David Hellyer - Worship: With a Capital G
Aug 23, 2026 · 39 min · 11 segments
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David HellyerHost
Aug 23, 2026 · 39 min · 11 segments
David HellyerHost
King Jehoiakim's reign in Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
The Lord gave him victory over King Jehoiakim of Judah and permitted him to take some of the sacred objects from the temple of God.
So Nebuchadnezzar took them back to the land of Babylonia, and he placed them in the treasure house of his god." In your little groups, have a look up and down around you and you go, "Anyone else notice that in verse two it said God twice?" Yeah.
It says God, as in the temple of God where the things were taken from, capital G, didn't it? And then it said they were taken to the house of his god, lowercase g.
Lowercase g if you're reading it in, in, in this translation, right? This is important because it's gone from the temple of the capital G God and gone to the little house of the lowercase g god.
Because in this story, this whole book is about a battle between the one true capital G God and those lesser, but real, lowercase g gods.
"Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of staff, to bring to the palace some of the young men of Judah's royal family and other noble families who had been brought to Babylon as captives.
'Make sure they're well-versed in every branch of learning, and gifted with knowledge and good judgment, and are suited to serve in the royal palace.
King Jehoiakim's reign in Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
The Lord gave him victory over King Jehoiakim of Judah and permitted him to take some of the sacred objects from the temple of God.
So Nebuchadnezzar took them back to the land of Babylonia, and he placed them in the treasure house of his god." In your little groups, have a look up and down around you and you go, "Anyone else notice that in verse two it said God twice?" Yeah.
It says God, as in the temple of God where the things were taken from, capital G, didn't it? And then it said they were taken to the house of his god, lowercase g.
Lowercase g if you're reading it in, in, in this translation, right? This is important because it's gone from the temple of the capital G God and gone to the little house of the lowercase g god.
Because in this story, this whole book is about a battle between the one true capital G God and those lesser, but real, lowercase g gods.
"Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of staff, to bring to the palace some of the young men of Judah's royal family and other noble families who had been brought to Babylon as captives.
'Make sure they're well-versed in every branch of learning, and gifted with knowledge and good judgment, and are suited to serve in the royal palace.
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