No King but King Jesus

King Hezekiah and Isaiah, the

Prophet

• On what are you basing this confidence of yours?”

(2 Kings 18:19) what would be your answer?

• What if the U.S.A. had kings instead of presidents?

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God’s people needed a motto. “No king but King Jesus.”

• The human kings got the nation into a heap of

trouble.

• Nation split

• 9 prophets to the northern kingdom

• 208 years and the people refused to hear and obey.

I. The Northern Kingdom, Israel, fell to the Assyrians in 722 B.C.

• 2 Kings 17:13 (ESV) Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah by every

prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep

my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law

that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants

the prophets.”

• 2 Kings 17:18 (ESV) Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and

removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah

only.

II. The Southern Kingdom, Judah, was ruled by both good and evil kings.

Hezekiah was a good king who trusted in God.

• Hezekiah, by putting his trust in God, defied the Assyrian

king who conquered the northern kingdom.

• 2 Kings 18:19 (ESV) — 19 And the Rabshakeh said to

them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the

king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?

2 Kings 19:15–19 (ESV)15 And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said: “O Lord, the God of

Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all

the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. 16 Incline

your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; and hear the

words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God. 17 Truly,

O Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands 18

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work

of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed. 19 So

now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms

of the earth may know that you, O Lord, are God alone.”

God himself destroyed the Assyrian army.

• 2 Kings 19:35–37 (ESV) 35 And that night the angel of the Lord went out

and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people

arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. 36 Then

Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh.

37 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god,

Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and

escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his

place.

Hezekiah given 15 more years 2 Kings 20

Manasseh, Hezekiah’s son, was an evil king. 2 Kings 21

• God sends Isaiah to tell Manasseh that God

will use the Babylonians as his tool of

judgment.

• Isaiah 3

Judah, while warned of exile, is promised that they will return to their homeland as a purified

nation. Isaiah 14• Isaiah 14:1–2 (ESV) — 1 For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob

and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and

sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of

Jacob. 2 And the peoples will take them and bring them to their

place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord’s land as

male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their

captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.

God will keep his promise to bring the Messiah through Judah.

• Judah will not be disappointed. Isaiah 49:23

• Isaiah 49:23 (ESV) Kings shall be your foster fathers, and

their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the

ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of

your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those

who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”

Judah will be a blessing to the whole world.

• Isaiah 49:26b (ESV) ….Then all flesh shall

know that I am the Lord your Savior, and

your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

• This is fulfilled in Jesus Christ

Upper Story

• God is sending Jesus, His Son to be the

Messiah Seven hundred years before

Jesus, Isaiah provides a character sketch of

the Messiah.

Isaiah 53• Isaiah 53:1–7 (ESV) — 1 Who has believed what he has heard

from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root

out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should

look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He was

despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and

acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their

faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Isaiah 53• 4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we

esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was

pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon

him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds

we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—

every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity

of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not

his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that

before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

Isaiah 53:10-11

• Isaiah 53:10–11 (ESV) — 10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to

crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an

offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong

his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 Out

of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his

knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many

to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

What is God saying to you?

• We have a simple challenge: to live the motto “No king but King

Jesus!”

• Jesus exhorted us to seek God’s kingdom first.

• Matthew 6:33 (ESV) But seek first the kingdom of God and his

righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

• No king but King Jesus

• No king but King Jesus. Put God on the throne of your life. Don’t flip

the sequence of Matthew 6:33.