1 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,440 Good morning everybody. Go ahead and grab your Bibles 2 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:27,600 and turn to 1st, 1st Kings 14, First Kings 14, and then also 3 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,920 put your finger at work. We're going to start in First 4 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,360 Kings, but also put a a bookmark in Second Chronicles 10. 5 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,680 We finally got past the introduction stuff. 6 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,280 I always I feel like introduction you get you got a 7 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:45,400 lot of information, but it doesn't feel like a lot of Bible 8 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,040 in them. But we are we we are starting 9 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,080 with Raya Boehm, King Raya Boehm, the the man that took 10 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,800 over the Kingdom after Solomon is his father and and what is 11 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:07,920 the most what is he noted for? What is he noted for Kingdom 12 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,200 splitting under his watch? Yes. 13 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,200 Splitting into two kingdoms. And what what Kingdom was he 14 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:18,560 king of Judah? Good. 15 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:22,800 And they are located in the South. 16 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,200 Good. All right, hey, wake up. 17 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,600 It's school time. It's not math at 9:40 in the 18 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:31,000 morning. It's it's Bible. 19 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:36,120 So that's a lot easier than math, but there in let's look at 20 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:44,880 verse 2021 of First Kings 14, verse 21, and Rehoboam, the son 21 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:49,720 of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was 40 and one years 22 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,520 old when he began to reign and he reigned 17 years in 23 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:58,200 Jerusalem, the city which the Lord did choose out of the all 24 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,080 the tribes of Israel to put his name there. 25 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:06,040 And his mother's name was Nama. And Ammonitis. 26 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:10,520 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked 27 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,760 him to jealousy with their sins, which they had committed above 28 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:19,800 all that their fathers had done. For they also built them high 29 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:24,640 places and images and Groves, on every high hill and under every 30 00:02:24,640 --> 00:02:28,320 green tree. And there were also sodomites in 31 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:32,040 the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the 32 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,720 nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. 33 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:42,200 Not a good, I was going to say intro for your Kingdom of your 34 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:44,720 reign. But that's where we find Raya 35 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:49,280 Boehm. And you kind of think of the son 36 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:55,560 of the wisest man to ever live and the grandson of a man that 37 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,600 that God says is after God's own heart. 38 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,840 And so you think that of everybody that this, this man 39 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,920 will be ready to go. And, and he's the, the Bible 40 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:11,200 said it's, he doesn't take the, the throne until 41 years old. 41 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,440 So like pastor said, he's, he's old enough to be wise. 42 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,360 He's, he's old enough to understand what's going on and 43 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,160 not to make the same decisions that, you know, a 20 year old 44 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,480 would or, or a 16 year old would that would take the throne. 45 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:32,360 But we find in his life, in his reign, some, some things that 46 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:41,000 made the, the spiritual climate of Judah into departure and a 47 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:45,600 defeated Kingdom, which is sad to see when, when we think of 48 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,240 who he comes after. But we're, we're going to 49 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:53,960 examine his rule and his life to kind of see things that we can 50 00:03:53,960 --> 00:04:01,600 apply to our own lives to see practical lessons of why just 51 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:05,880 because you have a good history doesn't mean anything about your 52 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:07,920 life. Let's pray and we'll get into 53 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,200 this lesson. Heavenly Father, I thank you so 54 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,840 much for this morning, for God for being able to be in your 55 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,120 house, to be able to open your word, to have your word, to be 56 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,000 able to open. And I got it. 57 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:24,520 I pray that you help us to to see the the stories and and 58 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,640 those that you've preserved for eternity for us to read as 59 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,640 examples and in samples, as your word says to, to monitor and to 60 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:37,200 change our lives to be not the same mistakes and not the same 61 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,720 errors as those that have gone before us, but to mimic those 62 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:49,560 that did did well and Lord that you did well and, and mimic your 63 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:53,360 life for us. Lord, I just pray that you be 64 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,760 with the lesson. I just pray that you help us to 65 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,680 be able to see exactly what we need to learn from this king 66 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:05,760 that you've chosen and you set apart and and you chose to show 67 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,600 us throughout eternity the history of his life. 68 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,840 Thank you for again for all that you do in Jesus name I pray 69 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,840 Amen. So like I said, the first thing 70 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:19,960 is family. The characteristic of Raya 71 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:26,120 Bohem's rule over Judah can be kind of traced back to what his 72 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,000 family was. You think of the wisest man that 73 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,320 Solomon that, that walked with God in the beginning and then 74 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,880 fell away. And, and it's interesting. 75 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,800 We last week we talked about all the rules that the instructions 76 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,120 that God gave to Moses to give to the children of Israel, to 77 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:47,600 what rules these kings should do. 78 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,720 And if you study Solomon, he broke every single one of them 79 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,080 throughout his entire reign. He broke every single one of 80 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:56,960 them. And the biggest one that I think 81 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:01,960 is the factor of what happened to King Solomon was he had so 82 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,920 many wives, first King 11/3 says. 83 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:11,520 And he had 700 wives, princesses and 300 concubines. 84 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,080 And his wives turned away his heart. 85 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:21,840 The impact of those wives on that boy Raya Boehm was huge in 86 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:26,840 what his upbringing was. You had you had a a godly man 87 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:30,680 that knew who he should serve, knew how he should live, knew 88 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,160 how he should rule, and he had that as a as a father figure. 89 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:40,560 But what's interesting is 3 times in the Bible, God shows us 90 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:46,040 who is his mother was, which usually is very not they, they 91 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,480 might say her name one time, but that's it. 92 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:54,960 But three times God tells us his mother was Naima and Amitite 93 00:06:55,040 --> 00:07:00,560 Ammonitis. The Ammonites were were were a 94 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,720 lineage of Lot's sin with his youngest daughter. 95 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:07,400 That's where the Ammonites came from. 96 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,960 And the fact that God points out, yes, his father was 97 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:16,320 Solomon, the wisest man, but his mother was an Amaditis who who 98 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,880 hated the children of Israel and all throughout the Bible fought 99 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:25,280 against Israel. His he had a wicked heritage 100 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:29,480 that with him as an Ammonite, his mother would have been 101 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:35,080 worshipping the idol Molech. And if you've had any kind of 102 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:38,400 study of different idols and different gods in that time, 103 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,320 Molech was the one that they used to sacrifice their children 104 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,480 on the altar. They, they would, they would 105 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:49,720 heat the, the idol up to where the hands were burning and 106 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,400 glowing and they would lay their child on there. 107 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:55,280 And that's the mother that you have. 108 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:01,800 You have a godly father who starts to slip and a mother that 109 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,040 that worships a God that requires sacrifice of their 110 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:10,760 children. Not only did he have both 111 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:15,000 options, but because of that heritage, we see the biggest 112 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,760 impact. I think of Ray Bones life, it 113 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:23,280 became very inconsistent. He had he had a father that 114 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,240 loved God and he had a mother that didn't. 115 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:33,440 And all throughout his reign, we see that inconsistency and it's 116 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:41,919 amazing how we think that, oh, you know, my, I grew up in 117 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:46,760 church or, or, or my, my, my mom was kept me in church. 118 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,960 You know, I, I was drugged to church as a kid. 119 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:53,040 Monday or Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, 120 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:54,880 Saturday, I was drugged to church. 121 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,320 No ash, no questions. There wasn't a are we going to 122 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,040 church? But just because of that, just 123 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,160 because of your upbringing, just because of your background and 124 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:09,240 your your family that's behind you doesn't mean anything for 125 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,960 your own spiritual walk. You have to understand that it's 126 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,120 your spiritual walk. It's your kids walk with the 127 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,720 Lord. Yes, it's great to have them in 128 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,600 Sunday school. Yes, it's great to have them 129 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:25,120 memorizing scripture in in the King's class and and it's great 130 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:30,360 to have them doing devotions. But if this Bible, if the God of 131 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,400 Abraham doesn't become the God of your child, it doesn't matter 132 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,720 what you do. And we see that in Raya Bones 133 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,120 life. We also see, just like pastor 134 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:45,320 was talking about with with Graham, who you are around is 135 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,320 very important, who you associate. 136 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,920 And we'll see that here. Go ahead and turn over to second 137 00:09:52,920 --> 00:10:00,800 Chronicles 10 and we'll see the first thing that we see of of 138 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:07,200 what Raya Boehm starts with it. You're there in verse 13 of 139 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:14,440 chapter 10, his foolishness. Now he's 31 years old and it's 140 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:19,840 41 and it's it's amazing that the 41 year old does this. 141 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:26,800 Verse 13, verse 12. So Jeroboam and all the people 142 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,960 came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king bade saying come 143 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:34,800 again to me on the 3rd day. And the king answered them 144 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:38,000 roughly. And King Raya Boehm's forsook 145 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,600 the counsel of the old men. He made a foolish error, 146 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,720 something that you would assume a 41 year old would understand 147 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:51,720 the whys and those that were there before you would have 148 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,960 wisdom over what should be done. And he chooses instead of 149 00:10:55,960 --> 00:11:04,480 listening to the elders in the nation to, to change not 150 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,200 protocol. What's the word I'm looking for? 151 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:18,160 Say again, not, not tradition, the president policies, thank 152 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,240 you policies that are going on in the country. 153 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,520 He chooses to change the policy, but to make them worse to to 154 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:29,320 listen to the younger men. And he goes with the foolish 155 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:31,920 decision. So we have a a foolish decision. 156 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:36,040 Then look at Chapter 11, verse 17. 157 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:45,240 So they strengthened the Kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam, the 158 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,000 son of Solomon strong three years. 159 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:52,560 For three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon. 160 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:59,840 We just had a major foolishness decision by by King Solomon. 161 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:07,040 But then just the chapter later, he, he's guiding his Kingdom in 162 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,760 the way of Christ in, in God's path. 163 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:14,080 He, he has faithfulness and decides to walk in the way of 164 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,200 David and Solomon. So we, we, we bounce from 165 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,440 foolishness to faithfulness. All right, we, we, we've 166 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,920 corrected the ship. We've got we, we're back on the 167 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:24,880 straight and narrow. Let's keep going. 168 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:31,280 But it doesn't last long. Verse chapter 12 verse one and 169 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,560 it came to pass when Rehoboam had established the Kingdom and 170 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:40,240 has strengthened himself. He forsook the law of the Lord 171 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:46,560 and all Israel with him. He he was faithful until it 172 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:50,560 became pride until it became I'm good. 173 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,200 I'm I'm strengthened, I'm ready to go. 174 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,320 I, I can do this on my own now, Lord. 175 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,800 And he totally rebels against the law of Moses, against God. 176 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:06,640 But then we Fast forward and we get to verse 5 of chapter 12. 177 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:14,720 Then came Shema, Shema the prophet to Rehoboam and to the 178 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,240 Princess of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem 179 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,800 because of Sheeshank, and said unto them, Thus saith the Lord, 180 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,880 Ye have forsaken me, and therefore I have let also left 181 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,000 you in the hand of Sheeshak. Whereupon the Princess of Israel 182 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,160 and the king humbled himself themselves. 183 00:13:34,520 --> 00:13:36,560 And they said, The Lord is righteous. 184 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:40,760 And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of 185 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:49,400 the Lord came to Sheesh, she my wow Shamaya saying, They have 186 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,560 humbled themselves, therefore will I not destroy them, but I 187 00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:57,160 will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall 188 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,880 not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sheeshak. 189 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,560 He has a spirit of repentance. And so constantly through his 190 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:11,880 reign, he goes according to what God wants, and then he rebels. 191 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,800 And then he goes back to according to God once and he 192 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,280 rebels. And we see that over and over in 193 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,120 his reign. And, and one of the things that 194 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:28,960 we see is it talks about Sheeshak, he Raya Boehm takes, 195 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:35,040 takes the throne at 41. And by 46, five years later, 196 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,760 it's gotten so bad that, that the Lord says, I'm going to 197 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:45,600 bring the, the she shack is from Egypt into Jerusalem and ransack 198 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,920 everything. And, and, and the result of what 199 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,000 happened was they invaded Jerusalem. 200 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,800 They took the treasures which belonged in the House of God in 201 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:00,280 to the nations of Israel. And that's two big things that 202 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:02,280 had never really happened since Saul. 203 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:09,160 Not only did did we see do we see here that an enemy has came 204 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:14,560 not just a skirmish skirmish, but invaded the country, which 205 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:18,840 hadn't happened since Saul. And you, you almost know that's 206 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,480 because the hand of God was holding back things, holding 207 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,360 back enemies, trying to bless the nation for their 208 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,960 faithfulness for their for their walk with him. 209 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:33,640 But Raya Boehm changes their direction and God says, because 210 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,440 you forsook me, I'm going to let an enemy come in. 211 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,640 And not only did he come in, but he made it all the way to 212 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,000 Jerusalem. It wasn't like he just knocked 213 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,600 on the door and took the first city. 214 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,400 He took city after city and moved all the way to Jerusalem 215 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:56,760 the the the capital of Judah and pulled blessings that God wanted 216 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:00,720 to have for that nation away from them because of their sin, 217 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,080 because of their their forsaking God and following him. 218 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:11,560 And as a result, Judah not only experienced defeat, they lost 219 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:19,240 the blessing of God. And it's not until the verse we 220 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,240 talk about a nation that turns away from God and and the verse 221 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:31,040 is on the tip of my tongue. If my people, which are called 222 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:34,360 by my name, shall what you just talked about. 223 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:40,160 It humbled themselves. It took the king to humble 224 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:44,880 himself and the Princess to humble themselves to repent and 225 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:49,600 for God to say, you know, I, I, you know, sometimes you always 226 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,840 wonder, did did, did he just do it? 227 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,440 Because it was, oh, no, they're right here. 228 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:55,840 Please, please. I don't want to. 229 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,920 I don't think God would have withheld his judgement from Raya 230 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:04,480 Boehm if Raya Boehm wasn't sincere and true in his 231 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:08,599 humbleness. And that's why I say his 232 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:13,440 inconsistency is the biggest fall of his entire reign. 233 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:20,040 He, he's, he's totally for God and walking with God and trying 234 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:27,359 to keep his nation towards God. And I believe sincerely and then 235 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:32,760 rebels sincerely and God has to bring judgment. 236 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:38,600 And then he sees his foolishness and, and changes again and walks 237 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:42,560 humbly before God. And then we see and, and 238 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,560 literally it's, it's verse one to verse 5. 239 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,640 I mean, it's not even many years later. 240 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,360 It's it's literally in the same chapter. 241 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:58,240 The inconsistency of Rehoboam. And that's that's his biggest 242 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:01,640 what? That's that's the title of our 243 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,240 the inconsistent king of all of them. 244 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:10,640 He was as God says, you're not hot or you're not cold, you're 245 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,520 lukewarm and I spew you out of my mouth because I don't, I 246 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,520 don't want that. And Raya Boehm is just 247 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:20,360 constantly going back and forth and we have to understand and 248 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:22,960 what why is that important for us? 249 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:28,560 What why is Raya Boehm kept in history for all eternity in this 250 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:33,200 book? Because God wants us to see a 251 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:39,400 man that is unstable in no, a man. 252 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:44,400 Oh wow, a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 253 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:51,920 This book talks about itself. This this book is able to tell 254 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:56,480 you by the way, here's here's a king and look at what his life 255 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,800 did. Look at how he reigned. 256 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:04,120 Look at how he followed me and didn't follow me and followed me 257 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:08,200 and didn't follow me and look at the the consequence that 258 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,840 happened because of that, because of you veering away from 259 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:17,320 me. Split the 12 tribes because of 260 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:23,920 you leading your two tribes with God in the ways of David and 261 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:29,160 Solomon that the Bible says God strengthened that nation, built 262 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,920 it up, made it a nation to where the other nations wanted it. 263 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,240 Sheshak wouldn't have gone well. Look at Jerusalem, that looks 264 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:41,360 written. They don't have anything. 265 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:46,640 No, obviously they had stuff that Sheshak wanted because God 266 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,520 had built them up, because they walked with God. 267 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:56,840 But as soon as Rehoboam moves away from that pride again gets 268 00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:59,360 involved. I'm fine. 269 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:01,440 I can do this on my own. Look at me. 270 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,080 I'm a I'm a king of a huge nation. 271 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:09,760 We we'll we'll gloss over. I lost 10 of the tribes, but I'm 272 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:17,160 a I'm a very strong nation. God says again, I gave you rules 273 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,280 and instructions of how to follow how to be the king of 274 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:24,240 Israel. And one of them is not take many 275 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:27,000 whys which. Unfortunately, Raya Bone did not 276 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,240 learn from his father. He himself takes many wives as 277 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:36,120 well, but he gets that pride of I can support myself. 278 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,240 I have safety in myself. I'm strong. 279 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:44,600 I'm strong as a nation and God says you're only as strong as I 280 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,960 allow you to be and your strength I'll take away like 281 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:53,440 that and he does and then we see his failure. 282 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,720 You're there verse second Chronicles 12. 283 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:04,240 Look at verse 14. So we we have he's foolish, goes 284 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:10,800 with the younger counsel. Then he flips and has the nation 285 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,160 walk within the ways of Solomon and David. 286 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,640 And then he he jumps and and rebels again. 287 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:22,720 And then Sheshak comes and he humbles himself and in verse 5 288 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:27,720 and he gets back on the right ground with God. 289 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:31,480 And then we see verse 14, literally the same chapter. 290 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,400 And he did evil because he prepared not his heart to seek 291 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:44,520 the Lord. As as much as we can say about 292 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:50,600 his decision making as a king. The ultimate issue that with 293 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:53,400 Raya Bohm was not his mind, it was his heart. 294 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,920 He did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord. 295 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,720 We, we, we, we know in Proverbs 23, it's talks about a man that 296 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:11,120 as he thinketh in his heart, so he so is he. 297 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,680 We have to be careful as Christians. 298 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:20,800 If we don't prepare our hearts to walk with God, you'll turn 299 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:27,840 every which way The Bible talks about in in the last days that 300 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:32,880 that you're not you're you're their faith is so shallow that 301 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:37,040 they're tossed here and there to every wind of doctrine. 302 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:44,600 We as Christians have to make sure that our heart is prepared. 303 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:50,400 Just like if, if you have rules in your home as a, as a, as a 304 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:54,520 kid growing up, you have rules of, you know, I, I won't do this 305 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,520 until marriage. I, I'm going to have all these 306 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,000 rules in place. Great to have rules and, and to 307 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,440 have that set up in your in, in your life that your parents put 308 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,200 in place. And I'm not going to be with 309 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,720 the, the person of the opposite sex alone because I don't want 310 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:09,800 temptation. Great. 311 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:14,440 But are you prepared if you get to a spot where, oops, we're, 312 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:19,320 we're too far. Have you prepared your heart to 313 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:24,480 be with the Lord, to to walk and seek the Lord to where you get 314 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,320 to a spot? You have all the rules that say 315 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,120 I'm not going to do this. But then you find yourself in 316 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:33,640 that situation. Name whatever situation you have 317 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:41,960 what what you don't plan for, you'll never be able to 318 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:47,480 overcome. And Ray Obama, Raya Boehm did 319 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,240 not prepare his heart. And it's amazing that we have 320 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,880 the the greatest example of one that did prepare his heart is 321 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:59,960 his grandfather. David was like I said in First 322 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:05,640 Samuel 3/13/14, the Bible says that God calls David a man after 323 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,000 his own heart. You have that type of a 324 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,400 grandfather, one that walks and seeks after God, yes. 325 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,560 Is he a man in human and sins and falls? 326 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:22,840 Yes, not not denying his in that he's infallible or that he's 327 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,760 perfect or never makes a mistake. 328 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:30,120 David made a lot of mistakes, but he had a heart that was 329 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:34,440 prepared to seek after the Lord and he was quick to get on his 330 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:40,160 knees when that happened. But somewhere in two generations 331 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:46,400 that that teaching your child to seek the Lord with all your 332 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:50,520 heart to understand that it a head knowledge doesn't do 333 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,240 anything for you if it's not here. 334 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,120 And apparently it didn't go down. 335 00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,800 It didn't get passed on to Solomon. 336 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,800 It didn't get passed on to Rehoboam. 337 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:06,320 And then we have someone after Rehoboam to look at Manasseh, 338 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:12,960 King Hezekiah, probably the best king Israel had or Judah had. 339 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:19,320 Most followed after Christ, after God in in his laws, his 340 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:26,320 son Manasseh. Hezekiah was the best following 341 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,200 after God. Manasseh could be said he's the 342 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,640 worst following totally against God. 343 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:40,160 I believe God gives that to us just to remind us don't just 344 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,360 expect your kids to follow after me. 345 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:47,120 Don't expect just because your parents were were Christians and 346 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:51,440 and and raised right and and did what was right that you get it. 347 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:57,400 I I think of Trey, not not pick on you, but good morning, Trey 348 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,120 when when it was joining the church. 349 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,400 My parents are are members. Well, that's not big. 350 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,280 That doesn't make you a member once you get old enough. 351 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:14,480 Oh, I need to get that changed the same way with is with our 352 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,320 walk with the Lord. Just because your parents walk 353 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,920 with the Lord doesn't automatically mean the kids walk 354 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,680 with the Lord. And we have to be careful as 355 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:30,360 parents to raise our children to see that God's the same God in 356 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:34,840 the Bible as he is today, that he's real, that he's not just 357 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:38,920 something that, Oh yeah, we, we read about Moses where we're at 358 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,400 in our family devotions, where they just crossed the Red Sea 359 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,320 and, and they're there last night. 360 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,760 He, he struck the rock for water. 361 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,720 And, and, and you, you see these wow water coming out of a rock 362 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,400 and, and all these amazing things that God did for the 363 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:01,960 children of Israel. If it stops there, their 364 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,960 relationship with God will stop there. 365 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,960 It'll be stories. It'll be that's cool. 366 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:08,920 That's that's what the God of the Bible. 367 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,720 Great. But if if that child never 368 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:16,000 understands that God of the Bible is the same God today and 369 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,800 is the same God for those children of his, he's the same 370 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:25,200 God for us. He can strike a rock and give us 371 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:30,640 water when when we're in the depths of of despair, when we're 372 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:36,000 when we're at the bottom as the the rock bottom, he can bring 373 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:41,200 water to it, but we have to prepare our hearts to seek the 374 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:47,120 Lord. James 18, I said it already, a 375 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:50,320 double minded man is unstable in all his ways. 376 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,200 I think as American Christians, we have the easy, easiest 377 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:02,120 ability to be one of these. It's so easy to get here on 378 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:05,120 Sunday, dress up, put a suit on. Done. 379 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,080 Now I look the part. I can smile and say I'm I'm 380 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,320 doing great. How are you doing, guy? 381 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,000 Amen. I can say that in the sermon I 382 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:20,680 can sing to the top of my lungs. But when I go home, I grabbed my 383 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,680 phone and start looking at things I shouldn't. 384 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:28,320 When I go home, I start talking around the guys at work like I 385 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,840 shouldn't as a Christian. And then I woke Wednesday night. 386 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,200 Got to, got to do my part, got to act like what I should. 387 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:39,920 And everybody around us thinks we're all fine and dandy. 388 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,760 Oh, look at his parents. His parents were a pastor. 389 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,040 His parents, his parents, his father was a pastor. 390 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:55,280 He, he, he must be fine. I think that the pastor's kids 391 00:28:55,280 --> 00:29:00,920 get the worst end of everything because they automatically get 392 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:04,400 put on a pedestal saying that your father's the pastor, so you 393 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,760 must be fine. And they're held to a higher 394 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,840 standard because they all you shouldn't do that. 395 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,600 And I feel like a lot of times they get to a point where they, 396 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:22,560 they are the most likely to leave as they grow up, as your 397 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,720 kids grow up in church, make sure they understand and realize 398 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,920 and make sure their heart is seeking after God themselves. 399 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:36,720 We have to understand that being unstable is not useful. 400 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,480 If you ask somebody, hey, pray for me. 401 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,640 OK, good. I, I, I'll pray for you. 402 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:50,280 Do do, as sad as it might be, we probably do expect if I asked 10 403 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,280 people to pray for me, one probably will actually do it. 404 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,720 That shouldn't be in a church that shouldn't be. 405 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:04,200 As a Christian, we need to have stability in our homes, in our 406 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:09,240 churches for for our sake, but for our kids sake as well. 407 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:15,080 And the inconsistency that we see in Raya Bohm's life is set 408 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,880 there as an example to us to say just because they grow up in a 409 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,160 great home doesn't mean they're going to turn out right. 410 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,160 It's not going to happen by accident. 411 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,160 Just like when we started this whole series. 412 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:33,680 What Why did the children of Israel ask for a king? 413 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:41,920 Because they wanted to be like other nations and because of the 414 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:49,480 sons of Samuel, your sons aren't walking in your in the in the 415 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:56,080 right way. Oh Samuel's kids Samuel was a we 416 00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:00,480 got first and second. I mean he's should be right on 417 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:05,280 spot on. How did you lose your children? 418 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,440 How how were your children not understanding the since 419 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:15,040 seriousness of what it is to walk with God because it was 420 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:20,240 never given to them Dad. Yep, dad's going off to tell the 421 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:25,320 king or tell the tell the judge or to to do this or to he heard 422 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,120 this from the Lord. And but if it never becomes 423 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:34,960 personal to that kid, they'll grow up and be inconsistent 424 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:40,360 because they know what's right. But this world has such a draw 425 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,320 and they haven't purposed in their heart to follow and seek 426 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:51,200 after God fully because, you know, OK, I'm on a diet, I'm 427 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,600 done. I'm on a diet. 428 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:58,640 I could cheat. And after I cheat, man, your 429 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,760 sweat starts going like I feel so fat now. 430 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,160 I just, I had a piece of cake. And then in the morning you get 431 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,520 on the skin and you're like, oh, it didn't do anything. 432 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:19,800 Well, maybe I can cheat again. And you cheat again and you get 433 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,840 on the scare and you're like at a .2. 434 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,840 That's OK, I can get rid of that. 435 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,320 I just won't eat breakfast. There we go. 436 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:32,040 I'm back down. And as funny as that is, we play 437 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:37,520 with that with sin. I know I shouldn't do this and I 438 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,720 do it. Oh, I didn't get caught. 439 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,840 I don't have any consequence to that. 440 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:46,800 I know I should. I shouldn't do that. 441 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,400 And I get back doing right and well. 442 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,760 I mean, last time it didn't do anything. 443 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,040 Last time I didn't gain any weight. 444 00:32:54,040 --> 00:33:01,720 I'll just put my toe in it, get back over here, and it ruins 445 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,480 their life. They're ineffective for God 446 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,160 because that vessel is not fit for the use. 447 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,440 That's why we have these kings to be an example to us to go 448 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,080 look at. Raya Bone had the wisest man 449 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,080 alive, had the grandfather of of a man that was after God's own 450 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:27,080 heart. And yet he had a mother that 451 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,120 followed after idols. And obviously the influence of 452 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,160 his mother was great because God wanted everybody to know, hey, 453 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,480 this was his mom. Be careful who you allow your 454 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,280 kids to be around. Be careful who you allow 455 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:49,120 yourself to be around because it's going to make you 456 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,240 inconsistent an inconsistent person. 457 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,080 I don't want anything to deal with and if you and I don't want 458 00:33:56,080 --> 00:33:59,200 to deal with an inconsistent person, you think God's going to 459 00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:03,360 use them. Let's pray Heavenly Father, I, I 460 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,080 thank you again for your word for preserving it for us for all 461 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,000 eternity and the, the examples and the, the lives that they're, 462 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,679 they're not stories. They're they're actual lives of 463 00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:19,520 men and women that lived this way and made the choices that 464 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:23,800 they did good or bad. God for us to, to have an 465 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,080 example and to see if we don't prepare our hearts to seek after 466 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,280 you every single day, Satan's going to get an inroad. 467 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,120 Satan's going to be able to not just attack us, but able to get 468 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,719 to the the Capitol building and steal blessings out of our lives 469 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,600 because we allowed a little crack in the wall that we 470 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,159 thought it wasn't that big of a deal. 471 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,239 God, I pray that we we stopped playing Christian that we we 472 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:55,880 understand the seriousness of of especially being in the days 473 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,760 that we live. There's enough wishy washy 474 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:05,040 churches and enough wishy washy Christian so-called God. 475 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,440 I pray that we we set.