NOTES: Divine Reset, Part 2
Sermon: Divine Reset 2- Restore
Date: Sunday January 21, 2024
Text: 2 Kings 23:1-3
“Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him. And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.” 2 Kings 23:1-3 ESV
Let’s Connect:
The call of God for you is upward.
Philippians 3:13–14 (ESV) …But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
The world and the Church:
D. A. Carson defined our times. “We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
We need the Divine Reset- as Scripture teaches:
Romans 12:9 (ESV) 9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Psalm 34:14 (ESV)
14 Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Divine Reset: Eradicate (what doesn’t belong); Restore (right worship) as we set our hearts in pursuit of God.
Text Explained:
Josiah’s story:
8th year: began to seek the Lord
12th year began to clean house- eradicate: (doesn’t negotiate)
An empty house is a good start, but it remains vulnerable until it’s restored to it’s purpose and function.
““When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first.” As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!””
Luke 11:24-28 ESV
Then in the 18th year he began to restore worship in Judah:
Let’s Relate:
Restoring worship (How?):
James 1:22–25 (ESV): 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
Restore: the high view and firm hold of Scripture and the Spirit.
Our Challenge:
What does your Divine Reset look like?
What all is hindering you from your upward call?
What needs to be restored in your walk and kept in your heart for 2024?