00:00 Welcome Back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

00:20 Recommended Video: The Discovery of Nineveh

01:11 Weekend Recap and Sermon Highlights

03:18 4th of July Fun Fact

05:21 Bible Study: Second Kings 15

10:58 The Importance of the Davidic Lineage

11:45 Second Chronicles 26: The Downfall of Uzziah

13:42 Lessons on Pride and Humility

15:06 Conclusion and Preview of Isaiah

Happy Monday, everybody.

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We're a Monday.

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We're back.

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Yes, we are.

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Another episode of the

daily Bible podcast.

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And I know you've been waiting, you've

been sitting on pins and needles,

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just waiting for us to come back

with another episode you missed us.

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Yes, I hope they did.

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I hope so too.

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On behalf of our entire audience.

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We did miss y'all.

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We did.

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We missed you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh, Hey, real quick.

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I met to hit this yesterday and I

forgot, but, uh, the, the discovery

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of Nineveh is a YouTube video.

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Um, from our friends over at the

X, at expedition Bible that I've

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referenced a couple of times.

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So.

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Ah, I'd like to think so.

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I think it will be in eternity with them.

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So I'm, I'm.

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It's the Royal we in

application again here.

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Uh, you didn't, they.

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Not yet, but, um, anyways, Uh, the, the

video is called Bible evidence unearth

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at Nineveh, and it's by expedition Bible.

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It's going to give you a good picture

and understanding of the history of

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Nineveh and some of the archeology of it.

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You're going to see what

it looks like today.

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Super cool video worth your

time to go over there in.

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Concert with, uh, Jonah, but not just

Jonah, but also helping you to understand

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a little bit more of a Syria, because

we're going to be reading a lot more

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about, uh, Syria in the days to come.

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So that's hopefully helpful for you.

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Yeah, that's rotten.

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How's your weekend.

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Do good.

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It was great.

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That's good.

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I'm glad to hear that.

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Talk about that.

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No, we didn't.

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You preached that men's Bible study.

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On self control faithfulness.

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You were at self-control.

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Illness.

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So pastor PJ is preaching from,

for me in men's Bible study,

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we're doing fruit of the spirit.

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And he's got faithfulness.

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And so he chooses first

grade, the chapter nine.

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Uh, our Paul talks about

he disciplines himself.

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He's not one beating the air.

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He disciplines his body.

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He keeps it under control.

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I think he said the word discipline,

like 17 times in that text.

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And then the, and then at the end

of the sermon, those good sermon

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is a great sermon, by the way.

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It was about faithfulness, but

it was more about self control.

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In fact, I think your title was

like the discipline of faithfulness.

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Yeah.

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I didn't say self-control in there.

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So discipline, something like that.

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I don't have any data breach.

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I'm going to get when you get to sell for.

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I'm going to copy and paste

it and see if anybody notices.

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I just

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change the text a little bit and should

play the audio and just mouth watermelon

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cantaloupe the whole time up there and

see if anybody recognizes what's going on.

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Well, I apologize.

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It's not going to, it's not going

to be, I'll have to do something.

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There's always different

shades of that stuff.

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Anyway.

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In my defense.

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I thought I was preaching that

message right on the heels

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of my vacation last week.

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So I grabbed one on faithfulness

that I had done in the past.

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Okay.

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You need is you need to lean on Kelly for

your schedule far more because clearly

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what you, you, you accidentally put Dr.

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Dr.

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Zeller here this weekend, right?

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He was supposed to be next weekend.

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If I'm not mistaken.

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No he's supposed to be this weekend

supposed to be, but you didn't, you

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didn't intend it to be that way.

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Right?

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Did you did.

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I did.

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Okay.

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I, I guess I'm confused then, because

I thought the intention was that you'd

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be out of the pulpit two weeks in a

row, and then you come back to it.

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Yeah.

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In my vacation.

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Got.

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Yeah.

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Listen, I think Kelly needs

to be more in control of your

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schedule is all I'm saying.

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Cause then you wrote the whole

sermon for last week or on Saturday.

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We had no idea.

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And it was great because I didn't.

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He took the pressure off this past week.

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We've got providentially used it.

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I'm not going to deny that.

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Yeah.

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We're still on a different week.

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Yeah, that's fine.

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That's fair.

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Whatever.

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Okay.

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Hey.

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So 4th of July, I know it's in our

rear view mirror and it's it's already

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happened, but I saw something that made

me go, man, if we had Hills or mountains

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here, We should do this in Texas.

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So in Alaska, On 4th of July and

part of Alaska, I don't know what

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part, but I kind of want to go.

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Uh, what they do on 4th of July is they

blast God bless America and or America,

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the beautiful, and they launch cars that

are empty and just junkers off this cliff.

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And they just, and people just

gather and watch these cars go

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off the cliff and hit the ground.

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I didn't know.

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It was a 4th of July thing.

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Yeah.

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I've seen that.

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Yeah.

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That's amazing.

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I kind of want to see it happen.

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I saw.

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Uh, backup Terri.

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A t-shirt.

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What you're doing to not go back up.

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What are the best videos

in 4th of July all time.

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It beats Charlie bit.

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My finger, for sure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um, Yeah, well, good, man.

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I'm glad you got a good weekend.

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Yeah.

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Did you have a good weekend?

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Went to the Roughriders game

on Saturday night with, uh, Dr.

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Zeller, before he preached,

who won, what was it?

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Ah, you know, it's a, it was a

good, it was a hard fought game.

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It was so hard fought that year.

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It was just a toss-up what'd you guys eat?

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Ah, hot docs that I'm confident.

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Hot dogs.

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Yeah.

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And, uh, that was great.

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We talked about sports

and Bible and God, and.

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And the weather being hot.

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Yeah.

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We talked about all that and it was good.

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It was a good time.

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Hi.

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Got home at a time.

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I got home at a time that

I was able to go to sleep.

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No, but then on Sunday I got to

play golf with some of the guys

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from church at, in the afternoon.

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So that was kind of fun too.

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I'm trusting.

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Uh, we went, we went to this course

called the bridges up in gunner.

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Oh, so I've never played there, but some

of the guys said, Hey, do you want to go?

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Uh, I got some new clubs for my birthday,

so I'll blame my battery out on that.

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I hear that.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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So that was kinda fun.

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Anyways, we're trusting that if

you guys aren't catching onto

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the joke, it's it's Saturday as

we're recording this right now.

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So we have no idea what's

coming out this Wednesday.

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The weekend was, well, you know,

That's on Saturday at two, o'clock

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not a profit of the son of a

prophet, but I think it went well.

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Well, let's get into the Bible.

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That's a good call.

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Speaking of profits.

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We're not talking about profits today,

but we are talking about the Bible.

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Okay.

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And we were talking

about a second Kings 15.

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Several Kings this time

around, we got 1, 2, 3.

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4 5, 6, 7 Kings that

we're talking about today.

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If, if listen.

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Uh, being a king at this time.

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In Judah or Israel was, it was

not a position of much security.

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It was not a, you didn't want to

be, you didn't want to be that.

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Not in Israel.

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No.

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Definitely not in Israel.

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Just a little bit better.

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As a writer, as a writer.

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For 52 years.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, by the way, stick a pin in

this, because tomorrow's episode,

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we're going to hit Isaiah.

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Uh, and so we're not going

to get there tomorrow.

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I guess it's going to be.

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On Wednesday, we'll actually hit when we

get to Isaiah chapter six, it's going to

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say in the year that king Uzziah died.

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Second Kings 15 Azariah takes the

throne and Judah that's Yeah, it's it's

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they have multiple names because they

just wanted to confuse us today in,

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in our context, laughing right now.

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They're like, ah, ha.

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Isn't that awesome.

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Um, As Ray Hughes.

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Same person.

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And so he takes the throne here.

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Second Kings 15.

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He's going to rain for 52 years.

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Uh, and, and it's interesting, and this

is another situation where we're going

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to get more of the story from Chronicles.

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But what we read here is that

he's running for 52 years.

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The high places were not taken away.

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And then in verse five, all of

a sudden, the Lord touched the

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king so that he was a leper.

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And so here comes a leprosy on Azariah

and if we're reading this account, we

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think, well, maybe it's just because

he didn't take away the high places.

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But then other Kings haven't

taken away the high places either.

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So why did Azariah get leprosy stay tuned

because we're going to find out why.

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And our parallel account

in second Chronicles.

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What in Judah or that that's as right.

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And Judah.

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And in Israel then, uh, you've got

Zechariah coming to the throne.

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So in verse eight, eight through

12 Zechariah takes his father's

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place as king of Israel.

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And just like the other Israelite Kings,

he does evil in the side of the Lord.

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And he's only going to rain

for six months because.

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Shalom is going to assassinate them

and take the throne for himself.

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This sets off kind of

a chain reaction here.

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Uh, chain reaction where the, the

Israel Kings don't don't rain for

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very long, in fact, uh, Shalom is

only going to rank for one month.

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If you look at verses 13 through

16, and then he's assassinated

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by, uh, Menachem Menachem.

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I was going to take the throne.

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He's going to do a little bit better.

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He's going to go for 10 years.

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Uh, but, but this is just a bad situation.

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This is just the depravity of Israel.

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Israel is in a state of

chaos at this point in time.

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And there's king after king and

assassination after assassination.

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Uh, but verses 17 through 22,

there you get Menachem who

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rains for a little bit longer.

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They're 10 years.

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And, and this is where a serious

presence in Israel begins to grow.

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We just talked about a Syrah

yesterday with Jonah and here we

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have a Syria coming on the scene

a little bit more, and there's a.

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King called pole and he's this

Assyrian king and, uh, and the, the.

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King Menachem of Israel here is,

is basically required to pay a

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tax to this Assyrian king in order

to keep him from attacking and

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wiping out the Israelite people.

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Second Kings 15, then 23 through 26.

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You get Pacaya following.

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is going to be there and he's going to

rain for two years and he's going to

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be assassinated by Pekka and Peck is

going to take the throne for himself.

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Peck is a name to remember, cause PECA

is going to get problems to Judah.

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In the, not too distant future, but

Peck is going to take the throne.

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He's going to ring for 20 years.

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Uh, PECA verses 27 through 31 is going

to do evil again in the side of the

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Lord, because he's an Israelite king.

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And it's during his reign that here

you have another, again, a Syrian

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king, a new one Tiglath-Pileser

comes on the scene and he's going to

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continue to exercise his dominance.

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The hand of a Syria is tightening around

the neck of Israel during this time.

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And so they're, they're

coming on the scene.

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They're exercising more

of their influence here.

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Uh, he's going to take more territory.

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Tiglath-Pileser is away

from the Israelites.

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And in fact, he's going to, uh, Make

the conquering of the land seemed

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like ultimately a foregone conclusion.

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Uh, and so much like the other Israelite

Kings or that we've looked at already.

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Uh, PECA is also going to be

assassinated and an end is

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going to come to, to his ring.

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No, we only have one working in Israel.

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Right then that's it.

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That's.

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That's it.

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The Kings of Israel have a long

lineage of failure disobeying the Lord.

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And there are times when it

come to an end in 7 21, BC 7 22,

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depending on how you count it.

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So we're coming close to the end.

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In fact, I think, uh, not

16, maybe 16 or 17 chapter.

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Six.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, it's coming up soon.

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So keep it, keep that in mind.

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Uh, you've made it so far

through the Kings of Israel.

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We're still gonna have a lot more to

say about the Kings of Judah, cause

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they're going to carry on for some

time afterwards, but just notice

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we're at the end of Israel's lineage.

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Just about, so we just covered, what was

that five Kings, I think in second Kings

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15 in Israel, just rapid-fire succession

assassination assassination, one range

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for 20 years, one range for 10 years.

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So there's 30 years built in there.

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That's good.

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But, but the rest were kind

of just mean mere months.

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Uh, the chapter ended the verses 32

through 36 flashback to, uh, to Judah.

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And now we're at the

end of Azariah is rain.

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So 52 years.

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Jonathan comes to the scene

and begins to rain, a Judah,

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and he's gonna rain 25 years.

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He's going to do what is

right in the eyes of the Lord.

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And it was during Jonathan's rain here.

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That Pekka and the Syrians

begin to attack Judah.

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This is eventually going

to lead you to the look.

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Uh, help for help from the us Syrians.

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Um, and that's, that's where we're

going to turn in, in the book of Isaiah,

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we're coming up to the book of Isaiah.

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We're going to hit the first.

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Uh, nine chapters, I think in tomorrow,

in the next day combined, uh, this,

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this has a lot to do with that.

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And so Isaiah 7, 3 9 specifically deals

with this conflict where we're Pekka and

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the king of the Syrians come against.

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Judah there.

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And that's Jonathan, who is

reigning on the throne there.

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Um, and then that conflict is really

going to accelerate during the reign

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of Jonathan Has, and we'll get to him.

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Uh, in the not too distant future here.

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So another thing to point out here.

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It's something you probably

already noticed, but the line

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of David remains consistent.

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This is, I mean, every everyone that

we've mentioned so far, and especially

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after seeing the tumult in Israel, how

you have, uh, Shalane, Menachem, Pika.

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The kind of, you have so many different

assassinations and so many user patients,

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but in Judah, You have Don's preserved

king, the Davidic king still on the

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throne, which is pretty remarkable.

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It's one family.

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One man's family that

maintains this entire lineage.

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And of course, you know, that the, the

arrival of Jesus depends upon this line

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being exactly the line that God promised.

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So this is important.

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This is really cool to see.

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It's hard to see some of the

things that take place, but

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this is important for not only.

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The Israelites, but for us, for you,

and for me, this is important for us

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because this is where our king comes from.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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Second Chronicles 26, then cover

some of the same grounds, but we

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get some added information that

helps us understand what happened.

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Remember I talked about as a writer,

the Lord gave him leprosy, why

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we're going to find that out here.

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So second Chronicles, 26.

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Uzziah.

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Isaiah, which is again

another name for Azariah.

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He he's there.

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He's on the throne and like Joe Ash in

Jehoiada, uh, it was, I has Zachariah.

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So remember Joe Ash had Jehoiada

and as long as Jehovah was there

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on the scene, Uh, Josh was good

because he listened to them.

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Well, Zaja.

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Uh, similarly has Zachariah

who's the priest there.

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So verse five, he, as a writer

whose eyes set himself to seek

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God in the days of Zechariah, who

instructed him in the fear of God.

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And as long as he sought the

Lord, God made him prosper.

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So when you read that, that should

even give us a foreshadowing.

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Dun dun.

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That there's going to be a day.

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That's going to come when he's not

going to find, follow the Lord.

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And that's what we read about

in verses 16 through 23.

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Verse 16, but when he was strong,

here's this downfall, he grows prideful.

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Two is destruction for, he was unfaithful

to the Lord, his God, and entered

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into the temple of the Lord, different

incense on the altar of incense.

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This is a no go, because that

was the role of the priest.

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The priest had a separate role from the

king and the two were not to co-mingle.

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And so this is not okay.

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Till Jesus.

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Right?

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So this is not okay.

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So when you use, I, it goes into the

temple to burn incense that that's

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against the law and that was wrong.

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And so the priests stand up against him

and say, this is not going to happen.

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You're not going to do this.

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Verse 19, you Zaja gets

angry because of his pride.

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His pride is, is offended here.

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And it says he had a sensor

in his hand to burn incense.

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And when he became angry with the priest,

leprosy broke out on his forehead, in

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the presence of the priest, in the house

of the Lord, by the altar of incense.

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This is why this is so helpful because now

we go back to our second Kings 15 context.

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We know now why as Riah got leprosy.

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Because of this situation

in second Chronicles, 26.

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Gives us the added information

that, that helps us fill out

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the picture a little bit more.

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I really appreciate in

verse 15, how it says about.

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Zaja that he was marvelously helped until

he became strong until he was drunk.

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I think about the fact that none

of us are self-made men or women.

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Nobody can stand up and say, I have made

myself, honestly, I am the man I am, or

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the woman I am today because I was smart.

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I was intelligent.

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I made the right moves.

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I chose the right family to be in.

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I went to the right schools.

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Every single one of us can suffer

under the same delusion that Zionist

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suffers with, which is to think.

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I did this it's me.

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I'm responsible for the

good things that I enjoy.

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Now.

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It might be true that we work hard, that

we cooperate with what God is doing.

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But ultimately every single

person under the planet.

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In on the earth, breathing oxygen

is a product of God's grace.

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He's the one who gets

the glory and the owner.

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No matter how much you think you

did it by yourself, we sweat,

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but it's God working through us.

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And that's an important thing to

remember unless we become like him.

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Deluding ourselves and thinking

that we don't need him.

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In fact, this happens every day for us.

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And I can prove it to you.

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When you choose not to read your Bible.

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Or choose to forgo prayer.

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Because you've got something to do.

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You're telling God, I don't

think I need you though.

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I think I can do it without you.

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Thank you very much.

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Now we would never say that

because we're Christians and we.

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We D we don't believe that at least

not in our heart of hearts, but

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our actions can easily convey that.

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That kind of pride or hubris is manifest

in small decisions like that on the daily.

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So be aware of that.

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And the little remnants of pride

that you see killed them at the

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seedling level before they become full

grown weeds that destroy your life.

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Like.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, one, one more timing note here.

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Uh, Jonathan.

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Uh, begins to rain.

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If you'll note here in second Chronicles,

26 before the death of Isaiah, because

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look at verse 21 king desire was.

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Uh, leper to the day of his death and

being a leper, lived a separate house for,

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he was excluded from the house of the Lord

and Jonathan, his son was over the King's

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household, governing the people, the land.

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Yeah.

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So when we go back to

second Kings, 15 verse 32.

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And it says jock and began to rain.

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That was likely before the

death of his father here.

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So there's, there's an overlap there

because his father was having leprosy.

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Couldn't be around the people

couldn't reign, couldn't govern,

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couldn't fulfill his duties.

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So Jonathan, his son has to take his place

and rain alongside his, his father there.

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And noticed that his father is not

buried in the tomb of the Kings.

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He's buried in a field that belonged

to Kings, which means that he did not

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receive the kind of Royal honor that

would have been given him because

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of his condition because of his sin.

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Right.

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Yup.

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And pride is ugly.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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And it's an, all of us.

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It is.

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It is that.

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Good way to guard against it though,

is to keep, bring your Bibles.

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And, uh, tune in tomorrow with

us for another episode of the

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daily Bible podcast, as we

get into the book of Isaiah.

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Yes, please.

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We'll see you guys.

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Bye.