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First Kings chapter 22, verse 14. But Maciah said, as the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me,

that I will speak. Oh, that's a really good verse. So this messenger comes to Micaiah, the prophet,

on behalf of Ahab, and says in the verse right before this,

hey, these other prophets are speaking favorably to the king, so we want you to speak favorably to

him also. And Micaiah responds and says, as the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak. In other words, if it's favorable,

that's what I'll say. If it's not favorable, that's still what I'll say. My job is to tell you

what the Lord says, regardless of what you want to hear or want me to say to the king.

And as I think about that, well, my mind goes in many different directions, certainly to those who

have the responsibility of preaching God's word in the church.

I will never forget first day in preaching class in seminary when my mentor in ministry, Jim Shattuck said,

if you're going to stand up and say, thus says the Lord, you better know what the Lord says.

And the responsibility that I or others have when we are teaching in the church to make sure we are teaching what God has said,

not what people want to hear. So I encourage us to pray based on 1st Kings 2214 for those who

teach God's word and to be discerning to make sure in the church you are hearing

what God has said and you can see it in his word and not just listening to what someone thinks

or maybe even what you would like to hear. And then a second direction I want to encourage us

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