Sermon Outline
- Choosing between God and man (1Ki 21:3)
- Family Land as an Inheritance from the Lord (Dt 19:14, Num 36:7, Lev 25:13-28)
- Business or Worship? (1Kin 21:3)
- Ahab’s Sin begins
- A Faulty Worldview
- Covetousness (1Ki 21:2, 4)
- What is covetousness? (Exo 20:17, HC 113, WLC 147-148)
- Abdication of his rule to Jezebel (1Kin 21:8)
- Jezebel’s Sin
- Usurping authority (1Kin 21:7)
- Religious Hypocrisy (1Ki 21:9)
- Misuse of the Law of God (Dt 19:15)
- Condemnation of the Innocent (2Kings 9:26)
- Immorality & Manipulating Justice – at its worst.
- Parallels to the gospel story.
- Ahab’s Sin Continues (1Kin 21:16)
- Profiting from sin of another
- Failure to hold unrighteous accountable
- God’s Judgment
- Sees all sin –(1Ki 21:17-19)
- Judges sin with death – (1Ki 21:19, 22:37-38)
- Ahab is guilty even though he didn’t ‘do’ it b/c he had the power to stop it.
- Sin leads to death. (Rom 3:23, Heb 2:2)
- The Place of Repentance (1Kin 21:27, 29)
- Was Ahab truly repentant?
- 2 aspects of Repentance
- Mortification – Institutes §3.3.3
- Vivification – Institutes §3.3.4
- Repentance stays the hand of God and allows him to extend grace to the most unlikely of sinners. (Ezek 18:30, Acts 20:21, Lk 5:32, 15:7, 24:47)
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