Jesus Break the Chain
By Timothy Emmons
Pearl of Great Price Tabernacle
The word chain has different meanings. The first definition is a sequence or series of connected elements.
Israel had 3 kings before the split of the kingdom. Each of these kings had different struggles in different ways.
Saul had the kingdom taken from him by God because of strict disobedience.
David had his faults but the Lord favored David because of his quickness to repent, devotion, loyalty and love in keeping God first in his life no matter what he had done.
Solomon was blessed above all men with Godly wisdom and the Bible said he followed the instructions of his father David.
Later we witness in God’s Word a total 180 from Solomon as he strayed from God’s path for him. He had many wives who worshipped many gods and at some point even erected monuments to those gods.
The flesh is fickle. Have you noticed that when a Godly prophet or Judge was alive the people were for the most part seeking God, but when they died the people were like wandering sheep without a shepherd?
After the kingdom split in two, 41 kings and one queen graced the thrones of these kingdoms combined.
Of the 42 rulers Israel had 19 kings and none of them did right in the sight of the Lord.There was a chain of evil rulers.
Of the 22 kings of Judah only 8 did right in the sight of the Lord.
Eight out of 42 rulers combined followed God’s commandments. At some point a chain of evil leadership was broken in Judah. The rulers were not perfect but somewhere along the way someone taught them the ways of the Lord and they clung to those ways.
One of those kings had no problem tearing down the high places and ridding the land of idols and the worshippers thereof.
This king was prophesied about nearly 300 years before he was born.
1 Kings 13:1-2 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
Josiah was 8 when he was crowned king and ruled 31 years and according to his acts in the Bible he did what was prophesied to the letter.
He sought God at a young age and when the Book of the Law was found he took his kingship in a Holy direction.
The Word says that like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
Although the kings who did right in the sight of the Lord had points of failure during their reign, there came a KING out of Bethlehem who did no sin, neither was no guile found in his mouth.
It took THIS KING who became sin but knew no sin to break the chain!
Another definition for the word chain is that which binds, restrains, confines, or fetters; a bond.
The enemy has people bound by sin, confined, in fetters. He has many of God’s people in different bonds and fitted with different yokes. The only way to be free of those things is Jesus.
Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Jesus made us free and if He sets you free you, shall be free indeed.
The Word says that those who cry out in times of trouble and distress, He will bring out of darkness and the shadow of death and brake their bands in sunder which means into pieces.
When we were in the world, we were chained servants of the enemy that can only be broken by Jesus Christ.
Chains of hatred, fear, dissention, addictions, worry, anger need to be broken.
There is a King of Kings, sitting on the throne at this very minute Who is the greatest chain breaker of them all.