When Rehoboam abandoned the Lord, Shishak stripped the city and glory faded from gold to bronze. Yet humility changed the story. God spared Jerusalem and taught his people again the goodness of serving him.
Bible Themes and Doctrines
When Rehoboam abandoned the Lord, Shishak stripped the city and glory faded from gold to bronze. Yet humility changed the story. God spared Jerusalem and taught his people again the goodness of serving him.
Ahaziah’s injury exposes a deeper crisis—he trusts a foreign shrine instead of Israel’s God. Elijah’s word, fire from heaven, and a kneeling captain show how the Lord defends his name and gives mercy to the humble.
Deuteronomy 17 links altar, courtroom, and throne under the Lord’s holiness. It calls for sincere worship, careful justice, and leaders who live under Scripture, pointing to Christ’s kingdom and the Spirit’s work among his people.
Deuteronomy 9 confronts the myth of merit. God conquers for His name and promise while Moses’ intercession secures a stubborn people for mercy.
Deuteronomy 8 trains hearts to live by God’s word in scarcity and in plenty. Manna’s lesson guards prosperity from pride and turns work into stewardship.
A Sabbath meal becomes a lesson in mercy, humility, and allegiance. Luke 14 calls us to invite those who cannot repay, to answer the banquet summons without excuses, and to count the cost of following Jesus with steady, distinctive lives.
Matthew 18 outlines the King’s household rules: become like children, guard the vulnerable, pursue the straying, reconcile under his authority, and forgive from the heart. Jesus’ presence with even two or three gives humble communities strength to live this way.
Romans 11 answers whether God has rejected Israel and shows his plan: remnant by grace, Gentile inclusion, and future mercy. The only fitting response is worship.
Paul rejects celebrity logic and defines ministers as stewards under Christ, judged by the Lord at the appointed time. His fatherly appeal invites imitation and points to a kingdom where words yield to Spirit-given power.
Philippians 2 links the church’s unity to Christ’s descent and exaltation. We work out what God works in, refuse grumbling, and honor servants who seek Christ’s interests while we wait for the day of Christ.
James 4 traces quarrels to desires at war and calls believers back by grace. Submit to God, resist the devil, speak without slander, and plan with “if the Lord wills.”
Peter closes his letter by calling elders to eager service, the church to humility and vigilance, and all believers to cast care on the God who cares. This study follows 1 Peter 5 and anchors weary hearts in the promise that the God of all grace will restore and steady His people.
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector reveals how God justifies the humble, not the self-righteous. Explore its meaning and significance for believers today.