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 And so we're going to look here tonight as we look here in 2 Kings chapter 18.

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 Let's look down at verse 5 here tonight.

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 And we see here with Hezekiah, it says this,

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 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah,

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 nor any that were before him.

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 For he claimed to the Lord and departed not from following him,

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 but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

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 And the Lord was with him, and he prospered with us, whoever he went.

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 And he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

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 And he smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza and the borders thereof,

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 from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced cities.

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 Let's pray.

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 Heavenly Fathers, we come before you tonight.

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 Lord, we're just thankful for your word.

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 We're thankful that these things are given to us for our learning and for understanding.

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 Lord, help us to learn and to draw closer to you and to understand,

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 even as we look at Hezekiah's revival here tonight.

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 Lord, I pray that you just would stir our hearts to realize the importance

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 of what is revival, what is those things that you would desire of us.

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 And Lord, we pray that you would work mightily

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 and just encourage hearts here tonight.

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 In Jesus' name, amen.

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 You know, we see here that here's Hezekiah.

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 We know that he trusted in the Lord and sought to follow him with his whole heart

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 so that the Lord was with him, the Bible tells us.

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 You know, you think about it.

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 That's quite a testimony when Scripture tells you that God is with you

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 because of you serving him.

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 And we see that, you know, Jeremiah 17 tells us this.

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 It says,

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 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, whose hope the Lord is.

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 You know, to be blessed of God is to put your trust in him,

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 to trust him on the things, the small things, but the big things.

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 Also, especially as we walk through life.

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 But Hezekiah's desire, we know, as we looked last week, was to please the Lord.

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 It was a drastic transition from his father who was against God,

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 wanted everything but God.

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 And then we have Hezekiah, his son, take over,

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 and everything is 180 degrees the other direction.

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 I mean, there is an absolute turning in the nation of Israel.

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 And the first thing he does, he opens the door of the house of the Lord.

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 You know, he opens back up the temple.

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 That's his first action as king.

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 It tells us as he opens the door of the temple,

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 gets the priests and the Levites together,

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 tells them to prepare themselves and to clean out the house of God

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 and to get it ready to worship the Lord.

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 You know, that was his primary focus right at the very beginning.

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 And we spoke about that a little last week,

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 and we saw there the challenge was not just to prepare the house of the Lord.

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 I want you to understand, he didn't just say, get a building ready.

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 He said, prepare the people to worship the Lord.

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 Because ultimately that is the reality.

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 We ought to be a prepared people to worship the Lord.

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 You know, as we see, Hezekiah comes out with this challenge right off the get-go.

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 You know, and so I think it's important to consider

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 because sometimes when you see such a drastic contrast

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 because you have his father Ahaz, who's totally against God,

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 and now we have Hezekiah show up on the scene,

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 and he is like giving instruction to the priests about how things ought to be done.

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 You know, it's kind of like this total 180-degree turn,

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 and we might say and ask ourselves, which I think is a good question,

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 where did Hezekiah learn this?

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 You know, where did Hezekiah know all this information?

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 Well, you know, when he led such an abrupt change,

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 we need to know that he knew it before it began.

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 Before he became king, he already had some things in place,

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 and his relationship with God had already been established.

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 But we know that one of the things that a king was supposed to do,

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 if you remember, turn back to Deuteronomy chapter 17,

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 because it's one thing we always can realize when it comes to the Word of God,

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 God already has things under control.

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 You know, we find here in Deuteronomy, before they even had a king,

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 before the discussion even came up,

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 you find in Deuteronomy chapter 17, look down in verse 18,

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 it says this,

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 And it shall be when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom,

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 that he shall write him a copy of this law in the book,

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 out of which is before the priests and the Levites.

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 So what's the new king supposed to do?

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 He's supposed to do what?

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 He's supposed to make his own personal copy

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 of the law of Moses.

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 He's supposed to make his own copy of the Psalms.

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 He's supposed to make his own copy of the prophets

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 that they had up to that point.

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 You know, he's supposed to hand write that out, you know.

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 There's something about that today,

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 and it's been proven that when you write something

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 or you copy something, you know what?

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 It sticks with you a little better.

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 You know, when you write something down,

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 and I think that's one thing sometimes we miss in our digital age,

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 because there's something different about doing this

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 than actually writing.

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 To make a connection, it's like there's a connection

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 between your fingers and your brain.

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 You know, to actually write things down makes a difference.

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 And notice verse 19 in Deuteronomy.

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 It says,

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 And it shall be with him,

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 and he shall read therein all the days of his life

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 that he may learn to fear the Lord his God,

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 to keep all the words of this law and these statutes to do them,

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 that his heart be not lifted above his brethren,

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 that he turn not aside from the commandment

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 to the right hand or to the left or to the end,

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 that he may prolong his days in his kingdom,

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 he and his children in the midst of Israel.

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 And so I think that how he knew,

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 he'd already written his copy,

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 because he knew he was one day going to be king.

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 I think he'd already taken time.

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 He was 25 years old.

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 He had already taken time to learn

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 and to understand what was his responsibility.

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 He had already sought through,

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 because when we look here tonight,

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 I want you to see he's not just asking the priests

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 of what they should do and the Levites.

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 He's instructing them to,

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 Guys, you should already know this.

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 In other words, he's speaking from a place of authority,

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 not of himself, but from the Word of God,

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 because if anybody should have known what to do,

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 the priests and the Levites should have known what to do.

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 They were the ones supposed to be teaching the people what to do.

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 And so we see that he was encouraging them with that.

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 And so we see here,

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 as the house of the Lord was once again sanctified,

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 it was a day that rivaled even the dedication of the temple by Solomon,

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 as we'll read a little later.

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 This was something that hadn't happened in Israel for hundreds of years,

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 is what took place here with Hezekiah.

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 Because what took place was a true revival.

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 There's something that happened.

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 Take a look.

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 Turn over to 2 Chronicles chapter 29.

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 2 Chronicles chapter 29.

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 And we see here, this is Hezekiah,

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 and this is the same, this is a parallel passage.

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 They give you different information about what went on.

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 And Chronicles mainly gives us information about this revival

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 that took place in the first few months of Hezekiah's reign.

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 Right off the get-go, there's something that took place.

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 Look at verse 19 with us tonight.

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 It says,

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 Moreover, all the vessels which King Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression,

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 have we prepared and sanctified, and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.

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 Now notice, what's that report that he got?

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 Hezekiah gets the report from the priests and the Levites,

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 Hey, we've cleaned out God's house, all the junk that was in there,

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 and we've restored all the vessels, all the things that your father Ahaz had destroyed.

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 He said,

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 We got everything in the house of God back in place.

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 He said,

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 These things are all ready to go.

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 And now look at verse 20.

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 Notice what happens here.

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 Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the rulers of the city

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 and went up to the house of the Lord.

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 And they brought seven bullocks and seven rams and seven lambs and seven he goats

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 for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah.

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 And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron,

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 to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

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 So they killed the bullocks,

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 and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the altar.

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 Likewise, when they had killed the ram,

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 they sprinkled the blood upon the altar,

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 and they killed also the lambs,

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 and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

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 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king

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 and the congregation.

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 They laid their hands on them,

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 and the priests killed them

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 and made them reconciliation with their blood upon the altar

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 to make atonement for all Israel.

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 For the king commanded that the burnt offering

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 and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.

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 Now I want you to see something here.

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 Here's Hezekiah.

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 He comes and says,

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 Hey, if everything's ready,

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 we're going to sanctify God's house.

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 We're going to set God's house apart.

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 And if you want to make a side note while you're writing things,

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 you can go back and read the first seven chapters of Leviticus,

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 because that describes what he's telling.

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 This is where Hezekiah gets all this information

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 of what they're supposed to be doing,

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 how they're supposed to be doing it,

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 and why they're supposed to be doing it.

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 He's saying,

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 Hey, guys, Leviticus chapters 1 through 7

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 tells us what we ought to be doing.

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 So I want you to see here

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 that the king is not just making things up.

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 He says,

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 Hey, this is what God has told us to do.

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 You know, one of the things about true revival,

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 it's based on what God has said.

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 True revival is always built upon,

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 Thus saith the Lord.

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 It's not built upon emotion.

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 It's not built upon just feelings.

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 It's not built on just actions.

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 It's built on, Thus saith the Lord.

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 And that's important to understand,

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 because we see here that the heart of Hezekiah

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 was that for the burnt offerings and the sin offerings.

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 They were to be made.

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 Now notice this,

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 because if you read through this,

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 sometimes you miss what's going on here.

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 He's the king of Judah,

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 but who's he offering these sacrifices for?

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 All Israel.

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 In other words, he says,

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 Even our brethren that have departed from the Lord,

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 up in Samaria, he says,

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 they need to return to the Lord too.

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 And we're going to see that play out

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 in Hezekiah's revival

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 and the change that took place

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 because he wasn't just worried about

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 what was happening in Judah.

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 He was worried about what was happening

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 with the others in Israel.

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 He was worried about it.

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 He says,

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 I want to make a sin offering

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 before the Lord

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 on behalf of all these.

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 And we see this happen.

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 Now notice verse 25,

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 And he set the Levites

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 in the house

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 of the Lord

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 with cymbals and psaltery

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 and with harps

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 according to the commandment of David

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 and of Gad the king Seer

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 and Nathan the prophet.

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 And so was the commandment

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 of the Lord

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 by his prophets.

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 Now notice here

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 something important.

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 He didn't just say,

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 Hey, there's a music I want.

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 He set the music in the church

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 according to what God said.

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 In other words,

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 he said we're going to do it

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 how God had instructed

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 from the prophets

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 to accomplish that

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 because how we do music

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 is important.

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 You know,

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 I want you to understand

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 it's a critical thing

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 and we're not going to get

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 sidetracked and rabbit trailed

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 into that tonight

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 because we're talking about Hezekiah.

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 We'll save that lesson

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 for another day.

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 All right.

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 But I want you to understand

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 he made this decision.

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 What did he base it on?

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 The word of God.

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 He didn't base it on public opinion

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 or what was popular.

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 He said let's go to the word of God

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 and see what God says about it

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 to base it upon the things of God.

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 And so we see here

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 as he was there

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 it was not for personal enjoyment

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 of the people.

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 You know,

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 one of the things today with music

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 sometimes people think

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 well I come to church

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 I want to hear what I want to hear.

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 I want to grab a hold of

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 what I want to grab a hold of.

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 But you know,

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 when we have music in church

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 it's not for our benefit.

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 The music in the Lord's house

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 ought to be to glorify the Lord

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 and to move people

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 and to focus their attention

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 upon the things of God.

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 It's not a concert

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 but a focus

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 upon the Lord.

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 And we see this

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 as we look on down through

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 look at verse 28

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 and it says

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 all the congregation did what?

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 Worshiped.

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 And the singers sang

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 and the trumpets sounded

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 and all they continued

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 until the burnt offering

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 was finished.

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 We see this

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 that they were there

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 worshiping the Lord.

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 Now I want you to understand

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 I'll just make this statement

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 you can sing

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 and not worship the Lord.

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 You can sing about God

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 and not worship the Lord.

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 Worship

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 if you notice

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 happened first

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 because worship

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 is a position

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 of our heart

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 towards God

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 before the music

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 came about.

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 The music

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 was an expression

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 of what was already present.

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 And we need to understand

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 because as we look down through

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 look at verse 35

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 here in this passage

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 and it says

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 and also the burnt offerings

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 were in abundance

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 and the fat of the peace offering

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 and the drink offerings

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 were for every burnt offering.

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 Now notice this

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 so the service

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 of the house of the Lord

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 was what?

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 Set in order.

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 You know

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 before Hezekiah

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 went and got everybody

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 he says

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 who's here

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 and the temple

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 needed to be sanctified

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 and prepared

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 for what was to come.

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 He said

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 the sanctification

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 of the temple

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 nothing else

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 could happen

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 until that was set

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 in order.

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 Just as they had

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 under Moses.

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 Remember

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 they had to build

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 the tabernacle

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 and everything

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 before those things

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 could be set

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 in order

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 and prepared

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 for the things

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 for them to come

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 and to offer

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 their offerings

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 before the Lord.

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 They were sanctified

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 they were set apart

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 and it was set

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 in order.

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 In other words

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 the Lord's house

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 was ready

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 because what

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 was Hezekiah's plan?

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 Because we're going

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 to see now

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 the preparation

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 of the people.

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 We've seen

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 the preparation

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 of the house of God

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 and then we're going

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 to see the preparation

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 of the people.

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 So King Hezekiah

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 would stir

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 a revival

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 among the people

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 of Judah

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 along with those

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 from the northern kingdom.

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 Look here

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 chapter 30.

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 Notice what it says

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 and Hezekiah

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 sent all Israel

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 and Judah

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 and wrote letters

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 to Ephraim

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 and Manasseh

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 that they should

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 come to the house

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 of the Lord

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 at Jerusalem

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 to keep the Passover

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 unto the Lord

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 God of Israel.

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 For the king

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 had taken counsel

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 and his princes

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 and for all

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 the congregation

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 of Jerusalem

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 to keep the Passover

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 in the second month.

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 All right

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 so now we see

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 something here

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 because

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 the Passover

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 had not been

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 celebrated

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 according to

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 the word of God

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 in many years.

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 It doesn't tell us

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 how long here

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 but it says now

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 that they're going

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 to celebrate it

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 in the second month.

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 Now here's your

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 Bible trivia.

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 What stands out

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 in that statement?

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 The second month

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 because what month

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 were they supposed

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 to celebrate the Passover?

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 First month.

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 That gets a good question

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 doesn't it?

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 You know what?

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 The Bible answers it for us.

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 How did the king

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 change that?

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 And we'll look at that

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 here in just a little bit

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 but I want you to see here

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 that this hadn't been

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 celebrated

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 in a long time.

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 Notice verse 5

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 of chapter 30.

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 Notice what it says here

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 and it says

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 and so they established

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 a decree

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 to make a proclamation

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 throughout all Israel

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 and from Beersheba

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 even to Dan

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 that they should come

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 to keep the Passover

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 unto the Lord God

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 of Israel

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 of Jerusalem

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 for they had not

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 done it of a long time

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 in such sort

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 as it was written.

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 You know that's

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 important to realize

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 it wasn't that people

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 didn't desire to

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 but you know

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 to keep the Passover

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 properly required

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 the temple

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 to be operating

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 because in the Passover

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 one of the things

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 they did

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 if you remember

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 even as you think

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 about when Jesus

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 went to Jerusalem

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 as our Passover lamb

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 what was taking place

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 each family

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 would take a lamb

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 to the priest

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 the priest

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 would lay hands on it

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 they would kill the lamb

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 and that blood

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 would be a covering

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 for sin

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 and it took place

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 in the temple

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 or the tabernacle

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 so if the tabernacle

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 the house of the Lord

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 wasn't operating

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 it would be very difficult

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 to do it according

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 to all that God

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 had instructed

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 even if an individual

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 wanted to

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 and had a desire

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 for God

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 there were still

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 limitations

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 you know

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 I want you to

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 to understand

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 what's happening here

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 and we see

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 it wasn't according

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 given by Moses

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 but as the house

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 of the Lord

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 was there

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 it was a place

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 and people

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 that were required

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 to be used

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 the priests

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 and the people

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 had to be

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 together

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 you know

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 notice verse 3

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 of chapter 30

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 it says

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 for they could not

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 keep it at that time

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 because the priests

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 had what

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 not sanctified themselves

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 sufficiently

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 because neither

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 had the people

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 gathered themselves

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 together

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 to Jerusalem

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 in other words

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 there had to be

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 some preparation

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 for it to take place

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 there's some individuals

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 that needed some preparation

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 but you know

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 as we have talked

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 about a little earlier

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 about why did they

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 choose the second month

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 throw over to

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 Numbers chapter 9

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 for a moment

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 you know

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 as I want you to understand

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 Hezekiah didn't just

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 make this up

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 if he's trying

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 to follow the Lord

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 he's saying

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 do we have to wait

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 till next year

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 you know

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 what's going on

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 Numbers chapter 9

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 look at verse 10

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 who's got that one

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 we'll get some people

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 involved tonight

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 got that

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 Ethan

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 or

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 can you read that

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 for me

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 verses 10 and 11

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 okay so

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 the Lord had already

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 made provision

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 he says

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 if you can't be

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 sanctified

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 to do it

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 he said

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 we're going to have

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 a secondary option

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 for you

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 if that's necessary

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 so we see here

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 that where did

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 Hezekiah get this

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 he got his instruction

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 from the word

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 of the Lord

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 in other words

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 he didn't just

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 change God's plan

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 he said

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 what did God

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 have for this

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 because you got to

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 remember

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 it's also very practical

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 because notice

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 what's the first

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 exception that was

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 made there

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 in Numbers chapter 9

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 if they were

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 they touched what

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 a dead body

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 now I want you

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 to understand

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 in ancient times

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 death wasn't as

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 clean as it is

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 today

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 you know

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 where somebody

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 dies and the

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 caretaker comes

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 and he

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 you know

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 and takes them

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 over to the

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 funeral home

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 and deals with

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 everything

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 and you show up

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 and you make sure

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 everything's doing

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 the way it's

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 supposed to be

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 done

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 I want you

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 to understand

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 in those days

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 if you had a

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 family member

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 die

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 it was your

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 responsibility

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 to go take

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 care of it

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 if they touched

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 a dead body

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 they had to be

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 unclean for

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 seven days

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 so if that

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 happened at the

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 wrong time

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 what happens

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 you couldn't

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 do anything

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 to be sanctified

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 in order to

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 perform it

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 so what did

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 God do

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 he says

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 I'm going to

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 make a

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 exception clause

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 that if it's

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 impossible for you

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 because of

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 distance or

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 or something

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 that violates

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 that you can't

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 control

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 I mean you

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 can't control

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 when somebody

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 dies

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 so I want

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 you to see

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 here where did

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 Hezekiah get

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 this

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 the people

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 hadn't prepared

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 themselves

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 and they weren't

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 in Jerusalem

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 yet and he

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 says hey

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 we're going to

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 move it to the

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 second month

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 because God

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 already made

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 provision to do

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 that if the

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 people aren't

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 ready

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 because it's

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 important to

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 understand God

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 wants a prepared

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 people if you're

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 going to come

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 before the Lord

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 God wants your

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 heart prepared to

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 come before him

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 we need to

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 understand that

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 what does

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 Hezekiah do

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 here this is

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 as we see

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 Hezekiah as he

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 gets all this

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 preparation he

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 gets all these

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 things happening

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 now he sends

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 letters in those

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 first six so the

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 post went with the

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 letters from the

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 king and his

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 princess throughout

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 all Israel and

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 Judah and according

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 to the commandment

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 of the king saying

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 you children of

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 Israel turn again

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 unto the Lord God

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 of Abraham Isaac

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 and Israel and he

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 will return to the

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 remnant of you that

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 are escaped out of

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 the hand of the

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 king of Assyria

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 and be not like your

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 fathers or like your

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 brethren which

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 trespassed against the

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 Lord God of their

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 fathers who therefore

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 gave them up to

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 desolation as ye see

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 you know here's

00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:28.220
 Hezekiah he's sending

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 a letter he says

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 guys you caused

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 your own problem

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 you know there's a

00:21:32.259 --> 00:21:33.319
 lot of times in life

00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:34.120
 we cause our own

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 problem you know

00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:37.640
 sometimes we like to

00:21:37.640 --> 00:21:38.559
 complain about but the

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 first thing you need to

00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:40.720
 ask what did I have a

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 part in causing it

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 because sometimes in a

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 lot of times in life we

00:21:45.840 --> 00:21:46.940
 have a part from our

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 decision that get us

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 where we are and we

00:21:50.740 --> 00:21:52.320
 see here that Hezekiah

00:21:52.320 --> 00:21:53.240
 tells them they were

00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:55.100
 separated and dispersed

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 because they refused to

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 worship the Lord they

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 refused those things

00:22:00.180 --> 00:22:02.299
 notice here he tells

00:22:02.299 --> 00:22:02.940
 them he sent the

00:22:02.940 --> 00:22:04.880
 letter from Beersheba to

00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:06.680
 Dan now to us that

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 doesn't make much sense

00:22:07.779 --> 00:22:08.720
 to us I mean we just

00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:09.680
 hear two cities until

00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:11.400
 you understand Beersheba

00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:12.700
 was the farthest south

00:22:12.700 --> 00:22:16.279
 point in Israel and Dan

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 is the farthest northern

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 point in other words

00:22:20.420 --> 00:22:21.819
 it's a picture that the

00:22:21.819 --> 00:22:23.200
 whole land received the

00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.559
 letter from the farthest

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 away both ends they

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 received the notification

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 from Hezekiah that what

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 was going to happen and

00:22:32.819 --> 00:22:33.900
 they encouraged them to

00:22:33.900 --> 00:22:36.420
 come by choice you know

00:22:36.420 --> 00:22:37.519
 he didn't tell them but

00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:39.700
 he said he tells them what's

00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:42.240
 going to happen and who

00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:43.340
 they are and how they're

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 doing and encourages them

00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:46.940
 to turn to the Lord now

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 notice he tells them to do

00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:50.140
 this of themselves look at

00:22:50.140 --> 00:22:52.880
 verse 9 it says for if you

00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:54.200
 turn again to the Lord your

00:22:54.200 --> 00:22:55.480
 brother and your children

00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:57.240
 shall find compassion before

00:22:57.240 --> 00:22:59.100
 them that led them captive

00:22:59.100 --> 00:23:01.059
 so that they shall come

00:23:01.059 --> 00:23:02.480
 again into this land for the

00:23:02.480 --> 00:23:04.360
 Lord your God is gracious and

00:23:04.360 --> 00:23:06.299
 merciful and will not turn

00:23:06.299 --> 00:23:08.519
 away his face from you if you

00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:11.980
 return unto him you know we

00:23:11.980 --> 00:23:14.240
 see here something important

00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:15.619
 that takes place because

00:23:15.619 --> 00:23:18.019
 Hezekiah here sends out this

00:23:18.019 --> 00:23:19.940
 letter and he tells them he

00:23:19.940 --> 00:23:20.879
 says hey you guys need to

00:23:20.879 --> 00:23:22.139
 make a choice to do it

00:23:22.139 --> 00:23:24.200
 Hezekiah didn't command them

00:23:24.200 --> 00:23:27.460
 as king to come worship the

00:23:27.460 --> 00:23:31.279
 Lord he said if you turn he's

00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:32.619
 telling them what they ought to

00:23:32.619 --> 00:23:33.920
 do but he's not telling them

00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:36.519
 that they have to do it because

00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:37.900
 you know what you cannot force

00:23:37.900 --> 00:23:40.900
 somebody to worship the Lord you

00:23:41.620 --> 00:23:44.640
 cannot make somebody obey the

00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:45.960
 word of God because you can

00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:47.500
 obey on the outside and be

00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:49.120
 rebellious on the inside the

00:23:49.120 --> 00:23:51.440
 right spirit happens within and

00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.960
 and then notice what he calls

00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:55.820
 them here as they're there I mean

00:23:55.820 --> 00:24:00.780
 he mentions about them and what

00:24:00.780 --> 00:24:02.900
 he tells them there with this

00:24:02.900 --> 00:24:04.420
 because notice the response look

00:24:04.420 --> 00:24:06.640
 at verse 10 it says so the post

00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:08.220
 passed from city to city through

00:24:08.220 --> 00:24:09.460
 the country of Ephraim and

00:24:09.460 --> 00:24:14.279
 Manasseh even into Zebulun and

00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:15.720
 notice what that next part says but

00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:17.460
 they did what how did they receive

00:24:17.460 --> 00:24:19.539
 it they laughed them to scorn and

00:24:19.539 --> 00:24:21.060
 mock them and that's the way some

00:24:21.060 --> 00:24:22.720
 people receive the truth about what

00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:28.019
 God says they just laugh it off or

00:24:28.019 --> 00:24:30.800
 mock it but I want you to see the

00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:32.819
 next one look on down here in verse

00:24:32.819 --> 00:24:36.480
 11 nevertheless divers of Asher and

00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:38.579
 Manasseh and of Zebulun did what

00:24:38.579 --> 00:24:43.339
 humbled themselves and came to

00:24:43.339 --> 00:24:44.779
 Jerusalem you know what when you

00:24:44.779 --> 00:24:46.039
 share the truth of God with

00:24:46.039 --> 00:24:47.159
 somebody they're going to react one

00:24:47.159 --> 00:24:49.799
 of two ways they're either going to

00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:52.779
 reject it or accept it it's the same

00:24:52.779 --> 00:24:54.279
 back here in the Old Testament as it

00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:56.940
 is today people are going to either

00:24:56.940 --> 00:24:59.000
 going to accept truth or reject

00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:00.559
 truth there's no middle ground

00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:03.299
 because well we try to like but I

00:25:03.299 --> 00:25:04.220
 want you to understand the middle

00:25:04.220 --> 00:25:07.619
 ground is a no you either accept or

00:25:07.619 --> 00:25:10.940
 reject the truth of God's word there's

00:25:10.940 --> 00:25:14.319
 no to hee-haw around about it is the

00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:15.920
 same as saying no because you're saying

00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:17.740
 I don't believe it believing the word

00:25:17.740 --> 00:25:20.799
 of God is important and we see here

00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:22.960
 that he talks here about them being

00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:25.819
 stiff-necked you know look up in verse

00:25:25.819 --> 00:25:28.000
 a but be not stiff-necked as your

00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.019
 fathers were but yield yourself unto

00:25:30.019 --> 00:25:33.599
 the Lord you know people when it

00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:35.539
 talks about stiff-necked it means

00:25:35.539 --> 00:25:40.039
 resolved against okay turn back to

00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:41.940
 second Kings chapter 17 for a minute

00:25:41.940 --> 00:25:44.500
 because we see here in second Kings

00:25:44.500 --> 00:25:47.480
 chapter 17 in verse 14 the word of

00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.579
 God tells us this and we see this

00:25:49.579 --> 00:25:51.059
 connection here with this it says

00:25:51.059 --> 00:25:53.900
 notwithstanding they would not hear but

00:25:53.900 --> 00:25:57.440
 hardened their necks like to the neck of

00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:00.540
 their fathers that did what not believe

00:26:00.540 --> 00:26:03.420
 in the Lord their God you know the hard

00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:06.940
 part is we either submit to the things

00:26:06.940 --> 00:26:10.340
 of God surrender to the things of God or

00:26:10.340 --> 00:26:12.340
 we rebel against the things of God that's

00:26:12.340 --> 00:26:14.900
 reason as a New Testament believers in

00:26:15.660 --> 00:26:17.900
 Jesus Christ things are a little different

00:26:17.900 --> 00:26:21.100
 but the application still the same take a

00:26:21.099 --> 00:26:22.959
 look over what Paul says over in Romans

00:26:22.959 --> 00:26:27.579
 chapter 6 Romans chapter 6 in verse 13 the

00:26:27.579 --> 00:26:30.099
 apostle Paul here is describing working

00:26:30.859 --> 00:26:33.859
 through what happens at salvation and how

00:26:33.859 --> 00:26:36.539
 that comes about and what takes place and he

00:26:36.539 --> 00:26:38.839
 comes to this issue of dealing with whether

00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:41.099
 you're going to obey the Lord or not dealing

00:26:41.619 --> 00:26:44.099
 with sin notice what he says in verse 13 he

00:26:44.619 --> 00:26:47.699
 says neither yield you your members as

00:26:47.700 --> 00:26:51.480
 instruments of unrighteousness unto sin what's

00:26:51.480 --> 00:26:53.559
 he saying he's saying you need you're

00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:55.200
 going to yield to something what are you

00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:57.080
 going to yield to what are you going to

00:26:57.080 --> 00:26:59.319
 submit to are you going to be stiff-necked

00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:02.120
 against the things of God because notice

00:27:02.120 --> 00:27:05.039
 but yield yourselves unto God as those that

00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:07.860
 are alive from the dead and your members as

00:27:07.860 --> 00:27:10.539
 instruments of righteousness unto God what's

00:27:10.539 --> 00:27:12.279
 he talking about here he's not talking

00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:13.940
 about making a commitment to God he's

00:27:13.940 --> 00:27:15.559
 talking about making a surrender to God

00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:19.299
 yielding means not just committing to

00:27:19.299 --> 00:27:21.139
 something but surrendering to something

00:27:21.139 --> 00:27:24.220
 in other words it's taking where you may

00:27:24.220 --> 00:27:27.559
 have a right and saying I'm going to hold

00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:31.899
 back or I'm going to stop here I'm going to

00:27:31.899 --> 00:27:34.819
 use this as a restraint because it's what's

00:27:34.819 --> 00:27:37.480
 supposed to be and so we see here that

00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:41.139
 they are very stiff you're going to be

00:27:41.139 --> 00:27:43.460
 stiff-necked or yielded I mean when it

00:27:43.460 --> 00:27:45.140
 comes to the things of God that's the two

00:27:45.140 --> 00:27:48.019
 choices people have because there's

00:27:48.019 --> 00:27:50.160
 oftentimes people even today get very

00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:52.059
 stiff-necked about things because they

00:27:52.059 --> 00:27:54.200
 have ideas of what they think or how

00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:56.440
 they think it ought to be or what somebody

00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:58.440
 else has said instead of going back and

00:27:58.440 --> 00:27:59.740
 say where does it measure out in the

00:27:59.740 --> 00:28:03.600
 word of God because ultimately we can

00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:05.460
 all get stiff-necked about things that we

00:28:05.460 --> 00:28:07.900
 get that we think are so important but we

00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:09.420
 ought to measure those things not through

00:28:09.420 --> 00:28:10.779
 how we feel about it but through what

00:28:10.779 --> 00:28:14.339
 God's word says because when we measure

00:28:14.339 --> 00:28:16.059
 it through God's word what are we yielding

00:28:16.059 --> 00:28:18.519
 to yielding to God and not to somebody

00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:20.920
 else or to our own emotions or thoughts

00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:24.259
 because it's amazing how many people make

00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:26.180
 spiritual decisions on how they feel

00:28:26.180 --> 00:28:28.980
 spiritual decisions based on how you feel

00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:32.160
 about God's truth is stiff-necked because

00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.259
 it's built upon how you feel and not what

00:28:34.259 --> 00:28:38.240
 God says but notice here he calls them to

00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:40.420
 serve the Lord to turn again unto the Lord

00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:42.519
 and notice something good that he tells

00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:43.980
 us about God you know the good thing here

00:28:43.980 --> 00:28:46.240
 is he also he doesn't just call them out

00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:47.940
 he says hey guys I want you to understand

00:28:47.940 --> 00:28:51.420
 if you turn back to God God is gracious

00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:56.079
 God's merciful God desires for you to turn

00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:02.200
 to him God wants for you to come to him

00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:04.700
 matter of fact he tells him he will not

00:29:04.700 --> 00:29:08.080
 turn you away you know that's the same

00:29:08.080 --> 00:29:09.880
 principle in the New Testament and if you

00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:12.420
 come to Christ and call upon him he will

00:29:12.420 --> 00:29:15.000
 not turn you away you know what the great

00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:16.580
 thing is the God in the Old Testament is

00:29:16.580 --> 00:29:19.580
 the same God in the New Testament he's

00:29:19.580 --> 00:29:22.200
 merciful and gracious if you come to him

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:24.440
 and we see here this message is received

00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:26.779
 just like today you know we talked about

00:29:26.779 --> 00:29:29.420
 some mocked and some laughed why others

00:29:29.420 --> 00:29:31.259
 did what humbled themselves there was what

00:29:31.259 --> 00:29:35.279
 they do some were stiff-necked some yielded

00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:38.960
 to the things of God but see we see then

00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.500
 we see here that the Passover was

00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:44.160
 celebrated he sends out the letters to

00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:46.279
 everybody and some start making their way

00:29:46.279 --> 00:29:51.180
 to Jerusalem and so notice here in verse

00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:54.119
 15 of chapter 30 and it says this and then

00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:56.359
 they killed the Passover on the 14th day of

00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:57.819
 the second month and the priests and the

00:29:57.819 --> 00:30:00.519
 Levites were ashamed and sanctified

00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:02.240
 themselves and brought in the burnt

00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:04.559
 offerings into the house of the Lord and

00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:06.299
 they stood in their place after their

00:30:06.299 --> 00:30:08.379
 manner according to the law Moses the man

00:30:08.379 --> 00:30:10.839
 of God and the priests sprinkled the blood

00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:12.799
 which they received at the hand of the

00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:14.939
 Levites for there were many in the

00:30:14.939 --> 00:30:17.179
 congregation that were not sanctified

00:30:17.179 --> 00:30:19.759
 therefore the Levites had the charge of

00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:22.200
 killing the Passover for everyone that

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:25.500
 was not clean to sanctify them unto the

00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:27.960
 Lord for the multitude of the people even

00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:30.259
 many of Ephraim and Manasseh and Issachar

00:30:30.259 --> 00:30:33.640
 and Zebulun had not cleansed themselves

00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:35.279
 yet did they not eat the Passover

00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:38.180
 otherwise than it was written but

00:30:38.180 --> 00:30:40.500
 Hezekiah prayed for them saying Lord

00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:43.480
 God pardon everyone now I want you to get

00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:45.079
 the picture here because you got a lot of

00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:47.539
 people coming to Jerusalem remember he

00:30:47.539 --> 00:30:50.759
 sends out letters to the far reaches of

00:30:50.759 --> 00:30:53.839
 even Israel and understand that when these

00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:55.799
 people came they had not cleansed

00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:57.819
 themselves according to the law of Moses

00:30:57.819 --> 00:31:01.000
 now I want you to understand as you read

00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:02.359
 through this some of this might have been

00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:04.399
 strictly ignorance they got a call to

00:31:04.399 --> 00:31:06.439
 return to the Lord but I remember Israel

00:31:06.439 --> 00:31:08.299
 how long it had been since they had been

00:31:08.299 --> 00:31:11.579
 observing the Passover up in Samaria

00:31:11.579 --> 00:31:15.879
 some of the men and women and kids that

00:31:15.879 --> 00:31:18.359
 come had never even seen it it might have

00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.039
 been something that said just heard in the

00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:23.139
 distant past that grandma and grandpa might

00:31:23.139 --> 00:31:24.899
 have done in other words they knew they

00:31:24.899 --> 00:31:26.599
 wanted to turn to the Lord but they had no

00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:30.539
 idea what was going on they had not

00:31:30.539 --> 00:31:33.339
 prepared and sanctify themselves and and

00:31:33.339 --> 00:31:36.200
 they had not seen or participated in a

00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:38.680
 Passover since it had been generations

00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:41.299
 it's important to note that God pardoned them

00:31:41.299 --> 00:31:43.680
 because notice what happens here when

00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:46.740
 Hezekiah prays for them it says in the

00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:49.619
 Lord verse 20 and the Lord hearkened to

00:31:49.619 --> 00:31:52.859
 Hezekiah and healed the people it's

00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:54.939
 important to note that God pardoned them

00:31:54.939 --> 00:31:57.339
 because Hezekiah prayed that God might

00:31:57.339 --> 00:32:00.459
 pardon them if they prepare their heart to

00:32:00.459 --> 00:32:03.159
 seek the Lord in other words they came not

00:32:03.159 --> 00:32:06.099
 knowing only one thing they knew they came

00:32:06.099 --> 00:32:09.719
 knowing that they wanted to seek the Lord

00:32:09.719 --> 00:32:12.000
 they knew that this is what they were

00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:15.000
 supposed to do and they came in ignorance

00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.139
 now turn to Leviticus chapter 5 for a

00:32:17.140 --> 00:32:23.120
 moment Leviticus chapter 5 in verse 18 now

00:32:23.120 --> 00:32:24.720
 notice what the Word of God says here in

00:32:24.720 --> 00:32:26.740
 verse 18 and he shall bring a ram without

00:32:26.740 --> 00:32:28.840
 blemish out of the flock with thy

00:32:28.840 --> 00:32:31.060
 estimation for a trespass offering unto

00:32:31.060 --> 00:32:32.540
 the priest and the priest shall make an

00:32:32.540 --> 00:32:35.060
 atonement for him concerning what his

00:32:35.060 --> 00:32:39.500
 what ignorance wherein he erred and

00:32:39.500 --> 00:32:43.640
 whist it not and it shall be forgiven him you

00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:45.660
 know I want you to understand Hezekiah was

00:32:45.660 --> 00:32:48.680
 justified in praying for those that came

00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:50.740
 from Israel that were ignorant because

00:32:50.740 --> 00:32:52.240
 you got to understand what's ignorance

00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:56.220
 ignorance is lack of information you know

00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:57.900
 what you can't if you're not know to do

00:32:57.900 --> 00:32:59.580
 something you can't do it I mean that's

00:32:59.580 --> 00:33:01.279
 just simple fact isn't it you know you

00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:05.740
 can't if you don't know to do it it's

00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:09.759
 impossible for you to do it so God even

00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:12.400
 made a way for their ignorance to be

00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:14.920
 covered because of why because they needed

00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.060
 they came with a heart seeking the Lord

00:33:17.060 --> 00:33:20.580
 and the Lord said hey if you're seeking

00:33:20.580 --> 00:33:25.600
 me I'm making a way to prepare you for

00:33:25.600 --> 00:33:28.680
 what you need to do to seek the Lord is

00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:32.259
 important it wasn't their action it was

00:33:32.259 --> 00:33:34.759
 their heart towards God that made the

00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:38.480
 difference because they were yielded they

00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:41.740
 were humbled before the Lord but now let's

00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:43.640
 take a look here because as they come and

00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:47.120
 all this is taking place notice in them

00:33:47.120 --> 00:33:49.940
 verse 19 that prepareth his heart to seek

00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:52.539
 God the Lord God of his father so he be

00:33:52.539 --> 00:33:54.420
 not cleansed according to the purification

00:33:54.420 --> 00:33:58.059
 of the sanctuary and says the Lord hearkened

00:33:58.059 --> 00:34:02.299
 unto Hezekiah and healed the people so we see

00:34:02.299 --> 00:34:04.759
 here Israel the children of Israel of all the

00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:07.940
 tribes are gathering in and this results in

00:34:07.940 --> 00:34:11.699
 quite a revival you know revive Hezekiah's

00:34:11.699 --> 00:34:16.059
 revival changed people's lives there's a

00:34:16.059 --> 00:34:18.019
 transformation because I want you to see

00:34:18.019 --> 00:34:21.440
 here this was not a revival of emotion but

00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:23.420
 of change you know today we hear a lot

00:34:23.420 --> 00:34:26.019
 about revival you know you've seen in this

00:34:26.019 --> 00:34:29.659
 last year you know you'll see clips on the

00:34:29.659 --> 00:34:32.099
 internet you know little reels of mass

00:34:32.099 --> 00:34:34.360
 people getting baptized and you know there's

00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:36.319
 such a great revival here you know they've

00:34:36.319 --> 00:34:40.779
 been packed in a field house for 48 hours

00:34:40.779 --> 00:34:42.900
 listening to somebody beat on a drum and

00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:45.380
 and make some loud noise and they call it

00:34:45.380 --> 00:34:47.259
 revival you know what I want you to

00:34:47.259 --> 00:34:50.980
 understand that people calling something

00:34:50.980 --> 00:34:53.079
 worship or somebody going through an action

00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:55.460
 doesn't make revival those things somebody

00:34:55.460 --> 00:34:57.819
 that gets baptized means there's been a

00:34:57.819 --> 00:34:59.860
 change already in their life I want you

00:34:59.860 --> 00:35:01.880
 understand when they worship the Lord is

00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:04.700
 not the music it's the heart that makes

00:35:04.700 --> 00:35:05.720
 the difference you have a lot of people

00:35:05.720 --> 00:35:08.039
 that might have songs talk about God but

00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:08.880
 that's not worship

00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:12.820
 I want you to understand you can sing some

00:35:12.820 --> 00:35:15.059
 of the old hymns are good good songs but

00:35:15.059 --> 00:35:16.960
 if you don't sing them with a heart towards

00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:19.000
 God you know what it's not worship because

00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.240
 your heart is what makes it worship not

00:35:21.240 --> 00:35:24.800
 the song itself just like people getting

00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:26.960
 dunked you know I think we have we

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:28.740
 shouldn't even call it baptism it's mass

00:35:28.740 --> 00:35:30.940
 dunkings because baptism actually has a

00:35:30.940 --> 00:35:34.940
 definition in scripture you can get wet

00:35:34.940 --> 00:35:36.340
 all the time you want doesn't make a

00:35:36.340 --> 00:35:39.880
 difference you know we see people get wet

00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:42.440
 all the time and it doesn't mean anything

00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:45.579
 you know people do all sorts of things to

00:35:45.579 --> 00:35:49.880
 try to appease God or they use music to

00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:51.880
 move people but both these are caught up in

00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:55.519
 emotion instead of truth because I want you

00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:57.860
 to understand revival is not measured in

00:35:57.860 --> 00:35:59.400
 the moment that's one of the other things

00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:01.199
 I think we miss when it comes to revival

00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:03.320
 revival is not measured in the moment

00:36:03.320 --> 00:36:06.719
 revival is measured by what happens

00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:09.259
 afterwards because when true revival

00:36:09.259 --> 00:36:11.000
 happens and people turn towards God

00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:12.380
 there's going to be emotion involved

00:36:12.380 --> 00:36:16.960
 there's going to be some emotion and

00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:18.360
 there ought to be if your life's been

00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:19.900
 changed by Christ there ought to be some

00:36:19.900 --> 00:36:22.019
 emotion attached to it but what happens

00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:24.300
 later makes a difference this is a two

00:36:24.300 --> 00:36:26.260
 week revival they had such a good time

00:36:26.260 --> 00:36:27.560
 the first week and so many things

00:36:27.560 --> 00:36:28.760
 happened they said let's do it again

00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:30.519
 next week when you read through the text

00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:34.960
 it was two weeks of them worshiping the

00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:36.920
 Lord and getting right with God it talks

00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:40.080
 about them confessing it talks about them

00:36:40.080 --> 00:36:42.580
 getting their life straight with God and

00:36:42.580 --> 00:36:45.580
 revival takes place and you say preacher

00:36:45.580 --> 00:36:47.500
 how do you know revival took place look at

00:36:47.500 --> 00:36:49.900
 the next chapter look at chapter 31 because

00:36:49.900 --> 00:36:52.600
 revival always has results there's

00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:55.779
 something that happens look at verse

00:36:55.779 --> 00:36:59.139
 chapter 31 verse 1 it says now when all

00:36:59.139 --> 00:37:03.699
 this was what finished all Israel that

00:37:03.699 --> 00:37:05.759
 were present went out of the cities of

00:37:05.759 --> 00:37:08.500
 Judah and notice what they did they break

00:37:08.500 --> 00:37:11.619
 the images in pieces and cut down the

00:37:11.619 --> 00:37:15.279
 groves excuse me threw down the high

00:37:15.279 --> 00:37:17.360
 places and altars out of Judah and

00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:20.039
 Benjamin and Ephraim and also Manasseh

00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:22.300
 until they were utterly destroyed them all

00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:24.320
 that all the children of Israel returned

00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.099
 every man to his possession under their

00:37:26.099 --> 00:37:28.880
 own city you know what the proof of the

00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:30.440
 revival was is what they did when they

00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:31.739
 went home because what they did they

00:37:31.739 --> 00:37:35.400
 turned from their idols unto God on

00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:36.920
 Sunday morning we're talking from first

00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:39.719
 Thessalonians about how Paul makes

00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:42.279
 mention of the Thessalonians doing what

00:37:42.279 --> 00:37:47.679
 turning from their idols unto God you know

00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:50.000
 these people had a genuine change because

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:53.359
 they turned from their idols they took the

00:37:53.359 --> 00:37:55.419
 things that they were worshiping and got

00:37:55.419 --> 00:37:57.039
 rid of them and I want you to understand

00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:58.759
 that they didn't just quit worshiping

00:37:58.759 --> 00:38:00.199
 because now they're going to worship the

00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:03.399
 Lord it was a turning from the false

00:38:03.399 --> 00:38:07.299
 worship of these false gods and I want

00:38:07.299 --> 00:38:08.699
 you to understand it wasn't just an

00:38:08.699 --> 00:38:10.940
 intellectual decision but one that caused

00:38:10.940 --> 00:38:13.599
 them to remove all the idols from before

00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:15.539
 them I think on their way back home they

00:38:15.539 --> 00:38:17.219
 started thinking I got this hidden over

00:38:17.219 --> 00:38:18.860
 here this idol and that idol and they

00:38:18.860 --> 00:38:21.659
 said we need to get rid of it they need

00:38:21.659 --> 00:38:24.539
 to deal with it they needed to properly

00:38:25.300 --> 00:38:27.619
 take care of it to destroy it to put it

00:38:27.619 --> 00:38:31.480
 away all those who had not prepared

00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:33.639
 themselves prior to coming to Jerusalem I

00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:35.159
 think there's a lot but back to Israel

00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:36.980
 because they'd been up there where they'd

00:38:36.980 --> 00:38:38.920
 been worshiping all these false gods and

00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:40.099
 they said on the way home we're going to

00:38:40.099 --> 00:38:42.539
 take care of this when we get there we're

00:38:42.539 --> 00:38:44.759
 we're going to get rid of them we're

00:38:44.759 --> 00:38:46.360
 going to take it out we're going to

00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:48.699
 destroy them to utterly destroy them

00:38:48.699 --> 00:38:50.960
 they took their faith in God personally

00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:53.800
 not just outwardly but it transformed

00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:57.639
 their heart it changed them as a person

00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:00.659
 you know Proverbs chapter 10 verse 16 the

00:39:00.659 --> 00:39:02.579
 word of God tells us this the labor of

00:39:02.579 --> 00:39:04.420
 the righteous tended to life and the

00:39:04.420 --> 00:39:07.659
 fruit of the wicked to sin you know I

00:39:07.659 --> 00:39:09.219
 want you to understand that when God

00:39:09.219 --> 00:39:10.920
 changes you there ought to be a change in

00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:12.500
 fruit you know think about what Jesus

00:39:12.500 --> 00:39:15.880
 said over in Luke chapter 6 Luke chapter

00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:18.480
 6 in verse 43 the word of God tells us

00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:21.180
 this it says for a good tree bringeth for

00:39:21.180 --> 00:39:23.700
 bringeth not forth corrupt fruit neither

00:39:23.700 --> 00:39:25.539
 does a corrupt tree bringeth forth good

00:39:25.539 --> 00:39:30.460
 fruit for every tree is known by his own

00:39:30.460 --> 00:39:36.880
 fruit Jesus is simply saying you're going

00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:40.059
 to produce what you are verse 45 in Luke

00:39:40.059 --> 00:39:42.320
 he says this a good man out of the good

00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:44.119
 treasure of his heart bringeth forth that

00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:46.340
 which is good and an evil man out of the

00:39:46.340 --> 00:39:47.900
 evil treasure of his heart bring forth

00:39:47.900 --> 00:39:50.320
 that which is evil for the abundance of

00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:54.420
 the heart his mouth speaketh you know what

00:39:54.420 --> 00:39:58.360
 where your heart is is tied to what you do

00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:03.420
 the decisions you make because we see secondly

00:40:03.420 --> 00:40:05.920
 here we see a change of thinking concerning the

00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:09.460
 things of God they didn't just return back to

00:40:09.460 --> 00:40:12.559
 their old life but to a new one they had a new

00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:16.559
 desire to follow the Lord directed by his word their

00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:20.760
 thinking was changed you know when you come to

00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.640
 Christ your thinking ought to change

00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:26.779
 go over to Galatians for a moment Galatians chapter 5

00:40:26.779 --> 00:40:29.460
 Galatians chapter 5 and look down at verse 24

00:40:29.460 --> 00:40:31.019
 who's got that one for me tonight

00:40:31.019 --> 00:40:33.659
 everybody's kind of lagging here

00:40:33.659 --> 00:40:36.299
 got somebody read that one for me read that April

00:40:36.299 --> 00:40:43.579
 verse 25 also please

00:40:43.579 --> 00:40:52.759
 so what do we need to do we need to do what walk in

00:40:52.759 --> 00:40:55.819
 the spirit it is a change that takes place we've

00:40:55.819 --> 00:40:59.039
 crucified the flesh with the affections and

00:40:59.039 --> 00:41:02.819
 lust if we live in the spirit let us do what walk in

00:41:02.819 --> 00:41:06.819
 the spirit this parallels over look at Romans

00:41:06.819 --> 00:41:10.840
 chapter 12 Romans chapter 12 in verse 2 got that

00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:13.340
 one Daryl if you would

00:41:13.340 --> 00:41:14.559
 yep

00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:30.039
 okay I want you to understand here there was a

00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:33.840
 difference that was made their lives changed

00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:38.440
 completely things were different their thinking

00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:40.280
 changed and the things we're going to see that

00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:43.140
 play out here in this chapter because

00:41:43.139 --> 00:41:46.480
 Hezekiah we're going to see here also

00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:49.480
 appointed look at verse 2 of chapter 31 it says

00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:51.579
 Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and

00:41:51.579 --> 00:41:54.359
 Levites after their courses every man according to his

00:41:54.359 --> 00:41:56.339
 service the priests and Levites for burnt offering for

00:41:56.339 --> 00:41:58.719
 peace offering to minister and to give thanks and

00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:02.199
 to praise in the gates of the tents of the Lord and he

00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:04.719
 appointed also the king's portion of his substance for

00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:07.239
 the burnt offering to wit for the morning and evening

00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:09.019
 burnt offering for the burnt offering for the

00:42:09.019 --> 00:42:13.360
 Sabbath and for the new moons and for the set feast it is written in the law of the Lord

00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:16.800
 moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem give a portion of the

00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:22.199
 priests and the Levites that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord I want

00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:37.539
 to see here the Hezekiah sets up and says priest you need to get sanctified and do what you want to do but the people did something accordingly also and we're going to see here as we look through chapter 31 you're going to see God's people began to give

00:42:37.539 --> 00:43:07.519
 they began to give to the things God had instructed them to give they began to give if you read through we don't have time tonight but you can go home and read through the rest of 31 it talks about the heaps were so big they had to figure out what they were going to do with the offerings because not just in Jerusalem even from Israel they were sending things back and you say preacher what how does that play out I want you to understand your heart and your pocketbook are connected think about what Jesus says look over to Matthew chapter 6

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 6 Matthew chapter 6 look down at verse 21 you got that one Josiah Matthew 6 21

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 okay when Jesus said that what's he telling us there's what a connection between what you possess and your heart there's a connection there a little later in verse 24 could you read that one for me there Josiah verse 24 same chapter since you're already there chapter 6

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 okay Jesus continues with that same thought isn't it because you're gonna have to choose who you serve and the results were seen in what they did look down in verse 9 of this chapter

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 it says then Hezekiah

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 and the chief priest comes out and says hey people are bringing so much stuff we don't have a place to put it you know what I want you to understand what it tells us is is there was a true revival because the people's attitudes changed

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 they said we're gonna give what God has instructed them to give

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 you need to keep in mind Israel was instructed in the law of exactly what they were supposed to give and when they were to give it matter of fact we talk about tithing if you add up all they were to give in the Old Testament it's about 30%

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 between to do a quality quality quality quality quality

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 because what you invest your resources in is where your heart's attached.

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 If you invest, it's because your heart has an outcome that you're expecting.

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 I want you to see here there was something very different happening in Judah and throughout Israel.

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 A new course in word and deed was happening in their lives.

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 Hezekiah was also willing to follow the Lord and do what he ought to do.

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 Look down at verse 20 here, and it says,

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 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.

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 And in every work that he began in service of the house of God and in the law and in the commandments to seek his God,

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 he did it with all his heart and prospered.

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 Now I want you to see here, you've got to keep in mind this all happened in a few months.

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 This is the beginning of Hezekiah's reign.

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 Next week we're going to look at something because, you know what, when we begin to serve the Lord, you know what?

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 There's going to be a test.

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 Do you really serve the Lord for the right reason?

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 James tells us this.

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 It says, James 1.12 says,

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 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, for when he is attried, he shall receive the crown of life,

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 which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

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 Next week we're going to take a look because Israel is going to face a test.

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 Hezekiah is going to face a test.

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 Do I trust God or not?

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 You know what, sometimes the same question comes up in our life and decisions that we have to make.

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 Am I willing to trust God in the difficult things to make the right decision?

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 We'll look at that next week with Hezekiah.

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 Let's pray.