Jehu Destroys Ahab's Family and Baal Worship

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

Sermon Outline

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