Class 6 from this series was used in GCT Episode 318.<\/p>\n
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\nOur speaker for Class 3 is
\nBrother Colin Badger, and his <\/p>\n
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\nsubject is The Thematic Study of
\nIsaiah and his subtitle for <\/p>\n
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\ntoday is The Faithful Remnant
\nand the Redeemed. <\/p>\n
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\nGood morning, brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
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\nI’d like to recap some of our
\nobservations from the last class<\/p>\n
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\nyesterday by approaching some of
\nthose issues we considered at <\/p>\n
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\nthe end of our class yesterday
\nfrom a slightly different <\/p>\n
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\nperspective and use it as an
\nintroduction for our theme this <\/p>\n
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\nmorning, Second Kings Chapter
\n18. <\/p>\n
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\nCould we turn there together,
\nplease? <\/p>\n
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\nThere are a few details
\npresented a little more <\/p>\n
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\nobviously in the King’s record
\nconcerning the Assyrian crisis <\/p>\n
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\nand Hezekiah’s relation to it.
\nIt has an important bearing in <\/p>\n
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\nour appreciation of the events
\nof those days and what obviously<\/p>\n
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\nforms a very important section
\nor backdrop to the prophecy of <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah.
\nIn verse two of Second Kings 18.<\/p>\n
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\nWe get one very important fact
\nfrom that verse and that is that<\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah reigned 29 years, verse
\n2 of Second Kings 18. <\/p>\n
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\nWe also know in the same
\nchapter, if we come down to <\/p>\n
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\nverse 13, that the Assyrian
\ncrisis was in the 14th year of <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah’s reign.
\nSecond Kings 18, verse 13. <\/p>\n
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\nWe also know that Hezekiah had
\nit added to his years, 15 <\/p>\n
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\nadditional years of grace.
\nNow you see how the computation <\/p>\n
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\nworks.
\nHe reigned 29 years. <\/p>\n
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\nFifteen of those years, the last
\n15, were added to his life from <\/p>\n
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\nthe time of his sickness.
\nThat means then that he had been<\/p>\n
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\nsick in his 14th year and had it
\nadded on to that fifteen <\/p>\n
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\nadditional years of grace,
\nmaking total 29. <\/p>\n
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\nBut you see what that therefore
\nshows us, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
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\nthat the Assyrian invasion
\noccurred in the same year as <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah’s sickness.
\nHe was sick in the 14th year. <\/p>\n
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\nThe invasion occurred in the
\n14th year. <\/p>\n
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\nHe recovered in the same year,
\nand 15 additional years were <\/p>\n
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\nadded on total 29 years.
\nNow just consider if we go back <\/p>\n
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\nto Isaiah, how this helps us to
\ncapture the tensions that must <\/p>\n
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\nhave been going through his
\ncourt and certainly must have <\/p>\n
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\nbeen internalized in poor King
\nHezekiah, Isaiah 38. <\/p>\n
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\nHere in verse one, Isaiah,
\nIsaiah the prophet comes to <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah and bears bad tidings,
\nas if he didn’t have enough <\/p>\n
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\nalready on his shoulders.
\nFor in verse one we read notice <\/p>\n
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\nthe wording, careful to time it
\nwith the invasion of the <\/p>\n
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\nAssyrians.
\nIn those days was Hezekiah sick <\/p>\n
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\nunto death.
\nAnd Isaiah the prophet, the son <\/p>\n
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\nof Amos, came unto him, and said
\nunto him, Thus saith the Lord, <\/p>\n
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\nSet thine house in order, for
\nthou shalt die and not live. <\/p>\n
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\nBrothers and sisters, let’s put
\nthe facts then together. <\/p>\n
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\nIn that year of crisis, look
\nwhat this man was shouldering. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Assyrian was on his doorstep
\nalready. <\/p>\n
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\nHe had moved down the coast.
\nInvasion of Jerusalem was <\/p>\n
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\ncertain #1 Secondly, Isaiah has
\ncome to Hezekiah and told him, <\/p>\n
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\nThou shalt die, and a man is
\nsick unto death. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s to be done here in the
\nmiddle of the Assyrian crisis? <\/p>\n
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\nThe monarch, the only possible
\nhope for the nation, is not only<\/p>\n
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\nsick, but the prophet of God has
\ncome to him and said, thou shalt<\/p>\n
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\ndie.
\nRight in the middle of the <\/p>\n
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\ncrisis.
\nThere was another source of <\/p>\n
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\ntension besides that, for if you
\nput the facts together in Kings <\/p>\n
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\nand Chronicles, it’s obvious
\nthat Hezekiah is still <\/p>\n
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\nchildless.
\nChildless, no seed to look upon <\/p>\n
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\nas the one who would carry on
\nhis name and his throne. <\/p>\n
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\nAs yet, Judah has no hope beyond
\nHezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we know that, brothers and
\nsisters, because Kings and <\/p>\n
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\nChronicles tells us that
\nManasseh was 12 years old when <\/p>\n
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\nhe began to reign, only 12 when
\nhe began to reign. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we go back.
\nHezekiah reign 29 years. <\/p>\n
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\nSubtract those 12 years, and
\nManasseh was born in the third <\/p>\n
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\nyear of the additional 15 tacked
\non to the end of Hezekiah’s <\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nThat shows us that it wasn’t <\/p>\n
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\nuntil then, after the Assyrian
\ncrisis, that Manasseh was born <\/p>\n
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\nin the third year of the extra
\n15. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then 12 years later,
\nHezekiah has died. <\/p>\n
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\nManasseh is 12, and he begins to
\nreign. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, when you see that picture,
\nmore tension is added to the <\/p>\n
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\npicture.
\nHere’s the Assyrian at the <\/p>\n
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\ndoorstep.
\nHezekiah has been wrestling with<\/p>\n
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\nsome terrible sickness.
\nIsaiah comes in and says you <\/p>\n
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\nwon’t recover, you will die.
\nAnd the man in addition to that <\/p>\n
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\nis childless as yet.
\nConsider the tensions that he <\/p>\n
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\nhad to face.
\nIndeed, by his repentance and <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s merciful response, the
\nking recovered from his illness.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s before us, isn’t it?
\nHere in Isaiah chapter 38? <\/p>\n
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\nBut Hezekiah wasn’t to know
\nthat. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat was going on in the court
\nof Hezekiah when they saw that <\/p>\n
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\nthis man was sick nigh unto
\ndeath, and when court rumor must<\/p>\n
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\nhave had it that Isaiah had
\nvisited that day and told <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah, no recovery, you’re a
\ndead man. <\/p>\n
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\nConsider the people in the court
\nas they must have murmured and <\/p>\n
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\npondered.
\nPanic must have swept through <\/p>\n
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\nthe court.
\nWhat are we going to do here? <\/p>\n
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\nAre the Assyrians at our
\ndoorstep? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the hour of crisis, and our
\nking has not only been sick, but<\/p>\n
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\nnow he’s going to die.
\nAnd his child? <\/p>\n
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\nNo heir to the throne.
\nIt tacked the face of Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\nto its limit.
\nAnd how it must have tried the <\/p>\n
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\nheart within those walls.
\nYou see, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
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\nit helps us to put our trials
\nand our crises in perspective, <\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t it?
\nWe think at times that it’s <\/p>\n
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\nunfair that we should be tested
\nat certain moments. <\/p>\n
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\nCommon question.
\nWe all ask why me? <\/p>\n
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\nWe often ask why now?
\nWhy now when I’ve got umpteen <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent problems when the
\nchildren are in this kind of a <\/p>\n
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\ncondition, or we haven’t paid
\noff the mortgage or we’ve just <\/p>\n
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\nhad to buy a new car, why now?
\nIt wouldn’t be a crisis and it <\/p>\n
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\nwouldn’t be a test of our faith
\nunless it was in those <\/p>\n
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\ncircumstances.
\nWhy not then? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd why not you or why not me?
\nThat’s the real question. <\/p>\n
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\nIt helps us to have a little
\nmore understanding for the way <\/p>\n
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\nGod works in the lives of
\ndisciples, to remember that <\/p>\n
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\nfaithful men like Hezekiah, whom
\nGod loved and cared for, went <\/p>\n
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\nthrough severe testing and not
\njust one problem to straddle a <\/p>\n
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\nmultitude of problems.
\nEvery one of them looked like a <\/p>\n
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\nblank wall.
\nAnd so we read in chapter 38, <\/p>\n
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\nverse 2 that Hezekiah turned his
\nfaith towards the wall and <\/p>\n
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\nprayed unto the Lord.
\nWhy didn’t he did that? <\/p>\n
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\nPrayed towards the wall?
\nHe must have stared at the wall <\/p>\n
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\nnear his bed chamber, and it was
\nlike a barrier, no doubt <\/p>\n
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\nfiguratively speaking.
\nIt was like the condition he was<\/p>\n
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\nin facing, we often say a brick
\nwall, a barrier to his success, <\/p>\n
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\na barrier to the helping of this
\nsmall remnant that had gathered <\/p>\n
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\naround him in Jerusalem.
\nBut we know that in response to <\/p>\n
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\nthe prayers, the fervent prayers
\nof a righteous man, as James <\/p>\n
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\nsays, God responded and in his
\nmercy saved Hezekiah, gave him <\/p>\n
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\nan additional 15 years and
\nfinally destroyed the Assyrians.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd moreover, within the third
\nyear of those 15, Manasseh was <\/p>\n
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\nborn, a child, a son to Hezekiah
\nto carry on his name and more <\/p>\n
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\nimportantly, carry on the lane
\nof the line of David within the <\/p>\n
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\nwalls of Jerusalem.
\nThen, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ll have all the principles
\nwithin an ecclesia, high points <\/p>\n
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\nand low points, tension, a
\ncrisis. <\/p>\n
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\nMen who sometimes are being
\nleaned on by others, but who in <\/p>\n
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\nthe hour of crisis sometimes
\nthemselves show themselves to <\/p>\n
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\nhave feet of clay.
\nEvery one of them was forced to <\/p>\n
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\nultimately trust upon God, not
\nsimply Isaiah, not just their <\/p>\n
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\nfaithful king.
\nThey were all faith to forced to<\/p>\n
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\nlook to heaven for an answer.
\nNow it’s interesting when you <\/p>\n
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\nconsider this little group, as
\nit were, in the walls of <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem in this hour of
\ncrisis, with all these cross <\/p>\n
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\ncurrents of tensions and
\ndifficulties. <\/p>\n
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\nTrying the hearts of all that
\nremnant within the walls to look<\/p>\n
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\nat some of the Psalms that throw
\nsome light on the beautiful <\/p>\n
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\nfigure that was nevertheless
\nbeing shown by those who were in<\/p>\n
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\nfellowship together during this
\ncrisis. <\/p>\n
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\nLet’s just go to Psalm 122, one
\nof the songs of degrees. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ve mentioned earlier that
\nthere’s good indication that <\/p>\n
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\nthese songs were collected and
\nsome of them written by <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah.
\nThat is from Psalm 1:20 to 1:34.<\/p>\n
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\nBut we’re going to look at Psalm
\n122. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a Psalm of David, but no
\ndoubt collected by Hezekiah as <\/p>\n
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\npart of this group, as one of
\nthe songs of degrees, with a <\/p>\n
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\npossible echo there of the
\ndegrees of the dial that went <\/p>\n
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\nback during Hezekiah’s years of
\nexperience. <\/p>\n
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\nNo doubt there was an
\nappropriateness to the Assyrian <\/p>\n
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\ncrisis from this song of David.
\nNow consider that crisis with <\/p>\n
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\nthese words in mind, verse 1,
\nPsalm 122. <\/p>\n
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\nI was glad when they said unto
\nme, Let us go into the House of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Lord.
\nOur feet shall stand within thy <\/p>\n
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\ngate, O Jerusalem.
\nJerusalem is builded as a city <\/p>\n
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\nthat is compact together.
\nNow that word compact has the <\/p>\n
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\nidea of fellowship behind it.
\nThe Septuagint Greek renders <\/p>\n
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\nverse 3 as follows.
\nJerusalem is built as a city <\/p>\n
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\nwhose fellowship is complete.
\nJerusalem is built as a city <\/p>\n
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\nwhose fellowship is complete.
\nWhat fellowship there was within<\/p>\n
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\nthose walls in the various hours
\nof crisis in Israel’s history. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, though, David is obviously
\nthinking of certain <\/p>\n
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\ncircumstances in his own life.
\nHow appropriate these sympathies<\/p>\n
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\nare at the time of Hezekiah.
\nA city with the faithful remnant<\/p>\n
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\nwithin the walls, a fellowship
\nin the hour of crisis. <\/p>\n
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\nWhither, says the psalmist, the
\ntribes go up, the tribes of the <\/p>\n
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\nLord, unto the testimony of
\nIsrael, to give thanks unto the <\/p>\n
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\nname of the Lord.
\nVerse 6. <\/p>\n
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\nHow appropriate this was as a
\nsong that would have been sung <\/p>\n
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\nin Hezekiah’s day.
\nPray for the peace of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
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\nNow we pray for that in our
\nhymns, and no doubt in our <\/p>\n
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\nBut how relevant that would be <\/p>\n
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\nto those within those pressured
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\nPray for the peace of Jerusalem,
\nhow Hezekiah prayed, and how the<\/p>\n
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\npeople must have prayed for
\npeace. <\/p>\n
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\nPeace be within thy walls, and
\nprosperity within thy palaces. <\/p>\n
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\nFor my brethren and companion’s
\nsake, I will now say, peace be <\/p>\n
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\nwithin thee.
\nLook over at Psalm 124, another <\/p>\n
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\nsong of degrees, another of
\nDavid, no doubt collected for <\/p>\n
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\nthis occasion as well.
\nIt was appropriate to the <\/p>\n
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\ncircumstances we’ve been
\ndescribing. <\/p>\n
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\nPsalm 124, verse one.
\nIf it had not been the Lord who <\/p>\n
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\nwas on our side, now may Israel
\nsay, if it had not been the Lord<\/p>\n
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\nwho was on our side when men
\nrose up against us, then they <\/p>\n
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\nhad swallowed us up quick, and
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\nNow the language typical in <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah of the waters of
\ninvasion. <\/p>\n
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\nThen the waters had overwhelmed
\nus like Isaiah ate. <\/p>\n
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\nThe waters had overwhelmed us.
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\nsoul.
\nNow think of Rabchaka, who’s <\/p>\n
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\ndescribed as proud in the Kings
\nand Chronicles account, verse 5.<\/p>\n
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\nThen the proud waters had gone
\nover our soul. <\/p>\n
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\nBut what had, as I ate promised,
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\nwould overflow, they would cover
\nthy land, O Emmanuel, and they <\/p>\n
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\nwill go up to the neck.
\nAnd the psalmist is saying the <\/p>\n
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\nwaters have come, but they
\ndidn’t swallow us up. <\/p>\n
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\nThe waters would have
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\nover our soul.
\nThe proud waters would have gone<\/p>\n
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\ntotally over us if it wasn’t for
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\nVerse 6 Blessed be the Lord who
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\nOur soul is escaped as a bird. <\/p>\n
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\nNow on the Taylor prism that we
\nshowed you the other evening, <\/p>\n
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\nthe translation in English shows
\nthat on one side the nacre of <\/p>\n
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\ndescribes on the Taylor prism
\nthe fact that he had besieged <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the language right on the<\/p>\n
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\nthus those in this crisis with
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\nSo very appropriate.
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\nout of the snare of the fowlers.
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\nescaped.
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\nLord who made heaven and earth.
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\nsongs of degrees from 1:20 to
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\nappreciation of the sympathy of
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\nsentiments that must have been
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\nthat hour of crisis. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we can take these psalms,
\nbrothers and sisters, to <\/p>\n
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\nourselves and all the
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\nconsidered this past week.
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\nevents that test us and try our
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\ndoubt.
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\nwhy me and why now think of
\nHezekiah, think of all that was <\/p>\n
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\non his shoulders, all the
\nsources of frustration and <\/p>\n
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\npotential despair, and think
\nthat the answer was prayer and <\/p>\n
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\ntrust.
\nIt’s like the experience of the <\/p>\n
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\napostle Paul who said in
\nCorinthians, Speaking of all the<\/p>\n
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\ndifficulties that were upon his
\nshoulders, all the care of the <\/p>\n
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\necclesias.
\nHe said, didn’t he, that there <\/p>\n
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\nwere fears from within and
\nfighting without? <\/p>\n
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\nHow appropriate, as it captures
\ncircumstances that have repeated<\/p>\n
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\nthemselves in ecclesial life and
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\nthrough the years.
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\nexperience of faithful
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\nMicah chapter 2.
\nWe’ve said time and again that <\/p>\n
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\nMicah’s prophecy throws light on
\nthe prophecy of Isaiah and <\/p>\n
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\nespecially on the years of the
\nAssyrian crisis. <\/p>\n
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\nThere is a lovely section here
\ndescribing this faithful little <\/p>\n
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\nremnant within the walls of
\nJerusalem in this hour of <\/p>\n
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\ncrisis.
\nMay I suggest the King James <\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t do complete justice to
\nthe sentiments? <\/p>\n
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\nThe NIV and other modern
\ntranslations are helpful here. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I’m going to read Micah
\nchapter 2 verses 12 to the end <\/p>\n
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\nfrom the NIVI Think it captures
\nthe scene a little more clearly.<\/p>\n
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\nMicah 2 verse 12.
\nNow remember Micah is <\/p>\n
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\nprophesying at this time.
\nVerse 12 says, God, I will <\/p>\n
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\nsurely gather all of you.
\nOh, Jacob, I will surely bring <\/p>\n
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\ntogether the remnant of Israel.
\nI will bring them together like <\/p>\n
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\nsheep in a pen.
\nNow that’s the key phrase in the<\/p>\n
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\nmodern translations that comes
\nout just a little more crisp. <\/p>\n
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\nI will bring them together like
\nsheep in a pen. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s the picture?
\nIt’s Jerusalem whose walls are <\/p>\n
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\ncompact together, like the walls
\nin the bonds of fellowship <\/p>\n
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\nbetween brethren.
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\nI will bring them together like
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\nits pasture.
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\npeople.
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\noriginal.
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\npeople.
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\nThis is the Angel of God.
\nOne who breaks open the way will<\/p>\n
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\ngo up before them.
\nThat’s the sheep. <\/p>\n
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\nThey will breakthrough the gate
\nand go out their king. <\/p>\n
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\nWho’s that?
\nTheir king will pass through <\/p>\n
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\nbefore them, the Lord at their
\nhand. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat a picture of the Assyrian
\ncrisis in the encirclement <\/p>\n
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\naround the walls of Jerusalem
\nand there within. <\/p>\n
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\nZion, of whom the psalmist, as
\nwe read yesterday, said Psalm 87<\/p>\n
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\nsluts.
\nAnd such a man or woman was born<\/p>\n
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\nthee, said Psalm 87.
\nAnd our attachment and their <\/p>\n
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\nattachment to Zion, the symbol
\nof God’s covenant with David and<\/p>\n
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\nwith Abraham, the promises of
\ntrue hope, the true answers of <\/p>\n
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\nprayer, all our solemnities are
\nin thee. <\/p>\n
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\nScripture says elsewhere there,
\nsituated within those walls in <\/p>\n
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\nthe right place, attached to the
\npromises of truth, was a <\/p>\n
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\nfaithful remnant.
\nAnd they were viewed by God as <\/p>\n
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\nsheep in a pen.
\nAnd the one who would break open<\/p>\n
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\nthe way, the Angel of God, who
\nwould destroy the enemies before<\/p>\n
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\nthem, break open the gate and
\nallow the king, the righteous <\/p>\n
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\nking, to pass out, and God being
\nat their head. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, with those kind of images
\nin mind, it’s helpful to read <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah carefully from beginning
\nto end, especially the second <\/p>\n
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\npart, looking always brothers
\nand sisters, for the allusions <\/p>\n
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\nto the contemporary events and
\nthen seeing their messianic <\/p>\n
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\nimportance.
\nWe gave attention yesterday to <\/p>\n
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\nthe title Emmanuel, and we tried
\nto show that there were <\/p>\n
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\ncircumstances in Hezekiah’s day
\nwhich clearly demonstrated the <\/p>\n
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\nreality of Emmanuel then and
\nthere, God with us. <\/p>\n
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\nWe suggest, brothers and
\nsisters, that there was some Old<\/p>\n
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\nTestament background in the law,
\nin fact, that prepared for an <\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding of this Emmanuel
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\nthrough, we see that in Hezekiah
\nhimself, in a shadowy way, there<\/p>\n
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\nwas one who was Emmanuel in the
\ndays of Isaiah. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the righteous King Hezekiah,
\nwe see so much of what he did, <\/p>\n
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\nthe kind of leadership he
\nprovided, the stresses and <\/p>\n
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\ntrials that were placed upon his
\nshoulders for him to bear, and <\/p>\n
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\nhis own personal righteous
\nexample. <\/p>\n
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\nThe fact that he was childless
\nlike Isaiah 53, who shall <\/p>\n
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\ndeclare his generation, for He
\nhad none. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the crisis, it looked as
\nthough his house would be <\/p>\n
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\nbarren, but in the end, he saw
\nhis seed. <\/p>\n
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\nDid Hezekiah as Messiah would in
\na greater sense and <\/p>\n
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\nsignificantly, Isaiah 53 said
\nthat God would prolong his days.<\/p>\n
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\nMessiah, whose days were
\nprolonged in the days of Isaiah <\/p>\n
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\nthe prophet, none other than
\nHezekiah, some extra 15 years <\/p>\n
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\nadded to his life as a kind of
\nsecond life, as it were. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, Deuteronomy 31, the word
\nEmmanuel is made-up of one very <\/p>\n
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\nsignificant section in the word
\nE man U, which means with us. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that’s a trigger phrase
\nfound elsewhere in Scripture, <\/p>\n
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\nbut I think one of the most
\ntelling sections before we come <\/p>\n
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\nto Hezekiah is in Deuteronomy.
\nDeuteronomy chapter 31 in Man U <\/p>\n
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\nwith us in relationship to God’s
\npromised help is found quite <\/p>\n
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\ntellingly in this context of
\nDeuteronomy 31 verse 3. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Lord thy God, he will go
\nover before thee, and he will <\/p>\n
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\ndestroy these nations from
\nbefore thee, and thou shalt <\/p>\n
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\npossess them.
\nAnd Joshua, he shall go over <\/p>\n
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\nbefore thee, as the Lord hath
\nsaid. <\/p>\n
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\nWe certainly have a keener
\nappreciation of what that meant <\/p>\n
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\nas we listen to our brother this
\nmorning dealing with Joshua. <\/p>\n
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\nNow verse 6, Be strong and of
\ngood courage, Fear not, nor be <\/p>\n
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\nafraid of them, the enemy, the
\nCanaanites, for the Lord thy <\/p>\n
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\nGod, he it is that doth go with
\nthee, M man U. <\/p>\n
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\nThere it is in verse 6.
\nIn the original it’s there with <\/p>\n
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\nthee, M man U.
\nIt occurs again in verse 8. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Lord, he it is that doth
\ngo before thee. <\/p>\n
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\nHe will be with thee in man U,
\nHe will be with thee. <\/p>\n
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\nNow we haven’t time to explore
\nthe full context of Deuteronomy <\/p>\n
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\n31, but this much is clear,
\nbearing in mind what we’ve been <\/p>\n
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\n00:25:07,080 –> 00:25:10,960
\nconsidering in Joshua.
\nBefore they went into the land <\/p>\n
338
\n00:25:10,960 –> 00:25:15,800
\nunder Joshua, the people were
\ntold one fundamental lesson with<\/p>\n
339
\n00:25:15,800 –> 00:25:21,160
\na very important trigger phrase.
\nYou will go into the land and I <\/p>\n
340
\n00:25:21,160 –> 00:25:27,240
\npromise Emmanuel, I promise to
\nbe with thee. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:25:28,640 –> 00:25:34,400
\nThus when we come to the promise
\nof Emmanuel as a title and <\/p>\n
342
\n00:25:34,400 –> 00:25:38,760
\nIsaiah 7 in the Emmanuel
\nprophecies, there was a former <\/p>\n
343
\n00:25:38,760 –> 00:25:41,480
\nOld Testament foundation for
\nthat revelation. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:25:42,400 –> 00:25:46,920
\nEmmanuel was promised in the
\ndays of Joshua before they <\/p>\n
345
\n00:25:46,920 –> 00:25:51,720
\nconfronted the enemy.
\nSo when they confront the enemy <\/p>\n
346
\n00:25:51,720 –> 00:25:56,640
\nin the days of Hezekiah and
\nthey’re told by promise that God<\/p>\n
347
\n00:25:56,640 –> 00:26:00,720
\nwill be Emmanuel, they knew what
\nit meant. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:26:01,280 –> 00:26:04,000
\nThose who were discerning and
\nknew their Old Testaments. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:26:04,640 –> 00:26:09,040
\nGod had said, I will be with you
\nbefore the Canaanites, and no <\/p>\n
350
\n00:26:09,040 –> 00:26:13,280
\ndoubt then He will be with
\nHezekiah and the people. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:26:14,320 –> 00:26:17,800
\nNow Deuteronomy, excuse me.
\nFrom there we go to Chronicles <\/p>\n
352
\n00:26:18,720 –> 00:26:24,440
\nback to the time of Hezekiah and
\nIsaiah for the name, or not the <\/p>\n
353
\n00:26:24,440 –> 00:26:28,600
\nname, but the part of the word
\nis employed very significantly <\/p>\n
354
\n00:26:28,600 –> 00:26:35,040
\nin Second Chronicles chapter 32.
\nAnd it’s here that we come <\/p>\n
355
\n00:26:35,040 –> 00:26:41,160
\ncloser and closer to the hints
\nprovided by these texts that <\/p>\n
356
\n00:26:41,160 –> 00:26:45,600
\nEmmanuel was being worked out in
\na temporary way, in a limited <\/p>\n
357
\n00:26:45,600 –> 00:26:47,640
\nway, through the person of
\nHezekiah. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:26:48,960 –> 00:26:54,560
\nDeuteronomy chapter 32.
\nHere are the words of the <\/p>\n
359
\n00:26:54,560 –> 00:26:58,440
\nfaithful king, the righteous
\nking to the faithful remnants <\/p>\n
360
\n00:26:58,440 –> 00:27:02,920
\nwithin the walls.
\nVerse 7, Second Chronicles 32. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:27:03,360 –> 00:27:05,760
\nListen to his exhortation,
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:27:06,600 –> 00:27:11,040
\nHe exhorts them in verse 7,
\nchapter 32. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:27:12,440 –> 00:27:16,920
\nBe strong and courageous.
\nBe not afraid nor dismayed for <\/p>\n
364
\n00:27:16,920 –> 00:27:20,960
\nthe king of Assyria, nor for all
\nthe multitude that is with Him, <\/p>\n
365
\n00:27:22,400 –> 00:27:26,080
\nfor there be more with us than
\nwith Him. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:27:26,920 –> 00:27:33,680
\nWith him is an arm of flesh, but
\nEmmanuel is Yahweh. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:27:34,480 –> 00:27:40,040
\nThere it is in the original.
\nWith us is Emmanuel. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:27:40,040 –> 00:27:42,240
\nIf you have the Hebrew text in
\nfront of you, you can see it for<\/p>\n
369
\n00:27:42,240 –> 00:27:45,160
\nyourselves.
\nWith Him is an arm of flesh. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:27:45,760 –> 00:27:51,240
\nBut said Hezekiah in menu is
\nYahweh, our God, to help us and <\/p>\n
371
\n00:27:51,240 –> 00:27:55,520
\nto fight our battles.
\nAnd the people rested, look at <\/p>\n
372
\n00:27:55,520 –> 00:28:02,440
\nthe margin, leaned themselves
\nupon the word of Hezekiah, king <\/p>\n
373
\n00:28:02,440 –> 00:28:04,480
\nof Judah.
\nNow if there aren’t some <\/p>\n
374
\n00:28:04,480 –> 00:28:08,320
\nmessianic overtones in that
\ncontext, I don’t know what you <\/p>\n
375
\n00:28:08,320 –> 00:28:12,560
\ncould ever expect to find.
\nAs a better example, here is a <\/p>\n
376
\n00:28:12,560 –> 00:28:17,640
\nrighteous king whose name meant
\nYah is strength. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:28:18,440 –> 00:28:22,720
\nHe exhorts his people.
\nHe speaks to them comfortably by<\/p>\n
378
\n00:28:22,720 –> 00:28:24,760
\nweight of by word of
\nexhortation. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:28:25,360 –> 00:28:31,320
\nHe says to them, Emmanue, God is
\nwith us, He will fight our <\/p>\n
380
\n00:28:31,320 –> 00:28:34,320
\nbattles.
\nAnd the people listening to <\/p>\n
381
\n00:28:34,320 –> 00:28:40,800
\nHezekiah’s words lean themselves
\nupon the words that come out of <\/p>\n
382
\n00:28:40,800 –> 00:28:45,080
\nthe mouth of this king, This
\nrighteous, faithful king, <\/p>\n
383
\n00:28:46,360 –> 00:28:50,480
\novertones, no doubt, of the
\nEmmanuel prophecies. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:28:50,840 –> 00:28:53,880
\nNo wonder it said in chapter 8
\nthat when the Assyrian came down<\/p>\n
385
\n00:28:53,880 –> 00:28:59,160
\nlike a flood and overspread the
\nwings and flooded the land, it <\/p>\n
386
\n00:28:59,160 –> 00:29:06,440
\nsaid, Thy land, O Emmanuel, one
\nthrough whom God would show <\/p>\n
387
\n00:29:06,440 –> 00:29:11,600
\nhimself, nay, prove himself to
\nbe with his people. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:29:12,160 –> 00:29:13,360
\nBut there’s more to it than
\nthat. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:29:13,640 –> 00:29:18,520
\nThis little context for Hezekiah
\nhas a play upon his own name, <\/p>\n
390
\n00:29:19,200 –> 00:29:24,480
\nverse 7, Be strong.
\nIt’s a word play, no doubt upon <\/p>\n
391
\n00:29:24,480 –> 00:29:28,360
\nhis own name.
\nFor the word strong in verse 7 <\/p>\n
392
\n00:29:28,960 –> 00:29:35,080
\nis the word Hizaku, 3\/4 of
\nHezekiah’s name. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:29:35,520 –> 00:29:39,880
\nHis name meant, remember,
\nstrength of Yahweh or Yahweh is <\/p>\n
394
\n00:29:39,880 –> 00:29:41,480
\nstrength.
\nEither way is fine. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:29:42,080 –> 00:29:48,200
\nSo he says to them, here’s the
\ncoup, be strong and courageous. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:29:48,400 –> 00:29:54,840
\nThen in verse 8 he reminds them
\nof the Emanu principle, God with<\/p>\n
397
\n00:29:54,840 –> 00:29:58,240
\nus.
\nHow powerful that exhortation <\/p>\n
398
\n00:29:58,240 –> 00:30:01,560
\nwas and how much it shows,
\nbrothers and sisters, that in a <\/p>\n
399
\n00:30:01,560 –> 00:30:05,840
\ncontemporary application, there
\nwas a sense in which Hezekiah <\/p>\n
400
\n00:30:05,840 –> 00:30:12,560
\ndemonstrated the promise, the
\nreality of the Emmanuel promise.<\/p>\n
401
\n00:30:12,760 –> 00:30:15,840
\nGod will be with us.
\nSo he was. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:30:17,360 –> 00:30:21,040
\nLet’s go back to Psalms.
\nIt’s a little Psalm that’s worth<\/p>\n
403
\n00:30:21,040 –> 00:30:24,720
\nlooking at in this context,
\nPsalm 46. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:30:27,480 –> 00:30:32,600
\nSome Jewish traditions attribute
\nPsalm 46 to Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:30:33,200 –> 00:30:38,040
\nIt can’t be proven, but there’s
\nno doubt as you look at Psalm <\/p>\n
406
\n00:30:38,040 –> 00:30:43,280
\n46, that there are some very
\nimportant parallels to the <\/p>\n
407
\n00:30:43,280 –> 00:30:48,200
\nexperience of the Assyrian
\ncrisis, the promise of Emmanuel,<\/p>\n
408
\n00:30:49,200 –> 00:30:53,680
\nand the way it worked through
\nthe example and faithfulness of <\/p>\n
409
\n00:30:53,680 –> 00:30:56,800
\nHezekiah.
\nNow yesterday we mentioned the <\/p>\n
410
\n00:30:56,800 –> 00:31:01,800
\nrivers, the great rivers of
\nEuphrates, which were to portray<\/p>\n
411
\n00:31:02,320 –> 00:31:05,560
\nthe overflowing streams of the
\nAssyrian invasion. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:31:06,440 –> 00:31:12,520
\nAnd yesterday, in contrast, we
\nnoticed that God working through<\/p>\n
413
\n00:31:12,520 –> 00:31:18,240
\nhis promises, the Davidic line
\never so silently and quietly, <\/p>\n
414
\n00:31:18,800 –> 00:31:23,480
\nand God’s offer of salvation
\nultimately coming through Jesus <\/p>\n
415
\n00:31:23,480 –> 00:31:28,320
\nChrist, out of whose belly would
\nflow waters that were living, <\/p>\n
416
\n00:31:29,040 –> 00:31:32,600
\nThe waters of Shiloh that came
\nout from underneath that temple <\/p>\n
417
\n00:31:32,880 –> 00:31:39,520
\never so mysteriously but ever so
\nsurely were parabolic of the <\/p>\n
418
\n00:31:39,520 –> 00:31:42,440
\nwaters spiritual.
\nAnd we explored that briefly <\/p>\n
419
\n00:31:42,440 –> 00:31:46,480
\nyesterday.
\nNow notice in Psalm 46 how the <\/p>\n
420
\n00:31:46,480 –> 00:31:52,560
\nlanguage of flowing living
\nwaters are intertwined with the <\/p>\n
421
\n00:31:52,560 –> 00:31:57,840
\nthought of Emmanuel verse one,
\nand the context, as you can see <\/p>\n
422
\n00:31:57,840 –> 00:32:01,560
\nhere is the threat of an enemy
\nwithout first one. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:32:01,800 –> 00:32:05,320
\nGod is our refuge, just as He
\nwould have been needed to have <\/p>\n
424
\n00:32:05,320 –> 00:32:10,000
\nbeen in the crisis and strength.
\nPart of Hezekiah’s name is here,<\/p>\n
425
\n00:32:10,040 –> 00:32:14,440
\nhis Aku, once again a very
\npresent help in trouble. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:32:15,880 –> 00:32:20,680
\nTherefore will not we fear,
\nthough the earth be removed, and<\/p>\n
427
\n00:32:20,680 –> 00:32:23,040
\nthough the mountains be carried
\ninto the midst of the sea? <\/p>\n
428
\n00:32:23,480 –> 00:32:26,680
\nNow the imagery of waters in two
\nsenses. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:32:27,080 –> 00:32:30,160
\nVerse three.
\nThough the waters thereof roar <\/p>\n
430
\n00:32:30,440 –> 00:32:33,600
\nand be troubled, though the
\nmountains shaped with the <\/p>\n
431
\n00:32:33,600 –> 00:32:37,560
\nswelling thereof.
\nThe Assyrian crisis in mind. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:32:38,040 –> 00:32:41,120
\nVerse 4.
\nDespite those waters, the <\/p>\n
433
\n00:32:41,120 –> 00:32:48,120
\npsalmist says, there is a river,
\nthe streams whereof shall make <\/p>\n
434
\n00:32:48,120 –> 00:32:54,400
\nglad the city of God, the holy
\nplace of the tabernacles of the <\/p>\n
435
\n00:32:54,400 –> 00:32:57,000
\nMost High.
\nNow there once again you have <\/p>\n
436
\n00:32:57,000 –> 00:33:01,760
\nthese two types of waters, the
\ngreat, mighty, troubled waters <\/p>\n
437
\n00:33:01,760 –> 00:33:05,680
\nthat are a threat.
\nBut for the man of God, the <\/p>\n
438
\n00:33:05,680 –> 00:33:10,000
\nfaithful brother and sister,
\nknows and trusts that <\/p>\n
439
\n00:33:10,000 –> 00:33:14,240
\nnevertheless, no matter how much
\nthe waves of adversity and the <\/p>\n
440
\n00:33:14,240 –> 00:33:20,680
\nwaves of the world threaten and
\nbeat against our walls, there is<\/p>\n
441
\n00:33:20,680 –> 00:33:26,200
\na river, the streams whereof
\nwill make glad the city of God. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:33:26,240 –> 00:33:29,240
\nWhat’s the city of God?
\nZion, Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:33:29,600 –> 00:33:32,080
\nBased on real experience are
\nthese words. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:33:32,360 –> 00:33:37,520
\nFor from the city of God came
\nstreams and waters mysteriously <\/p>\n
445
\n00:33:37,520 –> 00:33:40,440
\nfrom under the mount.
\nVerse 5. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:33:40,440 –> 00:33:42,680
\nThink again of Hezekiah’s
\nexperience. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:33:43,240 –> 00:33:48,920
\nGod is in the midst of her.
\nShe shall not be moved. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:33:49,520 –> 00:33:53,240
\nGod’s promise through Isaiah
\nwhen he responded to Hezekiah’s <\/p>\n
449
\n00:33:53,240 –> 00:33:57,880
\nrequest.
\nGod shall help her and that <\/p>\n
450
\n00:33:58,280 –> 00:34:03,680
\nright early Now watch this
\nmargin here if you have one that<\/p>\n
451
\n00:34:03,680 –> 00:34:08,400
\nright early doesn’t seem to be
\nas forceful as the original God <\/p>\n
452
\n00:34:08,400 –> 00:34:11,360
\nis in the midst of her.
\nIt should read she shall not be <\/p>\n
453
\n00:34:11,360 –> 00:34:17,639
\nmoved now your margin.
\nGod shall help her when the <\/p>\n
454
\n00:34:17,639 –> 00:34:24,280
\nmorning appeareth and the kings
\nand chronicles records tell us <\/p>\n
455
\n00:34:24,600 –> 00:34:28,960
\nthat in the morning they looked
\nout and the Assyrian were dead <\/p>\n
456
\n00:34:28,960 –> 00:34:34,400
\nmen in the morning.
\nVerse 6 past tense. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:34:34,400 –> 00:34:37,080
\nNow looking back the heathen
\nrage. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:34:37,080 –> 00:34:40,199
\nThe kingdoms were moved so they
\nwere all around Judah. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:34:40,639 –> 00:34:43,199
\nHe uttered his voice.
\nThe earth melted. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:34:43,719 –> 00:34:51,040
\nThe Lord of hosts is Emmanuel.
\nThere it is again, verse 7. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:34:51,600 –> 00:34:54,520
\nThe Lord of hosts is Emmanuel
\nwith us. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:34:55,000 –> 00:34:59,680
\nThe God of Jacob is our refuge.
\nCome, behold the works of the <\/p>\n
463
\n00:34:59,680 –> 00:35:03,520
\nLord as they did that day, as
\nthey went out that morning and <\/p>\n
464
\n00:35:03,520 –> 00:35:05,920
\nlooked beyond the gates or over
\nthe walls. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:35:06,240 –> 00:35:09,520
\nBehold the works of the Lord.
\nWhat are they? <\/p>\n
466
\n00:35:10,400 –> 00:35:15,320
\nWhat desolations He hath made in
\nthe earth he maketh wars to <\/p>\n
467
\n00:35:15,320 –> 00:35:18,040
\ncease, and so he did on to the
\nend of the earth. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:35:18,640 –> 00:35:22,120
\nHe breaketh the bowl.
\nRemember Micah 2. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:35:22,240 –> 00:35:27,040
\nThe breaker, right God was the
\nbreaker through his Angel, but <\/p>\n
470
\n00:35:27,040 –> 00:35:30,400
\nhe broke the bows of the one who
\nthought he was the breaker. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:35:30,760 –> 00:35:34,760
\nHe breaketh the bowl and cut it
\nthe spear in sunder. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:35:35,120 –> 00:35:37,560
\nHe burneth the chariot in the
\nfire. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:35:38,960 –> 00:35:44,120
\nBe still, says the word of God,
\nand know that I am God. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:35:44,320 –> 00:35:47,320
\nBe still.
\nThat’s exactly what Hezekiah <\/p>\n
475
\n00:35:47,320 –> 00:35:51,120
\ntold them.
\nThe King’s account tells us that<\/p>\n
476
\n00:35:51,120 –> 00:35:55,520
\nit was upon the command of King
\nHezekiah that they say not a <\/p>\n
477
\n00:35:55,520 –> 00:35:59,520
\nword.
\nAnd be silent before the railing<\/p>\n
478
\n00:35:59,520 –> 00:36:02,280
\nwords of Rabshaka.
\nBe silent, said the king. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:36:02,400 –> 00:36:06,440
\nSay not a word.
\nAnd so be still, and know that I<\/p>\n
480
\n00:36:06,440 –> 00:36:09,560
\nam God.
\nI will be exalted among the <\/p>\n
481
\n00:36:09,560 –> 00:36:12,960
\nheathen.
\nSo it was, brothers and sisters,<\/p>\n
482
\n00:36:12,960 –> 00:36:16,280
\nby way of Messianic portent for
\nkings. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:36:16,280 –> 00:36:20,000
\nAnd Chronicles shows us that
\nonce the Assyrian had been <\/p>\n
484
\n00:36:20,000 –> 00:36:26,480
\ndestroyed, as Chronicles shows,
\nother nations sent presents and <\/p>\n
485
\n00:36:26,480 –> 00:36:31,600
\ntokens of tribute to Hezekiah as
\na result of the destruction of <\/p>\n
486
\n00:36:31,600 –> 00:36:34,360
\nthe enemy.
\nI will be exalted among the <\/p>\n
487
\n00:36:34,360 –> 00:36:36,520
\nheathen.
\nI will be exalted in the earth. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:36:36,760 –> 00:36:41,080
\nThe Lord of hosts is once again
\nEmanu. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:36:42,840 –> 00:36:48,360
\nGo back to Chronicles now, if
\nyou will look at how these <\/p>\n
490
\n00:36:48,400 –> 00:36:54,240
\nmessianic applications all
\ncircle around this experience <\/p>\n
491
\n00:36:54,240 –> 00:36:58,480
\nwith Hezekiah.
\nDetail after detail mounts up to<\/p>\n
492
\n00:36:58,480 –> 00:37:03,040
\nshow that the Messianic
\nprophecies of Messiah were <\/p>\n
493
\n00:37:03,040 –> 00:37:07,600
\npartially realized by the people
\nwho needed them right then and <\/p>\n
494
\n00:37:07,600 –> 00:37:12,240
\nthere, not just two or three
\nthousand years in advance, or <\/p>\n
495
\n00:37:12,240 –> 00:37:13,760
\ntwo or three hundred years in
\nadvance. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:37:14,240 –> 00:37:21,080
\nSecond Chronicles 32 following
\nthese events. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:37:21,120 –> 00:37:26,080
\nJust notice what’s said here.
\nSecond Chronicles 32 and verse <\/p>\n
498
\n00:37:26,080 –> 00:37:33,000
\n22.
\nHere in Second Chronicles 32 and<\/p>\n
499
\n00:37:33,000 –> 00:37:37,000
\nverse 22 it’s a follow up
\ncomment from the destruction of <\/p>\n
500
\n00:37:37,000 –> 00:37:40,200
\nthe Assyrians.
\nBut think of that Psalm as we <\/p>\n
501
\n00:37:40,200 –> 00:37:42,880
\nread these words.
\nVerse 22. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:37:43,360 –> 00:37:52,560
\nThus the Lord saved Hezekiah and
\nthe inhabitants, and the <\/p>\n
503
\n00:37:52,560 –> 00:38:01,640
\ninhabitants of Judah, the land,
\nthe country, no, the inhabitants<\/p>\n
504
\n00:38:01,640 –> 00:38:05,640
\nof Jerusalem.
\nThose who were in Jerusalem were<\/p>\n
505
\n00:38:05,640 –> 00:38:11,160
\nsaved from the hand of
\nSennacherib the king of Assyria,<\/p>\n
506
\n00:38:11,760 –> 00:38:17,600
\nand from the hand of all the
\nother, and guided them on every <\/p>\n
507
\n00:38:17,600 –> 00:38:20,920
\nside.
\nNow the word guide in the Hebrew<\/p>\n
508
\n00:38:20,920 –> 00:38:25,160
\nmeans to lead.
\nHe led them on every side. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:38:26,800 –> 00:38:29,680
\nWhat did that Psalm?
\nExcuse me, What did that passage<\/p>\n
510
\n00:38:29,680 –> 00:38:34,200
\nin Micah two say?
\nMicah Two said that they were in<\/p>\n
511
\n00:38:34,200 –> 00:38:40,400
\na pen like sheep.
\nSo now Micah 2 throws light on <\/p>\n
512
\n00:38:40,400 –> 00:38:44,920
\nthe force of verse 22.
\nHe led them on every side. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:38:45,320 –> 00:38:48,880
\nWhy use that kind of language
\nabout the remnant within the <\/p>\n
514
\n00:38:48,880 –> 00:38:52,280
\nwalls of Jerusalem?
\nBecause as Micah 2 has shown us,<\/p>\n
515
\n00:38:52,600 –> 00:38:56,760
\nthey were like sheep in a pen,
\nand God was their shepherd <\/p>\n
516
\n00:38:56,760 –> 00:39:00,680
\nworking through Hezekiah.
\nBut look at verse 23. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:39:01,880 –> 00:39:05,600
\nThe psalmist says that we just
\nread in Psalm 46 that many <\/p>\n
518
\n00:39:05,600 –> 00:39:09,560
\nnations would praise God for the
\ngreatness of this victory. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:39:09,800 –> 00:39:14,680
\nAnd so, as will happen in a
\ngreater scale in the future, to <\/p>\n
520
\n00:39:14,680 –> 00:39:18,840
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ on Mount
\nZion when He sets up His temple <\/p>\n
521
\n00:39:18,960 –> 00:39:24,080
\nand His throne.
\nVerse 23 And many brought gifts <\/p>\n
522
\n00:39:24,160 –> 00:39:29,880
\nunto the Lord to Jerusalem, and
\npresence to Hezekiah king of <\/p>\n
523
\n00:39:29,880 –> 00:39:36,840
\nJudah, so that he was magnified
\nin the sight of all nations from<\/p>\n
524
\n00:39:36,840 –> 00:39:39,760
\nthenceforth.
\nDoesn’t that provide brothers <\/p>\n
525
\n00:39:39,760 –> 00:39:43,920
\nand sisters a master key to an
\nunderstanding of those well <\/p>\n
526
\n00:39:43,920 –> 00:39:46,320
\nknown Christadelphian passages
\nin Isaiah? <\/p>\n
527
\n00:39:47,040 –> 00:39:50,520
\nWhere in Isaiah chapter 2 the
\nword of the Lord goes forth from<\/p>\n
528
\n00:39:50,520 –> 00:39:54,520
\nJerusalem, all nations flowing
\nonto Zion? <\/p>\n
529
\n00:39:55,320 –> 00:40:00,320
\nIsaiah Chapter 11.
\nAll those passages in Isaiah <\/p>\n
530
\n00:40:00,560 –> 00:40:03,960
\nthat describe the nation’s
\ncoming and giving tribute to <\/p>\n
531
\n00:40:03,960 –> 00:40:10,920
\nMessiah all had a partial
\ntemporary application right here<\/p>\n
532
\n00:40:11,200 –> 00:40:15,600
\nin the experience of Hezekiah
\nand the faithful remnant. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:40:17,000 –> 00:40:21,080
\nWhat a powerful background to
\nconsider, and how much more <\/p>\n
534
\n00:40:21,280 –> 00:40:26,160
\nthose words of Isaiah have
\nmeaning, tangible meaning, to <\/p>\n
535
\n00:40:26,160 –> 00:40:29,280
\nthe people of his own day.
\nWe’ve always got to ask <\/p>\n
536
\n00:40:29,280 –> 00:40:31,760
\nourselves, as Tekka said this
\nand I heard Maurice say it as <\/p>\n
537
\n00:40:31,760 –> 00:40:35,760
\nwell during this week, what did
\nthis mean to the contemporaries?<\/p>\n
538
\n00:40:36,480 –> 00:40:39,880
\nAnd perhaps the words of those
\nmessianic passages we’re so <\/p>\n
539
\n00:40:39,880 –> 00:40:44,920
\nfamiliar with, like Isaiah 2 and
\nIsaiah 11, are so grand and <\/p>\n
540
\n00:40:44,920 –> 00:40:49,120
\nmagnificent in their scale that
\nwe think there’s no possibility <\/p>\n
541
\n00:40:49,120 –> 00:40:52,280
\nthat they could have had any
\nmeaning to Isaiah and his <\/p>\n
542
\n00:40:52,280 –> 00:40:54,960
\ncontemporaries.
\nPerhaps now we know better. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:40:55,520 –> 00:41:00,000
\nFor as people stood back and
\nwatched after the Assyrian <\/p>\n
544
\n00:41:00,000 –> 00:41:06,320
\ncrisis, nations all around
\nsending gifts, presents, tribute<\/p>\n
545
\n00:41:06,480 –> 00:41:11,480
\nto Jerusalem to magnify
\nHezekiah, king of Judah. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:41:12,240 –> 00:41:16,280
\nThere was being worked out in
\nthose days, but a microcosm of <\/p>\n
547
\n00:41:16,280 –> 00:41:20,200
\nsomething much greater.
\nWhen Jesus Christ will come to <\/p>\n
548
\n00:41:20,200 –> 00:41:24,040
\nJerusalem, where he will place
\nhis throne in the midst of all <\/p>\n
549
\n00:41:24,040 –> 00:41:28,680
\nnations, and as a result of
\nhaving shown his strength, all <\/p>\n
550
\n00:41:28,680 –> 00:41:30,640
\nnations will bring tribute to
\nhim. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:41:33,120 –> 00:41:40,840
\nNow, brothers and sisters, back
\nto Isaiah, keeping in mind that <\/p>\n
552
\n00:41:40,840 –> 00:41:47,000
\nbeautiful background in the
\nevents of those days, how do you<\/p>\n
553
\n00:41:47,000 –> 00:41:52,800
\nthink Hezekiah and his little
\nflock of sheep within that pen <\/p>\n
554
\n00:41:52,800 –> 00:41:56,360
\nin the walls of Jerusalem?
\nHow do you think they would have<\/p>\n
555
\n00:41:56,360 –> 00:41:58,600
\nunderstood these words from
\nIsaiah? <\/p>\n
556
\n00:41:58,600 –> 00:42:02,600
\nAnd there are many others
\ntypical in the prophecy, but <\/p>\n
557
\n00:42:02,600 –> 00:42:04,920
\nthink of them in contemporary
\nevents first. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:42:05,680 –> 00:42:08,400
\nIsaiah 55.
\nHow do you think they would have<\/p>\n
559
\n00:42:08,400 –> 00:42:15,520
\nunderstood this when Isaiah
\nuttered these words in the ears <\/p>\n
560
\n00:42:15,520 –> 00:42:19,560
\nof his listeners in the years of
\nHezekiah, king of Judah? <\/p>\n
561
\n00:42:20,520 –> 00:42:25,320
\nVerse one, hear Isaiah speaking
\nto the midst of Israel in <\/p>\n
562
\n00:42:25,320 –> 00:42:29,040
\nJerusalem.
\nHo spoke the prophet. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:42:29,720 –> 00:42:36,960
\nHo everyone that thirsteth, come
\nye to the waters, and he that <\/p>\n
564
\n00:42:36,960 –> 00:42:39,760
\nhath no money, come ye buy and
\neat. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:42:39,960 –> 00:42:44,960
\nYeah, come buy wine and milk
\nwithout money and without price.<\/p>\n
566
\n00:42:46,160 –> 00:42:50,640
\nVerse 3.
\nIncline your ear, and come unto <\/p>\n
567
\n00:42:50,640 –> 00:42:55,160
\nme hear, and your soul shall
\nlive, and I will make an <\/p>\n
568
\n00:42:55,160 –> 00:42:59,520
\neverlasting covenant with you,
\neven the sure mercies of David. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:43:00,160 –> 00:43:02,520
\nSo what was the water that was
\noffered? <\/p>\n
570
\n00:43:03,400 –> 00:43:07,440
\nVerse one, What was it?
\nWell, verse 3 tells us the <\/p>\n
571
\n00:43:07,440 –> 00:43:12,360
\nwaters that are offered.
\nThe spiritual drink is in verse <\/p>\n
572
\n00:43:12,360 –> 00:43:18,960
\n3 expressed as I will make an
\neverlasting covenant with you. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:43:20,120 –> 00:43:24,240
\nEven the sure mercies of David.
\nThere it is. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:43:25,400 –> 00:43:30,640
\nThe sure mercies of David are
\nthe waters offered by Messiah. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:43:31,320 –> 00:43:36,240
\nBut in the days of Hezekiah, no
\ndoubt, the springs of Gahon, the<\/p>\n
576
\n00:43:36,240 –> 00:43:40,600
\nwaters that kept percolating
\nunderneath that Temple Mount, <\/p>\n
577
\n00:43:41,040 –> 00:43:44,520
\nthe waters that sustained the
\nthrongs of people within that <\/p>\n
578
\n00:43:44,520 –> 00:43:48,200
\nsheepin while they were
\nbesieged, the waters that gave <\/p>\n
579
\n00:43:48,200 –> 00:43:53,000
\nthem drink all during the time
\nof the siege, Surely, as God had<\/p>\n
580
\n00:43:53,000 –> 00:43:56,200
\nsaid to Isaiah, I am the maker
\nthereof. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:43:56,800 –> 00:44:01,200
\nThey would thank God for those
\nwaters, real waters, which had <\/p>\n
582
\n00:44:01,200 –> 00:44:06,880
\ngiven really life to them during
\nthe crisis, and how when Isaiah <\/p>\n
583
\n00:44:06,880 –> 00:44:11,520
\nspoke those words in verse 1 and
\nbeyond, they would see that as <\/p>\n
584
\n00:44:11,520 –> 00:44:13,600
\nhaving very real meaning to
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:44:14,560 –> 00:44:18,920
\nBut of course, verse 3 speaks of
\nan everlasting covenant. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:44:19,240 –> 00:44:23,720
\nThese are eternal promises.
\nNo doubt by considering the <\/p>\n
587
\n00:44:23,720 –> 00:44:26,520
\nprophet’s words, they would
\nrealize that this was <\/p>\n
588
\n00:44:26,520 –> 00:44:29,280
\nnevertheless Speaking of
\nsomething much grander. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:44:29,640 –> 00:44:34,520
\nFor verse four I have given for
\na witness to the people, a <\/p>\n
590
\n00:44:34,520 –> 00:44:38,680
\nleader and a commander to the
\npeople. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:44:39,960 –> 00:44:43,520
\nA leader and a commander to the
\npeople. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:44:43,840 –> 00:44:46,960
\nYou see how the Lord Jesus
\nChrist is pictured for us, <\/p>\n
593
\n00:44:46,960 –> 00:44:52,080
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nHe, like Hezekiah, is a leader, <\/p>\n
594
\n00:44:52,440 –> 00:44:57,520
\na commander.
\nNow what’s interesting here is <\/p>\n
595
\n00:44:58,040 –> 00:45:04,360
\nthat word leader in Isaiah 55
\nand verse 4 is applied to <\/p>\n
596
\n00:45:04,360 –> 00:45:12,240
\nHezekiah, where Second Kings 20
\nback we go again Second Kings <\/p>\n
597
\n00:45:12,240 –> 00:45:15,440
\n20.
\nIt gives additional meaning, <\/p>\n
598
\n00:45:16,240 –> 00:45:21,160
\nhelps us to understand in our
\nmind’s eye how Jesus will be a <\/p>\n
599
\n00:45:21,160 –> 00:45:24,160
\nleader.
\nThink of Hezekiah, Scripture is <\/p>\n
600
\n00:45:24,160 –> 00:45:29,480
\ntelling us same word.
\nIn Second Kings chapter 20, <\/p>\n
601
\n00:45:33,040 –> 00:45:36,640
\nHezekiah has been told that he
\nis sick and nigh unto death. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:45:37,600 –> 00:45:41,040
\nIn verse one of Second Kings 20,
\nhe’s told to set his house in <\/p>\n
603
\n00:45:41,040 –> 00:45:45,160
\norder.
\nVerse two he prays to the Lord <\/p>\n
604
\n00:45:45,160 –> 00:45:51,000
\nas we read also in Isaiah verse
\nthree, he beseeches God, and he <\/p>\n
605
\n00:45:51,000 –> 00:45:54,560
\nweeps sore, as we have done
\noften in our own pricing. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:45:54,800 –> 00:46:01,480
\nAnd it came to pass afore Isaiah
\nwas gone out into the middle <\/p>\n
607
\n00:46:01,480 –> 00:46:06,320
\ncourt, that the word of the Lord
\ncame to him, saying to Isaiah, <\/p>\n
608
\n00:46:07,760 –> 00:46:15,120
\nTurn again and tell Hezekiah,
\nthe captain of my people. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:46:15,200 –> 00:46:18,960
\nAnd the word captain, there is
\nthe same Hebrew word as leader <\/p>\n
610
\n00:46:19,080 –> 00:46:24,320
\nin Isaiah 55 and verse 4.
\nTell Hezekiah, the captain of my<\/p>\n
611
\n00:46:24,320 –> 00:46:26,960
\npeople.
\nThus saith the Lord the God of <\/p>\n
612
\n00:46:26,960 –> 00:46:30,960
\nDavid thy father.
\nI have seen, I have heard thy <\/p>\n
613
\n00:46:30,960 –> 00:46:34,080
\nprayer.
\nI have seen thy tears. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:46:35,440 –> 00:46:39,120
\nBehold, I will now watch this
\nlanguage. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:46:39,560 –> 00:46:46,800
\nThink of what it means.
\nI will heal thee, and on the <\/p>\n
616
\n00:46:46,800 –> 00:46:56,560
\nthird day, the third day thou
\nshalt go up into the House of <\/p>\n
617
\n00:46:56,560 –> 00:46:59,640
\nthe Lord.
\nYou see the point, don’t you? <\/p>\n
618
\n00:47:00,960 –> 00:47:06,360
\nAs we’ve already seen in this
\nman Hezekiah, we see messianic <\/p>\n
619
\n00:47:06,360 –> 00:47:11,160
\nrealizations not completely
\nfulfilled by any means next to <\/p>\n
620
\n00:47:11,160 –> 00:47:15,320
\nMessiah.
\nBut here is one who was sick, <\/p>\n
621
\n00:47:16,200 –> 00:47:21,200
\nwho he says in Isaiah was nigh
\nunto death, who looked at the <\/p>\n
622
\n00:47:21,200 –> 00:47:26,600
\nwall and saw no hope.
\nAnd brothers and sisters, in his<\/p>\n
623
\n00:47:26,640 –> 00:47:32,600
\nprayer, because he was a
\nrighteous man, God heard and he <\/p>\n
624
\n00:47:32,600 –> 00:47:38,760
\nhealed Hezekiah, the captain of
\nhis people. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:47:40,360 –> 00:47:49,160
\nAnd on the third day he was
\nwhole and he went up to the <\/p>\n
626
\n00:47:49,160 –> 00:47:54,360
\nHouse of the Lord.
\nEvery word in Scripture is <\/p>\n
627
\n00:47:54,360 –> 00:47:58,360
\nimportant.
\nIsn’t it incredible to see in <\/p>\n
628
\n00:47:58,360 –> 00:48:02,880
\nthis experience of Hezekiah, an
\nexperience that foreshadows that<\/p>\n
629
\n00:48:02,880 –> 00:48:07,520
\nof the Lord Jesus Christ?
\nA more righteous king for sure, <\/p>\n
630
\n00:48:08,160 –> 00:48:12,840
\nbut one who, like Isaiah 53
\nshows, would be pictured as <\/p>\n
631
\n00:48:12,840 –> 00:48:17,760
\nthough he was sick.
\nAs a burden bearer who took upon<\/p>\n
632
\n00:48:17,760 –> 00:48:20,560
\nhim the griefs and the sorrows
\nof a sick nation. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:48:20,720 –> 00:48:25,800
\nOf a sick people, who, like
\nHezekiah, would go, as it were, <\/p>\n
634
\n00:48:25,800 –> 00:48:31,480
\nto the gates of hell and to the
\ngrave, but who nevertheless, on <\/p>\n
635
\n00:48:31,480 –> 00:48:37,400
\nthe third day would go up unto
\nthe House of the Lord, for he <\/p>\n
636
\n00:48:37,520 –> 00:48:43,120
\nwould be healed.
\nIn this small remnant, Brothers <\/p>\n
637
\n00:48:43,120 –> 00:48:47,760
\nand sisters, within the walls of
\nJerusalem, we tread in the eye <\/p>\n
638
\n00:48:47,760 –> 00:48:52,520
\nof faith, and within those walls
\ncome packed together in <\/p>\n
639
\n00:48:52,520 –> 00:48:55,720
\nfellowship.
\nIn the midst of the crisis of <\/p>\n
640
\n00:48:55,720 –> 00:48:59,960
\nthe day, the storms and the
\nwaves beating against the walls <\/p>\n
641
\n00:48:59,960 –> 00:49:04,840
\nof the ecclesia, hearts were
\ntried and made more perfect. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:49:05,400 –> 00:49:09,400
\nFaith was tested and brought to
\ngreater perfection. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:49:10,040 –> 00:49:13,600
\nLet us never ask why now and why
\nme? <\/p>\n
644
\n00:49:14,400 –> 00:49:18,040
\nIt is God’s blessing that our
\nhearts are tried, and when they <\/p>\n
645
\n00:49:18,040 –> 00:49:23,080
\nare brothers and sisters, we
\nwalk with that small remnant of <\/p>\n
646
\n00:49:23,080 –> 00:49:29,520
\nold within the sheep pen, and we
\nhave nevertheless for US1 Who is<\/p>\n
647
\n00:49:29,560 –> 00:49:33,160
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