The Dynasty of David: Rehoboam to Asa
THE DYNASTY OF DAVID: REHOBOAM TO ASA
Tonight (Wednesday, 12/12, 7:00 pm), gather with your Calvary Chapel family in the main sanctuary or on our website (www.calvaryinv.com), Facebook, and Youtube (Calvary Inverness) as we continue with our three-year journey through the Bible (2 Chronicles 10-16).
The book of 2 Chronicles begins with Solomon’s ascension to his Father David’s throne. He started his reign walking closely with the Lord. Because of his faithfulness to God, he was rewarded with peace from the surrounding nations and prosperity that no one up to that time to the present day has ever experienced. He acknowledged that everything he had was given to him by the God of Heaven.
But, as with most men blessed with incredible influence, power and wealth, Solomon began to stray from his intimate fellowship with God. He married many foreign women whom God had warned would turn him to worship their pagan deities. Soon he forgot what the Lord had done for him and spiraled downward into an immoral abyss. His life is a poignant and sobering reminder of what happens when God is left out of one’s life.
After Solomon’s death, his weak, feckless son ascended to the throne. He was followed by his son Abijah and then his grandson Asa. All three men are a picture of three types of people today. First, Rehoboam was a weak leader, and though he tried to hold on to the power that his Father had was unable to because “he did evil because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD” (2 Chronicles 12:14).
Abijah was a better and more decisive leader than his Father, Rehoboam. He recruited and trained an army of valiant warriors to battle against Jeroboam, the king of the ten northern tribes. He showed himself to be a shrewd politician and an excellent military strategist. Yet, God still had to intervene by routing Jeroboam’s army before Judah. Abijah knew God had saved them, but like many good patriots in our nation today, there was an acknowledgment of God but no heart transformation. So, for all the good he did for his people, the legacy he leaves is given by the author of First & Second Kings, who states that Abijah “walked in all the sins his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God” (1 Kings 15:3).
Finally, Solomon’s great-grandson Asa became King of Judah when his Father Abijah died. He was different from Solomon, Rehoboam, and his Father in that “he did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God, and his heart was loyal all of his days” (2 Chron. 14:3; 15:17).
The reforms that followed led Judah to a spiritual awakening that affected every level of society. Therefore, the citizens rejoiced at the opportunity for them to have fellowship with the God of Heaven and the results that are a natural consequence of what happens when “the people entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of the fathers with all their heart and soul” (2 Chron. 15:12).
Please pray that this three-year journey through the Word of God will be received by open hearts that long to grow in the Grace and Knowledge of Jesus. And He would do deep and abiding work in and through us for a world in desperate need of a Savior.
In His Strong Love,
Pastor
Tonight (Wednesday, 12/12, 7:00 pm), gather with your Calvary Chapel family in the main sanctuary or on our website (www.calvaryinv.com), Facebook, and Youtube (Calvary Inverness) as we continue with our three-year journey through the Bible (2 Chronicles 10-16).
The book of 2 Chronicles begins with Solomon’s ascension to his Father David’s throne. He started his reign walking closely with the Lord. Because of his faithfulness to God, he was rewarded with peace from the surrounding nations and prosperity that no one up to that time to the present day has ever experienced. He acknowledged that everything he had was given to him by the God of Heaven.
But, as with most men blessed with incredible influence, power and wealth, Solomon began to stray from his intimate fellowship with God. He married many foreign women whom God had warned would turn him to worship their pagan deities. Soon he forgot what the Lord had done for him and spiraled downward into an immoral abyss. His life is a poignant and sobering reminder of what happens when God is left out of one’s life.
After Solomon’s death, his weak, feckless son ascended to the throne. He was followed by his son Abijah and then his grandson Asa. All three men are a picture of three types of people today. First, Rehoboam was a weak leader, and though he tried to hold on to the power that his Father had was unable to because “he did evil because he did not prepare his heart to seek the LORD” (2 Chronicles 12:14).
Abijah was a better and more decisive leader than his Father, Rehoboam. He recruited and trained an army of valiant warriors to battle against Jeroboam, the king of the ten northern tribes. He showed himself to be a shrewd politician and an excellent military strategist. Yet, God still had to intervene by routing Jeroboam’s army before Judah. Abijah knew God had saved them, but like many good patriots in our nation today, there was an acknowledgment of God but no heart transformation. So, for all the good he did for his people, the legacy he leaves is given by the author of First & Second Kings, who states that Abijah “walked in all the sins his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God” (1 Kings 15:3).
Finally, Solomon’s great-grandson Asa became King of Judah when his Father Abijah died. He was different from Solomon, Rehoboam, and his Father in that “he did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God, and his heart was loyal all of his days” (2 Chron. 14:3; 15:17).
The reforms that followed led Judah to a spiritual awakening that affected every level of society. Therefore, the citizens rejoiced at the opportunity for them to have fellowship with the God of Heaven and the results that are a natural consequence of what happens when “the people entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of the fathers with all their heart and soul” (2 Chron. 15:12).
Please pray that this three-year journey through the Word of God will be received by open hearts that long to grow in the Grace and Knowledge of Jesus. And He would do deep and abiding work in and through us for a world in desperate need of a Savior.
In His Strong Love,
Pastor
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