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Grace through a right relationship with Jesus Christ
Introduction
The Sin
• He followed practices of the nations (Deut 18:9).
• He rebuilt shrines destroyed by Hezekiah (2 Kgs 18:3–4).
• He built altars to Baal (Jer 11:13).
• He placed image of Asherah in the temple (Deut 16:21).
• He worshiped the host of heaven (Deut 4:19; 17:3; Jer 8:2; 19:13; Zeph 1:5).
• He burned his son as an offering (Deut 12:31; 18:10; 2 Kgs 17:17; 23:10; Jer 7:31; 32:35).
• He practiced illicit forms of divination: soothsaying (Isa 2:6), consulting false prophets (Jer 14:14; Ezek 12:24; 13:6, 9, 23; 21:26, 28), and necromancy
Not only did Manasseh violate the prescribed manner of worship in Deuteronomy, but he led Judah to sin in the process and kindled the anger of God against the nation.
Manasseh stands out as a ruler of the worst kind.
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He persecuted all the prophets who spoke for God.
There was blood everywhere from the atrocities he commited including the deaths of Isaiah and Micah.
There is an old Jewish tradition that Isaiah was put to death at this time, having been sawn asunder in the trunk of a tree.
Manasseh has been called the “Nero of Palestine.”
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Judgement Comes
This would not have been a pretty site.
They would have put a hook through his lips or jaw and bound him in chains.
We see all the horrible things that King Manasseh did and think to ourselves that he deserved it all for the atrocities he committed.
What do we deserve?
Grace Extended
Why do we wait until we are at the end of our ropes before we reach out to God?
Righteousness Revealed
King Manasseh was returned to his kingdom.
How did this happen?
Only a miracle of God.
He:
built the outer wall of the city of David and heightened it considerably.
also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple
removed all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem
built the altar of the Lord and offered fellowship and thank offerings on it.
told Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
Conclusion:
God can forgive any sin and turn any heart.
There is no one beyond redemption.
Is there a Manasseh in your life.
Someone who is the embodiment of evil.
Someone who seems to far away from God. Someone who is a thorn in your side.
Dark is the stain that we cannot hide;
What can we do to wash it away?
Look!
There is flowing a crimson tide,
Brighter than snow you may be today.
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that will pardon and cleanse within;
Grace, grace, God’s grace,
Grace that is greater than all our sin!
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