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Second Kings chapter 25, verse 21.

So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.

This is one of the most important in a sense verses in all the Old Testament and the story of God's people

when what God had promised came true.

God had said over and over again through prophet after profit.

If you do not walk in my ways, obey my commandments, repent of your sin, turn to me,

then I will drive you out of this land, the promised land that I have led you to and provided for you.

I will drive you out as a picture of my loving, holy, judgment, and discipline.

And it's that last word I really want to camp out on discipline.

This is a picture of God saying to his people, I love you and I desire your good and your good is found in obedience to me.

That's why I give you my word so that you might follow it and live and experience life.

God had promised blessing over and over

and over again as the reward, the fruit of obedience to him. And yet God had said all the way back,

like so many pages before and so many places and times in the Old Testament, if you disobey me, it will not be good for you. And here in

2nd Kings chapter 25, they are finally driven out of the land into exile. And as we read that

verse, I just want to encourage you today, even as I want to encourage myself in a sense, obedience is good.

And God loves us so much that he will discipline us out of his love when we turn from that which is good for us. And I just want to encourage you,

part of me wishes I could just look you in the eye, even as I need people looking me in the

eye saying this, obedience to God is good. Obedience to God is good. Trust in God is always,

always, always good. Trust him and obey him. Do not trust yourself and do not

disobey him. It always leads to destruction and there's an adversary who wants your

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