As a teenager, I hit my thumb very hard with a hammer. The consequences were blood, great pain, and the loss of my thumbnail. Those are normal consequences for such an accident. Transition When a nation or a person rejects God, sad consequences will always follow. As we look at the sad consequences Israel’s kings […]
The spiritual life of Judah in the 7th century BC was much like a yoyo. They went down with wicked Ahaz for 16 years. They went up with his godly son Hezekiah for 29 years. Then his very ungodly son Manasseh took them way down for 55 years. He repented and tried to bring the […]
The laws of sowing and reaping are 1) you will reap WHAT you sow, 2) you will reap AFTER you sow, 3) you will reap MORE than you sow. This evening we are going to see how true those laws were in the life of King Manasseh. Transition As we examine three stages of Manasseh’s […]
Hezekiah was a very godly king during one of the darkest periods of Judah’s history. Living a godly life in an ungodly world has always been like paddling a canoe upstream in a rapid-flowing river. It is hard work and faced with many obstacles, but it is not impossible. Transition As we examine Hezekiah’s life, […]
God had Solomon write, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) Parenting is no easy task. Good king Jotham failed at this task. The mother of his son Ahaz is not named. Perhaps she was an ungodly wife. Whatever […]
Jotham, the son of King Uzziah began to reign when he was 25 years old and reigned for 16 years. He is one of the few kings of Judah who had a clean record in the Bible. Though he was a sinner like all men, the Bible records no sin laid against him. God does […]
The story is told about a clever salesman who closed hundreds of sales with this line: “Let me show you something several of your neighbours said you couldn’t afford.” He was playing on their pride. Children and adults, male and female all struggle with pride. Solomon wrote, (Proverbs 16:18) “Pride goeth before destruction, and an […]
Daily we face temptations to say ungodly words, to act unkindly, to lust, to get angry, to disobey, to fear to witness, to worry, to gossip, and on and on. Our text this evening is written to Christians. It tells us that the devil and his demons are behind our temptations (v.12). Though our sinful […]
When someone tries to give us advice that we do not want to hear, there is a great temptation to tell him or her to be quiet. That is often not the wise thing to do, especially if the person is an authority over us. King Amaziah, son of Joash, found himself in that very […]
A grandmother was looking after her two little grandchildren – a 7-year-old girl, and a 5-year-old boy. They were naughty. When it came time for their mother to pick them up, the little girl said, “Are you going to tell Mummy?” The grandmother replied, “No, I’m not. But if she asks me, I can’t tell […]