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We are in episode 20 of the sermon series called the plan, in which we are going over the entire story of the Bible, from beginning to end.

We've been, we started with Creation in September and we're going to link up with Easter.

I with the Resurrection on Easter and at this point in the story, we are in was called The Divided Kingdom era and our goal for this series is to understand the story that unites the whole Bible so that we can see how they all link together.

And so we can know the story that we are being invited into as Christians.

And what we are asking people to join with, as we share the gospel with others and the story of the Bible been summarized you just this is God's plan to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence.

So God made the world and he put people in it and he gave us the function of ruling this place on his behalf, and he wants to live here with us and that's how things started out.

But we messed it up and we continually mess it up.

And the story of the Bible is the story of God continually working to overcome our rebellion, and to restore that plan.

And God has been working for a while now.

And in the Bible with one specific family, the Israelites and the goal is to show the plan through them.

So the rest of the world can see who got his and be called to him.

And at this point, this is called The Divided kingdom are of when the Kingdom of Israel has been split.

So 10 of the tribes broke off away from David's grandson and formed the Northern Kingdom of Israel, but the problem that they ran into is the fact that the temple is still in the Kingdom of Judah.

And so they don't have God's presence in their Kingdom.

And so that caused them to make some changes to Play, they worship God in order to to try and keep people from traveling to this now for in nation to worship.

And so, the king jeroboam change the religion, so that people would, I stay loyal to him, cuz it was more important to him.

That they be loyal to him, then that they've been loyal to God.

So, the way we ended the story last week was knowing that that what God was not going to let that stand in.

God, when jeroboam died, his son became king but then a man named Basia rebelled and killed his son and took over.

But then when Tasha's son was King than someone rebelled and killed him and took over, and we have this, this instability in it because jeroboam set this Norm, that the king does, whatever he needs to do, to hold on to power.

And so they keep theirs the series of assassinations and things like that.

And it's really unstable until a new guy shows up and takes the throne by winning the Civil War.

His name was Aubrey, and Aubrey was kind of the northern David.

He was, he took over after winning a civil war.

He stabilized the kingdom.

He even bought a new capital, Samaria and founded a new capital city the same way, David did.

And when he died, he handed off a very stable Kingdom to his son and just like saw him.

And his son then took on the project of making.

Stable Kingdom prosperous.

And so we're going to be looking at the story that begins with Omri son.

And as we look at, that story, remembered how we kind of keep our bearings as a reduced, or in the Bible that we want to keep in mind.

Who is the story about, where is their home?

How can they meet with God and what did God tell them to do? Are we are initially this very short, this time in the 38th year of Asa, king of Judah, Ahab.

Son of Omri became king of Israel.

Any rain in Samaria, over 22 years.

They do at this point knowing that someone is peeing should set up the story for us.

We should be able to fill in the other blanks because we know what that arrangement we talked about this for a we've been doing the same kind of arrangement for a while.

So who's the story about?

The story is about Ahab and the Israelites, the northern kingdom because it's most of the tribes of Israel.

They're just called the Israelites.

They have is their King and it's so that means it's his job to lead the people in fulfilling their purpose of following.

God.

Where is their home?

Their home is the Kingdom of Israel, which is the northern portion of the Kingdom.

So it's not including the kingdom of Judah.

Now, that they are the, the Jew diets are also part of God's people, but they're not part of this story.

The tricky part for the Kingdom of Israel is how they can meet with God.

If they wanted to experience the presence of God where they have to go.

They have to go to the temple in Jerusalem, God's presence on Earth, physically manifest in the Temple.

And so, if you want to worship In God's Presence, there's one place you can go.

Now, the Israelites have created their own shrines where they claim that God Appears over these golden calves, but there's only one place to cut presents actually is on her in that, in that special way.

Now, what did God tell them to do you?

What did I tell a have to do for the past few weeks?

As we look at Kings?

What we've said, is the king needs to obey God, and that's still true.

But for a habit, we need to actually look, we need to take a step back, not even going to get close to that.

Because before you can obey God, you have to commit to ruling on his behalf.

And what I need the difference there is that you have to believe that God is King and that he's in charge in your ruling for itsy.

Jeroboam would have said I'm rolling on God's behalf.

You would have claimed to be following God.

He just didn't actually obey him very well.

You like it's possible to acknowledge that the government is the government did not be good at, keeping the law.

That's different from saying, no.

I think this should be the government.

That's Rebellion, right?

That's it.

In between crime and Rebellion.

So jeroboam acknowledges that God is God, but he's not very good at obeying him.

But that means the first step for a king is I have to acknowledge that God is God, right?

That he is the one that they rule for.

No question.

The other question that we want to look at it.

We don't really talk about much with the king is when you got that when the king is supposed to go on God's behalf who who actually tells you, whether they're doing it or not.

The most kingdoms, the person who rules on the God's behalf and the person who decides what the God wants, is the same person.

So the king tells you what God wants and then the king does what God told him to know.

It's all one person, but in the law of Moses, there's a distinct to roll.

That is God uses to hold his people and the Kings to account in Deuteronomy.

It says, I will raise up for them, a prophet, like you.

He's talking to Moses from among their fellow Israelites and I'll put my words in his mouth.

He will tell them everything.

I command him.

I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.

Now we have traditionally and I didn't accurately seeing that as a prophecy about Jesus, but it's also talking about profits in general and what profits do and then God will All people to speak on his behalf and their Authority comes from the fact that what they're saying is what God says, it's not because they hold up an office that's been given to them, or they inherited.

It's because what they say is what God Said.

And so, and God says he's going to hold people accountable to that job is to acknowledge that God is God and to listen to God's prophets among many other things.

That a perfect king would do.

He should at least do those things.

Those are the ones that are relevant to a Hab story.

Do now.

Do you understand the situation and the expectations?

And I'm what success would look like in a Habs position.

Let's look at how a hug does.

I have some more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him.

He not only considered it trivial to commit, the sins of jeroboam, son of Nevada.

But he also married Jezebel daughter of FAO, King of the sidonian and began to serve bail and worship him.

Now there's a hub is doing something that no other king in Israel has done yet.

And it's it's important for us to understand what's going on to make that distinction.

Because we often aren't clear on exactly what the sins of the Kings of Israel are, and we mix them up at self first.

It says he didn't, he didn't consider it trivial play in the wrong ways that were self-serving but you still worshiping Yahweh the god of Israel, right?

That was trivial with something different.