Hezekiah the King, and the Prophet Isaiah,
Hezekiah and Isaiah's zeal for God's honor inspires a call to revival and prayer for God's intervention.
F.B. Meyer emphasizes the fervent prayers of King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah in response to the blasphemy against God by Sennacherib. Their zeal for God's honor inspires a call for believers to lament the sins that offend God's nature and to seek revival in a world that often disregards Him. Meyer encourages the faithful to pray earnestly for God's intervention, reminding them of His past deliverances and the protection He offers. He highlights that God is our Judge, Lawgiver, and King, who will save those who earnestly seek Him.
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Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah,
prayed and cryed to heaven. 2 Chron. xxxii. 20.
IT was the indignity done to Jehovah that stirred these two holy men to the heart. Not that their lives, and the lives of their people, and the beautiful holy city, were in danger; but that Sennacherib spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man. Oh that we were possessed with a similar zeal for God, so that we might look at sin as it affects Him, and lament over the awful wrongs which are continually being perpetrated against his holy, loving nature! What an argument this would give us in prayer!
This constitutes a special reason why we should plead for a revival of religion throughout our land. Men speak and act so shamelessly, as though God had abdicated his throne, and was hardly to be taken account of. They sin against Him with so high a hand, and treat his laws with so much contumely. Are there no Hezekiahs and Isaiahs who will pray and cry to the God of our fathers to do again the great works He did in their days, and in the old time before?
Then the Lord would save us, and guide us on every side (22). There never was a more conspicuous and glorious deliverance than when the angel of God wrought for Israel against Assyria. The Lord became a place of broad rivers and streams across which the enemy could not pass. As the mother bird settling down on her nest, He covered the city with his outspread wings. And the rich spoils of the foe were left for the beleagured garrison. Pray on, beloved; the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King ; He will save us.
Sermon Outline
- The Indignity Done to Jehovah
- A Call to Revival
- The Power of God's Intervention
- The deliverance of Israel against Assyria
- The protection of God over His people
Key Quotes
“Oh that we were possessed with a similar zeal for God, so that we might look at sin as it affects Him, and lament over the awful wrongs which are continually being perpetrated against his holy, loving nature!” — F.B. Meyer
“The Lord became a place of broad rivers and streams across which the enemy could not pass.” — F.B. Meyer
“Pray on, beloved; the Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King ; He will save us.” — F.B. Meyer
Application Points
- We should pray for a revival of religion in our land, pleading for God to do great works as He did in the past.
- We should look at sin as it affects God, lamenting over the wrongs perpetrated against His holy nature.
- We can trust in God's promise to save and guide us, as He did for Israel against Assyria.