2 Kings 21: Idols may please people, but they don’t please the LORD.

Rev. Steven Theiss, vacancy pastor, Immanuel Lutheran Church, New Wells, MO joins host Rev. Brady Finnern to study 2 Kings 21.

Manasseh was a people pleaser. God had not called him to be a people pleaser, but a faithful follower of the LORD. As He led the kingdom for 55 years, evil spread throughout all the land to the point of sacrificing their children and the shedding of much innocent blood. As we learn from 2 Chronicles 33, God was patient and faithful to Manasseh and reminds us that the sacrifice and blood of the one Son of God gives us the promise of the end and strength for the days ahead. “Lord God, help us to break our idols and humbly come before You in faith. Your Son was sacrificed and His blood shed for the sake of our salvation so that we may trust in You today knowing the salvation that awaits for us. In Christ, Amen”