Do everything God's Way

1. Gospel Baptist Tabernacle
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781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741
Where the Love of God
abounds, everyone is
welcome.
www.rossvillechurch.com
Children’s Church taught
by Paul and Marsha Davis
during preaching.
September 28, 2014

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Solomon died, and his son
Rehoboam took the throne.
Jeroboam and some
Israelites from the ten
northern tribes came to him.
Lighten our taxes and our
conscripted labor, and we
will serve you.
Y’all ain’t seen nothing yet.

3. 1 Kings 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king
hearkened not unto them, the people answered the
king, saying, What portion have we in David?
neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to
your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house,
David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
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Judah was the tribe of David.
Rehoboam was David’s grandson and a
member of that tribe.
The ten northern tribes no longer
felt kinship with them.

4. Do you feel your kinship with
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the family of God?
1 Corinthians 12 26 And whether one member suffer,
all the members suffer with it; or one member be
honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now ye are
the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Ephesians 3 14 For this cause I bow my knees unto
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the
whole family in Heaven and earth is named.

5. All saved people are sons and daughters of God.
1 Thessalonians 4 9 But as touching brotherly love
ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves
are taught of God to love one another.
Romans 12 10 Be kindly affectioned (cherishing
one’s kindred) one to another with brotherly love;
in honor preferring one another;
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6. We are truly spiritual
brothers and sisters.
I am so glad I’m a part of the family of God.
Let us never be like the ten northern
tribes of Israel, who had lost the feeling
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of kinship with the Tribe of Judah.

7. 17 But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in
the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was
over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with
stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam
made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to
Jerusalem. 19 So Israel rebelled against the house of
David unto this day.
(TLB) 18 When King Rehoboam sent Adoram (who
was in charge of the draft) to conscript men from the
other tribes, a great mob stoned him to death. But King
Rehoboam escaped by chariot and fled to Jerusalem.
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8. Human Logic against the Power of God.
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Adoram was in charge of forced labor.
It seemed logical to Rehoboam that sending
this man, who had always been feared, would
squash the rebellion.
His coming to take men caused a greater rebellion.
God had split the kingdom of Israel as
judgment for Solomon’s sin.
No man could change that!

9. 20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that
Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and
called him unto the congregation, and made him
king over all Israel: there was none that followed
the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
God had said it would be like that.
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God’s Will shall stand.

10. 21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he
assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of
Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand
(180,000) chosen men, which were warriors, to
fight against the house of Israel, to bring the
kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
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The son is like his daddy, ready to fight to
keep the entire kingdom under his rule.

11. 22 But the Word of God came unto Shemaiah the
man of God, saying, 23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the
son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the
house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant
of the people, saying, 24 Thus saith the LORD, Ye
shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the
children of Israel: return every man to his house;
for this thing is from Me. They hearkened therefore
to the Word of the LORD, and returned to depart,
according to the Word of the LORD.
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God split the kingdom
because of Solomon’s sin.
This time they listened to
the Word of God and
turned back from fighting
against Him.
Sometimes, when we fight against circumstances
or situations, we may be fighting against God.
He may be correcting us or teaching us.
Slow down and learn!

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25 Then Jeroboam built
Shechem in mount
Ephraim, and dwelt
therein; and went out from
thence, and built Penuel.

14. He didn’t trust God’s Word.
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26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the
kingdom return to the house of David: 27 If this
people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the
LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this
people turn again unto their lord, even unto
Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me,
and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
What had God told Jeroboam ?

15. 1 Kings 11:38 (KJV) And it shall be, if thou wilt
hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt
walk in My Ways, and do that is right in My Sight,
to keep My Statutes and My Commandments, as
David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and
build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and
will give Israel unto thee.
Jeroboam did not trust the Word of God.
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He would do it himself, his way.

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28 Whereupon the king took
counsel, and made two calves
of gold, and said unto them, It
is too much for you to go up to
Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O
Israel, which brought thee up
out of the land of Egypt.
29 And he set the one in Bethel,
and the other put he in Dan.
30 And this thing became a sin:
for the people went to worship
before the one, even unto Dan.
With that he
assured his
own failure.

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We must do everything
God’s Way.

18. 31 And he made an house of high places, and made
priests of the lowest of the people, which were not
of the sons of Levi. 32 And Jeroboam ordained a
feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of
the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and
he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel,
sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and
he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places
which he had made.
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19. 33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made
in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month,
even in the month which he had devised of his own
heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of
Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt
incense.
If only he had trusted The Lord God, brought
the people back to true worship, and allowed
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them to go to Jerusalem to worship,
He would have been the first of a great dynasty.

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But he would not trust
The Lord.
He devised plans contrary to God’s Will.
Will you live obediently to God’s Word?