Oct 1, 2022
2CHRONICLES 26-27:
King
Joash didn’t end so well, did he?! He killed Jehoiadah’s son
Zechariah. When Jesus mentioned killing prophets A through Z, that
Zechariah was the Z that he mentioned by name. Time and time again
Judah’s kings needed to learn not to be proud, and that certainly
happened to Joash’s son Amaziah, who was assassinated like his
father.
ECCLESIASTES 3:
Chapter 2 ended with a significant conclusion
or two:
Ecc. 2:24 GNT The best thing we
can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have earned. And yet, I
realized that even this comes from God.
25
How else could you have anything to eat or enjoy yourself at
all?
26 God gives wisdom, knowledge, and happiness
to those who please him, but he makes sinners work, earning and
saving, so that what they get can be given to those who please him.
It is all useless. It is like chasing the wind.
MATTHEW 16:24—17:
Yesterday we heard the words that remind me of
Jim Elliot’s words, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to
gain that which he cannot lose.” We’ll start by re-reading those
words of Jesus at the end of chapter 16, so that we get a good
transition to chapter 17.