“Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:3 KJV
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king and didn’t live right in the eyes of God. Instead he followed in pagan worship and—incredibly!—indulged in the outrageous practice of “passing his sons through the fire,” a truly abominable thing he picked up from the pagans. He also joined in the activities of the neighborhood sex-and-religion shrines that flourished all over the place. Ahaz took the Jews to another level of apostasy, abandoning the God of Israel. When we encounter the resurrected Christ and His grace of forgiveness, we cannot help but to love Him. Therefore we cannot deny Him. Yet it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. In the last days of this age we’re living in, many will depart from faith in Jesus Christ. Let’s not be in this category but deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Christ. Amen!
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