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the tribune stou3viile out- thusrday april 22 1954 iiwfwiwwi aberdeen angus the supreme beef breed get premium prices for baby beef with aberdeen- angus either pure bred or crossing with angus bull means earlymaturing easyfeeding hornless calves with all the best beef features open and bred heifers and bred cows available now baker ph claremont 44w this weeks sunday school lesson attention farmers for good cash products why not grow cucumbers we are now ready with our 1954 contracts at new high prices for information contact w adams newmarket or phone 15 3gegn3agccg3c cream for best results ship your cream to stouffville creamery we pay two cents more per pound butterfat for cream delivered to the creamery cold storage lockers for immediate rentals stouffville creamery co to have our truck call phone 186w csaa sscgnasce ahijah foresees a divided kingdom lesson for april 25 coldeu text it thou wilt hear ken unto all that 1 command thee and wilt walk in my ways 1 will be with tbee and build thee a sure house 1 kings 1138 the lesson as a whole by j c maoaulay dj approach to the lesson the story of the northern kingdom of israel is indeed a iad one it could not be other wise for it started with an act of rebellion against the house of david gods chosen line while it is true that ahijah the prophet declared that god was giving the kingdom to jero boam as a judgment on the sins of solomon nevertheless jeroboams attitude was not one of humble acceptance of a divine appointment but of haughty rebellion against the house of david first he tried to wrest the kingdom from solomon instead of waiting cods time then when the kingdom fell to him instead of establishing it in righteous ness he sought to secure it by a wretched expedient idola- try it is not surprising then that the northern kingdom en dured only about two hundred years before being wiped out of existence and those two centuries were marked by con stant upheaval instead of a stable dynasty it had nine dif ferent dynasties the change over usually taking place in an act of violence although a few were prosperous to a degree every one of its nineteen kings was bad over against that the king dom of judah survived its nor thern neighbour by more than a century yet it had only the same number of kings all of the house of david there was one brief usurpation when athaliah daughter of ahab seized the throne for six years in addition israel the northern kingdom came down with no prospect of recovery while judah preserved the sure hope of the unfailing promises of god despite the awful apostasy of the northern tribes gods pa tience and longsuffering were shown in his sending them prophets including elijah and elisha although they forsook him he would not forsake theav in t remaining lessons of this quarter we shall meet some of those valiant servants of god who carried the word of the lord to backslidden is rael verse bv verse i kings 1129 ahijah the shilonite found him in the way and he had clad himself with a new garment a shilonite was a native of shi- loh his finding of jeroboam must not be regarded as a chance meeting but a divine appointment jeroboams new garment can be explained by verse 28 verse 30 and ahijah rent it in twelve pieces hav ing ones new garment ripped in pieces before his eyes would be no pleasant experience 1 wonder what jeroboams im mediate reaction was at any rate he restrained himself some think that it was his own garment which the pro phet tore verse 31 behold i wall rend the kingdom out of the hand of solomon and will give ten tribes to thee it was a symbolic act to represent the division of the kingdom such acted parables are common in the prophets verse 32 but he shall have one tribe for my servant da vids sake and for jerusalems sake jerusalem must re main with the seed of david as the seat of gods house for the ten tribes of verse 31 and the one tribe of verse 32 see topics for development no- before you buy any used car or truck look for the 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used cars and trucks arc worthy of the ai sticker only those that can meet his rigid standards of condition and performance he keeps his standards high and backs them with his reputation what every used mems hasbkn- s performance m m m m see your fo dealer performance appeara and advertsec- t accu vs f fori monarch deaikr r h murphy ltd stouffville ontario tice that verse 32 is paren thetical for the reason of verse 3j we go to verse 33 verse 33 because that they have forsaken me and have not walked in my ways as did david his father notice the plural they it is not surprising that when the king acted as he did many of the people took their cue from him and drifted into idolatry the practices connected with the worship of these gods were cruel and debasing in the ex treme verse 31 but i will make him prince all the days of his life for david my servants sake two alleviations of judgment god made with re gard to solomon he did not take away the whole kingdom and he did not take it away in solomons day but these con cessions were for davids sake and because of gods covenant with david verse 35 but i will take the kingdom out of his sons hand was this making the son suffer for the fathers sins we can only say that rehoboam showed himself un worthy of the kingship and it was the grace of god that re tained a kingdom to him at all see chapter 12 verse 30 and unto his son will i give one tribe that da vid may have a light in jerusalem here again is the double reason the house of david must be preserved and jerusalem must fufilll its destiny as the city of the treat king verse 37 thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth it was gods act to set jeroboam on the throne of israel but even here is an indication that his reign would be one of willfulness not ac cording to the will of god verse 38 if thou wilt hear ken and wilt walk in my ways i will build thee a sure house neverthe less he is challenged to walk obediently after the manner of david with promise of like perpetuity and divine preser vation this however was en tirely a conditional promise not like the sure mercies of david the heart of the lesson solomon was the son of da vid and bathsheba the name solomon signifying peace ful was given by his mother but god through nathan the prophet named him jedidiah which means beloved of je hovah but there was some thing prophetic in the name given by his mother god had levealed to david that a son of his who would be a man of peace would build the house of god that david himself had desired to build david and bathsheba seem to have rec ognized in this child the one of whom god had spoken it is clear then that solo mon was one of gods chosen set apart from birth for a holy calling moreover he was greatly blessed with a know ledge of god wiho appeared to him twice besides endowing him with great wisdom and un- derstandingyet this man turn ed away from his early integ rity followed a course of self- indulgence and so lost his vi sion of god that he not only permitted his wives to prac tice their idolatry but made provision for them to do so there is some dispute as to whether or not solomon him self engaged in idolatrous wor ship but his promotion of it was certainly equivalent to personal practice and it is evi dent that his actions introduced an epidemic of idolatry among the people certainly the most favored child of god needs the warning let him that think- etih he standeth take heed lest he fall god cannot indulge nor eas ily deal with the sins of his people while it is true that there is therefore now no con demnation to them which are in christ jesus it is equally true that he will chasten his people for their sins not only in the political sphere are crowns and thrones lost the spiritual sphere witnesses the same solomon is only one of many who have forfeited their crowns the damage wrought by the sins of the saints is beyond reckoning business directory stouffville monument works orders promptly executed p tarr 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