Rod's Recommended Resources for Kings and Chronicles:

Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps, and Time Lines

Synopsis of the Old Testament

A Synoptic Harmony of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles: With Related Passages from Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezra

Print Outs (PR's favorites):

Kings of Judah & Israel

Kings of Judah & Israel (2)

00:00 I'm Sick But Still With You!

00:48 Overview of Second Chronicles 10-12

02:26 The Revolt Against Rehoboam

05:24 Rehoboam Secures His Kingdom

07:29 Rehoboam's Downfall and Lessons Learned

11:50 Conclusion and Prayer

13:09 Out!

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Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It's Pastor Rod with you yet again,

and thank you so much for joining me.

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It is always a privilege and an honor

to be able to serve you in this way.

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If you can hear it, my voice,

I'm a little under the weather.

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Don't know what happened, but Pastor PJ

left and then things started happening.

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Busyness started abounding,

and then God's you know what?

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On top of all that, I'm going to tie

you up a little bit by making your body

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just sick enough to be annoying, but

not so much that you'll be laid out.

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I actually appreciate that.

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I'm grateful I'm not lying in

bed right now languishing and

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just wishing life were over.

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I am functional and I'm thankful

for that, and I'm asking the

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Lord to quickly get me over this.

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I have a lot of stuff to get

done in the next couple weeks and

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I'd really like to be healthy.

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I think I'll do better

that way as we all do.

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So if you would pray with me and pray

for me, I would really appreciate that.

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Okay.

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Second Chronicles chapters 10, 11, and 12.

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This is the parallel account we just

read yesterday, one Kings 12, 13, and 14.

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And we see the same thing today,

but again as Second Chronicles

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and one Chronicles does, it gives

us a slightly different picture.

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A lot of it is the same, it's

even worded in much the same way.

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But Kings serve to tell the history of

the United Individ kingdoms and ultimately

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their fall and what led to those falls.

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In First Chronicles and Second Chronicles,

what you have is a God's eye view of both

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the Davidic reign and First Chronicles,

and then you have a God's eye view

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of the reigns of the kings of Judah.

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And so you have slightly

different commentary on it.

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You have slightly different approaches and

different focus focal points with that.

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What we're looking at today is a

god's eye view of the divided kingdom.

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Now, everything that you have read in

One Kings is meant to be carried over.

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As you read this, there's no indication

that the author of Second Chronicles

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expects that this is the first time

that you're coming across this.

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So we are expecting to have

certain information already with

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you as you read these things.

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We have the expectation that this

is written for post Exilic Israel.

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That is, it's meant to encourage

them and to showcase to them how

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God can bless them, even though

all these things have happened.

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And so we jump back in parachuting

into Second Chronicles chapter 10.

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And by the way, yesterday I

gave you a lot of resources that

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I suggested that you pick up.

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I will copy and paste those

resources into our show notes.

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So whatever podcast platform you're using,

there should be show notes there, which

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will also give you our chapters so that

you can skip around where you see fit.

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But the show notes will have the links

to the resources that I recommended,

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and if you so choose, that's a

slightly easier way to go find them.

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Second Chronicles chapter 10.

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This is, as it says here, the revolt.

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Against Rehoboam.

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Now you remember this.

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Most of it is the same.

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And the one thing I wanna mention

to you in two Chronicles 10, that's

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slightly different, actually, it's

not quite different, I'm just gonna

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bring it up to your attention.

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But you'll notice here that in two

Chronicles chapter 10, there's a couple

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words that are used that are reminiscent

of something earlier in Israel's history.

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And this happens in verse four, the people

say, your father made our yoke heavy.

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Now therefore, lighten the hard service

of your father and his heavy yoke on us.

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This is actually reminiscent

of Israel's time in Egypt.

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When they were under Egypt.

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They complained about the

hard service of their masters.

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And so here.

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There is a subtle clue or an indication

that they're basically equating

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Solomon's leadership with the kind of

slavery that they endured under Egypt.

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And so their complaints is, just in the

sense that when God heard them complain

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in the Book of Exodus, he delivered them.

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So maybe that's what's happening here.

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As you remember, r Boem takes counsel

with two parties, one the old men

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and then the other, the young men.

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And he likes the young

men's advice better.

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And in fact, probably as a rule of thumb,

it's better to get advice from a plurality

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of sources, not just a singular source.

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And often we go to our favorite people,

and granted, we should find wise people,

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so hopefully that's your inclination.

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But we should get a variety of

resources when it comes to wisdom.

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And here he does do that.

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Rhe bow does do that,

but he doesn't listen.

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For whatever reason, he chooses

to find the advice of his friends

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more palatable and he applies it.

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And then of course we have in verse 15,

the king didn't listen to the people.

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He failed to listen as

carefully as he should have.

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And if perhaps he did, maybe

things would've been different.

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But verse 15 tells us that this was a

turn of affairs brought about by God,

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that the Lord might fulfill his word.

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Let the record show God

will have the last word.

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There's never a time when your life

or anyone else's life for that matter,

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goes in a direction that he does not

decide everything about your life.

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Everything about what you do

is ultimately God's decision.

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The lot is cast in the lap, but

its decision is from the Lord.

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We read this in Proverbs, chapter 16.

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The heart of a man plans his way,

but the Lord establishes his steps.

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And here we see the evidence of God

moving people exactly where he wants

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them, even though the movement in

this case is apart from one another.

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And this is a division that's

gonna haunt them for years to come.

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But this is of the Lord, and therefore

we had to recognize that not only

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in two Chronicles chapter 10.

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But also in your life in 2025, God

is still arranging the pieces on

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the chess board as he sees fit.

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It is up to us to trust him

and to know that he's leading

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us exactly as he wants us to.

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In verse 18, it says, king bu sent Hadum.

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This is a different spelling than what you

came across in the First King's narrative.

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Not to be alarmed, this is the same guy.

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We will see that again

in the Book of Kings.

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There's gonna be kings with different

names similar names anyway, but

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they have different phonetical

pronunciations, and so you have it here.

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Hadum in Adora, same guy.

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And that concludes second

Chronicles chapter 10.

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In second, Chronicles chapter 11,

you have R Boem securing his kingdom.

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And you remember in the first King's

narrative, Rehoboam says, all right,

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let's gather all the troops from

Judah and Benjamin and let's fight

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against Israel so we can restore the

kingdom back to united under, back to

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let's restore the kingdom

back to a united whole.

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But God decides to stop that and

he sends Shamiah the man of God

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and says, Hey, don't do this.

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This is my doing.

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And they wisely stand down.

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Better never to go

against the Lord's doing.

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But what he does do, and this is

different to the text and Chronicles,

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is that he builds his defenses.

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And so you'll see if you jot out the

places that are listed here, you'll see

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that it's basically the northern border.

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Of his kingdom.

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So the southern kingdom of Judah

is building her defenses on the

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northern side against any PO potential

opposition from the northern Kingdom.

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And verse 12 says he does this and he,

as a consequence, he held Judah and

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Benjamin, which is to say that he's

maintaining at least those two tribes,

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even though he lost the prior tent.

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A benefit of this division is that the

priests and the Levites who were in

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the Northern Tribes migrate down to be

part of the Authentic Temple Services.

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And so verse 14 says, A Levites left

their common lands and their holdings

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and came to Judah in Jerusalem because

Jira Boem and his sons cast them out

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from serving as priests of the Lord.

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And you remember the reason why is

because Jira boem installs two calves

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to worship, both in Dan the northern,

most part of the Northern Kingdom,

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and Bethel, one of the southern

most parts of the Northern Kingdom.

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They install their own priests.

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They install their own religious system,

and so the authentic guys have no place

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to go, and so they go south to Judah.

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This is the benefit because verse 17 says

they strengthened the kingdom of Judah,

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and for three years they made a rebo.

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The Sons of Solomon secure, so God

blesses them all because of Jone's

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foolishness and his disobedience.

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We have a small section two with

the last part of second Chronicles

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11 in verses 18 through 23.

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We have a few notes

about Ria, Bo's family.

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Two Chronicles Chapter 12.

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Notice here in the first verse of

chapter 12, it says, when the rule

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of Rehoboam was established and he

was strong, he abandoned the law of

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the Lord and to all Israel with him.

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Just like he abandoned the council

of the old men in the prior chapter,

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now he abandons the law of the Lord.

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And so I wonder if this is a

subtle clue that he was meant

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to listen to the old men.

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Now granted, ultimately he was

meant to do exactly what he did

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'cause that was the Lord's doing.

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But I wonder if what God is alluding

to here is that he should have

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listened to the counsel of his elders.

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I think everybody who has gray hair

on this podcast probably said Amen.

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But here, notice it's when he's

strong that he becomes weak.

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It is when he is most secure, that he's

actually most threatened by his own sin.

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He's deceived by his strength.

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He's deceived by the fact that

he has peace, or at least some

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relative concept of peace.

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And it is at that point that he

abandons the law of the Lord.

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Let the record show for

us that success has.

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Enormous dangers to us because they

make us think that in some way,

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shape, or form, those things are

really the things that protect us.

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It's our money or it's our health, or it's

something else besides the Lord himself.

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Remember, it's when the rule of

Ria B was established and he was

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strong, he abandoned the law.

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So be careful if the Lord

has you in a weak situation.

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Again, no one loves this.

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No one wants to be there, but

this is maybe the way that the

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Lord's keeping it close to him.

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Paul says in two Corinthians chapter 12,

it's when I'm weak that I'm truly strong.

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It's when I'm not able to depend on

my own resources that I'm, I have

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to, I must depend on the resources

of God and that's where we should be.

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This is where Reone goes wrong.

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So second Chronicles.

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Chapter 12 is where

things go awry for Reone.

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We have some more information here about

the attack of Shish Shk, king of Egypt.

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When we read it in the First King's

narrative, we did not read one of the

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critical portions that we have here.

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And so Shamiah, the prophet comes

in, verse five, came to Ria.

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Bowman says, here's what's happened.

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You've abandoned me, so I abandoned you.

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This is not God being petty.

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This is God issuing fatherly discipline.

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And that's exactly what takes place here.

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But notice in verse six, something really

fascinating and quite interesting to me,

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at least, maybe to you as well, verse

six, the Prince of Israel and the King.

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Humbled themselves.

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They humbled themselves and

they said the Lord is righteous.

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In other words, what's happening

is exactly what we deserve.

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This is what should happen.

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The fact that shack is coming

to attack us is something that

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we have earned by our behavior.

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And notice, verse seven,

this is so beautiful.

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When the Lord saw that they humbled

themselves and the word, rather, when the

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Lord saw that they humbled themselves,

the word of the Lord came to shamiah.

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They have humbled themselves.

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I will not destroy them.

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This is a thing of beauty.

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This is how God acts with his people.

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When we repent, God forgives.

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When we do right after doing wrong,

God is willing and able to restore us

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and to cease his disciplinary hand.

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Christian, are you living in

a period of sin right now?

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Are things going poorly for you because

you're not walking with the Lord?

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We'll take a note from

their playbook here.

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Humble yourself.

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Acknowledge that the Lord is good, and

perhaps the Lord will withdraw his hand.

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The Lord is ever present and ready

to forgive, and we ought never to

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forget that the Lord is a humble

and gracious God who's eager

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to show kindness to his people.

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Now, I would encourage you to

throw yourself at his mercy and

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let him show you how good he is.

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And so we have this occasion here

where shish act, the King of Egypt,

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comes against Israel even though they

could have destroyed them altogether.

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God shows grace to re boem and

the people, and he only lets

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them plunder them a little bit.

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He replaces their.

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There're shields of gold

with shields of bronze.

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And even though they've taken a beating,

they're still able to live on after that.

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And the final verses of this section

here, we find out that Rehoboam grew

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strong in Jerusalem and he reigned.

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He was 41 years old when he began to

reign, and he reigned for 17 years.

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And so we have the beginning

of the divided kingdom under

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Rehoboam for the tribes of Judah.

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And Benjamin Notice in verse 14 it

says that he did evil for we did

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not set his heart to seek the Lord.

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And this really is the problem

for most of us, isn't it?

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We do evil because we're

not set on seeking the Lord.

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We do evil because we fail to see him

as first and foremost in our lives.

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The evil that we commit is because we're.

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Believing that something

else is better than he is.

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And this is the fatal error for

Rebo and this is why God judges

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his kingdom reign as evil.

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This is a bad leadership lesson.

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Rebo will die and he will put

Ab Baja his son in his place and

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we'll pick up on that when we get

to Second Chronicles chapter 13.

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Thank you so much for joining me today.

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That's everything I have.

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I hope this has been a

benefit to you and a blessing.

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Please bear with me as

we close, this time out.

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God, we wanna be people of your word.

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Please help us.

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Help us.

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Father, we, we can't do it.

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We need you to draw us close.

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We need you to support us, and we need

you to give us wisdom about the word.

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Lord, it's so easy to read these

stories and maybe take away a few

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lessons, but maybe miss the point.

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Please help us not to miss the

point that you're teaching.

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Help us to know how.

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It looks to serve you and to humble

ourselves before you and to trust

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you and not to trust ourselves.

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Please guard us from the error

of Rehoboam, who when he was

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strong, abandoned your word.

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Let that not be true for us,

Lord, as you strengthen us and

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give us financial resources or.

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Personal resources and other ways

you bless us in all these areas.

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Lord, please don't let us fall prey into

thinking that we are self-sufficient

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or in that we in any way have made

ourselves as a current American mentality,

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often asserts that we are pulling

ourselves up by our own bootstraps.

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We know that's impossible.

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Only you can do that.

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And Lord, as you give us success

in whatever ventures we do, please

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help us to remain dependent and

humble, trusting you all the way.

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And we want you to do that, Lord, in

part by helping us stand your word.

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And so we ask that you will do

that for us over and over again.

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We ask all of this in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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