WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:00.220 Men. 00:01.200 --> 00:03.700 Men, chapter nine of Second Kings 00:03.700 --> 00:06.480 is the very famous story about judgment 00:06.480 --> 00:07.760 upon the house of Ahab. 00:07.940 --> 00:10.860 Of course, Ahab himself is already dead. 00:11.100 --> 00:13.600 If you remember, even the very first verse 00:13.600 --> 00:17.500 of the book of Second Kings talks about the fact 00:17.500 --> 00:19.860 that this is taking place after the death of Ahab. 00:20.360 --> 00:24.300 But other people surrounding Ahab are now finally 00:24.300 --> 00:26.540 going to be judged and get what's coming to them 00:27.000 --> 00:29.000 because of the whole Naboth incident. 00:29.000 --> 00:31.580 If you remember, there were false witnesses, 00:32.360 --> 00:35.640 two men that lied and then they caused Naboth 00:35.640 --> 00:37.920 to be put to death for a crime that he didn't commit 00:37.920 --> 00:41.160 just so that Ahab could get that garden of herbs 00:41.160 --> 00:43.920 and Elijah had come and prophesied 00:43.920 --> 00:46.260 and talked about the horrible punishment 00:46.260 --> 00:48.940 that would come upon Ahab and Jezebel 00:49.520 --> 00:50.580 and their whole household. 00:51.260 --> 00:53.280 So if you actually kind of do the math 00:53.280 --> 00:54.300 and figure out the timeline, 00:54.480 --> 00:55.960 it's hard to figure it out exactly, 00:56.400 --> 00:58.820 but pretty much about three years went by 00:59.440 --> 01:02.280 before Ahab is killed and is judged by God. 01:02.880 --> 01:04.540 But by the time these events happened, 01:04.720 --> 01:08.040 it's more like 13 or 14 years have gone by 01:08.040 --> 01:10.560 when the full prophecy is being fulfilled 01:11.020 --> 01:13.540 and you have Jezebel being eaten by dogs 01:13.540 --> 01:16.740 and all of these other people surrounding Ahab 01:16.740 --> 01:20.080 and his household being smoked in this chapter. 01:20.580 --> 01:21.960 So it's kind of a long chapter. 01:22.080 --> 01:22.820 We're not going to be able to cover 01:22.820 --> 01:23.920 every single thing, obviously. 01:34.680 --> 01:35.860 But look at verse number one. 01:35.860 --> 01:36.280 It says, 01:36.280 --> 01:41.080 So Elisha is obviously kind of the big name prophet. 01:41.300 --> 01:45.020 He's the main man of God in the northern kingdom of Israel. 01:45.520 --> 01:48.600 But there are a lot of other younger preachers 01:48.600 --> 01:50.860 that he's training different protégés, 01:51.000 --> 01:52.000 the sons of the prophets 01:52.460 --> 01:54.560 that he's working with and advising 01:54.560 --> 01:55.700 and training and teaching. 01:56.060 --> 01:58.160 So he sends one of these young preacher boys 01:58.560 --> 02:00.680 to go and anoint Jehu king. 02:01.080 --> 02:02.440 And it says in verse number two, 02:03.020 --> 02:05.620 when thou comest thither, look out there, Jehu, 02:06.000 --> 02:09.080 the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshai, 02:09.380 --> 02:12.320 and go in and make him arise up from among his brethren 02:12.320 --> 02:14.000 and carry him to an inner chamber, 02:14.400 --> 02:17.320 then take the box of oil and pour it on his head 02:17.320 --> 02:18.740 and say, thus saith the Lord, 02:18.740 --> 02:21.940 I have anointed thee, king, over Israel, 02:22.540 --> 02:24.900 then open the door and flee and tarry not. 02:25.060 --> 02:27.500 So this Jehu is a military man 02:27.500 --> 02:29.140 and he's not the king of Israel. 02:29.420 --> 02:31.760 He's not in the succession to become the next king. 02:32.200 --> 02:35.580 He's not the prince or family or anything like that. 02:36.120 --> 02:38.880 God is going to destroy the house of Ahab 02:38.880 --> 02:43.600 and end that dynasty and start a new dynasty with Jehu. 02:44.060 --> 02:46.760 And so he is kind of privately doing this, 02:46.760 --> 02:48.860 taking him into the room and saying, 02:49.180 --> 02:50.840 you have been anointed by God, 02:51.280 --> 02:53.580 you are going to be the king of Israel. 02:54.000 --> 02:55.880 You're going to be used by God to destroy 02:55.880 --> 02:57.400 and wipe out the house of Ahab 02:57.400 --> 03:00.180 and then you're going to take over and become the king. 03:00.580 --> 03:02.940 And the purpose of pouring oil upon his head, 03:03.320 --> 03:05.720 this is symbolic, this anointing 03:05.720 --> 03:09.000 was something that would anoint prophets, right? 03:09.100 --> 03:11.920 We saw Elisha being anointed prophet. 03:12.340 --> 03:16.340 We saw kings and priests throughout the Bible 03:16.340 --> 03:17.520 being anointed. 03:17.680 --> 03:20.900 And the idea here is that the oil pictures the Holy Spirit. 03:21.420 --> 03:25.000 And so the idea is that in order to preach powerful sermons, 03:25.080 --> 03:27.060 you have to be anointed by the Holy Spirit, right? 03:27.140 --> 03:28.380 In order to be a prophet of God, 03:28.840 --> 03:30.500 you need that anointing of the Holy Spirit. 03:30.740 --> 03:32.580 You're not going to be able to just in the flesh, 03:32.940 --> 03:36.140 go to Toastmasters and learn how to be a good speaker 03:36.140 --> 03:38.800 and read a book about it and imitate other preachers 03:38.800 --> 03:41.360 and even studying and learning the Bible is not enough. 03:41.760 --> 03:44.720 Ultimately, in order to be a spirit filled preacher, 03:44.720 --> 03:46.440 you got to be filled with the spirit of God. 03:46.980 --> 03:48.160 That's how you're going to be effective. 03:48.600 --> 03:50.300 That's how God's going to use you greatly. 03:50.920 --> 03:52.940 You know, if you don't abide in the vine, 03:53.300 --> 03:54.780 you're not going to be able to bring forth fruit 03:54.780 --> 03:57.640 because Jesus said, without me, you can do nothing. 03:57.940 --> 04:00.260 And so in order to have success in the ministry, 04:00.320 --> 04:03.460 you got to be tapped into the power of God. 04:03.960 --> 04:07.780 That is the essential ingredient, the spirit of God. 04:08.180 --> 04:10.540 You got to be walking with God and so forth. 04:10.640 --> 04:14.040 And so the pouring out of the oil upon his head is, 04:14.040 --> 04:16.200 hey, if you're going to be a great leader, right? 04:16.260 --> 04:18.020 Because the king is not necessarily a preacher, 04:18.200 --> 04:18.880 but he's a leader. 04:19.460 --> 04:20.000 He's an authority. 04:20.380 --> 04:21.800 In order to be a great leader, 04:21.940 --> 04:23.400 you need to be filled with the spirit of God. 04:23.860 --> 04:25.840 In order to be a great Christian, 04:26.120 --> 04:27.740 you need to be filled with the spirit of God. 04:27.880 --> 04:31.880 So whether you are man, woman, boy or girl, right? 04:32.060 --> 04:33.560 In order to be effective at soul winning, 04:34.040 --> 04:35.380 you want to be filled with the spirit of God. 04:35.640 --> 04:37.220 In order to be an effective father, 04:37.420 --> 04:39.820 an effective mother, an effective husband, 04:40.280 --> 04:42.280 you know, just an effective Christian in general, 04:42.780 --> 04:44.740 you need the power of God. 04:45.000 --> 04:46.300 You can't do it on your own. 04:46.760 --> 04:49.220 You can't just follow a human formula. 04:49.560 --> 04:50.840 You need to walk with God, 04:51.360 --> 04:53.660 pray unto the Lord, pray for boldness, 04:53.900 --> 04:55.400 pray for the fullness of the Holy Spirit, 04:55.760 --> 04:56.640 read your Bible. 04:57.000 --> 04:58.020 And you know, I was thinking recently 04:58.020 --> 05:00.380 about the story of Mary and Martha. 05:00.800 --> 05:03.440 And you know, Mary is sitting at the feet of Jesus 05:03.440 --> 05:06.620 and Jesus says she has chosen the better part. 05:06.760 --> 05:08.300 Martha's really busy doing stuff, 05:08.580 --> 05:11.280 but Mary's over here sitting at the feet of Jesus 05:11.280 --> 05:13.400 and we need to have that walk with God 05:13.400 --> 05:15.020 so we can have the power of God 05:15.020 --> 05:16.900 so that we can be greatly used by God. 05:17.300 --> 05:18.920 So we need to be in our Bibles, 05:19.020 --> 05:22.060 praying, walking with God, spirit filled, 05:22.260 --> 05:24.500 singing Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, et cetera. 05:24.780 --> 05:27.340 And that's what that oil anointing stands for. 05:27.760 --> 05:28.840 That says in verse number four, 05:29.000 --> 05:31.320 so the young man, even the young man, the prophet, 05:31.760 --> 05:33.040 went to Ramath Gillian. 05:33.500 --> 05:34.320 And when he came, behold, 05:34.460 --> 05:35.680 the captain and the host were sitting 05:36.140 --> 05:38.000 and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. 05:38.200 --> 05:40.120 And G.U. said, unto which of all of us? 05:40.120 --> 05:41.980 And he said, to thee, O captain. 05:42.160 --> 05:43.340 So the first thing I wanna point out here 05:43.340 --> 05:45.720 is that he shows up and there's a whole group 05:45.720 --> 05:47.740 of military captains. 05:48.260 --> 05:50.340 And when this young prophet comes in, 05:50.440 --> 05:52.660 he says, I have an errand unto thee, O captain. 05:53.220 --> 05:55.080 And that doesn't necessarily narrow it down 05:55.080 --> 05:58.220 because there are multiple people in that room 05:58.220 --> 05:59.860 that have that same rank. 06:00.120 --> 06:03.140 So then G.U. said, unto which of all us? 06:03.500 --> 06:07.020 And he said, to thee, thee is singular, to thee, O captain. 06:07.220 --> 06:09.720 So notice the one who speaks up is G.U. 06:09.720 --> 06:11.620 So even though they're all captains, 06:12.000 --> 06:13.500 you can already see that G.U. 06:13.640 --> 06:15.720 is kind of doing the talking for the group. 06:15.980 --> 06:19.040 So he seems to be a very well-respected member 06:19.040 --> 06:20.600 of the group, and we're gonna see that in a moment, 06:20.900 --> 06:24.160 that he is someone that is already kind of looked at 06:24.160 --> 06:25.600 as the chief guy in the room 06:25.600 --> 06:27.340 because when somebody's gonna do the talking, 06:27.520 --> 06:29.680 it's him when the young prophet comes in. 06:30.860 --> 06:33.040 And so he says, you, O captain, 06:33.340 --> 06:35.700 verse six, and he arose and went into the house 06:35.700 --> 06:38.720 and he poured the oil on his head and said unto him, 06:38.720 --> 06:40.540 thus saith the Lord God of Israel, 06:40.820 --> 06:43.180 I've anointed thee king over the people of the Lord, 06:43.640 --> 06:46.240 even over Israel, and thou shalt smite 06:46.240 --> 06:47.660 the house of Ahab thy master. 06:47.740 --> 06:49.400 And again, remember, it's not Ahab himself, 06:49.840 --> 06:51.600 but rather it is his relatives, 06:52.140 --> 06:53.620 and his descendants, and so forth, 06:54.080 --> 06:57.120 and his wife, that I may avenge the blood 06:57.120 --> 06:58.420 of my servants, the prophets, 06:58.840 --> 07:00.420 and the blood of all the servants of the Lord 07:00.420 --> 07:02.340 at the hand of Jezebel, 07:02.600 --> 07:05.160 for the whole house of Ahab shall perish, 07:05.500 --> 07:07.440 and I will cut off from Ahab, 07:07.440 --> 07:09.160 him that pisseth against the wall, 07:09.440 --> 07:11.380 and him that is shut up and left in Israel. 07:11.940 --> 07:13.980 So he's saying, him that pisseth against the wall 07:13.980 --> 07:15.120 means every male, right? 07:15.240 --> 07:17.620 Because obviously women sit down 07:17.620 --> 07:18.480 when they go to the bathroom, 07:18.700 --> 07:20.560 whereas men pee standing up, 07:20.640 --> 07:22.400 they piss against the wall, it's called a urinal, 07:22.760 --> 07:23.920 now they're starting to put urinals 07:23.920 --> 07:25.440 in the ladies' room at some places, 07:25.600 --> 07:28.800 but that's because we're living in crazy times, okay? 07:29.160 --> 07:30.620 Normal people understand 07:30.620 --> 07:33.460 that men piss against the wall, women don't, 07:33.620 --> 07:35.900 because men are standing up, women aren't. 07:35.900 --> 07:38.120 And so that's just a way of saying, 07:38.200 --> 07:39.660 and this comes up six times in the Bible, 07:40.080 --> 07:41.620 it's just a way of expressing 07:42.180 --> 07:43.840 all of the males are gonna perish. 07:44.000 --> 07:45.380 Maybe some of the females will survive, 07:45.920 --> 07:48.400 none of the males are going to survive. 07:49.500 --> 07:51.900 And so God is gonna completely wipe out 07:51.900 --> 07:53.780 the household of Ahab 07:53.780 --> 07:56.720 because of the blood of his servants, the prophets, 07:56.820 --> 07:59.900 because not only did Ahab murder Naboth, 08:00.040 --> 08:01.960 through Jezebel and that whole thing 08:01.960 --> 08:02.800 with the false witnesses, 08:03.260 --> 08:05.740 but also just killing the prophets of the Lord, 08:05.740 --> 08:07.080 persecuting the people of God. 08:07.400 --> 08:10.700 And here's the thing, God is going to avenge his servants, 08:11.140 --> 08:13.220 God is going to avenge his people. 08:13.300 --> 08:15.620 The Bible says, touch not mine anointed 08:15.620 --> 08:19.440 and do my prophets no harm, right? 08:19.560 --> 08:21.400 And the Bible says God even reproved kings 08:22.040 --> 08:23.900 for the sakes of his preachers and prophets. 08:24.320 --> 08:26.020 God will protect his people, 08:26.320 --> 08:28.760 and when people go out and persecute the people of God, 08:29.160 --> 08:31.480 attack the people of God, assault the people of God, 08:31.960 --> 08:34.280 slander the people of God, especially prophets, 08:34.280 --> 08:36.240 especially preachers and men of God. 08:36.680 --> 08:39.440 When you attack and harm those people, 08:39.820 --> 08:42.060 God is going to bring vengeance upon you. 08:42.160 --> 08:43.320 It might come three years later, 08:43.660 --> 08:46.820 it might come 13, 14 years later, but it is coming. 08:47.200 --> 08:49.380 The Bible says, vengeance belongeth unto me, 08:49.520 --> 08:51.460 said the Lord, I will repay. 08:52.320 --> 08:53.860 And so you can take that to the bank, 08:54.040 --> 08:55.060 that's what the Bible says. 08:55.800 --> 09:00.160 And so it says here that they're going to avenge, 09:00.160 --> 09:02.380 you know, the blood of these prophets 09:02.380 --> 09:03.960 and the persecution of God's people 09:03.960 --> 09:04.440 and so forth. 09:04.720 --> 09:06.460 And it says in verse number nine, 09:06.640 --> 09:08.120 I will make the house of Ahab, 09:08.440 --> 09:10.300 like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, 09:10.800 --> 09:13.700 and like the house of Baasha, the son of Haidja. 09:13.800 --> 09:15.960 These are other failed dynasties 09:15.960 --> 09:17.660 of the northern kingdom of Israel. 09:17.800 --> 09:19.980 Because what's interesting, when the kingdom split 09:20.500 --> 09:21.940 into the northern kingdom of Israel 09:21.940 --> 09:23.340 and the southern kingdom of Judah, 09:23.940 --> 09:27.440 you know, David's line is pretty much just king 09:27.440 --> 09:29.260 the whole time down in that southern kingdom, 09:29.500 --> 09:30.960 all the way to the bitter end. 09:30.960 --> 09:31.700 And you're pretty much staying 09:31.700 --> 09:33.860 with that same Davidic dynasty, 09:34.260 --> 09:36.440 whereas the northern kingdom, it keeps switching 09:37.180 --> 09:39.060 and people just keep getting wiped out 09:39.060 --> 09:40.420 and smoked and replaced. 09:40.700 --> 09:42.860 And that's what we're seeing again in this chapter. 09:43.760 --> 09:47.500 And so it says, and the dog shall eat Jezebel 09:47.960 --> 09:49.380 in the portion of Jezreel 09:49.380 --> 09:50.780 and there shall be none to bury her. 09:51.140 --> 09:52.780 And he opened the door and fled. 09:53.300 --> 09:55.400 And this is obviously a curse in the Bible 09:55.400 --> 09:56.920 when you don't get a proper burial, 09:57.260 --> 09:58.700 when you're just left outside 09:59.080 --> 10:00.620 for wild animals to eat you. 10:00.620 --> 10:02.480 This is a cursed way to remain. 10:03.120 --> 10:03.640 You know, the Bible says, 10:03.780 --> 10:05.480 the eye that mocketh at his father 10:05.480 --> 10:07.440 and despiseeth to obey his mother, 10:07.900 --> 10:09.940 the ravens of the valley shall pick it out 10:09.940 --> 10:12.100 and the young eagles shall eat it. 10:12.220 --> 10:14.940 And that's exactly like being eaten by dogs. 10:15.120 --> 10:16.600 And I remember when I was a kid, 10:17.100 --> 10:19.280 you know, there was a band called The Doors, 10:19.280 --> 10:20.740 obviously long before I was a kid 10:20.740 --> 10:21.900 because I was a kid in the 80s 10:21.900 --> 10:23.420 and the Doors were in the 60s. 10:23.440 --> 10:27.420 But I remember watching a concert on TV 10:27.880 --> 10:30.540 from The Doors being replayed years and years later 10:31.040 --> 10:32.980 and the lead singer of The Doors, you know, 10:33.060 --> 10:34.020 during his songs, 10:34.060 --> 10:36.460 they just go off on all these musical interludes 10:36.460 --> 10:38.380 and he would just start to just kind of freestyle 10:38.820 --> 10:42.500 at the mic and just start waxing poetic and saying things. 10:42.700 --> 10:45.160 And I mean, those are some of the most wicked things 10:45.160 --> 10:46.860 that he would say, you know, 10:46.920 --> 10:48.980 because he's just a wicked person 10:48.980 --> 10:52.220 out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. 10:52.300 --> 10:53.740 Maybe he was even under the influence 10:53.740 --> 10:55.060 of the devil or something. 10:55.060 --> 10:59.260 And I remember just watching this super long version 10:59.260 --> 11:01.540 of one of his songs and he's up there just freestyle. 11:01.780 --> 11:03.000 And I remember he said, 11:04.020 --> 11:06.920 I don't wanna die in an automobile. 11:07.900 --> 11:10.400 I wanna die in an open field. 11:10.840 --> 11:13.480 I want the birds to pick my eyes. 11:13.660 --> 11:15.980 And I remember listening to these lyrics 11:15.980 --> 11:17.060 as he's going through this. 11:17.240 --> 11:18.100 And I was thinking to myself, 11:18.500 --> 11:20.660 this is exactly what Proverbs 30 says. 11:21.360 --> 11:23.200 You know, because I was familiar with Proverbs 30, 11:23.200 --> 11:25.020 the eye that mocketh his father 11:25.560 --> 11:26.920 and despised to obey his mother, 11:27.260 --> 11:29.080 the ravens of the valley shall pick it out. 11:29.300 --> 11:32.320 And he's literally saying, I wanna die in an open field 11:32.320 --> 11:35.180 and I want the birds to pick out my eyes. 11:35.300 --> 11:37.760 And then in the same song, he says, 11:38.280 --> 11:38.780 Father. 11:39.400 --> 11:40.400 Yes, son. 11:40.840 --> 11:42.180 I wanna kill you. 11:42.700 --> 11:44.380 And he's talking about killing his father 11:45.040 --> 11:47.940 and you know, doing something else horrible to his mother. 11:48.260 --> 11:50.260 And you know, it just goes to show you 11:50.260 --> 11:53.560 how a lot of these musicians are just satanic 11:53.560 --> 11:56.280 and it's like, they're almost like quoting the Bible, 11:56.620 --> 11:59.040 but like from the wrong angle here. 11:59.820 --> 12:01.160 You know, instead of saying, 12:01.400 --> 12:03.620 hey, I want to honor my father and mother. 12:03.740 --> 12:05.280 I don't wanna die in the open field. 12:05.580 --> 12:06.260 I don't want them. 12:06.360 --> 12:08.940 He's saying like, yeah, I just hate my parents 12:08.940 --> 12:10.860 and I just wanna harm my parents 12:10.860 --> 12:13.100 and I just wanna die in the open field 12:13.100 --> 12:15.200 and I want the birds to pick out my eyes. 12:15.380 --> 12:16.420 And you know, it's just amazing. 12:16.800 --> 12:19.380 Like, is Bro over here studying the Bible 12:19.380 --> 12:22.340 or are the demons telling him this or what? 12:23.320 --> 12:25.920 But I'm just telling you that spirit 12:25.920 --> 12:31.020 of long haired teenage rebellion of that music even 12:31.020 --> 12:33.220 is just coming across in the lyrics 12:33.220 --> 12:35.580 just the exact opposite of what the Word of God 12:35.580 --> 12:36.300 is telling you. 12:37.080 --> 12:38.420 Honor your father and mother. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.540 You know, and that's not the message 12:40.540 --> 12:42.480 that the doors were preaching. 12:44.060 --> 12:45.880 And so most kids today 12:45.880 --> 12:47.880 probably don't even know who the doors are, you know? 12:48.520 --> 12:50.420 But I'm sure that you older folks 12:50.420 --> 12:51.940 know exactly what I'm talking about. 12:52.420 --> 12:55.360 And so it says in verse number 11, 12:56.580 --> 12:58.620 then Jiu came forth to the servants of the Lord. 12:58.900 --> 13:00.800 And I think this is the most interesting part 13:00.800 --> 13:02.120 of the whole chapter for me personally. 13:02.260 --> 13:03.360 I've always loved this part. 13:03.940 --> 13:06.320 It says, then Jiu came forth to the servants of his Lord 13:06.940 --> 13:09.200 and one said to him, is all well? 13:10.240 --> 13:12.920 Wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? 13:13.340 --> 13:15.600 So remember, all the captains are in there. 13:15.600 --> 13:18.980 The young prophet comes in and he says, 13:19.000 --> 13:20.740 hey, I have an errand to the O-captain. 13:20.860 --> 13:21.340 Hey, which one? 13:21.520 --> 13:23.880 Oh, me, okay, yeah, let's go step in my office. 13:24.040 --> 13:25.360 You know, they go in a private room. 13:25.840 --> 13:30.440 He anoints him as king and then he just leaves immediately. 13:30.760 --> 13:31.640 He just jets out of there. 13:31.740 --> 13:32.580 He says what he wants to say, 13:32.680 --> 13:34.500 preaches the sermon and he's out the door. 13:35.980 --> 13:38.300 But I think it's clear from this 13:39.020 --> 13:42.720 that these guys all know who this young preacher is. 13:42.900 --> 13:44.520 Like they're familiar with this guy 13:45.050 --> 13:46.240 because when he comes in, 13:47.000 --> 13:49.920 they say, well, what said this mad fellow under thee? 13:50.140 --> 13:51.740 And this goes to show you 13:51.740 --> 13:53.740 that they have a low view of this guy 13:53.740 --> 13:55.040 because they think he's a lunatic. 13:55.200 --> 13:55.940 They think he's crazy 13:55.940 --> 13:57.760 because when the Bible says mad here, 13:57.860 --> 13:59.460 it's the British like, are you mad? 13:59.840 --> 14:02.800 Like insane, not angry, okay? 14:03.160 --> 14:05.340 So like, what's this crazy guy? 14:05.540 --> 14:08.980 What that crazy preacher have to say to you, right? 14:09.580 --> 14:11.180 And then notice what Jiu's response is. 14:11.180 --> 14:14.180 He said, well, you know the man and his communication. 14:14.600 --> 14:17.640 So he's kind of like trying to maybe, 14:17.780 --> 14:19.800 I don't know, give into the peer pressure a little bit 14:19.800 --> 14:21.960 because the people around him are like, 14:22.180 --> 14:24.600 oh, what that idiot tell you, that crazy guy, 14:24.760 --> 14:25.560 that crazy preacher? 14:25.840 --> 14:27.700 What that crazy preacher have to say to you? 14:28.000 --> 14:31.040 And he's just like, oh, you know, you know how he is. 14:32.320 --> 14:33.840 Almost like agreeing with them. 14:34.020 --> 14:35.660 And he seems a little bit shy 14:36.900 --> 14:39.160 or reticent about wanting to say 14:39.160 --> 14:40.340 that he was just anointed king. 14:40.340 --> 14:42.280 Like maybe he doesn't really know 14:42.280 --> 14:45.540 if his peers are going to accept him as the king. 14:45.840 --> 14:47.100 You know, because remember what happened 14:47.100 --> 14:49.240 when Joseph said, hey, I had a dream 14:49.240 --> 14:51.540 and you know, you guys were all bowing down to me. 14:51.600 --> 14:52.860 It didn't really go over very well. 14:53.300 --> 14:55.880 So if he's on the same rank with these people, 14:56.120 --> 14:58.620 they're all equally captains or whatever. 14:58.940 --> 15:00.000 And you know, even when he says, 15:00.080 --> 15:01.120 I got a message to you captain. 15:01.260 --> 15:02.340 They're like, well, which one of us? 15:03.100 --> 15:04.740 You know, it could be the Jiu is thinking, 15:05.320 --> 15:07.880 I don't know if these people are gonna want to hear 15:08.400 --> 15:09.800 that I was just anointed king. 15:09.800 --> 15:11.520 Especially when they're saying, 15:11.760 --> 15:14.580 oh man, that crazy preacher, what did he say? 15:14.880 --> 15:17.200 So he kind of tries to just go along with them 15:17.200 --> 15:18.160 and kind of play it off. 15:18.300 --> 15:20.480 Like he doesn't really want to tell them what he said. 15:20.540 --> 15:22.840 So he's just like, hey, you know the man 15:22.840 --> 15:25.780 in his communication, you know, you guys know him 15:25.780 --> 15:26.980 and you know what he's like. 15:27.780 --> 15:29.020 So the first thing I want to point out, 15:29.140 --> 15:32.080 you know, before I get into the really interesting thing 15:32.080 --> 15:35.060 here, I want to just stop and say this. 15:35.580 --> 15:37.200 Is that to this world 15:37.820 --> 15:40.140 and to the unsafe people of this world 15:40.680 --> 15:45.380 and to backslidden Christians, good preachers are crazy. 15:46.100 --> 15:49.540 They're seen as crazy, just wild man, lunatic. 15:49.820 --> 15:51.920 And you know what's funny is that a lot of people are just 15:51.920 --> 15:54.440 like, oh man, you know, that crazy preacher over there. 15:54.640 --> 15:56.420 You know, I want to go to this church where 15:56.940 --> 15:59.440 everybody in the community thinks he's normal and cool. 15:59.600 --> 16:01.640 It's like, well, okay, but is he really a man of God? 16:02.200 --> 16:04.400 Because when you're accepted of this world 16:04.400 --> 16:05.980 and loved of this world, you know, 16:05.980 --> 16:07.120 the Bible says, whoa, unto you 16:07.120 --> 16:08.660 when all men speak well of you, 16:08.880 --> 16:12.380 for so did their fathers under the false prophets, right? 16:12.720 --> 16:14.260 And if you would, let's come back here, 16:14.340 --> 16:16.140 but let's go over to 2 Timothy chapter four 16:16.140 --> 16:18.120 to that other very famous passage 16:18.120 --> 16:19.880 in 2 Timothy chapter number four. 16:20.000 --> 16:21.720 Look, the world is going to look 16:21.720 --> 16:25.260 at the preachers of God's word as crazy, as mad. 16:25.440 --> 16:27.040 As lunatic, they're going to say, 16:27.080 --> 16:28.420 oh, you're nuts, you're crazy. 16:28.740 --> 16:30.540 And I think that the reason why 16:30.940 --> 16:34.040 the Old Testament prophet is characterized as a mad man 16:34.470 --> 16:37.120 is because he's preaching dynamic sermons. 16:37.200 --> 16:39.340 Because if you look at Old Testament sermons, 16:39.680 --> 16:40.780 they're very dynamic. 16:41.120 --> 16:43.360 They have a lot of wild object lessons 16:43.360 --> 16:45.260 and they're lifting up their voice. 16:45.600 --> 16:46.740 They're crying out. 16:47.120 --> 16:48.320 They're smiting with the hand. 16:48.520 --> 16:49.600 They're stomping with the foot. 16:49.940 --> 16:51.520 They're preaching hard sermons. 16:52.080 --> 16:53.680 And so a lot of people are just like, 16:53.780 --> 16:57.460 these people are crazy, too extreme, too fanatical. 16:57.920 --> 16:59.040 They're too into it. 16:59.200 --> 17:00.680 You know, when you're just sitting there 17:00.680 --> 17:02.980 and following Elisha every day 17:02.980 --> 17:04.780 and you guys are just reading the Bible 17:04.780 --> 17:06.400 and preaching and doing all that stuff, 17:06.520 --> 17:07.960 it's just you guys are too into it. 17:08.600 --> 17:10.340 You know, go to church a couple of times a year, 17:10.500 --> 17:11.340 a couple of times a month. 17:11.700 --> 17:14.420 Hey, go once a week, but don't get that into it. 17:15.020 --> 17:18.520 So the preacher is seen as a fanatic, a wild man. 17:18.820 --> 17:20.040 And it's the same thing in the New Testament 17:20.040 --> 17:21.420 because you know what they said about Jesus? 17:21.860 --> 17:23.500 Quote, he is beside himself. 17:24.420 --> 17:27.220 That's an expression for saying he's crazy. 17:27.820 --> 17:28.820 He's beside himself. 17:29.440 --> 17:29.880 He's crazy. 17:30.460 --> 17:32.560 And then what did they say about the apostle Paul? 17:32.560 --> 17:35.400 The apostle Paul is preaching a Bible sermon 17:35.400 --> 17:36.300 in the Book of Acts. 17:36.840 --> 17:38.780 And what happens when he's preaching to King of Gripah? 17:38.820 --> 17:39.500 What does Felix say? 17:39.740 --> 17:42.840 He says, Paul, thou art beside thyself, 17:43.160 --> 17:45.120 much learning doth make thee mad. 17:45.620 --> 17:47.900 He said, you have spent too much time studying. 17:48.500 --> 17:50.980 And so you've studied so much that you've lost your mind 17:50.980 --> 17:53.600 because you can tell that Paul's a very intelligent guy. 17:53.980 --> 17:57.220 He's super scholarly, super academic, super learned. 17:57.660 --> 17:58.740 But he's like, you're nuts. 17:59.460 --> 18:00.560 This has driven you nuts. 18:00.560 --> 18:03.620 But then Paul says, okay, well, what about you, King of Gripah? 18:04.080 --> 18:05.460 You know though what I'm saying is true. 18:05.660 --> 18:07.280 Believe it's thou the prophets at Gripah. 18:07.420 --> 18:08.680 I know that thou believest. 18:08.780 --> 18:09.800 And what does King of Gripah say? 18:10.120 --> 18:14.080 The famous words, almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. 18:15.000 --> 18:17.960 Even as the guy next to him is saying, you're insane. 18:19.080 --> 18:21.660 A Gripah has to kind of get over that peer pressure 18:21.660 --> 18:23.540 too because the guy next to him is saying, he's insane. 18:23.840 --> 18:26.020 And he's just like, well, okay, I'll admit it. 18:26.400 --> 18:27.280 I'm almost convinced. 18:27.660 --> 18:29.060 I'm almost persuaded to be a Christian. 18:29.060 --> 18:30.700 Well, almost isn't good enough. 18:30.880 --> 18:32.960 And that's why Paul says, well, I wish that you would just 18:32.960 --> 18:34.520 get all together all the way there. 18:34.760 --> 18:37.280 And I wish all of you all would get all the way there 18:37.280 --> 18:40.660 and not be almost because almost is close but no cigar. 18:41.020 --> 18:42.900 And you gotta get saved. 18:43.240 --> 18:44.100 It's binary. 18:44.480 --> 18:45.380 It's on or off. 18:45.560 --> 18:46.560 You're either saved or unsaved. 18:46.660 --> 18:47.340 There's no almost. 18:48.300 --> 18:50.880 You get in or you're doomed. 18:51.920 --> 18:55.920 And so here we see in 2 Timothy chapter four 18:55.920 --> 18:57.940 because we said, hey, they called Jesus crazy. 18:58.390 --> 18:59.860 They called Paul crazy. 19:00.220 --> 19:02.840 Old Testament prophets are called a mad man 19:03.230 --> 19:04.880 and seen as crazy to this world. 19:05.160 --> 19:07.080 It says in 2 Timothy chapter four, verse one, 19:07.180 --> 19:08.680 I charge thee therefore before God 19:08.680 --> 19:11.280 and the Lord Jesus Christ who shall judge the quick 19:11.280 --> 19:12.840 and the dead it is appearing in his kingdom, 19:13.260 --> 19:17.460 preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, 19:17.900 --> 19:20.740 reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering 19:20.740 --> 19:23.100 in doctrine for the time will come 19:23.100 --> 19:26.600 when they will not endure sound doctrine, 19:26.600 --> 19:29.460 but after their own lust shall they heap 19:29.460 --> 19:32.560 to themselves teachers having itching ears 19:32.560 --> 19:34.340 and they shall turn away their ears from the truth 19:34.340 --> 19:36.500 and shall be turned unto fables. 19:36.720 --> 19:39.840 So notice here that they don't wanna hear the good doctrine, 19:39.980 --> 19:41.400 the real stuff from the Bible. 19:41.820 --> 19:44.100 So what they will do is they will heap 19:44.100 --> 19:45.300 unto themselves teachers. 19:45.580 --> 19:47.320 Notice not preachers but teachers 19:47.880 --> 19:50.560 because typically this world wants something 19:50.560 --> 19:52.780 a little mellower than preaching. 19:52.940 --> 19:54.540 I mean, what's the difference between teaching 19:54.540 --> 19:58.180 and preaching because really all good preaching is teaching. 19:58.420 --> 19:59.720 I mean, if a preacher is getting up 19:59.720 --> 20:02.060 and preaching hopefully you're learning something. 20:02.440 --> 20:03.780 Hopefully something's being taught. 20:04.140 --> 20:05.320 Hopefully there's doctrine. 20:05.660 --> 20:06.720 Doctrine just means teaching. 20:07.360 --> 20:10.280 So hopefully there's some doctrine in the preaching. 20:10.800 --> 20:12.300 Okay, so what's the difference 20:12.300 --> 20:13.200 between preaching and teaching? 20:13.780 --> 20:15.720 You know, preaching is teaching 20:15.720 --> 20:18.480 but just with some fire with it, right? 20:18.880 --> 20:21.040 You know, someone said preaching is teaching 20:21.040 --> 20:23.080 with a tear in the eye, you know, whatever. 20:23.080 --> 20:26.440 But it's, you know, it's the zeal, it's the fire, 20:26.820 --> 20:28.300 it's the passion, right? 20:28.460 --> 20:32.940 It is the dynamic aspect that turns it from just teaching. 20:33.600 --> 20:35.660 You know, Ben Stein up in front of the class 20:35.660 --> 20:37.800 explaining economics during the depression 20:37.800 --> 20:40.440 versus preaching, right? 20:40.720 --> 20:42.300 That's more animated and so forth. 20:42.780 --> 20:46.140 So notice they will heap to themselves teachers. 20:46.800 --> 20:47.700 The other thing that's different 20:47.700 --> 20:48.720 between teaching and preaching 20:49.080 --> 20:53.280 is that preaching is reprove, rebuke, exhort. 20:53.420 --> 20:54.480 All of those three words 20:54.480 --> 20:55.760 are telling people to change something. 20:56.500 --> 20:58.520 You're wrong about this, you need to fix this. 20:59.060 --> 21:00.700 Teaching could just be, oh, hey, 21:00.800 --> 21:02.480 let me just explain to you some things about the Bible. 21:02.780 --> 21:05.040 Preaching is like, hey, you need to fix this, okay? 21:05.800 --> 21:07.000 And so some people will say like, 21:07.160 --> 21:09.120 hey, you're getting preachy, right? 21:09.520 --> 21:11.980 Or I think there was a big Madonna song in the 80s. 21:12.280 --> 21:14.140 Papa, don't preach, right? 21:14.440 --> 21:16.100 And so it's like, hey, don't preach at me. 21:16.100 --> 21:19.460 That is the mentality of this wicked world. 21:19.800 --> 21:21.660 I don't want to be preached at, right? 21:22.140 --> 21:23.960 I want to have itching ears. 21:24.180 --> 21:27.020 I want you to come and basically scratch my ears 21:27.020 --> 21:28.000 and make me feel good. 21:28.300 --> 21:31.000 Like a dog that wants you to rub it behind the ears 21:31.000 --> 21:31.820 and pet the dog. 21:32.060 --> 21:36.260 They want to come and be coddled and petted and stroke. 21:36.460 --> 21:40.300 They don't want to actually get the real sound doctrine 21:40.300 --> 21:43.580 that involves reproof and rebuke and exhortation. 21:44.620 --> 21:47.280 And it notice says they will heap to themselves teachers. 21:47.820 --> 21:50.240 You know, a heap is a giant pile of something. 21:50.420 --> 21:54.100 So there is no shortage of these teachers 21:54.440 --> 21:56.940 that are gonna tell people what they want to hear. 21:58.040 --> 22:01.220 Whatever America wants to hear in 2026, 22:01.460 --> 22:04.020 there will be a heap of pastors 22:04.020 --> 22:06.100 that are ready to teach them 22:06.100 --> 22:07.940 and tell them what they want to hear 22:07.940 --> 22:09.540 and scratch that itch 22:09.540 --> 22:11.340 and they turn their ears away from the truth 22:11.340 --> 22:12.920 and they're turned to fables. 22:12.920 --> 22:15.260 So they're gonna have story time with a pastor 22:15.260 --> 22:16.940 who's not gonna give them sound doctrine, 22:17.440 --> 22:18.940 but he's gonna tell them what they want to hear. 22:19.340 --> 22:20.540 Now with that in mind, 22:20.740 --> 22:22.180 go back to 2 Kings chapter nine 22:22.180 --> 22:23.760 and let's think about that scripture 22:24.320 --> 22:25.880 as we read the reaction here. 22:25.940 --> 22:27.580 Because I think this is hilarious. 22:27.720 --> 22:30.360 I've always enjoyed this in my personal Bible reading 22:31.480 --> 22:33.140 when they ask him, you know, 22:33.160 --> 22:35.160 what did this mad fellow say to you? 22:35.240 --> 22:37.820 What that crazy preacher say? 22:38.340 --> 22:41.500 Oh, well, you know him, you know how he is. 22:41.500 --> 22:43.120 You know the stuff he says, right? 22:43.860 --> 22:44.860 And here's what I think is funny 22:45.440 --> 22:47.900 is that D.U. says you know the man 22:47.900 --> 22:48.900 at the end of verse 11 there, 22:48.900 --> 22:52.180 he says you know the man and his communication. 22:53.620 --> 22:56.580 And then their response is it is false. 22:57.580 --> 23:00.160 And it is false as a reference to the communication. 23:01.180 --> 23:03.240 Well, you know the man, you know his communication. 23:03.620 --> 23:06.380 Yep, and we know that it's false. 23:07.080 --> 23:11.180 Now notice they have not heard what the communication is 23:11.760 --> 23:16.280 as far as actually what was just communicated to Jihu. 23:16.520 --> 23:17.860 They don't even know what it is 23:17.860 --> 23:20.500 and they're already just rejecting it out of hand. 23:20.720 --> 23:22.840 They've already decided it's false. 23:23.440 --> 23:26.260 Okay, now the Bible says that when we listen to preaching 23:26.940 --> 23:29.320 we should be, you know, searching the scriptures daily 23:29.320 --> 23:30.660 to see whether these things are so. 23:30.860 --> 23:32.840 We're not supposed to just blindly believe 23:32.840 --> 23:34.700 whatever is preached unto us. 23:34.700 --> 23:37.080 We're supposed to be getting in the Word every day, 23:37.260 --> 23:39.620 searching the scriptures daily, whether these things be so. 23:39.880 --> 23:41.920 But in the same passage where it says 23:41.920 --> 23:44.460 that the Bereans search the scriptures daily, 23:44.840 --> 23:46.700 it also says that they received the Word 23:46.700 --> 23:47.720 with all readiness of mind. 23:48.280 --> 23:49.920 So we wanna find a balance here. 23:50.620 --> 23:52.120 You know, searching the scriptures daily, 23:52.540 --> 23:53.640 whether these things be so, 23:53.860 --> 23:55.040 it doesn't mean you show up to church 23:55.040 --> 23:57.200 and you're super skeptical and you're like, 23:57.280 --> 23:58.860 ah, I wanna figure out if Pastor Anderson 23:58.860 --> 24:00.100 is really telling the truth here. 24:00.240 --> 24:02.040 You know, I wanna see if this is really right 24:02.040 --> 24:03.260 and you're just kind of frowning, 24:03.480 --> 24:05.260 kind of just fact checking everything, 24:05.480 --> 24:07.920 like just to try to catch me making a mistake. 24:08.240 --> 24:10.060 No, because the idea is you come 24:10.500 --> 24:13.380 with all readiness of mind to receive the Word. 24:13.840 --> 24:16.260 So you wanna come with an attitude that says, 24:16.520 --> 24:18.400 hey, I'm ready to receive truth. 24:18.840 --> 24:19.840 I wanna learn. 24:20.160 --> 24:21.240 I wanna hear this. 24:21.580 --> 24:22.500 This is good stuff. 24:22.960 --> 24:24.940 You know, and then you go and you check 24:24.940 --> 24:28.000 and double check and make sure that it matches the Bible. 24:28.240 --> 24:30.800 But you don't wanna have a skeptical negative attitude 24:30.800 --> 24:31.520 going into preaching. 24:32.180 --> 24:34.780 I mean, if you show up here with a bad attitude 24:34.780 --> 24:36.700 and a skeptical mentality, 24:36.940 --> 24:38.820 you're not gonna get as much out of the preaching 24:38.820 --> 24:41.460 as the person who shows up wanting to learn 24:41.460 --> 24:42.400 with a positive attitude. 24:42.740 --> 24:44.360 And look, when I'm out, you know, 24:44.460 --> 24:46.600 on the mission field or whatever traveling 24:46.600 --> 24:49.200 and I end up visiting some random church 24:49.200 --> 24:51.260 because I'm just in another country 24:51.260 --> 24:54.200 and I'm just Googling whatever the church 24:54.200 --> 24:55.760 that's preaching out of the King James Bible 24:55.760 --> 24:56.860 and just trying to find something. 24:57.300 --> 24:58.460 You know, when I show up, 24:58.460 --> 25:00.700 I don't show up like ready to pick it apart 25:00.700 --> 25:01.680 and find all the problems. 25:01.900 --> 25:03.420 You know, I show up like assuming 25:03.420 --> 25:04.800 that this is gonna be a good church. 25:05.520 --> 25:08.380 I just walk in like ready to learn, good attitude. 25:08.740 --> 25:10.880 And here's the thing, what if I walk into a church like that? 25:12.020 --> 25:13.780 And let's just say that this church 25:13.780 --> 25:15.840 has some seriously screwed up doctrines 25:16.220 --> 25:18.600 that they just kinda don't happen to talk about it 25:18.600 --> 25:19.460 the night that I'm there. 25:20.040 --> 25:21.620 You know, what I don't know can't hurt me. 25:21.940 --> 25:23.040 So if I'm on the mission field, 25:23.120 --> 25:25.140 I'm just visiting, I can just show up 25:25.140 --> 25:26.460 and I got a good attitude 25:26.460 --> 25:28.280 and I'm just sitting there, big smile, 25:28.560 --> 25:29.180 turning to my Bible. 25:29.480 --> 25:31.020 I can learn something from the word of God, 25:31.260 --> 25:32.840 I can listen, I can worship the Lord, 25:33.060 --> 25:34.840 have a good time and go about my merry way. 25:35.100 --> 25:36.780 And I'm not just trying to pick apart 25:36.780 --> 25:38.760 and find all the problems and so forth 25:38.760 --> 25:40.060 and being super critical. 25:40.520 --> 25:42.540 And a lot of times I've been with people 25:42.540 --> 25:44.920 visiting churches and they're so super critical 25:44.920 --> 25:46.640 they'll get offended by every little thing, 25:46.860 --> 25:48.980 even if it's not a big issue or a deal breaker, 25:49.480 --> 25:52.100 just every little thing that the church says or does 25:52.100 --> 25:54.460 that's wrong, they're just on it, you know. 25:54.860 --> 25:56.600 And it's just a bad attitude. 25:57.140 --> 25:59.120 We wanna have, whenever we're at church, 25:59.680 --> 26:01.880 worshiping God, learning from the preaching, 26:02.400 --> 26:04.400 you know, we wanna just have the readiness of mind, 26:04.540 --> 26:07.240 like just ready to hear, wanting to learn, 26:07.740 --> 26:09.020 giving the benefit of the doubt, 26:09.220 --> 26:11.240 being optimistic about where we are. 26:11.720 --> 26:14.220 And then, yeah, we go and fact check things, 26:14.380 --> 26:15.280 we go double check things. 26:15.340 --> 26:16.680 I'm not saying to blindly believe it, 26:16.800 --> 26:18.380 but I'm also saying not to just be, 26:18.880 --> 26:21.820 you know, already negative before it even starts. 26:22.120 --> 26:23.620 And I'm telling you, a lot of people 26:23.620 --> 26:24.840 go to one extreme or the other, 26:25.800 --> 26:27.880 where they're just, they just blindly believe everything, 26:28.180 --> 26:30.740 or they're just super critical and nothing's good enough 26:30.740 --> 26:32.200 and no church is good enough 26:32.200 --> 26:34.040 and every church is bad and whatever. 26:34.440 --> 26:36.860 And look, I've known people that were great Christians, 26:37.200 --> 26:38.720 soul-winning Christians, effective Christians, 26:39.060 --> 26:40.840 but they became so critical 26:41.300 --> 26:43.500 that they just got completely out of church 26:43.500 --> 26:45.320 because they're just like, no church is good enough. 26:45.720 --> 26:47.920 And then they just start doing church at home 26:47.920 --> 26:49.520 and they're just at the kitchen table, 26:49.820 --> 26:52.180 husband and wife, and they're not attending anywhere 26:52.180 --> 26:53.740 for years and years and years. 26:53.880 --> 26:55.520 And guess what, they're gonna get less people saved, 26:56.220 --> 26:57.160 they're not in obedience, 26:57.940 --> 26:59.540 they're not growing like they could be 26:59.540 --> 27:02.280 because they got too puffed up in their knowledge 27:02.280 --> 27:04.700 and just, oh, I know more than every pastor, 27:04.700 --> 27:05.980 so I'm gonna stay home. 27:06.740 --> 27:07.960 You know, it's a bad place to be. 27:09.080 --> 27:10.840 And so, you know, wanna make sure 27:11.260 --> 27:15.000 that, yeah, we're ready to hear and we're searching. 27:15.180 --> 27:17.120 Okay, these people are, 27:17.760 --> 27:20.640 they're already super negative about the man of God, right? 27:21.260 --> 27:22.620 The true prophet of God, 27:23.180 --> 27:24.780 this guy is truly sent by God, 27:25.660 --> 27:27.320 Elisha is obviously right with God, 27:27.460 --> 27:28.460 this guy's right with God, 27:28.600 --> 27:30.020 this message is straight from the Lord 27:30.380 --> 27:31.640 and he comes and preaches it, 27:31.920 --> 27:34.280 but do they have an attitude that's ready to receive? 27:34.840 --> 27:36.480 No, cause they're like, he's crazy 27:37.320 --> 27:39.720 and even before they've even heard the message, 27:39.860 --> 27:41.560 they're just like, well, I already know it's gonna be wrong. 27:42.240 --> 27:43.500 I already know it's gonna be false. 27:43.780 --> 27:45.500 I mean, if Pastor Anderson's saying it, 27:46.160 --> 27:48.740 I already disagree, it's false. 27:49.620 --> 27:52.100 Okay, that's the attitude that they have 27:52.100 --> 27:53.600 toward this particular preacher. 27:55.000 --> 27:56.860 But they say, tell us now. 27:57.760 --> 27:58.520 Now, here's what's funny, 27:58.880 --> 28:00.520 is that they still wanna hear it. 28:01.020 --> 28:03.380 Like, even though they think it's crazy, 28:03.740 --> 28:05.140 they don't like it, they've already decided 28:05.140 --> 28:06.000 they don't agree with it, 28:06.160 --> 28:08.360 but they're like, tell it to us though. 28:09.080 --> 28:09.760 Tell us anyway. 28:10.000 --> 28:11.040 You know, it's kinda funny, 28:11.400 --> 28:14.060 people who kinda just hate watch content 28:14.660 --> 28:16.320 of preachers that they don't like, 28:16.860 --> 28:18.440 you know, and they just can't get enough 28:18.440 --> 28:20.180 of preaching that they don't agree with 28:20.180 --> 28:23.540 and they just listen and just stalk preachers that, 28:23.640 --> 28:24.500 you know, it's like, wow. 28:24.860 --> 28:26.200 You know, that's one way you could look at this, 28:26.380 --> 28:28.000 but another way you could think of it is just, 28:28.120 --> 28:30.340 you know, they're just still curious, right? 28:30.420 --> 28:32.420 I mean, the guy came and took him in the other room 28:32.420 --> 28:33.720 and, you know, he comes back 28:33.720 --> 28:35.720 and his head's a little greasier than it was before 28:35.720 --> 28:37.420 and they're wondering what's going on 28:38.240 --> 28:40.360 and so they're like, well, it's, you know, 28:40.900 --> 28:42.880 it's false, it's false, 28:42.980 --> 28:44.840 but go ahead and tell us what it is anyway, 28:45.440 --> 28:45.860 you know. 28:47.820 --> 28:49.020 So what does he say? 28:49.620 --> 28:52.040 He said, thus and thus, spakey to me, 28:52.520 --> 28:54.320 saying, thus saith the Lord, 28:54.520 --> 28:55.760 I've anointed thee, king over Israel. 28:56.540 --> 28:59.240 Now, watch this, watch just the turn on a dime 28:59.240 --> 29:02.540 in verse 13, then they hasted. 29:02.800 --> 29:04.660 So are these people, they're not stopping 29:04.660 --> 29:06.940 and think about it, they're not deliberating. 29:07.500 --> 29:08.840 I mean, he has them at hello. 29:09.940 --> 29:13.440 It's just, they hasted and took every man in his garment 29:13.840 --> 29:16.340 and put it under him on the top of the stairs 29:16.740 --> 29:20.540 and blew with trumpet saying, Jihu is king. 29:21.080 --> 29:23.580 Now, whoa, what happened? 29:24.640 --> 29:27.200 Because a minute ago they're like, oh, this guy's crazy. 29:27.840 --> 29:29.960 Well, you know, yeah, you know how he is, 29:30.040 --> 29:31.200 you know what he's, well, it's false. 29:31.800 --> 29:32.800 Tell us what it is. 29:33.500 --> 29:35.040 Well, he said that I'm gonna be king. 29:37.480 --> 29:38.480 That's it, you're king. 29:39.620 --> 29:41.660 Now here's why, because remember, 29:42.120 --> 29:43.520 even at the start of the story, 29:44.340 --> 29:45.280 who's doing the talking? 29:45.520 --> 29:48.780 Jihu, he obviously is a respected guy among his brethren. 29:49.300 --> 29:52.160 He's obviously the most important person in the room 29:52.160 --> 29:53.360 because when the prophet comes in, 29:53.400 --> 29:55.180 he's the one who addresses him and speaks up. 29:55.760 --> 29:57.440 And so I think one way that we could look at this 29:57.440 --> 29:59.620 is that backslidden Christians 30:00.400 --> 30:03.240 or just bad people, rotten people, 30:03.400 --> 30:04.340 backslidden people, whatever, 30:04.920 --> 30:05.980 you know what they tend to do 30:06.540 --> 30:08.500 is they tend to just only like preaching 30:08.500 --> 30:09.720 when it's just telling them stuff 30:09.720 --> 30:11.860 that they already believe and that they already like. 30:12.720 --> 30:15.180 You know, it's not that these people 30:15.180 --> 30:17.820 had a different view, different opinion, 30:18.500 --> 30:21.820 and then, oh, well, if the man of God's saying it, 30:22.100 --> 30:23.680 I mean, if that's what the Bible says, 30:24.340 --> 30:27.280 if that does say it to the Lord, well, yes, sir, Lord, 30:27.680 --> 30:28.800 that's not what's going on here. 30:29.100 --> 30:31.040 These people don't respect the man of God. 30:31.620 --> 30:32.940 These people have a bad attitude. 30:33.520 --> 30:34.940 These people are writing off the preaching 30:34.940 --> 30:35.980 before they've even heard it, 30:35.980 --> 30:38.780 but if it's something that they like, 30:39.720 --> 30:41.060 now all of a sudden they like it. 30:41.240 --> 30:43.760 And again, this reminds me of Second Timothy 4, 30:50.080 --> 30:51.800 where it says that they will heep 30:51.800 --> 30:53.780 to themselves teachers having itching ears, 30:53.900 --> 30:57.700 meaning that they want preachers to tell them 30:57.700 --> 30:58.740 what they wanna hear 30:58.740 --> 31:00.080 or to tell them what they already believe. 31:01.020 --> 31:02.420 And you know what a lot of people want 31:02.420 --> 31:04.180 when they go to the Bible too? 31:04.640 --> 31:06.400 They basically just wanna hear God, 31:06.580 --> 31:07.840 they just wanna hear their own opinion 31:07.840 --> 31:09.760 coming out of God's mouth is what they want. 31:09.920 --> 31:13.320 Like, they approach the Bible with a preconceived idea, 31:13.860 --> 31:17.400 with a belief, with a definition, with an idea, 31:17.720 --> 31:19.880 and then it's like, okay, now let's figure out 31:19.880 --> 31:22.800 how we can make God say what I want him to say 31:23.440 --> 31:25.880 and make him actually agree with me, 31:26.140 --> 31:27.580 and then they'll go visit churches 31:28.060 --> 31:29.680 and they want to just agree 31:29.680 --> 31:31.260 with every single thing that the pastor's saying. 31:32.060 --> 31:33.680 And they just wanna find a pastor 31:34.260 --> 31:35.740 where they can hear their own opinions 31:35.740 --> 31:37.120 coming out of the pastor's mouth. 31:37.700 --> 31:38.860 Now this is the wrong attitude 31:38.860 --> 31:40.020 because at the end of the day, 31:40.200 --> 31:42.260 we are all wrong about something, 31:42.740 --> 31:44.360 we all have blind spots, 31:44.820 --> 31:47.020 we all have areas of ignorance in our life, 31:47.220 --> 31:49.580 and so we should expect that sometimes 31:49.580 --> 31:51.440 we're gonna come across things in the Bible 31:51.440 --> 31:52.960 that go against our beliefs. 31:53.640 --> 31:55.440 We're gonna come across things in preaching, 31:55.620 --> 31:57.240 in church, where the pastor gets up 31:57.240 --> 31:58.840 and preaches the opposite of what we believe. 31:59.420 --> 32:01.480 And those are the things that challenge us 32:01.480 --> 32:03.300 where sometimes we need to change 32:04.000 --> 32:06.400 and realize, hey, I was wrong about this 32:06.400 --> 32:07.700 because I read this verse in the Bible 32:07.700 --> 32:10.000 and it actually fixed my belief. 32:10.300 --> 32:11.780 Or you know what, I used to believe this way, 32:11.960 --> 32:14.260 I showed up at church, the pastor preached a sermon, 32:14.620 --> 32:16.100 boy, now I see things totally differently. 32:17.420 --> 32:18.840 I mean, I would hate to go to church 32:18.840 --> 32:20.060 for years and years and years 32:20.500 --> 32:23.080 and the pastor has never changed my mind about anything, 32:23.600 --> 32:25.520 the pastor's never taught me anything new, 32:25.880 --> 32:28.460 I'm never challenged by anything coming from the pulpit, 32:28.460 --> 32:30.920 nothing in my Bible readings ever challenged me that, 32:30.980 --> 32:32.080 what would even be the point? 32:32.700 --> 32:34.500 If you just already know everything 32:34.500 --> 32:38.020 and you already just believe exactly right all the time, 32:38.280 --> 32:39.920 then it sounds like you just know everything, 32:39.960 --> 32:41.180 you don't even need any church. 32:41.280 --> 32:43.200 You can go have church in the living room 32:43.200 --> 32:44.840 with your wife and you're better 32:44.840 --> 32:45.960 than everyone and so forth. 32:46.260 --> 32:47.320 But that's just not true. 32:47.780 --> 32:49.600 We all need to keep learning and growing 32:49.600 --> 32:51.120 and we don't wanna be these people 32:51.120 --> 32:54.040 who just only want to hear stuff 32:54.040 --> 32:55.900 that we already agree with. 32:55.900 --> 32:59.640 We need to be okay with God correcting us 32:59.640 --> 33:01.360 and rebuking us, reproving us, 33:01.440 --> 33:02.700 exhorting us, challenging us. 33:02.940 --> 33:07.600 And so here you have a good, spirit-filled man of God 33:08.160 --> 33:11.380 preaching a true sermon and these guys are on board. 33:12.120 --> 33:13.760 They actually respond positively, 33:14.060 --> 33:16.080 but it's not because they're great guys, 33:17.060 --> 33:19.300 it's not because they just have so much respect 33:19.300 --> 33:20.080 for the word of God, 33:20.500 --> 33:22.920 it's not because the preacher has changed their minds, 33:22.920 --> 33:25.640 it's because the preacher is telling them something 33:25.640 --> 33:27.380 that they already wanted to hear. 33:27.800 --> 33:30.940 So in the past, he's been preaching against their sin, 33:31.040 --> 33:31.700 they didn't like it. 33:32.240 --> 33:33.240 Now all of a sudden, 33:33.420 --> 33:35.120 he's preaching something that they're into 33:35.120 --> 33:37.820 and they're just like, let's go, let's do it. 33:38.420 --> 33:41.740 So God is obviously going to use these people 33:42.150 --> 33:43.660 to carry out his will. 33:44.100 --> 33:45.960 He's gonna use Jihu and all his buddies 33:46.350 --> 33:49.360 to carry out his will to destroy the house of Ahab, 33:49.380 --> 33:51.140 to destroy Jezebel, but here's the thing, 33:51.380 --> 33:52.300 what you're gonna find is that 33:52.300 --> 33:53.540 as soon as these people take over, 33:54.280 --> 33:54.880 you know what they're gonna do? 33:55.020 --> 33:57.000 They're gonna bring in the same old sins 33:57.000 --> 34:00.900 and Jihu's not gonna end up unfortunately being a good king 34:00.900 --> 34:02.760 because Jihu starts out awesome. 34:03.060 --> 34:05.260 Like in this chapter, you're just loving Jihu, 34:05.400 --> 34:06.740 next chapter, you're loving Jihu 34:06.740 --> 34:10.280 and you're seeing Jihu carry out all of these great acts 34:10.280 --> 34:13.120 and he completely just obliterates Baal worship, 34:14.060 --> 34:17.640 just gets rid, he kills so many prophets of Baal. 34:17.960 --> 34:21.020 I mean, he's just totally bringing down the wrath of God 34:21.020 --> 34:22.220 and he's not doing it alone, 34:22.400 --> 34:23.960 he's doing it with his buddies here. 34:25.340 --> 34:27.300 But as soon as he takes power though, 34:27.380 --> 34:28.880 you know what he's gonna do is, 34:29.440 --> 34:30.900 yeah, they're not worshiping Baal anymore, 34:31.480 --> 34:32.940 so it's like a lesser evil, 34:33.300 --> 34:35.320 but he gets them back on the sins of Jeroboam 34:35.800 --> 34:37.640 and he gets them back on the golden calf 34:38.100 --> 34:41.460 and it's still idolatry, it's still false religion, 34:41.560 --> 34:43.660 it's not like as bad of a false religion. 34:44.240 --> 34:45.520 Like he takes them from like, 34:46.760 --> 34:49.760 I guess takes them from Islam to Catholicism 34:49.760 --> 34:51.180 or something, you know what I mean, or whatever. 34:51.860 --> 34:53.800 He basically just takes them 34:53.800 --> 34:56.520 from one false religion to another, okay? 34:56.880 --> 34:58.620 He ends up being a bad guy, 34:58.740 --> 35:01.280 so we don't wanna get too excited about these people 35:01.820 --> 35:03.860 just because they're responding to the preaching 35:03.860 --> 35:06.680 because just a minute ago, they hate the preacher 35:06.680 --> 35:08.620 and everything he says is false 35:09.120 --> 35:10.500 and then he says something that they like 35:10.500 --> 35:12.840 and they're like, oh, we can, yeah, we can do that. 35:13.060 --> 35:15.420 I mean, Jihu is king, we like Jihu, cool, yeah. 35:15.920 --> 35:17.260 Tell me more things that I wanna hear. 35:17.740 --> 35:19.800 And you know, there are people that'll get really excited 35:19.800 --> 35:21.280 about my preaching on certain subjects. 35:21.580 --> 35:23.480 You know, you have some guy online 35:23.960 --> 35:26.260 who's just super negative about the Jews or something, 35:26.480 --> 35:28.760 so he'll hear me preach some super hard sermon 35:28.760 --> 35:30.060 against Jews and Judaism 35:30.520 --> 35:33.000 and he's just smashing that follow, subscribe, 35:33.640 --> 35:34.680 oh, this is so awesome. 35:34.940 --> 35:36.620 Then I start preaching the rest of the Bible 35:37.520 --> 35:39.220 and it's like, oh, you need to go back 35:39.220 --> 35:40.120 to just talking about the Jews. 35:40.340 --> 35:41.920 It's like, shut up, you're out of here. 35:42.920 --> 35:43.860 Block you fool. 35:44.980 --> 35:47.540 You get these one issue people, right? 35:47.840 --> 35:48.440 Where it's just like, 35:48.720 --> 35:50.620 or they're super into the end time stuff 35:50.620 --> 35:52.920 but then they're a heretic over here on this other thing. 35:53.400 --> 35:55.860 And you get these people that just get super excited 35:56.300 --> 35:59.520 when you're telling them what they wanna hear 36:00.140 --> 36:02.180 but they don't want the full compliment 36:02.180 --> 36:04.940 of God's doctrine and the whole Bible. 36:05.260 --> 36:05.780 And you know what? 36:06.160 --> 36:08.100 I have striven over the years 36:08.100 --> 36:10.200 not to be a one trick pony. 36:11.040 --> 36:12.920 You know, I don't wanna be this pastor 36:12.920 --> 36:15.280 that's just only always ripping on homos. 36:16.040 --> 36:17.140 I don't wanna be a pastor 36:17.140 --> 36:18.680 that's always talking about science. 36:19.220 --> 36:20.320 I don't wanna be a pastor 36:20.320 --> 36:22.660 that's always talking about King James' onlyism. 36:23.020 --> 36:24.060 I don't wanna be a pastor 36:24.060 --> 36:27.040 that's just always preaching only salvation sermons 36:27.040 --> 36:30.260 or just only in times, only political, 36:30.800 --> 36:31.980 only against the Jews. 36:32.260 --> 36:33.960 And there are people like that you could point to 36:33.960 --> 36:35.640 where just everything is political. 36:36.420 --> 36:37.540 Everything's creationism. 36:38.040 --> 36:39.500 Everything is King James. 36:40.160 --> 36:42.620 Everything is this, that or the other. 36:43.080 --> 36:44.740 It's imbalanced, right? 36:45.000 --> 36:47.900 I wanna be a guy where I'm preaching the whole Bible, 36:48.520 --> 36:50.640 all different subjects, positive, negative, 36:51.420 --> 36:53.700 you know, just going the whole gamut of the whole Bible 36:54.300 --> 36:56.000 and you'll get these immature people 36:56.520 --> 36:58.200 that only want that one issue. 36:58.900 --> 37:00.900 And they're not gonna pan out in the long run. 37:01.460 --> 37:02.580 Those are the people that don't pan out. 37:02.620 --> 37:03.600 The people that are panning out. 37:03.880 --> 37:04.780 The people in this room 37:04.780 --> 37:06.520 that have been at this church for years, 37:06.700 --> 37:07.840 serving God for years, 37:07.840 --> 37:09.580 they're not just here just only. 37:09.800 --> 37:12.240 I just love it when Pastor Anderson rips on sodomites 37:12.240 --> 37:13.060 and that's why I'm here. 37:13.420 --> 37:15.180 It's like, no, they're here for all of it. 37:16.360 --> 37:18.160 The people who've been here for five years, 37:18.300 --> 37:19.760 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, 37:20.020 --> 37:20.840 they're here for all of it. 37:20.960 --> 37:22.360 They love all of it. 37:22.700 --> 37:23.860 They love the whole Bible. 37:24.320 --> 37:25.220 They love soul winning. 37:25.680 --> 37:26.800 They love end times. 37:27.180 --> 37:28.340 They love the King James. 37:28.740 --> 37:30.660 They love hearing the deep sermons. 37:31.100 --> 37:32.840 They love to hear the face ripping sermons. 37:33.200 --> 37:34.840 They love to hear the encouraging sermons. 37:34.840 --> 37:38.360 We wanna be well balanced people, right? 37:38.520 --> 37:39.920 And that love the Lord, 37:40.620 --> 37:42.680 and we love him with all our heart 37:42.680 --> 37:44.720 and we love everything about the Bible. 37:45.880 --> 37:46.200 That's what we need. 37:46.440 --> 37:47.580 These people aren't like that. 37:48.080 --> 37:52.320 They like only one sermon that this guy preached. 37:52.460 --> 37:53.120 The one where he says, 37:53.200 --> 37:54.440 Jihu's gonna be the next king 37:54.440 --> 37:56.600 and he's gonna smoke the house of Ahab. 37:56.940 --> 37:59.080 They're like, yeah, great, we love that preaching. 38:00.040 --> 38:02.240 So they say, Jihu is king. 38:02.440 --> 38:03.460 I don't have time, obviously, 38:03.460 --> 38:04.440 to go through all this, 38:04.780 --> 38:07.700 but it just kind of gives all of the details 38:08.340 --> 38:12.040 of them going and bringing the wrath of God upon them. 38:12.140 --> 38:14.880 Let's just jump down to verse number 21. 38:15.180 --> 38:16.220 It says in Joram said, 38:16.640 --> 38:18.420 make ready and his chariot was made ready 38:18.420 --> 38:19.860 and Joram king of Israel 38:19.860 --> 38:21.520 and he as I, king of Judah went out 38:21.520 --> 38:22.960 each in his chariot 38:22.960 --> 38:24.460 and they went out against Jihu 38:24.460 --> 38:28.080 and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite. 38:28.520 --> 38:30.560 So notice the poetic justice here 38:30.560 --> 38:33.300 that Naboth was the one that they had killed 38:33.300 --> 38:35.460 and it's like God's gonna bring judgment 38:35.980 --> 38:39.360 in Naboth's exact parcel of land 38:39.360 --> 38:41.260 just so that everybody realizes, 38:41.640 --> 38:43.880 okay, even though this happened 13 years ago, 38:44.280 --> 38:47.660 this is a punishment because of what y'all did to Naboth 38:47.660 --> 38:50.700 and it's all coming to get you right now. 38:51.880 --> 38:52.840 And here's the thing, 38:52.960 --> 38:54.660 it's not just the king of Israel 38:55.180 --> 38:57.020 but it's also as I, king of Judah. 38:57.240 --> 38:57.900 And again, remember, 38:57.900 --> 39:00.700 the kings of Israel are worse than the kings of Judah. 39:01.320 --> 39:04.220 Kings of Israel are a bad influence on the kings of Judah. 39:04.540 --> 39:06.380 The kings of Judah should not be hanging around 39:06.380 --> 39:07.960 with the kings of Israel because they're bad influence. 39:09.160 --> 39:13.020 But because the king of Judah is hanging around 39:13.570 --> 39:14.700 with the king of Israel, 39:15.120 --> 39:17.420 he's gonna get smoked too because here's the thing. 39:17.820 --> 39:20.380 You know, you don't wanna be hanging around 39:20.380 --> 39:22.660 with the enemies of God when they get punished. 39:23.420 --> 39:26.500 When God is bringing down his vengeance and his wrath 39:26.500 --> 39:29.280 upon people who have done wickedly 39:29.280 --> 39:30.580 and persecuted the people of God, 39:31.000 --> 39:32.640 you know what, you don't wanna be near them. 39:32.960 --> 39:35.160 Remember when Korah, Dathan, and Abiram 39:35.160 --> 39:36.500 are speaking against Moses and Aaron 39:37.120 --> 39:40.000 and God's about to destroy Korah, Dathan, 39:40.060 --> 39:41.860 Abiram and all their company, hundreds of people, 39:42.760 --> 39:45.220 he says, anybody who fears God, 39:45.700 --> 39:48.380 get away from the tents of these wicked men. 39:48.500 --> 39:50.560 You do not wanna be standing near them 39:51.060 --> 39:53.720 when God brings the judgment upon them 39:53.720 --> 39:56.140 because you will end up getting caught in the crossfire. 39:57.180 --> 40:00.280 You know, if some church is cursed by God, 40:00.660 --> 40:03.360 if some pastor is involved in super wicked behavior, 40:03.600 --> 40:05.120 you don't wanna be a part of that team 40:05.620 --> 40:07.540 when God is coming and bringing down 40:07.540 --> 40:08.840 the hammer on those people. 40:08.940 --> 40:11.220 You don't wanna be hooked up with those kind of people. 40:11.980 --> 40:14.020 You wanna separate yourself from the company 40:14.020 --> 40:15.300 of those wicked men. 40:15.620 --> 40:17.880 That's why we shouldn't be in the company 40:17.880 --> 40:21.500 of people who've been church disciplined, right? 40:21.760 --> 40:23.380 These people have been delivered over to Satan 40:23.380 --> 40:24.560 for the destruction of the flesh. 40:24.920 --> 40:27.140 They're supposed to be a heathen and a publican on us. 40:27.420 --> 40:28.720 Why would you want to fellowship 40:28.720 --> 40:31.840 and hang around with people that have been church disciplined? 40:32.600 --> 40:33.300 You know, I'm talking about people 40:33.300 --> 40:35.280 who've been church disciplined for a legitimate reason. 40:35.360 --> 40:36.700 And I'm not even just saying from our church. 40:37.100 --> 40:38.220 People who've been church disciplined 40:38.220 --> 40:40.600 from any church for a legitimate reason. 40:41.000 --> 40:42.080 I mean, imagine this. 40:42.420 --> 40:44.740 Imagine a guy getting church disciplined 40:45.800 --> 40:47.380 for denying the Trinity. 40:48.400 --> 40:49.980 I mean, that's pretty bad. 40:50.500 --> 40:51.980 When you're denying the Trinity, 40:51.980 --> 40:54.820 saying it's polytheistic and you're full blown, 40:55.200 --> 40:57.920 just one this modalist denying the Trinity 40:58.580 --> 41:00.580 and your independent fundamental Baptist church 41:00.580 --> 41:02.360 kicks you out, right? 41:03.540 --> 41:04.920 And there's a guy like this. 41:05.060 --> 41:06.920 He was kicked out of a church in Texas. 41:07.760 --> 41:10.440 And, you know, this is not a church that we approve of. 41:10.560 --> 41:12.120 This is not a church that we're friends with. 41:12.360 --> 41:13.620 But as a church in Texas, 41:14.100 --> 41:17.240 kicks this guy out for being against the Trinity, 41:17.300 --> 41:18.620 for being a damnable heretic, 41:18.980 --> 41:19.980 he's thrown out of the church, 41:19.980 --> 41:21.540 legitimately thrown out of the church. 41:23.340 --> 41:25.960 But then another fundamental Baptist 41:25.960 --> 41:27.120 decides it's a good idea 41:27.120 --> 41:28.700 to bring him on his podcast 41:28.700 --> 41:31.200 to hear about his views on why the Trinity is wrong 41:31.200 --> 41:32.760 and let's give him a platform, 41:33.120 --> 41:34.120 let's put him on YouTube 41:34.720 --> 41:36.360 and let him just get his message out 41:36.360 --> 41:37.320 to thousands of people. 41:37.640 --> 41:38.460 Let's help this guy. 41:38.640 --> 41:41.340 It's like, if this guy was excommunicated 41:41.340 --> 41:45.380 from a Baptist church for a legitimate reason, 41:46.020 --> 41:48.200 then the Bible teaches he's under the curse of God. 41:48.200 --> 41:51.040 So why would we want to then, 41:51.380 --> 41:52.980 hey, we gotta be nice to this guy, 41:53.080 --> 41:54.720 and he even said, be nice to him. 41:55.600 --> 41:56.700 Be nice to him. 41:56.900 --> 41:57.760 Let's give him a platform. 41:58.160 --> 41:58.540 You know what? 41:58.700 --> 42:02.280 You are now a partaker of his evil deeds is what you are. 42:02.800 --> 42:05.180 You're participating in his evil deeds. 42:06.060 --> 42:07.940 You know, and there's a saying in German, 42:09.060 --> 42:11.560 mitgegangen, mitgefangen, mitgangen, okay? 42:12.060 --> 42:14.000 And it means, you know, you went together, 42:14.320 --> 42:15.280 you were caught together, 42:15.380 --> 42:17.960 and you're hung together, right? 42:17.960 --> 42:20.460 Because you know, when you're hanging around the wrong people, 42:20.960 --> 42:23.780 you end up getting smoked along with them. 42:25.400 --> 42:27.800 And we do have a few German speakers in the crowd 42:27.800 --> 42:29.120 that just got that right away. 42:31.700 --> 42:33.740 So the Bible says here, 42:34.640 --> 42:37.340 that Isaiah, he's there in the mix, 42:37.540 --> 42:39.820 king of Judah, they went out against Jehu, 42:39.960 --> 42:42.020 met him in the portion of Naboth the Jeseralite, 42:42.040 --> 42:45.800 verse 22, it came to pass when Joram saw Jehu, 42:45.800 --> 42:48.100 that he said, is it peace, Jehu? 42:48.300 --> 42:50.080 I mean, can we all just get along? 42:51.040 --> 42:52.440 And he answered, what peace? 42:53.140 --> 42:56.420 So long as the Hordom's of yo mama, Jezebel, 42:57.740 --> 42:59.340 and her witchcrafts are so many. 42:59.700 --> 43:03.160 How can we have peace when your mom's a whore? 43:03.540 --> 43:05.800 And when she's killing the people of God 43:06.360 --> 43:07.960 and persecuting the people of God. 43:09.060 --> 43:11.040 What peace as long as the Hordom's of my mother, 43:11.180 --> 43:12.600 Jezebel, and her witchcraft are so many. 43:13.180 --> 43:14.740 Now right away, when he hears this answer, 43:14.740 --> 43:17.820 he realizes this peace talk isn't really going 43:17.820 --> 43:19.380 the way that I thought it was gonna go. 43:21.900 --> 43:25.120 And so he says, Joram turned his hands and fled 43:25.120 --> 43:28.180 and said to Isaiah, there's treachery on Isaiah. 43:29.060 --> 43:31.860 And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength 43:31.860 --> 43:34.520 and smote Jehoram between his arms 43:34.520 --> 43:36.520 and the arrow went out at his heart 43:36.940 --> 43:38.940 and he sunk down in his chariot. 43:39.220 --> 43:41.560 Then said, Jehu to bid car his captain, 43:41.740 --> 43:43.680 take up and cast him in the portion 43:43.680 --> 43:45.500 of the field of Naboth, the Jezreelite, 43:45.800 --> 43:48.500 for remember how that when I and thou rode together 43:48.500 --> 43:51.340 after Ahab his father, the Lord laid this burden upon him. 43:51.340 --> 43:53.440 So it's kind of funny that back when Elijah 43:53.440 --> 43:58.540 had first confronted Ahab in the portion of Naboth, 43:59.520 --> 44:01.320 Jehu and them were actually around. 44:02.000 --> 44:03.980 Even though back then they were just kind of nobodies. 44:04.100 --> 44:07.020 They were kind of just young guys in Ahab's army. 44:07.280 --> 44:09.480 And they actually heard the original sermon 44:09.480 --> 44:11.400 like 13 or so years earlier. 44:12.460 --> 44:16.280 And he's like, hey, let's fulfill Bible prophecy here. 44:16.920 --> 44:19.200 We killed him, now let's throw him here. 44:19.520 --> 44:22.320 Hey, Elijah said this was gonna happen 13 years ago. 44:22.640 --> 44:24.860 And it's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy 44:24.860 --> 44:27.720 because they're like, hey, let's do what Elijah said 44:27.720 --> 44:29.300 was gonna happen and just throw him here. 44:29.420 --> 44:30.660 And that's what they end up doing. 44:32.100 --> 44:34.300 And he's like, man, remember, we heard that preaching. 44:34.660 --> 44:36.820 Because it's like, this is kind of a cool moment 44:36.820 --> 44:39.540 because as they're fulfilling prophecy 44:39.540 --> 44:41.080 and then it like dawns on them, 44:41.580 --> 44:43.980 whoa, we're actually fulfilling prophecy right now. 44:44.180 --> 44:46.060 Like we, you know, it's kind of like it just clicked. 44:47.200 --> 44:48.800 What are the, we're actually here. 44:49.360 --> 44:51.780 Oh, remember, this is what he said was gonna happen 44:51.780 --> 44:52.680 and we're doing it. 44:52.800 --> 44:54.040 Well, let's finish it now. 44:54.300 --> 44:56.940 Throw the body here in Naboth's field. 44:57.160 --> 44:59.000 It's a good fitting place for it to end up. 45:00.500 --> 45:02.700 Surely I have seen yesterday, verse 26, 45:02.900 --> 45:04.980 the blood of Naboth and the blood of his son, 45:05.100 --> 45:07.420 sayeth the Lord, and I will requite thee 45:07.420 --> 45:09.540 in this plat, sayeth the Lord, 45:10.000 --> 45:12.280 now therefore take and cast them into the platter of ground, 45:12.560 --> 45:14.400 according to the word of the Lord. 45:14.780 --> 45:16.560 But when A.S.I., the king of Judah saw this, 45:16.660 --> 45:18.500 he fled by the way of the garden house. 45:18.960 --> 45:20.620 And Jehu followed after him and said, 45:21.100 --> 45:22.640 smite him also in the chariot. 45:23.580 --> 45:25.900 And they did so at the going up to Gerr, 45:26.160 --> 45:29.520 which is by Iblum and he fled to Megiddo and died there. 45:29.920 --> 45:32.240 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem 45:32.240 --> 45:33.900 and buried him in his sepulchre 45:34.500 --> 45:36.080 with his fathers in the city of David. 45:36.800 --> 45:38.620 And in the 11th year of Joram, 45:39.000 --> 45:42.160 the son of A.I. began as I had a reign over Judah. 45:42.780 --> 45:46.240 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it 45:46.240 --> 45:49.160 and she painted her face and tired her head 45:49.160 --> 45:50.460 and looked out at a window. 45:50.840 --> 45:53.200 She thinks that somehow she's going to impress them 45:53.200 --> 45:55.240 with her appearance, right? 45:55.680 --> 45:59.140 She thinks that if she looks super regal 45:59.140 --> 46:00.980 and important and impressive, 46:01.000 --> 46:03.360 that somehow she's gonna intimidate them 46:03.360 --> 46:04.880 or scare them or whatever. 46:05.400 --> 46:09.260 And so she puts on her clown makeup and she paints her face. 46:10.080 --> 46:12.280 She tired her, it makes me think of that meme 46:12.280 --> 46:14.420 of the guy like putting on the clown makeup. 46:14.680 --> 46:17.480 This is Jezebel painting her face. 46:18.220 --> 46:21.700 She tired her, this is like our word attire for clothing. 46:21.920 --> 46:23.740 So she's dressing her hair, 46:24.180 --> 46:27.720 doing a fancy hairdo of some kind, dressing her hair. 46:28.180 --> 46:30.560 We think of the English word hairdresser, right? 46:30.940 --> 46:32.820 So she's tiring her head. 46:33.000 --> 46:34.200 She looks out the window 46:34.660 --> 46:37.220 and as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, 46:37.700 --> 46:40.220 had Zimra'i peace who slew his master? 46:40.580 --> 46:44.540 So she's basically going back in the history of Israel 46:44.540 --> 46:46.980 to a king who overthrew another king 46:47.680 --> 46:50.180 and he ended up just immediately getting smoked 46:50.780 --> 46:54.700 because again, he didn't have the mandate of God here. 46:54.840 --> 46:58.340 God has told Jehu, execute my fierce wrath 46:58.340 --> 46:59.440 upon the house of Ahab. 46:59.840 --> 47:01.840 And so he has God on his side 47:01.840 --> 47:03.620 whereas Zimra'i didn't have God on his side. 47:03.620 --> 47:04.920 That's the colossal difference. 47:05.060 --> 47:06.800 And you know, so many things are like this in this world. 47:06.840 --> 47:08.760 It's like, well, what's the difference 47:08.760 --> 47:11.540 between this situation over here and this situation? 47:11.760 --> 47:12.580 Well, here's the difference. 47:12.840 --> 47:14.720 One of them is on the Lord's side 47:14.720 --> 47:16.320 and one of them is on the devil's side. 47:16.740 --> 47:17.460 That's the difference. 47:17.840 --> 47:18.300 Any questions? 47:19.140 --> 47:21.220 A lot of things in this world can look similar 47:21.660 --> 47:23.280 but one of them's right and one of them's wrong. 47:24.140 --> 47:25.640 One of them is in accordance with scripture, 47:25.960 --> 47:26.640 one of them isn't. 47:27.020 --> 47:28.880 One of them is for the Lord, one of them is for the devil. 47:30.400 --> 47:33.040 And so she's like, well, had Zimra'i peace? 47:33.540 --> 47:34.620 Who slew his master? 47:34.960 --> 47:36.700 And he lifted up his face to the window 47:36.700 --> 47:39.180 and said, who's on my side? 47:39.240 --> 47:40.400 He doesn't even answer her. 47:41.000 --> 47:42.880 He doesn't even seem like he even looks at her. 47:43.340 --> 47:44.020 He doesn't even care. 47:44.100 --> 47:47.180 She totally wasted her time putting on all this makeup. 47:47.600 --> 47:49.640 It probably just made the dogs choke a little bit. 47:49.740 --> 47:51.180 They had to choke on all the chemicals 47:51.180 --> 47:53.720 and all the human foreskins 47:53.720 --> 47:54.820 and everything that go into makeup. 47:55.320 --> 47:56.460 And so it's true. 47:56.600 --> 47:56.960 Look it up. 47:57.280 --> 48:01.100 And so basically, he's just like, who's on my side? 48:01.540 --> 48:01.700 Who? 48:02.480 --> 48:04.400 And they're looked out to him two or three eunuchs. 48:05.220 --> 48:07.820 So basically, he just looks up 48:07.820 --> 48:09.940 and she's got a tendance around her. 48:10.320 --> 48:11.560 And what is a eunuch? 48:11.880 --> 48:14.740 A eunuch is a man who has been castrated. 48:15.360 --> 48:18.680 So he has had his genitals removed. 48:19.400 --> 48:20.960 His stones have been removed. 48:21.400 --> 48:24.800 And the purpose for this is that what they don't want 48:24.800 --> 48:28.280 is they don't want the queen committing adultery 48:28.280 --> 48:29.800 with one of these guys. 48:30.860 --> 48:33.540 And obviously that is wicked because it's adultery, 48:33.860 --> 48:36.660 but also it could produce a bastard son. 48:37.380 --> 48:39.980 And then you think it's the king's son 48:40.320 --> 48:42.800 and it's just the son of some random guy or whatever. 48:42.940 --> 48:43.560 They don't want that. 48:43.860 --> 48:45.420 So they wanna protect her chastity 48:45.420 --> 48:49.640 and they also wanna protect her genetics here 48:49.640 --> 48:52.280 of actually having an heir of the actual king. 48:52.280 --> 48:55.280 So throughout history, you would have these men 48:55.280 --> 48:58.920 that are mutilated, they are castrated, 48:59.320 --> 49:02.360 so that they can basically work around the queen 49:02.360 --> 49:04.680 and nobody has to worry about them fathering a child 49:04.680 --> 49:07.040 because they biologically, physically can't even do it 49:07.480 --> 49:09.760 because they don't have the equipment to do it. 49:10.180 --> 49:11.720 So that's what these eunuchs are. 49:12.820 --> 49:14.160 And so these eunuchs are up there. 49:14.540 --> 49:18.380 They've been sterilized in the worst possible way. 49:18.760 --> 49:21.800 And they're up there and he says, who's on my side? 49:22.440 --> 49:25.460 And some of these eunuchs kinda give him the signal 49:25.460 --> 49:27.460 like, yeah, we're on your side. 49:29.640 --> 49:32.300 And then what does he tell them to do? 49:33.420 --> 49:36.960 He said, throw her down, so they threw her down. 49:37.400 --> 49:39.680 And some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall 49:39.680 --> 49:41.540 and on the horses and he trod her underfoot. 49:41.740 --> 49:43.320 So she gets thrown out the window 49:43.320 --> 49:45.940 and she literally goes splat according to the Bible. 49:46.620 --> 49:50.740 Okay, and then just as a little just victory lap, 49:50.820 --> 49:53.460 D.U. just decides to just ride his horse on top of her, 49:53.520 --> 49:55.000 just for no reason. 49:55.900 --> 49:59.580 Just he just rides over her just to desecrate her 49:59.580 --> 50:01.900 and just to humiliate her further. 50:02.220 --> 50:05.760 So she puts on the fancy outfit, fancy hairdo, fancy makeup, 50:06.600 --> 50:08.400 you know, a couple of eunuchs throw her out the window, 50:08.980 --> 50:11.480 she goes splat, she gets ridden over 50:11.480 --> 50:13.780 and then she's just out there in the street laying there 50:13.780 --> 50:17.340 and then the res dogs come and take care of the rest. 50:18.560 --> 50:21.680 Okay, now here's what I love about these eunuchs, 50:22.340 --> 50:24.420 you know, is that, you know, if you think about it, 50:25.060 --> 50:27.940 the last thing any of us men want is to become eunuchs. 50:29.080 --> 50:32.040 You know, like most men would hear this and be like, 50:32.600 --> 50:35.980 Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men, 50:36.040 --> 50:37.520 even as this eunuch here, you know. 50:38.300 --> 50:40.800 Thank you that the family jewels are still intact. 50:41.760 --> 50:45.660 Okay, obviously we men, you know, it's a part of our body 50:45.660 --> 50:47.460 that we would like to keep, thank you very much. 50:48.260 --> 50:51.840 You know, the only thing more important to me is my mind. 50:52.140 --> 50:53.260 You know, I don't want to lose my mind, 50:54.000 --> 50:56.320 but second only to that is I don't want to lose 50:56.320 --> 50:57.500 the family jewels, okay? 50:58.020 --> 51:00.640 And so, you know, the eunuch, if you think about it, 51:01.080 --> 51:02.740 you know, the eunuch, you know, 51:02.820 --> 51:05.200 he hasn't really gotten a fair shake in life, has he? 51:05.280 --> 51:09.100 I mean, this guy, he's not living his best life now. 51:10.800 --> 51:13.040 You know, and by the way, you know, in the Middle Ages, 51:13.480 --> 51:17.300 they used to actually mutilate men in this exact same way 51:18.240 --> 51:19.980 to sing in the Catholic church. 51:20.660 --> 51:22.220 And they're called castratos. 51:23.060 --> 51:24.440 And the reason that they did this 51:24.440 --> 51:26.800 is because they didn't want to have women in the choir. 51:27.540 --> 51:30.060 They didn't want to have women singing in church. 51:30.340 --> 51:31.700 They wanted it to be all men, 51:31.700 --> 51:33.020 but they need those high voices. 51:33.780 --> 51:35.480 So they'd get these young boys 51:35.480 --> 51:38.220 that are really good singers and they would mutilate them. 51:38.220 --> 51:42.060 And it was illegal, but it was just happening all the time 51:42.060 --> 51:43.040 to thousands of them. 51:43.160 --> 51:45.860 So there's just thousands of guys that are mutilating them. 51:46.000 --> 51:47.480 And then these guys would make big money 51:47.480 --> 51:48.920 and they're singing and everything, 51:49.060 --> 51:51.420 but you know what, I don't care how good the money is, 51:51.540 --> 51:52.080 no thank you. 51:54.280 --> 51:56.820 And so they're up there, I guess, singing like Michael Jackson 51:56.820 --> 51:59.600 because, you know, they've been castrated or whatever. 52:01.080 --> 52:03.040 So if you think about these eunuchs though, 52:03.360 --> 52:07.900 all joking aside, these guys have gotten kind of a bum 52:07.900 --> 52:08.920 deal in life. 52:09.880 --> 52:11.700 But you know what, they're still being used by God. 52:12.420 --> 52:14.480 Like they're still on the Lord's side. 52:15.020 --> 52:16.860 They still do something great for God. 52:17.000 --> 52:17.760 They're still used by God. 52:17.880 --> 52:19.920 And so it goes to show me that, you know, 52:19.940 --> 52:23.080 no matter what situation you find yourself in in life, 52:23.180 --> 52:25.860 and no matter how unlucky you are, unfortunate, 52:26.660 --> 52:29.040 you know what, you can still be used for God. 52:29.140 --> 52:30.640 You can still be on the Lord's side 52:30.640 --> 52:32.040 and do the right thing. 52:32.580 --> 52:33.860 And you know, there's actually a, 52:33.860 --> 52:35.680 I didn't plan on going here, 52:35.680 --> 52:38.620 but let's just go there and we can be done with this. 52:39.300 --> 52:41.560 But, you know, let's just go to Isaiah 52:41.560 --> 52:43.260 because there's actually a really cool passage 52:43.260 --> 52:45.680 about eunuchs in the book of Isaiah 52:45.680 --> 52:47.400 that I think really illustrates 52:47.400 --> 52:48.840 what I'm trying to get across here. 52:49.200 --> 52:50.900 And I'm doing this on the fly. 52:51.200 --> 52:53.080 It's either Isaiah 56 or 58. 52:53.340 --> 52:54.500 I want to say 56. 52:55.040 --> 52:56.160 Yeah, it looks like 56. 52:56.580 --> 52:59.760 Isaiah chapter 56, let me just find it. 53:00.980 --> 53:02.620 Or somebody help me find it. 53:02.620 --> 53:05.560 If you know, some of you out there know where I'm going. 53:08.000 --> 53:09.540 Okay, Isaiah 56 verse three. 53:09.760 --> 53:11.060 So here's the thing, you know, yeah. 53:11.460 --> 53:12.520 Here's the funny part though, 53:12.940 --> 53:15.040 since we're not going back to 2 Kings 9. 53:16.100 --> 53:17.720 After she got thrown out the window 53:18.300 --> 53:19.800 and he rides over her 53:20.340 --> 53:22.160 and then she starts getting eaten by the dogs, 53:22.460 --> 53:23.700 he sits down to have a meal. 53:24.780 --> 53:27.840 So G.U. is just sitting down eating his burger and fries 53:27.840 --> 53:29.360 and just kind of just hanging out. 53:29.600 --> 53:31.280 And then he starts to feel bad. 53:32.040 --> 53:34.200 He starts to feel a little guilty, I guess, 53:34.300 --> 53:35.920 because he says, you know what? 53:37.120 --> 53:39.560 I think that we should actually bury Jezebel 53:39.560 --> 53:41.240 because she is a king's daughter. 53:42.420 --> 53:44.500 Maybe that was a little much, you know, 53:44.660 --> 53:46.680 just driving over the body 53:47.180 --> 53:48.240 and just leaving it out there 53:48.240 --> 53:49.240 and letting the dogs eat it. 53:49.520 --> 53:52.520 And so he's like, you know, maybe that was too much. 53:52.600 --> 53:53.320 Maybe we should bury the body. 53:53.500 --> 53:54.660 He sends them out to look for it 53:54.660 --> 53:56.340 and all they find is like a skull 53:56.720 --> 53:58.660 and like the palms of her hand 53:58.660 --> 53:59.680 and like an ear or something. 53:59.680 --> 54:02.580 Like they just find like a few little pieces 54:02.580 --> 54:04.440 and yeah, that's what they bury. 54:05.220 --> 54:07.340 But then he's like, well, it's a fulfillment of prophecy 54:07.340 --> 54:09.800 because the Bible said the dogs will eat Jezebel. 54:10.340 --> 54:12.580 And so the res dogs ate well that night. 54:12.920 --> 54:13.880 But look at Isaiah 56. 54:14.180 --> 54:15.180 I love this passage. 54:15.960 --> 54:17.020 It says in verse three, 54:17.460 --> 54:19.220 neither let the son of the stranger, 54:19.500 --> 54:22.520 this is like a foreigner, somebody who's not an Israelite, 54:22.920 --> 54:24.460 neither let the son of the stranger 54:24.460 --> 54:26.300 that had joined himself to the Lord 54:26.300 --> 54:29.640 speak saying, the Lord has utterly separated me 54:29.640 --> 54:30.240 from his people. 54:30.500 --> 54:31.620 You know, this idea that like, 54:31.940 --> 54:34.260 oh, you're a Jew and I'm a Gentile. 54:34.380 --> 54:36.040 It's like, no, no, once you've joined yourself 54:36.040 --> 54:38.260 under the Lord, you're one of the people of God. 54:39.080 --> 54:40.880 And so don't let the stranger think, 54:41.200 --> 54:43.840 oh, the Lord has utterly separated me from his people. 54:43.900 --> 54:46.140 Neither let the eunuch say, 54:46.560 --> 54:48.260 behold, I'm a dry tree. 54:49.020 --> 54:52.020 Right, because he can't physically reproduce folks. 54:52.660 --> 54:54.480 So, you know, the tree brings forth fruit. 54:54.980 --> 54:56.980 The eunuch can't physically bring forth fruit. 54:57.140 --> 54:57.880 He doesn't have the equipment. 54:58.380 --> 55:00.840 And so he's saying, oh, I'm a dry tree. 55:01.040 --> 55:03.060 He says, no, no, let not the eunuch say he's a dry tree. 55:04.200 --> 55:06.980 For it does say at the Lord unto the eunuchs 55:06.980 --> 55:09.640 that keep my Sabbaths and choose the things 55:09.640 --> 55:12.080 that please me and take hold of my covenant. 55:12.360 --> 55:14.320 Even unto them will I give in my house 55:14.320 --> 55:16.500 and within my walls a place and a name 55:16.500 --> 55:18.340 better than of sons and of daughters. 55:18.560 --> 55:20.560 And I will give them an everlasting name 55:20.560 --> 55:21.340 that should not be cut off. 55:21.340 --> 55:23.880 He's saying, look, you know, even if you can't have 55:23.880 --> 55:27.220 physical reproduction, physical fruit, 55:27.440 --> 55:28.340 you can't bear children, 55:28.560 --> 55:30.280 you can't enjoy that marital relationship. 55:30.640 --> 55:34.720 You know what he says, I can bless you in other ways 55:35.300 --> 55:38.420 and give you, you know, an eternal reward 55:38.960 --> 55:41.120 and a name better than that of sons and daughters. 55:41.340 --> 55:42.960 And so, you know, it goes to show me that, 55:42.980 --> 55:45.360 that, you know, even people who don't make it 55:45.360 --> 55:48.160 in this life, maybe they don't make it romantically. 55:48.500 --> 55:50.120 Maybe they don't make it financially. 55:50.700 --> 55:52.200 Maybe they don't make it socially. 55:52.580 --> 55:55.000 Maybe they don't make it in whatever the case. 55:55.640 --> 55:56.100 You know what? 55:56.260 --> 55:59.440 The Bible is saying God can still greatly use those people. 55:59.760 --> 56:00.860 He loves those people. 56:01.200 --> 56:02.520 He's gonna bless those people 56:02.520 --> 56:04.420 and those people could get great rewards 56:04.420 --> 56:05.580 for all eternity because you know what? 56:05.880 --> 56:07.300 The time is short, my friends. 56:07.760 --> 56:10.080 And soon it won't be a difference 56:10.080 --> 56:12.320 between the one who is married and single, 56:12.680 --> 56:14.840 you know, or the one who has children 56:14.840 --> 56:15.960 or does not have children. 56:15.960 --> 56:18.520 The one who has his, you know, 56:20.560 --> 56:23.620 stuff intact versus the one who has been chopped off 56:23.620 --> 56:25.860 because you know what, at the end of the day, right? 56:26.680 --> 56:27.340 We're going to heaven. 56:27.980 --> 56:28.800 It's gonna be eternal. 56:28.940 --> 56:30.960 It's gonna be thousands of years, millions of years 56:31.480 --> 56:33.560 and this life is a vapor that appears 56:33.560 --> 56:34.960 for a little time and then vanishes away. 56:35.460 --> 56:38.280 And so, you know, if you're a eunuch tonight 56:38.280 --> 56:40.200 and I don't think we have any eunuchs here tonight, 56:40.640 --> 56:43.380 but you know, if you're a eunuch in some other area, 56:43.380 --> 56:45.400 maybe, you know, metaphorically speaking, 56:46.120 --> 56:50.740 some part of your life that's dear to you has been cut off. 56:51.480 --> 56:54.460 You know, you've had to give up something, you know? 56:54.720 --> 56:56.920 And so we're taking a very loose interpretation here. 56:57.300 --> 56:58.820 You know, you've had to give up something. 56:59.520 --> 57:00.800 You've had to skip something. 57:01.340 --> 57:03.280 You've had to forego something important to you. 57:03.540 --> 57:03.860 You know what? 57:03.920 --> 57:06.400 Just realize that whatever we give up for the Lord, 57:06.520 --> 57:08.240 he's gonna reward us a hundredfold. 57:09.240 --> 57:11.460 And so instead of just going through life, 57:11.460 --> 57:14.060 oh man, I can't believe I lost this 57:14.060 --> 57:16.160 or I gave up this or I missed this opportunity 57:16.640 --> 57:18.060 or I missed this body part. 57:18.220 --> 57:18.820 Because you know what? 57:19.040 --> 57:21.020 There could be people who are missing other body parts too. 57:21.520 --> 57:23.040 And just have severe illnesses 57:23.040 --> 57:25.140 and just have, you know, relationships 57:25.140 --> 57:26.720 that are permanently destroyed. 57:27.100 --> 57:29.600 Branches of the family that have been cut off, you know? 57:30.000 --> 57:32.620 And just financial things and just whatever. 57:34.400 --> 57:36.660 Realize that God still loves you. 57:37.080 --> 57:38.380 God can still use you. 57:38.680 --> 57:40.040 You can still be super blessed 57:40.440 --> 57:43.860 and you can actually maybe even do more for God sometimes 57:43.860 --> 57:45.720 than the one that's whole over here. 57:46.340 --> 57:48.400 And so nothing wrong with being a stranger. 57:48.860 --> 57:49.960 Nothing wrong with being a eunuch. 57:50.200 --> 57:51.120 Live for God. 57:51.440 --> 57:52.980 And God's not a respecter of persons. 57:53.280 --> 57:55.360 He's not looking down at the strangers and eunuchs 57:55.880 --> 57:56.740 as second class. 57:57.360 --> 57:58.480 He sees them as first class. 57:58.800 --> 57:59.680 Let's bribes end up with a prayer. 58:00.040 --> 58:01.660 Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord. 58:01.740 --> 58:03.900 We thank you for this great chapter in Second Kings. 58:04.960 --> 58:10.060 And Lord God, let us not give in to this world 58:10.060 --> 58:12.260 and think that preaching is insane 58:12.260 --> 58:15.320 or that being a fundamental Baptist is insane 58:15.320 --> 58:18.720 or that, you know, taking the Bible seriously is insane. 58:19.140 --> 58:21.460 Lord, help us to be ready to hear the word of God 58:21.460 --> 58:23.420 and to listen to the real men of God. 58:23.800 --> 58:26.620 And when they're up there going crazy behind the pulpit, 58:27.080 --> 58:30.240 preaching hard, Lord, help us to receive that truth 58:30.240 --> 58:32.300 and not just the parts that we already like, 58:32.300 --> 58:34.240 but help us to receive all the biblical truth 58:34.240 --> 58:35.320 that you have for us, Lord. 58:36.000 --> 58:39.040 And Lord, those of us that have maybe had losses 58:39.040 --> 58:43.920 or disappointments or whatever mutilations in our life, Lord, 58:44.300 --> 58:47.240 help us to stay encouraged and keep serving you 58:47.240 --> 58:48.020 and trusting you. 58:48.360 --> 58:49.600 And in Jesus' name we pray amen.