1. A King Grows in Wisdom
1 Kings 15:11-15

2. Following a Good Example vs 11 “Asa did what was right…as…David had done.”
“We—all of us, but especially the young—need around us individuals who possess a certain nobility, a largeness of soul, and qualities of human experience worth imitating and striving for.” William J. Bennett

3. Following a Good Example vs 11 “Asa did what was right…as…David had done.”
“For David had done what was right in the eyes of the lord and had not failed to keep any of the lord’s commands all the days of his life—except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.” Jeremiah I Kings 15:5

4. Following a Good Example vs 11 “Asa did what was right…as…David had done.”
Walter Ralston Martin

5. Following a Good Example vs 11 “Asa did what was right…as…David had done.”
Costi Hinn

6. Following a Good Example vs 11 “Asa did what was right…as…David had done.”
The ultimate hero/best example for all of us who claim salvation in Jesus is Jesus Christ our Lord.

7. Following a Good Example vs 11 “Asa did what was right…as…David had done.”
Good examples become good examples and heroes not because they do what is easy but because they do what is difficult.

8. Following a Good Example vs 11 “Asa did what was right…as…David had done.”
WW1 Alvin York 1887 – 1964 (4 German officers and 128 German soldiers captured)
WW2 Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz 1904 – 1973
(a Nazi that saved the lives of 10,000 Danish Jews)

9. Following a Good Example vs 11 “Asa did what was right…as…David had done.”
Vietnam lt. General Hal Moore
“We Were Soldiers”
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln

10. Dealing with a Bad Example vs. 13 “He…deposed…Maaka…”
Fighter, fighting or oppression – just as the spirit of her grandfather Absalom but much worst.
Maakah’s son had two names -
Abijah (the lord is my father) Chronicles
Abijam (“my father is yam” a canaanite god of the sea.) Kings
Maakah secretly had a sexual goddess-idol. She had made an obscene image to Asherah.
Elmer Towns
1932 -

11. Dealing with a Bad Example vs. 13 “He…deposed…Maaka…”
“Clearly the act of Maachah was one of so flagrant a kind, that Asa took the unusual step, on which the historian here lays great stress, of degrading her in her old age from her high dignity, besides hewing down her idol, and burning it publicly under the walls of Jerusalem.” Charles Ellicott

12. Dealing with a Bad Example vs. 13 “He…deposed…Maaka…”
thebricktestament.com
“…cut it down and burned it…”
Kidron Valley facing southwest with the Mount of Olives to the left

13. Dealing with a Bad Example vs. 13 “He…deposed…Maaka…”

14. Dealing with a Bad Example vs. 13 “He…deposed…Maaka…”
“And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, [shall be] holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.”
Jeremiah 31:40

15. Setting the Right Example vs
Setting the Right Example vs. 14 “Asa’s heart was fully committed to the Lord all his life.”
“May He make your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.” 1 Thessalonians 3:13

16. Things to remember and practice
Do not try to be a hero, you will fail. Live a life pleasing to the god of abraham, issac and jacob – peter paul and mary and it will happen without trying.
This is what the lord has always done and will do – he redeems, restores, heals, and mends people and places of sorrow and mourning to places of his glory for all eternity.
The blameless heart before god has follow through that sets a good example for everyone else.