WEBVTT 00:00.820 --> 00:06.180 Man second Kings chapter number 12 the Bible reads in verse number one in the seventh year of Jihu 00:06.980 --> 00:13.800 Jehoash began to rain and 40 years reigned he in Jerusalem and his mother's name was 00:13.800 --> 00:20.100 Zibia of Beersheba and Jehoash did that which was right in the side of the Lord all his days 00:20.100 --> 00:26.880 We're in Jehoiadah the priest instructed him and so what you see here is that this King Jehoash 00:26.880 --> 00:34.560 Remember from last week seven years old when he began to rain and so obviously he's not just coming in and 00:34.560 --> 00:38.220 Taking all the power and just making changes as a seven-year-old 00:38.220 --> 00:42.620 Rather there's someone else who's really doing the ruling and this is called a regency 00:42.620 --> 00:45.380 When you have a child that's too young to rain 00:45.380 --> 00:53.360 So you have someone who's older who's doing the raining for him and that is Jehoiadah the priest and the Bible says that as long as 00:53.360 --> 00:56.860 Jehoiadah the priest was in charge of this guy as long 00:56.880 --> 00:59.680 As he's instructing him and guiding him 00:59.680 --> 01:07.320 He actually did that which was right in the side of the Lord and so he grows up and he becomes an adult and even raining as an adult 01:07.320 --> 01:13.040 He continues to serve God as long as Jehoiadah is instructing him now 01:13.040 --> 01:14.820 What's funny is that here in second Kings? 01:15.140 --> 01:20.360 It doesn't really tell the story about what went wrong after Jehoiadah died 01:20.360 --> 01:24.940 But we get that story from second Chronicles 24. We're gonna look at that a little bit later 01:24.940 --> 01:33.040 but the main point here is that there are a lot of people who will serve God as long as they have an authority figure over them 01:33.040 --> 01:34.460 Making them serve God 01:34.460 --> 01:38.300 Right as long as they're living in their parents home and you'll see kids 01:38.820 --> 01:44.140 Teenagers young adults living with their parents and serving God and then as soon as they get out of their parents home 01:44.140 --> 01:49.340 They go off the deep end right because they don't have a root in themselves 01:49.940 --> 01:53.560 Right. It's they're relying on the faith of their parents 01:53.560 --> 01:59.040 They're leaning on other people's faith instead of having their own personal right walk with God 01:59.040 --> 02:02.340 And so Jehoiadah was a great man 02:02.340 --> 02:07.220 You know and and the fact that Jehoiadah was able to keep him straight 02:07.220 --> 02:09.760 The whole time that Jehoiadah was alive 02:09.760 --> 02:15.420 Shows that Jehoiadah is a good leader a good instructor a good ruler over Joash 02:15.420 --> 02:18.500 But unfortunately, you know once Joiadah is gone 02:18.500 --> 02:25.660 Joiadah has got to make his own decision and he ends up making all the wrong decisions and becomes very wicked and we're gonna look at that elsewhere 02:26.840 --> 02:29.100 but the Bible says in verse number four and 02:30.580 --> 02:36.180 Jehoiadah said to the princes all the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord 02:36.180 --> 02:42.440 Even the money of everyone that passed at the account the money that every man has said at and all the money that 02:42.440 --> 02:44.960 Coming into any man's heart to bring into the house of the Lord 02:44.960 --> 02:50.620 Let the priests take it to them every man of his acquaintance and let them repair the breeches of the house 02:51.120 --> 02:53.180 Wheresoever any breach shall be found 02:53.180 --> 02:59.500 But it was so that in the three and twentieth year of King Jehoash the priests had not 03:00.160 --> 03:02.220 repaired the breeches of the house 03:02.900 --> 03:06.000 Then King Jehoiadah called for joy to the priests and the other priests said to them 03:06.000 --> 03:11.440 Why repair you not the breeches of the house now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance 03:11.440 --> 03:13.540 But deliver it for the breeches of the house 03:13.540 --> 03:16.440 So here's the thing not only is Jehoash 03:16.440 --> 03:22.260 Serving God and going through the motions as long as Jehoiadah is in charge of him 03:22.260 --> 03:28.300 But he also seems to actually have his own zeal for the house of God because he's sitting there and saying look 03:28.300 --> 03:32.560 Let's fix things. This is not Jehoiadah's idea. This is Jehoiadah's idea 03:32.560 --> 03:37.980 He's saying look let's fix things the house of God has problems 03:37.980 --> 03:42.900 Now obviously what this is referring to is the building was physically breaking down and 03:43.720 --> 03:48.680 Obviously we kind of maybe just think about oh they built the tabernacle lasted for hundreds of years 03:48.680 --> 03:51.380 They built the temple lasted for hundreds of years 03:51.380 --> 03:54.780 But the reality is that everything needs maintenance 03:55.320 --> 03:58.640 Right, you know that in your house if you just ignore things 03:59.120 --> 04:06.720 Problems are going to stack up things break things get old and then combine that with the fact that there was a previous regime in 04:06.720 --> 04:12.420 There that's worshiping bail. So because they're doing bail worship. They're neglecting the house of God 04:12.420 --> 04:17.320 They're possibly damaging the house of God or repurposing it for their heathen worship 04:17.320 --> 04:20.980 So the house of God is damaged physically 04:20.980 --> 04:24.980 The temple is damaged and he wants to get it fixed and so he's saying look 04:24.980 --> 04:32.360 Go out collect all the money collect the offerings from the people and then use that money to actually fix things 04:32.360 --> 04:38.440 In the house of God and unfortunately the priests are dragging their feet on this years and years are going by 04:38.440 --> 04:43.040 You get 23 years in and he's just saying hey, what is the deal? 04:43.380 --> 04:45.860 Why are we not fixing things in the house of God? 04:46.180 --> 04:50.440 And so the other thing I want to point out is that even though this guy is 04:51.140 --> 04:54.440 Gonna go bad later when he doesn't have Jehoiadah over him 04:54.440 --> 05:00.360 He's actually you know pretty zealous for God seemingly while he has that authority figure over him and 05:01.260 --> 05:07.840 So what we have to understand is that some people can handle a lot of freedom and some people can't 05:07.840 --> 05:13.160 You know and a guy like Jehoash as a second in command. He's a great guy as 05:14.180 --> 05:16.540 A guy who's under Jehoiadah's tutelage 05:16.540 --> 05:19.660 He's actually a pretty good guy and he's even doing good work for God 05:19.660 --> 05:25.560 And he's even excited about things and he's even kind of lighting a fire into Jehoiadah because maybe Jehoiadah's an older guy 05:25.560 --> 05:30.040 And so maybe he's slower about things and so even though Jehoiadah is steady 05:30.560 --> 05:35.400 Serving God and keeping everybody straight, you know the young guy kind of brings that zeal to the table 05:35.400 --> 05:38.240 Hey, let's get this done and let's make things happen 05:38.860 --> 05:41.700 And so what we have to understand is that you know 05:41.700 --> 05:49.020 There are people who are young and zealous for God, but unfortunately, they're not all gonna pan out in the long run 05:49.800 --> 05:53.500 You know because some of them they just have to have somebody 05:53.500 --> 05:59.280 Making them do what's right and let me give an example when I was about 18 years old 05:59.280 --> 06:03.900 I had this really good friend at church and you know 06:03.900 --> 06:06.840 What happened was this kid showed up on a Sunday night 06:06.840 --> 06:09.700 He was like 17 years old showed up on a Sunday night 06:09.700 --> 06:15.600 And I just kind of just greeted him on his first time at church and just instantly kind of befriended him 06:15.600 --> 06:17.900 Took him under my wing. He needed a ride home 06:17.900 --> 06:21.600 I gave him a ride home that night and we just kind of instantly became buddies 06:22.080 --> 06:30.280 Well, this guy had had a really troubled background. He'd been sent to like a brat camp and his parents had shifted away 06:30.280 --> 06:31.780 I think he'd been to juvenile Hall 06:31.780 --> 06:34.840 I mean this kid had lived a messed up life 06:34.840 --> 06:37.840 But he'd gotten saved and he wanted to serve God 06:37.840 --> 06:40.660 He wanted to be an independent fundamental Baptist and so, you know 06:40.660 --> 06:44.660 I was really zealous for the Lord at that time and so I took him under my wing and 06:44.660 --> 06:48.600 You know mentored this guy and we became best buddies, you know 06:48.600 --> 06:52.840 We were about the same age and so I'm taking this guy out soul winning every week 06:52.840 --> 06:57.280 I'm talking to him about the Bible and you know, he was really truly 06:57.280 --> 07:00.420 I believe sincerely zealous for the things of God 07:01.340 --> 07:05.760 You know, I don't think he was pretending. I mean his parents weren't even taking him to church 07:05.760 --> 07:09.820 He's taking the initiative to go to church on his own as a 17 year old boy 07:09.820 --> 07:12.880 He really wanted to serve God. He really wanted to go soul winning 07:12.880 --> 07:14.200 But he kind of had me there 07:14.860 --> 07:19.680 almost every day pushing him and I'm motivating him and 07:19.680 --> 07:25.060 Challenging him and we're going soul winning together. I'm giving them rides to church and and you know 07:25.060 --> 07:28.980 It was going great going great going great, but then what ended up happening was, you know 07:28.980 --> 07:33.580 I went to Germany for three months and of course, you know, the rest is history 07:33.580 --> 07:35.040 That's where I met my wife and everything 07:35.040 --> 07:42.700 But while I was in Germany for those three months this guy just completely fell away like he just he's not in church 07:43.100 --> 07:46.620 He's not soul winning. He just kind of just flaked out 07:47.260 --> 07:49.340 Which made no sense to me because I was like, bro 07:49.340 --> 07:53.320 I thought you and I were like right there. We're both super zealous. We're both really excited 07:53.320 --> 07:56.420 but it turned out he's kind of leaning a little bit on my 07:57.200 --> 08:00.560 Zeal or my faith a little bit and so as soon as I was gone 08:00.560 --> 08:04.500 He went for a couple weeks and then he just quit going. I was like what in the world 08:04.500 --> 08:06.420 So then I got him back in you know 08:06.420 --> 08:09.200 And I'm like, hey, let's get back into this and then I got him back 08:09.200 --> 08:14.300 But then it was like, you know, then I ended up getting married and then you know, obviously I can't just 08:15.060 --> 08:20.600 Be buddies with this guy all the time for the rest of my life. It was more like, you know, I'm growing up 08:20.600 --> 08:22.720 I'm moving on I got married 08:22.720 --> 08:27.980 Eventually I went off to Bible college and this guy just ended up just in the long run 08:27.980 --> 08:34.960 Totally getting out of church, but he while he had somebody there like holding his hand and and helping him 08:34.960 --> 08:37.140 He was zealous for God and he was doing great 08:37.960 --> 08:46.740 Fast-forward like 10 years my mom and my sister are walking out of a grocery store and this guy is just like a homeless person 08:47.520 --> 08:54.200 Outside the grocery store literally because he's just addicted to drugs, you know, and I had I had actually 08:55.240 --> 08:58.180 Tracked him down because I had like searched for him and found him 08:58.180 --> 09:03.580 Maybe five six years before that and I had offered him like hey, let me get you a job at the company 09:03.580 --> 09:05.820 I work for let's get you back in church 09:05.820 --> 09:10.540 Let's get you on the right track because he was living in some house with a bunch of drug addicts and idiots 09:10.540 --> 09:13.480 You know, that's what a lot of young people do they move out of their house 09:13.480 --> 09:17.380 And they just move in with a bunch of friends and it's just obviously a dent of iniquity 09:17.860 --> 09:21.260 But then you fast-forward. Yeah, and my mom and sister just run into him 09:21.260 --> 09:26.020 He's just outside the grocery store just a dirty homeless person. They're like wait. Is that so-and-so and 09:26.880 --> 09:29.580 They went and talked to him, but you know, it's funny when I talked to him when they talked to him 09:29.580 --> 09:32.800 Here's the thing this guy never had any doubt that he was saved 09:32.800 --> 09:38.100 He had a New Testament in his backpack even as a homeless person. He's like I still love the Lord 09:38.100 --> 09:43.240 He's just like I'm just back to it. I've screwed up my life like he knew that he had screwed up his life 09:43.240 --> 09:47.800 And he felt bad about it. It's not that he was unsaved or anything. It's just that he 09:48.500 --> 09:48.900 needed 09:49.880 --> 09:54.420 Somebody to do it for him or to at least push him or motivate him and you know 09:54.420 --> 09:58.420 That's how some people are sadly and you know what the moral of the story is don't be that guy 09:58.420 --> 10:02.360 You know, you need to be able to stand on your own two feet as a Christian 10:02.840 --> 10:08.440 Because you're not always going to have somebody there doing that for you and maybe right now mom and dad or pushing you to serve God 10:08.440 --> 10:10.160 Or maybe like with my friend 10:10.160 --> 10:12.520 Maybe it's just a buddy at church and you know what? 10:12.640 --> 10:17.500 I hope you do have close friends at church and I hope your buddies at church do provoke you to good works 10:17.500 --> 10:21.300 And they do exhort you and and and be a good influence on you 10:21.300 --> 10:26.360 But you know, you just have to realize that someday you might not always have that 10:26.360 --> 10:32.360 Jehoida in your life to lean on his spirituality and so you've got to develop your own 10:32.360 --> 10:37.640 Personal walk with God that's rock solid where you can do it alone if necessary 10:38.400 --> 10:39.960 None of us wants to do it alone 10:40.720 --> 10:45.500 But you got to be able to do it alone if you need to you got to be solid on your own 10:45.500 --> 10:48.200 And it's good to have role models friends 10:48.200 --> 10:55.680 Heroes mentors, but you've got to also develop your own foundation so that you can stand up on your own if you need to 10:56.360 --> 11:01.400 And not just be helpless without somebody walking you through everything and that's what I see in this story 11:01.400 --> 11:06.780 And I've seen it in my life too, you know people that constantly have to be dragged to church and they come and here's the thing 11:06.780 --> 11:11.900 Like I said this guy was very zealous, and I think Joe ashes zealous. I think he's excited 11:11.900 --> 11:17.520 I think he wants to do what's right and fix things, but he's not the kind of guy that can do it on his own unfortunately 11:18.660 --> 11:22.180 So he's a great second man, but he doesn't belong at the helm 11:22.180 --> 11:29.220 You know unfortunately and so we see that he really wants to fix things the priests are kind of dragging their feet 11:29.220 --> 11:36.840 And so it says in verse number seven then King Jehovah's called for joy to the priest and the other priests and said of them 11:36.840 --> 11:42.720 Why repair ye not the breeches of the house now therefore receive no more money of your acquaintance 11:42.720 --> 11:48.760 But deliver it for the breeches of the house and the priest consented to receive no more money of the people neither to repair 11:48.760 --> 11:53.700 The breeches of that so here's what's funny is like he's telling him look don't just don't just hoard the money 11:53.700 --> 11:57.240 Don't just collect the offering and sit on it 11:57.240 --> 12:02.680 You got to take the money that you're taking in you got to use it to actually fix the house of God 12:04.000 --> 12:08.820 And he said look quit taking offerings and start spending the money 12:09.920 --> 12:11.800 So then they're just like well, you know what? 12:12.900 --> 12:15.620 We're just not going to take offerings nor are we going to spend the money 12:16.760 --> 12:20.080 What you know, so it's like they're basically just not wanting to do the work 12:20.440 --> 12:23.760 So they're just like well, we'd rather just not take in any more money then you know 12:23.760 --> 12:31.160 It's it's sad when people are laxadaisical and lazy about the things of God and here's the thing about our church is that our church? 12:31.300 --> 12:32.560 You know we've thankfully 12:33.120 --> 12:35.660 21 years of our church. We've never had financial problems 12:35.660 --> 12:41.440 So we've never been in a situation where we ran out of money. We've never had a fundraiser 12:41.440 --> 12:45.440 We've never had a big, you know push for offerings or anything like that, you know 12:45.440 --> 12:48.900 Thank God he's blessed us and we've just never really had to worry about it 12:48.900 --> 12:54.000 But we've also had this philosophy the entire 21 years of spending all the money 12:54.720 --> 12:57.400 Which on the surface seems a little bit irresponsible? 12:58.500 --> 13:00.980 Just blow all the money spend it all 13:00.980 --> 13:06.400 But here's the thing it's actually not irresponsible because you know my philosophy has always been 13:06.400 --> 13:11.380 You know why I take the Lord's money and we want to get it out there doing the work of the Lord 13:11.380 --> 13:14.440 We don't want to bury the talent in a napkin under the earth 13:14.440 --> 13:18.540 But we want to get God's money out there doing the work 13:18.540 --> 13:24.840 So we don't need some big rainy day fund and and you know just kind of just saving up hundreds of thousands of dollars 13:24.840 --> 13:29.880 No, no, I would always rather just spend the money and just get the work done 13:29.880 --> 13:32.900 And that's why we're constantly funding missions trips 13:32.900 --> 13:39.100 We're constantly funding the trips to the Indian reservations and small-town soul winning and whatever 13:39.680 --> 13:45.120 Projects and whatever we can do to get the gospel out to get the word of God out. We're donating to other churches 13:45.120 --> 13:47.000 We're donating to conferences 13:48.000 --> 13:53.140 Missions trips missionaries, you know, that's what I do because we don't want to just sit on the money and 13:54.000 --> 13:58.940 This is what Jehovah's saying is like don't sit on this money use it to do the work 13:59.500 --> 14:00.220 There's a well 14:00.220 --> 14:03.780 Let's just take in less money no take in a lot of money and spend a lot of money 14:03.780 --> 14:09.820 And I think that if God sees us spending the money on good things and 14:10.500 --> 14:15.520 Being generous with the money to do the work of the Lord and to you know 14:15.520 --> 14:21.240 Equip people to do the work of the Lord and to give people the tools that they need to get to the mission field or to get to 14:21.240 --> 14:26.720 Conferences soul winning marathons, whatever, you know, I think then God wants to bless us with more money 14:26.720 --> 14:31.860 So that the show can go on and you know what whenever our bank account has gotten low over the last 21 years I 14:32.940 --> 14:37.060 Always pray the exact same thing. I always just pray to God and I say listen God 14:38.480 --> 14:41.740 If if we run out of money, I'm just gonna have to slow things down 14:42.340 --> 14:46.660 If you want us to slow down we'll slow down, but if you want things to go full speed ahead God 14:47.480 --> 14:52.020 Send us a little more money and then the money just always comes in and it's just always full speed ahead 14:52.020 --> 14:54.780 We virtually never have to slow down on anything 14:54.780 --> 15:00.940 But but there's the thing if we ever ran out of money, that's what we would do if we ever got low on money 15:00.940 --> 15:06.620 What would we do? We would slow down. We would have less missions trips less of the small-town trips 15:06.620 --> 15:12.180 You know, we we could lay off staff or whatever we could do what we have to do and it'd be fine 15:12.180 --> 15:16.960 We'll figure it out. Amen. I mean God, you know, whatever God provides. That's what we're gonna do 15:16.960 --> 15:21.660 But here's the thing. I'm always praying to God God. Let us go full speed ahead 15:22.380 --> 15:29.120 because I want to go full speed ahead and I want to take all the money that's coming in and spend it on 15:29.120 --> 15:33.420 Soul winning trips missions, whatever and you know, what's funny in 2025? 15:33.860 --> 15:39.720 We had a little bit of a crisis where we were gonna be out of our building and we didn't know what we were gonna do for a building and 15:40.660 --> 15:46.160 You know, this building was like a last-minute thing and this building is awesome. I mean, what a blessing from God 15:46.160 --> 15:52.640 I love this building even though it adds 20 minutes to my drive every service like it's worth it 15:52.640 --> 15:57.880 Because it's such a cool building. I love it. I'm happy. Praise God. It was a blessing in disguise 15:57.880 --> 16:04.460 It's a lot better than our old building. It's cheaper. It's bigger. It's nicer. Everything's better about it 16:04.960 --> 16:05.900 Except the neighborhood 16:05.900 --> 16:11.720 But hey all the neighborhoods are rough these days because we had just as many weird things happening in our old parking lot 16:11.720 --> 16:15.240 Is this parking lot? So it's at the end of the day. God worked it out 16:15.240 --> 16:17.560 but at the time we didn't know what was gonna happen and 16:18.280 --> 16:21.680 so we were nervous because we were gonna be out on the street because 16:22.840 --> 16:25.080 you know, we weren't gonna be able to stay in our building and 16:26.340 --> 16:32.180 You know, I remember people were talking about hey, maybe we should just finally bite the bullet buy a building 16:32.780 --> 16:35.000 Save up by a building. But you know what? 16:35.300 --> 16:39.620 We had like a six months notice that we knew we were gonna need to be out of our building 16:39.620 --> 16:46.080 And I just told brother say Gora and I told everybody I said we're not raising money. We're not saving up for a building 16:46.080 --> 16:48.580 We're not gonna buy I said, you know what we're gonna do 16:48.580 --> 16:51.760 We're gonna take all our money and we're gonna blow it like we always do 16:51.760 --> 16:56.640 Greatest year ever because we had we had made that pronouncement like that 16:56.640 --> 16:59.300 We wanted 2025 to be the greatest year ever 16:59.300 --> 17:05.560 We wanted to just have huge soul winning numbers huge missions numbers just unprecedented missions 17:05.560 --> 17:10.160 And I was like, you know what if we get all absorbed in this building thing 17:10.160 --> 17:12.900 Then we're not going to be able to give a hundred percent 17:12.900 --> 17:15.340 to the actual 17:15.340 --> 17:20.120 Mission of greatest year ever souls saved mission fields everything like that 17:20.120 --> 17:24.660 So I just said, you know what if God lets us be out on the street, then we're gonna be out on the street 17:24.660 --> 17:28.220 That's God's problem, but this train doesn't stop 17:28.900 --> 17:33.400 And we're just gonna just keep spending the money and do everything full speed at and that's what we did in 17:33.400 --> 17:36.800 2025 and we were just going gung-ho 17:37.900 --> 17:43.120 Just smashing records, but then you know eventually it came time where it was like yeah 17:43.120 --> 17:47.680 We're gonna be out of our building in like a few weeks, and it didn't seem like God had come through 17:48.340 --> 17:54.280 And then we were stressing out and we were my brother say gore and I are up at like midnight one in the morning 17:54.280 --> 17:59.680 Preparing financial documents for realtors and trying to get into buildings and we're calling places 17:59.680 --> 18:04.700 And we had this realtor that was really slow and dragging his feet and we were stressed out 18:04.700 --> 18:08.040 But then finally we got you know brother Eric to be our realtor 18:08.040 --> 18:13.980 He just did more in two days than the other guy did in two weeks and he found us this building got it done 18:13.980 --> 18:15.980 You know what do I regret? 18:16.740 --> 18:17.840 the fact that we 18:18.420 --> 18:21.060 Spent all the money on the work of the Lord and didn't sit around 18:21.060 --> 18:25.460 You know worried about building funds and stuff no because I've always wanted to prioritize 18:25.980 --> 18:30.620 The work and the people then a physical building now you say well pastor Anderson 18:30.620 --> 18:33.000 I thought we're reading a story about a physical building yeah 18:33.000 --> 18:36.060 That's because it's the Old Testament in the Old Testament 18:36.060 --> 18:40.960 There was a physical building that mattered the temple of God, but in the New Testament 18:40.960 --> 18:46.100 What does the Bible say the church is the house of God the people and that's not the building 18:46.100 --> 18:51.720 It's the people now, so we got to shift our focus. Yeah, obviously when we read an Old Testament story 18:51.720 --> 18:55.340 We've got to update that to the New Testament and say okay in the Old Testament 18:55.340 --> 18:59.760 It's a temple in the New Testament. It's the congregation 19:00.280 --> 19:05.240 It's the church and so that's where we're going to emphasize and so when I think about 19:05.240 --> 19:11.760 The breaches in the house of God as far as being like physical problems with the structure 19:11.760 --> 19:15.300 I think of that as problems with the church 19:16.920 --> 19:24.720 So here's the thing over time in churches bad doctrine creeps in that could be like a breach in the building and 19:25.840 --> 19:29.720 so every generation has to kind of come along and 19:30.640 --> 19:34.120 revisit things and re-examine things and 19:34.120 --> 19:38.140 Actually fix things that have become a problem in the house of God 19:38.140 --> 19:42.120 So like for example, I grew up as an independent fundamental Baptist 19:42.120 --> 19:47.100 And you know the independent fundamental Baptist of the previous generation did a lot of great things for God 19:47.100 --> 19:52.760 But when I was coming up, you know, I noticed some breaches. I noticed some problems 19:53.460 --> 19:58.160 And so when I started a church, I saw it to fix some of those problems 19:58.800 --> 20:05.060 You know like for example the wrong doctrine on the rapture the wrong doctrine on Israel, you know 20:05.060 --> 20:10.720 You go down the list that obviously the the reprobate doctrine was something that was being neglected 20:11.220 --> 20:16.860 You could go down the list of all of the things that were problems and just gaps that you see or you'll see things 20:16.860 --> 20:20.060 That are kind of hypocritical and don't make sense like for example, you know 20:20.060 --> 20:24.840 When I was growing up in church, they would preach the part of the Bible that says that men should not have long hair 20:24.840 --> 20:28.720 You know, the Bible teaches that men should have short hair and women should have long hair 20:28.720 --> 20:31.880 But then you would just have so many women in the church with really short hair 20:32.760 --> 20:36.220 And it was just considered fine like the pastor's wife will have short hair 20:36.220 --> 20:41.560 You're just like well if it's wrong for men to have long hair. Why do we have all the women with the short hair? 20:41.700 --> 20:42.320 What's up with that? 20:42.940 --> 20:47.280 You know, so it's like we we all kind of can develop blind spots or 20:48.500 --> 20:53.040 Hypocrisy or just gaps. None of us is perfect. I'm not perfect. You're not perfect 20:53.040 --> 20:57.040 We're all going to have these areas that need to be tightened up 20:57.040 --> 21:03.220 And when an institution goes on for years or decades just like your house gets old and things start breaking 21:03.220 --> 21:08.440 It's the same with the church if you're not doing regular maintenance and fixing things 21:08.440 --> 21:14.900 It's gonna decay and you've got to tighten it up and sometimes young people can come in and fix things 21:14.900 --> 21:20.200 So a lot of times you'll have a church. It's kind of a dead church and then they'll get a young pastor 21:20.880 --> 21:27.920 So the old pastor dies the young pastor takes over and now the young guy has that vision of youth 21:27.920 --> 21:33.900 And a lot of times we'll fix things tighten things up and that's what we see here. That's what we want to see 21:35.100 --> 21:41.720 Because the house of God, you know, sometimes it needs some repairs when things are allowed to decay 21:41.720 --> 21:46.580 And so it says in verse number nine, but Jehoi to the priest 21:47.900 --> 21:53.400 So because it's not really Jehoi to that's the bad guy here. It's the priests that are dragging their feet 21:53.840 --> 21:57.480 Jehoi wants to get things done. So Jehoi to comes up with a solution 21:57.480 --> 22:00.860 He took a chest bored a hole in the lid of it and 22:01.520 --> 22:07.080 Set it beside the altar on the right side as one comes into the house of the Lord and the priests that kept the door 22:07.080 --> 22:10.020 Put there in all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord 22:10.020 --> 22:15.740 And it was so when they saw that there was much money in the chest that the king's scribe and the high priest came up 22:15.740 --> 22:19.840 And they put it and they put up in bags and told the money 22:19.840 --> 22:24.140 That means counted the money that was found in the house of the Lord and they gave the money being told 22:24.140 --> 22:27.960 Into the hands of them that did the work that had the oversight of the house of the Lord 22:27.960 --> 22:34.080 And they laid it out to the carpenters and builders that wrought upon the house of the Lord to mason's hewers of stone 22:34.080 --> 22:39.200 Etc. And so basically what they end up doing is they end up just putting like a collection box 22:39.200 --> 22:43.160 Putting a hole in it and just taking all the money and just publicly 22:43.700 --> 22:50.880 Sticking it in this box counting the money publicly and then just kind of cutting out the middle man giving it straight to 22:50.880 --> 22:56.560 The carpenters the mason's whatever putting it in the hands of the people that are actually doing the work that needs to be done 22:57.600 --> 23:02.260 Cutting out the bureaucracy a little bit and making sure that the offering money 23:02.740 --> 23:09.060 Actually gets to what it's supposed to be spent on and that nobody is you know skimming off the top or just 23:09.200 --> 23:12.000 Sitting on it wasting it whatever 23:13.080 --> 23:17.240 So Jehoi had ultimately ends up being the one that fixed the problem along with Joe Ash 23:17.240 --> 23:21.040 But Joe Ash has taken the initiative as a young man and that's good 23:21.040 --> 23:26.840 They gave to the workman verse 14 repaired there with the house of the Lord more over 23:26.840 --> 23:33.120 They reckon not with the men into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen for they dealt faithfully now 23:33.120 --> 23:38.740 Don't miss verse 15. Why did they not reckon with the men into whose hand they delivered the money? 23:39.520 --> 23:44.740 Because they knew that these guys are dealing faithfully. So here's what I take from this is that when you? 23:45.360 --> 23:50.380 Actually give someone a responsibility and they do it faithfully 23:50.960 --> 23:54.780 Then you are building trust with that person and then pretty soon 23:54.780 --> 23:57.940 You don't have to just check up on every single thing that that person does 23:57.940 --> 24:02.840 You can just kind of trust them and you don't have to worry too much about it, right now look 24:02.840 --> 24:04.700 I don't know about you, but I love freedom 24:04.700 --> 24:08.640 You know, I love freedom. I always love jobs that gave me a lot of freedom 24:08.640 --> 24:11.860 We were kind of talking about this before the service, you know, some jobs 24:11.860 --> 24:17.220 They're just watching you and micromanaging you and telling you every little thing 24:17.220 --> 24:20.780 It's not that they just tell you what to do, but they're telling you exactly how to do it 24:21.280 --> 24:23.540 I've never really enjoyed that kind of an environment 24:23.540 --> 24:30.140 I kind of liked an environment where I can make my own hours and I can choose how to approach things 24:30.140 --> 24:36.140 And where my boss is just like get it done and he just wants results. He just wants production 24:36.140 --> 24:40.860 You know, I thrive in that environment, but here's the thing in order for that to work 24:41.460 --> 24:44.880 The guy that you give that freedom to has to not abuse the freedom 24:45.840 --> 24:51.520 The only way it's gonna work to tell your employees. Hey, just go get this done. I don't care how you do it 24:51.520 --> 24:55.320 I don't care when you do it is if the guy is responsible 24:55.740 --> 25:00.660 Because if he's a bozo, then you're gonna have to sit there and hold his hand and say hey 25:00.660 --> 25:03.220 You got to get here at exactly eight o'clock, you know 25:03.220 --> 25:08.220 This is when you're gonna have lunch and do it this way and you know, but here's the thing 25:08.220 --> 25:11.700 I think that most people would probably like to have the freedom 25:12.520 --> 25:18.280 Well, let me tell you something. Here's how you get freedom in this world is by being responsible 25:20.600 --> 25:27.460 Right and here's the thing, you know, the United States of America has been one of the freest countries in the world 25:27.980 --> 25:37.340 But part of the reason why it works for America is because you started the country with a basic culture of 25:37.960 --> 25:39.100 Protestant Christianity 25:40.220 --> 25:44.940 Baptist Methodist whatever even if everybody's doctrine wasn't perfect, of course 25:44.940 --> 25:51.040 Even if some of them are wrong on the gospel, you had a basic just fabric of biblical 25:51.460 --> 25:57.440 Christianity as the basis for our country and so people in general are literate 25:58.000 --> 26:02.880 People have a certain level of wisdom and intelligence that comes from meditating on the word of God 26:03.440 --> 26:07.800 And there's a certain morality where you have a high trust society 26:08.840 --> 26:14.860 Right, you know, it's sort of like when my wife and I travel and she's really into 26:14.860 --> 26:20.340 You know her frequent flyer status and and her she gets access to the lounge 26:20.340 --> 26:24.820 You know at the airport which I've never even done these lounges until I hung around with her 26:24.820 --> 26:28.620 But because she has the access she gets me in as a plus one 26:29.220 --> 26:34.740 Into the lounge. So I'm kind of you know living that, you know airport lounge life 26:34.740 --> 26:41.860 Okay, which even when I used to fly all the time, you know, I I guess my I guess united 26:41.860 --> 26:43.180 What was it? 26:43.780 --> 26:49.460 US Airways just wasn't taking care of me like that apparently so but but for some reason, you know my wife 26:49.460 --> 26:53.100 She takes these big trips to Germany. She racks up the mileage 26:53.100 --> 26:57.340 She's got the status so she's got free lounge access for her and a buddy 26:58.280 --> 27:04.460 So I bring her with me on a trip. She gets me into the lounge and here's the thing see when I go in the lounge 27:04.460 --> 27:11.840 You know, I'm like keeping my backpack with me and keeping my suitcase with me and because I'm just like super paranoid about being robbed 27:12.320 --> 27:18.240 Just because I've had stuff stolen and once you've had something stolen you're paranoid about it for the rest of your life 27:18.240 --> 27:22.700 You know, I mean I as a as an electrician I had tools stolen before 27:23.280 --> 27:29.180 And it's just it's frustrating and I've had people break into my car and steal stuff out of my car 27:29.180 --> 27:33.740 So now I'm super careful. I never leave anything out in the car 27:33.740 --> 27:37.820 Like I always put a towel over it so nobody sees any valuables or anything like that 27:37.820 --> 27:43.700 But my wife, you know, she basically is just she'll just put her laptop and bag over here 27:43.700 --> 27:49.020 And then she just walks away and she just goes and gets the food and gets a drink and get it 27:49.020 --> 27:52.960 And it's just and the bag is just over there and I'm just like I'm like, what are you doing your bag? 27:53.200 --> 27:54.720 You know, you're just gonna leave it 27:55.720 --> 28:01.920 But that but she feels like well the people that are in here, you know, this is like a this is like a high-end deal 28:01.920 --> 28:07.800 They're people like me. It's not the it's not the general public or what I sometimes called gen pop 28:08.660 --> 28:14.640 You know, we're not dealing with gen pop in here. You know, this is like sophisticated airline travelers 28:14.640 --> 28:16.620 They're not trying to like rob your backpack 28:17.300 --> 28:22.360 All these like business travelers in the lounge or whatever and she's probably right. It's probably safe 28:22.360 --> 28:29.180 But you know, that's what I'm saying like you could have like a high trust society where you're kind of just leaving your car unlocked 28:29.180 --> 28:31.140 Leave the front door unlocked 28:32.060 --> 28:35.800 Lee you go to use the bathroom in the lounge and just leave your backpack behind 28:35.800 --> 28:40.840 I'm like wearing my backpack. I got my suitcase right with me while I'm getting food, you know 28:40.840 --> 28:45.220 But it's a difference between having that trust and not having the trust 28:45.760 --> 28:50.660 You know and wouldn't we all love to live in a high trust society? Well, here's the thing 28:50.660 --> 28:54.780 It's called a Christian society, right the more Christian it is 28:54.780 --> 28:57.220 the more of 28:57.800 --> 29:03.260 Comfort you're gonna have in just feeling safe and you can have more freedom and whatever. Here's the thing 29:03.960 --> 29:09.880 Even our founding fathers when they found our country said that this republic is only in a work 29:09.880 --> 29:11.880 to govern a 29:11.880 --> 29:13.660 moral and religious people 29:14.300 --> 29:17.700 Like this will work and you know what I always wondered my whole life 29:17.700 --> 29:24.200 I always wondered why don't other countries just copy and paste our constitution because it's worked so well for us for 29:24.200 --> 29:29.160 250 years, I mean think about 250 years of just having an awesome country 29:30.020 --> 29:35.310 Thriving succeeding, you know, and then you hear about these other countries having all these violent revolutions 29:35.310 --> 29:39.830 And they try this government, you know, France is on like their fifth Republic 29:40.510 --> 29:46.610 We're on the first one and then it's like you see Mexico has gone throughs of people's different governments 29:46.610 --> 29:48.830 And you just think to yourselves like bro 29:48.830 --> 29:51.970 Why don't you just copy and paste the entire US Constitution? 29:52.810 --> 29:55.510 If it ain't broke don't if it works for us use it for you guys 29:55.510 --> 30:01.590 But see what I was missing is that the problem is that it's only gonna work 30:01.590 --> 30:05.250 For a moral and religious and educated people 30:05.790 --> 30:07.650 so if you have a if you have a country 30:08.810 --> 30:13.830 Where more than half the population is illiterate meaning that they cannot read if 30:14.850 --> 30:17.690 You have like 60% of the people can't read 30:18.510 --> 30:20.810 85% of the people can't read 30:21.390 --> 30:25.110 Okay, you it's not gonna work to give them a bunch of freedom 30:25.110 --> 30:27.390 You have to treat them like a child 30:27.390 --> 30:35.370 Because they're irresponsible because they're uneducated because they don't know better. They need someone to rule over them 30:36.730 --> 30:41.090 Versus mature adults that are educated and moral can take care of themselves 30:41.570 --> 30:46.950 Everybody understand what I'm saying? So you get freedom by being responsible 30:46.950 --> 30:49.890 If you go to your job and prove yourself responsible 30:49.890 --> 30:53.810 Your boss is not gonna breathe down your neck as much as when you're constantly screwing up 30:53.810 --> 30:56.350 And he feels like he has to hold your hand and watch you and whatever 30:57.970 --> 31:03.950 Now in our country as our country becomes more sinful and more de-christianized we're gonna lose freedom 31:05.350 --> 31:08.870 Everything's gonna get stricter and now, you know, you hear the thing in the news out 31:08.870 --> 31:14.690 They're just putting cameras everywhere nationwide right these flock cameras. I don't follow the news. So I don't really know what it's about 31:15.470 --> 31:20.390 But it doesn't sound good, but I'm just thinking to myself having a surveillance state 31:21.490 --> 31:26.010 losing rights losing freedoms is the result of having an 31:26.010 --> 31:28.030 ungodly low-trust 31:28.030 --> 31:33.910 De-christianized society that's where we're headed and the more ungodly we become the more freedom 31:33.910 --> 31:38.130 We're gonna lose and you know what if we bring in a bunch of third world 31:38.710 --> 31:42.370 Derelicts and a bunch of Muslims and a bunch of people that don't share our values 31:42.370 --> 31:43.930 Well, then next thing, you know 31:43.930 --> 31:50.930 We're gonna have to start babysitting everybody because we can't trust them to basically live our lifestyle 31:51.810 --> 31:56.490 And it's just gonna get stricter and then you got to have more police more rules and nobody wants that 31:56.490 --> 31:58.090 I don't want that. I want more freedom 31:59.470 --> 32:02.950 Now how about you teenagers out there you teenagers want freedom? 32:03.650 --> 32:07.850 Here's how you get more freedom teenagers. You show your parents that you're responsible 32:08.330 --> 32:13.890 Because you know what let me tell you something that I would love to do for every teenager that I ever raised 32:13.890 --> 32:20.490 I would love for every teenager to have a driver's license a job a cell phone and 32:21.350 --> 32:27.050 Why because it's just it's it's it's convenient and nice for everybody if my kids have driver's licenses 32:27.050 --> 32:29.230 Then guess what they're doing errands for me 32:29.930 --> 32:35.270 They're driving places for me. They show for me around and I can sit in the back like I'm a big shot 32:35.270 --> 32:40.890 You know, I'm at the lounge with my wife at the airport next day. I got you know, my daughter driving me around 32:40.890 --> 32:41.890 It's like where to Mac 32:42.910 --> 32:45.470 Hey, I don't want to drive. I want somebody else to drive 32:46.710 --> 32:49.050 Hey go to the store go pick this up for us 32:49.690 --> 32:53.510 It's super convenient to be able to and guess what teenagers like to drive 32:54.150 --> 32:57.610 They're not you know at this age. We're like, yeah, I'm sick of driving 32:57.610 --> 33:02.830 But you know what teenagers they don't mind hop in the car go to the store. They just they like to drive 33:02.830 --> 33:04.650 They join when I was a teenager. I love to drive 33:05.330 --> 33:11.610 You know and when they have a phone it's more convenient to be able to get a hold of them to talk to them and 33:11.610 --> 33:12.790 and be able to you know 33:13.430 --> 33:18.410 Coordinate with them send them a meme every once in a while, you know and just have a good time 33:18.410 --> 33:21.410 Here's the thing. You know, we want our kids to have freedom 33:22.010 --> 33:27.550 But the problem is when the kids abuse the freedom and then it's like dang it now 33:27.550 --> 33:32.310 I got to take the t-bird away. You know now we got to take the phone away 33:32.310 --> 33:37.650 Now we got to take that. Oh now you're grounded now you lose this now, you know because it's like we can't trust you 33:38.530 --> 33:43.790 And it's irritating and you know what that's probably the same way god feels god wants to bless us 33:43.790 --> 33:48.230 God wants to be good unto us god wants to give us all the desires of our heart 33:48.410 --> 33:54.910 And give us all these privileges, but then we stupidly go out and sin and screw things up and abuse the privilege 33:54.910 --> 33:57.030 And then god has to tighten us up 33:58.110 --> 34:00.310 You know, here's the thing some people if they get money 34:01.130 --> 34:02.850 It'll go to their head and ruin their life 34:03.430 --> 34:06.670 So then you're like, man, why does god always keep me living paycheck to paycheck? 34:07.170 --> 34:11.530 Why is god always keeping me so poor? Well, because he knows as soon as you get some money, you're going to be an idiot 34:13.490 --> 34:15.070 He's got to keep you a little hungry 34:15.810 --> 34:17.670 To keep you running scared 34:18.690 --> 34:21.990 But I think god wants to bless us more, but we got to be responsible 34:22.640 --> 34:24.370 Your parents want to give you more freedom 34:25.060 --> 34:28.410 They want to let you do stuff. They want to let you go. You know look 34:29.150 --> 34:33.490 Obviously the easiest thing would be to just let our kids just run wild 34:34.250 --> 34:35.810 And just let them go play 34:36.480 --> 34:43.010 And let them go on just endless bike rides and let them go to the mall and let them go drive and 34:43.010 --> 34:46.370 Call and have fun and be at a friend's house. Look 34:46.990 --> 34:48.570 Look as our kids get older 34:49.030 --> 34:54.830 We don't want to be spooning food into their mouth and wiping their bottoms. Do we it's like you do that when they're a baby 34:54.830 --> 35:00.750 Because you have to but what you want them to do is you want them to grow up and start taking responsibility for themselves 35:01.650 --> 35:05.690 And start becoming an asset not a liability and you want to give them freedom 35:06.510 --> 35:08.210 You want them to be able to drive 35:08.810 --> 35:13.550 And go places and do stuff and plus you know what you want them to have a good time because you love your kids 35:13.870 --> 35:17.270 You want them to have a good time. Look when I was a kid when I was a teenager 35:18.050 --> 35:19.910 I was just like the teenagers of today 35:21.010 --> 35:24.450 You teenagers of today, I know what you guys like to do more than anything else 35:24.450 --> 35:26.830 You know what you like to do you like to hang out with your friends 35:27.570 --> 35:30.750 That's what you like to do more than anything else is to hang with your friends 35:30.750 --> 35:34.990 Well, guess what when I was a teenager guess what my favorite thing to do was hanging out with my friends 35:35.550 --> 35:38.930 You know and I wanted to be dropped off at the mall with my friends 35:38.930 --> 35:42.390 And I wanted to be on my bike riding all over creation 35:42.810 --> 35:45.750 And you know when the when the but here's the thing there are certain rules though 35:46.190 --> 35:48.570 When the street lights come on you got to go home 35:49.390 --> 35:53.330 You know my mom used to do this wolf whistle and I can't do it 35:53.330 --> 35:58.390 But she did a wolf whistle that you could hear like probably a mile away like maybe that's an exaggeration 35:58.390 --> 36:01.170 But she did this incredibly loud wolf whistle 36:01.170 --> 36:06.630 So I'd be like in some distant part of the neighborhood and I'd hear way off in the distance just this 36:06.630 --> 36:08.350 And I don't know how to whistle, but it was like a 36:09.650 --> 36:14.150 You know this kind of noise and I just tell my friends up got to go home 36:15.390 --> 36:18.250 But you know what I was having fun at the park with my friends 36:18.250 --> 36:19.350 So I'm fun on my bike 36:19.350 --> 36:22.950 But here's here's the thing when they caught me getting in trouble though 36:22.950 --> 36:24.330 Then it was like I would lose privileges 36:25.050 --> 36:30.430 And then when they catch you being good when they catch you being responsible when they see you 36:30.430 --> 36:34.610 Not abusing the privileges now all of a sudden they're giving you more rope 36:34.610 --> 36:38.890 They're letting you have a longer leash. They're letting you have more freedom and get out and do so 36:39.670 --> 36:43.910 You know and so here's the thing it's easy as a teenager to just complain like 36:43.910 --> 36:49.050 Oh, I lost my car. I lost my keys. I lost my phone. I lost my job 36:49.050 --> 36:53.890 Oh, my parents are so strict. Oh, my parents are just you know taking away all the privileges 36:53.890 --> 36:55.710 Well, it's like you did that to yourself 36:56.730 --> 37:00.830 By being irresponsible and the way to get those privileges back is by actually 37:01.410 --> 37:04.910 Showing your parents that you can be responsible. It's sort of like you know when when 37:05.810 --> 37:09.390 In the parable where the master of the house gives 37:09.390 --> 37:12.490 You know just a little bit of money to his servants and then he leaves 37:12.490 --> 37:14.910 He's like here take 10 talents 37:14.910 --> 37:17.790 Take five talents take two talents take one down 37:17.790 --> 37:20.830 He's giving them just a little bit of money to see what they do with it 37:20.830 --> 37:23.170 And then the ones who did good with that little bit 37:23.170 --> 37:25.290 He says well, you've been faithful in a little bit 37:25.710 --> 37:27.430 So now I'm going to trust you with a lot 37:28.690 --> 37:32.950 I mean he's like, okay, I gave you 10 talents now be thou over 10 cities 37:33.550 --> 37:38.030 You know, he's like, okay, you turn one talent into 10 talents be thou over 10 cities 37:38.650 --> 37:43.950 You know if you're faithful in the little things then you'll be entrusted with bigger things 37:45.390 --> 37:48.850 And so the way it is is that your parents are constantly testing you 37:48.850 --> 37:51.410 By giving you a little freedom and seeing what you do with it 37:51.410 --> 37:57.630 If you if you're given a phone and then you use your phone to send inappropriate text messages 37:58.310 --> 38:04.350 You're just you just want to tell dirty off-color jokes or you want to be just you know doing whatever 38:04.350 --> 38:09.350 I don't know just just basically, you know getting in touch with people that they don't approve of or whatever 38:09.350 --> 38:12.730 You know, then it's like, okay now you lose your phone and now nobody's happy 38:13.330 --> 38:15.790 You know so but if you're using the phone legitimately 38:16.370 --> 38:18.790 Well, then everybody can live happily ever after 38:19.470 --> 38:20.910 This is a true story my friend 38:21.470 --> 38:23.570 And obviously I'm not your parents 38:23.570 --> 38:25.330 So I can't really speak for your parents teenagers 38:25.330 --> 38:28.790 But I have a feeling that your parents probably agree with what I'm saying right now 38:28.790 --> 38:34.490 That basically they will give more freedom the more responsible you are and take away freedom when you abuse the privilege 38:34.490 --> 38:36.350 I mean, I think that's pretty universal 38:37.630 --> 38:41.670 And so it's the same with adults with nations with teenagers 38:42.590 --> 38:44.770 All the way around these guys 38:45.290 --> 38:46.810 It says in verse 15 38:47.390 --> 38:50.530 They dealt faithfully therefore they're like we don't even need to count the money 38:51.270 --> 38:55.050 We just trust these we just give them the money and just say hey send us a bill 38:55.410 --> 38:59.410 Just charge us whatever's right. Whatever you think is right. Just send us the bill when I'm worried about it 39:00.010 --> 39:05.590 You know, isn't it nice when you have a mechanic or a dentist or a contractor where you can just say 39:05.590 --> 39:07.570 Yeah, just charge me whatever you know 39:07.570 --> 39:09.850 You know charge me a fair price and you just know he's going to charge you a fair price 39:09.850 --> 39:13.930 Versus the guy that's going to gouge you and you have to be checking every line item and 39:13.930 --> 39:17.810 Making sure that everything's kosher, you know, it's frustrating to deal with that 39:19.710 --> 39:21.550 So the bible says in verse number 39:23.450 --> 39:24.250 Uh 17 39:24.870 --> 39:29.490 Then hezzael king of syria went up and fought against gath and took it and hezzael said his face to go up to 39:29.490 --> 39:29.810 Jerusalem 39:30.330 --> 39:33.610 And jahosh king of juda took all the hallowed things that jahosh fat 39:33.610 --> 39:36.990 And jahoram and eaziah his father's kings of juda dedicated 39:37.430 --> 39:40.930 And his own hallowed things all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the lord 39:40.930 --> 39:44.630 And the king's house and sent it to hezzael king of syria 39:45.110 --> 39:48.970 And he went away from jerusalem. So that you know, this is this is not a good thing 39:49.930 --> 39:50.410 because 39:51.170 --> 39:54.230 Basically instead of relying on the lord to protect him 39:54.850 --> 39:56.070 Because he's living for god 39:56.730 --> 40:00.870 This is later on he ends up just kind of just paying off the enemy to leave him alone 40:01.450 --> 40:05.290 But there's something missing in the story here. Okay, because 40:05.970 --> 40:09.150 Different books of the bible are emphasizing different parts of the story 40:09.710 --> 40:11.430 To make a certain point. Okay 40:12.930 --> 40:14.430 So in this chapter 40:14.990 --> 40:16.910 It says in verse 19 and the rest 40:17.430 --> 40:22.750 Of the acts of joe ash and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of juda 40:22.750 --> 40:25.710 So there's there's information that's being left out here 40:25.710 --> 40:30.130 This is just a quick story of what god wants to emphasize for this book 40:30.130 --> 40:32.690 Let's go over to the book of chronicles though and look at it 40:33.230 --> 40:37.090 In uh second chronicles 24 because in second chronicles 24 40:38.150 --> 40:39.510 We see where 40:40.130 --> 40:41.830 joe ash goes off the rails 40:42.450 --> 40:49.430 Because in kings all it said was like hey, he served god as long as joyada was instructing him 40:50.000 --> 40:53.630 That kind of gives us a clue that after joyada stopped instructing him 40:53.630 --> 40:57.510 He must have done some bad stuff, but kings doesn't tell us about it 40:57.510 --> 40:59.310 You got to go to chronicles to get that 40:59.310 --> 41:02.290 So if we go over to second chronicles 24 41:02.890 --> 41:08.910 We find the same thing look at verse 2 and joe ash did that which was right in the side of the lord 41:09.490 --> 41:16.230 All the days of joyada the priest. So as long as joyada the priest is there. He's serving god jump down to verse 15 41:17.750 --> 41:20.290 Verse 15 says but joyada waxed old 41:20.930 --> 41:22.590 And was full of days when he died 41:23.090 --> 41:25.010 130 years old was he when he died 41:25.010 --> 41:29.970 And they buried him in the city of david among the kings because he had done good in israel 41:29.970 --> 41:36.330 Both toward god and toward his house. So this guy lived a great life for god lived to be a super old man 41:36.820 --> 41:41.990 He kept the kingdom on track. He's mentoring joe ash great guy great leader 41:41.990 --> 41:45.890 He dies and he's buried with kings even though he's not the king 41:45.890 --> 41:50.890 They bury him in the royal graveyard just because he was just such a great guy and had done so much for the nation 41:51.990 --> 41:55.370 And so it says in verse number 17 41:55.950 --> 42:02.090 Now after the death of joyada came the princes of juda and made obeisance to the king 42:02.090 --> 42:05.930 Then the king harkened unto them and they left the house of god 42:05.930 --> 42:11.170 So they get out of church. They quit serving god. They get into idolatry. So look 42:11.990 --> 42:16.310 As soon as joyada's gone joe ash just completely 42:16.970 --> 42:24.190 Goes off the deep end and becomes a complete idiot. Isn't that amazing? I mean when joe ash is under joyada's tutelage 42:24.930 --> 42:31.910 He is not only going through the motions of serving god. He's actually more excited than joyada sometimes like he's like 42:31.910 --> 42:36.590 Hey, let's get this going. Let's fix this now all of a sudden as soon as he's gone 42:37.710 --> 42:41.710 Boom, he's corrupted, but notice he didn't do this by himself 42:41.710 --> 42:45.750 It's not like as soon as joyada died joe ash just like yeah, i'm getting out of church 42:46.350 --> 42:48.630 Yeah, i'm gonna go out and start living like the devil 42:49.270 --> 42:54.510 No, what happened doesn't the bible tell us here that there are other people 42:55.110 --> 42:59.310 Waiting in the wings to corrupt joe ash as soon as joyada died because what does it say? 43:00.230 --> 43:05.390 It says after the death of joyada came the princes of juda 43:05.870 --> 43:10.670 And made obeisance to the king now. What does it mean to make obeisance? It means to bow down to the king 43:11.390 --> 43:18.290 So basically as soon as joyada joyada is the righteous man of god keeping everybody serving god awesome guy 43:18.890 --> 43:25.470 Dies and now all of a sudden as soon as he's gone these princes. They don't have the guts to do anything while joyada is around 43:26.310 --> 43:27.350 joyada is too powerful 43:28.030 --> 43:33.170 But once joyada's gone, they're thinking you know what joe ash they sense that he's maybe a weak target 43:33.770 --> 43:38.250 That they can corrupt him and so what do they do? They make obeisance to him 43:38.810 --> 43:44.530 Bowing down to him now. Why does the bible mention that? Here's the thing about the writing style of the old testament 43:44.530 --> 43:48.470 It's a very economic writing style. Nothing is extra 43:49.050 --> 43:54.070 Nothing in the bible is incidental coincidental or accidental everything means something. Why does it say? 43:54.250 --> 43:56.130 Well, they came to him and they made obeisance to him 43:56.990 --> 43:59.230 This is what the bible calls flattery 44:00.590 --> 44:05.610 So they don't come to him and say all right, buddy. We're going to start pushing you around 44:05.610 --> 44:08.410 We're going to start telling joyada can't protect you anymore 44:08.410 --> 44:12.050 We're going to start telling you what to do. You're going to get on our program. No, no 44:12.630 --> 44:19.550 They come to him and they flatter him and they bow down to him and oh, you're so wonderful 44:20.090 --> 44:23.930 You're such a great guy. You're such a better leader than joyada 44:23.930 --> 44:27.930 And you know you can take it a different direction and they flatter him 44:27.930 --> 44:33.270 And they corrupt him because the bible says they made obeisance to him then the king are going under them 44:33.270 --> 44:35.710 So a lot of times people will flatter you 44:36.270 --> 44:41.530 And say all these nice things to you to get your guard down and then get you to do something bad 44:42.050 --> 44:43.310 Get you to do something wrong 44:43.910 --> 44:50.650 So they corrupt you and you know what? Obviously, it's no secret about my adult children that have been corrupted 44:51.390 --> 44:52.350 by people 44:52.970 --> 44:54.930 That basically while they were under my tutelage 44:55.490 --> 44:58.370 They were all serving god. They were all doing right living in my house 44:58.370 --> 45:02.890 But then as soon as they're out of my house, you have the princes of juda out there 45:02.890 --> 45:09.790 Ready to flatter them corrupted. Have you ever noticed that every single one of these evil satanic people 45:09.790 --> 45:14.510 Who does these interviews with them on youtube always flatters the crap out of all of them? 45:15.410 --> 45:16.110 Have you noticed that? 45:16.890 --> 45:19.350 Oh, you're such a godly young man. It's like 45:19.970 --> 45:20.490 What? 45:21.810 --> 45:25.690 I mean, look, I'll just give you one example. There's this channel on youtube called 45:26.530 --> 45:27.510 proverbs guys 45:28.690 --> 45:32.890 Now imagine having a channel called proverbs guys 45:33.690 --> 45:38.970 And you're sitting there dishonoring your parents and helping someone else dishonor your parents 45:38.970 --> 45:41.010 I mean out of all the books of the bible 45:41.790 --> 45:45.570 Wouldn't you say proverbs is the one that is warning you the most? 45:45.910 --> 45:51.090 Obey your parents listen to your parents honor your parents. Don't screw this up 45:51.090 --> 45:57.230 You've got to just bind those things around your neck man. You've got to stay with your parents instruction 45:57.230 --> 45:59.310 I mean, it's like every page 45:59.910 --> 46:01.090 It's chapter one 46:01.630 --> 46:05.970 It's chapter 31 both of them telling you to listen to your parents and everything in between 46:06.890 --> 46:14.230 Imagine having a youtube channel called proverbs guys. Okay, and let me tell you some things about proverbs guys. Okay 46:15.410 --> 46:19.290 Number one, they're just helping young people dishonor their parents 46:19.970 --> 46:23.850 Just flattering them and and helping them as they dishonor their parents 46:24.430 --> 46:25.210 number two 46:26.390 --> 46:26.990 rejects 46:26.990 --> 46:28.350 Once saved always saved 46:29.410 --> 46:32.890 You know what that sounds like to me sounds like a false gospel 46:33.510 --> 46:40.110 Because if you believe that salvation is by grace through faith, you believe in once saved always saved amen eternal life eternal security 46:40.110 --> 46:41.610 So proverbs guys 46:42.690 --> 46:43.210 surprise 46:44.470 --> 46:46.430 rejects the eternal security of the believer 46:47.710 --> 46:49.130 Not king james 46:50.490 --> 46:52.630 Oh, i'm a new america standard guy 46:54.510 --> 46:58.730 Okay, and then you know who the who proverbs guys said is the greatest 46:59.290 --> 47:02.070 Uh man in the world the greatest preacher in the world ken hovind 47:04.890 --> 47:10.670 Who's on his fifth wife, but that's not even true because he he now half is not his wife 47:10.670 --> 47:15.290 He's literally like using the woman at the well story as like a checklist 47:16.370 --> 47:16.910 Okay 47:17.990 --> 47:19.410 And i'm telling you something 47:20.870 --> 47:21.910 It's bizarre 47:22.580 --> 47:23.870 to hear these people 47:25.050 --> 47:29.450 Flatter people as they as they rebel against their parents as they do wickedly 47:30.110 --> 47:34.070 Flattering them and every it doesn't matter whether it's jeff bourbon 47:34.830 --> 47:40.390 Or whether it's you know proverbs guys or whether it's that satanic transvestite 47:40.960 --> 47:45.510 Or whoever all these other people and all these other little cheerleaders off in the wings 47:45.510 --> 47:51.290 They're all just telling them like oh you guys are so well spoken. You guys are so well educated 47:51.290 --> 47:56.250 You have such a good head on your shoulders. You guys seem like you really love people 47:56.250 --> 47:58.230 You really seem like you love god 47:58.230 --> 48:03.550 I can really tell that you just love your parents as you drive a knife under the fifth rib 48:03.550 --> 48:09.130 You know, but it's like but at the end of the day like this is so stupid and absurd these things are clearly not true 48:11.070 --> 48:12.470 It's obvious to anyone 48:13.120 --> 48:19.310 That these people are in severe disobedience, but it's funny how the people that are corrupting them will flatter them 48:19.870 --> 48:24.610 Tell them how great they are. It's like. Oh, you're so you're so wonderful. You're such wonderful people 48:24.610 --> 48:29.930 It's like well, bro, you know, maybe you should give some credit to your parents who taught you 48:30.450 --> 48:32.470 How to be well educated and well spoken 48:33.710 --> 48:36.310 But unfortunately you took all that quality education 48:36.910 --> 48:41.930 And all of that quality upbringing and you decided to use it for evil instead of using it for good 48:42.990 --> 48:44.230 Because at the end of the day 48:44.650 --> 48:46.830 No one can live the christian life for you 48:46.830 --> 48:52.770 And you know what I wish that I could just take the love of god and just bottle it and hand it to you 48:52.770 --> 48:53.710 So you could drink it 48:54.370 --> 48:58.850 You know, I wish that there was a drink I could give you and say drink this and you will love god 48:58.850 --> 49:03.650 You know what I mean? I wish there was a sermon that I could preach that would make you love god 49:04.410 --> 49:07.650 I wish there was something I could say or something I could do 49:07.650 --> 49:12.590 Or some food or drink that I could administer to you that would make you love god 49:13.030 --> 49:17.030 Unfortunately, it doesn't exist. I'm gonna drink this. It'll make me love god though 49:20.210 --> 49:21.830 By the way, this is water 49:22.870 --> 49:27.410 So people think some people think I'm just like caffeinating up here while I preach or something 49:28.450 --> 49:30.350 But but here's the thing is that 49:31.590 --> 49:34.610 You know, I cannot make anyone love god 49:34.610 --> 49:40.630 You know, I can preach what the bible says. I can I can explain scripture to you 49:41.140 --> 49:44.970 I can get up here and and try to be motivational 49:45.460 --> 49:49.410 And inspirational and I can get excited and try to get you excited 49:49.410 --> 49:54.490 And I can show you how it's done and try to lead by example and and and whatever 49:54.490 --> 50:00.010 But at the end of the day, the one thing I cannot do for you is to make you really love god yourself 50:00.690 --> 50:03.510 And to make you have a personal walk with god and see here's the thing 50:03.510 --> 50:07.890 About joe ash is that obviously there was something wrong with his walk with god 50:08.630 --> 50:13.110 He had a he you know, I believe firmly that joe ash is saved and in heaven 50:13.570 --> 50:15.410 And I think he had a walk with god 50:16.370 --> 50:20.610 But there was something severely wrong with his walk with god because as soon as joe has gone 50:20.610 --> 50:23.850 He's out of church and he's screwing up his life 50:24.370 --> 50:29.610 And he's messing things up and not only that he doesn't just stop there because you know, you think oh, whatever 50:29.610 --> 50:34.830 You know get out of church get a little backslidden. So your wild oats in your 20s. That's not what these people do 50:34.830 --> 50:38.630 Oh, no, that's not what they do. Keep reading. I gotta hurry for sake of time here 50:40.650 --> 50:43.450 But as we go down through the story here 50:44.170 --> 50:44.810 It says 50:45.530 --> 50:50.730 In verse 19 yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again unto the lord 50:50.730 --> 50:52.290 And they testified against them 50:52.290 --> 50:56.070 But they would not give ear and the spirit of god came upon zekariah 50:56.070 --> 51:02.750 The son of joe hoda. So joe hoda has a son named zekariah that actually is living for god and preaching 51:02.750 --> 51:04.710 So zekariah comes and preaches 51:05.690 --> 51:07.470 And he said does say of god 51:07.470 --> 51:12.850 Why transgress you the commandments of the lord that you cannot prosper because you forsaken the lord 51:12.850 --> 51:15.090 He also had forsaken you 51:15.730 --> 51:21.770 Watch this they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the lord 51:21.770 --> 51:22.250 So notice 51:22.970 --> 51:28.530 Not only does joe hosh rebel against the lord as soon as joe hoda is not holding his hand 51:29.590 --> 51:31.830 He conspires to murder 51:32.710 --> 51:34.210 joe hoda's son 51:35.410 --> 51:36.250 Super evil 51:36.250 --> 51:44.830 Now look, you might just think like oh, whatever. I'm 18. I'm gonna get out of church. I'm a rebel against my parents 51:45.350 --> 51:48.910 No big deal. Whatever. They're not right about everything 51:49.790 --> 51:56.130 You know, whatever. I'm sick of church. I'm gonna go to the liberal church or whatever no church at all 51:56.130 --> 52:00.170 But you know what though is that sin ends up taking you further than you want to go 52:01.570 --> 52:07.070 And what we see here is that this guy he doesn't just get out of church and do idolatry that'd be bad enough 52:07.070 --> 52:08.270 He ends up 52:08.270 --> 52:10.350 participating in the murder 52:10.890 --> 52:14.950 Of the son of the person who had done so much good for him. I mean think about joe hoda 52:15.390 --> 52:17.410 He wouldn't be king without joe hoda 52:18.090 --> 52:23.050 joe hoda is the one hiding him for six years while athelai wants to kill him 52:23.970 --> 52:27.830 joe hoda saved his life joe hoda puts the crown on his head 52:28.370 --> 52:29.690 Takes care of everything 52:30.450 --> 52:35.290 Runs the whole kingdom keeps everybody worshiping the lord and then how does this guy repay 52:35.830 --> 52:39.290 joe hoda's good unto him. He murders his son 52:40.750 --> 52:43.150 Super evil right super wicked 52:44.970 --> 52:48.150 And so of course god's not going to bless this now it kind of makes sense 52:48.150 --> 52:52.970 Why you see the end of joe ash's life not going well in second kings 52:52.970 --> 52:59.790 It makes sense when you get these other details from second chronicles chapter 24 where it says 53:00.790 --> 53:03.770 That you know it was at that it was at the behest of the king 53:04.330 --> 53:07.890 In the court of the house of god that they stoned is that cari was so but look at verse 22 53:08.490 --> 53:11.430 And by the way stoning with stones is an execution 53:12.930 --> 53:16.210 This is not just a random act of murder 53:16.850 --> 53:18.670 But rather what we see here is that they 53:19.410 --> 53:25.150 Conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the lord 53:25.150 --> 53:30.350 Does this sound like some back alley stabbing? No, they're publicly executing him 53:30.930 --> 53:37.910 In the courtyard of god's house, which means what what do you have to do first before you wrongfully publicly execute bro 53:37.910 --> 53:41.130 Is you have to do what bear false witness against him 53:41.970 --> 53:48.630 So they did some trumped up charges. They cooked up a case against Zechariah, and then they murder him 53:49.470 --> 53:52.710 Call it an execution do it in the shadow of the church 53:53.630 --> 53:54.190 horrible 53:56.570 --> 53:59.010 And joe ash the king 53:59.870 --> 54:02.990 Remembered not the kindness which to hoida his father had done to him 54:02.990 --> 54:08.070 But slew his son right just lack of gratitude lack of appreciation and when he died 54:08.070 --> 54:11.550 He said the lord look upon it and require it 54:11.970 --> 54:14.830 So the question is who is the he here? You could read this two different ways 54:14.830 --> 54:21.830 You could either say when Zechariah died Zechariah said the lord look on it and require it, you know like like 54:22.430 --> 54:25.770 Avenged me god, but I don't I don't think that's what this is. I think what it's saying 54:26.190 --> 54:34.970 Is that when Zechariah died that joe ash said the lord look upon it and require it meaning like he's just kind of like 54:34.970 --> 54:39.430 Well, you know what let god deal with me then if I if I've done wrong 54:39.430 --> 54:44.130 Then let god because because you don't want to notice is that rebels like this. They have no fear of god 54:45.550 --> 54:48.230 They're just like eh, I murdered somebody 54:49.370 --> 54:51.510 The lord look upon it and require it 54:52.030 --> 54:52.470 whatever 54:53.630 --> 54:55.030 Maybe god will deal with me 54:55.030 --> 54:57.490 Maybe he won't because it's like I preached a few weeks ago 54:57.490 --> 55:01.810 People are back so they tend to think that god is aloof and not involved in our everyday lives 55:03.330 --> 55:05.250 Whereas those of us that are walking with god 55:05.250 --> 55:10.910 We constantly know that god is leading us and guiding us and directing us and that the very hairs of our head are numbered 55:11.690 --> 55:14.410 But when you're backslidden and not right with god, you're just like 55:14.410 --> 55:17.730 Eh, I don't think god's even watching. I don't even think god even cares 55:17.730 --> 55:22.670 I don't he's got even up there listening to anything. That's how backslidden christians think 55:23.630 --> 55:28.110 And so I think I think it's joe ash saying like well the lord look upon it and require it 55:28.650 --> 55:30.010 God's gonna punish me whatever 55:30.710 --> 55:34.010 Just stupid right just just just making light of the judgment of god 55:34.010 --> 55:36.870 And so, you know, there are some morals to the story here 55:36.870 --> 55:39.290 Moral of the story is first of all number one 55:39.290 --> 55:42.310 Don't be like joe ash get your own 55:42.890 --> 55:49.170 firm foundation and grounding to where you don't need a buddy or a parent or somebody to always be there 55:49.170 --> 55:55.170 That you can actually if you ever notice people that can't come to church unless someone else comes like like if their spouse doesn't go 55:55.170 --> 55:55.790 They won't go 55:57.090 --> 55:58.930 Here's the thing what if your spouse is sick 55:58.930 --> 56:01.150 You can come to church without your spouse, right? 56:02.710 --> 56:04.910 What if I was like well my wife's sick so 56:05.730 --> 56:06.970 I don't like to go alone 56:08.110 --> 56:09.490 Wouldn't that be kind of like what? 56:10.970 --> 56:14.730 You know, but but but but but look if I saw a situation 56:15.330 --> 56:17.530 Where the guy won't come without his wife 56:18.370 --> 56:22.490 You know what I would suspect is going on. I would suspect she's the one who loves church 56:22.490 --> 56:25.750 She's the one who wants to go to church. She's the one that's into serving god 56:25.750 --> 56:28.890 And that bro is kind of just going through the motions. That's what I would think 56:28.890 --> 56:30.230 I'm not saying he's not safe 56:30.230 --> 56:34.950 But I would say his heart must not be that in it if he can't even show up by himself 56:35.590 --> 56:37.110 And that he'll only go with her 56:37.950 --> 56:43.190 You know or vice versa obviously, you know as a woman you could show up to church without your husband being there 56:43.690 --> 56:45.390 And you could show up to church on your own 56:45.390 --> 56:51.510 You know and not just be only but I've even noticed young single guys where it's like if their friend's not coming 56:51.510 --> 56:52.170 They won't come 56:53.390 --> 56:54.650 It's like what the heck 56:55.290 --> 56:58.390 Come to church on your own stand on your own two feet 56:59.770 --> 57:06.470 And then the other moral of the story is that just because a young person is zealously serving god and doing great things for god 57:06.470 --> 57:08.170 Does not mean they're going to pan out in the long run 57:08.950 --> 57:11.470 Because we've seen a lot of roman candle christians 57:12.350 --> 57:15.530 And then it's just up in smoke and it's gone and it's like it was never there 57:16.730 --> 57:18.570 So sometimes the young and zealous 57:19.090 --> 57:21.850 We hope they'll pan out but sometimes they don't 57:22.690 --> 57:27.110 And then the other thing you could realize is that the fact that an adult 57:28.290 --> 57:33.390 Child goes off to deep end after they leave their parents home. You can't really blame their parents for that 57:33.850 --> 57:36.670 If the kid was doing the right things while in the home 57:36.670 --> 57:40.470 And then the kid grows up and is an adult and then he gets corrupted 57:40.470 --> 57:46.030 You can't say oh dad's a bad leader mom's a bad leader because then you would be saying jojito is a bad leader 57:47.370 --> 57:51.550 Well if jojito is really a good leader then even after he's dead 57:52.190 --> 57:54.190 Joash would still be serving god really 57:54.800 --> 58:01.890 Because I think jojojo was about the pretty much the best possible high priest that you're going to expect in the old testament 58:02.460 --> 58:07.590 And he's got an upgraded burial package to the royal garden for a reason 58:08.380 --> 58:14.650 It's a great powerful man of god and the fact that he was able to keep an idiot like joash on track the whole time 58:14.650 --> 58:18.230 shows these a great leader because joash sucks frankly 58:19.770 --> 58:21.150 Murdering zekariah. What a jerk 58:21.750 --> 58:26.170 What an evil piece of trash, but you know what it's amazing how he's doing great under jojito 58:26.170 --> 58:32.810 That just makes me think jojito is a great leader. It doesn't make me think. Oh jojito is a horrible leader jojito needs to get his house in order 58:32.810 --> 58:33.850 It's like well, hold up 58:34.290 --> 58:38.810 How can you control people that don't live in your house? How could you can't control people from the grave? 58:39.710 --> 58:44.350 And you can't control people once they're gone and not under your when they're not in your church 58:44.350 --> 58:49.430 They're not in your home. You can't expect people to be responsible for something that they have no power over 58:50.870 --> 58:55.350 You know, and here's the thing I think that men are responsible for their homes 58:55.930 --> 58:58.690 But you know, I'm also preaching that men have power in their homes 58:59.730 --> 59:05.590 So imagine if I got up and said hey guys, you're responsible for every bad thing that happens in your home 59:06.670 --> 59:10.150 But then I said oh by the way, you can't enforce anything with your wife and kids 59:11.830 --> 59:14.090 When that's who wants to be a leader 59:14.780 --> 59:18.770 Where you're responsible for everything the followers do but you have no power 59:19.560 --> 59:19.830 to 59:20.470 --> 59:22.950 Get them under control or it's stupid 59:23.510 --> 59:29.050 That's the society that we're moving into in america and this is why marriage rates are plummeting 59:29.640 --> 59:31.210 And birth rates are plummeting 59:31.210 --> 59:35.730 Because people are like why would I want to be married if i'm not even allowed to be in charge? 59:36.390 --> 59:40.070 As a husband. I can't you know, my wife can just she can leave 59:40.150 --> 59:40.530 You know 59:42.270 --> 59:48.010 Why would I want to have kids if i'm not even allowed to discipline them, but i'm responsible for every bad thing that they do 59:49.930 --> 59:56.350 Stupid it doesn't make any sense. And so we as christians we need to understand that yes, there's 59:57.230 --> 59:59.450 freedom comes with responsibility 01:00:01.070 --> 01:00:03.250 And authority comes with responsibility 01:00:03.250 --> 01:00:06.190 But you can't have somebody have all the responsibility without the authority 01:00:06.730 --> 01:00:10.210 You can't hold someone responsible for something that they have no power to control 01:00:11.270 --> 01:00:15.670 Right, I will be held responsible for that which I have power over 01:00:15.670 --> 01:00:21.210 You know so so here's the thing if if faithful word becomes a liberal church 01:00:21.950 --> 01:00:28.430 And there's a bunch of heresy and false doctrine and wrong bible versions and you know then go and blame that on me 01:00:29.310 --> 01:00:33.130 If i'm the pastor of the church i'm supposed to be making sure that doesn't happen 01:00:33.130 --> 01:00:37.090 Okay, but can I really be responsible for some other church? 01:00:37.870 --> 01:00:41.630 Like what about a what if I ordain a guy and send him out to pastor? 01:00:42.310 --> 01:00:45.390 Like and you know what we've ordained some great guys around here 01:00:45.390 --> 01:00:50.550 Here's some awesome pastors that we've ordained pastor corbin wrestle down in tucson 01:00:51.530 --> 01:01:00.410 Pastor bruce mehia anaheim california right pastor jonathan shelly right forward take look we've ordained some awesome guys 01:01:01.470 --> 01:01:07.410 But here's the thing about that is that they are serving god and doing right because that's what they're doing 01:01:09.070 --> 01:01:12.990 Okay, because we've ordained another guy that we don't approve of 01:01:13.590 --> 01:01:15.150 That is not doing awesome 01:01:15.910 --> 01:01:19.190 But here's the thing we have no power over him because we're independent baptists 01:01:19.810 --> 01:01:23.550 So I i'm not responsible for the dumb stuff he says and does 01:01:24.470 --> 01:01:26.690 And you know if my three, you know 01:01:26.690 --> 01:01:32.110 Guys that I just mentioned that are awesome if they were ever to preach heresy or something it wouldn't be my fault 01:01:32.630 --> 01:01:37.850 Because I have no power. I've no jurisdiction now. They're not going to do that. They're real ones 01:01:38.590 --> 01:01:40.570 You know, we believe that of course 01:01:41.550 --> 01:01:45.770 Well, let's power it's not water prayer father. Thank you so much for this story lord 01:01:45.770 --> 01:01:51.130 And thank you so much for these examples in the bible and lord help us not to be like joe ash 01:01:51.130 --> 01:01:53.610 Help us to stand on our own two feet 01:01:54.370 --> 01:01:58.410 And not listen to a bunch of flattering devils and satanists and 01:01:59.150 --> 01:02:02.410 transvestites trying to corrupt us and turn us away lord 01:02:03.290 --> 01:02:11.390 Help us not to only come to church when our buddy comes or our wife or parents or whatever lord help us to be able to have our own 01:02:12.010 --> 01:02:13.590 solid walk with you 01:02:14.810 --> 01:02:20.450 And lord god help us always to uh, you know realize the importance of your house 01:02:20.450 --> 01:02:26.490 And the church lord and help us to be zealous and excited about it and do our best and in jesus name. We pray amen