Sermon Notes
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Sermon Series: Wisdom: What God Knows! Better decisions & Greater Insight
Message in a Sentence: Learn to value the voice of the Lord available to you. Seek it, crave it, wait for it.
• Ahab approached Jehoshaphat king of Judah to team up to take Ramoth-Gilead. 2 Chron 17-18:27 is a parallel passage which tells of Jehoshaphat’s walk with the Lord and the marriage alliance between he and Ahab. He also is mentioned in the lineage of Christ in Mt. 1:8.
• Character Flaw: 3 years after Ahab had repented, he now is starting a war with Ramoth-Gilead, without seeking the Lord’s direction. To justify his behavior, he gathers 400 loyal prophets, but refuses the word of the Lord from Micaiah.
• 400 prophets loyal to Ahab, not the Lord, tell Ahab what he wants to here. Presumably their prophecy was based on past victories and group think, cf v11.
• Micaiah determines to only speak what the Lord says. The voice of one faithful man is more powerful than the voice of 400 that don’t speak for the Lord.
• Sovereign God: It is tough to hear that the Lord put lying spirits in the mouth’s of the prophets. However, it demonstrates the sovereignty of God and the plan of God. Their deception is not forced upon them, rather a result of their alliance to Ahab > God.
• Hearing from the Lord: Similar to Elijah alone against the 450 Baal prophets
- Only speak what the Lord says, to you v14
- Get alone v17, 19
- Talk to the Lord v22
- Say what He shows you v20-23
- Don’t argue with people v25
At times the Lord speaks directly, at times He speaks via prophets (people). Point being, the Lord speaks and can be known. Even when a king has self-centered motives and it is 400 to 1, and you are the 1, the Lord speaks! Your walk with the Lord will cause you to speak/do difficult things for his cause. Seek. Listen. Speak.
Notes:
To continue to develop your relationship with Christ, spend time every day this week praying and meditating on this passage and it’s truths with EveryDay Jesus.
Edward