King Hezekiah- The Restorer of the Ancient Path

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King Hezekiah came at the time  of great moral and spiritual decadence in Judah.
The people had forsaken God and worship baalim. The Levites and priests were defiled worshiping false gods and had ceased to  be at their duty posts singing and performing the daily sacrifices; the Temple was in ruins contaminated with filth.

Hezekiah had no good fatherly influence; his father, King Ahaz was baal worshiper who provoked the Lord to great wrath by burning his children and committing many unprintable evils.
His mother, Abijah the daughter of Zachariah must have taught him the laws of God and put in his heart the desire to love and fear God.

Nevertheless, Hezekiah choose to fear God, maybe he had noticed a pattern in the lives of his predecessors that when they serve God, they succeeded in all areas of life- military, economically and socially, etc. Matt 6:33,  However, if they turned away from God and choose to follow Baal and other gods, he equally rejected them and everything else failed.  

Hezekiah in wisdom, vowed in his heart to serve God and the first thing he did was to opened the doors of the temple. 
 Now this applies to people of this age.
The first course to salvation is to open the doors of your hearts humbly to the Lord, confess him and believe in him wholeheartedly as your Lord and Saviour . Rom 10:9.

Thereafter, Hezekiah invited the Levites and Priests who had contaminated themselves with the worship of baal to sanctify themselves.   
Now this is a second definite work of grace known as sanctification which calls for a deeper level of consecration and separation from worldly behaviors, lifestyle and beliefs. Sanctification is working out your 'professed' salvation with fear and trembling. It implies removing the unclean thing from you. It is living in holiness without spots or blemish. it is sanctification that ensures you make heaven. Ephesians 5:27.

 Now this is the thing, some Believers of the twenty first century believe holiness or living above sin is not attainable but would our LORD God give the command if it was impossible to obey? The answer is No. He says be ye holy for i am holy. I Peter 1:1-16.

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