In my heart Adrian. Preach when I lay down your heart there's somebody or some bodies who need the message perhaps you will be the one who will say yes pastor that was the message for me some chapter 42 and verse 5 Why art thou cast down all my soul and why are now disquieted in me David is talking to himself and David says why are cast down. Oh my soul as obvious as we read the rest of the chapter which we would do later on that David is in a state of despondency that we could call depression not talking about just feeling sad we all feel sad sometimes I'm not talking about being disturbed we all get disturbed sometime we all have broken hearts and disappointments in faded dreams those come to all of us but that's not depression one woman said to another woman while her husband was listening when I get down in the dumps I get a new hat her husband said I wondered where you've been getting them. Well you can get down in the dumps and buy something pretty to make you happy you can perk up and cheer up and get with friends and and forget it but depression is different when I came into my office between services I found a note on my desk from Joyce who's in the choir a grin I shredded my front tire it is ruined. We'll tell you the circumstances when I see you in the cars at the northwest corner of the building if someone can change my tire with one in the trunk I'll appreciate it I'm leaving my keys and then she got 2 little pictures here one is a sad face with the mouth turned down and tears coming down. Then the other one is a happy face with the corners turned out and she's written on there praise the Lord anyway Joyce Well amen praise the Lord in a way so you can have a shredded tire and get over it somebody can lick the red off your can do it and you can get over it but what about depression that's something different why are cow cast down oh my soul 1st of all I want you to see what I'm going to call the serious problem of depression the serious problem of depression we're not talking about something that is a small problem millions of Americans are not able to go to work because of depression many of them are in hospitals some of them are debilitated and some are dead and it doesn't do a lot of good to tell people like this what cheer up cheer up there's nothing they would like to do better than to cheer up and they tried everything that they know now what is depression let me find Let me give you a list that I found depression is this it's a passive or listless feeling that is you don't feel like doing anything a continual feeling of sadness not sadness that comes and goes but that it lingers and added to that nothing feels good or is worth feeling good about. That's compound it by state of constant open less names you don't have any idea that it's going to get better and then a feeling that no one cares and no one truly understands just how you feel or perhaps that no one really truly accept me. And I found another list that you can use to check up to see if you depressed you want to find out whether or not you're depressed less list at this list have you lost all initiative gradually are cataclysmically you just have kind of given up thrown in the towel do you have repeated crying spells you just feel overwhelmed with song and find yourself crying . Do you wake up in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. Have difficulty going back to sleep do you wake up in the morning with a feeling of dread difficult to get out of the bed you hate to face the day. You feel a sort of a numbness and an aching pain all over feel no not really a pain with specificity that you can identify you just feel bad mostly all over. The you find yourself sometimes thinking about your own death. And maybe even afraid that you might have thoughts of suicide. Or do sometimes just. Just sign. And have a heaven to send you chest. They have difficulty making decisions and moving through life from do you distrust your own wisdom and keep 2nd guessing yourself. Do you find yourself irritable and cross with other people. No apparent reason. Is it difficult for you to be enthusiastic about anything that's not my list by Things pretty good list to help you to understand whether or not you are a person who is cast down now this is a serious problem it can be a killer disease you say Well Pastor these are people who don't know God don't trust God Don't OTOH many of God's best Saints have been depressed Moses was so depressed that he asked God to take away his line Elijah was so depressed that he asked God to take ways life Jonah was so depressed that he asked God to take away his life John the Baptists got down in the dungeon and got so depressed even doubted that Jesus Christ was the Messiah the Son of God and the Apostle Paul the great apostle Paul said he gave the place where he despaired even of life Well Pastor what about modern people they have get the press yes Charles had Spurgeon. Was one of the greatest preach of ever lived a wise man who knew God Charles hadn't Spurgeon a man of war and wisdom. Sometimes had bouts of depression they closed up shop for him. Other great men and women have talked about dark nights of the soul where they were perplexed. And distress and great leaders world leaders have been depressed Winston Churchill who is a hero of the many many people who led the Great Britain through the dark hours of the war World War 2 had sometimes fits and bouts of depression that closed down he called that depression a black dog that followed him in haunted his footsteps but the one who wrote the passage that we're looking at today was Dave if you think about a man who would have had reason for depression outwardly what happened today but is this that he'd had a son who grazed up a rebellion against him a son named Absalom and Absalom that David love cause David to flee for his life and then Absalom was killed. And David wept and he said all Absalom Absalom. My son Absalom Would to God have died for the absolute David has no power now has no throne he has he has no wealthy has no resources as side huge Then on top of that he had a daughter that was raped his wife was sexually assaulted he had another son that died the kingdom is in turmoil. And the his enemies are laughing at him and David is in despair things could not have looked bleaker for David. And David is depress him he writes this song Why are cast down oh my soul why are they all this why did within me and what I'm trying to say is this that this is a serious problem look in the song and look and see what they even situation was 1st of all there was a spiritual dryness look and verses one and 2 as the heart panda theft of the water brooks so path with my soul after the god my soul thirsted for God for the living God When shall I come and appear before God It seems that God is far off. David is like a wild deer being hunted by pack of dogs he's panting for breath desiring for water he could feel his soul shriveling up spiritual dryness people get depressed seeing that God is not real to them and everybody else comes and rejoices in the music and the end of the preaching but not them David felt that God had forgotten him look if you will in verse 9 and he says here I was saying my God my rock Why has now forgotten me now God is not forgot me. But he Starsky for God is a spiritual dryness and then he's in a continual crying jag look if you will in verse 3 of this Saum my tears have been my meter my food day and night he finds himself just weeping I mean here is a mighty warrior strong man of God He soaking his pillow at night time. With his tears in the day time perhaps in a counseling session with some of his war you. He finds the tears coming bit and his chin begins to quiver and he breaks out night and day. With continual tears Dave it is feeling shame and defeat look if you will in verse 3 they continue a saying to me. Where is my God. Now what does that mean it means his enemies are haunting him had faded even bragging about God how much you love the Lord how great and how mighty you've got a body where is your God Now how come you're not living in victory where is all this picture you've been telling other people about he feels that he's disgraced God. And then that's compound it by the fact that he has lingering memories of what once was look in verse 4 when I remember these things I pour out my soul in me for I had gone with the multitude I went with them to the house of God with a voice of joy and praise he said I I remember when I used to be different I remember when I used to come to church and saying in worship God and praise him the multitude but not now. And his haunting memory makes it even worse and the devil has told him it could never ever be like it once was. It's gone he has these lingering memories and then he just overwhelms circumstances look at it here in verse 6 my soul is cast down within me where for when I remember the from the land of joy at it and of the turmoil nights from the Hill me's are deep the call is under deep at the noise of I water spouts all by waves and billows are going over me now you have to understand a little bit about biblical geography or he's talking about Mount Hermon Mount Hermon that rises up over 9000 feet snowcapped in the land of Israel did you know people go skiing in the land of Israel on Mount Hermon and Mount Hermon is the source of the Jordan River the Jordan River flows from the snow waters of Mount Hermon in the Springs amount Herman on down through the River Jordan which is crooked in serpentine on down down down down down down down down down. To the dead sea below a spot on earth 1300 feet below sea level and Jordan the very word Jordan means to send. And the name Dan has the idea Giordano judgment is the river of death it starts up here all Mount Hermon but it flows down to the dead sea never to rise again. And David is using that as a symbol of despondency says all by water spouts of going over me he said all that water falls Joyce and I visited many times beautiful waterfalls up there the head waters of the River Jordan but he said it's like this torrent is coming at me just washing over me I don't know where to turn to what to do I am overwhelmed whole overwhelmed with problems where you never been there maybe you will be hard maybe you know somebody who is there will be and God wants to give you a lesson today I'm telling you sometimes circumstances seem so great. So overwhelming like everything is pouring in on our heads that's the way David was. That's the way young boy was who committed suicide and left there's no dear world I don't want to get my hair cut I don't want to 10 kids I don't want to see Tina at school Monday I don't want to do my biology assignment or English or history or anything I don't want to be sad or lonely or depressed anymore I don't want to eat during sleep move feel or live anymore mom and dad it's not your fault I am not free I feel it is all I'm sad. And I'm lonely. That was a boy who needed the message that I'm preaching this morning and then many like that in today's world they are depressed and I'm telling you David was a man after God's own heart but he came to this place. And there's no need for us just to paint the clouds with sunshine and say Well God's in His heaven all's right in his world. We need to understand that depression is a serious problem 2nd thing I want you to notice the spiritual provision for depression not only the serious problem of it but the spiritual provision for there is an answer I'm here to tell you that there is hope and there's help for you number one Write this down you need to look inward and analyze your heart now knows what they have a good beginning of verse 5 why are cast down on my soul and why down disquieted in the now. They have it is talking to himself you don't talk to yourself I talk with me I do talk to myself I admit it some people say that's a sign of insanity Ok I'm guilty. I talk to me you talk to you and sometimes I talk back to me. That's what they mean it is. One man said about his wife said you know I'm concerned about my wife she goes around the house talking to herself all the time and then said What does she know she's doing so no she thinks I'm listening to it. You have to talk to yourself there is a part of you your Connel nature. That on renewed mine. That Power of Negative Thinking that is constantly talking to you and saying you ought to feel sorry for yourself you're not going to make it it's over for you there's no hope for you there's no help for you and that voice is constantly talking to you. And your soul. And what you need to do is to take your soul by the nape of the neck. Hold it up in front of you who look at in the I. And say why are thout cast down old my soul analyze your heart. Ask yourself why are you cast down has it been the death of a child. The death of a spouse. You lost something there and precious to use that the reason. Point your grief to go. Tell him about it accept the love of friends. But understand that it's not big enough to destroy the rest of your life. Perhaps your cast down because someone has disappointed you. You were about to get married. And that has broken off. Perhaps your parents. Have not responded to you the way that they all to and you feel unloved perhaps unwanted perhaps a husband has walked off with somebody else and forsaking you and the children. Is not the end of the world. Man a fact if it's a broken engagement it may have been the best thing ever happened to you to tears met. One tear said the other tears who you are. That tear said on the tear of a girl whose fiance jilted her for another girl who are you said I'm the tier of the girl who married that guy. Close the door learn what what happened learn from the mistakes but you cannot live your life licking your womb. Perhaps you've been to the doctor and the doctors give you a very bad report. The doctor says what you have is incurable and it will get worse . What do you do do you get despondent you get cast down no you say to yourself look don't mind outward man perish my inward man is renewed day by day find out what it is get it out there so you can look at it look it straight in the face Avalon eyes it look at it. Why art thou cast down all myself once you determine what it is I mean really honestly face it you start on the pathway. Look inward and analyze your heart then look upward and recognize your help that's what David did let's look in verse 8 yet the Lord will command His loving kindness in the day time and in the night his song shall be with me and my prayer unto the God of my life he looks in wood and analyzes his heart. He looks upward and realizes his health. God is not going for sake you he never has he never will what a friend we having Jesus. Our sins in Greece to bear. This I pastor Rogers you will understand my problem. That's not the point he does God understand. And when you realize you're not alone that God really does understand what you're going through you've taken a step toward allowing him to renew You may God do that today in your life or perhaps have a friend or a family member who's going through a really difficult season may God give you the opportunity to be as hands and feet today in their life well maybe you'd like to share this lesson with someone who would be encouraged by it we make single C.D.'s of messages available in fact today's lesson is part of a series called under the great physicians care I know it will encourage you are someone you know call us to order the series 1877 love God or go to L.W.'s dot org Now today's lesson is titled How to get up when you're down you'll receive the entire message on your single cd or get it in the series under the great physician's care just call 1877 love God or go to L.W.'s Oh Archie is there anything going on in your life right now that you don't understand that you want to cry out why God coming up tomorrow how to turn that question into a declaration of faith you'll hear it next time on love worth finding. 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On am 670 calle t.t. Commerce City Denver Paul said you can even compare the glory that we will receive with us offering that we now know he's going to turn every tear to a pearl ever heard 2 album. And every defeat into a victory in every calorie and twenty's. Jesus column if you're going through difficult days listen to Adrian Rogers a blistering series under the great physicians came this March on love worth listen read to mornings at 7670 calle t.t. . This is and Graham Lotz with daylight for daily living are you guilty of the sin of betrayal not just betraying another person but also your lord you are now betrayed Jesus when we call ourselves Christians yet give our hearts to money or selfish. Pursuits or anyone or anything other than fellate the yen so check your heart are you spending more time on the internet than in prayer more time watching television than reading the Bible are you exercising your spiritual gift not in a way that serves Christ in his body but in a way that serves your self if so you may have a spiritual heart problem in Matthew 2237 and 38 Jesus said Love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind this is the 1st and greatest commandment listen to me baby to get to the greatest commandment put love for God back 1st in your life this is a engram lots. This is the Crawford broadcasting company devoted to bringing you God and country. Pleased to present Ronald l. Dart. Born until when. My Not everyone gets this but let me have a run at it anyway God does not care for centralized authority. Now that's not to say when you read the Bible and he hasn't allowed it and I realize when I say that in one sense if it happens God allowed it or it wouldn't have happened right so saying that God allowed something in one level is pointless but there's another sense in which God seems to say Well Ok what you're asking for is not the best thing for you but I will let you do it and I will work with you in it in that sense God occasionally does allow us to do things we'd really be better off not doing because he looks at and says well you're going to have more pain if you go this way but if you've got to go that way I'll see if I can help you with it now Ok should point is the occasion when Israel asked for a king and God didn't like it. He had never wanted a king he was their king they were supposed to live with maximum freedom a man ruling over his own household the priesthood taking care of the Tabernacle but not running the affairs of the people total freedom well want for one too many war that came their way they began to whine about it and they said Well make us a king like all the nations around them so when they insisted God said Ok I'll let you do it I'm not going to reject you out of hand because of it but then he proceeded to tell Samuel to tell them here's what's going to happen to you as you go down that line there's one thing that comes through to me in that story and by the way it's discussed in the series of programs before this one and on the book of Samuel. If you'd like to get that series Drop us a note and we'll tell you how you can get it the one thing that comes through to me in the story is that God indorse is and supports maximum freedom for a people and that he recognizes that power corrupts Consequently when Israel came into the land there was no king no central government the centricity of faith supplied the only central organizing principle for them there was one priesthood one tabernacle one place of worship but the civil government it was entirely in the hands of the tribal elders they had a lot of trouble mainly because they didn't stay close to God but it was the freest they would ever be in all their history or ever could be. Ok everything changed after they demanded a king and were going to learn a thing or 2 about the dangers and the abuses of power and why God preferred a decentralized governance for Israel. In chapter 21 of 1st kings a man has come to the throne who is according to the writer the worst of all the kings of Israel he is the worst of a bad lot the bottom of the barrel he is reigning in some area some areas in a region called just real it came to pass after these things that neighbor he was a jazz realized he had a vineyard that was in jazz real hard by the palace of a had the king of some area Ok ever open his window why did he say well he saw a really nice vineyard that well belonged to somebody else anyhow I have spoke to nave off and said Give me the vineyard that I can have it for a garden of herbs because it's close to my house and I'll give you a better Vineyard than that one or if it seems good to give you the worth of it in money you know he made an offer it's a deal I mean that's just fine it's a funny thing I hadn't realized are focused on this but I don't think they have is planning on doing any cooking with herbs in his garden of herbs but my wife brought home some herbs that she's going to plant in pots on our deck and I stuck my nose in that basket and I said all I see all of this aroma arising from these herbes seasonally coming in the window of your palace make things rather more pleasant specially since back in those days I think palaces probably didn't smell very good anyhow he wanted a senator garden outside his window well Naden a bus a day had no no I'm not going to do that I should there's no reason I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you this thing has been in my generation for generation after generation no I want to keep it. Ok. A head came into his house heavy displeased because of the word which neighbor the jazz related smoke spoken to him for he had said I am going to give you the inheritance of my father's and he laid down his bed turned away his face and wouldn't even eat. Now you know if you think pouting children are a problem you haven't seen anything until you have seen a royal pelt and now we have a king who sticks out his lower lip gets into bed rolls his face to the wall won't eat anything and won't talk but he had a wife and her name was jess avail she came to him and said What do you doubt about why is it you're not eating anything he said to her Well I spoke to a neighbor about buying that vineyard out there for money or I said if it please you all trade you a better Vineyard Ford he said I'm not going to give you my vineyard just a bill his wife said Are you in charge around here and not get up eat bread let your heart be merry I'll give you the vineyard of a neighbor the Jesuit like so the woman went home she wrote letters in a Habs name sealed them with his seal and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles in his city all those who dwell there were unable to well she wrote a letter saying Ok Perfect proclaim a fast set neighbor off on high among the people set to man sons of b. They'll be for him to bear witness against him saying he blast rain god in the King and then carry a mountain stone him that he may die she gives shoot orders and the King's name is in the King seal to take this poor guy out and have him killed judiciously because he wouldn't let the King have his vineyard you talk about little reasons for killing people. Well the minute the city the elders the nobles who are the inhabitants of city did what Jessa Bill said you know it would have been worth their life to not do what she said she did what was written in the letters that she'd sent them they proclaimed a fast they brought old neighbor thin and set him up on the witness dock and all there came in man and women and stood before him and the minute witnessed against him in the presence of all the people saying neighbor did blast frame God and the king and if they carried the poor guy out of the city and stoned him with stones that he died. And you know I just it's hard for me to imagine what was going through this poor fellow's mind as he sat there and listened to these the liars and as they drug him bodily out of the city to stone. I want to deed was done they sent letters to jazz a bill saying neighbor was stoned and is dead and it came to pass when the bill heard he was stoned it was dead she wanted a habit she said Get up go take possession of the vineyard of neighbor off the Jazz relied which he refused to give you for money in a bath is not alive he's dead. Perhaps you can see why the name jazz a bell has entered our vocabulary for a turret certain time of scheming evil woman in fact if you pull down your trusty collegiate dictionary you'll find as a bell and the definition is an impudent shameless or morally unrestrained woman and all that fit this woman to 80 Well it came to pass when they have heard the name off was dead he got up to go down to the vineyard of neighbor to take possession of it as Mel Brooks said in one of his movies it's good to be the cane I can do all these things. And the word of the Lord came to it like. This is bad news for him. He said Get up go down and meet a have the king of Israel in some area behold he is in the vineyard of name where he has gone down to take possession is standing right out there in the middle of it I want you to walk in there I want you to speak to him and tell him this does say of the Lord Have you killed and taken possession speak to him and say Thus saith the Lord in the place where the dogs lick the blood of neighbor. Shall dogs lick your blood even yours well when he lied you walked into the vineyard they have saw him and said Have you found me oh my enemy he already had of course as an enemy a man who stood firmly against him but he was afraid of him he could do anything to him even jazz a bell had not succeeded and he answered I found you because you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord I'm going to bring evil upon you I'm going to take away your posterity I will cut off from a had him that this earth against the wall and him that is shut up and left in Israel of the brutality of the language everybody's going to die every man is old enough to stand up is going to die he will make your house like the House of Jeroboam the son of need that like a house a bear should the son of a hijack for the provocation wherewith you have provoked me to anger and made Israel to sin Oh and by the way about Jess about the Lord said this the dogs shall eat jazz a bell by the wall of jazz real him that dies of a have in the city the dogs Shelley him that dies in the field shall the fowls of the air eat well maybe it's not so good to be the king after all. Not if there's a God in Israel not if there's a God who takes note of the things you do you know you might want to remember this curse we'll have occasion to see how it happened as time went by a habit turns out was the absolute bottom of the barrel of Israelite Kings all of whom were bad but after this prophecy is given a funny thing happens I'll tell you what that is but 1st grab a pencil and pad we want to give you a phone number and address and some information the real prophets series is available in the album form if you would like to get in on this story from the beginning write or call and ask for your free cd titled The real prophets write to Born to Win Post Office Box 560 White House Texas 75791 or call toll free 1888 Bible 44 That's 188-824-2534 extension 4 tell us the call letters of the station the author of 1st Kings tells us that there was no one like a Hab who sold himself to work wickedness in the side of the Lord. Jesu bell his wife stirred up he did very abominably in following idols according to all the things the Amorites Did these are the people the Lord drove out before the children of Israel. Well it came to pass when a have heard what Elijah told him. He tore his clothes he put sackcloth on his flesh Heath fasted he slept in sackcloth and went softly around the palace now I can only imagine what kind of a man they have was around the house and I have an idea there were some maids who got startled at how queer quietly this man slipped up on him from time to time everything has changed well the word of the Lord came to a lie Jude and said Do you see how a have humbles himself before me he said when he's done because he's done this because he has humbled himself before me I will not bring the evil in his days but in his son's days I will bring the evil upon his house behold the mercy and the compassion of God Consider how much provocation it finally took before doom was pronounced and consider how easily it all passed away when a man humbled himself and repented and turned around you know when you think about that for a while I know there are people who sometimes feel that they've just gone too far that God won't hear me anymore God's written me off I'm just a worm in his sight and he doesn't care about me well look if the worst king in Israel's history could be forgiven could have the cursed pass away from him surely you can too you just have to repent that's all. Now you may think that this was kind of hard on a have sons because the curse didn't go away from them it just was going to go or not come in his days well it would not have come if they had repented like their daddy did. In Exodus 20 verse 5 in the commandment it says this you shall not bow down yourself to other gods nor serve them for I the Lord your God I'm a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the 3rd and 4th generation of them that hate me you follow that sounds terrible Well it's not really because the 3rd and 4th generation and way this is put are still hating God So if they have sons could have gotten over that if they could have turned to God with all their heart the curse would have passed away from them the same way the 1st kings $22.00 they continued 3 years without any war at all between Syria and Israel as one of the times and it must be a remarkable time in history and sometimes Kings have a hard time leaving well enough alone this might have gone on but it came to pass in the 3rd year of this this piece that Joseph had the king of Juda came down to the king of Israel and this is a really rare interaction or intersection between these 2 kingdoms normally they don't talk to each other. Now what happens here is when Joseph Eid shows up on the scene they have says to himself hey if we can get together we will have enough power to be able to overcome Syria and a couple of issues that have been hanging out there the king of Israel said to his servants do you know that Ray Martin Gilliatt is ours and we're sitting here on our hands and we're not taking it out of the hand of the king of Syria bogs to us he's got it now mind you they had peace for 3 years I presume the people living in a mouth of killing Ed were going about their business and having children and grandchildren and doing all the things that they normally did. But here's a king who thinks maybe I've got a little more power here maybe I can take that village back so he says that Joseph Will you go out with me to battle to Raymondville e.f. Because your host if I had said to the king of Israel well we're brothers I am as you are my people are your people my horses are your horses and Josh had said to the king of Israel he's a little thing here he's got a habit he's carried all the way down from David his father he says in choir I pray you at the Word of Jehovah today before we go do this thing I mean I never have and I don't I don't want to do this I want to know what God says so the king of Israel gathered all the prophets together about $400.00 men and he said to them shall I go against Raymond Gillie had to battle or shall I forbear and as one man they said go up for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the King this is one of those cases of course where prophets telaprevir a man a king what he wants to hear now Joseph looked around these people and said these are God's prophets he said isn't there here a prophet of Jehovah besides that we could ask him and the king of Israel said well there's one man and he was my Kaya the son of the law by whom we may inquire of Jehovah but I hate him for he does not prophesied good concerning me but evil and shows if I had said Oh don't don't say that now this is incredible but it really boils down to the problem that one of the fundamental things of human nature we are not going to be happy just having people tell us the truth if the truth makes us uncomfortable if the truth is bad if the truth requires us to do something we don't want to do so who do we go ask we go ask the people who will tell us what we want to hear. And the people who will tell us something else but we don't want to hear it well the king of Israel called an officer and said go get my car other son of Emma bring him in here. The king of Israel Joseph the king of Juda age sat on his throne having put on their royal robes in an open space place in the entrance of the gate of some area and all these prophets were out there prophesied before them now this must have been an incredible show. Zedekiah the son of Kanada made horns of iron and he said Thus saith the Lord with these shall you push the Syrians until you have consumed them like I say it must have been quite a show back when all this took place on Mount Carmel when Isaiah bested all the prophets of Bale they were putting on an absolute ballet a dance leaping and jumping around the altar all the prophet saying go up to re mouth Gilliatt and prosper for the Lord shall deliver it into the King's hand it was so regular It was probably a song by this time all the messenger that was gone to call my kayak he said look the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth listen to me be like them and speak what is good my kind have probably looked at him like he was crazy he said as the Lord lives what Jehovah says to me that's what I'm going to speak I mean you know you really have to wonder why a person wants to be a prophet per se maybe power maybe money but why they want to be a prophet if they're not going to speak what God says because you know we're not talking about just a Sunday morning sermon that we throw together we're talking about having the word of the Lord come down and talk and whisper in our ear and says I want you to go tell them this. He says whatever the king's to you know whatever God gives me is what I'm going to speak now something odd happens here he came into the King and the king said to him I cry out shall we go against Raymond Kelly had a battle or shall we stay at home and he answered Go and prosper for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the King Well that's interesting he did precisely said exactly the same thing all the rest of these people had said. But the king said how many times am I going to a jury you that you tell me nothing but what is true in the name of Joe holda how many times I have to tell you this well I have my doubts that I am a times he'd ever told him to be truthful about this matter but the fact is I think the reason he knew was because of the tone of voice and the singsong way in which my my kayak said the same thing all the rest of these prophets had said Well having said I want you I'm a jury in you it's almost like the same thing as taking an oath in court except that they kind of read it to you in those days as today you're repeating it now Mike has to tell the truth. Listen through this short break and when I come back I'll tell you what my kayak said to a ham. For a free copy of this radio program that you can share with friends and others write or call this week only and request the program titled King's number 13 right to. Post Office Box 560 White House Texas 75791 or call toll free 1888 Bible. 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They have now will have nothing to complain of because he says to my kayak I want you to tell me the truth and my Chis said I saw all Israel scattered on the hills like sheep that have no shepherd and the Lord said these have no master let them return every man to his house in peace and the king of Israel they have said to Joseph that didn't I tell you he would prophesied no good concerning me but evil and he said now hear the word of the Lord I saw the Lord sitting on His Throne my kayak is carrying on and this is one of the truly thrashin ating prophecies in the Bible here the word of the Lord I saw the Lord sitting on a throne and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left and the Lord said Who shall persuade a have that he may go up and fall at re mouth Gillie Ed and one set on this man or another said on that manner and there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord and said I will persuade him and the Lord said. I will go forth and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said. He will persuade him and you'll win go ahead do it. What a story why in the world someone hasn't done a movie through this is beyond me Gary Givens who has the engineer who does this program with me and I would like to sit here and say Ok Who gets to play this part in the movie we'd like to make this is really strong stuff I guess what you've got here in this spirit that come before God's throne is a something like Gaal of or what was his name some eagle in the Lord Of The Rings this slimy little creatures a goal and I'll deceive him and God says Well Ok the answer being you know if you will listen if this is what you want to hear God will let you hear it so you need to be careful as they tell us in the New Testament and try the spirits Ok but this also was a real slap in the face to all the prophets through there goes my Kaia has just said Behold the Lord has put a lying spared him out of all these your profits and the Lord has spoken evil concerning you who probably did this with a great sweep of the hand I am still thinking who I want to play this part. Well. Having seen this that a coyote the other prophet near and slapped him on the face and said Which way did the spirit of the lord go from me to speak to you. In my clients or Behold you'll see in that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself. But the king of Israel said Take him away carry him back to him on the governor of the city to Joe as the king's son and say Thus saith the king put this fellow in the prison and feed him with bread of affliction and water but flexion until I come in peace. And my Kaya said if you return at all in peace the Lord has not spoken by me and he said listen Oh you people every one of you poor Micah. We don't know whether anybody ever let him out or not because we do know a habit did not return so the king of Israel the king of Juda went up to re muscularly had to battle and they have got you know he got it clearly got a bad idea he said to Joseph that look I will disguise myself and enter into the battle you go ahead put on your royal robes I don't want to kind of a fool Joseph had was but he listen to this so I'm going to take off my robes you put yours on and the king of Israel disguised himself and went into the battle like he was an ordinary soldier the king of Syria commanded his 32 captains the head rule over his carriage area saying don't fight was small Don't fight with great fight only with the king of Israel don't worry about all these people you look for and you go after the chariot it's got a have an it it came to pass when the captains of the chariot saw Joseph they said oh that must be the king of Israel and they turned aside to fight against him and Joseph had cried out and they came to realize that's not a head they turned back and the captains It was it did and a certain man drew a bowl at a venture he just fired an arrow into the air and smote the king of Israel in the gym between the joints of his harness. And you think about this if it hit him somewhere else it amounts to off but it hit him in that little joint where he could go through and the guy just fired an arrow in the air at a venture. He said to the drivers chair turn around and get me out of here I am wounded in the battle increase that day the king was held up in his chariot against the Syrians and died that evening and blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot they went out a proclamation to the host about the going down of the Sun saying every man to his city every man to his own country so the king died and they took him home and they washed his chariot in the pool of some area. And the dogs licked up his blood when they washed his arm are exactly like my kindness in the Born to Win radio program with Ronald Eldard is sponsored by Christian educational ministries and made possible by donations from listeners like you if you can help please send your donation to born to women Post Office Box 560 White House Texas 75791 you may call us at 1888 Bible 44 and visit us online at Born to Win dot net. The good news of Jesus for you in high definition radio and streaming at 670 calle t.t. Dot com This is calle t. T. Commerce City Denver. I'm Ronald's are tuning in for Born doing every day Monday through Friday 1 30 pm right here on am 670 calle t. And we'll talk. With Lee Strobel writes a book he brings to it all the skills and the disciplines that he learned as a journalist Lee was a respected reporter my the way an atheist today he's a powerful representative of Jesus Christ and and a leader in reaching people for him now while preparing for a book he wrote Lee interviewed a wide variety of noted people to get their perspective on Christ one was a man who was a gift to the Vangelis in the 1940 s. a Man whose ministry actually paralleled Billy Graham's effect a man who was known by millions and actually expected to have ministry like Billy Graham assailed But after you attended a liberal seminary to get more education he shocked the Christian world by abandoning his faith. His media career in Canada gave him a lot of notoriety Any often use that platform to express his unbelief when we went to interview this now elderly man and when he was asked about things such as his belief in the Old Testament he was very clear in expressing why he didn't believe and finally asked him what do you think about Jesus he could never expected the response he got suddenly the old man as least said teared up and struggling to answer through those tears he simply replied I miss him. I'm I'm hunch craft and I want to have a word with you today about missing him. For just a moment we're just outside all the creeds the institutions the theological systems or rituals the meetings most of which are important spiritual resources but for a moment set aside all the Christianity and when you strip away all that you're down to the central meaning of it all it's all about Jesus it's all about either being close to him or missing him the 12 men Jesus picked as his inner circle missed a lot the Jesus was trying to teach them but they didn't miss the central issue that's obvious and our word for it of a for the Word of God In John 6 sort of turning point the ministry of Jesus fast multitudes are following him no matter where he goes and then he confronts them with the fact that this is going to be about more than miracles and meetings it's going to involve the shedding of blood the laying down of his life the price tag for those who follow him and John 666 says From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. You do not want to leave to do you that's what Jesus asked the 12 and Simon Peter answer Mullard to who shall we go you have the words of eternal life we believe and know that you are the Holy One of God See they knew it was all about Jesus and he was the only one with anything that would last them it was worth living and dying for that's what Jesus was saying when he repeatedly said to people follow me he didn't say follow my religion or my followers or my rules he said Follow me it's all about Jesus and if you know someone who is away from him right now here's how to pray for them Lord Jesus help them realize how much they miss you and as God gives you opportunity remind them of how it was when they were close to. Maybe you're the one who's away from you will think would love to keep your focus on the Christians who hurt you or the hypocrites who turned you off or the sin that's taken you away but it's not Christians you've left or church or some religious rules it's Jesus you've left remember how it felt when you close to socialism you don't have to Mission one more day like the father of the prodigal son he's waiting for you to come home to him there's nothing you've done that he didn't take care of on that cross and His love is unconditional and maybe you miss up until this point even having one day with Christ in your life. Knew the difference he could make a good run told him he loved you enough to dilute a cross for you for your sin you powerful enough to walk out of his grave renders own power he's ready to walk in your life the day I pray that this very day if you've never been got a relationship with him you will say Jesus I am yours and I think we could help you with that just go to our website today it's a new story dot com That's a new story dot com if you could literally hear his force where you are right now here's what you hear him say. I miss you come home. A word with you is a feature of Ron Hutch craft ministries Thanks for listening. To transform your family with the Word of God immerse yourself daily in the biblical teaching of Kal teaching. Full coverage of the Rocky Mountain region with the good news your 2 am 670 calle t t k l t t h d Commerce City Denver.