Next question who is the person in heaven you would want to talk to first?
That's a cool question
Who is the person in heaven that I would want to talk to first?
So obviously that you know when you think of people in heaven that you want to meet you you want to meet the greats?
Obviously like and obviously this is excluding Jesus. Everyone wants to meet Jesus. I mean who doesn't want to meet Jesus
He's our Savior but aside from Jesus, you know, obviously there's David there's Moses. There's John there's Peter
But I'll be honest with you the first person I'm gonna go to
If this is possible
Is Jehu the son of Nimshi?
Okay, who was the king of Israel?
Cuz I just think he is a bad bad not bad as in like, you know as an evil
I think he's just like he's cool. Okay?
He's a bad guy but bad as in cool
And the reason I say that is because when you read the story of Jehu
He lived a very fast-paced life as soon as he was anointed
He went out was driving furiously he executed the commandments of God
I mean he came up with a lot of great
one-liners during his ministry and
I just really appreciated his zeal for the Lord. You know, if you don't know anything about Jehu the son of Nimshi he
Wanted to rid the land of the prophets of Baal. So what he did was he held the feast
For the prophets of Baal and he said, you know Ahab which is the king that he killed because he want
God wanted to for him to destroy Ahab. He said Ahab served Baal little I shall serve him much
And obviously he's being a little deceitful. So he basically holds this feast for all these prophets of Baal
They come into this place to hold the feast. He's trying to collect them all and then he tells his men
All right, kill them all
You know these false prophets these devil worshippers and he's like if any one of these guys escaped your life shall go for his
so he rid the land of a lot of evil of a lot of wickedness of two specific kings and
Jezebel, you know and here's one of the reasons why Jehu the son of Nimshi is so cool
Because somehow he encouraged these eunuchs which are men with no stones
To hack get some stones to cast her down from the balcony
You know, he comes to Jezebel and
He's like he basically tells the eunuchs that are next to her, you know, throw her down and they manned up
Believe it or not
even though they're eunuchs and they cast her down the dog, you know, and then he trampled her with with the horse and
Then the dogs ate her and just left her hands and her feet
you know and it was just a very awesome ministry that he had I feel like he was just I
Really like him because I feel like he was very zealous and in fact it literally says, you know
He's driving furiously
And he comes up to the one of the kings and he says is thine heart right as my heart is with thine heart
And then he says he brought him into his charity. He said come and see my zeal for the Lord
You know, he said come and see my zeal for the Lord and that's a pretty profound statement
He's like I want you to see how much I love the Lord and he's definitely a man who loved the Lord and and you know
He wasn't a perfect guy obviously, but God did honor him
and and and
blessed him greatly because
He did execute a lot of his commandments a lot of people criticized you who the son of Nimshi like oh no
But he did this. Well, here's the thing. No one's perfect folks
You know, the Kings are not perfect
David was imperfect. He committed adultery and murdered a man
Moses murdered a man
Samson committed fornication
You know
Samuel the Prophet raised, you know some bad kids
Eli the Prophet raised
reprobate children I
Mean we can go on and on and on of people in the Bible who just made a lot of mistakes
so somehow people when they read the Bible and they see a man of a man of God and he's doing great exploits and then
They see one little chink in his armor where he just messed up in some area of his life. It's like oh, no
He's evil. He was wicked that guy wasn't even saved. It's like what are you talking about?
What it shows is that this person was just a real human being
Because real human beings make mistakes folks they make mistakes they you know, they they make bad decisions
The Bible is a real book that you know
Displays the strengths and the weaknesses of man and and men of God who loved the Lord but made bad decisions sometimes
And that's why I love the Bible so much just because of the fact that you know
When you read these stories you can relate to them. They're not these these men who are just unattainable
It's like well, I can never be like that
well
when you see the mistakes that they made you're like wait that I can kind of relate to that because I've made mistakes like
That or I've thought that way before or you know, I feel those types of weaknesses in my personal life
and so it makes it relatable, you know, there's no temptation taking you but such as is common to man and
So, you know the same things that you struggle with today are the same things that men of God struggled with to
2,000 years ago the Bible says in James chapter number five that Elijah was a man of like passions
Passions means that he suffered the same afflictions that you suffer with too. You know, Elijah struggled with depression believe it or not
He struggled with discouragement and you know what there's people today the struggle with depression and discouragement even though they love the Lord and
It's a normal thing
Okay, and so, you know, we can't expect the men of God and the Bible to just be perfect now
Obviously if they you know, there's people in the Bible who are just like only wicked and they hated God
But G who was not that man G who loved the Lord
He executed the commandments of God and so, you know
These people who want to have these high standards for these men of God in the Bible
They're tip. They're basically projecting because obviously they're probably involved in something wicked. What if we held them to that same standard?
For what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and what measure ye me, it shall be measured to you again
I love the fact that the Bible is real and it displays the character and the weaknesses of
Men of God because it shows how real they really are