Bible Study Okay folks, I was challenged from 1 Kings 12

[farouk]

Okay so I was challenged from 1 Kings 12 today.

The preacher talked about Jeroboam who tried to combine true worship with his own ideas, and a false altar in Dan.

He went directly against Exodus 20 and conditions in Israel got worse and worse over the next generations, so that when Israelites started performing human sacrifices, the Lord 'pulled the plug' and allowed Israel to go into captivity for 70 years.

This is all very sobering and searching, in terms of how we get to live the Christian life. Scripture has such examples and warnings: there is the blessedness of being faithful, or the consequences of being the opposite.

I found it searching, anyway.

Blessings.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

It's interesting to see what happened then in the setting up of Samaria's competing 'religion' and how history has repeated itself in the way the church has departed from the pure ways of God to condone it's own pollution of God's ways, mixing it's worship up with the practices of the pagans.

"30...be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.” 31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates." (Deuteronomy 12:30-31 NIV1984)

This is as applicable a warning to us today in the New Covenant as it was to the Israelites in the old hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

 

[farouk]

Jethro: Yes, I was challenged, too.