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2 Chronicles 34:1-35:19
2 Kings 21:24-23:30
2
3
Hosea 4:6 (NKJV)
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
4
 8 years old when he
began to reign
 Reigned 31 years in
Jerusalem. (641-609 BC)
 Josiah did what was
right in the sight of the
Lord – (2 Kings 22:2;
2 Chro. 34:2)
Ezekiel 23:35 (NKJV)
35 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you
have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back,
Therefore you shall bear the penalty Of your
lewdness and your harlotry.’ ”
✦ In his 8th year as king, Josiah began
to seek the Lord – 2 Chro. 34:3
✦ In his 12th year he began to purge
Judah & Jerusalem – 2 Chro. 34:3-7
✦ In his 18th year, Josiah began the
repairs of the house of the Lord. It
was during theses repairs that the
book of law was found (2 Kings
22:8-13; 2 Chro. 34:8,14).
✦ Upon reading it, Josiah rent his
clothes – 2 Kings 22:11,19;
2 Chron. 34:19;
✦ He sent Hilkiah the priest and
others to go and “inquire of the
Lord” because he knew that the
judgment of God was resting on
Judah because his fathers had not
kept the Law!! – 2 Kings 22:12-20;
2 Chro. 34:20-28
✦ After reading the Law of the
Covenant – Josiah made a covenant
with the Lord and demanded that
the people take a stand - 2 Kings
23:3; 2 Chron. 34:30-32
✦ Purged all the land of false worship
– 1 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 23:4-25;
2 Chron. 34:33
✦ Kept the Passover – 2 Kings
23:21-25; 2 Chron. 35:1-19
2 Kings 23:1-25; 2 Chron. 34:29-35:19
✦ Knowledge of TRUTH is essential for True
worship and acceptable service – BUT
ignorance brings destruction – Hos. 4:6
✦ Proper respect for TRUTH brings hearing,
repentance and reform – but unconcern &
indifference brings ignorance &
compromise! – 2 Tim. 4:2-4
✦ There is an epidemic of Biblical illiteracy
today! -
0 17.5 35 52.5 70
62
54
44
34
66+
47-66
28-46
18-27
The Value of The Bible In Everyday Life
(American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012)
Age
0
17.5
35
52.5
70
56
40
56
63 63
13
20
16
9
6All Adults 18-20 29-47 48-66 67 +
Role of Bible In U.S. Society
Too Little Influence Too Much Influence
0 22.5 45 67.5 90
85
51
60
12
50
Own A Bible
Can’t Name 4 Gospels
Can’t Name 5 of 10 Comm
Believe Joan of Arc To Be Noah’s Wife
HS Seniors - Sodom & Gomorrah Husband & Wife
Biblical Illiteracy In US
"Increasingly,
America is
biblically illiterate."
- George Barna
Regarding Biblical illiteracy and discipleship, Christian researcher and author George Barna reports: (2007)
0 17.5 35 52.5 70
60
40
40
70
10
54
Satan Doesn’t Exist
Jesus committed Sin
Bible, Book of Mormon, Koran all Holy
Professed Christians Deny Moral Absolutes
Moral Decisions Based On Bible
Truth Discovered by Reason, Logic, experience
Biblical Illiteracy In US
Regarding Biblical illiteracy and discipleship, Christian researcher and author George Barna reports: (2007)
The Lost Bible
“Bible  reading  has  become  the  religious  equivalent  of  
sound-­‐bite  journalism.  When  people  read  from  the  
Bible  they  typically  open  it,  read  a  brief  passage  
without  much  regard  for  the  context,  and  consider  
the  primary  thought  or  feeling  that  the  passage  
provided.  If  they  are  comfortable  with  it,  they  accept  
it;  otherwise,  they  deem  it  interesting  but  irrelevant  
to  their  life,  and  move  on.  There  is  shockingly  little  
growth  evident  in  people’s  understanding  of  the  
fundamental  themes  of  the  scriptures  and  amazingly  
little  interest  in  deepening  their  knowledge  and  
application  of  biblical  principles  .  .  .  
https://www.barna.org/barna-­‐update/article/12-­‐faithspirituality/325-­‐barna-­‐
studies-­‐the-­‐research-­‐offers-­‐a-­‐year-­‐in-­‐review-­‐perspective#.UinrSRaTy0s  
“The  problem  facing  the  Christian  Church  is  not  
that  people  lack  a  complete  set  of  beliefs;  the  
problem  is  that  they  have  a  full  slate  of  beliefs  in  
mind,  which  they  think  are  consistent  with  
biblical  teachings,  and  they  are  neither  open  to  
being  proven  wrong  nor  to  learning  new  insights.  
Our  research  suggests  that  this  challenge  initially  
emerges  in  the  late  adolescent  or  early  teenage  
years  .  .  .  In  a  culture  driven  by  the  desire  to  
receive  value,  more  Bible  teaching  is  generally  not  
viewed  as  an  exercise  in  providing  such  value.”
https://www.barna.org/barna-­‐update/article/12-­‐faithspirituality/325-­‐barna-­‐
studies-­‐the-­‐research-­‐offers-­‐a-­‐year-­‐in-­‐review-­‐perspective#.UinrSRaTy0s  
✦ We will not believe more than
we know, and we will not live
higher than our beliefs.
✦ The many fronts of Christian
compromise in this generation
can be directly traced to
biblical illiteracy in the pews
and the absence of biblical
preaching and teaching in our
homes and churches.
2 Timothy 4:1–5 (NKJV)
1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus
Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His
appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in
season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with
all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their
own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap
up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears
away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you
be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of
an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
✦ The Home – Deut. 6:7-9; 2 Tim. 1:5; 3:14,15;
Eph. 6:1-4
✦ The Pulpit – Jonah 3:2; Acts 17:1-3; 2 Tim.
4:2-5; 1 Pet 4:11
✦ Sectarianism – Mat. 15:7-9; 2 Tim. 4:3,4; Gal
1:6-9; John 17:20,21
✦ Emotionalism – John 6:44,45; Titus 2:11,12;
Gal. 5:22-24
✦ Sensationalism – Acts 8:9; 1 Cor. 1:18-23; 2:1-5
✦ Unconcern – Mat. 24:12; Mat 6:24; 1 Cor.
16:22; Mark 8:36-38
✦ In Our Homes – Eph 6:1-4
✦ In Our Pulpits & Churches – 2 Tim 4:1-4
✦ As Being Our ONLY STANDARD!! – 2
Tim 3:16,17
✦ Molding & Controlling Our Thoughts &
Lives! - 2 Cor. 10:3-5
✦ Obeying from the heart – Rom 6:16-18
✦ As Being Something For Which We
Hunger & Thirst – Psalm 119:97-104
✦ Josiah sought the Lord as a young man –
✦ When Josiah found the truth he allowed
it to change him – he did not try to
change it!!
✦ Maybe you need to find the word of
God!!
✦ Maybe you have found the truth but
have yet to act upon it – don’t wait any
longer!!
✦ Are you helping others find the truth?
21
Charts by Don McClain
Prepared September 5-7, 2013
Preached September 8, 2013
West 65th Street church of Christ
P.O. Box 190062
Little Rock AR 72219
501-568-1062
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The Lost Bible

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 34:1-35:19 2 Kings 21:24-23:30
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  • 3. 3 Hosea 4:6 (NKJV) 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
  • 4. 4  8 years old when he began to reign  Reigned 31 years in Jerusalem. (641-609 BC)  Josiah did what was right in the sight of the Lord – (2 Kings 22:2; 2 Chro. 34:2) Ezekiel 23:35 (NKJV) 35 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, Therefore you shall bear the penalty Of your lewdness and your harlotry.’ ”
  • 5. ✦ In his 8th year as king, Josiah began to seek the Lord – 2 Chro. 34:3 ✦ In his 12th year he began to purge Judah & Jerusalem – 2 Chro. 34:3-7 ✦ In his 18th year, Josiah began the repairs of the house of the Lord. It was during theses repairs that the book of law was found (2 Kings 22:8-13; 2 Chro. 34:8,14).
  • 6. ✦ Upon reading it, Josiah rent his clothes – 2 Kings 22:11,19; 2 Chron. 34:19; ✦ He sent Hilkiah the priest and others to go and “inquire of the Lord” because he knew that the judgment of God was resting on Judah because his fathers had not kept the Law!! – 2 Kings 22:12-20; 2 Chro. 34:20-28
  • 7. ✦ After reading the Law of the Covenant – Josiah made a covenant with the Lord and demanded that the people take a stand - 2 Kings 23:3; 2 Chron. 34:30-32 ✦ Purged all the land of false worship – 1 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 23:4-25; 2 Chron. 34:33 ✦ Kept the Passover – 2 Kings 23:21-25; 2 Chron. 35:1-19 2 Kings 23:1-25; 2 Chron. 34:29-35:19
  • 8. ✦ Knowledge of TRUTH is essential for True worship and acceptable service – BUT ignorance brings destruction – Hos. 4:6 ✦ Proper respect for TRUTH brings hearing, repentance and reform – but unconcern & indifference brings ignorance & compromise! – 2 Tim. 4:2-4 ✦ There is an epidemic of Biblical illiteracy today! -
  • 9. 0 17.5 35 52.5 70 62 54 44 34 66+ 47-66 28-46 18-27 The Value of The Bible In Everyday Life (American Bible Society, The State of the Bible 2012) Age
  • 10. 0 17.5 35 52.5 70 56 40 56 63 63 13 20 16 9 6All Adults 18-20 29-47 48-66 67 + Role of Bible In U.S. Society Too Little Influence Too Much Influence
  • 11. 0 22.5 45 67.5 90 85 51 60 12 50 Own A Bible Can’t Name 4 Gospels Can’t Name 5 of 10 Comm Believe Joan of Arc To Be Noah’s Wife HS Seniors - Sodom & Gomorrah Husband & Wife Biblical Illiteracy In US "Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate." - George Barna Regarding Biblical illiteracy and discipleship, Christian researcher and author George Barna reports: (2007)
  • 12. 0 17.5 35 52.5 70 60 40 40 70 10 54 Satan Doesn’t Exist Jesus committed Sin Bible, Book of Mormon, Koran all Holy Professed Christians Deny Moral Absolutes Moral Decisions Based On Bible Truth Discovered by Reason, Logic, experience Biblical Illiteracy In US Regarding Biblical illiteracy and discipleship, Christian researcher and author George Barna reports: (2007)
  • 14. “Bible  reading  has  become  the  religious  equivalent  of   sound-­‐bite  journalism.  When  people  read  from  the   Bible  they  typically  open  it,  read  a  brief  passage   without  much  regard  for  the  context,  and  consider   the  primary  thought  or  feeling  that  the  passage   provided.  If  they  are  comfortable  with  it,  they  accept   it;  otherwise,  they  deem  it  interesting  but  irrelevant   to  their  life,  and  move  on.  There  is  shockingly  little   growth  evident  in  people’s  understanding  of  the   fundamental  themes  of  the  scriptures  and  amazingly   little  interest  in  deepening  their  knowledge  and   application  of  biblical  principles  .  .  .   https://www.barna.org/barna-­‐update/article/12-­‐faithspirituality/325-­‐barna-­‐ studies-­‐the-­‐research-­‐offers-­‐a-­‐year-­‐in-­‐review-­‐perspective#.UinrSRaTy0s  
  • 15. “The  problem  facing  the  Christian  Church  is  not   that  people  lack  a  complete  set  of  beliefs;  the   problem  is  that  they  have  a  full  slate  of  beliefs  in   mind,  which  they  think  are  consistent  with   biblical  teachings,  and  they  are  neither  open  to   being  proven  wrong  nor  to  learning  new  insights.   Our  research  suggests  that  this  challenge  initially   emerges  in  the  late  adolescent  or  early  teenage   years  .  .  .  In  a  culture  driven  by  the  desire  to   receive  value,  more  Bible  teaching  is  generally  not   viewed  as  an  exercise  in  providing  such  value.” https://www.barna.org/barna-­‐update/article/12-­‐faithspirituality/325-­‐barna-­‐ studies-­‐the-­‐research-­‐offers-­‐a-­‐year-­‐in-­‐review-­‐perspective#.UinrSRaTy0s  
  • 16. ✦ We will not believe more than we know, and we will not live higher than our beliefs. ✦ The many fronts of Christian compromise in this generation can be directly traced to biblical illiteracy in the pews and the absence of biblical preaching and teaching in our homes and churches.
  • 17. 2 Timothy 4:1–5 (NKJV) 1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
  • 18. ✦ The Home – Deut. 6:7-9; 2 Tim. 1:5; 3:14,15; Eph. 6:1-4 ✦ The Pulpit – Jonah 3:2; Acts 17:1-3; 2 Tim. 4:2-5; 1 Pet 4:11 ✦ Sectarianism – Mat. 15:7-9; 2 Tim. 4:3,4; Gal 1:6-9; John 17:20,21 ✦ Emotionalism – John 6:44,45; Titus 2:11,12; Gal. 5:22-24 ✦ Sensationalism – Acts 8:9; 1 Cor. 1:18-23; 2:1-5 ✦ Unconcern – Mat. 24:12; Mat 6:24; 1 Cor. 16:22; Mark 8:36-38
  • 19. ✦ In Our Homes – Eph 6:1-4 ✦ In Our Pulpits & Churches – 2 Tim 4:1-4 ✦ As Being Our ONLY STANDARD!! – 2 Tim 3:16,17 ✦ Molding & Controlling Our Thoughts & Lives! - 2 Cor. 10:3-5 ✦ Obeying from the heart – Rom 6:16-18 ✦ As Being Something For Which We Hunger & Thirst – Psalm 119:97-104
  • 20. ✦ Josiah sought the Lord as a young man – ✦ When Josiah found the truth he allowed it to change him – he did not try to change it!! ✦ Maybe you need to find the word of God!! ✦ Maybe you have found the truth but have yet to act upon it – don’t wait any longer!! ✦ Are you helping others find the truth?
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  • 22. Charts by Don McClain Prepared September 5-7, 2013 Preached September 8, 2013 West 65th Street church of Christ P.O. Box 190062 Little Rock AR 72219 501-568-1062 Prepared using Keynote Email – donmcclain@sbcglobal.net More Keynote, PPT & Audio Sermons: http://w65stchurchofchrist.org/coc/sermons/ Note – Many of the transition effects used in this presentation will be lost using PPT 2007 Viewer http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx? FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-4615-9951-294eeb832823&displaylang=en