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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle

781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

Where the Love of God

abounds, everyone is

welcome.

Children’s Church taught

by Paul and Marsha Davis

during preaching.

www.rossvillechurch.com

March 22, 2015

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King Ahab wanted Naboth’s

vineyard for a vegetable garden.

Naboth said, “I can’t sell my

inheritance; it’s against the Law.

1 Kings 21

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Jezebel said, “Leave

it to me.”

“I’ll get you what

you want.”

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She had Naboth

stoned to death.

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1 Kings 21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth

is stoned, and is dead. 15 And it came to pass, when

Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was

dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take

possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite,

which he refused to give thee for money: for

Naboth is not alive, but dead.

Mission accomplished!Will it bless Ahab?

He should have repented of his envy.

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16 And it came to pass,

when Ahab heard that

Naboth was dead, that

Ahab rose up to go down

to the vineyard of Naboth

the Jezreelite, to take

possession of it. Naboth was murdered

in the king’s name,

and now the king

steals his vineyard.It began with envy,

led to murder, and

finally theft.

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17 And the Word of the

LORD came to Elijah the

Tishbite, saying, 18 Arise,

go down to meet Ahab

king of Israel, which is in

Samaria: behold, he is in

the vineyard of Naboth,

whither he is gone down

to possess it.

God knows

exactly where

we are.Once again God used Elijah

to reprimand Ahab.

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19 And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus

saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken

possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying,

Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs

licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy

blood, even thine.

Murder and theft

A shameful death for the king.

Thus saith The Lord.

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20 And Ahab said to Elijah,

Hast thou found me, O mine

enemy?

How sad it is when men are

so wicked that they consider

the man of God their enemy.

They hate Truth because it reveals

their own wickedness.

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Proverbs 29:27 (TLB) The good hate the badness

of the wicked. The wicked hate the goodness of the

good.

We, the children of God, don’t hate the person,

but we can and must hate their wickedness.

Tolerance is the great virtue of the world today.

But God says:

Romans 12 9 … Abhor (detest) that which is evil;

cleave to that which is good.

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1 Kings 21 20b And he answered, I have found thee:

because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the

sight of the LORD.

He had sold himself to work evil, because he lied,

murdered, and stole to get what he wanted.

Jezebel wrote the letters, but in Ahab’s name.

She sealed them with Ahab’s seal.

He knew and allowed it to be done.

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21 Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take

away thy posterity (descendants), and will cut off

from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and

him that is shut up and left in Israel,

Judgment of God

It may seem harsh, but this king was one of God’s

people who sold himself into sin.

He knew the Laws of God and

deliberately defied them.

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22 And will make thine house like the house of

Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of

Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation

wherewith thou hast provoked Me to anger, and

made Israel to sin.

His own personal sin was bad enough, but he

had also led the nation in idolatry and evil.

There would be no dynasty of Ahab, because all of

his male descendants would die young and badly.

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23 And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The

dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. 24 Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat;

and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air

eat. 25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did

sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the

LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

Jezebel incited Ahab to sin, but he

went willingly along with her.

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James 1 14 But every man is tempted, when he is

drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then

when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and

sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

We do what we do because

we are who we are.

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26 And he did very abominably in following idols,

according to all things as did the Amorites, whom

the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

(TLB) 26 He was especially guilty because he

worshiped idols just as the Amorites did -- the

people whom the Lord had chased out of the land

to make room for the people of Israel.

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27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those

words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth

upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and

went softly (meekly).

Ahab was sorry that his sins

caught up with him.

But, for whatever reason, he humbled

himself and repented.

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28 And the Word of the LORD came to Elijah the

Tishbite, saying, 29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth

himself before Me? because he humbleth himself

before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but

in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his

house.

The destruction to come on Ahab’s house would not be

carried out in his own days but in those of his son

Joram. Jezebel, however, did not repent. She suffered

all that God promised she would without mercy.The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty.

Proud and Stubborn!

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Whatever your reasons, when

you are guilty, repent.

Don’t be too proud to repent.

Humble yourself before God.

Turn from sin unto righteousness.