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This Podcast is part of season 23 of a project to complete an in-depth study of the entire Bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. 
Episode Notes:
Life is not lived in one emotional key. We move through seasons — seasons of peace and seasons of pressure, seasons of rest and seasons of battle, seasons where everything seems to flourish and seasons where everything seems to fall apart. How do we walk with God in both? How do we remain faithful in good times and in bad?
 In 2 Chronicles 14, we meet King Asa, a man who experienced both of these extremes.   He inherited a kingdom in turmoil, yet God gave him a season of peace. He enjoyed years of rest yet later faced an overwhelming enemy. And in both seasons, in the calm and in the crisis, Asa shows us what it means to seek the Lord.
 
This chapter is a chapter about consistency, about seeking God when things are going well, and seeking Him just as earnestly when things are going badly.
 So today, we’re going to explore Asa’s story. We’re going to see how God strengthened him in peace, sustained him in battle, and taught him to rely on divine power rather than human strength, and we’re going to discover what it means for us, in our own good times and bad.
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This Podcast is part of season 23 of a project to complete an in-depth study of the entire Bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. 
Episode Notes:
My title for this episode is “When You Feel Overwhelmed.”  And I suspect that’s something every one of us has experienced at some point and understands.
 All of us have lived through moments when life felt bigger than our strength. Moments when we felt outnumbered, outmatched, or simply out of options.
Sometimes it’s not one big single crisis; it’s the slow accumulation of pressures that finally becomes too much. Sometimes it’s the unexpected blow that knocks the wind out of our sails, or it follows a long season of discouragement that wears us down.  Whatever form it takes, we all know what it is to feel overwhelmed.
 And so, my question is: What do you do when that happens and how do you respond?
 In the Old Testament, one king found himself in exactly that situation. He was factually outnumbered and overwhelmed, facing an enemy he could not defeat, a crisis he could not control, and consequences he could not escape. And what he did in that moment is exactly what we should do in ours.
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This Podcast is part of season 23 of a project to complete an in-depth study of the entire Bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. 
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I wonder if sometimes we are even aware of what spiritual failure actually looks like in our daily lives.  Sometimes we can look in the mirror and notice an attitude, a compromise, or a choice that runs entirely contrary to the Word of God. Sometimes, it is easy to spot; it's an outward, undeniable disobedience to what Scripture plainly and clearly commands. Sometimes it is not so obvious but serious, nonetheless.
 But what is the root cause of such failure? Why can we so easily drift away from the source of our life and peace?
Today, we are diving into 2 Chronicles chapter 12 to look at someone who learned the cause and consequences of spiritual failure the hard way. We are continuing the narrative around Rehoboam, in which contradictions are laid bare in a dramatic account that reveals God’s loving discipline and breath-taking mercy in the most surprising ways.
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This Podcast is part of season 23 of a project to complete an in-depth study of the entire Bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. 
Episode Notes:
My title for this episode is “Living a Life of Contradictions. And if we’re honest, that describes most of us far more accurately than we’d like to admit.
 We tend to think of people as either obedient or disobedient to the Lord, as if life were neatly divided into two categories: the faithful and the unfaithful, the righteous and the unrighteous, the obedient and the rebellious.
 But life isn’t that tidy.
And neither are we.
 The truth is that every one of us lives a life containing both obedience and disobedience. Moments of faithfulness followed by moments of failure. Acts of devotion followed by acts of compromise. Steps toward God are often followed by steps away from Him.
 In that sense, we all live lives of contradiction.
 And in the Old Testament, one of the clearest illustrations of this is Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, a man who could obey God one moment and contradict that obedience the next. A man who could listen to wise counsel in one chapter and reject it in the next. A man who could strengthen the kingdom in one breath and weaken it in another.
 Rehoboam is an archetype. He shows us what happens when obedience and disobedience coexist in the same heart. He shows us the danger of inconsistency. He shows us the cost of contradiction.  And 2 Chronicles 11 gives us a vivid picture of that reality.
 
This chapter is not just about ancient politics. It’s not just about Judah and Israel, and it’s not just about kings and kingdoms. Because it is also about the spiritual contradictions that live inside us — and what happens when we allow those contradictions to shape our decisions, our relationships, and our walk with God.
 So today, we’re going to look closely at 2 Chronicles 11:1–23.
 We’re going to see what Rehoboam did, and what he failed to do.
We’re going to see where he succeeded, and where he contradicted that obedience.
And we’re going to learn what we should avoid, what we should pursue, and how we can live with greater consistency before the Lord.
Let’s begin….
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This Podcast is part of season 23 of a project to complete an in-depth study of the entire Bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. 
Episode Notes:
Today we come to a chapter that is both painfully human and profoundly important. It is a chapter built around one of the stupidest decisions ever made by a king of Israel. 
And let’s be honest: We’ve all done it. We all know others who have done it. There are no exceptions. All of us, at one time or another, have made stupid decisions.
But 2 Chronicles 10 introduces us to a stupid decision of a different kind, one that most people don’t even know exists, and one that changed the course of Israel’s history.
 Stupid because the decision made in this chapter describes the division of the kingdom of Judah from the majority of Israel.
 It is the moment the united kingdom becomes a divided kingdom. It is the moment Rehoboam steps onto the stage. And it is the moment a foolish choice fractures a nation.
But there’s another theme woven through Chronicles, a theme you’ve heard me mention again and again:
 The relationship of each king to the Temple reveals the condition of his heart. That’s why the chronicler keeps bringing us back to the Temple: Its worship, its priests, its sacrifices, its maintenance, its neglect, and its restoration. Because the Temple is the spiritual barometer of the nation, and the king’s attitude toward the Temple is the spiritual barometer of the king.
So, with that in mind, let’s turn now to 2 Chronicles 10 and examine the decision that split a kingdom — and the lessons it still teaches us today.
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