I mean 1100 K. F. A X O the dish the sentence the poet Litton cooperated. With her quote the sentence from you or I said it rude groove the. Schumann she thought of. The quote We did. OK I got some questions for you how much sin can one commit before God decides that salvation is no longer available can you ever reach a point in your life when it's just too late to turn from your evil ways can you really turn from your sin on your deathbed and be saved. Welcome to through the viable we're studying a passage that will shed light on those curious questions our teacher Dr J. Vernon McGee will share with us about the life of monastic who becomes for us an illustration for all of those questions so if you can open your copy of God's word to 2nd Chronicles chapter 33 before we begin though let me read a great letter to you it's encouraging It's from Ellen and Dan your fellow Bible bus passengers and they write since April 14th 2006 we have been faithful riders on the Bible bus All right we wanted to send you a photo of us for quite some time and we saw this bus cut out and said this might work and then by the way they included a great picture for the Bible bus photo album each day each broadcast each trip on the Bible bus brings us closer to our Lord Jesus our 3rd trip on this special bus has taken us down familiar roads but with new sights to be hold the new truths to understand we so love J. 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Well thanks so much for your encouragement Ellen and Dan that was really a wonderful letter and will be sure to have your seat on the Bible bus until Jesus comes for us now let's go to the Lord in prayer Heavenly Father your mercies they're new every morning and they're abundant towards us your children and we would pray that as we study your word today that we be filled in overflowing with your wisdom and grace in Jesus name Amen now years through the Bible with Dr J. Vernon McGee. Now today friends we come to 2nd Chronicles the 33rd shot. And we might think we live in an evil day but we are now going to look at a day that was comparable to the day we're living in not last time we saw a reign of Hezekiah and the revival it took place under Hezekiah and it was said of him that he was the best king after day that he was more like David than any other king and that he was the outstanding one now after him and we saw that as a cod died and then his son my mass came to the throne and I read now in chapter 33 Verse one Manasseh was 12 years so when he began to rain he rain this day and 5 years in Jerusalem but did that which was evil in the side of the law like that into the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out for the children of this rail now all of us at least many of us today when we read the last time that this man has a cause. Of death at some sort of a ball while on the back of his neck apparently it could have been cancer he prayed to God and Isaiah prayed with him and God extended his lie if they knew now that was a graciousness than sation on the part of God In answer to prayer but when you look at it in the full light they can stray that followed you wonder whether it was the best thing that. To take and play so we've called attention before to this for instance it was during that period that God spared his ally that he had the wealth of his kingdom to the ambassadors from Babylon which by the way opened the door later on for tonight you can as of the come and take the city because he knew where they go watch and a took it bought for that was the knocks of that day and thing as the day that no one is attacking Fort Knox they tell me their security that is on believable the different things they have but the goal is leaking now they night sions of the world that were not able to get it one why that is. They are getting it are not the way today well later on babbling came and took the go on this on the part of as a cause a bear who is staying and we'll go into this in detail when we get to eyes rise. In this the church whereas it's not well to pun here at all then we find that something else to play you'll notice that it says here that NASA was 12 years old when he began to rain god extended this man's life that they knew so that this bomb the NASA was born during that period now. Was the worse King that my feeling is that Manasseh in that brief period in which he was so caught delicious that God had a intervene 8 gone to such extremes that he's the worst KING So here you have a strange feature and that is here is the Myin that is. The bass King the lead in a great revival and that's Hezekiah his son comes to the throne and he's the worst in of all how do you explain and I'm on a ledge and honestly I'm not going to explain it because I cannot explain because around me to day I see things happening I can't explain like that and this is what I mean it comes to our attention periodic late there it is a past does and now here on Radio Barry Bonds and Christian prayer back to the matter is there outstanding Christian prayer. And then they have a son or daughter and many times it's a daughter and they is to be the one it might be and sometimes it's both They've become hip is of the worst sort now hip is a going out of style understand they will come up of course with a new name but it's all the same crowd but they enter sting thing is that this group that have appeared of young people across the land it was easy to explain them that is they were neglected at home they saw godless and materialistic tyrant biting all the time getting divorcée was living for sale selfishness and today you rebelled against it and walked out on it I can understand that but they exceptions to the rule have really disturbed me why is it that in a lovely Christian home there is a blog or girl and all of a sudden they walk out and they become the worst type of it so well there are 2 things I think that we can say and recognize how people these things are our stay as they have been influenced by they youth that are around them because all young people go through a period when they feel that their parents are stupid and I don't care who's they are I never shall forget my own experience along that line when I want like a holiday I was almost ashamed to come home and to carry on a conversation with those at home because they just didn't know it's much she you see and that's a period that you goes through and a young fella told me this when I say young young preacher. He says you know when I went away because he said I was ashamed of my dad called it Mile man he said he just didn't seem to know any say and I say need to be pretty smart and he said you know that I graduated from college and started in the ministry and I began face problem and he said I had to work my way through college and I was a rather not against some pretty hard situation and he says you know my dad in spite of the fact that I was stupid he was he made a good living and he was a marvelous provider we had a wonderful home and he said you know I couldn't quite understand how he did it but he said I got out not to get him to face these problems but he said I went home for a visit he said You'd be surprised how much my dad had learned in those few years said I came to conclusion he was a pretty smart man and I think all young people go through that period and I can understand that in a Christian home that during that period young people are influenced by this crowd outside that it walked out of their home so I recognize that that is an explanation then another feature is that I believe that they come out of Christian homes and especially they made a profession of faith that you're going to find out that those young people are going to return back to the law and I think we're going to say this and the man we're looking at right here now this is also the period that I believe that the Chicago and the glow red allow the Temple Hills saw the vision of the ship kind of glow red because of the sands of the people and their rebellion left their. And it removed from the Holy of Holies and then moved out to the walls of Jerusalem and laid it again the people did not turn back to God and then the ship kind of glory withdrew to the Mount of Olives and lighted there and and there was no movement on the part of the people toward God kind of lower it was caught back up into heaven and a kebab was written over the rationale of the temple and the glow Ray had departed . And now their house was and they'd left and of them bestseller Now when did that take place most exposed to tears I know that my teachers all felt that it took place at the captivity later on I don't feel that if that should kind of glow or it did not leave during the reign of monastic I just can't see any other period that would cause they should kind of blow or in the presence of God to remain I believe this was the time now I want you to notice this man here he was 12 years old but he began to rain Irena day and 5 years in Jerusalem now God always gives the listener ample opportunity to turn to him always this man arraignment much longer than others why longer than David longer than Solomon longer than his own father why well because God always gives to the little man ample opportunity God is my are simple he's a long suffering he's not willing that any should pay and after all God has plenty of time on his hands he's got a turn at the back of him he's got a turn. And he's in no hurry in my frame you thank you we're going to push God are going to rush him going to move and I sometimes hear someone pray or someone say that now if you just will write to God he'll just begin to move. And again he may not he'll take his time he's in no hurry now you know so we're not adverse to again but he did that which was evil in the side of the law like on to the abominations of the he that only. A lot had cast out before the children of S. Are now we were told that back in 2nd Kings the 21st chapter and signing this man God is emphasizing and we're getting gods of the point Chronicle So this man from God's view Pont was an evil man I read on verse 3 for he dealt again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down and he reared up stairs for bail him and may grow and worship Allah host of heaven and serve them now this man went into idolatry in a big way eases diet as a have been jazz of Bell he worshipped bailable which they did and we're told here and he built because for all of hosts of heaven in the to court so the house of the lone now he introduced into the temple in Jerusalem the worship of the hosts of the heading like the worship of Jupiter the worship of Margaret the worship of Venus the worship of all of the stars of heaven in other words he established a harness go but you could have got your heart risk though in the temple in that way and I'm very sorry that you say that some churches action to promote this type of thing and one of the big businesses today that you can go to into the 5 and 10 cent store and buy a harness though I personally do not know what all of it means somebody says it's just an innocent fun it's not for a lot of people they put more confidence in this then they put in God Today I heard an interview on television some time ago in which movie star they say they don't have any now but she's considered quiet outstanding and cheap. The statement that she been looking at her heart scope and she was a Virgo and the girls had been married 5 or 6 times and apparently said quite a few affairs and I would not think that she was a Virgo by any manner of calculation she could be something out so you could be a tower us or something else but not of Virgo Anyway that's why she say and she felt like that when the star crossed that star well that was something ran out it's amazing that in our day that intelligent at least day passes intelligent people get interested in that he want all away an idolater a friend and we are told here and he caused his children to pass through the bar in the Valley of the sun him this is one of the lowly know how far he went there were different degrees of that you could actually let him pass through in the sense they only got sandwiched good are the idle could be heated in a baby it was just put right down in the arms of that red hot adult you just can't thank of anything quite as bad as that but that was the idolatry in this man seems to have gone all away all so he observed time and he used didn't chant and used the witchcraft and he dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizard he brought much evil in the side of the large to provoke him to anger now we are seeing along with this spiritual movement that is a broad today we're seeing action it friends a turn back to site panic worship I do not have time to develop that but it's a round us today now we're told he said a card in it the idol which he had made in the House of go. To which God said to David and Solomon his son in this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen before all the tribes of this real well I put my name for ever neither will I and him or remove the foot of this from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them according to the whole law and the statutes and the arguments by the hand of Moses Now God had said that if these people would worship him and be faithful to him that he would bless them Now notice what Manassas doing and we are told my Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err and to do worse than the heathen whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel and a large spike among NASA and to his people they would not hearken now they have reached the dam so you can be sure when man are on night shining reaches this place God will move So what happened wherefore the large brought upon them the captains of the hosts of The King of Assyria which took my NASA among the thought warns and bounded with betters carried him got Babylon and when he was in affliction he was solved a large Is God an omelet him self greatly before the God of his fathers and prayed and they him and he was and treated of him and heard is supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom then Manasseh knew that the large he was God Now this man had a remarkable experience I would have given him up I'm sure maybe many of you would have given him up God did not give him up but God sent trouble and plenty of it too and he's carried away captive now this should have been a warning. The other nation that God now was getting ready to descend the sun and kingdom into captivity because of their continual Satan and this man though comes back and apparently came back to God in a very real way and yet he was very much of a weakling generally these men are and we are told are 17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifies stay all in the high places yet under the law of their God only in other words the people never did truly come back to God Now this man rang dollars time and we are told that God had heard this prayer and it reveals how gracious God is now here is a Son of God late parents who comes back to God after going to the very limit that SMA NASA Now that ought to be and encourage him and there's some that are listening to me today you've got a son and a daughter's a man told me some time ago I have a daughter and I don't know where she. No the man tell me I have a son he knows where year and he says that he's gone the very limit Well I'm a mass of dead in my book I would have given him up all right now when I said God heard his prayer and we're told here that my NASA slapped with his father's name badge him in his own house Sam and his son Ryan is sad now no to the evil of this man and done as a young man back it is son and I can understand now why son went all as he did burst 21 and one was 2 and 20 years old when he began to rain and rain 2 years in Jerusalem a very good friend of mine it is why they were bulk of means and I lived it up and then they were converted but their children were grown them math that batch of children got away from home and they certainly were away from God Yet other children after he was say the ones that he's had since he was say they are godly wonderful children they either go on the limit and now this boy am and he did that which was evil in the side of the law does did Nasa's father or Alan sacrificed some to all the carved images which men NASA is fathered made and serve them you see he went in they put steps others father and their early days Elmo not in the South before the largest Manassas father had on one himself but Ammon trespass more and more now as servants conspired against him and slew him in his own hands but the people of the land slew all damned I did conspired against Ammon and the people of the land made Josiah his son King in his stead now we come to the last great revival under Josiah next time. And may I say that this was like our it was 5 minutes to 12 in the history of this nation yet God sent a revival we'll finish 2nd Chronicles next time where do we go from here we go back to the New Testament 1st Corinthians. What an amazing testimony to the patience and sovereignty of God Monastir was a thoroughly evil man who spent his years running from God And yet in the end my Nasa's heart turned to God If you've been praying for someone like monastic and I think a lot of us have masses in our lives don't wait and you're not seeing maybe the hand of God moving in his or her life then be encouraged by today study and remember keep praying and if you're listening today and maybe you thought that you've sinned just too much or maybe you've strayed too long for God to ever welcome you home because if you were God you would certainly never welcome yourself foam then find hope in the NASA story and turn to God today as Dr McGee said we've got one more study in the book of 2nd Chronicles and then we head back to the New Testament to a study from the book of 1st Corinthians so if you haven't yet go to TB dot org forward slash notes and download your copy of Dr McGee's notes and outlines on 1st Corinthians or you're welcome to request your free copy of briefing the Bible as I've mentioned before it's our new resource that has combined all of Dr McGee's notes an outline in a one handy little paperback book it's really cool go online to request yours or give us a call at 1865 bible that's 180-652-4253 join us next week as we continue our 5 year journey through the Bible while I'm Steve was for all of us through the Bible we're grateful for your partnership with us in taking God's Holy Word to the whole world today the movie you know Molo suited the reasons to. 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