WEBVTT 00:01.330 --> 00:06.490 Man second Kings chapter number 17 this chapter kind of gives an overview of 00:07.090 --> 00:11.150 the northern kingdom of Israel capital city Samaria and 00:11.150 --> 00:16.770 Just sort of everything that led up to them going into captivity because this is when it finally comes to an end for them 00:16.770 --> 00:22.490 Now the kingdom of Judah in the south is going to remain for a little bit longer until eventually 00:22.490 --> 00:29.010 They're going to go into captivity to with the Babylonians the difference is that they after 70 years of captivity 00:29.010 --> 00:35.550 End up coming back from Babylon and they end up reestablishing things in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah 00:35.930 --> 00:41.990 They rebuild the temple they rebuild the wall and ultimately at the time of Christ. They're still there 00:41.990 --> 00:45.010 They've got the temple they're worshiping God etc. 00:45.290 --> 00:50.790 Whereas the northern kingdom of the Samaritans or the Israelites as they were called at that time 00:50.790 --> 00:56.870 You know, they end up going into captivity and for the most part by and large they never really come back 00:56.870 --> 01:03.950 They never come back and become the nation of Israel that they once were and they become known as the ten lost tribes 01:03.950 --> 01:06.790 Of the northern kingdom at the time of Christ 01:06.790 --> 01:10.230 There are still little bits of remnants from each of those tribes 01:10.230 --> 01:15.210 But nowadays of course, they're completely gone. They no longer exist and so forth 01:15.210 --> 01:20.230 They're just scattered among the heathen as God said they would be so in chapter 17 here 01:20.230 --> 01:21.930 it starts out with you know, just 01:21.930 --> 01:24.650 Continuing the story where we laughed off in 01:24.650 --> 01:28.850 Second King 16, but then it's gonna end up giving just kind of these big 01:28.850 --> 01:35.110 Overviews of their whole history and about all the sins that they did that caused them to go into captivity and so forth 01:35.110 --> 01:40.010 It starts on verse number one in the 12th year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hosea 01:40.010 --> 01:46.110 the son of Ela to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years and he did that which was evil in the side of the Lord 01:46.110 --> 01:49.550 But not as the kings of Israel that were before him 01:49.550 --> 01:52.410 And so it seems to indicate that this guy is bad 01:52.410 --> 01:57.710 But he's not as bad as some of the other worse just total 01:57.710 --> 02:05.390 Satan worshipping bail worshipping kings that came before him and yet the end comes during this guy's reign 02:05.390 --> 02:08.850 Because at the end of the day as I've brought up repeatedly in the series 02:08.850 --> 02:10.910 It's kind of a pass fail in 02:11.430 --> 02:16.390 Second Kings they either did right in the side of the Lord or they did evil in the side of the Lord 02:16.390 --> 02:18.910 Some are worse than others better than others 02:18.910 --> 02:24.150 But at the end of the day God tends to be gracious with those who in general do what's right 02:24.150 --> 02:26.950 Even if they do wrong even if they have problems 02:26.950 --> 02:30.950 But once you're over the line of just doing evil in the side of the Lord 02:30.950 --> 02:38.470 You know you might get smoked and just because someone worse than you looks like they're getting away with something at any time 02:38.470 --> 02:44.330 Judgment can come down upon the wicked and so Hosea. Yeah, he's not as bad as someone else 02:44.330 --> 02:49.410 And that's how a lot of people judge themselves like well, I'm not as bad as that guy or I'm not as bad as these people over here 02:49.410 --> 02:51.570 Well, here's the thing if you're not right with God 02:52.090 --> 02:58.970 The judgment's always looming and so God is totally justified in bringing the end during Hosea's reign 02:58.970 --> 03:03.430 So against him came up shall Menezer king of Assyria 03:03.430 --> 03:06.590 Hosea became his servant and gave him presents 03:06.590 --> 03:12.310 So at first when Assyria comes up Hosea just decides to play ball with the king of Assyria 03:12.310 --> 03:14.950 pay taxes to him become 03:15.630 --> 03:16.570 subservient or 03:16.570 --> 03:20.190 Tributary to the greater Assyrian Empire 03:20.190 --> 03:26.530 But then ultimately he gets tired of doing that and he kind of goes behind the king of Assyria's back as we read a moment ago 03:26.530 --> 03:32.950 And he tries to deal with the king of Egypt and see if maybe he can get a better deal and get out from under the 03:32.950 --> 03:34.010 Thumb of Assyria 03:34.010 --> 03:36.970 So this is where the Assyrians just come in and just 03:36.970 --> 03:42.250 Completely destroy the nation of Israel and the way that they do that is by taking them into captivity 03:42.250 --> 03:46.550 What does this mean taking them into captivity? Well, it means just literally 03:47.030 --> 03:52.390 Taking the people who live there the citizens and just deporting them to another country 03:52.390 --> 03:59.530 And then what they do is they replace those people with other people from other parts of the Empire who want to settle 03:59.530 --> 04:06.370 And basically just live in houses that they didn't have to build and just take over fields and vineyards and all of yards 04:06.370 --> 04:13.570 That they didn't have to plant and so it's a win-win for the Assyrians because the enemies that were given them problems 04:13.570 --> 04:22.210 The rebellious refractory Israelites they get rid of them and then they reward other people and benefit other people from other parts 04:22.210 --> 04:27.990 Of their Empire by bringing them in and then the people that they bring in kind of owe everything to the Assyrians 04:27.990 --> 04:31.070 And so they're gonna have allegiance and loyalty to the Assyrians 04:31.070 --> 04:34.830 so this is a pattern that you're gonna see in the Bible of 04:34.830 --> 04:39.490 Removing one group of people and putting in another now. Here's the thing about this though 04:39.490 --> 04:44.270 Obviously, they're not just deporting like every single last person 04:44.270 --> 04:50.930 It's important to understand this that the people that they're removing are probably the most important people 04:50.930 --> 04:58.010 The most intelligent people the most wealthy people and the people that are on the lower end of society 04:58.010 --> 05:07.290 They're gonna tend to be left behind and stay in the land because obviously it's just not practical to deport every single person 05:07.290 --> 05:14.190 So they're getting rid of all of the governing class all of the educated class all of the 05:14.190 --> 05:20.610 Artisans and people that are kind of on the higher echelons of society and then all the more menial 05:21.170 --> 05:25.550 unskilled type workers get left behind in the land and so that's what happens here 05:25.550 --> 05:32.870 And so they bring in all these different foreigners from other parts of the Empire and then that population is gonna mix with 05:32.870 --> 05:39.390 The Israelites that are left behind and then this is gonna form a new group of people that by the time we get to the New 05:39.390 --> 05:42.650 Testament are going to be known as the Samaritans, okay, because 05:43.230 --> 05:46.950 Samaria is the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel 05:46.950 --> 05:50.530 And so even though most of the ten tribes are getting deported 05:50.530 --> 05:55.170 Some people are left behind tons of foreigners are brought in 05:55.170 --> 06:00.350 They're assimilating they're mixing and this group is ultimately going to be the Samaritans 06:00.350 --> 06:03.670 There's going to be a province in the Roman Empire 06:03.670 --> 06:09.430 That's going to be you know Judea and then you've got obviously the Samaritans that are totally separate from the 06:09.430 --> 06:13.510 Judeans or Jews and we're going to talk about that a little bit later 06:13.510 --> 06:17.950 So that's kind of what's going on in this chapter and it goes and explains 06:17.950 --> 06:20.730 You know why God is so mad at them 06:20.730 --> 06:27.750 Why God allowed the Assyrians to defeat them because at the end of the day if the Israelites would have had the Lord on their side 06:27.750 --> 06:29.790 No one could have ever defeated them, you know 06:29.790 --> 06:36.030 There are other times when powerful empires come up against them whether it's the Assyrians the Babylonians the Egyptians 06:36.030 --> 06:43.890 The Ethiopians, you know send up at one point millions of people just coming up and trying to invade that Levant region 06:43.890 --> 06:48.250 And the thing is that God can always protect his people 06:48.250 --> 06:52.530 But when they turn away from the Lord and do all these horrible sins 06:52.530 --> 06:57.550 Then God removes his hand of protection and they end up being destroyed by the Assyrians 06:57.550 --> 07:02.230 One of the things that always tends to come up in these discussions is he says well 07:02.230 --> 07:07.110 They're doing exactly what the nations did that lived here before the Israelites got there 07:07.110 --> 07:10.130 You know because when the Israelites came in and took over the land 07:10.130 --> 07:13.030 They ended up wiping out a lot of the indigenous population 07:13.030 --> 07:20.110 Because God said they were so gross and so evil and so wicked that the land itself was just vomiting them out 07:20.110 --> 07:26.880 They were super perverted and evil and so that comes up a lot. And then the other thing that comes up a lot is 07:27.810 --> 07:32.170 The fact that they practice infanticide, you know today we call it abortion 07:32.170 --> 07:35.070 but it's the same phenomenon of 07:35.850 --> 07:40.850 Infanticide in these days they're passing the children through the fire unto some false God 07:40.850 --> 07:43.130 But it's just a way of just eliminating 07:43.850 --> 07:52.650 Unwanted children or just practicing a satanic ritual or what have you and so that's another thing that they're guilty of shedding all that innocent blood 07:52.650 --> 07:55.810 God does not pardon the shedding of innocent blood 07:55.810 --> 08:03.370 And so that's part of the reason why they're facing this judgment another thing that's brought up is just idolatry in general 08:03.370 --> 08:11.430 It says in verse number nine the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God 08:11.430 --> 08:16.970 And they built them high places in their cities from the Tower of the Watchmen to the Fence City 08:16.970 --> 08:21.870 And they set them up images and groves and every high hill and under every green tree 08:21.870 --> 08:28.310 So on the one hand they're publicly doing idolatry and false religion just out in the open and then secretly 08:28.310 --> 08:32.510 They're just committing all kinds of ungodly sins behind closed doors 08:32.510 --> 08:39.010 It's a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret the Bible says and so God is 08:39.010 --> 08:47.210 Warning them in verse 13 the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah by all the prophets and by all the seers saying 08:47.210 --> 08:52.370 Turn ye from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes 08:52.370 --> 08:59.350 According to all the law which I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets now withstanding 08:59.350 --> 09:06.630 They would not hear but harden their necks like to the neck of their fathers that did not believe in the Lord their God 09:06.630 --> 09:14.090 And so of course he that being often reproved hardened with his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy 09:14.090 --> 09:15.690 And that's what happens in this chapter 09:15.690 --> 09:17.470 Israel is permanently 09:18.030 --> 09:24.430 vanquished from being what we would know as Israel and I'm hurrying through a lot of this because it's a very long chapter 09:24.430 --> 09:28.370 I want to just get to some of the more interesting parts because we've already 09:28.370 --> 09:33.290 Seen a lot of these patterns playing out in second Kings already up to this point 09:33.290 --> 09:36.570 So some of this just review like you know verse 17 09:36.570 --> 09:42.530 They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire and used divination and 09:42.530 --> 09:48.530 Enchantments and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger 09:48.530 --> 09:53.370 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight 09:53.370 --> 09:57.830 There was none left, but the tribe of Judah only and of course, you know 09:57.830 --> 10:03.770 Yeah, they're a little remnants of Levi Benjamin and even some of the ten northern tribes that hang around 10:03.770 --> 10:09.510 But in general the only tribe that really remains in a big way 10:10.130 --> 10:16.510 Numerically is the tribe of Judah and so that southern kingdom of course is known as Judah and in the New Testament 10:16.510 --> 10:23.510 It's gonna be the Roman province of Judea the people that live there are called Judeans also known as Jews 10:23.510 --> 10:28.390 Okay, and that is what the word Jew means do not mix up the word Jew 10:28.390 --> 10:34.530 With Israelite or Israeli right in the Bible when the Bible is using the word Jew 10:34.530 --> 10:39.710 we are talking about people who live in the southern kingdom of Judah or 10:40.750 --> 10:41.750 people who 10:42.310 --> 10:49.130 subscribe to the God of Judah and are following that religion in the Old Testament and 10:49.130 --> 10:57.130 When Christ comes on the scene those people in Judea or people in the diaspora that are following the religion of Judea and 10:57.130 --> 11:00.610 Jerusalem and the temple those people are called in the Bible 11:00.610 --> 11:04.570 Jews, okay, why do I make such a big deal about this because today? 11:05.010 --> 11:10.770 There's a false religion called Judaism and those people call themselves Jews. These are not the same Jews 11:11.750 --> 11:17.490 Okay, and so you'll have this garbage where people will say something like oh, well, Jesus was Jewish 11:18.190 --> 11:25.770 Jesus is a Jew and the problem with this logic is that they're using two words that mean two totally different things 11:25.770 --> 11:30.030 To try to convince you that Jesus was a member of a false religion 11:31.330 --> 11:34.590 That's it's foolish because here's the thing in 11:35.350 --> 11:41.870 2026 a Jew is a person who rejects the Lord Jesus Christ. They reject him as the Messiah 11:41.870 --> 11:46.910 They do not believe that he's the son of God. They follow things like the Babylonian Talmud 11:46.910 --> 11:53.550 They follow all kinds of traditions and things of the Pharisees that Jesus hated and rebuked 11:53.550 --> 12:01.810 Okay, they reject the God of the Bible because Jesus told them, you know, look if you believed Moses you'd believe me 12:02.790 --> 12:07.850 The Bible says if you don't have the son you don't have the father and so modern-day 12:07.850 --> 12:09.810 Judaism and its Jews 12:10.330 --> 12:16.990 Reject the son. They reject God the father. They reject the word of God. They are not saved 12:16.990 --> 12:18.610 They don't have the son therefore 12:18.610 --> 12:26.730 They don't have the father and so therefore to say Jesus is a Jew and to imply that somehow he belongs to this wicked 12:27.430 --> 12:27.990 ungodly 12:28.990 --> 12:33.010 rebellious perverse group of people known as the Jews is 12:33.010 --> 12:34.910 Wrong and anachronistic 12:34.910 --> 12:37.330 Okay, so let me give you an illustration 12:37.330 --> 12:44.450 Okay, it'd be like if I said well Pastor Shelley hates Indian food and then somehow 12:44.450 --> 12:50.710 Somebody saw him eating a Navajo taco and said that it's somehow proof that he doesn't hate Indian food 12:51.770 --> 12:56.910 Now this is two totally different kinds of Indians right because one of them is talking about India and 12:56.910 --> 13:00.370 One of them is talking about Native Americans living in Arizona 13:00.370 --> 13:08.350 But here's the thing Native Americans living in Arizona are also called Indians and this goes back of course to a mistake 13:08.350 --> 13:12.530 And a confusion that when Columbus showed up here 13:12.530 --> 13:18.310 He thought that the world was a lot smaller than it really was so he thought that he had sailed like all the way around 13:18.310 --> 13:23.490 The world and had reached India and so he shows up and he's just like this is India 13:23.490 --> 13:30.870 You know because he just doesn't know his natives or it's just brown people and he's just like look like Indians to me 13:31.590 --> 13:34.510 So then it becomes basically well 13:34.510 --> 13:40.910 This is like it's sort of like our own little India the West Indies or you know that the East it was like what? 13:41.870 --> 13:46.250 so because of this mistake of thinking that this is India then 13:46.910 --> 13:51.810 Basically the natives become known as Indians and then name just kind of stuck 13:51.810 --> 13:56.250 And here's the thing you can fight against these things and not like them and say they're politically incorrect 13:56.250 --> 14:00.150 But the other day people are gonna kind of say what they're gonna say and if you actually go to the rest 14:00.150 --> 14:08.010 They call themselves Indians like they'll have churches that are called like so-and-so Indian church and Indian this and Indian that you know 14:08.010 --> 14:12.790 They like to use that word and then white people are scolded for using that word sometimes 14:12.790 --> 14:18.050 But at the end of the day the point is that this is a misuse of a word or a 14:18.050 --> 14:24.210 Misunderstanding of a word to think that a Navajo taco is what we mean by Indian food 14:24.210 --> 14:27.050 when we're talking about something like 14:27.610 --> 14:33.870 You know Tikka Masala or something okay, and it's the exact same thing with this thing of Jew 14:34.590 --> 14:39.710 Jesus was a Jew in the sense that he's living in Judea and 14:39.710 --> 14:41.730 following the religion of 14:42.330 --> 14:44.150 Jerusalem of the Old Testament 14:44.870 --> 14:51.810 Jerusalem temple the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob yeah, he's a Jew in the sense that that's his ethnic 14:52.630 --> 14:54.590 nationality at that time and 14:54.590 --> 14:59.710 That the religion of the Old Testament is what he's following, but that is not what they're doing today 14:59.710 --> 15:06.790 I mean look at the time of Christ, you know what his religion consisted of going to the temple and offering a burnt sacrifice 15:06.790 --> 15:11.610 I mean Jesus tells people that he heals go to the temple and 15:11.610 --> 15:15.430 Offered the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony unto them 15:15.430 --> 15:22.550 I mean when Jesus Christ is circumcised and his mom offers a burnt offering 15:22.550 --> 15:29.110 For her purification Luke chapter 2, you know, she's gonna offer the turtle doves the poor person's offering 15:29.110 --> 15:33.710 But these are animal sacrifices at the temple. This is following 15:34.220 --> 15:40.610 Exodus Leviticus numbers deuteronomy. That's what Jesus believed in not this new 15:41.270 --> 15:46.250 Modernized Judaism. That's not a burnt sacrifice. That's not an animal sacrifice 15:46.250 --> 15:51.810 That is just a bunch of prayers and rituals and rocking back and forth and whatever 15:51.810 --> 15:57.870 It's a totally different thing. And so it is super evil and misleading 15:57.870 --> 16:02.350 I mean look if you're gonna label Jesus as a Jew, it's like saying Jesus a Hindu 16:03.110 --> 16:07.230 Jesus a Muslim and you know what Muslims do say Jesus was a Muslim 16:07.830 --> 16:10.810 Jesus was a Muslim. I mean I could just say Jesus is Buddhist 16:11.610 --> 16:17.830 It's like no, he's not because if we're talking about the modern religions here. No, Jesus Christ is 16:17.830 --> 16:25.090 Following the teachings of what we know as Christianity and that's what he taught and that's what he believed because I like well 16:25.090 --> 16:26.430 Jesus isn't a Christian 16:27.510 --> 16:31.190 It's like what does that even mean Jesus Christ isn't a Christian? 16:31.950 --> 16:37.730 Christianity just literally means that you're following what Jesus Christ believed and lived and taught 16:38.810 --> 16:44.590 So yeah, Christianity is Jesus Christ and then it's like Jesus Christ isn't Christian 16:44.590 --> 16:47.430 Did you know he was actually a Jew like oh wow really? 16:47.970 --> 16:51.530 Whoa, he's actually a Jew. He actually rejects himself 16:52.210 --> 16:59.450 He actually believes that he's not the Son of God. He's actually still looking for a different Messiah to come in the future 16:59.450 --> 17:06.850 I mean it's just stupid, but this is the kind of garbage that goes on social media for everybody's little 30 second 17:06.850 --> 17:10.690 45 second little attention span and then you have that Indian 17:11.910 --> 17:13.710 Catholic Bozo. What's his name? 17:14.750 --> 17:15.470 Who's this guy? 17:16.370 --> 17:24.610 He's this commentator. He's this Republican kind of conservative like and he tries to talk about God and it's just like bro 17:24.610 --> 17:30.330 Shut up. The adults are talking, you know, what's this guy's name? He's this Catholic 17:31.710 --> 17:33.390 He's an East Indian guy 17:34.890 --> 17:38.930 Help me out he's a he made a movie against Obama 17:41.030 --> 17:41.550 No 17:46.430 --> 17:51.890 Dinesh D'Souza, that's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, Dinesh D'Souza is always posting all this weird like 17:52.450 --> 17:58.950 Judeaizing weird like Zionist Judeaizing kind of content and the guy clearly doesn't know his Bible 17:58.950 --> 18:00.690 He's clearly unsaved 18:00.690 --> 18:07.450 Not going to heaven not a believer in Jesus Christ part of his pagan idolatrous Catholic cold 18:07.970 --> 18:14.290 Newsflash Catholics don't understand the Bible because they're not saved and you have to have the Holy Spirit inside you to understand the 18:14.290 --> 18:18.610 Word of God because the natural man receive it not the things of the Spirit of God 18:18.610 --> 18:26.030 They're foolishness on him neither can he know them because they're spiritually discerned so the unregenerate unsaved Dinesh D'Souza 18:26.030 --> 18:31.190 It's like did you know that Jesus was a Jew? Did you know he's Jewish? Did you know he's not Christian? 18:31.410 --> 18:37.010 It's like bro. You're going to the same hell as Hindus you phony idolatrous pagan 18:38.030 --> 18:39.350 Other than that. He's a great guy 18:41.490 --> 18:41.930 and 18:41.930 --> 18:48.890 So what we see here is that the tribe of Judah only is left according to verse 18 18:48.890 --> 18:52.290 That's kind of simplifying maybe a little bit of an oversimplification 18:52.290 --> 18:55.490 But that's how God's just giving you the synopsis in general 18:55.490 --> 19:01.510 You know Judea's the tribe that's left which makes sense when we think of the New Testament being all about you know 19:01.510 --> 19:06.450 Judea and Jews when Christ comes on the scene, so let's keep going here 19:06.450 --> 19:12.110 It says in verse 19 also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God 19:12.110 --> 19:17.850 But walked in the statutes of Israel which they made and so the idea here is that the southern kingdom of Judah 19:17.850 --> 19:20.210 Even though they're better than the northern kingdom 19:20.210 --> 19:27.310 They ended up going astray and being influenced wrongly by the northern kingdom of Israel at times 19:27.310 --> 19:32.570 And then it says in verse 20 the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and 19:32.570 --> 19:40.710 Delivered them into the hand of spoilers until he had cast them out of his sight because of course the author of second Kings 19:40.710 --> 19:46.130 Already knows that eventually the same thing is gonna happen to Judah in chapter 17 19:46.130 --> 19:52.170 It's happening to Israel and in chapter 25. It's gonna be happening to Judah. You know, they're on that same path 19:52.170 --> 19:59.590 They're on that same trajectory of going into captivity and so forth. So let's skip ahead for sake of time here 20:00.530 --> 20:08.010 But it says in verse 24 the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon and from Kuta and from Ava and from 20:08.010 --> 20:11.870 Hamath and from Seafar Vam and placed them in the cities of Samaria 20:12.490 --> 20:17.410 Instead of the children of Israel and they possessed Samaria and dwelt in the cities thereof and again 20:17.410 --> 20:23.830 This is what I was saying earlier that when we talk about the captivity or the replacement of people 20:23.830 --> 20:29.170 We're mainly talking about, you know, the urbanites. We're talking about leaders 20:30.210 --> 20:36.890 Governors we're talking about, you know, richer people more educated people more of the kind of countryside 20:37.510 --> 20:45.550 Simple people peasants a lot of those people are staying. It's really the city populations and the ruling class that are being replaced 20:45.550 --> 20:50.230 With a subservient group of people that are going to be loyal to the king of Assyria 20:50.230 --> 20:55.610 And so they dwelt in the cities thereof obviously the countryside by and large 20:55.610 --> 20:59.250 it's still gonna be a lot of the original Israelites and so it was 20:59.590 --> 21:02.730 At the beginning of their dwelling there that they feared not the Lord 21:02.730 --> 21:06.410 Therefore the Lord sent lions among them which slew some of them 21:06.410 --> 21:13.350 So when these new people show up, they don't give a rip about whatever the religion of Israel is 21:13.350 --> 21:17.450 They just show up and they just bring all their false gods from home 21:17.450 --> 21:23.850 And then God punishes them by sending lions among them and they end up killing some people 21:23.850 --> 21:29.150 So they think to themselves. Hey, you know, God's punishing us 21:29.150 --> 21:31.730 And so forth it says in verse number 26 21:31.730 --> 21:37.470 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria saying the nations was house removed and placed in the cities of Samaria 21:37.470 --> 21:40.630 Know not the manner of the God of the land 21:41.190 --> 21:46.710 Therefore he had sent lions among them and behold they slay them because they know not the manner of the God of the land 21:46.710 --> 21:49.690 So this is the polytheistic 21:50.210 --> 21:54.490 Pagan idea that somehow different geographies have a different God 21:54.490 --> 22:00.070 So if you travel to a different place, you're out of his jurisdiction, you know 22:00.070 --> 22:04.110 And it's like this God is for this area and obviously this is wrong 22:04.110 --> 22:08.310 We obviously know that there's only one God. He's the God of the whole earth 22:08.310 --> 22:15.870 But from a pagan polytheistic mindset, this makes sense to them. Oh something bad happened to these people who showed up 22:15.870 --> 22:22.190 It must be because they've moved in to Jehovah's turf and they don't know how to worship Jehovah 22:23.010 --> 22:23.530 so 22:24.050 --> 22:29.290 The king of Assyria has the idea. Well, let's get somebody to teach them how to worship Jehovah 22:30.110 --> 22:34.770 And so it says in verse 27 then the king of Assyria commanded saying carry thither 22:34.770 --> 22:40.510 One of the priests whom he brought from then and let them go and dwell there and let him teach them 22:40.510 --> 22:47.270 The manner of the God of the land then one of the priests whom they'd carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel and 22:47.270 --> 22:50.010 Taught them how they should fear the Lord now remember 22:50.010 --> 22:58.690 This is not a godly preacher that they're bringing in because remember the northern kingdom of Israel was already inundated with false religion and 22:59.290 --> 23:02.790 their religion even on the best of times is 23:02.790 --> 23:09.030 Quote the sin of Jeroboam, which is worshiping a golden calf and having all kinds of other 23:09.030 --> 23:15.530 Errors and false religion and remember the Bible says that Jeroboam made of the lowest of the people priests of the land 23:15.530 --> 23:19.390 And so this is one of those guys one of those lowest of the people 23:20.170 --> 23:25.650 Apostate priests of Jeroboam's northern cult that is brought back to represent, you know 23:25.650 --> 23:29.470 Christianity be like if we said hey, we need to teach these heathen 23:29.470 --> 23:34.790 Christianity so let's get a Roman Catholic priest in here to teach them how to be Christians or whatever 23:34.790 --> 23:38.970 We would look at that and say this is just out of the frying pan and into the fire 23:38.970 --> 23:43.810 This is just one form of false religion to another okay, you know 23:43.810 --> 23:48.130 And again since we're talking about Indians you think back to the history of the state of Arizona 23:48.130 --> 23:54.530 You know and there's a time when the US government was concerned about the Indians and you know 23:54.530 --> 24:00.330 Some of them were causing problems and they were failing to assimilate into the population of the US 24:00.330 --> 24:04.550 So the United States government had this idea of hey 24:04.550 --> 24:06.910 let's have the churches go in and 24:07.470 --> 24:12.310 Christianize and evangelize the Indians and then that's going to help them become 24:12.310 --> 24:19.730 American and they had a motto and you know obviously this is a weird motto and it's it's offensive as well and in a lot of ways 24:19.730 --> 24:23.430 But their motto was kill the Indians save the man 24:23.990 --> 24:27.490 Kill the Indians save the man. That was the the US government 24:27.490 --> 24:29.250 You know was saying hey 24:29.250 --> 24:35.790 We got to get these Indians and get them assimilated so the idea was well if we can get him saved if we can 24:35.790 --> 24:42.150 Make him Christian, but the problem is the US government doesn't really have sound doctrine and good theology 24:42.150 --> 24:46.050 And they're not necessarily going to know what real Christianity is 24:46.050 --> 24:48.630 So what they ended up doing was they carved up 24:49.150 --> 24:54.130 Arizona and other parts of the US and just sort of like carved it up among denominations 24:54.130 --> 25:00.110 So parts of Arizona are like assigned to the Roman Catholic Church and they're like all right Roman Catholic Church 25:00.110 --> 25:06.370 Evangelize these Indians and so the US government is like supporting them and motivating them and helping them 25:06.370 --> 25:11.970 And then also certain parts are assigned to the Baptist or the Presbyterians or whatever 25:11.970 --> 25:14.570 And so that's why when you're traveling around Arizona 25:14.570 --> 25:21.850 You'll notice that some of the Indian tribes are very Catholic and just super Catholic and then you'll notice that other places 25:21.850 --> 25:28.190 It's just lots of Presbyterians and then other places lots of Baptist and everything and it's different in different parts 25:28.190 --> 25:32.130 part of that goes back historically to the US government 25:33.410 --> 25:36.450 Assigning denominations to these different areas to evangelize them 25:36.450 --> 25:42.610 So, you know hey, it's not too bad if you're being assigned a Baptist or at least a Presbyterian or something 25:42.610 --> 25:45.670 But you know if you're assigned to the Roman Catholic section 25:45.670 --> 25:50.850 It's kind of like well you're gonna have to rely on faithful word or somebody else to come along and actually get to the 25:50.850 --> 25:55.030 Real gospel one of these days and actually show up and do some real soul inning at some point 25:55.450 --> 26:00.510 Because you know we go into these tribes that are very Catholic and we end up getting a bunch of them saved 26:00.510 --> 26:04.650 But guess what? They're not saved. They don't know the gospel. They don't know they're going to heaven 26:05.130 --> 26:08.930 They are just going from one kind of paganism to another 26:09.790 --> 26:14.370 And so again, that's what I'm saying the government just thinks like yeah, let's make you Christian 26:14.370 --> 26:18.470 Here's a Catholic priest. Hey, let's just throw a Methodist at you Presbyterian 26:18.470 --> 26:22.150 You know they don't know the difference right so the king of Assyria is just like yeah 26:22.150 --> 26:26.190 Let's grab one of these priests and send them down there and and he'll teach them what's up 26:26.190 --> 26:28.130 But this is not like a Levitical 26:28.130 --> 26:35.330 Priest who's actually got the Bible and the word of God and the truth so they're getting a false version of 26:36.370 --> 26:40.550 Worship of the Lord is what they're getting because they're getting this like government 26:41.330 --> 26:43.130 FEMA pastor sent in there 26:43.630 --> 26:46.790 To teach them. They're not really getting the real thing 26:46.790 --> 26:55.470 Okay, so he comes in and he teaches them how to fear the Lord just to avoid like natural disasters and plagues and 26:55.470 --> 26:58.570 Lion attacks and things like that. That's the idea. Okay 26:59.210 --> 27:01.810 So it says one of the priests verse 28 27:02.370 --> 27:07.650 Whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord 27:07.650 --> 27:12.250 How be it every nation made gods of their own so so they're basically just adding 27:12.250 --> 27:20.410 The worship of the Lord to their existing pantheon and this is what you will still find among the Native Americans sometimes today as well 27:20.410 --> 27:24.210 Where they'll kind of do both where they'll have 27:24.830 --> 27:30.210 We were just soul winning a few weeks ago on the res and you know, they said hey at our church 27:30.210 --> 27:33.490 We do both we do Christianity we read from the Bible 27:33.490 --> 27:40.570 But we also do our Native American traditions and the great spirit and great grandfather 27:40.570 --> 27:43.210 You know, it's I guess they're trying to one up God the father 27:43.210 --> 27:50.130 So they're like great-grandfather or whatever instead, but they're mixing and this is sometimes known as religious 27:51.170 --> 27:54.550 Syncretism where you have kind of the old indigenous religion 27:55.170 --> 27:58.610 mixing with the new religion coming in and 27:58.610 --> 28:04.930 Forming like a hybrid and of course, this is not God's will. This is not true biblical Christianity 28:04.930 --> 28:09.730 Because here's the thing Jesus says I'm the way the truth in the life 28:09.730 --> 28:15.910 No man coming thunder the father, but by me and the Bible says, you know in Acts chapter 8 when the Ethiopian 28:15.910 --> 28:19.570 Unique is going to be baptized. He says well, what does Henry be baptized? 28:20.150 --> 28:25.650 What does Philip say to him if thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest and he said 28:25.650 --> 28:32.010 I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and so the Ethiopian Unique is told you got to believe with all your heart 28:32.010 --> 28:33.250 It's not like well 28:33.250 --> 28:36.290 Yeah, I believe in Jesus and Buddha and 28:36.890 --> 28:42.390 Krishna and I believe in Mohammed and no no no it's got to be Jesus alone 28:43.090 --> 28:50.730 Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved 28:50.730 --> 28:53.730 Okay, and here's the thing when it comes to salvation 28:53.730 --> 29:00.430 Here's the role that repentance plays in salvation is you have to turn to God 29:00.430 --> 29:03.830 From idols to serve the living and true God 29:04.870 --> 29:09.850 Now a lot of people have this wrong idea that salvation is oh turn from your sins 29:09.850 --> 29:14.810 Repent of your sins turn over a new leaf. No my friend salvation is not a 12-step program 29:14.810 --> 29:18.770 It's not turning over a new leaf. It's not cleaning up your life 29:18.770 --> 29:22.550 It is faith alone in the finished work of Jesus Christ 29:22.550 --> 29:27.410 The Bible says that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life 29:27.410 --> 29:34.690 We're saved by grace through faith not of works less any man should boast and so salvation is by faith alone and 29:35.870 --> 29:38.830 So people come along and say well, it's by faith 29:38.830 --> 29:42.210 But you also have to turn from your sins folks turning from your sins as works 29:42.890 --> 29:46.250 The Bible says in Jonah 310 God saw their works 29:46.250 --> 29:50.110 comma that they turned from their evil way and 29:50.110 --> 29:54.510 God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did not notice that Jonah 310 29:54.510 --> 29:59.450 Classifies turning from your evil way as works and that should be common sense anyway 29:59.450 --> 30:07.010 Because the works of the law according to Galatians chapter 2 3 4 the works of the law don't save us 30:08.210 --> 30:09.950 Right the works of the law 30:09.950 --> 30:13.950 You know anybody who tries to be saved by the works of the law is under the curse 30:14.410 --> 30:19.310 Curse it be that because it be everyone that continued not in all the words of this law to do them 30:19.310 --> 30:25.010 You go back to Deuteronomy 27 and look up that quote and you'll see it's a list of negative commands 30:25.010 --> 30:30.070 Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this that shot not that shot not 30:30.070 --> 30:34.370 That's the not and cursed be he they continued not in all the words of this book of law to do them 30:35.010 --> 30:39.650 So, you know what Paul saying is that following all those thou shot knots can't save you 30:40.190 --> 30:42.610 So we're not saved by good things that we do 30:42.610 --> 30:48.630 We're not saved by good works or good deeds that we do, but we're also not saved by what we don't do 30:49.310 --> 30:56.630 We're not saved because we stopped stealing stopped killing stopped committing adultery stopped drinking. No, that's just a different kind of works 30:57.470 --> 30:59.930 There's good works and there's works of the law 30:59.930 --> 31:01.770 Neither one of them is going to save you 31:02.350 --> 31:03.810 Everyone knows it's hard work 31:04.310 --> 31:07.510 To follow the bible and to follow the commandments 31:07.510 --> 31:12.210 And yeah, we should do that once we're saved because god has saved us on two good works 31:12.210 --> 31:14.670 But we're not saved by our works 31:15.250 --> 31:20.310 Okay, so people will try to say that when it comes to salvation we have to repent of our sins 31:20.310 --> 31:23.670 No, we do not have to repent of our sins to be saved 31:23.670 --> 31:25.430 We have to believe in jesus to be saved 31:25.430 --> 31:31.430 But here's the thing the bible does use the word repentance with respect to salvation 31:31.430 --> 31:34.990 But it's not about repenting of your sins about repenting of false religion 31:34.990 --> 31:39.770 You know, so here's the thing you got to repent and believe the gospel 31:39.770 --> 31:43.470 Okay, in fact, let's just stop because this is such an important doctrine 31:43.470 --> 31:46.270 Let's just go to matthew 21 and see this in the bible 31:46.270 --> 31:48.950 We're going to come right back to uh second kings here 31:48.950 --> 31:52.810 But let's just go to matthew 21 and see this important doctrine 31:53.330 --> 31:56.210 Of what repentance is with respect to salvation 31:57.510 --> 32:00.670 Because when people see the word repent in the bible a lot of times they add 32:01.210 --> 32:03.030 Of your sins when it's not there 32:04.350 --> 32:07.790 And that's not what repent means because repentance is just a change of mind 32:08.390 --> 32:13.150 And it could be repenting of sins or it could be repenting of wrong beliefs 32:13.150 --> 32:16.310 It could be repenting of good things. It could be repenting of bad things 32:16.310 --> 32:19.770 Just any kind of a of a change or turning 32:20.390 --> 32:23.850 You know, so repentance is a broad word and has to be understood by context 32:24.410 --> 32:30.110 So let's see what it means to repent and believe the gospel look at matthew chapter 21 32:30.830 --> 32:32.030 Uh verse number 32:32.770 --> 32:39.550 32 it says for john came unto you in the way of righteousness and you believed him not 32:40.110 --> 32:42.210 But the publicans in the harlots believed him 32:42.830 --> 32:44.710 And ye when you had seen it 32:44.710 --> 32:51.410 Repented not afterward that you might believe him. So what is repentance in that verse right there? He's saying look 32:52.090 --> 32:53.210 You didn't believe in him 32:53.890 --> 32:57.890 You saw these other people that did believe in him the publicans and harlots 32:58.450 --> 33:04.830 And then when you saw that you didn't repent and believe meaning you didn't change your mind and say 33:04.830 --> 33:10.290 Hey, maybe I should have believed in that. Maybe it was stupid when I didn't believe in that. I'm gonna now 33:10.910 --> 33:13.110 Believe in christ. That's I mean 33:13.810 --> 33:15.930 This verse makes it crystal clear what repentance is 33:15.930 --> 33:19.750 It's like you used to not believe in him and then you switched to believing in him 33:19.750 --> 33:22.270 You're repenting from unbelief to belief 33:23.030 --> 33:26.490 Okay, but also if you're a member of a false religion 33:26.490 --> 33:28.770 You have to repent of that false religion 33:29.270 --> 33:34.610 In order to believe in christ alone because how can I trust christ for my salvation if i'm still trusting 33:35.310 --> 33:39.110 Islam if i'm still trusting buddha if i'm still trusting hinduism or whatever 33:39.110 --> 33:43.910 And so that's why the bible says in uh second thessalonians chapter one 33:44.310 --> 33:51.030 Verse 10 I think he says how you turn to god from idols to serve to serve the living and true god 33:51.030 --> 33:53.950 And to wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the dead 33:53.950 --> 34:00.550 Even jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come and so the bible is saying you turned to god from idols 34:01.110 --> 34:05.930 So what's the repentance with regard to salvation? Well, you don't believe in jesus well 34:05.930 --> 34:09.130 You need to repent and start believing in him. You need to change your mind start believing in him 34:09.670 --> 34:17.330 Okay, you used to think that god is this little statue that you pour honey and throw flowers at him and pour milk on his head 34:17.330 --> 34:21.510 And now you realize that no this idol is not god 34:21.510 --> 34:27.330 The true god is the creator of heaven and earth. He's the god of the bible is the god of abraham isek and jacob 34:27.330 --> 34:31.430 Okay, so you repent and you turn to god from idols 34:32.030 --> 34:38.430 Meaning that you have the wrong god and you get the right god because your little monkey idol or golden calf idol 34:38.430 --> 34:44.710 Was not the correct god. You got to turn to god from idols. That's what we're talking about so 34:45.750 --> 34:50.570 Adding jesus to a pantheon of polytheistic gods isn't going to save you 34:51.110 --> 34:57.250 So if you're a hindu and you're worshiping this monkey god over here and you're worshiping goro from mortal combat 34:57.250 --> 35:02.090 And you have all these false gods. You can't just add jesus and say well, I'll just worship jesus too 35:03.090 --> 35:06.950 You know, I remember there's a there's a book that I read years ago called the life of pi 35:06.950 --> 35:13.090 And in that book, that's what the the main character basically he's like, oh, i'm a christian and i'm a muslim and i'm a hindu 35:13.090 --> 35:18.350 No, that's not possible because you have to be a christian at the exclusion of other religions 35:19.370 --> 35:22.710 So these people are not getting salvation 35:23.350 --> 35:31.350 These people are not actually saved. They're not actually going to heaven. They're not actually worshiping god in his sight 35:31.350 --> 35:35.850 Because they're still worshiping their false god. They're just trying to add 35:42.490 --> 35:43.070 jesus 35:47.910 --> 35:52.610 And that's what I'm going to tell you about the god you don't know about the real god the true god the only god 35:52.610 --> 35:56.650 But imagine how foolish it would be to think well, they were already saved because they're already worshiping him 35:57.370 --> 35:59.110 That'd be silly, wouldn't it? 35:59.210 --> 36:07.890 No, because you can't sit there and believe in zoos and all these other false gods without and be saved because you have to only believe in 36:08.410 --> 36:11.470 Just the god of the bible to be saved just jesus christ 36:12.110 --> 36:19.750 Christ alone faith alone. That's how you get to heaven. Okay, so in second kings chapter number 17. Let's go back there now 36:20.950 --> 36:24.830 It says in verse number 29 how be it every nation made gods of their own 36:25.530 --> 36:31.010 And put them in the houses of the high places which the samaritans had made now look the samaritans 36:31.010 --> 36:34.530 Already have an infrastructure of idolatry. That's already set up 36:35.070 --> 36:37.070 They already have all the little shrines 36:37.070 --> 36:42.910 To put all the little mary statues and all the little saints and it's it's like if you were 36:43.530 --> 36:44.130 hindu 36:44.130 --> 36:48.110 Moving into a catholic's house or something and you just kind of rip out mary 36:48.110 --> 36:52.550 And stick in your own hindu god or whatever and it like it fits like a glove 36:52.550 --> 36:55.550 You're just replacing one statue with another 36:55.550 --> 37:01.790 You know, you got one female deity with another one little baby deity male deity whatever, you know 37:02.310 --> 37:05.370 These kind of false religions are interchangeable 37:05.930 --> 37:08.650 You know, that's why when the romans took over 37:08.650 --> 37:12.210 Uh a lot of the greek empire and defeated the greeks and everything 37:12.210 --> 37:17.550 They ended up just adopting a lot of the greek gods as their own and they just said well, it's the same thing, you know 37:18.170 --> 37:24.270 Zeus is jupiter say, you know, you know neptune is like perside and what's the difference water god water god 37:24.270 --> 37:27.770 And they just adopt it and then they just mix them and nobody cares 37:27.770 --> 37:32.510 And then it's the same thing with the roman catholics the roman catholics come along and they just 37:32.510 --> 37:40.450 You know take over pagan areas and say oh well, you guys have a virgin and a son and we have a virgin too 37:40.450 --> 37:44.630 It's a virgin mary. I mean look mary worship is not in the bible 37:45.410 --> 37:51.690 Praying to mary is not in the bible venerating mary is not in the bible statues of mary. That is not in the bible 37:51.690 --> 37:54.510 But you know who worships? 37:54.710 --> 37:57.630 Uh female virgin goddesses the greeks and the romans 37:58.310 --> 38:06.590 Okay, because guess what the most famous building in athens is called it's called the parthenon and parthenos is greek for virgin 38:07.670 --> 38:13.270 It's their virgin that's their virgin so it doesn't matter the virgin athena or the virgin mary 38:13.270 --> 38:20.090 So what it is is that they're converting the pagan greeks and the pagan romans to christianity 38:20.090 --> 38:25.210 And so they kind of just give them the old switcheroo like hey instead of this virgin goddess 38:25.210 --> 38:28.050 You're just going to worship a different version instead of praying to athena 38:28.570 --> 38:33.150 You're going to pray to mary still a virgin still a parthenos 38:33.150 --> 38:34.950 Hey, no harm no foul 38:35.590 --> 38:38.150 That is not evangelism 38:39.190 --> 38:41.550 When we go out and preach the gospel to people 38:42.090 --> 38:47.590 We are preaching that they need to abandon their false religion and believe only in christ 38:48.290 --> 38:50.490 We're not saying hey, you can still be a muslim 38:50.490 --> 38:53.830 But you just need to be a born again muslim born again hindu 38:53.830 --> 38:58.130 Born again roman catholic born again mormon. No, we're telling them 38:58.130 --> 39:03.370 You've got to turn from that and turn to the true gospel of christ as 39:04.510 --> 39:05.050 It's 39:05.050 --> 39:08.510 As the saint the lord right here. That's what we're showing them 39:09.610 --> 39:13.330 So but the samaritans because they're already pagan idolaters 39:14.000 --> 39:17.210 It's just a little swaperoo. They're just installing 39:17.210 --> 39:21.170 Their false gods in the high places that the samaritans have already made 39:21.170 --> 39:23.810 They've already got all the stands and the holders 39:24.310 --> 39:27.830 And the little display cases and all the little shrines 39:27.830 --> 39:31.910 That are just ready to roll to just switch out one statue for another sometimes 39:31.910 --> 39:35.410 You could probably even just leave the same statue and just call it a different name 39:36.570 --> 39:39.210 And so they already have all the idolatry 39:39.790 --> 39:41.130 infrastructure in place 39:41.790 --> 39:46.530 And every nation in the cities where in their dwell are making these it says in verse 30 39:46.530 --> 39:48.530 The men of babelon made 39:49.750 --> 39:52.650 Sukkath benath i mean talk about a god that's sukkath right 39:53.150 --> 39:56.670 The men of babelon made sukkath benath and the men of kath made nergal 39:56.670 --> 40:00.870 And the men of haymath made ashima you say i've never heard of these yeah because they don't matter 40:01.590 --> 40:08.710 Because in the long run everybody abandoned them and forgot about them because the grass withers and the flower fades 40:08.710 --> 40:11.190 But the word of god endures forever 40:11.790 --> 40:13.870 False religion is but for a season 40:14.640 --> 40:18.590 It's temporary god's word prevails and is always there 40:19.730 --> 40:28.890 And the avites made nibhaz and tartak and the seafarvites burnt their children in the fire to a dramelech and enamelech the gods of seafarvam so 40:28.890 --> 40:30.290 It's like okay 40:30.290 --> 40:33.390 So yeah, we're gonna start worshiping the lord now 40:33.920 --> 40:41.670 Along with a dramelech and enamelech and nergal and we're still committing infanticide and human sacrifices to our false gods 40:42.330 --> 40:44.530 And then it says in this this in verse 32 40:44.530 --> 40:50.310 So they feared the lord and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places 40:50.310 --> 40:52.990 Which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places? 40:53.350 --> 40:55.950 Well sounds exactly like what jeroboam was already doing 40:56.730 --> 40:58.830 And so this is an easy transition 40:58.830 --> 41:06.190 From northern kingdom israel to these foreigners coming in with false gods because it's just one false religion to another 41:06.870 --> 41:08.030 Still the same elements 41:09.150 --> 41:11.130 It says they feared the lord 41:11.670 --> 41:12.450 verse 33 41:13.160 --> 41:14.930 And served their own gods 41:15.550 --> 41:21.630 Okay after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from that under this day they do after 41:22.250 --> 41:26.370 The former manners they fear not the lord neither do they 41:26.370 --> 41:30.950 After their statutes or after their ordinances or after the law and commandment 41:30.950 --> 41:35.090 Which the lord commanded the children of jacob whom he named israel so notice 41:35.690 --> 41:38.490 That in one breath it says they feared the lord 41:38.950 --> 41:43.550 And then in verse 34 it says they feared not the lord some people would look at that and say it's contradiction 41:43.550 --> 41:49.790 You know the idea is that if you're fearing the lord along with a false god, that's not fearing the lord 41:50.970 --> 41:56.070 From their perspective. Yeah, we're fearing the lord and a dramalek and an amalek 41:56.550 --> 42:00.510 But god looks down and says you guys aren't fearing the lord. That's not fearing the lord 42:00.510 --> 42:03.070 So somebody could say oh, I believe in jesus 42:03.570 --> 42:08.030 But it's like well unless you're believing only in jesus you don't believe in jesus 42:08.490 --> 42:13.050 You can say you believe in jesus, but from god's perspective. It's got to be christ alone 42:13.710 --> 42:17.990 In order to count as really believing in jesus. That's what the bible teaches 42:18.530 --> 42:20.230 And so it says in verse 35 42:21.090 --> 42:24.930 With whom the lord had made a covenant and charged them saying 42:24.930 --> 42:31.750 Ye shall not fear other gods nor bow yourselves to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them 42:31.750 --> 42:36.650 But the lord who brought you up out of the land of egypt with great power and a stretched out arm 42:36.650 --> 42:42.290 Him shall you fear and him shall you worship and him shall you do sacrifice and notice now 42:42.290 --> 42:46.390 There's another seeming contradiction because it seemed like we were talking about foreigners 42:47.050 --> 42:52.470 Worse being false gods, but now all of a sudden we're talking about the people of the northern kingdom as if they are 42:52.470 --> 42:53.930 the descendants of 42:54.850 --> 42:55.370 isreal 42:55.910 --> 43:00.670 Jacob and the reason why is what i explained earlier that it's a mix because 43:01.190 --> 43:06.290 Some of the people have been removed and replaced and then some of the indigenous people are still there 43:06.650 --> 43:10.210 They're going to mix they're going to hybridize and they have this false 43:11.950 --> 43:16.170 Syncretic religion that mixes pagan idolatry from all over the world 43:16.170 --> 43:23.210 With the worship of the lord from a phony northern kingdom bozo priest who's not even saved anyway 43:24.330 --> 43:24.810 Now 43:25.490 --> 43:29.730 Here's what the bible says at the end here and i'm going to tie this in with the new testament 43:30.310 --> 43:34.010 And then we'll be done because it says in verse number 41 43:34.010 --> 43:40.610 So these nations feared the lord and and served their graven images. So it's like yeah, they quote unquote feared the lord 43:41.490 --> 43:46.730 But they're still serving graven images both their children and their children's children 43:46.730 --> 43:53.490 As did their fathers. So do they unto this day now. What does unto this day mean? 43:53.750 --> 43:55.790 It doesn't mean until 2026 43:56.370 --> 43:58.330 It doesn't mean until the time of christ 43:58.330 --> 44:02.950 It means until the time that this book second kings was written 44:02.950 --> 44:06.490 Okay, and we don't know exactly when second kings was written 44:06.490 --> 44:13.290 But all of the evidence seems to indicate that second kings is written or at least finished being written 44:13.290 --> 44:18.770 Sometime toward the end of the Babylonian captivity. So we're talking, you know, approximately 44:19.590 --> 44:25.370 500 years before the time of christ is when this is being written and saying hey, this is how they are man 44:25.370 --> 44:28.990 That's how that northern kingdom is they have this mixed 44:29.690 --> 44:31.130 idolatrous sort of 44:31.130 --> 44:37.130 Saying that they worship the lord in name, but it's a bunch of idolatry and messed up paganism 44:37.130 --> 44:40.910 Now here's the question though 500 years later 44:41.570 --> 44:46.830 After second kings is already written 500 years later when christ comes on the scene 44:47.330 --> 44:51.750 What are the samaritans like when christ comes on the scene? Okay, we'll go to john chapter 4 44:51.750 --> 44:53.630 We're just going to spend a little bit of time on this 44:53.630 --> 44:59.350 But what is the samaritan religion like or what are the people like in 44:59.350 --> 45:02.190 The time of christ well the first thing i want to point out 45:02.690 --> 45:05.170 Is that although these people are a mixture 45:05.770 --> 45:13.690 Of these, you know poor of the land that are left behind from the israelites mixed with these foreigners that have been brought in to replace them 45:15.050 --> 45:19.610 In the eyes of the lord jesus christ, they're not these people are not considered israel 45:20.270 --> 45:23.910 They've lost their identity as israel. So just the fact that they 45:23.910 --> 45:29.690 Technically have israeli blood and their great great great great grandfather was an israelite 45:29.690 --> 45:33.010 Doesn't matter because they've lost that identity at this point 45:33.010 --> 45:39.270 And so jesus in matthew chapter 10 when he's sending out the disciples to go evangelize 45:39.270 --> 45:47.550 He says go not into the way of the gentiles and into any city of the samaritans enter ye not 45:48.330 --> 45:51.370 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of israel 45:52.470 --> 45:55.050 So jesus he looks at 45:55.610 --> 45:57.850 The the the nation of juda 45:58.510 --> 46:02.430 Judea the southern kingdom and he says these are the lost sheep of the house of israel 46:02.430 --> 46:06.170 That's who we're going to evangelize he says we're not going to the samaritans 46:06.170 --> 46:08.610 So notice he doesn't consider the samaritans israel 46:08.610 --> 46:13.650 He says we're we're not going to the samaritans because we're only going to the lost sheep of the house of israel 46:13.650 --> 46:17.710 See how he's not considering the samaritans israel because they've been 46:18.350 --> 46:18.830 mixed 46:19.390 --> 46:25.550 And religiously they're wrong and even ethnically they no longer have their identity as the ten tribes 46:25.550 --> 46:33.510 Because they're mainly foreigners mixed in now and so they're just considered now a new ethnic group known as the samaritans 46:33.510 --> 46:36.570 Okay, but what is their religion like? Okay? 46:37.010 --> 46:45.010 Well, there's no evidence that they're worshiping idols that they're so they're no longer doing that religion that we saw in second king 17 46:45.750 --> 46:50.090 They have gotten to a point where they're just worshiping jahovah god at this point 46:50.090 --> 46:54.310 You know by the time we fast forward to the time of christ. They're just worshiping the lord 46:56.110 --> 46:58.550 But however, they're still not saved 46:58.550 --> 47:03.930 It's a false version of the lord's worship and jesus rebukes it in john chapter four 47:04.530 --> 47:08.990 In john chapter four jesus ends up speaking with the woman at the well 47:09.570 --> 47:14.570 And it says in verse number four of chapter four. He must needs go through samaria 47:15.010 --> 47:19.230 Because here's the thing jesus is trying to just go from judaea into galilee 47:19.930 --> 47:22.190 And he's not on a mission to samaria 47:22.750 --> 47:29.210 But he has to go through samaria. It'd be like, hey, i'm going from arizona to texas. I got to go through new mexico 47:29.210 --> 47:34.130 So he doesn't want to make some big giant loop to go around it. So he's not 47:34.810 --> 47:40.910 Setting out on a mission to the samaritans because remember he was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel 47:41.630 --> 47:44.030 In the book of act after the resurrection 47:44.030 --> 47:48.870 The disciples are sent into all nations to teach all nations and that's going to include the samaritans 47:48.870 --> 47:55.310 But this point jesus is only going through there because geographically it's necessary. He must needs go through samaria 47:55.830 --> 47:59.730 In verse four. So he ends up talking to the woman at the well 48:00.190 --> 48:04.630 And you know, they end up talking about religion and it says in verse number 19 48:05.150 --> 48:07.870 The woman saith on him sir. I perceive that thou art a prophet 48:08.830 --> 48:10.930 She's like, hey, you're obviously a prophet 48:11.510 --> 48:14.170 So here let me ask you a bible question 48:14.810 --> 48:20.830 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain and ye say that in jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship 48:21.870 --> 48:23.410 notice that she 48:24.030 --> 48:24.830 thinks of 48:25.470 --> 48:27.870 abraham isaac and jacob as our fathers 48:27.870 --> 48:29.450 So she sees herself 48:30.130 --> 48:33.350 As a descendant of israel even though the israelites 48:33.910 --> 48:39.550 In the southern kingdom of juda, they don't see her as an israel. Jesus doesn't see her as israel 48:39.550 --> 48:47.210 Jesus is like you're a samaritan. You're not israel. Okay, but she sees herself as like, oh our father's worship god in this mountain 48:47.210 --> 48:49.530 She's talking about jacob. She's talking about israel 48:50.150 --> 48:51.970 Our father's worship god in this mountain 48:52.630 --> 48:56.210 And ye say that in jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship 48:56.210 --> 48:58.990 Jesus saith under her woman believe me the hour cometh 48:58.990 --> 49:04.370 When ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at jerusalem worship the father. He's like, you know, you're asking the wrong question 49:04.910 --> 49:12.570 You're hung up on geography. Geography isn't the issue. It's not about mount garreism versus jerusalem. He says 49:13.130 --> 49:15.870 Ye worship, you know, not what? 49:16.590 --> 49:17.610 in verse number 22 49:18.170 --> 49:23.870 We know what we worship for watch this salvation is of the jews 49:23.870 --> 49:30.930 Sound like jesus is saying that the samaritans are saved or that their religion is a legitimate pathway to god 49:32.770 --> 49:38.630 No, it's a false religion. That's why he says, you know, you worship, you know, not what you don't even you guys don't even know 49:38.630 --> 49:39.410 What you're talking about 49:40.030 --> 49:42.250 The bible spiritually discerned 49:42.250 --> 49:44.370 You're not saved you guys are blinded 49:44.370 --> 49:48.270 You're part of a false religion and he says salvation on the other hand is of the jews 49:48.270 --> 49:55.470 This is another verse that would be taken out of context and taller. Oh, salvation's of the jews like salvation's of a guy in a funny hat 49:56.330 --> 49:57.270 Who's gonna like? 49:57.710 --> 50:00.670 You know and do it all this rocking back and forth 50:00.670 --> 50:06.030 And hating christ and rejecting christ and spitting on the ground three times when he hears about jesus 50:06.590 --> 50:08.570 Is he saying oh salvation's of that guy? 50:09.050 --> 50:15.690 Salvation's of this yiddish speaking hawk phlegm guy from germany or poland or hunger. That's not what he's saying 50:16.430 --> 50:22.710 What he's saying is salvation's of the jews because under them were committed the oracles of god 50:22.710 --> 50:29.550 And it is the jews judeans those of juda of the southern kingdom who have the true word of god 50:29.550 --> 50:31.390 They have the right bible 50:31.970 --> 50:34.550 Now what kind of a bible do the samaritans have? 50:35.110 --> 50:39.690 Well, the samaritans bible consisted only of the first five books 50:40.290 --> 50:44.090 So, you know, we have of course 39 books of the old testament 50:44.090 --> 50:47.370 The jews have the identical old testament that we have 50:47.890 --> 50:53.570 You know the jews bible they have 24 books, but it's our exact same 39 books 50:53.570 --> 50:56.270 It's just they're lumping the 12 minor prophets 50:56.270 --> 51:01.350 They call that one book the book of the 12 and then they combine ezra and nehemiah and stuff 51:01.350 --> 51:04.410 But at the end of the day the exact bible 51:05.050 --> 51:09.750 Of the jews of today is the exact christian old testament as far as 51:09.750 --> 51:15.910 Genesis to malachi. They just put the books in a different order and lump them together and so forth. Okay 51:16.930 --> 51:23.070 So that's what he means we salvatans of the jews is that they actually have the right word of god 51:23.070 --> 51:26.210 They're actually worshiping the true god 51:26.840 --> 51:32.330 In general, okay, whereas the samaritans on the other hand, they had a wrong bible 51:32.330 --> 51:37.150 Now what's wrong with the samaritan bible is that it's only the first five books 51:37.930 --> 51:43.610 So it's not the whole 39 book old testament like the jews had it's only the first five books 51:43.610 --> 51:48.230 And not only that they changed parts of the first five books 51:48.830 --> 51:54.770 To basically make it clear that you worship god in mount durizam, you know, because she says hey 51:54.770 --> 51:57.570 We worship in this mountain you guys are saying it's jerusalem 51:57.570 --> 52:00.050 It's sort of like when you knock on the door of a seventh day avanis 52:00.050 --> 52:03.750 And that's all they want to talk about is the seventh day saturday sabbath 52:03.750 --> 52:05.690 That's all they want. They just want to talk about that 52:05.690 --> 52:09.550 You talk to jahovah's witness and you talk about some totally different and they're just like 52:10.170 --> 52:16.310 Turn in your bible to soul madey three, you know, because they just want to show you how his name alone is jahovah or something 52:16.310 --> 52:23.610 You know, these cults will obsess over one issue. Don't they they're obsessed with saturday. They're obsessed with the name jahovah 52:23.610 --> 52:25.170 They're obsessed with whatever 52:25.710 --> 52:31.130 Quirk that they believe in well the samaritans are obsessed with it's not jerusalem 52:31.910 --> 52:38.070 It's horizon because remember jeroboam's whole religion was founded on the fact of don't go to jerusalem 52:39.070 --> 52:43.830 Do it in bethel do it in den whatever you do don't go to jerusalem. So the samaritans 52:44.490 --> 52:49.630 In the time of christ, they still have a little bit of that jeroboam in them 52:50.170 --> 52:55.390 Of don't go to jerusalem. So what they there's the thing the first five books of the bible don't mention jerusalem 52:56.830 --> 52:58.770 But that wasn't good enough for the samaritans 52:58.770 --> 53:01.390 They go in and change a few bible verses 53:01.930 --> 53:06.830 Instead of saying you're going to worship god in the place which he shall choose future tense 53:06.830 --> 53:12.270 Which is ultimately going to be jerusalem. They change it to you're going to worship in the place that he already chose 53:12.690 --> 53:19.370 So they just change a few verses and then they put in some verses that explicitly tell you you got to worship god in mount garrison 53:19.370 --> 53:21.990 So it's like 99 percent 53:22.510 --> 53:28.230 You know true to the word of god except for the fact they just make a few strategic changes 53:28.950 --> 53:32.290 To corrupt it and then they eliminate of course 53:32.850 --> 53:37.190 Most of the old testament so they only have five books and then they mutilate those a little bit 53:37.190 --> 53:40.250 And so they have a wrong bible. They're interpreting it wrong 53:40.250 --> 53:46.610 Their religion is wrong. It's false. And that's why jesus says salvation's of the jews. So here's the thing 53:46.610 --> 53:48.730 Yes, the samaritans 53:49.170 --> 53:51.450 From the time of second king 17 53:52.210 --> 53:55.390 500 bc or whatever whenever that book's being written 53:55.970 --> 54:02.810 Until the time of christ yet their religion had evolved and and gone through changes over 500 years 54:02.810 --> 54:07.170 To the point where they're no longer idolatrous and they're no longer polytheistic 54:07.710 --> 54:13.410 They've become monotheistic and they've kind of leaned more into the israel jehovah identity 54:13.870 --> 54:17.430 More than the hodgepodge of gods that they had brought in from other places 54:17.430 --> 54:22.870 But that doesn't make them saved you see switching to believing in only one god doesn't make you saved 54:23.810 --> 54:28.110 Right being monotheistic doesn't make you safe. I mean look obviously a lot of societies 54:28.730 --> 54:32.870 Over time evolve from being polytheistic to monotheistic 54:32.870 --> 54:37.410 Just because let's face it polytheistic religion is kind of an ugabuga religion 54:38.010 --> 54:43.630 That it's not really taken seriously by intelligent people in the modern world. Is it 54:44.270 --> 54:46.810 How many modern intelligent people are really? 54:47.390 --> 54:47.970 following 54:48.690 --> 54:50.790 Pagan idolatry and polytheism 54:50.790 --> 54:57.050 you know over time obviously common sense dictates and just as people progress and things 54:57.050 --> 55:03.570 You know eventually you get away from the ugabuga pouring milk on a statue's head kind of polytheism 55:03.570 --> 55:07.650 But here's the thing that doesn't make you saved because in order to be saved 55:07.650 --> 55:09.330 You got to call upon the name of the lord 55:09.330 --> 55:13.990 You got to trust in the lord with all your heart. You got to put your faith and trust in the son of god 55:13.990 --> 55:15.350 Jesus christ to be saved 55:16.130 --> 55:19.810 So it's not enough that the samaritans became 55:21.330 --> 55:25.410 Monotheistic no they need to get the right bible the right salvation 55:25.410 --> 55:28.070 So they can actually get to know the real true god 55:28.070 --> 55:36.810 Okay, and that's what ends up happening because in the book of acts philip ends up going to samaria and just getting bokew people saved 55:37.350 --> 55:41.750 In samaria preaching the gospel of jesus christ to the samaritans 55:42.270 --> 55:45.470 And so today what about today 2026 today? 55:45.630 --> 55:51.890 There are actually still a few people in this samaritan cult. Believe it or not. It's virtually no one 55:51.890 --> 55:55.690 It's like a handful of a few hundred or a few thousand. I don't remember the exact number 55:55.690 --> 56:00.210 Don't quote me on it, but it's it's somewhere on the order of like a few hundred or a few thousand people 56:00.210 --> 56:03.630 Because actually it's in west bank palestine 56:03.630 --> 56:09.610 And I actually went to mount garaisum and I went there and there's a little settlement of people that are like 56:09.610 --> 56:11.810 They're like we're still samaritans, you know 56:11.810 --> 56:16.630 We're still doing and they still believe in just the first five books and there's still my it's just like 56:17.210 --> 56:18.310 Come on guys like 56:18.850 --> 56:21.590 Let's get with the program here. It's been a couple thousand years 56:22.390 --> 56:24.250 Virtually everybody has abandoned this 56:24.250 --> 56:27.830 You know because you know philip and others went in and preached the gospel and got upset 56:28.530 --> 56:32.330 So all that to say this I know I know that was kind of like a lot of information 56:32.330 --> 56:34.650 The sermon was a little bit of an information dump 56:35.190 --> 56:38.770 But that's kind of how this chapter is the chapter is kind of an overview chapter 56:39.370 --> 56:44.910 explaining a big picture of how the northern kingdom came to an end and I just wanted to kind of 56:44.910 --> 56:50.030 Also bring it into the new testament as far as you know, how the samaritans ended up 56:50.670 --> 56:55.650 And how the sins of jeroboam persisted all the way into the time of christ 56:56.150 --> 57:02.290 But what are the lessons we can learn today? The lessons we can learn today is that we we doesn't mix 57:03.370 --> 57:06.270 biblical christianity with a false religion and think that somehow 57:06.770 --> 57:09.030 You know, we're covering all our bases or something 57:09.690 --> 57:13.950 No when we're out preaching the gospel if people are part of a false religion 57:13.950 --> 57:15.690 There needs to be repentance 57:16.410 --> 57:20.890 From the false religion to the gospel not just hey 57:20.890 --> 57:25.070 Just pray this prayer and accept christ as your savior on top of 57:25.070 --> 57:28.630 The substratum of this false religion that you're in, you know 57:28.630 --> 57:32.690 If someone's a member of a false religion that needs to be addressed 57:33.490 --> 57:38.450 Like you know typically and typically here's i'll just give you a super quick soul winning tip and then i'll be done 57:38.950 --> 57:42.350 But you know typically if i'm talking to roman catholics, for example 57:42.350 --> 57:44.810 Because we we we give the gospel to a lot of roman catholics 57:44.810 --> 57:49.810 That's a lot of who we evangelize both here and abroad, you know, and when we talk to them 57:49.810 --> 57:52.430 Typically what i'll do is i'll get through my whole plan of salvation 57:52.430 --> 57:55.830 Just give them the standard plan of salvation get through the gospel 57:55.830 --> 58:00.270 But then when i get to the end i say to them hey, you mentioned that you were catholic 58:01.130 --> 58:04.950 Well, the roman catholic church actually believes something different than what i showed you 58:04.950 --> 58:09.330 They actually believe that in order to go to heaven you have to go to church 58:09.330 --> 58:14.170 You have to confess to the priest you have to do the sacraments you have to keep the commandments 58:14.170 --> 58:20.250 Whereas what i showed you here from the bible is that salvation is by faith in christ alone 58:20.990 --> 58:25.430 You know, so which one do you believe do you believe what i showed you here from the bible? 58:25.750 --> 58:28.510 Or are you believing what the catholic church is teaching you? 58:28.990 --> 58:31.650 Right and i kind of just let them know these are two different things 58:31.650 --> 58:35.130 Which one is it which way? Oh catholic man, you know 58:35.130 --> 58:39.050 Are you going to stick with the roman catholic church or are you going to repent and believe the gospel? 58:39.330 --> 58:42.710 And here's the thing a lot of times they'll say no no no i'm going to go with what the bible says 58:43.130 --> 58:48.670 I believe what the bible says then it's like okay now i'm ready to lead that person in prayer to call upon the name of the lord 58:48.670 --> 58:54.090 But if they say like well, you know, i still take the catholic church, but then it's just like okay apparently 58:54.730 --> 58:56.930 You know today is not their day 58:56.930 --> 59:01.690 You know or maybe i need to preach at them a little more show them some more scripture or whatever 59:01.690 --> 59:05.210 But they clearly didn't get it if they're still defending 59:06.030 --> 59:06.750 false religion 59:06.750 --> 59:10.930 But if they're ready to discard the false religion 59:11.550 --> 59:17.390 And confess christ as their only way to heaven, you know, that's salvation. Let's bards and have water prayer father 59:17.390 --> 59:23.270 We thank you so much for your word lord. Thank you for this chapter and what we can learn from it lord help us 59:23.270 --> 59:23.930 to 59:24.510 --> 59:25.770 Fear you only 59:26.390 --> 59:29.230 And lord help us to make sure when we're evangelizing 59:29.230 --> 59:34.690 To preach a clear message of salvation through christ alone by faith alone 59:35.150 --> 59:42.090 Not of works and not as a mixture with some other faith lord bless us now as we go our separate ways in jesus name we pray amen