The Character of Kings: Reflections on God's Guidance and Kingship
Exploring the themes of divine guidance, kingship, and the role of God in the history of Israel as depicted in Chronicles and Psalms, along with insights on the nature of leadership and priesthood. The concept of gifts and callings being irrevocable is discussed alongside the significance of God's reign and the identity of believers as partakers in His divine plan. The text delves into the theological underpinnings of kingship, priesthood, and the unique relationship between God and His chosen people.
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The Character of Kings 4 II CHRONICLES 15:3-4 (1-19) Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. 4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
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PSALM 93:1-5 The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. 2 Thy throne is estab- lished of old: thou art from everlasting. 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. 4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. 5 Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever. 3 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
GIFTS 20 Now, gifts and callings are without repentance. God all through the ages has been represented on the earth through His prophets, through His kings. And it's always been the Spirit of God. If we had the time tonight to go down like to Joseph, dig out those nuggets and polish them up. 56-1207 4 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
THE.MESSIAH 23 God called us, and we become kings and priests unto God. Like Jesus was God's High Priest, we become a lesser priest. God in Fullness dwelt in Him to shine forth the expression of God to the world, for God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. As God was in Christ reconciling God comes into His church and anoints some Messiahettes . The same power He had is in His church. And His church becomes His dominion, and He's King over this dominion, and we are kings and priests, offering spiritual sacrifices to God, the fruits of our lips giving praise to His Name. Amen. There you are: Messiahettes, little messiahs, little anointed ones. Anointed off the main One, off of the great One. Character of Kings 4 5 8/19/2020 61-0117
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. 73 God led the people of the Jews. They were never a nation; they were just a people. And they never was an organized church; they were just the church called out. There never was an organization amongst the Jews; they were always led by God. Then when politically, nationally, they wanted to have a king... God gave them a king and it never did work. God's their King. God's our King. God's the King of the church. 54-0103 6 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
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King Asa Destroying Idols Asa His reign is dated between 913-910 BC to 873-869 BC Great, Great Grandson of David Great Grandson of Solomon Grandson of Rehoboam Father of Jehoshaphat 8 8/19/2020 Character of Kings 4
King Asa MICAIAH.THE.PROPHET 20 And in this we find that there was a king in Israel at this time by the name of Ahab. He was king of Israel, and at this same time Jehoshaphat was king of Judah. And Jehoshaphat was a righteous man, a God-fearing man. And his father, Asa, before him, was a God-fearing man. But we find that Ahab was kind of what we call a borderline believer... Any way the winds blowed, why, it took Ahab. 9 61-0426 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
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I CORINTHIANS 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 11 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
FATHER.THE.HOUR.HAS.COME 6 This time in the OT was a very shaky time. Jehoshaphat was the king of Judah, Ahab was king of Israel at the time they had been divided. And any time we are divided we can look for trouble. We must be united and then we will stand. Jehoshaphat was a righteous man, a good man. He had had some good bringing up, a lot of examples, as we've had today. He seen his father, Asa, how that when Asa served the Lord, then God was with him. But when Asa failed to serve the Lord and got stubborn, then God departed Character of Kings 4 from him. 12 8/19/2020
No matter how well the Lord loves us, and how well you love the Lord, when you depart from serving and worshipping the Lord, then just remember, you can look for trouble to start in. Because God told David one time, "Thou art a man after My own heart." And then when David did wrong, David had to reap for what he sowed. And He's never told us that we were after His own heart, so we'll surely have to reap what we sow. 56-1002 13 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
II CHRONICLES 14:9-15 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah. 10 Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zepha- thah at Mareshah. 11 And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail 14 Character of Kings 4 against thee. 8/19/2020
II CHRONICLES 14:2-5 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God: 3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. 5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him. 15 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
Gods views on Unity of His People II CHRONICLES 15:1-2, 10-11 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded: 2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you. 16 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
WHY 93 The foundation is the Bible, doctrine of apostles and prophets, and so forth, of the Bible. The king s (Jereboam s)own stubborn way. He just didn't want to send down there. It wasn't very popular. 95 God's real true way of living has never been popular. It never will be popular. "For the preaching of the Gospel is foolishness to them that perish." Paul said, "I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for it's the power of God unto salvation to them that believe. Now we find out here that the king was stubborn. 17 8/19/2020 63-0626 Character of Kings 4
I KINGS 15:22-24 Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. 23 The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. 24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: Character of Kings 4 and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead. 18 8/19/2020
DEUTERONOMY 20:1-6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it. 7 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her. 19 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
Samson Strength, "his strength went from him" (Judges xvi. 19); Saul Height "he took a sword and fell upon it" (I Sam. xxxi. 4); Absalom Hair "his head caught of the oak" (II Sam. xviii. 9); Zedekiah Eyes "they put out the eyes of Zedekiah" (II Kings xxv. 7); Asa Feet "in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet" (I Kings xv. 23) 20 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
DEUTERONOMY 21:18-23 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. 22 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
BALM.IN.GILEAD 13 If the man has a disease, and the doctor has the cure for it, and the man may lay on the doctor's doorsteps. But if he refuses to take his medicine, he will die on the doorstep. You can't blame the doctor But it isn't the doctor's fault, he's got the remedy, but the man's too stubborn to take it. So is it today, that many people die in the pews, in their sins because they refuse to accept God's Balm in Gilead. They die in their sins because they refuse it, not because there isn't any there; but they just refuse to take it. They have to take something false instead. Men and women just refuse to take it, and they die, die in the church, set and listen night after night... Not because there's not grace and salvation, but because they 23 Character of Kings 4 refuse to receive it. 8/19/2020 59-0614
BALM.IN.GILEAD(Ahab & Ahaziah) 10 It wasn't because there wasn't a God in Israel. Neither was it because there wasn't a prophet in Israel. But it was the king's stubbornness and his hatred for the true prophet of Israel. It wasn't because that God hadn't supplied the remedy. It was because that he was too stubborn, and he didn't like Elijah, because Elijah had predicted all the evil that happened to his father. Therefore, he had created by the habits of his home to hate the man of God, to despise him and reject him. 59-0614 24 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
Examples of Stubborn: MARK 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness (covering with a callus, obtrusiveness of mental discernment, dulled perception; the mind of one has been blunted) of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched [it] out: and his hand was restored whole as the other. ROMANS 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 25 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
EPHESIANS 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: I SAMUEL 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being Character of Kings 4 king. 26 8/19/2020
QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS. 10 Would you all like to have a real Bible church? Where all spiritual gifts were set in order, everything making manifest just exactly the way it should be. Now, you're going to have to sacrifice, not money. What? Some of your own ideas. You're going to have to sacrifice some time in prayer. You're going to have to sacrifice maybe a stubborn will, to break down in humility. The whole Christian move is sacrificial. "He that will follow Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me daily." How often do you have to 27 Character of Kings 4 sacrifice? Every day. 54-0516 8/19/2020
GOD.BEING.MISUNDERSTOOD 137. Bro. Branham, I am saved and been baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, how do I get away from a stubborn spirit that I can't seem to break away from? Well, my Christian brother or sister, most times when you find people that's got stubborn spirits, it's usually a complex that causes this, either they have inherited I have met cases on the platform, thousands of those that had that spirit. And the first thing you know, I'd chase that spirit right back by discernment and find that there was a granddaddy, there was a grandmother, there was Character of Kings 4 somebody else back down there, and you inherit that by nature. 28 8/19/2020
Stubborn is not of God. And the only way to get away from that is to have faith to overcome that, if you are a Christian. You are a son or daughter of God you ll never be able just to stand and rebuke it So when you feel that you got a stubborn spirit, lay the thing on the altar, believe God that the thing is dead and you will never have it no more, go on and don't even pay any attention to it no more, and the thing will leave you. Resist the devil and he will flee from you; that's "get away quickly." So that would be my advice how to overcome it. We overcome the devil, all Character of Kings 4 evil, by faith. 8/19/2020 61-0723 29
SPOKEN.WORD.ORIGINAL.SEED When God creates a man, he s of His kind. David said, Thy Word have I hid in my heart that I sin not against You. Only thing he needed was the rain. David would ve been all right if he could just had that rain, but the Holy Ghost wasn t yet given. He had the Word, the Word was in him, and he could know It; he said, I ve hid It in my heart, Lord. It won t bloom out and act like It should, but I ve hid It there Lord. But when Jesus came, which was the Word made manifest took the germ life out of it And if David s cup run over, what ought ours to Character of Kings 4 do? 62-0318 30 8/19/2020
THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE 112 "I got the baptism, the Holy Spirit." That still has nothing to do with it. That's just only a temporal gift for you. The real gift is your soul down in there, born of God, and that controls the whole thing to the Word of God and the will of God. And there you grow up, see, then you're a son and daughter of God You're a son of God, coming forth, and you see the Word says, "I should do this. I should be born-again." "Well, I belong to church." That don't mean one thing. "I'm Methodist; my mother." That's good for 31 Character of Kings 4 your mother. 8/19/2020
113 "Well, my, I'm Pentecostal." That, if you don't line with that Word, there is something wrong. Then, you see, your real father ain't God That soul didn't come from God, then it wasn't a germ of God, to begin. You're deceived. You're in a patch of weeds and bearing the world's record of the weeds coming forth. Acting like the world, loving the world, is because the love of God is not in you. 65-1205 32 Character of Kings 4 8/19/2020
