In this lesson we examine the life of Hezekiah and his kingship. We also explain time and chance and how it relates to all of us not matter who we are. Both slides and audio can be found together at www.cmcoc.org Sermon by: Brian Birdow

1. 24 hours
Sermon text: 2 Kings 18:1-6 & Isaiah 38
Sermon by: Brian Birdow

2. Objective of Lesson
• To learn more about Hezekiah?
• To show that time and chance happen to
all!
• To challenge us to focus more on
spiritual things than carnal.

3. Who is Hezekiah?
2 Kings 18:1-6

4. Hezekiah
✓He was twenty five years old when he became the King of
Judah (2 Kings 18:1-2).
✓He obeyed God, he did right! (2 Kings 18:3)
✓He got rid of the high places or sacred altars to the god Baal
(2 Kings 12:3; 14:4; 15:4, 35; 17:9; 18:22)
✓He cut down the Asherah, broke the pillars.. a wooden pole or
tree by the altar of the Canaanite goddess (1 Kings 14:15).
✓He was the best king Judah ever had! (2 Kings 18:5)
✓He clung to or holdfast to God (2 Kings 18:6 & Deut. 10:20)

5. Hezekiah
• Hezekiah demonstrated his loyalty to Yahweh by
restoring the temple and re - establishing the
sacrificial system. He reorganized the priests
and meticulously outlined their responsibilities. (2
Chronicles 29:5-11; 30:21-27; 31:11-21)
• He also tore down the high places and altars
dedicated to pagan idolatry and even destroyed
the bronze serpent that Moses had fashioned in
the Sinai desert

6. Time and chance
Ecclesiastes 9:11-12

7. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12
• Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the
swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the
wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those
with knowledge, but time and chance happen to
them all.
• For man does not know his time. Like fish that are
taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in
a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil
time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

8. Isaiah 38

9. Hezekiah
• Hezekiah became sick and had boil (vs. 1& 21)
• Most do not want to know they are sick to the point of
death! Most keep it a secret when they find out they
have a terminal disease.
• God told Isaiah to to tell Hezekiah so that he could set
his house in order. He told him that he would die and
not recover.

10. Hezekiah
• Vs. 2 — Hezekiah prays! He still believes in the power of prayer!
He does not harden his heart to God!
• 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice always; pray without ceasing;
in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ
Jesus.
• Job 1:20-22 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his
head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. He said, “Naked I
came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The
Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name
of the Lord.” Through all this Job did not sin nor did he blame
God.

11. Hezekiah
• vs. 3 — Remember how I
have walked before you….
• Faithful and with whole
heart.
• Can we say that?
• Can we say that we put
spiritual things first in our
lives?

12. Hezekiah
• He wept bitterly!
• Even though he had done
good and been fully
committed to serving
God…he was going to die
and from a boil!
• Hebrews 9:27 And as it is
appointed for men to die
once, but after this the
judgment,

13. Hezekiah
•God hears his prayer!
•Hezekiah thanks God (17-
21)
•1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes
of the Lord are on the
righteous,And His ears are
open to their prayers; But
the face of the Lord is
against those who do evil.”

14. Summary
★ Time and chance happen to all, regardless and it does not
mean that God loves one more or less because of
hardships suffered.
★ No matter how good or evil a person is, all will face God in
judgment.
★ Our days are numbered and we do not know the number.
★ We must be covered in the blood of Jesus Christ and live
faithful lives if we are to live with God for all eternity.
★ Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die
once, but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered
once to bear the sins of many.