WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:17.120 practical ways. Well, good morning, morning, we talk home next morning. 4 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:20.280 Good morning to you man, you and you. 5 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:22.960 Okay, that's one of my favorites. You know, yes, you 6 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:23.399 know that. 7 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:27.000 Every everybody, Boddy, if you're listening in the morning, hopefully 8 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:27.600 that applies. 9 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:28.879 Everybody loves it. 10 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:31.679 Yeah, every I'm glad that you love it. Jeff. 11 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.799 It's universal, and it is universal. 12 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:36.679 I forgive me, by the way, this whole week, I'm 13 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.880 gonna be uh second on cough drops because I have 14 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:41.119 a cough that just won't go away. 15 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:43.439 Well, you know, I was thinking I totally blew it 16 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.479 yesterday and yesterday's opening segment because I could have picked 17 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:52.000 you as one of my favorite singers. Oh, we were drafting. 18 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.520 We were doing a draft of all of our favorite musicians. 19 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.079 That's what I should. Well, hey, here's a great opportunity. 20 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:58.920 This is a segment that we've been doing for a 21 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:02.079 while now, and uh we came up with it, I 22 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:03.799 don't know, a month or two ago. 23 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:06.319 We've only done twice, I know. 24 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:08.920 But we want it more often. I told, I told 25 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:10.640 i'd like to have it every other day if we 26 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.879 could do it. So this segment is we still don't 27 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.560 have like a Bible Guy's theme song, and we need 28 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:19.239 to do a new rollin right, so for sure, So 29 00:01:19.719 --> 00:01:22.159 we look like we're wearing blue wearing like balloon suits 30 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:24.359 walking in and the thing. And then it's the old 31 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.680 studio with the old headphones and stuff. So it's just 32 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:28.519 it just looks different. 33 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:29.560 It's time quite a minute. 34 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:32.560 But we don't have a theme song. And so we've 35 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:35.760 been working with chat GPT asking chests. So we've we've 36 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:39.519 done now what themes have we done? We did friends 37 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:45.439 and so so really really you know, important historic, yes songs. 38 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.120 So today we want you to work on We asked 39 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:52.439 chat GPT, I said, what was my question? Help me 40 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:55.120 write lyrics for the Bible Guys podcast to show about 41 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:57.280 two guys we love to talk about the Bible and 42 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.120 fun and practical ways and write it to the tune 43 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:03.159 of the TV show Cheers cheers. 44 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:05.400 From the eighties. So yeah, we're sure age. 45 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.919 Shuh yeah, Ted dancing there. Well, we're just using iconic tunes, right, 46 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:13.479 iconic tunes. So all right, okay, so you gotta do it. 47 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.120 I'm gonna take my cough drop out for this one. Okay, ready, 48 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:22.000 oh my word, here we go. Okay, sometimes you want 49 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:24.800 to read the word, but man, it feels so tough. 50 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:29.759 That's why they that's why we're here to break it 51 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:34.479 down and make it fun enough. Wouldn't you like to 52 00:02:34.639 --> 00:02:35.680 laugh a while? 53 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:36.400 Oh? 54 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:44.479 Come hang with the Bible guys, where the jokes are strong? 55 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:51.639 Do have the face the pluce do do? 56 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:56.599 You don't need a PhD. Just bring all your heart. 57 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:06.120 We'll help you dive in and make a friend to start. Dude, Well, we're. 58 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:07.400 Just honest about it. You're not going to need a 59 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.159 PhD to track with this one. 60 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:11.400 Yeah, wouldn't you like to laugh a while? 61 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.319 That was so fun I guess you did say in 62 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:16.439 fun and practical it's so funny. 63 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:18.319 Yeah, that is so funny. 64 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:18.560 Dude. 65 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:21.240 There's the next verse, but I'm not doing that. 66 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:23.159 Man, we'd pay extra. 67 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.240 Okay, just the next verse? Okay, okay. From crazy Tales 68 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:31.080 to Jesus Grace will help you see it clear with 69 00:03:31.199 --> 00:03:35.039 wisdom laughs in real life talk. You love the word 70 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.039 in here and then it goes into the chorus. Wouldn't 71 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:43.439 you like to grow some more? Dude? Come here? 72 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:44.240 With the Bible. 73 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.879 Guys, that's all. That's all. And then it's the same chorus. 74 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:54.479 Oh that's so funny, Chris, that might be my favorite one, 75 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.719 so fun Oh yeah, yeah, that's that's funny. 76 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:00.639 Okay, it's such a song. 77 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:04.400 Well, and you got into it too, and that that 78 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:05.319 helped me a little bit. 79 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:06.680 I got you there. 80 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:14.800 Yeah, I appreciate that, you know, I like I like 81 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:20.040 the tunes that make you laugh, you know, yeah, I 82 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:21.160 like the tunes that make you laugh. 83 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:22.240 But that one made me laugh. 84 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:24.279 But you know, it's probably not going to make us 85 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:28.439 laugh today. What this passage in Second King chapter sixteen. 86 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:30.879 Where as closes the temple that's not funny and. 87 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:34.279 Builds an altar of a whole what is it? A 88 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:35.720 whole statue? 89 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:39.040 Yeah, it's terrible, like what I was looking for. 90 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.040 It's like an idolatry altar, right, yeah, yeah, that that 91 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:43.199 doesn't make us laugh, does it. 92 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:49.319 No, it's not funny at all. So there's the transition's terrible. Yeah, 93 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:52.160 we're always always working for the worst possible transition. What 94 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:57.160 is the page seven ninety eight, seven ninety eight okay, okay, 95 00:04:57.279 --> 00:05:00.360 so god, we were flipping back and forth kind of 96 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:02.839 picking up where the prophets are at interjecting into the 97 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:07.279 middle of First and Second King chronicles. Yeah, yeah, that 98 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.920 was just a spot where it was referencing this judgment 99 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.879 that was coming. Right now, Judah goes and does these 100 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:19.519 bad things and then or I'm sorry, King a Has 101 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:21.879 goes and does these bad things, and then that judgment 102 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:23.600 is going to come after this. So that's what happened. 103 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:27.839 Yeah, and he has is king in Judah. 104 00:05:28.120 --> 00:05:29.399 So isn't he? 105 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.279 Yes, I believe so, yeah, that's what I believe too. 106 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.839 Yeah, he's a bad guy. So here we go. 107 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:35.439 Yep. 108 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:39.720 In Second King, chapter sixteen, verse ten, it says, right, yeah, 109 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.399 King a Has then went to Damascus to meet with 110 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:47.839 King Tilgath Polizer of Assyria. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, one 111 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:49.839 of my favorite names. We almost named our son. 112 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:54.240 That between Johnny or. 113 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:59.399 While he was there, he took special note of the altar, 114 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:01.360 and then he sent a model of the altar to 115 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.839 Uriah the priest, along with his design and full detail. 116 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:08.079 Uriah followed the king's instructions and built an altar just 117 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:10.399 like it, and it was ready for the king before 118 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:13.639 the king returned from Damascus. When the king returned, he 119 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.399 inspected the altar and made offerings on it. He presented 120 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:18.639 a burnt offering and a grain offering, and he poured 121 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:20.480 out a liquid offering, and he sprinkled the blood of 122 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.079 peace offerings on the altar. Then King AHAs removed the 123 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:26.519 old bronze altar from its place in front of the 124 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:29.279 Lord's temple between the entrance and the new altar, and 125 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:31.079 placed it on the north side of the new altar. 126 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.240 He told Uriah the Priest used the new altar for 127 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:37.560 the morning sacrifices of burnt offering, the evening grain offering, 128 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:39.839 and King's burnt offering and grain offering, and the burnt 129 00:06:39.839 --> 00:06:41.560 offerings of all the people, as well as their grain 130 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:44.399 offerings and liquid offerings. Sprinkle the blood from all the 131 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:47.319 burnt offerings and sacrifices on the new altar. The bronze 132 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:50.600 altar would be for my personal use only Uriah the 133 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.839 Priest did just as King ah Has commanded him. Then 134 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.360 the King removed the side panels and basins from the 135 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.920 portable water carts. He also removed the great bronze basin 136 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.319 called the Sea, from the backs of the bronze oxen 137 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:06.560 and placed it on the stone pavement and deference to 138 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:08.680 the king of a Siri. He also removed the canopy 139 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.560 that had been constructed inside the palace for use on 140 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.879 the Sabbath day, as well as the Lord's outer the 141 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:16.160 King's outer entrance, the Temple of the Lord. 142 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:22.480 Yeah, so you're you're messing with the temple altar. 143 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:25.279 This is what he's doing, Yes, the temple altar. 144 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:31.600 Yes, even though that God was so unbelievably specific, because 145 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:33.560 this is this is the temple now, this is the 146 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:37.160 same temple of Solomon, right right, yes, And so Solomon 147 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:41.519 was given instructions down to the to the Cuban right right, 148 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.759 And so so God is saying, you know, go back 149 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.040 and go back and read some of those details for 150 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:52.279 a minute and understand, like God is saying, this is 151 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:54.879 exactly how I want you to build this altar. It 152 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:58.839 has to be this dimension, made of this material, shaped 153 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:03.720 in this fashion, lined with you know, this material, and 154 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:06.680 it's just an unbelievably specific thing. 155 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:09.120 And God said that he was pleased. 156 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:13.120 Remember when the altar was done, God said that he 157 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:15.759 would be pleased when it would be. 158 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:16.560 Used for him. 159 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.879 He actually commented specifically on this altar God himself, that's right. 160 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:25.800 And then what he does is King a has comes 161 00:08:25.839 --> 00:08:32.639 along and he hijacks the altar and says, let's go ahead, 162 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:36.080 and what he wants to honor the King of Assyria 163 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:39.240 because because he did, he decided to make an altar 164 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:44.200 based on something that the King of a Syria is 165 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:44.720 familiar with. 166 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:47.879 Let me read Second Chronicles, chapter twenty eight, in verse sixteen, 167 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:49.919 it says at that time King a has A Judah 168 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:52.440 asked the King of Assyria for help. The armies of 169 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:54.840 Edom had again invaded Judah and taking captives, and the 170 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.200 Philistines had raided towns located in the foothills of Judah. 171 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:03.720 In the negative, Judah already captured and occupied Bethshemath, Aigelon, Ghetara, 172 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.639 Soko and its villages, tim Nah with its villages, and 173 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:10.159 Gimzo with its villages. The Lord was humbling Judah because 174 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.559 of King AHAs of Judah, for he had encouraged his 175 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.639 people to sin and had been utterly unfaithful to the Lord. 176 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:18.080 So remember Isaiah had said bad things were going to 177 00:09:18.120 --> 00:09:20.240 happen the Syrians. We're gonna come and get you right right. 178 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:25.039 So when King Tilgath Polizer of Assyria arrived, he attacked 179 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:27.360 a has instead of helping him. Oh there it is, 180 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:28.240 you see. 181 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:28.320 Yeah. 182 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.159 So then it says A has took valuable items from 183 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:33.399 the lord's temple, the royal palace, and from the homes 184 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:34.879 of his officials and gave them to the King of 185 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:40.279 Assyria's tribute. But this did not help him. So King 186 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:43.919 till death Polier still wasn't giving him any grace. He 187 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:47.200 came to he enlisted him. He has enlisted him to 188 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.240 come and help. Instead he invaded, right, is what happened. 189 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:54.639 So then A has is trying to appease him, and 190 00:09:55.240 --> 00:09:58.799 he gives him stuff holy articles from the temple, and 191 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:02.799 this didn't even appease you know, this godless man. Even 192 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:05.039 during this time of trouble, King A has continued to 193 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:08.440 reject the Lord. Well there you go, yep, you know 194 00:10:08.519 --> 00:10:10.639 my favorite word in ding dong. That's it, right there, 195 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.120 there you go, ding dong. He offered sacrifices to the 196 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.399 gods of Damascus who had defeated him, for he said, 197 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.080 since these gods helped the kings of Aram, they will 198 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.480 help me too if I sacrifice to them. But instead 199 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:23.200 they led to his ruin and the ruin of all Judah. 200 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:25.320 And then it goes on and talks about He then 201 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:27.279 took various articles from the Temple of God and broke 202 00:10:27.320 --> 00:10:29.759 them into pieces. He shut the doors of the Lord's 203 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:31.879 temple so that no one could worship there. And he 204 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:34.919 set up altars to pagan gods in every corner of Jerusalem, 205 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.320 made pagan shrines, and all the towns of Judah for 206 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.159 offering sacrifice to other gods. And in this way he 207 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:42.399 aroused the anger of the Lord and the God of 208 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:46.039 his ancestors. Remember, his dad was a good guy, you know, 209 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:48.559 and his son is a good guy. Yeah, but this 210 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:49.320 guy man. 211 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:52.039 You know, it's so interesting about that passage and Second Chronicles. 212 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.679 I'm so glad you read that, because even though that 213 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:58.279 a second King is what we started with, it talked 214 00:10:58.320 --> 00:10:59.799 about what a has did. 215 00:11:01.720 --> 00:11:03.720 Second Chronicles tells us why he. 216 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.759 Did it, and it says, since it actually has a quote, 217 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:11.720 since the gods small g helped the kings of Aram, 218 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.000 they will help me too if I sacrifice to them. 219 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.679 But instead they led to his ruin, in the ruin 220 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.399 of all Judah. And then he went ahead and took 221 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.240 various articles from the temple, broke them into pieces, built 222 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:29.039 all these false altars, and so he must he had 223 00:11:29.080 --> 00:11:33.399 this theory. He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus 224 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:38.399 who defeated them, thinking like, hey, this is the way. 225 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:40.720 And so in other words, it sounds like what he 226 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:42.360 was doing was he was so afraid of the King 227 00:11:42.399 --> 00:11:44.840 of Assyria. He wanted to submit to him and show 228 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:49.919 his submission in every single way, including religious sacrifice, thinking 229 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:53.200 if I just totally submit to him, I'll be on 230 00:11:53.240 --> 00:11:56.799 the receiving end of mercy and maybe perhaps favor. Right, 231 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:01.200 So he takes and desecrates the temple the Lord and 232 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:08.200 somehow puts politics in the King of Assyria as more 233 00:12:08.200 --> 00:12:11.759 important than God himself. So we're going to change the 234 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:13.919 altar because we want to please the King of Assyria. 235 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:16.519 And he's trying to act like the other powerful people, 236 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:20.320 you know, and so for kings, kings want to be powerful, 237 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:23.360 Kings want to be successful. So what he's doing is 238 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.360 he's looking, well, they're successful. It must be their gods 239 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:27.200 that did it, So I'm going to do what they do. 240 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:30.399 We get tempted to do the same thing. We start 241 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.320 copying our neighbors. They live in a nicer house, they 242 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:35.720 drive a fancier car, they seem to be going on 243 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:37.320 all the vacations. So we start trying to do the 244 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.480 same things they do. We in high school or in college. 245 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:43.519 Your friends look like they're having fun all the time, 246 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:45.720 but of course it's always boos and alcohol and women 247 00:12:45.799 --> 00:12:48.159 or whatever, and so then you wind up doing the 248 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:52.519 same thing. They begin to adapt their life style to 249 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:54.799 the lifestyle and the belief system of the people that 250 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:57.919 they're admiring. He got defeated, but in a weird way, 251 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:01.240 he admires his oppressor, right, and so he looks up 252 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.039 to him and says, man, I want that there's a 253 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:05.600 note here in the Life Applications study a byout. You know, 254 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:08.159 we love these the Life applications. You should get you one. 255 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:12.519 It says, evil king a has copied pagan religious customs. 256 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:15.480 He changed the temple services and used the temple alter 257 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.720 for his own personal benefit, and so doing he demonstrated 258 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.440 a callous disregard for God's commands. We condemn a Haas 259 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:24.879 for his actions, but we act the same way if 260 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.080 we try to mold God's message to fit our personal preferences. 261 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.320 We must worship God for who he is, not what 262 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:34.120 we would selfishly like him to be. That's the core 263 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:38.320 lesson of this of this passage is so hey. I 264 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:41.480 know God said to put the altar here, and this 265 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:44.080 is what he wanted. But I think their altar is 266 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:46.879 super cool. Let's move God's alter over there. I'm not 267 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:49.840 totally getting rid of it. You know. He didn't totally 268 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.559 get rid of it. He just altered it, changed its 269 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:54.799 purpose and moved it from where God said to put it. 270 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.879 And then I like this one, and I'm just going 271 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:59.720 to worship my gods this way, and so he brings 272 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:03.039 in another altar. Then he says, let's move They called 273 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.799 it the sea. It was this giant basin of water, 274 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:09.080 huge basin of water that was used for cleansing in 275 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.559 the temple and stuff, and it was very beautiful, so 276 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.440 they called the sea. He said, I just I want 277 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.159 to change the purpose of that. Let's move this over here. 278 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:21.120 Let's do these things. And he's making worship fit him 279 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:24.519 rather than him worshiping God the way. God said, this 280 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:27.159 is how you approached me right now through Jesus, we 281 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:30.240 can boldly come before the throne. Our experience with God 282 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:33.120 is a little bit different than a has is. For them, 283 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:37.360 they had a very precise process and it was all 284 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:40.639 hinting towards the cross someday, don't mess this up, right, 285 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:43.559 do it the right way. And so it wasn't like 286 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.200 it was confusing. It was that he didn't care. He 287 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:49.480 decided he was going to mold God and got the 288 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:54.440 worship of God to his own preferences rather than following 289 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:54.919 God's way. 290 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:56.120 Yeah, And. 291 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:02.720 It's also a matter of convenience. And it's the same 292 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:06.440 thing for us today. So for instance, people will say, uh, 293 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:09.440 you know, I'm going to claim to be a Christian 294 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:12.440 and I'm gonna when it's very convenient, I'm gonna, you know, 295 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:15.279 do one of these you know, you know, in. 296 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:16.360 A point to the sky right. 297 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:19.320 And yet everything about my entire life is not going 298 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:21.879 to represent what the Bible says at all or what 299 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:22.720 God commands. 300 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:24.320 This reminds me. 301 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:29.559 Of most of the people that I'm sounding old here, 302 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.120 but most of the people that I'm in conversation with now, 303 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.840 who like, you know, I have this person I'm meeting 304 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:40.360 with for for for a marriage or wedding, right, and 305 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.840 and you know, I'm talking about like, hey, let's do 306 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:45.320 things God's way, right. 307 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.399 And and they're just like, what are you talking about? 308 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:52.120 That is so old fashioned and ancient and right like 309 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:53.279 like like that is. 310 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:54.679 Not what anybody does. 311 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.879 And I'm like, okay, what does that have to do 312 00:15:58.919 --> 00:15:59.840 with what I'm talking about? 313 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:03.000 Right? What I'm talking about is this is what God says. 314 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:05.159 And so my wife, why do you want to have 315 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:07.519 a church wedding? Why do you want to have a 316 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:09.559 pastor to your wedding? Right? Well, we want God to 317 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:13.519 bless us, right, He's already told you how he'll bless you. Right, 318 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:16.600 do the right thing, right, right, But it's so foreign 319 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:17.440 to them, they don't know. 320 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.360 Yeah, but people are that way in every area of 321 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:21.759 our lives. It's it's like what we want to do 322 00:16:21.799 --> 00:16:24.279 is we want to customize Christianity and we want to 323 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:26.840 you know, worship the way we want to and then 324 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:28.360 not worship the way that we don't want to. 325 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.080 So it's it's like I'll pick and choose. So one 326 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:35.480 time our church did a video we did the Bible 327 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:36.879 like a buffet. 328 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.120 Remember, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we did a Bible buffe. 329 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:39.840 Yeah, we did a. 330 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:42.759 Bible buffet where you sort of walk over and and 331 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:45.399 there's like a big stoop of food and it says 332 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.679 like versus on generosity. And then we had people go 333 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:50.080 and they just walk by it. 334 00:16:50.360 --> 00:16:55.559 I don't care for the generosity, but I want blessings. 335 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:58.519 That, you know. And then there's other easier ones. 336 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.399 You know, I don't want holiness. Let's get the whole 337 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:01.919 Oh yeah, but then. 338 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:04.359 This one's like, you know, be nice, Like okay, I'll 339 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:06.240 take a little bit of that. You know, I like 340 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:06.920 to be nice. 341 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:10.200 And so yeah, that's what we do. We customize the Bible. 342 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:14.400 And that's really a picture of what's happening here. He's 343 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:16.400 he's just like you said, He's like, hey, we won't 344 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:18.480 totally get rid of it. We'll just put on the 345 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:21.039 back burner. We're not going to obey God's commandment's exactly, 346 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:24.319 but you know, we're it's sort of still there and 347 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:26.680 I'll just do what I want. And and it's like 348 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:29.119 that's that's the way that we Christianity today. 349 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:31.920 I back in the early two thousands, Uh, Stephen Curtis 350 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:34.400 Chapman had a song and it talks about I've got 351 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:37.599 the bumper sticker and I've got the necklace and the 352 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:40.839 message on my T shirt tells everybody what I believe, 353 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:44.519 all these things, and he's like, yeah, but what about 354 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:47.519 the change. So the whole course is what about the change. Yeah, 355 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:50.279 and so you know, we we we use the We 356 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:52.640 got the little statue on our on our dashboard, and 357 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.240 we got the cross hanging from our mirror. But we're 358 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:58.200 living like the devil all the time. We just want 359 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:00.400 God to be a good luck charm a lot of times. 360 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:02.400 And that's kind of what you're finding with a hash. 361 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:05.680 Only here A has has gone beyond that even and 362 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:09.920 he's so attracted to his to the people who defeated him. 363 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:12.759 He's so attracted to their gods, thinking that their gods 364 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.000 must be more powerful than his gods. And you know why, 365 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:17.279 because his God didn't bail him out, The God of 366 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:20.480 Israel did not bail him out. So he decided, instead 367 00:18:20.519 --> 00:18:24.720 of looking in why didn't God help me? He goes, 368 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:28.279 I'm going to throw off this God. It's not my fault, 369 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:29.960 it's God's fault. I'm going to go find it. I'm 370 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:31.119 going to get a new God. I'm going to go 371 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:32.680 worship the way I want to worship, do what I 372 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.960 want to do. And you know, God never promises to 373 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:40.720 bless us, ever promises bless us apart from obedience, right, 374 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:45.039 So repentance leads us to going God's way and so 375 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:47.680 in this case, I think a lot of times people 376 00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:49.759 want God's blessings, but they also want to do everything 377 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:51.640 they want to do. They want to move the altar, 378 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:54.279 they want to they want to change the process, they 379 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:57.119 want to change everything, and still expect him to bless 380 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.519 and he just doesn't do it. So that's one. Here's 381 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:01.160 the other one that I wanted to highlight was and 382 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:04.400 this came up in today's thing. The Bible is its 383 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:07.759 own best commentary. So as we talk about Bible study, 384 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:12.880 as we talk about applying the Bible, so as we 385 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:17.079 read Second Kings, you know, it left a lot of 386 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:20.519 unanswered questions for you and me. And I'll be honest 387 00:19:20.519 --> 00:19:23.279 with you, it's probably been a couple of years since 388 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.920 I read this passage. I would imagine the last time 389 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.319 I read through Second Kings. Shame on me, but shame 390 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:32.759 on me. But you know what I mean, Probably this passage. 391 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:35.519 I bet it was a couple of years ago, two 392 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:38.599 or three years ago. So I wasn't like spur the moment. 393 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:40.400 And for our listeners, if you don't know. 394 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:42.680 You can't cover all the Bible all the time. 395 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:47.599 Right, But for our listeners, if you're new, Chris and 396 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:50.759 I are trying to operate this Bible study just like 397 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:52.720 it would be for you and your friends if you 398 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:55.559 went to a coffee shop, opened the Bible today and went, oh, 399 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:58.680 we're in Second Kings chapter sixteen. Yep, right, And so 400 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:01.319 we're talking about the Bible practical ways, and you know, 401 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:03.119