Amaziah of Judah

We are about to pray now.

Amaziah was 25 years old.

When he began to reign.

And he reigned 29 years in Jerusalem.

Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.

And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel? The man of God answered, the Lord is able to give you much more than this.

So there's so much in this story and really in the story of Amaziah's life and leadership.

Earlier in 2 Chronicles 25, we read that he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, yet not with a whole heart.

And so we see this picture in Amaziah of a temptation to go part way, to do some of what God is saying to do, but not all that God's saying to do, or not with a whole heart.

And later on in 2 Chronicles 25, the Lord is angry with Amaziah because he's seeking other gods, foreign gods instead of God alone.

But here in this passage that I just read in verses 8 and 9, he's asking questions like, can God really provide for us as we go into battle? And the man of God here is saying, go, act, be strong for the battle, trust in God.

And I love the language here when Amaziah says, well, what do we do about the hundred talents that I've given to the army of Israel? And the man of God says, the Lord's able to give you so much more than this.

You can pray and fast beginning from a corrupted heart.

Are we together now? The Bible spoke about Amaziah that he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart.

So the problem was not the correctness of the activity.

It was the state, the motivation.

A reading from the second book of Chronicles, beginning with the 26th chapter, the first verse.

And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem.

His mother's name was Jechaliah of Jerusalem.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God.

And as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.

A reading from the second book of Kings, beginning with the fourteenth chapter, the first verse.

In the second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.

His mother's name was Jehoiadan of Jerusalem.

But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, where the Lord commanded, Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.

He struck down 10,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sila by storm and called it Jokthil, which is its name to this day.

Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.

And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, A thistle on Lebanon sent a cedar on Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife.

He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.

Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne.

And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen.

In the room of his

father.

I don't know what I am talking to somebody here.

May the Lord anoint

For your time has come And the Lord is anointing you And is bringing you into his room May you enter the room That you must enter Say I have entered I have

entered In verse 5 The Bible says in verse 5 And behold I purpose to build a house unto the name of the Lord my God

As the Lord speak unto David my father saying Thy son whom I will set upon the throne

In thy room He shall build a house unto my name Amen Amen