00:00Aram and Israel had joined forces to come up against the kingdom of Judah. Ahaz the king
00:08was quaking in his sandals. He didn't believe God would be faithful to help him when he needed it,
00:14probably because Ahaz had never been faithful to God. Ahaz was vile, wicked. He didn't obey God.
00:23Instead, he worshipped other gods in God's land. And maybe the worst example of how far gone he
00:29was, he sacrificed his son in the fire as an offering to one of these demon gods. All that to
00:36say, King Ahaz was probably shocked when the prophet Isaiah came to him and said God would
00:42deliver him from his enemies. God was even going to give him a sign, a sign of Ahaz's choosing,
00:48to prove it to him. But Ahaz refused. Instead of trusting God, he reached out to the king of
00:55Assyria for help. And while the Assyrians did come to the rescue, Ahaz became their servant and had
01:02to pay tribute to the empire from then on. God wanted Ahaz to turn to him. Even though Ahaz had
01:09done such vile things, God's love was even greater. May we not be like Ahaz and turn from God's always
01:16extended hand.
