2 Start A New Season - Pt2 (Handout)

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„ Honest ownership and confession of sin.

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2 Kings 22:18, 19 (Msg) And also tell the king of Judah, since he sent you to ask God for direction; tell him this, God’s comment on what he read in the book: “Because you took seriously the doom of judgment I spoke against this place and people, and because you responded in humble repentance, tearing your robe in dismay and weeping before Me, I’m taking you seriously.”

Church of the Redeemer | Pastor Dale O’Shields | September 14 & 15, 2013

START A NEW SEASON – Part 2 2 Chronicles 34:33

„ Receiving God’s forgiveness for sin.

2 Chronicles 34:33 (Msg) Josiah did a thorough job of cleaning up the pollution that had spread throughout Israelite territory and got everyone started fresh again, serving and worshiping their God. All through Josiah’s life the people kept to the straight and narrow, obediently following God, the God of their ancestors. 1.

Get back to the Bible.

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Do some “_____-_______________.” 2 Kings 22:11 (Msg) When the king heard what was written in the book, God’s Revelation, he ripped his robes in dismay. 2 Kings 22:13 (Msg) Go and pray to God for me and for this people — for all Judah! Find out what we must do in response to what is written in this book that has just been found! God’s anger must be burning furiously against us — our ancestors haven’t obeyed a thing written in this book, followed none of the instructions directed to us. Repentance involves: „ Personal awareness of sin. 2 Samuel 12:9, 10 (NIV) Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in His eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own. 2 Samuel 12:13 (NIV) Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.” „ Genuine sorrow for sin. 2 Corinthians 7:10 (NLT) For the kind of sorrow God wants us to experience leads us away from sin and results in salvation. There’s no regret for that kind of sorrow. But worldly sorrow, which lacks repentance, results in spiritual death.

Psalm 32:5 (NIV) Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord.” And You forgave the guilt of my sin. John 3:17 (NIV) For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Acts 3:19 (NIV) Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.

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Welcome the ________________ _________________. 2 Kings 23:1-4 (Msg) The king acted immediately, assembling all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. Then the king proceeded to The Temple of God, bringing everyone in his train — priests and prophets and people ranging from the famous to the unknown. Then he read out publicly everything written in the Book of the Covenant that was found in The Temple of God. The king stood by the pillar and before God solemnly committed them all to the covenant: to follow God believingly and obediently; to follow His instructions, heart and soul, on what to believe and do; to put into practice the entire covenant, all that was written in the book. The people stood in affirmation; their commitment was unanimous. Then the king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, his associate priest, and The Temple sentries to clean house — to get rid of everything in The Temple of God that had been made for worshiping Baal and Asherah and the cosmic powers. He had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and then disposed of the ashes in Bethel. 2 Kings 23:24, 25 (Msg) Josiah scrubbed the place clean and trashed spirit-mediums, sorcerers, domestic gods, and carved figures — all the vast accumulation of foul and obscene relics and images on display everywhere you looked in Judah and Jerusalem. Josiah did this in obedience to the words of God’s Revelation written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in The Temple of God. There was no king to compare with Josiah — neither before nor after — a king who turned in total and repentant obedience to God, heart and mind and strength, following the instructions revealed to and written by Moses. The world would never again see a king like Josiah.