Rod's Recommended Resources for Kings and Chronicles:

Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps, and Time Lines

Synopsis of the Old Testament

A Synoptic Harmony of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles: With Related Passages from Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezra

Print Outs (PR's favorites):

Kings of Judah & Israel

Kings of Judah & Israel (2)

00:00 Upcoming Events: Prosper Pride and Evangelism Outreach

01:48 Exploring 1 Kings 16: The Northern Kingdom Kings

08:40 The Reign of Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 17

12:10 Conclusion and Prayer

13:48 That's All Folks!

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Hello Bible people and thank you again for joining me for another

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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I'm Pastor Rod.

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I'm solo still, pastor PJ is still

gone, but I thank you for joining me.

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I'm grateful for your partnership

here, and I'm grateful for your

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company, even though I can't see you

or hear you or see you or hear you.

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Even though I can't see you or

hear you, I'm still thankful that

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you're here and you're with me.

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I appreciate it greatly.

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Secondly, we have an

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and if the door opens to something more

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the word about what our church is doing.

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We'd love to have you join us.

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sign up for those events, let

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We would love to have you join

us for both of those things.

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Okay, let's jump into the text First

King 16 second Chronicles chapter 17.

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One King 16 is gonna be all

about the Northern Kingdom Kings.

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In fact, we're ending Bea's Reign and

one King 16, he starts in chapter 15.

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But here we find out that Jehu, the

son of Hanani, comes out against

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Beha saying, here's what happened.

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I exalted you and yet you walked in

the sins of Jira bone and therefore.

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Verse three, I will utterly

sweep away Beha and his house.

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This is a complete

annihilation of his line.

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In fact, he says, I'll make your house

like the house of Rabbo, the son of Atch.

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And if you remember that, his

line was eliminated as well.

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And so Beha receives much of the

same punishment that Rabbo gets

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because he has much of the same sins.

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In verse four, you find out that he's

not even gonna get a proper burial.

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It's gonna be a dishonorable

discharge, as it were.

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And that's the end of his

reign, at least for now.

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You'll see more about his

lineage in just a few moments.

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Eah reigns in Israel in

verses eight through 14.

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Eah is a son of bean, and so for now,

the prophecy has not yet come to pass.

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Bean and Eah comprised the

next dynasty, and this is it.

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This is gonna be the end of them, but

during his reign, Ziri, his commander.

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Commander of half his chariots

that is conspires against him.

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So he only gets two years in before

one of his highest ranking officials

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turns against him and he does exactly

what God prophesies would happen.

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He struck down all the house of Beha and

he did not leave him a single male of his

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relatives and get this or his friends in

verse 11, which tells us that this was

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not just an elimination of his family

members, but even those who might be loyal

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to him, his friends were also eliminated.

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And so Ziri, even though he's not trying

to obey the word of the Lord, ends up

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fulfilling exactly what the Lord says.

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This is the judgment on beha and

elah for their sin against the Lord.

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And so there's Bea's line.

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His line is now over.

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In fact, let me just

take a quick moment here.

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I'm sure you've read some of these

phrases and I just wanna be sure to

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point out to you what they're not.

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Sometimes you'll see that these

things refer to other books

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that are not part of the Bible.

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For instance, verse 14.

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Now the rest of the acts of Elah

and all that he did, are they

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not written in the book of the

Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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And you might think, oh

yeah, I have Chronicles.

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Lemme just turn over to them,

see what they say about that.

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But it's not the same thing.

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The Chronicles that we have,

those books have nothing to

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do with the Northern Kings.

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And so this is a different book.

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Does that mean that

we're missing scripture?

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No, it doesn't.

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These are different books.

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These are just different books.

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They're books in their records that were

kept at their time for their people.

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And we no longer have those.

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In fact, those records are not

scripture, so they're not meant to

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be part of the books that we have.

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So when you see references to

other books, it might be that

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it's a reference to something else

you've read, but likely it's not.

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Books of the Chronicles of the Kings of

Israel is not the same thing as the Book

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of Chronicles that we have in our Bible.

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I just wanted to make that clear

so that you're not confused

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about what you see there.

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Chronicles in our Old Testament only deals

with Judah, David, and Judah's Kings.

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Nothing to do with Northern Kings.

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Clear.

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Okay.

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Now we have Ziri and Ziri wins

for the shortest reign ever.

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His reign is only seven days, so

Ziri, as you recall here, he's the

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commander of half the chariots.

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He takes out Eila and he installs

himself as king, but he only

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lasts seven days because there's a

more popular man with the people.

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And that's Omri.

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When they hear that Eila has

been taken out, the men of his

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company say, Omri should be king.

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He's the man, he's the

leader, he's great at this.

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And when you have the military man

with all the people's approval,

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it's gonna be hard to resist that.

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And that's exactly what takes place.

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Ziri doesn't stand a chance.

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And so instead of fighting back,

he takes himself out and he

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does so in an inglorious way.

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Verse 19 says, because of the sins

that he committed doing evil, this

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is essentially God's judgment upon

him, even though he himself is the

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medium or the agent of God's judgment.

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In that case, Omri's reign

lasts a little longer.

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His reign is gonna be 12 years.

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But before he actually is installed,

there's this man by the name of

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Timney, the son of Gith, and we know

nothing about Timney except that

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he was a contender for kingship.

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Half people, half of the

people favored his kingship or

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the other half favored Omri.

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But Omri won because again, he's

got the military might behind him.

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It'd be really hard to resist

that when you've got a man who's

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popular in that particular way.

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Omri reigned over Israel

and he reed for 12 years.

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Six, he reigned in tears up, and

the other six, he's gonna reign

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from the place called Samaria.

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He buys his plot of land from shimmer

for two talents of silver, and he

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begins to build Samaria as the new

capital of the northern kingdom.

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In fact, it's gonna stick.

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God's gonna refer to Samaria often

in reference to the whole of Israel.

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So Samaria's gonna stick, and in fact,

Ahab's gonna build his home base there.

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In addition to building a

house for Baal, building some

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idols for Baal in this place.

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But before Omri steps off the scene,

it says in verse 25, he did evil in

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the sight of the Lord and get this

more evil than all who were before him.

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Now, that's not a lot of people.

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But to say that he did more evil

than Jira, BOEM is substantial.

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He's saying Jira Baum did evil, but

man, he did even more than Jira boem.

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So there's 1, 2, 3, 4,

5, 5 people before him.

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If you include Ziri, who only ruled

for seven days, but God says did

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more evil than those before him.

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Omri steps off the scene

and installs his son Ahab.

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And so Omri began a new dynasty and

we're gonna have four kings in the line

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of Omri, Ahab, ahh, Isaiah and Jura.

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Ahab is the one that you're probably

gonna be most familiar with 'cause

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he gets a lot of ink, but Omri

hands it off to his son Ahab.

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We only get the introduction

of his kingship here.

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And it says, in the 38th year of Asa, king

and Judah Ahab, the son of Omri, began to

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reign over Israel and get this verse 30.

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Ahab, the son of Amery did evil in

the side of the Lord more than all

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who were before him, as if it were

a light thing to walk in that way.

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So Dad wins the prize for most evil, and

then son steps in and says, I'll show you

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Dad I'll step up and do one more for you.

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He's the most evil in

the line of the tribe of.

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In the line of the

Northern Kingdom thus far.

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And you have some of the information

here about why God sees it that way.

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He takes a wife called Jezebel.

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She's infamous for some of her actions.

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She's a daughter of a Pagan,

and not only that, she brings

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some of her paganism with her.

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She brings Baal worship to the floor.

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And then not only that, Ahab

endorses and reinforces Baal worship.

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He makes shrines, he puts a, he

creates a house of Baal in Samaria,

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the capital of the Northern Kingdom.

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And you have the beginning

of a very bad reign.

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And in fact, it's not just a

bad reign, it's a long reign.

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Ahab reigns for 22 years, so this is

not gonna be a short period of time,

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but we're gonna get introduced to a

few cool characters along the way.

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But that's it for the

Northern Kingdom for now.

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That was a packed chapter.

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First Kings Chapter 16,

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second Chronicles 17.

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We get introduced to

another king of Judah.

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His name is Phat.

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He's gonna reign for 25 years, so it's not

as long as his dad's, which was 41 years.

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But there's also probably

some overlap here.

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Phat probably reigns, at least in

a cogency setting for three years.

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Before his father exits the scene

in part because of his foot disease.

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So there's probably a co regency when

you're calculating his rulership.

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Not that it makes a big difference

for you, but just so you know, Joshh

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Apha has probably been leading behind

the scenes in a co regency way before

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he's installed formally as the sole

authority after his dad passes.

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Notably in verse three, the Lord is

with jeh of that because he walked.

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In the earlier ways of his father David.

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So Phat is a good king.

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We already see that on the front end.

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God approves of his rulership and

he sought the God of his father

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and walked in his commandments, not

according to the practices of Israel.

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Notice that there's a contrast here

between Judahs followership of the

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Lord and Israel's not followership.

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They're doing their own thing entirely.

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Verse six says, he was courageous

in the ways of the Lord.

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He is someone who takes the Lord at his

word and is unafraid to stand upon it.

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And I love this because in verses

seven through nine, you see his love

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for the word and his affection for it.

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He's so behind it that he takes

his own officials and he sends them

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throughout the cities of Judah to teach.

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I love this.

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He sends them out to teach.

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This is what the people need.

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He thinks if they're gonna be faithful

to the Lord, they have to know the Lord.

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And that's incredibly wise and so

simple that we sometimes miss it if

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our kids are gonna follow the Lord.

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If people in our church are gonna follow

the Lord, they have to know the Lord.

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They have to know what he

demands, know what he wants.

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Verse nine says, and they taught

in Judah, having the book of

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the law of the Lord with them.

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They went about through all the cities

of Judah and taught among the people.

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What a profound and powerful truth.

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Teaching helps us to have

our hearts committed to.

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The Lord doesn't guarantee it.

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We know that head knowledge doesn't

automatically lead to heart knowledge, but

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heart knowledge needs the head knowledge.

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It's impossible to love the Lord

without knowing what his word says.

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You can love a vague conception

of God, but what we really

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need to know God is his word.

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And so because Jehoshaphat does these

things because he's committed to the

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Lord and his word, verse 12 says,

Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater.

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God is gonna bless his reign.

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We're gonna read a lot more

about him soon, but you'll

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notice the key to his success.

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Is the word of the Lord, and I think

that's gonna be true for you, which

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is why I'm so excited that you're here

studying with me and the word of the Lord.

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Now, this actually isn't quite

studying, we're just doing a survey.

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If we were studying this, we'd be

a lot slower, take a lot longer

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of a podcast, that's for sure.

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But this is a great first start.

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Getting acclimated and accustomed to all

of what scripture says is so important.

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In fact, one of my favorite

sayings is it takes a whole

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Bible to make a whole Christian.

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You can't have a mature whole disciple

who loves the Lord without having a

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holistic understanding of all that

the Lord has revealed about himself.

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And that just takes you faithfully opening

your Bible even to the parts that are less

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interesting to you and saying, what do

you want me to see about yourself, Lord?

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And in these chapters we're

seeing, God wants humility.

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He wants wholeheartedness.

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He wants someone who

holds close to the Word.

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And as we do these things,

God will bless us again.

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The blessings are gonna look different.

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Under the new covenant, we

have superior blessings.

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We don't only get physical things,

although a lot of us do have a lot of

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material blessings, but the primary

blessings are the knowledge of the

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Lord, of knowing him, loving him, and

enjoying him throughout all your life.

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That is a far better blessing

than anything money can provide.

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All right.

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That's all I have for you today.

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Thank you so much for joining

me, and thank you, by the

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way, forgot to mention this.

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Thank you for praying for me.

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If you prayed for my health, I'm

tremendously grateful to you.

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I need that.

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Got a busy week ahead,

a packed week ahead.

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A lot of different things that are

vying from my attention and time

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and my fellow co-labor is off in The

Bahamas or California, one of the two.

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And he's getting his

suntan on, which is great.

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I love that he's doing that,

but I'm feeling it here.

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So please come back soon.

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Thank you so much for praying for me.

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Let's pray together.

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Now, God help us to learn from all of

these men that we're reading about.

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It's hard sometimes to really put

ourselves in their sandals because we're

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so far removed from their timeframe.

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But insofar as we can derive principles

from their lives, please teach us

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and we will be taught, ex admonish us

through their life and their leadership.

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Show us how to live differently

and how to live faithfully.

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Help us Lord, to be the kind

of people who read your word.

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We want to be whole Christians

who read your whole Bible.

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We need to be taught and just

like Jeh Apha sent people

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out to teach people the book.

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Help us to be students of the

book who learn from valuable.

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Wise resources who learn from validated

resources, not just someone who has

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an Instagram channel or some kind of

influencer Lord, but from people that

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can help us truly understand your word.

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We wanna be good students, and Lord,

we know that you're a good teacher, so

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please give us the grace to continue

learning and growing in our leadership.

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We ask all us in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Thank you so much for joining me.

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It's an honor to serve you in this

way, and I hope that you'll let

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me do it again for you tomorrow.

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God willing, I'll see you then.

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