00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:21 Upcoming Events and Revival Preparations

01:42 Prayer Requests and Safety Concerns

05:00 Discussion on Hezekiah's Leadership

08:58 Hezekiah's Reforms and Passover Celebration

11:21 Theological Discussion on Worship Practices

21:21 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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We are tearing down VBS and we

are coming back up to Prosper.

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We got church tomorrow morning.

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It's gonna be, it's crazy.

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It's been a busy week, I'm sure.

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Y'all, y'all are tired.

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You've earned some rest.

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You've earned some.

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We hope you take it.

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Yeah.

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We also need you at

please show up tomorrow.

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Yeah, please show up.

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Please be there.

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Yeah.

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No, it's it's, this is our big

last event, our big last push.

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And we've got revival kicking

off though this next week.

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That's right.

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And so at Latham Springs.

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Yeah.

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It's gonna be fire.

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So give us an understanding.

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What are some ways you've led plenty

of revivals back in California and

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then last year you were out there?

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It's a, it is a different era this year

'cause Lewis is spearheading this, Lewis

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is the man, so he's gonna be spearheading

the team and he's done a great job so far.

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You say so far?

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Yeah, I'd leave room for potential.

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Yeah.

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Areas of necessary input.

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Yeah, let's put it that way.

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Put it nicely.

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Yeah, for sure.

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It's been doing a great job.

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Good.

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But you were gonna say

probably ways to pray.

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Ways to pray.

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Yeah.

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I'm guessing that's where you were going.

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Yep.

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Man, there are so many things, details

and plans that go into something like

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this, and thankfully part of the burden

has been alleviated because we're

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still partnering with our sister,

church Compass, Bible Church, new

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Braunfels, they're in the Hill country.

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Some people have asked if they've

been affected by the floods and I

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thank God that is, it is the case

that they have not been affected.

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They've been protected because

of where they are geographically.

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There's a place where the water would

hit and move away from them before

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it would actually enter their area.

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So thank God for that.

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I did ask, we did follow up with them, but

we are planning to do this camp together.

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And so Pastor Evan and Pastor

Caleb, their newest student pastor.

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I'm not sure what else he's

doing, but Caleb is his name.

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Pastor Caleb will be working with us

and allowing us to attend their camp.

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They're largely spearheading most

of it, so ways that you can pray.

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Number one, this is one of the most

important weeks of the year for us because

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of how spiritually impactful it can be.

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We don't take that for granted, though we

know that there's a million distractions

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that could always take place and

steal their minds away from something.

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Productive.

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So please pray that it

is spiritually effective.

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Pray for the preaching.

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They're gonna hear four sermons that are

gonna be well prepared in advance with the

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intention that they provoke a life change.

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And so we need you to pray that

the Lord would make them effective

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unless the Lord builds a house,

those who build it labor in vain.

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Psalm 1 27.

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Unless the Lord.

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Empowers the sermon by his spirit.

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The preacher preaches in vain.

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I believe the same

principles at work here.

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So please pray for that big part of it.

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It's huge.

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And we desperately rely on your prayers.

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We need God to operate.

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We need God to work and we

know we can't do without.

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Number two, there's always

issues of physical safety.

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Part of what makes games really

fun is that they're dangerous.

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Yep.

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They're not so dangerous that we're being

reckless, but there's always a chance

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that you could get hurt in some way.

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So please pray that

our students would get.

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Protected.

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Would we be protected and would

avoid any major physical injuries?

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I remember we had a couple really gnarly

dudes, dude, when I was on games for

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one year for revival back in California.

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That's when the kid broke his femur.

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Oh yeah, femur, yeah.

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Ryan.

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Yeah.

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And then Luke, I think it was Luke Larco.

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Luke Larco got a concussion

because his head broke his femur.

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His head was so strong.

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Talk about hardheaded.

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Yeah.

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That was only one year.

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Thankfully that doesn't happen all

the time, but there's always a chance

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that something like that could happen.

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Yeah.

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So please pray for their physical safety.

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Number three, there's

always something about.

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The food you never know

what's gonna happen.

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There was one year where I think it

wasn't under my administration not

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that it couldn't have happened, they

were serving burritos and I guess

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there was something in the burritos

that really did a number on people.

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It might be something like

after eating Taco Bell.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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One of those things.

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I'll leave it.

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To your imagination, but so please

pray that the food would be good to

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the people and that it, the hands

that prepare it are clean and that all

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the environment is well kept and well

provided so that they're able to be

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energetic and get good rest and have good

attention during the services themselves.

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So there's a million things.

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I've only given you three big categories,

but if you just thought about it

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for more than a few seconds, you'd

be able to say, oh, but that needs,

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that means this needs to happen.

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Well-rested leaders and lots of caffeine

flowing for those leaders and times of

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recovery and sleeping in bunkhouses,

that could be problematic because.

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Some people don't like to sleep.

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I'm looking at you, junior hires,

and sometimes they come up with a

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12 pack, a 48 pack of soda and chewy

gummies and all sorts of snacks.

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Thank you parents for sending

those snacks up to 'em.

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And then they're up all night.

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Yep.

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And they're giggling and

laughing and all those things.

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So anyway, there's so many things

that are fun and exciting and good.

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Please pray that it goes well

and that God does a great work

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in the lives of these students.

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Yeah and I, the only addition to that,

just based on how powerful and impactful

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I know this week has been back in,

in California as well, and maybe it's

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different here, but there's a lot of

testimonies that begin at revival.

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Oh yeah.

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And be praying for those that may

be right there on the precipice of.

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Putting their faith and trust in, in

Christ with their Lord and Savior.

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We're not about, harvesting

big salvation numbers.

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We're not doing massive altar calls

during this time, but it's significant.

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And and so be praying for those that

God might choose, that this is the

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week that he's gonna change their

eternity, that they'd be ready for that.

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Yeah.

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And it happens a lot by God's

grace that has been our past

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and we hope that's our future.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Yeah.

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Let's jump into Second King's 18.

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By the way.

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Maybe you're wondering, hey, is

there anything we can do to help with

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what's going on down in New Braunfels?

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And I did reach out to Pastor

Evan and Pastor Hayden down there.

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They sent a whole truck of supplies

on to alleviate some of the needs of

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those that were impacted by the flood.

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And he told me, Hey, if we're gonna do

this again, we'll let you guys know and

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you guys can partner with us in that.

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So as of right now, there's not really

anything that we need to do other than be.

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Continuing to pray.

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There are still families missing their

kids right now, I cannot imagine.

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Yeah, just the immense heartache

that they're going through right now.

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So be praying.

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Praying for comfort, praying for

the churches down there that are

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ministering to these families.

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But if there's any tangible needs

that come up, we will certainly

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let you guys know on that.

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Second Kings 18, and then we're gonna

be over in Second Chronicles, and

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then I think in the Psalm 48 again.

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Yeah.

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So Second Kings 18 is about Hezekiah.

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Hezekiah is the son of Ahaz, and

Hezekiah does what is right in

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the eyes of the Lord in a big way.

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Notice in verse four, he even removes

the high places so many of the other

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kings said he did what was right.

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But he didn't remove the high places

as the guy is going full bore.

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And so he's taking those down and

he's really gonna be a guy that,

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that does a lot of good for Israel.

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And yet in chapter 18, he's going

to have to deal with the Assyrians.

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And the reason he's gonna have

to deal with the Assyrians is

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because of his knucklehead dad.

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Ahaz was a king that did not rule

well, was not a king that did

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right in the eyes of the Lord.

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And as a result, he had put

Israel and Judah specifically.

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In a position of being subject to

the Assyrians and having to pay

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them basically protection money

if you wanna put it that way.

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And so Hezekiah comes on the scene and

says, we're not doing that anymore.

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This is where we get all the way

down to 7 0 1 and this is the

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besieging of Judah under Rab.

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And Sins gonna come and basically

through his messenger, say, who do

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you think you are, Judah, that you're

gonna be able to withstand Assyria?

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No God has ever delivered

his people from Assyria.

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You think your god's

gonna be able to do this?

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Who are you kidding?

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And this goes on and on and

there's really not a lot of

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resolution for this in chapter 18.

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In our reading today, we're gonna see the

resolution of it eventually in chapter 19.

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But in today, what's notable is that

though the Rap Shaka comes out and.

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Rips into the gout of

Israel and into the king.

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To Hezekiah says your

king is deceiving you.

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I find it fascinating that it says

this in verse 26, but the or verse 36,

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it says, but the people were silent

and it answered him not a word for the

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king's command was, do not answer him.

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That is such a small thing that we

might overlook, but that shows you

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the type of leader that Hezekiah was.

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That though this.

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Foreign army that had surrounded

the city and things were going

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really bad for Judah though.

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They were standing there taunting

them, saying, we're going to

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destroy you and wipe you out.

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Still here.

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Hezekiah has such an influence

on his people, that the people

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don't even, they don't fear, they

don't panic, they don't respond.

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They don't say, oh no, you're right.

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What should we do?

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They obey the king because that

was the influence the king had.

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Yeah.

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Hezekiah's legacy is pretty remarkable.

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He's one of the few people in scripture

that has the appendage to his name,

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all that he did all that was right

in the eyes of the Lord according to

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all that his father David had done.

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Yeah.

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So when it comes to the line of Davidic

Kings, David is always the preeminent one.

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He's the one who is the standard for the

rest, the way that Jarone functions and

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the northern kingdom on the bad side.

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Yeah.

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David is the corresponding.

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Virtuous King of the Southern Kingdom.

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And here you have Hezekiah

who does remarkably well.

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In fact, that's the way that

Second Chronicles 29 begins.

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Hezekiah did what was right

in the eyes of the Lord.

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Verse two, according to all

that his father David had done.

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So this guy is head and shoulders

above the rest in so many ways.

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I think the only other king that gets

that designation Asa but Hezeki has

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a lot more ink here and you get to

see some of the things that he and.

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In instituted as a result of his

commitment and faithfulness to the Lord.

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And by the way, because of this

righteousness, it is Hezekiah

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that God used to preserve the

kingdom of Judah until 5 86.

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Yeah.

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Ju Hezekiah's life and leadership

came at a critical time.

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If it was anyone besides Hezekiah.

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I think the Southern Kingdom would've

been taken by Assyria in the same

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way that the Northern Kingdom was.

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As we jump over to Second Chronicles

chapter 29, remember the book of

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Chronicles is only dealing with the

Southern kingdom, so we're gonna

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get more information on a lot of the

kings in Chronicles than we do in

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the book of First and Second Kings.

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'cause you're dealing

with both sides here.

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So the second Chronicles 29, the author

dives into a little bit more detail

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about some of the things that has.

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Did, and a lot of that had to do with

the temple because of Ahaz his father

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had, and the idolatry that had crept

in and the the defilement of the

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temple that we talked about recently.

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Hezekiah was left with a temple that

really was not fit to worship the Lord.

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And so Hezekiah ordered that the

temple should be cleansed and he

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had the priests cleanse themselves

and he had them go into cleanse it

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of the idols and the filth that it

accumulated there under the reign of his.

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Of his father.

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He even had the utensils and the

vessels remade and or reconsecrated,

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depending on what the needed to

be done, to be ready for service.

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And then he had the priests

prepare themselves to resume

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their own proper roles there.

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So Hezekiah understood that the

temple needed attention because

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it lay in disrepair and we're

even gonna be talking about.

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The significance of the temple.

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Tomorrow in at church, we're gonna talk

about what was the big deal about this.

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And I think it's appropriate here

too, to point out that this was

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about Israel's relationship with God.

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That without the temple and without

the temple order restored, the

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main relationship of between God

and his people was interrupted.

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And this was not a situation

where God was gonna accept the

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worship from a defiled temple.

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And so Hezekiah went about cleansing

it, not just because of spring cleaning.

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Or even because, hey, we need to get idols

out, but because we need to do this to

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resume that right relationship with God.

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Amen.

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And part of that right relationship

is in verse 25, he stationed the

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Levites in the house of the Lord with

symbols, harps and liars among some of

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the first acts of his administration.

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And cleansing the temple is to

install the musicians once more

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to resume the worship of God.

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And he says here it was according to

the commandment of David and of Gad, the

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king seer, and of Nathan, the prophet,

four, the commandment was from the Lord.

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Through his prophets.

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In other words, even though David is

usually the guy who is understood to

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be the spearhead for installing worship

in the temple, this was God's plan.

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God wanted his people to sing to him,

and this is why Hezekiah is held in

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high regard because he does this.

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He facilitates the people

returning to him in their singing.

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You're about to go to church

soon and you're gonna do the same

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thing you're joining with the

Saints of Old to sing to the Lord.

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It's right, it's good.

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This is what God desires and that's

why we still do it today in the church.

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Hey, here's a curve ball for you.

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Some people may know that there are.

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Maybe their family members, somebody

else, friends that are part of Church

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of Christ, and they argue that the

precedent for worship should be simply

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the instruments of our voices, that we

shouldn't have any instruments in church.

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And they would even go so far as you

don't see any biblical command that you

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need to have instruments in the church.

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And it's wrong to have the guitars.

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It's wrong to have the drums.

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It's wrong to have the pianos out there.

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So a bit obscure, maybe you haven't

heard that argument, but it, there's

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universities out there that are.

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Church of Christ Uni Pepperdine

University was Church of Christ.

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Is that right?

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I didn't know that.

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Yeah.

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I thought they were always Catholic.

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Wow.

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Yeah, they were Church of Christ.

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And there's others out there as well.

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So talk to the person that says

why is it okay that we have

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guitars and pianos and things?

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Is there a parallel that we can see here

with the command to use these instruments?

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That we can pull over to the church,

even though this isn't the church per se.

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Yeah.

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The issue at hand is the distinction

between the regulative and the normative.

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The question is whether scripture

regulates or norms, does scripture

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regulate our worship expression by saying,

you must use these instruments, or you

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must approach God in these precise ways?

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Or does it norm our worship in saying

this is how it should function?

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Do you see the difference?

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The Regulat says it must be

done in these precise ways.

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Versus normative tells us this

is the way it's supposed to work.

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One gives you a lot more freedom to

approach God, and the other says, no,

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it's gotta be in these particular ways.

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Let me just start by saying there's

good arguments on both sides, and

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there's Godly people who believe

that the regulative principle governs

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the way that they approach God.

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In fact, some churches will

only sing Psalms to God.

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Yeah.

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They will only use Psalms.

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No, Phil Wickham, no.

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No Gettys, none of that.

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They only use the Psalms themselves.

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The Psalms proper.

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That is the book of Psalms, and for

some of them, they'll only sing acapella

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because they don't believe that it's

helpful to bring in instrumentation.

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They wanna hear the

voices of God's people.

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On and on it goes.

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Now, obviously if you go to our

church, you know that we fall under,

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not the regulative, but the normative

principle, which is to say that

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God establishes the pattern for

worship that he loves and accepts.

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And that pattern for us is

adapted to our cultural context.

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So in our case, we don't

use liars and harps.

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We use guitars and basses and

drums and things like that.

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There's a lot of similarity more

than there are differences, but

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we think that God allows for this

because you see the expression of

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worship all throughout scripture.

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And we see God appealing to his people

according to their specific context.

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Even think about this, when we talk

about the future of God's rulership

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and rain, we talk about gates.

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You talked about this on the last podcast.

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Gates does God's kingdom of gates.

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What kind of gates are we talking about?

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Are we talking about electric fences

where the gates open because you hit a

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button and they open from side to side or

they gates that someone has to actually

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use, like in the first century where

there's a lock that they build, they,

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ropes and they, there's some iron bars.

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Often we look at scripture and we say, God

is speaking to us in our language, at our

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level, almost like he's using baby talk.

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And so our job is to take what

Scripture says and then to apply

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it to our specific context.

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And we believe that God allows for us

to have freedom in our expression in

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so far as it does not violate scripture

in so far as we're not doing things

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that would actively dishonor God.

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So for instance, if we're in the

heart of Africa, we might use.

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Different kinds of drums and flutes

and instruments that we may not

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use in our current Western context.

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If we are in one of the Asian countries,

we might use an entirely different

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set of instrumentation because

it's a way to express God's glory.

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So here's what I mean by that.

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When we go to heaven, every tribe,

tongue, and nation is gonna be

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represented, giving glory to God,

and I bet our instrumentation and

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our approach to God in our worship

is not going to just be our voices.

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I think God is glorified through the

multiplicity of instrumentation that's

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used to bring glory to his name.

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And I think that's an

expression of God's character.

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God himself is a varied God.

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Think about when you go outside,

different flowers and different trees

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and different different kinds of grasses.

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Even.

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I found out I was trying to fix my

grass recently, and I found out there's

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seven different types of grass you can

plant in your yards here in North Texas.

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I have always, I've always understood,

there's only been like a couple in

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my mind that I could even count off.

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God is a God of variety and variety

speaks to his beauty and that beauty

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is best represented in our worship.

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And so that's why briefly

we will subscribe to the.

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Normative principle as

opposed to the regulatory.

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But there's arguments on both sides.

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We're not mad at you if you believe

in the regulatory principle, but we're

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probably not gonna go to the same church.

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And that's okay.

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Yeah.

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And that's, this is a second tier issue.

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Maybe even third tier issue.

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This is not one the problem comes when

somebody tries to take what their church

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does and apply it and say, this is the

only way you have to do it this way.

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That's what you're saying.

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If you're unfaithful.

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If you don't do it the way

I think you should do it.

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Yeah.

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And we have to be super careful

about that, that there's very

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few things that we, as Christians

can say, you're out of bounds.

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If you don't do things this

way, and there are some, but

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very few things on that front.

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Chapter 30 as part of this reformation

that has the kind of institutes

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here, he's in the rest of chapter 29.

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They're sacrificing, there's parallels

even to the Day of Atonement.

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It's almost like he's saying,

let's do all of the big feast

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to all the same time here.

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Let's do all of these things.

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And because it had been so

long, I appreciate his el.

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Yeah chapter 30, he says, we

need to do the Passover too.

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And you were even talking about

God's God's permission and

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even flexibility here because.

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It they're not able to observe the

Passover at the date and time that they

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were supposed to according to the law.

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Why?

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Because the priests weren't ready yet.

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They hadn't consecrated themselves yet.

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And so as AKI declares, let's

still do it, but we're just

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gonna do it on a different day.

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And that's what they do.

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And this is such a win for the people

that it says that there was never,

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that the amount of joy that was present

there, there was no passer that had

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been celebrated like this since.

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The time of David that this was

the ultimate for the people.

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And that's even gonna be surpassed

later on again, as we're gonna see here.

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But for now, this was a banner

day for the people of Israel.

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This was the feast.

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This was the pinnacle of their religious

observances because it remembered.

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God's faithfulness to bring

them out of exile in Egypt.

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And you gotta think that's something

that was so significant for them

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that was only really gonna be sur

surpassed later on after the people

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returned from exile again, this

time, not in Egypt, but in Babylon.

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We're not to Babylon yet but Hesi

does really well here in chapter 30

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with this remembering the Passover.

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Yeah.

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What's really interesting here is that

God wants their Passover sacrifices,

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even though they're not the right way,

they're not done in the precise way that

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he tells 'em they should be doing it.

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Which is fascinating because under the

Old Covenant, God was really precise.

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He was particular about the way

that he wanted them to approach him.

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But what makes this acceptable is that

their hearts are in the right place.

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Yeah, it is.

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Almost as if God is saying it is by your

faith that you're gonna be right with me.

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It's almost as if God is highlighting

the fact that the, even though the

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prescription matters how God wants him to

worship him, what he really cares about

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is not their sacrifices but their heart.

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And that's why, even though it's

not the right way, he accepts it.

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Even though prior to this they would

offer sacrifices to God perhaps in the

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right way, but he didn't accept it.

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Yeah.

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Do you see the interesting parallel there?

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On the one hand, he accepts it.

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If it's imperfect.

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On the other hand, he didn't accept

it, even though it was quote unquote

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perfect, perfectly timed, perhaps

the perfect animal, but didn't accept

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it because her heart wasn't there.

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What God cares about is your heart.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 31 then hezeki begins

to put things in order.

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And so they had celebrated, they had

consecrated, everything was good, but now

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they needed to be able to sustain this.

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And so that's what chapter 31

is about, is as Hezekiah begins

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to reorganize and commission the

priest for their regular duties.

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So along with this, he commands

that the people resume their

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offerings and tithes to support.

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Of priests and the people respond

in such a super abundance that

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the priest had to make extra

storehouses to, to supply the thing.

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So this is a godly leader has such a

great impact on the, his people when

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they see Hezekiah really take the

lead and say, Hey, we're gonna, we're.

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We're gonna be serious about

our relationship with the Lord.

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The people respond and they respond

in a way that, that they are eager

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for this and longing for this.

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And you can see that even just in

the response that the fact that they

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have to build storehouses for these

offerings that are being brought

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because the people are so excited to

be consecrated once again, back to

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the Lord, faithfulness of the leader.

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We'll reflect in the

faithfulness of the people.

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We sometimes will hear this phrase,

the, as the leader goes, so goes the

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people speed of the leader, speed

of the people, that kind of thing.

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And that's true as far as it goes.

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But I love the idea of saying it's

the faithfulness of the leader that

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really sets the tone and the tempo

for the faithfulness of the people.

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And here you see this act.

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Acted out through Hezekiah's leadership.

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This functions all the way down the chain.

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It's not just the king and his

people, it's the father in his people.

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It's the employer in his people.

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So keep that in mind.

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If you have any influence in your

family or in your community, recognize

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that you're setting an example that

other people will largely follow.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That a great word.

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I was thinking of the same thing,

especially about dads in the home.

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Yeah.

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Psalm 48.

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Is connected here because it seems

like this would've been perhaps one

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of the songs that was being sung

during the dedication of the temple.

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It's a psalm of celebration.

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It's a psalm of joy and it fits well

in the context of everything else that

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was happening during Hezekiah's Reign.

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So this is a psalm that is simply

attributed to the Sons of Cora.

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So we don't have a, an.

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A specific author or specific man there.

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But it does include these elements of

celebration, like verse 11, let Mount

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Zion be glad, let the daughters of

Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

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And so these 14 verses are

verses of a, of people that are

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excited about what God is doing.

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And so I think that the

editors of this plan said, man.

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This seems to fit really well

here with Hezekiah's reforms.

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Was this Psalm immediately?

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Do we know that for sure?

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No, we don't know that for sure,

but it does fit the context.

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Yeah.

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Thematically, it's a great fit and

then I think it works really well

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because this is one of the things

that Hezekiah, again, focused on.

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It was his installation, his

reinstallation of the musicians

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and the worship leaders that

make him such a remarkable man

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on top of all these other things.

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It was the heart, it was the worship,

all the, all of it was there.

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It was the whole package,

which is again, why he is.

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He is compared to David as being one

of the few people in terms of the

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Judean Kings who did all according

to his father David had done.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hezekiah's a good one.

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And if you're looking for a name for

your next kid to be born, your next

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son, male or female, maybe has Hezekiah,

has, he has pj, and then enter your

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last name there, Roderick Marcus.

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What's Mark's middle name?

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I don't know.

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Probably Tom or something.

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Mark, what's your middle name?

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Mark.

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We don't know.

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Pastor Mark, what's your middle name?

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It's Pastor Mark.

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That's probably what his middle name is.

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Pastor.

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And then Mark.

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And then Mark.

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That's prophetic for his parents.

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Yeah.

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Alright, y'all, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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G, we thank you for lives like Hezeki

that we can look at and want to emulate

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and desire to to model and mimic.

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And we just pray that you'd raise

up more godly men like Hezekiah in

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our families, in our churches, in

our workplaces, that we would find

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more men willing to lead this way and

to say, we are gonna do things the

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way that God wants us to do things.

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And that's the end of the story.

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God, we pray that you would make

us a church full of men like

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this, men that, that lead this

way Lord, that we would have.

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Women that are zealous for you to this

degree as well, that, that love you, that

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want to do things in the right way, to

do things in the biblical way as well.

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God, we wanna be a people saturated

with this kind of commitment to

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you that overflows into a joy.

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We want our church to be a place that

people rejoice in being because they

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love that we are all about Christ and

all about our relationship with you.

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So we ask that would

be true of our church.

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We pray this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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