2 Kings 22:19 KJV
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
The king is Josiah. He has discovered a copy of the Word of God and came under conviction because he understood that Israel had not obeyed the Bible for years. After humbling himself he instructs the priests to find out if God intended to judge them. The answer was, yes, the judgment of God was coming but that because Josiah himself had humbled himself because his heart was tender, God had heard his prayers and would deliver him from the coming judgment.
Our world is in trouble. The Bible assures us that there will be end-time judgment. There can be little doubt but that the judgment of God is soon coming.
Here is the wonderful thing; we can be forgiven,
One at a time
Individual by individual
Person by person.While the die is set and the judgment is sure, this world will one day soon melt with fervent heat. Still, there is hope for the one.
That one is me. I rejoice in the day when my heart became tender to the things of God and the Lord Jesus Christ forgave my sins.
That one could be anyone that I tell about the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no way to tell how a person will respond to the message of the Word of God. But there is one thing we may know for sure and that is they will not respond to it at all if we do not tell them.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
The king is Josiah. He has discovered a copy of the Word of God and came under conviction because he understood that Israel had not obeyed the Bible for years. After humbling himself he instructs the priests to find out if God intended to judge them. The answer was, yes, the judgment of God was coming but that because Josiah himself had humbled himself because his heart was tender, God had heard his prayers and would deliver him from the coming judgment.
Our world is in trouble. The Bible assures us that there will be end-time judgment. There can be little doubt but that the judgment of God is soon coming.
Here is the wonderful thing; we can be forgiven,
One at a time
Individual by individual
Person by person.While the die is set and the judgment is sure, this world will one day soon melt with fervent heat. Still, there is hope for the one.
That one is me. I rejoice in the day when my heart became tender to the things of God and the Lord Jesus Christ forgave my sins.
That one could be anyone that I tell about the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no way to tell how a person will respond to the message of the Word of God. But there is one thing we may know for sure and that is they will not respond to it at all if we do not tell them.
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