301: Aaron MacAdams - Exhortation: The Inheritance of Naboth

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   Welcome to the good Chris Adelphian Talks podcast. This is brother Brian. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to have the time to go to contribute to posting a couple of good classes. Glad to be able to be back, and hopefully I’ll be able to send a couple cool ones in soon enough.

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   This week’s talk is an exhortation that was given by Brother Aaron McAdams at the Morristown Aklesia a few months ago. Brother Aaron was actually visiting on a weekend when we had a triple baptism and his original exhort was able to amplify the already emotionally and spiritually charged feeling of the morning. And then his earnest appreciation for what had taken place made for a very memorable story or a tie into the story of Naboth’s vineyard. So the main thrust of the exhort was about the recent archaeological discovery of a vineyard that plausibly could have been the one that Ahab took from Naboth. But when revisiting the record from First Kings 21, brother Aaron paints the picture of a faithful servant who in fact did not die and did not lose his vineyard because he believed God and he believed that it was his inheritance. And brother Aaron made the tie in that giving up our claim to God, giving up our inheritance in the Kingdom is essentially non negotiable.

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   There are also a lot of really cool Bible echoes regarding what Naboth stands for in the rest of Scripture. And I found that in the months since that he gave this one, I just keep going back to it. So as always, we hope that this strengthens your faith and brightens your day. Brother Aaron McAdams, The inheritance of Naboth.

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   Good morning. Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve been here. Can you all feel it? What happened this morning, brother? I, I I don’t know how you got through that. What an amazing day. In Full disclosure, when my sister, wife Kelly asked if I would exhort this morning, I said glad, happy to do so and she forgot to tell me an important piece of information and that was there was going to be 3 baptisms this morning and which which is amazing thing.

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   It’s what a wonderful day. You know, as we know, the angels in heaven are rejoicing for this day. So congratulations and can we feel it right? The times that we’re living in the times and the things that are happening, which caused the three of you to say, right, I will, I will answer the call. There are things happening that are beyond me and, and what a wonderful, wonderful day.

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   So we, we rejoice with you. It’s exciting to be here. And I think fittingly, I’d, I’d like to just spend some minutes, some time this morning talking about inheritance because that’s essentially what you’ve done this morning, right? You have taken on not only the same name of Christ, but you have partaken of or attached your name to an inheritance.

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   And it’s a beautiful thing. So to talk about inheritance, I want to, to go back and if you, if you have a chance, we’ll get there eventually. We’re going to go back to first Kings 21. It’s a story that we know from Sunday school, perhaps. And to preface that about seven years ago in Israel, there was an archaeological discovery that was made. And what the archaeologists found, they’ve been working here for quite a while, is they found what they believe, or some of them believe to be the vineyard of Naboth, a name that we may remember from First Kings 21.

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    And here’s a quote from from one of the head archaeologists because the question came up, you know, do you really believe this was Naboth? This is a this is a big story in the Old Testament. And this was her response. She said, as an archaeologist, I cannot say there was definitely a specific man named Naboth who had a particular vineyard.

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    This story is very old. But from what I have found, I can say that the story as described in the Bible quite probably could have occurred here in the Jezreel Valley. And this was at the not the start, but the kind of accumulation of all these digs where they have mapped out the Jezreel Valley, which is in sort of North Central Israel, northern Israel, really below the Sea of Galilee, the the mountains of Israel to their NA little bit to the north of the West Bank. And she, she finished by saying this. This was the last quote in the article that I read. It said there is no doubt that the Bible is a useful source. All archaeologists use the Bible, but some use it more cautiously.

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    I thought it was striking given the story of First Kings 21, where a very particular man, a brother, laid out his faith, his inheritance on the line. New sisters. It’s, it’s something that you’re being called to do as well. And those who heed that call and, and enter those waters of baptism, it’s, it’s a, it’s a difficult thing.

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    Brother Brian mentioned that this morning. It, it will be hard and, and the struggle is a real one. And it’s a continuous, ongoing fight, right, time after time after time in a world that challenges us. And we just need to look around and you all know, right, the things that are happening right now across the world, wars and rumors of wars and, and, you know, nations that are that are making preparations for a big war, not just little, you know, regional things. This is big stuff.

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    What was found next to the palace they know that Ahab lived in, a documented king of Israel, was a vineyard, a whole series of vineyards. We believe because we read our Bible carefully, Cautiously, yes, but with the light in the eye of faith, we believe that was indeed Naboth’s vineyard. We also don’t believe that it’s just a coincidence that here in the last days, that vineyard has been found and identified, indeed an inheritance that was never lost.

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    Isn’t that a beautiful thing? What a beautiful lesson for us that God has remembered that and these years, thousands of years later, has brought Naboth’s name back. In Genesis, we learn that Yahweh is the God of truth. He established creation and life. He builds and destroys kingdoms. He established His seed and the promised ones through Abraham. He preserved access to the tree of life in Daniel, and I think this is very fitting for us today. We read about how God sets rulers in place and how He removes them, and he does it in his best interest and often chooses the basis of human men to do so that we typically probably wouldn’t choose.

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    We find that God rules in the kingdoms of men. In Job, we find out that God creates evil as well. He tests and rewards based on his judgments. We can’t earn anything. His angels are working with us. And those angels that are rejoicing this morning, in the midst of the chaos and the wars and the things happening, they are indeed rejoicing. They also work with each one of us to strengthen and to teach. And not just us, but others.

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    And the baptisms this morning are the results of works right by families and friends and experiences hard work and constant work of the angels of God, both mortal and immortal. In Romans, Brothers and sisters, we, we read this and don’t have to turn here, You’ll, you’ll know these words well. Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

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    And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit. Because the Spirit intercedes for Saints according to the will of God. And we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good for those who are called according to His purpose. And there’s a comfort there, right?

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    Because I don’t know about you, but there’s so many times when I come to to partake of the bread and the wine and I don’t even know what to say. And the places I’ve been or the things that I’ve said that the words that I’ve chosen in haste.

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    This idea that he understands, we find it in so many ways. And we also believe, right, that he hears us. If God is for us, who can be against us? That passage ends, it seems, coming from another ecclesia several hours away. It sees seems sometimes that all we hear is bad news. Aside from today’s rejoicing, it seems like the burdens that we have and our family has or our friends have will never end. It’s it’s normal, I think, to ask as Job certainly did. What why, when, when are you coming to come back? We hear stories up in in New England. There was, you may have heard of them, the the Cannon family, the Cannon family, a lovely family and the truth, you know, with with two boys and and a little girl and so strong from a little ecclesia in Abington examples to all. And, and brother Tommy got cancer and he was the only one in the house working because Sister Shawna stayed home to home school, which hit us really hard because that’s what Sister Kelly does.

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    Seems sometimes the burdens will never end. It’s hard to feel mighty when there are so many times we feel so weak. And we’re living in a world where sin has been allowed to flourish, right? Not just flourish, but it’s encouraged. We’re inundated with it, mortality claims, it’s victims every day and family members. And it’s, it’s natural for us to ask why. And so if you’re back in First Kings 21, I think Naboth is a really good example of this.

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    He’s an example of a, a faithful brother, a a brother who persevered, a brother who was compassionate, and a brother that seems to be very independent of his king, who is not a particularly faithful man. And those three things, his perseverance, his independence, and his compassion, I think come out strongly in this story. And they were brought out this morning as well in First Kings 21.

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    It’s the story of Naboth’s vineyard. You might know it from Sunday School. Naboth was a Jezreelite who had a vineyard, and the scripture says that it was hard by or right next to Ahab’s palace, the king of Samaria. And we find out in the story that Ahab coveted what Naboth had. And in our story, right, Ahab is very easy to connect to the world around us, right? There’s a lot of different analogies here. But just thinking today and, and to our three young sisters, the world wants what you have.

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    It wants it. It values it. It values you. And it’s going to offer you. And you know this. It’s going to offer you something it considers to be equal, right? Well, here on Sunday morning, you can be doing this. It’s equal to what you would be doing, right? And for everything we have and we want, the world says, I have something that I think is equal. Hey, better than that.

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    And in the story, Ahab covets Naboth’s vineyard. He asks Naboth for it, and Naboth refuses, and Neha and and Naboth refuses. And so Ahab complaints to his wife Jezebel, and she arranges to have Naboth stones and she gives her husband his vineyard. It’s never called Ahab’s vineyard. It’s a harsh reminder, though, of the cruelty we see everywhere in the world around us.

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    And it’s a harsh reminder that sometimes the choices that we make and who we stand for and our inheritance does. And really when it comes down to it, it is a life or death choice. Comes down to these every day. Just want to ask, if Ahab is the king, he’s supposed to be the role model right? He’s supposed to be the shepherding the people. If he’s the king, why would he covet someone else’s vineyard? His was bigger than Ahab’s.

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    No doubt he had the best vine dressers to take care of his vineyard. He could afford to pay for that. The best wine makers were making his wine in his vineyard.

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    So why did he covet what Ahab had, right? If we’re honest with ourselves, we know that’s what the flesh does, right? We compare and we look and we want. And so he didn’t have any understanding or care of what Nebath’s inheritance was. He saw something maybe that was just beautiful, the care of this faithful man who persevered in that vineyard, working every day to make sure that those vines were taken care of, working for his master. King Ahab saw it as land, something that he thought he could use to grow more or something else than what he was growing.

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    And I think he had that in common with that archaeologist who found Naboth’s vineyard, right, seven years ago, didn’t really understand the importance of that inheritance. And that man Naboth, who was a real believer, Ahab was as we don’t have to go there, but Daniel 4 verse 17 so eloquently records a base man, one of the basest or lowliest of men to whom God had given a Kingdom. And it’s a simple lesson, isn’t it, for the bread and wine this morning.

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    It’s a simple lesson. We’re pressured every day by the Ahabs. They want us to give our inheritance up. They offer equal value or more than what a reasonable person would take for what they own. Remember, Ahab offered that not just equal value, but more. He was the king. He had unlimited funds, but he realized there was nothing better.

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    That is Naboth, he said. There’s nothing better than my inheritance. My hope it’s non negotiable. And brothers and sisters, that’s that’s our answer. It has to be our answer every day, even though when we’re honest with ourselves we know it’s not.

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    But we come here this morning to partake of the bread and the wine to recommit to that answer. Our inheritance, God’s mercy and His love is non negotiable. We will not exchange it.

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    In that same book of Job I mentioned briefly before, we’re reminded that God is in control of what happens. Things don’t just happen to us or our families or our ecclesias because we sin more right than somebody else or even in any in any necessarily way in response to what we’ve done. It could be for somebody else’s example or lesson.

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    What happens to us is part of the process of how God works. And surely it was the same with Naboth, right? Those faithful around him understood what was happening and they were reminded of what their faith where they needed to stand. It’s all part of the short process of life in a world where sin has been allowed to flourish. We must believe that just as God was working in Naboth’s life, he was working in the life of the canons. And all those mentioned this morning by Brother Dave. I I don’t know most of them right, who aren’t here for whatever reason or who are here and are struggling. Just as he was working in Naboth’s life, he is working in yours and ours.

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    So while it’s hard to feel mighty when there are so many times we feel weak and helpless, brothers and sisters, we have chapters like first Kings 21 that are given to remind us of the strength we can have through our faith. And brother Brian ended with one of the last things you talked about was this idea that well, something like this.

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    I want to miss, miss phrase you, you know, well, how do we know what’s our proof right about about what’s going to happen next? And he remind us that it’s it’s faith that God will do what he has promised. And that’s what Naboth’s belief was too. It’s the same when we feel weak and helpless.

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    We have these chapters where we can gain strength, the same strength. The world will see his weakness. The same faith that brings the community together to pray for insert the name of the family or the brother or the sister, the the children or the friends that are sick or that have lost a job or are struggling. It’s how mighty we can be in our community. Even though sometimes his answer as we know, is not right now, or his answer is this is how it must happen, his answer is also there is a time to come when the poor will hear the good news, when the sick will be healed, the blind will receive their sight, the lame will walk, the deaf will hear, and the dead will be raised to life again.

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    It’s really remarkable and bizarre thing, isn’t it, that we believe the dead raised to life. How wonderful these mortal bodies replaced with immortality. First Kings chapter 21 is a chapter about not death, not a wicked and faithless king. It’s a chapter about joining together an inheritance, a covenant, or a union. In stark contrast to the union of wickedness between Ahab and Jezebel, this covenant embodies the inheritance.

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    Each one of us was given by our Heavenly Father when we came up out of the waters of baptism, promise renewed when we set our minds to serve our Father and his Son when we knew renew our covenants day by day, week by week, in prayer, reading His Word and breaking bread together.

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    Let’s just take a look at First Kings 21 brothers and sisters in in in in in brief. So really, I love this. You know what’s really cool about First Kings 21?

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    Naboth doesn’t die. Naboth doesn’t die. I know in verse 10, First Kings 21, we read and set two men, sons of Belial before him to bear witness against him, saying, You did blasphemy God and the king and carry him out and stone him, that he may die. And these wicked men Belial means worthless. They talk about the stoning of Naboth. I know verse 13 says, and there came in two men, children of Belial, worthless people, and sat before him. And the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, it says at the end of that they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him with stones, that he died. I know it says that, I know.

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    It says in verse 14 that the message was sent to Jezebel that Naboth is not alive, but dead. Verse 15, it mentions his death twice came to pass when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money. For Naboth is not alive, but dead. The Scripture actually goes out of its way six times in this chapter to tell us Naboth is dead six times. But let’s read cautiously, shall we? What do you really hear when we read through verses 1 to 25? Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel. Verse one.

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    Verse 2. After this Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vineyard, I will give you a better vineyard for it. Verse three. But Naboth said to Ahab, the Lord forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my father’s verse four. He had said, I will not give you the inheritance of my father’s verse six. I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said, Give me your vineyard. And he answered, I will not give you my vineyard for seven. Jezebel, his wife said, I will give you the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezreelite.

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    There’s 15. As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelites, for Naboth is not alive but dead. And verse 16, As soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab rose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. Verse 18, behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession.

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    Verse 21 met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. Verse 25, take him and throw him in the plot of ground belonging to Nahab Naboth the Jezreelite brothers and sisters. If Naboth the Jezreelite was dead, how come Scripture teach telling us that’s his land? Not saying, by the way, he wasn’t really dead, right? Looking through the Eye of Faith cautiously, we understand that although six times that chapter mentions that he is dead, although most of those come from questionable sources, 22 times in that chapter Naboth’s name is mentioned. Well, overall, sorry, 20 * 12 times it’s referenced alongside the vineyard of Naboth or the inheritance of his father’s or the plot of ground belonging to Naboth even after he’s dead. It’s called that see, neighbor Naboth’s vineyard was producing fruit in Naboth’s name and it never stopped. And it’s been found today and they’ve found things that they used to make the, the, the, the wine to press the grapes. And isn’t that interesting that here in 2024, the inheritance of a faithful man was found.

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    And along with that was a remnant of wine and grapes in the last days it wrote. It was and it remained. And it remains today Naboth’s inheritance or seed forever. Scripture remembers Naboth with a living inheritance and hope. And you know what Naboth’s name means? It means fruit. He’s the only one named that in Scripture. He was named after a place called Nob. You may remember that it was a priestly city in Benjamin. Do you remember what happened at Nob? This is where it gets really interesting. It’s where in First Samuel 21 we don’t have to go there for time, where in first time with 21, David and his men were were given showbread to eat when they were hungry. And David took the bread that was given to him, much like Christ did at the Last Supper, literally for them bread of life, and distributed it to the faithful soldiers that were with him.

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    See, Naboth was literally a foreshadow of the living bread, the bread of life, and his inheritance was a vineyard. In the life and death of Naboth, the Jezreelite were given a direct foreshadow, brothers and sisters, to the breaking of bread. But did anything else happen in Nab? But did anything else happen in Nob in first Samuel 22, the next chapter, It’s where Saul finds out where David is, and he goes, and what does he do?

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    David goes to The Cave of Adolem, which means the justice of the people, and he’s hiding there while Saul kills all the priests that had helped David. All the priests at Nob are killed. And you know what Saul says? He says here now, people of Benjamin, will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards?

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    Will the Son of God give everyone of you fields and vineyards? Hear the echoes here in this story. Naboth the Jezreelite was named after the place where the priests of Nab had been unjustly killed by a faithless king. He was a living reminder of their inheritance as well as his.

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    And Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard. But there’s more. If you could turn to Isaiah chapter 10, Isaiah 10, while you’re turning, there is a prophecy of the invasion of the northern Kingdom of Israel by Assyria. They were, they’re going to be taken away by Assyria into captivity. Isaiah 10 talks about that the Assyrian war machine was descending on Judah, but they they couldn’t get through the forests of Lebanon, these massive Lebanese trees of of cedar trees and the Assyrian army would have to cut them all down to bring their siege machines and weapons down to Jerusalem, 25 miles. They had to drag them down, but first they had to cut down these trees to get there.

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    Isaiah 10. Let’s pick up the record in verse verse 32 this very day, Isaiah 10, verse 32, this very day, He will halt at Nob. He will shake his first at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power. The grade in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.

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    It’s talking about what would happen when Assyria would finally come down into Israel and those trees would be cut down. But while the Assyrians were delayed, they took time for them to do this. Hezekiah, you may remember his story too, was cleansing the temple and praying and holding a Passover because he was determined that his inheritance would survive by the grace of God. A subtle connection to Naboth’s vineyard and Naboth’s inheritance and a foreshadow to the return of Christ in Isaiah. So much there.

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    Let’s just look at the context of that. Turn over to Isaiah Chapter 11, the next chapter. Now listen for Naboth’s name. It’s going to, it’s going to pop up really, really quick. You, you know these words. There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall Naboth shall be fruitful, shall bear fruit, and the Spirit of Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth. And he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. Do you not hear Ahab and Naboth in this foreshadow to the Lord Jesus Christ?

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    Jump down to verse 10 of Isaiah 11. In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the people of him shall the nations inquire. His resting place shall be glorious. In that day of, the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnants that remains of His people,

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    remnants of the faithful. Do we have time just to look at one more mention of Naboth this morning? Please turn to to 2nd Kings Chapter 9.

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    This is the last time that Naboth is mentioned by name in the record, although I do believe he’s mentioned one other time, which we’ll get to in short time. Second Kings 9, the end of First Kings 21, while we’re going to 2nd Kings 9. King Ahab humbles himself in God’s wrath and judgement against him for his treatment of Naboth, the ripping of the Kingdom from his family, and the death of his own inheritance. That’s what the judgement on Nahab on Ahab would be, right? His inheritance, his kid, his children, his family would die. But Ahab humbles himself.

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    And so that judgement is delayed, we’re told, until the days of his son Joram. And so then in First Kings 21, Ahab and Jehoshaphat go to war against the Syrians. And you may know this story too, right? Ahab, he’s afraid, He doesn’t want to die. So he disguises himself in this bizarre kind of battle.

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    And we’re told that he was killed by a certain man who drew a bow at a venture and and let loose an arrow that happens to find Ahab and his blood ran out of the wound in his chariot and he died. That’s what’s leading us up to Second Kings 9. Now here we are.

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    Jehu had been the commander of Ahab’s Chariots. Now that Ahab is dead, Jehu is doing the same thing for King Joram, Ahab’s son. But Elisha has called on Jehu to finally redeem the judgments against Ahab and his inheritance. His task is to kill Ahab’s son Joram. So we pick up the record in Second Kings Chapter 9. I’m going to start at verse 21.

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    We read Second Kings 9, verse 21. Joram said make ready and they made ready his Chariots and Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out each in his chariot and went to meet Jehu and met him at the property of Naboth. The Jezreelites. See we can’t, scripture can’t tell us enough that Naboth’s land was still there, it was his inheritance and when Joram saw Jehu he said is it peace Jehu? Jehu answered, What peace can there be so long as the whorings and sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many? And Joram panics, right?

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    And he turns around his his horse and he tries to, to, to ride away. It says Joram reined about and fled, saying to Isaiah treachery, O Isaiah. And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength and shot Joram between the shoulders. So the arrow pierced his hearts, and he sank in his chariot. And we would think that would be the end. But no, because to put a final exclamation on the story of Naboth, look at what Jihu says, verse 25. Jihu said to Bidkar his aid.

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    Remember that name? Bidkar his aid. Take him and throw him on the plot of grounds belonging to Naboth, the Jezreelites. For remember when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab, how the Lord made this pronouncement against him? As surely as I saw yesterday, the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons, declares the Lord, I will repay you on this plot of ground.

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    And Jihu remembered that. And Ahab’s line is cut off. His inheritance ends. In a sense, if you remember The Cave of Adullah meant justice of the people. You sort of have a little sort of side justice of Naboth here. Here’s God’s justice in a way, or at least judgement.

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    But here’s the best part. In Second Kings 9, Jehu becomes the king and his commander of Chariots are now going to go through and look for all the rest of Ahab’s relatives in order to eliminate all of them. But do you know what Jihu means? It means Yahweh is he and Bidcar. His aid means to thrust through. Yahweh will thrust through.

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    It’s the only time that word or that name Bidcar is used. The only one with that name in scripture. Just like Naboth was the only one with that name. In Scripture, the root word is used 11 times every time talking about somebody being killed, always by way of judgement against them. But check out the last time it’s used. Zechariah 12.

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    Zechariah Chapter 12. Brothers and sisters, this will bring us to a conclusion this morning. Just this last, last point here, Zechariah 12 picking up the account at verse one, the Oracle of the word of the Lord concerning Israel. Thus declares the Lord who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him. Behold, I’m about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all surrounding people.

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    Verse three says, On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all people. Verse four says, On that day, declares the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic, and his rider with madness. Verse six says, On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves, and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding people, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place in Jerusalem. Verse 8 says, On that day the Lord will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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    Verse 9 says, On that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Verse 10 says, And I will pour out on the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and plea for mercy, so that when they look on me whom they have pierced, they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him as one mourns over first born. It’s not a beautiful right connection. Of the 22 times Naboth’s name is mentioned in the record, in seven times we’re told Naboth was a Jezreelite. No, thee Jezreelites, it means God sows. Because Naboth’s vineyard was producing fruit in his name for a long time, for generations after his death. It was and remains.

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    It is his inheritance. Alessa and Kezia and Kayla, and I’m sorry if I don’t say those right. Your inheritance is the same. Hold strong to it. Let the bread and the wine be a centering a a remembrance, a time where you examine yourselves, the time where you renew your covenant and you remember your inheritance.

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    That’s what we’re all going to do in a moment before we close. Brothers and sisters. Although Nahab is not named again in Scripture, I do believe he’s mentioned one more time.

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    And we don’t need to turn there. But in Matthew 21, you’ll know these words. Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.

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    And when the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. And the tenants took his servants and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. See our Lord often in His parables, most of the time alluded to events and people from the past. And so perhaps here again we have an illusion. One more reference to Naboth in a vineyard planted by God, a servant killed by an unfaithful tenant. It would be fitting, wouldn’t it? And so if that’s true, it would be the 7th time Naboth the Jezreelites inheritance was mentioned in the record, and it would be connected to our Lord and connected to the inheritance that each one of us through our, through his, through our God’s mercy and grace have hoped for.

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    And again he sent other servants more than the 1st and they did the same. And finally he sent his son to them, saying they will respect my son. But the tenants saw the sun and said to themselves, this is the air. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance. And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

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    No, brothers and sisters, Naboth the Jezreelites does not die in the record. Yes, he sleeps. He sleeps awaiting the resurrection to life. A living hope the same as ours. And so when we feel so weak at times, because sometimes it’s so hard to feel mighty and hopeless and we feel tired, we come here to this figurative table of showbread, to this vineyard, and we’re reminded of the hope, the living hope that we have. First, Kings 21 and our hope is about joining together in covenants, a union, as we have seen three times this morning and we prepare to do all together as a family. A promise renewed when we set our minds to serve our Father and His Son in his vineyard,

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    renewing our covenants day by day, week by week, in prayer, together and alone, reading, crying out, rejoicing and partaking of the bread and the wine together.

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