Jase Robertson

And by the time you get to the two sons, which Rehoboam was supposed to be the king, and it splits to Jeroboam, who then takes the top ten tribes of Israel into the abyss, and they never come back.

I mean, they never have a good king.

They're old for however many it was, 20-something.

Well, they would try to reform, which was good, but they couldn't get there.

And I think God has been showing the whole time it was never going to happen until the Lord came.

That's true.

Because it was rooted...

in this falsehood, this hypocrisy that James is talking about, this acting.

And it got worse and worse and worse.

And it's so much so that when Jesus has the conversation with the woman,

at the well in John 4, she's a Samaritan.

Remember, her whole basis of understanding goes back to just what we're talking about.

Because that's where it happens.

Samaria is where Jeroboam set up these false idolatry and everything that happened back from that point forward.

And even then, Jesus said, there's always been a plan that it wouldn't be this mountain or it wouldn't be the other mountain.

It wouldn't be this kingdom or the other kingdom.

It would always be my kingdom.

So just as an overview, this is what you get back to.

When I was thinking about this text today, and I wasn't sure we were going to be where we are, but I was thinking about the movie.

Speaking of actors, I was thinking about the movie The Natural.