A House Divided (12 of 66)
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
1 Kings
If you've ever lived in the deep-south, you know that feelings still run deep when the Civil War is mentioned. Our nation's most destructive and divisive war was fought between ourselves! More than 640,000 soldiers perished, and the civilian deaths were not recorded.
Antietam was the bloodiest battle with nearly 23,000 casualties! That's four times the number of Americans lost during the D-Day assault on Normandy. In fact, more soldiers died in the Civil War than in all our other wars combined!
The Civil War was waged over two issues: states' rights - and slavery (those issues intermingled). As with any divorce, there are two sides to the story. The Union called it the War of Southern Rebellion, and the Confederates called it the War of Northern Aggression.
These immovable forces gave birth to our country's saddest chapter. When South Carolina seceded, federal troops withdrew to Ft. Sumter. The Union and Confederates both claimed ownership. Four months later, the fort was in need of supplies.
Nobody wanted to be seen as the aggressor in the war, but Lincoln could not allow his troops to starve, and Jefferson Davis could not allow the fort to be resupplied. Davis ordered the fort to surrender, Lincoln refused, and the Confederates showered the fort with over 3,000 shells!
Three-thousand years before America's Civil War, God's people divided, too. It wasn't over tribes rights and slavery: God's chosen king disobeyed and God ripped the kingdom from his hands. That's what 1 Kings is all about.
We're in a series called Route 66, and my theme this morning is A House Divided! So far we've covered the five Books of Law and we're into the twelve Books of History.
1 Kings is one of the Double Books:
1. In 1 Samuel Israel transitions from judges to kings.
2. 2 Samuel tells the story of King David.
3. 1 Kings deals with Israel's Civil War.
4. In 2 ...
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
1 Kings
If you've ever lived in the deep-south, you know that feelings still run deep when the Civil War is mentioned. Our nation's most destructive and divisive war was fought between ourselves! More than 640,000 soldiers perished, and the civilian deaths were not recorded.
Antietam was the bloodiest battle with nearly 23,000 casualties! That's four times the number of Americans lost during the D-Day assault on Normandy. In fact, more soldiers died in the Civil War than in all our other wars combined!
The Civil War was waged over two issues: states' rights - and slavery (those issues intermingled). As with any divorce, there are two sides to the story. The Union called it the War of Southern Rebellion, and the Confederates called it the War of Northern Aggression.
These immovable forces gave birth to our country's saddest chapter. When South Carolina seceded, federal troops withdrew to Ft. Sumter. The Union and Confederates both claimed ownership. Four months later, the fort was in need of supplies.
Nobody wanted to be seen as the aggressor in the war, but Lincoln could not allow his troops to starve, and Jefferson Davis could not allow the fort to be resupplied. Davis ordered the fort to surrender, Lincoln refused, and the Confederates showered the fort with over 3,000 shells!
Three-thousand years before America's Civil War, God's people divided, too. It wasn't over tribes rights and slavery: God's chosen king disobeyed and God ripped the kingdom from his hands. That's what 1 Kings is all about.
We're in a series called Route 66, and my theme this morning is A House Divided! So far we've covered the five Books of Law and we're into the twelve Books of History.
1 Kings is one of the Double Books:
1. In 1 Samuel Israel transitions from judges to kings.
2. 2 Samuel tells the story of King David.
3. 1 Kings deals with Israel's Civil War.
4. In 2 ...
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