And ten faith is a victory song number four hundred and ten there in your hymnals as you find your seats
And if you are able to let's all stand together for our first song this evening faith is a victory
song number 410 seen on that first verse and
camped along the hills of light he christened soldiers rise
and press the battle where the night shall
Bell blowing
Against the bow in bales below let all our strength be heard
Faith is a victory we know
That over comes the world
Is a victory
faith is a victory Oh
Victory that overcomes the world his banner
Is our sword the word of God
We tread the road the Saints above with shouts of triumph
By faith they like a whirlwind's breath swept on
Or every
The faith by which they conquer death
Is still our shining shield
Is a victory
The victory Oh
Glorious victory that overcomes the world
on every
And the bow we find drawn up in dread array
Let tens of ease be left behind
Onward to the grave
Salvation's helmet on each head
The earth shall tremble
or trend
And echo with a shout
Hey, there's a big
There's a victory
That over comes a world
to him that
overcomes
White Raymond shall we give?
Before the angels he shall know his name
Confessed in him
Then on from the hills of mine our hearts will love
We'll vanquish all the host of night
in Jesus
Is a victory faith is a victory
Victory
Amen wonderful scene let's start our service with a word of prayer
Dear God only father. We thank you so much for God for just allowing us to be here in your house this evening
We pray that you please with God just bless every aspect of service
Please bless some singing unto you and most of all the preaching of your word
Help us with God to just be attentive in the congregation with open hearts and open ears with God
And I pray that you also just be with our pastor with God guide him through the scriptures bring to remembrance of things
Yes, you're paying all these things in Jesus name. Amen. You may be seated song number
263 barely barely summer
263 there your news as our second song
Six three
263
First verse oh
What a savior that he died for me
from
condemnation he had made me free
That believeth on the Sun
Ever lasting
Barely barely
Message ever new
That believeth on the Sun
Ever lasting
Iniquities on him were laid. Oh my indebtedness by him was pain
Ever lasting
Message ever new
Oh
Though poor and needy I can trust my Lord
Oh message every child
I say unto you
Barely barely
message ever new
He that believeth on the Sun
Though
unworthy yet, I will not doubt
For him that cometh he will not cast out
He that believeth all the good news show
I say unto you
Barely barely
message ever new
He that believeth on the Sun
Last
All right, great scene thank you for being here this evening
Welcome to first works Baptist Church. Just a few announcements here before we sing our next song which will be
472 if you want to get that ready in your song books, this is my father's world
472 our Sunday morning services at 1030 Sunday evening at 5 p.m
And then our Thursday night Bible study is at 7 o'clock and we have a Bible study during the midweek service on Thursdays
And that's when we go over the book of Matthew currently and so one encourage you to be here for that
It's a expository sermon verse by verse
Where we cover a specific book of the Bible and as I mentioned we're going to the book of Matthew
So hope to see you then and then you see the soloing times and teams
If you'd like to learn how to preach the gospel
You can see me after the service to be placed on a team and then of course the list of expecting mothers there if you can
Keep them in prayer and then the regular reminders there at the bottom men's prayer nights coming up on Friday
September 1st 7 p.m. At the church building
We will have dinner for all the men who come when I encourage you to bring your sons to pray with you
And so that'll be this coming Friday
and then the TJ soul winning is on Monday September 11th and
Meeting here at the building. We'll be leaving here at 9 a.m
Promptly if you have any questions and want to participate in them, you can see brother Elise's Hernandez
You do have to have your passport and so just keep that in mind
But be in prayer that we see a lot of people saved
for that little mini marathon that we got going on there and then on Sunday September 17th is our sixth year anniversary and
We'll give you more details of what we're gonna do what we have planned for that special day
Of course new no food or drink allowed in a main auditorium except for water and coffee
Please make sure you're not loitering in a four-year fellowship hall during the preaching service
Of course men if you have if you're on duty as far as taking care of your kids is concerned
you have to take them out you can use the foyer and
There are speakers and screens available there
But just don't want people just out there just kind of loitering just hanging out and talking and so just keep that in mind
And then please make sure you silence your phones during the preaching so as to not be a distraction during the service
Let's take some so many numbers from this past week salvations from Monday to Thursday any salvations from Monday to Thursday
Yes to okay anybody else how about Friday and Saturday salvations for Friday and Saturday one
Two okay anybody else outside of those opening times, and then how about this afternoon salvations for this afternoon one for the Glen's team two
Four for the Marcus's team two for the Morris team did I miss anybody okay? Keep up the great work
Let's go ahead and sing our next song four hundred and seventy two
This is my father's world
Number four hundred and seventy two this is my father's world
472
See it on that first verse. This is my father's world
and to my
listening ears
Oh
nature sings
Round me rings the music of the spheres
This is my father's world
I
rest me in the
thought of
rocks and trees
skies and
Is
This is my father's
Their carols phrase the morning light
There may first praise this is my father's world
He shines in all that's fair
In the rustling grass I hear him
Everywhere this is my father's
Let me never forget
That though the wrong
So
My father's world
Is not done Jesus who died
I
Amen wonderful scene at this time our ushers will be receiving the offering and please turn your Bibles to revelations chapter 2
You
Good evening, so now we're in Revelation chapter 2 and the Bible reads
The angel of the church of Ephesus right these things say say if he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand
Walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks
I know thy works and thy labor and thy patience and now thou canst not bear them which are evil now
it's tried them which say they are apostles and are not and it's found them liars and
As born and as patience and for my namesake has labored and has not fainted
Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee because thou has left thy first love
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works or so
I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of his place except thou repent
But this thou hast that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans which I also hate
He that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith under the churches to him that overcometh
Will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God?
And unto the angel the church and smear no right these things say at the first and the last which was dead and is alive
I know thy works and tribulation and poverty but thou are rich
And I know the blasphemy of them which say they are jews and are not but are the synagogue of satan
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison
That you may be tried and you shall have tribulation 10 days
But thou be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life
He that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches he that overcometh
Shall not be heard of the seven golden candlesticks of the church of God
Shall not be heard of the second death and to the angel of the church in Pergamos
Right these things sayeth he which hath the sharp sword with two edges
I know thy works where thou dwellest even where satan seat is and thou holdest fast my name and has not denied my faith
Even in those days where an Antipas was my faithful martyr who was slain among you where satan dwelleth
But I have a few things against thee because thou has there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam
Who taught balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of israel to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication
So hast thou also them which hold the doctrine of the nicoleatins which thing I hate
Repent or else I will come unto thee quickly and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth
He that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith under the churches to him that overcometh
Will I give to eat of the hidden manna?
It will give him a white stone and in the stone a new name written which no man knoweth saving he that received it
And unto the angel of the church of thyatira
Right, these things saith the son of god who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire and his feet are like fine brass
I know thy works and charity and service and faith and thy patience and thy works and the last to be more than the first
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because thou suffers that woman jezabel
Which called herself a prophet is to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and he thinks sacrifice unto idols
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication as she repented not behold I will cast her into a bed
And them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation except they repent of their deeds
And I will kill her children with death
And all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reigns and hearts and I will give unto every one of you
according to your works
But unto you I say and unto the rest in thyatira as many as have not this doctrine
And which have not known the depths of satan as they speak I will put upon you none other burden
But that which you have already hold fast till I come
And he that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end to him while I give power over the nations
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers
Even as I received in my father
And I will give him the morning star he that hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches
Let's pray to you lord god. Thank you for every soul at this church right now. Lord. We thank you for
Salvation in the king james bible lord. We thank you for pastor
We pray that you bless him fill him with the holy spirit right now as he preaches your word unto us
And that us and the congregations have ears to hear what uh message you uh, that pastor's prepared for us lord
We pray this all in jesus name. Amen
Amen, okay, we're in revelation chapter two and look down at your bibles in verse number 20. This is notwithstanding
I have a few things against me because i'll suffer as that woman jesabel
Which calleth herself a prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication
And eat things sacrificed unto idols and the time of my sermon this evening is that woman jesabel that woman
Jezebel and I want to talk about just kind of do a character analysis
On the biblical character jezabel and what the bible has to say about her now obviously he's here in revelation chapter two
It's obviously not referring to the same jezabel that we see in the old testament in the historical books in first kings
However
You know jesus christ is obviously using this name as sort of uh insult
Or to describe this particular person that does exist in the church of thaiatara
and
Who knows maybe her name was jezabel, but if I were to guess I would say her name's not jezabel
He's just kind of calling her that as an insult and also because of the fact that people already have some sort of idea
Of what is meant when he calls someone jezabel because there's so much information
In the old testament regarding her now when we think of jezabel the picture
That the bible gives us
When we think about jezabel is this basically this pagan?
You know domineering
Just self-willed odious repugnant woman
Honestly, that's what you get you say well, I don't get that then you probably have never read
The entire account of jezabel and think about this, you know what christian parent has ever called her daughter jezabel
Nobody because they already know it's it's like calling your son judas
You know what? I mean? It's like something you just don't do
Because of the fact that they have a bad reputation in the bible
And so if we obviously understand that two thousand years after you know
What's taking place here in the book of revelation?
Now obviously jesus christ and those who are in the churches knew about jezabel from the old testament and her reputation and how wicked
She was and so in this sermon
I'm, just going to go ahead and just talk about some of her wicked exploits some of the things that she did
And why she earned herself such a wicked reputation now go to first kings chapter 16 if you would first kings chapter 16
We'll come back to revelation chapter 2 towards the end of the sermon
We're going to start off talking about first her husband her and her husband, which is ahab, okay?
And let me start off by saying that when it comes to jezabel
The first thing that we can note about her is that she's just an unsaved devil worshiper, okay?
Now I might be exaggerating a little bit because honestly we don't know beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was unsaved
But based upon the account here, she sounds like she's just unsaved because she's worshiping bale. She's worshiping false gods
The god of the bible is not her god. Okay
And ahab who is essentially the king in israel, of course during this time
The kingdoms were split so you have the northern kingdom and you have the southern kingdom you have israel being the northern kingdom
judah being the southern kingdom and the kings of the southern kingdom
Uh, you know, we can't say all of them were saved but in general there are pretty good kings obviously save a couple of them
But the kings of israel on the other hand, they're just like always bad. Okay, they always had a bad reputation
They always did that which is evil in the sight of the lord, of course with the exception of few
One of them in which we're going to cover tonight, which is jehu the son of nimshi
Who's actually a very righteous king in israel, uh during this particular time and so look at first kings
chapter 16
In verse 28, it says so amrai slept with his fathers and was buried in samaria
samaria being the capital of israel and ahab his son reigned in his stead
And then the 30th and 8th year of asa king of judah began ahab the son of amrai to reign over israel
And ahab the son of amrai reign over israel in samaria 20 and two years
And ahab the son of amrai did evil in the sight of the lord. Listen to this above all that were before him
So we have some pretty evil kings prior to ahab, but they don't even hold the candle to ahab because according to the bible
He did worse in his entire time in office as a king than anybody prior to him now
One of the reasons why is because of the fact he had a wicked wife
So essentially the the wicked efforts kind of tripled with uh jezabel being at his side
And we'll see in just a little bit as to why it says in verse 31 and it came to pass
Listen to this as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of jeroboam instead of nabab
That he took to wife jezabel
the daughter of ethbal now
She's the daughter of ethbal, okay?
bail referring to satan
So obviously this is this means that she's physically the daughter of this guy
But it could also be figurative
Spiritually speaking that she's a child of the devil since bail is satan, okay?
It says king of the zidonians and went and served bail and worshiped him
So when it says that it was like a light thing meaning he didn't really care about it
He's just like, you know
He's walking in the sins of jeroboam and he doesn't really think anything of the fact that he's going to marry
He's ahab king of israel
A nation that is supposed to worship the god of the bible and then he just takes this pagan wife this unsaved
pagan heathen wicked woman to marry
Who doesn't worship the god of the bible and in fact clearly worships satan?
And to him it's like a light thing. It's just like man, you know
Him and jessie, you know, this is like
Oh, maybe she has a good heart or something like that, you know
Verse 32 says and he reared up an altar for bale in the house of bale which he had built in samaria
And ahab made a grove and ahab did more to provoke the lord god of israel to anger than all the kings of israel
That were before him. So the first thing I want to point out is ahab's unequal yoke to an unbeliever
Okay, now hold your place there and go to deuteronomy chapter seven if you would deuteronomy chapter number seven
You see ahab by himself was obviously pretty bad
And he made some really bad decisions, but you'll see that ahab is one of these guys
You know who essentially it's kind of tossed to and fro
So he can essentially go with the current of the times
So as long as he has some strong willed person beside him kind of provoking them to do right or wrong
He's going to do right or wrong
And the reason I know that is because of the fact that later on in in the life of ahab
He actually repents
He humbles himself before the lord
God shows him mercy which shows that there's still somewhat of a heart for the lord there. Okay
And so this would indicate that ahab is just a weak-willed leader
The guy does not have the backbone to lead a nation. He doesn't seem to have any wisdom
To you know of what kind of spouse to choose so he's just kind of carried about with every wind of doctrine
By the slight of a woman and her cunning craftiness, right?
Look at deuteronomy chapter seven
And verse number one you said why why is it such a big deal that he married jesabel?
I we get it. You know, she was a devil worshiper
You know, he maybe trying to win her over to the lord though or something
Well, here's the thing is that according to the bible god has specifically said that believers should not marry unbelievers
Okay
And that is something that is clear in both old and new testament
And when we talk about unbelievers, we're talking about people who are just not saved
Like well, I married, you know, someone who's like a mormon kind of like in the realm of christianity. No, that's not same thing
Okay
Well, I married like a catholic or something and they kind of believe in jesus wrong. That's an unbeliever
according to the bible god commands believers to marry believers and I know this is a foreign concept today in the culture in which
We live but who cares what the culture says?
We have christian culture
And christian culture says that christians should marry christians believers
And of course, there's other things that we should look for in a spouse aside from them just being saved
But at its most rudimentary level it should be that they're saved that they believe in the god of the bible that they believe on the lord
jesus christ
Well ahab's not even in the same ballpark
He goes for like a satan worshiper out of all people
Well, look at deuteronomy seven verse number one god warned of this he said in verse number one when the lord thy god
Shall bring thee into the land where thou goest to possess it and has cast out many nations before thee
The hittites and the gergashites and the amorites and the cananites and the perizzites
And the highvites and the jebuzites seven nations greater and mightier than now
And when the lord thy god shall deliver them from before thee
Excuse me, deliver deliver before thee thou shall smite them and utterly destroy them
Thou shall not make no covenant with them
Nor show mercy unto them. So basically what he's commanding here is when they go into the promised land
They're going to run into these groups of people
And we see the list there the hittites gergashites amorites, etc
And he says when you do that, make sure you wipe them all out
Now some people wrongly think that any time israel would conquer a specific land
They just have to wipe everyone out
But not really it was just these particular people where they had to do that and the reason why is because these nations
Were guilty of some of the most abominable acts known to mankind
Okay, and we know a lot of them based upon the book of leviticus, etc
So he tells them you need to just wipe it all out because there's so much disease
And filth and perversion and abomination within those lands. You got to get rid of it. You got to get rid of them
So he's sanctioning them to do that, right? He says in verse three neither shalt thou make marriages with them
So he says when you go there
Make sure you destroy them don't make any covenant with them
Don't make any contracts with them. Make sure you don't show them mercy and don't marry them either
Thy daughter thou shall not give unto his son nor his daughter. Thou shall take unto thy son
Why look at verse four? Well, the reason why is because of their skin color
And because of their race and because they're black or because they're brown or because you know, they have this type of you know
Hairstyle or clothing no, it actually says on verse four for they will turn away thy son from following me
So what is the major thing that god is concerned about he says I don't want you to marry into other nations
Not because god is like some racist
It's because he knows that these particular nations don't follow the god of the bible
And so if they marry into the hitites the hitites serve a false god
And the son who follows that false god will lead astray the daughter of israel
You know the son who marries a daughter of the hitites who worships a false god
She's going to end up causing his heart to depart and follow a false god
It says verse four for they would turn away thy son from following me that they may serve other gods
So will the anger of the lord be kindled against you and destroy thee
Suddenly but thus shall you deal with them?
He shall destroy their altars and break down their images and cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire
For thou are and holy people unto the lord thy god
The lord thy god hath chosen to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth
Now this isn't just an old testament concept
You know, oh, you know, that's old testament, you know, god of the old testament is so mean
He just wasn't tolerant and he had all these rules
Well, go to second corinthians chapter six if you would go to second corinthians chapter six
So again when he said this in deuteronomy 7, he's he's basically telling the children of israel
Don't worship or excuse me. Don't marry into these other nations because these other nations don't they're not saved
And what these nations are going to do is they're going to cause you
And cause your heart to drift away from the god of the bible
You're going to worship false gods and you're going to provoke me to anger
And what happens when you provoke god to anger people start dying?
Judgment starts coming and bad things happen. Okay, so he's trying to spare you from
An incredible chastisement that he's going to lay upon you
for marrying that mormon
And then you know your mormon wife is just like well, I went to your church. So now you got to come to my church
We got to go to the mormon tabernacle
and so you go there and start partaking of
Their whatever sacrilegious services that they have and partaking of their you know, whatever it is that they do
I don't know what they do in the mormon church. I don't know be weird and stuff and
You know talk about what planet they're going to inhabit or something
And it's just like yeah, but I don't really believe it. Yeah, but hold on a second
Even if you don't believe it god's not pleased with it, though
Okay
Even if you're doing it to appease your spouse god's not pleased with that. So
And you say well, you know, what am I to do because I did that, you know, I married an unsafe person
Well, really who i'm talking to are those who have not yet gotten married
That's what i'm really talking to. Okay, obviously if you've already gotten married that ship has sailed, you know
And and there's specific instructions that the bible gives in first corinthians chapter seven
As to what to do and according to the bible you can win your spouse over
Okay, it's going to take a lot of work and in some instances some people were able to win their spouse over
They got him in church and then it ended up working out very well, but sometimes it doesn't
Sometimes there's major conflict within marriage
Because of the fact that they have different religious views
Okay, and it was all you know fun and games
It's all roses and daisies in the beginning. You're willing to put your differences of religious beliefs aside until the stuff hits the fan
You're married six months down the road a year down the road
And now you are
Have this conflict within your marriage because you guys don't believe alike
Okay, because she's the joe's witnesses because uh joe's witness because he's a mormon because they are a buddhist or something like that
You know that's cause for conflict in a marriage
Because god requires 100 loyalty to him
Okay, so guys and ladies in order to avoid all this
Marry a christian
Look at second corinthian six verse 14 says
Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers
Now obviously you could apply this to just relationships in general
But if it applies to relationships in general, don't you think it would apply to marriage as well?
Which is one of the greatest relationships that we will experience this side of eternity
He says be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. Why for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
What communion hath light with darkness?
What concord hath christ with belial?
And what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
What agreement hath the temple of god with idols for you're the temple of the living god as god had said
I would dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their god and they shall be my people
What is he saying, you know if you marry an unbeliever?
There's going to be a lot of conflict. You're going to have a lot of trouble in the flesh
You're not going to be able to serve god 100 of the time
There's going to be bumps in the road
Unless you make a considerable effort to win your spouse over to christ, but even then my friends
There's a major uphill battle sometimes even thereafter now. Thank god if you win your spouse to christ
That's really all that matters, right?
But even thereafter try to get them faithful to church to read the bible to believe the doctrines of the bible
I mean a lot of that is an uphill battle so better for you to just find someone in church
Who's saved of course
Who believes the bible is going in the same direction as you so that even though marriage can be an uphill battle
Sometimes the hill is not that steep for you
You know, the hill is very steep for someone who is married to an unbeliever
It's so steep. It's almost vertical
And it almost seems hopeless sometimes
But for someone who is saved who's married to another safe person. Yeah, you're gonna have problems down the road. There's gonna be
Conflicts and and you guys aren't going to get along sometimes you're going to experience all the conflicts that all marriages experience within the christian life
But the hill is not that steep
It can be fixed because at the end of the day you are of like faith and you have the bible
Giving you the principles leading the way so you're not just trying to figure things out on your own
Okay, and here's the thing, you know, obviously
We're talking about safe people
Christians getting married to other christians
But you know, I would always encourage and I can't prove this 100 from the bible
This is just my opinion to marry a fundamental baptist
Because sometimes you know, you can find a safe person, but maybe they go to some non-denom church
And they don't have the same standards as you
Now obviously you can bring them to church and they can learn the ways of the lord here
And learn your preferences and that's good, you know
But it doesn't always guarantee that you guys are going to see eye to eye on everything either. Okay
Sometimes there's going to be major conflicts. It's like they use the niv or something and you're over here using the king james
And you're just like that's trash
That's toilet paper
Throw that in the trash and they're just like what are you talking about? This is god's word
This is how i've had relationship with god, you know, and they use different lingo and so there's more conflict, right?
And so the best way
To just find a spouse sometimes just in church or a church that's like-minded with your church a person who's saved
And therefore you won't experience a lot
Of what other people have experienced in times past and it's just it's a common thing unfortunately, but it does happen
Okay, and so, you know go back to uh first kings if you would so ahab marries
Jezebel who's just it's not like she's just saved and just worldly. She's just a legit pagan
Just a heathen devil-worshipping woman
And you know ahab really is just like a hemp-pecked husband. He's seriously hemp-pecked. He's a major pushover
Like this guy is a punk
The guy's a weenie. I mean, I don't know what else to say. He's a wuss
You'll see throughout his his life. It's just like
Jezebel was the one wearing the pants in the family for sure
Okay
She's the one leading the whole thing
And and all that and so really ahab he could have turned the whole ship around
Of who israel was worshiping if it wasn't for jezebel
Now ahab shouldn't have been a king in the first place because the guy is such a compromiser
But you know what if jezebel was a was a righteous woman. She was saved. She could have provoked him
To serve god and and love the lord and turn the nation to righteousness and been a help me to him
But instead she just made him wax worse
He ended up building up altars to Baal
And and doing all types of wickedness and the practical thing that we can learn from this is that oftentimes
Spouses can't serve god because of their spouse
They can't serve god fully because of their spouse
And so, you know, we need to be careful even within church. Obviously, we're all saved here as far as I know
You know, there might be you know
Someone's a person here. I don't know
But sometimes spouses are hindered by their others by their spouse by the significant other from serving god
And the ideal situation would be that both of you are serving god together
Both of you are sowing together
You're reading the bible. You're leading your family in a christ-centered
Manner where jesus christ is the preeminent one and you guys are on the same page
Okay, it's important that we as couples are on the same page spiritually. We're going in the same direction
Obviously there might be a case where one spouse is a little more spiritual than the other
May know a little more bible than the other but in the at the end of the day that you're both going in the same
direction
Okay, spiritually speaking
And so this is what happens when ahab thinks it a light thing
To marry jezebel. Hey guys, don't consider it a light thing to just marry some jezebel out there
Some instagram thought out there
And I know what thought means now
I learned it means that hoe over there
Am I am I right did I get that right? Okay, i'm hip see I know
Oh, yeah, you you may think it's all fun and games
You know marrying some instagram influencer
And all this because she's so beautiful or he's so handsome or whatever
But folks, you know beauty is vain
At the end of the day and I don't know if you know this but you know when you get married
You know, obviously you're physically attracted to each other. But let me say there's something called age
It starts creeping up on you
And you know what you're gonna you and her are gonna get old
That's just how it is
And so beauty begins to fade
It's not as you know, I don't know beautiful as it used to be. That's just the way life is
And so if there's if the relationship doesn't have something of substance
Where you love the soul you love the person
You know, uh, then you're going to be miserable, you know that that that's the
The physical features is not going to please you in the long term
You need to actually love the person for who the person actually is. Okay, obviously the looks are a cherry on top
But you know, it's vain and it's not it's not going to last forever. That's just the end. That's just the truth
I mean, especially if you plan to grow old together
you know you get old and that's
Just get old, you know, it's just not i'll stop there
You know what I mean
I'm not saying it's bad to grow old, you know, I want to grow old with my wife
And you know, i'm very attracted to my wife
but at the end of the day we're gonna be old and and you know saggy and
you know, we're just wrinkly and gray-headed and
You know, i'll probably get bald, you know
And
We're just not gonna look the way we used to look but you know what that's okay
Because I love my wife for who she is on the inside. I know that sounds cheesy
But it's fact
And vice versa, I think you know
Nah, she's she's stuck
And so
And you say why are you saying that Ahab married Jezebel because of her looks?
I'm, just kind of throwing that out there because at the end of her life she painted on her face
So maybe that was the case. That was the reason why
You know, he he's probably
You know, I mean it kind of adds up to be honest with you consider what kind of man he is
And what kind of woman she is that's probably what it was about and it cost them a lot. Okay
And so we see that Jezebel is a wicked woman because she's worshiping satan. She worships false gods
She caused Ahab to also worship those false gods and began to set up altars in Israel
Where the god of the bible should be worshiped
And essentially causing the people of the land to worship those false gods as well. Look at first kings chapter 18 if you would
Go to chapter 18
So not only was she a pagan
A devil worshiping pagan
This woman was murderous
She was a blood
thirsty
woman
And she had no quarrels
About killing people and more specifically killing righteous people
Okay, look at first kings 18 in verse number one
It says and it came to pass after many days that the word of the lord came to elijah in the third year saying
Go show thyself unto Ahab and I will say and rain upon the earth
And elijah went to show himself unto Ahab and there was a sore famine in in samaria. So
Famine is basically is the scarcity of food. There's no rain to feed the crops and therefore there's no crops
Starvation is essentially the result of that
And so, you know god is essentially withholding the rain
From coming upon israel because he's punishing israel because of the leader ahab
And by the way, let me just say this is that nothing has changed
Okay, if america is being punished in any certain way, it's because of our leaders
Okay
Obviously we should stand in the gap make up the hedge
But at the end of the day sometimes nations suffer because of their wicked leaders
It says in verse three and ahab called obadiah
Which was the governor of his house now obadiah feared the lord greatly for it was so
When jezabel cut off the prophets of the lord that obadiah took in hundred prophets
And hid them by 50 in a cave and fed them with bread and water. So obadiah is this conservative type of
Governor here
And he fears god
And so in light of the fact that jezabel is cutting off the prophets. What does it mean that she's cutting them off?
What does that mean? It means she's killing them
And just to make sure we that's true. The bible actually says in verse 13
Was it not told my lord what I did when jezabel slew the prophets of the lord?
So she's she's going on this campaign
To kill the prophets of god
What does that tell us? She hates the man of god
She hates what they're preaching she hates what they believe she hates the fact that they exist
So it's not like she's just trying to kick them out of the land and say hey, it's all about paganism now
Go to a different country. No, she's like i'm just going to take your lives
I'm going to kill you and just wipe you off the face of the earth. I mean, this is a very wicked thing to do
Murder is wicked period but when you're murdering the righteous people, I mean that's super wicked. Okay?
Okay
So obadiah because he has compassion he's a man who fears god
He's trying to do his best
To protect the prophets and so he takes them by hundreds and essentially hides them in a cave
And uh, you know today in today's standards, it would be like, you know
The the fundamental old ifb fundamental baptists that are dependent upon the republicans to save them
Okay, they're dependent upon the governors and the presidents of this world to protect them. So they go hide in caves
And yeah, maybe there might be some some well-meaning republicans out there and conservatives who actually care for
The men of god, but i'd rather be with elijah
Out in the open preaching because god will protect me. Amen
Look at chapter 19
So she's on this campaign and by the way, it says jesabel cut off the prophets of the lord not ahab
Okay, so she's like doing her own thing
She's killing them not ahab ahab has nothing to do with this as of yet look at chapter 19 and verse number one
I find this verse very funny by the way
And ahab told jesabel all that elijah had done
So he's like he goes and he complains to his wife
Look what elijah's doing
And with all how he had slain all the prophets with the sword because what's happening here? Well,
It's the famous story of mount carmel where elijah goes head to head with all the false prophets of bale, right?
And of course they put up the sacrifices
And the prophets are trying to invoke the name of their false god to send down fire upon the sacrifices
And obviously it doesn't happen. Okay, and you know, uh, elijah begins to troll them and he's just like hey
Where's your god? Is he sleeping? Maybe he's on a journey or something like that. Okay
He's just kind of mocking the false prophets which is my text verse of why I mock false prophets
Because elijah is a good example of that. I don't see anywhere in the bible
Where god's like, hey, you did a good job of that stuff. You said was not very christian, you know
Because you know, he's he's he's probably mocking them too. He says I will laugh at their calamity
God gave elijah a sense of humor, okay
And so, you know, he they're cutting themselves
Blood is going all over the place because they're trying to get the attention of their false gods
It's not going to happen
Okay
So then elijah comes and he's just like all right my turn
So he gets all these barrels of water and he pours
He pours the water on all the animal sacrifice just douses him in water, right to kind of show them like
This is from god because if these burn up even though they're doused in water it shows you it's from god
So then he calls upon his god the god of the bible
The god of israel
And a flame of fire just comes down and just consumes the animal sacrifices and licks up all the water and just it's very obvious
Elijah, you know ko'd
The false prophets it's like flawless victory type of a thing. Okay
You know, it was just very evident that god is on elijah's side
so that happens that everyone was just like
So then elijah comes out and he says all right kill all these false prophets
And so they slay all the false prophets because it basically shows that they're a bunch of phonies who worship a false god
And I mean, this is an incredible feat here
Incredible accomplishment, right?
So elijah is on a mountaintop right now
I mean this is it's like a savage moment, right?
I mean he's like mocking their false god
God showed himself strong on his behalf and then he slays all these false prophets
I mean, this is every kid's hero right here
right
You know you think of people were there just looking at him with admiration like man. You're the man
That was cool. He did it in style
But you know because he's on the mountaintop a lot of emotional energy is being expended in doing that
so he's essentially emotionally just kind of
You know depleted and so when jezebel threatens him he like runs for his life, which is weird
But that's what happens
So when he slays all these prophets, you know ahab goes to jezebel and he's just like did you hear what happened? You know
Uh elijah killed all the prophets
with the sword
It's just like what is that to her
You're the king
You do something about it
But he's going to his wife so his wife can do something about it
Which shows us that he she's the one who wears the pants in the family
Okay
Verse two says then jezebel sent a messenger into elijah saying so let the gods do to me and more also
If I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time, I mean how brazen is this woman?
She's like that's nothing the gods do more to me and more also
Basically, if you don't end up like one of those false prophets, which is basically she's threatening elijah
So she's killing all these all these prophets of god, which shows that she hates the man of god
But then she's going after the man of god specifically elijah in light of the fact that
God sanctioned the killing of these false prophets and she doesn't care
You know normal person would be like, you know what? I think i'm gonna switch religions
Yeah, I believe in yeah, I believe in god now, you know
Oh, i'm, sorry, just tear down all these what are these doing here? Just tear down all the idols and everything like wow
This is gross man, you know
Stupid false gods, you know just
And get right with the lord, but she instead what does she do? She just goes further into
her stubbornness
And wickedness and even goes as far to threaten the man of god and say like you're going to be just like them by tomorrow
Verse three says and when he saw that he arose and went for his life and came to bersheba
Which belonging to judah and left his servant there?
But he himself went a day's journey to the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree
And he requested for himself that he might die
And said it is enough now. Oh lord take away my life for I am not better than my father
So he's kind of having a pity party
and he's emotionally depleted here and this always kind of like
You read this and you're like
Dude, you just took down all these false prophets
Like you just show them up and then this woman comes after you and now you're all scared
but I think what it is is he's just
He's kind of reached his limit. You understand?
And so any christian can get to that point where they reach a specific limit they're emotionally depleted
They're just kind of exhausted and he's he's so exhausted. He's just like, you know what? I just want to die
Because i'm not better than my father's, you know, I even though he just accomplished something great that we're talking about thousands of years later
But he feels this way and of course god ends up feeding him and replenishing him and restoring him
And obviously he did he was pleasing unto the lord elijah
It doesn't matter whether he was better than his fathers or not at the end of the day. He did what god told him to do
And he's one of two people in the bible who was raptured
in style too
I mean enoch walk with god was not for god took him but
Elijah was taken up in a in a chariot of fire
In a whirlwind. I mean that's pretty cool, right? You just have a chariot of fire. Just come down pick you up
and you're just like
You know look at jezebo you're like
I mean that's cool
And so obviously god
God is honoring elijah
By picking him up like that, right?
And he didn't see death
He didn't see death. He was able to I mean what a great life
He just comes in preaches a bunch of great sermons kills a bunch of false prophets, you know
And does a great exploit gets fed
Passes on the baton and just gets taken up in a whirlwind
You know a chariot of fire whirlwind and and he's in heaven right now in that body that he was in when he was on
his earth
It's pretty amazing
Look at verse 17
I'm, sorry. Yeah, go back to chapter 18. Excuse me chapter 18
So jezebel is wicked for many reasons she's
a
pagan devil worshiper
She's murderous
And then also we see in according to chapter 18
In verse 17 that she caters to false prophets. It's bad enough that she's attacking the man of god
But she's also siding with the wrong people
Look what it says in verse 17 it came to pass when ahab saw elijah that ahab said unto him art thou
He that troubleth israel
I love this he answered it. He answered I have not troubled israel
But thou and thy father's house and that ye have forsaken the commandment of the lord and thou has followed balaam
I love this passage because a has like you're the reason why our nation is the way it is
It's like no, you're the reason
You know, it's like it's christians like you that give christianity a bad name. No, it's compromising christians like you
They give us a bad name
Thou troublest america
Verse 19 now therefore send and gather to me all israel
Unto me unto mount carmel and the prophets of bel 450 and the prophets of the gross 400 which eat at jezabel's table
Not at ahab's table at jezabel's table. In other words, she's like
Funding these false prophets. They're sitting at her table. She's feeding them now
I have a really funny story about this before I forget
When we went to the bonfire and what was it again in newport, where was it? Where was the bonfire at?
balboa
on our way there
We saw this church
And I think it was a it was a catholic church. It was a catholic church and it was literally called this
our lady of mount carmel
Let me say that again our lady of mount carmel well in the bible there's only one lady of mount carmel and that's jezabel
I mean think about it. I was just like my son's like that says our lady of mount carmel. I'm like what in the world
That's crazy that you didn't you name it, but you know, I saw another church that has nothing to do with this in los angeles
That was called like
Canaanite
baptist church or something. It's just like
You know, we should just name things because it sounds cool. Like you should find out what it means first
Canaanites were wicked, you know
And the bible is like kenanite baptist church. It's like what in the world
Anyways
Now what's the what's what can we learn from this particular story right here is don't hate the man of god
You know, it's one thing that if you don't like a certain preaching or something like that
But this woman not only hated the man of god. She sided with the wrong people as well
Okay
And at the end of the day
The man of god has a responsibility to preach the bible. Don't get mad at me for giving you the message
And this is something that's going to happen throughout the years
As a church is that there will always be people who are mad at my preaching
They're mad at what I say, but at the end of the day don't be a despiser of those that are good
You know, we should love the word of god. We should love the preaching of god's word not despite prophesying
And we should love be a lover of good men
Not be a lover of wicked people and false prophets
and and so forth and so
She's obviously a devil worshiping murderous woman
But also she's just like hating the man of god. She wants to kill him. She's threatening him and she's siding with and funding
The wicked false prophets of her day go to first kings chapter 21 first kings chapter 21
Don't name your daughter jasabel
So
First kings 21, what's another quality
Aspect of jasabel. Well, she was a slanderer and a railer for unjust gain
Now this story is crazy, okay now if you weren't convinced that she was wicked
Before which I don't know how you couldn't be but let's just say you're giving her the benefit of the doubt
This story right here should just put the nail in the coffin for that
Look at verse one it came to pass after these things
That naboth the jezralite had a vineyard
Which was in jezral hard by the palace of ahab king of samaria
And ahab spake unto naboth saying give me the thy vineyard that I may have it for a garden of herbs
Because it is near into my house and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it
Or if it seemed good to thee I will give thee the worth of it in money
Naboth said to ahab the lord forbidded me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee
So basically, you know ahab he sees this this beautiful vineyard and he's just he wants it
Okay, so he's trying to bargain with naboth regarding this vineyard and naboth is just like it's not about the money
It's not about a better vineyard. It's the fact that it's in it's my inheritance. Okay
It's something that we want to keep in the family in other words
So, you know ahab instead of just like, oh, you know, that makes sense I got you it makes
It was a fit
This is a grown man
Look at verse four ahab came into his house heavy and displeased
Because of the word which naboth the jezralite had spoken to him
For he had said I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers and he laid him down upon his bed
And turned away his face and would eat no bread and you could probably add into that he probably started sucking his thumb, too
So he he starts throwing a fit because he can't have this xbox game or whatever
You can't have this particular thing
You can't have a particular car. You can't have a particular
I don't know piece of clothing or shoes
Or you know, whatever it is that young guys like nowadays, I don't know
So he goes home
He's the king mind you
He lays in bed
And he just kind of gets in a fetal position
And just you know, it's time to eat he's just like i'm not hungry
He's throwing a fit this is what a three-year-old does
This is what a four-year-old does and in fact my son is seven years old
And it would be justified for him to do that, but he doesn't do that
Because we don't let our kids just throw fits
Kids throw fits, but we don't let them just continue in their fit
Because they need to learn that when no is no
You don't just whine and complain and throw a fit to get whatever you want. That's what he's doing
He's throwing a fit because he he wants someone to sympathize with him and that someone obviously is his wife
Because his wife is the one that wears the pants in the family
So she's going to do something about it
But he's over here whining throwing a fit
Laying himself down turning away his face
Not eating bread. I mean you're a king ahab
I'd be like, you know what?
Let me just plant a better vineyard
And and just kind of rub it in his face afterwards
I mean if you want to be petty about it, but instead he just throws
He just starts whining and complaining because he can't have his xbox
Verse five says but jezebel his wife came to him and said why is that spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread?
Verse six and he said to him
Because I spake him to name up the jezerolite
And said unto him give me thy vineyard for money
Or else if it please thee I will give thee another vineyard for it
And he answered I want to give thee my vineyard
I'm assuming he probably said that like in that way
You say how do you know because that's how my kids explain things to me when they're throwing a fit
Sometimes my kids are explaining to me like what's wrong and i'm like, I can't understand you you're whining
And then they try to explain it again. I'm like you're still whining. I can't understand you
Stop whining and then explain to me what happened
And then it's just like
And i'm just like I don't know what you're saying
You're gonna have to first stop whining and then tell me the problem
So i'm assuming that's what ahab is doing here, okay
He's throwing this little hissy fit
all for a vineyard
Verse seven and jezebel his wife said unto him dost thou not govern the kingdom of israel. Ouch
Dang
Arise
Eat bread and let thy heart be merry
I will give thee the vineyard of naboth of jezreelite. This guy has no dignity whatsoever
He's such a freaking weenie
You know, his wife his wife's always like i'll take care of you know, what is she she's a boss babe basically, right?
I will give you the vineyard of naboth of jezreelite
and i'm sure he wiped his tears away and
You know stopped sucking his thumb and then went to go eat after that or something
No, not yet
Look at verse eight
So she wrote letters in ahab's name and sealed them with the seal
And sent the letters into the elders into the nobles that were in the city dwelling with naboth
And she wrote in the letter saying proclaim a fast and set naboth on high among the people
And said to and said two men sons of belio before him to bear witness against him
Saying thou didst blaspheme god and the king and then carry him out and stone him that he may die
So she hires these sons of belio meaning sons of the devil
reprobates the baser sort
To essentially bring this railing accusation against naboth in order to turn
The people against naboth so that they can essentially kill him
Because in jezabel's mind it's like well, I know how to fix the problem
Just kill naboth and you can have the vineyard. I mean, that's wicked
Verse 11 and the men of the city even the elders and nobles who were
The inhabitants in the city did as jezabel had sent into them
And as it was written in the letters
Which she had sent unto him by the way
You kind of think like isn't there anybody in that kingdom who?
like has dignity
Isn't there someone who's just like, you know, should we be listening to jezabel?
You know, isn't there something wrong with this but they're all like yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am
Verse 12 they proclaimed a fast and satan naboth on high among the people
And there came in two men children of belial and sat before him
And the men of belial witnessed against them even against naboth in the presence of the people saying naboth did blaspheme god and the king
Then they carried him forth out of the city and stone him with stones that he died
Then they sent to jezabel saying naboth is stone and is dead and it came to pass when jezabel heard that naboth was stone
And was dead that jezabel said to ahab arise
Take possession of the of the vineyard of naboth the jezerolite
Which he refused to give you for money for naboth is not alive
But dead and it came to pass when ahab heard that naboth was dead
The ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of naboth the jezerolite to take possession of it
So he's just like oh goody
So then he just runs down and he takes the vineyard. I mean this guy doesn't know how to fight his own battles
And let me just say this, you know, obviously this is an extreme case but men learn how to fight your own battles
Don't get your wife to fight battles for you
Don't get your wife to defend you or to have to throw blows for you or something like that be a man
We're the protectors of our home my friends
We're the ones who are protecting our wives our children
Don't be a person who you're just depending on your jezabel to get you out of a difficult situation
You should be the one on deck, you know leading your home defending yourself when needed
not doing this
This ridiculous thing here where jezabel is literally lying and you're plotting the murder of an innocent man
Naboth did nothing wrong
You know, he had an inheritance and
Unfortunately, he came in contact with with with ahab who's just an idiot
Okay, who has a wicked wife?
And so it's a very sad story unfortunately, but it shows you the extent of her wickedness that she's willing to do whatever it takes
By any means necessary to get something done
Even if it's the most immoral thing and taking the life of an innocent man, I mean, it's wicked
Okay, go to first kings 21 first kings 21
First kings 21
So
Not only that but she provoked her husband to work wickedness i've already mentioned this but let's look at a couple verses here
Look at verse 25, but there was none like unto ahab
Which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the lord?
Listen to this whom jezaba his wife stirred up
You know what? This tells me it tells me that a spouse
Is someone who can either provoke you and stir you up for good or can stir you up for bad
You know our greatest influence
In this world is our spouse to a certain extent if you're married, of course
You know, they have major influence in our lives
And so, you know husbands provoke your wives
unto good works
Wives provoke your husbands unto good works
Don't hold them back from serving god if they want to go all in for the lord
Let them go all in for the lord
if they want to just be zealous and just
You know all in and fired up about sowing they want to come to church three times a week don't douse that flame
You know stir them up
unto righteousness
That's what you're there for
Okay, and husbands as well, you know, if you find out that your wife is just excited about the things of god
She wants to be in church. She wants to learn her biblical role
According to the bible. She wants to do those things give her the liberty to do those things. Don't hold her back
Why are you getting a little crazy there you're getting a little wild there
You know, all right, you can wear dresses when you come to church, but
You know throughout the league I want to see some pants or something. That's wicked
Let your wife be godly if she wants to be godly
Let your wife serve the lord in that manner. Don't hold her back. And in fact, you know, don't let her run laps around you either
Catch up
Learn the bible walk with god
Be someone who stirs up your spouse onto righteousness unto good works
You know, uh be the individual in your relationship
With your in your marriage where when your spouse is excited about reading the bible is excited about sowing that you feed that fire
You throw more gas into that fire of just like let's do it. Let's go sony. When do you want to go?
Let's let's practice these verses together
Let's go out on these particular days. Let's read the bible. What do we have to do feed that flame?
Don't be a hindrance in your marriage
You know if your spouse is just like do you want to go back on sunday night?
I want to go but I don't know if I should don't be the one that says
Let's just stay
Be the one that says you know what we should go
Because it's right to do
You know and and let's go let's just go let's go sunday night
Let's go thursday night be the one that provokes one another into good works. Don't be the one that provokes unto compromise
You're stirring up your spouse to compromise in the christian life
And to scale back on your commitment to the things of god, okay?
He says in verse 26 and he did very abominably in following idols according to all the things
As did the amorites which the lord cast out before the children of israel it came to pass when ahab heard those words
That he rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went softly
He says in the word of the lord came to elijah the tish by saying see is thou how ahab humbled himself before me
Because he humbled himself before me. I will not bring evil in his days
But in his day in his son's days, will I bring evil upon this house? So what does that show me? It shows me
That the the major problem
with ahab
Isn't necessarily ahab it was jezebel
Because when he hears about the word of the lord, he's just like oh man, I need to humble myself
I need to get right with god
You know, and so she's obviously the culprit
And we're not saying that jezebel
Is it's like oh and all marriage is just jezebel because there could be like a male jezebel, too
You know someone who's wicked, you know, um, i'm his name is fleeing me right now
there's abigail
and what
Nabal
Was another example, right? That's like the antithesis of this particular couple where you have abigail who's a woman who feared the lord
But then she had a wicked husband who was the son of belial
named navel, okay
Now go to second kings chapter nine if you would second king chapter nine. We're almost done
Let me just breeze through some of these points here point number five regarding jezebel
She sought to seduce the prophet all the while threatening him
Look what it says in second king chapter nine now, let me just say this is that during this time
There's this really gangster king that just rises up
It's my favorite bible character of the old testament and that is jehu the son of nimshi
This guy is awesome. Okay
He is anointed by elijah
By the instruction instruction of elijah and he tells him like hey, I want you to be the king
You're gonna take over and then he tells jehu. I want you to wipe out the house of ahab
And then wipe out jezebel, too
And he's just he's just like wipe everyone out
All these wicked people in the land all these leaders. You're just a hitman and I want you to just destroy them all
And jehu's not like, you know, well, isn't there like a good person? He's just like got it
Say less
You know, he's just like I got it and you know what this guy is awesome
And let me just explain one of the awesome things that he did
He basically he goes to
the false prophets of the land
And he says this he says, you know ahab worship bale little
I shall worship him much
You're like what? Yeah, I mean, that's what he said
He basically saying like oh you think ahab worship bail
You haven't seen nothing. Yeah, i'm going to worship him more than ahab
So he's basically trying to gain the trust of the people of the land
And he's like i'm going to throw a big banquet for all for bail and I want all the false prophets
He doesn't call them false prophets
But all the prophets of bail to come and we're going to show up in this house and we just got this this banquet
This mess all this food just to honor all the prophets of bail
So they all come bunch of idiots. They all come
He gets them into this this this building
And then he tells every he tells his guys
Kill them all
And he goes and anybody who escapes your life will go for theirs
I mean, obviously he's a little dishonest
But you know it worked, you know because they got them all into that building and he just wipes them all out
Okay, it's kind of like, you know, the rat traps we have sometimes where it's just like, you know
We put a little peanut butter in there
And it's just like it's for you little mouse
But then once they go in there, they're just electrocuted to death, okay
This is jihu
And so he wipes them all out and the guy is just super savage and let me just say this he does not fear jezabel
at all
He has no quarrels
about jezabel, he's just like
You're done look at verse 29 and in the 11th year of joram the son of ahab began at haziah to reign over judah
And when jews come to jezrael
Jezebel heard of it and she painted her face
And teared her head and looked out at the window so she knows that he's coming to whack her
So this is why she paints on her face she gets her hair done, you know
Gets her hair all fixed up
And as you entered into the gate, she said had zimrai peace who slew his master
Now, what does this mean?
Well, I believe the reason she's painting on her face and kind of getting herself dolled up
Is because she is to a certain extent trying to seduce the prophet
But in like manner she's also threatening jihu with this statement here. See why?
because zimrai
like jihu
Came in and just wiped everyone out before him and then he ended up dying a real dishonorable death
They they ended up encompassing about and then he went into the king's house and he basically lit it on fire
And just died in there, okay
Because they were coming after him. So she's saying had zimrai peace who slew his master
She's basically saying you're going to be like zimrai
She's putting him in the place of zimrai in other words
Now jihu doesn't have a response for her
He doesn't say hey, what do you mean by that?
What's that supposed to mean? You know, are you saying i'm zimrai or something? He just ignores her
verse 32 looked it up his face through the window and said
Who's on my side?
And they're looked out to him two or three eunuchs
Now eunuch is a person is a man
Who in the bible had his privy members cut off?
And sometimes this would happen
So that they can serve a queen
And there would be no
You know physical intercourse taking place. There's no possibility of that
And so that's what would happen, you know
Unfortunately, that's what they did in those days. I mean daniel was a eunuch
Okay
Now let me just say something is that eunuchs because they have their privy member cut off
You know that
They don't necessarily produce a whole lot of testosterone
Okay
So they kind of become very soft and effeminate that's just how it kind of is
And so when jiu comes he's just like who's on my side they kind of look out the window because they're serving the queen there
And he said throw her down
So they threw her down and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses and he trowed her
Underfoot so jiu is such a powerful leader
That
He can even get eunuchs with no stones no privy member to man up
And throw jezebel down
I mean, he's just like no testosterone. No problem. I'll give you some of my testosterone
And emboldened them to just get rid of the queen
They threw her off the balcony
They dead lifted her off the balcony
P rd
Off the balcony
And apparently her her fall was so bad that her blood
splattered on the wall
and then
It got on the horses and the horses are just kind of stepping on her
And when he was come in he did eat and drink
He's like that was easy
He just gets off it goes in he's like what's what do you guys got? What kind of food you guys eating here?
And said go see now this cursed woman and bury her for she is a king's daughter
Because you know, she's she's royalty. So royalty deserves, you know, somewhat of a a noble, I guess burial
so he's just like go see what's going on with this cursed woman because she is a
You know, she's a king's daughter. So she needs to be buried or whatever
But what happens is well, i'll get into that in just a bit
so
We see here how wicked she was even to the very end. She's still threatening the man of god
All the while painting on her face trying to doll herself up
To look appealing maybe to the man of god, but you know, he sees all he sees past that he's not
It's he's not going to fall for it
Which leads me to my next point is that she was of little worth in the eyes of god
Look at verse 35 and they went to bury her but they found no more of her than the skull
And the feet and the palms of her hands
Wherefore they came again and told him and he said this is the word of the lord
Which he spake by his servant elijah the tishbite saying in the portion of jesrael shall dogs eat the flesh of jezabel
And the carcass of jezabel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of jezrael
So that they shall not say this is jezabel
You say what how does that prove that she's of little worth?
In the eyes of god. Well, because the bible says give not that which is holy unto the dogs
Yeah
And so he fed jezabel to the dogs and all that will remain was her feet her palms and her skull
I want to see this in a sunday school lesson
You're like i've never heard that story, you know why because pastors don't like to talk about this stuff
Because they're afraid they might offend some person in the church folks. This is the bible
These are incredible stories and this isn't fiction
This actually happened
Okay, jew was a real man who did this. He actually said these things
You know and basically saying so you're not even being able to identify the body. No one's gonna be like, oh, yeah, that's jezabel
And so, you know god didn't see fit he's just like well, you know, she's not worth anything she's such a wicked person
That it's it's only it's me to give her to the dogs because she's not a holy person
Here's my last point is that essentially at the end of the day she's an example of what kind of woman
You don't want in church
Because in revelation chapter two the one who's speaking in revelation two when we started is who it's jesus
Jesus is the one speaking and he talks about that woman jezabel
Which calls itself a prophetess to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and eat things sacrificed
unto idols and he's saying basically like
Basically like you need to get rid of this woman and or she needs to repent and by the way, let me just say this is that
This entire story about jezabel shows me how long suffering god is with people
Because of the fact that you know
The fact that jesus said this in revelation chapter two about jezabel because later on he says I gave her space to repent
He gave jezabel space to repent too
so, how do you know because
ahab repented
He gave ahab space to repent and he actually did repent obviously he did stupid stuff afterwards
He ended up dying a horrible death, too
But he did give her give them space to repent and he gave jezabel space to repent she didn't and so therefore
She suffered the consequences of her actions for blaspheming god killing the prophets of god
Threatening the man of god just not being under authority just being a murderous pagan devil worshiping
pant wearing
You know when I mean pat worries like she's the man of the house apparently
Type of a woman
And so, you know, there's not anything good to say about jezabel my friends
There's certain people in the bible that they don't have a good start and they don't have a good ending and jezabel's one of them
And so what can we learn from this sermon regarding jezabel? Well number one don't marry a jezabel
Because they're still around they're just not named jezabel
Okay, don't marry jezabel and stay away from people like that
You know, i'm not saying any every woman who paints her face on is a jezabel either
So don't take that too far and be like, oh, you know any woman with makeup. No you
That's a ridiculous interpretation
Obviously, there's nothing wrong with makeup. Okay
The fact that the bible talks about her painting on her face is an indicator that she tried to seduce people
Okay
she's trying to uh, essentially
Cover who she really is
Her murderous intent towards jihoo because at the end of the day if she had a chance she would have killed you too
Stay away from the jezabels don't marry a jezabel and don't name your kids jezabel either
Let's pray father. We thank you so much for your word and thank you for elijah. Thank you for elijah
And thank you for jihoo lord. I pray that you'd help us to have discernment
as christians to stay away from the jezabels of this world lord, and um, I pray that you'd
Give our young men discernment as well lord and recognize that beauty is vain
And so lord, may you help us to take these things to heart
And to recognize the importance of fearing you and serving you regardless of what threats come our ways whether through family or friends or the world
Help us lord as your people to be resolved in our service for you like jihoo was in jesus name. We pray. Amen
Man song number 136 is your last song master. The tempest is raging song number 136
Song number 136 we'll sing it on that first verse
Master the tempest is raging
The billows are tossing high
The sky is o'er shadowed with blackness
Blackness
Her help is mine
Charis thou not that we perish
How canst thou lie asleep?
When each moment so madly is threatening a grave in the angry deep
The winds and the waves shall obey my will
Please
be still
Whether the wrath of the storm does see or demons or men or whatever it be
No water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and skies
They all shall sweetly obey my will
Please be still
Please be still they all shall sweetly obey my will
peace peace be still
Master with anguish of spirit I bow in my grief today
Awaken and save I pray
Torrents of sin and of anguish
Sweep o'er my sinking soul
And I perish I perish dear master
Oh hasten and take control
The winds and the waves shall obey my will
Please be still
Whether the wrath of the storm does see or demons or men or whatever it be
No water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and skies
They all shall sweetly obey my will
Please be still
Please be still they all shall sweetly obey my will
peace peace be still
Master the terror is over the elements sweetly rest
Her son in the comin' is mirrored
Linger O blessed Redeemer
And with joy I shall make the blessed harbor
And rest on that blissful shore
The winds and the waves shall obey my will
Please be still
Whether the wrath of the storm does see or demons or men or whatever it be
No water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and skies
They all shall sweetly obey my will
Peace be still
Peace be still they all shall sweetly obey my will
Peace peace be still
Amen, we have a baptism as we wait for the baptism. Uh, let's sing song number 24 and can it be
song number 24
Song number 24
Sing on that first verse
And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the savior
Fly
He for me
Caused his pain for me
Till death purged too
Amazing love how can it be?
Thou my God
Shouldst die
for me
Amazing
love
How can it be?
That thou my God shouldst die for me
He left his father's throne
above
So free so infinite
His
Grace emptied himself
of all
but love
and fled
for
Adam's helpless race
Tis mercy
all
Him and
Set free
for all
Oh my God
It found
out me
Amazing
love
How can
it be
That thou
my God
Shouldst die
for me
Long my
embrace
and spirit
play
fast found
in sin
and nature's
not
thine
I defuse
acquit
me
reign
I woke
the
dust inflamed
with light
my
chains fell off
my heart
was free
I
went forth
and followed
me
Amazing
love
How
can it
be
That thou
my God
Shouldst die
for me
Thank you
Father we thank you so much for
this Sunday and all that was accomplished
the souls that were saved
and those who made decisions
throughout the sermons Lord
I pray that you bless us as we fellowship
after church and throughout the week
Lord may we think upon the Lord of the Lord
and ask you to help us Lord
to be filled with the Holy Spirit
and be filled with the Holy Spirit
we thank you to help us Lord
to be filled with the Spirit
and keep us safe Lord and bring us back safely
on Thursday and next Sunday as well
we love you and we thank you
we pray these things in Jesus name
Amen