Oct. 16, 2024

Floating Axe Head

Floating Axe Head

A discussion about 2 Kings 6:1-7

A discussion about 2 Kings 6:1-7

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central.

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Good morning everyone. It is Wednesday, October sixteenth, twenty twenty four.

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It is currently ten forty nine am Central Time, and

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I am coming to you live from the Theology Central

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studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, as a Christian,

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you have probably heard lots of discussions about interpreting the Bible.

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Sometimes someone may actually use the word hermeneutic or hermeneutics,

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or maybe someone will talk to you about Bible study

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or maybe Bible study methods and talk about the different

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principles and the different ideas you need to know in

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order to interpret the scriptures correctly. And a lot of

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times you'll hear discussion about do we interpret this passage allegorically,

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do we spiritual it or do we take it very

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literally right? Do we take it in its historical textual context?

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And you'll hear a lot of discussion about these principles.

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But if you listen to a lot of preaching, sometimes

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pastors who put forth a specific hermeneutical idea will seem

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to almost violate it in their preaching, which can probably

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be very confusing for the person sitting in the pew. Well,

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I thought these were the principles we use, but in

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this passage we seem to throw all of that out.

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We're not worried about the historical grammatical. We've gone very

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allegorical or spiritual. So which is it? Well, then they

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may make some exception, and of course if you add

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too many exceptions, then your entire herminutic becomes very subjective,

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and it can be become very problematic. It can get

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very I don't know what it's like for the person

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sitting in the pew, but I know, at least for

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me with you know, Bible Institute, Bible collegists, seminary, you know,

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with education, it can still be confusing for me because

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I'm like, well, wait a minute, what are we doing here?

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And there's one passage of scripture that I have heard

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so many sermons on that to this day, I don't

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really know what hermeneutical principles we are utilizing. And that

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is the story of the floating axe head. The floating axehead,

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and this story is found in Second Kings Chapter six,

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Second King's Chapter six. Here at a minute, I will

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read the seven verses that make up this narrative that

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makes up this story, and I just want I'm going

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to stress that I'm going to read to you the

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seven verses that make up this narrative. But these seven

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verses have turned into hundreds of thousands of hours of preaching,

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and most of the preaching is very, in my estimation,

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allegorical spiritualizing the text. And at times it's like, what,

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I don't know exactly what principles were utilizing? How are

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we coming to these conclusions? What are we basing these

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conclusions on? But you're not supposed to ask those questions

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because well then you'll be seen as being a trouble maker.

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But I'm going to be a little bit of a

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trouble maker this morning. And here's what's going on. I

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sat down like, Okay, well we've been working on first John.

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That's being you know, that's a lot of work, kind

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of tedious. Okay, we've been doing that. I know we

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kind of mentioned what was it, second Kings? I think

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it's chapter fifteen about those a list of kings told

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you to start looking up sermons about that. Well, probably

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need to review a sermon on that, so maybe maybe

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I will look Okay, maybe all right, we're working on

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some other things. Okay, what do I do? What do

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I do? So I'm well, the one thing again. I

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know this year, we're fast approaching the end of this year.

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It's hard to believe, you know, it's October sixteenth. Before

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we know it, it's all over. And the main one

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of the major challenges goals for twenty twenty four was

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the Sermons two point oh app sermon challenge, listening to

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a random sermon for every single day of the year.

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So I'm like, well, let me look at my you know,

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let's look at I think I looked either under my

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feed tab on the sermon's two point oh app. Maybe

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I looked at new sermons, but I saw a sermon

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entitled check your axe head. Check your axe head Now.

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Immediately as soon as I saw that, I knew it

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was going to be Second King's Chapter six. I knew

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it was gonna be Second Kings Chapter six. I absolutely

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knew it. So I listened to a little bit of it,

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found out that it was Second King's Chapter six, and

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then immediately the title tells me what they're going to do,

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check your axe head. Oh, so now we're gonna go

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to Second King's chapter six about a floating axe head,

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and somehow magically it's gonna be about my axe head?

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Is it gonna be about a literal ox head? Now? No,

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the ax head now is going to so immediately, I

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know we're going to go spiritualizing, We're going to go allegorizing.

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This is and this is what almost everyone does. So

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I'm like, well, maybe this will be worth the time

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to listen and to review. So let's let's just go

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to Second King's chapter six. Let's go to Second King's

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chapter six. Let me read the text. Now, what I

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almost started. I almost wanted to begin this episode with

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just reading the text and then asking you what you

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would do with it. But I thought we would really

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kind of turn it into a lesson about hermeneutics and

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Bible interpretation. Either way, I guess I could have made

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it the lesson. It was just how do I how

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do I want to begin today? But I want you

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to just think about this, and I want you to

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just ask yourself, for if you've never heard a sermon,

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if you've never read a commentary, if you've never done anything,

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and you were to open your Bibles and you were

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to read this story, what would you do? Second King's

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Chapter six, Verse one, and the sons of the Prophets said,

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unto Elisha, behold now the place where we dwell with

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thee is too straight for us verse two. So verse one,

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what do we have? I know we're gonna interpret verse

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one as very literal, are we not? We have the

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sons of the prophets, they speak unto Alaisha. We're gonna say,

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the sons of the Prophets are real people. Elisha is

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real people. Behold now the place where we dwell I'm

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assuming we're gonna see that as a literal place is

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too straight for us. Verse two. Let us go, we

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pray thee unto Jordan, and take thence every man of beam,

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and let us make a place there where we may dwell.

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And he answered, go, ye, so hey, we don't. We

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can't stay here anymore. We need to go. We need

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a bigger place. And so if we're gonna take material

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and we're gonna go, seems pretty now again, you do

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you go in and start saying, well, the beams represent this,

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and the place represents this, and this represents this, and

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this represents that. Even if you start doing that, what

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are you basing that off of But I think if

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you were just to read that, you would just see

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this as like a historical narrative. Right. Verse three, and

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one said be content, I pray thee and go with

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thy servants, And he answered, I will go.

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So he went with them, and when they came to

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the Jordan, they cut down wood. All right, we only

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have three verses left. We only have three verses left.

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We only have three verses left.

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Right. Verse five.

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But as one was felling the beam, the axe head

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fell into the water, and he cried and said, alas, master,

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for it was borrowed. Right, So the axe head falls

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into the water, and he's he's upset. You know, master,

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what it was borrowed. I've lost the axe head. Okay,

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Now for us we may be like, what's what's the

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big deal?

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Is there some historical context that would make this a

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big deal? Or do we spiritualize it? Well, now, now

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we only have two verses left. Verse six, and the

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man of God said where fell it? And he showed

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him the place, and he cut down a stick, cast

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it and thither and the iron did swim. Hey, where

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is it? He cuts down a stick, puts it in

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the water, and the axe head did swim it floats

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Verse seven therefore said he take it up to thee,

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and he put it out. He put out his hand

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and he took it. There's the entire narrative, seven verses,

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Second King six one through seven. Now what do you

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do with this? How do you handle this text? You've

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been a Christian five years, ten years, fifteen years. You're

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meeting a brand new Christian, a brand new Maybe they've

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been a Christian for six months, they've been a Christian

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for a year. They're just starting to really dig into scripture.

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They're trying to understand scripture. They asked to meet you,

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I don't know, somewhere restaurant, coffeehouse, somewhere you go. You're

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sitting down and like, hey, this morning, for my devotionals,

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I was reading Second Kings, chapter six, verses one through seven.

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Please help me understand this. How would you explain it

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to them?

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Now?

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Now, on one hand, you may explain something, you know,

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some big spiritual picture because you've heard it in a sermon.

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But at that point the new Christian may be like, well,

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how did you come up with all of that? Now?

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I know I've heard people preach this, and more people

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in the pew will go to the pastor, how did

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you see this? I've never seen this in the text.

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Sometimes what frustrates me is the pastor doesn't just simply

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say well, I got this from this pastor or from

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this commentary, or from this sermon, or from this book.

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And in many cases I know exactly where they got

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it from, because I'm like, I've read that same book,

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I've heard that same sermon. Okay, but I don't say anything.

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Sometimes I just shake my head. It's like, just come on,

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tell them where you got it from. Okay. But they

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will get to say, well, this represents this, and this

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represents this, and then the stick being cut down and

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put in the water. See that's Jesus Christ dying on

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the cross. That's the cross. And when the cross is

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put into the water, and then it causes Okay. I

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could go through all the things. I've even had to

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write papers in Bible, college and seminary trying to go

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with this more spiritualized version of this. And there's been

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times I've been like, I think we're just making all

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of this up. I just think that this is crazy.

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Now I do understand. I will say this, though when

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you read the text, it does seem kind of odd. Right,

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You're kind of like an axe aad You put stick

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in the water, and a stick in the water makes

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the axe head float. So I can understand the desire

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for preachers to say, well, I think something else is

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going on here. There's got to be something. There's god

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to be a spiritual picture. I can understand that. The

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issue is, well, then how do you, basically, how do

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you color the picture? If you believe this is a

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picture where there's no color there? Right, it's a it's

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just a sheet of paper, And so where do you

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draw the lines? And how do you color it? In

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saying this represents this, this represents this, this represents this,

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And why is it that all the people who paint

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some kind of spiritual picture some kind of allegory here?

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How come there's disagreement on sometimes what the picture is

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and what the details are. Does that not then make

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hermeneutics and Bible interpretation very subjective? At the same time,

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if I just reduce this to, yeah, someone lost an

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axe head. They put a stick in the water and

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it floated. The end, Well, what's the meaning you Well,

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the meaning is in this particular case, an axehead was recovered. No,

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it's got to mean more than that. It's it's got

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a picture. Jesus. Well, I know I think that you're

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claiming that that's the case. So what should we do. Well, now,

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the sermon work that I have queueda it is called

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check your accent. So obviously the ac said now is

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going to represent something that applies to you, to me,

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to everyone, And I don't know how you draw that

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conclusion is well, we'll throw out a lot of harmonutical

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questioning of this as we as we go through. I

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think this is going to get really crazy. So here's

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what I've done. I've been doing this recently. A lot

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of times we go into these sermon reviews completely blind.

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I did not go into this completely blind. I listened

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to enough of it to know it was Second King's

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chapter six, because I already assumed it was, but I

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was verifying. I then did some my own work and

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looking up some things, so I have notes, so I'm

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a little bit prepared. I did fast forward through the

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first part of this sermon because there's some discussion I

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gifts someone in the church has gotten engaged. Then I

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can't remember he makes some jokes about it. Then they're

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trying to get nursery workers because they're having some I

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guess they call him it Jubilee coming up in like,

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I don't know, fourteen days, thirty days, so they need

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nursery workers. Then he reads Second Kings chapter six, verses

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one through seven. Then I think there's someone in the

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congregation praying. There's just a lot of stuff going on.

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Now it's going to begin by him immediately saying leave

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Second Kings and go to someone nineteen, which I found

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somewhat fascinating because on wait a minute, is he going

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to connect someone nineteen to Second King six? Is this

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going to be an example of just, I don't know,

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good cross referencing, bad cross referencing. And that's where I

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stopped it. So and then I realized the volume wasn't

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loud enough at the beginning, so I did a little

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you know, trying to increase the volume. But then in

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the summon it gets really loud. So it may be

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a lot of fluctuation here, so just be prepared. I

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don't know where this is going to go. I don't know.

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So if you if you looked at Second King chapter.

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Six, what would you do with it? What would you

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do with the.

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Second King chapter six, verses one through seven? What would

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you do with it? And hopefully, hopefully we'll learn something here.

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find out here. I'm going to try to be cautiously optimistic.

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But again, the title check your axe head to me,

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that just screams that it's going to turn the ax

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set into picturing something. And I just don't know how

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you come to this conclusion. Maybe he's got some reference

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in some one nineteen that's going to fit this together,

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and I'm gonna be like, oh, that's perfect. Okay, So

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oh I just got an idea. I don't know how

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well that would work. Okay, all right, here we go,

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Here we go. Let's let's just let's just see where

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Like for you to if you will to Psalms one

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hundred and nineteen, Can you leave your finger right there

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for just a minute. I don't repent of the statement

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that I made that for most Christians, the ones I

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deal with, the ones that I'm around now understand this.

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The people that I'm around. For the most part, they're

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people like you. They're people that are in church. They

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love the Lord, they believe the book, they rightly divide,

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they're doctrinally straight. They're doing all the things that are necessary.

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They're not necessarily what you would call wicked and ungodly individuals.

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They're not crackheads, and they're not dope smokers, and they're

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not drinkers. Or they may have a little social drink

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here and there.

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I can.

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Now already okay, oh boy, okay, So wicked and ungodly

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is classified as crackheads, dope smokers, and drinkers. I think

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you can be wicked ungodly and never take a drink,

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never smoke dope, and never well smoke crack. I is

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wickedness determined by the substances you pull take into your body. Right,

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you're ungodly because you smoke dope, You're ungodly because you

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smoke crack. You're ungodly because you drink. Is ungodliness determined

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by the substances you bring into your body. Well, if

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you are ungodly because you smoke crack, do smoke I

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guess dope or weed or however, he stated, I think

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he said, dope and you drink, If that makes you ungodly? Well,

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are you ungodly? If you partake of too much food

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and you enter into the realm of being a glutton,

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does that make you ungodly? It's just funny that. Hey, hey,

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the people I know, I mean, they're not wicked and ungodly.

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They don't smoke dope. So that the way you know

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someone is ungodly is because they smoke cracked, they smoke

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dope or they drink. I mean that just seems like

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that that's such a reducing that's reducing god godliness or

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ungodliness to the most basic external activity that you can.

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But I guarantee you food is not going to be mentioned,

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even though the Bible actually condemns gluttony, does it not?

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But hey, let's not talk about that, right, let's not

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get talk It doesn't the Bible, Okay, condemns pride. I mean,

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can you be prideful and be and would that make

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you ungodly even though you don't drink or you don't

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smoke or you don't do crack. I mean, like that's

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just a weird that's very external, that's very specific, and

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I guess everyone in the church can be like you,

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my head, I'm not ungodly. I haven't I haven't hit

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the crack pipe recently, I haven't smoked any weed, and

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I haven't drink very much. Okay, I'm doing pretty good.

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Is that the way that we determine our godliness or ungodles?

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That just seems like an interesting way to start.

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But all right, so he's talking about the good people

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he knows. Because the good people he knows don't smoke crack,

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don't smoke dope, and well, don't drink much.

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Let's exclude that more than Nike will, and then may

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have some problems as far as the character flaws along

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those lines. But as far as being really wicked and

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ungodly people, You're not those kind of people. You're really

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relatively moral kind of individuals. I mean, if I preach

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on smoking around here, very few obvious.

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Is it gonna hit you or put you under conviction?

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Not gonna all right, so you're moral. You have character flaws.

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So now so now Christians have character flaws. We don't

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have sin. We have character flaws and smoking smoking clearly

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is a sin. Now, if smoking is a sin, what

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would make smoking a sin. Well, smoking is a sin

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because it's not healthy. Well, have you ever been to

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a church pot luck? Have you ever been to a

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church fellowship mill? You got every you have fried foods,

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you've got, sweets, you've got. I'm baffled by this idea

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of what godliness is here. This is kind of a

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confusing idea. Ungodliness is smoking, crack smoking, dope, drinking, and

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just smoking. I guess smoking cigarettes make you ungod Smoking

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cigarettes make you ungodly? What would be the scriptural basis

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for that? Now, smoking obviously is not a great thing

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to do because of all the health risk. But there's

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lots of health risk from so many other things. So

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is it ungodly because of the health risk? Well, if

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it's ungodly because of health risk, then you would have

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to then place the same kind of preaching on eating.

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How about look out in your congregation? How many people

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are overweight?

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Oh?

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Oh no, we can't know where You're not going to

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go there, are we? How is their blood pressure? How's

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their cholesterol level? How is their physical activity? Are they

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exercising twenty minutes a day for three days a week,

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four days a week?

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Whatever?

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The typical suggestion is are they Are they doing enough that?

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What if they are not getting enough sleep? They're recommended

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a number hours of sleep, what if they're not getting enough? So,

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I mean, are we just going to go after every

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health issue?

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All right?

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Okay, I don't know if we're even going to get

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to the axehead. Okay, I want to get to the

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ac this this is a business. How does what does

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any of this have to do with the axehead? I

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don't know. I don't know, so let's let him. I

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know I'm interrupting this quickly. But it's just I just

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I think sometimes Christian's idea of morality is very external.

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It's just this external list of things. Hey guys, if

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you want to be godly, don't hit the crack pipe

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you want to be godly, don't smoke weed you want

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to be godly, don't drink alcohol. You want to be godly,

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don't drink or don't drink, don't smoke cigarettes.

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Got it?

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And I'd be like, ay, man, we have character flaws

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or we're not like these wicked people who do crack

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and Okay, and that kind of a weird, I know,

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weird thing. Like if you look at many of the

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lists of sins in the Bible. I don't even know

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if you Maybe you have drunkenness, maybe I don't think

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in any of them. I know you don't have crack

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or weed or smoking cigarettes mentioned. I know the Bible

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does condemn gluttony, slothfulness, pride, uh not loving. I mean

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it goes after you know, and didn't Jesus say it's

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not the things that come into the body, it's the

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things that come out, because the sinfulness comes from within us.

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I don't know. It seems like a really odd way

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of looking at it.

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Bother you much.

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I preach on drinking, it might hit two or three

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of you out of a crowd like this to be

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a wasted sermon to preach that today, be it wasted

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sermon to preach on dope addiction or something along that.

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I could preach some messages on being addicted to social media.

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That might get some hits and those kind of things.

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But for the.

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Most part, the majority of individuals that are here today,

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it's not going to be some large, big, massive, terrible,

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ungodly sin. You're probably not going to get caught up

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in adultery or fornication. You're probably not going to get

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caught up in some doing something that's illegal or immoral.

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You're not going to get arrested by the police for

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doing something that you shouldn't be doing. That's not what's

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going to create a problem for you. Want to create

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a problem for you if you're not careful. Is something

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that I'll refer to for the sake of illustration as

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just a little wobble, just a little shaking, just something small,

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something about the size of an axe head.

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You start off doing things you want to do.

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I like in the passage there where the boy come

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and say, hey, listen, man, we see a need.

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We need a bigger building, and we need to go

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do that. We're willing to do the work.

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And I see the fact that they didn't take off

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half cock. They went and asked the preacher, hey, is

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all right with you if we do it, and he said, yeah,

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go ahead and do it. And then they said, why

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don't you come with us? And he joins in, and

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immediately they start felling beans. In other words, everybody is

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doing his part. We know Second Corinthians twelve toy our

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Second Corinthians teaches us that God places everyone in the

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body as it pleases him, and so you can make

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application there, But that's not where I'm going today. Where

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I'm headed today is is that this individual's out there

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and he borrowed an acts because he wanted to get

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in on the work. I actually know of an individual

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because he wanted to get in so bad on an

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offer and he borrowed money from somebody so that he

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could get in on the offering because he didn't bring

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money for the offering that day, and then after it

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was over, he went and paid the guy back double

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what he had because he was unprepared. That's one individual

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I've known of in years to do that just because

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he wanted to get in on doing something that.

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He felt God is doing.

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But I'm not talking today, ladies and gentlemen, about you

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being willing to work.

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You're willing to work, that's been proven.

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You're willing to come to church, you're willing to read

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your Bible, you're willing to pray.

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For the most part, you're willing to come to the altar.

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And I mean, there's some of you could brush up

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on some of this, but there's for the most part,

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most of you are not lacks of lacks of lacks

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of daisy coal or laoticy and Christians, most of you

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aren't lukewarm.

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Most of you tend to lean a little more hot

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than you do cold.

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I'm giving you that, I'm giving the accolades, I'm patting

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you on the back. But you got to be very

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careful because where you can be caught up in the

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work to begin with and excited about it and can't

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wait to get things done and excited about what's going on,

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time has a way of putting your commitment to those things,

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your faithfulness.

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Time has a way of wearing you down.

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Okay, there's so much going on here. I don't even

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know where to begin, but clearly you see what's happening.

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Second six now represents Christians who work. Second King six

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now is about Christians who work. So the fact that

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these people are chopping down these beams, that's a picture

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of Christians working. Now, how did we get there? How

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did we just insert that this is a picture of

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Christians working?

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Like?

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How did we get there? Like? Like does the Bible?

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Are there no rules governing this? I mean, like is

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it just a free for all? Like already I'm already

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like whoa wait a minute, how are we getting there?

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Is there any textual justification. And I thought we were

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going to someone nineteen. So far we're not in some

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one nineteen. Maybe we'll get to someone nineteen, because maybe

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someone nineteen is the key to how Second King six

476
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:49.640
now is no longer about these individuals, but it's about

477
00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:52.920
us and the church, because we're godly people and we work,

478
00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:55.400
and we read our Bible, and we don't smoke crack,

479
00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:59.000
and we don't smoke dope, and we don't drink. And

480
00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:02.039
he says we don't commit fornication or adultery. But I

481
00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:04.960
wonder how many people have committed fornication and adultry in their minds.

482
00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:07.359
I guess we're not gonna worry about that. Everything's about

483
00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:11.079
external action. I guess I don't know. But Okay, all

484
00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:13.359
the people in his church are really, really good people,

485
00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:15.720
and they work all right, And somehow this has some

486
00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:18.960
connection to Second Kings Chapter six. Let's see where this goes.

487
00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:24.240
And all of a sudden, that work becomes routine, it

488
00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:27.160
becomes mundane, it becomes the same thing all the time.

489
00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:31.599
It's it doesn't change much in the Christian life. There's

490
00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:32.319
not a whole lot.

491
00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:34.759
I mean, after you get saved, it's pretty much a

492
00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:36.079
downhill after that.

493
00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:38.279
I mean, I don't blame the charismatics.

494
00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:40.720
They get excited to go, they call it being filled

495
00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:42.599
with the Holy Ghost and so on and so forth.

496
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:45.279
But they're looking for that same excitement that they got

497
00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:46.240
when they got saved.

498
00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:50.759
That's the crescendo in a Christian's life. When you get saved.

499
00:26:50.839 --> 00:26:52.200
That's as good as it gets.

500
00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.839
Everything after that it won't ever come up to that

501
00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:55.480
level again.

502
00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:57.480
A Heroinattic told me one time.

503
00:26:57.319 --> 00:27:00.599
Before that I had dealt with on repeated off opportunities,

504
00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.920
and I said to this individual, I said, explain.

505
00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:05.799
To me something, because I can't get my head around it.

506
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:08.400
You know how bad the stuff is. You've now been

507
00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:11.079
sitting for three hundred and sixty four days at the

508
00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:13.559
peace arm and they didn't send you to the big house,

509
00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:15.400
and now you're out, now you're clean.

510
00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:17.000
Why did you go back to it?

511
00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:21.559
You know what his answer was, He said, the first

512
00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:23.839
time I used that, he said, it was almost like

513
00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:27.720
the equivalent of seeing God. And he said, ever since

514
00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:32.519
that time, I've looked for that same feeling, that same excitement,

515
00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:33.400
that same.

516
00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:34.240
Thing taking place.

517
00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:36.599
And he said, I've never found it, but it hasn't

518
00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:40.279
stopped me from ceasing to chase it. And he said,

519
00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:43.599
and that's why I'm an at it because it grabbed

520
00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:45.799
a hold of me. And over a period of time,

521
00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:48.759
guess what winds up happening and that luster of that

522
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:52.759
first time experience begins to wear off. I hate to

523
00:27:52.759 --> 00:27:55.480
tell you this, ladies and gentlemen, but being a faithful

524
00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:59.640
Christian says a lot about an individual talked to an

525
00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:02.799
elderly fellow today's in his eighties and came up and

526
00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:05.680
just having a conversation. He's been in the military, and

527
00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:10.519
he's worked with the Medical Examiner's office and done all

528
00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:11.839
kinds of things along that way.

529
00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:13.759
But you know what he said that struck me, not

530
00:28:13.799 --> 00:28:16.359
as military service, not a service to his community, and

531
00:28:16.359 --> 00:28:18.559
that kind of what struck me. I've been in church

532
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:19.319
all my life.

533
00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:23.119
I mean, I hope that's said of me when I'm

534
00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:25.799
eighty years old, that I can say I've been in church.

535
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:26.119
Listen.

536
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:28.519
I was raised that way, and I'd be glad to

537
00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:29.720
be able to say, am I going.

538
00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:33.799
To finish that way? But nowadays that's rare as hounds teeth.

539
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:36.079
Nowadays, it's kind of like, well, I've done my job,

540
00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:37.039
I've done my part.

541
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:39.480
And so now I'm not going anymore, and.

542
00:28:39.440 --> 00:28:41.079
So I'm just gonna ask the Lord to bless me

543
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:43.599
from the house or do something else along the way,

544
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:47.200
because just sheer faithfulness can become routine or boring.

545
00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:50.119
You say, what are you And I just came to church.

546
00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:51.880
I just listened to a guy yell at me for

547
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:54.640
an hour or so, and you know, enjoyed the singing

548
00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:56.720
and stuff like that. But I don't see why I

549
00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:01.559
can't get it at home. Routine duty just exhausts you

550
00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:04.279
at times. You remember the excitement that you had when

551
00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:06.400
you were getting ready to do something. I mean, there's

552
00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:08.720
a little bit of electricity in the air here because

553
00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:11.079
we have the Jubilee coming in and you'll have six

554
00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:13.160
to eight hundred people that will be gathered here and

555
00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:15.880
it'll be a real hoot nanny, and everybody's throwing in

556
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:18.279
and everybody's trying to help, and everybody's excited.

557
00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:22.359
But that's not the Christian life. The Christian life.

558
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:24.559
Will be we wake up tomorrow morning, then probably turn

559
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:28.079
on the Weather Channel or ACU Weather or Mike's forecast

560
00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:30.279
or whatever it may be, and you're gonna look and

561
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:32.519
see and your attention's gonna be out in the Gulf

562
00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:37.039
and you're gonna be paying attention to protecting your family

563
00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:39.599
and protecting what God's given you and those kind of

564
00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:41.359
That doesn't mean you're not a good Christian. It just

565
00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:43.720
means we're very easily distracted.

566
00:29:46.519 --> 00:29:50.599
Now on one hand, On one hand, this is an

567
00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:56.119
interesting discussion the Christian life. Does it is do you

568
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.440
reach the Crestcindo, do you reach the the in fact,

569
00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:05.359
the most apart is salvation? And then after that it's

570
00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:08.720
it's kind of just now routine living your life, your ups,

571
00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:11.720
your down, struggle with sin, trying to figure out the

572
00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.119
word of God. Just is is that, well, how do

573
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:19.160
you handle that? That Christianity can just become this daily routine,

574
00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:24.240
weekly routine, and you lose the excitement, you lose the passion,

575
00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:27.920
you lose the zeal and Okay, that's a very interesting

576
00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:31.720
discussion to have, right by all means he's bringing up

577
00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:34.039
some very interesting points and I don't and it would

578
00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:36.279
be a kind of like, how do we deal with this?

579
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:40.519
My question is, well, this has got to do with

580
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:44.000
Second King Chapter six. This is like Second King's chapter

581
00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:46.839
six because they're cutting down trees. This now is all

582
00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:53.880
symbolic illustrative, spiritualized picture of the Christian life. That's where

583
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:56.839
my issue is. So I'm not disagreeing that this is

584
00:30:56.839 --> 00:30:59.680
an important concept. How do we handle this reality? You

585
00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:02.759
become I'm saved, you have that zeal, you have that passion.

586
00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:07.039
Everything's reached a crescendo, and then Monday turns into Tuesday,

587
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.559
Tuesday turns into Wednesday, January turns into February, this year

588
00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:14.519
turns into five years later, ten years later, and you're

589
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:18.200
still just trying to live your life. But Christianity is Christianity,

590
00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:20.559
Your life is Christianity just a part of your life.

591
00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.240
You're living your life, and Christianity just kind of shows

592
00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:25.359
up at different times, maybe on a Sunday, maybe on

593
00:31:25.400 --> 00:31:28.160
a Wednesday night? Does it show up daily? How does

594
00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:31.480
it look? Is the Christian life supposed to be about

595
00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:34.079
that passion in that zeal? Well, we're not supposed to

596
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.599
be luke warm? So how do we understand that passage? Right?

597
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:39.960
We can get into discussion there. There's lots of arguments

598
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:43.000
that that's been misinterpreted. But okay, so how do we

599
00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:45.160
not depart from our first love? Like, how do we

600
00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:48.079
like we can go there? There's there's that's a very

601
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:50.839
interesting discussion. I just don't know what it has to

602
00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:54.799
do with Second Kings chapter six. But at some point

603
00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:57.839
maybe he's going to get to the some one nineteen passage.

604
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:01.119
That may be the key. I don't know see where

605
00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:05.480
he goes with this, all right, So basically in his text,

606
00:32:06.839 --> 00:32:11.519
these men who want to build this new place, they

607
00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:15.440
are pictures of godly Christians who are working. But work

608
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:20.519
can just become routine and we can become distracted. That

609
00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:23.279
seems to be the picture he's painting from this text.

610
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:26.079
I just have no idea where how any of this

611
00:32:26.119 --> 00:32:30.279
is coming from the text. But let's see where this goes.

612
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:33.200
And it's been horrible what we've seen the people north

613
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:36.000
of us go through, and we've been paying attention to

614
00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:38.759
those things, and we're very easily distracted.

615
00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:40.720
And over time, guess what will happen.

616
00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:43.920
They'll be forgotten, something else will become the headline on

617
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:47.359
the news, and then before long you won't even remember.

618
00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:47.920
Nine to eleven.

619
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:53.039
It'll just be something that happened in whenever two thousand

620
00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:55.880
and one, and I wasn't even alive then. That was

621
00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:58.559
twenty four years ago or twenty three years ago. Preacher

622
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:00.079
and I just you know, I.

623
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:02.319
Mean, it's just you know, I mean, what's the big deals.

624
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:04.599
Just a few thousand people died, and some towers came

625
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:06.720
down and and all that kind of stuff, and in

626
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:08.319
hu hum, and here we go again.

627
00:33:08.559 --> 00:33:09.799
That's the Christian life.

628
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:14.000
You cannot live your Christian life, ladies and gentlemen, based

629
00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:16.440
on something that occurred in the past, all the time

630
00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:17.319
a good meeting.

631
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:19.960
Brother Sam mentioned to you this morning. We went for.

632
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:22.720
Years up there to preach your lackeys. We went to

633
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.240
Mount Airy, North Carolina. That's how they say it up there,

634
00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:28.440
and they would sing that song and that reminded me

635
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:31.119
of about the Jubilee. And yes, I'd like to take

636
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:33.559
all of those things that we had great meetings up there,

637
00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:35.759
and God dealt with us up there, and God did

638
00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:38.799
some miraculous things there. And I met doctor Ruckaman up there,

639
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:40.960
and I met Brother Lynce up there, and a lot

640
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:43.160
of things that I cut my teeth on are right

641
00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:44.200
there in Carolina.

642
00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:47.200
I preached up there and things. But you can't live

643
00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:49.039
off of a past experience.

644
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:52.839
You can't always talk about how great it was over

645
00:33:52.920 --> 00:33:55.920
in Pensacola, or how great it was in Jacksonville, or

646
00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:57.119
how great it was at some.

647
00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:59.480
Other meeting that you happened to be at. It's all

648
00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:00.880
of a sudden, guess what happens.

649
00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:03.599
Well, I was excited about it, and I was pumped

650
00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:05.839
up about it, and it was really going good. But

651
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.440
after a while I lost something along the way.

652
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:18.280
Okay, so all right, So it appears the direction this

653
00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:22.000
text is going. Second, King six is the men working

654
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:28.280
are Christians. Their work becomes routine, and them losing the

655
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:32.679
axe head is now picture, or the person losing the

656
00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:36.280
axe head is a picture of us as Christians who

657
00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:39.599
get so distracted by our work and the routine that

658
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:56.119
we lose something. So the axehead represents Christians losing something. Okay,

659
00:34:56.920 --> 00:34:59.960
I'm just gonna be patient. Maybe I'm misinterpreting this. Maybe,

660
00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:03.079
so I've got to let them explain. I'm just waiting.

661
00:35:03.239 --> 00:35:07.039
All we're waiting for is to get their basic hypotheses here.

662
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:11.800
And then I'm I'm then, yeah, I don't know. Let's

663
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:14.599
I can't make any Let's just see where this goes.

664
00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:26.719
Something ran them up, something came off, and I had

665
00:35:26.719 --> 00:35:28.960
worked up a sweat, I'd worked up a froth, and

666
00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:32.079
I was all excited and pumped up because I'm working

667
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:35.719
on my beam to be a part of something bigger

668
00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:42.320
than me, and right midstroke, something happened that jarred it loose,

669
00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:45.519
and now I don't have the accent. Remember David in

670
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:50.159
Second Samuel, chapter number six, David's coming along there and

671
00:35:50.199 --> 00:35:52.320
he's getting the card made up. There you've got two

672
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:54.760
holy cows that are gonna pull the cart, and he's

673
00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:57.400
made the cart the best it could possibly be. And

674
00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:00.719
they grab, excuse me, that arc of the c and

675
00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:02.559
they picked that thing up and they set it on

676
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:05.239
that cart, and Ohio goes out this way and Us

677
00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.639
is walking along the side of that thing, and all

678
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:11.000
of a sudden that the Bible said, the ox shook

679
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:13.440
like he tripped, like he stumbled.

680
00:36:13.679 --> 00:36:15.559
It was just a little stumble. It was just a

681
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:16.679
little trip.

682
00:36:17.039 --> 00:36:19.159
And us are reached out there and touched that arc,

683
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:21.519
and the collateral damage killed him on the spot.

684
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:23.400
You say, why he.

685
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:25.760
Just gotten accustomed. It's just the arc, it's just the

686
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:29.119
holy thing. It's just uh, it just represents God. It's

687
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:32.320
it's really I mean, I'm around it all the time.

688
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:36.639
It's just there. It just doesn't matter.

689
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:39.719
And I've been told don't touch it, but I've gotten

690
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:42.880
so familiar with it. I I don't have a problem

691
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:48.960
touching something. God said, don't touch Achin comes along the

692
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.079
same way. God said, when you go in and you

693
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:54.679
take the city of Jericho, when the walls fall down,

694
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:59.760
mysteriously but obviously, uh, it falls down because God ordained

695
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:01.519
for the walls of fall are On the seventh day,

696
00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:04.000
they walked around seven times and they shouted with a

697
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.199
great shout, and the walls came down, and rayhabs apartments

698
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:09.199
hanging up there on the top in the air, floating

699
00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:11.840
mid air, and there's a scarlet thread down there. And

700
00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:14.280
they go rushing into that city. And the Lord said,

701
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:17.320
now when you go into that city, don't take anything.

702
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.159
But Aiken said, you know, I mean, God's not gonna

703
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:24.280
miss this, and it's really not that big of a deal.

704
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:27.199
And I mean, God doesn't really mean don't take anything.

705
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:31.039
That's just an interpretation the literal Greek there the trilateral

706
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:31.639
root word.

707
00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:34.559
He really meant say don't take anything out of the

708
00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:35.760
church or out of the temple.

709
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.840
What he really meant to say there was is.

710
00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.400
Take what you can carry, but just don't take any

711
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:42.559
more than that. I don't know what he thought, but

712
00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:44.159
all of a sudden, Guess what happened.

713
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:45.400
He decided to take.

714
00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:48.239
A wedge of gold and some silver and a Babylonious garment,

715
00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:49.360
and guess what happened.

716
00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:50.440
He buried it in his house.

717
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:53.199
You say why he got familiar with it. God's gonna

718
00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:53.599
forgive me.

719
00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:58.320
It ain't no big deal. It's just a little thing.

720
00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:03.679
It's really not a big deal. It's just an axehead.

721
00:38:03.800 --> 00:38:07.440
Yeah, but without an axe head, you can't cut any

722
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:11.360
wood down. Without an axehead, you can't do what you're

723
00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:14.920
wanting to do if that main piece of that axe

724
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:18.000
is not in the place where it needs to be.

725
00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:22.440
He never even stopped to check. He's so interested in

726
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:24.960
getting done. But can I say this for the sake

727
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:28.440
of this message. Maybe he just got bored cutting wood

728
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.280
and he just figured that the axe head would always

729
00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:33.559
be there, and so all of a sudden, he's just

730
00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:36.800
cutting wood and then unbeknownst to him, because he's.

731
00:38:36.719 --> 00:38:40.719
Mindlessly going through the routine duty of cutting wood.

732
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:47.760
Now, okay, now those other passages are very powerful passages

733
00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:51.360
that he mentioned, right, And does it demonstrate a lack

734
00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:57.519
of concern, A familiarity breathes contempt kind of concept that look,

735
00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:01.880
these are all concepts that are worthy of discussion. But

736
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:05.159
so but we can't really spend time discussing that because

737
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:08.519
the issue is how he's handling Second King's chapter six.

738
00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:11.400
So all of a sudden, he now just starts making

739
00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:14.880
all of these assumptions about the person, and Second King six,

740
00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:18.000
who's shopping this down? He's bored, he's not paying it.

741
00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:21.360
How can you just start throwing all of these accusations

742
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:26.599
over a real person, right, you're making You're just making accusations.

743
00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:29.559
The text does not say one thing about the person.

744
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:33.760
This is what the text says. They so he went

745
00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:36.000
with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they

746
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:38.599
cut down the wood. But as one was felling a beam,

747
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:41.400
the axe head fell into the water, and he cried

748
00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:44.480
and said a last master, for it was borrowed. It

749
00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:47.039
doesn't say that he wasn't paying attention. It doesn't say

750
00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:49.239
he was bored. It didn't say that he didn't care.

751
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.639
It didn't say it doesn't see anything like that. We

752
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:57.079
do not have the right to place things into the

753
00:39:57.119 --> 00:40:00.920
text that are not there. I know pass love to

754
00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:04.119
do this because preaching, in many cases it is just

755
00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:07.519
a form of storytelling. And we've got to create the story.

756
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:10.199
We've got to create the narrative so that we keep

757
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:15.079
everyone's attention. But that is storytelling. That's not actually dealing

758
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:19.480
with the text. The text doesn't say anything about this person.

759
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:23.519
It does demonstrate they're extremely bothered by the fact that

760
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:27.400
it's lost because it was borrowed. That's what it demonstrates.

761
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:29.679
It doesn't see any of the things he's saying about

762
00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:33.599
the text. It doesn't imply it, it doesn't insinuate, it

763
00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:37.280
doesn't hint. There's not a clue about any of the

764
00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:43.559
things he's reading into the text. Zero It preaches good,

765
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:45.960
but is it the text.

766
00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:49.920
I don't know if you've ever lived to do that.

767
00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:55.760
I'm talking about the days before the walls, and the

768
00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:59.039
days before everybody had a chainsaw, and the days before

769
00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:04.719
lithium battery. I'm talking about in the days of double

770
00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:09.400
bedded axes and single bedded axes, and that when you

771
00:41:09.440 --> 00:41:10.840
wanted to go out, you didn't go.

772
00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:12.519
To the corner to buy a Christmas tree.

773
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:16.559
You went and cut one down. And God help anybody

774
00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:20.000
that complained about the one you cut down, because you

775
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.119
had to cut it and drag it and get it

776
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:25.440
back to wherever it needed to go, and if the

777
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:27.519
tree came down on your house, you were out there

778
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:30.239
with a hatchet or an axe or one of them

779
00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:34.119
long saws and cutting those limbs off. And boy, you

780
00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:36.199
were sure glad if somebody showed up with one of

781
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:37.079
those shainsaws.

782
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:40.760
Back in these days, they didn't have anything that was

783
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:42.960
gas powered or electric or battery powered.

784
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:46.440
Everything had to be done the hard way, the long way,

785
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:48.159
and sometimes the.

786
00:41:48.119 --> 00:41:50.199
Hard way and the long way the slow way.

787
00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:55.119
Becomes very boring, and it can become mindless and without

788
00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:57.119
even checking and without even thinking.

789
00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:58.760
Now, maybe you've never been there.

790
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:02.960
This is an individual that without even thinking about, I

791
00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:05.119
guarantee you by the time the end of the story,

792
00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.159
I can assure you he's checking that axe head because

793
00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:11.639
he's gonna learn a lesson. But how many times have

794
00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:15.360
we done things and we mindlessly go through those things,

795
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:17.800
and before long we realize we're just.

796
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:20.920
Going through it with no intention of paying attention.

797
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:26.400
And the axe head comes off, and we're still swinging

798
00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:29.719
the handle and beating the tar out of everything and everybody,

799
00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:34.039
and we're just mad and frustrated and aggravated and irritated

800
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:35.599
and all those other kind of things.

801
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:37.960
That go along with that, and you're wondering what happened?

802
00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:40.159
Can I use the axe head as your fellowship with

803
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:42.280
the Lord because you just knew it was just always

804
00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:42.800
gonna be there.

805
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.239
Every time you hit the tree, the chips fall. Every

806
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.480
time you hit the tree, the chips fall. Every time

807
00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:48.920
I go to church, God comes.

808
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:51.480
The Church is gonna always be there, The Bible's gonna

809
00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:53.840
always be there, Prayer's gonna always be there.

810
00:42:53.920 --> 00:42:56.679
God's gonna always forgive me. I mean every time I've

811
00:42:56.679 --> 00:42:57.199
been there.

812
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:01.960
Before and before long mindlessly going through the Christian life

813
00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:06.679
and mindlessly taking things for granted, without pausing long enough

814
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:08.280
to just check.

815
00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:15.199
Now again, this is where, this is where I'm so conflicted.

816
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:20.840
He's bringing up, on one hand, a very important issue,

817
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:22.320
Like I can applaud the discussion.

818
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:23.039
It would be more.

819
00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:27.880
I would have appreciated it more. Hey, Today, what we're

820
00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:31.079
gonna talk about is this idea that in the Christian

821
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:36.079
life we can lose our passion, our zeal, we can

822
00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:40.159
lose our fellowship with God because we allow the mundane

823
00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:44.199
of our familiarity breeds contempt. We're gonna discuss that and

824
00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:47.960
not use Second Kings Chapter six because Second King Chapter

825
00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:51.480
six all of a sudden Now the people are us.

826
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:56.280
The chopping down the tree or the beams are us

827
00:43:56.400 --> 00:44:00.199
working work. We become bored with, we become we take

828
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:03.960
it for granted. And now losing the axehead is us

829
00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:07.320
losing our fellowship with God. How in the world what

830
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:11.599
hermeneutical system allows you to do that to the text?

831
00:44:12.519 --> 00:44:15.599
What would be the cross reference that says the axehead

832
00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:21.159
represents fellowship with God. Now, maybe he's gonna provide a

833
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:21.880
cross reference.

834
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:22.400
I don't know.

835
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:26.960
Now one's not coming to my mind. Fellowship with God

836
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:30.440
is now an axehead that you use to cut things down.

837
00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:34.079
So my fellowship with God is an instrument in which

838
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:36.239
I like, I don't even know how you try to

839
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:41.440
make the picture work. All right, So we're already at

840
00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:43.840
forty four minutes. This is taking much longer than I

841
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:45.519
wanted to buy, all right, So we're getting the basic

842
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:50.280
hypotheses right. The axhead represents our fellowship with God. Let's

843
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:53.239
let him expand this so that we make sure we're

844
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:54.320
not misinterpreting it.

845
00:44:56.559 --> 00:45:00.599
And see if the axehead might be a little bit

846
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:03.480
on the loose side. I don't think the time to

847
00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:07.800
check it is after it comes off, especially in this case,

848
00:45:07.800 --> 00:45:10.239
because when it comes off in this case, it goes.

849
00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:13.960
For a swim. It's not always that way.

850
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:16.039
Most times when you're cutting wood, you're not right next

851
00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:18.480
to water, and you can probably think you can get it.

852
00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:19.800
And can I use this as.

853
00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:22.039
An illustration, Can I say to you.

854
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:24.119
Most of us have this idea in our mind.

855
00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:27.199
Because of eternal security, that if the axe head comes off,

856
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:29.280
it's gonna fall in the wood somewhere where I can

857
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:30.239
just go pick it back up.

858
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.679
I don't need nobody to help me get it. I

859
00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:34.280
don't need nobody to help me find it.

860
00:45:34.760 --> 00:45:37.400
If it comes off, I can repair the damage and

861
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:38.119
put it back on.

862
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:40.920
Nobody'll even know that it was off in the first place.

863
00:45:41.159 --> 00:45:44.719
He intentionally puts this story in the picture in the

864
00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:48.000
Bible in order to show us that it don't always

865
00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:50.400
come off where you think it's going to, and it

866
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:52.400
ain't always so easily recovered.

867
00:45:55.199 --> 00:45:57.840
Is that the point of the story is that the

868
00:45:57.880 --> 00:46:01.079
axe head represents fellowship, and sometimes the fellowship can come

869
00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:04.800
off and it's not so easily retrievable because it fell

870
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:08.760
into water. So now the water represents the fellowship falling

871
00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:11.960
into a place that's not easily retrievable like all of that,

872
00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:14.440
like where and he's saying, I'm gonna use this as

873
00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:17.360
an illustration of But can you just can we just

874
00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:19.960
go to the Bible and make anything an illustration of anything?

875
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.079
Can I just just is the Bible just like, hey,

876
00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:24.880
that that represents this and this? Right, I can just

877
00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:27.880
go to I mean, this is just subjective. I don't

878
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:31.559
even know what this is. It's not hermeneutics. I don't

879
00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:34.239
know what it is. I literally do. It's just like

880
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:38.719
this is Plato, right, remember when you I don't know

881
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:41.440
if you remember a kid. I wasn't ever into Plato

882
00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:43.079
too much, but there was a couple of places where

883
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:45.119
I ended up. I don't know why I was there,

884
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:47.480
but I ended up at certain locations and there were

885
00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:49.960
all these tables and they just dump Plato in front

886
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:51.880
of you and basically, okay, now go play with that

887
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:54.159
and then you just use the Plato to make whatever

888
00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:56.159
you want to make. I didn't never find it that

889
00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:59.880
very interesting or anything, but okay, some kids loved it. Well,

890
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:04.440
the Bible is not just Plato. Hey, I'm just gonna

891
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:06.199
make the ex head fellowship and I'm gonna make the

892
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:08.199
waters where we lose our fellowship in a place that's

893
00:47:08.239 --> 00:47:10.440
hard to be retrievable. And I'm gonna see that the

894
00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:12.719
cutting down the tree is Christian doing work, and then

895
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:15.639
these Christian I'm not just gonna I can't just turn

896
00:47:15.679 --> 00:47:18.039
it into whatever I want, right? I mean, are there

897
00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:22.360
not any rules that govern it at all? Are there

898
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:25.199
any rules at all? Are there? Is it just a

899
00:47:25.239 --> 00:47:25.880
free for all?

900
00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:33.800
Sometimes it requires a supernatural intervention on the part of

901
00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:36.440
someone bigger than you to say to you, Hey, if

902
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:40.119
you want it back, you're gonna have to cry about it.

903
00:47:40.119 --> 00:47:43.000
It's gonna have to bother you, it's gonna have to

904
00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:43.639
upset you.

905
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:46.880
But I'm trying to suggest to you this morning, before

906
00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:49.360
you just wait for it to come off, why don't

907
00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:51.280
you just say you know something, Lord, I need to

908
00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:52.360
go ahead now.

909
00:47:54.199 --> 00:47:57.920
And just check it. Notice if you will. In Psalms

910
00:47:57.920 --> 00:48:00.559
one hundred and nineteen, just a real quick thing.

911
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:03.119
I'd like to say this. This guy's concerned. You say,

912
00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:04.920
how do you know it? Because it bothered and that

913
00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:05.639
he lost it.

914
00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:09.840
I just have a note here to remind me to

915
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:10.400
say this.

916
00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:14.840
I have dealt a lot more this past two couple

917
00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:19.280
of years than ever before that I recognize in a

918
00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:21.599
few places that I've had the privilege of going.

919
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:24.800
That y'all allow me to go to. I've recognized this.

920
00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:30.079
There's more apathy in the church today than I've ever seen.

921
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:35.000
Again, this is where I get conflicted. The apathy is

922
00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:39.079
a great discussion point right, how old should we live

923
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:42.559
the Christian life? Where's the Crestindo? Where does all of

924
00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:43.039
this is?

925
00:48:43.119 --> 00:48:43.360
Great?

926
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:47.000
Look, there's so much of this that's worthy of discussion.

927
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:51.920
My concern is now now He's like, Hey, this guy

928
00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.119
was bothered because he lost the accent. He was bothered

929
00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:59.639
because it was borrowed. He was borrowing and he lost it.

930
00:48:59.800 --> 00:49:02.800
So if we're gonna say that fellowship, if the axead

931
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:07.519
represents fellowship, then we borrow our fellowship from someone else.

932
00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:12.280
Like the story begins to follow apart. If I louse, hey, lord,

933
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:15.079
I lost my fellowship with you and I borrowed it.

934
00:49:15.239 --> 00:49:17.039
Can I get it back so I can give it

935
00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:21.159
back to the other? Is fellowship borrowed? The axet here

936
00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:24.760
is borrowed? How do you make that fellowship? We don't

937
00:49:24.800 --> 00:49:26.320
borrow fellowship, do we?

938
00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:28.239
What?

939
00:49:29.480 --> 00:49:32.719
The whole text? See, the whole text is systematically just

940
00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:36.800
being ripped apart in front of us. All right, So

941
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:40.679
but there's appen see the points he's making. I'm in

942
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:43.400
agreement with the points. I want to make it very clear.

943
00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:47.000
My concern is how the text is being handled. That

944
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:50.440
is my concern, right, that is my concern. Okay, So

945
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:52.840
at some point he's gonna get to some one nineteen.

946
00:49:53.039 --> 00:49:55.079
I want to know what the some one nineteen is

947
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:57.599
because I want to know if there's some like this

948
00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:02.079
is the lynchpin that handles his entire illustration, That's what

949
00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:04.400
I want to know. But I agree with him. I've

950
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:08.280
talked about apathy and myself apathy within Christianity for a

951
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:11.440
very very, very very long time. So I again, this

952
00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:14.320
is these are very important concepts.

953
00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:16.880
What's that gonna do?

954
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:19.199
A second King sixth? And we've not even got into

955
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:24.400
my notes, So all we got like I hate always

956
00:50:24.480 --> 00:50:27.239
going over an hour. I know I can't. I seem

957
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:29.559
to be able to get an episode in within an hour,

958
00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:31.199
But all right, we've got to at least bring this

959
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:33.480
to some conclusion, right, or then we'd have to do

960
00:50:33.519 --> 00:50:35.840
a part two. Let's try to bring this to some conclusion.

961
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:40.320
All right, here we go, there's more of an attitude

962
00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:45.000
of who cares. I certainly don't than I've ever seen before.

963
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:48.960
We've kind of lost that that axe head that says,

964
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:51.760
you know what, now that I'm saved, God saved me

965
00:50:51.880 --> 00:50:55.079
for the purpose of getting his word out, not just

966
00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:55.880
for salvation.

967
00:50:57.079 --> 00:50:59.400
The reason that this church is here is to bring

968
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:03.639
more people, and for what reason? To get the word out?

969
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:08.920
So does the axhead represent fellowship that I borrowed? Or

970
00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:12.880
does the axhead represent an attitude of working to get

971
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:15.920
the word out. I don't know what the axhead is anymore.

972
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:16.400
I don't know.

973
00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:18.639
I don't even know what the axhead is anymore. Right,

974
00:51:24.360 --> 00:51:29.320
I don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. I

975
00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:32.760
don't understand. I remember hearing a lot of this kind

976
00:51:32.800 --> 00:51:35.400
of preaching when I was young, going how how could

977
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:36.760
I ever preach this way?

978
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:37.119
Right?

979
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:41.320
Because it's just very just I just feel like you're

980
00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:44.119
just making stuff up? Right, And so it was. It

981
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:48.239
was not until I really started learning, you know, true exegetical,

982
00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:53.760
stay with the text, historical, grammatical like kind of And

983
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:57.079
I look, if anyone, if anyone knows about more of

984
00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:02.119
the spiritualized allegorical type preaching and teaching. I mean, I

985
00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:05.599
went to a school that was very known for that, right,

986
00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:09.079
I mean, does everyone remember the man Harold Camping? You

987
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:10.960
know the world was going to end in nineteen ninety four.

988
00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:14.840
And I was a student of his school, and he

989
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:20.599
taught very much a spiritualized interpretation of scripture, very much.

990
00:52:20.719 --> 00:52:24.320
He would be there's the literal sense, there's the historical sense,

991
00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:28.039
but there's the spiritual sense. So this represents this, and

992
00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:31.320
this represents this, and this represents this. Now there were

993
00:52:31.400 --> 00:52:34.199
times I thought he was onto something, there was some good,

994
00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:37.800
but then ultimately it disintegrated into well, now he's predicting

995
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:39.920
the world's ending in nineteen ninety four, and he lost

996
00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:42.760
his ever living mind. Okay, we want and then the

997
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:44.800
church age has over and if you stay in your

998
00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:46.639
local church or taking the mark of the Beast, and

999
00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:48.800
oh man, it just I mean I could go through

1000
00:52:48.840 --> 00:52:51.280
everything that. So I've gone to schools that taught a

1001
00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:57.199
very much more allegorical, spiritualized approach. I'm guarantee you this

1002
00:52:57.280 --> 00:53:02.079
person preaching would condemn the oracle hermenudic. He would condemn

1003
00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:04.599
the spiritualizing. I guarantee you he would tell you he

1004
00:53:04.960 --> 00:53:10.119
believes and the historical grammatical herminutic I guarantee you. But

1005
00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:13.320
here in second King six, I don't know what this is.

1006
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:17.400
Now he's saying, he's just using it for an illustration.

1007
00:53:17.639 --> 00:53:20.440
That's important language because he's he's trying to argue that

1008
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:24.280
there is a historical grammatical meaning, but he's just using

1009
00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:27.159
it as an illustration. The key is how how much

1010
00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:31.440
what can we do with the text? How much freedom

1011
00:53:31.519 --> 00:53:33.960
do we have to turn the text into an illustration

1012
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:37.159
before we actually destroy the meaning of the text. Is

1013
00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:39.400
there some guideline.

1014
00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:43.599
Not just to see people saved, it's to get the

1015
00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:46.719
word out. It's to do what we can't Why I'm saved,

1016
00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:49.679
I have a responsibility to get the word out in

1017
00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:50.760
whatever shape.

1018
00:53:50.559 --> 00:53:53.360
Form or fashion. I need to be getting the word out.

1019
00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:56.159
Listen, the majority of people that you're around on a

1020
00:53:56.239 --> 00:53:59.559
regular basis, they're already saved or you know they're lost.

1021
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:02.519
You've already giving them salvation. How much of the word

1022
00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:06.599
do you give them during the week? How much do

1023
00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:09.239
they see the Bible open on your desk? How much

1024
00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:11.840
do they hear the Bible quoted under your death? We've

1025
00:54:11.920 --> 00:54:15.000
kind of forgotten that we are Christians. We are to

1026
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.079
be the light of the world. We are supposed to

1027
00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:20.119
be his ministers. I think he refers to us as

1028
00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:21.599
an ambassador for Christ.

1029
00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:23.639
I wonder sometimes if we're.

1030
00:54:23.400 --> 00:54:28.519
In kind of that silent majority we've lost that you

1031
00:54:28.559 --> 00:54:29.840
know something I should.

1032
00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:32.280
I've got a responsibility.

1033
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:34.519
To tell my waitress by putting a track in the bill,

1034
00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:37.760
to leave it at the gas pump, for God knows

1035
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:38.800
who cares.

1036
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:43.000
The fact is, my job is put out the world.

1037
00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:45.960
But I put out the word and guess what happened? Nothing?

1038
00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:49.760
And nobody comes, and they say they're gonna come, and

1039
00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:52.800
nobody visits, and they say they're going to Are they visiting?

1040
00:54:52.880 --> 00:54:55.760
The preacher runs them off or whatever the excuse is.

1041
00:54:57.119 --> 00:55:01.159
We forget our predominant responsibility after our fellowship with Jesus

1042
00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:05.960
Christ is to get his word out, not to keep

1043
00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:09.320
it bottled up. I'd like to say this about the

1044
00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:12.000
prophet here, the man that's in training.

1045
00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:15.280
You know what he does. It bothers him that it.

1046
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:17.760
Prevented him from doing what God wanted him to do.

1047
00:55:20.239 --> 00:55:23.599
Where do you get that it bothered him because it

1048
00:55:23.719 --> 00:55:26.280
stopped him from doing what God wanted him to do.

1049
00:55:26.840 --> 00:55:30.880
His exact words were a last master, for it was

1050
00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:36.039
borrowed there's nothing in the Texas says he was bothered

1051
00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:37.920
because he couldn't do what God wanted him to do.

1052
00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:41.800
He was bothered because he lost someone else's property. And

1053
00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:44.760
so if we're going to say this text represents something,

1054
00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:48.639
then your fellowship is someone else's property, and your call

1055
00:55:48.920 --> 00:55:52.760
to get the word out is someone else's property. So

1056
00:55:53.159 --> 00:55:55.719
if you lose it, you're upset because you lost someone

1057
00:55:55.719 --> 00:56:00.960
else's property. That's what the text says. This is like

1058
00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:05.480
the Veggie tells of Bible stories. Right with Veggie tells,

1059
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:07.320
You're like, wait, where did that happen in the story?

1060
00:56:07.559 --> 00:56:10.320
This is the chosen where Wait where where did that

1061
00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:11.280
dialogue come from?

1062
00:56:11.320 --> 00:56:11.559
Wait?

1063
00:56:11.599 --> 00:56:14.679
That's not what was said. But you know what, Christians

1064
00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:17.719
don't care. You can add all day. We always say

1065
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:20.920
you do not add or substruct from the Word of Good.

1066
00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:23.880
That's why I don't use the inn iv because it

1067
00:56:23.960 --> 00:56:26.320
adds and takes away from the Bible. And then in

1068
00:56:26.360 --> 00:56:31.679
our preaching we add entire narrative to it. Entire We

1069
00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:34.519
just turned the story into something that doesn't even represent

1070
00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:39.440
the text. And the slightest and everybody's in the congregation, Amen, Amen,

1071
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:41.039
what are we amening?

1072
00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:47.880
He wanted to be a part of that building, and

1073
00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:49.960
it concerned him that it bothered him.

1074
00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:50.320
How do you know?

1075
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:52.559
He began to cry, Look at the Psalmis here in

1076
00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:53.880
Psalms one hundred and nineteen.

1077
00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:58.639
Notice what happens here? I cried with my whole heart.

1078
00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:01.199
Hear me, Oh Lord, I will keep thy statues.

1079
00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:04.559
I cried under thee save me, and I shall keep

1080
00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:09.000
thy testimonies. I prevented the dawning of the morning and cried.

1081
00:57:09.239 --> 00:57:12.960
I hoped in thy word, mine eyes prevent the night watches,

1082
00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:15.639
and I might meditate in thy word. Here my voice,

1083
00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:19.199
according to thy loving kindness, Oh Lord, quickened me. According

1084
00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:22.599
to thy judgments, they draw nigh that follow after mischief

1085
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:24.840
that are far from me. Thou art near, o Lord,

1086
00:57:25.079 --> 00:57:28.079
and thy commandments are true. Concerning thy testimonies, I have

1087
00:57:28.199 --> 00:57:30.920
known of old, and thou hast founded them forever. Can

1088
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:33.440
I say this to you? David is in a position here.

1089
00:57:33.559 --> 00:57:35.559
You know what he's doing. He's crying out.

1090
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:41.320
I have no idea what any of that has to

1091
00:57:41.320 --> 00:57:44.000
do with Second King six. The man is crying out

1092
00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:48.480
in Second King six because he lost something that was borrowed.

1093
00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:52.440
I don't he just went he cried Now let's go

1094
00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:54.960
to PS. One nineteen and look up random verses about

1095
00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:57.719
crying out, and now let's connect it to Second King six.

1096
00:57:58.280 --> 00:58:03.400
There's no hermeneutical, Prince, I don't understand this at all. Now,

1097
00:58:03.400 --> 00:58:05.440
there's no way at this point we're not going to

1098
00:58:05.480 --> 00:58:07.679
review the rest. You need to look up the sermon,

1099
00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:12.760
check your axe head, tell me what you find. But

1100
00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:14.800
I am going to just briefly. Now, I'm going to

1101
00:58:14.880 --> 00:58:17.199
go through this quickly, all right, So let's just let's

1102
00:58:17.239 --> 00:58:19.760
just do this, all right, Let's just go through this.

1103
00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:24.280
Second Kings Chapter six, verses one through seven, I'm going

1104
00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:26.039
to hit the microphone and throw it across the room

1105
00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:32.360
recounts the story of the floating axe head. As we've

1106
00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:39.280
already established in this passage. Second King's Chapter six, Elisha's

1107
00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:43.960
disciples are building a new dwelling near the Jordan River.

1108
00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:47.920
Now what some preachers will do. The Jordan River represents this,

1109
00:58:48.119 --> 00:58:50.880
the dwelling place represents this. Now, if you can do

1110
00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:54.440
some cross referencing, maybe maybe we can figure something out.

1111
00:58:54.559 --> 00:58:56.679
At this point, we're not going to attempt to do that,

1112
00:58:56.760 --> 00:59:00.679
all right. One of them, as we have seen, loses

1113
00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:06.320
a borrowed oxhead. Remember it is borrowed. The text literally

1114
00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:09.719
tells us it's borrowed. There's got to be some significance

1115
00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:16.679
in the story to that right. Elisha miraculously causes the

1116
00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:21.800
axehead to float, enabling the man then to retrieve it.

1117
00:59:22.280 --> 00:59:29.599
That's the basic story. Now, throughout church history, many pastors

1118
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:34.079
and teachers have used this passage to illustrate spiritual principles.

1119
00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:40.880
Here's some of the common interpretations throughout church history. Number One,

1120
00:59:41.760 --> 00:59:45.480
this is a story about the restoration of lost power.

1121
00:59:46.440 --> 00:59:49.000
The oxhead is often viewed as a symbol of spiritual

1122
00:59:49.079 --> 00:59:53.320
power or effectiveness. The loss of the axhead can represent

1123
00:59:53.360 --> 00:59:56.840
a Christian losing their spiritual edge or effectiveness, or their

1124
00:59:56.880 --> 01:00:00.880
passion or their zill and Elisha's intervention is seen as

1125
01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:03.639
a demonstration of how God restores what has been lost

1126
01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:07.440
when we seek him. So many just say this is

1127
01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:11.880
a we've lost our power. We've lost our power. Now,

1128
01:00:11.920 --> 01:00:16.639
I've heard this in Bible college and seminary and Bible institutes. Hey,

1129
01:00:16.920 --> 01:00:20.199
preach your boys. You feel called to the ministry, but

1130
01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:24.440
you can lose your power, you can lose your effectiveness.

1131
01:00:24.559 --> 01:00:26.880
You've got to get your power back. You need a

1132
01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:30.719
supernatural intervention. To get and to restore your power. So

1133
01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:33.599
let God know this morning that you've lost your power.

1134
01:00:33.679 --> 01:00:35.880
Cry out to him. Come to the altar so that

1135
01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:38.360
God will restore that power. So you can be effective

1136
01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:40.760
in your preaching. People not coming down to the altar

1137
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:43.920
when you preach. You've lost your effectiveness. People not getting saved.

1138
01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:46.960
You've lost your effectiveness. Your church is not growing. You've

1139
01:00:46.960 --> 01:00:50.039
lost your effectiveness. Fall on your face before God and

1140
01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:52.400
repent of those hidden sins so you can get your

1141
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:54.599
power back, and your church will grow and people will

1142
01:00:54.599 --> 01:00:57.000
come to the altar when you preach. I can literally

1143
01:00:57.039 --> 01:01:01.920
preach the sermon. I've heard it a million times. Don't

1144
01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:03.480
know if that has anything to do with Second Kings,

1145
01:01:03.519 --> 01:01:07.519
Chapter six, but I've heard it used that way. A

1146
01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:12.880
second interpretation is this demonstrates dependence on God's miraculous power.

1147
01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:17.320
Some interpreters focus on the fact that the axehead was borrowed,

1148
01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:21.679
implying that the power or gifts of Christians have are

1149
01:01:21.719 --> 01:01:23.840
not their realm, but they come from God. Thus they

1150
01:01:23.880 --> 01:01:27.519
emphasize dependency on God to maintain effectiveness in ministry and life.

1151
01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:31.360
See that power you have, the effectiveness you have in

1152
01:01:31.400 --> 01:01:34.440
the Christian life that's borrowed. God gave that to you.

1153
01:01:34.440 --> 01:01:37.480
You're borrowing it from God, and you have to rely

1154
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:40.880
on him to maintain effectiveness. They take that from Second Kings,

1155
01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:46.320
chapter six. Others say this is a symbolism of redemption

1156
01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:51.519
and grace. The axe head sinking in the water is

1157
01:01:51.519 --> 01:01:56.199
sometimes allegorized as a symbol of humanity sinking into sin

1158
01:01:56.760 --> 01:02:00.880
or death, while the floating axhead report that's God's grace

1159
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:05.440
and rescuing are redeeming people from their fallen state. So

1160
01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:08.039
I've seen it preach the cutting down the tree, that's

1161
01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:11.519
us trying to work. We're trying to work, but our

1162
01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:14.679
work are trying to obey the law. It doesn't work,

1163
01:02:14.880 --> 01:02:17.119
it doesn't happen. What happens when we try to obey

1164
01:02:17.119 --> 01:02:19.599
the law the axe head comes off and it sinks

1165
01:02:19.639 --> 01:02:22.119
to the bottom, and we descend, and we will go

1166
01:02:22.239 --> 01:02:25.079
to hell. Because the sinking down into the water is

1167
01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:27.679
a representive hell, because we'll be thrown into the lake

1168
01:02:27.760 --> 01:02:31.760
of fire. It's representing hell. But then the cross is

1169
01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:35.119
Jesus Christ dying for us, and then he brings us

1170
01:02:35.119 --> 01:02:38.599
back to the top and redeems us by grace. The

1171
01:02:38.639 --> 01:02:42.679
axe head is the work is us trying is trying

1172
01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:45.199
to get saved, trying to follow the law. The axe

1173
01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:48.000
head when it comes off, represents that the failure of

1174
01:02:48.079 --> 01:02:50.239
us trying to keep the law, we sink to the bottom.

1175
01:02:50.400 --> 01:02:52.840
The stick put in the water is the cross, and

1176
01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:55.159
now we come back and we're saved by grace alone.

1177
01:02:55.159 --> 01:02:58.199
This is a picture of law and gospel. I've heard

1178
01:02:58.239 --> 01:03:04.639
it preached that way. Next, I've heard it preached as

1179
01:03:04.800 --> 01:03:10.440
financial integrity and responsibility. Since the acts was borrowed, the

1180
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:13.719
responsibility to return what belonged to another is sometimes emphasized

1181
01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:17.440
as suggesting that this is an application about financial responsibility

1182
01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:28.719
and integrity and stewardship. Okay, I just have to laugh

1183
01:03:28.719 --> 01:03:32.639
because you see, those are radically different interpretations. Those are

1184
01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:36.159
like night and day different interpretations, like they're not even

1185
01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:39.599
in the same universe. But these are all preached, and

1186
01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:41.960
in every church where they're preached, the people are sitting

1187
01:03:41.960 --> 01:03:45.239
in the people going amen, aa man, and you're like, well,

1188
01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:50.639
how do we get there?

1189
01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:54.119
Now?

1190
01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:59.159
Some of these interpretations might resonate with some people, and

1191
01:03:59.199 --> 01:04:03.119
they tend to do so, but they can move too

1192
01:04:03.199 --> 01:04:09.079
far from the text original meaning and context, Allegorical reading

1193
01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:15.519
and poses layers of meaning not explicitly present in the text,

1194
01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:24.920
which can lead to misinterpretation, and are you ready speculation,

1195
01:04:25.199 --> 01:04:27.079
which we've already heard a lot of speculation. He's just

1196
01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:33.920
throwing out concepts. Now, why would should we be concerned

1197
01:04:33.920 --> 01:04:38.079
with this allegorical approach? Well, allegorizing the acset into a

1198
01:04:38.119 --> 01:04:41.159
symbol of lost spiritual power, sin or redemption and poses

1199
01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:44.239
meaning that isn't inherently in the text. The original context

1200
01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:47.119
is more about a miracle demonstrating God's care for the

1201
01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:50.760
seemingly small practical needs of his people, rather than illustrations

1202
01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:57.159
of abstract spiritual principles. So there's a contextual disconnect. You're disconnecting.

1203
01:04:57.440 --> 01:04:59.960
You're just throwing these principles, and you're disconnecting it from

1204
01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:05.920
the actual text. The allegorical interpretation can lead to varied

1205
01:05:05.960 --> 01:05:09.679
and subjective understanding of the text, where each teacher might

1206
01:05:09.719 --> 01:05:12.719
focus on different symbols or ideas and aren't actually grounded

1207
01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:19.320
in the biblical narrative. There's all kinds of problems with it.

1208
01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:26.719
So what should we do with Second Kings Chapter six? Well,

1209
01:05:26.760 --> 01:05:30.119
we're a sixty five minutes and twenty eight seconds. I'm

1210
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:31.920
just gonna leave it there and let you try to

1211
01:05:31.920 --> 01:05:34.519
figure it out. I want you to go listen to

1212
01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:37.599
the rest of this sermon. Check your axe head, right, hey, look,

1213
01:05:37.760 --> 01:05:40.920
go listen to the rest now. Now this is very important.

1214
01:05:41.880 --> 01:05:48.440
Am I disagreeing strongly with how the text is being handled? Absolutely?

1215
01:05:49.880 --> 01:05:53.400
Do I completely agree with some of the points he's

1216
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:57.599
making about apathy? And yes, he's making some valid points

1217
01:05:57.639 --> 01:06:00.159
here that should be discussed and should convict all all

1218
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:03.760
of us about apathy. And since the Christian life just

1219
01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:06.719
becoming this dull routine and we're losing our passion and zil,

1220
01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:09.039
how should the Christian life be? How do we get

1221
01:06:09.039 --> 01:06:11.559
this back? How do we maintain it? What should be expected?

1222
01:06:11.679 --> 01:06:12.719
Do we expect too much?

1223
01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:12.920
Like?

1224
01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:15.920
How do we There's all kinds of questions that shoe.

1225
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:18.599
I should have a list of questions about that topic

1226
01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:21.440
over here, but I can't get to those questions about

1227
01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:24.599
the topic because I'm so concerned with how the text

1228
01:06:24.679 --> 01:06:28.400
is being handled, and I can't. I bothered greatly that

1229
01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:31.199
the man cries and he doesn't read the next part,

1230
01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:34.360
just goes jumps over to Psalm one nineteen. That's like,

1231
01:06:34.679 --> 01:06:37.800
that's what I can't stand about. Cross referencing is some

1232
01:06:37.880 --> 01:06:40.960
people just cross reference anything that they just there's no

1233
01:06:41.280 --> 01:06:47.599
they don't understand any basic rules to cross referencing. Now,

1234
01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:50.519
maybe in the next part he's gonna say borrowed. Maybe

1235
01:06:50.519 --> 01:06:52.719
in the next part he's gonna say borrow Let's just

1236
01:06:52.800 --> 01:06:54.639
listen for a second to see if he says borrowed,

1237
01:06:54.719 --> 01:06:56.400
and then we'll wrap this up. I know we're already

1238
01:06:56.400 --> 01:06:57.800
over time. Well, let's see if we can bring it

1239
01:06:57.840 --> 01:07:00.639
to a much more like satisfying place where when you

1240
01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:02.519
go listen, you'll know exactly where to begin.

1241
01:07:04.920 --> 01:07:08.559
It bothered him when the baby died.

1242
01:07:08.599 --> 01:07:10.760
Come back if you will, please, if you've turned from there,

1243
01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:12.960
come back to Second Kings, chapter number six.

1244
01:07:13.079 --> 01:07:15.599
David is upset because the baby dies.

1245
01:07:17.679 --> 01:07:20.400
David is upset the baby that he had with Esheba

1246
01:07:21.039 --> 01:07:24.159
winds up dying there and he's down there in sackcloth

1247
01:07:24.199 --> 01:07:27.679
and ashes, and it bothers him. I wonder, ladies and gentlemen,

1248
01:07:27.719 --> 01:07:29.679
if we've ever considered.

1249
01:07:30.639 --> 01:07:31.800
That an innocent.

1250
01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:34.639
Baby dies with a collateral damage because of a decision

1251
01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:36.119
David made.

1252
01:07:37.039 --> 01:07:38.519
I wonder if we have that.

1253
01:07:38.480 --> 01:07:42.320
Kind of concern When we lose our edge in the world,

1254
01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:46.119
lose our edge in the schools, we attend, and the

1255
01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:48.800
places where we work, and and the people that we

1256
01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:52.199
have influence over that the collateral damage, because guess what,

1257
01:07:52.559 --> 01:07:56.960
it doesn't remove us from the throne. It doesn't take

1258
01:07:57.079 --> 01:08:01.559
us out of the way. We're safe, we're secure. But

1259
01:08:01.679 --> 01:08:04.920
sometimes innocent people wind up dying. Why, Well, because of

1260
01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:07.639
things that we've done we shouldn't have done. I wonder

1261
01:08:07.840 --> 01:08:10.360
if there's even a concern or is it true that

1262
01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:11.119
there really is.

1263
01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:12.880
An apathy over sin nowadays?

1264
01:08:14.199 --> 01:08:16.920
I see and hear Christians nowadays say and do things,

1265
01:08:16.960 --> 01:08:19.680
and I'm thinking to myself, I wonder, Honestly, I don't

1266
01:08:19.720 --> 01:08:22.119
believe if you're saved, that you're always living right and

1267
01:08:22.119 --> 01:08:24.359
doing right and spitting Why. But I'm telling you, I

1268
01:08:24.399 --> 01:08:27.119
hear Christians say some things sometime and then right out

1269
01:08:27.159 --> 01:08:28.800
of their mouth on the other side, you know what

1270
01:08:28.840 --> 01:08:30.680
they say. They'll say, you know, well, I gotta go

1271
01:08:30.720 --> 01:08:33.199
to church on Sunday. Reminds me of that illustration the

1272
01:08:33.239 --> 01:08:36.960
old preacher. You said, are you gonna meet with your boyfriend?

1273
01:08:37.520 --> 01:08:39.760
No, my husband will be in town on Monday. Well,

1274
01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:40.720
how about on Tuesday?

1275
01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:40.760
No?

1276
01:08:40.880 --> 01:08:43.800
I got bridge on Tuesday. Well can we meet on Wednesday? No?

1277
01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:49.159
I got prayer meeting on Wednesday.

1278
01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:53.000
I'll meet you at church. Are you not gonna go

1279
01:08:53.039 --> 01:08:54.680
to the dance on Friday? Well, all go to the

1280
01:08:54.760 --> 01:08:56.920
dance on Friday, there's no revival meeting, and I'll meet

1281
01:08:56.960 --> 01:08:59.760
you in church on Sunday.

1282
01:09:01.800 --> 01:09:05.159
You feel how still it got right there? Well?

1283
01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:07.920
I didn't preach anything I hadn't preached for thirty five years. Here?

1284
01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:11.079
Why you get stout there all of a sudden? Oh

1285
01:09:11.159 --> 01:09:14.800
I get it? Just a little dance is okay? Let

1286
01:09:14.880 --> 01:09:16.039
me ask you a question just.

1287
01:09:18.520 --> 01:09:18.600
So.

1288
01:09:18.680 --> 01:09:23.760
Now, dancing is wrong. I'm like I am. Smoking is wrong.

1289
01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:29.319
Dancing is wrong. I but oh man, what is it

1290
01:09:29.600 --> 01:09:30.760
this got to do with second King?

1291
01:09:30.880 --> 01:09:31.399
Six? Okay?

1292
01:09:31.680 --> 01:09:33.279
I'm trying to find a place where we can find

1293
01:09:33.520 --> 01:09:37.239
a good stopping point. I think you can. I don't

1294
01:09:37.239 --> 01:09:40.079
even know what to say. A little bit of.

1295
01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:42.159
Doing that's okay. How you gonna tell your kids when

1296
01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:43.760
you do just a little bit? It's not okay for

1297
01:09:43.800 --> 01:09:47.319
them to go all the way. Just a little Sip's okay,

1298
01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:49.359
just a little pop.

1299
01:09:49.439 --> 01:09:50.159
Don't know a big deal.

1300
01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:51.880
But you tell you kids you can't touch it, Well,

1301
01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:53.640
why not? What happens if they wind up being a

1302
01:09:53.680 --> 01:09:57.439
drunk wall? Not your problem is it collateral damage? Are

1303
01:09:57.479 --> 01:09:57.840
you with me?

1304
01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:00.279
You lost your edge as a Christian.

1305
01:10:01.720 --> 01:10:04.199
Kind of a shamed It's like, you want so bad

1306
01:10:04.279 --> 01:10:05.880
to fit in with the rest of the world that

1307
01:10:05.960 --> 01:10:08.199
the world dictates to you, and yet the whole time

1308
01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:12.159
you're griping about being told what to do, but you're

1309
01:10:12.199 --> 01:10:14.680
constantly capitulating to the rest of the war.

1310
01:10:14.920 --> 01:10:17.439
You compromise for comfort, and it's kind of like, well,

1311
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:18.720
I don't want to be the odd ball?

1312
01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:19.279
Why not?

1313
01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:23.960
It used to not bother you when you first got saved.

1314
01:10:24.279 --> 01:10:26.920
You didn't care about anybody making fun of you or

1315
01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:29.479
laughing at you. But now we're kind of got this sort.

1316
01:10:29.319 --> 01:10:31.199
Of sophisticated style about us.

1317
01:10:31.439 --> 01:10:34.199
And you know what's kind of noticeable in what comes

1318
01:10:34.199 --> 01:10:36.039
out of our mouth. You say why, because it's in

1319
01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:39.159
the recesses of our heart. I'm just saying, maybe we

1320
01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:42.760
should have checked. Maybe the accent's not off, but maybe

1321
01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:43.720
it's mighty.

1322
01:10:43.439 --> 01:10:48.199
Loose this evening. Maybe we just don't.

1323
01:10:47.920 --> 01:10:50.840
Care about the position we put other people into to

1324
01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:56.199
make them participate in things, and they wind up being

1325
01:10:56.479 --> 01:10:57.840
collateral damage.

1326
01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:01.319
Because for you it's good, but for them it's like

1327
01:11:02.960 --> 01:11:05.479
I don't know, Well, then, why all of a sudden,

1328
01:11:05.520 --> 01:11:05.720
are you.

1329
01:11:05.800 --> 01:11:06.359
The bad guy?

1330
01:11:07.560 --> 01:11:09.760
Why are you preaching this, preacher? Well, because Thanksgiving and

1331
01:11:09.840 --> 01:11:10.800
Christmas is coming.

1332
01:11:12.640 --> 01:11:17.439
Time together with the family, and before long there'll be

1333
01:11:17.439 --> 01:11:18.640
more of being slung.

1334
01:11:18.319 --> 01:11:21.000
At the table than just biscuits.

1335
01:11:22.279 --> 01:11:25.560
But as your family, I'm pretty sure you know you

1336
01:11:25.560 --> 01:11:26.760
got to learn to be gracious.

1337
01:11:27.840 --> 01:11:32.760
Okay, why am I the bad guy?

1338
01:11:33.760 --> 01:11:37.000
I didn't say you can't have your bottle of wine

1339
01:11:37.000 --> 01:11:39.239
at your Thanksgiving dinner that you're making.

1340
01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:41.920
A public's commercial. I said, I'm not coming.

1341
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.760
We'll put our wine up for you.

1342
01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:51.279
You're not gonna go to your family's meal because they

1343
01:11:51.359 --> 01:11:52.199
have wine?

1344
01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:10.760
Oh my goodness, gracious, what is any of this got

1345
01:12:10.760 --> 01:12:12.000
to do with Second King six?

1346
01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:17.159
I don't have any clue. This is why I know

1347
01:12:17.279 --> 01:12:20.279
Christianity is not for me, I just as far as

1348
01:12:20.399 --> 01:12:23.000
our say Churchianity, because I don't fit in in any

1349
01:12:23.039 --> 01:12:24.600
of this. Like what is this? I don't know what

1350
01:12:24.680 --> 01:12:25.399
any of this is.

1351
01:12:25.479 --> 01:12:25.960
I don't know.

1352
01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:28.720
We're not dealing with the text in any meaningful way,

1353
01:12:29.000 --> 01:12:31.960
and now we're just making rules that have no So

1354
01:12:32.119 --> 01:12:35.119
now you're I'm losing my edge. I've lost my axe

1355
01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:38.600
head because I'm going to go to a holiday meal

1356
01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:41.960
with family who has wine, and I'm like.

1357
01:12:42.199 --> 01:12:43.199
How dare you?

1358
01:12:43.279 --> 01:12:47.920
I'm not coming because I'm a Christian. What in the

1359
01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:49.760
world is that got to.

1360
01:12:52.840 --> 01:12:57.520
You? No, you don't have to put it up. I'm

1361
01:12:57.520 --> 01:13:00.399
not coming because as you.

1362
01:13:00.399 --> 01:13:03.560
Don't want to not do that, you're just not doing that.

1363
01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:05.479
So soon as I walk out the door, go to

1364
01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:06.119
the bathroom, you.

1365
01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:11.239
Go over there and make a point of it. So

1366
01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:13.640
have me removed. I have people I know, believe it

1367
01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:16.600
or not, and friends that I know. That's never a problem.

1368
01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:19.079
I don't worry about.

1369
01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:21.840
Somebody sitting down with something like that in front of

1370
01:13:21.880 --> 01:13:25.000
me and kind of like, hey, you know, better to ask.

1371
01:13:24.840 --> 01:13:31.640
For forgiveness than it is for permission. Your axe head's loose.

1372
01:13:33.680 --> 01:13:36.079
You shouldn't put people in that kind of a position.

1373
01:13:37.520 --> 01:13:39.760
We're going to a movie and we're gonna watch it.

1374
01:13:39.880 --> 01:13:40.039
Now.

1375
01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:43.479
It's rated R, but there's only a couple.

1376
01:13:43.279 --> 01:13:46.159
Scenes in there that are you can close your eyes

1377
01:13:46.279 --> 01:13:46.760
during that.

1378
01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:49.760
The axeheads loose.

1379
01:13:53.279 --> 01:13:55.880
Your axe head is loose. If you watch your rated

1380
01:13:56.079 --> 01:14:02.199
R movie. What if it's PG thirteen, is my axe

1381
01:14:02.199 --> 01:14:07.439
head loose? If I'm listening to preaching, that's absolutely destroying

1382
01:14:07.479 --> 01:14:10.119
the text and making it say something that doesn't say

1383
01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:13.720
and adding and subtracting from it. Is my axe head loose?

1384
01:14:15.159 --> 01:14:17.920
My axe head is loose. If I go to someone's

1385
01:14:17.920 --> 01:14:22.399
house and they're having wine with their meal, my axe

1386
01:14:22.439 --> 01:14:26.640
head is loose. Is my axehead loose if I'm becoming

1387
01:14:26.680 --> 01:14:35.000
a pharisee and a sadducey.

1388
01:14:35.760 --> 01:14:37.359
You got a bunch of little ones in here that

1389
01:14:37.399 --> 01:14:39.600
are watching you and looking at you, and you're thinking, well,

1390
01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:41.680
they'll grow up one day and they'll probably do you

1391
01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:46.399
mean what you've done, So you have a chance. But

1392
01:14:46.720 --> 01:14:49.520
it has to concern you. You have to be willing

1393
01:14:49.560 --> 01:14:52.960
to cry out. You have to say. It bothers me

1394
01:14:53.479 --> 01:14:57.119
that I lost what is the business into my axe?

1395
01:14:57.239 --> 01:15:00.560
I cannot do what God wants me to do. It

1396
01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:06.039
bothers me. It upsets me. I want it back. But

1397
01:15:06.079 --> 01:15:09.840
the problem is is the apathy whatever.

1398
01:15:11.600 --> 01:15:14.720
I'm happy, where I'm at, saved, born again, blood wash,

1399
01:15:14.840 --> 01:15:18.960
going to heaven, eternally secure, Praise the Lord, Hallelujah.

1400
01:15:18.359 --> 01:15:19.239
Pass the ammunition.

1401
01:15:20.199 --> 01:15:25.319
I like my carnal lifestyle. I like the comfort that

1402
01:15:25.359 --> 01:15:26.079
it brings me.

1403
01:15:26.880 --> 01:15:30.760
I don't like the pressure of all.

1404
01:15:30.640 --> 01:15:33.720
These people getting me to go. If I just go along,

1405
01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:37.039
it's just so much easier. Certainly, it is easier to

1406
01:15:37.039 --> 01:15:40.000
go with the current than it is to paddle upstream,

1407
01:15:40.199 --> 01:15:42.159
No question, I agree with you one hundred percent.

1408
01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:44.279
But could I just say this to you, and I'm

1409
01:15:44.279 --> 01:15:47.239
not the poster child for it. It doesn't make me

1410
01:15:47.560 --> 01:15:51.439
uncomfortable to be different.

1411
01:15:54.680 --> 01:15:57.840
As a matter of fact, I get uncomfortable when I

1412
01:15:57.880 --> 01:16:01.039
feel like I am using C's compromising.

1413
01:16:02.399 --> 01:16:05.520
Yeah, but Preacher, you know you lived to stop. This

1414
01:16:05.680 --> 01:16:06.359
is about you.

1415
01:16:07.560 --> 01:16:11.199
I already checked my head this morning. I had to

1416
01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:14.760
put some wedges in it. I had to tighten it down.

1417
01:16:16.520 --> 01:16:19.680
I never will ever preach to you as one having obtained.

1418
01:16:20.600 --> 01:16:23.479
I will never preach to you as if my idea

1419
01:16:23.520 --> 01:16:26.079
of my life and my standard of living is something

1420
01:16:26.119 --> 01:16:29.199
that you should try to esteem to be, or try

1421
01:16:29.239 --> 01:16:29.880
to claim to.

1422
01:16:29.800 --> 01:16:31.800
Be, or try to rise to that kind of a thing.

1423
01:16:32.239 --> 01:16:36.319
I'm just like you, a sinner saved by grace, and

1424
01:16:36.399 --> 01:16:38.520
I struggle just like you struggle.

1425
01:16:38.880 --> 01:16:41.680
But there's certain things that I made up my mind along.

1426
01:16:41.840 --> 01:16:42.079
Baby.

1427
01:16:42.079 --> 01:16:44.479
It's because I was a policeman for so long. I

1428
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:45.560
was picked out of.

1429
01:16:45.479 --> 01:16:47.640
A crowd right off the bat, and because I wore

1430
01:16:47.640 --> 01:16:50.319
a blue suit and you walk in everybody's against you,

1431
01:16:50.359 --> 01:16:52.319
and maybe that's what toughened me up.

1432
01:16:52.479 --> 01:16:54.000
But I'd like to think.

1433
01:16:55.239 --> 01:16:57.319
It's because I don't want to be an embarrassment to

1434
01:16:57.359 --> 01:17:00.000
my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and that when those

1435
01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:02.560
those things occur, it tells me a lot about the

1436
01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:04.119
person putting me in that position.

1437
01:17:05.399 --> 01:17:09.800
I'm not the bad guy? Am I gonna push you

1438
01:17:09.880 --> 01:17:10.960
to try to attain to that? Well?

1439
01:17:10.960 --> 01:17:13.680
Sure, why shouldn't I? On our preacher, isn't that what

1440
01:17:13.720 --> 01:17:15.920
you try to push your kids to do. There's no

1441
01:17:16.000 --> 01:17:17.920
parent in here at all that doesn't wish better for

1442
01:17:17.960 --> 01:17:20.039
your kids than you had. And hope they don't do

1443
01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:22.319
some of the foolish things you did. And God help

1444
01:17:22.359 --> 01:17:25.840
you if you ever tell them you're a fool, it's

1445
01:17:25.880 --> 01:17:26.840
none of their business.

1446
01:17:27.439 --> 01:17:29.960
You say why, because they're kids. They don't know any better.

1447
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:32.880
I would like to say this, he had to be

1448
01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:34.319
willing to make a confession.

1449
01:17:34.840 --> 01:17:39.520
I lost it. Can't lose your salvation.

1450
01:17:39.680 --> 01:17:43.560
We know that standing in state, right, I lost it.

1451
01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:48.399
The desire, the willingness stuff, the forthrightness stuff.

1452
01:17:48.479 --> 01:17:51.239
They want to be involved in this.

1453
01:17:51.560 --> 01:17:56.680
The thing, it sounds like the acced represents basically everything

1454
01:17:57.520 --> 01:17:59.800
everything I mean like if it was supposed to be

1455
01:18:00.479 --> 01:18:03.640
then it was like the work to get the word out.

1456
01:18:03.760 --> 01:18:09.439
Now it's spiritual edge. Now it's your feelings for seeing.

1457
01:18:10.039 --> 01:18:13.079
At this point, I don't really know exactly. It seems

1458
01:18:13.079 --> 01:18:16.039
like it just keeps expanding, or it's like different layers

1459
01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:18.159
of I don't know, and I don't know how all

1460
01:18:18.199 --> 01:18:20.079
this is gonna fit with the borrowed part. I was

1461
01:18:20.079 --> 01:18:21.640
hoping we would get to what he says about the

1462
01:18:21.640 --> 01:18:23.880
borrow partment. We're running out of time, so we'll just

1463
01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:26.720
go a couple of more, maybe a minute here, and

1464
01:18:26.760 --> 01:18:27.720
we'll wrap it up.

1465
01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:32.279
That used to drive me, that used to push me,

1466
01:18:32.720 --> 01:18:33.399
it's gone.

1467
01:18:34.600 --> 01:18:35.760
I want it back.

1468
01:18:38.039 --> 01:18:40.800
There is nothing more miserable than trying to serve the

1469
01:18:40.800 --> 01:18:44.159
Lord in your own energy and strength, just.

1470
01:18:44.159 --> 01:18:46.600
In the flesh, just doing it because you gotta do it.

1471
01:18:46.600 --> 01:18:47.359
It ain't gonna be long.

1472
01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:50.760
You gonna be bitter, You're gonna be madder and to

1473
01:18:50.840 --> 01:18:52.880
stinking hornet, and it's gonna show up every time you

1474
01:18:52.920 --> 01:18:56.199
open your mouth you say, what is it? If you

1475
01:18:56.319 --> 01:19:00.000
don't have God infuse you supernaturally, you ain't gonna lie.

1476
01:19:00.359 --> 01:19:03.600
You say why battle's hot?

1477
01:19:04.319 --> 01:19:09.760
Wow? Literally use the word infused the entire Protestant Reformation

1478
01:19:09.840 --> 01:19:12.439
was about imputed. He just literally used the word infused.

1479
01:19:12.479 --> 01:19:15.520
I know he's not referring to justification, but I just like,

1480
01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:17.720
I'm not a fan of the word infused. And if

1481
01:19:17.720 --> 01:19:19.880
God is the one who does the infusing of the

1482
01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:22.279
power in which you can live the Christian life, then

1483
01:19:22.319 --> 01:19:24.680
why do you still sin? Right, we're right back to

1484
01:19:24.720 --> 01:19:27.399
that same I know we return to that over and

1485
01:19:27.439 --> 01:19:30.079
over and over and over, but okay, I just want

1486
01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:33.039
to know. I don't know what any of you notice.

1487
01:19:33.079 --> 01:19:35.680
We're not really dealing with the text in any way,

1488
01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:40.239
shape or for. The text is being utilized simply. I

1489
01:19:40.239 --> 01:19:42.239
don't know why. I don't even I don't know what

1490
01:19:42.600 --> 01:19:44.079
how you want to be? How do you want to

1491
01:19:44.079 --> 01:19:46.039
even classify how the text is being utilized?

1492
01:19:46.039 --> 01:19:46.239
Here?

1493
01:19:47.960 --> 01:19:52.239
Sir, you're gonna get frustrated and aggravated and irritated with

1494
01:19:52.319 --> 01:19:56.000
people and everything else because you're forcing, you're pushing, You're

1495
01:19:56.039 --> 01:19:59.000
trying to make something happen. You're trying to get something

1496
01:19:59.039 --> 01:20:00.600
back instead of stopp and going.

1497
01:20:00.640 --> 01:20:06.239
I lost something, something came off. My relationship with the

1498
01:20:06.239 --> 01:20:08.439
Lord ain't what it used to be. You can check that.

1499
01:20:08.520 --> 01:20:09.520
I can't check that in you.

1500
01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:11.359
I can't tell by looking at you how close you

1501
01:20:11.399 --> 01:20:14.399
are to the Lord. Some of you I can't take

1502
01:20:14.479 --> 01:20:16.000
Monroe seven millimeter a rifle.

1503
01:20:16.039 --> 01:20:17.359
I couldn't hit you right now.

1504
01:20:17.720 --> 01:20:19.359
You're so far away from Lord, and you're sitting on

1505
01:20:19.399 --> 01:20:23.319
a church forew.

1506
01:20:22.920 --> 01:20:24.439
Not pointing anybody individually.

1507
01:20:28.680 --> 01:20:30.359
You can be out of fellowship and still be in

1508
01:20:30.399 --> 01:20:31.520
the field trying to cut wood.

1509
01:20:31.560 --> 01:20:36.239
You can still look like you're busy. Can I say this?

1510
01:20:36.520 --> 01:20:39.720
It concerned him, he cried, But the first step was

1511
01:20:39.800 --> 01:20:41.520
he had to admit. Remember the woman at the well.

1512
01:20:41.960 --> 01:20:43.399
Can y'all bear with me? I am not going to

1513
01:20:43.479 --> 01:20:44.600
make twelve o'clock.

1514
01:20:47.399 --> 01:20:50.600
If not, go ahead and go, and I'll preach about

1515
01:20:50.600 --> 01:20:54.680
you when you walk. You you remember the woman at

1516
01:20:54.680 --> 01:21:00.000
the well, and when she comes up there to the Lord,

1517
01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:04.079
the Lord deals with her about her situation going on

1518
01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:10.159
there with some men in the town. Are you married, Well,

1519
01:21:11.159 --> 01:21:17.119
you got a husband. Well, I got a husband, but

1520
01:21:17.159 --> 01:21:21.279
it belongs to somebody else. Well, said sister, you got

1521
01:21:21.359 --> 01:21:27.359
five of them like that. Do you know that woman

1522
01:21:27.359 --> 01:21:29.479
couldn't have got any help unless the pipe got cleared,

1523
01:21:29.520 --> 01:21:30.920
unless she was willing to confess.

1524
01:21:32.560 --> 01:21:33.079
You got me.

1525
01:21:34.840 --> 01:21:38.880
You're right, I'm a homewrecker. You're right, no matter what

1526
01:21:38.920 --> 01:21:41.920
those men have done to me, I certainly yielded to it.

1527
01:21:43.439 --> 01:21:45.479
I certainly have a problem. I've had five men, and

1528
01:21:45.520 --> 01:21:49.399
all of them married. I mean, pretty ugly. You can't

1529
01:21:49.439 --> 01:21:52.119
blame it all on the men. I mean, once or

1530
01:21:52.119 --> 01:21:54.119
twice you might could give her a pass, But five times,

1531
01:21:54.119 --> 01:21:54.960
I mean she seems to have.

1532
01:21:55.000 --> 01:21:58.119
A target on married men. Can I get a witness?

1533
01:21:58.800 --> 01:22:01.720
You guess you never thought about that. But she isn't

1534
01:22:01.720 --> 01:22:04.520
too dirty for God to clean. But not until she's

1535
01:22:04.560 --> 01:22:08.560
willing to confess. You know, the hardest thing in the

1536
01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:10.439
world back years ago, and some of the stuff that

1537
01:22:10.479 --> 01:22:12.159
I did, And you get him in the boxing there

1538
01:22:12.199 --> 01:22:13.720
and you're sitting there talking to him and that kind

1539
01:22:13.760 --> 01:22:15.960
of thing, and there's your Miranda, and you know, anything

1540
01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:17.600
you say and so on and so forth, and sign

1541
01:22:17.640 --> 01:22:19.359
all this and that and the other, and you got

1542
01:22:19.399 --> 01:22:21.479
him dead to right. You can have a stinking video

1543
01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:24.039
of them and sitting there, we got this, and we

1544
01:22:24.079 --> 01:22:25.439
got this, and we got this, and you lay the

1545
01:22:25.439 --> 01:22:27.119
whole thing out there and they look at you, go, well,

1546
01:22:27.159 --> 01:22:27.640
it wasn't me.

1547
01:22:31.359 --> 01:22:31.760
Who is this?

1548
01:22:33.720 --> 01:22:34.960
Well, I don't know if we're ever going to get

1549
01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:36.960
to the borrowed part. I wanted to get to the

1550
01:22:36.960 --> 01:22:39.159
borrowed part. See how then he makes it all work.

1551
01:22:43.239 --> 01:22:46.279
I don't know. I don't know. Ladies and gentlemen, there

1552
01:22:46.319 --> 01:22:46.800
we have it.

1553
01:22:52.359 --> 01:22:52.880
What can I.

1554
01:22:54.399 --> 01:22:56.640
Don't know what to say? Go listen to the rest.

1555
01:22:56.800 --> 01:22:59.880
Check your axe head again. He's making some really valid

1556
01:23:00.079 --> 01:23:04.039
points about some very important issues. He's bringing up issues

1557
01:23:04.039 --> 01:23:07.119
that we should all be confronted with and discuss amongst

1558
01:23:07.199 --> 01:23:10.039
ourselves and with ourselves about our own spiritual journey, our

1559
01:23:10.039 --> 01:23:14.399
own spiritual life and where we are. But connecting it

1560
01:23:14.520 --> 01:23:18.960
to an axehead, and then I like the whole thing, like,

1561
01:23:21.479 --> 01:23:24.359
I don't know what you call this. I don't know

1562
01:23:24.359 --> 01:23:27.119
what you call it. I don't know. I don't know

1563
01:23:27.159 --> 01:23:28.039
what you do there.

1564
01:23:28.159 --> 01:23:28.680
I don't know.

1565
01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:32.800
So we talked about the problems with this right when

1566
01:23:32.800 --> 01:23:35.039
you handle it. We looked at all the different and

1567
01:23:35.159 --> 01:23:38.720
allegorical interpretation spent them at offered through church history. We've

1568
01:23:38.720 --> 01:23:44.479
talked about how this is a contextual disconnect, how this

1569
01:23:44.600 --> 01:23:49.199
is becomes very subjective. I wanted to get into looking

1570
01:23:49.279 --> 01:23:52.279
at the immediate constant text, looking at the historical and

1571
01:23:52.319 --> 01:23:55.920
cultural context, looking at the theological themes, and then looking

1572
01:23:55.920 --> 01:23:58.920
at divine power in the mundane and looking at prophetic authority.

1573
01:23:59.000 --> 01:24:02.359
I wanted to kind of get into some actual handling

1574
01:24:02.439 --> 01:24:06.319
of the text, but well, we're at eighty four minutes,

1575
01:24:06.359 --> 01:24:09.279
so we're not going to get there. So I apologize

1576
01:24:09.279 --> 01:24:17.279
for going along, but I don't have any I don't

1577
01:24:17.359 --> 01:24:20.880
know what I don't know what this is. I don't

1578
01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:26.880
know what this is. I don't know, So all right,

1579
01:24:27.239 --> 01:24:30.399
thanks for listening. Ever, have a great day. Hey, maybe

1580
01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:32.800
listen to some sermons today on Second King six and

1581
01:24:32.880 --> 01:24:36.319
just see how others handle it. Read that first seven

1582
01:24:36.439 --> 01:24:39.840
verses like multiple times, ask people you know in your family, Hey,

1583
01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:41.800
what would you do with this? What would you ask

1584
01:24:41.880 --> 01:24:43.880
friends you know on social media? Hey, what would you

1585
01:24:43.880 --> 01:24:45.600
do with this? What would you do with this text?

1586
01:24:45.720 --> 01:24:48.720
And just see what people say. If you have a

1587
01:24:48.720 --> 01:24:51.560
pastor you know, text the email, say hey how should

1588
01:24:51.560 --> 01:24:54.600
we interpret Second King chapter six? I just see what

1589
01:24:54.640 --> 01:24:57.279
they have to say, and then you can, well you

1590
01:24:57.319 --> 01:24:59.840
can come to your own conclusion. Thanks for listening everyone,

1591
01:24:59.840 --> 01:25:01.079
of great day, God bless