Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, God has a sense of place. He is omnipresent; we gladly and joyfully confess that the divine nature cannot be limited to a particular place. But nonetheless, God created particular places and He knows how important place is to us humans. Tonight’s section of text is the introduction to the next chapter’s bloodbath. Things are building quietly, and though we do have two different battles in our text this evening, this is really the calm before the storm (to use a hackneyed cliche). What I hope to show you this evening about your Heavenly Father is that His providence is always at work for both judgment and salvation, in the affairs of nations and in the most ordinary places of your daily life. Don’t think that God is absent from the kitchen at Panera, or from the mudroom of your home, or from the Campbell County courthouse, or anywhere else that your daily path takes you. He knows you, he knows where your family’s from, and He is at work in those places. Let’s see how the narrator communicates that truth in the lives of these Judean monarchs.
(Note: The title and several points of this sermon come from Dale Ralph Davis' commentary in loc.)
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
