PRAYER - "Console Yourself While Praying"
When we recall David's fugitive years running from King Saul, we know Saul could not hurt David because God was for him. But in the heat of the moment, David was not so sure. He prayed that God would deliver him from the lion that was tearing at his soul, "rending it in pieces." Then he consoled himself. "God is angry with the wicked every day. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready."
Psalms 7:13 - "He hath also prepared ...instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors."
PRINCIPALS - "King Jotham of Judah"
Jotham ruled Judah in proxy until the death of his father, Uzziah, who was smitten with leprosy for usurping the temple priest's office. At 25, Jotham became king and ruled righteously for sixteen years, along side the great prophets Isaiah, Hosea, Amos and Micah. "Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God," 2 Chronicles 27:6. Jotham is proof that a son can and should rise above his father's failure.
2 Kings 15:38 - "Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father."
PRINCIPLES - "Stupidity: Trusting Everybody Else, Spurning God"
King Ahaz of Judah, son of Jotham, scorned the great prophets Isaiah, Hosea and Micah, and contemptuously sacrificed to idols, burnt his son to Baal, and gave the temple gold and silver to Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, for protection from his enemies. Ahaz copied an altar from Damascus, placed it in the temple, made offerings to Syrian gods, and desecrated the holy temple furnishings. His was nauseating folly. Crowned at 20, dead at 35, "they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings."
2 Kings 16:12 - "The king approached to the altar, and offered thereon."
PROPHECIES - "God Works By The Prophets"
We owe it to ourselves to contemplate God's modus operandi. "The LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes." You can run from God, but you can't hide. He will always have the last word. Israel ignored Him to their damnation.
2 Kings 17:23 - "Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria."
When we recall David's fugitive years running from King Saul, we know Saul could not hurt David because God was for him. But in the heat of the moment, David was not so sure. He prayed that God would deliver him from the lion that was tearing at his soul, "rending it in pieces." Then he consoled himself. "God is angry with the wicked every day. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready."
Psalms 7:13 - "He hath also prepared ...instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors."
PRINCIPALS - "King Jotham of Judah"
Jotham ruled Judah in proxy until the death of his father, Uzziah, who was smitten with leprosy for usurping the temple priest's office. At 25, Jotham became king and ruled righteously for sixteen years, along side the great prophets Isaiah, Hosea, Amos and Micah. "Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God," 2 Chronicles 27:6. Jotham is proof that a son can and should rise above his father's failure.
2 Kings 15:38 - "Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father."
PRINCIPLES - "Stupidity: Trusting Everybody Else, Spurning God"
King Ahaz of Judah, son of Jotham, scorned the great prophets Isaiah, Hosea and Micah, and contemptuously sacrificed to idols, burnt his son to Baal, and gave the temple gold and silver to Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, for protection from his enemies. Ahaz copied an altar from Damascus, placed it in the temple, made offerings to Syrian gods, and desecrated the holy temple furnishings. His was nauseating folly. Crowned at 20, dead at 35, "they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings."
2 Kings 16:12 - "The king approached to the altar, and offered thereon."
PROPHECIES - "God Works By The Prophets"
We owe it to ourselves to contemplate God's modus operandi. "The LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes." You can run from God, but you can't hide. He will always have the last word. Israel ignored Him to their damnation.
2 Kings 17:23 - "Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria."
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