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The Wickedness of King Manasseh 0:19 Today on Awaken to Grace, we are in part 2 of a sermon on King Manasseh that I am calling the king with a surprise ending. You know, Manasseh was 1 of the0:31 most wicked men in the bible. But do you know what the surprise ending of his life is? He ended up repenting. Today, we're gonna see how no 1 is too far from0:42 God. No 1 is without hope. And today, we're gonna see how God is a God who keeps his word. When Manasseh humbled himself0:54 and returned to the Lord, God accepted him. What an amazing life lesson we learned from this king. If you have been following Awaken to Grace throughout all of the1:06 kings through this series, well, I want to make the entire series available to you. You can contact us today and you can order this entire collection or you1:18 can always access all of our content for free by downloading our mobile app. It's simply called Awakened to Grace. You can get it on your devices1:31 and right at your fingertips. You can have all of our content. You can also visit my website awakened to grace dot com, or you can contact me directly,1:43 and I would love to send this series to you. You can email me at pastor chad roberts at g mail dot com. Well, let's go together today. We1:54 are continuing to walk through 2nd chronicles, and today we come to the king who had a surprise ending, king Manasseh.2:14 God says, I'll guide you with my eye. Boy, I love that verse. Can God just guide you with his eye? Can he just look at you in a certain way? You remember growing up how your parents could just look at you in a certain2:26 way? They didn't have to say anything? Come on. You know what? Did you have parents like that? I want the Lord just to be able to look at me in a certain way and I go,2:38 Oh, Lord. Yeah, I know. I know that. I know you don't like that. You you you know what I try to do with my kids? I I I know that you know how children are. You tell2:51 them, I don't like that. Stop that. What does it make them want to do? All the more. Right? There's a little phrase that I like to use with my kids. You know what that phrase is? I3:02 prefer. I'd prefer for you not to listen to that. I'd prefer for you not to talk that way. I'd prefer for you to think about it like this.3:14 Why? It teaches them to reason. It teaches them to No. See, and and and that's I think I think if if we would open our life to the Lord today from what we listen to,3:26 to maybe what we're watching, to maybe even things like horoscopes or things that maybe we thought were quite innocent. I think if we were to open our life to those things today you know I think the Lord would say. I3:38 don't think he's I don't think he's got these lightning bolts that he's getting ready to strike you with. No. I think the Lord would say, Nah. I'd prefer you not to do that.3:51 Anybody with me today? Boy I'm gonna be sensitive to the Lord. I want to be sensitive to Him. And so verse number 6 we see the4:02 height of where He is. Somebody tell me verse 7. Help me, help me with the beginning part of verse verse 7. Ah, so he makes this carven image. He puts it in the temple and4:14 what does he say? Oh this is so important. He says, Jerusalem is where I have chosen forever and ever. Jerusalem matters to the Lord. Jerusalem matters to Him.4:26 From that day all the way to this day and even into the millennial kingdom, Jerusalem will forever be the city of the Lord. Do you know the Bible is4:38 a tale of 2 cities? Babylon beginning all the way back with the tower of Babel and Jerusalem And all through the Bible, all the way through remember our great study of the book of Revelation?4:50 Do you remember what happens when Babylon finally falls? We'll see it from heaven and we'll shout hallelujah. And what happens in the grand finale of human history? The new Jerusalem5:02 descends. The Bible from beginning to end is a tale of 2 cities, Babylon and Jerusalem. And the sin that Manasseh makes is he brings all of this idolatry,5:14 he brings all of this sorcery, he brings all of these fake altars and he puts them this great carving image and he puts it in the temple and God says no this is verse 3 and verse 7. Jerusalem5:27 is where God has chosen the center of the earth. It's where he has eternally and forever chosen to place his name. That's a big verse.5:39 Verse number 8, we see the conditions of God's blessings, the conditions of God's promises. What does he say? He say, listen, I'll keep you in the land and I'll protect you and I'll bless you as5:51 long as you do what? As long as you stay faithful to the Lord. As long as you stay righteous. There are conditions to God's blessing. Do you realize that? See some6:02 Please hear my heart today. Some of us are asking God to bless us but our actions are absolute contrary to the fact that He can't do that. Many of us,6:14 we have God's hands handcuffed. He wants to bless you. He wants to answer your prayers. He wants to work in your life. He wants to do great things for you, but your sin6:26 doesn't allow Him to. Because He's not gonna bless you in the midst of sin. Can we say amen today? Amen. Oh, I wanna receive this word today. I I I don't listen,6:38 I don't wanna harbor sin over here and then try to trust Jesus over here. It's not gonna work that way. And this is Manasseh and he says, listen, I'll protect you and I'll bless you. I love my people, but I'm not6:49 gonna do it over your sin. There are conditions to it. This story is paralleled in 2nd Kings chapter 21 and in verse 13. I want you to write down our7:01 2nd principle. In verse number 13 God says, I am going to judge Judah and this Oh boy, it puts a shutter down my spine. Here's what he says. He says, I'm gonna wipe you like a dish7:14 and turn you upside down. I want you to note this principle. Manasseh should have been able to look to the northern kingdom because you know what happened? In his father's7:26 lifetime the northern kingdom is done. It's gone. It's wiped out. God allowed them to be taken off captive. Manasseh should have been able to look at the calamity7:38 of the North. He should have been able to look up to the North and say, I don't want to end up like they did, and he should have recharted his course from there, but he didn't. And God says, I've given you time, I've7:50 given you warnings, I've spoken and you will not listen and here's what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna wipe you like a dish and turn you upside down. Oh, 0 my.8:03 Manasseh was so wicked. Verse number 16 of 2 Kings 21 it says that he filled the streets of Jerusalem with innocent blood from end to8:15 end. Do you know what Jewish tradition tells us? In the book of Hebrews chapter 11 it talks about great martyrs of the faith and it says some were sawn8:26 asunder. Some were literally sawn in 2. And do you know what Jewish history tells us? Do you remember who is the primary prophet under King Hezekiah?8:39 The prophet Isaiah. And history tells us tradition tells us Manasseh had Isaiah Psalm in 2. We believe that's8:51 where Hebrews 11 is referencing the martyrdom of Isaiah. He was a wicked man and God says I'm gonna bring such judgment on you that I it's gonna9:03 be as though I'm wiping a dish and turning you upside down. And God said the judgment is gonna be so severe that every ear that hears it is going to tingle. God's not playing around.9:15 God is going to judge this wickedness. Now go back to 2nd Chronicles 33. Verse number 9, what is the9:27 result? What is the result of this? Rather than repentance, no. It says that King9:39 Manasseh led Israel further into idolatry and how steep did it go? The Bible says that they were such a wicked people that it exceeded the nations9:51 whom the Lord destroyed. In other words, they were more evil than the most evil nation on the earth at that time. They were more wicked than the10:03 pagans, than the people who were the worst of that day. They were Verse number 10,10:15 like beacons of warning, God sent them prophets. God tried to warn the people. God tried to warn King Manasseh. And what does the10:27 word say? No 1 would listen. Does that not sound like our day today? Does it not sound like this culture today? Let10:39 me tell you, we may have slick technology but human nature has not changed at all. So verse number 11, GodThe Surprise Ending: Repentance in Captivity 10:51 allows the king of Assyria to come and with bronze chains they capture King Manasseh11:06 and now God is going to reconcile the account. Now judgment has come and the Bible says that King Manasseh, this man who has11:18 the heritage of Hezekiah, He is led off into captivity into Babylon. Do you remember what Isaiah prophesied to11:29 Hezekiah? You opened up Babylon, you showed him everything. He said, your very sons will be led off into captivity. Now that's gonna be fulfilled much later under King Nebuchadnezzar,11:42 but see, here are the seeds beginning to sprout. And so Manasseh finds himself, verse 11, he is now in captivity.11:53 This man who could have been a great king. This man who could have walked in the ways of the Lord. This man who had everything spiritually at his fingertips. This man who inherited everything12:05 spiritually from his father Hezekiah and he despised it all. He walked away from it all. He rejected it all. Now he is led into captivity and here he is in Babylon12:17 itself. What did we say? The Bible is a tale of 2 cities. Because he brought the carven images into Jerusalem, because he brought idolatry into Jerusalem, God allowed him to slide captive12:29 in There's no other12:41 king that surprises me more than Manasseh. I want you to look at verse 12. Now he had to have learned something12:53 from his father Because when he was at the lowest of all low, when he was at the place of what the Bible calls, in his despair, in13:04 his distress, in his desperation, what did he do? He called out on the name of the Lord. What did he do? Verse 12, the Bible says, He greatly13:16 humbled himself. Let me tell you, the Lord spoke to me so early this morning. It was nowhere on my radar until the13:28 Lord spoke to me so strongly. I don't know who's here today. I don't know who's watching online today. But some of you, I believe many of you, you feel like you are in spiritual captivity.13:40 You feel like the enemy has come into your family and he has stolen everything that he can steal. He's walked into your life, He's walked into your spiritual life, and He has stolen from13:52 you and everything in your life feels as though you're in captivity. Even your very spiritual life feels like a foreign land. Nothing feels familiar. You feel like14:04 you can't pray any longer. You feel like you're distant from God. You feel like God is thousands of miles away from you. You feel like your life is in shambles. You feel like your faith is in14:16 shambles and you can identify with King Manasseh as he's sitting in chains, in bronze chains, in Babylon, captive to the enemy. Many of you feel that way today. But I14:28 want you to look at what he does in verse number 13. Say amen if you're with me. This is absolutely extraordinary. So, in verse 12, he greatly14:39 humbles himself down. I'm telling you, if you want to go anywhere with god, if you want to make any kind of spiritual progress, it will come through humility and humility alone.14:51 God opposes the proud, James chapter 4 verse 6, but He gives not just grace, He gives more grace to the humble, amen? I'm telling you, I'm in a15:03 place in my life. It's not just grace that I need. It is more grace in Jesus' name. And how do you tap in to more grace? Because here God is, He is abundant15:15 in all grace. He has no cap. He has no reserve. He has no limit to what His grace can do in your life. And how do you get into that? You humble15:26 yourself down. He opposes the proud, but he gives what to the humble? More grace. Oh, I want more grace today, don't you? More grace, more15:38 grace, more grace in my life. How do you get it? You humble yourself humbled yourself? How long has it been since you've come15:50 in humility to the Lord? And I want you to watch what he does, verse 13. And I want you to watch what he does, verse 13. And I want you to watch what he does, verse 13. And I want you to watch what he does, verse 13. And15:57 I want you to watch what he does, verse 13. And I want you to watch what he does, verse 13. He entreats the Lord. He comes before him. He prays.16:10 He prays. He prays. Somebody say he prays. He prays. Let me tell you my friends, prayer is not part of the equation, it's the entire equation. If your16:22 life is a mess today, let me tell you what to do, pray. If you're upside down today, let me tell you what to do. Pray. If you're in a mess today, if your back is against16:34 the wall today, if it looks like there's no hope today, let me tell you what to do. Pray in Jesus name. It's not part of it, it's all of it. Amen.16:46 And what did he do when he prayed? He moved the heart of God. And do you know what Satan will tell you today? He'll tell you, it's no use praying. God's not16:58 listening anyway. Nothing ever changes. Nothing ever moves. God isn't paying any attention to you. No. Let me tell you the gospel truth today. The more you pray,17:10 the more you move God. Amen. It's the only thing that moves God. You don't play the victim card. Your victim mentality doesn't move God.17:22 It doesn't move Him an inch. You're whining. Oh, come on now. Don't get quiet on me. You guys don't whine at God. I do.17:34 Oh, come on now. Say, Amen, if you whine at God. Amen. Oh, God, it's not fair. Man, my little 3 year old John Mark, he wants to play on my17:46 phone, and I'll say, not right now. I never get to play on your phone. Never. Oh, he'll fall on the floor. Just yell, never.17:59 We act like we're 3 sometimes with the Lord, don't we? But that didn't move the heart of God. John Mark, he'll We have this whole thing18:11 where I always ask him, I say, your daddy's boy or mommy's boy? He'll go, daddy's. And he won't say it real loud where his momma can hear it. He'll go, daddy.18:23 And I say, you daddy's special boy? And he'll kiss me. Yeah. But when I don't give him my phone and when he does, he goes to my door and he stumps his foot18:35 and he goes, me not your boy, and shuts the door. Me not your boy.18:50 I don't know about you, but I can be that way with God sometimes. I can look around at other people and I can get discouraged real quick.19:02 Let me tell you something. You look inward. You look at yourself. You're gonna get depressed. You19:14 look around at other people, you're gonna get discouraged. But you look up to the Lord. From where does my help come from? The maker19:26 of heaven and earth. You'll get delighted. Look to the Lord today. Don't play the victim card. Don't play the woe is me card. Don't play the God you19:38 answer everybody else's prayer. Why don't you answer my No. No. No. That's pride. That's not humility. Don't come to God with a false humility of, oh God. Oh19:50 God. You you just you know, you never do this Lord. No, no, that's pride. It may be, it may wear a mask of humility, but in reality it's pride.20:02 No, you humble yourself down. You say, God, if you don't ever do 1 other thing for me again, what you've done is20:14 enough. I submit under the mighty hand of God. He prayed and20:26 what did it do? It moved God. Hudson Taylor said, that great missionary to China, he said, I don't20:38 spend my energy moving people. I pray and move God and God moves men.20:51 He moved God. He moved God. That's an extraordinary statement. This man who was so wicked that he filled the21:03 streets of Jerusalem with innocent blood from end to end, this man who martyred the prophet Isaiah, this man who burned his own sons alive as a pagan sacrifice, this man21:14 who brought the carven image into the temple, this man who got into sorcery and divination and mediums and omens and all this witchcraft.21:27 And now he sits with nothing. And now he sits at rock bottom with nowhere to look but up and he moves God. Say amen if you're with me right now. Let me tell you21:39 something right now, child of God. Don't you be embarrassed by your desperation. Don't you be embarrassed with your desperate circumstance. Because let me tell you the good21:51 gospel news. God is attracted to weakness. It attracts him. God is attracted to humility. It22:02 attracts him. He opposes the proud. And you may have walked in here today with a fake smile. You may be going to work with a fake smile.22:15 Your life may be falling apart and you don't know what to do. Let me tell you what to do. Bring that desperation to the Lord Jesus Christ because he's attracted to it and you'll22:27 move the heart of God. So God responds. God through a miracle22:38 takes him out of Babylon back to his kingdom. And I want you to look at the principle, verse number 13. Is that where I am? 13,22:50 yeah. Verse 13, the end of the verse. And Manasseh knew that the Lord was God. What a great lesson to learn. He23:02 knew that the Lord was God. Do you know that today? Do you know it by experience? Are you filled with23:14 pride today? If anything we've learned from all of these kings, it's that pride is a deadly deadly thing.23:25 This is the 1 king versus 18 and 19. Look at the commentary of his life. Do you need23:37 God to step into your family today? Humble23:49 yourself. Do you need God to step into your family today? Humble yourself. Do you need God to heal your body today? Humble yourself. Do you need God to give you wisdom and give you discernment? To24:01 give you understanding? Do you need breakthrough today? Humble yourself. If you're in Babylon spiritually, if you're held captive24:13 spiritually, humble yourself today and God will break through.24:24 If you enjoyed today's broadcast and would like to hear more great content you can always download our free mobile app, Awaken to Grace, where you can request prayer, find sermons, articles, blogs, music, podcast,24:36 as well as support us financially. You can also visit either of our websites at w w w dot preaching christ church dot com or w w w dot awaken to grace dot com for more information about our church24:47 or our resource ministry. Thank you for listening to Awaken to Grace.In this video 0:00 The Wickedness of King Manasseh10:48 The Surprise Ending: Repentance in Captivity
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