The song number 162, we can begin this evening's service by singing song number 162, Tchaikov
The song number 162
Tchaikov
The song number 162, we can begin this evening's service by singing song number 162, Tchaikov
The song number 162, Tchaikov
You can follow along with me as I read from 2 Kings chapter number 12 tonight.
It's going to be 2 Kings chapter number 12.
2 Kings chapter number 12, beginning in verse 1, the Bible reads,
And the priest consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bore a hole in the lid of it, and set it before them that did the work,
that had the oversight of the house of the Lord.
And they laid it out to the carpenters and the builders, and that wrought upon the house of the Lord.
And to masons and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and huge stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord.
And for all that was delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen, for they dealt faithfully.
The trespass money and the sin money was not brought into the house of the Lord, it was the priests.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it, and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
And Jehoash the king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah,
his father's kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord.
And the king, Jozakar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer,
his servants smote him and he died, and they buried him with his father in the city of David,
and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
Let's go ahead and have a word of prayer.
Dear Lord, again, thank you again for the time that we have to come together in your house.
I pray that you would help me tonight.
Lord, I know anything that I say that will help will be because, Lord, you have given it to me.
Lord, I pray that your word would be a blessing tonight.
The path of Athaliah.
Athaliah came and she destroyed all the seed royal, and Jehoash was hidden away in the house of the Lord.
And that's an important detail, and we'll see more about that a little bit later.
Laodicea passes off the scene that Jehoash, actually, he gets given over to idolatry
and ends up becoming a very wicked man at the end of his reign.
But we'll get into that. I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit.
But that's kind of a little bit of a foretelling there, you know, in verse 2.
That he did right in the sight of the Lord all the days wherein Jehoiada the priest
were to kind of hold his hand.
It says in verse 3, but the high priests were not healed.
But if you read that there, you would understand why there's breaches in the house of the Lord.
It's because the wicked sons of Athaliah actually broke up the house of God.
They actually vandalized it. They destroyed it. They damaged the house of the Lord.
That's recorded in 2 Chronicles 24.
That's not why I'm having you go there, but that is there.
So, kind of, why is he making those repairs to begin with?
Well, it's because of those that came before him, had let it fall into neglect, and even done damage to it.
No one's taken the time to build it up.
So, we're reading about him in the beginning, you know, Jehoash, obviously, his heart's in the right place.
He wants to see God's house built back up. He wants to see it restored.
He wants there to be worship. And, of course, that happens.
So long as Jehoiada is around, nothing happens.
And you kind of scratch your head and wonder exactly why it wasn't done.
Was it that the priests were taking the money and keeping it themselves?
Or was it that they were just not doing what they were told?
I tend to think it was the latter.
That they just weren't performing the work because they weren't going out and getting the money to perform the work.
It says, then, King Jehoash, verse 7, I'm still in 2 Kings 12,
called for Jehoiada the priests and the other priests and said to them,
Why refrain out the breaches of the house?
Now, therefore, receive no more money of your acquaintance,
but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
The priests consented to receive no more money of the people,
neither to repair the breaches of the house.
So when they're consenting, I think they're consenting one with another.
They're just kind of agreeing among the priests like,
Well, we won't receive any money and we won't make any repairs either.
It says in verse 9, But Jehoiada the priest took a chest
and bore a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar.
On the right-hand side is one cometh into the house of the Lord.
And the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
Now, I want to take a minute and just explain something here.
And if you've been, you know, probably anyone that's kind of been in Baptist churches,
especially old life, kind of probably knows where I'm going with this.
In fact, I was talking to somebody about this yesterday
and we were talking about 2 Kings 12 just briefly.
And, you know, this was instantly kind of where this went,
this idea of, you know, this doctrine that's kind of taught out there
that, you know, it's more appropriate to have a chest to receive the offering than to take the offering.
But some people out there do make an issue out of it.
And they kind of wear it like some kind of badge that they don't have offering plates,
that they don't have, like we do here, right?
We take up the offering, you know, one of the men in the church grabs the plate
and goes down and anybody that wants to give their tithe just puts it in the plate.
Some people in Baptist churches would frown upon that.
And they would say, no, that's not the way you're supposed to do it.
You should have a box in the back with a hole in it for people to put their tithe in there.
And the church that I went to previously before coming to Faithful Word, that's what they did.
And that was the first church, let alone Baptist church, that I even bet a part of.
Well, that's why we do it because that's what, you know, King Jehoash did in 2 Kings.
But, you know, King Jehoash isn't really somebody we want to model ourselves after.
You know, we'll see that here in 2 Chronicles 24.
He's not exactly a guy who's in whose footsteps you want to follow.
But people who kind of hold to this, here's the problem with that.
Whether you're using a box or whether you're using a plate, it's still compulsory.
You're still compelling people to tithe, right?
Now what, you know, that compulsory, I really like that term, tithe.
You know, we don't go over the roles and go, okay, who's been showing up?
You know, look at, you know, we write down the name, we write down whatever they gave
and then just promptly forget, oh, we're going to like revoke your membership here.
You know, you're not going to have certain privileges.
You know, your tithe, you know, it's compulsory because it's something that you do because God commands it.
I mean, God's the one that's demanding you tithe, right?
So what does the modality matter?
How does that matter how you express that, whether you do it by putting it in a plate or putting it in a box?
You know, and people, I know it's silly, but these are the type of things, silly things that people get hung up on sometimes.
They get hung up on these silly things and they want to make a big deal out of nothing.
You know, they want to make a big deal out of whether it's an offering plate or, you know, a box.
And it's kind of foolish really because either way, you know, it's compulsory because of the fact that we're saying you should be tithing.
Just how about the fact that the Bible says, you know, to bring your tithe into the storehouse?
How about that God commands that we tithe?
How about that we're supposed to give a tenth of all our increase, son of the Lord?
I mean, that sounds like whether or not you put it in a plate or a box, it sounds like God is, you know, compelling you to tithe.
So what does it matter how you take up the tithe?
You know, and where is the new tithe? Go ahead and do that.
You know, but people get really, you know, weird about tithing, like how they do it square.
And they would like literally like hold it down below the chair.
And I had to literally like stoop down so they could, so they could like secretly put it in there.
You know, and then I had to explain like, look, there's nobody out here, you know, don't post it on YouTube and try to get a million hits when you go give some bum five grand or whatever.
That's a whole other sermon, right?
But that's not tithing. You know, tithing is something that is expected and something that's, you know, that God compels us to do.
You know, so we don't have to be secretive about it.
You know, I don't care if you stood up. It's not a cash machine.
It's not a, you know, a cash register.
You know, it's a tithe plate, right?
But look, if people wanted to fold every bill into a paper airplane and sail it across the room and let everyone, just so everyone knew their tithing, you know, they would be poor.
You know, it's probably not the best behavior, you know, probably say something, but it wouldn't because I wouldn't, you know, frown upon that because, you know, no one should know you're doing that.
You know, no, I mean, someone knows you're tithing instead of them go out onto the cities of Judah and gather up Israel money to repair the house of God from year to year.
So what's really going on, we get a little more detail here at Second Chronicles 24, is that he was actually sending the priest out into the country to go around and collect the tithes from the people, tithes from the people, okay?
What rather should have happened is God had given their tithes there.
The people were glad to do it.
If you go on and read Second Chronicles 24, that they rejoiced to go into the house of God and put their tithes in there.
So, you know, the application is this, it doesn't matter, you know, whether we put it in a plate or whether we put it in a box, as long as we're coming to church to give God what's his, you know, and it is his.
Look, we don't preach and you say, oh great, the preacher's going off about money.
Like, I think basic doctrine, anybody that's come within 10 feet of church, you're supposed to tithe.
Anyone that's even, you know, skimmed over their Bible or knows anything about Christianity knows that.
And just look at a few passages on it, because this is an issue that people like to use to excuse themselves from church.
Obviously that preacher teaches that all he wants is my money.
Look, we're not interested in your money. Are there preachers out there that want your money? Sure.
You know, but typically the preacher that wants your money doesn't preach like we preach.
It's kind of preaching that brings, have you noticed?
It doesn't bring in a big crowd, it doesn't bring in a lot of money.
You know, it's the, you know, obviously it is a warning.
There's a warning given to preachers to not, you know, go after filthy lucre, to not be greedy of filthy lucre,
to not preach lies for covetous, covetous sake, you know, that they should, you know, not get obsessed with money.
And obviously guys do that. Let me just put your heart at rest here.
This isn't that place. We're not interested in your money.
But you know, it is, it's in the Bible and here we are in second Kings chapter number 12,
and they're talking about the tithes, they're talking about the offerings, they're putting out this chest.
So we're going to talk about it.
It says there in first Corinthians chapter 16 verse one,
Now concerning the collection of the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store,
as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
And again, they'll talk, they'll people, the box people will turn to this and say, ha, see, no gatherings when I come.
Yeah, no gatherings when I come, meaning that it's going to already have been gathered, right?
That it's already, the offering is already there.
He's not saying that you shouldn't have a gathering, that you shouldn't take up an offering.
He's just saying, just make sure it's ready when I get there.
Lay up in store week by week, so that when I get there, the offering for the other saints is ready to go,
so that we don't have to wait on people to get it together.
He's saying, prepare yourself, right?
So there is really no specific New Testament example of by what means we are to take up the offering.
And this is, you know, one of the great things about the local New Testament church,
is that, you know, we have some guidelines, we have some principles, we have doctrines, we have things,
obviously, that we have to hold to, that we have a line doctrinally that we have to tow.
But as far as how we operate the church, you know, how we conduct a service, we have liberty in that area.
You know, that's why you go to some churches, they might do something another church doesn't do.
They might do their song service differently, they might conduct their service in a different order,
they might even have different things that they do.
You know, you're going to go from Baptist church to Baptist church,
and you'll see differences in how people conduct services.
Well, which one's right? Well, they all are.
They all are, because the New Testament isn't like, you know, explicitly saying,
okay, when you show up, sing two songs, then pray, and then have another song,
and then have somebody read the scripture while the offering is being taken up,
and then get into the pre- it doesn't say that, you say, why do you do that?
Because that's how we like to do it.
I like this method, that it's not, you know, 45 minutes of song singing.
I mean, I love the hymns, you know, but I like to participate in them.
You know, but after three or four songs, you're kind of, it's like, we're all getting a little hoarse.
You know, I like that I don't sit there, have to sit there for 45 minutes of specials and choirs and everything else.
Some people might like that.
You know, and I've looked at other, I've watched other Baptist churches and how they conduct their services,
and I've literally timed it, and it's like 45 minutes of a song service,
and then another however long of preaching.
I mean, that's, I like the way we do it, because we get in and we get it done, right?
Because we all still have, you know, it's a weeknight, we got to go somewhere,
we got to get up tomorrow and get to work, we got things to do.
Let's get to church, let's get the preaching in, let's get the offering taken,
let's worship God, and let's all worship God together, and let's move along.
Why do you do it that way? Because we can, because that's how we like to do it.
Because, you know, that's how we prefer to do it here.
Is it right or wrong? It's just how we do it, right?
Now, if some other church wants to do things that way, that's fine.
They can go ahead and do it. I'm not saying they're wrong.
I'm just saying that's not how I'd prefer to do it.
I mean, after 45 minutes, I'd be just rolling.
You know, I'd be just, my eyes would be going back in my head,
sitting through a service like that. But you know what? That's just me.
That's just how I am.
So this is one of the great things about the New Testament church.
God gives us liberty. You want to use a box? Go ahead.
You want to use plates? Fine.
You know, you want to wad it up in a ball,
and you want to get one of those big fan machines that you blow the money around,
and we can all, you know, have the guy collect the offering,
like, you ever seen those, blow the money,
and he's got to hold his shirt out and catch it and see how much he can get.
You know, we can do that, you know.
Obviously not. We're not going to turn into a circus in here.
But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how we take it up.
As long as things are done what? Decently and in order.
Okay?
I'm just being a little silly up here tonight.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 9.
1 Corinthians chapter number 9.
What we can learn from this story tonight about tithing,
a positive thing, is that, you know,
tithing is something that is supposed to take place in the house of God.
You know, that's one of the reasons we should go to church once a week,
is to pay the tithe, because, you know, we're supposed to lay that up week by week, right?
We're supposed to give that tenth, you know, week by week.
You know, that would probably, if we just obeyed that one commandment,
we'd be in church.
You know, we'd show up to church at least once a week to obey that commandment.
You say, well, you know, preachers shouldn't get paid.
Right?
And again, as I started out on this little rant that I'm going off right now,
that's what some people will do with tithing.
They'll take a contrary, you know, position on tithing to excuse themselves from church.
And they'll say, well, the preachers shouldn't be paid.
You know, I can't go to that church because, you know, the preacher gets paid.
Well, the preacher getting paid is biblical, folks.
1 Corinthians chapter 9, look at verse 1.
He says, Am I not an apostle?
Am I not free?
Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord?
Are you not my work in the Lord?
If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you,
for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.
Mine answer to them that do examine me is this.
Have we not power to eat and drink?
He's saying, us the apostles.
Paul, Barnabas, Cephas, he's saying, look, do we not have power to eat and drink?
Don't we get to, you know, don't we get to take care of our basic necessities?
Don't we get to, you know, put a roof over our heads?
He said, have we not power to eat and drink?
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, a sister in the Lord?
Obviously, he's referring to there.
He's saying, don't we have the ability, you know, take that to the Catholic Church.
You know, here's your apostle Paul talking about, you know, it goes on and says,
have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as the other apostles,
and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas.
That's Peter, right?
Their first pope.
Well, the Bible says right here that he had a wife, so there you go.
So much for that doctrine.
He's saying, don't we, guess what, a wife is expensive.
You know, a wife, you know, a wife is a, is a, is a, it's an investment.
Let me make sure I say that correctly.
Okay, it's a very wise investment.
All right.
But, you know, having a family is your greatest expense.
You know, you know, first comes love, then comes marriage,
then comes the babies and the baby carriages, right?
Potentially.
And those little rugrats are expensive.
You gotta clothe them, you gotta feed them, you gotta shelter them,
you gotta educate them, all these things, right?
That all takes money.
That's what Paul's getting at here.
He's saying, look, don't we have a right to get married and have wife,
and have a wife and kids, as well as other apostles?
Can't we do that just like the other apostles are doing right now?
And as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas, just like Peter?
We know Peter had a wife.
Or I only in Barnabas have we not power to forbear working, okay?
Now, what does he mean by that when he says in verse 6,
have we not power to forbear working?
Is he saying that the apostles had the right to just sit around all day in a hammock
with their feet up, you know, sipping on a cool beverage in the shade
while everybody else goes out and works hard?
No, he's saying have we not power to forbear working in the sense that
have we not power to forbear a, you know, a secular job
to go out there and earn our income out in the world?
We know that Paul was a tent maker, but he's saying, look,
we have the power to forbear working and to use, what,
the tithes that come into the church to support us.
That's why it says there in verse 7,
who go with the warfare at any time at his own charges?
You know, when you sign up for the military, you know,
they don't expect you to pay for the uniform and the ammunition and the gun
and get yourself to the war, like they pay for all that, right?
Who go with the warfare at any time at his own charges?
You enlist, you know, they're going to pay you
and take care of you to get the work out of you that they want.
Who planted the vineyard needing out the fruit thereof?
You know, if you planted a vineyard, of course you'd expect that to nourish you.
You know, if a guy's going to build a church and labor in that church
and preach that church and grow that church and minister to that church,
you know, that's kind of his vineyard.
Of course he's going to eat the fruit thereof.
You know, he's going to partake of the tithes that come in.
That's his reward.
As it says in 1 Timothy 5,
that the laborer is worthy of his reward, right?
And that you shall not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn, okay?
As it says here again in verse 9,
Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn,
doth God take care for oxen?
Is that why God wrote that in the law,
because he's just so concerned about wildlife and cattle?
Or sayeth he all it together for our sakes?
For our sakes no doubt this is written,
that he that ploweth should ploweth in hope,
and he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope,
saying the guy that's putting in the work
should be able to partake of the fruits of that labor.
And then he kind of goes on,
and he kind of makes this point here in verse 11
about how carnal it is to get hung up about tithing.
And what you'll find about people who get hung up about tithing,
or that get overly concerned about, you know,
what the preacher's pulling down, or whatever,
is that they tend to be carnal people.
It's carnal people that get hung up on things like money, okay?
He goes on in verse 11,
If we have sown unto you spiritual things,
is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
He's like, look, if we're preaching the word of God,
if we're teaching you, instructing you the word of God,
if we're giving you a place to worship God and to serve God,
if we are, you know, investing of ourselves into that ministry,
is it really that big a deal if we collect a paycheck
so that we can feed our family?
It's really not that big of a deal.
And look, this doesn't mean that pastors have to be paid.
It just means that they can be if they want to,
if it's possible.
If they want to be paid, it's perfectly biblical.
There's nothing wrong with it.
If others be part of this partake over you,
or not we rather,
you know, people have no problem
just letting the government take, you know,
20, 30% right out of their paycheck without even asking,
you know, and I don't, as far as I know,
there is no law written anywhere in any book
that says they have the right to do that.
They just do it, right?
You know, there's a whole documentary
that Aaron Russo did about that many years ago.
I suggest you look it up on your own time, right?
But we have a book that actually tells us,
hey, you should be tithing.
You should be doing that.
You know, but people, they won't bat an eye
at somebody else taking a big chunk out of there,
but oh, oh, oh, if God asks for 10%
of what's already his,
people get all, you know,
they just get all hair-lipped and upset.
Not everyone, but you know, people get so,
and people that get hung up about it are carnal.
And you know, this is how it's explained to me
when it came to tithing.
You know, I was, I don't think I said anything negative,
but somebody was expressing something,
somebody had said negative about, oh man, 10%.
It's like, well, it's all God's.
God's, how about this?
God's letting you keep 90.
Think about it that way.
God could have said, give me 90%,
and you keep 10, right?
Then we would probably have maybe a little bit more
of a reason to feel like this isn't fair, right?
But God's asking for 10%,
and it's great that it's a tithe, you know,
it's a 10th, it's a percentage.
It's not a flat rate.
You say, I can't afford to tithe
because I don't have very much income.
Well, if you can't, if you don't have much income,
then your tithe isn't that much either.
I only make 10 bucks a week.
Well, then you only gotta tithe a dollar.
I only make 100 bucks a week.
Well, then you only gotta tithe 10 bucks.
You know, it's, you know,
that's the wisdom of God right there.
Look at verse 13, he says,
do you not know that they which minister about holy things
live of the things of the temple?
So he's referring back to the Levitical priesthood.
And people, you know, these anti-tithers will make it,
they'll say, oh, well, yeah, but the Levites,
they just lived off of, you know,
the meats and the vegetables.
They just lived off the literal food
that was brought in there.
But what are we reading about in 2 Kings?
Money, literal physical money
that was being brought into the temple.
And they'll sit there and say, oh, yeah,
but they didn't bring money into the house of God.
It's like, what are you talking about?
And that's what they're going out and collecting is money.
They're bringing in literal, you know,
currency into the house of God
and they're taking tithes of it.
Look at verse 14.
Even so hath the Lord ordained
that they which preach the gospel
should live of the gospel.
You know, the people that are gonna give themselves
to full-time ministry,
to give themselves to full-time Christian service
to go into the ministry as their occupation
should be paid like any other job.
I don't want to go on and on about it,
although I already kind of did,
but, you know, it's there.
We're in that book.
We're in that chapter.
It's a point that's to be made
is that, you know,
God is instructing us in the New Testament
to look to the Old Testament
as an example of, you know,
those that are ministering,
eating of the fruit of their ministry, right?
Just like the Levites back then,
even so now they that preach the gospel
should live of the gospel.
That's what he's referring back to.
It doesn't matter how the tithes come in.
People get all hung up about,
is it a plate? Is it a box?
It doesn't matter.
It's pointless.
It needs to be done in the house of God.
That's what we're getting at
in this chapter tonight.
There's some other things too.
Let's move on here in the story.
Let's go to verse 10 of 2 Kings,
chapter number 12.
So he makes this box.
They put it on the right side of the altar.
People are putting the money in.
And then it says in verse 10,
and it was so that when they saw
that there was much money in the chest,
that the king's scribe and the high priest
came up and they put it up in bags
and told the money that was found
in the house of the Lord.
Now when it says that they told the money,
it means that they told it like they counted it.
Kind of told or tell,
like a bank teller.
What does a bank teller do?
You know, they count, right?
You tell it.
It means you're counting it.
That's another use of that word.
So when it's saying that they told the money,
it means they counted.
Now notice that they had multiple people
counting this money.
They had the king's scribe, right,
and the high priest,
and they put it up in bags,
and they told the money
that was found in the house of the Lord.
So they're keeping careful account
of what's coming in.
And that's a very important thing.
You know, you got,
that's, failing to do that is fraud.
You know, that you're opening yourself up.
And it's so funny to me
because I've heard these same guys
these same bozos that insist
that you have to have a box
and anything else is just, you know,
is sinful, borderline sinful.
And yet these same bozos,
I've seen them, you know,
team up with a guy who couldn't figure out
that you should count the offering.
You know, that you should,
that you don't need to count the offering
after it's been taken.
I mean, wouldn't you guys get a little suspect
if I just said,
hey, we're not counting that.
Just trust me.
You know, I'm just gonna take the money home myself
and count it later on my own.
That's a little suspect, right?
I mean, that's why we do it
the way that we do it.
That's why the money sits out here
in the open in front of everybody
the entire time until it gets counted
up here in front of everybody.
And look, if other churches want to have people
go and count it during the service,
that's great too.
You know, if we had more people,
I'd probably do that.
You know, if we could rotate guys
in and out from going,
going and get it counted
while the preaching's going on.
Great.
We just do it that way
because that's what's working for us right now.
You know, so why?
Because we're all accountable.
Okay?
So there's another,
it's just kind of ironic to me
that the pro-chest only people,
you know, are also teaming up
with other people,
Adam Fanon,
who can't figure this out.
That you're supposed to count the offering
when it's taken up.
Like, go back and read that chapter again
and pay a little bit more attention
to these other details.
Where was I?
Verse 11.
And they gave the money,
being told, meaning it was counted,
into the hands of them
that did the work
and had the oversight of the house,
and they laid it out to the carpenters
and builders and wrought the house,
wrought upon the house of the Lord,
and to mason and hewers of stone
to buy timber and hew to repair
the breaches of the house of the Lord,
and for all that was laid out
for the house to repair it.
Howbeit, verse 13,
there was not made for the house of the Lord
bowls of silver, snuffers,
basins, trumpets,
any vessels of gold or silver
of the money that was brought
into the house of the Lord,
but they gave that to the workmen
and repaired therewith
the house of the Lord.
Now, verse 13,
you might run into,
if you get to 2 Chronicles 24
in your Bible reading,
you might notice it seems like
there might be a contradiction there
because in 2 Chronicles 24,
it does say that they actually did build,
they did make these instruments.
And it's saying this here
that they,
you notice there in verse 13,
Howbeit, there was not made
for the house of the Lord
bowls of silver, snuffers,
basins, trumpets,
etc.,
of the money that was brought
into the house of the Lord.
But when you get to 2 Chronicles 24,
hopefully you're still there,
keep something there all night.
Verse 11, it says,
Now it came to pass
that at what time the chest
was brought in the king's office
by the hands of the Levites.
They emptied it out,
they carried it to its place again.
And it says in verse 12,
And the king and Jehoiada
gave it to such as did the work
of the service of the house of the Lord,
and hired masons and carpenters
to repair the house of the Lord,
and also as such as
wrought iron and brass
to mend the house of the Lord,
so the workmen wrought,
so it's just like it's describing it
in 2 Kings 12.
They're giving it to all these
tradesmen to work their craft.
They're giving this money.
Verse 13, and it says,
So the workmen wrought,
and the work was perfected,
meaning completed by them,
and they set the house of God
in his state and strengthened it.
Now look at verse 14,
And when they had finished it,
they brought the rest of the money
before the king,
and Jehoiada,
whereof were made vessels
for the house of the Lord,
even vessels to minister,
to offer withal,
spoons and vessels
of gold and silver,
and they offered burnt offerings
to the house of the Lord.
So when you get to
2 Chronicles 24,
it says, actually,
they did make it, okay?
But what I think it's,
what are you saying?
Is that a contradiction?
No, I don't think it is.
I think what it's getting at
is that it's,
what it's saying is that
the work of God for the house
came first,
that you had to have
the temple first, right?
And it's showing us
that the emphasis
is on the house of God first.
And I believe that
he does this this way
because there's an application
to be made, all right?
So it's saying, hey,
the work is done, right?
When they finished it,
when these craftsmen
finished everything
that they needed to do,
you know, strengthening,
setting the house of the Lord
in its place,
repairing the breaches,
then they went and made
these instruments of gold
and silver for the,
for the house of the Lord.
Because you have to
think about it just logically.
What good are all these
vessels if there isn't
a safe place to keep them,
if there's breaches
in the house?
What good is it
if you can't go into
the house of God
to worship at all anyway,
if it's unsafe
or people don't want
to go there
or it's just not fit
to have people in it?
What's the point of
putting these vessels
in there then, right?
You have to have
the house of God first.
Then you put the vessels
in it, right?
You know,
an application is this,
if you go to
Hebrews chapter number 10,
just like what good
is the vessel
without the temple,
you know, what good
is the Christian
who is a vessel, right?
We have this treasure
and earthen vessel,
the Bible says.
You know, what good is,
no, but the temple
is broken down, right?
It's useless.
You'd probably melt
that stuff down
and give it to a guy
to get that repair,
those repairs made
so that you could
actually go there
and worship God.
It's the same with us.
We're this beautiful,
ornate, this new creature
that's been made in Christ,
but what good are we
if we're not in church?
We're no good.
What are we good for
in Christ?
And this is important
because people get this idea
like, oh, I could serve God
just as much
without the local church.
You know, maybe you can,
but if I were a betting man,
I'd put my money on
you won't because that's
what I've seen repeatedly.
I haven't seen it
to the context
that doesn't serve God more.
They serve God less,
if at all.
So why do you preach
about going to church
so much?
Because it's that important.
Because being in church
is important.
You know, and that's
what I see here.
They're saying,
hey, before we make
all these ornate things
for the house of God,
let's actually get
the house of God
in order first
because a vessel
without the house of God
is useless.
You can't serve,
you can't take them
to love and to good works.
Now where is this provoking
unto love and to good works
going to take place?
It's going to take place
at home, you know,
during the halftime show,
right, on Sunday.
That's probably
when it's going to happen,
right, on the commercial break.
That's when someone's
going to come on there
and provoke me
to love and to good works.
You know, when I'm out there,
you know, on the back nine,
you know, working on my,
I don't know what
the golfing terms are.
When I've got my
nine wood, is that a thing?
I don't know.
I don't know golfing.
But people do it, right?
When they're out there golfing,
you know, that's where
their buddy's going to take out
out of the golf bag.
You know, the caddie's
going to come alongside
and bust open the Bible
and begin to explain to them
the things of God to them,
right, and provoke them
to love and good works.
No, it's going to be
on the lake, right?
He's going to be fishing
and his fishing buddy's
going to reach in the cooler
instead of pulling out a beer,
he's going to pull out
a King James Bible
and start to expound to him
the word of God
to provoke him into loving.
That's where it's going to happen.
No, no.
Where is it going to happen?
Oh, it's going to happen
out in the woods,
in the deer stand, right?
I don't know if they do
that down here.
It's going to happen
out on the mountainside
when you're hiking.
It's going to happen
on whatever extracurricular
activity that people do.
You know, what is it
big here?
The cycling, right?
It's a big bike city here.
That's when it's going
to happen.
You know, the guy's
going to reach into,
I don't know how they
reach into anything
wearing those skin-tight
and all that spandex,
you know.
I mean, if you put
a King James Bible
in there, it'd probably
mess with your aerodynamics
right?
But they're going to
be cycling along
and he's going to
start preaching to him
the things of Christ.
And he's going to
be provoked.
You know, where does
that happen?
Where does that happen?
The only place
that happens is in
the house of God, folks.
I mean, obviously,
we could come along
a brother or sister
throughout the week
in our personal lives
and we could provoke them
to love and to good works.
But is it a lot easier
sometimes for the
preacher just to say
what needs to be said
than for you to have
to say it?
Sometimes it's nice
to be able to say
what we call
the provoking, right?
To love and to good works.
But this is where
it happens, right?
In the house of God.
That's where
the vessels need to be.
They need to be
in the house.
That's what we see
in the story.
The priority was
put upon the house itself
because that's where
the vessels need to be
to begin with.
If you have a vessel
without the house of God,
what good is it?
If you have a Christian
who's not in church,
what good are they
for Christ?
There are very little
worth of fear on Sundays.
Not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves
together, hmm,
whatever that could be,
as the manner of some is.
So even in Paul's day,
he's saying, look,
some people have a manner.
Some people are in the habit.
Some people,
that's just how they are.
That's how they be.
That's what they do
is they just aren't in church.
They just sit out, right?
But he's saying here,
let's not us be like that.
And I know it's Thursday night
and I'm kind of preaching
to the choir here.
But, you know,
let's keep that in mind.
Let's not be people who have a manner
of skipping out on church,
but exhorting one another
and so much the more
as you see the day approaching.
I mean, in Paul's day,
some of these people
were meeting literally
every day of the week.
I mean, they were getting
together constantly.
I'm not suggesting we do that,
but I'm saying,
look, they were doing that then
and they're saying
he should do it all the more
as he saved the day approaching.
You know, as Christ is coming,
his coming is drawing closer
every single day,
you know, as we're getting older
and maybe we're gonna,
we're approaching Christ too,
you know, as we get older,
you know, that day's coming,
you know, like this
from both sides,
you know, and as the world
just gets more and more wicked,
as the world just gets
more and more backwards
and ungodly,
what do you think?
Do we need more church or less?
I vote less.
That's how some people
would vote though.
If we took votes here
and we don't,
you know, some people said,
hey, three or one service,
they'd be like,
how about half a service?
How about once a month, preacher?
Can we just bring it down
to once a month?
I mean, think about all the,
you'd only have to write
one sermon.
Instead of three a week,
you could just do one a month.
And some people,
that's their church attendance,
once a month.
And look, God bless you
for being here once a month.
You know, God bless people
that come once a week.
This is the space
to go up to Jerusalem
and this is where
Jehoash starts to show
his true colors.
And look, I believe
Jehoash started out
as a good guy.
Like, he meant well, okay?
But after the death
of Jehoiada,
as we'll see in here
in a minute,
he just goes off the rails.
And as soon as, you know,
he has to actually put
some skin in the game,
you know, he flakes out.
It says in verse 18,
the Jehoash king of Judah
took all the hallowed things
that Jehoshaphat
and Jehoram and Ahaziah,
his father's king of Judah,
had dedicated
and his own hallowed things
and all the gold
that was found in the treasure
of the house of the Lord
and the king's house
and he went away
from Jerusalem.
I mean, this guy starts out
just adamant.
He's on the priest.
Go get the money.
We've got to repair
these breaches.
We've got to get
these vessels in here.
Where is it?
No, it's not getting done.
Let's get a box.
Let's drill a hole in it.
Jehoiada, see over this.
Let's get this money.
Let's get this work done.
Right?
He's so adamant.
You're like, yeah,
let's do it.
But then as soon as
there's like a threat,
he's just like,
take all that stuff
and just give it
to this heathen king
to save my own skin.
He just does a complete
180 at the latter end
of his life.
You say, why does he do that?
Why did that happen?
Well, you know, it says
in 2 Chronicles 24
in verse 14, it says,
when they had finished it
and the rest of the money
before the kings of Jehoiada
they made all the silver
and so on and so forth.
It says in verse 15
at the end of verse 14,
they burnt offerings
in the house of the Lord
continually all the days
of Jehoiada.
But Jehoiada waxed old
and was full of days
and when he died
and 130 years old
was he when he died.
So God blessed him
with a long life
and they buried him
in the city of David
among the kings
because he had done
good in Israel
both toward God
and toward his house.
You know,
Joash doesn't get
that same honor.
He's buried
in the city of David
but he is not buried
amongst the kings.
He was a king.
Okay.
They buried him
in the city of David
and it says in verse 17,
now after the death
of Jehoiada,
this is 2 Chronicles 24,
came the princes of Judah
and made obeisance
to the king.
Then the king
hearkened unto them
and they left the house
of the Lord of God
out of their fathers
and served groves
and idols and wrath
came upon Judah
and Jerusalem
for this trespass.
So God's judging them
for this, right?
And why does Jehoiada
make this 180 here?
Well, because Jehoiada died
and Jehoash,
you know,
after Jehoiada
is off the scene,
he just goes
he just listens
to the prince
of the kings of Judah
or the princes of Judah
and just does
whatever they want.
You know,
because Jehoash
isn't somebody
that can stand
his own two feet.
You know,
and this is something
that we have to learn
to do in the Christian life.
We have to be people
that are gonna serve God
because we want to.
We have to learn
to stand on our own feet
and have our own
spiritual walk
and have our own walk
with God.
We need to do that
for ourselves.
Otherwise,
we're just gonna be
As soon as mom and dad
are out of the picture,
as soon as the preacher
isn't around,
as soon as that,
you know,
that accountability
isn't there,
well,
whatever the princes
of Judah want to do,
whatever the people
of the world want to do,
whatever they want,
I'll just go along
with that.
If we're just people
that are just trying
to go along with
whatever just to God,
as soon as the Jehoiada
in our lives are gone,
you know,
are we gonna continue
in the faith
or are we just gonna
go along with this world?
Well,
if we just forsake God
and forsake the things
of God,
the things wherein
we've been instructed,
what's the result?
What happened in the story
if you read
2 Chronicles 24?
It says that God,
He brought upon them,
what, wrath.
And wrath came upon Judah
and Jerusalem
for their trespass.
God doesn't just go,
okay,
I guess I'm just missing out.
Oh, you want to go
serve them?
Oh, okay, that's fine.
Well, God's like,
God gets his head
and God gets angry, right?
Because unto whom
so much is given,
much is given,
of him shall much
also be required.
If we've received,
I mean, think about Jehoash.
His life,
he's literally killed
by his own servants.
He's murdered.
That's how he dies.
He's not like Jehoiada
who lives 130 years old
and is buried among the kings.
He gets murdered.
He's diseased
at the end of his life.
He dies early in death
and he gets slain.
Why?
Because God was displeased with him.
Well, why was God displeased with him?
Because he grew up
literally in the house of God.
Remember the story
from chapters 11?
He literally grew up
and he's raised in the temple,
literally, by the high priest.
He's instructed
all the days of Jehoiada
that he's around.
He's teaching him.
He's instructing him.
He's made king.
He's appointed there
by other people.
And then he just
wastes it all at the end.
And God
doesn't just go,
oh, I guess that's too bad.
Like God's the one
that's going to miss out now.
Aw, shucks.
No, God's like wrath, judgment.
God punishes him
severely for it.
And that's reiterated
and that's what we just see
over and over in Scripture
is that we are going
to be held accountable
for our actions in this life.
What we do.
What we make a priority.
You know, here's the thing
is that some men, you know,
are like this Jehoiada
because they're, you know,
they're just appointed
to this position.
You say, why was he
so quick to just sell out?
Right?
And we read the chapter.
I know I got to wrap this up.
And if you read,
go to 2 Chronicles 24.
We'll end there.
You know, why does he flake out?
You know, it's because
Jehoiada didn't really
have to earn it, did he?
He wasn't somebody
who really,
it kind of just came to him.
Right?
I mean, he's literally
brought into the house of Lord.
He's saved from the wrath
of Athaliah in chapter 11
while he's too young
to know any better.
It's not like he decided that.
That was something
that just happened to him.
He was just the only
living child of the king
at that time
and just brought into the
house of Lord and protected.
And eventually at seven years old,
he's made king.
You know, and it's just,
it's like a political move.
Everybody's just sick
and tired of Athaliah.
They just want to get back
to, you know, a godly king,
so to speak.
They want to get back
to somebody who's
going to worship the Lord.
He just happens to be
the guy that's there.
Well, I managed to survive.
You know, I just managed
to not die.
That's all I did.
So he kind of,
you can see how he
just kind of came into it.
It wasn't like something
that he had to strive for.
I mean, think about
some of the greatest kings.
You know, probably
one of the greatest kings
I think would be King David.
I'm sure he made his mistakes,
but think about all
the great things
that King David did
and how highly the Scripture
speaks of King David.
You know, despite
whatever faults he had,
he was still just a man.
I mean, but he,
there's a lot of
great things about David.
You know, David,
I mean, Jesus is called,
you know, the son of David.
It's through his lineage
that Christ came,
and he has this
great honor in Scripture.
We think of him
as a great king.
I mean, I doubt anyone,
and I don't think
anyone should think
and I don't think
anyone should, at least,
when they think
about King David,
think about him
in a disparaging way.
Yeah, obviously,
he made mistakes
and we can learn from it,
but what made him so great?
What's the difference there?
Well, look at how
King David came
into the throne,
who didn't just
get handed to him.
I mean, he's out trying
to save his life,
you know, on his own.
He doesn't have
people protecting him
and sheltering him
and keeping him safe,
you know, from birth.
You know, he's out there
literally running for
his life from Saul for years.
We all know the story,
but he goes on,
you know, he's somebody
who earned it.
And here's the thing,
people who actually
earn what they have,
they value it.
Things that just
come to people,
they don't value it
the same as
somebody else would.
Things that just
come to people easy,
they tend to
take it for granted.
Those that have to
labor and work and strive
and struggle to
get what they have,
once they have it,
they cherish it
and they're not
just going to let it go.
And there's another
great example of this here.
In 2 Chronicles 24,
it says,
Now after the death
of Jehoiada, verse 17,
became the princes of Judah
and made obeisance
to the king,
so they're flattering him.
And the king
hearkened unto them,
and they louthed
the house of God
of their fathers
and served groves and idols,
and wrath came upon Judah
and Jerusalem
for this trespass.
Yet he sent prophets
to them to bring them
again unto the Lord,
and they testified
against them that
they would not give ear.
And the Spirit of God
came upon Zechariah,
the son of Jehoiada,
the priest,
and saith God,
Why transgress he
the commandments of the Lord,
that he cannot prosper,
because he forsaken the Lord,
he hath also forsaken you.
Didn't we just read
another verse about
forsaking back there
in Hebrews 10?
Oh, man, it seems like
that's a pretty big deal.
You know, you forsake God,
he forsakes you.
You know, you forsake
the local church,
you know, it's not,
people are always,
I know I'm going off
on a rabbit trail here,
but I'm going to hit it.
People are constantly,
not constantly,
but people contact
the church sometimes
and they're just,
they want to give us
a sob story about,
you know, because someone,
some soul winner
came to their house
and now they got
contact information
and they're just like,
oh, this and that
and the other thing
and it's like, well,
where were you last Sunday?
You know, and it's just,
they just want to
tell you their sob story,
but it's like,
and they want all this help,
it's like, okay,
but where have you been?
Well, you know,
I've just been sitting at home
and I've just been
doing my own thing
and, you know,
they want to, you know,
hit you up for money
out on the street,
but they don't want
to go to church.
If you forsake the local church,
you know, the local church
isn't going to be there
to support you either.
That's one of the great things
about the local church
is you get a network of people
that are going to help you.
They're going to look out
for one another
because this is
a spiritual family
and that's the way
it ought to be.
It's not just something
that you can, you know,
just whenever you're down
on your luck
because you smoked
all your, you know,
you put all of your,
whatever earnings you had
that you panhandled
on the side of the road,
you all went up and smoked
and now the, you know,
the guy at the Cheat Motel,
you know, the 24-hour motel
is threatening to kick you out.
Now you got to call every
Baptist church in the area
to see if you can
get a little help.
You know, that's what they do.
That's not why we're here.
We're not here to, you know,
just be some charity case
for every burned out drug addict.
You know who we are?
Who we are here for
is that people that are here
for this church,
people that actually want to be
a part of this local church,
you know, they can find
the help that they need.
They can find blessings
and things like that.
I'm going off there,
but, you know,
they forsook the Lord,
God forsook them.
Okay, and, you know,
if you forsake God,
He'll do the same.
Verse 21,
And they conspired against Him,
against who?
Against Zechariah,
the son of Jehoiada,
the priest.
And stoned him with stones
at the commandment
of the king.
Now Jesus actually referred
to this in Matthew 23
when He was rebuking
the Pharisees.
You should all know
Matthew 23.
It's one of the best chapters
where He's calling them
hypocrites and serpents
and vipers.
And He says that,
you know,
upon you is going to come
all the righteous blood
from Abel even unto
Zechariah,
whom he slew between
the altar.
Right?
And this is what
He's referring to.
And He said,
And they conspired
and they stoned him
with stones
at the commandment
of the king
and the court
of the house
of the Lord.
Now think about
what's going on here.
This is Joash,
or Joash,
is killing Jehoiada's
son in the house
of the Lord.
I mean, that's how far
this guy's gone down
the drain here.
The guy that,
he's killing the guy
whose father
protected him
in his youth
and put him
in the position
that he was in
and guided him
and instructed him
and brought Judah
and Jerusalem
back into serving God,
the blessing of God.
I mean,
he did all this
great work for him.
And then as soon
as he's gone,
he's just burning it all.
And he's even
killing the guy's son.
I mean,
this guy's wicked
at the end.
This is some serious,
this is some serious,
I mean,
this is very,
I mean,
calling it disloyal
doesn't even do it justice.
This is a very wicked
thing that he's doing here.
It says in verse 22,
Thus Joash the king
remembered not the
kindness which Jehoiada
his father had done
to him,
talking about Zechariah,
but slew his son.
And when he died,
Zechariah,
he said,
The Lord looked upon it
and required it.
And it came to pass
at the end of the year,
and that
Zechariah's prayer
was answered.
And it came to pass
at the end of the year
that the host of Syria
came up against him
and it came to Judah
and Jerusalem
and destroyed all the
princes of the people
from among the people
and sent all the spoil
from them under
the king of Damascus.
For the army of the
Syrians came with
a small company of men
and the Lord delivered
a very great host
in their hand.
When God's against you,
it doesn't matter
how big your army is.
The Syrians come up
with a very small host
and the Lord just delivers
everything into their hand.
You know,
when you forsake God
and he forsakes you,
it doesn't matter
how well off
you think you are.
God could take all
He has a very strong
warning in the word of God.
For the army of the
Syrians came with
a small company of men
and they delivered
a very great host
in their hand
because they had
forsaken the Lord
God of their fathers.
Why did that happen?
Why did they lose
even though the odds
were in their favor?
Because they had
forsaken the Lord
God of their fathers.
So they executed
judgment against
Joash.
And when they
were departed from him,
for they left him
in great diseases,
his own servants
conspired him
for the blood
of the sons of
Jehoiada the priest
and slew him
on his bed
and he died.
And they
buried him
in the city of David.
So, you know,
this is the difference
between a guy
who could stand
on his own
and a guy who can't.
A guy who has
his own faith
and a guy who doesn't.
A guy who's in it
for the right reasons
and just wants
to serve God,
just wants to be
faithful to the Lord,
faithful to the
word of God,
and a guy who's
just kind of there
to go along
with whatever's popular.
You want to be like
a Zechariah in her life,
willing to just
lay it all down
for God's sake,
willing to get up
and tell it like it is,
say it like it is,
and just let people
deal with it.
And if they're
going to stone you
or persecute you,
so be it.
Right?
And, you know,
they're both people
that were brought up
by Jehoiada, aren't they?
Zechariah's brought up
by Jehoiada
and, in a sense,
Joash, you know,
was kind of his son
in the faith,
so to speak.
You know,
they're both brought up
and what's the difference
is that one had
his own walk with God
and one just was
just kind of,
everything just
kind of came to him
and he took it for granted
and at the end
he just sold out
and suffered greatly.
He'd say,
well, it didn't work out
very great for Zechariah.
I don't know when
you have Jesus
referring to you
in Matthew 23
and using you
as a shining example
to condemn, you know,
the bunch of wicked Jews.
To me,
that's a pretty good honor.
When you have,
when your prayer is
Lord, look upon it
and God's like,
okay, I'll do that
for your sake.
I'm going to bring
the Syrians and just
destroy these people
and I'll make sure
that that guy,
you know,
is slain by his own
servants in his bed.
That's not a good death.
I mean,
getting stoned,
you know,
in front of,
in the court of the Lord
and between the altar,
I mean,
we were joking about,
that's a cool death.
We were joking about
the other day with
somebody about,
you know,
who's going to be
the first person
that dies soul winning.
You're going to go down
to, I don't know,
a YouTube page or something.
I don't know what.
But you'd be,
you'd have rewards
in heaven, right?
You know,
everybody else would
catch up with you later
and you'd be kind of like,
how did you go out?
Well,
I got shot,
you know,
soul winning,
you know,
whatever.
I got persecuted
for my faith.
You know,
Zechariah,
he goes down
like a legend, right?
Why?
Because he stood
on his own two feet.
Because after
Daddy was gone,
just this last Sunday,
he didn't change.
He held that,
which was good.
That's the difference.
One could stand on his own,
the other could not.
One,
when the princess came
and said,
hey,
let's forsake God,
he's like,
okay,
can I still be king?
Yeah,
all right,
whatever you guys want.
The other one
preached his heart out
to the point where
they killed him for it.
But he stood,
he stood to the very end.
And that's the difference.
One can stand on their own,
one cannot.
So what's the moral
of the story?
What's the lesson tonight?
Learn to stand on your own.
You know,
stand on your own two feet
spiritually.
You know,
obviously receive the instruction.
I'm not saying,
you know,
buck,
you know,
your authority or,
you know,
rebel or something like that.
But when it,
you know,
learn that when that time
comes,
because that time
is going to come
in your life
for all of us.
You know,
in some shape or form,
we're gonna have to,
whether we're grown,
whether we're adults
out of the house or not.
You know,
we're all gonna have
seasons in our life,
we're all gonna have
points in our Christian life
where we're gonna have to decide,
am I gonna follow God
or am I gonna sell out
because,
you know,
something happened with some man.
You know,
that's why
Paul prayed that our face
should not stand in men.
You know,
that we,
he reminds us that we
serve the Lord Christ.
Look,
if you just make your life
about serving Christ,
if you just say,
I'm just gonna be true
to the Bible,
I'm gonna be true to Christ,
then it doesn't really matter
what other people do.
I'm not gonna,
I'm not saying
it's not gonna hurt,
I'm not saying it's not gonna
be a grief of mine to you
or hurt you or,
you know,
even have negative effects
in your life
when maybe,
you know,
people that you looked up to
that were supposed to be
an example to you
fail you,
obviously there's gonna be
effects that's gonna have
negative effects in your life,
but it shouldn't take you
out of serving God.
And people do this
all the time.
They,
you know,
the preacher messes up,
the perceived flaw or whatever,
and people quit on God.
They,
they don't like something,
the way something was handled
in the church and that's,
all of a sudden that's
their spiritual excuse
to just throw in the towel.
I've seen it, folks,
time and time again.
And look,
I've had,
I've been in positions
more than once in my life,
my Christian life,
where I've thought to myself,
this is my chance right here
to have a spiritual out
because,
you know,
the preacher did this
or this happened in the
church or the other thing,
multiple times.
And I'm saying just here,
you know,
at Faithful Word,
you know,
where,
where people have
their spiritual excuse,
I'm saying like through my
entire Christian life,
before I even came here,
there's been opportunities
like that.
But you know what kept me
from doing that?
It was knowing that if I
forsook God,
he would forsake me.
And I said,
well,
I don't want that.
So I'm just going to stay
in church.
I'm just going to ride
this storm out
and I'm just going to be
faithful to God.
I'm going to stand on my
own two feet,
you know,
and I'm going to stand
for God.
Just stand for God,
you know,
and it doesn't matter what
other people are going to do.
Let's go ahead and pray.
Dear Lord,
again,
thank you for,
Lord,
your faithfulness towards us,
Lord,
thank you that you've promised
you'll never leave us
or forsake us.
I pray,
Lord,
you'd help us to do the
same,
Lord,
that we would be faithful to
you day in and day out
of our lives,
Lord,
that we could look back
on a life in our old age,
that we could be like this
in a long,
full life of serving God.
Lord,
I pray you grant that to us,
Lord,
as we live for you
day by day,
faithfully.
We ask these things in
Christ's name.
Amen.
All right,
we'll go ahead
and have one more song
for you.
Amen.
Let's turn our windows
to song number 55.
Song number 55,
when the road
is called of the army.
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when the road
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