Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church

Solomon's sin was that he was led astray by his foreign wives – nd aso he worshiped foreign gods. The result was that his son, Rehoboam, lost the kingdom to the upstart, Jeroboam. God promised Jeroboam that if Jeroboam was like David and was faithful to Yahweh, then God would establish Jeroboam's house. But instead, Jeroboam refuses to allow his people to worship in Jerusalem, and he builds golden calf shrines at Bethel and Dan. If Jeroboam had trusted God, he would have allowed his people to worship God the way that God said! In other words, Jeroboam is trying to worship God in ways "he devised from his own heart." God warns us against worshiping him in any way other than that which he himself has commanded...