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2 Chronicles 15:1-7  - I GOT JESUS & SO I CAN’T GIVE UP!   HOW TO GET BACK ON TRACK!

 

| *The New King James Version* | *The New Revised Standard Version* | *New Living Translation* | *The Message* | *The New International Version* |

| 1 Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.

| 1 The spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded.

| 1 Then the Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded, | 1 Then Azariah son of Obed, moved by the Spirit of God, | 1 The Spirit of God came upon Azariah son of Oded.

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| 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin.

The Lord is with you while you are with Him.

If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

| 2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, while you are with him.

If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

| 2 and he went out to meet King Asa as he was returning from the battle.

“Listen to me, Asa!” he shouted.

“Listen, all you people of Judah and Benjamin!

The Lord will stay with you as long as you stay with him!

Whenever you seek him, you will find him.

But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

| 2 went out to meet Asa.

He said, “Listen carefully, Asa, and listen Judah and Ben-jamin: God will stick with you as long as you stick with him.

If you look for him he will let himself be found; but if you leave him he’ll leave you.

| 2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin.

The Lord is with you when you are with him.

If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

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| 3 For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law; | 3 For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law; | 3 For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach them, and without the Law to instruct them.

| 3 For a long time Israel didn’t have the real God, nor did they have the help of priest or teacher or book.

| 3 For a long time Israel was without the true God, without a priest to teach and without the law.

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| 4 but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.

| 4 but when in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.

| 4 But whenever they were in trouble and turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him out, they found him.

| 4 But when they were in trouble and got serious, and decided to seek God, the God of Israel, God let himself be found.

| 4 But in their distress they turned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and sought him, and he was found by them.

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| 5 And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.

| 5 In those times it was not safe for anyone to go or come, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.

| 5 “During those dark times, it was not safe to travel.

Problems troubled the people of every land.

| 5 At that time it was a dog-eat-dog world; life was constantly up for grabs—no one, regardless of country, knew what the next day might bring.

| 5 In those days it was not safe to travel about, for all the inhabitants of the lands were in great turmoil.

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| 6 So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.

| 6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.

| 6 Nation fought against nation, and city against city, for God was troubling them with every kind of problem.

| 6 Nation battered nation, city pummeled city.

God let loose every kind of trouble among them.

| 6 One nation was being crushed by another and one city by another, because God was troubling them with every kind of distress.

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| 7 But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded!”

| 7 But you, take courage!

Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

| 7 But as for you, be strong and courageous, for your work will be rewarded.”

| 7 “But it’s different with you: Be strong.

Take heart.

Payday is coming!”

| 7 But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.”

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2 Chronicles 15:1-7  - I GOT JESUS & SO I CAN’T GIVE UP!   HOW TO GET BACK ON TRACK!

 

HOW TO “*/WIN”/* IN 2010

*/“Getting Things Done”/*

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1.

For and In the Kingdom

2.      For and In the Church

3.      For and In the Family

4.      For and In One’s Personal Life

·        This will equip one for getting things done in the many other areas of our lives (i.e., on the job, in business,  etc.)

Golf analogy – correcting a swing flaw.

Big changes often are needed and they feel weird at first.

You must continue them until they become a habit.

Then it becomes natural.

\\ \\ 2 Chronicles 15:1-15 (NKJV) \\ 1 Now the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded.

\\ 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin.

The Lord is with you while you are with Him.

If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

\\ 3 For a long time Israel has been without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law; \\ 4 but when in their trouble they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found by them.

\\ 5 And in those times there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the lands.

\\ 6 So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity.

\\ 7 But you, be strong and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded!”

\\ 8 And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, *he took courage*, *and removed the abominable idols* from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephraim; and *he restored the altar of the Lord* that was before the vestibule of the Lord.

\\ 9 *Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin*, and those who dwelt with them from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

\\ \\ \\ \\ The southern kingdoms of Judah and Benjamin had long been following after false gods and ignoring their relationship with the one true God (v.

3).

We find in verse 4 that in their distress however, they turned to the Lord.

Times were desperate for them (v. 5 & 6).

And in these desperate times, desperate measures were needed to right the ship.

\\ For some of us, there may be times that our Christian walk, like a golf swing gets a little out of whack.

Maybe a lot out of whack.

When that happens we need to make changes and perhaps even take desperate measures to get the relationship back on track.

What we have here in this story of Asa is the desperate measures they took to get back on track with God.

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There are several things that Asa and the Southern Kingdoms of Judah & Benjamin do to *restore a proper relationship w~/ God*.

How to get back on track with God, your dream, vision, goal, destiny

1.

He took courage: became excited, filled with zeal about getting back on track.

2.

He removed the idols: Got rid of the things causing him to stumble and fall.

Stop doing the wrong things.

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He restored the altars: Recommitted his life to God.

Start doing the right things

V7:  WAS ENCOURAGING & REMINDED THEM OF THE REASON THEY HAVE TO GET BACK ON TRACK.

#1 *v7.

Be strong*— Be encouraged & make a resolve to be strong.

Great energy and strength would be required to persevere in the face of the opposition your Come Back measures will likely encounter.

*your work shall be rewarded*—What you do in the cause and for the glory of God,  will assuredly be followed by the happiest results AND a blessed out outcome both to him and his kingdom.

V8  *he took courage*— Asa became a more zealous reformer than ever after getting a word from the prophet,

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They removed the idols (v.

8)  -  Asa destroys the pagan altars and shrines.

using all his royal authority and influence to detach, delete, and destroy every sign or remnant of idolatry from the land.

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Asa removes the obstacles.

b.

This represents the temptations we are associating ourselves with.