Seek God and Live!
2 Kings 1
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, July 5.
It is a question asked by soldiers in war, and by people in hospitals every day: Am I going to live? It is a natural question to ask, but there is only One who can give you the real answer.
Ahaziah, the king of Israel, had taken a bad fall and wanted to learn if he would live. Following in the ways of his dad and mom, Ahab and Jezebel, he inquired of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron. In 2 Kings 1:3-4, the God of Israel had a message for him through Elijah, the same prophet who gave the Word of God to his parents:
But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’ Now therefore thus says the Lord, ‘You shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’ ”
To highlight the emphasis of Ahaziah’s life-threatening condition, this question is posed three times in verses 3, 6, and 16, “Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?” It was not a physical condition, caused by a fall through the lattice of his upper chamber that threatened Ahaziah’s life, but his rejection of the one true God. His death in verse 17 was the fulfillment of the promise of God in Deuteronomy 8:19,
“It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.”
Seize the moment and “believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31).
God bless you!
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