Episode Transcript
All right, it's 10 o'clock.
Let's get started.
2 Kings chapter 20 verse 7 is the next verse in our study 2 Kings chapter 20 in verse 7 Last week we read about a promise God made Hezekiah who was on his deathbed and in response to Hezekiah's prayer and By his own grace God promised to extend his life by 15 years And he further promised to deliver Hezekiah and Jerusalem out of the hand of Assyria and He said he would do it for his own sake and for the sake of his servant David and we covered all of that in Detail, so if you missed that or need a review go back and listen to it on Facebook now to the healing part look with me in verse 7 and Isaiah said take a lump of figs and they took and laid it on the boil and He recovered Now we have a better idea of what caused Hezekiah to be sick unto death He had a boil and it was apparently pretty bad Now most of us have had a boil at some time in our lives But this boil was so severe that it was about to kill Hezekiah So that probably means there was infection and fever and maybe even blood poisoning they had set in and What did God choose?
To heal the boil he chose a lump of figs Now that's interesting that begs the question why a lump of figs?
That same event is described in a little more detail in Isaiah chapter 38 It describes the same thing here, but listen as I read verse 21.
This is from Isaiah 38 verse 21 For Isaiah had said let them take a lump of figs and lay it for a plaster Upon the boil and he shall recover Now the word for figs is plain enough.
It's the fruit of a fig tree and Word plaster means to rub So it's some kind of an ointment that's made out of the figs so the figs were made into some sort of an ointment or the Bible calls it a plaster and Was to be rubbed on the wound Now I didn't find anywhere else in the Bible that figs were used like this except for his acai's case Everywhere else in the Bible figs are known for their sweetness for their fruit for they are a fruit in fact and Further of fruitless Fig tree is worthless It's just not worth anything in Luke chapter 13 verses 6 through 9 Luke 13 verses 6 through 9 speaking of Jesus he spake also this parable a Certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard and he came and sought fruit thereon and found none Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard Behold these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none Cut it down Why cumbers it the ground and he answering said unto him Lord?
Let it alone this year also till I shall dig it about and dung it and if it bear fruit Well, and if not then after that Thou shalt cut it down Now let's look at the practical application of that passage right there to his acai situation Let's Imagine if his acai had told Or excuse me.
Isaiah had told his acai as caretakers to make a plaster of figs and Rub it on his acai's boil and those men said okay And they went to every fig tree in the city But they could not find one that bore fruit What good would those fig trees do or be to his acai Those trees could have even said hey, we're fig trees, but we just don't bear fruit and If those were the kinds of fig trees upon which has acai depended then he would have died If it were indeed figs who that healed him, but I'm making the practical application first I'm sure some of you have heard of fruitless mulberry trees and What if I were to come to you one day with a pie crust nice and flaky beautiful and say I have made you a mulberry pie You'd think I was off my rocker wouldn't you and if I said well it came from the fruitless mulberry tree that's where I got the filling from and the mulberry tree is so named because of its fruit and So is the fig tree the fruits what's important?
Yes the root and the Trunk and the branches and the leaves all of those are important But in the end if you don't have a fig then you have a useless tree now, let's look at a Spiritual application of this passage.
I read you out of Luke I Said that figs represent sweetness now the Bible tells us in judges chapter 9 verse 11 I won't Expound upon that passage, but I'm going to read you the verse but the fig tree said unto them should I forsake my Sweetness and my good fruit and go to be promoted over the trees Now because of the way figs are used in our text they represent instruments of God's grace Figs alone will not heal a dying man otherwise everybody who's dying could just eat figs or put them on their sore and they they would be miraculously healed so Figs alone don't heal a dying man By the grace of God They will though and that's what heals That's what will heal Hezekiah.
And that's what will heal anybody else just as those figs were sweet to the taste and Just as they would be used to heal Hezekiah God is sweet and his grace is sweet to his people In fact without his grace.
We not only die physically, but we would die spiritually as well Brother Doug and I were talking before Sunday school and he's telling me about a particular man who?
he knows and who had a had a heart attack and Certainly could have died But he didn't now that's the grace of God that allowed that man to live for whatever those purposes may be You may remember the study of the Song of Solomon about five years ago.
I think most of you were here The pastor taught through it On Sunday morning and here's a verse from it that may help with our study today It's chapter 2 verse 13 Song of Solomon chapter 2 verse 13 he said the fig putteth excuse me, the fig tree putteth forth her green figs and The vines with the tender grape give a good smell Arise, my love my fair one and come away now a fig tree represents the church and Those branches represent the Christians and the figs are the fruit from those branches Matthew chapter 21 verses 18 through 19 Matthew 21 18 through 19 now, I read you a parable a moment ago that Jesus spoke.
Well, this is an actual event that Jesus lived there in Matthew 21 and it said speaking of Jesus now in the morning as he returned to the city he hungered and When he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it and found nothing thereon but leaves only and said unto it let no fruit grow on the henceforward forever and Presently the fig tree withered away That tree was alive It had branches it had leaves, but it had no fruit on it and That earthly tree left Jesus hungry Because it did not do what he created it to do it had no fruit And in fact Jesus gave that tree all it needed to bear sweet fruit, didn't he?
But it would not do it.
It did not do it and He's given the church and every Christian all we need to bear fruit If you're thinking well, I've got to go to Bible college so I can bear fruit.
No, you don't If you need to go to Bible college or want to that's wonderful, but you don't have to go there to bear fruit Well, I need to take some speaking classes so I can bear fruit.
No, you don't God's given you everything you need to bear fruit He's given you his spirit and he's given you his word And you're not going to be like me and I'm not going to be like you we have different talents But it is natural.
It is supernatural.
In fact for a Christian to bear fruit that's how God made us and When you're born again, you've got all you need to bear fruit.
So just start doing it and Let's read one more passage just to make it clear who these branches are on this tree This fig tree John 15 verses 1 through 2 now here he speaks of a vine John 15 1 through 2 Jesus said I am the vine and my father is the husbandman Every branch in me that beareth not fruit.
He taketh away And every branch that beareth fruit he purges it.
It means he picks it That it may bring forth more fruit so Jesus is the vine there and We are the branches And Hezekiah I can tell you this he was sure glad That the fig tree bore its fruit at least one of them did Or there would be no lump of figs to put on his boil and whether or not figs are good for curing boils I don't know for sure I've read that some people who practice Naturopathy that's homemade remedies.
You've been doing it long before you heard that word in that naturopathy but they use boiled figs to make a poultice to help boils mature and Finally heal, but whatever their natural healing properties might be It was God who healed his achilles deadly boil and that's what we want to take away In fact, if God had not intended to heal Hezekiah of this boil Then the figs would not have done him any good He would have died with fig ointment all over him Listen to Genesis chapter 3 verses 6 through 8 Genesis 3 verses 6 through 8 And When the woman saw that the tree was good for food now, that's Eve and It was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also under her husband with her and he did eat and The eyes of both of them are open and they knew that they were naked so now they've sinned and there's the consequence they knew they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons and they heard the voice of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden Now notice there I love going back to Genesis like this Just can't get enough of going back to the beginning to see where these things originated that we read about later in the Bible And notice that even though Adam and Eve sewed fig leaves together and Made themselves aprons to cover their nakedness.
They still hid themselves from God they still knew they were naked the the fig leaves the apron didn't do any good and They knew that those fig leaves could not cover their sin Otherwise, why would they have hidden from God?
They would have said haha.
We have fig leaves We're just as clean as we were before we disobeyed.
They knew they weren't and Those fig leaves could not heal them from the curse of death that was now upon them because of sin Now get this when Adam and Eve Tried to cover their nakedness with fig leaves They laid the way for the religion of Cain Now you've heard that before the really you've got two religions in this world the religion of Abel Who came to God the way God said with the blood of an innocent animal and you've got the religion of Cain who came with the fruit of the ground the fruit of his own labor and Did not come with blood So all religions in this world either come the way God said or they come the other way and that's called the way of Cain Well the the way of Cain or the religion of Cain, I believe was inspired by his very own parents in disobedience Right here where they sowed those fig leaves together and tried to Cure the problem that they've created You remember Cain brought the fruit of an offering of the ground and it was rejected Well, his parents tried to make a covering Using the fruit of the ground in the fruit of a tree and it also was rejected.
How do we know this?
If you go further down in Genesis chapter 3, I read you verses 6 through 8.
I'm gonna skip down to verse 21 Under Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them Now, wait a minute.
They already had clothes.
They'd already made an apron of fig leaves but God made a different set of clothing for them and even though the leaves they sowed Came off of a tree that bore sweet fruit a tree from which God told them they could eat God still rejected it.
He did not accept man's covering for his own sins In fact, he provided those coats for the covering Just to show them that without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sin Doesn't matter whether you take the leaves off of a sweet fig tree or not and so we learn about the fig tree all the way back in Genesis and I hope it helps you to see that the fig is that which is created and It can never be bigger than its creator so God uses the figs to heal Hezekiah.
That doesn't mean the figs by themselves could heal Hezekiah That doesn't mean that the leaves of the fig tree could take away the sin and cover Adam and Eve in their nakedness Now let's look at Verse 8 back in your text 2nd Kings chapter 20 verse 8 and Hezekiah said unto Isaiah What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?
Boy this is the frail nature of mankind right here we want a sign and Thank God he gives us certain signs and Promises to give us other signs in the Bible.
He does it of his own volition his own free will To Moses there in Exodus chapter 8 God gave a sign.
He said that he was going to send swarms of flies upon Egypt But he would sever in the land of Goshen now, that's where his people dwell He said he would sever or make a division that there would be no swarms of flies where his people were He said in verse 28.
This is Exodus 8, excuse me, verse 23 Exodus 8 verse 23 God said and I will put a division between my people and and thy people Tomorrow shall this sign be?
So God gave him a sign The word sign is also translated as the word token and we see it on Full display and God's promise to Noah there in Genesis chapter 9 verses 12 through 13 Genesis 9 12 through 13 and God said this is the token of the covenant Which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you for perpetual Generations I do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth So the bow or the rainbow as we call it is a sign for us and that sign reminds us of a promise but the world has perverted it into a sign of rebellion by associating it with this perverted sexual movement and I reject that and I think you probably do too, but When I look at a rainbow God's promise is in full view to me and I remember that he's faithful Sarah and her best friend are in Ireland right now and she sent us a picture of a rainbow After one of the the I guess they had a rainstorm over there Whatever it was, but it was beautiful and that rainbow doesn't remind me of what this world says It does it reminds me of God's promise and I don't you know people who say well, there's a pot of gold at the end No, there's not.
No, you're missing it.
The pot of gold is not at the end of the rainbow Gold represents deity anyway, and it's God who made the rainbow and I'm thankful that he did and the rainbows Name is Roy G Biv as you didn't know Red orange yellow gold blue indigo about never mind green blue indigo violet So Signs are toe or tokens are not for God.
They're for us and when God gives us one we are to be glad but when he doesn't then we shouldn't require one of him and Looking back in our text has a chi said and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day So he wanted a sign that he'd be healed and that he'd be able to go up to the Lord's house on the third day He probably couldn't imagine himself being able to get up and go to the house of the Lord after what he had been through and It's not that he had doubts about God's ability to heal him, but he wanted a sign To let him know when it's time to get up out of that sickbed and go to the house of the Lord Now it's not always a good thing to ask for a sign that didn't always please God Let me give you the setting for this in the days of King Ahaz That was another king of Judah Isaiah was also prophesying and Jerusalem was again being threatened by not only Syria But also by Ephraim Now that's sad, isn't it their own brothers?
Israel Ephraim Samaria the Northern Kingdom.
They're all the same thing And I'm gonna pick up in Isaiah chapter 7 verses 10 through 14 Isaiah 7 10 through 14 Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz saying ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God Now here God said to Ahaz ask me for a sign and Listen to a has listened to What he believed about having about asking for a sign Said ask it either in the depth or the height above But I has said I will not ask neither will I tempt the Lord?
So a has associated asking God for a sign with tempting God In other words if God said I'm gonna do something that's good enough right there.
I'm not gonna ask of you a sign That's where a has was and he said now he has is speaking to the Israel the house of David and He said here ye now Oh house of David.
Is it a small thing for you to weary men?
But will you weary my God also?
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel now we read that probably every year around this around the Christmas season and Don't look at the full context of it.
It's a wonderful verse by itself but you probably didn't know that it was King a has who actually said that as Isaiah wrote that and That's an interesting sign to give we're talking about hundreds of years before Jesus Christ was born and on their doorstep is Syria and Ephraim threatening Judah and The sign isn't one such as well the you know The green trees will turn purple or the river will become blood.
It was a sign that wouldn't be fulfilled for years centuries after this time and you have to understand that the Sign that God would give to his people Was that a virgin will conceive and bear a son and call his name Emmanuel?
Now fast forward in time to Matthew chapter 12 verses 38 through 40 Matthew 12 38 through 40 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered saying master they're talking to Jesus We would see a sign from me now would means want we want to see a sign from me but he answered and said unto them an evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign and There shall no sign be given to it But the sign of the prophet Jonas which is Jonah for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly So shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth Now why would Jesus say The sign of the prophet Jonas was given rather than the sign of the prophet Isaiah or King Ahaz Now remember the sign of the prophet Isaiah as King Ahaz said it and Isaiah wrote it was that of a virgin conception and the birth of the Messiah and Although this sign had come to pass already now listen if Judah was truly waiting on a sign Back in King Ahaz his day and God said here it is he told Ahaz and Ahaz told the people here it is a virgin shall conceive and She'll bear a child and call his name Emmanuel Then the believers should be looking for that sign in every generation.
They should have taught their children.
Hey, listen We may not be around to see this but God said this is the sign he's going to give you Virgin is going to conceive and bear a child and then the next generation tell their children Hey, we may not be around to see this but here's the sign that God said he was giving you This is what you need to look for Well now the Messiah has been born.
The Virgin did conceive and bear a child God with us and Here he is during his earthly ministry some 30 years after his earthly birth and these Pharisees Did not believe the sign that had already come to pass They didn't believe the sign that a has told the people and that Isaiah recorded And so now they're looking for another sign and Jesus said well Here's the sign y'all to look for the sign of the Prophet Jonah You didn't believe the sign of the of the King Ahaz as reported by Isaiah So here's another sign for you the sign of Jonah And like Jonah in the belly of the whale Jesus would be in the heart of the earth and we know That he would rise again.
So for these Pharisees in that day, that was still future to them That was still to come the sign that a has gave had already come But the sign of Jonah that the son of man would be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights had not Yet come so he said, all right.
Here's a sign for you to believe now Jesus knew they wouldn't believe that sign either, but he gave it to them and That should been good enough and it would have confirmed That Jesus was the fulfillment of the first sign the one a has gave the one concerning his virgin birth But the Pharisees and many people just like them would also not believe the sign of the Prophet Jonah and Because people then and now won't believe the sign of the virgin birth or the Prophet Jonah Which now has come to pass They're also not going to believe the sign of the coming of the Son of Man Even when the plagues are poured out on the unbelieving world upon the opening of the seventh seal Those people are not going to believe that sign either listen to it Revelation 9 verses 20 through 21 Revelation 9 verses 20 through 21 and the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and Silver and brass and stone and of wood which can neither See nor hear nor walk neither repented day of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their fornication nor of their thefts Listen when unbelievers seek a sign from God now Hezekiah was a believer, but when unbelievers seek a sign from God They're not going to believe it no matter how many signs are given no matter how many signs come to pass Now we ought to notice another thing back in our text there I'm gonna reread verse 7 and Isaiah said take a lump of figs and they took and laid it on the boil and he recovered now What is verse 7 tell you God already healed Hezekiah?
Hezekiah recovered Now go back up to verse 5 in the first part of God's promise It says turn again and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people thus saith the Lord the God God of David thy father I have heard thy prayer.
I've seen thy tears behold.
I will heal thee Stop right there.
I will heal thee The fact that God promised to heal Hezekiah in verse 5 and Then healed him in verse 7 should have eliminated any need for Hezekiah to ask for a sign God just said he's gonna heal him and then he did it and yet Hezekiah still asked for a sign even after being healed and This statement showed me That people have a tendency to ask God to give them a sign Even after he gives them a promise They've asked God to give them a sign even though they didn't believe the sign he already gave them Now what should Hezekiah have done upon hearing God's promise He should have said yes Lord.
Amen.
I Believe that's it.
I believe and I'm gonna sit here and wait on you to make it happen He should not have asked for a sign that was worldly of him And by his own initiative God's given us So many signs and so many promises He's kept them and he's not done keeping promises and showing signs because the Bible tells us what those are So, why does man insist on requiring extra signs from God Why can't man just see the truth believe it and then wait on the Lord, you know, it's exhausting to continually seek sign after sign and Yet people who are spiritually weak and frail often do this They say well, I don't feel saved today Well, God gave us the gift of faith that we might believe his word and Yet rather than faith man wants God to give him a feeling as well You know Hezekiah was a good King He was better than King David as we learned back in chapter 18 verse 5 where it said he trusted in the Lord God of Israel So that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah nor any that were before him and if such a good and godly King who trusted in the Lord was Susceptible in his flesh to yielding in that area of asking for a sign And how much more are we who are not as mature in our faith?
And I told you it's exhausting looking for signs and waiting on feelings Above and beyond what God has already given us But there's a better way and this way does not sap your strength.
It's not exhausting at all.
In fact, it is refreshing It's strengthening and here it is in Isaiah 40 verse 29 through 31 Isaiah 40 verse 29 through 31 He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increases strength Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young man shall utterly fail But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with wings as Eagles They shall run and not be weary.
They shall walk and not faint and in that passage the word wait means to twist or bind like a rope and When we're bound together with God by faith in his word Then we're waiting on the Lord.
That's how you wait on the Lord.
You have faith in his word and when we are that's sufficient for us We don't need any other signs than the ones he's given we don't look for any other feelings we just rest in truth and By waiting our strength is renewed It's increased We don't get exhausted Waiting on the Lord doesn't cause you to faint fainting should cause you to wait on the Lord Now let's look in verse 9 back in our text and Isaiah said the sign this sign Shalt I'll have of the Lord that the Lord will do the thing that he has spoken Shall the shadow go forward 10 degrees or go back 10 degrees.
Now, there's the question Now let's consider that statement for a moment.
Isaiah had already told his acai what God promised But has a chi wanted a sign and I can imagine Isaiah's face and the tone of his voice when he had to say the words that I just read as If he may have said has a chi do you realize that You've asked the Lord to prove to you that he'll do the thing that he said he was going to do I Think I'd be ashamed at that very moment if I realized what I just done and perhaps has a chi was I don't know realizing I had required a proof from God when he owes me none and This is too often how we respond to grace Rather than using thankful words we sometimes use thoughtless words And I'll refer you back to the passage about the lepers who were healed in Jesus day There were ten of them and how many of them returned to give him?
Thanks one did the others were thoughtless in their actions in their words and In our world you and I've seen that same attitude displayed By people who have been the recipients of grace in the form of financial Services and free services free money Some of those people not all some of those people have not held a job, but they have received free food and clothing and all of that Money that others made and so on and rather than responding with thankfulness So many of them respond with greed want more and more benefits and handouts and By the way Social Security and Medicare are not handouts Those are entitlements from the time.
I was 15 and received my first w-2 Until this day I have paid into Social Security and Medicare and when I was self-employed I paid double into those two programs and when I received those benefits upon retiring I'm going to be thankful for them, but I earned every one of them I'm talking about people who refused to work when they could who refused to budget their money when they could and yet when somebody gives them something they respond with hostility and greed When somebody tells them hey you need to get a job Then they get upset They'd rather be in a burner than an earner Now Hezekiah didn't respond with hostility upon receiving the Lord's gracious healing, but he did respond thoughtlessly Now let's learn from him.
Let's We don't want to do the same thing Do we and here's the question Isaiah asked Hezekiah about this sign that he wanted to see He said back in verse 9 shall the shadow go forward 10 degrees or go back 10 degrees Now this is referring to the shadow on a sundial as we'll see in a few verses The word shadow and shade are the same here.
So another way of asking this would be Hezekiah Do you want time to go forward or backward?
In verse 10 and Hezekiah answered it is a light thing for the shadow to go down 10 degrees Now that word those two words light thing are from a single Hebrew word that is normally translated as the word curse That's interesting.
It's also translated as the word ease ease in two places and I think Hezekiah is saying here that For time to go forward is easy It's a light thing Anyone who sees that might not be convinced.
It's a sign from God But back in the text he said nay, but let the shadow return Backward 10 degrees in other words.
Let God turn back time And I don't know exactly how much time that is, but we might be able to get closest this Brought out the mathematician in me.
I'm not a I'm not a high-functioning mathematician as soon as you throw letters in the mix.
I'm done But we stay with numbers I can hang with you The sundial would have had a hundred and eighty degrees on it and you've got a Circle and then you have the dial itself sticking up and there's just enough of a width on it to cast a shadow on the other side so from Sun up to high noon Would be 90 degrees and then from high noon where there is no shadow to sunset would be 90 degrees Now this assumes the dial is perfectly slanted toward the angle of the Sun because that changes in its relationship to the earth depending on whether it's winter or summer and We are also assuming here that we have 12 hours of daylight and we know that also changes between the summer solstice and the winter solstice But if we assume 12 hours of daylight then the first six hours are represented by the first 90 degrees and the last six hours are represented by the last 90 degrees and using those figures 15 degrees represents an hour and 10 degrees is 2/3 of 15 degrees.
So that's 2/3 of an hour.
That's about 40 minutes Now again, that's not exact You you've got longer periods of daylight leading up to the summer solstice in June and shorter periods of daylight Leading up to the winter solstice, which we just had in the middle of last month, but you get the picture so Hezekiah realizes that only God can reverse time and All that comes with it And if he can turn back time for a few minutes in a way He can turn back time for Hezekiah by adding 15 years to his life now that's not actually turning back time, but it's the same principle and Such a thing could only be ascribed to God It can't be ascribed to chance or to man's doing But to God alone and this event made me consider the resurrection of the dead When a child is conceived in his mother's womb Time begins to pass for that baby in 40 weeks plus or minus brings that conception to a birth and then that child's years of living bring him closer to the time of his death and When he dies and is buried and over time his body turns into dust It's not natural for a baby to be born and enter into his mother's womb again as Jesus taught Nicodemus In John 3 it's not natural for a dead person to rise again and live it's natural for a dead person to see further corruption and When someone or something on earth lives that means that it must die and without intervention a blind man gets more blind a Leper gets more leprous and the sinner gets more sinful and only God can reverse That which is natural Thus you have the saying found in first Corinthians 15 verses 52 through 55 first Corinthians 15 52 through 55 in The moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory Oh death, where is thy sting?
Oh grave?
Where's thy victory and the truth found in that passage shows us that Corruption is the natural end of living mortality is the sentence on a person who is born and Death has her sting in the natural course of events and grave has her victory in the natural course of events These are all irrefutable laws that are brought about by sins curse They are the consequences of sin and when God Changes his people who died in the Lord as the passage in Corinthians said when he changes his people He replaces the corruption within corruption He makes alive those who died and he removes the sting from death and he snatches victory from the grave And God reversed the natural course of things When he healed a boil that would have killed Hezekiah.
He added 15 years to Hezekiah's life Temporarily robbing death of its sting temporarily robbing the grave of its victory and he reversed the course of time which Naturally would have marched forward and not backward and in doing all this God points us To the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ and I'll close with 2nd Timothy 1 10 2nd Timothy 1 10 which says this about God But now is made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life And immortality to light through the gospel Yes, he suspended death and time Temporarily for Hezekiah, but he abolished it for us in the person of his son Jesus Christ Let's pray father Your truth is wonderful.
Thank you that we got to enjoy it this morning and We pray you just teach it to us by your spirit That it not leave us and we'd meditate upon it and be comforted by it in Jesus name.
Amen
