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Welcome!. Light the Fire!. Three keys to spiritual transformation. Never make excuses. “I’m too young.”. Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign… 22:1 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father… 2 Chron 34:3
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Light the Fire! Three keys to spiritual transformation
“I’m too young.” • Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign… 22:1 • For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father… 2 Chron 34:3 • …in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places… 2 Chron 34:3
“I’m too young.” • In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan… 22:3
“My parents failed me.” • Manasseh… did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. 21:1, 2 • Amon… did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. 21:19, 20
“Society is too wicked.” • Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are delivered!”—only to go on doing all these abominations? Jer 7:9-10
Total destruction • He burned them outside Jerusalem… 23:4 • …he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust on the graves of the common people. 23:6
Total destruction • …defiled the high places… 23:8 • …the altar at Bethel… he pulled down and burned… 23:15 • …burned human bones on them. 23:20
The Book of the Law • Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” 22:10
The Passover • For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel or of the kings of Judah. 23:22