Southwest Ohio Reformed Presbyterian

1. Elect prayer and not losing heart. Vs. 1 2. Secular judges and pathetic widows. Vs. 2-3 3. A secular judge compared to the holy God. Vs. 6-7 4. Election, faith and the Son of God. Vs. 8b 5. Do we believe this, or not?

1. 1 & 2 Kings details God's contest between good & evil 2. Ahaziah's dubious fall 3. Angels & prophets & God 4. The power contest begins 5. God's power brings Ahaziah's captain to his knees 6. God's Word reaches Ahaziah & he's slain

1. 1 Kings 16:34 historical reference to Jericho 2. Joshua 6:26's unexplained prophecy regarding Jericho 3. Joshua 1-6 and the symbolic role of Jericho 4. Ahab's corrupt madness in ruining Israel 5. Hiel of Bethel & his sons collision with Jehovah 6. Application: the KOG, people today & Jesus/Jericho

1. Ahab's ancestors & antecedents 2. His degrees of evil 3. Jeroboam's line hardened & apostatized through Ahab

1. Crisis/coincidence of text & time (22:39-51) 2. Crisis/coincidence of two kids and two theological systems 3. Crisis/coincidence of two consequences: clarity or obscurity

1. Confronted in the midst of his evil (21:17ff) 2. Confronted by God's clear condemnation (21:19) 3. Confronted by a most authoritative emissary (21:20) 4. Confronted by unqualified condemnation (21:21, 25) 5. Yet wins respite by his sincere repentance (21:29)

1. God detains a story where none of the parties are elect 2. Yet God uses both Ben Hadad and Ahab for His purposes 3. God gives Ben Hadad over to creed, then 'blesses' Ahab temporarily - despite their common wickedness 4. In the midst of this confusion, God speaks His Word 'clearly' to witness to Ahab - who He will not save 5. God commands us to walk faithfully before Him, despite our lack of clear knowledge of His elaborate will

1. Rebuilding the ruined altar (18:30) 2. Counter-intuitive measures/effective sacrifice (18:32) 3. Prayer for divine display of clarity/identity (18:36) 4. The altar consumed (18:38) 5. Prophetic application: Baal prophets slaughtered (18:40) 6. Window into the wrath poured out on Calvary

1. An old prophet abiding in a wicked culture 2. The old prophet's infidelity 3. Confusing an old prophet with the Word of God 4. The old prophet's repentance & Jeroboam's ruin 5. Comparison to Rome's errors & Jesus' temptation

1. God's Word is always sovereign and powerful 2. Such power is always available, but not usually displayed 3. The wicked are effectively ignorant of this power 4.God sometimes delights in tying His power to His Word so that mankind will be better forewarned about it

1. Chaos has ambition (11:26) 2. Chaos has worldly gifts (11:28) 3. Chaos lacks discernment/discretion (11:38) 4. So it is with all humanistic/autonomous men 5. Solo (11:9ff)

1. Foreign/alien women (11:1) 2. Intermarriage, infidelity, interdependency 3. Love after a fashion (11:2) 4. Solomon apostatized (11:4, 5, 6, 7, 8) 5. Solomon confronted (11:9ff)

A. Call to Rejoice (Psa. 95:1-5) B. Call to Reverence (Psa. 95:6-7a) C. Call to Respond (Psa. 95:7b-11)

A. The Temple = Means of Grace. Not Grace itself! (8:21-23) B. Solomon's Eg. (Prayer) = Eg. 4us of another MOG (8:31, 33, 35, 37, 38) C. The Triune God is the POWER, not the temple of the church! (8:27-30, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40) D. The Purpose of the Temple was to (1) Raise up the Name of the LORD, and (2) Redeem the CREATION/ELECT (8:41, 43)

A. The glory of the first temple was the Spirit of God (8:10) B. The ark's entrance keyed the Spirit's entrance (8:1, 6) C. Applications for life/theology 1. God's Spirit basic for the Christian life 2. Awareness of the Spirit follows grasping the Son 3. Holiness not primarily visible but spiritual 4. All things spiritual are purely at God's discretion

A. The LORD is exalted in the magnificent revelation of Himself (Psa. 92:1-3, 15) B. The LORD is exalted in the sustained flourishing of the righteous (Psa. 92:4-6, 10-14) C. The LORD is exalted in the just destruction of the wicked (Psa. 92:7, 9) D. The LORD is exalted in the eternal elevation of Himself (Psa. 92:8)