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we I have a this this class came out of x um actually brothers brother's class um x yes uh Wednesday where you know we um we x did the readings after we had some x dinner and it was what was it John nine x Jim is that what it is yeah John chapter x n and and one of the things and we we x may get into this today you know the x major topic really the whole chapter is x about the blind man the UN and he has no x name but he showed tremendous faith and x um you know he even spoke out against x the leaders of that of that time the x scribes and Pharisees like went after x them about their x hypocrisy but we don't know his name but x he showed this tremendous love of God x and so I thought that you know just kind x of thinking about it it's like how many x other noname individuals in x scripture um are there where an x individual does something or is x mentioned in the Bible whether good or x bad right we're going to look at people x that have no names and they did really x great things and people that have no x names did some really wicked things and x so you know I think there's a lot of x lessons in in involved in looking at x these people the no names of scripture x right um who were these people why are x they in scripture why are their actions x in scripture but not their names um you x know why why did God in his wisdom you x know have have their actions recorded x but you know not their names we may not x know that but I just think it's it's x interesting um and so you know the x question is are there lessons from their x lives that we can apply to our lives of x course there are right the answer is yes x that's the whole purpose of the Bible is x looking at uh commands and statements x but also looking at the events of men x and women of x Faith evil men and women right back in x uh the Old Testament and the New x Testament as well so um with that said x let's uh let's take a look at some of x these x things so we go way way back right what x we got for time okay when we go Way Way x Back Into Genesis um there's a lot of x people that are not mentioned that x obviously played an important part in x the spreading of people across uh across x the world let's just look at uh take a x take a look at Genesis the fth chapter x here x um you know like for instance verse four x of the fifth chapter of Genesis and the x days of Adam after he begat Seth were x 800 years and he begat sons and x daughters so some people are mentioned x like Seth of course Cain and Abel are x mentioned uh Enoch is mentioned as well x um and this you know Cain and our x mention but I always found it x interesting you know beat Sons and x Daughters right the they they're unnamed x people that were born other children x that were born to Adam and Eve other x other people through the generations x that you know lived and died who are x these people right you know from a x historical point of view there's always x in the back of my mind you want to know x more like we always want to know more we x always want more x information and you know knowledge and x that's really was was the thing you know x for Adam and Eve they wanted you know x they wanted to have that knowledge of x Good and Evil it's always been this kind x of you know this this struggle to gain x more knowledge you know human beings x just the way that we are x constituted we can never just accept x reality as it is we're always looking x for something else and this is where x invention comes in this is where we do x you know we do experiments and we figure x things out you know just for instance um x you know like the whole SpaceX thing x right if you remember like five years x ago they were trying to you know have x you know make this rocket hover and land x and all this kind of stuff and now in x 2024 they got this massive rocket coming x down it hovers a little bit and comes x down and they they grab it with two you x know the the the Chopsticks right so x this is this is our mentality there's x always something more to x know and that's that can be a good thing x but it's it also can be a bad thing x right you know go uh what does Solomon x say God has made man upright but he has x sought out many x inventions and that's that that can be a x struggle sometimes all right so anyway x so Sons and Daughters of of Adam and Eve x and the rest of them in Genesis 5 no x names given to them but obviously they x existed uh you know they had children so x on and so forth and you know one of the x reasons why I think too is you know we x go further and further back in time like x you know for like genesis 5 there's x certain people that are mentioned right x that I think were probably kept in the x minds of Israelites you know the major x people and they told these stories x orally um and then eventually you know x they were written down God's hand being x in obviously involved in this um but the x further and further you go back in time x and it's even true today the less x information you have x just the way it is we lose things human x beings love to tell stories and to tell x information but sometimes you know x things are lost now we have everything x that we need obviously for salvation but x I'd love to know a little more x information about what was going on x before the flood right what was going on x before the flood because um you know we x have a lot of unanswered questions even x from archaeology you know we there's a x lot of things that people don't know in x fact x um you know they keep on finding these x civilizations that they didn't know x existed like there's a massive x civilization they just found in ancient x turkey you know go go Becky Tey you know x whe I don't want to get into it but x anyways they it's a massive complex that x they didn't even know existed until they x found it like in I think 1990 they found x it and they've been digging um and x trying to figure out exactly who these x people were so anyways um Noah is x mentioned of course but Noah's wife not x mentioned all right x um You we're going to find to brothers x and sisters and this may be a cultural x thing early on but you know a lot of the x women are not going to be mentioned okay x and that isn't obviously that it God x didn't care about women but in a x cultural sense the man and the man's x name was as far as genealogies are x concerned that's where the line is x passed through but it is interesting x according to Jewish um tradition that x uh you know you are not a Jew unless x your mother is a Jew all right is that x correct Jason thank x you all x right uh so the line uh of uh you know x you know the bloodline for Jewish people x go goes through the mother all right x let's take a look at um you know lots L x uh lot in uh his wife because Jesus is x going to mention the uh Lot's wife again x do we do we know her name we do not know x her name but she is the foundation of um x a teaching of Jesus as we're going to x see um so Genesis 19 I you know we know x the story uh but it's good to kind of x recollect things x um Abraham and lot uh were nephew and x uncle and uh they were having trouble x because they were so wealthy and so x prosperous because of God's grace and x goodness that there was x Strife uh fighting between the Shepherds x of lot and the Shepherds of Abraham for x pasture and for watering you know for x Wells and that type of thing and so x Abraham's like look you know I don't x want fighting this is craziness you pick x the land where you wanted to go and x scripture tells us that lot looked right x he saw and saw it was well watered the x plains where Sodom and Gomorrah was so x he turned his attention to there and x that's where he went Abraham went in the x other direction and so lot slowly gets x sucked in x into the the Sodom and Gomorrah because x it says that he pitched his tent toward x Sodom and then he what he was sitting in x the gate of Sodom so he had a position x of authority within the city of Sodom x and it was a slow process and so here x here he is him and his family in a in a x wicked and detestable City and we know x from second Peter uh the second chapter x that it grieved him right it upset him x every single day to see everything that x was going on and we wonder brothers and x sisters what was going through um you x know lot's mind you know with his x children you know his daughters that x type of thing what type of environment x it wasn't a great environment at all to x kind of you know uh raise a family in x the gospel raise a family in the truth x wasn't great and we find out that x unfortunately the thinking of Sodom x infected his x family and so these individuals are not x mentioned we don't know the names of x Lot's wife but Jesus what does Jesus say x in uh Luke 17:28 let's look at the x context of that because it's important x in uh Luke 17 x in um verse x 28 well we can we can um start in verse x 26 as it was in the days of Noah so x shall it be also in the days of the son x of man they did eat they drank they x married wise they were given in marriage x until the day that Noah entered into the x ark and the flood came and destroyed x them all likewise also as it was in the x days of lot they did eat they drank they x bought they sold they planted they build x it but the same day that lot went out of x Sodom it rained fire and x brimstone from heaven and destroyed them x all and so uh it goes down in verse x 32 remember Lot's wife whosoever shall x seek to save his life shall lose it and x whosoever shall lose his life shall x preserve it so Lot's wife we don't know x her name but it is a she is a cautionary x tale that Jesus uses about turning back x turning back to wickedness away from the x things of God turning back from x salvation and that's what lot Lot's wife x turned back she couldn't leave those x things for whatever reason her whole x life was there she had friends her x family was there right uh a lot of her x family was still there and they fled but x she in her heart her heart was still in x Sodom and so that I think that's an x important Le lesson right where where's x our heart there our heart every single x day are we turning back to the things of x the world to the corruption that we see x in the world x godlessness in the world God has no x place in a lot of people's minds in x society and we can see it there is not a x foundation uh of of God God is Not not x the foundation of people unfortunately x particularly in this area you know I was x just looking at some stats and you know x it's like 50 to 60% of people uh about x 40% of people in New England are not x sure whether God exists or not okay like x that is the that is a baseline that's x not a great Baseline okay in other parts x of the country obviously it's a lot more x but that's this is the area that we live x in okay we're not a very religious x people in New England we used to be but x we're becoming much much more SE x and um and that that brings along with x it a host of issues that we have to just x just be mindful of they're not Guided by x God people of Sodom and Gomorrah were x not B uh Guided by Yahweh they weren't x by their own lust their own deviance x drove them in their lack of love for the x less fortunate because if we look at uh x Ezekiel along with the sexual x immorality there was also um x an oppression of the poor and needy x because Ezekiel said neither did you x give bread to the poor and needy in x other words you didn't care about the x less fortunate you were concerned about x yourself your own lusts and desires and x that's why Sodom and Gomorrah were x destroyed um and then along with that x story without getting into it lot's x daughters you when we talk about you x know sexual immorality well it it rubbed x off unfortunately on lot's daughters x didn't it and you know there's there's x obviously you know more you know lessons x than that but lot we don't know the x names of Lot's daughters do we we x don't cautionary x tail right a lesson from God to us hey x these people don't have names but look x at their behavior what did they x do uh you know were they followers after x God or did they do other things in this x case lot and lot's daughters tragedy x very tragic that what happened a lot x just because really of one of one x decision you know a well wanted area you x know he was just looking at the surface x and on the surface he was a th% correct x I'm going to do very well in this area x and he did do very x well but at the cost of his family his x family was destroyed right um x so so that you know that's an example x right that's an example of what I'm x talking about is we don't have the names x of these individuals but we have their x actions we have their thought process x and here's the thing in this case we x have the outcome outcome is not good x okay we can definitely apply the events x of lot and Sodom and gomorra and Lot's x wife and lot's daughters absolutely to x our x lives uh Jesus talks about you know the x end you know be in the days of Noah x people went on with their lives as if x nothing was happening with lot people x with went on with their lives as if x everything was going to continue on as x it x was until the Reigns came and until the x fire and brimstone came and destroyed x Sodom so questions comments will we go x on yes x Bob hold on we got a mic for you we got x a x microphone yeah this is Big Time Around x Here Bob all x right do not have x names yes but uh when you stop and think x all these people had a father and a x mother yes and the father and the x mother must have named their children x yes so they have names but God in his x wisdom x uh hid the name x prevented you and me from knowing these x individuals right now I I absolutely x agree with that Bob and you know um we x don't have the names but they did have a x name as you said right the names were x very important in the Bible they had x specific meaning a lot of times so I x guess that's what kind of got me x thinking names are so important even the x name of the Lord Yahweh is very x important it represents something more x so why you know why are these people x nameless in scripture I don't know but I x just find it interesting but they x absolutely had names yes oh I got text x coming in hold on x oh got it all right um let's let's x switch gears for a little bit here um we x don't have to turn turn to it in Genesis x 39 what do we got for time beep up beep x up um all right part of 's wife we don't x know who what what her name was another x cautionary tale another lesson in x scripture for all of us um resisting x temptation being put into situations x that we may have trouble getting out x of thankfully Joseph did get out of it x but um yeah Piper's wife is going to x change the whole x trajectory of of Joseph's life right x it's almost you know he was uh you know x his whole life he's taken and he sold by x his own x Brothers despite the fact that he was x wailing and weeping don't do this to me x sent them down anyways as luck would x have it and as the hand of God would x have it he's got a pretty good gig in P x Piper's house he's running the show he's x the head x servant um x and you know it's like it's almost like x hey this is the perfect job this is a x perfect situation doing very well but x you know things can change in a moment x and this is what happens because of his x position he's going to he's going to you x know the eye of Piper's wife is going to x be upon him and he did the right thing x but he was punished for x it he ran away from that x situation but he was still punished for x it and so you know often times we can x that can be a tough thing right you in x your mind you know we've done everything x you know what you're supposed to do but x the outcome doesn't match what you x wanted it to be God has other plans for x us you know Joseph on Joseph had to x suffer he had to go through that x struggle being in jail for you know a x couple years as an innocent man as an x innocent man falsely Accused by this x woman x unnamed cautionary tale right about and x also just perseverance through x struggle perseverance through life's x challenges remaining faithful to God not x despairing Joseph never x despaired even though he had every right x to he always hoped in God his salvation x his Rock his Fortress and eventually x he's brought out of prison and brought x to Pharaoh he is Redeemed by God himself x and brought up um to pharaoh and being x second in command so again this whole x thing happened with Piper's wife don't x know who she x is but she's part of the story isn't she x about Redemption and also she's part of x the story of God saving his people by x bringing them down into Egypt from the x famine so I just find a lot of that x stuff really really interesting um and x then along those lines you know even x Pharaoh right the Pharaoh in The Exodus x we're not we're not told who he is now x historians have tried to put together x you know who this was the you know and x most historians say tentatively that it x was probably Ramsey II but we you know x we're not told like for instance Pharaoh x Nico we're told about phoh noo right x he's the one that killed Josiah okay he x has a name uh Pharaoh Shack he came up x against rone remember so they have names x but not not a name for the Pharaoh of x The Exodus number one but also Pharaoh's x daughter we don't know who Pharaoh's x daughter is okay she's not given a name x but here's something interesting let's x look at this so in Exodus 2 Pharaoh's x daughter draws Moses out of one of the x tributaries of uh or one of the canals x of the Nile draws them out she he is x adopted into the Royal household which x is incredible wow but let's take a look x at this um in first chonicles the 4th x chapter now fourth the fourth uh chapter x here first Chronicles uh you know we x have a lot of x genealogies x um again there's a lot of history in x genealogies that sometimes we can x Overlook but any anyways this is x interesting fourth chapter of first x chonicles we're talking about the sons x of Judah x now and in the 18th x chapter uh 18th verse for is this it x right here yeah in the 18th verse of the x fourth chapter of first corini uh x Chronicles his wife je I'm not going to x read all these names but go on okay and x these are the sons of biia x the daughter of pharaoh which mired x took x beia the daughter of x pharaoh x now is this Phar is this daughter here x is it referring back x to the the daughter of pharaoh here of x exus I I don't know but it it x seems to x indicate that the daughter of pharaoh x biia x has children with x Israelites in that 18th verse x Bia is it the same daughter of Egypt uh x daughter of pharaoh don't know I just x find it extremely x interesting right and um you know it is x that is Pharaoh's daughter mentioned x here in 1 Chronicles uh part of the x story of Mo Moses and how does that all x fit in how does that fit in with um you x know we're talking about CA you know the x Caleb and Judah these are the x descendants of these individuals and and x it looks like the Royal they married x into the Royal household of pharaoh or x something whatever that process was I x don't know but she's mentioned viia x daughter of pharaoh same Pharaoh same x daughter Pharaoh's daughter of Moses x don't know very interesting stuff though x all x right Brady how we doing buddy all x right x okay um few other people Jeff's daughter x don't know her name incredible amount of x Faith right she gave up her life and x gave up um you know having children and x a family and all that because of the x oath that Jeff the took um you know this x is kind of like one of these deals where x what happened to Jeff Jeff's daughter x you know was she was she uh burnt x literally as a sacrifice I I don't x believe so that was abhorent to God it x would be abhorent to ancient Israel as x well I believe she became part one of x the uh the the Tabernacle women who um x who helped with the Tabernacle who uh x some of the you know the female um the x female attendants that were part of it x if you remember with Eli and his and his x sons what were they doing sexual x immorality with the female workers of x the x Tabernacle and so some have suggested x that jeepa Jeep's daughter would have x consecrated herself to service to God at x the Tabernacle in some capacity and x there there is a connection as well x around this time where Samuel is going x to be born and some have suggested that x um Jeff's daughter unnamed was one of x the women that would have help you know x would have raised uh Samuel in this area x so something to think about a woman of x great x faith who um put her own life's ambition x on the back burner because of her faith x in God don't know her name tremendous x woman of Faith x though the witched x Endor you don't know her x name x um but obviously plays an important part x with Saul and Samuel towards the end x obviously of Saul's life God was not x answering Saul through the traditional x means right through prayer Visions the x urum and the thorum that type of thing x had withdrawn himself from Saul because x he refused to listen it was always it x was always Saul was always always doing x something x extra right or he wasn't doing enough uh x I feel for all I really I really do but x anyways um and so you know he he's like x I got to find out what's going on this x is important you know remember the x massive um massive Army of Philistines x are coming and um you know he goes to x the witch of Endor and he's scared out x of his mind right because Samuel does a x vision of Samuel appears and everyone's x freaked out uh and unfortunately him and x his sons die on Mount gilboa during this x time and a x connection um you know this this this uh x the Philistines are really just kind of x driving uh kind of SP trying to split x Israel into two that's why the battle x happened up in Gilbo which up which is x up in the north they were trying to kind x of split Israel into two and you know x make it you know just kind of wither x wither it away you know um but anyways x um here here's something something x interesting in First Kings the 13th x chapter the whole chapter is about two x unnamed x guys the man of God and the prophet x don't know their names let's take a look x at x it uh First Kings x 13 this is in the time of riobo and x Jobo x um verse 1 13th chapter first king K and x behold there came a man of God out of x Judah by the word of the Lord unto bethl x and Jobo stood by the altar to burn x incense and he cried against the altar x in the word of the Lord and said oh x altar altar thus saith the Lord Behold a x child shall be born unto the House of x David Josiah by name and upon thee shall x he offer the priests of the high places x that burn incense upon thee and men's x bone shall be PR on thee he goes on x Behold The Altar shall be rent and the x ashes that are upon it shall be poured x out so this man of God don't know his x name passes judgment upon uh Jobo and x the northern tribes because of their x false worship of Yahweh they worshiped x Yahweh brothers and x sisters but they worshiped them in their x own in their own way and they worship x other gods as well okay so when we think x they had their own Temple and everything x in x Samaria um but you know know it says x that Jobo took people from the base you x know the basis of the people and made x them priests and changed the location of x worship allowed high places to go on x didn't allow the Levites to be part of x um part of service which was commanded x by God in other words he made up his own x religion the name was still the same x they still worship Yahweh but in their x own way right it's another cautionary x tale by an unnamed individual right man x of God Comes This altar is going to be x destroyed by Josiah he's mentioned by x name so very important prophecy by this x man of God there's another individual x that he comes in contact with called The x Prophet um let's x see yeah answer the king the god uh yeah x in verse 11 remember he's told not he's x he's told not to stop anywhere you got x to just boom you got to go do your job x and then go but this in verse 11 now x there dwelt an old prophet in bethl x another unnamed x guy but this Prophet is going to lie to x the man of God's face and say no no no x God said to come on in let's let's enjoy x a meal together you know this Prophet x wanted the blessing from this man of God x okay it was very important to get a x blessing um and so he lied to this guy x and this the man of God is going to end x up being um killed by a lion I believe x right he's going to be killed um so x anyways there's a whole chapter in x scripture about two guys that have we x don't know their x names the whole chapter the man of God x and the and the old Prophet okay lot of x lessons in this in this chapter though x isn't there even though we don't know x the names of these two individuals lot x of lessons life lessons for us x okay um oh this is a good one this is x one I like here in uh 2 x Samuel uh x 20 yeah this is a real good one x people all right yeah and um so this is x this is all unfortunately during the x time of upheaval and chaos and x Rebellion this is David right right x after the rebellion of Absalom where x really all Israel turned on David x towards his son um x Absalom but after that war after Absalom x is killed and that kind of settles down x there's another upheaval too this guy x named uh this uh individual named uh he x was a man of bile Sheba all right he was x a Tribe of Benjamin right there's that x connection with the house of Saul right x the house of Saul is still kind of myth x that David kind of took over everything x and so there's still individual uals x from the house of Saul from The Tribe of x Benjamin that are interested in getting x power x back so everything was not all hunky x dory in in um in David's Kingdom as we x know there's a lot of ups and downs x anyways x um in where's this chapter here yeah x this is where like a Mesa am Mesa was x given uh control of the army by David x because of what joab did he didn't x listen to David to you know spear x Absalom Jo's like nah and he ends up x killing you know puts three dots in him x and then sends his body God onto Absalom x attack him to death um anyways he goes x up to amesa right amesa has been given x the captain ship um of the army of x Israel joab wants it back so he goes up x to amesa right are you in health my x brother are you doing good how you how's x your health sow right got the right x under the fifth rib and just the x treachery of joab right we know these x guys names we don't know this wise woman x though of AEL I was looking at it x uh where is x this yeah in verse x 15 and they came and besieged in Abel x this is where Sheba goes he goes and he x kind of to this place uh unto Abel into x Beth Maya x and so he's hiding out here it was a x fortress City it had a tower it was it x was a fortress City and it was fortified x and so in order to get Sheba out of x there they were going to have to go x through this very long x Siege okay it was going to take time x people were going to starve to death x people were going to get killed all x right so one woman again we don't know x her name gave wise advice to joab okay x verse x 16 yeah in verse 15 and they cast up a x bank against the city and it stood in x the trench and all the people that were x with joah battered the wall to throw it x down all right this is it's getting real x they dug trenches fortifications they're x slamming you know they're trying to slam x the walls down with battering rams it's x it's not x good verse 16 then tried a wise x woman out of the city and pretty much x without getting into it she says are you x going to destroy to joab you going to x destroy everybody in this in this city x you going to wipe everybody out and x joab's like no no no I don't I don't x want to do that I don't want to swallow x up everybody I don't want to destroy x everyone Abel was a very it was a x respected city as well okay it was a x city that um that was respect respected x within the community of Israelites I'm x not 100% sure on why that is but it was x an important city and so what she said x was is x um uh yeah in verse 18 they were want to x speak in Old Times saying they shall x surely ask counsel at Abel and so they x ended the matter in other words Abel was x a place where they would go to um to x mediate big problems okay it was a kind x of like a I don't know like a sacred x city or a City where people would come x that everyone knew we're going to try to x mediate problems before it turned x violent okay and Abel was one of those x cities um and x so yeah in verse 19 I am one of them x that are x Peaceable and faithful in x Israel thou seekest to destroy a city x and a mother in Israel why will thou x swallow up the inheritance of the x Lord so she's speaking really for all x the innocent people in the x city I'm faithful I I haven't turned on x David all these people are faithful x we're Peaceable people why do you want x to destroy us just to get to this one x guy and joab agrees because I don't want x to do that at all and so the woman says x hey I'll take care of it and then the x next x day sheba's head gets tossed over the x wall so again great you know great x little story here x not mention what her name was a wise x woman I if I if I was in scripture as a x wise man I'd take it right but I still I x still want to know like what's what's x This Woman's name what's her x backstory she's a wise woman that's what x God calls her and she gave wise advice x to x joab along the same lines Brothers and x Sisters of the wise advice that um x Abigail gave David remember kind of the x same a little same situation David's all x like he's he was disrespected by nabal x and all this and he's like that's it I'm x going to I'm wiping everything out right x and um you know Abigail's like whoa whoa x whoa whoa hey take it easy we know x Abigail's name but very similar this x wise woman gave a lot of very similar x advice right let's calm things down x let's let's think about this there's got x to be a better solution and I think when x we have to be ready to listen to good x advice this was good advice and joab x took that advice and so for all of x joab's faults and there were a x lot he he usually made the right x decision when it came to battle okay and x this was the right decision he knew this x was going to be a long drawn out Affair x a lot of people were going to get killed x it was it was going to be brutal and he x he made the right decision and he says I x just want the guy I just want Shea x that's all I want and that's and that's x what happened thanks to um the wise x woman of Abel not knowing don't know her x name but she did a great job in in x saving a lot of innocent people in able x all x right where we got all right uh this x will be our last uh our last slide so x it's going to be a two-parter then it's x a two-parter I think all x right the last two here the Queen of x Sheba uh now extra biblical x sources particularly the Ethiopian x Christian x Church uh has a whole history with uh x the queen of shebra and Solomon it's x really fascinating I'm going to give you x the cliff x notes the Queen of Sheba goes up to see x Solomon in all his glory x okay x um they are intimate with each x other and from that Union uh she Shea x gives birth to a line of kings that x started there and goes all the way up to x Holly kassi I think his name is and and x that's a modern he was a modern you know x if you guys know about like ree music x and Bob Molly and stuff like that um x this is where a lot of this comes comes x from is they they believe that the x descendants of Solomon and sheba are the x Messiah okay this family Ethiopian royal x family Bob Molly talks about a lot of x that kind you know um and that's really x was like part of his kind of spiritual x religious Outlook was you know we're x going to we're going to bring this this x Messiah to the world from Ethiopia right x so x anyways R say again rosarian correct x thank you Jim yes um now last one we're x going to take a look at and this is kind x of this is one of my favorites I think x because it's x so you know and it it involves you know x a lot of different people that is x interesting what do we got okay yeah I'm x GNA do this quick in Second Kings the x 5th x chapter uh Second Kings 5 x Cino all right so let's take a look at x these uh couple verses here in verse one x now Naaman captain of the host of the x king of x Syria first of all that's that's a very x powerful position this guy was the x general of all the forces of Syria okay x no joke very powerful guy was a great x man with his master and honorable x because by him the Lord had given x Deliverance unto Syria he was also a x mighty man in Valor but he was a x leper just as an aside he's not going to x be the only leper Commander that history x knows about during the Middle x Ages um King x Baldwin who was a king in Jerusalem the x C the the Europeans are going to control x Jerusalem for about a 100 years there's x going to be one king his name's King x Baldwin he's only going to live to like x be 25 he had leprosy if you ever seen x King the movie Kingdom of Heaven uh he's x the he's the king that wears kind of x like a silver mask uh in order to kind x of cover up the the lesions and so forth x on his face true story he was a leper x great king very respected but he had x leprosy and it's going to end up killing x him same with Naaman he's a great man x but he's got leprosy and we all know x leprosy is and I often think about this x how could he do his x job right he's got leprosy but he's he's x leading a bunch of men to x battle maybe he it was just you know he x maybe he had just gotten it or it wasn't x like Advanced leprosy you're not doing x anything you're in constant pain it's x awful x awful x anyways um verse x two I'll take a look at this in the x syrians okay non non's um x soldiers and the syrians had gone out by x companies raiding x parties and had brought away captive out x of the land of x Israel a little x maid and she waited on naaman's wife a x little maid from x Israel don't know her x name and not only don't do we not know x her name she was forcibly x taken from her family and her country x and her x people to serve syrians to serve non's x wife as a female slave she was a female x slave okay live now listen this there x were different types of slave categories x all right this was a pretty this was a x very nice job okay you're in a very x wealthy x home um waiting on the Mistress of the x house they were a lot worse slave jobs x but just think about that x mentality what type of like mindset x would we have where your x enemy the head enemy of your x people has leprosy the enemy that took x you from your own family to live up in x Syria what would your mindset be well x let's see what this little Maid does oh x here's my opportunity I'm gonna Stick it x to this guy he's got it x coming all right here's this verse x three and she said unto her mistress x would go God my Lord were with the x prophet that is in Samaria for he would x recover him of his x leprosy x wow she she's actually concerned about x non and about you know the leprosy that x I think just manifested itself I think x the leprosy really just kind of just x manifested itself and so they're trying x to figure out well how how are we going x to how are we going to deal with this x situation and so this little girl no x name has the faith in the wherewithal to x say x Hey you know there's a guy in Samaria a x prophet of God he would absolutely heal x you of your leprosy little x girl that was taken away to her enemy x but still has this faith in God that God x can help help my x enemy this x Syrian we don't know her name but is x because of her faith and really her her x love and care for her fellow human being x even x though they had caused such upset in her x life still has the wherewithal on the x faith to say go go see go go see the x prophet in Samaria and because of that x naan is going to be healed he's going to x be healed of his x leprosy um and I think that's a great x example of an unnamed named x individual making the right decision x showing x love uh having faith in God despite x their x circumstances um and so like you know x these these types of things just kind of x make me think you know and they x um and I love stories like this because x you know we don't we're not given all x the information but we're given enough x information to have it work on ourselves x to have it work on our hearts so we can x apply these lessons good and bad to our x lives forever in these uh types of x situations so we'll stop there uh we x next week Lord woman we'll look at some x of the unnamed people in the New x Testament pretty goodOriginal URL Sunday, October 27, 2024