1 00:00:15,260 --> 00:00:21,740 All right, good morning, man. It's been, I feel like I've, I 2 00:00:21,740 --> 00:00:28,820 started this series years ago and, and I actually should think 3 00:00:28,820 --> 00:00:32,740 I counted like 6 * 6 weeks that I've, I haven't done it. 4 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:37,860 And so we're six weeks behind and we're only on less than 6. 5 00:00:37,980 --> 00:00:40,300 I had to look that up. I was like, wow, we haven't gone 6 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:44,120 very far at all. So I, I figured today I kind of 7 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,200 remind you what we're doing because some of us may not even 8 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,640 remember we're going over the kings of Israel. 9 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,920 And, and that's mainly after the division. 10 00:00:53,920 --> 00:01:00,240 And I actually made or well found in one of my Bibles, the 11 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,920 timeline that kind of gives you an indication and a good reason 12 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:10,280 of how, how things overlapped. Some of them that I, I think is 13 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,480 the most interesting is I don't have it. 14 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:22,480 Anyways, so we've gone from King Solomon and we moved to Rehoboam 15 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,960 and Jeroboam split and that's when the Kingdom split into the 16 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:28,760 northern tribe, which has how many tribes? 17 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,000 OK, we're going to interact here this morning. 18 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,120 We're going to wake up how many 1010 tribes and how many are 19 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:41,240 left in the southern tribe? 2 The northern Kingdom is called 20 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:47,680 no Israel and the southern Kingdom is called Judah. 21 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,160 And, and what, what do we know about the northern Kingdom and 22 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:55,800 all their kings? They were all great happy people 23 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,000 that followed God. No, they were all evil, wicked 24 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:06,520 men in the southern is Judah had here and there miss and match of 25 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:13,480 kings and the one of the things that I really like is seeing how 26 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,840 some of the prophets kind of go together like if we're in a 27 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:21,280 timeline. If you look, I went the wrong 28 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,920 way. Oh, well, think of Daniel and 29 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:27,880 you have Jeremiah and stuff and you think, OK, that's one book. 30 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,120 And this book, they were all alive at the same time. 31 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:35,200 Obadiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, they were all alive at 32 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,080 the same time, working for God at the same time and, and 33 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:43,600 getting messages from God and, and, and you wonder, did they 34 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:46,280 write back and forth? Hey, Daniel, I, I read that 35 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,320 book. You man, I really appreciate 36 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:49,840 what you're doing. God, God's with. 37 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,160 Hey, Ezekiel, man, I, I read that, I don't know, but I have a 38 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,760 feeling that they talked to each other, that they, they had 39 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,400 interactions with each other. But just to kind of give you an 40 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,480 overview of how it looks where we're at. 41 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,600 And, and today we're going to switch because so far we've only 42 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:15,520 looked at the kings of Judah and, and seeing them from ASA, 43 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,400 Raya, Boehm, Abaija, Jehoshaphat. 44 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:24,280 And today we're actually going to get into the if we say the 45 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,320 worst king that you know of that you you can think of quickly 46 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:32,080 that is a wicked and the most wicked man and and has the worst 47 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,520 wicked wife, who would you say? Ahab? 48 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:39,840 So we're just going to get out of that Ahab. 49 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,040 We're going to look at the king Ahab. 50 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:47,080 And it's it's amazing that of all of the kings, if somebody 51 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:52,000 like I just did said who would be sinning, that word does not 52 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,560 cinnamon synonymous for a wicked king or sin, then you can 53 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:00,520 obviously quickly go Ahab. And the same thing goes with his 54 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,320 wife Jezebel. And we look here, go ahead and 55 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:08,880 turn to 1st Kings 16, first Kings 16. 56 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:16,640 And we're going to look at kind of, I don't want to give Ahab a 57 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:26,080 pass, but I want to see why, what, what, what got him on the 58 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:30,440 path that he went, where, where did Ahab go wrong? 59 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,600 And I think a lot of it has to do with his father and, and 60 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,720 those that came before him. Obviously he had to make his own 61 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:42,840 choices and he and he chose and we'll look at a lot of bad 62 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:46,120 choices that he made and a lot of issues that came up because 63 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,680 of those choices. But we have to remember Ahab was 64 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,000 influenced just like you and I are influenced as Christians. 65 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:59,200 He was a child of God. He was a part of the Israelites. 66 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:02,040 He was a part of the nation God called out. 67 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:06,760 And yet we know him not as a king that honored God and 68 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,840 followed God, but that did wickedly and did abominable 69 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:13,040 things to God in the face of God. 70 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:18,840 And we think of Elijah. Yes, Elijah is around in that 71 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:23,840 time and we think of how famous of a prophet that Elijah and 72 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:30,280 Elijah are and and and Micah and those Elijah. 73 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,760 God brought him into the scene for Ahab. 74 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,320 Even though how wicked Ahab was, how wicked and everything he 75 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,440 took that nation in the northern tribes, God gave him somebody to 76 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:50,600 try to pull him back. Try to go, I'm not giving up on 77 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,920 you nation. I'm, I'm not, I'm not giving up 78 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,800 on my people. I want to see my people come 79 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,760 back to me. And he gives him Elijah and he 80 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,960 gives him Mica and, and unfortunately, Ahab doesn't 81 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,360 listen. And soon the the influence that 82 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:11,240 Ahab has around him turns into him influencing the nation. 83 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,680 Now it's interesting. What, what do we say usually 84 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:19,200 about kings that are wicked? How long of a span of a rain do 85 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,280 they have? Very long or very short? 86 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,840 Usually short. Ahab actually had over 20 years 87 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:31,000 and, and it's interesting, usually chapters go very quickly 88 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,400 when when they talk about wicked kings. 89 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,280 Ahab has over 7 chapters in first Kings about him and about 90 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:40,280 his activities and everything that happened. 91 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:49,360 And, and I want to look at why do we know him as the sinful, as 92 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:52,240 the wicked king? What, what did he do 93 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,560 specifically? And you can think of in your 94 00:06:55,560 --> 00:07:01,320 mind Nabetz Nabel's Vineyard and, and you think about we 95 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:05,320 talked about last time when he, when he went to war and brought 96 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:12,800 Jehoshaphat with him and the, the lead, the alliance that they 97 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,240 had and, and he's, and he gave his daughter to Mary, 98 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,400 Jehoshaphat's son, and, and everything that came from that. 99 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,800 But what about Ahab made him wicked? 100 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,640 What choices did he make that made him and the nation that he 101 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:31,320 was ruling go down the wrong path and, and made him an 102 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:35,280 infamous king, the sinful, wicked King Ahab. 103 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:36,880 Let's pray and we'll get into the lesson. 104 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,760 Heavenly Father, I thank you so much for your word and 105 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:44,160 preserving it for us for all eternity and, and giving us not 106 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,680 just good examples of how we should live and how we should 107 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:52,560 treat others and how we should serve you, but also you kept the 108 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:58,240 ones that weren't so great, the ones that were totally wicked 109 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,560 and, and against you and against everything that you stand for. 110 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,920 And you did that to keep us, give us examples of, of lives 111 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,800 that we have a choice to live. We can either live for you or 112 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,240 against you. And I got, I pray that you open 113 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:18,400 our eyes as we look at King Ahab, that you've that you set 114 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:24,000 up, you put in place to rule your Kingdom in the north and 115 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,600 what you tried to do and the decisions that he did in his 116 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,720 life. I just pray that you open our 117 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,159 eyes to have what each and everyone of us need from your 118 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:36,520 word this morning in Jesus name I pray Amen. 119 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:41,039 So as I said, look at verse you're there in chapter 16. 120 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:45,360 Look at verse 23 is where we're going to start in the 30 and 121 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:51,720 first year of ASA king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel 122 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:57,320 12 years six years reigned he and Tizza and he brought the and 123 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:02,520 he bought the hill Samaria of Shermer for two talents of 124 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,280 silver and built on the hill and called the name of the city 125 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,880 which he built after the name of Shermer owner of the hill 126 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:14,160 Samaria. Look at verse 25, but Omri 127 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:19,320 wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord and did worse than all that 128 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:24,640 were before him. This was Ahab's father, although 129 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:29,240 you know, we, we inherit sinful nature from Adam and from our 130 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,400 our parents and it's passed on generation and generation. 131 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:39,200 Ahab had a wicked father that the Bible says in verse 25 132 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:44,400 wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord and did worse than all that 133 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,160 were before him. And it's it seems that we could 134 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:53,840 like copy that look down verse. Let's get skip down to verse 30. 135 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:59,080 So we we said Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord and did 136 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,800 worse than all them were that were before him. 137 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,480 And verse 30 and Ahab, the son of Omri did evil in the sight of 138 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,120 the Lord above all that were before him. 139 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,240 Ahab had an inheritance that was not that great, that the 140 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:18,680 influence of his father was so strong that the Bible records 141 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,960 almost the exact same wording for both of them. 142 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,040 They were, they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they were 143 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,680 worse than those before him. OK, let's see what his son does. 144 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,840 He did evil in the sight of the Lord and did worse than all 145 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:38,120 before him. Just like Pastor always says, 146 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,720 whatever you do in moderation, your, your children will do in 147 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:47,240 excess, you, you as a parent, that you as an older generation 148 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:51,320 have an influence on the next generation and how they will 149 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:55,960 react and, and live their life. And we can see that specifically 150 00:10:55,960 --> 00:11:00,120 in this life of Ahab, he had a father that didn't want anything 151 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,760 to do with the Lord, didn't want to follow any precepts, anything 152 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,760 of the law. And because of that, Ahab is 153 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:14,720 brought up that way and, and we can almost go, why are, why are 154 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,520 you surprised? Ahab turned the way he did? 155 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:23,000 But what it's he, he had the, the, the example of a father of 156 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,160 a king that he had in front of him. 157 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,800 He made-up exactly the same way. And we shouldn't be surprised, 158 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,920 just like you shouldn't be surprised of the lost and what 159 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,520 they do and, and, and the sin they get into and the wickedness 160 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:39,960 they get into. And you go, man, how can you do? 161 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,360 The Bible says they're of their father, the devil and of their 162 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:44,960 father. They will do. 163 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:48,840 Don't be surprised. The wicked do the wicked things. 164 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,400 But remember, you have an influence over people. 165 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:58,080 You have the way you live your life will influence the younger 166 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,840 generation. And we see that in in Ahab's 167 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:06,600 father and moved to his son. But not only was his influence 168 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:09,280 from his father strong, it was serious. 169 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,240 Look at verse 26, there in chapter 16, talking about his 170 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:17,920 father Omri. For he walked in all the ways of 171 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:22,920 Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in all and in his sin wherewith he 172 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:28,880 made Israel to sin to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger 173 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,800 with their vanities. He He he walked in the exact 174 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,960 same sin that caused the whole thing to prop to split. 175 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,840 What why did why did Jeroboam and you'll see this and if you 176 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:50,360 read ahead and we've read other kings that phrase that he walked 177 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:54,920 in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat that what is he 178 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:56,880 talking about? He's talking about Jeroboam 179 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:01,000 didn't want to lose the northern Kingdom because where was the 180 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:05,240 temple? Jerusalem. 181 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,680 Where did they go to worship Jerusalem? 182 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:11,920 Oh, well, hold on. That's not in my territory 183 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,880 anymore. I got to have something for my 184 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:17,600 people to worship. I have to do something to keep 185 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:20,200 them here, because if they're going to travel all the way down 186 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:21,840 to Jerusalem, I'm going to lose them. 187 00:13:22,560 --> 00:13:28,200 I have to keep my my, my Kingdom here. 188 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:34,720 So he sets up two golden calves. Why like you would go wait, hold 189 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,520 on Moses and Aaron just tried that. 190 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:40,080 That didn't work. Well, why why do we pick a calf 191 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,240 anyways? But he sets up 1 and band and 192 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:48,960 and one now I can't remember some No, it wasn't Samaria yet. 193 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:55,520 Anyways, he he sets up two and a golden calf to to have an idol 194 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,640 and to to worship it. And all throughout the rest of 195 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,240 the kings, you'll see that phrase that they walked and they 196 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:09,840 did and LED the people in all the way of Jeroboam, the son of 197 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:15,360 Nebat talking about those golden calfs that idol worship was the 198 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,360 focus. And Omri does that. 199 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,600 But then look down at verse 33, OK, that that's his father, 200 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:26,840 that's Omri, and he he provokes the Lord God of Israel to anger. 201 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:33,160 Look at verse 33 about Ahab. And Ahab did more to provoke the 202 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:37,080 Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that 203 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:42,760 were before him as his father and son both abused God's 204 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:47,600 long-suffering because God doesn't bring Babylon until 205 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,120 many, many years later. God is long-suffering and that's 206 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,520 why we see Elijah and Elijah and, and all the other prophets 207 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:00,200 that God sends. But the anger of the Lord was 208 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,600 stirred against them. And, and really the, the 209 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,520 question for us to consider with an influence and, and dealing 210 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:12,240 with a father and a son is what kind of pattern of behavior are 211 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,960 you leaving and setting for those that are coming behind 212 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,880 you? Are you, are you in a pattern of 213 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,520 daily reading your work, your Bible and they seeing it? 214 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,760 I think that's something that we we forget. 215 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,760 Yes, I have, I have my devotions every morning. 216 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:35,680 Do your kids know you do? Oh, they might know. 217 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,480 Dad probably does. Mom, I think does, I'm sure she 218 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:42,000 does. But there's an there's an 219 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,360 influence you're missing as a parent. 220 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:48,720 If they're not seeing you do it. Not because we're trying to look 221 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:52,360 at look at me, look at what I do, but it means more when you 222 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:57,160 see it, the children will see that you're the next generation 223 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:01,560 will see man. There's something he doesn't 224 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:03,800 just tell me to go do my devotions. 225 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,760 I see him do his devotions. I see him pray. 226 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,800 He doesn't just tell me to act a certain way. 227 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:17,120 I watch my dad or I watch my mom or I watch the the older man at 228 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:21,840 church do this. Just like all throughout the Old 229 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,400 Testament are signs and throughout the Old Testament we 230 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:30,320 see God tells them, they cross, they cross the Jordan River on 231 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,680 dry ground and what does God have them do? 232 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:39,000 They take up stones and put them in the middle and then standing 233 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,800 stones on the outside. Why? 234 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,280 Because God wanted the younger generation to be able to see 235 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,440 something and go what meanest thou these? 236 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,680 What? What's the point of this? 237 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:57,360 Sadly, Ahab had an influence in a seeing of what his dad was 238 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:01,800 like as a Kingdom, as a wicked king, and that pattern of 239 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:07,760 behavior just went in excess. So we see the influence that his 240 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:13,400 dad had over him, but then we see Ahab's chooses himself, but 241 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,720 his own iniquity there. Look at verse 30 And we read 242 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,160 this and Ahab, the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the 243 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:23,560 Lord above all that were before him. 244 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:32,400 Ahab sin. We could say it is is three-way, 245 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,720 three-way deep. I guess I'll say it the first 246 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,680 way is he sinned against the will of God. 247 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:47,280 Look there in verse 31. And it came to pass, as if it 248 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:51,080 had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam, 249 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:55,600 the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel, the daughter of 250 00:17:55,720 --> 00:18:00,840 Ethball, king of the Zaidonians, and went and served Baal and 251 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,640 worshipped him. Now if you remember back in 252 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,560 Deuteronomy, who, who were the children of Israel supposed to 253 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:12,920 marry? The other Israelites? 254 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,080 Who were they not supposed to marry? 255 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,200 The everybody else, the wicked, the the Canaanites? 256 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:26,760 And in this this fact, Ahab specifically doesn't look for a 257 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,600 wife in his own tribe, in his own nation. 258 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:35,640 He finds one that specifically goes against what God says to go 259 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:40,200 after for a wife. So so we see him going totally 260 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:45,160 against what the will of God was for the children of Israel. 261 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:52,280 Keep your finger at first Kings 16 turn to 1st Kings 21 and you 262 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:56,160 say, well, I mean, it's a wife. He could still choose to do what 263 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,800 he wants to do and he's the king and and he can choose to have 264 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,680 like Solomon many wives. What's the point of it? 265 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:05,600 Why? Why does it matter who you 266 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,440 choose to marry and and choosing somebody that is in the will of 267 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:13,120 God for you. Look at verse 25 of chapter 21. 268 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,320 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to 269 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,600 work with goodness in the sight of the Lorem inside of the Lord. 270 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:28,920 And here's the key phrase whom Jezebel, his wife, stirred up. 271 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,960 Why did a lot of the wickedness happened? 272 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,720 Because that influence of his wife. 273 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:43,920 Who you choose to marry is very important, who God has for you. 274 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:47,560 And I believe God has a will for every single person, whether it 275 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:49,360 is to get married or not get married. 276 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,680 But if you're if God's will is for you to get married and that 277 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:57,080 person is in the will of God, they will influence you for God. 278 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,680 But if you choose to do your own thing and get out of the will of 279 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,920 God and not decide to follow after what God has chosen and 280 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,280 decided what what a mate should be like. 281 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,600 And you get out of that will of God, that person will influence 282 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,400 you and turn you, as the Bible says, stirred him up to do 283 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,520 wickedly and to serve not God. Bail. 284 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:30,080 Jezebel was moving the nation in a almost like in a Fast forward 285 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,160 motion into the total opposite direction. 286 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,080 And and really we see Baal worship a little bit here and 287 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,160 there. But when Jezebel and Ahab get on 288 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:43,280 the scene, they like Fast forward into the jump, headlong 289 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,760 into it. And so much so that Ahab sets up 290 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:52,960 and builds temples for Baal. Not that they were there before, 291 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,920 but he specifically builds them for Baal worship. 292 00:20:58,120 --> 00:21:02,640 And also, if we looked at this the last time Jehoshaphat's son 293 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,520 gets married to Jezebel's daughter and that influence we 294 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:12,280 looked at is she tries to wipe out the entire lineage of date 295 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:18,200 of of David because of that wicked out of the will marriage. 296 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:24,360 So be careful who you who you allow yourself to be with who 297 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:30,280 you allow yourself to marry who you allowed to be influencing 298 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:35,720 you because as as quickly as you think you are an influencer. 299 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,400 I hate that word because of today's culture. 300 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,920 But as soon as you feel like you're influencing somebody 301 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,280 else, most likely they're influencing you more than the 302 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,520 other way. So be careful as who you are. 303 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,160 So as sin went against the will of God, but it also get one 304 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,400 against the man of God. Look there in verse, stay in 305 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:01,800 chapter 21. Look at verse 20 talking about 306 00:22:02,360 --> 00:22:06,760 throughout Ahab's life, we see the the you know, the most 307 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:12,440 famous prophet that we know of during his time was Elijah and 308 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,800 how closely those two lives were intertwined. 309 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,480 And look at verse 20 of chapter 21. 310 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:25,480 And Ahab said to Elijah, hast thou found me, O my best friend, 311 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:33,000 my enemy? He considered the man of God to 312 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,440 be his enemy. Looked go a little further, 313 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:42,960 chapter 22, verse 8. And this is and the king of 314 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,800 Israel, Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, this is when they 315 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,120 were going together to go to war. 316 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:53,640 And Jehoshaphat says, hey, let's, let's find a prophet and 317 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:58,520 find out if we should do this. And Ahab first goes, well, let's 318 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,920 let me bring my prophets. And they all told him what he 319 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,720 wanted to hear. And just Jehoshaphat said, wait, 320 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,800 let's find somebody, a prophet of the Lord in verse 8. 321 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:12,760 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, and you almost hear 322 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:20,040 and go, he sighs, There is yet one man, Micah, the son of Imla, 323 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:25,560 by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, for he 324 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,320 does not prophecy good concerning me, but evil. 325 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,640 And Jehoshaphat said, let not the king say so. 326 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:37,120 So think of it this way. If you get so far in your, in 327 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:43,160 your life that you become an enemy of the man of God and you 328 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:48,040 are going against the will of God, it's pretty easy to say 329 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,000 you're not where you should be. You're, you're, you're not on 330 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,760 God's will for your life, but not only did he go sin against 331 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,240 the will of God and the man of God, we can see that he sins 332 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,880 against the word of God verse chapter 21. 333 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:11,640 Go back to 21 and we let's see. Well, we'll just start in verse 334 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,000 1 real quick. And it came to pass after these 335 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:19,880 things, that Naboth the Jesuit Jezreite, had a vineyard, which 336 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:24,840 was in Jezreel hard by the place of Ahab, king of Samaria. 337 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,160 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, and saying, Give me thy vineyard, 338 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,280 that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near 339 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:37,080 unto my house, and I will give thee for it a better vineyard 340 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,800 than it. Or if it seemed good to thee, I 341 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,520 will give thee the worth of it in money. 342 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:48,520 Now when we first read that, we just think, OK, he just there's 343 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,760 a garden next to his house and it's close. 344 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,160 So he's like, hey, instead of me gardening way over here, I'll 345 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,080 just buy this one. And we think very innocently 346 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:03,440 about that. But in when, when Joshua brought 347 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:08,320 the king, the the Israelites into the promised land, God told 348 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:12,600 them to never sell land outside of their family. 349 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,000 It was supposed to stay within the tribes. 350 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:21,160 Dan's area was always supposed to be Dan's area, whether it 351 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:26,160 went from Uncle Dan to brother Dan or to whatever other day. 352 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:28,160 And it was supposed to stay in that tribe. 353 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,120 It was never supposed to become a Benjamites. 354 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:35,680 It was never supposed to become a Levites or someone from Judah. 355 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,680 It was always supposed to be within that tribe. 356 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:43,040 And we see that. Why did Naboth say no? 357 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:48,880 I mean, the king is asking for David comes and asks for the 358 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,440 threshing floor and he says, I'll give it to you. 359 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:56,520 And David says no, I will not take something and sacrifice the 360 00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,320 God that doesn't cost me something. 361 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,520 And he buys the threshing floor. And so you think, OK, the king 362 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:06,600 is going to buy my land, I'm going to make a profit off of 363 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,320 this one. But Naboth says no. 364 00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:14,960 Why does he say no? He says no because I'm looking 365 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,600 at chapter 16 trying to find the verse that's a problem. 366 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,560 Thank you. Chapter 21 verse 3 and Naboth 367 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:28,080 said to Ahab, the Lord forbid it me that it that I should give 368 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,480 the inheritance of my father's unto thee. 369 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:39,080 Ahab knew what God said. Naboth reminds Ahab God said do 370 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:44,600 not sell land to another tribe, but Ahab goes totally against 371 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:49,640 what God has said in his word to do to deal with Landon. 372 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:57,320 And sad thing is how many of us are like Ahab when we sin by 373 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:01,720 acting against the will of God, by speaking against the man of 374 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,200 God and going against what the word of God says. 375 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:09,000 Oh you know, I just I'm tired. I'm not going to show up for 376 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,880 Sunday school. I'll be there for Sunday night. 377 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,920 That's against what the word of God says. 378 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,760 I know that movie has some profanity and some stuff in it, 379 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,440 but overall it's pretty good. It's against what the word of 380 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,480 God says. I know God said that I should 381 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:31,560 marry a Christian woman and, and somebody that follows what the 382 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:35,480 Bible says, but this lady looks really pretty and she's really 383 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,080 nice. And, and, and you're out of the 384 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:42,080 will of God. And when you start adding these 385 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:48,640 things together, we see how easy it is for Ahab to get from going 386 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:53,720 with what the Lord wanted to, to being known as the wickedest 387 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:59,640 king and going against what God wanted in all areas, the will of 388 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,760 God, the man of God and the word of God. 389 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,960 And we have to be careful not to follow his footsteps. 390 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,320 The other thing we see is his idolatry. 391 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:18,280 Turn back to chapter 16. Jeroboam like I said introduced 392 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:24,400 the whole idea of idolatry with the the the 2 golden calves and 393 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:30,800 and Ahab part part pattern himself exactly like Jay 394 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,400 Jeroboam did there in verse 31. And it came to pass as it if had 395 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,920 been a light thing for him to walk in the the sins of 396 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,440 Jeroboam, the son of Nebe. He he already knew what was 397 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,920 right and wrong. And yet he decides that idolatry 398 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,640 is going to be the way it was. And he first starts there in 399 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,600 verse 31 with the bad association. 400 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:01,480 I, I, I'm, I'm not just not looking for a Christian wife. 401 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:06,160 I'm looking for a wife that is into total wickedness serving 402 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:12,600 another false cult God of Baal. And not just am I going to marry 403 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,040 somebody that is just a follower, I'm going to marry the 404 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,920 priests daughter of the follower of Baal. 405 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:26,400 Just like Solomon did when he started having many many wives 406 00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:30,840 and the Bible says that they turned the heart of Solomon 407 00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,640 again away from God. Jezebel had the same effect on 408 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,160 Ahab. Yes, Ahab was wicked already, no 409 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:43,880 doubt about that. But Jezebel turned it quicker 410 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,280 for him. But not only did he have the 411 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,880 wrong associates to to follow after God, but he did the wrong 412 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:52,960 activities. Look there. 413 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:54,240 Verse. Yeah. 414 00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:01,160 Oh wow, we'll skip that. We'll keep going. 415 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:06,720 Verse Look at verse 32 and he reared up an altar for bail in 416 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:10,880 the House of bail which he had built in Samaria. 417 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:16,320 A have moved from personally worshipping a false God to 418 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:20,880 making it a national thing. It wasn't enough that I'm going 419 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,840 to do what I want to do. It's I'm going to take everybody 420 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:30,800 else into wickedness and and we think, think of Eve, how quickly 421 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:35,960 she went from being influenced by the serpent and being enticed 422 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,960 to to eat the fruit. The Bible look, go real quick 423 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:48,480 Genesis 3 and we kind of read this and just go over it and, 424 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,280 and just, you know, it is what it is. 425 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,880 Chapter 3, Verse 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good 426 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,000 for food, and then it was pleasant to the eyes, and the 427 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,560 tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit 428 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:12,360 thereof and did eat. OK God, Satan deceived Eve and 429 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,680 she ate of the fruit. But what happens right after 430 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:20,520 that? She eats the fruit and then and 431 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:26,080 gave also one to her husband with her and he did eat think 432 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:31,160 think of think of how quickly the seduced became the seducer. 433 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,560 Adam had a choice, just like Eve had a choice and but but Satan 434 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:41,520 tempted Eve and we just read that Eve gave it to her husband 435 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:46,000 and gay and he just OK. I don't think it was that quick 436 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,880 of a decision for Adam. I think it was a listen, I it's, 437 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:55,200 it's so good. You'd have no idea how this good 438 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,680 this tastes. We just got back from Belize and 439 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,000 having a freshly squeezed pineapple juice. 440 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,640 You have no idea how good it is. And it comes in about a cottage 441 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:10,880 cheese canister tub and and I could have had like 8 of them. 442 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:17,120 But anyways, that's seducing, that's enticing. 443 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,080 I I just sinned. I just failed and fell. 444 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,360 I'm going to take somebody with me. 445 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:28,800 And how quickly it went from being a seduced person to being 446 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:31,880 seducing themselves. And Ahab does the same thing, 447 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:37,120 not only quickly getting seduced and getting into false worship 448 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:43,080 of Baal by his wife, but he raises up a temple and an altar 449 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:48,160 for it to bring others with him. And we have to be very careful 450 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,280 that we don't follow in those footsteps. 451 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:55,160 It's very easy for us to get influenced by people around us. 452 00:32:55,440 --> 00:33:00,760 And then as soon as we either A realize we're doing wrong or B, 453 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,840 just enjoy sin, it's so quickly for us to go, Hey, did you watch 454 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,360 this? Oh man, it's so good. 455 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,920 It doesn't have great words it, but the plotline is really good. 456 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:16,600 And it's so quickly for us to slide that direction. 457 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,760 But the last thing I want to look at is what he dealt with as 458 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:26,360 king because of his sin. Look, turn to chapter 18 and 459 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:29,880 we'll be done real quick. I hope. 460 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,360 A lot of the issues that Ahab went through were because of his 461 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:41,640 sin. Think of what is the the biggest 462 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,200 thing that you think of with Elijah and Ahab? 463 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:55,800 The the the biggest contention huh OK, second biggest then in 464 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,920 your mind what did what did same time point though What why did 465 00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:03,320 they do that? What did Elijah say that wasn't 466 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,920 going to happen. No rain that's a problem. 467 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,280 As a king I got to have rain for my people to grow food and to do 468 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,000 all this. But the Bible says there verse 469 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:28,239 chapter 18 look at no where is it at? 470 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,280 I can't find it. Elijah tells them, 471 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,400 yes, thank you. Chapter 18, verse 18 Elijah 472 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:55,000 tells Ahab and he answered, I have not troubled Israel, but 473 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,800 thou in thy father's house, and that ye have forsaken the 474 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,120 commandments of the Lord, and thou has followed Balaam. 475 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:10,960 Ahab's whole issue was his sin and so, so many times throughout 476 00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,960 our lives. How many times are you into 477 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:17,080 trouble and in problems caused because of your own sin? 478 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:23,360 It wasn't if if Ahab was doing right and following the Lord 479 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,600 wouldn't have been a famine, would have been a time of no 480 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:32,480 rain. But because of that sin and that 481 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:39,520 that that angering of the Lord, we see unnecessary labor, 482 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:45,200 unnecessary death, unnecessary fill in the blank of work and 483 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,120 everything Ahab had to deal with. 484 00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,640 And why was he mad at Elijah Because he was the one that said 485 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,640 no rain. If if he was walking right, he 486 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,600 probably would have been friends with Elijah. 487 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,080 But because of his sin and and so many times we go through this 488 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,720 life and we wonder why am I going through this? 489 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:08,360 Why do I got to deal with this better check and make sure it's 490 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,600 not sin that you you did that brought this on to you. 491 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:20,040 The life of Ahab is a lesson on on really like the the power of 492 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:26,360 what influence is on a young man and what an influence is when he 493 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:30,240 gets older. And and we have to remind 494 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,840 ourselves that our war, our works follow what that kind of 495 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:41,800 influence does with us. Ahab's name is always linked 496 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,760 with sin and wickedness. And the Proverbs 22 says a good 497 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:51,320 name is rather to be chosen than great riches and loving favor 498 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:57,760 rather than silver or gold. Ahab's name is in Jezebel's name 499 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:04,480 is associated with wickedness. Let's not be and let's not live 500 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:10,480 a life that that our parents, our friends, our family, look at 501 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:14,880 your name and you and your life and not associate it with 502 00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,880 wickedness. But to be able to see that the 503 00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:23,240 influence that you give out is trying to bring people to God. 504 00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:27,920 It's trying to get people on the will of God because we have the 505 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:32,320 same choice that they have had. Oh yes, he might have had a bad 506 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:35,440 in the first influence on his life. 507 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,800 Maybe you had the same thing growing up. 508 00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:44,280 You didn't have godly parents. But we all have the choice to 509 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:51,600 make whether we're going to follow after God or follow away 510 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,520 from God. Christians, not Christians, we 511 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,120 all have that choice and as quickly as we throw Ahab under 512 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:05,280 the bus and go man, a wicked king, be sure not to find 513 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:09,240 yourself in the same boat because it's very easy to fall 514 00:38:09,240 --> 00:38:11,080 into that same thing. Let's pray. 515 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,440 Heavenly Father, thank you so much for your word and the 516 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:19,760 promises and the truths from it, Lord, that you've preserved for 517 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:25,280 us to be able to take and not just read, but to to study and 518 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,680 to to put into practice into our own lives. 519 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:32,000 Lord, I just, I pray that you help us to as we go through the 520 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,120 the rest of these kings that we realize, yes, we're not kings 521 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,640 and we're not over nations, but they were men just like us. 522 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:45,280 They, they had the same choices that we have and they they chose 523 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:49,120 some well and some wrong. And God, I just pray that you 524 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:54,480 help us to see the the necessity to look through your word before 525 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,760 we make choices so we can make choices that please you. 526 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,000 I thank you again for all that you do. 527 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,440 I pray that you be with pastor, fill him with your spirit as he 528 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:07,840 comes to the next hour. Give us a good rest of the day 529 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,640 here in your house. In Jesus name I pray, Amen. 530 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:11,840 You're dismissed.