Southwest Ohio Reformed Presbyterian

A. The Value of the Word B. The Vitality of the Word C. The Victory of the Word

A. The Portrait of the Sovereign (Psa. 97:1-6) B. The Prostration before the Sovereign (Psa. 97:7-9) C. The Praise for the Sovereign (Psa. 97:10-12)

1. Questions about prayer (20:1-2) 2. Questions about prophecy (20:1-4) 3. Questions about lifespan (20:6a) 4. Questions about why God blesses us (20:6b) 5. Questions about truthfulness (20:8)

1. Assyria's ignorant pride (19:11-133) 2. Assyria's sinful pride (19:1ff) 3. Assyria's blasphemous pride (19:22,25,27-28,35-37)

1. Samaria is seditionist Israel & judges & cursed Israel 2. Samaria resettled with foreign transplants 3. God cursed these people for their impiety/religious corruption 4. Sennacherib improvised as high priest to reset Samaria's religion 5. Yet paganism had no power to make Samaria palatable to God

1. The songs of both David & Asaph 2. The decline of temple worship post David & Solomon 3. Psalm-singing has always had its detractors 4. Hezekiah's reform led to psycho-spiritual gladness 5. Applications

1. God's unique strength/wrath is terrifying to the unbeliever 2. Middle east politics at the end of the 8th century 3. The transition from Ahaz to Hezekiah 4. Sargon to Sennacherib in Assyria 5. Applications to our lives today

A. Flurry of Israelite kings fall (2 Kgs. 16 & 17) B. Assyrian power rises (2 Kgs. 17:5ff) C. God explains the cause of His judgments by listing Israel's faults 1. Theological (7) 2. Ethical (8) 3. Individual/private (9) 4. Multi-cultural/global (11) 5. Refusal to heed prophets (13), subjectively (14), objectively (15) 6. Worshipful (16, 17) 7. Summary (18) D. Kingdom/political consequences (20, 21, 23)

A. His Victories (14:1) 1. Securing his throne (14:3, 5) 2. Ethical virtue/mercy (14:6) 3. Military victories (14:7) B. His Errors 1. In judgment (14:8) 2. In perception (14:9ff) 3. In warfare C. His Defeats 1. By Jehoash/Israel (14:11) 2. By conspiracy (14:19) D. Compared to Christ

A. Fear is a sign for which God looks (3:16a) B. It's related to fear and meditation (3:16b) C. God makes promises to such people (3:17) D. He uses this as a key to either pass or fail (3:18) E. He even ties it to Judgment Day (4:1) F. And man's last chance (Messiah) (4:5)

A. The Case for Justice (Psa. 94:1-3) B. The Causes for Justice (Psa. 94:4-15) C. The Confession for Justice (Psa. 94:16-23)

A. Worldly confusion and the sad death of Elisha (14) B. Yet this is the occasion for a most amazing miracle (21) C. A forlorn hopeless Joah visits Elisha (14) D. Joash's interchange with Elisha (16-19) E. The weird case of the revival of a dead man (21) F. The obvious interpretation of this? Ever present power/mercy of God

A. Chaos results after Israel's civil war (1) B. The rise of Athaliah over Judah (1) C. The rise of Jehosheba/Jehoida priestly insurrection (2, 4) D. Consequences 1. Execution of Athaliah influence (13) 2. Renewal of national covenant (17) 3. Destruction of Judah's Baal temple (18) 4. Civil happiness and prosperity (20)

A. Israel's crazy politics: from wicked to wacky B. America's crazy politics C. Jesus' completely sane/blessed politics