All right, everyone, welcome to Springcrest Baptist Church.
It's good to see everyone this morning.
Song 193
We're gonna do everything else acapella this morning. We don't have our piano player, but we're gonna be in song 193 faith is the victory
Or a sing out there on the first
In camp to long
Christian soldiers rise and press the battle air the night shall veil the glowing skies against the
Tell it all each other
to Springcrest Baptist Church. Thank you so much for coming. It's nice to see a big crowd out there.
And so in the in the bulletins this morning, you guys made it Sunday morning, 10 30 a.m.
our our next service will be 4 30 this afternoon. Hope you can make that. And we will do a soul
our Bible study or our Wednesday service on 5.30 p.m.
those of you that know about Pastor Reyes,
he's injured right now, he went through a surgery,
he's still recovering from that,
he's waiting to get back into Houston
once he gets his stitches out,
but it sounds like he's doing pretty good
and we're ready to have him back,
he's kind of the heartbeat of Springcrest,
and so be praying for Pastor Reyes, please.
We've got our memory Bible verse our salvation totals for the year and
The birthdays we have one last birthday this month. We're waiting on
Cynthia August 28, so when you see her
wish her a happy birthday and then all obviously we want to
celebrate
pastor's anniversary
50 years right
And so I just, I love saying that,
like people that have been married for 50 years,
what an accomplishment.
And I just love it.
We need more people married for 50 years, right?
That's what this world needs.
So congratulate them if you haven't already.
I just think that's a really awesome thing to celebrate.
And not 49 years, but 50.
I'm just kidding, I'm joking, I'm joking.
And then we have
our upcoming events, you know, this last Friday we had Pastor Anderson and what a blessing he was.
And it was so nice to see how many people showed up for him to come preach in Houston, Texas.
This place was full and it was good to see so many people turn out and just wanted to hear some good
And so what a blessing he was the next time you see him just tell him thank you again if you haven't already
We had our soul winning marathon yesterday. What was the salvation count again nine?
We had nine salvations yesterday, so praise God for that. That's what it's all about
That's something that we get to take into eternal life is the people that get saved
you know, it's nice to have a great job and a big family and great friends and
Good church to go to but you know, eventually all that stuff goes away and we slip into eternity
And so those people that go out and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
they get to go to eternity too, and that's what the Christian life is all about.
And so we're thankful for a church like Springcrest Baptist Church that makes that
important and that is like the number one goal of the church is getting people to heaven. And so
Other events we've got, the Fire Breathing Baptist Fellowship, which is up in Dallas,
Fort Worth, the 27th through the 31st, Pastor Shelley, a great pastor, and he's gonna have
a lot of other great pastors throughout the week there.
and things that keep the family busy and the kids busy and the wives busy and the men busy and
the families together busy he's got a lot planned not just the great preaching but just a great
environment for a christian family to go to and just enjoy you know just that that christian lifestyle
And then we have a Mexico City soul-winning event September 8th through 12th, and so Brother Diego
he's up there in
Steadfast Baptist Church, and so he preaches a lot in Spanish for them. So if you
Who want to hear some preaching in Spanish tune in to the YouTube channel?
The rumble channel at Steadfast Baptist Church, and if you have other people that prefer that
Tell them about that link tell them that they can go there to get that preaching in Spanish. She does a great job
He is hosting he's running that Mexico City soul winning event
And if you can make it September 8th through 12th, I know it's coming up soon
But if you can make it
Get a hold of me if you want to get his information
I can get you hooked up with him and I was looking at flights. I was hoping to make it. I'm not going to
but just out of Houston it was just three or four hundred dollars for a roundtrip ticket so
it's not like super expensive. He would enjoy the encouragement of people showing up and just
helping out and look it's just he's he's going over there and he's he's trying to you know just
And I hope it's a great success, I hope that they get a lot of people saved and they just go back over and over again and just get that ton of people saved.
We've got prayer requests on the back.
Please keep these people in your prayers.
And then also the Mother Baby Room has a television in it.
It's all set up where if you need to,
you can take your children into the Mother Baby Room.
And it is for little children and...
and the mom not not you know the big kids and stuff so we want to be able to have it nice
and quiet back there so the moms can try to listen to the sermon so that is the end of announcements
with that we'll we'll go to our next song brother
all right turn in your hymns to song 305
Song number 305 I must tell Jesus
That song 305 I
Must tell Jesus all of my trials
He's absolutely right.
Thank you so much for watching, see you in the next video, peace out.
Jesus alone all right now we got one more song before we get into the preaching
we're gonna be in song 259 page number 259 in our hymnals nothing but the blood
page 259 start there on the first what can wash away my sin
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would turn in our Bibles. We're going to get into the Bible reading. Brother, are you reading?
All right, cool. So Brother Eric here is going to read for us while we pass the offering plate.
Turn in your Bibles to 2 Chronicles chapter 34 for Bible reading.
2 Chronicles 34, the Bible reads,
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,
and walked in the ways of David his father,
and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left.
For in the eighth year of his reign,
while he was yet young,
he began to seek after the God of David his father.
And in the 12th year, he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the
groves and the carved images and the molten images.
And they break down the altars of Baalim in his presence.
And the images that were on high above them, he cut down.
And the groves and the carved images and the molten images he break in pieces and made dust
and he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even unto Naftali with their
Maddox round about. And when he had broken down the altars and the groves and had beaten the
graven images into powder and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel,
Now, in the 18th year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent
Shefan, the son of Azaliah, and Maesaiah, the governor of the city, and Joah, the son
of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the Lord his God.
And when they came to Hilkiah, the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought
into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of
the remnant of Israel and of all Judah and Benjamin and they returned to Jerusalem and they put it
in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the Lord and they gave it to
the workmen that wrought in the house of the Lord to repair and amend the house even to the
artificers and builders gave it to buy hewn stone and timber for couplings and to floor the houses
and the men did the work faithfully,
and the overseers of them were J. Hath and Obadiah,
the Leibites of the Sons of Merari,
and Zechariah and Mesulim, of the Sons of the Kohathites,
to set it forward, and other of the Leibites,
all that could skill of instruments of music.
Also, they were over the bearers of burdens and were overseers of all that brought the
work in any manner of service, and of the Levites there were scribes and officers and
porters.
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah
the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.
And Hilkiah answered and said to Shefan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in
and Hylkaya delivered the book to Sheyfan.
And Sheyfan carried the book to the king
and brought the king word back again saying,
all that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
And they have gathered together the money
that was found in the house of the Lord
and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers
and to the hand of the workmen.
Then Sheyfan the scribe told the king saying,
Hylkaya the priest have given me a book.
And Shehfan read it before the king, and it came to pass when the king had heard the words of the law that he rent his clothes.
And the king commanded Hilkiah and Haikam, the son of Shehfan, and Abdon, the son of Micah, and Shehfan the scribe and Asiah, a servant of the kings, saying,
for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept
the word of the Lord to do after all that is written in this book. And Hillchia and they,
that the king had appointed, went to Holda the prophetess, the wife of Shalom, the son of Ticvath,
the son of Hasra, keeper of the wardrobe. Now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college,
Thus sayeth the Lord, God of Israel,
tell ye the man that sent you to me,
thus sayeth the Lord,
behold, I will bring evil upon this place,
and upon the inhabitants thereof,
even all the curses that are written in the book,
which they have read before the king of Judah.
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands.
Therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him,
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard.
Because thine heart was tender,
and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou hurtest his words against this place,
and against the inhabitants thereof, and humblest thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes,
and wheat before me. I have even heard thee also, sayeth the Lord. Behold, I will gather thee to
thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace."
Neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same."
So they brought the king word again.
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small.
And he read in their ears all the words of the Book of the Covenant that was found in the House of the Lord.
And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the
Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his
heart and with all his soul to perform the words of the covenant which are written in
this book.
And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it.
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertain to the children of
Israel and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God.
And all his days they departed not from following the Lord the God of their fathers.
Let's pray. Your Father, thank you for this church. Thank you for sending your Son Jesus
for us, Lord. I pray at this time that you bless the service and that you would fill Brother James
and give us a 10 of years and soften the years, Lord,
to receive the message and to apply it to our lives.
Lord, in Jesus' name I pray, amen.
First of all, I want to thank Pastor Cobb for allowing me to preach today.
It's an honor and I'm very, very thankful for Spring Crest Baptist Church being in the
Houston area, being a light and a beacon to this dying and lost city, just like every
other city in this world.
And it's a great thing to have a church like that.
and also a big thanks to Pastor Reyes.
And so there's a lot of famous characters in the Bible.
And it seems like today as you go out and you're preaching the gospel,
or you're just talking just with people, just out and about around wherever,
There's a less and less knowledge of characters in the Bible, and so
I'm from an older generation
and so, you know with Sunday school with
Things of that nature was kind of pounded into our head a lot of these characters in the Bible
But I've noticed that that knowledge of these characters in the Bible are kind of fading away that
You know these characters that we know that we just can
know off the top of our head a lot of the younger generation they didn't get that teaching and so
I wanted to you know talk about a specific character in the bible you know we all know
like Adam and Eve that's like a famous one right we've got Abraham Noah we've got Moses
And most people do know a lot of these, King David, you know, David and Goliath.
I run into a lot of people in the Philippines as well, like, you're just like, hey, do you know who King David is?
And they're like, you know, they got the deer in the headlights look and you're like, you know, David and Goliath.
And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah. And I'm like, hey, he went on to be king later.
You know, the knowledge of the Bible is becoming less and less, it seems like, generally.
I know there's a lot of good churches like that that preach the whole Bible, and we
get a lot of these stories.
And then you have like David's son Solomon, you know, you've got Paul, Peter, people like
that in the New Testament.
But the character that I like a lot and I found out recently that Pastor Cobb really likes this character, too
he's another king and his name is King Josiah and
so I
wanted to I
Wanted to preach a sermon this morning and the title of the sermon is just lessons of King Josiah
Why do I like him? Why do I think that he was a good character in the Bible?
Well, I wanted to show you some of those things that attracted me to King Josiah.
And I want you to turn to 2 Kings 23, verses 21 through 25.
There's a lot of positive things about King Josiah and
This is really like just doing Bible reading over the years and not really like
Doing a really hard study on King Josiah, but this is something that always popped out every time I read
And it says in verse 21, it says,
And the king commanded all the people saying,
Keep the Passover unto the Lord your God.
As it is written in the book of his covenant.
Surely, there was not holding such a Passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel,
nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah.
But in the 18th year, the king of Josiah, wherein this Passover was holding to the Lord
in Jerusalem.
And so, I always thought that was a great compliment because, you know, the Passover
It was done. I thought you know perfectly. It was like the best, you know in the very beginning, but we're here
It's saying that King Josiah
He held a Passover that was like it was like the best and so I always thought that was really cool that King Josiah
he he's he was a person that paid attention to detail and
he
he liked the truth. King Josiah liked the truth. And I just thought this was a great
compliment from God that he gave him. And so that is what attracted me to King Josiah in the very
beginning. But my first point, the first lesson I want to teach about King Josiah is his zeal.
So the zeal of King Josiah, if you want to go to numbers 25, numbers 25,
and we'll just start in verse one but before I get into that you know the zeal
that King Josiah had what is zeal well zeal just according to the
dictionary is passionate intense fervent eager enthusiastic and honestly I like
being around people that have zeal
And, you know, it can be zeal for all kinds of different things.
I really enjoy going out and preaching the gospel.
And I like being around other people that have zeal to do that.
Those are the kind of people I like to be around.
Those are the kind of people that I want to hang out with.
And, you know, when somebody I see has a zeal for soul winning,
that's the person that I, that's who,
that's who I want to be friends with, right?
And so it could be different for other people.
You know, a lot of the mothers in here,
if you see other mothers that just have a zeal,
for, you know, in some aspect of caring for the children and doing something that in that area,
then you might be attracted to them. And so zeal matters, you know, being passionate about things,
intense, fervent, eager, enthusiastic, you know, we should do everything like we're doing it for the
or not be enthusiastic about the things of God. Yes, he wants us to. Like every, every father,
you know, if his child, if his son is just like, dad, I want to grow up, I want to be just like you,
I want to do the same work that you do. And he has this zeal or this passion, you know,
to just follow after his father's footsteps. I mean, that's going to make dad happy, right? It's like
My son, he's taking notice to these things, and he wants to do the things that I want to do,
and we can translate that to God. God wants us to live our lives a certain way. He has
commandments for us. He wants us to do the right thing, but it's optional. You don't have to
follow God's commandments to be safe and going to heaven. It's optional. Going to heaven is a free
God, he paid for the free gift of eternal life. We don't have to pay for it, but if
We do follow the commandments the best that we can, even though we're going to break the commandments every single day of our life.
Then God will reward us. He will be kind to us.
And so if we have a zeal for the things of God, we're just going to have a good relationship with God.
And if we don't really have zeal for the things of God, we're going to have a bad relationship.
But if you have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, whether you have zeal for the things of God or not, you're going to heaven.
And so I love it that King Josiah had zeal
and you know, a person in my life.
And I'll point out a few people.
Evangelist Duncan Urbanic,
he has been sent to the Philippines as a missionary
to start a church over there by Pastor Jonathan Shelley.
And one of the things I really like
about Evangelist Urbanic is he loves the lost.
He has this zeal for soul winning.
He does soul winning all the time.
He's always preaching the gospel.
Some of you guys here, you know Evangelist Urbanic.
You know his heart.
And that guy, everything that he does,
it seems like it just turns to gold.
When he came to Pure Words,
you know, it might not have been a thriving church,
but it was after he got there.
And he goes to the Philippines and immediately he has some disciples and he's discipling teaching them how to soul when they're going out and get a ton of people saved.
I love his zeal. I like that.
And so that's why I'm glad to call him my friend.
And you know, I think of other people.
Pastor Jonathan Shelly. I mean, I love his zeal for preaching. Like you can tell
that Pastor Shelly loves preaching. His sermons are great. He digs stuff and the
truth out of the Bible and shows us things that
It's awesome, and you know, I love his zeal for just building an army of soul winners having missions trips
Doing documentaries like he he it's obvious
He has a zeal a passion for the things of God, you know, that's the kind of person
I want to be friends with that's the kind of person that I want to follow is a man of God like that
so, you know, I see those things in my life and I see people with zeal and
King Josiah is the same
the zeal that he had for God is is one of the things that attracted me to this
character in the Bible and hey if you've believed on Jesus we're gonna get to see
him one day and we're gonna talk to him and see that zeal right and so we're
gonna start there you're in Numbers 25
We're going to start there in verse one.
Let me get there.
In Israel, Abodan shittim and the people began to commit hordom with the daughters of Moab.
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods.
And the people did eat and bowed down to their gods.
And Israel joined himself to Baal Pior
and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.
So in those first three verses there,
you're just basically seeing God's people,
the children of God, that he brought out of Egypt,
that he chose them, not because they were special,
the Bible says, but because they were few,
he chose them
and he's showing them, hey, how to live right, how to do right, because he wants them to be blessed.
And what are they doing right here? They're going, it's basically they're going into spiritual
boredom. You know, they're turning away from them, from God in verse four.
And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people and hang them up.
And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads of the people and hang them up before
the Lord against the sun that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.
And that's a pretty like stunning statement from God.
He's just like hang them high boys.
the God of the earth, the true and living God.
Well, there's a punishment for breaking God's commandments.
And, you know, the spiritual hordom that's going on, that's a serious thing.
And God is loving. He is.
He died for the whole world, whether they believe on Him or not.
But He's also a righteous God, and He's a God of judgment.
And He has rules. And if you don't follow the rules, you should be fearing God about
You know, what's going to happen? What are the consequences?
And so that's in verse 4 and verse 5.
It says right here,
a Midianite-ish woman in the side of Moses and in the side of all the congregation of the children
of Israel who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And when
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the
congregation and took a javelin in his hand. So, you know, in verses five through seven there.
They got the commandment of God, hey, go slay these wicked people that are teaching you to turn against the Lord.
And so the people here, they're weeping, they're just like, you know, the fear of God is just like, I, you know, we don't want to be destroyed.
And there's one person here, he gets up and it says here, he took a javelin in his hand, Fenehas.
Let's read in verse eight, because you're starting to see the zeal of this person.
In verse eight it says,
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
For Nehaas, the son of Eliezer, the son of Aaron, the priest,
hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel,
while he was zealous for my sake among them,
that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy."
So, you know, we should be zealous.
God wants us to be zealous, but we need to be zealous for the right things, the things of the
Lord. And you see this example here where Phinehas, he was zealous for the things of the Lord. It even
says he was zealous for God's namesake. And so that's how we should be in our life. We should
We'll start there.
It says,
Wherefore say,
Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace,
and he shall have it,
and his seed after him,
even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood,
because he was zealous for his God
and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
So, you know, his zealousness for God,
God looked at that,
And he said, you know what? I'm going to reward you for being zealous.
So not only do we get to like go to heaven for free, it's not by our works and being good.
We don't have to be zealous to go to heaven. We have to believe on Jesus.
But if we couple our faith in God, being saved, with being zealous for the things of God,
being zealous so let's let's turn to second chronicles 34 second chronicles 34
Yeah, first and second Samuel first and second Kings and
First and second Chronicles
Second Chronicles 34. I am almost there
And we're gonna read starting at verse one
Josiah was eight years old
when he began to reign and he reigned in Jerusalem for one and thirty years and
He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in the ways of David his father and
declined neither to the right hand nor to the left
And so I look at that as a great compliment God has given King Josiah is that he followed after David because the Bible says that David is a man after God's own heart.
So what a compliment it is here to King Josiah.
On verse three, it says,
and the images that were on high above them, he cut down and the groves and he carved images and
the molten images he break in pieces and made dust of them and strode it upon the graves of them that
had sacrifice under them. And so, you know, we're getting to see the zeal of David and it started
At age eight, at sixteen, he started to seek after the God of David and then he started
to purge the land at around twenty years old.
So he's a young man and here's one of the great things about his zeal is if you're
younger here in this room or anybody that's listening, it doesn't matter how old you are.
You can have zeal for God. If you're a young child, you know one of the things you can do to have zeal for God is obey your parents
Do what they say have some zeal when when dad's like take out the trash
You be the best trash taken out child in the house and you love it and you're like you got another command for me dad
Let's go. I'm ready, right? And so you can have zeal no matter what at the young age
Obviously, he has a lot of responsibility as a king, but King Josiah at a young age,
he has zeal, and you see him at a young age with that zeal, it was just in him.
And so God loves that zeal.
He wants us to do things for him all of our lives.
When we're children, when we're young adults, middle-aged,
when we get older, it doesn't ever stop.
He wants us to have zeal no matter what.
But I'm just focusing on the young age here of King Josiah.
I love it.
And...
Let's start again in verse 5 and he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, and even unto Naphtali,
with their Maddox round about.
And when he had broken down the alders and the groves, and had beaten the graven images
into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
I mean, that's some zeal.
destroy all this Hortom that was going on. Remember the Hortom that was going on
in the land? Well, he's doing a lot at a young age. There's just his zeal was
amazing for God, even at that young age. In verse 8 it says here now in the 18th
year of his reign when he had purged the land and the house
He sent Shefan, the son of Azaliah, and Maesia,
the governor of the city, and Joah, the son of Joah,
has the recorder to repair the house of the Lord, his God.
So here in the 18th year,
he had purged the land for about six years.
He's putting a lot of work in.
So not only was he zealous, but he was consistently zealous.
Actually, no, let's skip to verse 18.
Then Shefan the scribe told the king saying,
Hylkaya, the priest, hath given me a book.
And Shefan read it before the king.
And it came to pass when the king had heard
the words of the law that he rent his clothes.
And so what I like about this verse is that
when King Josiah was purging the land,
He didn't even have the book of the law
He didn't he wasn't even reading the the book of the law yet. He didn't have it
They found it in the temple. He was doing all of that because he started seeking after David his father and
Because he was seeking after God the the God of David
For whatever reason, he had this zeal just in him,
and he just started doing the right thing
by purging the land.
But look what happens, he finds the book of the law
in verse 29.
It says,
sorry, my page got turned.
Well, hold on just a second. I've got my notes wrong
Okay, I'm sorry, I accidentally flipped my page
and it threw me off, I apologize.
So go down to verse 29.
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem and the king went up into the house of the Lord and all the men of
Judah and in the inhabitants of
Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites and all the people great and small and he read in their ears all the words of the book of
The covenant that was found in the house of the Lord and this is happening
after he'd already been purging the land of Hortom for six years and so
So, he started purging the land, he finds the book of the Lord, and then he just goes
on a tear and just starts really getting after it.
So when he received the word, the book, it just increased his zeal even more.
And I love that about King Josiah, that zeal.
And you know, what are we zealous about?
How do we apply this to our lives?
Are we zealous about anything? Are we apathetic?
You know, we can take a look at our lives and see what things do we have zeal for.
Is our zeal in life like football on Sunday or is it coming to church on Sunday?
And, you know, football is not sinful, it's not, you know, bad.
If you watch football, it doesn't matter.
We all do things that maybe aren't like spiritual things.
But if you pick football, watching football over going to church, then that is a problem.
Your zeal is in the wrong place, your heart's in the wrong place.
And so take a look and see, where can I improve the zeal in my life?
Where is my zeal?
What am I putting my zeal in?
and you know King Josiah he put his zeal in the things of God
and that's what I wanted to take out of this first point
it was a zeal that he had. Now the second lesson that we can learn
is that he was a good leader. He was a good leader.
Go down to verse 31. Right in that same chapter we'll go down to
And the king stood in his place and made covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart, with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.
and He caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it.
And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertain to the children of Israel
that were present in Israel to serve even to serve the Lord their God and all
his days they departed not from following the Lord the God of their
fathers. So this is great. One of the lessons we can learn is he
was a good leader. Why was he a good leader? Because right here it says he
caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. To
To having that zeal for God and it says
It says down a little bit lower it says
That he made them
And so obviously you can't force somebody to do the right thing.
I don't think that's what that's saying here.
He caused them or he made them to follow the commandments and do the right thing.
But you can be the leader and you can point them in the right direction.
Just like the father of the home is the leader and he can point his family in the right direction.
He can't make them follow the rules.
But he should be a good leader in the sense of he's saying,
We're going to read our Bible every day together as a family.
We're going to do things the way that God wants us to do it.
It doesn't mean that everybody's going to obey that.
We're going to make mistakes.
Kids are going to make mistakes and not follow their parents' rules.
But being a good leader is, yeah, you're making them in the sense of,
you're just saying, here, this is what we're going to do.
And that's what King Josiah did.
He said, hey, I found the book of the law and I was already doing some good stuff.
And, and then I get the book of the law, I know even more that, hey, God wanted to destroy
us because of all this whoredom in the land.
And he said, you know what, guys, we're all getting together as a nation.
We're getting this garbage out of our nation, and we're going to serve God.
And that leadership is, is just, that's what's needed today in every single church that loves
and have good leadership and do the things that God wants them to do. Because not every church is
the same. Just because there's a church out there, how do you know how to go to the right church?
Which one is doing the right things? Which one is going to tell me the truth? Because there's so
many you can choose from. And unfortunately, there's not much good leadership in this world.
There's not many good churches out there. So how do you find the right church? Well,
According to the Bible, a good church is a church that is preaching the right gospel.
Because the right gospel says, hey, this is what it takes to go to heaven.
And this is what the Bible says it takes to go to heaven.
So if that church, that pastor is preaching that,
that's an indicator you've got a good church on your hands.
If they're not teaching that,
if they get up and say, hey, you have to do good works,
you have to show up to church, you have to get baptized,
you have to follow the commandments to go to heaven.
Well, that's a lie.
That is not what the Bible teaches.
And that is a bad church.
that is not a man of God up there. That is a false prophet and a devil. So you can know if you've
got a good church or not by the leadership of the pastor. And so that's a lesson we can take from
Josiah is that he had good leadership. He was leading the children of Israel in truth. He was
leading them in doing the right thing, just like a pastor of a church. What's another thing that
can indicate you're in a good church? What Bible do they use? Because they're not all the same.
And there's one Bible that doesn't change, doesn't get revised, it doesn't adhere to the copyright laws.
And the copyright laws tell you, hey, you have to be 3% different than the other Bible versions.
So how can they all be the same if they're all different?
Well, the King James is not copyrighted.
And so I can take King James and I can make copies of it on my own with my computer and I don't have to pay anybody for that copy and I don't get thrown in jail for it.
If I do that with the NIV and I preach it publicly, I think you get like 200 words you can preach before they say, all right, you can't do that anymore.
So how can how can somebody have the word of God if all these versions are different and they all say different things?
Well, the King James Bible is the one that hasn't changed the King James Bible is not copyrighted
and so the King James Bible is the true word of God in the English language and when you have these other versions and we'll
We'll see that again more tonight is that
When you have these other virgins they they attack the King James Bible
they try to detract from it. So how do you know if you're in a good church if they have the true
word of God, the King James Bible? What's another thing is are they going out and preaching the
gospel? This is how you know you're in a good church because the Bible says that if that church
does not go out and preach the gospel then God is going to take this candlestick from that church
and yeah they may have a physical building, yeah they may have people that come to it,
but God does not recognize it as a church. And so there's some churches that are in a phase where
You know, they haven't had the candlestick removed yet,
but they stopped soul-winning.
And it's just a matter of time before God says, no more.
And so what needs to happen to that church?
I don't know, maybe a King Josiah come in
and start doing the right thing
and turn that church around
and let it continue to be a beacon of light.
That's good leadership.
That's King Josiah.
That's how you can know that you're in a good church.
He set the tone he
He pointed people in the right direction
Go turn to please turn to please turn to first Samuel 15 first Samuel 15
Here's an example of bad leadership
And we'll start in verse 1, Samuel also said to Saul, the Lord sent me to anoint the king,
anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel. Now, wherefore, hearken thou unto the voice
of the words of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid weight for him in the way when he came up from Egypt.
Now here's verse number three, this is the mission. This is God's telling him what to do.
Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not.
But slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox, sheep, camel and ass.
That's the mission and Saul gathered the people together and numbered them and tell aim
200,000 footmen and 10,000 men of Judah, and Saul came to a city of Amalek and laid weight
in the valley, and Saul said unto the Kenites, Go depart, get ye down from among the Amalekites,
lest I destroy you with them, for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel when
they came up out of Egypt.
So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites, and Saul smote the Amalekites from Havala
To sure that is over against Egypt and he took a gag the king of the Amalekites alive and utterly destroyed all the people with
The edge of the sword but Saul and the people spared a gag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the
fatlings and the lambs and all that was good that would not and
Would not utterly destroy them, but everything that was vile and refuse. They did destroyed utterly
Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying,
it repenteth me.
I'm changing my mind that I have set up Saul to be king,
for he has turned back from following me,
and hath not performed the commandments,
and it grieves Samuel, and he cried unto the Lord all night.
And when Samuel arose early to meet Saul in the morning,
it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel,
and behold,
He set him up a place, and has gone about, and compassed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said unto him, Blessed be the Lord!
I have performed the commandment of the Lord."
No, he didn't.
He didn't do what he was told. He was told to utterly destroy everything and he did not do that. That is bad leadership
What did King Josiah do? He heard the word of the Lord
He humbled his heart and he said all right guys. This is what we're doing
This is what the Bible says, this is what we're doing.
We're gonna run our church, we're gonna run our kingdom
exactly the way the Bible says.
Well, that's not what happened here with King Saul.
He did not do what he was supposed to do,
and that's bad leadership.
And look what he says.
It says,
and Saul said they have brought...
Then from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God, and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night, and he said it unto him.
And he said unto him say on and Samuel said when that was little in thine own sight
Was thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel the Lord anointed the king over Israel and the Lord sent thee on a journey and
Said go and utterly destroy the centers of the amokites and fight against them until they be consumed
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord?
But didst fly upon the spoil and it's evil in the sight of the Lord
And Saul said unto Samuel, yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way
which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek."
and have utterly destroyed the Amlicites. But the people took of the spoil sheep and oxen,
the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed to sacrifice unto the
Lord thy God and Gilgal, and Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings
O to obey is better than sacrifice and to harken than the fatter Rams for rebellion is as a sin of witchcraft and stubbornness as
In iniquity and idolatry because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord
He also he hath also rejected thee from being king and look what Saul says and
Saul said unto Samuel I have sinned for have transgressed from the commandment of the Lord
Because I feared the people and obeyed their voice. That's a bad leader
He ruined and destroyed his entire
reign as king
Because he broke God's commandments because he feared what the people were gonna do. That's bad leadership
So if you're a pastor of a church and you're up here preaching the word of God and the truth and people leave because they don't like
What's in the Bible?
That's fine. That's being a good leader, but if you fear
And you change the message of the Bible, and you water it down, and you make it either not true or just don't preach the whole counsel of God.
That is bad leadership. And what I like about Josiah is he was a good leader. He caused the people. He made them do what was right.
Yeah, they had to choose, but he set the tone. He is the one that was leading.
That is a second lesson that we want to learn from Josiah is that he was a good leader.
And point number three, Josiah respected the man of God.
Josiah had, this is a lesson that we can learn. Josiah respected the man of God.
Go to 2 Kings 23 verse 16.
23 verse 16 and it says in verse 16 we're starting out and as Josiah turned
himself now this is where he's he's cleansing the land and he's getting rid
All the idolatry and everything and it says and as Josiah turned himself in he spied the
sepulchers that were within the mount and sent and took the bones out of the sepulchers and
Burned them upon the altar and polluted it according to the word of the Lord
Which the man of God proclaimed who proclaimed for these words
So he's taking all the bones of all these false prophets and these idolaters and he's just getting rid of the
the the filth in the land and that's that's a lot of zeal to go to all that effort
then he said what title is that that i see so he's in this sepulchre and apparently there's
a plaque or a title and it has a man's name on it
And the men of the city told him it is a sepulchre of the man of God which came from Judah and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.
And so they're just like, hey, this is the man of God. This is a prophet. He actually prophesied about you cleaning up Israel. So that's who that is.
And so, look what he says in verse 18.
So this is Josiah, let him alone, let no man move his bones.
So they let his bones alone and the bones of the prophet
that came out of Samaria.
And so he had respect for the man of God, the prophet.
He didn't have respect for all the false prophets in there
and all the idolaters and all of that garbage
that was spread throughout.
all of the land of Israel, all of the hordom that was happening of going after other gods.
That's the hordom. It's not a physical hordom. It's a spiritual hordom of saying,
hey, I don't care about the God of Israel, the God of heaven and earth. I like my little
molten image. I like other gods. So he has respect for the man of God. And really,
people attacking authority not just in the church but just everywhere everybody
is always attacking authority and you know whether it be like feminism just
attacking the authority of the structure of the household you know but
there's also people that specifically attack the man of God and so go to 1st
We're having a little bit of a Bible drill. Sorry. I know it's Sunday morning, but
Bear with me
First Samuel 18 and we'll start in verse 5
And this is the story of King David and King Saul and so in verse 5
And David went out with or so ever Saul sent him and behaved himself wisely, and Saul set
him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and also in
the sight of Saul's servants.
And it came to pass as they came when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine
that the women came out of all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet King
and the women answered one another as they played and said Saul had to slain his thousands and David
his ten thousands and Saul was very wroth he was very angry and he
And the saying displeased him and he said,
they have ascribed unto David ten thousands,
and to me they have ascribed but thousands.
And what can he have more but the kingdom?
And Saul eyed David from that day forward,
and it came to pass on the morrow
that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul,
and he prophesied in the midst of the house,
and David played with his hand at his other times,
and there was a javelin in Saul's hand,
and Saul cast a javelin for he said,
the wall with it, and David avoided out of his presence twice. And Saul was afraid of David
because the Lord was with him, King David, or David at the time, and was departed from King Saul.
And so right here, you see the king, the leadership. He is, he's not a good leader.
King Saul was not a good leader and this is just a little bit of evidence of that
Let's turn to
2 Samuel
Verse or 2 Samuel 1 will start in verse 17
So just over a few pages
How did David respond to this?
What did David do? Nothing. He went out and he slayed a bunch of men and fought for the king
He was he was commanded by the king to go and he did nothing wrong
Look in verse 17 of 2nd Samuel 1 and David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
Also, he bade them, teach the children of Judah, use the use of the bow, behold it is written in the book of Jasher.
The beauty of Israel is slain.
This is what David is saying about King Saul at King Saul's funeral.
King Saul died.
And that's sad.
A man of God died.
Was he the greatest king?
Was he the best leader?
No, but he was a man of God.
He was chosen by God.
He was put in that position and he died.
And this is David's heart.
And King Saul is trying to kill King David for a long time.
And this is his response to all of that.
This is how King David thought.
The beauty of Israel, that is a really good compliment
to give somebody that's trying to kill you.
The beauty of Israel is slain upon the high places.
How are the mighty fallen?
Tell it not in Gath.
Publish it not in the streets of Ascalon,
lest the daughters of a Philistines rejoice,
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph,
yet mountains, yea, mountains of Gilboa,
let there be no dew, neither...
Let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty is
vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil, from the
blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the
sword of Saul returns not empty."
You know King David he is lamenting King Saul that was trying to destroy him and
Look at his attitude towards this person the leader
Look at his attitude. He respected the man of God and you know
What's happening in a lot of churches today is the the pastor the man of God is not getting respected
And, you know, sometimes it's just very direct and obvious, and other times it's not.
And so you can see a direct and obvious attack where just somebody just like out in the open
just says, hey, my pastor, he sucks.
He's bad at this.
He doesn't do this right, blah, blah, blah.
And that's horribly wicked.
Because that authority, that pastor, he was put in that position by God.
I mean, who here can cast the first stone, right?
So yeah, our pastors are gonna have flaws,
but the position of authority that they have,
it should be respected.
And look at the example that King David gave us, a man after God's own heart.
You know, there's other people that are very subtle about it.
They're just like, you know, they'll go to the congregation and the people in the church
and try to cause a split and say, well, the pastor's not running the church right,
or, you know, he's not doing this right, or, you know, this or that.
And those people...
You know they don't love the pastor they don't they don't care about the man of God
You know they're very prideful and those people just don't last they end up just leaving and but they're trying to take as many
People with them as possible, but think about this
If you think your pastor sucks if you think your church is horrible and it's bad
You know, maybe you should look at yourself. How good a church member are you?
Maybe God put you in a bad church because you're a bad church member and that's what you deserve
How about you do this? How about you stop attacking the man of God and you look at yourself and you say,
you know, what can I do to be a better church member? What can I do to be less bad?
How can I improve myself and support the man of God? And look, I'm not saying that the man of God is perfect.
Nobody is perfect. If you hang around anybody for any amount of time, you will pick out their flaws.
But there are positions of authority that are God-ordained and that's one of them and look at our example from King David
He did a great job respecting the man of authority, and you know what?
Josiah it says that he was seeking after the God of his father David in the very beginning when he was young and
You know that's why I think he had a lot of respect for the man of God
And so, you know, if you think you have a bad church, you have a bad pastor, then, you know, why don't you just become a better church member and get on your knees and humble yourself and pray and ask God and show yourself how to be a better church member.
And pray for your pastor and say, hey, God, please give him wisdom and knowledge and understanding and the strength to get the things done that he needs to get done for you.
And then come to church and shut your mouth. How about that? Is that an option?
That should be the option because that's what King David did and he respected the man of God.
And so if you have people in your church and they're like that and they're just going around and
they're decisive and they're causing division in the church, you know, that's a bad person.
And I would be very, very weary of that person. And there's a lot of us that's been in churches
The people sowing discord in the church and they're just trying to split up the church and it's horribly wicked.
So one of the things that I like about King Josiah, he respected the man of God.
What a great quality.
Add that with his zeal and his love for the word.
I love the character King Josiah.
If you don't fear, if you don't fear the Bible, you don't fear God, and you don't respect the pastor and the man of God.
Here's what happens. We saw what King David did. Go to Numbers 12. Here's what happens if you don't respect the man of God.
And this is scary, because this is God sending out the punishment. This is God speaking to us directly.
And Numbers 12 will start at verse one.
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses
because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married
for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
I always laugh when I hear that.
Because of the Ethiopian woman that he married for he had married and they stated it twice
I'm not sure why God did that, but I just I love it and they said hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses
Hathi not spoken also by us and the Lord heard it. So what are they doing? They're so in discord. They're attacking the leadership
Moses this is horribly wicked and this is God himself talking
Look what he says about it
And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, come out ye three,
unto the tabernacle of the congregation, and they three came out. And the Lord came down on the
pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam, and they
both came forth. And he said, here now, my words, if there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will
make myself known unto him in a vision, and I will speak unto him in a dream. My servant Moses is not
He's not speaking to Moses in a dream in a vision. That's what he's saying. It's like this is not my servant Moses. Why?
With him will I speak mouth to mouth?
Face to face even apparently and not in dark speeches and in and the similitude of the Lord
Shall he behold wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses and the anger of the Lord was
Kindled against them and he departed. Yeah, go ahead and speak against your pastor
You think your pastor is bad enough for you to speak against
You think King David had a reason to speak against his leader
Yeah, he's trying to kill him. Did he ever? No.
Here's what happens.
And the cloud departed from off the Tabernacle, and behold Miriam became leprous, white as snow.
And Aaron looked upon Miriam and, behold, she was leprous. Again, it states it twice there. I love
that how it reiterates things. And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my Lord, I beseech thee, lay not the
sin upon us wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned, let her not be as one dead
of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. And Moses cried unto
the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. And the Lord said unto Moses, if her father
should she not be ashamed seven days?
So that's the deal, if you were defiled,
you went out of the camp for seven days,
you were cleansed, and you could come back in.
So God is not happy with her for sowing discord,
and he just says, yeah, I'll heal her,
but she has to follow the rules.
And look what it says.
Let her be shut out from the camp seven days,
and after that, let her be received again.
So we can screw up with God, and he'll receive us again.
You know, it's not over just because we do something even really really bad
I mean King Saul was trying to kill David and yet King Saul is in heaven right now and not because he's a perfect man
but because
He believed on the Lord Jesus Christ and you think about this you think your pastor is a bad guy or not perfect or whatever
Well think what God has to work with on this earth
men sinners none of us are good all of us
Have mistakes and character flaws and problems. It's all God has to work with
He's only going to be able to use an imperfect person
So, don't attack that imperfect person when that's your pastor, your leader, you know,
your husband, whatever it may be.
And so, you know, I always think of this when she was shut out for the seven days outside
the camp and they weren't able to move forward.
It's just like, what are we waiting on?
Oh, Miriam, why?
Because she went against Moses and tried to sow discord.
It's like how embarrassing, right?
You know he loved
Josiah he
He respected the man of God, and that's how we should do it too. What a great example. What a lesson we can learn from Josiah
Last point I have for you is he had a tender heart
Josiah had a tender heart
second Kings 22
We'll go ahead and start in verse 18.
It says, But the king of Judah, which sent you to inquire of the Lord,
Thus shall you say to him, Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel,
As touching the words which thou hast heard,
Because thine heart was tender, And thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord,
When thou hurtest what I spake against this place,
And against the inhabitants thereof, That they should become a desolation and a curse,
And hast rent thy clothes and wept before me, I also have heard thee sayeth the Lord,
The unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I
Will bring upon this place and they brought the king word again. So, you know, and in this passage
This is talking about him finding the book the law and they're reading it
And he's like I'm gonna destroy Israel because all this spiritual hordom and then he wept in his heart
He humbled himself. He was tender-hearted
And that's a great example of the way that we should be whenever we hear the word of God,
is we should have a tender heart.
We should be tender to the word of God, the truth.
You know, that's how somebody gets saved, is because this world is telling us all the time,
you gotta be good, you gotta go to church.
You got to repent of your sins.
You got to clean up your life.
You got to stop drinking, stop smoking, stop kicking the cat.
You got to do all these works, okay?
That's what the world says.
The Bible says you don't have to do any of those things.
All you have to do is believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
that it's his death, his burial, his resurrection
that saves you, not yourself.
And when you have a tender heart and you believe the truth,
that's when you get saved. It takes a tender heart. Only humble people get saved. The
prideful person says, no, I don't get saved because of the free gift that God gave me.
I get saved because of the works that I do. I work hard to do things like go to church. I
worked hard to read my Bible every year. I worked hard to memorize stuff. I am a pretty good person.
That's what's getting me to heaven. That's not true. That's not a tender heart. That's a prideful
paraphrase a lot of stuff here, I'm just gonna go through it real quick, you know
who didn't have a tender heart that was a prophet of God as Jonah, because remember
the story of Jonah when God says go to Nineveh and go preach that I'm going to
destroy the city, what did Jonah do?
He ran from the presence of the Lord. He didn't have a tender heart. He didn't receive the word gladly and
that's not good and and God was just basically very merciful to him and just said
all right, I got a taxi for you
I'm gonna take you over the end of it through this well and
You know eventually he did he did do what God said, but he didn't have a tender heart
Jonah did not have a tender heart another person in the Bible
I can think of as King of Drippa when Paul was
was on trial and King Agrippa is talking to him. And King Agrippa, he knew the word. He knew the
customs of the Jews. He knew, you know, Paul obviously had been talking to him. And Paul said,
I know you know these things, but do you believe it's true? And he's like, man,
he's like, you almost made me believe. He's like, I almost, you know, you almost, I can't quote it, but
I almost became a Christian.
Well, why didn't he believe the gospel message?
Because his heart is hard.
And you have to have a tender heart
to receive the truth, the things of the Lord,
whether it's salvation or just, hey,
I should have my button church every single Sunday,
or I should read my Bible every day.
And if you have a tender heart for that stuff,
we see that you get rewarded.
You know, Fenehas, with his zeal, he got rewarded
when he went and shut down those two people
that were bringing on all the horrors and stuff
on the kingdom of Israel.
And so, you know,
how do you get a tender heart if you don't?
Cause we all are prideful to some point in some area.
None of us are perfect.
And so when we see the Word of God, if we do it,
that will help us have a tender heart.
So how do you tenderize your heart?
You do the Word of God.
Let's go over to just real quick, James 1.
James 1.
This is the last verse we'll read.
How do you tenderize your heart? How do you get your heart right? How do you do what King Josiah
did and have a tender heart and just hear the word and just like, man, I'm on it. I, you know,
I'm going to do it. Well, this is how you tenderize your heart. In James 1 verse 22,
It says, be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only deceiving your own selves.
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his
natural face in a glass."
And we read the story about King Saul earlier.
He had the commandment, go destroy everything utterly, right?
That was the commandment.
He heard the word.
But did he do it?
No, and then what did he say when he came back? He's like, oh, I did I did the commandment rejoice in the Lord
I did it. I got the king right here a gag, but you're supposed to destroy him
So he was deceiving himself
He heard the commandment, but he didn't do the commandment
So he was deceiving himself and that's a good example of this verse is that we if we want to tenderize our heart
We have to do what King Josiah did that had a tender heart is I see the word
I'm just immediately doing it.
Not next week, not next month, not when I think I'm ready,
but if I see in the word of God,
forsake not the assembly of yourselves together,
then I should say, hey, I need to attend church.
Maybe God's a little bit smarter than me
and he's giving me a command to go to church.
Not because he's just like, wants me to just,
oh, you know, do a cartwheel.
You know, that's not what he's saying.
He wants to bless you.
What is church for?
Church is not a party, it's not a place where you come to hang out with your friends or just talk about whatever worldly thing.
Church, it has two missions, to edify, to build up the congregation and the word of God so that they can and do follow the commands more,
so they can have a cleaner life and get those blessings from God.
And if they don't do that, they're still going to heaven if they believed on Jesus.
And then the other thing that the church is for is to evangelize the gospel.
Church is to build us up in the word of God and send us out to go preach the word so that more people can believe on Jesus and be saved.
And hopefully they choose to come to church and hopefully they choose to hear the word and have a tender heart and clean up their life.
Not to go to heaven, but to get the blessings and the rewards that God wants to give us.
And so that is another thing that we can learn from King Josiah, because he had a tender heart.
had a very tender heart and you know he gets a lot of compliments from God
and he's, you know, he's zealous. He respects authority and leadership. He is a good leader.
He actually does what he says to do.
He's he's tender hearted. So those are lessons that we can take from King Josiah
This is one of the reasons why I think he's such a great king in the Bible is such a great
Character in the Bible is because
Somebody that's doing those things. They're pleasing God and so lessons from the king from King Josiah
I hope that you guys enjoyed seeing some of that and can take from that and apply it to your life
And so let's just end in a word of prayer
Father God in heaven, thank you so much for your word.
Thank you for all these characters and stories in the Bible
that just teach us how to love you more, how to be a better Christian.
And thank you so much for King Josiah and the lessons that we can learn from him.
And please just help us apply these lessons to our lives
and help the people that are around us apply these to their lives and
so that more and more people are tenderhearted, and zealous, and respect the man of God,
and become good leaders. And just thank you so much for everything you do for us. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
All right, turn in your hymnals to our last song.
It's going to be page number 272, page 272, Rock of Ages.
We're going to start there on the first.
Rock of Ages, Cliff.
I'm sweating a lot.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
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