Berean Bible Church

How God Sees People

Lesson XVII

Rehoboam I – A Natural Man

March 25, 2007

Review- Text 1 Corinthians 2:14- 3:1 three kinds of people

Saul , began well but he soon became a carnal man

David ended his life a very spiritual man

Solomon ended his life a very carnal man

Rehoboam was a natural man.

I Rehoboam was the son of the great man, Solomon

1 Kings 11:43 -Solomon died, Rehoboam became king

Ecclesiastes 2:18-19 will he be wise or a fool?

Deuteronomy 8:18 God gives abilities

1 Corinthians 4:7 what did you not receive?

Ecclesiastes 6:2 God gives riches, wealth honor

II Rehoboam was the son of an Ammonite woman

1 Kings 11:1 Solomon married a woman of the Ammonites

2 Chronicles 12:13 Rehoboam was 41 when he began to reign. His mother’s name was Narmah , and Ammonite

Genesis 19:38 the daughter of Lot was mother of Benammi, who was father of the Ammonites

Jude 7,8, backslidden Lot was grandfather of the Ammonites

Deuteronomy 2:19 Israel was not to meddle with the Ammonites

Deuteronomy 23:3,4 Ammonites barred from the Camp of Israel: reason given

1 Samuel 11:1,2 cf Amos 1:13-15 they became cruel people

1 Kings 11:7 Molech was the idol god of Ammon

Nehemiah 2:10,19 the Ammonites opposed Nehemiah when he was building the

Wall of Jerusalem.

III.. Rehoboam began his reign facing a problem created by his father

2 Chronicles 10:1-4 the people had to pay too many taxes

2 Chronicles 10:5-7 Rehoboam had no respect for the ‘old men’s advise

Therefore he had not regard for history

2 Chronicles 10:8-14 He took the counsel of the young men with whom he had been brought up, (his generation) with disastrous results.