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First Kings, chapter 22, verse 8.

And the King of Israel said to Jehosh Fatt,

there is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord,

Micaiah, the son of Imla, but I hate him, for he never prophesized good concerning me,

but evil. I want you to think about that statement

that the King of Israel makes about Micaiah.

He never prophesized good concerning me, but evil.

In other words, the King of Israel wants prophets who will tell him what he wants to hear.

And isn't that true in a sense of all of us?

Like, we want people to tell us what we want to hear

oftentimes more than we want people to tell us what God has said.

And we are so foolish to think that our ways are better than God's ways,

that we will look for justification for our ways in all kinds of places.

And attempt to not hear what God is saying to us.

After all, this is why false prophets are so prevalent in the Church, right?

Because they say what people want to hear, even though what they are saying goes against God's word.

And we don't have time to go into all the details here in First Kings, chapter 22,

including a variety of questions that come from this chapter.

But the clear reality of First Kings 22 is that we must be careful to test

what is told us according to God's word in God's spirit.

And it's not just here in First Kings 22, it's all over the New Testament.

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