00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:09 Celebrating Pastor's Anniversary

00:19 Reflecting on Bible Reading Progress

01:16 Vacation Bible School Week

01:58 Monday Motivation: Focus on Christ

04:50 Daily Bible Reading: Second Chronicles 28

05:08 King Ahaz's Reign and Idolatry

13:49 Second Kings 16: Ahaz's Further Wickedness

15:33 Fall of the Northern Kingdom

18:12 Origin of the Samaritans

22:04 Closing Prayer and Reflections

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome to Monday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Again, just solo this morning, or

whenever you happen to be listening to

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this with a without pastor out here.

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Because this past weekend, when

we normally court on Saturdays,

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they were out celebrating their

anniversary, him and his wife.

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So, uh, once again, happy

anniversary again to pastor,

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rod and Kristin, but we're back.

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And we are here with not as many

chapters as we covered yesterday, seven

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chapters in the book of Micah, but

we covered an entire book yesterday.

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So think about that.

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I mean, An entire book of the Bible.

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You read a full book yesterday,

which is, which is pretty great.

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Pretty awesome.

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So good job.

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Well done.

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Good job.

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Just sticking with this

plant and we're we're.

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Coming up on seven months into this now.

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And, uh, we've, we've read a lot

of scripture to this point and, uh,

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we're making a lot of progress and

hopefully you're benefiting from

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this plan, this chronological plan.

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I know that I have been

benefiting from it.

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Just being able to see the.

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Interaction between Kings and Chronicles.

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And now the profits being

sprinkled in there too.

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I hope it's not too many moving pieces,

but that it's a helpful benefit to you.

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Don't put too much pressure on yourself

on is if you walk away and go, okay.

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I grabbed a few things from that.

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And I'm not sure if I wrap my

mind around the whole thing or

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if I understood it completely.

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That's okay.

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It's okay to walk away and

just say, you know what?

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I got a couple of things.

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That's good.

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And hold onto those things.

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Uh, yeah, but it's it's Monday and

it is vacation Bible school week.

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It's officially upon us.

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This is going to be a great week.

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We can't wait for it.

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Six to 9:00 PM each night, this week.

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Uh, we're going to be having,

uh, 85 little ones, if not more.

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By this time, a gathering at founders

classical academy where we're doing this.

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Vacation Bible school theme

on the jungle adventure.

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There's going to be a great skit.

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There's going to be awesome music.

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Good teaching.

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It's going to be such a good time.

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Hey, if you're not.

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Uh, part of our local church family here,

it comes Bible church, north, Texas.

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I know we've got some

others who listened to us.

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If you could pray for

this week, we just are.

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We're excited about it.

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It's our first one as a church.

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And, uh, we're, we're looking forward

to seeing what God does through it.

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So pray for that.

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I think it's going to be an awesome,

awesome week, but it is Monday, right.

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And sometimes Mondays can be.

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Discouraging.

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Uh, they can be.

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Oh, man, here comes another week.

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Ah, man, I got to get up and go to

work again, or I'm going through the

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same routine again or whatever that is.

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And, and I was encouraged by an

article that I read not long ago.

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That just.

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I had a simple idea in it and

it was, Hey, you know what?

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It's it's within our purview.

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It's it's within our

ability to wake up each day.

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And, and to choose to focus on Christ

instead of everything else going on

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around us, instead of all of the.

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The deadlines that maybe we have,

or we've got the bills mounting

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up, or we've got the strain on a

relationship that is important to

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us, or we've got a health concern.

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This author just said

it's it's, it's ours.

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Now.

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As believers in Christ through the

spirit, every single day, we get up.

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Be able to choose to focus

on Jesus, to focus on Jesus.

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What, what does this

day look like for me to.

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To glorify you in how I go about it.

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What does this day look like for

me to glorify you in the way that I

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talk to my coworkers, the way that

I talked to my family members, the

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way that I talked to my kids, the

way that I talked to my neighbors.

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How does this day?

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Service as another opportunity for me.

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To exalt Christ today.

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We get to do that.

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You all have.

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That is not something that those

outside the church get to do.

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They don't have that purpose this

morning when they get out of bed

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and that's tragic, but they don't.

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They don't get to say, man, today's a day.

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I get to live for Jesus.

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They're waking up going.

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Today's the day I'm living for myself.

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And that's hard to do.

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Because everybody else in this

world is living for themselves.

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And a lot of times.

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Those buttheads my agenda butts heads

with the agenda of the people in the

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car in front of me at the stoplight, my

agenda butts heads with my boss's agenda.

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My agenda.

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Ted's with my wife's agenda.

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Right.

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If, if, if we're just focused

on man, Here's another day

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for me to just live from me.

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That's a horrible existence.

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It's the case of the Mondays?

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No, it's the case of the

everydays with that because it's,

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it's such a, uh, self-focused.

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Existence that.

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That they're left to live, but

Christian, it's different for us.

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We get today.

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To say, how can I live this with

eternal significance by exalting

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Christ through the day that I, the

way that I conduct myself today?

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The smallest of things that we do today.

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I have eternal consequences,

Amor ramifications.

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The little things that you do today, it's.

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An opportunity to store up

treasure for yourself in heaven.

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So how cool is that to think about just

an encouraging thought, hopefully on this

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Monday to get you motivated to get you.

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Excited about the week in front of

you, because not everybody gets to

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do VBS with compass Bible church,

north, Texas from six to 9:00 PM.

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And look forward to that.

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Not everybody gets that opportunity,

but Hey, if you're a Christian

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out there, every Christian has the

opportunity to exalt Christ today.

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With that in mind, let's turn

to our daily Bible reading.

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Second Chronicles, chapter 28.

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Second Kings chapter 16 and

17 second Chronicles 28.

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We've got a has.

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Okay.

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If you were with us yesterday,

you listened to that.

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The DBR podcast on Mica.

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Micah prophesied during a house's rain.

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And a has a sandwich between Jonathan

has a kind of a, has, was he was

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the spoiled meat of the sandwich.

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I mean, this guy is not a good

dude in any way, shape or form.

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Uh, and so he takes the throne there

in Judah, after Jonathan dies and

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he's going to rain for 16 years.

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Just doing evil and following in

the ways of the Kings of Israel.

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That that, that alone right there.

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Like if we just stop right there

and it says, you know what.

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He followed or verse two, he walked

in the ways of the Kings of Israel.

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That's never going to

be a commendable thing.

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That's never going to be a good thing.

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You're never going to want to

hear that and go, oh, Oh, okay.

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He walked in the ways of the

Kings of Israel, man, maybe

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this guy did, did a good job.

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Nope.

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He didn't because why?

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Because the Northern kingdom.

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That was, was marked by king after

king, after king, after king, after

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king, after king, after king, who

just did what was evil in God's sight?

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Again.

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Yeah.

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J who may have been, uh, an aberration

from that pattern, but still.

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Didn't do great in the end.

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But by and large, the patterns of

the Kings of Israel, evil wickedness.

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And so when you read about a king

of the south, the Southern kingdom,

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and you read that they walked in

the ways of the Kings of Israel.

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Oh man.

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That was a horrible statement for

the, the writer of Kings to make.

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Or the writer of Chronicles to make.

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That was saying, this guy is not good and

it it's made evident for us right away.

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In verse three, well, verse two,

he makes metal images for bales.

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So he's sitting up idols there in Judah.

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He is setting up idols, false idols

to the gods of the nations there.

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But look at verse three, he made offerings

in the valley of the sun of a gnome.

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Anytime you see the valley of

Hinnom, it's not going to be good.

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Bad things happen there.

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In fact, eventually this becomes the

place where they look at it and it's,

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it takes on the name Gahanna, which is

the same word that is used for hell.

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Uh, in the new Testament.

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So it's not that this is the actual

location of hell, but the things that

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took police there were so abominable

that it got that reputation and.

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Came to be associated the

name of it with hell itself.

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So the valley of a gnome and he

went there and it says that he

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offered his we'll keep it PG.

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He offered his sons.

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There, according to the abominations

of the nations, whom the Lord have

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driven out before the people of Israel.

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Uh, yeah, offered his son as his what?

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Second king says.

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Um, here, it says plural sons, uh, He

brought either one child or multiple.

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It.

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And he offered this child to the God

Molech and if you don't know anything

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about Molek again, just because

we've got some little ears listening

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to the podcast, want to keep it.

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Uh, PG as much as we possibly can.

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Parents, you can look up Molek um, Just

an awful horrendous despicable thing.

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And, uh, Th this was, was different.

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Um, then what we look around and see

in our present society and culture

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in the form of, of, uh, of abortion.

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Uh, however it, uh, the

same idea is present here.

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Uh, the sacrifice of our children.

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And that has never led to a nation.

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Um, being blessed by God that is

never led to anything good happening

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to any people or, or nation when

they are sacrificing their children.

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And here you have.

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Uh, he has is the head of Judah, the head

of, of Jerusalem, of the Southern kingdom.

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Doing this and it's, it's just awful.

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And, uh, and, and so.

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You know, I find it.

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So.

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Troubling.

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W for example, you go to a,

you go to a baseball game here.

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Okay.

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What happens in the

seventh inning stretch?

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Well, You're going to stand up.

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You might sing, take me out to

the ballgame, but the other thing

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that is often sung during the

seventh inning stretch of baseball

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games is God bless America.

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And I just, I struggle so much

and I'll be honest with you.

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I can't sing that song.

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Because the question that comes

to my mind, every time I hear

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that song is why would he, why.

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Why would he bless us right now?

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Look at what is happening in our nation.

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Look at the, the godlessness

look at the depravity.

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Look at.

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The sacrifice of the unborn.

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That is taking place and, and we

would be so bold as to stand up and

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put our hand over our heart and sing.

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God bless America.

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I mean.

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What are we doing here?

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Uh, we, we need to understand

that the gravity of our situation

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and not to ask his blessing upon

a nation that is not repentant.

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Not to ask his blessing upon

a nation that is not following

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him in any way, shape or form.

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Sidetrack Pastora is not here

to keep me on, on, on course.

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That's my 2 cents on that issue anyways.

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A has is a bad dude.

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And, and so, uh, he's offering his son in.

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I'm sitting at bales and setting up.

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Uh, these false gods and, and so in

response, what's going to happen?

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Well, the Lord's going to

bring Syria and Israel.

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Okay.

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We've been reading about this.

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We read about it in Micah.

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We've been seeing different

prophecies allude to this.

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Here it is.

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And so you've got, you've

got Syria and you've got.

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Israel coming against Jerusalem here.

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And so Israel's wrath against her.

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Her kin here is going to

be so great and so violent.

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And they're going to take some of

the, the inhabitants of, of Judah.

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Eh, they're going to take them

captive back to the Northern kingdom.

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So great.

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Is this that there's this little

interlude where God sends a prophet.

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To Israel and says, Hey.

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Hey, Hey.

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Hey, not so fast.

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You need to remember your own sin in

all of this and, and you know what you

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need to send these captives back because

what you're doing is, is going too far

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from what I had had ordained to, to,

for you to do, or too far from what I

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had had decreed for you to do her or.

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Ordered for you to do here.

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So he sends this prophet to

stop well, along with a profit.

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There's some honorable men there in

Israel who stand up to their brothers

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and they say to them, Hey, look, you're

going to take these captains back in.

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After the people simply

left their prisoners behind.

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They're like, we'll find where we

won't do it, what we're going to

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do, but we're not taking them home.

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These same honorable men.

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They clothed them.

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They honor them.

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They brought them back to Judah

in verses 12 through 15 there.

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So.

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You've got all of this going

on just to catch us up.

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So a has bad guy.

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Horrible things, Israel and

Syria come against Jerusalem.

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The Israelites.

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Their own kinsmen and depth taking

some of them captive back in, in the

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application is that they were going

to put them into forced slavery.

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This was against God's

law all over the place.

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And so God intervenes with this prophet.

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And then some of these honorable

men in Israel stand up and say,

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we're not going to do this.

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And they restore them.

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They bring them back.

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Okay.

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Verses 16 through 21 there of

second Chronicles, 28, 8 has then

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reaches out to a Syria because

the pressure is still on him.

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And the pressure is still on

him for both Syria and Israel.

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So he reaches out to a Syria for help.

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Instead of humbling

himself before the Lord.

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And so a has again, he

just doesn't get it.

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He had an opportunity to recognize that

this was as a result of his sinfulness,

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that this was in response to his evil and

his wickedness, but instead of humbling

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himself and turning to the Lord, he's

going to go to, uh, Syria for help.

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And we're going to see in just

a minute in second Kings 16, a

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series going to comply initially.

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But this deliverance that he's hoping for

is never going to come from the Assyrians.

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In fact, they two are ultimately

going to come against Jerusalem.

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And so.

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Uh, that's where it says that in

verse 16, at that time king Ahab

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sent to the king of Syria for

help for the Edomites had invaded.

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Uh, defeated Judah and carried away.

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The captives would just read about

that and the Philistines were, were

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causing problems and so forth and so on.

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So look at verse 20.

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So Tiglath-Pileser who is the king of

Assyria came against him and afflicted

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him instead of strengthening him.

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So this backfires on it, he has, yeah,

he's going to help a little bit there.

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But ultimately the Assyrians are going

to want Jerusalem for themselves too.

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And so this is just because he's

not humbling himself because

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he's not turning to the Lord.

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Things are going from

bad to worse for a has.

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And Judah here.

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Versus 22 to 27, then eight

has never learned his lesson.

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Uh, he just continues to

multiply his idolatry.

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We're going to see that even more so.

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Again, in second Kings chapter 16.

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But he just continues to multiply his

idolatry towards the end of his life.

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Any sacrifices to the gods of his enemies,

even thinking that they might help him,

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that the way that they helped his enemies.

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And he turns Judah into this idolatrous.

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Idolatrous Haven is basically, that's

the only way I can describe it for you.

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It's this place where.

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Idols ruled in and rained.

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And not really because God is ruling

and reigning, but that's what a

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has had done there in this area.

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So just an awful, awful

king, a bad king, a has.

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A Hab.

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Uh, there's some similarities there

and there sounds even just bad

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guys, bad Kings king, a bad guy.

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Okay.

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That second Chronicles,

28 now second king 16.

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Gives a lot of parallel, but also

fills in some gaps for us there.

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So in second, Kings 16, we also

read about the reign of a house.

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And so this chapter covers a lot

of the same ground that we just

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covered in second Chronicles, 28.

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But there's more detail in second king 16.

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About a, has his interactions

with the Assyrians specifically?

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About his embracing their idolatrous

alter and building a replica of

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it that he places in the temple.

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And remove the bronze altar from

the temple, and then commands that

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sacrifice you should be made on this

idolatrous temple, uh, alter there.

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So again, a has.

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Horrible guy.

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It's the second king 16 gives us this

greater picture that in all of this, he.

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It gets into bed with the, a serious,

so to speak, uh, religiously.

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By sending somebody who

sees their altar there.

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And it's like, oh, I love this altar.

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This is so good.

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Then he commands that a model of it

be built and he takes this idolatrous

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horrible godless altar, and he puts

it in the temple in Yahweh's temple

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and pulls the bird, the bronze altar.

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Y'all always altar out of the temple

and moves it to the side rather.

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And replace it with his

alter there and offers.

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These, these godless

sacrifices on this altar.

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And so again, we see why.

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EY has was such a wicked guy,

the rest of chapter 16, there's

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a, some additional details about

his desecration of the temple.

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He destroyed some of the vessels

in there that bronze seas and,

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and everything else like that.

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Hee hee hee.

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Just desecrated the temple.

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It's horrible.

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What AI has does AI.

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Has bad guy, bad guy, a has, if you are

pregnant and, and you're considering

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names for your child, a has needs to be

just taken off the table immediately.

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He's a bad dude.

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Don't don't call your kid who has.

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The second king 17, then we're

going to flip to the northbound.

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Meanwhile.

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King OSHA takes the throne in Israel.

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And again, remember Israel.

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So they're going to do what's

evil in the sight of the Lord.

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Well, he takes the throne in

Israel and he, again, uh, Syria is

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the world power still right now.

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It's not Babylon.

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It's a Syria.

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And so he rebels against a Syria looking

for an Alliance with Egypt because

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OSHA was basically a puppet king.

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In fact, the Assyrians had, had

installed him as the king in some

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area there as the king in Israel.

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And so the, the Assyrians

had put him there.

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They're like, Hey, just continue

to pay tribute for, to us.

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And don't cause much, much trouble for us.

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Well, Hosha gets it in his mind that if

he gets an Alliance with Egypt that maybe

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they can together defeat the Assyrians.

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Well, the Syrians catch wind of this,

and this leads to a three year siege

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of Samarria by the Assyrian army.

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They surround the city

and they lay siege to it.

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And if you're not familiar with that

language, there was no game in and out.

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There were no supplies to reach the,

the, the people inside the city.

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It was a pretty hopeless situation.

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And so the Assyrians are doing that.

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To some area there and eventually

the city falls to them at 7 22 BC.

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This is it.

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This is the fall of the Northern kingdom.

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7 22 BC.

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The city, the kingdom of Israel,

the Northern kingdom falls to the

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Assyrians and the Assyrians defeated.

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They conquer the city

and they take captive.

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A lot of people, they leave

some behind that kill others.

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But this is the end.

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This is the end of the Northern kingdom.

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Verses seven through 23 of chapter

17 here, unless anyone had forgotten

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why Israel had been given over to

the Assyrians, the writer provides a

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rundown of their idolatrous ways that it

brought about their destruction and XL.

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So seven through 23, he just says, okay.

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Oh, and by the way, if you forgot, here's

why, here's why we're in this situation.

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Here's why everything happened.

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Here's all of the idolatrous things.

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Uh, I mean, verse 14, but

they would not listen.

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They were stubborn as their fathers

had been, who did not believe in the

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Lord, their God, even just verse 14,

kind of sums it up for us right there.

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Boom.

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There it is.

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They despised his statutes, verse 15.

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They.

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They rejected his law.

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Verse 16, they abandoned all

the commandments of the Lord.

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They offered their sons and their

daughters as offerings, as we talked

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about with a house just a moment ago that

they were doing that in the north too.

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So therefore verse 18, the Lord

was very angry with Israel and

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remove them out of his sight.

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None was left, but the

tribe of Judah only.

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However, he's going to go on to say here

in, in a bit of a prophecy from the writer

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of King's hate, Judah is going to get

there as to, uh, not to the same extent,

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but Hey, they they're guilty as well.

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And they're going to get there's two.

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Meanwhile versus 24 through 41.

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As the chapter ends, this is important.

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And this is important.

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Maybe not for the reason that

you're thinking it's important.

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Because in this chapter or in this section

of the chapter, as, as things end here,

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the Assyrians look at Symeria, which was

the capital city of the Northern kingdom.

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And after they had defeated

it, they had subjugated.

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Uh, the Israelites, they had

carried away their, their king.

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They defeated all the people, right.

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Now the land is there, what

are they going to do with it?

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Well, they're going to resettle it.

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They're going to resettle it by

bringing people in from the outside.

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Look at verse 24.

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And so the king of a sewer

brought people from Babylon and

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Karratha and Yvonne and Hamas.

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And.

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Uh, SIF of SIF of VI.

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Yeah.

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That's easy for me to say that place

and place them in the cities of Samira

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instead of the people of Israel.

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And they took possession of

Samira and lived in the city.

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So initially here's what happens.

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The Assyrian king comes into this land.

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Remember, this is part

of the promised land.

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So Marissa.

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Do you remember?

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We've, we've studied it.

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And in John, John chapter four,

Jesus had to pass through Samaria.

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And during that time it's

is relight territory.

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So we know that this is going to

belong to the Israelites, but to

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this group called the Samaritans.

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Okay.

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Now we're seeing if I can put it this

way, the origin story of the Samaritans.

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Because the king of Syria comes in

and he looks at the, the, the land

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there in some area and he gets, he

says, okay, I'm going to bring in all

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people, all kinds of different people

from all these different nations.

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Into some area here.

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And it probably is a way to add

humiliation to the people of

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Israel, because he knew that.

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Uh, that this was supposed

to be that the land of God.

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And in here, he's going to bring all

of these godless nations in there.

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Anyways, they're there

things aren't going well.

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Uh, and so because of that, The

nations are all worshiping their own

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gods and everything else like that.

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Uh, things are not going well.

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And so what he's going to do is he's going

to bring back some priests from Israel.

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Uh, some false priests, some.

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Northern kingdom priests back to some

area and say, Hey, you need to teach

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them how to worship the God of this land.

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Because in the Samaritan, in the, the, uh,

Syrians minds, the godless nations minds.

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The the land was each area of land had

its own God that was concerned with it.

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And so they had angered the

God of the land of Israel.

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And so they needed to bring back these

Israelite priests to help the people

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understand how to worship this God,

so that his wrath would be appeased.

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Little did they know?

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Right.

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Well, Well, that's what happens.

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And so these priests come back

and with them, some other of

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the Israelite people come back.

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Well, as would happen and as did happen

with the people of Israel during this

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time who were still not following the

commands of God, they're living there in

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Samaria with all of these other nations

that the king of Syria had brought

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in there and repopulated the region

with, and they begin to intermarry.

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And so you've got Israelites intermarrying

with Babylonians and with Nights and with.

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and , and, and all of these other people

that God, or that the king of us here

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that had brought to some area there.

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And so what happened is you began

to, to have this new race, if I

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can put it that way, these, these.

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This mixed race of Israelites and Gentiles

that emerged within Samarria there.

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This is what leads to the great divide

between the Jew and the Samaritan, because

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the Jewish people then from that day on

looked at the Samaritans as less than.

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They looked at the Samaritans

as those that had compromised.

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Those that had, uh, had been, been

tainted and defiled by the Gentiles.

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And in a sense they weren't wrong,

uh, because they, they did inter

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marry with these godless nations.

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But this is the origin story of the

Samaritans that leads to the great divide

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between the Jews and the Samaritans that

we even studied together in John chapter

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four and our new Testament readings.

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So.

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There's some background.

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That's the origin story.

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That's kind of the history of why some

of the tension that exists there, we

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find it there in second Kings chapter 17.

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Well, there you go.

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There it is.

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Hey, you know what?

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Let me pray for us.

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And then we'll be done with another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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God, thanks for this, this, uh, this time.

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Thanks for these, these chapters.

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As hard as it is to

read about and as hard.

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As it is to read about all the

wickedness that he, uh, perpetuated

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amongst the people of Judah there.

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And even as hard as it is to read

about the fall of Israel and these

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godless nations coming in there.

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Lord I'm reminded that, that you,

uh, as, as Daniel is going to

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say, we're going to read about

it in the not too distant future.

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You are the one who sets up Kings and

removes Kings that you are sovereign

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over all of this, this whole time.

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And at the end of the day, Like we

talked about a couple of episodes.

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Okay.

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We're going to scratch our heads

sometimes and seek out why.

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And we're not going to have

the answers, at least not this

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time, not this side of eternity.

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Uh, but God help us to trust you.

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And to read a passage like this and say,

God, I'm thankful that you are sovereign.

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Otherwise.

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And we just have wicked and evil

people like a, has just running the

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world and, and we're left to go.

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Okay.

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I guess they're just going to

do what they're going to do and

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nobody's going to check them.

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But God, we get to trust and know that

when we see wicked and evil rulers in

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this world, Uh, that we can rest confident

that you are sovereign, that you are the

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ultimate one on the throne that you are.

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The one that is, is guiding and

moving all things in accordance

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with your perfect plant.

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Your perfect will towards

its final culmination.

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Uh, as, as we see the unfolding plane

of redemptive history taking place.

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And so God gave us that

confidence to trust in you.

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Even as we look at things like

this and we shake our heads and we

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say, how awful is, this is awful.

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And got to say, I was saying

earlier about our own nation.

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You've got we're certainly

we are not Israel 2.0.

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But God, I do pray for a national

repentance to count my pray that.

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That the church would, would do her job.

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I pray that people would grow

frustrated with the lack of satisfaction

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from seeing in the pursuit of sin.

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That that is.

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So rampant here in this world

and that we would instead trust

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you and that we would seek you.

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And that you'd bring revival here.

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God, I don't know what your timeframe is.

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I don't know what your plan is, but

I know there've been revivals in the

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past and there can be again, so you

faithful churches and I pray that

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we would be such a faithful church.

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Uh, to be a light in the midst

of darkness in this world.

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And we pray this in Christ's name.

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Amen.

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And we'll catch you guys again tomorrow.

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Keep bring your Bibles for another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Bye.