{"id":4918,"date":"2024-10-23T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackaby.net\/members\/?p=4918"},"modified":"2024-10-18T08:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:55:36","slug":"destroying-our-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/2024\/10\/23\/destroying-our-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying Our Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeroboam arose as a consequence of Solomon&#8217;s sin. The king had turned his heart away from God. His love of women had stolen his loyalty to God. As a result, God raised up enemies to plague the prodigal monarch. Jeroboam had been the chief overseer of the king&#8217;s labor for the tribe of Joseph. The northern tribes had felt exploited by the king&#8217;s extensive construction projects. Under Solomon&#8217;s son Rehoboam, they would ultimately rebel and the nation of Israel would be torn asunder.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon&#8217;s response to God&#8217;s discipline was to attempt to kill his enemies! God had sent this discipline, but rather than yielding to it and repenting of his sin, Solomon attempted to eliminate God&#8217;s tool of punishment. Of course this was futile. What God intends cannot be stopped. The divine consequences for our sin are unavoidable. Better to humbly accept God&#8217;s word and face our consequences, than to fight back and resist God&#8217;s redemptive activity in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>If God has brought you through a difficult season of life, let Him explain to you what His purposes are. If it is a consequence of your sinful leadership, then accept God&#8217;s word on the matter and immediately repent and make adjustments in your life and leadership. God&#8217;s judgment will not go away, regardless of how vehemently you resist it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.   1 Kings 11:40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15461,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4918\/revisions\/15461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/app\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}