Yeargin Your Heart Determines your Direction

Your Heart Determines Your Direction -

God is looking for a man to set up

God is looking for someone to establish

His requirements are in the realms of the heart

Samuel, David, Mary and Jesus; found favor with God

Not a respecter of persons

Matthew 22:14 KJV 1900

For many are called, but few are chosen.

Two Servants

Eliakim- God is setting up

Type of Christ

Throne (vs 23)

The key of the house of David (vs 22)

Government (vs 21)

Manager of Hezekiah’s household

Shebna- Jehova draw near (Sehbanyahu)

Trust in chariots (vs 18)

Loss and demotion (vs 19)

What was the difference?

I) A Servant's Calling (vs 20)

Eliakim desired to serve not to be served

Shebna desired to be serve not to serve

“What hast thou here.” (vs 16)

Is my motivation to serve or to be served?

Shebna desired to be served; vs 16

“An habitation for himself in a rock”

He had a tomb and house fit for a king

“I will call my servant”

Better to be a servant of God than a ruler to self

“The son of Hilkiah”

God honors humble service

He and his father are honored

It is honorable to be a servant of God

Shebnah has no lineage or honor bestowed by the prophet

Those that are diligent in doing the duty of a low sphere stand fairest for preferment in God’s books

That Eliakim should be put into Shebna’s place of lord-chamberlain of the household, lord-treasurer, and prime-minister of state

Application:

What is your motivation for service; as long as I am doing something I am okay; are you just filling a spot?

Anybody can teach a sunday school class for a couple months; the heart will come out and God knows; nursery,

Eliakim was not serving King Hezekiah he was God’s Servant; and through the prophet Isaiah God recognized that

Colossians 3:23 KJV 1900

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Colossians 3:24 KJV 1900

Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Obligated to do it

God is not unrighteous to forget our labor of love

At the end of the day “my servant” not serving Hezekiah I am serving God

What the Judgement Seat of Christ determines

1 Corinthians 3:13 KJV 1900

Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

Bad:

Slothful Servants-

No one else to do it so I guess I will

Obligated to do it

I can’t serve Im too young, I cant serve Im too old, I cant serve Im millenial and I am too busy (needless to say I dont have a job)

Im just doing it because the pastor asked me

im just doing it because my wife asked me

Servants that think themselves kings; On the other extreme;

What you are replacing me? How dare you!

what i have to involve other people in my ministry i do not like! I quit

What he or she is going to be in charge? I feel the Spirit’s leading somewhere else

Good:

Colossians 3:23 KJV 1900

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Stump Sermon on a camping trip- First Sermon I ever preached

Colossians 3:24 KJV 1900

Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

fasted, prayed, for weeks I studied and prayed

God

James Dalton- Became a Pastor and Pastored for two years; the Lord’s timing is the Lord’s blessing; example of humble service to Jesus Christ

I want to bring myself so low at the foot of the cross that God can do nothing but use me

Remember when you were so excited to serve the King by diapering that baby or standing at the door and greeting people

not emotionalism but I wonder have we lost one of our highest callings?

I like how the children take up our offering, I like how the teens help in our masters club kids ministry or back in the sound booth; you are never too young to serve Jesus Christ

II) A Father's Commitment (vs 21)

Shebna was not committed to the people; “whom hast thou here” (vs 16)

Thought that the privileges of power and strength were for himself

Eliakim took the responsibility

God is willing to give his strengths to the man that will use them for him

Thy robe- spoke of his office; as in a judges robes; badge of honor

Thy girdle- spoke of the trust and wealth committed; it was on the girdle where the purse was carried and also where the sword would be attached- his strength; badge of power

Thy government

Great men are the ones that say no problem it was never mine in the first place; it’s not mine it is God’s! You can replace me;

Those that are called to places of trust and power should seek unto God for grace to enable them to do the duty of their places

He shall be a father

His heart is the same as God’s; he is a father to a son

A friend, a counselor

teach them with wisdom, rule them with love, and correct what is amiss with tenderness, to protect them and provide for them, and be solicitous about them as a man is for his own children and family

He is no hireling

Shebna was not committed to the people; “whom hast thou here” (vs 16)

There was no care or desire for those he was governing over

God is concerned with who we invest our talents into

Who am I investing in?

Pastor Bez- you need three relationships

God is concerned in our relationship to those around us

1 Timothy 5:1–2 KJV 1900

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

God is looking to commit his government and work to those who have the commitment of a father or mother to those God has around them.

Application: A good father understands he builds and guides the relationship, he takes ownership; they are his children and family

Bad:

sad that people come to church and do not love the brethren befriend them, and invest in them

If you love the lord and love people it will take care of so much

It will be easy to leave; I have no friends there

What are the names of those in your ministry? ; I don’t know; who is in your sunday school class; I don’t know

who are you praying for in your church; no one

So foreign to the first church; they invested in one another

Also applies to the lost community; what if Ezra was sitting there ; wouldn’t I want someone to care for him and give him the gospel

this idea of come in

All my friends have passed away: I'm sure glad Bruce Day didn’t let that stop him from investing in a young man

I have had two strokes; I'm sure glad an old preacher did not let that stop him from teaching the bible and investing in a young man

No one is friendly at church; sometimes that is because your version of friendly is the world that parties and carries on

Paul had a special relationship with Timothy; his son in the faith

Good: Some of the greatest gifts Jesus Christ has given me were christian friends; brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers in Christ

Ernest Densen- He loved Huisache and the people at Huisache; he would ask me about visitors, about couples in the church and how they were doing

Will Santiago- How is so and so, what happened with this young man;

Dave Miller- first day I came; he didn’t know me from Adam; be part of our college and career group meeting, come on over

Pastor Bez- lonely; asking why; hear a knock at the door; hey I just cooked up some beans

Josh Cormican and Urijah go and pray with new convert Phillip

III) A Son's Commission (vs 22-24)

His Command (vs 22)

Authority and Responsibility- Power

Open and shut; he has control of who does and who does not have access

Greater sphere of influence

He became the mediator

Being over the house, and having the key delivered to him, as the seals are to the lord-keeper, he shall open and none shall shut, shut and none shall open.

He had access to the house of the precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices; and to the house of the armour and the treasures (ch. 39:2), and disposed of the stores there as he thought fit for the public service.

He put whom he pleased into the inferior offices and turned out whom he pleased.

Our Lord Jesus describes his own power as Mediator by an allusion to this (), that he has the key of David, wherewith he opens and no man shuts, he shuts and no man opens.

His power in the kingdom of heaven, and in the ordering of all the affairs of that kingdom, is absolute, irresistible, and uncontrollable.

We have access to prayer

We have access to the gospel

We have access to the Word

His Care (vs 23-24)

those under him would be benefitted as he gave the father the glory

His dependency was not his strength it was not his house, his chariot, it was the fact that he was the Father’s he was God’s servant, and that any all glory was to be given back to his father