Winning Battles
July 29th, 2008 |
Hi, I was reading the Scriptures and I would like to talk about 2nd Chronicles, chapter 13. This book is in the Old Testament of the Bible.
You know, in Israel’s history, King Saul was the first king of Israel. After King Saul came King David and then after King David, his son, Solomon became the king of Israel. After Solomon, the country Israel became divided into two kingdoms. One kingdom was called Judah and the other kingdom was called Israel.
Kingdom of Judah had many kings after Solomon and some of their kings served God and some didn’t. Kingdom of Israel also had many kings but none of them served God. They became very lost and all of their kings totally rejected God.
OK, so we see that after Solomon, the country of Israel split into two kingdoms. Kingdom of Judah had a king named Rehoboam. Kingdom of Israel had a king named Jeroboam. I am not sure how you spell their names. (text correctly spells the kings’ names.)
King Rehoboam is a young king of Israel and Jeroboam took advantage of that. Jeroboam created strifes with King Rehoboam and that’s how the country of Israel split into two kingdoms. Jeroboam became the king of Israel.
Years later, King Rehoboam’s son, Abijah, became the succeeder. Abijah became the king of Judah. King Abijah was a good king and he followed God. He kept the people of Judah focused on God. King Jeroboam, on the other hand, had no regard for God. He and his kingdom totally rejected God.
Now, I’m gonna sign a short summary of 2nd Chronicles, chapter 13.
Abijah, the good king of Judah, stood before King Jeroboam and his people saying, “Listen to me! Don’t you know you can’t go against God’s plans! God has promised King David that out of him a son would rule the country of Israel. You have rejected God and split Israel and established a king. You are ‘crazy’ to do that. Do you actually think that your kingdom can stand if you go against God? You have rejected God’s priests, his righteous people, and established your own leaders, and created your own ridiclious gods–a golden calf. Everyday you make sacrifices to your ridiclious calf. As for me and my people, we follow God everyday and we obey his Commandments. Let me tell you the truth, God is with us, not you. I tell you that it is not worth fighting with us. Surrender yourselves.”
King Jeroboam continued to rebel and he created a stragety and decided to go ahead and attack kingdom of Judah. King Jeroboam did not just go to the front lines, he sent his soliders to both sides, front and rear.
Judah was shocked that there was an ambush from the kingdom of Israel. Kingdom of Judah’s war stragety was to shout very loud to God and begin singing praises. They ran and began to fight against King Jeroboam’s soliders. As a result, King Abijah and his soliders destroyed King Jeroboam and his soliders really bad. Also, God has given Israel to Judah as a war victory. Israel lost 500,000 soliders.
Judah gained control of Israel because they trusted in God. King Jeroboam died.
This is a very short summary of what happened in that chapter. OK, now, what can we learn from this chapter?
See, King Abijah was not afraid to stand before King Jeroboam and his people and speak boldly for God telling them that if they continue to go against God, they’re really foolish.
This is the same as how we should react when we see situations or things that happen in our lives that are going against God’s plans for us. We must not be afraid to tell the situation that this situation is not God’s will and that we don’t have to partake it. I will stand strong against it.
After King Abjah boldly told King Jeroboam the things he said, King Jeroboam did not become sensitive to what King Abjah shared and recognize that he is really telling the truth. King Jeroboam did not surrender and repent. He continued to fight against King Abijah. This can be the same way for us. When we walk right in God’s eyes and a situation comes up in our lives, we SHOULD NOT be surprised that satan would try to fight against God by perscuting and attacking us. We should expect that to happen and when that does happen, how should we respond to it?
We should respond the same way King Abijah’s armies did.
Stand strong, shout to God and trust in Him by singing praises. Doing this will lead us to winning battles very easily.
This is also why I really enjoy the Old Testament of the Bible. A lot of people may think that the Old Testament is just full of “stories” and that’s it. Oh no, it’s not “stories”. There are many principalities and concepts that we can learn from and apply to our lives every single day.
Let me encourage you to read the Old Testament. Go ahead and read 2nd Chronicles, chapter 13 for yourself. There are many good stories in that book that has touched my heart and inspired me to live my life everyday.
Be blessed.

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