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00:00 Welcome Back Pastor PJ to the Daily Bible Podcast

00:34 Listener Feedback and Encouragement

02:05 Vacation Reflections and Family Time

04:17 Community Events and Outreach

05:19 Spiritual Conversations and Invitations

08:15 Biblical Insights: The Story of Naman

13:20 Understanding Elijah's Power

13:57 Elisha's Miracles and Their Significance

14:16 The Syrian King's Frustration

14:33 Elisha's Compassion and Strategy

15:23 Loving Your Enemies: A Biblical Perspective

15:59 The Return of the Syrian Army

16:15 King Jehoram's Anger and Blame

17:58 Elisha Prophesies the End of the Famine

19:15 The Miraculous Routing of the Syrian Army

21:34 The Shunammite Family's Return

23:39 Hazael's Rise to Power

25:02 King Joram's Reign in Judah

25:41 Ahaziah's Evil Reign and Battle

26:22 Conclusion and Reflections

Hey, welcome back to another

episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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things are finally back the

way they're supposed to be.

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Normally things in order life is better.

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I'm sleeping better and longer these days.

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I just feel like this is an

occasion that we all should stop

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and thank God for celebrate.

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We should celebrate the

faithfulness of people.

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On their podcast, listener players

are celebrating everywhere.

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Fine.

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No, I heard good things about

the daily Bible rod cast.

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They're there.

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They're glad that it was over.

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The good things I heard,

they was so good to be done.

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I know people were sending emails.

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I saw emails come in while I was

gone that were talking about, Hey,

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great insights and super helpful.

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People are kind.

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And we know that man, when, when.

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And you step out of the pulpit

and you feel like it was a dud.

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People are always going to say good job.

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They love you.

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They care about you and they just

turn around and hit for the donuts.

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That's true.

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But, you know, people want

to be an encouragement to

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us, and I appreciate that.

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I'm not demeaning that at all.

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I've appreciated the encouragement.

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But I also take it in stride.

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It's that, uh, that old

preacher saying, right?

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Don't uh, don't read your own headlines.

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Don't believe your own headlines.

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There's another corollary to that.

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About the opposite side, like don't preach

yourself to death or something like that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I had a, he wasn't a pastor or an

elder, but he was a worship leader at

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the church that I was at in seminary.

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He said, You know, when people criticize

you, you're never as good as you,

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as people say you are, and you're

never as bad as people say you are.

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You're.

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You're somewhere in the middle.

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They're as bad as you think you are.

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And as good as they say you are, right?

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Yeah.

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That's a, I, I resonate with that.

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Yeah.

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So I'm glad that I did it.

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It felt different than

what we normally do.

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So it was a learning experience for me.

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And part of me was like,

oh, I want to get this done.

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Right.

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I want to do it.

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Right.

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And I kept on.

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Sometimes I would feel like I get closer.

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Many times I'm like, ah, I

learned how to edit a lot.

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And cut myself out and I was

like, okay, why did I say that?

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I'm just gonna take that out.

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And then I took out a bunch of stuff.

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Like I just got, I got trigger happy.

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Well, I get to do this in August, cause

you're going to be taking a break and

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I'm going to take it even longer now.

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Okay.

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I'm going to do six months.

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Yeah.

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That you do this.

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I feel like that's the

least I could give for you.

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Yeah, well, maybe not,

maybe don't do that.

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Yeah.

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Hey, we I'm glad to be back though.

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It's fun.

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It's glad to.

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You look well rested.

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It was an awesome trip.

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It was a good vacation.

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I was telling my wife, I think this

vacation was one of the first that

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I can remember in a long time that

I was completely felt detached.

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I felt like I unplugged, I

wasn't worried about things here.

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I knew you had it in the pulpit and then

in the podcast, Side of things and just.

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Day-in and day-out ministry.

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And so just good time with my family.

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Um, you know, boys college was

a, that tour was, was good.

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Was fun.

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The arc was okay.

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Um, The scale of it was impressive.

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Size wise, you certainly stand

in front of it and go, whoa.

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Like this is amazing.

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That big building.

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Yeah.

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But he built that.

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Uh, but then the interior was.

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Eh, it was okay.

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It left something to be desired for me.

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So in that.

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Uh, it just, it was, I mean, a lot,

obviously a lot of it is, is just

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sheer speculation on the interior.

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We don't know.

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A whole lot about what

the interior looked like.

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Sure.

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And not that I disagreed with any of

the information, it was packed, man.

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There were like 5,000

people inside that thing.

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And crowds.

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So this was my favorite thing.

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Yeah.

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So anyways, we did the arc

and then DC was, was great.

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I mean, we saw a ton of stuff

there and, uh, it was good.

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My wife did DC school with

my kids before we went.

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And each of them had to do a report

on a different site that we saw.

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So that was kind of cool too.

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Good.

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I see them take some

ownership there and yeah.

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Yeah.

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It was awesome.

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Good time.

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Good.

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Yeah.

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Well, on behalf of all of us,

the 10 thousands of thousands of

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listeners that are part of this

community, We welcome you back.

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We are grateful.

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We're still waiting for our

40 lessons from 40 years.

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I don't know when that's coming.

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See.

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I had the, we had the reverse,

my wife calls it a reverse

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surprise party the other day.

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That was fun.

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That was fun.

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There wasn't 40, less.

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But I addressed the, I address the room

and there was, was there 40 lessons?

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No, there was one main lesson

and that's the one that I shared

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already on the podcast about,

Hey, today is part of my next 40.

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So that's where I'm at.

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That's what I'm still thinking about that.

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That's still less than 40.

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It is, it is.

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Yeah.

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It's there's 39 more, but stay tuned.

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Okay, maybe I'll just let you do 39.

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Cause your 40th is, is next on the docket.

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Yeah.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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Hey, we have the pride

in the sky then we did.

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And it was not related to anything

LGBTQ plus, just to be clear.

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Nope, but it was a great event.

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Lots of our, our family,

I was going to say are.

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We are friends, but our

family church, family.

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Yeah.

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There.

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They're basically family to us.

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Yeah.

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It came out.

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It was a good event and it was hotter

this year, but it didn't feel as bad.

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No.

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I think our booth location

was a little bit better.

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The son was not.

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Facing directly at us.

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We came in clutch, got us a good spot.

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We were in the shade for most of it.

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Yeah, it was good.

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And then the Kroger truck

was giving out free food.

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That was, if that was happening

last year, I did not know.

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I would have taken advantage of, yeah.

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Now I know to look out for it next year.

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And it's just a good reminder.

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Um, I mean, I don't know

how many people were there.

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Thousands of people were there.

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And we had a lot of conversations.

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I think we passed out close to a

thousand invitations to church, to

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the transformed conference in also to.

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Um, the, uh, Not the, uh, yeah, the VBS.

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And so we, I mean, Mark get ready.

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Cause you might be looking at

about a thousand registered

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for, uh, for VBS coming up here.

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But one of the things that struck me

in just talking with people as they

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were walking by our booth and passing

out water bottles, I, I asked a lot of

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people, Hey, do you go to church anywhere?

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And, um, I was just surprised.

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I shouldn't have been at the

number of people that kind of said

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a little bit or just flat out.

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No.

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Right.

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And I think.

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It's just a good reminder to us.

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Kind of like what I was preaching

on last weekend about needing

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to be a light in the midst of

darkness that, uh, there's darkness.

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All around us and we have to be ready

and we have to be willing to have hard

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conversations with people who at the

end of the day are willing to talk.

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If you're, if you're kind,

if you're not a jerk.

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Most people will talk to you

about what they believe about God

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and about eternity until after.

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Have to death and.

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And.

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I found just in having some

conversations with people at this event.

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It's, it's, it's exciting when you

get to have those conversations and

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somebody is willing to engage you and

kind of think through those things.

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Even if right there.

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And then in there they don't

say, yeah, I want to be there.

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I'll become a Christian or

whatever they walk away and

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you're like, okay, seed planted.

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And it also is an encouragement to

your faith as well in the process.

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Oh, totally.

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I just finished a book recently called

the great Uh, and it's, it's a, it's

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a modern book about what's happening

in our current culture, people leaving

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churches and especially about the

people that left church during COVID

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and just haven't come back yet.

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And one of the most surprising results

of this is that for a ton of people,

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I forget the number it's very large.

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They are willing to come back.

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They just need someone to invite them

and kind of give them the old swift kick

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in the rear end to come back to church.

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And sometimes it's as simple as that.

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You know, uh, a chance encounter with the

pastor chance, you know, air quotes here.

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But a chance encounter with a

pastor to say, Hey, You know,

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Where do you go to church?

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Maybe they need to come back to our church

instead of the one you used to go to.

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Now, now that we're in the sheep stealing,

but just getting people into church, it's

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really surprising this book, the great

churching who's leaving, why they're going

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and what it will take to get them back.

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One of the biggest takeaways for me

is some people just need to be invited

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by someone that cares about them.

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Right.

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And don't forget the

challenge that was issued.

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On Sunday.

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That find a family, find somebody in your

neighborhood, somebody on your street

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that you don't know super well having

dinner between down the end of the summer.

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That's our challenge for us as a church.

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And when you do that, there's an

opportunity for you right there to

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reach out to them and say, Hey, why

don't you come with us on Sunday?

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Right.

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If they've got kids, invite them to

get their kids registered for VBS,

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which is a great on-ramp as well.

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So, uh, there you go.

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Don't, uh, don't forget that,

that challenge invite a family

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over, have them over for dinner.

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Spend some time with them.

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And look, don't stop there.

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It's not like you have to stop

with one family go after other

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families on your street to you.

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I mean, that's, that's our goal.

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That's our target.

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That's what we're

wanting to be about that.

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Pray about that.

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We, we, we want this.

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We were hungry for this.

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The pray for that.

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I mean, just pray, pray that

God opened doors for you.

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I mean, sometimes that's a scary

prayer because when he does and you

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feel obligated to just step through

it, but that's, that's the point.

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Yeah.

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Burn your bridges, Cortez.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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Burn the ships.

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That's what I meant in the bridges

and both burned both of them.

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Yeah.

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Burn both.

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All of them.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Hey.

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Uh, let's jump into our text.

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For the day.

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This is where I'm going to just lay out

and let you just handle it from all right.

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Yeah.

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I'm used to it now.

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Yeah, you are.

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You're our second case.

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5 6, 7 and eight.

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There's a lot here.

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There's a ton.

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I don't know how we're

going to get through this.

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We're going to do our best.

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The second Kings chapter five, uh,

basically the, the, the gist of this

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chapter, in fact, that the whole part

of the chapter is the story of Naman.

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Uh, Naman.

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Yeah, not that guy, a different one, a

naming key figure in the Syrian army.

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So not a follower of gun.

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Uh, not a member of Israel, not

certainly a member of Judah, but a

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part of the Syrian army commander

of the king King's army of Syria.

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There.

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And so he shows up on the scene

and he is afflicted with leprosy

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and leprosy being an awful disease.

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He hears that there is a man of God

in some area in which is the capital

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of Israel, the Northern kingdom there.

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Who is, uh, is powerful and he

thinks, well, maybe this guy

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can take care of my leprosy.

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So he ends up going there.

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Makes his way, long story short over

to the house where Lusha happens to

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be a servant girl goes to meet him.

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It says, here's your instructions.

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You need to go to the Jordan river and

dip yourself in the water seven times

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and you'll be cleansed of your leprosy.

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And initially Naman is outraged here.

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He thinks there's no way

I'm going to do this.

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This is absurd.

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I've we've got better rivers,

cleaner rivers back where I'm from.

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How dare you treat me this way.

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And I think also his pride, his

incense, that he didn't even get to

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see a Lysa at this point or Elijah

at this point, he, uh, he got right.

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Alicia, Alicia.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Misfiring there.

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Anyways, he's incense there that, that

he has the servant girl and beat him when

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he's a man of such power and prestige.

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But eventually as he's going,

uh, he's convinced to at least

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try it and he does it and washes

and comes out and he's clean.

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Uh, it goes back to the house and he

is excited about this and wants to pay.

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He wants to, to offer reward for, uh,

for being cleansed, for being healed.

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And Alicia said, no, we're

not going to take this.

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Meanwhile, one of Alicia's

servants get HASI.

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Uh, here's what the, what name it

had offered and here's his master.

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Elatia turn it down and

is upset about that.

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And so he takes off after name

and afterwards and goes to him and

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says, Hey, actually, you know what?

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We changed our mind.

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We would like to have the, the

gift that you were willing to give.

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Uh, lies about it and deceives and,

uh, naming doesn't realize this.

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And it gives him the, the, the

treasure gives him the reward in hand.

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Uh, when he gets back, Elijah confronts

him and says, Hey, you know what?

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Nayman's leprosy is now your leprosy

and your descendants leprosy.

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And so Suffers for his error there.

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Yeah.

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I was wondering if Mahasi was

already showing some, some sport,

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some sort of apostasy, or at

least some signs of weakness when

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he was praying for the servant.

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Uh, The Shulamite sun.

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So Alicia sends How's your head.

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Uh, Gazi tries to pray

and nothing happens.

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And now you have him going

full bore against what God had.

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What, uh, what Elijah told him to do.

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And now you see, okay, clearly this, this

is evidence that he was not a believer.

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He loved money.

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He's more like a Demas

in love with the world.

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He went after the riches and the.

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The stuff that ministry

could potentially supply.

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I like what Elijah says here.

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He says, was it a time to

accept money in garments?

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In other words, there is a time for that.

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It was just not a time for that.

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We're trying to be a

light to the Gentiles.

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This was not meant for us to

profit from this was a time for

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God's glory to be on display.

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Uh, HASI missed it.

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And what a tragic result that was, and

the danger for all of us is to fall

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so much in love with the world, with

the stuff of the world, the money.

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The prestige, the power that we lose

sight of what's ultimately valuable.

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Yeah.

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It's also a good reminder for us as we're

thinking of Angela Stickley right now.

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Uh, because this is such a good

picture of the power of God to save.

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Uh, and so often when we share the gospel

with someone that they are offended much

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like here, you had named a defendant

when he was first told of the solution

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to, to bring about the cure that he had.

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And in his pride stands in the way.

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And yet eventually he humbles

himself and pursues the simplicity

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of Washington, a river at dirty river

at that the Jordan river is not the

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most beautiful river in the world.

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And he, but yet he humbles himself

does that, and that simple act is

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what brings about his cleansing.

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And it's just a good reminder to us

when we're sharing the gospel with

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someone, their initial offense,

uh, need not shock us that that's.

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That's the natural response of

the flesh being told, Hey, you're

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a sinner and you need salvation.

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Uh, and yet we can trust in God to bring

about salvation through the humility that

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we see represented here in, uh, in Naman.

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I was, was named and saved.

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Are we suggesting that we don't know?

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I, there's nothing hard to know for sure.

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To pinpoint for sure.

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Moving forward, but it's possible.

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It's a positive response, at

least it is that for sure.

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For sure.

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All right.

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Chapter six, then chapter six, we get

more confirmation here of a ministry.

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Remember Alicia is taking over.

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Uh, for, uh, Taking over for, um, Elijah.

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And so Elijah having

been such a power player.

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Uh, there are things that we read

here that we're looking at kind of

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going, okay, why this story about

the floating ax head and what we have

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to remember is this is written to

people that are, are, are right there.

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Seeing all this things, these things

take place, but this is also written to

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us too, to understand Elijah's power.

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Remember when Alicia succeeded.

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Uh, Elijah, he had asked for that double

portion of, of the spirit, he had asked

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that God's spirit would empower him.

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And certainly we're seeing confirmation

at that through things like the

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opening scene here, where the accent

falls into the water in Alicia comes

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along and makes the accent float so

that they can have their accent back.

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This is nothing spiritually

momentous or, or anything.

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That's like, oh man,

that's, that's so good.

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And if the accident hadn't come up,

then Israel would have collapsed.

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It's not that at all.

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But it's God reminding us of

Elisha's giftedness and power there.

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Should we expect this today?

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Uh, no, no.

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that's like the, the, the

sign gives the healings.

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The miracle powers.

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Uh, we don't stand up on Sunday morning

and say, Hey, listen to us because look

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what we can do to validate our message.

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We're standing up.

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Holding out a message

that's been validated.

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We're standing up holding up

the message of the word of God.

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And that's what, uh, what

people trusting great point.

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Yep.

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Uh, then verses eight through

15, you've got the Syrian king.

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Now he's frustrated that Alicia could

anticipate his moves in strategy.

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And so he sends and surrounds

the city in which the prophet is

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residing in order to kill him.

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He's like, okay,

something's going on here?

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We got to take out this Alicia

guy because he's frustrating.

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My plans here.

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But in verses 16 through 23, the

Lord ends up delivering Alicia

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according to Alessia's prayers.

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Uh, and which were not noticed for

the destruction of those who had

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come to destroy him, but that they

might be rendered temporarily blind.

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And then it's a funny scene because Alicia

then goes and leads them right into the

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lion's den right into the heart of some

area where they did not want to be because

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they were in a vulnerable situation there.

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And then you've got, uh, the

Israelite king who says, okay, great.

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I get to now take them out.

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I get to now kill him.

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And Alicia says, uh, no, that's

not what we're going to do.

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Why don't you feed them?

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And then we're going to let them go.

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This was kind of, Hey,

we've humiliated them.

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We've embarrassed them.

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They recognize the power

of the God that we serve.

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We're going to let them go with their way.

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Interesting.

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In verse 23 where it says, and

they did not send any more raids

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against Israel, but then did you

notice verse 24 right after that?

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Yeah.

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Cause then the army is there

coming back against Israel.

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So there was a period of time

where they weren't being set.

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So there were some kind of peace.

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And I think one of the things I took away

was that being loving toward enemies.

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Has has some kind of.

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Practical value there and

that disarm them for a season.

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You know, it's what the Proverbs

that you you're, you're shoveling,

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shoveling hot coals on their head.

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And if some kind of judgment or some

kind of effect taking place there,

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but I think that's worth us looking

at today, loving our enemies and.

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So for some of us, just, just the

other side of the political aisle.

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For those who vote differently than we do.

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I mean, it's, that's, that's powerful

right now, loving your enemies, having

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them at the dinner table, as you

were just suggesting is a big way to

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showcase that we love as we have been

loved and not the way necessarily that.

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They're loving us.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it also read that, that it

wasn't necessarily a rating party

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that comes back and first 24,

but this is an all out attack.

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Yeah.

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And so there's some differences there.

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These aren't little skirmishes, those

stopped, but here comes the whole

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army against Israel at that point.

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Yeah.

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It's possible, but yeah, I

think both are valid there.

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Uh, well, the, the rest of the chapter

here, um, Jehoram is angry and swears an

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oath against Alicia and seems to hold him

responsible for the current circumstances.

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And as I was reading through this

MacArthur suggested some reasons for this.

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As to why MacArthur in his whole

Bible commentary that he's got there.

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Uh, he suggested number one, either

king J saw this as from the Lord

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and Elijah was the Lord's prophet.

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So he connected that and said, well,

that's why I'm angry at Alicia.

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Or another reason.

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Number two is that king J knew

Alicia had brought in or Elijah

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rather had brought an end to famine.

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Previously in his ministry and

concluded that a light HSA should

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be able to do this as well.

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And so, because they were in this

famine period and it was ongoing,

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he concluded, man, Elijah could

stop this if you really want it to.

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And yet he's not.

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Uh, third reason that he suggested

as possible is that king J

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was angry that Elijah hadn't

let him kill the rating party.

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That he was thinking, man, if I had

dispatched them and slaughter them

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all, then the fear would be in them

and they wouldn't be back here on our

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doorstep now and in besieging us so

that we have this, this great famine.

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And then finally, uh, MacArthur suggested

he was frustrated that his morning, uh,

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the King's morning, which he identifies.

480

And I agree with him as false repentance.

481

Hadn't brought an end to the famine.

482

And so he's angry at the Lord.

483

And again, angry, the Wood's

representative being Alicia here,

484

that God is not responding the way

that, uh, that he feels like he

485

should, because he thinks that he's

repenting here in this situation.

486

Yeah, it is interesting because you don't

really have anything in the text that

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tells you this is exactly why he's upset.

488

I just saw this as a blame shifting,

like, this is really your fault.

489

Your leadership is what's provoking

this kind of response that God

490

promised you, this is what he said.

491

You should know this.

492

And yet, whatever reason

he's upset, it's not valid.

493

It's not a good one.

494

Ultimately, when we're looking.

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You know, we're looking to others too.

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To be the responsibility,

uh, for our struggle.

497

That's often us.

498

It's not them.

499

Yeah.

500

Yeah.

501

Yeah, chapter seven then, uh, Alicia,

as the, the feminist is still taking

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place in the city is still besieged by

the, uh, the Syrian army at this point.

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Alicia prophesies that the famine

is going to come to an end.

504

And even he says by the next day, and he

uses some numbers here to suggest that

505

in, in the numbers, aren't, aren't our

numbers here as far as the monetary units.

506

But no, this basically you're saying.

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The bread's going to become

super cheap by the next day.

508

So we're in a time of heavy

inflation ourselves right now.

509

And so imagine this is like

them saying, Hey, tomorrow

510

morning, you're gonna wake up.

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And gas is going to be

a buck 10, a gallon.

512

Bring it.

513

Yeah.

514

I think I would take it.

515

Come on.

516

You prophesying right now, man.

517

I'm about to say amen to this.

518

Um, you just said we're not, we should

not expect the signs and wonders.

519

And yet here you are.

520

I'm not, I'm not saying I'm not a prophet.

521

Nor the son of a prophet,

but, but, but it'd be great.

522

Nope, but then there's, there's

one who protests in any protests,

523

because this is something that

is going to be an act of God.

524

And just like we would say, there's

no way we're going to wake up tomorrow

525

morning and have gas be a dollar 10.

526

He saying, there's no way we're

going to wake up tomorrow.

527

And this family is going to be broken.

528

What, what evidence do you have?

529

We're outnumbered.

530

We've got this massive army, one of

the most powerful armies of the day.

531

Uh, surrounding our city, uh, people

are eating their own children here.

532

Like what.

533

What's going to change.

534

How is this possible?

535

And the prophet Elijah says,

look, this is going to happen.

536

You're going to see it, but

you're not going to eat of it.

537

And that's what happens in the rest of it.

538

The chapter, the Lord does end the

famine and he does it by a miraculous

539

routing of the Syrian army this year,

an army hears the sound of great forces

540

coming against them and they, they

turn tail and they run, they flee.

541

And it's a comical scene

because there's these lepers.

542

That are hanging out outside

the city gate going well.

543

Where are you going to lose?

544

Yeah, let's go.

545

And they go out there

and discover an empty.

546

And they fill themselves

for a little bit there.

547

And then the lady.

548

We should tell the people.

549

And so they go back and there's

this mad rush out the gate.

550

And this captain who had protested.

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Alicia, he ends up dying in the rush.

552

I thought immediately of black Friday

and Walmart's same sorts of places.

553

People that get run over and stampeded.

554

But what a terrible way to die.

555

Could you imagine that?

556

You're just being stepped

on by repeated people.

557

Yeah, because people are just so.

558

shall we say about the good deals?

559

Well, desperate.

560

I mean, think about it.

561

I alluded to it in, and it's,

it's not necessarily PG parents,

562

but you have the situation where

the two mothers had that debate.

563

Yeah.

564

Because one had made a promise about what

they would do with their kids and right.

565

Like.

566

So now all of a sudden it's like

there's food out there, free food.

567

And so you have people that have been

in that position now, all of a sudden

568

here's the food is right outside the gate.

569

Yeah.

570

This is dire it's urgent.

571

Yeah, it's not like we want

to get our hands on the newest

572

toy for our kids for Christmas.

573

This is like, we mean survival.

574

Uh, and so it's going to be

cutthroat to do whatever they can

575

to get there bigger than tickle me.

576

Elmo is what you're saying.

577

Hi, to remember that.

578

How crazy that was.

579

Yes.

580

Yes.

581

Thankfully I did not

have kids at that time.

582

I don't believe.

583

And so I was not concerned about.

584

Probably the wing.

585

Getting that tickle me Elmo.

586

I don't think, I think

I was older than that.

587

I think.

588

Again, you were the one getting.

589

Listen.

590

Dude in it.

591

Uh, elementary school.

592

My friend had the dragon dagger from.

593

The power Rangers.

594

Okay.

595

Dragon dagger was that really cool thing.

596

They went, dude, dude, dude.

597

Okay.

598

And it would bring out the, I forget

the guy they dragons or to whatever.

599

Yeah.

600

He was the only one in my entire friend.

601

I had hundreds of friends

that were not friends.

602

People.

603

I knew hundreds of friends right here.

604

Oh, that wasn't that hot.

605

Trust me.

606

I had hundreds, only guy I

knew that had this device.

607

It was super cool.

608

He didn't get stampeded

for, to my knowledge.

609

I never got into power Rangers.

610

I think we've had that conversation.

611

We have.

612

And I'm disappointed by that.

613

I'm a ninja turtles guy.

614

I wasn't at that too.

615

They can both play and cooperate.

616

Yeah, there should have been a crossover.

617

I don't know why there wasn't.

618

A mashup.

619

Yeah.

620

It would've been interesting.

621

Alright, second Kings chapter eight.

622

Uh, since chapter eight, verses one

through six, we come back to the

623

shoot and I shoot him by his family.

624

Elijah had a soft spot in

his heart for this family.

625

He stayed with them when he was traveling.

626

He obviously.

627

Uh, made the promise that they would

have a son that had the son, the son

628

died, he raised the son back to life.

629

So he cares for this family and he had

told them, Hey, look, the famine's coming.

630

You need to take off.

631

You need to get out of

here, which they do.

632

But then they come back after the

famine ends and the Lord provides for

633

them to be able to get their land back.

634

And so just to kind of a brief note there,

again, this is an interesting glimpse into

635

the personal life of the prophet here.

636

This is not moving the ball

down the field, as far as the

637

narrative of what God's doing in

Israel in any way, shape or form.

638

This is just a glimpse into

this personal relationship.

639

I think that Elijah had with his

family, which is kind of cool.

640

Is the servant.

641

cause the servant here is.

642

Is shown there.

643

They're demonstrated, but there's no name.

644

So is this Kasi.

645

And this is something happening, happening

in the past, or is this in the future?

646

And.

647

off the scene and this

is a different survey.

648

I got to imagine.

649

He's off the scene.

650

I don't think Alicia has taken a

leprous servant around with him.

651

I mean practically.

652

Well, I mean, it would

have to be another servant.

653

I'm suggesting so right.

654

I think there's different opinions

about whether or not this is Ghazi.

655

And this is an out of sequence event,

just told for the sake of filling

656

out some of the content about yeah.

657

Elisha is.

658

Uh, Elijah's care for this shit.

659

I might.

660

I ended up family.

661

Yeah.

662

So, I dunno.

663

I guess that's the short answer.

664

I don't know if it is or isn't.

665

it does seem to be a flashback

because he's saying the Lord has

666

called for a famine and the famous,

we just read where the phobia.

667

Um, you know, it does seem to be at

least a little bit of a flashback,

668

so maybe it is still get hot.

669

It depends on how far back am

I talking about verse four.

670

It says God has his name right there.

671

Mike King was talking with

Yeah, that makes sense.

672

Doesn't it.

673

See, we should pay attention to stuff like

that, but, uh, neither of us got that.

674

Aye.

675

I T it actually that's at my.

676

I don't know why.

677

Well, some of my Bible

too, I have verse 14.

678

I'm not saying it's

not it's in our Bibles.

679

My my notes.

680

You made a note about.

681

Gotcha.

682

And I now am looking at

it saying why didn't I?

683

Okay.

684

So yes, it's a HASI it was a

flashback that has to be in that.

685

That's that's that's the case right there.

686

Yeah.

687

Yeah.

688

Alright, verses seven through 15.

689

Then we get introduced to this guy.

690

Uh, Hazael.

691

Uh, and Hazael comes on the scene and he

is a, he's not part of the Royal family.

692

And yet he is going to be.

693

Eventually the king and.

694

That's going to come up about in a

little bit of a nefarious way because,

695

uh, Elijah goes to the, to mask us here

where Ben, Hey, dad was sick and the

696

king sins Hazael to inquire of Alicia

as to whether or not he would recover.

697

So when Alicia sees this guy coming.

698

He gets this prophetic vision

of him as the king of Syria.

699

Now, Ben Haight at is currently the

king of Syria, but Elijah gets a

700

vision of him as the king of Syria.

701

And this vision includes a lot of

violence that he's going to do to the

702

people of Israel, such that Elijah

is moved to, to mourn over this.

703

And he tells.

704

Uh, how's all of this vision that

he would be king in place of.

705

Hey dad.

706

And so then when Hazael returns.

707

Uh, to the palace, to the king,

he goes back to Ben Hayden, and

708

he has a murdering the king and

takes the throne for himself there.

709

He acts on that pretty quickly.

710

He does.

711

If he wasn't thinking about it already,

it seems really interesting that he'd

712

go back and act upon this prophecy.

713

So, so fast.

714

Yeah.

715

Which.

716

Maybe he was thinking about it, maybe

just the power of Elijah's words.

717

It's so interesting that the

dynamic between Alicia and Syria.

718

Because Syria is not the people

of God series a, I play a role.

719

Uh, another nation altogether.

720

So.

721

Uh, yeah, unique there for sure.

722

Verses 16 through 24, then king

Joran reigns in Judah here where

723

we're brought back to Judah for a

minute, the Southern kingdom, and

724

he's going to rain for eight years.

725

And we've seen some of this already.

726

There's some overlap, flashing back and

forth between our reading and Chronicles.

727

Um, and, and here in Kings, at least

the only thing super noteworthy for

728

the recorder of Kings is the, the,

uh, breakup of the relationship

729

between Israel and the EDA match.

730

Remember the Edomites

Esau, Esau, and Jacob.

731

Uh, the, the close relationship, it was

a familial relationship there while the

732

Edomites are going to revolt from Judas

rule established, uh, establishing their

733

own king in the process that takes place

under germs reign in verses 16 through 24.

734

That's right.

735

Verse 25 through 29.

736

Then as the chapter draws to a close and

today's reading draws to a close you've

737

got anxie who follows Joran as king.

738

And he also follows him in doing what

was evil in the sight of the Lord.

739

And so he and the king of Israel

go to battle together against

740

Hazael and the king of Syria.

741

And so this is, uh, a situation

again that we will pick up on more

742

in that we'll see some overlap

between Chronicles and Kings here.

743

Hey, has I?

744

His mom is at the . Don't forget that.

745

Not a good, that's a good lady.

746

The factor because she's, she plays a

pretty prominent role for her wickedness.

747

She does.

748

And in her connection to

the Davidic line, Right.

749

And we've already seen some of her

from our reading and Chronicles.

750

So we'll pick up more of her.

751

I think tomorrow's

reading of the next days.

752

And I think tomorrow's reading soon.

753

Fair enough.

754

Yep.

755

Well, there you go.

756

We're back.

757

There's another episode of

the daily Bible podcast.

758

Things are, as they should be.

759

We will catch you guys tomorrow.

760

Bring your Bibles and tune in

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761

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