Awake Us Now
Awake Us Now is an online ministry sharing the message of God's love through Jesus Christ, His Son. We have modeled our ministry after the early Acts Church and meet together in home groups. Using live broadcast and on demand video, we worship together each Sunday as one voice of praise and prayer across America. Through pertinent and vibrant teaching, we grow in faith and are encouraged to live each day in the power of the Holy Spirit that comes from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Our ministry has a heart to see revival breakout across America and we look forward to Christ's return.
Episodes
Today we come to one of the most fascinating times in the history of the kingdom of Judah, an amazing king who does amazing things by the power of an amazing God.
But first we take a look at King Ahaz who ruled from 731-715 BC. In 2 Kings 16:2-3 we read that Ahaz did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord. He followed the ways of other kings, even sacrificing his son in the fire.
King Ahaz
⁃ Fi...
Our story picks up with Joash (the hidden royal) being brought forth at the age of seven and hailed as the king of Judah followed by the death of Athaliah. Peace reigns in Judah as we see over 100 years of four fairly "good" kings reigning in Judah from 835-731 B.C. These kings started well but didn't always finish well: Joash, Amaziah, Uzziah and Jotham.
King Joash
⁃ Takes the kingship at age 7
&...
Pastor beings today's class with a Flashback to twelve years earlier from where we left off last week in order to take a look at the prophet Elisha.
Elisha's name means "God is my Salvation." Even in this dark time of history, God uses Elisha to draw people back to Himself.
Elisha's Ministry
⁃ Moab revolts (2 Kings 3) against Israel.
⁃ Widow's olive oil (2 Kings 4)...
Today we will be taking a look at 25 chapters that are both exciting and complex.
The 25 chapters:
1 Kings 15 - 22
2 Kings 1 - 11
2 Chronicles 17 - 22
A period of approximately 33 years.
As our study begins we see Ahab (874-853 BC) - is the ruler of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and Jehoshaphat (870-848 BC) - is ruler of Judah, the Southern Kingdom.
There's good news and bad news from this period of 33 years&hellip...
Today we continue our study of Elijah's ministry.
Elijah's Ministry
⁃ Prediction and Provision - no rain or dew
⁃ Contest at Mount Carmel the time of drought ends in a contest
⁃ Encounter at Mount Horeb
⁃ Word at Naboth's Vineyard
⁃ El...
This question is often asked this way:
⁃ Is the Holy Spirit an impersonal force?
⁃ What does the Bible say about this?
⁃ What does the Holy Spirit do?
⁃ Why are some afraid of the Holy Spirit?
Let us consider:
Is the Holy Spirit a "Force" or a "Person"
Marks of Personality:
⁃ ...
Why did Jesus refer to Himself so often (81 times in the Gospels) as "The Son of Man?" The answer lies in a dream God sent to Daniel almost six centuries earlier!
Pastor opens today's class with the words from Psalm 135:15-18 "The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands. They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see. They have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them." We will see the truth of these words in today's study.
Elijah' Days: Most of this prophet's min...
Pastor opens with Psalm 33:12 "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance."
Our class starts and ends with the story of the kings of Judah. But in between Asa's 40 year reign as a king of Judah and his son, Jehoshaphat's 22 year reign, we see the turmoil and chaos that is transpiring in Israel the northern kingdom.
Major events of Asa's Reign:
⁃ &n...
This class will focus on Rehoboam the king of Judah, the southern kingdom, and his son Abijah as found in 1 Kings 14-15 and 2 Chronicles 11-13. They reigned 931-910 BC.
In 2 Chronicles 12:1-5 we read that 5 years into Rehoboam's reign that he and his kingdom have abandoned the law of the Lord. Rehoboam rules from Jerusalem and is attacked by the king of Egypt who has a huge army and captures the cities along the way to Jerusa...
Pastor Dodge gives us the 5th "P" from his list of "p's from last Sunday's message. If you would like to look at that message, "God ACTS! Chapter 4" go here: https://www.awakeusnow.com/god-acts-then-now (scroll to that title). This message was a study of Acts 4:1-22. In this class we look at Acts 4:23-31.
Here's the list he shared surrounding chapter 4:
- Prophecy
- Power
- Proclamation
- Passion
And the 5th one?
- Prayer Th...
Pastor begins with a brief overview of Solomon's divided kingdom. Judah was in the south with two tribes ruled by a descendant of David, Reheboam. Israel in the north with ten tribes was ruled by Jeroboam (1 Kings 11-14) 931-910 BC. God had said that Jeroboam's kingship would be blessed if he followed the Lord, but he chose the exact opposite path.
In today's class we will look closely at three incidents with Jeroboam. In 1 K...
Our study opens with a look at Civil War between Rehoboam and Judah vs. Jeroboam and Israel (931-910 BC).
1 Kings 12:1 We read that Rehoboam went to Shechem, "for all Israel had gone there to make him king." Shechem was an historic site for the nation from about 500 years early when Levitical priests recited the blessings and the curses from Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim. Shechem is the city near these two mountains.
In verses...
The story in chapter 3 continues in chapter 4.
Pastor reminds us of the story from last week and the miraculous healing of the lame man. After the healing the people, the healed man and Peter and John, they all gathered in Solomon's Colonnade - an area inside the Temple walls.
Chapter 4
As Peter and John were talking to the multitude teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus' name the resurrection of the dead, the priests, the...
For some people, politics becomes their god. But Daniel, promoted to the highest office in the land, continued to serve the Living God and trusted in Him for deliverance from jealous enemies.
Solomon: Builder
⁃ Temple construction - 1 Kings 6 (took 7 years to build)
⁃ Temple dedication - 1 Kings 8
⁃ God appears to Solomon - 1 Kings 9
⁃ Solomon's palace - 1 Kings 7 (took 13 years to build)
Pastor shares archeological discoveries around Solomon in recent years including a massive stone wall and gate ...
Scripture: 1 Kings 3:1, 1 Kings 3:4ff, 1 Kings 3:16ff, 1 Kings 6, 1 Kings 8, 2 Chronicles 5-7, 2 Chronicles 3:1, Genesis 22, 1 Kings 9, 2 Chronicles 7:14, 1 Kings 9:4-5
This study helps us dig deeper into Solomon: Wise Leader
⁃ Pharaoh's Daughter - 1 Kings 3:1 - Solomon secures a peace treaty with Egypt and a strategic marriage to one of the Pharaoh's daughter's.
⁃ ...
Scripture: 1 Kings 1-11, 1 Chronicles 28-29, 2 Chronicles 1-9, 2 Samuel12:24-25, 1 kings 1, 1 Kings 2:2-3, 1 Kings 2:13ff.
This study will take us on an adventure through a period of approximately 400 years, a highly significant time when God was moving in a mighty way among His people, Israel. It will cover from around 970 BC when Solomon took the throne until 586 BC when Solomon's Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians. It is a ...
Pastor digs deeper into the question "where was the temple gate that was called the 'Beautiful Gate' located?"
In Acts 3:1-2 we see that there was a lame man begging for alms at the Beautiful Gate. Pastor opens with stating that we are not sure exactly where it was located, but that there are several theories on its location.
Several locations have been proposed:
- One of the earliest proposed locations is that it may have be...
This teaching is from Matthew 24:36-25:30.
We pick up today's class with Jesus and His teaching on His Second Coming. In these opening passages of today's text we hear Jesus' encouragement to not let the day of his final appearing catch us unaware. We can't know the day or the hour of His return but, we CAN know Him! We can't know the time of his return but we CAN know the importance of living by faith in Him. So ...
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