Address—Paul Hadley
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Start with #122.
122.
Last reverses.
May every.
Man die around his life.
All granddaughter of God, you'll be alive.
And Father, we're about to, my word, raise the fellow, open it to us.
Read Thou bless each soul here.
Help.
Myself to speak well of thee and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Yes, my blessing, the name of your Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Thank you for your Amen, I appreciate it.
Amen is umm.
Words. That means let it be. But he just asked for it. Let it, let it be.
So you all pray with me.
Appreciate that. I'm gonna pray again though.
And I'm going to.
Read read the prayer from my prayer book here.
One of the nice things about prayer.
Saying Amen. Is that the voice of the assembly, just like singing as the voice of the assembly? And so the ladies sing.
No sound to the assembly.
They sing because it's the voice of the same, but it's not their voice.
Same thing As for Amen.
Appreciate it.
Any of the sisters that said Amen to that prayer? Bummer. We pray again now.
Lord.
But where's my mouth?
The meditation of my heart acceptable, and I say the Lord.
My strength, my Redeemer. Amen.
Want us to turn to First Peter Chapter 3?
To start with.
I have in mind to consider some of the kings of Judah.
But.
In view of this, I'm about to read.
First Peter, chapter 3.
Verse 15 goes like this.
The sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.
Now the rest of that verse is nice. I want you to ignore it for now.
Because if we get fixated on the last half of the verse.
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You will miss what I have in mind. Bring before you today.
There are, umm, lots of translations, of course, and.
Like to refer to Mr. Kelly's translation in this because I think it really brings out the thought.
Of this passage and it would go something like this.
The sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts.
Set aside Christ, says Lord in your hearts.
Now there's lots of Christians out there. He walked out in the street and said, are you a Christian? They say yes, I go to church every Sunday or.
Every year or whatever.
I named the Christians.
There are those who.
Have accepted the Lord as a sacred. I hope everybody in this room is in that category.
And so they've accepted Christ as a savior.
That's better than just saying you're a Christian by name.
But there's something beyond that.
That is this.
Call him Lord. That means he's in charge of your life. He's your master. He's the one you're following. Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Yeah, there's one more stage beyond calling him Lord that's doing it in your heart.
Let's give a heart. Give your heart the desire to follow him. That's like what Daniel did. He purpose in his heart and not to find himself by the King's meat.
He made a commitment. He was going to follow his God no matter what. Might have to eat the this.
Holsters.
Or food all his life. But he wasn't going to file himself for the kings. And they he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself. And you know what? When he did that.
Feel the sunset. You know I'm going to do the same thing. If you purpose in your heart, follow the Lord, it's going to affect other people.
This is what we need. We need you and me, the purpose in our hearts.
Set aside Christ as Lord in our hearts. The purpose in our hearts followed Him regardless of whatever else.
And then Ezra, he did the same thing.
Tells us in the book of Ezra.
Uh, I'm gonna that he prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do it and the chief Israel statutes and judgments.
They prepared his heart.
This is something that requires a little bit of commitment, a little bit of effort. It doesn't necessarily just happen, you know?
He prepared his heart. So I'd like for you to take a look at this verse that we just just read in first Peter. Put your eyeballs on that and.
I hope that somebody in this room might today.
Say I am sanctifying Christ as Lord in my heart today.
You know there is.
A. There's a passage in the book of Chronicles, and you don't need to turn to it, is what David said to the.
To, uh, people.
He said.
Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day under the Lord?
There's Chronicles 29 and verse 5.
I As I say, I'd like you to look carefully at this passage that we've read in First Peter and think about it.
And perhaps you will be one of those who will be willing this day to consecrate himself under the work of the Lord.
I'll be turning into other passages.
As they go, think about some of the kings, some of them purposed in their heart, compared their hearts, these one of them that says he didn't do that.
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You don't need to follow along. You don't need to put. I put put marks in my Bible places I want to turn and I don't want to wait for you to find them.
That's perfectly fine with me if you close your Bibles and just listen. Or maybe you want to look at it, but, uh, I'd rather have you listen.
Then spend your whole time flipping through your pages.
So we have the kings of Judah.
There was salt.
The People's Choice.
I'm tall and handsome. People's Choice.
David, he was the king after God's own heart, it says. And as we heard yesterday, he found.
Favor with God.
What a wonderful thing that would be if you could find favor with God today.
You could.
Live your life in such a way that you would find favor with God. God has such ability to bless you and me.
It's immeasurable.
His resources, he has ways that he works behind the scenes to bring about that which is good for you and for me. Well, for me we could.
Get into the favor of God in our lives. What a difference would make it in every life if.
If you get into his favor, like David.
So, David?
Thursday, Warrior came.
Yes, son, he was Solomon, king of peace. Solomon. The name is derived from the Hebrew word of peace, Shalom. Shalom, a man, Solomon.
But when he was, when Solomon was born, Nathan the prophet sends to David, and he says.
His name is Jedediah.
Jedediah.
He loved in the Lord is what Jedediah means.
Oh, you know, you and I, each one or beloved of the Lord.
Yeah, perhaps all entered into it properly and Solomon didn't kind of forgot it later in life, but.
He was blessed. He was blessed of the Lord with wisdom and riches and glory.
His beloved of the Lord. Just a little bit of a taste of what God could do for someone.
I don't mean that you and I are gonna get rich in this world.
But it's observable, a taste of what God can do to bless somebody that he loves. He loved the Lord like Daniel two. He was called the love of the Lord.
Oh man, greatly beloved. What a title.
When you say something.
We could be called Oh man, greatly throughout.
Well, what a great start that was for the people of Israel.
With uh.
David and Solomon start off that Kingdom.
So then Solomon has a son.
We'll bring a bone.
I wanna read you something about Ray alone.
Send miracles.
And uh.
It says in the second Chronicles 12 and verse four that he did evil because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.
So this is the king that I was Speaking of that.
Specifically says he did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.
So what happened in the grain of a ray of bone?
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Was he blessed like Solomon? We all know he wasn't.
We can find that and that the reign of Ray of Om.
Well, first of all, he presumed upon the goodness of God.
We can rest on the goodness of God. It's a wonderful thing.
I don't believe we ought to ever presume upon it.
Ray of Allen thinks all this stuff is coming to me regardless of what I do.
Like the Christian who says.
We invited Romans 6 up. I can send.
Regardless of what I do, it just brings more glory to God if he saves me. That's why I read a bomb was.
We presume that all this stuff is coming to him by inheritance. Doesn't matter how he treats his people, he's gonna play the tough guy and so.
Refined that there was division amongst the people of God and the 10 tribes revolted.
And uh, Ray of Own decides, well, I'm gonna fix that. I'll show them I got in my armies and we're gonna go down and fight and we're gonna get them back. They are gonna be under my phone.
But what we find, and I'll read it out of the first CRE first Kings 12 is that umm.
The the word was sent away along. Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren. The children of Israel return every man to his house, for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord, and return to depart according to the word of the Lord.
The division was from God.
I've been in places where I've heard.
Brother, who was promoting and encouraging division amongst the people of God, referred to this verse. This thing is from me.
Why was it from me?
If you want to find out why, you have to go back a chapter.
That in Chapter 11 and verse 30.
Uh, 33.
When?
I was told to Jeroboam that he would have parted the Kingdom. The reason was given because that they have forsaken me and have worshipped Asterisk, the goddess of Zaidonians, Chimoshans the God of Moabites, and Milton the God of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways to do that which is right in my eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments as to David his father.
The reason it was from me is because idol worship had crept in amongst the people of God. It wasn't because God wanted his people to be separated.
Ray of Balm allowed that.
Solomon had allowed it.
And then in fact, I say encouraged it because of his wives.
So we have Rhea Bone, the king of division.
Because of idol worship and because he had not prepared his heart, said the Lord.
Al Raybhom has a bizarre abyss, has a son, and ASA has a different solution to this problem. What do we do about this division?
They call them enemies.
Their enemies and it says that ASA and Beisha had war all their days.
People of God who are not with us are not our enemies.
They're brothers and sisters in Christ and we don't have war with them all our days.
They're brothers.
Then it comes to Jehoshaphat.
Jehoshaphat and I like Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat had a heart for all the people of God.
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He lived at the same time as King of the Earth, the northern Kingdom, that King Ahab.
And the same time as Elijah.
The Northern Kingdom was ungodly and was an ungodly man.
Introduced idolatry officially into the people of God. Officially it was idolatry all along, you can see, but officially he made it the UMM.
Worship of Baal in the Northern Kingdom thanks to his evil wife Jezebel from Sidon. And uh, she brought the idolatry with them.
But Jehoshaphat did love all the people of God, and I like that about him.
But you know what? He did it. He made mistakes.
Pray as long as I could force the unity.
Hey Sir, thought you could.
Hi there. He, he called that, uh, called the people I work with them enemies.
Josiah Fat though may compromises in order to make a fake unity. Some of it might say like amalgamation.
And so you have the fat.
He goes where they have to battle.
And he?
He says that they have. I am as you are. My people are as your people. My horses are as your horses.
And he makes the unequal yoke. And during battle.
Ahab and it almost cost of his life.
It almost cost him his life. He was. They have.
Hide himself amongst the people and to where his kingly garments and that made him a target.
That's a large scale because the Lord did lovely.
The hospital does the same thing a little bit later on with one of they have children.
I named.
So, uh, it's our own.
Jehoram or Joram the same name.
Durham, uh, says Jehoshaphat.
You know, uh, we need to go fight Moab because they've got rhemophilia.
And that belongs to us.
Just just the same thing to him as he said to to his father, he says I am as that one.
My people are black people. My horses as your horses, they go down around the South at the the Dead Sea. Into the desert they go.
Where the they're about to die.
From thirst, there's no water.
Those 3 Kings that gathered together, they had no hope. Fortunately, Elijah was there at that time.
But he wouldn't have listened to him apart from.
The fact that you have stopped there and he delivered them.
There is alliance where they have and that will almost cost him his life, his alliance with Joram.
And battle all those customers, hold his whole army.
They have another son, a Josiah.
He only rang for a year because he fell through the lattices, remember? And uh.
And he made an alliance with him also another unequal yoke.
To go on like a commercial adventures.
This kind of customer shifts.
So we almost lost his life, he almost lost his army, he did lose his ships from his unequal yokes in battle and his unequal yokes in commercial things.
Worst of all, they did.
Was he aligned himself in marriage?
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Marriage is such a wonderful thing.
We're talking about the marriage the other day, Thursday night, and I hope I we didn't leave any of the young men in women under the impression that you ought not to seek a wife.
One of the young brothers, after a meeting pointed out something that he should have kind of pointed out during the meeting, at least pointed out after that, and it says he would find it in white. Like a good thing. It involves seeking.
Remember what the Lord said.
Remember what God said.
Not good for men to live alone.
And seek your Good Wife. Pray about it.
Intelligent.
Finance, the one that will bless your life.
What did your house affected?
He decides to in order to join the kingdoms. Better Together, friendly things. Let's make a marriage.
I think it would be nice, he says to himself.
I don't know what he said, but uh, I imagine what he said himself.
Let's make an alliance. You have a nice daughter there, uh, Athelia and I've got my son here is about to ring. Let's, uh, turn together.
Chicopee Green, my son could be king and.
Uh, it won't fine.
Ahab had a curse on him.
November.
What do I just sent to him?
Every one of your male children.
They're gonna die.
Those that die in the field, they'll be eaten by the birds.
Die in the city. They're going to be eaten by the dogs. Your wife, Jezebel.
The dogs are going to lick her blood.
Itself.
Was under that curse also.
Do you know what Jehoshaphat did? He married him to a curse. He married his son into a curse.
Oh, how great a thing a marriage is.
Stand up watching Chimney and so many others.
Then I can see some others where what a catastrophe in their life it was.
You know, there's, uh.
Interesting thing about the word's genealogy if you look at it in Matthew One. You don't have to do it again if you look in.
That genealogy.
You'll find that sticks of Joseph.
I guess I should have told you this already. Tell them it's a little confusing because Joseph had named his son Joseph.
They have named his son Jotham also.
It's even more confusing because after Akhenziah dies, that's just older brother.
He always doesn't move. The son of Jehoshaphat named him after his brother-in-law, so he got a lot of names that are kind of hard to start out there, but anyway.
So if you read in the genealogy of the Lord.
Says Chosen. He got Isaiah.
What happened?
There's three people missing there. Joseph's son was Ahaziah. Eziah, he got Joash, the seven-year old king. Joash, we got Emoziah, Amazon, we got Messiah. So it's 33 generations. Skip there. What a goof up the revival, huh? What's that all about?
We find goof ups. We always find there's a beautiful thing about it.
Tell you what that's all about.
If we were to read in Exodus 20.
Uh, it says in the 10 commandments.
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Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord thy God, of a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the 3rd and 4th generation.
Of them that hate me, they have.
Was the one who introduced idolatry officially through the Kingdom of Israel, the northern Kingdom, and he was visited to the third and the 4th generation because he hated God. He might say he.
Put God out of his life.
And.
Introduced idolatry instead.
So that third and 4th generation.
And Isiah? Joe asked. You actually a good team?
That 7 year old boy is a good king. And Wasiah, Joashimi, Hesiah. No, here's the order. And Hosiah, Josh and Embezziah, they're struck in that struck out the official genealogy of the Lord, as they were descendants of the one who introduced idolatry into the Kingdom of Israel.
Well, as far away it's reaching effects of uh.
Sam, it's amazing how we can be blessed Oh if we kick our feet against the ****** and resist God is equally amazing how things can go in the opposite direction so bad.
That's what happened to.
And Messiah's son.
Isaiah was greatly blessed.
He was.
It was.
There's a great king. It says that. In fact, it says that he repaired his heart. I believe it's one of the ones that prepared his heart.
Umm.
And serve the Lord.
And he?
Prospered.
Every direction he went he prospered and the the Lord blessed them and enriched them.
That tells us in Chronicles that it's not in other things. That's in Chronicles, but.
Went into.
The temple of the Lord and wanted to offer incense.
What time?
You know the story.
And.
And there was the priest that stood up.
Others with tell them that this is not for you. OK, did you?
What did he do? Get a chance? You had a moment like Chris said, I was wrong.
More side effects.
But to read in the Bible that what happened instead of that?
He was rough, and while he was raw, leprosy started to.
Oh boy, how God can dress. And he did dress. They uh, he did bless as I am so much.
He had prepared his heart to serve the Lord.
But tells us in chronicles that when he was lifted up and I think he had like the second longest reign of the king of all the kings of Judah, 52 years.
Uh.
And.
You started out at, I think at age 16, guys at 67 and, uh, or something like that and.
I suspect that all this prosperity.
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Everything went so well, eventually got to went to his head.
Probably laid in his wife. I don't know, maybe he was 63 or four or five.
Uh, there's something that's.
Got it all.
And then he takes a step over.
His bounds and enters.
Priesthood.
Ethics wants to offer instance the leprosy crops upon his head.
Out he goes into a separate house and his son Jotham reigns in his doesn't reign that he's a Regent, which means he's in charge. He takes, he takes charge. Uh.
Because.
This proud man as I am.
How the Lord can humble you and me?
We should tread that.
You see any pride lifting up in our hearts, we should dread the possibility of what could happen next.
So I was so blessed. One thing wrong, gets it, gets it go to his head and he gets humbled down into the House of the luxury girls.
He was a goblin man, I suspect. I suspect it's not said, but I suspect he guided his son Joseph.
Uh, in the reigning of the Kingdom.
And Joseph was a fine king.
Uh, Aziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah are all joined together. Those 4 kings. They're joined together because.
Prophet Isaiah prophesied in the days of those kings.
Three of the best kings.
Of all the history of Israel, or dude, I should say three of the best kings of the history of Judah.
As I am.
Joseph Hezekiah.
There, in the midst of those three, is the one of the most ungothy of all kinds.
You know spirituality is not inherited.
God delights the blessing families, but if you haven't committed your soul to Him, you haven't made a commitment to con or consecrated your life to Him, you could end up like like a house.
And sad to say.
There are many, many.
Children of true believers.
You've gone the way they have.
May none of you pay such.
What does AIS do? First of all, because he's an ungodly person. He's not blessed.
He is in deep, deep trouble.
The northern his neighbor to the north, Syria.
What's the fight with them?
And Syria joins with Israel.
Site with with, uh, with a house.
And they he has in his army are destroyed, says 120,000.
Men of his army died one day, one day 120,000.
And 200,000 are captured and taken away to Israel.
200,000.
Naked.
Published hungry slaves.
Fortunately.
The mercies of God.
Prophet Oded comes and preaches to them, tells them.
With your brother.
That's weird, Slates your brothers, sisters in Christ.
And those 200,000 get sent back home. But it tells us also in the same passage that many multitudes exactly exact words, but many were captured and taken to to uh Syria. So 200,000 that were were captured as slaves for Israel.
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They returned, but the many slaves that were taken.
By the Syrians. They were not returned.
Ray has had a rough time, tells us in Isaiah how that when he heard all about this, that the people's the people were moved like the trees in the wind.
Terror of what was about to come upon them. Every soul was in distress.
What do you think Trouble Ahaz was in? Yeah, you know God would still desire to bless. This is another point that I like to bring out.
God wants to bless you even if you are resisting him. And so we read in Chapter 7 of Isaiah that.
Isaiah was sent to him and told him to ask for a sign.
Heaven above, earth below waters. Ask any sign you want.
Because Isaiah tells them these two firebrands, Syria and Israel, you don't need to worry about that.
As far as Ezra goes, another 65 years from now, they're not even going to be a people.
That was, that was fulfilled.
20 years later they were carried away. Another 45 years into captivity, they lost all their identities.
Or they even have people.
What do they have? Say Oh no, I'm not content the Lord by asking a sign.
We're not necessarily.
Called the astrosigns or put out the places the expression goes.
The Lord occasionally doesn't like to let us know that He's there.
And he does give us little signs from time to time, and he's there.
That he wants to bless.
And they has.
He figured, well, God's not going to do this anyway, so I'm not going to ask him.
Not disabled. He is able.
Hezekiah.
Son of a house.
The son of one of the most ungodly kings, the only one to compete where they has would be Manasseh. Just as a kiosk. Here he is between the two most ungodly kings of Israel he has and Manasseh.
And I think Hezekiah is the one who finally got things right.
Just about.
So I want to read and uh as a try a little bit.
Chronicles. Second Chronicles.
Chapter 30 if you want to look at it.
Oh, 29 is.
Hezekiah 29 verse three. He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors.
The House of the Lord repaired them.
Nice to have a good start. This wasn't just a good start though. Hezekiah was committed to doing this and it was a lifetime thing. We'll see that.
Verse six for our fathers of trespass and done that which is evil. The eyes of the Lord. He recognizes the people that errors. This isn't quite as good as what Daniel said.
Daniel said we are married.
What even went beyond that?
He didn't say we are have Eric put in songs. He speaks of taking upon our sins as his own.
It's easier to save my dad's and then I send.
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Uh, and so, uh, Hezekiah does admit that they had gone wrong, though verse 10 now is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
Now notice it doesn't say the Lord God of Judah. He has a sense that it's.
He is the God of all Israel.
He has a heart for all the people of God, just like Jehoshaphat did.
And so then it goes on and.
1St chapter Umm same chapter verse 30. Moreover, Hezekiah the king and the Princess commanded the Levites to sing praise under the Lord with the words of David and Evasiere, and they sang praises with Gladys, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
And Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near, and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the House of the Lord. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings, and as many as were of a free heart principal.
You know this commitment to the Lord.
This opening of the doors of the House of God.
It brought great joy.
Great worship.
No, Hezekiah.
You would face some of the same problems as his father did.
Overwhelming force coming against him.
You see how it's different reaction we get?
Verse 34 But the priests were too few, so they could not flay all the burnt offerings. Wherefore their brethren Levites to help them till the work was ended, until the other priest had sanctified themselves. For the Libra were more upright in in heart sanctifying themselves than the priests. You know sometimes the leadership of the people of God.
It's just not gonna work. Uh.
No, people thought that children of God have a heart, that they're true believers have a heart for the Lord, and all needs to be brought out a little bit.
They increased.
Didn't have it, didn't have their heart on it very much.
They there were too few because they hadn't sanctified themselves on the Levites helped.
Verse 36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people that God had prepared the people for the thing was done suddenly.
And God is in it. Things can happen quickly.
Chapter 30 In Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the House of the Lord at Jerusalem to keep the Passover under the Lord God of Israel.
The king had taken counsel and his Princess and all the congregation in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
Because they could not keep it at that time, because the priest had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together at truth.
So now go about reading how the Hezekiah.
And his efforts?
Serve the Lord joins all the people of God together, I say.
I think Hezekiah got it right. He did not try to force unity. It could not be forced. It did not count the people of God as enemies and not our enemies. They're brothers, they're sisters. He did not compromise. He had a heart for all God's people, and he created.
Spiritual unity.
Invited them to join in the Passover.
Now the story has been.
Mentioned. We'll skip over most of it.
Just pointing out how that everything is done. Almost so much was done wrongly.
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I mean wrong months.
Priesthood wasn't doing their job. Had to get help from Levites.
And then it turns out that people were coming that wanted to participate in the Passover and they really were not qualified.
They, uh, they haven't satisfied themselves.
So.
Find verse 18 for a multitude of people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh is growing up because everyone had not cleansed themselves yet. Did they eat the Passover otherwise? Then it was written the Hezekiah prayed for them, saying the good Lord pardoned everyone. The part that prepared his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
The Lord hearkened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
You can do it right.
The Lord saw a heart.
And they honored the heart more than the procedure.
This is why I say we need to prepare our sanctify the Lord God.
Sacrifice as Lord your hearts. If only our hearts would be sanctified. Everything else.
Secondary.
What a wonderful time that was. I sometimes wondered, sometimes wondered why they didn't continue and have Passover every year. They did. I think they did, uh, says in chapter 32. After these things and the establishment thereof, it was established that there would be a Passover every year, and I think it was.
You know what?
There's a big problem. It's a Necker comes.
Hezekiah.
He was in trouble, so Nagra was a mighty force.
Overwhelming.
He had the same problem that his dad had.
With the overwhelming force coming in.
And.
They reacted a little differently. You spread this thing out before the Lord.
He went to the source of the real source of strength, and we find that the Lord came in and.
Draw it down to the ground. The mightiest that invading army. Wonderful story. We don't have time to go into that, but, uh.
What a difference between those who did not prepare their heart serve the Lord and those who have prepared those who have consecrated themselves. You know, some have criticized Hezekiah for asking for more time. Should have done it at 15 more years.
And he goes up in those last 15 years.
Now I want to.
OK, OK.
Reverse and in connection with that.
Chapter 32. Verse 23.
Umm Verse 24 In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the Lord, and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign. But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefits, not unto him, For his heart was lifted up, therefore those wrath upon him, upon Judah and Jerusalem.
I want to point out this, there's nothing wrong for Hezekiah and asking for more time. Nothing wrong with that.
But when the Lord answered his prayer.
He was committed then to be different from then on.
If the Lord does something for you, you are now indebted to Him.
It should change your life. The Lord answers my prayer. I have to remember that, and it has to affect my life from then on. That's what it says here. Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him. No criticism for asking for the time.
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But once he got his answer to prayer.
He was responsible to have his life changed from then on.
Instead, you got lifted up in front and then you know the rest of the story. It didn't work out so well.
The Lord had a purpose of blessing tells us that.
Sennacherib came at the same time.
And he was sick. This guy wrote 29 years.
15 years before that means 14 years into his ring at the same time. That's an effort, OK?
Imagine that here he is, a certain Lord of these 14 years. That's a good and uh, now he's sick and he's just not ready to die and an invading army is coming. He has no chance against apart from God.
All this happening at the same time, everything going wrong for him all at once.
God had a purpose of blessing for him.
He wanted him to ask for the extra time and he wanted to bless him in that, and he wanted Hezekiah to respond and have a change of life as a result of this answer.
God has a purpose question for you.
Want to sing Buzzing?
340 I think it is.
3:40.
Under we commend our spirit.
Live.
Sounding and everything was not bad. It's raining.
Our God and Father, we thank you for thou is the purpose of the blessing for each one of us will only.
Well after thee we pray that each one might consecrate our hearts to stays sanctify Christ and Lord in our hearts. We pray that help us and strengthen us to do that.
Yes, that's what's going on in each one. Remember, Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.