1. No King but King Jesus King Hezekiah and Isaiah, the Prophet

2. 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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4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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?

8. 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.”

9. 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.

10. Hezekiah given 15 more years 2 Kings 20

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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.”

14. 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

15. Upper Story God is sending Jesus, His Son to be the MessiahSeven hundred years before Jesus, Isaiah provides a character sketch of the Messiah.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.