"The Lost Bible" - (2 Chronicles 34:1-35:19; 2 Kings 21:24-23:30) - Knowledge of TRUTH is essential for True worship and acceptable service to God. Proper respect for TRUTH brings hearing, repentance and reform – but unconcern & indifference brings ignorance, compromise, & DESTRUCTION! – 2 Tim. 4:2-4; Hos. 4:6. There is an epidemic of Biblical illiteracy today! - MP3 / KEYNOTE / PPT / PDF - (9/8/2013) http://w65stchurchofchrist.org/coc/

1. 2 Chronicles 34:1-35:19
2 Kings 21:24-23:30

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Hosea 4:6 (NKJV)
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.

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 8 years old when he
began to reign
 Reigned 31 years in
Jerusalem. (641-609 BC)
 Josiah did what was
right in the sight of the
Lord – (2 Kings 22:2;
2 Chro. 34:2)
Ezekiel 23:35 (NKJV)
35 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you
have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back,
Therefore you shall bear the penalty Of your
lewdness and your harlotry.’ ”

5. ✦ In his 8th year as king, Josiah began
to seek the Lord – 2 Chro. 34:3
✦ In his 12th year he began to purge
Judah & Jerusalem – 2 Chro. 34:3-7
✦ In his 18th year, Josiah began the
repairs of the house of the Lord. It
was during theses repairs that the
book of law was found (2 Kings
22:8-13; 2 Chro. 34:8,14).

6. ✦ Upon reading it, Josiah rent his
clothes – 2 Kings 22:11,19;
2 Chron. 34:19;
✦ He sent Hilkiah the priest and
others to go and “inquire of the
Lord” because he knew that the
judgment of God was resting on
Judah because his fathers had not
kept the Law!! – 2 Kings 22:12-20;
2 Chro. 34:20-28

7. ✦ After reading the Law of the
Covenant – Josiah made a covenant
with the Lord and demanded that
the people take a stand - 2 Kings
23:3; 2 Chron. 34:30-32
✦ Purged all the land of false worship
– 1 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 23:4-25;
2 Chron. 34:33
✦ Kept the Passover – 2 Kings
23:21-25; 2 Chron. 35:1-19
2 Kings 23:1-25; 2 Chron. 34:29-35:19

8. ✦ Knowledge of TRUTH is essential for True
worship and acceptable service – BUT
ignorance brings destruction – Hos. 4:6
✦ Proper respect for TRUTH brings hearing,
repentance and reform – but unconcern &
indifference brings ignorance &
compromise! – 2 Tim. 4:2-4
✦ There is an epidemic of Biblical illiteracy
today! -

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Too Little Influence Too Much Influence

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Biblical Illiteracy In US
"Increasingly,
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biblically illiterate."
- George Barna
Regarding Biblical illiteracy and discipleship, Christian researcher and author George Barna reports: (2007)

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Moral Decisions Based On Bible
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Biblical Illiteracy In US
Regarding Biblical illiteracy and discipleship, Christian researcher and author George Barna reports: (2007)

14. “Bible reading has become the religious equivalent of
sound-­‐bite journalism. When people read from the
Bible they typically open it, read a brief passage
without much regard for the context, and consider
the primary thought or feeling that the passage
provided. If they are comfortable with it, they accept
it; otherwise, they deem it interesting but irrelevant
to their life, and move on. There is shockingly little
growth evident in people’s understanding of the
fundamental themes of the scriptures and amazingly
little interest in deepening their knowledge and
application of biblical principles . . .
https://www.barna.org/barna-­‐update/article/12-­‐faithspirituality/325-­‐barna-­‐
studies-­‐the-­‐research-­‐offers-­‐a-­‐year-­‐in-­‐review-­‐perspective#.UinrSRaTy0s

15. “The problem facing the Christian Church is not
that people lack a complete set of beliefs; the
problem is that they have a full slate of beliefs in
mind, which they think are consistent with
biblical teachings, and they are neither open to
being proven wrong nor to learning new insights.
Our research suggests that this challenge initially
emerges in the late adolescent or early teenage
years . . . In a culture driven by the desire to
receive value, more Bible teaching is generally not
viewed as an exercise in providing such value.”
https://www.barna.org/barna-­‐update/article/12-­‐faithspirituality/325-­‐barna-­‐
studies-­‐the-­‐research-­‐offers-­‐a-­‐year-­‐in-­‐review-­‐perspective#.UinrSRaTy0s

16. ✦ We will not believe more than
we know, and we will not live
higher than our beliefs.
✦ The many fronts of Christian
compromise in this generation
can be directly traced to
biblical illiteracy in the pews
and the absence of biblical
preaching and teaching in our
homes and churches.

17. 2 Timothy 4:1–5 (NKJV)
1 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus
Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His
appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in
season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with
all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their
own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap
up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears
away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you
be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of
an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

18. ✦ The Home – Deut. 6:7-9; 2 Tim. 1:5; 3:14,15;
Eph. 6:1-4
✦ The Pulpit – Jonah 3:2; Acts 17:1-3; 2 Tim.
4:2-5; 1 Pet 4:11
✦ Sectarianism – Mat. 15:7-9; 2 Tim. 4:3,4; Gal
1:6-9; John 17:20,21
✦ Emotionalism – John 6:44,45; Titus 2:11,12;
Gal. 5:22-24
✦ Sensationalism – Acts 8:9; 1 Cor. 1:18-23; 2:1-5
✦ Unconcern – Mat. 24:12; Mat 6:24; 1 Cor.
16:22; Mark 8:36-38

19. ✦ In Our Homes – Eph 6:1-4
✦ In Our Pulpits & Churches – 2 Tim 4:1-4
✦ As Being Our ONLY STANDARD!! – 2
Tim 3:16,17
✦ Molding & Controlling Our Thoughts &
Lives! - 2 Cor. 10:3-5
✦ Obeying from the heart – Rom 6:16-18
✦ As Being Something For Which We
Hunger & Thirst – Psalm 119:97-104

20. ✦ Josiah sought the Lord as a young man –
✦ When Josiah found the truth he allowed
it to change him – he did not try to
change it!!
✦ Maybe you need to find the word of
God!!
✦ Maybe you have found the truth but
have yet to act upon it – don’t wait any
longer!!
✦ Are you helping others find the truth?

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22. Charts by Don McClain
Prepared September 5-7, 2013
Preached September 8, 2013
West 65th Street church of Christ
P.O. Box 190062
Little Rock AR 72219
501-568-1062
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