Forsaking God or This World

Theme: Our Hearts Easily Serve the Things We See as or Others Tell Us are Important, Leading To Judgment Rather than Serving the God Who is Our Creator and Judge.
I. Following the Wicked into Wickedness and Receiving the Penalty of Wickedness – vv. 1-6
A. Ahaz Reigns over Judah – vv. 1-2
B. Ahaz Doesn't Follow His Good Father, He Follows the Evil Kings of Israel – vv. 3-4
C. God Calls Ahaz Back by the Seige of Jerusalem and Overthrow of Elath – vv. 5-6
II. Hardship, Sent by God to Call Us Back to Him, Often Drives Us Away From God – vv. 7-20
A. Ahaz Fears Man more than God by Sending the Money from the Lord's Temple to Appease Assyria – vv. 7-9
B. Ahaz Replaces the Bronze Altar with One Patterned After One He Saw in Syria – vv. 10-16
C. Ahaz Further Defaces the Temple to Gather Money for His Kingdom – vv. 17-18
D. Ahaz Died and Good King Hezekiah Reigned in His Place – vv. 19-20