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5:1 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed by putting it on1 we may not be found naked. 4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.2
6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
11 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. 12 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. 13 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. 14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.3 The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling4 the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
[1] 5:3
[2] 5:5
[3] 5:17
[4] 5:19
(ESV)
Although I ride a lot, I'm not fast. I've never raced bikes. My moving average is only about 14-15 miles per hour. So sometimes when I'm riding I'll be overtaken by another cyclist who is faster than me. Rarely do I ever get to "reel in" a cyclist that I see in front of me and gradually catch up because I'm going faster than they are. So if I want to ride with another cyclist they usually have to agree to stick to my pace, or I'll be "dropped."
God could have easily decided to drop us, after the people he created in his image rebelled against him. Had that been the case, there is no way we could have ever "reeled in" God and come back into fellowship with him by our own efforts. God had to do the hard work of reconciling us to him. This is very clear from 2 Corinthians 5. In verse 18 Paul writes: "All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself." The fact that Christ died for all, that he was raised from the dead, and the fact that as a result we are new creations, is all from God. We had nothing to do with it.
From eternity God decided to reconcile us to himself. And he decided to do this even though he knew how hard it would be. In verse 19 Paul says: "in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them." God was reconciling the world to himself. The world of sinful men was not reconciling itself to God. We cannot do that. Only God could do that by not counting men's sins against them. And what did it take for that to happen? Christ had to die for our sins. He had to pay our debt for us.
A husband who has betrayed his wife through unfaithfulness is unlikely to be reconciled to her by his own efforts. Unless she decides to forgive him and to pursue reconciliation, it is unlikely that the marriage will be restored. Even moreso, we cannot reconcile ourselves to God by our own efforts. God is holy. We are not. We can't try hard enough or do enough to make things right with God. But, "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (vs. 21). God did it. He put his own Son on the cross in our place. He laid the burden of our sins on him. God exchanged our sin for Christ's perfect righteousness so that we could be right with God.
This is truly incredible. Every day we must thank God for his loving work of reconciliation on our behalf. Because it's something we could have never done for ourselves. It would be like me trying to catch Lance Armstrong while climbing the Alp D'Huez. That's why "Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all" (vs. 14) and we should no longer live for ourselves but for him who died for us and was raised again (vs. 15)! Thank God that he has reconciled you to himself!
38:1 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”1 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
4 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah: 5 “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.2 6 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.
7 “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised: 8 Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.3
9 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:
10 I said, In the middle4 of my days
I must depart;
I am consigned to the gates of Sheol
for the rest of my years.
11 I said, I shall not see the LORD,
the LORD in the land of the living;
I shall look on man no more
among the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;
13 I calmed myself5 until morning;
like a lion he breaks all my bones;
from day to night you bring me to an end.
14 Like a swallow or a crane I chirp;
I moan like a dove.
My eyes are weary with looking upward.
O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
15 What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
I walk slowly all my years
because of the bitterness of my soul.
16 O Lord, by these things men live,
and in all these is the life of my spirit.
Oh restore me to health and make me live!
17 Behold, it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
but in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
18 For Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.
19 The living, the living, he thanks you,
as I do this day;
the father makes known to the children
your faithfulness.
20 The LORD will save me,
and we will play my music on stringed instruments
all the days of our lives,
at the house of the LORD.
21 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.” 22 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?”
39:1 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. 2 And Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. And he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them. 3 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon.” 4 He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”
5 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of hosts: 6 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD. 7 And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.” 8 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my days.”
[1] 38:1
[2] 38:5
[3] 38:8
[4] 38:10
[5] 38:13
(ESV)
"In those days" apparently refers to 701 BC. We know that Hezekiah's illness preceded the siege by Sennacherib chronologically, even though it follows here in the book of Isaiah. Not only did Hezekiah realize that he was at the point of death, but the words of Isaiah confirmed it. "Thus says the LORD, 'Put your house in order.'" The fact that Isaiah began his pronouncement with "Thus says the LORD" shows that this was not just his own conclusion or fear. It was God's plan. However, Hezekiah prayed "Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight." Isaiah came back with a new word from the LORD. "Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life." These aspects of this account make it clear that prayer does, in fact, change things. It doesn't just change our attitude or perception of a situation. It can actually change the outcome of events. God also gave Hezekiah a promise to deliver Jerusalem from the king of Assyria even before he laid siege to the city. As a sign that His promise was true God made the shadow of the sun go back ten steps on the stairway of Ahaz, something God could easily accomplish by bending the sun's rays. It is interesting that Ahaz had refused a sign from God, but now Hezekiah receives one on a stairway built by his father Ahaz. As a result of his healing, King Hezekiah wrote a Psalm of praise to God. He talked about his fear of dying in the prime of life and crying out to the LORD. Then he responds to God's grace by promising to walk humbly before the LORD all of his life. Hezekiah thanks God for restoring his life so that he can praise God to His people and tell of His faithfulness, something that those who have died cannot do. When the king of Babylon heard of Hezekiah's miraculous recovery he sent envoys to the king to congratulate him. The Babylonian leader may have also been looking for help from Hezekiah in throwing off the Assyrian king's domination. Hezekiah fell into the trap, in that he gave the Babylonian envoys a guided tour of everything in his storehouses. This may have been Hezekiah's way of saying, "Here's what I can contribute to the cause." Hezekiah ended up paying much of his wealth in tribute to Sennacherib. When Isaiah heard of the visit, he inquired about it with the king, and then offered a bleak prophesy about the more distant future. "Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD." The reason this account is placed after the siege by Sennacherib, even though it took place before, is because it leads to the prophecy about Babylon, which is the thrust of the second half of Isaiah, chapters 40-66. All this would take place, however, only long after Hezekiah's time, more than 100 years later.
37:1 Fret not yourself because of evildoers;
be not envious of wrongdoers!
2 For they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good;
dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.2
4 Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him, and he will act.
6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light,
and your justice as the noonday.
7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way,
over the man who carries out evil devices!
8 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
9 For the evildoers shall be cut off,
but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.
10 In just a little while, the wicked will be no more;
though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.
11 But the meek shall inherit the land
and delight themselves in abundant peace.
12 The wicked plots against the righteous
and gnashes his teeth at him,
13 but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he sees that his day is coming.
14 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows
to bring down the poor and needy,
to slay those whose way is upright;
15 their sword shall enter their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.
16 Better is the little that the righteous has
than the abundance of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but the LORD upholds the righteous.
18 The LORD knows the days of the blameless,
and their heritage will remain forever;
19 they are not put to shame in evil times;
in the days of famine they have abundance.
[1] 37:1
[2] 37:3
(ESV)