WEBVTT 00:00.340 --> 00:02.920 And then second Kings chapter number 10, 00:03.040 --> 00:06.200 we have this great story about Jehu picking up 00:06.200 --> 00:06.900 where we left off. 00:07.020 --> 00:10.580 Remember last time Jehu was anointed as king 00:10.580 --> 00:14.020 and he went and faced off with the king of Israel 00:14.020 --> 00:17.880 and the king of Judah, defeated them both and so forth. 00:17.960 --> 00:19.980 Now we're beginning to see the aftermath of this 00:19.980 --> 00:24.040 because it wasn't enough for God to just judge Ahab 00:24.040 --> 00:27.120 himself personally that happened many, many years earlier 00:27.500 --> 00:31.060 but also judging the king on the throne, Jehoram, 00:31.100 --> 00:34.920 the son of Ahab but actually God is just gonna wipe out 00:34.920 --> 00:38.860 completely the entire house of Ahab. 00:39.440 --> 00:42.280 Everybody's getting punished, everybody's getting smoked 00:42.280 --> 00:44.500 and that's what we see in this chapter 00:44.500 --> 00:48.480 and also we're gonna see Jehu just completely eliminate 00:49.000 --> 00:51.760 Baal worship from the nation of Israel, right? 00:51.860 --> 00:54.160 There's been all of this Baal worship 00:54.160 --> 00:55.820 and Baal is just Satan, right? 00:56.600 --> 00:59.380 Baal Zeebub, Baal is the devil. 00:59.520 --> 01:00.820 They're literally worshiping Satan 01:01.460 --> 01:03.120 and he's gonna completely wipe it out. 01:03.240 --> 01:04.160 Let's jump into the story here. 01:04.220 --> 01:05.160 It says in verse number one, 01:05.720 --> 01:08.440 Ahab had 70 sons in Samaria. 01:08.620 --> 01:11.680 So he obviously as a king, he has a multitude of wives. 01:12.180 --> 01:15.200 He's put out lots of children, 70 sons 01:15.200 --> 01:17.940 and Jehu wrote letters and sent to Samaria 01:17.940 --> 01:20.520 under the rulers of Jezreel to the elders 01:20.520 --> 01:23.240 and to them that brought up Ahab's children saying, 01:23.240 --> 01:25.600 now as soon as this letter come into you, 01:26.040 --> 01:28.420 seeing your master's sons are with you 01:28.420 --> 01:32.940 and there are with you chariots and horses, 01:33.280 --> 01:34.960 a fence city, also an armor, 01:35.540 --> 01:38.600 look even out the best and neatest of your master's sons 01:38.600 --> 01:40.420 and set him on his father's throne 01:40.420 --> 01:42.720 and fight for your master's house. 01:42.940 --> 01:45.020 Now you gotta love Jehu's style. 01:45.600 --> 01:48.760 I mean, this entire chapter is hilarious, 01:49.180 --> 01:52.260 watching Jehu and his style because I mean, 01:52.260 --> 01:54.260 this guy is a bad dude 01:54.740 --> 01:56.820 and he's got a serious sense of humor 01:57.260 --> 01:58.880 at every stage of this. 01:59.100 --> 02:00.760 I mean, this guy is just on fire 02:01.260 --> 02:03.300 and you see him in the previous chapter, 02:03.580 --> 02:05.440 he's just driving furiously, 02:05.860 --> 02:08.100 he's super eloquent against the enemies 02:08.520 --> 02:10.800 and then in this chapter is just a two or day force 02:11.320 --> 02:12.640 and as you're reading this, 02:12.800 --> 02:14.300 if you don't know the end of the story, 02:14.620 --> 02:15.420 you're just thinking like, 02:15.580 --> 02:17.460 Jehu is my new favorite Bible character. 02:18.000 --> 02:19.820 You're ready to name your kid Jehu 02:19.820 --> 02:22.320 and you're all excited about this guy. 02:22.340 --> 02:25.060 That's how I felt reading this for the first time. 02:25.460 --> 02:26.000 You're just like, 02:26.200 --> 02:28.180 where has this Bible character been all my life? 02:28.560 --> 02:30.300 Like this is the coolest guy in the whole, 02:30.720 --> 02:32.300 but what ends up happening though 02:32.300 --> 02:34.180 is when we get to the end of the chapter, 02:34.480 --> 02:37.180 what we see though is him just compromising 02:37.180 --> 02:41.320 in a huge way and just totally failing 02:41.980 --> 02:42.920 as a king of Israel. 02:43.040 --> 02:46.820 So he does a great job at just destroying the enemies 02:46.820 --> 02:48.940 and wiping out the house of Ahab, 02:48.940 --> 02:50.680 wiping out Baal worship, 02:50.940 --> 02:53.460 but when it comes to actually doing something positive 02:53.880 --> 02:54.980 and leading the nation, 02:55.180 --> 02:57.940 he's a complete and utter failure 02:57.940 --> 03:00.520 and it's the biggest disappointment in the whole Bible. 03:00.960 --> 03:02.080 You know, when you're reading this, 03:02.260 --> 03:03.740 when Jehu doesn't pan out. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.200 And I think that there are a lot of lessons 03:06.200 --> 03:07.440 we can learn from this today 03:07.440 --> 03:09.480 because people like this abound, 03:09.940 --> 03:12.200 people that are really good at pointing out the problems, 03:12.680 --> 03:16.300 people that are really good at identifying the error, 03:16.460 --> 03:18.140 but they're not actually good 03:18.140 --> 03:19.760 at giving you the right solution 03:19.760 --> 03:21.260 or giving you anything positive. 03:21.700 --> 03:23.300 And so we have to be very careful about this 03:23.300 --> 03:25.680 that there could be some great preachers out there. 03:25.900 --> 03:27.880 Oh man, they're doing such a great job 03:27.880 --> 03:30.960 exposing the Jews or exposing Islam. 03:31.720 --> 03:33.320 You know, these people are exposing, 03:33.680 --> 03:35.480 you know, this fraud over here 03:35.480 --> 03:37.860 and they're exposing the Catholics or whatever, 03:38.500 --> 03:39.880 exposing the atheists. 03:40.140 --> 03:41.780 And we have to be careful because sometimes 03:41.780 --> 03:44.080 you could have these awesome people 03:44.080 --> 03:46.280 that are so eloquent and so good 03:46.280 --> 03:48.300 at trashing a false religion, 03:48.780 --> 03:50.300 but then you look at their religion 03:50.300 --> 03:53.400 and they have stupid beliefs of their own 03:53.400 --> 03:56.220 and they're not actually soul winning Christians, 03:56.520 --> 03:58.020 actually preaching the right gospel 03:58.020 --> 03:58.960 or anything like that. 04:00.420 --> 04:01.640 And so we gotta be careful 04:02.020 --> 04:05.280 that we don't just get into only destroying that 04:05.280 --> 04:07.680 which is evil, we need to also be building 04:08.000 --> 04:10.820 and producing that which is good, okay? 04:11.060 --> 04:13.580 And here's the thing about Faithful Word Baptist Church 04:13.580 --> 04:15.720 is that Faithful Word Baptist Church 04:15.720 --> 04:18.560 isn't just a place where we preach against false religion 04:18.560 --> 04:20.060 and preach against false teachers. 04:20.180 --> 04:23.900 No, no, it is a place that is super focused 04:23.900 --> 04:27.040 on soul winning, right? 04:27.240 --> 04:29.680 Being productive, winning people to Christ. 04:29.820 --> 04:31.180 We're going out and preaching the gospel. 04:31.500 --> 04:33.900 We're going out and evangelizing, right? 04:34.280 --> 04:36.940 And we're knocking doors and going on mission trips 04:36.940 --> 04:39.100 telling people the good news 04:39.100 --> 04:40.540 about the Lord Jesus Christ. 04:40.760 --> 04:43.400 We're giving clear presentations of the gospel 04:43.400 --> 04:44.460 and here's the thing. 04:44.460 --> 04:46.880 People out there, they could sit there and say, 04:46.940 --> 04:48.920 well, here's what Faithful Word's known for. 04:49.040 --> 04:50.500 They're known for being against homos 04:50.500 --> 04:52.840 or they're known for being against Israel 04:52.840 --> 04:55.580 or they're known for preaching against Islam 04:55.580 --> 04:57.200 or whatever, but at the end of the day 04:57.200 --> 05:00.280 like what we're actually about here is the soul winning 05:00.920 --> 05:02.080 and the winning people to Christ. 05:02.260 --> 05:04.600 Like that is really the heartbeat of the church. 05:05.040 --> 05:08.080 And so anybody who only gets the negative side 05:08.080 --> 05:10.300 is kind of missing the whole point, okay? 05:10.860 --> 05:11.620 And here's the thing. 05:11.840 --> 05:13.460 There are lots of other people out there 05:13.460 --> 05:16.040 that will expose heresy and false religion, 05:16.360 --> 05:18.480 but that's only part of what we do around here. 05:18.620 --> 05:21.000 We do it, but you know what we can also do 05:21.000 --> 05:23.660 is give the solution, give the right answer 05:23.660 --> 05:25.840 and actually do something positive, 05:26.320 --> 05:29.060 getting people saved, starting churches, 05:29.600 --> 05:32.180 seeing people get saved, lives changed, 05:32.820 --> 05:35.000 joining the church, serving God, 05:35.300 --> 05:36.440 learning how to win souls. 05:36.760 --> 05:39.180 You know, that's a lot harder and more rare 05:39.640 --> 05:42.060 than just pointing out what's bad. 05:42.880 --> 05:45.120 You know, and you have entire ministries 05:45.120 --> 05:48.300 that are just based on trashing false religion 05:48.300 --> 05:50.880 and I'm glad that they're exposing the errors 05:50.880 --> 05:53.100 of the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Mormons or whatever, 05:53.340 --> 05:54.220 but at the end of the day, 05:54.300 --> 05:56.180 if they're not having the real answers 05:56.660 --> 05:59.600 about what the right gospel is, what the truth is, 05:59.740 --> 06:01.220 what are we supposed to believe, 06:01.380 --> 06:02.760 what are we supposed to do? 06:03.220 --> 06:04.800 You know, it's super imbalanced 06:04.800 --> 06:07.340 and at the end of the day, it's not really what we need. 06:08.200 --> 06:09.520 We need the whole package. 06:09.740 --> 06:11.200 We need, yes, the negative stuff, 06:11.200 --> 06:12.660 but we need the positive stuff too. 06:13.300 --> 06:15.180 Yeah, we want to tear down that which is wrong, 06:15.240 --> 06:17.420 but we also want to build up that which is right. 06:18.160 --> 06:20.640 And so be careful about getting sucked in 06:20.640 --> 06:24.880 to some eloquent destroyer of this heresy over here 06:24.880 --> 06:27.040 because, you know, he might be like a Jihu 06:27.040 --> 06:29.160 where he's super good at trashing Baal, 06:29.360 --> 06:31.880 but he's just gonna get you into the sins of Jonadab, 06:32.020 --> 06:34.040 the son of Recap, sorry, not Jonadab, 06:34.080 --> 06:34.580 the son of Recap. 06:35.280 --> 06:36.700 Yeah, that was a horrible thing to say. 06:37.260 --> 06:38.380 Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, 06:38.880 --> 06:40.060 I'm getting ahead of myself in the sermon. 06:40.060 --> 06:41.680 He's just gonna get you into the sins 06:41.680 --> 06:42.960 of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat. 06:43.580 --> 06:46.100 So it's kind of out of the frying pan into the fire, 06:46.240 --> 06:47.840 like, oh, we're not gonna worship Baal, 06:48.080 --> 06:50.340 we're just gonna worship, you know, these golden calves. 06:51.120 --> 06:53.940 It's, you know, there's not like a hell number one 06:53.940 --> 06:55.420 and a hell number two, folks. 06:56.540 --> 06:57.540 There's just hell. 06:58.340 --> 06:59.800 And so, you know, at the end of the day, 06:59.920 --> 07:01.540 I don't think the devil really cares 07:01.540 --> 07:04.180 if you switch from one false religion to another. 07:04.620 --> 07:06.000 What he really doesn't want 07:06.000 --> 07:07.280 is the devil doesn't want you 07:07.280 --> 07:08.260 to actually get the gospel. 07:08.260 --> 07:09.060 Get what's right. 07:10.080 --> 07:11.740 And so it's always easy to point out, 07:12.020 --> 07:13.120 you know, even just politically, 07:13.520 --> 07:15.280 it's pretty easy to just point out 07:15.280 --> 07:17.080 everything that's wrong with America, right? 07:17.540 --> 07:19.780 But the hard part is finding the right solutions 07:19.780 --> 07:20.640 how to fix things. 07:21.240 --> 07:22.980 You know, that's gonna be the more difficult thing. 07:23.020 --> 07:24.360 That's always gonna be the more difficult thing. 07:24.920 --> 07:26.980 And so, Jihoo, he starts out 07:26.980 --> 07:28.880 by saying at the beginning of chapter 10, 07:29.280 --> 07:31.820 hey guys, you know, you guys have a lot of resource. 07:31.960 --> 07:34.060 You got horses, you got chariots, 07:34.120 --> 07:37.260 you got 70 sons of Ahab to pick from. 07:37.260 --> 07:40.240 Why don't you just pick your favorite son of Ahab, 07:40.400 --> 07:43.040 get the best one, you make him king, 07:43.420 --> 07:45.660 and you get your horses and you chariots, 07:45.800 --> 07:49.300 and you come at me because I am ready to fight you. 07:49.420 --> 07:50.320 Come defeat me. 07:50.780 --> 07:52.380 And they're like, whoa, this guy, 07:52.600 --> 07:53.720 we don't wanna mess with this guy. 07:54.280 --> 07:56.240 Look what they answer in verse number five. 07:57.580 --> 07:58.720 Or sorry, verse four. 07:59.200 --> 08:00.900 But they were exceedingly afraid 08:00.900 --> 08:04.300 and said, behold, two kings stood not before him. 08:04.880 --> 08:06.080 How then shall we stand? 08:06.080 --> 08:07.840 They're just like, oh man, we're scared. 08:07.940 --> 08:09.160 So Jihoo's intimidating them. 08:09.460 --> 08:11.280 He's just like, come at me, bro, come on. 08:11.640 --> 08:13.660 You got the horses, chariots, let's go, let's fight, 08:13.760 --> 08:14.160 let's do it. 08:14.160 --> 08:15.720 And they're just like, whoa, we don't wanna do this. 08:16.420 --> 08:17.620 Jihoo's too powerful for us. 08:18.040 --> 08:18.580 Verse five. 08:19.460 --> 08:20.640 And he that was over the house 08:20.640 --> 08:22.580 and he that was over the city, 08:23.160 --> 08:24.780 the elders also, and watch this, 08:25.160 --> 08:27.560 the bringers up of the children, right? 08:27.660 --> 08:31.200 So these are like all of the tutors and schoolmasters 08:31.680 --> 08:33.760 and trainers and babysitters. 08:33.760 --> 08:36.500 Because when you have 70 kids and you're royalty, 08:36.960 --> 08:39.680 it's like you just kinda outsource all that work. 08:40.140 --> 08:41.440 And so they're being taken care of 08:41.440 --> 08:43.000 by all the different nannies and everything. 08:43.600 --> 08:47.440 So they all get together and they send to Jihoo 08:47.440 --> 08:49.480 saying, we are thy servants 08:49.960 --> 08:52.060 and we'll do all that thou bid us, 08:52.460 --> 08:54.420 we will not make any king, 08:54.820 --> 08:56.800 do thou that which is good in thine eyes. 08:57.020 --> 08:57.540 Verse six. 08:57.880 --> 09:00.340 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them saying, 09:00.840 --> 09:04.340 if you be mine and if you will hearken unto my voice, 09:04.760 --> 09:09.180 take ye the heads of the men, your master's sons, 09:09.440 --> 09:12.540 and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. 09:13.260 --> 09:15.340 Now the king's sons being 70 persons 09:15.880 --> 09:18.120 were with the great men of the city which brought them up. 09:18.280 --> 09:19.960 Now, just so you know, when he says, 09:20.040 --> 09:21.660 hey, you know, bring me the heads, 09:22.140 --> 09:24.580 he's not using this as like a synecdoche 09:25.000 --> 09:27.100 where the part represents the whole or something like that. 09:27.100 --> 09:29.560 He's saying, no, no, no, just the heads. 09:30.360 --> 09:32.700 So he's saying basically remove their heads from their bodies 09:33.180 --> 09:34.280 and just bring the heads. 09:34.920 --> 09:35.660 That's what they do. 09:35.780 --> 09:37.040 Look at verse seven, it came to pass 09:37.040 --> 09:39.960 when the letter came to them that they took the king's sons 09:39.960 --> 09:44.380 and slew 70 persons and put their heads in baskets 09:44.960 --> 09:46.360 and sent them to Jezreel. 09:46.700 --> 09:48.520 And there came a messenger and told him saying, 09:49.000 --> 09:51.280 they have brought the heads of the king's sons 09:51.280 --> 09:53.420 and he said, lay them in two heaps, 09:53.800 --> 09:56.560 you know, in America we would call these piles, right? 09:56.560 --> 09:59.920 Put them in two piles and he says, 10:00.020 --> 10:03.420 lay them in two heaps at the entering of the gate 10:03.420 --> 10:04.100 until the morning. 10:04.760 --> 10:07.240 And it came to pass in the morning that he went out 10:07.240 --> 10:10.700 and stood and said to all the people, ye be righteous. 10:11.040 --> 10:14.120 See what I mean about the kind of sarcasm, sense of humor? 10:14.460 --> 10:16.060 I mean, this guy is not playing games. 10:16.660 --> 10:18.360 He says, oh yeah, you be righteous. 10:18.520 --> 10:21.760 Behold, I conspired against my master and slew him, 10:22.100 --> 10:23.380 but who slew all these? 10:23.380 --> 10:26.020 So he's basically saying, you know, I killed one guy. 10:26.300 --> 10:28.280 I killed King Jehoram. 10:28.600 --> 10:31.160 I killed Ahab's son, the king of Israel, 10:31.540 --> 10:35.100 but y'all just killed 70 people. 10:35.920 --> 10:38.720 You beheaded 70, he's like, I killed my master, 10:38.780 --> 10:40.660 but who slew all these, okay? 10:41.240 --> 10:43.820 But here's what's interesting in the very next breath. 10:43.980 --> 10:45.200 He says this in verse 10, 10:45.600 --> 10:48.320 know now that there shall fall unto the earth 10:48.320 --> 10:50.260 nothing of the word of the Lord 10:50.260 --> 10:53.140 which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab, 10:53.260 --> 10:56.160 for the Lord hath done that which he spake 10:56.160 --> 10:57.240 by his servant Elijah. 10:57.320 --> 11:00.520 And I think that the main point that Jehu is making here 11:00.520 --> 11:03.360 is he's saying, look, this is not my personal vendetta. 11:03.700 --> 11:05.760 This is not my personal agenda. 11:06.200 --> 11:09.160 This is not me just kind of taking this upon myself 11:09.160 --> 11:10.880 and I'm just taking revenge 11:10.880 --> 11:12.700 and I'm just taking over the kingdom 11:12.700 --> 11:14.020 and I'm just killing everybody. 11:14.480 --> 11:17.360 He's saying, look folks, this is a force of nature. 11:17.960 --> 11:20.860 This is God's word being fulfilled. 11:21.420 --> 11:23.720 This is the fulfillment of Bible prophecy 11:23.720 --> 11:25.580 and it is going to happen. 11:25.780 --> 11:26.700 It has to happen. 11:27.000 --> 11:28.020 It must happen. 11:28.220 --> 11:29.540 And it's not just me doing it. 11:29.620 --> 11:30.420 Everybody's involved 11:30.420 --> 11:33.340 because everybody is fulfilling the will of the Lord. 11:33.760 --> 11:34.600 And here's the thing. 11:34.960 --> 11:38.400 When God decides that somebody's gonna go down, 11:38.840 --> 11:39.420 they're going down. 11:40.040 --> 11:41.460 There's no way to escape it. 11:41.720 --> 11:43.760 And the Bible talks about people trying to escape 11:43.760 --> 11:45.820 the wrath of God and he says, 11:45.820 --> 11:48.260 man, if you climb all the way up to heaven, 11:48.400 --> 11:49.860 I will drag you down from there. 11:50.060 --> 11:52.740 If you dig down all the way down to hell, he says, 11:53.000 --> 11:54.500 I will bring you up from there. 11:54.800 --> 11:57.400 Like you cannot escape the judgment of the Lord. 11:57.700 --> 11:59.380 He says, it's like when you're running, 11:59.500 --> 12:01.020 and I'm paraphrasing, but he says, 12:01.120 --> 12:03.020 it's like you're running from a bear 12:03.020 --> 12:04.860 and you run into the house and shut the door 12:04.860 --> 12:07.600 and then the serpent bites you or whatever. 12:07.820 --> 12:09.380 Or you go down into the bottom of the sea 12:09.380 --> 12:13.960 to try to escape and some weird poisonous sea snake 12:13.960 --> 12:14.920 gets you or whatever. 12:16.340 --> 12:19.280 It's impossible to escape the wrath of God, 12:19.480 --> 12:20.360 the judgment of God. 12:20.840 --> 12:23.300 And so what we see is that Jihoo is explaining to the people, 12:23.860 --> 12:27.480 this is a process that has been set in motion by God 12:27.960 --> 12:29.480 and nothing can stop it. 12:29.540 --> 12:30.940 He's saying, I can't stop it. 12:31.260 --> 12:32.440 You can't stop it. 12:32.780 --> 12:33.900 Word is gonna go with it. 12:34.020 --> 12:34.980 This is the word of God. 12:35.260 --> 12:36.800 It's a judgment pronounced by Elijah. 12:37.300 --> 12:38.020 It has to happen. 12:38.280 --> 12:38.880 And here's the thing. 12:38.960 --> 12:39.740 He's telling the truth. 12:40.100 --> 12:40.960 Because if you remember, 12:41.140 --> 12:42.700 in the previous chapter, chapter nine, 12:43.560 --> 12:46.320 Jihoo was not planning to go become king. 12:46.640 --> 12:48.700 He didn't have the idea to kill Jehoram, 12:49.180 --> 12:51.780 but rather it was Elisha's messenger. 12:52.020 --> 12:53.720 Elisha sent one of the sons of the prophet 12:53.720 --> 12:56.120 that came and anointed him and said, 12:56.180 --> 12:58.300 thus saith the Lord, you're gonna be king of Israel 12:58.860 --> 12:59.360 and all that. 12:59.480 --> 13:01.400 This is all from the mouth of the Lord. 13:01.840 --> 13:02.500 He's saying, look, 13:02.620 --> 13:04.520 I'm not the only one fulfilling prophecy here. 13:04.660 --> 13:05.920 You guys are fulfilling prophecy. 13:06.400 --> 13:07.520 You guys are all involved. 13:08.700 --> 13:11.300 So I think this is a fascinating couple of verses, 13:11.300 --> 13:12.360 verses nine and 10, 13:12.780 --> 13:14.380 because I think that there are lots of different things 13:14.380 --> 13:15.480 going on in verses nine and 10. 13:15.820 --> 13:18.020 On the one hand, he's kind of saying, 13:18.420 --> 13:21.000 hey, you guys are just as guilty as me now. 13:21.300 --> 13:23.940 We're all kind of in for a penny, in for a pound. 13:24.220 --> 13:26.120 And he's trying to kind of get them to see 13:26.120 --> 13:28.620 that, hey, you guys are in this with me now, 13:28.760 --> 13:29.880 because you guys have done this. 13:29.960 --> 13:31.060 There's no going back from this. 13:31.160 --> 13:32.680 So he's trying to solidify that with them. 13:32.920 --> 13:34.580 But I think the bigger thing that he's saying 13:34.580 --> 13:36.300 is verse 10, when he says, 13:36.440 --> 13:39.480 look, none of God's word is gonna go unfulfilled. 13:39.480 --> 13:41.500 We are fulfilling Bible prophecy. 13:41.840 --> 13:42.660 It has to happen. 13:42.920 --> 13:43.920 It's inexorable. 13:44.380 --> 13:45.620 It's a force of nature. 13:45.780 --> 13:46.660 You can't stop it. 13:46.720 --> 13:48.260 God's word is not gonna return void. 13:48.400 --> 13:51.520 It's gonna carry out that for which it was intended. 13:52.560 --> 13:54.360 So it says in verse number 11. 13:55.440 --> 13:58.220 So, Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab 13:58.220 --> 14:00.980 in Jezreel and all his great men 14:00.980 --> 14:02.980 and his kinsfolk and his priests 14:02.980 --> 14:05.720 until he left him, none remaining. 14:06.340 --> 14:08.320 So what we see is that initially 14:08.320 --> 14:09.980 he'd won the battle in chapter nine. 14:10.560 --> 14:13.360 Then in chapter 10, the 70 sons are beheaded. 14:13.980 --> 14:15.560 Then he explains to people, folks, 14:15.780 --> 14:16.640 this has to happen. 14:17.340 --> 14:21.600 This is the destiny that God has already forecast 14:22.040 --> 14:23.260 through the preaching of Elijah. 14:23.920 --> 14:24.780 It must happen. 14:25.140 --> 14:26.940 And then he says, let's finish it. 14:27.060 --> 14:28.840 And then he ends up killing 14:29.480 --> 14:31.800 everybody else of the household of Ahab, right? 14:32.320 --> 14:34.200 But it doesn't even stop there 14:34.200 --> 14:35.420 because look at verse 12. 14:35.420 --> 14:38.200 And he arose and departed and came to Samaria. 14:38.880 --> 14:40.500 And as he was at the shearing house, 14:41.100 --> 14:43.960 in the way, Jehu met with the brethren 14:43.960 --> 14:46.620 of Isaiah king of Judah and said, who are you? 14:46.940 --> 14:49.660 And they answered, we are the brethren of Isaiah. 14:50.040 --> 14:51.760 And we go down to salute 14:52.320 --> 14:53.940 the children of the king and the children of the queen. 14:54.120 --> 14:56.740 So this feels like a chance encounter. 14:57.300 --> 14:58.720 This feels like a coincidence 14:59.340 --> 15:03.060 because basically Jehu is heading on his way to Samaria 15:03.600 --> 15:05.380 and just crossing paths, 15:05.660 --> 15:07.960 he stops at the rest area basically, right? 15:08.420 --> 15:09.600 He pulls off at the rest area 15:09.600 --> 15:13.380 and here are the brethren of the king of Judah. 15:13.620 --> 15:14.500 But remember, the king of Judah 15:14.500 --> 15:17.060 is super buddy buddy with the house of Ahab at this time. 15:17.460 --> 15:19.660 And they're kind of just going the other way. 15:19.720 --> 15:20.940 So he's coming this way. 15:21.300 --> 15:24.640 They're going up and they don't know what happened 15:24.640 --> 15:27.520 because this is before the internet, TV, whatever. 15:27.900 --> 15:28.660 So they have no clue. 15:28.740 --> 15:29.640 They're like, oh, we're going up 15:29.640 --> 15:30.860 to see the king and the queen. 15:30.860 --> 15:32.360 They don't know that the queen 15:32.360 --> 15:34.620 just got thrown out the window in chapter nine. 15:34.860 --> 15:37.480 They don't know that the king got smoked on the battlefield. 15:37.760 --> 15:39.840 They're just like, oh, we're just going up to visit. 15:40.140 --> 15:41.060 Yeah, we're on our way. 15:41.220 --> 15:42.820 And it's just like a chance encounter 15:43.240 --> 15:44.340 where they run into them 15:45.320 --> 15:47.620 and they're just crossing paths. 15:48.200 --> 15:49.020 And look what it says. 15:50.460 --> 15:51.620 At the end of verse 13, 15:51.720 --> 15:53.320 we are the brethren of Isaiah 15:53.760 --> 15:55.580 and we go down to salute the children of the king 15:55.580 --> 15:56.320 and the children of the queen. 15:57.420 --> 15:58.720 And remember, these are the guys 15:58.720 --> 16:00.740 that just lost their heads a few verses ago. 16:00.740 --> 16:01.540 That they're going to visit. 16:02.720 --> 16:03.840 And he said, take them alive. 16:04.280 --> 16:05.200 And they took them alive 16:05.200 --> 16:07.400 and they slew them at the pit of the shearing house. 16:07.960 --> 16:12.240 Even two and 40 men, neither left he, any of them. 16:12.300 --> 16:14.500 And again, this was not a chance encounter. 16:14.720 --> 16:16.820 I'm saying it seems like it feels that way, 16:16.960 --> 16:18.800 but this is the will of God 16:18.800 --> 16:21.300 because these guys were buddy, buddy 16:21.860 --> 16:24.220 with the house of Ahab, the enemies of the Lord, 16:24.520 --> 16:27.000 worshipers of Baal, and they're all getting smoked too. 16:27.000 --> 16:30.580 You know, what I see as the main theme here 16:30.580 --> 16:32.500 in this chapter is that, you know what? 16:32.680 --> 16:37.140 You do not want to be hanging around with buddy, buddy with 16:37.140 --> 16:39.640 and associating with the enemies of the Lord. 16:40.340 --> 16:41.180 You don't want to do it 16:41.800 --> 16:44.740 because here's the thing, just the fact 16:44.740 --> 16:50.480 that these guys are coming up to visit the house of Ahab 16:50.480 --> 16:52.700 and they want to hang out with the house of Ahab 16:52.700 --> 16:54.540 and they want to be buddies with the house of Ahab. 16:54.700 --> 16:55.620 They all get smoked. 16:56.380 --> 16:57.360 They all get killed. 16:57.680 --> 16:59.360 They all get thrown in a mass grave. 16:59.660 --> 17:01.980 42 guys get thrown in a mass grave. 17:02.180 --> 17:02.580 Why? 17:02.880 --> 17:04.580 Because they're trying to associate 17:04.580 --> 17:06.260 with the enemies of the Lord. 17:06.360 --> 17:06.960 Keep your finger here 17:06.960 --> 17:09.260 and go to 2nd Chronicles chapter 19 verse two. 17:09.720 --> 17:11.880 2nd Chronicles chapter 19 verse two. 17:12.660 --> 17:14.120 And look what the Bible says 17:14.120 --> 17:17.240 and this is actually the exact same subject 17:17.240 --> 17:19.400 because in 2nd Chronicles 19 too, 17:19.460 --> 17:21.220 this deals with the exact same thing 17:21.220 --> 17:24.240 where you have the people 17:24.240 --> 17:26.740 that are from the good kingdom of Judah down south. 17:27.700 --> 17:29.460 Jehoshaphat is a good king of Judah. 17:30.240 --> 17:31.900 You know, they are worshiping the Lord down there 17:31.900 --> 17:33.040 whereas in the northern kingdom 17:33.040 --> 17:33.900 they're worshiping the devil. 17:35.340 --> 17:36.580 And what do we see? 17:37.020 --> 17:38.000 It's the same deal 17:38.000 --> 17:41.320 where you have the better people of the southern kingdom 17:41.320 --> 17:43.620 being buddy, buddy with these super evil people 17:43.620 --> 17:44.460 in the northern kingdom. 17:44.780 --> 17:45.460 And look what it says 17:45.460 --> 17:47.920 in verse number one of chapter 19 2nd Chronicles. 17:48.740 --> 17:49.940 Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah 17:50.460 --> 17:52.500 returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem. 17:53.140 --> 17:54.860 You know, from being up with the north 17:55.480 --> 17:57.680 and Jehu, the son of Heneinai, 17:57.740 --> 17:58.700 the seer went out to meet him 17:58.700 --> 17:59.800 and said to King Jehoshaphat, 18:00.340 --> 18:03.180 shouldest thou help the ungodly 18:03.820 --> 18:06.340 and love them that hate the Lord 18:07.080 --> 18:09.520 therefore is wrath upon thee 18:10.180 --> 18:11.700 from before the Lord. 18:12.020 --> 18:14.440 Nevertheless, there are good things found in thee 18:14.440 --> 18:16.520 and he goes through some of the good things that he's done. 18:16.700 --> 18:18.900 And so look, you could be a good guy, 18:19.500 --> 18:20.860 you could be a good person, 18:21.460 --> 18:23.220 you could be a person where God's pointing out 18:23.220 --> 18:25.180 your good attributes and your worship in the Lord 18:25.180 --> 18:25.860 and everything like that. 18:26.080 --> 18:29.080 But he says, if you're helping the ungodly 18:29.760 --> 18:32.300 and you're loving them that hate the Lord, 18:32.660 --> 18:35.800 then God's wrath is gonna be upon you, 18:35.980 --> 18:37.120 like God's mad at you 18:37.760 --> 18:40.620 just for aiding and abetting the enemy. 18:41.200 --> 18:42.560 And so we need to be careful 18:42.560 --> 18:44.900 that we're not aiding and abetting 18:44.900 --> 18:46.820 the enemies of the Lord, 18:47.120 --> 18:48.640 the enemies of the church. 18:48.880 --> 18:49.840 And you know what, by the way, 18:49.840 --> 18:52.140 when people get thrown out of our church 18:52.840 --> 18:54.240 for being super wicked, 18:54.620 --> 18:56.560 for committing evil sins, 18:56.840 --> 18:58.840 for doing 1 Corinthians 5 sins, 18:59.260 --> 19:01.060 I don't care if you think, 19:01.300 --> 19:02.120 oh, they're great people, 19:02.280 --> 19:02.940 they're nice people, 19:03.060 --> 19:04.060 they're cool, they're my friends. 19:04.340 --> 19:06.640 Hey, if people are thrown out of the church 19:06.640 --> 19:10.120 for a 1 Corinthians 5 level super evil sin, 19:10.500 --> 19:11.680 you know what, you need to realize 19:11.680 --> 19:14.820 that those people are under the curse of God 19:14.820 --> 19:16.880 and those people are excommunicated 19:16.880 --> 19:18.940 and you should not be buddies with those people, 19:18.940 --> 19:20.540 you should not be hanging around with them, 19:20.780 --> 19:22.420 you should not be friends with them, 19:22.540 --> 19:24.640 and you know what, it's just, it's true. 19:25.820 --> 19:27.740 Ah, it sounds so culty, 19:27.860 --> 19:29.540 oh, okay, I forgot, 19:29.920 --> 19:32.180 1 Corinthians 5 is a cult document 19:33.200 --> 19:35.720 because 1 Corinthians 5 literally says, 19:35.900 --> 19:37.420 with such a one, no not to eat, 19:38.000 --> 19:40.040 put away from among yourselves that wicked person, 19:40.380 --> 19:41.740 ah, it sounds kind of culty. 19:41.800 --> 19:43.360 No, it's actually just from the Bible. 19:43.860 --> 19:44.760 The Bible just says, 19:45.180 --> 19:46.800 put away from among yourselves that wicked person 19:46.800 --> 19:47.900 with such a one, no not to eat. 19:47.900 --> 19:50.780 Jesus also talks about church discipline 19:50.780 --> 19:52.660 in Matthew chapter 18. 19:52.960 --> 19:54.240 And in Matthew chapter 18, 19:54.420 --> 19:57.260 when he talks about someone being thrown out of the church, 19:57.480 --> 20:01.060 he says, let them be unto you as a heathen and a publican. 20:01.380 --> 20:02.600 And you know what's funny is, 20:02.760 --> 20:04.380 you'll have people arguing sometimes 20:04.380 --> 20:07.240 about whether they think that someone is saved or unsaved. 20:07.460 --> 20:08.260 Here's the thing, who cares? 20:09.140 --> 20:10.480 If someone's thrown out of the church, 20:11.000 --> 20:13.180 it doesn't matter whether they're actually a heathen 20:13.180 --> 20:14.300 because the Bible just says 20:14.300 --> 20:15.820 they're supposed to be unto us as a heathen. 20:16.320 --> 20:18.760 So why would I sit around trying to figure out 20:18.760 --> 20:20.300 whether they're saved or not saved? 20:20.720 --> 20:23.220 I don't care, a person can be saved, 20:23.600 --> 20:26.680 a person can be a great person at one point 20:26.680 --> 20:28.260 and then go down a dark path 20:28.260 --> 20:29.820 and get thrown out of the church. 20:30.120 --> 20:33.100 You know what, that person is unto me as a heathen. 20:33.180 --> 20:35.460 I'm gonna treat them as a heathen 20:36.080 --> 20:37.540 because that's what Jesus said, 20:37.680 --> 20:40.040 treat them if they will not hear the judgment of the church, 20:40.240 --> 20:43.220 let them be unto you as a heathen and as a publican. 20:44.740 --> 20:46.400 And you know the sad thing is, 20:46.620 --> 20:49.900 even truly saved, born-again children of God 20:49.900 --> 20:53.320 can do some wicked things and can do serious sins. 20:53.580 --> 20:55.920 And in fact, I've said this so many times, 20:56.000 --> 20:58.460 I can't even count over the last 21 years of pastoring. 20:59.040 --> 21:03.100 Here's the thing, that people who are not right with God, 21:03.460 --> 21:04.420 even if they're saved, 21:04.580 --> 21:06.420 even if they're a born-again child of God, 21:07.100 --> 21:08.560 if they're not walking in the spirit, 21:08.620 --> 21:09.720 but they're walking in the flesh, 21:09.820 --> 21:10.660 if they're backslidden, 21:11.160 --> 21:14.820 they can be every bit as wicked as unsaved people. 21:15.360 --> 21:15.800 Why? 21:16.120 --> 21:18.760 Because it's impossible to reform the old man. 21:19.320 --> 21:21.700 The old man cannot be reformed, 21:21.700 --> 21:23.700 the flesh cannot be reformed. 21:23.780 --> 21:25.680 That's why the Bible says the carnal mind 21:25.680 --> 21:27.120 is enmity against God. 21:27.460 --> 21:29.520 The carnal mind cannot be brought 21:29.520 --> 21:31.180 into subjection of the laws of God. 21:31.780 --> 21:33.720 And this is why, what does the Bible say all the time? 21:34.000 --> 21:35.800 It says put off the old man, put on the new man. 21:35.840 --> 21:37.760 It doesn't say, hey, we're gonna fix the old man, 21:38.060 --> 21:39.280 we're gonna reform the old man, 21:39.280 --> 21:40.980 you know, we're gonna have a better old man. 21:41.100 --> 21:42.560 No, no, it's just put off the old man, 21:42.800 --> 21:45.320 put on the new man, walk in the spirit, 21:45.480 --> 21:46.640 don't fulfill the less the flesh. 21:46.960 --> 21:50.280 The flesh is never gonna stop having the wrong appetites. 21:50.480 --> 21:52.640 It's never gonna stop having the wrong attitude. 21:53.020 --> 21:55.140 It's never gonna stop wanting to sin. 21:55.480 --> 21:57.780 That's why you have to crucify the flesh 21:57.780 --> 22:01.160 and walk in the spirit, die daily, deny self, 22:01.580 --> 22:03.000 take up the cross, follow Jesus. 22:03.360 --> 22:05.060 I mean, this is clear in scripture 22:05.540 --> 22:07.060 that you gotta walk in the spirit, 22:07.060 --> 22:10.500 put on the new man because the old man cannot be reformed. 22:10.760 --> 22:14.300 That's why the Bible says, mortify the old man, 22:14.480 --> 22:16.480 mortify the flesh, put the old man to death 22:16.480 --> 22:18.640 because you cannot fix him. 22:19.000 --> 22:20.600 And so therefore, if you have a person, 22:20.780 --> 22:22.920 and this is where people get confused about salvation too, 22:23.420 --> 22:25.440 you could have a person who believes 22:25.440 --> 22:26.540 on the Lord Jesus Christ, 22:27.180 --> 22:28.820 truly believes on the Lord Jesus Christ, 22:28.940 --> 22:29.920 calls upon the name of the Lord. 22:30.460 --> 22:33.120 Let's just say that person never goes to church, 22:33.820 --> 22:38.580 never gets baptized, never reads their Bible, never prays. 22:38.600 --> 22:39.980 You know what, they're probably gonna act 22:39.980 --> 22:41.240 a lot like an unsaved person. 22:41.700 --> 22:43.300 And then people will look at that person and say, 22:43.360 --> 22:44.440 oh, this person's not saved, 22:44.600 --> 22:45.700 look at the way they're living, but hold up. 22:46.660 --> 22:47.740 Could they still be saved? 22:48.480 --> 22:50.600 Yeah, because what does the Bible say in Romans 4-5? 22:50.940 --> 22:52.240 But to him that work could not, 22:52.820 --> 22:55.460 but believe it on him that justified the ungodly, 22:55.800 --> 22:57.640 his faith is counted for righteousness, 22:58.040 --> 23:00.960 even as David also described with the blessedness 23:00.960 --> 23:05.360 of the man unto whom God imputed righteousness without works. 23:05.900 --> 23:08.460 Saying, blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven 23:08.460 --> 23:09.580 and whose sins are covered, 23:09.980 --> 23:12.260 blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. 23:12.580 --> 23:15.640 You could have a person that worketh not, but he believes. 23:16.540 --> 23:17.820 His faith is counted for righteousness, 23:18.460 --> 23:20.240 the righteousness of Christ imputed unto him, 23:20.660 --> 23:22.740 his sins are not imputed, he's saved, 23:23.000 --> 23:23.520 he's going to heaven. 23:23.660 --> 23:25.020 And the Bible talks about the same guy 23:25.020 --> 23:26.060 in 1 Corinthians 3, 23:26.440 --> 23:28.980 when he talks about being at the judgment seat of Christ 23:28.980 --> 23:31.400 and your works are either gonna be gold, silver, 23:31.500 --> 23:33.940 and precious stones, or they're gonna be wood, hay, and stubble. 23:34.420 --> 23:36.340 And if all your works are wood, hay, and stubble 23:36.340 --> 23:37.980 and all your works are trash 23:37.980 --> 23:39.720 and all your works are burned up, 23:39.760 --> 23:44.020 it says, yet he himself shall be saved, yet so is by fire. 23:44.380 --> 23:46.640 And so yeah, you could still be saved 23:47.120 --> 23:49.660 and just not have any good works that actually, 23:49.900 --> 23:52.920 you know, stand the test of the judgment seat of Christ 23:52.920 --> 23:57.520 and you're getting zero rewards, but you're still saved. 23:58.220 --> 24:00.880 And so here's the thing is that people 24:01.360 --> 24:04.680 who are saved Christians, truly saved children of God, 24:05.080 --> 24:07.360 if they are not walking in the Spirit, 24:07.700 --> 24:08.800 if they're in the flesh, 24:09.040 --> 24:11.340 they're gonna be just like unsaved people. 24:12.260 --> 24:14.200 They're gonna be just like they were before they were saved. 24:14.780 --> 24:17.040 And look, we also have many testimonies 24:17.040 --> 24:17.940 of people that we've known 24:18.460 --> 24:20.060 where this person will get saved 24:20.060 --> 24:22.020 and nothing changes about their life immediately. 24:22.460 --> 24:24.100 Now there's a change that happens on the inside, 24:24.140 --> 24:25.620 but we're not seeing it on the outside 24:25.620 --> 24:27.320 because they're not putting on the new man. 24:27.740 --> 24:30.220 The new man's there inside, there's a change inside, 24:30.320 --> 24:32.300 but it's not worked its way out, unfortunately. 24:33.060 --> 24:35.040 And so sometimes you'll see people in that condition 24:35.040 --> 24:37.180 for five years, 10 years, 15 years, 24:37.440 --> 24:38.740 and then down the road, 24:38.980 --> 24:40.960 they'll eventually get into a good church 24:40.960 --> 24:43.340 and all of a sudden, bam, they're getting baptized, 24:44.180 --> 24:46.340 they're reading their Bible, they're praying, 24:46.860 --> 24:49.220 they're going soul-winning, they're singing hymns, 24:49.340 --> 24:50.660 they're getting sin out of their life 24:50.660 --> 24:53.080 and then all of a sudden there's a dramatic change, 24:53.080 --> 24:56.380 but they actually got saved like 15 years earlier 24:56.380 --> 24:58.180 or five years earlier, 10 years earlier, 24:58.440 --> 25:00.220 but you didn't see the dramatic change 25:00.220 --> 25:01.720 until they start putting on the new man, 25:01.840 --> 25:04.500 putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, walking in the Spirit. 25:05.000 --> 25:07.060 And so we don't wanna get that wrong about salvation. 25:07.280 --> 25:10.060 Salvation is a free gift, it's by grace through faith, 25:10.240 --> 25:11.800 it's not of work, listen to me mention both, 25:12.120 --> 25:13.480 you don't do works to get saved, 25:13.680 --> 25:15.280 you don't do works to stay saved, 25:15.560 --> 25:17.240 you don't have to do works to prove to God 25:17.240 --> 25:19.620 that you're saved, to prove to yourself that you're saved. 25:19.620 --> 25:24.300 No, works do not have anything to do with salvation, okay? 25:24.840 --> 25:27.640 They are, after we're saved, we should do the work 25:27.640 --> 25:30.640 so we can get rewarded by God, that's the point. 25:31.920 --> 25:36.400 So when it comes to people committing grievous 25:36.400 --> 25:40.280 first Corinthians five sins, you know, that's wicked. 25:40.840 --> 25:42.520 It's not a small thing, it's not like, 25:42.860 --> 25:45.440 well, great guy, but he just says this one problem, 25:45.640 --> 25:47.540 no, if you're committing first Corinthians 25:47.540 --> 25:50.960 five type sins, severe sins, drunkenness, railing, 25:51.100 --> 25:54.040 extortion, idolatry, that stuff, hey, you're out. 25:55.580 --> 25:59.600 And you know, obviously, you're brought back 25:59.600 --> 26:00.500 if you're repentant. 26:01.540 --> 26:03.260 Look, there have been people in our church 26:03.260 --> 26:06.980 who were drunkards, but they felt bad about it, 26:07.040 --> 26:08.400 they're sorry, they wanna get help, 26:08.500 --> 26:10.340 they wanna change, we're not gonna throw that person out 26:10.340 --> 26:13.380 if the person is repentant and getting it right. 26:16.520 --> 26:19.500 But the people that are unrepentant, they're out 26:19.500 --> 26:22.340 and they should be treated as heathens and they're wicked 26:22.340 --> 26:23.780 and we should not even eat with them, 26:23.820 --> 26:24.700 that's what the Bible says. 26:26.340 --> 26:27.980 You know, and it's amazing to me 26:27.980 --> 26:30.720 how people struggle with that, but it's pretty clear. 26:34.280 --> 26:38.220 But you, and you say, well, why wouldn't I still hang around? 26:38.320 --> 26:40.880 And here's the thing, I'm not out here policing you, 26:41.620 --> 26:44.700 it's not that I'm like, hey, I'm not gonna let you 26:44.700 --> 26:45.320 hang around with these people. 26:45.580 --> 26:46.940 No, no, no, you go do what you want. 26:47.060 --> 26:49.860 I'm just telling you, these people are under the curse of God, 26:50.240 --> 26:53.640 you don't want that miasma, you don't want that, 26:53.940 --> 26:56.880 that's a bad word to use, but you don't want that 26:57.460 --> 27:00.480 contamination, that is a better word, getting on you. 27:00.920 --> 27:01.560 You know what I'm saying? 27:01.960 --> 27:05.400 Like, you don't want to be connected to that 27:05.920 --> 27:08.080 and it's like when Korra, Nathan, and Abiram 27:08.080 --> 27:09.860 are rebelling against Moses and Aaron, 27:09.860 --> 27:12.640 God says, get you up from the tents of these wicked men, 27:12.800 --> 27:14.320 lest you be consumed with them. 27:14.740 --> 27:16.840 Get out of there, you don't want to get smoked with these people, 27:16.880 --> 27:18.340 you don't want to be associated with them. 27:18.500 --> 27:20.560 Because look, these people are being friendly 27:21.100 --> 27:22.840 with these wicked people and what happens? 27:23.220 --> 27:26.900 42 dudes in a mass grave, why? 27:27.520 --> 27:29.780 Because they're going to visit and hang out with 27:29.780 --> 27:31.300 and be buddy, buddy with these bunch of 27:31.300 --> 27:34.060 veil worshiping wicked people in the Northern Kingdom. 27:34.620 --> 27:37.480 So back to 2 Kings, we're done in 2 Chronicles. 27:37.480 --> 27:41.480 Back in 2 Kings, chapter 10, we see this encounter 27:41.480 --> 27:43.440 along the way at the rest area. 27:43.860 --> 27:46.180 Then we see verse 15, and it says, 27:46.340 --> 27:48.300 and when he was departed thence, he lighted on 27:49.240 --> 27:50.460 Jehanadab, the son of Recap. 27:50.700 --> 27:53.160 Sorry, Jehanadab, I accidentally mixed you up 27:53.160 --> 27:54.260 with zero bone earlier in the sermon. 27:54.780 --> 27:56.980 Jehanadab, the son of Recap, coming to meet him 27:56.980 --> 27:58.800 and he saluted him and said to him, 27:59.640 --> 28:02.220 and I love this, is thy heart right 28:02.220 --> 28:03.920 as my heart is with thy heart? 28:03.960 --> 28:05.040 It's a little bit of a tongue twister, 28:05.720 --> 28:06.860 but I like what he says there. 28:06.860 --> 28:10.360 Is thy heart right as my heart is with thy heart? 28:10.440 --> 28:13.140 And Jehanadab answered, it is. 28:14.560 --> 28:17.440 If it be, give me thine hand and he gave him his hand 28:17.440 --> 28:19.560 and he took him up to him into the chariot 28:19.560 --> 28:23.980 and he said, come with me and see my zeal for the Lord. 28:24.240 --> 28:26.080 So they made him ride in his chariot. 28:26.160 --> 28:27.680 See what I mean about like when you're reading this 28:27.680 --> 28:28.980 and you don't know how it's going to end, 28:29.440 --> 28:31.120 you're like, this guy, gee, who's awesome. 28:31.560 --> 28:34.680 So many one liners, just come with me 28:34.680 --> 28:36.220 and see my zeal for the Lord. 28:36.220 --> 28:37.920 I mean, it's exciting, you know? 28:38.340 --> 28:41.020 In fact, one of the early versions of our tract 28:41.020 --> 28:43.060 that we handed out door to door literally said, 28:43.500 --> 28:45.600 come with me and see my zeal for the Lord. 28:45.780 --> 28:47.520 Like, you know, that was like a tagline 28:47.520 --> 28:48.680 for our church at one point. 28:48.960 --> 28:50.520 Or maybe it was somebody that we sent out 28:50.520 --> 28:51.060 to start a church. 28:51.200 --> 28:53.320 I know I've put, I designed something 28:53.320 --> 28:54.720 and stuck it on there at one point. 28:55.080 --> 28:57.560 But the point is that he's saying to him, 28:57.660 --> 28:59.740 is your heart right with my heart, 29:00.300 --> 29:02.020 you know, as my heart is with your heart? 29:02.340 --> 29:04.240 And you know, what I take from this is that, 29:04.240 --> 29:05.680 you know, there are a lot of people 29:05.680 --> 29:08.140 that you can be super cool with, 29:08.340 --> 29:11.160 super nice to have nothing but good feelings 29:11.160 --> 29:13.600 and good energy toward that person. 29:13.880 --> 29:17.280 And in their heart, they do not feel the same way. 29:19.220 --> 29:21.340 You know, and it's like, you'll be nice to people 29:21.950 --> 29:24.240 and you treat people well and you love them 29:24.240 --> 29:25.900 and you have nothing but good feelings for them. 29:26.180 --> 29:29.580 And they just have malicious, evil intent toward you. 29:29.640 --> 29:31.720 And that's what, gee, who is wondering like, 29:31.720 --> 29:35.460 you know, he's like, bro, I have no ill will toward you, 29:35.900 --> 29:38.880 but is your heart right with my heart, 29:38.980 --> 29:40.160 you know, as I am with you? 29:40.500 --> 29:42.220 I forgot the actual tongue twister. 29:42.700 --> 29:46.440 And so you need to understand that everybody 29:46.440 --> 29:48.180 who's pretending to be your friend 29:48.180 --> 29:50.420 isn't actually for real, unfortunately. 29:51.600 --> 29:53.860 And it's sad, but you know, 29:53.960 --> 29:57.720 this is exactly like Judas Iscariot betraying Jesus. 29:58.120 --> 30:00.560 David was betrayed by close friends and family, 30:00.560 --> 30:02.100 you know, all throughout the Bible, 30:02.340 --> 30:04.240 you see people being betrayed 30:04.240 --> 30:06.260 and turned on by people that they love. 30:06.460 --> 30:07.860 And you know what, the apostle Paul, 30:08.500 --> 30:11.200 you know, he sounds pretty disgruntled, disenchanted, 30:12.140 --> 30:14.160 disillusioned, quote unquote, blackpilled 30:14.660 --> 30:17.240 when he says, the more I love, the less I be loved. 30:18.360 --> 30:20.560 I mean, what a thing for Paul to say in the New Testament. 30:21.300 --> 30:24.840 Man, it seems like the more I love, the less I be loved. 30:26.000 --> 30:28.640 You know, and obviously there are lots of other scriptures 30:28.640 --> 30:31.100 about people being hated without a cause, 30:31.780 --> 30:34.520 returning evil for good, and so forth. 30:34.740 --> 30:38.040 It's a tragedy, but unfortunately it's out there. 30:38.640 --> 30:40.980 And so that's what Jehu's asking, you know, 30:41.100 --> 30:43.940 hey, I love you, I'm your friend, 30:44.020 --> 30:45.480 but do you feel the same way about me? 30:46.240 --> 30:47.540 And John Adab, the son of Recap, 30:48.120 --> 30:49.360 he actually is a real one 30:49.360 --> 30:51.580 and he's actually telling the truth when he says it is. 30:51.940 --> 30:53.860 And notice, John Adab, the son of Recap, 30:54.060 --> 30:56.760 he doesn't have to go into a bunch of flattery 30:56.760 --> 30:59.120 and go on and on, like proving 30:59.700 --> 31:02.060 how great of a friend he is to Jehu. 31:02.280 --> 31:03.340 He just says, yup. 31:05.760 --> 31:07.180 It's like, are you with me? 31:07.340 --> 31:09.000 He's just like, yes I am. 31:09.420 --> 31:11.860 All right, let's go come see my zeal for the Lord. 31:12.220 --> 31:13.020 You know, sometimes the people 31:13.020 --> 31:14.840 that kind of flatter you the most 31:14.840 --> 31:18.180 and lay it on super thick and go on and on, 31:18.580 --> 31:20.520 you know, those aren't even necessarily the real ones. 31:20.880 --> 31:21.940 Because talk is cheap. 31:22.580 --> 31:24.340 It's pretty easy to just say stuff. 31:24.340 --> 31:27.180 It's more about showing it with your deeds, 31:27.360 --> 31:29.260 showing it with your actions, showing it with your life, 31:29.540 --> 31:31.620 the loyalty that you have as a friend 31:31.620 --> 31:34.240 and your loyalty to the truth and God's word 31:34.240 --> 31:35.580 and the church and so forth. 31:36.740 --> 31:38.020 So let's keep going here. 31:38.580 --> 31:40.500 He says, I'm gonna show you my zeal for the Lord. 31:40.640 --> 31:41.780 Come see my zeal for the Lord. 31:43.340 --> 31:45.060 And when he came to Samaria, 31:45.740 --> 31:48.060 he slew all that remained under Ahab in Samaria. 31:48.240 --> 31:49.040 I mean, look, wow. 31:49.980 --> 31:52.220 Everybody associated with Ahab is getting smoked. 31:52.800 --> 31:55.140 I mean, it's just like step after step 31:55.140 --> 31:56.340 after step after step. 31:56.800 --> 31:59.600 When God is ready to judge a group of people, 31:59.920 --> 32:00.800 they all get smoked. 32:01.140 --> 32:02.760 And it's just, you know, it doesn't happen overnight 32:02.760 --> 32:05.400 because this happens over the course of like 10 years 32:05.400 --> 32:07.180 because Ahab died like 10 years earlier. 32:07.460 --> 32:08.900 And then now 10 years later, 32:09.020 --> 32:10.720 it's just like everybody's getting smoked 32:10.720 --> 32:11.620 in the same week. 32:12.620 --> 32:15.680 But then it says here in verse 18, 32:15.940 --> 32:17.480 Jehu gathered all the people together. 32:17.840 --> 32:20.780 Here's Jehu's sense of humor once again. 32:20.780 --> 32:22.820 His style comes through once again. 32:23.100 --> 32:26.720 He said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little, 32:27.500 --> 32:30.520 but Jehu shall serve him much. 32:31.880 --> 32:34.180 He's like, hey, you guys like worship and Baal? 32:34.640 --> 32:35.700 I got news for you. 32:35.820 --> 32:37.700 Now this might have freaked some people out. 32:37.840 --> 32:38.880 Like the worshipers of the Lord 32:38.880 --> 32:40.200 are probably a little freaked out by this 32:40.200 --> 32:41.220 because he says, hey, 32:41.880 --> 32:43.360 Jehu served Baal a little bit, 32:43.720 --> 32:46.740 or excuse me, Ahab served Baal a little bit. 32:47.040 --> 32:49.660 He's saying, Jehu is gonna serve him a lot. 32:50.200 --> 32:53.780 He's like, I'm gonna be the biggest Baal worshiper ever 32:53.780 --> 32:57.880 because I'm gonna do the biggest sacrifice to Baal 32:57.880 --> 32:59.560 that anybody's ever seen. 32:59.840 --> 33:04.180 I'm gonna do the ultimate mega Baal sacrifice. 33:04.560 --> 33:05.620 And so in order to do that, 33:05.800 --> 33:08.960 I need every single Baal worshiper to show up. 33:09.000 --> 33:12.180 We're gonna have the mega conference for Baal worship. 33:12.480 --> 33:14.600 And we're just gonna bring every Baal worshiper. 33:14.920 --> 33:18.620 Want every single priest of Baal, prophet of Baal. 33:18.620 --> 33:22.380 This is just like the mega Baal convention of all time 33:22.380 --> 33:25.640 because we're gonna do the greatest sacrifice 33:25.640 --> 33:27.160 to Baal in history. 33:27.380 --> 33:30.200 Like, you think that Israel was worshiping Baal before? 33:30.420 --> 33:32.460 Oh, wait till you see what I'm gonna do to worship Baal. 33:32.840 --> 33:38.000 So he brings them all out and it says in verse 19, 33:38.160 --> 33:40.460 now they're forecalling to be all the prophets of Baal, 33:40.660 --> 33:42.540 all his servants and all his priests 33:42.540 --> 33:43.780 let none be wanting. 33:44.300 --> 33:46.740 For I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal. 33:47.060 --> 33:48.300 Whosoever shall be wanting, 33:48.300 --> 33:49.100 he shall not live. 33:49.240 --> 33:51.400 He's like, if we find out you're a Baal worshiper 33:51.400 --> 33:52.960 and you didn't show up, you're gonna be put to death. 33:53.080 --> 33:54.740 Like, this is, you gotta be here for this. 33:55.320 --> 33:56.400 This is that important. 33:57.140 --> 34:00.060 And they're like, they're probably like so happy. 34:00.920 --> 34:02.760 They're probably thinking like, wow, 34:03.020 --> 34:06.200 finally Baal worship is getting the attention 34:06.900 --> 34:09.600 and the funding and the government support 34:09.600 --> 34:10.380 that it deserves. 34:10.720 --> 34:12.060 So they're super stoked. 34:12.360 --> 34:14.020 They're like, they're just on cloud nine. 34:14.380 --> 34:14.940 And they get all excited. 34:14.940 --> 34:22.940 It's sort of like Mordecai where he gets his revenge on Haman. 34:23.680 --> 34:26.600 But right before that, Haman's kind of top of the world. 34:27.080 --> 34:29.720 Like, hey, I just kind of invited to be with Esther 34:29.720 --> 34:30.760 at the bank or whatever. 34:31.140 --> 34:33.400 It's like a lot of times these people will get all, 34:33.680 --> 34:35.840 they're all chipper and they're all gleeful 34:35.840 --> 34:36.760 and they think they're winning 34:37.300 --> 34:39.140 when they're actually about to get smoked. 34:40.520 --> 34:42.240 Pride goes before destruction, 34:42.420 --> 34:44.000 a haughty spirit before the fall. 34:44.680 --> 34:47.640 And so these Baal worshipers, they're all excited. 34:48.340 --> 34:53.500 They're probably getting their priestly garments, 34:53.760 --> 34:57.540 all cleaned and pressed and get it all decked out 34:57.540 --> 34:59.920 and oh man, this is gonna go down in history. 35:00.480 --> 35:02.280 The biggest Baal event ever. 35:04.100 --> 35:05.960 And Jihoo said in verse 20, 35:06.460 --> 35:11.340 proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal and they proclaimed it. 35:11.640 --> 35:13.360 And Jihoo said throughout all Israel 35:13.360 --> 35:15.640 and all the worshipers of Baal came 35:15.640 --> 35:18.260 so that there was not a man left that came not. 35:18.500 --> 35:20.160 And they came into the house of Baal 35:20.160 --> 35:22.860 and the house of Baal was full from one end to the other. 35:23.080 --> 35:24.760 And he said to them that was over the vestry, 35:24.860 --> 35:27.060 bring forth vestments for all the worshipers of Baal. 35:27.120 --> 35:29.740 So he's like, hey guys, we got a special outfit 35:29.740 --> 35:32.420 for you guys all to put on so that we can 35:32.860 --> 35:34.960 give you this robe that you're gonna put on 35:34.960 --> 35:39.600 to identify all the elite platinum level Baal worshipers 35:39.600 --> 35:40.000 and everything. 35:40.520 --> 35:41.720 So they all put on the clothes. 35:41.720 --> 35:44.100 Jihoo went and johannadab the son of Recap 35:44.100 --> 35:47.080 under the house of Baal and said to the worshipers of Baal, 35:47.220 --> 35:49.500 search and look that there be here 35:49.500 --> 35:51.600 with you none of the servants of the Lord, 35:52.100 --> 35:53.160 but the worshipers of Baal. 35:53.340 --> 35:56.080 You know, we don't want any worshipers 35:56.080 --> 35:57.920 of Jehovah God in here. 35:58.040 --> 36:00.480 No, no, no, this is Baal worshipers only. 36:00.760 --> 36:02.920 So look around and talk to your neighbor 36:02.920 --> 36:05.260 and make sure that you know every, 36:05.380 --> 36:08.460 make sure that these people are all real Baal worshipers 36:08.460 --> 36:10.960 and that there's none of these like worshipers 36:10.960 --> 36:12.800 of the Lord have snuck in, right? 36:14.480 --> 36:16.820 And these people have no clue what's about to happen. 36:17.400 --> 36:19.240 So then they make sure, no, no, no, 36:19.320 --> 36:20.840 it's only Baal worshipers. 36:23.040 --> 36:26.020 And then it says in verse number 24, 36:26.540 --> 36:27.880 and when they went in to offer sacrifice 36:27.880 --> 36:31.160 and burn offerings, Jihoo appointed four score men 36:31.160 --> 36:33.040 without, so he gets 80 guys, 36:33.160 --> 36:34.200 because you know these Baal worshipers, 36:34.240 --> 36:35.480 they don't have any weapons or anything. 36:36.060 --> 36:38.020 You know, they're just there to worship Satan, 36:38.280 --> 36:38.860 worship Baal. 36:38.860 --> 36:42.580 And so Jihoo just gets 80 guys, armed men, 36:43.580 --> 36:46.440 and he says to these four score men, these 80 guys, 36:47.420 --> 36:50.240 he said, if any man who might have brought 36:50.240 --> 36:52.800 into your hands escape, he that let it them go, 36:53.440 --> 36:55.880 his life shall go for the life of him. 36:55.920 --> 36:57.400 He said, okay, now we're gonna kill 36:57.400 --> 36:59.820 every single one of these Baal worshipers right now. 37:00.460 --> 37:01.920 So they just bring them all together, 37:02.200 --> 37:03.920 they're all excited, yay, worship big Baal. 37:04.160 --> 37:06.300 And then just 80 guys just come in 37:06.300 --> 37:08.220 and just kill every single one of them. 37:08.960 --> 37:11.260 And it says, I lost my place here. 37:12.660 --> 37:15.100 It says, and it came to pass as soon as 37:15.100 --> 37:17.900 he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, 37:18.680 --> 37:21.060 that Jihoo said to the guard and to the captains, 37:21.200 --> 37:24.340 go in and slay them, let none come forth, 37:24.500 --> 37:26.360 and they smote them with the edge of the sword, 37:26.400 --> 37:29.100 we're in verse 25, and the guard and the captains 37:29.100 --> 37:30.740 cast them out and went to the city 37:30.740 --> 37:32.940 of the house of Baal, and they brought forth 37:32.940 --> 37:35.280 the images of the house of Baal and burned them, 37:35.280 --> 37:37.220 and they break down the image of Baal 37:37.220 --> 37:38.940 and break down the house of Baal 37:38.940 --> 37:41.860 and made it a draft house under this day. 37:42.320 --> 37:43.360 What is a draft house? 37:43.720 --> 37:44.700 Well, remember in the New Testament, 37:44.840 --> 37:47.460 it's an old word that we're not familiar with necessarily 37:47.460 --> 37:50.740 in 2026, but remember in the New Testament, 37:50.860 --> 37:53.600 he said, whatever you eat is digested, 37:53.620 --> 37:55.820 it goes into the belly and then it comes out the draft. 37:56.780 --> 37:59.860 He's saying we're gonna make it into a public toilet. 38:00.580 --> 38:03.840 So he basically turns the house of Baal, 38:03.840 --> 38:06.640 he destroys it, tears it down to the ground, 38:06.920 --> 38:07.960 and then says we're gonna make it 38:07.960 --> 38:09.780 into a giant public bathroom. 38:11.620 --> 38:14.480 Okay, it's just gonna be because Baal worship 38:14.480 --> 38:17.520 is a bunch of crap, and so that's literally 38:17.520 --> 38:18.480 gonna be what it is. 38:19.220 --> 38:20.540 And then look at verse 28, 38:21.420 --> 38:23.720 thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. 38:23.920 --> 38:26.060 I mean, the religion's just totally eliminated 38:26.960 --> 38:30.120 because every single Baal worshiper, every priest, 38:30.540 --> 38:32.960 every prophet shows up, they're all dead, 38:33.360 --> 38:34.720 the images are all destroyed, 38:35.160 --> 38:36.820 and you know what you don't have noticed 38:36.820 --> 38:38.820 about the gods that we read about 38:38.820 --> 38:40.100 in the Bible of the heathen? 38:40.420 --> 38:42.200 Because we read about all these false gods, right? 38:42.580 --> 38:46.180 Baal, and Astoroth, and Molec, 38:46.380 --> 38:47.760 and all these different false gods. 38:47.900 --> 38:50.500 Have you noticed that no one worships them in 2026? 38:51.640 --> 38:55.160 Think about it, like who is worshipping Baal by name 38:55.160 --> 38:58.800 in 2026, who is worshipping Astoroth, Molec, 38:58.800 --> 39:02.960 Ramphan, Cayenne, all of the false gods 39:02.960 --> 39:04.180 that are listed in the Old Testament, 39:05.300 --> 39:06.360 nobody's worshipping them. 39:06.600 --> 39:09.280 Think about the gods of the ancient Greeks, Zeus, 39:09.900 --> 39:12.120 and Apollo, who's worshipping them? 39:12.300 --> 39:12.460 Nobody. 39:13.220 --> 39:15.120 Who's worshipping the Roman Pantheon? 39:15.380 --> 39:15.780 Nobody. 39:16.520 --> 39:19.280 Who's worshipping the Scandinavian Pantheon? 39:19.480 --> 39:22.280 Versus like, obviously yeah, there's gonna be 39:22.280 --> 39:26.000 some weird white guy living in his mother's basement 39:26.560 --> 39:28.580 who's like into Thor and whatever, 39:28.920 --> 39:31.040 and he's either like, oh, I'm a pagan or whatever, 39:31.240 --> 39:34.340 but it's like, seriously, realistically, 39:34.980 --> 39:37.140 nobody's worshipping these religions, 39:37.300 --> 39:40.020 because God ends up just eliminating them in the long run. 39:40.960 --> 39:42.920 False religions in the long run, 39:43.080 --> 39:45.300 they get eliminated, they get destroyed, 39:45.820 --> 39:48.080 but the name of the Lord, the word of God 39:48.080 --> 39:50.900 stands forever, the Bible stands forever. 39:51.320 --> 39:53.140 These other false religions, they come and go, 39:53.520 --> 39:54.220 is what they do. 39:54.900 --> 39:58.200 And so, Baal worship just gets completely annihilated. 39:58.600 --> 40:01.660 So, up to this point, Jihu is just batting 1,000, 40:02.000 --> 40:05.360 and he has such great flair and such great style 40:05.360 --> 40:08.360 about the way he does everything, and you love the guy, 40:08.400 --> 40:11.420 but then look at this in verse 32, or sorry, verse 29. 40:11.960 --> 40:14.500 How be it, from the sons of Jeroboam, 40:14.540 --> 40:17.160 the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, 40:17.640 --> 40:19.900 Jihu departed not from after them, 40:20.340 --> 40:22.820 to wit the golden calves that were in Bethel, 40:22.840 --> 40:23.260 and that were dead. 40:23.260 --> 40:25.340 I mean, this is one of the most disappointing verses ever. 40:25.680 --> 40:27.880 This guy's just been awesome for two chapters, 40:28.220 --> 40:29.760 and now all of a sudden, it's like, 40:31.720 --> 40:33.620 still idolatry, it's just a different idol. 40:35.060 --> 40:36.500 And again, it's like this. 40:36.820 --> 40:38.400 You'll see some guy on the internet 40:38.800 --> 40:41.900 that's just, some little short comes, 40:42.040 --> 40:44.580 I don't watch stupid shorts, but people who do, 40:45.120 --> 40:46.540 the short comes up, and you're like, 40:46.860 --> 40:49.400 ooh, this guy sounds good, he's ripping on homos, 40:49.540 --> 40:51.340 or oh, he's ripping on the Jews, 40:51.500 --> 40:52.760 or he's ripping on Muslims, or whatever. 40:52.760 --> 40:55.300 And then it's like, wow, this guy sounds really good. 40:55.360 --> 40:57.800 And then you check, and it's like Roman Catholic. 40:58.240 --> 41:00.940 You're just like, come on, like, Greek Orthodox. 41:02.320 --> 41:04.460 You're just like, give me a break, man. 41:04.980 --> 41:06.100 Right, it's just like, what? 41:07.880 --> 41:08.900 Because guess what? 41:09.480 --> 41:10.820 Those are just as satanic, 41:11.000 --> 41:13.220 it's just a different branch of the same thing. 41:14.360 --> 41:20.360 And so, obviously, it's easier to point out error 41:20.360 --> 41:21.820 than to preach truth. 41:22.760 --> 41:26.360 Preaching truth is more difficult and more rare 41:26.720 --> 41:27.940 than just pointing out errors. 41:28.480 --> 41:29.600 Anybody can point out errors. 41:30.180 --> 41:33.200 It's having the right answer, the right gospel, 41:33.400 --> 41:34.540 the truth from the word of God. 41:34.700 --> 41:36.280 That's what is more important. 41:37.280 --> 41:39.780 So, Jehu's awesome at destroying the bad guys. 41:40.760 --> 41:42.420 All he does is destroy the bad guys, 41:42.520 --> 41:45.340 but then when it comes to his walk with God 41:45.340 --> 41:46.740 and now he's gonna worship the Lord, 41:47.040 --> 41:50.440 he totally fails and has people worship 41:50.440 --> 41:51.260 in the golden calves. 41:52.300 --> 41:55.060 And so it says in verse 30, the Lord said to Jehu, 41:55.240 --> 41:56.200 don't miss verse 30 though, 41:56.220 --> 41:59.200 because I want you to see that this is a correct analysis here 41:59.640 --> 42:01.860 that what he did was right and good. 42:02.280 --> 42:03.760 Because it says in verse number 30, 42:03.840 --> 42:07.540 the Lord said to Jehu, because thou hast done well 42:08.540 --> 42:12.020 in executing that which is right in my eyes 42:12.520 --> 42:14.040 and has done unto the house of Ab, 42:14.260 --> 42:15.800 according to all that was in my heart. 42:15.880 --> 42:18.140 He's like, look, what you did, Jehu, 42:18.540 --> 42:20.020 this is exactly what I had in mind. 42:21.420 --> 42:23.040 Wiping out the house of Ahab, 42:23.260 --> 42:24.800 wiping out the worship of Abel. 42:25.320 --> 42:27.440 He's like, you did what was in my heart, bro. 42:28.000 --> 42:29.020 Isn't that what the Lord is saying? 42:29.540 --> 42:32.960 You did well, you executed that which was in my heart. 42:33.480 --> 42:34.920 He says, because you did that, 42:35.360 --> 42:36.960 your reward is gonna be what? 42:38.640 --> 42:41.660 It says, thy children of the fourth generation, 42:41.840 --> 42:43.000 so sit on the throne of Israel. 42:43.120 --> 42:44.860 So he's saying, you're gonna be king, 42:45.520 --> 42:46.620 your son's gonna be king, 42:47.200 --> 42:48.340 his son's gonna be king, 42:48.540 --> 42:50.000 and his son's gonna be king. 42:50.000 --> 42:51.780 Four generations of kings. 42:52.860 --> 42:54.860 So that's great news, right? 42:55.860 --> 42:58.160 But although the Lord is so good unto him 42:58.560 --> 43:01.780 and so generous to him and so gracious unto him 43:01.780 --> 43:03.500 to allow him to have that boon, 43:03.880 --> 43:05.020 it says in verse 31, 43:05.960 --> 43:09.340 but Jehu took no heed to walk in the law 43:09.340 --> 43:10.340 of the Lord God of Israel. 43:10.460 --> 43:12.620 So it's like, God is sitting there and telling him, 43:13.080 --> 43:14.380 man, I'm gonna bless you, 43:14.960 --> 43:15.760 you're gonna be king, 43:16.180 --> 43:17.060 your son's gonna be king, 43:17.220 --> 43:18.720 your grandson, your great-grandson, 43:18.720 --> 43:21.760 and instead of being like, wow, man, God is so good, 43:22.200 --> 43:23.820 God is blessing me so much, 43:23.940 --> 43:25.140 I have a guaranteed kingdom. 43:25.600 --> 43:27.920 My great-grandson has a guaranteed kingdom. 43:28.340 --> 43:30.280 That should make him super thankful 43:30.280 --> 43:34.140 and wanna do something good for God and be right. 43:34.540 --> 43:36.780 But now it doesn't have that effect, unfortunately. 43:38.160 --> 43:40.340 Because he took no heed to walk in the law 43:40.340 --> 43:42.320 of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart, 43:42.700 --> 43:45.300 for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, 43:45.320 --> 43:46.440 which made Israel the sin. 43:46.840 --> 43:49.180 He ends up having idolatry. 43:49.540 --> 43:51.780 And again, idolatry is a severe sin. 43:51.900 --> 43:53.940 It's one of those first Corinthians five sins, by the way. 43:54.820 --> 43:57.340 Having idolatry is a severe commandment 43:57.340 --> 43:59.260 of the second commandment of the Ten Commandments. 44:00.080 --> 44:02.280 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. 44:02.860 --> 44:06.020 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them or serve them 44:06.580 --> 44:08.880 because I, the Lord God, am a jealous God. 44:09.800 --> 44:12.660 And so he says, do not make graven images 44:12.660 --> 44:14.700 and bow down to them, it's wicked, it's wrong. 44:15.360 --> 44:16.840 And so this is very disappointing. 44:17.940 --> 44:21.200 But it says in verse 32, you know, in those days, 44:22.320 --> 44:23.720 the Lord began to cut Israel short. 44:23.840 --> 44:25.900 So even though he's guaranteed to be the king of Israel, 44:26.240 --> 44:27.760 all the way down to his great grandson, 44:28.180 --> 44:30.280 it doesn't mean that Israel is gonna retain 44:30.280 --> 44:31.100 all of its glory. 44:31.680 --> 44:34.700 So it ends up losing territory, losing prestige, 44:35.180 --> 44:37.620 losing power, he starts cutting them short. 44:37.960 --> 44:39.720 And Hezail, that's the king of Syria, 44:40.280 --> 44:42.740 smote them in all the coasts of Israel 44:42.740 --> 44:46.540 from Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, 44:47.040 --> 44:49.780 the Gaddites and the Rubenites and the Manasites 44:49.780 --> 44:52.420 from Arower, which is by the river Arnon, 44:52.680 --> 44:54.240 even Gilead and Beishan, right? 44:54.380 --> 44:55.860 And we were just talking about that before the service, 44:56.300 --> 44:58.300 you know, that crew that inherited 44:58.300 --> 44:59.740 on the east side of Jordan. 45:00.240 --> 45:02.320 And they said, hey, we don't wanna cross Jordan, 45:02.380 --> 45:04.340 we wanna inherit on this side of the Jordan River, 45:04.740 --> 45:06.980 Ruben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manassee. 45:07.220 --> 45:09.020 And they end up inheriting on that east side. 45:09.220 --> 45:11.480 And what happens here is that because they're 45:11.480 --> 45:13.720 on the periphery and because there's 45:13.720 --> 45:15.680 that geographic barrier of Jordan, 45:16.160 --> 45:17.680 you know, they end up being the ones 45:17.680 --> 45:21.780 who end up getting picked off by the enemy 45:21.780 --> 45:22.820 more than anything, right? 45:22.960 --> 45:27.780 Because Hezail smote them because they're on the edge, right? 45:28.080 --> 45:29.180 And so here's the thing, when it comes 45:29.180 --> 45:32.280 to the will of God, we don't wanna be on the periphery, 45:32.660 --> 45:34.460 we wanna be in the center of God's will. 45:35.000 --> 45:37.580 We wanna be in the heart of God's will, right? 45:37.880 --> 45:39.820 And we don't wanna be a fringe person 45:39.820 --> 45:43.020 of the church, we wanna be a core person of the church. 45:43.520 --> 45:46.040 Because look, if you're a core church member, 45:46.580 --> 45:48.380 you're less likely to get picked off 45:48.380 --> 45:50.300 than when you're a peripheral church member. 45:52.360 --> 45:54.840 And so here's the thing, the nation of Israel 45:54.840 --> 45:57.380 represents the congregation of the Lord, 45:57.480 --> 45:58.320 represents the church. 45:58.460 --> 45:59.920 Like the Old Testament nation of Israel 45:59.920 --> 46:03.060 is analogous to the New Testament church, right? 46:03.160 --> 46:05.640 When Moses has the congregation of Israel, 46:05.760 --> 46:06.840 it's called the church in the wilderness. 46:07.640 --> 46:08.920 And so these people who are like, 46:08.920 --> 46:11.560 you know what, we don't wanna go all in. 46:12.100 --> 46:14.760 We don't wanna be all the way in the Promised Land. 46:15.120 --> 46:17.220 We like it over here on the edge, 46:18.000 --> 46:21.220 east of the Jordan River, on the periphery. 46:21.600 --> 46:23.300 But you know what, they're the ones 46:23.300 --> 46:25.760 that end up getting smoked the most, right? 46:26.200 --> 46:28.100 And so here's the thing, it's always gonna be 46:28.100 --> 46:28.700 this way at church. 46:29.280 --> 46:30.800 At church, you're gonna have people 46:30.800 --> 46:31.620 that are super involved. 46:32.020 --> 46:34.060 And most of the people that I'm talking to right now 46:34.060 --> 46:36.160 are the really super involved people. 46:36.400 --> 46:37.540 That's why you're here on Wednesday night. 46:38.160 --> 46:40.720 Because the primary service that people 46:40.720 --> 46:42.020 would tend to go to is Sunday morning. 46:42.600 --> 46:43.940 And so you have a lot of people 46:43.940 --> 46:45.600 that are Sunday morning onies. 46:45.820 --> 46:47.660 And they only come to church on Sunday morning. 46:48.120 --> 46:50.220 And so they're more, what we would call 46:50.220 --> 46:53.480 in the modern vernacular, the casuals, right? 46:53.640 --> 46:56.040 The casuals show up on Sunday morning 46:56.760 --> 46:58.520 and they're not that into it. 46:58.760 --> 47:00.140 They're not showing up for soul winning. 47:00.640 --> 47:01.820 They're not going to conferences. 47:02.180 --> 47:03.720 They're not going on mission strips and whatever. 47:04.220 --> 47:06.980 And look, okay, I'm not saying like, 47:06.980 --> 47:08.900 hey, you have to go on Sunday night. 47:09.040 --> 47:09.960 You have to go on Wednesday night. 47:10.020 --> 47:10.880 You have to go to everything. 47:11.180 --> 47:11.980 I'm not saying that. 47:12.340 --> 47:14.220 I'm just saying that the Bible says 47:14.700 --> 47:16.820 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together 47:16.820 --> 47:19.060 as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another. 47:19.320 --> 47:21.500 And so much the more as we see the day approaching 47:21.960 --> 47:23.460 that as we see the day approaching 47:23.460 --> 47:24.980 we need more church, not less. 47:25.480 --> 47:27.720 And the people who are getting the fellowship, 47:28.220 --> 47:31.160 getting the preaching, showing up to more services, 47:31.500 --> 47:32.720 showing up to more soul winning, 47:33.100 --> 47:34.780 showing up to more events and everything like that. 47:34.780 --> 47:38.380 You know what, they're more deeply rooted 47:39.060 --> 47:42.100 in the church, rooted in their beliefs, 47:42.220 --> 47:43.400 rooted in the faith. 47:43.740 --> 47:45.800 And it's going to be more difficult for the devil 47:45.800 --> 47:47.560 to pick them up than the fringe people 47:47.560 --> 47:49.400 who are showing up three times a month. 47:50.500 --> 47:52.580 Now look, if you show up three times a month, 47:52.980 --> 47:54.540 I'm glad you show up three times a month. 47:55.340 --> 47:56.980 Love to see you three times a month. 47:57.200 --> 47:58.460 If you're a Sunday morning only 47:58.460 --> 48:00.260 and maybe you're listening to this online, 48:00.680 --> 48:02.800 hey, we love having you here on Sunday mornings. 48:04.120 --> 48:06.620 And it's good that at least you're supplementing 48:06.620 --> 48:07.600 your Sunday morning attendance 48:08.140 --> 48:10.440 with at least a Wednesday night live stream 48:10.440 --> 48:11.600 or download of this. 48:11.880 --> 48:12.920 But at the end of the day, 48:13.740 --> 48:16.340 you don't wanna be a fringe person 48:16.340 --> 48:18.900 and you can figure out and decide what you think that means. 48:19.180 --> 48:20.820 If you don't agree with my definition 48:20.820 --> 48:23.040 of a fringe person, then why don't you figure out 48:23.040 --> 48:24.340 what you think a fringe person is? 48:24.580 --> 48:25.940 But you know what, when I read the Bible, 48:26.220 --> 48:27.600 when I'm reading the book of Numbers, 48:27.880 --> 48:29.380 when I'm reading this story right here, 48:29.380 --> 48:33.960 what I see is that the fringe people get picked off first. 48:34.860 --> 48:36.100 That's the way it tends to be. 48:37.420 --> 48:39.860 And so therefore, I wanna be all the way in. 48:40.340 --> 48:43.140 I don't wanna be on the periphery 48:43.820 --> 48:46.000 because who's more likely to get out of church? 48:46.240 --> 48:47.600 The guy who's going three times a week 48:48.120 --> 48:49.860 or the guy who's going three times a month? 48:50.640 --> 48:52.060 You know, because here's the thing. 48:52.400 --> 48:54.080 If I'm going three times a week 48:54.600 --> 48:56.180 and let's say something comes up, 48:56.540 --> 48:57.620 let's say I get sick, 48:58.080 --> 48:59.540 let's say something bad happens 48:59.540 --> 49:02.360 and I get pulled away, I'm going on work trips 49:02.360 --> 49:04.380 or who knows what happens, right? 49:04.740 --> 49:05.360 Here's the thing. 49:06.340 --> 49:08.500 If I go to all three services every week, 49:08.540 --> 49:12.520 I'm going to church 13 times a month, right? 49:12.740 --> 49:16.380 Our church has approximately 13 services per month. 49:17.240 --> 49:21.120 So therefore, if you're going to all three 49:21.120 --> 49:23.360 and you miss a few, you're still getting 49:23.360 --> 49:24.640 a lot of church, right? 49:24.640 --> 49:27.940 Let's say I miss three services in a month. 49:28.140 --> 49:29.560 I still got 10 services. 49:30.260 --> 49:31.380 That's pretty good, right? 49:32.140 --> 49:33.360 But if you're a Sunday morning only 49:33.360 --> 49:34.360 and you miss three services, 49:34.760 --> 49:36.220 now you went to church like once. 49:37.080 --> 49:38.700 And you know what I've seen is I've seen, 49:38.880 --> 49:41.760 some people are like, oh, I have to miss, 49:41.940 --> 49:43.960 you know, church for work sometimes 49:43.960 --> 49:46.320 and sometimes work makes me miss church 49:46.320 --> 49:46.980 and stuff like that. 49:47.200 --> 49:48.260 And here's what's funny is that 49:48.260 --> 49:50.300 you'll have a Sunday morning only person 49:50.300 --> 49:52.300 and then they're missing church for work 49:52.300 --> 49:54.040 pretty soon they're barely even coming. 49:54.760 --> 49:56.320 They're coming once or twice a month 49:56.320 --> 49:57.860 and then, oh, I'm so shocked, 49:57.940 --> 49:59.060 they're totally out of church now. 49:59.820 --> 50:01.620 I can't even count how many times I've seen that. 50:01.960 --> 50:04.920 Whereas if you had a guy who's three to thrive, 50:05.380 --> 50:07.240 Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night 50:07.240 --> 50:08.880 and then occasionally there's an emergency, 50:09.360 --> 50:10.480 he has to deal with something, 50:10.640 --> 50:11.800 work pulls him out or whatever. 50:12.040 --> 50:14.200 Hey, at least he's still going to church a lot. 50:14.460 --> 50:15.300 Does everybody see what I'm saying? 50:17.360 --> 50:22.040 Now, personally, I for the last 25 years of my life, 50:22.380 --> 50:23.980 26 years of my life or more, 50:24.440 --> 50:25.580 yeah, I guess I'm getting older. 50:25.720 --> 50:26.840 I need to update these numbers 50:27.220 --> 50:29.520 because ever since I've been like 18, 50:30.880 --> 50:36.040 I've pretty much been a die hard, died in the wolf, 50:36.460 --> 50:38.140 like three to thrive, do or die, 50:38.580 --> 50:40.020 where I really made it a priority 50:40.480 --> 50:42.560 to be at virtually every service 50:42.560 --> 50:44.120 or at least to show up to three services 50:44.120 --> 50:44.920 a week or something. 50:46.060 --> 50:48.040 I've been pretty serious about that 50:49.000 --> 50:52.460 for that amount of time, so I guess now that I'm 45, 50:52.660 --> 50:54.460 I guess it's like 27 years or something. 50:54.960 --> 50:57.600 Where I'm just like three to thrive is the standard. 50:58.820 --> 51:01.720 And I'm telling the boss, no, I'm not working 51:01.720 --> 51:03.740 on Wednesday night, we're gonna find another way 51:03.740 --> 51:04.860 to get it done and whatever. 51:06.460 --> 51:09.420 But look, I understand that people 51:09.420 --> 51:10.960 have different situations in their life 51:10.960 --> 51:13.140 and I'm not dictating anything to you. 51:14.280 --> 51:17.940 Like I said, if I see you every two months at church, 51:18.060 --> 51:19.800 if I see you every four months at church, 51:19.940 --> 51:21.480 I'm just gonna be glad to see you 51:21.480 --> 51:23.840 and happy to see you and smile and shake your hand 51:23.840 --> 51:24.400 and whatever. 51:24.740 --> 51:27.220 You can come here once in a blue moon for all I care 51:27.900 --> 51:29.100 because at the end of the day, 51:29.240 --> 51:31.780 it's your life, it's your spiritual growth, 51:31.960 --> 51:33.340 it's your spiritual development. 51:34.300 --> 51:36.360 You're the one who is running the risks 51:36.920 --> 51:38.200 of being a fringe person. 51:39.980 --> 51:43.000 Whereas if you're a three to thrive core member, 51:43.540 --> 51:44.500 you're involved, and by the way, 51:44.700 --> 51:46.680 you know what, it's a good idea too a lot of times 51:46.680 --> 51:49.320 to when you can get here a little early 51:49.320 --> 51:50.160 and do some fellowship. 51:51.020 --> 51:53.360 Stay after a little bit and do some fellowship. 51:53.800 --> 51:56.100 Get together with friends outside of church 51:56.100 --> 51:58.180 and have good spiritual fellowship 51:58.180 --> 52:00.040 with like-minded brothers and sisters in Christ. 52:00.440 --> 52:01.900 Those are all good things to be doing too. 52:02.580 --> 52:05.400 Hey, go to a conference, go on a missions trip, 52:05.880 --> 52:08.080 go out to dinner with brothers and sisters in Christ. 52:08.540 --> 52:12.380 Get here early, stay late, come to special services. 52:12.660 --> 52:13.860 You know, these are all good things to do. 52:14.120 --> 52:17.520 Hey, I think we can all probably kind of figure out 52:17.520 --> 52:20.920 who are kind of people that are taking it real seriously 52:20.920 --> 52:22.420 and putting a lot of time in 52:22.420 --> 52:24.140 versus people that are super fringe. 52:24.300 --> 52:25.720 And again, I'm not mad at the fringe people. 52:26.060 --> 52:28.240 I'm just telling you that when you decide 52:28.240 --> 52:29.780 that you wanna be that fringe person 52:29.780 --> 52:30.780 that's on the edge, 52:31.220 --> 52:34.120 you're the one who has ale has gotten his sights 52:34.120 --> 52:36.200 because the devil is like a roaring lion 52:36.200 --> 52:37.580 seeking whom he may devour. 52:39.300 --> 52:41.520 And when the Bible says he's like a roaring lion 52:41.520 --> 52:42.920 seeking whom he may devour, 52:43.640 --> 52:46.460 it's like a lion, if the lion goes after the herd 52:46.460 --> 52:47.580 of wildebeest or whatever, 52:47.780 --> 52:49.120 it's been a while since I've watched 52:49.120 --> 52:50.580 any nature channels or anything. 52:51.000 --> 52:54.140 But I remember when they used to wheel that cart 52:54.140 --> 52:57.060 into the classroom with a TV and a VCR strap to it 52:57.060 --> 52:57.480 with a belt. 52:58.780 --> 53:00.340 And I watched the nature shows 53:00.340 --> 53:03.340 and the lion is just looking for the slowest 53:03.340 --> 53:05.800 wildebeest that's, and you know what? 53:05.860 --> 53:09.560 The one that wanders off and gets away from the herd, right? 53:09.960 --> 53:12.140 The core herd, most of them are gonna be okay. 53:12.780 --> 53:15.780 It's the stragglers that are gonna get picked off 53:15.780 --> 53:17.120 because that's who he may devour. 53:17.640 --> 53:20.240 So I personally, I don't wanna be a straggler. 53:20.580 --> 53:21.900 I don't wanna be a fringe guy. 53:22.440 --> 53:25.860 I wanna be a core member of the church. 53:27.020 --> 53:28.940 I wanna be all the way in. 53:29.880 --> 53:31.640 And so it says in verse 34, 53:31.640 --> 53:33.180 now the rest of the acts of Jihu 53:33.180 --> 53:35.020 and all that he did and all his might, 53:35.380 --> 53:36.980 are they not written in the book of the Chronicles 53:36.980 --> 53:37.860 of the Kings of Israel? 53:38.320 --> 53:39.600 And Jihu slept with his fathers 53:39.600 --> 53:40.980 and they buried him in Samaria 53:41.380 --> 53:43.260 and Jehovah has his son reigned instead. 53:43.860 --> 53:46.400 And the time that Jihu reigned over Israel in Samaria 53:46.400 --> 53:47.620 was 20 and eight years. 53:47.760 --> 53:49.660 So look, God blessed this guy a lot 53:51.000 --> 53:53.260 for at least smoking the enemies of the Lord. 53:53.600 --> 53:55.420 He ended up, you know, getting to reign 53:55.420 --> 53:58.620 for 28 years, son, grandson, great grandson, 53:58.900 --> 53:59.520 all get to reign. 54:00.060 --> 54:01.140 But at the end of the day, 54:01.340 --> 54:03.660 he was a personal failure of a leader 54:04.200 --> 54:07.900 because he did not take heed to walk verse 31 54:07.900 --> 54:11.640 in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart. 54:11.740 --> 54:13.420 That tells me that the ticket to success 54:14.360 --> 54:18.440 is to walk in the word, 54:18.940 --> 54:22.220 but to take heed unto walking according to the word. 54:22.820 --> 54:23.540 What does that mean? 54:23.700 --> 54:24.140 Take heed. 54:24.420 --> 54:25.820 It means it's not gonna happen by accident. 54:27.380 --> 54:30.060 It's not gonna happen with a sloppy Christian life 54:30.940 --> 54:32.460 of just kind of like, yeah, 54:32.900 --> 54:34.380 I'm kind of following the Bible. 54:35.220 --> 54:37.800 Kind of a church member, kind of a Christian, 54:38.960 --> 54:41.340 kind of a quasi, you know, here's the thing 54:41.800 --> 54:45.360 is you got to put effort into your walk with God. 54:46.000 --> 54:47.400 Now look, if you're a saved Christian, 54:47.520 --> 54:48.500 you're going to heaven no matter what, 54:48.700 --> 54:49.620 you can never lose your salvation. 54:49.920 --> 54:51.520 But if you want to be a successful Christian 54:51.520 --> 54:53.840 on this earth, you got to put in the effort. 54:54.380 --> 54:55.160 You got to take heed. 54:55.320 --> 54:55.740 And you know what? 54:55.740 --> 54:58.720 Come into services, getting out soul winning, 54:59.320 --> 55:03.540 investing in fellowship, Bible reading, prayer, whatever. 55:04.100 --> 55:07.900 All those things are helping you take heed 55:07.900 --> 55:09.100 unto your walk with God, 55:09.440 --> 55:12.260 put in the effort and the attention to your walk with God 55:12.260 --> 55:14.680 so that you can follow the Lord with all your heart 55:15.240 --> 55:19.360 and not be half-hearted about your walk with God. 55:19.540 --> 55:23.080 Look, if somebody asked me who I am, 55:23.500 --> 55:24.980 the most important thing about who I am 55:24.980 --> 55:25.700 is that I'm a Christian. 55:26.900 --> 55:28.860 Right, that's more important than being American. 55:29.640 --> 55:31.140 It's more important than being white. 55:31.760 --> 55:33.400 It's so stupid when people's identity 55:33.400 --> 55:34.820 is wrapped up in their race. 55:35.240 --> 55:37.140 Like, just, it's all about being black. 55:37.340 --> 55:38.120 It's all about being white. 55:38.420 --> 55:40.640 It's like, you know, these white supremacists, it's stupid. 55:41.540 --> 55:44.000 You know, oh, you know, it's all about being Hispanic 55:44.000 --> 55:45.660 or Chinese or whatever, you know? 55:46.480 --> 55:48.920 Like the Chinese or like, they think they're better 55:48.920 --> 55:50.840 than the Japanese and vice versa or whatever. 55:50.900 --> 55:52.720 It's like, bro, you guys are all just Asian, man. 55:52.720 --> 55:55.240 Just, what's the difference, man? 55:55.760 --> 55:57.380 You know, we're all a bunch of white people. 55:57.460 --> 55:59.220 Who cares what kind of white people we are? 55:59.700 --> 56:03.400 Whether we're French, German, Scandinavian, Russian, 56:03.640 --> 56:05.440 whatever, my wife's probably back there thinking like, 56:05.620 --> 56:07.320 wait a minute, German's better than being Russian. 56:07.920 --> 56:10.240 I'm like, no, man, it doesn't matter. 56:11.560 --> 56:14.420 Don't get wrapped up in, you know, 56:14.480 --> 56:15.780 these other things that don't, you know, 56:15.820 --> 56:16.600 at the end of the day, 56:16.920 --> 56:18.500 our main identity is that we're Christians. 56:19.560 --> 56:21.540 Red, yellow, black and white, we're Christians. 56:22.680 --> 56:23.420 That's what matters. 56:23.620 --> 56:26.700 It's not like, oh, you know, I'm wealthy 56:26.700 --> 56:29.200 and I'm high society. 56:29.760 --> 56:30.460 It's like, no, no, no. 56:30.820 --> 56:31.160 You know what? 56:31.460 --> 56:32.960 All the wealthy and the poor, 56:33.300 --> 56:34.860 we're all in the same playing field here. 56:35.300 --> 56:35.940 We're all Christians. 56:37.260 --> 56:41.700 And Christianity should be our defining demographic, 56:42.040 --> 56:44.820 our defining feature, our defining identity 56:44.820 --> 56:48.900 where our whole heart is all just like all about 56:48.900 --> 56:51.420 serving God, loving God, being a Christian. 56:51.980 --> 56:53.440 And so that no matter what we do, 56:54.040 --> 56:57.140 the whole day, whether we eat or drink 56:57.140 --> 56:59.740 or whatsoever we do, we do it all to the glory of God. 57:00.480 --> 57:02.080 So it's like, oh, you know, 57:02.140 --> 57:03.940 my biggest thing in my life is I'm an electrician. 57:04.180 --> 57:05.880 But here's the thing, if you're an electrician, 57:06.060 --> 57:07.460 you should be waking up every morning 57:07.460 --> 57:09.720 deciding to be a Christian electrician. 57:10.140 --> 57:12.460 And you're gonna be the best electrician you can be 57:12.460 --> 57:13.900 for the glory of God. 57:14.960 --> 57:16.880 And you're gonna do good at your job 57:16.880 --> 57:19.200 because you wanna honor Christ. 57:19.740 --> 57:21.900 And because you wanna be the best Christian you can be 57:21.900 --> 57:23.480 and you're thinking about God 57:23.480 --> 57:25.700 and in all your ways, you're acknowledging Him 57:25.700 --> 57:27.020 and letting Him direct your paths. 57:27.780 --> 57:29.480 That's how you're gonna succeed in the Christian life. 57:29.940 --> 57:32.840 Being halfway is just gonna lead to problems. 57:33.280 --> 57:34.560 You know, you gotta be all in. 57:35.100 --> 57:37.040 And I'm not saying that when you're all in, 57:37.120 --> 57:38.140 you're not gonna suffer yet. 57:38.660 --> 57:40.300 All that will live Godly in Christ Jesus 57:40.300 --> 57:41.560 or gonna suffer persecution. 57:43.300 --> 57:46.120 But at the end of the day, you're still gonna be standing. 57:46.880 --> 57:48.480 You're still gonna be here because let's face it, 57:48.820 --> 57:51.520 five years from now, 10 years from now, 15 years from now, 57:51.600 --> 57:52.960 we're not all gonna be serving God. 57:53.180 --> 57:54.000 You guys know that, right? 57:55.460 --> 57:57.040 Statistically speaking, I wish I could just say 57:57.040 --> 58:00.800 everybody in this room, I now pronounce you lifetime 58:01.680 --> 58:03.940 servants of God that will never crash and burn. 58:04.620 --> 58:05.940 You know, I wish I could say that, but you know what? 58:06.280 --> 58:09.460 There are kids in this room that are gonna grow up 58:09.920 --> 58:12.520 and go the way of this world, go the way of the devil. 58:12.900 --> 58:14.220 They're gonna be adults in this room, 58:14.300 --> 58:16.700 they get back slidden, quit on God, 58:17.120 --> 58:19.620 and just go out and just get totally out of church. 58:19.940 --> 58:21.140 There are gonna be people in here 58:21.140 --> 58:22.640 that fail and crash and burn. 58:23.020 --> 58:24.140 You know what I'm talking about tonight? 58:24.280 --> 58:24.920 You know what I'm talking about? 58:25.000 --> 58:26.380 I'm talking about being one of the people 58:28.140 --> 58:30.360 that is steadfast in the long run. 58:30.580 --> 58:31.380 That's what I'm talking about. 58:31.520 --> 58:34.220 I'm talking about who is still serving God, 58:34.440 --> 58:36.300 whether it's here geographically 58:36.300 --> 58:37.460 or somewhere else geographically, 58:37.460 --> 58:40.440 who is still gonna be serving God five years from now, 58:40.700 --> 58:41.260 10 years from now. 58:41.360 --> 58:46.480 And look, hey, I got saved 39 years ago, okay? 58:46.900 --> 58:49.580 And I've been consistently soul-winning 58:50.000 --> 58:53.320 and serving God for like 28 years or something. 58:53.560 --> 58:53.960 You know what I mean? 58:54.140 --> 58:55.500 Like almost 30 years. 58:56.180 --> 58:56.660 And you know what? 58:56.760 --> 58:59.000 I wanna be here 10 years from now, 20 years from now. 58:59.080 --> 59:00.340 I wanna be here 50 years from now. 59:00.960 --> 59:02.740 I wanna be in it for the long run, right? 59:03.440 --> 59:04.680 Christianity's not measured in years, 59:04.780 --> 59:05.680 it's measured in decades. 59:07.460 --> 59:09.220 And I'm telling you how to be a long run. 59:09.440 --> 59:12.100 Cause I've seen some flashes in the pan around here 59:12.100 --> 59:14.040 of some people who are super zealous 59:14.040 --> 59:16.020 and super excited doing great works for God. 59:16.560 --> 59:18.280 And I'm not saying that they were bad people, 59:18.380 --> 59:19.580 they really were doing great works for God, 59:19.680 --> 59:21.200 but they didn't make it in the long run. 59:22.920 --> 59:25.980 I'm talking about not being a casualty 59:26.540 --> 59:28.100 and being in it for the long haul 59:28.520 --> 59:32.500 by taking heed and actually, you know, 59:33.000 --> 59:34.540 following the Lord with all your heart. 59:34.700 --> 59:35.660 Let's bow out in our word of prayer. 59:36.040 --> 59:38.120 Father, we thank you so much for this great chapter, Lord. 59:38.760 --> 59:41.540 Thank you for the good example of Jihu 59:41.960 --> 59:43.940 in his zeal, his excitement, 59:44.520 --> 59:47.980 and his desire to destroy false religion 59:48.560 --> 59:50.000 and to stand against evil. 59:50.320 --> 59:53.700 But Lord, help us also to learn from his failure 59:54.440 --> 59:58.100 and to realize that we need to be all in, 59:58.480 --> 01:00:01.480 all our hearts taken heed unto your word, Lord. 01:00:02.180 --> 01:00:04.020 Help us not to be just negative people, 01:00:04.020 --> 01:00:05.820 trashing everything that we don't like 01:00:06.200 --> 01:00:09.220 and that everything that's anti-Christ and anti-Bible, 01:00:09.720 --> 01:00:12.240 but help us also to be preaching the good news, 01:00:12.680 --> 01:00:16.000 the good message of the gospel and getting people saved 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:18.240 and building something good as well, 01:00:18.680 --> 01:00:20.400 planting churches, winning souls, 01:00:20.620 --> 01:00:24.400 baptizing converts and teaching them to observe all things, 01:00:24.500 --> 01:00:26.020 whatsoever Christ has commanded us. 01:00:26.340 --> 01:00:27.760 And it's in Christ's name, we pray, amen.