THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE…

2 KINGS 23

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

 Last week we saw Josiah’s personal revival. One of the evidences of personal revival is a desire to share that blessedness with others. Josiah has the evidence.

 

I. THE INGREDIENTS OF CORPORATE REVIVAL [v. 1-3]

1. Congregating with the People [v. 1-2a, Heb. 10:24-25] “If my people…”

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

2. Concentration on the Word [v. 2b, James 1:18-22]

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

3. Commitment to the Lord [v. 3, Rm. 12:1-2]

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

 

II. THE PRACTICE OF REVIVAL [v. 4-23]

1. An Abandonment of Spiritual Deviation [v. 4-16, 19-20, 24]

2. An Acknowledgement of Spiritual Messages [v. 17-18, 1 K. 13:31-32]

And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones: For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

3. An Acceptance of Spiritual Worship [v. 21-23]

 

III. THE LIMITATIONS OF REVIVAL [v. 24-37]

1. God Honors His Man [v. 24-25, Ezekiel 14:14, 20]

-Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.

-Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

2. God Holds to His Word [v. 26-30, 22:19-20] it does no good to sow wild oats and then pray for crop failure

3. God Hates Iniquity [v. 31-37]