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Let's turn our attention to second chronicles, Chapter Twenty three. Second Chronicles Twenty
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three, let's give our attention to
God's word. But in the seventh year,
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Jehoida took courage and entered into a
covenant with the commanders of hundreds,
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Azariah, the son of Jehoran,
Ishmael, the son of Jehanhanah, Jehoanan,
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Azariah, the son of Obed Massaeya, the son of Addhia, and
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Elishapat, the son of Zikri,
and they went about through Judah and gathered
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the Levites from all the cities of
Judah and the heads of father's houses of
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Israel, and they came to Jerusalem
and all the assembly made a covenant with
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the King in the House of God, and Jehoiada said to them, behold
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the king's son, let him reign. As the Lord spoke concerning the Sons
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of David, this is the thing
that you shall do. Of you priests
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and Levites who come off duty on
the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers
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and one third shall be at the
king's house and one third at the gate
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of the foundation, and all the
people shall be in the courts of the
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House of the Lord. Let no
one enter the House of the Lord except
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the priests and ministering Levites. They
may enter, for they are holy,
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but all the people shall keep the
charge of the Lord. The Levites shall
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surround the king, each with his
weapons in his hand, and whoever enters
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the house shall be put to death. Be With the king when he comes
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in and when he goes out.
The Levites and all Judah did according to
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all the johoyed the priest commanded,
and he each brought his men who were
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to go off duty on the Sabbath
with those who were to come on duty
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on the Sabbath. For Jooyah to
the priest did not dismiss the divisions and
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joy to the priest gave to the
captains the spears and the large and small
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shields that had been King David's,
which were in the House of God,
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and he set all the people as
a guard for the king, every man
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with his weapon in his hand,
from the South side of the House to
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the north side of the house,
around the altar and the around the altar
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and the house. Then they brought
out the king's son and put the crown
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on him and gave him the testimony
and they proclaimed him as king and Jehoyda
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and his son's anointed him and they
said Long live the king. When atholiah
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heard the noise of the people running
and praising the king, she went into
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the House of the Lord to the
people and when she looked there was the
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king standing by his pillar at the
entrance and the captains and the trumpeters beside
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the king, and all the people
of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets and
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the singers with their musical instruments leading
in the celebration, and off Aliah tore
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her clothes and cried treason, treason. Then, joyed to the priest,
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brought out the captains who were set
over the army, saying to them bring
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her out between the ranks and anyone
who follows hers to be put to death
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with the sword, for the priest
said, do not put her to death
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in the House of the Lord.
So they laid hands on her and she
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went into the entrance of the Horse
Gate of the king's house and they put
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her to death there. And Johoyda
made a covenant between himself and all the
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people and the king that they should
be the Lord's people. Then all the
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people went to the House of bail
and tore it down, his altars and
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his images. They broken pieces and
they killed Maton, the priests of bail
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before the altars and johoyed a posted
watchmen for the House of the Lord,
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under the direction of the levitical priests
and the Levites, whom David had organized
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to be in charge of the House
of the Lord, to offer burnt offerings
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to the Lord, as it is
written in the law of Moses, with
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rejoicing and with singing. According to
the order of David, he stationed the
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gatekeepers the gates of the House of
the Lord so that no one should enter
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who was in any way unclean.
You took the captains, the nobles,
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the governors of the People's and all
the people of the land and they brought
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the king down from the House of
the Lord, marching through the upper gate
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to the king's house, and they
set the king on the Royal Throne.
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So all the people of the land
rejoiced and the city was quiet after Autholiah
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had been put to death with the
sword. God bless his word to us.
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If you are jumping into the midical, middle of or Middleish and dish
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of second chronicles here on. The
story has a lot of drama all in
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its own, but it has even
more when you remember who ath a lia
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is. She's not just some person
who got overthrown. She was the wicked
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daughter of Jezebel from the north in
Israel who, through a variety of circumstances,
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had come down to Judah, had
integrated into the household of the king's
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and had put everyone she thought to
death. You basically have this evil Israelite
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proxy Queen Ruling in Judah where the
sons of David should have been. And
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she was no merely power hungry person. She was she was someone who is
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committed to undoing not just the relationship
of David and his dynasty in this kingdom,
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but she wanted to undo the relationship
between God and his people, which
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is why she, like her mother, had established this House of Bale idolatrous
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worship and many other things. This
is an extremely low point in Judah's history,
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in the in the children of Abraham's
history. It would seem at this
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point, before we read Chapter Twenty
three, that all is over, that
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the promise that had been given to
David that he, the God, would
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place one of his sons on the
throne to rule, and a majestic and
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wonderful rule for all eternity. At
this promise had come undone, that Satan
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had had his way in the world, had undone the covenance between God and
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his people, and now it was
all darkness in idolatry. But at the
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end of chapter twenty two we read
that a son was hidden. We read
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that one of the sons, one
of the sons of these grandsons of David,
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was hidden in the House of God
for six years. This is the
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last verse of Chapter Twenty Two.
Six years hidden in the House of God
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while Athaliah reigned over the land.
Six years. That'saw longer than one presidential
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term. It's not the longest thing
in the world, but I don't think
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it was pleasant. Can you imagine
being being a Johoyoda, a faithful priest,
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or perhaps one of the Levites serving
in the House of a Lord,
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walking along the street next to one
of the priests of bail, perhaps riding
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the bus on the way, on
the way up to the temple, next
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to other people that were going to
their jobs in your country, in Judah,
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to worship and to sacrifice to this
false god. We don't have lots
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of details, but gooven what we
know about her, her murderous tendencies,
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her disloyalty, her only looking out
for number one, her great sins,
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her hatred of Yahweh. We can
imagine that any faithful person would have been
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at great risk. There would have
been danger. The temple, of course,
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still remained. I suppose that would
have been difficult to destroy and also
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probably a difficult political move. You'd
also lose a lot of wealth. So
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we have the the priests, Jehoioda
and a certain amount of structure continuing on
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and Johoida, in the middle of
this terrible rain by this queen, makes
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some very difficult decisions. Decides to
hide this Sun. It's a long time
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to hide a person right under the
queen's nose. Remember that the temple was
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next to the palace. I mean
it's all sort of in the same complex,
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large build things, lots of people. But still he hides for six
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years. Somehow the word doesn't get
out to the most powerful person in Judah,
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the one person who threatens her the
most. He hides her. But
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the day comes when Jehoiadah, we
read in verse one takes courage. For
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whatever reason, he decides it's time. ATHELIA's reign is over and with amazing
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leadership, Johoia encourage goes public in
a way. He calls commanders, families,
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governors, priests and he tells them
the plan, at least many of
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them the plan, and he musters
up a great number of people to establish
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what is going to be happen.
All the assembly reread in verse three.
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All the assembly made a covenant with
the King and the House of God.
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They make a covenant there. They're
they're committed to what is going to happen,
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and Johoida says to them, behold
the king's son. Can you imagine
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if, perhaps you didn't know that
the king yet had a son? You
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thought everything was over, you thought
Atheliah was reigning and it would just be
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one of her daughters or sons after
another until who knows when. And now
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all of a sudden you find out
there is a promised child that we didn't
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know about, a king ready to
take control. Amazing. He says behold
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the king's son, let him reign, as the Lord spoke concerning the Sons
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of David. I think this is
a really remarkable thing. Jehoy had obviously
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had US nick significant amount of power
here. He doesn't take it to himself,
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though. This is not Johoya as
coup in order to obtain power.
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Instead, he takes this this perhaps
child it would seem, and and and
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and exalt him to the place on
the he should be. And he does
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this for one reason and one reason
only. And he says it in verse
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three, as the Lord spoke concerning
the Sons of David. Throughout this difficult
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time, Jehoiada keeps his priorities trait, he keeps his perspective right. His
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eye is on the Lord God.
He trusts him. Despite the way that
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everything is looking in the Kingdom of
Judah, Jehoy had a trust that God
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will do as he is promised,
as the Lord spoke, and as you
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go through I won't go through it
all now, but as you go through
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the chapter and you notice David's name
coming up again and again and you notice
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the names of Moses and instructions and
all of these things, you see what
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Joyad is doing. Judoy Jehoyah is
not inaugurating his own reign, he is
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reforming and re establishing God's reign in
Judah, the things that God had commanded
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according to his covenants, his instructions. This is what Johoy does after and
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it is a very holy task.
God gives it great success. He does
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this clever move where he tells the
Levites that are going off duty to sort
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of stick around as the Levites that
are coming on duty to also stick around.
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He hands out weapons. I say
it's clever because he has a large
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number of people there without really calling
anyone to himself all at the same time.
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But there they are. They stationed
themselves everywhere. They prepare for the
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battle. And then Atholie in verse
twelve, here is the word. She
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heard the noise of the people running
and praising the king. She could hear
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it, perhaps from her palace.
What's that sound? What are those thousands
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of people doing down there? And
she comes out and when she looked verse
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thirteen, there was the king standing
by his pillar at the entrance and the
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captains and the trumpeters beside the king
and all the people of the land rejoicing
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and blowing trumpeters and the singers with
their musical instruments leading the celebration. She
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accuses them treason. She says treason. But the accusation, like all of
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Satan's accusations, is a false one. They're not treasons, she is.
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She is the one who is run, who's wrongly taken a throne that never
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belonged to her, who is ruled
over God's people in a way that was
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not according to his will. Satan
likes to accuse us with things that sound
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plausible. It sounds plausible that the
people taking over the government reaped kicking out
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Atheliah, are the ones who are
committing treason. Isn't that the definition?
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But yet, despite the plausibility,
we know it's not true and she's in
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the wrong. And JOD JEHOIADA has
nothing. World will not hear it.
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Bring her out between the ranks,
and anyone who follows her, he says,
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is to be put to death with
the sword. When the king comes
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to power, it is a time
of division. It is important that this
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son of David be established, that
he be established as the one truly in
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control. There's no messing around here. Those of who belong to Ath Aliah
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will be destroyed, and that is
why, when they get to Matton,
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the priest before the bales of altar, they don't wait around to hear his
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side of the story. He's told
his side of the story. He's demonstrated
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his faithfulness already, or rather his
faithlessness to Yahway, and they rightly put
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him to death. And then,
after all that is established, they take
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the king, they march him up
through the upper gate to the king's house,
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they set him on his throne and
the people rejoice and the city was
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quiet. After all, a lie
had been put to death with the sword.
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Why is this story important to us? Why should it be important to
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us? There are lots of reasons. One reason is Johoyd is a great
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example of faithfulness, something to and
leadership. He's an exemplary model of of
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what it means to be a man
of God. You see in him cleverness,
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wisdom, patience, a prudence,
courage, all kinds of wonderful things.
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But it's much more than that,
though Jehoy had is certainly central to
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the to this story, to this
counting or this chronicle of Israel's or Judas
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history. Really the center person in
the story is God himself. It is
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God. God here, through through
the script sure, through his spirit,
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is giving us a specific example of
his faithfulness, and not just in a
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general way, but particularly his faithfulness
to the promise he made to David.
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There was a specific promise that God
made with David, as I said earlier,
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a covenant that he made with him
that said, I will establish a
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king on the throne, one of
your sons, who will rule over my
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kingdom forever. The End of chapter
twenty two puts God's promises in a position
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of questioning. It makes us wonder, at least it would, I think,
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if we were in the moment.
It would make us wonder, is
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God true? How can he be
true? But Chapter Twenty three is all
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about saying of course he is.
He always is, and that's why.
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That's one among many reasons why chapter
twenty three, this story about Joe Ash
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being made king and Jehoiah's reforms and
all the rest, is so important to
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us because it's specifically testifying to us, with this historical example for the record,
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that God is faithful, even in
the darkest of times, to his
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promise to David. And if God
was faithful here at this moment, will
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he not be faithful in every moment? Of course he will. We think
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of perhaps, about the darkness that
surrounded the Times immediately before Jesus is birth,
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people would return from the land,
but the leaders were corrupt, the
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Pharisees were corrupt, they were occupied
by Rome. It was not a good
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time for the people and the land
of Israel. Where is the Messiah?
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Where is the Messiah? Where is
the Messiah? Where is the son of
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David? He's gone, there is
no more. There was no rightful king,
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not really ruling over Israel. Before
Jesus was born. It was a
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very similar circumstance for generation after generation, ever since the the fall in the
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garden, if even, people had
been wondering where is the Promised Child?
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For many, many more than six
years. People wondered, waited. At
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least the faithful waited, trusted in
the Lord, heard his promises, experienced
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things like second chronicles twenty three and
said, yes, the Lord is good,
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yes, his promises are steadfast,
yes, he will keep his word.
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And Chronic second chronicles twenty three says
that he does, and of course
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he did. Jesus was born,
the sun was revealed and the whole creation
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testified to the fact that here is
your king, The star leading the wise
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men, the angels descending down and
speaking to the shepherd's prophecies to people,
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all kinds of things surrounding Jesus.
Is Birth, where the trumpets and the
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instruments and everything declaring the king has
come. And then there he is in
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the waters of Jordan, the Holy
Spirit descending on him like a dove,
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the Father God speaking to Heaven and
saying this is my son, with whom
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I am well pleased. Right here, here he is and in his anointing,
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and much like we see happening here
is the sun is brought forth in
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a covenant is made. There in
the temple, God sets forth his son
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and says the Kingdom of Heaven is
at hand. And then, just as
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Joe ash made the transition from the
temple to his actual throne, Jesus made
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a transition to his throne, which
was, first and for foremost, the
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cross itself. Some people think of
the resurrection as a kind of fix to
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the problem of the Cross. Jesus
died and so that of course, had
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to be repaired, and so he
was resurrected. But that's not the case.
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Jesus's death isn't fixed by the resurrection. It proves that he was king.
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We read in various places in scripture, including Colossians and other places,
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that on the Cross, the evil
one, the Athaliah's Satan, and all
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of his minions were put to open
shame in the death of Jesus. When
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Jesus ascended to the cross, when
Jesus died, he says in John Nineteen,
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it is finished. I'm in charged
now death itself, and Satan is
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defeated. And when he rose from
the dead inaugurating that Kingship, he proved
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that to be the case. And
so we live in this remarkable time in
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which the king has come, the
king has been revealed, Satan has fallen.
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And yet at the same time we
know that though our Lord is ruling
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and reigning, even now, he
is absent from us in some ways,
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and Satan, though defeated and crushed, still works in some ways, like
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Atholiah, still calling out treason,
treason, though the game is up,
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though it's all over, still fighting, still striving. Satan does the same
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today. He strives, he tempts, he he pushes against us and the
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Kingdom of God. He tries to
re establish his reign. But if we
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are true to God's word, if
we recognize what he's done in history,
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we will do what joy do has
said and ignore him. Will Not listen
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to the lies of Satan, who
says the Lord is not coming. Where
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is he? It's not time.
You're all over. I'm in charge.
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We just move on. We move
past his flattery, we move past his
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accusations, because we trust in the
Lord. That's why this story is for
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us. It tells us how God
it's one example among hundreds and scripture.
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It's one example of how God has
been prompt, as God has fulfilled his
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promises regarding regarding David and regarding this
great son of David. So when we
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think about the rule of Jesus and
as we in some ways are waiting for
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him to bring that rule into consummation, what shall we do? Shall we
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fear the evil one? Shall we
given to temptation? Shall we act as
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though God is not truly in charge, as though he has not a ruling
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and reigning in our world? Of
course not. We must do as joy
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Ada does, remain faithful to the
Lord and to his word. Psalm to
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is one of the Great Psalms that
reminds us of Jesus as Kingship, and
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it says that the the scoffers and
evil ones. They they plan against the
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Lord, they connive and meet and
back rooms, they sneak, they murmur
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against the Lord and his anointed one. They make their plans, they try
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to crush him, they try to
make him fall, they try to separate
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us from US and God. But
you know what? It says that the
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Lord sits in heaven and he laughs. He holds them in derision and promises
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to break them apart like a Potter's
vessel. He is is not a big
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deal for him, just as it
was not a big deal with the establishment
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of the this king, the son
of David Joash, in second chronicles twenty
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three. How could we ever think
to be unfaithful to the king, no
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matter how dark times no matter how
dark times seem to be, no matter
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how much it seems that God has
not been faithful, no matter how much
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we are waiting for the fulfillment and
ultimate fulfillment of his promises, we must
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never drop or ignore our duties.
We must never, like these false priests,
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turned to the other side, because
what will happen is we will end
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up destroyed, just like them.
Right before Jesus's reserve or Jesus Crucifixion.
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He talks about the time in which
he is going to be going away,
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he talks about the time in which
he will, in a way, be
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hidden, and he gives us these
warnings and parables and examples and tells us
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to be faithful, to hold on, not for no reason, but because
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he is who he is, he
is God and he is and he is
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giving to us this great kingdom by
his power and His grace. And so,
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for example, in Matthew Twenty four
he says Verse Thirty Six, but
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concerning the day and hour, no
one knows, not even the angels in
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heaven nor the Sun, but the
father only. For as were the days
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of Noah, so will be the
coming of the son of man. For
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as in those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying
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and giving in marriage, until the
next day when Noah entered the Ark and
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they were unaware until the flood came
and swept them all away, so will
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be the coming of the son of
man. JOHOYDA got that point. There
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was all kinds of partying, all
kinds of things going on. But JADEHOYAH,
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like Noah, and I hope,
like you, are holding on to
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the truth of God's word, holding
on to his promises, holding on to
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who he is, despite what everyone
is doing around us. Jesus promises us
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that, like Noah, when he
returns, people will be unaware and he
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will sweep them away. I'll read
to you one more I meant from Matthew,
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Chapter Twenty Five. He says concerning
the final judgment, which is is
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the which is in many ways what
the death of Autheliah and the death of
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Matn or are pointing forward to,
the kind of judgment that comes on those
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who those who have plot and plan
against God and his people. Jesus says
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that when the son of man,
this is Verse Thirty One of Chapter Twenty
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Five Matthew, when the son of
man comes in his glory and all the
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angels with him, then he will
sit on his glorious throne. Before him
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will be gathered all the nations and
he will separate people one from another,
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as a shepherd separates the sheep from
the goats, and he will place the
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sheep on his rights, but the
goat on his left, goats on his
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left. Then the king will say
to those on his right, come you
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who are blessed by my father inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
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of the world. For I was
hungry and you gave me food, I
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was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed
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me. I was naked and you
clothed me. I was sick and you
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visited me, I was in prison
and you came to me. Then the
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righteous will answer him, saying,
Lord, when did we see you hungry
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and feed you, or thirsty and
give you drink? And and when did
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we see you a stranger and welcome
you, or naked and clothe you?
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When did we see you sick or
in prison and visit you? And the
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king will answer them. Truly,
I say to you, as you did
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it to the least of these,
my brothers, you did it to me.
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Here he welcomes those in, he
welcomes those who have done by right,
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by his word, those who have
been acting in accord with the grace
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that had been given to them.
But to those on his left, to
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the Matons, to the Authul lies, to all who all who had fought
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against him, he says in Verse
Forty One, he will say to those
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on his left, depart from me, you cursed into the eternal fire prepared
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for the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry and you gave me
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no food, I was thirsty and
you gave me no drink. I was
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a stranger and you did not welcome
me, naked and you did not clothe
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me, sick and in prison and
you did not visit me. Then they
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will also answer saying, Lord,
when did we see you hungry or thirsty
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or a stranger or naked or sick
or in prison, and did not minister
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to you? Then he will answer
them saying, truly, I say to
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you, as you did not do
it to one of the least of these,
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you did not do it to me, and these will go away into
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eternal punishment, but the righteous into
eternal life. This great division that Jesus
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talks about is what you see going
on in second chronicles twenty three. He's
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saying to both alioh and, not
only indirectly, didn't serve him, but
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actually directly, a persecuted this sun
tried to put him to death, just
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as Herod did with Jesus and many
others. He separates them and there's is
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judgment, eternal judgment. Second chronicles
is a way of telling US history is
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as as in order to get us
thinking about which side we ought to be
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on, to thinking about who God
is, his king, the nature of
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his kingdom and how he establish it, establishes it. The good news and
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all of this is not just the
strength of God, though. It's not
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just the power of God and overcoming
evil, but it's the grace of God
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in overcoming these things, because before
Jesus ums in his final judgment, which
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is yet still ahead of us,
he came to judge our sins on the
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cross. He came to bring us
into this kingdom, mercifully and wonderfully,
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while we were still sinners and persecutors
and haters of God. With that kind
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of invitation, if you're an awful
Liah, if you're a Maton, and
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you're given an opportunity to repent,
you're given an opportunity to come in,
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you're given an opportunity for grace,
will you not respond? Will you not
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hear and believe, knowing what the
end will be, having seen it played
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out in history, having heard it
prophesied by the king himself? We must
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believe what Jesus says. Believe what
Jesus says, trust him, because he
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is powerful, because he is God, because he's coming in judgment and because
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right now he's offering you grace and
forgiveness of your sins. Come to Jesus
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and know that you will be as
secure in his kingdom as anyone could ever
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be, because that's what he grants
to all who believe and trust in him.
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Let us pray.
