I Kings 16:29-17:1 — “And Elijah said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.” When Ahab took Jezebel to be his wife he got her religion as well. She set about making the cult of…

I Kings 16:15-34 — “Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.” In this message we have an introduction to the life and reign of King Ahab. We begin by charting the rise of his father Omri and thinking about his character. Omri was a…

II Chronicles 33:10-20 — “Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God…” The story of Manasseh’s reign doesn’t finish where we might expect. Instead of going to the grave in thrall to false religion, Manasseh repented and put His faith in the LORD alone. We know his change of heart was authentic because He…

II Kings 21:1-8 — In this sermon we consider the wreckage of Manasseh’s reign. We look at the catalogue of pagan religious practices he propagated throughout his kingdom. We think about why he gave himself so thoroughly to paganism and what it cost. He threw away what was priceless. He chose what was worthless. There…

II Kings 21:1-18 — “Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.” Manasseh was the worst king that ever sat on the throne in Jerusalem. His wickedness exceeded even that of the Canaanites whom the LORD drove out when Israel entered its Promised…

II Chronicles 20:31-37 — “And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish…” Jehoshaphat was a good king who loved the LORD and led his people well, although he did make some…

II Chronicles 20:14-30 — “And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.” We can understood why Judah praised the LORD after the battle was won, for He delivered His people in a…

II Chronicles 20:1-13 — “We have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.” We all experience times in our life where we don’t know what to do. It might be a health or financial crisis, a major problem at work…

II Chronicles 19 — King Jehoshaphat had acted very foolishly in entering into an alliance with King Ahab. Ahab was thoroughly wicked man who had persecuted the prophets of the LORD. The two kings went to war against Syria and if not for Divine intervention, Jehoshaphat would’ve ended up dead on the battlefield like Ahab…

II Chronicles 18:18-34 — Contrary to the word of the LORD, Ahab & Jehoshaphat went into battle against the Syrians. It didn’t take long for Jehoshaphat to find himself in a very dangerous situation. This was the culmination of a whole series of foolish decisions. Thankfully, the LORD was merciful, but this was not the…