Life-Study of 1 Chronicles

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Life-Study of 1 & 2 Chronicles _{Message 1}

An Introductory Word
I. First and second Chronicles being one book in the Hebrew Scriptures
II. The writer
III. The time
IV. The place
V. The content
VI. The central thought
A. To give a full chronology of God’s move in man’s history
B. To present some important details of God’s dealing with the kings of Judah
C. To give a complete history of God’s move in man’s history
VII. The sections of the coverage of the present study

The Reproduction of God _{Message 2}

Man created according to God’s kind
God becoming a man
The one grain producing many grains
God doing the work of transformation with patience
Revolutionized by realizing who we are
The staleness of fundamental Christianity
The high peak of the divine revelation

The Genealogy from Adam to the Twelve Tribes of Israel _{Message 3}

The Highest Point of God's Gospel _{Message 4}

God’s kind and mankind
God becoming a man to produce God-man kind
God blending the nations on earth that we, the God-men, may be blended into one Body
The deification of man
Revolutionized by realizing that we are God-men
Preaching the truth that God became a man that man may become God in life and in nature and living the life of a God-man to bring in a new revival and to end this age

The Supplement to the History of David _{Message 5}

I. David’s preparation of the materials for the building of the temple of God in abundance
II. David’s charge to Solomon
III. David’s charge to all the leaders of Israel
IV. David’s arrangement of the order of the services of the priests and the Levites
A. Making Solomon his son king over Israel
B. The priests being ordered in twenty-four divisions
C. The divisions of the services of the Levites
1. The services of the descendants of the three sons of Levi
2. All the serving Levites serving alongside the priests
3. The rest of the Levites casting lots for their duty
4. David and the leaders of the army setting apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun
5. The doorkeepers being divided into divisions
6. Of the Levites, some being assigned to keep the treasures of the house of God
7. Of the Levites, some being appointed to outward duties
8. David’s arrangement typifying the Spirit’s arrangement
V. The officers in the administration of David’s government
A. The officers who served the king being of twelve divisions
B. Thirteen captains ruling over the twelve tribes and the house of Aaron
C. There being officers over the king’s treasures
D. David having counselors, teachers, friends, and the captain of his army
E. Typifying the submission to the authority and headship of Christ in the church
VI. David’s assembling at Jerusalem all the leaders of Israel
A. His address to the assembly
1. Introducing his son Solomon to be the builder of the temple of God
2. Charging them to observe all the commandments of Jehovah
B. Charging Solomon his son to serve God and to build the temple of God
C. His preparation of the materials and his gifts for the building of the temple of God stirring up the leaders of Israel to offer willingly to God
D. His blessing to Jehovah in the sight of all the assembly
1. Praising God
2. Thanking God
3. Asking God
E. The response of all the assembly
1. Blessing Jehovah
2. Eating and drinking before Jehovah and making Solomon the son of David king a second time
F. David dying at a good old age

The Supplement to the History of the Kings of Judah (1) _{Message 6}

I. Of Rehoboam
A. Being capable and wise
B. Not laboring for God’s interest on the earth
C. His way and condition not being proper
D. The priests and the Levites throughout all Israel abandoning their property and going to Judah and Jerusalem
E. Rehoboam indulging his sexual lust
II. Of Abijah
A. Defeating Jeroboam the king of Israel
1. Proclaiming the apostasy of Jeroboam
2. Jeroboam and the children of Israel being defeated
B. Indulging in sexual lust
III. Of Asa
A. Asa building fortress cities in Judah
B. Asa defeating the Cushites
C. Asa’s further reforms
1. Through the advice and encouragement of the prophet Azariah
2. Putting away the abominations from all the land of Judah and Benjamin
3. Gathering all Judah and Benjamin and all the sojourners with them from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon
IV. Of Jehoshaphat
A. Strengthening himself against Israel
B. Jehovah being with him because he walked in the ways of David his father
C. Establishing the kingdom of God
D. Jehovah causing all the kingdoms around Judah to fear Jehoshaphat and give him tribute
E. Rebuked by Jehu the seer for helping Ahab
F. Setting up Judges throughout all the fortified cities of Judah to take care of all the cases of the people
G. Defeating the army of the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir by trusting in Jehovah
1. Setting his face to pursue Jehovah
2. Praying to Jehovah in the assembly
3. Jehovah answering his prayer through Jahaziel, a Levite
4. Jehovah destroying and demolishing their enemy

Being Fundamental in Full and Walking According to the All-Inclusive Spirit _{Message 7}

Standing on the proper ground and keeping the fundamental faith
The truth concerning the assurance of salvation and the truth concerning Christ as life
The truth concerning the New Jerusalem
The truth concerning deification — that God became a man that man may become God in life and in nature but not in the Godhead
Conducting ourselves according to the spirit

Learning from the Examples of the Kings of Judah to have a God-Man Living in Our Daily Life _{Message 8}

The kings of Judah standing on the proper ground
The kings of Judah keeping their fundamental faith in God’s word
Attracting to Jerusalem the priests, the Levites, and those from all the tribes who set their hearts to seek Jehovah
Examples referring to the way we conduct ourselves in the details of our daily living
What the Lord wants today
The enjoyment of Christ differing in degrees

The Supplement to the History of the Kings of Judah (2) _{Message 9}

V. Of Jehoram
A. Warned by Elijah the prophet
B. Jehovah stirring up the Philistines and Arabians against him
C. Jehovah striking him with an incurable illness
VI. Of Joash
A. Seeing the good pattern of the chief priest
B. Listening to the captains of Judah and forsaking the house of Jehovah
C. God sending prophets to the people of Judah and Jerusalem to bring them back to Jehovah
D. The army of the Syrians coming up against him
VII. Of Amaziah
A. Preparing three hundred thousand chosen men for war
B. A man of God advising Amaziah not to fight with the help of the army of Israel
C. Strengthening himself to fight the children of Edom
D. The men of Israel whom Amaziah sent back raiding the cities of Judah
E. Setting up the gods of the Edomites as his gods for worship
VIII. Of Uzziah (Azariah)
A. Defeating the Philistines, the Arabians, and the Meunim by the help of God
B. Building towers in Jerusalem and works of defense
C. His heart becoming uplifted to trespass against Jehovah and go into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense
IX. Of Ahaz
A. Jehovah delivering him into the hand of the king of Israel
B. Oded, a prophet of Jehovah, Advising the Children of Israel to return their captives from Judah
C. The heads of the children of Ephraim returning the captives to Judah

The Supplement to the History of the Kings of Judah (3) _{Message 10}

X. Of Hezekiah
A. Restoring the house of Jehovah
1. Charging the Levites and the priests to sanctify the house of Jehovah
2. The Levites and the priests doing it according to Hezekiah’s charge
3. Hezekiah and the leaders of the city worshipping God in the house of Jehovah
4. Charging the assembly of the people to offer sacrifices and thank offerings to God
B. Recovering the Passover
1. The degraded children of Israel not holding the Passover for a long time
2. Hezekiah recovering the Passover by sending letters to all Israel and Judah
a. Trying to keep the oneness of all God’s elect
b. Asking all the people of Israel and Judah to come to Jerusalem where the house of God was
c. Some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbling themselves and coming to Jerusalem
d. The hand of God being upon the people of Judah
3. A very great assembly gathering at Jerusalem to hold the Feast of Unleavened Bread
a. Removing the idolatrous altars in Jerusalem
b. The priests, the Levites, and the people sanctifying themselves unto God
c. Hezekiah praying for many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun
d. The children of Israel at Jerusalem holding the Feast of Unleavened Bread with great rejoicing and praising
4. All Israel in the cities of Judah going out to smash the pillars, hew down the Asherim, and pull down the high places and the altars
C. Setting the services of the priests and the Levites in order
1. Appointing the divisions of the priests and the Levites
2. Appointing his portion of his substance for the burnt offerings
3. Commanding the people who dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion for the priests and the Levites
4. Doing what was good, upright, and faithful before Jehovah his God with all his heart
D. Building a defense against the invasion of the Assyrians, trusting in God, and encouraging his people to do so
XI. Of Manasseh
A. Being disciplined by Jehovah
B. Entreating Jehovah his God and humbling himself greatly before the God of his fathers
C. Fortifying the city of David
D. Removing the foreign gods and the idol from the house of Jehovah
E. Restoring the altar of Jehovah and sacrificing on it
XII. Of Josiah
A. Beginning to seek after the God of David his father
B. Beginning to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the idols, and the molten images
C. Tearing down the altars throughout the land of Israel
XIII. The duration of the captivity of Israel and the proclamation of their release by Cyrus
A. The children of Israel becoming servants to the kings of Babylon for seventy years
B. Cyrus making a proclamation for Israel’s return to Jerusalem to build the temple of God

Living Christ for the Expression of God _{Message 11}

The law of God
The moral Law
The commandment regarding coveting dealing with an inward matter
The law being a portrait of God
The law being a type of Christ
The law being linked to God’s economy
To keep the law being to express God
Living the life of a God-man in our married life and in the church life
Our need for a real revival

A Concluding Word to the Supplement to the History of the Kings of Judah _{Message 12}

I. Covering only the kings of the kingdom of Judah
II. Remaining on the ground of the unity of God’s chosen people
III. Their condition not matching their standing
IV. Most of them forsaking God as the fountain of living waters and following the idols
V. None of them seeming to have a heart that was absolutely pure in seeking the kingdom of God
VI. Breaking the law of God
VII. The law of God, which was decreed through Moses, having two sections
A. The moral section
B. The ceremonial section
1. The laws of the tabernacle
2. The laws of the offerings
3. The laws of the priesthood
4. The laws of the feasts
VIII. God knowing that no man can keep the Ten Commandments as the moral section of His law to be justified by Him
IX. The entire law of God being decreed with the intention of exposing and convicting His people by the moral section that they would be conducted to the ceremonial section
X. The kings breaking the entire law of God and provoking the wrath of God
XI. To study the history books of the Old Testament in the way of life being to comply with God’s purpose

The Resemblance of God and Man in Their Images and Likenesses _{Message 13}

I. There being no “mankind” created by God in His creation
II. God creating Adam in His own image
III. Three men appearing to Abraham before Christ’s incarnation
IV. The angel of God appearing to Manoah and his wife
V. A Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven
VI. Adam being a type of Christ
VII. Christ being the image of the invisible God
VIII. The word becoming flesh
IX. Christ taking the form of a slave
X. Stephen seeing the Son of Man at the right hand of God
XI. The Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven
XII. Conformed to the image of God’s Son
XIII. Being transformed into the same image
XIV. Children of God without blemish
XV. The Lord transfiguring the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of His glory
XVI. We being like Him
XVII. God being like a jasper stone
XVIII. The New Jerusalem’s light being like a jasper stone

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