Oct. 14, 2024

The King Who Fell a Little Bit

The King Who Fell a Little Bit

A discussion about Kings and Kingdoms

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A discussion about Kings and Kingdoms

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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. Have you ever

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been in your car listening to a sermon? Right, You're

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in your car, you're just driving along, listening to your sermon,

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listening to a sermon that you've chosen. You're just thinking

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about it, and you're like, everything's going great. It's a

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nice drive. The sermon is going along. You're okay, oh yeah, okay,

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I know that scripture. Oh wait, I forgot that that

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was in that scripture. Okay, and then all of a sudden,

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the pastor says something and you almost wrecked the car.

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Almost you swerved across five lanes and through a fence,

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and you're like, how did what just happened? Because you

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cannot believe what you just heard. I mean, everything was

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going great. You're listening to a sermon, you're driving, it's peaceful,

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it's nice, you're thinking about scripture, you're thinking about the

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things of God. It's such a spiritual experience. And then

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all of a sudden, the pastor says something and you're like,

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what just happened? Now? Maybe, maybe, in fact, this is probable,

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this is most most likely. This is the way it

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works for most of you. This is what's probably most likely,

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most probable, is that most of you probably just like, oh, okay, whatever,

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well I disagree with that, and you probably don't have

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such a strong reaction. I have a tendency to be

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very dramatic in the way I respond to things. It

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doesn't matter if I'm reading a novel, it doesn't matter

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if I'm watching a movie. I have a tendency to

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yell back at the screen, talk to the book, pace,

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jump up and down. Yeah, I tend to be very dramatic.

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It comes across obviously in podcasting. Yes, so maybe most

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most likely, what's most probable for you is that you

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were like, oh, well, I don't know where you got

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that point, no big deal, and you just keep listening you.

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But for me, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

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no no. When I hear certain things, it's an entire production.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I almost wreck the car. I want

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to stop the car and just start pacing around the car,

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going what just happened? Why? Why? Why? Why why why?

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And I'm yelling at my device like why would you

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say that? Where did that come from? How did you

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come to that conclusion. Well, this morning, driving my car

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listening to a sermon, everything was going well until the

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pastor talked about a specific king and he described the

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king as good, but he just fell a little bit.

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He's a good king, but he just fell a little bit. Well,

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the king may have just fell a little bit according

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to this pastor, But I almost wrecked my car, not

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just a little bit, almost like I almost wanted to

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just drive into an oncoming semi and just say, forget this.

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I don't understand anymore. If if that is a good

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king who just fell a little bit, then I literally

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don't know how we judge anything as Christians, or how

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we judge anything scripturally. I really was a little bit baffled.

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So obviously, obviously it has bothered me enough that as

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soon as I have arrived back at my house, I

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have come right up here to the studio to turn

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on the microphone because we need to talk about So

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we're gonna talk about the king that fell a little bit,

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and we're gonna be reviewing some audio to get there

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to where this pastor describes the king that fell just

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a little bit. Yes, you may think you know where

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I'm going. You may be right, We're gonna talk about

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a lot of different things here in the audio that

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we're going to review. Obviously, I did not review the

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entire sermon, and because see that's an issue I have

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sometimes when I hear one thing, I can't go any further.

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I'm like, my brain's like, I've got to have a

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microphone and talk about this. So we're going to discuss it.

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We're going to talk about it. You can. The main

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thing is try to determine maybe why we see things

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this way. I think there's a lot of maybe there's

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a lot of points here we can make. But we

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will discuss all of that. But first let me go

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ahead and do this. Good morning everyone. It is Monday,

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October fourteenth, twenty twenty four. It is currently eleven forty

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four am Central Time, and I am coming to you

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live from the Theology Central Studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now,

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before we get to this sermon, before we get to

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the King who Fell a little bit, I do need

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to make a very important announcement. All right, Early this morning,

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I was contacted by our podcast hosting site, which is Spreaker.

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Spreaker notified me that I don't know starting when, I'd

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have to look at I don't know if they gave

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a date. I think they just said starting soon. They

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are no longer going to be uploading our content to YouTube.

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There's some YouTube has changed its policy, so no longer

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is my content going to be automatically uploaded to YouTube.

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Now there may be a way that I could then

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find a way to upload it. I do know that

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when I record, whenever I do a broadcast on the

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Sermon's two point oh app and Church One Sermon audio platform,

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there is an archived copy that's in a video format, right,

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I mean it's it's a video format. It's weird because

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it's not actual video, but it's in a video format.

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I could go to that, upload the video format to

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the Sermon's two point oh app the Church one app,

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then download it into as a video format, then delete

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it from that plat because there's no point in having

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the video file there when it's not actual video, then

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uploading it to YouTube. I have to make a decision

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if I want to put in all of that work

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and all of that effort simply to maintain the YouTube channel.

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Now I think we have more control. At one point,

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we didn't really even have any control. It was just

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our podcast hosting site just sending it to YouTube, and

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I didn't really have much control over it anyway. I

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don't spend a lot of time on YouTube. I don't

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really look at it. I try to respond to comments.

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I think most of the time I see them. Sometimes

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I don't. But I haven't done a lot of work

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on the platform itself, just you know, so I don't know.

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I don't know if we're going to keep it. So

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here's what I would tell anyone who listens to us

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via YouTube. Here's what I would tell you. You need

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to either download the Church one app, the Sermon's two

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point zero app, or any podcasting app out there. Anyone,

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it doesn't matter which podcasting app, look for Theology Central,

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and be prepared to start listening to us via the

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Church One app, Sermon's two point oh app, or a

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podcasting app. Because there is a I think, I'm going

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to say a high probability that YouTube is no longer

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going to exist. I don't know if I'm going to

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put forth that much work and effort just trying to

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get the content there, since YouTube is not even I mean,

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the YouTube numbers, they're not bad. But they're nowhere. I mean,

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they make up probably less than two or three percent

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of our total numbers, maybe around five percent, if that

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I mean they, I mean the numbers are decent considering

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we're on a video platform and we're not video. But

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I just don't know, you know, I know I'm gonna

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get I'm gonna get people who listen to me on YouTube. Well,

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I discovered you on YouTube. I do know. YouTube does

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serve as a you know, as a search basically. Some

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people use it as basically a web search function, and

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that's how they search for things, and they find things

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related to what they're looking for. I do understand that.

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I just I just don't know. I just don't know.

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If I want to put forth. Look, it's more work,

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it's more effort. Okay, So yes, I look, and I

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hate to sound this way, but I'm just going to

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be I'm gonna be somewhat blunt here for everyone who

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supports the ministry. I'm very grateful, very very grateful and

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thankful for everything, because basically, we've got just enough people

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right now that's basically covering the cost. We're doing pretty

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good with that, right Everything is is pretty good right

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now as far as covering the cost, and I am

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very grateful for that and thankful for that. But I'm

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just gonna be blot. It's not like I'm making any

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money off this, right, It's not like I'm you know,

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we're covering the cost. Right. So do I now dedicate

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more time, more effort, more energy simply so that I

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can maintain YouTube. When our content's available in every other

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platform on Earth, we will look and see if there

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are other ways to get it there. I think I

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think maybe Sermon's two point oh does allow it to be. Now,

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I think it only sends a preview. I don't think

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it sends directly the entire I think it'll send a

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preview video. It'll be like a clip to YouTube. I

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don't want that. So I'm gonna look and see. Maybe

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our pod page, I think they had a way to

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have things just sent directly to YouTube. I'm gonna look

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and see. But then it may have to be in

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a video format. If it has to be in a

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video format, yeah, So just if you listen to us

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on YouTube, you may want to start looking for other

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options if you, I mean, if you want to continue

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to listen. If you don't, then you know, hey, you've

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got a million things on YouTube listen to and watch.

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Obviously you don't need this broadcast, but I just want

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to give you a heads up. We will see, so

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that's what's going on. I will probably do an hire,

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just a dedicated episode about it so that people will

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see it, because if people don't listen to this, then

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they won't know. But I just know we do have

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some people who listen to us via YouTube exclusively, so

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I want them to at least know what's going on. Now,

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are you ready to get to the King who fell

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a little bit? I'm having a hard time even saying that. Well,

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so this morning I grabbed the sermon's two point oh

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app looked for the very first sermon I could find,

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and the first sermon that I could find was a

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sermon entitled A Contrast of Kingdoms, A Contrast of Kingdoms,

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And I'm like, well, that sounds interesting. Let's hit play,

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and well this is what I found. We're gonna we're

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gonna go through this kind of systematically. We're gonna it's

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gonna take a while. It's gonna take a little while

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before we get to the King who fell a little bit,

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but we'll discuss other things as we get there. All right,

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here we go.

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N let's turn to the Second Kings, and we're going

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to be in Second Kings fifteen. And you might also

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find Second Samuel in chapter number seven. So Second Kings,

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chapter number fifteen, we're going to read verses eight.

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Through twenty two.

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I was telling Kimberly this week that we're going to

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run through three kings today, you know, and I bet

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you can't guess whether they're considered good kings or not.

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But we're nearing the end of the nation of Israel,

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the Northern Kingdom in about fifty years. They're going to

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fall to Assyria. Six kings are going to reign during

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that fifty year period of time. Of course, none of

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them are good. So what we see from this is

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Israel is deteriorating rapidly. And so these three kings we're

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gonna look at today, Zacharai Shalom and men of him.

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And what we're gonna do is we're gonna.

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There's a contrast that's very evident between the Northern Kings

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and the Southern.

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Kings, and that.

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Okay, so he wants to draw a contrast, and I'm

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sorry for the audio. The original audio is so, I mean,

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it's not loud at all, and you can hear it

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sounds very muffled, almost like there's something over his microphone,

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like there's a shirders or a jacket over the microphone.

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Sounds very muffled. I went in and artificially increased the

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volume dramatically, and yet it still sounds that way. I apologize.

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But he's going to draw a contrast between the kings

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of the North and the kings of the South. Right, specifically,

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he's going to look at these three kings Zechariah, Shalom,

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and Menehem. Right, those are the three he's going to

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look at. They don't there's not a lot said about

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these three, but he's gonna look at them and draw

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a contrast. Now I'm going to put forth I'm gonna

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probably kind of somewhat go against his hypotheses. So I'll

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just go ahead and kind of throw this out there.

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are good, these kings are bad, all right, and so

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we're already making somewhat of a moral judgment good bad,

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good bad. But whenever the Bible, whenever the Bible, a pastor,

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a Christian. Whenever any of us we open our Bible,

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we say that person is good and that person is bad.

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How do we actually judge them? Right? I think when

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the Bible says these are good and these are bad?

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Are they good and bad based off action? Are they

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good and bad based off faith? Abraham Abram was to

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clar to be righteous because he believed Abram could not

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necessarily be declared to be righteous by his actions. Right.

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I think we would see some of his actions and

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go that man had some problems. Agreed or not. That's

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the argument I'm going to put forth. And so I

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think when you draw this contrast between the kings of

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the North and the kings of the South. We sometimes

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draw the contrast as these were good and these were evil.

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think if we have to look at it from a

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much deeper way, and I will discuss this in greater detail.

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So he's like, these kings are bad, these kings were

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not good? Right, But is it going to be we're

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basing it purely off action, purely off action, I don't

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know what. I don't think we can look at it

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in such a surface level. I think we have to

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look at it in a deeper way. So we will

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look at it. Well, I'm gonna let him go a

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little bit, and then we're just gonna cover a whole

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lot of different issues and hopefully this will be beneficial. Again,

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fifteen three kings, and he's already made I mean, I mean,

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from his perspective, all these kings are good, are bad, evil,

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and they're not good. All right, let's see how he

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lineage to David, they all except Atheliah, but they all

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can trace their lineage through David. Over Here in Israel

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there is no lineage. And so that's where we're going.

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I think, now I am I love the act, if

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I can speak correctly. I love the fact that he

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brings this up. This is a very critical point.

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I don't think he we may we may depart in

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our understanding of this, but to me, this is critical

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when you consider the kings of the North, they cannot

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trace their lineage directly back to David. But in the South,

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I think almost every king of Judah, he mentions one

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that he says, you can't, but almost all the kings

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of Judah can trace their lineage back to David. That

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is very important, right, very important, because maybe the contrast

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between these kings is their their their lineage being traced

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to David. Why because there is a specific covenant made

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with David. Maybe one side, maybe one side we'll say

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the Southern Kingdom Judah. Maybe that side is perceived concealed

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good more because of sovereign grace based off a covenant

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made with David and the Northern Kingdom. We see Gods

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not sovereignly giving them their grace and are giving them grace,

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giving them His grace and mercy because their lineage is

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not connected to David, so they're not part of that

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covenant promise. In other words, do we see when we

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see the contrast of the Southern and Northern Kingdom, Are

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we seeing the contrast of God's sovereign grace? Not so much?

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Of these guys are good and these guys are bad.

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I know it's typically preached that way, but maybe there's

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something deeper going on. The distinction between the South and

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the North is one set of kings. Their lineage goes

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to David, and there's a specific covenant made with David.

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the dividic covenant talking about this. On the other side

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of the Northern Kingdom doesn't go to David. They're not

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part of that covenant promise. So the contrast between the two,

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if you want to say one is good and one

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is evil, one is good due to God's sovereign grace

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and covenant promise, and the other side is considered evil

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because God does not give them his sovereign grace, which

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goes to the idea that God will have mercy and

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whom he will have mercy, and he will judge whom

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he will judge, which is found in scripture, which we

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will discuss a little bit more So, I love the

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fact that he brings this up. This side can trace

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its lineage to David, the other side cannot. That to me,

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I think is absolutely critical to this. All right, let's

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see what he does.

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With it, and let's.

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kings that we're going to look at today. Second kings

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fifteen to eight. In the thirty and eighth year of

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as a Hi, king of Judah, did Zachari the son

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of Jeroboam, reign over Israel in Samaria six months. And

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he did that which was evil in the sight of

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the Lord, as his father's had done. He departed not

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from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Niebak, who

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made Israel a sin. And Shalam, the son of Jabesh,

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conspired against him and smote him before the people and

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slew him and reigned in his stead. And the rest

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of the acts of Zacharai behold, they are written in

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the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

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This was the word of the Lord, which he.

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Spake unto Jaehus, saying, my sons shall sit on the

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throne of Israel under the fourth generation.

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Shalam, the son of Jabash, began to reign in the

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nine and thirtieth year of Isaiah, king of Judah, and

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he reigned a full month in Samaria.

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Went up from Tearza, and came to Samaria and smote

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Shalem the son of Jabash in Samaria and slew him

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and reign in his stead. And the rest of the

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acts of Shalem and his see which he made behold,

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they were written in the book of the Chronicles of

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the Kings of Israel. Then Menahem smote Tiffsa and all

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that were therein and the coast thereof from Terza, because

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they opened not to him. Therefore he smote it. And

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take note of this, and all the women therein that

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were with child. He ripped up. In the nine and

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thirtieth year of Azariah, king of Judah, began Menahem, the

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son of Goddi, to reign over Israel, and reigned ten

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years in Samaria. And that was his evil in the

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side of the Lord. He departed not from. He departed

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not all his days from the sins of Jerebon, the

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son of Nibat, who made Israel to sin and pull.

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The king of Assyria came against the land, and Menaheim

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gave pool a thousand talents of silver that his hand

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might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

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the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels

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of silver to give to the King of Assyria. So

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the King of Assyria turned back and stayed not there

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in the and the rest of acts of Minehem and

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all that he did, are they not written in the

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books of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. And

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Minihem slept with his fathers, and Pekahaiah, his son, reigned

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in his stead. So I want you to notice here

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the brevity of the record of these kings.

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to drive home this point that these kings, it's very brief,

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the account of these kings, and he feels that that's

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very significant. And the reason he feels that's very significant

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is because he's listening to some teacher or preacher who

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says it's very significant. Well, we'll discuss whether we think

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it's significant or not significant here in a minute, but

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I will say this this sermon. One positive thing from

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it is good. He draws a great distinction between the

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two kingdoms, the kings of the North, not from the

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lineage of David kings of the South, or from the

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lineage of David. I think that's absolutely critical showing the

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difference between these two is covenant and God's sovereign grace.

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I'm gonna make that a major issue, Okay, and we'll

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get back to that. So that's already a positive thing. Great,

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I'm already grateful for it. Second, it gets us into

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Second King's chapter fifteen. I don't know when the last

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time you read Second King's chapter fifteen, or the last

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time you did any intensive study of Second King's chapter fifteen,

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but I think this just then, we'll use this today

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to say, hey, this week for the Sermon's two point oh,

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the Sermon's two point oh sermon app sermon challenge, just

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what you need to do for the Sermon's two point

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oh sermon app challenge. Here's what you need to do

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is you need to look up random sermons on Second

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King's chapter fifteen. Spend some spend some time this week

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looking up random sermons on the sermon's two point oh

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app on Second King's chapter fifteen. Again, don't worry about

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the type of church. Just do a search Second Kings fifteen.

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Just look for sermons and start listening. Because why and

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the main reason is most likely if someone was to

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ask you about these three kings most likely, Yeah, I

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think this would be fair. You probably don't know much

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about them. You probably you may not know anything about them.

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week working on these three kings, Azariah, Zechariah, and Shalem. Well, actually,

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I'm sorry, Zechariah. Okay, Zechariah because he starts in second King.

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If we go through all of them, then we have

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Azariah Second Kings fifteen one, Zechariah second King's fifteen eight,

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fifteen verse sixteen. So actually, and then if you go well,

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we could go to Peck and Ayah as well, but

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just all of these kings, not just the three he's mentioned,

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but all of them. You probably know very little about them.

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So just make it a second Kings fifteen week. That's

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what we'll do, and maybe we'll review other sermons on this.

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So already this sermon has been beneficial. It's reminded us

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that the kings of Israe world I do not have

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a direct lineage to David, the kings of Judah do.

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All right, awesome, that connects them to covenant. I believe

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it connects them to God's sovereign grace, all right, So

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I think that's important. Second, it gets us into Second

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Kings fifteen, which probably has been neglected in your spiritual life,

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probably been neglected in my spiritual life. So we can

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do a little work this week in Second King's fifteen.

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So already the sermon is great, it's beneficial. But obviously

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at some point as I was listening to this, I

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almost wrecked the car. All right, So we'll get to

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the point where I almost wrecked the car. But for now,

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let's keep listening, and let's see. He's now going to

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draw that when you look at Zechariah, Shalom, and Menahem,

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there's not a lot there, and he sees that as

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being very, very significant. So the question we would have

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really is the amount of scripture devoted to each king

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in the Bible? Is it seen should it be seen

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as being significant? Now should we also consider the context

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and the purpose of the biblical narrative and interpreting that significance.

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I think there are some points to consider when we

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consider the how much material is dedicated to a king.

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Do we immediately say it's significant or is there do

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we have to consider context, do we have to consider

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the purpose of the narrative? What should we On one hand,

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we should notice it, right because as a Bible student,

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observation is the key. So we should observe there's not

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much set about this king. There's a lot said about

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that one. That's observation. Now what do we do with

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that observation. Do we read significance and to it or

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do we find that their significance clearly shown in it?

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That's well, let's see what he does with it.

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I mean when it comes to Zachariah five verses, Shallum

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four verses, Minehem six verses. Now their reiins are a

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little bit different. I mean, you know, Zachariah six months,

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Shalom one month, Menahem, how about ten years? But still

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a very limited amount of scripture is given to them.

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So this is a contrast. There's a contrast between these

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closing kings of Israel and the kings of Judah, the

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beginning of the kings of Judah. So when you think

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about David, when David became the king, all of Second Samuel,

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the entire book of Second Samuel is dedicated to David.

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Is that more than four or five verses. That's a

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lot more than four or five verses. Right When you

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get to Solomon, his son, he gets eleven chapters, still

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quite a bit delving into the life of Solomon.

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they obviously they're getting chapters, chapters of information, right, chapters

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of information, or these other kings only get a few

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What could be some possible reasons for it? Right now,

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00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:20.920
I don't want to read into it, but I'm just

461
00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:24.319
saying from a textual basis, Well, I mean, did Saul

462
00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:26.559
get a lot of chapters? I think there's a lot

463
00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:29.839
of chapters to Saul, right David, I think he gets

464
00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:32.240
a lot of chapters, and Solomon gets a lot of chapters.

465
00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:35.240
What could be some reasons? Well, first, those are the

466
00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:39.119
kings of the United Kingdom, right right, This is them

467
00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:42.640
moving necessarily from just a kind of almost a pure

468
00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:46.640
theocracy to a theocratic monarchy. Right. So I think there's

469
00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:49.400
a reason why you would get more information. Obviously, you

470
00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:52.400
know why you would probably get more information from David, right,

471
00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.960
the Davidic Covenant Christ coming from the line of David.

472
00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:00.680
I think you can see why that could be pretty significant, correct.

473
00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:04.119
I think you could see why Solomon's connection to David.

474
00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:07.240
I think you could see why, right. I think you

475
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:10.680
could see possible reasons. Once you get into the list

476
00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:12.799
of the of the kings of the North, they're not

477
00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:17.359
even connected to David from their lineage. Now, the kings

478
00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:20.240
are much more common because you've got the divided kingdom

479
00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:23.119
and you've got kings on both sides. So I think

480
00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:27.039
you could see just from a historical contextual reason and

481
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:31.039
from you know, prophetic reasons, why some of these other

482
00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:35.440
kings would not quite get the same amount of attention.

483
00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:39.000
I think that I think that would be fair, right,

484
00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:40.880
I mean you can you can draw your own conclusion.

485
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:44.000
Let's see what he says, and.

486
00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:46.480
Let's also remember, as we go back to Second Samuel

487
00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:51.599
in chap number seven, what was the promise that David

488
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:57.440
received concerning Solomony's son. Second Samuel seven, reading verses twelve

489
00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:01.160
and thirteen, it says, and when thy day's be fulfilled,

490
00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:03.319
and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set

491
00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:06.119
up thy seat after thee which shall proceed out.

492
00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:08.920
Of the bios, and I will establish his kingdom.

493
00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:11.000
He shall build an house for my name, and I

494
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.119
will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. So what

495
00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:18.000
don't we know about the promise to the lineage of David,

496
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:21.200
the lineage of David. There's going to be a king

497
00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:26.400
from the line of David set upon the throne forever. Now,

498
00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:28.920
as you run through Judah and you look at all

499
00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:33.160
of those kings, they all trace their lineage back to David.

500
00:29:35.400 --> 00:29:39.039
And I think that's very important. Right, So any kings,

501
00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:43.400
any king that's lineage is drawn back to David, I think,

502
00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:47.079
are going to play somewhat more significance. Why. Well, because

503
00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:51.440
it's demonstrating the fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant, correct, Right,

504
00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:54.799
And then you have another reason of following that lineage

505
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:58.359
careful and maybe a little bit more detail, is because

506
00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:02.759
of the prophetic signals efficants of ultimately Christ's coming. Right.

507
00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:09.279
So I think that you could see some reasons why right. Okay,

508
00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:11.920
I'm glad he's bringing he's bringing up all of these

509
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:15.640
very important issues, right, the kings of Judah lineage, He's

510
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:18.480
brought up the Dividic covenant. These are all great things.

511
00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:20.640
These are all great things. But let's see where this goes.

512
00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:27.319
Would you talk about the historical record in the scripture,

513
00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:31.680
though the scriptural record again David's second Samuel, the entire

514
00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:41.000
book Solomon, eleven chapters. But what about what about these

515
00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:44.960
other guys a few verses, So one of the guys

516
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:47.519
that I've been looking to, listening to and studying after

517
00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:52.119
they make mention of when reading narratives, there's some things

518
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:56.079
to pay attention to when reading a narrative. When the

519
00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:01.279
author slows down, you need to pay attention that he's

520
00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:07.839
slowing down. He's he's not he's slowing down his narrative discussion.

521
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:10.480
There's some things he wants you to take note of.

522
00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:12.799
And when he speeds up.

523
00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:16.759
His narrative, there's a reason why he doesn't have a

524
00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:19.480
whole lot to say. And so there's a point here,

525
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.599
just by the volume of the verses that you have

526
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:30.519
given to David, Solomon, zacharaih Shaloman Menahem, there's a there's

527
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:35.400
a huge contrast between the writer of first Kings and

528
00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:38.599
the amount of material that the scripture gives to David

529
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:41.079
and Solomon and the amount of material that is given

530
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:44.519
to these kings. There's something to pay attention to.

531
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:46.240
And we want to.

532
00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:48.920
Remember now that that the Book of First and Second

533
00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:51.519
Kings is not a biographical record.

534
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:54.759
It's not a history book of all that went on

535
00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:59.119
in Israel. As a matter of fact, you often read.

536
00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:02.480
This at the end of of one of these kings' lives,

537
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:06.319
like verse fifteen back in Second Kings fifteen and the

538
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.680
rest of the acts of Shalom in his conspiracy which

539
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:11.119
he made behold, they are written in the book of

540
00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:13.440
the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. So there is

541
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:19.319
a history book that tells a more intricate detail of

542
00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:21.079
the life of these kings.

543
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:25.559
But it's not scriptural. The author of scripture is making

544
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:26.599
a point.

545
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:31.279
He's making a point that David, you know, we need

546
00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:32.480
to pay attention to David.

547
00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:35.599
He's a man after God's own heart.

548
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:40.559
Even Solomon, he's a good king, even though he fails

549
00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:41.720
a little bit. Pay attention.

550
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:49.440
Okay, that's where I almost wrecked the car. That's where

551
00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:52.839
I almost wrecked the car. All right. So there's a

552
00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:55.720
lot of information about David. There's a lot of information

553
00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:58.720
about Solomon, because David was a man after God's own heart,

554
00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:02.839
and Solomon was a good king who fell a little bit.

555
00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:09.160
And I'm like, what in the name of bubblegum is

556
00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:14.000
going on right here. Solomon was a good king who

557
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:17.319
fell a little bit. So we'll get back to that

558
00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:20.559
in just a second. But let's deal with this the

559
00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:27.720
amount of content, right, Well, no, actually, let's do this.

560
00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:29.960
Let's do this. I want to get to but let's

561
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:34.079
get to I mean, come on, can we ignore it?

562
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:35.720
I don't think we can annoy it. Let's just get

563
00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:38.279
to the Solomon part. Right, Let's get to the Solomon part.

564
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:42.759
Solomon was a king who fell a little bit. This

565
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:48.759
was absolutely staggering to me. This was absolutely staggering to me.

566
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:50.960
So I had to do a little work here and

567
00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:54.960
compile all of the sins and all of the failures

568
00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:58.720
of Solomon. All right, so his thing is, okay, look

569
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:02.079
more spaces get into David and Solomon. Now he's almost

570
00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:05.279
implying because they were good. It's almost the implication. I'm

571
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.440
not saying that's what he's saying explicitly, but it's kind

572
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:11.039
of like, hey, there's more content given to these guys. Why, Well,

573
00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:13.719
David was a man after God's own heart and Solomon

574
00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:16.960
was a good king who just fell a little bit. Now,

575
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:23.239
I don't think they're supposed characteristic their character or their

576
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:27.320
attributes is the cause of how much space is dedicated

577
00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:31.719
to them. I don't think that that's the case. But

578
00:34:31.800 --> 00:34:34.239
even if you go with that case, can we really

579
00:34:34.559 --> 00:34:39.079
refer to Solomon from a practical human standpoint as a

580
00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:43.320
good king who fell a little bit? Because I guarantee you,

581
00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:47.360
if we were speaking of anyone in twenty twenty four

582
00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:51.960
who was supposedly a believer in God, a believer in

583
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.559
Christ who did the thing Solomon did, we would not

584
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:58.000
say he was good, and we would not say he

585
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:01.960
fell a little bit. We would probably be crucifying him,

586
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:06.679
at least verbally, at least with all of the podcasts

587
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:09.719
and videos being made about the man. Let's just go.

588
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:12.440
Are you ready to go through everything Solomon did? Are

589
00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:17.679
you ready? He married foreign wives? All right? This is

590
00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:22.119
a violation of Deuteronomy chapter seven, verses three through four.

591
00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:27.159
He married foreign wives Deuteronomy seven, three through four. He's

592
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:30.400
violating that scripture. So that means you can't say this

593
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.360
is an opinion, it's actual sin. This happens in First Kings,

594
00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:38.360
chapter eleven, verses one through three. Solomon married many foreign

595
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:42.119
women from nations that God had explicitly commanded that Israelites

596
00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:46.760
not to intermarry with these nations included Moab Ammon, eat

597
00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:53.840
them side on and hit tight tribes. This God had

598
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:57.679
commanded in Deuteronomy seven three through four that israel should

599
00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:01.559
not intermarry with foreign nations because they would lead the

600
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:05.400
Israelites away from God to worship foreign gods. Solomon's foreign

601
00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:08.519
wives turned his heart after other gods, causing him to

602
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:12.719
stray from his exclusive devotion to Yahweh. So he violated

603
00:36:12.760 --> 00:36:15.320
Deuteronomy seven three through four. I want you to write

604
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:22.000
the now. Solomon explicitly violated Deuteronomy seven seven, verses three

605
00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:24.800
through four. He married four and wives. And he didn't

606
00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:27.880
just marry one. He didn't just marry two. He didn't

607
00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:35.719
just marry three. He didn't just marry four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Okay,

608
00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:42.079
he married hundreds. So it's like he violated it once,

609
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:46.519
then twice, then three times. He violated it hundreds of times.

610
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:50.719
Wasn't a one time thing, wasn't a five year thing.

611
00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:58.719
It was a lifetime thing. Number two idolatry. He violates

612
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:03.039
Exodus chapter twenty, verses three through five and Deuteronomy chapter five,

613
00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:06.199
verses seven through nine, Where does he do this? And

614
00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:10.280
First Kings eleven four through eight. As Solomon grew older,

615
00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:16.519
his foreign wives led him to worship their gods, including Asterith, Milcom,

616
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:19.639
and Kemash, and I can go all the other gods.

617
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:23.119
He even built high places and altars for these gods.

618
00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.480
He worshiped multiple gods and even built altars for them.

619
00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:32.000
This is First Kings eleven four through eight. This violates

620
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:35.440
the first and second Commandment, which requires exclusive worship of

621
00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:39.639
Yahweh and forbids idolatry. Solomon turned to idle worship and

622
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:45.000
marked a significant departure from his faithfulness to God. He listen,

623
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:48.719
he was. He married foreign wives, which is a direct

624
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:52.559
violation of scripture. He violated the first and second commandments

625
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:57.599
and becoming an idolatr. But he just fell a little bit.

626
00:37:57.679 --> 00:38:01.360
He just supposedly fell a little bit. Number three, he

627
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:05.840
amassed great wealth and horses. This is a violation of

628
00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:11.000
Deuteronomy seventeen verses sixteen through seventeen. This is a violation

629
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:16.320
of Deuteronomy seventeen, verses sixteen through seventeen. Solomon amassed extraordinary wealth,

630
00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:19.960
including gold, silver, and horses, and quantities that went far

631
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:23.440
beyond what was needed for the kingdom. He imported horses

632
00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:28.360
from Egypt and accumulated vast treasures and Deuteronomy seventeen, verses

633
00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:32.039
sixteen through seventeen. God warned Israel's kings not to accumulate

634
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:35.719
large amounts of wealth, horses, or wives, as these could

635
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:38.840
lead them away from reliance on God. Solomon disobeyed this

636
00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:43.320
command by indulging in all three wealth, horses, and women.

637
00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:48.320
He had violated all three. So what did Solomon do again?

638
00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:51.000
He was just referred to as a good king who

639
00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:55.599
fell a little bit. Number one, he married foreign wives,

640
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:59.239
a direct violation of Deuteronomy seven three through four. Number

641
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:04.280
two idolatry, a direct violation of Exodus chapter twenty, verses

642
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:07.599
three through five. Deuteronomy chapter five, verses seven through nine.

643
00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:13.559
He was an idolatry, and he even he He even

644
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:19.719
built high places and altars to these false gods. Number three,

645
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:23.199
he amassed great wealth and horses, which is a direct

646
00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:27.679
violation of Deuteronomy seventeen sixteen through seventeen. He were given

647
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.199
specific commands that the Israel's kings were not to do this,

648
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:32.760
so he indulged in three things. He was told not

649
00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:38.480
to wealth horses and wives direct violation Number four. Excessive

650
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:44.360
building projects and forced labor violation of Deuteronomy twenty four,

651
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:48.679
verses fourteen through fifteen. Where does this happen? This happens

652
00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:52.639
in First Kings Chapter five, verses thirteen through eighteen, Chapter nine,

653
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:57.800
verse fifteen through twenty two. Solomon undertook massive building projects,

654
00:39:57.840 --> 00:40:00.719
including the construction of the Temple, his own palace, and

655
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:04.559
various fortifications. To accomplish this, he imposed force labor on

656
00:40:04.679 --> 00:40:09.440
the Israelites and other people. While building the temple was

657
00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:12.599
ordained by God. Solomon's use of forced labor and the

658
00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:16.400
heavy burden he placed on the people to lead to unrest.

659
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:20.400
The exploitation of the people violated the principle of justice

660
00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:24.000
and compassion and the Mosaic law. Mosaic law, including the

661
00:40:24.079 --> 00:40:27.400
requirement to treat workers fairly. This is Deuteronomy twenty four

662
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:31.599
fourteen through fifteens and also foreshadowed the eventual division of

663
00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:35.079
the kingdom due to Solomon's harsh policies and First Kings

664
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:40.519
Chapter twelve, So number four. Basically, his forced labor was

665
00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:44.760
a violation of Deuteronomy twenty four fourteen through fifteen, but

666
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.559
he supposedly was a good king who just fell a

667
00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:52.079
little bit. Number five pride and self glorification. This is

668
00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:56.119
a violation of Proverbs sixteen eighteen. Where does this occur?

669
00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:59.679
This occurs in First Kings Chapter ten eighteen through twenty.

670
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:04.719
Second Chronicles nine seventeen through nineteen. Solomon's wealth, power, and

671
00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:08.480
accomplishment eventually led to a sense of pride and self glorification.

672
00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:13.239
He built a magnificent throne for himself, adorned with gold

673
00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.559
and ivy, and surrounded himself with splendor that reflected his

674
00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:21.800
own glory rather than God's. Pride is consistently condemned in scripture.

675
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:26.400
Pride goes before destruction. Solomon's self glorification contributed to his

676
00:41:26.440 --> 00:41:29.639
spiritual downfall, as it distracted him from reliance on God

677
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:34.119
and obedience to commands. So I mean, do we need

678
00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:36.559
to go through all of these again? He married foreign wives,

679
00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:40.440
a direct violation of Deuteronomy seven through chapter seven, verses

680
00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:46.199
three through four. Idolatry worshiped idyls, built high places and

681
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:49.639
altars to these idols, a direct violation of Exodus chapter twenty,

682
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:52.719
verses three through five and Deuteronomy five, seven through nine.

683
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.519
Number three. He amassed wealth and horses, a violation of

684
00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:59.519
Deuteronomy seventeen sixteen through seventeen. Then there was excessive building

685
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:02.679
projects with forced labor, a direct violation of Deuteronomy twenty

686
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:05.920
four fourteen through fifteen. Number five. There was pride and

687
00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:09.719
self glorification, which is a violation of Proverbs sixteen eighteen

688
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:14.559
number six. He tolerated false worship, This is a violation

689
00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:19.159
of Exodus thirty four, verses twelve through sixteen. In addition

690
00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:24.519
to participating in idolatry himself, Solomon tolerated and facilitated the

691
00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:28.000
worship of foreign gods by his wives and others in Israel.

692
00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:31.199
He allowed the construction of shrines and alters two false

693
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:34.320
gods within the land. The Law of Moses commended Israel's

694
00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:37.159
kings to remove any trace of idolatry from the land

695
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:41.639
Exodus thirty four, twelve through sixteen. By allowing idolatry to

696
00:42:41.679 --> 00:42:45.159
flourish in Israel, Solomon directly violated the command, and it

697
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:48.599
weakened the nation's covenant relationship with God. So, I mean,

698
00:42:48.679 --> 00:42:51.199
we're up to six things that he's done wrong. We

699
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:54.760
still have more to go. But he was a good

700
00:42:54.840 --> 00:43:00.440
king who just fell a little bit number seven, failing

701
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:03.280
to remain fully devoted to God. This is a violation

702
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:06.679
of Deuteronomy chapter six, verse five. We see about this

703
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:10.199
in First Kings eleven four. As Solomon age, his heart

704
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:13.559
was not fully devoted to the Lord his God. This

705
00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:16.519
is First King's eleven four. His spiritual decline was marked

706
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:20.719
by a gradual distancing from God. The greatest commandment in

707
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:22.440
the laws to love the Lord your God with all

708
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:25.119
your heart, with all your solom, with all your mind

709
00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:28.920
Deuteronomy sixty five. Solomon's failure to maintain wholehearted devotion to

710
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.800
God was a fundamental breach of this command, which led

711
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:35.679
to other sins. So he failed to remain fully devoted

712
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:40.039
to God. Number eight. I'm telling you it's crazy. All

713
00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:43.679
the things Solomon did wrong. He disregarded God's warnings. First

714
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:47.119
Kings chapter nine, verses six through nine. After the dedication

715
00:43:47.199 --> 00:43:49.719
of the temple, God warned Solomon that if he or

716
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:52.639
his descendants turned away from following him, the temple would

717
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:56.199
be destroyed and Israel would be exiled. Despite this clear warning,

718
00:43:56.280 --> 00:44:01.400
Solomon did not heed it and continued in disobedience. It

719
00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:05.679
was a perpetual, lifelong disobedience. It happened year after year

720
00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:10.440
after year after year. This is again a violation of

721
00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:15.119
a First Kings nine, six through nine. All right, and

722
00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:19.599
then wait, there was more. So that's that's eight. Here's

723
00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:23.159
number nine. All right, you're ready, here's number nine. Polygamy.

724
00:44:23.480 --> 00:44:27.199
This was a violation of Deuteronomy seventeen seventeen. Where does

725
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:32.360
this occur? First Kings eleven three. Solomon had seven hundred

726
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:36.760
wives and three hundred concubines. Polygamy and Israel, though practiced

727
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:39.440
by some figures in the Old Testament, was never presented

728
00:44:39.440 --> 00:44:42.679
as God's ideal for marriage. God's ideal for marriage is

729
00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:45.440
given in Genesis two, with one man is to be

730
00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:50.440
united to one woman and a lifelong covenant. Deuteronomy seventeen

731
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:55.079
seventeen explicitly commands that israel kings shall not acquire many wives,

732
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:58.920
lest their hearts be turned away. Solomon's many wives, especially

733
00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:01.159
those from foreign nations, or the direct cause of his

734
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:05.000
spiritual downfall, leading him into idolatry and disobedience to God.

735
00:45:05.239 --> 00:45:09.920
His excessive polygamy violated God's commands for kings and disrupted

736
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:13.000
the covenant faithfulness required of him as a leader. So

737
00:45:13.079 --> 00:45:19.000
he was a serial polygamist all right. Next, he was

738
00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:23.440
a serial adulterer. This is a violation of Exodus chapter

739
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:27.920
twenty verse fourteen. Right, this is a violation of Exodus

740
00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:31.440
chapter twenty verse fourteen. Where does this happen? First Kings,

741
00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:35.960
Chapter eleven, verses one through three. Now, while Solomon may

742
00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:38.280
not have committed adultery in the sense of taking another

743
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:42.400
man's wife, the sheer number of his wives and concubines,

744
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:45.599
along with his engagement in sexual relations outside of the

745
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:49.599
bonds of a singular covenant marriage, amounts to serial adultery.

746
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:56.280
His relationship with concubines were particularly problematic and as disinvolved

747
00:45:56.400 --> 00:46:01.199
sexual relations without the full covenantal commitment of marriage. So

748
00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:06.519
basically he's violating the seventh Commandment. So Solomon's excessive polygamy

749
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:11.880
and relationship with concubines represent both serial adultery and serial polygamy.

750
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:16.199
That's all the things Solomon was doing. We probably could

751
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:19.920
even find a little bit more. But yet we were

752
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:24.239
just told he was a good king who fell a

753
00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:33.199
little bit, A good king who fell a little bit. Now,

754
00:46:33.239 --> 00:46:36.679
come on, now, why do we do that? Why do

755
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:41.639
we do that? What is it inside of us? As believers?

756
00:46:41.639 --> 00:46:44.360
Sometimes to go to the bar it's so weird. We'll

757
00:46:44.400 --> 00:46:49.039
treat someone in front of us. We'll treat someone we

758
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:52.760
hear about in modern times in our lifetime, and we

759
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.679
will treat them like we'll brand them with the scarlet letter.

760
00:46:55.920 --> 00:46:59.159
We'll throw them out of everything. We say they're disqualified

761
00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:04.199
from basically doing anything because they committed a sin. Yet

762
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:06.320
when it comes to Solomon, well he was a good

763
00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:10.000
king who just fell a little bit, fell a little

764
00:47:10.039 --> 00:47:15.320
bit a thousand women and he just fell a little

765
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:20.599
bit and idolatry. He just fell a little bit forced labor,

766
00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:25.519
but he just fell a little bit pride, self, glorification.

767
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:28.039
But he just fell a little bit. I mean, I

768
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:31.719
mean amassing wealth and all the things he was not.

769
00:47:32.039 --> 00:47:35.960
Just fell a little bit a loud idolatry. I mean

770
00:47:36.239 --> 00:47:40.480
he just was violating. He's violating specific commands, was warned

771
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:46.199
and didn't even listen. Yet he just fell a little bit. Well,

772
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:49.320
ladies and gentlemen, if Solomon just fell a little bit,

773
00:47:49.559 --> 00:47:54.440
the next time you hear of someone in Christianity doing something,

774
00:47:54.599 --> 00:47:57.320
I want you to say, well, you know, if Solomon

775
00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:00.519
just fell a little bit, can this this this sin

776
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:07.159
doesn't even register on a scale? Okay, can anybody's sin

777
00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:10.280
come close to being that which is Solomon. And yet

778
00:48:11.760 --> 00:48:14.800
even though Solomon was committing all of this sin early on,

779
00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:18.360
he started amassing wives early on, he started committing polygamy

780
00:48:18.599 --> 00:48:22.199
early on, right, so early on he was not following

781
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:25.840
God's you know, we talk about God's plan for marriage.

782
00:48:25.960 --> 00:48:30.519
Solomon was making an absolute mockery of God's plan for marriage.

783
00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:34.119
He was literally saying I can do whatever I want. Right,

784
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:41.960
and yet he starts that early. Yet we open our

785
00:48:41.960 --> 00:48:44.400
bibles and say a proverb a day, we'll keep the

786
00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:50.840
devil away. Oh, the Song of Solomon, what a beautiful book.

787
00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:55.360
And the Book of Ecclesiastes. Now people will try to say,

788
00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:59.960
well he wrote those three books are all being written

789
00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:02.840
during his time of sin. There's no way to get

790
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:11.400
around it. Wait, wait a minute, wait a minute, why

791
00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:16.880
how does that even work? But he was a good king,

792
00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:21.840
he fell a little bit. David was a man after

793
00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:24.480
God's own heart. Now look, I understand you can see.

794
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:27.599
But these men are viewed in scripture as being good.

795
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:30.599
Are they being viewed as being good based off their life?

796
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:33.679
Are they being view good because they believed in God

797
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:38.039
and that was accounted unto them as righteousness? Are they

798
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:42.960
not examples really of imputed righteousness in spite of their

799
00:49:43.840 --> 00:49:52.480
moral fellings? So, therefore, is this an example of God's

800
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:56.079
sovereign grace being shown well to the kings of Judah

801
00:49:56.239 --> 00:49:59.639
because God was going to preserve Judah because there was

802
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:06.079
prophetic reason to preserve them, because there would come the Messiah.

803
00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:10.000
But yet he preserved that line of sinful men based

804
00:50:10.039 --> 00:50:14.280
off sovereign grace. Is that really the message we should

805
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:17.639
obtain from this? Let's see where he goes at that point,

806
00:50:17.719 --> 00:50:19.440
I almost wrecked up. The car went off the road,

807
00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:21.320
I flipped it three times, okay, and I got out,

808
00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:22.199
like what just happened?

809
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:22.440
Right?

810
00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:25.760
Okay? Let's see. I don't remember anything after this because

811
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:27.360
you know, I blacked out. Okay, maybe that's a little

812
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:29.840
bit hyperbole, but I was just like of all the

813
00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:32.000
kings in the Bible, you said more good and just

814
00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:35.360
fell a little bit. And here's what I want you

815
00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:38.840
to think about. I want you to compare Solomon. I

816
00:50:38.880 --> 00:50:41.599
went through all of that, right, I went through all

817
00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:42.880
of it. You mean to go through all of those

818
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:49.360
sins again? Marrying foreign wives, idolatry, amassing wealth and horses,

819
00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:53.960
excessive building projects, and forced labor, pride and self glorification,

820
00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:57.559
tolerating false worship, failing to remain fully devoted to God,

821
00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:05.719
disregarding God's warning, a serial polygamist, and a serial adulterer. Now,

822
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:09.119
I want you to take all that Solomon did and

823
00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:11.599
I want you to compare it unto these other kings

824
00:51:12.119 --> 00:51:14.440
that are getting ready to be mentioned here. I think

825
00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:25.760
we're in Second Kings chapter fifteen. Right, Zechariah, Shalom, and Menahem.

826
00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:29.639
Now why is it that their sins are seen as

827
00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:35.920
very different than the sins of David and Solomon. Now

828
00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:39.159
what people will do, they will look for some practical Well,

829
00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:43.360
it's because of this? Was it because of this? Because

830
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:44.840
a lot of times we say it's because of this,

831
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.000
and we don't really have any record of that. Here's

832
00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:49.599
what I know. There was sin, sin, sin sin. Why

833
00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:52.199
is that sin viewed differently than that sin? Is it

834
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:55.199
because of God's sovereign grace? Is this more about God's

835
00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:58.039
sovereignty than it is anything else. Let's see how He's

836
00:51:58.079 --> 00:51:58.880
going to handle this.

837
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:05.920
These guys, you know, there's not much to them.

838
00:52:06.800 --> 00:52:10.760
So again, there's more history that could be written about

839
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:14.960
these guys. But we want to remember the reason the

840
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:19.159
writer wrote the Book of Kings. He wrote the Book

841
00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:24.559
of Kings to the captives in exile. They're saying, how

842
00:52:24.599 --> 00:52:27.880
did we get in exile? Well, just look at the

843
00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:31.199
kings at the end of the history of the nation

844
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:36.239
of Israel, and he's pretty evident they're pretty wicked men.

845
00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:38.960
They've turned away from God.

846
00:52:41.639 --> 00:52:45.480
See, now, how did we get into exile? They were wicked,

847
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:48.679
they turned away from God. Well, wait a minute, are

848
00:52:48.679 --> 00:52:51.920
you telling me Solomon? See but in his mind, see

849
00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:56.079
Solomon was good. What now? I looked up at least

850
00:52:56.119 --> 00:53:01.079
one source and it said there is a tension and

851
00:53:01.119 --> 00:53:04.360
how the kings of Israel and Judah are judged, especially

852
00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:07.039
in light of the fact that even righteous kings like

853
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:11.079
David and Solomon were deeply flawed and sinful. David, despite

854
00:53:11.119 --> 00:53:13.320
being described as a man after God's own heart, committed

855
00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:17.280
serious sins, including adultery and murder. Solomon, despite his wisdom,

856
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:21.880
ultimately fell into idolatry and disobedience and influenced by his

857
00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:28.199
foreign wives. So is it simply well, these guys were

858
00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:30.880
good and these guys were bad. Now I'm going to

859
00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:32.760
go let him go a little bit further here. I

860
00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:35.159
think I think there's a deeper and I've already alluded

861
00:53:35.199 --> 00:53:38.239
to it now multiple times, and I will circle back

862
00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:40.360
to it. I wanted to get into the whole thing

863
00:53:40.440 --> 00:53:43.559
about how much space is given to each king. I

864
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:46.880
had a bunch of notes on that, but he already

865
00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:49.639
he already mentioned Solomon. Once you mentioned Solomon, the other

866
00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:55.199
stuff becomes insignificant at that point. But he's drawing this contrast. See, basically,

867
00:53:55.280 --> 00:53:59.480
David and Solomon were good and these kings were bad. Well,

868
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:03.480
then that led to them going into captivity, and these

869
00:54:03.519 --> 00:54:08.280
other kings well, you know, see they were good. Oh,

870
00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:12.440
I just don't know how that works in any practical standard,

871
00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:13.960
So I think we have to look at it deeper.

872
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.119
I'll just let him go a little bit further, and

873
00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:18.320
then I'll just kind of throw out my hypotheses.

874
00:54:21.679 --> 00:54:25.119
Everyone that turns away from God does not experience the

875
00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:29.719
blessings of God. The nation shall be turned into hell,

876
00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:32.199
and every nation that for the wicked shall be turned

877
00:54:32.199 --> 00:54:35.039
into hell, and the nation that forgets God. We need

878
00:54:35.079 --> 00:54:40.440
to understand that there are no blessings turning away from God,

879
00:54:41.800 --> 00:54:46.119
and here in just these short verses we find that

880
00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:46.880
is the case.

881
00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:52.400
Now I understand that there's a general principle that if

882
00:54:52.400 --> 00:54:55.159
we turn away from God, there are no blessings. But

883
00:54:55.239 --> 00:55:00.000
I'm going to challenge that. Wasn't Abraham Abram. Abraham blessed

884
00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:05.000
countless times in spite of his disregard for his own wife,

885
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:10.199
him lying deceit. That wasn't there they still blessed. Oh

886
00:55:10.440 --> 00:55:14.920
many cases after Abraham or Abraham lied, they came out

887
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:18.360
richer than they went in. They were blessed materially, and

888
00:55:18.440 --> 00:55:20.880
God continued to preserve them and take care of them

889
00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:27.079
even of disregarding God. I mean, over and over David,

890
00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:31.960
was he not? Was there still not blessings to David? Yeah?

891
00:55:32.119 --> 00:55:34.519
You know why? Because there was a covenant made, and

892
00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:38.760
even though David was unfaithful, God remained faithful, so there

893
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:42.519
were still blessings. Solomon was unfaithful in every way known possible.

894
00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.480
Was there still not blessing? I don't know if it's

895
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:47.880
that simple to say, Hey, if you do good, you

896
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:50.679
get blessed, and if you do bad you don't. Is

897
00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:54.880
blessing always based off behavior or is blessing sometimes based

898
00:55:54.920 --> 00:55:59.480
off God's sovereign grace? I am blessed with all spiritual

899
00:55:59.559 --> 00:56:03.800
blessing in Christ Jesus, even though my action would say

900
00:56:03.840 --> 00:56:06.880
I should not be blessed, I should be nothing but cursed.

901
00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:14.719
Is there not a tension and scripture about this? I

902
00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:17.719
think when we look at this contrast between the supposedly

903
00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:19.559
good side and the bad side, I think we have

904
00:56:19.599 --> 00:56:22.920
to look at it deeper. Right. I think it's clear

905
00:56:24.079 --> 00:56:26.760
this is what I think that Judah was preserved in

906
00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:29.760
part because of God's covenant promises to David. God had

907
00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:32.639
promised David that his descendants would reign forever, and his

908
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:35.400
promise is ultimately fulfilled in Jesus, who is from the

909
00:56:35.440 --> 00:56:39.840
line of David. Judah's preservation, despite its own sins and failures,

910
00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:41.960
can indeed be seen as a part of God's plan

911
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:44.719
to bring the Messiah through the Davidic line, rather than

912
00:56:44.760 --> 00:56:47.199
as a sign of Judah being inherently more godly than

913
00:56:47.239 --> 00:56:50.800
the Northern Kingdom. I think the reason they are blessed

914
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:54.400
is because of God's faithfulness to his promise, not because

915
00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:58.000
of their supposed good behavior, because they're just as sinful,

916
00:56:58.159 --> 00:57:00.719
in many cases more sinful. Fine me a king on

917
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:03.599
the north that is as bad as Solomon. You can

918
00:57:03.639 --> 00:57:06.400
probably find some that did some horrible things, but you

919
00:57:06.440 --> 00:57:14.440
take the totality of Solomon's life, idolatry, tolerating idolatry, violating

920
00:57:14.480 --> 00:57:22.239
scripture here not fully devoted to God, polygamy, adultery now

921
00:57:22.239 --> 00:57:25.360
he may not be doing now. I think once again

922
00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:27.599
we could get into a subjective argument on which one

923
00:57:27.639 --> 00:57:30.199
is worse than the other. Well, from God's perspective, how

924
00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:31.800
are you going to judge it? They say, But God

925
00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:35.920
viewed Solomon differently. Yeah, he viewed the entire Southern Kingdom differently.

926
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:40.639
Why because of God's sovereign covenant. Because of God's sovereign grace.

927
00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:46.000
The Northern Kingdom, after the division following Solomon's reign, was

928
00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:49.400
ruled by kings who did not come from the Dividic line. Jereboam,

929
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:51.480
the first king of the Northern Kingdom, was not from

930
00:57:51.559 --> 00:57:54.599
David's line, but from the tribe of Ephrium. His reign

931
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and the subsequent subsequent kings of the North are often

932
00:57:58.119 --> 00:58:01.639
characterized by idolatry and rebellion. Again God's covenant, the Northern

933
00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:05.559
kings established alternative places of worship to prevent the people

934
00:58:05.639 --> 00:58:12.119
from going to Jerusalem. In contrast, the Southern Kingdom had

935
00:58:12.159 --> 00:58:15.480
the Davidic dynasty and even though many of Judas kings

936
00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:18.360
were also sinful, they had periods of reform under kings

937
00:58:18.400 --> 00:58:21.199
like Hezekiah and Josiah, who sought to return the nation

938
00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:23.880
to covenant faithfulness. The Davidic kings were held to a

939
00:58:23.960 --> 00:58:26.880
unique standard because of the promises God made to David,

940
00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:31.559
and their reigns were often evaluated with reference to David's faithfulness.

941
00:58:31.679 --> 00:58:35.519
Even though David himself was flawed, but David was counted

942
00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:40.239
as righteous, his sins were not held against him because

943
00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:44.840
of imputed righteousness. Isn't that why? Wrote Paul, uses David

944
00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:53.920
as an example of imputed righteousness. Judas preservation until the

945
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:58.840
Babylonian exile and its eventual restoration was a part of

946
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:02.039
God's plan to fulfill bill has promised to David, culminating

947
00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:04.719
in the birth of Jesus. The Northern Kingdom, having no

948
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:09.280
such covenantal promises regarding a Messianic line, was not preserved

949
00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:12.639
in the same way. The distinction between the two kingdoms

950
00:59:12.760 --> 00:59:16.400
reflect not just their differing political and religious trajectories, but

951
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:22.199
the unfolding of God's redemptive plan through Judah's line. The

952
00:59:22.239 --> 00:59:32.840
difference in them is God's sovereign grace. I don't think

953
00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:35.159
there's I don't think there's any way to get around that.

954
00:59:38.880 --> 00:59:42.480
I think we have if we look at it any different.

955
00:59:42.519 --> 00:59:44.960
I think I think we're missing the whole point here.

956
00:59:49.719 --> 00:59:51.719
I think we missed the whole point here. Let's listen

957
00:59:51.719 --> 00:59:52.960
to a little bit more and then we'll bring this

958
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:53.639
to a conclusion.

959
00:59:56.199 --> 01:00:00.480
So the author is helping us understand some thing about

960
01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:04.360
these kings. He's saying, the acts of these kings prove

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01:00:04.440 --> 01:00:09.559
their wickedness. Israel is being reminded of a lesson. And

962
01:00:09.639 --> 01:00:14.719
the lesson is this, you tied your actions to the

963
01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:19.639
actions of your kings, and so therefore your end is

964
01:00:19.719 --> 01:00:23.679
going to be like the end of your kings. Now,

965
01:00:23.679 --> 01:00:29.559
who you make allegiances with, If you tie yourself to someone,

966
01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:34.280
you may you may find yourself suffering their fate. So

967
01:00:34.360 --> 01:00:36.679
we need to we need to be careful who we

968
01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:42.280
tire ourselves to. But what do we find out about

969
01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:49.519
this point in the history of Israel. Israel's in disarray again.

970
01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:52.039
When you study the lineage of the kings of Judah,

971
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:56.559
what do you find? You find? They're all tied to David,

972
01:00:57.239 --> 01:01:01.760
the dynasty of David. Never see, like I said, except

973
01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:09.039
for Athaliah, and she usurped authority. She's the only leader

974
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:11.239
which doesn't come from the lineage of David.

975
01:01:11.280 --> 01:01:17.159
But she wasn't king. Every king of Judah traces their lineage.

976
01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:17.440
Back to David.

977
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:24.920
And that's the answer is not action. The answer is covenant.

978
01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:28.280
They're a part of the lineage of that covenant. It

979
01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:31.440
has to be preserved because of God's covenant. And therefore

980
01:01:31.480 --> 01:01:35.400
God demonstrated sovereign grace to them. Because God will have

981
01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:37.119
mercy and whom he will have mercy, and he will

982
01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:40.679
judge in whom he will have mercy. In fact, he

983
01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:42.000
will have mercy and whom he will have mercy, and

984
01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:44.559
he will judge whom he will judge. The contrast between

985
01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:47.480
the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom can be understood

986
01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:50.199
as a profound example of the sovereignty of God's mercy

987
01:01:50.239 --> 01:01:54.079
and grace. God's preservation of Judah despite their sin and failures,

988
01:01:54.280 --> 01:01:56.880
highlights that his dealings with them were not based on

989
01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.840
the merit, on their merit or their right sciousness, but

990
01:02:01.039 --> 01:02:06.280
on his sovereign choice. It's not like, hey, wait now,

991
01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:09.000
if you do this or if you do this, no, look,

992
01:02:09.079 --> 01:02:12.519
I have all blessings in Christ Jesus, and those blessings

993
01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:15.320
are my blessings, irregardless of what I may or may

994
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:19.199
not do. Is the Judah was connected to David and

995
01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:21.440
were chosen by God to be the line from which

996
01:02:21.480 --> 01:02:24.239
the Messiah was come, and they were a part of that,

997
01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:27.280
no matter if their actions were sinful or not sinful.

998
01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:30.559
I'm not saying there's never negative consequences. I'm just saying

999
01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:33.079
we draw this contrast between these were the good guys

1000
01:02:33.079 --> 01:02:35.920
and these were the bad guys. No, the contrast was

1001
01:02:36.119 --> 01:02:39.599
there was a good God who sovereignly chose them, made

1002
01:02:39.639 --> 01:02:42.840
a covenant with them, and then sovereignly gave them grace.

1003
01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:45.239
Or on the other side, they were not sovereignly chosen

1004
01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:47.800
to be a part of this covenant and therefore were

1005
01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:51.360
not sovereignly given that grace. The difference, I think is

1006
01:02:51.360 --> 01:02:55.519
the sovereignty of God. I think we can see this

1007
01:02:55.840 --> 01:02:58.760
that the distinction here between the Northern Kingdom and the

1008
01:02:58.800 --> 01:03:01.280
Southern Kingdom can be under stood as a profound example

1009
01:03:01.360 --> 01:03:04.360
the sovereignty of God's mercy and grace. God's preservation of

1010
01:03:04.440 --> 01:03:07.079
Judah despite their sins and failures, highlights his dealings with

1011
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:11.159
them were not based on their merit or righteousness, but

1012
01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:16.400
on his sovereign choice. Judas's survival unto the exile and

1013
01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:18.719
their eventual return from exile to pave the way for

1014
01:03:18.760 --> 01:03:21.840
the coming of Christ was about God's sovereign will and

1015
01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:27.239
his unfolding redemptive plan than Judas's superior godliness. The Davidic Covenant,

1016
01:03:27.239 --> 01:03:29.960
which promised a perpetual kingship through David's line was an

1017
01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:33.079
act of divine grace. I'm going to say sovereign grace.

1018
01:03:33.719 --> 01:03:36.559
God chose David's lineage for the sake of his own purpose,

1019
01:03:36.800 --> 01:03:40.480
ultimately leading to the Messiah, and he remained faithful to

1020
01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:43.480
that promise even when the kings of Judah were disobedient.

1021
01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:47.639
Even when they were disobedient, he remained faithful. Look at

1022
01:03:47.639 --> 01:03:51.280
the Davidic Covenant. We talked about this. We don't have

1023
01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:53.480
time now, we're already over an hour. Go look at

1024
01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:57.639
it and contrast. The Northern Kingdom's fate being conquered and

1025
01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:00.400
scattered by Assyria can be seen as a dimasged of

1026
01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:03.519
God's sovereign judgment. Yet even in their judgment, God's sovereignty

1027
01:04:03.559 --> 01:04:05.760
over the entire history of his people is evident he

1028
01:04:05.800 --> 01:04:08.440
allowed Israel's on faithfulness to run its course, but that

1029
01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:12.119
did not negate his larger plan for redemption. Paul echoes

1030
01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:15.199
this theme in Romans nine, where the emphasis God's sovereignty

1031
01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:18.480
is bestowing mercy. For he says to Moses, I will

1032
01:04:18.519 --> 01:04:21.119
have mercy whom I will have mercy, and I will

1033
01:04:21.159 --> 01:04:24.280
have compassion on whom I will have compassion. It does

1034
01:04:24.320 --> 01:04:28.400
not therefore depend on human desire or effort, but on

1035
01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:32.440
God's mercy. The principle applies when considering the distinct paths

1036
01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:37.360
between Israel and Judah. The contrast between Israel and Judas

1037
01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:40.440
serves as a reminder that God's plans are not contingent

1038
01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:44.679
upon human faithfulness, but are rooted in his sovereign will.

1039
01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:47.480
Judah's preservation of the eventual coming of Christ of the

1040
01:04:47.519 --> 01:04:52.800
Davidic line is a testimony to God's gracious and unmerited mercy.

1041
01:04:53.079 --> 01:04:55.320
And this way, the whole narrative of Isral and Judah

1042
01:04:55.360 --> 01:05:01.880
were underscores a sovereignty of God in both mercy and judgment.

1043
01:05:02.480 --> 01:05:07.400
That's the contrast, that's the distinction, and you don't make

1044
01:05:07.440 --> 01:05:10.599
the distinction by saying, well, Solomon was a good king

1045
01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:12.719
who just fell a little bit. He wasn't a good

1046
01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:21.920
king who just fell a little bit. He was an absolute, idolatory, polygamous, cyrial, adulterer, pride, arrogant, ungodly.

1047
01:05:22.119 --> 01:05:23.400
I mean, you can go on and on and on

1048
01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:25.880
and on. You said, but the Bible describes him as good. Well,

1049
01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:27.679
if it may describe him as good, we can look

1050
01:05:27.719 --> 01:05:31.079
for versus that do that, but it doesn't matter they

1051
01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:33.519
are good. Well, it does matter because it tells you

1052
01:05:33.599 --> 01:05:36.519
that the goodness being attributed to anyone in the Bible.

1053
01:05:36.599 --> 01:05:38.880
Most any case, any man that's being viewed as good,

1054
01:05:39.199 --> 01:05:43.199
it's because of an imputed righteousness. Because and they may

1055
01:05:43.239 --> 01:05:47.000
point to certain actions, but those actions does not make

1056
01:05:47.039 --> 01:05:51.840
them good. They are declared good because of imputed righteousness.

1057
01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:58.679
I think this is the entire point. I think this

1058
01:05:58.840 --> 01:06:00.760
is the entire point of it.

1059
01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:01.039
Is it?

1060
01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:03.599
Chapter three?

1061
01:06:04.079 --> 01:06:04.280
Is it?

1062
01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:13.119
Chapter three? Yeah? Chapter four? Romans, Chapter four, Verse one.

1063
01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:16.360
What shall we say then, that Abraham our father, as

1064
01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:19.559
pertaining to the flesh, hath found. For if Abraham were

1065
01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:22.679
justified by works, he had wherewith to glory, but not

1066
01:06:22.800 --> 01:06:25.920
before God? For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God,

1067
01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:29.000
and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to

1068
01:06:29.079 --> 01:06:32.480
him that were, now to him that worketh is the reward,

1069
01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:35.000
not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him

1070
01:06:35.039 --> 01:06:39.199
that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,

1071
01:06:39.440 --> 01:06:44.360
his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also

1072
01:06:44.519 --> 01:06:48.239
describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth

1073
01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:53.320
righteousness without works. David describes the blessedness of the man

1074
01:06:53.440 --> 01:06:56.800
who God imputes righteousness without works. It is the man

1075
01:06:57.079 --> 01:07:00.920
who God imputes righteousness who is blessed. Blessing comes because

1076
01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:05.360
of imputed righteousness, not because of practical obedience, because our

1077
01:07:05.360 --> 01:07:09.159
practical obedience is never any anywhere close to perfection or

1078
01:07:09.199 --> 01:07:13.840
perfect Even as David also described the blessedness of the

1079
01:07:13.840 --> 01:07:16.760
man and too whom God imputed righteousness without work, saying,

1080
01:07:17.039 --> 01:07:20.440
blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins

1081
01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:23.239
are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord

1082
01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:27.599
will not impute sin. Cometh this blessing then upon the

1083
01:07:27.639 --> 01:07:31.760
circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision. Also, for we say

1084
01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:36.719
that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness it is.

1085
01:07:36.800 --> 01:07:42.440
It is reckoned by faith, not by works. What is

1086
01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:45.840
the distinction between the North and the South. The South

1087
01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:49.920
is connected to the dividic covenant, and those kings, their

1088
01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:53.119
lineage goes to David. Therefore they will be preserved not

1089
01:07:53.159 --> 01:07:55.199
because of what they do or don't do, but because

1090
01:07:55.199 --> 01:07:57.800
God made a covenant promise with him. And therefore God

1091
01:07:57.840 --> 01:08:01.079
demonstrates to the South sovereign gris where the North or

1092
01:08:01.119 --> 01:08:04.400
not linked to that. So they are gone away. But

1093
01:08:04.440 --> 01:08:08.159
then ultimately God has made a covenant with Israel at large,

1094
01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:10.719
and so he makes a new covenant with the South

1095
01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:13.519
and with the North, and that one day they will

1096
01:08:13.559 --> 01:08:16.600
all be regathered and be restored and be redeemed, not

1097
01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:18.920
because they deserve it because of their works, but because

1098
01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:32.439
of his faithfulness. Solomon a good king who fell a

1099
01:08:32.439 --> 01:08:41.319
little bit, or Solomon a very sinful king whose fall

1100
01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:49.279
was great, but who was given and shown the sovereign

1101
01:08:49.439 --> 01:09:00.600
grace and mercy of God. We'll stop there. Second King fifteen,

1102
01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:03.479
make it that your priority. Go look at those three kings.

1103
01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:06.520
He never got to actually describing these three kings. At

1104
01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:08.279
this point, I don't know how much of the sermon

1105
01:09:08.359 --> 01:09:11.039
is left, but go look at them. And second, Kings,

1106
01:09:11.079 --> 01:09:12.840
I want you to do this. I want you to

1107
01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:14.680
take all of those things I just gave you about

1108
01:09:14.680 --> 01:09:17.039
Solomon because I went into great detail. I had to

1109
01:09:17.079 --> 01:09:19.159
go through that quickly because I could have turned into,

1110
01:09:19.239 --> 01:09:22.199
you know, a couple of hours. But I want you

1111
01:09:22.279 --> 01:09:29.800
to look at Azariah, Zechariah, Shalom, Menahem and Pekaniah. Right,

1112
01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:32.760
and I want you to look at their lives. Now

1113
01:09:32.760 --> 01:09:35.800
you're going to see them doing some pretty horrible things,

1114
01:09:36.439 --> 01:09:38.319
but I want you to consider that in light of

1115
01:09:38.399 --> 01:09:41.560
everything Solomon did and and and then are you going

1116
01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:44.720
to pass some subjective judgment that one was better than

1117
01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:57.560
the other? I mean, Solomon dies an idolater. All right,

1118
01:10:00.079 --> 01:10:03.079
thank you for listening. Everyone, have a great day. God

1119
01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:05.800
bless