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Welcome to Faithful Word Baptist Church.
If you would, please find your seats
and we'll begin our service this evening.
When you find your seat, grab a hymnal
and turn to song number 66 at Calvary, song number 66.
Years I spent in vanity and pride
carrying out my Lord's crucifile song number 66.
All four courses this evening started in the morning.
This was free, but if there was hope, then lie to me.
There I heard it, so I'll leave her to you now and now.
Time to
And there was multiplied TV, where my burdens sold off liberty.
And now I'm free.
Man, great singing.
Let's pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day.
Thank you for the opportunity to be here this evening.
Turnin' your hymnals next to song number 245.
Song number 245, the old account was set up.
There's the old, but now we're settled on the go.
Now we're looking for end-of-reference ways today.
And for me, watch your scenes go away.
There's the old, but now we're settled on the go.
To end that happy old, I stay in this home of hum.
I'll sing the tension story, and raise it for his love.
I'll rock, forget that old, the page is wide as stone.
And like you said, good singing.
Now, if you have a bulletin, please open it up.
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as soon as we possibly can.
And if you have your bulletin on the left-hand side
is our service times and our soul winning times
at the very bottom is our salvations and baptisms.
for the year. Once again, congratulations to the newlyweds, Mr. and Mrs. Makaya Furbey and their
families. Thank you all who attended their wedding and celebrated with them and please
continue to pray for the expectant ladies on the back of the bulletin. You know, ladies,
please join us for a baby shower in honor of Lola Rowe on Sunday, February 2nd from 2 to 4 p.m.
nursing's only please, food will be provided.
And of course, in case you don't know,
Pastor Aaron Thompson is preaching for us
and he's right over here in case you somehow miss him.
But he will be preaching for us tonight and for those that are wondering a drop-off pastor Anderson at the airport Sunday night
He's on another missions trip. I've you guys already know we have a missions trip coming up in March at the end of March
And so we're trying to get as much information about these cruises so we can basically run them as smooth as possible
So pray for him while he's in the missions field
He's in a totally different country than last time when he was on the last cruise
So him another church member they'll be back on Saturday night
So please pray for them as you're praying throughout the week
And besides that, let's do the soul in for the week.
So if you got somebody saved on Monday, Monday the 20th,
I'll start on this side.
Looks like we got one right here.
Is that a one?
Seven over here.
Anybody else?
Five?
Anybody else for Monday, Tuesday?
3, 4, 3, 1, 2, my bad.
Anybody else in today?
One, amen.
Anybody else?
Is that a one?
All right, I can hear you from there, so.
Anybody else going once, going twice?
All right, that's all.
We got that. Good initiative. That man's going far in life, amen.
Alright, there should be an insert in the front of your hymnal with the song, or sorry, the Psalm, Psalm 19.
If you need an insert, raise your hand and one of the ushers will get you one.
Sing it out on the first.
And I
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will sing song number 359. Song number 359, thy word have I hid in my heart.
Song number 359, sing it out.
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Peace, human, peace, heaven, God, to those who worship Him.
Amen. At this time, please turn your Bibles to 2 Kings chapter number 10, 2 Kings chapter
number 10, as the offering is being passed around.
And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria, and Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, under the rulers of Jezreel to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,
Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also and armor,
Look even out the best and meetest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
but they were exceedingly afraid and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him, how
then shall we stand? And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city,
the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy
servants and will do all that thou shalt bid us. We will not make any king do thou that
which is good in thine eyes.
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them saying,
if you be mine and if you will harken under my voice,
take ye the heads of the men of your master's sons
and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time.
Now the king's sons, being seventy persons,
were with the great men of the city which brought them up.
And it came to pass when the letter came to them
that they took the king's sons and slew seventy persons
and put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jezreel.
And there came a messenger and told him saying,
they have brought the heads of the king's sons.
And he said, lay them in two heaps at the entering
in of the gate until the morning.
And it came to pass in the morning
that he went out and stood and said to all the people,
ye be righteous, behold, I conspired against my master
and slew him, but who slew all these?
Know now that there shall fall under the earth nothing
of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning
the house of Ahab, for the Lord had done that which he spake
by a servant Elijah.
So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel and all his great men and his kin's folks and his
Priests until he left him non-remaining and he arose and departed and came to Samaria and
As he was at the shearing house in the way
Jehu met with the brethren of a Isaiah king of Judah and said who are ye and they answered
We are the brethren of a Isaiah and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen
And he said take them alive and they took them alive and slew them at the pit of the shearing house even two and forty men
Neither left he any of them
And when he was the departed thence he lighted on
Johanna dab the son of recab coming to meet him and he saluted him and said to him his line heart right
Is my heart is with thy heart and Johanna dabs answered it is if it be give me thine hand
And he gave him his hand and he took him up to him into the chariot
And he said, Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord, so they made him ride in his chariot.
And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria,
till he had destroyed him according to the saying of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah.
And Jehu gathered all the people together and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu shall serve him much.
Now, therefore, call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests.
Let none be wanting, for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal.
Whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live.
But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshipers of Baal.
And Jehu's slap sent through all Israel and all the worshipers of Baal came,
so that there was not a man left that came not.
And they came into the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.
And he said unto him that was over the vestry bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal and he brought them forth vestments and
Jehu went and Johanadab the son of recab into the house of Baal and said unto the worshippers of Baal search and
Look that there be here with you none of the servants of the Lord, but the worshippers of Baal only
And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings,
Jehu appointed four score men without and said,
if any of the men who might have brought into your hands escape,
he that leteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
And it came to pass as soon as he made an end of offering, the burnt offering,
that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, go in and slay them,
let none come forth, and they smote them with the edge of the sword,
and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
and they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal and burned them.
And they break down the image of Baal and break down the house of Baal
and made it a draught house until this day.
Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
How be it from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin,
Jehu departed not from after them,
to wit the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.
And the Lord said unto Jehu because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes and has done under the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart, for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam which made Israel to sin.
And his ale smote them in all the coasts of Israel, from Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, and the Gaddites, and the Rubinites, and the Manassites,
from Marower, which is by the river Arnan, even Gilead and Beishan.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
and the time that Jehu reigned over Israel and Samaria was 20 and 8 years.
Dear Lord, thank you for the opportunity to be in your house.
Please bless the service and bless the world.
Open our hearts to hear your word and help us to work in your path.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
And it's great to be here.
Faithful word, great church.
And just want to say thank you to Pastor Anderson
for inviting me here.
And of course, the great hospitality I always receive.
Thank you, Brother Chris.
Thank you, Mrs. Anderson.
And thank you, Faithful Word Baptist Church.
for all the great work you're doing
and for the warm reception I got when I got here.
I appreciate that.
Tonight is gonna kind of be like a regular Bible study
in a way, but there's gonna be preaching involved in it too.
And I've been kind of doing this deep dive study
into some of the genealogy of Jahanadab lately
and I've preached some sermons about it,
but it wasn't exactly a whole sermon.
But really what I wanna do is I wanna teach about
Jihu specifically in Johanadab. So my sermon title is Jihu in Johanadab. It's nothing fancy. So
but yeah, let's look at verse number 15 in the chapter. Of course, there's a great chapter in
the Bible, a lot of great stuff you could preach out of here, but look at verse number 15. The
Bible says, and when he was departed thence, he lied it on Johanadab, the son of Recap,
coming to meet him and he saluted him and said,
Tim, is thine heart right as my heart is with thy heart?
And Jahanadab answered, it is.
If it be, give me thine hand.
And he gave him his hand and he took him up
to him in the chariot.
Now, who really knows, and just be honest,
who really knows who Jahanadab actually is?
Raise your hand if you actually know a lot about him.
Not I mean don't be shy just raise your hand if you know a lot about him
What about G who who's heard of G who before raise your hand? Okay? That's kind of what I thought so
I mean, we've probably read this in church,
or this has been read.
There's lots of sermons been preached out of this chapter.
I'm sure you've heard many sermons,
and you're like, maybe you just never have thought this,
because I really didn't think about it too much either.
But it's like, who the heck is Johanadab?
You know, what's significant?
Like, why does this guy just come up out of the blue?
Why is this guy even in the story?
He's not really mentioned much in the chapter
just a couple of times.
but this is a significant part of the chapter,
whether people realize that or not.
And he basically has this meeting with...
Jihu, who is now the king, and in the last chapter,
Jihu's already killed Joram,
which was the wicked king of Israel, which is Ahab's son.
He's killed his mother Jezebel,
and the eunuchs threw out the window.
I mean, everybody knows who Jihu is
because, you know, let's just face it,
the guy's kind of a bad dude, right?
He's...
He's been tasked with fulfilling the prophecy of Elijah,
where he's gonna cut off the house of Ahab,
the most wicked king to date so far of Israel.
And probably men really like this character
more than anybody else, right?
Let's just be honest.
I'm sure the ladies like him too,
but, you know, men like these types of characters.
You know, we like the gruff, tough guys.
I mean, you know, he throws jet.
they throw Jezebel out the window
and kind of blood splatters as she falls down.
You know, the prophecy is that the dogs will eat Jezebel
in the, you know, in Jezreel, right?
And, you know, there's nothing left after the dogs eat her,
but the skull and the hands, right?
And, but what, what's, what's, you know, what's cool?
Well, I think it's cool anyway.
He,
He doesn't even break stride.
He just like, as soon as she falls out the window
and splatters or whatever,
he just walks right over the top of her dead body
and goes in and eats some food.
I mean, that might not be cool to some people,
but I just think that's a cool detail of the story.
I don't know why, you know, you're like,
you love violence.
I don't love violence,
but this is a wicked witch
that just did lots of evil to the house of God's people.
and she was just a really wicked person.
But, Jihu's just that kind of guy that you'd like,
you know, if we could actually make a clean Hollywood movie,
which is not really necessarily possible,
one that's accurate,
Jihu would be a pretty cool movie story, right?
Where he's just going in
and he's just wrecking the house of Ahab.
He destroys the prophets of Baal.
But along the way,
after he's already done some of this,
he's already killed.
All they have sons at this point,
you know, if you were falling along with the reading,
you know, he's killed 70 of his sons.
He's killed a Hizaya.
He's killed his brothers.
And he's basically done everything except for
destroy the house of Baal at this point.
And so he's really done all the damage.
He's done all the fighting.
And now he picks up this guy named Jahanadab,
who nobody in here knows much about.
And I'll just admit that I didn't really know much
about him either.
I'm like, who is this guy, you know?
So I kind of did a deep study on him a while back
and we'll go through it here,
but look at verse number 16, it says,
and he said, come with me and see my zeal for the Lord.
So they made him ride in his chariot.
So basically, Jihu pulls up in his fast and furious chariot
because he drives with furiously, right?
That's one of the, you know, the king recognized him
when he came up to kill the king.
Someone was like, I think it's Jihu
because he drives with furiously, you know?
And I just like, that's another thing I like about him
because he drives a lot like I do, okay?
Church members get in and drive with me and they're like, you know, their fingers are like attached to the dashboard after they get out or whatever.
I've tried to chill, but it's just hard. So, anyway...
He's a man after my own heart in that way, but he drives furiously and so
Getting into this chariot is kind of a big deal. I mean
He's got a choice to make here, but he makes it pretty quickly. He's like is your heart, right?
Like my heart is right with yours and he said if it if it is then get in the chariot and it's like
You know, there's this commercial for Pepsi Max,
it was like, I can't remember how long ago it was,
where Jeff Gordon, who's a NASCAR race driver,
and I really know a lot about NASCAR,
I'm not like a big NASCAR guy,
but I know who Jeff Gordon is,
because he was, for a while,
he was like the Michael Jordan of racing, okay?
And he pranks this car dealer-ship person,
and the guy comes out,
and he's like looking at this 09 Camaro or something,
and Jeff Gordon's got like a fake
beard, mustache, he can't really recognize, he looks older or whatever, and he's like,
hey, let's take this for a spin, and then, you know, the manager takes him inside,
makes him sign this waiver, he's like, don't worry, you're not going to be liable for anything.
So they get in the car, and he's like, and he kind of pretends like he doesn't really know
how to drive it very well, and he's like, you know, going back and forth, and...
And the guy's just like, oh, just chill, you know, it's OK.
So then he just pulls it out, and then he just
starts hitting all these turns and driving super fast.
And the guy's just freaking out.
He's like, stop, stop, stop.
And then Jeff Gordon just takes him on this ride.
That just, I mean, he's just freaking out.
Like, his neck rolls are like into the, he's like,
turning all these crazy corners.
And it made me think of that, because this guy is probably
thinking, I've heard of Dee who's driving, too.
Maybe I shouldn't get into this here yet.
Anyway, you know, then I think,
is that what my church members think about me?
Anyway, so look at verse 17.
It says, and he came to Samaria
and slew all that remained onto Ahab in Samaria
till he had destroyed him according to the saying
of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah.
So we got two different guys here,
one everybody pretty much knows about,
one nobody really knows about.
So I want to give you a little back story about these guys,
a little bit of history about these guys.
And really, the kings of Israel don't get a lot of history.
You know, we don't really know much about their genealogies and stuff like that
because it really doesn't matter, God just kind of picked these guys
and then, you know, the ones that would rule and reign and stuff like that.
Let's look at, just turn back to 2 Kings chapter 9 verse 14.
This is pretty much what we know about Jihu and who he hails from.
So Jihu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimchi, conspired against Joram.
Now Joram had kept Ramath Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazel, king of Syria.
So really, that's what we know about him, is that he is the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimchi.
But this is not the same Jehoshaphat, because the father of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, is Asa.
This is the things, the details that are kind of important to get, because there's a lot of repeated names in the Bible.
So I would just say this to the man when you're researching a sermon, that these are the kind of things that can mess you up when you're preaching,
If it says Jehoshaphat, it's not always the same Jehoshaphat, okay?
Because his dad is not Nimshi, it's Asa, okay?
So, that's pretty much what we're going to get for the background.
God just tells them to go anoint him as the king, the guy is supposed to tell him, and
then run off basically, right?
That's what happens, and then his men are like, what did he say to you?
He's like, oh, you know how the manner of that guy is, and then they're like, it is
false.
You know, they just call him on it right away, and he's like, all right, if you want to follow
then he ends up killing him and and so here we go. So that's basically the the history that we know
of Jehu and he's a king. So God can make whoever he wants to be the king. It's not like King Saul
has some royal line or something. He just made Saul the king because that's the guy that he wanted
and David, same thing, right?
It's not like he came from some royal line of whatever.
God makes people royalty.
God picks who's gonna be the royal person.
Anyway, so now Johanadab is a little more complicated.
Go ahead and turn to Genesis chapter 15, Genesis chapter 15.
So Johanadab,
He hails from a line that is pretty ancient in the Bible and
The key knights who's heard of the key knights or you've seen their names in the Bible before anybody?
Okay, the key knights are a nomadic tribe that's related to the Midianites
They probably branched off from the Midianites
But look at where Genesis 15 18 says in the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram saying unto thy seed
Have I given this land from the river of Egypt unto the great river the river your Fradies
the Kenites the Kenazites the Kadmanites
the Hittites and the Parasites and the Riphines and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the
Gurgoshites and the Jebusites. A lot ofites in there, right? But the Canites are part of those
people that God said that these are the people that you're gonna, you know, you're gonna be amongst
and these are the people that I'm giving it, you know, these are the ones that he's gonna
ultimately be conquering over at some point. Now turn to Numbers chapter 10 verse 28. Numbers chapter
It says in Numbers Chapter 10, hold on a second.
I might have to have you go someplace else.
I think I do.
Actually, let me have you go over to,
I think I didn't put it in my notes somehow.
That's never good.
All right, turn to Exodus Chapter 18.
Exodus chapter 18
So Moses gets a visit from his because remember Moses escaped Egypt and went to Midian and
He lived with a man named Jeff Jethro and he gave his daughter to wife, right now
Genesis chapter 18 says in verse 1 it says when Jethro the priest of Midian
Moses father-in-law heard of of all that God had done for Moses
And for Israel, his people and the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.
Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife after he had sent her back.
So...
Jethro, just this guy appears, and the Bible says that he's the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law.
Now, this priest of Midian, of course Midian is one of the sons of Abraham after Sarah dies and he marries other wives.
The Midianites are children of Abraham, but Moses obviously is with this guy for 40 years.
I'm sure his influence has gotten him saved.
And he becomes this priest.
I don't under, I mean, that's just what the Bible says.
I don't want to elaborate more than what the Bible says,
but he does come with them.
He, Moses takes his advice on not judging the children of Israel
from the morning to the evening.
He gives them some advice.
It's really solid.
Says, Hey, break this up.
And he is actually also not only a Midianite,
but he is a Kenite also.
So that's how you know that they're that they're kind of related so but
When he goes back
When he goes back to his land
He also
It's it's stated that he is a Kenai later. Just let's go back to Numbers 10 go back to Numbers 10
So Moses father-in-law is a Kenai and I'll show you that hopefully I put that in my notes. Good night
Numbers chapter 10 verse 28
So he's called Jethro, but he's also called
different names, Moses' father-in-law,
but it is the same person, I believe.
Numbers 28 or 10, 28 says,
thus were the journeans of the children of Israel
according to their armies when they set forward.
And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Regul,
the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law,
we are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said,
I will give it you, come thou with us,
and we will do thee good, for the Lord
has spoken good concerning Israel.
So Moses is trying to get him to come with them
to the promised land.
He's like, I don't want you to go back to Midian.
I want you to come with me to Israel.
And he said to him, I will not go,
but I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.
And he said, leave us not.
I pray thee for as much as thou knowest
how we are to encamp in the wilderness.
Now may this be to us instead of eyes.
So he's asking him to be like a guide in the land to them.
If thou go with us, yea, it shall be that what goodness the Lord shall do unto us,
the same will we do unto thee." So he's saying you're going to be blessed like we're being blessed.
And so Moses is trying to get his father-in-law to go with him. Now look at Numbers 24 verse 21.
Numbers chapter 24 verse 21.
Numbers 24 21 the Bible says and he looked on the key nights and took up his parables
Just talking about Balaam, and he said strong as thy dwelling place now put us thy nest in a rock
Nevertheless the key night shall be wasted until Esur
shall carry the away captive."
So there's this overall judgment being pronounced
upon the Kenite, but not all, you know,
just like there's a remnant according to the election
of grace for the children of Israel right now,
I believe that there's also along the same lines,
a remnant of the Kenites that is blessed
with the children of Israel,
the ones that leave of the sons of...
the children of Moses' father-in-law, they come into the promised land with Moses and the children,
or not with Moses, but with the children of Israel. And I'll prove that to you in the next
verse that we go to, which is Judges chapter 1, Judges chapter 1. And it says in Judges chapter 1
in verse number 12, it says in Caleb said,
He that smideth, kerjaph, seifer, and taketh it to him, will I give Aksa my wife or my daughter to wife?
Not my wife to daughter, my daughter to wife. And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it
and he gave him Aksa his daughter to wife. It came to pass when she came to him,
she moved him to ask of her father of field, and she lighted from off her ass,
And Caleb said unto her, what wilt thou?
And she said unto him, give me a blessing,
for thou hast given me a south land,
give me also springs of water.
And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
And the children of, what's it say there?
the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law.
So see, he's called the Midianite,
and then you see here he's called Moses,
or the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law.
So the Kenite and the Midianite are the same,
are the same cut of people there, right?
So they're connected with the Midianites,
and it says,
went up out of the city of Palm trees and the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah,
which lies in the south of Eirad, and they, it says, they went and dwelt among the people.
So the Kenites, you know, this group of Kenites that are related to Moses' father-in-law,
they're of the children of Moses' father-in-law. Yeah, it says,
and the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law. So his direct relatives bought, you know,
Go with the children of Israel. Remember when Moses offered that offer to his father-in-law?
Some people took that offer apparently doesn't say that in the text
But here that here they are in Judges chapter 1
Going and being with the children of Judah look at Judges chapter 4 Judges chapter 4 verse number 1
I'm only doing this so just to kind of show you I'm not showing you every verse
But I'm trying to kind of take you on a little journey here just to kind of help you understand who
Johanadab is all right
and
Judges 411
Now Heber the keenight
What is he he's a keenight which was of the children of Hobab the father of
the father-in-law of Moses, so he's one of those children, right, had severed himself from the
Kenites and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zanem, which is by Kadesh.
Now this is during when the children of Israel
have done evil on the side of the Lord
and Cicera is kind of vexing them
and messing with them.
Look at verse 17, it says,
how be it, Cicera fled away on his feet
to the tent of jail, the wife of Heber, the Kenite.
So what is she?
Well, she's a Kenite also.
It says, for there was peace
between Jabe and the king of Hazor
and the house of Heber, the Kenite.
What do you know about jail now? Well, she's the one that put the tent stake in in between his forehead
And it says later in the song of Deborah and Barak that she smote off his head, right?
So look at judges chapter 5 verse 24
So what you have here is you have like kind of this remnant of the Kenites that they follow the children of Israel all the way out in the time of Exodus and they're in, you know, and so they're kind of just tagging along here and being blessed like the children of Israel are.
But yet they're not the children of Israel some of them join the tribes and some of them don't some of them stay nomads and
Do certain things on their own, but they're still friendly with the children of Israel for the most part
Now look at judges 524 says blessed above women shall jail the wife of Heber the Kenai be
Bless shall she be above women in the tent so
That might have been something that you kind of overlooked in your Bible reading didn't realize that she's this key night lady or whatever, but she kind of was the hero of the day, you know, she comes and brings him butter in a lordly dish, and then she's like, oh, go to sleep, buddy, you know, oh, yeah, it's going to be okay, and then, you know, just, I don't know how many times it took her to get one, maybe she got it one hit, I don't know, but anyway, it's pretty slick of her, right?
So they're allies of the children of Israel look at first Samuel chapter 15. I'm almost done with this
Portion and I'll move on here
First Samuel chapter 15
And you know Saul kind of just you know when he goes bad he starts just killing everybody he doesn't really
He just kills anything that moves basically at a certain point except for the Kenites
These guys are just pretty lovable people for the most part it seems like but first Amos chapter 156
It says in Saul said under the Kenites go depart get you down from along the Malachites lest I destroy you with them
For he showed kindness to the children of Israel when they came up out of Egypt
So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. So, you know, again, they're these nomadic tribal people
Apparently the Amalekites are okay with them, but Saul's just like cutting him a break
He's not just like I'm gonna kill them all, you know
He killed the Gibbonites, which he wasn't supposed to do and that's why some of his relatives got hung from trees later on but
He apparently has mercy on the Kenites.
So now what great things did Jihu do?
So we've seen the kind of the history here.
And we haven't seen the full history yet,
but I'm gonna show you some of that stuff here
in a little bit, but what did Jihu do?
What was his great works that he did?
Well, I kind of already went over some of them,
but he killed Joram.
He killed Jorm's mother, Jezebel.
He killed the Ahab family tree, basically,
all of them, which there's some interesting foreshadowing
in 2 Kings chapter 10.
You see the 70 heads divided into two equal piles.
You got Daniel 70th week is what that makes me think of.
And you got Daniel 70th week is divided what?
Two equal.
Parts right when the antichrist comes and then you got like all these evil people being killed by God and
God's wrath so Jezebel and she's being killed
Why is God killing her because she persecuted you know the prophets she had the prof the prophets and the sons of the
Prophets persecuted and and it actually spells that out in chapter 9
But yeah, so there's some interesting parallels in there sometimes it'd be cool to study that up and find out
Exactly what that stuff is, but yeah, so
Let's see
Yeah, so what else did he do well he destroyed bail completely
Out of the land his temple and the idol that was set up there
He executed God's wrath completely, fulfilled the prophecy of Elijah, and so I was gonna,
if I had some time, let some of the guys pick out some of their favorite parts of Jehu,
but does anybody want to, is there any verse that you guys want to, that you want to look
at that you want to have me read here, or you want to read anything?
I kind of told my favorite part when he comes
and kills Jezebel, but is there anything else
that you guys, you know, like in there?
No?
Those are all the best parts.
Those are all the best parts, yeah.
All right, well, I'll just move on here then.
So let's go to Jeremiah chapter 35.
Okay, so Jehu, you know, he, again,
his story is the story that everybody gets excited about
because it is exciting, you know?
He executes God's wrath.
and he, you know, does his great things.
And when he says, come and see my zeal for the Lord,
he has Jahanadab with him.
And Jahanadab, he could have said,
nah, you know, I don't really want to ride your chariot.
I know how you drive, buddy.
He could have chosen not to do that,
but what he did is he did see his zeal for the Lord.
And he did get involved with what he did.
And he went to the house of Baal with him.
It actually explains that in the story
that he went with him.
He was with him when it was going on.
It doesn't necessarily say that he did it,
but he was with him when he did it,
so he took part in it,
so he was part of what happened.
Whatever it was that he did.
rubbed off so much on him that that zeal did get transferred to him and he
You know, it doesn't say what he did after that
except for a couple hundred years later when God has
Jeremiah go and gather up these recibites and you're like recibites. What what is a recibite?
Well, the recibites are a family that are from the Kenites
And I'll show you that here in just a second, but let's go to Jeremiah chapter 35
Jeremiah chapter 35 and look at what's so cool about Jehanah dab
He didn't
He didn't kill Jezebel.
He didn't kill Ahab.
He didn't do all those things before he met.
You know, he didn't have any great stories to tell.
There's not a lot of great sermons about
what he specifically did,
because the Bible doesn't say what he specifically did
besides just jumping in that chariot that day
and going with him and helping him out.
But look what the Bible says about him later
in Jeremiah chapter 35 verse one.
the word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim, the Son of Josiah,
King of Judah, saying, go unto the house of the Reckobites, and speak unto them, and bring them
into the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink. Then I took
Jazaniah, the Son of Jeremiah, the Son of Habezaniah, and his brethren, and all his sons,
I skipped to verse five, it says,
and I set before the sons of the house
of the recubites pots full of wine and cups.
And I said unto them, drink ye wine.
But they said, we will drink no wine.
For John Adab is the same person as John Adab.
The son of Recap, your father commanded us saying,
ye shall drink no wine, neither ye nor your sons forever.
So the Bible doesn't say when this happened, but it did happen and this is the same guy
So he's exactly the same guy. Well, what did he tell him? Don't drink wine
How long ago was this?
Well, or how long after the events of Jehu was this?
220 years approximately.
So for 220 years, and then they go,
he sets this wine in front of his descendants
and say, drink this wine.
They're like, nope, we're not drinking it.
We're not drinking it.
We're not gonna do that.
Why?
John Adab, our father commanded us not to.
So they're holding to this standard of not drinking wine just because their father,
Jonadab, said no.
He says, neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant, vineyard, nor have any,
but all your days you shall dwell in tents, that you may live many days in the land where
you be strangers.
Thus have we obeyed the voice of John and Dad, the Son of Recap, our Father, and all
that he hath charged us to drink no wine all our days.
Our wives, our sons, nor our daughters,
nor to build houses for us to dwell in,
neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed.
And you're like, well, that seems kind of extreme.
We can't have houses, we can't plant corn
or any kind of veggies or anything like that.
We can't build a house, we gotta live in these tents.
I mean, it must have been kind of a rough life, right?
But why not have these things?
Why not have these specific luxuries?
Well, maybe he thought that having those types of luxuries
was going to get them to do what he didn't want them to end up
doing, which was to get into alcohol.
I mean, Native Americans have a real problem in this country.
If they drink alcohol, they just have this really hard issue
Maybe they couldn't maybe they couldn't handle alcohol
Maybe he saw all these people that were his relatives get destroyed by alcohol
And he's just like hey
I'm gonna take some of the zeal that I got from Jihu and I'm gonna say you know what?
We're just not gonna do this and this is gonna ensure that we don't do this
We're gonna live in place
We're gonna stay away from people that are like this and kind of just you know
They're gonna it's not like they just completely took themselves out of society
but they did to an extent where they wouldn't be tempted
to do these things.
I don't know exactly the reasons why,
but he said, and have no vineyards, you know,
it makes it a little easier to not have wine
if you don't have a vineyard right next to your house.
Doesn't it?
It takes away the temptation, doesn't it?
And it says in verse 16, because the sons of John Adab,
the son of Recap have performed the commandment,
sorry, yeah, skipped to verse 16, excuse me.
So yeah, because the, so God's saying this because the sons of John and Ab the son of recap have performed the commandment of their father
It wasn't God's commandment, which of course God doesn't want us drinking, you know, alcoholic wine for sure
But he's just saying they they kept the commandment of their father
Are we supposed to keep the commandments of our father?
Yeah, especially if it's something that's already something God commands which he commanded them
But this people have not hearkened unto me. He's talking about the children of Israel
Who these people followed from their own country and then they're watching them get taken away to Babylon
And they watch that city get destroyed because at this point
They're actually in Jerusalem because the Babylonians have been going around killing and just
Destroying every little city that they can get ahold of
And it says, in verse 17, therefore, thus sayeth the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, all the evil
that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken unto them, but they have not
heard.
I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel.
Because ye have obeyed the commandment of John, adab your father, and kept all of his
precepts, and done according unto all he hath commanded you, therefore, thus saith the Lord
of hosts, the God of Israel, John, adab the son of Recap, shall not want a man to stand
forever. How long is that? Yeah, it's forever, isn't it? That's a long time.
So because they have done this thing and just listened to what their father said for the last 220 years
After he had that little chariot ride with Jihu the crazy driver, and yeah, he did great things
Yes, he destroyed bail out of the land. Yes
He killed all of a hand a habs, you know wicked family members and killed the wicked witch of the West or whatever
He he did all those things and their great stories are great things to preach about
But who really was a better man in the long run?
Who really did the most effective things?
Because you know what?
We can be zealous.
There's a lot of people that are zealous
for short periods of time,
and then they stop keeping the commandments to the Lord.
They stop going to church.
They stop serving the Lord.
They stop coming to church three times a week.
And things just start, you know,
a church that's as great as this church
can just seem like any other church.
And what a shame.
What a shame when people just drop off
and stop keeping the commandments.
I mean, what do you think that going to church
isn't a commandment?
You're like, well, it's not a commandment
to go three times a week.
I'll tell you what, it's good for you though.
It's good for you to be in the house of the Lord.
And, you know, what I know as a pastor, that the moment people just stop coming three times a week and they're just like,
then they're Sunday morning, Sunday evening, no Wednesday night, or they just drop one service, and then they start dropping two.
Then they're just one service.
And then next thing you know, they're just out.
They find a reason why it's the pastor's fault.
They find a reason why it's somebody else in the church
upset them or something, and they stop coming to church.
And look, you can blame whoever you want,
but ultimately you just need to look in the mirror
and figure it out for yourself.
Quit trying to blame other people
as to why you did something.
I'm sure these people could have made up an excuse
to drink wine.
Well, it'd be nice to have a crop outside.
We could have some fresh tomatoes, right?
I mean, what's wrong with having some grapes?
We don't have to make wine.
That's the, you know, look, people,
you'll start making up excuses in your head to do anything.
And you'll just, sometimes it just doesn't start with,
you know, nobody just says, you know,
I'm quitting tomorrow, that's it.
That's not usually how it goes.
It's a gradual thing that happens
and you might not even know you're doing it.
Next thing you know, you're out of church.
It's like, so look, I'm not saying Jihu was totally bad or something, but he wasn't totally good either, was he?
Look, um,
and here I wanted to prove to you that
the children of the Reckobites are related directly to the Kenites. Let's look at 1st Chronicles chapter 2 verse 55.
Here's the the smoking gun on this one because I didn't really prove that yet.
And also, first and second chronicles are probably the last books written in the Old
Testament or at least close to the last ones.
But a lot of the people that came back from the exiles, names are in first chronicles
and genealogies, so you know that that's after, of course, Jeremiah had this conversation
Look at 1 Chronicles chapter 2 verse 55 says,
and the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jbez,
the Tirithites, the Shimeathites,
and the Suchethites or the Sucathites,
these are what?
The Canites that came of Hamoth,
the father of the house of Recap.
Or Recap.
So there's your connection right there.
These are the Canites.
the house of Recap.
So that's where, so isn't Jehanadab or Jonadab,
the son of who?
Recap.
And these are the Kenanites.
So there's the direct connection.
So we don't know where these guys are today,
but what was God's promise?
That there would not want a man to stand before me forever
of the son, sub-Jonathan of Recap.
So I'm sure that there's people still getting saved that are related to them today. We just don't know who they are necessarily
But what do we know about the old boy Jihu?
Let's turn back to 2nd Kings chapter 10 verse 28
7 Kings chapter 10 verse 28
And again, I love the character of Jihu I love everything he did but
except
After he gets done doing this task
See the Christian life is about balance people and we can't just you know
I know that your pastors talked about the Roman candle Christian lots of times. I've seen a lot of them
Come and go, you know, they're super on fire
You know, I'm gonna be a pastor and have 12 kids and I'm gonna you know blaze the trip
I'm gonna go on all these trips and I'm gonna do all these things and then just like
Where are they now they're gone
Because you kind of you have to we're running the race. We're running a race and when you're running a race you have to pace yourself
You can't just sprint the whole time
So you do have to you know prepare yourself
You have first of all you have to get rooted and grounded in the truth
And how do you do that?
Well, you plant yourself in the house of the Lord and you'll be fat and flourishing.
All right?
That's what the Bible says, right?
So look at 2 Kings chapter 10, verse 28, where we started here in that chapter.
It says, Thus, Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
Great job.
How be it from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Debat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed
to wait the golden calves that were in Bethel
and that were in Dan.
So what's his problem?
He's still down with this idolatrous cult that started.
He's still down with that.
How's that possible?
I mean, to me, I just think, how is that possible?
But the guy, you know,
because he's just so zealous to destroy Baal,
he turns it into an outhouse, basically.
The house of Baal, when it says drop house,
That's what it's talking about. It's talking about the porta potty. I don't want to be too, you know a blunt here or whatever
But that's you know the piss house basically is what it's talking about
so
When I was in England there was there's places that are called drought houses and
When someone's drunk they say you're pissed
They don't they don't say you're drunk like we would say they say all that guy is pissed
And then when I when they first start saying that like oh, that's that guy's a piss head
And I'm like that's what they call people that are drunk
So then when I saw that there's places called drought houses that are spelled just like this
I was like, oh, that's what that means because when you drink a lot
You got to piss a lot. So they just kind of you know what I'm saying
That's why they say they're pissed
Or if someone's giving you a hard time and joking around with you too much,
or they say they're taking the piss out of you, I don't know, it's England.
They'll find, they've got a real interesting way of saying things sometimes.
it's kind of funny though. Anyway, now you're educated about the drought house. So that's what
it's talking about. Anyway, let's see, where was I? Verse number, oh yeah, 30. So, and the Lord said
unto Jehu, because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, so God's happy
unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart,
thy children of the fourth generation
shall sit on the throne of Israel."
That's a different blessing than John the Dab, God, isn't it?
That's a far different blessing.
He doesn't even say they're gonna be saved.
They're not gonna stand before the Lord forever.
It just says,
your, thy children of the fourth generation
shall sit on the throne of Israel.
But do you think they were saved?
Probably not, if you just look at the kings that followed after.
So they get the same treatment that Ahab and his children get,
because Jihu's line gets cut off exactly pretty much the same way.
Maybe not in such dramatic fashion, but they still get cut off, and
their line is no more.
Jihu does not have any relatives living today,
because they all got chopped up just like Ahab's family did.
So, I mean, he did what was right on the side of the Lord, but what's the difference?
Well, one kept, you know, living godly and, you know, it's kind of sad though because
Jehu's the one that taught him that zeal.
He said, come, come with me and let me show you the zeal, my zeal for the Lord.
And he showed him and it rubbed off on him because, you know what, zeal rubs off on other
people.
You know why your pastor has, you know, why this,
you guys are all here is because his zeal rubbed off on you.
His zeal rubbed off on me,
his zeal rubbed off on a lot of people.
And there's a reason why people want to follow him
because of his great zeal.
So it means a lot of other things also,
but like his zeal is you can't fake zeal.
You can pretend, some people can pretend to do stuff,
but faking zeal is not easy to do.
Did Jihu have genuine zeal?
Yes, was it the right kind of zeal?
Yes, it was.
But somewhere, it died.
And it was right after he got done
doing everything he was gonna do.
He's just like, oh, you know,
I've done all the great work so I need to do.
Let me just kick back.
Oh, and I don't want my subjects to leave me,
so I'll just do the same stupid things that Jeroboam did.
The whole reason why Jeroboam set those calves up
is so that people wouldn't go to Jerusalem to worship.
Holding on to power. I mean God could still bless them if they still let them go to Jerusalem
It's like they're just they're just afraid of losing their people. That's what it is
So really what is the difference between these guys? Well, here's the difference
But G who took no heed
To walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart. That was his problem
He didn't take any heed
Maybe he should have you know, he said hey, is your heart right like my heart's right somewhere his heart stopped being right
And Johanna dabs heart stayed right and Johanna dabs heart
Taught his sons and his children and their children after them his zeal rubbed off on generations of his family and they
You know kept doing and keeping those commandments
and God blessed him tremendously for it
as he watched his nation, the children of Israel,
blow it time, after time, after time.
So, Jihu was basically like this flash in the pan
and Jahanadab saw that zeal
and did something permanent with it.
And, you know, maybe,
All those living in tents and doing all that stuff,
it stopped them from turning wicked,
stopped them from turning.
Obviously there's a method to his madness.
I'm not saying, hey, let's all go live in tents.
That'd be really bad in this area, for sure, in summertime.
But it obviously affected people.
Maybe he read the book of Proverbs and he was like,
hey, alcohol is bad, wine bad.
Tent good or something. I don't know
Whatever the reason what he did paid off. It worked
so
The more influential man was obviously Johanna dab who nobody knew anything about and tell you listen to this sermon
So hopefully you know a little bit more about him
But listen zeal isn't worth much to God if it isn't according to knowledge and the apostle Paul
You know, he had a lot of zeal before he was saved, didn't he?
but it was not zeal according to knowledge.
But God picked Saul as one born out of due time.
Why did he do that?
I mean, have you ever wondered why he picked Saul?
And I kind of just came to this little epiphany of it.
One of the reasons why I think he did,
obviously he knew what Saul was gonna do with his salvation,
but he was already going door to door
when he was not saved.
He was already knocking every door. He was already just trying but he was had a different mission with his door knocking
His mission was like house-to-house searches
Look at Acts chapter 8 verse 3 Acts chapter 8 verse 3
He was searched he was going house-to-house with search warrants trying to find out who the Christians were
It says, as for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering to every house, and hailing
men and women committed them to prison.
But notice how it says, entering into every house.
and hailing men and women.
So, but this same man gets saved
and went to every house hailing men and women,
committing to getting them out of the prison
that the devil has them in
and getting them saved and waking them up
from the blindness that they're in
and turning the world upside down.
Why did God seek out Saul?
Because he had great zeal.
He just didn't have it for the right things,
but he thought, I'm sure he thought,
well, hey, if this guy gets saved,
What can I do? What can what's he gonna do for the kingdom of God?
You know, he's already knocking doors. Well, let's just get him knocking doors for the right reason
Going house to house searching people for stuff and and taking them and making them recant
But he just turns that and does the opposite of everything he was doing
Because he was creating havoc in the church. He was I mean people were leaving Jerusalem because of him
That's the kind of zeal that we need but the other thing about Paul is that he just didn't quit
He never stopped. He just kept going look at Philippians chapter 3 verse 13 Philippians chapter 3 verse 13
Philippians 3 13
The Bible says brethren I count not myself to have apprehended but this one thing I do
For getting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things, which are before and
You know, that's that's the thing that we as Christians sometimes we mess up along the way no Christian is perfect and
We've all lost our zeal from time to time and we've probably gone through times where we're super zealous about stuff
And then kind of fall back a little bit
But the good thing is that we can forget those things. That's what's nice about New Year
is that we can just kind of, you know, people make fun of all of
that, you got these New Year's resolution.
So what?
It's better to not having any goals.
It's better than just being in apathy
and not caring about anything.
So we reach forth onto those things which are before,
the things in front of us,
and stop looking in the rear view mirror.
Stop parenting out of guilt from the bad parenting you do that before stop
you know going to church and and and just going to church and thinking about the guilty things you did before hey as
Christians were new creatures
What if the Apostle Paul just all he ever did is went around and preached about how bad he felt because of what he did before
That's not what he did. I'm sure that he probably had to explain himself to some people, you know
I'm changed, you know, like he had my son killed.
I mean, think about that.
They were afraid of him.
They didn't even, they were like, this dude,
I know who this guy is, he's an agent.
He would have come to faithful word.
He would have been like, I know what he's done.
This dude's works for the FBI.
I mean, any church, you would have been suspect.
I would have been too.
It's like, I know what you've done, Paul,
but he didn't let that stop him.
It's not like he's just like oh, you know, I'm so sad about what I did
I'm sure he was but he didn't let that stop him and we don't need to just live in the guilt of our past
You know we sinned before we've done some everybody in here has done things that we regret and probably things we that people have never even
Shared to other people and good keep it that way
Look let that be between you and God
And don't let people throw your past and your face
Because that's all under the blood
And it's a wicked thing when people want to just bring up people's past and throw it in their face all the time
You know, I kind of thought we were we were Christians
But we're supposed to let things go
and not keep bringing stuff up once something's forgiven and
And it's over with you don't just keep throwing that in people's faces and holding those things against them
God doesn't do it
And he forgave you
He forgave me
If you're saved, he's forgiven you.
So it's just, you know, seeing people do that kind of stuff is, it's trash.
It's trashy.
Look at Revelation chapter, oh no, I'm sorry, let's look at verse 14 here in the text.
It says, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Look, we got to put some pressure on ourselves as Christians and to, you know, because look,
Staying on fire isn't easy and yeah, even for me. Yeah, I'm a pastor so what I'm a human being just like all of you are and
Yeah, it's hard to always stay zealous always stay stay fired up
But that's why you have to put pressure on yourself
You know that sit that same I press toward the mark. It's pressure
You know what, I always use this example in basketball,
when people are down, their score, they're down
and they wanna put pressure on the offense,
they trap them, they put pressure defenses on them
to make a mistake.
But we don't wanna make ourselves make a mistake,
we wanna make ourselves do better.
So we press upon ourselves and try to do better
than we've done before.
And we need to hold ourselves accountable to live the Christian life because it's real easy to do things when it's all exciting and stuff.
When you're on a missions trip in some foreign country and the water's blue, it's 70 degrees, people are jumping in the net, they're like salvation, salvation, salvation, salvation, that's the fun times.
You know church attendance is never better when a bunch of sodomites come and protest against our church or something
But where are those people when it comes to coming soul winning on Sunday afternoon?
Where are those people when it comes to going soul winning on any of our soul winning times a lot of them are there?
But some people, you know, they're just spiritual adrenaline junkies and they want to be there
They want to do the g who things, but they don't want to do the John adapt things
Like just keeping God's commandments, going to church, reading your Bible, praying,
getting sin out of your life, holding yourself accountable,
you know, pressing towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Look at Revelation chapter 3 verse 15.
Revelation chapter 3 verse 15.
Revelation 3.15, the Bible says,
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot,
I would thou work cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increase with goods,
and have need of nothing, and knowest not,
that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor,
and blind, and naked.
We're just thinking that everything is all good, but in reality, you're miserable.
You're poor.
You're blind to the thing, your inconsistencies, and you're naked to the fact that everybody
can see that you're having problems except for you.
Everybody can see that you're one step out the door except for you.
It says, I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire,
that thou mayest be rich, that thou mayest be rich,
and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed,
and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear,
and anoint thine eyes with eye-solve that thou mayest see.
What does Jesus say in here?
He wants you to see.
He wants you to see the state of where you're at.
He wants you to get some clothes on.
So the shame of your nakedness.
does not appear. It says, as many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten. You know, if you if you're like going through
chastening and you're going through rebuke, maybe it's
because Jesus is trying to get a hold of you. And don't be so
numb to everything that you don't realize that that's what's
going on. And it says, be zealous therefore and repent. Be
zealous.
And Jihu was zealous for the things of God, but he turned it off as soon as he was done doing what was fun
And you know, I mean, I guess murdering people or killing people, you know, not murdering
But killing people that God said to kill that was where his fun ended
But not Johanadab
He just kept on going
Doesn't say what he did, but obviously he taught his people his his family what to do
So go to church whenever the doors are open.
Sing unto the Lord.
You know, every time you come to church,
you have a chance to sing unto God and praise Him.
It's not just about coming to listen to preaching.
It's also about worshiping the Lord.
You guys have a great music program
and be, you know, it's a blessing.
So be a part of it.
Read your Bible.
Pray, do you actually think about God?
Because thinking about God is something you should be doing every single day, but you know what?
We can get busy and you know, it's really sad when I'm be like, oh man, have I even thought about God today?
We should be thinking about God every day
He should be on our heart on our mind and also our people
We go to church with this bit. You guys have a big church here
Do you think about your brothers and sisters in Christ and what they're going through because everybody's going through something?
Everybody has problems.
Go soul winning, love people.
Get out there, stay zealous.
Work on getting that sin out of your life.
Repent of your sins.
I never thought I'd say that,
but I don't mean to be saved.
Repent of your sins though.
Try to get sin out of your life.
And you know what, keep yourself
from alcohol and fornication, kids.
because one thing leads to another.
And we're supposed to be a shining light,
a bright and shining light.
And what sin does, it dulls that light.
So listen to your parents, kids, do what they say.
And that goes for adults too.
So the final thoughts here on Jihu and Jahanadab
are both our great men in the Bible.
There's no doubt about that.
But Jihoo is much more exciting he accomplishes all those tasks
But he you know he would make like he said he would make a better action-packed movie if you had the movie about Johanna Davidee like
He gets in a chariot
He helps destroy the thing about and then like you don't really know what else he does until Jeremiah 35 or whatever
And then it's just like shown and you know it'd be like one of those slow movies with a lot of dialogue and acting
But like he wouldn't really be in it much
But with Jihu, you can make a pretty action-packed movie, okay?
I admit that, but Johanadab is a great man in his own right.
He works a lot less, he's highlighted a lot less, as far as his personal works go.
But he went for the chariot ride of a lifetime, and it affected him.
It's obvious, and he helped.
His name is in there.
He helped.
And he could have said no, but he said yes.
And we should say yes.
When it's time to pick up our zeal,
hey, you know, there's a lot of people,
a lot of Christians with no zeal,
and we need to have zeal.
If we don't have it, we need to repent and get it.
What does he say to him?
Design, design heart right as my heart is right.
And Johanna Dab answered, it is.
If it be, give me thine hand.
And he gave him his hand and he took him up into his chariot.
We have the choice to be zealous.
We have the choice to keep God's commandments.
We have the ability to finish the course and keep the faith.
That's what we're called to do.
And really that's the most important thing we can do is not only stay zealous and keep
God's commandments, but finish the course.
That's I mean Paul just you know, he hammers that home about us. Jesus talks about it
And he's like hey, you know you have sufficient to finish and
Then when we don't finish what what happens people begin to mock and to laugh at us
Your family's gonna mock you your friends are gonna mock you. You don't think so you think they're oh
I just tried that you know that crazy colt for a while, but now I'm back. They're gonna still laugh at you. I
Told you
Told you it wasn't I told you they were crazy
No, you're crazy for quitting on God. That's what you're crazy for
There's a lot of people that owe some apologies
And they're probably wishing that they were here right now
They're probably wishing they were back at this church, but they probably said too much, but you know what?
You know, what's funny is that people say that, you know,
our type of churches are all, we're hateful
and we don't forgive and, you know,
we just reprobate everybody and all this other stuff.
But you know what, I've seen a lot more forgiveness
in these types of churches than I ever did in the old IFB.
Just, it's just true.
I'm not saying that the old IFB doesn't have forgiveness,
they do, but they forgive people
that they shouldn't forgive a lot of times
So, a lot of weird stuff, but look, there's people that probably haven't said too much
that they would be forgiven on the spot.
All you have to do is just humble yourself and say you're sorry.
And a lot of people would just be like, hey, it's cool.
We have a guy that goes to our church and he preaches all the time, and he was offended
about the reprimand doctor.
He never heard of it.
And I remember he was fighting with everybody online about it one time and like he was like I'm done
I'm you know, and then he comes back. He's like you guys were right and
Everybody's cool to him
And he's just one of the game. It's like oh
We're just not forgiving
It's not true
It's a lie
So the final application let's just turn to one last version will be done second Timothy chapter 4
second Timothy chapter 4
So I guess the final application would be this,
be zealous and keep the commandments.
That's really what was missing with Jehu
and he would have been good.
He just had to keep the commandments.
His heart was not right
because he wasn't keeping God's commandments after that.
So that's how we kind of get the package right.
Be zealous, repent and keep the commandments.
Do the exciting things and the boring things
But I don't think it's boring to go to church I like going to church I'd feel like something was wrong with me if I just was like
Not going to church
Look if you just start getting into habit of doing it like it's just if it's just non-negotiable
You will go to every service. You it's a habit that you'll get into it's a habit you should get into
I can't read the Bible. It's boring!
Well, stop watching your stupid Hollywood movies
and just start loving the Bible. It's God's Word.
There's some cool stories in here like the ones we read tonight.
Read the chapter before. It's pretty cool too.
It's boring!
Well, maybe you just need to quit having the fun, fun party, party,
everything's a party every day, every night, party, party, video games,
cookies, Kool-Aid, whatever.
It's all, it's all got to be fun, entertainment all the time.
Be balanced.
Look, our zealous works can have
And if a long-lasting effect on people that you'll never even realize and you just don't even know it
Do you think that he actually knew that 200 years 220 years later?
Jeremiah was gonna be having a conversation with his relatives
He probably didn't know that
He's probably up and having like
Who knew you know
Who knows what your zealousness can do to affect other people?
and infect other people with that zealous bug or whatever.
Or someone else is inspired by what you've done
and goes out and does great things for God.
That's why it's so important that we're here.
But someone's like, oh, where's that zealous person?
Oh, they had something more important to do.
The game was on or whatever.
So in conclusion, shall we be Jihu or Jahanadab?
Be both do the exciting stuff and the quote-unquote boring stuff, okay?
But just cut out the negative wherever you can cut out the negative part of what G who did and just add that other positive part
And you'll be good. So look at the last verse here, and we'll be done
Second Timothy chapter 4 verse 6 says for I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand
I have fought a good fight.
I have finished my course.
I have kept the faith.
I want to have those things said about,
to be able to at least say those things
when I know it's my time to go.
I at least finished.
I at least kept the faith.
I fought with everything I could.
And it says, henceforth, there is laid up for me
a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge,
shall give me at that day, and not me only,
but unto all of them that love is appearing.
It's not just about the apostle Paul.
It's not just about pastors.
It's about everybody.
He's gonna give it to everybody.
Anybody that loves him, loves his appearing,
wants to see Jesus come back.
Hey, just keep fighting and stay in the fight.
Stay zealous and keep God's commandments.
Do the boring stuff.
Do the fun stuff, all right?
Let's pray.
Lord, we thank you so much.
For this great church here and Lord they're known for being as Ellis Church
But I pray Lord that we'd also just not let our candle go out not be Roman candle Christians
But we would we would strive to stay in it for the long haul and
Our Christian faith is measured by decades and that we should just look at it that way
that we're gonna stay in this until the end and Lord that we were gonna stay
zealous and keep your commandments Lord or pray that you'd help us to do those
things help us to get sin out of our life help us to do to walk the Christian
faith and walk in your the light of your love and Jesus' name we pray amen
Amen lastly, let's turn our turn in our hymnals if you need the words to the song the b.i.b.le song number
467 we're gonna sing the song twice and do a key change for the second time so pay attention
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