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May 30, 2025 Daily Reading- Read the Bible in 1 Year
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Thank you for joining me as we learn about the connection between Passover, First Fruits, Shavuot (pronounced shav-oo-oat) and Pentecost. As part of understanding and observing the festivals that God has appointed for us to observe, we count the Omer (pronounced oh-mare) today and then have our daily Bible reading session!
Here is the link for a downloadable devotional if you would like to count the Omer for yourself. It has been put out by the Messianic Jewish Congregation Shoresh David in Florida: https://www.shoreshdavid.org/download/counting-the-omer-booklet/
We are so close to Shavuot! We are just three days away! Today we will talk about the importance of returning to God's commandments and observing Shavuot, which takes place in just a couple of days. We will talk about Shavuot being a day of outpouring of God's Spirit and a High Holy Day, like the Sabbath, and how we are meant to observe it by having a day of rest.
Today's reading comes to us from 2 Kings Chapter 18:1-7, 2 Chronicles Chapter 29, and the Book of Isaiah, Chapters 12-15, 13:1-3, 14: 3-5, 14:24-25,19-23, and 28-30. Today we will read about God bringing down "the beautiful jewel of the kingdoms," Babylon. We will read about Satan being seen falling from heaven, who used to be like a morning star, like a son of the dawn, but now thrown down onto the Earth because he tried to be higher than God. We will read about the great king, Hezekiah of Judah, of whom there was no ruler in Judah as dedicated to God, either before him or after! We will read about King Hezekiah restoring God's temple and God's commandments. We will read the trust that Hezekiah had in God, how he obeyed all of God's commands, and that as a result God was with him, prospering him in everything he did! Everything Hezekiah did turned out right!! In our discussion for daily application we will talk about the importance of observing God's commandments, even though, as in Hezekiah's time, they were given to us a very long time ago. They are still God's commands and need to be observed and obeyed. Like Hezekiah, we need to have repentance for not obeying God's commands and appointed festivals. We need to have reformation, and choose to obey God's commands and observe His appointed festivals immediately, and like in Hezekiah's time, if we are faithful to obey God He will bring us REVIVAL! We are SO CLOSE TO SHAVUOT! This message is so timely! God wants to bring an outpouring of His Spirit on us this Shavuot! Let us prayerfully come to God in obedience and faithfulness during this holy time and be blessed with an outpouring of God's Spirit! As with Hezekiah, God will be with us if we are faithful and obedient to Him! Everything we do will prosper, just like with Hezekiah! Don't we pray for prosperity? Then the way to achieve it is to obey God, be faithful to Him and observe His holy appointed festivals as well as His commandments, such as loving one another the way God loves us. I have prayed for you, who is listening or watching this event, that there will be a great outpouring in obedience to God, that He will accomplish for His glory a great time of repentance and reformation, that God will bring REVIVAL to the body of Christ during this holy time. Amen.
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Introduction and Purpose of Daily Session
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welcome Welcome everyone. Today is Friday. It's May 30th, 2025 and you are here with Robin at In The Family Way Coaching. We are here for our daily counting of the Omer and our daily Bible reading as we go through the day by day kids Bible written by Karen Henley.
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If you are just joining us, then I want you to not be ah discouraged by the fact that this says this is a kids Bible. God's Word is rich and we are enjoying the big story from Genesis to Revelation, understanding God's will for our lives by having daily application in God's Word in this version of the Bible every single day.
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And we are in a fantastic time of the
Understanding Shavuot and Counting the Omer
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year right now. We are in the Feast of Weeks, and we are about to celebrate Shavuot next week on Monday and Tuesday. And God has amazing messages for us today.
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And so I am so glad that you have been led to this event, whether you have found it on your favorite podcasting app or whether you are here watching it on video. Thank you so much for being here.
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I am so thankful to God that he has sent you here. If you are following along on your commitment calendar, then go ahead and get that out and your sticker or however you like to mark it off because you're about to hear the Bible today.
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We have one more day left in this month. And then I will have the new calendar for next month uploaded on the website. If you are planning on keeping track of your daily commitment to hear the messages each day and go through the Bible with us this year for the balance of the year, then go ahead and head over to my site at www.inthefamilyway.com.
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in the family way coaching.com and click on the tab for read the Bible in one year. And there you will see a giant picture of a calendar and at the bottom left hand corner you will see the link.
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I have an arrow pointing to it so that you can click it and download the calendar. You don't have to subscribe to anything. You don't have to enter your email address. You don't have to pay for anything or sign up for anything.
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That is just for you to have. even if you only need a calendar for the month to stick on your fridge.
Community Support and Prayer
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I also ah want to open with a word to our listeners or viewers in other parts of the world. I know we have had at least one listener in Saskatchewan, so I want to especially pray for you if you are still watching and or listening.
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I have been praying for you as I see that there are a great number of wildfires going on throughout Canada. So much so that the great billows of smoke are drifting into the United States.
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So this is a big deal that is going on in your country. And I want you to know that I have prayed for you and that I am praying for you to ask God for your ah protection and your provision and that God would use this in your life as a way to become closer connected to him to look to him during this great time of difficulty, that you may be protected by him, and that if he brings you through incidents of fire, that he use you as a witness to his greatness, and that you will bring glory to him, and that you will see the good that God will bring out of it, even if you have to go through...
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and some damage or some sort of thing dealing with the fire. i pray that I have prayed and I continue to pray and I am praying that you will also look to God for him to show you the good that he will bring out of it so that you can glorify his name and bear witness to what he has done for you, which is what we are all called to do is a witness is someone who experiences things with God and then tells other people about it so that we can bring glory to him.
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So I wanted to get that out of the way right off the bat.
Significance of Shavuot Observance
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And now we are going to have our counting of the Omer. These are the days that are appointed times with God.
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That means that God has an appointment time with you. He has an appointment time with me. This is a great time of harvest where he is multiplying the harvest. I have seen so many blessings during these 50 days of time.
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But I am reminded God is teaching me and he has told me this morning that the 50th day here for Shavuot is a spiritual, a day of spiritual outpouring.
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commemorates It it doesn't just commemorate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, but I believe that God is going to do something with his spirit. on that day that we have coming up on Monday.
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If you missed yesterday's reading, I want you to be aware that Monday is the first day of Shavuot, and it's actually a two-day holiday. There are two days of Shavuot, which will be considered like a Sabbath.
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It is a high holy day. So it is a holiday. And it's a day that we are commanded not to do any regular work. So I want us to be prepared for that.
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Because it's hard to just decide on that same day, oh, I'm not supposed to work today. you' It's too late. You've already made plans. I want to encourage you in obedience to God to start making plans and prepare your heart and prepare your schedule.
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God did that supernaturally with mine yesterday, and I explained that in yesterday's session ah before we began. And so I want you to start to pray about this.
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am praying for all of you, everybody here, and in general for everybody, and the to everybody who is a be believer, that God will open your ears to hear him, to make plans specifically to take that time off and to be obedient to him.
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to wait for him to to see what it is he wants to tell you. And the day is celebrated with some biblical readings. And it is also celebrated by bringing an offering to God.
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So since we will have um Sunday or Saturday prior to Shavuot on Monday and Tuesday, i would like to encourage you to bless God and to Give an offering above and beyond what you normally would do in response to the blessings that God has given you during this 50 days of of Pentecost, as we would say in the New Testament ah for Christians.
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But really, it's Shavuot. The Pentecost was the day that the Holy Spirit was given. And Pentecost just means 50 days. It's just a ah translation. But really, the day we are celebrating is Shavuot, not 50 days, if we want to remember what the language says.
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Shavuot is the final day of harvest. So thank you for... Prayerfully considering obedience to God in this. God has really put it upon my heart to encourage yeah obedience and to teach others how to obey.
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And so i am doing as the Spirit is leading me to do.
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If you would like to count the Omer with me today, repeat after me. We will start with the blessing as always.
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Blessed are you, o Lord our God. King of the universe, who has set us apart by your commandments and has commanded us to count the Omer.
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Today is the fifth day of the seventh week and day 47.
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I have counted the Omer.
Lessons from King Hezekiah's Reforms
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Well, I want you to know, too, that as part of ah bearing witness to God and telling you what I experienced with him, God woke me up bright and early this morning before my alarm went off and said, you need to get up. You have a lot to read today.
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I have a lot to impart to you today. And so I have been reading his word all morning. So it is 10 o'clock, 1010 my time right now. And I have been up diligently listening to what God has been trying to tell me or not trying, but what God has been telling me today and just learning and and just, oh my gosh, it's just been an amazing morning.
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Our reading this morning will cover... second kings will capture second kings chapters 18 verses 1 through 7 and 2nd chronicles chapter 29 where we will read about the faithfulness of king hezekiah of judah and it will also encompass a great deal of isaiah so i've been spending a great deal this morning in isaiah even though that will not be our daily application today specifically today's chapters in isaiah come to us from chapter thirteen verse one through three fourteen verses three through five chapters through 12 through 15. remember these are written chronologically not in um
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book order or chapter order. So sometimes events, ah the way they were collected and and set down in the scriptures, they weren't collected in a chronological order.
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So these were groups of writings and this is how they're just presented to us in the in the Bible. But they are presented in our Bible, in our version, chronologically. So I may speak them out of order sometimes.
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I try to give them an order ah just for ease of understanding, but sometimes I miss that. So chapters 12 through 15, then chapter 13 verses 1 through 3, chapter 14 verses 24 through 25, chapters 19 through 22, actually all the then 22 to 23. 19 to 23.
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bye ah chapters nineteen through twenty two actually all the way and then twenty two to twenty three so nineteen to twenty three So there is a great deal.
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And i went through and read all of that today. And it's not just a matter of reading it and saying, okay, I read it, I'm done. It's that there's a great deal of information. So it doesn't do us any good to remember to read the Bible if we don't understand.
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You say, well, how can I understand everything? Well, that's the job of God's Holy Spirit is to impart understanding to you. So part of how I learned to understand it is when I have questions or when I see things, he he makes me curious.
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So if if you feel that you are curious about something, well, what about this? Well, ah is this happening? Where is that? Things like that, whatever kind of curiosity you may have, guess what?
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That's the Holy Spirit directing you into knowledge. Remember, God delights in us knowing him. It's not enough just to simply read these stories and say, okay, I did it.
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That is not what it's about. We have a song that we sometimes sing in church that says, I'm coming back to the heart of worship. And I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing that I've made it.
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When it's all about you, Lord, it's all about you, Jesus. So just reading is not worshiping God. That's just checking a box.
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We're looking to know God. So I want to encourage you that when you feel God's spirit, ah giving you curiosity about things in the Bible, head up your big Bible and read the details because this event is great for the over the big overview story, but you may find yourself hungry for more of God's Word, and I hope that you are.
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And that's why I always write down the chapters and verses of where our reading came to us today so that it will be in the description that you will find below.
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And so that when you are hungry, you can go back and read into more of our big Bible. And so like yesterday, I tried to, I i guess I'm going to say it, get away with not reading the big the the big Bible.
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And God made it known to me very clearly that I needed to go and read the big Bible. And so I did, and then I rerecorded yesterday's session, and that is what I produced and released yesterday.
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Not the original one before I had read and had full understanding and was hearing God's spirit.
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So ah what I found is that there is a lot of what is going on in Isaiah in the big book that's not mentioned specifically in our overview story because it's it's just part of the details.
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But for instance, in our chapters of Isaiah today, there is a section that talks about Egypt. Now, God is going to bring a certain number of of people in Egypt and Assyria to him to be his people.
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And there will be five cities in Egypt that will worship God. Another thing that he says in that section is that the Nile River is going to dry up.
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So the Holy Spirit said, is it drying up? And I researched it. Guess what? The Nile River is in the process of drying up. We don't live there, so we may not be aware of these details, but I want to make you aware of it because God is making me aware of it, and I am a witness, and my job is to tell you God's word is not just true. It is happening.
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It's happening in today's time We spoke before about how we are closer to the time of God's great judgment than we were before. There are so many signs that God says, he let he who has ears to hear, let him hear.
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Let him who has eyes to see, let him see. and I pray that you have ears to hear and eyes to see. The Nile River is drying up in the way that Isaiah prophesied thousands of years ago.
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Amazing.
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Okay, so let's let's remember this book is written chronologically. So ah some of the things that we are seeing here, we're we're going to um understand a bit of the timeline as to when things happen and in our end times, what we would call the end times.
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Even though it might not seem like it based upon our big story. Okay, our first section is entitled The Beautiful Stone of the Kingdoms. And this comes to us from Isaiah chapters 13, 1 through 3, 19 through and chapters through I'm just talking loud there.
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sure i read all the way twenty eight through thirty i read so much i'm not sure i read that and i'm just talking out loud there Here's what God told Isaiah the year King Ahaz died.
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Don't be glad you enemies. Judah may be broken, but the nations will become strong again. The nation, not nations. The nation will become strong again.
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And the poorest people will find a place there to will find a place to stay. They will be safe when they lie down. God promises.
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It will be the way I planned. I will mash the enemies flat. I'll run over them on my mountain. I will get them away from my people.
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Here's what God says about Babylon. Set a flag up on a hill. I've called my fighters to come and they are glad to see me win. Babylon is like the most beautiful stone of the kingdoms.
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Its people are proud that Babylon is so great. So God will tear it down. Nobody will live there again.
Modern Application of Ancient Commands
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Shepherds won't even take their sheep there. Instead, desert animals will stay there. Jackals will go into the houses. Owls will live there.
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Wild goats will jump around. Hyenas will yell there. Jackals will go into the palaces. It will happen soon.
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Babylon won't last long.
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A son of the dawn, Isaiah chapters 14, verses 3 through 5, chapters 12 through 15, and chapters 22 and 23.
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You were slaves and Babylon was mean to you, but God will set you free. Then you'll say this about Babylon's king. The mean man's end has come.
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His anger is over. God broke his power. you have You have fallen from heaven. You were like a morning star.
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You were like a son of the dawn, but you were thrown down onto the earth. Once you tore nations down. You said, I'll go up to heaven. I'll sit there above God's stars. I'll go above the clouds and I'll make myself like God.
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But you have been taken down to the grave.
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I'll come against Babylon, says God. I'll make it a place for owls to stay. It will be a place of mud and weeds. I will get rid of it, says God.
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Getting the dirt out.
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2 Kings, chapters 18, verses 1 through 7. And 2 Chronicles, chapter 29.
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Now Judah's king, Hezekiah, was a good king. He did what was right. He took the idols down and broke them. Hezekiah trusted God.
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He kept following God no matter what. He obeyed God's laws. God was with him. Everything Hezekiah did turned out right.
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Hezekiah opened God's worship house again. He fixed the doors. He brought the priests back. Listen, said Hezekiah to the priests, take all the dirt out of here.
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Our fathers did not keep following God. They did what was wrong. They closed the doors. They put out the lamps. They didn't offer any gifts to God here.
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So God was angry at us. And that's why there's been so much war. but I am going to make a promise to God," said Hezekiah. In that way, God will stop being angry with us.
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Stand before God and serve him here. So the priests and their families got to work. They cleaned out every part of the worship house.
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Then they told King Hezekiah they had done the job. And the next morning, King Hezekiah got up early. He got the city leaders together they went to the worship house and they offered gifts of meat on the altar.
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They asked God to forgive their sins.
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Priests came with cymbals, harps and lyres and they did what God had commanded, that had said to do long ago. and priests also got their horns ready.
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King Hezekiah told them when to offer the gifts on the altar. And then they began singing. Priests played music, and when the gifts had been given, they all bowed down.
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They worshipped God. King he Hezekiah ordered the priests to praise God with David's songs, so that they sang David's songs.
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And they were glad. They bowed their heads. They worshiped God. You've told God you would obey him, said Hezekiah.
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So bring your gifts to God's worship house. And all the people they got to bring their gifts. And that's the end of our reading today.
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However, I'm going to read some because are out of the Big Bible today.
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in light of our daily application. Our daily application, as what we've kind of been speaking about before I started the reading, is in trusting God and obeying God.
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When I requested that you consider obeying God and observing Shavuot this coming Monday and Tuesday.
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Hezekiah did what was right. Hezekiah trusted God. He kept following God no matter what. He obeyed God's laws and therefore for God was with him and everything Hezekiah did turned out right.
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He led the people to do what God had said to do long ago. Just because had been given a long time ago didn't mean that God's commandments were no longer meant to be honored.
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And in the same way, we've now had an even greater span of time since the time when God commanded us to observe the Passover, to observe Shavuot, to observe the counting of the Omer, to observe the feasts and the festivals that he has given us, to observe the Sabbath as a day of rest that is holy to him.
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God gave us these commands a very long time ago. But what we see is Hezekiah bringing reform to the nation of Judah. And during that time, God was with him and everything he did was successful.
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God blessed him because he was obeying God. Will God not also bless us when we return to him and obey his commands that he has given us a long time ago?
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This is the message that God has put upon my heart. He's been putting it upon my heart since before I did this event by calling me to worship the festivals, by calling me to attend a Messianic Jewish congregation where I could be with other people who are observing the festival.
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He's called it and put it on my heart to speak about it in this event. And he is putting it in our writings. He put it in the Bible ages ago, years and years ago.
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And these are things that are important to God, not just to make him the most important one, but to know him and to obey him. Even though these things came from a very long time ago, and it can seem like they were so long ago that they're just not important today because they're not part of our regular daily society.
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But that is the overall reaching message today in our writing about Hezekiah, is that he brought that reform. In the same way, John the Baptist was one calling in the desert, calling the people to repent because God's son was coming. God's kingdom was coming near soon.
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And I'm here to tell you the same thing. We need to come back to God. We need to obey God. We need to repent of the fact that we have not been observing the commands that he gave us so long ago.
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Because God is coming. No man knows the day. Not even the sun knows the day. But it is coming. And Jesus says that it is good for us to be found doing his work and obeying when he returns.
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Let us be found obeying God. and doing our work that he has given us to do when he returns. Much in the same way that Hezekiah brought reform and brought observance of God's holy days back to the nation of Judah.
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God suspended the a sentence that he had given during the time that Hezekiah was in rule. And so it didn't happen during that time because the people were looking to God.
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We've spoken before about how God treats his people differently than he does the rest of the people. And those who are in observance of his commandments and are obeying him and making him the most important one,
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delighting in doing so, just like we read yesterday that when Jesus comes, it says the king will be glad to treat God like the most important one. Jesus taught us to be glad to make God the most important one.
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And this is what Hezekiah had done as well. We need also to be found to be glad to make God the most important one and to bring restoration and reformation so that we can have revival.
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If we want to have revival, people are always talking about revival. Bring us revival, O Lord, revive our spirit. Revival historically has always come in repentance and reformation.
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Notice all the re words. Re means again, to do something again. We need to have repentance to come to God with our confession of what we have done wrong.
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We have not been obeying his commandments of old. We need to reform like Hezekiah and and begin once again to observe these commandments that God gave us so long ago.
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and God will give us revival. And is it any coincidence that God is giving us these lessons in the time that he does as we are about to experience Shavuot, the outpouring of God's law at first, and then the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which was given to us?
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No, no coincidence. That's why I feel so passionate. about bringing you these messages and telling you what God has put on my heart to bring us as our daily application out of his word.
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As promised, I'm going to read to you in more detail about Hezekiah and what he did. It said he did, I'm looking at 2 Kings chapter 18, verses 7.
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through seven
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He did what was right in the Lord's eyes, according to all his ancestor David had done. He removed the high places, smashed the pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles.
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So what he was doing was he removed idolatry. There are things that we look to to keep us safe, as we've been seeing. Instead of relying on on presidents or government officials or money or status in life to protect us, we need to look to God to protect us and get rid of those things that we are looking to and look to him.
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he He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. Are we trusting in God? Indeed, listen to this. This is amazing.
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Indeed, none of all the kings of Judah after him was like him. and none before him. So even though we had good kings in Judah, after the kingdom split, none of them was as zealous for God as Hezekiah, none before him and none after him.
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Another time where that is is expressed as someone none before and none after was King Solomon. There was a none who was as wise before him nor after him.
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Nobody was more zealous in Judah than Hezekiah.
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He didn't, for he clung Adonai. Are we clinging to the Lord? Cling to him. You in Saskatchewan, cling to the Lord.
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He is our salvation. He did not turn away from following him, but he kept his laws, which the Lord had commanded Moses.
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So the Lord was with him. So God will also be with us if we cling to him and obey his commands as he gave Moses so very long ago.
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Wherever he went, he prospered. Isn't that amazing? Do we not want to prosper? Do we not ask God for prosperous times?
Benefits of Obedience to God
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If we want God to prosper us, then we need to cling to him, trust in him, and obey his commands.
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Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. We are not to serve anyone other than God.
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I'm also going to go to 2 Chronicles 29 where
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where it talks about Hezekiah restoring the temple. This is also quite amazing. It says, he did right in the eyes of the Lord just as his father David had done.
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So like David, he was a man after God's heart. That should be our prayer too, is to be as faithful, to love God with all of our heart and all of our mind and all of our soul, just like Jesus tells us about to do.
00:31:38
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Just as his father David had done, we can do so like how Jesus taught us to do.
00:31:46
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He said to the pete said to the the priest, listen to me, Levites, sanctify yourselves and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and remove the defilement out of the holy place.
00:32:00
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Remember his father had defiled it by putting in a replica of altars that he saw in Assyria or Damascus rather. And he was now sacrificing on every idol, on every altar all over the place.
00:32:15
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And he had moved the altar around. He had used, ah plundered, he had plundered the worship house to pay off the king of Assyria to try to keep him from from battling against him. And it didn't work.
00:32:30
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He plundered.
00:32:34
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It says, now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger may turn away from us. And so the, and I'm skipping down.
00:32:47
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That was in verse 10. Now I'm down at verse 16. so the priests went into the inner part of the house of the lord to purify it and they brought out to the courtyard of the house of the lord every impure thing they found in the temple of the lord and then the leitetes received it and carried it out to kiddron valley So what we see here is they are obeying.
00:33:09
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It's not enough to simply hear the word of the Lord and to know what it is we're supposed to do. It's important to respond with obedience. We need to not only just hear, but we need to obey.
00:33:23
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It's not enough to hear that we need to ah observe these festivals. We need to obey.
00:33:32
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They began the consecration on the first day of the first month. That's near Passover, by the way. No coincidence there.
00:33:42
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God had moved and done all of this in time to correspond with his Passover time, which we will see tomorrow.
00:33:52
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And by the eighth day of the month, they reached the porch of the Lord. For eight days, they consecrated the house of the Lord and finished on the 16th day of the first month. Remember the first month God designated as the day to mark the passage out of Israel, out of Egypt, rather.
00:34:12
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Okay, jumping down to the very end, or almost the very end. Nope, not the end. Chapter 31, Hezekiah responded and said, You have now consecrated yourselves to the Lord.
00:34:26
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i pray that we consecrate ourselves to the Lord, that we renew our faith and our trust in him, that we make a covenant with God to obey him and his commands.
00:34:38
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Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. So the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings and all those whose hearts were willing.
00:34:51
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Is your heart willing today?
00:34:55
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Brought their burnt offerings. God doesn't need us to bring burnt to offerings today. He needs, though, a heart that is willing.
00:35:06
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And it goes on to list the huge number of burnt offerings that were brought.
00:35:13
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They brought 70 bulls, 100 rams, 200 lambs as burnt offerings to the Lord. And the animals that were consecrated were 600 bulls, 3,000 sheep.
00:35:29
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And the priests, however, were too few. to flay all the burnt offerings. So their kinsmen, the Levites helped them until the work was completed and until other priests had also consecrated themselves for the Levites had been more conscientious to consecrate themselves than the priests.
00:35:47
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Okay. There were so, there was also a great many burnt offerings along with the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offering at every burnt offering, the hearts of those who were willing Thus, the ah the service of the house of the Lord was reestablished.
00:36:09
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Ah, that the service of the house of the Lord was reestablished, that the service of the of our hearts might be reestablished with the Lord. That is my prayer for us all today.
00:36:22
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And Hezekiah, here's the amazing part. This is the part that's also just so amazing. Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced in verse 36, because of what God had enabled the people to accomplish, because it happened so suddenly, it just happened so suddenly.
00:36:47
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A great amount was done. The hearts of the people were changed. they were They came to the Lord. It was sudden. I have prayed for all of us here and for everybody as a believer in the Lord and Jesus that our hearts would come suddenly, that there would be a great outpouring of his people to celebrate his festival and obey the commandments that he has given us so long ago.
00:37:13
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And I know that it can happen suddenly. So much happened so suddenly. Because God enabled the people to accomplish it.
00:37:25
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I know we've had a long reading today. We have i had a lot of long readings lately. Initially, this event was supposed to be read the Bible in one year, seven minutes a day, and then a little bit of discussion time. So 14, maybe 20 minutes.
00:37:38
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And lately it's been going into the 30 minute time. But these are messages that God has really put upon my heart that he wants us to know. And so it's not enough even just for you to make the decision to hear God's word and obey and to make a covenant with him to obey the command that he has given us so long ago.
00:37:57
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But we are also, not just me, called to be witnesses. Let's talk about this with our fellow believers in Christ and in God.
Encouragement to Share God's Teachings
00:38:06
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Let's tell them about Shavuot coming on Monday and Tuesday.
00:38:10
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Let's talk about the fact that we are capable of coming back to God and so with repentance and reformation so that he may give us revival in this great time of outpouring of the Holy Spirit coming on Monday and Tuesday.
00:38:29
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So I just know that you feel God has lit your light today. And I ask that you click that light button, not for me, but for God. We can show our light so that other people will be attracted and hear this message that they need to hear.
00:38:45
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Spreading the word about reading God's word. Don't take my word for it yourself. Read the Bible yourself. See, have the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and listen to the Holy Spirit speaking to you.
00:39:00
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I know he will, and I have prayed for that. So thank you so much for being here with me today, especially if you have just found this today or you are at some point in the future.
00:39:11
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God's message is never die. This is his word, and it will never pass away. Thank you for being here with me today. Let's share this event with someone, and may God's peace reign with you today. And all shalom.
00:39:28
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I will be here for every everyone again tomorrow.