2 kings 23:1-7 Renewing the Covenant

2 kings 23:1-7 Renewing the Covenant

Josiah starts reform as soon as they found the book of the
law. How did they lose it?

The reform starts with the public reading of the Book of the
Law. Then all the articles set up to
worship other gods were removed from the temple.

Not only did they lose the Book of the Law, they had erected
alters and Asherah pole right in the temple. They brought every type of false worship right into the temple. It can all be traced back to the loss of the
Book of the Law.

As the years went by in 100 – 200 AD the church becomes
divided into east and west. People had
copies of the New Testament Books, but through wars and persacutions the
originals were lost. When the Romans
church gained power and dark ages come reading the Bible was forbidden by the
church.

1. Being people of the Book

a. Joshua 1:7-8

b. Deuteronomy 6:4-9

c. The king reads the book to everyone

d. Nehemiah 8:1-3 Ezra reads the book to all the
people

e. They renew the covenant with God

2. Being a holy temple

a. 2 chronicles 3:7 the doorframes are covered in gold, not the law.

b. The temple was filled with alters to worship all
the false Gods

Asherah, Baal, Molek, sun, moon and stars, temple prostitutes

c. Josiah tore it all out both in the temple and
the country

d. Matthew 22:29 you do not know the scriptures or the power of God

3. Is the Bible found in your temple.

a. 1 Corinthians 3:7 your body is the temple of God

b. 1 Peter 2:9 you are a royal priesthood

c. James 1:22-25 do not just listen to it

d. Luke 6:46-49 a foundation for life

e. Matthew 24:35 My words will never pass away

Conclusion: Who or what is worshiped in our temple? What is written on the doorframe of our mind
and heart?

²²Do not merely listen to the word,
and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. ²³Anyone
who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks
at his face in a mirror ²⁴ and,
after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.²⁵ But whoever looks intently into
the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what
they have heard, but doing it—they will
be blessed in what they do.

James 1:22-25 (NIV2011)
²² Do not merely listen to the
word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
²³ Anyone who listens to the word
but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror
²⁴ and, after looking at himself,
goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
²⁵ But whoever looks intently into
the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what
they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.

Matthew
24:35 (NIV2011)
³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away,
but my words will never pass away.

Mark
8:34-38 (NIV2011)
³⁴ Then he called the crowd to him
along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny
themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
³⁵ For whoever wants to save their
life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will
save it.
³⁶ What good is it for someone to
gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?
³⁷ Or what can anyone give in
exchange for their soul?
³⁸ If anyone is ashamed of me and
my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be
ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Luke
6:46-49 (NIV2011)
⁴⁶ “Why do you call me, ‘Lord,
Lord,’ and do not do what I say?
⁴⁷ As for everyone who comes to me
and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are
like.
⁴⁸ They are like a man building a
house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came,
the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well
built.
⁴⁹ But the one who hears my words
and does not put them into practice is like a man who built a house on the
ground without a foundation. The moment the torrent struck that house, it
collapsed and its destruction was complete.”

John
15:7 (NIV2011)
⁷ If you remain in me and my words
remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Matthew
22:29-32 (NIV2011)
²⁹ Jesus replied, “You are in error
because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.
³⁰ At the resurrection people will
neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.
³¹ But about the resurrection of
the dead—have you not read what God said to you,
³² ‘I am the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the
living.”

1
Peter 2:9 (NIV2011)
⁹ But you are a chosen people, a
royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare
the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

1
Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV2011)
¹⁹ Do you not know that your bodies
are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?
You are not your own;
²⁰ you were bought at a price.
Therefore honor God with your bodies.

2
Chronicles 3:7 (NIV2011)
⁷ He overlaid the ceiling beams,
doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on
the walls.

Nehemiah
8:1-3 (NIV2011)
¹ all the people came together as
one in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the teacher of the Law
to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded for
Israel.
² So on the first day of the
seventh month Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which was
made up of men and women and all who were able to understand.
³ He read it aloud from daybreak
till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the
men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened
attentively to the Book of the Law.

Joshua
1:7-8 (NIV2011)
⁷ “Be strong and very courageous.
Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it
to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
⁸ Keep this Book of the Law always
on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do
everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.