Class 4 from this series was used in GCT Episode 342.<\/p>\n
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\nOur speaker is Brother Rodger
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\nLewis’s classes this week is The
\nCrisis of Hezekiah, and today’s <\/p>\n
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\nclass is entitled The Sequel and
\nThe Sefer. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, thank you, brother
\nChairman, and good morning this <\/p>\n
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\nlast final morning, my dear
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nSo our tale is told, at least as
\nfar as the story itself permits <\/p>\n
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\nus to see.
\nBecause Eyes Are 36 to 39 was <\/p>\n
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\nthe gripping account of a king
\nin crisis, a record of personal <\/p>\n
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\ndrama that’s full of personal
\nexcitation for ourselves as we <\/p>\n
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\nface the trials of life that we
\nalso experience in walking <\/p>\n
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\nbefore our God.
\nBut as is the case with all of <\/p>\n
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\nScripture, we realize as we read
\nthat there must be more to the <\/p>\n
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\nstory than meets the eye.
\nThese chapters are clearly not <\/p>\n
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\naccidental in their design, and
\nthey’re certainly not arbitrary <\/p>\n
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\nin their placement.
\nIn fact, everything about them <\/p>\n
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\nsuggests a precise order of
\narrangement, a deliberate <\/p>\n
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\nintention of purpose.
\nSo why did Isaiah put them where<\/p>\n
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\nhe did in his prophecy?
\nAnd what did he really want us <\/p>\n
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\nto learn from the dramatic story
\nof Isaiah 36 to 39? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat was it that he really
\nintended us to understand? <\/p>\n
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\nSo the time has come for us to
\ninvestigate is is our title, <\/p>\n
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\ntherefore for this morning, the
\nsequel now to this story and the<\/p>\n
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\ncipher that might contain.
\nNow that word cipher is an <\/p>\n
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\ninteresting one because it’s
\nobviously connected to the word <\/p>\n
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\ndecipher, by the way, and here’s
\na set of definition of meanings <\/p>\n
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\nof that word.
\nThe Merriam Webster Dictionary <\/p>\n
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\nsays that it’s a method of
\ntransforming a text in order to <\/p>\n
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\nconceal its meaning.
\nThe Oxford Dictionary says it’s <\/p>\n
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\na secret or disguised way of
\nwriting, as in code. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Britannica dictionary says
\nit’s a way of changing a message<\/p>\n
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\nto keep it secret.
\nAnd the Collins Dictionary says <\/p>\n
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\nit’s a system of secret writing
\naccording to a key. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you notice the crucial words
\nboth the word conceal and the <\/p>\n
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\nword secret.
\nNow, interestingly, they’re both<\/p>\n
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\nthoroughly biblical expressions,
\nare they not? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause Proverbs 25 verse 2 says
\nit’s the glory of God to conceal<\/p>\n
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\na word, but the honor of kings
\nis to search out a word. <\/p>\n
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\nAmos 3 verse 7 says surely the
\nLord God will do nothing, but he<\/p>\n
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\nrevealeth his secret unto his
\nservants. <\/p>\n
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\nSo God uses codes and ciphers,
\nGod suit uses secrets embedded <\/p>\n
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\nin his message so that the
\nunholy and the profane and the <\/p>\n
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\narrogant and the boastful and
\nthe prayer do not see those <\/p>\n
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\nsecret treasures that he’s
\nhidden beneath the surface of <\/p>\n
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\nthe word.
\nThey’re discovered only by those<\/p>\n
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\nwho come with that spirit of
\nhumility to try and understand <\/p>\n
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\nwhat the Father would have us to
\nknow. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so in that spirit, brothers
\nand sisters, we come to our <\/p>\n
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\nfinal study this morning that we
\nmight search out the cipher and <\/p>\n
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\nunlock the deeper meaning of the
\ncrisis of his a car. <\/p>\n
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\nNow the first thing I’d like to
\ndraw your attention to, as we <\/p>\n
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\nhave read these chapters, did
\nyou notice how closely they <\/p>\n
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\nstand related in time?
\nThis is how Isaiah 36 begins. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, it came to pass in the 14th
\nyear of King Hezekiah that <\/p>\n
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\nSennacherib, king of Assyria,
\ncame up against you. <\/p>\n
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\nOf course, he sent Rab Shaker,
\ndidn’t he, with a threatening <\/p>\n
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\nmessage to try and coerce them
\ninto submission. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that message was delivered
\nsubsequently by the deputies to <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah himself.
\nIt came to pass in the 14th <\/p>\n
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\nyear.
\nBut do you know how the next <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 37 verse one says. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it came to pass when King
\nHezekiah heard it. <\/p>\n
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\nHeard what?
\nHeard the threatening message of<\/p>\n
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\nchapter 36.
\nHow soon do you think in time <\/p>\n
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\ndoes Isaiah 37 come after Isaiah
\n36? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the answer is at exactly the
\nsame time on the same day. <\/p>\n
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\nHow does chapter 38 begin?
\nIn those days? <\/p>\n
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\nWas Hezekiah second to death?
\nWhat days? <\/p>\n
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\nThe days of the Assyrian
\ninvasion, The days of <\/p>\n
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\nSennacherib and Rab Shaker being
\npresent in the land in those <\/p>\n
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\ndays.
\nHow closely connected in time do<\/p>\n
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\nyou think Isaiah 38 is with the
\ntwo that have preceded it? <\/p>\n
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\nThe answers, They’re very
\nclosely connected. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know how chapter 39
\nbegins? <\/p>\n
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\nAt that time, Miradak Baladdin
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\nHezekiah.
\nWhat time? <\/p>\n
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\nThe time of his sickness, the
\ntime of his recovery, the time <\/p>\n
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\nof the overthrow of the
\nAssyrians. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s all at the same time.
\nSo the first thing we notice in <\/p>\n
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\nchapters is the tightness of the<\/p>\n
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\nThere’s something being <\/p>\n
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\nThe entire section is actually <\/p>\n
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\nfocused on a very, very brief
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\nHow short? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, Hezekiah sat on the throne
\nfor almost 30 years, but this <\/p>\n
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\nthan that again right at the
\nmiddle of his reign. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, why do we need to know
\nabout just these 18 months? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy a period of time?
\nIncidentally, that represents no<\/p>\n
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\nmore than 5% of Hezekiah’s time
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\nBut Isaiah says you must know
\nabout this section, and the <\/p>\n
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\nanswer must be because in that
\nbrief stretch of time, events <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that leads us to the next
\nquestion, which relates to their<\/p>\n
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\nmiddle of his book. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the first part of Isaiah’s
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\nbreaks off, and the second part <\/p>\n
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\ncommence until Isaiah 40 through<\/p>\n
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\nBut in between those two <\/p>\n
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\nprophetic sections, he suddenly
\ninserts these four chapters <\/p>\n
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\nbecomes an historical writer. <\/p>\n
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\nWhy not somewhere else in the
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\nWell, the answer is because the
\ncrisis of Hezekiah was going to <\/p>\n
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\nform the pivot upon which the
\nrest of all his Isaiah’s book <\/p>\n
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\nwas going to be hinged.
\nNow, let me just show you that <\/p>\n
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\nin terms of the narrative, and
\njust imagine for a moment that <\/p>\n
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\nwe don’t have the crisis of
\nHezekiah sitting in the middle <\/p>\n
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\nchapters 36 to 39.
\nThis is how Isaiah would read, <\/p>\n
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\nor how it would read across from
\nthe first section of the book to<\/p>\n
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\nthe second if we were to look at
\nthe flow of the narrative. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, you’ll all know these words
\nin Isaiah 35 because they’re <\/p>\n
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\nIt talks about the wilderness <\/p>\n
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\nand the desert blossoming like
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\nRemember those words?
\nBut do you know that that same 2<\/p>\n
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\nexplosion, same 2 expressions
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\nin the wilderness and in the
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\nSame words.
\nAnd what about Isaiah 35 verse <\/p>\n
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\nThey shall see the glory of <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh says Isaiah 35.
\nBut Isaiah 40 verse 5 says The <\/p>\n
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\nglory of Yahweh shall be
\nrevealed, and all flesh shall <\/p>\n
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\nsee it together.
\nSame thing what about Isaiah 35 <\/p>\n
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\nverse four?
\nSay to them, Behold, your God <\/p>\n
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\nwill come.
\nIt says, but that’s Isaiah <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 40, isn’t it?
\nVerses 9 and 10 say unto Judah, <\/p>\n
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\nBehold, your God will come.
\nIn Isaiah 35 verse 8 it says, <\/p>\n
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\nand the highway shall be there,
\nand the redeemed shall walk <\/p>\n
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\ntherein.
\nBut isn’t that the highway <\/p>\n
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\nreferred to in Isaiah 40 verse
\nthree? <\/p>\n
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\nMake straight in the desert a
\nhighway for our God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when it says in Isaiah 35
\nverse 10, the ransom of Yahweh <\/p>\n
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\nshall come, they shall come to
\nZion with songs. <\/p>\n
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\nIsn’t that chapter 40 verse 9, O
\nthou that tell us good tidings <\/p>\n
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\nto Zion?
\nNow, you see, without the <\/p>\n
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\nhistorical insertion, don’t you
\nthink that we would read <\/p>\n
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\nstraight through from Isaiah 35
\nstraight into Isaiah 40 and <\/p>\n
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\nrecognize a complete continuity
\nin the themes? <\/p>\n
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\nSo why then did Isaiah permit
\nthe flow of his own prophetic <\/p>\n
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\nutterances to be interrupted
\nright in the middle of those two<\/p>\n
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\nchapters in such a way?
\nWell, may I suggest to you, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters, that one
\nof the key reasons is because we<\/p>\n
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\nread these aspects, and rightly
\nso in a sense. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we read all of this as
\nrelating to the future, don’t <\/p>\n
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\nwe?
\nThe wilderness shall blossom as <\/p>\n
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\nthe Rose, the glory of Yahweh
\nshall appear, the ransomed of <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh shall return.
\nThey’ll walk upon the highway to<\/p>\n
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\nall the future.
\nWe see it all this future. <\/p>\n
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\nBut Eyes are puts the crisis of
\nHezekiah smack in the middle <\/p>\n
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\nbetween these two chapters to
\nmake the point that there was an<\/p>\n
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\ninitial fulfillment and
\nimmediate application to all <\/p>\n
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\nthese words and to all these
\nideas in the life of Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\nhimself.
\nAll of these events found their <\/p>\n
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\nsubstance in the story of this
\nking, and those events were <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be dealt with in the
\nvery pivot of the book, which <\/p>\n
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\nconcerned the crisis of his
\nAkai. <\/p>\n
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\nSo again, let’s just examine
\nthat matter of the pivot in a <\/p>\n
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\nlittle more detail so that we
\ncan see how that works. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here we’ve got Isaiah 1 to
\n35, the first great section of <\/p>\n
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\nthe book, and then Isaiah 40 to
\n66, the second great section of <\/p>\n
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\nthe book.
\nAnd in between we’ve got these 4<\/p>\n
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\nchapters that we’ve had the
\npleasure and the privilege of <\/p>\n
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\nexamining the crisis of
\nHezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 36 to 39.
\nNow, if I was to ask you this <\/p>\n
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\nquestion, brothers and sisters,
\nwho would you say is the hero of<\/p>\n
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\nthe first section of the
\nprophecy of Isaiah? <\/p>\n
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\nWho’s the hero figure behind
\nthose chapters? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I’m going to suggest to you
\nthat the hero of the first <\/p>\n
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\nsection is the king in his
\nrighteous reign, because he’s <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be referred to in
\nChapter 9, verses two to seven, <\/p>\n
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\nin Chapter 11, verses one to
\nfive in chapter 32, verses 1 to <\/p>\n
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\n8.
\nIn chapter 33, verses 14 to 17, <\/p>\n
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\nfour poems about the righteous
\nking. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s the hero figure of the
\nfirst, the first half of the <\/p>\n
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\nbook of Isaiah.
\nBut the theme of the second part<\/p>\n
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\nof the book is really quite
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if I was to ask you who’s
\nthe hero of the second part of <\/p>\n
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\nthe book of Isaiah, I’ve no
\ndoubt that you would correctly <\/p>\n
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\nanswer why it is the Servant in
\nhis suffering service. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’s going to be referred to
\nin Isaiah 42 verses one to <\/p>\n
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\nseven, Isaiah 49 verses one to
\nsix, Isaiah 50 verses 4 to 9, <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 52, verse 13 to 53, verse
\n12, four songs about the <\/p>\n
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\nsuffering servant, but a
\ndifferent place, quite a <\/p>\n
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\ndifferent person.
\nWho’s the key to the second-half<\/p>\n
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\nof the book of Isaiah?
\nAnd then between the two is the <\/p>\n
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\ncrisis of Hezekiah.
\nAnd the reason I suggest is <\/p>\n
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\nbecause Hezekiah was the
\nprototype for both. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re both initially to be
\nseen in the Life and Times of <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah because he was the
\nrighteous king who led Judah in <\/p>\n
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\ntrue worship and inspired them
\nto faith in a time of danger. <\/p>\n
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\nThe righteous king that the
\nnation so desperately needed to <\/p>\n
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\nlead them in times of trial.
\nBut it will turn out in this <\/p>\n
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\nstory of the crisis of Hezekiah
\nthat he will also be the <\/p>\n
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\nsuffering servant who would
\nsuffer for his people in <\/p>\n
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\nbringing them to salvation.
\nAnd the change from the one to <\/p>\n
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\nthe other, from the righteous
\nking to the suffering servant, <\/p>\n
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\nwould all come about in
\nHezekiah’s reign. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s where the story of Isaiah
\nwill switch over to the <\/p>\n
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\nsecond-half, and it will all
\nhave its out, working at the <\/p>\n
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\npivot in the crisis of Hezekiah.
\nIn fact, the themes of <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah’s crisis have to do
\nwith the supremacy of Yahweh <\/p>\n
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\nover the gods, the sinful state
\nof the nation, the leprous <\/p>\n
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\ncondition of the king, the
\njoyful return of the Exiles, the<\/p>\n
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\nsalvation of the people, the
\ncalling of the Gentiles. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd all of those themes which
\nbegin in the Life and Times of <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah are going to be finally
\nat work in the second part of <\/p>\n
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\nthe book.
\nBut the outline of Hezekiah is <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be found right across
\nthe pages. <\/p>\n
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\nHis story is the centerpiece of
\nthe whole prophecy of Isaiah. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you know what’s interesting
\nabout that centerpiece? <\/p>\n
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\nIt is this that this section of
\nIsaiah in the middle chapters 36<\/p>\n
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\nto 39 just happens to be a
\nperfectly formed chiasmus <\/p>\n
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\nsurprise, surprise that sits
\nlike a jewel in the middle, you <\/p>\n
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\nsee.
\nSo should we just look at the <\/p>\n
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\nchaos, Miss to see the sense of
\nhow it takes us into the middle <\/p>\n
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\nof a journey that we might
\nunderstand the crisis of the <\/p>\n
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\nking more perfectly?
\nYou see, if you were to ask <\/p>\n
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\nyourself how does this story
\nbegin in these 4 chapters, the <\/p>\n
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\nanswer is, well, it’s all about
\nthe arrival of the hostile <\/p>\n
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\nAssyrian emissaries.
\nBut you know how the story will <\/p>\n
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\nfinish in chapter 39, it’s all
\nabout the arrival of the <\/p>\n
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\nfriendly Babylonian ambassadors.
\nIn the first story, the Assyrian<\/p>\n
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\nking sent envoys to Hezekiah
\nwith a threatening message in an<\/p>\n
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\narmy.
\nIn the second story, at the end,<\/p>\n
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\nthe Babylonian king sent envoys
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\nmessage and a prison.
\nIn the first story, Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\nrefused them admittance to the
\ncity and would not give them a <\/p>\n
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\nIn the second story, he gave <\/p>\n
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\nthem welcome into the city and
\nshow them all his treasures. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you censor chiasmus bill and
\nsisters? <\/p>\n
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\nOh yes.
\nThere’s a whole structure here <\/p>\n
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\nin these chapters that are going
\nto bookend the story of the <\/p>\n
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\ncrisis of Hezekiah and these two
\naccounts, first of the Assyrian <\/p>\n
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\nenvoys and then of the
\nBabylonian envoys. <\/p>\n
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\nThey become in themselves the
\nbookends of the Chaosmas. <\/p>\n
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\nBut you see, what’s interesting
\nis that those two powers also <\/p>\n
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\nanswer to the two halves of
\nIsaiah’s prophecy, because <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 1 to 35 is set in the
\ncontext of the threat of the <\/p>\n
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\nAssyrian invasion.
\nBut Isaiah 40 to 66 is all about<\/p>\n
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\nthe implications of the
\nBabylonian exile, and that <\/p>\n
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\nchanged from Assyrian to
\nBabylonian. <\/p>\n
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\nThe book is going to pivot from
\n1:00 to the other in this <\/p>\n
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\nchiasmus.
\nDuring the life of this king. <\/p>\n
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\nThe circumstances of his life
\nwill mark the moment of the <\/p>\n
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\nchange.
\nSo let’s come in from the <\/p>\n
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\nbookends.
\nSo in the middle is Isaiah 37, <\/p>\n
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\nverse one and three to the end
\nof Isaiah 38, verse 22. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if we were to advance that a
\nlittle further, we have the <\/p>\n
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\ndistress of Hezekiah in the
\nstart of chapter 37. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’s distressed, of course,
\nthat the impending invasion, in <\/p>\n
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\nfact, the threatened invasion of
\nof Sennacherib, since he’s <\/p>\n
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\nalready at Lakish, not far away
\nfrom Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd at the other end of the
\nstory, we have the sickness of <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah and his appeal to God.
\nSo really, at the top, that’s <\/p>\n
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\nthe first crisis, isn’t it?
\nThe threat of invasion. <\/p>\n
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\nAt the bottom, that’s the second
\ncrisis, the threat of sickness. <\/p>\n
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\nThese are the two great
\ntragedies that came upon <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah at the same time.
\nIn the first, Hezekiah received <\/p>\n
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\nthe distressing news of the
\nthreat of imminent invasion. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the second, he received the
\nterrible news of the prospect of<\/p>\n
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\nimpending death.
\nIn the first, Hezekiah appealed <\/p>\n
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\nto Yahweh for divine assistance.
\nIn the second he appealed, he <\/p>\n
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\nprayed to Yahweh for divine
\nremembrance. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the first, Isaiah came back
\nwith a comforting message of <\/p>\n
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\nreassurance to the king.
\nIn the second, the prophet <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah came back with a
\ncomforting message of <\/p>\n
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\nreassurance to the king.
\nAnd therefore we’re left with <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 37, verse 8 to 37, verse
\n38. <\/p>\n
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\nShall we take a step further?
\nSo in Isaiah 37, verses 8 to 13,<\/p>\n
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\nwe have the blasphemous words of
\nSennacherib, the ultimate <\/p>\n
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\nchallenge that reproached the
\nliving God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in response to that, in
\nchapter 37, verses 21 to 38, we <\/p>\n
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\nhave the powerful response of
\nYahweh and we know what the <\/p>\n
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\nspirit of of Seneca was.
\nDo not allow your God to deceive<\/p>\n
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\nyou into thinking that Jerusalem
\nwill not fall. <\/p>\n
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\nCame the threat of the Assyrian
\nking. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the response of God at the
\nother side of the story was, you<\/p>\n
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\nhave reproached and blasphemed
\nme, the Holy one of Israel in <\/p>\n
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\nthose words.
\nIn the first story, the king in <\/p>\n
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\neffect said, your God cannot
\ndeliver you from the might of <\/p>\n
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\nAssyria.
\nIn the second the answer comes <\/p>\n
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\nback, I will defend the city and
\nI will overthrow the might of <\/p>\n
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\nAssyria.
\nIt’s a kiastic structure. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that leaves us with that
\nsection in the middle. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let me just put all that
\ntogether again on the same a <\/p>\n
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\nsimilar slide, but just just
\ncondense the the information. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’ve got the ambassador’s,
\nwe’ve got the first crisis and <\/p>\n
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\nthe second crisis.
\nWe’ve got the blasphemous words <\/p>\n
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\nof Sennacherib.
\nWe’ve got the powerful response <\/p>\n
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\nof Yahweh.
\nAnd he is now our chaistic <\/p>\n
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\nstructure, which leaves us with
\nthe six in the middle. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd without even turning it up,
\nbrothers and sisters, you will <\/p>\n
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\nknow or should know, that the
\nvery center of this story turns <\/p>\n
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\nout to be the prayer of Hezekiah
\nto his God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there’s got to be a reason
\nwhy the center of the chasmus is<\/p>\n
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\nthe prayer of Hezekiah to his
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we will come back to that
\nshortly. <\/p>\n
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\nBut we’re going to come to
\nanother question first. <\/p>\n
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\nThat should claim our attention,
\nand that’s this, because there <\/p>\n
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\nwas a distress in the matter of
\nthe invasion, and there’s a <\/p>\n
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\ndistress in the matter of the
\nsickness of the king. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here’s the question why?
\nWhy were there twin crises <\/p>\n
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\nbrought upon the Kingdom the
\nsame year of his life? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat special lessons were found
\nin the second crisis? <\/p>\n
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\nSickness that couldn’t be found
\nin the first crisis invasion? <\/p>\n
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\nThe king was already suffering
\nfrom enough, was he not? <\/p>\n
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\nWith the invasion of
\nSennacherib? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy did he need the grip of
\ndeath to come upon him at the <\/p>\n
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\nsame time as well?
\nAn almost impossible burden to <\/p>\n
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\nbe?
\nHow did the two crises match and<\/p>\n
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\ncounterbalance each other?
\nWell, part of the answer is that<\/p>\n
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\nthe first crisis involved the
\nentire nation. <\/p>\n
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\nThere wasn’t a person in the
\nland that wasn’t threatened by <\/p>\n
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\nthe invasion of Snacker.
\nBut the second crisis affected <\/p>\n
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\njust one man, the sickness of
\nthe King. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the interesting thing is
\nthat the crisis concerning the <\/p>\n
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\nnation couldn’t be resolved
\nuntil after the conclusion of <\/p>\n
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\nthe second crisis concerning the
\nsickness of the king. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the first was national, the
\nsecond was personal, but they <\/p>\n
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\nwere inextricably intertwined
\nAS2 parts of the whole. <\/p>\n
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\nSo not only were there two
\ncrises, but there was a distinct<\/p>\n
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\norder to those twin crises, was
\nthere not, in terms of what we <\/p>\n
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\nsaw in our studies, Because what
\nwe have is the national crisis, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich starts with the matter of
\ninvasion and subjugation and <\/p>\n
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\nends with the promise of
\noverthrow and deliverance. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the interesting thing is
\nthat the resolution of that <\/p>\n
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\nnational crisis could not occur
\nuntil the personal crisis had <\/p>\n
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\narrived, of sickness unto death,
\nfollowed by recovery unto life. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in both the King’s sickness
\nunto death and his recovery unto<\/p>\n
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\nlife, until both of those were
\naccomplished, the national <\/p>\n
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\ncrisis couldn’t be resolved.
\nThe national crisis waited for <\/p>\n
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\nthe first, the personal, to be
\nresolved. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the interesting thing is
\nthat in both cases God provided <\/p>\n
338
\n00:22:37,960 –> 00:22:42,560
\nevidence that those crises would
\nbe successfully overcome because<\/p>\n
339
\n00:22:42,560 –> 00:22:45,120
\nHe made special sign with regard
\nto them both. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:45,400 –> 00:22:47,880
\nNow, have you got your hands in
\nthe book of Isaiah waiting <\/p>\n
341
\n00:22:47,880 –> 00:22:50,800
\nfaithfully in the hope that the
\nbrother might ask us to turn up <\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:50,800 –> 00:22:53,800
\nour Bibles as he always should
\nin the middle of his studies? <\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:54,360 –> 00:22:57,160
\nWell, the moment has come,
\nbecause do you notice what it <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:57,160 –> 00:23:04,760
\nsays in Isaiah 37 and verse 30?
\nAnd this shall be a sign unto <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:04,760 –> 00:23:07,120
\nthee.
\nYe shall eat this year such as <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:07,120 –> 00:23:09,360
\ngrowth of itself, and in the
\nsecond year, that which <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:09,360 –> 00:23:11,960
\nspringeth of the same.
\nAnd in the third year sow ye and<\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:11,960 –> 00:23:15,600
\nreap and plant vineyards, and
\neat the fruit thereof. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:15,840 –> 00:23:19,280
\nSo there was in.
\nLet me get that right. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:19,680 –> 00:23:21,160
\nOh, that doesn’t look good, does
\nit? <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:26,370 –> 00:23:31,610
\nI have got it.
\nSo 2 crises and two signs. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:31,880 –> 00:23:37,360
\nSo in the 1st in Isaiah 37 verse
\n30, what we really have is a <\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:37,360 –> 00:23:42,400
\nnational sign.
\nA sign to the nation of a <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:42,400 –> 00:23:46,160
\nfruitful season miraculously
\nprolonged. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:46,600 –> 00:23:49,320
\nDo not worry says God, the
\nnation will be fed until the <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:49,320 –> 00:23:51,320
\nAssyrian host has been removed
\nfrom the land. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:51,360 –> 00:23:54,200
\nI promise you there there will
\nbe food enough for all to eat. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:56,840 –> 00:24:02,880
\nBut doesn’t it say in chapter 38
\nand verse 7, And this shall be a<\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:02,880 –> 00:24:06,160
\nsign unto thee from Yahweh, that
\nYahweh will do this thing, that <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:06,160 –> 00:24:07,840
\nHe has spoken?
\nBehold, I’ll bring again the <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:07,840 –> 00:24:11,560
\nshadow of the degrees.
\nSo we’ve got a second sign in <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:11,560 –> 00:24:15,280
\nIsaiah 38, verse 7.
\nAh, but this time the sign not a<\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:15,280 –> 00:24:19,360
\nnational sign, is it?
\nIt’s a personal sign to the king<\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:20,640 –> 00:24:25,560
\nof the falling shadow that is
\nmiraculously reversed. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:26,240 –> 00:24:28,640
\nSo this sign was the promise
\nthat just as time could be <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:28,640 –> 00:24:31,520
\nreversed, so the King’s reign
\ncould be fully restored. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:31,640 –> 00:24:38,360
\nSO2 crises and two signs,
\nbecause the nation had to learn <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:39,680 –> 00:24:47,080
\nthat their salvation was bound
\nup in the King’s own sickness <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:47,120 –> 00:24:54,560
\nand the King’s own recovery.
\nOnly then could the nation be <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:54,560 –> 00:24:58,520
\ndelivered.
\nAnd now we understand why the <\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:58,520 –> 00:25:01,960
\ncenter of the chiasmus was
\nperhaps at the prayer of <\/p>\n
372
\n00:25:01,960 –> 00:25:04,160
\nHezekiah.
\nBecause you remember what <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:04,160 –> 00:25:09,200
\nHezekiah had prayed.
\nSave us so that all the earth <\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:09,200 –> 00:25:11,720
\nmay know that thou art Yahweh,
\neven thou. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:11,760 –> 00:25:17,120
\nOnly He prayed the prayer which
\nshowed the correct basis for our<\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:17,120 –> 00:25:20,400
\nunderstanding of the Atonement.
\nNot save us so that we might be <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:20,400 –> 00:25:25,680
\nsaved, but save us so that we
\nmight manifest and glorify Thee.<\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:26,840 –> 00:25:29,920
\nGod.
\nManifestation, not human <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:29,920 –> 00:25:32,880
\nsalvation, was the great purpose
\nof the Eternal Spirit. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:32,880 –> 00:25:36,080
\nAnd this man, this king
\nunderstood that message. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:36,720 –> 00:25:40,720
\nAnd because Yahweh delighted in
\nthe understanding of His A cause<\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:41,360 –> 00:25:45,760
\nview of the atonement as it was,
\nHe set forth in him in his life <\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:45,960 –> 00:25:49,160
\nthe true basis of salvation.
\nSee, God had promised to destroy<\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:49,160 –> 00:25:53,560
\nthe enemy, promised to deliver
\nHis people, but their salvation <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:54,880 –> 00:25:59,160
\nrequired something more than the
\npleadings of their righteous <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:59,160 –> 00:26:04,760
\nking.
\nIt required the death of a <\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:04,760 –> 00:26:10,720
\ncovenant victim.
\nAnd the king was told that he <\/p>\n
388
\n00:26:10,720 –> 00:26:16,560
\nwould be that man.
\nThou shalt die and not live. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:26:18,920 –> 00:26:22,280
\nNow we know that the shadow
\ninstitution of the Law taught <\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:22,720 –> 00:26:27,360
\nthat the ritual of sacrifice
\nsaid to every Israelite that <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:27,360 –> 00:26:30,080
\nthey were under divine
\ncondemnation and had no right to<\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:30,080 –> 00:26:32,640
\nlife.
\nBut the blood of animals could <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:32,640 –> 00:26:34,600
\nnever declare the righteousness
\nof God. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:35,400 –> 00:26:40,640
\nYahweh required the smiting and
\nhealing of a righteous man. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:41,680 –> 00:26:44,600
\nHe required the obedient
\nsubmission of that man to His <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:44,600 –> 00:26:47,680
\nholy ordinance, a confession
\nthat the sentence of death must <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:47,680 –> 00:26:52,680
\nbe upheld, that sin needed to be
\ncondemned in its own flesh as <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:52,680 –> 00:26:55,000
\nthe foundation of all goodness
\nto follow. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:55,200 –> 00:26:59,520
\nYahweh desired and always has
\ndesired His righteousness in <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:59,520 –> 00:27:02,080
\ncondemning sin to be
\nacknowledged as the first <\/p>\n
401
\n00:27:02,080 –> 00:27:06,240
\npriority, and only then could
\nthere be a basis for the <\/p>\n
402
\n00:27:06,240 –> 00:27:10,560
\nexercise of God’s forbearance.
\nBut when His righteousness and <\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:10,560 –> 00:27:16,400
\nsupremacy were upheld, he would
\nbe pleased to extend the <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:16,400 –> 00:27:19,640
\nblessing of forgiveness, and
\nthrough that gift comes the hope<\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:19,640 –> 00:27:23,520
\nof salvation unto eternal life.
\nNow all that was known of old to<\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:23,520 –> 00:27:28,160
\nIsrael, but never before, until
\nthis man, never before had there<\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:28,160 –> 00:27:32,240
\nbeen an exhibition of these
\nprinciples, this fully in the <\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:32,240 –> 00:27:39,720
\nlife of a man.
\nOnly now, only at this moment, <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:41,400 –> 00:27:46,520
\nand uniquely in this man would
\nit finally be seen. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:49,600 –> 00:27:54,920
\nAnd in his A car, Yahweh set
\nforth the drama of the <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:54,920 –> 00:28:00,720
\nredemption of mankind, a drama
\nthat would necessitate both the <\/p>\n
412
\n00:28:00,720 –> 00:28:05,680
\ndeath and the resurrection of a
\nman for the salvation of His <\/p>\n
413
\n00:28:05,680 –> 00:28:09,560
\npeople.
\nAnd with that understanding, we <\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:09,640 –> 00:28:13,320
\nnow take up the secret of the
\ncipher, because now perhaps we <\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:13,320 –> 00:28:16,400
\ncan understand the true meaning
\nof the crisis of Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:16,480 –> 00:28:23,680
\nThis wasn’t history.
\nThis was a prophecy, a prophecy <\/p>\n
417
\n00:28:24,400 –> 00:28:29,320
\nof the atoning work of Christ.
\nAnd when we look at the life of <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:29,320 –> 00:28:33,560
\nHezekiah, we need to see in his
\ncrisis the siege that we’re all <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:33,560 –> 00:28:36,080
\nunder from the effects of human
\nnature upon us. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:36,200 –> 00:28:38,640
\nAnd like the king, we need to
\ncome before our God, an earnest <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:38,640 –> 00:28:44,000
\nprayer and ask him to deal with
\nour enemy and to confess that is<\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:44,000 –> 00:28:47,960
\nbeyond our power to deal with,
\nwith such an enemy who’s come <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:47,960 –> 00:28:50,560
\nagainst us.
\nSo let’s have a look just <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:50,560 –> 00:28:54,400
\nbriefly by the sisters by way of
\nillustration and by way of <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:54,400 –> 00:28:57,800
\nunderstanding at some of the
\naspects of the parable of <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:57,800 –> 00:29:00,880
\nHezekiah’s crisis.
\nI think there’s many more <\/p>\n
427
\n00:29:00,880 –> 00:29:03,200
\nthings.
\nI just want to whet your <\/p>\n
428
\n00:29:03,200 –> 00:29:06,120
\nappetite as to the
\npossibilities. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:29:08,040 –> 00:29:15,200
\nSo here it is.
\nYou see, King Sin promised <\/p>\n
430
\n00:29:15,200 –> 00:29:21,240
\nliberty but demanded total
\nsurrender and submission to the <\/p>\n
431
\n00:29:21,240 –> 00:29:24,880
\nbondage of his control.
\nSo that’s what that’s what Reb <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:24,920 –> 00:29:30,160
\nShaker had said on Sennacherib’s
\nbehalf in Isaiah 36 verses 16 <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:30,160 –> 00:29:32,240
\nand 17.
\nMake an agreement with me and <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:32,240 –> 00:29:34,840
\ncome out to me.
\nYe everyone was vine until I <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:34,840 –> 00:29:38,160
\ncome to take you away.
\nYou see, Sennacherib was a type <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:38,160 –> 00:29:42,040
\nof the power of sin who comes
\nupon us as a strong man to <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:42,040 –> 00:29:45,120
\nconquer and to rule all.
\nHe invites us subjects to enjoy <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:45,120 –> 00:29:49,480
\nbenefits, but they all come at
\nthe price of surrender. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:50,520 –> 00:29:53,840
\nThe challenge of Sennacherib lay
\nin his demand for his submission<\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:53,960 –> 00:29:56,240
\nand also his power to compel
\nthat submission. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:56,560 –> 00:30:00,920
\nBut here’s a car and the nation.
\nAt that moment, they must have <\/p>\n
442
\n00:30:00,920 –> 00:30:04,520
\nboth felt the hopeless
\ninevitability of knowing that <\/p>\n
443
\n00:30:04,520 –> 00:30:07,840
\nthere was no natural means of
\ndeliverance from the King’s <\/p>\n
444
\n00:30:07,840 –> 00:30:09,960
\npower.
\nBut that’s what sins like, isn’t<\/p>\n
445
\n00:30:11,520 –> 00:30:14,400
\nit?
\nIt enforces our submission to <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:14,400 –> 00:30:19,800
\nthe bondage of its control.
\nWe all have Sennacherib at the <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:19,800 –> 00:30:21,560
\ndoor.
\nBrothers and sisters, every day <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:21,560 –> 00:30:24,720
\nof our lives we’re threatened by
\nthe invasion of king sin. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:27,800 –> 00:30:32,400
\nYou know it says in Romans 8
\nverse 21, the creation itself <\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:32,400 –> 00:30:36,200
\nshall one day be delivered from
\nthe bondage of corruption unto <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:36,200 –> 00:30:38,800
\nthe glorious liberty of the
\nchildren of God. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:38,800 –> 00:30:41,400
\nAnd that word bondage reminds us
\nof what it was like when a <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:41,400 –> 00:30:44,640
\nforeign power came into the land
\nas Sennacherib did it promised. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:44,640 –> 00:30:47,840
\nHe promised bondage only.
\nAnd that’s the reality of sin in<\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:47,840 –> 00:30:50,160
\nour lives.
\nBut the sisters and, and this is<\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:50,160 –> 00:30:54,080
\nwhat it says in second Peter 2
\nverse 19, because while they <\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:54,080 –> 00:30:58,120
\npromised them liberty, in
\nreality they’re the servants of <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:58,120 –> 00:31:03,000
\ncorruption, for of whom a man is
\novercome of the same as he <\/p>\n
459
\n00:31:03,000 –> 00:31:05,560
\nbrought in bondage.
\nAnd that’s the reality for all <\/p>\n
460
\n00:31:05,560 –> 00:31:08,400
\nof us brothers and sisters.
\nWe’re brought into bondage <\/p>\n
461
\n00:31:08,400 –> 00:31:11,520
\nbecause sin makes us the
\nservants of corruption. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:31:11,520 –> 00:31:14,240
\nAnd that’s what Christ came to
\ndo battle with. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:14,400 –> 00:31:17,760
\nHe came to deliver from the
\nbondage of sin. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:19,000 –> 00:31:20,880
\nHe came to overthrow the power
\nof sinacred. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:21,080 –> 00:31:22,920
\nAnd that’s what it says in
\nHebrews 2, does it not? <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:22,920 –> 00:31:27,480
\nVerses 14 and 15, that He might
\ndestroy him that had the power <\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:27,560 –> 00:31:31,120
\nof death and deliver them, who
\nthrough fear of death were all <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:31,240 –> 00:31:34,040
\ntheir lifetime subject to
\nbondage. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:34,240 –> 00:31:37,400
\nThat’s the reality of Christ’s
\ndeliverance in all their lives. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:37,400 –> 00:31:40,960
\nIt’s a matter of bondage of the
\nsisters to the power of Sidon, <\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:42,160 –> 00:31:44,520
\nthe crisis of a nation under the
\nthreat of sin. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:44,520 –> 00:31:50,040
\nEricsson Akram was a parable of
\nthe threat of king sin in all <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:50,040 –> 00:31:52,960
\nour lives and the need for one
\nwho might come forth to do <\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:53,160 –> 00:31:56,760
\nbattle on our behalf.
\nAnd perhaps in that context, we <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:56,920 –> 00:32:01,480
\nalso understand that Hezekiah’s
\nspirit in the onslaught of that <\/p>\n
476
\n00:32:01,480 –> 00:32:06,360
\ntaunting speech of Reb Shaker
\nsuddenly now assumes a new <\/p>\n
477
\n00:32:06,360 –> 00:32:10,760
\nsignificance, does it not?
\nBecause you see what the what <\/p>\n
478
\n00:32:10,760 –> 00:32:14,680
\nthe king had said was to his
\ndeputies. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:32:15,160 –> 00:32:16,960
\nThey held their peace and
\nanswered them. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:16,960 –> 00:32:22,440
\nNot a word for the King’s
\ncommandment was answer him not. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:24,760 –> 00:32:30,440
\nThat was the spirit of Hezekiah.
\nAnd isn’t that what the Lord <\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:30,440 –> 00:32:35,720
\ndid, Brothers and sisters?
\nMatthew 26 verses 62 to 63, the <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:35,720 –> 00:32:37,320
\nhigh priest car for said, What
\nis that? <\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:37,320 –> 00:32:38,640
\nThat which these witness against
\nthee? <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:38,640 –> 00:32:45,240
\nBut Jesus held his peace.
\nOr again in Luke 23 verses 8 and<\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:45,240 –> 00:32:47,360
\n9.
\nAnd when Herod saw Jesus, he was<\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:47,360 –> 00:32:51,240
\nglad and questioned him, but he
\nanswered him nothing. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:52,360 –> 00:32:55,720
\nIn John 19 verses 8:00 and 9:00,
\nwhen Pilot heard that saying, he<\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:55,720 –> 00:32:57,360
\nsaid unto Jesus, Whence out
\nthere? <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:57,560 –> 00:33:04,640
\nBut Jesus gave him no answer.
\nSo the silence of the Lord in <\/p>\n
491
\n00:33:04,640 –> 00:33:08,400
\nthe face of severe provocation
\nwas a testimony to his faith in <\/p>\n
492
\n00:33:08,400 –> 00:33:09,680
\nGod.
\nWhere did he get that from? <\/p>\n
493
\n00:33:09,680 –> 00:33:12,040
\nBrothers, sisters, where did our
\nLord find that? <\/p>\n
494
\n00:33:12,840 –> 00:33:16,440
\nBut at least in part in the
\ninspiring example of Hezekiah of<\/p>\n
495
\n00:33:16,440 –> 00:33:20,920
\nold, that’s what the Lord did
\nwhen dealing with the Champions <\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:21,040 –> 00:33:23,560
\nof sin in his own day.
\nHe said nothing because he <\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:23,560 –> 00:33:26,080
\ncommitted his cause to God.
\nAnd I think he did it because, <\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:26,280 –> 00:33:29,120
\nwell, he knew the story of
\nHezekiah and because He knew, <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:29,120 –> 00:33:34,400
\nbecause our Lord knew the story
\nof Hezekiah, He knew, thankfully<\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:34,400 –> 00:33:38,880
\nwith absolute certainty, what
\nthe final outcome of his trial <\/p>\n
501
\n00:33:38,880 –> 00:33:41,520
\nwould be.
\nBecause you can just imagine how<\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:41,520 –> 00:33:45,200
\nour Lord must have seized on
\nthese words, or at least this <\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:45,200 –> 00:33:52,240
\nidea that His healing and
\nrestoration from certain death <\/p>\n
504
\n00:33:53,520 –> 00:33:57,800
\nwould be accomplished.
\nOn the third day. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:34:00,000 –> 00:34:03,480
\nI’ve heard thy prayer, I’ve seen
\nthy tears. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:34:04,560 –> 00:34:08,800
\nI will heal thee.
\nOn the third day, Thou shalt go <\/p>\n
507
\n00:34:08,800 –> 00:34:11,520
\nup into the House of God.
\nOh, Can you imagine our Lord <\/p>\n
508
\n00:34:11,520 –> 00:34:14,639
\nJesus Christ reading the story
\nof the crisis of Izakar and <\/p>\n
509
\n00:34:14,639 –> 00:34:17,920
\nfinding comfort in those words?
\nHe must have known, don’t you <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:17,920 –> 00:34:19,360
\nthink?
\nBecause you see what the Lord <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:19,360 –> 00:34:22,840
\nsays.
\nAnd Luke 24, verses 45 to 46 <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:23,120 –> 00:34:25,560
\nthen opened he their
\nunderstanding. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:25,800 –> 00:34:28,239
\nThus it is written.
\nAnd thus it behooved Christ to <\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:28,239 –> 00:34:30,719
\nsuffer, and to rise from the
\ndead the third day. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:30,800 –> 00:34:32,239
\nThus it is written, said the
\nLord. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:34:32,239 –> 00:34:35,880
\nWhere was it written that the
\nLord should save us? <\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:37,000 –> 00:34:39,960
\nWell, at least one of the places
\nthat the Lord might have been <\/p>\n
518
\n00:34:39,960 –> 00:34:44,159
\nreferring to was the story of
\nHis a car in the crisis of His a<\/p>\n
519
\n00:34:44,159 –> 00:34:46,880
\ncar in the chapters that we’ve
\ninvestigated. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:34:47,040 –> 00:34:51,000
\nAnd does it not say in Acts 10,
\nverse 40 and 41, by the mouth of<\/p>\n
521
\n00:34:51,000 –> 00:34:54,639
\nthe Lord’s apostles him God
\nraised up the third day and <\/p>\n
522
\n00:34:54,639 –> 00:34:58,400
\nshowed him openly not to all the
\npeople, but unto witnesses <\/p>\n
523
\n00:34:58,640 –> 00:35:03,280
\nchosen before of God.
\nAnd again in the first of <\/p>\n
524
\n00:35:03,280 –> 00:35:06,920
\nCorinthians, chapter 15, verse
\nfour, that he, Christ was buried<\/p>\n
525
\n00:35:07,120 –> 00:35:12,200
\nand that he rose again the third
\nday according to according to <\/p>\n
526
\n00:35:12,200 –> 00:35:17,120
\nthe Scriptures.
\nOne of those scriptures, don’t <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:17,120 –> 00:35:22,320
\nyou think, is this story of the
\ncrisis of Hezekiah and the king <\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:22,320 –> 00:35:24,600
\nwho was permitted to go up again
\ninto the House of God. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:35:24,720 –> 00:35:27,720
\nCan you imagine what wonderful
\nencouragement that that must <\/p>\n
530
\n00:35:27,720 –> 00:35:29,640
\nhave been for our Lord Jesus
\nChrist? <\/p>\n
531
\n00:35:29,800 –> 00:35:32,440
\nAnd the fact that he must rise
\nagain as the basis of <\/p>\n
532
\n00:35:32,440 –> 00:35:36,600
\ndeliverance for both himself and
\nhis people was something that <\/p>\n
533
\n00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:41,200
\nHezekiah knew from the something
\nthat the Lord knew from his <\/p>\n
534
\n00:35:41,280 –> 00:35:46,480
\nknowledge of the story of
\nHezekiah, that the deliverance <\/p>\n
535
\n00:35:46,480 –> 00:35:54,120
\nof the king was the precursor
\nand basis for the salvation of <\/p>\n
536
\n00:35:54,120 –> 00:35:57,720
\nthe nation.
\nI think Christ understood the <\/p>\n
537
\n00:35:57,720 –> 00:36:01,240
\nsignificance of that in the
\nstory of Hezekiah because, well,<\/p>\n
538
\n00:36:01,240 –> 00:36:04,960
\nhere it is.
\nYou see Isaiah 38 verses 5 and 6<\/p>\n
539
\n00:36:04,960 –> 00:36:11,600
\nsays, I’ve heard thy prayer, I
\nhave seen thy tears, and I will <\/p>\n
540
\n00:36:11,600 –> 00:36:20,240
\ndeliver thee, Here’s a car, and
\nthis city, Jerusalem, out of the<\/p>\n
541
\n00:36:20,240 –> 00:36:24,400
\nhand of king. 7 you see the
\norder by the scissors. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:36:24,480 –> 00:36:26,880
\nI’ll deliver the king first.
\nAnd only when the king has been <\/p>\n
543
\n00:36:26,880 –> 00:36:28,520
\ndelivered might the city be
\nsaved. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:36:28,680 –> 00:36:31,440
\nAnd the city was saved because
\nthe king was delivered. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:36:32,320 –> 00:36:36,360
\nSo the appearance of the king
\nhaving been delivered and <\/p>\n
546
\n00:36:36,360 –> 00:36:39,360
\nrecovered from the sickness of
\ndeath was the precursor to the <\/p>\n
547
\n00:36:39,360 –> 00:36:41,560
\nsalvation of the nation that
\nmight follow. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:36:42,920 –> 00:36:45,920
\nAnd isn’t that what it says in
\nSecond Chronicles chapter 32 <\/p>\n
549
\n00:36:45,920 –> 00:36:51,840
\nverse 22?
\nThus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and <\/p>\n
550
\n00:36:51,880 –> 00:36:57,160
\nthe inhabitants of Jerusalem,
\nfirst the king, then the nation.<\/p>\n
551
\n00:36:59,880 –> 00:37:03,960
\nIsaiah 53 verse 5 says he was
\nwounded for our transgressions. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:37:04,160 –> 00:37:07,800
\nThe chastisement of our peace
\nwas upon him and with with his <\/p>\n
553
\n00:37:07,800 –> 00:37:12,360
\nstripes we are healed and the
\ninitial fulfillment of course of<\/p>\n
554
\n00:37:12,360 –> 00:37:15,880
\nthe words of Isaiah 53 very much
\nhad their basis in the life <\/p>\n
555
\n00:37:15,880 –> 00:37:19,120
\nexperience of good king Hezekiah
\nof Judah. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:37:19,760 –> 00:37:22,640
\nThe whole nation was to realize
\nthat their success, their <\/p>\n
557
\n00:37:22,640 –> 00:37:27,600
\ndeliverance was completely
\ndependent on the deliverance of <\/p>\n
558
\n00:37:27,760 –> 00:37:34,480
\ntheir king and you’ll all know
\nthese words in John 3 verse 17. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:37:34,640 –> 00:37:38,040
\nGod sent not his Son into the
\nworld to condemn the world, but <\/p>\n
560
\n00:37:38,040 –> 00:37:44,040
\nthat the world through him might
\nbe saved. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:37:45,320 –> 00:37:54,240
\nOne man for the many, the King
\nfor his people, the Son of God <\/p>\n
562
\n00:37:55,680 –> 00:38:00,680
\nfor the world.
\nAnd it would be in the King’s <\/p>\n
563
\n00:38:00,840 –> 00:38:05,120
\ntypical death and in the King’s
\ntypical resurrection that the <\/p>\n
564
\n00:38:05,120 –> 00:38:08,800
\nsalvation of the nation would be
\nmade possible through the <\/p>\n
565
\n00:38:08,800 –> 00:38:13,600
\nforgiveness of their iniquity.
\nSo let me show you a piece of <\/p>\n
566
\n00:38:13,680 –> 00:38:16,640
\npassage which is helpful to our
\nnext thought. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:38:16,840 –> 00:38:20,920
\nIf you come back to Isaiah 22,
\nto the words of the prophet <\/p>\n
568
\n00:38:20,920 –> 00:38:24,480
\nIsaiah, he has an interesting
\nexpression in which he <\/p>\n
569
\n00:38:24,480 –> 00:38:28,640
\ncastigates the nation for their
\nunfaithfulness at this very time<\/p>\n
570
\n00:38:28,640 –> 00:38:33,480
\nof the crisis of of Sennacherib
\nhaving come into the land and <\/p>\n
571
\n00:38:33,480 –> 00:38:35,440
\nthe king being under threat
\nhimself. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:38:35,640 –> 00:38:38,040
\nAnd this is what the prophet
\nsaid concerning the spirit of <\/p>\n
573
\n00:38:38,040 –> 00:38:40,960
\nthe nation and how very much
\ndifferent it was to the spirit <\/p>\n
574
\n00:38:40,960 –> 00:38:44,920
\nof their king.
\nIsaiah 22 and reading from verse<\/p>\n
575
\n00:38:44,920 –> 00:38:50,880
\n12.
\nAnd in that day did the Lord God<\/p>\n
576
\n00:38:50,880 –> 00:38:54,200
\nof hosts call to weeping, into
\nmourning, into baldness, and to <\/p>\n
577
\n00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:57,440
\ngirding with sackcloth.
\nThat’s what he wanted. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:38:57,440 –> 00:39:01,080
\nThat’s what he asked for.
\nBut what did the nation do? <\/p>\n
579
\n00:39:01,120 –> 00:39:05,400
\nHow did the nation respond?
\nVerse 13 Behold instead joy and <\/p>\n
580
\n00:39:05,400 –> 00:39:08,880
\ngladness, slaying oxen and
\nkilling sheep and eating flesh <\/p>\n
581
\n00:39:08,880 –> 00:39:11,360
\nand drinking wine and saying,
\nlet us eat and drink, for <\/p>\n
582
\n00:39:11,360 –> 00:39:15,760
\ntomorrow we die completely
\nunfaithful. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:39:17,400 –> 00:39:20,280
\nAnd the prophet says, it was
\nrevealed in mine ears by Yahweh <\/p>\n
584
\n00:39:20,280 –> 00:39:23,880
\nof hosts.
\nSurely this iniquity in you, <\/p>\n
585
\n00:39:23,880 –> 00:39:27,720
\nthis iniquity shall not be
\npurged from you till you die, <\/p>\n
586
\n00:39:28,360 –> 00:39:31,280
\nsaith the Lord God of hosts.
\nThat was a terribly serious <\/p>\n
587
\n00:39:31,280 –> 00:39:34,480
\nindictment upon the nation.
\nSo unfaithful was their spirit <\/p>\n
588
\n00:39:34,480 –> 00:39:36,640
\nthat they had no trust
\nwhatsoever in their God. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:39:36,640 –> 00:39:38,840
\nThe king was righteous, but
\ncertainly not the nation. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:39:40,240 –> 00:39:46,520
\nAnd yet, and yet, as it turned
\nout, their iniquity would be <\/p>\n
591
\n00:39:46,520 –> 00:39:54,440
\nforgiven by God, but not because
\nthey died, but because typically<\/p>\n
592
\n00:39:54,440 –> 00:39:58,920
\ntheir king would.
\nSo in the parable of Hezekiah, <\/p>\n
593
\n00:39:59,440 –> 00:40:04,320
\nthe iniquity of the nation would
\nbe forgiven through the typical <\/p>\n
594
\n00:40:04,360 –> 00:40:07,320
\ndeath and resurrection of the
\nking. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:40:09,560 –> 00:40:12,960
\nNow here it is in Isaiah 33
\nverse 24. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:40:14,120 –> 00:40:16,480
\nIf you’ve ever wondered what
\nthese words are about, and this <\/p>\n
597
\n00:40:16,480 –> 00:40:19,080
\nin a chapter which incidentally
\nrejoices over the fact that the <\/p>\n
598
\n00:40:19,080 –> 00:40:22,240
\nAssyrian is no longer in the
\nland because the Assyrians been <\/p>\n
599
\n00:40:22,240 –> 00:40:26,640
\noverthrown, the prophet says and
\nIsaiah 33 verse 24, and the <\/p>\n
600
\n00:40:26,640 –> 00:40:29,720
\ninhabitants will not say I am
\nsick. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:40:30,200 –> 00:40:33,920
\nNow who would the inhabitant
\nsingular be in the city of <\/p>\n
602
\n00:40:33,920 –> 00:40:36,960
\nJerusalem, who one day would be
\nable to declare that he was no <\/p>\n
603
\n00:40:36,960 –> 00:40:40,120
\nlonger sick?
\nThat’s the king by the sisters <\/p>\n
604
\n00:40:40,200 –> 00:40:43,280
\nrecovered from his sickness unto
\ndeath to Wellness again. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:40:43,880 –> 00:40:46,480
\nThat’s the king recovered.
\nAnd as a result of the recovery <\/p>\n
606
\n00:40:46,480 –> 00:40:49,800
\nof the king, what are the
\ninhabitants of the city say? <\/p>\n
607
\n00:40:50,960 –> 00:40:55,880
\nThe people that dwell therein
\nshall be forgiven their <\/p>\n
608
\n00:40:56,160 –> 00:41:02,320
\niniquity.
\nSo you see, that’s that’s saying<\/p>\n
609
\n00:41:02,320 –> 00:41:04,840
\nthat the people were going to be
\nforgiven their iniquity <\/p>\n
610
\n00:41:05,000 –> 00:41:10,520
\nconsequent upon the sickness and
\nthe healing of their king. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:41:11,360 –> 00:41:16,280
\nHe had been their sin bearer and
\nthrough him their salvation <\/p>\n
612
\n00:41:16,360 –> 00:41:18,240
\nwould come.
\nAnd if we were to ask, brothers,<\/p>\n
613
\n00:41:18,240 –> 00:41:20,320
\nsisters, what does the prophet
\nsay to us? <\/p>\n
614
\n00:41:20,520 –> 00:41:22,600
\nThe answer is yes.
\nIsaiah I thought he verse to <\/p>\n
615
\n00:41:22,720 –> 00:41:26,040
\nspeak he comfortably to
\nJerusalem, and cry unto her that<\/p>\n
616
\n00:41:26,120 –> 00:41:30,840
\na warfare is accomplished, the
\nAssyrian is finished, and also <\/p>\n
617
\n00:41:30,840 –> 00:41:38,840
\nthat her iniquity is pardoned.
\nAnd if we were to ask, how was <\/p>\n
618
\n00:41:38,840 –> 00:41:42,120
\nher iniquity to be pardoned?
\nThe prophet himself replies, and<\/p>\n
619
\n00:41:42,400 –> 00:41:45,640
\nIsaiah 53, verse 6.
\nAll we like sheep have gone <\/p>\n
620
\n00:41:45,640 –> 00:41:50,280
\nastray, we have turned everyone
\nto his own way, but Yahweh hath <\/p>\n
621
\n00:41:50,280 –> 00:41:58,840
\nlaid on him the iniquity of us
\nall that was outworked in the <\/p>\n
622
\n00:41:58,840 –> 00:42:01,720
\nfirst instance in the life of
\nthe king with whom they had to <\/p>\n
623
\n00:42:01,720 –> 00:42:03,800
\ndo it, that precise moment in
\ntheir history. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:42:03,800 –> 00:42:09,080
\nBrother, sisters, good king
\nHezekiah, and it says this of <\/p>\n
625
\n00:42:09,080 –> 00:42:12,640
\nthe Lord, and Titus chapter 2,
\nverses 13 and 14. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:42:13,040 –> 00:42:19,680
\nOur Saviour Jesus Christ, who
\ngave Himself for us, that He <\/p>\n
627
\n00:42:19,680 –> 00:42:28,400
\nmight redeem us from all
\niniquity, and purify unto <\/p>\n
628
\n00:42:28,400 –> 00:42:33,840
\nHimself a peculiar people.
\nSo the very work of our Lord <\/p>\n
629
\n00:42:33,840 –> 00:42:37,280
\nJesus Christ was going to be
\ncaptured in the thrilling story <\/p>\n
630
\n00:42:37,280 –> 00:42:40,520
\nof the crisis of Hezekiah, where
\nthe nation’s own destiny was <\/p>\n
631
\n00:42:40,520 –> 00:42:42,960
\nbound up in the King’s
\ncircumstances. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:42:45,160 –> 00:42:50,960
\nHow wonderful to have such a
\nclear parable that, as it turns <\/p>\n
633
\n00:42:50,960 –> 00:42:56,600
\nout, is hiding in plain sight.
\nAnd we read the record of Isaiah<\/p>\n
634
\n00:42:56,600 –> 00:43:00,680
\n36 to 39 afresh, and we suddenly
\nsee in it not the story of <\/p>\n
635
\n00:43:00,680 –> 00:43:07,400
\nHezekiah, about the story of our
\nLord Jesus Christ and his <\/p>\n
636
\n00:43:07,400 –> 00:43:09,240
\natoning work on behalf of
\nothers. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:43:11,480 –> 00:43:13,400
\nThere’s an interesting,
\ninteresting comment in the <\/p>\n
638
\n00:43:13,400 –> 00:43:19,440
\nJewish Targum which taught that
\nHezekiah’s godliness alone was <\/p>\n
639
\n00:43:19,440 –> 00:43:23,440
\nresponsible for the destruction
\nof the army and the deliverance <\/p>\n
640
\n00:43:23,440 –> 00:43:27,440
\nof the nation when Sennacherib
\ncame against Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:43:29,200 –> 00:43:31,520
\nAnd we agree with that thought,
\nnot because the Jewish Targum <\/p>\n
642
\n00:43:31,520 –> 00:43:35,440
\nsays so, but because we got the
\nwarrant of what Isaiah 36 to 39 <\/p>\n
643
\n00:43:35,440 –> 00:43:38,320
\nwe believe is in reality telling
\nus and teaching us. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:43:38,480 –> 00:43:41,720
\nIn fact, one of their most
\nfamous rabbis, Rabbi Heliol, had<\/p>\n
645
\n00:43:41,720 –> 00:43:44,360
\nthis rather interesting
\nexpression when he said this. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:43:45,320 –> 00:43:51,560
\nThe Jews shall have no more
\nMessiah, he said, for they have <\/p>\n
647
\n00:43:51,560 –> 00:43:55,840
\nalready had him in the days of
\nHezekiah. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:43:58,760 –> 00:44:02,520
\nNow he didn’t mean that Hezekiah
\nreally was the Messiah of the <\/p>\n
649
\n00:44:02,520 –> 00:44:04,440
\nnation.
\nBut what he did mean was that <\/p>\n
650
\n00:44:04,440 –> 00:44:08,040
\nthe work which Hezekiah
\naccomplished was unique in this <\/p>\n
651
\n00:44:08,040 –> 00:44:14,400
\nrespect, that no greater type of
\nthe sacrifice of Christ for the <\/p>\n
652
\n00:44:14,400 –> 00:44:18,640
\nsalvation of others would be
\nfound anywhere in Scripture. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:44:20,800 –> 00:44:26,160
\nIn Hezekiah, the spirit of
\nChrist’s sacrificial work on <\/p>\n
654
\n00:44:26,160 –> 00:44:30,760
\nbehalf of his people found its
\ngreatest expression. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:44:33,200 –> 00:44:36,240
\nWhat the life of this man shows
\nand has shown us is that when <\/p>\n
656
\n00:44:36,240 –> 00:44:39,080
\nthe crises of life come upon us,
\nthere’s great wisdom and <\/p>\n
657
\n00:44:39,080 –> 00:44:42,200
\nremembering those principles
\nthat will help us to face those <\/p>\n
658
\n00:44:42,200 –> 00:44:48,120
\nmoments wisely and well.
\nTaking time for careful <\/p>\n
659
\n00:44:48,320 –> 00:44:55,360
\nassessment, praying with God
\ncentered focus, revealing the <\/p>\n
660
\n00:44:55,360 –> 00:45:03,920
\nspirit of resignation, offering
\nthanks by faithful service, and <\/p>\n
661
\n00:45:03,920 –> 00:45:06,120
\nshowing humility to confess
\nfault. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:45:07,680 –> 00:45:10,400
\nAnd in the end, the king was
\ngreatly blessed because of a <\/p>\n
663
\n00:45:10,400 –> 00:45:13,800
\nspirit before his God.
\nIn fact, Isaiah 53 would say <\/p>\n
664
\n00:45:13,800 –> 00:45:16,440
\nthis.
\nWhen thou shalt make his soul <\/p>\n
665
\n00:45:16,520 –> 00:45:20,000
\nand offering for sin, he shall
\nsee his seed, he shall prolong <\/p>\n
666
\n00:45:20,000 –> 00:45:23,280
\nhis days, and the pleasure of
\nYahweh shall prosper in his <\/p>\n
667
\n00:45:23,280 –> 00:45:25,200
\nhand.
\nAnd in a very real sense, don’t <\/p>\n
668
\n00:45:25,200 –> 00:45:28,440
\nyou think God did make Hezekiah
\nsoul an offering for sin on <\/p>\n
669
\n00:45:28,440 –> 00:45:31,080
\nbehalf of his nation?
\nAnd everything that Isaiah said <\/p>\n
670
\n00:45:31,360 –> 00:45:35,200
\nin that servant Song prophecy
\ncame to pass in measure in <\/p>\n
671
\n00:45:35,200 –> 00:45:38,440
\nHezekiah’s own life as a
\nforerunner of the Lord. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:45:39,040 –> 00:45:40,440
\nThey’re all spoken of the Lord
\nin the end. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:45:40,440 –> 00:45:42,400
\nWe know that.
\nBut they all had their beginning<\/p>\n
674
\n00:45:42,520 –> 00:45:44,040
\nin the Life and Times of
\nHezekiah. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:45:44,240 –> 00:45:48,160
\nHe did see his seed because
\nManasseh his son was born in <\/p>\n
676
\n00:45:48,160 –> 00:45:50,880
\ngood time to preserve the royal
\nline of David. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:45:51,120 –> 00:45:53,800
\nAnd he did prolong his days.
\nBecause God said, I will land <\/p>\n
678
\n00:45:53,800 –> 00:45:58,560
\nunto thy days, 15 years.
\nAnd the pleasure of Yahweh did <\/p>\n
679
\n00:45:58,560 –> 00:46:00,440
\nprosper in his hand.
\nBecause the summary of <\/p>\n
680
\n00:46:00,440 –> 00:46:04,200
\nHezekiah’s life was.
\nAnd every work that he began, he<\/p>\n
681
\n00:46:04,200 –> 00:46:08,360
\ndid it with all his heart and
\nprospered, says the Second of <\/p>\n
682
\n00:46:08,360 –> 00:46:15,800
\nChronicles 31 and verse 21.
\nSo perhaps the best way for us <\/p>\n
683
\n00:46:15,800 –> 00:46:22,360
\nto honor the example of so great
\na man is to try and behave in <\/p>\n
684
\n00:46:22,360 –> 00:46:26,200
\nthe same way when the
\ndifficulties of life come upon <\/p>\n
685
\n00:46:26,200 –> 00:46:32,600
\nus.
\nAnd if we do, if we can, then <\/p>\n
686
\n00:46:32,600 –> 00:46:38,200
\nmaybe our lives as well might
\nbecome a parable of Christ in <\/p>\n
687
\n00:46:38,200 –> 00:46:40,960
\nthe things where we’ve sought to
\ndisplay His Spirit. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:46:43,120 –> 00:46:48,280
\nAs it says in one of our hymns.
\nHow few receive with cordial <\/p>\n
689
\n00:46:48,280 –> 00:46:50,360
\nfaith the tidings which we
\nbring. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:46:51,600 –> 00:46:55,360
\nHow few have seen the arm
\nrevealed of heaven’s anointed <\/p>\n
691
\n00:46:55,360 –> 00:46:59,120
\nking.
\nYet, saith the Lord, my pleasure<\/p>\n
692
\n00:46:59,120 –> 00:47:05,360
\nstill shall prosper in his hand.
\nHis shall a numerous offspring <\/p>\n
693
\n00:47:05,360 –> 00:47:38,360
\nbe, and still his honour stand.
\nBrother Roger, on behalf of your<\/p>\n
694
\n00:47:38,360 –> 00:47:41,120
\nbrothers and sisters and the
\nyoung people here at the Bible <\/p>\n
695
\n00:47:41,120 –> 00:47:44,840
\nSchool, we’d like to extend our
\nthanks for the time and effort <\/p>\n
696
\n00:47:44,920 –> 00:47:48,000
\nof this week and the studies
\nthat have gone on before here. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:47:48,000 –> 00:47:50,960
\nObviously, the hours of Bible
\nstudy that you’ve been able to <\/p>\n
698
\n00:47:50,960 –> 00:47:55,120
\nshare with us the power of God’s
\nWord and the crisis of Hezekiah <\/p>\n
699
\n00:47:55,240 –> 00:47:58,800
\nand how it leads right into the
\nsalvation that has been provided<\/p>\n
700
\n00:47:58,800 –> 00:48:00,880
\nthrough Christ.
\nSo we’d like to thank you and <\/p>\n
701
\n00:48:00,880 –> 00:48:04,640
\nSister Pauline Guy will be with
\nyou and your continued journeys.<\/p>\n
702
\n00:48:04,920 –> 00:48:05,560
\nThank.
\nYou.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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