June 15, 2025
Teacher: paul Mermilliod
1 Kings 12:16-17, 20
And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel went to their tents. [17] But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah… [20] And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.
BIG TRUTH:
GOD DESIRES WHOLE-HEARTED DEVOTION
Deuteronomy 6:4-6
“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. [5] You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. [6] And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.
1 Kings 14:8
… and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes
1 Kings 15:11, 14b
And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done… the heart of Asa was wholly true to the LORD all his days.
2 Chronicles 15:15
And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around.
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him…
Ecclesiastes 12:13
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Big Idea:
Compromise corrupts devotion to God.
1 Kings 11:4-9
For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. [5] For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. [6] So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done. [7] Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. [8] And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods. [9] And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel
2 Chronicles 12:1
When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
- Compromise is sin. (1 Kings 14:9; Exodus 20:1-6)
- Compromise is a cancer. (1 Kings 11:4-9)
- Compromise is the overflow of misplaced fear. (1 Kings 12:8; Proverbs 29:25; Matthew 10:28; Galatians 1:10)
Big Idea:
Whole-hearted devotion develops through submission.
2 Chronicles 14:2-4
And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God. [3] He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim [4] and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment…
2 Chronicles 15:8, 1113, 16-17
As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the LORD… [11] They sacrificed to the LORD on that day from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep. [12] And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul, [13] but that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman… Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron. [17] But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.
Submission Is…
- God-centered obedience. (Proverbs 3:5-6; Galatians 2:20)
- Active obedience. (Titus 2:11-14; John 14:15)
- Sacrificial obedience. (Romans 12:1; 2 Chronicles 15:16)
- Joyful obedience. (2 Chronicles 15:15; Romans 8:28; Philippians 1:6)
Big Idea:
Whole-hearted devotion depends upon and deepens through faith.
- Faith is confident trust in God’s character and promises.
- Faith is dependent trust in God’s provision and purposes.
Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, [9] not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Talk About It
- What does it mean to be devoted to God with our whole heart?
- What is one area of your life where you tempted to compromise in your devotion to Jesus right now?
- What is a practical next step of submission or faith you can take this week in your abiding pursuit of Jesus?
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