Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Evangelist Scott Pauli.

Today we are on a journey through Scripture.

We hope you'll join us as we make 66 stops through each book of the Word of God.

Have you watched the news lately? I must tell you that sometimes when I watch the news, I get a little

discouraged. It's bad news after bad news, after bad news. One of the great dangers of watching

too much news, frankly, is that we get our eyes on the national scene.

Someone says, well, shouldn't we look at the national scene? Of course we should.

We should keep up with current events. We should pray for our nation. We should be aware of what's

going on around us and a part of so many things. And yet, one of the dangers of looking at the national

picture is forgetting the personal one.

For example, national problems come because of personal problems. National victories are won

through personal victories. National revival can only come from personal revival. When you come to

a book like Second Kings, where our journey takes

us to today, it's easy to look at the national picture, to see a nation, to see kings and kingdoms

and see an empire, but neglect the message of the Holy Spirit to your own soul. May I say to you,

these things are given for our examples, the scripture says.

In other words, God shows us these nations and their disruption and their disobedience

so that we will learn from it.

It's easy to spot another man's sin, but sometimes it's hard to spot our own. Oh, my friend, it's time

that all of us take a long, hard look at our own lives. It's easy for me to get angry and anxious

about the wickedness and darkness all around me. But what about the darkness creeping into my own

soul? Well, that's the message God has for us in the book of Second Kings.

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