Bible Readings:
2 Chronicles 14 – 16
Sermon Outline:
I Asa began very well
2 Chronicles 12:1–4 (NKJV)
1Now it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel along with him.
2And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord,
3with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians.
4And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 15:1–2 (NKJV)
1Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.
2And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
II Asa finished not so well
III Seeking, heeding, keep going
Thou didst seek us when we sought thee not;
didst seek us indeed that we might seek thee.
Augustine
To seek God is to desire happiness;
to find him is that happiness.
Augustine
We can seek God and find him!
God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable,
with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes
of the inner man.
A. W. Tozer
O Jesus, full of truth and grace,
More full of grace than I of sin,
Yet once again I seek thy face;
Open thine arms, and take me in,
And freely my backslidings heal,
And love the faithless sinner still.
Charles Wesley