301: Aaron MacAdams – Exhortation: The Inheritance of Naboth

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This is brother Brian.
It’s been a while since I’ve

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been able to have the time to go
to contribute to posting a

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This week’s talk is an
exhortation that was given by

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Brother Aaron McAdams at the
Morristown Aklesia a few months

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ago.
Brother Aaron was actually

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visiting on a weekend when we
had a triple baptism and his

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original exhort was able to
amplify the already emotionally

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and spiritually charged feeling
of the morning.

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And then his earnest
appreciation for what had taken

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place made for a very memorable
story or a tie into the story of

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Naboth’s vineyard.
So the main thrust of the exhort

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was about the recent
archaeological discovery of a

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vineyard that plausibly could
have been the one that Ahab took

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from Naboth.
But when revisiting the record

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from First Kings 21, brother
Aaron paints the picture of a

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faithful servant who in fact did
not die and did not lose his

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vineyard because he believed God
and he believed that it was his

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inheritance.
And brother Aaron made the tie

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in that giving up our claim to
God, giving up our inheritance

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in the Kingdom is essentially
non negotiable.

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There are also a lot of really
cool Bible echoes regarding what

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Naboth stands for in the rest of
Scripture.

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And I found that in the months
since that he gave this one, I

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just keep going back to it.
So as always, we hope that this

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strengthens your faith and
brightens your day.

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Brother Aaron McAdams, The
inheritance of Naboth.

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Good morning.
Wow, it’s been a while since

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I’ve been here.
Can you all feel it?

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What happened this morning,
brother?

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I, I I don’t know how you got
through that.

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What an amazing day.
In Full disclosure, when my

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sister, wife Kelly asked if I
would exhort this morning, I

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said glad, happy to do so and
she forgot to tell me an

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important piece of information
and that was there was going to

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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

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in heaven are rejoicing for this
day.

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So congratulations and can we
feel it right?

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The times that we’re living in
the times and the things that

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are happening, which caused the
three of you to say, right, I

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will, I will answer the call.
There are things happening that

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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.

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And I think fittingly, I’d, I’d
like to just spend some minutes,

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some time this morning talking
about inheritance because that’s

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essentially what you’ve done
this morning, right?

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You have taken on not only the
same name of Christ, but you

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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

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want to, to go back and if you,
if you have a chance, we’ll get

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there eventually.
We’re going to go back to first

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Kings 21.
It’s a story that we know from

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Sunday school, perhaps.
And to preface that about seven

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years ago in Israel, there was
an archaeological discovery that

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was made.
And what the archaeologists

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found, they’ve been working here
for quite a while, is they found

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what they believe, or some of
them believe to be the vineyard

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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

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because the question came up,
you know, do you really believe

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this was Naboth?
This is a this is a big story in

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the Old Testament.
And this was her response.

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She said, as an archaeologist, I
cannot say there was definitely

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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

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can say that the story as
described in the Bible quite

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probably could have occurred
here in the Jezreel Valley.

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And this was at the not the
start, but the kind of

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accumulation of all these digs
where they have mapped out the

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Jezreel Valley, which is in sort
of North Central Israel,

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northern Israel, really below
the Sea of Galilee, the the

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mountains of Israel to their NA
little bit to the north of the

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West Bank.
And she, she finished by saying

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this.
This was the last quote in the

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article that I read.
It said there is no doubt that

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the Bible is a useful source.
All archaeologists use the

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Bible, but some use it more
cautiously.

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I thought it was striking given
the story of First Kings 21,

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where a very particular man, a
brother, laid out his faith, his

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inheritance on the line.
New sisters.

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It’s, it’s something that you’re
being called to do as well.

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And those who heed that call
and, and enter those waters of

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baptism, it’s, it’s a, it’s a
difficult thing.

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Brother Brian mentioned that
this morning.

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It, it will be hard and, and the
struggle is a real one.

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And it’s a continuous, ongoing
fight, right, time after time

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after time in a world that
challenges us.

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And we just need to look around
and you all know, right, the

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things that are happening right
now across the world, wars and

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rumors of wars and, and, you
know, nations that are that are

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making preparations for a big
war, not just little, you know,

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regional things.
This is big stuff.

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What was found next to the
palace they know that Ahab lived

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in, a documented king of Israel,
was a vineyard, a whole series

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of vineyards.
We believe because we read our

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Bible carefully, Cautiously,
yes, but with the light in the

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eye of faith, we believe that
was indeed Naboth’s vineyard.

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We also don’t believe that it’s
just a coincidence that here in

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the last days, that vineyard has
been found and identified,

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indeed an inheritance that was
never lost.

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Isn’t that a beautiful thing?
What a beautiful lesson for us

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that God has remembered that and
these years, thousands of years

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later, has brought Naboth’s name
back.

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In Genesis, we learn that Yahweh
is the God of truth.

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He established creation and
life.

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He builds and destroys kingdoms.
He established His seed and the

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promised ones through Abraham.
He preserved access to the tree

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of life in Daniel, and I think
this is very fitting for us

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today.
We read about how God sets

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rulers in place and how He
removes them, and he does it in

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his best interest and often
chooses the basis of human men

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to do so that we typically
probably wouldn’t choose.

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We find that God rules in the
kingdoms of men.

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In Job, we find out that God
creates evil as well.

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He tests and rewards based on
his judgments.

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We can’t earn anything.
His angels are working with us.

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And those angels that are
rejoicing this morning, in the

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midst of the chaos and the wars
and the things happening, they

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are indeed rejoicing.
They also work with each one of

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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

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by families and friends and
experiences hard work and

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constant work of the angels of
God, both mortal and immortal.

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In Romans, Brothers and sisters,
we, we read this and don’t have

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to turn here, You’ll, you’ll
know these words well.

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Likewise, the Spirit helps us in
our weakness, for we do not know

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what to pray for as we ought,
but the Spirit Himself

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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.

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Because the Spirit intercedes
for Saints according to the will

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of God.
And we know that for those who

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love God, all things work
together for good for those who

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are called according to His
purpose.

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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

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come to to partake of the bread
and the wine and I don’t even

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know what to say.
And the places I’ve been or the

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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.

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And we also believe, right, that
he hears us.

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If God is for us, who can be
against us?

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That passage ends, it seems,
coming from another ecclesia

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several hours away.
It sees seems sometimes that all

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we hear is bad news.
Aside from today’s rejoicing, it

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seems like the burdens that we
have and our family has or our

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friends have will never end.
It’s it’s normal, I think, to

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ask as Job certainly did.
What why, when, when are you

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coming to come back?
We hear stories up in in New

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England.
There was, you may have heard of

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them, the the Cannon family, the
Cannon family, a lovely family

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and the truth, you know, with
with two boys and and a little

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girl and so strong from a little
ecclesia in Abington examples to

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all.
And, and brother Tommy got

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cancer and he was the only one
in the house working because

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Sister Shawna stayed home to
home school, which hit us really

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hard because that’s what Sister
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Seems sometimes the burdens will
never end.

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It’s hard to feel mighty when
there are so many times we feel

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so weak.
And we’re living in a world

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where sin has been allowed to
flourish, right?

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Not just flourish, but it’s
encouraged.

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We’re inundated with it,
mortality claims, it’s victims

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every day and family members.
And it’s, it’s natural for us to

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ask why.
And so if you’re back in First

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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

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persevered, a brother who was
compassionate, and a brother

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that seems to be very
independent of his king, who is

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not a particularly faithful man.
And those three things, his

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perseverance, his independence,
and his compassion, I think come

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out strongly in this story.
And they were brought out this

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morning as well in First Kings
21.

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It’s the story of Naboth’s
vineyard.

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You might know it from Sunday
School.

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Naboth was a Jezreelite who had
a vineyard, and the scripture

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says that it was hard by or
right next to Ahab’s palace, the

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king of Samaria.
And we find out in the story

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that Ahab coveted what Naboth
had.

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And in our story, right, Ahab is
very easy to connect to the

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world around us, right?
There’s a lot of different

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analogies here.
But just thinking today and, and

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to our three young sisters, the
world wants what you have.

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It wants it.
It values it.

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It values you.
And it’s going to offer you.

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And you know this.
It’s going to offer you

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something it considers to be
equal, right?

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Well, here on Sunday morning,
you can be doing this.

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It’s equal to what you would be
doing, right?

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And for everything we have and
we want, the world says, I have

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something that I think is equal.
Hey, better than that.

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And in the story, Ahab covets
Naboth’s vineyard.

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He asks Naboth for it, and
Naboth refuses, and Neha and and

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Naboth refuses.
And so Ahab complaints to his

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wife Jezebel, and she arranges
to have Naboth stones and she

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gives her husband his vineyard.
It’s never called Ahab’s

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vineyard.
It’s a harsh reminder, though,

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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

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make and who we stand for and
our inheritance does.

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And really when it comes down to
it, it is a life or death

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choice.
Comes down to these every day.

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Just want to ask, if Ahab is the
king, he’s supposed to be the

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role model right?
He’s supposed to be the

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shepherding the people.
If he’s the king, why would he

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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

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vineyard.
He could afford to pay for that.

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The best wine makers were making
his wine in his vineyard.

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So why did he covet what Ahab
had, right?

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If we’re honest with ourselves,
we know that’s what the flesh

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does, right?
We compare and we look and we

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want.
And so he didn’t have any

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understanding or care of what
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He saw something maybe that was
just beautiful, the care of this

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faithful man who persevered in
that vineyard, working every day

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to make sure that those vines
were taken care of, working for

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his master.
King Ahab saw it as land,

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something that he thought he
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something else than what he was
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And I think he had that in
common with that archaeologist

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who found Naboth’s vineyard,
right, seven years ago, didn’t

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really understand the importance
of that inheritance.

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And that man Naboth, who was a
real believer, Ahab was as we

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don’t have to go there, but
Daniel 4 verse 17 so eloquently

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records a base man, one of the
basest or lowliest of men to

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whom God had given a Kingdom.
And it’s a simple lesson, isn’t

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it, for the bread and wine this
morning.

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It’s a simple lesson.
We’re pressured every day by the

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Ahabs.
They want us to give our

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inheritance up.
They offer equal value or more

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than what a reasonable person
would take for what they own.

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Remember, Ahab offered that not
just equal value, but more.

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He was the king.
He had unlimited funds, but he

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realized there was nothing
better.

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That is Naboth, he said.
There’s nothing better than my

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inheritance.
My hope it’s non negotiable.

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And brothers and sisters, that’s
that’s our answer.

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It has to be our answer every
day, even though when we’re

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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

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wine to recommit to that answer.
Our inheritance, God’s mercy and

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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

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reminded that God is in control
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Things don’t just happen to us
or our families or our ecclesias

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because we sin more right than
somebody else or even in any in

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any necessarily way in response
to what we’ve done.

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It could be for somebody else’s
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What happens to us is part of
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And surely it was the same with
Naboth, right?

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Those faithful around him
understood what was happening

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and they were reminded of what
their faith where they needed to

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stand.
It’s all part of the short

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process of life in a world where
sin has been allowed to

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flourish.
We must believe that just as God

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was working in Naboth’s life, he
was working in the life of the

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canons.
And all those mentioned this

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morning by Brother Dave.
I I don’t know most of them

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right, who aren’t here for
whatever reason or who are here

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and are struggling.
Just as he was working in

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Naboth’s life, he is working in
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So while it’s hard to feel
mighty when there are so many

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times we feel weak and helpless,
brothers and sisters, we have

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chapters like first Kings 21
that are given to remind us of

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the strength we can have through
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And brother Brian ended with one
of the last things you talked

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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

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what’s our proof right about
about what’s going to happen

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next?
And he remind us that it’s it’s

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faith that God will do what he
has promised.

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And that’s what Naboth’s belief
was too.

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It’s the same when we feel weak
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We have these chapters where we
can gain strength, the same

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strength.
The world will see his weakness.

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The same faith that brings the
community together to pray for

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insert the name of the family or
the brother or the sister, the

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the children or the friends that
are sick or that have lost a job

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or are struggling.
It’s how mighty we can be in our

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community.
Even though sometimes his answer

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as we know, is not right now, or
his answer is this is how it

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must happen, his answer is also
there is a time to come when the

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poor will hear the good news,
when the sick will be healed,

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the blind will receive their
sight, the lame will walk, the

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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

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believe the dead raised to life.
How wonderful these mortal

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bodies replaced with
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First Kings chapter 21 is a
chapter about not death, not a

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wicked and faithless king.
It’s a chapter about joining

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together an inheritance, a
covenant, or a union.

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In stark contrast to the union
of wickedness between Ahab and

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Jezebel, this covenant embodies
the inheritance.

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Each one of us was given by our
Heavenly Father when we came up

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out of the waters of baptism,
promise renewed when we set our

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minds to serve our Father and
his Son when we knew renew our

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covenants day by day, week by
week, in prayer, reading His

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Word and breaking bread
together.

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Let’s just take a look at First
Kings 21 brothers and sisters in

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in in in in brief.
So really, I love this.

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You know what’s really cool
about First Kings 21?

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Naboth doesn’t die.
Naboth doesn’t die.

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I know in verse 10, First Kings
21, we read and set two men,

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sons of Belial before him to
bear witness against him,

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saying, You did blasphemy God
and the king and carry him out

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and stone him, that he may die.
And these wicked men Belial

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means worthless.
They talk about the stoning of

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Naboth.
I know verse 13 says, and there

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came in two men, children of
Belial, worthless people, and

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sat before him.
And the men of Belial witnessed

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against him, even against
Naboth, it says at the end of

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that they carried him forth out
of the city and stoned him with

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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

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Naboth is not alive, but dead.
Verse 15, it mentions his death

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twice came to pass when Jezebel
heard that Naboth was stoned and

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was dead, that Jezebel said to
Ahab, Arise, take possession of

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the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezreelite, which he refused to

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give thee for money.
For Naboth is not alive, but

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dead.
The Scripture actually goes out

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of its way six times in this
chapter to tell us Naboth is

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dead six times.
But let’s read cautiously, shall

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we?
What do you really hear when we

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read through verses 1 to 25?
Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a

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vineyard in Jezreel.
Verse one.

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Verse 2.
After this Ahab said to Naboth,

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Give me your vineyard, I will
give you a better vineyard for

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it.
Verse three.

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But Naboth said to Ahab, the
Lord forbid that I should give

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you the inheritance of my
father’s verse four.

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He had said, I will not give you
the inheritance of my father’s

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verse six.
I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite

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and said, Give me your vineyard.
And he answered, I will not give

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you my vineyard for seven.
Jezebel, his wife said, I will

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give you the vineyard of Naboth,
the Jezreelite.

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There’s 15.
As soon as Jezebel heard that

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Naboth had been stoned and was
dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, take

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possession of the vineyard of
Naboth the Jezreelites, for

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Naboth is not alive but dead.
And verse 16, As soon as Ahab

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heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab
rose to go down to the vineyard

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of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Verse 18, behold, he is in the

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vineyard of Naboth, where he has
gone to take possession.

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Verse 21 met him at the property
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Verse 25, take him and throw him
in the plot of ground belonging

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to Nahab Naboth the Jezreelite
brothers and sisters.

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If Naboth the Jezreelite was
dead, how come Scripture teach

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telling us that’s his land?
Not saying, by the way, he

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wasn’t really dead, right?
Looking through the Eye of Faith

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cautiously, we understand that
although six times that chapter

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mentions that he is dead,
although most of those come from

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questionable sources, 22 times
in that chapter Naboth’s name is

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mentioned.
Well, overall, sorry, 20 * 12

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times it’s referenced alongside
the vineyard of Naboth or the

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inheritance of his father’s or
the plot of ground belonging to

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Naboth even after he’s dead.
It’s called that see, neighbor

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Naboth’s vineyard was producing
fruit in Naboth’s name and it

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never stopped.
And it’s been found today and

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they’ve found things that they
used to make the, the, the, the

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wine to press the grapes.
And isn’t that interesting that

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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

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the last days it wrote.
It was and it remained.

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And it remains today Naboth’s
inheritance or seed forever.

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Scripture remembers Naboth with
a living inheritance and hope.

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And you know what Naboth’s name
means?

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It means fruit.
He’s the only one named that in

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Scripture.
He was named after a place

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called Nob.
You may remember that it was a

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priestly city in Benjamin.
Do you remember what happened at

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Nob?
This is where it gets really

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interesting.
It’s where in First Samuel 21 we

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don’t have to go there for time,
where in first time with 21,

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David and his men were were
given showbread to eat when they

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were hungry.
And David took the bread that

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was given to him, much like
Christ did at the Last Supper,

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literally for them bread of
life, and distributed it to the

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faithful soldiers that were with
him.

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See, Naboth was literally a
foreshadow of the living bread,

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the bread of life, and his
inheritance was a vineyard.

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In the life and death of Naboth,
the Jezreelite were given a

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direct foreshadow, brothers and
sisters, to the breaking of

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bread.
But did anything else happen in

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Nab?
But did anything else happen in

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Nob in first Samuel 22, the next
chapter, It’s where Saul finds

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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

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of the people, and he’s hiding
there while Saul kills all the

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priests that had helped David.
All the priests at Nob are

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killed.
And you know what Saul says?

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He says here now, people of
Benjamin, will the son of Jesse

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give everyone of you fields and
vineyards?

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Will the Son of God give
everyone of you fields and

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vineyards?
Hear the echoes here in this

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story.
Naboth the Jezreelite was named

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after the place where the
priests of Nab had been unjustly

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killed by a faithless king.
He was a living reminder of

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their inheritance as well as
his.

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And Naboth the Jezreelite had a
vineyard.

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But there’s more.
If you could turn to Isaiah

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chapter 10, Isaiah 10, while
you’re turning, there is a

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prophecy of the invasion of the
northern Kingdom of Israel by

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Assyria.
They were, they’re going to be

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taken away by Assyria into
captivity.

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Isaiah 10 talks about that the
Assyrian war machine was

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descending on Judah, but they
they couldn’t get through the

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forests of Lebanon, these
massive Lebanese trees of of

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cedar trees and the Assyrian
army would have to cut them all

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down to bring their siege
machines and weapons down to

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Jerusalem, 25 miles.
They had to drag them down, but

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first they had to cut down these
trees to get there.

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Isaiah 10.
Let’s pick up the record in

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verse verse 32 this very day,
Isaiah 10, verse 32, this very

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day, He will halt at Nob.
He will shake his first at the

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mount of the daughter of Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.

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00:31:16,440 –> 00:31:19,240
Behold, the Lord God of hosts
will lop the boughs with

429
00:31:19,240 –> 00:31:22,240
terrifying power.
The grade in height will be hewn

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00:31:22,240 –> 00:31:23,960
down, and the lofty will be
brought low.

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00:31:24,120 –> 00:31:26,160
It’s talking about what would
happen when Assyria would

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00:31:26,160 –> 00:31:29,640
finally come down into Israel
and those trees would be cut

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00:31:29,640 –> 00:31:32,800
down.
But while the Assyrians were

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00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:35,360
delayed, they took time for them
to do this.

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00:31:35,560 –> 00:31:38,840
Hezekiah, you may remember his
story too, was cleansing the

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00:31:38,840 –> 00:31:42,920
temple and praying and holding a
Passover because he was

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00:31:42,920 –> 00:31:47,320
determined that his inheritance
would survive by the grace of

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00:31:47,320 –> 00:31:52,160
God.
A subtle connection to Naboth’s

439
00:31:52,560 –> 00:31:57,360
vineyard and Naboth’s
inheritance and a foreshadow to

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00:31:57,360 –> 00:32:02,160
the return of Christ in Isaiah.
So much there.

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00:32:03,960 –> 00:32:05,640
Let’s just look at the context
of that.

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00:32:05,760 –> 00:32:08,440
Turn over to Isaiah Chapter 11,
the next chapter.

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00:32:09,800 –> 00:32:12,440
Now listen for Naboth’s name.
It’s going to, it’s going to pop

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00:32:12,440 –> 00:32:17,240
up really, really quick.
You, you know these words.

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00:32:17,560 –> 00:32:22,120
There shall come forth a shoot
from the stump of Jesse, and a

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00:32:22,120 –> 00:32:30,600
branch from his roots shall
Naboth shall be fruitful, shall

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00:32:30,600 –> 00:32:35,600
bear fruit, and the Spirit of
Lord shall rest upon him, the

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00:32:35,600 –> 00:32:37,760
spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of

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00:32:37,760 –> 00:32:40,920
counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and the fear of the

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00:32:40,920 –> 00:32:43,200
Lord.
And his delight shall be in the

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00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:46,400
fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what his

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00:32:46,400 –> 00:32:50,920
eyes see, or decide disputes by
what his ears hear, but with

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00:32:50,920 –> 00:32:55,080
righteousness he shall judge the
poor, and decide with equity for

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00:32:55,080 –> 00:32:57,800
the meek of the earth.
And he shall strike the earth

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00:32:57,800 –> 00:33:01,320
with the rod of his mouth, and
with the breath of his lips he

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00:33:01,320 –> 00:33:05,360
shall kill the wicked.
Do you not hear Ahab and Naboth

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00:33:06,080 –> 00:33:08,640
in this foreshadow to the Lord
Jesus Christ?

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00:33:08,800 –> 00:33:11,680
Jump down to verse 10 of Isaiah
11.

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00:33:12,120 –> 00:33:15,480
In that day the root of Jesse,
who shall stand as a signal for

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00:33:15,480 –> 00:33:18,440
the people of him shall the
nations inquire.

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00:33:18,680 –> 00:33:20,880
His resting place shall be
glorious.

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00:33:21,200 –> 00:33:24,360
In that day of, the Lord will
extend his hand yet a second

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00:33:24,360 –> 00:33:29,880
time to recover the remnants
that remains of His people,

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00:33:32,320 –> 00:33:38,880
remnants of the faithful.
Do we have time just to look at

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00:33:38,880 –> 00:33:41,320
one more mention of Naboth this
morning?

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00:33:42,320 –> 00:33:44,760
Please turn to to 2nd Kings
Chapter 9.

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00:33:48,400 –> 00:33:52,360
This is the last time that
Naboth is mentioned by name in

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00:33:52,360 –> 00:33:56,680
the record, although I do
believe he’s mentioned one other

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00:33:56,680 –> 00:33:59,480
time, which we’ll get to in
short time.

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00:34:00,920 –> 00:34:05,320
Second Kings 9, the end of First
Kings 21, while we’re going to

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00:34:05,320 –> 00:34:09,800
2nd Kings 9.
King Ahab humbles himself in

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00:34:09,800 –> 00:34:12,800
God’s wrath and judgement
against him for his treatment of

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00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:16,880
Naboth, the ripping of the
Kingdom from his family, and the

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00:34:16,880 –> 00:34:19,679
death of his own inheritance.
That’s what the judgement on

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00:34:19,679 –> 00:34:23,600
Nahab on Ahab would be, right?
His inheritance, his kid, his

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00:34:23,600 –> 00:34:29,239
children, his family would die.
But Ahab humbles himself.

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00:34:29,239 –> 00:34:32,239
And so that judgement is
delayed, we’re told, until the

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00:34:32,239 –> 00:34:37,480
days of his son Joram.
And so then in First Kings 21,

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00:34:37,480 –> 00:34:40,360
Ahab and Jehoshaphat go to war
against the Syrians.

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00:34:40,920 –> 00:34:42,400
And you may know this story too,
right?

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00:34:42,400 –> 00:34:44,280
Ahab, he’s afraid, He doesn’t
want to die.

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00:34:44,280 –> 00:34:49,040
So he disguises himself in this
bizarre kind of battle.

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00:34:52,080 –> 00:34:55,280
And we’re told that he was
killed by a certain man who drew

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00:34:55,280 –> 00:34:58,960
a bow at a venture and and let
loose an arrow that happens to

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00:34:58,960 –> 00:35:04,880
find Ahab and his blood ran out
of the wound in his chariot and

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00:35:04,880 –> 00:35:07,640
he died.
That’s what’s leading us up to

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00:35:07,640 –> 00:35:10,920
Second Kings 9.
Now here we are.

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00:35:11,520 –> 00:35:15,120
Jehu had been the commander of
Ahab’s Chariots.

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00:35:15,800 –> 00:35:20,560
Now that Ahab is dead, Jehu is
doing the same thing for King

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00:35:20,560 –> 00:35:28,400
Joram, Ahab’s son.
But Elisha has called on Jehu to

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00:35:28,400 –> 00:35:33,160
finally redeem the judgments
against Ahab and his

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00:35:33,160 –> 00:35:38,680
inheritance.
His task is to kill Ahab’s son

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00:35:38,840 –> 00:35:42,840
Joram.
So we pick up the record in

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Second Kings Chapter 9.
I’m going to start at verse 21.

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00:35:48,560 –> 00:35:51,320
We read Second Kings 9, verse
21.

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Joram said make ready and they
made ready his Chariots and

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00:35:55,480 –> 00:35:59,200
Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah
king of Judah set out each in

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00:35:59,200 –> 00:36:03,600
his chariot and went to meet
Jehu and met him at the property

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00:36:03,600 –> 00:36:05,800
of Naboth.
The Jezreelites.

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00:36:05,800 –> 00:36:09,440
See we can’t, scripture can’t
tell us enough that Naboth’s

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00:36:09,440 –> 00:36:15,760
land was still there, it was his
inheritance and when Joram saw

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00:36:15,760 –> 00:36:21,320
Jehu he said is it peace Jehu?
Jehu answered, What peace can

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00:36:21,320 –> 00:36:25,480
there be so long as the whorings
and sorceries of your mother

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00:36:25,480 –> 00:36:28,720
Jezebel are so many?
And Joram panics, right?

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00:36:29,000 –> 00:36:32,400
And he turns around his his
horse and he tries to, to, to

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00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:34,560
ride away.
It says Joram reined about and

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00:36:34,560 –> 00:36:37,760
fled, saying to Isaiah
treachery, O Isaiah.

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00:36:38,560 –> 00:36:41,880
And Jehu drew his bow with his
full strength and shot Joram

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00:36:41,880 –> 00:36:45,200
between the shoulders.
So the arrow pierced his hearts,

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00:36:45,480 –> 00:36:49,400
and he sank in his chariot.
And we would think that would be

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00:36:49,400 –> 00:36:52,680
the end.
But no, because to put a final

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00:36:52,680 –> 00:36:58,080
exclamation on the story of
Naboth, look at what Jihu says,

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00:36:58,280 –> 00:37:01,800
verse 25.
Jihu said to Bidkar his aid.

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00:37:01,800 –> 00:37:04,640
Remember that name?
Bidkar his aid.

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00:37:04,960 –> 00:37:09,440
Take him and throw him on the
plot of grounds belonging to

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00:37:09,440 –> 00:37:15,840
Naboth, the Jezreelites.
For remember when you and I rode

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00:37:15,840 –> 00:37:20,480
side by side behind Ahab, how
the Lord made this pronouncement

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00:37:20,480 –> 00:37:23,040
against him?
As surely as I saw yesterday,

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00:37:23,320 –> 00:37:26,040
the blood of Naboth and the
blood of his sons, declares the

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00:37:26,040 –> 00:37:30,040
Lord, I will repay you on this
plot of ground.

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00:37:30,040 –> 00:37:35,720
And Jihu remembered that.
And Ahab’s line is cut off.

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00:37:36,280 –> 00:37:40,080
His inheritance ends.
In a sense, if you remember The

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00:37:40,080 –> 00:37:42,560
Cave of Adullah meant justice of
the people.

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00:37:42,920 –> 00:37:46,960
You sort of have a little sort
of side justice of Naboth here.

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00:37:47,840 –> 00:37:52,520
Here’s God’s justice in a way,
or at least judgement.

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00:37:54,640 –> 00:38:02,000
But here’s the best part.
In Second Kings 9, Jehu becomes

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00:38:02,000 –> 00:38:08,760
the king and his commander of
Chariots are now going to go

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00:38:08,760 –> 00:38:12,400
through and look for all the
rest of Ahab’s relatives in

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00:38:12,400 –> 00:38:18,520
order to eliminate all of them.
But do you know what Jihu means?

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00:38:20,040 –> 00:38:24,680
It means Yahweh is he and
Bidcar.

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00:38:24,680 –> 00:38:31,960
His aid means to thrust through.
Yahweh will thrust through.

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00:38:31,960 –> 00:38:35,640
It’s the only time that word or
that name Bidcar is used.

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00:38:36,880 –> 00:38:38,360
The only one with that name in
scripture.

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00:38:38,360 –> 00:38:40,560
Just like Naboth was the only
one with that name.

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00:38:40,560 –> 00:38:45,720
In Scripture, the root word is
used 11 times every time talking

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00:38:45,720 –> 00:38:50,880
about somebody being killed,
always by way of judgement

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00:38:50,880 –> 00:38:55,200
against them.
But check out the last time it’s

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00:38:55,200 –> 00:38:57,880
used.
Zechariah 12.

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00:38:59,240 –> 00:39:06,160
Zechariah Chapter 12.
Brothers and sisters, this will

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00:39:06,160 –> 00:39:10,400
bring us to a conclusion this
morning.

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00:39:10,400 –> 00:39:17,600
Just this last, last point here,
Zechariah 12 picking up the

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00:39:17,600 –> 00:39:23,440
account at verse one, the Oracle
of the word of the Lord

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00:39:23,440 –> 00:39:26,520
concerning Israel.
Thus declares the Lord who

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00:39:26,520 –> 00:39:28,960
stretched out the heavens and
founded the earth and formed the

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00:39:28,960 –> 00:39:31,840
spirit of man within him.
Behold, I’m about to make

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00:39:31,840 –> 00:39:35,040
Jerusalem a cup of staggering to
all surrounding people.

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00:39:36,840 –> 00:39:39,840
Verse three says, On that day I
will make Jerusalem a heavy

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00:39:39,840 –> 00:39:43,400
stone for all people.
Verse four says, On that day,

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00:39:43,400 –> 00:39:46,720
declares the Lord, I will strike
every horse with panic, and his

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00:39:46,720 –> 00:39:50,480
rider with madness.
Verse six says, On that day I

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00:39:50,480 –> 00:39:53,680
will make the clans of Judah
like a blazing pot in the midst

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00:39:53,680 –> 00:39:57,720
of wood, like a flaming torch
among sheaves, and they shall

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00:39:57,720 –> 00:40:01,280
devour to the right and to the
left all the surrounding people,

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00:40:01,480 –> 00:40:05,440
while Jerusalem shall again be
inhabited in its place in

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00:40:05,440 –> 00:40:09,000
Jerusalem.
Verse 8 says, On that day the

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00:40:09,000 –> 00:40:11,960
Lord will protect the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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00:40:13,240 –> 00:40:16,560
Verse 9 says, On that day I will
seek to destroy all the nations

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00:40:16,560 –> 00:40:22,360
that come against Jerusalem.
Verse 10 says, And I will pour

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00:40:22,360 –> 00:40:25,520
out on the House of David and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem a

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00:40:25,520 –> 00:40:29,120
spirit of grace and plea for
mercy, so that when they look on

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00:40:29,120 –> 00:40:33,960
me whom they have pierced, they
will mourn for him as one mourns

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00:40:33,960 –> 00:40:38,240
for an only child, and weep
bitterly over him as one mourns

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00:40:38,520 –> 00:40:43,680
over first born.
It’s not a beautiful right

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00:40:43,680 –> 00:40:48,520
connection.
Of the 22 times Naboth’s name is

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00:40:48,520 –> 00:40:55,160
mentioned in the record, in
seven times we’re told Naboth

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00:40:55,160 –> 00:40:59,680
was a Jezreelite.
No, thee Jezreelites, it means

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00:40:59,680 –> 00:41:04,280
God sows.
Because Naboth’s vineyard was

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00:41:04,280 –> 00:41:08,160
producing fruit in his name for
a long time, for generations

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00:41:08,360 –> 00:41:10,880
after his death.
It was and remains.

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00:41:10,880 –> 00:41:16,720
It is his inheritance.
Alessa and Kezia and Kayla, and

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00:41:16,720 –> 00:41:18,240
I’m sorry if I don’t say those
right.

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00:41:18,840 –> 00:41:24,760
Your inheritance is the same.
Hold strong to it.

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00:41:26,600 –> 00:41:31,720
Let the bread and the wine be a
centering a a remembrance, a

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00:41:31,720 –> 00:41:37,960
time where you examine
yourselves, the time where you

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00:41:37,960 –> 00:41:41,280
renew your covenant and you
remember your inheritance.

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00:41:42,920 –> 00:41:48,080
That’s what we’re all going to
do in a moment before we close.

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00:41:48,080 –> 00:41:50,160
Brothers and sisters.
Although Nahab is not named

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00:41:50,160 –> 00:41:52,880
again in Scripture, I do believe
he’s mentioned one more time.

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00:41:55,360 –> 00:41:57,920
And we don’t need to turn there.
But in Matthew 21, you’ll know

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00:41:57,920 –> 00:42:02,040
these words.
Hear another parable.

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00:42:03,520 –> 00:42:06,440
There was a master of a house
who planted a vineyard and put a

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00:42:06,440 –> 00:42:10,240
fence around it, and dug a wine
press in it, and built a tower

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00:42:10,680 –> 00:42:13,520
and leased it to tenants, and
went into another country.

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00:42:14,240 –> 00:42:16,960
And when the season for fruit
drew near, he sent his servants

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00:42:16,960 –> 00:42:20,120
to the tenants to get his fruit.
And the tenants took his

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00:42:20,120 –> 00:42:23,480
servants and beat one, and
killed another, and stoned

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00:42:23,480 –> 00:42:27,160
another.
See our Lord often in His

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00:42:27,160 –> 00:42:31,280
parables, most of the time
alluded to events and people

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00:42:31,280 –> 00:42:37,520
from the past.
And so perhaps here again we

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00:42:37,520 –> 00:42:44,560
have an illusion.
One more reference to Naboth in

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00:42:44,560 –> 00:42:50,120
a vineyard planted by God, a
servant killed by an unfaithful

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00:42:50,120 –> 00:42:53,440
tenant.
It would be fitting, wouldn’t

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00:42:54,960 –> 00:42:56,600
it?
And so if that’s true, it would

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00:42:56,600 –> 00:42:59,960
be the 7th time Naboth the
Jezreelites inheritance was

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00:42:59,960 –> 00:43:04,960
mentioned in the record, and it
would be connected to our Lord

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00:43:06,480 –> 00:43:09,960
and connected to the inheritance
that each one of us through our,

597
00:43:09,960 –> 00:43:14,920
through his, through our God’s
mercy and grace have hoped for.

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00:43:14,920 –> 00:43:20,560
And again he sent other servants
more than the 1st and they did

599
00:43:20,560 –> 00:43:23,440
the same.
And finally he sent his son to

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00:43:23,440 –> 00:43:25,600
them, saying they will respect
my son.

601
00:43:26,840 –> 00:43:30,440
But the tenants saw the sun and
said to themselves, this is the

602
00:43:30,440 –> 00:43:33,320
air.
Come, let us kill him and have

603
00:43:33,320 –> 00:43:36,080
his inheritance.
And they took him and threw him

604
00:43:36,080 –> 00:43:37,600
out of the vineyard and killed
him.

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00:43:40,640 –> 00:43:43,920
No, brothers and sisters, Naboth
the Jezreelites does not die in

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00:43:43,920 –> 00:43:47,280
the record.
Yes, he sleeps.

607
00:43:48,160 –> 00:43:50,440
He sleeps awaiting the
resurrection to life.

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00:43:50,440 –> 00:43:57,280
A living hope the same as ours.
And so when we feel so weak at

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00:43:57,280 –> 00:44:04,120
times, because sometimes it’s so
hard to feel mighty and hopeless

610
00:44:05,440 –> 00:44:10,920
and we feel tired, we come here
to this figurative table of

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00:44:10,920 –> 00:44:18,600
showbread, to this vineyard, and
we’re reminded of the hope, the

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00:44:18,600 –> 00:44:27,440
living hope that we have.
First, Kings 21 and our hope is

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00:44:27,440 –> 00:44:30,800
about joining together in
covenants, a union, as we have

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00:44:30,800 –> 00:44:35,360
seen three times this morning
and we prepare to do all

615
00:44:35,400 –> 00:44:39,520
together as a family.
A promise renewed when we set

616
00:44:39,520 –> 00:44:45,320
our minds to serve our Father
and His Son in his vineyard,

617
00:44:47,640 –> 00:44:52,480
renewing our covenants day by
day, week by week, in prayer,

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00:44:52,480 –> 00:45:00,120
together and alone, reading,
crying out, rejoicing and

619
00:45:00,120 –> 00:45:03,120
partaking of the bread and the
wine together.

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00:45:34,980 –> 00:45:37,100
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