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There is a dangerous assumption people make in life and in faith: if we have always done something a certain way, then it must be the right way.

But that simply is not true.

Just because something has been repeated for years does not make it biblical. Just because a behavior, tradition, or mindset has existed for generations does not mean it aligns with the Word of God. That truth is exactly what we see in the story of King Josiah.

When Josiah finally heard the Book of the Law read aloud, he immediately realized how far the people of God had drifted from the Lord. They had not only ignored God’s commandments, they had replaced them with the traditions, idols, and practices of the nations around them.

And his response should challenge every one of us today.

Who Was King Josiah?

King Josiah became king at only eight years old, yet Scripture says he “did what was right in the sight of the Lord.” Even from a young age, his heart was inclined toward God. He did not turn to the right or to the left.

What is remarkable is that before Josiah even discovered the Book of the Law, he had already begun purging the land of idols, false gods, and pagan worship practices. He instinctively understood that the people of God were not supposed to live like the nations around them.

There was something in him that desired holiness, obedience, and reverence for the Lord.

Then came the moment that changed everything.

When Josiah Heard God’s Word

While repairs were being made to the temple, Hilkiah the priest discovered the Book of the Law that had been neglected and forgotten. When it was finally read before King Josiah, he tore his clothes and wept before God.

Why?

Because he suddenly understood the severity of what the nation had done. He recognized that the people had abandoned God’s commands and were living under the consequences of rebellion and disobedience.

Josiah did not defend the people. He did not excuse their behavior. He did not say, “Well, this is just how we’ve always done things.”

Instead, he humbled himself before the Lord.

That is what true repentance looks like.

The Danger of Following the Traditions of Men

One of the most convicting parts of this story is realizing how easy it is to drift away from God while still believing we are serving Him correctly.

The people of Judah had religion. They had traditions. They had rituals. But they had abandoned obedience to God’s Word.

I believe we face the same danger today.

In many churches, we have exchanged discipleship for inspiration. We have replaced biblical teaching with motivational talks that make people feel encouraged for a moment but never confront the heart.

Inspiration alone will not prepare us for eternity.

The Word of God corrects us. It disciplines us. It reveals our motives and intentions. It exposes areas where we have become comfortable with compromise.

That is why sound doctrine matters.

Jesus Himself warned about people who honor God with their lips while their hearts remain far from Him. They may look spiritual on the outside, but inwardly they are following the commandments and traditions of men rather than the truth of Scripture.

Why Conviction Is a Gift From God

Conviction is not condemnation.

Condemnation pushes you away from God in shame. Conviction draws you toward Him in repentance and freedom.

When Josiah heard the law, he did not run from God. He ran to Him. He humbled himself before the Lord because he cared deeply about honoring God rightly.

That humility mattered to God.

The Lord specifically responded to Josiah because his heart was tender and responsive. He wept. He listened. He allowed the Word of God to confront him.

That should encourage all of us.

God is not looking for perfection from us in our own strength. He is looking for hearts that are willing to repent, obey, and remain sensitive to His voice.

The Difference Between Inspiration and Discipleship

There is a major difference between being inspired and being discipled.

Inspiration may make us feel better temporarily, but discipleship transforms the way we live.

Discipleship teaches us how to follow Christ when life is difficult. It trains us to obey Scripture even when our flesh resists it. It teaches us endurance, humility, holiness, and discernment.

The Bible warns that in the last days people will not endure sound doctrine because they will prefer messages that simply scratch their “itching ears.”

But we cannot afford to build our spiritual lives on inspiration alone.

If we truly love Jesus, we will desire to know His Word and obey His commandments.

What the Story of King Josiah Teaches Us Today

The story of King Josiah reminds us that revival begins with humility before God’s Word.

It begins when we stop measuring our lives against culture, tradition, or other people and instead ask:

“What does Scripture actually say?”

Josiah understood that obedience was not about legalism. It was about blessing, protection, freedom, and walking in the fullness of what God intended for His people.

God’s commands are not burdensome. They are life-giving.

The Lord knows how we were created to function best because He is our Creator.

When we follow Him wholeheartedly, we stop drifting spiritually. We stop turning to the right or to the left. We stay on the path He has marked out for us.

Are We Truly Ready for Christ’s Return?

One of the strongest burdens on my heart right now is that the Church must be ready for the return of Christ.

Scripture says Jesus is returning for a bride who has made herself ready. Salvation is a free gift by grace through faith, but once we are saved, we are called to live lives of obedience, holiness, and surrender to God.

That does not mean we earn salvation.

It means our lives should look different because we belong to Him.

We should desire to obey Him because we love Him.

And when conviction comes, we should respond the way Josiah did: with humility, repentance, and a willingness to let God correct us.

Encouragement

If there is one thing in your life the Holy Spirit is bringing to your attention right now, do not ignore it.

Ask the Lord to show you what needs to change. Ask Him for grace, strength, wisdom, and discernment. He is faithful to help us walk in freedom and truth.

God does not correct us to shame us. He corrects us because He loves us.

And every act of obedience brings us closer to the life He created us to live.

Prayer

Father, I thank You for Your precious Word. I thank You for Your commandments, for they are not burdensome. That’s what Your Word teaches us. They are a blessing to us. Just like someone teaching us how to use new technology to make life easier, Father, You have given us the tools to make living this life an easier task, a more joyful task, a task where we accomplish and where we are Your bride making ourselves ready.

Our garments that are pure and white are the righteous acts that You’ve called us to do, that bring glory to Your name. May we not only honor You with our mouths and our lips, but honor You in our hearts as we submit ourselves to You.

We humbly ask You for Your strength, Your grace, and Your help for this day. Lord, for each one who is listening, whatever they need today to strengthen them, encourage them, and lift them up in Your Word according to Your Word, even if that encouragement is correction, help us receive it from Your hand knowing it is because You love us.

You are showing us the dangerous way. You are showing us where not to go in order to save us, keep us, bless us, and protect us. So we receive Your Word.

Your Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. We thank You for it, God. We thank You for Your sacrifice. We thank You for Your precious Word.

And it is in Jesus’ name that we pray. Amen.

Where To Dive In:

0:00 — Have We Been Doing It Wrong All Along?
3:10 — Who Was King Josiah?
11:05 — Why Josiah Was Different from Other Kings
21:50 — Discovering the Book of the Law
39:20 — Inspiration vs. Real Discipleship
50:45 — Why Sound Doctrine Confronts Us
1:03:00 — Josiah’s Tragic Final Decision
1:12:30 — What True Repentance Really Looks Like
1:17:30 — Final Challenge and Prayer

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Jaime Luce (00:00.332)
Well, have you ever tried to have a conversation with somebody and you knew that you had critical or at least information that is worth listening to in order to help someone do something that they’re actively doing. And you can tell that they may know how to do something from their perspective, but you have another perspective you’d like to offer.

And instead of them being open to receive what you have to say, hear, I’ve been doing this my whole life. I know how to do this. You don’t have to tell me how to do that. You get these kinds of remarks that tell you very clearly, there’s nothing you can tell me that I don’t already know and I don’t want to hear it.

Jaime Luce (00:55.278)
You know what’s interesting is back in the days of the dinosaurs, when I worked for a moving company, I used to coordinate moves for people whose corporation was actually moving base to another state. So I would be coordinating the, whether it’s the packing of their home, special items that need special care.

to talking with their driver all along the way, making sure that we knew exact dates and times for their arrival, their unpacking, that they safely made it from point A to point B and they were happy with the condition of their goods and how the whole process went along. So that was my job. And customer service is never easy and dealing with moving targets is not an easy thing, but we had these.

people who professionally come in and pack up your home. And I remember dealing with somebody who I didn’t necessarily have the experience of being a packer and knowing the proper way to pack items. But we had an individual that worked for us for a time who

would the minute you would try to correct them because items would show up broken and it was regularly a problem. And when you went to this person to talk to them about it, they refused to accept responsibility and would say, I’ve been packing for 20 years. Well, my response was, and you’ve been packing it wrong for 20 years. That’s a hard thing to hear.

And yet there’s a very true principle at work here. Just because we have done something for a very long time in a particular way doesn’t mean it’s the right way. It doesn’t mean it’s the right way. Just because we’ve always done it that way doesn’t mean it’s the right way. So I want to talk to us today.

Jaime Luce (03:12.024)
We’re going be talking about King Josiah. We’re going to be in second King, second Chronicles. And then I’ve got a few other scriptures in the New Testament and Old Testament for you today. Welcome to the Jamie Luce podcast. Let’s dig in. Okay. We’re going to start in chapter. I think we want to be in chapter 22. Let’s start in chapter 22.

We have been talking about the kings of course of Israel and Judah and We had just come off of talking about Hezekiah and then Manasseh his son there’s a theme that we see when we talk about the kings of Israel and Judah and Sadly, the theme is that most kings Would do what was right in their own eyes and they would definitely not be doing things the way that God

had ordained for them to do them, the way that God commanded things to be done in order that they would have God’s blessing, protection, and the good blessing on their land and over their livestock and over their lives. God has promised us many things in scripture and the reason that there is a way to do it God’s way.

is because in doing it God’s way, you are insured that is the safest way that is the blessed way that is the correct way. it’s not because God is saying my way or the highway though he does, but the reason he says that is he’s the creator. He knows how he created things to work best. He knows it’s like buying a brand new phone.

and questioning the person who made the phone, how to use the phone best to get the most out of it. And most of us barely know how to use, you know, the, the photography feature on the phone and the bazillion ways you can use just that one feature, let alone every other feature that’s available on the phone. I certainly cannot. I do not know how and

Jaime Luce (05:34.122)
I have to approach my understanding of God and the scriptures from that same perspective. He’s the one who created it. He knows how it works best. He knows that if you don’t follow the way that you’re supposed to use it, you can actually harm it. You could actually do damage. You could actually hurt yourself. That’s the way that sin plays a part in our life. God didn’t say don’t

do this because he’s, you know, just a stickler for rules. He said, don’t do these things because it will bring harm to you. He created the world and in his creation day after day, he would say, and it was good. So the God who decides what’s good and what’s a blessing is also the God because he created it to be good.

understands what is bad, what will hinder the good, what will stop the good, what will bring harm and damage and death. So if you have a right lens that you see all of scripture through, then you can correctly see where people get off onto wrong paths and wrong ways of thinking and wrong ways of behaving.

not because God is this mean ogre, not because he’s, you know, the policeman in the sky. He it’s because he has created something to be good in every sense of the word and every way that we can possibly know good. It’s the way that he made it to operate. He’s the one who designed it. So we have to function.

in a way that we are supposed to function in order to receive the benefits of that good in our life. And we have watched how all of these Kings, for the most part, not all of them, but the majority of them, it says would do evil in the sight of the Lord, not do good in the sight of the Lord, but do evil in the sight of the Lord. And they would do everything they were not supposed to do.

Jaime Luce (08:00.33)
Everything they were told will harm them is exactly the choice they would make. They would involve themselves with every possible God other than him and sacrifice and offer themselves and sacrifice their children. it’s amazing to me the amount of effort and cost and sacrifice that it takes.

to not serve God right, to not righteously bow before the Lord of glory. It takes so much more determination to oppose Him. The minute you oppose God, you stand in opposition to Him. That means all of creation, not just on earth,

but all that is in the heavens, all that is at God’s disposal, which is everything, then stands against you. It’s like being one man on the defense of a team against an entire team who’s on the offense. You’re not going to win. You’re not going to prosper. You’re not going to find blessing.

You won’t only find resistance, you will find defeat. And it is so worth whatever you think you need to sacrifice, whatever you think you need to change, whatever needs to be altered in your life. It is so worth whatever that is.

to live in the blessing and the fruitfulness of what God has intended for your life.

Jaime Luce (10:05.706)
So we had just for a little history, we won’t go all the way back, but we had King Hezekiah who did great for the most part, most of his life, but then pride had seeped in. Then we had his son Manasseh come up and he was just full of every evil thing until he was confronted by God in the later part of his reign.

And then he completely turned his life over to God, which is amazing. I mean, you really just see amazing, the amazing difference it makes when you align yourself with God. And then we have Manasseh’s son Josiah. And if you have spent any time in the word, you’re probably familiar at least with King Josiah’s name. He was just a boy. He was only eight years old when he became king.

Yet Josiah from a young age, and we’ll read that in second Chronicles, but from a young age had already set his heart to serve God. But it wasn’t until he was, it either 16 or 18 years into his reign, that he found the book of the law that Moses had written. What God commanded, what would the blessings be for, and then what would the curses be? When it was read to him, he was astonished.

by what was read and he ripped his clothes and he wept before God because he could see not only were they not living in the blessing of God, but they had so walked away and lived contrary to God doing exactly the opposite of what he had commanded them to do, doing every evil thing he told them not to do that they now as a nation had in…

heard the wrath of God. Now again, you have to understand what is the wrath of God. The wrath of God is what is justice for those who are doing evil and who deserve total annihilation and judgment. And you understand this when you look through a correct lens.

Jaime Luce (12:25.474)
God’s not saying I’m mad at my people, I didn’t have enough patience for them, I didn’t have enough love for them, that I’m just going to cause all kinds of calamity to come on them. You have to understand that just like when there are natural wars and there are evils and atrocities that are happening and that justice needs to be served and evil needs to be stopped, what this meant was that Israel

was performing the same evils and the same atrocities that demons and those who worship demons would do. Therefore, it was justice and right. In fact, it would be unjust if God did not deal with it the way that he deals with all sin, with all enemies of God.

And we certainly can understand it. If you have ever been through something that you have, you were truly unjustly either attacked or hurt in some way, or you went through loss and discouragement and pain because of someone who does evil or chooses evil, whether that be a person,

or an entity or a business, whatever. If you have ever been the person on the receiving end of what is completely ungodly and unjust, you want God to deal with your enemies.

So you have to understand that when you behave in those same ways, it is just as just for God to deal with us in that same way. It’s not unjust. It’s not unkind. It’s not unloving. It would be unloving if God was not faithful and predictable to be just, to always be just. It would be wrong. He would be unjust and unfaithful if we could not count on him to always

Jaime Luce (14:40.448)
choose and stand for justice and righteousness, then you would have a God that you have no idea what makes him happy, what makes him sad. He would be on a whim. He would be, you know, depending on his mood that day, you wouldn’t know how to please him. You wouldn’t know how to live. It, that would be tyrannical. God is not a tyrant. He is a loving, just, righteous, faithful, good God. And

Everything he does is just. So with that perspective, I want to read to you from chapter 22. Josiah was eight years old when he became king and he reigned 31 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedideh, the daughter of Adiah of Bozka. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord.

and walked in all the ways of his father David, all the ways. He did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. Interesting, my husband and I had a conversation about this just yesterday. And you know, there’s times when we’re living life and we don’t realize until we get confronted either by scripture

or hearing someone minister something that is so, so true and so on point that you realize you were sort of being bounced around and you’ve recentered. You’ve recentered and you know exactly the center that you should be in. To me, is the, whenever you read the scripture that says they did not turn to the right or they did not turn to the left or they were commanded not to turn to the right or turn to the left.

That is because there was a true center that they were supposed to be following God in this particular path, and that’s the path of safety. know, back in the days of traveling during the Bible time era, you had to know what paths you could walk because if you strayed from a path at all, took a different path, there could be robbers hiding who would literally pounce on you. I mean, that’s kind of the story of the Good Samaritan.

Jaime Luce (17:06.764)
This man is traveling and he is attacked by robbers who beat him up and leave him for dead and steal from him. And so this was a true danger. We know that there are areas. Yeah, don’t go to that part of town. And it once it’s dark, don’t go over there. We follow safety measures in the natural knowing that in order to preserve our life, it’s best and it’s wisdom not to turn to the right or turn to the left. Stay on your road.

Don’t get off the freeway here. Keep going until you make it to your destination. There are many times when I have had to drive back from Los Angeles to where I live and that’s a good long drive. And if it’s at night, if I’ve been at an airport or something and I’m making my way back, you know that there’s a portion of area that you don’t get off the freeway there. I don’t care.

how much you are thirsty and want to grab something, you know, a soda or an iced tea on the road, a bottle of water, you’re thinking, can I make it enough? Do I have enough gas to make it? You think about those things ahead of time because you know you don’t want to get caught and have to go into an area of town that you know is dangerous. That’s wisdom. That’s wisdom. And so we see that the wisdom

that Josiah showed even from a very young age as a child that he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left in the ways that he would follow the commandments. He did not turn aside. This is a this is someone who did right in the eyes of the Lord. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord. So if you want to know how to live your life right

in the sight of the Lord and able to use every function on your phone, so to speak. You want to know how to live in a protected place, in a abundant place, a place of fruitfulness for your life, in a place of blessing, personally, spiritually, relationally, everything about your life you want it.

Jaime Luce (19:28.684)
to be functioning at its fullest capacity, then you want to know how to walk and not turn to the right and not turn to the left. Okay, let’s continue reading. Now it came to pass in the 18th year of King Josiah. So 18th year, he was eight years old, so he’s 26. So still a young man, but.

older now in the 18th year of King Josiah that the king sent Shefan the scribe the son of Azaliah, Azaliah sorry I’m not going to get these names right the son of Meshalim to the house of the Lord saying go up to Hilkiah the high priest that he may count the money which has been brought into the house of the Lord which the doorkeepers have gathered from the people.

and let them deliver it into the hand of those doing the work who are the overseers in the house of the Lord. Let them give it to those who are in the house of the Lord doing the work to repair the damages of the house, to the carpenters and the builders and the masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house. However, there need be no accounting made with them of the money delivered into their hand because they deal faithfully.

These men were such faithful men and such great workers, so trustworthy that the king said, you can just give them the money and you don’t have to, you don’t need the receipts. You don’t need to know where they spent it, how they spent it, what they did, because they are so faithful. Don’t even worry about it. Just give them the money and let them go do what they got to do. That’s pretty amazing. That’s the character of these men was outstanding. And these were the men

that King Josiah was surrounded by. Verse eight, then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shephon the scribe, have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shephon and he read it. Okay, before we continue there, I want you to jump over to second Chronicles. And we’re gonna look at chapter 34, because

Jaime Luce (21:53.356)
Before he finds the book of the law, I want you to see, this was 18 years of Josiah already reigning, but I want you to see what he had already done. When the scripture says that he was faithful in all, in all that his father David did, I want you to see what that is, what all looked like for him.

So chapter 34 of second Chronicles says Josiah was eight years old when he became king and he reigned for 31 years in Jerusalem. And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord and walked in the ways of his father David. He did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left for in the eighth year of his reign, the eighth year, so he was only 16 years old. While he was still young, he began to seek

the God of his father David. In the 12th year, he began, so the eighth year, he was really beginning to seek God, really seek God. Then in the 12th year, he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the wooden images, the carved images and the molded images. They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence.

and the incense altars which were above them and he cut them down and the wooded image, the carved images and the molded images, he broke in pieces and made dust of them, scattered them on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them. He also burned the bones of the priests of those altars and cleaned and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

And so he did in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim and Simeon as far as Neftali and all around with axes. When he had broken down the altars and the wooded images, he had beaten the carved images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. In the 18th year of his reign, which we just read.

Jaime Luce (24:06.498)
When he had purged the land of the temple, sorry, when he had purged the land and the temple, he sent Shephon the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the governor of the city and Joah the son of Jehoahaz the recorder to repair the house of the Lord his God. So in second Kings we see that it jumps right into that he’s repairing the house of the Lord.

But what we don’t realize is that he had already, before he even dealt with the house of God, he had gone around purging the land of all the idols, all the carved images, all the asharas, all the bales, all the molek stuff, everything. And he did this in order to, as he learned to serve the Lord,

This was what he felt compelled to do. He truly served God. What is amazing to me, why I started this podcast by talking about those who have done it this way for their whole life and yet they’ve done it wrong and they refuse to see that they’ve done it wrong. We have Josiah on the other hand, who does the complete opposite of that.

He sends them into the house of God to clean it, to repair it, to make sure that it is functioning as it is supposed to be functioning. And while they’re cleaning up the house of God, they find the book of the law. I like the way it says it in second Chronicles just because it doesn’t just say the book of the law. It says in verse nine, when they came to Hilkiah,

the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites who kept the doors had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim from all the hand, I’m sorry, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and which they had brought back to Jerusalem. Then they put it in the hand of the foreman who had the oversight of the house of the Lord, and they gave it into the workmen who worked in the house of the Lord to repair and restore the house. Okay.

Jaime Luce (26:26.902)
Jump down to verse 14. Now when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the Lord given by Moses. So it’s not just that it was recorded, they found the law. They found the real book of the law that Moses had written. And it says, I’ll read it first in

Second Kings and then we’ll read it in Second Chronicles. But if you go to verse,

Jaime Luce (27:06.99)
10. It says, then Shefon the scribe showed the king saying, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book. And Shefon read it before the king. Now it happened when the king heard the words of the book of the law that he tore his clothes. Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahaykem the son of Shefon,

Akhbor the son of Micaiah, Shafon the scribe and Asiah a servant of the king saying go inquire of the Lord for me for the people and for all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found for great is the wrath of the Lord that is aroused against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book to do according to

to all that is written concerning us. He understood that everything that was written was because God had concern for them. This whole book concerned God’s people and God’s people only.

Jaime Luce (28:25.142)
Okay, jump over to second Chronicles. Again, I know we’re flipping back and forth, maybe just keep a finger in there so we can do this. Verse 14 of chapter 34. Now when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the Lord given by Moses. Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shephon the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. Jump down.

to verse 18, then Shafon the scribe told the king saying, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book and Shafon read it before the king. Thus it happened when the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes. I want you to see not only did he tear his clothes, but the Lord actually

responds when they send because he again it’s the same is recorded here in second chronicles as in second kings that the king then inquires of the prophet to know he inquires of the lord what do you have to say to us now we have found your word what do you say to us and let’s read it in second kings it says in verse 18

Well, let’s back up. Verse 16. Thus says the Lord, behold, I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read, 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 shall be aroused against this place and shall not be quenched. 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. Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard

Jaime Luce (30:49.43)
what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse. And you tore your clothes and wept before me.

I also have heard you, says the Lord. Surely therefore 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. So they brought back word to the king.

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We see the same thing, of course, mentioned again in 2 Chronicles 34.

And he sent, went and found a prophetess who brought this word to them. And her name was Holda. Her name was Holda. She was a prophetess, the wife of Shulam, the son of Tikva, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. But anyway, she was a prophetess and

In Second Chronicles, we read the same thing. The king says, go inquire for me to find out.

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Go inquire of the Lord for me. This is verse 21. 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. So we see two different there. He says the same thing, but it’s worded slightly different in second Kings and in second Chronicles. But the King understands not only have our fathers completely

lived contrary to God’s laws and we’ve done everything we weren’t supposed to do. We also did not do the things that we were supposed to do. And so God sees how this has the minute King Josiah hears it, he rends his garments, he weeps before the Lord, he is concerned for Judah. This was a man whose heart was truly

after God in everything he knew how to do and every way he knew how to bring correction. What I find fascinating is that without the book of the law, because each of these kings, they weren’t reading the law. They paid no attention to the right way to do things. They would just do what their fathers had done, or they would literally copy the nations around them, serve whoever those nations served,

And they would serve a bazillion gods at one time. They would serve all the constellation and the moon and the stars, the sun, all the different demons and all the different, you know, gods of this, that and the other, you know, whether it was fertility, whether it was for crops, whether it was for rain, it didn’t matter. They served everything. And they made all of these images with their hands. They would carve them with their hands.

Well, it’s obvious that you either don’t know what’s in the book because the very first commandment is there is one God, right? And you shall have no other gods before me. And you shall have no craven images. can’t carve anything. It’s dumb, meaning it can’t speak. It’s deaf, it can’t hear. It’s blind, it has no eyes. You made it with your own hands.

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and you’re praying to it expecting it to do something.

Not only is that absurd, I mean, that’s just absurd. I could carve anything and set it down and light some candles in front of it and pray to it all day long. That is nonsense. It doesn’t take much brain power to know that is nothing. You made that. There’s no, that’s not a God. You made that. And yet this is exactly the level that God’s people are living at. So they

did everything they weren’t supposed to do and they didn’t do what they were supposed to do. Back to my example of someone who has packed homes his whole life, but he packed them wrong because there was constantly damage. Well, you can’t tell me you’re doing it right if there’s constantly damage. You might have been doing this your whole life, but you weren’t taught right from the beginning. You’ve been doing it wrong all along. And Israel has been doing this wrong for so long. And yet,

Josiah is with a heart that truly is seeking God, really living wholeheartedly to serve God, that his instinct, his instinct was to remove all of these other gods without even reading the law. It wasn’t until he read the law that he got really scared. He was doing all of this

originally just to serve God. He was just doing everything he did because it seemed right to him to get rid of all of these, demolish all these gods. We need to serve this God. This is the right God. But that came out of his own heart, which is more proof even of how God will guide and lead us even in our ignorance until we know when he’s taking us along, that’s why you need to be on the road he sets you on and not turn to the right or to the left.

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so that you will make it to the destination that he has intended for you to get to. But you won’t get there if you’re not singular focused on the Lord. you’re not, if you don’t, if you are constantly, it’s why in a horse race, they put blinders on the horses. They put blinders so that they are not distracted. They want them seeing straightforward, knowing that they are in a race with these other horses to make it to the finish line.

first. You don’t allow them the freedom to look to the right or look to the left where they could be spooked. They could see something that would startle them. It would be dangerous to the horse and dangerous to the rider and dangerous to the other horses and riders. You have to keep them focused. We are to live that kind of life following Christ. That if I if I stay singular focused doing what he’s called me to do the way that he’s called me to do it that’s why the scripture says in Matthew that you seek

first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all of these things will be added to you. Everything else falls into place. Everything else will be given to you. Everything will be taken care of. Why? Because you’re functioning at the level you’re supposed to function. So everything works right when the updates are right, when you’re doing it right, when you know how to work the functions and the apps and all the possibilities. It’s if I, if I set my mind to do

what I need to do for God, God’s way, God will see to it that the result that we’re hoping for is manifested for us.

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This is the beauty of seeing someone who has.

not only understood, he so understood in serving God and wanted to please God so much that when he finds out what the law actually says, he realizes to a greater capacity how wrong they have been. How wrong they have been. And he instinctively knows then we are living in the curses, not the blessings.

Deuteronomy lays out, if you follow the law, all of these blessings come upon you, but if you don’t, then all of these curses will be upon you. He then understands we have not done this and God is angry and he is right to be angry. Look at what we are doing, how we are living. Look at what is considered an abomination all around us from these other nations.

They were abominations. If you read all the chapters in every scripture here, both in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, you will see everything that was, it says over and over and over again, the abomination of this God, the abomination of that God, the abomination of the next God. They were considered abominations before God. The worst possible thing, most abominable thing you could do.

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Yes, it’s evil because when you think about the things that these other gods had demanded from those who served them, meaning they would sacrifice their children, they would make them pastor the fire, burn their own children. They would have to perform all kinds of crazy rituals, all kinds of weird.

weird acts, weird things that they would have to do. But most of the things that they did were those kinds of things that brought harm, destruction, or death to people, to people, to children.

That is abominable, folks. We are made in the image of God. We are His image bearers. Every life has value and worth.

And our job as Christians is to seek help in what the Lord came to do, seek and save that which was lost. He said, go and make disciples of all nations. He said, the things that I have done, I now am commanding you to go do. We are to be his hands extended. We are to love our neighbor as ourself, not kill and destroy.

That is the work of when Jesus was walking this earth, He said to the Pharisees that they are of their father, the devil, not loving their neighbor as they should, not caring about seeking God first. It was more about their position and their power and the money and the influence that they carry. Things that matter if you are in pride.

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Things that don’t emulate the love of God and the blessing of God.

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we can see the most beautiful, and this is why in a church that children’s ministry is so important, if Josiah was eight years old and he already was inclined to seek God, and that at 16 years old, he set his heart to it and began doing a mighty work of destroying anything that was contrary to God.

I’m sure there were things that were being told him by those who were priests because he was getting rid of every evil priest. got rid of every, I won’t take the time because it would be so much scripture reading today, but I please, I encourage you to read this yourself and read everything that Josiah did. It is remarkable. I have no idea how many years it took to do everything that he eventually did. But then he also,

did what was right in not only getting rid of what they did wrong, but instituting and doing everything that was right. He tells the priests and those who care for the house of God to go back to the order that was established that Moses had set for each of these to handle what Joshua had to institute for each of the tribes with Levi, everything he was to do in the order they were supposed to do it with each.

rotating schedule that they were supposed to be doing that and he calls for in both chapter 23 of second Kings and chapter 35 of second Chronicles Josiah steps in and institutes a Passover and commands them to celebrate the Passover and it literally says that there had been no Passover kept in Israel since the days of Samuel

the days of Samuel the prophet and none of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as Josiah kept.

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instituting and putting into practice the things that should be done.

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what I want us to think about. And before I move into some other scriptures, I want us to meditate on this for just a few moments.

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We have to question.

how

How are we serving the Lord? What do I mean by that? Just as my example of, we’ve always done it this way, so I think that’s the right way. We allow the ways of man to continue. We allow traditions to come in and continue. And we follow in those ways, assuming that that’s what the scripture teaches.

But herein lies the problem.

We have, I was a part of this past weekend, like a ministry time over the weekend with a particular ministry. And the message that was brought forth and that we discussed was so true and so important for today. I hope that everyone listening can actually hear this.

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because we do believe that Jesus is coming back soon and we need to be ready and we need to be those who have our lamps trimmed and ready with oil. There will be no time to get that oil. If you’re not ready now you won’t be ready. In fact in Revelation there’s a scripture that says that let the evil man continue being evil at this point. Let the man who’s doing good continue to do good. Let the one

There will be a point that it doesn’t matter. Just keep just do what you’re doing because there’s no more time The time will have run out and there won’t be more time There isn’t a 15 minute grace window when Jesus returns to hurry up and pray and get it, right? times up and If you’re not looking for his return It will catch you as a thief in the night. You won’t be ready for it. You won’t be on guard

You will not be ready.

And in that discussion, we were examining the way that the church has gone for the last couple decades. And again, okay, this is my opinion. There were many that held this opinion like I held this opinion. You may hold a different opinion. My opinion is this. And this is the way it was stated, which I fully agreed with. This is not.

I didn’t come up with this. This is what was said and I agree with this. That we have exchanged in the church from the pulpit, we have exchanged the teaching of the word. What does the Bible say? What does the Bible say? We have exchanged that. We have exchanged discipleship.

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living according to scripture. On Sunday mornings now, what we receive is not teaching of,

The scripture, it’s not teaching of doctrine, it’s not teaching of discipleship. What we’re getting is an inspiration. We are being inspired. We are being told something that will inspire us.

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Inspiration in and of itself is not a bad thing. But inspiration doesn’t train you. Inspiration doesn’t disciple you. Inspiration doesn’t confront you.

It just inspires you. It just makes you feel good for a moment.

And if all you’re looking for and all you’re satisfied by is being inspired, may I honestly tell you with a heart of love because I care and because I want us to be ready that you won’t be ready.

The scripture teaches that in these last days, we won’t find sound doctrine taught. That what people will do is they won’t be able to endure sound doctrine. They won’t listen, they won’t have the patience to listen, they won’t want to hear it. Instead, what do they do? The scripture says they have itching ears and they go anywhere they can go to have that little thing that they like to hear tickled. They want you to scratch that itch.

They want to hear what makes them feel good. And if they don’t like it, then they just reject it. They don’t go back. They don’t endure. Why does it take endurance to be able to endure sound doctrine? Because doctrine, the real word of God, what Josiah saw, confronts, it confronts you. It confronts your…

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actions, your decisions, your thought life, your intentions, your motives. confronts you at the very deepest level and it corrects you and it disciplines you. Without that folks, without that we’re lost. If you try to raise a child with no discipline, with no instruction, with no correction,

and simply every day hope to make them happy, just inspire them today, they will become a lazy, worthless person. And they’ll be happy being lazy and worthless until they come to a place in their life where they realize they are so empty and their life has no purpose and no value.

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Our Father knows how to raise godly, righteous, good men and women who were created for good works. We were created with purpose to do something to accomplish certain things for His Kingdom. We were made to multiply and advance His Kingdom.

We were never, all you have to do is read the book of Proverbs. You were never created to be idle, to do nothing, to accomplish nothing, to just be satisfied. That is not a godly character trait. We are to work against that, to fight against that, to strive against that kind of behavior.

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I have several scriptures for you because like Josiah, when you mean business with God, things drastically change. They have to change. Why? Because we can’t save ourselves, right? We, this world without Jesus, we are lost, doomed to hell, and that is for eternity. We cannot save ourselves. We can’t earn salvation. We can’t

work for salvation, we can’t purchase salvation, we can’t steal and rob salvation. It is a work of grace and that only. And that grace and that work of God that he has done was done by the blood of Jesus as a free gift from the father, period, full stop.

Salvation cannot be earned. None of the works that I’m going to talk about, none of the things that I’m talking about is salvation. Salvation is free. Salvation is a, the most costly free gift that you will ever receive. And you could never have earned it. None of us deserve it. None of us a free gift. But scripture says that Jesus is coming.

for a bride that has made herself ready. She has made herself ready. You can’t save yourself, that’s not the work you do. But once you have been saved, you are called to live without turning to the right or to the left, to live a life of obedience, to live a life straight on the narrow path.

that God has chosen for you because it is the blessed path. It is the righteous path. It is the place of provision. It is the place of safety. It is the place of abounding. It is the place of every good thing. It is the place where you receive favor. Every good thing, every way to make you be able to function at your highest capacity is found in that place. Revelation 19, seven says, let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory.

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for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready. And to her, it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright. For the fine linen is, isn’t like, is, isn’t compared to, is, the fine linen is the righteous act.

of the Saints.

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So again, when you mean business with God, things in your life should drastically change. If they haven’t and if they don’t, this is your sign. This is your clue. If I could be so bold, this is your confrontation. That you have to look at your life squarely against scripture and scripture alone. Am I living?

what this Bible teaches? Or have I made concessions? Do I live like everybody else lives? Do I live like my parents lived or my grandparents lived or my neighbors live or the nations live? Those around me who do it this way. Do I just do what they do and think it’s right because we’ve all done it this way for so long?

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Isaiah 29 13 says, the Lord says, inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips.

but have removed their hearts from me and their fear toward me is taught by the commandment of men. How they think about God, how they quote unquote fear God, how they reverence Him, how they serve Him, everything they do, they do it by the way other men

do it. They follow the ways of man.

This is interesting because these people that he’s talking about, these people are those that with their own mouths in speaking to people, they cry out to God, it says they draw near with their mouths, they pray, they actually say prayers, they pray to God. And they actually say very honoring things about God.

when they talk about God.

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Folks, without discernment, you won’t see this. And honestly, it doesn’t even take discernment if you know the word of God.

Because even though they talk the talk, they show up in the places that they’re supposed to be, they pray, they look the part. The outside looks the part. But their heart, he says, is far from him. Their heart has…

who they are, what they desire, what they want, what their intention is, what their motives are. Those things are not after God. This is why God said what he said about Josiah. I saw. Doesn’t matter what men see. We can fool men all day long. We can praise God with our lips all day long. But what’s in your heart, God sees. And there is no one who can fool him.

He knows the difference and you will be judged by your heart.

by your intentions, by your motives. That’s why we need the word of God. Why? Because the Bible of itself says the word of the Lord is a two-edged sword dividing between soul and spirit, between bone and marrow, between the thoughts and the intentions of the heart. That’s what the word is for. That’s why we live according to what the word teaches, what God

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teaches not just what men say, not the way this church does it and that church does it and these people do it and those parents did it and my friends do it. It has to be what God says or you will simply fall into deception. You will be deceived and you will be the one who pays in the long run and anybody who you’re responsible for will pay.

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This is so important, folks. Look at Matthew chapter 15 verse eight. It says, people, this is almost identical, these people draw near to me with their mouth and they honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Then look at Mark chapter seven, verses six and seven.

It says, answered and said to them, he being Jesus, well, did Isaiah prophesy of you, you hypocrites, as it is written, this people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me and in vain they worship me. It won’t produce it’s

all going to be in vain. Doesn’t matter how many times you went to church, doesn’t matter how many times you prayed, doesn’t matter who you told about Jesus, if your heart was far from him.

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but their heart is far from me and in vain they worship me. Listen to this, teaching as doctrine, the commandments of men.

commandments of God, they worship me and teach the commandments of men.

If we are not careful, we will fall into a place where we are deceived. Why was the Berean, the group of the Bereans praised? Because it didn’t matter what was taught about God. They would hear it and then they would go search the scriptures for themselves to see if that’s really what God said. Now that is somebody

whose heart has been determined that they’re going to make sure that they follow according to what God has said and God has established. They are commended, which means if I want to live a life that God can commend, I have to live it according to His word. I need to follow His commandments. I need to live a life of obedience.

We aren’t called to inspire lives.

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We are called to live obedient lives. Obedient lives. Do you know what was interesting? The way that Josiah died, it’s actually very tragic.

He saw the King of Egypt. In fact, I’ll read it to you. Let’s read it from Second Chronicles. We’ll do both.

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Let’s go to second Chronicles, second Chronicles chapter 35 verse 20. After all this, after every wonderful thing that Josiah did, after all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, so he had finished everything in the temple, everything was done. The most amazing Passover, every false God torn down.

demolished, ground into dust. He desecrated all of the temples of the false gods. He desecrated the graves and the bones of all those who served other gods. He only spared one prophet of God’s bones. And it says, after this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Niko, king of Egypt, came up to fight against Karchemish.

by the Euphrates. So he didn’t come against Israel, didn’t come against Judah, he came against his Carchemish. And Josiah went out against him. He got involved in a fight that wasn’t his. Now why he did this, I don’t know. And scripture isn’t clear on why he did this.

But it says in verse 21, but he sent messengers to him saying, this is the King Niko speaking, what have I to do with you, King of Judah? I have not come up against you this day, but against the house of which I have war, for God commanded me to make haste. So refrain from meddling with God who is with me, lest he destroy you.

Nevertheless, Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself so that he might fight with him and did not heed the words of Nicco from the mouth of God. So he came to fight in the valley of Megiddo and the archers shot King Josiah and the king said to his servants, take me away for I am severely wounded.

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His servants therefore took him out of the chariot, put him in the second chariot that he had, and they brought him to Jerusalem. So he died and was buried in one of the tombs of his fathers and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. Jeremiah, we’re talking about the prophet Jeremiah, also lamented for Josiah. And to this day, all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations.

They made it a custom in Israel and indeed they are written in the laments. Wow.

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That’s a whole other topic of not taking up the offense of someone else. I lean towards thinking that King Josiah in his zeal to destroy every enemy of God must have considered King Niko an enemy of God and wanted to go destroy that too. But that wasn’t what God had called him to purge.

all of Judah and to set them right. In fact, I didn’t read it to you, but it says that, that he had called them all together, all the leaders, all the people great and small, and they made a covenant and reestablish their covenant with God, that they would serve God only and that he was their God and God had made that covenant with them. Here, here is where we have to make this decision, folks.

Let me just say of His end, let’s be determined to end well, to be ready for the coming of Christ, but in the event that we leave this earth by death before we see Him, that we end well?

I’m not judging Josiah because I don’t know why he did what he did. And the scripture commends him in that he served the Lord with all of his heart. This could literally just have been a really bad decision and he paid for it with his life. And it had nothing to do with the commandments of God, so to speak. So he didn’t turn his back on God.

but it takes the reason we have to be so guarded to live according to the scripture is it takes real wisdom and discernment to live this life. We live in a dangerous time in an ungodly time. We live in a time where, where people, just like scripture says they call evil good and good evil.

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And we are surrounded by the intentions of evil men and governments and entities and those who are corrupt, who will take advantage of us to bring harm to us. And it takes real wisdom to keep yourself holy.

And if that word, if you don’t like that word, then I challenge you because scripture says that God is holy and we are to be holy as he is holy. We are to live holy lives, set apart lives, consecrated lives to God for his purposes. And in doing that, then we reap every good and perfect gift.

every blessing, every provision, every protection, every fullness and ability, every gifting, functioning fully.

that we operate at the peak of our operating system, so to speak.

and that we are those who, when we stand before the Lord.

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that we not only hear, well done, thou good and faithful servant.

but that we also then by sheer love for the Lord and obedience to his call, that we can then live eternity in the blessings and in the rewards of all of that obedience has brought to us. It’s just what happens. It’s not that we’re living for a reward.

Though when Jesus was on the cross, he was rejoicing over the reward of us, which is how he endured. And sometimes it’s a good thing to think about the reward of heaven and the rewards of serving God that we receive power and grace by him to endure in this life.

But when we submit ourselves in humility, the way that God said Josiah does, that he rends his garments and he cries out with tears, with humility before God, caring, he really cared that they had not lived the way they were supposed to live. That is true repentance.

So I guess in essence today, I’m wanting us to make sure that we are living our lives not thinking we’re saved, not, and when I say thinking we’re saved, meaning that we have deceived ourselves, that we have believed in Jesus, but we have followed after men, after rituals of men, that we’re not making His word a priority, that we don’t know what He said.

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How can you know your position in God without knowing what he says? I can’t know I’m saved unless I know that his blood by his word, he tells me that his blood that was shed for me was sufficient to pay my debt.

And now I am so grateful for the debt that he paid that I could not pay. That I now love him so much. I want to follow in his commandments. I want to live in a way that pleases him. That’s, that’s a real relationship. That’s not a spiritual decision.

That’s not me saying I’m a spiritual person and I have chosen to pick Christianity as my spiritual experience in this world. It’s a true relationship where we are redeemed, that we have a father and we have been reconciled back to the father. And out of my love for my father, I obey my father.

John chapter 14 verse 15 says, if you love me, keep my commandments. And then John 14, 21 says,

He who has my commandments and keeps them.

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It is He who loves me. Do you love Him today?

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I challenge you to think about your life.

Does your life look different? Is it different from the day you didn’t know him? Does it look different? Do you serve him and him only? Or does your life still look the same? Are you still seeking all the same things you sought before?

Or have you consecrated your life to the Lord? To His ways, to His purposes? And I’m not saying this to condemn anyone. I’m saying this because there is no condemnation in Christ. If you feel anything, my hope is that you feel, Lord, show me. Show me. Forgive me if I have not done what I need to do. And give me the grace, God.

Give me the discernment to know what things I need to cut off, what things are a distraction, what things are hindering me from living as you have intended me to live that I am operating at full capacity, that I am able to walk in the blessings that you have provided for me, not to walk in shame, not to walk in carrying guilt, but to walk in true freedom, knowing the path I’m to take so that I am not distracted, so that the enemy cannot come and get me off course.

can’t trip me up. He can’t get me trapped. He can’t bring me again back and take me back into bondage, back into a place of, of, where I’ve lost my freedom again, where I have lost my joy. I want to live in such a way that I live in all that God has provided for me. That’s not from a place of condemnation folks. That’s there’s a conviction of the Holy Spirit. And when conviction comes,

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The conviction is so good for us and so powerful. It’s the thing that stirs us to show us with open eyes where we are no longer blinded to be able to see the difference so that we can run to the father and live in the fullness of all that he has provided for us to.

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I know things can be hard, our flesh can, that’s hard for me. This is so hard, that’s okay. It’s okay. Just know then like Paul, we have to say that your grace, God, is sufficient. I pray about that thing and I ask for his grace, which is the power that comes from God to deal with that differently than I would naturally deal with that in my flesh. That strength comes to me from the Father.

that I may not have it in myself, but he has it. And that spirit which raised Christ from the dead also lives in me. That resurrection power lives in me. And I can lean on the grace of God. I can lean on the power of the Holy Spirit to do in me, to equip me, to help me, to shape me, to change me.

And I do it because I love him. I do it because he loves me.

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I know this was a bit of a challenge today. I just pray that you would take this and let the Holy Spirit just speak to you about it. If there’s one thing, if you just brought one thing to mind, if one thing is sticking out to you, take that one thing and say, Lord, what do you want me to do with this?

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I think each of us needs little reminders here and there and we need that help that comes from, it’s why Josiah had to call everyone together to hear the word of God because we’re not called to do this alone. We do this in the community that God has set us in the church community, in the believing community, to be able to strengthen one another, to encourage one another, to lift one another up.

because we are called to be those who stand in opposition to the enemy and in opposition to the ways that stand against God. That takes strength and we need one another to do that. But we also want to make sure that we have positioned ourselves for the very best possible outcome. So please accept this challenge today. Please accept this. I humbly give it.

I say it from a place that I am doing this with my own life. I have to do this too. We all have to humble ourselves and recognize that without him, are nothing and we can do nothing, but not to be discouraged because with him, all things are possible. Let me pray for you. Father, I thank you for your precious word. I thank you for your commandments for they are not burdensome. That’s what your word teaches us.

They are a blessing to us. Just like someone teaching us how to use new technology to make life easier. Father, you have given us the tools to make living this life an easier task, a more joyful task, a task where we accomplish and where we are your bride. make ourselves ready. Our garments that are pure and white are

the righteous acts that you’ve called us to do that we do that bring glory to your name that we not only honor you with our mouths and our lips but we honor you in our hearts and we submit ourselves to you. We humbly ask you for your strength, your grace, your help for this day. Lord for each one who’s listening, whatever they need today to strengthen them, to encourage them, to lift them up.

Jaime Luce (01:20:33.834)
in your word according to your word even if that encouragement is to correct that we would receive it from your hand knowing it is because you love us that you’re showing us what is the dangerous way you’re showing us where is the place not to go in order to save us and to keep us to bless us to protect us so we receive your word

Your word is a lamp to our feet. It is the light to our path. We thank you for it, God. We thank you for your sacrifice. We thank you for your precious word. And it is in Jesus’ name that we pray. Amen. Thank you for taking time with me today. I would love to hear from you. You can reach me by sending me an email at mail at jamielewes.com. You could also go to my website jamielewes.com.

I’d love to hear from you if any information is there about me. If you need or want to get a hold of my book, you can do that there as well. You can also go to Amazon. My book is You Don’t Need Money, You Just Need God. That can be a great resource right now for people who are struggling. It is a crazy world financially out there right now. It’s not a book that tells you how to get rich quick. It’s a book that tells you how to biblically deal with when you have financial issues, how to trust God.

some things you can do. I call it a playbook for miraculous provision because we take principles that are found in scripture to ensure that we are walking in such a way and standing in faith and believing God to do what seems impossible for us to do. And he does, and he does, and the testimonies are there. So that might be an encouragement for you. Again, it was my pleasure to be with you today, to spend some time with you. Take some time. Think about it. Think about the message.

Let it do a work in you and we’ll see you next week. Bye bye.