00:00 Welcome Back!

00:14 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)

03:00 Outline of First Kings

04:03 The Divided Kingdom Begins

08:56 Jeroboam's Sin and God's Judgment

11:50 Lessons from the Prophets

17:13 Rehoboam's Reign and Decline

18:25 Closing Prayer and Final Thoughts

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Happy Monday and welcome back to another edition of

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the Daily Bible Podcast.

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We're still here.

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You are still reading your Bible

and I'm still thankful for you.

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So well done for picking up your Bible

another day and also for letting me be

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included in your Bible reading journey.

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As we prepare to enter into the next

section of One Kings, you need a couple

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resources that I think would be really

helpful as you read through this section.

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It's challenging.

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I'm not gonna lie, but there are

resources that we have today.

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In fact, we have an embarrassment of

resources that will help you navigate

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this terrain exceptionally well.

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In fact, one of the resources

that I'm gonna commend to you is

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only five bucks it looks like.

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So let me give you the first one.

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I've referenced this one last year

but it's called a Synoptic Harmony

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of Samuel Kings and Chronicles,

and this is by James Newsom.

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You can find it on Amazon for,

it looks like 33 bucks here on

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paperback, $75 for hardcover.

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I don't think you need that one.

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Pick up the paperback, it'll be just fine.

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That one's a helpful resources

and that one's only available.

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In paper.

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I can't find that one electronically

anywhere, but that's fine.

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I have it at home.

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It's worth having a copy in your

library to help give you some support

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as you read through these passages.

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The second resource I'm gonna recommend

to you is called a synopsis of

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the Old Testament, and this one is

specifically for Logos, Bible software.

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This resource is only $4 and 74 cents.

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At least that's what it says on

my website here of looking at it.

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Maybe there's a discount

involved in there because I have.

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A membership with him.

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Or maybe it is just $4 and 74 cents

and that in any case, it's worth you.

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Having this resource is helpful.

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It'll give you the parallel passages as

you're looking at the text really useful

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as you're trying to figure out some of

the similarities and dissimilarities

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between Kings and Chronicles, and also

as you work through the kings that we're

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gonna look at in just a few moments.

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Finally, one last resource I

would commend to you is something

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over here I have in my office.

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This one is called the Rose Book of

Bible Charts, maps and Timelines.

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I'm pretty sure I've

recommended this to you before.

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This is a hardcover book.

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It's Spiral Bound and I

think it's about 35 bucks.

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I have one in my office, but I just

purchased another one to keep it home.

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I want one in each location 'cause

I study my Bible in both places and

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I wanna have this book available all

the time 'cause it's just so helpful.

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There's a lot of charts

and graphs and maps.

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I.

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You really can't go wrong

with something like this.

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It's a physical book that

you can always refer to.

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I have it open.

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As I'm reading some of the books that I'm

reading and I utilize it to help mentally

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construct images and pictures that

help me put this whole thing together.

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Reading the Bible is hard.

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I know that you don't

have to tell me twice.

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I understand it, but there's so

many helps today than if you're

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willing to put in the sweat equity.

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You'll find the Bible to be a lot more

inviting and a lot more accessible

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than you may at first realize.

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So don't lose heart.

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As we make our way through these

next chapters in First Kings and

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Chronicles, you're gonna find yourself

switching back and forth and maybe

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getting a little confused user

resources, and I promise you it'll pay

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dividends as you understand the text.

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With that said, we just finishing

the first 11 chapters of Kings.

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Now I know there's a lot of people

that will outline these books in

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different ways, but some of the most

helpful outlines are the most simple.

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Lemme give you a simple

outline for First Kings.

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Chapters one through 11 are the United

Kingdom, not the one over across the pond.

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The United Kingdom as in Israel and

Judah, they're one place, it's one people.

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For the first 11 chapters, you have a

United Kingdom under David, and then under

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Solomon you have this beautiful tapestry

of varied people under one leader.

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That is King David.

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And then of course Solomon, who expands

the kingdom and does great things.

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It's a wonderful time for them.

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In chapters 12 through 22, which

we're gonna begin today, is the

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kingdom divided, the divided kingdom.

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You're gonna have many kings here.

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So 12 through 22 is the divided

kingdom, and this is where it

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gets a little more tricky to read.

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But don't worry, I'll be with you the

whole time and so we'll pastor PJ at

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some point, and so you're gonna want

to think about it in those terms.

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Chapters one through 11.

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United Kingdom chapters

12 to 22 divided Kingdom.

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We start that today.

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Now as we enter into chapter 12.

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Remember, we're here because in Chapter

11, Solomon, who had the Lord appear

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to him twice, rejected the Lord.

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He embraced the false gods of his

many wives and he cast the Lord aside.

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And so the Lord in judgment said

in chapter 11, verse 11, I will

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surely tear the kingdom from you

and I will give it to your servant.

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This is God initiating

the divided kingdom.

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In chapter 12, now we have

Rehoboam, Solomon's son.

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Solomon gives the Kingdom to

Rehoboam, and now Rehoboam goes to

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Shechem where all Israel meets him.

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This is Shechem in Northern Israel.

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The people come to him

and they ask for relief.

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They said, your father, king Solomon

was heavy in taxation, heavy in

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the burdens that he put on us.

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Please relieve us.

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And he wisely, to his credit, says,

give me a few days to think this over.

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He consults two groups.

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The first group is the older men

that it served with Solomon, and he

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said, what do you think I should do?

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They say, Hey, we think you

should do what the people ask.

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Lighten the burden.

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They'll love you forever.

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He dismisses them and then he asks

his friends whom he grew up with and

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says, Hey, what do you guys think?

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And they say, come down heavy on them.

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Show them who the boss is.

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Assert your authority and your

dominance and let the people

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know who the true king is.

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Apparently he likes their wisdom.

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And so when the people return under

the leadership of Jira boem, his

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name will be important in a moment.

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He says, look, you guys

asked for lightness.

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You guys asked for a lighter yoke.

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I'm coming at you with the heavy,

and he uses a vulgar terminology

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to refer to this, but he's saying,

I'm not gonna give you any relief.

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In fact, I'm going to

increase your burden.

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I'm going to.

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Show you how strong I am.

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That's essentially what he's saying here.

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Verse 15.

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So the king did not listen to the

people for it was a turn of affairs

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brought about by the Lord that he might

fulfill his word or which word, the

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word that we just saw in chapter 11.

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So even though this is happening,

and this is not a good situation for

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the kingdom, this is the Lord's will.

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Some divisions are of the Lord.

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We have to recognize that some departures

and some restraints are of the Lord.

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We have to acknowledge that the Lord

is behind everything and that includes

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the times when we have to separate.

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As painful as it is, we have to

acknowledge that sometimes God is

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behind things that we can, we can't fix.

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In fact, when the kingdom divides.

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Rehoboam still tries to assert his

authority, and so he sends a durum or

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hadum, as we read in Second Chronicles,

who was task master over the forced labor.

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He's trying to assert the very

policies that he just talked about.

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They don't like that.

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So the Kingdom of Israel reject him.

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They kill him, and they send him

with his tail between his legs.

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R fleas runs back to the house

of Judah or to the tribe of

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Judah, where he finds safety.

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But in verses 21 and following.

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He assembles the whole people,

which by the way, you'll notice here

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in verse 21, when Ria Bo came to

Jerusalem, he assembled all the house

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of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin.

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So notice, even though only Judah was

mentioned initially, this includes

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Benjamin Judah is like a donut.

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They have the outside territory

of the southern kingdom, and

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square in the middle is Benjamin.

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And so they have always been

understood as one tribe.

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At some point they merge together

and become understood as one

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tribe, even though technically

it's due to end Benjamin.

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In any case, they assembled the troops and

they are on the precipice of a civil war.

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However, in verse 22, it says, the word

of God came to shamiah, the man of God.

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And he says, say to Rehoboam, the son of

Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the

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house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the

rest of the people, thus says the Lord,

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you shall not go up or fight against

your relatives, the people of Israel.

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And to their credit, again, in their

wisdom, they decide not to fight against

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God and they return back home because

he says This thing is from the Lord.

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And again, we have to recognize

some divisions are of the

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Lord, we don't like this.

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Jeroboam is quickly installed

as king in the Northern Kingdom.

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And from this point forward, you

have to understand that when we

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use the term Israel, we're talking

about the Northern 10 tribes.

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That would include everybody.

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It's a big chunk of territory.

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If you're looking at your Bible

maps or your Atlas or your rose,

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what's this book called again?

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Rose Book of Bible Charts,

maps and Timelines.

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You're gonna notice it's

a big chunk of land.

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The Southern Kingdom is

quite small in comparison.

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Israel, when you see it in the

Bible, henceforth is a reference

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to those 10 Northern tribes.

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And Judah is a reference to

the two Southern tribes, which

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again, primarily refers to Judah.

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They're the more prominent of the two.

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But Judah and Benjamin, they're

the two tribes that are understood

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to be the Southern Kingdom.

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So Judah and Israel, we're

gonna use those terms.

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Israel, Northern Kingdom,

Judah Southern Kingdom.

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Judah is the good one.

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This is the one that God's gonna

preserve, and this is the one by

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which the line of David will continue.

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The Northern Kingdom, by and large,

gets the verdict of guilty, not good.

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In fact, as I'm looking at my

Bible charts here and my map of

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the Kings, I don't see any, I.

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Israeli Kings who are called good.

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In fact, I, if I'm remembering

rightly, none of them are, I'm

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pretty sure that's the case.

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And so we begin with perhaps the

most infamous of the Kings and it's

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Jira Bo Jira, B the Son, a Neba.

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In fact, you're gonna see his name as

we look through the rest of the book

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of One Kings and Second Kings Jira.

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Bo the Son a Neba is the one who begins.

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The steady decline for the Northern

Kingdom, and he starts off with a bang.

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In fact, Jone's Golden Calves

is the heading that outlines

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the second half of chapter 12.

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Now, he doesn't just create

one in the line of Aaron.

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You remember when Aaron did this?

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And he's Hey man, we just threw the

Golden, and this golden calf came

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out, and so they began worshiping it.

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How was I supposed to know?

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JIRA Boem.

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The Northern King Jira bomb, the son

of Natch, he creates two golden calves.

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Not one but two, 100% more sin.

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And this is interesting because he

installs those two golden calves

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at two centers of worship and

they both are north and south.

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So you have in the northern,

most, northern most part of the

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northern kingdom, which is Dan.

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And then you have the southernmost part

of the northern kingdom, which in this

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case is no longer beersheba 'cause it

no longer includes a southern kingdom.

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It is now Bethel.

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So Dan and Bethel both get a golden

calf and people begin worshiping it.

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And of course this thing is

evil in the sight of the Lord.

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It became sin for the people.

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Went as far as Dan to go before one.

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This is a steady decline for this kingdom.

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This is a bad thing.

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The Lord hates it.

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And you don't have to

say much more than that.

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You would already know that.

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But in chapter 13, one Kings chapter

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tells jbo that this is a bad thing.

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And this is gracious of God.

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'cause he knows this.

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He knows this.

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But God sends a man of God in chapter

13 to Bethel to tell Jbo his problem.

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So the man of God cried against

the altar by the word of the

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Lord and said, oh, altar.

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Altar thus says the Lord.

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And behold, a son shall be born to the

house of David, Josiah by name, and he

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shall sacrifice on you the priest of the

high places who make offerings on you.

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And human bones shall be burned on you.

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And so this man of God,

this no name guy tells.

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King ome in the northern kingdom.

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God's going to destroy this and

he's gonna judge you for it.

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And he's gonna do so by

the man named Josiah.

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And this is interesting because

Josiah doesn't come on the scene

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for another about 300 years.

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This is fascinating that

God's gonna tell him this.

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In this case, ome responds poorly.

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Jira Bobman doesn't say, thank

you for letting me know that.

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He sticks his hand out at

him and says, sees that guy.

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He's talking against the kingdom.

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This is treason.

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Can't do this.

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But as he does this, his hand stretches

out and God has his hand dry up.

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And this is a fascinating,

stunning reversal because the

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judgment is instantaneous.

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It gets even more strange because

then once it happens, he says, oh man

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of God, please give me back my hand.

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It's funny if you think about it.

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And the man of God responds, the

man of God untreated the Lord and

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the king's hand was restored to him

and it became as it was before, I

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think this is incredibly gracious

of this man of God, whoever he is.

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The king's Hey, come and eat with me.

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Let me reward you for this.

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The man of God is told

by God, don't do that.

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This is gonna become important.

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It's just a few verses because

the man of God is warned by God

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and is it comes off that way.

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It was commanded of me by the Lord saying,

you shall not eat or drink anything.

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Nor return by the way that you came.

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So God is giving him abundant clarity

about what his expectations are.

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Insert another no-name

prophet in the city of Bethel.

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We're still in Bethel.

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Remember, this is the northern kingdom.

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This is where one of the golden Cav sits.

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This guy's introduced as a prophet.

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The Bible calls him a prophet, and

that's what's gonna make this whole

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story so strange and intriguing.

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This old man goes to the man of God that

was sent to J Bo, son of Nebat, and he

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says, God told me to tell you to spend

time with me and to come eat at my house,

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but verse 18 says, but he lied to him.

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What motivation would

this guy possibly have?

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We don't know.

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We have no idea what his intentions are

except that he lied to the man of God.

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As God would have it, the man of

God believes him and goes to his

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house and as they're sitting at the

table, no doubt, eating and drinking.

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Verse 20, this old man prophets who has no

name and is a liar, has the word of God.

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Come to him and get this God

rebukes the man of God through

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the prophet of God who lied.

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Crazy.

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I know you're a little confused.

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I don't it's a bit of a pretzel,

but this is how it worked.

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He says, because you've disobeyed the word

of the Lord and have not kept the command,

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God says you're basically gonna die.

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That's the idea here.

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And that's exactly what happens.

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The man of God is killed.

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He's done with a lion.

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And the lion has a donkey that's

sitting next to him, which shows that

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he didn't do it because he was hungry.

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This is a judgment of God.

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That's the idea.

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The prophet then takes his

sons retrieves the man's body

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buries him and mourns over him.

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Isn't this interesting?

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This whole situation happened because

of God's word not being heated.

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Now, I'll grant you this.

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The prophet of God lied, but it was

the man of God's responsibility to

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corroborate what he had heard with God.

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And my guess is that had he had

done that, God would've responded.

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I think it's a lot of times that

we interact with people that say,

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I know God's will for your life,

or Here's what God wants you to do.

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And I guess that's helpful in

a certain way, especially if

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they're preaching from the Bible.

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We can appreciate that's what we go

to church for, but we really ought

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to be good Bereans, shouldn't we?

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We have been told by God to test

all things by the word of God,

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and that is our responsibility.

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Even if someone has a Bible in hand

and says, this is what God has for you.

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This is what God wants you to do,

we should always say, does that

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correspond to what I see in scripture?

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And if God has clearly spoken on A, B,

C, and D and we're being told to do F

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instead, we ought to say, I can't do that.

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In fact, we ought to be like Luther, who

says My conscience is bound by scripture.

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I can't do what you asked me to do.

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We ought to be the kind of people

who like the man of God, or perhaps

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unlike the man of God, stand firm

by what God has said, even if it

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puts us in an awkward situation.

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And no doubt this man of God was

in an awkward situation because

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he was given the royal treatment.

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Jira bom the sin of Nebat was asking

to have him come to his house and to

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deny someone that it's a rude thing to

do, but he did it, at least initially.

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Prophet of God had to lie to

him to get him to to get him

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to compromise his convictions.

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Let it be so that you are

not the kind of person who is

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swayed by anybody or anything.

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If the word of God has spoken clearly,

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First Kings Chapter 14, OME, the son

of Neba, has a son by the name of Aja.

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Aja gets sick and so he sends

his wife to Aja, the prophet.

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He says, please go to Shiloh and

ask him what's gonna happen to our

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son, but disguise yourself so that

he doesn't know that it's you.

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And of course, God, lets.

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A hija, the prophet know what's happening.

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And so God tells him what to say to her.

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And as she comes, God says, is that you?

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I know.

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In fact, he says, I know it's you.

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I know it's you.

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And so he tells her what's

gonna happen to her son.

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Essentially his son, ab Baja will die.

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And he says, the reason why verse nine

is because of all the evil that you have

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done above all who were before you and

have gone and made yourself other gods

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and metal images provoking me to anger.

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And here's interesting terminology.

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And have cast me behind your back.

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Therefore, behold, I will bring harm

upon the house of Jira oum, and I'm gonna

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cut off from Jira oum every male, and

he goes on with more graphic imagery to

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say, here's what it's gonna look like.

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Interestingly enough, the child.

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Remember the child's name is Aja.

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He's talking to the prophet Aja here.

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His mom is.

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Anyway, he says, the child has

something pleasing to me, and this

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is why he alone will get a burial.

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A burial was an honor.

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Burial's not something

that you take lightly.

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And so the fact that he alone was

given a burial, unlike the rest

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of his line, was something unique.

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God said, I'm gonna do that

because there's something found

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pleasing to the Lord in him.

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His wife makes her way back and

tells him all that the prophet said.

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And just as she enters on the

threshold, verse 17 says here,

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the child did in fact die.

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The judgment of God was made

clear and guess again, this is

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actually a mercy of God despite

the fact that this is judgment.

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In verses 19 and 20, you have

the end of Jerome's reign.

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He reigns for 22 years,

and then he is finished.

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Now he begins a long line of

unfaithfulness in the Northern

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kingdom, and so he's gonna remain

infamous throughout all the

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first and second kings narrative.

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In fact, you're gonna see his name

referenced over and over again, some

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kings following in the line or in the

sins of Gerome, others exceeding him.

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But he remains one of those guys

notorious for his evil deeds.

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In verses 21 through the end of chapter

14, we have an epilogue for Rehoboam.

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And it's not good.

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It says here in, in verses

23, really, 24, there was male

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cult prostitutes in the land.

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They did, according to the abominations

of the nations, that the Lord drove

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out before the people of Israel.

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So instead of being the light and salt

that they were supposed to be, they are

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actually walking in the same sins that

God had judged the previous occupants for.

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And so God sends judgment and one of those

judgments is shack, the king of Egypt.

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He comes up to Jerusalem and apparently.

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Ransacks the community.

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Not in a total destructive way,

but he takes away the treasures

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of the house of the Lord.

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Takes away all the gold in

verse 27, king em makes.

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Place shields of bronze in place of the

golden shields that were taken away.

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And bronze is one of those.

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I obviously, it's a lesser medal.

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This is not a good thing.

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The kingdom's glory and shine

and honor are now fading.

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And where gold once was,

they now have bronze.

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This is showing the fact that Israel,

excuse me, Judah is in decline.

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And this is God's judgment on the

people, but it's only just beginning.

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So strap in your seat belt.

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It's gonna get pretty bumpy as we wrap

up the book of First Kings Together.

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There you go.

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First Kings 12 through 14.

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That's everything that I have for you.

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Hopefully that was helpful.

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Would you please pray with me?

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Let's ask God to help us be faithful

and not fall into the same traps

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that some of these guys fell into.

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Oh Lord, we need you.

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We can't do this without you.

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We can't do life.

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We can't breathe.

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We can't think.

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We can't eat, but we really

have nothing apart from you.

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We have no good apart from you.

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Lord, feed us with the truth of your word.

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Help us to ingest it, not merely

to ingest it, such as we have more

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knowledge, but Lord, help us to be

transformed by the renewal of our mind.

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Help us to have the ability

to test and discern what is

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true from what is almost true.

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Help us, Lord, always

to hold up the commands.

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Amen to the commands of God in your word.

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Let us be so faithful to your word,

Lord, that we are honored like the

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Berean who esteemed your word, took it

seriously and examined it to see whether

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the things that are said are true.

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Let that be true of everyone here

who's listening to this podcast,

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and especially Lord of our church,

compass Bible Church in North Texas.

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We wanna be a Bible people.

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Now we can't do that apart

from your enabling grace.

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So please give us that grace,

Lord, that we might avoid some of

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these errors that we read about

here in the book of First Kings.

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And to that end, Lord, we thank you

for the opportunity to learn from

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the mistakes of some of these men.

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We ask all this in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Thank you so much for joining me.

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It is an honor to have you.

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I'm so pleased that I

get to do this for you.

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If you have any questions, feel

welcome to reach out to me or send an

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email to the podcast@compassntx.org.

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