1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:04,400 Without question the greatest achievement of Solomon's. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,200 Glorious Reign was the construction of the Jerusalem 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:11,000 Temple. Using plans designed by David 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 and the expertise of Phoenician Craftsman Solomon brought into 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:15,600 being. What? 6 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,400 Surely must have been one of the great wonders of ancient 7 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:23,000 architecture and during the course of building the Temple, 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,200 you remember that? God came to Solomon with a great 9 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,600 promise and he did. So not directly but probably as 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,800 Scholars. Would agree maybe even through 11 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:36,400 the prophet Nathan but God comes to him and makes a promise an 12 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:40,200 inspiring promise. And that is this, that God would 13 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,600 confirm the promise that was spoken to David in second. 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:48,500 Samuel chapter 7 and verse 12. And number two, that God would 15 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:51,500 dwell in the midst of his people. 16 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:54,500 You know. No doubt that spurred Solomon on 17 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:58,600 to continue to build as they've and attack the interior portion 18 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,200 of the temple and the I would say that it took about seven 19 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,500 years for the temple to be built. 20 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:09,700 Next was the dedication of it and because of its importance in 21 00:01:09,708 --> 00:01:12,600 the history of redemption, the sacred historian devotes 22 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,000 considerable space to the dedication of Solomon's Temple. 23 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:20,400 Thousands of people flock to Jerusalem to share in this 24 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,300 Paramount. Event without question, the 25 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:27,200 dedication of Solomon's Temple was the grandest ceremony ever 26 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,500 performed under the Mosaic. Dispensation, And the solemn 27 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,700 dedicatory transaction, consisted of six acts that I 28 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:41,000 have on the board. Number one, it consisted of the 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,500 procession Solomon summoned, all leaders of the nation to share 30 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:49,400 in the dedication ceremonies and the first order of business was 31 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:53,100 none other than to transfer the Ark of the Covenant from Mount 32 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:57,600 Zion and also referred to as the city of David to its permanent 33 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,100 resting place in the holy of holies. 34 00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:05,500 Of the temple on Mount Moriah. Interestingly, a way of note 35 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:09,500 here is originally, the term Zion was restricted to The 36 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:14,300 jebusite Fortress considered later the city of David on the 37 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:17,900 Southern and lower part of the hill on which the temple was 38 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:21,700 built in later times. The name's Ian denoted, the 39 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:26,200 Temple Hill, and then later the entire city of Jerusalem, but 40 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,800 let's just back up a little bit, one of the significant things. 41 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,500 Do you remember going back historically and we studied 42 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:39,200 about how just prior to the time that Abner was killed by joab. 43 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,700 You remember when David and his army was going to come into 44 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:48,300 Jerusalem and those jebusites had inhabited that territory and 45 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:50,600 you remember what David said to his army? 46 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:53,200 He said that I don't know how many were there that day or how 47 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,200 many of those that would be considered expert military men 48 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,100 but I know one man that was there and his name was joab. 49 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:05,100 Joab, listens to what David said and David said the first man 50 00:03:05,100 --> 00:03:09,900 that can go and scale the wall and make his way inside the wall 51 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:13,700 and slay. The very first jebusite that man 52 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:19,100 would become commander of the entire Army and the Bible says 53 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:22,700 that the one that was successful in doing so was none other than 54 00:03:22,700 --> 00:03:26,200 joab General joab. The one that David was 55 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:31,800 absolutely disgusted with just prior to this time When joab had 56 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:37,300 killed a great man, according to David, a great man named Abner 57 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:39,700 but it was joab. That scaled the wall, it was 58 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:42,600 joab that made his way in and it was joab. 59 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,000 That killed the very first jebusite. 60 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,600 Therefore, the armies of God David's armies over. 61 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:53,000 Took those jebusites in that territory and then that 62 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:57,200 territory became known as the city of David. 63 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:02,400 You know, it was there that the ark was But it had to be moved 64 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,200 to Mariah, you know, Mariah is also a very interesting name. 65 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,200 It's a very interesting place and very significant things by 66 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,600 way of Bible History, even in the scheme of redemption is 67 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:17,300 referred to or mentioned at Mount Moriah. 68 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:21,200 First of all, we find in Genesis chapter 22 and Old Testament 69 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,800 story. Very old familiar story. 70 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,600 When God says to Abraham, I won't narrate the whole story. 71 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,800 Just set the stage here, but as God came to Abraham, I am God 72 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,400 said, take thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest and take 73 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:39,200 him to the land of Moriah to amount that I will tell of Thee. 74 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:42,700 The Bible says, he rose up early to be about his father's 75 00:04:42,700 --> 00:04:45,200 business. He rose up early to do, what God 76 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,900 had instructed him to do, and he begins a three-day, that's 77 00:04:48,900 --> 00:04:53,300 significant to a three-day journey to Mount Moriah to the 78 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:58,600 place that God had instructed Abraham to sacrifice, Isaac on 79 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,200 that altar that day. You remember, as they got to the 80 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:06,000 place that Abraham and Isaac we're going to depart from the 81 00:05:06,008 --> 00:05:09,100 people that were with them that were traveling along this way 82 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:13,000 with them and they go and do so and Isaac is pictured in Our 83 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:17,400 Minds Eye as the one who's carrying the wood of all things. 84 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:21,500 The one to be sacrificed is carrying the wood that he would 85 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:25,000 be sacrificed on. Interesting, isn't it? 86 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:28,400 He's carrying what he's going to be sacrificed on. 87 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:32,200 He says to his father, he says Says, behold the wood and the 88 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:36,700 fire, but where's the lamb? And God and Abraham said, God, 89 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:41,000 my son will provide a lamb when they got there. 90 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,800 We all know the story that Isaac was bound there to that altar 91 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,100 bound there to that wood. And Abraham is about to take his 92 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:51,800 life. God stays the hand of Abraham 93 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,400 and what happened. It was still a place of 94 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,500 sacrifice, but the sacrifice was substitutionary. 95 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:02,200 There was a ram that was Caught there in the thicket and it was 96 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,500 that Ram. That was sacrificed on Mount 97 00:06:05,500 --> 00:06:09,300 Moriah that day. We learn all the way back to 98 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:14,300 Genesis chapter 22, that in Mariah, that was a place where 99 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:19,600 sacrifice was made and Where Mercy was shown all the way back 100 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:23,900 to Genesis chapter 22. We find that Mariah was the 101 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:26,500 place where David built the altar. 102 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,600 We find. It was also a place where 103 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,100 Solomon now has built the temple. 104 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:37,600 We find it a place to be where sacrifice was made and mercy was 105 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,400 shown. Now, What's significant to you? 106 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:45,400 And I about that is, if we keep within the thousand yard Mark, 107 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,800 now there's something else that significant and I think you have 108 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,900 to use the thousand-yard mark when it comes to Mount Calvary. 109 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,700 Hurry when Jesus was crucified. But if you figure this, if you 110 00:06:55,700 --> 00:06:58,800 figure that he was outside the city and you figure about 1,000 111 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,600 yards as some historians would say and Bible scholars, many 112 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:07,800 would agree that would take you 880 yards is a half of a mile. 113 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:13,100 So another 120 yards past that is about 1,000 yards and it is 114 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:18,500 said that within 1,000 yards of that very place on Mount Moriah. 115 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,900 Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross. 116 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:28,100 A place where sacrifice was made and Where Mercy was shown and 117 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:32,500 that sacrifice to was substitutionary, God put Jesus 118 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:35,500 on that cross. For the sins are allowed Jesus 119 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:39,000 to be crucified on that cross for our sins. 120 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,300 The sacrifice was indeed substitutionary, for something 121 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:45,000 you. And I should have died for 122 00:07:45,300 --> 00:07:49,700 within 1,000 yards or so very significant Place Mount Moriah 123 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,400 because the temple house that Dark. 124 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,500 The newly built Temple. Enjoyed the sanctity and 125 00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:59,300 National Prestige of the sanctuary in Shiloh which had 126 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:02,600 been destroyed by the Philistines about 145 years 127 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,200 earlier, in addition, to the princes summoned by Solomon. 128 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:11,200 All the men of Israel also came to Jerusalem to partake in the 129 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,700 feast, the priests rather than the Levites were the ones on 130 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:18,100 this occasion, that carried the Ark of God. 131 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:22,500 You know, we had read undone times past where the Levi B, 132 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:25,000 carried the ark, but here it's different. 133 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,800 This was a different occasion. This was a much more solemn 134 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:30,800 occasion. In fact, there are other places 135 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,700 in the Old Testament under such occasions when the priest would 136 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:38,500 carry the ark and not the Levites, but here it is. 137 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:42,000 The priests are the ones that are carrying the Ark of God, the 138 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,700 Levites bringing the Tabernacle, and the furniture of it to this 139 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:49,800 place. At the temple. 140 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:55,800 The Levites transported, the furniture and made a numerable 141 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,700 sacrifices that were offered before the ark, expressing their 142 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:05,100 grateful, joy for the temple, the priest, then deposited the 143 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:08,200 Ark in its assigned place in the holy of holies. 144 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,000 And the Bible says that it is placed between those two giant 145 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,100 cherubim and it is so big that the wingspan as they came 146 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:19,700 together. It absolutely engulfed the ark 147 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,300 so much so That it was Darkness under it. 148 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,700 So the Ark of God was placed in darkness where God was going, 149 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:31,300 the name of God was going to be, it was placed in darkness there 150 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:35,800 that day. Then something else You know, 151 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,100 the stage that carried the ark through the Rings. 152 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,700 Now I have tried to picture this in my mind and I really can't 153 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:46,100 totally picture. What exactly is happening here. 154 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,900 I'll tell you what I've read and I don't know that that is a 155 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:52,500 totally significant and understanding exactly how this 156 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:54,900 look but the Bible does say that. 157 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:59,300 So it does it is worth our are mention in our interest. 158 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:04,500 When the ark was placed, in its assigned place in the holy of 159 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:07,500 holies. Somehow the Bible says, they 160 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:12,000 took the staves and they pulled the staves toward the holy 161 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,600 place. Now we've got the veil there 162 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,400 that separated the holy of holies and the holy place. 163 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:23,100 But the Bible says that those staves were pulled somewhat so 164 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:26,500 that someone that standing on the other side, standing on the 165 00:10:26,500 --> 00:10:31,000 holy of holies, the holy Place side, could see the staves. 166 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:35,600 Now. Some Scholars said, what that 167 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,500 meant was this that from time to time on the day of atonement, 168 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:44,700 when the veil was pulled back for the high priest and only the 169 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:48,300 high priest have passed through that, someone would be able to 170 00:10:48,300 --> 00:10:53,200 see the staves on that occasion. Now there's also a Jewish 171 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,500 tradition that they, that they say that all this meant was that 172 00:10:57,500 --> 00:11:00,300 the staves were pulled to a point where it was kind of 173 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:02,400 protruding. It was right up against a 174 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:05,300 curtain or the veil, you know, you can do that, you can have 175 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:08,000 something on the other side of something and pull it up next to 176 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,400 it and it's kind of pushing its way next to it. 177 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,800 You can see where it was, that's Jewish tradition. 178 00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:17,400 What's the answer? I don't know, I just know that 179 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,900 for some reason, it's in the Bible and it was significant for 180 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:28,500 some now however it was the ark of God is placed there in the 181 00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:33,900 holy of holies under the two giant wings of those cherubim 182 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,800 now At the time, the ark was placed in the temple. 183 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:43,200 It contained only the tables of stone it says in our narrative, 184 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,000 which was put there by Moses at Horeb chapter 8 and verse 9, the 185 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,200 golden pot of manna and Aaron's Rod as described in Hebrews 9 186 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,800 and 4 probably had been removed by the Philistines when they had 187 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,300 temporarily possessed the arc for Samuel, 6 and verse 19. 188 00:12:01,700 --> 00:12:05,000 And so, as the priest withdrew from the holy of holies, the 189 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,700 Bible says that the Singers and trumpeters began their service 190 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:14,300 of Praise. Now picture this they begin 191 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:20,000 their service of praise. And at that, very exact moment, 192 00:12:20,700 --> 00:12:24,600 the cloud, which was indicative of the divine, presence of God, 193 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,700 filled the house of the Lord as it did in, Exodus, chapter 40 194 00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:32,300 and verse 34. And because of this great Cloud, 195 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:36,200 the priest for a time could not continue along in there. 196 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,100 Ministrations verses 10 and 11 as Solomon witnessed. 197 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:43,500 This Divine manifestation, he was stirred to the very depths 198 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:46,000 of his being and that glorious Cloud. 199 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,700 Proved that his work of piety had been accepted in the eyes of 200 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:55,900 God and Solomon, could only turn his eyes heavenward and utter a 201 00:12:55,900 --> 00:12:59,900 prayer of Declaration in which he reaffirmed his purpose in 202 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:02,800 building the ark. The structure was intended to be 203 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,100 a house for God, in contrast to the Portables. 204 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:11,000 Shrine of the Tabernacle chapter 8, and verses 12 and 13. 205 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,900 And so, he begins with the Declaration. 206 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:17,400 Solomon. Now you can just imagine is 207 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,300 moved any time. We do something that we think 208 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:25,600 God is pleased with. We are happy about that any time 209 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,100 we stand up for what is, right? We are happy about that every 210 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:32,300 time we preach the gospel and some lost soul is saved and God 211 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:34,300 gets the glory. We're happy about that. 212 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,800 And we know that when we take this book and we follow the 213 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:41,000 things that are found in this book, we know that God is 214 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,300 pleased. Now we don't take the credit for 215 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:45,700 that. We don't take the glory That we 216 00:13:45,700 --> 00:13:48,900 don't take the praise for that, but make no mistake. 217 00:13:48,900 --> 00:13:52,900 It causes us to feel good. And so when we feel good, we 218 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:55,800 rejoice and the very best thing to do. 219 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,800 When we do something that God has instructed us to do is, give 220 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,200 him the praise, give him the glory, given the honor and 221 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,600 celebrate that way in our hearts and certainly not because of our 222 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,000 own goodness and our own greatness. 223 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 You could just imagine, I don't know how much time had passed 224 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,400 from the time that the Ark of God God was sitting right there 225 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,100 under the cherubim and the singers, and the trumpeters 226 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:22,500 began to play and they began to rejoice and they began to 227 00:14:22,500 --> 00:14:27,600 celebrate and all of that that the cloud is now full showing 228 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:31,100 the presence of God, the glory of God, the greatness of God and 229 00:14:31,100 --> 00:14:35,400 the fullness of God, if that place Solomon is absolutely 230 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:40,600 overwhelmed. And he turns to the assembly. 231 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,500 You know, maybe he gestures to them to stand up in respect. 232 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:48,400 At that time. He greets the people, he 233 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:51,900 addresses them and the first thing that he does is he praise 234 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:55,200 God for bringing the past, what he had spoken through, Nathan, 235 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:58,300 the prophet, then Solomon, enumerated. 236 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:02,000 The circumstances which led to building the Temple here with a 237 00:15:02,008 --> 00:15:05,900 circumstances. Number one, God had selected 238 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:10,600 David to rule. Israel, number two, David 239 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:14,100 desired to build. Temple and got approved that 240 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:17,100 desire, you know? Just because God did not appoint 241 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:22,000 did not allow David to build the temple does not mean that God 242 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:27,000 didn't approve of David's desire to build the temple because God 243 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,300 did approve of his desire to do. So of all the things that we 244 00:15:31,300 --> 00:15:35,600 would do for God, our desire to do so is always good. 245 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:39,800 But God had other plans. God was not going to allow 246 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:42,300 David. Have the honor of Of doing so 247 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:46,500 that would come to someone else. But he did, and Solomon points 248 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:53,300 out that God accepted and God allowed, and God approved of 249 00:15:53,300 --> 00:15:56,900 David's desire. But nevertheless, God, decreed 250 00:15:56,900 --> 00:16:01,100 that David's, son would have the honor of building the Temple, or 251 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:04,900 being the temple Builder. And finally, that the Lord had 252 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:08,100 raised up Solomon and had aided him and building the Temple, 253 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:10,900 which was resting, which was the resting place. 254 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:14,800 For the arc. You know, when we talk about in 255 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,500 Philippians chapter 4, a pattern for prayer. 256 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:23,000 Do you see the pattern? Where does Solomon begin? 257 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:27,900 When Paul said this in Philippians 4, when he says, be 258 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:30,200 careful for nothing. But in everything, with prayer 259 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,300 and supplication with Thanksgiving, let your requests 260 00:16:32,300 --> 00:16:34,200 be made known unto God. That word prayer means 261 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:35,900 adoration, that's where he begins. 262 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:43,000 When we pray to God, we do so reverently you know what's well 263 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,700 I don't know what a better word than just disgusting to me is 264 00:16:46,700 --> 00:16:51,000 when people in the world speak about God or to God in a 265 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,500 disrespectful manner. Thinking about what God can do 266 00:16:55,500 --> 00:17:00,700 to them, thinking about what God can do to everyone thinking 267 00:17:00,700 --> 00:17:04,200 about the price that was paid for our salvation. 268 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:08,500 And all we have to do is obey him and thinking about how 269 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:12,099 powerful God is and how disrespectful sometimes people 270 00:17:12,099 --> 00:17:16,700 are regarding their language about God, using his name, his 271 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:22,599 great name and doing so in vain, Oh, we must speak the name of 272 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:25,800 God. Just must do it reverently 273 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:28,500 respectfully and in the right manner. 274 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,400 He begins in a prayer of adoration Solomon began his 275 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,600 Prayer by standing on a bronze platform in the courtyard of the 276 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:38,500 temple. You know, there's a 277 00:17:38,508 --> 00:17:41,900 corresponding passage and you'll find that in second chronicles 278 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:45,000 6, and verse 13. Where First Kings does not point 279 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,400 that out his hands. No, doubt were spread before the 280 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,200 heavens in a gesture of Supplication. 281 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,500 He declared that no God on Earth. 282 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:58,700 It can be compared to you. You know, Solomon wasn't saying, 283 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:02,800 there's many gods. He was recognizing that the 284 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:07,200 world recognizes many false gods. 285 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:12,100 And what he was saying is of all of man's, quote-unquote, false 286 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:15,700 gods, you are greater than every one of them. 287 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,000 They're all fake. They're all false, they're all 288 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:22,100 imitation. You're the only one, you're 289 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:25,400 greater than all of them and he tells them why? 290 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:32,100 He says because you keep your Covenant 'l promise. 291 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:38,200 You keep your promise Solomon. Said you're the greatest, you're 292 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,100 greater than any being in the world, your greater than all, 293 00:18:41,100 --> 00:18:46,000 the all of man's false gods and Concepts because you keep your 294 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:53,200 word and you keep your promise. Secondly you show Mercy to those 295 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:55,400 that. Do their very best to keep the 296 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,800 Covenant. Now, those are amazing things in 297 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:03,200 the world of all of the idol Gods at that time, and all the 298 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,000 idol Gods throughout history, your greater than every, one of 299 00:19:07,008 --> 00:19:10,400 them, because you can do what, no false god can do. 300 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,100 You can keep your word, we can trust in you. 301 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,800 We can know that what you say is true and secondly, you show 302 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,200 Mercy where no other one could do. 303 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:28,800 A prayer of adoration taking the time and spending the time to 304 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:32,600 talk about how great the great God of heaven really is. 305 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:35,900 I think we need to spend a lot of time in doing that. 306 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:40,000 Many of you have heard my sermon on Jonah, you know, in the 307 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:41,900 second chapter. That was a desperate man. 308 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:43,200 Can you imagine a desperate, man? 309 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,900 Any more desperate than a man? That was in the, in a great fish 310 00:19:46,900 --> 00:19:50,800 belly for three days. In the stench in the stink of 311 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,800 that not knowing what was going to happen to him. 312 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:55,600 You think he was desperate. I think he was the most 313 00:19:55,600 --> 00:19:57,500 desperate man alive at that point. 314 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,400 And all the things that he had to do, what's he going to do? 315 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,400 You know what he does? He spends the time in adoration 316 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,300 to God. Read the second chapter of Jonah 317 00:20:06,300 --> 00:20:10,000 in your own free time and you'll find it reads more like a Psalm, 318 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,600 it reads like a song, A Prayer of praise and thanksgiving. 319 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:19,800 We spend a lot of time sometimes asking God for things and maybe 320 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:24,500 not enough time, praising him, and thanking him for what he's 321 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:28,500 already done. But next, though, in this 322 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:32,100 prayer, there is supplication, and there is a time when we pour 323 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:35,100 our hearts out to God, there is a time. 324 00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:39,500 But sometimes what we do is we just pray and ask for relief for 325 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:43,100 something or we just pray and ask for whatever it is that we 326 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:46,300 want. And we forget the Adoration 327 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:50,400 part, we forget reverently speaking to him and, you know, 328 00:20:50,408 --> 00:20:53,300 we've all kind of brushed through a prayer quickly. 329 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:56,600 We can all get better about that, especially when we're in 330 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,700 our private times when we have an opportunity to Bow the knee 331 00:20:59,708 --> 00:21:04,600 before, God and talk to God, we could spend time in praise and 332 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:09,900 adoration to him first and then get to our supplications and 333 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:12,100 what it is that we would request from God. 334 00:21:12,100 --> 00:21:15,400 The second part of Solomon's Prayer was just The 335 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,200 supplications Solomon presented his supplications before the 336 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,000 Lord. And in these, he details, seven 337 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,900 specific situations which could be expected to arise in the 338 00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:34,100 future and it is under the idea of if and then framework in 339 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:37,600 other words, these are possible things that could happen and 340 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,000 this is what he's asking of. God, these are the things after 341 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,200 he tells God, how great God he is and Praises him for all that 342 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:46,000 he is. All that he is. 343 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:49,100 There are seven specific things about. 344 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,100 If this happens, then will you please do this. 345 00:21:53,300 --> 00:21:58,100 And these are the seven things, I've summarized them and I've 346 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:00,200 taken them from the text. I've summarized them, I'll read 347 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,800 them quickly to you. Here are the seven things that 348 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:08,900 he asks for seven petitions. One, may God hear every oath 349 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:14,300 taken before the temple Altar and then intervened to punish 350 00:22:14,300 --> 00:22:18,100 the guilty. And justify the innocent. 351 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,100 Number two after military. Defeat may God restored it. 352 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:26,000 Israel! Those who might have been 353 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:31,000 carried away captive. Number three, may God hear the 354 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,000 penitent prayers of his people when they had been chastised by 355 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,400 drought number four, in the midst of plagues. 356 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,500 May God listen to the cries of his people. 357 00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:45,700 Number five may God hear the prayers of a foreigners who 358 00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:48,000 might come to the temple to pray. 359 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,700 Number 6, May God hear those who were fighting Wars, far removed 360 00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:56,600 from Jerusalem who might address their petitions toward the 361 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:59,500 temple. And finally number seven in his 362 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:03,800 last petition, Solomon contemplated, the Captivity of 363 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,900 Israel and he prayed that God might intervene on behalf of his 364 00:23:07,900 --> 00:23:11,900 people, when they finally come to their senses and when they 365 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:16,400 finally would repent, these are the seven specific things that 366 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,500 he asks of God in the second part of his prayer and that 367 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:25,500 being the prayer of supplications asking God, these 368 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:28,800 seven things. But, you know, at the conclusion 369 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,000 of this prayer Solomon rose up from his knees. 370 00:23:33,100 --> 00:23:36,400 Now the Bible doesn't say he bowed before he started praying. 371 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,700 Maybe he was so engrossed in this prayer. 372 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:41,500 Maybe it was such a heartfelt prayer. 373 00:23:41,500 --> 00:23:44,600 He's pouring his heart out, maybe he started an upright 374 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,800 position, it kind of alludes to the fact that he that they all 375 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,500 stood. So here's all these people, 376 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:54,600 perhaps standing, and here he is in this posture of prayer 377 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,900 praying to God and about that time as As he's pouring his 378 00:23:57,900 --> 00:24:01,100 heart out, maybe it's just then that he slumps down to his 379 00:24:01,100 --> 00:24:02,600 knees. Because when he gets to this 380 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:08,100 part, the Bible says, he stands up, he stands up and Rises to 381 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:12,600 his feet from his knees. And with his hand spread toward 382 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:19,000 Heaven, He blesses the congregation King Solomon summed 383 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,000 up. His wishes for the good of his 384 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,300 kingdom. In three ways. 385 00:24:23,900 --> 00:24:27,100 First, he prayed that God might choose to teach Israel, his 386 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:30,700 Commandments by positive guidance, rather, than, through 387 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:35,600 Divine discipline, secondly, he prayed that God might incline, 388 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,800 their hearts toward the lord, so that they might obey his 389 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,200 Commandments. And number three, he prayed that 390 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:47,200 the words of this prayer might ever be before the Lord, that he 391 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:52,500 might Acute Justice on behalf of both the king and his people. 392 00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:57,200 And finally, that Israel would be so blessed of God. 393 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,600 That all the people of the Earth would recognize that he alone 394 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,200 was God. Wouldn't it be great if we 395 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:09,600 prayed that? To ask for God's blessings that 396 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,300 all would know, especially spiritually. 397 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaking, that all would know that he is God. 398 00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:21,100 Every time a Christian does with the book says, God gets the 399 00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:26,000 praise and God gets the glory. Every time we can, we can reduce 400 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:30,800 it like this every time that we behave ourself in the proper way 401 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:33,500 in the workforce and people see that. 402 00:25:33,500 --> 00:25:36,600 And they know that their reason for that is not because we walk 403 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,400 around, like we're great, but because we profess to be 404 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:44,500 Christians, God gets the glory and God gets the praise even, 405 00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:46,100 the Bible would talk about a married. 406 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:48,600 Oil. And it would talk about a wife 407 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:51,300 and the wife would have to do the right things to her, 408 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:55,500 non-believing husband, in terms of being the right kind of wife, 409 00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:59,300 and just maybe when the word had not turned his heart and days 410 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:03,000 passed, just maybe when he finds out, that the reason, she's the 411 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,600 wife that she is is because she's a Christian, just maybe by 412 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:12,200 that, it might soften his heart to obey. 413 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:18,200 Powerful things, but when Solomon concluded, his prayer 414 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,300 with a brief excitation that the people continue to demonstrate 415 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:25,900 the piety and the loyalty to God, which they had demonstrated 416 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,900 in building the Temple for seven years, According to second 417 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:32,300 Chronicles chapter 7 and verse 1. 418 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:37,200 At that very moment fire from heaven, came down, and consume 419 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:43,400 the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house. 420 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:49,400 We can imagine such a celebration that took place the 421 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,200 king and his people celebrated, they celebrated about the 422 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,800 dedication of the temple with an enormous sacrifice. 423 00:26:57,300 --> 00:27:00,600 Those worshippers join Solomon in a seven-day Feast of 424 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,200 dedication, which was in turn, followed by seven days or the 425 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,600 seven day Feast of Tabernacles, second chronicles 7 and verse 9. 426 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:14,600 And finally, Solomon, dismisses the multitude and the crowd 427 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:20,100 Created by saluting their king. And the next morning, the Bible 428 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:24,200 says, the people departed for their tents of dwellings full of 429 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,700 joy. Because of what, the Lord had 430 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:30,200 done for his servant David and his people, Israel, second 431 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:37,900 chronicles 7 and verse 10. but finally, after Solomon had 432 00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:43,200 completed his building projects, God Appears to him a second 433 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,800 time. This time directly And he 434 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,100 appears to him in the same way that he did. 435 00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:53,800 So, in a dream at gibeon. Solomon was now at the height of 436 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,400 prosperity with all the building projects completed completed. 437 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:03,300 Now the king's heart was puffed up with pride, isn't that easy 438 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:09,300 to do to get filled with pride? No wonder the Bible says Pride 439 00:28:09,300 --> 00:28:13,100 goeth Before Destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall 440 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:17,700 Think about things that we could handle better were not for 441 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:22,700 Pride, think of things, we've been confronted with and days 442 00:28:22,700 --> 00:28:25,100 gone by that would have gone so much better. 443 00:28:25,100 --> 00:28:31,500 If we were not filled with pride, Brian and I were talking 444 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:35,600 today. About the very idea. 445 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,500 Of people that make mistakes for example, in professional sports. 446 00:28:43,300 --> 00:28:45,500 And how it is that people have a hard time. 447 00:28:45,500 --> 00:28:51,600 Just saying it was my fault. Using the proverbial expression 448 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,200 falling on your own sword. Taking the blame. 449 00:28:55,600 --> 00:29:00,300 In a team sport. But what happens is with a world 450 00:29:00,300 --> 00:29:05,000 of individuals puffed up with pride is we find that the 451 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:10,800 hardest thing sometimes to do is to be humble in all that we do 452 00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:15,200 and have humility in our heart and have that humility, be that 453 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:21,000 which is guiding us. One of the hardest things in the 454 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,700 world to do. I know it been married, 18 years 455 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,600 is to say, sorry, your wife when you're mad. 456 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:31,200 That's a hard one. You got to swallow that one. 457 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:36,600 That's a hard one. when you're mad, because when you're mad, 458 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,600 that's when your hearts filled with things that shouldn't be 459 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,300 And usually when you come to your senses, it's when you stop 460 00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:46,400 being mad. No wonder the Bible says be 461 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,300 angry and sin. Not you know why? 462 00:29:49,300 --> 00:29:52,100 Because when you're angry, it's easy to sin. 463 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:57,500 That's the next step. Jesus proved though that we can 464 00:29:57,508 --> 00:30:02,100 be that though and not sin. When he overturned the tables of 465 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:06,300 the moneychangers Jesus was Furious, but there was never any 466 00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:09,400 sin found in Jesus in his life in anything that he ever said 467 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,600 anything that he ever did anything that he ever thought. 468 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:18,700 Never once was Jesus filled with sinful Pride, will you can just 469 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:22,600 picture Solomon's feeling pretty good about now, not only, can he 470 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,500 look to the work that he had led, not only Only can he looked 471 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:29,600 at the wisdom and the decisions that he made were good from a 472 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,300 construction standpoint? Not only all of that but even in 473 00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:36,500 the midst of all the people in front of all the people, God 474 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:39,600 showed that he accepted what he had done. 475 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,000 And I would imagine that Solomon started to feel pretty good 476 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:49,000 about himself in the height of his Prosperity, with his 477 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:53,600 building projects, completed the king's heart began to be, puffed 478 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,500 up with pride and you know what was sad is his love for the Lord 479 00:30:57,508 --> 00:31:01,900 began to wane. He had begun that spiritual 480 00:31:01,900 --> 00:31:06,100 decline, which eventually led to idolatry this Divine word, 481 00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:09,600 served to remind Solomon. God is reminding Solomon of the 482 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,700 wonderful prayer and Full devotion, which he was in danger 483 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:17,900 of losing. A little reminder. 484 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,600 The Lord made three points to him. 485 00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:25,500 Number one, the Lord says that he pledges himself to hear the 486 00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:30,800 prayer of the penitent. I'm still going to do that, he 487 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,200 pledges himself. The Lord said, I will hear the 488 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:37,400 prayer of the penitent. Secondly, God assures Solomon 489 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,600 that he had Chosen and consecrated the temple. 490 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:48,100 And thirdly, he reminded Solomon of the conditional promise made 491 00:31:48,100 --> 00:31:51,800 to his father. David, you know what's just 492 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,800 jumping off the page to us right now? 493 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,200 God's doing what he said? God's going to continue to do 494 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:04,900 what he said, God has not rejected anything from any man 495 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:08,900 up until this point. Of anyone that was doing. 496 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:10,900 What? God had instructed him to do. 497 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:16,100 God, is doing his part. If that is not a picture of 498 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:19,600 people that are promised salvation through the word of 499 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,900 God, and the blood of Jesus Christ, and how they only have 500 00:32:22,900 --> 00:32:25,100 it. When number 3, kicks in the 501 00:32:25,100 --> 00:32:27,200 conditional part, you know what? He says. 502 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,700 He says, I'm still God, I'm still going to promise to you. 503 00:32:29,708 --> 00:32:33,700 What I said I was going to do. I'm going to do but remember 504 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:41,300 this the promise to David was conditional and that was this If 505 00:32:41,300 --> 00:32:46,000 the descendants were obedient to the Lord, if David's, 506 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:50,600 descendants were obedient to the Lord then and only then would 507 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,500 David's Sons continue to occupy the throne in Jerusalem. 508 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:59,500 Second chronicles 7, 12 through 18 The warnings against 509 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:05,700 unfaithfulness here to Solomon our Stern and uncompromising if 510 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:09,100 Solomon or any of his children, turn from following God, then 511 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:11,800 God would deprive the nation of the land. 512 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:14,800 He had given them and furthermore the Lord would 513 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,800 utterly reject the temple, which she had. 514 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:21,000 So, recently acknowledged, look how he went. 515 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,900 Look at the progression of his life. 516 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,200 A man that demonstrated wisdom before God gave him the 517 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:33,100 supernatural endowment of it. A man that was had humility in 518 00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:35,800 his heart. He calls himself now picture. 519 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,700 This he goes from calling himself a child. 520 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:45,300 Meaning ill-equipped I am ill-equipped to be the king. 521 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,500 I need your help. Wouldn't it be great if you 522 00:33:49,508 --> 00:33:53,200 would have kept the Same Heart? Wouldn't it have been great if 523 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,500 King Saul would have kept the Same Heart? 524 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,600 But something seems to happen in time because of our successes, 525 00:34:00,900 --> 00:34:04,900 we tend to forget. He goes from a man that was Wise 526 00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:08,000 by the question that he asked, or by the request that he asked 527 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,900 of God for wisdom. An understanding Discerning 528 00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:15,500 heart that he would be able to better serve God and his people. 529 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:22,199 So he gets wisdom, he gets riches unnumbered, he gets honor 530 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:24,500 among men. He gets a long life conditional 531 00:34:24,500 --> 00:34:27,699 on living according Heading to the statutes of his father 532 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:31,699 David. He goes from a wise man. 533 00:34:31,699 --> 00:34:34,600 So wise that no one was ever more wives. 534 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,000 He goes and he builds the great work, the great work of his 535 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,600 life. God, accepts the great work of 536 00:34:41,607 --> 00:34:45,900 his life. God is pleased with his work. 537 00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:51,400 And we find, as Bob mentioned, think it was last Sunday 538 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,800 evening, or maybe the one before. 539 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,100 You talked about how Solomon? Falls. 540 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:02,500 Solomon now is going to go from glory to shame. 541 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:09,100 What makes a man's heart? Going in opposite direction of 542 00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:12,000 God. I know one thing. 543 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:16,000 Anybody. Anybody. 544 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:22,200 Can fall. I don't care who you are and the 545 00:35:22,207 --> 00:35:26,200 Bible is clear. That when we go to try to help 546 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,400 somebody to restore them when they Fallin, we better take some 547 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:35,100 serious stock in our life to we better, consider ourself to and 548 00:35:35,100 --> 00:35:37,000 we better never have the attitude. 549 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,300 It could never happen to me. you know, if we just have that 550 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:45,200 attitude If I go to Ryan, I see, you know, but I can't believe 551 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:46,400 Ryan. That was just the dumbest thing 552 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,200 I've ever seen. I can't believe you did that. 553 00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:54,400 And Ryan isn't a sin. And I have the attitude like I 554 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,900 am better than Ryan. I am no different. 555 00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:03,000 Get this. I am no different than the 556 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,200 Pharisee. That Jesus said, when he left 557 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,700 there, he left with his sin to he was not justified. 558 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:14,400 I'm the same way. Anybody. 559 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,300 Anybody can fall. And I'll tell you something, 560 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:26,600 usually we fall when we're not spending enough time occupying 561 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:32,500 our minds and our lives and our activities with spiritual 562 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:37,600 things. We need God's people. 563 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:43,200 We need God's word. We need to worship God, we need 564 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,300 to be built up together. We need that. 565 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,800 I appreciated what Darryl said so much about the congregation 566 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,700 here. One of the things in my short 567 00:36:55,100 --> 00:37:00,600 So-called career preaching of going around, I know, 30 or 40 568 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:05,600 meetings that I've held. one of the things that I have seen is 569 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:11,000 when you go different places, not everybody has congregational 570 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,600 teachers that can stand up and edify the body of Christ. 571 00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:16,800 In fact, I'm gonna tell you this more, there are more 572 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:21,300 congregations that don't than those that do singing. 573 00:37:22,300 --> 00:37:25,700 We've got as Daryl Poynter that we've got capable song leaders 574 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:32,400 that are just do a marvelous job. and I tell you, we have 575 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:37,300 great people here, too. We need to spend time together, 576 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,500 we need to encourage one another. 577 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:44,400 And we can grow together. One of the greatest things 578 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,600 though that Darrell said about this congregation this morning 579 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,800 was, we are at peace and brother, that is huge. 580 00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:54,600 He read a passage about issuing. The King James version. 581 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:59,900 Says, evil and insu piece. We have to pursue it. 582 00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:04,400 I think we do that here. Sometimes, when we get in the 583 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,000 Pulpit, we just correct things and we need to admonish. 584 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,600 That's true. We need to preach a bit about 585 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,600 things but sometimes we need to encourage each other to that's 586 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,200 why I appreciated his remarks this morning, so much, encourage 587 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,200 one another, with these words and let's work together and we 588 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,500 can grow We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on 589 00:38:24,500 --> 00:38:28,100 by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 590 00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:31,600 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 591 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,900 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 592 00:38:34,900 --> 00:38:40,000 correspondence, course by mail. Please email us at info at 593 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:44,100 search of Christ. 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