Message Notes

Kings & Kingdoms
Week 5-Hezekiah
11.30.2025

(slide 3) it’s natural to trust God alone, when you know God alone can save you.

(slide 5) it’s natural to trust God alone, when you know God alone can save you.

(slide 7) What do you do when you have options?

(Slide 9) If we pull up our chart from last week

(Slide 11) Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God. 2 Chronicles 14:2

(Slide 13) He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim 2 Chronicles 14:3

(Slide 15) (he) commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law 2 Chronicles 14:3

(Slide 17) The land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God.

(Slide 18) We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side. 2 Chronicles 14:7

(Slide 23) Then Asa cried out to the Lord his God, “O Lord, no one but you can help the powerless against the mighty!

(Slide 24) Help us, O Lord our God, for we trust in you alone. 2 Chronicles 14:11

(Slide 26) So the Lord defeated the Ethiopians in the presence of Asa and the army of Judah, and the enemy fled. 2 Chronicles 14:12

(Slide 28) Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar, and so many Ethiopians fell that they were unable to rally.

(Slide 29) They were destroyed by the Lord and his army and the army of Judah carried off a vast amount of plunder.
2 Chronicles 14:13

(Slide 31) In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and fortified Ramah

(Slide 32) in order to prevent anyone from entering or leaving King Asa’s territory in Judah. 2 Chronicles 16:1

(Slide 34) Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the Lord and the king’s house

(Slide 35) and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying

(Slide 36) “There is a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father.
2 Chronicles 16:2-3a

(Slide 38) Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold.

(Slide 39) Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.” 2 Chronicles 16:3b

(Slide 41) it’s natural to trust God alone, when you know God alone can save you.

(Slide 42) What do you do when you have options?

(Slide 44) Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen?

(Slide 45) Yet because you relied on the Lord, he gave them into your hand. 2 Chronicles 16:8

(Slide 47) The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a

(Slide 51) You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars. 2 Chronicles 16:9b

(Slide 49) שָׁלֵ֛ם and it means intact, complete.

(Slide 53) Yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but sought help from physicians. 2 Chronicles 16:12

(Slide 55) And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign. 2 Chronicles 16:13

(Slide 57) The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 2 Chronicles 16:9a