35:16.700 You know, possibly it's new to her, 35:16.880 --> 35:18.080 but did they really sit down 35:18.080 --> 35:19.240 and give her a couple of hours 35:19.240 --> 35:20.700 to read through Deuteronomy 35:20.700 --> 35:22.120 or possibly more than that? 35:22.480 --> 35:25.280 You know, or did she already know about it? 35:25.500 --> 35:27.360 And maybe they just didn't know about it. 35:27.480 --> 35:28.880 Again, we don't know those details. 35:29.220 --> 35:30.780 I don't think it's super important to know that. 35:31.120 --> 35:33.620 But the important thing is that she says to him, 35:33.800 --> 35:37.660 look, tell the king that, you know, 35:37.760 --> 35:39.640 I will bring evil upon this place 35:39.640 --> 35:41.260 and upon the inhabitants thereof. 35:41.400 --> 35:42.480 Yeah, you know what? 35:42.560 --> 35:44.060 He's scared, he's upset 35:44.060 --> 35:45.840 because of all the curses 35:45.840 --> 35:47.400 that are found in the law of God 35:47.400 --> 35:48.920 that are gonna come upon Jerusalem. 35:49.280 --> 35:49.900 Well, you know what? 35:50.000 --> 35:52.340 Be very afraid because it's gonna happen. 35:52.900 --> 35:53.800 God's gonna punish. 35:54.700 --> 35:55.240 It's true. 35:56.840 --> 35:57.560 And by the way, 35:57.560 --> 35:59.540 this goes to show that she's legit 35:59.540 --> 36:01.320 because phony preachers, 36:01.920 --> 36:03.900 they'll just give you a positive message 36:03.900 --> 36:05.480 and they will sugarcoat 36:05.480 --> 36:07.460 and they won't tell you the true story like this. 36:07.520 --> 36:08.980 Because, you know, what's funny 36:08.980 --> 36:13.060 is that one of the prominent female preachers of our day 36:13.060 --> 36:16.080 is Joyce Meyer, also known as the Joker. 36:17.120 --> 36:21.240 But Joyce Meyer has a book called God is Not Mad at You. 36:21.920 --> 36:23.460 And I picked it up in the store 36:23.460 --> 36:24.420 and I looked at the back 36:24.420 --> 36:26.300 and it said, no matter who you are, 36:26.300 --> 36:27.340 no matter what you've done, 36:27.460 --> 36:28.380 God is not mad at you. 36:29.420 --> 36:30.220 That's crazy. 36:31.220 --> 36:33.860 So I guess we can just hand this book to Charles Manson. 36:34.440 --> 36:35.960 We can just hand it to anybody 36:35.960 --> 36:36.900 and God's just, 36:37.140 --> 36:39.200 it sounds like God's just never mad at anyone 36:39.200 --> 36:39.760 for any reason. 36:39.960 --> 36:40.920 But what does the Bible say? 36:41.340 --> 36:44.600 God is angry with the wicked every day. 36:45.500 --> 36:48.120 How can you write a book called God is Not Mad at You 36:48.580 --> 36:50.680 and just say whoever you are, God's not mad at you. 36:50.740 --> 36:52.520 Well, when God's mad at people every single day. 36:53.340 --> 36:55.000 God is angry. 36:55.000 --> 36:56.620 Right now it's somebody 36:56.620 --> 36:59.600 and it's probably a lot of somebodies that he's mad at 36:59.920 --> 37:01.560 because he's mad at the wicked every day. 37:02.300 --> 37:04.440 And so this is actually a legitimate message 37:04.440 --> 37:07.720 that Holda has unlike Joker, Joyce Meyer 37:07.720 --> 37:09.880 and her message that God's not mad at you. 37:10.000 --> 37:11.340 It's like, you don't even know me. 37:11.760 --> 37:13.360 How do you know God's not mad at me? 37:14.380 --> 37:16.140 We don't even know each other. 37:17.140 --> 37:17.740 It's stupid. 37:17.960 --> 37:19.760 It's a stupid title for a book. 37:20.060 --> 37:21.160 I mean, I would rather write a book 37:21.160 --> 37:22.500 called God's Mad at You. 37:23.700 --> 37:26.560 But even then the problem is perhaps the person 37:26.560 --> 37:28.760 picking up the book is not someone 37:28.760 --> 37:30.000 with whom the Lord is angry. 37:30.640 --> 37:34.280 So maybe we could call the book God's probably mad at you 37:34.280 --> 37:38.940 or, you know, God might be mad at you. 37:42.220 --> 37:44.340 How about if God's not mad at you, 37:44.400 --> 37:46.600 you're probably in the minority, you know? 37:46.720 --> 37:48.620 I mean, that's what the true story is. 37:48.920 --> 37:52.280 So the Bible says here in verse 17 37:52.280 --> 37:55.140 because they have forsaken me and have burned incense 37:55.140 --> 37:57.160 into other gods that they might provoke me to anger 37:57.160 --> 37:58.420 with all the works of their hands. 37:58.800 --> 38:01.240 Therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place 38:01.240 --> 38:02.560 and shall not be quenched. 38:03.260 --> 38:05.500 So you can cross a line with God 38:05.500 --> 38:06.540 where there's no going back. 38:07.000 --> 38:09.980 He's saying, yep, God's wrath is on this place 38:09.980 --> 38:11.980 and there's no way to fix it. 38:12.280 --> 38:13.520 It's not gonna be quenched. 38:13.640 --> 38:14.720 It's not gonna be resolved. 38:15.220 --> 38:17.460 You know, elsewhere about this same situation, 38:17.760 --> 38:18.940 the whole Judah, Jerusalem 38:18.940 --> 38:20.140 before the Babylonian captivity, 38:20.600 --> 38:22.040 you know, God is sitting there saying, 38:22.440 --> 38:25.580 I don't care if Daniel, Noah, and Job stood before me, 38:25.660 --> 38:26.840 this place is getting destroyed. 38:27.020 --> 38:29.300 Like, nobody can fix this, okay? 38:29.920 --> 38:30.960 And that's the message. 38:32.060 --> 38:33.000 But to the king of Judah, 38:33.380 --> 38:35.140 which said you to inquire of the Lord, 38:35.500 --> 38:36.680 thus shall you say to him, 38:37.140 --> 38:38.460 thus saith the Lord God of Israel, 38:38.560 --> 38:40.020 as touching the words which thou has heard, 38:40.700 --> 38:43.460 because thine heart and thine is singular in the Bible, 38:43.660 --> 38:43.820 right? 38:44.260 --> 38:46.820 You, your is plural, thy thine is singular, 38:47.240 --> 38:48.640 because thine heart was tender 38:49.040 --> 38:52.800 and thou singular has humbled thyself before the Lord, 38:53.100 --> 38:55.620 when thou heardest what I spake against this place 38:55.620 --> 38:57.220 and against the inhabitants thereof, 38:57.560 --> 39:00.380 that they should become a desolation and a curse, 39:00.960 --> 39:03.300 and as rent thy clothes and wet before me, 39:03.720 --> 39:05.700 I also have heard thee sayeth the Lord, 39:06.080 --> 39:08.280 behold, therefore I will gather thee unto thy fathers, 39:08.780 --> 39:11.760 and thou shall be gathered into thy grave in peace, 39:12.120 --> 39:15.340 and thine eyes shall not see all the evil 39:15.340 --> 39:16.580 which I will bring upon this place, 39:16.580 --> 39:18.740 and they brought the king word again. 39:19.080 --> 39:21.560 And so often the best thing that you can do 39:22.100 --> 39:24.480 is to just delay the judgment of God, 39:24.600 --> 39:27.500 because God's judgment on Jerusalem and Judah 39:27.500 --> 39:28.960 is inevitable at this point. 39:29.440 --> 39:30.720 Nothing can fix it. 39:31.060 --> 39:32.500 Daniel couldn't fix it. 39:33.640 --> 39:35.020 Job can't fix it. 39:35.160 --> 39:36.380 Noah can't fix it, right? 39:36.800 --> 39:37.820 Nobody can fix it. 39:38.540 --> 39:39.440 It's doomed. 39:40.260 --> 39:41.480 It will not be quenched. 39:42.000 --> 39:44.260 The innocent blood that Manasseh shed 39:44.260 --> 39:47.040 must be avenged. 39:47.440 --> 39:48.960 And so it's inevitable. 39:49.240 --> 39:50.940 And you could even look at America 39:51.460 --> 39:53.000 with the abortion Holocaust 39:53.460 --> 39:55.440 and a bunch of other just wicked things 39:55.440 --> 39:56.460 that our country has done. 39:56.640 --> 39:58.680 And you could say, hey, there's some judgment 39:59.120 --> 40:02.000 that's coming on America that's inevitable. 40:04.260 --> 40:06.360 But that's not really a message 40:06.360 --> 40:08.340 where we should feel like there's no hope 40:08.340 --> 40:10.940 because if we do what's right, 40:11.200 --> 40:13.820 if we serve God, if we love the Lord, 40:13.820 --> 40:15.540 either one of two things can happen. 40:15.660 --> 40:18.180 Either, A, God can protect us 40:18.180 --> 40:20.880 in the midst of those type of judgments. 40:21.200 --> 40:23.500 And God can be like in Exodus 40:23.500 --> 40:25.200 where we're in the land of Goshen 40:25.200 --> 40:27.160 and everybody else is being plagued 40:27.160 --> 40:29.160 and we're in this little safe spot 40:29.160 --> 40:31.380 in the eye of the storm in Goshen 40:31.380 --> 40:33.580 where we're okay, even though other people 40:33.580 --> 40:35.160 are suffering and getting smoked 40:35.160 --> 40:36.040 and going through it. 40:36.300 --> 40:39.040 Or, B, sometimes God will just delay it 40:39.040 --> 40:40.040 and say, well, you know what? 40:40.340 --> 40:41.940 You guys are doing such a great job 40:41.940 --> 40:44.500 of just winning so many souls to Christ 40:44.500 --> 40:46.460 and just preaching the word of God 40:46.460 --> 40:48.260 and really turning things around 40:48.260 --> 40:51.640 and just reaching thousands or even millions of people. 40:52.000 --> 40:54.480 And so therefore, I'm gonna back off 40:54.480 --> 40:55.760 and let you guys cook 40:56.160 --> 40:58.960 and let you guys do what you're doing here 40:59.400 --> 41:01.200 and all bring the judgment later. 41:01.580 --> 41:03.800 And then you can go to the grave in peace. 41:04.460 --> 41:07.600 You can die happy and peaceful and everything's great 41:07.600 --> 41:09.840 and all of the bad stuff will happen 41:09.840 --> 41:11.000 to the next generation. 41:11.000 --> 41:13.300 And you say, well, what if the next generation's good? 41:13.820 --> 41:15.820 Well, then God can just keep delaying it. 41:15.920 --> 41:19.360 I mean, God is not averse to just delaying the judgment 41:19.360 --> 41:21.000 through multiple good kings. 41:21.700 --> 41:24.360 And just multiple good kings will just push, 41:24.640 --> 41:26.000 keep kicking the can down the road. 41:26.300 --> 41:28.560 Then when the next bad generation comes along, 41:28.860 --> 41:30.680 he's like, all right, here it comes. 41:31.520 --> 41:32.900 And he brings the hammer down. 41:33.980 --> 41:36.300 Honestly, you know, the older I get, 41:36.740 --> 41:37.880 you know, I can kinda understand 41:37.880 --> 41:39.580 a little bit what Hezekiah is saying. 41:40.100 --> 41:41.160 You know, when he's like, hey, 41:41.180 --> 41:42.660 there's peace and truth in my days 41:42.660 --> 41:45.220 because of the fact that obviously, yeah, 41:45.280 --> 41:46.560 we got our own problems. 41:46.740 --> 41:47.900 We got our own issues. 41:48.180 --> 41:50.160 And you know, if something's happening 41:50.160 --> 41:52.560 way out in the future, it might not really affect us, 41:52.580 --> 41:55.420 especially if it's like many years from now. 41:55.640 --> 41:56.600 Like, what if somebody told you, 41:56.780 --> 41:58.980 hey, really bad things are gonna happen in America 42:00.540 --> 42:01.860 175 years from now? 42:02.640 --> 42:05.040 You just be like, what do I care about that? 42:05.580 --> 42:07.640 I'll be dead, my kids will be dead, 42:07.760 --> 42:08.820 my grandkids will be dead. 42:08.820 --> 42:10.260 It's like, that's their problem. 42:11.300 --> 42:12.120 Am I right? 42:13.120 --> 42:14.960 You know, it's like, we got enough to worry about 42:14.960 --> 42:18.500 in the next 175 minutes or 175 days. 42:19.160 --> 42:21.740 You know, 175 years, forget that. 42:22.380 --> 42:25.300 So the point is that it's never in vain 42:25.300 --> 42:27.000 to get right with God as a nation. 42:27.140 --> 42:30.560 Because even if the nation is totally off the cliff 42:30.560 --> 42:33.120 spiritually to where it could never be fixed 42:33.120 --> 42:35.580 and it's just like, God is never gonna part 42:35.580 --> 42:37.360 in this innocent blood that you've shed 42:37.360 --> 42:39.800 and his anger is not gonna be quenched, 42:39.980 --> 42:41.940 he could still say, but I'll delay it 42:41.940 --> 42:43.200 until all you guys are gone. 42:44.620 --> 42:46.980 I mean, that sounds pretty good to me 42:47.580 --> 42:51.220 to be able to just delay the inevitable until later. 42:52.520 --> 42:57.000 And so it's never in vain to get right with God 42:57.000 --> 43:00.880 because God can either, A, protect you through the violence 43:00.880 --> 43:02.280 because sometimes it's not enough 43:02.280 --> 43:05.780 where a few people are right with God, it's not enough. 43:06.220 --> 43:09.780 You know, like lot wasn't enough in Sodom and Gomorrah. 43:09.900 --> 43:11.620 Sodom and Gomorrah still got smoked, 43:11.920 --> 43:16.740 but God did pull Lot out and save him from that disaster. 43:17.020 --> 43:20.280 So God could either protect us, get us out 43:21.080 --> 43:24.020 or just protect us like in Goshen in the midst of 43:24.700 --> 43:27.500 or he can just delay it until after we're gone 43:27.500 --> 43:28.740 and either way is great. 43:29.160 --> 43:32.320 So Josiah is a great example of a man who decided, 43:32.320 --> 43:34.920 you know what, I am gonna be a reformer, 43:35.320 --> 43:38.020 grandpa had it wrong, dad had it wrong, 43:38.460 --> 43:40.280 but you know what, I'm gonna serve the Lord, 43:40.760 --> 43:42.280 I'm gonna get back to the Word of God 43:42.280 --> 43:45.100 and then when he finds something new in the Bible 43:45.100 --> 43:47.720 that he wasn't aware of, you know what, he accepted it. 43:48.260 --> 43:50.680 He humbly said, hey, I've been wrong about some things 43:50.680 --> 43:52.300 and wow, this is worse than I thought. 43:53.260 --> 43:56.040 He responds to the Word of God, he weeps, 43:56.320 --> 43:58.980 he tears his clothing, he's taken sin seriously, 43:59.660 --> 44:01.240 he's taken the work of God seriously, 44:01.740 --> 44:04.940 he believes in church and fixing the house of God 44:05.360 --> 44:08.080 and he wants it to have integrity and be right 44:08.080 --> 44:10.600 and he's humble and he's a godly man 44:10.600 --> 44:13.580 and you know what, God is blessing him as a result 44:13.580 --> 44:15.780 and he's gonna do great works for God in his reign. 44:16.080 --> 44:16.860 He's just getting started. 44:17.260 --> 44:19.360 He's gonna do great works for God in his reign 44:20.360 --> 44:22.180 and God is not gonna bring the judgment 44:22.180 --> 44:23.100 until after he's gone. 44:23.200 --> 44:25.080 So this is a guy we could all look to as a role model 44:25.080 --> 44:26.900 and say, hey, we wanna be like Josiah 44:26.900 --> 44:28.560 and by the way, there's nothing wrong 44:28.560 --> 44:29.840 with beginning to seek the Lord 44:29.840 --> 44:31.200 even when you are eight years old. 44:31.460 --> 44:32.880 So you eight year olds out there, 44:33.180 --> 44:35.320 man, get in the Word of God, start reading your Bible, 44:35.780 --> 44:37.280 start thinking about spiritual things 44:37.280 --> 44:40.140 and you want to, as a child, as a teenager, 44:40.460 --> 44:43.700 as a young adult, seek God, be like Josiah, 44:44.160 --> 44:46.380 read the Bible, respond to the Bible 44:46.380 --> 44:49.640 and you know what, if a female is expounding you 44:49.640 --> 44:52.460 the Word of God in the living room, listen to it. 44:52.780 --> 44:54.240 If it's mom, because guess what? 44:54.500 --> 44:56.700 A lot of our Bible doctrine we get from mom, don't we? 44:57.840 --> 45:02.200 A lot of y'all are getting homeschool Bible lessons from mom. 45:03.160 --> 45:04.900 Well, I can't listen to her cause she's a woman. 45:05.280 --> 45:08.500 Well, obviously women don't have a place 45:08.500 --> 45:11.700 in all areas of ministry, but they do have a place 45:11.700 --> 45:14.940 in some areas of ministry, including evangelism, 45:15.220 --> 45:19.300 including parenting, including living room Bible discussions 45:19.300 --> 45:21.720 or some, obviously we don't want them taking the lead 45:22.340 --> 45:25.980 in 2026 America amongst fundamental Baptist 45:25.980 --> 45:28.780 because we need hair-legged men to be doing 45:28.780 --> 45:32.000 the public ministry and preaching and so on. 45:32.180 --> 45:33.360 We need to be leading the charge. 45:33.680 --> 45:35.360 We definitely are in charge of the house of God, 45:35.420 --> 45:37.760 but look, again, you know, going out there 45:37.760 --> 45:39.760 and evangelizing, talking, having conversations, 45:40.720 --> 45:43.420 chatting about the Bible, talking, communing, 45:44.060 --> 45:45.940 soul winning, these are great areas 45:45.940 --> 45:47.440 for women to be involved spiritually 45:47.440 --> 45:50.560 because look, I don't think that spirituality, 45:51.420 --> 45:53.360 the things of God, Bible doctrine 45:53.360 --> 45:55.420 are only male interests, okay? 45:56.100 --> 45:58.140 You know, and I have noticed that sometimes women 45:58.720 --> 46:01.680 will kind of just not have an interest in Bible doctrine. 46:02.360 --> 46:05.480 It's kind of no interest in the deeper things of God, 46:05.940 --> 46:08.000 and I think it's a shame because I think all of us, 46:08.000 --> 46:10.800 you know, should be able to really meditate 46:10.800 --> 46:13.260 on the word of God and enjoy doctrine 46:13.260 --> 46:14.440 and enjoy preaching. 46:15.160 --> 46:18.200 Maybe certain subjects appeal to men more like, 46:18.500 --> 46:20.340 you know, maybe men tend to gravitate 46:20.340 --> 46:22.880 toward more of the end times preaching 46:23.600 --> 46:27.520 and women might gravitate more toward family preaching. 46:27.780 --> 46:31.060 But you know, as men, we need those family sermons 46:31.060 --> 46:32.920 and women, you know, you should listen up 46:32.920 --> 46:35.400 to that eschatology end time stuff too. 46:35.560 --> 46:37.180 I mean, it's just, we should all love 46:37.180 --> 46:39.980 every part of the Bible, whether we're male or female. 46:40.480 --> 46:41.720 And you know, there's nothing wrong 46:41.720 --> 46:44.460 with women sitting around and talking about the Bible. 46:45.280 --> 46:47.080 It's not like women, I mean, think about, 46:47.380 --> 46:48.640 what if after church couple of women 46:48.640 --> 46:50.200 are talking about, you know, the Bible 46:50.200 --> 46:51.100 and chatting about the Bible. 46:51.180 --> 46:52.920 It's like, hey, we shouldn't be talking about this, you know. 46:53.620 --> 46:56.240 Let's just talk about something carnal. 46:57.420 --> 46:58.720 There's nothing wrong with women 46:58.720 --> 47:00.620 chatting about the Bible, talking about the Bible. 47:01.040 --> 47:02.680 And you know, we love the fact 47:02.680 --> 47:03.920 that a lot of women at our church 47:03.920 --> 47:05.520 are very active in soul winning. 47:05.960 --> 47:07.200 A lot of these mission strips, 47:07.360 --> 47:10.180 women are doing some serious soul winning. 47:10.780 --> 47:12.780 All these mission strips, praise the Lord. 47:13.140 --> 47:14.660 And you know, what did the apostle Paul say? 47:15.100 --> 47:16.260 He talked about the women 47:16.260 --> 47:18.140 who labored with him in the gospel. 47:19.220 --> 47:21.520 So apparently they weren't just laboring in the kitchen. 47:21.820 --> 47:23.820 They were laboring in the gospel as well. 47:24.260 --> 47:26.700 And so we wanna get a balanced view on that 47:26.700 --> 47:28.500 and not go to the right hand or the left. 47:28.740 --> 47:29.660 Let's bards and have a prayer. 47:29.840 --> 47:31.240 Father, we thank you so much for your word. 47:31.500 --> 47:33.680 Thank you for this example of Josiah, Lord. 47:33.860 --> 47:36.260 Help us to apply what we see in this chapter 47:36.260 --> 47:37.160 to our own lives. 47:37.500 --> 47:39.200 Help us to seek your word. 47:39.540 --> 47:41.240 Help us to be humbled by your word. 47:41.840 --> 47:43.920 Straighten ourselves out according to your word. 47:43.920 --> 47:46.460 And Lord, I pray that every man, woman, boy, and girl 47:46.460 --> 47:48.720 would love your word, meditate on your word, 47:48.820 --> 47:52.680 and would share the gospel with a lost and dying world. 47:52.780 --> 47:53.720 In Jesus' name we pray, amen.