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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS, AND
WELCOME ONCE AGAIN TO SABBATH
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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO
OUR MEMBERS AND OUR VISITORS
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WHO ARE JOINING US HERE
SABBATH MORNING TO STUDY
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THE LESSON TOGETHER.
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WE'RE STUDYING THROUGH
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH WHICH IS
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THE THEME FOR
THIS WHOLE QUARTER.
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TODAY WE FIND
OURSELVES ON LESSON #3 ENTITLED
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THE LAST KINGS OF JUDAH .
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ME ONSTAGE AND WE'RE
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PRAISING GOD FOR HIS
GOODNESS. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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>>LET'S SING THIS
MORNING TOGETHER ALL HAIL THE
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POWER OF JESUS'
NAME! - WHICH IS THE WHOLE
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REASON WE WORSHIP TOGETHER
ANYWAY. WE'LL SING THE FIRST AND
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LAST VERSES - OR THE FIRST,
SECOND AND THE LAST VERSES OF
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ALL HAIL THE POWER OF
JESUS' NAME! - HYMN #229.
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>>ALL HAIL THE
POWER OF JESUS' NAME!
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LET ANGELS PROSTRATE
FALL; BRING FORTH THE ROYAL
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DIADEM, AND
CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL!
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BRING FORTH THE
ROYAL DIADEM, AND CROWN HIM
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LORD OF ALL. YE
SEED OF ISRAEL'S CHOSEN
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RACE, YE RANSOMED OF THE
FALL, HAIL HIM WHO SAVES YOU
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BY HIS GRACE, AND
CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL!
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HAIL HIM WHO SAVES YOU
BY HIS GRACE, AND CROWN HIM
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LORD OF ALL. OH, THAT WITH
YONDER SACRED THRONG WE AT HIS
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FEET MAY FALL, JOIN IN
THE EVERLASTING SONG, AND
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CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL!
JOIN IN THE EVERLASTING
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SONG, AND CROWN HIM LORD OF ALL.
>>AMEN. I INVITE YOU TO BOW YOUR
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HEADS AS WE BEGIN WITH A WORD OF
PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN,
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WE THANK YOU, ONCE AGAIN, THAT
WE ARE ABLE TO GATHER IN YOUR
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HOUSE TO STUDY
YOUR WORD TOGETHER.
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AND, ONCE AGAIN, WE
ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
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COME AND GUIDE OUR
HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.
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MAY WE LEARN THE
LESSONS THAT YOU REVEAL TO US
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THROUGH THIS ANCIENT
BOOK - THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH -
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AND THE PROPHETIC
MESSAGE YOU GAVE HIM THAT'S
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APPLICABLE FOR US TODAY.
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SO MAY WE BE HERE WITH
OPEN HEARTS AND EARS TO
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HEAR YOUR WORD.
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON THIS MORNING
WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY
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PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>MORNING EVERYONE.
>>MORNING. HAPPY SABBATH.
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>>YEAH, I'D LIKE TO
WISH EVERYBODY GREETINGS -
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THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING
VIA THE INTERNET OR - SOME ARE
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WATCHING IT LIVE ON
THE INTERNET, SOME ARE
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WATCHING AROUND THE
WORLD - VARIOUS PARTS OF THE
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PLANET - IN JUST A
FEW WEEKS, KAREN AND I ARE
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GOING TO BE HEADING TO
NEW ZEALAND AND FIJI AND WE'VE
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ALREADY HEARD FROM OUR
FRIENDS THERE, 'OH YEAH,
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WE WATCH SABBATH SCHOOL.'
AND SO IT'S FUN TO BE ABLE
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TO GO AND VISIT SOME
OF THE MEMBERS IN ALL
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DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PLANET.
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WE ARE CONTINUING OUR
STUDY THIS MORNING IN THE
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BOOK OF JEREMIAH
AND TODAY'S LESSON, IN
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PARTICULAR, IS
DEALING WITH LESSON #3 -
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IT'S THE LAST
FIVE KINGS OF JUDAH.
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AND WE HAVE A MEMORY
VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE IS
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JEREMIAH 22:16, "HE
JUDGED THE CAUSE OF THE POOR AND
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NEEDY; THEN IT WAS WELL.
'WAS NOT THIS KNOWING ME?'
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SAYS THE LORD."
THIS TELLS US ABOUT JUST
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THE PROMISE OF GOD
WATCHING OVER HIS PEOPLE.
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NOW THIS LESSON TODAY
- I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO
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THINK, 'PASTOR DOUG,
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THE
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BOOK OF JEREMIAH.' BUT
SO MUCH OF WHAT WE'RE GOING
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TO READ TODAY IS GOING TO
BE IN KINGS AND CHRONICLES
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AND ISAIAH WITH JUST A
LITTLE BIT IN JEREMIAH.
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THE REASON IS, TODAY'S
LESSON, DEALING WITH THE
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LAST FIVE KINGS OF
JUDAH, REALLY SETS THE BACKDROP.
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WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT
FOR SEVERAL LESSONS NOW
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BECAUSE AS YOU GO INTO
THE VARIOUS PROPHECIES OF
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JEREMIAH, THEY'RE GOING
TO SEEM OBSCURE IF YOU DON'T
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UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
HAPPENING TO THE NATION -
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WHY IS HE
ISSUING THESE PROPHECIES?
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AND SO THE - THE LAST FIVE
KINGS OF JUDAH IS OUR SUBJECT.
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NOW I'M GOING TO
TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE.
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AND, BY THE WAY, FOR
THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT SAY, 'I'D
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LIKE TO GET THESE
NOTES.' IF YOU GO TO AMAZING
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FACTS' WEBSITE, WHERE
IT SAYS 'SABBATH SCHOOL'
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YOU'LL SEE THAT IN THE
NOTES I'VE GOT A LIST OF
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ALL THE KINGS OF
JUDAH AND ISRAEL AND IT ALSO
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SAYS WHETHER THEY WERE
GOOD KINGS OR THEY WERE BAD
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KINGS AND IT
TELLS WHEN THEY REIGNED.
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DO ANY OF YOU GET
CONFUSED SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HEAR
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ABOUT THE DIFFERENT KINGS?
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SOME OF THEIR
NAMES SOUND THE SAME.
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I'M GOING TO QUICKLY
READ THROUGH SOME OF THE NAMES
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OF THE KINGS FOR YOU. FIRST
I'LL DO THE KINGS OF JUDAH.
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NOW ALL OF THE
KINGS OF JUDAH ARE LITERAL
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DESCENDENTS OF
DAVID, WHEREAS THE KINGS OF
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ISRAEL, THEY WENT -
THERE WERE SEVERAL OVERTHROWS
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AND THEY ENDED UP
BEING KINGS OF DIFFERENT
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DYNASTIES AND DIFFERENT TRIBES.
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THERE WERE THREE TIMES
THE KINGS OF ISRAEL WERE
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UNITED, UNDER THE
RULE OF THREE KINGS.
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YOU KNOW WHICH ONES
THEY WERE? FIRST - KING SAUL.
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THE PEOPLE SAID TO
SAMUEL, 'GIVE US A KING.' KING
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SAUL - HE REIGNED 40
YEARS AND THEN DAVID BECAME KING
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AND DAVID REIGNED SEVEN
YEARS IN HEBRON AND THEN HE
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REIGNED THE REMAINING
33 YEARS IN JERUSALEM - A
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TOTAL OF 40 YEARS. ISN'T
THAT INTERESTING, 40 - 40?
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AND THE THIRD ONE WAS SOLOMON
WHO ALSO REIGNED 40 YEARS.
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THEN AFTER SOLOMON, THE
SERVANT OF KING SOLOMON,
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WHO HAD REBELLED
AGAINST KING SOLOMON, NAMED
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JEROBOAM, HE LED A
REVOLT AND TEN OF THE TRIBES
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SPLIT OFF - SORT OF A CIVIL
WAR THAT NEVER TOTALLY HEALED.
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TEN OF THE TRIBES IN
THE NORTH SPLIT OFF AND,
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INSTEAD OF BEING RULED
BY THE SONS OF DAVID, THEY
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WERE RULED BY A VARIETY
OF DIFFERENT KINGS WHO COULD
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MANAGE TO TAKE POWER.
AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF
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FIGHTING AND QUARRELING AMONG
THEM. BUT THEY - RIGHT AFTER
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THE KINGDOM SPLIT IN
THE NORTH, THOSE TEN TRIBES,
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THEY GAVE
THEMSELVES OVER TO IDOLATRY.
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NOW IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM
THEY HAD THEIR GOOD KINGS AND
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THEIR BAD KINGS AND REVIVALS
AND DOWN - BACKSLIDING - BUT THE
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KINGS IN THE NORTH, THEY NEVER
REALLY GOT AWAY FROM IDOLATRY.
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SO HERE THE KINGS IN
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM - THE
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SONS OF DAVID - AND THIS IS
TALKING ABOUT AFTER SOLOMON -
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YOU'VE GOT REHOBOAM, WHO
WAS A MIXTURE OF GOOD AND BAD.
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HE REIGNED FROM
ABOUT 933 - 916 BC.
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ABIJAH - MOSTLY BAD -
DID NOT WALK IN THE WAYS OF
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HIS FATHER DAVID.
ASA - MOSTLY GOOD.
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JEHOSHAPHAT - GOOD EXCEPT
HE MADE FRIENDS WITH AHAB.
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JEHORAM - BAD. AHAZIAH - BAD.
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ATHALIAH WAS A
QUEEN THAT BASICALLY - SHE
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WASN'T A SON OF DAVID, SHE
WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JEZEBEL THAT
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KIND OF INTERRUPTED
THE KINGDOM FOR SIX YEARS.
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SHE TOOK THINGS OVER.
JOASH - GOOD - MOSTLY - HE'S THE
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ONE WHO BEGAN TO REIGN WHEN HE
WAS JUST A LITTLE BOY OF SEVEN.
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AMAZIAH - A GOOD KING.
UZZIAH - MOSTLY A GOOD KING.
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JOTHAM - GOOD KING. AHAZ
- WICKED. HEZEKIAH - GOOD.
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NOW SOMETHING YOU'RE
GOING TO NOTICE - BECAUSE YOU'VE
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GOT A GOOD FATHER, DOES
THAT MEAN YOU'RE GOING TO
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HAVE A SON THAT
WILL BE A GOOD SON?
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AND JUST BECAUSE YOU HAD
A TERRIBLE FATHER DOESN'T
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MEAN YOU'VE GOT AN
EXCUSE FOR NOT BEING A GOOD SON.
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HEZEKIAH WAS ONE OF THE
BEST KINGS AND HIS FATHER
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WAS AHAZ, A WICKED KING,
AND HEZEKIAH GAVE BIRTH TO
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MANASSEH, A TERRIBLE KING.
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AND SO YOU JUST SEE
IT GOING - IT'S LIKE THE
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RICHTER SCALE - GOOD -
BAD - GOOD - BAD - IT'S JUST
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AMAZING WHAT HAPPENS HERE.
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AND THEN YOU HAVE AMMON
- AND NOW WE GO TO THE LAST
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FIVE KINGS WE'RE STUDYING
TODAY: JOSIAH, JEHOAHAZ,
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JEHOIAKIM,
JEHOIACHIN, AND ZEDEKIAH.
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AND, OH, BY THE
WAY, JOSIAH - THE BEST.
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JEHOAHAZ - BAD.
JEHOIAKIM - WICKED.
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JEHOIACHIN -
BAD. ZEDEKIAH - BAD.
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THE REASON IT SAYS
'BAD' IS THEY STILL WORSHIPED
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JEHOVAH, BUT THEY WEREN'T
VERY GOOD SPIRITUAL LEADERS.
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YOU WANT ME TO VERY
QUICKLY GO THROUGH THE
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KINGS OF ISRAEL FOR YOU?
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I'M HEARING NO BIG OBJECTION.
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OF COURSE, THAT WOULD
SOUND BAD, 'NO, PLEASE.'
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AND I'LL DO IT
QUICKLY, YEAH, JEROBOAM, NADAB,
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BAASHA, ELAH, ZIMRI
(WHO DIDN'T REIGN BUT LIKE
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THREE MONTHS), TIBNI,
OMRI (WHO OVERTHREW ZIMRI) AND
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HIS SON WAS AHAB,
AHAZIAH, JORAM, JEHU, JEHOAHAZ,
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JOASH, JEROBOAM,
ZACHARIAH, SHALLUM, MENAHEM,
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PEKAHIAH, PEKAH, AND HOSHEA.
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NOW HOSHEA WAS THE
LAST KING OF ISRAEL.
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DURING THE TIME OF
HEZEKIAH, THEY WERE
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CARRIED OFF BY THE
ASSYRIANS TO THE NORTH.
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SO THESE LAST FIVE
KINGS OF JUDAH, WHEN THEY COME
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INTO POWER, THERE REALLY
ARE NO KINGS OF ISRAEL TO
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THE NORTH - THE ASSYRIANS
HAD SORT OF TAKEN OVER THE
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COUNTRY - BUT THERE WERE
STILL SOME ISRAELITES THAT
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WERE LEFT, OF THE
POOR OF THE PEOPLE.
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YOU'LL SEE WHY THAT
PLAYS INTO OUR STUDY TODAY IN
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JUST A FEW MOMENTS.
OKAY, LET'S GET INTO THE
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FIRST KING UNDER
THE RULE OF JOSIAH .
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JOSIAH WAS A GOOD KING.
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NOW SOMEONE IN THE
FRONT HERE IS GOING TO HELP ME
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IN A MINUTE AND YOU'RE
GOING TO READ - WHAT IS IT
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- 1 KINGS 13:1
AND 2 - WHO HAS THAT?
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ALRIGHT, YOU'LL BE
UP IN JUST A SECOND.
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JOSIAH WAS THE SIXTEENTH KING
TO RULE IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM.
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THE DATE OF HIS RULE WAS
FROM ABOUT 640 TO 609 BC.
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HE BECAME KING
AT THE AGE OF EIGHT.
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HIS NAME MEANS 'YAHWEH HEALS'.
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HE FOLLOWS FIFTY YEARS
OF THE REIGN OF TWO OF THE
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WORST KINGS OF ISRAEL -
MANASSEH AND AMMON - AND
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HIS REIGN LASTED
THIRTY-ONE YEARS.
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HE DIED COMPARATIVELY YOUNG.
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I THINK HE WAS 38 YEARS
OLD AND HE WAS KILLED BY
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PHARAOH NECHO IN A BATTLE.
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YOU CAN READ IN 2 KINGS
22 - THIS IS THE RECORD THAT
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YOU FIND REGARDING
JOSIAH - 2 KINGS CHAPTER 22,
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VERSE 1, "JOSIAH WAS
EIGHT YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME
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KING, AND HE REIGNED
THIRTY-ONE YEARS IN JERUSALEM.
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HIS MOTHER'S NAME WAS
JEDIDAH THE DAUGHTER OF
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ADAIAH OF BOZKATH. AND
HE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN
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THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,
AND WALKED IN ALL THE WAYS
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OF HIS FATHER DAVID;"
- YOU NOTICE IT JUMPS.
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IT DOESN'T SAY 'HIS
FATHER HEZEKIAH' OR 'HIS FATHER
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ASA' OR ANY OF
THE OTHER GOOD KINGS.
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IT JUMPS ALL THE
WAY BACK TO DAVID.
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DAVID WAS THE ONE WHO
HAD BEEN PROMISED THAT HIS
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SEED WOULD CONTINUE.
00:13:00.54\00:13:02.04
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD AND
READ FOR US 1 KINGS 13:1 AND 2.
00:13:02.08\00:13:06.41
>>"AND BEHOLD, A MAN
OF GOD WENT FROM JUDAH TO
00:13:06.45\00:13:09.15
BETHEL BY THE WORD OF
THE LORD, AND JEROBOAM STOOD
00:13:09.18\00:13:13.25
BY THE ALTAR TO BURN INCENSE.
00:13:13.29\00:13:15.52
THEN HE CRIED OUT
AGAINST THE ALTAR BY THE WORD OF
00:13:15.56\00:13:18.86
THE LORD, AND
SAID, 'O ALTAR, ALTAR!
00:13:18.89\00:13:22.76
THUS SAYS THE LORD:
'BEHOLD, A CHILD, JOSIAH
00:13:22.80\00:13:26.67
BY NAME, SHALL BE BORN TO
THE HOUSE OF DAVID; AND ON
00:13:26.70\00:13:29.67
YOU HE SHALL SACRIFICE
THE PRIESTS OF THE HIGH PLACES
00:13:29.70\00:13:33.41
WHO BURN INCENSE ON
YOU, AND MEN'S BONES SHALL BE
00:13:33.44\00:13:37.31
BURNED ON YOU.''"
>>ALRIGHT, YOU NOTICE THIS
00:13:37.35\00:13:39.88
IS A PROPHECY ABOUT JOSIAH
THAT IS WRITTEN IN 1 KINGS
00:13:39.91\00:13:44.35
13 - THREE HUNDRED
YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN.
00:13:44.39\00:13:48.82
THERE ARE A COUPLE OF
INDIVIDUALS IN THE BIBLE
00:13:48.86\00:13:51.26
THAT ARE NAMED - THEY'RE
- BEFORE THEY'RE EVEN BORN,
00:13:51.29\00:13:55.40
THEY'RE NAMED. DO
YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE?
00:13:55.43\00:13:57.77
>>CYRUS. >>CYRUS.
JOSIAH. JOHN. JESUS.
00:13:57.80\00:14:06.51
'CALL HIS NAME JESUS FOR
HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE.'
00:14:06.54\00:14:09.71
BUT NOT TOO MANY - THIS
IS THE LONGEST ONE WHO'S
00:14:09.74\00:14:13.28
NAMED BEFORE HE WAS BORN.
00:14:13.31\00:14:15.22
THREE HUNDRED
YEARS BEFORE HE'S BORN.
00:14:15.25\00:14:16.99
NOW IT GIVES SOME
SPECIFIC PROPHECIES.
00:14:17.02\00:14:18.89
IT SAYS THIS PROPHET
FROM JUDAH - THE PROPHET'S
00:14:18.92\00:14:21.49
NEVER NAMED. HE
COMES AND HE TELLS
00:14:21.52\00:14:23.86
JEROBOAM, WHEN THE KINGDOM
IN THE NORTH BEGAN TO WORSHIP
00:14:23.89\00:14:26.26
AT BETHEL AND THEY
WERE - THEY HAD A GOLDEN
00:14:26.29\00:14:29.70
CALF AND HE
SAYS, 'ALTAR, ALTAR!'
00:14:29.73\00:14:32.80
HE PROPHESIED TO THE
ALTAR AND HE SAYS, 'KING -
00:14:32.83\00:14:36.14
JOSIAH BY NAME - WILL
BURN THE BONES OF THE PRIESTS
00:14:36.17\00:14:39.21
ON YOU.' AND THE
KING WANTED TO HAVE HIM
00:14:39.24\00:14:43.04
ARRESTED BUT WHEN HE
POINTED AND SAID, 'ARREST HIM!'
00:14:43.08\00:14:45.21
HIS ARM FROZE IN POSITION
AND THEN HE HAD TO PRAY TO
00:14:45.25\00:14:47.95
THE PROPHET TO HEAL HIS ARM.
00:14:47.98\00:14:49.65
IT'S JUST A VERY
INTERESTING STORY.
00:14:49.68\00:14:51.55
SOME OF YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY?
00:14:51.59\00:14:52.92
AND THAT PROPHET,
ACTUALLY, DOESN'T LIVE
00:14:52.95\00:14:55.22
VERY LONG, BUT HIS
PROPHECY COMES TRUE.
00:14:55.26\00:14:58.43
ACTUALLY, WHEN JOSIAH,
YEARS LATER, GOES AND HE
00:14:58.46\00:15:02.60
PURGES THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM FROM THESE FALSE
00:15:02.63\00:15:05.30
ALTARS - HE WAS WANTING
TO JUST PURGE THE LAND OF
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ISRAEL - HE ACTUALLY
SEES THE GRAVE OF THIS PROPHET
00:15:08.60\00:15:11.44
THAT HAD FORETOLD ALL OF
THESE THINGS THAT HAPPENED.
00:15:11.47\00:15:14.11
NOW YOU READ ABOUT IT - JOSIAH
- OH, YOU CAN READ ABOUT JOSIAH
00:15:14.14\00:15:17.15
IN 2 CHRONICLES 34 - AND THIS'LL
BE VERSES 1 THROUGH 7, "JOSIAH
00:15:17.18\00:15:20.48
WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD
WHEN HE BECAME KING, AND HE
00:15:20.52\00:15:23.75
REIGNED THIRTY-ONE
YEARS IN JERUSALEM.
00:15:23.79\00:15:26.76
AND HE DID WHAT WAS
RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,
00:15:26.79\00:15:29.69
AND WALKED IN THE WAYS
OF HIS FATHER DAVID; HE DID
00:15:29.72\00:15:32.13
NOT TURN ASIDE TO THE
RIGHT HAND OR TO THE LEFT.
00:15:32.16\00:15:34.36
FOR IN THE EIGHTH YEAR
OF HIS REIGN, WHILE HE WAS
00:15:34.36\00:15:37.00
STILL YOUNG, HE BEGAN
TO SEEK THE GOD OF HIS
00:15:37.03\00:15:39.93
FATHER" - NOW YOU
WONDER WHAT HAPPENED IN THE
00:15:39.97\00:15:41.67
EIGHTH YEAR -
HOW OLD WAS HE THEN?
00:15:41.70\00:15:43.37
STARTS TO RULE AT EIGHT
AND THE EIGHTH YEAR OF HIS
00:15:43.41\00:15:48.34
REIGN HE'S SIXTEEN.
SOMETHING'S HAPPENING.
00:15:48.38\00:15:50.45
HE'S BECOMING A MAN.
WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S
00:15:50.48\00:15:52.88
THROUGH THE INFLUENCE
OF SOME OF THE PRIESTS.
00:15:52.91\00:15:55.42
IT SAYS HE REALLY BEGAN
TO START SEEKING "THE GOD OF
00:15:55.45\00:15:58.62
HIS FATHER DAVID; AND IN
THE TWELFTH YEAR HE BEGAN
00:15:58.65\00:16:02.32
TO PURGE JUDAH AND JERUSALEM
OF THE HIGH PLACES, THE WOODEN
00:16:02.36\00:16:05.96
IMAGES, THE CARVED
IMAGES, AND THE MOLDED IMAGES.
00:16:05.99\00:16:08.20
THEY BROKE DOWN THE
ALTARS OF THE BAALS IN HIS
00:16:08.23\00:16:10.97
PRESENCE," - HE HAD
THEM BROKEN DOWN - "AND THE
00:16:11.00\00:16:14.54
INCENSE ALTARS WHICH
WERE ABOVE THEM HE CUT DOWN;
00:16:14.57\00:16:17.41
AND THE WOODEN IMAGES,"
- HOW DID ALL THESE IMAGES
00:16:17.44\00:16:19.91
AND ALTARS END UP
IN THE LAND OF JUDAH?
00:16:19.94\00:16:22.98
DURING THE TIME OF
MANASSEH, IN PARTICULAR,
00:16:23.01\00:16:26.95
THEY HAD TURNED AWAY
FROM JEHOVAH - THEY EVEN PUT
00:16:26.98\00:16:30.75
IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD.
00:16:30.79\00:16:32.45
NOW THINK ABOUT HOW
FAR THEY HAD DRIFTED.
00:16:32.49\00:16:34.26
COULD THIS EVER
HAPPEN TO GOD'S PEOPLE?
00:16:34.29\00:16:36.22
HERE THEY WERE
GOD'S PEOPLE, THEY HAD THE
00:16:36.26\00:16:39.13
SCRIPTURES, THEY HAD
THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINES,
00:16:39.16\00:16:42.20
THEY HAD THE TEMPLE
PLANS GIVEN BY GOD TO MOSES AND
00:16:42.23\00:16:46.47
DAVID RIGHT THERE IN
THEIR PRESENCE, AND THEY ALLOWED
00:16:46.50\00:16:50.11
THE SURROUNDING
NATIONS AND THE WORSHIP OF THE
00:16:50.14\00:16:52.87
SURROUNDING RELIGIONS TO
INFILTRATE WHERE THEY JUST
00:16:52.91\00:16:55.84
GOT USED TO THE CO-MINGLING
OF THE TRUE WITH THE FALSE.
00:16:55.88\00:17:01.12
AND SO, WHEN JOSIAH
COMES ALONG AND HE SAYS, 'NO,
00:17:01.15\00:17:03.62
WE'RE GOING TO PURGE THE
KINGDOM FROM ALL OF THESE
00:17:03.65\00:17:06.09
PAGAN INFLUENCES.'
THEY THOUGHT THAT HE WAS A
00:17:06.12\00:17:08.62
RIGHT-WING
FANATIC. DON'T YOU THINK?
00:17:08.66\00:17:12.29
THIS NEW KING, HE
COMES THROUGH AND HE SAYS,
00:17:12.33\00:17:15.26
'WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THIS.
00:17:15.30\00:17:17.07
AND THIS IS PAGAN.
WE'RE GOING TO GO BACK TO
00:17:17.10\00:17:18.73
THE BIBLE.' AND HE
PROBABLY RAISED SOME
00:17:18.77\00:17:20.77
EYEBROWS BECAUSE HE WAS
STILL SIXTEEN YEARS OLD.
00:17:20.80\00:17:23.71
THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A NUMBER
OF PEOPLE WHO HAD LIVED DURING
00:17:23.74\00:17:26.71
THE TIME OF MANASSEH WHO HAD
JUST GROWN UP WITH THAT KIND OF
00:17:26.74\00:17:29.44
WORSHIP AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS
NORMAL. AND SO I'M SURE HE MET
00:17:29.48\00:17:32.85
WITH SOME RESISTANCE,
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS KING.
00:17:32.88\00:17:34.85
AND "HE BROKE IN PIECES,
AND MADE DUST OF THEM AND
00:17:34.88\00:17:38.72
SCATTERED IT ON THE GRAVES
OF THOSE WHO HAD SACRIFICED
00:17:38.75\00:17:41.46
TO THEM. HE ALSO BURNED THE
BONES OF THE PRIESTS ON THEIR
00:17:41.49\00:17:45.96
ALTARS," - THE REASON
THEY DID THAT IS IT WOULD THEN
00:17:45.99\00:17:48.80
POLLUTE THE ALTAR AND DEFILE
IT SO IT COULD NEVER BE USED
00:17:48.83\00:17:52.43
AGAIN - IF YOU BURNED THE HUMAN
BONES ON IT - SO HE DID THAT
00:17:52.47\00:17:55.60
SO THEY WOULD NEVER BE
TEMPTED TO USE IT AGAIN -
00:17:55.64\00:17:57.44
"AND CLEANSED
JUDAH AND JERUSALEM.
00:17:57.47\00:18:01.58
AND SO HE DID IN THE
CITIES OF MANASSEH, EPHRAIM, AND
00:18:01.61\00:18:05.15
SIMEON, AS FAR AS NAPHTALI
AND ALL AROUND, WITH AXES." -
00:18:05.18\00:18:09.28
THEY WENT AND THEY CUT
DOWN ALL THE GROVES - AND
00:18:09.32\00:18:11.39
"WHEN HE HAD BROKEN DOWN
THE ALTARS AND THE WOODEN
00:18:11.42\00:18:14.02
IMAGES, HAD BEATEN THE
CARVED IMAGES INTO POWDER,
00:18:14.06\00:18:15.92
AND CUT DOWN ALL THE
INCENSE ALTARS THROUGHOUT
00:18:15.96\00:18:19.03
ALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
HE RETURNED TO JERUSALEM."
00:18:19.06\00:18:21.60
SO NOT ONLY DID HE
EFFECT A REVIVAL IN JUDAH, THE
00:18:21.63\00:18:25.17
SOUTHERN KINGDOM, HE
WENT UP NORTH WHERE THE OTHER
00:18:25.20\00:18:27.87
KINGS USED TO REIGN -
REMEMBER, THEY'RE ALL GONE NOW.
00:18:27.90\00:18:30.31
THEY'VE BEEN CARRIED AWAY
BY ASSYRIA - THEY DIED - AND HE
00:18:30.34\00:18:32.51
PURGES THE WHOLE LAND THAT
GOD HAD GIVEN DAVID AND SOLOMON.
00:18:32.54\00:18:36.71
SO BOY, WHATEVER HE DID,
HE DID WITH ALL HIS MIGHT.
00:18:36.75\00:18:39.91
NOW WE'RE GOING TO FAST-FORWARD
A LITTLE BIT. GO TO 2 CHRONICLES
00:18:39.95\00:18:43.62
34 - STILL TALKING
ABOUT THE TIME OF JOSIAH.
00:18:43.65\00:18:46.72
HIS LIFE OVERLAPS
THE REIGN OF JEREMIAH.
00:18:46.76\00:18:49.52
SO JEREMIAH, THESE
WERE THE GOOD DAYS.
00:18:49.56\00:18:53.06
YOU EVER HEARD PEOPLE
TALK NOSTALGICALLY ABOUT
00:18:53.09\00:18:56.93
'THE GOOD OLD DAYS'?
AFTER JOSIAH WAS GONE, THE
00:18:56.97\00:19:00.30
FOUR REMAINING
KINGS, THEY WERE BAD.
00:19:00.34\00:19:05.54
JEREMIAH KEPT LOOKING
BACK TO THE DAYS OF JOSIAH AS
00:19:05.57\00:19:08.48
THE GOOD OLD DAYS,
WHEN THEY TURNED TO THE LORD
00:19:08.51\00:19:12.08
AND THEY PURGED THE
HOUSE OF THE LORD AND THEY
00:19:12.11\00:19:14.05
RESTORED THE PASSOVER
AND THERE WAS A GREAT REVIVAL
00:19:14.08\00:19:16.65
AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES
I HEAR A NEWS COMMENTATOR
00:19:16.69\00:19:20.76
SAY, 'OH, STOP TALKING
ABOUT THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
00:19:20.79\00:19:22.76
EVEN THE BAD - BACK IN
THE GOOD OLD DAYS, THINGS WERE
00:19:22.79\00:19:25.26
PRETTY BAD.' THAT'S
NOT TRUE ALWAYS; SOMETIMES
00:19:25.29\00:19:27.66
THERE ARE GOOD AGES IN
HISTORY, AND THE TIME OF
00:19:27.66\00:19:31.50
JOSIAH WAS ONE OF THE GOOD AGES.
00:19:31.53\00:19:33.57
ALRIGHT, LOOK IN 2
CHRONICLES 34:14, "NOW
00:19:33.60\00:19:38.27
WHEN THEY HAD BROUGHT OUT
THE MONEY THAT WAS BROUGHT
00:19:38.31\00:19:40.28
INTO THE HOUSE OF THE
LORD, HILKIAH THE PRIEST
00:19:40.31\00:19:43.01
FOUND THE BOOK OF THE LAW
OF THE LORD GIVEN BY MOSES."
00:19:43.04\00:19:47.68
WHAT'S IMPLIED THERE
WHEN IT SAYS HE FOUND IT?
00:19:47.72\00:19:50.79
>>IT WAS LOST.
>>IT HAD BEEN, AT LEAST,
00:19:50.82\00:19:53.42
MISPLACED. NOW
THIS IS NOT JUST ANY
00:19:53.46\00:19:55.76
BOOK, WHICH BOOK
IS THIS? >>THE LAW.
00:19:55.79\00:19:57.99
>>THE BOOK OF THE
LAW GIVEN BY MOSES - MOST
00:19:58.03\00:20:01.10
LIKELY THE BOOK OF
DEUTERONOMY AND, BASED ON
00:20:01.13\00:20:03.50
WHAT YOU'RE READING
HERE, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL COPY.
00:20:03.53\00:20:07.64
SO CAN YOU IMAGINE LIKE
HAVING THE ORIGINAL COPY
00:20:07.67\00:20:12.97
OF THE GETTYSBURG
ADDRESS? HAVING IT MISPLACED FOR
00:20:13.01\00:20:16.48
HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND
THEN FINDING IT AGAIN?
00:20:16.51\00:20:19.65
HE HAD - YOU KNOW,
THEY'D ALWAYS KEPT IT.
00:20:19.68\00:20:23.65
IT WAS NEAR THE ARK AND
FINALLY, WHEN THEY MOVED
00:20:23.69\00:20:25.65
THE ARK INTO THE -
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, THEY PUT
00:20:25.69\00:20:27.46
ALL OF THE SACRED ROLLS
IN THERE AND, WITH ALL THESE
00:20:27.49\00:20:29.32
KINGS COMING AND GOING
- THESE OTHER GODS - THEY
00:20:29.36\00:20:32.43
DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO
READ ALL THESE BOOKS.
00:20:32.46\00:20:34.30
THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW
WHAT THEY WERE AFTER AWHILE.
00:20:34.30\00:20:36.36
AND FINALLY, THE
PRIEST, WHO COULD STILL READ THE
00:20:36.40\00:20:38.70
HEBREW, HE PULLS OUT THE
SCROLL AS THEY'RE CLEANING
00:20:38.73\00:20:40.90
THINGS - YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T
JUST THROW BOOKS AWAY, YOU SAY,
00:20:40.94\00:20:43.20
'WHAT IS IT?' AND - I WORKED
AT A MISSION AND I WORKED WITH
00:20:43.24\00:20:50.68
MY FRIEND DAVE BOATWRIGHT
- MANY OF YOU KNOW WHO -
00:20:50.71\00:20:52.81
WAS AN ELDER AT OUR
FORMER CHURCH - AND HE AND I
00:20:52.85\00:20:57.72
WORKED TOGETHER AT
THIS MISSION AND SOMEONE
00:20:57.75\00:20:59.29
DONATED A TRAILER AND
THE TRAILER WAS JUST FULL OF,
00:20:59.32\00:21:01.22
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE'S
THINGS AND BOOKS AND STUFF AND I
00:21:01.26\00:21:04.33
SAID, 'OH DAVE, MAYBE
YOU CAN GO THROUGH ALL THOSE
00:21:04.36\00:21:06.06
BOOKS AND THROW THEM
OUT.' AND SO I CAME BACK TO
00:21:06.09\00:21:07.93
CHECK ON HIM HOURS LATER
AND HE HAD ONLY THROWN OUT
00:21:07.96\00:21:11.07
ABOUT ONE BOOK. (LAUGHTER)
00:21:11.10\00:21:13.03
I SAID, 'WHAT'S GOING ON?'
HE SAID, 'WELL, HOW DO I KNOW
00:21:13.07\00:21:15.60
WHETHER OR NOT TO THROW
IT OUT UNLESS I READ IT?'
00:21:15.64\00:21:17.84
AND SO HE HAD BEEN SITTING
THERE JUST READING THROUGH
00:21:17.87\00:21:20.34
ALL THESE BOOKS. I SAID, 'JUST
READ A COUPLE PAGES AND THEN
00:21:20.38\00:21:23.58
DECIDE. FLIP
THROUGH IT AND THROW IT OUT.
00:21:23.61\00:21:26.25
YOU CAN'T READ THE
WHOLE BOOK.' AND SO, ANYWAYS,
00:21:26.28\00:21:31.35
HE'S READING THIS -
HIS HAND STARTED TO TREMBLE
00:21:31.39\00:21:33.46
AND HE'S GOING, 'IS
THIS WHAT I THINK IT IS?'
00:21:33.49\00:21:36.86
IT LOOKED VERY OLD AND IT WAS
SIGNED AT THE BOTTOM 'MOSES'.
00:21:36.89\00:21:41.93
AND HE SAID, 'THIS IS
THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY - THE
00:21:41.96\00:21:44.87
LAST SERMON OF MOSES BEFORE
HE DIED - THE ORIGINAL COPY.
00:21:44.90\00:21:47.90
CAN YOU IMAGINE THEIR DELIGHT?
00:21:47.94\00:21:50.34
IT ACTUALLY - I THINK IN
THE ORIGINAL HERE IT SAYS,
00:21:50.37\00:21:53.07
'GIVEN BY THE HAND OF
MOSES.' - "THEN HILKIAH
00:21:53.11\00:21:55.98
ANSWERED AND SAID TO
SHAPHAN THE SCRIBE, 'I
00:21:56.01\00:21:58.75
HAVE FOUND" - NOT A
BOOK OF THE LAW, HE SAID, "I
00:21:58.78\00:22:01.75
HAVE FOUND THE BOOK OF
THE LAW IN THE HOUSE OF THE
00:22:01.78\00:22:04.75
LORD.'" NOW WHERE
WOULD YOU EXPECT TO FIND IT?
00:22:04.79\00:22:07.32
DON'T YOU HOPE YOU CAN GO
TO CHURCHES TODAY AND FIND
00:22:07.36\00:22:10.93
THE BOOK OF THE LAW
IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD?
00:22:10.96\00:22:14.20
A LOT OF CHURCHES YOU
GO TO TODAY, YOU WILL NOT
00:22:14.20\00:22:15.96
FIND THE BOOK OF THE LAW
IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
00:22:16.00\00:22:19.50
THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT
EVERYTHING BUT THE BIBLE -
00:22:19.53\00:22:20.97
"AND HILKIAH GAVE
THE BOOK TO SHAPHAN.
00:22:21.00\00:22:24.51
SO SHAPHAN CARRIED THE
BOOK TO THE KING, BRINGING
00:22:24.54\00:22:25.97
THE KING WORD, SAYING,
'ALL THAT WAS COMMITTED TO
00:22:26.01\00:22:28.78
YOUR SERVANTS THEY ARE DOING.
00:22:28.81\00:22:30.51
AND THEY HAVE GATHERED
THE MONEY THAT WAS FOUND IN
00:22:30.55\00:22:32.18
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,
AND HAVE DELIVERED IT INTO THE
00:22:32.21\00:22:33.95
HAND OF THE OVERSEERS AND
THE WORKMEN.' THEN SHAPHAN
00:22:33.98\00:22:36.12
THE SCRIBE TOLD THE
KING, SAYING, 'HILKIAH THE
00:22:36.15\00:22:38.25
PRIEST HAS GIVEN ME A BOOK.'
AND SHAPHAN" - SCRIBE - THEIR
00:22:38.29\00:22:41.69
SPECIALTY IS READING -
HE READS IT BEFORE THE KING.
00:22:41.72\00:22:44.59
HE GOES FROM BOW TO
STERN - DEUTERONOMY 1 TO 32 AND
00:22:44.63\00:22:50.07
HE READS IT. AND IT SAYS THEN
THAT AFTER HE DOES THAT, "THUS
00:22:50.10\00:22:57.11
IT HAPPENED WHEN THE
KING HEARD THE WORDS OF THE
00:22:57.14\00:22:59.21
LAW, THAT HE TORE HIS CLOTHES.
00:22:59.24\00:23:01.51
THEN THE KING COMMANDED
HILKIAH, AHIKAM THE SON OF
00:23:01.54\00:23:06.08
SHAPHAN, ABDON THE SON OF
MICAH, SHAPHAN THE SCRIBE,
00:23:06.11\00:23:09.78
AND ASAIAH A SERVANT
OF THE KING, SAYING, 'GO,
00:23:09.82\00:23:11.85
INQUIRE OF THE LORD FOR
ME, AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE
00:23:11.89\00:23:15.39
LEFT IN ISRAEL AND
JUDAH, CONCERNING THE WORDS OF
00:23:15.42\00:23:17.73
THE BOOK THAT IS FOUND;
FOR GREAT IS THE WRATH OF
00:23:17.76\00:23:20.63
THE LORD THAT IS
POURED OUT ON US, BECAUSE OUR
00:23:20.66\00:23:23.13
FATHERS HAVE NOT KEPT
THE WORD OF THE LORD, TO DO
00:23:23.16\00:23:25.67
ACCORDING TO ALL THAT
IS WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK.'"
00:23:25.70\00:23:28.54
NOW WHY WAS HE ESPECIALLY
TROUBLED WHEN THEY READ
00:23:28.57\00:23:31.24
THAT BOOK OF THE LAW
OF MOSES - DEUTERONOMY?
00:23:31.27\00:23:35.04
HAVE YOU READ DEUTERONOMY?
>>BLESSINGS AND CURSES.
00:23:35.08\00:23:39.61
>>IT TRACES THE HISTORY
OF GOD'S PEOPLE FROM THE
00:23:39.65\00:23:42.95
EXODUS THROUGH
WHAT THEY COULD EXPECT.
00:23:42.98\00:23:47.06
AND EVERYTHING THAT HAD
COME UPON ISRAEL IT OUTLINES.
00:23:47.09\00:23:50.56
HE SAID, 'I KNOW THAT
YOU'LL FOLLOW AFTER OTHER
00:23:50.59\00:23:53.13
GODS AND WHEN YOU DO THIS, THESE
CURSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU.'
00:23:53.16\00:23:56.40
AND EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD
FORETOLD WOULD HAPPEN, HAPPENED.
00:23:56.43\00:23:59.30
AND THE KING IS GOING,
'WOW.' HE'S READING IT AND
00:23:59.33\00:24:03.94
IT'S JUST THE FULFILLMENT
OF PROPHECY ONE AFTER THE
00:24:03.97\00:24:06.94
OTHER THAT WAS
RATHER DISTURBING.
00:24:06.98\00:24:10.11
NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO
READ ISAIAH 1:16 AND 17 IN
00:24:10.15\00:24:13.08
JUST A MOMENT HERE, OKAY?
00:24:13.11\00:24:14.98
SO HE SENDS AND HE
INQUIRES OF THE LORD, FROM
00:24:15.02\00:24:17.99
THE PROPHET, TO FIND
OUT 'WHAT SHALL WE DO?'
00:24:18.02\00:24:21.02
AND, BASICALLY, THE
MESSAGE COMES BACK FROM
00:24:21.06\00:24:23.43
THE PROPHET THAT
SAYS, 'EVERYTHING THAT WAS
00:24:23.46\00:24:26.06
FORETOLD,
JUDGMENT'S GOING TO COME.
00:24:26.09\00:24:28.13
BUT BECAUSE YOUR HEART
WAS TENDER AND YOU SOUGHT ME,
00:24:28.16\00:24:31.00
I'M NOT GOING TO DO IT IN
YOUR DAY.' AND SO THE LAST
00:24:31.03\00:24:34.50
WINDOW OF PROBATION AND
MERCY REALLY CAME DURING
00:24:34.54\00:24:39.31
THE TIME OF JOSIAH, BECAUSE
HIS HEART WAS TENDER AND HE
00:24:39.34\00:24:42.18
WANTED TO SERVE THE LORD AND HE
SAID, 'LOOK, IF MY SEEKING AFTER
00:24:42.21\00:24:44.98
GOD IS GOING TO BE A PROLONGING
OF OUR TRANQUILITY, THEN I'M
00:24:45.01\00:24:47.85
REALLY GOING TO SEEK
AFTER GOD.' AND HE DID.
00:24:47.88\00:24:49.78
AND THERE ARE TWO PARTICULAR
THINGS THAT WERE INVOLVED IN
00:24:49.82\00:24:53.56
THE REFORMS OF JOSIAH.
WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND
00:24:53.59\00:24:57.23
READ THAT FOR US
IN ISAIAH 1:16 AND 17.
00:24:57.26\00:25:00.43
>>"WASH YOURSELVES, MAKE
YOURSELVES CLEAN; PUT AWAY
00:25:00.46\00:25:05.57
THE EVIL OF YOUR
DOINGS FROM BEFORE MY EYES.
00:25:05.60\00:25:08.94
CEASE TO DO EVIL, LEARN
TO DO GOOD; SEEK JUSTICE,
00:25:08.97\00:25:14.18
REBUKE THE OPPRESSOR;
DEFEND THE FATHERLESS,
00:25:14.21\00:25:18.68
PLEAD FOR THE WIDOW." >>AMEN.
00:25:18.71\00:25:21.88
TWO PARTICULAR THINGS: CEASE
TO DO EVIL. LEARN TO DO GOOD.
00:25:21.92\00:25:25.95
SO A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY
THAT TO HAVE A REVIVAL YOU
00:25:25.99\00:25:29.29
SIMPLY NEED TO BELIEVE.
00:25:29.32\00:25:30.93
BUT, YOU KNOW, BIBLICALLY,
THE PART OF EVERY REVIVAL
00:25:30.96\00:25:32.99
WAS PRACTICAL
REFORM - PRACTICAL REFORM.
00:25:33.03\00:25:37.93
WHEN PAUL WOULD GO THROUGH
A TOWN AND PREACH, THEY'D
00:25:37.97\00:25:40.07
BRING THEIR SATANIC
BOOKS AND BURN THEM IN A PILE.
00:25:40.10\00:25:42.04
THERE WERE TANGIBLE
THINGS THAT HAPPENED.
00:25:42.07\00:25:45.01
THE GREAT REFORMS THAT
HAPPENED DURING THE AGE OF
00:25:45.04\00:25:47.54
ENLIGHTENMENT AND
CHRISTIAN REVIVALS.
00:25:47.58\00:25:50.88
YOU WOULD SEE PEOPLE, YOU
KNOW, THEY WOULD THROW OUT
00:25:50.91\00:25:54.18
THEIR ALCOHOL, THEY'D
MAKE CHANGES, THEY'D START
00:25:54.22\00:25:56.92
GOING BACK TO CHURCH. SO
THERE'S REAL PRACTICAL THINGS.
00:25:56.95\00:26:00.66
I'VE SEEN YOUTH
REVIVALS WHERE THEY'D, YOU KNOW,
00:26:00.69\00:26:02.82
THEY'D JUST TURN UP THE
VOLUME AND THEY'D SAY THIS
00:26:02.86\00:26:04.63
WAS A REVIVAL.
THAT'S NOT A REVIVAL.
00:26:04.66\00:26:06.83
A REVIVAL IS WHEN THOSE
KIDS BRING THEIR CDS THAT
00:26:06.86\00:26:09.93
THEY'RE LISTENING TO
THEY KNOW THEY SHOULDN'T BE
00:26:09.96\00:26:12.70
LISTENING TO OR THE
MAGAZINES THAT THEY'RE
00:26:12.73\00:26:15.14
READING AND
THEY THROW THEM AWAY.
00:26:15.17\00:26:18.01
THEY START MAKING -
THAT'S WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT
00:26:18.04\00:26:20.04
REALLY BEGINS TO
MOVE, BECAUSE AS WE EMPTY
00:26:20.08\00:26:22.98
OURSELVES AND MAKE ROOM
FOR THE FILLING OF GOD IN
00:26:23.01\00:26:25.65
OUR LIVES AND WE MAKE
PRACTICAL CHANGES - AND IT
00:26:25.68\00:26:29.08
MIGHT MEAN PRACTICAL CHANGES
IN WHERE WE GO, WHAT WE WATCH,
00:26:29.12\00:26:34.12
WHAT WE EAT, WHAT WE DO, WHAT
WE THINK ABOUT, WHAT WE SAY.
00:26:34.16\00:26:37.46
WHEN WE CEASE TO DO EVIL AND
LEARN TO DO GOOD. WHEN JOSIAH
00:26:37.49\00:26:41.06
HAD A REVIVAL, HE WENT
AND HE CUT DOWN THE ALTARS.
00:26:41.10\00:26:44.80
NOT ONLY DID HE CUT
DOWN THE ALTARS, HE THEN SAID
00:26:44.83\00:26:47.47
'WE'VE NEGLECTED THE PASSOVER.
00:26:47.50\00:26:49.47
LET'S FOLLOW THE
WORD OF THE LORD.
00:26:49.50\00:26:50.91
LET'S CELEBRATE THE
PASSOVER.' IT SAID THEY
00:26:50.94\00:26:52.87
HAD A PASSOVER UNLIKE
ANY THEY'D EVER HAD BEFORE.
00:26:52.91\00:26:55.44
AND SO, IT WAS A
COMBINATION OF TURNING
00:26:55.48\00:26:57.81
AWAY FROM THAT WHICH
IS BAD AND DOING WHAT YOU
00:26:57.85\00:26:59.68
KNOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
00:26:59.71\00:27:01.58
AND SO THAT BROUGHT
ABOUT GREAT REVIVAL.
00:27:01.62\00:27:03.52
SO I COULD SAY MUCH
MORE ABOUT JOSIAH BUT WE'RE
00:27:03.55\00:27:05.49
GOING TO RUN OUT OF TIME.
00:27:05.52\00:27:06.92
IT WAS A TIME OF GREAT
REVIVAL - A GOOD YOUNG KING.
00:27:06.96\00:27:10.49
THERE WAS A PHARAOH THEN,
BY THE NAME OF PHARAOH NECHO.
00:27:10.53\00:27:14.20
HE REIGNED FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
00:27:14.23\00:27:15.60
PHARAOH NECHO WAS AN
INTERESTING CHARACTER IN
00:27:15.63\00:27:18.07
THAT, FOR AN EGYPTIAN
PHARAOH, HE WASN'T ALL BAD.
00:27:18.10\00:27:22.14
HE ACTUALLY SENT SHIPS -
IT'S IN HISTORY - THAT HE
00:27:22.17\00:27:25.54
WAS ONE OF THE FIRST
PHARAOHS THAT SENT SHIPS
00:27:25.57\00:27:27.44
FROM THE RED SEA,
THEY WENT DOWN ALONG THE
00:27:27.48\00:27:33.28
EASTERN COAST OF
AFRICA - THEY COMPLETELY
00:27:33.31\00:27:36.42
CIRCUMNAVIGATED THE
CONTINENT OF AFRICA - WENT
00:27:36.45\00:27:39.49
AROUND AFRICA, BACK INTO
THE MEDITERRANEAN AND CAME
00:27:39.52\00:27:42.36
TO ALEXANDRIA. AND
HE HAD A FLEET OF SHIPS
00:27:42.39\00:27:45.23
THAT MADE THIS COMPLETE CIRCLE.
THAT'S IN HISTORY - ONE OF
00:27:45.26\00:27:48.40
THE FIRST PHARAOHS THAT DID THAT
- AND THEY GOT AN ACCURATE - OR
00:27:48.43\00:27:51.43
SEMI-ACCURATE - MAP
OF AFRICA AT THAT TIME.
00:27:51.47\00:27:54.57
SO HE WAS A VERY PROGRESSIVE
KING. HE WAS INVOLVED IN A WAR
00:27:54.60\00:27:57.41
WITH THE KING OF ASSYRIA
AND ON HIS WAY NORTH HE HAD
00:27:57.44\00:28:00.71
TO TRAVEL THROUGH
THE LAND OF JUDAH.
00:28:00.74\00:28:03.45
AND WITH HIS LARGE
EGYPTIAN ARMY, WAS GOING
00:28:03.48\00:28:05.78
UP THE COURSE THROUGH
PHILISTIA TOWARDS ASSYRIA.
00:28:05.81\00:28:09.45
JOSIAH THOUGHT, 'AS
SOON AS HE'S DONE THERE HE'S
00:28:09.48\00:28:13.36
GOING TO COME AFTER US.
IF WE CAN WEAKEN HIM NOW THEN
00:28:13.39\00:28:15.29
HE WON'T THINK ABOUT ATTACKING
US WHEN HE COMES BACK.'
00:28:15.32\00:28:18.93
AND PHARAOH NECHO SENT A
MESSAGE TO JOSIAH AND HE SAID,
00:28:18.96\00:28:21.53
'LOOK, GOD HAS SENT ME TO
FIGHT AGAINST ASSYRIA, DON'T
00:28:21.56\00:28:23.63
COME OUT AND MEDDLE
WITH WHAT GOD HAS TOLD ME TO
00:28:23.67\00:28:25.93
DO.' HE ACTUALLY TALKED
ABOUT GOD AS THOUGH IT WAS
00:28:25.97\00:28:28.37
THE ONE GOD, WHICH WAS
UNUSUAL FOR THE EGYPTIANS.
00:28:28.40\00:28:33.17
AND JOSIAH DIDN'T
LISTEN AND HE WAS HIT BY THE
00:28:33.21\00:28:37.15
ARCHERS IN THE BATTLE
AND THEY CARRIED HIM AWAY AND
00:28:37.18\00:28:39.18
PHARAOH WENT NORTH -
HE FOUGHT AND WON IN HIS
00:28:39.21\00:28:42.52
BATTLE AGAINST
ASSYRIA AND CAME BACK AGAIN.
00:28:42.55\00:28:45.09
LATER, THE SON OF
JOSIAH, HE WAS SUBJUGATED BY
00:28:45.12\00:28:49.72
PHARAOH NECHO. BUT
JOSIAH WAS HIT BY THE
00:28:49.76\00:28:53.03
ARCHERS; HE DIED AND THEY
SANG AND LAMENTED HIS DEATH
00:28:53.06\00:28:55.76
FOR - FOR MANY YEARS, ACTUALLY.
AND I THINK JEREMIAH WRITES
00:28:55.80\00:29:01.50
ABOUT THAT ALSO.
ALRIGHT, LET'S GO TO JEHOAHAZ
00:29:01.54\00:29:04.31
AND JEHOIAKIM. THESE ARE
TWO OF THE SONS - NOW JOSIAH HAD
00:29:04.34\00:29:10.38
THREE SONS. SOME OF
THEM WERE CHOSEN TO BE KING.
00:29:10.41\00:29:14.25
AND IT SAYS, "JEHOAHAZ
WAS TWENTY-THREE YEARS OLD" -
00:29:14.28\00:29:17.75
I'M IN 2 KINGS 23:31 -
IT SAYS 'THE KINGDOM IS
00:29:17.79\00:29:22.42
DESCENDING LOWER STILL.'
- "JEHOAHAZ WAS TWENTY-THREE
00:29:22.46\00:29:26.66
YEARS OLD WHEN HE BECAME
KING, AND HE REIGNED THREE
00:29:26.70\00:29:28.86
MONTHS IN JERUSALEM. HIS
MOTHER'S NAME WAS HAMUTAL
00:29:28.90\00:29:32.83
THE DAUGHTER OF JEREMIAH OF
LIBNAH." - OBVIOUSLY A DIFFERENT
00:29:32.87\00:29:35.74
JEREMIAH - "AND HE DID EVIL IN
THE SIGHT OF THE LORD, ACCORDING
00:29:35.77\00:29:39.71
TO ALL THAT HIS
FATHERS HAD DONE.
00:29:39.74\00:29:41.58
THEN PHARAOH NECHO PUT
HIM IN PRISON AT RIBLAH IN THE
00:29:41.61\00:29:44.61
LAND OF HAMATH, THAT
HE NIGHT NOT REIGN IN
00:29:44.65\00:29:47.18
JERUSALEM; AND HE
IMPOSED ON THE LAND A TRIBUTE OF
00:29:47.22\00:29:49.92
ONE HUNDRED TALENTS OF
SILVER AND A TALENT OF GOLD.
00:29:49.95\00:29:53.36
THEN PHARAOH NECHO MADE
ELIAKIM THE SON OF JOSIAH
00:29:53.39\00:29:56.66
KING IN PLACE OF HIS
FATHER JOSIAH, AND CHANGED
00:29:56.69\00:29:59.89
HIS NAME TO JEHOIAKIM.
00:29:59.93\00:30:02.16
AND PHARAOH TOOK JEHOAHAZ
AND WENT TO EGYPT, AND HE
00:30:02.20\00:30:06.03
DIED THERE." SO THE
PHARAOH KNEW RIGHT AFTER
00:30:06.07\00:30:12.41
THREE MONTHS THAT HE
WASN'T GOING TO BE A VERY GOOD
00:30:12.44\00:30:14.64
KING AND HE WAS NOT LOYAL
TO HIM - HE COULDN'T COUNT
00:30:14.68\00:30:18.05
ON HIM TO PAY TRIBUTE AND
SO HE DEPOSED HIM, PUT HIS
00:30:18.08\00:30:22.28
BROTHER IN PLACE, GAVE
HIM A NEW NAME, AND THAT OTHER
00:30:22.32\00:30:25.85
YOUNG MAN, HE WENT TO
EGYPT AND HE DIED THERE.
00:30:25.89\00:30:29.46
JEHOIAKIM WAS AN
OPPRESSIVE AND A GREEDY
00:30:29.49\00:30:32.16
KING AND YOU'LL
FIND THIS IN YOUR LESSON.
00:30:32.19\00:30:34.10
HE IMPOSED HEAVY TAXES ON JUDAH.
00:30:34.10\00:30:38.47
NOW, YOU KNOW ONE
REASON HE DID THAT, HE HAD TO
00:30:38.50\00:30:40.80
SEND SO MUCH MONEY DOWN
TO EGYPT AND SO FOR HIM TO
00:30:40.84\00:30:44.57
HAVE ALL OF THE TREATS
THAT THE KINGS WERE USED
00:30:44.61\00:30:46.98
TO, HE NEEDED TO INCREASE
THE TAXES OF THE PEOPLE.
00:30:47.01\00:30:49.28
SO THEY'RE BEING TAXED TO
PAY TAXES TO PHARAOH NECHO
00:30:49.31\00:30:52.81
AND THEY'RE BEING TAXED
TO PAY TAXES TO THE LOCAL
00:30:52.85\00:30:55.25
KING OF JUDAH, JEHOIAKIM.
00:30:55.28\00:30:57.72
WORSE, USING A FORCED
LABOR, HE HAD ELABORATED -
00:30:57.75\00:31:03.79
ELABORATE CONSTRUCTION
DONE ON HIS OWN PALACE IN
00:31:03.83\00:31:06.53
DEFIANCE OF THE TORAH -
THE TORAH WAS VERY CLEAR
00:31:06.56\00:31:09.06
ABOUT PAYING PEOPLE A
FAIR WAGE FOR THEIR WORK.
00:31:09.10\00:31:11.87
HE MADE HIS OWN PEOPLE SLAVES.
00:31:11.90\00:31:13.34
IT SAID, "THOU SHALL
NOT DEFRAUD THY NEIGHBOR,
00:31:13.37\00:31:15.64
NEITHER ROB HIM OF THE
WAGES OF HIM THAT IS HIRED.
00:31:15.67\00:31:18.31
THEY SHALL NOT ABIDE
WITH THEE ALL NIGHT" - THIS IS
00:31:18.34\00:31:21.01
THE TORAH - "UNTIL MORNING."
00:31:21.04\00:31:22.98
THAT'S LEVITICUS 19:13.
ALSO, UNLIKE JOSIAH, HIS
00:31:23.01\00:31:25.91
FATHER, JEHOIAKIM PERMITTED
PAGAN RITES TO FLOURISH AGAIN
00:31:25.95\00:31:28.82
IN JUDAH. SO NO
SOONER HAD JOSIAH DIED
00:31:28.85\00:31:31.95
- THEY DRIFTED
BACK TO THE OLD WAYS.
00:31:31.99\00:31:34.66
IDOLATRY CREPT IN
AGAIN ALONG WITH PAGAN RITES.
00:31:34.69\00:31:38.13
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE IS GOING
TO READ FOR ME NOW 2 KINGS
00:31:38.16\00:31:41.10
24:6 - OKAY SAM,
YOU'LL BE READING THAT.
00:31:41.13\00:31:44.40
>>SO JEHOIAKIM
RESTED WITH HIS FATHERS.
00:31:44.43\00:31:47.57
THEN JEHOIACHIN HIS
SON REIGNED IN HIS PLACE.
00:31:47.60\00:31:51.91
AND THE KING OF EGYPT
DID NOT COME OUT OF HIS LAND
00:31:51.94\00:31:54.81
ANYMORE, FOR THE KING OF
BABYLON HAD TAKEN ALL THAT
00:31:54.84\00:31:57.61
BELONGED TO THE KING
OF EGYPT FROM THE BROOK OF
00:31:57.65\00:32:01.35
EGYPT TO THE RIVER EUPHRATES."
00:32:01.38\00:32:03.72
>>SO RIGHT DURING THIS
TIME, AFTER JOSIAH DIED,
00:32:03.75\00:32:07.19
THERE WAS PEACE PRETTY
MUCH DURING THIS TIME, BUT
00:32:07.22\00:32:09.59
THERE WAS A WAR THAT WAS
RAGING FOR AN EMPIRE - IT
00:32:09.62\00:32:13.19
LOOKED LIKE THE KINGDOM
OF BABYLON WAS SPREADING, THE
00:32:13.23\00:32:16.20
KINGDOM OF ASSYRIA WAS
GETTING WEAKER, EGYPT SAW
00:32:16.23\00:32:19.37
THAT IN THIS VACUUM
'WE CAN ONCE AGAIN BECOME A
00:32:19.40\00:32:22.30
WORLD EMPIRE' AND THAT'S
WHAT PHARAOH NECHO WAS DOING.
00:32:22.34\00:32:24.67
THEY WEREN'T SO MUCH
WORRIED ABOUT JUDAH, THEY
00:32:24.71\00:32:26.71
WERE A SMALLER KINGDOM.
00:32:26.74\00:32:28.14
THEY WEREN'T WORRIED
ABOUT THE EDOMITES AND THE
00:32:28.18\00:32:29.81
MOABITES AND THE
AMMONITES, THEY WERE
00:32:29.84\00:32:31.28
WORRIED ABOUT THE BIG EMPIRES.
00:32:31.31\00:32:32.71
AND SO PHARAOH NECHO
WENT TO FIGHT WITH ASSYRIA AND
00:32:32.75\00:32:34.72
THEY WERE FIGHTING
AGAINST THE CHALDEANS.
00:32:34.75\00:32:37.65
WELL, ABOUT THAT TIME
THAT JEHOIAKIM BECAME KING,
00:32:37.69\00:32:43.12
PHARAOH NECHO LOST HIS
BATTLE WITH THE KING OF
00:32:43.16\00:32:46.39
BABYLON AND BABYLON
PUSHED THE EGYPTIANS ALL THE WAY
00:32:46.43\00:32:50.00
BACK TO THE RIVER OF
EGYPT AND NOW JUDAH BECAME A
00:32:50.03\00:32:53.67
TERRITORY ALMOST OVERNIGHT.
00:32:53.70\00:32:55.57
WHAT HAD ONCE BELONGED TO
EGYPT NOW BELONGED TO BABYLON.
00:32:55.60\00:32:58.07
THEY SAID, 'NOW YOU
HAVE TO PAY YOUR TAXES TO US
00:32:58.11\00:33:00.11
BECAUSE WE ARE THE BIG
DOG IN THE AREA.' AND PHARAOH
00:33:00.14\00:33:05.01
- RATHER THE KING OF
BABYLON WASN'T SO SURE
00:33:05.05\00:33:07.22
THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE
FAITHFUL PAYING HIS TAXES.
00:33:07.25\00:33:10.29
IT SAYS, "THE KING OF
BABYLON HAD TAKEN ALL THAT
00:33:10.32\00:33:12.52
BELONGED TO THE KING
OF EGYPT FROM THE BROOK OF
00:33:12.55\00:33:14.32
EGYPT TO THE RIVER EUPHRATES."
00:33:14.36\00:33:16.49
NOW BABYLON IS GROWING
INTO ITS EMPIRE STATUS.
00:33:16.52\00:33:19.79
AND YOU CAN - NOW WE'RE
GOING TO GO TO THE BOOK OF
00:33:19.83\00:33:23.13
JEREMIAH - WE'VE BEEN
STUDYING JEREMIAH BUT WE
00:33:23.16\00:33:25.40
HAVEN'T BEEN READING FROM IT.
00:33:25.43\00:33:26.84
JEREMIAH 22:18,
"THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD
00:33:26.87\00:33:30.11
CONCERNING JEHOIAKIM
THE SON OF JOSIAH, KING OF
00:33:30.14\00:33:33.14
JUDAH: 'THEY SHALL NOT LAMENT
FOR HIM, SAYING, 'ALAS, MY
00:33:33.17\00:33:36.88
BROTHER!' OR 'ALAS, MY SISTER!'
THEY SHALL NOT LAMENT FOR HIM,
00:33:36.91\00:33:40.12
SAYING, 'ALAS, MASTER!'
OR 'ALAS, HIS GLORY!'" -
00:33:40.15\00:33:43.02
AS THEY DID FOR HIS
FATHER JOSIAH - "HE SHALL
00:33:43.05\00:33:45.55
BE BURIED WITH THE
BURIAL OF A DONKEY, DRAGGED AND
00:33:45.59\00:33:48.69
CAST OUT BEYOND THE
GATES OF JERUSALEM."
00:33:48.72\00:33:51.39
SO JEHOIAKIM, HE
WAS NOT APPRECIATED.
00:33:51.43\00:33:57.07
HE DIED, THE KING OF
BABYLON HAD HIM CAST OUT,
00:33:57.10\00:34:00.47
AND HE HAD HIS SON PUT
IN HIS PLACE, BUT JEHOIACHIN
00:34:00.50\00:34:06.34
WAS NOT VERY CAPABLE.
AND SO AFTER A SHORT PERIOD
00:34:06.37\00:34:10.78
OF TIME HE WAS
CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON.
00:34:10.81\00:34:13.58
NOW LET ME READ TO YOU
FROM HISTORY ABOUT THIS.
00:34:13.62\00:34:16.05
IN ABOUT 598 BC JEHOIACHIN
WAS CARRIED CAPTIVE TO
00:34:16.08\00:34:22.29
BABYLON ALONG WITH
3,220 JEWS - AND YOU CAN READ
00:34:22.32\00:34:27.40
ABOUT THAT IN
JEREMIAH. HE PLACED JEHOIACHIN,
00:34:27.46\00:34:30.53
THE DEAD KING'S
SON, ON THE THRONE.
00:34:30.57\00:34:32.90
THREE MONTHS WERE
SUFFICIENT FOR HIM TO
00:34:32.93\00:34:35.64
PROVE JEHOIACHIN'S
CHARACTER AND YOU CAN READ
00:34:35.67\00:34:38.21
ABOUT THAT IN EZEKIEL ALSO.
00:34:38.24\00:34:39.74
HE WAS TAKEN WITH 10,000
OF THE BEST OF THE PEOPLE
00:34:39.77\00:34:42.88
OF JERUSALEM AND HE
CARRIED THEM TO BABYLON.
00:34:42.91\00:34:45.95
SO THERE WERE TWO
GROUPS THAT WERE FIRST CARRIED
00:34:45.98\00:34:48.88
OFF TO BABYLON BY
NEBUCHADNEZZAR: FIRST
00:34:48.92\00:34:51.25
3,000 WENT THEN 10,000 WENT.
00:34:51.29\00:34:53.86
IN THE FIRST 3,000, YOU
KNOW WHO WAS IN THAT GROUP?
00:34:53.89\00:34:57.39
DANIEL, HANANIAH, MISHAEL,
AZARIAH - LATER KNOWN AS
00:34:57.43\00:35:03.53
BELTESHAZZAR, SHADRACH,
MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO -
00:35:03.57\00:35:06.94
THOSE WERE THEIR
BABYLONIAN NAMES.
00:35:06.97\00:35:08.47
NOTICE HOW THESE KINGS
KIND OF RENAME EVERYBODY?
00:35:08.50\00:35:11.87
THEY BASICALLY SAY,
'LOOK, I'M GIVING YOU YOUR POWER
00:35:11.91\00:35:15.08
AND I'M GIVING YOU YOUR NAME.'
00:35:15.11\00:35:16.64
AND SO THEY
WOULD RENAME THEM ALL.
00:35:16.68\00:35:18.68
AND SO THIS YOUNG KING,
WHO WAS NOT A GOOD KING,
00:35:18.71\00:35:22.28
ONLY REIGNED FOR A
SHORT PERIOD OF TIME -
00:35:22.32\00:35:24.59
THREE MONTHS. HE'S A
YOUNG MAN. HE'S CARRIED OFF.
00:35:24.62\00:35:27.89
HE'S PUT IN PRISON IN BABYLON.
00:35:27.92\00:35:29.42
THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF
THE KING OF JUDAH - THE
00:35:29.46\00:35:33.83
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD KING
OF JUDAH BECAME JEHOIACHIN,
00:35:33.86\00:35:38.30
THE SON OF JEHOIAKIM, HE
REIGNED ON DAVID'S THRONE
00:35:38.33\00:35:41.97
FOR BARELY THREE
AND A HALF MONTHS.
00:35:42.00\00:35:43.51
IN 598 BC NEBUCHADNEZZAR
BROUGHT HIS FORCES TO
00:35:43.54\00:35:46.54
JERUSALEM, SEIZED THE
YOUNG KING, ALONG WITH HIS
00:35:46.57\00:35:50.05
MOTHER AND HIS WIVES
AND MANY ROYAL CAPTIVES.
00:35:50.08\00:35:56.32
YOU KNOW, I READ
SOMETHING, OH YEAH,
00:35:56.35\00:35:59.85
SOMETHING ABOUT JEHOIACHIN
- I WANT TO JUST GIVE YOU
00:35:59.89\00:36:02.76
THE FOLLOW UP. GO
TO JEREMIAH CHAPTER 51.
00:36:02.79\00:36:06.49
SO THERE'S THIS YOUNG
KING - I DON'T KNOW WHETHER TO
00:36:06.53\00:36:09.93
DO THIS NOW OR TO DO IT
AT THE END OF THE LESSON.
00:36:09.96\00:36:12.07
I THINK I'M GOING TO DO IT NOW.
00:36:12.10\00:36:13.70
IF YOU GO TO JEREMIAH
CHAPTER 52 - JEREMIAH 52,
00:36:13.74\00:36:20.14
VERSE 31 - NOW AFTER
JEHOIACHIN WAS CARRIED OFF
00:36:20.18\00:36:26.08
TO BABYLON, HE WAS PUT
IN PRISON THERE, HE STAYED
00:36:26.11\00:36:31.59
THERE 37 YEARS,
WHICH IS A LONG TIME.
00:36:31.62\00:36:35.39
ONLY ELEVEN YEARS AFTER
HE WAS CARRIED TO BABYLON
00:36:35.42\00:36:39.39
NEBUCHCADNEZZAR HAD TO
COME BACK AND HE DESTROYED
00:36:39.43\00:36:41.33
THE CITY. HE
DESTROYED THE TEMPLE.
00:36:41.36\00:36:42.83
ZEDECHIAH'S EYES WERE PUT OUT.
00:36:42.86\00:36:44.67
HIS SONS WERE ALL KILLED.
00:36:44.70\00:36:46.03
AND THAT WAS THE
UNCLE OF JEHOIACHIN.
00:36:46.07\00:36:49.30
BUT ALL THAT TIME - AND
HE WAS CARRIED TO BABYLON AND
00:36:49.34\00:36:53.94
ULTIMATELY DIED THERE -
ALL THAT TIME, JEHOIACHIN
00:36:53.98\00:36:56.71
IS STILL IN PRISON.
00:36:56.75\00:36:58.25
SO YOU FAST FORWARD NOW
AND YOU CAN READ, "NOW IT
00:36:58.28\00:37:01.68
CAME TO PASS IN THE
THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF THE
00:37:01.72\00:37:03.75
CAPTIVITY OF
JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH, IN THE
00:37:03.79\00:37:05.99
TWELFTH MONTH, ON THE
TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF THE
00:37:06.02\00:37:08.39
MONTH, THAT EVIL-MERODACH
KING OF BABYLON, IN THE
00:37:08.42\00:37:11.69
FIRST YEAR OF HIS
REIGN," - THAT MEANS AFTER
00:37:11.73\00:37:13.53
NEBUCHADNEZZAR - AND
NEBUCHADNEZZAR REIGNED
00:37:13.56\00:37:15.86
ABOUT 42 YEARS.
AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD
00:37:15.90\00:37:18.33
DIED, "HE LIFTED UP THE
HEAD OF JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH
00:37:18.37\00:37:22.14
AND BROUGHT HIM OUT OF PRISON.
AND HE SPOKE KINDLY TO HIM
00:37:22.17\00:37:25.47
AND GAVE HIM A MORE
PROMINENT SEAT THAN THOSE OF
00:37:25.51\00:37:28.78
THE KINGS WHO WERE
WITH HIM IN BABYLON.
00:37:28.81\00:37:30.85
SO JEHOIACHIN CHANGED
FROM HIS PRISON GARMENTS, AND
00:37:30.88\00:37:33.62
HE ATE BREAD REGULARLY
BEFORE THE KING ALL THE
00:37:33.65\00:37:36.08
DAYS OF HIS LIFE. AND
AS FOR HIS PROVISIONS,
00:37:36.12\00:37:38.89
THERE WAS A REGULAR
RATION GIVEN HIM BY THE KING
00:37:38.92\00:37:41.99
OF BABYLON, A PORTION
FOR EACH DAY UNTIL THE DAY OF
00:37:42.02\00:37:44.43
HIS DEATH, ALL
THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE."
00:37:44.46\00:37:47.00
NOW YOU KNOW
WHAT IS INTERESTING?
00:37:47.03\00:37:48.73
THERE HAVE BEEN THOUSANDS
OF CUNEIFORM TABLETS AND
00:37:48.76\00:37:54.20
BABYLONIAN TABLETS -
THEY FOUND A LIBRARY WITH LIKE
00:37:54.24\00:37:56.37
14,000 TABLETS
IN ANCIENT BABYLON.
00:37:56.40\00:37:58.94
YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT WAS
WRITTEN ON ONE OF THE TABLETS?
00:37:58.97\00:38:02.11
THEY TRANSCRIBED THIS AND
IT SAYS, "TABLETS FROM THE
00:38:02.14\00:38:08.68
ROYAL ARCHIVES OF
NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF
00:38:08.72\00:38:11.12
BABYLON WERE UNEARTHED
IN THE RUINS OF BABYLON THAT
00:38:11.15\00:38:13.19
CONTAINED FOOD RATIONS
PAID TO CAPTIVES AND CRAFTSMEN."
00:38:13.22\00:38:17.36
YOU KNOW, SOME OF
THESE TABLETS DON'T HAVE
00:38:17.39\00:38:19.39
ANYTHING PROFOUND, SOME
OF THEM WERE JUST MUNDANE.
00:38:19.43\00:38:21.26
IT SAYS, 'THIS ONE
GETS A RATION FOR THIS MUCH.
00:38:21.30\00:38:23.06
AND THEY FOUND, ON
ONE OF THOSE TABLETS -
00:38:23.10\00:38:25.90
SOMEONE HAD TO POUR
OVER HUNDREDS OF THEM -
00:38:25.93\00:38:27.94
ONE OF THOSE TABLETS SAID
YAUKINU, KING OF THE LAND OF
00:38:27.97\00:38:32.04
YAHUDU IS MENTIONED AMONG THEM
WITH FIVE SONS AS BEING GIVEN
00:38:32.07\00:38:36.64
A ROYAL RATION AND THAT IS
JEHOIACHIN THE KING OF JUDAH.
00:38:36.68\00:38:41.45
>>WOW! >>AND SO
THEY ACTUALLY FOUND
00:38:41.48\00:38:43.45
THE RATION TABLET THAT TALKED
ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT YOU JUST
00:38:43.49\00:38:47.39
READ THERE IN JEREMIAH, A
PROVISION WAS GIVEN BY THE KING
00:38:47.42\00:38:50.06
FOR HIM. AND SO
I THOUGHT THAT WAS
00:38:50.09\00:38:52.99
VERY INTERESTING.
BUT NOW, LOOK SPIRITUALLY
00:38:53.03\00:38:56.93
AT THIS LAST PHRASE IN JEREMIAH
BRIEFLY. WE JUST READ IT.
00:38:56.97\00:39:02.14
WHY DID KING EVIL-MERODACH
DECIDE, OUT OF THE BLUE,
00:39:02.17\00:39:07.28
TO TAKE JEHOIACHIN OUT OF
JAIL? BEEN THERE 37 YEARS.
00:39:07.31\00:39:11.01
WAS DANIEL STILL ALIVE THEN?
00:39:11.05\00:39:14.58
SEE DANIEL PROBABLY
APPEALED TO KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR,
00:39:14.62\00:39:16.99
BUT NEBUCHADNEZZAR - THE
BIBLE SAYS WHO HE PUT DOWN,
00:39:17.02\00:39:19.25
HE PUT DOWN - WHO HE
LIFTED UP HE LIFTED UP.
00:39:19.29\00:39:20.99
HE WAS A KING WHO SAID,
'ONCE IT IS WRITTEN, IT IS
00:39:21.02\00:39:22.89
WRITTEN' AND THERE
WAS NO CHANGING IT.
00:39:22.92\00:39:25.73
BUT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF
THE THINGS THAT A PRESIDENT
00:39:25.76\00:39:27.66
DOES JUST BEFORE THEY
GO OUT OF OFFICE IS THEY
00:39:27.66\00:39:29.50
START PARDONING
PEOPLE. AND SO THEY DID IT AT
00:39:29.53\00:39:33.87
THE BEGINNING OF AN OFFICE
THERE. SO WHEN A NEW KING CAME
00:39:33.90\00:39:37.61
INTO POWER, HE WOULD
OFTEN PARDON PEOPLE WHO HAD
00:39:37.64\00:39:40.24
BEEN IMPRISONED BY
THE FORMER MONARCH.
00:39:40.28\00:39:42.08
AND DANIEL APPEALED TO
EVIL MERODACH AND SAID,
00:39:42.11\00:39:44.78
YOU KNOW,
'HERE'S OUR FORMER KING.
00:39:44.81\00:39:46.28
HE'S NO THREAT TO YOU.
00:39:46.31\00:39:47.78
HE'S BEEN THERE 37 YEARS.
00:39:47.82\00:39:49.58
HE'S REPENTED OF HIS SINS.
00:39:49.62\00:39:51.45
COULD YOU PLEASE
HAVE MERCY ON HIM?'
00:39:51.49\00:39:52.95
HE SAID, 'SURE, I'LL
SHOW HIM MERCY.' YOU REMEMBER
00:39:52.99\00:39:54.59
WHAT DAVID DID WHEN
HE CAME INTO POWER WITH
00:39:54.62\00:39:56.39
MEPHIBOSHETH, THE
CRIPPLED SON OF JONATHAN?
00:39:56.42\00:39:59.29
HE SAID, 'I'M GOING
TO TAKE CARE OF YOU.
00:39:59.33\00:40:01.06
I'M GOING TO FEED YOU.
00:40:01.10\00:40:02.23
YOU COME AND EAT AT MY TABLE.
00:40:02.26\00:40:03.30
I'LL PAY YOUR EXPENSES
THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.' WELL,
00:40:03.33\00:40:06.33
THIS IS WHAT HE DOES.
00:40:06.37\00:40:07.67
NOW, I LIKE THIS STORY
BECAUSE IT'S THE STORY OF
00:40:07.70\00:40:09.40
SALVATION. HE
SHOWS MERCY TO HIM -
00:40:09.44\00:40:12.04
KINDNESS - IT'S WHAT GOD
DOES. HE DOESN'T DESERVE IT.
00:40:12.07\00:40:14.68
HE DESERVES PRISON.
HE CHANGES HIS CLOTHES -
00:40:14.71\00:40:18.51
THE LORD GIVES US
NEW RAIMENT - HE GIVES US
00:40:18.55\00:40:20.65
CHRIST'S ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
HE CHANGES HIS FOOD.
00:40:20.68\00:40:23.22
WE DON'T EAT THE
BABYLONIAN - OR WE DON'T
00:40:23.25\00:40:25.12
EAT THE BREAD OF
AFFLICTION ANYMORE, BUT
00:40:25.15\00:40:27.79
NOW WE EAT THE
NEW BREAD OF THE KING.
00:40:27.82\00:40:29.86
AND IT TELLS US THAT -
AND HE DIDN'T HAVE TO EAT THE
00:40:29.89\00:40:32.93
UNCLEAN THINGS
DANIEL DIDN'T WANT TO EAT.
00:40:32.96\00:40:34.50
HE GIVES HIM A NEW
SEAT - WE HAVE A NEW STATUS.
00:40:34.56\00:40:37.27
HE GIVES HIM A CREDIT
CARD AND SAYS THERE'S A RATION.
00:40:37.30\00:40:39.97
YOU GET AN EXPENSE ACCOUNT.
YOU GET TO LIVE IN A PALACE.
00:40:40.00\00:40:43.07
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE
RADICAL CHANGE OF BEING IN
00:40:43.10\00:40:45.61
A DARK DUNGEON FOR 37
YEARS AND SUDDENLY YOU GET
00:40:45.64\00:40:47.61
WASHED UP AND YOU'RE
BROUGHT TO THE PALACE?
00:40:47.64\00:40:50.78
>>JOSEPH.
>>THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH
00:40:50.81\00:40:52.98
JOSEPH. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED
WITH ESTHER - IN A SENSE -
00:40:53.01\00:40:56.28
ESTHER WENT FROM
BEING A CAPTIVE TO A QUEEN.
00:40:56.32\00:40:58.39
YOU KNOW, DANIEL, IT
HAPPENED TO HIM - WENT
00:40:58.42\00:41:02.59
FROM BEING A
CAPTIVE TO PRIME MINISTER.
00:41:02.62\00:41:05.23
IT HAPPENED TO MANASSEH
- HE WAS IN - MANASSEH WAS
00:41:05.26\00:41:08.26
IN PRISON IN ASSYRIA.HE
REPENTED. GOD FORGAVE HIM -
00:41:08.30\00:41:10.43
BROUGHT HIM OUT OF
PRISON - HE CAME TO THE PALACE.
00:41:10.47\00:41:12.40
AND SO, THIS IS REALLY
THE STORY OF THE BIBLE WHERE
00:41:12.43\00:41:15.34
GOD TAKES US FROM THE
PRISON TO THE PALACE, BUT
00:41:15.37\00:41:17.34
I DON'T WANT TO SAY
MUCH ABOUT THAT 'CAUSE THAT'S
00:41:17.37\00:41:18.81
IN ONE OF MY SERMON'S
NEXT WEEK IN LANSING, MICHIGAN.
00:41:18.84\00:41:21.54
BUT OUR LESSON'S ON IT TODAY.
00:41:21.58\00:41:24.25
AND SO I THOUGHT THAT
WAS REALLY INTERESTING.
00:41:24.28\00:41:27.05
IT'S JUST THE
STORY OF SALVATION.
00:41:27.08\00:41:28.72
NOW, WE'VE GOT TO
BACK-TRACK A LITTLE BIT.
00:41:28.75\00:41:30.99
WHAT HAPPENED TO
THE UNCLE OF JEHOIACHIN?
00:41:31.02\00:41:34.12
WE FOUND OUT HE'S
BROUGHT OUT OF PRISON.
00:41:34.16\00:41:37.13
HE IS NOT LISTENING TO THE KING.
00:41:37.16\00:41:40.00
AND IT SAYS - AT THE
END OF A DEAD END - IS THE
00:41:40.03\00:41:44.23
NEXT SECTION WE'VE GOT TO
LOOK AT - JEREMIAH 21, VERSE 9.
00:41:44.27\00:41:48.10
THIS WARNING HAD COME
FROM JEREMIAH TO KING ZEDEKIAH,
00:41:48.14\00:41:52.97
"'HE WHO REMAINS IN THIS
CITY SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD,
00:41:53.01\00:41:56.91
BY FAMINE, AND BY PESTILENCE;
BUT HE WHO GOES OUT AND DEFECTS
00:41:56.95\00:42:01.52
TO THE CHALDEANS WHO BESIEGE
YOU, HE SHALL LIVE, AND HIS LIFE
00:42:01.55\00:42:06.15
SHALL BE AS A PRIZE TO HIM.
FOR I HAVE SET MY FACE AGAINST
00:42:06.19\00:42:09.62
THIS CITY FOR ADVERSITY AND
NOT FOR GOOD,' SAYS THE LORD.
00:42:09.66\00:42:12.46
'IT SHALL BE GIVEN
INTO THE HAND OF THE KING OF
00:42:12.49\00:42:14.83
BABYLON, AND HE SHALL
BURN IT WITH FIRE.'" JEREMIAH
00:42:14.86\00:42:18.27
HAD A REALLY
DIFFICULT MESSAGE TO GIVE.
00:42:18.30\00:42:20.27
AFTER JOSIAH, AND
AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME AND
00:42:20.30\00:42:24.47
HE CARRIED JEHOIACHIN OFF TO
BABYLON - PUT HIM IN PRISON -
00:42:24.51\00:42:29.44
ZEDEKIAH MADE A COVENANT
WITH THE KING OF BABYLON.
00:42:29.48\00:42:33.42
HE SAID - NEBUCHADNEZZAR
SAID, 'I WILL MAKE YOU
00:42:33.45\00:42:36.28
KING BUT YOU HAVE TO
PROMISE THAT YOU WILL NOT
00:42:36.32\00:42:39.12
REBEL, THAT YOU WILL PAY
TAXES TO BABYLON, THAT YOU
00:42:39.15\00:42:42.52
WILL - FAITHFUL - AND
HE MADE A COVENANT IN THE
00:42:42.56\00:42:44.96
NAME OF THE LORD
THAT HE WOULD DO IT.
00:42:44.99\00:42:46.56
SWORE BY JEHOVAH HE WOULD DO IT.
00:42:46.59\00:42:47.96
BUT AFTER HE LEFT, A
FEW YEARS WENT BY AND HIS
00:42:48.00\00:42:50.20
COUNSELORS SAID, 'WE DON'T
NEED TO PAY TAXES TO NEBU -
00:42:50.23\00:42:53.13
HE'S BUSY
FIGHTING IN OTHER BATTLES.
00:42:53.17\00:42:54.87
HE'S NOT GOING TO COME
BACK.' AND HE SAID, 'WELL,
00:42:54.90\00:42:57.34
BUT WE MADE A VOW IN
THE NAME OF THE LORD.'
00:42:57.37\00:42:58.67
'OH, THAT DIDN'T
MATTER. YOU HAD TO DO IT.
00:42:58.71\00:43:00.24
IT DOESN'T COUNT.' AND
PRETTY SOON HE BROKE HIS
00:43:00.28\00:43:03.41
PROMISE AND HE
STOPPED PAYING TAXES.
00:43:03.45\00:43:06.21
JEREMIAH SAID, 'DON'T
DO IT. YOU'VE MADE A VOW.
00:43:06.25\00:43:08.42
HE'S GOING TO COME.'
AND THEY SAID, 'JEREMIAH IS
00:43:08.45\00:43:11.42
GIVING A FALSE PROPHECY.'
THESE OTHER FALSE PROPHETS
00:43:11.45\00:43:14.79
WERE TELLING THE KING,
'REBEL. GOD'LL PROSPER YOU.
00:43:14.82\00:43:18.66
THE KING OF BABYLON WILL
NEVER COME BACK.' AND THEY
00:43:18.69\00:43:21.46
HAD ALL THESE PHONY
PROPHECIES OF 'PEACE! PEACE!'
00:43:21.50\00:43:24.83
YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THAT
BEFORE? 'YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:43:24.87\00:43:27.17
WORRY.' JEREMIAH HAD A
VERY UNPOPULAR PROPHECY.
00:43:27.20\00:43:29.17
HE SAID THERE'S
NOT GOING TO BE PEACE.
00:43:29.20\00:43:31.34
HE SAID, 'THERE'S
GOING TO BE TROUBLE.
00:43:31.37\00:43:33.41
THERE'S GOING TO BE WAR.
00:43:33.44\00:43:34.54
THE CITY IS GOING
TO BE BURNT WITH FIRE.
00:43:34.58\00:43:35.74
THE PALACE IS GOING
TO BE BURNT WITH FIRE.
00:43:35.78\00:43:36.95
THE TEMPLE'S GOING TO
BE BURNT WITH FIRE.' THEY
00:43:36.98\00:43:38.38
SAID, 'THAT'LL NEVER HAPPEN.
00:43:38.41\00:43:39.61
THE TEMPLE'S
HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD.
00:43:39.65\00:43:40.98
IT'S SURVIVED EVERY
OTHER INVASION AND WAR.'
00:43:41.02\00:43:43.52
HE SAID, 'THE ONLY
WAY YOU CAN LIVE IS IF YOU
00:43:43.55\00:43:47.42
SURRENDER.' ALL THE FALSE
PROPHETS, THEY BEAT UP JEREMIAH.
00:43:47.46\00:43:51.03
HE HAD SUCH A HARD TIME.
00:43:51.06\00:43:52.36
YEARS WENT BY, FINALLY
NEBUCHADNEZZAR DID COME BACK.
00:43:52.39\00:43:55.93
HE BESIEGED THE CITY
AND THEY COULD SEE HIM OUT
00:43:55.96\00:43:58.53
THERE AND EVEN
ZEDEKIAH HAD A FEW PRIVATE
00:43:58.57\00:44:02.90
INTERVIEWS WITH JEREMIAH
AND HE SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU
00:44:02.94\00:44:05.34
THINK I SHOULD DO?' HE
SAID, 'I'LL TELL YOU, IF
00:44:05.37\00:44:07.21
YOU SURRENDER YOU WILL
LIVE. YOUR SONS WILL LIVE.
00:44:07.24\00:44:10.61
THE CITY WILL NOT BE BURNT.
00:44:10.65\00:44:12.58
THE TEMPLE WILL NOT BE BURNT.
00:44:12.61\00:44:13.92
JUST SURRENDER.' AND HE
COULDN'T BRING HIMSELF TO
00:44:13.95\00:44:16.42
DO IT BECAUSE THE
OTHER PRINCES SAID, 'NO, NO,
00:44:16.45\00:44:18.35
DON'T LISTEN TO JEREMIAH.
00:44:18.39\00:44:19.69
YOU CAN'T TRUST HIM.'
AND SO JEREMIAH WAS PLEADING
00:44:19.72\00:44:23.06
AND THEY PUT JEREMIAH IN PRISON.
00:44:23.09\00:44:24.59
THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE RUINING
- YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING
00:44:24.63\00:44:27.66
READY TO FIGHT THE
BABYLONIANS AND WE NEED
00:44:27.66\00:44:29.33
THE MORALE BUILT UP
AMONG THE SOLDIERS AND YOU'RE
00:44:29.36\00:44:31.07
DEFLATING THE MORALE BY
SAYING 'SURRENDER' - THAT
00:44:31.10\00:44:33.00
WE'RE GOING TO LOSE.'
AND HE SAID, 'WELL, THAT'S
00:44:33.03\00:44:35.37
WHAT THE WORD OF THE LORD
TOLD ME TO SAY.' SO HE HAD
00:44:35.40\00:44:37.04
A VERY UNPOPULAR MESSAGE,
YOU COULD SEE. WELL, YOU READ
00:44:37.07\00:44:41.44
ON, 2 CHRONICLES 36, VERSES
11 - IT SAYS HERE, 'ZEDEKIAH
00:44:41.48\00:44:48.68
WAS TWENTY-ONE YEARS
OLD WHEN HE BECAME KING, AND
00:44:48.72\00:44:51.39
HE REIGNED ELEVEN
YEARS IN JERUSALEM.
00:44:51.42\00:44:53.62
HE DID EVIL IN THE
SIGHT OF THE LORD HIS GOD, AND
00:44:53.66\00:44:55.96
DID NOT HUMBLE
HIMSELF BEFORE JEREMIAH THE
00:44:55.99\00:44:58.06
PROPHET, WHO SPOKE
FROM THE MOUTH OF THE LORD.
00:44:58.09\00:45:01.03
AND HE ALSO REBELLED
AGAINST KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR,
00:45:01.06\00:45:04.23
WHO HAD MADE HIM SWEAR AN OATH
BY GOD; BUT HE STIFFENED HIS
00:45:04.27\00:45:08.74
NECK AND HARDENED HIS HEART"
- WHERE DO YOU HEAR THOSE WORDS?
00:45:08.77\00:45:11.97
'HARDENED HIS HEART - STIFFENED
HIS NECK' - WHAT DID PHARAOH DO?
00:45:12.01\00:45:17.51
BUT HE "...HARDENED HIS
HEART BY TURNING - AGAINST
00:45:17.55\00:45:22.35
TURNING TO THE
LORD GOD OF ISRAEL.
00:45:22.38\00:45:24.42
MOREOVER ALL THE
LEADERS OF THE PRIESTS AND THE
00:45:24.45\00:45:27.36
PEOPLE TRANSGRESSED MORE
AND MORE, ACCORDING TO ALL
00:45:27.39\00:45:31.56
THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE
NATIONS, AND DEFILED THE
00:45:31.59\00:45:34.63
HOUSE OF THE LORD
WHICH HE HAD CONSECRATED IN
00:45:34.66\00:45:37.23
JERUSALEM." SO
EVEN AMONG THE PRIESTS -
00:45:37.27\00:45:39.73
THE SONS OF AARON
- WHAT WAS HAPPENING?
00:45:39.77\00:45:42.80
DOESN'T IT MAKE YOUR
HEART SAD TO THINK THESE PEOPLE
00:45:42.84\00:45:46.24
WHO HAD THE TRUTH -
THEY HAD THE SCRIPTURES, THEY
00:45:46.27\00:45:49.18
HAD THE TESTIMONIES,
THEY HAD THE LAW, THEY HAD THE
00:45:49.21\00:45:51.85
PRIESTS, THEY HAD THE
TEMPLE - THEY HAD IT ALL
00:45:51.88\00:45:55.32
IN THEIR HANDS AND
EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD IT ALL
00:45:55.35\00:45:57.15
WRITTEN BEFORE THEM,
THEY SOMEHOW WERE ABLE TO
00:45:57.19\00:45:59.39
NEGLECT IT ALL AND
BEGAN TO COMPROMISE AGAIN WITH
00:45:59.42\00:46:01.99
ALL THE PAGAN NATIONS AROUND
THEM, AND CORRUPT THE TRUTH.
00:46:02.02\00:46:04.29
WE'RE PROBABLY
IMMUNE TO THAT, AREN'T WE?
00:46:04.33\00:46:07.40
THAT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO US.
00:46:07.40\00:46:09.40
CAN YOU BE GOD'S PEOPLE
WITH GOD'S BOOK AND GOD'S
00:46:09.43\00:46:13.94
TRUTH AND COMPROMISE
WITH THE WORLD AROUND YOU?
00:46:13.97\00:46:17.17
>>YES. >>AND HOW DOES THE LORD
00:46:17.21\00:46:18.81
FEEL ABOUT IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS,
EVEN AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE?
00:46:18.84\00:46:21.54
IS THERE JUDGMENT?
00:46:21.58\00:46:22.91
YOU LOOK AT THE
HISTORY IN THE BIBLE AND, JUST
00:46:22.94\00:46:26.05
BECAUSE HE'S COMMITTED
TRUTH TO US - YES, THEY
00:46:26.08\00:46:29.25
WERE THE GUARDIANS
OF THE SACRED ORACLES.
00:46:29.28\00:46:31.15
PAUL SAYS, TO THE JEWISH
PEOPLE GOD GAVE THE SACRED
00:46:31.19\00:46:33.42
ORACLES.' THEY WERE HIS
PEOPLE, BUT HE JUDGED THEM
00:46:33.46\00:46:36.76
AND HE PUNISHED THEM
AND MANY DIED AND MANY
00:46:36.79\00:46:38.59
SUFFERED WHEN THEY
WERE UNFAITHFUL AND THEY
00:46:38.63\00:46:40.90
COMPROMISED WITH
THE WORLD AROUND THEM.
00:46:40.93\00:46:42.83
WE'VE GOT TO BE ON GUARD
THAT WE'RE NOT MAKING THAT
00:46:42.86\00:46:45.13
SAME MISTAKE,
FRIENDS. AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:46:45.17\00:46:48.10
>>YOU READ ON IT SAYS,
'THEY DEFILED THE HOUSE OF
00:46:48.14\00:46:52.31
THE LORD THAT HE HAD
CONSECRATED IN JERUSALEM.'
00:46:52.34\00:46:54.71
2 CHRONICLES 36, VERSE
15, "AND THE LORD GOD OF THEIR
00:46:54.74\00:46:59.45
FATHERS SENT WARNINGS
TO THEM BY HIS MESSENGERS,
00:46:59.48\00:47:02.82
RISING UP EARLY AND
SENDING THEM," - JEREMIAH
00:47:02.85\00:47:05.32
WAS ONE OF THEM - "BECAUSE
HE HAD COMPASSION ON HIS
00:47:05.35\00:47:07.39
PEOPLE AND ON
HIS DWELLING PLACE.
00:47:07.42\00:47:09.59
BUT THEY MOCKED
THE MESSENGERS OF GOD,
00:47:09.62\00:47:11.73
DESPISED HIS WORDS, AND
SCOFFED AT HIS PROPHETS,
00:47:11.76\00:47:15.10
UNTIL THE WRATH OF
THE LORD AROSE AGAINST HIS
00:47:15.13\00:47:17.97
PEOPLE, TILL
THERE WAS NO REMEDY."
00:47:18.00\00:47:21.60
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GET TO THE
POINT WHERE PROBATION CLOSES.
00:47:21.64\00:47:23.81
THEY FINALLY GOT TO THE
PLACE WHERE PROBATION CLOSED.
00:47:23.84\00:47:27.14
THERE WAS A TIME, EVEN
WHILE NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS
00:47:27.18\00:47:30.45
STILL SURROUNDING THE
CITY, THERE WAS A TIME
00:47:30.48\00:47:33.08
WHERE, IF THEY HAD
REPENTED AND HUMBLED
00:47:33.11\00:47:34.85
THEMSELVES, THEY WOULD
HAVE BEEN PUNISHED, BUT
00:47:34.88\00:47:37.85
THE CITY WOULD NOT
HAVE BEEN BURNT - THE TEMPLE
00:47:37.89\00:47:39.52
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BURNT.
BUT THEY HARDENED THEMSELVES
00:47:39.55\00:47:41.89
UNTIL THEY GO TO
WHERE THERE WAS NO REMEDY.
00:47:41.92\00:47:43.53
FINALLY, WHILE JEREMIAH'S
IN PRISON, ZEDEKIAH SENDS
00:47:43.56\00:47:48.73
FOR HIM AGAIN AND SAYS,
'WHAT'S THE WORD OF THE LORD?'
00:47:48.76\00:47:51.33
JEREMIAH SAID,
'IT'S HOPELESS NOW.
00:47:51.37\00:47:53.54
HERE'S THE WORD OF THE LORD.
00:47:53.57\00:47:55.24
THE CITY'S GOING TO BE
BURNED, PALACE IS GOING TO
00:47:55.27\00:47:57.44
BE BURNED, TEMPLE'S GOING
TO BE BURNED, THE SOLDIERS
00:47:57.47\00:47:59.31
ARE GOING TO BE
SLAIN, BECAUSE IT'S TOO LATE.
00:47:59.34\00:48:03.88
YOU JUST -' HE WAITED TOO LONG
TO REPENT. THERE WAS NO REMEDY.
00:48:03.91\00:48:10.05
IT SAYS, "...HE BROUGHT
AGAINST THEM THE KING OF
00:48:10.09\00:48:13.09
THE CHALDEANS, WHO
KILLED THEIR YOUNG MEN WITH THE
00:48:13.12\00:48:14.89
SWORD IN THE HOUSE OF
THEIR SANCTUARY," - YOU
00:48:14.92\00:48:17.16
KNOW, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED
WITH THE ROMANS IN 70 AD,
00:48:17.19\00:48:20.20
THEY - THE ROMANS -
ACTUALLY, THEY FLED TO THE
00:48:20.23\00:48:22.66
SANCTUARY FOR REFUGE
AND THEY WERE SLAIN THERE.
00:48:22.70\00:48:24.60
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED
BACK IN THE DAYS OF JEREMIAH -
00:48:24.63\00:48:27.44
"AND HAD NO COMPASSION
ON YOUNG MAN OR VIRGIN, OR
00:48:27.47\00:48:30.71
THE AGED OR THE WEAK; HE
GAVE THEM ALL INTO HIS HAND.
00:48:30.74\00:48:33.04
AND ALL THE ARTICLES
FROM THE HOUSE OF GOD, GREAT
00:48:33.07\00:48:36.31
AND SMALL," - PROBABLY
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE
00:48:36.34\00:48:39.25
ARK - "THE TREASURES OF
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND
00:48:39.28\00:48:41.62
THE TREASURES OF THE
KING AND OF HIS LEADERS, ALL
00:48:41.65\00:48:44.32
THESE HE TOOK TO BABYLON."
00:48:44.35\00:48:45.99
NOW, DO YOU KNOW THAT
HAD BEEN FORETOLD SEVERAL
00:48:46.02\00:48:48.06
HUNDRED YEARS EARLIER?
00:48:48.09\00:48:50.49
YOU REMEMBER WHEN
HEZEKIAH ENTERTAINED THE
00:48:50.53\00:48:53.26
AMBASSADORS FROM BABYLON?
00:48:53.29\00:48:54.83
AND INSTEAD OF SHOWING
THEM THE LORD, HE SHOWED
00:48:54.86\00:48:57.80
THEM ALL HIS STUFF
AND ALL HIS TREASURES.
00:48:57.83\00:49:00.34
AND ISAIAH SAID, 'BECAUSE
YOU DIDN'T SHOW THEM THE
00:49:00.37\00:49:03.10
LORD AND YOU BRAGGED AND
SHOWED ALL YOUR STUFF, ALL
00:49:03.14\00:49:05.27
OF IT WILL BE CARRIED OFF
TO BABYLON.' SO THIS WAS A
00:49:05.31\00:49:08.18
FULFILLMENT OF THAT PROPHECY.
00:49:08.21\00:49:09.88
"THEN THEY BURNED THE
HOUSE OF GOD, BROKE DOWN
00:49:09.91\00:49:12.65
THE WALL OF JERUSALEM," -
WHY'D THEY BREAK DOWN THE WALL?
00:49:12.68\00:49:15.08
IT TOOK A LOT OF
ENERGY TO DO THAT.
00:49:15.12\00:49:18.72
THEY WERE,
BASICALLY, SAYING 'THIS IS NEVER
00:49:18.75\00:49:21.16
GOING TO BE - IT HAS A
GREAT HISTORY, BUT THERE'S
00:49:21.19\00:49:23.32
NO CHANCE OF IT EVER
BEING FORTIFIED AGAIN AND
00:49:23.36\00:49:27.46
DEFENDED AGAIN.' AND SO
WITH PRY BARS AND SOLDIERS
00:49:27.50\00:49:30.93
AND ROPES, ONE BY ONE
THEY PULLED OFF ALL THOSE
00:49:30.97\00:49:33.60
STONES THAT HAD BEEN PUT
THERE BY DAVID AND SOLOMON
00:49:33.64\00:49:36.07
- ALL THE - KING UZZIAH
REALLY BUILD UP THE CITY.
00:49:36.10\00:49:39.24
HEZEKIAH - THEY'D DONE A
LOT TO EXPAND IT AND MAKE
00:49:39.27\00:49:41.91
BIGGER STONES AND BIGGER WALLS
AND TOWERS AND FORTRESSES AND
00:49:41.94\00:49:44.58
- PULLED IT ALL DOWN
SO IT WAS DEFENSELESS.
00:49:44.61\00:49:47.35
NOW THE REASON THIS IS
IMPORTANT - YOU REMEMBER
00:49:47.38\00:49:50.79
WHAT NEHEMIAH SAID
TO THE KING OF PERSIA?
00:49:50.82\00:49:53.32
'WHY SHOULD I NOT BE SAD
WHEN THE WALL OF THE CITY
00:49:53.36\00:49:57.06
OF MY FATHERS IS ALL
BROKEN DOWN AND THE GATES
00:49:57.09\00:49:59.13
ARE BURNT WITH FIRE?'
00:49:59.16\00:50:01.10
AND SO NEHEMIAH, HE WANTED
TO GO AND RESTORE IT SO IT
00:50:01.13\00:50:04.00
WAS A PLACE WITH
WALLS AND GATES AGAIN.
00:50:04.03\00:50:05.93
YOU KNOW, UNLESS YOU'VE
GOT WALLS AND GATES - AND
00:50:05.97\00:50:08.24
THAT'S WHY GOD GIVES US
HIS LAW - YOU DON'T HAVE
00:50:08.27\00:50:10.41
THE BOUNDARIES IN YOUR LIFE.
00:50:10.44\00:50:12.94
OKAY, I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
00:50:12.97\00:50:14.54
I NEED TO - I'M
ALMOST DONE HERE.
00:50:14.58\00:50:16.18
AND YOU CAN READ IN THE
DARK YEARS - JEREMIAH 39,
00:50:16.21\00:50:19.65
VERSES 8 AND 9 - "AND
THE CHALDEANS BURNED THE
00:50:19.68\00:50:21.98
KING'S HOUSE AND THE
HOUSES OF THE PEOPLE WITH
00:50:22.02\00:50:23.92
FIRE, AND BROKE DOWN
THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM.
00:50:23.95\00:50:26.05
THEN NEBUZARADAN THE
CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD" - I
00:50:26.09\00:50:29.62
KNOW IT SOUNDS LIKE
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, BUT IT'S
00:50:29.66\00:50:31.63
DIFFERENT - "...CAPTAIN
OF THE GUARD CARRIED AWAY
00:50:31.66\00:50:33.50
CAPTIVE TO BABYLON THE
REMNANT OF THE PEOPLE WHO
00:50:33.53\00:50:36.83
REMAINED IN THE CITY AND
THOSE WHO DEFECTED TO HIM,
00:50:36.87\00:50:39.20
WITH THE REST OF THE
PEOPLE WHO REMAINED."
00:50:39.23\00:50:41.37
ONLY THE VERY POOREST
OF THE PEOPLE WERE LEFT TO
00:50:41.40\00:50:43.54
KEEP SOME OF THE FIG
TREES AND THE VINES AND THE
00:50:43.57\00:50:45.91
VINEYARDS FLOURISHING SO
THEY COULD SEND TAXES AND
00:50:45.94\00:50:48.11
PAY TRIBUTE TO
THE KING OF BABYLON.
00:50:48.14\00:50:51.51
SO THAT WAS THE LAST
SAD END OF WHAT HAPPENED.
00:50:51.55\00:50:54.08
NOW THIS GIVES YOU THE
BACKDROP OF WHAT'S GOING
00:50:54.12\00:50:56.05
ON IN THE KINGDOM DURING
THE TIME OF JEREMIAH'S PROPHECY
00:50:56.08\00:50:58.19
AND THAT'S WHY SOMETIMES HE'S
CALLED THE WEEPING PROPHET -
00:50:58.22\00:51:00.96
HE HAD A LOT TO CRY
ABOUT AFTER KING JOSIAH.
00:51:00.99\00:51:03.73
NOW WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME BUT I
DO WANT TO REMIND OUR LISTENERS
00:51:03.76\00:51:06.39
JUST BEFORE WE GO OFF THE
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00:51:06.43\00:51:09.63
IT'S CALLED ALONE IN
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00:51:09.66\00:51:12.00
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HOW YOU CAN STAND FOR RIGHT
00:51:12.03\00:51:13.84
WHEN YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY WRONG.
00:51:13.87\00:51:15.54
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READ IT THERE AS
WELL. GOD BLESS YOU TILL WE
00:51:29.08\00:51:30.95
STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:51:30.99\00:51:34.82
>>I GREW UP IN A
CHURCH-GOING FAMILY.
00:51:34.86\00:51:37.66
I MEAN, WE WERE
AT EVERY MEETING.
00:51:37.69\00:51:39.29
I SANG IN FOUR OF THE CHOIRS
THERE - I DIRECTED THREE -
00:51:39.33\00:51:43.40
VERY INVOLVED - VERY ACTIVE.
IT ALMOST SEEMED LIKE BUSY WORK
00:51:43.43\00:51:48.30
SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW?
I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL.
00:51:48.34\00:51:51.24
I KNEW ABOUT GOD. I KNEW
ABOUT JESUS, BUT I DIDN'T
00:51:51.27\00:51:56.04
HAVE A PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
00:51:56.08\00:52:00.55
MY SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL I
GOT THE NEWS THAT MY FATHER HAD
00:52:00.58\00:52:05.99
BEEN MURDERED. I
PLAYED IT OFF REALLY WELL.
00:52:06.02\00:52:10.66
NO ONE REALLY SAW THAT
I WAS STRUGGLING WITH IT.
00:52:10.69\00:52:13.66
IT JUST REALLY FELT LIKE THERE
WAS A HOLE THAT NEEDED TO BE
00:52:13.70\00:52:20.14
FILLED AND I TRIED TO FILL
IT WITH DRUGS, WITH ALCOHOL,
00:52:20.17\00:52:24.24
WITH PARTYING. AFTER
COLLEGE I JUST STOPPED
00:52:24.27\00:52:28.48
GOING TO CHURCH ALTOGETHER.
ONE DAY, ON A SUNDAY, BECAUSE I
00:52:28.51\00:52:34.75
DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOING TO CHURCH
WITH MY MOM, I THOUGHT, YOU
00:52:34.78\00:52:38.49
KNOW, I SHOULD GET A LITTLE BIT
OF WORD. SHE HAD THE SATELLITE
00:52:38.52\00:52:42.82
SYSTEM HOOKED UP AND I'M
FLIPPING THROUGH CHANNELS AND
00:52:42.86\00:52:45.39
THEN THE LOGO POPS
ACROSS: AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS.
00:52:45.43\00:52:50.40
I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT HERE
00:52:50.43\00:52:52.87
WAS - THIS WAS THE FIRST
TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING
00:52:52.90\00:52:55.30
SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB
MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP
00:52:55.34\00:52:58.24
AND I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS
BEFORE, LET ME - LET ME LOOK
00:52:58.27\00:53:01.98
THROUGH AND FIND
THIS. I WENT THROUGH ALL THE
00:53:02.01\00:53:03.95
STORACLES. I WENT
THROUGH ALL THE STUDY
00:53:03.98\00:53:05.91
GUIDES AND I JUST
COULDN'T GET ENOUGH.
00:53:05.95\00:53:07.88
THEN THE SABBATH CAME UP AND
HE'S GOING THROUGH THE APPEAL
00:53:07.92\00:53:11.42
AND I'M JUST
GOING, 'LORD, I HEAR YOU.
00:53:11.45\00:53:14.06
I HAVE TO GO TO CHURCH.' SO I
SHOW UP - IT WAS FUNNY, I DIDN'T
00:53:14.09\00:53:18.59
FEEL LIKE I WAS GOING TO BE
JUDGED - ANYTHING JUDGMENTAL -
00:53:18.63\00:53:22.60
ANYTHING. AND I
WALKED IN THE DOOR AND I
00:53:22.63\00:53:24.53
JUST FELT AT HOME. BUT
THERE'S STILL A PROBLEM.
00:53:24.57\00:53:28.77
I'M STILL PARTYING. I WAS
STILL GOING OUT TO THE BARS.
00:53:28.80\00:53:33.21
AT THIS TIME, I WAS
SELLING COCAINE TO PAY MY RENT.
00:53:33.24\00:53:37.61
16 DAYS LATER I FIND MYSELF
IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION.
00:53:37.65\00:53:43.72
I HAD JUST CAME BACK FROM A
LIQUOR STORE AND I GRABBED A
00:53:43.75\00:53:46.82
BOTTLE OF VODKA AND THERE I AM,
HIGH OFF COCAINE, WITH MY BIBLE
00:53:46.86\00:53:52.56
IN HAND, TRYING
TO DO A BIBLE STUDY.
00:53:52.59\00:53:56.30
AND I HEARD AN AUDIBLE
VOICE, 'JUST LOOK AT YOURSELF.'
00:53:56.33\00:54:03.30
AND I DID AND I WAS
LIKE 'WHAT AM I DOING?'
00:54:03.34\00:54:08.98
AND I GOT ON MY KNEES AND I
SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU DO NOT TAKE
00:54:09.01\00:54:12.38
THIS AWAY FROM ME NOW,
I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF.'
00:54:12.41\00:54:17.25
I WAS GOING TO CONTINUE THIS
LIFESTYLE AND I WAS GOING TO
00:54:17.29\00:54:20.19
END UP OVERDOSING, HAVING A
HEART ATTACK, WHATEVER IT WAS.
00:54:20.22\00:54:25.26
'YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS AWAY.
ALL OF IT.' AND THAT DAY HE
00:54:25.29\00:54:34.34
LIFTED ALL OF IT AWAY
FROM ME. IT WAS ALL GONE.
00:54:34.37\00:54:38.34
WHEN GOD DOES SOMETHING IN
YOUR LIFE, HE DOES IT COMPLETE.
00:54:38.37\00:54:43.28
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