OT DAY 517 - Pride Again, No Repentance, Got Another Chance? (Please click here for English podcast)

Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace and feel His presence. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

      May the Lord give strength to his people!
       May the Lord bless his people with peace!

                                     Psalm 29:11

Confession and Repentance (Subjective Shifting Devotion Method http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html)

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (1 Kings 22:1-28)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=列+王+紀+上+18&version=ESV

19 And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; 20 and theLord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. 21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ 22 And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ 23 Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has declared disaster for you.”

24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”25 And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.” 26 And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son, 27 and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace.”’” 28 And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace,the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”

                                      1 Kings 22:19-28

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

    My Listening

          Last blog's topic is "Is It too Late for a Wicked Person to Repent at The Last Moment?" Ahab is that person and God spared him!

           This time Ahab faced with similar situation. He could do the same thing and God would have spared him again. What leads him to be so proud to say that? What is the result of his pride? 

    Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 

     (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) : 

        As God can bring judgment on people who have rejected the truth by making it even more impossible for them to understand the truth (see Mark 4:12 as well as passages such as isaiah 6:9-10), so God can bring judgment by sending a message that isn't true. God uses people who are not really committee to bringing God's word as a means of bringing judgment on someone who doesn't really want to hear God's word…

           God continues to seek to get through to Ahab by mercifully undermining the process of bringing judgment by explaining that dynamic to Ahab. It puts Ahab in the same position as he was at the end of the previous chapter. He can once more put aside impressive clothes in favor of sackcloth; he can fast and "go about quietly"; and he can give up his war plans. You could say that the juxtaposition of these two stories is to lay alternatives before a leader. Do you want to be the Ahab of chapter 21 or the Ahab of chapter 22? 

John Goldingay. 1 and 2 Kings for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, p.103.

            We always think that we can have another chance, right?
            I sincerely hope today's message will give you some kind of warning that God's has a bottom line! No one knows that bottom line but most people want to push to the limit of God's bottom line!
            Watch out! You may not have another chance if you only believe and not behave! You may not have another chance if you say you are a Christian but in fact you do not have a lifestyle of Christlikeness! 

    Dear Holy Spirit,
    Open our eyes to see the truth whether we truly believe and behave. Humble ourselves so that we are able to listen and willing to obey. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Reflect on these questions:

    1. Do you think Ahab has another chance if he is not so proud?

2. What kind of message have you got as you read God can send lying spirit to those so called prophets?

    3. What have you got from Jesus today?

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