Episode Transcript
Study 2 Kings chapter 18 verse 15, and that's where we are today. Let's just go right back to that
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verse 2nd Kings chapter 18 and
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verse 15
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And
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Spring is sprung and so have all of the pollens in the air, so I'm a little scratchy today
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Be a lot scratchy here in a little while when I get through talking so I've got I know this isn't as fancy as brother
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Fulton's
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But I don't spend money on things like that
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We I know we got that for him we sure did
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So forgive me for being like Marco Rubio only in this way though
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drinking out of a plastic water bottle
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Last time
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Has a kayah the king of Judah tried to handle something that he should have given to the Lord
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To keep peace with this ever threatening king of Assyria
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Has a kayah offered to take the whole offense upon himself. He said whatever has been done wrong
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However, you've been offended. I'll take it upon myself
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and so the Assyrian king
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Sent him a bill for 300 talents of silver and 30 talents of gold
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now, let's see what the response to this demand was here in verse 15 and
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Has a kayah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord
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And as I closed with last week
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10 years of good judgment
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Has now come to this point where has a kayah although the Lord was with him and he walked with the Lord and kept his commandments
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has
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tried to accomplish a peaceful outcome for Judah by making a deal with the enemy and
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He gives into this demand of
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the earthly enemy
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Hoping to accomplish that peaceful outcome and on one hand as we said it was admirable
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That he tried to take the offense of Judah upon himself
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But that was a time for him to trust the Lord not to raid the temple
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and this act by has a kayah of
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Giving all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and then of course the gold as we'll read about
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This act by has a kayah brings up a great teaching point for us
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Assyria was a representative of the world system
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Which is run by the prince of this world the god of this world Satan
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It's the kingdom of darkness as the Bible also calls it and
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Has a kayah on the other hand was a representative of Judah who just like Israel?
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Was a type of the church?
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Which is the kingdom of light?
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Now the church that is the kingdom of light is the Lord's Church
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It's not such-and-such Baptist Church Methodist Church Church of Christ Pentecostal Catholic
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It's the Lord's Church wherever they may be dispersed and wherever they may gather
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So
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That's where we are the kingdom of darkness
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always
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Demands that the kingdom of light
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yield
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Territory to it it always works that way
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The kingdom of darkness always encroaches. It's always offsides
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But it never yields
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Listen to Romans chapter 6 verses 12 through 14
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Romans 6 12 through 14 and listen for the word yield
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Because that's exactly what has a kayah is doing to the king of Assyria is yielding to his demands
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It says let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey us obey it in the lusts
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thereof neither
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yield ye
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your members as
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instruments of unrighteousness unto sin
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but yield yourselves unto God as
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Those that are alive from the dead and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God
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For sin shall not have dominion
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Over you for you're not under the law but under grace
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There's so much to learn from this and so much has a kayah could have learned if he would have considered
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The principles in Romans even though the book itself hadn't been written the principles were already there
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He did not have to give in to the dominion of Assyria
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Earlier in the chapter when we read about his reign it said he rebelled against Assyria
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He rebelled against the Philistines. He didn't put up with it
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He said you're not the boss of me God is
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So you notice in the passage I read you from Romans there are two entities two figures
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To whom a person may yield
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They may yield to their members
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Which is carnal yielding to your members means yielding to your flesh your hands your feet the members of your body
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That's carnal
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Or you can yield yourself to God and that's spiritual
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The word dominion in that passage means to exercise lordship over something
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So when you yield you give dominion
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Now what did hesekai do he yielded to the demands of the Assyrian king and when he did that he gave him dominion over
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Now we yield to the internal revenue service though unwillingly we do it every year
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And if you have your own business you do it every quarter and then every year on top of that
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I've been on both sides of that
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So when I write that check and send it to the US Treasury
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Then I've given them dominion over that money. I have to I don't have a choice
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In Genesis chapter 1 verse 28 in Genesis 1 verse 28 if you want to write that down
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After God had made man and woman
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The Bible said and God blessed them and God said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and
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have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and
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Over every living thing that moveth upon the earth
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Now at that time the earth and everything in it was absolutely perfect
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God created it and it was good. He said that about everything it was good
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And it was free from any curse
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Mankind was perfect free from sin
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He was yielded completely to God imagine that and we're gonna be that one day when we go to be of the Lord those who are
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saved when we're
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Changed in the twinkling of an eye
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But right now we're still in this flesh. And so there's that constant battle of
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to whom do I yield today and
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In that day God never told man to yield to any of those things he created he said have dominion
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over them and
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He certainly didn't tell man to yield to the serpent
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but to have
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To be yielded to God because the serpent was a manifestation of Satan. So just like the Assyrian king is
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To Hezekiah. So was Satan to Adam and Eve
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It's from the same place
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and when man sinned
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God pronounced a certain curse upon the earth
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Which had once perfectly yielded its fruit
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to man in the garden and
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The curse is found in Genesis 3 verses 17 through 18
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Genesis 3 17 through 18
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Where it says and unto Adam he said that's God
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Because thou hast hearkened under the voice of thy wife and has eaten of the tree of which I commanded these saying thou shalt
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Not eat of it cursed. It is the ground for thy sake
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In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee and thou shall
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Eat the herb of the field and God had already made
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herbs and the seed
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All of that that they needed to eat
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But the thorns and thistles weren't there
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But now they would be
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this passage shows us that
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The earth would no longer
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Perfectly yield
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Its perfect fruit to man. It would be thorns and thistles
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man would in fact yield his work to
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that ground in sorrow and
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When he yielded his work to the ground in sorrow, he didn't get a 100% return like
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Would have happened in the garden
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He didn't yield he didn't have to work the ground in sorrow in the garden
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God said he put the man in the garden to dress it and to keep it and he told him to eat of all the fruits
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except for the one tree
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And because Adam had yielded dominion to the kingdom of darkness
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Then from that point on that kingdom
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Would demand that he and all of those born after him
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Yield to it from thenceforth
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After you're born you began yielding to the kingdom of darkness
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And unless you're born again through salvation
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Then you'll just yield to the kingdom of darkness until you die
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The devil doesn't have to do anything to anyone to make them lost
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were born
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understands curse and
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Remember this especially if you're not saved
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the
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Kingdom of darkness is never going to yield to you
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It's never going to sacrifice
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for you
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It's not going to bless you
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Grant you eternal life
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Here is an example of how yielding to the kingdom of darkness costs us in our Christian life
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It's found in Ephesians chapter 4 verses 26 through 27
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Ephesians 4 26 through 27
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It says be angry and sin not
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Let not the Sun go down upon your wrath
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Neither
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Give place those two words neither give place to the devil
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Now that word give is very similar to the word yield
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In fact the word place where it says neither give place to the devil. That's a geographical term
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It's a location. In fact in the New Testament, it's mostly used that way
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Jesus talked about desert places desert places desert places
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So it's mostly used in a geographical literal sense
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although there is a spiritual application to it as well and
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in this example in Ephesians
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when we sin and
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Let the Sun go down on our wrath
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Then we are yielding spiritual geography to the devil
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Because he always demands that we yield
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to him
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We're giving him control over spiritual land that belong to us and
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in the power of the Holy Spirit
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We will not sin in anger
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in the power of the Holy Spirit, we will not let the Sun go down on our wrath and
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Therefore we will not yield that
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spiritual place
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To the devil that's the only way you cannot yield to the devil is in the power of the Holy Spirit
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Otherwise, you're going to yield to the devil if you say well, I'm gonna follow my heart today
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I'm tired of being told what to do. You've just yielded ground to the devil
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We
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You may have studied King Aza. I believe we have already gone there
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He made a league with Ben. Hey dad who was a Syrian a Syrian representative the captain of the Syrian host
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Not a Syria but Syrian
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Spiritually speaking they're the same thing
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So the great King Hezekiah did also with
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Sennacherib this Assyrian king and
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as we've read Hezekiah rated the
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Silver that had been dedicated to the Lord's house by Solomon
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and
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Now he gave Sennacherib as our text says look back in chapter 18 verse 15
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At the end it said and
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In the treasures of the King's house and Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and
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in the treasures of
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the King's house
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When Solomon had the temple built I want you to listen to what God said to him
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In first Kings chapter 6 verses 12 through 13
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First Kings chapter 6 verses 12 through 13
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God said this to Solomon concerning this house which thou art in building
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If thou will walk in my statutes and execute my judgments and keep all my commandments to walk in them
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Then will I perform my word with thee which I spake unto David thy father and I will dwell among the children of Israel
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And will not forsake my people Israel
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Get this all of the gold and
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all of the silver in the house of the Lord would have been perfectly safe and Israel would have been safe and
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There would have been no division of the kingdoms
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Had the Kings and the people under
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Them kept the commandments of the Lord
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Had they walked in his statutes and executed his judgments
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But because they did not
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There would come a day when Asa and now Hezekiah would both be put in a position
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To have to offer silver and gold from the Lord's house from the King's treasure to an enemy nation and
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In each case the enemy nation would not show the care for the children of Israel that God would have shown them had
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He they just yielded to him
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In fact for enemy nations and it's to this day the same
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Israel's payment Israel's yielding is never enough
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I've said this before if you study the Old Testament and look at the geographical boundaries of
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The Promised Land that God gave to Israel. It was pretty big. It wasn't this little
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Sliver that it is now on the map. It was big
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all the way to the
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sea there in her excuse me to the Great River of Egypt and
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All of that land of the east and up to the north
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Cedars of Lebanon were theirs. They didn't belong to Hezbollah
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And
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ever since then
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Their enemies have taken and taken and taken
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Now that they've got them reduced down to this little narrow piece of pie
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And by the way, that's not an ant brother Andy slice either. I want a big piece of pie
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This is a little bitty one. That's what they have and you know what their enemies are still doing
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They said we want a two-state solution. We want this
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to be the Palestinian peoples and
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Then on this side and on the north side and on the south side
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they've got enemies surrounding them and they want to continue to take their land until they
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Completely consume it. It's never enough. It wasn't enough
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It has a Kai's day and Aces day and it's not enough today
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Now
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We've looked at several passages in an attempt to understand just a little bit more about the significance of King Hezekiah
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Yielding the gold and the silver to the king of Assyria and you're going to see in a moment as I said earlier
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And as the Bible declares plainly the kingdom of darkness is not going to yield
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to the kingdom of light
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Even when those in the kingdom of light yield to the kingdom of darkness, it's not mutual
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But first let's look at verse 16
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At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord and from the pillars
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Which Hezekiah king of Judah had over laid and gave it to the king of Assyria
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Now let's look at how those doors were made in Solomon's day
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In order to assemble these 30 talents of gold
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Demanded by the Assyrian king Hezekiah had to undo the very work that he had repaired
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So we'll look back at the history of how the temple door was made in Solomon's day. It's in first Kings chapter 6
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verses 33 through 35
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1st Kings 6 verses 33 through 35
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Speaking of Solomon and those builders
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It says so also made he for the door of the temple post of olive tree a fourth part of the wall and
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the two doors were a fir tree the two leaves of the door of
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The one door were folding and the two leaves of the other door were folding and he carved there on
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cherubims and palm trees and open flowers and
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covered them with gold
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Fitted upon the carved work, so he overlaid the doors with gold
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Now I gave you a
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Extra reading assignment a couple of weeks ago in Second Chronicles
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I think it was chapter 29 through 32 that gave you some more details about Hezekiah's reign more than we have in our
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current text
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And in that description
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We see that or we conclude that at some time between Solomon's reign and Hezekiah's reign
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The work that Solomon had put in on those doors was damaged
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And in Second Chronicles 29 verse 3 it said that Hezekiah
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repaired those doors
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But now in our text
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He's taken the gold back off the doors in order to try to make peace with the Assyrian king all that work
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He did to restore those doors
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And he did more than that with the temple
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But we're talking about the gold on the doors all that work
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He did to try to restore that former glory that those doors had he gave it back up again
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to this
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Assyrian king
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And if you read those first eight verses there in Second Chronicles 29 verses 1 through 8
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You see that Hezekiah wasn't just fixing the temple doors for show
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He was serious
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About the work that was supposed to be done in that temple by the priests
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And he told him you sanctify yourselves you get in there, and you clean the house of the Lord out and
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And let's start doing things right
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But now about 10 years later
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He slips up and makes this poor
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judgment call
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Let's look at how that affects the church today
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the carnal world the kingdom of darkness
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always has and always will demand that the church yield a little here and a little there and
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The most insidious way this happens is when the wolves come into the church and are allowed to stay
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That's your worst enemy right there is a wolf within the church
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and by allowing wolves inside the doors
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The average church has made Satan's work a lot easier
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When you allow an unsaved pastor to oversee a church
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Then it shouldn't surprise you if you find out he's a thief or an adult or a
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Homosexual and probably and well he's an unbeliever if he's unsaved
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when you allow
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Unsaved people to join the church
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Now do we know if everybody who tells us they're saved is saved no we don't I?
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Mean there's only so far we can go with the questioning and when somebody says yes
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I believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins, and I put my trust in him alone
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I mean what else can we do we have to accept that person's word for it God knows and they know whether they're telling the truth
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or not and
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So there are some people who've made that sort of profession of faith without actually believing what they just said
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To try to get into the church or to get on to this
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Board or that board or whatever it may be
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but when we
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Allow unsaved people to come into the church because we don't even examine their faith we look at their social standing or
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Consider well. He's a really nice man. He's a she's a nice woman
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We'll let him join and then we'll try to get them save later on that's backwards
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Then it shouldn't surprise you when you let people like that join your church that they reject the teaching of the Bible
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The world is never going to try to become more holy for the church not going to do it
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But it will expect the church to give and to yield and to compromise
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in favor of the world every time and
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after all
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The author of that kingdom of darkness is Satan. He's not a life-giver
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He's a destroyer
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He's not a savior. He's a serpent
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He's not a deliverer. He's a devourer
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Now let's see the result of Hezekiah is yielding to the king of Assyria peace right in that what he's hoping for
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verse 17
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And the king of Assyria sent tartan and
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Rabsurus and rabshaka from Lakish to King Hezekiah
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With a great host that's an army
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against
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Jerusalem and
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They went up and came to Jerusalem and when they were come up
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They came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the Fuller's field
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So what was the result of Hezekiah?
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Giving the gold and the silver to the king of Assyria the result was a great host against Jerusalem
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Hezekiah saw an opportunity at least in his mind to make peace with the kingdom of darkness and
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How the kingdom of darkness saw that was that it was a weakness in Hezekiah?
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That allowed them to take advantage
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The kingdom of light
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By the way has a great host against it we do
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What did Jesus say about that way that leads to life?
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He said it's narrow it's not broad and
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Few there be that find it and what did he say about the way that leads to destruction?
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It's broad the gates wide and many there be which go in there at
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So the many are the kingdom of darkness and the few are the kingdom of light
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We've always had a great host against us the numbers have not been in our favor
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The many versus the few the masses versus the remnant however you want to categorize it
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But hey, this is not our battle is it it's the Lord's and
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With our trust in him we don't need to fear what the enemy can do
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We don't need to yield to the enemy when they ask us for the 300 talents of silver and the 30 talents of gold
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Saying we'll be we'll make peace
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We can be certain that regardless of the size of the enemy regardless of the demands of the enemy
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We're going to be victorious because we're in the kingdom of light and our king will prevail
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Now it says
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There in verse 17 look down toward the bottom of the verse it says and when they were come up they stood
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They came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool. You know stop right there
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This is the greatest Syrian army coming
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Against Jerusalem going to the conduit of the upper pool now a conduit is just a channel
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It's a man-made channel if you work in electricity and you run a bunch of wires through a
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Piece of flexible piping or PVC or whatever you're using that is your conduit to carry all those wires
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well, this is talking about water and a conduit in this case was a
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man-made channel and hezakah actually made it if you
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Skip over to chapter 20 verse 20. It'll say that about his life that he made this
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It was one of his earthly accomplishments that was noted in history
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And he made that channel to bring water into the city from the upper pool
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and for these Assyrian leaders and the army to stand at that location
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was significant because this
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Conduit in this upper pool were one of the hallmarks of hezakiah's reign and it will be talked about just like
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his repairing of the temple doors
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would and
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Hezekiah had already undone
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What he did to those temple doors to try to make peace
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So now what does the enemy want they want the conduit in the upper pool, too?
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See it wasn't enough to receive the gold and the silver was it?
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They want more and they want more. That's what the enemy does. That's what our enemy does
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He wants more and more
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In this time they position themselves by the conduit of the upper pool
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now as a
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I guess as an aside here what kind of
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water
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Did that conduit transport from the upper pool to the people in Jerusalem?
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It was the type of water for which a man will thirst again if he drinks thereof
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And yes, it is important for us to have water to drink
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This is saving my voice so I can squeak out a few words and hopefully lead some singing in a little bit
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That'll be interesting, but the the satisfaction that the real in the relief that the water gives you
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Is going to go away soon. And what do you have to do? You've got to drink again
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Jesus at the
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Well there with that woman who had five husbands is found in John chapter 4
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I'm gonna read verses 13 through 14 what he said to her John 4 13 through 14
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Where Jesus told the woman at the well?
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Whosoever drinketh of this water. He's talking about the water in the well
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Shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst
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But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a
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Well of water springing up into everlasting life
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Now the water that Jerusalem needed in Hezekiah's day
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Was not just that water carried by the conduit from the upper pool into the city
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It was really that water
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that Jesus would give to all who believe in him for salvation and
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Hezekiah drank that water before this story was ever told in John Hezekiah had already drunk that spiritual water
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the
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Goal taken from the doors of the temple
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Represented the deity of God that is his godly attributes
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Even though the goal itself would perish lose its value be destroyed
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Be subject to theft and all that the deity of God could never be taken away
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It never loses its value because it's priceless
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The deity of God cannot be stolen or be destroyed
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Now let's look at the next part of the verse 17 here at the end
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It tells us where this conduit of the upper pool was it says which is in the highway of the Fuller's field
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Now a Fuller is a person who washes clothes and
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So it would make sense the Fuller needs access to water
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for this
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Upper pool and this conduit to go through the highway that is in the Fuller's field makes all kinds of sense doesn't it?
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And that's where the conduit was
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Now let's learn a little something about the Fuller
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The best work a Fuller could do is to make dirty clothes clean in fact white
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You can't get any cleaner than to make something white
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and
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When you think about that in terms of
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the amount of
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Transfiguration which is told to us in in one of several places mark chapter 9 verses 2 through 3
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I want you to listen what Jesus says about the Fuller
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Mark 9 verses 2 through 3
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And after or this is what is said about Jesus, I'm sorry, but it is his word so he says it about himself and
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after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter James and John and
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Lead them up into an high mountain apart by themselves and he was transfigured before them and his raiment
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That's his clothing became shining exceeding white as snow
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So as no Fuller on earth can white them
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so Jesus said the best work that a Fuller could do is to make clothes white and
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His raiment his clothing was even brighter than that
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Can't imagine that because you're thinking well, how can you get any wider than perfect white Jesus? That's how
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So you see a Fuller
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Who can make dirty clothes white has accomplished the best work he can
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Because he's removed every single stain
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From the clothing he's working on now. Let's look at an even greater truth here
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What did the conduit of the upper pool carry he carried water?
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Where was that conduit in that upper pool? It was in the Fuller's field
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What does a Fuller do he makes clothes clean?
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even white
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Did you know that Jesus is a Fuller he is an upper pool and
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He is a conduit all at the same time. Let's see how
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First Jesus is a Fuller and as a Fuller he's got to make clothes white
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Revelation chapter 7 verses 13 through 14
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Revelation 7 13 through 14
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And one of the elders answered saying unto me
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What are these which are arrayed in white robes?
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and
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Whence came they and I said unto him sir thou knowest and he said to me these are they
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Which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb
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Jesus is a Fuller. He uses blood not bleach
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to make clothes whiter
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than any earthly Fuller can make them and
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Those robes that are being spoken about there. Those are our
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spiritual our heavenly robes
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Those are the robes of righteousness which we wear
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those robes were once filthy rags in the sight of God and
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If any man would have looked at those rags, do you know what they would have said throw them away? I
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Mean we do that don't we if we have?
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a dirty piece of clothing and
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Then we tear it we hang it on something and we think man. You know what? I'm just gonna throw that away
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Jesus didn't do that with you or me
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He took that torn dirty filthy rag and
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He made it white as snow
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Jesus isn't also an upper pool a pool holds water doesn't it?
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And speaking of Jesus in John chapter 1 verse 14
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John 1 14
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That passage had already told us
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That in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God
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And that the word word in that chapter is capitalized which makes it a proper noun that's a person and that's Jesus and
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Then it says in verse 14 and the word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory
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The glory is of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth word is capitalized there, too
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Making it a proper noun which is Jesus again
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And now we're gonna watch how the word and the upper pool are connected
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Because I said Jesus is an upper pool
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Ephesians chapter 5 verses 25 through 27
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Ephesians 5 verses 25 through 27
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Where it says husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it
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That he might sanctify and cleanse it. Do you see what the fuller is doing?
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Cleanse it with the washing of water by the word
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That he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing
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But that it should be holy and without blemish
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How did the word made flesh?
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Sanctify us and cleanse us
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By the washing of water by the word
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That is by the washing of water by himself
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It says the word is God the word it the word was with God and the word was God
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And because he is the word of God
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Jesus is the upper pool from which that water comes
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But he's also a conduit a conduit is a water course or a channel as I said earlier
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And by being a conduit Jesus brings to us
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That which is in the upper pool
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What good would it do us if
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Jesus were the upper pool and he were the fuller
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But he never brought the water to us and he never made us clean
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Wouldn't do us any good. We'd be condemned wouldn't we?
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In John chapter 6 verse 63
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John 6 verse 63 Jesus said
00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:12,460
It is the Spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you
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There he is. There's the conduit. There's Jesus the fuller taking the water from the upper pool and bringing us to it by speaking it
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He said the words that I speak unto you. They are spirit and they are life
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Jesus took his words and he spoke them to the people
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do you see the fuller standing as
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Not only the fuller but the upper pool and the conduit all at once
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He took that water
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by which he washed us and
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,600
He became the conduit that that water may go from the upper pool to the people in the city
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and
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Those people who drink of that spiritual water will never thirst again
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,600
Those people who are washed in that spiritual water will be made clean
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:10,600
spotless
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Their filthy rags will be made into robes of righteousness
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How about that Jesus the upper pool the conduit and the fuller all in second Kings 18
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The question in our text is this
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Will the people of Jerusalem and their king Hezekiah?
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Put their eyes on the earthly upper pool conduit and Fuller's field
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or
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And the upon the actual gold and silver that was in the temple that's been stolen and taken off and put on
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Or would they put their eyes on the spiritual truths that each one of those things teach them
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Verse 18
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And
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When they had called to the king that is
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Shaka and these Assyrian leaders when they had called to the king Hezekiah there came out to them
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Eliakim the son of Hilkiah which was over the household and
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Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder
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So rather than the king himself coming to meet these military leaders
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He sent the ruler of his household
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The scribe and the recorder and if they are faithful servants
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then their jobs are to go out and receive the words of the Assyrians and to take them word for word back to
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the king and vice versa to take the words of the king of
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Judah and
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,960
convey them to
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the Assyrian military leaders
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There are three of them. So you have three witnesses
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That way there are no mistakes in what was said or what was heard verse 19
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And Rab Shekah said unto them speak ye now to Hezekiah
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Thus saith the great king the king of Assyria. What confidence is this wherein thou trust us?
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So speaking on behalf of the king of Assyria
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Rab Shekah asked this very important question
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What confidence is this wherein thou trust us in other words? What hope are you trusting in?
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And the setting here is important
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Assyria had already taken the northern kingdom Israel captive. We read that in previous chapters and
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It has demanded and now received gold and silver from the southern kingdom Judah
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And now Assyria's leaders military leaders are positioned outside the wall of Jerusalem
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By the upper pool and the conduit in the Fuller's field now this has all the earmarks of a military takeover
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Doesn't it you wouldn't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out?
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I don't know that a rocket scientist would know that anyway, but I just have to say that
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Assyria is giving Judah one last chance to surrender
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So this question in the face of this imminent takeover is what confidence is this wherein thou trust us?
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Now while the people of Judah
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Most immediately the people in Jerusalem are
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Faced with this enemy's attack it is critical that they know the answer to that question
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That they know where their hope is and we all face a greater enemy. So did they?
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Then Assyria we face a greater enemy than China or Russia or whoever our enemies are
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I think our worst enemies are within this country not so much around the world, but
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That's for another day
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We all face a greater enemy and that's the enemy of death and the grave isn't it?
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So the question to you is the same one the Assyrian leader asked what confidence do you have?
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What are you trusting in to overcome that last enemy?
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Well some trust in their belief that death is the end of it they say there's nothing after death. We just cease to exist
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Others trust in whatever man-made religion they've accepted, but their trust is always shaky
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Their man-made religions not going to tell them that they can have confidence
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That they can have hope that their enemy will be defeated for them
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They say well we have to wait and find out at the end whether we were saved or not
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But for the remnant of people who have ever lived who have received the forgiveness of sins
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Our hope is not in a what it's in a who
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and
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Jesus is the answer to that question. He is the confidence in whom we trust
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So death has no victory over us
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So you do have to answer this question Rab shake asked the representatives of
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The king of Judah and with that we'll stop and pick up with verse 20 next week. Let's pray
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Father thank you for your word
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Thank you for all the lessons that it teaches us both the earthly lessons and the spiritual lessons
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and I pray now that we would strongly consider what you've taught us today and
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May your spirit implant in our heart the word of God
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That we may not be afraid of the words of man or the enemies we have here on the earth that we may not be afraid
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Of the kingdom of darkness through the power of thy spirit
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Knowing that we are safe and secure in your son Jesus, and it's in his name we pray amen
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