00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:14 Today's Topic: Faithfulness in First Corinthians

01:01 Why You Should Listen

02:40 Event Details and Encouragement

03:28 Special Guest Preacher Announcement

04:35 Bible Study: Second Kings and Second Chronicles

13:17 Lessons from Amaziah's Reign

15:20 Conclusion and Sign-Off

Happy Saturday.

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Welcome back to another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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I smell a Chick-fil-A

breakfast sandwiches.

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Is that right?

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Chick-fil-A breakfast

sandwiches, breakfast.

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At MBS?

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Yes.

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MBS to the study.

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It's Bible study.

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What do we, what are we learning today?

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You're talking about faithfulness out

of first Corinthians chapter nine.

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So we're going to be looking at an

athletic metaphor that Paul uses

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an Olympic even metaphor that Paul

uses, which is apropos the Olympics.

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Coming up.

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Very contextual.

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Very relevant.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just talking about what faithfulness

should look like for us as men.

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And, uh, the focus is going to be

mostly on our faithfulness towards God.

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And that's the thing with faithfulness.

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You could either take it as.

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You know, God's faithfulness towards us,

which is certainly a key component even.

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The other side of things or of the side

that we're going to look at, which is

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what I think the fruit of the spirit

is, is more after our faithfulness,

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towards him that, uh, that the spirit.

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Uh, works in our life to make us

more faithful men in our pursuit

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of Christ's likeness in our pursuit

of our relationship with him.

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So that's what we're going to be talking

about from first Corinthians chapter nine.

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That's exciting.

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What would be a, give me, give me your

best reason to listen for this one.

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Like, why should I'm tired right now?

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It's Saturday morning, I've had a long,

I stay up late on Friday or a Thursday.

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Because of the cause of the firework show.

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Yeah.

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Why should I come?

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Yeah, I think that the answer is in, in

this kind of goes back to the, the, the.

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The one reason, not the 40 reasons.

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Um, uh, of, uh, of wisdom that

I have apparently being 40 now.

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But, but kind of the bottom line,

my, my preaching point is this

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faithfulness breeds faithfulness.

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Um, that idea that, that we need to

learn to be faithful in the small

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things in our lives to be faithful

in the big things in our lives.

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And so this applies to you no matter

where you're at and your walk with Christ.

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From the brand new Christian to

the Christian, that's been walking

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with the Lord for, for 40 years.

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Um, You have an opportunity to

say wherever you want to be in

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your relationship with Christ.

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You're not going to be

faithful in the big things.

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If you're not being faithful

in the small things right now.

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So we're going to be talking about what

that looks like to be faithful men in the

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minutia of our lives and why that impacts

the big ticket items that we say, man, I

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want to, I want to lead a community group.

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I want to, maybe I want to preach someday.

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Maybe I want to memorize a, of

a book of the Bible someday.

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Okay.

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How do you get there?

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Well, you got to start with.

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Right now and baby steps to get there.

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Bill Murray.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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You ever see that show?

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I did.

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That was funny.

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What's it called?

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What about Bob?

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What about Bob Davies?

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Debs.

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Yeah, that that concept is so true, man.

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It's uh, it's not only faithfulness.

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I feel like a lot of things

compound against themselves.

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Laziness breeds.

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Laziness for sure.

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And it's just like that.

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Uh, That inertia that sets in when

you're on summer vacation, summer break.

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You're not doing anything and you end up

not doing anything because you're just

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like, I'm already not doing anything.

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I might as well not do anything else.

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It's that vacation, but yes.

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It can't be a good thing, but it's a

dangerous thing if that becomes the norm

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of our Christian experience and certainly

what a good reminder that's going to be.

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So that's well worth us coming to

the, where is that going to be?

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It's going to be at

Grace Church in Frisco.

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All right.

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Seven 30 right around the corner.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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730.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Food.

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Good preaching food.

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Yeah.

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We don't ship.

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We don't have a Marc Cogan

there to be our normal MC.

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We're trying to give them

reasons to come, bro.

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Yeah.

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Here.

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This is not the script I heard.

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You're going to, you're going to fill in.

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I'm going to help.

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B, uh, whatever I'm going to be.

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I'm going to be there.

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Angelo's telling me that.

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And we're going to co-host.

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There you go.

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There'll be awesome.

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Bring some exciting and some

gypsum joy, maybe we'll see.

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Morgan young there you think Mark May be.

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And a new, a new young perhaps

maybe he'll come tell him.

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About what the new one

into who was 10 pounds.

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15 ounces grams should be there.

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You're never too young.

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I mean it's men's Bible study.

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I want to man them up

sooner than later, let's go.

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There you go, Morgan.

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Gauntlet thrown down.

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Yeah.

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We'll see.

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Yeah.

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So, uh, and then we're back tomorrow.

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Uh, Be there tomorrow, by the way.

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Uh, at church on Sunday, we've

got a special guest preacher

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in the pulpit, Eric Zeller.

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Oh, yeah.

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Can it be preaching to us and it

should be a great, great time.

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We're also going to be doing communion

together as a church, which is awesome.

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And so it should be a really good

time if you don't know, Eric, Eric is

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the president of the Gulf theological

seminary in Dubai of all places.

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Wow.

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Um, and.

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He's doing some great work there.

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He's involved with Redeemer church.

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He's also an elder at Redeemer

church there in Dubai.

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And they're just turning up pastors

and they're turning pastors who

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are then taking the gospel and

going and planting churches.

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And ain't going back to

churches, even in some closed

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countries, which 10 40 windows.

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It's pretty amazing.

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Right?

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They're able to reach people.

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Uh, through what they're

doing there in Dubai.

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So turning a pastor, he'll

be with us on Sunday.

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You're not going to want to miss that.

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So make sure that you are,

you're not gonna want to Ms.

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Church any Sunday, but especially.

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Be there for our guest preacher, this.

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This summit Sunday.

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I know he would, uh, he would welcome

that in and be blessed by that.

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Totally.

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And it's not, and he's a

well beloved friend too.

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He's a, he's a very sweet guy.

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I loved being around him.

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Reads lots of books and he's super smart.

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Yep.

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He'll have lots of good

things for us to listen to.

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So please, I'd love to see you there.

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Yep.

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We would, well, let's get

into our text for today.

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Just two chapters, just to second

Kings 14, second Chronicles, 25.

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You're like I'm being deprived

now, you know, it's, it's.

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I'm used to doing five chapters,

maybe someday we'll meet somebody

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and they'll be like, we'll say,

what do you do for a living?

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And they'll say, well,

I work for Crossway.

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What do you do for Crossway?

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Well, I put together their

reading plans and then we'll be

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able to say, We don't like you.

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Well, this isn't, I don't

know if this is crossroads.

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I think this is blue letter Bible.

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That's true.

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So maybe we'll meet that guy, that guy

someday he'll come to our church and

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be like, Hey, you know, I'm famous for

inventing the blue letter, chronic chronic

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blue letter Bible chronological planet.

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We've got beef with you, man, because

sometimes it's just like two chapters.

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Sometimes it's like 10.

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This is my biggest

critique about this plan.

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I missed the other plan

because it was so consistent.

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Like it was a pretty consistent.

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What for chapters three to four chapters.

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And it was a consistent timeframe.

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This feels like you don't know what

you're going to get everything.

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Some days are going to have

a really short reading.

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Other days we're going to have 45

minutes and an hour of reading.

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So, yeah, it's crazy besides that.

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I love it.

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Yeah.

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For reasons, like what we talked

about yesterday, how the harmonization

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takes place in what we're going to

see, even in the passages today.

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Right?

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I still like it.

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I've still very favorable.

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Yeah.

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That's my one critique.

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Yeah.

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Well in second Kings chapter 14,

you've got the second year of Joe Ash.

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Joe ho or Joe.

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Joe has so, so difficult sometimes north.

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Okay.

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So this is Joe Ash of the

north of of the north.

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This is not the, the Judiac king

who we just saw killed at the end

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of our last section yesterday.

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This is Joe wash of the north.

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Well, in the second year of his reign,

a new king comes to the throne in Judah.

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And this is Amazonia.

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So Amazigh begins to reign in Judah.

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He's going to rain for 25 years.

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And again, mostly do what is

right in the eyes of the Lord.

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Judah is hit and miss on that.

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Judah you'll find some

Kings do what is right.

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Other Kings do what is evil?

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A lot of Kings do.

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Some right.

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And some evil in the north it's,

everybody's just evil in the north.

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Everybody's wicked in the.

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Jay who started well, so he

he'd be like partial credit.

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A quarter credit.

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Yeah.

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It's true overall.

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You're right.

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They're mostly a.

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It's mostly a dumpster fire.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that goes back to the, the split.

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Uh, that, that reminds us of the

fact that the split, the divided

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kingdom was not, was not God's desire.

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Um, Th that that was

not what his will was.

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The kingdom was supposed to

be the Davidic kingdom period.

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End of story.

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And the, and that division was

a rebellion against, uh, the

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Davidic dynasty and against God.

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Uh, for Jeroboam to go

back up to the north.

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And that's why so many

of these Northern Kings.

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Are mentioned in and described as

following in the sins of Jeroboam

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because Jeroboam is the father,

he's the figurehead of, of the

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ultimate rebellion against God.

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And that's why so many of

the Kings of the north.

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Uh, our evil and in are not good in there.

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They're following after the Lord.

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Amazon though.

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Southern king Juliet king.

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He does what is good by and large?

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So here you go.

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And in chapter 14, verses one through 22.

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Uh, you've got his reign marked by, uh,

initially, uh, What amounts to a foolish

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decision to challenge the king of Israel.

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And again, we're.

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We're not getting the full picture yet.

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And so second Chronicles, 25 is

going to help us understand this.

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But Amazon had challenges that the king

of the north, he challenges Joe Ash,

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and he wants to meet him face to face.

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And, and so you might read that and say,

okay, like we're having coffee together.

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What's.

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What's going on here.

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That's right.

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No, this was, uh, uh, A statement.

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At euphemism, I guess, for, for

battle, he wanted to drop against

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him to bow up against him and to

prove who was the better man, and

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this was going to involve conflict.

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And that's why the king

of Israel said, Hey, look.

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Be content with your defeat of

Eden, because before this, he had

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defeated the Edomites because the

Edomites remember had rebelled.

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And in broken the yoke of Judah

and it set up their own king.

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Well, now they're going

to suffer for that.

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Cause Amazigh goes out and defeats the

Edomites there and then he wants to

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come back and take on the king of the

north and the king of the north duck.

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Yeah.

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You know what, chill

your beans for a minute.

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Just be content with that.

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Yeah.

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I've never said that before.

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I've never heard that

phrase in my entire life.

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I say that all the time.

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We sit at home all the time.

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Until our kids had chili

beans all the time.

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I've never heard this in my life.

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All right.

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Well, chill, your beans about.

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Anyways.

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That's what MSI.

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Uh, here's some Joe lash, but

Amazon's not going to have it.

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He wants to have this conflict.

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And so Israel comes against Judah.

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Israel wins, defeats.

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Judah brings Amazon back

to the city of Jerusalem.

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There breaks down some of the wall.

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Uh, and, and just it's,

it's just a bad situation.

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It's a bad situation.

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Uh, meanwhile, as the chapter

comes to a conclusion, Joe Ash,

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uh, Of the north dyes and Jeroboam

the second comes to the throne.

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Now I mentioned Jeroboam the first,

he was the one that initially split

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from the Davidic dynasty Jeroboam and.

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Ray.

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Boom.

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If you remember them.

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Here's Jeroboam the second.

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And he's going to reign

in Israel for 41 years.

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And just do evil in the

sight of the Lord yet.

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It's interesting here because the,

the Lord comments that for the

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sake of his covenant with Abraham,

he's not going to completely wipe

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out all, all of Israel there.

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But he's going to allow your

bone for now, at least to keep

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them afloat during his reign.

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And so God's mercy even

preserving his people, Israel.

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Uh, even though the ones that had rebelled

against him from complete destruction

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during the, uh, the rate of Jeroboam.

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There are questions online about whether

chill, your beans came from bluey.

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Does that, is that where you get it?

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I've been saying.

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Chili beans for years

before bluey long before.

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Okay.

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So blue.

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You're welcome.

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You're welcome.

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You can have it.

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But just now.

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Well, there's more than

you saying it online.

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So I feel a little better about it.

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I got, I was concerned.

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Where does it come from making stuff up?

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No.

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It's a statement.

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I heard it.

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In fact, I bet you, somebody is

going to email us and say, Hey.

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Patrick PGA.

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T-chart I say that as well.

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Carrie.

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Noni.

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And nobody's got, or Dan,

Dan's gonna say Dan says that.

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I don't know.

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I don't know if Dan chose the beans.

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But maybe you need to,

maybe you need to damn.

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Okay.

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Sorry.

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Alright, second Chronicles, 25.

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Let's fill in the gaps because

again, this is kind of high level.

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It's like, okay, here's Amazon.

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Uh, he defeats Edam and then

he wants to go fight Israel.

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Why w what's going on?

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Why does he want to fight Israel?

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What's going on here?

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What.

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Help us.

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Okay.

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Second Chronicles 25 comes to the rescue,

but notice second Chronicles, chapter 25.

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Describes Amazon is coming to the

throne and he followed the Lord.

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But notice the, the commentary verse

two yet, not with a whole heart.

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Even that is just helpful for

us to show that Amazon was

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a man of divided affections.

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When it came, when it comes to following

the Lord, he wasn't like David.

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He wasn't necessarily a

man after God's own heart.

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He was a man with, with

divided affections there.

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Verses five through 13, then we get

more insight into the conflict between

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Israel and Judah during Amazon's rain.

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Because Amazon had set out to defeat the

Eamon Edomites and in doing so, he had

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originally contracted a hundred thousand

Israelite soldiers to come with him.

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So they were going to that he had

paid them and they were going to come.

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They were mercenaries essentially.

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And they were going to join the Judah

EITs to go out and battle the Edomites.

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But in, so doing, he got confronted

on that and said, Hey, you don't,

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you don't need all these soldiers.

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You don't need any help in this.

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You can trust the Lord.

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And so he protested initially and

said, well, what am I supposed

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to do with all these soldiers

that I contracted from Israel?

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And the man of God said,

send them back home.

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And so that's what he does.

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He sends them home.

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Well, that was an insult to

these soldiers from Israel.

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Whether it was an insult to

their honor or their name, or

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they just really like to fight.

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Blood lust.

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Yeah.

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They were really perturbed by that.

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They were upset so much so

that they begin to launch these

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rating parties against Judah.

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And so they begin to take out people

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the people of Judah and they steal

things and it looped the villages.

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All because they had been sent

home rather than, than allowed

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to go and fight and eat them.

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Well, When Amazigh then

comes back from Eden.

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And you realizes what has happened.

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Then he's got a problem on his hand

because now he's got this conflict

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with Israel to the north because

of what they did to his villages.

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But before we get there verses 14

through 16, there we've get this.

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We've have the situation where

Amazon comes back from Edam.

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Uh, with more than a victory.

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Unfortunately he comes back from Eden

with the gods of the Edomites and it

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says in the text, he makes them his

own gods, which is such a tragedy.

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What on earth?

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Yeah.

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And that's going back to verse

two yet, not with a whole heart.

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Right?

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We see that here, he's

got divided affections.

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He's going to work

worship these false gods.

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And so he brings them back.

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But when he comes back, he realizes,

man, I got to do something about

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what happened with the Israelites.

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That's why he challenges Joe Ash.

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That's why he says to Josh,

Hey, you and I we've got beef.

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We need to do business together.

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Why don't you drop with me

and let's see what happens.

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That's what leads Josh to

tell him as I hate chill, your

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beans, you want to eat them?

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Let's just get over this.

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Underline that in your Bibles, by the way.

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It's in the Hebrew.

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But actually.

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Kale.

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It's a Hebrew.

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It's a guttural.

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Um, yeah.

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But, uh, the rest of the story we,

we kinda know already from Kings,

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he ends up losing this, this battle.

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And, uh, and then the people assassinate

him in the end there verse 27 again,

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because they probably recognize the

error of his turning away from the Lord.

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And they're being punished as a

result of his, uh, erroneous behavior.

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Well, one thing I found interesting

that I think is instructive in both the

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positive and the negative is Amazon has.

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Yeah, cavorting with these mercenaries.

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He, he, he brings them on

thinking that God's done enough.

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And then consequently, in order to be

obedient, it was a costly obedience.

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He had to say, okay, I'm going

to, you know, whatever amount of

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money that ends up being, I have

to be okay with losing all that.

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And furthermore, a few of

his cities on top of that.

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Obedience is costly.

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It's going to cost you.

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It might cost you actual money, or

it might cost you more than that.

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I'm sure he lost power and prestige

and the confidence of his people when

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he had to send people away like that.

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And they ransacked towns on the way out.

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But I could also say

disobedience has costly.

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Is he didn't trust the Lord.

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He didn't trust the law.

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That's the whole reason he hired

these people in the first place.

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So disobedience has costly.

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Oh, It's costly, both the positive and

the negative are helpful for us to see.

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Uh, and, uh, and, uh, Amazon.

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How important it is that we don't

underestimate the value of obedience,

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but also not underestimate the,

the costliness of obedience.

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It's gonna, it's gonna cost you both ways.

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But of course, the better way is of

course, Uh, to be obedient and to pay the

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price, it's worth it because at the end,

that's the one that God's going to bless.

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Yeah.

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It's yeah.

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Verse nine.

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The man of God answered the Lord is

able to give you much more than this.

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That's it right there.

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It's a remaining and believing

that and trusting that.

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And sometimes it's hard.

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We want to take things into

our own hands and instead of

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trusting him that he's efficient.

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And able to provide for

us what we, what we need.

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Um, yeah.

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Well, two chapters today.

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That's it.

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We have nothing else to say.

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Now we have nothing else to say.

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We're done.

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We actually have lots of say we could.

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We could, we could, we could milk this.

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In fact, our first podcast

back was like 30 minutes.

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Basically.

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It.

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But I think the catch-up was helpful.

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People want to know where you're at?

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Yeah.

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They thought you quit.

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It's fair.

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I don't know, rumors started getting

spread about what you were doing.

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I don't know who was telling

them people, these things.

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I don't know.

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PJ left and joined the circus.

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Um, not as the ringmaster,

but the clown, the clown, it's

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been a childhood dream for Leo.

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Leo clown right now, not even the

rodeo clown, but the circus clowns.

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The guy with the red nose.

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Alright.

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Yeah.

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Um, yeah.

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Well, Hey.

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Th that's, uh, that's

what we got for you today.

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So keep reading your Bibles.

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And tune in again tomorrow

because we'll be back with you.

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The Lord willing.

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God-willing another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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See you then.