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Good morning It's 10 o'clock somewhere and that somewhere is here second Kings chapter 19 verse 26 Is our text?
Second Kings 19 verse 26 and you know if the elections would have gone the other way Do you know what I would have done this morning?
Talk from second Kings chapter 19 verse 26 and sway me one way or the other Have you ever noticed that the results of elections have never changed what we do here on Sunday morning and God willing it won't until the Lord comes We're going to teach God's Word whether our candidates win or lose And we've been studying how God puts an acrob the king of Assyria in his place When it came to sin acrob boasting about how he had conquered the nations We're going to reread verse 26 Second Kings 19 verse 26 if you're just joining us and we're glad to have every person who's tuned in and everyone who's come today Therefore their inhabitants were of small power now this speaks of the nations whom sin acrob and the Assyrians conquered They were dismayed and confounded they were as the grass of the field and as the green herb as The grass on the housetops and as corn blasted before it be grown up Lots of analogies there and we'll get to those today But God said all of those things happen to the nations Because God formed it from ancient times It was not sin acrob's might or power but God's sovereign will and Isaiah continues now with God's words Pertaining to the nations that sin acrob conquered as we looked there in verse 26 He said those nations Whereas the grass of the field the grass of the field Now you remember last week we studied some of the words in the text the word dismayed and confounded we studied the words small power and we learned that Anyone who fights against God is short-handed and so the grass of the field here is Speaking of the people the nations who were weakened and conquered by sin acrob These were the short-handed the dismayed the confounded Who were as the grass of the field?
now grass also also translates to the word herb H er be and That word comes from a Hebrew word that means to glisten to glisten and So it speaks of a particular characteristic of grass We don't always think of grass glistening Your grass may be green.
It may be brown It may be non-existent.
You may just have weeds in your yard or your field but here the particular characteristic of Grass in the field is that it glistens it glistens in the Sun and it does so because of the dew on it and That happens in the morning doesn't it?
When you have dew and what do we know about the morning dew?
Well, we've studied it during the 11 o'clock hour, but it has been a while Because we were in Hosea chapter 6 verse 4 at the time Where God said O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee Oh Judah?
What shall I do unto thee?
For your goodness is as a morning cloud and as the early dew it goeth away Now looking at this statement from God's perspective Judah's goodness or the glistening of Judah's grass went away and Sennacherib did not make it disappear now.
He wanted to boast that he did but he did not God used him to do so So Sennacherib was nothing more than an instrument.
He's just like a hairdryer Wouldn't he you had to plug it in to make it work and if you don't plug it in it doesn't do anything And that's what he did to dry up the moisture of Judah now Why should grass glisten Whenever the Sun is dried up its moisture Well, it won't you know the the grass There were two types of blessings that are signified by grass And one of them is found in Genesis chapter 1 in verse 12 Genesis chapter 1 in verse 12 and the earth brought forth grass and herb Yielding seed after his kind and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind And God saw that it was good The way God made grass is that it had its seed in it so it could reproduce and Secondly a second blessing or a second part of this blessing is that this?
reproduced grass Would grow and it would feed the animals that feed the man The Deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 15 Deuteronomy 11 verse 15 God said and I will send grass in my fields For thy cattle that thou mayest eat and be full Did you hear that not that they may eat and be full but thou mayest eat and be full?
So there's a connection there between the grass and us being full if we were Judah and it is For us today - if you eat meat Those two blessings work together God made grass and it had seed in it for reproduction and The cattle he made would eat that grass so God's people would be full when they ate those cattle and You notice in the Deuteronomy verse that the grass was for the cattle so the people could eat and be full the people weren't eating the grass The cattle were and as long as the cattle ate grass then they were healthy and they could reproduce more cattle and The children of Israel would always have food it was designed to be perpetual God made all of that before there was ever sin in the world So there's no reason grass should have ever burn up if man hadn't a sin but it did and So it reproduces itself and then the cattle eat it and then we eat the cattle Now let's look at how God God caused Judah to be as the grass of the field Going back to the Deuteronomy chapter 11 I've read you from Deuteronomy chapter 11.
I read verse 15.
I'm gonna skip down to verses 16 and 17 which say This is God warning Israel now Take heed to yourselves that your heart be not deceived and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them and Then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heaven that there be no rain and That the land yield not her fruit and lest you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you Well now that's the opposite of a blessing isn't it?
That's a curse How did God bless them when it comes to the grass?
He created the grass the grass had the seed the grass reproduce the catalyte the grass the cattle reproduced We ate the cattle and it just kept going But when God shut up to heaven, what did that do that stopped the grass from going?
And if the grass doesn't grow then the cattle don't eat If the cattle don't eat they don't reproduce and they die and man perishes that's the ultimate end of all of that and So what it is real done?
What had Judah done before Hezekiah became king?
They had turned aside and served other gods and worship them the very thing God said not to do or I'll stop the rain So the reason the waters were dried up if you remember Sennacherib boasting that everywhere his soul of his foot was He dried up the waters.
He dug he drank strange waters and then he dried them up with the soul of his feet So the reason the waters were dried up according to God's Word had nothing to do with Sennacherib's power It was God doing exactly what he said he would do If his people disobeyed him in this area by going after those strange gods When he shuts up the heaven, there's no rain when there's no rain the grass in the field dies And the cattle starve and won't reproduce and the result is the people go hungry now look further in our text here in verse 26 Not only were they as the grass of the field he said and as the green herb as the green herb Now the words for green herb are from a different Hebrew word than grass We looked at the original or not the original but the last Hebrew word we looked at was grass That glistens we looked at the particular characteristic of grass when it glistens this word for green or green herb is More about vegetables it has to do with green vegetables the green herbs do And here's a good verse to help us understand that first Kings 21 verse 2 First Kings 21 verse 2 Now you may remember this story about a man named Naboth who had a vineyard and they have wanted it they have was a wicked king and That verse says and they have spake unto Naboth saying Give me thy vineyard that I may have it for a garden of herbs Now that's the same word herbs that we have in our text in verse 26 Because it is near unto my house So you don't intentionally grow Bermuda grass in your garden But you do grow vegetables there and Being able to successfully raise fruitful green vegetables requires water Just like the grass growing in the field requires water So the people whom Sennacherib has conquered were made like dying green vegetables in the garden they were made like grass in the field that glistens but that the Sun dries up and here They're like green vegetables in the garden that are dying God had withheld the rain from them Once again, this can be traced back to his hand doing what he said he would do when the people sinned Now another thing we learn about green vegetables in the garden is that they have to be healthy to produce a Pepper plant I can't grow much right Billy, but I can grow peppers and I can grow them all day long I don't know God's given me that green thumb for that particular plant everything else is Oakers not bad either.
Okay, we can do that but a pepper plant will continue To produce peppers as long as it has good soil water and sunlight.
Those are the three things it's got to have and if it doesn't have one of those three things and it's not going to to do what it's supposed to a Christian Will produce fruit if it has those things spiritually speaking that good soil that water and that sunlight good soil is Necessary to bear fruit Jesus teaches that in the parable of the sower in Matthew 13 23 if you'll write that down We're talking about good soil water and sunlight being necessary for a green vegetable plant to produce But also spiritually speaking for a Christian to produce fruit Matthew 13 23 says but he that received seed into the good ground is He that heareth the word and understandeth it which also beareth fruit and bringeth forth some and hundred fold some 60 some 30 and The word understand their means to consider or to be wise So that good ground represents a Christian a person who hears the word and Understands it in other words they consider it To be wise We also learn that the garden must be watered So what does this mean for the Christian?
How can a Christian be watered?
God speaks through Isaiah to his people concerning the day When they return to him in repentance and this is found in Isaiah chapter 58 Verses 11 through 12 Isaiah 58 verses 11 through 12 and the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thy soul in drought and make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not and They that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places thou shalt raise up the foundation of many generations and now shalt be called the Repairer of the breach the restorer of paths to dwell in Ephesians chapter 5 verses 25 through 26 Ephesians 5 25 through 26 still talking about the necessity for a Christian to be watered Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word and water is one of the things green vegetables need to grow and to produce fruit and The Word of God is the water a Christian needs to grow and produce fruit.
There it is and in thirdly We learned that green vegetables that we're studying in our text called green herbs there Green vegetables need sunlight to grow and to produce fruit But without good soil and water all the sunlight does is kill them So you have to have all three?
And It kills the herbs it kills the green vegetables kills the grass son will kill everything without water and Good soil now we see this in James chapter 1 verses 9 through 10 Getting a lot of good scripture today lots of scriptures for you to write down James 1 verses 9 through 10 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted But the rich in that he is made low Because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away For the Sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat But it withers the grass and the flower thereof Folleth and the grace of the fashion of it perishes So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways and why is that?
Because the rich man now This is not somebody who God is blessed with great riches and they are thankful as Abraham was or as Solomon was This is somebody who has the will to be rich rather than the will to be righteous It's not a sin to be rich if God blesses you with riches And you just thank him for those and that just gives you more to give back to his kingdom work But these are people who are the self-promoting rich people and What is the problem here?
They've got the Sun.
Why does it kill them?
Why does it make them like a flower that fades away because they don't have good soil and water They don't have God's Word and they're not ready when they do hear it.
They're not ready to receive it and understand it and notice James was specifying that this and I say self-promoting rich man Whom the Sun would cause to burn and fade away It was not the brother of low degree who was burning and fading away like a flower Did you notice that because he talked about that brother of low degree who is exalted?
It was only the rich man in that passage who faded away whom the Sun would cause to burn and fade away and that brother of low degree Was not the one who would burn and fade away Because he's got good soil and he's got water and he's got the Sun the Sun doesn't burn him It helps him to grow because he has the other two things that are necessary for it.
It's good how we learn from plants Now you know why I talked to my plants they mean an awful lot to and I won't do that Yes, this Low degree brother had the good soil He had readily received God's Word and he had the water of the Word and so the same son which scorched the rich man gave Light and life to the brother of low degree.
I love that now the SU in here represents the SO in with a capital S Jesus who will toss the devil and his angels and all the unbelievers into the lake of fire where they will burn forever and forever but that same SO in Will deliver his people from wrath the very same one Because for his people the light of his countenance brings life and light To those whose good soil has been watered by the Word and if you put your faith in Jesus Because of what you've learned about the gospel then that's you It's just another way to describe a Christian In other words, those are the people who readily receive the gospel of Jesus Christ Who's the Word made flesh?
now all the nations Whom sin acrob conquered were nations that were in sin all of the Gentile nations but also Samaria the Israelites in the northern kingdom and These nations whether Jew or Gentile had not readily received God's Word.
So they were not good soil They were not walking according to God's Word so they had no water spiritually speaking and Therefore spiritually speaking the Sun scorched them Because they represented the green vegetables without the water and in poor soil Now looking back in verse 26 in our text We further see these nations described as The grass on the housetops the grass on the housetops Now this grass is different than the grass in the field.
It's on a housetop.
That's one reason it's different Psalm chapter 129 verses 5 through 6 teach us about this type of grass Psalm 129 verses 5 through 6 He said let them all be confounded and turn back that hate Zion Let them be as the grass upon the housetops which wither it's a for it growth up It was obviously a custom for Homebuilders or homeowners to place grass on their roofs to keep the water out Keep it out of the house whether it was squares of sod or grass or hay as the word sometimes Indicates it's not always translated grass but it starts off green doesn't it and Then it fades now.
Why is that because the roots in That grass that's on the housetop are exposed to the heat.
They're not in the cold ground and They're exposed to the heat so they die and there's not enough soil there for them to retain water If the grain grass is pulled from the ground, then it doesn't have a root with it Or if it does the roots are exposed on that housetop and the psalmist here is teaching us that these nations Sennacher Conquered were made as grass.
They were made to be like grass on The housetops, but once again, it wasn't because of Sennacher per se It was simply him being used by the Lord to bring it to pass once again.
He was just a hairdryer and These defeated nations were also said to be like look back in your text there at the very end of verse 26 as corn blasted Before it be grown up Now I'm going to read to you from Deuteronomy 28 verse 15 We look at this word blasting here in just a few minutes Deuteronomy 28 15 and This is the premise upon which God would send a blasting He said but it shall come to pass if thou wilt not harken unto the voice of the Lord thy God To observe to do all his commandments in his statutes, which I command thee this day That all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.
So there's the premise they don't Harken they don't listen to the voice of God.
So bad soil no water God's offering the water and they said no we're good Even though the ground is cracking And then there is a long list of things that God said he would do after that So in that same chapter of Deuteronomy 28, I skip down to verse 22 and listen for the word blasting the Lord shall smite thee with a consumption and with a fever and with an inflammation and with an extreme burning and with the sword and with blasting and with mildew and they shall pursue thee until thou perish a Blasting is a blight It's the destruction of a plant before it can bear fruit Its seed has sprung up into a stalk or Sprig as we might call it But it never does what God designed it to do Because of the blasting God sends a blasting and God said he would do that So the people ought not look around and say oh, why is this happening?
It's happening because God told you it would if you did not harken to his word You know, he created the corn with the seed in it, didn't he?
So he knows exactly when to send the blast to keep it from bearing fruit And it's interesting That grass and herbs and corn are all mentioned in this verse that we're studying All three have something in common They can grow Just enough to look promising But then they fade away and I'm gonna tell them I'll say amen to that about corn I've tried it and that's never going to come up my garden again didn't in the first place.
I Got the most beautiful green plant and I watched it grow and I thought well good I'm gonna get a couple years off this and God didn't send a blasting But he may as well have because I I didn't do it right whatever it is but that is Interesting that God created each one of those and he knows exactly when to shut them down before they can produce fruit Mark chapter 4 verses 5 through 6 You know We just read about people who've rejected God's Word in their hearts or heart and you can't plant a seed in Harder stony ground and expect it to bear fruit.
You've got to dig it up You got to wet it down soften it till it do something to it Mark chapter 4 verses 5 through 6 here is where Jesus taught about the sower S-O-W-E-R and What happened to the seed that was sown on the stony ground because there were three kinds of places it was sown on the good ground the stony ground and among the thorns and So here's the stony ground part of it and some that is some of the seed fell on the stony ground Where it had not much earth and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth Now let's just stop right there It said immediately sprang up because it had no depth of earth Now what happens have you when you were in school?
Maybe you did this our teacher had have us take a wet paper towel and Put a little bean or some kind of seed on it And then you could watch it sprout up and if you just left it alone it die wouldn't go anywhere you You just did it to watch it open up and that was pretty neat And then that was about all there was to it and you just threw it in the trash After you went to show and tell with it.
Well if you took that same Seed and you put it in the ground it doesn't immediately spring up.
Why is that?
Because it forms roots first the roots go down and then the plant comes up and So it's exactly the opposite of what happens When you sow a seed on stony ground as Jesus was teaching here And he said it sprang up because it had no depth of earth But when the Sun was up it was scorched and because it had no root it withered away Man, there it is.
Jesus teaching us about agriculture right there.
It had no root It had no good soil.
Did it it was on stony ground?
And it had no root.
It didn't have any foundation it withered away So there you go.
The word was good Because that's what the seed was was the Word of God Jesus explained that parable later on the word was good and The plant sprang up just like the corn in the grass But the Sun scorched it because it had no root and Jesus went on to say what happens to seed sown on stony ground listen there in that same passage in Mark 4 and These are they likewise which are sown on stony ground who now this is people when they have heard the word immediately receive it with gladness and Have no root in themselves and so endure but for a time Afterward when affliction or persecution arises for the word's sake immediately they are offended And so what that affliction and persecution does is reveal that the hearts of those kinds of people are shallow shallow They don't truly believe the word.
They're they're more into the hype if a man can get up here or a woman whoever it is and can talk a blue streak and say a bunch of things that sound really good and an appeal to the flesh then the people who have the stony ground They'll say oh man.
That's good.
Oh yeah, amen.
They'll just say amen the whole time.
They have no idea If what's being said is true or not They'll receive God's Word.
They'll receive somebody else's word too just as quickly But they don't truly believe God's Word.
They just say amen to everything whether it's true or not and there were no doubt Some things that Judah and Israel loved about God's Word Because it was beneficial to them in an earthly sense You remember what Jesus said to many of those who followed him.
He said you follow me because of the fishes in the loaves Boy when persecution arose they were out of there and Eli's wicked sons in fact if you remember back in first Samuel Eli was a priest and he had some wicked sons who were priests and They loved the sacrifices the people bought now see that's something about God's Word.
They love they love those sacrifices But do you know why they love them not because they represented the death of the Lord Jesus Christ and his sacrifice for his people And how it provided for his people?
Salvation they loved those sacrifices because they made themselves fat with the people's offering while leaving the people very little And once again, we learned that a nation that rejects God's Word will be blasted will be as blasted corn and Withering grass and sadly Israel and Judah experience this truth because of their sin God further speaks through Isaiah to Sennacher in verse 27.
Look with me now back in our text in verse 27 He said but I know that abode and I going out and I coming in and I rage against me But I know that abode let's look at that phrase.
I know where you dwell and That's how the word is normally used Instead of the word abode is dwelling or dwell Sennacher had a certain dwelling place and It wasn't limited to the palace where he lived It wasn't his summer house or his vacation home if he had one Although God knew about all those places as well.
He knows everybody's address.
He doesn't need Google Earth to find you No, Sennacher also dwelt in a spiritual place That God knew all about and I believe that's what's in view here when God said I know that I abode And we can learn more about the spiritual concept of a dwelling place or an abode By looking at Exodus chapter 15 verse 17 Exodus 15 17 Where God said to Moses to say to the children of Israel thou shalt bring them in and Plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance in the place Oh Lord Which thou has made for thee to dwell in in the sanctuary?
Oh Lord, which thy hands have established Moses God speaking through Moses Moses speaking to the Lord so that we can hear it and he said Lord You've made a place for you to dwell in Now God can't be contained or confined in a house or in a building or even in a certain place because he's everywhere So it's not talking about even though it was a physical sanctuary That is capitalized that word sanctuary meaning that is a proper noun Everything about the sanctuary the tabernacle was Indicative of the Lord Jesus Christ you want to learn about Jesus you learn about the tabernacle And I mean from the curtain to the salvage to the hooks to everything the Lord Jesus Christ And the word dwell in that verse is the same as the word abode in our text For God to dwell in that sanctuary was for him to dwell among his people in a holy place And get that he dwelt among his people He had a his abode with his people in a holy place And that holy place represented the Lord Jesus Christ in every way Now the sanctuary the building has gone away the tent has gone away So did God's dwelling place go away?
No, he still dwells with his people But it's in a holy person His son Jesus whom the sanctuary represented in the first place And if our abode or our dwelling place is in Jesus, then we are in him and God is in us Jesus said in John chapter 14 verse 20.
Here's your Bible for that what I just said John chapter 14 verse 20 at that day Ye shall know that I am in my father now.
That's Jesus dwelling place I am in my father and ye in me We he is our dwelling place and I in you.
We are his dwelling place.
How about that?
Jesus dwells in God the Father We dwell in Jesus and Jesus dwells in us by his Spirit The one he left to comfort his people when he went to the Father We know his abode We know where he dwells and he knows ours He knows our abode God said the Sennacher by no thy abode Where is it where is uh Where is Sennacher abode where's his spiritual abode well, I'll show you We find a clue in John chapter 12 verse 46 John 12 verse 46 Jesus said I am come a light into the world and whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness Now if the believer does not abide in darkness who does the unbeliever That is the unbelievers abode.
That's his dwelling place is darkness That was Sennacher abode And God knew it well Romans chapter 11 verse 23 Romans chapter 11 verse 23 here Paul was speaking of the unbelieving Jews Praying that they would be saved and here's how he said that he said in they speaking of those unbelieving Jews And they also if they abide not still in unbelief Shall be graphed in for God is able to graph them in again.
He's speaking of a olive tree So the only one who abides in darkness is the one who abides in unbelief That's what we just read When God said I know thy abode He was telling Sennacher I know you abide in unbelief and in darkness God knows the abode of every person he knows the dwelling place the spiritual dwelling place of every person Right now and he's known it before the world were ever created 2nd Timothy 2 19 2nd Timothy 2 19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal the Lord knoweth them that are his and Let everyone that nameth the name of Christ Depart from iniquity.
Did you hear that the Lord knoweth them that are his he knows your abode You don't have to convince God that you're saved.
He already knows if you are and If you're not no amount of convincing is going to change his mind because he knows you're abode John chapter 8 verses 23 through 24 John 8 23 through 24 Jesus speaking and he said unto them This is to these unbelieving Pharisees and he said unto them ye are from beneath I am from above Ye are of this world.
I am not of this world.
I Said therefore unto you that ye shall die in your sins for if you believe not that I am he You shall die in your sins What's another way of saying this?
Jesus said you're abode is in this world It's this world system.
He's talking about which is ruled by the Prince of the power the air the Prince of this world Satan God knows where you dwell and you can't fool him I've known people who've made professions of faith and they had me fooled.
I Thought well, I believe it's real this time But they never fooled God And you and God both know whether your faith in the finished work of here's dear son is real or if you've believed some other gospel which is false and Friend don't try to convince me that you're saved God knows you're abode and I pray your abode is not in darkness and Unbelief but in Jesus God told Sennacherib.
I know thy abode and look back in the text there in verse 27 and thy going out and thy going out Now upon reading several places where this Hebrew word is used I've learned a great truth about these two words going out Let's look at a couple of those passages Genesis chapter 2 verse 10 we're learning about the words going out Genesis chapter 2 verse 10 Bible says and a river went out.
That's the same word of Eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four heads So that phrase went out and the Hebrew word for going out.
It's the same.
It's all the same Now you think about this river that went out of Eden.
I don't know if you've ever noticed this before The river that went out of Eden.
It is apparent based upon The verse I read you a river went out of Eden.
It's apparent that the river had its beginning place or its foundation in Eden From which these other four rivers derived their waters Now let that sink in for a second if you know anything about hydrology About the way water drains.
I'm fascinated by it I just think it's the neatest thing in the world my wife and I have the most sophisticated Pastimes many would not understand it, but after it rains we go look at the creeks Now a lot of people don't understand that but we go look at the creeks we want to see if they're running and how much water's in them and It just gives us great joy to do that.
But if you know much about hydrology what I just read to you from Genesis 2 is the exact opposite of the way water flows on the earth today and that's no surprise at all to me the Brazos River is the second longest river in Texas and the Brazos River empties into the Gulf of Mexico not too far from Houston and It's a wide flowing monster down there.
It is something to behold However, the beginnings of the Brazos River are Far far to the northwest of the Gulf of Mexico in West Texas there is a salt fork of the Brazos a prairie dogtown fork of the Brazos a double mountain fork of the Brazos clear fork of the Brazos and Numerous creeks and draws and gullies that empty into those different tributaries But you know what they all do at some point all of them come together to make one river So the source of the Brazos River is all of the water that comes into these watersheds But the water that came out of Eden did just the opposite you had It was like the Brazos River flowing backwards and splitting up into all these different creeks and rivers That's what it did out of the Garden of Eden the source was the Garden of Eden and in it split into four heads Now I don't know if you've ever noticed that or not, but it was just fascinating to me another passage that teaches us about this phrase going out is in Genesis 8 verse 18 Genesis 8 verse 18 After the floodwaters had abated from off the earth and here's what it said and Noah went forth now That's the same Hebrew word is going out and Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his son's wives with him Now every one of you here everyone who's been born after that flood had Their beginning in Noah who had his beginning in Adam So we had our beginning in Adam if you trace it all the way to the back All the way to the beginning if you're talking about from a human perspective We might all say in this case we came from Noah just as we all came from Adam God knows our going out He knows our foundation.
He knows where we came from And he knew Sennacherib's foundation - he knew his going out as well Now here's the question that we won't be able to finish this today But from where does one go out?
He goes out from the place where he dwells If he dwells in darkness as Sennacherib did then he goes out in darkness He goes out from there not he doesn't leave darkness, but he goes out in darkness That's his foundation his ways are the ways of darkness.
He seeks places of darkness That's where he's comfortable and God knows where Sennacherib's abode is and he knows what Sennacherib is up to and everything Sennacherib does is based on the place where he abides where he dwells and spiritually he abides in darkness so to his works and That which he goes out to do they're all Darkness and we'll stop right there and try to finish up that truth about going out in Just as we come back next week.
Let's pray father.
Thank you for all who came We're so thankful for your word and how it teaches us and for the attention the people paid to it and the hunger they have For it and Lord these are your people and we pray that you've found the teaching of your word acceptable today And most of all that they have been fed and nourished in Jesus name.
We thank you.
Amen
