we are in 2nd Kings this morning so
you will please turn to 2nd Kings chapter
2 2nd
Kings chapter 2 verse 9 2nd
Kings chapter 2 verse 9 and it came
to pass when they had gone over that
Elijah said to Elisha ask what I shall
do for thee before I'm taken away from
thee and Elisha said I pray thee let
a double portion of thy spirit be upon
me chapter 18 from verse 1
through part of verse 7 chapter 18 verse
1 and it came to pass in the
third year of Hosea the son of Judah
king of Israel that Hezekiah the son of
Ahaz king of Judah began to reign he
was 25 years old when he began to
reign and he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem
and his mother's name was Abi daughter of
Zechariah and he did what was right in
the sight of Jehovah according to all that
David his father had done he removed the
high places and broke the columns and cut
down the Asherahs and broke in pieces the
serpent of brass that Moses has made for
to those days the children of Israel burned
incense to it and it called it Nahosh
Ter he trusted in Jehovah the God of
Israel so that after him was none like
him among all the kings of Judah nor
among any that were before him and he
claimed to Jehovah and did not turn aside
from following him but kept his commandments with
Jehovah commanded Moses and Jehovah was with him
he prospered with us or ever he went
and then we turn to chapter 22 chapter
22 the first two verses Josiah
was eight years old when he began to
reign and he reigned 31 years in Jerusalem
and his mother's name was Jedidiah daughter of
Adiah of Boschach and he did what was
right in the sight of Jehovah and walk
in all the way of David his father
and turn not aside to the right hand
nor to the left first and second Kings
were originally one book it covered practically the
whole history of the kingly rule of the
nation of the chosen people of God now
in first Kings we begin to see the
disruption and in second King we find the
downfall after Solomon died
the kingdom was divided into two the northern
kingdom of Israel that comprised ten tribes and
the southern kingdom of Judah of two tribes
in each kingdom we find 19 Kings in
the kingdom of Judah we find these 19
Kings were all the descendants of King David
now we purposely left out Ataliah because she
was the daughter of Ahab and he tried
to murder all the sons of David and
he served the throne for a few years
so we just left her out so in
the kingdom of Judah you find 19 Kings
they were all the descendants of King David
so you have one dynasty but in the
kingdom of Israel that is the northern kingdom
we find 19 Kings but they were of
different dynasties one will take over the kingdom
from the other and continue maybe for three
or four generations at most and then another
man will rise up and take over the
kingdom so these were not of one dynasty
but a number of dynasties now in the
southern kingdom of Judah we find there were
some good Kings like Asa, Hezekiah, Josiah
these were good Kings but in the northern
kingdom of Judah we couldn't find any good
one they were all bad now in God's
mercy he sent prophets to both kingdoms to
testify against the kingdom of Judah and testified
against the kingdom of Israel calling them to
return to God to repent and to keep
the commandments that God had commanded them through
Moses but unfortunately you find the people hardened
their hearts and eventually both kingdoms were destroyed
the northern kingdom was destroyed first at 721
AD by the Assyrians but the southern kingdom
continued on for about the 130 years a
little over because God remember David and he
tried to keep a lamp there in that
nation but eventually because of their disobedience even
the southern kingdom was destroyed by Babylon in
around 588 AD so that is the history
we find in these two books of the
Kings now brothers and sisters we mentioned last
time that we are not just here studying
ancient history we know that these histories are
in the Bible in other words they are
the word of God and they are meant
for us today now what are we to
learn by reading studying the history of the
ancient people of God in a spiritual sense
God's people today those who are redeemed by
the Lord we are the kingdom of God
you remember in first Peter chapter 2 verse
9 it is said you are a chosen
race a kingly priesthood a holy nation a
people for a possession that God has set
us forth to proclaim the excellences of the
one who has delivered us out of darkness
into the wonderful light so brothers and sisters
in a very real sense in a spiritual
sense God's people those who are redeemed of
the Lord we are a holy nation and
of course we have only one king and
our king is none other than our Lord
Jesus Christ and he is the perfect king
and we are supposed to obey him we
are supposed to do his will we are
supposed to be a witness and a testimony
to him but unfortunately we find through the
two thousand years of church history we find
that how God's people today like his chosen
people in the old days how we feel
him again and again how we turn away
from our Lord Jesus how we begin to
drift away and begin to notice things other
than the Lord and how the world began
to come into the church so eventually you
find the church has gone into apostasy but
God in his mercy he does send us
his servants he does send us revivals from
time to time trying to get us back
to him but unfortunately as a whole you
find the condition of God's people are actually
going downward instead of upward but thank God
we find in every age God has reserved
for himself that seven thousand you know Elijah
complained to God and said I am the
only one left for thee but God said
no I had my seven thousand and we
do find in church history no matter what
you see outwardly how the church had drifted
away from God we find in every age
God has his seven thousand those who are
faithful by his grace to him and in
these people God had maintained his testimony throughout
the ages and that is a real comfort
now second Kings begin with the passing away
of Elijah and coming into ministry of Elijah
we know that Elijah succeeded Elijah in prophetic
ministry the ministry of Elijah is judicial in
nature he brought judgment to the nation and
the ministry of Elijah is merciful in nature
he brought life and resurrection to the people
and these two aspects of ministry must be
being prophetic ministry in other words a prophetic
ministry on the one hand does bring judgment
to the people of God but on the
other hand it brings in resurrection and life
we need God's judgment that we may repent
but thank God after we repent there will
be life there will be resurrection so this
is what prophetic ministry ought to be and
then you find from chapter one say to
chapter 13 we find the ministry of Elijah
the prophet in chapter 17 we find the
destruction of the northern kingdom of Israel and
then we find the comment of the Holy
Spirit concerning their history chapter 18 to chapter
20 we find a great revival under the
King Hezekiah and then from chapter 22 to
chapter 23 we find another revival under King
Josiah now that is these are the highlights
we find in the second book of the
Kings for our fellowship this morning we will
concentrate on one prophet and two Kings the
prophet Elijah and the Kings Hezekiah and Josiah
now we know both the prophet and the
King they represent leadership spiritual
leadership when we think
of life in the body of Christ we
find that all are equal in other words
we are all members of the body of
Christ and as members of the body of
Christ no member is more important than the
other member the eyes, knees, the ears, the
hands, knees, the feet even though we are
all different and yet so far as life
is concerned we share the same life there
is no difference we are all equal before
God so far as God's grace is concerned
there's no reason why one brother or one
sister should receive more grace than the other
brother or the other sister because God gave
His grace equal to all the reason why
some receive more some receive less is not
because God is partial in dispensing His grace
is because of our capacity some receive more
of Him some do not seem to be
able to but anyway you find so far
as life is concerned we are all equal
before God but so far as work is
concerned we are as the kingdom of God
and in the kingdom of God we find
there is not only divine order but there
are various positions so in other words you
find that in the kingdom of God our
Lord Jesus is the King but under Him
you find He does give the church some
apostles some prophets some evangelists some pastors and
teachers and these are the people for the
ministry of God's word they are to perfect
the saints then on the other hand you'll
find God does raise up elders and deacons
for the government of the church to lead
the people to help them to build them
up so dear brothers and sisters when you
come to the work of God you'll find
there is leadership you know sometimes God's people
are so democratic they feel that among God's
people there should be no leaders or we
are all leaders it is true when it
comes to life we are all equal but
when God begins to work in His church
to build up His church you'll find He
does raise up leadership and we need leadership
because if there is no leadership there is
really no beauty prophets
apostles prophets evangelists pastors and teachers they are
raised up by God to perfect the body
of Christ to perfect God's people then after
God's people are being perfected that is matured
and equipped then every member of the body
of Christ will begin to function and build
up the body in love so in other
words these men these people are God's gift
to the church they are spiritual in spiritual
leadership leading God's people by the word of
God then on the other hand you'll find
in the church God raised up elders deacons
these are people in certain responsibility and through
them God wants to shepherd to help the
people to go on with the Lord the
first group of people are like the prophets
in the Old Testament time because the prophets
they minister God's word to His people the
second class group of people are like the
kings in the Old Testament time they are
concerned more with the government with the serving
with the service so you'll find God does
raise up in the church leadership leadership is
very important for the growth of the church
if the leadership is wrong that is if
the leaders are selfish then you'll find the
whole nation suffer you'll see that in the
history of the nation of Israel of the
nation of Judah when you have a bad
king then you'll find the whole nation came
under curse but if by God's grace you'll
find a good king that is one who
rule for God then you'll find the whole
nation was blessed it is almost inevitable you
know brothers and sisters God's people are sheep
I think everybody loves sheep they look so
loving so gentle so good and thank God
for that every child of God is loving
but you know the sheep are the most
ignorant if a sheep gets astray it never
knows how to come back not like the
dog or the cat now if a sheep
is stranded put his head into the thorns
it is never able to get itself out
it has to be help out but a
sheep does not know it's pasture because it
will eat anything that is before him but
a sheep needs a shepherd to choose the
pasture for the sheep so you see God's
people are like sheep they are so good
they are so innocent they are so ignorant
and that's the reason why you'll find in
church history whenever God raise up the right
leadership how God's people are blessed but whenever
you'll find a bad leadership God's people can
be let astray very quickly almost overnight they
just follow whoever is leading them and that's
the reason why we find it is so
important that God will give his church spiritual
leadership leadership that really comes from God not
from man leadership that is not set up
by man leadership that is not grasped by
ambitious people but leadership that is ordained by
God himself and when God gives his church
those leaders whom he has raised up by
himself and these leaders are really leading the
people in God then you'll find how blessed
God's people will be so dear brothers and
sisters we really need to ask the Lord
and pray that God will raise up spiritual
leadership in the church I think as we
enter into this large phase of the church
period we are at the end of the
last days and we are in the day
of great apostasy a great falling away and
we do find that how many of God's
people are being led astray here and there
they are innocent we feel for them but
brothers and sisters this is the time that
we need to pray and ask the Lord
to raise up spiritual leadership for his people
so that's the reason why we find second
Kings is so important because there we find
how God raised up the prophet Elijah in
the ministry of God's word to his people
and how God raised up King Hezekiah and
King Josiah to lead the people back to
God and pray that God will do the
same today now let's go to Elijah the
very name Elijah means whose salvation is God
he was the son of Shephet of Abel
Meholah now Abel Meholah was in the valley
of Jordan in the tribe of Manasseh we
find him first in first Kings chapter 19
you remember Elijah God commanded him to go
back to anoint Elijah to succeed him as
the prophet so Elijah went to Abel Meholah
and there he found Elijah now what was
Elijah doing?
he was ploughing the field with twelve oxen
yoke of oxen and he was with the
twelve now brothers and sisters so far as
prophet of prophetic ministry is concerned number one
you will find it is the sovereign choice
of God you remember our Lord Jesus said
in John chapter 15 verse 16 he said
you have not chosen me I have chosen
you and has set you that you go
and bear much fruit so brothers and sisters
so far as prophetic ministry is concerned you
will find first of all we have to
remember it is God's sovereign choice it is
not something that we want to do and
that's what we are you will find that
basically God in his sovereignty he will choose
whomever he wants to choose there is nothing
for anyone to boast and for anyone to
grasp at it is the sovereign choice of
God but why is it that out of
the many young people in the nation of
Israel that God should choose Elisha on the
one hand you will find everything is based
upon God's sovereign choice but on the other
hand we need to ask the question why
does God choose this one and not choose
the other one for that prophetic ministry God
must have seen something in that young man
that makes him different from the other young
man or to put it in other words
God must have seen something in that young
man that is worthy to be chosen what
was that young man doing he was plowing
the field an ordinary work an ordinary work
but he was plowing the field with twelve
yokes of oxen now have you ever seen
a person plowing the field with twelve yokes
of oxen usually you see man will plow
the field with one yoke of oxen but
he plowed with twelve yokes of oxen on
the one hand it shows that he must
come from a well to do family you
know a well to do family can have
twelve yokes of oxen and if you come
from a well to do family that can
that have twelve yokes of oxen probably you
won't plow anymore you will hide people to
do it and you will just enjoy yourself
and have a good time but not this
young man you find that even though he
came from a pretty rich family and he
could hide people to plow the field but
you find he himself was at the twelve
yoke of oxen, he was plowing in other
words this young man was diligent very diligent
I think it is the Almudy who says
God will never use a lazy person and
he even says God will never save a
lazy person because that person is too lazy
to believe in the Lord Jesus diligent God
saw that young man a character the character
of diligence and because there is that character
there, God chose him not only that but
you find that when that young man was
working he never worked half-heartedly he put
all twelve yokes of oxen into work, you
will find his whole heart was in the
work, now that was the kind of person
God would like to use not only that
when Elijah came to him without saying any
word just put his mantle upon him, the
prophet's mantle upon him you know what happened?
Elijah immediately ran to Elijah he
said let me go and say goodbye to
my father and mother and I will follow
you, and Elijah said what have I done
to you he went back he killed the
oxen used the implement as the wood to
boil the oxen, give the people to eat
and he left and followed Elijah now brothers
and sisters how could this happen so suddenly
it shows us that this young man even
though while he was busy occupied with ploughing
the field ploughing the field his heart had
been exercising before the Lord for some time
it was not an accident you find that
his heart had been exercising for the interest
of God in the nation of Israel, he
must have been praying, he must have been
burdened before God, he must have been waiting
upon God he was waiting to be called
he was ready but he didn't get out
on his own he will wait until God
call him into that ministry but he didn't
wait at home, idly waiting for the calling
you will find while he was waiting for
the calling he was diligently applying himself to
whatever God has put in his hand at
that moment and with all his heart and
that's the reason why when Elijah put that
mantle upon him immediately he responded because his
heart was ready and you will find he
just burned the bridge behind him and wholeheartedly
followed Elijah brothers and sisters is
our heart being exercised before God when our
hands seem to be on the plow plowing
the fields and we do put ourselves as
if wholeheartedly into the work that God has
put in our hands at the moment but
dear brothers and sisters is our whole interest
our whole burden being to have a hundred
foot harvest from the field, that's all or
when we are plowing the fields, are we
exercised with the interest of God upon this
earth today is our heart being burdened by
God's kingdom are we waiting upon God ready
to do whatever God may call us to
do in other words we are not serving
the world we are serving God, even when
our hands are on the plow our hearts
are with God and when the time came
to some are we ready to respond to
burn the bridge behind us and on the
other hand brothers and sisters if we do
have a heart a burden for the Lord's
work do we just step out on our
own and say now I'm burdened therefore I
have to do it I cannot wait anymore
no, we have to wait until God's call
at His time but when the time come,
do not hesitate burn the bridge and follow
thirdly, you find Elijah responded and in 1
Kings chapter 19 I think it's verse 21
what does it say?
Elijah ministered to Elijah now what does it
mean by minister to Elijah if you go
to 2 Kings chapter 3 you know what
it means he pours water on the hands
of Elijah now today we don't know what
that means now if you go to India
probably you will know what it means you
know when you in India you eat with
your hands so after you eat somebody will
pour water on your hands so that you
can wash your hands and make it clean
so in other words it is the work
of a servant now Elijah was called to
be a prophet so probably you will fully
expect him to begin to open his mouth
and prophesy but instead of that, what you
find Elijah was doing, he was there pouring
water on the hands of Elijah, he was
doing the work of a servant do you
think it is beyond his dignity he ought
to be prophesying but you don't find him
prophesying you find he was there serving Elijah
as an apprentice as a disciple you know
this is how spiritual leadership is raised up
if God is to raise you up as
a leader you first have to learn to
be a learner before you can lead you
have to be discipled to Christ after all
leadership is not sitting on high and giving
command, leadership is to be the servant of
all therefore the spirit of servanthood has to
be developed brothers and sisters this is true
with the twelve apostles, with our Lord Jesus
the Lord called the twelve apostles but they
were to be with him learning of him,
not only just to learn the skill of
preaching they had to learn to know the
Lord to learn his character how he lived
how he acted brothers and sisters this is
what we need we need to learn of
him we need to learn his character let
his character characterizes us, and then we are
able to minister life to people so you
find Elijah minister to Elijah for a period
until God was calling Elijah up, so one
day Elijah told Elijah, stay here in Gilgal
I'm going to Bethel and Elijah said, no
I go with you and after they arrived
Bethel Elijah said, stay here I'm going to
Jericho Elijah said no, I'm going with you
to Jericho and they were in Jericho, Elijah
said, stay here, I'm going over to Jordan,
and Elijah said no, I'm going with you
so you find they to travel all the
way, cross the river Jordan, and then Elijah
said I'm going leaving you what do you
want, you may ask and you know what
Elijah asked he said, give me a double
portion of your spirit a
double portion of the spirit of Elijah now
what is the spirit of Elijah the spirit
of Elijah is the spirit of jealousy the
jealousy of God jealous for God, that is
the spirit of Elijah you know we know
the spirit of Elijah especially at the time
of his disappointment, you know when you are
watching yourself we all put up a front
nobody really know your spirit, you know it
is very difficult, the more civilized we are
the more we hide ourselves we will not
allow people to know our spirit, of a
real man we don't allow people to know
that but when we are in disappointment in
despair you know all the facade will go
down and then our real person will come
out now when do you see Elijah's real
person coming out his spirit coming out when
he was disappointed he fled to Mount Sinai
and God said Elijah, why are you here,
what are you doing here and Elijah said
Lord, I am jealous for you I am
jealous for your rights and yet you find
the whole nation against me, they want to
kill me the spirit of Elijah is a
spirit of jealousy now, do nothing wrong, the
word jealousy is nothing wrong with that word,
today jealousy to us have a very bad
connotation, but the jealousy itself is not wrong
if you are jealous of the right thing,
that is the best thing to do our
God is a jealous God and we need
the jealousy of God we need to be
jealous for God we need to be so
jealous that we do not want to see
anything of God's right being deprived, we want
to have God to be God we want
God to have everything that he deserves to
have now that is jealous for God, and
Elijah was so jealous for God that his
very life was in danger and now Elijah
came up and said give me a double
portion of your spirit now this young man
was really not ambitious for himself nothing is
wrong to be ambitious again you know some
people think that Christians should not be ambitious
no Paul said I am ambitious that is
the very word in 2nd Corinthians you know
but in the Bible probably you do not
translate it that way but in the original
Paul said I am ambitious that I may
please God in all things double portion of
Elijah's spirit in other words he wanted to
be so jealous for God that he was
willing to take double trials and double afflictions
its costly but in order to get that
double portion of the spirit of Elijah he
had to travel all the way from Gilgal
to Bethel to Jordan to Jericho to Jordan
we know Gilgal is the rolling away the
rolling away of the shame of Egypt the
rolling away of the flesh where the flesh
is being completely dealt with brothers and sisters
if we desire to have a double portion
of the spirit of Elijah the first thing
we need to see is we need to
have the flesh completely rolled away and then
we need to go to Bethel the house
of God we need to positively see what
the house of God really is and there
we will live under an open heaven and
from there we will go to Jericho there
will be spiritual conflict and we will experience
the victory of Christ and from there we
will cross the river Jordan that is conformed
to his death brothers and sisters after we
have gone through this then when Elijah came
back he was able to minister the life
to every place that he visited in these
13 chapters of 2nd Kings you will find
all together Elijah performed if we may say
so 14 miracles now people have different opinions
about that but that's alright it just shows
that how God used that man and you
will find in all these miracles he brought
he brought life and resurrection to the people
he opened the water of Jordan he healed
the water of Jericho it is true he
cursed the little boy that came out of
Bethel now in the original it is not
little boy in the original these are teenagers
in other words Bethel was at that time
the place of idolatry so evidently the priest
of that idolatry send these teenagers out to
ridicule to mock Elijah that is to mock
the interest of God go up bald head
go up Elijah go up why don't you
not go up and of course judgment came
upon these teenagers and then you will find
he brought water in the desert for the
three kings that they might die and again
you will find he multiplied the oil in
the vessel that the widow of the son
of prophet borrowed to maintain her life and
he restored the life of the little boy
of the woman of Shunem and he healed
the poison in the pot he multiplied the
cake of barley to feed a hundred people
he healed the leprosy of Nathan Naaman he
opened the eyes of his servant to see
God's horsemen surrounding the city and you find
he proclaimed the victory over Syria and even
after he died when a dead body touched
his bones that body was resurrected in other
words you find it is a ministry of
resurrection life and dear brothers and sisters how
we need such ministry we need a ministry
of judgment but we also need a ministry
of life of resurrection life and that is
what ministry really is to impart the life
of Christ to God's people and how we
need such ministry now that is Elijah I
will not have time to go into the
kings both of them but probably I will
do one and leave the other for second
chronicles you find God raise up Hezekiah Hezekiah
came to the throne when he was 29
years old and he was on the throne
for 25 years the Bible said Hezekiah follow
the Lord and he did everything that David
his father did without turning to the right
or turning to the left you know brothers
and sisters in the Old Testament especially with
the history of the kings God measured every
king with David because David is the king
David represents the king at God's own heart
he was a man at God's own heart
who will do all God's will and that
is what a king in God's heart is
so God used David to measure every king
in the book of the kings some kings
did not measure up in any way they
were bad they did not do what David
did other kings may do something that David
did but not all things and a few
you find they did everything that David did
because their hearts were perfect towards God like
David's heart was perfect and Hezekiah was one
of them as a matter of fact among
the Jewish people they consider three kings are
most honorable David was one and Hezekiah was
another one he followed the Lord with all
his heart he did everything that David did
he measured up to God's standard do you
know that God has a standard to measure
everything today too God will measure not only
ministry God will measure life God will measure
work God will measure everything today with one
standard and that is the one who is
greater than David our Lord Jesus He will
measure everything according to Him in leadership He
will use the Lord Jesus as the measuring
rod to see how much you measure up
to His leadership do we do what He
does or what He has done or is
there in some way we deviate from Him
how God's heart will be pleased if He
finds leadership measure up to the son of
David the Lord and Hezekiah was one who
measure up to David number two you find
Hezekiah he trusted the Lord in his 14th
year of reign you find Sennacherib king of
Syria came and seized the cities of Judah
and began to surround lay siege over the
city of Jerusalem and made unreasonable demands and
here you find Hezekiah under that kind of
situation how he trusted the Lord with his
whole heart he just cried unto the Lord
and the Lord delivered him brothers and sisters
we need that kind of trust in the
Lord and then you find in the prime
of his years when he was 39 years
old he was sick unto death and God
sent Elijah sent Isaiah to him and said
set your house in order you are going
and Hezekiah turned his face towards the wall
and wept and he said God remember my
heart was perfect towards thee I did everything
for you and now in the prime of
my years I am dying and because he
wept before God God's heart was suffered so
God sent Elijah back and said I heard
your prayer I give you 15 more years
and in the third day you will go
into the temple to worship and Hezekiah said
how do I know do I have a
sign and Isaiah said yes you want a
dial of going forward 10 degrees or going
backward 10 degrees and Hezekiah said going backward
so time went back 10 degrees isn't that
wonderful we do not have the time to
try to prove this scientifically but it has
been proven in the universe we lost 24
hours and these 24 hours you can find
it in the scripture and the 10 degrees
is among them so anyway you will find
that God gave him a sign the dial
went back 10 degrees and Hezekiah was healed
how he trusted believe in God but unfortunately
his heart was
not humbled by all that God has done
and instead he began to be proud of
himself so in these 15 years two terrible
things happened one was in these 15 years
you know the king of Babylon the king
of Babylon and the king of Assyria they
were enemies and when the king of Babylon
heard that Hezekiah was healed he sent an
emissary to come and congratulate him and Hezekiah
was so proud of his country his riches,
his wealth that he was enticed by the
emissary they were spies and showed them all
the things in his kingdom and because of
that God told him the whole nation everything
he had will be taken into captive number
two during these 15 years he beget a
son called Manasseh and that son was a
one of the worst kings and because of
his sins God determined to destroy the nation
of Judah dear brothers and sisters there is
a great lesson for us if the Lord
said your time is up go gladly if
you try to persuade God God can be
persuaded you see our God is so soft
tender hearted He can be persuaded but is
not good for you better submit yourself unto
God because everything He has ordained for you
is the best for you and for him
too so you find in King Hezekiah thank
God, God did raise him up as a
spiritual leader and under his leadership the nation
did come back to God temporarily at least
and God also gave him Isaiah to help
him in the work of restoration even though
unfortunately at the very end he fell into
pride and that is a great lesson for
leaders you know leaders are exposed to this
peril of being proud if God does not
use you you have nothing to be proud
of and you may be jealous of other
people and that is your danger but if
God should use you then people will be
jealous of you, you will not be jealous
but you may be proud and pride will
be followed so may the Lord have mercy
upon us, on the one hand that God
will raise a spiritual leadership and on the
other hand that the leaders will keep always
humble before Him now shall we pray dear
Heavenly Father we do commit these words into
Thy hands and pray that Thou will make
them living even life to us Lord we
do pray that Thou will raise up spiritual
leadership in the church and pray that Thou
will keep the leaders humble before Thee we
do look forward to the day when Thou
shall return and establish Thy kingdom upon this
earth and righteousness shall reign over the whole
earth we ask in Thy precious name