00:00 Introduction and Updates

00:22 Book Recommendations

02:47 Deep Dive into 1 Kings Chapter 16

10:33 Jehoshaphat's Reign in 2 Chronicles 17

15:35 Lessons and Reflections

16:09 Conclusion and Sign-Off

Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Today is June 26th, 2024.

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Back with you again,

pastor PG is still out.

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And that's not changing anytime soon in.

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In fact, let's see, we have one.

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I think we have six more to go before

pastor PJ returns, but who's counting.

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Certainly not, I.

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Actually I'm counting every day.

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I can't wait for him to be back.

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But until then, A couple of things

that I think might be helpful.

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I love reading and I'm sure

many of you do as well.

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Um, and so I constantly.

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Uh, am reading something or several,

some things that kind of piqued my

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interest for this or that reason.

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So I have a book recommendation.

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I always have more.

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In fact, if you're on good reads, I do.

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Oh, okay.

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I haven't been super faithful with this.

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But I have been working more

to post what I'm reading in.

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Good reads.

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And to actually mark it red when

I'm done with this, sometimes

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I'll get into this weird stink.

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Or funky.

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That's probably the

word I was looking for.

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There's weird funk

where I'll start a book.

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But I won't mark that.

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I finish it, even though I had finished

it and I moved on months ago, perhaps

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I will leave it there on good reads.

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But I've been doing better this year.

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So if you're on good reads, I'm on.

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Good reads it.

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Look me up.

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Um, rod Gomez.

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And maybe we can share some

books that we're reading.

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So one of the books that I read

recently that I gave five stars and

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I don't hand that out pretty often.

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I try to keep my five stars.

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Rare.

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Because I want them to

be the best of the best.

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I want to be able to go back and look

at a book list and say, oh, these

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are the ones that I thought were

worth giving five stars to those are

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usually going to be the books that

I'll reread at some point in time.

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Four stars means pretty good for me.

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I like it I'd recommend it.

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Three stars means, man, that was good.

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Good, but not great.

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Anyway, latest book.

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I gave five stars.

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It's a short one, too.

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It's how can I love church

members with different politics?

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It's by two authors, Jonathan

Leeman, and Andy Naselli.

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Uh, both of those guys thoughtful wise.

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Godly men.

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I suspect.

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But this particular work on how can I love

church members with different politics?

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I found especially helpful.

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Clarifying and useful given our

current context, as we approach

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another, uh, presidential debates

and presidential election.

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I feel like we're always in those today.

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Now you have a resource to help

you navigate through some of the

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complexities that we're inevitably

going to confront together.

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So I would highly recommend that.

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How can I love church members

with different politics by

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Jonathan Leeman, Andy Naselli.

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And if you're on good reads, find me.

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I'd love to have additional

friends on there.

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Okay.

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That's all I got.

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I hope you guys are doing well.

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Keep on reading your Bibles.

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That's a good thing.

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I'm not closing the podcast.

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I realize it sounds that way.

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That's pastor PJ's tagline.

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Before we close the

podcast, I'm not doing that.

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I'm just glad that you're doing it.

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And I'm glad that you're continuing

to listen to the podcast.

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Hopefully this is a good supplement

to what you're already doing.

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Without further ado, let's

jump in first Kings chapter 16.

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Now in this chapter.

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We're going to cover, I think,

five different Israelite Kings.

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That's a lot of Kings.

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Over one single chapter.

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And what's more interesting

about this is that.

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First and second Kings are

the only books to cover.

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The Northern Israelite Kings.

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Chronicles only Chronicles

the Judy at the Judean Kings.

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Which is partly the reason it's written.

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So the.

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Uh, the Judean Kings are the only ones.

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Who remain faithful to God by and large.

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And Judah are the only people

to come back into their land.

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The Israelites are scattered.

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I don't know where they are.

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I don't know what happened to them.

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Ah, God knows where they are.

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God knows what happened.

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But they're not included

after the, the exile.

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Judah is, which is why Chronicles

focuses so much on them.

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And which is why we think Chronicles

is probably written to the post

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exilic people to help encourage them

that God has not forgotten them.

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He's taken them through all

different kinds of seasons.

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He could be trusted now.

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But in first Kings chapter 16,

we're looking at five Israelite

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Kings again, Northern kingdom.

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We start in an awkward

place because remember.

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And chapter 15 or first Kings.

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We start the introduction to

bearish as rain in Israel.

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Now, banish is also fascinating

because he reigns for 24 years.

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And this is not a short rain.

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I would expect a lot more ink

to be spilled on this guy.

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But there's not a lot now.

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Just to quickly remind you here.

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Basha is used by God to

eliminate JIRA Boams line.

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Uh, huh.

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Genealogy.

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Nate dab is killed along with

all of Jeroboam offspring.

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And so now Basha, or by Asha,

depending on how you want to

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pronounce it, but let's go with BHO.

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He's now in line he's leading

and J who the son of Namie.

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Uh, preaches and prophesies against

a Basha and he says, look, because

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I exalted you, you did not honor me.

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This is God speaking to him.

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I'm going to utterly sweep

away Basha and his house.

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And by the way, Because you're

sitting in a similar way to JIRA.

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Boom, they're going to receive

a similar sentence to JIRA.

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Boom.

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You send it the same way you get the same.

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Uh, same punishment, same consequence.

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He says in verse four, and this

is important because we're going

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to see this again later, refer to.

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Anyone belonging to Basha who dies

in the city, the dogs shall eat.

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And anyone who dies in the

field, the birds of the heavens.

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Shall eat.

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In other words, Ignominious burial.

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And this is not a good thing to remember.

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This is a big deal to

the ancient Israelite.

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They wanted burial.

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It was an honor.

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Honor was a big deal.

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Shame was also a big deal.

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And so for them to not receive an

honorable burial was a slap in the face.

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It was not a good thing.

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So this is God saying, look.

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You slapped me in the face.

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You dishonor me, I'm

going to dishonor you.

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And this is what that looks like.

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Well, starting at verse five all

the way through verse seven here.

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There's not a whole lot

left Elsa about bashes rain.

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Except the fact that

he's a buried in tears.

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And ILA his son reigns in his place.

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Now one interesting

thing here is that he's.

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I mean, again, all the Kings in

the Northern kingdom are going

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to be given the same verdict.

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Um, he does evil in the sight of

the Lord, provoking him to anger and

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consequently he's he's cursed of God.

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So that's it bash has reign of 24

years, despite it being so long, doesn't

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have a whole lot to say about it.

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Now his son picks up.

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My son, his name Isla.

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He's the only air.

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That will reign in a Northern kingdom.

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In fact, Isla only rains for two years.

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He covers verses eight through

14 here, still in first Kings

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chapter 16, two years enters a.

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But.

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And we have nothing about his reign,

except the fact that Zimri his chariot

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commander rises up against him.

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He rises up against him

when he's getting drunk.

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Uh, in one of his friend's houses and

Zimri comes, strikes him down now.

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I remember Zimmer is a cherry commander.

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And so he begins.

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Uh, CU successfully,

at least at this point.

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And he begins to reign in his place.

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Zimri.

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Now.

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Uh, Zimri doesn't last, very long.

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Um, but let me just say this.

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One of the things that Zimri does is he

strikes down the whole house of Basha.

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So remember we just read a few

moments ago that God curses Basha

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by saying, look, you're not going to

have anybody in your house leftover.

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Uh, and Zimri is the instrument

of God's judgment in this case.

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So Zimri affects the

judgment that God issues.

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And the proceeding versus now in

verses 15 through 20, you have Zimmer's

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rain, which is only seven days.

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So this guy.

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He rises up against his master.

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He's again, a chariot commander,

which Hey, great for you.

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Nope.

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Not that I'm judging that, but

he's only, he's only a chariot

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commander, so it makes perfect sense.

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When all Israel hears at Zimri

has conspired against the king.

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They make AAMRI the commander

of the army king over Israel.

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That makes a lot more sense.

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Doesn't it?

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AAMRI the commander of

the army P becomes king.

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And so Omri went up from GitHub

and all Israel with him and they

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besieged tears at tears is where,

uh, or Zimring is holding court.

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This is working, they're

not holding court.

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This is where Zimri resides.

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It's is, is.

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Place of residence.

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So here in tears.

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They surround him.

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Uh, they, they make quick work of it in

Zimri recognizes that the battle's over.

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He has not a chance in the world.

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And so instead of honorably

dying, he commit suicide by

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setting his house on fire.

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And then his story ends there.

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Zimri is rain finishes and Omri.

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Now remember the Omri.

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Henri is the commander of the army.

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His reign begins in verses 21 and

extends all the way through verse 28.

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Now Omri has a slight,

slightly longer rain.

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He's raining for 12 years.

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He doesn't do well, though.

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God's verdict on him is brought pretty

quickly, but before we get there, let

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me just point out here in verse 24, he

buys the hill of Samarria from shimmer

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for two talents, and he establishes

some Marriott as his new capital.

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So Samarria becomes a thing

under armory's leadership and

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that's going to stick around.

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You'll.

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Remember Jesus meets a Samaritan woman

at the well in John chapter four.

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And you'll can, you can see why there's

such a stigma associated with Samaritans.

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They're considered half-breeds.

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They're considered people that have.

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Compromised their commitment to the Lord.

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And certainly this is partially true.

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So Omri in verse 25 is, has

done what is evil in the sight

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of the Lord and get this.

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He says, God says he did more

evil than all who were before him.

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Keep that one in mind, we're going to come

back to that sentence in a few moments.

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But in any case he does bad.

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It's not a good situation.

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He dies.

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Now, perhaps one of the worst things

that Henri does is that he passes

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on the king ship to his son, Ahab.

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Now Ahab, we're going to spend a lot

of time on, we only begin talking

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about him in this chapter, but

we're going to keep talking about

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him all the way through chapter 22.

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So we have five or so chapters

ahead of us about Ahab.

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But a habit rains for 22 years.

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So he's got a substantial

rain under his belt.

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And it's not a good one.

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Now, as you can already tell, look

at verse 30, this is the verse I

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wanted to point out to a rehab.

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The son of armory did evil

in the sight of the Lord.

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More than all who were before him.

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No, that sounds familiar.

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That's because you've

heard it about his dad.

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Just a few verses ago.

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And so Ahab decides to have an ungodly

competition and successfully does more

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evil than even his dad before him.

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And so he doesn't treat it as a, he

doesn't treat it as a heavy thing

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to walk against the law of God.

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He treats his treats it as a light thing.

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And of course, one of the worst

decisions he ever made was to marry

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a woman by the name of Jesse belt.

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And she is the daughter of F bale

king of the And consequently,

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it was his marriage to her.

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That led him into all of this idolatry,

all of this, uh, Asherah worship and bale

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worship and yada, yada, yada there's.

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It just goes on and on.

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Well, that's the beginning of his

awful rain and it continues on

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for several more chapters, but

that's first Kings chapter 16.

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If you turn it second

Chronicles, chapter 17.

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We read about a man named Jehoshaphat's

now Jehoshaphat's is the son of EISA

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EISA did good for the most part.

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Remember he didn't die very well.

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He had the disease in his feet,

trusting the physicians, not the Lord.

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That's the end of chapter

16 and second Chronicles.

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But in chapter 17, you get to

see a few of the highlights.

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For king Jehoshaphat.

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Now he has a long reign as well, 25 years.

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And his story extends from

second Chronicles, chapter 17,

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all the way through verse 20.

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So we have several chapters ahead

of us to talk about these two Kings.

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We're going to spend a lot of

time working through Kings.

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First of all.

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Because there's a lot of,

a lot written about Ahab.

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But regarding Jehoshaphat's it says here

in verse three, that the Lord is with him.

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Because he walked in the

earlier ways of his father.

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David didn't seek the

bales, but sought God.

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The God of his father and

walked in his commandments.

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And I want you to know notice

here in verse five, therefore,

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or the reason why God does this.

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Is because of his response

because of Jehoshaphat's response.

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God.

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Establishes the kingdom in his hand

because of how Jehoshaphat lives his life.

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Well in the third year of his

reign, which that's an interesting.

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An interesting point there.

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There are suggestions that Jehoshaphat

actually was co Regent with his dad.

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EISA for a season of time,

perhaps three or so years.

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Because of his dad's incapacity to

lead, you know, the foot disease and

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the things that were happening to

him, it's suggested that Jehoshaphat

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was co Regent with his father.

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So this third year of his reign

was probably more the first year.

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Of his individual leadership.

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In this case, he does

something highly commendable.

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So good.

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He installs leaders and teachers.

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To teach the people verse nine.

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And they taught in Judah having the

book of the law of the Lord with them.

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They went about through all the cities

of Judah and taught among the people.

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So one of the most important things

that a leader has to do is to make

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sure that the people are all marching

in the same direction, that they

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all understand the same things.

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And this is exactly what your hush about.

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Does.

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He has to help people.

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Uh, adopt a worldview, that's

consistent with something.

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And in this case, that worldview has to

be consistent with the God of the Bible.

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Anything else is

inconsistent with reality.

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The worldview that the scriptures

offer is the way things are

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and not just the way the.

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Not the way that we think they should

be or the way that we want them to be.

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The Bible gives us the

worldview that we should have.

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That's the way that things really aren't.

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So this is a great thing

for Jehoshaphat to do.

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This is the foundation of his leadership.

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He wants people to think the

right thoughts about God.

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To think the right

thoughts about themselves.

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And so it is so smart, so

wise for him to do this.

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And let me just tell you that this is

one of the reasons why we do the podcast.

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It's not just that we

like hearing our voices.

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It's actually not that at all.

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I can tell you Basser PG and myself.

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Don't like hearing our voices on a

podcast every day, but we wanted to do

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this because we know it's so important

in the infancy of our church for all

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of us, to be able to March together,

to understand some of the same things,

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to grasp some of the same concepts, to

have the same foundational material,

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supporting what we're doing as a

church, we could think of no better way.

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Then to spend time every day in the

Bible together as a church, as a people.

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And so Jehoshaphat's, that's a good

example for why we're doing this.

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We want to be blessed of God,

wants to pursue him rightly.

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And that means we all have

to have the same word.

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Undergirding what we do as a church.

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Well, versus 10 and falling to

the end of this chapter here.

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Tells us that the fear of the Lord

fell upon the kingdoms of the lands.

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They begin to have the sense of dread over

Judah and they didn't want to touch Jude.

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In fact, the Philistines

started giving them.

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You know, tribute to say, Hey, please.

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We're at peace.

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Don't don't hurt us.

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We don't want anything to do with you.

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We don't want to mess with you.

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I want you to notice here that

God brings fear in the hearts.

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Of pagan rulers.

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Uh, rulers who are not Judy, Judy

and Kings are Israelite Kings.

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He's controlling their hearts, a kid.

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I couldn't help, but think of the

proverb that says the, the heart

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of the king is like a stream of

water in the hand of the Lord.

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He directs it wherever he wills.

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God controls the human heart and

how he does that without sinning and

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doing it in perfect righteousness.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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And I don't think it's even

suggested that it's sin here.

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But I want you to notice that God is

causing those leaders to fear Judah he's

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causing them to respond in a certain way.

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Now, if you'd ask them, they would

say, well, I'm thinking about it.

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And here's my thought, and

this is why I feel this way.

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But notice it's God behind the scenes.

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Who's doing the work that ought

to give you some encouragement.

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Whoever's in the white house.

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Whoever's your Senator.

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Whoever's your, your governor.

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Don't fear that person don't in fact.

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I pray for that person.

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Hopefully you're praying a lot of things

for those people that are leaders, but

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just know God's the one who's controlling,

what their hearts do and how they respond.

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We can take comfort in that because

he's got all things under control.

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Well, and Judas.

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Uh, excuse me.

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Jehoshaphat's leadership.

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We see a lot of good things happening.

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He organizes the military,

both of Judah and of Benjamin.

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Remember they're

considered kind of one now.

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They're there one tribe, even

though they are two separate tribes,

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Benjamin and Judah working together.

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This is a great start to Jehoshaphat's

reign and something that we should seek

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to emulate being taught of the word of

God, teaching it to our kids, making

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our lives founded upon the word of God.

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And first king 16, we saw the

transition of power between

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five separate Israelite Kings.

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And the verdict on their lives.

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It was evil, it was bad.

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And in both cases, we see

again, it's the word of God.

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That's making the decision for

us, whether we follow him and

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trust him, or whether we follow

ourselves and follow our own hearts.

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I could also point out to you

that Jesse Bell's influence

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on Ahab was entirely negative.

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I can't help, but think of

Proverbs 13, 20, whoever walks

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with the wise becomes wise.

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But a companion of fools will suffer harm.

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Don't forget.

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That's true.

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That's true.

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Is today.

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It is true today, as

much as it was yesterday.

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All right.

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That's all I got for today in

today's daily Bible podcast.

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Thanks so much for joining me and I

hope you found this helpful, and I look

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forward to seeing you all again tomorrow.