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 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:16.719 Good Morning, good morning, we talk the whole that through. 5 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:20.760 Good morning, Good morning to you and you and you. 6 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:24.359 Wow, everybody's just waiting and waiting and waiting, are they? 7 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:27.800 And you saved it to the middle of the week. Yes, 8 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:30.039 thank you so much. 9 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:31.359 It is a good morning on Wednesday. 10 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:36.079 Wow, because you're halfway done with recording with the week? 11 00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:39.200 No, yeah, yeah, yeah, with recording. 12 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:41.479 That was great, Chris, thank you so much. I mean, 13 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:46.960 people love you and they love your singing. They love it. 14 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:49.359 I do people come in on your singing. 15 00:00:49.359 --> 00:00:51.479 I believe there's truth and everything you say they do. 16 00:00:51.640 --> 00:00:57.640 Yeah, there is. Everything I say is true. Yes, yeah, 17 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:58.679 there is truth. 18 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:00.719 And that everything I think you just at a falsity. 19 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:02.600 Yeah, well I don't know. 20 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:03.320 Uh. 21 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:08.239 So everybody knows that you're an incredible singer. Oh geez. 22 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:12.239 They also know that on Fridays you're mad about something. Yeah, 23 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:15.680 and they also know that you're a movie buff. They do. 24 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:18.120 Those are the things that we know about Zara, and 25 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:19.040 that you love your family. 26 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:19.359 Yeah. 27 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:23.040 Somebody saw me, uh when we did the groundbreaking and 28 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.200 he says, hey, you're the jingle guy. 29 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:28.840 I think guy. 30 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:32.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. He's like, oh yeah, yeah yeah yep. 31 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:36.280 So being a movie buff, yes, We're going to do 32 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:40.120 a movie buff quiz and I am going to see 33 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:42.680 if you can guess what movie I'm talking about. 34 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:43.760 And I always get. 35 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:47.319 Nervous about and I'm only using three words. Yes, so 36 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:50.239 I'm going to give you three clues. That's really hard 37 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:53.760 and you have to be able to guess the movie. 38 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:58.400 Now they're well known movies. That's good, okay, but the 39 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:01.159 words aren't easy, it says. To make it more difficult, 40 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.640 Jeff will give one word at a time. Yes, I'm ready, Saturday, Uh, 41 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:12.840 Saturday fever detention, breakfast club. There you go. Yes, yes, 42 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:14.599 I was also going to say misfits. 43 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:19.240 Oh, misfits okay, okay, hey that's pretty cool. Yeah, Saturday detention. 44 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:22.439 I got it. Yeah, okay, the next one of those 45 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.120 famous movies in the world, here's. 46 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:26.680 The next one. Okay, build build it. 47 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.199 Uh, if you build it, we will call build the dreams. 48 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:36.759 Yep, build it, no, come on, yes, build it and 49 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:39.199 they will come. Isn't it what they will come? 50 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:40.199 I can't believe. 51 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:42.439 So the three words will build it and come. So 52 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:45.439 you got it out and build Yep, here we go. So, 53 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:46.919 here you go. 54 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:48.039 One of the best ones I've ever done. 55 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:50.759 You will not get this one on the first try. 56 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:56.560 Boy boy means girl. No boys in the hood ORCA 57 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:01.599 or c h free willy Yep, Yeah, there we go. 58 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:05.840 Yeah, there's only okay, so many movies and the Boy and. 59 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:09.520 Then I was gonna say Captivity maybe one. Yeah, okay, 60 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:13.719 here we go, all right, number four for Beauty, Beauty and. 61 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:22.800 The Beast Pageant Beauty Pageants. Yes, yes, I just think, 62 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:26.080 what's the most famous movie out there? 63 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:28.199 And it's what's right right? 64 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:30.120 Here you go? Are you ready? Okay, right, here's the 65 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:33.240 last one. You have the opportunity. This is going to 66 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:34.120 go five for five. 67 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:35.039 This is going well for me. 68 00:03:35.159 --> 00:03:37.039 Yes, ready? Irish? 69 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:41.319 Irish? Oh, Irish? 70 00:03:41.400 --> 00:03:42.159 What's that movie? 71 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:43.159 Far and Away? 72 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:43.840 Football? 73 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:46.879 Irish football? Notre Dame. 74 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:52.360 Oh, I don't people are screaming this one at the screen, 75 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:54.960 you know that, right, I don't know what this is? Underdog. 76 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:07.159 It's one of the greatest movies in history. Rudy, Yes, okay, yes, 77 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:09.120 but thank goodness you got miscontinuality. 78 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:12.759 Of course you would say that. 79 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.399 Thank you, Thank you for pointing out I missed the 80 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:17.319 football movie. 81 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:19.560 I got the Beauty Patchean movie. 82 00:04:19.800 --> 00:04:23.720 That was very hey, by the way, I forgot the 83 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:25.279 Irish part the. 84 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:29.920 Irish Yeah, what's the fighting Irish football? 85 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.720 Well, I didn't remember. Do you know how many times 86 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:34.199 I've seen Rudy Like? 87 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:34.959 Probably millions? 88 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:37.120 No, twice, okay, I've only seen like twice. 89 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.079 How many times you've seen Miss Congeniality. 90 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:40.720 I don't want to answer that question. 91 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:44.279 Field the Dreams? Have you seen Field Dreams? 92 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:44.480 Oh? 93 00:04:44.959 --> 00:04:46.480 I've seen Fill the Dreams fifteen times? 94 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.800 Okay. 95 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:51.040 Oh, Breakfast Club like twenty times. 96 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:52.240 Okay, I bet you. 97 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:55.639 I've seen Miss Casuality because my daughter, yes, it's one 98 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:57.800 of her favorite movies. Yes, so she would pop it on, 99 00:04:57.879 --> 00:04:59.720 and so my wife loves it too, So I probably 100 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:00.759 have seen that ten times. 101 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:02.720 So it's not a good look to blame your kids 102 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:03.199 for stuff. 103 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:05.480 I blame The Bachelor. 104 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:09.920 I blame the Bachelor a bachelor watching parties, And so 105 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.480 for a while there I agreed to watch it with 106 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:16.360 Sarah because that was our tradition as father daughter, and 107 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:19.639 so consequently I sort of knew all of the Bachelor. 108 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:21.519 If you were into it, well, and then when she 109 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:22.759 moved away, obviously it's. 110 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.319 That you know, I have never watched and I don't 111 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:28.399 know that I've watched a minute, but I've never watched 112 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:29.000 an episode. 113 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:33.040 Guess what you are the better for it. 114 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:36.639 It is about us, trash, worthless. 115 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:40.519 Anything, okay, So, and it's just yeah. 116 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:40.920 It's awful. 117 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.680 It's every part of it's bad. So talking about bad, 118 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:45.800 by the way, it's not okay. Well, first of all, 119 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.160 it's not. It's not bad as in like dirty. It's 120 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:50.800 bad as in like everything about the way God created 121 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:54.040 the love is violated, right right, That's what I. 122 00:05:54.079 --> 00:05:57.399 Was me, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And you're a delight 123 00:05:57.480 --> 00:05:59.120 by the way. I just want you to know it's 124 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:03.759 so much fun making fun of me picking on you. 125 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:05.680 I love I love it. 126 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:07.720 Picking on you is a delightful me. 127 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:14.360 And our listeners. He just said, that's good. I like it. 128 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:16.360 And you said, speaking of what would you say? What 129 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:17.120 was your transition? 130 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.639 I don't remember what were you saying? You said something 131 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:21.040 about you speaking of. 132 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:23.439 Yeah, I'm sorry, try again. 133 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:25.959 You said something about that. You said some word about 134 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:30.439 how bad the show is, and I can't remember. 135 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.879 And I was talking did you because I had to clarify. 136 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:35.240 I had to clarify. Yeah, when I said so bad, 137 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:36.240 it wasn't like dirty bad. 138 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:38.480 Yeah. So we're just talking about bad news here, or 139 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.959 bad bad experience, bad something, talking about bad Chris. That 140 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.720 was bad news, Yes, bad news. You remember we're reading 141 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.879 the book that has A of Isaiah, and Isaiah was 142 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:51.920 a contemporary of the king has A. Kyle was a 143 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.600 good guy. Yep. Right. He went back and started doing 144 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:58.360 the good things again, rebuilding the temple and opening up 145 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:03.040 worship and tearing down the altars to the other gods 146 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:07.839 and all those kinds of things. But Syria, Assyria is coming. 147 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:10.360 They're the most powerful empire in the world, and they're 148 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:12.399 coming to wipe out Jerusalem. They're getting ready to just 149 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:15.720 destroy them. And here's what it says in Isaiah chapter 150 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:19.519 thirty seven. They went up being sieged to Jerusalem. They're 151 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:24.399 completely besieged by the Assyrian army, and the Assyrians were ruthless. 152 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.600 And it says this when King Hezekiah heard their report, 153 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:32.680 because his generals come in and they give him information. 154 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.000 When the King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his 155 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:38.360 clothes and put on burlap and went into the temple 156 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:42.079 of the Lord, and he sent Elia Kim, the palace administrator, Shebnah, 157 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.279 the court secretary, and the leading priests, all dressed in burlap, 158 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.000 to the prophet, Isaiah's son of Amos. They told him, 159 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.560 this is what King Hezekiah says. Today is the day 160 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:53.480 of trouble, insults, and disgrace. It's like when a child 161 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:55.120 is ready to be born, but the mother has no 162 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:59.120 strength to deliver the baby. Perhaps the Lord, your God 163 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:01.680 has heard the Assyrian chief of staff sent by the 164 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.240 king to defy the living God, and will punish him 165 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.399 for his words. Oh, pray for those of us who 166 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.120 are left. After King Hezekiah's officials delivered the king's message 167 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.879 to Isaiah, the prophet replied, say to your master, this 168 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.240 is what the Lord says. Do not be disturbed by 169 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.319 this blasphemous speech against me from the Assyrian king's messengers. Listen, 170 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:23.360 I myself will move against him, and the king will 171 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:25.519 receive a message that he is and needed at home. 172 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:27.639 So he returned to his land, where I will have 173 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:30.519 him killed with the sword. Meanwhile, the Assyrian chief of 174 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:33.440 staff left Jerusalem and went to consult the King of Assyria, 175 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.159 who had left Lakish and was attacking Libna. Soon afterward, 176 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:42.039 King Sanakara received word that King Terhakka of Ethiopia was 177 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:44.840 leading an army to fight against him. Before leaving to 178 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:47.159 meet the attack, he sent messengers back to Hezekiah and 179 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:50.559 Jerusalem with this message. This message is for King Hezekiah 180 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:53.039 of Judah. Don't let your God and whom you trust 181 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:55.879 deceive you with promises that Jerusalem will not be captured 182 00:08:56.080 --> 00:08:58.720 by the king of Assyria. You know perfectly well what 183 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:00.799 the kings of Assyria have done were wherever they have gone. 184 00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:03.639 They have completely destroyed everyone who stood in their way. 185 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:06.159 Why should you be any different? Have the gods of 186 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:09.799 other nations rescued them, such nations as goes On and 187 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:13.399 Hauran Rezef and the people of Eden who were in 188 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:17.559 tel Usar My predecessors destroyed them all. What happened to 189 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:20.120 the King of Hamas and the king of ourpad what 190 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:27.519 happened to the kings of Cepherveaum? Is that how you said, Sepharveaum, 191 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:32.519 Hannah and Iva. After Hezekiah received the letter from the 192 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:34.320 messengers and read it, he went up to the Lord's 193 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:36.879 temple and spread it out before the Lord, and Hezekiah 194 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.799 prayed this prayer before the Lord, O Lord of Heaven's Armies, 195 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:42.399 God of Israel, you are enthrone between the mighty chair 196 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:45.120 of them. You alone are God of all the kingdoms 197 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.000 of the earth. You alone created the heavens and of 198 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.279 the earth. Bend down, O Lord, and listen. Open your eyes, 199 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:53.600 O Lord, and see listen to Sanacrib's words of defiance 200 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:55.840 against the living God. It is true, Lord, that the 201 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.519 kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations, and they 202 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:00.919 have thrown down the gods of these nations into the 203 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.519 fire and burn them. But of course the Assyrians could 204 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:06.360 destroy them. They were not gods at all, only idols 205 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:09.840 of wood and stone shaped by human hands. Now, O Lord, 206 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:12.240 our God, rescue us from his power. Then all the 207 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:15.320 kingdoms of the earth will know that you alone, O Lord, 208 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:19.159 our God. There you go, there it is there, it 209 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:21.039 is there you go. Well, there you go. 210 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.200 Well that is that is a heck of a story. 211 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:31.759 And I love Hezekiah's proclamation. Right and he says you alone, 212 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:34.559 you alone, O Lord. And by the way, have you 213 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:40.480 noticed the heavy references of saying, O Lord of Heaven's Armies. Yes, 214 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.080 you know, because it's not everywhere in the Bible. It's 215 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.399 but it seems to be like a season right where 216 00:10:47.399 --> 00:10:49.399 it's where it's used constantly. 217 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:52.159 It's David writes it a lot. Yeah, so so he 218 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:54.759 wrote about So that's in like the King James, it 219 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:56.159 would say the lord of hosts. 220 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.480 Oh that's what that is. Yeah, I'm not sure I 221 00:10:59.559 --> 00:10:59.759 knew that. 222 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:04.759 Yeah yeah, And so in in in the more modern translations, 223 00:11:04.799 --> 00:11:06.600 like the New Living Translation, that'll say the Lord of 224 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.000 Heaven's armies, which is even cooler. O, lord of hosts. 225 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.399 We don't think of hosts, right, right, So it's just 226 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:13.720 a little bit more clear when you. 227 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.600 Say, yeah, that's really great. You are enthrone between the 228 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:21.320 mighty Cherubim. What a word picture right there? Right? Yep, 229 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:26.120 you alone, or God of all the kingdoms of the earth, 230 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:28.200 you alone created the heavens and the earth. 231 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:29.440 I just love it. 232 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:34.279 So here's what happens, just to kind of because Hezekiah 233 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:36.240 goes to God and says, hey, did you hear what 234 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:39.480 they just said about you? Remember? Now? It's funny because 235 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:47.799 in King Sanakreb's mindset, he knows his gods aren't real either, right, 236 00:11:48.879 --> 00:11:53.919 So he's mocking Hezekiah probably his faith in his religion 237 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.559 was a tool to manage his people. Sure, right, So 238 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:02.639 he's mocking Isaiah in I mean Hezekiah in this story, 239 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:07.039 by the way, shows up in second King's second chronicles 240 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:11.679 and in Isaiah. So this chunk shows up in three 241 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.120 different passages, and they all describe it the same way. 242 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:16.799 But there is this moment where the chief of staff 243 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.679 for Sanacrib the king comes and he goes, what makes 244 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:23.600 you so confident? What are you trusting in that makes 245 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:25.840 you so confident? Do you think that mere words can 246 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.000 substitute for military skill and strength? Who are you counting on? 247 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:30.759 Why have you rebelled against me? 248 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:31.480 Right? 249 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.360 Are you leaning on Egypt? Perhaps you say to me, 250 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:36.879 we're trusting in the Lord, our God. But isn't he 251 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.519 the one who was insulted by Hezekiah. Didn't Hezekiah tear 252 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:44.799 down his shrines and altars? So he's misunderstanding what Hezekiah 253 00:12:44.799 --> 00:12:49.000 did when he cleaned up things in the areas, in 254 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:53.799 the groves and stuff. And he starts mocking God and going, 255 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.240 where's all your faith? Where's this coming from? Dude? Don't 256 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:01.039 you know we wipe out everybody? Right? And that's why 257 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:02.799 Hezekiah goes to temples to God, did you hear what 258 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:06.960 him were saying about you? So where the king Sinakreb 259 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:10.039 has this confidence in his own military strength and his strategy, 260 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:12.360 he's basically that's that's the speeches giving. 261 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:14.440 It reminds me of what we're about to get into 262 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:20.000 probably next week, which is nebu Kadnezzar says, then who 263 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:22.039 will save you from my hand? Right? 264 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:22.679 Same thing. 265 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.559 I had a friend. He was just a giant of 266 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:29.639 a man, even as a young twenty year old you know, 267 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.679 eighteen nineteen, twenty year old guy. I've never known anybody 268 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:37.240 stronger just naturally stronger than him. And so I was 269 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.320 believing or not back in the day, just this little 270 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:43.320 skinny guy. But I had a smart mouth, and I 271 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.000 was sassing off to this guy who was kind of 272 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:49.200 just being a jerk. And this guy starts like cussing 273 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:52.320 me and saying bad things about me. And then you ever, 274 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:55.039 you ever hear somebody say you and all your friends? 275 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:55.679 Yeah? 276 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:56.919 And I turned around to Steve and I said, you 277 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:02.279 hear what he just said about you all your friends? Right? 278 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:04.600 So he was saying all kinds of mean things to 279 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:06.879 me because I had been sassing off to him and 280 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:11.000 was threatened into fighting or whatever. And then when he 281 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:13.320 puffed up, he didn't back down. He puffs up and 282 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:15.240 then he says all these really horrible things about me, 283 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:17.279 but then he ends it with you and all your friends, 284 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:20.320 and I turned around to see me. Right, that's kind 285 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.120 of the feeling I have with Hezekiah. Yeah, because the 286 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.399 king King Sanakrab, if i'd read all those other things, 287 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:29.039 King King Sanakrebs has all these things about yours, sissy, 288 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:30.840 and you guys can't fight me, and you think you're 289 00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:32.399 going to be able to stand up against the kings 290 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.960 of a Syria. We've wiped everybody else out and your 291 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:38.320 God can't do anything about it. And Hezekiah didn't take offense. 292 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:39.759 He discerns, like, God, did you know what you just 293 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:40.279 said about you? 294 00:14:40.399 --> 00:14:40.639 Right? 295 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:41.120 Right? 296 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:42.120 It's really funny. 297 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:47.240 Well, it shows you the reality of his faith and 298 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.960 the lack of faith that Snackrib has in his gods. Yeah, 299 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:54.480 because his his faith is in his ability to wage war. 300 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:55.440 Yeah. 301 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:59.279 In the Second Chronicles thirty two version or record, I 302 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:02.320 should say, it says, this is what King Sinakreb of 303 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:05.399 Assyria says. What are you trusting in that makes you 304 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.519 think you can survive my siege? Of Jerusalem, and it's 305 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.519 just it's it's that arrogance that says, like, what what 306 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:13.200 are you thinking? 307 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:14.840 Like you're you're up against me. 308 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:17.840 Yeah, it's it's a total you're right, even even. 309 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:20.720 Though he had his religion in his group. 310 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:24.399 Yeah, it probably was just a way to control people, 311 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:27.320 you know, it's it's a necessary thing, right, it allow 312 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:29.360 people to have their religion. It's a control it's a 313 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:33.519 control mechanism, which, by the way, there's no shortage of, right, 314 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:38.360 there's no shortage of people hijacking religious you know, things 315 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:39.559 for their own agenda. 316 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:44.960 So you see Hazekiah in his humility, he goes to 317 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:50.120 God multiple times, two different times, and humbly says, God, 318 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:51.919 I don't have anyone else to turn but to you, 319 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:56.320 and what what are we going to do? Uh? If 320 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:04.039 you don't come and rescue us. And Hasekaiah is aware 321 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:06.600 the fact that he has no hope, there's no help, 322 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:09.120 and that's not a terrible place to be. No, when 323 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:11.720 you finally realize you know what my only chance is 324 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:16.799 with God, and well it's terrible emotionally, well it's it's 325 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.759 scary at the moment, but you're never closer, right, Right, 326 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.679 The Bob says, God draws near to the broken hearted 327 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:25.080 in that moment, right, God is close to you. You 328 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.080 might feel like he's far away, but that's when you're 329 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:29.200 the closest to God, when you have nowhere else to turn. 330 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.559 Its it's almost like a forcing of dependence in a 331 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:35.320 lot of ways. Right. Nobody wants to be there, but 332 00:16:35.399 --> 00:16:37.519 when you are there, that's what you mean by it. 333 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:39.639 It's not a bad place to be. I've been there, right, Oh, 334 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:40.759 me too, We've been there right. 335 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:45.159 So yeah, it's it's hard, it's difficult sometimes, but you know, 336 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.200 so I get a good buddy Mark who always says, 337 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:50.679 you know, when you lead a church, and when you 338 00:16:50.679 --> 00:16:52.399 when you create a service, and when you create an 339 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.120 Easter service, whenever you do anything. He says, you've got 340 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:57.720 to put yourself in the spot to where if God 341 00:16:57.759 --> 00:16:59.320 doesn't show up, you're going to be toast. 342 00:16:59.519 --> 00:16:59.759 Right. 343 00:17:01.360 --> 00:17:02.360 I love the way he says that. 344 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:04.920 He says, when you put yourself on a spot where 345 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:07.400 you're thinking God, if you don't show up, we're toast. 346 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:09.200 He said, that's the place you want to be. 347 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:13.079 So then you know the really famous name here, King 348 00:17:13.160 --> 00:17:18.440 Turhaka of Ethiopia. Everybody knows about that guy, right. As 349 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:21.119 a matter of fact, for the most part, people would 350 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:23.480 not have known his name except for the fact that 351 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:26.759 it's in the Bible. Right. But then, this is one 352 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:28.720 of the reason why I love these life applications study Bibles. 353 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:30.119 You see that little note down there in the left 354 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.519 hand side at the bottom of the page. It turns 355 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:39.240 out they've found reliefs and designs and even words that 356 00:17:39.319 --> 00:17:43.000 mention this guy. So once again archaeology always proving even 357 00:17:43.039 --> 00:17:46.400 the most obscure of things. God uses this Ethiopian king 358 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:48.960 to come up and decide he's going to kind of 359 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:53.480 mess around with Snakreb while Snakreb is surrounded Jerusalem. So 360 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:57.240 Snacreb now has to leave his intent to invade Jerusalem 361 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:01.200 to defend himself against this pretty obscure a Hakka king, 362 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:04.799 right right, And and so God already begins to maneuver 363 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:08.119 this way. So this is the guy that was saying, hey, 364 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.039 who are you trusting in? Hezekiah is mad about that, 365 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:12.559 and God says, you know, I'm going to send him 366 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:14.720 back to Syria. He's going to get himself killed, right. 367 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:16.640 So God goes ahead and wipes that guy out, but 368 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:20.240 then sends this Turhaka king to come and fight against him, 369 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:26.519 and then they so. Then Senacribs people have to say, hey, listen, uh, 370 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:29.079 don't let your God and whom you trust deceive you 371 00:18:29.599 --> 00:18:31.759 with promises that Drusalem will not be captured by the 372 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:33.680 king of Assyria. You know perfectly well what we've done, 373 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:36.240 and so you know, I think the devil does that 374 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:38.359 to us a lot. He tries to say, hey, don't 375 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:42.039 don't don't, don't believe that fairy tale. Right, God's not 376 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:43.839 going to look out for you or whatever. But this 377 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:46.680 is the beginning of the end for Sanacribs people. They 378 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:50.839 wind up getting wiped out later on, and God gives deliverance, right, 379 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:57.119 but he uses Isaiah to encourage and challenge and even 380 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:02.319 reinforce Hezekiah that hey, God is going to take care 381 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:06.400 of you. And Hezekiah's final statement is, yeah, hey, what 382 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:08.400 he said is true. They did wipe out other gods, 383 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:11.200 but guess what, they weren't real gods. They were just 384 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:14.319 stone and wood. And we're trusting the true God. So 385 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:16.880 either your God is the real God, the God of heaven, 386 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:20.279 or he's not and he's your only hope and God 387 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:20.880 delivered him. 388 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.799 Yeah, and you know what. 389 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:28.559 I often run into people who tell the story about 390 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:32.319 them worshiping like false titles. You remember met Buddy Eddie 391 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:35.079 that Christmas story that we did, Yeah, yeah, and he 392 00:19:35.160 --> 00:19:39.039 was involved in the Santa Ria and where they have 393 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:42.039 statues and they have these all these different kinds of things. 394 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.119 It's a it's a Catholicized voodoo. 395 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:45.720 Yeah. 396 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:52.279 So it's eventually essentially the West African people brought voodoo 397 00:19:52.440 --> 00:19:57.319 to Cuba, and then the Cuban Spaniards owners, slave owners 398 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:00.480 forced Catholicism on them. And all they did is blended 399 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:03.799 the two and used Catholic words to keep doing their 400 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:04.799 their voodoo. 401 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:07.359