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2 Chronicles 30:9 • Not Just For Ourselves

Saturday, February 20th, 2010
“‘For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.'”
    —2 Chronicles 30:9 (NASB)

Hezekiah makes a very interesting appeal to the remnant of God’s people left in Judah who Hezekiah is calling back to the Lord. He states that returning to God’s Word and ways is not only beneficial for the each individual so doing, but that it will have the same kind of effect on God’s people belonging to the northern kingdom of Israel who have already been carried away into captivity. In other words, personal faithfulness is not just something whose effects are limited solely to each individual, but provide something tangible for fellow believers as well. I don’t think we seriously consider that when we succeed or fail in our spiritual relationship with Christ that the benefits or detriments are not limited exclusively to just us alone.
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2 Chronicles 29:5-7 • Re-Open the Doors

Friday, February 19th, 2010
“Then he said to them, ‘Listen to me, O Levites. Consecrate yourselves now, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry the uncleanness out from the holy place. For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and have forsaken Him and turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and have turned their backs. They have also shut the doors of the porch and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.'”
    —2 Chronicles 29:5-7 (NASB)

In Hezekiah’s time the problem he faced wasn’t simply that God’s people were not worshiping and serving God according to biblical standards, the problem is they came to a point where they were not serving at all! The priests and Levites ceased working, worship and service activities stopped, and ultimately the whole thing was just closed down completely. There was no way to worship and serve the One True God as dictated by His Word because they weren’t merely unfaithful to His Word, but “have forsaken Him and turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and have turned their backs“. I just can’t help seeing that to a large degree this is happening again today where people are not simply going to a church with “lower standards”, but something so closed off that it is impossible to serve and worship at even the most fundamental level.
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2 Chronicles 28:9-11 • The Oldest Excuse

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
“But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army which came to Samaria and said to them, ‘Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, He has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has even reached heaven. Now you are proposing to subjugate for yourselves the people of Judah and Jerusalem for male and female slaves. Surely, do you not have transgressions of your own against the Lord your God? Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives whom you captured from your brothers, for the burning anger of the Lord is against you.'”
    —2 Chronicles 28:9-11 (NASB)

There is a very strange argument which I can now see is as old as time itself and goes something like this: “I know I’m sinning but look at him, look at what he’s doing; he’s much worse than me“. I have always been perplexed by the rationalization that no one is permitted to point out a sin or weakness on the basis that there are others in the immediate vicinity with sin and weakness of their own. I suppose it reveals that there is a basic deception in force that renders the bearer blind to the repeated biblical teaching that each will be judged individually and not exempted from the consequences just because others have been doing the same or worse.
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2 Chronicles 27:6 • What is the Game Plan?

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
“So Jotham became mighty because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.”
    —2 Chronicles 27:6 (NASB)

Here is a verse you just never see quoted by the Faith-Prosperity people who love to pull Old Testament verses out of context in their claims of a guarantee of material wealth in this life. Jotham’s accomplishment aren’t attributed to some kind of Word-Faith formula but “because he ordered his ways“. There are many people in the Bible whom God blessed materially, but none of which were not first and foremost committed to ordering their ways before Him. Spiritual faithfulness is always priority one with such biblical role models. But this simple verse also raises the issue of what, exactly, is our plan? What are we setting out to accomplish when it comes to a personal relationship with Christ?
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2 Chronicles 26:5, 16 • When It All Goes Wrong

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
“He continued to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding through the vision of God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God prospered him…But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the Lord his God, for he entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.”
    —2 Chronicles 26:5, 16 (NASB)

One of the things we can learn by studying the 20 individuals who sat on the throne of the southern kingdom of Judah is what they tell us about various kinds of spiritual leaders we may encounter within the church. A few seem hopelessly bad from beginning to end, a few lead God’s people into legitimate revival, but most of them seem to struggle in their personal lives much the same way every believer struggles. What causes a good leader to fall who has built a great movement or organization to the Lord and whose overall track record was (at one time) listening to the Word of God through those sent by Him? Pride. Even in our time there have been many a good leader who began right but ended badly because of personal pride.
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2 Chronicles 25:14-15 • Dressing Things Up

Monday, February 15th, 2010
“Now after Amaziah came from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, set them up as his gods, bowed down before them and burned incense to them. Then the anger of the Lord burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet who said to him, ‘Why have you sought the gods of the people who have not delivered their own people from your hand?'”
    —2 Chronicles 25:14-16 (NASB)

It is the apostle Paul’s admonition that one of the main reasons we are to study the Old Testament is to learn from and not repeat the mistakes so well-documented there. :”(1 Corinthians 10:1-13)”: Some of their examples seem obvious but others, such as Amaziah, do not seem so straightforward. The guy is following God and then just seems to up and abandon every ounce of good sense he had in favor of actually working against God. Having experienced victory and success in the Lord, he unexpectedly embraced the gods of the very losers he defeated. Well, now that I think about it, perhaps this isn’t a crazy and isolated strange behavior after all. Even in the recent history of the church over the past 50 years we have witnessed alarmingly similar behavior.
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2 Chronicles 23:11 • The Crown, the Anointing, & the Testimony

Sunday, February 14th, 2010
“Then they brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him, and gave him the testimony and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said, ‘Long live the king!'”
    —2 Chronicles 23:11 (NASB)

In the course of the priest Jehoiada rightfully restoring to the throne Ahaziah’s son Joash we are provided an example of a kind of reverse role of leadership. Most of the examples of good kings of Judah who led a spiritual revival did so as a result of their own personal rediscovery and return to God’s Word; Joash is initially provided the foundation of God’s Word (“gave him the testimony“) by the people. They knew that the current leadership was not just wrong from an earthly point of view, but spiritually as well and sought to re-establish leadership based on God’s Word themselves. Wouldn’t it be something if every congregation took this attitude?
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