Jehu Kills Ahaziah, Joram, and Jezebel

2 Kings
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 9:1-37
September 8, 2024

Sermon Outline

1. Previously on The Northern Kingdom...

  • Elijah flees

  • Jehovah replies

  • God’s plan to topple Baal in Israel

2. Jehu anointed as king

  • Elisha sends a young prophet on a mission

  • Reaction of Jehu’s lieutenants

3. Jehu kills two Baal-worshiping kings

  • Killing Joram of Israel

  • Killing Ahaziah of Judah

4. Killing Jezebel

  • Jezebel prepares to die in style

  • Jehu has Jezebel thrown out the window

  • Jehu feasts while Jezebel is feasted on

5. Lessons

  • Rebellion against God is fanned into flame by those we associate with

  • Rebels vs. God are gradually storing up wrath for themselves

  • God avenges his suffering people

  • Is God’s wrath so gory and terrible?

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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