NOTE: I didn't deliver this sermon. The text presented here is what I had intended on delivering but God changed the message significantly before I delivered it. You can listen to the actual sermon here.
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This morning I want to look at a passage from 2 Kings. It is not too often that the church hears sermons from these historical books. In fact, the Revised Common Lectionary, which I love, only has 5 passages from the entire 25 chapters of the book and almost ignores the entire testimony of 1-2 Kings and 1-2 chronicles with only 17 passages total for all 112 chapters and 500 years of monarchy, give or take a few years. But the real reason I am preaching on this text, today, the first Sunday of the New Year is because it relates to New Years resolutions. Particularly, to the kinds of resolutions and reflections we must be concerned with. I say that b/c the resolutions and reflections we make, fail to make, or just don’t take the time to make and implement in our lives will have effects on our children and grand children. The very words that close our passage end with a sobering reminder that to this day the children and the grandchildren continue to do as the fathers did. So as we enter the New Year, let’s consider carefully a passage that brings to light the greatest tragedy which can be passed on – the tragedy of syncretism.
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This morning I want to look at a passage from 2 Kings. It is not too often that the church hears sermons from these historical books. In fact, the Revised Common Lectionary, which I love, only has 5 passages from the entire 25 chapters of the book and almost ignores the entire testimony of 1-2 Kings and 1-2 chronicles with only 17 passages total for all 112 chapters and 500 years of monarchy, give or take a few years. But the real reason I am preaching on this text, today, the first Sunday of the New Year is because it relates to New Years resolutions. Particularly, to the kinds of resolutions and reflections we must be concerned with. I say that b/c the resolutions and reflections we make, fail to make, or just don’t take the time to make and implement in our lives will have effects on our children and grand children. The very words that close our passage end with a sobering reminder that to this day the children and the grandchildren continue to do as the fathers did. So as we enter the New Year, let’s consider carefully a passage that brings to light the greatest tragedy which can be passed on – the tragedy of syncretism.
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