Our Fire-starter comes from 2 Kings 14. Our Fire-starter thought is: if
it’s free it cost someone!!!!
There are many things that have a price tag on them. If you get
something for your birthday or for something special you got it free but
it cost someone else.
Here in our text you find king Amaziah. King Amaziah did that which was
right in the sight of the Lord according to Verse 3. When he was in
office he killed the servants that killed his father and in verse 6 he
would not kill the children of the murderers. Why? Because they did not
do the crime.
See, had they had done the crime they would have had to deal with the
punishment.
The application here is you must pay the price for your sin. Sin will
always have a price tag its just the devil will always have it hidden
where you can’t see it at first. I deliver flowers and sometimes I can’t
see the price tag that they put in the flowers but when I find it it is
normally a high amount. It’s the same thing for our sin. We may be happy
that we don’t have to pay for it right then but the cost is later.
According to Romans 6:23 the wages of sin is death…. the price, the
payment. No one other human can or could pay for our sins. So without
Christ we are hopeless. The verse doesn’t stop there its says,… but
the gift of God….  what gift? Romans 5:8 tells us, but God commendeth
his love…. that word commendeth simply means demonstrated. The God of
Heaven was willing to send his Son Jesus to die for us so we would not
have to pay the price of sin and that is total separation from Jesus
Christ forever. May we ever be grateful that Christ paid for our sin
debt on the cross and may we be reminded this morning of what Jesus has
done for us!!!!
If you have never been born again I encourage you don’t delay friends
turn to Jesus!!!!
Remember Jesus is still KING

  2 Kings 14:1-29 KJV
In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah. [2] He was twenty and five years
old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in
Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. [3] And he
did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David
his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did. [4]
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did
sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places. [5] And it came to pass,
as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his
servants which had slain the king his father. [6] But the children of
the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the
book of the law of Moses, wherein the Lord commanded, saying, The
fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be
put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for
his own sin. [7] He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and
took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day. [8]
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of
Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
[9] And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah,
saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in
Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed
by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle. [10]
Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up:
glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy
hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee? [11] But
Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he
and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at
Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah. [12] And Judah was put to the
worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents. [13] And
Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash
the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake
down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner
gate, four hundred cubits. [14] And he took all the gold and silver, and
all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the
treasures of the king’s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
[15] Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might,
and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? [16] And Jehoash
slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of
Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead. [17] And Amaziah the
son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of
Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. [18] And the rest of the acts of
Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings
of Judah? [19] Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and
he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him
there. [20] And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at
Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. [21] And all the people
of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king
instead of his father Amaziah. [22] He built Elath, and restored it to
Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. [23] In the fifteenth
year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash
king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one
years. [24] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord : he
departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made
Israel to sin. [25] He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of
Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God
of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of
Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath-hepher. [26] For the Lord saw
the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any
shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel. [27] And the Lord said
not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he
saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash. [28] Now the rest
of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he
warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to
Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel? [29] And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with
the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.