The Responsibility of a Leader (1 Kings 12:28–32)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 9 October 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this episode of Pray the Word on 1 Kings 12:28–32, David Platt teaches Christians about the responsibility of leaders in the church and home.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:04.3 | 1 Kings chapter 12 verse 28 through 32. So the king took council and made two calves of gold |
| 0:13.3 | and he said to the people, you have gone up to Jerusalem long enough, behold your gods of Israel |
| 0:18.8 | who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and he set one in Bethel and the other he put in Dan. |
| 0:25.1 | Then this thing became a sin. For the people went as far as Dan to be before one. |
| 0:31.2 | He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not |
| 0:36.1 | of the Levites. In Jeroboam appointed a feast on the 15th day of the 8th month like the feast that |
| 0:42.2 | was in Judah and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves |
| 0:49.3 | that he made and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made. |
| 0:56.4 | The reason I read these few verses this passage is because they are a sober reminder |
| 1:05.2 | that their first responsibility of a leader among God's people is to lead the people to worship |
| 1:13.8 | God alone. That is the first responsibility, it's the first commandment to worship God alone. |
| 1:23.1 | And when it comes to this commandment and this responsibility, Jeroboam here and Reoboam for that |
| 1:30.0 | matter, utterly fails. The king sets up calves of gold and leads the people of God to worship these calves |
| 1:42.9 | instead of God to worship in ways that God has not prescribed in places that God has not |
| 1:49.3 | prescribed. And so I want you to think about your life and specifically think about any leadership |
| 1:58.0 | or influence you have in others lives in any different role or position that the first |
| 2:04.5 | responsibility of a leader and a church is to lead people to love God and to worship God alone. |
| 2:12.0 | But this is also the first responsibility of a dad in a home or a husband and a marriage. |
| 2:21.2 | And obviously that includes a wife or a mom in a home. When it comes to leadership in children's |
| 2:28.5 | lives, your first responsibility, more important than putting food on the table or providing for |
| 2:38.0 | their safety or security in this world, more important than anything else in this world is |
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