But I told you yesterday that I'd bring
you good news this morning.
And the good news is this, that although
Asa was a good man and Asa was
a fool and Jehoshaphat was a good man
and Jehoshaphat was a fool, Jehoshaphat wasn't quite
as big a fool as Asa.
That's the good news.
I hope it brings you a measure of
comfort.
You see, Asa became hostile because he was
numbered amongst those men who forgot to remember.
A wonderful thing to learn a principle that
you never knew, a tragic thing to forget,
a principle that once you've known.
And Asa forgot to remember, and he became
hostile because he was too proud to be
reminded.
Jehoshaphat forgot to remember, but he was humbled
and set his heart, prepared his heart to
seek God.
You see, Asa defected in the hour of
crisis.
Jehoshaphat was seduced at the peak of his
prosperity.
And I suppose the Church of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the true Bible-believing fellowship of
evangelical Christians worldwide, has seldom been faced with
so great a danger as it is today.
Not the devil as a roaring lion seeking
whom he may devour, but today Satan as
an angel of light deceiving the very elect
in the biggest seduction that is taking place
throughout our evangelical constituencies worldwide.
You see, it was at the peak of
his prosperity that seduction began.
And the danger we are confronted with, especially
in our western civilizations, and in particular in
the North American continent and those prospering nations
of Europe, is that ignoring all the suffering
and deprivation, danger, persecution, imprisonment, impoverishment of countless
hundreds of thousands of our fellow believers, today
health, wealth, and prosperity has become equated with
spirituality.
This is the day of signs and wonders,
of positive confession, name it and claim it.
Visualize yourself into success, think, and grow rich.
That's the new gospel.
And it's seducing hundreds of thousands of Bible
-believing evangelical Christians, and not the least many
whose names have long since been known as
leaders of the Christian Church.
That's what happened to Jehoshaphat.
Not in the hour of crisis did he
defect, he was seduced when he was mesmerized
by his own prosperity.
But Jehoshaphat was a good man.
Let's look at it in the 17th chapter.
Asa was dead.
The man who forgot to remember, too proud
to be reminded, became hostile to God and
to those whose good advice he proudly ignored.
He hobbled to his death in the last
six wasted years of an otherwise good reign
and finally buried in a grave that he
dug for himself.
And Jehoshaphat, his son, reigned in his stead.
He strengthened himself against Israel.
And we're told in verse three the Lord
was with Jehoshaphat because he walked, notice this,
in the first ways of his father.
And there should be a conjunction there, strictly
translated, his father Asa, in the first ways
of his father Asa.
And of his father David, his great-great
-great-grandfather David.
And he sought not unto bail him.
In other words, here Jehoshaphat, too, learned the
principle from the first ways of his father,
dad, until he defected in the hour of
crisis.
And he learned the principle from all that
he had heard of his great-great-great
-grandfather David.
He sought to the Lord God of his
father and walked in his, God's commandments.
He obeyed God, not after the doings of
Israel.
And it was for that reason the Lord
established the kingdom in his hand, and his
heart was lifted up, verse six we're told,
in the ways of the Lord.
He, too, sought insofar as possible to eliminate
idolatry wherever it was to be found.
And in the third year of his reign,
recognizing the desperate need of this people in
their time of spiritual decline to get to
know God's ways and God's law.
Knowing that that is the only solid basis
upon which any true spiritual awakening can take
place, the exegesis of God's law.
Finding your roots deep in the divine revelation
of that faith once delivered to the saints.
In the third year of his reign, he
sent to his princes to Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethaniel,
and Micaiah to teach in the cities of
Judah.
In other words, he sought to remedy the
lack which was mentioned in the earlier chapters
that we considered yesterday by providing teaching priests.
Those who would take the word of God
and give a solid biblical basis for the
truth that they unashamedly proclaimed.
And they taught, verse nine, in Judah.
And they had the book of the law
of the Lord with them.
And they went about throughout all the cities
of Judah and they taught the people.
And the result was that Jehoshaphat and his
people earned the respect of the ungodly.
The fear of the Lord fell upon all
the kingdoms of the lands that were round
about Judah so that they made no war
against Jehoshaphat.
Not only that, obeying God, lifting up his
heart toward the Lord, sending teaching priests, delighting
that his people are coming to know what
God had to say.
Earning the respect, not coveting it or seeking
it, but deserving it.
The respect of the ungodly.
He surrounded himself with good men.
He enlisted God-fearing people to be his
associates and aides.
In the 16th verse, the next him was
Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who willingly offered
himself unto the Lord.
And the result, in verse 12, Jehoshaphat waxed
exceedingly great.
He built in Judah palaces and cities of
store.
Jehoshaphat was a good man and he prospered.
But it was at the peak of his
prosperity that he fell, seduced.
Satan is so subtle.
It isn't always as a roaring lion.
He comes as an angel of light.
You see, Asa was confronted with a crisis
that he could not himself have avoided.
For the enemy marched against him.
Jehoshaphat foolishly got involved in something that was
none of his business.
But the enemy, you see, in this case
employed flattery.
For Jehoshaphat, we're told in verse 1 of
chapter 18, had riches and honor in abundance,
and he joined affinity with Ahab.
Can you believe it?
He was a man twice by God sentenced
to death.
The first time because he spared Ben-Hadad,
God's enemy, who himself had been sentenced to
death, and who finally himself was the author
of Asa's downfall, who made an unholy alliance
with him, whom Ahab had spared, and whom
God had sentenced to death.
And then Ahab was sentenced to death because
he connived with that evil plot, having its
origin in the wicked heart of that painted
hussy Jezebel, who engineered the death of Nebah,
so that Ahab could steal his vineyard.
A man, we're told, who set his heart
to do evil, sentenced to death, Ahab.
Twice condemned.
And yet Jehoshaphat, blinded now by his prosperity,
lost his sense of perspective.
He no longer could discern who Ahab was.
You see, in a nutshell, the problem that
confronted Jehoshaphat was that he tried to avoid
Israel's ways without rejecting Israel's king.
That's the heart of the matter.
And that has been the heart of the
matter all down the centuries, you see, because
we talk about sins, and it's easy to
be sorry for your sins, and we call
that sometimes repentance.
And of course, you should be sorry.
If you've done something wrong, you should be
sorry that you've done it, but that isn't
true repentance.
That's baby repentance.
And almost anybody can repent and be sorry
for what they've done if it's wrong, especially
if they've been found out.
But more often than not, they're not sorry
for their sin, they're sorry for themselves.
They're sorry they've lost status, that they've earned
the disapproval of those whose respect they want.
You see, it isn't so much sins that
is our problem, it's sin.
That's the king of Israel.
His works simply derive from his reign.
Jehoshaphat failed to recognize that everything that Israel
did was the result of everything that Ahab
was.
See, Adam didn't fall when he took the
fruit.
He took the fruit because he had fallen.
Because a new principle had been introduced to
his way of life.
He believed the devil's lie.
He fell to the satanic fraud that he
could be man without God, and ultimately in
the absence of God become his own God,
the very heart of humanism.
In other way, whatever way it may express
itself, whether in the secular world or today
in our evangelical constituencies, it's all a question
now of self-realization, self-image.
Making yourself your own God.
You see, Adam took the fruit, that was
the act, because of a new disposition that
he had learned to adopt, an attitude.
The moment he was persuaded by the satanic
fraud that he could be a man without
God, then God ceased to be indispensable to
his humanity, and therefore he could be disobedient
to God.
So that the act of disobedience was simply
the evidence of a new attitude of independence.
That sin whatsoever is not of faith.
That activity that derives exclusively from our disposition
toward God that recognizes that apart from who
he is as the creator within the creature,
we are nothing, have nothing and can do
nothing.
Any activity on your part or mine that
derives other from the Lord Jesus himself being
given that place of sovereignty within our hearts,
that place of preeminence that allows him alone
to be the origin of the act, what
we do and say are, that is sin.
What's the difference between a Christian trying to
live the Christian life apart from Christ and
a man like Adam trying to be a
man apart from God?
What's the difference?
No difference at all, except Satan in his
subtlety has managed to perpetuate, you see, the
satanic fraud in evangelical humanism, where everybody is
busy doing their best for Jesus, ignoring the
fact that he said to us, without me
you can do nothing.
So if without him we can do nothing,
that a Christian is somebody who cannot possibly
happen apart from Jesus Christ, how much is
that worth that you do that isn't Christ
doing it?
Nothing.
It's amazing how busy you can be doing
nothing.
That's why people on the mission field, in
the pastorate, in Christian ministry, mums and dads
get burned out in their noble, sincere, sacrificial
desire to flex their muscles, grit their teeth,
clench their fists and do something for God.
And the evangelistic trail is littered with their
wreckage.
Good men, earnest men, hard-working people, brave
people who persevere in spite of a sense
in their own hearts of despair, baffled at
their own impotence, because so long they've been
trying to pull themselves up by their own
bootstraps.
What Adam and Eve did was the result
of a disposition, a change of attitude.
Sins are simply those activities in which we
engage because of a principle called sin that
has weaned us of our dependence on God
and made us proudly independent of God.
And you cannot avoid Israel's ways if you
avoid Israel's king and refuse to reject him.
Any more than you can deal with sins
unless you recognize the root from which they
come.
1 John chapter 3 verse 8, he that
commits sin takes his character from the devil.
Every act of sin is the evidence of
his activity.
Man was created that God in man might
be incarnate so that by everything man does
says and is they might be given a
valid expression of God's righteousness.
Righteousness is God behaving.
Sin is Satan behaving.
Our minds, emotions, and wills instead of being
united under the supreme unchallenged sovereignty of Jesus
Christ become the workshop of the devil himself
to produce that ugly list called the works
of the flesh.
Greed, lust, pride, hate, lasciviousness, drunkenness, drug addiction,
all the things from which the world all
down the centuries has been bleeding.
And until we recognize the nature of the
foe, the source from which it flows, we
will battle in vain.
That's why you can't legislate righteousness.
Christianity without Christ is a dead religion.
Holiness apart from God is a legalistic straitjacket.
And spirituality apart from God the Holy Spirit
is a nauseating fraud.
But long since, you see, we've substituted religion
for God, Christianity, evangelical Bible-believing Christianity for
Christ, and all our manifold rituals for genuine
reality in a man's relationship to God.
This is where Jehoshaphat fell.
After certain years, we're told in verse 2
of chapter 18, and I want you to
notice the direction in which he went when
he made this unholy alliance with Jehoshaphat.
Down.
After certain years, he went down to Ahab.
That's always the direction that you go.
When you make an unholy alliance with that
carnal nature that is hostile to God, not
subject to its laws.
But Ahab was very smart, subtly seducing a
man who's mesmerized by his own success.
He killed sheep and oxen for him in
abundance for the people that he had with
him.
And he persuaded him to go with him
to Ramoth Gilead.
That was no business of Jehoshaphat.
But you see, when in trying to avoid
Israel's ways, you fail to repudiate Israel's king,
you'll get involved fighting Israel's battles.
And when you do that, you're fighting at
all times a battle already lost.
When God has given us the incredible privilege
of celebrating at all time a victory, already
won.
Ahab, king of Israel, said to Jehoshaphat, king
of Judah, wilt thou go with me to
Ramoth Gilead?
He answered, I am as thou art.
My people is thy people.
We will be with thee in the war.
What's happened to Jehoshaphat?
He's lost all spiritual discernment.
He doesn't even now recognize the enemy when
he's looking in straight in the face.
For Satan is subtle enough to deceive the
very elect.
But in God's goodness, you know, when you
make an unholy alliance with the enemies of
God, the Holy Spirit is there to give
you an uneasy conscience.
And Jehoshaphat tried desperately to reconcile a false
affinity with a bad conscience.
There was something uneasy about this.
So said he, inquire I pray thee at
the word of the Lord today.
Let's get confirmation from God himself.
It was a pious utterance for a man
who was deliberately doing something which was patently
wrong.
Therefore, the king of Israel gathered together of
prophets, 400 men and said to them, shall
we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle or
shall we forbear?
And of course, with one mind, one voice,
go up, said they, God will deliver it
into the king's hands.
You cannot but prosper.
Well, that seemed overwhelming enough by popular acclaim.
And this was a course of action that
had earned the approbation of God and his
smile of blessing was upon it.
But still there was that uneasiness in Jehoshaphat's
heart.
He said, is there not here a prophet
of the Lord beside that we might inquire
of him?
One might have imagined that the overwhelming verdict
of 400 prophets of the Lord might have
been adequate.
Said the king Jehoshaphat, there is yet one
man by whom I may inquire of the
Lord, but I hate him.
I hate him.
He'd never prophesied good unto me, but always
evil.
Micaiah, the son of Immanuel, one of God's
servants upon whose lips God could make articulate
what he wanted to say.
And that's why, of course, Ahab had deliberately
avoided consulting him.
The lonely voice amidst the clamor of the
crowd, when all those who professed to be
prophets of the Lord were acclaiming the project,
one lonely voice.
I believe that in these last days before
our Lord Jesus comes, in the great final
seduction of the church, we're going to be
lonely voices, even amongst those who will claim
to be evangelical believers.
The king sent for him.
Fetch quickly Micaiah, the son of Immanuel, and
the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, king of
Judah, sat either of them on his throne.
In the meantime, all the prophets, of course,
prophesied good.
But the messenger that went to call Micaiah,
verse 12, spake to him saying, Behold, the
words of the prophets declare good to the
king with one assent.
Let thy word, therefore I pray thee, be
like one of theirs.
Speak thou good.
Don't stick your neck out.
Don't be a sore thumb.
Don't rock the boat.
And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, whoever
it does please, whoever it does not.
Even what my God saith, that will I
speak.
That's the voice of truth.
And sometimes it's a very lonely voice.
And when he was come to the king,
the king said to Micaiah, Shall we go
to Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall I
forbear?
And he said, Mockingly, Oh yes, of course.
I mean, you've heard what your prophets have
said.
You're going to prosper.
You've got it made.
You're the kind of king who's got what
it takes.
But full well knowing that he was being
mocked, said the king to Micaiah, How many
times shall I adjure you that thou say
nothing but the truth to me in the
name of the Lord?
Oh, Micaiah said, I imagine quite quietly, you
want to know the truth.
I see.
You mean you really want to know the
truth?
Well, he said, I see all Israel scattered
upon the mountains, sheep that have no shepherd.
And the Lord said, These have no master.
Let them return therefore every man to his
house in peace, King Ahab.
You're going to die.
You're under sentence.
And that sentence is going to be executed.
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat,
Did not I tell thee that he would
prophesy no good unto me, but evil?
And of course, the false prophets chided with
Micaiah.
Said Micaiah, the son of Tanana, verse 23,
came near, smote Micaiah upon the cheek, said,
Which way went the spirit of the Lord
from me to speak unto you?
And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on
that day when thou shalt go into an
inner chamber to hide yourself.
Said he to Zedekiah, Time is on my
side.
And I'm prepared to give God time and
give God room to vindicate the truth.
And the king of Israel, verse 25, said,
Take him, Micaiah, carry him back to Ammon,
the governor of the city, and to Joash,
the king's son.
Say thus, Thus shall saith the king, Put
this fellow in the prison, feed him with
bread of affliction, with water of affliction, until
I return in peace.
And threw him into jail.
Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace,
then hath not the Lord spoken by me.
You're right, I'm wrong.
But God is the final arbiter.
And then he looked around at the crowd
and he said, Hearken, all you people.
Then the king of Israel did something pretty
smart.
He said to Jehoshaphat, Now you dress yourself
in your royal robes, I don't want to
detract anything from your glory.
I mean, you're the king.
And I want everybody to recognize who's really
in charge.
So I'd like to bow myself.
I'm just going to disguise myself as a
common soldier.
Oh, so humble, so nice.
Flattery, but with murder in his heart.
You enter into an alliance with the flesh,
make peace with it and be kind.
But it'll never make peace with you.
It'll only be bent on destroying you.
It will use you only to bury you.
Capitalizing upon your most noble ambitions and deep
dedication to God, only to bury you.
So the king of Israel disguised himself and
they went for the battle.
And the king of Syria had commanded the
captains of the chariots, as King Ahab well
foreknew, that they were with him, saying, Fight
you not with small or great, save only
with the king of Israel.
And it came to pass when the captains
of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Naturally,
it's the king of Israel.
And therefore they compassed about him to fight.
And Jehoshaphat, stripped of everything in the moment
of despair on the threshold of death, cried
out, God, help me.
And the Lord helped him.
And God moved them to depart from him.
You see, at the peak of his prosperity,
he was seduced in all the subtlety of
Satan and God had to strip him of
everything he had until he was within an
air's breadth of destruction.
Then he humbled himself and set his heart
to seek God, recognized his folly, and God
in his infinite compassion, as he has in
your life and mine again and again, moves
in at the last moment.
And then, verse 33, a certain man drew
a bow at a venture.
He wasn't aiming at anything.
He was just a little bored.
So he took an arrow and shot it
into space.
But the relentless finger of God guided that
arrow and it smote the king of Israel
between the joints of the harness, found the
one chink.
You see, God's judgment is relentless.
King Ahab, you're going to die.
Turn thine hand, he said, that thou mayest
carry me out of the host I'm wounded.
The battle increased that day.
However, the king of Israel stayed himself up
in his chariot against the Syrians until the
evening and about the time of the sun
going down.
He died.
It was sunset.
And for Jehoshaphat in his folly, it might
well have been sunset too for him.
Except that although Jehoshaphat was a good man
and Jehoshaphat was a fool, he wasn't.
And prepared his heart again to seek God.
Chapter 19, Jehu the son of Hanani the
seer went out to meet him, verse 2,
and he said to King Jehoshaphat, shouldest thou
help the ungodly and love them that hate
the Lord?
Therefore is God's judgment upon you.
Nevertheless, there are good things found in thee
in that thou hast taken away the groves
out of the land and thou hast prepared
thine heart to seek God.
And God knows.
And we're told that Jehoshaphat in the end
of verse 4 brought his people back to
the Lord God of their fathers.
He returned to home base.
He got back to where he belonged in
that sublime simplicity of faith that lets God
do it.
Fear the Lord, he said, and do it.
Verse 9, with a perfect heart.
That perfect heart that God seeks for is
his eyes run to and fro throughout the
whole earth looking for any boy, girl, man,
or woman anywhere out of any nation, kindred,
tribe, or tongue, or race, or creed, who's
prepared to let God be God and show
himself strong on their behalf.
Jehoshaphat's back at home base.
And it came to pass in chapter 20
in verse 1, it came to pass after
this also that the children of Immoab and
the children of Ammon and with their mother
beside the Ammonites came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
Soon his restoration to that relationship that lets
God be God in his life and that
of his people is being tested.
There cometh a great multitude against thee from
beyond the sea.
On this side Syria came they with the
message.
Behold they be in Hazos and Tamar which
is in Gedi and Jehoshaphat feared and set
himself to seek the Lord.
And he proclaimed a fast throughout Israel throughout
the whole of Judah.
He feared.
All his bravado now has gone.
No long to Ahab, my people, your people,
I'm as you are, we'll be with you
in the battle and we'll prosper with you.
Now he feared.
And the Bible tells us that the fear
of God is just the beginning of wisdom.
Now Judah gathered themselves together to ask help
of the Lord even out of all the
cities of Judah.
They came to seek the Lord and Jehoshaphat
begins to pray.
And you can nearly always recognize a man's
relationship, his spiritual standing by the way he
talks to God.
Remember prayer isn't a gun at God's head.
It's your need at his feet.
You don't tell God what to do.
He's the creator, you're the creature.
He's your maker, you're the man he made.
Oh Lord God of our fathers said he,
verse six, art not thou God in heaven?
Rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of
the heathen in thine hand is there not
power and might so that none is able
to withstand thee?
Where did he begin?
With the bigness of the God to whom
he had returned.
Hebrews in chapter 11 and verse six, he
that comes to God must first believe that
God is.
Unchanging, eternal, timeless, the same yesterday, today and
forever, the eternal, immutable, unchanging truth in whom
there's no shadow of turning, neither any variable
illness.
The God who is, the God of his
fathers.
And then that identification, for he that cometh
to God must first believe that God is,
but that he more than that, he is
a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Or in other words, all that God is,
is available to the man who is available
to all that God is.
That's a disposition.
That is not now arrogant independence, I've got
what it takes, I can handle it on
my own.
This is a recognition, I cannot, God never
said I could, but he can and always
said he would.
And if you can't and he can, what's
the smartest thing to do?
Let him.
Art not thou our God who didst drive
out the inhabitants of this land before thy
people?
Israel gavest it to the Abraham thy friend
forever.
Abraham thy friend.
Behold I say, verse 11, how they reward
us to come to cast us out of
thy possession which thou hast given us to
inherit.
What we inherit is your possession.
All that we are and have derives from
who you are and all you have.
This is the sole source of our true
wealth.
Oh our God, wilt thou not judge them?
For we have no might against this great
company that cometh against us, neither know we
what to do.
But our eyes are upon thee.
Something's happened to Jehoshaphat.
He's got back to where he belongs.
To the principle that he learned from the
first ways of his father Asa and his
great great great grandfather David.
Who as a little shepherd boy learned that
God is bigger than bears, bigger than lions,
and bigger than giants.
If only you'll let him be God.
Abraham thy friend.
I wonder why Jehoshaphat mentioned Abraham.
Well I think you see he was remembering.
For Abraham too you see had get back
to home base.
It wasn't that Abraham lacked sincerity, verve, enthusiasm,
or sense of deep dedication to God.
But we're told in Galatians chapter 4 that
Abraham had two sons.
One who was born of the flesh, Ishmael.
And the only needed explanation for Ishmael was
Abraham in committee.
His best for God with the utmost dedication
and God said thanks for nothing.
And when he tried to twist God's arm
and said make him a great nation, God
finally gave him what he wanted.
And there's nothing quite so pathetic when you
get what you want instead of letting God
give you what you need.
He said I'll make him a great nation
and he will be a wild man and
he will cause trouble wherever he goes.
That's why they found a bomb this morning
in the baggage of a passenger of Israel
Airlines in Heathrow Airport London.
Just in time to save a lot of
people's lives.
Because Ishmael's a wild man.
Isaac was born of promise.
The only possible explanation for Isaac was God.
But once God had given him the blessing,
when at last having called him after many
weary years, God found his heart and God
could choose him.
God said do you love Isaac?
Yes man, he said do I love Isaac?
That smiling cheery face every time his shrew
voice comes into the house or the tent,
my heart begins to beat a little faster.
And God said great.
Now take him up the mountain with a
knife in one hand and fire in the
other and slay him.
Slay him.
Can you imagine how Abraham must have felt?
The one in whom God had promised him
his seed should be as the stars of
heaven and as the sand by the seashore
innumerable in whom all the families of the
earth would be blessed.
Slay him.
Something in his heart which said hang on
to hang on to Isaac you got the
blessing keep it.
But another little voice was saying in Abraham's
heart keep moving, keep moving, keep moving.
And Isaac said I see the knife and
the fire where's the offering?
And I think Abraham said don't ask awkward
questions.
And his heart was heavy but he kept
moving until he finally on Mount Moriah.
As we're told in the 11th chapter of
the epistle to the Hebrews.
Unable to explain it to himself, totally unable
to explain it to anything anybody else, completely
baffled in this moment of truth he said
God I made a fool of myself when
I produced Ishmael and now you tell me
to kill the one in whom alone I
have any hope of all the fulfillment of
your promises and you tell me to kill
him.
If kill him I must then kill him
I will.
Even if you have to raise him from
the dead.
Which Hebrews 11 in a figure got dead.
For when he saw the knife flash in
the sun God said that's all I needed
to know.
Abraham throw the knife away.
Now I realize that to you God is
bigger than his gifts.
And the blesser greater than his blessings.
Because you've done this thing in blessing I
will bless you.
Your seed shall be as the stars of
heaven and as the sand by the seashore
innumerable.
And Abraham became God's friend.
At home base.
Dead to the blessing.
Alive alone to God.
Such then and now and always will be.
Our God's friends.
Now let's pray.
Thank you dear Lord for Jehoshaphat.
Thanks for telling us what you have about
him.
That we might learn for we know our
own hearts.
Thank you for the compassion that saved him
in the 11th hour.
In the last moment of despair.
From the calamity that he brought upon his
own head.
How kind you are.
Grant that the Holy Spirit this morning may
examine our hearts.
That we may recognize the enemy for who
he is.
Deliver us from the great seduction.
And precious as may have been every experience
of the past.
Every gift that we have received from your
gracious hand.
Every blessing that we have known.
We want you Lord Jesus this morning to
know that you're greater than them all.
And whatever no matter how legitimate.
That would become as a substitute for yourself
the object of our idolatry.
We want you to know that the knife
is flashing in the sun.
We want to be numbered among your friends.
For your namesake.
Amen.
You've been listening to a sermon by Major
Ian Thomas.
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you can find more sermons by Major Ian
Thomas at www.PathToPrayer.com as well as
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