I learnt alot.. I have been wondering why people give an adage which says Uzziah mus die.. But i get it now.. Spirit of uzziah is what they meant. Hello Samuel, yes you are right. The spirit of Uzziah must die. Thank you for spent time here and success to you, Jesus bless you. Like a spoiled child, people are never really satisfied or happy trying to satisfy their own selfish desires. We lead ourselves only to dissatisfaction and unhappiness.
It is only when we let the LORD truly be King in our hearts that we can be satisfied and happy because His ways are so good and right. Like Liked by 1 person. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Margaret March 20, I like it when you post in English. He over emphasized his power. He thought that he could do everything he wanted to do. He assumed that he could be a king and a priest at the same time by burning incense in the temple, which was the job of the priest and not the job of the king. God was displeased of what he did and, because king Uzziah defiled the temple of God, God struck him with leprosy and later on he died. A lesson that we can learn from king Uzziah is that when we reach the apex of our success we must remain humble to the praise and honor of our God , for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
It was because Isaiah at one point in his life depended on king Uzziah. He had a lot of respect on him, rather than the Lord. Sometimes in order for us to get a proper view of who God is , somebody or something in our lives has to die.
Usually, it is something or someone that we hold on so dearly that keep us from seeing God for who He really is. Anyway he kept testifying about this so I presumed that it is okay with him to use his life experience. According to him he met the Lord when his wife died. Illustration: I had the privilege to minister with the girl who had undergone surgery after surgery.
Due to the series surgery she became weak, but praise God when her health failed she saw the Lord. Now she became an active member of our church here in United Arab Emirates. Why did he see the Lord? He saw the Lord because …. The best place to seek the Lord is in His holy temple. Please, do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that you might not be able to meet the Lord in other place aside from the temple.
I want to remind you that Paul met the Lord on the road to Damascus. Other met the Lord while they were in the hospital, in ship, in the beach or anywhere. There is no place in this world where you can not meet God, Matt. The best place that we can meet Him is in the temple church.
And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him. And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. First question we want to ask is who was King Uzziah. Uzziah reigned as king over Judah from to B. Uzziah was anointed king by the people of Judah at the young age of 16, likely when his father King Amaziah was still a prisoner of Israel and the north.
King Uzziah co-reigned with his father for 25 years, from to B. This left Uzziah only 17 years of a sole reign of Judah. Nevertheless, Uzziah was considered a great king in Judah. It only mentions that the Lord afflicted Uzziah with leprosy until the day he died. In verses 2 to 15 the chronicler provides us a substantial list of achievements that made King Uzziah great. The first is listed in verse 2.
Eloth was an important seaport in Edom, and it gave access to trade with the east. It had been used by Solomon but had been lost during the reign of Jehoram over years earlier. In verses 6 through 8 we see more international achievements of Uzziah.
He took on several long-term enemies of Judah, the Philistines, the Arabs, the Meunites, and he defeated them all. These were the sorts of things we remember reading of Solomon.
These were the sorts of things that were said of Solomon in his own generation. He built towers in Jerusalem, at several of the gates entering the city. He built towers in the wilderness, in the foothills, and coastal plains around Jerusalem.
He also constructed many cisterns for water retention for the large herds of livestock that he owned. The towers Uzziah built in Jerusalem and all around Judah provided fortification and protection for royal workers as well as storage.
He had a well-trained army that was highly ordered with capable leaders. This was no simple militia. It was a large army of , who could make war with mighty power. Add to that Uzziah made very significant provisions for his army. In biblical times it was typical for soldiers to provide their own weapons. The writer mentions that Uzziah made shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows and stones for slinging for every soldier. Uzziah also had what the ESV calls engines invented by skillful men to be used on the towers to shoot arrows and great stones.
Sproul would conclude that Uzziah was one of the great kings of Judah. We read in verse 4 that Uzziah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. This is one of two typical assessments of the kings of Judah and Israel from both Chronicles and Kings.
The other typical summary assessment rendered for a king is he did evil in the eyes of the lord. During the divided monarchy after Solomon, there were 20 kings in the northern tribes and 20 kings of Judah. It is sad, but not one of the kings of the northern tribes were assessed as kings who had done what was right in the eyes of the Lord. And of the 20 kings of Judah, only eight were assessed positively, and most of them had qualified positive assessments.
What a sad legacy of leadership for Judah and Israel. That puts Uzziah in a more positive light. But if Uzziah was able to please the lord during his reign, the chronicler provides a greater insight into how that was possible. Look at verse 5. There are two things noteworthy. First, in those years that Uzziah flourished, he set himself to seek God.
Will you say it with me if you do. What is the answer? And that meant that in all his pursuits as king, whether it was internationally or domestically or militarily, Uzziah made it his ambition to please the Lord, and it seems clear that the Lord prospered everything that Uzziah put his hand to.
We need a fresh, new vision of God on His throne, as we listen for His call to us. God still speaks! We will make a difference for that remnant who will listen.
We will make a difference, if not next week or next year, we will for eternity. I, the Lord of sea and sky, I have heard my people cry, All who dwell in dark and sin my hand will save.
I, who made the stars of night, I will make their darkness bright. Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send? I have heard you calling in the night. I will go, Lord, if you lead me. I will hold your people in my heart.
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