The men, so the last few weeks as we've been going through Second Kings, we've seen
Jihu and Co. just really cleaning house
in the Northern Kingdom, just completely destroying
and wiping out the house of Ahab in the Northern Kingdom
and even a lot of the princes from Judah that were buddies with the house of
Ahab,
they ended up getting smoked. Jihu ended up just completely wiping out
Baal worship in the Northern Kingdom. But now we move to the Southern
Kingdom of Judah
and it says in Second Kings chapter 11 verse 1
and when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah,
saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed
all the seed royal. So if you remember,
Ahaziah was the king of Judah and in the process
of Ahab's son being destroyed, he gets killed
also in the same battle and so he gets smoked as well
and now Athaliah who is the daughter of Ahab
so she's of that wicked lineage of the Northern Kingdom,
she just decides that she wants to rule
in the Southern Kingdom of Judah as the queen and this is actually the
only time in the entire Bible that we have
either in Israel or in Judah a female
actually reigning and ruling as the queen that's actually like the reigning
queen
not just a queen in the sense of like the wife of a king or the mother of a
king or something like that.
And so obviously this is a very wicked woman because when it says that she
destroyed all the seed royal
this is probably also including a lot of her own relatives like this could be
her own grandchildren
I mean she's just wiping out everybody in this family just murdering innocent
people
so that no one will have a claim to the throne except her
so that she's the only one left she's just gonna kill everyone else
and of course we see other examples of this in the Bible like for example
in the book of Judges
you have Abimelech who kills all of the sons of Gideon
so that he's the only one left so that he can reign over the children of Israel
that lasts for about three years and then God brings judgment upon him
but the first thing I want to point out here is just the wickedness
of having a woman rule over God's people this is not
ever been God's plan it's not God's will
and Isaiah chapter 3 verse 12 says this as for my people
children are their oppressors and women rule over them
oh my people they which lead the cause thee to err
and destroy the way of the ipads see this is backwards
when you have children oppressing you when you have women
ruling over you it's a reversal of the natural order
where children are supposed to obey and honor their parents
wives are supposed to submit and honor their husband as the head of the
home
and so it is a curse of God when you have women
ruling over the nation over the church over the family
it's not God's plan in the New Testament this is reiterated
first Timothy 2 verse 11 says let the woman
learn in silence with all subjection but I suffer not a woman to teach
nor do you serve authority over the man but to be in silence
for Adam was first formed then Eve this is in the context of the church
saying hey we don't want women usurping authority over men in the church
we don't want them up there preaching and teaching the Bible
there to learn in silence and obviously we love women we're not downgrading women
and people will try to say this is misogynistic
which the word misogynistic literally means woman hating
we don't hate women the Bible doesn't hate women
God doesn't hate women fundamental baptism Christians we don't hate women
we love women and you know what we love them just the way they are
as women we're not trying to turn them into men
we don't need them to act like men dress like men
talk like men and do men's jobs in order to have
value in order to somehow you know fully realize their potential
they have to become like men and then you call that feminism
that's not feminism it should be called masculinism turning women into men
no we love women and we just want them to do what God created them to do
the jobs that they were born to do that they're good at doing
you know we want them to marry to bear children and to guide the house
that is the ideal place for women to be
now obviously we live in a fallen world and there are going to be all kinds of
situations due to just the sinfulness of man
and the imperfection of our society but you know what we're always going to
preach the standard of God's perfect will
which is that the average woman needs to marry bear children and guide the
house and that they should be keepers at home
obedient to their husbands i mean this is what the bible teaches
and that's a far cry from having a woman pastoring the church
when the bible also says in 1 Corinthians 14 let your women keep
silence in the churches for it is not permitted under them to speak
i mean that's what the bible says and again people can argue with it and
fight with it but that's what the bible says verbatim
is that simple and so when it's teaching time
it's silence time for the women okay now obviously women are chattering and
talking and having good fellowship before the service
after the service they're singing with us we're all singing together
but when it's learning time the bible says they're to learn in silence
and that they are to sit back and allow a man to get up and preach the
word of god and then men will say amen and that's why it's amen and
not a women okay because men say amen all right
and so only an ungodly woman would want to defy god on this matter
which is why there's no such thing as a female pastor who's doctrinally
sound you'd be like oh this woman preacher she's
totally doctrinally sound ah there's only one problem it's a woman
there's no way because a woman who actually cared about what the bible
said she wouldn't be trying to just blatantly defy
scripture on this matter okay and so it's not really a surprise
that the woman in the bible who is ruling over god's people
ruling over the nation of juda is just this homicidal maniac right because
she's wicked that's why she even wants to do that so bad
instead of just allowing the right person to do it
which would be the next male heir that's going to inherit the throne
you know why not just support him and love him whether it's your grandson or
whomever else because you know it ends up being you know the grandson
who eventually is on the throne joe ash and so
the bible says that it's not right for women to be
in those kind of positions of authority but not only that the other thing i want
to point out is that there's a goofy doctrine out there that claims
that every single political leader is personally ordained by god
and then chosen by god and this is not true because what they're doing is they're
taking a biblical principle and taking it too far because the bible does say
that god you know lifts up one and puts down another you know and he sets up
the basis to bend over kingdoms what the bible saying is that god has the
ability to do that he can take down a leader he
can install a leader he does that sometimes
he does it he can do it but then we don't want to make the logical leap
to say every single leader personally is appointed by god
and has been ordained by god because how about this what about when the antichrist
takes over what does the bible say about the antichrist
does it say that god put the antichrist in power no it says
the dragon gave him his power and his seat
and his authority not only that but listen to this this is hosea chapter 8
verse 4
they have and this is talking about god's people
they have set up kings but not by me does it sound like he's involved with that
he says they've set up kings but not by me they've made princes and i knew of it
not uh or sorry i knew it not of their silver and their
gold if they made them idols that they may be cut off so he's saying look
they set up kings but not by me they made princes i knew it not
he's saying look this is not my program that they are executing
they're picking the wrong leaders they're putting the wrong people in charge
and so if the dragon can put the antichrist in power
guess what the devil even right now is called the god of this world
and the bible talks about spiritual wickedness in high places
we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against
powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world
against spiritual wickedness in high places and so to say
that god has chosen and ordained every single authority figure in every place
every national leader everywhere is just something that is not taught by the
bible so here's what i would say about this
story is that atheliah being in charge is not god's will
so that god's will like god's not up in heaven saying oh i want atheliah to
rule i want atheliah to be in charge okay we're not calvinists
friend we don't believe that everything is god's will
because you know what's god's will that everybody
would be saved the bible says god's not willing that any should perish
but that all should come to repentance the bible says
that god will have all men to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the
truth let me ask this are all men being saved
are all men coming to the knowledge of the truth no
therefore god's will is not happening god's will is perfect man has free will
and goes against god's will and this is atheliah
going against the will of god we already know what the will of god is
the will of god is for a man to be in charge that's what the bible says
they're going against god's will putting a woman in charge
atheliah and so we don't want to just have this
attitude that says every world leader is chosen or ordained by god no
god has ordained authority in general he is instituted human government in general
but he is not it's not like oh it's god's will that barney frank
you know be in the senate or whatever you know thankfully he's gone but
you know i guess i need a more current example
but the bottom line is that these things are not god's will they're against god's will
well i mean look what the bible says this is the will of god even your
sanctification that you should abstain from fornication
are people out there fornicating yeah is it god's will
no so this idea that god's will always happens is a stupid false wrong calvinist doctrine
it's not biblical it's not what the bible teaches i don't believe in this fatalistic
view that every single thing that happens is god's will no we're supposed to pray for god's
will to be done on earth as it is in heaven because that's not just going to automatically
happen otherwise we'd be wasting our breath praying for it to happen if it was already
going to happen anyway prayer is not just an exercise in just saying words that are already
going to happen anyway the bible says you have not because you asked not that tells me that prayer
actually makes a difference and changes things so if i pray for god's will to be done in a situation
you know then hopefully god will step in versus if i don't pray he might not step in and then
god's will doesn't take place and i can promise you right now it's not god's will for this
wicked witch homicidal maniac to be ruling over the kingdom of juda and she was not put in that
position by god that is a false doctrine just because god can lift up one and put down another
this is not an example of that okay and so if we go back to the text here in verse number two
it says but jahosh above the daughter of king jorum sister of a asiah took joash the son of
a asiah and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain so this little boy's
aunt is basically the one saving him and they hid him even him and his nurse in the bed chamber from
atheliah so that he was not slain and he was with her hid in the house of the lord six years and
atheliah did reign over the land so for six years this wicked woman is reigning over the land
and she's promoting bail worship literally worshiping satan and so forth and we know that joash
is seven years old when he begins to reign so this is literally just a baby maybe approximately
one year old that is being saved here joash and then six years later he's going to become king at age
seven and so let's go and jump down to verse 12 because basically the the next bunch of verses
are just explaining that after this wicked woman reigns for six years you know their
jahoyah to the priest has a plan how they're going to overthrow atheliah and they're going
anoint joash to be king and it's just kind of going through that plan and giving all the details
and so forth so let's jump down to verse number 12 this is when the plan is being executed he brings
forth the king's son in verse 12 and put the crown upon him and gave him the testimony and they
made him king and anointed them and they clapped their hands and said god saved the king
now obviously this is only a seven-year-old boy so the person who is actually going to be
wielding power is jahoyah to the priest and jahoyah to the priest is a godly man he's a great guy and so
he's a great person to be in charge and so the seven-year-old boy is kind of just a figurehead
like he represents the kingly authority and this is what throughout history has been known as a
regency where you have someone else who's actually doing the everyday reigning while the king is too
young to really take power and make the decisions because obviously you can't just put a seven-year-old
in charge of the nation but he's basically representing the kingdom and also he's going
to be king he's being groomed and taught and trained to be the full-fledged king someday
but in the short term it's jahoyah to the priest who's making all the decisions
and making all the rules but one thing i want to point out is that they bring the king's son
they put the crown on him and they anoint him with oil but then it says they also gave him the
testimony now the testimony is another word for the word of god right because a testimony is when
someone bears witness and the bible is god bearing witness unto us the holy ghost is bearing witness
to the truth and if you remember the you know the the ark of the covenant contains the
testimony you know and the testimony is god's word the the spoken and then written word of god
and so they're giving him the bible and this is consistent with what we see in deuteronomy
chapter 17 flip over to deuteronomy 17 keep your finger there in second kings go back to
deuteronomy 17 and you see that the king of israel is supposed to have the bible be an
intimate part of his daily life he's supposed to in fact copy the bible by hand
he's supposed to make his own handwritten copy of the bible and boy if you ever tried doing that
it's a lot of work i mean you have to really slow down and you know copy it and write every word
and you're really thinking about it hopefully if you do that and of course the bible was not as
long then as it is now you know we're talking about just pretty much the books of the law
and you know maybe other things probably you know Psalms or Proverbs you know whatever
is there we don't know exactly you know what they have at the you know when they say the testimony
here but he's definitely got the bible he's got scriptures and he's supposed to be copying it
and reading it look at deuteronomy 17 verse 18 it says and it shall be when he sitteth upon the
throne of his kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which
is before the priest the Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read there in all the days
of his life that he may learn to fear the lord his god and we'll continue in a moment but i want to
point out that you know the key to reading the bible all the days of your life is to have it with
you okay now before smartphones this meant actually having a physical book with you
and i remember preaching about this 20 years ago and i was preaching hey you need to get
a pocket new testament you need to carry that thing everywhere you go put in your lunch box
keeping everybody and i used to do that i used to just always in my left front pocket have a pocket
new testament because i just knew that there are times when you're in line somewhere you're
waiting you're sitting around your board and you got nothing to do and boom you can just
pull that thing out and read it now today nobody has any excuse for not having the bible with
them because everybody has their smartphone with them everywhere they go and so you need to have
the bible downloaded to your smartphone and then you can just whip that thing out now that the danger
is that you know the new testament didn't have any games on it the new testament didn't have any
social media so it's like you couldn't you didn't pull out the new testament be like oh i have a
new email oh text messages oh 75 text messages from lola you know or whatever you know so
it's like i you know you didn't whip out the new testament and just have all these distractions
of facebook twitter instagram whatever threads or whatever you know it was just a new testament
so if you reach for the new testament you're probably gonna end up reading the new testament
now the problem is you know you might reach for your phone and get sucked into other things
and not ever make it to that bible app or just find other things to do but you know what you
got to make a point though to read your bible every single day and have it with you have the
physical book in your house handy or have it on your laptop or have it on your phone or whatever
i usually end up doing a lot of my bible reading on my laptop simply because of the fact that you
know i can just make it bigger because my my far away vision is still perfect but my close-up
vision is horrible so what i end up doing is you know i can blow it up into giant print
on the screen so i end up doing most of my reading on the laptop and here's the thing you know there
are ways to eliminate distractions because you can always put your phone on airplane mode you can
put your laptop you can turn off the wi-fi or whatever and just say okay i'm going to focus
i'm going to read right now but you know you got to have the bible with you and you got to
read it all the days of your life you should be reading the bible every single day do not
let a day go by where you didn't read the bible and this should be like something when you're going
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
be did i read my bible today you know and and a lot of times sometimes i'll feel like i didn't
read my bible and i'll be like you know but then i'll remember oh i read it oh and then i
read it i'll end up having read it like two or three times but then i'll feel like did i read
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
and so you know you want to make sure that you do some kind of a check every night before bed did
i read my bible today and if the answer is no then you just read it right then and there you
just pull it out and you do some reading right then and there but it should be a thing where
you just don't go to bed without reading your bible but hopefully you're reading it earlier in
the day and you're putting more thought and effort into it and putting more time into it
but i'm telling you got to read every day now now here's one of the other keys to reading the bible
every day is you got to have a plan you know i don't know about you but i have to log things
in order to be consistent with them if i'm not logging it then i don't get it done because
it's like i got to get that little endorphin hit of checking it off on the checklist or
logging it or whatever and so you need to have some kind of a bible reading plan and what you
should do is get a chart like a read through the bible in a year chart and it'll tell you what
to read each day and then physically check it off put a little check mark and it feels good
to check that off and feels good and you feel like you're accomplishing something and then
you can get through the whole bible and then you can be one of the probably less than
one percent of christians who've read the whole bible cover to cover it's probably like
less than one percent and i'm talking about have actually saved christians probably less than one
percent of read the whole thing cover to cover but not a faithful word amen here it's probably 80
90 percent of people hopefully that have read the bible cover to cover but it's not that hard
folks it takes about you know 15 minutes a day to read the bible cover to cover in one year
and you know some people read it at some super fast speeds bro i'm not into speed reading
especially not the word of god you know and if you're speed reading the bible
hey whatever more power to you but i'm not into it okay so i read slower than alexander scurby
you know because alexander scurby he reads the bible i think he reads the whole bible
it takes him like uh what 80 some hours or something to read the whole bible or something
you know i would say for me like it's it's going to take me more than that because
that would be like a little less than 15 minutes a day for me it ends up probably
taking me more like 20 minutes a day or 15 20 but i think i'm a little bit of a slow reader
compared to some people but either way if you're a slow reader fast reader 15 20 minutes is what
we're talking here and if you don't have 15 or 20 minutes then you know i just think you're lying
because i think everybody's got 15 or 20 minutes so oh no i'm just so busy you don't
understand okay well then you know what then get it on audio and listen to it while
you're in the shower listen to it while you're brushing teeth and if you're not
brushing your teeth and taking a shower then you you got problems man okay listen to it in the car
on the commute listen to it while you work out listen to it while you're cooking listen to it
whatever you know when you go to bed at night put it on the headphones and put on the sleep
timer and fall asleep to it for all i care but i'm telling you you need to be listening to the
bible or reading the bible every single day and you need to log it right and look i love
working out i love lifting weights and doing calisthenics and stuff like that but you know what
i always log every workout you think i just do workouts and don't log them nope i'm writing down
all the reps that i'm doing and keeping track of it because you know what when you keep track of it
you will do more you will do better you will push yourself more if you're writing it down
it's a lot easier to just kind of put in a half workout when you're not writing anything down
but when you're logging it and it's staring you back in the face you end up doing more you know
they did a scientific study that people even if they didn't even go on a diet they told these
people you don't even go on a diet don't even change anything about the way you eat all we're
asking you to do is just write down everything you eat each day once a week right and then
and then they started getting them to do it more than once a week two or three times a week
just writing down every piece of food that goes in their mouth the whole day and these people
dropped a bunch of weight even without even setting out to go on a diet because of the fact just the
act of writing it down they're kind of like wow i didn't realize i'm eating this much
and then as they're writing it down the list starts to look kind of stupid the list starts
looking ridiculous you know like i think about if i wrote down everything i ate today it would
be kind of a stupid list you know and it would just be like what the heck and so writing
it down logging it will cause you to do a better job in almost every area of life and so when it
comes to your bible reading you know write it down log it now i used to do this in my physical
bible where i would just write in the table of contents what chapter i'm on and cross it out
as i got further down the road and then when i was finished with a book i would underline it
right now i use spreadsheets and i just have spreadsheets of the bible and i and i turn
them green when i read them the chapter turns green if it's a partial chapter it's like yellow
then it gets dark orange then it gets green so i have a system where i use spreadsheets to do it
okay you can do it in the physical bible you could do i'm sure there's an app where you can
log it but you need to have some kind of a notebook or electronic equivalent where you're
actually logging your bible reading because if you're just like oh yeah you know i'll read
the bible when i get around to it next thing you know a week goes by two weeks i mean time
flies it's got to be daily it's got to be every day get it done first thing in the morning and then
you just then you just know that it's done you just get it out of the way first thing in the morning
then whatever you read at lunch or evening is just bonus that's just extra bonus reading
but get something done first thing in the morning and before you go to bed at night
ask yourself the question did i read my bible today and think about what did you read and what
have you it's important so it says that he may read there in all the days of his life
that he may learn to fear the lord his god to keep all the words of this law and these
statutes to do them and you know what we're lacking today in 2026 the fear of god i mean how many
people just have no fear of god it's like you know when you see the way that people are living
their lives and the things that they're saying sometimes you're just like wow these people
have no fear of god well here's how you get the fear of god by reading your bible
every single day reading there in all the days of your life and then here's what
else reading the bible will do for you that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren
right so that you don't get prideful and start thinking you're better than other people why
because when you read the bible the bible is humbling because the bible is constantly
kind of pointing out our sins pointing out our shortcomings and we read about the lord jesus
christ and he's so much greater than we are he's so much holier than we are more righteous
than we are and then it makes us feel like okay i need to take it up a notch and i don't
start getting too big for my britches and thinking i'm better than other people
i don't want my heart to be lifted up above my brethren and it says that he turned not aside
from the commandment to the right hand or to the left to the end that he may prolong his
days in his kingdom he and his children in the midst of israel so it sounds like it's
pretty important to read the bible every day for the king of israel and so jahoyedah
he wants to get this seven-year-old boy started right and so what's he doing he gives him the crown
on his head the anointing oil right and and here's the thing you could also do this as an analogy
and say like okay you know when we got saved god made us into kings and priests under god and his
father and then we're anointed by the holy spirit that's the anointing oil and then boom
sticking a bible in a seven-year-old boy's hand and saying this is what you're going to need to lead
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
lord and so every seven-year-old needs to be issued a bible we need to get all of our seven-year-olds
reading the bible if you're seven years old read the bible joe ash had it at seven let's get
you reading it and look obviously little kids they're not ready for the read the bible
in a year plan most likely so what we typically did with our kids was like we would have those
uh read through the bible in a year what's it called the the one year bible is that what
that book is called yeah the one year bible and it breaks it up where it's like an old
testament portion a new testament portion and then there's a proverb portion and a song portion
or something it's like it gives you like a little bit of everything and then what we did was
basically when the kids like a little kid we would just start up where they only read the
song proverb part they just read the wisdom literature part and then the next year they
just read the new testament part and then the next year they just read the old testament part
and then eventually they could grow into where they're reading the whole bible in a year
you know but figure something out right just you know whatever you can do get your kids
reading the bible make sure that you're reading the bible uh we've got to do it it's important
so let's go back to 2nd Kings chapter number 11 so they anoint joe ash they put the crown on his head
anoint him with the oil stick a bible in his hand and you know what it what did paul tell timothy from
a child thou has known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation and
you know what i grew up reading the bible every day as a little kid and i was not super diligent
about my bible reading but i did try to read it every single day even if i just read a few
verses even if i just went to proverbs and read a few verses i would typically hang out in proverbs
past oral epistles i guess i just somehow knew i was going to be a pastor someday but i hung out in the
past oral epistles i hung out in proverbs and then i would just go to the four gospels and just
read the red letters you know just go straight for the words of christ and so that's how i started
out as a little kid just getting a little bit of bible in every day then when i got older i
started getting on more of a strength like hey i'm going to read through the whole bible and
what have you and so want to make sure that bible reading is a big part of our lives and let me
tell you what's wrong with churches in america today is people don't know the bible pastors
don't know the bible they end up preaching a bunch of stupid unbiblical stuff and then the
people in the pew don't know what's wrong because they don't read the bible i mean people are
constantly saying things that you just you hear it and you're just like bro you have not read
the bible you don't know the bible and i'm telling you my people perish for lack of knowledge
there is an ignorance of the bible today that needs to stop people need to be reading the bible
every day and and doing some serious reading cover to cover and i think that for an adult christian
reading the bible once a year is a good standard to have that if you're reading it less than
that sorry i think you i think you're weak is what you are i think you're being weak and i think
that you are you know a little backslidden i think that maybe you're not prioritizing the word of
god if you're an adult and you can't read the bible for 15 20 minutes a day on average i
think that that should be a good standard of get through the bible in a year right if you're
seven years old we'll cut you some slack but if you're an adult man get on that program
and read it i remember telling a guy at work i'm like hey you got to read the bible cover to cover man
and this guy had been a christian for years and i said you got to read the bible cover to cover
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
have time for that and this is why he didn't have time for it he said i don't have time for
that because i'm reading this book the prayer of jay bez and i'm doing my daily bread devotional
and i'm reading this book over here and he's reading all these books about the bible
and daily bread is literally one verse and then it just talks for like a whole page
okay and this guy is reading all kinds of reading a day he's like well that's gonna eat up my whole
devotion you know yeah so like if i only have 20 minutes i'm gonna spend it reading the bible
not listening to somebody talk about the bible you know it's it's it there's a difference between
you know it'd be like you know i'd rather eat a steak than to hear about the steak or smell the
steak or to get a steak flavor on other things you know how about the book itself so look at
second king chapter 11 verse 13 it says when at the lia heard the noise of the garden of
the people she came to the people into the temple of the lord so she is shocked by this she
doesn't even know that this kid is even alive now all of a sudden he's just being anointed king and
nobody told her and when she looked verse 14 behold the king stood by a pillar as the manner was
and the princes and the trumpeters by the king and all the people of the land rejoiced and
blew with trumpets and at the lia ran to close and cried treason treason so i looked up treason
in the dictionary this is what treason means the offense of acting to overthrow one's government
or to harm or kill its king or sovereign right i mean that's treason overthrowing the king
overthrowing the ruler overthrowing the government number two a violation of allegiance to one's
sovereign or to one's state number three the betrayal of trust or confidence breach of faith
treachery now here's what's interesting about this is that this is exactly what she did
so this is just what goes around comes around because at the lia what did she do she murdered
the guy who's supposed to be the next king and then the second in line she murdered him too
third in line she murdered him too fourth in line she she murdered everybody she murdered the
whole line except this one baby that escaped she killed all of them so isn't she committing treason
when she murders her sovereign she murders the guy who is supposed to be king and so yeah okay
it's treason to overthrow out the lia but she's a murderous maniac and she deserved it this is
what goes around comes around she's basically putting put to death for murder is what it is
and so i thought of revelation 13 he that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity
he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword here is the patience and the faith
of the saints right those who live by the sword are going to die by the sword and so yeah she
committed wicked treason and murder and guess what it just came back to get her and she's
going to be killed it's just funny how people will do wicked things and then when somebody fights back
when somebody disciplines them when somebody punishes them now all of a sudden this is a bear
you know it's like it's like you know kane over here murdering abel and then he's like oh my
punishment is greater than i can bear well what about abel how does he feel oh yeah he's dead
but the wicked it's like they're only worried about themselves they can't see the other
people that they're hurting the other people that they're harming it's just oh this isn't fair
this is treason against me well what about when you committed treason six years ago
verse 15 but jahoy to the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds and the officers of the
host and said unto them have her forth without the ranges and let him that follow with her
excuse me let and that him that follow with her kill with the sword for the priest had said
let her not be slain in the house of the lord now keep your finger there and go to first Corinthians
five it's interesting that we have this phenomenon in the old testament where it's like they never
want to kill people in the house of god they always say like hey let's take the person
outside the house of god and kill them there let's not kill them in the temple let's not kill
them in the tabernacle so sometimes when people want mercy they would run into the house of
god and grab hold of the horns of the altar as like a sanctuary or a safe space because they
don't want to kill people in the house of god now why do they not want to kill people in the house
of god well because of the fact that the integrity of the holiness of the house of god
was supposed to be maintained right you have things that are clean and not clean you have
things that are holy and not holy and dead bodies are considered unholy and unclean right
i mean in the old testament even if the priest touches a dead body then he's considered unclean
he has to go a period of time and wash himself and so forth so all the vessels in the house of god
are supposed to be clean the priests are supposed to be clean and god's house itself well here's
thing if you're killing people in the house of god you are desecrating god's house because
you have a dead body here now and you know there's probably going to be blood spatter
in everywhere and it's supposed to be a clean place and so you know killing people in the temple
is kind of off limits and this comes up a lot in the old testament this idea and so it's just the
holiness of god's house is supposed to be maintained now this kind of brings to mind
first Corinthians chapter five because it says in verse number 11 but now i've written under you
not to keep company if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolater
or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such a one no not to eat for what have i to do
to judge them also that are without without means on the outside do not you judge them that
are within right he's saying i don't have to judge people that are outside the church because
that's somebody else's problem but we are supposed to judge people that are within the church but
them that are without god judges therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person
and the idea here is we call this church discipline that's the common vernacular or
excommunication but this is when someone gets thrown out of the church for committing one
of these grievous sins here for being a brother or called a brother and being a fornicator
railer extortioner idolater drunkard covetous somebody who's involved in these grievous sins
he's saying look a little eleven leavens the whole lump put away from among yourselves that
wicked person now here's the thing we are not going to punish that person inside the church
they're going to be kicked out of the church and then god's going to deal with them
that makes sense so it's not like okay you're a drunkard you're and you're unrepentant so
here's we're going to punish you you know we're going to beat you or we're going to find you
or we're going to whatever that's not the way it works is it no if someone commits
one of these super grievous sins then they end up just getting booted from the church
and then god punishes them them that are without god judge it so it's it kind of reminded me of
this concept of like not slaying people in the house of god it's like we throw them out of the
house of god and then that's where they get killed out there or not necessarily killed but
punished severely chastened whatever the lord sees fit and it's not our problem it's up to god
what he's going to do with them once they're out okay you know within we have to maintain order
and judgment but those that are without god judge it not our problem so just put away from
among yourselves that wicked person that's what's saying in first Corinthians chapter five now
here's the thing about this is that people will balk at this sometimes because I've often said hey
if you're thrown out of the church for a first Corinthians five type of a thing
or a matthew 18 type of a thing you are under the curse of god you're cursed by god and here's
what's funny people will balk at that like yeah like acting like I made that up or something or
that that's not a biblical doctrine okay and yet it's right here in front of your face
in first Corinthians five uh it says in first Corinthians five verse number four
it says in the name of our lord Jesus christ when you're gathered together and my spirit
with the power of our lord Jesus christ to deliver such a one unto satan for the destruction
of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the lord jesus let me ask you something
does it sound like you're under the curse of god if you're being delivered over to satan on a
silver platter sounds like your curse to me I mean is it a blessing to be delivered
unto satan here you go satan go ahead and destroy this person's flesh have at this person satan
go to town on this person satan does that sound like the blessing of god to you
sounds like a big time curse and then what about the verse that we just looked at verse 13
them that are without god what them that are without god judges right the judgment of god
is described vividly in Hebrews chapter 10 god will bring forth judgment the lord shall judge his
people it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god in the context of what the lord
shall judge his people them that are without god judges that's scary that's a scary thought
to be cast out delivered to satan and god's judging you it's a joke to a lot of people
you know i had a certain relative back you know and this is this is before my time but a certain
relative of mine back in the 1960s was thrown out of faith baptist church in canoga park
california for a first carinthians five sin and you know what she thought it was hilarious
she made a mockery of it because in those days you know the old ifb when they throw someone
out it's like they revoke their membership because they have like a membership role and
so she was going to be deleted from the membership role because they were excommunicating her you know
via first carinthians chapter five but then here was the big joke is that she'd never actually
formally joined the church so even though she's going to the church and whatever she had not
formally joined and so she was just making fun of it ha ha na na na na you can't get me
you can't throw me out of the church because i'm not even a member you know ha ha you know
you can't fire me because i quit or whatever and she thought it was pretty stinking funny
well you know what she's been a loser her entire life okay this is this is someone in my extended
family an ant of mine and she's been a complete loser and a failure her entire life i mean
just living as a homeless person over here just being a derelict over here just constantly
milking the government for whatever free money she had one child he wasn't saved
she wasn't saved her child died younger than any of his cousins he just uh you know never
got married never had kids and to this day she's still alive she's an elderly woman now and she's
a complete failure a complete loser and has alienated every but one in her life all of her
relatives all of her siblings she's just burned everyone and she just sits around like with with
like trump derangement syndrome and i'm not a trump fan i'm not into politics i'm not you know into
that at all but she just literally is just like this hardcore like democrat just watching all the
democrat media and just psycho just all she does is just rage against trump and the
republicans all day and this is her whole life and she's alienated everyone close to her and she's
just this weird liberal atheist loser but it's so funny to be thrown out of church isn't it isn't
it hilarious and then spend the next 50 60 years being a complete loser because you got
thrown out of the church and obviously she was unsaved some of the people get thrown out
of the church are saved some of the people get thrown out or not saved that's why it says
if anyone who's called a brother be a fornicator they're you know maybe they're saved maybe they're
not we don't know we can't see the heart in these situations and time will often tell whether people
are saved or unsaved we don't always know and people that we think are saved turn out not to be
saved and vice versa you know we don't always know these things but let me tell you something
our church over the years has thrown out many people we've thrown out many people over the
years and let me tell you something that one of two things typically happens in short order
it usually doesn't take long for them to either be severely punished by god in a public spectacular
way or even die many people that we've thrown out have died shortly thereafter okay or they end
up losing their minds and becoming just complete psycho weirdos like we've we've thrown people
out of the church and it's like they're supporting gay pride two weeks later just they just go crazy
they just go nuts they just go into all kinds of just either grievous sin they become like a
thousand times more sinful way more gross just completely going mentally just insane
like literal like certifiable crazy you know it's not a good place to be my friend
you know and if you say oh i'm not afraid i don't care about that that you're just telling me that
you're an idiot because because i'll tell you right now if a church was throwing me out for for
unrepentant fornication unrepentant drunkenness unrepentant railing unrepentant extortion idolatry
covetousness whatever man i would be begging to fix it i'd be like on my knees like what do i
have to do to fix this i wouldn't even give sleep to my eyelids i'd be trying to fix it
and doing whatever i could to get back in good standing and people to just brazenly
mock at this and scoff at this and think it's a boogie man and laugh at it well you know what
i remember my aunt laughing at it too ha ha so funny you want your entire life to be trash
then good luck with that all right beloved let's move on with the sermon here
let's go back to second king chapter number 11 second king chapter number 11
and here's the thing you know the the church doesn't have any physical authority over people
at all you know the only authority that we really have is just spiritually you know and and and
when the church takes that drastic step of saying you are excommunicated you are thrown out
you better know that you are under the curse of god and the bible says that whatever we bind on earth
will be bound in heaven whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven them that are
without god judget deliver unto satan i mean i you know i don't know what to say to people
who say what are you talking about people to get thrown out of the curse of god what really
where's that well i just showed you i mean it's pretty clear i think i think it's super clear
but look at second king chapter 11 verse 17 it says in joya to made a covenant
between the lord and the king and the people that they should be the lord's people so again you
see joya does the mover here making everything happen and then it says between the king also
and the people so we see two stages here to this covenant number one is loyalty to the lord
they're saying look the covenants between the lord and the king and the people that they're
going to be the lord's people so they say hey we're going to make a covenant we're going to make a
promise we're going to make an agreement we're going to make a deal right now we are going to
worship the lord we're not worshiping bale we're going to be the lord's people but then they
also make a covenant between the king and the people that's a separate covenant of the
people saying hey you're our king so we're going to be loyal to you we're going to follow
we're going to obey you as our king.
And of course they're making this agreement
to a seven-year-old boy,
but he's under the tutelage of Jehoida
with the understanding that he's going to grow up
and follow in the footsteps of Jehoida the priest.
Sadly, that is not what ends up happening,
but that's the idea here, that's the goal.
And so that's the way our lives are,
is that we have our ultimate authority in heaven
is the Lord, and we should always be most loyal to God
over anything else.
Like we're always going to be loyal to God
and the Bible, no matter what else happens in our lives.
But then you know what?
There are some human beings
that we should have loyalty to as well.
You know, and here are some non-negotiable relationships
in your life, your mom and dad, right?
What's the fifth commandment?
Honor your father and mother.
That's non-negotiable.
You gotta be loyal to mom and dad.
Loyalty to them is commanded by God.
Here's another person that you've gotta be loyal to,
your spouse.
That is a non-negotiable.
So you as a husband, you gotta be loyal to your wife.
Wives, you gotta be loyal to your husband, right?
And you say, well, I'm just loyal to God only.
Nope, I'm not just loyal to God.
I'm also loyal to mom and dad,
and I'm also loyal to my wife, okay?
And obviously those are some of the non-negotiable
loyalties that we need.
Just under the Lord, those three relationships as well,
mom, dad, and spouse that are non-negotiable.
But then there are other loyalties
that we have to friends.
Loyalties to other relatives, such as children,
siblings, cousins, you know,
and just brothers and sisters in Christ.
And again, you should be loyal to those people.
But those are not like non-negotiable
because sometimes those people,
you might decide to cut them loose.
You know, and some people you're not gonna go
all the way to the end with.
Unfortunately, you know, with God,
we could go all the way to the end
with every friend and with every child
and with every sibling and with every cousin
and with every brother and sister in Christ
and with every pastor and with every church.
But unfortunately that's just not the way the world works.
So sometimes there's gonna be a time
when you have to leave a church.
You know, and it's not, you can't just be like,
well I just have to just be loyal to the pastor
under the bitter end.
Well here's the thing, if the pastor gets into heresy,
if the pastor is getting into false doctrine,
if the pastor is becoming super weak sauce,
you know, there's nothing wrong with trading up
for the actual real stuff down the street
at the hard preaching, soul winning,
fundamental Baptist church down the street.
So we don't wanna feel like it's just do or die
with everyone in our life.
But you know what?
We should at the same time have loyalty to those people
and not just be ready to turn on them
at the drop of a hat or something like that.
You know, we should have some loyalty to our pastor,
loyalty to our friends, loyalty to relatives
and so forth.
But the three non-negotiables are mom, dad and spouse,
according to the Bible.
But I'll tell you right now that, you know,
the Bible says,
thine own friend and my father's friend forsake not.
And so, you know, we are supposed to be loyal to people
and not just be, you know,
forgetting the good things that they've done for us,
right?
Or the person who won you to Christ
or people who discipled you or helped you in the past,
you know, you wanna be loyal to those people
and repay good for good and not evil for good.
And so these people are making a commitment to back Joash
because there's the thing,
Joash and Jehoida, they can't do this alone.
They need backing.
They need loyal citizens to back them.
And so they're saying,
look, we need to make a covenant here.
We need to make an agreement that we're gonna follow you.
We're gonna back you, Joash.
And you know, it's sad how people are not there
for you when you need them sometimes.
And it's like, you'll do things for people
and you'll love people and you'll be friends with people.
And then as soon as you run into problems,
they're like, I'm outta here.
No loyalty, right?
I mean, look, it's not always gonna be easy being a friend.
It's not always gonna be easy
going to Faith Forward Baptist Church.
It's not always easy to stand with your friends,
your siblings, whatever.
But you know what, you ought to have some loyalty
to the people that have done good unto you
or just loyalty to the people
that God has placed in your life under your care
whom you've done good for.
And you know, we need loyalty.
First and foremost to Christ,
then there's those non-negotiables
and then there are other people
that we should just be loyal to.
You know, and even not necessarily in every situation
but in most situations it's gonna be hard.
You're gonna have to pry us away
from these people with a crowbar.
You know, and it's not gonna be just super easy
to just trade up as soon as that person is unpopular.
I mean, think about the apostle Paul.
He talks about how Onesimus was not ashamed of his chain
because when Paul, the apostle's getting thrown into prison,
he's like, oh, all they in Asia have forsaken me.
I mean, everybody is bailing on Paul
because they're ashamed of his chain, the Bible says,
but Onesimus was not ashamed of the chain.
He didn't just say, oh, soon as Paul's having problems,
I'm out of here, oh, he's in prison.
I don't wanna be associated with him.
No, no, no, he's loyal to his friend.
And those are the kind of friends we have.
And let me tell you something,
when you find those loyal type of friends,
you better treat them well
because that's a once in a lifetime sometimes
or twice in a lifetime.
Those kind of friends can be rare and few and far between.
And if you trade in your friends
for a little bit of short-term gain or popularity,
whatever, you're an idiot.
I mean, if you have that serious friend,
man, you should be loyal to them and cherish them.
That's a treasure to have a real good friend
because let's face it, many of our friendships in life
are not very deep and not very meaningful
and many of our friends are not very loyal.
So when you find that loyal friend,
cherish them and hold on to them
and it shouldn't just be super easy
for that friendship to end.
So look at verse 18, I'm almost done.
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal
and break it down, his altars and his images
break they pieces thoroughly
and slew Matta and the priest of Baal before the altars
and the priest appointed officers
over the house of the Lord.
So basically they're doing the same thing in Judah,
what Jehu did last week in Israel
where they just completely wipe out Baal worship,
kill the people, destroy the instruments
and the images and so forth.
And then notice, for sake of time, let's jump to verse 20.
It says, and all the people of the land rejoiced
and the city was in quiet
and they slew Athaliah with the sword
beside the king's house.
You know, these are the verses that come to mind,
Proverbs 11, 10, when it goes well with the righteous,
the city rejoices and when the wicked perish,
there is shouting, woo-hoo, Athaliah's dead,
Joash reigns, they're happy.
And then here's another one, Proverbs 29, too,
when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice
but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.
And so wicked leaders are bad for everyone.
Sorry excommunicated auntie who loves the Democrats
and loves liberals and commies and socialists.
Here's the thing, when these wicked people are in charge
they're not gonna benefit you.
It's not like half of our country is pulling
for one party that's gonna benefit them
and then half our country is pulling
for another party that's gonna benefit them.
Folks, wicked leaders benefit no one.
Putting commies and socialists in charge
benefits no one, everybody suffers.
Both sides are gonna suffer.
It doesn't matter whether your guy gets in,
both Republicans and Democrats will suffer
if a faggot is elected president
because you know, this faggot
that they're always trying to put up for president,
booty judge, right?
Like you can't even make this stuff up.
Booty judge is running for president in 2028, right?
They're always talking about booty judge.
Booty faggot with his gay buddy, right?
It's sick.
You know, oh yeah, that'll be so great.
Folks, that's just gonna bring the wrath of God
down on our country.
Having a little faggot in the White House
for the second time, amen?
But the thing is, Obama, anyone?
But here's the thing, is that having these wicked rulers,
putting some socialist, commie, big government,
idiot in charge, it's just gonna hurt everybody.
Just gonna mess up the economy for everybody
and putting these pro-abortion, pro-sotomy people.
It's just gonna bring the wrath of God down on everybody.
It's not good for anybody.
And here's the thing, you know, who benefits?
Money's going to Israel no matter what.
But that's not benefiting the American voter,
or the American taxpayer, because Israel,
unfortunately, is a wicked nation today.
And that is a whole nother sermon
that shall be preached another time.
Wicked leaders harm everyone, no one benefits.
That's why when they perish, they're shouting.
And you know what's really sad
is that we have this two-party system
and I don't like to get real political in my sermons
and I'm not a very political guy.
I don't really follow it that much.
But here's what I have noticed,
is that whenever the Republican gets elected,
when he first gets elected,
the Republicans are real excited about him
and yay, it's gonna be great.
He's gonna do all this good stuff.
And then by the end of it,
they're all disgruntled and disillusioned
how he didn't do what they thought he was gonna do.
And then the Democrat gets elected
and everybody's excited and yay.
You know, Obama's gonna change it.
Obama's gonna change the world.
Yes, we can, can, can, yes, we can.
Everybody's excited about Obama,
but then once Obama is done at the end of it,
people are disgruntled and sick of Obama on both sides.
And that's why it goes back and forth
from Republican to Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican.
Because it's like, everybody's like, yay, our guy.
And then he's such a failure,
then they're like, oh, let's go Democrat, yay.
And then it's, okay, you know.
Like, isn't it amazing how Americans
just keep electing people that they hate?
And then it's like, the satisfaction rating of Congress
will be like, you know, super low,
like 20-some percent or 30 percent of people are happy.
And then they just, but then they just keep voting
in the same crusty old people doing the exact same things.
And everybody's just sick of it
and everybody just hates it
and everybody just hates, you know, this guy
and that guy and everybody's just always voting
for the lesser evil and stuff.
It's just like, what?
It's trash.
But it's just, you know, no one benefits from a bad leader.
But from a good leader, everybody benefits, right?
So here's the, if you get a good leader in power,
everybody benefits, everybody's, you know, doing better.
It's not like he's only gonna benefit the half
of the country that voted for him, right?
Because everybody in America
kind of wants the same basic things, right?
Everybody wants to basically be able to just afford
to buy things and everybody wants to just live in peace.
Nobody wants, you know, anarchy and blood in the streets.
Everybody wants what?
Low crime, low gas prices, low food prices.
They want to be able to afford their lives.
Everybody kind of wants the same basic things.
You know, it's just some of them
have read an economics book and some of them haven't.
You know, and it's just like
you get these bozo leaders
with all their pie in the sky, socialist commie crap.
It just hurts everybody at the end of the day.
And then at the end of it, everybody's sick of it
and it's like, okay, yeah, we're gonna vote conservative now.
And then they vote conservative
and then the conservative people do nothing
and just bloat the size of government.
And then it's like, oh, you know,
maybe the Democrats are right after all or whatever.
And so when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn, right?
So here's the problem
is that we've stopped even looking for
or even trying to have godly leaders in this country.
That's the problem.
See what I'm saying?
Because it's like, why is everybody so frustrated
with Congress, Senate, presidents?
Because we're not even trying
to get godly people anymore.
You know, it used to be when Bill Clinton
is committing adultery in the White House,
it's a scandal, everybody's horrified.
Now it's just like, who cares?
Nobody even cares.
I mean, look, and forget about politics for a second.
Is Trump a godly individual by any stretch of the imagination?
If you just put the politics aside,
Trump is a guy who's been married several times,
had several adulterous relationships.
He just talks about just violating women
and just grabbing them by the whatever.
Is this really a godly Christian by anybody's definition?
He's just making all kinds of money
and just casinos and Miss America pageants
and all this weird stuff.
Okay?
These are not godly people.
And then it's like, I remember Bill Clinton,
when I was a kid, there was a big scandal
because they asked him if he'd ever smoked pot.
And he said, well, you know, I didn't inhale.
I puffed it, but I didn't inhale.
So it was like, he tried marijuana,
but he didn't bring it all the way into his lungs.
But then you fast forward just a couple of years
and you have Barack Obama saying in his book
that he tried every single drug that there is.
And it's just like, no problem.
You see what I'm saying?
Like we're not even trying to get a godly person anymore.
Nobody is looking at character or quality.
And so that's what you're gonna end up with bad leaders
because guess what?
Good Christians are gonna be good leaders.
Godly moral people are gonna be better leaders
than a bunch of just silver spoon in their mouth,
growing up, taking all the drugs and partying.
And oh, I'm on my third spouse
and this is all the adultery
that I've committed in between and during.
Does everybody hear what I'm saying?
Wicked people are ruling and then everybody's mourning.
It's like, well, no wonder you're unhappy.
The leaders are wicked.
That's why you're unhappy.
And so again, the answer,
this is why I'm not into politics
because I don't think there's a political solution
for our country at all.
I think there's one solution for our country
and that is getting people saved
and getting Christians right with God.
That's what we need to be doing, right?
Get as many people saved as we can
and then get as many Christians living clean,
separated, godly lives.
That is the answer for our country.
Then the politics will take care of itself.
That's why I'm not into politics.
I wanna focus on salvation
and I wanna focus on sanctifications, right?
Getting people right with God.
That's gonna fix things.
Let's provide us enough water prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord
and we thank you for the fact
that we don't have to be on this political carousel
and hope that that's gonna fix everything in our lives, Lord.
Thank you for giving us a more meaningful mission
of getting people saved out of hell
and getting people eternally saved.
And Lord, help us also to reach Christians
and teach them to observe all things
that Christ commanded us, Lord.
And it's in Christ's name we pray, amen.