221023 2 Chronicles 24 Pt I The Faithful High Priest

MP: Yahweh is good; His lovingkindness endures forever And His faithfulness, generation unto generation.

Psalm 100 Make a loud shout to Yahweh, all the earth. 2 Serve Yahweh with gladness; Come before Him with joyful songs. 3 Know that Yahweh, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. 4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name. 5 For Yahweh is good; His lovingkindness endures forever And His faithfulness, generation unto generation.

I. Summary of the Life of Joash (v1-3) Reading Between The Lines | A Great Start | right in the sight of Yahweh | Foundation of Faithfulness

2 Chronicles 24:1 Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Zibiah from Beersheba. 2 And Joash did what was right in the sight of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 3 And Jehoiada took up two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Jehoida established Joash in the Law and in Righteousness.

Joash understood right by understanding what he was trained in.

Close personal training and discipleship yielded a leader that understood the Word of God and enforced it. | Discipleship is a lifelong pursuit

Yielding righteousness, accountability, action

To disciple means to train and instruct in Christ’s teaching

Discipleship is a lifelong and multifaceted discipline of the follower of Christ

It includes absorbing and acting on instruction and training given during Corporate Worship but also within the context of a personal relationship between brothers and sisters in Christ.

Christian, the blessing of discipleship is the catalyst or trigger for Spiritual growth.

Jehoiada chose Jehoaddin of Jerusalem as a wife for him - presumably a wife from the tribe and people of Joash (Judean) and not a foreigner

II. The Desire of Joash’s Heart (v4-7) | Faithless Priests Called To Account | Faithlessness Addressed

4 Now it happened afterwards, that Joash had in his heart to restore the house of Yahweh. 5 And he gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather money from all Israel to repair the house of your God annually, and you shall do the matter quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly. 6 So the king called for Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the levy fixed by Moses the servant of Yahweh on the congregation of Israel for the tent of the testimony?” 7 For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and even used the holy things of the house of Yahweh for the Baals.

How we treat the house of the Lord speaks volumes of how we regard Him

The house of the Lord used to be the temple

The house of

How we treat the temple of the God is a reflection of our

Regard for God

Desire to Prioritize Him

A Reflection of our Regard for God

Regard for God Reflected in How we Treat His Temple

2 Kgs 12:4 “Then Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the sacred things which is brought into the house of the Lord, in current money, both the money of each man’s assessment and all the money which any man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the Lord,”

Exod 30:11–16 “The Lord also spoke to Moses, saying, “When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them. “This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord. “Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution to the Lord. “The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than the half shekel, when you give the contribution to the Lord to make atonement for yourselves. “You shall take the atonement money from the sons of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may be a memorial for the sons of Israel before the Lord, to make atonement for yourselves.””

Leviticus 27:1–8 | 1 Again, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When a man makes a difficult vow, he shall be valued according to your valuation of persons belonging to the Lord. 3 ‘If your valuation is of the male from twenty years even to sixty years old, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 ‘Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels. 5 ‘If it be from five years even to twenty years old then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels and for the female ten shekels. 6 ‘But if they are from a month even up to five years old, then your valuation shall be five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver. 7 ‘If they are from sixty years old and upward, if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels. 8 ‘But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be placed before the priest and the priest shall value him; according to the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.

Num 18:15–16 ““Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, whether man or animal, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem. “As to their redemption price, from a month old you shall redeem them, by your valuation, five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.”

III. Giving With Gladness (v8-10) Freely Given

8 So the king said the word, and they made a chest and put it outside by the gate of the house of Yahweh. 9 And they made a proclamation in Judah and Jerusalem to bring to Yahweh the levy fixed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness. 10 And all the officials and all the people were glad and brought in their levies and dropped them into the chest until they had finished.

1 Chronicles 29:9 “Then the people rejoiced because they had offered so willingly, for they made their offering to the Lord with a whole heart, and King David also rejoiced greatly.”

IV. Restoring Appropriately (v11-14) Faithful Stewardship

11 Now it happened that whenever the chest was brought in to the king’s officer by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, then the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer would come, empty the chest, take it, and return it to its place. Thus they did daily and collected much money. 12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Yahweh, and also craftsmen in iron and bronze to repair the house of Yahweh. 13 So those who did the work labored, and the repair work progressed in their hands, and they restored the house of God according to its specifications and strengthened it. 14 When they had completed, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada; and it was made into utensils for the house of Yahweh, utensils for the ministry and the burnt offering, and pans and utensils of gold and silver. And they were offering burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh continually all the days of Jehoiada.

No changes to the intended design

Strengthening the house

The craftsmen dealt faithfully 2 Kings 12:15 “Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, for they dealt faithfully.”

V. Jehoida’s Faithfulness (v15-16) Faithfulness Rewarded

15 Then Jehoiada became old and full of days, and he died; he was 130 years old at his death. 16 They buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done what is good in Israel and to God and His house.

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house: 12 in: 11 yahweh: 11 jehoiada: 6 king: 5 all: 5 levites: 5 money: 4 chest: 4 joash: 3years: 3 old: 3 when: 3 his: 3 days: 3 judah: 3 israel: 3 repair: 3 so: 3 into: 3 made: 3 brought: 3 work: 3 utensils: 3

CONCLUSION

Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession⁠—Jesus, 2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. 3 For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, in so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. 5 Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later, 6 but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house⁠—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope. 7 Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me, And saw My works for forty years. 10 Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they did not know My ways’; 11 As I swore in My wrath,‘They shall not enter My rest.’”

Hebrews 7:23–28 “The former priests, on the one hand, existed in greater numbers because they were prevented by death from continuing, but Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. For it was fitting for us to have such a high priest, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners and exalted above the heavens; who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.”