2 Chronicles 25

June 28, 2022

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2 Chronicles 25 (NIV)

Amaziah King of Judah
1 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly. 3 After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king. 4 Yet he did not put their children to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded: “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor children be put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.”..........Continue Reading

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  1. It was a bit of an understatement when they said at the beginning that Amaziah “did what was right in the eyes of the Lord but not wholeheartedly” by the end he just had a flagrant disregard for God and ended up in his own destruction. He started strong and saw victory when he followed the counsel of God but clearly that victory exposed a deeper issue of pride. He set up idols and then he felt like he could take on anyone and forgot that it was God’s victory not his own.

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  3. Pride is such a destructive dynamic in the human heart. When we are weak and in need, we sense our need for God. Then God supplies and we reap the benefits of faithfulness to Him, and all of a sudden we convince ourselves that somehow it was our doing and we chart a course away from Him. This is what plays out in Amaziah’s life in this chapter. Such good things happen for him and Judah when he inclines himself to God. He executes justice (literally), but doesn’t take it too far. He organizes and structures the people to bring better order and knowledge. He even makes a bad move and God corrects him by sending him godly counsel and Amaziah obeys. I love what God says to him through the man of God when Amaziah mourns what he will lose when he trusts God. “The Lord can give you much more than that,” is what he says. And God does. But then Amaziah decides it is a good idea to worship the gods of the people he defeated. I guess things right before our eyes can seem more appealing at times than those things that are deduced by faith. Amaziah’s pride is most revealed when God sends a prophet and he rejects his counsel. God is so faithful to always give instruction and warnings….He then listens to bad counsel and in the spirt of pride comes before the fall, he challenges the king of Israel. Even the king of Israel gives him a warning that war with him is a bad idea. But proud people are unteachable (except in the things they want to hear) and so he doesn’t listen and he is defeated. It is sad to see that Amaziah spent so much more time away from God than with Him, never heading the call of conviction and repentance. Ah, but pride won’t allow for things like that…and once it roots in the human heart it is hard to drive out. It is only humbling ourselves before the glory of our great and kind God that can do that!

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  5. Sad that Amaziah doesn’t continue to listen to the Lord’s prophets. I don’t understand why someone would reject the Lord’s prophet when they have seen the results. I guess we are like this too, we wander off the path and hedge our bets that God won’t do anything about it.

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