WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.980 The men, so the last few weeks as we've been going through Second Kings, we've seen 00:04.580 --> 00:07.700 Jihu and Co. just really cleaning house 00:07.700 --> 00:10.980 in the Northern Kingdom, just completely destroying 00:10.980 --> 00:14.280 and wiping out the house of Ahab in the Northern Kingdom 00:14.280 --> 00:18.520 and even a lot of the princes from Judah that were buddies with the house of 00:18.520 --> 00:18.900 Ahab, 00:19.100 --> 00:23.120 they ended up getting smoked. Jihu ended up just completely wiping out 00:23.120 --> 00:27.160 Baal worship in the Northern Kingdom. But now we move to the Southern 00:27.160 --> 00:28.060 Kingdom of Judah 00:28.060 --> 00:31.440 and it says in Second Kings chapter 11 verse 1 00:31.440 --> 00:34.520 and when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, 00:34.900 --> 00:38.000 saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed 00:38.000 --> 00:41.080 all the seed royal. So if you remember, 00:41.340 --> 00:44.220 Ahaziah was the king of Judah and in the process 00:44.220 --> 00:48.040 of Ahab's son being destroyed, he gets killed 00:48.040 --> 00:51.680 also in the same battle and so he gets smoked as well 00:51.680 --> 00:55.260 and now Athaliah who is the daughter of Ahab 00:55.260 --> 00:58.020 so she's of that wicked lineage of the Northern Kingdom, 00:58.760 --> 01:01.080 she just decides that she wants to rule 01:01.080 --> 01:05.100 in the Southern Kingdom of Judah as the queen and this is actually the 01:05.100 --> 01:08.340 only time in the entire Bible that we have 01:08.340 --> 01:11.500 either in Israel or in Judah a female 01:12.200 --> 01:16.300 actually reigning and ruling as the queen that's actually like the reigning 01:16.300 --> 01:16.680 queen 01:16.680 --> 01:21.240 not just a queen in the sense of like the wife of a king or the mother of a 01:21.240 --> 01:22.260 king or something like that. 01:23.240 --> 01:27.580 And so obviously this is a very wicked woman because when it says that she 01:27.580 --> 01:29.540 destroyed all the seed royal 01:29.540 --> 01:34.860 this is probably also including a lot of her own relatives like this could be 01:34.860 --> 01:36.040 her own grandchildren 01:36.040 --> 01:41.180 I mean she's just wiping out everybody in this family just murdering innocent 01:41.180 --> 01:41.620 people 01:41.620 --> 01:45.380 so that no one will have a claim to the throne except her 01:45.380 --> 01:48.800 so that she's the only one left she's just gonna kill everyone else 01:48.800 --> 01:52.240 and of course we see other examples of this in the Bible like for example 01:52.240 --> 01:53.620 in the book of Judges 01:53.620 --> 01:58.120 you have Abimelech who kills all of the sons of Gideon 01:58.120 --> 02:01.860 so that he's the only one left so that he can reign over the children of Israel 02:01.860 --> 02:05.620 that lasts for about three years and then God brings judgment upon him 02:05.620 --> 02:09.060 but the first thing I want to point out here is just the wickedness 02:09.060 --> 02:13.420 of having a woman rule over God's people this is not 02:13.420 --> 02:16.360 ever been God's plan it's not God's will 02:16.360 --> 02:20.300 and Isaiah chapter 3 verse 12 says this as for my people 02:20.300 --> 02:24.720 children are their oppressors and women rule over them 02:24.720 --> 02:28.040 oh my people they which lead the cause thee to err 02:28.040 --> 02:31.000 and destroy the way of the ipads see this is backwards 02:31.000 --> 02:35.160 when you have children oppressing you when you have women 02:35.160 --> 02:38.800 ruling over you it's a reversal of the natural order 02:38.800 --> 02:42.200 where children are supposed to obey and honor their parents 02:42.200 --> 02:46.540 wives are supposed to submit and honor their husband as the head of the 02:46.540 --> 02:46.820 home 02:46.820 --> 02:50.620 and so it is a curse of God when you have women 02:50.620 --> 02:54.700 ruling over the nation over the church over the family 02:54.700 --> 02:58.800 it's not God's plan in the New Testament this is reiterated 02:58.800 --> 03:02.100 first Timothy 2 verse 11 says let the woman 03:02.100 --> 03:07.180 learn in silence with all subjection but I suffer not a woman to teach 03:07.180 --> 03:10.720 nor do you serve authority over the man but to be in silence 03:10.720 --> 03:14.700 for Adam was first formed then Eve this is in the context of the church 03:14.700 --> 03:18.440 saying hey we don't want women usurping authority over men in the church 03:18.440 --> 03:21.760 we don't want them up there preaching and teaching the Bible 03:21.760 --> 03:27.160 there to learn in silence and obviously we love women we're not downgrading women 03:27.160 --> 03:30.100 and people will try to say this is misogynistic 03:30.100 --> 03:34.020 which the word misogynistic literally means woman hating 03:34.660 --> 03:37.460 we don't hate women the Bible doesn't hate women 03:37.460 --> 03:41.300 God doesn't hate women fundamental baptism Christians we don't hate women 03:41.300 --> 03:44.480 we love women and you know what we love them just the way they are 03:44.480 --> 03:48.100 as women we're not trying to turn them into men 03:48.100 --> 03:51.560 we don't need them to act like men dress like men 03:51.560 --> 03:55.200 talk like men and do men's jobs in order to have 03:55.200 --> 03:59.740 value in order to somehow you know fully realize their potential 03:59.740 --> 04:03.200 they have to become like men and then you call that feminism 04:03.680 --> 04:07.880 that's not feminism it should be called masculinism turning women into men 04:07.880 --> 04:12.640 no we love women and we just want them to do what God created them to do 04:12.640 --> 04:15.640 the jobs that they were born to do that they're good at doing 04:15.640 --> 04:20.220 you know we want them to marry to bear children and to guide the house 04:20.220 --> 04:22.740 that is the ideal place for women to be 04:23.400 --> 04:28.180 now obviously we live in a fallen world and there are going to be all kinds of 04:28.180 --> 04:30.900 situations due to just the sinfulness of man 04:30.900 --> 04:34.380 and the imperfection of our society but you know what we're always going to 04:34.380 --> 04:37.880 preach the standard of God's perfect will 04:37.880 --> 04:41.800 which is that the average woman needs to marry bear children and guide the 04:41.800 --> 04:44.240 house and that they should be keepers at home 04:44.240 --> 04:47.380 obedient to their husbands i mean this is what the bible teaches 04:48.000 --> 04:51.120 and that's a far cry from having a woman pastoring the church 04:51.120 --> 04:55.060 when the bible also says in 1 Corinthians 14 let your women keep 04:55.060 --> 04:57.800 silence in the churches for it is not permitted under them to speak 04:59.020 --> 05:03.120 i mean that's what the bible says and again people can argue with it and 05:03.120 --> 05:06.280 fight with it but that's what the bible says verbatim 05:06.280 --> 05:09.640 is that simple and so when it's teaching time 05:09.640 --> 05:14.840 it's silence time for the women okay now obviously women are chattering and 05:14.840 --> 05:17.660 talking and having good fellowship before the service 05:17.660 --> 05:20.980 after the service they're singing with us we're all singing together 05:20.980 --> 05:24.440 but when it's learning time the bible says they're to learn in silence 05:24.440 --> 05:28.740 and that they are to sit back and allow a man to get up and preach the 05:28.740 --> 05:32.920 word of god and then men will say amen and that's why it's amen and 05:32.920 --> 05:36.720 not a women okay because men say amen all right 05:37.180 --> 05:42.620 and so only an ungodly woman would want to defy god on this matter 05:43.080 --> 05:47.620 which is why there's no such thing as a female pastor who's doctrinally 05:47.620 --> 05:51.460 sound you'd be like oh this woman preacher she's 05:51.460 --> 05:54.500 totally doctrinally sound ah there's only one problem it's a woman 05:54.500 --> 05:59.080 there's no way because a woman who actually cared about what the bible 05:59.080 --> 06:02.320 said she wouldn't be trying to just blatantly defy 06:02.320 --> 06:06.340 scripture on this matter okay and so it's not really a surprise 06:07.040 --> 06:11.540 that the woman in the bible who is ruling over god's people 06:12.180 --> 06:18.900 ruling over the nation of juda is just this homicidal maniac right because 06:18.900 --> 06:22.260 she's wicked that's why she even wants to do that so bad 06:22.880 --> 06:25.560 instead of just allowing the right person to do it 06:25.560 --> 06:29.440 which would be the next male heir that's going to inherit the throne 06:29.440 --> 06:34.520 you know why not just support him and love him whether it's your grandson or 06:34.520 --> 06:37.320 whomever else because you know it ends up being you know the grandson 06:37.320 --> 06:41.540 who eventually is on the throne joe ash and so 06:41.540 --> 06:45.600 the bible says that it's not right for women to be 06:45.600 --> 06:48.960 in those kind of positions of authority but not only that the other thing i want 06:48.960 --> 06:52.620 to point out is that there's a goofy doctrine out there that claims 06:52.620 --> 06:57.000 that every single political leader is personally ordained by god 06:57.620 --> 07:01.940 and then chosen by god and this is not true because what they're doing is they're 07:01.940 --> 07:06.040 taking a biblical principle and taking it too far because the bible does say 07:06.040 --> 07:10.460 that god you know lifts up one and puts down another you know and he sets up 07:10.460 --> 07:13.860 the basis to bend over kingdoms what the bible saying is that god has the 07:13.860 --> 07:17.280 ability to do that he can take down a leader he 07:17.280 --> 07:20.020 can install a leader he does that sometimes 07:20.620 --> 07:24.980 he does it he can do it but then we don't want to make the logical leap 07:24.980 --> 07:29.800 to say every single leader personally is appointed by god 07:29.800 --> 07:34.400 and has been ordained by god because how about this what about when the antichrist 07:34.400 --> 07:37.480 takes over what does the bible say about the antichrist 07:37.480 --> 07:40.700 does it say that god put the antichrist in power no it says 07:40.700 --> 07:44.640 the dragon gave him his power and his seat 07:44.640 --> 07:48.820 and his authority not only that but listen to this this is hosea chapter 8 07:48.820 --> 07:49.480 verse 4 07:51.960 --> 07:54.120 they have and this is talking about god's people 07:54.120 --> 08:00.340 they have set up kings but not by me does it sound like he's involved with that 08:00.340 --> 08:05.500 he says they've set up kings but not by me they've made princes and i knew of it 08:05.500 --> 08:09.720 not uh or sorry i knew it not of their silver and their 08:09.720 --> 08:12.540 gold if they made them idols that they may be cut off so he's saying look 08:12.540 --> 08:16.640 they set up kings but not by me they made princes i knew it not 08:16.640 --> 08:21.420 he's saying look this is not my program that they are executing 08:21.420 --> 08:26.000 they're picking the wrong leaders they're putting the wrong people in charge 08:26.000 --> 08:30.160 and so if the dragon can put the antichrist in power 08:30.160 --> 08:34.620 guess what the devil even right now is called the god of this world 08:34.620 --> 08:38.980 and the bible talks about spiritual wickedness in high places 08:38.980 --> 08:42.360 we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against 08:42.360 --> 08:45.520 powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world 08:45.520 --> 08:49.020 against spiritual wickedness in high places and so to say 08:49.020 --> 08:56.680 that god has chosen and ordained every single authority figure in every place 08:56.680 --> 09:01.800 every national leader everywhere is just something that is not taught by the 09:01.800 --> 09:04.240 bible so here's what i would say about this 09:04.240 --> 09:08.160 story is that atheliah being in charge is not god's will 09:08.160 --> 09:13.020 so that god's will like god's not up in heaven saying oh i want atheliah to 09:13.020 --> 09:16.740 rule i want atheliah to be in charge okay we're not calvinists 09:16.740 --> 09:20.000 friend we don't believe that everything is god's will 09:20.000 --> 09:22.900 because you know what's god's will that everybody 09:23.420 --> 09:27.480 would be saved the bible says god's not willing that any should perish 09:27.480 --> 09:30.540 but that all should come to repentance the bible says 09:30.540 --> 09:34.560 that god will have all men to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the 09:34.560 --> 09:36.940 truth let me ask this are all men being saved 09:36.940 --> 09:39.500 are all men coming to the knowledge of the truth no 09:39.500 --> 09:46.860 therefore god's will is not happening god's will is perfect man has free will 09:46.860 --> 09:50.300 and goes against god's will and this is atheliah 09:50.300 --> 09:53.500 going against the will of god we already know what the will of god is 09:53.500 --> 09:56.580 the will of god is for a man to be in charge that's what the bible says 09:57.280 --> 10:00.460 they're going against god's will putting a woman in charge 10:01.980 --> 10:04.400 atheliah and so we don't want to just have this 10:04.400 --> 10:08.000 attitude that says every world leader is chosen or ordained by god no 10:08.000 --> 10:13.600 god has ordained authority in general he is instituted human government in general 10:13.600 --> 10:17.100 but he is not it's not like oh it's god's will that barney frank 10:17.100 --> 10:21.240 you know be in the senate or whatever you know thankfully he's gone but 10:21.760 --> 10:23.500 you know i guess i need a more current example 10:24.400 --> 10:30.260 but the bottom line is that these things are not god's will they're against god's will 10:30.260 --> 10:33.520 well i mean look what the bible says this is the will of god even your 10:33.520 --> 10:35.680 sanctification that you should abstain from fornication 10:35.680 --> 10:39.140 are people out there fornicating yeah is it god's will 10:39.140 --> 10:47.000 no so this idea that god's will always happens is a stupid false wrong calvinist doctrine 10:47.000 --> 10:51.940 it's not biblical it's not what the bible teaches i don't believe in this fatalistic 10:51.940 --> 10:57.080 view that every single thing that happens is god's will no we're supposed to pray for god's 10:57.080 --> 11:00.820 will to be done on earth as it is in heaven because that's not just going to automatically 11:00.820 --> 11:04.400 happen otherwise we'd be wasting our breath praying for it to happen if it was already 11:04.400 --> 11:11.740 going to happen anyway prayer is not just an exercise in just saying words that are already 11:11.740 --> 11:16.740 going to happen anyway the bible says you have not because you asked not that tells me that prayer 11:16.740 --> 11:21.640 actually makes a difference and changes things so if i pray for god's will to be done in a situation 11:22.140 --> 11:27.360 you know then hopefully god will step in versus if i don't pray he might not step in and then 11:27.360 --> 11:31.440 god's will doesn't take place and i can promise you right now it's not god's will for this 11:31.440 --> 11:37.840 wicked witch homicidal maniac to be ruling over the kingdom of juda and she was not put in that 11:37.840 --> 11:42.840 position by god that is a false doctrine just because god can lift up one and put down another 11:43.360 --> 11:48.460 this is not an example of that okay and so if we go back to the text here in verse number two 11:48.460 --> 11:54.880 it says but jahosh above the daughter of king jorum sister of a asiah took joash the son of 11:54.880 --> 12:00.100 a asiah and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain so this little boy's 12:00.100 --> 12:06.540 aunt is basically the one saving him and they hid him even him and his nurse in the bed chamber from 12:06.540 --> 12:11.400 atheliah so that he was not slain and he was with her hid in the house of the lord six years and 12:11.400 --> 12:16.620 atheliah did reign over the land so for six years this wicked woman is reigning over the land 12:16.620 --> 12:23.360 and she's promoting bail worship literally worshiping satan and so forth and we know that joash 12:23.360 --> 12:29.680 is seven years old when he begins to reign so this is literally just a baby maybe approximately 12:29.680 --> 12:36.500 one year old that is being saved here joash and then six years later he's going to become king at age 12:36.500 --> 12:43.500 seven and so let's go and jump down to verse 12 because basically the the next bunch of verses 12:43.500 --> 12:48.180 are just explaining that after this wicked woman reigns for six years you know their 12:48.180 --> 12:54.380 jahoyah to the priest has a plan how they're going to overthrow atheliah and they're going 12:54.380 --> 13:00.000 anoint joash to be king and it's just kind of going through that plan and giving all the details 13:00.000 --> 13:06.420 and so forth so let's jump down to verse number 12 this is when the plan is being executed he brings 13:06.420 --> 13:12.960 forth the king's son in verse 12 and put the crown upon him and gave him the testimony and they 13:12.960 --> 13:18.260 made him king and anointed them and they clapped their hands and said god saved the king 13:18.260 --> 13:23.380 now obviously this is only a seven-year-old boy so the person who is actually going to be 13:23.380 --> 13:30.040 wielding power is jahoyah to the priest and jahoyah to the priest is a godly man he's a great guy and so 13:30.040 --> 13:34.740 he's a great person to be in charge and so the seven-year-old boy is kind of just a figurehead 13:34.740 --> 13:40.140 like he represents the kingly authority and this is what throughout history has been known as a 13:40.140 --> 13:48.260 regency where you have someone else who's actually doing the everyday reigning while the king is too 13:48.260 --> 13:53.360 young to really take power and make the decisions because obviously you can't just put a seven-year-old 13:53.360 --> 14:00.060 in charge of the nation but he's basically representing the kingdom and also he's going 14:00.060 --> 14:05.120 to be king he's being groomed and taught and trained to be the full-fledged king someday 14:05.120 --> 14:09.580 but in the short term it's jahoyah to the priest who's making all the decisions 14:09.580 --> 14:13.720 and making all the rules but one thing i want to point out is that they bring the king's son 14:13.720 --> 14:19.900 they put the crown on him and they anoint him with oil but then it says they also gave him the 14:19.900 --> 14:27.320 testimony now the testimony is another word for the word of god right because a testimony is when 14:27.320 --> 14:34.480 someone bears witness and the bible is god bearing witness unto us the holy ghost is bearing witness 14:34.480 --> 14:40.260 to the truth and if you remember the you know the the ark of the covenant contains the 14:40.260 --> 14:46.080 testimony you know and the testimony is god's word the the spoken and then written word of god 14:46.080 --> 14:51.160 and so they're giving him the bible and this is consistent with what we see in deuteronomy 14:51.160 --> 14:55.180 chapter 17 flip over to deuteronomy 17 keep your finger there in second kings go back to 14:55.180 --> 15:03.100 deuteronomy 17 and you see that the king of israel is supposed to have the bible be an 15:03.100 --> 15:08.280 intimate part of his daily life he's supposed to in fact copy the bible by hand 15:08.280 --> 15:13.740 he's supposed to make his own handwritten copy of the bible and boy if you ever tried doing that 15:13.740 --> 15:19.580 it's a lot of work i mean you have to really slow down and you know copy it and write every word 15:19.580 --> 15:24.100 and you're really thinking about it hopefully if you do that and of course the bible was not as 15:24.100 --> 15:29.060 long then as it is now you know we're talking about just pretty much the books of the law 15:29.060 --> 15:34.460 and you know maybe other things probably you know Psalms or Proverbs you know whatever 15:34.460 --> 15:40.000 is there we don't know exactly you know what they have at the you know when they say the testimony 15:40.000 --> 15:45.540 here but he's definitely got the bible he's got scriptures and he's supposed to be copying it 15:45.540 --> 15:52.020 and reading it look at deuteronomy 17 verse 18 it says and it shall be when he sitteth upon the 15:52.020 --> 15:58.660 throne of his kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which 15:58.660 --> 16:05.320 is before the priest the Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read there in all the days 16:05.320 --> 16:10.040 of his life that he may learn to fear the lord his god and we'll continue in a moment but i want to 16:10.040 --> 16:15.560 point out that you know the key to reading the bible all the days of your life is to have it with 16:15.560 --> 16:21.680 you okay now before smartphones this meant actually having a physical book with you 16:21.680 --> 16:26.320 and i remember preaching about this 20 years ago and i was preaching hey you need to get 16:26.320 --> 16:30.400 a pocket new testament you need to carry that thing everywhere you go put in your lunch box 16:30.400 --> 16:35.660 keeping everybody and i used to do that i used to just always in my left front pocket have a pocket 16:35.660 --> 16:41.080 new testament because i just knew that there are times when you're in line somewhere you're 16:41.080 --> 16:45.640 waiting you're sitting around your board and you got nothing to do and boom you can just 16:45.640 --> 16:52.220 pull that thing out and read it now today nobody has any excuse for not having the bible with 16:52.220 --> 16:57.220 them because everybody has their smartphone with them everywhere they go and so you need to have 16:57.220 --> 17:02.420 the bible downloaded to your smartphone and then you can just whip that thing out now that the danger 17:02.420 --> 17:07.380 is that you know the new testament didn't have any games on it the new testament didn't have any 17:07.380 --> 17:11.540 social media so it's like you couldn't you didn't pull out the new testament be like oh i have a 17:11.540 --> 17:17.900 new email oh text messages oh 75 text messages from lola you know or whatever you know so 17:17.900 --> 17:23.780 it's like i you know you didn't whip out the new testament and just have all these distractions 17:24.740 --> 17:32.400 of facebook twitter instagram whatever threads or whatever you know it was just a new testament 17:32.940 --> 17:36.100 so if you reach for the new testament you're probably gonna end up reading the new testament 17:36.620 --> 17:41.440 now the problem is you know you might reach for your phone and get sucked into other things 17:41.440 --> 17:46.260 and not ever make it to that bible app or just find other things to do but you know what you 17:46.260 --> 17:51.740 got to make a point though to read your bible every single day and have it with you have the 17:51.740 --> 17:57.420 physical book in your house handy or have it on your laptop or have it on your phone or whatever 17:57.420 --> 18:03.520 i usually end up doing a lot of my bible reading on my laptop simply because of the fact that you 18:03.520 --> 18:08.160 know i can just make it bigger because my my far away vision is still perfect but my close-up 18:08.160 --> 18:14.440 vision is horrible so what i end up doing is you know i can blow it up into giant print 18:14.440 --> 18:20.360 on the screen so i end up doing most of my reading on the laptop and here's the thing you know there 18:20.360 --> 18:24.900 are ways to eliminate distractions because you can always put your phone on airplane mode you can 18:24.900 --> 18:29.520 put your laptop you can turn off the wi-fi or whatever and just say okay i'm going to focus 18:29.520 --> 18:34.000 i'm going to read right now but you know you got to have the bible with you and you got to 18:34.000 --> 18:41.140 read it all the days of your life you should be reading the bible every single day do not 18:41.140 --> 18:44.860 let a day go by where you didn't read the bible and this should be like something when you're going 18:44.860 --> 18:50.100 to bed if you're thinking like did i brush my teeth today you know did i do this did i do that it should 18:50.100 --> 18:56.600 be did i read my bible today you know and and a lot of times sometimes i'll feel like i didn't 18:56.600 --> 19:00.960 read my bible and i'll be like you know but then i'll remember oh i read it oh and then i 19:00.960 --> 19:05.700 read it i'll end up having read it like two or three times but then i'll feel like did i read 19:05.700 --> 19:11.360 it you know what i mean because it's like you've got to read the bible and you got to read it a lot 19:11.780 --> 19:17.640 and so you know you want to make sure that you do some kind of a check every night before bed did 19:17.640 --> 19:22.920 i read my bible today and if the answer is no then you just read it right then and there you 19:22.920 --> 19:26.980 just pull it out and you do some reading right then and there but it should be a thing where 19:26.980 --> 19:31.320 you just don't go to bed without reading your bible but hopefully you're reading it earlier in 19:31.320 --> 19:35.640 the day and you're putting more thought and effort into it and putting more time into it 19:35.640 --> 19:39.180 but i'm telling you got to read every day now now here's one of the other keys to reading the bible 19:39.180 --> 19:46.000 every day is you got to have a plan you know i don't know about you but i have to log things 19:46.600 --> 19:51.720 in order to be consistent with them if i'm not logging it then i don't get it done because 19:51.720 --> 19:56.560 it's like i got to get that little endorphin hit of checking it off on the checklist or 19:56.560 --> 20:01.620 logging it or whatever and so you need to have some kind of a bible reading plan and what you 20:01.620 --> 20:06.820 should do is get a chart like a read through the bible in a year chart and it'll tell you what 20:06.820 --> 20:12.200 to read each day and then physically check it off put a little check mark and it feels good 20:12.200 --> 20:16.320 to check that off and feels good and you feel like you're accomplishing something and then 20:16.320 --> 20:20.060 you can get through the whole bible and then you can be one of the probably less than 20:20.060 --> 20:23.500 one percent of christians who've read the whole bible cover to cover it's probably like 20:23.500 --> 20:27.980 less than one percent and i'm talking about have actually saved christians probably less than one 20:27.980 --> 20:32.440 percent of read the whole thing cover to cover but not a faithful word amen here it's probably 80 20:32.440 --> 20:37.980 90 percent of people hopefully that have read the bible cover to cover but it's not that hard 20:37.980 --> 20:45.620 folks it takes about you know 15 minutes a day to read the bible cover to cover in one year 20:46.220 --> 20:52.300 and you know some people read it at some super fast speeds bro i'm not into speed reading 20:52.300 --> 20:55.980 especially not the word of god you know and if you're speed reading the bible 20:55.980 --> 21:02.100 hey whatever more power to you but i'm not into it okay so i read slower than alexander scurby 21:02.640 --> 21:07.000 you know because alexander scurby he reads the bible i think he reads the whole bible 21:07.000 --> 21:13.080 it takes him like uh what 80 some hours or something to read the whole bible or something 21:13.080 --> 21:17.480 you know i would say for me like it's it's going to take me more than that because 21:17.480 --> 21:21.260 that would be like a little less than 15 minutes a day for me it ends up probably 21:21.260 --> 21:26.200 taking me more like 20 minutes a day or 15 20 but i think i'm a little bit of a slow reader 21:26.200 --> 21:31.880 compared to some people but either way if you're a slow reader fast reader 15 20 minutes is what 21:31.880 --> 21:37.860 we're talking here and if you don't have 15 or 20 minutes then you know i just think you're lying 21:37.860 --> 21:43.200 because i think everybody's got 15 or 20 minutes so oh no i'm just so busy you don't 21:43.200 --> 21:47.260 understand okay well then you know what then get it on audio and listen to it while 21:47.260 --> 21:49.980 you're in the shower listen to it while you're brushing teeth and if you're not 21:49.980 --> 21:55.220 brushing your teeth and taking a shower then you you got problems man okay listen to it in the car 21:55.220 --> 22:01.340 on the commute listen to it while you work out listen to it while you're cooking listen to it 22:01.340 --> 22:05.180 whatever you know when you go to bed at night put it on the headphones and put on the sleep 22:05.180 --> 22:10.000 timer and fall asleep to it for all i care but i'm telling you you need to be listening to the 22:10.000 --> 22:16.880 bible or reading the bible every single day and you need to log it right and look i love 22:16.880 --> 22:22.460 working out i love lifting weights and doing calisthenics and stuff like that but you know what 22:22.460 --> 22:28.880 i always log every workout you think i just do workouts and don't log them nope i'm writing down 22:28.880 --> 22:33.400 all the reps that i'm doing and keeping track of it because you know what when you keep track of it 22:33.400 --> 22:38.140 you will do more you will do better you will push yourself more if you're writing it down 22:38.720 --> 22:43.420 it's a lot easier to just kind of put in a half workout when you're not writing anything down 22:43.420 --> 22:48.320 but when you're logging it and it's staring you back in the face you end up doing more you know 22:48.320 --> 22:53.880 they did a scientific study that people even if they didn't even go on a diet they told these 22:53.880 --> 22:58.060 people you don't even go on a diet don't even change anything about the way you eat all we're 22:58.060 --> 23:04.040 asking you to do is just write down everything you eat each day once a week right and then 23:04.040 --> 23:07.880 and then they started getting them to do it more than once a week two or three times a week 23:07.880 --> 23:12.080 just writing down every piece of food that goes in their mouth the whole day and these people 23:12.080 --> 23:17.900 dropped a bunch of weight even without even setting out to go on a diet because of the fact just the 23:17.900 --> 23:22.300 act of writing it down they're kind of like wow i didn't realize i'm eating this much 23:22.960 --> 23:28.260 and then as they're writing it down the list starts to look kind of stupid the list starts 23:28.260 --> 23:32.280 looking ridiculous you know like i think about if i wrote down everything i ate today it would 23:32.280 --> 23:38.160 be kind of a stupid list you know and it would just be like what the heck and so writing 23:38.160 --> 23:43.480 it down logging it will cause you to do a better job in almost every area of life and so when it 23:43.480 --> 23:50.000 comes to your bible reading you know write it down log it now i used to do this in my physical 23:50.000 --> 23:54.780 bible where i would just write in the table of contents what chapter i'm on and cross it out 23:54.780 --> 23:59.220 as i got further down the road and then when i was finished with a book i would underline it 23:59.220 --> 24:05.160 right now i use spreadsheets and i just have spreadsheets of the bible and i and i turn 24:05.160 --> 24:10.020 them green when i read them the chapter turns green if it's a partial chapter it's like yellow 24:10.020 --> 24:15.520 then it gets dark orange then it gets green so i have a system where i use spreadsheets to do it 24:15.520 --> 24:19.720 okay you can do it in the physical bible you could do i'm sure there's an app where you can 24:19.720 --> 24:24.840 log it but you need to have some kind of a notebook or electronic equivalent where you're 24:24.840 --> 24:29.160 actually logging your bible reading because if you're just like oh yeah you know i'll read 24:29.160 --> 24:33.860 the bible when i get around to it next thing you know a week goes by two weeks i mean time 24:33.860 --> 24:39.960 flies it's got to be daily it's got to be every day get it done first thing in the morning and then 24:39.960 --> 24:43.200 you just then you just know that it's done you just get it out of the way first thing in the morning 24:43.200 --> 24:48.180 then whatever you read at lunch or evening is just bonus that's just extra bonus reading 24:48.180 --> 24:51.920 but get something done first thing in the morning and before you go to bed at night 24:51.920 --> 24:56.680 ask yourself the question did i read my bible today and think about what did you read and what 24:56.680 --> 25:01.540 have you it's important so it says that he may read there in all the days of his life 25:01.540 --> 25:08.740 that he may learn to fear the lord his god to keep all the words of this law and these 25:08.740 --> 25:15.040 statutes to do them and you know what we're lacking today in 2026 the fear of god i mean how many 25:15.040 --> 25:18.740 people just have no fear of god it's like you know when you see the way that people are living 25:18.740 --> 25:21.980 their lives and the things that they're saying sometimes you're just like wow these people 25:21.980 --> 25:27.000 have no fear of god well here's how you get the fear of god by reading your bible 25:27.000 --> 25:31.060 every single day reading there in all the days of your life and then here's what 25:31.060 --> 25:35.140 else reading the bible will do for you that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren 25:36.080 --> 25:40.220 right so that you don't get prideful and start thinking you're better than other people why 25:40.220 --> 25:44.380 because when you read the bible the bible is humbling because the bible is constantly 25:44.380 --> 25:49.220 kind of pointing out our sins pointing out our shortcomings and we read about the lord jesus 25:49.220 --> 25:53.960 christ and he's so much greater than we are he's so much holier than we are more righteous 25:53.960 --> 25:59.420 than we are and then it makes us feel like okay i need to take it up a notch and i don't 25:59.420 --> 26:03.060 start getting too big for my britches and thinking i'm better than other people 26:03.060 --> 26:08.360 i don't want my heart to be lifted up above my brethren and it says that he turned not aside 26:08.360 --> 26:13.780 from the commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his 26:13.780 --> 26:18.540 days in his kingdom he and his children in the midst of israel so it sounds like it's 26:18.540 --> 26:23.840 pretty important to read the bible every day for the king of israel and so jahoyedah 26:23.840 --> 26:30.240 he wants to get this seven-year-old boy started right and so what's he doing he gives him the crown 26:30.240 --> 26:36.820 on his head the anointing oil right and and here's the thing you could also do this as an analogy 26:36.820 --> 26:42.400 and say like okay you know when we got saved god made us into kings and priests under god and his 26:42.400 --> 26:47.740 father and then we're anointed by the holy spirit that's the anointing oil and then boom 26:47.740 --> 26:54.160 sticking a bible in a seven-year-old boy's hand and saying this is what you're going to need to lead 26:54.160 --> 26:58.080 this is how you're going to be a great king this is how you're going to do right in the side of the 26:58.080 --> 27:04.100 lord and so every seven-year-old needs to be issued a bible we need to get all of our seven-year-olds 27:04.100 --> 27:10.160 reading the bible if you're seven years old read the bible joe ash had it at seven let's get 27:10.160 --> 27:14.820 you reading it and look obviously little kids they're not ready for the read the bible 27:14.820 --> 27:20.800 in a year plan most likely so what we typically did with our kids was like we would have those 27:20.800 --> 27:27.120 uh read through the bible in a year what's it called the the one year bible is that what 27:27.120 --> 27:31.580 that book is called yeah the one year bible and it breaks it up where it's like an old 27:31.580 --> 27:38.320 testament portion a new testament portion and then there's a proverb portion and a song portion 27:38.320 --> 27:42.520 or something it's like it gives you like a little bit of everything and then what we did was 27:43.600 --> 27:48.280 basically when the kids like a little kid we would just start up where they only read the 27:48.280 --> 27:53.300 song proverb part they just read the wisdom literature part and then the next year they 27:53.300 --> 27:57.340 just read the new testament part and then the next year they just read the old testament part 27:57.340 --> 28:00.960 and then eventually they could grow into where they're reading the whole bible in a year 28:00.960 --> 28:05.920 you know but figure something out right just you know whatever you can do get your kids 28:05.920 --> 28:10.440 reading the bible make sure that you're reading the bible uh we've got to do it it's important 28:10.440 --> 28:17.340 so let's go back to 2nd Kings chapter number 11 so they anoint joe ash they put the crown on his head 28:17.340 --> 28:22.680 anoint him with the oil stick a bible in his hand and you know what it what did paul tell timothy from 28:22.680 --> 28:27.860 a child thou has known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation and 28:27.860 --> 28:33.520 you know what i grew up reading the bible every day as a little kid and i was not super diligent 28:33.520 --> 28:39.420 about my bible reading but i did try to read it every single day even if i just read a few 28:39.420 --> 28:45.520 verses even if i just went to proverbs and read a few verses i would typically hang out in proverbs 28:45.520 --> 28:51.220 past oral epistles i guess i just somehow knew i was going to be a pastor someday but i hung out in the 28:51.220 --> 28:56.080 past oral epistles i hung out in proverbs and then i would just go to the four gospels and just 28:56.080 --> 29:00.780 read the red letters you know just go straight for the words of christ and so that's how i started 29:00.780 --> 29:05.880 out as a little kid just getting a little bit of bible in every day then when i got older i 29:05.880 --> 29:10.360 started getting on more of a strength like hey i'm going to read through the whole bible and 29:10.360 --> 29:15.600 what have you and so want to make sure that bible reading is a big part of our lives and let me 29:15.600 --> 29:20.220 tell you what's wrong with churches in america today is people don't know the bible pastors 29:20.220 --> 29:23.980 don't know the bible they end up preaching a bunch of stupid unbiblical stuff and then the 29:23.980 --> 29:27.880 people in the pew don't know what's wrong because they don't read the bible i mean people are 29:27.880 --> 29:33.180 constantly saying things that you just you hear it and you're just like bro you have not read 29:33.180 --> 29:38.740 the bible you don't know the bible and i'm telling you my people perish for lack of knowledge 29:39.560 --> 29:45.820 there is an ignorance of the bible today that needs to stop people need to be reading the bible 29:45.820 --> 29:52.740 every day and and doing some serious reading cover to cover and i think that for an adult christian 29:52.740 --> 29:58.280 reading the bible once a year is a good standard to have that if you're reading it less than 29:58.280 --> 30:04.520 that sorry i think you i think you're weak is what you are i think you're being weak and i think 30:04.520 --> 30:09.760 that you are you know a little backslidden i think that maybe you're not prioritizing the word of 30:09.760 --> 30:15.160 god if you're an adult and you can't read the bible for 15 20 minutes a day on average i 30:15.160 --> 30:22.420 think that that should be a good standard of get through the bible in a year right if you're 30:22.420 --> 30:26.800 seven years old we'll cut you some slack but if you're an adult man get on that program 30:27.200 --> 30:31.960 and read it i remember telling a guy at work i'm like hey you got to read the bible cover to cover man 30:32.560 --> 30:36.920 and this guy had been a christian for years and i said you got to read the bible cover to cover 30:36.920 --> 30:41.560 and i gave him a plan and i said here's the plan it takes 15 20 minutes today he said oh i don't 30:41.560 --> 30:47.720 have time for that and this is why he didn't have time for it he said i don't have time for 30:47.720 --> 30:54.280 that because i'm reading this book the prayer of jay bez and i'm doing my daily bread devotional 30:54.920 --> 30:59.160 and i'm reading this book over here and he's reading all these books about the bible 30:59.780 --> 31:04.320 and daily bread is literally one verse and then it just talks for like a whole page 31:04.840 --> 31:10.340 okay and this guy is reading all kinds of reading a day he's like well that's gonna eat up my whole 31:10.340 --> 31:18.120 devotion you know yeah so like if i only have 20 minutes i'm gonna spend it reading the bible 31:18.120 --> 31:24.680 not listening to somebody talk about the bible you know it's it's it there's a difference between 31:25.200 --> 31:31.840 you know it'd be like you know i'd rather eat a steak than to hear about the steak or smell the 31:31.840 --> 31:39.580 steak or to get a steak flavor on other things you know how about the book itself so look at 31:39.580 --> 31:44.660 second king chapter 11 verse 13 it says when at the lia heard the noise of the garden of 31:44.660 --> 31:48.900 the people she came to the people into the temple of the lord so she is shocked by this she 31:48.900 --> 31:53.540 doesn't even know that this kid is even alive now all of a sudden he's just being anointed king and 31:53.540 --> 32:00.400 nobody told her and when she looked verse 14 behold the king stood by a pillar as the manner was 32:00.400 --> 32:04.500 and the princes and the trumpeters by the king and all the people of the land rejoiced and 32:04.500 --> 32:12.180 blew with trumpets and at the lia ran to close and cried treason treason so i looked up treason 32:12.180 --> 32:18.740 in the dictionary this is what treason means the offense of acting to overthrow one's government 32:18.740 --> 32:26.200 or to harm or kill its king or sovereign right i mean that's treason overthrowing the king 32:26.200 --> 32:32.540 overthrowing the ruler overthrowing the government number two a violation of allegiance to one's 32:32.540 --> 32:37.920 sovereign or to one's state number three the betrayal of trust or confidence breach of faith 32:37.920 --> 32:42.340 treachery now here's what's interesting about this is that this is exactly what she did 32:42.960 --> 32:48.120 so this is just what goes around comes around because at the lia what did she do she murdered 32:48.120 --> 32:53.500 the guy who's supposed to be the next king and then the second in line she murdered him too 32:53.500 --> 33:00.520 third in line she murdered him too fourth in line she she murdered everybody she murdered the 33:00.520 --> 33:08.620 whole line except this one baby that escaped she killed all of them so isn't she committing treason 33:09.220 --> 33:16.300 when she murders her sovereign she murders the guy who is supposed to be king and so yeah okay 33:16.300 --> 33:24.100 it's treason to overthrow out the lia but she's a murderous maniac and she deserved it this is 33:24.100 --> 33:28.740 what goes around comes around she's basically putting put to death for murder is what it is 33:29.500 --> 33:35.700 and so i thought of revelation 13 he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity 33:35.700 --> 33:41.460 he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword here is the patience and the faith 33:41.460 --> 33:48.020 of the saints right those who live by the sword are going to die by the sword and so yeah she 33:48.020 --> 33:54.120 committed wicked treason and murder and guess what it just came back to get her and she's 33:54.120 --> 34:00.720 going to be killed it's just funny how people will do wicked things and then when somebody fights back 34:00.720 --> 34:05.360 when somebody disciplines them when somebody punishes them now all of a sudden this is a bear 34:05.800 --> 34:10.960 you know it's like it's like you know kane over here murdering abel and then he's like oh my 34:10.960 --> 34:15.740 punishment is greater than i can bear well what about abel how does he feel oh yeah he's dead 34:17.560 --> 34:21.680 but the wicked it's like they're only worried about themselves they can't see the other 34:21.680 --> 34:25.800 people that they're hurting the other people that they're harming it's just oh this isn't fair 34:25.800 --> 34:29.760 this is treason against me well what about when you committed treason six years ago 34:30.940 --> 34:36.240 verse 15 but jahoy to the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds and the officers of the 34:36.240 --> 34:41.160 host and said unto them have her forth without the ranges and let him that follow with her 34:42.040 --> 34:48.700 excuse me let and that him that follow with her kill with the sword for the priest had said 34:48.700 --> 34:53.920 let her not be slain in the house of the lord now keep your finger there and go to first Corinthians 34:53.920 --> 34:59.220 five it's interesting that we have this phenomenon in the old testament where it's like they never 34:59.220 --> 35:03.880 want to kill people in the house of god they always say like hey let's take the person 35:03.880 --> 35:09.020 outside the house of god and kill them there let's not kill them in the temple let's not kill 35:09.020 --> 35:14.500 them in the tabernacle so sometimes when people want mercy they would run into the house of 35:14.500 --> 35:20.580 god and grab hold of the horns of the altar as like a sanctuary or a safe space because they 35:20.580 --> 35:24.020 don't want to kill people in the house of god now why do they not want to kill people in the house 35:24.020 --> 35:29.800 of god well because of the fact that the integrity of the holiness of the house of god 35:29.800 --> 35:34.940 was supposed to be maintained right you have things that are clean and not clean you have 35:34.940 --> 35:41.900 things that are holy and not holy and dead bodies are considered unholy and unclean right 35:41.900 --> 35:47.880 i mean in the old testament even if the priest touches a dead body then he's considered unclean 35:47.880 --> 35:53.700 he has to go a period of time and wash himself and so forth so all the vessels in the house of god 35:53.700 --> 35:58.640 are supposed to be clean the priests are supposed to be clean and god's house itself well here's 35:58.640 --> 36:03.820 thing if you're killing people in the house of god you are desecrating god's house because 36:03.820 --> 36:08.240 you have a dead body here now and you know there's probably going to be blood spatter 36:08.240 --> 36:15.800 in everywhere and it's supposed to be a clean place and so you know killing people in the temple 36:15.800 --> 36:21.720 is kind of off limits and this comes up a lot in the old testament this idea and so it's just the 36:21.720 --> 36:26.880 holiness of god's house is supposed to be maintained now this kind of brings to mind 36:27.440 --> 36:32.720 first Corinthians chapter five because it says in verse number 11 but now i've written under you 36:32.720 --> 36:40.200 not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater 36:40.200 --> 36:47.280 or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such a one no not to eat for what have i to do 36:47.280 --> 36:52.440 to judge them also that are without without means on the outside do not you judge them that 36:52.440 --> 36:59.040 are within right he's saying i don't have to judge people that are outside the church because 36:59.040 --> 37:04.240 that's somebody else's problem but we are supposed to judge people that are within the church but 37:04.240 --> 37:09.700 them that are without god judges therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person 37:09.700 --> 37:15.920 and the idea here is we call this church discipline that's the common vernacular or 37:16.780 --> 37:21.680 excommunication but this is when someone gets thrown out of the church for committing one 37:21.680 --> 37:28.380 of these grievous sins here for being a brother or called a brother and being a fornicator 37:28.380 --> 37:35.480 railer extortioner idolater drunkard covetous somebody who's involved in these grievous sins 37:35.480 --> 37:40.520 he's saying look a little eleven leavens the whole lump put away from among yourselves that 37:40.520 --> 37:48.960 wicked person now here's the thing we are not going to punish that person inside the church 37:50.260 --> 37:54.360 they're going to be kicked out of the church and then god's going to deal with them 37:54.960 --> 38:00.620 that makes sense so it's not like okay you're a drunkard you're and you're unrepentant so 38:00.620 --> 38:05.440 here's we're going to punish you you know we're going to beat you or we're going to find you 38:05.440 --> 38:10.060 or we're going to whatever that's not the way it works is it no if someone commits 38:10.060 --> 38:15.680 one of these super grievous sins then they end up just getting booted from the church 38:15.680 --> 38:22.420 and then god punishes them them that are without god judge it so it's it kind of reminded me of 38:22.420 --> 38:27.800 this concept of like not slaying people in the house of god it's like we throw them out of the 38:27.800 --> 38:33.340 house of god and then that's where they get killed out there or not necessarily killed but 38:33.340 --> 38:40.680 punished severely chastened whatever the lord sees fit and it's not our problem it's up to god 38:40.680 --> 38:46.720 what he's going to do with them once they're out okay you know within we have to maintain order 38:46.720 --> 38:52.340 and judgment but those that are without god judge it not our problem so just put away from 38:52.340 --> 38:57.700 among yourselves that wicked person that's what's saying in first Corinthians chapter five now 38:57.700 --> 39:03.160 here's the thing about this is that people will balk at this sometimes because I've often said hey 39:03.160 --> 39:07.600 if you're thrown out of the church for a first Corinthians five type of a thing 39:07.600 --> 39:13.520 or a matthew 18 type of a thing you are under the curse of god you're cursed by god and here's 39:13.520 --> 39:18.600 what's funny people will balk at that like yeah like acting like I made that up or something or 39:18.600 --> 39:23.920 that that's not a biblical doctrine okay and yet it's right here in front of your face 39:24.400 --> 39:30.400 in first Corinthians five uh it says in first Corinthians five verse number four 39:30.400 --> 39:34.440 it says in the name of our lord Jesus christ when you're gathered together and my spirit 39:34.440 --> 39:41.780 with the power of our lord Jesus christ to deliver such a one unto satan for the destruction 39:41.780 --> 39:46.400 of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the lord jesus let me ask you something 39:46.400 --> 39:51.740 does it sound like you're under the curse of god if you're being delivered over to satan on a 39:51.740 --> 39:57.200 silver platter sounds like your curse to me I mean is it a blessing to be delivered 39:57.200 --> 40:04.760 unto satan here you go satan go ahead and destroy this person's flesh have at this person satan 40:04.760 --> 40:08.840 go to town on this person satan does that sound like the blessing of god to you 40:08.840 --> 40:12.880 sounds like a big time curse and then what about the verse that we just looked at verse 13 40:12.880 --> 40:21.080 them that are without god what them that are without god judges right the judgment of god 40:21.080 --> 40:27.860 is described vividly in Hebrews chapter 10 god will bring forth judgment the lord shall judge his 40:27.860 --> 40:34.240 people it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god in the context of what the lord 40:34.240 --> 40:42.100 shall judge his people them that are without god judges that's scary that's a scary thought 40:42.100 --> 40:49.120 to be cast out delivered to satan and god's judging you it's a joke to a lot of people 40:50.100 --> 40:55.860 you know i had a certain relative back you know and this is this is before my time but a certain 40:55.860 --> 41:02.320 relative of mine back in the 1960s was thrown out of faith baptist church in canoga park 41:02.320 --> 41:07.040 california for a first carinthians five sin and you know what she thought it was hilarious 41:07.040 --> 41:12.720 she made a mockery of it because in those days you know the old ifb when they throw someone 41:12.720 --> 41:17.140 out it's like they revoke their membership because they have like a membership role and 41:17.140 --> 41:23.460 so she was going to be deleted from the membership role because they were excommunicating her you know 41:23.460 --> 41:29.440 via first carinthians chapter five but then here was the big joke is that she'd never actually 41:29.440 --> 41:34.280 formally joined the church so even though she's going to the church and whatever she had not 41:34.280 --> 41:41.240 formally joined and so she was just making fun of it ha ha na na na na you can't get me 41:41.240 --> 41:46.080 you can't throw me out of the church because i'm not even a member you know ha ha you know 41:46.080 --> 41:51.340 you can't fire me because i quit or whatever and she thought it was pretty stinking funny 41:51.340 --> 41:57.840 well you know what she's been a loser her entire life okay this is this is someone in my extended 41:57.840 --> 42:05.320 family an ant of mine and she's been a complete loser and a failure her entire life i mean 42:05.320 --> 42:11.700 just living as a homeless person over here just being a derelict over here just constantly 42:11.700 --> 42:18.060 milking the government for whatever free money she had one child he wasn't saved 42:18.060 --> 42:24.700 she wasn't saved her child died younger than any of his cousins he just uh you know never 42:24.700 --> 42:30.540 got married never had kids and to this day she's still alive she's an elderly woman now and she's 42:30.540 --> 42:37.200 a complete failure a complete loser and has alienated every but one in her life all of her 42:37.200 --> 42:42.960 relatives all of her siblings she's just burned everyone and she just sits around like with with 42:42.960 --> 42:49.540 like trump derangement syndrome and i'm not a trump fan i'm not into politics i'm not you know into 42:49.540 --> 42:57.460 that at all but she just literally is just like this hardcore like democrat just watching all the 42:57.460 --> 43:05.240 democrat media and just psycho just all she does is just rage against trump and the 43:05.240 --> 43:10.780 republicans all day and this is her whole life and she's alienated everyone close to her and she's 43:10.780 --> 43:18.040 just this weird liberal atheist loser but it's so funny to be thrown out of church isn't it isn't 43:18.040 --> 43:24.720 it hilarious and then spend the next 50 60 years being a complete loser because you got 43:24.720 --> 43:28.460 thrown out of the church and obviously she was unsaved some of the people get thrown out 43:28.460 --> 43:31.980 of the church are saved some of the people get thrown out or not saved that's why it says 43:31.980 --> 43:36.960 if anyone who's called a brother be a fornicator they're you know maybe they're saved maybe they're 43:36.960 --> 43:42.860 not we don't know we can't see the heart in these situations and time will often tell whether people 43:42.860 --> 43:47.640 are saved or unsaved we don't always know and people that we think are saved turn out not to be 43:47.640 --> 43:52.100 saved and vice versa you know we don't always know these things but let me tell you something 43:52.100 --> 43:57.220 our church over the years has thrown out many people we've thrown out many people over the 43:57.220 --> 44:02.980 years and let me tell you something that one of two things typically happens in short order 44:02.980 --> 44:09.480 it usually doesn't take long for them to either be severely punished by god in a public spectacular 44:09.480 --> 44:17.060 way or even die many people that we've thrown out have died shortly thereafter okay or they end 44:17.060 --> 44:24.320 up losing their minds and becoming just complete psycho weirdos like we've we've thrown people 44:24.320 --> 44:30.680 out of the church and it's like they're supporting gay pride two weeks later just they just go crazy 44:30.680 --> 44:36.960 they just go nuts they just go into all kinds of just either grievous sin they become like a 44:36.960 --> 44:45.300 thousand times more sinful way more gross just completely going mentally just insane 44:45.300 --> 44:50.500 like literal like certifiable crazy you know it's not a good place to be my friend 44:51.340 --> 44:56.300 you know and if you say oh i'm not afraid i don't care about that that you're just telling me that 44:56.300 --> 45:01.420 you're an idiot because because i'll tell you right now if a church was throwing me out for for 45:02.540 --> 45:09.860 unrepentant fornication unrepentant drunkenness unrepentant railing unrepentant extortion idolatry 45:09.860 --> 45:17.040 covetousness whatever man i would be begging to fix it i'd be like on my knees like what do i 45:17.040 --> 45:21.340 have to do to fix this i wouldn't even give sleep to my eyelids i'd be trying to fix it 45:21.340 --> 45:27.960 and doing whatever i could to get back in good standing and people to just brazenly 45:27.960 --> 45:33.360 mock at this and scoff at this and think it's a boogie man and laugh at it well you know what 45:33.360 --> 45:41.560 i remember my aunt laughing at it too ha ha so funny you want your entire life to be trash 45:42.100 --> 45:47.000 then good luck with that all right beloved let's move on with the sermon here 45:48.800 --> 45:53.440 let's go back to second king chapter number 11 second king chapter number 11 45:56.120 --> 46:01.480 and here's the thing you know the the church doesn't have any physical authority over people 46:01.480 --> 46:07.840 at all you know the only authority that we really have is just spiritually you know and and and 46:07.840 --> 46:15.000 when the church takes that drastic step of saying you are excommunicated you are thrown out 46:15.000 --> 46:19.700 you better know that you are under the curse of god and the bible says that whatever we bind on earth 46:19.700 --> 46:23.920 will be bound in heaven whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven them that are 46:23.920 --> 46:28.860 without god judget deliver unto satan i mean i you know i don't know what to say to people 46:28.860 --> 46:33.380 who say what are you talking about people to get thrown out of the curse of god what really 46:33.380 --> 46:38.120 where's that well i just showed you i mean it's pretty clear i think i think it's super clear 46:38.740 --> 46:43.020 but look at second king chapter 11 verse 17 it says in joya to made a covenant 46:43.020 --> 46:48.560 between the lord and the king and the people that they should be the lord's people so again you 46:48.560 --> 46:54.180 see joya does the mover here making everything happen and then it says between the king also 46:54.180 --> 46:59.200 and the people so we see two stages here to this covenant number one is loyalty to the lord 46:59.880 --> 47:04.700 they're saying look the covenants between the lord and the king and the people that they're 47:04.700 --> 47:08.660 going to be the lord's people so they say hey we're going to make a covenant we're going to make a 47:08.660 --> 47:12.620 promise we're going to make an agreement we're going to make a deal right now we are going to 47:12.620 --> 47:17.260 worship the lord we're not worshiping bale we're going to be the lord's people but then they 47:17.260 --> 47:23.080 also make a covenant between the king and the people that's a separate covenant of the 47:23.080 --> 47:28.000 people saying hey you're our king so we're going to be loyal to you we're going to follow 47:28.000 --> 47:29.980 we're going to obey you as our king. 47:30.240 --> 47:31.540 And of course they're making this agreement 47:31.540 --> 47:32.660 to a seven-year-old boy, 47:32.900 --> 47:34.820 but he's under the tutelage of Jehoida 47:34.820 --> 47:36.940 with the understanding that he's going to grow up 47:36.940 --> 47:39.780 and follow in the footsteps of Jehoida the priest. 47:40.420 --> 47:42.880 Sadly, that is not what ends up happening, 47:43.120 --> 47:45.740 but that's the idea here, that's the goal. 47:46.240 --> 47:48.280 And so that's the way our lives are, 47:48.380 --> 47:51.740 is that we have our ultimate authority in heaven 47:51.740 --> 47:54.840 is the Lord, and we should always be most loyal to God 47:54.840 --> 47:55.640 over anything else. 47:55.840 --> 47:57.740 Like we're always going to be loyal to God 47:57.740 --> 48:00.740 and the Bible, no matter what else happens in our lives. 48:01.340 --> 48:02.220 But then you know what? 48:02.280 --> 48:03.340 There are some human beings 48:03.340 --> 48:05.000 that we should have loyalty to as well. 48:05.420 --> 48:09.020 You know, and here are some non-negotiable relationships 48:09.020 --> 48:11.680 in your life, your mom and dad, right? 48:11.800 --> 48:12.800 What's the fifth commandment? 48:13.100 --> 48:14.240 Honor your father and mother. 48:14.820 --> 48:15.780 That's non-negotiable. 48:15.920 --> 48:17.880 You gotta be loyal to mom and dad. 48:18.780 --> 48:21.220 Loyalty to them is commanded by God. 48:21.440 --> 48:23.240 Here's another person that you've gotta be loyal to, 48:23.760 --> 48:24.300 your spouse. 48:24.840 --> 48:26.100 That is a non-negotiable. 48:26.100 --> 48:28.840 So you as a husband, you gotta be loyal to your wife. 48:29.380 --> 48:31.280 Wives, you gotta be loyal to your husband, right? 48:31.640 --> 48:33.260 And you say, well, I'm just loyal to God only. 48:33.400 --> 48:34.740 Nope, I'm not just loyal to God. 48:35.100 --> 48:36.460 I'm also loyal to mom and dad, 48:36.620 --> 48:39.380 and I'm also loyal to my wife, okay? 48:39.760 --> 48:42.920 And obviously those are some of the non-negotiable 48:42.920 --> 48:44.100 loyalties that we need. 48:44.320 --> 48:47.800 Just under the Lord, those three relationships as well, 48:48.020 --> 48:50.260 mom, dad, and spouse that are non-negotiable. 48:50.520 --> 48:51.760 But then there are other loyalties 48:51.760 --> 48:53.980 that we have to friends. 48:55.040 --> 48:58.780 Loyalties to other relatives, such as children, 48:59.440 --> 49:02.000 siblings, cousins, you know, 49:02.120 --> 49:03.280 and just brothers and sisters in Christ. 49:03.440 --> 49:07.060 And again, you should be loyal to those people. 49:07.500 --> 49:10.200 But those are not like non-negotiable 49:10.200 --> 49:11.420 because sometimes those people, 49:11.620 --> 49:13.600 you might decide to cut them loose. 49:14.840 --> 49:17.160 You know, and some people you're not gonna go 49:17.160 --> 49:18.060 all the way to the end with. 49:18.560 --> 49:19.900 Unfortunately, you know, with God, 49:20.320 --> 49:21.600 we could go all the way to the end 49:21.600 --> 49:24.300 with every friend and with every child 49:24.300 --> 49:26.380 and with every sibling and with every cousin 49:26.920 --> 49:28.780 and with every brother and sister in Christ 49:28.780 --> 49:31.160 and with every pastor and with every church. 49:31.360 --> 49:34.080 But unfortunately that's just not the way the world works. 49:34.700 --> 49:36.520 So sometimes there's gonna be a time 49:36.520 --> 49:38.140 when you have to leave a church. 49:38.840 --> 49:40.300 You know, and it's not, you can't just be like, 49:40.500 --> 49:42.500 well I just have to just be loyal to the pastor 49:42.500 --> 49:43.300 under the bitter end. 49:43.640 --> 49:45.600 Well here's the thing, if the pastor gets into heresy, 49:46.200 --> 49:49.200 if the pastor is getting into false doctrine, 49:49.200 --> 49:52.480 if the pastor is becoming super weak sauce, 49:53.020 --> 49:54.540 you know, there's nothing wrong with trading up 49:54.540 --> 49:56.400 for the actual real stuff down the street 49:56.400 --> 49:58.200 at the hard preaching, soul winning, 49:58.400 --> 49:59.840 fundamental Baptist church down the street. 50:00.100 --> 50:02.680 So we don't wanna feel like it's just do or die 50:03.220 --> 50:04.880 with everyone in our life. 50:05.640 --> 50:06.600 But you know what? 50:06.880 --> 50:09.320 We should at the same time have loyalty to those people 50:09.320 --> 50:11.200 and not just be ready to turn on them 50:11.200 --> 50:13.320 at the drop of a hat or something like that. 50:13.600 --> 50:15.580 You know, we should have some loyalty to our pastor, 50:15.980 --> 50:18.540 loyalty to our friends, loyalty to relatives 50:18.540 --> 50:19.080 and so forth. 50:19.320 --> 50:22.100 But the three non-negotiables are mom, dad and spouse, 50:22.300 --> 50:23.060 according to the Bible. 50:25.120 --> 50:28.660 But I'll tell you right now that, you know, 50:29.100 --> 50:29.940 the Bible says, 50:30.300 --> 50:33.080 thine own friend and my father's friend forsake not. 50:34.540 --> 50:37.140 And so, you know, we are supposed to be loyal to people 50:37.940 --> 50:40.280 and not just be, you know, 50:40.340 --> 50:42.380 forgetting the good things that they've done for us, 50:42.400 --> 50:42.600 right? 50:42.960 --> 50:44.460 Or the person who won you to Christ 50:44.460 --> 50:47.680 or people who discipled you or helped you in the past, 50:47.680 --> 50:49.240 you know, you wanna be loyal to those people 50:49.240 --> 50:52.740 and repay good for good and not evil for good. 50:53.300 --> 50:57.440 And so these people are making a commitment to back Joash 50:57.440 --> 50:58.160 because there's the thing, 50:58.260 --> 50:59.980 Joash and Jehoida, they can't do this alone. 51:00.060 --> 51:00.680 They need backing. 51:01.280 --> 51:04.280 They need loyal citizens to back them. 51:04.400 --> 51:04.860 And so they're saying, 51:04.900 --> 51:06.260 look, we need to make a covenant here. 51:06.580 --> 51:08.840 We need to make an agreement that we're gonna follow you. 51:09.020 --> 51:10.740 We're gonna back you, Joash. 51:10.940 --> 51:14.120 And you know, it's sad how people are not there 51:14.120 --> 51:15.520 for you when you need them sometimes. 51:15.900 --> 51:17.520 And it's like, you'll do things for people 51:17.520 --> 51:20.040 and you'll love people and you'll be friends with people. 51:20.260 --> 51:22.620 And then as soon as you run into problems, 51:22.740 --> 51:24.000 they're like, I'm outta here. 51:24.600 --> 51:26.540 No loyalty, right? 51:26.740 --> 51:29.580 I mean, look, it's not always gonna be easy being a friend. 51:29.920 --> 51:31.160 It's not always gonna be easy 51:31.160 --> 51:32.600 going to Faith Forward Baptist Church. 51:32.820 --> 51:35.820 It's not always easy to stand with your friends, 51:36.160 --> 51:37.200 your siblings, whatever. 51:37.500 --> 51:40.120 But you know what, you ought to have some loyalty 51:40.820 --> 51:43.740 to the people that have done good unto you 51:44.350 --> 51:46.440 or just loyalty to the people 51:46.440 --> 51:49.260 that God has placed in your life under your care 51:49.260 --> 51:50.760 whom you've done good for. 51:51.160 --> 51:52.540 And you know, we need loyalty. 51:53.880 --> 51:55.480 First and foremost to Christ, 51:55.960 --> 51:57.840 then there's those non-negotiables 51:58.410 --> 52:00.060 and then there are other people 52:00.390 --> 52:01.840 that we should just be loyal to. 52:02.360 --> 52:06.620 You know, and even not necessarily in every situation 52:06.970 --> 52:09.540 but in most situations it's gonna be hard. 52:09.620 --> 52:10.720 You're gonna have to pry us away 52:10.720 --> 52:12.560 from these people with a crowbar. 52:13.180 --> 52:15.520 You know, and it's not gonna be just super easy 52:16.020 --> 52:19.720 to just trade up as soon as that person is unpopular. 52:19.920 --> 52:21.320 I mean, think about the apostle Paul. 52:21.460 --> 52:24.120 He talks about how Onesimus was not ashamed of his chain 52:24.740 --> 52:27.400 because when Paul, the apostle's getting thrown into prison, 52:27.700 --> 52:30.460 he's like, oh, all they in Asia have forsaken me. 52:30.880 --> 52:32.800 I mean, everybody is bailing on Paul 52:33.320 --> 52:35.840 because they're ashamed of his chain, the Bible says, 52:35.960 --> 52:38.400 but Onesimus was not ashamed of the chain. 52:39.080 --> 52:42.600 He didn't just say, oh, soon as Paul's having problems, 52:42.860 --> 52:44.840 I'm out of here, oh, he's in prison. 52:45.140 --> 52:46.540 I don't wanna be associated with him. 52:46.980 --> 52:48.900 No, no, no, he's loyal to his friend. 52:49.560 --> 52:50.940 And those are the kind of friends we have. 52:50.980 --> 52:51.520 And let me tell you something, 52:51.840 --> 52:53.820 when you find those loyal type of friends, 52:54.500 --> 52:56.280 you better treat them well 52:56.280 --> 52:58.060 because that's a once in a lifetime sometimes 52:58.060 --> 52:59.380 or twice in a lifetime. 52:59.820 --> 53:02.700 Those kind of friends can be rare and few and far between. 53:03.040 --> 53:04.940 And if you trade in your friends 53:04.940 --> 53:07.880 for a little bit of short-term gain or popularity, 53:07.880 --> 53:08.720 whatever, you're an idiot. 53:08.920 --> 53:11.420 I mean, if you have that serious friend, 53:11.800 --> 53:14.120 man, you should be loyal to them and cherish them. 53:14.160 --> 53:17.060 That's a treasure to have a real good friend 53:17.600 --> 53:20.080 because let's face it, many of our friendships in life 53:20.080 --> 53:21.860 are not very deep and not very meaningful 53:22.540 --> 53:24.260 and many of our friends are not very loyal. 53:24.580 --> 53:25.780 So when you find that loyal friend, 53:26.340 --> 53:28.960 cherish them and hold on to them 53:28.960 --> 53:31.680 and it shouldn't just be super easy 53:32.280 --> 53:34.380 for that friendship to end. 53:36.500 --> 53:38.540 So look at verse 18, I'm almost done. 53:39.380 --> 53:41.880 And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal 53:41.880 --> 53:44.380 and break it down, his altars and his images 53:44.380 --> 53:45.720 break they pieces thoroughly 53:46.220 --> 53:49.060 and slew Matta and the priest of Baal before the altars 53:49.060 --> 53:50.800 and the priest appointed officers 53:51.320 --> 53:52.280 over the house of the Lord. 53:52.420 --> 53:54.000 So basically they're doing the same thing in Judah, 53:54.680 --> 53:56.420 what Jehu did last week in Israel 53:56.800 --> 53:59.120 where they just completely wipe out Baal worship, 53:59.500 --> 54:02.680 kill the people, destroy the instruments 54:02.680 --> 54:04.060 and the images and so forth. 54:05.820 --> 54:09.200 And then notice, for sake of time, let's jump to verse 20. 54:09.400 --> 54:12.760 It says, and all the people of the land rejoiced 54:12.760 --> 54:14.460 and the city was in quiet 54:15.000 --> 54:17.140 and they slew Athaliah with the sword 54:17.140 --> 54:18.060 beside the king's house. 54:18.480 --> 54:19.800 You know, these are the verses that come to mind, 54:19.920 --> 54:22.600 Proverbs 11, 10, when it goes well with the righteous, 54:23.140 --> 54:26.380 the city rejoices and when the wicked perish, 54:27.040 --> 54:30.840 there is shouting, woo-hoo, Athaliah's dead, 54:31.920 --> 54:33.440 Joash reigns, they're happy. 54:34.820 --> 54:37.120 And then here's another one, Proverbs 29, too, 54:37.500 --> 54:39.520 when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice 54:39.920 --> 54:42.260 but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn. 54:43.200 --> 54:46.080 And so wicked leaders are bad for everyone. 54:48.880 --> 54:51.920 Sorry excommunicated auntie who loves the Democrats 54:52.600 --> 54:55.300 and loves liberals and commies and socialists. 54:55.460 --> 54:57.540 Here's the thing, when these wicked people are in charge 54:57.540 --> 54:58.800 they're not gonna benefit you. 55:00.840 --> 55:04.680 It's not like half of our country is pulling 55:04.680 --> 55:06.820 for one party that's gonna benefit them 55:06.820 --> 55:08.960 and then half our country is pulling 55:08.960 --> 55:10.780 for another party that's gonna benefit them. 55:11.020 --> 55:13.300 Folks, wicked leaders benefit no one. 55:14.020 --> 55:16.380 Putting commies and socialists in charge 55:16.380 --> 55:18.340 benefits no one, everybody suffers. 55:18.540 --> 55:19.500 Both sides are gonna suffer. 55:20.440 --> 55:22.600 It doesn't matter whether your guy gets in, 55:22.880 --> 55:25.220 both Republicans and Democrats will suffer 55:25.220 --> 55:27.800 if a faggot is elected president 55:27.800 --> 55:29.320 because you know, this faggot 55:29.320 --> 55:30.660 that they're always trying to put up for president, 55:30.840 --> 55:32.720 booty judge, right? 55:33.760 --> 55:35.300 Like you can't even make this stuff up. 55:35.900 --> 55:38.880 Booty judge is running for president in 2028, right? 55:38.980 --> 55:40.460 They're always talking about booty judge. 55:40.840 --> 55:43.980 Booty faggot with his gay buddy, right? 55:44.360 --> 55:44.880 It's sick. 55:45.320 --> 55:46.800 You know, oh yeah, that'll be so great. 55:47.140 --> 55:48.840 Folks, that's just gonna bring the wrath of God 55:48.840 --> 55:49.700 down on our country. 55:50.900 --> 55:52.660 Having a little faggot in the White House 55:53.180 --> 55:54.500 for the second time, amen? 55:55.760 --> 55:58.200 But the thing is, Obama, anyone? 55:59.440 --> 56:03.840 But here's the thing, is that having these wicked rulers, 56:04.420 --> 56:07.240 putting some socialist, commie, big government, 56:07.540 --> 56:09.720 idiot in charge, it's just gonna hurt everybody. 56:10.260 --> 56:12.340 Just gonna mess up the economy for everybody 56:12.840 --> 56:15.660 and putting these pro-abortion, pro-sotomy people. 56:15.780 --> 56:17.820 It's just gonna bring the wrath of God down on everybody. 56:18.200 --> 56:19.180 It's not good for anybody. 56:19.620 --> 56:21.800 And here's the thing, you know, who benefits? 56:23.040 --> 56:24.760 Money's going to Israel no matter what. 56:26.240 --> 56:28.620 But that's not benefiting the American voter, 56:28.620 --> 56:30.780 or the American taxpayer, because Israel, 56:31.300 --> 56:33.480 unfortunately, is a wicked nation today. 56:34.940 --> 56:36.420 And that is a whole nother sermon 56:36.420 --> 56:37.780 that shall be preached another time. 56:39.320 --> 56:41.860 Wicked leaders harm everyone, no one benefits. 56:42.360 --> 56:44.380 That's why when they perish, they're shouting. 56:44.880 --> 56:45.940 And you know what's really sad 56:45.940 --> 56:48.160 is that we have this two-party system 56:48.160 --> 56:50.400 and I don't like to get real political in my sermons 56:50.400 --> 56:52.240 and I'm not a very political guy. 56:52.440 --> 56:53.500 I don't really follow it that much. 56:53.660 --> 56:54.740 But here's what I have noticed, 56:54.740 --> 56:59.240 is that whenever the Republican gets elected, 56:59.560 --> 57:00.620 when he first gets elected, 57:00.980 --> 57:02.940 the Republicans are real excited about him 57:02.940 --> 57:04.880 and yay, it's gonna be great. 57:05.120 --> 57:06.160 He's gonna do all this good stuff. 57:06.400 --> 57:07.460 And then by the end of it, 57:07.500 --> 57:09.140 they're all disgruntled and disillusioned 57:09.140 --> 57:10.720 how he didn't do what they thought he was gonna do. 57:11.220 --> 57:12.760 And then the Democrat gets elected 57:12.760 --> 57:14.900 and everybody's excited and yay. 57:15.360 --> 57:17.420 You know, Obama's gonna change it. 57:17.880 --> 57:20.060 Obama's gonna change the world. 57:20.400 --> 57:23.120 Yes, we can, can, can, yes, we can. 57:23.120 --> 57:24.880 Everybody's excited about Obama, 57:25.360 --> 57:28.200 but then once Obama is done at the end of it, 57:28.440 --> 57:31.020 people are disgruntled and sick of Obama on both sides. 57:31.220 --> 57:32.760 And that's why it goes back and forth 57:32.760 --> 57:35.300 from Republican to Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican. 57:35.600 --> 57:37.820 Because it's like, everybody's like, yay, our guy. 57:37.980 --> 57:38.840 And then he's such a failure, 57:39.020 --> 57:41.060 then they're like, oh, let's go Democrat, yay. 57:41.460 --> 57:42.860 And then it's, okay, you know. 57:44.600 --> 57:46.780 Like, isn't it amazing how Americans 57:46.780 --> 57:48.820 just keep electing people that they hate? 57:50.260 --> 57:55.860 And then it's like, the satisfaction rating of Congress 57:55.860 --> 57:58.360 will be like, you know, super low, 57:58.580 --> 58:02.220 like 20-some percent or 30 percent of people are happy. 58:02.440 --> 58:03.940 And then they just, but then they just keep voting 58:03.940 --> 58:09.020 in the same crusty old people doing the exact same things. 58:09.580 --> 58:11.480 And everybody's just sick of it 58:11.480 --> 58:13.100 and everybody just hates it 58:13.100 --> 58:16.640 and everybody just hates, you know, this guy 58:16.640 --> 58:18.600 and that guy and everybody's just always voting 58:18.600 --> 58:19.920 for the lesser evil and stuff. 58:20.020 --> 58:20.760 It's just like, what? 58:21.300 --> 58:21.880 It's trash. 58:23.000 --> 58:25.960 But it's just, you know, no one benefits from a bad leader. 58:26.520 --> 58:29.860 But from a good leader, everybody benefits, right? 58:29.980 --> 58:31.800 So here's the, if you get a good leader in power, 58:32.440 --> 58:35.200 everybody benefits, everybody's, you know, doing better. 58:35.620 --> 58:37.540 It's not like he's only gonna benefit the half 58:37.540 --> 58:39.520 of the country that voted for him, right? 58:39.860 --> 58:41.440 Because everybody in America 58:41.440 --> 58:44.220 kind of wants the same basic things, right? 58:44.220 --> 58:47.660 Everybody wants to basically be able to just afford 58:47.660 --> 58:50.940 to buy things and everybody wants to just live in peace. 58:51.240 --> 58:54.580 Nobody wants, you know, anarchy and blood in the streets. 58:54.740 --> 58:55.640 Everybody wants what? 58:56.080 --> 59:00.380 Low crime, low gas prices, low food prices. 59:00.540 --> 59:01.900 They want to be able to afford their lives. 59:02.020 --> 59:03.720 Everybody kind of wants the same basic things. 59:04.360 --> 59:05.800 You know, it's just some of them 59:05.800 --> 59:08.260 have read an economics book and some of them haven't. 59:08.840 --> 59:10.040 You know, and it's just like 59:10.040 --> 59:11.660 you get these bozo leaders 59:12.140 --> 59:15.520 with all their pie in the sky, socialist commie crap. 59:15.900 --> 59:17.740 It just hurts everybody at the end of the day. 59:18.340 --> 59:20.320 And then at the end of it, everybody's sick of it 59:20.320 --> 59:22.460 and it's like, okay, yeah, we're gonna vote conservative now. 59:22.700 --> 59:23.800 And then they vote conservative 59:23.800 --> 59:25.580 and then the conservative people do nothing 59:26.040 --> 59:27.660 and just bloat the size of government. 59:27.840 --> 59:29.200 And then it's like, oh, you know, 59:29.260 --> 59:31.080 maybe the Democrats are right after all or whatever. 59:32.580 --> 59:38.120 And so when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn, right? 59:38.260 --> 59:39.540 So here's the problem 59:40.180 --> 59:42.340 is that we've stopped even looking for 59:42.340 --> 59:44.700 or even trying to have godly leaders in this country. 59:44.840 --> 59:45.420 That's the problem. 59:46.260 --> 59:46.980 See what I'm saying? 59:47.120 --> 59:49.240 Because it's like, why is everybody so frustrated 59:49.240 --> 59:51.600 with Congress, Senate, presidents? 59:52.100 --> 59:53.120 Because we're not even trying 59:53.120 --> 59:54.280 to get godly people anymore. 59:55.040 --> 59:56.520 You know, it used to be when Bill Clinton 59:56.520 --> 59:58.680 is committing adultery in the White House, 59:58.780 --> 01:00:00.420 it's a scandal, everybody's horrified. 01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:02.180 Now it's just like, who cares? 01:00:02.800 --> 01:00:03.380 Nobody even cares. 01:00:03.740 --> 01:00:07.020 I mean, look, and forget about politics for a second. 01:00:07.020 --> 01:00:12.020 Is Trump a godly individual by any stretch of the imagination? 01:00:12.260 --> 01:00:13.680 If you just put the politics aside, 01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:18.360 Trump is a guy who's been married several times, 01:00:18.720 --> 01:00:20.960 had several adulterous relationships. 01:00:21.420 --> 01:00:23.800 He just talks about just violating women 01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:25.720 and just grabbing them by the whatever. 01:00:26.220 --> 01:00:29.500 Is this really a godly Christian by anybody's definition? 01:00:30.340 --> 01:00:32.040 He's just making all kinds of money 01:00:32.040 --> 01:00:35.740 and just casinos and Miss America pageants 01:00:35.740 --> 01:00:36.920 and all this weird stuff. 01:00:37.940 --> 01:00:38.260 Okay? 01:00:38.960 --> 01:00:40.220 These are not godly people. 01:00:40.500 --> 01:00:42.720 And then it's like, I remember Bill Clinton, 01:00:43.260 --> 01:00:44.900 when I was a kid, there was a big scandal 01:00:44.900 --> 01:00:47.320 because they asked him if he'd ever smoked pot. 01:00:48.220 --> 01:00:51.320 And he said, well, you know, I didn't inhale. 01:00:52.540 --> 01:00:54.320 I puffed it, but I didn't inhale. 01:00:55.060 --> 01:00:56.380 So it was like, he tried marijuana, 01:00:56.480 --> 01:00:58.400 but he didn't bring it all the way into his lungs. 01:00:59.040 --> 01:01:01.400 But then you fast forward just a couple of years 01:01:01.400 --> 01:01:03.920 and you have Barack Obama saying in his book 01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:06.520 that he tried every single drug that there is. 01:01:07.660 --> 01:01:09.440 And it's just like, no problem. 01:01:10.240 --> 01:01:10.720 You see what I'm saying? 01:01:10.980 --> 01:01:13.800 Like we're not even trying to get a godly person anymore. 01:01:14.700 --> 01:01:17.960 Nobody is looking at character or quality. 01:01:18.360 --> 01:01:20.320 And so that's what you're gonna end up with bad leaders 01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:21.600 because guess what? 01:01:21.940 --> 01:01:23.740 Good Christians are gonna be good leaders. 01:01:24.220 --> 01:01:26.720 Godly moral people are gonna be better leaders 01:01:26.720 --> 01:01:30.500 than a bunch of just silver spoon in their mouth, 01:01:31.140 --> 01:01:34.060 growing up, taking all the drugs and partying. 01:01:34.380 --> 01:01:36.580 And oh, I'm on my third spouse 01:01:36.580 --> 01:01:38.020 and this is all the adultery 01:01:38.020 --> 01:01:39.920 that I've committed in between and during. 01:01:41.720 --> 01:01:43.140 Does everybody hear what I'm saying? 01:01:44.180 --> 01:01:47.740 Wicked people are ruling and then everybody's mourning. 01:01:48.640 --> 01:01:50.060 It's like, well, no wonder you're unhappy. 01:01:50.640 --> 01:01:51.600 The leaders are wicked. 01:01:52.080 --> 01:01:53.040 That's why you're unhappy. 01:01:54.020 --> 01:01:55.540 And so again, the answer, 01:01:55.800 --> 01:01:57.320 this is why I'm not into politics 01:01:57.320 --> 01:01:59.460 because I don't think there's a political solution 01:01:59.460 --> 01:02:00.480 for our country at all. 01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:02.700 I think there's one solution for our country 01:02:02.700 --> 01:02:04.400 and that is getting people saved 01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:06.400 and getting Christians right with God. 01:02:06.780 --> 01:02:08.080 That's what we need to be doing, right? 01:02:08.560 --> 01:02:09.960 Get as many people saved as we can 01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:13.060 and then get as many Christians living clean, 01:02:14.040 --> 01:02:15.540 separated, godly lives. 01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:17.600 That is the answer for our country. 01:02:17.740 --> 01:02:19.160 Then the politics will take care of itself. 01:02:20.420 --> 01:02:21.700 That's why I'm not into politics. 01:02:21.840 --> 01:02:22.880 I wanna focus on salvation 01:02:23.600 --> 01:02:26.880 and I wanna focus on sanctifications, right? 01:02:27.020 --> 01:02:28.560 Getting people right with God. 01:02:28.560 --> 01:02:29.820 That's gonna fix things. 01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:31.040 Let's provide us enough water prayer. 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:33.900 Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord 01:02:33.900 --> 01:02:35.960 and we thank you for the fact 01:02:35.960 --> 01:02:39.940 that we don't have to be on this political carousel 01:02:39.940 --> 01:02:43.280 and hope that that's gonna fix everything in our lives, Lord. 01:02:43.740 --> 01:02:46.040 Thank you for giving us a more meaningful mission 01:02:46.660 --> 01:02:48.400 of getting people saved out of hell 01:02:48.740 --> 01:02:50.440 and getting people eternally saved. 01:02:51.020 --> 01:02:53.000 And Lord, help us also to reach Christians 01:02:53.680 --> 01:02:56.420 and teach them to observe all things 01:02:56.420 --> 01:02:58.040 that Christ commanded us, Lord. 01:02:58.560 --> 01:03:00.080 And it's in Christ's name we pray, amen.