Class 2 from this series was used in GCT Episode 321.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Example of Josiah.
\nBrother Stephen has asked us to <\/p>\n
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\nread Second Chronicles chapter
\n34, verses 29 through 33 to <\/p>\n
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\nintroduce this second class.
\nBrother Graham Warsnup of the <\/p>\n
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\nKerry Kerry Ecclesia in New
\nZealand will lead us in our <\/p>\n
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\nreading of Second Chronicles
\nchapter 34, verse 29 through 33.<\/p>\n
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\nThe second book of Chronicles,
\nchapter 34 and starting at verse<\/p>\n
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\n29.
\nThen the king sent and gathered <\/p>\n
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\ntogether.
\nAll the elders. <\/p>\n
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\nOf Judah and Jerusalem.
\nAnd the king went up into the <\/p>\n
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\nHouse of the Lord, and all the
\nmen of Judah, and the <\/p>\n
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\ninhabitants of Jerusalem, and
\nthe priests, and the Levites, <\/p>\n
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\nand all the people both great
\nand small, And he read in their <\/p>\n
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\nears.
\nAll the words. <\/p>\n
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\nOf the book of the covenant that
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\nLord.
\nAnd the king stood in his place <\/p>\n
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\nand made a covenant before the
\nLord, to walk after the Lord, <\/p>\n
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\nand to keep his commandments and
\nhis testimonies and his statutes<\/p>\n
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\nwith all his heart, with all his
\nsoul, to perform the words of a <\/p>\n
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\ncovenant that are written in
\nthis book. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he?
\nCaused all that were present. <\/p>\n
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\nIn Jerusalem and Benjamin to
\nstand to it, and the inhabitants<\/p>\n
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\nof Jerusalem.
\nDid. <\/p>\n
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\nAccording to the covenant of
\nGod, the God of their fathers. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Josiah took away all the
\nabominations out of all the <\/p>\n
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\ncountries that pertained to the
\nchildren of Israel, and made all<\/p>\n
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\nthat were present in Israel to
\nserve, even to serve the Lord <\/p>\n
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\ntheir God.
\nAnd all his days they departed, <\/p>\n
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\nnot from following the Lord, the
\nGod of their fathers. <\/p>\n
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\nThank you, Brother Graham.
\nClass 2. <\/p>\n
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\nPersonal discovery of the word.
\nThe example of Josiah. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Stephen.
\nWhat we’ve seen it together in <\/p>\n
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\nour first class, friends,
\nsister, young people, is this <\/p>\n
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\nneed for character development.
\nNotice the focus isn’t on works.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s not about what we are
\ndoing. <\/p>\n
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\nWe must do this.
\nWe mustn’t do that. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd low, of course, there are
\nthings we must do and things we <\/p>\n
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\nmustn’t do.
\nWhat the scriptures are teaching<\/p>\n
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\nus, we believe, is that in order
\nto do the right thing and not to<\/p>\n
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\ndo the wrong thing, what we have
\nto address is the character <\/p>\n
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\nwhich leads us in a certain way.
\nThe character that we have can <\/p>\n
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\nchange, It can be changed.
\nAnd we have to focus our minds <\/p>\n
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\non this.
\nWe have to change to be the <\/p>\n
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\npeople we ought to be.
\nIt’s a process. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a slow process, but it is a
\nprocess of change. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t know if you’ve ever said
\nor heard anyone say, well, look,<\/p>\n
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\nthat’s just the way I am.
\nYou’ve just got to take me as I <\/p>\n
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\nam because that’s me.
\nThat’s unacceptable. <\/p>\n
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\nThat is not acceptable.
\nRather than system, did Christ <\/p>\n
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\ndie for nothing?
\nGod is changing us through His <\/p>\n
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\nWord, through the living example
\nof the Lord Jesus Christ, <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the circumstances that
\ncome upon us, through the <\/p>\n
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\nangelic ministry working in our
\nlives. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is trying to change us so
\nthat we’re not just the way we <\/p>\n
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\nare, but that we’ve become more
\nand more, by God’s grace, like <\/p>\n
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\nthe one who has died for us.
\nAnd it’s our personal <\/p>\n
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\ninvolvement in this process
\nwhich we are addressing our <\/p>\n
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\npersonal involvement with.
\nThe power to change that is the <\/p>\n
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\nWord of God.
\nAnd so this is for everyone, <\/p>\n
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\nespecially for those who think
\nthey are small in the truth. <\/p>\n
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\nThe work of Josiah was a
\ntremendous example, and we can <\/p>\n
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\nlook at him as a personal
\nexample, manifesting the things <\/p>\n
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\nthat God requires of us.
\nWe’ll look at the King’s record <\/p>\n
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\ntogether, Second Kings chapters
\n22 onward, and sometimes go to <\/p>\n
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\nthe Chronicles record.
\nBut we’d just like to point out <\/p>\n
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\none or two things about this
\nman, particularly in <\/p>\n
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\nrelationship to the qualities
\nthat he showed in respect of the<\/p>\n
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\nWord of God.
\nIn Second Kings 22, verse 8, <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re told that Josiah was just
\n8 years old when he began to <\/p>\n
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\nreign.
\nWe’re told in the Chronicles <\/p>\n
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\nrecord that when he was 16 he
\nbegan to seek the God of David, <\/p>\n
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\nhis father, and when he was 20
\nhe began to cleanse the land. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a remarkable young man.
\nHe must have had perhaps one of <\/p>\n
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\nthe worst fathers, and certainly
\none of the worst grandfathers <\/p>\n
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\nit’s possible to conceive of a
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\nHis spirituality at the age of
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\nIt might just have had something<\/p>\n
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\nto do with his grandfather.
\nBut what Manasseh was the in the<\/p>\n
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\nrecord of the kings was just
\nabout the worst king who <\/p>\n
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\nintroduced such a reign of
\ncorruption, such grotesque <\/p>\n
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\nidolatry, that the nation of
\nJudah became unfit to survive. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was because of the sins of
\nManasseh that Judah was to be <\/p>\n
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\nremoved.
\nNevertheless, Manasseh repented.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s hard to believe this, not
\nhard to believe he repented so <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s hard to believe that God <\/p>\n
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\naccepted his repentance, Hard to
\nbelieve that God is so full of <\/p>\n
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\ncompassion that even Manasseh
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\nyou read about the sins of <\/p>\n
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\nManasseh.
\nBut he did find grace, and it <\/p>\n
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\nmay well have been that in his
\nlater years, the last part of <\/p>\n
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\nhis reign, that he made
\nprovision for his grandson was <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be king, to be
\ninstructed in the things of God.<\/p>\n
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\nPossibly.
\nBut what you saw I couldn’t have<\/p>\n
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\nbeen instructed in was the word
\nof God. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was a man who must have
\nbeen brought up knowing only <\/p>\n
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\nsecond-half the stories of the
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\nIt seems there’s an indication
\nin the fact that he walked in <\/p>\n
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\nall the way of David his father,
\nthat he had had a good education<\/p>\n
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\nin the history of his forebears,
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\nIt may be that there were still <\/p>\n
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\nPsalms in existence, but what he
\ndidn’t have was the law, which <\/p>\n
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\nMoses recorded because that had
\nbeen lost and it wasn’t until <\/p>\n
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\nhis 26th year, six years
\ninterest reformation that the <\/p>\n
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\nBible of Moses was rediscovered.
\nSo the first part of his life <\/p>\n
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\nand the first efforts that he
\nmade to cleanse the ways of his <\/p>\n
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\npeople didn’t really have the
\nsame power that the second <\/p>\n
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\ncleansing had.
\nThe second cleansing is <\/p>\n
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\ndescribed in Second Kings 23,
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\nChronicles record.
\nYou put those two together, you <\/p>\n
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\ncan see there were two actual
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\nas the Lord Jesus Christ cleanse
\nthe temple at the beginning and <\/p>\n
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\nthe end of his ministry.
\nThere’s a pattern which is <\/p>\n
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\nrepeated.
\nWhen he went into the temple and<\/p>\n
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\nthey said by what authority do
\nthese things? <\/p>\n
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\nThey also must have recognised
\nthe echoes of Josiah’s time. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was the authority of the king
\nby which he did these things. <\/p>\n
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\nBut having understanding of God
\nsecond hand is a poor substitute<\/p>\n
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\nfor what God intends for us.
\nJust learning what brethren <\/p>\n
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\nteach us is a poor substitute
\nfor listening directly to the <\/p>\n
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\nWord of God.
\nNow we hope often times the two <\/p>\n
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\nthings are the same, that what
\nbrethren teaches is the Word of <\/p>\n
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\nGod pure and simple.
\nBut it can’t be that we are free<\/p>\n
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\nfrom the weakness of our own
\nnature in our understanding and <\/p>\n
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\nthe way in which we put over the
\nWord of God. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat brethren can do is to
\ndirect us perhaps to that Word <\/p>\n
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\nso that we can pick it up for
\nourselves and think for <\/p>\n
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\nourselves.
\nWhat it’s saying is personal <\/p>\n
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\ndiscovery of the Word of God
\nthat Josiah is teaching us <\/p>\n
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\nabout.
\nWe just read about it. <\/p>\n
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\nThe book had been lost.
\nLook at the King’s record, <\/p>\n
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\nSecond Kings 22 and verse 8.
\nAnd Hilkiah the high priest said<\/p>\n
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\nunto Shaphan the scribe, I have
\nfound the book of the law in the<\/p>\n
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\nHouse of the Lord.
\nAnd Hilkiah gave the book to <\/p>\n
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\nShaphan and he read it.
\nHow could the book have been <\/p>\n
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\nlost?
\nWell, you could well imagine. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you remember your history
\nfrom the days of the Protestant <\/p>\n
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\nReformation?
\nHow the Bishop of London bought <\/p>\n
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\nof every copy of the English
\ntranslation of William Tyndale <\/p>\n
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\nand burns it outside Saint
\nPaul’s Cathedral? <\/p>\n
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\nThere was an eradication attempt
\non the word of God and in <\/p>\n
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\nManassas reign perhaps that had
\nbeen successfully accomplished. <\/p>\n
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\nBut surely if there had been a
\ncopy of the law anywhere in the <\/p>\n
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\nland, then wouldn’t you have
\nthought Josiah would have got <\/p>\n
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\nhold of it?
\nHe’d been up and down that land <\/p>\n
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\nfor six years trying to
\ninstitute a reformation. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in the sixth year a book is
\nfound and he hears it being read<\/p>\n
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\nfor the very first time.
\nHe is stunned by what he hears. <\/p>\n
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\nHe he tore his clothes.
\nHe sent a message to hold on the<\/p>\n
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\nprotest.
\nWhat? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat am I supposed to do?
\nWe’ve just found the book and it<\/p>\n
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\ndid mentions all these curses
\nwhich are going to he’d never <\/p>\n
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\nheard of that before.
\nIt was all new to him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the book had been lost.
\nNotice in verse 8 it says I have<\/p>\n
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\nfound the book of the law.
\nAnd if we compare that with what<\/p>\n
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\nwe read in Second Chronicles,
\nit’s very interesting. <\/p>\n
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\nSecond Chronicles 3414, let me
\njust read you say it says <\/p>\n
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\nHilkiah, the priest found a book
\nof the law of the Lord, says in <\/p>\n
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\nthe AV given by Moses.
\nBut in the margin it says the <\/p>\n
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\nHebrew is the law of the Lord by
\nthe hand of Moses. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat they found was the very
\ncopy that Moses had written. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you remember in Deuteronomy
\nit said what Moses wants to do. <\/p>\n
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\nHe used to write a copy of this
\nlaw, and he was to put it in the<\/p>\n
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\nside of the ark, that it may be
\nthere for a witness. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd now the witness is being
\nmade because they’ve just <\/p>\n
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\nrediscovered the very book that
\nMoses had written with his own <\/p>\n
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\nhand.
\nYou can’t believe they would <\/p>\n
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\nhave lost it.
\nWhere was it they’d lost it? <\/p>\n
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\nIn the House of the Lord, that’s
\nwhere they’d lost it. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat were they doing then?
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\nhas shown us that our received
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\ncenturies.
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\nwith his responsibilities of <\/p>\n
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\nI’m fine as I am, we can say to
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\nhas ever crossed anybody’s
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\nOf course that’s true, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
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\nJosiah was contract when he <\/p>\n
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\nGo and find out what I’m going
\nto do. <\/p>\n
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\nwhat does God require of me? <\/p>\n
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\nHe was the greatest man in the
\nland. <\/p>\n
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\nadopt ourselves. <\/p>\n
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\nourselves up on. <\/p>\n
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\ncan’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nNow these are human reactions to<\/p>\n
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\nbeing told that we are in the
\nwrong. <\/p>\n
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\nwrong and he sought and enquired<\/p>\n
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\nHe did that which was right in <\/p>\n
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\nour attention to. <\/p>\n
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\nonce he discovered it, he was
\nnot too proud. <\/p>\n
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\nDeuteronomy 17 Read it again.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
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\nWhether I come unto the land
\nwhich the Lord thy God giveth <\/p>\n
339
\n00:25:58,080 –> 00:26:01,600
\nthee, and shall possess it, and
\nshall dwell therein, and shall <\/p>\n
340
\n00:26:01,600 –> 00:26:06,320
\nsay, I will set a king over me,
\nlike as all the nations that are<\/p>\n
341
\n00:26:06,320 –> 00:26:10,560
\nabout me, thou shalt in any way
\nset in king over thee, whom the <\/p>\n
342
\n00:26:10,560 –> 00:26:14,120
\nLord thy God shall choose one
\nfrom among thy brethren shalt <\/p>\n
343
\n00:26:14,120 –> 00:26:17,440
\nthou set king over thee.
\nThou mayest not set a stranger <\/p>\n
344
\n00:26:17,440 –> 00:26:20,760
\nover thee which is not thy
\nbrother, that he shall not <\/p>\n
345
\n00:26:20,760 –> 00:26:24,040
\nmultiply horses to himself.
\nAnd so it goes on verse 17. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:26:24,680 –> 00:26:29,520
\nNeither shall he multiply wives
\nto his himself, neither shall he<\/p>\n
347
\n00:26:29,520 –> 00:26:32,120
\ngreatly multiply to himself
\nsilver and gold. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:26:32,520 –> 00:26:35,240
\nWe know that you don’t go to
\nEgypt for horses. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:26:35,520 –> 00:26:39,920
\nYou don’t multiply wives, you
\ndon’t multiply silver and gold. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:26:39,920 –> 00:26:43,560
\nThe three things, of course,
\nthat Solomon contravene, which <\/p>\n
351
\n00:26:43,560 –> 00:26:48,320
\ntook him away from the truth,
\nthe three things that kings <\/p>\n
352
\n00:26:48,320 –> 00:26:51,240
\nwould delight to have.
\nYou know, if you were told you <\/p>\n
353
\n00:26:51,240 –> 00:26:57,280
\ncould have whatever you wanted,
\nwhatever it is, you can have it,<\/p>\n
354
\n00:26:57,800 –> 00:26:59,800
\nbut that’s what most men would
\ngo for. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:27:03,920 –> 00:27:07,640
\nThen it goes on to say in verse
\n18, And it shall be when he <\/p>\n
356
\n00:27:07,640 –> 00:27:11,800
\nsitteth upon the throne of his
\nKingdom, that he shall write him<\/p>\n
357
\n00:27:11,880 –> 00:27:16,760
\na copy of this law in a book,
\nout of that which is before the <\/p>\n
358
\n00:27:16,760 –> 00:27:23,240
\npriests and the Levites.
\nAnd it shall be with him, and he<\/p>\n
359
\n00:27:23,240 –> 00:27:27,240
\nshall read therein all the days
\nof his life, that he may learn <\/p>\n
360
\n00:27:27,240 –> 00:27:31,120
\nto fear the Lord his God, to
\nkeep all the words of this law <\/p>\n
361
\n00:27:31,280 –> 00:27:35,440
\nand the statutes to do them.
\nThat his heart be not lifted up <\/p>\n
362
\n00:27:35,440 –> 00:27:38,520
\nabove his brethren, and that he
\nturned not aside from the <\/p>\n
363
\n00:27:38,520 –> 00:27:41,600
\ncommandment to the right hand or
\nto the left, to the end that he <\/p>\n
364
\n00:27:41,600 –> 00:27:44,320
\nmay prolong his days in his
\nKingdom, he and his children in <\/p>\n
365
\n00:27:44,320 –> 00:27:48,480
\nthe midst of Israel.
\nSo now Josiah knows exactly what<\/p>\n
366
\n00:27:48,480 –> 00:27:50,360
\nhe’s got to do.
\nHe’s got to sit down. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:27:50,640 –> 00:27:55,680
\nHe may be the king, but he’s got
\nto sit down at his desk and he’s<\/p>\n
368
\n00:27:55,680 –> 00:27:59,000
\ngoing to get his scroll and his
\npen and he’s going to write his <\/p>\n
369
\n00:27:59,000 –> 00:28:04,160
\nown personal copy of that law.
\nSo now he’s got his own copy in <\/p>\n
370
\n00:28:04,160 –> 00:28:08,600
\nhis home, and now he’s going to
\nread in it every day of his life<\/p>\n
371
\n00:28:08,600 –> 00:28:14,480
\nto keep him in his rightful
\nposition, which is straight down<\/p>\n
372
\n00:28:14,480 –> 00:28:18,080
\nthe line, turning neither to the
\nleft nor to the right. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:28:18,080 –> 00:28:21,280
\nThe king said he did it, he did
\nit. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:28:23,200 –> 00:28:27,560
\nHe muster made a copy of that
\nlaw, and he must have read in it<\/p>\n
375
\n00:28:27,600 –> 00:28:31,320
\nall the days of his life.
\nThat was the secret of Josiah, <\/p>\n
376
\n00:28:31,760 –> 00:28:35,040
\nthat when the Bible was
\nrediscovered, he made his own <\/p>\n
377
\n00:28:35,160 –> 00:28:39,240
\npersonal copy of the law and he
\ntranslated it into his life. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:28:40,920 –> 00:28:43,720
\nAnd that’s brethren, sisters,
\nwhat we have to do, every one of<\/p>\n
379
\n00:28:43,720 –> 00:28:48,000
\nus.
\nAnd if we haven’t been doing it,<\/p>\n
380
\n00:28:48,000 –> 00:28:50,640
\nbrethren, how can we teach our
\nbrethren and sisters? <\/p>\n
381
\n00:28:52,120 –> 00:28:56,480
\nHow can we exalt?
\nHow can we build up the faith of<\/p>\n
382
\n00:28:56,480 –> 00:28:59,960
\nthe young ones in the truth?
\nHow can we instruct our children<\/p>\n
383
\n00:29:00,160 –> 00:29:03,560
\nif we haven’t made our own copy
\nof the law written on our own <\/p>\n
384
\n00:29:03,560 –> 00:29:08,040
\nhearts?
\nHow can we speak the Word of <\/p>\n
385
\n00:29:08,040 –> 00:29:10,600
\nGod, neither diverting to the
\nleft nor to the right? <\/p>\n
386
\n00:29:12,640 –> 00:29:16,640
\nHow can the ecclesia be strong
\nif we don’t get diligence to the<\/p>\n
387
\n00:29:16,640 –> 00:29:19,080
\nthings that God has laid before
\nus? <\/p>\n
388
\n00:29:21,400 –> 00:29:24,080
\nWe can’t substitute the
\nphilosophy of the world. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:29:24,640 –> 00:29:27,200
\nWe can’t substitute the
\nreligious writings of those <\/p>\n
390
\n00:29:27,200 –> 00:29:31,440
\naround us, or or business theory
\nor management theory. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:29:33,560 –> 00:29:36,760
\nThis is the Word of God which
\nmakes us go down that far. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:29:38,280 –> 00:29:40,480
\nOtherwise, we’re off to the
\nleft, we’re off to the right. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:29:40,560 –> 00:29:43,160
\nThe children have gone some
\nother direction where we don’t <\/p>\n
394
\n00:29:43,160 –> 00:29:46,320
\nknow where they are.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
395
\n00:29:46,600 –> 00:29:49,280
\nBecause we haven’t made our own
\ncopy of the Word of God. <\/p>\n
396
\n00:29:53,360 –> 00:29:56,920
\nThat’s what you cited, that he
\nwas one of the nation. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:29:56,920 –> 00:30:03,960
\nIt says you will take a king,
\nyou shall take a king. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:30:03,960 –> 00:30:09,720
\nHe says not a stranger from
\namong thy brethren. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:30:10,320 –> 00:30:12,960
\nAnd this is the way he was going
\nto keep himself in his true <\/p>\n
400
\n00:30:12,960 –> 00:30:16,160
\nunderstanding that his heart be
\nnot lifted up. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:30:16,960 –> 00:30:20,600
\nSo there was the real danger
\nthat pride would take him a <\/p>\n
402
\n00:30:20,600 –> 00:30:22,400
\ndifferent way and the people
\nwould follow. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:30:24,480 –> 00:30:27,200
\nNow, if that was true then, it’s
\ntrue now. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:30:29,160 –> 00:30:33,800
\nWe mustn’t let pride determine
\nhow our ecclesias are run and <\/p>\n
405
\n00:30:33,800 –> 00:30:39,480
\nhow we speak to one another.
\nWe must let the Word of God, <\/p>\n
406
\n00:30:39,560 –> 00:30:43,480
\nrightly divided, be the rule by
\nwhich we live our lives. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:30:48,440 –> 00:30:52,280
\nNow have a look at Jeremiah 22
\nto see what this meant. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:30:52,280 –> 00:30:55,360
\nYou see, it’s not a matter of
\nmechanics that. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:30:55,360 –> 00:30:58,520
\nI mean, there may be some great
\nvirtue in US writing out their <\/p>\n
410
\n00:30:58,520 –> 00:31:01,960
\nown copy of the Bible, but that
\nwouldn’t wouldn’t actually make <\/p>\n
411
\n00:31:02,200 –> 00:31:08,240
\nthe transformation.
\nI’m told you can buy a computer <\/p>\n
412
\n00:31:08,240 –> 00:31:13,480
\nprogram now that you can read
\ninto the computer and the <\/p>\n
413
\n00:31:13,480 –> 00:31:18,320
\ncomputer will type it out.
\nJust take your voice, then it <\/p>\n
414
\n00:31:18,320 –> 00:31:22,560
\nwill type it out.
\nThat doesn’t make the computer <\/p>\n
415
\n00:31:22,560 –> 00:31:27,240
\nspiritual.
\nThat computer has no mind of its<\/p>\n
416
\n00:31:27,240 –> 00:31:31,120
\nown at all.
\nSo it’s not the mechanics of it,<\/p>\n
417
\n00:31:31,120 –> 00:31:36,760
\nand it wasn’t mechanical.
\nBut Josiah, because we have this<\/p>\n
418
\n00:31:36,760 –> 00:31:40,000
\nwonderful insight into his
\ncharacter and Jeremiah 22, <\/p>\n
419
\n00:31:42,560 –> 00:31:49,800
\nJeremiah 22, verse 16, this is
\nthe chapter where Josiah’s sons,<\/p>\n
420
\n00:31:49,800 –> 00:31:53,080
\nwho sadly everyone was, was
\nthoroughly rotten. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:31:55,080 –> 00:31:57,680
\nThat doesn’t mean to say that
\nJosiah hadn’t instructed them <\/p>\n
422
\n00:31:57,680 –> 00:32:01,040
\nproperly because the law says
\nthat he should instruct his <\/p>\n
423
\n00:32:01,040 –> 00:32:03,880
\nchildren in the ways of God.
\nAnd there was nothing in that <\/p>\n
424
\n00:32:03,880 –> 00:32:07,600
\nlaw that He didn’t do with his
\nwhole heart and soul and might. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:32:08,000 –> 00:32:10,920
\nHe had a unique distinction.
\nThere was no man like him before<\/p>\n
426
\n00:32:10,920 –> 00:32:13,920
\nor since amongst the kings of
\nIsrael that turned to Yahweh <\/p>\n
427
\n00:32:13,920 –> 00:32:15,440
\nwith all his heart, soul and
\nmight. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:32:16,600 –> 00:32:18,400
\nHe put into practice everything
\nit says. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:32:18,400 –> 00:32:21,400
\nDeuteronomy 6 and sauna, but
\ninstructing his trouble, I am <\/p>\n
430
\n00:32:21,400 –> 00:32:28,520
\nsure nevertheless, Nevertheless,
\nthey turned to the ways of the <\/p>\n
431
\n00:32:28,520 –> 00:32:33,280
\nworld, that the reason lay in
\nthemselves. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:32:35,560 –> 00:32:43,840
\nThe verse 21 Jehoiakim Jeremiah
\nsays, I speak unto thee, and thy<\/p>\n
433
\n00:32:43,840 –> 00:32:46,200
\nprosperity.
\nBut thou saidst thy will not <\/p>\n
434
\n00:32:46,200 –> 00:32:49,280
\nhear.
\nThis has been thy manner from <\/p>\n
435
\n00:32:49,280 –> 00:32:52,720
\nthy youth, that thou obeyst not
\nmy voice. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:32:55,800 –> 00:32:58,800
\nSo they had chosen not to follow
\nthe example of their father. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:32:59,480 –> 00:33:04,600
\nThey had rejected the word of
\nGod in their youth, and <\/p>\n
438
\n00:33:04,600 –> 00:33:07,080
\ntherefore they would not
\nprosper. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:33:07,320 –> 00:33:11,360
\nContrast the father himself,
\nJosiah in verse 16. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:33:12,080 –> 00:33:15,320
\nHe judged the cause of the poor
\nand needy. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:33:16,040 –> 00:33:22,440
\nThen it was well with him.
\nWas not this to know me, Saith <\/p>\n
442
\n00:33:22,440 –> 00:33:25,640
\nthe Lord.
\nSee the link with our first <\/p>\n
443
\n00:33:25,640 –> 00:33:30,040
\nstudy.
\nThere was not this to know me. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:33:30,160 –> 00:33:34,560
\nThat’s what Moses asked God,
\nshow me thy way that I may know <\/p>\n
445
\n00:33:34,560 –> 00:33:37,160
\nthee.
\nAnd therefore was revealed the <\/p>\n
446
\n00:33:37,160 –> 00:33:40,440
\nloving kindness of God in his
\nname manifest. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:33:41,280 –> 00:33:44,160
\nI just saw it taking hold of
\nwhat had been revealed, and he <\/p>\n
448
\n00:33:44,160 –> 00:33:48,240
\nhad translated it into his life.
\nSo he judged the cause of the <\/p>\n
449
\n00:33:48,240 –> 00:33:52,120
\npoor and the needy.
\nHe manifested those qualities of<\/p>\n
450
\n00:33:52,120 –> 00:33:57,320
\nmercy and grace for those who
\nneeded assistance and help. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:33:59,080 –> 00:34:02,960
\nThere’s a lovely little point in
\nthe Second Chronicles 35 record <\/p>\n
452
\n00:34:02,960 –> 00:34:07,120
\nI just draw your attention to
\nwhen Jeremiah lamented for <\/p>\n
453
\n00:34:07,200 –> 00:34:17,040
\nJosiah must have been a sad day.
\nIt says in verse 26. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:34:17,040 –> 00:34:22,760
\nNow the rest of the acts of
\nJosiah and his goodness, <\/p>\n
455
\n00:34:23,560 –> 00:34:26,639
\naccording to that which was
\nwritten in the law of the Lord <\/p>\n
456
\n00:34:27,360 –> 00:34:31,199
\nand his deeds first and last,
\nbehold there written the book of<\/p>\n
457
\n00:34:31,199 –> 00:34:37,320
\nthe kings of Israel and Judah in
\nverse 26, when it says His <\/p>\n
458
\n00:34:37,320 –> 00:34:40,440
\ngoodness.
\nThat is the word Chess said. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:34:40,440 –> 00:34:42,360
\nThat is the word loving
\nkindness. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:34:42,360 –> 00:34:47,880
\nIt is the one word, the only
\nword that is used twice in the <\/p>\n
461
\n00:34:47,880 –> 00:34:53,560
\nrecord of the divine character.
\nIn Exodus chapter 34, there’s <\/p>\n
462
\n00:34:53,560 –> 00:34:58,040
\none word which is used twice.
\nIt’s the word chess said, the <\/p>\n
463
\n00:34:58,040 –> 00:35:02,720
\ngoodness, the mercy of God, or
\nthe loving kindness. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:06,720
\nThat is the word that Jeremiah
\nuses of this man. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:35:06,720 –> 00:35:12,920
\nDo you see what’s happened?
\nHe has become what he’s read. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:35:14,480 –> 00:35:18,400
\nHe has become like the God he
\nhas. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:35:19,120 –> 00:35:24,800
\nHe has been changed by the word
\nof God in his heart, soul and <\/p>\n
468
\n00:35:24,800 –> 00:35:28,880
\nmind.
\nBut how can that happen to us? <\/p>\n
469
\n00:35:29,840 –> 00:35:34,880
\nHow can we change, perhaps a a
\nbitter character into a sweet <\/p>\n
470
\n00:35:35,240 –> 00:35:42,880
\ncharacter, a selfish person into
\na selfless person, a proud <\/p>\n
471
\n00:35:42,880 –> 00:35:47,280
\nperson into a humble person?
\nWhat are we? <\/p>\n
472
\n00:35:47,760 –> 00:35:50,520
\nWhat are our failings?
\nBrethren and sisters? <\/p>\n
473
\n00:35:52,600 –> 00:35:58,200
\nWe know them and from time to
\ntime we want to change to. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:35:59,400 –> 00:36:02,000
\nWe say to yourself, or if only I
\nwasn’t like that. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:04,680
\nI wish I could have bitten my
\ntongue. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:36:05,120 –> 00:36:09,600
\nWhy can’t I control?
\nWhy can’t I feel differently <\/p>\n
477
\n00:36:09,600 –> 00:36:15,680
\ntowards brother X or sister Y?
\nWhy can’t I rise above the <\/p>\n
478
\n00:36:15,680 –> 00:36:20,080
\nproblem, try to see it as God
\nwould have me deal with it? <\/p>\n
479
\n00:36:22,560 –> 00:36:26,680
\nWhy do I always fall into the
\nsame sin that I asked <\/p>\n
480
\n00:36:26,680 –> 00:36:33,520
\nforgiveness for yesterday?
\nHow are we going to change in <\/p>\n
481
\n00:36:33,520 –> 00:36:39,880
\nthis way?
\nFaith comes by hearing, hearing <\/p>\n
482
\n00:36:40,360 –> 00:36:43,040
\nby the word of God.
\nAnd if we’re not prepared to put<\/p>\n
483
\n00:36:43,040 –> 00:36:47,440
\nthe television off and to open
\nour Bibles, we’re not going to <\/p>\n
484
\n00:36:47,440 –> 00:36:51,400
\nchange.
\nWe have to make a sacrifice. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:36:51,400 –> 00:36:58,080
\nIt’s not a huge sacrifice, but
\nwe have to start somewhere, <\/p>\n
486
\n00:36:58,080 –> 00:37:01,600
\ndon’t we?
\nIf our eye offends, let’s pluck <\/p>\n
487
\n00:37:01,600 –> 00:37:04,160
\nit out.
\nIf our hand offends us, cut it <\/p>\n
488
\n00:37:04,160 –> 00:37:06,320
\noff.
\nThat’s what the Lord is <\/p>\n
489
\n00:37:06,320 –> 00:37:09,640
\nexpecting, You know.
\nHe’s not going to say, well, <\/p>\n
490
\n00:37:09,640 –> 00:37:12,000
\nthere was a real secret to the
\nway in which you could have <\/p>\n
491
\n00:37:12,000 –> 00:37:13,960
\nchanged your life and you didn’t
\nfind it, did you? <\/p>\n
492
\n00:37:13,960 –> 00:37:15,680
\nHe’s not going to say that to
\nus. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:37:18,080 –> 00:37:20,160
\nWe agonise over it, don’t we?
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
494
\n00:37:21,360 –> 00:37:25,680
\nWhy don’t we just do it?
\nRemember, Brother Bob’s talk in <\/p>\n
495
\n00:37:25,800 –> 00:37:30,560
\nnewborn, I think was just do it.
\nThat’s the answer, brethren and <\/p>\n
496
\n00:37:30,560 –> 00:37:34,560
\nsisters.
\nJust do it Tonight. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:37:34,560 –> 00:37:36,160
\nLet’s start tonight.
\nWhen we go home. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:37:37,080 –> 00:37:39,880
\nDon’t switch it on.
\nJust don’t do it. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:37:43,400 –> 00:37:46,520
\nYeah.
\nI just wonder how many of us are<\/p>\n
500
\n00:37:46,520 –> 00:37:50,080
\nmaking notes of of expositional
\npoints that we haven’t heard <\/p>\n
501
\n00:37:50,080 –> 00:37:51,280
\nbefore.
\nI don’t know. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:37:51,520 –> 00:37:53,200
\nPerhaps everybody’s heard it all
\nbefore. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:37:55,520 –> 00:37:58,400
\nYeah.
\nSo we’ll never remember, will <\/p>\n
504
\n00:37:58,400 –> 00:38:00,480
\nwe?
\nWell, we, we will. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:38:00,480 –> 00:38:02,160
\nOf course we will.
\nWe say to ourselves now. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:38:02,160 –> 00:38:06,080
\nOf course I’ll remember.
\nAnd then tomorrow somebody asks <\/p>\n
507
\n00:38:06,080 –> 00:38:07,280
\nus, what did they say?
\nI don’t know. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:38:11,800 –> 00:38:17,240
\nSo it’s worth, you know, having
\na pen and paper, making a note, <\/p>\n
509
\n00:38:17,800 –> 00:38:19,120
\nfollowing it up.
\nWhat’s he right? <\/p>\n
510
\n00:38:19,600 –> 00:38:22,880
\nI says crazy brother who comes
\nover for two days from Cardiff <\/p>\n
511
\n00:38:22,880 –> 00:38:26,600
\ntelling you the truth.
\nOr did he make it all up? <\/p>\n
512
\n00:38:29,480 –> 00:38:33,080
\nIs this some peculiar Welsh
\ntheory that he was expounding? <\/p>\n
513
\n00:38:37,280 –> 00:38:42,080
\nWell, what’s our personal
\ninvolvement in these things? <\/p>\n
514
\n00:38:44,480 –> 00:38:47,200
\nHow should we study?
\nWell, everyone has their own <\/p>\n
515
\n00:38:47,200 –> 00:38:50,920
\nidea, I suppose, but just look
\nat Second Kings 22 and see the <\/p>\n
516
\n00:38:50,920 –> 00:38:57,080
\nemphasis that’s given in the
\nreaction of Josiah and the way <\/p>\n
517
\n00:38:57,080 –> 00:39:00,840
\nin which the record through
\nrepetition makes the point. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:39:01,200 –> 00:39:04,480
\nIf we see something repeated,
\nthen we really ought to take <\/p>\n
519
\n00:39:04,480 –> 00:39:09,920
\nnote of it.
\nIn fact, you know, I have a <\/p>\n
520
\n00:39:09,920 –> 00:39:11,560
\nchildlike approached these
\nthings. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:39:11,560 –> 00:39:15,000
\nI colour them in with coloured
\npencils because it stands out. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:39:15,000 –> 00:39:18,400
\nAnd just doing the readings
\nwith, with the children. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:39:18,400 –> 00:39:21,960
\nYou know, Ben, who’s 10 now, he
\nalways comes up with the keyword<\/p>\n
524
\n00:39:21,960 –> 00:39:24,240
\nin the chapter.
\nSometimes it’s, and sometimes <\/p>\n
525
\n00:39:24,560 –> 00:39:27,160
\nit’s his third.
\nSometimes he’s right. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:39:27,960 –> 00:39:34,120
\nBut you see, because they’re
\nlooking for repetition and, and <\/p>\n
527
\n00:39:34,120 –> 00:39:38,720
\nkey ideas, even a little child,
\nthey can pick these things up. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:39:39,080 –> 00:39:42,560
\nAnd, you know, surprising how
\noften Ben is the first one to <\/p>\n
529
\n00:39:42,640 –> 00:39:46,640
\nsee the point.
\nHe’s he’s at least as good as <\/p>\n
530
\n00:39:46,640 –> 00:39:49,080
\nany of the others at picking up
\nthe point. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:39:51,080 –> 00:39:54,360
\nBecause a child’s mind is not
\nplattered with all sorts of <\/p>\n
532
\n00:39:54,360 –> 00:39:57,600
\nclever thoughts.
\nWhat we’re looking for is the <\/p>\n
533
\n00:39:57,600 –> 00:40:01,360
\nsimple truth.
\nAnd when it’s this pointed out, <\/p>\n
534
\n00:40:01,600 –> 00:40:05,800
\nnow we say it’s obvious.
\nNow you mentioned it, but I <\/p>\n
535
\n00:40:05,800 –> 00:40:08,960
\nnever saw it.
\nAnd these obvious things are <\/p>\n
536
\n00:40:08,960 –> 00:40:13,520
\nsimply looking at the words.
\nWhich are there nothing more <\/p>\n
537
\n00:40:13,520 –> 00:40:15,520
\nthan that and this is what comes
\nup. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:40:15,520 –> 00:40:18,240
\nJust stop talking and look
\nthat’s to me. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:40:18,440 –> 00:40:24,000
\nVerse 11 came to pass when the
\nking had heard the words of the <\/p>\n
540
\n00:40:24,000 –> 00:40:26,000
\nbook of the law that he rent his
\nclothes. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:40:26,440 –> 00:40:29,960
\nVerse 13.
\nThe second Kings 22 concerning <\/p>\n
542
\n00:40:29,960 –> 00:40:34,360
\nthe words of this book that is
\nfound the great is the wrath of <\/p>\n
543
\n00:40:34,360 –> 00:40:36,640
\nthe Lord that is kind against us
\nbecause our fathers have not <\/p>\n
544
\n00:40:36,640 –> 00:40:39,720
\ntalked to the words of this
\nbook. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:40:40,080 –> 00:40:44,880
\nVerse 16, Therefore even all the
\nwords of the book. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:40:45,160 –> 00:40:48,800
\nVerse 18, that’s touching the
\nwords which thou hast heard. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:40:49,160 –> 00:40:52,280
\nChapter 23.
\nVerse 2 And he read in the ears <\/p>\n
548
\n00:40:52,560 –> 00:40:55,560
\nall the words of the book of the
\ncovenant. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:40:55,920 –> 00:40:59,640
\nVerse 3 to perform the words of
\nthis covenant that is written in<\/p>\n
550
\n00:40:59,640 –> 00:41:02,440
\nthe book.
\nNow he could have just said the <\/p>\n
551
\n00:41:02,440 –> 00:41:06,200
\nbook, He could have said the
\nlaw, but it gives us this <\/p>\n
552
\n00:41:06,200 –> 00:41:10,640
\nextensive phrase, the words of
\nthe book of the Law. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:41:13,840 –> 00:41:18,960
\nThat’s the way to study, to
\nlisten to the words of the book.<\/p>\n
554
\n00:41:19,560 –> 00:41:24,400
\nThere is an exactness required
\nof us in our appreciation of the<\/p>\n
555
\n00:41:24,400 –> 00:41:27,000
\nWord of God.
\nIt is not sufficient to have the<\/p>\n
556
\n00:41:27,000 –> 00:41:32,040
\ngist of it, the broad idea, the
\nmain theme that I got the <\/p>\n
557
\n00:41:32,040 –> 00:41:36,800
\ngeneral sense of the passage.
\nRead it quickly and go, yeah, I <\/p>\n
558
\n00:41:36,800 –> 00:41:39,360
\ngot the idea.
\nNow, No, brethren, sisters, that<\/p>\n
559
\n00:41:39,360 –> 00:41:46,480
\nis not Bible study.
\nThat is human pride replacing <\/p>\n
560
\n00:41:46,640 –> 00:41:49,400
\nthe exact attention to the
\ndetail of the Word. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:41:49,480 –> 00:41:53,080
\nThat’s why translation matters.
\nThat’s why it does matter what <\/p>\n
562
\n00:41:53,080 –> 00:41:56,640
\nversion we’re using.
\nNot that there is one right <\/p>\n
563
\n00:41:56,640 –> 00:41:59,760
\nversion, but it does matter.
\nIf we were using the Good News <\/p>\n
564
\n00:41:59,760 –> 00:42:03,600
\nBible or whatever, that wouldn’t
\nbe good for us. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:42:04,720 –> 00:42:07,840
\nIt would so dilute the power of
\nGod’s Word as to remove the <\/p>\n
566
\n00:42:07,840 –> 00:42:12,400
\nexactness, the precision.
\nWould you like to go into an <\/p>\n
567
\n00:42:12,400 –> 00:42:15,040
\noperating theatre, you know, to
\ngo under the knife of the <\/p>\n
568
\n00:42:15,040 –> 00:42:19,080
\nsurgeon and know that the
\nsurgeon had taken the scalp, you<\/p>\n
569
\n00:42:19,080 –> 00:42:24,280
\nknow, and he’d been knocking it
\naround so the edge wasn’t clean,<\/p>\n
570
\n00:42:24,320 –> 00:42:28,440
\nbut all jagged, blunt.
\nAnd then he tried to do his <\/p>\n
571
\n00:42:28,440 –> 00:42:30,920
\noperation.
\nOh, no. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:42:31,000 –> 00:42:36,280
\nYou want the surgeon’s knife to
\nbe sharper than A2 edged sword. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:42:38,840 –> 00:42:42,440
\nThat is what the Word of God is.
\nThat’s what we have to get back <\/p>\n
574
\n00:42:42,440 –> 00:42:46,200
\nto an exact understanding.
\nI was very impressed with the <\/p>\n
575
\n00:42:46,200 –> 00:42:48,760
\nsister I met at the Bible
\nschool. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:42:49,680 –> 00:42:57,320
\nShe was, I think she was 91 and
\nsitting talking to the sister <\/p>\n
577
\n00:42:57,320 –> 00:43:01,240
\nand she was blind in one eye and
\nalmost blind in the other. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:43:02,720 –> 00:43:08,960
\nAnd she had a Bible like this.
\nAnd she said, ever since I lost <\/p>\n
579
\n00:43:08,960 –> 00:43:12,120
\nthe sight of my eye, I’ve been
\nvery interested in words. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:43:15,080 –> 00:43:16,560
\nShe could only see one at a
\ntime. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:43:18,240 –> 00:43:22,000
\nI mean, I was so impressed now
\nbecause she could say, you see <\/p>\n
582
\n00:43:22,000 –> 00:43:25,880
\nthat word there, but if you look
\nit up in Strong’s Concordance, <\/p>\n
583
\n00:43:26,760 –> 00:43:30,160
\nit is such and such.
\nAnd she was looking at her <\/p>\n
584
\n00:43:30,160 –> 00:43:33,320
\nconcordance, Strong’s
\nConcordance in the lexicon, <\/p>\n
585
\n00:43:33,480 –> 00:43:38,280
\nfollowing the numbers and going
\nthrough the passage word by <\/p>\n
586
\n00:43:38,280 –> 00:43:39,880
\nwords.
\nThat’s an interesting word. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:43:40,440 –> 00:43:47,400
\nShe was 91.
\nOh, come on, brethren, who can <\/p>\n
588
\n00:43:47,400 –> 00:43:48,840
\nsay that?
\nWe can’t do it. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:43:51,520 –> 00:43:54,400
\nIt takes time.
\nIt takes a lot longer than than <\/p>\n
590
\n00:43:54,400 –> 00:43:57,600
\ngetting our ideas from somewhere
\nelse. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:43:59,560 –> 00:44:01,360
\nAnd it’s not for brethren only,
\nis it? <\/p>\n
592
\n00:44:01,360 –> 00:44:04,560
\nIt’s not a matter of, well, I’ve
\ngot to speak next week, so I <\/p>\n
593
\n00:44:04,560 –> 00:44:06,680
\nbetter do some study.
\nSurely not. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:44:07,160 –> 00:44:11,840
\nSurely Bible study isn’t
\nrelegated to that unimportant <\/p>\n
595
\n00:44:11,840 –> 00:44:15,840
\nlevel.
\nIt’s the power to change your <\/p>\n
596
\n00:44:15,840 –> 00:44:18,320
\nlife systems as well as our
\nhusbands. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:44:19,320 –> 00:44:22,200
\nIt’s the power to instruct our
\nchildren in the right way. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:44:23,720 –> 00:44:25,720
\nBut have a look at Second Kings
\n23. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:44:25,720 –> 00:44:31,040
\nWhat does God expect?
\nHere is Josiah trying to <\/p>\n
600
\n00:44:31,240 –> 00:44:33,920
\nimplement what he’s read, that
\nhe’s brought all the people <\/p>\n
601
\n00:44:33,920 –> 00:44:35,680
\ntogether and he’s going to make
\na covenant. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:44:35,680 –> 00:44:39,360
\nHe’s going to say, right?
\nAre you going to sign up now? <\/p>\n
603
\n00:44:39,360 –> 00:44:42,480
\nAre you going to change with me?
\nWe know what we’ve got to do. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:44:42,480 –> 00:44:45,400
\nAre you with me?
\nYeah, we’re with you. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:44:45,920 –> 00:44:48,200
\nYeah, We’re going to change just
\nlike you, Josiah. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:44:50,280 –> 00:44:52,480
\nAnd so look at who he gathers
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:44:53,040 –> 00:44:56,480
\nVerse 2.
\nAnd the king went up into the <\/p>\n
608
\n00:44:56,480 –> 00:45:01,280
\nHouse of the Lord, and all the
\nmen of Judah and all the <\/p>\n
609
\n00:45:01,280 –> 00:45:05,240
\ninhabitants of Jerusalem with
\nhim, the priests, the prophets, <\/p>\n
610
\n00:45:05,520 –> 00:45:09,280
\nand all the people, both small
\nand great. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:45:10,400 –> 00:45:13,320
\nAnd he read in their years all
\nthe words of the book. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:45:13,440 –> 00:45:16,520
\nNow that’s repetition.
\nEveryone was expected to be <\/p>\n
613
\n00:45:16,520 –> 00:45:25,720
\nthere, both small and great.
\nSo it was for everybody and <\/p>\n
614
\n00:45:25,840 –> 00:45:28,520
\nunderstanding the word of God is
\nnot a competition. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:45:30,000 –> 00:45:35,600
\nIt’s not so that we can shine in
\nin our discussion group or by <\/p>\n
616
\n00:45:35,600 –> 00:45:38,120
\nthe class sisters class or in
\nyouth. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:45:38,400 –> 00:45:44,320
\nThat’s not what it’s about.
\nThe measure isn’t whether I know<\/p>\n
618
\n00:45:44,320 –> 00:45:48,800
\nmore than you and you know more
\nthan me, but whether we are <\/p>\n
619
\n00:45:48,800 –> 00:45:53,160
\ncoming to know God.
\nLet’s have an example of that. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:45:53,440 –> 00:45:58,680
\nIf you look in Second Kings 23
\nand verse 25, you notice there <\/p>\n
621
\n00:45:58,680 –> 00:46:02,360
\nit says about Josiah that he
\nturned into the Lord with all <\/p>\n
622
\n00:46:02,360 –> 00:46:04,520
\nhis heart, all his soul, and all
\nhis might. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:46:05,880 –> 00:46:10,000
\nThe people didn’t know all those
\npeople that had gathered and <\/p>\n
624
\n00:46:10,000 –> 00:46:11,480
\nsaid, yes, we’re with your
\nJosiah. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:46:11,760 –> 00:46:14,560
\nThey were just trying to keep
\nhim happy, keep him quiet, keep <\/p>\n
626
\n00:46:14,560 –> 00:46:18,920
\nthem, keep him off their backs.
\nThey weren’t with him really, <\/p>\n
627
\n00:46:18,920 –> 00:46:24,640
\nnot in their hearts.
\nJeremiah 3 verse 10 says this. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:46:24,640 –> 00:46:28,280
\nPeople have turned unto me
\nfaintedly. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:46:30,360 –> 00:46:34,600
\nFaintedly.
\nIt was almost on his own. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:46:36,280 –> 00:46:40,440
\nHe couldn’t take the people with
\nit because their hearts weren’t <\/p>\n
631
\n00:46:40,440 –> 00:46:42,800
\nin it.
\nBut there was a woman who <\/p>\n
632
\n00:46:42,960 –> 00:46:46,200
\nexemplified the spirit of
\nJosiah. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:46:46,480 –> 00:46:49,320
\nShe’s recorded for us in Mark
\nchapter 12. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:46:59,480 –> 00:47:02,480
\nI mentioned the parallels
\nbetween Josiah’s time and the <\/p>\n
635
\n00:47:02,480 –> 00:47:04,920
\nLord Jesus.
\nAnd when the Lord went in to <\/p>\n
636
\n00:47:04,920 –> 00:47:07,520
\ncleanse the temple.
\nHe was doing what Josiah had <\/p>\n
637
\n00:47:07,520 –> 00:47:10,240
\ndone before.
\nWhen he goes into the temple, he<\/p>\n
638
\n00:47:10,240 –> 00:47:14,000
\nquotes Jeremiah Chapter 7.
\nYou’ve made the House of God a <\/p>\n
639
\n00:47:14,000 –> 00:47:17,240
\nden of thieves.
\nHe’s quoting a passage of <\/p>\n
640
\n00:47:17,240 –> 00:47:21,280
\nJosiah’s ray when he offers them
\nthe parables. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:47:21,440 –> 00:47:25,280
\nHe is taking hold of words from
\nChronicles about the way in <\/p>\n
642
\n00:47:25,280 –> 00:47:27,640
\nwhich Israel had dealt with the
\nprophets over the years. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:47:27,640 –> 00:47:32,000
\nHe’s drawn a parallel with
\nJosiah’s reign and many <\/p>\n
644
\n00:47:32,240 –> 00:47:36,200
\nconnections can be found.
\nSo when a a lawyer comes up to <\/p>\n
645
\n00:47:36,200 –> 00:47:40,000
\nthe Lord and and challenges him
\nto say which is the first <\/p>\n
646
\n00:47:40,000 –> 00:47:43,800
\ncommandment in chapter 12 and
\nverse 30, the Lord answers. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:47:44,000 –> 00:47:47,120
\nThou shalt love the Lord thy God
\nwith all thy heart, with all thy<\/p>\n
648
\n00:47:47,120 –> 00:47:50,280
\nsoul, with all thy might, and
\nwith all thy strength. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:47:51,440 –> 00:47:54,800
\nAnd as we say, there is only one
\nman in Scripture who is recorded<\/p>\n
650
\n00:47:54,800 –> 00:47:57,520
\nas fulfilling that.
\nOf course the Lord Jesus did, <\/p>\n
651
\n00:47:57,520 –> 00:48:00,160
\nbut only one other man, and
\nthat’s Josiah. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:48:03,040 –> 00:48:11,840
\nSo Josiah must have been in the
\nmind of the Lord, Ravin <\/p>\n
653
\n00:48:11,840 –> 00:48:14,480
\nexplained.
\nThis was the first command to <\/p>\n
654
\n00:48:15,520 –> 00:48:21,680
\nlove the Lord with all, and that
\nwas greater than all whole burnt<\/p>\n
655
\n00:48:21,680 –> 00:48:25,800
\nofferings.
\nThe Lord says to his disciples, <\/p>\n
656
\n00:48:26,040 –> 00:48:27,760
\ncome over here and have a look
\nat this. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:48:28,520 –> 00:48:31,800
\nHe’s there in the great court of
\nthe temple where the the chests <\/p>\n
658
\n00:48:31,800 –> 00:48:33,960
\nwere, where the people brought
\ntheir offerings. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:48:36,480 –> 00:48:39,600
\nIn the verse 41 it says, Jesus
\nsat over against the treasury, <\/p>\n
660
\n00:48:40,040 –> 00:48:43,920
\nand beheld how the people cast
\nin money into the treasury, and <\/p>\n
661
\n00:48:43,920 –> 00:48:46,560
\nmany that were rich cast in
\nmuch. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:48:48,200 –> 00:48:50,800
\nAnd there came a certain poor
\nwidow, and she threw in two <\/p>\n
663
\n00:48:50,800 –> 00:48:54,880
\nmonths, which make a Farthing.
\nAnd he called unto him. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:48:54,880 –> 00:48:59,160
\nHis disciples said unto them,
\nVerily I say unto you, that this<\/p>\n
665
\n00:48:59,160 –> 00:49:04,040
\npoor widow have cast more in
\nthan all they which have cast <\/p>\n
666
\n00:49:04,040 –> 00:49:07,640
\ninto the treasury.
\nFor all they did cast in of <\/p>\n
667
\n00:49:07,640 –> 00:49:11,880
\ntheir abundance.
\nBut she of her want did cast in <\/p>\n
668
\n00:49:12,160 –> 00:49:17,280
\nall that she had even all her
\nliving. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:49:18,720 –> 00:49:22,400
\nYou notice there by repetition
\nagain Now what the Lord says <\/p>\n
670
\n00:49:22,400 –> 00:49:28,720
\nabout that woman is she cast in
\nall that she had and it’s <\/p>\n
671
\n00:49:28,720 –> 00:49:33,160
\nobviously LinkedIn the chapter
\ncure O Israel, thou shalt love <\/p>\n
672
\n00:49:33,160 –> 00:49:39,920
\nthe Lord thy God with all and
\nthe example the scriptures give <\/p>\n
673
\n00:49:39,920 –> 00:49:46,160
\nis a woman who had nothing.
\nSo the Lord wasn’t talking about<\/p>\n
674
\n00:49:46,160 –> 00:49:50,560
\nthe great kings of the earth.
\nHe was talking about a woman who<\/p>\n
675
\n00:49:50,560 –> 00:49:52,440
\nwas a widow.
\nShe had nothing. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:49:52,440 –> 00:49:56,960
\nShe was nothing and she cast in
\nmore than they all. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:49:57,040 –> 00:50:00,520
\nWhat does that tell us about God
\nand how he judges our <\/p>\n
678
\n00:50:00,520 –> 00:50:02,960
\ncontribution.
\nIs there anybody who is too <\/p>\n
679
\n00:50:02,960 –> 00:50:08,520
\nsmall, who feels so
\ninsignificant that they can’t <\/p>\n
680
\n00:50:08,520 –> 00:50:15,280
\ngive to God all this, this
\nlovely woman had a choice, <\/p>\n
681
\n00:50:15,280 –> 00:50:19,160
\ndidn’t she?
\nYou know, she had two coins. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:50:21,320 –> 00:50:27,400
\nShe could have cast in half of
\nall she had, but she cast in all<\/p>\n
683
\n00:50:27,400 –> 00:50:31,320
\nshe had.
\nShe made a conscious decision to<\/p>\n
684
\n00:50:31,320 –> 00:50:35,400
\ngive everything to God, to cast
\nherself upon the mercy of God, <\/p>\n
685
\n00:50:37,680 –> 00:50:41,440
\nand she excelled all the rich
\nmen of the earth in the faith <\/p>\n
686
\n00:50:41,440 –> 00:50:48,440
\nthat she showed.
\nHow did she come to such a <\/p>\n
687
\n00:50:48,440 –> 00:50:54,480
\ncommitment to the truth?
\nThou shalt love the Lord thy God<\/p>\n
688
\n00:50:55,760 –> 00:50:57,920
\nwith all.
\nShe was a woman who loved the <\/p>\n
689
\n00:50:57,920 –> 00:51:03,040
\nLord.
\nThat’s where the motivation was.<\/p>\n
690
\n00:51:03,040 –> 00:51:10,600
\nThat’s where the power was.
\nAnd so Josiah went out and the <\/p>\n
691
\n00:51:10,600 –> 00:51:13,920
\nsecond time he cleansed the
\nland, it was more thorough and <\/p>\n
692
\n00:51:13,920 –> 00:51:18,080
\nmore complete than before.
\nIt’s very interesting. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:51:18,080 –> 00:51:21,160
\nYou may have this in your home.
\nThe Biblical Archaeological <\/p>\n
694
\n00:51:21,160 –> 00:51:24,120
\nReview just came to my house
\nlast week, the July, August <\/p>\n
695
\n00:51:24,120 –> 00:51:27,760
\nedition.
\nIt’s got on the cover a picture <\/p>\n
696
\n00:51:28,160 –> 00:51:35,400
\nof a a pot in the shape of a
\nperson, and it’s an idol from <\/p>\n
697
\n00:51:35,720 –> 00:51:38,240
\nIsrael.
\nAnd the article is called <\/p>\n
698
\n00:51:38,480 –> 00:51:42,360
\nSmashing the Idols.
\nAnd they found from the Times of<\/p>\n
699
\n00:51:42,400 –> 00:51:48,320
\nJosiah, a shrine in southern
\nIsrael in which every idol is <\/p>\n
700
\n00:51:48,320 –> 00:51:53,920
\nsmashed to pieces deliberately.
\nAnd they’re wondering whether <\/p>\n
701
\n00:51:53,920 –> 00:52:03,190
\nthis was Josiah’s work himself.
\nBut I think not. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:52:03,670 –> 00:52:05,990
\nIt may have been one of his
\nfollowers, but I don’t think it <\/p>\n
703
\n00:52:05,990 –> 00:52:08,110
\nwas his work because you won’t
\nsee it. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:52:08,110 –> 00:52:11,400
\nBut there’s a picture here of a
\nwoman piercing together the <\/p>\n
705
\n00:52:11,400 –> 00:52:14,680
\nidol.
\nShe’s taken all the fragments <\/p>\n
706
\n00:52:15,160 –> 00:52:18,440
\nand she stuck them together, and
\nthere she’s got the idol again. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:52:19,080 –> 00:52:21,440
\nThat’s exactly what Josiah was
\nworried about. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:52:23,240 –> 00:52:32,680
\nIf you look at Second Kings 23,
\nthis is a feature of what he did<\/p>\n
709
\n00:52:32,960 –> 00:52:37,400
\nwith idols that he found Second
\nKings 23. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:52:37,400 –> 00:52:39,960
\nJust take verse 15 as an
\nexample. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:52:40,760 –> 00:52:44,440
\nMoreover, the altar that was at
\nBethel and the High Place, which<\/p>\n
712
\n00:52:44,440 –> 00:52:48,240
\nJeroboam, the son of Nebat, who
\nmade Israel to sin, had made <\/p>\n
713
\n00:52:48,520 –> 00:52:51,080
\nboth that altar and the high
\nplace. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:52:51,240 –> 00:52:56,680
\nHe breakdown and burned the high
\nplace and stamped it small to <\/p>\n
715
\n00:52:56,680 –> 00:52:58,680
\npowder.
\nIf you follow that through, <\/p>\n
716
\n00:52:58,680 –> 00:53:01,000
\nyou’ll see that that’s a feature
\nwhich is repeated. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:53:01,480 –> 00:53:06,080
\nHe literally pulverised these
\nimages. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:53:06,960 –> 00:53:09,640
\nWhy?
\nSo that they couldn’t do what <\/p>\n
719
\n00:53:09,640 –> 00:53:14,680
\nthis lady is doing.
\nThey couldn’t repair the idols <\/p>\n
720
\n00:53:14,880 –> 00:53:22,000
\nand be drawn back into idolatry.
\nAnd that’s what we have to do if<\/p>\n
721
\n00:53:22,000 –> 00:53:26,120
\nwe are serious about the truth.
\nWe have to take those things <\/p>\n
722
\n00:53:26,120 –> 00:53:30,640
\nwhich we know are stumbling
\nblocks to us and we have to <\/p>\n
723
\n00:53:30,640 –> 00:53:35,760
\npulverise them so that we can’t
\nthe next day replace them in our<\/p>\n
724
\n00:53:35,760 –> 00:53:38,800
\nminds, in our thoughts, in our
\nhomes. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:53:40,640 –> 00:53:47,520
\nJust one last point.
\nThe second things 23, verse 24, <\/p>\n
726
\n00:53:48,800 –> 00:53:53,280
\nit says, moreover, the workers
\nwith familiar spirits and the <\/p>\n
727
\n00:53:53,280 –> 00:53:59,440
\nWizards and the images and the
\nidols and all the abominations <\/p>\n
728
\n00:53:59,440 –> 00:54:03,160
\nthat were spied in the land of
\nJudah, Jerusalem, did Josiah put<\/p>\n
729
\n00:54:03,160 –> 00:54:06,640
\naway that he might perform the
\nwords of the Lord. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:54:07,920 –> 00:54:12,760
\nThe word images is the word
\nterraphim, and the terraphim <\/p>\n
731
\n00:54:12,760 –> 00:54:17,120
\nwere household gods.
\nThese were the little gods that <\/p>\n
732
\n00:54:17,120 –> 00:54:20,880
\nyou could keep on the
\nmantelpiece in your own home. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:54:22,920 –> 00:54:27,040
\nIt’s not mentioned in the first
\ncleansing, but it’s part of the <\/p>\n
734
\n00:54:27,040 –> 00:54:32,000
\nsecond cleansing where he was
\nmore thorough because he was <\/p>\n
735
\n00:54:32,000 –> 00:54:35,080
\nmore exact according to the Word
\nof God. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:54:36,120 –> 00:54:38,480
\nSo not only did they go through
\nthe land, they went into every <\/p>\n
737
\n00:54:38,480 –> 00:54:42,920
\nhome in the country and they
\ncleaned out everything which <\/p>\n
738
\n00:54:42,920 –> 00:54:48,480
\ncaused defence and they smashed
\nit to powder so that no one <\/p>\n
739
\n00:54:48,480 –> 00:54:51,560
\ncould ever replace in their
\nlives anything which would <\/p>\n
740
\n00:54:51,560 –> 00:54:54,360
\ncompete with the Word of God for
\nsupremacy. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:54:54,880 –> 00:54:58,280
\nMay, brethren, sisters, that be
\nthe spirit in which we implement<\/p>\n
742
\n00:54:58,400 –> 00:55:00,680
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