Garth Heckman

The David Alliance

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[Verse 1]

What have I gotta do to make you love me?

What have I gotta do to make you care?

What do I do when lightning strikes me

And I wake to find that you're not there?

[Verse 2]

What do I do to make you want me?

What have I gotta do to be heard?

What do I say when it's all over?

And sorry seems to be the hardest word

[Chorus]

It's sad (So sad), so sad

It's a sad, sad situation

And it's gettin' more and more absurd

It's sad (So sad), so sad

Why can't we talk it over?

Oh, it seems to me

That sorry seems to be the hardest word

The life of Allan

The life of Mitch

The life of Bill

The life of Lief

The life of Connor

The life of Londa

The life of Dane

The life of Shane

The life of Chris

And finally the life of Joash in 2 Chron. 22-24

He was the king of crash and burn… started out right but ran off the tracks in a hurry… Let me catch you up to speed. 

Two kingdoms. 

Judah   and             Israel

Jehoshaphat Ahab and Jezebel

Jehoram (reigned 8 yr) Marries Athaliah 

Ahaziah - Murdered @ 1 yr

Athaliah kills her grandsons and takes the throne

Joash is saved by Jehosheba (Ahaziah’s sister) Wife of the priest Jehoiadah 

Ahab and Jezebel had a daughter Athaliah

She marries Jehoshappaht.

Jehoshaphat dies and his son (Jehoram) becomes king (Athaliahs son)

Jehoram gets killed

So his mother kills all her grandsons and assumes the throne.

BUT… one of the grandsons is spared - Joash!

2 Chronicles 24:Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother was Zibiah from Beersheba. 2 Joash did what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight throughout the lifetime of Jehoiada the priest.

17 But after Jehoiada’s death, the leaders of Judah came and bowed before King Joash and persuaded him to listen to their advice

PERSAUDED HB Shaw-Maw

Using the persons appetites and weaknesses they gave him consent to do what would be easiest and best for him. 

A young girl or boy has appetites to be liked, to be loved, to be accepted… if you just go with the crowd, if you just give in to sexual urges or peer pressure to do what will make you liked… If you are told your parents don’t understand…

YOU CAN BE PERSUADED. 

All of us have physical appetites/fleshly appetites

Lust, sex, greed, apathy, laziness, anger, Gluttony 

We have emotional appetites

To be needed, feel wanted, accepted, loved, cared for. We also have emotional needs to want to hate, strike back, hurt those who hurt us, to distrust, to be and stay bitter.

There will always be people who will persuade or feed those desires…

And if you listen you will cut short your blessings and maybe even your future in heaven. 

2 Chron. 24: 20 Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, “This is what God says: Why do you disobey the Lord’s commands and keep yourselves from prospering? You have abandoned the Lord, and now he has abandoned you!”