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Second Kings chapter 20, verse 19.

Hezekiah said to Isaiah,

The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.

For he thought, why not?

If there will be peace and security in my days,

wow, what a statement. And these are the last words we hear from Hezekiah, who in so many ways in his life, even as we prayed about in

light of 2nd Kings chapter 18, trusted in God. And yet he hears this word from Isaiah about how the generation that comes after him,

the people who come after him, his own sons, will be taken away into exile in Babylon.

And Hezekiah responds and says, the word that you've spoken is good, I'm just glad there's going to be

peace and security in my days. Wow. He's so focused on himself that he doesn't grieve over the

generation to come after him or take action to warn them to repent and turn to God.

Oh, this is one of those places in the Bible where God just holds up a mirror to us,

to see the selfishness in our own hearts, to see Hezekiah, to be disgusted in a sense by this

language, and then to think, am I guilty of the same thing?

Do I look out for myself? And as long as I'm okay, then I don't grieve over the needs of people around me,

the effects of sin around me, even eternally. I know my God's grace through faith in Jesus.

I'm going to be with him in heaven. My eternity is secure. And yet how often am I

grieving over the people around me and people around the world who don't know that security?

And how much am I living with urgency to spread the gospel to them, to call them to trust in Jesus.

And my generation and in coming generations to live for the spread of the gospel, to coming

generations, to all the nations. Oh, God, we pray that you would help us to live with the spirit of Jesus and not with

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