Look To The One Who Comes To You
Text: 2 Chronicles 28:8-15 In the name of Jesus. Amen. From start to finish, Judah’s king, Ahaz, rejected the worship of God Almighty and instead embraced the gods of the surrounding nations. Indeed, Ahaz worshipped a fake god named Baal, a Canaanite deity, by crafting statues of Baal and placing them in prominent places throughout the land of Judah. Taking his idolatry even further, Ahaz introduced some of the most horrifying practices in Judah’s religious life. In the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, he offered his own son as an offering to the fake god, Molech. In these rituals, children and babies were placed on a statue, and a fire was lit beneath it, heating it to extreme temperatures—thousands of children sacrificed for the bloodthirsty false god of Molech. Lord have mercy! Ahaz continued to dedicate himself to pagan worship of Asherah across the land, as he set up altars in places that were traditionally used for worship. And so, on every hill and under every lush green tree
