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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:13.599 Hey, everybody, we are the Bible Guys. 5 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:15.119 And we're going to do a podcast today. 6 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:16.719 That was our intention. 7 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:21.000 Yeah, and so hopefully your intention was to listen or watch, which, 8 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.440 by the way, we still have slightly more listeners than watchers. 9 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:25.679 Yeah. 10 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.160 Yeah, it's always growing, but it seems like the listeners 11 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:29.800 stay just touch ahead of the watchers. 12 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:31.320 Yeah, for sure, which is great. 13 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:33.640 Well, some people just can't see the stand to look 14 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:34.840 at our faces, and you. 15 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:36.320 Know what, we do, not blame you. 16 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:36.960 Yeah. 17 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:38.320 Actually, I think it's that we have a lot of 18 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:40.399 people who listen to us while they're driving, like driving 19 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:41.320 to work stuff like that. 20 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:44.880 Yeah. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah, people will work out. 21 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.000 Yeah right, there's still a lot of people who download 22 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:47.960 and all that stuff. 23 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:48.079 Right. 24 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:50.520 I had one couple they said that they put us 25 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:52.520 up on their big seventy five inch TV while they're 26 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:54.079 having coffee in the morning for they for work. 27 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:58.320 Was like, that's rough, Yeah, that's rough. These people we're 28 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:03.280 just we're sorry. 29 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:03.119 Hey, good morning. Hey. 30 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:05.959 So we had a segment today Desiree has chosen, and 31 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.000 it's much like taboo. 32 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:07.680 She calls it. 33 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:11.640 Guess the word, very very sophisticated renaming of that and 34 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:15.400 guess the word. And now I've been accused in the past, 35 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.599 not accused. It's been pointed out that sometimes what I 36 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:20.319 try to do to prepare for this, because we don't 37 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.159 read segments in advance, That's right, we just ever ever, 38 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:26.239 we just look at them as they're handed to us, 39 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:28.439 handed to us, and we say, oh, this is what 40 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:31.799 we're doing right now. But sometimes it's been pointed out 41 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:33.599 that I try to go, Okay, how could I do 42 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.200 this word quickly? Well, I've not looked at these words, Okay, 43 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.040 so I've decided to just do them like the tab. 44 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.840 Just doing them like the game drove the card and 45 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:42.519 now you have to do it. 46 00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:43.519 So here's what we're going to do. 47 00:01:43.519 --> 00:01:46.079 If you are watching, hopefully, what we'll do is we 48 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.359 will put on the screen the words that I'm not 49 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:51.840 allowed to say, because if I say these words or 50 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:52.480 a form. 51 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:55.680 Of them, then it's a buzz Okay, you know do 52 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:57.400 you know what I mean? Okay, Okay, here we go. 53 00:01:57.359 --> 00:01:57.840 Are you ready? 54 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:58.280 Yes, sir? 55 00:01:58.640 --> 00:02:06.640 Okay? G wis I don't know, No, here we go ready, yes, oh, 56 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:07.400 g okay. 57 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:12.560 A person who crosses over to the United States immigrant 58 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:15.759 could be called yes, another traveler that person is. 59 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.199 They're not native to the land. They are foreigner, yes, 60 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:27.360 foreign foreign. Yeah, well you said foreigner, foreign, foreign government. 61 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:31.199 I thought he said foreign, but I said foreign and foreigner. 62 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:31.919 Yes, So for it. 63 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:38.080 I wasn't allowed to say language, alien, abroad, country or strange. Okay, okay, 64 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:40.000 so I said the United States because I wasn't ann 65 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:41.360 to say countries. All right? 66 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:48.240 Oh is okay? Here we go ready, married to share son, Yes, 67 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:50.759 but s u n n y. 68 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:52.439 I'm guessing correct. 69 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.319 I wasn't about to say bright, cloudy day afternoon or. 70 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:00.199 Days very good. But that was a good one. Beg 71 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.080 you all right? 72 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:05.439 Oh gee whiz okay, so. 73 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:07.439 We have three g whizzes. This is a good game people, 74 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:08.280 if you're keeping track. 75 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:12.520 Okay, ready one or twin powers. 76 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:14.080 Wonder twin powers. 77 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:17.599 One or twin powers. Oh you don't know that, No. 78 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:18.800 I didn't know the wonder twins. 79 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:22.719 Wow, that is going to change my thinking here. 80 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:25.840 Uh okay, all our listeners. 81 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:27.400 When a person is. 82 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:31.840 Not a couch potato and they decide to get up 83 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:33.639 and to move. 84 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:34.400 They become. 85 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:38.039 They become active? 86 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:41.280 Yes, active? Yes? 87 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:43.599 So do I need to say active or activate? 88 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:45.159 It's one or two powers? 89 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:48.080 Activate and you say activate, doesn't going to chop that 90 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:48.439 word out? 91 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:51.280 Okay, a word active? Okay, so there you. 92 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.439 But I wasn't allowed to say passive, which is right 93 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:56.879 lazy lively? 94 00:03:57.560 --> 00:03:59.439 Yes, hyper or inactive? 95 00:03:59.479 --> 00:03:59.680 Okay? 96 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:01.680 Well sorry, I didn't know the Wonder Twins reference, but 97 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:02.599 we got it active. 98 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:04.680 You didn't watch the Oh that's why you grew up 99 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:07.159 with that a TV? What am I thinking? Good? 100 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:07.759 Gravy? 101 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:08.599 Okay, here we go. 102 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:10.360 What the weird life did? 103 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:14.080 Yeah? You did live a weird life. Okay. 104 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:22.680 Hopefully people who don't have Bible facts, if they listen 105 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:24.480 to this podcast, they are. 106 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:28.319 What h biblically literate. 107 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:31.800 No, when they hear our podcasts, hopefully they are what. 108 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:33.639 Taught. 109 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:36.199 They're gaining facts, which means they. 110 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.680 Are uh smart. 111 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:40.839 No, they are in the process learning. 112 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.680 Yes, learning learning, Yes, I wasn't allowed to say knowledge education, school, 113 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:47.399 teaching or books. 114 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.439 Okay, yeah, very good learning. That was You did a 115 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.920 really good job getting to that one. Okay, thank job, Chris, 116 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:53.279 thank you. 117 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.959 This one is probably the hardest of all five. If 118 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:05.480 you come a upon me and I am performing an 119 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:09.360 action that you don't understand. 120 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:13.079 You might ask the question what are you doing doing? 121 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:14.560 That's correct. 122 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:20.160 I was not allowed to say active, nothing done, acting 123 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:21.639 or things? 124 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:22.079 Wow? 125 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:24.879 Wow? What are you doing? 126 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:25.399 Yes? 127 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:27.360 Doing? Wow? That is a tough word. 128 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:30.959 That was That was tough. Yes, doing? 129 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:31.120 Well. 130 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.920 She trusts you, She trusts you, she knows you've got 131 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:37.000 this one. Who that's right, she's want to pick it 132 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:37.480 up for us. 133 00:05:37.519 --> 00:05:39.480 Oh, you're saying because she gave you a hard work. 134 00:05:39.519 --> 00:05:42.240 Yes, she gave you hard words. Yea man alive? Yes, 135 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:44.600 well hey, well that's really something. 136 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:48.560 Myself fifty thousand points, Yes, I get five. 137 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.560 You just gave yourself fifty thousand points. Yes, okay, Well, 138 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:53.319 good feeling confident today, Chris. 139 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:59.519 Actually I give you because you guessed them. 140 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:01.959 Yeah yeah, yeah, but I took too long. 141 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:02.800 I did the hard work. 142 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:04.680 Yeah, you would have given me fifty thousand, but you 143 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:08.199 had to deduct the lack of a reference to well, I. 144 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:08.680 Didn't have it. 145 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.279 I didn't have any assessment of Wonder trim Powers Act Activate. 146 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:16.240 You go with no TV, so, which is crazy, by 147 00:06:16.279 --> 00:06:20.120 the way, okay that that you like read books? 148 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.319 Yeah, so we got rid of our TV. 149 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:25.120 Became a Christian. 150 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:27.279 Yeah, well no, that was after. 151 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:29.720 Is that equivalent like burning the records in the seventies 152 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:30.040 kind of? 153 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:32.959 Yeah, well we did that too, but so the really 154 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:35.879 so the yeah, so the we got rid of our TV. 155 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.560 The last big show I can't remember really paying attention 156 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:49.160 to was I think I think it's Bonanza Little House 157 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:53.079 on the Prairie. I think it was eighteen the first 158 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:54.680 like the first season of eighteen or something. 159 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:57.560 So the first season of eighteen oh eighteen. 160 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:00.480 Yeah, so that was it. Then I had lost the 161 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.079 hole eighties after that, right, night Rider? I remember night Ride? 162 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:04.560 That was it? 163 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:09.279 Okay, well you know what I I remember every single show. 164 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:14.240 Yeah. I have no Cosby family memories at all. 165 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:15.959 Oh well well that's probably good. 166 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:17.240 Yeah exactly. 167 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:21.480 Did you ever see uh between two Ferns? 168 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:27.319 No Zach howdi pronounce is like Gillis Gillis. Yeah, he 169 00:07:27.399 --> 00:07:30.680 was actually interviewing the guy from mad Men, and he 170 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:32.439 just totally just puts people on the spot. That's all 171 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:34.319 he does, right, and then he goes, he goes, so 172 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:36.160 he goes. Madmen is such a hit. 173 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:36.600 He goes. 174 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.600 I hear that the Madmen jacket is in the Hall 175 00:07:39.639 --> 00:07:42.399 of Fame. And he goes yeah, and he goes yeah, 176 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:46.600 right next to the Cosby sweater, and then and then 177 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.120 and then John whatever his name is, just buss a 178 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:51.600 gun he starts laughing. 179 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:54.959 But there's that there's at the museum. 180 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:55.319 Yep. 181 00:07:55.720 --> 00:08:00.879 Okay. So, uh we were, we were out the rules 182 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:02.519 for that game, Yes we were. 183 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:05.759 And now we're talking about how a Baijah rules in 184 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:07.199 Jerusalem for Judah. 185 00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:09.879 No, no, no, it's great. 186 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:12.519 I mean our goal is well, I did two rules 187 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:15.120 transitions there. Do you have a better one? Can better? 188 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:16.160 Huh? Okay? 189 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:17.920 How about this because it's kind of a double feature 190 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:18.639 about how about this? 191 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:19.079 How about this? 192 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.839 The goal of that game was to get the right answer. 193 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.279 And speaking of right answers, both of these kings don't 194 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:26.600 have it. 195 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:29.519 Neither neither of these kings have it. 196 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:30.800 Oh yeah, neither of these kings. 197 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:31.600 Okay, both of them. 198 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:32.639 Yeah, terrible. 199 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:33.279 Okay. 200 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.480 So we read yesterday Second Chronicles, chapter thirteen, and that 201 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:41.120 announces that a Bijah was the ruler and then it 202 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:42.960 talks about him squaring off with Jare Bohm. 203 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:44.399 Right, yeah, he died. 204 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:48.679 Well at simultaneous with Second Chronicles, First Kings is telling 205 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:51.000 a lot of the same stories. Correct, it's similar to 206 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:52.879 like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell some of the 207 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:54.840 same stories. They tell different stories, but to tell some 208 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.279 of the same they corroborate on the ones that they 209 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:59.919 share the same stories, but maybe they give different details. 210 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.000 And then they also share other ones. 211 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:03.720 Which, by the way, I'm sure people did not know that. 212 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:08.879 Yeah, so First Kings fifteen lines up with Second Chronicles 213 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:10.799 thirteen to some extent, at least in time. 214 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:14.559 Did you ever do this when you were young, because 215 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:16.000 you got say what age eight? 216 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.159 I was eight years old, okay. 217 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.639 I was like sixteen or fifteen or whatever, And I 218 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:23.759 remember trying to read through the Old Testament. When I 219 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:28.600 got the Second Kings, no Chronicles, I actually thought to myself, 220 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:31.279 didn't I already read this? And I was so confused 221 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.480 because I had no idea what is going on? 222 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:35.039 First time I read through the Bible, it's the same 223 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:35.399 thing for me. 224 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:37.399 Yeah, I was like what, yeah, right? And I was 225 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:41.360 like myself, I swear to you, I've read this exactly. 226 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:46.039 You get to the Gospels like what, yeah, so First 227 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.679 Kings chapter fifteen, But it gives other details too, And 228 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.200 I think it's funny. You know, we mentioned that we 229 00:09:51.240 --> 00:09:54.159 don't prep for these. This is just we open the 230 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.279 Bible and we talk about it right right, correct, And 231 00:09:57.399 --> 00:09:58.879 we're not saying that's the way you should do it. 232 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.120 It just happens to be how we do. But had 233 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:03.960 we gotten just a little bit ahead in our notes, 234 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:06.440 we would have realized. Remember when we asked yesterday, did 235 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:08.360 a Baija was a bija a good guy or bad guy? 236 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:08.480 Oh? 237 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:10.799 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well then I came back and read 238 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:14.000 verse three. Yeah, so it was this chapter. Oh, First 239 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:15.159 Kings fifteen are we doing? 240 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:16.840 I thought we were doing Second Chronicles fifteen. 241 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.720 No, we're reading First Krinchings, First Kings fifteen because we 242 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:20.960 read Second Chronicles thirteen. 243 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:22.559 Mine says Second Chronicles. 244 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.919 Oh well that's a totally different section. 245 00:10:25.159 --> 00:10:27.399 Yeah, Chris, Yeah, you were about to read. 246 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:29.879 Yeah, I was reading First Kings fifteen. I was reading 247 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:30.559 a different story. 248 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:32.919 Yeah, no, no, this is Second Chronicles fifteen. 249 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:36.440 Well this is good news. Remember that part we said 250 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:37.360 about how we don't prep. 251 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:39.960 Yes, so this is Asa. 252 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.399 Then Asa is a by just son Yes, yeah, and 253 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.919 he minds up becoming king, he winds up being a 254 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:50.440 better guy. Yeah, this is ASA's religious reform. That's right, 255 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.120 So way better, yes, way better. So our transition didn't 256 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:56.720 even work. Here we go, it says. Then the spirit 257 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:00.039 of God came upon Azariah, son of Obid, and he 258 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:02.080 went out to meet King Aesa. As he was returning 259 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:05.600 from the battle, Listen to me, Asa, he shouted, Listen, 260 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:07.919 all you people of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord will 261 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:10.279 stay with you as long as you stay with him. 262 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:12.720 Whenever you seek him, you will find him. But if 263 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.480 you abandon him, he'll abandon you. For a long time, 264 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:17.799 Israel was without the true God, without a priest to 265 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:19.720 teach them, and without the law to instruct them. But 266 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:22.000 whenever they were in trouble and turned to the Lord, 267 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:24.639 the God of Israel, and sought him out, they found him. 268 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:27.519 During those dark times, it was not safe to travel. 269 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:31.799 Problems troubled the people of every land. Nation fought against nations, 270 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:33.960 city against city, for God was troubling them with every 271 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:37.200 kind of problem. But as for you, be strong and courageous, 272 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:40.080 for your work will be rewarded. When Aesa heard this 273 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:43.639 message from Azariah the Prophet, he took courage and removed 274 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:46.320 all the detestable idols from the land of Judah and Benjamin. 275 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:49.360 And in the towns he captured in the hill country 276 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:52.200 of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, 277 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:54.600 which stood in front of the entry room the Lord's temple. 278 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:58.200 Then Asa called together all the people of Judah and Benjamin, 279 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.080 along with the people of Ephraim, Nasa, and Simeon, who 280 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:04.000 had settled among them, for many from Israel had moved 281 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:05.919 to Judah during Ace's reign when they saw that the 282 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:08.519 Lord his God was with him. The people gathered at 283 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:11.919 Jerusalem in late spring, during the fifteenth year of ASA's reign. 284 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:14.720 On that day they sacrificed to the Lord seven hundred 285 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:17.080 cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from the plunder 286 00:12:17.320 --> 00:12:19.399 they had taken in the battle. And then they entered 287 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:21.279 into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of 288 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:24.159 their ancestors, with all their heart and soul. They agreed 289 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.240 that anyone who refused to seek the Lord, the God 290 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:28.320 of Israelil be put to death, whether young or old, 291 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.000 man or woman. They shouted out their oath of loyalty 292 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:34.320 to the Lord, with trumpets blaring and rams horns sounding. 293 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:37.159 All in Judah were happy about this covenant, for they 294 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:39.600 had entered into it with all their heart. They earnestly 295 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:41.799 sought after God, and they found him, and the Lord 296 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.679 gave them rest from their enemies on every side. King 297 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.279 Aesa even deposed his grandmother Mahaka from her position as 298 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:50.679 Queen mother because she had made it an obscene a 299 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:53.600 share of pole. He cut down her obscene a pole, 300 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:56.159 broke it up, and burned it in the Kidron Valley. 301 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:59.240 Although the pagan shrines were not removed from Israel, Aesa's 302 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.360 heart remained complete faithful throughout his life. He brought into 303 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:04.360 the Temple of God the silver and gold and the 304 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:07.039 various items that he and his father had dedicated, so 305 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:09.399 there was no more war until the thirty fifth year 306 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:10.360 of ASA's reign. 307 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:15.960 Okay, Asa is in sort of an unsung hero of 308 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:16.639 the Old Testament. 309 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:17.600 He's a good guy. 310 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.399 I mean, like, how come we haven't heard, you know, 311 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:22.840 some sermons about Asa. 312 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:23.240 Yeah? 313 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:25.039 Have you done this summer about. 314 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:25.720 As I have? 315 00:13:25.720 --> 00:13:26.120 Have you really? 316 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:26.759 Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. 317 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.000 I preached on the It was good kings and bad 318 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.600 Kings that did a serious and good kings and bad 319 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.200 kings and wow, talked about Asa. 320 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:35.639 Wow. Yeah, so this is great. I've never done a 321 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:36.440 sermon on Asa. 322 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:36.799 Yeah. 323 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:38.679 By the way, let me let me go back. I 324 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:41.720 wished we had read First Kings. Yeah, because it sets 325 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:46.679 it up. So it says that Asa in fifteen verse nine, 326 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:48.799 it says that Asa began to rule over Judah in 327 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:52.039 the twentieth year of Jeed Boham's reign. So jared, but 328 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.960 so A Bi Joe was ASA's dad. God takes him 329 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.840 out of the picture because he's kind of he has 330 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:00.679 a divided loyalty between the God of Israel and the. 331 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:02.399 Other gods, right, and he's not done. 332 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:05.320 So then Asa comes in and he reigns in Jerusalem 333 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:10.320 for forty one years, and verse eleven says Asa did 334 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:12.960 what was pleasing in the Lord's sight, as his ancestor 335 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:14.080 David had done. 336 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:15.279 I love that. 337 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:20.759 Remember we talked about how Solomon did. Solomon was faithful 338 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.240 to God early, but faded and blended. It wasn't totally 339 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:27.559 committed to God. Then ray A Boham comes in and 340 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:30.879 fades and isn't totally committed to God. And then Abijah 341 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:34.080 comes and he's not totally committed to God. But it 342 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:37.399 says here that Asa does what his great grandfather did, 343 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:40.399 which is awesome, right, and that's why God blessed him. 344 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:42.399 And so it says he banished the male and female 345 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:44.320 shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all 346 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:47.639 the idols his ancestors had made, and then he deposed 347 00:14:47.639 --> 00:14:50.559 his grandmother, cut down the Ashaa poll. The share poles 348 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:54.320 were worshiped, that they would worship around them, kind of 349 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.960 like the may pole in Europe and the in the 350 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:58.720 day they would worship around and they had all these 351 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:00.960 rituals around them, and it was a phallic symbol, was 352 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:04.480 what I was talking about. So very very sexualized religions. 353 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:04.600 That they would have. 354 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:10.360 And he he fired his grandmother from being the queen mother, right, Yeah, 355 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:13.120 And it's pretty pretty gutsy guy. 356 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:13.600 Yeah. 357 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.679 And the thing that stands out to me is he said, 358 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:21.799 if you don't seek the Lord, we're going to kill you. 359 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:25.639 Whether you're old or young, or whether you're. 360 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:29.360 A woman or a man, we're going to put you 361 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:31.799 to death if you decide not to worship God. 362 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:34.720 That is a heck of a dedication right. 363 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:35.120 There, buddy. 364 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:38.519 Yeah, you're he's saying. He's saying, we're in it to 365 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:38.879 win it. 366 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:40.879 We're not messing around. 367 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:41.960 We're not messing around. 368 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:44.639 Now, that was his choice. That's not a command from God, no, 369 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:47.759 for sure, right, so I would not advocate that that's 370 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:49.960 not that's not the best evangelism strategy. 371 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:51.879 I don't think I wouldn't think so either, But we 372 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:53.799 got to talk about it. Yes, that's what he did, yep. 373 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:59.679 But you know, to sacrifice seven hundred cattle, seven thousand 374 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:02.759 sheep and goats and then entering into a covenant of 375 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:08.000 the Lord, Holy cow, what a great moment, what a party? 376 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:11.960 And uh and so to you know, offer God an offering? 377 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:15.759 By the way, have you ever have you ever personally 378 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:20.440 offered God like a drink offering or or something like that. 379 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:21.799 Have you ever done those kinds of things? 380 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:24.440 Yeah, we've we've done a few of those, as you know, 381 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:27.960 symbolic yes, teaching about the different offerings. 382 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:28.519 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 383 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:30.559 I remember one time I was at a youth retreat 384 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:35.000 with my teenagers and we were talking about fasting and 385 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.039 we were and I was actually going to teach on 386 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.559 an offering because you know, there's different types of offerings 387 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:43.679 to the Lord. And remember the remember when they went 388 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:47.120 down and they grabbed a drink for King David and 389 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:50.639 then David poured it out as a So so I 390 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:52.799 thought to myself, Okay, what I'm going to do is 391 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:57.919 I'm going to sacrifice uh, eating or drinking for all 392 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:00.559 the way up until this, this this message. And so 393 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:02.960 we were gonna eat dinner before and we were away 394 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:05.880 at this retreat and and I said, okay, God, what 395 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.039 I'm going to do is I'm going to say, God, 396 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:10.920 I'm not going to eat, and I'm gonna I'm just gonna, 397 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:14.079 you know, say that I'm gonna fast during that dinner. 398 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:16.319 And then people are gonna wonder, Chris, mah, aren't you eating? 399 00:17:16.720 --> 00:17:18.279 And then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say, Okay, 400 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:21.559 here's here's what the Bible talks about about fasting, about 401 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:23.920