{"id":35574,"date":"2025-04-22T22:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=35574"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:46:21","slug":"2-kings-12_1-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/2-kings-12_1-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Accountability + Passion for God\u2019s House"},"content":{"rendered":"

2 Kings 12:1-12\u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is 2 Kings 12:1-12.\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

2<\/strong>\u00a0Kings<\/strong>\u00a012<\/strong>:<\/strong>1<\/strong>-3 (NIV)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n1<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
\n2<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0Joash did what was right in the eyes of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses\u00a01-3:\u00a0 Notice what it says in verse\u00a02:\u00a0 “Joash did what was right in the eyes of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.”\u00a0 Here we see the importance of being teachable and accountable to someone you trust and respect.\u00a0 Joash was blessed to have a wise and God-loving father figure and mentor in his life called Jehoiada.\u00a0 As long as Joash was willing to let Jehoiada speak into his life and keep him accountable, Joash did what was right in God’s eyes.\u00a0 When Joash stopped having someone to stay accountable to, that’s when his life would go off the rails (see\u00a02\u00a0Chronicles 24:17-19).<\/p>\n

Likewise,\u00a0each of us needs someone whom we trust and respect to speak into our lives and to keep us accountable, lest we go off the rails.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Who is that someone in your life?\u00a0 If you don’t have someone like that, it’s time to find someone like that.\u00a0\u00a0Don’t wait for that person to come to you, but you take the initiative to find that person and invite that person to speak into your life.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Kings 12:4-12 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money that is brought as sacred offerings to the temple of the\u00a0LORD–the money collected in the census, the money received from personal vows and the money brought voluntarily to the temple.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Let every priest receive the money from one of the treasurers, and let it be used to repair whatever damage is found in the temple.”
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But by the twenty-third year of King Joash the priests still had not repaired the temple.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Therefore King Joash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and asked them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage done to the temple? Take no more money from your treasurers, but hand it over for repairing the temple.”
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priests agreed that they would not collect any more money from the people and that they would not repair the temple themselves.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid. He placed it beside the altar, on the right side as one enters the temple of the\u00a0LORD. The priests who guarded the entrance put into the chest all the money that was brought to the temple of the\u00a0LORD.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal secretary and the high priest came, counted the money that had been brought into the temple of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0and put it into bags.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When the amount had been determined, they gave the money to the men appointed to supervise the work on the temple. With it they paid those who worked on the temple of the\u00a0LORD–the carpenters and builders,
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0the masons and stonecutters. They purchased timber and dressed stone for the repair of the temple of the\u00a0LORD, and met all the other expenses of restoring the temple.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 4-12:\u00a0\u00a0In these verses King Joash of Judah works with the priests to repair the Lord\u2019s temple in Jerusalem.\u00a0 At first Joash allocated money from 3 sources — census collections, personal vow collections and voluntary offerings — toward the repairing of the temple and asked the priests to be in charge of the repairs.\u00a0 However, for some reason — whether it’s because the priests were too busy, or there wasn’t enough money, or the system was not clear enough, or the priests were not competent in the area of repairs — nothing got done…for a long time.\u00a0 It was an ineffective system.\u00a0 So Joash and Jehoiada take the lead in creating a more efficient system for allocating money and qualified people toward the repairing of the temple.<\/p>\n

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

First, notice Joash’s passion for building, protecting and repairing God’s house.\u00a0 How passionate are you for the building, protecting and repairing of God’s house? Jesus was passionate for God’s house.\u00a0 As John\u00a02:17\u00a0says, “Zeal for Your house will consume me”.\u00a0\u00a0To be like Christ is to be passionate about the building and protecting of God’s house<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Second,\u00a0God’s church needs people who are passionate about creating more effective systems so that the church can operate at its very best.<\/strong>\u00a0 If you are a strategic, detail-oriented thinker, if you are gifted in organizing, maintaining and improving systems, then you have a role to play in God’s kingdom for sure.<\/p>\n

Lord Jesus, thank You that I get to be part of Your church and that there are other people in this body who can keep me accountable and speak into my life.\u00a0 Thank You also for Your passion for Your house. Like Joash, please use me to build and protect my church.\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 2 Kings 12:1-12.\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

2\u00a0Kings\u00a012:1-3 (NIV)\u00a0
\n1\u00a0\u00a0In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.\u00a0
\n2\u00a0\u00a0Joash did what was right in the eyes of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.\u00a0
\n3\u00a0\u00a0The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.<\/p>\n

On verses\u00a01-3:\u00a0 Notice what it says in verse\u00a02:\u00a0 “Joash did what was right in the eyes of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.”\u00a0 Here we see the importance of being teachable and accountable to someone you trust and respect.\u00a0 Joash was blessed to have a wise and God-loving father figure and mentor in his life called Jehoiada.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35574","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\/35574","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=35574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35577,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35574\/revisions\/35577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}