Equipping Christians to become disciples
That kind of faithfulness and honour, where our word is regarded as our bond, needs to apply not just in business but in every transaction we make and in all our relationships. Look at how Samuel operated as a judge over Israel. He was able …
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For many years I was involved in commercial litigation. I would act as a lawyer for one side or another in commercial disputes. Our client would either be suing or being sued. It would generally be because somebody had failed to keep to the contracts …
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Nothing we ever do will be overlooked. Jesus is continuously assessing the level of our faithfulness to decide what position and rewards (if any) to award to us in His Kingdom. See Book Four for much more detail on the Judgment Seat of Christ and …
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Do not be like your fathers and your brethren, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see. 2 Chronicles 30:7 (RSV) 10“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in …
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We now come to the most faithful King that Judah ever had, the godly child-king, Josiah. He was more faithful, and more wholehearted, than any of his predecessors, even the good ones: 1Josi’ah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned …
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Sadly, Hezekiah’s son, Manasseh, was evil, at least for the majority of his reign. God’s verdict on those wasted and misused years is very scathing: 1Manas’seh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2He did what was …
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Next we see a faithful King, Hezekiah of Judah. Note that the Northern Kingdom of Israel never had any faithful kings. Every single one of them was unfaithful and evil. King Hezekiah saw what the unfaithfulness of previous Kings of Judah had caused and also …
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Next we see a King who received a wholly bad report from God. We are told that King Ahaz “did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD”. Note the things that God highlights which led to his downfall: 1Ahaz was twenty years …
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Now look at Amaziah’s son, King Uzziah of Judah. He too began well but then allowed himself to slip. He dropped his standards as a result of the same problems of pride, over-confidence and presumption: 1And all the people of Judah took Uzzi’ah, who was …
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There were three main things that caused Amaziah to go astray in the end and to abandon his faithfulness: a) He did not fully trust in God to help him. So, he formed an alliance with the idolatrous Northern Kingdom of Israel. God did not …
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