Hello Bible people and thank you again for joining me for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. I'm Pastor Rod. I'm solo still, pastor PJ is still gone, but I thank you for joining me. I'm grateful for your partnership here, and I'm grateful for your company, even though I can't see you or hear you or see you or hear you. Even though I can't see you or hear you, I'm still thankful that you're here and you're with me. I appreciate it greatly. A couple things on the calendar that I'd love to point your attention to. Number one, we have a Prosper Pride in the Sky event coming up. We would love for your help on that. We need you to help greet people, pass out tchotchkes and things like that, and help us to make connections with people in the community. What a great opportunity, and as a bonus, prosper's Pride in the Sky event is top-notch. I've seen several firework shows, but their show is pretty clutch. I don't think you're gonna regret that. I think you'll enjoy seeing that. So another benefit on top of the benefit of being with your church and doing cool things is to get to see a really good firework show. Secondly, we have an evangelism outreach event. This weekend, all we're having you do is knock on doors and hand out invitations, and if the door opens to something more than an invitation to our church, we'd love for you to step on through it. You won't be alone. You don't need to think that you have to preach a sermon on a street corner or anything like that. We'll have people with you. It'll be an easy event, more or less, and we'd love for you to help us spread the word about what our church is doing. I. And especially because we're in a new location, lots of people might know about us and maybe know about us from our Frisco campus launch, but now we wanna tell people and prosper, Hey, we're in your backyard. We'd love to have you join us. So if you can do either one of those events or both, go to compass n tx.org, sign up for those events, let us know that you can do it. We would love to have you join us for both of those things. Okay, let's jump into the text First King 16 second Chronicles chapter 17. One King 16 is gonna be all about the Northern Kingdom Kings. In fact, we're ending Bea's Reign and one King 16, he starts in chapter 15. But here we find out that Jehu, the son of Hanani, comes out against Beha saying, here's what happened. I exalted you and yet you walked in the sins of Jira bone and therefore. Verse three, I will utterly sweep away Beha and his house. This is a complete annihilation of his line. In fact, he says, I'll make your house like the house of Rabbo, the son of Atch. And if you remember that, his line was eliminated as well. And so Beha receives much of the same punishment that Rabbo gets because he has much of the same sins. In verse four, you find out that he's not even gonna get a proper burial. It's gonna be a dishonorable discharge, as it were. And that's the end of his reign, at least for now. You'll see more about his lineage in just a few moments. Eah reigns in Israel in verses eight through 14. Eah is a son of bean, and so for now, the prophecy has not yet come to pass. Bean and Eah comprised the next dynasty, and this is it. This is gonna be the end of them, but during his reign, Ziri, his commander. Commander of half his chariots that is conspires against him. So he only gets two years in before one of his highest ranking officials turns against him and he does exactly what God prophesies would happen. He struck down all the house of Beha and he did not leave him a single male of his relatives and get this or his friends in verse 11, which tells us that this was not just an elimination of his family members, but even those who might be loyal to him, his friends were also eliminated. And so Ziri, even though he's not trying to obey the word of the Lord, ends up fulfilling exactly what the Lord says. This is the judgment on beha and elah for their sin against the Lord. And so there's Bea's line. His line is now over. In fact, let me just take a quick moment here. I'm sure you've read some of these phrases and I just wanna be sure to point out to you what they're not. Sometimes you'll see that these things refer to other books that are not part of the Bible. For instance, verse 14. Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? And you might think, oh yeah, I have Chronicles. Lemme just turn over to them, see what they say about that. But it's not the same thing. The Chronicles that we have, those books have nothing to do with the Northern Kings. And so this is a different book. Does that mean that we're missing scripture? No, it doesn't. These are different books. These are just different books. They're books in their records that were kept at their time for their people. And we no longer have those. In fact, those records are not scripture, so they're not meant to be part of the books that we have. So when you see references to other books, it might be that it's a reference to something else you've read, but likely it's not. Books of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel is not the same thing as the Book of Chronicles that we have in our Bible. I just wanted to make that clear so that you're not confused about what you see there. Chronicles in our Old Testament only deals with Judah, David, and Judah's Kings. Nothing to do with Northern Kings. Clear. Okay. Now we have Ziri and Ziri wins for the shortest reign ever. His reign is only seven days, so Ziri, as you recall here, he's the commander of half the chariots. He takes out Eila and he installs himself as king, but he only lasts seven days because there's a more popular man with the people. And that's Omri. When they hear that Eila has been taken out, the men of his company say, Omri should be king. He's the man, he's the leader, he's great at this. And when you have the military man with all the people's approval, it's gonna be hard to resist that. And that's exactly what takes place. Ziri doesn't stand a chance. And so instead of fighting back, he takes himself out and he does so in an inglorious way. Verse 19 says, because of the sins that he committed doing evil, this is essentially God's judgment upon him, even though he himself is the medium or the agent of God's judgment. In that case, Omri's reign lasts a little longer. His reign is gonna be 12 years. But before he actually is installed, there's this man by the name of Timney, the son of Gith, and we know nothing about Timney except that he was a contender for kingship. Half people, half of the people favored his kingship or the other half favored Omri. But Omri won because again, he's got the military might behind him. It'd be really hard to resist that when you've got a man who's popular in that particular way. Omri reigned over Israel and he reed for 12 years. Six, he reigned in tears up, and the other six, he's gonna reign from the place called Samaria. He buys his plot of land from shimmer for two talents of silver, and he begins to build Samaria as the new capital of the northern kingdom. In fact, it's gonna stick. God's gonna refer to Samaria often in reference to the whole of Israel. So Samaria's gonna stick, and in fact, Ahab's gonna build his home base there. In addition to building a house for Baal, building some idols for Baal in this place. But before Omri steps off the scene, it says in verse 25, he did evil in the sight of the Lord and get this more evil than all who were before him. Now, that's not a lot of people. But to say that he did more evil than Jira, BOEM is substantial. He's saying Jira Baum did evil, but man, he did even more than Jira boem. So there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5 people before him. If you include Ziri, who only ruled for seven days, but God says did more evil than those before him. Omri steps off the scene and installs his son Ahab. And so Omri began a new dynasty and we're gonna have four kings in the line of Omri, Ahab, ahh, Isaiah and Jura. Ahab is the one that you're probably gonna be most familiar with 'cause he gets a lot of ink, but Omri hands it off to his son Ahab. We only get the introduction of his kingship here. And it says, in the 38th year of Asa, king and Judah Ahab, the son of Omri, began to reign over Israel and get this verse 30. Ahab, the son of Amery did evil in the side of the Lord more than all who were before him, as if it were a light thing to walk in that way. So Dad wins the prize for most evil, and then son steps in and says, I'll show you Dad I'll step up and do one more for you. He's the most evil in the line of the tribe of. In the line of the Northern Kingdom thus far. And you have some of the information here about why God sees it that way. He takes a wife called Jezebel. She's infamous for some of her actions. She's a daughter of a Pagan, and not only that, she brings some of her paganism with her. She brings Baal worship to the floor. And then not only that, Ahab endorses and reinforces Baal worship. He makes shrines, he puts a, he creates a house of Baal in Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom. And you have the beginning of a very bad reign. And in fact, it's not just a bad reign, it's a long reign. Ahab reigns for 22 years, so this is not gonna be a short period of time, but we're gonna get introduced to a few cool characters along the way. But that's it for the Northern Kingdom for now. That was a packed chapter. First Kings Chapter 16, second Chronicles 17. We get introduced to another king of Judah. His name is Phat. He's gonna reign for 25 years, so it's not as long as his dad's, which was 41 years. But there's also probably some overlap here. Phat probably reigns, at least in a cogency setting for three years. Before his father exits the scene in part because of his foot disease. So there's probably a co regency when you're calculating his rulership. Not that it makes a big difference for you, but just so you know, Joshh Apha has probably been leading behind the scenes in a co regency way before he's installed formally as the sole authority after his dad passes. Notably in verse three, the Lord is with jeh of that because he walked. In the earlier ways of his father David. So Phat is a good king. We already see that on the front end. God approves of his rulership and he sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, not according to the practices of Israel. Notice that there's a contrast here between Judahs followership of the Lord and Israel's not followership. They're doing their own thing entirely. Verse six says, he was courageous in the ways of the Lord. He is someone who takes the Lord at his word and is unafraid to stand upon it. And I love this because in verses seven through nine, you see his love for the word and his affection for it. He's so behind it that he takes his own officials and he sends them throughout the cities of Judah to teach. I love this. He sends them out to teach. This is what the people need. He thinks if they're gonna be faithful to the Lord, they have to know the Lord. And that's incredibly wise and so simple that we sometimes miss it if our kids are gonna follow the Lord. If people in our church are gonna follow the Lord, they have to know the Lord. They have to know what he demands, know what he wants. Verse nine says, and they taught in Judah, having the book of the law of the Lord with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people. What a profound and powerful truth. Teaching helps us to have our hearts committed to. The Lord doesn't guarantee it. We know that head knowledge doesn't automatically lead to heart knowledge, but heart knowledge needs the head knowledge. It's impossible to love the Lord without knowing what his word says. You can love a vague conception of God, but what we really need to know God is his word. And so because Jehoshaphat does these things because he's committed to the Lord and his word, verse 12 says, Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. God is gonna bless his reign. We're gonna read a lot more about him soon, but you'll notice the key to his success. Is the word of the Lord, and I think that's gonna be true for you, which is why I'm so excited that you're here studying with me and the word of the Lord. Now, this actually isn't quite studying, we're just doing a survey. If we were studying this, we'd be a lot slower, take a lot longer of a podcast, that's for sure. But this is a great first start. Getting acclimated and accustomed to all of what scripture says is so important. In fact, one of my favorite sayings is it takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian. You can't have a mature whole disciple who loves the Lord without having a holistic understanding of all that the Lord has revealed about himself. And that just takes you faithfully opening your Bible even to the parts that are less interesting to you and saying, what do you want me to see about yourself, Lord? And in these chapters we're seeing, God wants humility. He wants wholeheartedness. He wants someone who holds close to the Word. And as we do these things, God will bless us again. The blessings are gonna look different. Under the new covenant, we have superior blessings. We don't only get physical things, although a lot of us do have a lot of material blessings, but the primary blessings are the knowledge of the Lord, of knowing him, loving him, and enjoying him throughout all your life. That is a far better blessing than anything money can provide. All right. That's all I have for you today. Thank you so much for joining me, and thank you, by the way, forgot to mention this. Thank you for praying for me. If you prayed for my health, I'm tremendously grateful to you. I need that. Got a busy week ahead, a packed week ahead. A lot of different things that are vying from my attention and time and my fellow co-labor is off in The Bahamas or California, one of the two. And he's getting his suntan on, which is great. I love that he's doing that, but I'm feeling it here. So please come back soon. Thank you so much for praying for me. Let's pray together. Now, God help us to learn from all of these men that we're reading about. It's hard sometimes to really put ourselves in their sandals because we're so far removed from their timeframe. But insofar as we can derive principles from their lives, please teach us and we will be taught, ex admonish us through their life and their leadership. I. Show us how to live differently and how to live faithfully. Help us Lord, to be the kind of people who read your word. We want to be whole Christians who read your whole Bible. We need to be taught and just like Jeh Apha sent people out to teach people the book. Help us to be students of the book who learn from valuable. Wise resources who learn from validated resources, not just someone who has an Instagram channel or some kind of influencer Lord, but from people that can help us truly understand your word. We wanna be good students, and Lord, we know that you're a good teacher, so please give us the grace to continue learning and growing in our leadership. We ask all us in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you so much for joining me. It's an honor to serve you in this way, and I hope that you'll let me do it again for you tomorrow. God willing, I'll see you then.

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