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Throughout his ministry. 
Jesus said, many great things 

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about himself, in contrast to 
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He said on one occasion. 
I am the light of the world when

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he thought of our waywardness. 
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occasion when he thought of our 
helplessness. 

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He said, I am the Good Shepherd 
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in sin. 
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I am the resurrection and the 
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he thought of the greatness of 
Jonah. 

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Who's preaching? 
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nineveh's, rioting into tears of
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He said, behold a greater than 
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And in the same vein thinking of
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greatness, he said a greater 
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Now, whenever we look at the 
contrast and the comparisons 

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that are made by our Lord, it is
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greater than anything. 
He is like into human language, 

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will always fall short. 
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every comparison metaphor and 
simile simply skirts, the edges 

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of Christ's glory. 
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with anything that we might use 
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about him. 
The world's most imaginative 

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Architects, have sought to build
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they have entirely missed the 
point and they have failed the 

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greatest musicians of all time 
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Sweet enough for his hymns of 
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Their songs are dissonant next 
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They They sing in heaven. 
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orators, who sentences are like 
golden arrows, aimed at the 

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hearts of their hearers, cannot 
find enough words in all of the 

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English language or any other 
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his true beauty. 
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that is very rich with meaning 
and symbolism and truth that the

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Son of God makes here when he 
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Solomon is here. 
I want us to pitch our middle 

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tents on that vast. 
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while tonight, when Jesus said, 
I am greater than Solomon, I can

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tell you that it was a very 
appropriate reply for the 

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occasion on, which it was spoken
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who's Creed's, Jesus repeatedly 
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Jesus over and over unmasked 
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Daringly came to Jesus, saying 
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would see a sign from thee. 
And Jesus said orgies, Jesus 

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refused to grant them their 
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He begins in verse 39 by Sagan 
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seeks after a sign, and no sign 
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the sign of the prophet Jonah. 
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averse to performing a miracle 
to prove that he was who he 

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claimed to be. 
Because after all, that was the 

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purpose of Christ's Miracles. 
That was the really, the purpose

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of any Miracle ever performed 
within the Bible, was to prove 

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the veracity of the scriptures 
or the claims of the Who was 

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working the miracle, we recall 
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verses 30 and 31, that John 
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things that Jesus did that were 
not even recorded in that 

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particular gospel. 
But he said, these are written 

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that, we might believe that he 
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claims to be. 
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though Jesus would be eager to 
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If it would go to prove that he 
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occasion, Jesus said, assign 
will not be given Except he said

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the sign that already has been 
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He said no sign will be given to
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evil and adulterous generation. 
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beyond the facade. 
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and the Lord can see that these 
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an insincere people, and he said
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upon the fact that they had 
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as it were that they rejected. 
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truth of their own scriptures 
that they had turned a deaf ear.

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To. 
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of the prophet Jonah. 
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happened to Jonah, that familiar
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obviously overlooked. 
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and three nights in the belly of
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So will the son of man be three 
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heart of the earth and he says 
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in the Judgment with this 
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because they repented at the 
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greater than Jonah is here. 
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story of Jonah and how that 
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told him to go to preach, what 
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he ran from God and he boarded a
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overboard from that ship and 
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that God had prepared and he 
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in the belly of that fish and 
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dry ground upon which Jonah went
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Nineveh and he preached to that 
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And God turned that City around 
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Of Jonah. 
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the fact that Jesus Christ would
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would be buried in the heart of 
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Tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, but
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break the Surly Bonds of death 
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Victorious over sin and the 
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And there was never a greater 
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And that there was never a 
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Spirit given than what the Holy 
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when he was resurrected from the
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And Jesus, knowing the hearts of
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upon the condition of their 
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even the resurrection of Jesus 
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And if there's anything that the
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but finding himself in a 
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could see the clear evidence of 
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Christ, and still deny that 
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be. 
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at the preaching of Jonah but 
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people you're not going to 
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Rise from the dead. 
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me to put on a show or work a 
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And so he refused. 
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example, he says the queen of 
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Judgment with this generation 
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She came from the ends of the 
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Solomon and indeed a greater 
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Now if they answered Jesus, when
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tell us how, but I rather think 
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with their scows and with their 
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Ears and by clenching their 
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their Angry Words in our 
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They would have said something 
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A King's son, born in a palace, 
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But a carpenter's, son, born in 
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Solomon was from the great city 
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that. 
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Town of Nazareth. 
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robe and you go around. 
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Solomon commanded tri-annual 
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Is you go around raking gutters 
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After you Solomon drink from 
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Samaritan harlots for a drink of
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It took Solomon 13 years to 
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even have a home and Solomon 
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were the lowlifes of this Earth.
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such a such a vicious claim that
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Are greater than Solomon, but he
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And in fact, I don't know of any
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have drawn that would have been 
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point across any more than the 
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Because besides Christ, there 
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upon the Earth. 
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spoke of Solomon in all of his 
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verse 29. 
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synonymous with several things. 
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his Ninja night. 
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that come into your mind. 
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exceedingly wealthy, man, and 
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chapter 10 and verse 23, King 
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of the Earth for riches. 
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luxury. 
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Today, look like a pauper living
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he sat upon a great Throne of 
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best goal. 
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drinking vessel in, the palace 
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Eight out of solid gold. 
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and 21. 
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in Jerusalem, as Pebbles and 
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ground verse 27. 
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That was one of the 
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world through him with gold and 
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precious Jewel that had been 
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of the earth, his economic 
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the notion of trade with other 
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enriched Israel until it became 
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The of the known world and then 
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being very wise because God 
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than any of them and the 
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Kings 4 and verse 29, he was 
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The Bible says, God gave him 
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Like, the sand of the seashore 
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life. 
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He wrote 3000 Proverbs, he wrote
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scientific expertise, Well 
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lived about animals and birds 
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And in fact, his wisdom was so 
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nation under Heaven, including 
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from all over the Earth to come 
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And to hear Solomon talk Solomon
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The Bible tells us in first 
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sat on the throne of the Lord is
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Israel obeyed him now. 
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of government, people of this 
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they elect a man to the 
presidency and they sometimes 

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elect him by such a wide margin.
We call that a landslide Victory

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and the result of that is we say
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and a and that simply means that
he's going to go to the nation's

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capital, carrying a big stick, 
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to most likely push through the 
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because he was so wildly popular
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probably going to ride very high
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Well, Solomon was not elected to
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He was, of course, anointed and 
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particular place, Throne upon 
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The Bible teaches that all of 
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him, they obeyed him. 
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Because he led Israel to a 
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a And the Bible says that, God, 
exalted Solomon exceedingly and 

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the sight of all Israel and 
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Such Royal Majesty as had not 
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In Israel, you talk about the 
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Here was an era of Pomp and 
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and Splendor, and riches and 
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Why wouldn't he be popular? 
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remembered as one of the 
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of the world and in In fact, 
Israel never saw a more glorious

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hour than that 40-year reign of 
Solomon but after all of that is

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said and much more. 
Here's Jesus the fisherman the 

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son of a carpenter the Vagabond 
who traveled? 

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No father than the small region 
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Who had the audacity to say? 
I am greater than Solomon, but 

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indeed, he is and in many 
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you about some of them tonight. 
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Jesus had a greater birth than 
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Now on the surface, it may not 
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two. 
Great men would even begin to 

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compare. 
Because after all, you would be 

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impressed with the birth of 
Solomon and not so by the birth 

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of Jesus. 
Solomon was born in a chandelier

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illuminated. 
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And Servants, of every kind 
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born among cattle and a lantern 
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Barn in Bethlehem Solomon was 
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right for Prosperity, the throne
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platter Christ. 
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the siightest, our of the 
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difficult, his throne ultimately
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That's not the real difference 
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man saw Solomon was conceived of
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a fashion fit for one who was 
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Jesus was conceived of Mary in 
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Verse 20, by the Angel, David do
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or wife for that, which is 
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and you shall call his name 
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anyone. 
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this new edition into their 
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and a choir of angels broke 
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says, they sang out. 
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on Earth, peace and goodwill 
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high God. 
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than Rome, he made it greater 
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historians, may not have taken a
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but Christ, when he was born 
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every nation around his lowly 
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day, All the newspaper that you 
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the date on every check, you 
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The date that is etched on every
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upon every monument. 
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of the birth of Jesus Christ, he
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but the Timeless Christ 
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the world. 
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from the birth of Solomon 
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Solomon. 
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accept that Jesus Christ was 
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Christ was the Confluence of God
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faith to believe that the birth 
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Christ was unlike anything that 
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That he was indeed conceived in 
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miraculous circumstances that, I
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He is tonight, not just a 
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teacher, he is not just a bright
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but rather Jesus Is God, come 
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declared him in first, Timothy 
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God, manifest In the Flesh. 
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He was greater in birth than 
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Number two, Jesus is greater in 
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Must've been an impressive thing
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About simple, things that he 
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world around him. 
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433 that he in his wisdom, that 
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tree of Lebanon, even to the 
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wall. 
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creeping things and to fish. 
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they strolled along the streets 
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Entourage, as he saw a Vine, is 
it sprang out from the wall that

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he would stop and point to it? 
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could discuss that particular 
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fly overhead, he could talk 
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it survives and so forth. 
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with him by his Wisdom of such 
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And of course we know that the 
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with guideposts for daily living
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turn to the Book of Proverbs we 
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young man in the Book of 
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really is important in life. 
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live our lives? 
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was built by wisdom and the 
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supported and upholding. 
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Salomon. 
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could go farther than simply 
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birds and the vine of the fish. 
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those things came to be because 
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animal, he made the bird, he 
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Solomon, because before Solomon 
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Jesus always has been. 
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Colossians 1 and 17. 
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and for him, and he is before 
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And by him, all things consist, 
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spoken about the fowl of the air
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Mark the fall of every tiny 
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Solomon might have known a lot 
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what Jesus did. 
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was empty all night with enough,
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Had a vast knowledge of trees, 
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did on one occasion and that is 
kill a barren. 

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Fig tree with a few quietly 
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known a lot about the stars, but
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as does Jesus. 
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heavens with a span where 
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Christ knowledge was perfect and
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Go to Solomon for advice, but 
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life itself. 
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Solomon, could know the 
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only, he could know the in Pure 
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first meeting her only, he could
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thoughts of his disciples only. 
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was a treasonous traitor. 
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coward. 
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He never attended a university, 
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confounded, he confused the most
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his answers to their questions 
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could not answer. 
Jesus was indeed greater and 

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wisdom and Solomon. 
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but he knew the perplexities and
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And he knew even as he knows. 
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number three, and I want to 
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point. 
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than Solomon, I suppose that 
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in all of his life and 
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king over Israel was the 
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of God. 
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Masterpiece. 
God, the architect of the ages, 

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drafted, the plans to that 
magnificent structure, and he 

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handed them down to David, but 
would not permit him to build it

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because he was a man of war. 
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on down the Solomon. 
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inexhaustible wealth that he had
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concentrated all of that wealth 
into the building of this 

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Temple. 
And I'm going to tell you it was

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something to behold. 
According to the Scriptures, it 

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begins. 
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It took 180 3,600 men working 
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half years to build it. 
The cost of the tallest and most

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impressive building on Earth 
today is mirrored dollars 

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compared to the expense and the 
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Solomon's Temple. 
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or a few several weeks ago. 
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Maybe you've been there may be 
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thrill of mine to finally, get 
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Manhattan. 
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on top of Rockefeller Center and
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Manhattan and see the skyline at
night and my mind just reeled to

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think about. 
I've never seen so many 

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buildings and one place in all 
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lot of cities across the country
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concrete and glass and steel and
it boggles your mind to think, 

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of the expense, and the Manpower
and the knowledge that it took 

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to construct all of that, and 
many of those buildings have 

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stood for decades and decades 
and decades and withstood, the 

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forces of nature and so on, and 
so forth. 

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But that's nothing compared to 
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You have almost 200,000 men for 
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to completed. 
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That Solomon's Temple would cost
about a hundred billion dollars 

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in present-day money to build 
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Its entire front from top to 
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of pure gold and facing the east
in the morning sun it had such a

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dazzling brightness that the 
unshaded I couldn't even look 

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upon it. 
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what a ceremony Israel had all 
of that Nation came together and

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4,000 Usher served that event. 
A great choir of Levites saying 

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a cork Astra of 4,000 
instruments. 

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You imagine it an orchestra of 
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And when Solomon finished his 
prayer of dedication, the glory 

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of God came down and filled that
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couldn't even enter it for some 
time. 

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According to second Chronicles 
chapter 7, That's hard to be. 

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But Jesus, our lord, having only
worked in an humble carpenter 

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shop ended up taking two, if 
you, please, roughly hewn pieces

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of wood and 3, Rusty Nails and 
he built a building that spans, 

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from Pentecost to Eternity. 
He built something that 

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outshines Solomon's Temple. 
He built something that has 

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outlasted Solomon's Temple 
because Solomon's Temple resides

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in the dust and the ash heaps of
history but Christ Temple stands

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and Christ. 
Temple has stood in the face of 

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every assault and every 
destructive power that he'll at 

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Earth. 
Combined could throw at it and 

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yet it stands it. 
Stands impregnable, it stands, 

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untarnished. 
It stands on bendable and 

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Unbreakable what is that Temple 
tonight? 

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Some people are looking in the 
wrong places and they're looking

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at the wrong things. 
Then set out today to build 

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places of worship for God, for 
God, and they attempt to build 

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them to the glory of God, you 
know, and they spend millions of

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dollars constructing these 
great, massive Cathedrals and 

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for their beautiful back. 
Speaking of New York City, just 

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walk up and down the streets of 
Manhattan and you'll pass some 

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cathedrals that their spires 
absolutely go stories up into 

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the air and Stained glass 
windows. 

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That would Boggle your mind and 
you can imagine what it would 

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just be to step inside and look 
around. 

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And to think of all of the 
marble in the granite, the 

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expense that goes into that and 
people have the idea that they 

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build something like that 
because the glory in the 

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presence of God comes down and 
feels it and people have this 

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false concept that when they 
come to a place like that, 

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they're coming to meet God 
because that's where God is. 

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well, if they're thinking is a 
little bit out of date, Because 

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there was a time when God dwelt 
in Tabernacles and temples that 

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were made with hands. 
There was a time when God made a

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tabernacle that children of 
Israel carried with them and God

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came down and he dwelt there 
with them in that holy of holies

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and they made their point of 
contact through the high priest 

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with God, there that once a year
in that inner sanctum. 

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And when Solomon's Temple was 
built, God's glory came down and

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filled that Temple and it was 
the place where man met God. 

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So to speak. 
But today, God, dwells in a 

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temple far different. 
The Bible says in First Peter 2 

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and verse 4, that Christ was a 
living Stone rejected indeed by 

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men but chosen by God and 
precious and you also as living 

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stones are built up a spiritual 
house. 

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A holy priesthood to offer up 
spiritual sacrifices acceptable 

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to God through Jesus Christ. 
We are that Temple. 

448
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,500
The Church of Jesus Christ, is 
that Temple? 

449
00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:27,400
It was founded by the Lord upon 
the Great. 

450
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,900
They're indestructible and 
undeniable fact that Jesus is 

451
00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:34,100
who he claims to be the Christ. 
The son of the Living, God it 

452
00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,400
was purchased by the Supreme 
price of his blood, which is 

453
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,200
more one drop is worth more than
the billions upon billions of 

454
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:43,700
dollars that went into 
constructing Solomon's Temple 

455
00:25:43,900 --> 00:25:47,400
and the Lord dwells in his 
Temple today in that he dwells 

456
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,900
in the hearts of his Saints. 
He dwells within his church. 

457
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,100
And this building has nothing to
do with it tonight. 

458
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,700
This building is a place of 
convenience where we come 

459
00:25:56,700 --> 00:25:59,100
together to do what the 
scriptures have appointed us to 

460
00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:00,900
do. 
But God isn't here in this 

461
00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:02,400
building. 
Any more than he's anywhere 

462
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,000
else. 
God dwells in our hearts, and 

463
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,700
when God's people come together,
in appointed by Divine 

464
00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:11,700
Authority, they come together in
an assembly like this. 

465
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,200
It doesn't have anything to do 
this building. 

466
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,900
It's the fact that God's people 
are together and God is with us 

467
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:19,600
tonight. 
God is with you every day and 

468
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,500
he's with me as his child. 
Every day, and I am the temple 

469
00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:26,700
in which he takes up his Abode 
in which he lives in which he 

470
00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:32,200
dwells, and hold Sway, and 
Reigns as king of kings, and 

471
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,100
Lord of lords. 
And that leads me to my next 

472
00:26:35,100 --> 00:26:38,100
point. 
And that is that Jesus sits upon

473
00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:40,700
a greater Throne than Solomon 
ever, thought about. 

474
00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:44,300
And in fact, Let the Bible 
itself, describe the throne upon

475
00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:47,300
which Solomon sat in second 
chronicles, 9 and verse 17. 

476
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:51,400
The Bible says more of the king 
made a great Throne of Ivory and

477
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,900
Overlaid it with pure gold, the 
throne had six steps with a 

478
00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:57,500
footstool of goal which were 
fastened to the throne, they 

479
00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:00,800
were armrests on either side of 
the place of the seat and 22 

480
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,300
Lions, stood by the armrest 12 
lion stood there. 

481
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:06,500
One on each side of the six 
steps. 

482
00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:10,900
Nothing like this had been made 
for any other Kingdom when you 

483
00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:13,600
walked in if you were so 
privileged into the palace and 

484
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:18,400
into the throne room upon which 
Solomon sat, you knew you were 

485
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:24,500
somewhere. 
But Jesus sits upon a greater 

486
00:27:24,900 --> 00:27:29,900
throne. 
And it is a different throne. 

487
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:37,000
now, when Solomon became the 
king, When Solomon finished his 

488
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,100
Temple and it was dedicated. 
I describe what that ceremony 

489
00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:41,900
must have been like to you. 
But let me tell you about 

490
00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:46,500
something greater Jesus came 
down here to this world and he 

491
00:27:46,500 --> 00:27:50,500
lived 33 years being rejected by
man. 

492
00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:55,400
He left the ivory palaces above 
and came down to this old world 

493
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,600
of woes. 
The song talks about. 

494
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,400
He left the Hales of Heaven to 
come down here and receive the 

495
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:06,900
nails of Earth. 
He was rejected of men and even 

496
00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:11,000
by his own. 
He did not have a place to lay 

497
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,800
his head. 
He did not have all of the 

498
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,900
luxuries, all of the 
conveniences and all the glories

499
00:28:18,900 --> 00:28:21,300
that you would attribute. 
Normally to a king of any 

500
00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:24,000
Kingdom greater small here upon 
this Earth. 

501
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,300
His life was humble and by man 
standards, his life was pitiful.

502
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,200
And at the end of that 33 years 
with all of the cruelty that man

503
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,800
could find in his heart, they 
took this one who came among 

504
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,900
them and only did good. 
And claimed to be their savior. 

505
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:47,200
And they stretched out his arms,
after slapping him and spitting 

506
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,500
on him and cursing him, and 
beating him and scourging him, 

507
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,700
and they spread out his arms 
upon a cross. 

508
00:28:52,700 --> 00:28:55,600
And they nailed his hands there 
and they nailed his feet there, 

509
00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:58,500
and they suspended that cross in
Between Heaven and Earth and 

510
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:02,000
dropped it into its socket. 
And there he hung for six, 

511
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:10,300
bloody shameful Dreadful hours. 
And finally, he died. 

512
00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,700
And they took his mangled body. 
And his disciples placed it in 

513
00:29:15,708 --> 00:29:20,300
the borrowed tomb of Joseph of 
Arimathea and it was sealed in a

514
00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:25,000
watch said over it, but just as 
Jesus had said that no one 

515
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,600
seemed to understand. 
On the morning of the first day 

516
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,300
of the week. 
The spirit of God resurrected 

517
00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:36,700
the body of Jesus Christ. 
And he came forth from that, 

518
00:29:36,700 --> 00:29:40,900
grave a Victor. 
He came forth from that grave, 

519
00:29:40,900 --> 00:29:43,900
having conquered sin and 
everything that had defeated man

520
00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:47,500
up into that point. 
He took death sting away and he 

521
00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:51,900
completed Heavens Plan of 
Redemption and after just a few 

522
00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:56,900
more days speaking his final and
parting words to his disciples. 

523
00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:02,200
He went up on top of a hill and 
there he began to lift up off of

524
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,200
this Earth. 
And as he disappeared into a 

525
00:30:06,208 --> 00:30:12,600
cloud and off into the heavens, 
something glorious took place on

526
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,100
the other side. 
There was a crowd, I believe, 

527
00:30:16,100 --> 00:30:20,100
waiting in heaven for him. 
There must have been Legions of 

528
00:30:20,100 --> 00:30:25,000
angels lining, the golden, paved
streets of glory, and all of a 

529
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:29,800
sudden, the gate swung open and 
the king of kings, and Lord of 

530
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:34,000
lords was ushered in. 
And he was led to the right hand

531
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,400
of God the Father, where he had,
the crown placed upon his head, 

532
00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:42,100
where he received the Royal robe
and he received the scepter of 

533
00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:46,200
power and he sat down at God's 
right hand, and he took up his 

534
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:51,600
rule at that moment in time. 
Over his kingdom upon this 

535
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,800
Earth. 
You talk about an inauguration. 

536
00:30:56,100 --> 00:31:00,100
You talk about a coronation, 
that's what took place in heaven

537
00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:02,800
that day. 
And that's where Jesus is and, 

538
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,900
you know, how to shame to tell 
you tonight, that there are 

539
00:31:04,900 --> 00:31:07,800
millions of people in the 
so-called Christian Community, 

540
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:11,000
who would take that away from 
Jesus, our lord, in some manner 

541
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,800
of speaking. 
Because they had this all wrong,

542
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:19,000
in fact, it amazes me how people
can read the Bible, how people 

543
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,400
can read the gospels, how people
can read about, Jesus constant 

544
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,800
interactions with the people of 
his day. 

545
00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:30,100
Day with the Jews of his day and
even his disciples and read 

546
00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,900
about the false Notions that 
they had concerning who Christ 

547
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:37,700
was and the kind of King that 
Christ claimed to be or the kind

548
00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:40,400
of King that they thought their 
Messiah was going to be. 

549
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,500
But Jesus wasn't that kind of 
King. 

550
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,900
He never came trying to gather 
up armies with weapons. 

551
00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:52,800
In order to bring about Conquest
on behalf of God, he didn't come

552
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:58,000
riding in upon his White Horse 
and Flexing his muscle of power 

553
00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:01,700
and taking over the kingdoms of 
this Earth rather he lived a 

554
00:32:01,708 --> 00:32:05,500
very poor and again by man 
standard pitiful life. 

555
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,500
And his message was not one of 
power and of Conquest so far as 

556
00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:13,000
man's thinking was concerned, 
his message was one of meekness.

557
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,400
What kind of King says, if your 
brother would Smite, you turned 

558
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,300
your turn your cheek and give 
him the other? 

559
00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:24,500
What kind of King that wants to 
take over the world, would teach

560
00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:27,700
a doctrine that says to love 
your enemies and bless those 

561
00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:31,800
that persecute you and so on and
so on what king lays down allows

562
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,700
his enemies to treat him like 
that. 

563
00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:36,100
Well, he wasn't that kind of 
team. 

564
00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:39,900
And, you know, people can read 
the same Bible, you've got 

565
00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:44,500
tonight, and they could read all
of those passages about why they

566
00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:46,200
Ulta. 
And that's why they crucified 

567
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,600
Jesus, They Crucified him 
because they wanted their King, 

568
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,200
their Messiah, to come back in 
and break the back of the 

569
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,600
Roland's. 
And once again, bring about the 

570
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,500
Glory Days of Solomon for them, 
that's what they thought. 

571
00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:04,300
But that one we got to get him 
to be. and you know, there are 

572
00:33:04,308 --> 00:33:08,900
those in this world today that 
teach That Jesus came into this 

573
00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:15,100
world, to be a king over all in 
the world, but because he was 

574
00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:18,100
rejected by the Jews because 
they were not prepared to 

575
00:33:18,108 --> 00:33:21,000
receive such a kingdom of this 
is their Doctrine speaking 

576
00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:23,800
because they were not prepared 
to receive such a kingdom. 

577
00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:27,500
He failed in that mission and he
had to postpone it and they say 

578
00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:30,200
the what Jesus did after he was 
rejected and ultimately 

579
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,800
crucified, is he built his 
church here upon this Earth as a

580
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,900
temporary stopgap measure as an 
afterthought. 

581
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,600
And he built that church to last
here until one day he can come 

582
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,100
and get it, right? 
Until one day, he can come back 

583
00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:45,500
to this earth and he can finally
conquer his enemies. 

584
00:33:45,500 --> 00:33:49,100
And he can finally reinstate the
Throne of David and sit down 

585
00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:52,200
over there in the city of 
Jerusalem and Reign and rule 

586
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,700
over a literal Kingdom on this 
Earth for a thousand years. 

587
00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:59,900
And that is the doctrine of 
dispensational premillennialism 

588
00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:03,500
and nearly every denomination in
this town up and down every 

589
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:06,400
street, that claim some form of 
Christianity teaches. 

590
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,500
Um, form of variation of that 
Doctrine tonight. 

591
00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:15,300
Jesus failed in nothing. 
Jesus didn't have to put off 

592
00:34:15,300 --> 00:34:19,000
anything Jesus didn't 
miscalculate, anything. 

593
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,300
But when he came to this earth, 
the first time, he knew exactly 

594
00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:25,199
the world that he was coming 
into and he knew how mad was 

595
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:27,300
going to treat him. 
He knew that he was going to be 

596
00:34:27,308 --> 00:34:29,800
rejected, but he build his 
kingdom, anyway. 

597
00:34:30,300 --> 00:34:32,400
Build upon those who would 
believe in him. 

598
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:38,199
And yet to this day when I obey 
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and 

599
00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:40,800
I'm baptized for the remission 
of my sins. 

600
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,400
According to the first chapter 
of the book of Colossians, I I 

601
00:34:43,408 --> 00:34:46,600
am delivered out of the power of
darkness and I am translated 

602
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,000
into the kingdom of God's, dear 
son, and Christ Reigns all of 

603
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,199
that Kingdom. 
Now in heaven, and he takes up 

604
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,500
his reign in my heart when I 
become such as should be saved. 

605
00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:00,700
That wonderful. 
He sits upon a greater Throne 

606
00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:08,100
than Solomon. 
Lastly Jesus has a greater home 

607
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,400
than Solomon. 
Now we talked about the Temple 

608
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,300
of Solomon and it took seven and
a half years to build, but it 

609
00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:20,300
took Solomon 13 years to build 
his house and in many ways like 

610
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:24,500
a temple, it was costly ornate. 
And elaborate, I won't belabor 

611
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,000
that fact tonight, but I just 
must say, Solomon must have 

612
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,400
absolutely lived in a lap of 
luxury. 

613
00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:35,200
When you can, when you can have 
the hinges on, You're the gates 

614
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,700
of your horse, stable be made 
out of gold, you have arrived, 

615
00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:41,000
you have. 
Well you are rich. 

616
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:45,300
This was Solomon. 
This is the lap of luxury that 

617
00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:48,800
Solomon lived in. 
I'm sure he had everything for 

618
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,600
that day and time that opened 
and closed and turned on. 

619
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,000
And the turned off. 
I suppose that if Solomon were 

620
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,800
to live today he would have had 
every electronic Gadget every 

621
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,000
kind of every kind of automatic 
thing that you could possibly 

622
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,900
put into a house, he would have 
had the very best of appliances.

623
00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:04,100
The very best of furniture that 
you. 

624
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,500
You are, I couldn't even begin 
to even think about buying or 

625
00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:09,300
owning in our own homes. 
He had everything. 

626
00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:14,100
Jesus couldn't talk about any 
house like that. 

627
00:36:15,100 --> 00:36:18,500
In fact, I suppose that the most
pathetic sentence to ever fall 

628
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:21,800
from human lips as when Jesus 
said the foxes, have their holes

629
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,800
and the birds of the air have 
their nests, but the son of man 

630
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:30,000
has nowhere to lay his head. 
But let me tell you the 

631
00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:34,800
difference. 
As beautiful as Solomon's house 

632
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,000
was and is wonderful of a 
places. 

633
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,200
It would have been for Solomon 
his house to live in. 

634
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,300
I'm sure there were times when 
people in Solomon's house, got 

635
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:51,000
sick, I'm sure there were times 
in Solomon's house. 

636
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,400
Where people argued? 
I'm sure there were times in 

637
00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:01,100
Solomon's house where people 
grew old and there were times in

638
00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:06,100
Solomon's house when people 
died, But in Jesus house. 

639
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:08,700
There are no wreaths on the 
door. 

640
00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:14,500
There are no funeral trains that
pass by there are no nursing 

641
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:17,200
homes or hospital, beds or 
doctors. 

642
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:21,100
Because those things aren't 
needed in Jesus home. 

643
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,800
Jesus couldn't talk about anyhow
like Solomon's here upon this 

644
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,600
Earth, but he could talk about 
his father's house. 

645
00:37:30,900 --> 00:37:35,300
And he said it has many mansions
and I go to prepare it. that 

646
00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:40,600
where I am, there you may be 
also It was Jesus not Solomon, 

647
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,800
who in Eternal and Heavenly 
Glory hath prepared. 

648
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,700
The home of the Hebrew writer 
says hath foundations, whose 

649
00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:49,200
Builder and maker is God Hebrews
11 and verse 10. 

650
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,000
As the old song says, oh think 
of that home over there. 

651
00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:58,000
And you'll see that Behold a 
greater than Solomon is here. 

652
00:38:00,100 --> 00:38:02,600
And, you know, I suppose that 
there's one final thing. 

653
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,900
I might mention in conclusion, 
because the story of Solomon 

654
00:38:05,900 --> 00:38:09,900
isn't quite complete, is it? 
We talked about how Solomon 

655
00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:12,800
began. 
The Solomon didn't end that way.

656
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,700
Solomon went down in defeat 
before it was all said and done 

657
00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:22,500
because he said, And Solomon, 
really died in shame in the eyes

658
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:26,000
of God. 
His heart turned away from God. 

659
00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:32,000
And this Kingdom fell into the 
incapable son. 

660
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,200
The hands of his haughty son, 
rehoboam and the kingdom 

661
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,100
divided. 
And the kingdom went into 

662
00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:41,700
captivity. 
And things simply went downhill 

663
00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:45,400
from there. 
And finally, hundreds and 

664
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,100
hundreds of years later, you 
know, where it all ended up. 

665
00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,900
The Roman army came in upon that
City and the poem that Temple 

666
00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:56,500
and they tore it all down until 
not one stone was left standing 

667
00:38:56,500 --> 00:39:02,800
on another And that nation, that
Solomon had ruled over was 

668
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,000
scattered to the wind never to 
be rebuilt. 

669
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,800
Jesus lived a poor and forsaken 
life on this Earth. 

670
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But he went home to something 
better and he has a kingdom. 

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The, as a temple that will stand
forever. 

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Are you part of it? 
Are you a citizen of that 

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Kingdom? 
If you're placing your hopes and

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your dreams and Ambitions on the
things of this Earth, you're 

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making a very foolish mistake. 
Because as we turn on the news 

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every night, especially lately, 
we see that things are in great 

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peril. 
And things are very 

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unpredictable from one day to 
the next and there are a lot of 

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anxieties and fears and 
uncertainties. 

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And that's the way it will 
always be in the kingdoms of 

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men. 
They come and they go they rise 

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and they fall. 
But Jesus Kingdom will stand 

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forever. 
And one day Jesus is going to 

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return, and he's going to take 
that Kingdom. 

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He's going to deliver it up to 
God. 

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And we're going to live up there
under the reign of God, the 

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Father forever. 
Are you part of that? 

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Is that your destiny tonight? 
If not. 

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Would you do not obey the 
gospel? 

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Step down. 
This aisle. 

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Believing in Jesus. 
As the Son of God repenting of 

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your sins, make the good 
confession that you believe he 

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is the Christ. 
The son of God, he buried with 

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him in baptism or his blood can 
wash away your sins and will 

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help you do that tonight. 
I can't think of more thrilling 

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way to begin this series of 
meetings and to help someone 

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become a Christian tonight. 
We thank you for listening to 

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our podcast, put on by the 
Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.

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Road in Bakersfield, if you 
would like any additional 

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information or you would like to
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correspondence, course by mail. 
Please email us at info at True 

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