Losing My Religion: Loosing God-Given Identity Causes Division | 1 Kings 12

2025-01-27

LS Community Church live Sunday gathering, January 19th; teaching by Corbett Cutts. 1 Samuel 8:11-18, 1 Kings 12:13, 1 Kings 12:16, 1 Kings 12:5-6, 1 Kings 12: 26-27, 1 Kings 12:28, For so long God had promised Israel land as an inheritance. He even promised His very presence in the ark of the covenant and the temple. But Israel misses the big picture. For too long they put their identity in their land and not in the reality that God was present with them. This shift from their identity leads to the collapse of Israel. They split into two ...

LS Community Church live Sunday gathering, January 19th; teaching by Corbett Cutts.

1 Samuel 8:11-18, 1 Kings 12:13, 1 Kings 12:16, 1 Kings 12:5-6, 1 Kings 12: 26-27, 1 Kings 12:28,

For so long God had promised Israel land as an inheritance. He even promised His very presence in the ark of the covenant and the temple. But Israel misses the big picture. For too long they put their identity in their land and not in the reality that God was present with them. This shift from their identity leads to the collapse of Israel. They split into two kingdoms, the Northern (Israel) who would follow Jeroboam and the Southern (Judah) who would follow Rehoboam.

The South held a major advantage in the power struggle between the two kingdoms – the Temple was in Jerusalem which was in Judah and that presents a significant problem for Jeroboam because it meant that the Israelites in the North had no place to worship God.

Jeroboam is faced with a major decision:

• Does he remain faithful to the covenant with Yahweh and assume the risk of allowing the Israelites to travel to Judah to worship?

• Or does he take matters into his own hands?

#lscommunitychurch

#leessummitcommunitychurch

#message

#Thestory

#losingmyreligion

#bible

#kingJeroboam

#king Rehoboam

#kings