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When you find the Bible — for the first time or for the first time in a long time — what happens?
Many are encountering the Bible afresh and anew…
Today and next week I want to walk us through a story in 2 Kings which will help us consider that very question — when you find the Bible (or the Bible finds you), what happens?
Manasseh
Hezekiah tore down alters to false gods.
Manasseh rebuilt them — even in the Temple in Jerusalem
Reigned 55 years
Captured… hook in the nose...
In Chronicles he prayed and repented — that story not in 2 Kings.
Amon
Ruled 2 years and asassinated by advisors.
This cleared the way for Amon’s son to become King of Judah.
Point of clarity about Israel in the North and Judah in the South.
We come to the King Josiah.
What do we know about Josaiah based on this intro:
We know his Grandfather was a hot mess.
We know his father carried on in his Grandfather’s ways.
We know he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord.
We know he followed completely the ways of “his father David”.
We know he did not turn aside from the right or the left.
Prov 4.
How does an 8 year old kid pick up that kind of commitment to the Lord, his ways, his lineage to David, and the wisdom of David’s son — Solomon?
Not from his dad or grandpa — that is for sure.
The writer inserts this little tag line here in 2 Kings which I suggest answers that question — Josiah’s mother: Jedidah.
Speak to the beauty of parents investing spiritually in the lives of their kids.
Children’s and youth ministries are soooo limited.
A prayer and a baptism and off you go.
Josiah’s mom — at a young age with no printing presses, right now media, kids Bibles, etc — gave him a sense of who he was, what he was to believe, and how he was to behave.
18 years into his reign he sends his secretary to see the High Priest at the Temple...
The high priest conveys to the secretary...
He headed quickly to Josiah… the story reads like this...
2 Kings 22:8-
Josiah’s response to the first reading of the Book of the Law… do you see that?
More than interesting, it was important.
More than he was interacting with applications, he was first struck by its implications.
Josiah sends a committee of 5 to the Prophetess — Huldah.
Deut.
Deut 28:64
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