Call the Undertaker
Steve Wagers
Isaiah 38:14
1) A Dire Situation
a) Get Your House Ready
b) Get Your Heart Right
2) A Desperate Supplication
a) God Heard Him
b) God Helped Him
3) A Dynamic Salvation
a) The Person He Looks To
b) The Purpose He Lives For
An elderly man was at home, dying in bed. He smelled the aroma of his favorite chocolate chip cookies baking. He wanted one last cookie before he died. He fell out of bed, crawled to the landing, rolled down the stairs, and crawled into the kitchen where his wife was busily baking cookies.
With waning strength he crawled to the table and was just barely able to lift his arm to the cookie sheet. As he grasped a warm, moist, chocolate chip cookie-his favorite kind-his wife suddenly whacked his hand with a spatula.
He whispered, ''Why did you do that?''
She replied, ''They're for the funeral!''
President Wilson once received a call in the middle of the night from a civil servant who informed him that one of his appointees had just died.
The caller said, ''While I'm sure we are all saddened by this news, I would like to know if I can take his place.'' There was a pause at the other end of the line before the president replied, ''It's all right with me, if it's all right with the undertaker.''
In our text, King Hezekiah received some disturbing news concerning his own funeral. Upon receiving this news, the 1st call he makes is to the undertaker.
(14) ''O Lord, I am oppressed; UNDERTAKE for me.''
Charles Simeon comments, ''His disorder was so violent, that he expected everyday to be his last; and God seemed to him like a lion, likely to break all his bones, and to devour him every instant. Hence, he ''mourned as a dove,'' his eyes ''failed with looking upward;'' and in utter despair he derives enough strength to utter one final plea.''
Let's consider Hezekiah's call to the undertaker and notice:
1) A DIRE SITUATION
Most historical records concur that Hezekiah was in ...
Steve Wagers
Isaiah 38:14
1) A Dire Situation
a) Get Your House Ready
b) Get Your Heart Right
2) A Desperate Supplication
a) God Heard Him
b) God Helped Him
3) A Dynamic Salvation
a) The Person He Looks To
b) The Purpose He Lives For
An elderly man was at home, dying in bed. He smelled the aroma of his favorite chocolate chip cookies baking. He wanted one last cookie before he died. He fell out of bed, crawled to the landing, rolled down the stairs, and crawled into the kitchen where his wife was busily baking cookies.
With waning strength he crawled to the table and was just barely able to lift his arm to the cookie sheet. As he grasped a warm, moist, chocolate chip cookie-his favorite kind-his wife suddenly whacked his hand with a spatula.
He whispered, ''Why did you do that?''
She replied, ''They're for the funeral!''
President Wilson once received a call in the middle of the night from a civil servant who informed him that one of his appointees had just died.
The caller said, ''While I'm sure we are all saddened by this news, I would like to know if I can take his place.'' There was a pause at the other end of the line before the president replied, ''It's all right with me, if it's all right with the undertaker.''
In our text, King Hezekiah received some disturbing news concerning his own funeral. Upon receiving this news, the 1st call he makes is to the undertaker.
(14) ''O Lord, I am oppressed; UNDERTAKE for me.''
Charles Simeon comments, ''His disorder was so violent, that he expected everyday to be his last; and God seemed to him like a lion, likely to break all his bones, and to devour him every instant. Hence, he ''mourned as a dove,'' his eyes ''failed with looking upward;'' and in utter despair he derives enough strength to utter one final plea.''
Let's consider Hezekiah's call to the undertaker and notice:
1) A DIRE SITUATION
Most historical records concur that Hezekiah was in ...
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