Satan is a Master at Deception

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• God warns us concerning the terrible consequences
  of sin. (Eph 55-6)

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• Ephesians 55-6 (NKJV) - For this you know, that
  no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man,
  who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the
  kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one deceive
  you with empty words, for because of these things
  the wrath of God comes upon the sons of
  disobedience.

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• How many times have I seen young people justify
  fornication or older people thinking they can get
  away with it.

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• How many times have I seen young people justify
  fornication or older people thinking they can get
  away with it.
• Over and over the Bills come due and a terrible
  price is paid. (Gal 67-8)

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• Galatians 67-8 (NKJV) - Do not be deceived, God
  is not mocked for whatever a man sows, that he
  will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh
  will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who
  sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap
  everlasting life.

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• Even then some fail to learn from the Lord.

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• There is a tremendous power found in the examples
  of the Old Testament. (Rom 154 1 Cor 1011)

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• Romans 154 (NKJV) - For whatever things were
  written before were written for our learning,
  that we through the patience and comfort of the
  Scriptures might have hope.

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• 1 Corinthians 1011 (NKJV) - Now all these
  things happened to them as examples, and they
  were written for our admonition, upon whom the
  ends of the ages have come.

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• One of the great tragedies of the old testament
  is that of the king Manasseh.

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• One of the great tragedies of the old testament
  is that of the king Manasseh.
• Does it pay to live a life of sin as long as I
  can repent and be saved before I die?

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Satan is a Master at Deception

• Galatians 67-8 (NKJV) - Do not be deceived, God
  is not mocked for whatever a man sows, that he
  will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his flesh
  will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who
  sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap
  everlasting life.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• He was raised as a Jew in the nation of Israel.
  (Rom 31-2)

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• Romans 31-2 (NKJV) - What advantage then has
  the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? 2
  Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were
  committed the oracles of God.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• He heard the scriptures and knew of Gods will.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• The nation was faithful to God during his
  childhood.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• The nation was faithful to God during his
  childhood.
• He had a godly father, Hezekiah. (2 Kings 183)

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 183 (NKJV) - And he did what was right
  in the sight of the LORD, according to all that
  his father David had done.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• He was a man who won many victories through
  prayer. (2 Kings 202-6)

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 202-6 (NKJV) - Then he turned his face
  toward the wall, and prayed to the LORD, saying,
  3Remember now, O LORD, I pray, how I have walked
  before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and
  have done what was good in Your sight. And
  Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• 4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out
  into the middle court, that the word of the LORD
  came to him, saying, 5 Return and tell Hezekiah
  the leader of My people, Thus says the LORD, the
  God of David your father I have heard your
  prayer, I have seen your tears surely I will
  heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the
  house of the LORD.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• 6 And I will add to your days fifteen years. I
  will deliver you and this city from the hand of
  the king of Assyria and I will defend this city
  for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant
  David.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• He was would accept the word of God without
  question. (2 Kgs 2016-19)

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 2016-19 (NKJV) - Then Isaiah said to
  Hezekiah, Hear the word of the LORD 17 Behold,
  the days are coming when all that is in your
  house, and what your fathers have accumulated
  until this day, shall be carried to Babylon
  nothing shall be left, says the LORD.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• 18And they shall take away some of your sons who
  will descend from you, whom you will beget and
  they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king
  of Babylon. 19 So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, The
  word of the LORD which you have spoken is good!
  For he said, Will there not be peace and truth
  at least in my days?

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• Without a doubt the faith of Hezekiah deeply
  influenced his son Manasseh.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• Without a doubt the faith of Hezekiah deeply
  influenced his son Manasseh.
• He had access to one of the greatest of Old
  Testament prophets Isaiah.

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• Without a doubt the faith of Hezekiah deeply
  influenced his son Manasseh.
• He had access to one of the greatest of Old
  Testament prophets Isaiah.
• Would you want Gods will to guide you as king?

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• Without a doubt the faith of Hezekiah deeply
  influenced his son Manasseh.
• He had access to one of the greatest of Old
  Testament prophets Isaiah.
• Would you want Gods will to guide you as king?
• Any man who knows the one true God would rejoice
  at this blessing. Ex. King Jehoshaphat (2 Chron
  206,12)

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• 2 Chronicles 206 (NKJV) - and said O LORD God
  of our fathers, are You not God in heaven, and do
  You not rule over all the kingdoms of the
  nations, and in Your hand is there not power and
  might, so that no one is able to withstand You?

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The Advantages of Manasseh

• 2 Chronicles 2012 (NKJV) - O our God, will You
  not judge them? For we have no power against this
  great multitude that is coming against us nor do
  we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• Even with the great advantages Manasseh had, he
  still could choose evil!

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The Choice of Manasseh

• Even with the great advantages Manasseh had, he
  still could choose evil!
• He became king at 12 years old. (2 Kings 211)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 211 (NKJV) - Manasseh was twelve years
  old when he became king, and he reigned
  fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mothers name
  was Hephzibah.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• At this age he would be very susceptible to the
  advice of the princes of Judah. Rehaboam fell to
  this influence. (1 Kings 126-8)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 1 Kings 126-8 (NKJV) - Then King Rehoboam
  consulted the elders who stood before his father
  Solomon while he still lived, and he said, How
  do you advise me to answer these people?

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 7And they spoke to him, saying, If you will be a
  servant to these people today, and serve them,
  and answer them, and speak good words to them,
  then they will be your servants forever. 8 But
  he rejected the advice which the elders had given
  him, and consulted the young men who had grown up
  with him, who stood before him.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• When someone makes a stand they will determine
  what kind of company they will keep, Often this
  will be for a lifetime and for an eternity!(1 Cor
  1533)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 1 Corinthians 1533 (NKJV) - Do not be deceived
  Evil company corrupts good habits.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• Manasseh completely gave himself over to evil.
  Look at what he did. (2 Kgs 212)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 212 (NKJV) - And he did evil in the
  sight of the LORD, according to the abominations
  of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before
  the children of Israel.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• He worshipped idol Gods and built altars in
  Israel. These are the Assyrian gods that were
  completely discredited by God during hid fathers
  reign! (2 Kgs 213)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 213 (NKJV) - For he rebuilt the high
  places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed
  he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden
  image, as Ahab king of Israel had done and he
  worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• The appeal of these gods was not truth but the
  flesh. Fornication was allowed and practiced as a
  rite.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• To many the sin of fornication is the first step
  away from the Lord.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• To many the sin of fornication is the first step
  away from the Lord.
• He desecrated the temple of the true God. (2
  Kings 214-5)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 214-5 (NKJV) - He also built altars in
  the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had
  said, In Jerusalem I will put My name. 5 And he
  built altars for all the host of heaven in the
  two courts of the house of the LORD.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• When one departs from worshipping the one true
  God there remains no restraints. (Rom 121, 24)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• Romans 121 (NKJV) - because, although they knew
  God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were
  thankful, but became futile in their thoughts,
  and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• Romans 124 (NKJV) - Therefore God also gave
  them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their
  hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

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The Choice of Manasseh

• He killed his own children in pursuit of
  pleasure. (2 Kings 216)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 216 (NKJV) - Also he made his son pass
  through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used
  witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums.
  He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to
  provoke Him to anger.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• How many families are destroyed by sin?

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The Choice of Manasseh

• How many families are destroyed by sin?
• What is the main reason for the millions of
  abortions in this country?

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The Choice of Manasseh

• He disdained the word of God. (2 Kings 217-8)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 217-8 (NKJV) - He even set a carved
  image of Asherah that he had made, in the house
  of which the LORD had said to David and to
  Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem,
  which I have chosen out of all the tribes of
  Israel, I will put My name forever

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 8 and I will not make the feet of Israel wander
  anymore from the land which I gave their
  fathersonly if they are careful to do according
  to all that I have commanded them, and according
  to all the law that My servant Moses commanded
  them.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• He wanted a worship relevant for his generation.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• He no longer wanted a negative religion based
  upon dos and donts.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 219 (NKJV) - But they paid no
  attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more
  evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed
  before the children of Israel.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• These people were willingly led.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• Often in history Gods people become ripe for
  apostasy.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• Often in history Gods people become ripe for
  apostasy.
• Manasseh hated the rebuke of faithful prophets.(2
  Kings 2110-15)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 2110-15 (NKJV) - And the LORD spoke by
  His servants the prophets, saying, 11Because
  Manasseh king of Judah has done these
  abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all
  the Amorites who were before him, and has also
  made Judah sin with his idols),

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 12 therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel
  Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon
  Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it,
  both his ears will tingle. 13 And I will stretch
  over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and
  the plummet of the house of Ahab I will wipe
  Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and
  turning it upside down.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 14 So I will forsake the remnant of My
  inheritance and deliver them into the hand of
  their enemies and they shall become victims of
  plunder to all their enemies, 15 because they
  have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me
  to anger since the day their fathers came out of
  Egypt, even to this day.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• God was merciful to give Him warning.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• Manasseh responded by murdering the righteous. (2
  Kings 2116)

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The Choice of Manasseh

• 2 Kings 2116 (NKJV) - Moreover Manasseh shed
  very much innocent blood, till he had filled
  Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his
  sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in
  the sight of the LORD.

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The Choice of Manasseh

• In all probability one of these murdered men was
  Isaiah!

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• God kept his word concerning Manasseh. (2 Chron
  3310-11)

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• 2 Chronicles 3310-11 (NKJV) - And the LORD
  spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would
  not listen. 11Therefore the LORD brought upon
  them the captains of the army of the king of
  Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him
  with bronze fetters, and carried him off to
  Babylon.

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• Was this good or bad for Manasseh?

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• Was this good or bad for Manasseh?
• Many are like Pharaoh and are hardened by
  humiliation.

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• Was this good or bad for Manasseh?
• Many are like Pharaoh and are hardened by
  humiliation.
• Manasseh made a genuine repentance to God. (2
  Chron 3312-13)

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• 2 Chronicles 3312-13 (NKJV) - Now when he was
  in affliction, he implored the LORD his God, and
  humbled himself greatly before the God of his
  fathers, 13and prayed to Him and He received his
  entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him
  back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh
  knew that the LORD was God.

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• Why did he remember God at this time? Because of
  the past efforts of Godly parents and other godly
  people. The seed was there.

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• Why did he remember God at this time? Because of
  the past efforts of Godly parents and other godly
  people. The seed was there.
• Give Manasseh credit, he came back to God. His
  future life showed it! (2 Chron 3314-16)

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• 2 Chronicles 3314-16 (NKJV) - After this he
  built a wall outside the City of David on the
  west side of Gihon, in the valley, as far as the
  entrance of the Fish Gate and it enclosed Ophel,
  and he raised it to a very great height. Then he
  put military captains in all the fortified cities
  of Judah.

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• 15 He took away the foreign gods and the idol
  from the house of the LORD, and all the altars
  that he had built in the mount of the house of
  the LORD and in Jerusalem and he cast them out
  of the city. 16 He also repaired the altar of the
  LORD, sacrificed peace offerings and thank
  offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the
  LORD God of Israel.

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The Fall and Repentance of Manasseh

• Remember one can never fall too low to be
  forgiven if they repent.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• He could not bring back those he put to death!

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• He could not bring back those he put to death!
• Oh, how he needed Isaiah now.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• He could not bring back those he put to death!
• Oh, how he needed Isaiah now.
• He could not save those who died in the idolatry
  he introduced. (Heb 927)

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Hebrews 927 (NKJV) - And as it is appointed for
  men to die once, but after this the judgment,

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• How often does sin create things that cannot be
  undone.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• How often does sin create things that cannot be
  undone.
• He could not bring forth a full restoration of
  the nation. (2 Chron 3317)

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• 2 Chronicles 3317 (NKJV) - Nevertheless the
  people still sacrificed on the high places, but
  only to the LORD their God.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Mistakes made at one period of life often have
  consequences you cannot change later.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• How often do you see children of different ages
  show the attitudes of parents at given times in
  their lives.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• How often do you see children of different ages
  show the attitudes of parents at given times in
  their lives.
• He could not save his own son.(2 Chron 3321-23)

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• 2 Chronicles 3321-23 (NKJV) - Amon was
  twenty-two years old when he became king, and he
  reigned two years in Jerusalem. 22 But he did
  evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father
  Manasseh had done for Amon sacrificed to all the
  carved images which his father Manasseh had made,
  and served them.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• 23 And he did not humble himself before the LORD,
  as his father Manasseh had humbled himself but
  Amon trespassed more and more.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• He was named after an idol God of Egypt.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• He was named after an idol God of Egypt.
• What would his son have said to him after his
  change?

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• He was named after an idol God of Egypt.
• What would his son have said to him after his
  change?
• He could not clear his own name. (2 Chron
  3318-19)

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• 2 Chronicles 3318-19 (NKJV) - Now the rest of
  the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and
  the words of the seers who spoke to him in the
  name of the LORD God of Israel, indeed they are
  written in the book of the kings of Israel.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• 19Also his prayer and how God received his
  entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the
  sites where he built high places and set up
  wooden images and carved images, before he was
  humbled, indeed they are written among the
  sayings of Hozai.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Like the scars on his lips, his past would not go
  away.

100
The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Like the scars on his lips, his past would not go
  away.
• Everyone for all time knows of his actions.

101
The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• He could not avert the eventual destruction of
  his people.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• He could not avert the eventual destruction of
  his people.
• The Babylonians did come and wipe Jerusalem as a
  dish.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• He could not avert the eventual destruction of
  his people.
• The Babylonians did come and wipe Jerusalem as a
  dish.
• When this happened Manasseh was given credit.
  (Jer 151-4)

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Jeremiah 151-4 (NKJV) - Then the LORD said to
  me, Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My
  mind would not be favorable toward this people.
  Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

105
The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• 2And it shall be, if they say to you, Where
  should we go? then you shall tell them, Thus
  says the LORD Such as are for death, to death
  And such as are for the sword, to the sword And
  such as are for the famine, to the famine And
  such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• 3And I will appoint over them four forms of
  destruction, says the LORD the sword to slay,
  the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and
  the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. 4I
  will hand them over to trouble, to all kingdoms
  of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of
  Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in
  Jerusalem.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Manasseh was saved, but his influence was felt
  for generations.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Remember the consequences of sin! (Ex 347) Ex.
  Man who quit in Abbeville.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Exodus 347 (NKJV) - keeping mercy for
  thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression
  and sin, by no means clearing the guilty,
  visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
  children and the childrens children to the third
  and the fourth generation.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Remember our question Does it pay to live a life
  of sin as long as I can repent and be saved
  before I die? Answer NO, NO, NO!

111
The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Remember our question Does it pay to live a life
  of sin as long as I can repent and be saved
  before I die? Answer NO, NO, NO!
• Sin is the worst news this world has ever known!

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Remember our question Does it pay to live a life
  of sin as long as I can repent and be saved
  before I die? Answer NO, NO, NO!
• Sin is the worst news this world has ever known!
• Not even the blood of Christ can remove all
  consequences.

113
The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Remember our question Does it pay to live a life
  of sin as long as I can repent and be saved
  before I die? Answer NO, NO, NO!
• Sin is the worst news this world has ever known!
• Not even the blood of Christ can remove all
  consequences.
• Sin scars the conscience, the body and the soul.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Sin destroys nations, families, friends and
  children.

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The Unstoppable Consequences of the Sins of
Manasseh

• Sin destroys nations, families, friends and
  children.
• Should you give into one sin with the thought
  that you will be forgiven later? THINK.