Friday, December 26, 2014

Endeavour To Persevere (Lesson 4)



Persevere- to continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty

2 Chronicles 16:10-14 NASB
(10)  Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
(11)  Now, the acts of Asa from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
(12)  In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but the physicians.
(13)  So Asa slept with his fathers, having died in the forty-first year of his reign.
(14)  They buried him in his own tomb, which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place, which he had filled with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers' art; and they made a very great fire for him.

As we come to the conclusion of this study we see that Asa puts the seer in prison and oppresses the people.  Why is it that some harden their hearts against the Lord?

Asa contracted a disease in his feet and still lived out his life in a hardened state against God. Asa made his decisions and had to live with the consequences. 

In order to persevere we must humbly accept and obey God’s Word.  

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