Why We Idolaters So Sorely Need the Lord's Patience and Redemption [Family Worship lesson in 2Kings 21:1–16]

How did Manasseh and Judah so greatly provoke the Lord to wrath upon their nation/church? 2Kings 21:1–16 looks forward to the first serial reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these sixteen verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that Manasseh’s provocations against the Lord were so great because he not only spurned the Lord’s image in man by murder, but even spurned the Lord Himself by idolatry, despite being entrusted with the place and the worship with which the Lord had specifically identified Himself. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)