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2 Chronicles 4 - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: July 15, 2010

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (2 Chronicles 4:1)

God chooses us to do some things. He does not choose us to everything we want.

Life Lesson (2 Chronicles 4:4)

We should be washed in the Word of God.

Life Lesson (2 Chronicles 4:5)

We should constantly be asking God to forgive us whenever we sin.

Life Lesson (2 Chronicles 4:7)

We are the light of the world.

Life Lesson (2 Chronicles 4:8)

The Word of God is pure.

Life Lesson (2 Chronicles 4:13)

We should have good fruit in our lives. We choose what kind of fruit we produce.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

1 Chron 28:3-4 NKJV

But God said to me, 'You shall not build a house for My name, because you have been a man of war and have shed blood.' 4 However the Lord God of Israel chose me above all the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for He has chosen Judah to be the ruler. And of the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, He was pleased with me to make me king over all Israel.

2 Chron 4:1-3 NLT

Solomon also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. 2 Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7� feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference. 3 It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of figures that resembled oxen. There were about six oxen per foot all the way around, and they were cast as part of the basin.

Eph 5:25-27 NKJV

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

2 Chron 4:5 NLT

The walls of the Sea were about three inches thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a water lily blossom. It could hold about 16,500 gallons of water.

Ex 30:17-21 NKJV

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 18 "You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base also of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. And you shall put water in it, 19 for Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in water from it. 20 When they go into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to the Lord, they shall wash with water, lest they die. 21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, lest they die. And it shall be a statute forever to them - to him and his descendants throughout their generations."

John 9:5 NKJV

5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

John 8:12 NKJV

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."

Matt 5:14 NKJV

"You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

2 Chronicles 4:7 NKJV

Your word is very pure; Therefore Your servant loves it.

Prov 30:5 NKJV

Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.

1 Peter 2:2 NKJV

as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby

John 13:14 NKJV

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

Prov 24:16 NKJV

For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity.

Prov 24:16 NLT

The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again. But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked.

John 15:3 NKJV

You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

2 Cor 5:18-19 NKJV

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

2 Cor 5:18-19 NLT

And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation.

John 10:7-10 NKJV

Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

John 17:4 NKJV

I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.

2 Tim 4:7 NKJV

have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Gal 5:19-23 NLT

When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

John 15:2 NKJV

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

John 15:3 NKJV

are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

John 15:4-5 NKJV

Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

John 15:16 NKJV

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

John 6:48 NKJV

I am the bread of life.

Luke 24:30 NKJV

Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them.

Num 21:7-9 NKJV

Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. 8 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

John 3:14-17 NKJV

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Rev 1:5b-6 NKJV

5To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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