Here we learn how rulers and governments are answerable to the one true Trinitarian God. Our focus text “Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt” (1 Kings 12:28). Jeroboam, for political expediency, exalts his own wisdom above God’s revelation by introducing the false religious practices of other nations. He is thus bringing down God’s judgement upon the land. This is precisely the problem in our own time : people, including political leaders, think that they have a superior wisdom to God’s word. They think that new developments in society can supersede God’s eternal law, that the word of God is no longer relevant in a progressive, 'enlightened', liberal and modern society. So fallen man has this tendency to exalt his own wisdom above that of God's revealed truth. Society now thinks that it can defy the laws of God with impunity. It thinks, for example, that it can decree that Britain is no longer a Christian country, but has become instead a multi-faith society, thus asserting, contrary to the Bible, that the Lord Jesus Christ does not possess all pre-eminence. Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name; that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and 5things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9,11).