September 18st
How to solve the issue of sin once and for all!
With a Totally New Nature!
By Riqui Ricón*
Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your indignation toward us. (Psalm
85:4, KJV)
It is very interesting to note that the Hebrew
word shub, translated here as “restore us,” is a primary root that literally means
“to turn back, again” (as someone
who has already tried before).
Turn us again, O God, our salvation, and cause Your indignation toward
us to cease. (Psalm 85:4, KJV
— rendering similar to RV2000)
Now, restore us once more, O God of our salvation; put away Your anger from us again. (Psalm 85:4, NIV)
God and our Savior,
save us once again now and receive
us back. (Psalm
85:4, paraphrase similar to PDT)
The fact that this plea is not a
personal promise “I will turn back / repent” but rather an appeal to God to act — to
cease His anger toward us — is highly significant and representative of the
plan of redemption and of God’s grace toward lost humanity.
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence,
and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. (Psalm 51:10–12, NIV)
A thousand years before Christ, King David
confessed before God that he had committed the sins of adultery and murder.
Repentant, he offered the prayer recorded in Psalm 51, and again we see that the plea is
not only for forgiveness
of sins but for the urgent need of divine intervention to effect a radical change in human nature: “Create
in me, O God, a clean heart, and make me a totally new spirit, able to believe
You, believing Your Word. I want to live forever in Your Presence. Never take
Your Holy Spirit from me!”
And do not enter
into judgment with Your servant; for in Your sight
no man living is righteous.
(Psalm 143:2, KJV)
David, by the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, came to understand that the sacrificial system alone was not sufficient to atone for guilt.
He realized that mere forgiveness of sins was not enough because human
nature had been corrupted by sin — by unbelief toward God’s Word.
God is mighty and awesome; He puts
an end to the proud. Who can count His armies?
Who can number
His messengers? How then can a mortal
be righteous before God? Can
one who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon shines not; the stars
are not pure in His sight; how much less man, who is a worm, and the son of
man, who is a maggot? (Job 25:2–6, NIV)
Human beings cannot and will never be able
to resolve the problem of sin (unbelief toward God’s Word) and the total breakdown of communion with God that unbelief produces.
Knowing that a man is not justified
by the works of the law, but by the
faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ,
that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law; for by
the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. (Galatians 2:16–17, KJV)
Thus, divine intervention in human nature is not just necessary — it is indispensable.
Lord, You have been favorable to
Your land; You have brought back the captivity of Jacob. You have forgiven the
iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin. Selah. You have taken
away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your
anger. Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your indignation toward us to
cease. (Psalm 85:1–4, 6–7, BAD)
As you can see, this teaching is consistent throughout the Bible — God’s
Word does not lie: human beings cannot save themselves. Forgiveness and
purification are not enough; you need a New Nature that is incorruptible — and
only God can do that.
For the love of Christ controls us,
because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for
all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them
and rose again.
Therefore, from now on we do
not know anyone according to the flesh: even though we have known Christ
according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no more.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things
have become new. All
these things are from God, who
reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:14–18a, NIV)
But how is the problem
of sin (unbelief toward God’s Word) finally
resolved?
Through the New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus.
And He took the cup, and gave
thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
‘Drink from it, all of you.
For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the
remission of sins.’ (Matthew 26:27–28, KJV)
What did Jesus mean by this? He pointed to God’s Word and to the Father’s
will — He spoke and acted according to what He heard from the Father.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—not according to
the covenant that I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to
bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in My covenant, and
I regarded them not, saith the Lord. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it
in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they
shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least to the greatest.
For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
(Jeremiah 31:31–34, KJV)
So, the New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus
makes you that totally
NEW person.
The Covenant in the Blood of Jesus makes you a Born-Again Child of God!
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of
God which liveth and abideth for ever. (1 Peter 1:23, KJV)
You are no longer that sinful man (or woman).
Now you are exactly who the
Bible — God’s Word — says you are:
All things I can do through
Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:13, KJV)
In
all these things
we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. (Romans 8:37, KJV)
For God so loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish but have eternal
life. For God sent not His Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. (John
3:16–17, KJV)
God loves you so much that He preferred
to give His own Son rather than lose
you!
By His death,
Jesus paid for all your sins; by His resurrection He opened the way to Eternal Life — the life only
Children of God can experience!
See what great love the Father
hath bestowed upon us, that we should be
called the children of God: and such we are. (1 John 3:1, KJV)
The old nature
and the problem
of sin are completely resolved.
For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me free from the
law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2,
KJV)
Now, as a Born-Again Child
of God, you are free from the law of sin and death
to live the full and victorious life God your Father always intended for you.
“The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that
they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John
10:10, KJV)
Let’s pray out
loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, today I want to
thank You for so great a love that, while I was dead in trespasses and sins, You gave me life together
with Christ Jesus. Thank You for having transferred me from darkness
to Your marvelous
light. Thank You for undoing my old nature
sold to sin and for giving me a totally New Life: Eternal Life!
The Life of a
Born-Again Child of God! Lord, today
I put all my trust in Your Word. I am in Christ! Therefore I am a new creature;
the old things have passed away — behold, ALL things are made new. So in Your name,
Jesus, I do one thing: forgetting those things which are behind,
and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for You, Jesus,
are with me.
Because I have placed my love in You, You
will also deliver me; You will lift me up, for I have known Your name. I will
call upon You, and You will answer me; You will be with me in the time of
trouble; You will deliver me and glorify me. You will satisfy me with
long life and show me Your salvation. So, Abba! Father! I am Yours, and in Christ Jesus I
have already overcome, for greater are You, Holy Spirit, who lives in me and
with me, than he who is in the world. Father, every one of Your Promises is in
me, yes and amen! I submit to You, my God and Father; I submit to Your Word; I resist Satan and he must flee
from my life. I do not receive doubt, nor fear, nor sickness, nor poverty, nor
distress, nor depression. I am healthy! I am free! I am prosperous! I am
joyful! In the name of Jesus. Amen.
By Riqui Ricón*
Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your indignation toward us. (Psalm
85:4, KJV)
It is very interesting to note that the Hebrew
word shub, translated here as “restore us,” is a primary root that literally means
“to turn back, again” (as someone
who has already tried before).
Turn us again, O God, our salvation, and cause Your indignation toward
us to cease. (Psalm 85:4, KJV
— rendering similar to RV2000)
Now, restore us once more, O God of our salvation; put away Your anger from us again. (Psalm 85:4, NIV)
God and our Savior,
save us once again now and receive
us back. (Psalm
85:4, paraphrase similar to PDT)
The fact that this plea is not a
personal promise “I will turn back / repent” but rather an appeal to God to act — to
cease His anger toward us — is highly significant and representative of the
plan of redemption and of God’s grace toward lost humanity.
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence,
and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. (Psalm 51:10–12, NIV)
A thousand years before Christ, King David
confessed before God that he had committed the sins of adultery and murder.
Repentant, he offered the prayer recorded in Psalm 51, and again we see that the plea is
not only for forgiveness
of sins but for the urgent need of divine intervention to effect a radical change in human nature: “Create
in me, O God, a clean heart, and make me a totally new spirit, able to believe
You, believing Your Word. I want to live forever in Your Presence. Never take
Your Holy Spirit from me!”
And do not enter
into judgment with Your servant; for in Your sight
no man living is righteous.
(Psalm 143:2, KJV)
David, by the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, came to understand that the sacrificial system alone was not sufficient to atone for guilt.
He realized that mere forgiveness of sins was not enough because human
nature had been corrupted by sin — by unbelief toward God’s Word.
God is mighty and awesome; He puts
an end to the proud. Who can count His armies?
Who can number
His messengers? How then can a mortal
be righteous before God? Can
one who is born of woman be pure? Behold, even the moon shines not; the stars
are not pure in His sight; how much less man, who is a worm, and the son of
man, who is a maggot? (Job 25:2–6, NIV)
Human beings cannot and will never be able
to resolve the problem of sin (unbelief toward God’s Word) and the total breakdown of communion with God that unbelief produces.
Knowing that a man is not justified
by the works of the law, but by the
faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ,
that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law; for by
the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. (Galatians 2:16–17, KJV)
Thus, divine intervention in human nature is not just necessary — it is indispensable.
Lord, You have been favorable to
Your land; You have brought back the captivity of Jacob. You have forgiven the
iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin. Selah. You have taken
away all Your wrath; You have turned from the fierceness of Your
anger. Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your indignation toward us to
cease. (Psalm 85:1–4, 6–7, BAD)
As you can see, this teaching is consistent throughout the Bible — God’s
Word does not lie: human beings cannot save themselves. Forgiveness and
purification are not enough; you need a New Nature that is incorruptible — and
only God can do that.
For the love of Christ controls us,
because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and He died for
all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them
and rose again.
Therefore, from now on we do
not know anyone according to the flesh: even though we have known Christ
according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no more.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things
have become new. All
these things are from God, who
reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:14–18a, NIV)
But how is the problem
of sin (unbelief toward God’s Word) finally
resolved?
Through the New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus.
And He took the cup, and gave
thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
‘Drink from it, all of you.
For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the
remission of sins.’ (Matthew 26:27–28, KJV)
What did Jesus mean by this? He pointed to God’s Word and to the Father’s
will — He spoke and acted according to what He heard from the Father.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—not according to
the covenant that I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to
bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in My covenant, and
I regarded them not, saith the Lord. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it
in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they
shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least to the greatest.
For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
(Jeremiah 31:31–34, KJV)
So, the New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus
makes you that totally
NEW person.
The Covenant in the Blood of Jesus makes you a Born-Again Child of God!
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of
God which liveth and abideth for ever. (1 Peter 1:23, KJV)
You are no longer that sinful man (or woman).
Now you are exactly who the
Bible — God’s Word — says you are:
All things I can do through
Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:13, KJV)
In
all these things
we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. (Romans 8:37, KJV)
For God so loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish but have eternal
life. For God sent not His Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. (John
3:16–17, KJV)
God loves you so much that He preferred
to give His own Son rather than lose
you!
By His death,
Jesus paid for all your sins; by His resurrection He opened the way to Eternal Life — the life only
Children of God can experience!
See what great love the Father
hath bestowed upon us, that we should be
called the children of God: and such we are. (1 John 3:1, KJV)
The old nature
and the problem
of sin are completely resolved.
For the law of the
Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me free from the
law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2,
KJV)
Now, as a Born-Again Child
of God, you are free from the law of sin and death
to live the full and victorious life God your Father always intended for you.
“The thief cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that
they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” (John
10:10, KJV)
Let’s pray out
loud:
Beloved Heavenly Father, today I want to
thank You for so great a love that, while I was dead in trespasses and sins, You gave me life together
with Christ Jesus. Thank You for having transferred me from darkness
to Your marvelous
light. Thank You for undoing my old nature
sold to sin and for giving me a totally New Life: Eternal Life!
The Life of a
Born-Again Child of God! Lord, today
I put all my trust in Your Word. I am in Christ! Therefore I am a new creature;
the old things have passed away — behold, ALL things are made new. So in Your name,
Jesus, I do one thing: forgetting those things which are behind,
and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for You, Jesus,
are with me.
Because I have placed my love in You, You
will also deliver me; You will lift me up, for I have known Your name. I will
call upon You, and You will answer me; You will be with me in the time of
trouble; You will deliver me and glorify me. You will satisfy me with
long life and show me Your salvation. So, Abba! Father! I am Yours, and in Christ Jesus I
have already overcome, for greater are You, Holy Spirit, who lives in me and
with me, than he who is in the world. Father, every one of Your Promises is in
me, yes and amen! I submit to You, my God and Father; I submit to Your Word; I resist Satan and he must flee
from my life. I do not receive doubt, nor fear, nor sickness, nor poverty, nor
distress, nor depression. I am healthy! I am free! I am prosperous! I am
joyful! In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Important Note:
How do I become a child of God? How can I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer out loud,
putting all your attention and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of God. That You came
into this world, born of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. That is why today I say to You: I do accept. I do accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I do accept Your precious blood,
shed to the last drop out of love for me!
I open my heart and invite You to come in, because I want You, Lord Jesus, from this day forward
and forever, to be
my only and sufficient Savior,
my God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this simple prayer and profession of
faith I have passed from death to Life; I have been transferred from darkness
into Your marvelous Light. Today I am Born Again!
God, now I am Your child! Now You are my
Father! I will never be alone
again! I will never live defeated
again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
How do I become a child of God? How can I establish a relationship with the
Almighty?
Just say the following prayer out loud,
putting all your attention and heart into what you are saying to God:
Lord Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of God. That You came
into this world, born of the virgin Mary, to pay for all my sins, and I have
been a sinner. That is why today I say to You: I do accept. I do accept Your
sacrifice on the cross! I do accept Your precious blood,
shed to the last drop out of love for me!
I open my heart and invite You to come in, because I want You, Lord Jesus, from this day forward
and forever, to be
my only and sufficient Savior,
my God, my King, and my Lord.
Thank You, Almighty God, because with this simple prayer and profession of
faith I have passed from death to Life; I have been transferred from darkness
into Your marvelous Light. Today I am Born Again!
God, now I am Your child! Now You are my
Father! I will never be alone
again! I will never live defeated
again. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Three Recommendations:
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible is the Word of God, so get a Bible
and start reading
and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The Bible in
One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year
(palabradehonor.org). You will notice that the program is set up so you can
print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based on the Good News, which are the Gospel of Jesus
Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
What just happened by you recognizing Jesus Christ as the Lord and
Savior of your life, according
to God's Word, is that you have been Born Again. No longer
as an ordinary human being, subject to the law of sin and death, but now as a
legitimate and authentic Child of God, Born Again, exactly like Jesus Christ, who is now your Older Brother. Therefore,
I give you these three, very important, recommendations:
1.
Pray. Praying is talking with God. So, find a quiet
place where you can begin talking to Him about everything. Do it out loud, and you will notice
how God always responds to your heart.
2.
Read and meditate
on the Word of God. The Bible is the Word of God, so get a Bible
and start reading
and meditating on it. How do you begin? It’s very simple. Depending on the day,
look up the reading program “The Bible in
One Year” and do the corresponding readings. You can get this program at: Through The Bible In One Year
(palabradehonor.org). You will notice that the program is set up so you can
print it as a booklet.
3.
In prayer with God, your Father, look for and join a
Christian church or congregation where the Word of God is taught based on the Good News, which are the Gospel of Jesus
Christ.
Ricardo C. Peredo Jaime © 2020
Reading and Meditation on the Word of God
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have
read the entire Bible.
September 18 John 18:38b–19:16 / 2 Chronicles 29 / Psalm 85
Do these daily readings, and by the end of one year you will have
read the entire Bible.
September 18 John 18:38b–19:16 / 2 Chronicles 29 / Psalm 85
John
18.38bAnd when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews,
and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
39 But
ye have a custom, that I should release
unto you one at the passover:
will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
40 Then cried they all again, saying,
Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a
robber.
19 Then Pilate therefore
took Jesus, and scourged him.
2 And the soldiers platted
a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they
put on him a purple robe,
3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote
him with their
hands.
4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I
find no fault in him.
5 Then came Jesus forth,
wearing the crown of thorns,
and the purple
robe.
And Pilate saith unto them, Behold
the man!
6 When the chief priests
therefore and officers
saw him, they cried out, saying,
Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him:
for I find no fault in him.
7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of
God.
8 When Pilate
therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
9 And went again into the
judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence
art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest
thou not unto me? knowest
thou not that I have power to
crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were
given thee from above:
therefore he that delivered
me unto thee hath the greater sin.
12 And
from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend:
whosoever maketh himself a
king speaketh against Caesar.
13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying,
he brought Jesus forth, and sat
down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement,
but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour:
and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your
King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
16 Then delivered he him therefore
unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
18.38bAnd when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews,
and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.
39 But
ye have a custom, that I should release
unto you one at the passover:
will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
40 Then cried they all again, saying,
Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a
robber.
19 Then Pilate therefore
took Jesus, and scourged him.
2 And the soldiers platted
a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they
put on him a purple robe,
3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote
him with their
hands.
4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I
find no fault in him.
5 Then came Jesus forth,
wearing the crown of thorns,
and the purple
robe.
And Pilate saith unto them, Behold
the man!
6 When the chief priests
therefore and officers
saw him, they cried out, saying,
Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him:
for I find no fault in him.
7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of
God.
8 When Pilate
therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
9 And went again into the
judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence
art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
10 Then saith Pilate unto him, Speakest
thou not unto me? knowest
thou not that I have power to
crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
11 Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were
given thee from above:
therefore he that delivered
me unto thee hath the greater sin.
12 And
from thenceforth Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend:
whosoever maketh himself a
king speaketh against Caesar.
13 When Pilate therefore heard that saying,
he brought Jesus forth, and sat
down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement,
but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.
14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour:
and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your
King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
16 Then delivered he him therefore
unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
2 Chronicles
29 Hezekiah began
to reign when he was five and twenty
years old, and he
reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah,
the daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD,
according to all that
David his father had done.
3 He
in the first year of his reign,
in the first month, opened
the doors of the
house of the LORD, and
repaired them.
4 And he brought in the priests
and the Levites, and gathered
them together into the east
street,
5 And said unto them,
Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify
now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy
place.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of
the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away
their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned
their backs.
7 Also
they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense
nor offered burnt
offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
8 Wherefore the
wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and
Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble,
to astonishment, and to hissing,
as ye see with your eyes.
9 For, lo, our fathers
have fallen by the sword,
and our sons and our daughters
and our wives are in captivity for this.
10 Now it is in mine
heart to make a covenant
with the LORD God of Israel,
that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve
him, and that ye should
minister unto him, and burn incense.
12 Then
the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of
the sons of the Kohathites: and of
the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel:
and of the sons of Asaph;
Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14 And of the sons of Heman;
Jehiel, and Shimei:
and of the sons of Jeduthun;
Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to
the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the
house of the LORD.
16 And the priests went into
the inner part of the house of the
LORD,
to cleanse it, and brought out
all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of
the house of the LORD. And the
Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
17 Now
they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the
porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end.
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king,
and said, We have cleansed
all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels
thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
19 Moreover all the
vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared
and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
20 Then Hezekiah
the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city,
and went up to the house of the LORD.
21 And
they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the
kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on
the altar of the LORD.
22 So they killed
the bullocks, and the priests
received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when
they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed
also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before
the king and the congregation;
and they laid their hands upon them:
24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an
atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering
should be made for all Israel.
25 And he set the
Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals,
with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of
Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests
with the trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah
commanded to offer the burnt
offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the
song of the LORD began also with the
trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
28 And all the
congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded:
and all this continued until
the burnt offering
was finished.
29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were
present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
30 Moreover Hezekiah
the king and the princes
commanded the Levites
to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises
with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
31 Then Hezekiah
answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and
bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and
as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
32 And
the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks,
an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs:
all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
33 And the consecrated things
were six hundred
oxen and three thousand
sheep.
34 But
the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites
did help them,
till the work was
ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites
were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
35 And
also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace
offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service
of the house of the LORD was set in order.
36 And Hezekiah
rejoiced, and all the people,
that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done
suddenly.
Psalm 85
85 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the
captivity of Jacob.
2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people,
thou hast covered
all their sin.
Selah.
3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned
thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
6 Wilt thou not revive
us again: that thy people
may rejoice in thee?
7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak:
for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let
them not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh
them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our
land.
10 Mercy and truth are met together;
righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from
heaven.
12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her
increase.
13 Righteousness shall
go before him; and shall
set us in the way of his steps.
29 Hezekiah began
to reign when he was five and twenty
years old, and he
reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah,
the daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD,
according to all that
David his father had done.
3 He
in the first year of his reign,
in the first month, opened
the doors of the
house of the LORD, and
repaired them.
4 And he brought in the priests
and the Levites, and gathered
them together into the east
street,
5 And said unto them,
Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify
now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy
place.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of
the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away
their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned
their backs.
7 Also
they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense
nor offered burnt
offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
8 Wherefore the
wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and
Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble,
to astonishment, and to hissing,
as ye see with your eyes.
9 For, lo, our fathers
have fallen by the sword,
and our sons and our daughters
and our wives are in captivity for this.
10 Now it is in mine
heart to make a covenant
with the LORD God of Israel,
that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve
him, and that ye should
minister unto him, and burn incense.
12 Then
the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of
the sons of the Kohathites: and of
the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel:
and of the sons of Asaph;
Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14 And of the sons of Heman;
Jehiel, and Shimei:
and of the sons of Jeduthun;
Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to
the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the
house of the LORD.
16 And the priests went into
the inner part of the house of the
LORD,
to cleanse it, and brought out
all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of
the house of the LORD. And the
Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
17 Now
they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the
porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month
they made an end.
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king,
and said, We have cleansed
all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels
thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
19 Moreover all the
vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared
and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
20 Then Hezekiah
the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city,
and went up to the house of the LORD.
21 And
they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the
kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on
the altar of the LORD.
22 So they killed
the bullocks, and the priests
received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when
they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed
also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before
the king and the congregation;
and they laid their hands upon them:
24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an
atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering
should be made for all Israel.
25 And he set the
Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals,
with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of
Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests
with the trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah
commanded to offer the burnt
offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the
song of the LORD began also with the
trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
28 And all the
congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded:
and all this continued until
the burnt offering
was finished.
29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were
present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
30 Moreover Hezekiah
the king and the princes
commanded the Levites
to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises
with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
31 Then Hezekiah
answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and
bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and
as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
32 And
the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks,
an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs:
all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.
33 And the consecrated things
were six hundred
oxen and three thousand
sheep.
34 But
the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites
did help them,
till the work was
ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites
were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
35 And
also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace
offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service
of the house of the LORD was set in order.
36 And Hezekiah
rejoiced, and all the people,
that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done
suddenly.
Psalm 85
85 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the
captivity of Jacob.
2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people,
thou hast covered
all their sin.
Selah.
3 Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned
thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
6 Wilt thou not revive
us again: that thy people
may rejoice in thee?
7 Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak:
for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let
them not turn again to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is nigh
them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our
land.
10 Mercy and truth are met together;
righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from
heaven.
12 Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her
increase.
13 Righteousness shall
go before him; and shall
set us in the way of his steps.
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