Ahab and Benhadad
A. RECOUNT THE CHAPTER STORY - READ vs. 31-43.
B. THE GIST -
1. Benhadad determined to humiliate and destroy Israel.
2. Ahab, though resistant in battle, gave in to a worse destruction.
C. BE CAREFUL OF THE EXAMPLE( 1 Cor. 10:11 ).
A. BENHADAD NEVER SATISFIED WITH JUST PART( 1 Pet. 5:8 ).
B. WARFARE AGAINST CHRIST( Col. 2:8 ).
1. Point of attack is us( Rev. 12:7-13 )
2. There is escape( 2 Pet. 1:4; 2:20 ).
C. WHOSE SIDE ARE WE ON?
1. 1 Kings 18:21 - Matt. 12:30 - Matt. 6:24.
2. Rom. 6:16-18. We need to think in terms of Black and White. There is a
"right and wrong."
D. THE PERSISTENCE OF BENHADAD AND SATAN.
1. Excused first failure - God of the Hills - Try again on the Plain.
2. Temptation is continual( 2 Cor. 2:11; 1 Cor. 10:13; 1 Pet. 5:8 ).
A. WE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD( 1 Pet. 2:11-12 ).
1. Abstain from fleshly lusts( 1 John 2:15-17 ).
2. No affinity with worldly things( James 4:4 ).
3. No fellowship with those of the world( 1 Cor. 15:33 ).
B. WE ARE NOT OF THOSE WHO TEACH FALSE DOCTRINE.
1. A problem in the church( Acts 20:29-30 ).
2. Warnings are plentiful( 2 Tim. 2:14-18; 2 Pet. 2:1-3; Jude3-4, 7 ).
3. Sometimes hard to distinguish( 2 Cor. 11:13-15 ).
4. Sometimes they don't even know( 2 Tim. 3:13 ).
a. The Jews( Acts 3:17 ).
b. Apollos( Acts 18:24-28 ).
c. Paul( 1 Tim. 1:12-15 ).
C. HOW DO WE REGARD SUCH?
( Rom. 16:17-18; Titus 3:10-11; Eph. 5:11 2 John 9-11 ).
D. Jer. 6:14. YOU CANNOT MAKE PEACE WITH THE DEVIL AND HAVE
PEACE WITH GOD( Prov. 23:23 ).
E. GOD'S PUNISHMENT OF AHAB A WARNING( 1 Kings 20:31-43; Jas. 4:4 ).