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1 Kings 21:1-29
INTRODUCTION:
How we act after God works mightily in our sight is very revealing.
How do we respond when we have had a major move of God in our lives?
Do we strive to learn more about God's will for our lives, so that we may closer to him?
Or do we follow our spiritual mountain top experiences with attitudes and actions That follow only our fleshly desires?
In our text, We find an excellent example of a person who chooses to live a life that is controlled by their emotions and fleshly desires.
King Ahab of Israel had seen first hand Physical demonstrations of God’s amazing power.
God granted grace on top of grace, attempting to steer Ahab and the nation of Israel back to himself.
Note how Ahab seen God work:
God sent a drought turning the nation of Israel around.
God sent a fire from heaven to revive the nation.
God sent rain to end the drought.
God granted victory over Syrian forces that were militarily superior to Israel.
Instead of repenting and turning back to God, the king had chosen farther and farther away from God.
If you and I are not careful, We may find ourselves following the same pathway the king followed after all that God had shown him.
The behavior that we are going to study tonight was beneath the dignity that should have been displayed by the king of Israel and definitely does not fit with who we are in Jesus Christ.
I- CONSUMED WITH COVETOUSNESS (1 KINGS 21:1-3)
Covetousness: a strong wish to have something, especially something that belongs to someone else.
To covet is to desire inordinately, to place the object of desire before love and devotion to God.
A- Ahab wanted what was not his.
1- Naboth’s land was (by Jewish thought) a sacred trust from God.
(Lev.
25:23–28)
a- The land of a family was not to be permanently sold.
It was to be returned to the family in the year of Jubillee.
b- Naboth considered the land as God’s gift to him and not to be given or surrendered to another.
2- Naboth’s behavior after Naboth’s refusal displayed his obsession with possessing Naboth’s land.
He coveted what was not his to get.
B- The believer in Christ is to keep covetousness out of his life.
(Exodus 20:17)
(Luke 12:15)
(James 4:2)
1- How do we allow covetousness to creep into our lives?
a- Allowing our eyes to wander from Christ to the world.
b- Looking at what other people have instead of what Christ has given to you.
2- What does covetousness reveal about us?
a- We believe that God is unfair.
b- We believe that God is unwise.
c- We are really idolators - Things are more important that God to us.
(Colossians 3:5)
II- DISPLAYS OF CHILDISHNESS (1 Kings 21: 4-6)
A- Childish display of anger.
(1 Kings 21:4)
1- Ahab went home “angry.”
a- זָעֵף [zaʿeph /zaw·afe/] adj.
= angry, raging, out of humor, vexed.
2- - Ahab was “sullen.”
a- סַר [car /sar/] adj.
= stubborn, implacable, rebellious, resentful, sullen.
B- Manipulation of others.
(1 Kings 21:4-6)
1- Like a child, he went to his bedroom and refused to talk to anyone or look at them.
He even refused to eat.
He was pitching a childish fit!
2- He made Jezebel ask him what was wrong.
a- Notice that Ahab only told her the part of Naboth’s refusal that was to Ahab’s advantage in getting Jezebel’s sympathy.
b- In so doing, Ahab added bearing false witness to his already copious list of sins.
C- The believer should avoid childishness.
1- How does childishness creep into our lives?
a- We allow our fleshly desires and preferences to become more important than Christ’s mission.
b- We allow our emotions to govern our interaction with other people.
c- We try to manipulate other people to get our own way.
d- We resort to manipulating and twisting facts to get our own way.
2- What does childish behavior reveal about us?
a- We are immature and in need of growing-up.
(1) Like the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 3:1-2)
b- We are under the control of the flesh, not the Spirit.
(1 Corinthians 3:3)
(Galatians 5:19-21)
III- CALLOUSLY SELFISH (1 Kings 21:7-16)
A- Ahab was so callously selfish that he did not care what it took to get his way.
1- Ahab did not care what Jezebel did do get what he wanted.
a- He knew that anything done had to go against godliness and right.
b- Notice that he never asked what Jezebel was going to do.
(1 Kings 21:7)
c- Jezebel concocted a plot to murder Naboth.
(The procedure Jezebel outlined was in agreement with the law (Deut.
17:6–7; 19:15; Num.
35:30), but the accusation was false, the witnesses were liars, and the judges had been bought off by royal intimidation.
In every town there were “men of Belial—worthless fellows” who would do anything for money or just to become important.
Nobody but Ahab and possibly Jezebel heard Naboth’s refusal to sell, and there was nothing in his words that could be interpreted as blasphemy.
To curse God was a capital crime (Lev.
24:13–16), and cursing the king was dangerous because he was God’s appointed ruler (Ex.
22:28; Acts 23:5).)
Used the ploy of a “legal trial.”
Enlisted the help of town leaders to accomplish her illegal act.
Utilized false witnesses to present trumped-up charges against Naboth.
Engaged the whole community in the illegal and unjust execution of Naboth and his family.
d- Ahab did not care what had been done wrong by others, he only cared that he got what he wanted!
1- The land that Ahab was trying to possess was still not his to take.
It should go to the next of kin!
B- There is no place for callous selfishness in the life of God’s children!
1- How do we allow callous selfishness to take control of us?
a- Neglecting our personal walk with the Lord.
b- Surrounding ourselves with people who are not walking with the Lord.
2- What does callous selfishness reveal about us?
a- A heart that is not right with God.
(Matthew 5:19)
b- A life that is on a downward spiral toward God’s discipline.
(Hebrews 12:6)
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