Tragedy Of A Lost Soul
Brief Description
Israel’s 2nd King.
He reigns 2 years after his father Jeroboam.
He began to reign in the 2nd year of Asa king of Judah.
Nadab’s name means “willing.”
He was murdered in a conspiracy to cut off the line of Jeroboam. Conspiracies are “no new thing under the sun.”
His spiritual state was EVIL.
Jeroboam’s dynasty ends with his son Nadab.
Nadab is mentioned in 1 Kings 14:20 and 1 Kings 15:25-31.
The story of king Nadab shows us the “tragedy of a lost soul.”
SON OF A WICKED FATHER –
1Ki 15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
1Ki 15:26 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
So far King Jeroboam has shown up in every study on these kings. His evil influence is stamped on this thing. Unfortunately his son NADAB “walked in the way of his father.”
The tragedy of most lost souls is that they are the “son of a wicked father.” Statistics, which aren’t full proof, show us that a child is more likely to get saved and go to church if their dad gets saved and goes to church. This is even more so than it is if the mother is saved and goes to church. A huge responsibility is placed on the father.
It is the father he is supposed to spiritually lead the home. He is supposed to keep his wife safe from deception. He must make sure the kids aren’t being deceived as well. The devil and devils love to come after the weaker vessels.
Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Pro 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Fathers have a huge responsibility. Children are responsible for obeying their parents “in the LORD.”
Eph 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
That “in the LORD” is significant. You shouldn’t obey your parents when they tell you to do something sinful, which happens whether you know it or not.
Act 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Nadab would have grown up in a home where his father would have been influencing him to sin. Jeroboam would have woken Nadab up bright and early to “worship the golden calves.” Jeroboam made his “own religion.”
Nadab would have seen his father’s adultery, lying, killing, stealing, and his outright rebellion against God and the prophets.
There are dads today who cuss the preacher in front of their son. Theh as mouth the God of the Bible. Nadab could have seen instances where Jeroboam rebelled against the words of the LORD as soon as it came out of the mouth of the prophets.
I believe there are fathers in hell right now who know they paved a clean path for their son to follow them right into it.
My father never told me about the Bible, he never asked me if I was saved, he never took me to a church, he never influenced me the right way. But he did offer me alcohol, he would talk about his sex life, his adultery against my mother, he would play rock music, and have me drive him to the liquor store and come out with a brown paper bag full.
When kids have a father like this they usually go towards the broad way to hell. The influence of my grandparents put me in the other direction. Unfortunately today the grandparents aren’t like the grandparents of my time. My grandparents are like late 70s now. Now my grandparents grandkids are becoming the grandparents. Each generation gets worse. The godly grandmothers are getting less and less.
We lost the godly fathers, we have just about lost the godly mothers and the godly grandmothers are dying off. Nadab was the “son of a wicked father.” And I doubt his mother prayed for him. At least not to the God of the Bible.
That is the tragedy of a lost soul. A son of ungodly parents. Next he was…
SMOTE BY WICKED HANDS –
1Ki 15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.
1Ki 15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.
Now you have a man named Baasha, he is the son of AHIJAH. Ahijah is the prophet that ripped Jeroboam’s garment. Being fearless of Jeroboam runs in Baasha’s blood. Baasha ends up killing Nadab. He is ASSASSINATED. I’m not sure how. Maybe he was dressed up like the Assassin’s Creed guy and snuck in privily and smote him.
But Baasha smote him. Nadab was SMOTE BY WICKED HANDS. Meaning he killed him by beating with hands or by weapons.
Nadab was wicked and he was killed by a wicked man. The tragedy of a lost soul is many times the wicked people around them help bring them to an early grave.
I know several people that can’t get on track because once they get off drugs the people around them push them back on them. They can’t stop drinking because they still hang out with drunks. They can’t get off pills because their boyfriend does pills.
Many people are in gangs and end up getting killed by another gang. If you hang around extremely wicked people or get involved in things that you shouldn’t be involved in than there is a good chance you will be SMOTE BY WICKED HANDS.
It’s rare for a righteous man to be killed by another righteous man. How often do you hear of christian on Christian violence? I’m sure it happens because christians can be mean but as a general rule you don’t hear that. They may get verbally violent but it’s not like our in the wicked world.
The tragedy of a lost soul is shown in the story of Nadab. He was the “son of a wicked father” and he was “smote by wicked hands.” He was involved in wicked things like his father and it ended up leading to his death.
The tragedy of a lost soul also has to do with a…
STORY THAT IS FORGOTTEN –
1Ki 15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
The thing is that God chose to leave out the account of Nadab in the chronicles of the kings of Israel. He didn’t get his story mentioned over there. So there are things that maybe Nadab did right but since he did so much wicked they were LEFT OUT.
There are wicked men who go through life living wicked and then they die. They lived all that time for the flesh and left nothing behind. Their story is forgotten. This is true for everyone but especially for the average lost, wicked, sinner.
Pro 10:7 The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
You have your exceptions like serial killers and things like that. You have exceptions like Hitler. They made their mark on this world like Jeroboam as being “extremely wicked, shockingly evil, and vile” like Ted Bundy.
The average lost soul goes through this life and winds up in hell. There are young kids, who are the sons of a wicked father, or an absent father, and they join gangs and are smote by wicked hands at an early age. Their story is forgotten. Nobody remembers them. Nobody talks about them. They didn’t do enough good to be remembered and they didn’t do enough bad to be remembered. They just existed for a moment and then have been dead even longer. Worst of all they woke up in hell. This is the tragedy of a lost soul.
Nadab was the son of an idol worshipping father. He was smote by wicked hands. His story was forgotten in many ways and his reign was…
SHORT LIVED(only reigns 2 years) –
1Ki 15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years
NADAB’s reign was cut short. It was only TWO YEARS. His father reigned so long that we have had to talk about him in the story of every king up to this point. Many times the father has led the kid into so much sin that the kid doesn’t even last as long as his father. Many times the son carries a heavy load his father left on him. Some people at a child because they hated his parents.
NADAB’s reign was SHORT LIVED. He didn’t even get much time to make a turn around.
Some men’s life is short lived. They reign as king on the throne of their heart but not for long.
Psa 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
My father died in his 40s. He lived a life of fulfilling the desires of the flesh. I recently got his Bible that he used when he was alive. I don’t believe he used it much but I see the notes in his notepad. He had things about the rapture and the restoration of Israel wrote down. He used a king james Thompson chain reference Bible. His Bible reflects the conflict that was going on in his life. He had notes written down and you can tell he knew some things about the Bible. At the same time the Bible smells like cigarette smoke to this day. I can’t look at it very long because it gets all in your nose and makes you sneeze and cough. There are parts of pages missing where it looks like he used the paper to make a joint with it or something. He might of been saved but he had chosen for the most part to walk in the flesh all of his days as a saved man. I never knew he had a Bible or knew anything about it until after he died. His life was short lived. He died only in his forties. Barely half the days he could have lived.
That is the tragedy of a lost soul or the tragedy of a Christian who lives for the flesh. You take an early exit.
Ecc 7:17 Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
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