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 00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:14.359 Hey, everybody, we are just thrilled, I mean thrilled to 5 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:15.640 our very core. 6 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:16.440 Woo hoo. 7 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:19.000 Yes that you are back and you have joined us 8 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:21.559 and we have joined you for another episode of the 9 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:22.320 Bible Gush. 10 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:27.440 So, Chris, you know that we only bring the finest news, yes, 11 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:30.239 and special interest pieces to our listener. 12 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.280 Because everybody knows in our culture today, everybody is longing 13 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:35.439 for the most trustworthy sources of news. 14 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:39.320 Yes, and so you know, for us, after we comb 15 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:42.079 the Internet with all of the news sources out there, 16 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:45.600 we still think the Babylon b Satire website is by 17 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:47.920 far the most accurate and most helpful it is. 18 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:49.679 It is definitely one of the most funny. 19 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.240 So today we're gonna give a little bit of marriage help. Yes, yes, 20 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:57.560 and this might be useful. The headline says, wife helpfully 21 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:00.560 explains to husband what he meant by what he said. 22 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:02.200 It's hilarious. It's so good. 23 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:06.040 At Manhattan, Kansas, local wife Denise Thompson graciously sat down 24 00:01:06.079 --> 00:01:08.120 with her husband Mike to explain what he actually meant 25 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.079 by what he said, it's funny. After confusion arose as 26 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:13.599 to the interpretation of what mister Thompson was trying to say, 27 00:01:13.599 --> 00:01:16.040 Missus Thompson helpfully explained to him the true meeting behind 28 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:19.159 his words. Quote. I know you think you know what 29 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:21.920 you were trying to say, said Thompson gently, but trust me, 30 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.159 that's not what you meant. Let me help you out here. 31 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:28.400 According to sources, Mike had responded that sounds good to 32 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:30.439 a query about joining his wife for a trip to 33 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:33.079 her parents' house. However, Denise informed that his true feelings 34 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:35.840 were quite different. She said, I know you said that 35 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:37.480 you're happy to come with me, but the way you 36 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:39.480 said it, it's obvious that what you meant is that 37 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:42.120 I spend too much time with my mom. Explained to Nise, 38 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:44.599 you were really trying to say that I need more 39 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:47.480 emotional separation from my mom because she takes up too 40 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.000 much of the role that should belong to my husband. 41 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.480 Of course, you don't want to go to their house 42 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:54.079 and deal with it, even though you feel like it 43 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:56.280 pulls us apart as a couple. Why won't you just 44 00:01:56.280 --> 00:01:59.640 say these things out loud? Mike at publishing time, Mike 45 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:03.400 had had Denise if Denise could go ahead and tell 46 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:05.799 him in advance what his follow up response would mean 47 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:07.840 and if he needed to sleep on the couch. 48 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:11.479 And all. He said he'd be happy to come with it. 49 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:15.400 Yeah, he's like, that sounds good. Yeah, And apparently he 50 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.039 meant way more than that sounds good. Did you ever 51 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:19.120 find that out before? 52 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:19.719 Oh? 53 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:21.719 You know that you said more words than you said. 54 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.080 I actually this is a little confession time. 55 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.639 Okay, So, so my wife and I have identified a 56 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:31.319 long time ago that she is a high feeler and 57 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:34.400 I'm a high thinker, and I definitely want to be 58 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:36.639 careful on the podcast and say one is not better 59 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.800 than the other and one is not worse than the other. 60 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:40.960 Right, Okay, okay, okay, right, I'll let you say it. 61 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:43.879 Okay, thank you, because you're a high thinker as well. 62 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:44.319 Right. 63 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:49.759 But so, what often happens is I'll say something, well 64 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:51.719 most of the time, I'll say something and it has 65 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:53.520 no emotional value whatsoever. 66 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:55.159 Right, I'll just say, like. 67 00:02:55.800 --> 00:03:00.000 Hey, you know, here's a question I just want to answer, right, question, 68 00:03:00.159 --> 00:03:02.800 you know whatever, And what happens is it comes back 69 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:05.759 with she says, oh, you're just thinking this and I'm like, 70 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.719 that's amazing how I was not feeling any of that. Right, 71 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:12.360 So we have discussions all the time because I think 72 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.319 what happens is just by the way we're wired. 73 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:17.759 Is she hears it and says. 74 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:20.280 Oh, he must be feeling this, But I'm like, it's 75 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:22.680 amazing how I wasn't even close to feeling that, you know. 76 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:24.479 So it's funny. 77 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:26.479 We do have those discussions, believe or not at our 78 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:27.159 house all the time. 79 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:27.439 Yeah. 80 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:33.400 I think women emotionally and in many ways mentally are 81 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:36.520 far superior to men and are far more complex. 82 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:36.960 Yeah. 83 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.599 Yeah, I am, and in some way superior. I am 84 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:44.639 not complex. Well, I usually are not any level, hardly 85 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:48.439 any level, and so it's possible for me to say 86 00:03:48.439 --> 00:03:50.159 things without even thinking things. 87 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:50.680 Right. 88 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.800 Literally, my brain is empty. Words come out of my mouth. 89 00:03:53.879 --> 00:03:55.840 Right. Have you ever seen that community? They talked about 90 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:56.919 the boxes and the brains? 91 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.840 No, are you kidding me? It's wonderful. 92 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:00.800 I'll sum it up. 93 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:02.919 But basically he's not really a comedian as much as 94 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:05.240 he is like a comic Bible teacher. 95 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:07.240 But basically he says he's got. 96 00:04:07.039 --> 00:04:09.000 Like two mannequins and then there's two brains on two 97 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:12.400 different pedestals, and he walks over to the uh women's brain. 98 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:14.360 He says, it's all connected, like a ball of wires. 99 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:16.680 He said, this thought is connected to this thought, this thought. 100 00:04:16.720 --> 00:04:19.120 This. He goes over to the men's brain. 101 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:19.600 He goes. 102 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.079 Men's brains are boxes, He goes. They're just different categories 103 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:24.000 of different topics. 104 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:24.480 He goes. 105 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:27.000 In those boxes all exist together. He goes. In those 106 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:31.160 boxes do not touch, he said, do not touch, he says. 107 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:32.399 He goes. He goes, what men do? 108 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:32.879 He goes. 109 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.680 He goes. They go to one box, they pull it out, 110 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:36.560 They open that box. 111 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:37.680 There's a sandwich in that box. 112 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:40.120 They think about what's only in that box? That's right, 113 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:40.480 he goes. 114 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:42.639 And then when that box is done, he goes. They 115 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:45.040 put the box away. He goes, and then they make 116 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:46.480 sure that the boxes do not touch. 117 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:49.199 He goes. Now men's favorite box is there is a 118 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:52.199 box of nothing. He goes. He goes. They take out 119 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:52.560 that box. 120 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:52.879 He goes. 121 00:04:52.920 --> 00:04:55.519 It is their go to box. We open it up, 122 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:57.199 and the bifle saying, what are you thinking about? 123 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:59.720 And he says, no, that nothing, And he's being honest, 124 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:01.439 I'm not thinking nothing. 125 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:04.160 Right, And so he goes. Wives are not that way. 126 00:05:04.319 --> 00:05:06.240 Yeah. So the ladies listening to the podcast right now, 127 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:08.959 we're going, that's not true. You're thinking something, right, just 128 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:10.639 telling you we're not that complex. 129 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:15.399 Yeah, yeah, it's it's actually quite simple. Matter are quite simple, yeah, 130 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:17.000 which is hilarious. 131 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:19.759 So I have like my sandwich and hamburger box, like 132 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:22.000 I'm hungry, let's go get that box, and I'm not 133 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.319 thinking about anything else at that moment, just let's go eat. 134 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:27.560 Then there might be like a football box, or then 135 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.240 there's like a friends and co workers boxes, and those 136 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:33.600 are separate boxes. And then there's the the I've got 137 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:35.560 things I need to do at home box, and then 138 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:39.759 there's the family relationship boxes. Right, keep all those things separate. 139 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:42.199 They're not the same. And I didn't mean one thing 140 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:44.480 by doing something else. I only meant the thing I 141 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.639 was doing. Right, I'm not sophisticated. 142 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:49.040 And I was gonna say, and we've described the majority 143 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:49.759 of all your boxes. 144 00:05:50.519 --> 00:05:53.519 Those are all five of them. And then they got 145 00:05:53.519 --> 00:06:00.759 a stuff box like the box all my stuff in. Yeah, 146 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:04.279 that by itself, ladies, was the price of admission today. 147 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:04.759 That's right. 148 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:07.519 Just to discover literally, it took us five minutes and 149 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:10.439 fifty five seconds to explain how unsophisticated men are, and 150 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:13.000 we read an entire article right right. 151 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:17.600 But when David and Wilson taught this are good friends. 152 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:21.160 And instead of doing like the ball of wires like 153 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:23.040 they all touch, she did, you. 154 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:24.959 Know pop ups on computer. 155 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.199 She's trying to make it a big more modern and so 156 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:29.519 she put on the screen like a computer that has 157 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:31.720 a lot of pop ups. They keep up, pop up, up, up, 158 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:33.959 up up, and she says, you know, one thoughts connected 159 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:35.439 to the other, which is the other? And I leave 160 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:37.439 the iron on and oh, by the way, you know 161 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:39.000 her son and this and that is all. 162 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:39.439 It is all. 163 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.000 Connected and and then like I think you know the other? 164 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.160 The other computer screen was like you know, one document 165 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:46.240 and it had like five. 166 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:46.639 Words on it. 167 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:50.759 Right. Remember Brian Reagan talking about he went golfing with 168 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:53.360 his buddy and we got home his wife as team goodness, 169 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:55.560 how's Mike and his wife's marriage doing. 170 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.480 He's like, how would I know that? 171 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:00.199 I don't know? How would I know that? Said he 172 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:02.439 ran the golf course with him for four hours. 173 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:05.199 And he goes, he goes, I know he has a 174 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:10.480 new driver, and he goes, is he daddy anyone? 175 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.480 And he goes, A, would that ever come up? 176 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:14.959 He goes, I can't even imagine how that would come up, 177 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:16.959 And he goes, hey, Billy. 178 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:18.519 Goes, we got about one hundred and fifty nine out. 179 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:20.959 He goes, I think you ought to use your right arm. 180 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:28.519 Are you dating anyone? It is so good? 181 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.240 Same thing. You were with him for four hours on 182 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:34.279 the golf course. You can't find out if he's it's 183 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:38.399 so funny. Nope, those things are separate, two different boxes. Now, 184 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:39.680 if this is a hey, I need to go call 185 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.040 my friend he's hurting, I'll open that box. Sure, but 186 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:46.759 it doesn't feel like that's a golf box, right, Okay, 187 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:54.000 speaking of opening up boxes, Oh oh, King Uzaiah wound 188 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:55.879 up having a problem and we're going to talk about 189 00:07:55.879 --> 00:08:01.240 that tomorrow. Yeah. I can't get there, man, I don't know. 190 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:06.759 Okay, how about this speaking of differences, okay, it seems 191 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:08.920 like we have a lot of differences of opinion in 192 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:09.639 this next story. 193 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:13.000 Ooh okay, yeah, okay, good John, there you go. Yeah, 194 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:15.480 And differences of opinion for men means we're going to 195 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:18.839 go to war right again again again. This whole book 196 00:08:19.120 --> 00:08:21.959 man first and sect, gigs first and tent Chronicles, all war, 197 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.199 all the time, baskets of heads, right, that's what we're doing. 198 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.240 That was last week's episode. Yeah. So in Second Chronicles, 199 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:33.600 chapter twenty six, verse one, it says, and we're going 200 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:36.879 to read through verse twenty one. It's all right, Yeah, yep. 201 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:40.080 All the people of Judah had crowned Amazia's sixteen year 202 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:43.440 old son Usiah as king in place of his father. 203 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:46.600 After his father's death, Usiah rebuilt the town of Elath 204 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.320 and restored it to Judah. Usaiah was sixteen years old 205 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:51.320 when became king, and he reigned and drew some fifty 206 00:08:51.360 --> 00:08:55.320 two years. His mother was Jekaliah from Jerusalem. He did 207 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:57.120 what was pleasing in the Lord's sight, just as his 208 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:00.759 father Amaziah had done. Usiah sought God during the days 209 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.480 of Zechariah, who taught him to fear God. And as 210 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:05.480 long as the king sought guidance from the Lord, God 211 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.360 gave him success. I love that sentence. It's one of 212 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:12.200 my favorite sentences in the Bible. Yusaiah declared war on 213 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:14.759 the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabna 214 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:18.320 and Ashdod. Then he built new towns in the Ashdod 215 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:21.840 area and in other parts of Felistia. God helped him 216 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:24.279 in his wars against the Philistines, his battles with the 217 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:27.519 Arabs of Gur, and his wars with the Moonites. The 218 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:31.480 Moonites paid annual tribute to him, and his fame spread 219 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:34.720 even to Egypt, for he had become very powerful. Yusaiah 220 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.399 built fortified towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, at 221 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:39.159 the valley gate, and at the angle in the wall. 222 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:42.559 He also constructed forts in the wilderness and dug many 223 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.279 water cisterns. Because he kept great herds of livestock in 224 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:48.000 the foothills of Judah and on the plains. He was 225 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.279 also a man who loved the soil. He had many 226 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:52.759 workers who cared for his farms and vineyards, both on 227 00:09:52.799 --> 00:09:56.399 the hillsides and in the fertile valleys. Yusaiah had an 228 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.799 army of well trained warriors ready to march into battle. 229 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:01.600 Unit by unit. This army had been mustered and organized 230 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.879 by Jail, the secretary of the army, and his assistant 231 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:08.399 ma Asiyah. They were under the direction of Hanna and Ayah, 232 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.679 one of the king's officials. These regiments of mighty warriors 233 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.240 were commanded by twenty six hundred clan leaders. The army 234 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:17.919 consisted of three hundred and seven thousan five hundred men, 235 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.919 all elite troops. They were prepared to assist the king 236 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:24.840 against any enemy. Jaiah provided the army, the entire army 237 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:29.039 with shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows and slingstones, 238 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.879 and he built structures on the walls of Jerusalem designed 239 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:34.480 by experts to protect those who shot arrows and hurled 240 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.679 large stones from the towers in the corners of the wall. 241 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:39.320 His fame spread far and wide, for the Lord gave 242 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.639 him marvelous help, and he became very powerful. But when 243 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.559 he had become powerful, he also became proud. That's one 244 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:47.759 of the saddest verses in the Bible, which led to 245 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:51.679 his downfall. He sinned against the Lord, his God by 246 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:54.200 entering the sanctuary of the Lord's temple and personally burning 247 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:58.039 incense on the incense altar. Azariah, the high Priest, went 248 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:00.279 in after him with eighty other priests of the Lord, 249 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.360 all brave men, and the confronted King Uzia and said, 250 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:04.679 it is not for you, Usiah to burn incense to 251 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:06.519 the Lord. That is the work of the priests alone. 252 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:08.759 The descendants of Aaron who are set apart for this work. 253 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:11.399 Get out of the sanctuary, for you have sinned. The 254 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.240 Lord God will not honor you for this. Usiah, who 255 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:16.679 was holding an incense, burned and became furious. But as 256 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:18.600 he was standing there raging at the priest before the 257 00:11:18.600 --> 00:11:21.679 incense altered in the Lord's temple, leprosy suddenly broke out 258 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:24.919 on his forehead. When Azariah, the high Priest, and all 259 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:27.639 the other priests saw the leprosy, they rushed him out, 260 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:29.919 and the king himself was eager to get out because 261 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:33.000 the Lord had struck him. So King Usiah had leprosy 262 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:35.720 until the day he died. He lived in isolation in 263 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:37.840 a separate house, for he was excluded from the temple 264 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:40.440 of the Lord. His son Jotham was put in charge 265 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:42.279 of the royal palace, and he governed the people of 266 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:45.879 the land. Wow. Yeah, so that was the part I 267 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:49.000 was referencing with the he got himself in trouble. I 268 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:50.440 just thought we were reading it tomorrow. I just realized 269 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:53.559 we're reading the whole thing. So wow, that's too bad, man. 270 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:55.919 I love the first half, hate the second half. 271 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:03.440 Sure, sure, so yes, So he was he was great, 272 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:08.080 and he followed God and he was blessed, and he 273 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:11.039 spent many years doing very productive things. 274 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:12.000 Uh. 275 00:12:12.039 --> 00:12:16.000 They were both practical and wise and uh, you know, 276 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:19.679 uh prosperous, right. And it sounds like he was just 277 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.879 a fantastic leader until he got too big for his breches. 278 00:12:23.559 --> 00:12:26.799 That's really what it was. And unfortunately he got too 279 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.720 big for his breeches in the wrong area, which is 280 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:34.720 he felt entitled. When it comes to what God says. 281 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:36.600 Have you ever met? I know you have. 282 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:42.240 But like somebody who they're a successful pastor, or let's 283 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.440 just say they're not even a pastor, they're they're they're 284 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:49.240 involved in the church. Perhaps they're like a main leader 285 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:52.639 of a church, right, like a founder or a main 286 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:55.600 volunteer or a main contributor or something like this, and 287 00:12:55.639 --> 00:13:00.240 they feel as if they have more authority than they have, 288 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:03.240 like they like they want they want more authority, and 289 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:04.399 they feel bigger. 290 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:07.000 Beyond what they really are, right right, and. 291 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:10.440 Uh and they feel important and uh and and uh 292 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:15.159 and sometimes people have have even crossed the boundaries of like, well, 293 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:16.919 I don't get paid enough by the church, so I'm 294 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.120 just gonna, you know, take the church's money and do this. 295 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:23.080 And you know, I've seen that all the time, and 296 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:24.120 those are the dangers. 297 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:24.320 Right. 298 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:26.240 We don't like to talk about that too much because 299 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.200 the Church has had enough black eyes in the. 300 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:30.440 World, right, right, And we don't have to sit here 301 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.240 and give the church another black eye. But we don't 302 00:13:33.320 --> 00:13:36.639 want to ignore it and be pretending either, because that's 303 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:38.240 what it sounds like to me. It sounds like to me. 304 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.600 Like here's a king who's supposed to represent, you know, God, 305 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:45.240 and he loved God, followed God, was blessed by God, 306 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:47.000 and all of a sudden he got so big for 307 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:49.799 his britches. He goes inside the temple and he oversteps 308 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:53.919 his bounds in the temple, right and and and obviously 309 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:59.200 this man knew the assumed that he knew God's commands. 310 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:01.080 He probably knew that. 311 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:02.879 Well, he couldn't have been honoring God if he didn't 312 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.759 know his commands, right, that's right, right, that's corret. So 313 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:08.519 he followed after his father, who his father was a 314 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:10.679 man that followed God. Right, you had to have known 315 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:12.399 the God's laws in order to have followed him. 316 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:14.559 And how we know that he knew is that the 317 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:18.559 priest rebuked him and he got angry, yeh, right, So 318 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.320 so you know, it's like, hey, I don't want to 319 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.519 be challenged, I don't want to be talked to. I 320 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:25.759 don't want to be corrected. And I got to tell 321 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:28.559 you that there's a sermon right there in itself. You know, 322 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:32.279 when somebody comes to you who's in authority, whether you 323 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:34.240 like them or not, whether you agree with them or not, 324 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:38.080 you have to be willing to hear something if it 325 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:40.799 measures up to what God's word says, right, right, because 326 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:43.919 it's not about the person approaching you. It's about the 327 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:45.519 you know, it's about the thing that. 328 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:46.399 You're being approached about. 329 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:48.720 So somebody comes up to you, for instance, even if 330 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:51.679 you don't like him, right, didn't you say didn't you 331 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:54.519 say that you went on a you went on a 332 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.919 trip and somebody approached you about something and then you 333 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:01.960 push back and said no, no, no, no, you know, like you know, 334 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:04.320 I think this, this is what the Bible says. And 335 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:06.039 then and then they came to you, and what was 336 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:06.960 the phrase they used? 337 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:11.679 He said, He came back later and said, you have 338 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.559 rebuked me, Yes from the Lord, and I receive it 339 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:18.480 and received it, which is such a He was wrong, 340 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:19.600 he was wrong in that, and that. 341 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:22.159 It was such a nice thing to say a certain 342 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:26.120 category people, certainly, but it was it was a funny 343 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:26.720 response to me. 344 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.000 It was a humble response, but it was a funny 345 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:29.679 way to say. 346 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:30.440 It, right, right. 347 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.320 He could have just said for you and I we 348 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:34.919 would have probably went back. If that was us, we 349 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:36.480 would have said, hey, you. 350 00:15:36.559 --> 00:15:39.759 Challenged me, and what you said was right, and I and. 351 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:41.639 I think that what you said. I would say what 352 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:43.799 you said was honest to me, I appreciate your challenge 353 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:45.080 and I'm going to accept that. 354 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:47.480 Yeah, because what you said was biblical, and what you 355 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:48.840 said I agree. 356 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:52.759 But he just used these kind of arcane words. You know, 357 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.679 it was funny. You've rebuked me, brother, and I receive it. 358 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.399 And I received it, which, by the way, at one 359 00:15:58.399 --> 00:15:59.879 point in time in my life, I would have said 360 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:04.519 the yeah absolutely, growing up in my denomination. Yeah, but anyway, 361 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:08.759 but hey, regardless of that's funny and not like us. 362 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:10.320 Give it up for that guy. 363 00:16:10.519 --> 00:16:13.200 Yeah right, very humble, very humble in that one. 364 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.440 And it takes humility to go back to somebody and say, 365 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:18.799 you know what, you challenge me, and I think what 366 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:20.360 you said was right, and I think what you said 367 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:21.639 lined up with God's word. 368 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:24.039 And I was trying to build a case, and I 369 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:24.679 think you're right. 370 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:28.960 Yeah, So I think it's interesting this area that it 371 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:34.080 mentions that Usaiah. I mean, he's only sixteen years old. 372 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:37.039 He reigns for fifty two years. The last ten years 373 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:39.559 of his reign he's co reigning with his son Joe 374 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:43.080 Ash because he has leprosy now, right, So he led 375 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.159 as the authority from the time he was sixteen until 376 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:50.200 also for what forty two years? So how old is 377 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.240 that fifty eight? Yeah, and then ten more years after 378 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:57.840 that with leprosy. But it talks about how he goes on. 379 00:16:58.120 --> 00:16:59.759 There's a few things he does, and I love this. 380 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.879 First of all, he seeks God during the days of Zachariah, 381 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:05.480 and there's a book in the Bible, we'll read it 382 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:09.720 here Zachariah's time when Zachariah was the prophet right, and 383 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:13.759 Zachariah taught him to fear God. And because of that, 384 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:15.799 as long as the king sought guidance from the Lord, 385 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:21.200 God gave him success, right. And the successes are victory 386 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:25.200 over God's enemies and stability in his own kingdom right. 387 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:29.720 And so he defeats the Philistines, he breaks down the 388 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.480 walls of Gath and Jabna and Ashdod, which are all 389 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:34.839 in what is so if you're trying to figure that out, 390 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:39.440 Felistia was right on the Mediterranean and is in the 391 00:17:39.480 --> 00:17:42.440 area of what is now modern day Gaza. It's right 392 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:45.640 in that area. So the Palestinians and the Philistines are 393 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:49.279 the same rights. That's where this name came from, very 394 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:51.799 very similar. It's just a modern version of that old thing. 395 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:55.079 So they wipe out these towns and he literally tears 396 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:57.920 down the walls in what is modern day Gaza, but 397 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:02.799 only back then, and these were people that had fought 398 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.039 against God all these things. The moonights, he comes and 399 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.279 he gets tribute, so he doesn't wipe them out entirely, 400 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.480 but he is getting taxes from them. His fame begins 401 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.119