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So you're telling me that he wants me, naming army general to go dip in the Jordan River. The Jordan River of all places, the Jordan River, that filthy river here in Israel. Come on, we have much better places like dip in Damascus. And not only that, I thought he would come out to me and stand and call in him of his God or whatever.
Wherever's hard or whatever he does on sport and kill me of his leprosy. But no, he didn't even come out. He said a lowly messenger to come out and tell me to go dip in the Jordan River. Abner, Pafar, Israel is Damascus.
I think not better than the rivers here in Israel. Couldn't I wash and bend and be cleansed? This is ridiculous. Why'd I come all the way here for this?
What, but master? What do you want? My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more than when he says to you, wash and be clean?
It angers me even more that you make a point. But you're right. I did come here for cleaning to be healed from this leprosy. No one in Syria could heal me, so I guess I have to do with this.
Israelite Prophet says, I just thought there was going to be a different way to go about it. But what else do I have to lose at this point? Sure, let's go. Take me to this Jordan River.
Let's see what happens. That's seven times. Look, clean, I'm healed. Now I know for certain that there is no other God in all the world except in Israel.
Prepare for a captivating journey into the world of 2 Kings 5. In this chapter, we witness the remarkable story of Naaman and his unexpected path to healing. Join us as we explore the themes of faith, humility, and the miraculous work of God. It is awe-inspiring tale.
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How's your B-man? I think it was pretty good, bro. Could you believe it, dog? I heard my knee again.
It's like, bro, all of my lower body. Honestly, I think I was telling my boy today, bro, like 29, 29, like the warranty, the warranty expired. Oh, man, I got, I got, I got, I got to push myself the way I used to in my early twenties, when I was going to Kurtz. And I feel so bad, bro.
I feel so bad for every time I minimized when someone only at age talk about that. Yeah, boy. Oh, I love my buddy breaking down on it. I tell you, so now I'm wrapping up the exercise and stuff like that.
But, and you know, I live competitive too. So like if I do one stuff like sports, you know, I won't go hard. I think I like doing two stuff. But yeah, I kind of hurt my knee, you know, the second little boy, like it's about two weeks.
Yeah, I was going to say mother two, it's my word. But I got the image injuries. Like the first injury I thought I was major, but after a week, that almost gone now. So, I'm my knee, I need, but I don't know, bro, but I don't know, bro, but I don't know, I don't know how to go out of, how to go to week.
God is good. God is good. I feel good, bro. I feel good.
I feel healthy. I feel good. I feel good. But yeah, that's a blessing.
That's a blessing. Um, but we've been pretty good. Obviously we can thank God. I am needed.
I need, I need the rest. I need the rest. Um, weekly thought. Keep God first.
Keep it simple this week as we've a very good podcast. I feel coming up, you know, Holy Spirit inspired. Um, but this week, we are in second Kings chapter five. It's actually a well known story in Kings.
I'm sure we've all heard sermons potentially preached on this story before. we've had Bible studies, savage school stories about this Sunday school, so our people who had to go to Sunday school. It's a pretty well-known story, but it's a story to name in, name in on his leprosy. So yeah, we're going to get into the story.
It's actually pretty powerful stories. It's actually like studying it this time for the podcast. There's so many multiple stories and like points you can pull out from this chapter. It's kind of like mind-blowing.
I don't know how many of them are actually going to hit in this episode, but definitely always read the story for yourself, you know, the views of a breath of fresh air hours alone, because you used as a study tool to further personal studies of your own. Bro, you remember we implemented that because it's like some people who have counter-ideas or opinions on the text. They would really try to like say, yo, why you saying that? I definitely remember.
But then it's like, you got to remember, I'm saying this because this one, I believe. I may have even missable people don't understand how like you always joke on me because I listen to my voice notes. I always listen to it because I want to know if I sound like it makes sense when I say that, right? But if you, if you're not in a podcast space or if you don't listen to the stuff you say or if it's not recorded, you don't realize how many mistakes people say every day.
Like we'd be talking and we'd be talking, I might be trying to say something about Elijah, but I might say, yeah, I'm naming this and you say Elijah, all right. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because if you didn't say that, I would have went on and I wouldn't even have known a mistake, but we definitely have to make that disclaimer known that, you know, this is how we reflect, we don't represent any organization apart from breath of fresh air.
Exactly. What's interesting to work is, I guess, Brian, I'm sorry, no. Other people, I got to go, I don't be like, reach out to like church organizations for smarts and stuff. I'm like, I don't really want anyone to control what we say.
Just need creative control. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, I'm just kidding. Like, granted, we still study, we still pray, we still do our own study.
So we try to like wing it, but I don't want to know what tell me, oh, it's a topic we want to talk about. I'm going to be want to take on it. Are you telling me we can't do that because of this? Like, no, I'm sorry.
So you remember earlier this week, we were talking about, let's do that. Yeah, let's do that. Yeah. I know about it from the Genesis account of him and I read Hebrews, but I didn't really internalize it as much.
So somebody had a theory about my church that he was translated to heaven based on things like Hebrews of heaven, like somewhere, just type in Hebrews. Right. Let's see. Yeah.
So I read it. Okay. Hebrews. And so I was like, but this is not right.
This is false. But then as I read the text, I understand how how someone could come up with that. You understand? And I also understand how enigmatic this guy much isn't there is you know what I'm saying?
So like, if we were to take the stance of saying, let's say this person who took the stance of saying, um, you went to heaven or whatever, let's say a church or somebody felt that way, right? And you, I am not convinced of that. I can't, I can't just go and say that because you tell me to say that, even if you reginal, I just feel like I have to be convinced in my mind to say what I say. And at the end of the day, we humans are we all wrong?
You know what I'm saying? I can't tell you the percentage of time we are wrong, but I was just thinking this morning, I was thinking in the shower last night, if someone was to ask me a question on, it's an Adventist doctrine called the investigative judgment, I would have to tell them truthfully, I do not know because I have not studied that. You understand? I am not versed in this.
And then it let and then I felt like, bro, so how are you? I think it might have been the devil saying it like how are you qualified to have a podcast? Mercy. And then I thought to myself, bro, anybody that tells you they are versed in everything in the Bible is a lie, a row.
Anybody that tells you they know everything and every subject they talk about, they are right. I do not find out to be true. Now you may believe that you are right, but there is a lot of there's a strong possibility that you are not right on every single thing in the Bible. And that's human nature.
That's a black man. That's a black like, it's funny, you can have pride with the Bible. You know, when the wrong way, you know, yeah, that's crazy. You know, you can have pride with the Bible, you can idolize being a minister, you can idolize your ministry.
A lot of people do. Well, and that was such a hard pill for me to swallow because it's like your reason behind the windows, you know what I'm saying? Because like, being a spoken artist and then also being a pastor, I think that's the same realm, spoken words, spoken art, even you look at some programs, instead of saying preaching, they would say spoken word and they would talk about they would be talking about a sermon, right? And you have the literary devices, you have the stuff that really emotionally connects with people and people can celebrate you or appreciate your performance, the same way they appreciate the performance of a poet of a poet.
And so now you say about every time you go into a sermon, you might be thinking, I got to go crazy. I got to have the crowd, he's not a department of my a lot of times I can come out to the expense of the truth, you know what I'm saying, or the expense of the Holy Spirit or whatever, he's just putting things in yarn. So you definitely have to, you know, you have to remember the take of my husband, we have to keep that in your head, but open to what I got before God, you know, so whatever you do, even if it isn't ministry, you got to know why you're doing this, it should be for the kingdom and not for self. And that's an interesting point too, because it's like the same talents God bless you with, it becomes a snaer to you.
For sure. And even if you're using it for good, you start thinking like, I am the one who's doing this not God and that's where it becomes a major snaer to you because now in doing good, your pride kicks in and isn't probably like idolatry. So yeah, but that's Solomon right then and never that Solomon, that's all the problem. You could be talented, you could be beautiful, you can have something that God gave you.
And you use that human epilate that for your own benefit, you understand what I'm saying? And that's that's that's something everyone should be cautious and cautious in on. It can be your mind, you know, it can be a talent in your field, you know, and you can get to a point where you feel like, bro, this me and I should I should stretch this out to the degree, but not considering how I can use this for God. Agreed.
So now in second Kings chapter five, sorry reading from the New King James version, now name and a commander of the army of the king of Syria was great and honorable man in the isophist master because by him, the Lord had given victory to Syria mercy. Bro, you see how the job to start off, bro? Exactly. That's crazy.
That's crazy. Hey, full circle, right? Yeah, but full circle to you guys. Yeah, anyway, it's interesting because I'm going to buy these late things out so cleanly once you start understanding different.
Anyway, we'll get another one. I want to plan to see it now. This monument, he is a army general, right? And he's very victorious, but it was only by the grace of God, he was victorious.
I was next to the point out he was the God gave him victory for Syria for Syria. That's true. Isn't even this is this is like enemies right now. Right.
And bro, and when the Bible go on to talk about when people in the prophets in the Bible, they do not talk about Syria in a good way. They say they say some really biotakes and it's true, you know, but there's another person who could have potentially, I'm not saying if he did or not been proud in his own eyes because of all of the feats his military accomplishments, he's a decorated soldier and he could say that's me. That's my resume. Right.
So, but the Bible is saying this is true God. And this answer, I feel like that's a good that's a good seat to plan early on. And they also say he was also a mighty man of follow, but he was a leper. And so I don't know how long is he a leper?
Well, he was a leper. I don't know. He was a leper. I don't know.
Like this, I'll be talking about leprosy before so far. I don't think we did, really. So leprosy is a skin disease, but also don't know. I mean, I'm pretty sure a lot of people know it's kind of not as prevalent now into days modern times because I guess medicine.
But leprosy is a skin disease watching a Google that if you want to look at these images, you can get a lens can start rocking off. But Google it yourself. Yeah, definitely. And so verse two, and the Syrians had gone out on raids and brought back the kept brought back a captive a young girl from the land of Israel.
She waited on name and wife. Then she said to a mistress if only my master were with the prophet who was in Samaria, where he would heal him of his leprosy and name and went in and told his masters and name and went in and told his master saying thus and thus said the girl who's from the land of Israel. So before I'd even move on now, right, these even more evidence, the Syrians was attacking Israel. They brought back a captive from Israel.
No, a girl, a little girl, like I won't say it, but I say, you know, she was a young girl. And she said to name and wife, there's a prophet in Samaria who I know can heal and heal him. Now, there's a couple of things right here, right? This girl was in a foreign line, but still served her God from the not with our parents anymore.
Right? And again, you'll train up a child in the way they should go when they get all the men on the part from it. Right? But we see how it's from this young girl talking about fate.
She didn't even say, Oh, can possibly heal. There's a prophet there. He maybe can do something for you. We're talking that no, like if you go, if you go, if you go back to my country, go to this prophet will be here.
Yeah, that's the only thing starving you from being healed right now. And she said, like, with those confidence and she might not even met it like she just heard the stories of the things he likes and probably had done because I got everything all this accounts are even recorded in the Bible. Yeah, I often think about that. Like with a lot of people in the Bible.
Exactly. So she said, Yep, he can go over to Israel and get healed. And so we see the King of Syria said, then the King of Syria, say, number five, go now and I will send a letter to the King of Israel. So Syrian King saying this is one of my top generals, a sense of leprosy is death, essentially.
I want you to yield because you're doing good things for me. So I asked the King, I'm going to write it to the King of Israel, saying he come under my watch protection without my like, make sure we get healed. No, I just I just find it interesting because we have a issue like captive, right? Which implies that one of the lives of the northern kingdom had been defeated by Syria and they took captives, right?
And now the Syrian King is writing the Israel, like King, you know what I'm saying? Like they're being diplomatic or whatever. Right? But I would assume that no, we are all taken on oxyune for a favor.
Like I can't, I can't, no, I would assume he just model enemies. You know, but it just reminds me of like, like, you know, movies on these things. Like even though we, I mean, really taking things far, we do all kinds of stuff, we can sit down and negotiate something, you know, so that's what we try to do. We bring you get the money, you know, saying this transaction, we about to make what's interesting to but this point might be a point for later.
But think about it, right? You almost you were essentially admitting that no one in our line from you from your leprosy. Yeah, no, I think that's what it is because if you are a decorated soldier, right, and you like close to the king, I am sure that they probably exhausted all of the options already, you know, because it was just like, yeah, he's a good man. He's a good, he's a good, he's good at what he does.
But he's elaborate. Now if you have an airman and it's like that where you could, you could die, you know what I'm saying? You can become your skin can turn white, you know, you can lose limbs, you're gonna try to, you're gonna try to get a cure for that. But we all know, but think about it, bro, leprosy all throughout the Bible, it's no, it's nothing you could take, don't be cured, like you have to separate yourself and hope that it go away.
And even when it go away, you got to go to someone, so like a pre-source on this in the Israelite culture, so you so they can verify that your laparacy is going away. You know what I'm saying? Or maybe you have to, you have to cleanse and then go to them, whatever. So they already know it's akin to COVID.
You know what I'm saying? Like just me. I think it's just, I think it's just, it is lethal. And at the same time, you just, I have the mercy of God, you know what I'm saying, divine intervention, intervention.
So now we see Naaman, the party took within 10 talents of silver, 6,000 shekels of gold, and 10 changes of Raymond clothing, depending on the version you're reading. And he bought the letter from the, to the king of Israel, which said, now be advised when this letter comes to you, that I have sent name in my servant to you, that you may heal him of his laparacy. And it happened when the king of Israel read the letter that he taught his clothes and said, I'm I God to kill and make a life? That this man sends a man to me to heal him of his laparacy?
Therefore please consider and see how he speaks, seeks a quarrel with me. And that's the kind of the point when I was mentioning it, right? This man, he does not like the king of Israel, he does not like the king of Israel, you know what I mean? Well, I had a friend, I can't remember the exact scenario, but we were working on, it was my boy, Mani from, he from, he from Ghana, and tensions was so high, I guess we're used to moving forward, tensions were so high at work, and somebody said something to him, and I can't remember the term that they use mine, but he took that completely out of context, like he took it like in an offensive way, but in America, it's like, no, you use that in a good way, you know what I'm saying?
But because tensions were so high, it's like, there was no way for him to consider the other possibilities of what, what could have been meant by this, right? And so now the king of Israel, that's all I interpreted, it's him saying these people, they already causing me a lot of money, they causing me a lot of pain, and my citizens, the safety of our country is at stake, because of y'all, and now you come into me, saying you want buys of them off me, you want to come to my hospital, you know what, you're trying to joke it, like you know what I mean, like think about that, like think about that, I think, I guess, because for me, I think it's the king, it's really clearly thinking it's the trap, because now, as we were saying before, there's no cure for diversity. So why are you saying to me, you couldn't kill him, you're saying to me, saying that naturely gets here, what you mean? So now, but it's not what he dies over here.
Now, I kill y'all, talk general, you're talking about Israel, that's grounds for war, right? But what I do think is interesting is like, he didn't think the consultant lies here. No. And is it interesting that the letter they've included, we heard there's a profit, said that's a profit.
Yeah, see, like, when when Herod was the king and the wise man came to Herod, saying, where's the king of the Jews that was born? They barked the wise man, the Magi, however many of us. They've barked up the wrong tree, they went to the most clueless man in Israel about the prophecy of the Messiah being born. You know what I'm saying?
And I think it's the same thing. Yeah, like we started a Bible, you can see where especially the northern kingdom, but with Herod, I was the son of the king, I was Judah and stuff, but throughout the northern kingdom, you can see where there's a disconnect between the king and the men of God. There's a couple of episodes we talked about how the king of Israel, he met with the king of Judah and the king of Moab. And when they went to the Elisha, Elisha was like, what y'all wanted to do was like, yeah, no, no, no, not really.
They, all the three of us just came together so we could die by the hands of the, the, what was the more by the people. Right? And you completely know, as you're talking to someone who actually can tell you the word of God. And Elisha was one of my brothers.
You might as well just go back to y'all, your prophets, because I ain't done it, you nothing. But the only reason you could get a response is because I died mine right there. I was the fucking of Judah. That's the only person who I feel like I respect.
That's kind of my power of reason why Elijah was saying. And so now, this probably is the same king, right? And he is saying he's on this connective from what Elijah got going on. You can see they don't like each other, they don't care for each other at all.
You know, you could don't like someone but you keep it up with them like, like, like on some hate and like type of situation. No, he just might not do not exist there for here. So when you come into me talking to me about the prophet and he's like, what are you talking about? Yeah, like what are you talking about?
Oh, my man just ripped his clothes. I'm like, well, this is a this a trap. This is definitely a trap. So verse eight, so it was when Elijah, the man of God heard the king of Israel had torn his clothes.
He went to the king saying, why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me and I will and he shall know that there's a prophet in Israel. So name and with his horses and his chariot. So next, I think, I think it's why the king of Syria sent to the king because I'm said, one of my top commanders into your country.
I had this moment eight really trying to wage war. But one of my top demands with his chariots, what does it look like? Right. It looks like it's brought up.
So I guess I have him searching for your country like this. I'm not expecting to retire. So I come into you. You know why we here?
No, you can offer straight because make this easier. It's diplomatic. It's what you should do. They come into my country, come to me.
Let's all this up. But king of the king of Israel, which king, which king of the men? Well, I don't know what the G man. Well, Joe, Joe, the whole round the son of a average should be because we don't know that he's died yet.
Okay. So as soon as you're around, he like, what else is this possible? You send his lepersman here. And obviously, like saying, oh, send him to me.
I don't know why you freaking out. Fair when you're close and making his old big spectacle. When you, I know, I'm like, bro, like, you're just far removed from God. So then they went with his chair with his horse in his chair and he stood at the door of Elisha's house and Elisha sent a message to him saying, go and wash in the Jordan seven times and all your flesh shall be restored to you and you shall be clean.
So he realized that Elisha didn't even come to him. Elisha sent a message to go to him, right? But name became furious and went away and said indeed, I said to myself, he will surely come out to me and stand and call in the name of his God and wave his hand over the place and heal the leprosy. I'm not, I'm not on par for the rivers of Damascus better than all the rivers in Israel.
Could I wash them and be clean mercy? So he turned away in rage. And his servants came down and spoke to him and said, my father, if the prophet had told you do something great, would you not have done it? How much more than when he says to you wash and be clean?
So he went down and dipped seven times into Jordan, according to the sing of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean. So it's interesting what's going on because he boy is water shaming basically. I guess I, you know, that's me trying to be funny, but what is she mean? Yeah, I get it.
You know, like your first time going to a beach in another country, when you used to even what is atrocious. Yeah, it's a very American. I think I'm a country. I don't know if you want to contribute.
Yeah, it's too good. I was a wall of wall of wall. Right? Oh, yeah.
That's crazy. I jumped in his lake. Right? We were like, friend Leslie.
We was doing some dumbness clip clip jumping. Why am I clippin? I don't know about it. So you know, stupid.
I can't believe I actually did that. But I jumped in this water. I want to lay down around. Like a green.
It was like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's something. My mope was open. Right? I was coughing.
I was coughing. I was coughing. I was coughing. I was coughing.
I was coughing. But I was coughing. I would have had a hard talking. I was like, never again, bro.
All the waters here just like brown or just like mucking and inning to scene. Like, I agree with name in this one. You know, I see what you say. Like, bro, you want to go like that?
No, I could be real, bro. I went to I went to a pretty prominent beach on the other side of the top, being Florida, but they've got beaches, one of the top beaches, right? And I went there and it really took me by surprise because I really thought I would lose expecting to hear me in waters. And on the opposite side, when I was in the Bahamas a month ago, we went to Love Beach.
But I don't even know. It was popular beach. No, it's a small, you can't get me like you missed the corner. You know what I mean?
Like, it's a niche beach. Yeah. And I was like, bro, we really got some clear water. Like this is crazy, you know, like to compare because we wouldn't know.
We wouldn't know that we had like such a beautiful thing. You know, you just assume this is normal. Anyway, name was familiar with the levels of water in the line. Yeah.
So you tell me go to this water that I ain't used to. This not good looking, we're all compared to all. Come on, bro. I can, if we talking water, I can go to this water to that water, right?
You can tell name and as a Syrian, it's not familiar with the most I got out. And the things that are that the law requires of human situations like this. You know, I was there on your point. I mean, I can tell you, right?
So Mike, when you look at it, right? Like when I said pre-port, name and was expecting the God of Hebrews, the God of Syrians. So we see, we just take a step back. We see name and came there with enough money to pay for a miracle, which will come into effect later on in the story.
But he came there with enough money saying, okay, I have got to get some miraculous done because no one gets healed from diversity. But I heard from my servant that the God of the Hebrews, why that be their profit can heal me guaranteed. So this must cost a lot because we probably spent a lot of money to the other point in Syria and nothing happened. So now this is a top military general who we already saw in the beginning, God is victories from the law, but we see, we don't see now as a pride issue.
Because what was he expecting? We see Elijah didn't even come out to meet him. And you see the first thing you say, he didn't even come to see. The prophet, you have so much about and give you such hope that you came to your enemies.
The prophet that I come here for who sent me to you, but when I come here at your door, you don't even have to decency to come out and say hello, you sent your message to come talk to me. So now pride, ego, ready, hurt. Now that I insult to injury, you telling me that I must go into what Jordan River, or all the boys and waters. If you were just told me, I wouldn't leave.
I was just pointing out. Exactly. And then he's saying, bro, if you're so powerful, why don't you just come here like what I expect me to do? Come here, wave your hand, talk to your God and leave me in my lap.
So it's two things. Expectations of how God should operate didn't lie to what God actually operated. And then two was an issue of pride. I come here so prideful because I'm the top military general who deserves the best treatment.
But I ain't getting it. And then so now you'll be Elijah, who essentially flipping all of his expectations on his head, I'm simultaneously checking his pride. It's all number one. So, okay, now all pre-born, I was telling you that.
I did not consider any of Dabaju saying that he considered the money and what his expectations was. But I assume he had other expectations. And I was talking about how when it comes to engagements today, like engagements, baby showers, stuff like that, because of social media, they make such a spectacle of all of these things. Some of them want you to skydive out of a helicopter, do some sort of sort onto the red carpet.
They want a very extravagant proposal. But if he was to propose, just normal, some people wouldn't accept that. I had an ex-girlfriend, this was the freshman at the college of Obama's. I asked, I said, if we were to get engaged and I did not have a ring, this was during the time when I was really digging into how I feel about jewelry.
You understand and trying to understand why the adventist doctrine is to avoid it. So I asked, and she was looking. And I asked, I said, if we, if we, I didn't bring up any religion or nothing, I just say, if I were to propose to you without a ring, would you accept it? And she said, no, but the way she's saying it, I heard my feelings.
Because I was saying at the time, I'm like, bro, this might be our reality. And so I was like, so, but why go don't you love me? She said, yeah, I said, don't you want to spend the rest of your life with me? She said, yeah, we talk about future texts, because we were in our state of our relationship.
I said, so why would you have done it? She said, bro, because you can't come to me half-stepping. You can't come to name it half-stepping. So, name it, you mentioned he's a general, bro.
He has a resume. This is the man, right? And so, it's a lot of times when you authoritative figure like that, bro, it's a certain level of respect that you just can't, that you just demand. It's a certain level of respect that you demand, bro.
And it's like, even when you think about celebrity, you can't treat celebrities, celebrities like to feel like they special, like you treat them too normal, they get offended by that, right? So you come into this foreign line that you probably feel like your line is superior in general, or else, why we, why we, at all, it's a wide-jaunable, confident line every chance we get. And here, him being the military general, he been doing this, you know what I'm saying? He was at the forefront of this.
So, I come to you all as a general, and I'm saying, bro, if you all answer me wrong, bro, this could be worse on your because, you know what I mean? How you doing? Crazy, I'm motivated, right? And so, y'all don't know what choice.
I'm trying to make a, I'm being nice. I'm making a transaction, but you are, I will pay you all for your services. If you tell me no, that only got more fuel to our animosity. So, I come to you, I call you the king, in, make it sense, name him, I gotta know that.
But we get to this profit. The profit in, talk to me, in, and out of that. Where's no, if you all tell me, go to this body of water that I feel like is inferior. So, what I am used to.
I am a do-no, because you can't come to me half-stepping. A lot of people, and this, you, you mentioned our name, it was Assyrian. But even Christians, bro. A lot of times, Christians, bro, born and raised Christians.
They start the question, their relationship with God or the, or the realness of God when they compare it to other, of Jesus, when they compare it to other religions, because they want Jesus to do some type of miracle, something they wanted to come with a bind. Show me your real God. But I, I often reflect on when Jesus say, oh, we can have an adulterous generation, ask for a sign. The far as these continue to ask Jesus for a sign.
Show us the sign. Show us the sign. Mind you, Jesus would heal the apocalyptic mind on the sovereign. They'd say, oh, you break the law.
There's a sign right there, you just see. The mind, the crippled mind, come through the ceiling. The roof. Like, you could, this wasn't a secret thing.
Everybody see him, come through the roof. Everybody see him, get his, his ability to walk. But you ask for a sign. You try to charge me for these things, but you ask for a sign.
It gets a point where God understands that we are in satiable features. And faith is the evidence of not, the faith is, you have the evidence without having the sign. That's faith. The evidence of things unseen.
The substance of things so far. You know what I'm saying? I said, but I like that last part that really touched me. It might be too far back to back.
And so that's the way I, that's the way I internalized naming character. Name and want, naming wanted to experience God, but he wanted to, he wanted God to check every, every box of his imagination. You know, he wanted a grand experience, but think about it though. When Jesus come, Jesus could have come in.
So if, if, if Jesus is, we know Jesus is God, and God does not exist in time. There's no beginning on it, right? He knows the future from the past, God knows what a Lamborghini look like. Right?
If I, even even easier than that, electricity, God knows what electricity looks like. If Jesus had come through, back in the end, and invented electricity, he would have shake you, turn the world upside down. Simple things, a car, you could get from it, a plane, you could get from it. Yeah, and an hour, you know what I'm saying?
It could have, it could have really, it could have blow everyone's mind. He could have come with the, he could have come in the best house, technology that we have not seen, that would not be clear. He could have come in the most glamorous way, right? So to capture all your senses, to woo you, to sweep you off your feet, but that takes away the element of faith, because you impress.
My thing is, if I, I was playing basketball some years ago, it was a guy in Goggles, bro, right? My friend say, bro, he's a high flyer, which means that he can jump very high, right? I look at him, I look at him, I'm like, bro, this dude is not athletic, bro, right? So I'm on a fast-break layout, and he, he let me walk faster, he let me run faster, he was just standing around, I lay it up, he pinned it off the backboard.
The entire gym bar is on the off end, but this is a private run, this is a guy who's a gentleman, right? And I was so embarrassed, bro, I was embarrassed, that brought me for the rest of the day. And I go on to my wife for sympathy, that's like, bro, I didn't know he was jumping like that, he said, bro, I told you he was jumping for that, I guess what, I didn't know fate, I didn't know fate, I didn't know, I like that, you explained to me, he said, yeah that, but no, he learned me that day, you understand what I said, so be sure to talk to him, so be sure to talk to him, so just feel like, so disrespectful to God, disrespectful, he didn't even try to switch off, oh, don't you let your arms hurt, don't you want to know, my leg's so dumb, bro, I just don't know, let's do it, you know, cuz bro, he, bro, I have to drive faster, but he ain't like, one with me, he run back, I got him, he ran behind me, and so, there's the thing about Jesus, Jesus came in a powerful situation, he come with no status, bro, he ain't come rich, he might not have come handsome, he might not have come tall, you know what I'm saying, all of the things that we meet in vision are safe, we envision our safe, we envision our safe, it'll look like, like, I don't know what, you know what I'm saying, but it's so much, like, Prince Chamin essentially, but if Jesus came and the way he used to describe, he's described as being from a low income family, you understand what I'm saying to the point where they say, bro, what could you even come out of Nazarit, bro, everything in Nazarit isn't up to part of what we think the Messiah would be, right? So now it took so much faith for people to see Jesus, not having to pump, but to believe in him because of the words he say, and because of the things he's done, you understand what I'm saying?
So that's the element of Fade, bro, like, like, like when we talk about discernment, the process is preaching, a pastor can preach, you can have all the literary devices in the world, right? Someone can come, bro, I've heard a poem about infidelity, this person was the person, the person who was saying the poem was talking about his affair with a married person, right? And the poem is so beautiful, the poem is so like, that's one of my favorite poems, but I know it wrong. And so the point I'm trying to make is, bro, yeah, talent, bro, when someone, when someone captivates you, you can believe that what you're doing is right, just offer that emotion that it makes you feel.
So Jesus couldn't have come, wooing you and saying all this and that, that's not a devil's operate, the devil comes true with the fun, see this and that. So you're thinking, oh, yeah, this is legit because it made me feel euphoric, you know what I'm saying? And so to the point, the point I'm trying to make is we have to be able to adopt and connect with God without all of the jewelry, without all of the fun, see, me to be able to get to the raw Jesus, like, we need to be able to even hear servants, we have a person talking monotone, but they talk in the truth, and I touch me because that's what I hear for the truth. Namin, he wasn't half, he wasn't half the end goal.
Namin, he thought he wanted the end goal, but truly, he wanted his ego to be intact as well. That was a package deal. And you could not give me one without the other. And so because he was in that scenario, he said, you know what, I'm not doing this, you all disrespecting me.
I don't get here. I don't even try this, then to be disrespected. And we're interested in too, because now you see, when you think you say before the poem, it's like can't Vegas be choosers? And we see a servants came back and like, check him, he's like, hold on, hold on, Namin.
We didn't come all this way. This need power for you, I'm gonna come all this way, right? Let's just say the prophet had told you, do something great. Would you not have done it?
You would have done it. Easy. You would have done it because why? That boasting and ego, I did this great thing on the prophet, it came over here and we did this logic kind of what I have to name his mind.
You would have been fine with that because I would have fit your expectations. To me, it's almost easy. You just tell me, bro, you have nothing. Just go different, just go different with the rivers ever times.
You should almost be more humbled and appreciative that you don't have to do nothing great. But no, that's not what you expected. That's not what you expected. And then, so we see, it's interesting, he finally went down in verse 14.
So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan River. According to the saying of the mind of God, his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean. And it's interesting now, right? Because we see dipped, right?
But in dipping in the Jordan River, what did he have to do? He had to swallow his pride. He had to be humbled. He had to accept the fact that the greatness that he was expecting wasn't gonna be the way in which his miracle was gonna be delivered.
So we had to swallow his pride go for it. He taught he was sick with laparcy. But pride was his sickness. Pride was the thing that was gonna, so, probably was the thing that was gonna cause him to die.
Right? I've been watching this documentary from school for prophets on like death and hell and stuff like that. And he was pointing out upon the documentary, he's pointing out when Jesus ate, Lazarus is sleeping, or when Jairus is daughter's asleep. Right?
The dead in Christ, or sleep. Because you know, you're gonna live internally for the rest of your life. Right? But the dead who are outside of Christ, they really die.
Because when they even during the sassar attack and resurrection, their eternity is sealed. They will not live, they will not live internally. So when, so when, so Jesus look at earth, it's like, this is a temporary thing. This is a test.
It's a temporary thing. So when you pass away in Christ, that's only a sleep. That's all you do. Just have to think about it as I'm not until I come back.
Because when you arise again, you will live forever, forever. Right? And so when I say death, in this situation, I mean eternal death. Right?
So pride was his sickness because pride was going to cause him to die. That laparcy, if he was a laparcy in Christ, he would go to, he would die, but it would be asleep as defined by Jesus. Because when Jesus returned, you're gonna live forever. You understand?
What pride was the thing that was separating him from actually having an experience with God. And that's even deeper sickness, but that's the type of sickness you can't see. That's, that's really the true one. I mean, because, man, like people are gonna take a moment, right?
And it's easy to say, Oh, you breaking this when you're breaking this when you breaking this one, right? But in the 10 commandments, if you really understand it when they internalize them, you realize you can't have pride. But it's not something you think about because they say that's not how pride. But it tells you, you shouldn't be on your phone, you shouldn't, you have no one to go out before God, you should only have me, you shouldn't be killing stealing companies, you shouldn't be doing all these things.
But you have some level of pride, don't want to take in that smarts. You want to have some level of pride to want to kill the next month. So like, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's interwoven in them. But it's just because people like, it's like, oh, the Bible is that you can't talk.
You see him on the techno. It's like, really talking about you. Right? Because it's interwoven.
Exactly. But man, it's, so it's several things here, right? So now we see it, we almost have like, well, I can wait, I can wait, I can hold on to this point. Let's keep on going, right?
So verse 15, and he returned to the Mount of God. He and all his aides and he came and stood before him and said, indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant. But he said, as the Lord lives before whom I stand, I will receive nothing as he likes you, talking back to name it.
And he urged him to take it and he refused. So name it said, then if not, please let your servant be given to you, you will, loads of earth, but your servant will no longer offer burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, but to the Lord. Yet in this thing, may the Lord pardon your servant when my master goes to the temple of Rimnon and worship them. And he leans on my hand.
So I bow the temple of Rimnon. When I bow to the temple of Rimnon, may the Lord please pardon your servant in this thing. Then he likes to let him go in peace. So we departed from him and show at this thing.
So again, we have a, we see now, name it as a new convert. I had my experience, now we see a pride was this really, he is a symbol of his pride now. He knows that now there's a God, there's no other God in all the earth except the God in Israel. He, what he thought he wanted, he didn't get, but what he got was so much more powerful than powerful.
That was better than what he thought he wanted, because now he ain't, he ain't pride for no more. He got salvation in a way about because he ain't coming to be saved. No, he didn't, he ain't just going to be healed. But God say, bro, is so much I didn't do through you.
You're only victories will be because of me, but you don't even know why I am. We just want your God working on saying all your victories, everything you have done, and do our bestowed with is through me. And just taking like one of the points I was going to say earlier was like, you look at this story and directly conjoined with Last Shafter, right? Last Shafter, we had a Shinnamite woman whose son was raised from the dead.
So we look at Last Shafter, we went through the podcast, we forget about that Shinnamite. Shinnam is actually a tribe. Right? So Last Shafter, we see that God saves Israel, which is great.
We knew that, right? In this chapter, we see God's not only just the God of the Israelites, but he's still the God of the whole world. Because now we see a Syrian king, a Syrian general was conquering, being victorious on this race through the Lord, even if he didn't know God, and God still healed him from his leprosy also while humbling him. And now we see a name that is so converted, but he's still so torn.
He said, yo Elijah, yo Elijah, bro, I ain't offering sacrifices to these gods, but because of my role, I will have to be with the king when the king go in the temple and I will be forced about 10. The Lord, please pardon me because I am doing what I know is wrong, but I have to do it because I have to go back to Syria. I like to say I understand. You got you, right?
But it's so, you know, obviously guys, I say, bro, I take in two new loads of dirt from Israel to take back to Syria for no other purpose. I'm meant to be a reminder that the true God is in Israel. But you know, I'll change you up to beef and that, bro. I'm just sure I broke all this work in one of just leprosy because it's a good point, bro.
God could have done a go back in the master. But no, it's like, you're like an additional heart that needed to be addressed when you came here. It wasn't much of leprosy. Your true sickness was your pride and ego.
But think about how, bro, think about this how you know God and his infinite wisdom knows exactly what we need. Imagine if God did tell him, you got a flash for 10 days, then you got to do some type of crazy type of thing that matters. It's expectation and it was healed. He would have tried to pay.
I need to be like, yeah, that's kind of how I expected it to go. But in being healed in the river Jordan, the least likely place to be healed. He realized, oh, no, this one from the honor God. And then look at it too, bro.
You came up clean in the dirtiest river in the whole region. So what you thought was going to be filthy and dirty God used to be a cleaning device. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, he was he was looking for like a spell.
But he got a miracle. And so I'm not a freakin' mocha's like, no, no, I converted to the religion of the most I got instantly. That's an instant thing, bro. And again, in direct comparison to last chapter, he'd have been seven times.
And when the shinnomites son, I really wish he had a name. I should just give him a name, but I wouldn't be difficult. He sneezed seven times. When he was brought back to consciousness.
And you know, people say God's seven is God's favorite number. But just interested in like the seven. And think about it too. To your point, the faith, because Naman didn't dip once.
I mean, he didn't only dip once. He didn't only dip two, three, four, five, or six. He wasn't healed until he dipped all seven times. You think about it, bro, even in your mind too, you like, bro, I should have, if you dip once and you start to see our spot on the surface, you'd be more eager to dip again.
It wasn't in my mind. I think, bro, nothing was changing. So now each time you dip in, you were essentially having to get more humbled and having the trust and how faith and the issue like God, even more because think about it. You want dip number six, bro, and still nothing happening.
But we know what people would just say for this ridiculous. He's making no sense, man. This ridiculous. Let me just go off.
I ain't feeling no change. You're never supposed to be hurt even more now. Like, bro, I need this dirty river in this foreign line. This is why he ain't even come out to see me.
But when he's still nothing up, but on the seven dip, where you get more healed than a maliber, but you're skin like a child, like a flesh of a child, bro. I can even have no acne on his face. Nothing. I'm saying he ain't, bro.
He probably better before you get the letter. I'm telling you, bro. Yeah. And then writing below his mind even more.
This was for your charge. Oh, yeah, for free. Bro, by your faith, you are healed. You know what I'm saying?
God in charge of nothing. So again, his expectations are flipped on their head because I was expecting to come here and pay for this miracle. You know what I'm saying, bro? You can't pay me to do anything for you.
You know what I'm saying? So again, flipping this whole expectations on his head as God is so willing to do. Yeah, sometimes, sometimes it does take away from the favor you receive, putting a price on it. Like, at least it'll cost him his pride.
It's only should cost him his faith. You understand what I'm saying? Like you give God your pride, and now you get this miracle. You know what I'm saying?
But now if you put a price on it, you feel like you make it so you can buy God. Exactly. But now, our good friend, our good friend, our good friend, Gahazi, Gahazi, Gahazi, Gahazi, the servant of Elijah, the amount of God said, look, my master has spared Naimin the Syrian while not receiving his hands that what he brought. But as the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.
So Gahazi pursued Naimin. And when Naimin saw him running after him, he got down from his charge and meet him and said, is all well? Again, it's like just going back to last chapter. He's all well.
And he said, all is well, my master has sent me saying indeed, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephraim. Please give them a tiling of silver and two change of garments. So Naimin said, please take these two talents and he urged them to bound, he urged and he urged them and bound the two talents of silver and two bikes and two changes of raimins and handed them to two of his servants. And he carried and they carried them on ahead of him.
So when he came to the city, they only took them from their high and stored them away in the house. And he let the men go and they departed. Now he went and stood before his master Elijah and said and said and Elijah said to him, Gahazi, where did you go? So before they write, I mean, going back to just recalp it.
We sing it. Think about it, bro. We go back. Naimin brought 10 talents of silver, 10 change of clothes and what 10,000 shackers are gold.
Exactly. So he was more than willing to pick. You don't say it. So now, Elijah, you don't got to pick.
You don't got to pick. Name yourself. This is all you want. I was ready to give you all the world.
You also bring six thousand shackers of gold. You know what I'm saying? You don't even want another gold. I just want two thousand.
He has he, he pointed to go, she ain't no. He don't know what to buy that. So he gone, he understand himself. But then he lied.
He lied for sure. He lied for sure. He lied. Nobody come for me.
He ain't nobody just come here, bro. And you know what I was thinking about, right? How far could Naimin have gone? Right?
But we see because even verse 19, they say, then Elijah going to go in peace and then they say, he's going to be the part of a shot. There's no name. It wasn't even that far. Right.
So now watch this. That means you have to quickly come from around Elijah Elijah to do that. Exactly. You want to say, oh, I got to do something.
You know what I mean? I got to get a cow or something from all that. I got to deal with something and come back. I know you have to run by them.
So we had to sneak off. We're two out of service. We're two out of service. Because we see tell the service, hey, y'all take this, y'all go ahead of me.
When I go by, I say, I go address Elijah. Elijah, yeah. So Elijah is saying, Gazi, where did you go? And he said, just servant did not go anywhere.
Lie again. Lie again. And then verse 26, so we said to them, do not, did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to receive money?
Is it time to receive money to receive clothing, all of growth, vineyards, sheep, oxen and male and female servants? Therefore, the leprosy of Naimin shall cling to you and get descendants forever. And he went out from this presence, a leperous wife, as white as snow. Because essentially, like, some people like, okay, this might be a, uh, extreme, extreme sentence, right?