HOLY HEZEKIAH BLUES
ALBUM: Amazing Word 'n' Worship
Song location: http://dianadeeosbornesongs.com/2009---2011-Song-List.php
Song Story:
THE MUSIC -- JAZZ SHUFFLE TIMING. In my list of 25 music-related prayers I wrote at the ALIVE Music Festival in 2006 and then prayed daily almost at the gym, and often at the altar, for years --- Item 20 was asking God to give me Jazz song ideas for worship. God did! (It's surely not MY creativity to think up a jazz song that shows God at work in ancient history!) Dedicated to our God of the Ages, 27 January 2011. Re-dedicated with joy upon completion, 23 Aug 2011.
LYRICS
1Hezekiah became king of Judah in the South.
Second Chronicles 29 tells us how
this young king refused to leave God for Assyria.
Led his people to decide to
depend only on LORD God.
Only did what GOD called “Right.”
Opened temples, destroyed idols.
Repaired bad things Ahaz did. Re-
fused to be like his daddy.
Holy Hezekiah loved God with all his might!
2
Only 25 when evil Daddy Ahaz died.
727 B.C. was Hez's time.
Hezekiah listened to God through Isaiah's words.
Made people tear down high places
where they'd worshiped false idols.
Second Chronicles 29 tells how Hez led people to God.
Invited the Israel men to come back to Jerusalem.
Holy Hezekiah loved God with all his might!
CHORUS
WOULD YOU TAKE A STAND FOR GOD?
Worship Him no matter what the consequences were?
God is HOLY. God calls YOU to be holy like Him --
First Peter 1: 15 tells you to.
3
Hezekiah stood up against leaders in the church. Told them, “You SHALL clean your acts and SANCTIFY yourselves.”
Warned that if they did not consecrate themselves to The LORD,
Holy God would turn His back to them -- and they would surely die.
All the people worshiped God!
BOWED THEIR HEADS AND SANG TO GOD.
Gladly brought gifts to LORD GOD,
because their Leader TAUGHT them why:
Holy Hezekiah loved God with all his might!
Spoken: GOD'S WORD CONTINUES through the end of Second Chronicles 31:
“Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what [was] good and right and TRUE before the LORD his God. And in EVERY work that he began in the service of the house of God, in the law and in the commandment, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart. So he prospered.”
BUT -- As the years passed, HEZEKIAH began to drift in his determination from age 25 to be seek to follow the Lord in holiness and doing God's Word.
Hezekiah BEGAN TO TURN TO FOREIGN KINGS for alliances,
TRUSTING HUMAN [wisdom and calls for] DIPLOMACY,
RATHER THAN trusting in GOD.
Spoken: Fourteen years later, the king of Assyria, named Sennacherib, had conquered all the fortified cities of Hezekiah's kingdom of Judah. Then, in Isaiah 36, God's word says that the Assyrian king sent a diplomat WITH a great ARMY to Hezekiah's people at Jerusalem to preach at them to stop believing Hezekiah's faith that the Lord would again save them.
WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
27 CENTURIES AGO? ....
Because [NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU LOVE GOD,]
this WILL happen to you if you do not DETERMINE to stay on your guard.
(Ephesians 6: 10 to end protection) People, and sometimes Satan The Liar (John 8:44, Jesus's description),
will tell you to question our great Lord God's ability or willingness to save you, or to question
will tell you to question our great Lord God's ability or willingness to save you, or to question
God's very existence.
Like the Assyrian king, they may ask, “Has any god really saved anyone?” When this happens (WHEN - not “if”, because it WILL happen), look back to all that God has already done for you. Keep a list of prayer answers to prepare for the questioning times ahead that will come. Just as Hezekiah looked back and remembered all the times the Lord had saved him when Hezekiah chose to follow God's Word in holiness rather than human concepts of self-centeredness and self-reliance that ignores God's loving desire to help you.
The end of this story is really cool. It's in Isaiah 36: 21: After God's enemy has preached and preached that Hezekiah is wrong to trust God, Hezekiah's people, the tribe of Judah, “held their peace and answered him [the Assyrian King] not a word; for the king's [Hezekiah's] commandment was, 'Do not answer him.'”
And Hezekiah's nation tribe of Judah was, with the tribe of Benjamin, one of the only two out of Israel's twelve tribes who showed their TRUST in Lord God.
Like the Assyrian king, they may ask, “Has any god really saved anyone?” When this happens (WHEN - not “if”, because it WILL happen), look back to all that God has already done for you. Keep a list of prayer answers to prepare for the questioning times ahead that will come. Just as Hezekiah looked back and remembered all the times the Lord had saved him when Hezekiah chose to follow God's Word in holiness rather than human concepts of self-centeredness and self-reliance that ignores God's loving desire to help you.
The end of this story is really cool. It's in Isaiah 36: 21: After God's enemy has preached and preached that Hezekiah is wrong to trust God, Hezekiah's people, the tribe of Judah, “held their peace and answered him [the Assyrian King] not a word; for the king's [Hezekiah's] commandment was, 'Do not answer him.'”
And Hezekiah's nation tribe of Judah was, with the tribe of Benjamin, one of the only two out of Israel's twelve tribes who showed their TRUST in Lord God.
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