{"id":3368,"date":"2019-05-29T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2019-05-26T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T03:47:32","slug":"2kings_17_14-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/2kings_17_14-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of Persistently Sinning Against God"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Kings 17:14-23 \u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today’s passage is 2 Kings 17:14-23.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

2 Kings 17:22-23 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n22\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The Israelites persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam and did not turn away from them
\n23\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0until the\u00a0LORD\u00a0removed them from his presence, as he had warned through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland into exile in Assyria, and they are still there.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 14-23:\u00a0 These verses summarize the overall story of 2 Kings: Despite the Lord warning His people about sinning against Him and about the consequences that would result from their persistent sin, the Israelites both in Israel and in Judah persisted in all forms of sinning against the Lord (v14 to 19).\u00a0 So the Lord does as He had warned: just as Abijah had prophesied approximately 200 years before in 1 Kings 14:15-16, God thrusts the Israelites from His presence and out of the land that He had given to them (v20-23).<\/p>\n

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

1. Just as the Israelites were ousted out of their homeland because of their persistent sin,\u00a0the price we pay for our persistent sin is to be thrust from God’s presence<\/strong>.\u00a0 As Isaiah 59:2 says, “It\u2019s your sins that have cut you off from God.\u00a0Because of your sins, he has turned away\u00a0and will not listen anymore.”\u00a0 But praise God!\u00a0\u00a0When we had no way of returning to God’s presence, He made a way for us through Jesus Christ.<\/strong>\u00a0 Through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, our sins which used to separate us from God are forgiven, and by faith in Christ’s finished work on the cross we can enter God’s presence again.<\/p>\n

2. A common theme is 2 Kings is that\u00a0God’s Word is reliable and true<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0What God promises will happen will indeed happen in God’s perfect timing<\/strong>, even if it is centuries between the announcement of a prophecy and its fulfillment.<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, when our persistent sins thrust us out of the presence of the Father, You sacrificed Yourself for us so that we could have a way back home.\u00a0 Thank You.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today’s passage is 2 Kings 17:14-23.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

2 Kings 17:22-23 (NIV)\u00a0
\n22\u00a0\u00a0The Israelites persisted in all the sins of Jeroboam and did not turn away from them
\n23\u00a0\u00a0until the\u00a0LORD\u00a0removed them from his presence, as he had warned through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland into exile in Assyria, and they are still there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On verses 14-23:\u00a0 These verses summarize the overall story of 2 Kings: Despite the Lord warning His people about sinning against Him and about the consequences that would result from their persistent sin, the Israelites both in Israel and in Judah persisted in all forms of sinning against the Lord (v14 to 19).\u00a0 So the Lord does as He had warned: just as Abijah had prophesied approximately 200 years before in 1 Kings 14:15-16, God thrusts the Israelites from His presence and out of the land that He had given to them (v20-23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","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\/3368","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=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}