When Fear Rewrites God's Promise: Lessons from Jeroboam

So you're maybe thinking it. I definitely thought it, so I'm just going to say it. Is this not a stupid thing to say? He's speaking from his fear and his insecurity. He builds two gold calves and says, oh, here's the gods that brought you out of Egypt. Anything but the truth. And so I suggest to you, he should never have gone back to Egypt. Egypt just embedded these fears and insecurities into him even more. [00:21:38] (40 seconds)  #FearBreedsIdols

Okay. So remember that if. We're gonna come back to it. God's promises are often conditional on our obedience. It's really important. It's this is like a principle that we can take that God will often tell us what he's going to do and then what he requires from us. And a lot of the times, do you know what we do? We get it all mixed up. We try and do what God's said he is gonna do, like Abraham, or we ask God to do what he has asked us to do. [00:13:31] (47 seconds)  #PromisesRequireObedience

Fear can make you think stupid things, do stupid things. It can distort your the truth. It can steal away the promises that God has spoken to you. He said if these people go back to Jerusalem. So we come back to this if that we talked about before. He says, what if I lose this this kingdom, this throne? What if the people leave me? What if they kill me? What if I'm not secure? But what did God promise him? [00:23:04] (48 seconds)  #FearStealsPromises

And it's if you think about it from a natural point of view, it's hard to go up against an army like that and think you're going to win if you if you don't have horses and chariots. But God said was saying to them, I want you to trust me for your victory and deliverance. Don't look to what the world might offer, what Egypt might offer you for strength and victory, but look to me, your Lord and your deliverer and your savior. [00:16:19] (33 seconds)  #TrustGodForVictory

Whatever whatever situation you are in in life, your life impacts and influences those around you. So we can ask ourselves the question, what is the influence that we are having? What is our life speaking to those around about us? His life led a whole nation away from God. And you can read through scripture. There's a phrase that a lot of the kings of Israel are given. It says they he so whichever king it happened to be, he walked in the ways of Jeroboam, [00:28:30] (40 seconds)  #LifeInfluencesOthers

And when you're studying the Bible, it's so important to look into some of these details because they can give you a lot of insight, and you can act and a lot of things can be learned. Egypt is a huge subject, but just to say, very briefly the importance of this point here that it was never seen as a good thing for God's people to go back to Egypt. God delivered them from Egypt. And if you can you can see throughout scripture where he says to them to not return to Egypt. [00:15:24] (42 seconds)  #StudyScriptureForInsight

So as we see, Jeroboam's story unfolding, we're gonna see that he did not do what God has asked him to do. We see that fear can get in the way, in the way of the fulfillment of God's promises and our destiny. Remember at the end of what we just read, it says that because, well, I'm assuming it's because of this great promise, and Solomon realizes God's not happy with him, and he's going to lose the kingdom. Well, it's going to be divided. [00:14:20] (39 seconds)  #FearBlocksDestiny

So we see that Jeroboam started out his life, you could say, disadvantaged. He was a family and a clan under forced labor by his own king. His mother was a widow, but God chose him to be king. He was given a prophetic promise, and even the king he was under saw his potential and promoted him. So this is Jeroboam's beginning. He was a rising leader. Solomon saw his industrious and capable nature. He was promoted. He had leadership, charisma, and influence. [00:10:50] (49 seconds)  #ChosenFromHumbleRoots