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2 Kings Steve Estes 2 Kings Steve Estes

Israel's December: Hoshea, Exile, Samaria Resettled

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 17:1-41
November 24, 2024

Sermon Notes

Outline:

1. The beginning of the end

  • Picture an imaginary future for the United States

  • Israel’s situation in today’s text

2. Israel’s final days and ultimate collapse

  • Too little, too late

  • Hoshea’s folly

  • Assyria’s vengeance

3. Why God let this happen

4. What counterfeit religion looks like

  • Counterfeit religion often begins with ingratitude toward the one true God

  • Counterfeit religion focuses on what is aesthetically pleasing

  • Counterfeit religion invents itself; biblical faith receives what is revealed

  • Counterfeit religion is after results; biblical worship is after God

  • Counterfeit religion rots a person’s soul

  • Counterfeit religion ruins not just ourselves, but also our descendants

  • Counterfeit religion leads to judgment

5. How counterfeit religion is guarded against

6. The weeping Judge

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2 Kings Steve Estes 2 Kings Steve Estes

Anarchy in the Northern Kingdom: Zechariah-Pekah

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 15:8-31
November 10, 2024

Sermon Notes

Outline:

1. The sad political story

  • Two weeks ago — 41 years of prosperity

  • Today — 21 years of anarchy

2. The bloody succession of kings

  • Zechariah (6 months)

  • Shallum (1 month)

  • Menahem (10 years)

  • Pekahiah (2 years)

3. Pekah’s reign and fall

  • The darkening night

  • The prophesied Light

4. What sin destroyed this nation?

  • The sin that stands out

  • Jesus on personal responsibility*

* As you study the Bible, remember that Scripture interprets Scripture

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2 Kings Steve Estes 2 Kings Steve Estes

October in Israel: Jeroboam II and the Writing Prophets

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: 2 Kings 14:23-29
October 27, 2024

Sermon Notes

2 Kings 14:23-29: “In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn away from any of the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit. He was the one who restored the boundaries of Israel from Lebo Hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, in accordance with the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, spoken through his servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath Hepher.

The LORD had seen how bitterly everyone in Israel, whether slave or free, was suffering; there was no one to help them. And since the LORD had not said he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash. As for the other events of Jeroboam's reign, all he did, and his military achievements, including how he recovered for Israel both Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Yaudi, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel? Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. And Zechariah his son succeeded him as king.”

Outline:

1. Review and introduction

  • Israel splits in two

  • The southern kingdom

  • The northern kingdom

2. Opening description of Jeroboam II

3. Point 1: It’s God’s nature to bless undeserving people

  • How God blessed Jeroboam II

  • Why God blessed Jeroboam II

4. God’s blessing does not necessarily mean God’s approval

  • Examples from the minor prophets

  • Applications

5. God’s judgments in one time/place are always to show mercy in another time/place

  • Examples

  • Where is this in today’s passage?

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