Introduction

• II Kings 17:5
• Genesis 12:7 – Promises to Abraham
• II Kings 17 – God’s assessment of what went wrong with Israel.

Quit trying to be like the world.

• II Kings 17:7-13 – Israel started living like the people of the land who God had punished for living that way!
• II Kings 17:19 – Israel was then a bad influence on Judah.
• Acts 2:38-40 – “Be saved from this perverse generation.”
• Philippians 2:14-15
• Judges 2:12
• Israel started to blend in with the sinful world.
• Romans 12:2 – We must become what God wants us to be.
• James 4:4
• I John 2:15

Get back to God’s word.

• II Kings 17:12-13; Exodus 20:4 – God’s instructions on this were clear.
• Jeremiah 7:1-10
• We have a good amount of control over what influences us. It is our choice how much we read our Bible!
• Luke 8:19-21
• Proverbs 30:5
• Psalms 119:101-104

God will definitely punish.

• II Kings 17:18-23
• Deuteronomy 4:25-27
• Joshua 23:14-16 – God promised they would be punished.
• II Peter 3:7-9, 17-18 – God doesn’t want anyone to be punished but He is just.