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 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:12.599 Hey, everybody, good morning. 5 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:13.679 It's gonna be a good day. 6 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:14.199 It is. 7 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:15.960 It's gone me. 8 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:19.519 I feel great today because I'm wearing a vest. 9 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:21.600 By the way, do you know who this sings at. 10 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:23.000 It's Jonah's Brothers. 11 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:25.879 Okay, gonna be a good day, you figured. 12 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.679 Hey, did you just say you're gonna have a good 13 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:29.679 day because we're wearing a vest? 14 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.640 Yeah, I feel good about it. It's been cold lately. 15 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:34.679 I'm wearing a vest like every day lately because it's 16 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:35.439 cold outside. 17 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:38.359 It's so funny. That's the reason why it's gonna be. 18 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:39.520 I warn to invest in you're not. 19 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:42.960 You woke up. Well, I'm going straight to the HFE 20 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:43.799 to work out. 21 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.439 Jim to the gym. To the gym. Hey, so you 22 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:49.759 got to a musclehead, aren't you? 23 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:52.719 No, not even close. I just want to bend over 24 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:57.240 with that grunting. That's g's my going life. 25 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:57.880 Okay. 26 00:00:58.039 --> 00:00:59.079 Hey, when so you went into. 27 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:00.840 The closet and you're like you're like, you know what, 28 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:02.479 I want you to be a good day until you 29 00:01:02.520 --> 00:01:03.119 reach for your. 30 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:04.439 Vest, my good day. Vest. 31 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:07.439 Yeah that's awesome. 32 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:09.640 You just want to bend over without grunting? 33 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:11.359 Yeah? Yeah. 34 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:13.599 Well the older I get, the more I felt like, 35 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:15.640 like when I bend over now, like to put on 36 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.239 my socks or something. I like, anything else I need 37 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:21.079 to do while I'm down here, because I don't want. 38 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:23.000 To do it again. To do it again, you're done here? 39 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:29.439 Anything else I'm gonna know. I guess I'm done, all right? Right? 40 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:32.400 Yeah, I just that's that's that's my goal in life. 41 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.640 It's not to become a meathead. It's it's so I 42 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:35.560 can move. 43 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:39.400 And I thought maybe you were, you know, beefing up 44 00:01:39.439 --> 00:01:42.159 because you're secretly gonna beat me up someday out in 45 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:43.040 the parking lot or something. 46 00:01:43.159 --> 00:01:44.280 Wow, that would be a goal. 47 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:50.959 And I'm training to be is like like a Rocky movie, right, you. 48 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:57.359 Just like Michael Scott and training for yeah, threat level midnight. 49 00:01:57.439 --> 00:01:59.000 That's right, that's funny. 50 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:02.359 Okay, Chris, Today we have a really good segment. 51 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:05.159 What a weird and yet delightful. 52 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.079 This is great. Now I'm going to take credit for 53 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.800 this one. We were sitting in a board meeting. We 54 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:13.400 were you and I we were and some joke came 55 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:17.240 up about the Bible Guy's podcasts, which is always shocking 56 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:18.879 to me. Anybody to make a joke about a serious 57 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:19.560 podcast like this. 58 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:20.560 Yeah, what the heck? 59 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:23.919 And then we got to talking about theme songs, and 60 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:26.520 then I thought, wouldn't it be fun if we had 61 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:30.080 a theme song? And I suggested like different TV shows 62 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.800 that were that had the tune right. 63 00:02:32.919 --> 00:02:33.080 Yeah. 64 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:36.360 Well then all of a sudden we type it into 65 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.039 chat GPT, we get Ai to write us. 66 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:41.800 Lyrics and I think I think you tried Happy Days. 67 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:42.120 Happy Days. 68 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:44.000 Yeah, yeah, which was great Sunday movie. 69 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:47.159 Well, after the meeting was over, we're cleaning up, and 70 00:02:47.599 --> 00:02:49.919 I walked through the commons area in the offices and 71 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:52.240 Dez is still in the office. Yeah, she sure was right, 72 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:53.719 it was it was late in the evening, but she 73 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:55.240 she was still there. And I was like, Dad, you 74 00:02:55.319 --> 00:02:58.680 gotta we just had a new idea. And so it's 75 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:01.919 the Bible Guy's themes, right, because we don't. 76 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:03.599 Have a great Bible Guys theme song, No, we don't 77 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:03.919 have any. 78 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.879 So today what she wants to do is maybe make 79 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:12.120 this a segment where we start exploring different theme songs. 80 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:16.759 And so so today here what we're gonna do is 81 00:03:16.759 --> 00:03:19.639 we're gonna take the theme song, the tune from the Flintstones, 82 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:21.080 and we're gonna have. 83 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:25.520 You rework it to spotlight the Bible Guys. So here's 84 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:25.960 what I did. 85 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:29.520 I went to AI and I said, help me write 86 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:32.240 the lyrics to a theme song for a podcast called 87 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:34.639 The Bible Guys, whose theme is a couple of friends 88 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:36.479 who like to talk about about the Bible and fun 89 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.560 of practical ways, make fun and lighthearted. 90 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:41.080 Write it to the tune of the Flintstones. And this 91 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:43.080 is what it gave us right here, Chris, So. 92 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:45.639 Just sing these lyrics for us, whip it out real quick, 93 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.319 and maybe if it's good, maybe we'll make it the 94 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:50.240 official theme song of the Bible Guys. 95 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.240 First of all, this does not fit perfectly. I can tell, 96 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.479 and I'm gonna butcher this. Oh come on, but we're 97 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:56.000 gonna try it. 98 00:03:56.080 --> 00:04:01.120 You're amazing, Okay, amazing, Yes, oh jeez, anything you have 99 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:02.400 to do this can wait. 100 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:04.400 I'm so excited. 101 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:08.280 The funny things you are. 102 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:11.280 I am you are going to be fabulous. Okay, yep, 103 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:13.960 all right, dump dump okay. 104 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:14.319 Thanks Jeff. 105 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:18.639 Here ready, Bible Guys, it's the Bible Guys. Two good 106 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:19.199 friends who. 107 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:24.000 Make you laugh and learn. Grab a chair, dive into 108 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:24.439 the word. 109 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:29.240 Every day is a fun new twist and turn, talking 110 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:34.759 faith cracking jokes. It's wild breaking down the Bible. 111 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:35.160 With some style. 112 00:04:35.759 --> 00:04:39.560 When you're with the Bible, guys, you'll be smiling till 113 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:40.560 your cheeks conlide. 114 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:44.839 It's the Bible, guys, It's the Bible. Guys. It play now, 115 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:53.920 don't let the fun pass by. That is terrible. Love it, terrible, 116 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:54.560 love it. 117 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.879 This has to be a news weekly segment. We have 118 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:02.319 to include every week about maybe twice a week. Let's think. 119 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:05.079 Let's think about doing it twice a week. This delights me. 120 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:09.720 No, no, no, let's let us First of all, I 121 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:13.079 don't know that many tunes. Oh, it's gonna be limited 122 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:13.680 to the number of. 123 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.920 Teams that we can do. There's a ton of we do. 124 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:17.000 Green Acres. 125 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:20.120 Is the place for me we could do. 126 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:21.879 I don't know, Adams fan, but I don't know the 127 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:23.560 whole thing. Oh, that's a right. I just want to 128 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:24.199 hear you started. 129 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:27.560 That's the thing I don't. I don't know, I know 130 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:29.879 like the I know the whole thing of like maybe. 131 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:30.959 Ten how about the eighteen? 132 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:34.120 We could only do what eighteen was just a musical, 133 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:34.439 wasn't it. 134 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:36.680 Okay, it wasn't worse. You're right, you're right, there wasn't 135 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.720 any Yeah. Uh, Dukes of Hazzard, we can have you do. 136 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:43.439 Yeah, you know what, if you choose any eighties ones, 137 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:44.319 I'm pretty good to go. 138 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:46.920 That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that'd be great. 139 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.160 I could do Dukes of Hazzard, Three's company. I can 140 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:49.720 do cheers. 141 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:50.920 Okay, that's what we need to do. 142 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:52.920 Okay, you heard Brady Bunch. 143 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:55.319 Those are your marching orders right there, oh, Brady Bunch. 144 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:58.240 Yeah, yeah, I could. I could do anything in the 145 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:03.399 eighties usually I could do. That's really funny, although I didn't. 146 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:06.160 I didn't do that one very well. I tempted to. 147 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.759 Okay, you know, well that just that just makes me 148 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:10.360 so happy. 149 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:12.600 Some voice exercises and try that again. 150 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:14.720 Maybe yeah, yeah, no, that just makes me so happy. 151 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:17.120 Thank you, thank you, thank you. Dez. You know who 152 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:24.800 wasn't happy, The King of the King of Israel. He 153 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.160 wasn't happy, especially with a light shut. 154 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:32.279 That's you're right, you're right. He actually gets very angry 155 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:32.920 at yes. 156 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.839 And this is Ben Hadad to the second yes. Historically, 157 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:40.120 for all of our ancient historian friends out there listening, 158 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:42.800 because you know, people on that level listen to our 159 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:44.160 shows all the time, and. 160 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:46.040 Of course everybody is familiar. 161 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:47.959 About Ben ben Hadad the Second. 162 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:54.079 That is not the question. They're thinking, I wonder what 163 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:55.279 song Chris is. 164 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:55.800 Going to do next. 165 00:06:59.480 --> 00:06:59.920 Let's be real. 166 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:03.519 Yeah, if anybody stayed with us for six fifty six 167 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.120 minutes and fifty seconds of that, yeah, they're not asking 168 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:08.399 this this Benhadad or Benhadad the Second. 169 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:08.800 That's correct. 170 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:14.519 Okay, So in Second Kings, chapter six, it says this. 171 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:20.839 Sometime later, however, King ben Haddad of Aram mustered his 172 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:24.720 entire army and besieged Samiria. As a result, there was 173 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:27.319 a great famine in the city. The siege lasted so 174 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.160 long that a donkey's had sold for eighty pieces of 175 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:32.879 silver and a cup of doves dung sold for five 176 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:35.959 pieces is over. Wow, I'm not exactly sure in what 177 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:37.560 circumstances you needed to buy. 178 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:40.000 A cup of dove's dung. 179 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:43.279 Demands hell, do you have an extra cup of dove dung? 180 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:46.519 I'm not sure what that accent is. 181 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:50.920 Accent that's right. 182 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.639 One day, as the King of Israel was walking along 183 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:58.279 the wall of the city, a woman called him, Please 184 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.079 help me, my lord the king. He answered, if the 185 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.439 Lord doesn't help you, what can I do. I have 186 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:05.920 neither food from the threshing floor nor wine from the 187 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:08.160 press to give you. But then the king asked, what 188 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:10.839 is the matter. She replied, this woman said to me, 189 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:14.000 come non, let's eat your son today and then we'll 190 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:17.439 eat my son tomorrow. So we cooked my son and 191 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:19.680 ate him. Then the next day I said to her, 192 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:21.399 kill your son so we can eat him, but she 193 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:24.639 had hidden her son. When the king heard this, he 194 00:08:24.759 --> 00:08:28.079 tore his clothes in despair. As the king walked along 195 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:30.120 the wall, the people could see that he was wearing 196 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.279 burlap under his robe next to his skin. May God 197 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:35.759 strike me and even kill me if I don't separate 198 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.840 Elisha's head from his shoulders this very day, the king bowed. 199 00:08:40.039 --> 00:08:42.279 Elisha was sitting in his house with the elders of 200 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:44.440 Israel when the king sent a messenger to summon him. 201 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:46.759 But before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, 202 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:49.480 a murderer has sent a man to cut off my head. 203 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:51.519 When he arrives, shut the door and keep him out. 204 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.960 We will soon hear his master steps following him. While 205 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.679 Elisha was still saying this, the messenger arrived, and the 206 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:01.440 king said, all this misery is from the Lord. Why 207 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:04.120 should I wait for the Lord any longer? And Elisha replied, 208 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:06.799 listen to this message from the Lord. This is what 209 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:09.879 the Lord says. By this time tomorrow, in the markets 210 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.080 of Samaria, five courts of choice flower will cost only 211 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:15.960 one piece of silver, and ten courts of barley grain 212 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:17.080 will cost only one. 213 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:17.600 Piece of silver. 214 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:21.080 The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, 215 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:23.080 that couldn't happen even if the Lord opened the windows 216 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.240 of heaven. But Elisa replied, you will see it happen 217 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:27.279 with your own eyes, but you won't be able to 218 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:28.080 eat any of it. 219 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.279 Wow, you'll see it happen with your own eyes, but 220 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:33.679 you won't be. 221 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:34.720 Able to eat eat any of it. 222 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:38.759 That's right, implying that his fate may not be good. 223 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:41.200 Well, it's pretty rough. 224 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:45.320 Well, first of all, this is a horrible, horrible story. 225 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:46.200 What a terrible story. 226 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:47.440 It is a terrible story. 227 00:09:47.639 --> 00:09:48.559 It is it is. 228 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:50.639 It is one of these stories. Where did you ever 229 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.200 see a movie where it's it's like a good good 230 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:57.240 Jeff All right the end. That's what I was meaning. 231 00:09:57.639 --> 00:09:59.679 Have you ever seen any movie any That's that's of 232 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.799 course my question. You know, do you ever see a 233 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:07.000 movie like like Schindler's List right where or al Mustad? 234 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:08.600 Do you ever see Amistad. 235 00:10:10.159 --> 00:10:10.519 The Ship? 236 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:11.679 Yeah? 237 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:12.639 Yeah in Ecuador? 238 00:10:12.759 --> 00:10:12.919 Yeah. 239 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:13.159 Yeah. 240 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:15.799 So it's just one of these stories that it's like, hey, 241 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:18.200 we have to tell this story because it's a it's 242 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:21.559 an important part of history. Uh, it shows it shows 243 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:25.799 obviously a side of humanity that is that is real, 244 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.360 and and uh, you know, and and then of course, 245 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.039 you know in this case, you know, God is God 246 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:33.679 is gonna, you know, rescue them in a miraculous way. 247 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:40.360 But just how you know, I just can't imagine, and 248 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:41.080 none of us can. 249 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:45.000 Hey, let's kill your son and let's cook them today 250 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:47.399 and then and then we'll kill my son and we'll 251 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.679 cook them tomorrow, which implies, of course, they had to 252 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:53.240 kill them unless unless they both no, no, no, if 253 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:55.159 she's having her son, the son's alive, right. 254 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:59.960 So I mean, just I mean absolutely the worst of circumstance. 255 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:02.519 It says that you could ever imagine. So how starving 256 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:04.639 you have to be to start eating people? 257 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:05.159 Yeah? 258 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:05.759 Right? 259 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:06.159 Yeah? 260 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:08.159 And so it has to be the very last. 261 00:11:08.039 --> 00:11:12.440 Resort of course, and especially your own kid, right, And 262 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:16.279 so I just it's it's horrific to even talk about, 263 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:19.279 to even think about. And so this is one of 264 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.080 those things where it sort of makes me angry a 265 00:11:21.080 --> 00:11:24.000 little bit. It's like, so, if God, you know, was 266 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:27.200 going to intervene, why couldn't he intervene before the woman 267 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:28.360 cooked the sun? 268 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:28.840 Yeah? 269 00:11:29.480 --> 00:11:33.200 Right, Like, why are we waiting until after this story? So, 270 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:36.399 but then again, there was a lot of misery in 271 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:38.720 those days that just unfolded until God stepped in. 272 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.039 Well, I think the reason why this happens, by the way, 273 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:45.000 is God warned them at Wood in Duteronomy chapter twenty eight. 274 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:49.480 So he said, if the people of Israel reject me, 275 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.879 there'll be a day when mothers will eat their children. 276 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.360 They'll be a day when you can't afford to buy anything. 277 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.039 There'll be a day when you warned them about this 278 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:04.080 hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. It might have been a 279 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:07.759 thousand years before this. Then if it gets to this point, 280 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:13.279 so it's not like it should be a shock. This 281 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:17.440 is where they ended up because their choices got them here, right, 282 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:21.080 So I have compassion for the mother. But it doesn't 283 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:24.159 make God unjust. As a matter of fact, these people 284 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.960 have been rebelling against God for hundreds of years. 285 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:31.360 So paying for the sins of your father's, well. 286 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:33.399 Their own sins, there's no doubt about it. I mean, 287 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.120 we just talked about the kinds of sins that these 288 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:39.159 people were committing. You know, the one guy sacrificed. Yeah, 289 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:43.159 these are the Samaritan or the Israelite king just recently 290 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.559 sacrificed his own son in a burnt offering on the. 291 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.240 Wall, and the people were mad at. 292 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:52.039 Elijah. 293 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.559 Yeah right, not at the king, right, because that's okay, Well, 294 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:58.360 that's what we have to do sometimes, right. 295 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:02.639 So the total depravity of these people. 296 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:06.279 God had warned them in the Book of Deuteronomy that 297 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.320 if you go down this path, you're going to become 298 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:15.399 so totally depraved that the only response left is horrific judgment. 299 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:19.039 And God told them stuff like this in Deuteronomy chapter 300 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:24.480 twenty eight. So really it's God was unbelievably patient to 301 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:29.120 go this long because their behaviors qualified a long time 302 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:32.120 ago for that judgment that God promised would happen if 303 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:35.399 you cross those lines. So to be it clear, be clear, 304 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:38.399 you don't have to cross those lines. You don't have 305 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:41.639 to do those things. But if you do, how often 306 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:43.840 do we say you're free to make your choices. You're 307 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.720 not free to choose the consequences. Remember how the end 308 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:51.080 of Deuteronomy ends. It's this passage the end of Deuteronomy 309 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:54.399 says it was it twenty eight or whatever. Towards the 310 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:56.960 end of the book of Deuteronomy, he says, I'm giving 311 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.600 you a choice between life and death. I'm giving you 312 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:03.360 a choice choice between blessings and cursings. And then he says, 313 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.320 oh that you would choose life. And then for hundreds 314 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:13.000 of years they didn't choose God right. For a very 315 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:15.559 long time, king after king after king after king, they 316 00:14:15.639 --> 00:14:18.320 rebel against God, and they get more and more and 317 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:23.159 more depraved in their worship practices Astereth and all those gods, 318 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:29.120 and in their in their practical everyday living, and so 319 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:31.639 finally God goes, Okay, I don't have any other option. 320 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:34.720 I'm going to send this evil king ben Hadad. He's 321 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.639 going to circle the city of Samaria. He's gonna besieze you, 322 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:40.519 and you're gonna have some rough times. It's it's what's coming, 323 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:43.360 and it's interesting to me that at this point the 324 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.960 king is wearing burlap, is showing that he's grieving, burlaps 325 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:49.519 underneath his clothes. He's grieving over this, He's trying to 326 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:53.879 that was a sign of grief. But yeah, and then 327 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:56.480 he blames Elishah for it, right Yeah? 328 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.480 And I love the note here in the Life Application 329 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.840 and Study by Well It says why did the king 330 00:15:03.159 --> 00:15:06.600 blame Elaisha for the famine and the troubles for the siech? 331 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:08.120 Here's some possible reasons. 332 00:15:08.200 --> 00:15:11.679 Number one, some commentators say that Elisha must have told 333 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:15.320 the king to trust God for deliverance, because the king 334 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.399 did this even when he wore burlap. Because, by the way, 335 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:21.559 that's a good conclusion, because the king did say, why should. 336 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:22.440 I wait on the Lord any longer? 337 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:22.679 Right? 338 00:15:23.480 --> 00:15:25.279 So that and why would you Why else would he 339 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:25.840 blame Alisha? 340 00:15:25.879 --> 00:15:27.960 I just keep waiting and waiting and waiting, right right. 341 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:29.960 In other words, that must have been the word from Elisha, 342 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.440 right right. But at this point the situation seemed hopeless, 343 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:34.679 and apparently the king thought Elisha had given him bad 344 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:36.200 advice and not even God could help them. 345 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:37.399 That's the first one. 346 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:39.960 The second one, number two, For years, the King of 347 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:43.080 Israel and the prophets of God had been in conflict. 348 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.960 The prophets often predicted doom because of the king's evil, 349 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:51.360 so the king saw them as troublemakers. Thus Israel's king 350 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:55.799 was striking out in frustration at Elisha. 351 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.240 And by the way, that is also true. There's evidence 352 00:15:58.279 --> 00:15:59.159 of that as well, right. 353 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.879 Or Three, the king may have remembered when Elisha helped 354 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:07.200 bring an end to the famine in First Kings eighteen. 355 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:09.600 Knowing Elisha was a man of God, perhaps the king 356 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:12.240 thought he could try to do any miracle he wanted, 357 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:14.000 and he was angry that he had not come to 358 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:15.200 Israel's rescue. 359 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:15.960 Yeah. 360 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:18.879 And by the way, those are three great reasons, or could. 361 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:20.320 Be all the above, Yeah, could be all of them. 362 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:20.600 Yeah. 363 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:20.879 Yeah. 364 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.759 So let me go back to Deuteronomy, because remember, Israel, 365 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:29.759 these aren't people who don't know God's word. These aren't 366 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:32.559 people who just you know, pagans running around the world 367 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:34.720 just doing their own thing and never having exposure to God. 368 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:39.600 These are people who've had God directly and miraculously intervene 369 00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:44.000 over and over and over and over and over again 370 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.600 in their history. And then they're a very verbal culture, 371 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:49.799 oral culture, so they retell their stories over and over, 372 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:52.840 and it's what the Synagogue's all about, is retelling the 373 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:56.360 stories of God. Right, right, So in Deuteronomy, which is 374 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:59.360 the Law, they quote the law the good boys and 375 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:01.200 the good Girl in Israel, the good Boys and the 376 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:02.120 good Girls in Judah. 377 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.279 They memorize the Law all five books by the time 378 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:07.039 they are twelve, every word. 379 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:10.680 So at the end of Deuteronomy, he says, listen, if 380 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.839 you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep 381 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.759 all his commands that I'm giving you today, God will 382 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:18.279 set you high above all the nations of the world, 383 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.440 and you'll experience all these blessings. If you obey the 384 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:24.519 Lord your God, your towns and your fields will be blessed. 385 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.319 Your children and your crops will be blessed. The offspring 386 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:29.559 of your herds and flocks will be blessed. Your fruit, 387 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.079 baskets and bread boards will be blessed. Wherever you go, 388 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:35.599 whatever you do, you'll be blessed. I'm like, hey, that 389 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:36.559 sounds like a good deal. 390 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.720 That's a good deal. The God of the universe is 391 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.160 promising this. The Lord will conquer your enemies when they 392 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:46.559 attack you. The Lord will guarantee a blessing on everything 393 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:49.599 you do, and will fill your storehouses with grain. The 394 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:51.599 Lord your God will bless you in the land he's 395 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:53.559 giving you. If you obey the commands the. 396 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:55.119 Lord your God and walk in his ways, the Lord 397 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:58.200 will establish you as his holy people, as he swore 398 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.440 he would do. Then all of the nations will see 399 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:02.720 that you are the people claimed by the Lord, and 400 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.000 they will stand in awe of you. The Lord will 401 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.559