King Amaziah
March 30, 2022

KING AMAZIAH

LEADERS ARE FOCUSED!

A divided heart is a distracted heart.
If a person desires to please God, his daily aim has to be making God first place in every decision, activity and thought.

2 Chronicles 25:1 - 4
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Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.
3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.
4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

It is possible to do the right thing with the wrong heart and not get the benefits.

Obedience is key… but obedience alone will not get you to walk in the blessing…

Isaiah 1:19
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If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

1. Leadership begins and ends with a HEART that

to the Father.

John 5:19 NLT
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So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.”

HOW DO WE PUT OUR HEART-BEAT INTO IT?

  • b - (BUY IN)
    Acceptance of and willingness to actively support and participate in something.

  • e - (EXPECTATION)
    DECIDE TO set your expectation higher…

  • a - (AKNOLEDGE)

    Proverbs 3:5 - 6
    5
    Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
    6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

  • t - (TIME)
    When we spend the majority of our TIME sowing into ANYTHING other than being with Him… our hearts drift.

2 Chronicles 25:5 - 8
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Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.
7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the Lord is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
8 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

2. Leadership

those ROWING THE SAME DIRECTION

2 Corinthians 6:14
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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

WHO YOU YOKE YOURSELF WITH is VITAL TO YOUR SUCCESS!

IF YOU TIE YOURSELF TO THE WRONG PEOPLE - YOU’RE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE A SORE NECK AND NO FORWARD PROGRESS.

2 Chronicles 25:9 - 10
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And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this.
10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in great anger.

3. Leadership KNOWS following GOD

PEOPLE

AS LEADERS WE MUST REMEMBER WE ARE LIVING FOR AN AUDIENCE OF ONE.
“WEIRD” = A LIFE THAT DEMANDS EXPLANATION…
It is a life where people don’t get it, but want to understand.

Luke 9:23 - 25 NLT
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Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.
24 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.
25 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed?

- GIVE UP YOUR OWN WAY
- TAKE UP YOUR CROSS DAILY
- FOLLOW JESUS

AS A LEADER - You MUST determine that your ONLY purpose is to please the ONE.

2 Chronicles 25:11 - 13
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And Amaziah strengthened himself, and led forth his people, and went to the valley of salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
12 And other ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were broken in pieces.
13 But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

4. Leadership KNOWS NOT EVERY

is for you!

JUST BECAUSE THE OPPORTUNITY IS THERE DOES NOT MEAN TO WALK IN IT!

2 Chronicles 25:15 -19
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Wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us see one another in the face.
18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
19 Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

5. Leadership REFUSES

2 Chronicles 25:20 - 25
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But Amaziah would not hear; for it came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they sought after the gods of Edom.
21 So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
23 And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
24 And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.
25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

END OF HIS REIGN WAS AS A CAPTURE IN ISRAEL…
Although he did good things - never with the right heart.