Slides for sermon

1. KING AMAZIAH
2 Chronicles 25

2. LIFE OF AMAZIAH
• Keeping the Commandants without the Loyal Heart
(25:1-2)
• Example – (25:3-4; Deut. 24:16)
• He pays soldiers to attack Edom with talents of silver
(25:6)
• Man of God tells him to send the tribe of Ephraim home
(25:7)
• Amaziah is concerned about all the sliver (25:9)
• Amaziah wins the battle, brings back their gods, and
worships them (25:14-15)
• He rejects God counsel and God gives him up (25:16, 27)

3. THE LOYAL HEART
• Luke 16:15 – “You are those who justify
yourselves before men, but God knows your
hearts.”
• 1 Samuel 16:7 – “the LORD looks at the
heart”
• 1 Chronicles 28:9 – “Serve Him with a loyal
heart”

4. THE LORD IS STILL GIVING
COUNSEL
• We make foolish decisions when we are not
listening to God
• 2 Chron. 25:15
• While Amaziah is still obeying
commandments
• God is still working with him

5. GOD IS GOING TO GIVE HIM UP
• Amaziah gave Him up first!
• By worshiping the false gods
• By rejecting the LORD’s prophet
• By rejecting God’s message
• By rejecting God’s Word
• God gives him up to Israel and to his
conspirators
• 2 Chron. 25:20, 27

6. GROWING THE LOYAL HEART
• Romans 1:21-28
• Glorify
• Be Thankful
• Worship
• I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell
of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in
You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. (Ps. 9:1)