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Title: We need to understand the nature of the spiritual battles of God

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

The battleground has and will always be for the
hearts and minds of men. Changing the
heart is no easy task. (Jer 171, 7-10)

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

Jeremiah 171 - "The sin of Judah is written with
a pen of iron With the point of a diamond it is
engraved On the tablet of their heart, And on the
horns of your altars,

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

Jeremiah 177-10 - "Blessed is the man who
trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD.
8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the
waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river,
And will not fear when heat comes But its leaf
will be green, And will not be anxious in the
year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding
fruit.

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

9 " The heart is deceitful above all things, And
desperately wicked Who can know it? 10 I, the
LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to
give every man according to his ways, According
to the fruit of his doings.

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

Understanding the nature and thoughts of God is
the only hope for man.

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

Understanding the nature and thoughts of God is
the only hope for man.
Satans goal is to block, obscure and distort the
nature of God to men. (2 Cor 43-4)

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

2 Corinthians 43-4 - But even if our gospel is
veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing,
4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded,
who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel
of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God,
should shine on them.

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

This is a battle that is never won as well.

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

We are leaky buckets therefore we constantly
need solid teaching.

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

We are leaky buckets therefore we constantly
need solid teaching.
True understanding is not easy. It requires a
spiritual commitment. (Prov 1215 162)

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

Proverbs 1215 - The way of a fool is right in
his own eyes, But he who heeds counsel is wise.

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

Proverbs 162 - All the ways of a man are pure in
his own eyes, But the LORD weighs the spirits.

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We need to understand the nature of the spiritual
battles of Gods people.

This battle is fought to teach the next
generation!

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

When we truly come to a knowledge of the nature
of God then it changes us.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

When we truly come to a knowledge of the nature
of God then it changes us.
What did God say about Himself? (Ex 346-7)

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

Exodus 346-7 - And the LORD passed before him
and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful
and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in
goodness and truth, 7 "keeping mercy for
thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression
and sin, by no means clearing the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children and the children's children to the third
and the fourth generation.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

He wanted us to know of His mercy, grace,
longsuffering, goodness, truth, forgiveness and
justice. Why?

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

He wanted us to know of His mercy, grace,
longsuffering, goodness, truth, forgiveness and
justice. Why?
His character transforms our character if we will
seek Him and find Him.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

He wanted us to know of His mercy, grace,
longsuffering, goodness, truth, forgiveness and
justice. Why?
His character transforms our character if we will
seek Him and find Him.
God started transforming His people by teaching
them the fear of God. (Deut 524-29)

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

Deuteronomy 524-29 - "And you said 'Surely the
LORD our God has shown us His glory and His
greatness, and we have heard His voice from the
midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God
speaks with man yet he still lives. 25 'Now
therefore, why should we die? For this great fire
will consume us if we hear the voice of the LORD
our God anymore, then we shall die.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

26 'For who is there of all flesh who has heard
the voice of the living God speaking from the
midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27
'You go near and hear all that the LORD our God
may say, and tell us all that the LORD our God
says to you, and we will hear and do it.'

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

28 "Then the LORD heard the voice of your words
when you spoke to me, and the LORD said to me 'I
have heard the voice of the words of this people
which they have spoken to you. They are right in
all that they have spoken. 29 'Oh, that they had
such a heart in them that they would fear Me and
always keep all My commandments, that it might be
well with them and with their children forever!

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

Consider what it means to truly fear God. How did
God teach them this?

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

Consider what it means to truly fear God. How did
God teach them this?
How does a fear of God lead to other profitable
things? (Prov 15-7 22-7)

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

Proverbs 15-7 - A wise man will hear and
increase learning, And a man of understanding
will attain wise counsel, 6 To understand a
proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and
their riddles. 7 The fear of the LORD is the
beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom
and instruction.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

Proverbs 22-7 - 2 So that you incline your ear
to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding
3 Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift
up your voice for understanding, 4 If you seek
her as silver, And search for her as for hidden
treasures 5 Then you will understand the fear
of the LORD, And find the knowledge of God.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

6 For the LORD gives wisdom From His mouth come
knowledge and understanding 7 He stores up
sound wisdom for the upright He is a shield to
those who walk uprightly

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

How do people act when they do not fear God?

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

A great test of a person is when they are asked
to examine Gods word about a matter they
are practicing or want to believe.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

Consider how Gods Nature molds us.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

Consider how Gods Nature molds us.
God is light and truth He hates falsehood and
praises integrity. Men respect His words and
wisdom. The silence of God causes men to be
silent.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

God is holy He hates sin and must punish
sinners. Sin is not taken lightly.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

God is holy He hates sin and must punish
sinners. Sin is not taken lightly.
God is merciful and patient He develops men in
wisdom and gives them time.

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The Nature and Mind of God is the focus of our
battle

God is holy He hates sin and must punish
sinners. Sin is not taken lightly.
God is merciful and patient He develops men in
wisdom and gives them time.
God wants us to reason and see, so He helps us
keep a sound mind by teaching and warning of
heart diseases that destroy the mind.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

How can this be? (Jer 210-13)

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The people of God have often forgotten God

Jeremiah 210-13 - For pass beyond the coasts of
Cyprus and see, Send to Kedar and consider
diligently, And see if there has been such a
thing. 11 Has a nation changed its gods, Which
are not gods? But My people have changed their
Glory For what does not profit. 12 Be
astonished, O heavens, at this, And be horribly
afraid Be very desolate," says the LORD.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

13 "For My people have committed two evils They
have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns -- broken cisterns
that can hold no water.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

People forget God because God stands in the way
of their flesh! (Rom 128)

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The people of God have often forgotten God

Romans 128 - And even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over
to a debased mind, to do those things which are
not fitting

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The people of God have often forgotten God

When you want something bad enough you will come
to even fight God.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

When you want something bad enough you will come
to even fight God.
Consider the apostasy cycle of the Judges.
(Judges 37 1 Sam 129-11)

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The people of God have often forgotten God

Judges 37 - So the children of Israel did evil
in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD
their God, and served the Baals and Asherahs.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

1 Samuel 129-11 - "And when they forgot the LORD
their God, He sold them into the hand of Sisera,
commander of the army of Hazor, into the hand of
the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of
Moab and they fought against them.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

10 "Then they cried out to the LORD, and said,
'We have sinned, because we have forsaken the
LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths but now
deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we
will serve You.' 11 "And the LORD sent
Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and
delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on
every side and you dwelt in safety.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

When people lose a fear of God then they discard
Him.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

When people lose a fear of God then they discard
Him.
You will then see a change of worship with a
corresponding change in morals.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

When people lose a fear of God then they discard
Him.
You will then see a change of worship with a
corresponding change in morals.
It takes great effort for men to remember God
over time. (Heb 116)

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The people of God have often forgotten God

Hebrews 116 - But without faith it is impossible
to please Him, for he who comes to God must
believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of
those who diligently seek Him.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

When leaders cease fearing God then they will
start lowering the standards.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

When leaders cease fearing God then they will
start lowering the standards.
Next there will be pressure applied on teachers
to accommodate rather than to rebuke and
warn.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

What does the nature of God teach us about the
kind of teachers that we must demand? (Ezk
317-21)

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The people of God have often forgotten God

Ezekiel 317-21 - "Son of man, I have made you a
watchman for the house of Israel therefore hear
a word from My mouth, and give them warning from
Me 18 "When I say to the wicked, 'You shall
surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor
speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to
save his life, that same wicked man shall die in
his iniquity but his blood I will require at
your hand.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

19 "Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not
turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked
way, he shall die in his iniquity but you have
delivered your soul.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

20 "Again, when a righteous man turns from his
righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a
stumbling block before him, he shall die because
you did not give him warning, he shall die in his
sin, and his righteousness which he has done
shall not be remembered but his blood I will
require at your hand.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

21 "Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man
that the righteous should not sin, and he does
not sin, he shall surely live because he took
warning also you will have delivered your soul.

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The people of God have often forgotten God

When the people of God want something new and
interesting then they have lost the fear of God.
(Jer 1410-11)

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The people of God have often forgotten God

Jeremiah 1410-11 - Thus says the LORD to this
people "Thus they have loved to wander They
have not restrained their feet. Therefore the
LORD does not accept them He will remember their
iniquity now, And punish their sins." 11 Then
the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for this
people, for their good.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

Gods leaders are given the task of reminding the
people who God is and what He wants. Godly
watchmen see the dangers and grieve over the
people. (Jer 819-22)

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

Jeremiah 819-22 - Listen! The voice, The cry of
the daughter of my people From a far country "Is
not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?"
"Why have they provoked Me to anger With their
carved images -- With foreign idols?" 20 "The
harvest is past, The summer is ended, And we are
not saved!"

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am
hurt. I am mourning Astonishment has taken hold
of me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there
no physician there? Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?
When worldly men are in control they will fight
against God and His ways.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am
hurt. I am mourning Astonishment has taken hold
of me. 22 Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there
no physician there? Why then is there no recovery
For the health of the daughter of my people?
When worldly men are in control they will fight
against God and His ways.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

The strongest reaction of the leaders was against
Jeremiah! (Jer 1414 1818)
Jeremiah 1414 - And the LORD said to me, "The
prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not
sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them
they prophesy to you a false vision, divination,
a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

The strongest reaction of the leaders was against
Jeremiah! (Jer 1414 1818)
Jeremiah 1414 - And the LORD said to me, "The
prophets prophesy lies in My name. I have not
sent them, commanded them, nor spoken to them
they prophesy to you a false vision, divination,
a worthless thing, and the deceit of their heart.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

Jeremiah 1818 - Then they said, "Come and let
us devise plans against Jeremiah for the law
shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel
from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and
let us not give heed to any of his words.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

The false leaders perverted the nature of God by
teaching grace, peace and assurance apart from
Gods standard. (Jer 613-16)

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

Jeremiah 613-16 - "Because from the least of
them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is
given to covetousness And from the prophet even
to the priest, Everyone deals falsely. 14 They
have also healed the hurt of My people slightly,
Saying, 'Peace, peace!' When there is no peace.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

15 Were they ashamed when they had committed
abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed
Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they
shall fall among those who fall At the time I
punish them, They shall be cast down," says the
LORD.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

16 Thus says the LORD "Stand in the ways and
see, And ask for the old paths, where the good
way is, And walk in it Then you will find rest
for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk
in it.
They develop a concept of God that has no
practical impact on doctrine.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

16 Thus says the LORD "Stand in the ways and
see, And ask for the old paths, where the good
way is, And walk in it Then you will find rest
for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk
in it.
They develop a concept of God that has no
practical impact on doctrine.

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

They made God in their image and thus have a
changeable God. The idea of restoration
is not flexible with the changing whims of men
and culture.
They profited by ignorance and provided teachers
to promote it!

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

They made God in their image and thus have a
changeable God. The idea of restoration
is not flexible with the changing whims of men
and culture.
They profited by ignorance and provided teachers
to promote it!

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

They would focus on relationships with men as
their primary focus. They would define service to
God in such as way that would eliminate
discussion of Gods word on any question.
These actions over time will produce a haughty
spirit of pride in the people where they no
longer will listen. (Micah 26-8 Jer 253-12)

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

They would focus on relationships with men as
their primary focus. They would define service to
God in such as way that would eliminate
discussion of Gods word on any question.
These actions over time will produce a haughty
spirit of pride in the people where they no
longer will listen. (Micah 26-8 Jer 253-12)

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

Micah 26-8 - 6 " Do not prattle," you say to
those who prophesy. So they shall not prophesy to
you They shall not return insult for insult. 7
You who are named the house of Jacob "Is the
Spirit of the LORD restricted? Are these His
doings? Do not My words do good To him who walks
uprightly?

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How a corrupt leadership destroys the people of
God

8 "Lately My people have risen up as an enemy --
You pull off the robe with the garment From those
who trust you, as they pass by, Like men returned
from war.

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God

Jeremiah 253-12 - 3 "From the thirteenth year
of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to
this day, this is the twenty-third year in which
the word of the LORD has come to me and I have
spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you
have not listened. 4 "And the LORD has sent to
you all His servants the prophets, rising early
and sending them, but you have not listened nor
inclined your ear to hear.

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God

5 "They said, 'Repent now everyone of his evil
way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land
that the LORD has given to you and your fathers
forever and ever. 6 'Do not go after other gods
to serve them and worship them, and do not
provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands
and I will not harm you.'

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God

7 "Yet you have not listened to Me," says the
LORD, "that you might provoke Me to anger with
the works of your hands to your own hurt. 8 "
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts 'Because
you have not heard My words,

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God

9 'behold, I will send and take all the families
of the north,' says the LORD, 'and Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring
them against this land, against its inhabitants,
and against these nations all around, and will
utterly destroy them, and make them an
astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual
desolations.

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God

10 'Moreover I will take from them the voice of
mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound
of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11
'And this whole land shall be a desolation and an
astonishment, and these nations shall serve the
king of Babylon seventy years.

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12 ' Then it will come to pass, when seventy
years are completed, that I will punish the king
of Babylon and that nation, the land of the
Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the LORD
'and I will make it a perpetual desolation.

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Josiah had Gods word read to him for the first
time. (2 Chron 3418-21)

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2 Chronicles 3418-21 - Then Shaphan the scribe
told the king, saying, "Hilkiah the priest has
given me a book." And Shaphan read it before the
king. 19 Thus it happened, when the king heard
the words of the Law, that he tore his clothes.

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20 . 21 "Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and
for those who are left in Israel and Judah,
concerning the words of the book that is found
for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured
out on us, because our fathers have not kept the
word of the LORD, to do according to all that is
written in this book.

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He morns and asks God for help. He was not
willing just to try to have positive
thoughts. He wanted the truth of God.

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He morns and asks God for help. He was not
willing just to try to have positive
thoughts. He wanted the truth of God.
The answer should not have surprised him. (2
Chron 3423-28)

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2 Chronicles 3423-28 - Then she answered them,
"Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Tell the man
who sent you to Me, 24 "Thus says the LORD
'Behold, I will bring calamity on this place and
on its inhabitants, all the curses that are
written in the book which they have read before
the king of Judah,

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25 'because they have forsaken Me and burned
incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me
to anger with all the works of their hands.
Therefore My wrath will be poured out on this
place, and not be quenched.' " '

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26 "But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to
inquire of the LORD, in this manner you shall
speak to him, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel
"Concerning the words which you have heard --

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27 "because your heart was tender, and you
humbled yourself before God when you heard His
words against this place and against its
inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me,
and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I
also have heard you," says the LORD.

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28 "Surely I will gather you to your fathers, and
you shall be gathered to your grave in peace and
your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I
will bring on this place and its inhabitants." '
" So they brought back word to the king.

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God however recognized Josiah. (2 Tim 219)

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2 Timothy 219 - Nevertheless the solid
foundation of God stands, having this seal "The
Lord knows those who are His," and, "Let everyone
who names the name of Christ depart from
iniquity.

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Josiah tries anyway to change the people. (2
Chron 3430-33)

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2 Chronicles 3430-33 - The king went up to the
house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem -- the priests and
the Levites, and all the people, great and small.
And he read in their hearing all the words of the
Book of the Covenant which had been found in the
house of the LORD.

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31 Then the king stood in his place and made a
covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD, and
to keep His commandments and His testimonies and
His statutes with all his heart and all his soul,
to perform the words of the covenant that were
written in this book.

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32 And he made all who were present in Jerusalem
and Benjamin take a stand. So the inhabitants of
Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God,
the God of their fathers. 33 Thus Josiah removed
all the abominations from all the country that
belonged to the children of Israel, and made all
who were present in Israel diligently serve the
LORD their God. All his days they did not depart
from following the LORD God of their fathers.

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Have you ever thought I will make them do what
is right!?

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Have you ever thought I will make them do what
is right!?
He had them observe the Passover. (2 Chron 351,
5, 7, 18-19)

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2 Chronicles 351 - Now Josiah kept a Passover to
the LORD in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the
Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the first
month.

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2 Chronicles 357 - Then Josiah gave the lay
people lambs and young goats from the flock, all
for Passover offerings for all who were present,
to the number of thirty thousand, as well as
three thousand cattle these were from the king's
possessions.

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2 Chronicles 3518-19 - There had been no
Passover kept in Israel like that since the days
of Samuel the prophet and none of the kings of
Israel had kept such a Passover as Josiah kept,
with the priests and the Levites, all Judah and
Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. 19 In the eighteenth year of the
reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.

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He had to try and he did! What did God think of
the fruits of his efforts?

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He had to try and he did! What did God think of
the fruits of his efforts?
Jeremiah started preaching during the reign of
Josiah. (Jer 11-2)

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Jeremiah 11-2 - The words of Jeremiah the son
of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth
in the land of Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of
the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of
Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of
his reign.

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Would you liked to have preached with such a king
in power?

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Would you liked to have preached with such a king
in power?
What did Jeremiah say about the reforms of
Josiah? ---- NOTHING!

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He called Judahs actions a pretense. (Jer
39-11)

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Jeremiah 39-11 - "So it came to pass, through
her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land
and committed adultery with stones and trees. 10
"And yet for all this her treacherous sister
Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart,
but in pretense," says the LORD. 11 Then the
LORD said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown
herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

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Questions to Consider

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The failure of the reforms of Josiah

Questions to Consider
1. Describe in your own words the nature of God.
How should these things change us?

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The failure of the reforms of Josiah

Questions to Consider
1. Describe in your own words the nature of God.
How should these things change us?
2. What are the first steps in knowing God?

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The failure of the reforms of Josiah

Questions to Consider
1. Describe in your own words the nature of God.
How should these things change us?
2. What are the first steps in knowing God?
3. Why do some people who once knew God cease to
fear Him? (Jer 615)

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The failure of the reforms of Josiah

Questions to Consider
1. Describe in your own words the nature of God.
How should these things change us?
2. What are the first steps in knowing God?
3. Why do some people who once knew God cease to
fear Him? (Jer 615)
4. What are some common characteristics of
teachers who do not fear God?