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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\nThe theme for Brother Lewis’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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\nLetter and the Answer for the
\nRoger. <\/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.
\nAnother study then on Hezekiah, <\/p>\n
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\nand as our chairman has
\nannounced the matter of the <\/p>\n
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\nletter and the answer which
\nreally brings us to Isaiah 37. <\/p>\n
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\nYou might remember that we left
\nHezekiah in our last study, <\/p>\n
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\nhaving received the report from
\nhis three ambassadors. <\/p>\n
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\nThose three men must have been
\nshattered by the propaganda of <\/p>\n
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\nReb Shaker.
\nAnd when they came back to the <\/p>\n
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\nking, they knew that they were
\nstaring defeat in the face, and <\/p>\n
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\nso they would have told the
\nking. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you see, here’s a car’s
\ndilemma, as we saw in our study <\/p>\n
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\nyesterday, was that he was
\nalready aware that Assyria was <\/p>\n
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\nthe instrument of God.
\nAnd so working through the <\/p>\n
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\nquestion of what next to do, he
\nwise wisely forbidden them to <\/p>\n
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\nreply.
\nAnd the first thing he did, as <\/p>\n
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\nwe saw in Isaiah 37 verse one,
\nwas that he now took time to <\/p>\n
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\nmake careful assessment of the
\nsituation that he was in. <\/p>\n
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\nHe placed, as it were, a pause
\non his own response until he <\/p>\n
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\ncould think the issue through.
\nBut the wonderful thing is he <\/p>\n
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\nwent to the House of God to do
\nhis thinking and he prostrated <\/p>\n
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\nhimself before God in an act of
\nmourning and humiliate <\/p>\n
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\nhumiliation.
\nBecause, you see, he didn’t <\/p>\n
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\npresume on the outcome as if he
\nknew already what it might be. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the very fact that he had
\ntaken the time led to the events<\/p>\n
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\nthat will now be reported on in
\nIsaiah 37. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause what he would begin here
\nwas a cascade of events that <\/p>\n
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\nwould not stop until Yahweh
\nhimself had intervened in the <\/p>\n
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\nmatter.
\nAnd the story of that <\/p>\n
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\nintervention is to be found in
\nour study today on the question <\/p>\n
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\nas soon as I get this screen to
\nbehave of the letter and the <\/p>\n
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\nanswer.
\nAnd that story we take up now on<\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 37 and reading from verse
\n14, because it’s at this moment <\/p>\n
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\nthat Sennacherib’s challenge was
\ncommitted in writing. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’d already sent messages a
\nsecond time to threaten Hezekiah<\/p>\n
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\nto say that he would be coming
\nback for him. <\/p>\n
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\nBut now he wrote a letter and
\nsent it to the king of Judah. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so Isaiah 37, verse 14 says,
\nand Hezekiah received the letter<\/p>\n
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\nfrom the hand of the messengers
\nand read it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Hezekiah went up into the
\nHouse of Yahweh and spread it <\/p>\n
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\nbefore Yahweh.
\nAnd Hezekiah prayed unto Yahweh.<\/p>\n
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\nSo there he is, balances the man
\nof sackcloth, and you can see <\/p>\n
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\nthe letter spread out there on
\nthe floor before him. <\/p>\n
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\nHe spread the letter out, says
\nthe record. <\/p>\n
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\nHow wonderful a thought when you
\nthink about it, because <\/p>\n
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\neverything now that had been
\nspoken by the messengers was <\/p>\n
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\ncommitted to writing and in
\nspreading that letter out on the<\/p>\n
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\nHouse of God, I think Hezekiah
\nreally asked God, his God, to <\/p>\n
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\nread the letter with him.
\nShall we read it together? <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, and he placed it on
\ndisplay as proof of <\/p>\n
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\nSennacherib’s blasphemy, since
\nit was all there in black and <\/p>\n
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\nwhite.
\nAnd then he launched into the <\/p>\n
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\nprayer that will tell us perhaps
\nbest of all, what the very soul <\/p>\n
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\nof this man is, the true spirit
\nof Hezekiah in a time of crisis.<\/p>\n
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\nSo this is what he prayed.
\nVerse 15 Prayed unto Yahweh, <\/p>\n
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\nsaying, O Yahweh, Sophia first,
\nthe militant title of God, the <\/p>\n
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\ncommander of the armies of
\nheaven. <\/p>\n
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\nAfter all, hadn’t he said to the
\npeople there be more with us <\/p>\n
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\nthan with him?
\nAnd there are. <\/p>\n
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\nHe prayed to the God of those
\nlegions of angels, Yahweh of <\/p>\n
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\narmies, God of Israel who
\ndwellest between the Caribbean. <\/p>\n
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\nThe God who’d promised to be
\npresent in the midst of his <\/p>\n
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\npeople, the God who’d promised
\nto commune with them from the <\/p>\n
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\nmost Holy.
\nBut not just the God of Israel, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause it goes on to say, thou
\nart God, even thou alone of all <\/p>\n
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\nthe kingdoms of the earth, thou
\nhast made heaven and earth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if God was indeed the
\ncreator of the heaven and the <\/p>\n
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\nearth, and he was more than just
\nthe God of Israel, He was the <\/p>\n
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\nsupreme and only God, none else
\nbeside him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd to that God Hezekiah will
\nnow address his plea. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so he says, verse 17 Incline
\nthine ear, O Yahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd here open thine eyes, O
\nYahweh, and see and hear all the<\/p>\n
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\nwords of Seneca, which has sent
\nto reproach the living God. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, that’s a very interesting
\nexpression. <\/p>\n
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\nThe living ale, I think it was
\ndeliberately chosen by Hezekiah.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd it was a marvellous title,
\nas it were, to use in his <\/p>\n
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\nprayer, because that name, the
\nname of the living God, is found<\/p>\n
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\nthroughout the Scriptures.
\nYou see, it’s in Joshua chapter <\/p>\n
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\n3 and verse 10.
\nIt’s in Hosea chapter one, verse<\/p>\n
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\n10.
\nIt’s in 2nd Corinthians 6, verse<\/p>\n
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\n16.
\nIt’s in the first of Timothy <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 4 and verse 10.
\nAnd as you look at those <\/p>\n
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\npassages on the screen, brothers
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\ntells us is that this title is
\nabout the Ale of Power who is <\/p>\n
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\nliving and active in the lives
\nof his people and fully involved<\/p>\n
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\nin their destiny.
\nThat’s what it means to be the <\/p>\n
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\nliving God, and that’s what
\nHezekiah believed. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s the reason, I think
\nwhy he used this title. <\/p>\n
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\nIncidentally, he gets it from
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\nIt was David who said in the
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\noccasion of facing Goliath, thy
\nservant slew both the lion and <\/p>\n
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\nthe bear.
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\nPhilistine shall be as one of
\nthem, seeing he hath defied the <\/p>\n
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\narmies of the living God, says
\nDavid. <\/p>\n
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\nSee, David faced a formidable
\nfoe who was the champion and <\/p>\n
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\nspokesman for a hostile enemy.
\nAnd his courage in Yahweh’s <\/p>\n
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\npower to save was the
\ninspiration for Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nHe too believed in the power of
\nthe living God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe too was facing a formidable
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\nSo he calls upon the same God
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\nliving God in terms of making
\nhis prayer. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you’ll notice as it says in
\nverse 18 that he says, here’s a <\/p>\n
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\ncar makes the admission when he
\nsays of a truth, Yahweh. <\/p>\n
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\nThe kings of Assyria have laid
\nwaste all the nations and their <\/p>\n
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\ncountries and have cast their
\ngods into the fire, for they <\/p>\n
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\nwere no gods but the work of
\nmen’s hands, wooden stone. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore they have destroyed
\nthem. <\/p>\n
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\nAfter all, the gods of the
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\nwooden stone.
\nThey couldn’t incline their ear <\/p>\n
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\nor open their eyes as Hezekiah
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\nverse 17.
\nSo therefore there was no <\/p>\n
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\nsurprise even to Hezekiah that
\nthe nations surrounding had been<\/p>\n
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\noverthrown because their gods
\nwere of no power but to <\/p>\n
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\nchallenge the God of Israel.
\nThe Living God was another <\/p>\n
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\nmatter altogether.
\nAnd so he comes to the heart of <\/p>\n
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\nhis prayer, the end of his
\nprayer in Isaiah 37, verse 20. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s just such a a
\nwonderful, wonderful spirit, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters, for us to
\nread and to understand. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says firstly now therefore, O
\nYahweh our God save us from his <\/p>\n
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\nhand and I think he used that
\nword because that was the key <\/p>\n
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\nphrase of Rebecca’s taunts.
\nYou see what God has been able <\/p>\n
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\nto deliver his people out of the
\nhand of the king of Assyria. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 36 verse 15, verse 18,
\nverse 19 verse 20. <\/p>\n
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\nSo save us out of his hand.
\nBut I think that that pleading <\/p>\n
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\nof verse 20 is so remarkable for
\nthis reason. <\/p>\n
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\nJust stop and think about it for
\na moment. <\/p>\n
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\nThat here the nation was at a
\npoint of absolute crisis. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were desperate for
\ndeliverance. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were overwhelmed by the
\nforce and fury of the foe. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was, as it were, just
\noutside the doors. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet the only words which
\nHezekiah uttered in all his <\/p>\n
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\nprayer which concerned them, lay
\nin this one phrase. <\/p>\n
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\nSave us from his hand.
\nBut that wasn’t the real focus <\/p>\n
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\nof Hezekiah’s prayer, was it?
\nThat wasn’t the real purpose of <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah’s prayer.
\nThat salvation was incidental to<\/p>\n
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\nthe primary purpose of his
\nprayer. <\/p>\n
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\nHis real reason was in the words
\nthat follow. <\/p>\n
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\nSave us from his hand, that all
\nthe kingdoms of the earth may <\/p>\n
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\nknow that thou art Yahweh, even
\nthou only now. <\/p>\n
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\nIncidentally, Hezekiah took his
\nwords again from David. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the first of Samuel 17
\nagain, verse 46. <\/p>\n
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\nThis day will Yahweh deliver
\nthee into my hand, that all the <\/p>\n
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\nearth may know that there is a
\nGod in Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah had already called him
\nthe living God, quoting from <\/p>\n
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\nDavid, and he’d already referred
\nto him as the God of Israel, <\/p>\n
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\nquoting from David, that the
\nessential focus of his prayer <\/p>\n
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\nwas the same as David.
\nYou see, Hezekiah sought for the<\/p>\n
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\nsalvation of his people, but
\nonly so that all the earth might<\/p>\n
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\nknow that Yahweh alone was the
\nsupreme God. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you notice that Hezekiah
\nfinished his prayer exactly as <\/p>\n
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\nhe started?
\nDo you see that? <\/p>\n
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\nLook at verse 16.
\nVerse 16 says Thou art the God, <\/p>\n
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\neven thou alone of all the
\nkingdoms of the earth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd now there’s 20.
\nWhen he finishes, he will say <\/p>\n
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\nthat all the kingdoms of the
\nearth may know that thou art <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh, even thou alone.
\nHe ends with the same thought <\/p>\n
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\nwith which he began.
\nYou see, Hezekiah was not <\/p>\n
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\nfocused on the challenge to
\nhimself. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wasn’t even focused on the
\nchallenge to the nation. <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah was focused on the
\nchallenge to God and therefore <\/p>\n
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\nhe besought God that he would
\ndeal with this crisis for his <\/p>\n
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\nown namesake.
\nYou see, only a God centered <\/p>\n
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\nperson thinks like this, and
\nonly a God centered person prays<\/p>\n
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\nlike this.
\nAnd the answer was immediate, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause verse 21 says, then
\nIsaiah the son of Amos sent unto<\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah, saying, you see, he
\nprayed to Yahweh, and now it’s <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh’s prophet who sends a
\nmessage back to the king with <\/p>\n
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\nthe answer of heaven.
\nAnd yet again, it seems that the<\/p>\n
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\nanswer was almost immediate.
\nHezekiah had asked for Yahweh’s <\/p>\n
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\nassistance against Senekra, but
\nonly on the basis of God’s <\/p>\n
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\nhonor, not his own.
\nAnd the wonderful thing about <\/p>\n
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\nthis story, brothers and
\nsisters, is that Yahweh Safaoth <\/p>\n
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\nresponded to their utterly God
\ncentered appeal. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said I will take full
\nresponsibility for this matter, <\/p>\n
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\nas his answer will make
\nabundantly clear. <\/p>\n
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\nSo God considered Sennacherib’s
\nletter to be an affront against <\/p>\n
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\nhimself.
\nAnd that’s how God was brought <\/p>\n
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\ninto this equation by means of
\nthe prayer of Hezekiah. <\/p>\n
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\nHezekiah in effect said, I can’t
\nsolve this, we can’t solve this.<\/p>\n
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\nBut this man hasn’t reproached
\nme, O God, He’s reproached thee <\/p>\n
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\nand thy holy name.
\nFor your name’s sake. <\/p>\n
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\nI ask you to deal with this
\nmatter. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God said, I will and I
\nshall. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that comes now in the answer
\nthat he’s going to provide, as <\/p>\n
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\nverse 21 is going to go on and
\nsay. <\/p>\n
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\nThen Isaiah the son of Amos sent
\nunto Hezekiah, saying, Thus <\/p>\n
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\nsaith Yahweh, Elohim of Israel,
\nwhereas thou hast prayed to me <\/p>\n
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\nagainst Sennacherib, king of
\nAssyria. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the word which Yahweh
\nhas spoken, and now we’re going <\/p>\n
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\nto have the answer of Yahweh.
\nNow just as we discovered <\/p>\n
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\nyesterday that the that the
\nspeech of Sennacherib, not <\/p>\n
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\nSennacherib, the speech of Reb
\nShaker, was made intelligible <\/p>\n
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\nwhen we could break it into
\nsections. <\/p>\n
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\nRemember how there were two
\nparts to the speech and two <\/p>\n
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\nsections to each part?
\nWell, you might not be surprised<\/p>\n
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\nto find that the answer of God
\nfollows a very similar sort of <\/p>\n
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\nformat and suddenly it it makes
\nthe answer more understandable. <\/p>\n
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\nSo here’s the answer of God as I
\nthink it’s brought forth to us <\/p>\n
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\nin the narrative here of Isaiah
\n37. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it begins verses 22 to 29
\nwith a message of judgement to <\/p>\n
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\nSennacherib.
\nNow we know that because of <\/p>\n
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\nthose crucial little words at
\nthe start of verse 22, when it <\/p>\n
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\nsays this is the word concerning
\nhim, well, that’s Sennacherib. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is the first part of
\nYahweh’s answer. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd there are two sections, I
\nthink, to that part of the <\/p>\n
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\nanswer.
\nVerses 22 to 25 is a poem of <\/p>\n
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\ndisdain for Sennacherib’s
\nfailure and his sentence for the<\/p>\n
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\nsin of reproach.
\nAnd then beyond that, in verses <\/p>\n
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\n26 to 29, we will have a warning
\nof divine control and God’s <\/p>\n
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\nthreat of inexorable power to
\nremove Sennacherib at the time <\/p>\n
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\nand circumstance of God’s own
\nchoosing. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is the first part of the
\nanswer of God, and it deals with<\/p>\n
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\nHis judgement against
\nSennacherib himself. <\/p>\n
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\nNow do you notice incidentally
\nwhen it says in verse 22, this <\/p>\n
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\nis the word which Yahweh hath
\nspoken, that word, word is the <\/p>\n
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\nnormal Hebrew word, dorbar.
\nBut one of the meanings that it <\/p>\n
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\ncarries is the idea of a
\nsentence. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s used that way in
\nDeuteronomy 17, verses 9 to 11, <\/p>\n
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\nthe sentence as it were, of
\njudgment. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I suggest that perhaps
\nthat’s an appropriate reading, <\/p>\n
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\nreading of the word here.
\nThis is the sentence which <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh has spoken against Him.
\nSo you notice the emphasis of <\/p>\n
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\nthe words.
\nThis is the sentence which <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh has spoken concerning
\nHim. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Virgin, the daughter of
\nZion, hath despised thee, <\/p>\n
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\nlaughed thee to scorn.
\nNow in the Hebrew, incidentally,<\/p>\n
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\nthis whole section is set in
\npoetic form. <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is what the This is what
\nthe Hebrew says in this verse <\/p>\n
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\n22.
\nIt literally reads Has despised <\/p>\n
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\nyou, laughed to scorn you.
\nThe Virgin, the daughter of <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem, so the city he has
\ndescribed as a virgin, and I <\/p>\n
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\nthink she was called that in
\ncontrast to the brute power of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Assyrian monarch who has it,
\nas it were, arrived to defile <\/p>\n
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\nher.
\nBut he would fail. <\/p>\n
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\nSennacherib would be prevented
\nfrom touching her because of <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh’s protective power, and
\neven after his threat, she would<\/p>\n
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\nstill be called the Virgin to
\nindicate that she remained <\/p>\n
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\nunsullied by foreign
\nintervention. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, Seneca would be unable to
\nlay his hand upon the Virgin <\/p>\n
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\ndaughter of Zion.
\nInstead, the Virgin would be the<\/p>\n
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\none who would despise him, the
\none who would laugh him to <\/p>\n
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\nscorn.
\nThe scorner would become the <\/p>\n
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\nscorned, and in the failure of
\nhis purpose Seneca was going to <\/p>\n
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\nleave behind a virgin fortress
\nthat was unmarked and untouched.<\/p>\n
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\nThe daughter of Jerusalem hath
\nshaken her head at thee, it <\/p>\n
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\nsays.
\nSo says God. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know?
\nTo shake the head was a sign of <\/p>\n
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\ncontempt.
\nPsalm 22, verse 7 says all that.<\/p>\n
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\nSee me laugh me to scorn.
\nThey shoot out the lip, they <\/p>\n
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\nshake the head, and again in
\nLamentations 2, verse 15, all <\/p>\n
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\nthat pass by clap their hands at
\nthee. <\/p>\n
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\nThey hiss and wag their head.
\nIt’s the same word Sheikh, as in<\/p>\n
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\nPsalm 22 and here in Isaiah 37,
\nand in the sense of the city of <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem remaining in the
\nViolet afterwards is caught in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Hebrew, because the actual
\nHebrew at the end of verse 22 <\/p>\n
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\nreads this way.
\nIt’s not not there in the <\/p>\n
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\nEnglish, but it’s there in the
\nHebrew behind your back. <\/p>\n
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\nHer head has shaken the daughter
\nof Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nSo Yahweh’s answer by the
\nmessage of Isaiah pictured the <\/p>\n
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\nmoment when Jerusalem would
\nshake her head in disdain at the<\/p>\n
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\nback of the retreating figure of
\nthe Assyrian monarch as he fled <\/p>\n
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\nfrom the scene.
\nAnd ignominy and abject failure,<\/p>\n
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\nthe disgrace of being unable to
\ntake the city. <\/p>\n
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\nStrong words by the sisters.
\nYou’ll be sent away, and the <\/p>\n
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\ndaughter of Jerusalem will shake
\nher head at you as you walk <\/p>\n
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\naway.
\nAnd why was that? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, because of verse 23.
\nWhom hast thou reproached and <\/p>\n
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\nblasphemed?
\nAgainst whom hast thou exalted <\/p>\n
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\nthy voice, and lifted up thine
\neyes on high, even against the <\/p>\n
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\nHoly One of Israel?
\nSo you see, this is the issue, <\/p>\n
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\nisn’t it?
\nThe issue of this challenge had <\/p>\n
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\ngone beyond men.
\nThe boasting of Assyria demanded<\/p>\n
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\ndivine intervention, and that
\nreally had been Hezekiah’s <\/p>\n
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\nrequest.
\nNow you see that word reproached<\/p>\n
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\nin verse 23, the Hebrew word
\nQuraf. <\/p>\n
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\nIt means to reproach with the
\nidea of casting blame or scorn <\/p>\n
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\non someone, to insult, to mock,
\nto defy, to defame. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this was the great sin of
\nSennacherib, and it was the <\/p>\n
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\nbasis of his judgment in this
\nchapter. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what’s interesting about that
\nidea is we’ll see what it says. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 37, verse 4.
\nThese are the words of Hezekiah.<\/p>\n
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\nIt may be that Yahweh will hear
\nthe words of Rab Shaker, which <\/p>\n
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\nthe king of Assyria have sent to
\nreproach Koraf, the living God. <\/p>\n
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\nIt may be that God will hear
\nthat says Hezekiah, and again in<\/p>\n
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\nthe in his prayer later in this
\nchapter, as we’ve just read <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah 37 verse 17 inclined by
\nthe hero Yahweh, and hear all <\/p>\n
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\nthe words of Sennacherib which
\nhave sent to reproach the living<\/p>\n
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\nGod.
\nSo twice Hezekiah had called <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s attention to the challenge
\nthat Sennacherib had set before <\/p>\n
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\nhim, and he pleaded with God to
\nanswer a matter that actually <\/p>\n
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\nquestioned God’s own sovereign
\nmajesty. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd now in response, God will
\nanswer twice to defend His <\/p>\n
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\nsupremacy.
\nSo in verse 23 he says, Whom has<\/p>\n
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\nthere approached?
\nEven the Holy One of Israel? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd again in verse 24, By thy
\nservants thou has reproached <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh.
\nAnd God was not going to permit <\/p>\n
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\nthat boast, brothers and
\nsisters, to remain unanswered. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this is what that reproach
\nencompassed, that sin of <\/p>\n
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\nSennacherib in mocking and
\ndefaming Almighty God, because <\/p>\n
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\nthis was the spirit and attitude
\nof the Assyrian monarch. <\/p>\n
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\n00:19:39,920 –> 00:19:43,800
\nRead verses 24 and 25.
\nAnd just capture the obvious <\/p>\n
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\nspirit of the man.
\nBy thy servants hast thou <\/p>\n
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\nreproached Yahweh, and hast said
\nby the multitude of my Chariots.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd I come up to the height of
\nthe mountains to the side of <\/p>\n
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\nLemon, and I will cut down the
\ntall Cedars thereof, and the <\/p>\n
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\nchoice fir trees thereof, and I
\nwill enter into the height of <\/p>\n
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\nhis border, the forest of his
\nCarmel. <\/p>\n
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\nI have digged in drunk water,
\nand with the sole of my feet <\/p>\n
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\nhave I dried up all the rivers
\nof the besieged places. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd one of the key features of
\nthe Assyrian records was their <\/p>\n
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\nspirit of utter boastfulness.
\nIn describing their conquests as<\/p>\n
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\nthey gloried in the brutal
\nannihilation of their rivals, I <\/p>\n
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\nhave done this and I have done
\nthat was the spirit of Sinacreb.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think what he was really
\nboasting, by the way, in these <\/p>\n
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\ntwo verses was this, I think,
\nSinacreba saying that there was <\/p>\n
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\nno natural boundary that could
\nstop his army from advancing. <\/p>\n
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\nHis men could ascend every
\nmountain, they could traverse <\/p>\n
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\nevery desert, they could
\npenetrate every forest, they <\/p>\n
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\ncould Ford every river.
\nHis forces had invincible power <\/p>\n
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\nand unstoppable might.
\nThat was the claim of Saint <\/p>\n
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\nAkrab.
\nBut his mistake lay in imagining<\/p>\n
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\nthat he could do the same
\nagainst the Holy One of Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so now came Yahweh’s
\nassertion of His own divine <\/p>\n
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\ncontrol, and of His own
\ninexorable power, that he would <\/p>\n
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\nexecute in judgement and in
\nsentence against Sennacherib, <\/p>\n
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\nking of Assyria.
\nSo God now says in response, in <\/p>\n
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\nanswer to the spirit of that
\nking, verse 26. <\/p>\n
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\nHast thou, O Sennacherib, hast
\nthou not heard long ago how I <\/p>\n
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\n00:21:29,120 –> 00:21:34,320
\nhave done it, and of ancient
\ntimes that I have formed it, now<\/p>\n
334
\n00:21:34,320 –> 00:21:38,040
\nhave I brought it to pass, that
\nthou shouldest be to lay waste <\/p>\n
335
\n00:21:38,160 –> 00:21:39,920
\ndefence cities into ruinous
\nheaps? <\/p>\n
336
\n00:21:39,920 –> 00:21:43,520
\nAnd this time, of course, the
\nword I in verse 26 is God <\/p>\n
337
\n00:21:43,520 –> 00:21:46,520
\nHimself.
\nSo what was Yahweh’s answer to <\/p>\n
338
\n00:21:46,520 –> 00:21:50,280
\nSennacherib’s reproach?
\nIt was to remind him that <\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:50,440 –> 00:21:54,520
\neverything he’d done, all his
\nown exploits, had actually been <\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:54,520 –> 00:21:58,520
\ndecided beforehand by God.
\nSennacherib had done nothing <\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:58,520 –> 00:22:00,840
\nthat Yahweh had not already
\nordained for him. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:02,320 –> 00:22:05,960
\nIn fact, hold your hand in
\nchapter 37, come back for to to <\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:05,960 –> 00:22:09,400
\nIsaiah chapter 10, because these
\nwords are relevant to that the <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:09,400 –> 00:22:13,280
\nspirit of the king Sennacherib
\nin the answer of Yahweh here in <\/p>\n
345
\n00:22:13,280 –> 00:22:17,400
\nIsaiah 37, God says I did you
\nnot know that I’ve ordained all <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:17,400 –> 00:22:19,320
\nthis?
\nI brought it to pass, not you. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:20,280 –> 00:22:26,360
\nSo Isaiah 10 verse 12 says this.
\nWherefore it shall come to pass,<\/p>\n
348
\n00:22:26,680 –> 00:22:30,200
\nwhen Yahweh have performed His
\nwhole work upon Mount Zion and <\/p>\n
349
\n00:22:30,200 –> 00:22:33,760
\non Jerusalem, I will punish the
\nfruit of the stout heart of the <\/p>\n
350
\n00:22:33,760 –> 00:22:36,480
\nking of Assyria, and the glory
\nof His high look looks. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:22:36,800 –> 00:22:40,600
\nFor He says, by the strength of
\nmy hand I have done it, and by <\/p>\n
352
\n00:22:40,600 –> 00:22:44,280
\nmy wisdom, for I am prudent, I
\nhave removed the bounds of the <\/p>\n
353
\n00:22:44,280 –> 00:22:45,560
\npeople and robbed their
\ntreasures. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:22:45,600 –> 00:22:48,440
\nI have put down the inhabitants.
\nSince it’s the identical spirit <\/p>\n
355
\n00:22:48,440 –> 00:22:51,880
\nof chapter 37, is it not?
\nAnd therefore the answer comes <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:51,880 –> 00:22:53,520
\nback from God.
\nVerse 15. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:53,760 –> 00:22:57,240
\nShall the acts boast itself
\nagainst him that hewith <\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:57,240 –> 00:23:01,800
\ntherewith shall the sore magnify
\nitself against him that shaketh <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:01,800 –> 00:23:04,720
\nit, as if the rod should shake
\nitself against them that lifted <\/p>\n
360
\n00:23:04,720 –> 00:23:08,440
\nup, or as if the staff should
\nlift up itself as if it were no <\/p>\n
361
\n00:23:08,440 –> 00:23:10,600
\nwood?
\nTherefore sheth the Lord, the <\/p>\n
362
\n00:23:10,600 –> 00:23:14,880
\nLord of hosts, send among his
\nfat ones leanness, and under his<\/p>\n
363
\n00:23:14,880 –> 00:23:18,880
\nglory he shall kindle a burning,
\na burning of a fire. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:23:19,000 –> 00:23:22,040
\nSo coming back to chapter 37,
\nwhat God was really saying is <\/p>\n
365
\n00:23:22,040 –> 00:23:25,800
\nthat unbeknownst to Sennacherib,
\nHe, for all His might and for <\/p>\n
366
\n00:23:25,800 –> 00:23:29,640
\nall His exploits, had never been
\nanything more than an instrument<\/p>\n
367
\n00:23:29,640 –> 00:23:33,600
\nin Yahweh’s hand to accomplish
\nYahweh’s purpose. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:23:33,880 –> 00:23:37,680
\nAnd when Yahweh’s purpose had
\nbeen accomplished, Sennacherib <\/p>\n
369
\n00:23:38,160 –> 00:23:40,960
\nwould be immediately removed,
\nand he would swiftly feel the <\/p>\n
370
\n00:23:40,960 –> 00:23:43,640
\npain of divine judgment.
\nIt was a humbling estimate. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:23:43,640 –> 00:23:47,280
\nGod said, You’re nothing more
\nthan my rod and my staff in my <\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:47,280 –> 00:23:52,160
\nhand, He says.
\nAnd so he says in verse 27 of <\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:52,160 –> 00:23:56,720
\nIsaiah 37.
\nTherefore, their inhabitants, <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:57,360 –> 00:23:59,760
\nthe inhabitants of the cities
\nthat you have successfully <\/p>\n
375
\n00:23:59,760 –> 00:24:02,840
\nconquered and overrun, they were
\nof small power. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:24:03,200 –> 00:24:04,720
\nThey were dismayed and
\nconfounded. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:24:04,720 –> 00:24:08,440
\nThey were as grass of the field,
\nas the green herb, as the grass <\/p>\n
378
\n00:24:08,440 –> 00:24:11,680
\non the housetops, as corn
\nblasted before it be grown up. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:24:12,320 –> 00:24:16,440
\nSo Sennacherib’s success was
\nonly because God permitted it. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:24:17,320 –> 00:24:19,960
\nAnd God’s answer used four
\nsymbols here to portray the <\/p>\n
381
\n00:24:20,320 –> 00:24:22,960
\nutter weakness and the
\nfeebleness of Sennacherib’s <\/p>\n
382
\n00:24:22,960 –> 00:24:27,240
\nopponents, the grass of the
\nfield, the green herb, the grass<\/p>\n
383
\n00:24:27,240 –> 00:24:29,960
\non the housetop, and the early
\nblasted grain. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:24:30,200 –> 00:24:33,320
\nAnd the common element, perhaps
\nof those four items is that none<\/p>\n
385
\n00:24:33,320 –> 00:24:37,560
\nof them had the resilience to
\nwithstand the scorching power of<\/p>\n
386
\n00:24:37,560 –> 00:24:41,600
\nthe vehement E wind, which in
\nScripture was a symbol of the <\/p>\n
387
\n00:24:41,600 –> 00:24:45,400
\nAssyrians.
\nHosea 13 verse 15 and Jonah 4 <\/p>\n
388
\n00:24:45,400 –> 00:24:48,200
\nverse 8.
\nAnd that blighting blast would <\/p>\n
389
\n00:24:48,200 –> 00:24:52,080
\nwither them into nothingness.
\nBut the point of God’s comment <\/p>\n
390
\n00:24:52,080 –> 00:24:55,760
\nhere in this verse is that it
\nwasn’t so much that Sennacherib <\/p>\n
391
\n00:24:55,760 –> 00:25:00,960
\nwas strong, but that God had
\nmade his opponents weak. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:25:02,200 –> 00:25:06,000
\nI allowed you to succeed, said
\nGod. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:25:07,240 –> 00:25:10,920
\nBut he says verse 28, I know thy
\nabode. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:25:11,760 –> 00:25:14,520
\nNow that word abode, I think the
\nmargin has sitting, and rightly <\/p>\n
395
\n00:25:14,520 –> 00:25:17,040
\nso, because that’s what the
\nHebrew word your Shah really <\/p>\n
396
\n00:25:17,040 –> 00:25:18,440
\nmeans.
\nAnd I think it’s a reference <\/p>\n
397
\n00:25:18,440 –> 00:25:22,880
\nprobably to Sennacherib’s throne
\nwhere he set to hold his council<\/p>\n
398
\n00:25:22,880 –> 00:25:26,120
\nmeetings and where he set to
\nplot his conquests. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:25:26,240 –> 00:25:29,520
\nI know where you sit in your
\nthrone room, says God, I’ve seen<\/p>\n
400
\n00:25:29,520 –> 00:25:32,640
\nyou there.
\nI know thy going out and thy <\/p>\n
401
\n00:25:32,640 –> 00:25:34,360
\ncoming in.
\nNow that’s an interesting <\/p>\n
402
\n00:25:34,360 –> 00:25:38,280
\nexpression, by the way, because
\nthat phrase is used in in <\/p>\n
403
\n00:25:38,280 –> 00:25:44,400
\nScripture as a metaphor for
\nevery type of human activity by <\/p>\n
404
\n00:25:44,400 –> 00:25:49,360
\ngoing out and thy coming in.
\nDeuteronomy 28 verse six, Second<\/p>\n
405
\n00:25:49,360 –> 00:25:55,400
\nSamuel 3 verse 25, Psalm 121
\nverse 8, by going out and thy <\/p>\n
406
\n00:25:55,400 –> 00:25:57,560
\ncoming in.
\nAnd I think what God was saying <\/p>\n
407
\n00:25:57,560 –> 00:26:01,680
\nto the king in his sentence
\nagainst him in this verse was I <\/p>\n
408
\n00:26:01,680 –> 00:26:05,440
\nknow every aspect of your life.
\nThere’s nothing you plan, <\/p>\n
409
\n00:26:06,160 –> 00:26:08,480
\nthere’s nothing you do, there’s
\nnowhere you go that I do not <\/p>\n
410
\n00:26:08,480 –> 00:26:11,600
\nalready know about.
\nYour every move is known to me, <\/p>\n
411
\n00:26:11,720 –> 00:26:16,720
\nincluding, he says, your
\nhostility against both me and my<\/p>\n
412
\n00:26:16,720 –> 00:26:19,920
\npeople.
\nThy Rage Against me, verse 28. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:26:20,280 –> 00:26:24,560
\nAnd because verse 29, thy Rage
\nAgainst me, and thy tumult has <\/p>\n
414
\n00:26:24,560 –> 00:26:29,760
\ncome up into my ears.
\nNow the word tumult is rendered <\/p>\n
415
\n00:26:29,760 –> 00:26:33,080
\nby the New International Version
\nas insolence and by the New <\/p>\n
416
\n00:26:33,080 –> 00:26:35,640
\nAmerican Standard Bible as
\narrogance. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:26:36,160 –> 00:26:39,760
\nYour arrogance has come up into
\nmine ears. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:26:39,880 –> 00:26:41,720
\nWhat a wonderful answer.
\nBy the way, didn’t notice that <\/p>\n
419
\n00:26:41,840 –> 00:26:44,440
\ncome up into mine ears.
\nBut isn’t that what Hezekiah had<\/p>\n
420
\n00:26:44,440 –> 00:26:48,000
\nprayed?
\nVerse 37, Incline thine ear, O <\/p>\n
421
\n00:26:48,000 –> 00:26:51,920
\nYahweh.
\nAnd here and now God says in <\/p>\n
422
\n00:26:51,920 –> 00:26:57,640
\nverse 29, I have heard, and your
\ninsolence has come up into mine <\/p>\n
423
\n00:26:57,640 –> 00:27:01,880
\nears.
\nAnd therefore, verse 29, I will <\/p>\n
424
\n00:27:01,880 –> 00:27:04,960
\nput my hook in thy nose and my
\nbridal in thy lips, and I’ll <\/p>\n
425
\n00:27:04,960 –> 00:27:07,080
\nturn thee back by the way which
\nthey arcamest. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:27:07,800 –> 00:27:10,240
\nNow you’ll know that the
\nAssyrians were noted for the <\/p>\n
427
\n00:27:10,240 –> 00:27:12,960
\ncruel treatment, this cruel
\ntreatment in particular, of <\/p>\n
428
\n00:27:12,960 –> 00:27:17,640
\ntheir captives, because they’d
\nlet be LED away in ropes tied <\/p>\n
429
\n00:27:17,640 –> 00:27:20,760
\nthrough a ring in either the
\nprisoner’s lip or the prisoner’s<\/p>\n
430
\n00:27:20,760 –> 00:27:24,440
\nnose.
\nCan you imagine how <\/p>\n
431
\n00:27:24,480 –> 00:27:28,960
\nexcruciatingly painful it would
\nbe to be literally carted off <\/p>\n
432
\n00:27:28,960 –> 00:27:31,680
\ninto captivity with a ring
\nthrough the nose or the lip <\/p>\n
433
\n00:27:31,680 –> 00:27:35,400
\npulling you?
\nIt was a brutal sign of the <\/p>\n
434
\n00:27:35,520 –> 00:27:39,680
\nutter domination.
\nAnd when Yahweh warns <\/p>\n
435
\n00:27:39,680 –> 00:27:45,400
\nSennacherib of Sennacherib’s own
\nfuture, he says to him, I, <\/p>\n
436
\n00:27:45,840 –> 00:27:50,120
\nYahweh, against whom you have
\npresumed to boast, I am in <\/p>\n
437
\n00:27:50,120 –> 00:27:53,160
\ncharge and not you.
\nAnd you will be LED away from my<\/p>\n
438
\n00:27:53,160 –> 00:27:57,680
\ncity in my land, and you will
\nexperience the inexorable power <\/p>\n
439
\n00:27:57,800 –> 00:28:00,160
\nof divine control from which
\nthere is no escape. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:28:00,160 –> 00:28:05,360
\nI’ll put my hook in thy nose,
\nand my bridle in thy lips. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:28:06,240 –> 00:28:08,840
\nAnd so God promised that he
\nwould deal with Sennacherib with<\/p>\n
442
\n00:28:08,840 –> 00:28:12,480
\nas much force and power as
\nSennacherib himself had <\/p>\n
443
\n00:28:12,480 –> 00:28:15,560
\nexhibited against the nations
\nthat he had come against in <\/p>\n
444
\n00:28:15,560 –> 00:28:19,040
\ntimes past.
\nNow isn’t that interesting that <\/p>\n
445
\n00:28:19,040 –> 00:28:23,440
\nthat same promise has been made
\nagainst the latter day Assyrian <\/p>\n
446
\n00:28:23,520 –> 00:28:28,200
\nbecause of that man that says in
\nEzekiel 38 verse four, I will <\/p>\n
447
\n00:28:28,200 –> 00:28:33,400
\nturn thee back, O Gog, and I
\nwill put hooks into thy jaws. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:28:34,240 –> 00:28:37,120
\nAnd the latter day Assyrian will
\nbe treated by God in the same <\/p>\n
449
\n00:28:37,120 –> 00:28:40,640
\nway that he dealt with on this
\noccasion with Sennacherib of <\/p>\n
450
\n00:28:40,680 –> 00:28:45,560
\nold.
\nAnd then came the second part of<\/p>\n
451
\n00:28:45,560 –> 00:28:51,080
\nYahweh’s answer.
\nSo thus far, the message of <\/p>\n
452
\n00:28:51,080 –> 00:28:55,800
\njudgement to Senekreb, but the
\nsecond part of Yahweh’s answer. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:28:56,600 –> 00:29:00,080
\nNow what that might be about?
\nWell, it was a message of <\/p>\n
454
\n00:29:00,080 –> 00:29:05,920
\ncomfort for Hezekiah.
\nAnd we know that because just <\/p>\n
455
\n00:29:05,920 –> 00:29:09,440
\nlike up here, this is the word
\nconcerning Him was the clue to <\/p>\n
456
\n00:29:09,440 –> 00:29:12,320
\nthe message to Senekreb.
\nSo now do you notice the <\/p>\n
457
\n00:29:12,320 –> 00:29:14,200
\nkeywords at the start of verse
\n30? <\/p>\n
458
\n00:29:15,320 –> 00:29:18,320
\nAnd this will be a sign unto
\nthee. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:29:19,840 –> 00:29:23,440
\nSo the second part of Yahweh’s
\nanswer is now directed to a <\/p>\n
460
\n00:29:23,440 –> 00:29:26,800
\nmessage of comfort for Hezekiah
\nhimself. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:29:27,440 –> 00:29:29,400
\nAnd again, there’s two parts to
\nthis message. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:29:29,600 –> 00:29:34,520
\nSo verses 30 to 32 is a pledge
\nof provision for national relief<\/p>\n
463
\n00:29:34,880 –> 00:29:37,760
\nand the assurance of a remnant
\nthat will be saved. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:29:39,000 –> 00:29:43,440
\nAnd then finally, from verses 33
\nto 35, we’ve got the guarantee <\/p>\n
465
\n00:29:43,440 –> 00:29:48,280
\nof Sennacherib’s defeat and the
\npromise of the city’s defence. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:29:49,000 –> 00:29:51,800
\nSo now we’ve got the completion
\nof Yahweh’s answer. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:29:52,040 –> 00:29:53,680
\nAnd how wonderfully balanced it
\nis. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:29:53,720 –> 00:29:57,800
\nFirst he he provides sentence of
\njudgement against Tenekreb, and <\/p>\n
469
\n00:29:57,800 –> 00:30:00,440
\nthen he brings forth this
\nmessage of comfort for King <\/p>\n
470
\n00:30:00,440 –> 00:30:03,680
\nHezekiah, who had prayed so
\nearnestly to him on this <\/p>\n
471
\n00:30:03,680 –> 00:30:07,280
\noccasion.
\nWell, let’s start then with the <\/p>\n
472
\n00:30:07,280 –> 00:30:09,720
\nwords of verse 30.
\nThis will be a sign unto thee, <\/p>\n
473
\n00:30:10,280 –> 00:30:13,080
\nYe shall eat this year such as
\ngroweth of itself, and the <\/p>\n
474
\n00:30:13,080 –> 00:30:15,680
\nsecond year that which springeth
\nof the same, and in the third <\/p>\n
475
\n00:30:15,680 –> 00:30:18,560
\nyear sow ye, and reap and plant
\nvineyards, and eat the fruit <\/p>\n
476
\n00:30:18,560 –> 00:30:20,600
\nthereof.
\nSo the question is, what’s all <\/p>\n
477
\n00:30:20,600 –> 00:30:22,160
\nthat about?
\nDo you think that promise in <\/p>\n
478
\n00:30:22,160 –> 00:30:25,520
\nverse 30?
\nWell, that promise is <\/p>\n
479
\n00:30:25,520 –> 00:30:29,080
\ninteresting for this reason that
\nI believe that it refers to a <\/p>\n
480
\n00:30:29,080 –> 00:30:32,640
\nparticular Hebrew word that
\ntakes us back to a place in the <\/p>\n
481
\n00:30:32,640 –> 00:30:38,880
\nlaw, because in the Hebrew that
\nthose words such as groweth of <\/p>\n
482
\n00:30:38,880 –> 00:30:41,600
\nitself is all one single Hebrew
\nword. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:30:41,600 –> 00:30:46,040
\nIt’s the Hebrew word suffiac,
\nand that word is found back in <\/p>\n
484
\n00:30:46,040 –> 00:30:50,000
\nLeviticus chapter 25.
\nSo just hold your hand in Isaiah<\/p>\n
485
\n00:30:50,000 –> 00:30:55,360
\n37 and come back to what the
\nbook of the Law said, with which<\/p>\n
486
\n00:30:55,360 –> 00:31:00,920
\nwith relationship to the matter
\nof the sabbatical years and the <\/p>\n
487
\n00:31:01,000 –> 00:31:06,920
\nJubilee years in Leviticus 25,
\nwhere that word suffiac will be <\/p>\n
488
\n00:31:07,080 –> 00:31:12,040
\nbrought again to our attention.
\nSo in Leviticus 25 it says this <\/p>\n
489
\n00:31:12,040 –> 00:31:16,160
\nfirstly about the Sabbath years,
\nmaybe verse 4 for connection. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:31:17,240 –> 00:31:20,440
\nLeviticus 25 verse 4.
\nThe 7th year shall be a Sabbath <\/p>\n
491
\n00:31:20,440 –> 00:31:22,360
\nof rest.
\nThou sought neither sow nor <\/p>\n
492
\n00:31:22,360 –> 00:31:28,360
\nprune that which groweth of its
\nown accord suffiac. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:33,360
\nThat’s the same Hebrew word as
\nthe one found in Isaiah 37. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:31:33,360 –> 00:31:35,920
\nIt’s in the margin.
\nThat which growth of its own <\/p>\n
495
\n00:31:35,920 –> 00:31:38,640
\naccord of the harvest thou shalt
\nnot reap, neither gather the <\/p>\n
496
\n00:31:38,640 –> 00:31:41,880
\ngrapes of thy thine undressed.
\nFor it is a year of rest unto <\/p>\n
497
\n00:31:41,880 –> 00:31:44,760
\nthe land.
\nAnd the Sabbath of the land <\/p>\n
498
\n00:31:45,040 –> 00:31:48,280
\nshall be meet for you, for thee,
\nand for thy servant, and for thy<\/p>\n
499
\n00:31:48,280 –> 00:31:51,680
\nmaid, and for thy hired servant,
\nand for thy stranger that <\/p>\n
500
\n00:31:51,680 –> 00:31:55,720
\nsojourneth with thee.
\nSo the two the Sabbath year, the<\/p>\n
501
\n00:31:55,720 –> 00:32:00,000
\nground was to be left unsewn,
\nand for that matter unreaped. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:32:00,200 –> 00:32:04,600
\nThat which groweth of itself
\nsuffiac was what they were able <\/p>\n
503
\n00:32:04,680 –> 00:32:08,240
\nhowever to partake of.
\nAnd just as with the Sabbath <\/p>\n
504
\n00:32:08,240 –> 00:32:13,320
\nyear, so with the jubilee,
\nbecause verse 11 says, a jubilee<\/p>\n
505
\n00:32:13,320 –> 00:32:18,040
\nshall let 50th year be unto you,
\nye shall not not so neither reap<\/p>\n
506
\n00:32:18,040 –> 00:32:23,240
\nthat which groweth of itself
\nsuffiac, nor gather the grapes <\/p>\n
507
\n00:32:23,240 –> 00:32:26,080
\nof it in thy vine undressed, for
\nit is the jubilee, it shall be <\/p>\n
508
\n00:32:26,080 –> 00:32:29,520
\nwholly unto you, you shall eat
\nthe increase thereof out of the <\/p>\n
509
\n00:32:29,520 –> 00:32:31,760
\nfield.
\nSo of course you realize that in<\/p>\n
510
\n00:32:31,760 –> 00:32:35,880
\nthe jubilee there were two
\nsabbatical years side by side, <\/p>\n
511
\n00:32:36,320 –> 00:32:38,400
\nbecause you always counted one
\nto seven, one to seven, one to <\/p>\n
512
\n00:32:38,400 –> 00:32:40,680
\nseven, one to seven.
\nAnd every 7th year was a was a <\/p>\n
513
\n00:32:40,680 –> 00:32:43,800
\nSabbath year.
\nBut the Jubilee was the year <\/p>\n
514
\n00:32:43,880 –> 00:32:46,440
\nafter the Sabbath year, the
\nnormal Sabbath year, but it <\/p>\n
515
\n00:32:46,440 –> 00:32:48,480
\nitself was counted as a Sabbath
\nyear. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:32:48,720 –> 00:32:52,160
\nSo now there would be two
\nsabbatical years, and during <\/p>\n
517
\n00:32:52,160 –> 00:32:55,880
\nthat two years they were not
\nallowed to either sow or reap in<\/p>\n
518
\n00:32:55,880 –> 00:32:58,880
\nthe land.
\nBut God promised a special <\/p>\n
519
\n00:32:58,880 –> 00:33:05,280
\nblessing of fertility, so that
\neven the unsone land would bring<\/p>\n
520
\n00:33:05,280 –> 00:33:10,720
\nforth enough by itself.
\nSuffiac to feed everyone, master<\/p>\n
521
\n00:33:10,720 –> 00:33:12,640
\nand servant alike, for the next
\ntwo years. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:33:13,360 –> 00:33:18,400
\nNo one could reap that crop, but
\neveryone could glean it and eat <\/p>\n
523
\n00:33:18,400 –> 00:33:20,200
\nof what the land itself
\nprovided. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:33:20,920 –> 00:33:24,720
\nAnd that’s the sign that’s being
\ngiven to his a car back here in <\/p>\n
525
\n00:33:24,720 –> 00:33:29,480
\nIsaiah 37 when it says in that
\n30th verse that which springeth <\/p>\n
526
\n00:33:29,480 –> 00:33:32,720
\nof itself, Sapphire will be
\nenough for your food. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:33:33,320 –> 00:33:36,440
\nAnd in the second year that
\nwhich springeth of the same and <\/p>\n
528
\n00:33:36,440 –> 00:33:40,320
\nin the third year Sony.
\nSo the very sign of his a car in<\/p>\n
529
\n00:33:40,360 –> 00:33:44,800
\nIsaiah 37 verse 30 was the sign
\nof a jubilee blessing that would<\/p>\n
530
\n00:33:44,800 –> 00:33:47,560
\nfeed the nation until all the
\nAssyrian hosts had been <\/p>\n
531
\n00:33:47,560 –> 00:33:50,960
\nwithdrawn from the land.
\nAnd it was intended to reassure <\/p>\n
532
\n00:33:50,960 –> 00:33:53,640
\nhis, a car, that Sinacra was
\ngoing to be gone for good. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:33:54,440 –> 00:33:57,360
\nIt promised that when they did
\nso again in the third year, they<\/p>\n
534
\n00:33:57,360 –> 00:33:59,680
\ncould do so safely.
\nAnd when they went to reap, they<\/p>\n
535
\n00:33:59,680 –> 00:34:01,720
\nwould gather that harvest and
\nunderstood peace. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:34:01,720 –> 00:34:03,480
\nBut they’d have to wait for
\nthree years. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:34:03,480 –> 00:34:07,800
\nThey’d have to wait for three
\nyears before that sign would be <\/p>\n
538
\n00:34:07,800 –> 00:34:10,679
\nfulfilled.
\nIt demanded faith, brother and <\/p>\n
539
\n00:34:10,679 –> 00:34:14,480
\nsisters, absolute faith.
\nBut that faith would be rewarded<\/p>\n
540
\n00:34:14,480 –> 00:34:21,080
\nbecause Sennacherib was never
\nseen, never heard of in the land<\/p>\n
541
\n00:34:21,080 –> 00:34:25,880
\nof Israel ever again.
\nTrust me, says God, trust me for<\/p>\n
542
\n00:34:25,880 –> 00:34:28,840
\nthese three years.
\nAnd here’s a guy I did. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:34:30,480 –> 00:34:34,560
\nAnd not only that, says Isaiah
\n37, but verse 31, the remnant <\/p>\n
544
\n00:34:34,560 –> 00:34:37,320
\nthat’s escaped at the House of
\nJudah shall take root downward <\/p>\n
545
\n00:34:37,560 –> 00:34:40,440
\nand bear fruit upward, for out
\nof Jerusalem shall go forth a <\/p>\n
546
\n00:34:40,440 –> 00:34:42,719
\nremnant.
\nAnd they did escape out of Mount<\/p>\n
547
\n00:34:42,760 –> 00:34:46,000
\nZion.
\nSo just as the land was to enjoy<\/p>\n
548
\n00:34:46,000 –> 00:34:50,199
\na burst of fruitfulness, so the
\npeople would be restored in <\/p>\n
549
\n00:34:50,199 –> 00:34:53,440
\nevery sense.
\nThat blessing of the third year,<\/p>\n
550
\n00:34:53,760 –> 00:34:56,679
\nwhen the land was resound with a
\nfresh crop, was going to be <\/p>\n
551
\n00:34:56,679 –> 00:34:59,600
\nbacked by a remnant who’d been
\nspared, who’d emerged from the <\/p>\n
552
\n00:34:59,600 –> 00:35:01,600
\ncity.
\nThey’d come out from Jerusalem, <\/p>\n
553
\n00:35:01,800 –> 00:35:05,600
\nthey’d reoccupy their land, they
\nrebuild their villages, they’d <\/p>\n
554
\n00:35:05,760 –> 00:35:09,360
\nrejuvenate their nation by
\ntaking root downward and bearing<\/p>\n
555
\n00:35:09,360 –> 00:35:12,680
\nfruit upward.
\nIt was the ultimate proof that <\/p>\n
556
\n00:35:12,680 –> 00:35:15,560
\nthe Assyrian had been completely
\nremoved from the land. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:35:15,760 –> 00:35:19,520
\nBut when God said those words in
\nverse 31, the remnant that’s <\/p>\n
558
\n00:35:19,520 –> 00:35:22,360
\nescaped shall take root downward
\nand bear fruit upward. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:35:22,360 –> 00:35:23,800
\nYou know what I think Hezekiah
\nheard? <\/p>\n
560
\n00:35:24,320 –> 00:35:26,600
\nHe heard this.
\nSee, this is what Hezekiah had <\/p>\n
561
\n00:35:26,600 –> 00:35:30,240
\nprayed earlier in this chapter.
\nWherefore he says, lift up thy <\/p>\n
562
\n00:35:30,240 –> 00:35:33,320
\nprayer, verse 4, for the remnant
\nthat’s left. <\/p>\n
563
\n00:35:33,680 –> 00:35:36,960
\nAnd this answer from the
\nAlmighty on this occasion must <\/p>\n
564
\n00:35:36,960 –> 00:35:40,520
\nhave rejoiced the King’s heart.
\nBecause you see, what Hezekiah <\/p>\n
565
\n00:35:40,520 –> 00:35:43,920
\nwanted is for Yahweh’s remnant
\nto be preserved, that the way of<\/p>\n
566
\n00:35:43,920 –> 00:35:46,840
\nthe truth might be continued.
\nAnd that was the answer of God. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:35:46,840 –> 00:35:48,600
\nHe says.
\nI’ve heard there will be a <\/p>\n
568
\n00:35:48,600 –> 00:35:50,200
\nremnant.
\nIn fact, that’s a key theme in <\/p>\n
569
\n00:35:50,200 –> 00:35:53,040
\nIsaiah’s prophecy.
\nWe won’t look at these in any <\/p>\n
570
\n00:35:53,040 –> 00:35:54,760
\ndetail, but let me just put them
\non the screen. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:35:54,920 –> 00:35:58,120
\nThe remnant, the remnant, the
\nremnant that’s left, the remnant<\/p>\n
572
\n00:35:58,120 –> 00:36:01,520
\nthat’s escaped chapter 37.
\nAnd for his a car. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:36:01,520 –> 00:36:06,680
\nThat promise of chapter 37,
\nverse 31 and verse 32 was that <\/p>\n
574
\n00:36:06,680 –> 00:36:09,440
\nhe would still be able to
\ncontinue to work with those in <\/p>\n
575
\n00:36:09,440 –> 00:36:13,720
\nIsrael, those in Judah who were
\nof a spiritual mind that he <\/p>\n
576
\n00:36:13,720 –> 00:36:15,200
\nmight continue his labours among
\nthem. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:36:15,200 –> 00:36:19,040
\nThe remnant will be saved, says
\nGod, I promise you that, He says<\/p>\n
578
\n00:36:19,040 –> 00:36:21,280
\nto the king in answer to his
\nearlier prayer. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:36:22,360 –> 00:36:26,200
\nSo God’s answer covered
\nHezekiah’s deepest concerns for <\/p>\n
580
\n00:36:26,200 –> 00:36:28,800
\nthe needs of the nation that he
\nwas working with, because that’s<\/p>\n
581
\n00:36:28,800 –> 00:36:31,520
\nwhat Hezekiah always worried
\nabout, the needs of the nation, <\/p>\n
582
\n00:36:31,600 –> 00:36:33,960
\nthe needs of the nation, the
\nneeds of the remnant. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:36:34,160 –> 00:36:37,640
\nGod’s answer gave him comfort.
\nAnd how was all this going to <\/p>\n
584
\n00:36:37,640 –> 00:36:39,880
\nhappen?
\nWhat was the guarantee of all <\/p>\n
585
\n00:36:39,880 –> 00:36:43,720
\nthese things?
\nWell, the end of that verse, <\/p>\n
586
\n00:36:44,840 –> 00:36:51,880
\nverse 32 says the zeal of Yahweh
\nof hosts shall do this. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:36:53,160 –> 00:36:56,200
\nNow do you remember how Isaiah
\nbegan his prayer? <\/p>\n
588
\n00:36:57,800 –> 00:37:06,640
\nVerse 16 O Yahweh of hosts, O
\nYahweh of hosts, was how He <\/p>\n
589
\n00:37:06,640 –> 00:37:08,840
\nbegan his prayer.
\nAnd now the arch of God comes <\/p>\n
590
\n00:37:08,840 –> 00:37:11,400
\nback.
\nThe zeal of Yahweh of hosts <\/p>\n
591
\n00:37:11,560 –> 00:37:14,800
\nshall do this.
\nIt was the answer to Hezekiah’s <\/p>\n
592
\n00:37:14,800 –> 00:37:17,480
\nprayer.
\nAnd now came the final part of <\/p>\n
593
\n00:37:17,480 –> 00:37:20,640
\nYahweh’s answer, which concerned
\nthe guarantee of Sennacherib’s <\/p>\n
594
\n00:37:20,640 –> 00:37:23,320
\ndefeat and the promise of the
\ncity’s deliverance. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:37:24,560 –> 00:37:28,520
\nAnd so he says in verse 33.
\nTherefore he said, Thus saith <\/p>\n
596
\n00:37:28,520 –> 00:37:31,840
\nYahweh concerning the king of
\nAssyria, He shall not come into <\/p>\n
597
\n00:37:31,840 –> 00:37:35,600
\nthe city, nor shoot an arrow,
\nnor come before it with seals or<\/p>\n
598
\n00:37:35,600 –> 00:37:39,200
\ncast bank by the way that he
\ncame by the same shall he return<\/p>\n
599
\n00:37:39,200 –> 00:37:41,200
\nand shall not come into this
\ncity. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:37:41,400 –> 00:37:43,720
\nSo there wouldn’t be a battle
\nAaron shield, there wouldn’t be <\/p>\n
601
\n00:37:43,720 –> 00:37:46,400
\na siege, cast a bank.
\nSeneca wasn’t going to get <\/p>\n
602
\n00:37:46,400 –> 00:37:51,600
\nanywhere near the city, and so
\nimpregnable would its defenses <\/p>\n
603
\n00:37:51,600 –> 00:37:54,480
\nbe, not because of the
\nfortifications which Hezekiah <\/p>\n
604
\n00:37:54,480 –> 00:37:57,640
\nhad built, but because of the
\ndivine hand that would over <\/p>\n
605
\n00:37:57,640 –> 00:37:59,880
\nshadow it.
\nInstead, Seneca was going to be <\/p>\n
606
\n00:37:59,880 –> 00:38:03,680
\nLED away with inexorable power
\nin the opposite direction. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:38:03,920 –> 00:38:09,280
\nThis was one battle Sennacherib
\nwould not win by the way that he<\/p>\n
608
\n00:38:09,280 –> 00:38:11,760
\ncame by the same.
\nShall he return? <\/p>\n
609
\n00:38:12,680 –> 00:38:16,440
\nAnd so he says, verse 35, I’ll
\ndefend the city. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:38:16,600 –> 00:38:18,480
\nNow do you know?
\nSo that’s the focus of these <\/p>\n
611
\n00:38:18,480 –> 00:38:22,960
\nlast three verses.
\nVerse 33, He shall not come into<\/p>\n
612
\n00:38:23,520 –> 00:38:27,760
\nthis city.
\nVerse 34, He shall not come into<\/p>\n
613
\n00:38:28,240 –> 00:38:32,480
\nthis city.
\nVerse 35, I will defend this <\/p>\n
614
\n00:38:32,480 –> 00:38:35,040
\ncity.
\nThat’s the focus of these last <\/p>\n
615
\n00:38:35,040 –> 00:38:37,240
\nthree verses.
\nAnd that was the promise that <\/p>\n
616
\n00:38:37,240 –> 00:38:41,240
\nthe city of Jerusalem would be
\ndelivered in rebuttal of <\/p>\n
617
\n00:38:41,240 –> 00:38:45,560
\nSennacherib’s boast, because
\nSennacherib, by the mouth of his<\/p>\n
618
\n00:38:45,560 –> 00:38:48,680
\nspokesman, Reb Shaker, had said
\nin Isaiah 36. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:38:48,680 –> 00:38:52,080
\nVerse 20 Who are they that
\nYahweh should deliver Jerusalem <\/p>\n
620
\n00:38:52,200 –> 00:38:56,000
\nout of my hand?
\nAnd again in Isaiah 37, Verse 10<\/p>\n
621
\n00:38:56,240 –> 00:38:59,400
\nLet not thy God, in whom thou
\ntrust us deceive thee, saying, <\/p>\n
622
\n00:38:59,600 –> 00:39:02,560
\nJerusalem shall not be given to
\nthe hand of the king of Assyria.<\/p>\n
623
\n00:39:02,720 –> 00:39:05,200
\nAnd God now comes back, and he
\nsays, I will, I will deliver the<\/p>\n
624
\n00:39:05,200 –> 00:39:07,920
\ncity.
\nThe city will be safe, here’s a <\/p>\n
625
\n00:39:07,920 –> 00:39:10,720
\ncar, the city will be untouched.
\nAnd for what reason? <\/p>\n
626
\n00:39:10,720 –> 00:39:14,840
\nVerse 35 For mine own sake, says
\nGod, Ah, there it is. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:39:15,480 –> 00:39:18,560
\nSo now came Yahweh’s answer.
\nI will hear the words of <\/p>\n
628
\n00:39:18,560 –> 00:39:21,000
\nreproach and I will reprove
\nthem. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:39:21,160 –> 00:39:22,720
\nThe challenge that I cannot
\ndeliver. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:39:22,720 –> 00:39:27,320
\nThe city I will respond to.
\nDo you see how firm the response<\/p>\n
631
\n00:39:27,320 –> 00:39:30,000
\nof God is in this matter?
\nIt’s absolutely marvellous, <\/p>\n
632
\n00:39:30,000 –> 00:39:32,800
\nbrother and sisters, because
\nYahweh assumed full <\/p>\n
633
\n00:39:32,800 –> 00:39:35,680
\nresponsibility for the final
\noutcome of this crisis. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:39:35,840 –> 00:39:39,480
\nIt’s mine, says God.
\nI will deal with this matter, <\/p>\n
635
\n00:39:39,920 –> 00:39:45,160
\nbut not only for my sake, he
\nsays, but also for my servant <\/p>\n
636
\n00:39:45,160 –> 00:39:49,720
\nDavid’s sake.
\nNow that’s because of the first <\/p>\n
637
\n00:39:49,720 –> 00:39:54,800
\nof kings 11 verse 36, which
\nsaid, And unto David’s son will <\/p>\n
638
\n00:39:54,800 –> 00:39:59,120
\nI give one tribe, that David my
\nservant, may have a light all <\/p>\n
639
\n00:39:59,120 –> 00:40:05,800
\nway before me in Jerusalem, the
\ncity which I have chosen me to <\/p>\n
640
\n00:40:05,800 –> 00:40:09,320
\nput my name there.
\nGod promised that to David. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:40:09,880 –> 00:40:13,080
\nSo for his own name’s sake and
\nfor David’s sake, the city of <\/p>\n
642
\n00:40:13,080 –> 00:40:16,760
\nJerusalem would stand
\nimpregnable against the Assyrian<\/p>\n
643
\n00:40:16,760 –> 00:40:18,280
\nhost.
\nAnd so God’s answer now was <\/p>\n
644
\n00:40:18,280 –> 00:40:19,960
\ncomplete.
\nIt was a wonderful response. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:40:20,080 –> 00:40:23,240
\nIt was a thrilling reply when
\nyou think about it, brothers and<\/p>\n
646
\n00:40:23,240 –> 00:40:25,000
\nsisters.
\nSo to his enemies such as <\/p>\n
647
\n00:40:25,000 –> 00:40:27,960
\nSennacherib, God gave this
\nanswer in the form of a warning,<\/p>\n
648
\n00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:33,960
\nI am in control.
\nAnd to his servants such as his <\/p>\n
649
\n00:40:33,960 –> 00:40:37,520
\na car, God gave this answer in
\nthe form of a promise. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:40:38,640 –> 00:40:43,720
\nI am in control.
\nAnd you see when you think about<\/p>\n
651
\n00:40:43,720 –> 00:40:47,600
\nit, mother and sisters,
\nbelieving and accepting that God<\/p>\n
652
\n00:40:47,680 –> 00:40:54,760
\nis in control is the answer to
\nevery crisis in life. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:40:57,360 –> 00:41:02,480
\nYou see times of crisis reveal
\nwho we really are and how we <\/p>\n
654
\n00:41:02,480 –> 00:41:07,200
\nreally think.
\nAnd you see really Hezekiah <\/p>\n
655
\n00:41:07,200 –> 00:41:10,360
\nshows us in this prayer that he
\nreally did trust in his God and <\/p>\n
656
\n00:41:10,360 –> 00:41:12,440
\nhe really did believe in his
\nsovereign control. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:41:12,720 –> 00:41:15,800
\nAnd I think with that comes the
\ngreat lesson from our study this<\/p>\n
658
\n00:41:15,800 –> 00:41:17,840
\nmorning as to what we should do
\nin times of crisis. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:41:17,840 –> 00:41:21,040
\nIf we believe that God is in
\ncontrol, then we need to pray to<\/p>\n
660
\n00:41:21,040 –> 00:41:26,360
\nhim.
\nBut we need to do more than <\/p>\n
661
\n00:41:26,360 –> 00:41:30,160
\nthat.
\nWe need to pray the right sort <\/p>\n
662
\n00:41:30,160 –> 00:41:34,200
\nof prayer that’s focused on the
\nright objective. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:41:34,800 –> 00:41:39,040
\nThis is where the example of
\nHezekiah is just so instructive,<\/p>\n
664
\n00:41:39,080 –> 00:41:42,640
\nbrothers and sisters, because he
\nwasn’t focused on how God might <\/p>\n
665
\n00:41:42,640 –> 00:41:45,840
\nintervene.
\nHe wasn’t focused on when God <\/p>\n
666
\n00:41:45,840 –> 00:41:49,680
\nmight intervene.
\nHe was focused on why God would <\/p>\n
667
\n00:41:49,680 –> 00:41:53,480
\nintervene.
\nSo here’s our lesson for today, <\/p>\n
668
\n00:41:53,480 –> 00:41:56,920
\nbrothers and sisters, in terms
\nof what we might do in times of <\/p>\n
669
\n00:41:56,920 –> 00:42:03,480
\ncrisis.
\nIt’s about learning how to pray <\/p>\n
670
\n00:42:04,960 –> 00:42:11,280
\nwith God centered focus.
\nNow here’s David’s prayer in the<\/p>\n
671
\n00:42:11,280 –> 00:42:15,640
\ntime of Goliath.
\nFirst of Samuel 17 verse 46 this<\/p>\n
672
\n00:42:15,640 –> 00:42:18,560
\nday will Yahweh deliver thee
\ninto my hand and I’ll smite thee<\/p>\n
673
\n00:42:18,760 –> 00:42:20,800
\nso that all the earth may know
\nthat there’s a God in Israel. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:42:21,000 –> 00:42:25,840
\nCan I just draw your attention
\nto 1 little but crucial word so <\/p>\n
675
\n00:42:25,840 –> 00:42:29,960
\nthat I’ve added the word so so
\nthat you can see the word that <\/p>\n
676
\n00:42:31,920 –> 00:42:34,920
\nso that what so that David could
\nbe delivered? <\/p>\n
677
\n00:42:34,920 –> 00:42:38,480
\nNo, so that all the earth may
\nknow that there is a God in <\/p>\n
678
\n00:42:38,480 –> 00:42:44,520
\nIsrael.
\nHere’s the prayer that David <\/p>\n
679
\n00:42:44,520 –> 00:42:47,160
\ngave to the House of Asaph to
\nsing as the singers in the <\/p>\n
680
\n00:42:47,160 –> 00:42:50,840
\nsanctuary in the first of
\nChronicles chapter 16, verse 35.<\/p>\n
681
\n00:42:51,120 –> 00:42:57,840
\nAnd say, ye save us, O God, of
\nour salvation, and deliver us so<\/p>\n
682
\n00:42:57,840 –> 00:43:01,680
\nthat, so that what?
\nSo that we might be saved? <\/p>\n
683
\n00:43:01,920 –> 00:43:07,240
\nNo, so that we may give thanks
\nto thy holy name and glory in <\/p>\n
684
\n00:43:07,240 –> 00:43:12,480
\nthy praise.
\nHere’s one of the prayers or one<\/p>\n
685
\n00:43:12,480 –> 00:43:16,000
\nof the Psalms that the House of
\nAsaph wrote and sang themselves <\/p>\n
686
\n00:43:16,160 –> 00:43:20,000
\nin Psalm 83, verses 17 and 18.
\nLet them be put to shame and <\/p>\n
687
\n00:43:20,000 –> 00:43:27,320
\nperish our enemies, so that, so
\nthat men may know that thou <\/p>\n
688
\n00:43:27,320 –> 00:43:31,360
\nwhose name alone is Yahweh at
\nthe most high in all the earth. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:43:34,200 –> 00:43:36,680
\nAnd here’s the prayer that
\nHezekiah offered in our study <\/p>\n
690
\n00:43:36,680 –> 00:43:38,880
\nthis morning in the prayer of
\nIsaiah 37. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:43:39,040 –> 00:43:44,600
\nTherefore, O Yahweh, our God,
\nsave us out of his hand, so that<\/p>\n
692
\n00:43:46,040 –> 00:43:50,200
\nso that all the kingdoms of the
\nearth may know that thou art <\/p>\n
693
\n00:43:50,600 –> 00:43:55,320
\nYahweh, even thou only, and that
\none vital phrase. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:43:55,480 –> 00:43:59,400
\nSo that is what sanctifies all
\nthese prayers. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:44:01,040 –> 00:44:05,960
\nBecause you see, all salvation
\nand all deliverance is only so <\/p>\n
696
\n00:44:05,960 –> 00:44:08,960
\nthat God can be honoured in the
\noutcome. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:44:11,400 –> 00:44:13,120
\nI think there’s a powerful
\nlesson here, brothers and <\/p>\n
698
\n00:44:13,120 –> 00:44:15,920
\nsisters.
\nIt’s a good lesson for us to <\/p>\n
699
\n00:44:15,920 –> 00:44:17,040
\nponder.
\nAnd that’s this. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:44:19,400 –> 00:44:25,640
\nNo matter what crisis we have,
\nGod is not obliged to save us <\/p>\n
701
\n00:44:25,640 –> 00:44:31,840
\nfrom our enemies, or to give us
\nthe gift of immortality, or to <\/p>\n
702
\n00:44:31,840 –> 00:44:36,200
\ngrant us a place in His Kingdom,
\nor to fulfill those countless <\/p>\n
703
\n00:44:36,200 –> 00:44:42,160
\npetitions that we might make.
\nUnless at the centre of each <\/p>\n
704
\n00:44:42,160 –> 00:44:47,400
\nrequest and sitting at its very
\nheart is so that His purpose <\/p>\n
705
\n00:44:47,400 –> 00:44:55,520
\nmight be advanced in our lives.
\nHis purpose not ours, His will, <\/p>\n
706
\n00:44:55,960 –> 00:45:00,840
\nnot ours.
\nAnd in our ecclesial prayers, <\/p>\n
707
\n00:45:01,080 –> 00:45:05,960
\nwe’re hearing less and less of
\nsuch God centred God focused <\/p>\n
708
\n00:45:06,080 –> 00:45:10,280
\nprayers.
\nAnd the reason is because the <\/p>\n
709
\n00:45:10,280 –> 00:45:13,840
\ndoctrine of God manifestation is
\nprogressively lost and we’ve got<\/p>\n
710
\n00:45:13,840 –> 00:45:16,400
\nto get back to it because that’s
\nwhere the center of the truth <\/p>\n
711
\n00:45:16,400 –> 00:45:18,600
\nis.
\nSo when we hear petitions to God<\/p>\n
712
\n00:45:18,760 –> 00:45:21,720
\noften on behalf of the assembly,
\nwe ought to listen to the so <\/p>\n
713
\n00:45:21,720 –> 00:45:23,920
\nthat that should follow after
\nthe petition. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:45:24,560 –> 00:45:39,240
\nSave us, so that bless us, so
\nthat forgive us, so that and we <\/p>\n
715
\n00:45:39,240 –> 00:45:42,160
\npray that Thou will grant us a
\nplace in Thy Kingdom. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:45:43,520 –> 00:45:48,480
\nSo that See, that’s the crucial
\nthing, isn’t it, Mother and <\/p>\n
717
\n00:45:48,480 –> 00:45:51,240
\nsisters, the little bit at the
\nend that changes it from a human<\/p>\n
718
\n00:45:51,240 –> 00:45:55,600
\nprayer to a God centered. 1 So
\nthat Thy name might be magnified<\/p>\n
719
\n00:45:55,720 –> 00:45:59,320
\nin our lives, so that Thy
\npurpose might be outworked in <\/p>\n
720
\n00:45:59,320 –> 00:46:03,800
\nus, so that Thy will may be done
\nand not our own, So that thy <\/p>\n
721
\n00:46:03,800 –> 00:46:06,920
\nglory may be seen in the earth,
\nSo that all nations may know <\/p>\n
722
\n00:46:06,920 –> 00:46:09,920
\nthat Thou art God alone.
\nWe should all always test our <\/p>\n
723
\n00:46:09,920 –> 00:46:15,040
\nprayers by the so that rule and
\nwe want to hear them more <\/p>\n
724
\n00:46:15,040 –> 00:46:17,080
\nfrequently in our ecclesial
\nassemblies. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:46:19,000 –> 00:46:22,600
\nNow what a wonderful example.
\nHere’s a car has left us with as<\/p>\n
726
\n00:46:22,600 –> 00:46:24,880
\nwe face times of child in our
\nown lives. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:46:25,000 –> 00:46:27,800
\nAre we facing a crisis?
\nThen let us give it to the <\/p>\n
728
\n00:46:27,800 –> 00:46:32,040
\nFather to deal with through
\nprayer, but let us be sure to <\/p>\n
729
\n00:46:32,040 –> 00:46:35,280
\ngive the type of prayer that
\nHezekiah offered and gave so <\/p>\n
730
\n00:46:35,280 –> 00:46:38,520
\nmagnificently on this day of
\ntrouble and rebuke and <\/p>\n
731
\n00:46:38,520 –> 00:46:42,520
\nblasphemy.
\nLearning to pray with God <\/p>\n
732
\n00:46:42,680 –> 00:46:47,560
\ncentered focus allows us to
\noffer prayers that Yahweh <\/p>\n
733
\n00:46:47,560 –> 00:46:53,680
\ndelights Him and that He will
\nmove to accomplish because <\/p>\n
734
\n00:46:53,680 –> 00:47:00,560
\nthey’re focused on the honor of
\nHis name and His will and not <\/p>\n
735
\n00:47:00,560 –> 00:47:05,440
\nour own as it says in one of our
\nhymns. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:47:07,240 –> 00:47:16,280
\nThy way not mine, O Lord,
\nhowever dark it be, Lead me by <\/p>\n
737
\n00:47:16,280 –> 00:47:22,120
\nthine own hand.
\nChoose out the path for me, not <\/p>\n
738
\n00:47:22,120 –> 00:47:26,600
\nmine, not mine the choice.
\nIn all things, great or small, <\/p>\n
739
\n00:47:27,640 –> 00:47:36,320
\nbe Thou my guide, my strength,
\nmy wisdom, and my all. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:48:00,730 –> 00:48:03,050
\nThank you, Brother Roger for
\nyour class this morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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