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1 Kings\u00a0 20:35-43\u00a0 \u00a0(CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 1 Kings 20:35-43.\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 20:35-36 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n35\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0By the word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, “Strike me with your weapon,” but the man refused.
\n36\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So the prophet said, “Because you have not obeyed the\u00a0LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a035-36:\u00a0 This is an odd story, but what can we learn from it?\u00a0\u00a0When you don\u2019t obey God\u2019s Word, you become vulnerable to the attack of the enemy, whom the Bible describes elsewhere as a lion looking for someone to devour (<\/strong>1<\/strong>\u00a0Peter 5:8)<\/strong>.\u00a0 As strange as God\u2019s Word might sometimes seem to finite people like us, God\u2019s Word is there for our protection.\u00a0 We\u2019re much better off trusting in God\u2019s Word than trusting in ourselves.<\/p>\n

1 Kings 20:37-43 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n37\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The prophet found another man and said, “Strike me, please.” So the man struck him and wounded him.
\n38\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the prophet went and stood by the road waiting for the king. He disguised himself with his headband down over his eyes.
\n39\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0As the king passed by, the prophet called out to him, “Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, ‘Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent of silver.’
\n40\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0While your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” “That is your sentence,” the king of Israel said. “You have pronounced it yourself.”
\n41\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the prophet quickly removed the headband from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.
\n42\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He said to the king, “This is what the\u00a0LORD\u00a0says: ‘You have set free a man I had determined should die. Therefore it is your life for his life, your people for his people.'”
\n43\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Sullen and angry, the king of Israel went to his palace in Samaria.
\nOn verses 37-43:\u00a0 Disguising himself as a wounded soldier, the prophet meets King Ahab and tells him, \u201cI agreed to guard a prisoner with my life, but the prisoner got away.\u201d\u00a0 King Ahab responds, \u201cThen you must pay with your life since you let the prisoner get away.\u201d\u00a0 When the prophet takes off his disguise, King Ahab recognizes the prophet.\u00a0 The prophet says that Ahab is guilty of the same sin: Ahab let King Ben-Hadad of Aram get away when the Lord had intended that Ben-Hadad should die (v42). As a result, King Ahab would be destined to die in place of Ben-Hadad and the Israelites would suffer in place of the Arameans.\u00a0 Upon hearing this news Ahab returns home “sullen and angry” (v43).\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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

1.\u00a0\u00a0God wants us to have a take no prisoners approach to our enemy Satan.<\/strong>\u00a0 Don\u2019t try to negotiate or compromise with Satan, because if you give him an inch, he\u2019ll try to take a mile.\u00a0 Satan does not play nice, so don\u2019t give into him or try to strike a deal with him.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0Just like King Ahab would die in place of Ben-Hadad,\u00a0centuries later a king would be killed in place of a prisoner who deserved to die:\u00a0 the Lord Jesus would die in the place of sinners like us.<\/strong>\u00a0 It would be his life for our lives.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Notice that when King Ahab got undesirable news from the Lord concerning his death, rather than repenting and humbling himself before God, King Ahab went away “sullen [i.e. sulky and gloomy] and angry” (v43).\u00a0\u00a0When God does something different from what we desire, we can either be sullen and angry about it and turn from God as Ahab did.\u00a0 Or, we can humble ourselves before God and ask God for wisdom to see things His way.\u00a0 May you and I choose the latter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Father, thank You that Jesus is the king who died in my place, though I deserved to die for my sin while Jesus never sinned.\u00a0 Thank You that through Christ\u2019s death, my sins are totally forgiven and I have complete victory over the enemy.\u00a0 I humble myself before You today and say let Your will be done.\u00a0 Let me see things Your way more and more.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 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 20:35-43.\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 20:35-36 (NIV)
\n35\u00a0\u00a0By the word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, “Strike me with your weapon,” but the man refused.
\n36\u00a0\u00a0So the prophet said, “Because you have not obeyed the\u00a0LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you.” And after the man went away, a lion found him and killed him.<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a035-36:\u00a0 This is an odd story, but what can we learn from it?\u00a0\u00a0When you don\u2019t obey God\u2019s Word, you become vulnerable to the attack of the enemy, whom the Bible describes elsewhere as a lion looking for someone to devour (1\u00a0Peter 5:8).\u00a0 As strange as God\u2019s Word might sometimes seem to finite people like us, God\u2019s Word is there for our protection.\u00a0 We\u2019re much better off trusting in God\u2019s Word than trusting in ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35151","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\/35151","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=35151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35154,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151\/revisions\/35154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}