00:00 Intro Things
00:10 Understanding Righteous Indignation
00:56 Biblical Perspective on Anger and Sin
02:41 The Role of Scripture in Shaping Our Responses
06:18 King Josiah: A Model of Godly Leadership
10:39 Josiah's Reforms and Legacy
18:04 The Significance of Josiah's Passover
20:51 Conclusion and Prayer
21:38 Outro and Podcast Information
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Hey everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:Hello everybody.
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:It is Tuesday and we have another
question that as promised we're
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:gonna get to here on the podcast.
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:It has to do if I can just paint
the category probably with the
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:question about righteous indignation.
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:That's a phrase that we talk about in
the church, which really has to do with
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:getting angry in a way that is not sinful.
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:There is a category in
scripture provided for that.
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:In fact, Paul says, be
angry and do not sin.
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:So all anger is not necessarily sinful
anger, but how do we approach this
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:concept of righteous indignation?
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:The question specifically
was dealing with.
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:Is it good and right to feel anger,
disgusted, et cetera, over sin?
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:And conversely, is it wrong?
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:And he says, disordered to not
feel anger and disgusted at sin.
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:So I think.
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:This is really looking at the same
issue from two different sides here.
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:Let's deal with the first one the anger.
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:Is it right to be angry over sin?
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:I'll say yes.
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:So long as our anger is again righteous.
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:And the key to that, I believe,
is that our anger is connected
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:more to the offensive.
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:Of God than it is to the, of offense
of our own sensibilities or our own
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:morals or our own standards or whatever.
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:It will transgress those things.
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:However, it should transgress those
things because those are the morals,
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:the standards the ethics that God
has put in place first and foremost.
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:So then what causes our
indignation over the loss of life?
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:For example, somebody being
murdered or, you've got.
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:The sin of the perversion of marriage
and gender issues and things.
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:What should cause our anger is that
this is a, an offense against God.
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:We talked about it in the last
episode, fearing God, this
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:is the world not fearing God.
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:This is the world.
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:Throwing the fist in the face of God and
saying, we're gonna defy you and we are
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:gonna pervert your design and we are gonna
reject your design and we're gonna reject
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:your morals, your standards, your ethics.
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:That's what should cause us to be angry.
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:Not because we feel like our own sense
of justice is, has been offended or.
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:Our own sensibilities have been
wronged on the other side of things,
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:is it wrong not to feel that anger?
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:In, in some degree, yes.
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:I think it is.
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:I think there's a sense where
our holiness does need to be
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:in tune with God's holiness.
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:Our sense of what is right and
wrong does need to be in tune with
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:God's sense of right and wrong.
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:And in a sense of his own,
awareness and perception.
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:Here he says, I, I fear that
maybe at times we can become.
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:Puts it this way desensitized to
perhaps cultural brainwashing and
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:whether it's cultural brainwashing
or not, I think he's right.
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:We can become desensitized to sin
and we can lose our desired response,
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:our god's desired response in us.
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:Because we look at that sin, we think
it's not that big of a deal because
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:we see it everywhere in society, and
we live in a world that has deemed it
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:to be appropriate and not sin anymore.
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:And that's why it's so important for us
to be in God's word on a daily basis.
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:It's why it's so important for us
to know what God's word says on
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:things, and that is our final stance.
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:That is our final arbiter, not how the
world thinks about something or how we
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:ultimately may want to feel about it.
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:But what does God's word say
that's going to inform how I
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:respond to a given cultural issue?
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:Pr your thoughts.
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:The organ that the Bible calls
the heart is multifaceted.
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:It is comprised of three.
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:What we would call three dynamics
that make up the whole of who you are.
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:And so the first one is
the obvious one here.
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:Your heart can refer to your
emotional state, the way that
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:you feel about certain things.
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:The other would be the way that you
think about things, the way that
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:you understand the world around you.
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:And then lastly, your volition,
your act of conscience, your
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:will, what you do with your life.
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:So when the Bible talks about your
heart, it's talking about the.
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:The composite of these three
things working together.
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:They're not separate parts per se.
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:They're part of the whole, so the, your
thinking, your feeling and your doing.
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:I love your question, Matt, because
I think it really helps at least
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:tease out some of these pieces
and help us to put them together.
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:And so let me tackle it this way.
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:I think it's, I think your
question is right headed.
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:We should feel the
feelings that God feels.
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:When God feels anger towards sin,
we should feel anger towards sin.
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:And if we don't feel anger towards
sin, if we're calloused and
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:cold-hearted toward it, it's because
we don't feel the way God does.
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:That means our conscience is not
attuned to the way that God works and
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:therefore it would be wrong for us.
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:And so I would say that in so far
as we are reflecting kinda what you
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:were saying, PPJ, as we're reflecting
scripture, we should reflect the way
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:that scripture presents an emotionally
healthy response to things around us.
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:I immediately thought
of Ezekiel chapter nine.
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:In relation to your question, Matt, it
says this, and the Lord said to him,
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:pass through the city, through Jerusalem
and put a mark on the foreheads of the
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:men who sigh and groan over all the
abominations that are committed in it.
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:This marking was meant to preserve
these people, to protect them because
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:God sees them as responding rightly
to the sins that are committed inside.
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:And I think that's true for us
in the sense that God wants us to
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:respond with the right thoughts,
the right emotions, and the right.
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:Actions to things that are evil.
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:I think the biggest challenge with
this is that our hearts are so often
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:wrongly attuned or misattuned that our
anger ends up being more than ungodly.
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:You were saying earlier that the danger
is that you respond in a sinful way.
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:And I think that's probably most often
what we experience because our hearts
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:are they're informed and they're.
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:Shaped by so many other outside influences
that it's hard to know for sure.
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:Am I feeling the right feeling about
the particular murder that you mentioned
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:here, Austin about Austin Metcalf.
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:All that to say, I think the
scriptures are really helpful.
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:And I think you said this also,
pastor pg I'm just saying exactly
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:what you said with my words.
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:No, it's good.
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:I think we need to have our heart
shaped by scripture, and the only way
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:to successfully do that is to have your
heart so immersed and so shaped by the
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:way that God speaks and the way that
God thinks and the way that God feels
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:that you have a more reliable guide.
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:When you respond to things that are
not explicitly stated in scripture.
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:So all that to say, it's a
good thing that you're in your
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:Bible over the course of time.
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:As you spend more and more time
here, the more you'll find yourself
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:responding thinking, feeling, and
acting in alignment with the way
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:that God says is right and good.
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:It's kinda like that song.
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:Have you heard that song recently?
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:Dusty Bibles.
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:Yes.
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:Such a good song.
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:Yeah.
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:Have you guys listened to this song yet?
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:Josiah Queen, I think.
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:That's the one, yes.
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:It's folksy sounding.
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:He's, he is a young, new artist,
but I love that song, if you haven't
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:listened to it yet, Josiah Queen.
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:Yeah.
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:Josiah Queen.
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:Josiah Queen dusty Bibles.
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:I, that's a great song.
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:Yeah.
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:And in fact, his name matches
who we're talking about today.
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:Ah, king that is a transition if
there ever was one right there.
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:Yeah.
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:King Josiah, man.
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:Great question Matthew.
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:Thanks for submitting that and hopefully
that was a helpful response from us.
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:King Josiah is next up and we open up
with him in two King Chapter 22 and 23.
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:And King Josiah is really such a, a.
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:Says he's a good king in the Bible.
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:That's an understatement.
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:It says he did everything according
to the ways of David, his father.
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:And there's so many things here
that I think, Hezekiah, we just
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:came off Hezekiah not long ago.
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:Hezekiah was a good king.
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:But there's some key differences
between him and Josiah here.
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:And Josiah is just a king set to
do the good things set to do things
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:in a way that honors the Lord.
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:After ordering that.
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:The temple should be repaired.
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:The book of the law is found in the
reparation process of the temple.
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:They bring it to the king, they read it
to the king, and he tears his clothes.
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:That's a sign of mourning.
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:This is verse 11.
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:So he goes into mourning because
he realizes just how far the people
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:of Israel had fallen short of
what God had called them to do.
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:That's the right response too.
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:Totally the right response, and
that's should be our response to sin.
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:Talking about sin, right?
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:How do we respond to sin?
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:I think here we see.
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:One other response besides anger over
the offense against God should be,
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:man, it should sober us and cause
us to feel this conviction that
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:he, we go in a mourning over that.
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:And he's, he explains why here in verse
13, he says, for great is the wrath
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:of the Lord that is kindled against
us because our fathers have not obeyed
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:the words of this book to do according
to all that's written according.
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:Concerning us I, my mind went to
Deuteronomy 28, which is the chapter
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:that deals, details, the blessings
and the cursings, blessings for
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:obedience, cursings for disobedience.
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:And so I don't know if that's
exactly what Josiah was thinking
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:of, but it's the book of the law.
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:It's part of the Pentateuch.
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:And so he knew that Israel was in
trouble, and so he responds the right.
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:Way.
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:And that response is not just conviction.
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:That feels sorrow, and that
could lead to self-pity, but it's
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:also penitential and repentant.
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:Look down at verse 19.
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:God commence him and says, because
your heart was penitent and you
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:humbled yourself before the Lord.
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:When you heard how I spoke against this
place and against its inhabitants, that
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:they should become a desolation and a
curse God's gonna say, look, I'm gonna
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:gather you to your fathers, and you're
gonna be gathered to your grave in peace,
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:and your eye shall not see the disaster
that I will bring upon this place.
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:And so Josiah in, in chapter
22, the book's discovered.
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:He finds it, he reads it.
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:He realizes, man, we are in trouble.
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:And and he is penitent before the Lord.
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:And the Lord says, Hey,
look, I'm not gonna bring the
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:judgment upon you in your time.
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:And this is where there's a key
difference between him and Hezekiah.
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:'cause I think Hezekiah, if we
know how he responded after God
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:said, Hey, don't worry, Babylon's
not gonna come into your life.
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:And Hezekiah said, great.
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:As long as it's not my time, I don't care.
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:Josiah doesn't say that.
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:In fact, that's chapter 23, where
Josiah gathers the people and
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:begins to in institute some reforms
there, but pr Anything else on, on
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:chapter 22 before we jump in there?
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:Yeah.
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:I just wanna note here what you
talked about at the very beginning.
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:I wanna point out to your
attention, verse two.
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:Josiah did what was right in the eyes
of the Lord and walked in all the way
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:of David, his father, and did not turn
aside to the right or to the left.
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:Just wanna make this point, Josiah
is given the kind of superlative
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:that no other king enjoys.
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:He's the only king of all the Judean
kings that receives this kind of phrase.
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:The others, Hezekiah
gets something similar.
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:And there's another good king that also
Asa gets something similar as well.
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:But Josiah's the only one that gets
this precise phrase, and I think he's.
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:The best king that Judah ever
enjoys short of David himself.
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:So I think it's really cool.
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:And that's why most of what
you read here in Two Kings and
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:Chronicles is largely positive.
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:There is one small area at the end of
his life where you're, it's unclear
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:exactly what's going on in his mind.
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:It doesn't look like it's a
good thing, but by and large, he
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:receives accolades from the writers
of two Kings and Chronicles.
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:And that's worth noting.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:And it also, I don't know about
you, but when I think of David, I.
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:And more often prone to
think of his flaws than I am.
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:His, the good things about him.
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:I, yeah, I, they're they'd come
pretty quickly after I think
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:about the good things for sure.
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:Yeah.
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:Because of his sin with Bathsheba
and then, Absalom and Amon
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:and Tamar and all that stuff.
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:It's just.
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:There's so many of his warts that
are there, but he is held up as a
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:standard of that was his commendable.
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:And God says he was a
man after his own heart.
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:And so it's a good reminder
for us to say, man, David was
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:a godly man and a godly king.
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:And yeah, Josiah's.
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:The accommodation of Josiah
there in chapter 22 walking
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:after David, I agree with you.
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:I think he probably was one of the
best kings that, that Judah ever had.
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:Oh, yeah.
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:In chapter 23, what I love is that again,
he doesn't just kick his feet up and go,
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:okay it's not gonna happen in my lifetime.
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:So upset.
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:He gathers the people and he
reads, and I take it to be him.
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:I don't, maybe it was one of his
servants or maybe one of the priests
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:he ordered to read the law, but the
text says he read the law and the.
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:Accountant.
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:Second Chronicles says the same thing.
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:He read in the hearing all the words
of the book of the Covenant that had
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:been found in the house of the Lord.
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:And then beyond that, he says,
we're gonna make a covenant.
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:Now, this is not one of the big covenants.
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:This is not a covenant that God
makes with his people, but this is
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:a covenant that Josiah is making.
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:As the king in calling
the people to join him in.
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:And that covenant is going to be to
walk, to keep, and to perform the
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:words written in the law of the Lord.
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:In other words, it's a
covenant of obedience.
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:Josiah is saying the problem is,
and he recognized that in chapter
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:22, we've been disobedient.
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:So chapter 23 is now gonna be
about repentance, and we've
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:talked about this recently.
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:I think repentance is not just feeling
bad about your sin, it's not just.
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:Changing your mind about your
sin, but it's actually bearing
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:fruit and keeping with repentance.
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:And that's chapter 23.
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:From here on, he goes on
and basically cleans house.
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:He brings out all of the
idols from the temple.
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:He destroys things.
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:He defiles the altars even goes
up into the northern parts of
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:the kingdom to some of the altars
that Jerome and others had set up.
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:And he does something
that's really interesting.
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:He takes the bones of the priests,
the godless priests up there, and
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:he burns them on these altars.
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:And that would've been to
defile them even more so that
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:they could never be used again.
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:Josiah is on a rampage at this
point, but it's a good rampage.
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:It's a rampage for the Lord.
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:And he is going to just.
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:This covenant that he makes,
he follows through on it.
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:And he is a man that leaves just
a fantastic and phenomenal legacy
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:aside from, again this ending of
chapter 23, which has to do with
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:Pharaon, Nico and some things there.
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:But yeah, to your point, verse 25, PR
says Before him, there was no king like
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:him who turned to the Lord with all his
heart and with all his soul, and with all
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:his might according to the law of Moses,
nor did any like him arise after him.
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:So that's a pretty strong.
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:Epitaph there.
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:That's an endorsement
of his legacy for sure.
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:I love the facts and this uniquely stood
out to me as I read through this time.
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:I love that he went to Bethel and
went to go defile their pagan sites.
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:Yeah.
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:In verse number five, here
in chapter 23, it says.
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:Actually verse four, it says that
he he burned them outside Jerusalem
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:in the fields of the kidron and
carried their ashes to Bethel.
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:At first, I'm like, why did he do that?
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:And then I realized a few
verses later in verse 15.
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:Moreover, the alter at Bethel, the
high place is erected by Jira Bois
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:and a Neba who made his Israel of sin
that alter with a high place he pulled
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:down and burned, reducing it to dust.
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:And so he's trying to do
exactly what you said.
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:He's defiling areas where there's
potential for Judah to want
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:to pursue the false deities.
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:Of the Northern Kingdom or
anyone else for that matter.
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:I think that's helpful for me.
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:I think about the avenues wherein we
might be tempted to sin, things that we
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:might be, seduced by just because it's
available to us, it's convenient to us.
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:And I think Josiah shows us a
principle that's helpful for us in
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:the New Testament, which is to find
ways or opportunities where there's
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:potential for you to sin and say,
I know that's a weakness for me.
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:I'm gonna do everything
I can to knock that out.
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:I wanna cut off that avenue, even though
the avenue itself is not inherently bad.
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:Bethel was in a bad place, but he knew
that those temptations were particularly.
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:Enticing to his people, and
therefore he cut them off.
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:So helpful.
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:It's as the old Puritan says, John Owen,
be killing sin or it will be killing you.
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:There is no neutrality when it comes
to sin, and therefore we ought to deal
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:with it in a similar way to Josiah
taking sin seriously, cutting off its
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:avenues and doing whatever we need to
remove its influence from our lives.
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:I remember one story, one of my
friends when he got saved, he
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:had this massive CD collection.
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:Do you guys remember what CDs are?
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:Do you know what a CD is?
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:They were like, they
were like DVDs, right?
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:Yeah.
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:But they played music and stuff.
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:Yeah, exactly.
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:Yeah.
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:Old technology.
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:He had this massive collection,
and when you had a collection like
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:that, it was something enviable.
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:You know when you had those massive books
that you'd put in your car, big folders
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:with the big, yeah, there was like four
or six of 'em on each page, and then
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:you would flip the pages back and forth.
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:Those were the good old
days, kids, let me tell you.
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:That was fun.
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:I love that.
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:Anyway, he had this massive
book and he said, I got, I threw
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:all of them away to my shock.
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:I'm saying, why would you do that?
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:Not all of that was sin.
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:Surely some of them probably need to get
rid of, but he threw away a, all of them.
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:And he said, because all of that
was for me before Christ was related
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:to my old life, under the curse of
sin, under its total age and under
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:its slavery, all those things.
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:And so for him, it was better for
him just to get rid of everything.
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:Yeah.
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:And to start fresh with.
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:Worship CDs and super tones and
whoever else was out at that point.
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:And now that I look at Josiah, I think
maybe that was the right call after all.
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:Yeah, there's that scene.
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:You remember that movie that
came out in the late nineties,
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:early two thousands, fireproof.
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:Oh, the Kirk Cameron.
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:Kirk Cameron, yeah.
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:Where the, he takes the computer, which
was a source of a problem for him.
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:And he takes it out in his driveway.
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:Yeah.
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:He drop, kicks it or drop
kicks it and beats it with a
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:baseball bat and stuff like that.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:That's another example of that.
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:It's Jesus, right On
the sermon on the mount.
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:If your right hand calls you to
sin, cut it off and throw it away.
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:If your eye calls you to sin,
gouge it out and throw it away.
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:These are metaphorical commands by him,
but it's the radical dealing with any,
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:anything that could be a source of sin.
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:And Josiah does that, not just for
himself, but corporately for the people.
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:He's leading the people
so well in doing this.
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:And as the king goes, so goes the people,
as the husband goes, so goes the family.
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:As the pastor goes, so goes the church.
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:The principle of leadership here is why
they enjoy such a season of prosperity.
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:Now there's also issues to be sure,
'cause we're gonna read about that.
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:Tomorrow.
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:Yeah.
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:We'll read about some of the
issues tomorrow, but for now, just
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:notice he's setting a trajectory.
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:He's setting a wake that all people
follow behind, and it's a good one.
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:Yeah.
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:Would we, would that we
had people like this.
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:Yeah, for sure.
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:God, give us more.
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:Josiah's.
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:Yeah.
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:Second Chronicles 34 and 35.
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:The companion reading here chapter 34 is
a lot of, again, what we just read about.
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:One thing that jumped out in the
Chronicles account, I can't remember
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:if it was there in the King's account,
but just where the age markers.
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:Eight years old when he begins to reign.
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:Oh yeah.
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:It says in verse three that
he's 16 when he begins to really
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:set his heart to seek the Lord.
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:And that's a good reminder for us.
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:We've, you've probably dealt with this
much more than I have in your years in
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:student ministry, but adolescence is a.
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:Is a cultural construct, right?
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:It's something that has its purposes
and I think there's some reasons why
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:it's good, but I think we also can fall
prey into thinking that our young people
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:are not capable of doing things that
they're, they really are capable of.
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:Totally.
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:And so it's a different time, but.
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:16 years old, and he begins to set
his heart to, to pursue the Lord.
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:26 years old, verse eight in
the 18th year of his reign.
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:So he is 26 years old when he, when the
book of the laws is discovered, and he
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:goes on this this cleansing rampage that
we were just talking about from two Kings.
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:So he's a young man, 26 years old.
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:When I was 26, I didn't necessarily
think I was a young man, but now at 41,
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:I'm going, man, he was a young dude.
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:He was a young buck.
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:For sure when he did this.
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:And he just, he loves God and he's gonna
set himself to, to follow the Lord.
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:And it's the same story
here in chapter 34.
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:So it's a lot of the same things.
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:He makes that covenant
again and calls the people.
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Jerusalem and Ben and in Benjamin to join
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credit that the people.
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:To, to your point, I think
they respond to his leadership.
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here's a strong leadership.
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gonna do what he's calling us to do.
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way that God designs the world to work.
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or homes or businesses, or even just
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an influence on those around you.
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it cannot be overstated.
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in into much back in this, the King's
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here in Chapter 35, and that's the
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all of this idolatry that was rampant,
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observed very well by his predecessors.
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the Passover, and there's a
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the prophet, none of the kings of
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:It was kept by Josiah and the
priest and the Levites and
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:I think the reason being is because
of how intentional he was to do things
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generosity and the general sense of.
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by everybody involved that you see
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part of his leadership impact here.
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being such a significant Passover.
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Passovers that were observed.
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so unique is he was saying, we're
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and fully committed to it.
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through the motions here.
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what made it by the book was
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in, joyfully, generously, and with
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is a little bit odd.
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:It says here, the King of Egypt
came up to fight at Kamish.
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confront him, to fight him.
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:And there's this, bless you.
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the King of Egypt says to his to
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:Josiah, he says, you need to go home.
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come out here and do this.
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:Actually says there he did not listen to
the words of Nico from the mouth of God.
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to fight in the P of Megiddo and
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Josiah towards the end of his life.
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other kings stumble, but it seems that he
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God was speaking through this foreigner
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:telling him, Hey, Josiah, go back home.
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end with this battle with Nico.
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:It is fascinating that God
spoke to this pagan and this
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:pagan communicated honestly.
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:God told me to do this and
he was telling the truth.
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:What do you do with that?
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:If he can use Cyrus, if he can use
Nebuchadnezzar, if he can move them
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:like chess pieces around the boards
or accomplish his plans and his will.
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:I it's awe inspiring to be sure,
but I think if this were, its only
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the Bible about him using pagans
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:in the accomplishing of his will or
communication of his messages it, yeah,
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:Hey, let's pray and then we
will be done with this episode
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:God, we thank you so much for your word
and for these chapters in Second King.
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:Second Chronicles.
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:We thank you for Josiah's life
and his pattern, his example.
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:We pray that as you give us opportunity
to to leader, to influence others, be
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:it at home or in our workplace, wherever
it may be, that we would set ourselves
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:to lead in this way, that we would set
ourselves to lead in a way that honors
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:you first and foremost, and that we
would be sensitive to your word and
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:its principles for guiding us in how we
conduct ourselves and lead our families.
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:And God, thank you for Josiah and for
his impact, his legacy, his testimony,
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:and we pray that you would raise up
more people like him not just in our
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:As you call us to pray for our
rulers, pray for our nation.
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:We pray this in Jesus name.
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:Amen.
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