The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1904-11-11

Copyright. 1904, by American Press Association ]
All that had been accomplished thus
FAR In saving Joash from the rage Of
having him amounted king was through
the faithfulness Of Jeholada. the priest,
and his wife, Jehoshabeath, showing us
how much may be accomplished for
God by a faithful, fearless, devoted
man or woman. Jehoiada lived to be
100 years old, and when he died they
buried him In the city OF David among
the kings because he had done good In
Israel both toward God and toward His
house Oh Chron. xiv, 10, 100. His
name signifies known OF Jehovah" and
that is better than to be known and
honored of all men. To be truly the
Lords and to live for Him Is every
thing. All else Is nothing, no matter
how men may praise 1t. While Joash
had such a counselor he did right in the
sight of the Lord, but not perfectly, for
the high places We're not taken away,
and the people still sacrificed and burn
ed incense there Oversees 2, -. The BIZ
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everything did right before God
Under the teaching and guidance OF
Jehoiada the young king was minded 10
repair the house Of the Lord and to that
end sent priests and Levites into all the
cities OF judah to gather money for the
work, and they were commanded to
! hasten II, for the sons Of Athaliah, that
/ xt-fa ho
house OF God and had bestowed the
dedicated things upon Baalim. But six
teen years passed, and the house was
not repaired. There was something of
God and something of man in this;
hence the delay, for mans way of do
! ing always binders Gods work. 1t was
no doubt of God to repair the temple,
but to go after the people for the money
with which to do this was not the
Lords way; hence it failed. l cannot
| believe that we are to wait upon people
! individually for money with which to
carry on His work, yet there is so much
of it.done and so many ways devised to
get money from all sorts Of people to
! this end.
wonder that the priests under the re-
proof of Joash would consent neither to
receive money nor to repair the house
| Oversees G-S). So the kings plan failed.
But now see better way: At the sug-
gestion Of Jehoiada a chest with n hole
in the lid Of it is placed beside The altar
at the entrance to the house of the
Lord, and willing people brought their
offerings TO it. and thus money was
gathered in abundance day by Gay.
Again and again the chest was emptied
and put back Ia its place TO receive
more. All the princes and all the peo-
pie rejoiced and brought in and east in
to the chest until they had made an
end. So the workmen wrought, and the
work was perfected by them, and they
set the house OF God in his state and
strengthened II. The overSeers of the
work were unusually faithful, for those
who gave them the money with which
to pay the workmen kept no reckoning
with them Verse 49,.
Compare carefully the account in III
Chron. xiv, with our lesson for today.
The work being finished, they offered
burnt offerings in the house OF, the Lord
continually all the days OF Jahoiada Oh
Chron. xiv, 14), and thus the Lord was
honored again In His own house which
had been % desecrated by the ungodty,
and all through faithful Jeho4eda and
his house. II we will say as Joshua
dd, AZ for me and my house, we Will
ssrvs tbs Lord gosh. XIV, La, Gsd
will surely bless rs and make rs q
blessing to many. The heart Of this
iAason n the house Of tho Lord. It's dss-
scxation and restoration.
Both tabernacle and temple, built for
God to dwell In among His people (Ex.
XIV, 81, were typical Of the True Taber-
nacle, Jesus Christ (Heb. viii, /, p, and
every good priest and prophet and king
Is also a type of Him In whom God
dwelt perfectly. The church Is now
His dwelling place on earth, not any
building made with hands nor any 80
called denomination, but the company
Of all true believers wherever found,
and all who are true believers are ex-
peuted ~ Yield themselves and their
possessions wholly to God that He may
make use of them to gather from all ma
tons the members of His body who are
not yet gathered that so the temple may
be finished and the kingdom come.
There is very great need for Jehola-
das who will fearlessly and faithfully
honor the Lord alone. Individual be-
levers are also temples of the Lord. and
there is great need of such as are will
ing to be wholly consecrated TO Him q
Cor. vi, 10, 20; II Cor. vi, 14-1S), whose
constant motto is, what wilt thou,
Lord p "Where wilt thouf' and whose
whole heart says gladly, Whose am
and whom | serve" (Acts tx, 6; Luke
xxi, o.; Acts xvii. 23). 1t was a sad
day for Joash when the good priest, his
faithful counselor, died, for then came
the princes of Judah and persuaded the
king to forsakc the house of the Lord
ond serve groves and idols, and, al
though the Lord sent prophets to turn
the people again to Himself, the people