{"id":34853,"date":"2025-02-27T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=34853"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:08:33","slug":"1-kings-13_23-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1-kings-13_23-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Yourself and Your Family Against the Lion’s Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Kings 13:23-34 \u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 Kings 13:23-34.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!<\/p>\n

1 Kings 13:23-32 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled his donkey for him.
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was thrown down on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Some people who passed by saw the body thrown down there, with the lion standing beside the body, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.
\n26\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who defied the word of the\u00a0LORD. The\u00a0LORD\u00a0has given him over to the lion, which has mauled him and killed him, as the word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had warned him.”
\n27\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The prophet said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me,” and they did so.
\n28\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then he went out and found the body thrown down on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had neither eaten the body nor mauled the donkey.
\n29\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.
\n30\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him and said, “Oh, my brother!”
\n31\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0After burying him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
\n32\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For the message he declared by the word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the towns of Samaria will certainly come true.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a023-32:\u00a0 Earlier in verses 21 and 22, the older prophet gives the younger prophet a word from God that the younger prophet has defied God’s command by eating and drinking when God specifically told him not to eat and drink during his trip (v21-22).\u00a0 Notice the younger prophet’s response in verse\u00a023: there is no indication that the younger prophet repented or felt remorse for what he did.\u00a0 It seems like he just got on his donkey and proceeded to go home as if everything was normal.\u00a0 Notice what happens next to the younger prophet: “As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.” (v24)<\/p>\n

Upon hearing the news of the younger prophet’s death, the older prophet finds his body, buries him in his own tomb and tells his sons to bury him beside the younger prophet.\u00a0 This was the older prophet’s way of identifying with and supporting the prophecy that the younger prophet had spoken earlier (v32).\u00a0 The older prophet might also have done this because he felt partially responsible for the younger prophet’s death.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0 All of us will make mistakes from time to time, but it’s how we respond to those mistakes that is the most important.\u00a0\u00a0When we, like the younger prophet, do not repent of our sin and just saddle up and go on our merry way, we give the devil — who is described elsewhere in Scripture as a lion looking for someone to devour (<\/strong>1<\/strong>\u00a0Peter 5:8) — room to attack us and do great damage.\u00a0 So when you sin, be quick to repent.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Don’t let unconfessed sin open the door to Satan’s attacks and even greater problems.\u00a0 Protect yourself from the lion’s attacks by repenting quickly of sin and looking to Jesus for forgiveness and protection.<\/p>\n

1<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Kings<\/em><\/strong>\u00a013<\/em><\/strong>:33-34 (NIV)\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\n33\u00a0<\/sup><\/em>Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places.\u00a0<\/em>
\n34\u00a0<\/sup><\/em>This was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its downfall and to its destruction from the face of the earth.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 33-34:\u00a0 Highlight those words “Even after this”.\u00a0 Even after God had spoken to Jeroboam and moved powerfully in Jeroboam’s life with signs and wonders (v1-6), Jeroboam “did not change his evil ways” (v33).\u00a0 He continued to appoint anyone and everyone to be priests in the new idolatrous religion he had created. Verse 34 confirms that this failure to change his ways is what led to the downfall and destruction of Jeroboam’s entire house.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0 To a greater extent than the younger prophet who was earlier killed by the lion, Jeroboam’s hardheartedness toward God eventually led not only to his own destruction but also the destruction of Jeroboam’s family.\u00a0\u00a0When we persist in sin and refuse to turn to God even after all the mercy and grace God has shown us, we are signing our own death warrant as well as setting up our future generations for much trouble<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If there is unconfessed sin in your life, I encourage you to repent of that sin today.\u00a0 Confess it specifically to God, knowing that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.\u00a0 Pray also for God\u2019s protection for yourself and your family in Jesus\u2019 name, knowing that greater is He who is in us (Jesus by His Holy Spirit) than he who is in the world (Satan).<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, thank You that by Your shed blood on the cross I have total forgiveness for every sin.\u00a0 Thank You for Your mercy over my life.\u00a0 Today in Jesus’ name I cut off Satan from harming me in any way.\u00a0 Help me, Lord, to walk in Your ways and obey Your commands, which You give for my protection and my good. Be glorified in me and let Your hedge of protection be built around my life and family.\u00a0 In Jesus’ name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

copyright \u00a9 2022 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 Kings 13:23-34.\u00a0 As usual,\u00a0I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.\u00a0 See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit\u2019s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let’s go!\u00a0<\/p>\n

1 Kings 13:23-32 (NIV)
\n23\u00a0\u00a0When the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the prophet who had brought him back saddled his donkey for him.
\n24\u00a0\u00a0As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was thrown down on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a023-32:\u00a0 Earlier in verses 21 and 22, the older prophet gives the younger prophet a word from God that the younger prophet has defied God’s command by eating and drinking when God specifically told him not to eat and drink during his trip (v21-22).\u00a0 Notice the younger prophet’s response in verse\u00a023: there is no indication that the younger prophet repented or felt remorse for what he did.\u00a0 It seems like he just got on his donkey and proceeded to go home as if everything was normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34853","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\/34853","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=34853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34856,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34853\/revisions\/34856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}