WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:01.910 As the intro video kind of suggested. 00:00:02.900 --> 00:00:09.960 Over the last several weeks, we've been in a sermon series of the loving the Old Testament, and Pastor Nathaniel and Richie 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:17.270 and others have gone through and have shown us the importance of the foundational importance of what the Old Testament is for us as Christians today, 00:00:17.460 --> 00:00:18.970 living on in the New Testament era. 00:00:20.180 --> 00:00:21.620 But how foundational that is. 00:00:22.180 --> 00:00:29.130 And we've covered different offices that the Old Testament that God has progressively revealed in the Old Testament, in the Old Testament, that of prophet. 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:35.720 We've gone through several prophets now, and they were God's spokespersons, in that time. 00:00:36.440 --> 00:00:42.400 And there was priests, those that were charged to carry out the duties in the temple for God. 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:43.780 And so we've covered those things. 00:00:44.080 --> 00:00:46.300 And today I'm going to be covering the kingship. 00:00:46.920 --> 00:00:54.380 Prophet, priest and king are the three main offices that the Old Testament portrays to us as we look back on God's 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:55.260 progressive revelation. 00:00:56.020 --> 00:00:59.350 And my topic that Nathaniel assigned me was King Josiah. 00:01:00.420 --> 00:01:05.180 And so we're going to be going into his, I forgot the clicker. 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:06.250 So you're going to have to. 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:07.840 Forward that. 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:11.400 Are we good? 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:14.350 All right, so King Josiah is our. 00:01:17.080 --> 00:01:17.800 Our topic. 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:18.400 Thank you. 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:19.240 Sorry about that. 00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:20.720 Hey, everyone! 00:01:22.420 --> 00:01:22.520 Sorry. 00:01:24.460 --> 00:01:25.180 Don't do this very often. 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:26.520 Apparently. 00:01:27.540 --> 00:01:31.400 so before we get into King Josiah, I just wanted to provide you a little bit of a background. 00:01:31.980 --> 00:01:38.740 As students of the Bible, we always want to come with a proper historical context, kind of get our minds in the era and what was going on. 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:43.920 So if you'll see the chronology there, the chronology of the judges timeline. 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:50.920 So the government that the Israelites, God's people had prior to the kings, the monarchy beginning to reign, was out of the judges. 00:01:51.580 --> 00:01:57.380 And starting in 1350 BC, all the way to about 1050 BC, and Samuel, the first Samuel. 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:04.700 It records to us there in 1050 BC that the people, the Israelites, began to murmur and complain that 00:02:04.700 --> 00:02:08.900 they wanted a king, a king like all the other nations had. 00:02:09.580 --> 00:02:12.020 They didn't want to be under the judges anymore. 00:02:12.580 --> 00:02:14.980 Indeed, they didn't really want to be under God's reign anymore. 00:02:15.660 --> 00:02:19.800 They wanted an earthly, a king like all the other nations around them had. 00:02:20.820 --> 00:02:23.540 So God allowed that to happen. 00:02:23.540 --> 00:02:25.220 And King Saul was the first king. 00:02:25.220 --> 00:02:33.260 And as we follow that story through first and second Samuel, we know that Saul became very prideful and hardened 00:02:33.260 --> 00:02:34.380 his heart against the Lord. 00:02:34.880 --> 00:02:38.220 And so God had to dethrone him basically, and had to choose another king. 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:43.820 The first three kings, Saul, David and Sam, Solomon, were all chosen by God. 00:02:44.600 --> 00:02:46.940 So God went in through his prophet. 00:02:46.940 --> 00:02:52.440 Nathan chose David, and so King David would be the next king. 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:56.960 And the Bible portrays King David as the man after God's own heart. 00:02:57.540 --> 00:02:57.640 Right? 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:05.520 And King David God used King David and many mighty ways it took Israel and made them a nation 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:06.230 of prominence. 00:03:07.140 --> 00:03:14.180 And he did that by David, leading armies out to battle and taking out the heathens and the pagans around them and 00:03:14.540 --> 00:03:14.940 destroying them. 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:22.040 There's lots of battles that found in the Old Testament that King David was in charge of, and leading the way and allowed Israel 00:03:22.040 --> 00:03:25.420 to rise to a point of prominence in that time period. 00:03:28.540 --> 00:03:35.560 as time grew on, if you follow the story, they that the temple, because they were before they had 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.680 gotten into the promised land, God had allowed them to build a tabernacle. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.940 And it was there that God would dwell with his people, and the priest would take care of that. 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:44.600 But this tabernacle was portable. 00:03:45.140 --> 00:03:52.420 But at the end, when David vanquished all the foes and established Jerusalem as God's city, David desired 00:03:52.420 --> 00:03:58.860 to have God's tabernacle be built into a temple, a permanent place of dwelling for God. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:07.100 And so the scriptures declare that David went to God through the prophets and asked that if he would could build 00:04:07.100 --> 00:04:07.960 this temple. 00:04:08.640 --> 00:04:11.770 And God's response took, I think, probably David a little bit by surprise. 00:04:12.760 --> 00:04:15.380 God said, no, you can't, because you're a man of war. 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:17.339 You have lots of blood on your hands. 00:04:17.980 --> 00:04:21.600 And that's just I don't want that to be associated with my name. 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.820 So I will not allow you to do it. 00:04:23.900 --> 00:04:30.900 But he went on to say that he'll allow his son, Solomon, who would be the next king, to be able to fulfill that 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:32.860 request and build that temple. 00:04:33.820 --> 00:04:39.640 So, as I said, David desired to build a temple for God, but was denied. 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:43.340 And so he allowed he was going to allow Solomon to do it. 00:04:43.900 --> 00:04:49.130 But when God told him no, there was a very important thing that happened here. 00:04:50.100 --> 00:04:51.400 he said, no. 00:04:51.400 --> 00:04:55.940 God told him no, but he gave David a very important promise. 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:58.280 It's called the Davidic Covenant. 00:04:59.540 --> 00:05:03.460 And he told David this in second Samuel 716. 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:12.780 Your house and kingdom will endure before me forever, and your throne will be established forever. 00:05:14.420 --> 00:05:21.760 So although King David didn't wasn't allowed to build the temple, God gave him this what we call an unconditional 00:05:21.760 --> 00:05:22.260 covenant. 00:05:23.380 --> 00:05:25.060 This covenant, this promise that God made. 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:29.540 David told David that his throne and his kingdom will rule forever. 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:32.000 That's an amazing promise, is it not? 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:34.360 It's unconditional. 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:39.260 There's nothing that illustrates to us that David had to do something in order for that to happen. 00:05:39.800 --> 00:05:41.840 He told David, I'm going to make this happen. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:42.740 It's unconditional. 00:05:43.640 --> 00:05:44.280 I'm going to do that. 00:05:44.520 --> 00:05:49.980 And so David was floored and, highly amazed as the scriptures declare. 00:05:51.620 --> 00:05:59.200 And so you would think that we'd see Israel begin to increase its prominence in the world as the world grew and the civilization 00:05:59.200 --> 00:06:05.330 expanded, its borders and time progressed and technology progressed, that Israel would be the main capital. 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:12.660 And if God's promise indeed was true that Israel would, that the king that would succeed David 00:06:12.660 --> 00:06:14.240 would still be in power today. 00:06:15.860 --> 00:06:21.840 And we come to find out through the chronicles of history and found in Scripture that indeed was not the case. 00:06:23.420 --> 00:06:24.320 After Solomon. 00:06:24.380 --> 00:06:26.870 Solomon built the temple and it was a grand temple and it was beautiful. 00:06:27.960 --> 00:06:35.720 But after Solomon, something happened to God's people, something very, negative. 00:06:37.880 --> 00:06:39.020 the divided kingdom. 00:06:39.100 --> 00:06:42.810 So there was 12 tribes that constituted the children of Israel. 00:06:43.660 --> 00:06:48.130 And after Solomon died, Rehoboam his have a timeline for. 00:06:48.220 --> 00:06:49.060 I don't know if you guys can see it. 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:49.680 Probably not. 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:50.720 But up here. 00:06:52.400 --> 00:06:55.740 Rehoboam was Solomon's son and he began to reign. 00:06:56.180 --> 00:06:59.050 But he made things hard on the people, and the people rebelled. 00:06:59.060 --> 00:07:05.060 The ten tribes to the north rebelled against him, and they established their own king over here, Jeroboam the first. 00:07:06.020 --> 00:07:08.920 And so God's kingdom was suddenly divided. 00:07:10.140 --> 00:07:17.300 And so the first, the first kings and chronicles of the Old Testament, tell 00:07:17.300 --> 00:07:22.920 us it's a historical narrative, and it begins to describe the children of Israel as these two separate kingdoms. 00:07:23.320 --> 00:07:29.480 We have two kings reigning, and no longer is God choosing the king, right? 00:07:29.520 --> 00:07:35.080 It's a it turns from a charismatic choice from God to a dynasty. 00:07:36.200 --> 00:07:38.320 It's all about lineage from Solomon on. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:44.920 So Solomon's son took took reign and then his son took reign after he died. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:46.050 And it goes on. 00:07:46.080 --> 00:07:51.260 And so it's a dynastic government, a dynastic monarchy, right? 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:54.240 And so this begins to happen. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:01.720 And as you follow these kings to the north, the tribes to the north, the ten tribes, the lost ten tribes, they're 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:04.100 very evil and very wicked. 00:08:04.760 --> 00:08:11.100 They taken the temple and that's found in Jerusalem and all those things, and they've copied that. 00:08:11.500 --> 00:08:12.580 They've put it up in their area. 00:08:12.860 --> 00:08:18.380 So because they didn't want their the Israelites, those people of the ten tribes to come down in Jerusalem and be influenced by them. 00:08:18.740 --> 00:08:25.840 So they made their own worship center and they made a counterfeit of what Jerusalem was for 00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:27.160 God and all of that. 00:08:28.140 --> 00:08:30.740 And the kings begin to worship pagan gods and idols. 00:08:31.380 --> 00:08:36.880 And you can see through the time that they're just getting progressively evil and more evil and more evil. 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:42.289 The godly line, the line from David to Solomon and the roboam to Abijah. 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:47.260 You would hope that that's the second kingdom called Judah. 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.490 You would hope that they increasingly became reliant on the Lord. 00:08:51.920 --> 00:08:59.060 But in fact, as you read the chronicles and kings of the Old Testament, you'll see that there was some pretty good kings, but 00:08:59.060 --> 00:09:00.260 there was also some very bad kings. 00:09:01.140 --> 00:09:08.840 And through time God's people began to be taken away and swept away from the things of God and 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:12.880 the worship of God to the worship of false gods and false idols. 00:09:18.160 --> 00:09:19.520 And so we see here at the end. 00:09:22.820 --> 00:09:23.260 Timelines gone. 00:09:24.280 --> 00:09:25.420 Here we see here at the end. 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:32.970 King Josiah is one of the last kings of Judah before the tribe of Judah or Judah. 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:37.210 The people of Judah begin to get carried away into Babylonian captivity. 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:41.180 And so we want to pick up here in King Josiah. 00:09:41.180 --> 00:09:43.970 King Josiah was actually a very good king, which is an absolute miracle. 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:51.330 If you look at his father, who reigned before him, and the wickedness that he had imposed on the people. 00:09:52.820 --> 00:09:54.720 but King Josiah was a good king. 00:09:55.220 --> 00:09:56.780 And we have just a little background here. 00:10:00.860 --> 00:10:01.180 All right. 00:10:01.400 --> 00:10:04.760 He reigned 600 from 641 to 609 BC. 00:10:05.700 --> 00:10:07.520 He was eight years old when he began to reign. 00:10:07.540 --> 00:10:14.760 When I tell love telling my the story to my children, I was like, could you imagine being eight years old and reigning over a people 00:10:14.760 --> 00:10:21.720 and their, very surprised he did what was right in the, in the Lord's sight. 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:23.420 And so that's very key. 00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:30.560 Every king when their the chronology of the kings right away the author tells us this King did evil in the sight of the Lord, or this 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:33.220 king tried to do right in the sight of the Lord. 00:10:33.540 --> 00:10:34.540 And so Josiah was a good king. 00:10:35.640 --> 00:10:40.860 And then in the eighth year of his reign, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David. 00:10:41.800 --> 00:10:49.420 So all this time of the people of Judah being kind of pulled away from the things of God, the real God, the true God, who had 00:10:49.420 --> 00:10:56.720 delivered them out of Egypt, had done all these miraculous things, begins to get pushed further and further from their lives to the point where the king doesn't 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:58.020 even know who this God is. 00:10:58.980 --> 00:11:03.750 He's heard of him, but he has no way of knowing how to have relationship with him. 00:11:04.220 --> 00:11:09.160 But he desires that he desires to seek after the God of his ancestor David. 00:11:09.160 --> 00:11:09.720 He's heard the stories. 00:11:10.260 --> 00:11:11.040 He desires that. 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:18.120 And so what he does is he, he begins ridding the land of Judah, of images 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:19.480 and altars and false idols. 00:11:20.260 --> 00:11:24.320 It's kind of the things that we like to do when we want to get in a relationship with God. 00:11:25.100 --> 00:11:25.280 Right? 00:11:25.400 --> 00:11:26.660 I just want a relationship. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:29.060 I'm going to start getting things cleaned up in my life. 00:11:29.740 --> 00:11:30.060 Right? 00:11:30.100 --> 00:11:31.220 That's a it's a good heart. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:33.000 That's understandable. 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:35.500 so he began to do that. 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:40.280 And then if you can take over. 00:11:40.280 --> 00:11:46.400 In the 18th year of Josiah's reign, he turned his attention towards renovating the Lord's temple. 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:56.540 He committed a sick of a significant amount of money and craftsmen in order to attempt to restore the temple to its former 00:11:56.540 --> 00:11:56.980 glory. 00:11:57.020 --> 00:12:00.060 So he began to clean the land of idols and false gods. 00:12:00.660 --> 00:12:02.340 And then he turned his lord to this temple. 00:12:02.420 --> 00:12:04.810 This temple had been that was great and grandeur. 00:12:04.940 --> 00:12:11.520 King Solomon's temple had been run down and broken down, and so he knew that this was supposed to be the house of God. 00:12:11.920 --> 00:12:17.060 And so he turned all the of Judah's money and craftsmen towards reforming that. 00:12:18.180 --> 00:12:25.180 And then we pick up the story here in this amazing account here in Second Chronicles 3414 through 00:12:25.180 --> 00:12:26.500 15. 00:12:26.680 --> 00:12:28.280 If you have your Bibles, you can follow along. 00:12:29.580 --> 00:12:36.600 It says when they brought out the money that had been deposited in the Lord's temple, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the 00:12:36.600 --> 00:12:39.120 Lord written by the hand of Moses. 00:12:40.820 --> 00:12:47.440 So as they're cleaning up the temple, the priest comes along, dusts off some dust, finds this book. 00:12:48.620 --> 00:12:49.100 What is this? 00:12:50.620 --> 00:12:53.250 It's the law of the Lord that sees their condition. 00:12:53.400 --> 00:12:56.800 It's been this is where Judah has slid to. 00:12:57.580 --> 00:13:00.700 They don't even know what the law of the Lord is. 00:13:00.980 --> 00:13:02.180 They find out what's this book? 00:13:02.340 --> 00:13:02.700 What is this? 00:13:03.580 --> 00:13:10.780 And so it goes on to say, in 16 Shaphan took the book to the king and also reported, your servants are doing well, 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:13.840 doing all that was placed in their hands. 00:13:14.460 --> 00:13:21.820 But then Shaphan said in verse 18, the courts secretary told the king, Hilkiah the priest gave me a book, and shaphan read it in 00:13:21.820 --> 00:13:23.030 the presence of the king. 00:13:24.900 --> 00:13:30.760 In verse 19 it says, when the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes. 00:13:31.920 --> 00:13:39.280 Then he commanded Hilkiah Ahikam, son of Shaphan Abdun, and a son of Micah Shaphan, the court secretary, and the king's 00:13:39.280 --> 00:13:39.740 servant. 00:13:39.740 --> 00:13:45.380 Azariah, go inquire of the Lord for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah. 00:13:45.860 --> 00:13:48.240 Concerning the words of the book that was found. 00:13:48.820 --> 00:13:55.980 For great is the Lord's wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord in order 00:13:55.980 --> 00:13:58.700 to do everything written in this book. 00:14:00.460 --> 00:14:02.180 So it's quite the reaction, right? 00:14:03.400 --> 00:14:05.900 The high priest finds, it says, oh, it's a book. 00:14:05.900 --> 00:14:06.620 Shaphan takes it. 00:14:07.260 --> 00:14:08.800 He's like, oh, I'm going to go show the King. 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:12.300 Shaphan reads the book of the law according to Moses. 00:14:13.340 --> 00:14:14.130 And what does this king do? 00:14:14.280 --> 00:14:16.580 This king that has this heart, that wants seeking after God? 00:14:17.160 --> 00:14:20.520 He rips his clothes and he says, oh no, we're in trouble. 00:14:26.340 --> 00:14:31.460 Second Chronicles 3414 says Hilkiah, the priest found the book of the law of the Lord written by the hand of Moses. 00:14:32.640 --> 00:14:35.580 The law of the Lord written by the hand of Moses. 00:14:36.040 --> 00:14:38.120 This is another covenant that was God had given Moses. 00:14:41.090 --> 00:14:43.500 the Pentateuch, the law, the books of the law. 00:14:44.460 --> 00:14:46.880 And this covenant was called the Mosaic Covenant. 00:14:47.640 --> 00:14:50.210 And this covenant was a conditional covenant. 00:14:50.920 --> 00:14:59.080 If you go to Leviticus and if you can stay asleep through all the begats, or stay awake through all the begats, right, you'll 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:02.000 see that God says, this is my law. 00:15:02.400 --> 00:15:05.360 I desire for you to keep it because you are my people and you're representing me. 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:10.220 But if you do this, if you transgress this law, there will be cursing. 00:15:10.660 --> 00:15:11.020 It's conditional. 00:15:11.880 --> 00:15:13.820 If you keep my law, I will bless you. 00:15:14.020 --> 00:15:15.500 I will take the nations away from you. 00:15:15.860 --> 00:15:17.030 You will live in peace. 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:20.050 Your land will be a land of fruit and honey. 00:15:20.400 --> 00:15:24.920 But if you do not abide by my law, cursing will fall upon you. 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:32.880 And so we see here through the history of Israel, how the kingdom was divided. 00:15:33.420 --> 00:15:35.380 And the ten tribes turned wicked right away. 00:15:35.400 --> 00:15:37.040 And they were let off into Assyria before Judah. 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.380 But Judah slowly and slowly began to depart from God. 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:49.160 They were violating the mosaic covenant, and so utter destruction because of they violated 00:15:49.160 --> 00:15:50.910 this conditional covenant. 00:15:52.340 --> 00:15:55.780 Cursing and destruction was required by the hand of God. 00:15:57.940 --> 00:16:00.910 Second Chronicles 3423 through 28 says, this is what the Lord says. 00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:09.060 So again, King Josiah, he says, go and inquire of the prophetess what God's 00:16:09.060 --> 00:16:15.020 going to do, because we are according to the Mosaic Law, we are going to get God's wrath. 00:16:15.780 --> 00:16:17.940 We have violated this conditional covenant. 00:16:18.760 --> 00:16:20.620 And so they went and inquired to the prophetess Huldah. 00:16:21.620 --> 00:16:22.800 And the prophetess said this. 00:16:23.580 --> 00:16:24.490 This is what the Lord says. 00:16:24.740 --> 00:16:31.880 I'm about to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants, fulfilling all the curses written in the book that they read in the presence 00:16:31.880 --> 00:16:32.600 of King Judah. 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:33.840 Right? 00:16:34.060 --> 00:16:38.560 God is faithful and just, and if he makes a covenant, he will stick to it. 00:16:40.400 --> 00:16:47.560 And so he said in verse 25, because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods, and in order to provoke me with all the 00:16:47.560 --> 00:16:53.500 works of their hands, my wrath will be poured out onto this place, and will be we will not be quenched. 00:16:55.190 --> 00:16:57.740 That's a pretty bad news. 00:16:58.280 --> 00:16:58.670 So we understand. 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:05.900 When the King first heard the book of the Law of Moses running his clothes. 00:17:05.900 --> 00:17:06.700 Right, he was in. 00:17:06.940 --> 00:17:07.280 He just. 00:17:07.280 --> 00:17:07.900 I can't believe it. 00:17:07.940 --> 00:17:10.380 My people, me, were all under God's wrath. 00:17:10.900 --> 00:17:12.960 Verse 26, say this to the King. 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:16.619 So the prophetess goes on, say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord. 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:19.200 This is what the Lord God of Israel says. 00:17:19.980 --> 00:17:27.099 As for the words that you heard and listen to this, because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself 00:17:27.099 --> 00:17:31.980 before God, when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants. 00:17:32.080 --> 00:17:38.860 And because you humbled yourself before me, and you tore your clothes and wept before me, I myself have heard, this is the Lord speaking. 00:17:39.580 --> 00:17:44.320 I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:47.530 Your eyes will not see the disaster that I'm bringing on this place. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:56.300 I will always remember when I first started reading through the entire Bible and coming across King Josiah, 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:01.060 and just how it resonated with me, because that's exactly how I felt. 00:18:02.360 --> 00:18:09.480 I, I, I try to do a lot of things in my life that were good, that I thought were going to be pleasing to God. 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:17.800 But when it came down to it, when I heard the word of the Lord and how his holiness and 00:18:17.840 --> 00:18:19.460 righteousness stood against my sin. 00:18:20.660 --> 00:18:22.340 I was in complete, I was destroyed. 00:18:23.420 --> 00:18:25.080 I knew I had nothing to offer God. 00:18:26.020 --> 00:18:27.220 Just as King Josiah did. 00:18:28.140 --> 00:18:31.000 But thankfully, my heart wasn't hardened. 00:18:31.080 --> 00:18:34.640 My heart was softened, and instead of running and hardening myself from God and running from him. 00:18:36.420 --> 00:18:43.520 I turned to him and I sought his mercy because I knew I alone could not 00:18:43.600 --> 00:18:44.080 do anything. 00:18:44.080 --> 00:18:47.000 And that's hopefully you can see that's what King Josiah did. 00:18:48.060 --> 00:18:50.420 He turned to God. 00:18:50.420 --> 00:18:57.420 He didn't say, tell the he didn't go to the prophet and say, go tell God all these good things I've been doing and see 00:18:57.420 --> 00:19:01.750 if he'll allow me to, save the people that way. 00:19:02.260 --> 00:19:02.840 He didn't do that. 00:19:02.900 --> 00:19:04.220 He didn't have anything to offer God. 00:19:04.600 --> 00:19:06.300 He just threw himself at God's mercy. 00:19:07.940 --> 00:19:15.000 And because his heart was tender and humbled himself, God said, I'm going to spare you the destruction that I'm going to send to the people. 00:19:16.980 --> 00:19:21.680 So that is a great example for us today. 00:19:23.140 --> 00:19:30.180 So as the narrative continues here in Second Chronicles 34 two, Josiah Recommits to the Mosaic Law. 00:19:31.100 --> 00:19:38.360 And so we see here next the King stood at his post and made a covenant to the Lord's presence to follow the Lord and to keep his commandments and decrees and his statutes 00:19:38.840 --> 00:19:43.260 with all his heart and with all his soul, in order to carry out the words of the covenant written in the book. 00:19:44.280 --> 00:19:52.180 So after he has seen what is required of him, he commits himself and his people to recommitting 00:19:52.180 --> 00:19:54.540 to the laws of the Book of Moses. 00:19:55.420 --> 00:19:59.120 And so they set out and renewed the practices of the temple. 00:19:59.620 --> 00:20:05.800 You'll see there in 1635 16 so all the service of the Lord was established that day for observing the Passover. 00:20:05.800 --> 00:20:12.030 All these different things, these different sacrifices that God had instituted in the book of the law of Moses and the Pentateuch. 00:20:12.860 --> 00:20:14.060 He they reinstated. 00:20:15.900 --> 00:20:21.480 And you'll find here in verse 18, no Passover had been like it in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. 00:20:21.540 --> 00:20:24.040 None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover. 00:20:24.300 --> 00:20:28.560 So all those things that were required of them as God's people, they hadn't been doing for a very long time. 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:35.740 And so God makes sure that he they understand that King Josiah recommitted to those things. 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:43.760 And so I minored in history when I first got out of high school, and I took this class 00:20:43.760 --> 00:20:44.620 called History Colloquium. 00:20:44.940 --> 00:20:52.200 And their intention was for the teacher was trying to get us to understand that if you really want to understand history, you got to take 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:59.220 yourself out of your own time and period and your own biases, and you got to insert yourself into the into the people 00:20:59.220 --> 00:21:02.580 of the time to really understand what's going on and all that stuff. 00:21:02.600 --> 00:21:06.400 And it's a great practice for us as Bible students as well to be able to do that. 00:21:06.840 --> 00:21:14.280 So imagine if you're if you're one of the faithful remnant who has clung to God and desired to see God work and has 00:21:14.280 --> 00:21:21.480 seen your nation slowly get dragged into idolatry and away from God, and you sing, King, this new king up 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:29.020 here, King Josiah, and he reads the cleanses of the land, and he recommits the people to maybe, just maybe, maybe 00:21:29.020 --> 00:21:34.980 God will have mercy on the entire nation and turn his anger away from us. 00:21:35.550 --> 00:21:42.620 Maybe, just maybe, God will use King Josiah as the king to fulfill the Davidic 00:21:42.660 --> 00:21:48.240 Covenant that King David's throne would rule forever and ever. 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:49.280 Maybe this is the king. 00:21:53.060 --> 00:21:54.240 And so we go on. 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:54.780 What happens? 00:21:56.300 --> 00:22:04.280 Second Chronicles 35 2324 after this, the that after all that Josiah had prepared for the temple, so 00:22:04.320 --> 00:22:04.670 they committed. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:05.710 They did the Passover. 00:22:05.880 --> 00:22:06.720 They did this once. 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:13.600 Nico, King of Egypt, marched up to fight some other foreign enemy, and Josiah went out to confront him. 00:22:15.320 --> 00:22:17.460 And let's continue on in verse 22. 00:22:17.460 --> 00:22:19.180 But Josiah did not turn away from him. 00:22:19.300 --> 00:22:22.260 Instead, in order to fight with him, he disguised himself. 00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:27.620 He did not listen to Nico's words from the mouth of God, but went to the valley of Megiddo to fight. 00:22:28.900 --> 00:22:35.980 So this king from Egypt, King Nico, was coming up to battle some other land, but Josiah decides to get in the middle 00:22:35.980 --> 00:22:42.680 of it and God, through King Nico, said, this isn't your fight, just let us pass. 00:22:43.180 --> 00:22:47.540 But Josiah instead turned and confronted him and we find out. 00:22:47.540 --> 00:22:54.720 In verse 23, the archers shot King Josiah, and he said to his servants, take me away, for 00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:55.540 I am severely wounded. 00:22:57.120 --> 00:22:58.840 And so you continue this narrative. 00:22:59.800 --> 00:23:04.260 King Josiah goes out after instituting the Passover and keeping it for one year. 00:23:04.840 --> 00:23:08.430 He goes out and he gets killed on the field of battle by King Necho. 00:23:10.020 --> 00:23:11.300 And. 00:23:13.740 --> 00:23:14.760 As you follow. 00:23:15.140 --> 00:23:18.260 It's getting close to the end of Chronicles and Kings now as you follow the kings. 00:23:18.900 --> 00:23:20.450 That wouldn't be about ten years til. 00:23:22.620 --> 00:23:26.680 Judah is led off into Babylonian captivity. 00:23:27.360 --> 00:23:34.500 The king, right after Josiah, was kind of Nico's main man, and they begin to do evil and begin to pull God's people 00:23:34.620 --> 00:23:37.260 away yet again to idols and strange gods. 00:23:38.600 --> 00:23:39.880 And so is it all for naught. 00:23:42.800 --> 00:23:45.280 Would God not be able to fulfill his promise to King David? 00:23:45.940 --> 00:23:50.540 These are all things that those people were confronted with, right? 00:23:50.540 --> 00:23:52.900 They've seen, and they have some scripture at this point. 00:23:52.980 --> 00:23:54.700 They know that God is faithful and has delivered them. 00:23:55.760 --> 00:23:57.140 you know what's going on? 00:23:57.580 --> 00:23:58.700 Is God able to do that? 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:05.500 there's an interesting tidbit, though, as I was, starting this out that I just thought was awesome. 00:24:06.800 --> 00:24:14.060 Second Chronicles 3522 says, but Josiah did not turn away from him, but went to the Valley of Megiddo to fight. 00:24:15.760 --> 00:24:18.840 The Hebrew word for Megiddo, the root word, is megadon. 00:24:20.340 --> 00:24:25.050 And this is a valley where many battles in the Bible occurred. 00:24:26.080 --> 00:24:26.180 Okay. 00:24:27.040 --> 00:24:31.600 And, at this particular geographic location stands a prominent mount. 00:24:32.340 --> 00:24:33.760 Next slide has a picture of it. 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:38.680 So you guys, you're standing on the mount and you're overlooking the Valley of Megiddo, right? 00:24:38.820 --> 00:24:39.980 And then you're on top of this mount. 00:24:41.340 --> 00:24:43.600 And in Hebrew, the word for mount is holler. 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:47.440 And so they call this mount Megadon Armageddon. 00:24:49.180 --> 00:24:49.280 Okay. 00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:54.360 And the interesting tidbit that I thought was, you know what? 00:24:54.360 --> 00:24:57.430 This is translated into English in our New Testament Armageddon. 00:24:59.840 --> 00:25:00.140 Set A. 00:25:01.620 --> 00:25:03.000 People have heard of Armageddon before. 00:25:04.500 --> 00:25:05.660 So this is the same place. 00:25:06.500 --> 00:25:10.000 This valley of Megiddo, where King Josiah died, is the same place. 00:25:11.700 --> 00:25:17.740 that revelation speaks of in the valley of or the mount of Megadon, which is Armageddon. 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:23.340 So, that's the end of the story, right? 00:25:23.360 --> 00:25:29.240 God has progressively revealed his, his rescue mission through the scriptures. 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:30.820 He starts with creation in Genesis. 00:25:31.260 --> 00:25:34.900 He reveals this Messiah that would come through the prophets, priests and kings. 00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:39.440 He reveals the offices that this Messiah would go, would fulfill. 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:46.660 And, and then so we get to see progressively God progressively showing how he's going to rescue his people 00:25:46.660 --> 00:25:47.220 through time. 00:25:48.420 --> 00:25:50.940 And the book of Revelation is the end of that story, right? 00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:52.320 It's the end. 00:25:53.060 --> 00:25:54.210 I have a little hint for you. 00:25:54.540 --> 00:25:56.120 Jesus wins, right? 00:25:57.020 --> 00:25:57.600 Jesus wins. 00:25:57.600 --> 00:25:58.450 But it's the end of the story. 00:25:58.520 --> 00:25:59.820 We have the complete story. 00:26:00.680 --> 00:26:08.140 And so this Armageddon, this place, if you'll go with me to revelation 16, this is a place where this final epic 00:26:08.140 --> 00:26:15.400 battle is going to happen between all the kings and nations that are against the Lord are going to come into that valley and come 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:17.320 up to fight the Lord. 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:25.260 And in revelation 19, we see this picture of this person who is 00:26:25.340 --> 00:26:30.920 going to fight this final, last battle against God's adversaries and enemies. 00:26:32.180 --> 00:26:36.920 Revelation 19 verse 11 says, then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse. 00:26:37.220 --> 00:26:42.300 Its rider is called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 00:26:42.860 --> 00:26:47.740 His eyes were like a fiery flame, and his head and on his head were many crowns. 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:51.640 He had a name written that no one knows except himself. 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:54.440 He wore a robe stained with blood. 00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:56.500 And his name is called the Word of God. 00:26:57.740 --> 00:27:02.360 The armies that were in heaven followed him on white horses wearing pure white linen. 00:27:02.360 --> 00:27:06.420 From his mouth came a sharp sword, so that with it he might strike the nations. 00:27:07.500 --> 00:27:09.520 He will shepherd them with an iron scepter. 00:27:09.880 --> 00:27:14.710 He will also trample the winepress of the fierce anger of God Almighty. 00:27:16.780 --> 00:27:17.940 This is the end of the story. 00:27:17.940 --> 00:27:20.440 This is where God ends. 00:27:21.080 --> 00:27:23.500 It ends evil and ends sin once and for all. 00:27:24.540 --> 00:27:26.180 Revelation 1916. 00:27:26.180 --> 00:27:30.400 And on his robe and on his thigh he has a name written wait for it. 00:27:32.860 --> 00:27:34.160 Wait for it. 00:27:34.540 --> 00:27:34.740 All right. 00:27:34.820 --> 00:27:35.180 It's not going to happen. 00:27:35.700 --> 00:27:36.130 There it is. 00:27:36.340 --> 00:27:36.950 King of kings. 00:27:38.800 --> 00:27:39.360 And Lord of Lords. 00:27:42.280 --> 00:27:49.340 So isn't it amazing that where Josiah fell and maybe the hopes of God's faithful remnant 00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:57.200 were dashed, is the same place where God's King of Kings is going to come and fulfill 00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:59.320 the Davidic Covenant once and for all. 00:28:00.600 --> 00:28:01.060 It's just amazing. 00:28:02.620 --> 00:28:03.500 Joseph Tsai said this. 00:28:03.500 --> 00:28:10.620 And where God's king Josiah and mortal flesh thus fell a victim to the power of the heathen, there God's King Jesus the 00:28:10.620 --> 00:28:14.300 Christ, and resurrection glory shall revenge himself on his enemies. 00:28:15.180 --> 00:28:17.040 It was the valley and Josiah's fall. 00:28:17.640 --> 00:28:20.850 It is the mount of Messiah's victory. 00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:23.000 Amazing. 00:28:24.660 --> 00:28:29.600 The Davidic Covenant is what will be fulfilled or is fulfilled through Jesus. 00:28:30.860 --> 00:28:31.500 King Jesus. 00:28:32.320 --> 00:28:35.020 As revelation continues on, King Jesus will indeed avenge himself. 00:28:37.550 --> 00:28:39.880 21.57, says the one seated on the throne. 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:41.260 He assumes his throne. 00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:44.880 Look, I am making everything new. 00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:49.340 He also said, write because these words are faithful and they're true. 00:28:50.180 --> 00:28:51.390 And this is a time coming. 00:28:52.180 --> 00:28:53.900 And he said to me, it is done. 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:57.460 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. 00:28:57.780 --> 00:29:03.400 I will give to the thirsty from the spring of living water as a gift. 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:10.480 So there's some people that are benefiting from God's kingdom and Jesus being king. 00:29:10.500 --> 00:29:11.240 But look on. 00:29:11.800 --> 00:29:13.460 And he said to me, oh, sorry. 00:29:14.260 --> 00:29:17.890 Verse seven, the victor will inherit these things, and I will be his God, and he will be my son. 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:21.500 But as we read on here, I can flip the page. 00:29:23.360 --> 00:29:25.500 But the cowards. 00:29:26.340 --> 00:29:33.580 The unbelievers, vile murderers, sexual, immoral, sorcerers, idolaters and all liars their 00:29:33.580 --> 00:29:39.620 share will be with will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death. 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:42.890 The second death is death is separation. 00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:48.670 And the second death speaks of us being completely separated from our maker for all of eternity. 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:50.350 It's a death, a spiritual death. 00:29:50.560 --> 00:29:56.020 We're separated from God for eternity, and he pronounces judgment on all those things. 00:29:56.580 --> 00:29:58.560 And to be honest, the first few I can. 00:29:58.920 --> 00:29:59.600 I can go with you. 00:29:59.760 --> 00:29:59.860 Night. 00:30:00.600 --> 00:30:01.260 Vile murderer. 00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:03.400 Sexual moral sorcerers, idolaters, of course. 00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:04.480 Right. 00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:06.350 But then it says all liars. 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:08.100 Ouch! 00:30:09.700 --> 00:30:10.140 That hurts. 00:30:12.600 --> 00:30:13.440 That includes me. 00:30:22.600 --> 00:30:25.060 And this goes to the mosaic covenant. 00:30:25.320 --> 00:30:26.360 Let's go back to the Mosaic Covenant. 00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:30.000 The in the mosaic covenant is the Ten Commandments. 00:30:30.760 --> 00:30:37.280 The Ten Commandments are a perfect picture, or a just kind of a highlight of God's character and who he is and who he desires us to be. 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:39.520 And he lays out the ten laws, right? 00:30:39.540 --> 00:30:40.860 And thou shalt not bear false witness. 00:30:41.580 --> 00:30:41.740 Right? 00:30:41.840 --> 00:30:48.840 Well, unless, you know you've never lied, that you've violated the mosaic covenant 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:49.180 as well. 00:30:50.840 --> 00:30:53.580 James 210 has a half brother wrote in the book of James. 00:30:53.660 --> 00:30:57.670 He says, he that keeps the whole law, if you keep it all, but yet offends. 00:30:57.800 --> 00:31:00.320 In one point he is guilty of all. 00:31:01.280 --> 00:31:03.240 And you and I might say, well, lying is not such a big deal. 00:31:03.460 --> 00:31:03.780 What's that? 00:31:03.820 --> 00:31:04.980 Well, we don't understand. 00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:06.880 We're kind of skewed. 00:31:07.260 --> 00:31:09.800 We're not God, we don't understand his holiness. 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:14.480 We don't understand that he desires that he cannot be in the presence of any sin. 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.380 And we have violated the mosaic covenant as well. 00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:20.570 And those people. 00:31:23.220 --> 00:31:30.340 all who violate the mosaic covenant are given this curse, this second death, this eternal 00:31:30.340 --> 00:31:31.540 separation from God. 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:34.060 And that's pretty bad news, right? 00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:35.540 I remember when I first heard it. 00:31:36.320 --> 00:31:40.080 Like I said, I thought I had some good things that I could offer God that would outweigh my bad things. 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:47.900 But when the book of the Law of Moses showed me that indeed I was guilty before a holy 00:31:47.900 --> 00:31:53.040 God, that my sin would not allow me to have be reconciled to him. 00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:58.300 It was some pretty bad news, and that's at the end of the story. 00:31:58.820 --> 00:32:00.960 But thankfully there's some good news, right? 00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:03.810 The good news is found in the middle of the story. 00:32:04.780 --> 00:32:06.290 And so let's go back there in Matthew. 00:32:06.600 --> 00:32:13.700 Matthew is the first book in the New Testament, and I love that whoever decided the order of the of the New Testament put Matthew first, because 00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:21.200 it's the it's the perfect bridge between the old and the New Testament, because what it starts off with, first and foremost is king or 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:28.200 king Jesus's lineage, going back all the way back to King David, fulfilling the Davidic covenant. 00:32:28.280 --> 00:32:31.710 So this book was written to the Jews as saying, this is your king. 00:32:32.760 --> 00:32:34.850 This is the king that God promised. 00:32:36.260 --> 00:32:36.360 And. 00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:45.460 Matthew 123 says, see this virgin? 00:32:45.460 --> 00:32:51.540 So in the book of Matthew it gives the lineage, and then it goes on to say, see, the Virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son. 00:32:51.560 --> 00:32:56.540 This is an Old Testament prophecy that was given 800 years prior to Christ's coming. 00:32:57.320 --> 00:33:02.220 And they will name him Immanuel, which is translated God is with us. 00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:04.140 This is an eternal King. 00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:10.220 This isn't a human king who will die and hope that his son comes up. 00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:11.940 He's an eternal king and he will reign forever. 00:33:12.700 --> 00:33:19.740 121 says she will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from 00:33:19.740 --> 00:33:20.300 their sins. 00:33:21.540 --> 00:33:25.740 The Hebrew word for Jesus is Yeshua and it means the Lord is salvation. 00:33:26.180 --> 00:33:33.320 So it was all planned from the beginning of time that this Messiah would come, that God would step into his creation to save 00:33:33.320 --> 00:33:35.420 a people from their sins. 00:33:37.560 --> 00:33:40.560 And then the Book of Matthew also contains the sermon on the Mount. 00:33:41.560 --> 00:33:44.580 That's located in Matthew five, chapters five through seven. 00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:51.700 and the sermon on the Mount is just a great sermon that Jesus got up on the Mount, and he spoke, and blessed are the right. 00:33:52.340 --> 00:33:53.450 And it's just a wonderful sermon. 00:33:53.580 --> 00:33:55.640 And there's so many things loaded in there. 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:02.320 and like I said earlier, the Ten Commandments of the Mosaic Law demonstrate that we're all sinned. 00:34:02.320 --> 00:34:03.440 We've all sinned against God. 00:34:04.120 --> 00:34:06.050 And so Jesus stands up and he. 00:34:07.820 --> 00:34:10.790 Takes the law and even goes further with it. 00:34:11.460 --> 00:34:18.520 Not only are you not to commit adultery, he says, if you think on a woman with lust in your heart, you've committed adultery in your heart. 00:34:19.060 --> 00:34:19.199 Right? 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:20.300 He expounds on the law. 00:34:21.120 --> 00:34:22.400 He even sets the mark in. 00:34:22.420 --> 00:34:27.420 548 be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly father is perfect. 00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:30.280 So, King Josiah moment, I hope. 00:34:31.540 --> 00:34:34.580 That some of you have had or are having now, or will have someday. 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:35.980 Wow. 00:34:36.940 --> 00:34:40.120 Before a holy God, I have nothing to offer. 00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:41.790 I have sinned. 00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:44.600 I have violated his conditional covenant. 00:34:46.520 --> 00:34:47.639 It's a King Josiah moment. 00:34:48.100 --> 00:34:50.750 But the thing is we must take the entire sermon into account. 00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:58.980 And before the Lord began expounding and adding or not adding, but explaining to the Pharisees, who on the outside kept the law, but 00:34:58.980 --> 00:35:01.020 in their hearts they were wicked as all of us. 00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:02.620 And Jesus was trying to point that out. 00:35:03.020 --> 00:35:07.040 He says in 517, don't assume that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. 00:35:07.200 --> 00:35:09.720 I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill. 00:35:11.120 --> 00:35:18.240 He came to fulfill the law, and Christ was indicating to them that he came to fulfill the law in every aspect, because he 00:35:18.240 --> 00:35:21.260 was God, and he did not have this sin nature that we were inherited with. 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:29.080 According to Romans chapter five, from the seed of from seed of Adam, because he was God, he could keep the law 00:35:29.080 --> 00:35:29.180 perfectly. 00:35:30.660 --> 00:35:37.680 And he came into creation, and he kept the law perfectly, not to just prove that he could do it, but he did that because he loves us 00:35:38.260 --> 00:35:40.600 and he loves you, and he did it for you. 00:35:42.300 --> 00:35:43.160 He did it for you. 00:35:43.160 --> 00:35:44.460 He did what you could not do. 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:46.580 He knew. 00:35:46.620 --> 00:35:49.080 Just as we know the compassionate High Priest. 00:35:49.240 --> 00:35:53.120 The book of Hebrews calls him that he we needed an intercessor. 00:35:54.640 --> 00:35:56.970 And so he came and he fulfilled that law perfectly. 00:35:58.140 --> 00:35:58.800 Be perfect. 00:35:59.380 --> 00:36:00.220 Christ was perfect. 00:36:02.340 --> 00:36:04.160 And I don't have time. 00:36:05.020 --> 00:36:07.500 Nathaniel gave me like 4 or 5 weeks to prepare. 00:36:07.580 --> 00:36:11.000 And so when I got done, the first sermon was like three hours long. 00:36:13.080 --> 00:36:15.360 But don't worry, it's only two hours, so we're good. 00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:15.540 No. 00:36:15.560 --> 00:36:15.820 I'm teasing. 00:36:16.540 --> 00:36:16.970 We're almost done. 00:36:18.680 --> 00:36:19.620 Just kidding. 00:36:21.120 --> 00:36:22.110 My uncle has given me. 00:36:22.300 --> 00:36:22.420 What? 00:36:22.660 --> 00:36:23.480 Come on. 00:36:24.520 --> 00:36:24.840 All right. 00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:31.800 So, in essence, there's one verse that captures what the New Testament progressively reveals. 00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:37.340 That Jesus came to fulfill the law so that he could be our substitute on the cross. 00:36:37.940 --> 00:36:45.180 He came, fulfilled the law, so that the scriptures say he's the spotless Lamb of God that came to take the sins of 00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:47.400 the world and put them on himself. 00:36:47.520 --> 00:36:54.520 So we know and hopefully, the story that Jesus grew to be a man and he did miracles and showed people 00:36:54.520 --> 00:36:58.880 that he was indeed God in the flesh because he had power over all things. 00:36:59.660 --> 00:37:00.760 He lived the law perfectly. 00:37:01.300 --> 00:37:02.090 He fulfilled it in every. 00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:04.600 And then he willingly went to the cross. 00:37:05.820 --> 00:37:08.870 And on that cross the scriptures declare that for three hours. 00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:13.380 It turned dark. 00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:16.130 And it was there. 00:37:19.660 --> 00:37:26.740 That the amputation happened where God punished Christ on our behalf for 00:37:26.740 --> 00:37:29.300 every sin that we have ever committed. 00:37:31.100 --> 00:37:38.660 And it was there that the Lamb of God without sin, as Second Corinthians 520 says, he made 00:37:38.660 --> 00:37:45.760 the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness 00:37:46.020 --> 00:37:46.240 of God. 00:37:47.020 --> 00:37:47.740 He came without sin. 00:37:50.240 --> 00:37:52.080 And he went to the cross to be sin for us. 00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:54.030 And so it's called the Great Exchange. 00:37:55.760 --> 00:38:02.900 All those who believe and trust in the gospel that this Messiah came and he declared, whoever believes in me and my mission and what 00:38:02.900 --> 00:38:09.580 I'm doing and trust in my accomplished works will have be inherited into the kingdom, into my kingdom. 00:38:10.600 --> 00:38:17.600 That kingdom that revelation 21 is talking about, where we drink from the spring of waters, of living life, where we have eternity, where there 00:38:17.600 --> 00:38:23.960 is no more sorrow or no more tears, no more sin to fight with every day all those things will be given to you. 00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:30.980 If you just trust and believe in my vicarious work on the cross, he said again, 00:38:30.980 --> 00:38:35.540 again in Matthew, telling his disciples, I must go and I must die. 00:38:36.120 --> 00:38:37.240 And on the third day I will rise. 00:38:38.200 --> 00:38:45.400 That was his mission to fulfill the law, to become sin for us on the cross, so that we in turn, because 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:50.400 God is love as also as well as just and holy. 00:38:50.980 --> 00:38:52.060 He's also a God of love. 00:38:52.660 --> 00:38:55.580 He desires that to have a reconciliation between us. 00:38:56.400 --> 00:39:01.140 And so he punishes Jesus and in turn we get Christ's righteousness. 00:39:04.660 --> 00:39:05.980 What do we do for it? 00:39:09.120 --> 00:39:11.580 We believe and trust in it. 00:39:11.700 --> 00:39:12.700 It's nothing that we could do. 00:39:13.380 --> 00:39:15.310 We should all have had our King Josiah moment. 00:39:16.600 --> 00:39:17.760 There's really nothing I can do. 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:18.210 I'm in trouble. 00:39:20.260 --> 00:39:22.840 But Jesus came on a rescue mission. 00:39:24.020 --> 00:39:24.800 He is the king. 00:39:27.020 --> 00:39:29.480 They came to seek and to save those who are lost. 00:39:30.460 --> 00:39:37.480 And if we trust in the cross, this wonderful thing called regeneration happens where as we trust and we 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:43.480 don't harden our hearts from God and run away from God, but we have a King Josiah moment and say, I'm in a lot of trouble. 00:39:43.660 --> 00:39:49.120 I'm running to God, and I'm going to ask for his mercy and his grace, because that's the only thing that I have. 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:50.400 Guess what? 00:39:50.720 --> 00:39:53.070 He's made a way through grace and mercy. 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:59.080 We get Christ righteousness, we're added into his kingdom. 00:39:59.100 --> 00:40:03.720 John 112 says, for whoever believes in him shall be the sons of God. 00:40:05.080 --> 00:40:06.000 We're added to those things. 00:40:06.080 --> 00:40:13.460 We become royal heirs to Christ, all these amazing things that we can't do anything to deserve. 00:40:14.380 --> 00:40:20.300 But that, as an expression of his love, has given us through Christ's atoning sacrifice. 00:40:22.700 --> 00:40:22.820 So. 00:40:22.820 --> 00:40:23.420 Closing thoughts. 00:40:25.080 --> 00:40:26.320 Finally, huh? 00:40:26.460 --> 00:40:30.800 Christ's substitutionary atonement can apply to you unless you have some type of King Josiah moment. 00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:34.240 I talk with a lot of people, and they. 00:40:34.900 --> 00:40:41.400 It seems like they just kind of add Jesus to their list of their good things or their church membership or whatever. 00:40:41.860 --> 00:40:49.240 And in order to have the this gospel, this great exchange occur, you must understand that you cannot appease 00:40:49.300 --> 00:40:49.980 God with your works. 00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:53.180 You have to have that moment that I am in trouble. 00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:57.020 I have violated his unconditional or his conditional covenant. 00:40:58.460 --> 00:41:03.400 And it's only then when we instead we have a we don't harden ourselves, but we turn to God. 00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:06.120 That God. 00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:10.490 Regenerates us and gives us that wonderful gift of salvation. 00:41:11.420 --> 00:41:18.240 The gospel can't be good news until you realize that the bad news applies to you is basically what the King Josiah moment. 00:41:20.420 --> 00:41:27.440 And as far as Christian, if you're a Christian here and you've been walking with the Lord, you know I'm not 00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:28.000 the Holy Spirit. 00:41:28.260 --> 00:41:31.220 So I don't know what what's going on in your heart and your mind right now. 00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:34.700 But there's a few things that, as I was studying this out that have occurred to me. 00:41:35.560 --> 00:41:41.960 And so just questions, I say, Lord, almost as like a habit now. 00:41:42.120 --> 00:41:43.030 Oh Lord, praise the Lord. 00:41:44.060 --> 00:41:44.180 Right? 00:41:44.560 --> 00:41:45.000 Oh Lord. 00:41:45.040 --> 00:41:47.350 You know, dear Lord, what does the Lord mean? 00:41:48.480 --> 00:41:48.720 Do you? 00:41:49.720 --> 00:41:54.140 I sometimes I just get so swept away that I forget that Jesus is my king. 00:41:55.740 --> 00:41:56.390 He's my king. 00:41:57.660 --> 00:41:58.460 This king that. 00:41:58.540 --> 00:41:58.960 This hero. 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:00.240 King that died for me. 00:42:02.720 --> 00:42:04.060 When's the last time you thought about that? 00:42:05.080 --> 00:42:06.400 It's been a while for me, I admit. 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:11.280 And so because of that, he wants to rule and reign in our lives. 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:17.520 He didn't save us as we know, just to go out and sin whenever we want, right? 00:42:17.580 --> 00:42:19.350 He saved us to be conformed to the image of Christ. 00:42:19.780 --> 00:42:26.780 We know that through him we have the ability to walk in righteousness because his grace empowers 00:42:26.780 --> 00:42:26.900 us. 00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:36.340 But if he wants to rule in our lives, what areas of your life have you not allowed 00:42:36.340 --> 00:42:36.980 him to reign in? 00:42:38.780 --> 00:42:40.720 I'm a compartmental guy, right? 00:42:41.380 --> 00:42:42.100 Don't ask me to multitask. 00:42:42.460 --> 00:42:42.800 Not very well. 00:42:43.240 --> 00:42:44.190 Not very good at that. 00:42:45.660 --> 00:42:45.820 But. 00:42:45.940 --> 00:42:48.440 And so some things I let Jesus rule and reign in. 00:42:49.100 --> 00:42:50.460 Right when I'm home. 00:42:50.860 --> 00:42:51.620 Family's around. 00:42:51.620 --> 00:42:52.930 I want Jesus front and center. 00:42:53.640 --> 00:43:00.680 But when it's Friday night and it's 3:00 and I have this terrible customer, and I just want to do a bunch of shortcuts to get 00:43:00.700 --> 00:43:01.190 out of there. 00:43:02.720 --> 00:43:07.780 You know, the Bible declares that I should be working not for my boss, but as I were working for Jesus. 00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:09.540 Right? 00:43:09.540 --> 00:43:11.160 Do I give him the ability to reign? 00:43:11.200 --> 00:43:11.560 Probably not. 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:12.620 Just. 00:43:12.640 --> 00:43:13.420 I'm just saying that's for me. 00:43:14.420 --> 00:43:16.320 So there's several different areas in my life that I. 00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:19.460 I compartmentalize God or Jesus. 00:43:19.460 --> 00:43:22.020 You can reign here, but this area is off limits. 00:43:24.300 --> 00:43:31.100 Scripture declares that peace and joy come when we just say when we have another King Josiah moment. 00:43:32.560 --> 00:43:32.780 God. 00:43:33.060 --> 00:43:33.460 It's yours. 00:43:34.260 --> 00:43:34.960 I have nothing to offer. 00:43:36.600 --> 00:43:38.070 I need you in this area of my life. 00:43:40.700 --> 00:43:42.560 So just some things to think about. 00:43:43.200 --> 00:43:47.460 If you're the first time you've heard of this gospel and you have questions, you're confused. 00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:48.300 I'm going to be at the back corner. 00:43:49.100 --> 00:43:56.280 I'd love to be able to talk to you about the gospel of Jesus Christ in this great exchange, but just remember and 00:43:56.280 --> 00:43:57.120 I'll answer your questions. 00:43:57.180 --> 00:43:59.820 I'll be more than happy to, I remember I can't save you. 00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:01.800 Jesus. 00:44:03.560 --> 00:44:05.640 Accomplished work on the cross can save you. 00:44:06.420 --> 00:44:13.620 And if you desire that to be true and evident in your life, if you have that King Josiah moment right where you are, 00:44:14.780 --> 00:44:15.360 turn to God. 00:44:16.580 --> 00:44:19.380 And fall on his mercy and his grace and ask. 00:44:20.490 --> 00:44:24.030 To be saved and to be added into God's kingdom. 00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:28.420 I just wanted to close with this video. 00:44:29.160 --> 00:44:32.660 I saw this video a few, um. 00:44:32.660 --> 00:44:33.500 A few years ago. 00:44:33.500 --> 00:44:34.120 I just thought it was great. 00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:36.120 It's just this perfect for me. 00:44:36.120 --> 00:44:42.240 A great example of what it means to be walking, doing your own thing and then encountering Jesus. 00:44:42.880 --> 00:44:45.220 Having that King Josiah moment in your life forever changed. 00:44:46.300 --> 00:44:47.220 So I hope you like it. 00:45:05.040 --> 00:45:06.730 I will live my life according to these beliefs. 00:45:07.520 --> 00:45:09.020 God does not exist. 00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:16.820 It's just foolish to think that there is an all knowing God with a cosmic plan, that an all powerful God brings purpose to the pain 00:45:16.820 --> 00:45:19.250 and suffering in the world is a comforting thought. 00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:22.580 However, it is only wishful thinking. 00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:25.310 People can do as they please without eternal consequences. 00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:32.160 The idea that I am deserving of hell because of sin is a lie, meant to make me a slave to those in power. 00:45:33.040 --> 00:45:35.220 The more you have, the happier you will be. 00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:38.740 Our existence has no grand meaning or purpose. 00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:43.190 In a world with no God, there's freedom to be who I want to be. 00:45:43.620 --> 00:45:47.260 But with God, life is an endless cycle of guilt and shame. 00:45:48.240 --> 00:45:50.480 Without God, everything is fine. 00:45:50.900 --> 00:45:53.540 It is ridiculous to think I am lost in need of saving. 00:45:54.860 --> 00:46:00.910 And that's how I felt before Christ opened my eyes, changed my heart, and reversed my thinking. 00:46:02.820 --> 00:46:06.220 I am lost and in need of saving. 00:46:07.040 --> 00:46:10.060 It is ridiculous to think everything is fine without God. 00:46:10.640 --> 00:46:17.880 Life is an endless cycle of guilt and shame, but with God, there is freedom to be who I want to be in 00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:19.260 a world with no God. 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:21.760 Our existence has no grand meaning or purpose. 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:24.990 The more you have, the happier you will be. 00:46:25.340 --> 00:46:32.330 Is a lie meant to make me a slave to those in power because of sin, I am deserving of hell. 00:46:32.800 --> 00:46:38.060 The idea that people can do as they please without eternal consequences is only wishful thinking. 00:46:39.100 --> 00:46:46.100 It is a comforting thought, however, that an all powerful God brings purpose to the pain and suffering in the world, that there is an all 00:46:46.100 --> 00:46:47.890 knowing God with a cosmic plan. 00:46:48.940 --> 00:46:50.770 It's foolish to think God does not exist. 00:46:51.640 --> 00:46:53.480 I will live my life according to these beliefs.