Reflections from a young father listening to the Sermon on the Mount
. . . It was a warm day. Sitting with hundreds of people from the surrounding villages we strained to hear the voice of Jesus. He was talking clearly to his twelve key disciples, but we could hear it too!
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Coupled with parallel texts on Ahaz’s life (Isaiah 7-8 and 2 Chronicles 28), it is not hard to enumerate all the ways this king offended God. Take a moment to review the texts and make a list of the various ways that Ahaz deviated from the prescribed instructions of God. Little wonder that verse 2 says that he was not at all like King David.
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