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2 Kings 19 (Part 2) Bible Study (Hezekiah's Prayer/Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib's Fall) | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Meet me in Second Kings Chapter 19 as we complete this chapter
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  tonight. By the grace of God, many of us
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  have been taught that when we are visited by crisis, we should
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  never hesitate to run to God in prayer.
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  But I'm not sure. How many of us are equally
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  equipped to know how we should pray in crisis?
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  And to our great encouragement, the Holy Spirit provides us
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  guidance in our text this evening as we look at Hezekiah's
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  strong example in this area. Yeah, I'm reminded as I've been
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  studying this this week, of the single incident where the
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  disciples asked the Lord directly to teach them about
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  something. It's found in Luke Chapter 11
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  where they said Lord teach us to pray as John taught his
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  disciples. There was something about the
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  way Jesus prayed, how he prayed, when he prayed, that moved his
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  closest followers to inquire about the mechanics, the motives
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  of true prayer. And I believe that's what the
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  Lord has in store for us tonight.
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  We are going to learn how to pray specifically when we are
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  visited by devastating news, and it's going to be through
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  Hezekiah's example in the beginning of this study.
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  You know, people often ask, how do I seek the Lord effectively,
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  consistently, confidently? And one way that God has given
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  us instruction is by giving us models of prayer.
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  Men and women of God in the Scriptures who have poured out
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  their hearts before the Lord in different situations in order
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  for us to be fully furnished in our understanding of what it
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  means to come before the Lord and his presence to seek his
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  hand. And right from the beginning, we
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  are going to consider 4 essential characteristics of
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  effective prayer when real problems arrive.
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  These are not the only. Characteristics, but key ones,
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  and we're going to see them, I'm sure, by just looking at the
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  first handful of verses in Second Kings 19, beginning in
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  verse 14. Now some of these points are
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  going to serve as reminders, while others might introduce new
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  insights into how we bring our troubles before God.
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  Let's read together Second Kings 19, verse 14.
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  Hezekiah received a letter from the hand of the messengers and
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  read it. And Hezekiah went up to the
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  House of the Lord and spread it before the Lord.
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  And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, O Lord, the God
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  of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You
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  alone of all the kingdoms of the earth.
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  You have made heaven and earth. Incline your ear, O Lord, and
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  hear. Open your eyes, O Lord, and see
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  and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent
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  to mock the living God. Truly, O Lord, the kings of
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  Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands and have
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  cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the
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  work of men's hands, wood and stone.
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  Therefore they were destroyed. So now, O Lord our God, save us
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  please from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
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  know that you, O Lord, our God, alone so powerful. 4 essential
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  features of effective prayer in times of turmoil #1 you and I
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  must acknowledge the majesty. Of God always before Hezekiah
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  speaks about his problems, he fixes his mind on the
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  magnificence of his God. Do we not see it here?
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  I'm afraid that Christians often forget to include this in their
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  prayerful pursuit of relief right away.
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  Hezekiah in verse 15 says, O Lord, the God of Israel, and
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  thrown above the cherim, you are the God.
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  You alone of all the kingdoms of the earth, You have made heaven
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  and earth. Listen, when you and I
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  intentionally confess the attributes of God, that alone
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  contains the power of placing everything in its proper
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  perspective. And there even comes moments
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  where you and I do so, and we are drawn into a time of worship
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  that helps us forget the very fear of frustration that drove
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  us to pray in the 1st place. Has that ever happened to you?
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  But in order for this to be true of us, in order for this to
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  actually succeed in our attempts, we have to understand
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  who God is according to His Word.
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  Your prayers and mine have to be biblically informed, and it is
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  in God's Word alone, as you know, where we are taught who He
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  is. And so I want you to look back
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  at these verses and consider and you can actually answer out loud
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  of some of the things that Hezekiah says that proves that
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  his prayer life was instructed by his understanding of
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  Scripture. What does he say here?
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  What does he highlight about the Lord?
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  Anything stand out to you Again, you're welcome to speak out loud
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  if you're if you're willing, the God of Israel.
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  That is not unimportant. Anything else.
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  OK, there you go. Who is seated above the
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  cherubim? Absolutely anything else he.
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  Acknowledges that God. You are the God of all the
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  kingdoms. You made heaven and earth
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  beautiful, wonderful. Now let's look at these things
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  one by one. When he says God of Israel,
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  again, that's not an insignificant thing.
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  Hezekiah is reminding his own soul that God has a special
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  covenant with the people of Israel, that the people of
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  Israel have this pledge granted to them by the living God.
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  It's an unconditional promise. And one of the most important
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  things about this specific promise is that God assured this
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  people that he would preserve the divinic dynasty
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  unconditionally. And so essentially what Hezekiah
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  is doing from the beginning is that he is setting before his
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  mind at the forefront of his intercession, the faithfulness
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  of God. I am speaking to the God who has
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  made promises and has never broken one of them.
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  What a way to prepare your heart to seek the Lord.
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  What a way to frame your intercession, the God of Israel.
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  But it doesn't end there. Beyond that.
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  Now he says of the same God who is seated where above the
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  cherubim. I know one thing about Hezekiah
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  based on this, that he studied the book of Exodus because in
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  Exodus 2522 we read there that God promised Moses that he would
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  be found seated above the mercy seat between the cherubim.
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  And from that place he would speak to Moses to give him the
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  instructions that he was to give to the people of God.
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  So what is Hezekiah essentially appealing to when he says you
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  are the God who is seated above the cherubim?
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  Well, the cherubim are part of the mercy seat.
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  I believe what this man is doing is reminding himself that he is
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  coming to the Lord, comforting himself that he is making this
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  plea on the basis of God's mercy.
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  That Lord, when you chose to symbolically be enthroned on the
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  earth, you chose the seat of mercy.
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  Now I'm coming to you and asking for mercy when you and I come
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  before God. It is absolutely vital that we
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  recall his heart, even while we entreat his hand, as important
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  as it is to yes, think about his power, his omnipotence, his
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  abilities, Do not disconnect that from his compassion, his
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  tenderness, his kindness. He's not indifferent to us.
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  You see, some people when they come to the Lord and ask Him of
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  anything, they think they have to try to convince God as though
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  God is reluctant, as though God is there with his arms crossed.
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  Isn't my Son Jesus enough for you?
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  Is not the gospel enough for you as much as the gospel
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  sufficient? We learned there that yes, the
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  Lord has given us His Son. How much more than is He willing
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  to give us? And so you have to understand,
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  I'm coming to the one whose heart is for me.
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  He is merciful. He's sympathetic.
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  He invites me to him. I don't have to try to get his
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  attention by persuading him with my string of sentences.
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  All I have to do is come to him and trust that his heart, he,
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  he's a, he's kind to me. And then we.
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  See something else? Because at the same time he does
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  speak of God's power. It's not here though, it's in
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  the parallel account. So we find the same scene not
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  just in Second Kings, we find in Second Chronicles 32, in Isaiah
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  37. But look at Isaiah 37 where the
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  same prayer is recorded. Isaiah 37 verse 15.
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  Yes, the Lord is majestic, not just in His power, but in His
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  willingness to move in our lives.
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  But He does still underline His power.
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  Isaiah 3715. This is not mentioned in the
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  text of Second Kings 15 and 16 reads.
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  And Hezekiah pray to the Lord, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, we
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  cover that, and thrown above the cherubim, we cover that.
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  So what does he add here, O Lord of hosts?
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  What can that be translated as, O Lord of what armies?
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  Angelic armies? So Hezekiah here is
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  intentionally bringing to his own mind something that is
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  relevant to his crisis. Why would he say, oh Lord of
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  hosts, because he's surrounded by an army?
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  It makes sense, and this is something for you and I to
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  consider, that if we want to do our faith any good, we should
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  know how to address God in a way that makes sense to the thing
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  that is before us, the object of our worry, the cause of our
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  frustration. How familiar are you with who
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  God is and all that He is? Do you need encouragement?
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  Well, do you know that in Romans 15, five God is called the God
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  of endurance and encouragement? You and I know about the Holy
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  Spirit, but you also know that. He's called the Spirit of Wisdom
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  and Revelation and Ephesians 117 do you need?
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  Clarity, call upon Him who is the spirit of wisdom and
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  revelation. And so we have to we have to
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  equip ourselves if we're going to come boldly and effectively
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  in the place of prayer, acknowledge the majesty of God.
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  But you have to be informed about it first.
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  And Hezekiah is a biblicist. He's not ignorant of the
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  Scriptures and it fueled his prayer life and a few yours as
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  well. That's just the first
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  characteristic. We now come to the second one.
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  We have to understand that there is an invitation that we must
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  make. For the wisdom of God.
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  And while we make that invitation, we should rest.
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  So here's a way of titling this. Invite and rest in the wisdom of
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  God. That's what we find here in
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  verse 16 of Second Kings 19, after describing who God is and
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  verse 16, he says, incline your ear, O Lord, and hear.
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  Open your eyes, O Lord, and see and hear the words of
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  Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
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  You know what's so beautiful about this invitation?
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  You don't get the sense that Hezekiah has a clue how God is
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  going to solve this situation, nor does he presume to give God
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  step by step ideas of how he should do it.
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  It's as though he's just coming in absolute simplicity.
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  Lord, just look at this, please. Lord, just see this.
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  Please hear this, please. And it doesn't go beyond that.
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  And here's the wonder of this. That's all that was required for
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  God to take action. You know, some of us have an
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  understanding of God as though he is some kind of employer.
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  You know, there's a lot of bosses that ask of their
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  employees, hey, if you have a problem, I don't want you to
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  just approach me with a problem. Come to my desk with what?
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  A solution. That's how some Christians think
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  God is like that. If you're going to come to him,
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  you should put together some plan of action that that you
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  should come prepared, so to speak, with how this should come
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  about. Not so.
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  We're children of the King. You and I have been granted
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  access to the throne of grace, and we can just come and spread
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  our needs before Him and call His attention to it and trust
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  that He will wholeheartedly move on our behalf or give us the
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  wisdom to know how to proceed. Paul tells us that the Spirit
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  helps us in our weakness. We just hear that, I think, OK,
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  yeah, I'm generally weak. No.
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  What kind of weakness is he Speaking of in that place in
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  Romans 826? For we do not know how we ought
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  to pray. We're very weak in prayer, are
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  we not? But we're guaranteed that the
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  Spirit is right there with us, translating every word
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  perfectly, bringing it before God so that nothing is missed.
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  Then, even if our prayers are reduced to size or repetition
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  because you don't know how to eloquently present yourself
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  before the power of God and the might of God and the authority
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  of God, we are, we are comforted to know that He knows exactly
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  what you need. My mind went to King David when
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  he was expelled from his own Kingdom because of Absalom, his
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  son, that rebel. And while he was enduring a
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  whirlwind of emotions, he was being reported to with different
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  updates. And one of the most terrifying
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  updates was that one of his chief counselors, Ahithophel,
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  sided with the rebels. And so weak, so dejected.
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  The only thing that this man could say on his way to safety
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  was, oh Lord, please turn the Council of Ahithophel into
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  foolishness. And God took that and he did
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  much more on behalf of his servant David.
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  He put a permanent end to a thoughtful so.
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  So it's a beautiful thing, is it not, that we can come fumbling
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  and unsure with how we're going to speak about these things.
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  And God calls us to still invite his wisdom and rest in it.
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  Rest in it. Thirdly, be honest before God.
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  1/3 Characteristic of effective prayer and time of crisis.
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  Be honest before God. Look at verse 17.
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  Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste to the
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  nations and their lands. I love that.
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  Yeah, there's some Christians who have very strange ideas
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  about what faith looks like. Faith that pleases God.
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  And to some believers, faith means that you should minimize
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  the severity of a situation, downplay it, maybe even outright
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  deny it. There are many ways that we do
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  this. A common way that I've seen in
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  my own life is that let's say, for example, that there is a
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  doctor, doctor's diagnosis or a report, and it's tragic.
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  You also, you have some believers who will, in their
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  response to faith, rebuke that. And they will even verbally
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  rebuke it, never to revisit it in their thoughts, never to
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  bring it up to anybody else, never to even bring it before
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  God. And that's not what Hezekiah
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  does here. He assesses what this problem
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  entails, how real it is, and he brings it before God in total
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  honesty. And if there's any instruction
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  here, it's it's quite obvious, I think, that this dispels any
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  notion that we shouldn't come before the Lord transparently.
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  You have every right to do that. Last Wednesday at our prayer
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  meeting, we were meditating before we started praying on
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  that famous verse in Hebrews 416.
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  Let us then with confidence. Approach the throne of grace.
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  That we may receive grace, or receive mercy and find grace in
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  times of need. You know what that word
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  confidence means and some of your translations might say.
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  Let us come what boldly it actually means in the original
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  to speak freely, to speak openly, to be frank.
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  No concealment. Be blunt.
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  That's not to say that we should speak without reverence, but it
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  does mean that we can speak honestly.
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  And so the invitation there is that we can come before the Lord
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  and express in words. This is what's confusing me.
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  I am confused. This is what's annoying me.
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  He's the one who is annoying me. She's the one who's bothering
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  me. This is what's making me
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  fearful. I'm terrified.
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  And what Hebrews tells us in that context is we have a high
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  priest who sympathizes with us as we do, so does this scoff at
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  us. It doesn't belittle us, We're
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  told by the Holy Spirit. Come with that kind of
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  confidence, Come with that kind of freedom.
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  Spill your heart out, whatever is in there.
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  This makes prayer more inviting. You'd be amazed at how many
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  Christians are intimidated, not just in corporate settings, even
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  in their own prayer lives. Be honest before God.
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  But as much as being honest before God about the
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  discouraging things are important, we should also, at
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  the same time, if you want to build your faith in prayer, have
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  the presence of mind to acknowledge other things, the
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  good in the midst of our pain. Now this doesn't mean that you
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  try to wishfully think or make up things to try to soothe your
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  soul, but it does mean that you should widen your your own
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  perspective and understanding the the the landscape, the total
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  landscape of what's taking place so that you can be built.
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  Up as you approach the Lord and believe Him for more.
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  One of the things in my life when I've been persecuted and
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  all of us in some way, I'm sure I've been persecuted.
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  Is as I cry out to God, I remind myself of the support system I
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  do have of the people in my life that love me and that are with
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  me and are standing by my side that has done me good.
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  And the way Hezekiah is doing it here in this situation is what
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  look at verse 18 and have cast their gods into the fire.
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  For they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wooden
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  stone. Yes, sure, Assyria bulldoze over
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  lands and kingdoms and armies, but those nations didn't serve
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  real gods. They serve things that were
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  created by men. So he's getting his facts right.
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  He's he's realizing I, I serve the true and living God.
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  You see how he's broadening his understanding.
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  Be honest before God. Be truthful to yourself.
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  And part of being truthful to yourself is also looking at the
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  good, seeing the positive, seeing the blessings, being
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  thankful. That will charge you up in the
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  place of faith and prayer and adoration before God.
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  Lastly, this is an obvious one, I'm sure, but all how we need to
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  be reminded of it. Seek, seek the glory of God.
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  Look at verse 19. So now, O Lord our God, save us,
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  please from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
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  know that you, O Lord, our God alone.
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  This is why David is a man after God's own heart in it, or
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  Hezekiah in his own respect. He imitates David in this way
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  because his truest desire in this predicament is that the
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  Lord's honor would be known. It's not his own reputation.
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  It's not his own preservation. It's not anything else.
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  More than anything, it's God. I desire that through this
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  answer, people would recognize who you truly are and so use
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  this. Problem as a platform for you to
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  show up in your power and your grace and your might.
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  I don't know how that's going to look, but I'm just inviting you
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  to it. And a passion for the Lord to be
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  exalted in all things at all times will undoubtedly shape the
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  way you and I pray. In fact, it's the very motive
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  and ambition that will compel you to pray.
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  When you're moved by that, when you live for that, for God to be
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  known, then you will be driven to that place of inviting God
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  and seeking God for the sake of God's name.
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  And that's precisely what this man does.
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  What's the result? What's the result of Hezekiah's
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  praying? Look at verse 20.
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  Then Isaiah the son of Amos sent to Hezekiah saying, thus says
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  the Lord the God of Israel, your prayer to me about Seneca of
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  king of Assyria. I have heard.
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  Now Isaiah records his own words here differently, a little
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  differently, not in a contradictory way, but in a way
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  that completes what he says to Hezekiah.
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  So go to Isaiah 37. This will be worth it.
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  And look at verse 21 of Isaiah 37.
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  Then Isaiah the son of Amos sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says
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  the Lord the God of Israel, because you have prayed to me,
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  Because you have prayed to me, concerning Seneca of king of
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  Assyria, implying what if you had not prayed, I wouldn't have
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  answered. But Hezekiah, because you took
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  the time to be strategic and intentional of coming to my
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  house, laying this request before me, I will do something
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  about it. What's the encouraging thing
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  about this verse God hears when we pray.
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  What's the warning if you don't pray?
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  God might not move, so why not pray when things hinge on our
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  prayers? I know we can sit across the
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  table and debate about the sovereignty of God and how that
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  works with our prayers. And I'm not here to debate
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  anything. I'm here to take the Word of God
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  at face value. There are things that will not
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  happen in my life or yours unless we pray.
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  Full stop. So instead of spending my energy
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  trying to understand all the intricacies and all the
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  mechanics of this, I'm simply going to do what?
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  Pray, Pray and trust that God will do something because I
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  prayed. Now I gave you 4 characteristics
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  of essential effective prayer, but I want to give you a bonus
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  one. And the bonus 1 is not in Second
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  Kings 19. It's not in Isaiah 37.
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  It's in that other book, Second Chronicles 32.
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  Look at verse 22nd Chronicles 32 while we have Bible study people
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  cut their grass Second Chronicles 32 verse 20 Then
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  Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amos prayed
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  because of this and cried to. Heaven.
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  You know, when people come to this story in Second Kings, they
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  are often moved by the imagery of this royal man leaving his
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  throne, leaving his palace, making his way to the public
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  sphere of worship, and taking this letter and spreading it
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  before the presence of God, saying, Lord, you need to do
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  this. And it is a moving sight.
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  It's a wonderful picture, but people tend to forget this side
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  of Hezekiah's praying. What does he do?
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  He invites the prophet to pray with him.
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  So don't just limit it to Hezekiah.
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  I see here this king calling his companion a man of God, saying
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  let's pray and cry out to God in unison.
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  What a sight that is. Here you have the king and here
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  you have the chief prophet of the time lifting up their voices
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  together for God to come end up moving.
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  He should be moving, and I believe something similar takes
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  place in this very sanctuary, week after week on Wednesday
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  nights. Can I ask you something In the
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  surprising afflictions of your life, in the seasons of
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  challenges, have you ever considered calling a friend?
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  A friend who prays, a friend who fears God, a friend who loves
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  God and inviting them to the House of God so that you and him
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  or her can intercede on behalf of a wayward child, a struggling
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  marriage, financial strain, a dead end situation.
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  Has that ever occurred to you? Let this be your inspiration.
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  I'm calling so and so. And we're going to go to the
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  House of God. We're going to hold hands, we're
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  going to put our arms around each other and we're going to
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  seek the Lord together. If this, if this moves me, if
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  Isaiah and Hezekiah coming together and seeking God moves
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  me, how much more do you think it moves God?
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  And that's not just a way for you to come to prayer on
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  Wednesday. It's never mind Wednesday night
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  prayer meeting. When's the last time you and I
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  have considered? To call a friend and saying, you
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  know, this is what's going on in my family.
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  This is what's going on in my own heart.
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  This is what's going on in my own spiritual journey.
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  Will you commit with me to pray for one week And let's just
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  bombard heaven and let's acknowledge the majesty of God
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  and let's invite the wisdom of God.
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  And let's just be honest before God and let's let's seek God's
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  glory in this matter together. And let's see what God does.
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  This is the second time that Hezekiah went to the House of
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  God when he was visited. By a threat two out of two 100%
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  of the time. What kind of inspiration was
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  this for the people of Israel? Remember he went to the House of
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  the Lord. As much as we need our own
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  prayer clauses. This man went before others and
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  they saw wow the king. Prays what a leader showing the
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  people what they should do when they don't know what to do.
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  Oh, I pray parents, that you have that same conviction that
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  your kids when they see that things are going wrong, when
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  uncle so and so or or Grandpa so and so we get we get together
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  and pray we seek the Lord. May the Lord give us the grace
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  to remember this as a reflex. Now the rest of this chapter
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  contains the detailed response God gave to Hezekiah through the
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  prophet Isaiah. And the Holy Spirit could have
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  simply summarized this and said the Lord heard His Servant and
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  acted on his behalf. But he doesn't do that.
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  We read here and said that there's a lengthy, specific
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  answer, and clearly this is important for us.
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  And more than that, not just because it's it's long here,
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  it's detail, it's because it's found also in Isaiah 37.
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  So whatever Isaiah is ready to say, it's repeated.
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  And it's meant for us to investigate more closely what
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  the Lord is revealing in it. So here's how we're going to do
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  this. We're going to comb through
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  these verses lightly and make brief comments every other verse
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  perhaps, or in a collection of verses, and see what the Lord
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  wants to say to us in a specific promise that He gives to the
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  king. Let's begin here in verse 21.
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  This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him.
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  She despises you. She scorns you, the virgin
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  daughter of Zion. She wags her head behind you,
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  the daughter of Jerusalem. Whom have you mocked and
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  reviled? Against whom have you raised
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  your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights against the Holy
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  One of Israel? By your messengers you have
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  mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many Chariots I've
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  gone up the heights of the mountains to the far recesses of
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  Lebanon. I felt its tallest Cedars, its
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  choices cypresses. I entered its farthest lodging
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  place, its more most fruitful forest.
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  I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the
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  sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.
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  So with this cluster of verses, I want to make one simple point.
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  God not only hears very carefully the cries of the
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  righteous, he also remembers. The Bose, the taunts and the
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  blasphemies of the wicked. Look back at verse 23 again.
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  Remember now he's speaking to Hezekiah about what he is saying
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  regarding Senekreb, the king of Assyria, and about Senekreb he
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  says in the middle of verse 23. And you?
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  Have said, and you have said so God is not just aware about the
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  letter that Senekreb gave to Hezekiah, He's also aware of
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  what he said prior to. This.
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  And what's the essence of what Seneca was saying?
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  That his army was essentially unstoppable.
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  Look at some of the language again.
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  I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far
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  Reese's of Lebanon. I felt its taller Cedars, its
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  choices Cypress. I entered it.
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  He's saying that there is nothing and no one that could
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  stop me earlier. He says my many Chariots have
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  gone up the heights of mountains.
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  Chariots don't go up mountains. They can only work with level
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  ground. But he's saying my Chariots, Oh
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  no, they can go up any mountain. Oh yeah, there's some natural
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  borders, some seas and rivers and Niles.
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  But look what he says in verse 24.
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  I dried up with the sole of my foot.
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  All the streams of Egypt, the amount of men that I have when
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  we crossed creeks and rivers, that kind of impact made those
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  things dry. And the Lord says I I've heard
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  all your boasts. All your accolades.
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  Not only is he aware of the words, look at verse 27.
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  We didn't read it yet, but just to give you an idea, he says
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  he's of Seneca. But I know you're sitting down
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  and you're going out and coming in and you're raging against me
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  because you have raged against me and your complacency has come
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  into my ears. I'll put Hook in your nose and
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  my bit in your mouth and I will turn you back on the way by
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  which you came. I know where you go.
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  I know where you come from. I know when you stop.
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  I know when you accelerate. So essentially what the Lord is
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  saying is I know everything about you.
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  Now, for for somebody to have such a detailed understanding of
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  someone else means that he's very passionate about it.
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  And what I learned here is that God is passionate about his
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  dealings with the proud. Remember Job?
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  We all do. I'm sure by the end of the book,
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  the Lord appears to Job and challenges him because Job was
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  questioning the sovereignty of God.
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  Job was essentially challenging the sovereignty of God.
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  And so the Lord responds to the challenge and he says, let's see
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  if we're alike. And it begins to list all these
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  different things that he does. And from time to time, he says.
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  Are you aware? Of when this happens.
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  Can you do this if so, then we we can have this conversation,
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  but it just one after the other these different abilities of the
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  Lord presents of himself and there's one thing that I think
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  people miss about God and his sovereignty.
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  It's in Job 40 verse 11. God says this man, pour out the
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  overflowings of your anger and look on everyone who is proud
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  and obeys him. Look on everyone who is proud
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  and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.
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  And the verse is out there. He says if you can do this, then
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  you can save yourself. In your knowledge of the
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  sovereignty of God, have you ever considered God's ability to
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  humble absolutely everyone who's proud?
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  That's fascinating to me. We think of creation, we think
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  of salvation, we think of healing, we think of miracles.
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  No, no, add this to the category of God's sovereignty.
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  He's able to humble every arrogant person on the earth,
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  and if you wanted to, you could do it at the same time.
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  So we see here that God feels very strongly.
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  About the proud as much as he is passionate about the prayers of
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  his people. He's also very fervent about
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  hearing what men say in defiance of God and uplifting themselves
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  and dealing with them accordingly.
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  So here's what I learned looking at this this afternoon.
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  If God feels this way about pride, how do I protect myself
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  from it? That's a good question, right?
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  Are we susceptible to pride as Christians?
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  If you say no, that's an indication that you're probably
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  struggling with it, of course. Is there any clue in Second
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  Kings 19 that can help my heart be shielded against this venom,
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  this poison called pride? Absolutely.
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  Look at verse 25 of Second Kings. 19 We didn't read it yet.
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  After he reveals that he knows what Senekrep said in verse 25,
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  he says something to Senekrep. Have you not heard that?
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  I determined it long ago. I planned from days of old, what
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  now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities
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  into heaps of ruins, while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
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  are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the
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  field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops
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  blighted before it has grown. What is God saying, Seneca?
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  Here you are Tooting your own horn, telling yourself and
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  everybody else how wonderful you are, how how you're the
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  superpower of a nation, how you take over anything and anyone.
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  And I'm here to inform you that I am the one who gave you such
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  success that what you're realizing now has been
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  foreordained. That in my Providence I have
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  weakened these other nations. And I've raised you up as the
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  rod of my anger to chastise these other people groups for
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  their iniquity. In other words, the reason why
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  Seneca was so proud was because he believed that it was his
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  wisdom and his strength and his training and his resources that
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  brought about his success. And the Lord's here to tell him,
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  no, it's actually because of my sovereignty.
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  That's the essence of you and I. That's the antidote against
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  pride. Constantly being mindful that
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  every ounce of intelligence. Of creativity, of wisdom.
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  Any open door, whether small or very wide, is because God
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  permitted it, because God enabled you.
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  And when you and I lose sight of that and began to look at
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  ourselves and praise ourselves and boast in ourselves, you're
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  treading on dangerous ground. You know what's amazing about
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  this is that God confronts Senekreb about his sovereignty.
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  Even though Senekreb was not in a relationship to God, he was
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  not. He was not in covenant with God.
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  He was an enemy of. God, and this is not really
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  spiritual, is it? God's not talking about his
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  sovereignty over your spiritual gifts and your knowledge of
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  scripture and your holiness. He's talking about your
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  innovative abilities, your ability to to think about things
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  and strategize. Any aspect of life must be
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  acknowledged as God's goodness in your life.
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  Any good, any anything, any prosperity, any power has to go
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  back to Him as the permitter, and only when you live.
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  Under that revelation, are you protected from exactly what's
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  going to get Senek Rebbe in trouble?
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  So he says. I'm here to tell you, because
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  clearly you didn't hear that. I determined all of this a long
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  time ago. I authored this.
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  Unfortunately, Senekreb is not going to humble himself
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  regardless. So what do we find next?
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  Well, we see here that Senekreb is about to be visited by a
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  surprise. And before that surprise comes,
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  we see something else here in verse 30.
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  We read verse 28. Let's read verse 29 and verse
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  30. And this shall be the sign for
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  you. And now he's speaking to
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  Hezekiah. This year eat what grows of
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  itself and in the second year what springs of the same.
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  Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat
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  their fruit. So he promises Hezekiah with a
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  sign of how he will know that this victory over Seneca will be
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  of God and it will be a lasting peace.
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  You know the the brutality of a siege when a an army surrounds a
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  city. Is that essentially they
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  confiscate all their foods, all their goods, so they starve to
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  death. Essentially they're starving to
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  surrender. And the difficulty there is not
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  only do they confiscate, they also limit the people from being
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  able to produce their own food, right?
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  They're stuck within the city walls.
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  And So what the Lord says, the essence of the sign is you're
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  going to eat what grows of itself and in the second year
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  with springs of the same. So once I put a hook in
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  Senecabbs nose, put a bit in his mouth and pull him back to his
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  hometown. You know why the Lord?
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  Said that by the way, because that's what the Assyrians would
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  do to their victims. Historically speaking, this is
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  how vicious this people group were.
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  Wonder why Jonah was hesitant to go and preach to them when they
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  would take over, when they would have they when, when they would
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  have victory over a people group, they would so demoralize
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  them that they would make them seem like beast and they would
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  put actual sharp objects in their limbs, in parts of their
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  body and drag them back to their own demise.
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  You're going to do that to people.
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  I'm going to do it to you. And he says to Israel, he says
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  to Judah specifically. Here's the sign that you know
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  that I've done this well and it's a complete job.
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  For the first two years after, you're not going to have to sow
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  anything. The earth is going to produce
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  itself. And by the third year, there's
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  going to be the natural course again of farming and
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  agricultural cycles. And you'll go back to normal
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  watch. You're going to be able to go
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  back to the way life was without any interruption.
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  You're going to have peace again.
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  I'm going to bring this peace. And so they were comforted with
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  this, but but farming wasn't the only thing that God had in mind.
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  There was a different kind of revival.
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  Look at verse 30. And the surviving remnant of the
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  House of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit
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  upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go a
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  remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.
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  The zeal of the Lord will do this.
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  So remember, before Jerusalem was surrounded, there were all
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  these neighboring towns in Judah that were that were taken over.
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  And the Lord says there's a remnant left.
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  But I want to promise you this, that the remnant will go
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  downward in their roots and they will bear fruit upward.
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  In other words, they're going to be planted in this land and they
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  are going to flourish right here.
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  Nothing is going to change that. And so it's wonderful assurance.
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  But I want to tell you something.
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  In verse 30, Do you see the spiritual principle there?
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  Look at it again. The surviving remnant of the
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  House of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit
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  upward. How do you and I bear fruit?
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  According to this verse, it's impossible unless you first
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  invest in inner hidden rootedness.
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  You and I cannot even fathom making any kind of spiritual
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  impact unless we find our souls deeply invested in the things
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  that caught God calls us to be invested in.
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  And so if there's going to be anything on the surface, if
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  there's going to be anything that's worthwhile outside,
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  observable, tangible, there needs to be something in the
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  secret place of my heart, my affections and my ambitions have
• 42:55
  to be deeply rooted and nourished by primarily the Word
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  of God, my relationship with God, the presence of God.
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  You, you and I cannot grow on accident.
• 43:07
  There needs to be a determination that we will first
• 43:11
  plant ourselves where God calls us to be planted and to remain
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  there for the life of God to come through and for there to be
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  true fruit. And I can tell you this,
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  wherever there is shallow Christianity, it's inevitably
• 43:28
  because of shallow roots. So we even see something of a
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  proverb here, do we not? I believe so.
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  Be encouraged by that. Before I move on to the final
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  verses, look at the last statement of verse 31.
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  The Lord signs off on this promise by saying what?
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  The zeal of the Lord will do this.
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  You know what that means? Here's how you can translate it.
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  My passion for this 'cause will bring about the reality of it.
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  I was looking at this today and here's the thought that crossed
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  my mind. If God is passionate about His
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  work, how much more us God is passionate about his will.
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  The zeal of the Lord will do this.
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  We see, we see this phrase in different places in Scripture
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  and I'm invited to do what God calls me to do, but I don't want
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  to just obey his commands. I want to do it with the passion
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  that God calls me to have for it.
• 44:42
  Don't settle for just mechanical routine observance.
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  If you and I really want to get things done for the King of God,
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  we have to tap into a spirit inspired zeal.
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  What was said of Jesus zeal for your house has consumed me the.
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  Zeal of the Lord. Will do this in Deuteronomy.
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  Where it went wrong for the people of Israel is when they
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  stop serving the Lord with joy and gladness of heart.
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  Don't allow this to condemn you. Allow this to be an invitation
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  for you. Lord, I want zeal.
• 45:22
  I need zeal. Supply that zeal, Be inspired by
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  it and trust that God is able to provide it.
• 45:31
  If He is passionate about His work, let us also be passionate
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  about it. Speaking of passion, this really
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  convicted me. This actually bothered me.
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  Every time I go through kings, this never ceases to irk me.
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  I'm going to skip over verse 32 and verse 34.
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  We'll read that at the end. Look at verse 35.
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  That night the Angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000
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  in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in
• 46:06
  the morning, behold, these are all dead bodies.
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  Then Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed and went home
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  and lived at Nineveh, And as he was worshipping in the House of
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  Nisraj, his God Ajahmalek and Shahrazar, his son struck him
• 46:23
  down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat.
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  And Esther had on his son reigned in his place.
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  Did you see it? What stands out to you about
• 46:34
  Sennacherib's response to his defeat?
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  Anything. He goes to his God.
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  Guess what he does? He worships.
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  Does that bother anybody else? What bothers me about it is the
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  sheer determination of this Pagan, his commitment to his
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  false God, his resilience in. One night you lost close to
• 47:09
  200,000 of your men. You were put to shame because of
• 47:13
  one man's prayer. This man, Hezekiah didn't shoot
• 47:15
  1 arrow, he didn't fling one sword, he didn't do anything.
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  He just got on his knees and cried out to God and you were
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  defeated. In less than 24 hours.
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  And what does this man do? Does he go and he topples his
• 47:27
  idols, Burn them? Renounce his deities?
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  What does he do? He worships his God.
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  And here we have some believers. Not here.
• 47:41
  That's a general comment. In our day we have believers.
• 47:45
  All it takes is a little trouble, a little persecution, a
• 47:47
  little suffering. I forget this God.
• 47:52
  I didn't sign up for this when I said I would follow Jesus.
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  You want to be. Provoked.
• 47:59
  Look at Senekreb. That's the only place where I'll
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  ever say look at Senekreb. He goes straight back to his God
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  and he worships. After all this loss.
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  After being embarrassed, after being defeated on a world scale,
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  a loser, and he goes before a Pagan God and he worships.
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  And here we have our God who's never been defeated, who loves
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  us more than you can imagine, who and everything in our lives,
• 48:38
  even the painful thing that are being applied to the masterpiece
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  of the testimony that he's trying to create and we are
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  ready to turn away from him, may not be so of us.
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  Let's come to the final verses, verse 32.
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  Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria,
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  he shall not come into the city, or shoot an arrow there, or come
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  before with a shield, or cast up a siege mount against it, by the
• 49:13
  way that he came. By the same he shall return, and
• 49:15
  he shall not come into the city, declares the Lord.
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  For I will defend the city to save it for my own sake, and for
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  the sake of my servant David. Tell you why I'm ending here?
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  Because there's a gospel truth tucked in it.
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  Don't we see it? God makes it so incredibly
• 49:36
  clear. The reason why I'm going to come
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  and intervene and defend you is because, yes #1 for my sake, but
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  also because I made a promise to one man, David.
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  David lived long before this time.
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  David was in a tomb. And yet this generation would
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  benefit from one man's covenant with God.
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  And here we are, hidden in Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the
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  greater King, who's given us a greater covenant.
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  And any reward that you and I enjoy, any promise of eternal
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  life, any blessing that we are recipients of, is solely because
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  of who He is and how we are related to Him by faith.
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  Not as though God is hesitant to work in our lives or be good to
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  us, but because Jesus stepped in and was willing to be the
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  mediator between a very reluctant God and a stubborn
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  people. That's not so.
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  The Father is just as much invested and included in this
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  plan of redemption and the blessing that would come in
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  Christ. But we have to understand, it's
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  because I bear His name. I'm clothed in his
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  righteousness. I, I live in Him that God will
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  do what he alone can do. That's why you and I pray in
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  Jesus name. We're not coming in our own
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  name. We're not coming with our own
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  merit, with our own righteousness.
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  We're coming on the basis of the Son of God and how he stood in
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  the gap for us. And that is something that the
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  Lord God Almighty will always smile at.
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  And so be refreshed today. So much is available to us
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  because of Christ and us. And I want to invite you today
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  in this brief moment, that if you've come here like Hezekiah,
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  even though in the background nobody may even know about it,
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  you are trying to solve something that seems impossible,
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  that is sucking the life out of you.
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  You barely made it into this very room.
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  Just acknowledge His Majesty. Invite Him, and when you invite
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  him, rest in the very wisdom that you're asking for.
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  Trust of the Spirit in your weakness will translate
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  everything that you're trying to communicate, and a perfect plan
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  will be on its way. Be honest before God and and
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  maybe you've never done this before.
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  Maybe you've only seen prayer as a way of getting God to do
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  something for you. But let tonight be the the
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  beginning of a new way of praying for the glory of God,
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  Deliver, save, provide, protect, intervene, solve Lord.
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  And that through this people would say that God is a real
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  God, that God is a God who loves his people.
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  Can we pray now? Let's do it.
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  We gladly, Father, in our collective weakness, come before
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  You. So many things have been said.
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  It can actually be overwhelming at times.
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  What we trust that You will bring to remembrance what is
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  needed at the right time. And we ask that You help us
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  retain these truths that have been shared tonight, Lord, where
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  there may be a lack of zeal. We pray that you breathe fresh
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  wind into our sails, that we may have this zeal that you have for
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  your doings. Where there may be a weakness in
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  prayer, let that change tonight. Where there may be a temptation
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  to even for a season, pull away from you in our anger and our
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  disappointments, or may never be so.
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  If Seneca can worship his dumb idol, how much more are you
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  worthy of our consistent adoration in all things?
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  And Lord, with everything else that was expounded on tonight,
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  we just pray that you would receive glory in our response.
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  We just want to acknowledge you and thank you for who you are.
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  You never failed to touch our hearts.
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  We glorify you now as your church in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Let's stand and worship the Lord together.