00:00 Welcome!

00:13 Upcoming Event: Prosper Pride in the Sky

02:23 Personal Updates and Prayer Requests

03:26 Introduction to Today's Bible Study

03:44 Jehoshaphat's Reign and Legacy

06:39 Jehoshaphat's Military Strategy and Faith

13:39 Jehoram's Evil Reign

17:47 Ahaziah and Athaliah's Short Reigns

18:48 Joash's Rise to Power

19:57 Closing Thoughts and Prayer

21:40 Farewell and Podcast Information

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Happy Monday and welcome back to another edition of

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the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It is I, pastor Rod here with you

again to walk through today's chapters.

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And we have, what, five or six of them?

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There's a lot here today, but

before I get there, I need to

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remind you of a couple things.

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First, if you have plans for July 1st.

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And they're not the prosper

pride in the Sky event.

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I would encourage you to maybe

change those and join us July 1st.

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We have an opportunity

to reach our community.

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Prosper Texas.

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This is the first time that we'll be doing

this event as a church located in Prosper,

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and we'd love to have you with us.

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Love your smiling faces.

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We'd love to have your kids interacting

with the kids of the community.

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And of course, if you stick around,

there's gonna be a great firework show.

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It's one of my favorites.

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I don't think I have a more favorite

firework show that I've been to.

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Prosper does a pretty good job

for being a smaller city in

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the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

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They do a pretty phenomenal job

at producing a firework show.

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Now, in fairness, I haven't

been to other firework shows.

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I think this is the only one I've

seen while being in Texas, but

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I'm not disappointed by that.

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So far it's been pretty great.

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I.

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So if you have nothing to do between

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on Tuesday, July 1st, there are

probably some opportunities for

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you to still sign up to serve.

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So if you go to our

website, compass ntx.org,

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you'll see a link there under the events

for Prosper Pride in the sky, and you can

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sign up to serve, sign up to help set up,

sign up to help tear down, , and maybe

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there's even room for you to spend time

at the booth with us and to interact with

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people as they walk by and hand them out.

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We have these branded.

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Hand sanitizer bottles, and

so you can hand those out.

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People can always use those.

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Those are helpful and

interact with people.

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This is an opportunity for us to do it.

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And as I mentioned the last time, the last

time I did it, I got volunteered for a

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memorial, which I was very happy to do.

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Someone asked for a pastor and then

Pastor Peaches like, fantastic, let

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me direct you to pastor out over here.

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And then I was talking with this gal and

she's like, Hey, I really need a pastor.

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For a memorial and our current

pastor situation isn't gonna work.

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They were in a church at that point

that was undergoing some tumult.

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And so she asked if I could step

in and , I was happy to do it.

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I checked my calendar, made sure it was

clear, and I was able to support that.

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So you never know what can happen

at an event like this, and if

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you show up, maybe you'll get to

lead a memorial as well, or not.

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I don't know.

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Maybe you'll just get to meet

some new people and perhaps get

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to share the gospel with people.

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What a great opportunity that would be.

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We'd love you there.

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Regardless.

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We wanna see you there.

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I won't be there sadly.

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I will in fact be on

vacation starting on Monday.

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That is today.

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I will be on vacation with the

family in New Braunfels, Texas.

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We're gonna be at a timeshare

that we're borrowing from a

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family back in California.

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Thank you so much.

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Due to Bakers, you guys have

always been a blessing and I

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hope I'll be relaxing with them.

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Here's my issue.

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I am doing schoolwork.

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I mentioned a few podcasts ago that

I'm now back at Southern Seminary and

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I'm pursuing a doctor of ministry.

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You could pray for that.

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I, I think this is the right

thing at the right time.

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God has opened the doors and I think

this is gonna be good for my church.

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I.

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So that's why I'm doing it.

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You could pray for that and in

part and pray for it because

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I did not manage my time well.

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Now I am under the gun producing

a lot of work before July 1st.

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I have to turn my stuff in on July

one, and that's just part one.

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And then I have a research

paper, do August one.

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So I have a lot on my plate

while I'm on vacation.

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And you know how that goes, right?

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You're on vacation, you got work to do.

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Resting is a lot harder to do.

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But I wanna be present

with my family and my kids.

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So if you think about me.

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I would appreciate your prayers.

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If you think about my family could

pray that they are patient with me,

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as I no doubt have to do some reading

and some writing during this time off.

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Okay.

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That's enough of the updates.

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Thank you so much for enduring that time.

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And now let's jump in.

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We have a lot of territory to cover,

so I'm just gonna tell you now, I can't

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cover everything as much as I want to.

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And there's a lot of things in here

that I'm thinking, man, that is good.

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I want to talk about that.

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But let's just try to keep

this as succinct as possible.

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I don't want this to

be a 30 minute podcast.

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Okay.

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I told you yesterday that we talk more

about PHA and that's what we're gonna do.

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So starting in se, starting in second

Chronicles 19, we have some more ink

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spilled on Phat Now he's a good king.

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He gets a thumbs up, Jehoshaphat rules

for 25 years, and most of that time

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you find a highlight reel of his life.

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And it got me thinking, I want

my life to be a highlight reel.

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I want people to see my life and

value it and say, man, that guy

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did a good job before the Lord.

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He lived with integrity.

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He lived with honesty.

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He didn't ruin his life with some

major stumbling, some major sin.

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I.

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This is a good thing for us.

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I know sometimes we frame it

in the context of legacy and

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making sure you leave a legacy

for people to admire and follow.

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And sometimes that can be very man

centric and we don't wanna do that.

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We don't wanna make life

about us and our legacy.

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But there is something good about leaving

behind a reputation for faithfulness,

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for godliness, for integrity.

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That's a good thing.

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As, as long as it's focused on the

right end, namely the glory of God,

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then it's perfectly fine to have that

in mind as you go about your life.

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So let's take a look at Joh.

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First of all, he's approached by

Jehu, son of Hana I this year.

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We've seen him before, and he's basically

called out by God for saying, you

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should not have partnered with Ahab.

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What are you doing?

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God is angry at you for this.

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You should have set

your heart to seek God.

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In fact, you should do that right now.

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And God identifies in verse three

that there is some good found in

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him and Jehu acknowledges that.

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And that's exactly what we're gonna see.

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There's lots of good that happens here.

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In fact, some of the good happens

in verse four through verse seven.

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He goes from north to south

or south to north rather.

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That's Beersheba to the

hill country of Ephraim.

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He goes from south to north in order,

get this to bring back the people to

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the Lord, the God of their fathers.

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So he's making a circuit.

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He is king is he's already king.

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He's not trying to.

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Petition them to make him king.

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He is the king and he's saying, look,

we need to be faithful to the Lord.

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And then he appoints judges in the land.

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City by city.

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And then he calls the judges not to

judge for themselves, not to judge.

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For men, don't take bribes, don't

take any kind of secret funds.

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He says instead, no, fear the Lord

and be careful about what you do.

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There's no injustice in God, therefore

there should be no injustice in you.

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And so he goes about the land campaigning

to say, come back to the Lord.

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He's acting in a very prophetic way,

despite the fact that he's a king.

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So in a glimmer.

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We see Christ pictured here just

ever so briefly and never so softly.

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We see an image of Jesus being

reflected here in his spiritual reforms.

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Furthermore, Jeh Apha

goes back to Jerusalem.

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He appoints Levites and priests

to be judges over the people to

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decide disputed cases, using the

wisdom of the Lord, and he calls

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him out to say, deal courageously.

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May the Lord be with you

and be with the upright.

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This is fantastic.

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He's on a great campaign trail here.

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He's installing the right people.

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He's calling the people

to serve the right God.

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He's moving and he's making great

progress, and that's chapter 19.

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In Chapter 22nd, Chronicles chapter

20, there is a problem on the horizon.

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In fact, this is the reason why we may.

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I have reason to believe that

Obad was written about this time.

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So keep that in mind.

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You're gonna read Obadiah tomorrow,

and it's because of chapter

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20 that it might fit there.

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This is one of the potential areas

when Obadiah could have been written.

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It also could have been

written much later.

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In fact, if you're reading from an

ESV, they propose that it's far later.

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But there's a reason that the editors of

our Bible reading program put it here,

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and it's because of this chapter here.

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So the Moabites, Ammonites and

mites, in addition to Edem, are

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campaigning together against Judah.

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Verse three, Jeh.

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Shaphat was afraid and set

his face to seek the Lord.

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And so you have a large conglomerate of

forces working against Judah and Jeh.

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Shaphat is naturally afraid, and

so he assembles all Judah together.

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He prays.

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He calls a fast, and then he prays

publicly and he has this amazing prayer

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where he calls them and says, Lord,

isn't this the people that you drove out?

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Isn't this what you decreed?

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And now, Lord, look what they're doing.

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You promise to be faithful.

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Verse 12, oh our God, will you

not execute judgment on them?

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We're powerless.

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And I love this.

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This is an incredible line.

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You probably have it highlighted.

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I.

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We don't know what to do,

but our eyes are on you.

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I love that.

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That's so precious, because

you're gonna see a reflection

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of that in Hebrews chapter 12.

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The idea is s is said slightly

differently, but it's the idea of

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looking to Jesus in Hebrews chapter

12, verse two, let us run the race

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with endurance, the race that has

set before us, looking to Jesus, the

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founder, and the perfecter of our faith.

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Now, our hope is not in our ingenuity,

in our strength, in our military prowess.

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Our hope is ultimately in the Lord.

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Go do the things.

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Build a savings account, set up the

armies, you know, train the horses,

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fix the chariots, do all those things.

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But in those things, trust the Lord.

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We don't know what to do,

but our eyes are on you.

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This is the posture of humility.

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Even if you have resources, and

this is really, this is like coming

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to the Lord with childlike faith.

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When Jesus tells us to have childlike

faith, he's not telling us to be

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childish, but to recognize that

we are fully dependent upon him.

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So this is highly commendable.

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Spirit of the Lord answers his

prayers through the words of

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Jael, the son of Zechariah.

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And he tells him, don't be afraid.

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The battle is not yours, but God's,

and I love their response here, their

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response to this is to worship him.

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They understand exactly what God has said.

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God's gonna deliver them,

and so they worship man.

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Has God delivered you from something?

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Has God done something good for you?

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Look at how these people respond.

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They fell down before the Lord

worshiping the Lord in verse 18.

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And then in verse 19, the levies

Coates and the cites stood up to

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praise the Lord, the God of Israel.

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How did they do that?

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With a very loud voice.

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They're not ashamed of their Lord.

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In fact, they're celebrating His

goodness and his faithfulness, and we

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should do the same anytime God provides.

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Anytime God delivers, anytime God

shows himself faithful, please take

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the opportunity to worship the Lord.

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That's such a good thing,

and I don't do that enough.

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I don't know about you.

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You probably don't do that enough,

and therefore we ought to do that.

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We ought to make it intentional

that we worship him for who

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he is and what he's done.

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Man, he's so good.

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He's worth it.

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Okay?

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They thank God for the deliverance

and so they worship him.

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In verse 20, Phat, king

Phat stands up and says.

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Believe in the Lord your God,

and you will be established.

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Believe His prophets and you will succeed.

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He's calling them to biblical fidelity.

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Trust in the Lord's words,

and he will take care of you.

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That's all you gotta do.

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And now it's so simple,

and yet it's so profound.

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Trust in what he says.

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And the Lord will do good to you.

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And here's the funniest part.

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I love this part.

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When they've taken

counsel with the people,

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the people all decided, Hey, let's

put the musicians in the front.

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Okay?

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Verse 21.

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Those who were to sing to the Lord

and praise him in holy attire.

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They went before the Army and their

job is to sing the Chris Alman song.

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Give Thanks to the Lord for, he's good.

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His love endures forever.

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This is so funny because this is

the exact opposite of what you would

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ordinarily do in any other situation.

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No one is saying, Hey, who should

be on the front lines of the battle?

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And someone says, how about the musicians?

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No one's gonna do that because

typically musicians are not fit for war.

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They're fit to play instruments and sing.

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No offense musicians, I'm one of y'all,

but they're not the people that you

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put on the front lines unless you

believe that the battle is the Lord's.

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And you believe that you're

not gonna have to fight.

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If that's the case, if the musicians

aren't having to fight, then great.

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Throw them in the front lines and let them

lead in praise and not in military combat.

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Praise is a form of combat, but it's

spiritual combat and not physical.

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Verse 22, God honors this when they began

to sing and praise the Lord said, an

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ambush against the men of Amman, Moab,

Mount Seer, which is Edam, who had come

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against Judas so that they were routed

and they were confused and they began

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to devote one another to destruction.

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It says here, they all helped

to destroy one another.

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The Lord delivers Judah none escaped.

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They had so much spoils, it took

'em a long time, days to get it all.

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And so they called that place

the Valley of Barakah, which

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is the Valley of Blessing.

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They name that location after

the victory of the Lord.

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This is common in the Old Testament.

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You see this all over When God

does something extraordinary, the.

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Leader of that particular

people makes it formal.

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By announcing that location is now called

God is Faithful, something like that.

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And so in verse 29, the fear of

God came on all the kingdoms.

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Everyone's recognizing that

God is fighting for Judah and.

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, as we close out the end of

Jehoshaphat's Reign again, most of it,

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the verdict is that he's righteous.

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He does good.

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Verse 33 says, the high places

however, were not taken away, and

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the people had not yet set their

hearts upon the God of their fathers.

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Now, earlier we read that Jehoshaphat

did do away with the high places.

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What we see here is perhaps something akin

to Jehoshaphat making a formal statement,

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an official decree from the throne.

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And the people saying, yes, most of us

will do that, but some of us will not.

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And so because the people weren't

fully behind him, he was leading,

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but not everybody was following.

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The high places were not all eradicated

in part because of the people.

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Now, even though that is ultimately

held against the king, the people

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are also culpable for that as well.

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The end of Jehoshaphat's

reign, God notices.

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We note rather that even though it's

near perfect in so many ways, there is

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contamination in his leadership and that

contamination is he joined hands not

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only with Ahab, but also with ahh Isaiah.

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And so God has to deal with him by

destroying their business partnership.

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We find out that, , Jehoshaphat

doesn't seem to quite learn his

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lesson the first time around.

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He needs multiple lessons, and

that reminds us that even the

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best of men are still men at best.

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There's only one king Jesus, who

will always be perfect and always

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do what is right, and therefore, we

shouldn't put our full trust in man.

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We should follow man in so far as that man

is faithful to the Lord, but ultimately,

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we're still going to trust the Lord fully.

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We're putting our full hope, our full

weights in the Lord and not in man.

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Second Chronicles 21.

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We're now going to see

a change in the guard.

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In fact, the next 1, 2, 3 liter in

Judah are gonna get a firm thumbs down.

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Sadly, Johor or Jora, as he sometimes

called, is gonna be one of them.

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Even though Jeh leaves his sons with

plenty of opportunity, leaves 'em with

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plenty of resources, he leaves Jehoram in

place as king because he's the first born.

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Verse three says, however, verse four,

when Jehoram had ascended to the throne of

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his father and he was firmly established,

he killed all his brothers with the sword

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and also some of the princes of Israel.

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So he eliminates all the

competition to the throne.

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And this, of course, is

evil in the Lord's sight.

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He has a, a pretty long reign.

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I mean, eight years is not

a short period of time.

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That's two presidential terms.

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But in this reign, it's bad.

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He's, he, verse six, walked in

the way of the kings of Israel as

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the house of Ahab had done for the

daughter of Ahab, was his wife.

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Now this is the problem.

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Now recall back in your

mind how this takes place.

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How is it that Horam has the

daughter of Ahab as his wife?

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And you might remember it is

actually pha who coordinates this?

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This is PHAs doing PHA gave.

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One of Ahab's daughters to his

sons, whose name is Atalaya.

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We're gonna see her in just a chapter,

uh, maybe less than that actually.

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And so now his kingdom is

already established to fail

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because he's walking with fools.

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He's walking with the unwise.

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And now we're gonna see the results of

that in these days, in his days rather.

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In verse eight, Edam revolted

from the rule of Judah and

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set up a king of their own.

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Lna also revolted.

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You see that the kingdom

is fracturing because.

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It says at the bottom of verse 10, because

he had forsaken the Lord, the God of

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his fathers disobedience will always

bring about consequences of disunity.

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In verse 11 and onward, we find out

that Joram Jehoram made high places.

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Instead of getting rid of

them, he's adding more.

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This gets so bad that a

letter comes from Elijah.

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Now, remember, Elijah's a

Northern Kingdom prophet.

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He, uh, preaches during the time, and

he teaches during the time of Ahab.

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He's responsible for the northern

kingdom, but he's so invested in God's

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people that he sends a letter to the

Southern Kingdom to speak to Durham

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and says, and say, thus, says the Lord.

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The Lord will bring a great plague on

your people, and you yourself will have

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severe sickness, a disease in your bowels

because of his unfaithfulness to the Lord.

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After a period of time, the Lord does

make good on his promise through Elijah,

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and so he stirs up against Joram, the

Philistines, the Arabians, who are near

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the Ethiopians that says here in verse 16.

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They go against Judah, they invaded

and they carou all the possessions and

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also his sons and his wives, so that

no son was left except Jehovah has.

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Now Jehovah has, is also

known, is also known as Ahaa.

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, this is one that confuses me.

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Sometimes the names are close enough

where you understand, oh, okay.

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Horri and Jora.

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That makes sense.

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Micah Mackay.

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That makes sense.

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Sometimes the names are just okay.

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It seems like a different name to me, but

I guess that's the way they did things.

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So you have a ahaa of

their southern kingdom.

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You also have an ahaa of the

Northern Kingdom as well.

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This gets confusing, which is maybe

why they call them Jehovah has,

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maybe for the sake of distinction.

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In any case, that's verse 17.

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He has no son left except

Jehovah has also known as Ahaa.

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Then the Lord struck him in his bowels

as he promised through Elijah, and then

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he eventually died in great agony.

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Here's something funny, I find here

his people made no fire in his honor,

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like the fires made for his fathers.

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He was 32 years old and he began to reign.

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He rained for eight years in Jerusalem

and he departed with no one's regret.

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No one cared that he was gone.

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No one was upset about it.

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No one was putting ashes and sackcloth on.

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They were excited that this guy was out

of office, and that's because when there's

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an evil ruler, the people are relieved.

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Righteousness gives true and lasting

freedom, whereas evil and disobedience

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will always put an undue burden usually.

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On the weakest and the most vulnerable,

they will receive the greatest burden.

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But everybody suffers.

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Everyone's gonna suffer under

the weight of evil leadership.

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And that's what happened.

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So they buried him in the city of

David, but not in the Tomb of the Kings.

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So he did not receive the highest

honor he got at least the honor

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of being in the city of David.

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Two Chronicles 22 a

Isiah steps to the plate.

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He's king for one year.

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You might remember his grandma is

Atalaya and she and others from the

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northern kingdom are his counselors

and they are his counselors to

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his undoing verse force says.

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And so his kingdom is basically doomed

from the start his short reign ends

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when he meets with one of his relatives.

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J King Ham in the Northern Kingdom.

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Jehu, the son of Nishi, kills both Jem

and Aha Isaiah, and you're gonna actually

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read about that in a couple days.

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In Two Kings, I believe

that's chapter eight.

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And so he has a short reign.

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It's evil.

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God does not approve of it.

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Athaliah steps to the plate.

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She reigns in Judah because she kills

everybody else who could potentially

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take the throne, except she misses one.

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Joe Ash, the son of

Eiah, but he's hidden by.

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Jehova, the priest who married

the daughter of King Jehoram.

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And so those two together collaborate

to hide him for six years.

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Second Chronicles 23.

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In the seventh year, Jehova took

courage and he installs him as king.

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He sets a guard, he protects him.

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He does everything necessary to ensure

that there's a smooth transition of power.

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They declare him as king.

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Atalaya cries treason.

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Je Hoya, the priest says,

bring her out of the ranks.

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Anyone who follows her put them to death.

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And that's exactly what they do.

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Je Hoya as the priest makes a covenant

between himself and all the people

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that they should be the Lord's people.

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Verse 16.

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And here's the perhaps most

surprising part, they respond.

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Verse 17, all the people

went to the house of Baal.

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They tore it down.

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His altars and his images, they broke in

pieces and get this, they killed Matton,

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the priest of Baal before the altars.

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And so the people were responsive

and it seems like their eager for

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righteousness after experiencing a few

years of turmoil and evil under Elia's

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leadership, as well as her grandson,

EIAH and Johor, for that matter.

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Jehova and the people bring the king

from the temple into the king's house.

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They put him on the royal throne.

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Verse 21, the end of two Chronicles 23.

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So all the people, the land rejoiced

and the city was quiet after Athaliah

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had been put to death with the sword.

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Wow, we covered a lot of territory and

there's so many lessons there that I hope

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you're able to identify even for yourself.

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Maybe some of the things that I added

to it were things that you already

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seen or things that you're still

noticing that I haven't mentioned yet.

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That's exactly the right way to

read the Bible, and I hope you

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get lots of that this morning.

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There's so much more here that we're

not talking about for the sake of

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time, but how about you and I prayed

out and we'll close out today's

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episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, we are thankful for these examples

of both faithfulness and unfaithfulness.

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It's so simple, Lord, we

need the reminder constantly.

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When we do good, good

things tend to happen.

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There's no guarantee.

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There's no pardon from feeling tri

tribulation or difficulty or suffering.

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But generally speaking, Lord,

when we do the right thing, the

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right things tend to happen.

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Help us to see that our lives have

consequences and actions that will

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reverberate and continue to expand, not

only to ourselves and our own lives,

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but also the people that we love.

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Especially if we're in

leadership positions.

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Lord, help us to see the strong connection

between our lives, our integrity, and the

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impact on the lives of people around us.

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And that way, Lord, let

us walk circumspectly.

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Let us be aware of the way that we live

and let us live well for your glory.

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Lord, that's ultimately what we wanna do.

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We wanna live faithfully, which

means if we're living for your

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glory and honor, we're not just

living for your glory and honor one

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day a week during Sunday service.

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We're living that way every day.

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Whether we're in the kitchen, or the

gym, or the workplace, or the bathroom,

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or wherever we are, we wanna honor you.

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Help us to do that.

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Give us the grace to live a long life

of fruitfulness and faithfulness.

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Let our lives not be tarnished

by sin or disobedience.

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Help us to live faithfully to you

this day and every day forward.

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We ask all of this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Thank you so much for joining me.

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It is my honor and privilege to do

this, and I hope you'll join me tomorrow.

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I'll see you then.

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PJ: thanks for listening to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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about ourChurch@compassntx.org.

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