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What is the use of being great if we are unfaithful to God

1 Chronicles 5:23-26 (NIV)
The people of the half-tribe of Manasseh were numerous; they settled in the land from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir (Mount Hermon).

A remnant = God left a remnant at Conway of the poorest. Lord help me build up your remnant

2 Kings 25:12 (NIV)
But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

Serve the Lord with everything in accordance to the law

2 Kings 23:25 (NIV)
Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the lord as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.

Removal of sin must be violent

2 Kings 23:8 (NIV)
Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate.

Idolatry was in the temple. What have we let into God's temple? (body/ church)

2 Kings 23:7 (NIV)
He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the temple of the lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

I will heal you

2 Kings 20:5 (NIV)
"Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, 'This is what the lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the lord.

Go back/ I have heard your prayers/ I have seen your tears

2 Kings 20:5 (NIV)
"Go back and tell Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, 'This is what the lord, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the temple of the lord.

Remember Lord/ he wept bitterly

2 Kings 20:3 (NIV)
"Remember, lord, how I have walked before you faithfully and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes." And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Put your house in order

2 Kings 20:1 (NIV)
In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, "This is what the lord says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover."

Wow! God defends us!!!

2 Kings 19:5 (NIV)
When King Hezekiah's officials came to Isaiah,

2 Kings 19:35 (NIV)
That night the angel of the lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

Lord help to trust. Hold my hand!

2 Kings 18:5 (NIV)
Hezekiah trusted in the lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him.

For there to be order I have to remove evil

2 Kings 18:3-4 (NIV)
He did what was right in the eyes of the lord, just as his father David had done.

They followed worthless Idols and. Became worthless

2 Kings 17:15 (NIV)
They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the lord had ordered them, "Do not do as they do."

Stiff-necked

2 Kings 17:14 (NIV)
But they would not listen and were as stiff-necked as their ancestors, who did not trust in the lord their God.

Who is influencing our children

2 Kings 16:2-3 (NIV)
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the lord his God.

There are things we need to turn away from

2 Kings 15:28 (NIV)
He did evil in the eyes of the lord. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.

God will cut short our position if we choose to live in sin

2 Kings 15:13 (NIV)
Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned in Samaria one month.

I have to be willing to bring down the wrong at church

2 Kings 15:9 (NIV)
He did evil in the eyes of the lord, as his predecessors had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.

Victory can bring about pride

2 Kings 14:8-12 (NIV)
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, with the challenge: "Come, let us face each other in battle."

God is watching our good

2 Kings 14:3 (NIV)
He did what was right in the eyes of the lord, but not as his father David had done. In everything he followed the example of his father Joash.

The power to give life

2 Kings 13:20-21 (NIV)
Elisha died and was buried. Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring.

God is watching, how is he going to judge us?

2 Kings 13:2 (NIV)
He did evil in the eyes of the lord by following the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit, and he did not turn away from them.

To be a spiritual hero we must be honest

2 Kings 12:15 (NIV)
They did not require an accounting from those to whom they gave the money to pay the workers, because they acted with complete honesty.

The spiritual keen know

2 Kings 8:12 (NIV)
"Why is my lord weeping?" asked Hazael. "Because I know the harm you will do to the Israelites," he answered. "You will set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women."

Don't freak out/ keep the form

2 Kings 6:16-17 (NIV)
"Don't be afraid," the prophet answered. "Those who are with us are more than those who are with them."