Jehu Destroys Ahab's Family and Baal Worship

2 Kings
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 10:1-36
September 22, 2024

Sermon Notes

Destroying Ahab’s house

  • Jehu’s challenge

  • Heads roll in Samaria

  • Jehu seeks support of citizens and soldiers in Jezreel

  • Jehu slaughters Ahab's house in Jezreel

2. Meeting relatives of Judah’s recently departed king

  • Remember Ahaziah?

  • The deadly meeting on the road to Samaria

3. Meeting a most unusual man

  • Jehonadab the Recabite

  • Jehonadab joins Jehu

  • The principle of this part of the passage

4. Killing Baal worship

  • A compulsory command

  • Death and destruction

5. What are we to think of this chapter?

  • Christian, don’t be naive about politics

  • God uses scary unbelievers to achieve his holy purposes

  • God often rewards unbelievers (in this life) for the good they do

  • It won’t do to abandon the sins we don’t like, but cling to the sins we do like

Steve Estes

Steve Estes has been senior pastor at Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, Pennsylvania, for over thirty-five years. 

Steve’s books and other writings began with his longtime friendship with Joni Eareckson Tada. As teenagers, they grappled with why God allowed Joni’s paralysis in a swimming accident in the Chesapeake Bay. Steve left for college . . . they kept in touch . . . she liked the style of his letters. When her 1976 autobiography Joni spawned thousands of reader responses, she asked Steve to join her in crafting a follow-up. The result was A Step Further in 1978.

Later, Wycliffe Bible Translators commissioned Steve to write the biography of former college friend Chet Bitterman, a Wycliffe linguist who was kidnapped and murdered by political terrorists in Colombia in 1981. Other books and articles followed, including When God Weeps (with Joni) and A Better December (a giveaway book for non-Christian friends at Christmas.)

Steve was educated at Westminster Theological Seminary, Columbia Bible College and Jerusalem University College in Israel. He has taught homiletics at Westminster and is a board member of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation.

But Steve would say his most significant life achievement was persuading college classmate Verna Stoltzfus to marry him in 1974.  They now have eight children and more grandchildren than can fit in a van.

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