{"id":2391,"date":"2019-03-20T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T03:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2019-03-17T00:46:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T07:46:04","slug":"1kings_12_16-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1kings_12_16-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Quick to Learn and to Respond to God"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Kings 12:16-24\u00a0\u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 12:16-24.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

1 Kings 12:18-19 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n18\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram, who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.
\n19\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 16-20:\u00a0 Finding Rehoboam to be unresponsive to their demands, the Israelites, other than the tribe of Judah reject Rehoboam as their king.\u00a0 Rehoboam tries sending Adoniram his messenger to appease the people, but the people kill Adoniram and nearly kill Rehoboam.\u00a0 They appoint Jeroboam as their new king instead, in rebellion against the house of David.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0 These verses paint a picture of our predicament with God.\u00a0 God is our rightful king, yet all of us in our own way rejected God as our king.\u00a0 Just as the Israelites killed Rehoboam’s messenger Adoniram, we killed God’s messenger — His only Son — Jesus, and appointed ourselves as our own king.\u00a0 In so doing, we rebelled against God.\u00a0 Until the day we make amends with God through Jesus Christ and the cross, we will always be in rebellion against God.<\/p>\n

1 Kings\u00a012:24\u00a0(NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n24\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>‘This is what the LORD says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.'” So they obeyed the word of the LORD and went home again, as the LORD had ordered.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 21-24:\u00a0 Rehoboam mobilizes 180,000 men from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin to fight against Jeroboam and recapture the kingdom.\u00a0 However, a prophet called Shemaiah receives a word from God warning Rehoboam not to fight the Israelites but to go home, for God is behind this turn of events.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Be quick to learn from your mistakes.<\/strong>\u00a0 Earlier Rehoboam made the mistake of taking too lightly the advice of his elders.\u00a0 He would not make the same mistake twice.\u00a0 When advised by a man of God not to go up and fight Jeroboam, Rehoboam listens to this advice and acts accordingly.\u00a0\u00a0May we too be quick to learn from our mistakes and prayerfully consider what God has to say before making a big decision that affects us and those in our care.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. God’s plans are firm and there’s no fighting them.\u00a0 If you try to fight against God’s plans for your life, you will only find yourself frustrated and defeated.\u00a0 Instead of fighting God’s plans, work with God and walk alongside Him.\u00a0\u00a0God’s plans may be different from your own plans, but His plans are always infinitely better.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, rather than continuously rebelling against You, may I be quick to learn the lessons You teach me, quick to respond to Your cautions and warnings, and quick to move in accordance with Your plans.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 12:16-24.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

1 Kings 12:18-19 (NIV)\u00a0
\n18\u00a0King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram, who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.\u00a0
\n19\u00a0So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.<\/p>\n

On verses 16-20:\u00a0 Finding Rehoboam to be unresponsive to their demands, the Israelites, other than the tribe of Judah reject Rehoboam as their king.\u00a0 Rehoboam tries sending Adoniram his messenger to appease the people, but the people kill Adoniram and nearly kill Rehoboam.\u00a0 They appoint Jeroboam as their new king instead, in rebellion against the house of David.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2393,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}