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1 Gospel Baptist Tabernacle 781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741 Where the Love of God abounds, everyone is welcome . Children’s Church taught by Paul and Marsha Davis during preaching. www.rossvillechurch.com January 25, 2015

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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle

781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

Where the Love of God

abounds, everyone is

welcome.

Children’s Church taught

by Paul and Marsha Davis

during preaching.

www.rossvillechurch.com

January 25, 2015

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1 Kings 20 1 And

Benhadad the king of

Syria gathered all his

host together: and there

were thirty and two kings

with him, and horses, and

chariots: and he went up

and besieged Samaria,

and warred against it.

Ahab is king of Israel

at Samaria.

Samaria is south of Syria, but the elevation is up.

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Damascus is the

capital of Syria.

Samaria is the

capital of Israel.

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2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel

into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith

Benhadad, 3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy

wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are

mine.

Benhadad is cocky; he has 32 kings as allies,

and an army that has flooded the hills.

Israel has no great army, and a chicken for a king.

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4 And the king of Israel answered and said, My

lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine,

and all that I have.

Ahab immediately surrendered.

He didn’t pray.He didn’t call

for a man of

God.

“I’ll be your

slave.”

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3 Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also

and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

He was taking everything worth anything.

Benhadad’s demands:

Ahab looked at the dire situation and said,

“okay.”Logically speaking, he did the only thing he could do.

But, Ahab discounted The Hand of God.

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It was a hopeless situation,

naturally speaking.

And Ahab was not a

worshipper of the

True God.

He followed his wife in idolatry.

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Benhadad sent Ahab a very insolent demand. Ahab

sent a very disgraceful submission; sin brings men

into such straits, by putting them out of the Divine

protection. If God does not rule us, our enemies

shall: guilt dispirits men, and makes them cowards.

Ahab became desperate. Men will part with their

most pleasant things, those they most love, to save

their lives; yet they lose their souls rather than part

with any pleasure or interest to prevent it.

Matthew Henry Concise Bible Commentary

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5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus

speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent

unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver,

and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children; 6 Yet

I will send my servants unto thee tomorrow about

this time, and they shall search thine house, and the

houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that

whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put

it in their hand, and take it away.

Ahab surrendered so easily that Benhadad

decided to take more.

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Once we give place to the devil, he invades

and takes more and more of our lives.

Romans 6 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield

yourselves servants (slaves) to obey, his servants

ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death,

or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be

thanked, that ye were the servants (slaves) of sin,

but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of

doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then

made free from sin, ye became the servants of

righteousness.

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We’re gonna serve somebody.

The devil offers the

pleasures of sin for a

season, but ending in

death and hell fire.

Our Lord offers eternal

life with joy, peace,

and love in Him.

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Sin is like Benhadad -- it will take everything

from you that worth anything.

Sin will take your wife, your children, your job,

all your money and worthwhile possessions.

The longer we serve sin,

the more it will take.

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Don’t do as Ahab did and

surrender all that’s good in

life to the enemy.

Resist the devil.

Reject sin.

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1 Peter 2 24 Who His Own Self bare our sins in His

Own Body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins,

should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye

were healed.

Sin has no power over the children of God.

We can live unto righteousness.

Choose!

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7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the

land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this

man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my

wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and

for my gold; and I denied him not. 8 And all the

elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken

not unto him, nor consent.

We have to draw a line in the sand and say,

“No more.”

Good counsel

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James 4 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

We must never yield an inch to the devil.

Stand strong in the Power of God.

Say “NO” to sin.

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9 Wherefore he said unto the messengers of

Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst

send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this

thing I may not do. And the messengers departed,

and brought him word again.

Finally, Ahab showed some backbone!

Why was he so cowardly before?

He had turned his back on The True God.

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As long as we walk with God

we are strong.