1 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:17,180 All right, good morning, everybody. 2 00:00:19,500 --> 00:00:22,820 It's always fun when you get to start a new, you haven't done 3 00:00:22,820 --> 00:00:26,860 anything for a while and you get to start a new series and go 4 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:31,980 ahead and turn your Bibles to First Samuel 8, First Samuel 8. 5 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:36,400 But it's one of those things where it's like you, you, you 6 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,280 haven't been up here. So your, your first one, you're 7 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:41,640 a little like shaky and everything getting ready to go 8 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,800 and make sure everything makes sense to everybody else. 9 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:50,360 And but we'll be all right. Today's just an introduction so 10 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,440 it won't be so difficult. And so I got to make sure I look 11 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:58,480 at the time because now that we start at an earlier time, if if 12 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,560 I go till 10:40, I think pastor is going to be quite upset with 13 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,560 me. So, so the new time is not 14 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,160 10:40. So if I get there, just go like 15 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,160 this, like this, cut it, cut it. We're going too long. 16 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:16,800 So we're going to be doing lessons or things we find out 17 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,720 from the throne, meaning the Old Testament, the kings and Queens 18 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,840 and those that were in leadership in Israel during the 19 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,600 Old Testament time. We're going to look at a bunch 20 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,800 of different kings, mainly dealing with the southern tribe, 21 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,200 a couple that will look at the northern tribe. 22 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:43,920 But I wanted to start with kind of a introduction of, of why are 23 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,560 we doing this? And some, some don't, you know, 24 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,840 some people, I'm not going to think that everybody went to, to 25 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,560 Bible college and has an Old Testament survey class under 26 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,840 their belt. And I remember I loved Old 27 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,200 Testament survey. The thing I hated about it was 28 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:07,120 we had to chart every king know how to spell each and every one 29 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,800 of them and put them in order. And, and when they all have 30 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,320 pretty much similar names, it's very difficult. 31 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,440 So I won't make you do that. We won't have that for school up 32 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,720 here for Sunday School. But I just wanted to go over 33 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:29,080 what Old Testament history side of, of what we're doing because 34 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:34,720 human nature never changes. We, you know, we'll start off 35 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:39,520 with a little pop quiz. Who knows who George Santiana is 36 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:45,840 or what he's famous for? Nobody, because nobody that 37 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:50,160 knows phrases is famous, but it's a phrase that everybody 38 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:51,960 knows. He's famous for saying. 39 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:57,920 Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 40 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,160 That's who's that who, that's who came up with that phrase. 41 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,680 And it's something that we see every single day. 42 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,360 And and it's something that the Bible uses. 43 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,640 I think it's biblical. Why did God give us the Old 44 00:03:13,640 --> 00:03:15,520 Testament? It's a history book. 45 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,400 It tells of the kings and tells of the prophets and everything 46 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,000 that happened to Israel of of starting. 47 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,560 It's a history book. But why is it there? 48 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,520 Paul says in 1st Corinthians 1011. 49 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,960 Now all these things happened unto them for in samples, and 50 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:36,600 they are written for admonition, upon whom the ends of the world 51 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,600 are come. God preserved his word and made 52 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:45,680 the Old Testament the way it is, so we could see examples for our 53 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,840 lives, so we can learn something from those kings and Queens and 54 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:55,560 and prophets and judges of how we should live and what 55 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,960 consequences we'll have if we don't do what God says. 56 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,240 And it what consequences we do if we do do what God says. 57 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,960 And so we see that the Bible clearly states that the history 58 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,960 book, the Old Testament is there for our learning, for our 59 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:15,160 admonition. You know, when you, when you 60 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:19,120 read through the Bible and you get to Leviticus or you get to 61 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:25,080 Numbers and you start going, OK, why do I need to know how many 62 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,120 times you need to sacrifice something? 63 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,160 All the rituals and the laws and everything and you're like, wow, 64 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,120 this one's hard to get through. Some of them are easy to get 65 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:40,400 through Genesis, you go to Job, you go through Isaiah and, and 66 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,760 some of the Old Testament. You can kind of sit down and and 67 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,840 read and, and you really like reading it, but some of them are 68 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,880 rough, rough to get through. And you wonder, why did God 69 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:55,840 preserve this? My here as a Gentile, not a Jew. 70 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,320 We don't do the temple law. Why did God keep some of that 71 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,520 stuff? Why does it preserved in his 72 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,440 Word? It's because it was all there to 73 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:08,840 teach us, to show us, point us, as the Bible says, as a 74 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:13,040 schoolmaster to Christ. But it's there as a an 75 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,440 admonition, a way for us to learn. 76 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,240 But it's not just to learn. If you go to school and you 77 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:25,160 learn stuff and then you get out on the job, if you never apply, 78 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,000 what you've learned, what you've learned is useless. 79 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,040 It's there's no point in learning it. 80 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,440 That why, why do we have the Old Testament for showing us 81 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,760 examples and and samples and for our learning? 82 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:41,000 It's not just so we know it, it's that we apply it into our 83 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:46,680 lives. Think, think of, OK, I talked 84 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,800 about we had to part plot the charts of all the kings and, and 85 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,160 the prophets and stuff. I think a lot of times we don't 86 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,720 realize how much they overlap each of these people. 87 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:00,840 You, you think of Adam, Adam and Eve. 88 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:06,280 Once we get to Cain and Abel and then Seth, we kind of forget 89 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:10,920 that Adam even was still alive. He, he was still alive around 90 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,640 Methuselah all the way up till Noah. 91 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:19,400 You think of Micah and Isaiah were together, Zephaniah and 92 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,360 Jeremiah were together. Jeremiah was all around when 93 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:26,880 Habakkuk and Obadiah was around. Hezekiah was king when Manasseh 94 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,520 was around. Daniel was around with Ezekiel 95 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,800 and Obadiah. You don't really think of people 96 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,200 overlapping, but they were around at the same time. 97 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:41,120 And, and the the things that Daniel would have written, 98 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,600 Ezekiel would have read. Ezekiel wrote things that Daniel 99 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:47,400 would have read. And you think of the overlap 100 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,200 that these people have. And that's why we've got to look 101 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,640 at what's the point of the Old Testament? 102 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,960 Why are we looking at the kings? And the first thing is we have 103 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,360 to do is we have to analyze that period. 104 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,520 Like I said, we some of us went to Bible college. 105 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,600 Some of us only had like I only took Old Testament survey. 106 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,680 That was my scope of Bible school. 107 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:15,440 But having a background in what the history of this nation is 108 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,760 can help us see where we're going to go with these kings 109 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,240 that we're going to look at. But let's pray and we'll get 110 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,120 into this lesson. Heavenly Father, I thank you so 111 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,680 much for this morning for being able to get up and out of bed 112 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,320 and the breath that you gave us and the health that you've given 113 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:36,400 us to be here and in your house. God, I just pray that you be 114 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,520 with the lesson and, and give me the right words to say and the 115 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,680 the exact things that you want us to learn from your word. 116 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,560 And I just pray that you help us as we go through these kings 117 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,600 that that you've preserved for all eternity and, and made for 118 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,320 us to know and find out what they did and what they didn't 119 00:07:57,320 --> 00:07:59,600 do. And God, I just pray that it it 120 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,640 becomes something that we want to apply to our lives and not 121 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,880 just know about them, but and, and be able to answer questions 122 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,040 and and get candy for those questions being answered. 123 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:15,880 To be able to apply it to our lives that we'd be able to live 124 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,680 for you and be able to please you with our lives and those and 125 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,640 help those around us. God, I pray that you be pleased 126 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,520 and that your name be lifted up and you be glorified through 127 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,920 everything that goes on here this morning in Jesus name, I 128 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,040 pray, Amen. All right, so you're there in 129 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:36,320 first Samuel chapter 8. The first thing we're going to 130 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,280 look at is the period this period. 131 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:45,360 Think of, OK, Israel's in Egypt, they come out of Egypt and they 132 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,800 are set aside as a nation. There's over 2 million Jews. 133 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,800 There's, there's set aside as a country, but they don't have a 134 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,840 place yet. They're going to the the place 135 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:04,280 and and God has set up a set of government that is ruled by God 136 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:09,640 and he uses Moses, then he uses Joshua and then it goes to the 137 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:14,520 judges and it is although controlled by God and that is 138 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:21,640 called a not a monarchy, which has kings and Queens close 139 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,760 theocracy. It's called a theocracy and it's 140 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:31,200 governed and ruled by God Moses, and those are leaders, but God 141 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,480 is the ultimate one that gives the laws. 142 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,960 And we see here in first Samuel 8 verse one. 143 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,280 And it came to pass when Samuel was old that he made his sons 144 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,960 judges over Israel. Now the name of his first born 145 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,600 was Joel in the name of his second Abbott Abbaya. 146 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:56,560 They were judges in Beersheba. And his sons walked not in his 147 00:09:56,560 --> 00:10:02,280 ways, but turned aside after Luker, and took bribes and 148 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,800 perverted judgment. Then all the elders of Israel 149 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,200 gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Rhema, 150 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:13,800 and said unto him, Behold, thou art old, that's a nice thing to 151 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:19,800 say, and thy sons walk not in thy ways. 152 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:25,720 Now make us a king to judge us, like all the other nation, like 153 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,800 all the nations. But this thing displeased Samuel 154 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,920 when they said, Give us a king to judge us. 155 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:40,320 And Samuel prayed unto the Lord. We see here God's theocracy is 156 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:44,400 getting questioned, not because of God, but because of Samuel's 157 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,240 kids and, and, and all throughout the Bible you see 158 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,800 that. You see a father that is strong 159 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:54,680 in the faith and and used as a prophet and here as a prophet 160 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:58,920 and a judge. And yet somewhere he doesn't 161 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,320 teach his kids that. Somewhere he doesn't pass that 162 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:05,640 along to be important to his kids. 163 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:12,040 And so through time, Israel gets sick of the judges. 164 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:15,680 You think of Samson. You think of we have here 165 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:24,720 Samuel's kids later, later on. You think of now I just blanked 166 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:31,040 who what, who was the high priest that fell and Eli's sons 167 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,840 All through the Bible, we see a bunch of times where the man of 168 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:41,040 God that's being used by the man of God doesn't put priority in 169 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:46,160 instilling it into his kids. That's something that we have as 170 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,320 an example to apply into our lives. 171 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:55,840 As as spiritual as you might be, Dad, mom, unless you pass it 172 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,520 down to your kids to where they understand and it's important to 173 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:03,720 them, it's fine and dandy. If you can have all your kids 174 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:09,080 memorizing Bible verses and knowing Scripture and knowing 175 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,440 answers to questions on Wednesday night, that's great. 176 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,320 But if it's not important to them, it means nothing for their 177 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,680 life. We have to instill into them the 178 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:23,840 importance of the Word of God in the importance and the realness 179 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,120 of who God is. I think a lot of times we we 180 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,240 read the Old Testament and we read the Bible and wow, he 181 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:34,800 parted the Red Sea and wow, he fed the 5000 and wow, he, he 182 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,400 made manna and wow, he did all these things. 183 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,920 But we don't think that's the same God that is today. 184 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,560 And if we don't think it, what do you think our kids are 185 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:48,440 thinking? I've never seen a miracle. 186 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,040 I've never seen the Red Sea parted. 187 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:57,400 I've never seen a mountain move. We have to instill into our kids 188 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:01,680 that God's real and God's the same God today that he was back 189 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:04,920 then. He still has the same power to 190 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,760 part the Red Sea, to walk on dry ground. 191 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,920 It's still the same God. And we have to get that. 192 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,760 But the nation finally said, I'm done. 193 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:21,080 But we're done with this judges and listening to one man and, 194 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,640 and finding out that his kids don't follow it and we're going 195 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,640 to go down the wrong path. And they, they first are 196 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,480 disappointed in the judges. But then the second thing is 197 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:37,640 they're, they, they say in verse 6, give us a king to judge us. 198 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:43,840 Oh no, Verse 5 Now make us a king to judge us. 199 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:48,800 Like all the nations, they wanted to be just like all the 200 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,840 other people. All the other nations had kings 201 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:54,960 and rulers. They didn't have a theocracy. 202 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,520 They didn't have God commanding them, and that's why it 203 00:13:58,520 --> 00:13:59,960 displeased them. And look there. 204 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,720 What's interesting is, even after Well here verse 7. 205 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,160 And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the 206 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,440 people in all that they say unto thee, For they have not rejected 207 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,280 thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over 208 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:19,880 them, according to all the works which they have done since the 209 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,360 day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even unto this day, 210 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:29,040 wherewith they have forsaken me and served other gods, so do 211 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:33,120 they also unto thee. Now therefore hearken unto their 212 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:38,080 voice, how be it yet Protest solemnly unto them, and show 213 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:42,360 them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. 214 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:50,720 And we Samuel goes to them, and tells them, Verse 11. 215 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,120 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall 216 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,040 reign over you. He will take your sons and 217 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,400 appoint them for himself, for his Chariots and to be his 218 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:02,360 horsemen. And some shall run before his 219 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,360 Chariots. And he will point him captains 220 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:10,240 over thousands and captains over 50 fifties, and will set them to 221 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:14,560 ear his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his 222 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:17,320 instruments of war and instruments of his Chariots. 223 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:22,120 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries and cooks, 224 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,160 and to be cooks and to be bakers. 225 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,760 And he will take your fields and your vineyards and your olive 226 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:32,200 yards, even the best of them, and give them on, give them to 227 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,120 his servants. And he will take the 10th of 228 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:39,080 your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his officers and to 229 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,080 his servants. And he will take your men, men 230 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,000 servants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men and 231 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,320 your asses, and put them to his work. 232 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:53,160 And he will take the 10th of your sheep, and ye shall be his 233 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:56,200 servants. And ye shall cry out in that day 234 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,920 because of your king, which ye shall ye have, shall have chosen 235 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:02,360 you. And the Lord will not hear you 236 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,680 in that day. And look at verse 19, after 237 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:09,480 everything Samuel has told them, Hey, you want a king? 238 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,960 OK, here's what you're going to get. 239 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:14,840 You're going to lose a 10th of everything you have. 240 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,840 You're going to lose the good your kids, your daughters, your 241 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,360 sons are going to be in his army and going to be captains and 242 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,680 they're going to be all these things, a tenth of your stuff. 243 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,720 You're you're going to lose your your vineyards, the good places 244 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:36,720 that you love to have 19 Nevertheless, the people refuse 245 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:41,280 to obey the voice of Samuel and they said nay, but we will have 246 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:47,640 a king over us that we also may be like all the nations and that 247 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,360 our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles. 248 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,640 God told Samuel, give them what they want, but tell them what 249 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:58,880 they're going to have to deal with. 250 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,240 And the people went La La La La La La. 251 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,520 I don't care what is going to be the problems. 252 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:09,599 I just want to be like all the other people. 253 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,240 I just, I, I know that I'm going to lose. 254 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,839 God says that I will not hear them when they cry unto me about 255 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:21,839 the, the stuff that they're going to have to deal with. 256 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,599 I'm not going to listen to them because this is what they wanted 257 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:27,119 and I warned them ahead of time what you're going to deal with 258 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:31,840 and they still did it. How much is that? 259 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:37,760 Just like us, we read God's word and he says, don't do this 260 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,760 because this is the consequence of doing it. 261 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:44,120 And we go la, la, la. But I just want to be like 262 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:48,680 everybody else. God, I know I shouldn't be 263 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:51,760 drinking that or watching that or doing this. 264 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:55,680 And I realize that your word says that if I do these things, 265 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:59,360 it's going to destroy my life. But I just want to be like 266 00:17:59,360 --> 00:18:02,960 everybody else. So many times we read the Old 267 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:07,600 Testament and we go really, Israel, really, come on. 268 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,080 I mean, you just got, you crossed the Red Sea on dry 269 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,160 ground. You're provided all these 270 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:16,600 miracles. And yet every time you just turn 271 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,200 your back on God and go after the other gods and you serve 272 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,440 everything else and you, you forsake God and you do 273 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,800 everything again. How can you do that after seeing 274 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,520 all those miracles and doing everything and yet we do the 275 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:35,880 exact same thing as they did. It's a history book for us to 276 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:40,400 learn and apply. So we see the departure of the 277 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:43,600 nation here, but the the nation gets divided. 278 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:48,160 Fast forward, Saul was the first king, tall head and shoulders 279 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,160 above every man. Started out great, wasn't really 280 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,000 that great of a king. Then we get David. 281 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,680 David is the best king that they have. 282 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:01,880 Then he has his son Solomon who starts out well, but like the 283 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,640 Bible says at the end who hath hindered you? 284 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:10,280 He he finishes horribly and and because of that his sin, his son 285 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:15,640 Rhea Boehm makes the whole nation split into two kingdoms. 286 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:20,400 The northern Kingdom was divided in was called Israel. 287 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,000 That's consisted of the other 10 tribes. 288 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,840 The southern Kingdom is Judah and that's 2 tribes, Judah and 289 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,920 Benjamin. The the southern Kingdom, which 290 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:35,480 is who will focus on mainly of their kings, has Jerusalem as 291 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,000 their capital. The Northern Kingdom, which is 292 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:42,880 interesting because, well, it's it's Samaria and it's 293 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:47,920 interesting in the New Testament, Samaritans are the 294 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,840 the bottom of the barrel cut according to Jews, but that's 295 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:53,160 different. Anyways. 296 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,480 The difference is though, it's interesting how we have 12 297 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,720 tribes that came through Egypt all together learn the same 298 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,600 things where one nation gets split and they become two 299 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:09,400 totally different nations. Not, not anything. 300 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,760 The only thing that's the same as they both had 20 kings. 301 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:16,080 Interesting. Both had 20 kings. 302 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,640 The Northern Kingdom, all of them were bad. 303 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,080 All of them were evil, some were worse than others, but they were 304 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,840 all evil and did evil in the sight of the Lord. 305 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:30,400 The Southern Kingdom Judah had here and there had some bad 306 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,360 ones, some good ones. He had a mix of both righteous 307 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:38,880 and wicked kings in Judah. But not only does do we see the 308 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,480 differences there, but the Southern Kingdom actually lasts 309 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:47,400 136 years more then the northern Kingdom. 310 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:53,080 The north northern Kingdom gets conquered by Assyria in 722 BC 311 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,800 while the southern Kingdom of Judah gets conquered by Babylon 312 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,720 in 586. And I totally believe the reason 313 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:06,120 why the Southern Kingdom lasted longer was because of those good 314 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:11,040 kings, because of those that feared God and wanted to do what 315 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:15,840 God commanded. And God still had judgment on 316 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:20,680 him, but he was going to hold his hand with that judgment. 317 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:29,560 We find all the history of the two kingdoms in the Kings and 318 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,800 1st and Second Chronicles. So that's that's kind of looking 319 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,160 at the period. Then we need to look at the 320 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:41,320 people who are we going to look at and, and realize that yes, 321 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,920 they are kings, but they're just like you and me. 322 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,160 They, they're, they're human. They, they face the same 323 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,400 temptations. Sometimes I feel like they face 324 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:56,600 more temptations being king, but they still have a variety of 325 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:58,760 personalities and characteristics. 326 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,720 We're like I said, we're going to really only look at one king 327 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,880 in the northern tribe because it's pretty much bad. 328 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,800 So you just take the wide brush and brush the northern kingdoms, 329 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,320 kings that way. But the southern kingdoms, we're 330 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:18,440 going to go over probably 9 of them, eight of them. 331 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,160 And, and to see the failures is what we're going to look at the 332 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:28,120 they all had failures, even even the good kings, they all had 333 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:32,120 shortcomings. But one day that God will give 334 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:34,320 us a king that will not have a failure. 335 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:38,400 One day Christ is coming back and going to sit on a throne, 336 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:43,200 literally, and rule this nation. The entire world will be 337 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:48,680 controlled by a king Christ, and he will not have failures. 338 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,160 We see that. The other thing we're going to 339 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,480 look at is these prophets that are during both of these 340 00:22:55,480 --> 00:23:01,360 kingdoms to go tell a king that's doing well and doing what 341 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:03,560 God wants. Good job. 342 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:06,120 I'll take that audience with the king. 343 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,840 But to be the prophet that God comes to and says you need to go 344 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,920 to Ahab and you need to point your finger at him and you need 345 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,360 to tell him judgment's coming and you tell him what's wrong, 346 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,360 just like Jonah. We talked about Jonah going to 347 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:28,160 the entire city of Nineveh and telling them you're all going to 348 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,240 burn everything that you're doing. 349 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,200 You're going to be destroyed. God's going to destroy you. 350 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,480 There's a lot of people in Nineveh. 351 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,560 Three days it took him to walk from one end to the other end. 352 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,480 That's a lot of people to tell that you're wrong and they're 353 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,720 already wicked. I hope I make it from one end to 354 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,600 the other end. These prophets had to have the 355 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,560 courage that God gave them. Think of, you know, if you tell 356 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:01,680 somebody they're wrong at work, they get mad at you, but they 357 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,680 don't have any power over your life. 358 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:08,600 You go to a king, he, he's got all power over your life. 359 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,680 In fact, we'll read some of them. 360 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,520 They put them in prison. They put them in a pit. 361 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,400 These prophets had to have the courage. 362 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,880 And we have to have the courage as believers to go to this 363 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,800 world. This world is is in sin. 364 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:28,080 And they do what their father the devil tells them to do. 365 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,360 But we have the light. We have to be able to have 366 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:36,680 courage to go to them and tell them, hey, listen, I what you're 367 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,920 doing is wrong. And if we stopped there, we 368 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,240 don't really have a mission. And the prophets didn't stop at 369 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,880 you're doing wrong. God always gave them, here's the 370 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,800 solution. God gave us as Christians a 371 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,680 solution for those that are doing wrong and it's his word 372 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,840 and it's him. It's the gospel. 373 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,800 And we have to understand by watching and reading about these 374 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,520 prophets, the courage that they had. 375 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,800 We have to have the same thing when we go to this world. 376 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,480 We have to show them their their, their error, but show 377 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,800 them Christ. We have to, like I said, the 378 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,480 last thing I want to say is we have to apply this stuff that 379 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,520 we're going to learn. It means nothing if it's just up 380 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,120 here. Can you name all the kings? 381 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:31,560 Yeah, I can name all the Saul, David, Samuel. 382 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,080 Not Samuel. See, I can't even name him 383 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,720 already. Saul, David, Solomon. 384 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,200 Root. Well, Raya Boehm. 385 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,720 Say I should stop before I get going too far. 386 00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:46,400 OK, great. You can name them all. 387 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,160 Can you chart them on a plot? Yes, I can chart them on a 388 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,320 timeline in order. I could spell them all. 389 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:52,320 Fine. Great. 390 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:54,920 What are you doing with it in your life? 391 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,840 Applying these precepts is the most important thing of what 392 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,560 we're going to be doing in these lessons. 393 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,520 Romans 15 for Paul says for whatsoever things were written 394 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:12,960 aforetime, the Old Testament were written for our learning. 395 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,320 As we study, we have to seek to apply what God gives us. 396 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,800 Those those examples are there for us to either mimic or stay 397 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,880 away from, and we'll discover some we have to find 398 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:35,600 consistency. We'll see a lot of kings in in 399 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:40,280 our study that start well, somewhere in the middle. 400 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,960 They're like whatever, and they start going this way. 401 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:47,360 We'll see some that through their entire reigns stay focused 402 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:49,720 on Christ and stay focused to God. 403 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,560 We see some that will see that are here and there. 404 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:56,680 And and it's not like good then bad then good. 405 00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:59,640 It's it's good, bad, good, bad, good, bad, good, bad. 406 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,960 And they're inconsistent in their reign as far as being 407 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,720 right with God. And it reminds me of James 1/8 408 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:11,520 that says a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 409 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:17,520 And we'll see through those kings that are so inconsistent, 410 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,040 that the reign is so inconsistent that their 411 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:26,320 stability of their nation falls. And we have to realize that you 412 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,080 and I aren't kings, but we have people we affect. 413 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,640 You have influence over people, whether it's your family, 414 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,240 whether it's other kids, people that you don't even know that 415 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,200 are looking up towards you. So why are we looking at kings? 416 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:48,480 Kings had their, yes, they had their own personal walk, whether 417 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,560 they were going to follow God or follow themselves. 418 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,480 But they had people that they ruled over. 419 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,640 They had influence and their walk with God affected what 420 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,840 happened to that nation, just like us. 421 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,400 Yes, you have your own personal walk with God and it should be 422 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,200 what the Bible has, but depending on how your walk with 423 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:18,800 God is depends on how your influence effects others, your 424 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,760 kids, your family, those around you, you as you work with, 425 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:26,240 that's all affected by how your walk with God is. 426 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:32,480 You can say all you want, Charlie, go, go read your Bible 427 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:38,240 every morning, OK? And as as a son, he has to obey 428 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:43,120 me should obey me. But if he doesn't see Dad ever 429 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,840 read his Bible for devotions every morning, why am I doing 430 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,160 this? Dad, you don't do it well. 431 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:58,480 And pastor says do his his phrase is do as I say, not as I 432 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,240 do. That doesn't work with kids. 433 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,040 Don't. Don't tell them to do something 434 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,560 and you yourself aren't doing it. 435 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:11,040 Don't expect your kids to love God if you're not loving God, if 436 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:15,680 you don't have a daily life and daily devotional with Him, if 437 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,600 you don't sit down and have time for a prayer with God, don't 438 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:24,400 expect your kids to grow up and do the same thing you have. 439 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:30,160 That's why we're looking at the kings, because we have influence 440 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,200 over them around. Even in church. 441 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,600 My kids look up to a lot of you. Your walk with God will affect 442 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,320 them. My walk with God will affect 443 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:46,560 others around here too. We have to understand it's not 444 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,800 just about me and or this circle I put around me. 445 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,440 Yeah, I just don't read the Bible. 446 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,440 But it's OK. I'll have to deal with the 447 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,480 consequences. Yes, you will. 448 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,280 But you also will have consequences that those that 449 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,360 look up to you just like the kings did. 450 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,280 But the thing that we'll see with especially with Manasseh, 451 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,360 Manasseh was a king that from the start rough. 452 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,760 He was a wicked king. And God said this is going to be 453 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,000 the judgment because of your wickedness. 454 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:24,520 And that's not going to change. But what happened was at the end 455 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:31,480 of Manasseh's life, he changes and focuses and and returns to 456 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,320 Christ and to God and to to do what is right. 457 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,920 The judgment didn't change because the consequence of 458 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:42,040 what's going to happen. But as we go through these 459 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:47,680 kings, we're going to see times where kings do wrong for so long 460 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:53,840 and then they get right just like and it's a reminder that 461 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:58,120 there's nobody out of hope. Christ is always there. 462 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,920 Nobody in this world is too far gone, too far lost that we 463 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:05,520 shouldn't share the gospel with them. 464 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,120 And we're getting close. I got to go. 465 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,120 We have to work. We have to remember about the 466 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,880 the possibility of conversion, the importance of communion, the 467 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,840 danger of complacency. I think this is that's the 468 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:28,360 biggest thing that I think is what we see here in America. 469 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,960 We've gotten so comfortable as Christians. 470 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,560 Nope. You've got churches who the the 471 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,680 first generation worked hard to build that church and knocked on 472 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,360 the doors and did everything they possibly could to get 473 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,880 people in and to be seeing people get saved. 474 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,080 And then you have the second generation that kind of sees 475 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,000 that and helps here and there. But by the 3rd generation, 476 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,320 they're just sitting on the Pew. They're not doing any work 477 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:04,320 because it life's easy now. I don't it's not OK. 478 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:09,440 Example, this church, when we started, we passed out 25,000 479 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:13,560 John and Romans. That took a long time. 480 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:19,000 But we knocked on every single door, gave out all those things. 481 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,920 We did all the work. If you're just now coming here 482 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,200 and you see there, wow, there's a ton of people here. 483 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:30,760 It wasn't just because poof, Pat, God called pastor and we 484 00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,960 got a building and tada, we got all these people. 485 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,240 It was work. But we have to be careful that 486 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,880 it's not going to turn into, well, you guys got things 487 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:42,320 covered. Good. 488 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:48,280 I was happy to see yesterday as many people as we had here to go 489 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,040 knock on doors, to go doing Bibles, to go do visits. 490 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:58,600 That's important to remember that being content where you are 491 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,960 as a Christian is never a good sign. 492 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,120 The Bible says to be content. Don't ever be content with the 493 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,320 way spiritually you are. And we're going to see the 494 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:13,960 complacency of of a lot of kings that they, they, they go, they 495 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,800 follow what God wants them to do and God gives them victories. 496 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:20,520 And then they're like fine, easy streak. 497 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,640 I'm just going to sail and cruise control now, and I'm 498 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,640 going to focus on me instead of focusing on God. 499 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,040 And I think that's the biggest issue with American 500 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:34,200 Christianity. We've gotten too comfortable. 501 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,720 We've gotten too content with where we are spiritually. 502 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:43,240 We're going to see that in the Kings the need for correction. 503 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:49,600 I said this already, but over and over God sends prophets to 504 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:55,480 these kings to say, hey, we need to change some things or hey, 505 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,000 here's judgment because you don't follow after God and we'll 506 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:04,120 see ASA ASA is so mad when he gets told he was doing wrong 507 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,440 that he imprisons and and gets angry with the man of God. 508 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,280 Jehoshaphat is that an exact opposite. 509 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:15,040 When he hears the judgment and, and the the confrontation that 510 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,000 the prophet gives him, he humbles himself. 511 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:21,880 And what we learned from the difference. 512 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,520 We'll see. The peril of compromise is 513 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:31,600 another thing we have to be careful about as, as Christians 514 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:36,000 today and as most churches today, compromise is the second 515 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,000 biggest issue. Oh, we want to have church, but 516 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,600 we're going to compromise with the world so we can fit in. 517 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:46,159 We can so we can be like the other nations. 518 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:52,239 Compromise we'll see in these lives of kings destroys the 519 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,639 nations. We have to be on guard against 520 00:34:55,639 --> 00:35:00,520 joining ourselves as we'll see with the enemy commitment. 521 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,120 We have to be committed to doing what God wants in world. 522 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:11,840 We're bond done. Proverbs 426 says this ponder 523 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:16,960 the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established. 524 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,480 The kings are examples to us, and we're going to look at all 525 00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,200 of them. Not all of them, but most of 526 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,880 them. And we're going to see not just 527 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:30,400 what they did, but how is it important to my life today? 528 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,840 What can I learn from what their lives did? 529 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:38,680 How they did or did not follow after God, how they did or did 530 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,320 not humble themselves when God said change this. 531 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,800 But the most important thing again, we have to apply it to 532 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,440 our lives. Going through this means nothing 533 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:56,000 if you just have it all up here. We need to apply it into our 534 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,080 lives. Let's pray and we'll get in 535 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,800 ready for the next service next week. 536 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,680 If you want to read ahead of time and be ready. 537 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:09,000 Deuteronomy 17, read Deuteronomy 17. 538 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,920 We're going to look at the instructions that the 539 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:17,960 guidelines, the guidelines, yeah, that were given for the 540 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:23,120 kings to rule again. They they were kings, but God 541 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,040 was giving them directives and ways to be productive as a king. 542 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,720 And we're going to look at that and then after next week, it's 543 00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:33,360 going to be off to the races and into the kings. 544 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,600 Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I thank you so 545 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,360 much for today. God, I thank you for your word 546 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:46,320 and, and the, the importance of, of why you kept history, why you 547 00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:53,080 had those that you recorded for us, for our lives, not just so 548 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:58,280 we can know it, not so we can and look at it as a history 549 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:02,920 book, but Lord that we see it as a way to learn and to draw 550 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:06,920 closer to you and know how to live our lives to be close to 551 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:13,960 you and how to not fall like a lot of the kings did not not 552 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,280 make failures like a lot of the kings did. 553 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:21,400 And to be able to see the past and, and what has worked and 554 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,880 what has not worked and to, to apply it to our lives, not just 555 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,600 to, to just repeat the same issues as they had. 556 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,160 God, I pray that you be with pastor, fill them with your 557 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,880 spirit this morning. Give us exactly what each and 558 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,920 every one of us need. I pray that you be glorified 559 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,440 with what goes on here and that your name be lifted up in Jesus 560 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:44,720 name. I pray, Amen. 561 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:46,440 You're dismissed.