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Welcome/prayer
How serious is our call to holiness?
How hard, or how strict should we maintain the line of obedience?
Do certain situations demand obedience more than other situations?
Do we think there are instances or moments when we can relax a bit and allow our sinful nature to do as it pleases?
Do we believe as long as we’re not as evil as people like King Jeroboam… then we have “leeway”?
Well, our passage, 1 Kings 12:33-13:34… is going to remind us how serious God takes obedience to His Word...
Let’s begin by looking at God’s response to Jeroboam’s act of open rebellion… 1 Kings 12:33-13:10 ..
(Explain context) Jeroboam’s innovative religious practices leads him into hot water
Man of God (from Judah) (during Jeroboam’s self-appointed feast)
Via the Word of Yahweh - speaks judgment against the altar v. 2
Thus speaks judgment against Jeroboam (fulfilled 1 Kings 23)
Gives a sign - v.3
Jeroboam reacts - (sign is fulfilled, makes altar unclean)
Seeks favor with the man of God
Invites him to eat at his place (why)
Man of God refuses…
B/c of the Word of God
Now, let’s read on… and read about the act of rebellion made by the man of God… 1 Kings 13:11-34..
An old prophet in Bethel hears of the incident with Jeroboam and seeks the man of God out...
Finds him and deceives him - why?
To test him?
To see if God actually spoke through him?
Either in his faithfulness to the Word… or in God’s judgment against the man in his disobedience
Does this deception clear the man of God from Judah? Clearly not… he is killed after all
He was too easily deceived...
“I too am a prophet”
Provides conflicting revelation
Cites an angel… Gal 1:8…
No sign given...
Perhaps reasoned it was a small thing… a trivial matter
Perhaps he was hungry… lacked self-control
He’s judged… killed by a lion
Donkey untouched, not startled..
Body killed… but not eaten
The old prophet has a changed of heart
Perhaps out of guilt… or new found faith… the man was sent of God
The man’s death wasn’t just an act of judgment against his disobedience… but another sign for Jeroboam...
Notice the connection in v. 33… after this… after all this happened Jeroboam continued in sin..
If this man of God… suffered such a fate, for such a thing… how much more so Jeroboam?
So, if God honors obedience to His Word with such seriousness… what are we to do?
What can we do...
First… pray & repent...
Second… guard ourselves
And third, pray some more...
Pray for..
Wisdom… James 1:5...
Deliverance from temptation… Mt 6:13 (don’t read)...
Strength to stand… Heb 10:19-23...
Repent of your foolishness/ignorance
of your presumptions...
Guard yourself
Study the Word to know and to remain in Christ - Col 2:6-8… (just as you were taught)
Know that He doesn’t change - Numbers 23:19, James 1:17...
Know that His Word is sufficient Psalm 19:7-14,
Or Peter, in 1 Peter 1:19-21
Test all things - 1 Thess 5:21, 1 John 4:1...
Be wary of people saying God has called me… without sharing explicitly how God has done so…
Pray some more...
How can any person bear up under such things?
It’s an act of grace by God to shows us the gravity of our sin… and the sin of this world...
It’s also by the grace of God that our sin is covered by the blood of Christ...
To include the ones made ignorantly or presumptuously
For we cannot, apart from Him, be holy as He is holy… we cannot be perfect as He is perfect… for apart from Him, we are dead… we are useless… we have no way to obtain everlasting life on our own…
We need new life in us, we need His Spirit in us…
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