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Ahab and Benhadad

TEXT1 Kings 20:31-43

INTRODUCTION:

A.      RECOUNT THE CHAPTER STORY - READ vs. 31-43.

B.      THE GIST -

          1.       Benhadad determined to humiliate and destroy Israel.

          2.       Ahab, though resistant in battle, gave in to a worse destruction.

C.      BE CAREFUL OF THE EXAMPLE( 1 Cor. 10:11 ).

I.      SATAN IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY US.

A.      BENHADAD NEVER SATISFIED WITH JUST PART( 1 Pet. 5:8 ).

B.      WARFARE AGAINST CHRIST( Col. 2:8 ).

          1.       Point of attack is us( Rev. 12:7-13 )

          2.       There is escape( 2 Pet. 1:4;  2:20 ).

C.      WHOSE SIDE ARE WE ON?

          1.       1 Kings 18:21 - Matt. 12:30 - Matt. 6:24.

          2.       Rom. 6:16-18.  We need to think in terms of Black and White.  There is a

                   "right and wrong."

D.      THE PERSISTENCE OF BENHADAD AND SATAN.

          1.       Excused first failure - God of the Hills - Try again on the Plain.

          2.       Temptation is continual( 2 Cor. 2:11;  1 Cor. 10:13;  1 Pet. 5:8 ).

II.     AHAB MAKES PEACE WITH "BROTHER" BENHADAD.

A.      WE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD( 1 Pet. 2:11-12 ).

          1.       Abstain from fleshly lusts( 1 John 2:15-17 ).

          2.       No affinity with worldly things( James 4:4 ).

          3.       No fellowship with those of the world( 1 Cor. 15:33 ).

B.      WE ARE NOT OF THOSE WHO TEACH FALSE DOCTRINE.

          1.       A problem in the church( Acts 20:29-30 ).

          2.       Warnings are plentiful( 2 Tim. 2:14-18;  2 Pet. 2:1-3;  Jude3-4, 7 ).

          3.       Sometimes hard to distinguish( 2 Cor. 11:13-15 ).

          4.       Sometimes they don't even know( 2 Tim. 3:13 ).

                   a.       The Jews( Acts 3:17 ).

                   b.       Apollos( Acts 18:24-28 ).

                   c.       Paul( 1 Tim. 1:12-15 ).

C.      HOW DO WE REGARD SUCH?

          ( Rom. 16:17-18;  Titus 3:10-11;  Eph. 5:11  2 John 9-11 ).

D.      Jer. 6:14.  YOU CANNOT MAKE PEACE WITH THE DEVIL AND HAVE

          PEACE WITH GOD( Prov. 23:23 ).

E.      GOD'S PUNISHMENT OF AHAB A WARNING( 1 Kings 20:31-43; Jas. 4:4 ).

CONCLUSIONWHOSE SIDE ARE WE ON IN THIS WAR?