Ahaziah's Deathbed and Jehovah’s Stubborn Holiness

1 Kings
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 1 Kings 22:51-53 & 2 Kings 1:18
July 28, 2024

1 Kings 22:51-53: Ahaziah son of Ahab became king of Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, because he walked in the ways of his father and mother and in the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin. He served and worshiped Baal and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.

2 Kings 1:18: As for all the other events of Ahaziah’s reign, and what he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

Sermon Outline

1. Ahaziah’s disappointments

  • Disappointments over money

  • Disappointments over his country

  • Disappointments over physical trauma

  • Disappointments from a shortened life span

2. In his disappointments, Ahaziah sought relief in idols

  • The Lord of the Flies

  • The insanity of idolatry

  • How people “consult idols” today

3. God refused to tolerate Ahaziah’s idols

  • Elijah intercepts, Ahaziah responds

  • The ethics of the fire from heaven

  • Ahaziah’s final attempt to arrest Elijah

4. God gives grace to the humble

  • Humility grows from proper fear

  • The Lamb of God bore God’s wrath for those who would believe

Steve Estes

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