Caption transcript for Josiah and the Last Reformation (2026): “Cleansing the Land” (6/8)

• 00:10 ♪♪♪ ♪♪♪
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• 00:40 ♪♪♪
• 00:50 Caleb Colson: Guys, it’s idol smashing time.
• 00:52 I’ve been waiting so long for this episode!
• 00:55 Joshua Colson: Spoiler alert: Caleb has been waiting a long
• 00:57 time for all the episodes.
• 01:00 Literally just saw him polishing his idol smashing sword in
• 01:04 the back.
• 01:05 Caleb: Idol smashing time!
• 01:09 Caleb: Because it’s the episode where Satan runs with his tail
• 01:12 between his legs because of the single man, Josiah, decided to
• 01:16 submit himself unto God and the devil fleed from him.
• 01:19 You know, don’t tell me there wasn’t powerful spiritual,
• 01:22 political, and physical opposition to Josiah’s reforms.
• 01:25 People had done one thing one way, and they weren’t about
• 01:27 to change.
• 01:29 But, you know, whenever man decides to submit himself unto
• 01:32 God and walk righteously before him, the devil will try to lay a
• 01:34 snare for you.
• 01:36 Joshua: But when Josiah read the words of the law, he immediately
• 01:39 reestablished the covenant with God and began to follow the
• 01:43 Torah exactly as it was written ’cause God said to do it.
• 01:50 Joshua: Deuteronomy 12:1-4: “These are the statutes and
• 01:54 judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land
• 01:57 which the Lord God of your fathers has given you to
• 02:00 possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
• 02:04 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations
• 02:08 which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high
• 02:12 mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
• 02:15 And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred
• 02:17 pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire: you shall cut
• 02:21 down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names
• 02:24 from that place.
• 02:25 You shall not worship the Lord your God with such things.”
• 02:29 Caleb: So, step one, with Josiah’s newfound Torah
• 02:32 knowledge, he realized that the priests in the temple were using
• 02:35 the cursed articles, saucers, incense holders.
• 02:38 All these things were–were ordained to other gods.
• 02:41 He had to get rid of them all.
• 02:42 Joshua: Step two: never use cursed articles.
• 02:46 I mean, what?
• 02:48 Isn’t that a given?
• 02:49 Caleb: 2 Kings 23:4 says, “The king ordered Hilkiah the high
• 02:53 priest, the priest next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove
• 02:56 from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and
• 02:59 Asherah and all the starry hosts.
• 03:01 He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron
• 03:04 Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.”
• 03:08 Joshua: Next step, remove all the priests that were appointed
• 03:11 by evil kings.
• 03:12 It was unlawful for anyone that was not a Cohanim to be
• 03:15 a priest.
• 03:16 He had to be from the lineage of Aaron.
• 03:18 The penalty was death.
• 03:21 Joshua: Now, 2 Kings 23:5 says, “He did away with the idolatrous
• 03:26 priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the
• 03:30 high places of the towns of Judah and on those around
• 03:32 Jerusalem those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and
• 03:36 the moon, and the constellations and to all the starry hosts.”
• 03:41 Caleb: And it wasn’t just killing these priests that were
• 03:45 idolatrous in the temple of the Lord.
• 03:47 It is all the evil priests that stood upon the high places and
• 03:50 worshiped these demon gods, and that’s when he came here, the
• 03:53 Valley of Hinnom.
• 03:55 He had to do away with that Molek idol with all the–he had
• 03:59 to–he had to desecrate it to make sure that–that abortion,
• 04:02 that child sacrifice would never be committed in this
• 04:06 valley again.
• 04:07 It says in 2 Kings 23:10, “He, Josiah, desecrated Topheth,
• 04:12 which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom so no one could use it to
• 04:16 sacrifice their son or daughter in the fire to Molek.”
• 04:21 Joshua: Ha!
• 04:22 Take that, Molek.
• 04:23 Caleb: Guys, Josiah’s next acts of cleansing is verified by an
• 04:26 archaeological discovery in the city of David, a bulla, a clay
• 04:30 seal, that was made with the impression of a signet ring, and
• 04:33 on that bulla read the name Nathan Melek, a servant of
• 04:38 the king.
• 04:39 Caleb: There you go, buddy, you did it!
• 04:41 We knew your time would come!
• 04:43 Now, Nathan gets to sit in the front seat ’cause he’s a good
• 04:46 guy at proving the Bible’s accuracy.
• 04:50 Joshua: 2 Kings 23:11: “He, Josiah, removed the entrance to
• 04:54 the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah
• 04:57 had dedicated to the sun.
• 04:58 They were in the court near the room of an official
• 05:00 named Nathan-Melek.
• 05:02 Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.”
• 05:07 Joshua: Here, the Kidron Valley became the dumping ground for
• 05:09 all of the refuse of the idol smashing, tearing, and burning
• 05:13 that Josiah did.
• 05:14 It was a sign to everyone in Jerusalem, anyone that passed
• 05:17 by, this is what happens to idols here.
• 05:20 Caleb: Well, well, well, looks like it’s time to fill up that
• 05:22 valley again.
• 05:24 Everybody bring me your Taylor Swift albums.
• 05:27 Joshua: 2 Kings 23:6 says, “Josiah took the Asherah pole
• 05:31 from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside
• 05:34 Jerusalem and burned it there.
• 05:35 He ground it to powder and scattered the dust over the
• 05:38 graves of the common people.
• 05:40 And he break down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the
• 05:42 house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for
• 05:46 the Asherah.”
• 05:48 Caleb: This is a part of a story that I find interesting, guys.
• 05:51 This perversion of sexuality was linked with the Asherah, this
• 05:54 goddess worship.
• 05:56 Now, they had this symbol of sexuality, the Asherah pole.
• 06:00 It literally represented a phallus, same thing with the
• 06:03 Egyptians and the obelisk, namely represent
• 06:06 Nimrod’s phallus.
• 06:07 But this–this perversion with the–the sodomites and all that,
• 06:11 these people didn’t know right from wrong.
• 06:14 And so, though Josiah went and he destroyed all these idols, he
• 06:18 offered grace to the Sodomites.
• 06:20 He didn’t murder them.
• 06:21 He didn’t kill them.
• 06:23 They didn’t know right for wrong, so he gave them the grace
• 06:25 of the Lord, and I promise you, they knew the truth from that
• 06:27 point on.
• 06:29 Joshua: Yeah, they did.
• 06:35 Caleb: 2 Kings 23:8 and verse 12, “Josiah brought all the
• 06:39 priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places,
• 06:42 from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense.”
• 06:46 Verse 12: “He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had
• 06:50 erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the
• 06:53 altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of
• 06:55 the Lord.
• 06:57 He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw
• 07:00 the rubble into the Kidron Valley.”
• 07:03 Joshua: Josiah is leaving no stone unturned.
• 07:06 He’s fighting every idol,
• 07:08 every consecrated image, anything used
• 07:10 to worship another god, and he’s getting rid of it.
• 07:12 Let me ask you this question: How many of you would be willing
• 07:15 to do that in your own lives?
• 07:16 Go into your home and look at TV, or movies, or things that
• 07:19 didn’t honor God, throw it away.
• 07:21 You’ve got food, junk food, thing that you’re–you’re
• 07:23 serving, that you’re consuming, destroying your body.
• 07:25 Get it out of your life.
• 07:28 Joshua: Brother, don’t make me call Josiah!
• 07:34 Joshua: If you struggle with lust, ask for deliverance and
• 07:37 give your heart to God in that manner.
• 07:38 How many of you will put the Father first?
• 07:41 An idol is only anything that’s taking over position in your
• 07:44 life over the Father.
• 07:45 It’s time that we smash it and get it out of our lives.
• 07:48 2 Kings 23:13 and 14: “The king also desecrated the high places
• 07:53 that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of
• 07:57 Corruption–the ones Solomon king of Israel had built for
• 08:00 Ashteroth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the
• 08:03 vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the people
• 08:07 of Amman.
• 08:09 Josiah smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles
• 08:12 and covered the sites with human bones.”
• 08:16 Caleb: This is very telling, guys.
• 08:18 Josiah had to finish it where it all began, where King Solomon
• 08:22 had placed those idols on that Hill of Corruption.
• 08:25 But Josephus, the Jewish historian, adds one little extra
• 08:29 tidbit to the story that I want to read to you.
• 08:31 He says, “[Josiah] also searched the houses,
• 08:34 and the villages, and the cities out of the suspicion
• 08:38 that somebody might have one idol or another in private.”
• 08:43 ♪ Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do? ♪
• 08:45 ♪ What you gonna do when Josiah comes for you? ♪
• 08:48 [speaking gibberish]
• 08:49 Joshua: I don’t remember the rest of the words.
• 08:51 You know what I’m talking about, old guys.
• 08:54 Caleb: This was how zealous Josiah was for the Lord.
• 08:57 He searched every home, every house in every city.
• 09:01 He took the idols, brought ’em down here to the Kidron Valley,
• 09:04 and smashed ’em like this rubble you see before me.
• 09:07 And then after that, Josiah brought the people together in
• 09:10 one voice and one accord to celebrate Pesach, Passover.
• 09:15 And it says in 2 Chronicles 35:7 that “Josiah provided for all
• 09:19 the lay people who are there a total of thirty thousand lambs
• 09:23 and goats for the Passover offering, and also three
• 09:26 thousand cattle of the king’s own possessions.”
• 09:30 You see, Passover hadn’t been celebrated since the time of
• 09:32 King Hezekiah, and he wanted to make sure that everyone from the
• 09:36 least to the greatest could feast with the Lord.
• 09:39 Joshua: Everyone could celebrate.
• 09:40 Everyone had enough.
• 09:41 They were able to celebrate the Lord’s moadim.
• 09:43 It was said of Josiah’s Pesach, 2 Chronicles 35:18, “The
• 09:47 Passover had not been observed like this in Israel since the
• 09:50 days of the prophet Samuel; and none of the kings of Israel had
• 09:53 ever celebrated such a Passover as did Josiah, with the priests,
• 09:57 the Levites and Judah and Israel who were there with the people
• 10:00 of Jerusalem.”
• 10:04 Joshua: Next week, we’ll discuss a very important event that
• 10:06 happened before this Passover celebration, but I want you to
• 10:09 stop and think like Josiah for a minute.
• 10:12 He could not force them under rod and iron to celebrate and to
• 10:16 worship Elohim.
• 10:17 If he did so, their hearts wouldn’t be in it.
• 10:19 He first had to lead by example.
• 10:26 Caleb: Oh yeah, there we go.
• 10:29 Bye, Taylor.
• 10:34 Joshua: Brother, she’s burning up like Beelzebub, you
• 10:37 were right!
• 10:39 Joshua: Isn’t that how all good leaders do?
• 10:41 They lead by example first, and from that example he led, the
• 10:44 people actually had the opportunity to make the choice,
• 10:47 and the choice was what mattered most.
• 10:49 Caleb: Now, the part about the feast, the Passover, I find it
• 10:53 interesting that Satan not only tried to stop the worship of god
• 10:56 of Elohim, but he was so threatened by them celebrating
• 11:00 the Moadim, the seven feasts, the appointed times, because he
• 11:03 knew that one day, they would point them to Yeshua Messiah,
• 11:07 who would fulfill those Moadim in person.
• 11:10 We see in the future, the Antichrist, the beast, does the
• 11:13 same thing.
• 11:14 Let’s read about that in Daniel 7:25: “He [the Beast]
• 11:18 will speak against the Most High God, oppress the holy people of
• 11:22 the Most High and plan to change the appointed times [the Moadim]
• 11:26 and laws.”
• 11:30 Caleb: Satan knows what these final feasts mean for him.
• 11:33 He knows they prophetically spell his doom that on Yom
• 11:36 Kippur, he’s gonna be taken up and he’s gonna be judged, so he
• 11:40 thinks somehow he’s gonna change these feasts.
• 11:43 He’s gonna change the timing and make it go away.
• 11:45 He cannot change prophecy.
• 11:48 But you look at Josiah.
• 11:50 He humbled his heart before the Lord.
• 11:53 He entreated before God and asked for forgiveness before the
• 11:56 Lord, and God pushed back the timetable because of
• 12:00 his humility.
• 12:01 He pushed back the coming of the Antichrist, Nebuchadnezzar.
• 12:05 Joshua: Throughout Israel and Judah’s turbulent history, they
• 12:08 would go from a position of serving the Lord to slowly
• 12:11 slipping into sin and then literally into a physical
• 12:15 bondage, where they were enslaved by another foreign
• 12:18 nation, and they would cry out to Adonai again to be saved, and
• 12:21 he would rescue them and save them out, and they would serve
• 12:24 him again for a little time.
• 12:26 I don’t know where we’re at as a nation in this vicious cycle,
• 12:29 where we go from living in wicked sin to repenting, but I
• 12:34 would really, really like to skip the whole “live in bondage”
• 12:37 portion of that as a nation, both America and Israel.
• 12:41 And immediately, right now, repent and cry out to the Father
• 12:45 so that we could skip straight to that–that manifestation of
• 12:49 his presence and that great awakening that just shakes the
• 12:52 world for him.
• 12:56 Joshua: 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people, who are called by my
• 13:01 name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn
• 13:06 from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and
• 13:10 will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
• 13:15 Caleb: I’m not gonna lie, guys, we were so close at the
• 13:17 beginning of the COVID shutdowns.
• 13:19 For the first time in many Americans’s lives, we were
• 13:21 desperate and ready to depend on God for help, and many turned
• 13:24 their hearts and repentance toward God.
• 13:26 But then, government stepped in to offer their solution.
• 13:32 Caleb: And what was government’s solution to the problem?
• 13:36 They threw money at it.
• 13:37 They said, “You have money.
• 13:39 We’ll take care of the problem.”
• 13:40 They said, “We will create a vaccine to solve all
• 13:43 your problems.
• 13:45 It will eradicate the virus.”
• 13:46 Then they said, “Oh wait, we’ll create mandates.
• 13:48 You can’t gather together and pray together as one believers.”
• 13:52 You see these believers behind me?
• 13:54 They’re worshiping together.
• 13:56 They’re confessing together.
• 13:57 Bombs are raining down outside from the Gaza Strip.
• 14:01 [sirens wailing]
• 14:04 [explosions]
• 14:11 We’re in the midst of turmoil and strife, yet they’re
• 14:13 not afraid.
• 14:15 They’re worshiping God.
• 14:16 Yet we, during this time of the COVID lockdowns, we were
• 14:18 so afraid.
• 14:20 We were so fearful.
• 14:21 We were willing to surrender every liberty in order for
• 14:23 government to keep us safe instead of trusting in the God
• 14:26 of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who could keep us safe.
• 14:30 Joshua: Guys, we, as the church, have been sleep for too long.
• 14:32 Doom is coming.
• 14:34 Babylon is coming, not straight from Baghdad, but spiritual
• 14:36 Babylon, one that is going to manifest itself in this
• 14:40 wicked Antichrist.
• 14:42 Joel 2:28 says, “And it shall come to pass afterwards That I
• 14:45 will pour out My Spirit on all flesh: And your sons and your
• 14:47 daughters shall prophesy, And your old men shall dream dreams,
• 14:51 And your young men shall see visions.”
• 14:54 Joshua: When I was growing up, I used to love to read about the
• 14:57 powerful moves of God in the past, the men and women who are
• 14:59 used to have prophetic words, to see healings, to have literal
• 15:04 towns and cities changed for God.
• 15:06 I used to always dream about being in one of those time
• 15:10 periods and eras.
• 15:11 We were actually blessed that we were able, at our age, to be in
• 15:15 the presence and in the ministry of some powerful men and women
• 15:18 of God before they passed on to heaven.
• 15:20 We got to experience the literal, tangible presence of
• 15:23 God, see the healings and the prophecies that take place in
• 15:27 the Bible happen in real life right in front of our eyes, so
• 15:30 we never had to question any of those things.
• 15:33 That was not just an isolated movement.
• 15:36 God wants that to be an everyday form of life for us.
• 15:40 But what is the responsibility for that?
• 15:42 Are we gonna see that power of God come back in our lives?
• 15:45 Are we going to see that flow with us?
• 15:46 That responsibility of us is to get the sin out.
• 15:50 God and sin, they can’t commune.
• 15:53 If he is not in your presence, it’s because there’s something
• 15:56 that you had allowed in your life that he is opposed to.
• 16:00 It is our responsibility to get that out.
• 16:03 Can you imagine if every believer on this planet took on
• 16:07 the mantle of Josiah?
• 16:09 If every man, woman, and child said, “It’s my responsibility to
• 16:12 get the sin out of my life.”
• 16:14 I’m not worried about your life or your life or your life,
• 16:15 but I’m gonna make sure that my life is clean of everything.
• 16:18 All of a sudden, millions of us, empowered by the Holy Spirit,
• 16:22 because we’ve got all of the sin out of our life.
• 16:24 What a formidable force that would be.
• 16:27 But until that day, and until that moment that we collectively
• 16:30 in unity say, “I don’t care what anybody else is doing, but as
• 16:34 for me and my house, we will serve the Lord,” then we’re not
• 16:38 going to see that outpouring of his Holy Spirit, and there’s not
• 16:41 much time left.
• 16:43 Today is the day.
• 16:44 Get the sin out and commune with God.
• 16:50 [singing in Hebrew]
• 17:00 Caleb: Hear, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, and
• 17:05 you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with
• 17:09 all of your soul, and with all your strength.
• 17:15 Caleb: Hello, everyone.
• 17:16 I’m here with Mel Bond of Mel Bond Ministries.
• 17:19 You even have a television show, “Last Day Signs and Wonders.”
• 17:22 Thank you for joining us today.
• 17:24 Joshua: Before–before I let this gentleman talk, we’re
• 17:26 talking 50 years of ministry, not just here, but all over the
• 17:30 world, and I have been blessed to have been in his meetings
• 17:33 more than once, to watch him online in person, even to have a
• 17:37 phone call from him, where I said, “Pastor, my shoulder is
• 17:40 hurting,” and he prayed, and God showed him what was happening
• 17:43 with my shoulder.
• 17:44 He showed him, like, an actual attack spiritually, and he
• 17:46 prayed over it, and it went like that.
• 17:47 So, I’m so excited for you guys to meet him today and to hear
• 17:50 what he has on his heart for where we’re at right now.
• 17:55 Mel Bond: I’ve–I’ve spent my–my life in the Word of God,
• 18:01 and I’ve got some knowledge here that I want people to know.
• 18:05 I want ’em to know my daddy the way I know him.
• 18:09 And–and it’s the goodness of God that will lead people to
• 18:12 repentance, that they’ll just automatically repent, and that’s
• 18:15 what needs to be done in the United States strong today, but
• 18:20 they’re not.
• 18:22 True repentance isn’t gonna come until–until they discover the
• 18:25 love of God.
• 18:26 The love of God leadeth thee to repentance.
• 18:29 That’s who God is.
• 18:31 He is love.
• 18:32 He is unconditional love.
• 18:34 That’s not part of his character.
• 18:36 That is–that’s–I mean, he–and he says, “I’m the same
• 18:40 yesterday, today, and forever.”
• 18:41 There’s a host of verses that validate that same statement
• 18:44 that God has always been unconditional love.
• 18:47 He always will be, and when we start discovering that, we’re
• 18:52 filled with the fullness of God.
• 18:54 Caleb: And I think it’s interesting ’cause we’ve been
• 18:56 talking about Josiah.
• 18:57 He reformed the kingdom, and–and yes, this was in the
• 19:01 age of a law, and a lot of it was–was with a rod of iron, if
• 19:05 you will.
• 19:06 You know, it was–it was forceful.
• 19:08 He had to destroy everything.
• 19:09 He had to remove it.
• 19:10 And yes, he did offer love, and he said, “People, bring your
• 19:13 love gifts, and we’ll repair the temple,” and things like that.
• 19:17 But then, when you see when those leaders died, then the
• 19:19 people would fall again into sin.
• 19:21 They weren’t taught that true love of God.
• 19:24 They were looking for the God in the clouds who was ready to
• 19:26 punish them if they messed up.
• 19:28 But today is being taught this self-help doctrine in which
• 19:32 everybody still, like the Jews of old, trying to earn their
• 19:36 salvation, trying to earn that love, and because it’s so far
• 19:40 unattainable, they don’t even read the Word of God, and they
• 19:42 don’t know the truth that it’s by love, that it’s a free gift.
• 19:46 Mel: It makes it simple.
• 19:48 And one of the things that I’ve found over the years that if
• 19:51 it’s not simple, it’s not God.
• 19:54 You know, Jesus said, Matthew 18:3, he says, “Unless you
• 19:57 become as a little child, you can’t enter the kingdom
• 19:59 of heaven.”
• 20:00 He wasn’t talking about the abode of God, because earlier,
• 20:03 that was Matthew 18, Matthew 6, he taught his disciples, taught
• 20:08 us, “Pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is
• 20:13 in heaven.”
• 20:14 You know, in earth–in heaven, nobody’s missing no body parts.
• 20:17 They’re not missing eyes, not missing arms and legs, and so,
• 20:22 you gotta be like a little child to believe that.
• 20:25 Love never fails.
• 20:27 I wrote a little mini-book called “Unimaginable Love,” and
• 20:31 I take Ephesians 3:19 and that word, “know,” and I expounded
• 20:35 the whole book what that word “know” means.
• 20:37 And that word “know,” to know the love of Christ that passes
• 20:41 all knowledge, it has more meanings than just to
• 20:44 know intellectually.
• 20:45 First you have to know it intellectually, but then you
• 20:48 read the Bible and you learn to talk words of love.
• 20:52 You have actions of love.
• 20:53 You think love.
• 20:55 You–in other words, you’re driving down the highway and
• 20:58 some guy gives you this hand signal and it’s not like this,
• 21:02 you know.
• 21:04 Joshua: There’s only one of ’em selected at that moment, right?
• 21:05 Mel: And so, that’s when you react in love.
• 21:10 You don’t act naturally what you wanna do, you know.
• 21:15 When people discover the unconditional love of God in
• 21:18 their life, their “want tos” change.
• 21:22 You know, even–now, this sounds a little gross, but it’s in the
• 21:25 Bible in 1 Peter, where it says, “The person that goes into sin
• 21:29 is like the dog eating his vomit.”
• 21:32 And the greatest pleasures that this world has to offer is vomit
• 21:38 compared to what God has.
• 21:40 The pleasures of holiness outrules the best–the greatest
• 21:48 pleasures this world could ever offer.
• 21:52 And so, when we–when we discover the great depths of how
• 21:56 much God loves you–I remember several years ago, that it
• 21:59 was–I was 39 years of age, and I went to heaven.
• 22:03 I had seen Jesus.
• 22:05 Just to make a long story short, that I was walking down the
• 22:08 street, and I was talking to different people I’ve seen.
• 22:11 Then I heard–it was probably about–maybe about 100 feet in
• 22:15 back of me, I’m walking down this road, and I heard my
• 22:18 name, “Mel!”
• 22:20 I turned and it was Jesus, and he had brown eyes just like
• 22:24 you guys.
• 22:25 Caleb: Yes, we look like Jesus.
• 22:27 Mel: And he come kind of trotting to me with his arms out
• 22:30 like this, and he put his arms around me and hugged me, and he
• 22:33 says, “Oh, so good to see you.”
• 22:35 And he made me feel–I’ll never forget this.
• 22:39 Any time i have a hard–I’m going through a hard time, I
• 22:43 remember, I go back and think of this.
• 22:45 He made me feel like I was his best friend, like there was
• 22:49 nobody else in–in existence but me, that he loved me.
• 22:54 And it’s–and it’s–it’s the goodness of God that these
• 22:57 people repentance.
• 23:00 ♪♪♪
• 23:02 ♪♪♪
• 23:10 ♪♪♪
• 23:20 Mike Ferland: You know, guys, when I first started as a senior
• 23:23 pastor, I had a mentor who taught me so many things, but
• 23:26 one of the things he focused on was the importance of God’s
• 23:29 Word, spending time in God’s Word, spending time in prayer,
• 23:32 and he said that he can always see.
• 23:35 He’s like, “Show me your schedule and your checkbook.”
• 23:38 He’s like, “And I will show you what’s really, truly important
• 23:41 to you.”
• 23:42 And it’s like, man, you know, we can get into idolatry
• 23:46 really easily.
• 23:47 Whenever we put something– idolatry really is just putting
• 23:51 something–making it more important than God.
• 23:53 Ryan Economy: Yeah, I mean, I can relate to a modern-day
• 23:55 example with when I was in college.
• 23:58 I probably put a little too much time into video games.
• 24:01 Sorry, Dera.
• 24:03 Or even modern-day, like, present day when I put too much
• 24:06 time into a beautiful, beautiful beard, someone else’s beard, but
• 24:12 things that take you away from reading the Bible or putting
• 24:14 more focus into diving into the Word, sharing your faith with
• 24:18 others, things like that can definitely–can, like Mike
• 24:22 said, take you away from what God is having us do, so.
• 24:27 Joshua: First time period in history we can exist completely
• 24:31 autonomous of anyone else in person with us.
• 24:34 We have at our disposal, through the internet, access to every
• 24:37 form or fashion of entertainment and information across
• 24:41 this world.
• 24:42 And while we don’t like to use the word “idol” today because it
• 24:44 seems like an overly religious, overly controlling word, what
• 24:48 God simply means is “That which you crave time with more than
• 24:52 me, I want you separated from,” because he’s a jealous God and
• 24:57 he wants you solely for him.
• 25:00 Does that mean you hide yourself in your prayer closet and never
• 25:03 go out again?
• 25:04 No, it’s not about that.
• 25:05 It’s about prioritizing that relationship, and that goes
• 25:07 for anything.
• 25:08 And what people don’t understand is that goes for even family.
• 25:11 This is not about abandoning your family.
• 25:13 This is not about abandoning your responsibilities.
• 25:15 This is about you cannot be the person God’s called you to be,
• 25:18 to be the head of a household, to be that family member you
• 25:21 do–the husband, wife, anything else–and God isn’t the one you
• 25:24 prioritize, and anyone else you put in that place, they’ve
• 25:27 become an idol to you.
• 25:28 God says, “We can’t have that.”
• 25:30 Caleb: Next time you see the– Josiah, when he finally, you
• 25:33 know, found the book of the Law, he went running full speed ahead
• 25:37 at destroying all the idols, and God relented from bringing the
• 25:40 judgment that he’d promised on the kingdom of Judah.
• 25:44 Now, I see, other than Josiah, I see three other times of
• 25:47 scripture that really resonate with me that when man moved the
• 25:51 heart of God because of his humility, because of
• 25:53 his repentance.
• 25:55 You know, Moses stood in the way of God wiping out the entire
• 25:59 Israelites because they sinned against him.
• 26:01 He said, “Moses, step away.
• 26:02 I’m gonna wipe these people out.”
• 26:04 He said, “O God, you’re too good.
• 26:05 These are your people.”
• 26:07 And he changed the heart of God.
• 26:09 We see Hezekiah.
• 26:10 He was about to die.
• 26:11 God said, “You’re gonna die, sorry,” and he repented, and
• 26:15 then, and really humbled himself before God, and God gave them an
• 26:17 extra 15 years.
• 26:19 And most importantly, we see that with the Gentiles.
• 26:21 God loves the Gentile people.
• 26:23 Nineveh repented before God and God gave them literally 100
• 26:28 extra years of time.
• 26:30 So if this was the Old Testament, mean God, you know,
• 26:34 without the grace that we have with Yeshua now, how much more
• 26:36 does he want to give us that second chance?
• 26:40 And we have that opportunity today.
• 26:42 You have the opportunity today to repent and burn all the idols
• 26:46 in your life, physically.
• 26:47 I’ve known people that just get a bonfire together and burn all
• 26:50 the idols, all the sin, all the perversion that you’ve allowed
• 26:53 in your lifetime, not your family, not your family.
• 26:56 So you can do that today in whatever way the Holy Spirit
• 27:00 leads you to do it.
• 27:01 And so we invite you to take that step and be the Josiah in
• 27:05 your home and lead your family in the ways of righteousness.
• 27:08 And as you go, don’t forget to sha’alu shalom Yerushalayim.
• 27:12 Joshua: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
• 27:19 Joshua: In a world where sin runs rampant and idolatry is
• 27:22 your afternoon cup of tea, only one man has the courage to stand
• 27:27 up and blow it all to smithereens.
• 27:30 This summer, at your local cineplex, witness the ruggedly
• 27:33 handsome, supernaturally muscular physique of a 20 year
• 27:36 old king who refuses to bow to your golden calf.
• 27:40 Meet King Josiah, idol smasher.
• 27:44 Caleb: Josh, it’s a book, not a movie.
• 27:47 Joshua: Oh.
• 27:49 Get this amazing companion guide to our hit series, “Josiah and
• 27:53 the Last Reformation,” with the epic book, “Josiah and the
• 27:56 Last Reformation.”
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• 28:27 And as always, pray for the peace of Jerusalem.