All right now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but it's never

too late to start and we're in this together. This is the Join the Journey podcast.

Thanks for joining. My name is Parker Pirmrose. I'm subbing in for Emma Daughter today. We're going to

be reading Second Chronicles 19 through 23. Let's jump in. As I read through

kings and now chronicles, and as the story moves between different kings, I can find myself thinking,

yes, a good king, or no, not another wicked king. And I think it's revelatory of the truth that

I and we are all desperate for a good king.

Some of us look to ourselves to fill that role. Others look to worldly leaders, but we're all

clamoring for a good king. And today, I want to focus on the three wicked rulers in these passages

and how they point to the ultimate and final good king king jesus first up

is johorum among johorum's many failings as king which include killing his brothers leading the

nation and worship of false gods and generally leading the nation and doing what is evil in the side of the

lord jehorum sin left his people vulnerable to attack.

Second Chronicles 2111 says Jehoram led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into Hortem and made Judah go astray.

In verse 17 reads,

And the Philistines came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house.

And also his sons and

his wives so that no son was left to him except jehoah has his youngest son and so under king jehoram

we see that no one is safe because of his sin his people are vulnerable to the attacks of his enemies

now comparatively here's what jesus in John 10, 28 through 29.

I give my people eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

My father, who has given them to me, is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of the

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