Sermon on Hezekiah | 3 Hard Life Lessons From Hezekiah

1. The temple worship was restored (2 Chronicles 29)

1) 2 Chronicles 29:3-5

2) 2 Chronicles 29:18-19

3) 2 Chronicles 29:28-29

2. The observance of the Passover was restored (2 Chronicles 30).

1) 2 Chronicles 30:1-3

2) 2 Chronicles 30:13-16

3. How did they know how to do these things?

4. They went to the word of God – 2 Chronicles 30:16.

5. We can have restoration of the church today if we go to the word of God.

1) Luke 8:11 says, “The seed is the word of God.”

2) 1 Peter 1:22-23 “Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.”

3) When we follow the word of God and do what it says, we can, like Hezekiah, have a restoration.

1. In regard to the armies of Assyria.

1) In the 14th year of Hezekiah’s reign, the king of Assyria, Sennacherib came up against Israel (2 Kings 18:13).

2) Hezekiah sent tribute money to Sennacherib in an effort to pacify him (2 Kings 18:14-16).

3) Nevertheless, Sennacherib took all of the fortified cities around Jerusalem in Judah and then came up against Jerusalem.

4) It wasn’t enough for Sennacherib to have all of these things, he wanted the people to stop trusting in the Lord, Jehovah, Yahweh.

5) This, Hezekiah would not do.

6) Read 2 Kings 19:1-7

7) Read 2 Kings 19:14-19

8) God delivered Jerusalem from the hands of Sennacherib by sending angels into their camp which slew 185,000 of their men in one night (2 Kings 19:35).

2. In regard to Hezekiah’s sickness (2 Kings 20:1-7).

1) Hezekiah got sick and was near death.

2) Isaiah the prophet came in and told him that he was to die.

3) But Hezekiah prayed to the Lord for deliverance and he was restored to health.

3. From Hezekiah, we learn that prayer can change things.

1) James 5:16-18 “Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working. Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.”

2) 1 John 3:22 “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.”

Finally, in this sermon on Hezekiah…

1. Hezekiah also displayed a measure of pride in his life as a king.

2. We find that after Sennacherib left that he began to glory in the riches of Jerusalem.

3. One of the sons of the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and Hezekiah showed him all of their wealth.

4. Read Isaiah 39:1-2.

5. Isaiah then came to Hezekiah and told him that because he did this thing that Babylon would carry everything away.

6. Read Isaiah 39:3-8.

7. We’ve all got to be careful with the problem of pride.

8. Hezekiah was an object lesson of Proverbs 16:18 “Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.”

9. Romans 12:3 “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”