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Welcome to the Westside church’s special Monday Morning Coffee podcast with Mark Roberts. Mark is a disciple, a husband, father and grand dad, as well as a certified coffee geek, fan of CS Lewis’ writings and he loves his big red Jeep. He’s also the preacher for Westside church.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
Hello, and welcome to the Westside Church's special
Monday Morning Coffee podcast.
On this podcast, our preacher,Mark Roberts, will help you get
your week started right with alook back at yesterday's sermon
so that we can think through itfurther and better work the
(00:24):
applications into our dailylives.
Mark will then look forward intothis week's Bible reading so
that we can know what to expectand watch for.
And he may have some extra bonusthoughts from time to time.
So grab a cup of coffee as westart the week together on
Monday Morning Coffee with Mark.
SPEAKER_02 (00:52):
Good morning, good morning.
Welcome to the Monday MorningCoffee podcast for Monday...
August the 11th, coming off agreat back-to-school Sunday
yesterday.
All kinds of great thingshappening at Westside as the
school year gets underway.
I have another great coffee mug.
Coffee is incredible, but ofcourse what mug you're drinking
it out of really helps, andthere's good memories, or
somebody gave it to you, or inthis case, this is a mug Dean
(01:15):
and I bought in Branson twoweeks ago.
We were there on a little R&R,and we did not even know it, but
there was a stage production ofThe Lion, the Witch, and the
Absolutely incredible.
Highly recommend.
Highly recommend.
Very true to the books, unlikethe Disney movies, I might add,
and we just had a great timegetting to see that, and I
(01:35):
bought in the souvenir shop amug with Reepicheep the mouse.
He is my favorite Narniancharacter, and I just love
Reepicheep.
We finished up Narnia Club lastMonday, Voyage of the Dawn
Treader this year.
So much fun, and if you haven'tread the Chronicles of Narnia,
you absolutely should.
All children should read them,but Lewis did not write them for
children.
They are written for adults, andin fact, in the fall word to one
(01:57):
of them, he said to the younglady that he was dedicating the
Chronicles of Narnia to.
I believe that's in the Lion,the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Someday you'll be old enough toread fairy tales again.
They are a wonderful, wonderfulread, and as I'm drinking coffee
out of my Reepicheep mug, itjust makes me feel extra
courageous.
And I think we're going to needsome of that as we journey
forward in 2 Kings.
(02:18):
We're going to need somecourage, but first, a note or
two about yesterday's Back toSchool Sunday.
Pour that cup of coffee.
Let's get ready.
Let's get set.
Let's go.
Yesterday was Back to SchoolSunday.
This is a wonderful tradition atWestside that I just adore.
It is such an important part ofour kids' lives to be in school,
private, public, homeschool, andI just love the way we spend
(02:42):
extra time to say, you need theblessings of God as you begin a
new school year.
And it really says somethingabout Westside being a praying
church that we do that.
It's just great.
So I did not preach in the 1040because we prayed.
I preached in the 9, though, alesson for parents, before the
bell rings, God's word forparents, some things for the
parents to be thinking about asthey send their kids back to
(03:03):
school.
And I'll just give you an extrathought here this morning.
Here's a reminder.
I had five reminders for youyesterday.
Here's reminder number six fromEphesians 5.16.
Make the most of everyopportunity in these evil days.
Ephesians 5.16, make the most ofevery opportunity in these evil
days.
Here's the reminder.
(03:23):
You have a limited amount oftime.
Your kids will be with you for18 to 20 years, but our time
when we really impact them iseven shorter than that, isn't
it?
You don't have...
tons and tons of impact on yourkids.
Once they start middle schooland high school, your impact
begins to diminish.
And I don't think that reallyhit me until that happened with
(03:45):
Rebecca and Sarah.
They got in middle school andthey were at school a lot longer
and they were at practice andthey were at friends' houses and
they just weren't around thehouse as much.
And then they got into highschool and that just hit warp
factor 10.
Suddenly there were a lot ofquiet evenings where there used
to be little ones running aroundthe house And someone asking,
(04:06):
hey, can we watch a TV showtogether?
Or could we go on a family walk?
And nope, they were gone.
Or maybe Dean and I were rushingto get out the door to attend a
recital or a concert or to go toa ball game and see the marching
band.
All the things that go withthat.
So all of that is to say, makethe most of your time, mom and
dad.
(04:26):
The days are long.
Yes, I get that.
But remember, the years areshort.
We know what we want.
So go raise your children to behis children.
(04:55):
For Monday's Bible reading, wewill read all of 2 Kings chapter
7.
And I know that you're just likeme, anxious to get back to this
chapter.
Last week on Thursday, we werereading 2 Kings 6, and Ben-Hadad
is sieging Samaria, and the kinghas all been out of shape with
Elisha instead of trying torepent.
And Elisha says, 2 Kings, boy,more coffee.
(05:17):
Come here, Reepicheep.
2 Kings 7.1 Hear the word of theLord, thus says the Lord.
Tomorrow about this time a seaof fine flour shall be sold for
a shekel, two seas of barley fora shekel at the gate of Samaria.
So they've been in such famine.
that people are eating their ownchildren, and what Elisha says
is tomorrow there will be suchabundance that normal food
(05:39):
prices will return.
And you just see the action ofGod all along the way here.
Verse 6, the Lord made the armyof the Syrians hear the sound of
chariots and horses, so theythink the Egyptians are coming.
Another miraculous interventionfor undeserving people, and the
Syrians go blowing out the backdoor as four harmless lepers
arrive in the front door.
(06:00):
And I think there's a littlesuspense in verse 8.
We're wondering if the four menwill take the good news back to
the city and do the right thing.
And maybe there's concern herethat it's going to be a trap,
but it's not a trap.
And verse 16 uses thatexpression, word of the Lord,
according to the word of theLord.
One of the things that we can dohere is let the Bible build our
(06:20):
faith in God.
When God says something willhappen, it will happen.
And you don't want to be likethis captain who said God's word
can't come to pass.
He ends up, verse 20, beingtrampled.
Our reading for Monday, 2 Kings7.
Welcome to Tuesday.
Today we read 2 Kings 8, 1-15.
Once again, the Shunammite womanappears, and the question here
(06:43):
will be about Gehazi.
What's he doing in the story?
And the possibilities are thatthe story is in chronological
order, that he repented and hewas healed, or the other
possibility, of course, is thatthe story is out of order and he
has not been struck with leprosyyet in 2 Kings 5.
So, not sure exactly where toput all of that, but I do think
(07:07):
the story is in very starkcontrast to Ahab's land-grabbing
ways, and this kind of climaxesall of these chapters, which
really do tell all of the greatthings that Elisha has done.
Then we get this crazyprediction.
of succession in Aram, beginningin 2 Kings 8, verse 7, all the
(07:27):
way through verse 15.
And I think this involves somesarcasm here and some double
answering.
Verse 10, go say to him, youshall certainly recover, but the
Lord has shown me that he willcertainly die.
Yes, if left to normalcircumstances, he would recover.
No, he's going to beassassinated.
You're going to assassinate himand he will die.
(07:49):
So it's not really acontradiction.
Both of these prophecies cometrue.
The king would not die of theillness.
He would die at the hands of anassassin.
And so that's where our readingends off in verse 15.
What a terrible end this is.
And I want to emphasize, we'lltalk about this in Zoom.
West Siders, we get a Zoom calltonight.
One of the things that we wantto talk about is the run into
(08:12):
chaos and anarchy in thenorthern kingdom.
The reigns of various kings getshorter and shorter, and there's
more assassinations and morecraziness as more and more
people do bad things.
things.
2 Kings 8, 1-15 is our readingfor Tuesday.
It is Wednesday and our readingtoday is 1 Kings 8, 16-29.
(08:34):
But before we do that, let'shear from Hunter Allen who will
be with us tonight in our Judgesseries talking about Eli.
Sometimes we forget about Elibeing a judge because we've
ended the book of Judges.
Hunter will tell us about Eliand here he is to describe and
discuss his lesson this evening.
SPEAKER_01 (08:49):
Hey, my name is Hunter Allen, and I'm really
looking forward to being withyou to talk about Eli.
Eli's story ends with a greatdisaster.
30,000 soldiers in Israel aredead.
His sons, two priests, are dead.
(09:09):
Eli himself, the judge and highpriest of Israel, is dead too.
The only successor to thepriesthood is an orphaned
newborn named No Glory.
And the Ark of God is inPhilistine hands.
(09:31):
In our time, whenever a disasterstrikes, we launch an
investigation to figure out whatwent wrong so that we can
prevent it from happening again.
That's exactly what we need todo with Eli.
We need to see where he wentwrong so that we don't end up in
the same place.
His story will leave us withsome powerful and challenging
(09:53):
lessons.
And so I hope to see you therewith an open Bible and a soft
heart that together we mightlearn from the word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_02 (10:04):
Thank you, Hunter.
I know that we're all lookingforward to hearing what you have
to say about Eli tonight.
Our reading again for Wednesdayis 1 Kings 8.
No, it's not 1 Kings.
It's 2 Kings 8, 16 to 29.
And this is kind of a meanwhileback at the ranch text.
We have not heard aboutJehoshaphat since 1 Kings
chapter 22.
(10:25):
So now, for a brief moment, theauthor returns to tell us what's
going on in Judah.
And we get this wonderfulbusiness where we have a Joram
in the north and a Jehoram inthe south.
And, of course, Joram in thenorth could also be Jehoram.
Those are just differentspellings or different ways of
saying the name.
We use Bob instead of Robert,for example.
(10:46):
And so you've got Jehoram in thenorth and Jehoram in the south.
He's just not good for much atall.
He walks in the ways of thekings of Israel.
He was extremely wicked.
In fact, the account in 2Chronicles chapter 21 tells us
he killed all of his brothers.
His primary accomplishment isthat he marries the daughter of
Ahab.
And so now Athaliah has allkinds of influence in his life,
(11:10):
and she will cause Judah to bemore like Israel all the time.
She is a true Israelite, and bythat I mean a Baal worshiper and
everything that goes with Ofcourse, verse 19 is going to be
the keynote here.
The grace and goodness of God.
The chapter ends then with anote about Ahaziah, verses 25 to
29.
This is about 841 B.C., and youshould know, if you'll look to
(11:34):
the north, you can see Assyria.
Assyria is on the rise now.
For a long time, there reallyhasn't been a major big dog
player, and Syria, withBen-Hadad, has been trying to be
that a little bit, and maybeIsrael's going to be some of
that, trying to be some of that.
No, no, no.
Israel's going to be some ofthat.
It's going to be Assyria.
(11:56):
Get ready.
We're going to hear more andmore about Assyria.
Our reading for Wednesday, 2Kings 8, 16 to 29.
Welcome to Thursday.
Welcome to Thursday.
And today we read 2 Kings 9, 1to 13.
And as I said earlier this week,the pace of anarchy and chaos is
just, it's just accelerating.
And Jehu will be the one todrive that.
(12:17):
Ha ha, see what I did there?
We'll drive that even further.
The only part of God'sinstructions to Elijah from 1
Kings 19, still to be done, isnow being taken care of by
Elisha, his successor.
Please be aware, verse 3, thussays the Lord, that's the
operative expression, verse 12,thus says says the Lord.
And it is clear from verse 11that there's not a lot of
(12:39):
respect going on for prophets.
Oh, this guy's just a madman,all the things that go with
that.
Nobody's really paying attentionto God.
Nobody's paying attention toGod's messengers.
And I should note, verse 13,that the fact that they jump on
board, J.
Hugh's men, the officers aroundhim say, hey, you be the king.
It says a lot about how nobodyis that excited about the house
(13:02):
of Omri.
They have not ruled And Jehu isabout to bring that to a very
bloody conclusion.
But we won't read about thattomorrow, because tomorrow we'll
be in the Psalms.
Reading for Thursday, 2 Kings 9,1-13.
It is Friday.
It is Friday, so we are in thePsalms.
We're reading Psalm 35 today.
(13:23):
Let me have a little coffeehere.
And then we're reading this helpme Lord Psalm.
This is very much a lament.
This is David crying out beforeGod.
And I often say that the Psalmsdo not outline well.
Well, this one certainly doesbecause it divides easily into
three stanzas, verses 1 to 10,verses 11 to 18, verses 19 to
28.
And some have said this is atriple lament.
(13:45):
You'll notice once more thatDavid is concerned about people
who say things behind his back.
For without cause, verse 7, theyhid their net from me and dug a
pit for my life.
So there's, I'm worried aboutbeing assassinated, but there's
even more here.
They repay me, verse 12, evilfor good when I was sick.
When they were sick, I woresackcloth, verse 13, but they
(14:05):
don't treat me that way.
That's not how they act aboutme.
They hate me, verse 19, withoutcause.
They do not speak peace, verse20.
They open wide their mouthsagainst me, verse 21, false
witnesses.
So there's scheming, and there'sgloating, and there's people who
want to attack David, and he'sjust And all of that He can
(14:27):
stand.
And so, maybe as difficult asthis psalm is, because we just
sympathize with David foreverything he's going through,
you'll love the end of thispsalm.
Let those who delight in myrighteousness, verse 27, shout
for joy and be glad and sayevermore, Great is the Lord who
delights in the welfare of Hisservant.
Don't you love that?
God delights in the welfare ofHis servants.
(14:51):
What a great way to end the weekin Bible reading.
That's the podcast then.
Thank you so much for listening.
Get so many kind comments.
I've been in some gospelmeetings this year.
A couple of weeks ago, I was inConway and two folks came up to
talk to me about the podcast andhow valuable it was to them and
how much it helped them in theirlives.
It just means so very much.
(15:11):
So, so very much.
Podcast is really for Westsidefolks, but we're always glad
people outside of Westside areenjoying it and being helped by
it as well.
So until next week, when we'llopen our Bibles together again.
I'm Mark Robertson.
I want to go to heaven, and Iwant you to come too.
I will see you on Monday with acup of coffee.
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Monday.
Hello, and welcome to the Westside Church's special
Monday Morning Coffee podcast.
On this podcast, our preacher,Mark Roberts, will help you get
your week started right with alook back at yesterday's sermon
so that we can think through itfurther and better work the
(00:24):
applications into our dailylives.
Mark will then look forward intothis week's Bible reading so
that we can know what to expectand watch for.
And he may have some extra bonusthoughts from time to time.
So grab a cup of coffee as westart the week together on
Monday Morning Coffee with Mark.
SPEAKER_02 (00:52):
Good morning, good morning.
Welcome to the Monday MorningCoffee podcast for Monday...
August the 11th, coming off agreat back-to-school Sunday
yesterday.
All kinds of great thingshappening at Westside as the
school year gets underway.
I have another great coffee mug.
Coffee is incredible, but ofcourse what mug you're drinking
it out of really helps, andthere's good memories, or
somebody gave it to you, or inthis case, this is a mug Dean
(01:15):
and I bought in Branson twoweeks ago.
We were there on a little R&R,and we did not even know it, but
there was a stage production ofThe Lion, the Witch, and the
Absolutely incredible.
Highly recommend.
Highly recommend.
Very true to the books, unlikethe Disney movies, I might add,
and we just had a great timegetting to see that, and I
(01:35):
bought in the souvenir shop amug with Reepicheep the mouse.
He is my favorite Narniancharacter, and I just love
Reepicheep.
We finished up Narnia Club lastMonday, Voyage of the Dawn
Treader this year.
So much fun, and if you haven'tread the Chronicles of Narnia,
you absolutely should.
All children should read them,but Lewis did not write them for
children.
They are written for adults, andin fact, in the fall word to one
(01:57):
of them, he said to the younglady that he was dedicating the
Chronicles of Narnia to.
I believe that's in the Lion,the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Someday you'll be old enough toread fairy tales again.
They are a wonderful, wonderfulread, and as I'm drinking coffee
out of my Reepicheep mug, itjust makes me feel extra
courageous.
And I think we're going to needsome of that as we journey
forward in 2 Kings.
(02:18):
We're going to need somecourage, but first, a note or
two about yesterday's Back toSchool Sunday.
Pour that cup of coffee.
Let's get ready.
Let's get set.
Let's go.
Yesterday was Back to SchoolSunday.
This is a wonderful tradition atWestside that I just adore.
It is such an important part ofour kids' lives to be in school,
private, public, homeschool, andI just love the way we spend
(02:42):
extra time to say, you need theblessings of God as you begin a
new school year.
And it really says somethingabout Westside being a praying
church that we do that.
It's just great.
So I did not preach in the 1040because we prayed.
I preached in the 9, though, alesson for parents, before the
bell rings, God's word forparents, some things for the
parents to be thinking about asthey send their kids back to
(03:03):
school.
And I'll just give you an extrathought here this morning.
Here's a reminder.
I had five reminders for youyesterday.
Here's reminder number six fromEphesians 5.16.
Make the most of everyopportunity in these evil days.
Ephesians 5.16, make the most ofevery opportunity in these evil
days.
Here's the reminder.
(03:23):
You have a limited amount oftime.
Your kids will be with you for18 to 20 years, but our time
when we really impact them iseven shorter than that, isn't
it?
You don't have...
tons and tons of impact on yourkids.
Once they start middle schooland high school, your impact
begins to diminish.
And I don't think that reallyhit me until that happened with
(03:45):
Rebecca and Sarah.
They got in middle school andthey were at school a lot longer
and they were at practice andthey were at friends' houses and
they just weren't around thehouse as much.
And then they got into highschool and that just hit warp
factor 10.
Suddenly there were a lot ofquiet evenings where there used
to be little ones running aroundthe house And someone asking,
(04:06):
hey, can we watch a TV showtogether?
Or could we go on a family walk?
And nope, they were gone.
Or maybe Dean and I were rushingto get out the door to attend a
recital or a concert or to go toa ball game and see the marching
band.
All the things that go withthat.
So all of that is to say, makethe most of your time, mom and
dad.
(04:26):
The days are long.
Yes, I get that.
But remember, the years areshort.
We know what we want.
So go raise your children to behis children.
(04:55):
For Monday's Bible reading, wewill read all of 2 Kings chapter
7.
And I know that you're just likeme, anxious to get back to this
chapter.
Last week on Thursday, we werereading 2 Kings 6, and Ben-Hadad
is sieging Samaria, and the kinghas all been out of shape with
Elisha instead of trying torepent.
And Elisha says, 2 Kings, boy,more coffee.
(05:17):
Come here, Reepicheep.
2 Kings 7.1 Hear the word of theLord, thus says the Lord.
Tomorrow about this time a seaof fine flour shall be sold for
a shekel, two seas of barley fora shekel at the gate of Samaria.
So they've been in such famine.
that people are eating their ownchildren, and what Elisha says
is tomorrow there will be suchabundance that normal food
(05:39):
prices will return.
And you just see the action ofGod all along the way here.
Verse 6, the Lord made the armyof the Syrians hear the sound of
chariots and horses, so theythink the Egyptians are coming.
Another miraculous interventionfor undeserving people, and the
Syrians go blowing out the backdoor as four harmless lepers
arrive in the front door.
(06:00):
And I think there's a littlesuspense in verse 8.
We're wondering if the four menwill take the good news back to
the city and do the right thing.
And maybe there's concern herethat it's going to be a trap,
but it's not a trap.
And verse 16 uses thatexpression, word of the Lord,
according to the word of theLord.
One of the things that we can dohere is let the Bible build our
(06:20):
faith in God.
When God says something willhappen, it will happen.
And you don't want to be likethis captain who said God's word
can't come to pass.
He ends up, verse 20, beingtrampled.
Our reading for Monday, 2 Kings7.
Welcome to Tuesday.
Today we read 2 Kings 8, 1-15.
Once again, the Shunammite womanappears, and the question here
(06:43):
will be about Gehazi.
What's he doing in the story?
And the possibilities are thatthe story is in chronological
order, that he repented and hewas healed, or the other
possibility, of course, is thatthe story is out of order and he
has not been struck with leprosyyet in 2 Kings 5.
So, not sure exactly where toput all of that, but I do think
(07:07):
the story is in very starkcontrast to Ahab's land-grabbing
ways, and this kind of climaxesall of these chapters, which
really do tell all of the greatthings that Elisha has done.
Then we get this crazyprediction.
of succession in Aram, beginningin 2 Kings 8, verse 7, all the
(07:27):
way through verse 15.
And I think this involves somesarcasm here and some double
answering.
Verse 10, go say to him, youshall certainly recover, but the
Lord has shown me that he willcertainly die.
Yes, if left to normalcircumstances, he would recover.
No, he's going to beassassinated.
You're going to assassinate himand he will die.
(07:49):
So it's not really acontradiction.
Both of these prophecies cometrue.
The king would not die of theillness.
He would die at the hands of anassassin.
And so that's where our readingends off in verse 15.
What a terrible end this is.
And I want to emphasize, we'lltalk about this in Zoom.
West Siders, we get a Zoom calltonight.
One of the things that we wantto talk about is the run into
(08:12):
chaos and anarchy in thenorthern kingdom.
The reigns of various kings getshorter and shorter, and there's
more assassinations and morecraziness as more and more
people do bad things.
things.
2 Kings 8, 1-15 is our readingfor Tuesday.
It is Wednesday and our readingtoday is 1 Kings 8, 16-29.
(08:34):
But before we do that, let'shear from Hunter Allen who will
be with us tonight in our Judgesseries talking about Eli.
Sometimes we forget about Elibeing a judge because we've
ended the book of Judges.
Hunter will tell us about Eliand here he is to describe and
discuss his lesson this evening.
SPEAKER_01 (08:49):
Hey, my name is Hunter Allen, and I'm really
looking forward to being withyou to talk about Eli.
Eli's story ends with a greatdisaster.
30,000 soldiers in Israel aredead.
His sons, two priests, are dead.
(09:09):
Eli himself, the judge and highpriest of Israel, is dead too.
The only successor to thepriesthood is an orphaned
newborn named No Glory.
And the Ark of God is inPhilistine hands.
(09:31):
In our time, whenever a disasterstrikes, we launch an
investigation to figure out whatwent wrong so that we can
prevent it from happening again.
That's exactly what we need todo with Eli.
We need to see where he wentwrong so that we don't end up in
the same place.
His story will leave us withsome powerful and challenging
(09:53):
lessons.
And so I hope to see you therewith an open Bible and a soft
heart that together we mightlearn from the word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_02 (10:04):
Thank you, Hunter.
I know that we're all lookingforward to hearing what you have
to say about Eli tonight.
Our reading again for Wednesdayis 1 Kings 8.
No, it's not 1 Kings.
It's 2 Kings 8, 16 to 29.
And this is kind of a meanwhileback at the ranch text.
We have not heard aboutJehoshaphat since 1 Kings
chapter 22.
(10:25):
So now, for a brief moment, theauthor returns to tell us what's
going on in Judah.
And we get this wonderfulbusiness where we have a Joram
in the north and a Jehoram inthe south.
And, of course, Joram in thenorth could also be Jehoram.
Those are just differentspellings or different ways of
saying the name.
We use Bob instead of Robert,for example.
(10:46):
And so you've got Jehoram in thenorth and Jehoram in the south.
He's just not good for much atall.
He walks in the ways of thekings of Israel.
He was extremely wicked.
In fact, the account in 2Chronicles chapter 21 tells us
he killed all of his brothers.
His primary accomplishment isthat he marries the daughter of
Ahab.
And so now Athaliah has allkinds of influence in his life,
(11:10):
and she will cause Judah to bemore like Israel all the time.
She is a true Israelite, and bythat I mean a Baal worshiper and
everything that goes with Ofcourse, verse 19 is going to be
the keynote here.
The grace and goodness of God.
The chapter ends then with anote about Ahaziah, verses 25 to
29.
This is about 841 B.C., and youshould know, if you'll look to
(11:34):
the north, you can see Assyria.
Assyria is on the rise now.
For a long time, there reallyhasn't been a major big dog
player, and Syria, withBen-Hadad, has been trying to be
that a little bit, and maybeIsrael's going to be some of
that, trying to be some of that.
No, no, no.
Israel's going to be some ofthat.
It's going to be Assyria.
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Get ready.
We're going to hear more andmore about Assyria.
Our reading for Wednesday, 2Kings 8, 16 to 29.
Welcome to Thursday.
Welcome to Thursday.
And today we read 2 Kings 9, 1to 13.
And as I said earlier this week,the pace of anarchy and chaos is
just, it's just accelerating.
And Jehu will be the one todrive that.
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Ha ha, see what I did there?
We'll drive that even further.
The only part of God'sinstructions to Elijah from 1
Kings 19, still to be done, isnow being taken care of by
Elisha, his successor.
Please be aware, verse 3, thussays the Lord, that's the
operative expression, verse 12,thus says says the Lord.
And it is clear from verse 11that there's not a lot of
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respect going on for prophets.
Oh, this guy's just a madman,all the things that go with
that.
Nobody's really paying attentionto God.
Nobody's paying attention toGod's messengers.
And I should note, verse 13,that the fact that they jump on
board, J.
Hugh's men, the officers aroundhim say, hey, you be the king.
It says a lot about how nobodyis that excited about the house
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of Omri.
They have not ruled And Jehu isabout to bring that to a very
bloody conclusion.
But we won't read about thattomorrow, because tomorrow we'll
be in the Psalms.
Reading for Thursday, 2 Kings 9,1-13.
It is Friday.
It is Friday, so we are in thePsalms.
We're reading Psalm 35 today.
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Let me have a little coffeehere.
And then we're reading this helpme Lord Psalm.
This is very much a lament.
This is David crying out beforeGod.
And I often say that the Psalmsdo not outline well.
Well, this one certainly doesbecause it divides easily into
three stanzas, verses 1 to 10,verses 11 to 18, verses 19 to
28.
And some have said this is atriple lament.
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You'll notice once more thatDavid is concerned about people
who say things behind his back.
For without cause, verse 7, theyhid their net from me and dug a
pit for my life.
So there's, I'm worried aboutbeing assassinated, but there's
even more here.
They repay me, verse 12, evilfor good when I was sick.
When they were sick, I woresackcloth, verse 13, but they
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don't treat me that way.
That's not how they act aboutme.
They hate me, verse 19, withoutcause.
They do not speak peace, verse20.
They open wide their mouthsagainst me, verse 21, false
witnesses.
So there's scheming, and there'sgloating, and there's people who
want to attack David, and he'sjust And all of that He can
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stand.
And so, maybe as difficult asthis psalm is, because we just
sympathize with David foreverything he's going through,
you'll love the end of thispsalm.
Let those who delight in myrighteousness, verse 27, shout
for joy and be glad and sayevermore, Great is the Lord who
delights in the welfare of Hisservant.
Don't you love that?
God delights in the welfare ofHis servants.
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What a great way to end the weekin Bible reading.
That's the podcast then.
Thank you so much for listening.
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It just means so very much.
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Podcast is really for Westsidefolks, but we're always glad
people outside of Westside areenjoying it and being helped by
it as well.
So until next week, when we'llopen our Bibles together again.
I'm Mark Robertson.
I want to go to heaven, and Iwant you to come too.
I will see you on Monday with acup of coffee.
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