00:00 Introduction and Overview

00:27 Rehoboam's Reign and the Split of Israel

01:18 Civil War and Rehoboam's Defenses

01:49 Jeroboam's Folly and Rehoboam's Benefit

03:03 Rehoboam's Downfall and Lessons on Leadership

05:32 Humility and God's Response

07:38 Conclusion and Reflections

It's Monday, June 24th at 2024.

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And this is today's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Today, we're in second Chronicles,

chapters, 10 through 12.

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Some of this is going to be a bit

familiar because you've already

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read some of this and yesterday's

reading in the book of first Kings.

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Uh, of 12 through 14.

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But today, as we make our way into

chapter 10 of second Chronicles,

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you're going to see probably the,

the most familiar part, because this

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is almost a verbatim copy and paste.

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And there's a bit of overlap here,

whereas we're looking at the final years

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of king Rehoboam again, reablement the

Southern kingdom, king Solomon's son.

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And so you're going to see some

things here that he did yesterday.

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And you're going to see about the counsel

that he forced took from the elders.

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You're going to see the counsel

of his peers that he adopted.

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And you're going to see that God is

still markedly absent as a result of

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this, the Northern kingdom and the

Southern kingdom are going to splits.

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It is the year 9 31 BC in

this split will be forever.

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This is the rest of his.

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Israel's history.

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And it's going to have.

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Far reaching consequences.

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And the Northern kingdom,

Jeroboam the son of D.

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I bet we'll rule and he'll have the 10

Northern kingdoms and the Southern kingdom

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Rehoboam will have to, well, they're going

to say one, cause Judah absorbs Benjamin,

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but he has two, two tribes, not kingdoms.

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Clarify that.

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In second Chronicles, chapter

11, you have the beginning of

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a civil war that God stops.

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He does.

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So by the man called shamiah

the man of God, he tells him,

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Hey, don't fight your relatives.

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This is of me.

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And so Rehoboam relents that doesn't stop

Rhea bone from building his defenses.

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And so he fortify some of his cities.

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And he prepares for whatever

future of war that he encountered.

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And so he and Benjamin, remember

these two tribes work together.

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They become eventually known as

one, even though they are separate.

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And verses 13 through

the rest of chapter 11.

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You see some of the ways that Rehoboam

benefited from JIRA Boams folly.

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Now you remember Jeroboam he and Stu

institutes a new religion in the Northern

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kingdom puts two golden calves in

the north and the south consequently.

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The priests and the Levi's from

the tribe of Levi , are evicted.

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They're given the boot.

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They go down south to where

the, where the temple is.

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They go down south to where the

true worship of Yahweh exists.

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And verse 17 says they

strengthen the kingdom of Judah.

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And this took place for three years.

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And so Rehoboam benefits

greatly from this.

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Now this benefit is a short-term

situation, but just notice

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here God blesses and protects

Judah by what Jeroboam does.

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In verses 18 through the end of

chapter 11, you see some of the overlap

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between Solomon and Rehoboam like

father, like son, as the saying goes.

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Uh, seems like Rehoboam has a

great love for women, including

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Myka, the daughter of Absalom

above all his wives and concubines.

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He took 18 wives and 60 concubines.

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And he fathered lots

of sons and daughters.

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Now again, he's not quite as bad

as Solomon, but you see some of

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the elements that led to Solomon's

downfall also evident in life as well.

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Finally in second Chronicles, chapter 12.

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We have a little more

information about Rehoboam.

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Bombs rain.

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In fact what you'll notice here

at the beginning of chapter 12, it

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says this when the rule of Rehoboam

was established and he was strong.

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He abandoned the law of the Lord

and consequently, all Israel with

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him now, Israel, in this context,

Is speaking to the Southern kingdom.

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It probably has implications.

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For the Northern kingdom, but it's about

his leadership, his rule, his reign.

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As the leader goes.

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So go, the people as the husband goes,

so goes to the wife and the kids.

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As the boss goes, so goes the employees

as the pastor goes, so goes the church.

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Uh, this principle of leadership

and its impact on everyone else

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around us is pretty evident.

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It's not hard to see.

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But it is hard in the moment.

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To feel like it's going to

have that kind of effect.

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We think, oh, I'm just sending in secret.

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I'm just having this little bit of

sin over here and no one knows it's

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not going to affect anybody else.

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And that's just not true.

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Sin bleeds.

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It affects everybody else around us.

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It like cancer infects and affects

the people that we are privileged

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to love and to lead, especially if

you're in a position of leadership.

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Now you may not have a formal position.

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You might, you might not have a title

in your name, but you still have a

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position you're in some way, shape

or form influencing someone else.

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And I just need you to seek here

in a second Chronicles, chapter 12,

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how easily the sin of the leader

infects the sin of the follower and

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it influences them in negative ways.

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Now I also.

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I want you to see another thing.

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It was reablement success.

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It was his strength that

made him feel invincible.

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And this is what ultimately

led him away from the Lord.

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I can't help, but be reminded

of Proverbs chapter 30.

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Uh, well, remember we read this remove

far from me, falsehood and lying.

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Give me neither poverty nor riches.

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And feed me with a food

that is needful for me.

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The lest I be full and deny

you and say, who is the Lord?

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Or less IB pour in steel and

profane the name of my God.

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I think if reablement have prayed

this, this might have avoided a

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lot of pain and heartache in this

particular part of his reign.

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It was because he was successful.

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He was strong.

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He was established that he felt

like he didn't need God anymore.

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God in that sense, then let him go.

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And all Israel with him, the Southern

kingdom followed his leadership.

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But rest assured here, God is

not ambivalent toward this.

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He sends shack.

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The king of Egypt to come against

a RUSA them with all of his

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chariots and all of his horsemen.

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And he comes in power.

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What ends up happening though?

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Is that God sends.

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God sends a prophet to Rehoboam.

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And Rehoboam responds in humility.

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Check this out in verse eight.

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And then the princess of Israel

and the king humbled themselves

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and said, the Lord is righteous.

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That is what is what God is doing.

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Is perfectly right.

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This is what we deserve.

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He is fully justified vindicated

to do what he's doing.

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Now, check this out.

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This is even cooler.

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Verse seven.

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When the Lord saw that they

humbled themselves, the word

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of the Lord came to shamiah.

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They have humbled themselves.

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I will not destroy them, but I

will grant them some deliverance.

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And my wrath shall not be poured out

on Jerusalem by the hand of Shaq.

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Nevertheless, they shall

be servants to him.

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They will be vassals.

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Uh, that they may know my service and the

service of the kingdoms of the countries.

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And so God.

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Loves.

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I mean, it's like, God

is attracted to this.

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God is attracted to humility.

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In fact, we see several verses God

opposes the proud, but he gives

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grace to the humble and the, and the

king here Rehoboam is no different.

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God is so attracted to this, that

he relents on the full catastrophe

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that he promised to bring.

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And so, as a result of that, instead

of having his kingdom destroyed,

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he has his kingdom preserved.

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And he becomes only a vassal tissue shack.

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Could have been far worse now,

even though Rehoboam largely has a

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negative verdict on his reign, this is

actually a good, a good thing for him.

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This is a good season.

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Again, it's not, it's not fully good.

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It would've been better for him to be

fully humbled and to follow the Lord.

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But this is a good thing.

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I may encourage you if you're.

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If you're battling sin.

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And you're arguing with the Lord

or you're combating with him.

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Maybe this is a good reminder for you.

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But the Lord loves humility.

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Maybe instead of fighting with

him, maybe it's a good time

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to humble yourself before him.

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Maybe instead of arguing with

him about the way things are,

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maybe you should accept them.

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And ask God to help you change

instead of changing the situation.

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Some of you guys have been praying

a long time for things to change.

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And God hasn't done it yet.

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Maybe God's looking for

you to change instead.

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I don't know something to

think about as you work through

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second Chronicles, chapter 12.

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Well, as reablement rain

comes to a conclusion.

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Again, we saw this yesterday,

but now we're going to see

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the conclusion yet once more.

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We see that Rehoboam rained.

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Uh, for 17 years, he was 41

years old when he started ruling.

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And even then he really wasn't all

that wise, but he rained for 17 years.

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And he did evil in verse 14

and the side of the Lord.

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He did not set his heart to seek the Lord.

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His son Abijah or a bijum.

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Um, uh, by Jim, we'll

see his name tomorrow.

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Arraigned in his place.

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And now this is the son of maca.

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Absalom's daughter.

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I wonder if you're thinking

about your legacy, what's God

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going to say about your life.

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What's going to be the verdict.

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About your life before your

family, before your church, before

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your employees or your employer?

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What are people gonna say about you?

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Now, ultimately kind of doesn't matter.

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It doesn't matter what people say.

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Um, It doesn't matter to the extent

that we're not living for man's

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approval or applause, but we are

living for the applause of God.

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We're living for the approval of Christ.

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We want him to say, well done,

good and faithful servant.

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And that means.

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That if we're doing it right.

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The people who want the same thing are

going to identify that they're going to

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notice that and say, yes, they lived well.

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They live for the glory of God.

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I wonder what your

epitaph is going to say.

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I hope you're living for the right thing.

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So I hope you're not living

for the here and the now alone.

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There's there's wisdom and storing

up here and now being prepared.

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But we're not living for this.

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We're ultimately living

for the glory of God.

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And so I hope you're preparing for that.

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I hope Rehoboam is rain

is a good reminder.

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That ultimately what you should be doing

is putting Christ first seeking first,

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his kingdom and his righteousness.

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And then all the other things that

you need, there'll be added to you.

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. Hope you're living for that.

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Thanks for joining me again for another

edition of the daily Bible podcast.

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I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

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Same time, same place.