Do not let Service be Lukewarm

"Do not let Service be Lukewarm" - 2 Kings 10:31 Passion carries suffering, "enduring," impetuous force, ardor, impetus, energy, (movement or achieving the transformation of something) movement (moving from one side to the other). That feeling is so deep that it overflows the border of physical or psychological pain. To suffer, in common with patience. It is about the action of suffering. Passion of Jesus Christ (the Way of the Cross from the moment He was captured to His crucifixion and subsequent burial). That's the total service, not piecemeal.

I. What are we like?

A. It's from start to finish service.

1. With what service entails is "suffering," strength.

2. But Jehu "did not care to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel."

3. Jehu was just another king.

4. Jehovah was the God of Israel, for He is obeyed, who has the rules, the order, and the goodness and the strength to overcome and do things perfectly, justly, and without fail, by reasoning like man.

5. Jehu continued to promote the worship of the golden calves that Jeroboam had inaugurated.

6. Jeroboam was the first monarch of the northern Kingdom of Israel after Solomon's death.

7. (Hosea 1:4) Because of Ahab's blood, God would punish him for having cruelly exterminated the house of Ahab.

8. Hazael, the king of Syria, captured the land east of the Jordan that had originally been occupied by the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

9. Jehu "did not care" to "walk" in the law of Jehovah God of Israel "with all his heart."

10. Jehoash (2 Kings 13:18-19).

11. Jehoash visits Elisha to seek advice.

12. Elisha was about to die.

13. Jehoash visited him and wept before him and said to him, "My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel".

14. By this he implied that men of Elisha's caliber were the best and surest defense of the people of Israel.

15. On his deathbed, Elisha asked Jehoash to "take a bow and arrows and command him to shoot one of them toward the east, and then strike the ground”. “With the arrows."

16. The arrow he shot eastward signified victory over the Syrians who had occupied the land of Israel east of the Jordan.

17. For he struck the land only three times, defeating Syria only three times."

18. If he had hit it five or six times, the threat of "Syria" would have been eliminated.

19. But the king lacked perseverance and endurance, passion.

20. (2 Chronicles 20:33) Despite his efforts, Jehoshaphat could not uproot idolatry.

21. But, overall, his reign was good; the high places were not removed; for the people had not yet set their hearts to the God of their fathers.

22. (Jeremiah 3:10) Judah is called a traitor because, although she professed to continue to adhere to God, as she professed to adhere to the kings and priests who ministered by divine appointment, she proved to be treacherous.

23. The exile of Israel was intended to serve as a warning to Judah, but it did not have the intended effect.

24. Judah thought herself safe because she had the sons of Levi as priests and the sons of David as kings, and she threw herself (Jeremiah 3:8-9) into idolatrous adultery with all boldness; that is what is meant by the lightness of her fornication; not that it was light, slight, but that she threw herself into it without further consideration, "thinking that it was a light thing to be unfaithful in that way to the Lord."

25. Although Josiah was a good king, the people did not turn to God (10) with all their hearts, but by pretending.

26. (2 Kings 23:27) That is why God said in those very days, "I will also remove Judah from My presence, as I took away Israel."

27. Israel (Hosea 10:2) Their hearts are divided.

28. For they honor Jehovah with their lips, but their hearts go to Baal.

29. But now they're going to pay for it; Jehovah will demolish their altars, destroy their idols.

30. "Demolish" in the Hebrew verb designates (intention, purpose) the breaking of the neck of an animal, which is very appropriate in the case of that bull that is indomitable, brave, wild. Ephraim = northern Israel Judah = means the southern kingdom