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OBEDIENCE VS: DISOBEDIENCE. I KINGS 13: 1-32 II KINGS 23: 17-18. THE STORY OF 2 PROPHETS. PROPHET OF GOD FROM JUDAH (THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM) MESSAGE FOR KING JEROBOAM OF ISRAEL (THE NORTHERN KINGDOM) . THE STORY OF 2 PROPHETS. THE OLD PROPHET FROM ISRAEL (THE NORTHERN KINGDOM)
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OBEDIENCE VS: DISOBEDIENCE • I KINGS 13: 1-32 • II KINGS 23: 17-18
THE STORY OF 2 PROPHETS • PROPHET OF GOD • FROM JUDAH • (THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM) • MESSAGE FOR KING JEROBOAM OF ISRAEL • (THE NORTHERN KINGDOM)
THE STORY OF 2 PROPHETS • THE OLD PROPHET • FROM ISRAEL • (THE NORTHERN KINGDOM) • MESSAGE FOR MAN OF GOD FROM JUDAH • (THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM)
A BRIEF HISTORY KINGS OF ISRAEL SAUL DAVID SOLOMON AND THEN
A BRIEF HISTORY • REHOBOAM WHO REBELLED • KINGDOM SPLIT INTO NORTH AND SOUTH • REHOBOAM – SOUTH • 2 TRIBES • JEROBOAM – NORTH • 10 TRIBES
JEROBOAM • VERY WICKED • BUILT ALTARS FOR WORSHIP TO FALSE GODS SO PEOPLE WOULD NOT GO TO JUDAH THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM AND WORSHIP THE TRUE GOD • BUILT HIGH PLACES • VERY SINFUL PRACTICES
THE MAN OF GOD • WAS FROM JUDAH • GOD TOLD HIM TO GO TO BETHEL TO CONDEMN THE ALTAR JEROBOAM HAD BUILT • GOD TOLD HIM NOT TO EAT, DRINK,OR REST WHILE IN ISRAEL
THE MESSAGE • THE MAN OF GOD TOLD THE ALTAR IT WOULD BE SPLIT APART • TOLD HIM JOSIAH, A FUTURE KING OF JUDAH WOULD SACRIFICE THE BONES OF THE FALSE PRIESTS ON THAT ALTAR • JOSIAH BECAME KING 356 YEARS LATER
ANGER • JEROBOAM REACHED FOR THE PROPHET TO STOP HIS WORDS AND HIS ARM WITHERED AND HE COULD NOT MOVE IT • HE ASKED TO BE HEALED AND WAS • THE ALTAR SPLIT APART
THE INVITATION • JEROBOAM ASKED THE MAN OF GOD TO HIS HOUSE FOR DINNER AND ENTERTAINMENT • THE MAN OF GOD REFUSED BECAUSE GOD TOLD HIM NOT TO EAT, DRINK OR REST WHILE IN ISRAEL
LEAVING ISRAEL • THE MAN OF GOD STARTED TO TRAVEL BACK TO JUDAH • BUT • THE OLD PROPHET HEARD WHAT HAPPENED AT THE ALTAR AND INTERCEPTED THE MAN OF GOD
ANOTHER INVITATION • THE OLD PROPHET ASKED THE MAN OF GOD TO HIS HOUSE FOR DINNER AND ENTERTAINMENT • SAID GOD TOLD HIM THE MAN OF GOD SHOULD COME TO HIS HOUSE • LIAR • HE WAS A FALSE PROPHET
TROUBLE • THE OLD PROPHET TOLD THE MAN OF GOD HE WOULD DIE BECAUSE HE DISOBEYED GOD • HE GOT ON HIS DONKEY AND LEFT TO GO BACK TO JUDAH
THE LION • THE MAN OF GOD DIED BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE • THE LION DID NOT EAT THE MAN, OR HURT THE DONKEY • THE OLD PROPHET CAME THERE AND HE WAS NOT HURT BY THE LION
LIONS IN OUR LIVES • THINGS THAT SEPARATE US FROM GOD. • LACK OF PRAYER • NOT STUDYING THE BIBLE • JOINING PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HONOR GOD’S WORD • THIS IS SPIRITUAL DEATH
PREVENT SPIRITUAL LIONS • FOLLOW HIS WORD WHEN HE SAYS “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.” • “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” MATTHEW 22:37 & 39
JOSIAHII KINGS 23:17-18 • JOSIAH FOUND THE TOMB OF THE MAN OF GOD (356 YEARS LATER) WHICH HAD REMAINED IDENTIFIED THAT LONG. THE OLD PROPHET ALSO WAS IN THAT TOMB, AND JOSIAH SAID TO LEAVE THEM ALONE. • THE BONES OF THE FALSE PRIESTS WERE BURNED ON THE ALTAR
GOD HONORS YOUR LIFE • BECAUSE YOU HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS IN YOUR LIFE • YOU HAVE PEACE BECAUSE OF OBEDIENCE • YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE