Class 4 from this series was used in GCT Episode 342.<\/p>\n
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\nOur speaker is Brother Roger
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\nThe theme for Brother Roger’s
\nclasses this week is The Crisis <\/p>\n
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\nof Hezekiah.
\nToday’s class is entitled The <\/p>\n
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\nSickness and the Shadow.
\nBrother Roger. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, thank you, brother
\nChairman, and good morning, my <\/p>\n
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\ndear brothers and sisters in our
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nIn our last study.
\nThen you might remember that we <\/p>\n
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\nleft Hezekiah lifted up with
\nconfidence in Yahweh’s answer <\/p>\n
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\nabout the letter to Sennacherib,
\nthat God had promised Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\nthat he himself from heaven on
\nhigh was in complete control, <\/p>\n
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\nthat he would protect Jerusalem,
\nthat he would remove the <\/p>\n
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\nAssyrian from the land.
\nAnd you can imagine how thankful<\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah must have been that God
\nhad taken full responsibility <\/p>\n
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\nfor the crisis, because that’s
\nexactly what he had prayed for <\/p>\n
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\nin his God centered God focused
\nprayer. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the promised removal of
\nSennacherib had not yet come, <\/p>\n
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\nand in the meantime another
\nproblem had arisen which loomed <\/p>\n
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\nlarge in the life of the king.
\nFor some time now, he’d been <\/p>\n
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\nfeeling unwell, but instead of
\nthe complaint clearing up as he <\/p>\n
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\nmight have hoped, it grew
\nprogressively worse. <\/p>\n
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\nThe news of his condition had
\nalready spread around the royal <\/p>\n
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\nhousehold.
\nIt was always difficult to keep <\/p>\n
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\nsecrets like that in the palace,
\nand so soon enough the nation <\/p>\n
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\nitself was buzzing with reports
\nthat Hezekiah was in trouble. <\/p>\n
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\nAnother catastrophe was about to
\nburst upon the beleaguered king.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd all of that has caught up in
\nour study, which we might <\/p>\n
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\ndescribe.
\nUnder this idea of the sickness <\/p>\n
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\nand the shadow, which brings us
\nto Isaiah chapter 38. <\/p>\n
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\nSo do you notice in Isaiah 38
\nand verse one, the record now <\/p>\n
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\ngoes on to say in those days was
\nHezekiah second to death? <\/p>\n
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\nIn what days, What days were
\nthese? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, the answer is the days of
\nthe Assyrian invasion, the days <\/p>\n
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\nof the impending siege of of
\nJerusalem, in the days of the <\/p>\n
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\ncrisis which the king was
\nalready grappling with in those <\/p>\n
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\ndays.
\nIn those days, was Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\nsick?
\nNow he already knew about the <\/p>\n
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\nsickness that he had, but what
\nhe didn’t know until this day, <\/p>\n
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\nuntil this moment of time, is
\nthat it was a sickness that <\/p>\n
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\ncould take him to the grave.
\nHe’d probably been afflicted <\/p>\n
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\nwith his condition for weeks or
\neven months, but he became <\/p>\n
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\nprogressively worse but never
\nrealized that at the end his <\/p>\n
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\ncondition would be assessed as
\nlife threatening. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was that he was not only
\nill, but the nation knew about <\/p>\n
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\nit.
\nAnd with that perversity that’s <\/p>\n
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\nso typical of human nature,
\nthere were already some critical<\/p>\n
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\nof the king suggesting that
\nperhaps his sickness might have <\/p>\n
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\nbeen an indication of his
\nsinfulness, such as the <\/p>\n
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\nperversity of human nature.
\nAnd what it did, is it all added<\/p>\n
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\nto the immense pressure which
\nHezekiah felt. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it was an important
\nquestion. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see, the question was this,
\nWas this sickness a trial of <\/p>\n
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\nfaith or a punishment for sin?
\nWell, the record will be left to<\/p>\n
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\nunfold the answer for us this
\nmorning. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Isaiah 38 and verse one says
\nin those days was Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\nsuccumb to death.
\nAnd Isaiah the prophet, the son <\/p>\n
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\nof Amos came unto him and said
\nunto him, thus saith Yahweh, set<\/p>\n
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\nthine house in order, for thou
\nshalt die and not live. <\/p>\n
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\nNow where it says set thine
\nhouse in order, the margin says <\/p>\n
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\ngive charge concerning thy
\nhouse. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s sort of like the Jewish
\nequivalent to ask the king to <\/p>\n
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\nmake his last will and
\ntestament. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Hezekiah was being asked to
\narrange the disposition of his <\/p>\n
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\nestate, to confirm the process
\nfor royal succession, to <\/p>\n
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\nfinalize all the things that
\nwere left undone that now needed<\/p>\n
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\nhis urgent attention.
\nBut Can you imagine the sorrow <\/p>\n
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\nof Isaiah in having to come and
\nmake this terrible pronouncement<\/p>\n
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\nto Hezekiah?
\nIsaiah had laboured with this <\/p>\n
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\nking.
\nHe was a kindred spirit in the <\/p>\n
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\ntruth.
\nImagine having to go to the <\/p>\n
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\nroyal.
\nPalace to bring this message of <\/p>\n
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\nimminent death.
\nBut bring it He did, because <\/p>\n
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\nthere was no point in hiding
\nfrom his Akai the true nature of<\/p>\n
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\nhis affliction.
\nIt was in the purpose of God <\/p>\n
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\nthat His servant must know that
\nhis condition was terminal. <\/p>\n
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\nFor thou shalt die and not live.
\nThe literal Hebrew is thou art a<\/p>\n
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\ndead man.
\nSo what was this sickness? <\/p>\n
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\nWhich now had him in its grip,
\nin the King’s grip. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, we’re told in verse 21 of
\nthis chapter that he had a boil.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd that word boil shaken
\nsignified an ulcer or some other<\/p>\n
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\nform of serious inflammation.
\nBut it’s a word used about <\/p>\n
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\nabscesses that could turn
\nleprous in Leviticus 13, verses <\/p>\n
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\n18 to 23.
\nAnd it happens to be the same <\/p>\n
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\nword used to describe the
\nterrible eruptions upon the body<\/p>\n
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\nof Job in Job chapter 2, verses
\n7 and 8, the boils that covered <\/p>\n
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\nJob.
\nAnd it appears that Job suffered<\/p>\n
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\nfrom a particularly virulent
\nform of leprosy that excluded <\/p>\n
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\nhim from the camp, as the law of
\nleprosy required. <\/p>\n
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\nWe believe that Hezekiah Prophet
\nprobably suffered from some form<\/p>\n
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\nof leprosy.
\nThe problem was that the type of<\/p>\n
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\nillness involved often began
\nwith blood poisoning, and only <\/p>\n
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\nwhen the plague was deep inside
\ndid the signs on the outside <\/p>\n
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\nbegin to appear.
\nAnd by the time they appeared, <\/p>\n
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\nit already wasn’t good.
\nAnd if it was a form of leprosy,<\/p>\n
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\nthen Isaiah here takes the place
\nof the inspecting priest to tell<\/p>\n
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\nthe king that he had a sickness
\nunto death, how his heart must <\/p>\n
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\nhave sunk.
\nSo verse 2 says Hezekiah turned <\/p>\n
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\nhis face toward the wall and
\nprayed unto Yahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t think it was so much to
\nturn toward the wall as to turn <\/p>\n
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\naway from all others, to turn
\naway from all else. <\/p>\n
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\nFor this moment of intense
\nprivacy, he privacy. <\/p>\n
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\nThe king needed to be alone with
\nhis God. <\/p>\n
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\nIt reminds us of Matthew 6 and
\nverse 6 when the Lord said that <\/p>\n
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\nthou, when thou praised, enter
\ninto thy closet. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Greek word to may on means
\nin a chamber. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when thou?
\nHast shut the door, pray to thy <\/p>\n
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\nfather, which is in secret.
\nAnd I think that’s exactly what <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah is doing on this
\noccasion. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see, there are times when a
\ncrisis comes upon us and the <\/p>\n
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\nburden’s almost too difficult to
\nbear. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see, here’s a car was
\nalready struggling with the <\/p>\n
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\nweight of all Judah depending
\nupon him. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s emotionally and spiritually
\nand mentally exhausted. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd now a second trial burst
\nupon him in another dimension, <\/p>\n
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\nthe pain of a physical
\naffliction which had grown. <\/p>\n
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\nSteadily worse, but is now
\ndeclared to be fatal. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when those two trials came
\nupon him and met together, he <\/p>\n
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\nfelt absolutely crushed by their
\nweight. <\/p>\n
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\nHe didn’t know what to do.
\nWe’ve got reason to believe, <\/p>\n
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\nincidentally, that I think the
\nthing, the thing that Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\nstruggled with the most, was not
\ndeath. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was the prospect of a
\npremature death, the sense of <\/p>\n
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\nbeing cut off too early in life.
\nIn fact, we know that that was <\/p>\n
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\nhis first reaction because,
\nwell, this is what he says later<\/p>\n
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\non in this very chapter in
\nIsaiah 38 and the writing that <\/p>\n
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\nhe wrote later on after his
\nrecovery, he said, I had said. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the middle.
\nOf my life I am to enter the <\/p>\n
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\ngates of Seoul.
\nI have been deprived of the rest<\/p>\n
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\nof my.
\nYears, he says. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd again in Isaiah 38 verse 12,
\nmy lifespan is gone, taken from <\/p>\n
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\nme, cut off from the loom, he
\ncries. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd again in one of the Psalms
\nthat we believe Hezekiah wrote <\/p>\n
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\nPsalm 102, verses 23 and 24, He
\nshortened my days. <\/p>\n
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\nI said, Oh my God, take me not
\naway. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the midst of my days, yes, I
\nthink what he feared most of all<\/p>\n
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\nwas the prospect of premature
\ndeath, a death far earlier than <\/p>\n
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\nhe expected.
\nAnd it produced huge anxiety <\/p>\n
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\nabout all the three.
\nHeads of unfinished business. <\/p>\n
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\nHe could see everywhere in his
\nKingdom and in his reign all the<\/p>\n
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\nthings he wanted to finish and
\nhe couldn’t. <\/p>\n
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\nSo there were many reasons,
\nweren’t there, why this man at <\/p>\n
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\nthis time might have prayed for
\nan extension of life. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see, in the first instance
\nhe felt the dependence of the <\/p>\n
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\nnation upon him.
\nAt this moment of the Assyrian <\/p>\n
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\nbeing at the very door.
\nYou see, this nation leaned upon<\/p>\n
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\nhis words.
\nThey were desperate for his <\/p>\n
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\nguidance.
\nThey needed the stability of <\/p>\n
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\nhis.
\nFaith. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, if there was ever a
\ntime that the nation needed <\/p>\n
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\ntheir king, it was right now.
\nBut I think he also wanted to <\/p>\n
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\ncomplete his work of spiritual
\nreformation because he knew that<\/p>\n
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\nit was unfinished.
\nHezekiah knew that much of the <\/p>\n
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\nnation didn’t share his.
\nFaith. <\/p>\n
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\nThey remained in.
\nIdolatry. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, it was a crucial moment
\nin the history of the Kingdom of<\/p>\n
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\nJudah.
\nBecause you see, Israel, the <\/p>\n
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\nnorthern Kingdom, had already
\nnow gone into captivity. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Hezekiah knew that Judah
\nwould suffer the same fate if <\/p>\n
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\nthey did not return to the true
\nworship of God, a worship which <\/p>\n
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\nhe had championed.
\nHe desperately needed further <\/p>\n
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\ntime to advance that work.
\nAnd lastly, but certainly not <\/p>\n
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\nleast.
\nHe had no ear, The Royal Lion of<\/p>\n
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\nDavid.
\nStood in jeopardy because when <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah the prophet said set
\nthine house in order, he didn’t <\/p>\n
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\nhave a house.
\nHe had no son. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’d never married and his delay
\nin finding a bride and beginning<\/p>\n
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\na son I don’t think was
\ndeliberate, but the neglect of <\/p>\n
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\nhis responsibility had now
\ncaught up with him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo for many reasons, then,
\nHezekiah might well have prayed <\/p>\n
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\nfor an extension of life, not so
\nmuch for himself As for an <\/p>\n
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\nopportunity to complete all the
\nthings that as yet were <\/p>\n
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\nuncompleted.
\nAnd yet the surprising thing is,<\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters, in this
\nchapter in Isaiah 38, that after<\/p>\n
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\nhis first initial reaction, in
\ndespairing of the prospect of an<\/p>\n
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\nearly death, the true spirit of
\nthe king asserted itself. <\/p>\n
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\nThe real faith of this man who
\ntrusted in his God and the <\/p>\n
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\nsubstance of his prayer, the
\nactual prayer that’s given for <\/p>\n
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\nus.
\nWritten here in scripture in <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 38, the Prairie did offer
\nwell, it reads quite <\/p>\n
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\ndifferently.
\nSo this is what he actually did <\/p>\n
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\npray.
\nIsaiah 38 verse three. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said remember.
\nNow, O Yahweh, I beseech thee, <\/p>\n
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\nhow I have walked before thee in
\ntruth and with a perfect heart, <\/p>\n
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\nand have done that which is good
\nin thy sight. <\/p>\n
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\nNow incidentally, these were not
\nthe words of a boastful man in a<\/p>\n
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\ntime of extremity like this.
\nWhat he said was the utterance <\/p>\n
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\nof his heart as to his true
\nstate before his God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe prayed in the simple
\nsincerity of who he was. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd by the way, his words were
\nan echo of God’s own estimate of<\/p>\n
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\nHis character.
\nThe book of Second Chronicles <\/p>\n
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\nsays in chapter 31, verses 20
\nand 21. <\/p>\n
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\nThus did Hezekiah throughout all
\nJudah, and wrought that which <\/p>\n
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\nwas good and right and truth
\nwith all his heart before Yahweh<\/p>\n
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\nhis God.
\nSo his prayer here in Isaiah 38 <\/p>\n
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\nverse three really claimed no
\nmore for himself than what God <\/p>\n
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\nalready thought about him.
\nBut do you notice this? <\/p>\n
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\nHis prayer contained no
\nconfession of sin. <\/p>\n
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\nIf that had.
\nBeen the reason for his smiting.<\/p>\n
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\nIt made no petition for a longer
\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nIt offered no justification of
\nhis. <\/p>\n
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\nPosition.
\nHow his prayer really reads is <\/p>\n
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\nas one who had accepted in
\nhumility whatever God had laid <\/p>\n
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\nupon him and who would submit
\nhimself to the stroke of God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe surrendered to whatever the
\nwill of Yahweh might be. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he did.
\nSo because his deepest instinct <\/p>\n
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\nborn of a spiritual mind is that
\nhe was always seek to trust his <\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nIt was an amazing spirit. <\/p>\n
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\nHis only request was that God
\nremember him. <\/p>\n
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\nBut there was such pathos in
\nthat cry as he committed himself<\/p>\n
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\nto the divine will.
\nAnd there was a man later on, <\/p>\n
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\nbut the sisters who had Hezekiah
\nas his hero, Hezekiah as his <\/p>\n
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\nrole model.
\nAnd that man’s name was <\/p>\n
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\nNehemiah.
\nAnd Nehemiah would utter these <\/p>\n
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\nwords in Nehemiah 13, verse 14.
\nRemember Me, Oh my God, <\/p>\n
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\nconcerning this, and wipe not
\nout my good deeds that I’ve done<\/p>\n
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\nfor the House of my God.
\nHe took his prayer from Nehemiah<\/p>\n
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\nfrom from Hezekiah Brothers.
\nSisters and Nehemiah wasn’t <\/p>\n
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\nasking for an extension of life.
\nHe was asking God to remember <\/p>\n
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\nhim in the day of account, and
\nso was Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah didn’t pray, O Yahweh,
\nspare me. <\/p>\n
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\nHe prayed, O Yahweh, Remember
\nMe. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Hezekiah wept sore, it says
\nat the end of the verse. <\/p>\n
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\nMartin says with great weeping,
\nbecause they were the tears of a<\/p>\n
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\nman whose spirit was broken, who
\nhad no resources left to fight <\/p>\n
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\nwith, but who cast his burden
\nupon the Lord in submission to <\/p>\n
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\nhis will.
\nAnd verse 4 says, Then came the <\/p>\n
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\nword of Yahweh to Isaiah,
\nsaying, go and say to Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, interestingly enough, the
\nbook of Isaiah doesn’t tell us. <\/p>\n
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\nHow long it?
\nWas after Hezekiah’s prayer. <\/p>\n
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\nBefore Yahweh’s answer came.
\nBut the Book of Kings does. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if you come with me to the
\nSecond of Kings and chapter 20, <\/p>\n
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\nwe pick up now the parallel
\nrecord in the Book of Kings, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich offers surprisingly rich
\nmaterial, adding to the details <\/p>\n
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\nof the prophet Isaiah at this
\ncrucial moment, as it turns out,<\/p>\n
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\nin the matter of the sickness of
\nthe king, and we’re told this in<\/p>\n
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\nthe Second of Kings chapter 20
\nand verse 4, he is now the <\/p>\n
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\nKing’s record of the same moment
\nhe’s prayed. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 3, Remember now how I’ve
\nwalked before thee? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it came to pass, says verse
\n4A4. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah was gone out into the
\nmiddle court that the word of <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh came to him saying, turn
\nagain and tell Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nNow it’s not certain, brothers
\nand sisters, whether the phrase <\/p>\n
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\nmiddle court in this verse
\nanswers to the central court of <\/p>\n
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\nthe palace itself.
\nOr whether it’s a reference to <\/p>\n
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\nthe section of Jerusalem between
\nthe upper and lower city of <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem.
\nBut whichever one it was, <\/p>\n
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\nwhether in the palace or in the
\ncity, it’s what we’re being told<\/p>\n
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\nis that before Isaiah even got
\nto that place, he’s asked to <\/p>\n
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\nturn around and go straight back
\nto the inner Chamber of the king<\/p>\n
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\nwith a message of reprieve.
\nAnd it can only have been a <\/p>\n
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\nmatter of minutes.
\nNow there’s something peculiar <\/p>\n
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\nhere, don’t you think?
\nSo why was the edict that he <\/p>\n
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\nwould die revoked almost
\nimmediately? <\/p>\n
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\nThe short space between the two,
\nthe sentence of death verse one <\/p>\n
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\nand the proclamation of.
\nHealing, verse 5 at least <\/p>\n
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\nsuggests that this was a test,
\nnot a punishment, a test of his <\/p>\n
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\nfaith.
\nAnd it also suggests that the <\/p>\n
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\nprayer of Hezekiah in verse 3
\nmust have been of such a <\/p>\n
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\ncontrite and genuine spirit as
\nto delight as God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the words which follow, I
\nthink, lead us to that <\/p>\n
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\nconclusion, because the message
\nthat Isaiah was asked to take <\/p>\n
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\nback to the king was verse 10,
\nturn again, sorry. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 5, turn again and tell
\nHezekiah the captain of my <\/p>\n
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\npeople.
\nAnd that’s an interesting <\/p>\n
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\nexpression.
\nThe captain, the norgeed, the <\/p>\n
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\nleader, or the commander?
\nBrown driver. <\/p>\n
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\nBriggs says that the proper
\nmeaning of norgeed is the one <\/p>\n
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\nwho goes in front, but it was a
\ntitle especially associated with<\/p>\n
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\nDavid.
\nSamuel calls David the norgeed <\/p>\n
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\nin first of Samuel 13, verse 14.
\nAbigail called some the norgeed <\/p>\n
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\nin first of Samuel 25 and verse
\n30. <\/p>\n
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\nNathan calls him the norgeed in
\nsecond of Samuel Chapter 7, <\/p>\n
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\nverse 8.
\nDavid was the norgeed of his <\/p>\n
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\npeople.
\nSo when God addressed Hezekiah <\/p>\n
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\nin this way, he was comforting
\nhim with the assurance that he <\/p>\n
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\nregarded him in the same light
\nas David of old. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think Hezekiah deserved
\nthe epithet the captain of my <\/p>\n
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\npeople, because or because of
\nthese words. <\/p>\n
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\nSecond Kings 18, verse 3.
\nHezekiah did that which was <\/p>\n
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\nright in the sight of Yahweh,
\naccording to. <\/p>\n
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\nAll that David, his father did
\nyou see he was the true heir of <\/p>\n
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\nDavid’s spirit, David’s work,
\nand for that reason God would be<\/p>\n
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\nmerciful unto him and and the.
\nWords that follow confirm. <\/p>\n
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\nThus says Yahweh.
\nThis says Yahweh, the God of <\/p>\n
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\nDavid thy father.
\nIt says so. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was the divine recognition
\nthat placed his a car in the <\/p>\n
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\nsame category as his
\npredecessor. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a leader and a commander
\nof his people in the same way <\/p>\n
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\nthat David was.
\nAnd then came these wonderful <\/p>\n
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\nwords.
\nSay these words. <\/p>\n
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\nI have heard thy prayer, I have
\nseen thy tears. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd don’t you think those
\nexpressions tell us, <\/p>\n
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\nincidentally, that God must have
\nbeen close at hand? <\/p>\n
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\nHis presence, as it were, had
\nhovered over the royal palace <\/p>\n
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\nall this time.
\nBut the words. <\/p>\n
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\nThat came were actually in
\nresponse to Hezekiah’s prayer <\/p>\n
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\noffered not for himself but for
\nthe nation because hadn’t he <\/p>\n
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\nprayed in Isaiah 37 verse 17 O
\nYahweh incline thineer and here <\/p>\n
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\nO Yahweh open thine eyes and see
\nand now comes back these words I<\/p>\n
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\nhave heard thy prayer I have
\nseen thy tears so that which he.<\/p>\n
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\nPleaded for others.
\nThe Father returned upon <\/p>\n
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\nhimself.
\nBehold, I will heal thee, it <\/p>\n
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\nsays.
\nOn the third day thou shalt go <\/p>\n
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\nup into the House of God.
\nNow that was surprising because <\/p>\n
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\nwhatever the malady was.
\nYahweh promised a full recovery <\/p>\n
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\nwithin a very short space of
\ntime and much shorter than the <\/p>\n
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\nprovision of the law.
\nNow you might recall that <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah’s great grandfather
\nAzar had been smitten with <\/p>\n
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\nleprosy.
\nHe’d been obliged to spend the <\/p>\n
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\nyears of his life, the remaining
\nyears of his life, in permanent <\/p>\n
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\nisolation.
\nHe could never, ever go up again<\/p>\n
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\nto the House of God.
\nAnd even the law for the <\/p>\n
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\ncleansing of the leper said that
\neven if they had been declared <\/p>\n
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\nclean, they still had to remain
\nout of the camp for a further 7 <\/p>\n
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\ndays.
\nAnd. <\/p>\n
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\nOnly on the 8th.
\nDay could they approach to the <\/p>\n
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\nHouse of God.
\nLeviticus 14 verses 8:00 to <\/p>\n
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\n11:00.
\nSo if it has a card to be healed<\/p>\n
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\nand restored so quickly, that
\nmust have been a mark of divine <\/p>\n
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\nfavor.
\nAnd so it was, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, and there was more to
\ncome, because verse six goes on <\/p>\n
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\nto say, I’ll add unto thy days,
\n15. <\/p>\n
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\nYears.
\nSo why 15 years? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy not ten?
\nWhy not 20? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, may I suggest, because
\nHezekiah’s greatest sorrow was <\/p>\n
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\nthe feeling that he’d been cut
\noff, as it were, in the very <\/p>\n
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\nmiddle of his life, in the very
\nmiddle of his work. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd at the time that the
\nsickness came upon him, he was <\/p>\n
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\nin the 14th year of his reign.
\nAnd I think that God’s answer <\/p>\n
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\nhere, I’ll add unto thy days, 15
\nyears. <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s answer was to double it by
\nadding as many years again as <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s already had upon the
\nthrone. <\/p>\n
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\nOr, if I put it another way, God
\noffered to credit his Akai’s <\/p>\n
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\naccount with the same length of
\nrain he’d already completed so <\/p>\n
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\nhe could use it all over again.
\nCould there be any better proof <\/p>\n
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\nthat God’s heard his prayer?
\nSo you think this is the midst <\/p>\n
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\nof your time?
\nYou’ve lost 14 to 15 years. <\/p>\n
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\n00:21:00,480 –> 00:21:02,960
\nI’ll give it all back to you.
\nI’ll give all that time. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:03,000 –> 00:21:05,360
\nBack to you again, he says.
\nBut you see what’s interesting <\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:05,360 –> 00:21:08,440
\nabout all this?
\nRemember his Akai hadn’t asked <\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:08,440 –> 00:21:10,400
\nfor an extension of time, verse
\n3. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:21:11,360 –> 00:21:12,920
\nHe’d asked for God to remember
\nhim. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:21:13,840 –> 00:21:16,720
\nThis was God’s response to
\nHezekiah, spirit of committing <\/p>\n
344
\n00:21:16,720 –> 00:21:19,240
\nhimself.
\nThis was God’s decree. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:21:19,400 –> 00:21:23,000
\nI will add unto thy days.
\nThat’s God’s own decision, not <\/p>\n
346
\n00:21:23,040 –> 00:21:27,120
\nHezekiah’s request.
\nI’ll add 15 years. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:21:27,120 –> 00:21:29,720
\nI’ll give back everything you’ve
\ngot and a little more besides. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:21:30,080 –> 00:21:33,440
\nAnd and notice what it is, what
\nhow significant these words are,<\/p>\n
349
\n00:21:33,760 –> 00:21:37,880
\nand says verse 6, I will deliver
\nthee and the city out of the <\/p>\n
350
\n00:21:37,880 –> 00:21:41,960
\nhand of the king of Assyria.
\nSo here’s the proof for the <\/p>\n
351
\n00:21:41,960 –> 00:21:46,600
\ntiming of this episode.
\nHezekiah’s sickness happened <\/p>\n
352
\n00:21:46,720 –> 00:21:53,400
\nafter the Assyrians had invaded
\nchapter 37, but before they were<\/p>\n
353
\n00:21:53,400 –> 00:21:56,600
\noverthrown.
\nHis sickness had come right in <\/p>\n
354
\n00:21:56,600 –> 00:21:59,800
\nthe middle of this whole crisis,
\nright in the very middle. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:22:00,280 –> 00:22:03,360
\nThe the Syrians have arrived,
\nbut God has not yet dealt with <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:03,360 –> 00:22:04,520
\nthem.
\nAnd now he’s sick. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:04,680 –> 00:22:07,480
\nAnd the king promises therefore
\ndeliverance for the king and his<\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:07,480 –> 00:22:09,640
\npeople, both for his own name’s
\nsake. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:22:09,640 –> 00:22:12,840
\nAnd notice that comes first, and
\nalso for David’s sake. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:22:15,800 –> 00:22:19,440
\nSo as I said, verse 7, take a
\nlump of figs. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:22:19,440 –> 00:22:21,960
\nAnd they took him, laid it on
\nthe boil, and he recovered. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:22:22,320 –> 00:22:24,560
\nNow we’re not going to comment
\non that this morning, brother <\/p>\n
363
\n00:22:24,560 –> 00:22:27,400
\nsisters, because we hope, God
\nwilling at a later time to <\/p>\n
364
\n00:22:27,400 –> 00:22:31,760
\nconsider those words, perhaps in
\nthe proper setting based on the <\/p>\n
365
\n00:22:31,760 –> 00:22:36,400
\nIsaiah record itself.
\nSo verse 8 says Hezekiah said <\/p>\n
366
\n00:22:36,400 –> 00:22:39,600
\nunto Isaiah, What shall be the
\nsign that Yahweh will heal me, <\/p>\n
367
\n00:22:39,600 –> 00:22:41,280
\nthat I shall go up to the House
\nof Yahweh? <\/p>\n
368
\n00:22:41,280 –> 00:22:45,080
\nThe third day Hezekiah believed
\nthat he would be blessed, but he<\/p>\n
369
\n00:22:45,080 –> 00:22:47,120
\nasked for a sign.
\nBut that was a good thing, not a<\/p>\n
370
\n00:22:47,120 –> 00:22:49,440
\nbad thing.
\nAnd the answer of his of Isaiah.<\/p>\n
371
\n00:22:49,440 –> 00:22:54,080
\nCame back verse 9 Yahweh Isaiah
\nsaid This sign shalt thou have <\/p>\n
372
\n00:22:54,080 –> 00:22:57,000
\nof Yahweh, that Yahweh will do
\nthe thing that he has spoken. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:22:57,520 –> 00:23:01,400
\nShall the shadow go forward 10\u00b0
\nor go back 10\u00b0? <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:01,520 –> 00:23:03,720
\nSo Hezekiah had asked for a
\nsign. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:23:03,920 –> 00:23:06,760
\nVerse 8.
\nBut it is Isaiah who determines <\/p>\n
376
\n00:23:06,760 –> 00:23:12,600
\nwhat the sign shall be.
\nAnd Isaiah says the sign will be<\/p>\n
377
\n00:23:12,600 –> 00:23:16,880
\nthe sign of the moving shadow.
\nSo notice the keyword verse 9 <\/p>\n
378
\n00:23:17,000 –> 00:23:21,040
\nshall the shadow go forward?
\nVerse 10 for the shadow to go <\/p>\n
379
\n00:23:21,040 –> 00:23:23,600
\ndown.
\nVerse 10 again let the shadow. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:23:23,600 –> 00:23:26,080
\nReturn backward verse. 11 He
\nbrought the. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:23:26,080 –> 00:23:29,160
\nShadow backward.
\nNow, brothers and sisters, I <\/p>\n
382
\n00:23:29,160 –> 00:23:33,480
\ndon’t think that Isaiah chose
\nthat sign of his own accord. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:23:34,040 –> 00:23:36,680
\nI think that sign was given him
\nby Yahweh. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:23:39,960 –> 00:23:44,760
\nNow that word shadow cell in the
\nHebrew TSEL is a word that’s <\/p>\n
385
\n00:23:44,760 –> 00:23:49,680
\nused to illustrate the ephemeral
\nand transient aspects of life, <\/p>\n
386
\n00:23:49,800 –> 00:23:53,880
\nthe life, our life that is both
\nimpermanent and uncertain. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:23:54,240 –> 00:23:57,280
\nJust have a look at these
\npassages and see how the use of <\/p>\n
388
\n00:23:57,280 –> 00:24:02,000
\nthe word shadow teaches that
\nlesson that life is transient. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:24:02,840 –> 00:24:08,120
\nIt is but a shadow.
\nHere it is in Job 14, verse 2. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:24:08,560 –> 00:24:11,160
\nMan cometh forth like a flower,
\nand is cut down. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:24:11,160 –> 00:24:14,120
\nHe fleeth also as a shadow to
\nsell. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:24:15,680 –> 00:24:19,120
\nOr again in Psalm 102,
\nHezekiah’s Psalm. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:24:19,160 –> 00:24:22,360
\nOne of them, Thou hast lifted me
\nup and cast me down. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:24:22,360 –> 00:24:24,600
\nMy days are like a shadow to
\nsell. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:24:24,600 –> 00:24:28,400
\nAnd.
\nAgain, in Psalm 144, verses 3 <\/p>\n
396
\n00:24:28,400 –> 00:24:32,080
\nand 4, Yahweh, What is man that
\nthou art, that thou takest <\/p>\n
397
\n00:24:32,080 –> 00:24:35,120
\nknowledge of Him?
\nMan is like to vanity as days <\/p>\n
398
\n00:24:35,120 –> 00:24:37,680
\nare as.
\nA shadow, it says. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:24:38,280 –> 00:24:42,240
\nAnd Ecclesiastes 6, verse 12.
\nWho knows what’s good for man in<\/p>\n
400
\n00:24:42,240 –> 00:24:44,960
\nthis life, all the days of his
\nvain, vain life, which he <\/p>\n
401
\n00:24:45,160 –> 00:24:47,920
\nspendeth as a shadow.
\nLife is transient. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:24:48,040 –> 00:24:52,080
\nLife is uncertain.
\nThat look at these keywords in <\/p>\n
403
\n00:24:52,080 –> 00:24:59,080
\nthese 4 passages.
\nThe shadow that flees, the <\/p>\n
404
\n00:24:59,080 –> 00:25:06,840
\nshadow that declines, the shadow
\nthat passes, the shadow that’s <\/p>\n
405
\n00:25:06,840 –> 00:25:12,040
\nspent.
\nYes, this is all about the sense<\/p>\n
406
\n00:25:12,040 –> 00:25:17,160
\nof the brevity and fleeting
\nnature of life, and that’s no <\/p>\n
407
\n00:25:17,160 –> 00:25:19,120
\ndoubt how Hezekiah felt at this
\nvery moment. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:25:19,320 –> 00:25:21,920
\nBut you see, the lesson of the
\nstory of the shadow in this <\/p>\n
409
\n00:25:21,920 –> 00:25:24,120
\nchapter, in this episode,
\nbrothers and sisters, is that. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:25:24,120 –> 00:25:27,320
\nYahweh has the power to control
\nthe shadow. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:25:28,440 –> 00:25:31,520
\nGod can lengthen or shorten the
\nshadow of life. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:25:32,840 –> 00:25:34,800
\nAnd perhaps with that
\nunderstanding of its <\/p>\n
413
\n00:25:34,800 –> 00:25:37,840
\nsignificance, Hezekiah responded
\nin the way that he did, because <\/p>\n
414
\n00:25:37,840 –> 00:25:41,520
\nhe gave a very good answer to
\nIsaiah’s question, Shall the <\/p>\n
415
\n00:25:41,520 –> 00:25:44,760
\nshadow go forward or backwards?
\nIsaiah had asked verse 9. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:25:45,000 –> 00:25:47,400
\nAnd the answer of the king comes
\nback verse 10. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:25:47,520 –> 00:25:51,080
\nHezekiah said, it is a light
\nthing for the shadow to go down <\/p>\n
418
\n00:25:51,080 –> 00:25:55,120
\n10\u00b0.
\nNay, but let the shadow return <\/p>\n
419
\n00:25:55,120 –> 00:25:59,240
\nbackward 10\u00b0.
\nSo you see, Hezekiah reasoned <\/p>\n
420
\n00:25:59,240 –> 00:26:02,760
\nthis way that the shadow moving
\nforward would simply mean that <\/p>\n
421
\n00:26:02,760 –> 00:26:05,120
\ntime was advancing as it
\nnormally does. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:26:06,040 –> 00:26:08,160
\nMight be at a faster rate, but
\nthat would just be the <\/p>\n
423
\n00:26:08,160 –> 00:26:12,200
\nacceleration of time.
\nBut for the shadow to return <\/p>\n
424
\n00:26:12,280 –> 00:26:16,600
\nbackward, that would mean that
\ntime hadn’t just been slowed. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:26:18,880 –> 00:26:22,680
\nThat would mean that time had
\nbeen reversed, that as the <\/p>\n
426
\n00:26:22,680 –> 00:26:25,840
\nshadow retreated, time had been
\nredeemed. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:26:26,680 –> 00:26:30,200
\nNow that would be a miracle
\nindeed. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:26:30,520 –> 00:26:34,480
\nAnd in that request, Hezekiah
\nwas really asking for evidence <\/p>\n
429
\n00:26:34,640 –> 00:26:39,960
\nthat he would be granted the
\nopportunity to reuse the time to<\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:39,960 –> 00:26:42,120
\naccomplish all the things that
\nhe’d wept at earlier that <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:42,120 –> 00:26:45,040
\nremained undone, the things that
\nwere needed for the spiritual. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:45,040 –> 00:26:50,160
\nGood of the nation.
\nSo verse 11 says Isaiah the <\/p>\n
433
\n00:26:50,160 –> 00:26:52,840
\nprophet cried unto Yahweh, and
\nhe brought the shadow 10\u00b0 <\/p>\n
434
\n00:26:52,840 –> 00:26:55,440
\nbackwards, by which it was gone
\ndown in the dial of Ahaz. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:26:55,440 –> 00:26:58,400
\nCan you imagine, brothers and
\nsisters, how Isaiah offered that<\/p>\n
436
\n00:26:58,400 –> 00:26:59,960
\nprayer that day?
\nHe was in the King’s bed <\/p>\n
437
\n00:26:59,960 –> 00:27:01,680
\nchamber.
\nHe says which Which way would <\/p>\n
438
\n00:27:01,680 –> 00:27:03,120
\nyou like it to go, forwards or
\nbackwards? <\/p>\n
439
\n00:27:04,760 –> 00:27:05,960
\nThe king said I could go
\nbackwards. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:27:07,760 –> 00:27:10,320
\nAnd Isaiah prayed right there in
\nthe Chamber of the king, with <\/p>\n
441
\n00:27:10,320 –> 00:27:13,840
\nHezekiah listening.
\nIsaiah asked Yahweh to move that<\/p>\n
442
\n00:27:13,840 –> 00:27:16,880
\nshadow, and he must have prayed
\nwith all the fervency of his <\/p>\n
443
\n00:27:16,880 –> 00:27:19,000
\nbeing.
\nAnd the shadow did move, says <\/p>\n
444
\n00:27:19,000 –> 00:27:21,400
\nthe record on the dial of
\nAhai’s. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:27:23,040 –> 00:27:28,160
\nNow why would we need to know
\nthat it’s the sundial of Ahai’s?<\/p>\n
446
\n00:27:30,440 –> 00:27:34,240
\nWell, I think because of Isaiah
\nChapter 7, if you come to the <\/p>\n
447
\n00:27:34,240 –> 00:27:39,360
\nprophecy of Isaiah Chapter 7
\nmany years before. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:27:40,400 –> 00:27:44,280
\nIsaiah the prophet had had a
\nmeeting with Hezekiah’s father. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:27:45,600 –> 00:27:51,520
\nHezekiah’s father was none other
\nthan Ahaz and in that meeting. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:27:51,640 –> 00:27:56,440
\nHe’d offered Ahaz a sign, and
\nthis is what the record says in <\/p>\n
451
\n00:27:56,560 –> 00:28:00,120
\nIsaiah Chapter 7 verse 10.
\nMoreover, Yahweh, but it’s <\/p>\n
452
\n00:28:00,120 –> 00:28:02,640
\nthrough the mouth of Isaiah the
\nprophet Yahweh. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:28:02,640 –> 00:28:06,640
\nSpake again unto Ahaz, saying,
\nAsk thee a sign of Yahweh, thy <\/p>\n
454
\n00:28:06,640 –> 00:28:08,720
\nGod.
\nAsk it either in the depth or in<\/p>\n
455
\n00:28:08,720 –> 00:28:11,960
\nthe height above.
\nBut A has said, I will not ask, <\/p>\n
456
\n00:28:12,080 –> 00:28:15,880
\nneither will I tempt Yahweh.
\nSo A has was offered a sign, <\/p>\n
457
\n00:28:15,880 –> 00:28:20,240
\neither from heaven or from
\nearth, from the height or from <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:20,240 –> 00:28:22,600
\nthe depth.
\nBut because of his lack of <\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:22,600 –> 00:28:24,800
\nfaith, he refused.
\nHe didn’t want to know the <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:24,800 –> 00:28:27,360
\ndivine intentions.
\nI don’t want to know anything <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:27,360 –> 00:28:30,280
\nthat God might want to teach me,
\nso I will not tempt the Lord my <\/p>\n
462
\n00:28:30,280 –> 00:28:33,120
\nGod, he says with a righteous
\nshow of piety. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:28:33,600 –> 00:28:36,040
\nBut he was a man actually, who
\nin his apostasy introduced <\/p>\n
464
\n00:28:36,040 –> 00:28:38,720
\nforeign objects.
\nInto both the royal palace and <\/p>\n
465
\n00:28:38,720 –> 00:28:42,440
\nthe House of God.
\nBut now his son, who’s a man of <\/p>\n
466
\n00:28:42,440 –> 00:28:44,520
\nimplicit faith.
\nEagerly. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:28:44,520 –> 00:28:47,800
\nAsks for a sign, nothing,
\ndoubting that he will recover as<\/p>\n
468
\n00:28:47,800 –> 00:28:50,680
\nGod had promised.
\nAnd God gave him him this man <\/p>\n
469
\n00:28:50,720 –> 00:28:56,120
\nHezekiah, A sign from the
\nheights involving the sun and <\/p>\n
470
\n00:28:56,120 –> 00:28:58,800
\nits shadow.
\nAs it cast on its skywards <\/p>\n
471
\n00:28:58,920 –> 00:29:02,080
\njourney, Hezekiah was a very
\ndifferent man. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:29:03,160 –> 00:29:07,160
\nAnd his father, well, that
\nbrings us back to the record now<\/p>\n
473
\n00:29:07,200 –> 00:29:13,240
\nof Isaiah chapter 38 as we take
\nup the passage again, I think <\/p>\n
474
\n00:29:13,240 –> 00:29:15,040
\nincidentally, brothers and
\nsisters, there’s an interesting <\/p>\n
475
\n00:29:15,040 –> 00:29:17,800
\npoint here because those
\nconversations between the two <\/p>\n
476
\n00:29:17,800 –> 00:29:21,840
\nmen that Isaac, that Isaiah.
\nObviously had with Hezekiah and <\/p>\n
477
\n00:29:21,840 –> 00:29:24,800
\nthat are recorded in the second
\nof Kings chapter 20 are not <\/p>\n
478
\n00:29:24,800 –> 00:29:29,080
\nthere in Isaiah’s chapter 38.
\nWhy would that be the case? <\/p>\n
479
\n00:29:30,160 –> 00:29:33,320
\nWhy would all those special
\npleadings of Isaiah be removed? <\/p>\n
480
\n00:29:33,320 –> 00:29:38,600
\nBut you see, I think the
\nprophets account removed <\/p>\n
481
\n00:29:38,600 –> 00:29:40,720
\nanything that drew attention to
\nhimself. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:29:42,600 –> 00:29:47,280
\nSo the part that Isaiah plays in
\nthis is discreetly edited out. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:29:47,800 –> 00:29:51,200
\nIn Isaiah’s account, Oh yes, he
\nwould speak, but the focus of of<\/p>\n
484
\n00:29:51,200 –> 00:29:55,040
\nIsaiah was Isaiah 38 verse 7.
\nThis will be the sign unto thee <\/p>\n
485
\n00:29:55,040 –> 00:29:57,920
\nfrom Yahweh that Yahweh will do
\nthis thing. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:29:58,040 –> 00:29:59,800
\nAnd that’s what Isaiah was
\nfocused on, is the. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:29:59,800 –> 00:30:02,560
\nWork of God, and that whatever
\nthe sign was, it would give <\/p>\n
488
\n00:30:02,560 –> 00:30:05,520
\nproof that Yahweh was the source
\nof the miracle. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:30:06,040 –> 00:30:08,840
\nAnd so it would prove to be
\nbecause only God could have <\/p>\n
490
\n00:30:08,840 –> 00:30:11,760
\nwrought what happened in
\nJerusalem on that day as events <\/p>\n
491
\n00:30:11,760 –> 00:30:16,760
\nwere to make very plain.
\nSo it says verse 8. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:30:18,080 –> 00:30:22,480
\nBehold, I will bring again the
\nshadow of the degrees which has <\/p>\n
493
\n00:30:22,480 –> 00:30:26,440
\ngone down in the sundial of Ahaz
\n10\u00b0 backward. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:30:26,720 –> 00:30:30,480
\nSo the sun returned 10\u00b0, by
\nwhich degrees it was gone down. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:30:30,840 –> 00:30:33,560
\nSo when it says incidentally
\nverse 8, behold, I will bring <\/p>\n
496
\n00:30:33,560 –> 00:30:35,880
\nagain.
\nThe eye, of course, is God <\/p>\n
497
\n00:30:35,880 –> 00:30:38,080
\nHimself.
\nAfter all, that’s what happened <\/p>\n
498
\n00:30:38,080 –> 00:30:41,240
\nin the King’s record.
\nIsaiah cried unto Yahweh, and he<\/p>\n
499
\n00:30:41,280 –> 00:30:44,480
\nYahweh brought the shadow 10\u00b0
\nbackwards. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:30:45,760 –> 00:30:46,960
\nNow that word.
\nDegrees. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:30:47,360 –> 00:30:50,400
\nWe need to notice that because
\nit’s a keyword here. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:30:50,800 –> 00:30:55,160
\nIt’s used five times in this one
\nverse. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:30:55,880 –> 00:31:00,400
\nIt’s the feminine active
\nparticiple of Allah which means <\/p>\n
504
\n00:31:00,400 –> 00:31:02,680
\nto take a journey to a higher
\nplace. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:31:03,040 –> 00:31:07,600
\nAnd in the Hebrew here this word
\ndegrees is ma Allah, MA <\/p>\n
506
\n00:31:07,640 –> 00:31:13,120
\napostrophe ALAH ma Allah.
\nAnd it literally means a <\/p>\n
507
\n00:31:13,120 –> 00:31:17,400
\nstairway or steps.
\nNow let me show you the use of <\/p>\n
508
\n00:31:17,400 –> 00:31:19,920
\nthat term in other places so
\nthat you see what that word <\/p>\n
509
\n00:31:20,160 –> 00:31:24,640
\ndegrees here really means.
\nIn Exodus chapter 20, we’re told<\/p>\n
510
\n00:31:24,640 –> 00:31:28,920
\nin verses 25 and 26.
\nIf that won’t make me an altar, <\/p>\n
511
\n00:31:29,120 –> 00:31:32,480
\nthou shalt not build it of hewn
\nstone, neither shalt thou go. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:31:32,520 –> 00:31:39,240
\nUp Allah by steps, ma Allah.
\nThat’s the word for degrees in <\/p>\n
513
\n00:31:39,240 –> 00:31:45,440
\nIsaiah 38, verse 8.
\nMa Allah steps or again in <\/p>\n
514
\n00:31:45,600 –> 00:31:48,960
\nNehemiah chapter 12 verse 37, at
\nthe fountain gate which was over<\/p>\n
515
\n00:31:48,960 –> 00:31:54,080
\nagainst them, they went up Allah
\nby the stairs. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:31:54,240 –> 00:32:00,800
\nMa Allah of the city of David,
\nor again in Ezekiel 40, verse <\/p>\n
517
\n00:32:00,800 –> 00:32:04,320
\n49, he brought me up by the
\nsteps, Ma Allah, whereby they <\/p>\n
518
\n00:32:04,360 –> 00:32:07,560
\nwent up Allah to it and there
\nwere pillars by the posts. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:32:08,160 –> 00:32:11,520
\nAnd now this one here in Isaiah
\n38, behold, I’ll bring again the<\/p>\n
520
\n00:32:11,520 –> 00:32:16,760
\nshadow of the degrees, Ma Allah,
\nwhich has gone down with the sun<\/p>\n
521
\n00:32:16,760 –> 00:32:21,160
\non the stairway.
\nMa Allah of Ahaz, this is all <\/p>\n
522
\n00:32:21,160 –> 00:32:27,880
\nabout the shadow on the
\nstaircase and whatever the sun <\/p>\n
523
\n00:32:27,880 –> 00:32:30,440
\nwas about.
\nBrothers and sisters, it’s <\/p>\n
524
\n00:32:30,440 –> 00:32:33,160
\nabout.
\nThe movement of the shadow on <\/p>\n
525
\n00:32:33,160 –> 00:32:36,360
\nthis particular staircase, in
\nfact the literal rendering of <\/p>\n
526
\n00:32:36,360 –> 00:32:39,120
\nthe text in Isaiah 38 verse 8 is
\nthis. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:32:39,200 –> 00:32:40,960
\nThis is how it should read based
\non the. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:32:41,160 –> 00:32:46,760
\nUse of that word, Behold, I will
\nturn the shadow of the steps <\/p>\n
529
\n00:32:46,960 –> 00:32:52,200
\nwhich the sun has gone down on
\nthe steps of a has backward 10 <\/p>\n
530
\n00:32:52,200 –> 00:32:56,520
\nsteps, and the sun turned back
\n10 steps on the steps which it <\/p>\n
531
\n00:32:56,520 –> 00:33:00,640
\nhad gone down.
\nIt was a staircase. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:33:02,120 –> 00:33:05,520
\nThe shadow on the staircase and
\nwhatever the sun dial of a has <\/p>\n
533
\n00:33:05,520 –> 00:33:09,720
\nwas, it must have involved a
\ngnomon, a column or a block at <\/p>\n
534
\n00:33:09,720 –> 00:33:13,400
\nthe top of the staircase that
\nwould cast a shadow from the sun<\/p>\n
535
\n00:33:13,400 –> 00:33:15,640
\nas it traveled around.
\nThe shadow would come across <\/p>\n
536
\n00:33:15,640 –> 00:33:17,640
\nthat block and.
\nDown the staircase. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:33:17,920 –> 00:33:20,920
\nSo the question is, as we see
\nfrom this record, how many steps<\/p>\n
538
\n00:33:20,920 –> 00:33:22,720
\ndid the shadow return?
\nWhy 10? <\/p>\n
539
\n00:33:24,160 –> 00:33:27,440
\nNow we don’t know what length of
\ntime these steps measured. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:33:28,440 –> 00:33:31,600
\nSo we probably can’t determine
\nthe specific time involved, but <\/p>\n
541
\n00:33:31,600 –> 00:33:34,640
\nwe can certainly suggest the
\npossibility because I believe <\/p>\n
542
\n00:33:34,640 –> 00:33:37,160
\nthat the steps most likely were
\nthe measurements of an hour. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:33:38,040 –> 00:33:39,480
\nThat’s what most sundials
\nmeasured. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:33:39,480 –> 00:33:43,920
\nEven in those ancient times,
\nthey measured time in increments<\/p>\n
545
\n00:33:43,920 –> 00:33:47,080
\nof hours.
\nSo if each step was an hour, and<\/p>\n
546
\n00:33:47,080 –> 00:33:50,440
\nthe shadow began to move
\nbackwards between 3:00 or 4:00 <\/p>\n
547
\n00:33:50,440 –> 00:33:54,400
\nin the afternoon, then the
\nshadow went back from 4:00 in <\/p>\n
548
\n00:33:54,400 –> 00:34:02,080
\nthe afternoon all the way back
\nto. 6:00 in the morning, which <\/p>\n
549
\n00:34:02,080 –> 00:34:04,040
\nwas the official start of the
\nday. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:34:05,560 –> 00:34:08,480
\nIt was as if the day was to
\nstart right from its beginning <\/p>\n
551
\n00:34:08,480 –> 00:34:13,840
\nagain.
\nNow 10 is the number of fingers <\/p>\n
552
\n00:34:13,840 –> 00:34:20,639
\non a man’s hand, and a woman’s
\nhand for that matter, but it <\/p>\n
553
\n00:34:20,679 –> 00:34:23,440
\nsymbolized, you see, the
\naggregate of the whole. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:34:24,120 –> 00:34:27,280
\nJob 19 verse three Job said
\nthese 10 times he have <\/p>\n
555
\n00:34:27,280 –> 00:34:29,560
\napproached me.
\nDaniel one verse 20 and all <\/p>\n
556
\n00:34:29,560 –> 00:34:31,960
\nmatters of wisdom.
\nHe found them 10 times better <\/p>\n
557
\n00:34:31,960 –> 00:34:35,639
\nthan all the magicians.
\nZechariah 8 verse 2010 Men shall<\/p>\n
558
\n00:34:35,639 –> 00:34:39,840
\ntake hold out of all nations. 10
\nwas the sum of the whole. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:34:40,760 –> 00:34:43,239
\nAnd as the number as an
\naggregate, it represented that <\/p>\n
560
\n00:34:43,239 –> 00:34:46,639
\nwhich was total or complete.
\nSo when the shadow returned by <\/p>\n
561
\n00:34:46,639 –> 00:34:50,840
\n10\u00b0, it symbolized the complete
\nreversal of time. <\/p>\n
562
\n00:34:50,960 –> 00:34:53,560
\nSo here’s a car was going to
\nhave his answer the time he. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:34:53,560 –> 00:34:57,960
\nStood to lose would be totally
\nreturned back to him back to <\/p>\n
564
\n00:34:57,960 –> 00:35:01,920
\n6:00.
\nSo in some way, the shadow <\/p>\n
565
\n00:35:01,920 –> 00:35:05,720
\nmoving up by 10\u00b0 or steps became
\nthe proof that his life would be<\/p>\n
566
\n00:35:05,720 –> 00:35:08,760
\nextended by 15 years.
\nThe problem is, how do you <\/p>\n
567
\n00:35:08,760 –> 00:35:11,120
\nreconcile those two seemingly
\ndifferent measurements? <\/p>\n
568
\n00:35:11,280 –> 00:35:15,480
\nWouldn’t it have been wonderful
\nif there was 15\u00b0 matching 15 <\/p>\n
569
\n00:35:15,480 –> 00:35:17,960
\nyears?
\nIsn’t that all what we secretly <\/p>\n
570
\n00:35:17,960 –> 00:35:20,560
\nwant?
\nBut you couldn’t have 15. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:35:20,560 –> 00:35:22,840
\nDegrees, you see, because if
\nthey’re measuring hours. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:35:23,040 –> 00:35:26,000
\nThere were never 15 hours of
\ndaylight to cast shadows. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:35:27,000 –> 00:35:29,080
\nThe car they’ve ever been 15
\nstairs. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:35:29,480 –> 00:35:33,880
\nSo with regard to the 10\u00b0, if
\neach step measured an hour and <\/p>\n
575
\n00:35:33,880 –> 00:35:37,360
\nthe sign took place at around
\n4:00 in the afternoon, then <\/p>\n
576
\n00:35:37,360 –> 00:35:40,000
\nthere are two important facts
\nthat emerge. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:35:40,280 –> 00:35:43,280
\nThe 1st of this is the.
\nTime of day? <\/p>\n
578
\n00:35:44,080 –> 00:35:46,880
\nWell, that’s the time in the
\nafternoon when the shadows would<\/p>\n
579
\n00:35:46,880 –> 00:35:51,520
\ndescend the stairs with
\nincreasing speed, because that’s<\/p>\n
580
\n00:35:51,520 –> 00:35:55,160
\nthe time, scripturally, when the
\nshadows are at their fastest as <\/p>\n
581
\n00:35:55,160 –> 00:35:58,280
\nthey lengthen.
\nRemember this passage in Psalm <\/p>\n
582
\n00:35:58,280 –> 00:36:00,640
\n102 again, the Psalm of
\nHezekiah. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:36:00,800 –> 00:36:03,120
\nMy days are like a shadow that
\ndeclineth. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:36:04,040 –> 00:36:07,360
\nThe Hebrew word means to stretch
\nout, and the new King James <\/p>\n
585
\n00:36:07,360 –> 00:36:10,160
\nVersion says like a shadow that
\nlengthens. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:36:11,400 –> 00:36:15,080
\nThat’s the afternoon sun, that
\nas it sinks, the shadows grow <\/p>\n
587
\n00:36:15,080 –> 00:36:19,360
\nlonger and faster.
\nThe Song of Solomon chapter 2, <\/p>\n
588
\n00:36:19,360 –> 00:36:21,560
\nverse 17.
\nThis is a translation from a <\/p>\n
589
\n00:36:21,560 –> 00:36:25,160
\nbrother until the day breathed
\nand the shadows be lengthened. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:36:25,480 –> 00:36:29,400
\nAnd brother Roy Wood dupe in his
\nbook on Song of Songs says in <\/p>\n
591
\n00:36:29,400 –> 00:36:32,360
\nthe late afternoon, as if a
\nbreeze cools the air, as the <\/p>\n
592
\n00:36:32,360 –> 00:36:37,200
\nshadows lengthen and vanish, as
\nthe dusk of the evening heralds <\/p>\n
593
\n00:36:37,200 –> 00:36:40,680
\na speedy change.
\nTonight the growing longer <\/p>\n
594
\n00:36:40,680 –> 00:36:43,840
\nshadows of the afternoon.
\nAnd in our reading, daily <\/p>\n
595
\n00:36:43,840 –> 00:36:48,000
\nreading yesterday, Jeremiah 6
\nverse 4 says, Woe unto us, for <\/p>\n
596
\n00:36:48,000 –> 00:36:50,840
\nthe day goeth away, for the
\nshadows of the evening are <\/p>\n
597
\n00:36:50,840 –> 00:36:54,320
\nstretched out.
\nSo when you think about that, <\/p>\n
598
\n00:36:54,320 –> 00:36:57,680
\nyou see.
\nThe shadows of the afternoon. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:36:58,840 –> 00:37:02,880
\nFor this shadow to be reversed
\nand to ascend the stairs at a <\/p>\n
600
\n00:37:02,880 –> 00:37:06,960
\ntime when the shadows are
\nrapidly lengthening was an even <\/p>\n
601
\n00:37:06,960 –> 00:37:10,720
\nmore remarkable miracle.
\nBut moving the shadow back back <\/p>\n
602
\n00:37:10,720 –> 00:37:14,600
\nby 10\u00b0 took the time, as we
\nsaid, back to 6:00 in the <\/p>\n
603
\n00:37:14,600 –> 00:37:16,920
\nmorning.
\nThat was the Lord who said John <\/p>\n
604
\n00:37:17,000 –> 00:37:20,120
\n11 verse 9.
\nAre there not 12 hours? <\/p>\n
605
\n00:37:20,440 –> 00:37:24,000
\nIn the day.
\nSo even measuring ten of those <\/p>\n
606
\n00:37:24,000 –> 00:37:27,600
\nhours still allows us to take
\nthe time back to the start of <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:27,600 –> 00:37:30,520
\nthe day.
\nAnd if the number 10, taking it <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:30,520 –> 00:37:33,760
\nback to 6:00 represented the
\ncomplete reversal of time back <\/p>\n
609
\n00:37:33,760 –> 00:37:36,200
\nto the beginning of the day,
\nThere is a connection with the <\/p>\n
610
\n00:37:36,200 –> 00:37:38,360
\n15 years.
\nBecause you see, when it came to<\/p>\n
611
\n00:37:38,360 –> 00:37:42,120
\nsee that same sign of bringing
\nit back to the start in the <\/p>\n
612
\n00:37:42,120 –> 00:37:45,720
\ncontext of Hezekiah’s kingship,
\nwe must. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:37:45,720 –> 00:37:52,160
\nMove from the measurement of
\ntime in hours degrees to the <\/p>\n
614
\n00:37:52,160 –> 00:37:56,840
\nmeasurement of a reign in years.
\nAnd since he has a car was <\/p>\n
615
\n00:37:56,840 –> 00:38:00,520
\nalready in his 14th year, the
\naddition of another 15 years <\/p>\n
616
\n00:38:00,520 –> 00:38:04,120
\ntook his reign right back to its
\nbeginning so that he could start<\/p>\n
617
\n00:38:04,120 –> 00:38:06,480
\nit all over again.
\nHis kingship was returned to <\/p>\n
618
\n00:38:06,480 –> 00:38:11,200
\n6:00 in the morning, and the 15
\nyears were the perfect <\/p>\n
619
\n00:38:11,200 –> 00:38:15,240
\ncounterpart to the 10\u00b0, the
\nmarvellous Bill and Sisters. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:38:16,920 –> 00:38:20,000
\nAnd the next thing to notice in
\nthat verse, Isaiah 38, verse 8, <\/p>\n
621
\n00:38:20,160 –> 00:38:23,440
\ndo you notice twice it mentions
\nthe word gone down, and the <\/p>\n
622
\n00:38:23,440 –> 00:38:25,360
\nHebrew word literally means to
\ndescend. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:38:25,480 –> 00:38:28,360
\nIt had descended because it was
\nmoving down the steps of the <\/p>\n
624
\n00:38:28,360 –> 00:38:30,920
\nstaircase.
\nAnd the sign that Hezekiah had <\/p>\n
625
\n00:38:30,920 –> 00:38:35,160
\nasked for was to see a reversal
\nof the direction of that shadow.<\/p>\n
626
\n00:38:35,520 –> 00:38:37,320
\nSo how do you think the miracle
\nwas performed? <\/p>\n
627
\n00:38:38,880 –> 00:38:41,920
\nWell, it didn’t need the cosmic
\nforcing of the sun into a <\/p>\n
628
\n00:38:41,920 –> 00:38:44,360
\ndifferent trajectory.
\nThat would have been somewhat <\/p>\n
629
\n00:38:44,360 –> 00:38:48,240
\ncatastrophic.
\nThere was a much simpler way for<\/p>\n
630
\n00:38:48,240 –> 00:38:50,800
\nthis moving of the shadow to be
\naccomplished. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:38:51,000 –> 00:38:55,440
\nYou see, all that was required
\nwas a source of light stronger <\/p>\n
632
\n00:38:55,840 –> 00:39:00,760
\nthan the sun that could reverse
\nthe shadow it cast and cause it <\/p>\n
633
\n00:39:00,760 –> 00:39:05,200
\nto retreat.
\nAnd the scripture tells us of <\/p>\n
634
\n00:39:05,200 –> 00:39:09,480
\nsuch a source of light.
\nIt’s the Shekinah glory of <\/p>\n
635
\n00:39:09,480 –> 00:39:13,320
\nYahweh that was manifested in
\nHis angels. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:39:14,680 –> 00:39:18,360
\nDaniel 10 verses 5 and 6 says
\nbehold a certain man clothed in <\/p>\n
637
\n00:39:18,360 –> 00:39:22,000
\nlinen, his face as the
\nappearance of lightning. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:39:23,440 –> 00:39:26,080
\nMatthew 28 verses 2 and three
\nsays the Angel of the Lord <\/p>\n
639
\n00:39:26,080 –> 00:39:30,040
\ndescended from heaven, and his
\ncountenance was like lightning. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:39:30,360 –> 00:39:33,280
\nSo here’s the incredible.
\nBrilliance of the Shekinah <\/p>\n
641
\n00:39:33,280 –> 00:39:37,520
\nglory, but the interesting thing
\nis that the angels could reveal <\/p>\n
642
\n00:39:37,920 –> 00:39:42,720
\nor conceal that glory when they
\nconversed with mortals. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:39:43,560 –> 00:39:46,120
\nThat’s an ability that Christ
\nand the Saints will share, <\/p>\n
644
\n00:39:47,080 –> 00:39:49,080
\nHabakkuk chapter 3, verse 4
\nsays. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:39:49,280 –> 00:39:51,200
\nAnd his brightness was as the
\nlight. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:39:51,320 –> 00:39:56,400
\nHe had bright beams out of his
\nside, and there was the hiding. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:39:56,400 –> 00:40:00,640
\nOf.
\nHis power Zechariah chapter 14 <\/p>\n
648
\n00:40:00,840 –> 00:40:05,640
\nverses 5 and 6 is translated by
\nbrother Thomas reads And Yahweh,<\/p>\n
649
\n00:40:05,640 –> 00:40:07,800
\nmy God shall come, and all the
\nholy ones with thee. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:40:07,800 –> 00:40:10,120
\nAnd it shall be in that day
\nthere shall be no brightness. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:40:10,120 –> 00:40:16,320
\nThe splendid ones drawing in.
\nSo those that possess the <\/p>\n
652
\n00:40:16,360 –> 00:40:20,120
\nShekinah glory have the power to
\nreveal only so much of it as <\/p>\n
653
\n00:40:20,120 –> 00:40:22,960
\nthey wish their onlookers to
\nsee. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:40:25,120 –> 00:40:29,440
\nAnd lastly, ponder this passage
\nwhen the risen and glorified <\/p>\n
655
\n00:40:29,440 –> 00:40:32,560
\nChrist spoke with.
\nPaul on the road to Damascus. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:40:32,600 –> 00:40:37,600
\nPaul described their meeting
\nthis way in acts 26 verse 13. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:40:38,240 –> 00:40:42,320
\nHe said at midday, O King, I saw
\nin the way a light from. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:40:42,320 –> 00:40:49,400
\nHeaven.
\nAbove the brightness of the sun.<\/p>\n
659
\n00:40:50,920 –> 00:40:56,120
\nAbove the brightness of the sun.
\nAnd now picture the scene in <\/p>\n
660
\n00:40:56,120 –> 00:40:59,680
\nJerusalem on that fateful day
\nwhen the king lay upon his bed, <\/p>\n
661
\n00:40:59,680 –> 00:41:02,400
\nand the prophet of God prayed
\nwith all his might that Yahweh <\/p>\n
662
\n00:41:02,480 –> 00:41:05,440
\nwould move the shadow.
\nI think God sent an Angel, one <\/p>\n
663
\n00:41:05,440 –> 00:41:07,080
\nthat could make himself
\ninvisible. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:41:07,080 –> 00:41:09,320
\nIf he pleased.
\nAnd to permit only so much of <\/p>\n
665
\n00:41:09,320 –> 00:41:10,880
\nhis brilliance as he wished to
\nshow. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:41:11,080 –> 00:41:13,480
\nAnd now imagine that Angel at
\nthe foot of the of the <\/p>\n
667
\n00:41:13,480 –> 00:41:16,720
\nstaircase, right at the very
\nbottom, down which ran the <\/p>\n
668
\n00:41:16,720 –> 00:41:19,600
\ndeepest, darkest shadow cast by
\nthe sun. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:41:19,840 –> 00:41:23,680
\nAnd as the Angel climbed the
\nstairs, he allowed each step to <\/p>\n
670
\n00:41:23,680 –> 00:41:27,440
\nbe illuminated as he trod.
\nBut all that could be seen by <\/p>\n
671
\n00:41:27,440 –> 00:41:32,120
\nothers looking was the Shekinah
\nlight itself moving up the <\/p>\n
672
\n00:41:32,120 –> 00:41:36,200
\nstaircase one step at a time, so
\nthat the shadow moved and the <\/p>\n
673
\n00:41:36,200 –> 00:41:39,720
\nshadow retreated up the stairs.
\nIt had to be that way, didn’t <\/p>\n
674
\n00:41:39,720 –> 00:41:40,840
\nit?
\nBecause if the shadow had gone <\/p>\n
675
\n00:41:40,840 –> 00:41:44,600
\ndown the steps, the sign had to
\nbe in the same sense of the <\/p>\n
676
\n00:41:44,600 –> 00:41:49,640
\nshadow going up the stairs.
\nAnd that’s what the Septuagint <\/p>\n
677
\n00:41:49,640 –> 00:41:53,720
\nsays, The Septuagint says.
\nSo the sun reascended the 10 <\/p>\n
678
\n00:41:53,720 –> 00:41:55,520
\nsteps by which the shadow had
\ngone down. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:41:55,520 –> 00:41:58,400
\nI think that’s exactly what
\nhappened, except I don’t think <\/p>\n
680
\n00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:00,040
\nit was the sun that ascended the
\nsteps. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:42:00,040 –> 00:42:03,000
\nMother and sisters, I think it
\nwas an Angel that trod their <\/p>\n
682
\n00:42:03,000 –> 00:42:05,400
\ntreads as he walked up the
\nstairs. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:42:05,680 –> 00:42:08,600
\nAnd the shadow, step by step,
\nretreated before the Shekinah <\/p>\n
684
\n00:42:08,600 –> 00:42:11,840
\nglory, which was a brilliance
\nmore powerful than the sun, <\/p>\n
685
\n00:42:11,840 –> 00:42:13,920
\nwhich had cast the shadow to
\nstart with. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:42:18,000 –> 00:42:21,680
\nWhat do you think the king
\nthought as he saw the shadow <\/p>\n
687
\n00:42:21,680 –> 00:42:25,600
\nmoving?
\nIt was a visual graphic display <\/p>\n
688
\n00:42:25,600 –> 00:42:29,320
\nof his recovery.
\nHe watched the shadow as seen <\/p>\n
689
\n00:42:29,320 –> 00:42:33,280
\nthe stairs and was not a little
\ncomforted. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:42:35,320 –> 00:42:37,960
\nAnd there’s another interesting
\nthought here, because you see in<\/p>\n
691
\n00:42:37,960 –> 00:42:38,960
\nthe second.
\nOf the Kings. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:42:39,360 –> 00:42:42,160
\nWhen Hezekiah had asked for the
\nsign, he said this. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:42:42,200 –> 00:42:45,080
\nWhat shall be the sign?
\nThat I will go up to the House <\/p>\n
694
\n00:42:45,080 –> 00:42:47,840
\nof Yahweh?
\nAnd the word is, go up Allah. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:42:49,360 –> 00:42:54,320
\nBut it so happened that between
\nthe King’s palace and the House <\/p>\n
696
\n00:42:54,320 –> 00:42:58,120
\nof Yahweh there was a set of
\nsteps. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:42:58,960 –> 00:43:01,800
\nNow hold your hand in Isaiah 38
\nand come back to the Second of <\/p>\n
698
\n00:43:01,800 –> 00:43:05,520
\nChronicles Chapter 9, because in
\nthe Second of Chronicles Chapter<\/p>\n
699
\n00:43:05,520 –> 00:43:09,280
\n9.
\nWe’ve got a reference to those <\/p>\n
700
\n00:43:09,280 –> 00:43:12,040
\nsteps.
\nThis is the visit of the queen <\/p>\n
701
\n00:43:12,040 –> 00:43:16,400
\nof Sheba to Solomon, and we’re
\ntold this in Second Chronicles <\/p>\n
702
\n00:43:16,400 –> 00:43:18,880
\n9.
\nPerhaps reading from verse 3 for<\/p>\n
703
\n00:43:18,880 –> 00:43:24,840
\nconnection.
\nSecond Chronicles 9 verse 3, <\/p>\n
704
\n00:43:24,840 –> 00:43:27,400
\nwhen the Queen of Sheba had seen
\nthe wisdom of Solomon. <\/p>\n
705
\n00:43:27,400 –> 00:43:29,640
\nAnd the house that he had built,
\nand the meat of his tabled, and <\/p>\n
706
\n00:43:29,640 –> 00:43:32,120
\nthe sitting of his servants, and
\nthe attendance of his ministers <\/p>\n
707
\n00:43:32,120 –> 00:43:34,960
\nand their apparel, and his
\ncupbearers and their apparel, <\/p>\n
708
\n00:43:35,280 –> 00:43:40,440
\nand.
\nHis ascent by which he went up <\/p>\n
709
\n00:43:42,160 –> 00:43:46,160
\ninto the House of Yahweh.
\nSo there was a special staircase<\/p>\n
710
\n00:43:46,160 –> 00:43:49,200
\nbetween the King’s palace and
\nthe Temple Mount, which was for <\/p>\n
711
\n00:43:49,200 –> 00:43:51,720
\nthe exclusive use of the king
\nand going up to the House of <\/p>\n
712
\n00:43:51,720 –> 00:43:53,800
\nGod.
\nAnd that phrase, his ascent <\/p>\n
713
\n00:43:53,960 –> 00:43:57,280
\naliyah, by which he went up
\nAllah. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:43:57,640 –> 00:44:00,360
\nUses words formed from the same
\nroot. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:44:00,360 –> 00:44:04,200
\nIs Ma Allah the staircase or the
\ndegrees? <\/p>\n
716
\n00:44:04,600 –> 00:44:07,120
\nAnd that staircase built in
\nSolomon’s time would have been <\/p>\n
717
\n00:44:07,120 –> 00:44:08,840
\nused by all the kings that
\nfollowed. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:44:09,080 –> 00:44:13,800
\nThey have their own private
\nentrance into the temple courts.<\/p>\n
719
\n00:44:15,200 –> 00:44:18,640
\nHezekiah had asked for a sign
\nthat he would again be permitted<\/p>\n
720
\n00:44:18,640 –> 00:44:21,000
\nto ascend those stairs.
\nAnd the sign of the shadow <\/p>\n
721
\n00:44:21,000 –> 00:44:24,000
\nclimbing the steps was the
\nperfect answer that he would. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:44:26,560 –> 00:44:27,960
\nSo verse 8 says at the end of
\nthe. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:44:27,960 –> 00:44:32,320
\nVerse.
\nSo the sun returned 10\u00b0, by <\/p>\n
724
\n00:44:32,320 –> 00:44:39,120
\nwhich degrees it was gone down,
\nand since the sign was visible <\/p>\n
725
\n00:44:39,120 –> 00:44:46,360
\nto the king on his sick bed
\nthrough a window in the royal <\/p>\n
726
\n00:44:46,360 –> 00:44:49,920
\nbedchamber.
\nPerhaps the very staircase on <\/p>\n
727
\n00:44:49,920 –> 00:44:53,040
\nwhich the miracle was performed
\nwas the steps that he would <\/p>\n
728
\n00:44:53,040 –> 00:44:55,680
\nclimb in just a few days to
\nvisit the House of God where he <\/p>\n
729
\n00:44:55,680 –> 00:44:58,400
\nworshipped and served.
\nAnd now perhaps we know why the <\/p>\n
730
\n00:44:58,400 –> 00:45:02,640
\nwhole story was to revolve
\naround the sign of the shadow on<\/p>\n
731
\n00:45:02,640 –> 00:45:06,840
\nthe stairs.
\nSo he was a moment in his <\/p>\n
732
\n00:45:07,040 –> 00:45:09,440
\nHezekiah’s life.
\nAnd in the moment of his crisis,<\/p>\n
733
\n00:45:09,440 –> 00:45:12,120
\nwhen he was taken from the
\ndepths of despair to the heights<\/p>\n
734
\n00:45:12,120 –> 00:45:16,320
\nof happiness, he tasted an
\nindescribable sense of relief <\/p>\n
735
\n00:45:16,480 –> 00:45:19,320
\nand joy that must have filled
\nhim with wonder at the ways of <\/p>\n
736
\n00:45:19,320 –> 00:45:20,880
\nGod.
\nBut he learned a lesson as well.<\/p>\n
737
\n00:45:20,880 –> 00:45:25,080
\nAnd there was a lesson for.
\nUs, and He is the lesson for us <\/p>\n
738
\n00:45:25,880 –> 00:45:31,400
\nin terms of how we might go
\nabout facing moments of crisis. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:45:34,000 –> 00:45:37,160
\nAnd the lesson from our
\nconsideration this morning is <\/p>\n
740
\n00:45:39,640 –> 00:45:49,000
\nlearning to reveal the spirit of
\nresignation before our God when <\/p>\n
741
\n00:45:49,000 –> 00:45:52,360
\nsuch things come upon us.
\nDo you remember the spirit of <\/p>\n
742
\n00:45:52,360 –> 00:45:56,800
\nJob when a series of
\ncatastrophes rained down upon <\/p>\n
743
\n00:45:56,800 –> 00:46:00,200
\nhim and left him disconsolate?
\nJob 121 And what was the <\/p>\n
744
\n00:46:00,200 –> 00:46:02,360
\nresponse of the King?
\nWhere was his focus? <\/p>\n
745
\n00:46:02,840 –> 00:46:09,360
\nYahweh gave, Yahweh hath taken.
\nBlessed be the name of Yahweh, <\/p>\n
746
\n00:46:11,080 –> 00:46:15,640
\nHe surrendered completely to the
\nsovereign will of God. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:46:17,280 –> 00:46:20,840
\nHe remained resolute in
\ndeclaring God’s supremacy. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:46:21,040 –> 00:46:23,080
\nThat’s the spirit of
\nresignation. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:46:23,440 –> 00:46:26,880
\nDo.
\nYou remember when David fled <\/p>\n
750
\n00:46:26,880 –> 00:46:29,880
\nfrom Jerusalem as Absalom’s
\nrebellion threatened to <\/p>\n
751
\n00:46:29,920 –> 00:46:33,280
\noverwhelm his reign.
\nAnd these were his words in the <\/p>\n
752
\n00:46:33,280 –> 00:46:37,240
\nsecond of Samuel chapter 15 and
\nverses 25 and 26. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:46:37,480 –> 00:46:41,640
\nDavid prayed with these words
\nwhen he said, I, If I find <\/p>\n
754
\n00:46:41,640 –> 00:46:43,560
\nfavour, he God will bring me
\nagain. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:46:43,560 –> 00:46:46,720
\nBut if he say, I have no delight
\nin the Behold, here am I, Let <\/p>\n
756
\n00:46:46,720 –> 00:46:48,640
\nhim do to me, as seemeth good
\nunto him. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:46:49,400 –> 00:46:52,080
\nYou see, it brings you to tears
\nto see David’s despair on this <\/p>\n
758
\n00:46:52,080 –> 00:46:54,440
\noccasion as his own son rebelled
\nagainst him. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:46:54,600 –> 00:47:04,000
\nBut where was David’s focus?
\nLet him do to me as seemeth good<\/p>\n
760
\n00:47:04,000 –> 00:47:08,840
\nto him.
\nHe left his destiny in the hands<\/p>\n
761
\n00:47:08,840 –> 00:47:13,880
\nof his God, and he did so in the
\nspirit of complete submission to<\/p>\n
762
\n00:47:13,880 –> 00:47:15,800
\nhis will.
\nThat’s the spirit of <\/p>\n
763
\n00:47:15,800 –> 00:47:19,520
\nresignation.
\nPaul wrote these words in second<\/p>\n
764
\n00:47:19,520 –> 00:47:21,360
\nof Timothy, chapter one, verse
\n12. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:47:21,680 –> 00:47:24,600
\nI know whom I have believed, and
\nI’m persuaded that he’s able to <\/p>\n
766
\n00:47:24,600 –> 00:47:26,400
\nkeep that which I’ve committed
\nunto him. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:47:26,640 –> 00:47:28,520
\nBut the full verse reads as
\nfollows. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:47:28,840 –> 00:47:32,160
\nFor the which ’cause I also
\nsuffer these things. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:47:32,720 –> 00:47:37,000
\nNevertheless I’m not ashamed.
\nFor I know whom I’ve believed, <\/p>\n
770
\n00:47:37,120 –> 00:47:39,920
\nand I’m persuaded that he’s able
\nto keep that which I have <\/p>\n
771
\n00:47:39,920 –> 00:47:41,600
\ncommitted unto him against that
\nday. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:47:41,720 –> 00:47:43,560
\nYou see, Paul was under
\nsuffering when he wrote these <\/p>\n
773
\n00:47:43,560 –> 00:47:45,200
\nwords.
\nBut what was his focus? <\/p>\n
774
\n00:47:45,280 –> 00:47:48,520
\nHis focus was.
\nThat he truly believed in God’s <\/p>\n
775
\n00:47:48,520 –> 00:47:51,560
\npower to watch over him through
\nto the day of judgement, <\/p>\n
776
\n00:47:51,600 –> 00:47:54,320
\nwhatever might happen to him.
\nThat that which he committed <\/p>\n
777
\n00:47:54,320 –> 00:47:58,120
\nunto God was his spirit, just as
\nour Lord Jesus Christ head. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:47:59,840 –> 00:48:01,440
\nThat’s the spirit of
\nresignation. <\/p>\n
779
\n00:48:04,600 –> 00:48:11,280
\nAnd now look at the spirit of
\nHezekiah in our story today he <\/p>\n
780
\n00:48:11,280 –> 00:48:14,080
\nsays, Remember now, O Yahweh, I
\nbeseech thee, how I’ve walked <\/p>\n
781
\n00:48:14,080 –> 00:48:16,480
\nbefore thee in truth, with a
\nperfect heart, done that which <\/p>\n
782
\n00:48:16,480 –> 00:48:17,400
\nis good.
\nAnd I sight. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:48:17,400 –> 00:48:24,200
\nYou can feel his Akar’s anguish,
\nyou can almost touch the witness<\/p>\n
784
\n00:48:24,200 –> 00:48:27,240
\nof his tears, but where’s his
\nfocus? <\/p>\n
785
\n00:48:28,880 –> 00:48:30,960
\nRemember now, O Yahweh, I
\nbeseech thee, I’ve walked before<\/p>\n
786
\n00:48:30,960 –> 00:48:36,520
\nthee, I’ve walked before thee.
\nI’ve done good in thy sight. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:48:37,080 –> 00:48:40,080
\nAnd what his Akar was really
\nsaying is, I am your man. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:48:41,720 –> 00:48:47,440
\nI always have been.
\nSo I resign my life into your <\/p>\n
789
\n00:48:47,440 –> 00:48:50,960
\nkeeping, and I commit myself
\nunto you as the arbiter of my <\/p>\n
790
\n00:48:50,960 –> 00:48:54,200
\nultimate destiny.
\nThere’s nothing more I can do <\/p>\n
791
\n00:48:54,360 –> 00:48:56,840
\nbut to plead that thou wilt
\nRemember Me in the day of <\/p>\n
792
\n00:48:56,840 –> 00:48:58,360
\naccount.
\nThat’s the spirit of <\/p>\n
793
\n00:48:58,360 –> 00:49:03,040
\nresignation.
\nIt’s that moment, brothers and <\/p>\n
794
\n00:49:03,040 –> 00:49:07,400
\nsisters, when we finally
\nsurrender to the will of God and<\/p>\n
795
\n00:49:07,400 –> 00:49:14,280
\nleave our crises in His hands.
\nIt’s when we ask Him to work a <\/p>\n
796
\n00:49:14,280 –> 00:49:19,040
\nwork which we cannot accomplish,
\nand to take control of those <\/p>\n
797
\n00:49:19,040 –> 00:49:22,640
\nthings that lie beyond our
\ncontrol. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:49:24,600 –> 00:49:26,880
\nAnd that’s the spirit of
\nresignation, that it’s one of <\/p>\n
799
\n00:49:26,880 –> 00:49:32,720
\nthe greatest lessons for how
\nbest we might face the trials in<\/p>\n
800
\n00:49:32,720 –> 00:49:37,720
\nthe crises of life.
\nAs it says in one of our hymns, <\/p>\n
801
\n00:49:39,840 –> 00:49:46,520
\nLord, uphold me day by day.
\nShed a light upon my way. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:49:47,840 –> 00:49:50,280
\nGuide me through perplexing
\nsnares. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:49:50,280 –> 00:49:56,360
\nCare for me in all my cares.
\nShould thy wisdom, Lord, decree <\/p>\n
804
\n00:49:56,360 –> 00:50:03,480
\ntrials long and sharp for me.
\nPain or sorrow, care or shame, <\/p>\n
805
\n00:50:05,120 –> 00:50:09,360
\nFather glorified thy name.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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