#44 – Don’t Deviate

Good morning people who want to honour and obey the Lord

I find there are many tragic stores in the Old Testament where people turned away from God. This morning I read another and you can find the story in 1 Kings 13. This story, like many others, was easily avoidable and I believe there is a word for many of us here today.

Briefly the story is about a prophet of God who received a very clear word from God (vs 9, 16-17). The prophet repeated the word God had spoken to him twice in this passage, it was not unclear. But in verse 18 another prophet comes and gave a different instruction under the authority of these words; “I too am a prophet, as you are, and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord