2 Kings chapter 3, I'm taking
the title for the message from verse 18, and this is the verse
that jumped out at me and spoke to my heart. It is a light
thing in the sight of the Lord, and this is but a light thing
in the sight of the Lord, For the Lord will not only give us
water, He'll deliver the enemy also into our hand, and that
is according to thus saith the Lord." So the title of the message
is, It is a light thing in the sight of our God. The same Lord who sustained Israel
for 40 years in the wilderness, can also sustain us and supply
all our spiritual need as well, and he does abundantly. You remember that verse I quote
all the time, Philippians 4.19, the Lord is able to supply all
our need according to his riches in glory through our Lord Jesus
Christ. All our need, he's able to supply
abundantly to the full. Anything too hard for the Lord,
Nope. With the Lord nothing is impossible. With the Lord our God all things,
all things are possible. It's a light thing in the sight
of the Lord. Salvation by the grace of God
in the Lord Jesus Christ is no uncertainty. The Lord Jesus Christ
did not die to make salvation a possibility. The Lord Jesus
Christ died to make salvation an absolute certainty for those
for whom He died. All the promises of God In the
Lord Jesus Christ are yes, and we have in the gospel the exceeding
great and precious promises of God that cannot fail. Matter of fact, I love the scripture
that says, of all that God had promised, not one word shall
fall. Not one word shall fail. We can
believe His word. We can trust His promise because
our God cannot change and He cannot fail. Now we see in this
chapter, 2 Kings 3, we see another one of the miracles of the Lord
by the hand of his servant, Elisha. The Lord not only provides water
for Israel, but the Lord also gives the victory over the enemy,
over the Moabites, and he does it by his will, by his decree
and by his power. He sends the water and he sends
a delusion to these men. They knew it hadn't rained. They said, this can't be water. It didn't rain. And they looked
on this valley that was full of water. God flooded the valley
and they said, it's blood. They killed each other. You see,
the Lord controls all things, even the puny, fickle mind of
every sinner. The Lord manipulate and controls
and rules over all things. We find Israel and Judah and
the King of Edom in the same wilderness as we read before
in Numbers 20. The Lord supplied their need
there by a miracle of his mercy. And he does so again. Those people
openly rebelled against Moses back in Numbers 20. He said,
you rebels, must I fetch water again? They openly rebelled against
Moses and blamed God. You brought us out here in the
wilderness to kill us. Who delivered them? God delivered
them. They did not deserve water in
that day, did they? And yet the Lord poured out abundance
of water. And these here in this chapter,
they did not deserve water, but the Lord gives a miracle of mercy
that was not earned or not deserved. Mercy is given, mercy. is by the precious, precious
gift of God. It's not deserved, it's not earned.
The Lord gives mercy because He delights to give mercy. The
only reason of mercy is found in Himself. We're not deserving
of mercy. We're not worthy of the least
of His mercies and of His truth. And yet we read in Scripture,
it is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed. We are no
better off by nature than those folks. We're rebels against God. We're sinners, guilty before
God, yet He shows mercy to such as we are. Depths of mercy can
there be, mercy there reserved for me, me the chief of sinners
spare? Yes, there is mercy with the
Lord. Thanks be unto the Lord, where
sin does abound, grace does much more abound in Christ Jesus. Now, let's take a look at verse
1 down to verse 3, and I'll try to get through this chapter and
not worry out too much. Verse one, Jehoram, the son of
Ahab, began to reign, Jehoram, the son of Ahab, began to reign
over Israel in Samaria in the 18th year of Jehoshaphat, king
of Judah, and he reigned 12 years. Now remember, the kingdom is
divided here. Jeroboam and Rehoboam, and the
kingdom was split. And he wrought, that is Jehoram,
wrought evil in the sight of the Lord, but not like his father.
Not like his mother, Jezebel and Ahab, what a notorious couple
for sin and rebellion against God. Well, he put away the image
or the statue of Baal that his father had made. Nevertheless,
that's a big word, isn't it? Nevertheless, but, however, except,
nevertheless, He didn't let go, he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam,
the son of Nebat. You remember Jeroboam made those
two golden calves and said, these are the gods that delivered us
from Egypt, much like that of Aaron, the son of Nebat, which
made Israel to sin and he departed not. We'll continue right on
in our sinful wicked ways and we'll not depart from that unless
God is pleased to do a work of grace in us. We'll go right on
in rebellion and unbelief unless God intervenes and God stops
us. King Jehoram is the brother of
Ahaziah. We read about him in chapter
one, both sons of Ahab, both idolaters like their father,
and we are all by nature no better. We are all born in sin, just
like those two sons of Ahab, hating God and loving our own
puny idols, mostly that of self. The carnal mind is yet enmity
against God. Jehoram here, as we read, had
some kind of reformation in his family. He put away the image
of Baal, maybe he did so to impress Jehoshaphat, maybe so, but still
he did evil in the sight of the Lord, nevertheless it says there
he did cleave unto the sin of Jeroboam. The lesson for us here
is this, he had a partial reformation, didn't he? We cannot partially
walk in idolatry and in faith. The just shall live by faith.
It is either one or the other. We cannot partially trust ourselves
for righteousness and Christ for righteousness. We can't partly
trust ourselves for salvation and the Lord Jesus Christ for
salvation. We cannot look to Christ And
we cannot look to ourselves for salvation. We cannot serve our
Lord with a divided interest or divided heart. Jehoram tried
that. And Elisha said, I got nothing
to do with you. You're an evil man. You see,
we cannot partly believe salvation is by grace and then partly believe
that salvation is by works. It cannot be both. Many in religious
circles want it both ways. It cannot be. It's either all
of grace or all of works. It cannot be both. And the scriptures
teach us plainly, if by grace, then it no more works. And God saves sinners by His
grace. And when we talk about grace,
we talk about sovereign grace. We talk about fetching grace. We talk about effectual grace.
We talk about electing grace. Grace of God that cannot Fail. You see, no man can serve two
masters for either hate the one and love the other or else he
will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God
and mammon. And that mammon could be representative
of many different things, but anything that would be a rival
to the grace of God is nothing but chaff. You see, salvation
is all of grace. Has to be. Has to be. If righteousness come by the
law, then Christ is dead and vain. That's why Paul said, I
do not frustrate the grace of God. God saves sinners by his
grace. To the total exclusion of any
human effort or merit. Jehoram Should have done what
was done later. We're gonna see in chapter 10
by Jehu. In chapter 10, Jehu, when he
came to the throne, destroyed Baal out of Israel. And he also lined up all the
prophets of Baal and killed every one of them. Well, that's pretty
severe. God is much more just than Jehu. God is absolutely just and God
is absolutely holy. Well, the next lesson in verse
four down through verse 10, Misha king of Moab rebelled against
the rule of Israel, especially now that Ahab, the prominent
king in Israel was dead. Misha king of Moab, verse four,
a sheep master, rendered unto the king of Israel a hundred
thousand lambs, a hundred thousand rams with wool. But it came to
pass when Ahab was dead that the king of Moab rebelled against
the king of Israel. He was being taxed heavily, wasn't
he? 200,000 of his livestock, and
I don't think they gave the scurvy and the maimed and the halt and
the lame. Probably the prime of the flock
went to the king of Israel. And when old Ahab died and the
son, probably he was thinking that the son is a weaker king.
I'm able to get by with not paying my taxes. There was a tax revolt. A rebellion which brought on
war, didn't it? Jehoram, verse six, Jehoram went
out of Samaria at the same time and he numbered his army. He
said, okay, I've got a rebel. He won't pay his taxes. So he
goes and takes inventory of his army and he finds out that he
comes up short. The same time he numbered all
Israel because he sought out help. And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat,
king of Judah, saying, the king of Moab hath rebelled against
me. Will you go with me against Moab to the battle? And he said,
now this is a mystery to me why this happened. But again, this
is ordered by the providence of God. He said, I will go up. Now Jehoshaphat, the Lord says
of him that he did that was right in the sight of the Lord. But
remember, he was a man too. subject to frailty and sin and
unbelief. He said, I will go up. I am as
thou art. Now, wait a minute. You're not
an idolater. But he identified with him as
a son of Abraham. I am as you are, my people as
thy people, and my horses as thy horses. Now, this is a mystery,
but again, This is ordered by the providence of God. He said,
which way shall we go up? And he answered, the way to the
wilderness of Edom. Now they could have taken a direct
route. If you look at your map, they
could have taken a direct route from Judah right down to Moab,
but instead they come all the way down in the wilderness, all
the way down to the kingdom of Edom, and then they go up to
Moab. Well, they have a problem here.
So the king of Israel went to the king of Judah and the king
of Edom, and they fetched and encompassed a seven days journey
in this wilderness. And there was no water. Now,
I'm sure they left Judah with some supply of water, but it
didn't take long to where they ran out of water. For the cattle
that followed them, and the king of Israel said, Alas, the Lord
hath called these three kings together, He called us out here
to kill us. That's what he's saying there.
God's called us out here into this land of no water, in the
wilderness, and he's gonna kill us. Okay. Mesha, a rebel against God, and a rebel
against Jehoram, is determined not to give any
more of his precious livestock. And Jehoram inventories his army,
decides that he needs some help. So like Ahab before him, he seeks
help from the king of Judah. Jehoshaphat agrees to join in,
join the journey, and they go through the wilderness of Edom
to ask Edom, the kingdom of Edom, sons of Esau, to join the battle.
So these three kings go to war against Moab. And again, as I
say, this is a mystery why Jehoshaphat joined in, but if you look back
in 1 Kings chapter 22, 1 Kings 22, Look at verse 41, 1 Kings 22,
last chapter of 1 Kings. Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began
to reign over Judah in the fourth year, the king of Ahab of Israel,
of Ahab king of Israel. And Jehoshaphat was 35 years
old when he began to reign and he reigned 25 years in Jerusalem
and his mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shelahah. And
he walked in all the ways of Asa his father. Asa was a good
king, believing God. He turned not aside from it,
doing that which is right in the eyes of the Lord. Nevertheless,
the high places were not taken away, for the people offered
and burnt incense, yet in the high places. And Jehoshaphat
made peace with the king of Israel." Now, Jehoshaphat agrees to join
in this journey, he was a man that the Lord says that he did
that which is right in the sight of the Lord. That is, he believed
God. He trusted God for all of his
salvation. But let us remember, he was a
man. A man, a sinner liable to many,
many mistakes. Like Abraham believed God and
it was counted to him for righteousness, but Abraham did some things that
displeased God. Oh, Sarah, you know, really,
she's my sister. He lied, not once, but twice. Moses, man of God, prophet of
God, Moses, speak to the rock. You rebels, must I fetch you
water again? And he took his rod and he smoked
that rock twice. What did God tell him to do?
Moses, you speak to the rock. Both Moses and Abraham were chastised
by the Lord. And even David, a man after God's
own heart, he believed the Lord, but he also did some terrible
things, didn't he? Adultery, murder. How about you? How about me? I believe God. I believe the
gospel. I believe and trust the Lord
Jesus Christ for all of my salvation, but I'm still a sinner, saved
by God's grace, liable to mistake and sin and frailty and doubt
and unbelief. Oh, I believe God, but I pray,
Lord, help my unbelief. Don't you pray that? The Lord
presents a big problem to these three kings. There's no water
in the wilderness. Before they meet the enemy, they
were in danger of perishing of no water. Water in a wilderness, barren land,
what's it worth? It's worth everything. Water
is the drink of life. Water is life. If you don't have
water, you don't have life. And the Lord Jesus Christ is
a water of life, isn't He? Oftentimes the Lord, and here's
the lesson, oftentimes the Lord brings His people to a place
of distress and helplessness that He might demonstrate His
power and His mercy that he might have all the honor and glory. I think of that Psalm 130, out
of the depths, David said, have I cried unto thee, O Lord. The
Lord oftentimes brings us to an absolute place of desolation
and nothingness in ourselves to show us that he is everything
in salvation. Notice, Jehoram says again in
verse 10, The King of Israel said, Alas,
the Lord hath called these three kings to deliver them into the
hand of Moab. He blames the Lord for his own
problem that he created, that Jehoram created. Proverbs 19,
3, listen to this. The foolishness of man perverts
his way. The foolishness of man perverts
his way and then his heart frets against the Lord. Isn't that
so true? The foolishness of man perverts
his way and in his heart frets against the Lord. Such is the
foolishness of the creature and the sinfulness of the creature. When Adam sinned against God,
what did he say? The woman you gave me caused
me to sin. And then the woman cried out,
where's that serpent? None of them owned their guilt
before God, did they? Not at first, they didn't. In
Numbers chapter 20, and in Exodus chapter 16 and 17, the children
of Israel complained to Moses, but in essence, they complained
against God. Why'd you bring us out in this
wilderness to kill us? Such is our sinful state by nature. We will not own our guilt. We
will not own our shame until the Lord convinces us that we
are guilty before God. We'll blame everybody else. We'll
justify ourselves and condemn everybody else, including God.
unless he changes our heart and our mind. Verse 11 and 12, these
three kings seek an audience with the prophet of God. Jehoshaphat
said, is there not here a prophet of the Lord that we may inquire
of him? Of the Lord by him. And one of
the king's servants answered and said, here is Elisha. Now it's amazing that the kings
did not know that the prophet of God was a mom. The king did
not know this, but this lowly servant knew Elisha was the man
of God with the word of God in the midst of the people. And
Elisha is the one who served Elijah. Elisha was the one upon
whom Elijah laid his mantle. Remember? And God sent him with
the word of the Lord. And Jehoshaphat said, the word
of the Lord's with him. He knows this is God's man with
his word. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat,
the king of Edom. Now this is interesting. They
went down to him. They didn't, a king, you know,
usually when David came to the throne, you remember what he
said about Mephibosheth? Go fetch him and bring him. These three
kings here, they're in a straight, they're in a desperate time. And they come down and they seek
an audience with God's prophet, Elisha. They went down to him. And Elisha said to the king of
Israel, I got nothing for you. See what he says there? What
have I to do with you? Your father's got a whole house
full of prophets, prophets of Baal. Of course, Ahab is dead,
but his mother, Jezebel, you remember she took care of the
prophets of the grove and the prophets of Baal. You go get
to your mama's preacher. You go seek out the prophets
of Baal. I got nothing for you." And the king of Israel said to
him, For the Lord hath called these three kings together to
deliver them in the hand of Moabit. He said, if you don't do something
for us, we're going to die. If you don't intercede for us
and ask God to help us, we're going to die. For sure we're
going to die. We have no water. We can't fight. We're going to
die. And Elisha said, verse 14, as the Lord of hosts liveth,
and I love that statement, As the Lord of hosts liveth, we
serve the living and true God. Baal is a dead, cold, stone idol. We serve the true and living
God. I am that I am. He is the everlasting
God. The Lord said, I am he that liveth,
and with dead behold I am alive forevermore. Before whom I stand,
justified in Christ surely. Were it not that I regarded the
presence of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, I would not look
toward thee, nor would I even entertain your face." I wouldn't
even look at you. Now there's a gospel lesson for
us here. Jehoshaphat, like before, seeks
out the prophet of the Lord. Is there one among us like Moses?
Yeah. You remember Micaiah? The prophet
of God was summoned before by Ahab. Remember what Ahab said
to Micaiah? When Jehoshaphat said, is there
a prophet in the land? Yeah, Micaiah. Remember what
Ahab said? I hate him. You go get him and
bring him. He's the Lord's man with the
Lord's message. Jehoshaphat should have done
this before he marched into the wilderness, shouldn't he? He
should have sought the prayer and the counsel of Elisha before
he marched off into the wilderness in haste. But he does so now
when he's faced with an impossibility to provide water, and in his
desperation he seeks the Lord's prophet, and he seeks the Lord's
help. It's amazing that Elisha is with this army in the wilderness,
and how he got there? By the providence of God. And
he's unknown to the king, but the servant, the lowly servant
of the Lord, knows he's there. And the servant said, Elisha's
here. Here is the servant of God, Elisha. And Jehoshaphat knows, as it
says there, verse 12, the word of the Lord is with him. So these
three kings seek his audience. They don't order Elisha to come
to them. They came to him humbled, in
great need, and immediately he rebuked Jehoram for his idolatry and tells him to seek out advice
from the prophet of Baal. Elisha was not impressed by his
partial reformation, maybe perhaps Jehoshaphat was, but clearly
Elisha rebuked Jehoram for his idolatry He said, I've got nothing
for you. I'm not going to help you. I
would not look toward thee. Now here's the thought. Were it not for the presence
of Jehoshaphat, he said, I would not speak to you or see your
face. Were it not for the Lord Jesus Christ, The king of the
tribe of Judah, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the Lord would
not speak to us, or have anything to do with us, or ever show us
mercy, but for Christ's sake. Elisha would not speak to Jehoram,
but for Jehoshaphat's sake. And God would not deal with us,
but for Christ's sake. He's forgiven us for one reason,
for Christ's sake. We have redemption through His
blood for one reason, for Christ's sake. Now look at verse 15. But now bring me a minstrel.
And it came to pass when the minstrel played, that the hand
of the Lord, or the Spirit of the Lord, came upon Elisha. Perhaps Elisha was ruffled, Aggravated
at the presence of Jehoram, no doubt he was. Remember, he's
a man of like passion as was Elijah. He seeks here a time
to reflect and relax and repose, to settle down by requesting
a musician maybe to sing one of the Psalms or play one of
the Psalms of David. He seeks a time of quietness,
a time of meditation, a time to relax and reflect. Now here's
the thought for us. It is always good for us when
we come to worship the Lord to have our mind cleared of the
day's problems, to set our affection on things above, not on the things
of this earth. And we do so when we come together
to worship the Lord, we try to set the table to put ourselves
in the frame or the mind of worship. That is, we read the Word of
God, we sing praises unto the Lord, And we pray unto the Lord,
and then we preach His gospel. All these things lend to our
worship of the Lord. Remember, the Lord seeks people
to worship Him in spirit and in truth. Now let me get to this
part of the message, because this is the main part I wanted
to look at. Verse 16 down through verse 20. Elisha's message of
great mercy. Verse 16. Thus saith the Lord. Now I love that part. Thus saith
the Lord. Make this valley full of ditches,
for thus saith the Lord, you shall not see wind, Neither shall
you see rain, yet the valley shall be filled with water, that
you may drink both ye and your cattle and your beasts. And this
is a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will not only
give you water, He will deliver the Moabites also into your hand. And you shall destroy their cities,
you shall chop all their fruitful trees down, stop all their wells,
and mar or ruin every piece of ground. And it came to pass in
the morning, when a meat offering was offered, that, behold, there
came water by the way of Edom." Now, the way of Edom is a wilderness.
Water just doesn't naturally come out of the way of Edom.
It's something that happens supernaturally. And the country was filled with
water. You dig ditches, I'm going to
fill it up. Israel should have the abundance
of water without ordinary means. No wind, no rain. Moreover, Israel shall have the
complete victory over the army of Moab. And who's going to get
the glory? The Lord's going to get all the
glory. This too is the bottom line in our salvation. To God be the glory, great things
He has done. You remember Elijah now prayed
and it didn't rain for three and a half years and then Elijah
prayed again and it rained. after the three-and-a-half-year
drought. Elisha fetches water, and nobody knows where it comes
from. The Lord brings the water by
a special miracle of His power, and He brings the water out of
the rock. And this speaks of Christ, our
rock. Christ, our rock, is smitten
for us. Remember when Moses smoked the
rock? What came out of that rock? Water.
When Moses was told to speak to the rock, but yet he hit the
rock, what came out of the rock? Water. Christ is smitten for
us, and through Him being smitten for our sin, our iniquity, we
have the water of life. All spiritual blessings come
our way by a spiritual miracle, by a special miracle of the Lord's
power and purpose through the gospel. of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now notice carefully, verse 20,
the time of the blessing of this abundance of the water. And it
came to pass in the morning, when a meat offering was offered,
that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country
was filled with water. According to the law of the Lord,
Exodus 29 verse 39, there was in Israel every morning and every
evening a lamb to be sacrificed, a daily sacrifice, reminding
the people without the shedding of blood there is no remission
of sin. All the offerings in the Old Testament point to Christ
our sacrifice, Christ our Passover lamb that is sacrificed for us. His sacrifice before and unto
the Lord is a constant reminder that we have salvation and justification
only through the blood sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
said, when I see the blood, I'll pass over you. The sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus Christ is a sweet smelling savor unto the Lord,
satisfying unto the Lord, and with his stripes we are healed. At the time of this blood offering,
the water flowed. And when the Lord Jesus Christ
was smitten for us, out of His side came water and blood. We have life through His sacrifice. And the Lord says of the Lord
Jesus Christ, in Him crucified, and I beheld Him low in the midst
of the throne, in the midst of the four beasts, in the midst
of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain. a perpetual
sacrifice unto the Lord. Christ did not enter into the
holy places made with hands, which are figures of the true,
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God
for us. Remember too, at the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ, as I said a moment ago, water and blood,
and we see a constant reminder that salvation is of the Lord. We are redeemed with His precious
blood. His blood cleanses us from all
our sin. This valley of the wilderness
was filled with water. Did you notice that? It wasn't
just a trickle. It was filled with water. The
dry, parched ground was filled with water. This too pictures
our salvation. For this dried, parched ground
is a picture of what we are by nature. And he fills us with
the water of his grace, with the water of his word. We're
dried up and parched and dead ground. And the Lord comes and
makes us bloom like a desert. If you'll turn to Isaiah, I thought
of this scripture when I read that, Isaiah 35. The wilderness, verse one, and
the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall
rejoice and blossom as a rose. That's what he does in us. We're
a desert wasteland. He causes us by His grace to
blossom as a rose. It shall blossom abundantly and
rejoice even with joy in singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be
given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon. They shall
see the glory of the Lord and the excellency of our God. He
takes this old, barren, dead, dried sinner and He puts in the
water of life and He causes us to bloom and grow and prosper. He causes us to be fat and flourishing
in the day of His grace. Verse 21 through verse 25, the
Lord gives a great and total victory over the army of Moab.
The Lord brought confusion in their mind, didn't he? Verse
21, when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come to fight
against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armor
and upward and stood in the border and they rose early in the morning.
What was a blessing to one became a saber of death on the others.
And the gospel is a saber of life and the savor of death. They rose up early in the morning
and the sun rose upon the water and Moabites saw the water on
the other side as red as blood. And they said, this is blood.
It hadn't rained, the wind hadn't blown. It couldn't be water,
it has to be blood. They presumed, didn't they? The
kings were surely slain, they said. The kings are surely slain,
they've spit in one another. Now therefore, Moab, Let's go
take the booty. To the spoil! And when they came
to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smoked them all by
so that they fled before them. But they went forward smiting
them, even to their own country. And just as Elisha said it would
happen, that they'd win the victory, that they'd ruin their cities,
it came to pass, didn't it? It came to pass. The Lord brought
confusion into the mind of the enemy to see a delusion. That's
scripture over there in those who believe not the truth, God
shall send them a strong delusion that they shall be damned, remember?
The Lord brought confusion into the mind of the enemy to see
a delusion. They looked over the valley and they saw water
as blood. and thought or presumed the armies
of Judah and Edom and Israel had turned on each other and
they rushed to take the spoils of war and find the enemy only
to find the enemy who easily routed them and destroyed them
and took their cities as well. And here's the point, in the
Lord Jesus Christ we have the complete victory over all our
enemies. Sin, He appeared to put away
by the sacrifice of Himself. The law that's against us and
contrary to us, He redeemed us from the curse of the law being
made a curse for us. over Satan, the woman's seed,
crushed the serpent's head, and over death. He said, I am he
that liveth and is dead. Behold, I am alive forevermore. One last note in closing. Verse 26, verse 27. A desperate attempt to overthrow
the purpose of God. This king here, his name is Misha,
king of Moab. When he sees what's going on,
he somehow scurries an army together of 700 men with swords and they
try to kill the king of Edom. But they could not. You know
why they could not? Because God would not. He tried
to change the purpose of God. Desperate attempt to overthrow
the purpose of God and it failed and ended. That was his first
option. His second option was a drastic
option to sacrifice his eldest son, his son that should have
reigned in his stead. And he offered him upon the wall.
Now he offered them unto his God a bail. And he thought his God, if my
sword won't do it, maybe my idol will. Again, a desperate extreme
measure to change the purpose of God and it too failed. My friend, the gospel of the
Lord Jesus Christ is our only remedy, our only hope. We are to trust the God who cannot
fail, the Christ of God who cannot fail. All else will end in total
ruin. You cannot defeat the purpose
of God. He that believeth on the Son
hath life, He that believeth not the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God will abide on him.