Salvation Miracle

2 Chronicles 32:32-33 English Standard Version

2 Chronicles 32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper part of the tombs of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

Series: Miracles

Greatest miracle: Salvation

Many have children or grandchildren who are not following the Lord.

There’s a Miracle for Your Children’s Salvation

1 Good parents have children go bad.

a. Hezekiah (wife Hephzibah)

i. 2 Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

b. 2 Chronicles 31:20 Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God.

c. Manasseh

d. 2 Chronicles 33:2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lorddrove out before the people of Israel.

e. 2 Chronicles 33:3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

f. 2 Chronicles 33:4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”

g. 2 Chronicles 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

h. 2 Chronicles 33:6 And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

i. 2 Chronicles 33:7 And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,

j. 2 Chronicles 33:8 and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses.”

k. 2 Chronicles 33:9 Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

2 God has no grandchildren, only children.

a. Manasseh saw or heard of the miracles his father experienced.

b. 2 Chronicles 29:3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.

c. 2 Chronicles 32:22 So the Lordsaved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side.

d. 2 Chronicles 32:24 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the Lord, and he answered him and gave him a sign.

3 No one is too far gonefor God.

a. 2 Chronicles 33:10 The Lordspoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.

b. 2 Chronicles 33:11 Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

c. 2 Chronicles 33:12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

d. 2 Chronicles 33:13 He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lordwas God.

e. 2 Chronicles 33:15 And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.

f. 2 Chronicles 33:16 He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.

Isaiah 49:25 For thus says the Lord: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.