{"id":34941,"date":"2025-03-06T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=34941"},"modified":"2025-02-25T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:06:06","slug":"1-kings-16_1-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/1-kings-16_1-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Let Bad History Repeat Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Kings\u00a0 16:1-7 \u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 Kings 16:1-7.\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 16:1-7 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha:
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“I lifted you up from the dust and made you leader of my people Israel, but you walked in the ways of Jeroboam and caused my people Israel to sin and to provoke me to anger by their sins.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So I am about to consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Dogs will eat those belonging to Baasha who die in the city, and the birds of the air will feed on those who die in the country.”
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0As for the other events of Baasha’s reign, what he did and his achievements, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. And Elah his son succeeded him as king.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Moreover, the word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani to Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the eyes of the\u00a0LORD, provoking him to anger by the things he did, and becoming like the house of Jeroboam–and also because he destroyed it.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a01-7:\u00a0 Because King Jeroboam had turned away from the Lord to worship idols of his own making and led Israel to do the same, God sent a prophet to say that one day the kingship would be stripped from Jeroboam\u2019s family and his family would be eradicated (1 Kings 14:9-11).\u00a0 In 1 Kings 15, Baasha is the one who kills Jeroboam\u2019s entire family and takes over the throne.\u00a0 Yet soon after Baasha becomes the new king Baasha commits the very same sins Jeroboam committed.\u00a0 Following in Jeroboam’s footsteps, Baasha worships idols and causes the Israelites to do the same.\u00a0 Failing to learn from the mistakes of his predecessors, Baasha receives a message from God through the prophet Jehu: just like God wiped out the house of Jeroboam for their sins, God would also wipe Baasha and his house (v3-4).<\/p>\n

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

1.\u00a0No matter how different we might think we are compared to the previous generation,\u00a0<\/strong>from time to time we will be tempted to repeat the same mistakes that our predecessors have made.\u00a0 So we must be extra vigilant and careful not to repeat those mistakes, and ask God for help in this area.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. When it comes to sin, God does not show favouritism.\u00a0 Baasha was the instrument God ended up using to fulfill His promise against the house of Jeroboam, but when Baasha himself had fallen into the same sins as Jeroboam, Baasha would suffer the same fate as Jeroboam as well.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Like Baasha,\u00a0all of us have worshiped idols of our own making and deserve to be cut off from God’s presence.\u00a0 However, praise God that in His love and mercy God sent Jesus Christ to die for our sins and to be our Saviour, so that our sins can be forgiven and we can be reconciled to God.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0
Father, since no one is perfect other than You, I pray that we would be extra aware of what mistakes were committed by the generations that went before us.\u00a0 Give us wisdom to guard our hearts so that we would not repeat those same mistakes.\u00a0 Thank You for Jesus and His sacrifice on the cross so that we can be forgiven.\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 16:1-7.\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 16:1-7 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0Then the word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha:
\n2\u00a0\u00a0“I lifted you up from the dust and made you leader of my people Israel, but you walked in the ways of Jeroboam and caused my people Israel to sin and to provoke me to anger by their sins.<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a01-7:\u00a0 Because King Jeroboam had turned away from the Lord to worship idols of his own making and led Israel to do the same, God sent a prophet to say that one day the kingship would be stripped from Jeroboam\u2019s family and his family would be eradicated (1 Kings 14:9-11).\u00a0 In 1 Kings 15, Baasha is the one who kills Jeroboam\u2019s entire family and takes over the throne.\u00a0 Yet soon after Baasha becomes the new king Baasha commits the very same sins Jeroboam committed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34941","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\/34941","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=34941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34944,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34941\/revisions\/34944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}