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1 Gospel Baptist Tabernacle 781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741 Where the Love of God abounds, everyone is welcome . Children’s Church taught by Paul and Marsha Davis during preaching. www.rossvillechurch.com 11-23-2014

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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle

781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

Where the Love of God

abounds, everyone is

welcome.

Children’s Church taught

by Paul and Marsha Davis

during preaching.

www.rossvillechurch.com

11-23-2014

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1 Kings 16 1 Then the Word of the LORD came to

Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, …

The prophet Hanani warned King Asa in Judah

against his pride and neglect of the Lord.

Remember: Asa was at war with Baasha, but instead

of turning to God in prayer, he figgered it out.

He turned to Benhadad, king of Syria for help.

Now, Hanani’s son, Jehu, prophesies

against Baasha in the north.

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1 Kings 16 1 Then the Word of the LORD came to

Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, 2 Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and

made thee prince over My people Israel; and thou

hast walked in the way of Jeroboam, and hast made

My people Israel to sin, to provoke Me to anger

with their sins;

Even though God raised up Baasha to execute

judgment upon Jeroboam,

Baasha was just as sinful as Jeroboam had been.

His sins will not be overlooked.

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God called Israel “My people” here in

spite of their backsliding.”

Even though He was angry with them for their sins,

God did not disown them.

He still loved them and dealt with

them as His children.

Hebrews 12 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth

with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the

father chasteneth not?

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3 Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha,

and the posterity of his house; and will make thy

house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 4 Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs

eat; and him that dieth of his in the fields shall the

fowls of the air eat.

Baasha’s sin was as wicked as Jeroboam, and his

judgment was the same as Jeroboam.

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5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he

did, and his might, are they not written in the book

of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 6 So Baasha

slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and

Elah his son reigned in his stead.

Baasha reigned for twenty-four years,

and yet very little is written of him.

Insignificant!

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7 And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son

of Hanani came the Word of the LORD against

Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil

that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking

Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being

like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed

him. 8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of

Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over

Israel in Tirzah, two years.

Luke 17 1 Then said He unto the disciples, It is

impossible but that offences will come: but woe

unto him, through whom they come!

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9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots,

conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah,

drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza

steward of his house in Tirzah. 10 And Zimri went

in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and

seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in

his stead.

What was he doing when he died?

Drinking himself drunk.

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Elah is given to us as a warning

against drunkenness.

Death easily comes upon men when they are

drunk. Besides the diseases which men bring

themselves into by drinking, when in that state,

men are easily overcome by an enemy, and liable

to bad accidents. Death comes terribly upon men in

such a state, finding them in the act of sin, and

unfitted for any act of devotion; that day comes

upon them unawares.

Matthew Henry Concise Bible Commentary

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11 And it came to pass, when he (Zimri) began to

reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew

all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that

pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor

of his friends. 12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the

house of Baasha, according to the Word of the

LORD, which He spake against Baasha by Jehu the

prophet, 13 For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins

of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by

which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the

LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

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14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he

did, are they not written in the book of the

chronicles of the kings of Israel? 15 In the twenty

and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri

reign seven days in Tirzah.

Seven days and dead!Zimri slaughtered Elah and all of his family:

Brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles – everybody.

God was using him as a weapon, but he did

not see himself as God’s servant.

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15b And the people were encamped against

Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. 16 And the people that were encamped heard say,

Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king:

wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the

host, king over Israel that day in the camp.

Zimri killed Elah and the whole family of Baasha,

and declared himself king of Israel.

But he was not accepted as king.

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17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel

with him, and they besieged Tirzah. 18 And it came

to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken,

that he went into the palace of the king's house, and

burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died, 19 For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the

sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of

Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make

Israel to sin. 20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri,

and his treason that he wrought, are they not

written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of

Israel?

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21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two

parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of

Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri. 22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed

against the people that followed Tibni the son of

Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

Treason, revolution and chaos.

Sin is to blame for it all!

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23 In the thirty and first year

of Asa king of Judah began

Omri to reign over Israel,

twelve years: six years

reigned he in Tirzah. 24 And

he bought the hill Samaria

of Shemer for two talents of

silver, and built on the hill,

and called the name of the

city which he built, after the

name of Shemer, owner of

the hill, Samaria.

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25 But Omri wrought evil

in the eyes of the LORD,

and did worse than all that

were before him. 26 For he

walked in all the way of

Jeroboam the son of

Nebat, and in his sin

wherewith he made Israel

to sin, to provoke the

LORD God of Israel to

anger with their vanities.

We talked last week

about the downward

spiral that Israel was in

after the nation split.

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Jeroboam

Nadab

Baasha

Elah

Zimri

Tibni

Omri

From 931 BC until 874 BC

Israel had seven kings,

Each progressively worse

than the ones before.

Each of them had opportunity

to repent from sin and to live

as God had taught them to live.

But they each and every one walked

in his own way of terrible sin.

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Acts 10: 34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said,

Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of

persons:

God will receive every one who comes to Him in

the Name of Jesus repenting of sin.

Their background, or family, or race matters not.

God will also execute judgment upon every one

who sins and will not repent.

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We each choose for ourselves how we live.

When we choose to walk obediently in the Way of

God, we are blessed with joy and peace.

When we choose to walk stubbornly and

rebelliously in our own way of sin,

God deals with us accordingly.

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Psalm 1 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the

counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of

sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But

his delight is in the Law of the LORD; and in His

Law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall

be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that

bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also

shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall

prosper.

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Psalm 1 4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the

chaff which the wind driveth away. 5 Therefore the

ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor

sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 6 For

the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but

the way of the ungodly shall perish.