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 00:00:11.439 --> 00:00:15.160 Here we are here, We are back again, We are here, 5 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:15.800 back at it. 6 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:18.399 Yes, we're in our studio, which, by the way, nobody 7 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:19.559 really knows where it is, do they. 8 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:22.320 Well, it's secret. It's in a secret bumper bunker. 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We we didn't even 21 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:56.960 plan on saying that, but what great to say. 22 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:57.759 Yeah, this is good. 23 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:00.560 Wait, today we are wrapping up our week. 24 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.599 Because it is Friday, and we are going to launch 25 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:06.319 into a very familiar segment. 26 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:08.760 But before we get into that, segment or before we 27 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.319 get into the big story today, because this is Elijah 28 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:16.439 confronting a king. Yes, right, and but before we do that, 29 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:19.879 we need you to confront all of the societal problems 30 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:24.239 in our lives. What you're doing the transition, I know, 31 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:26.519 I'm becoming an expert at this man. 32 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:27.280 Wow. 33 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:31.200 And so this is everybody's favorite segment because on behalf 34 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:34.120 of all of us, you let us know what made 35 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:35.200 Chris mad this week? 36 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:38.000 Yes, well I'm mad for the world, Jeff, Yes, thank you. 37 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:39.599 I'm not just thank you me. 38 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:41.959 You're good to us, Chris. That's what I'm trying to say, 39 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:44.280 thank you, And I think you'll agree with So what 40 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.000 made Chris mad this week? By the way, I said, 41 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:47.359 Oh hey, by the way, the next segment is what 42 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:49.120 made Chris mad this week? He didn't even look up 43 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:51.920 from his page. He goes, already know what that is? Yeah, 44 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.000 So you didn't even have to think. You didn't think 45 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.879 for a second about it. You didn't have to look up. 46 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:58.599 You just went, I know what it is? 47 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:01.920 Yes, okay, yes, And here's what it is. And it's 48 00:02:01.959 --> 00:02:09.080 in one one phrase. Somehow, the new telemarketers are finding 49 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:12.800 ways for your phone to ring and it says a name, 50 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:13.719 a random name. 51 00:02:13.879 --> 00:02:14.919 Oh did you know that? 52 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:15.759 I didn't know that. 53 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:19.919 So so instead of it saying like potential spam, which 54 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.719 thank goodness for those calls, right, we just hit you know, 55 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:28.199 decline or whatever. Now the last thirty calls that have 56 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.439 come in because my name must be on a list, right, I. 57 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:33.159 Bet your name's on a lot of lists, Chris. 58 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:37.800 There's Billy Madison where there's a list of people. He 59 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:39.599 wanted to kill the kid who in front of him. 60 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:44.400 Anyway, the point is is that sorry, my random brand, 61 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:49.280 but anyway, Yeah, so now the last thirty calls I 62 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:51.719 must be on a list have come up and they 63 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:55.000 just say a name, and sometimes you look at the 64 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:56.919 area code and you're like, oh, is this a person? 65 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:58.759 I know? You know, they must be my contacts whatever 66 00:02:58.800 --> 00:03:00.840 it is, but they have now found out a way 67 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:03.360 to attach it to this. Well, here's what made me Matt. 68 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.879 I was on a very very important call. I was 69 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:09.000 on a call about with the bank. 70 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:13.479 And because you do wheels and deals all the time, 71 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:16.840 right at that time, yeah, you're talking to one of 72 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:19.400 your bankers, Yeah, one of my bankers. 73 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:21.680 And I'm on the phone call. But then what ends 74 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:22.199 up happening. 75 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:26.719 Is this random uh uh, you know, telemarketing call comes 76 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:31.080 in and it says a name and just coincidentally happened 77 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:35.240 to be the last name of a funeral that I'm doing, 78 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:38.240 And so I thought to myself, oh no, did I 79 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:39.360 get the funeral time wrong? 80 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:41.400 Is this a family saying where are you? 81 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:41.919 Like? 82 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:43.599 Which you know, of course it wasn't. 83 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:46.080 And so I'm on the phone with this bank talking 84 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.439 about opening up this account and all these different kinds 85 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:52.319 of things, and I said, I'm so sorry, but I 86 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:55.080 have to put you on hold. And this lady on 87 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:57.879 the other end is like, I'm sorry. What I'm like, 88 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:00.560 I I'm so sorry, I have to put you on hold, 89 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.960 And so I put her on hold. I click over, 90 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:05.080 and then you know, it just doesn't say anything for 91 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:06.639 a minute, you know, and I'm like hello, Hello, and 92 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:08.800 then just waits like ten seconds. They goes all of 93 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:10.400 a sudden, you know, clicks, and all of a sudden 94 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:12.879 you hear all the tele you know, and it's and 95 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:16.240 it's usually somebody who lives across the world, right, And 96 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:18.639 they goes somebody in India air or something, and and 97 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:21.199 hello is this mister? And of course they came from 98 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:26.759 Assal Hell is this mister z click? You know, I 99 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:29.319 just click immediately, right, and I go back, and I'm like, 100 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:30.519 I'm so angry. 101 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:33.399 Oh and then I lost the call. I go to 102 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:33.839 click back. 103 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:36.519 Yeah, and then it was just a big thing, right, 104 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:39.199 and so anyway, it was just terrible, and I just 105 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:44.399 thought to myself, I am so angry that now telemarkers 106 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:48.480 have found a way to ruin my life again, you know, 107 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:51.399 for a while, until I can figure out how to 108 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:53.480 just ignore everybody miss important calls. 109 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:54.800 I don't know what to do. 110 00:04:54.680 --> 00:04:56.839 Do you just, yeah, you just miss everything. 111 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:00.279 I don't answer anything. I don't recognize. Yeah that it's 112 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:01.040 off the top of my head. 113 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.720 So that's what some people do. But in the case 114 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:05.800 of the funeral, I was afraid it was also. 115 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.279 Means I missthinks sometimes. Yeah, I feel bad about. 116 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:09.240 That, Yeah for sure. 117 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:12.399 But anyway, that's but I'm not walking around raging either, right, 118 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:14.839 So there's it. Yeah, So anyway, how do you know 119 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:16.879 that that guy that called you though, wasn't from a 120 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.680 bigger bank offering you a better deal from India? Yeah, 121 00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:21.360 I don't. 122 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:22.399 I don't think so, you. 123 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:25.639 Know, Actually I think they were connected to King that 124 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:30.839 they wanted me to email toll. 125 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.240 Just just in Amazon carts. 126 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:35.040 Right yeah, anyway, okay, anyway. 127 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:36.639 That's so, that's what made you mad, is that the 128 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:39.199 telemarketers are finding a way around the thing. 129 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:39.680 Yeah. 130 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.439 And what's what's ironic about that statement is I when 131 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:44.000 telemarketing very first came out. 132 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:47.639 You were in nineteen ninety, I. 133 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:49.800 Was I was making a ton of money, the most 134 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:53.000 money I've ever made by far during that time, because 135 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.279 I was a great telemarketer. Ye. 136 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.600 So but now you hate them, Well, it's what comes 137 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.279 what goes around comes around, Chris. This is a lord 138 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:03.399 just repaying you. 139 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.040 You're paying your dues, buddy. Yeah, yeah, that's right, the fiddler. 140 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:09.000 Right, you planted a seed and now you're reaping a whirlwind. 141 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:11.920 Right yeah, you plant a wind and reap a whirlwind. 142 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:14.800 Isn't that what God said? So you know, when you 143 00:06:14.839 --> 00:06:18.079 plant one colonel of corn, you end up getting a 144 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:20.600 six foot stock with two or three ears of corn, 145 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:23.720 with hundreds of kernels of corn on it. Listen, so 146 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:24.519 you know what's coming. 147 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:25.199 I am mad. 148 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:28.360 I think of the think of the thousands of telemarketing 149 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:31.680 phone calls you've planted. All those little seeds are kind 150 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:33.480 of gone back in the hundreds of thousands. 151 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:36.519 It's everybody. 152 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.560 There are people out there that are experiencing what I'm experiencing. 153 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:43.199 Those of us that know that you were a successful 154 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:47.519 telemarketer are struggling to feel compassion for you. There's no 155 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.040 compassion for there's no compassion because you're the one that 156 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:53.600 the problem. You're the one who refined the system. Hey, 157 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.560 you're the one who made it better, and it came to. 158 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.120 Un I did it at a time where everybody actually listened. 159 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.480 Remember when Jesus to Peter, if you live by the sword, 160 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:02.480 you'll die by the swords. 161 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:05.560 It's true. It's true. That's true. 162 00:07:07.120 --> 00:07:10.160 Fine, No, I'm gonna laugh. I'm laughing with you, not 163 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:10.600 at you. 164 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:12.480 Okay, No, I'm laughing at you. 165 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:13.720 Should be honest. 166 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:15.800 Hey, I almost feel like I have no defense. 167 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:16.800 You don't have any defense. 168 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:21.959 You have no defense, right because I I did build 169 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:27.879 a living off of really destroying the concept of people. 170 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.319 Call the sanctity of your own home the sanctity back 171 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:34.040 when people only had one phone, back when they had 172 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:37.240 one phone. Right, it's the only thing you had to 173 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.639 get up out of your chair and run over because 174 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.360 it might be Grandma, it might be you know, some 175 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:45.519 big news. It might be art link letter telling you 176 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:48.720 that you want a million dollars, right, and instead it 177 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:50.639 was our boss selling you beds. 178 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:59.160 Or long distance or discover cards or all sorts of things. 179 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:05.000 So anyway, it's good for you, Chris, okay. Speaking of 180 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:11.800 good for you and being confronted by telemarketers, Elijah has 181 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:18.120 to confront King a Haziah confrontations. Confrontations, that's right. Yeah, 182 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:21.240 So in Second King's chapter one, verse eighteen. 183 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.600 Well, you already you already preemptively did the transition. You 184 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:24.480 just did two transmits. 185 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.879 I know I gave you two. I'm feeling particularly generous 186 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:28.839 with transitions today. 187 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:30.439 You're so generous today. 188 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.600 So uh, well, I gave you a million points yesterday 189 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:36.240 for every correct answer. You know what, I'm just telling you. 190 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:38.559 I am feeling so unbelievably generous. 191 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:41.120 I think it's about time we acknowledge your generosity. I'm 192 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:41.600 a good guy. 193 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:45.600 You are a good young Speaking of good guys, Elijah confronted. 194 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:49.600 Wow, that's my third transition. 195 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:53.200 He goes. After King Ahab's death, the land of Moab 196 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:57.600 rebelled against Israel. One day, Israel's new King a Haziah 197 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.279 fell through the lattice work of an upper room at 198 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.159 his palace in Samaria, and was seriously injured. So he 199 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.679 sent messengers to the temple of bailz Abub, the god 200 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:09.840 of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover. I don't 201 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:13.039 think I'd be checking out Belzebub's answers about anything, doubt. 202 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:18.759 Why would he be named that, because yeah, all false 203 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:21.080 gods come from the devil. Anyways, But the Angel the 204 00:09:21.080 --> 00:09:23.679 Lord told Elijah, who was from Tishba, go and confront 205 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:25.519 the messengers of the King of SAMERI and ask them, 206 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:27.639 is there no god in Israel? Why are you going 207 00:09:27.679 --> 00:09:30.320 to belz Abub, the God of Ekron, to ask whether 208 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.200 the king will recover? Now, therefore, this is what the 209 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.000 Lord says. You will never leave the bed you're lying on. 210 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:39.480 You will surely die. So Elijah went to deliver the message. 211 00:09:39.960 --> 00:09:42.120 When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, 212 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:43.879 why have you returned so soon? And they replied, A 213 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.559 man came up to us and told us to go 214 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:47.399 back to the king and given this message. This is 215 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:49.000 what the Lord says, There's no is there no god 216 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.360 in Israel? Why are you sending men to bales abub 217 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:54.240 the god of Achron, to ask whether you recover. Therefore, 218 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.639 because you've done this, you will never leave the bed 219 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.279 you are lying on. You will surely die. What sort 220 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:01.399 of man was he? The king demanded, what do you 221 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:03.120 look like? And they replied he was a hairy man 222 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:06.080 and he wore a leather belt around his waist. Elijah 223 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:08.799 from Tishpa, the king explained, exclaimed that. 224 00:10:08.759 --> 00:10:13.559 Maybe that's where we get the rugged description. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 225 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.559 there it is right there. Yeah, he saw. 226 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.559 Then he sent an army captain with fifty soldiers to 227 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:22.120 arrest him. They found him sitting on top of a hill, 228 00:10:22.120 --> 00:10:23.519 and the captain said to him, man of God, the 229 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:25.759 king has commanded you to come down with us. But 230 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.279 Elijah applied to the captain, if I'm a man of God, 231 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:30.440 let fire come down from heaven and destroy you and 232 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:32.799 your fifty men. Then fire fell from heaven and killed 233 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:33.120 them all. 234 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:34.279 Wow. 235 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:36.399 So the king sent another captain with fifty men, and 236 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:37.919 the captain said, of the man of God, the king 237 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.759 demands that you come down at once. Elijah applied, if 238 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:43.519 I'm a man of God, let fire come from heaven 239 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.320 and destroy you and your fifty men. And again the 240 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:48.240 fire of God fell from heaven and killed them all 241 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:52.799 once more. Not learning his lesson, the king sent a 242 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:55.200 third captain with fifty men. But this time the captain 243 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:57.320 went up the hill and fell to his knees before Elijah. 244 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.320 He pleaded with him, Oh, Man of God, please spare 245 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:01.360 my life and the life of these your fifty servants. 246 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.440 See how the fire from heaven came down and destroyed 247 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:08.720 the first two groups. But please now spare my life. 248 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.519 Then the angel Lord said to Elijah, go down with him, 249 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:13.879 and don't be afraid of him. So Elijah got up 250 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.159 and went with him to the king. Elijah said to 251 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.000 the king, this is what the Lord says. Why did 252 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:20.840 you send messengers to bales above the God of Ekron 253 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:23.399 to ask whether you recover? Is there no God in 254 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:26.320 Israel to answer your question. Therefore, because you've done this, 255 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:28.200 you will never leave the bed you're lying on, and 256 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:32.080 you will surely die. So a Haziah died, just as 257 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.320 the Lord had promised through Elijah. Since Aziah did not 258 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.720 have a son to succeed him, his brother Joram became 259 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.039 the next king. This took place in the second year 260 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:43.679 of the reign of Jehoram. Son of Jehashaphat, king of Judah. 261 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.039 The rest of the events in a Haziah's reign are 262 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:47.679 recorded in the Book of the History of the Kings 263 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:48.159 of Israel. 264 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:53.240 Yikes, so, yikes, in that whole story. 265 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:55.360 Yeah, yeah, I think this calling down fire from heaven 266 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:57.159 things becoming a habit for Elijah. 267 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:58.840 Well, he knows it'll happen. 268 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.399 Yeah, rightly, you have pretty. 269 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:06.639 Much confidence, right, I mean, so Johasaphat apparently is no 270 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:11.519 longer king, and now Jehoram No, no, no, no. I was 271 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.759 gonna say, Jehoram is the king in Judah. Yeah, and 272 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:21.000 Joram is the king, yes of the Yeah, thanks for that. 273 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:25.440 Let's just make it confusing. It's it's consistently like that. 274 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:29.000 Remember it was Jereboam and Raya Boham. Now it's Joram 275 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:29.759 and Jehoram. 276 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:35.080 Right, Yeah, anyway, people need to work on their names. 277 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:40.200 So uh so poor as a Hyah was only king 278 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:44.200 for less than two years and uh and he has 279 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:47.799 a terrible injury and he fell through lattice, right, and 280 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:50.879 he's seriously injury and uh. And he sent messengers to 281 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:56.480 the Temple of Beelzebub, Temple of beelz isn't that crazy? 282 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:00.759 Yeah? Yeah, it says here Bail's abub Bail. It's not 283 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:06.639 bl zebub. Its bail ubb bail zubub. Yeah. With another 284 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:09.279 popular god whose temple is located in the city of Akron. 285 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.799 Because this god was thought to have the power of prophecy, 286 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.279 King a Hasah sent his messengers to Akron to learn 287 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:20.080 his fate. Supernatural power and mystery were associated with Bail's above. 288 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:25.440 A Hasiah's action showed the king's disrespect for God. So 289 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:27.440 this isn't the same god as the god. 290 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:31.159 Bail, right, it's bail Zubub. 291 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:33.360 It's above related to Bail. 292 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:35.440 I have a random comment. 293 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:38.600 Okay, back in the seventies there was a show called 294 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:39.279 Morkan Mindy. 295 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:40.559 I remember Mark Mindi. 296 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:44.840 And uh uh he he would grab his ears and he. 297 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:49.240 Would go h he would do that. Oh, which which 298 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:49.759 is which. 299 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:51.799 I always thought, even back then it was bad that. 300 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:53.200 I was like, I was like, why would you say that? 301 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:58.240 Well, yeah, back then, will I just remember now, no, Nana? Yeah, right, 302 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.480 that's right, yeah, right, so I remember. Okay, So anyways, 303 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:04.360 you know we're old, no doubt. Yeah. The next thing 304 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:06.360 it is, you start talking about Ponderosa. 305 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:08.679 By the way, I was gonna say, we've we lost 306 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:10.480 like three. 307 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:15.039 Quarters our young demographic was growing, and we just wiped 308 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:18.399 the whole thing out with that one thing. 309 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:21.120 We're sorry, hey, Charlie, sorry about that. 310 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:26.840 Exactly right. So it says that Elijah was a hairy 311 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:28.720 man and he wore a leather belt around his waist. 312 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.559 I love it when he goes, Okay, what kind of guy? 313 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:33.840 What he looked like? Oh, he was a hairy man 314 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:35.240 and he wore a and he. 315 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:38.120 Goes, elijahja tis belt. 316 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:46.639 He knew immediately, man. Yeah, remember on another old show, 317 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:53.879 remember Seinfeld, Yes, where he goes, right, that's newman, right, 318 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:57.240 that's it right there, So he knew it. Well, what 319 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:00.159 an amazing phrase. One of the things I love about this, 320 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:03.200 by the way, is Elijah's consistency. So he, you know, 321 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:06.840 the angel says, is there no God in Israel? Why 322 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:08.720 are you going to bails above the God of Ekron 323 00:15:08.840 --> 00:15:12.080 to ask whether the king will recover? Go and challenge 324 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:14.440 them he's and tell him he's never gonna leave his bed. 325 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:18.039 You will surely die. So Elijah goes and says those 326 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:20.240 exact words, is there no God in Israel? Why are 327 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.080 you sending men to bales above the God of Ekron 328 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.320 to ask whether you recover. Therefore, because you've done this, 329 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:26.000 you will never leave the bed you're lying on. You 330 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.519 will surely die. It's easy to tell other people a 331 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:32.039 thing like that. But then the king finally goes, Okay, 332 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:34.240 bring you in. He comes in and he looks at 333 00:15:34.279 --> 00:15:35.639 King Rate in the eye and says, this is what 334 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:38.480 the Lord said. Why did you send messengers to bails 335 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:40.360 above the God of Achron to ask whether you recover? 336 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:43.440 Is there no God in Israel to answer your question. Therefore, 337 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.080 because you've done this, you will never leave the bed 338 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.879 you're lying on. You will surely die. He never changed 339 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:49.159 his message. 340 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.120 Right, Yeah, well you read it literally three times. 341 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.919 He gave it exactly the way that God said it. 342 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:57.039 He didn't change it, he didn't soften it. He didn't. 343 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.600 He just said. And I think that there's a tremendous 344 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:02.120 amount of power of not trying to explain away what 345 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.000 God says to just come in and go listen. This 346 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.480 isn't me, this is God, and God is saying, Thus 347 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:10.799 saith the Lord. And this was going to happen because 348 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:13.200 I think I would be tempted to soften it when 349 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:15.000 I come and talk to the king. Maybe it's easier 350 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.759 to talk to the messengers because they're just messengers. But 351 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:21.840 when you when you're talking up to somebody bigger and more, 352 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:23.679 what you feel like is more powerful than you. Although 353 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:25.240 I don't know that this king has called dow on 354 00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:28.240 fire from heaven a few times, so maybe Elijah had 355 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:30.840 a different view of this king. But he came in 356 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:35.360 and spoke directly and exactly without altering God's words. And 357 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:40.960 I would always caution anybody to be careful about listening 358 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.279 to what they read on the internet or listening to 359 00:16:43.320 --> 00:16:47.240 somebody who changes the meaning. Well, God didn't really mean 360 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:50.840 it that way. Those were the old days, those were 361 00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:54.080 the old times. That was a cultural thing, you know. 362 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:57.000 There's all these kind of phrases. If the Bible says that, 363 00:16:57.039 --> 00:16:59.360 you can believe it, and then the Bible will correct 364 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.440 itself need people to correct it, so the Bible will 365 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:05.799 be its own best commentary. And so if the Bible 366 00:17:05.880 --> 00:17:09.240 is consistent and continues to carry the same consistent phraseology 367 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:13.480 and the same consistent things from Moses to Jesus to Paul, Okay, 368 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:15.400 then guess what I don't need to change it, and 369 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.000 I don't need to find some loophole to get around it. 370 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:20.880 It's what God said, right, and then we just stick 371 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:22.720 with that. And this is one of the things I 372 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:26.440 loved about Elijah is you never find Elijah saying anything 373 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:29.160 different than what God said exactly the way that God 374 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:31.079 said it. And I think that might be part of 375 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.960 the big power that Elijah seems to have. Right. 376 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.079 Yeah, and you know what, it's I just talked about 377 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:38.640 this the other day. There was somebody that came in 378 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:44.319 one that meet with me and and he's he married 379 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:46.400 into a Greek family, so we had a connection because 380 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.720 my daughter's dating and yeah, and we talked about just 381 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:54.599 the idea that sometimes there are topics where they're they're uncomfortable, 382 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:59.200 they're hot topics, they're controversial, it'll split a crowd immediately, 383 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:01.720 and it's uh, you know. And we talked about how, 384 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:04.440 well we're just gonna we're just gonna unapologetically say what 385 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:05.160 the Bible says. 386 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:05.960 That's it. 387 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:08.279 And then if people get really really mad, you can say, well, 388 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:08.960 don't get mad at me. 389 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:10.000 Yeah, I didn't write it. 390 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:11.960 I didn't write it right, Right, this is what the 391 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:12.519 Bible says. 392 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:14.960 And there are times but you know, you got to 393 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:16.839 choose those times, and you got to you got to 394 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:19.720 choose when and where you say those things. But when 395 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:22.920 you say them, you say them unapologetically. 396 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:25.240 Right, Yeah, you speak the truth in love, that's right. 397 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:27.799 So there's been many times where somebody wanted to confront 398 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:30.519 me about, you know, what does hair to Church believe about? 399 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.519 You know, some major social issue. And I will say, 400 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.079 listen the way you're asking the question, this is a 401 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:39.000