You Should Know

2 Chronicles 13:4-6 KJV
And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.

This is quite the picture to me. Abijah is the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of Solomon and great grandson of King David. It was during the reign of his father that Jeroboam led ten of the tribes of Israel to rebel against the kingdom God had established in the house of David. Now, as Abijah takes upon the rule of the smaller but more obedient southern kingdom, he seeks to bring the northern tribes back under the throne of David. He stands in a place for all to hear and makes this statement, "Ought ye not to know....?"

There are some things that people need to know whether they want to know it or not. There are some things that people would have once acknowledged but have now strayed so far from that it is as if they never knew them. Every Christian needs the boldness in Christ to tell people "There are some things you ought to know"
Some things you ought to know about the Word of God
Some things you ought to know about God's plan
Some things you ought to know about right and wrong
Some things you ought to know about heaven and hell

We do our world no good to withhold from them things they ought to know just to keep our peace with them.

Let's let the world know what they ought to know; not out of enmity and spite, but out of love for them and desire to see them reconciled to God.