But just this exact example that we see with Zedekiah applies, flip over to Proverbs 29,
but what was Zedekiah afraid of?
He said, I'm afraid the Jews are going to mock me.
Well think about it, today a lot of people are afraid to do a lot of things because they're
afraid of being made fun of.
They're afraid of standing up and being a Christian openly or maybe taking an unpopular
viewpoint of standing up for biblical Christianity and just the traditional teachings of the
Bible because our society is getting so weird and sinful and they want to fit in at school
or fit in at work and be cool and be accepted of the world.
And so they're afraid to stand up for what's right because they don't want to be mocked.
And Zedekiah says, I don't want them to make fun of me.
You know they made fun of Jesus.
And if you follow Jesus Christ, the Bible says, the disciple is not above his master,
the servant is not above his Lord.
If they called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his
household?
He said, if they hated me, if the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated
you.
And so the Bible tells us to expect people to persecute us and mock us and attack us.