#king ahaz

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When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.

Isaiah 7:1 NIV (2007)

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Church notes - 27th August 2017

The sermon notes from 27th without those from the rest of the month.

27 August 2017 Kids Talk Daniel 5 Writing on the Wall God is showing that He is in control (Not the King of Babylon).

2 Thessalonians 1: 5 - 10 Stand Firm vs 9 Hell is a Biblical reality - the above verse shares a picture of that place.

We can trust that God's judgement is right and just. those persecuting the Thessalonian believers would face this justice.

To reject God's love is to reject our only opportunity of salvation. Those who don't know Jesus personally will face everlasting destruction. Paul wants to be with Christ (Philippians 1:21 - 23)

vs9 Shut out from His presence and His Glory John 3:16 The positive view

Hell - a permanent banishment Heaven - Being with the LORD forever.

Hebrews 9:27 Your eternal destiny is determined by our accaptance of What Jesus has done for us. Hell is a reality Jesus spoke the most about it.

2 Chronicles 28 King Ahaz - Gohenna - the garbage pit.

It was not part of the originall plan for the creation.

Both Heaven and Hell are described metaphorically - figurative language. It is not a literal description, but Jesus was comparing them to what people already knew. (C.S. Lewis pointed this out once.) People should know that the afterlife is real. 'Fire of Hell' - Destruction, cut off fromGod and all that is good. It is what would happen in you. Trapped in yourself and what you've become. But it's not God's will. Therefore, the purpose of Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross is so that we shall not face that reality.

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In his time of trouble King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

2 Chronicles 28:22 NIV

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He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him; for he thought, 'Since the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.' But they were his downfall and the downfall of all Israel.

2 Chronicles 28:23 NIV

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Ahaz gathered together the furnishings from the temple of God and took them away. He shut the doors of the LORD's temple and set up altars at every street corner in Jerusalem. In every town in Judah he built high places to burn sacrifices to other gods and provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers, to anger.

2 Chronicles 28:24-25 NIV

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Ahaz took some of the things from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace and from the princes and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.

2 Chronicles 28:21 NIV

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Now the house of David was told, “Aram has allied itself with Ephraim”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub, to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

“Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these smoldering stubs of firewood--because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.’ ”

- Isaiah 7:2-4 NIV

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'Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven.' But Ahaz said, 'I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!' Then he said, 'Listen now, O house of David! Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well?'

Isaiah 7:11-13 NASB