Story of Three Dynasties
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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 1 Kings 16:25-28
April 14, 2024
1 Kings 16:25-28: Omri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did more evil than all who were before him. For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols. Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? And Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.
Sermon Outline
1. Elah: The carousing king
His degenerate reign
His sad end
A warning about the worship of pleasure
The double evil of pulling others into our own sins
2. Zimri: The tough-guy king
He ends Baashaās dynasty the same way it began
His dynasty ends in a blaze of defiance
The ultimate expression of self-determination
3. Four years of civil war
4. Omri: The winner who was a loser
Politically a winner
Spiritually a loser
