1 00:00:00,700 --> 00:00:04,100 You remember when David was nearing the end of his life? 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:10,700 The Bible doesn't picture a man, that pictures David in times far 3 00:00:10,700 --> 00:00:14,200 before that, as one of the four men that were handsome and 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:18,400 built, well, The Bible pictures him not as a great physical 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:22,300 specimen, any longer. But the Bible pictures him as a 6 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:26,300 decrepit old man, that was failing in his frailties and 7 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:31,000 about 70 years old. The Bible says, And David was 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,500 failing so that he was unable to even regulate his own body 9 00:00:34,500 --> 00:00:38,000 temperature. So the Bible says that a fair 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,800 Maiden was chosen. A beautiful young lady and she 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,000 would stand before him and help him in this regard. 12 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:48,900 And her name was abishag. The shunammite. 13 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,500 Well, the Bible says though that and really the Bible kind of 14 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:55,800 pictures that she would be a concubine of the king and yet at 15 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,700 the same time, the scripture says but David He knew her not 16 00:01:01,100 --> 00:01:05,500 and so there wasn't a physical relationship between David King, 17 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:07,500 David. At the end of his life and 18 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:12,000 abishag the shunammite, but you remember that the eldest living 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,300 son of King? David was a man named adonijah 20 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:18,500 and he considered himself to be entitled to the throne. 21 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:22,300 I mean, after all, he was the eldest living son, why should he 22 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:24,600 not stand? Why should he not sit on the 23 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:29,300 throne of David when his father is taken out of the way now? 24 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:34,400 The Bible pictures, this very idea that app that that this man 25 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:38,600 at an idea adonijah would go with all the Pomp and 26 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,500 Circumstance and all the Pomp and pride among the people, he 27 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:46,400 would go with great chariots and he would be riding in a chariot 28 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:48,600 with horses pulling that Chariot. 29 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,600 He would take a page out of the past. 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,700 You remember of Absalom when Absalom tried to overthrow the 31 00:01:55,700 --> 00:02:00,100 Throne of King David in times, prior to this That he would take 32 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:03,500 the example of his brother and he would have 50 men and those 33 00:02:03,500 --> 00:02:06,700 50 men would go on before him to Harold this coming. 34 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,000 So it was loud. It was boisterous, it was 35 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,800 powerful. It was a great spectacle. 36 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:16,800 Here he comes. The son of the king that would 37 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,400 sit on the throne. But you know this was a man that 38 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,900 had a callous disregard for God and a callous disregard for his 39 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:29,400 father's wishes as well. But you remember with the help 40 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,000 of Nathan and Bathsheba David was persuaded to act quickly and 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,900 install Solomon on the throne as king. 42 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:39,400 And so adonijah has attempted coup failed. 43 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:43,300 And so what he does is he flees to the altar, he realizes that 44 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:46,500 the things that he had done, and the acts that he had committed 45 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:51,400 were worthy of death, he had committed Didn't reason in the 46 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,900 eyes of the kingdom. And the Bible says he flees to 47 00:02:54,908 --> 00:02:57,200 the altar. You know, when the Bible says 48 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,600 that it's obvious that he knew he was wrong. 49 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:03,600 He flees to the altar, you know, Wednesday night were talking 50 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,800 about the heart a little bit. We've talked about the heart so 51 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,400 many times and so many sermons over so many years about God, 52 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,600 knowing the intentions of the heart. 53 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:15,900 This was not just an idea that he thought was after all, I'm 54 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:18,700 the eldest son. So, I'll be the king and 55 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,300 Misunderstood? What God had instructed and what 56 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:24,700 God had wanted for Solomon. That was not the case at all. 57 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:28,600 There was nothing innocent at all, in the heart of this man. 58 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,000 And the fact that he flees to the altar realizing that he's 59 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,200 going to die. No doubt. 60 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,200 He felt the guilt that he had done wrong, but, you know, he 61 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,700 doesn't have a repentant heart. In fact, the Bible says, he 62 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:44,700 grabs onto the horns of the altar. 63 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:47,700 Remember what that was? They were those protrusions that 64 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:51,100 stuck out at the Four Corners of the altar, that looked like, 65 00:03:51,100 --> 00:03:54,300 animal horns. And so, here he is, he's hanging 66 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:58,300 onto the animal horns. Solomon knows where he is though 67 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,800 and Solomon sends word. He Us, you summon him to come to 68 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:06,300 me. But adonijah says, no, he says, 69 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:09,000 I'm not going anywhere until Solomon. 70 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,100 And this is this is a very important point to our narrative 71 00:04:12,100 --> 00:04:15,000 today. He says, I am not going to turn 72 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,800 loose of the horns of this Altar and I am not going to go where 73 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,600 Solomon is and I am not going to stand before the king until 74 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:27,900 Solomon swears with an oath that I will not be executed for my 75 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:31,800 crime. You know, Solomon never swears 76 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,400 with an oath, he only promises he says this. 77 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,400 Now, I think this is a wonderful picture of someone getting Mercy 78 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,900 or having Mercy extended to them when they were not worthy, you 79 00:04:42,900 --> 00:04:46,300 know what Solomon said. Solomon said this he said you 80 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:51,100 will not die and I promise you will as long as you're a loyal 81 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:55,400 subject to me as the king, as I sit on the throne and another 82 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,700 point and there's no new crime, no fresh crime, nothing. an else 83 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:05,000 that you do against the throne, you will live and you will not 84 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:09,000 die. You know, after the collapse of 85 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,300 this attempted, coup adonijah pledged his allegiance to 86 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:15,900 Solomon, and he bows down before Solomon. 87 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:19,500 He bows down before his throne and he says he pledges 88 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:24,900 allegiance to him as the king. But if we can only examine his 89 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:28,600 heart, we would see that that was only an outward show. 90 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,400 Isn't that a picture of people today? 91 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:38,000 Bowing Before the Throne giving Allegiance on the outward or 92 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,100 showing themselves to give Allegiance unto Christ and his 93 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:46,700 kingdom sitting on his throne only to have it be only 94 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:50,200 outwardly and not inwardly with the heart. 95 00:05:50,900 --> 00:05:54,500 We know that's exactly what happened with this young man 96 00:05:55,300 --> 00:05:59,000 because of his actions later and not long, after the death of 97 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,300 Vedat an IG attempted to lay the groundwork for yet another coup 98 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,000 attempt. And here it is. 99 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,100 All of a sudden he's going to put together a subtle plan. 100 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:12,300 Now before it wasn't the subtle plan, it was look at me, I'm the 101 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:15,700 man. I'm the guy I'm going to sit on 102 00:06:15,700 --> 00:06:19,500 the throne and like like just like Absalom did regarding King, 103 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:22,800 David in overthrowing his throne or his attempt to do. 104 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,500 So now this is going to be different. 105 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:28,700 He's going to be extremely smart here and he's going to figure 106 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:31,700 out a son. Do plan in order that he might 107 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,800 overtake the throne. Our, he knew that Solomon said, 108 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:40,000 you're not going to die. You will not be executed as long 109 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:46,600 as you don't do anything else. But the plan included abishag, 110 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:52,000 the shunammite the X concubine of the King, David of the 111 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:57,100 deceased King his own father. The Bible says that he calls, or 112 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:04,000 he comes to see Bathsheba. And in this subtle plan, this he 113 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,200 goes to see the most powerful woman in the land Bathsheba. 114 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,400 The queen mother. You know, she was suspicious at 115 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,600 first when adonijah came calling but his tactics disarmed, her 116 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,300 and turned her into an ally. I want you to look at these 117 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:20,100 things. These things are applicable 118 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:22,300 today. When we do such things like this 119 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:26,200 self-pity was the very first thing that he used. 120 00:07:27,100 --> 00:07:29,300 Self-pity. You know what he says to 121 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:31,800 Bathsheba? He says, you know, the kingdom 122 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,800 was mine. After all I come in peace, but 123 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,200 the kingdom was mine, and then he gives a tremendous 124 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,700 exaggeration here. He says, all of Israel was ready 125 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:46,700 to install me and put me on the throne and recognize me as the 126 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:49,700 King, which wasn't true, not all of Israel. 127 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:54,200 But that's the exaggeration. He says, I was to be the man. 128 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,600 I am the eldest son of the king. I think that now is dead of my 129 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,900 father, it should have been me that sitting on the throne, 130 00:08:02,500 --> 00:08:08,000 here's the self-pity park. But then all of a sudden even 131 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,500 though I should have been him. My younger brother Solomon, he 132 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:16,900 was placed on the throne. You know, he's kind of painting. 133 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:20,800 A picture of woe is me. Oh, I've been wounded. 134 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:24,700 I've been affected in that. What we do, sometimes, I'll tell 135 00:08:24,700 --> 00:08:28,200 you when our heart is filled with self-pity. 136 00:08:28,900 --> 00:08:32,000 You can't see outside yourself. You really can't. 137 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:36,200 If you have self pity, and that's all you're focusing in 138 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,299 on. Is yourself. 139 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:39,600 What you didn't? Get. 140 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:43,000 It's all about me. How you were wronged. 141 00:08:43,299 --> 00:08:45,700 You cannot have the Christian spirit. 142 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,700 And the Christian heart that Jesus taught when we need to 143 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:53,200 look outside of our self and look to someone else can't do 144 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,200 it, can't do it. You know why thinking about me, 145 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:59,100 if Terry and I have a disagreement, I'm thinking about 146 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:02,000 me, we're not fixing our problem by the way, because all I'm 147 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,300 thinking about is me. How I was wronged? 148 00:09:04,700 --> 00:09:08,300 Oh, I was wrong. You know, somebody does not 149 00:09:08,300 --> 00:09:12,400 necessarily have to have an evil spirit, it conniving deceptive 150 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:17,600 Heart Like adonijah had to be guilty of having self-pity. 151 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,900 Let me give you an example. You know, the Bible pictures, 152 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:25,000 you remember when the seven years of plenty had passed and 153 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 now they were into the seven years of famine. 154 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:30,700 You remember when Jacob goes to his remaining sons, and he tells 155 00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:34,400 his sons, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. 156 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,600 Take your sacks and go there. And see if you can buy some 157 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:41,600 grain. Lest we all die less, we starve 158 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,700 to death. They went there. 159 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:48,200 It's Joseph Joseph, recognizes his brothers. 160 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,100 They don't recognize him, they get the grain. 161 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,300 They accuse them of being spies. They says, no we're Shepherds. 162 00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:57,000 We got a father back home, we had a brother, that's Joseph, he 163 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,100 is no more though, we have a younger brother too Benjamin, 164 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:03,100 he's back at home and then when Joseph says all right, here's 165 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:05,100 what you're going to do, I'm going to sell you the grain or 166 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:06,300 else you're going to starve to death. 167 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:09,100 But I'm going to sell you the Grain and when you go back you 168 00:10:09,100 --> 00:10:11,100 have to bring your youngest brother. 169 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:16,100 Benjamin to me that I might look on him that I might see him and 170 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:18,300 to make it that you're doing it in. 171 00:10:18,308 --> 00:10:21,700 Good faith, one of you has to stay behind Stay with me. 172 00:10:21,708 --> 00:10:24,000 And you remember even though Reuben was the eldest, it was 173 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:25,300 Simeon. That was chosen. 174 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,300 Simeon. Stayed said all that to say 175 00:10:27,300 --> 00:10:29,900 this. You remember when they came and 176 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:33,800 stood back before? Jacob, they were standing before 177 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,700 Jacob. And this is what he said, all 178 00:10:35,700 --> 00:10:40,000 they treated us bad. They called the spies. 179 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:45,500 They were harsh to us. we told them about you, we told them 180 00:10:45,508 --> 00:10:49,800 about Benjamin, and he says, if we don't bring Benjamin back, 181 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:55,800 Simeon has to stay. And Jacob falls apart. 182 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,700 He never feels sorry for anyone else. 183 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:02,800 He says these words, he never feel. 184 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:07,000 Sorry that Simeon was left behind that Simeon. 185 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Now is the innocent party but he's left behind. 186 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:17,200 He says this everything is against me. 187 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:22,700 I've lost Rachel, I've lost Joseph. 188 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:28,400 I've now lost Simeon. And I'm not about to lose 189 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,600 Benjamin. Thinking only of the things that 190 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:39,000 happen to him. When we think that way, it 191 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,700 causes us to not be able to have the ability to see outside of 192 00:11:42,700 --> 00:11:45,500 our self and see that somebody else may have it worse than we 193 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:49,800 have it. He was filled with self-pity but 194 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:55,500 he used this as a tool to break down her defenses and gained her 195 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:58,700 as an ally. Look how he builds on this. 196 00:11:58,900 --> 00:12:02,000 He starts with self-pity after all, I was supposed to be the 197 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,300 man, I was supposed to sit on the throne. 198 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:06,900 It was supposed to be me all the people. 199 00:12:06,900 --> 00:12:09,600 All of Israel were ready to install me as the king and 200 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,800 recognize me as the king, but after all, the great Injustice 201 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,900 happened to me, I was taken out of the way and my younger 202 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:19,700 brother. Other now sits on the throne. 203 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:26,300 Number two, hypocritical piety. He says this. 204 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:31,900 He says, I was taken out of the way, but I know that the Lord 205 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:36,200 had chosen Solomon. He didn't care about that. 206 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:42,000 He just uses that. I know it was the Lord's will 207 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,700 that that was going to happen. you know, when we pray, We pray, 208 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:50,700 we ask in faith, believing the Bible says, we must we ask in 209 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:55,200 faith believing okay and we're not tossed to and fro we ask in 210 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:59,900 faith believing but we do. So, according to his will do, we 211 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:04,700 say, if it be thy will or if it be your will do we say that just 212 00:13:04,700 --> 00:13:06,700 as words are do, we really mean it? 213 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:10,700 It was the Lord's will that Solomon would be on the throne 214 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:13,700 and he says, or he acts like it was, the Lord's will. 215 00:13:13,700 --> 00:13:19,900 So he is accepting of it. But he wasn't at all, and then 216 00:13:19,900 --> 00:13:23,000 he says to her. He says, I need your help. 217 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:28,300 He says, do not deny me this one little thing. 218 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,200 You know, if he would have come to her and requested what he 219 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:33,700 wanted to request right off the bat. 220 00:13:33,700 --> 00:13:37,300 Maybe she would have had her defenses up, oh but this is a 221 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:43,100 cunning crafty deceptive man, who's building his case and 222 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:47,000 looking for allies. And guess what? 223 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:51,700 Then flattery kicks in. And he says to her, he says 224 00:13:51,700 --> 00:13:54,500 Solomon, your son will never say no to you. 225 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,700 You have the authority and you have the power to do something 226 00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:02,900 that no one else has. I am coming to you and appealing 227 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:06,100 to you and I'm appealing to you as the Queen Mother. 228 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,300 Shirley Solomon is not going to say no to you. 229 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:16,200 Just grant me this one request and then all of a sudden he 230 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:21,200 says, here's my request. And this is a falsehood to, he 231 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:26,700 pretended, to be in love. He says, all I ask for all I ask 232 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:30,200 for is that I would have the hand of abishag. 233 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,100 The shunammite, that's all I want. 234 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,100 After all look, it's all that happened to me. 235 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,800 They took it all away. You can do this. 236 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:40,400 You can go and speak to Solomon. You can make this happen and 237 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:46,200 everything's going to be okay. All I want is the hand of 238 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,400 abishag. Well, the Bible says that she 239 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:54,700 goes and she speaks to Solomon, As she enters into the throne 240 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:57,500 room, they exchanged courtesies. And you know what's, um, what's 241 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:01,000 a beautiful picture to me? What seems to be a very 242 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,100 beautiful picture is here is Solomon, he is the king and he 243 00:15:05,100 --> 00:15:09,300 is in the throne room, he is there on his throne, he is the 244 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:13,100 king and in walks his mother. And the Bible says that he 245 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:17,200 boughs before her in honor of his mother. 246 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:20,700 And then he prepares a place of honor. 247 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,600 You know, when the Bible talks about being at the right hand, 248 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:25,600 it's a place of honor. Jesus. 249 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,700 Right now is on the right hand of the Throne of God, in a place 250 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:32,600 of honor on his throne, King Solomon for the Queen Mother 251 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,300 prepares a place right next to him on his right hand and she 252 00:15:36,300 --> 00:15:39,200 sits there. And she begins to ask him for 253 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,400 this request. She says this. 254 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:47,000 She says, I would only ask you, but one little thing, one small 255 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,800 thing. You know, I think that she was 256 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,700 just basically. I think she was deceived. 257 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:56,000 I don't think that for one minute. 258 00:15:56,100 --> 00:15:58,500 She thought that she was doing anything wrong. 259 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:02,300 And I really believe when she said the words to Solomon, I 260 00:16:02,300 --> 00:16:04,800 only ask. But one small thing that she 261 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,400 really believed, it was just a small thing. 262 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:13,900 Not realizing the implications, she was deceived by someone who 263 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:16,000 had plotted this whole thing out. 264 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:20,000 She says, grant me but this one small thing and please don't say 265 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,500 no, I'm going to tell you something. 266 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:27,400 If your mother came to you and says I want to just ask you a 267 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,800 favor. It's just a little thing. 268 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:33,100 Would you do it? How many of us would say, no. 269 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:38,600 Now, we might say, we might say, well what is it? 270 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:41,500 Well, let me know what that is first. 271 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,100 And then make our judgments based on what we're going to do 272 00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:47,300 when we hear what it is. Now, I would imagine that we 273 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:50,500 would say that to just about anybody else. 274 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,300 But I know, for example, I've walked up to Daryl, he had no 275 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:55,100 idea what I was going to say. And I said Darryl, would you do 276 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:55,900 me a favor? Will ya? 277 00:16:55,900 --> 00:17:00,100 What? Sure without hearing what it is. 278 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,400 Because when you're close to somebody, you really care what 279 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,200 it is, you're going to do whatever it is. 280 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,099 If it's going to help that person, you love that person 281 00:17:08,099 --> 00:17:10,099 that's family, they're close to you. 282 00:17:10,099 --> 00:17:12,300 And if they are in need, you're going to ask. 283 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,200 You're going to ask for it and they're going to do it. 284 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:18,700 She says to Solomon, please don't say no. 285 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:22,300 And he says, I will grant you this request. 286 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:26,900 What is it? Little did he know that she was 287 00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:29,300 going to ask something that he could not Grant? 288 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:35,200 she says, all I ask is at the former concubine of King David 289 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:39,900 abishag, the shunammite be given to adonijah your brother. 290 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:46,100 That's all You know, the Bible says that Solomon was Furious. 291 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,800 Not only did he say, no, but he was Furious. 292 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,100 And you know what? He says, he says, and his 293 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:54,900 response. Why did you only ask for the 294 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:57,700 hand of abishag? The shunammite, why didn't you 295 00:17:57,700 --> 00:18:01,300 just say, would you go ahead and give the entire Kingdom over to 296 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:05,000 adonijah? You see here is the point. 297 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:12,200 The point was, taking possession of a wife or a harem of a 298 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:16,500 deceased King was equivalent to a claim to the throne. 299 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:21,100 That's really the heart of a denied you, he didn't care about 300 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:24,300 her, he won in love. He wanted a leg up. 301 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:27,500 He wanted to now he had his big boisterous plan. 302 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:30,900 Now, his subtle plan. If I could just do that, it's a 303 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:36,100 leg up in the Kingdom. Solomon viewed, this petition of 304 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:40,700 adonijah as conclusive proof that adonijah was involved in. 305 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:44,700 Yet another conspiracy. Therefore he would be executed, 306 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:46,700 you know, being lenient with his elder. 307 00:18:46,700 --> 00:18:50,300 Brother wants Solomon was in no mood to ignore the further 308 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:52,700 threat that adonijah posed to his Rule. 309 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,500 And so in the presence of all those that were in the throne 310 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:59,200 room, he swore a solemn oath that adonijah would die that 311 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,600 very day. He dispatched, Benaiah captain 312 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,200 of the palace guard. His half-brother and the order 313 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:11,200 was immediately carried out. Now notice the following for 314 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,900 those that might be tempted to look on the execution of 315 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:18,900 adonijah, his half-brother as a ruthless misuse of royal power, 316 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:20,900 please Ponder the following points. 317 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:27,300 Number one, Had a denied just first Rebellion, succeeded, both 318 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:29,600 Solomon. And his mother would have been 319 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,500 killed First Kings chapter 1 and verse 12. 320 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,700 Number two by fleeing to the altar. 321 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:39,400 Following the collapse of his conspiracy adonijah was 322 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,100 admitting that he deserved the death of a traitor. 323 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,600 Number 3, Solomon already displayed, great Mercy toward 324 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:51,000 adonijah once and already instead of executing him, he 325 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,100 placed him on probation, he Gave him every opportunity to behave 326 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:59,000 himself and to be a good subject to the king. 327 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:04,900 Number four, adonijah had been duly warned that if the 328 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:07,800 wickedness were found in him that he would be killed. 329 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:13,700 First Kings chapter 1 and verse 52 number 54 Solomon to ignore 330 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:16,400 the second offense. Might suggest that the King was 331 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,100 weak and such weakness would be an encouragement to sedition 332 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,300 throughout the land. Therefore he would be executed. 333 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,400 Remember joab General joab. Oh what a character that joab 334 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,600 was he was the commander of all the Army. 335 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,400 He was a man that stood valiantly and fought great 336 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,200 battles. Fought great battles for King 337 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:47,000 David but yet he had killed those that were innocent when 338 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,800 joab, here's of the execution of adonijah and the expulsion of 339 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:55,000 abiathar, he was a priest. He knew that he would be next. 340 00:20:55,300 --> 00:20:58,500 Joab had not supposed Absalom are hitting that followed or 341 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:02,300 supported Absalom and his Rebellion, but he did support 342 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:07,800 adonijah in his ill-fated conspiracy against Solomon. 343 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,700 He realizes that treason treason was a capital crime and he does 344 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:16,600 what adonijah had done previously. 345 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:23,200 He runs to the house of God he goes to the throne He throws 346 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,700 himself to The Altar and he grabs onto the same horns. 347 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:31,500 Quote-unquote that adonijah grabbed onto hoping he would 348 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:35,200 find Sanctuary there. His flight to the altar 349 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,700 indicates that he had been involved in the abishag incident 350 00:21:38,700 --> 00:21:42,000 as well. Solomon regarded joab's flight 351 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,400 to the author to the altar as proof of his continuing 352 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:49,900 treasonous, intentions, he orders Benaiah to go and slay 353 00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:52,300 the old General, but joab won't let go. 354 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:55,300 And Benaiah was afraid to go and slay him right there at the 355 00:21:55,300 --> 00:21:58,200 altar. He says, Solomon wants to see 356 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:03,400 you you've been summoned by the king but he won't come and he 357 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,800 won't let go and Benaiah goes back and talks to Solomon and 358 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,600 ask Solomon. He says, what should I do? 359 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,100 He says, you kill him right there. 360 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:15,900 You slay him, right? Where he stands You know, 361 00:22:15,900 --> 00:22:19,900 Solomon spells out the reasons why he told Benaiah to do this 362 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:24,400 number one, the altar provided no Sanctuary for murderers. 363 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,600 Therefore the king ordered Benaiah to Slade joab at the 364 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,500 altar. Only by the shedding of blood of 365 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:33,800 this guilty man. Could the innocent blood of 366 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:37,900 Abner and a Mesa be washed away from the house of David numbers, 367 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:43,100 15 and 33 as Chief magistrate of the land Solomon, considered it 368 00:22:43,100 --> 00:22:47,200 his obligation to avenge the death of my Murder victims as if 369 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,900 the execution though of joab needed any further 370 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:54,400 justification, Solomon adds these words that the victims of 371 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,600 joab Sword were better men than their SAS ins. 372 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,900 You know, though? Many people no doubt suspected 373 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:05,700 David of of criminal complicity in these murders. 374 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:09,200 The Deeds were actually done without his knowledge and by 375 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,800 avenging. The death of the innocent, the 376 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,600 stain of blood, meaning the obligation to punish would be 377 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,500 removed from the house of Even forever. 378 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:19,500 And as a consequence, the descendants of David would 379 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:22,000 Prosper. On the other hand, the children 380 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,300 of joab would always have to live with the stigma that their 381 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:28,400 father had been executed as a murderer. 382 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:33,300 The Bible says that he was executed joab was killed and he 383 00:23:33,300 --> 00:23:37,200 was buried Solomon filled the vacant post of general of the 384 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:41,400 army and high priest with his friends, Benaiah and zadok. 385 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,900 But finally along this line, You remember who she met? 386 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:52,300 I was shimei, I was the one that was no doubt, some distant 387 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:57,100 relative of King Saul and when Absalom was going to overthrow, 388 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:02,000 or trying to overthrow David, on the throne, and when David is 389 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,100 walking along and David his weeping and David with his head 390 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:09,200 bowed low and what a sorrowful time it was, this was the man 391 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,900 that was standing there saying, the reason that all these things 392 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:15,100 are happening to you is because what you've done, Done against 393 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:17,100 King Saul and you're paying for it. 394 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:21,500 This is the same man that started throwing rocks at David 395 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:25,800 as he walked by. You know, nobody forgot those 396 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:32,100 things. but, you know, even though she may, I had recently 397 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:35,900 been with Solomon First Kings, chapter 1, and verse 8, his 398 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:39,700 earlier Outburst against David made Solomon suspicious of him. 399 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:43,300 Isn't that true? Isn't that true? 400 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:46,200 That people look to us and people who either have 401 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,800 confidence in us? Or they do not have confidence 402 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,800 in US based upon our behavior in the past. 403 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,600 Man, that's true. You can be forgiven of wrongs 404 00:24:58,900 --> 00:25:01,700 that you have committed. In fact, when the Bible talks 405 00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:03,600 about forgiveness, there is no number. 406 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,700 It's an infinite number. And when my brother sins against 407 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:11,500 me, I am to forgive him an infinite number of times. 408 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:18,000 But like I have said before, if Ryan's stealing chickens after 409 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,700 five or six of those guys, I'm a forgive him but I'm building a 410 00:25:21,708 --> 00:25:24,500 better fence. I'm going to keep the chickens 411 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:25,400 in. You know why? 412 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:31,500 Oh, I forgive him. I don't trust him Chimay, I 413 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:38,100 wasn't trusted because his life was not such that he was trust 414 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,200 worthy. I'll tell you something folks 415 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:46,000 that happens to us. If we are not trustworthy, it's 416 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,400 because we have not lived our life demonstrating the fact that 417 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,900 we are worthy of such Trust. But, you know, there's Mercy 418 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:59,500 extended that Solomon extends to him, Solomon doesn't say he 419 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,700 doesn't come right out and say, you're going to be executed 420 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:04,600 right now. He just doesn't trust him and he 421 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:08,100 knew going back to the first chapter that, this man had at 422 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:11,400 least verbally. He, at least came out verbally 423 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,400 and said, I'm with you Solomon. I'm with you all the way I'm 424 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,000 recognizing you as king. And all of that. 425 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:21,700 So he doesn't execute him but he didn't trust him. 426 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:27,200 He tells him to build a house in Jerusalem and he tells him this, 427 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,700 you may never, ever, ever leave the capital. 428 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,400 He said in the day that you leave in the day that you 429 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:39,000 depart, you're going to be killed, get this for the crimes 430 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,800 that you had committed against the throne. 431 00:26:42,300 --> 00:26:46,100 You know, that goes all the way back to David the crimes. 432 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:50,500 He committed against David. So, in other words, these are 433 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:53,500 crimes that are still there. In the memory bank, these are 434 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:56,000 crimes that are still there, but you're not going to lose your 435 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,800 life. You're going to be able to live. 436 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,600 I'll leave you alone in that regard. 437 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,800 I'm watching you though build a house in Jerusalem, you can 438 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:08,400 never ever leave and if you do You would be killed. 439 00:27:09,900 --> 00:27:17,000 Three years go by. maybe Chimay eyes guard has now been let down 440 00:27:18,500 --> 00:27:21,000 Maybe he thought. I don't know if he premeditated 441 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,000 this. I have no idea. 442 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,100 We don't know. The Bible doesn't say But there 443 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:27,400 were some actions that he was going to do, he was going to 444 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,500 break the oath that he had made with Solomon and, you know, it 445 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:34,800 was a serious matter, he broke the oath when he broke the oath 446 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,000 to Solomon, he broke the oath to God. 447 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,600 Bible says that two of his slaves to of the servants take 448 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,600 off. They don't want to be in the 449 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,200 house of shimei, I any longer and they take off and they go to 450 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:54,000 gath and they go to seek Refuge of the king named achish member, 451 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,400 a Kish with King. David Scholars say, this is 452 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,900 probably his grandson in the land of the Philistines when 453 00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:05,500 David sought Refuge with a Koosh, a long time before that 454 00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,800 when he was trying to get away from Saul, who was out to To 455 00:28:08,808 --> 00:28:10,800 kill him. This is probably Scholars. 456 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:16,500 Say this achish was probably that achish has grandson you 457 00:28:16,500 --> 00:28:19,200 know what he does without thinking. 458 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,100 Maybe he did think, we don't know, but she may I decides he 459 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,100 takes off and he wants to go get those slaves back. 460 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,200 That sounds okay in it. I just want to get my guys back. 461 00:28:29,500 --> 00:28:34,200 I just want to get what's rightfully mine but in doing so 462 00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:37,000 he leaves and he breaks the vowel. 463 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,800 He breaks the oath that he had was Solomon and to God and he 464 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,900 basically is saying this, every single thing that you promised 465 00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:46,700 me were the conditions. I am not going to abide by that. 466 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:50,100 Therefore, I am worthy of death and that's exactly what 467 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:54,500 happened. You think Solomon forgot. 468 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,100 You think Solomon, Let It Go. You think in the three years 469 00:29:00,100 --> 00:29:04,800 that had gone by that Solomon, just kind of thought it, maybe 470 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,300 not that big of a deal. The Bible says that when he is 471 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:13,900 summoned to the Palace, she may I stands before Solomon and 472 00:29:13,900 --> 00:29:17,300 Solomon lodged, a three-fold charge against him and here they 473 00:29:17,300 --> 00:29:20,500 are. He had profaned the name of God 474 00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:24,600 by violating a solemn oath taken in the name of God. 475 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,400 Number two, he had violated the terms of his probation, thus 476 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,400 disregarding the commands of the king and number three Chimay. 477 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,200 I had cursed and blasphemed the Lord's anointed and that was 478 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:39,600 David even In was brought before him. 479 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:47,300 I'll tell you this. The Bible tells us. 480 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,200 How to live? It came up in a question on 481 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,600 Wednesday night about ananias and Sapphira his wife. 482 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:01,400 And how they lied. And as the Bible says, you 483 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,700 didn't lie to me and you lied to God, they kept back part of the 484 00:30:04,708 --> 00:30:08,000 price. They were deceptive, deceitful, 485 00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:11,200 liars, and God struck them both did. 486 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,200 Right then and there and the question was, why did God strike 487 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:22,100 them dead, right then and there, But not today. 488 00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:24,600 Why did he do it? Then and not now. 489 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,700 You know, these are questions for God to answer in God's time 490 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:31,000 before the word of God, though. Was revealed there were things 491 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,300 like that or miraculous things like that. 492 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:39,700 But I'll tell you this. You know, what's scary is if I'm 493 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:44,000 not doing that which is right. Tomorrow, I'm probably going to 494 00:30:44,008 --> 00:30:49,000 wake up and I'm probably going to have a nice day and I'm going 495 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,900 to have all kinds of activities. In the day, I'm either going to 496 00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:56,000 prosper or I am not but it'll be a day like any other day. 497 00:30:57,100 --> 00:30:59,200 And if I'm still not doing that which is right? 498 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:04,100 The next day might come and then a week and then a month and then 499 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:09,300 maybe a year, maybe many years. And now my heart no longer 500 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:12,300 bothers me, my conscience, no longer bothers me by the life 501 00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:14,700 that I live and I'm just going right along. 502 00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:20,100 I'll tell you this if I lose my life. 503 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,400 I've got no chance. When there's breath in me, I can 504 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:26,700 change. I can do that. 505 00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:29,400 Which is right. What is Solomon say to this, 506 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,500 man? He says, as long as you do, 507 00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:34,000 what's right, you're going to live. 508 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:38,000 And as long as you don't do anything else in the future 509 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:41,700 against the throne, you're going to live and as long as you do 510 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:44,300 what I say, and stay there in Jerusalem, and don't leave the 511 00:31:44,300 --> 00:31:49,000 capital, you're going to live. Folks, the Bible says. 512 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,300 Be not deceived. God is Not mocked for 513 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:58,200 whatsoever. A man soweth that shall he? 514 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,300 Also reap. There's a Payday someday, 515 00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:05,100 there's a Day of Reckoning, there's a day that I will pay 516 00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:09,800 for the things that I have done in this body in this life either 517 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:14,100 rewarded or punished in eternity in a devil's. 518 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:17,200 Hell for eternity based on what I have done. 519 00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:21,400 Three years past solemn. Didn't forget, and this man was 520 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:27,200 executed for his crimes and so by swiftly eliminating for 521 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,700 potential. Antagonists now adonijah Abaya 522 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:35,100 Our joab and shimei. I Solomon firmly establishes 523 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:40,000 himself as king but finally, now in this will be the remaining 524 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,700 part of our sermon. There was a day when Solomon is 525 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:50,000 going to have a time with God, and God asked Solomon. 526 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,000 He says of all the things that I can grant thee, what is it that 527 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,900 you want from me? And I think that there's a point 528 00:32:55,900 --> 00:32:57,700 here that we need not to just Brush by. 529 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,100 I don't think that in this narrative, I don't think that in 530 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:04,000 this particular instance, God was saying whatever you want. 531 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000 You can have, it doesn't say that it just says that God asked 532 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,800 of him, what is it that I can do for you? 533 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,000 God asks us. Solomon those words in a dream. 534 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,300 In other words, God was speaking to him in this dream, literally 535 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:26,000 And as he begins, you know what Solomon says. 536 00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:34,100 He says, first of all, he thanks God because God is allowing the 537 00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:37,600 son of David to sit on the throne. 538 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,000 To keep the crown in the family. And to sit on the throne. 539 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:47,100 He goes on to say to God. He says, I am but a little 540 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:50,200 child. May I ask you something. 541 00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,200 If you were just now, exalted, by all the people, all Israel, 542 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:56,800 and God, and you were God's anointed, and you were the son 543 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:59,500 of the king, and you are a man with great wisdom. 544 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:02,100 And you are a man that everybody respected and you now are 545 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:05,100 sitting on the throne. Would you look to yourself with 546 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:09,300 humility like that? Solomon says, I am but a little 547 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:12,800 child, he says, and your people are so great. 548 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,300 Man, that's great. Your people are so great. 549 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:24,199 How can I rule your people without your help? 550 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:31,400 I feel inadequate in this regard. you know, the greatest 551 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:34,500 man are people that have that kind of heart, you know, when 552 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:39,300 you feel like it's like in sports when a kid or a player 553 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:43,199 gets to the point where he no longer feels like, he needs to 554 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:45,000 be coached and he no longer is coachable. 555 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,699 He's gone. As far as he's going to go, I'm 556 00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:50,300 going to say something. Solomon was a great man at this 557 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:52,900 point in time. He says to God, I'm but a little 558 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:57,000 child, I need your help. So he asks for this, he says, 559 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,200 please grant me a Discerning heart. 560 00:35:00,300 --> 00:35:04,700 This word Discerning means literally a hearing heart. 561 00:35:05,900 --> 00:35:12,000 Why that I might judge or rule your people better and that in 562 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,400 doing. So I would be able to discern or 563 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,700 determine what was true and what was false, what was right and 564 00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:22,900 what was wrong? You know, why God granted his 565 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:27,500 request the Bible says, God granted his request because he 566 00:35:27,500 --> 00:35:31,800 didn't ask for riches, he didn't ask for Honor, he didn't ask for 567 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,000 a long life, think about it, of all that solemn. 568 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,400 Could have asked for, he could have asked for Honor among his 569 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,300 among his peers. He could have asked for praise 570 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:43,600 among the people. He could have asked for great 571 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:45,500 riches. He could have asked for, in this 572 00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:49,600 what God said, you could have even asked that I would take 573 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:52,700 away all of your enemies and Grant you victory over every one 574 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:55,500 of them. But you didn't. 575 00:35:56,700 --> 00:36:04,200 What you asked for was a tool. To better lead and rule the 576 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,800 people of God. That's a powerful thing. 577 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:13,500 And God says, because of that, I'm going to Grant this to you 578 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:16,800 and I'm going to give you wisdom that far, surpasses anyone that 579 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,600 has ever lived and anyone that will live in the future. 580 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:23,600 Save Jesus Christ. The only one, no other man ever 581 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:26,800 had the wisdom. That Solomon had no other man 582 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,600 but Solomon was able to do what Solomon did and make the 583 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:36,500 decisions that Solomon made. There's a lot of folks here 584 00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:40,700 today that have gray hair. I don't have any gray hair but 585 00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:44,700 I'm getting older. Some folks lose their hair. 586 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:51,300 We get wrinkled. We get older. and with each 587 00:36:51,300 --> 00:36:54,700 passing year that goes by Don't you? 588 00:36:54,700 --> 00:36:57,400 Just look back on your life and think, man, if I would have 589 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:02,600 known, then what I know now. That's wisdom. 590 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,900 Wouldn't it be great to be a young man and have wisdom? 591 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,300 Oh, we know it all when were younger have virtually? 592 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:17,100 No wisdom. But through life by our own 593 00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:19,700 challenges and by making it through the things that happen 594 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:22,500 to us by our own challenges, in our life, we learn wisdom. 595 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,100 We also learn wisdom by the experience of others and we gain 596 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:29,500 wisdom, when we ask it from God and it gives it liberally. 597 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:34,200 God never gave it any more liberally than he did to Solomon 598 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,200 a long time ago and he says you're going to have wisdom that 599 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,500 far surpasses anyone that's ever lived and anyone that has will 600 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:45,400 live in the future times But because you didn't ask for these 601 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,300 things, he says I'm going to give you riches to that far 602 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:53,300 surpassed everyone else. I'm going to give you honor as 603 00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:56,100 well because you've never asked for these things. 604 00:37:56,700 --> 00:38:00,300 But then he says I'm going to give you a long life where years 605 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:06,700 of life and you know, of all the things that he says, That was 606 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:08,400 the one thing that was conditional. 607 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,800 He says, I'm going to give you something that's conditional. 608 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,800 I'm going to give you a long life. 609 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,500 You're going to have a long life, only if you continue to 610 00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:24,300 walk in the way of God and do, so all the days of your life 611 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,700 only then will your life be lengthened. 612 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:32,300 You know, this brings us to a close of these political 613 00:38:32,300 --> 00:38:37,000 matters, his discourse with God, God's Great blessings down upon 614 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,500 him in the very next thing we learn is about two women and a 615 00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:43,200 baby. He puts it into motion, this 616 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,500 wisdom that God said he was going to have. 617 00:38:47,100 --> 00:38:52,400 I just wonder this of all the things we could ask God for, I 618 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:57,200 mean, really of all things of all the choices and decisions 619 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,900 we've made in our life of all the things that We can look back 620 00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:03,400 on and ask God. Wouldn't it be things like 621 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,900 honor? Maybe a better job. 622 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:11,900 No, tell him what we asked for. Solomon asked for the greatest 623 00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:14,300 thing. He could have get this now, he 624 00:39:14,300 --> 00:39:18,800 asked for something that would help him to better serve, God's 625 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,500 people. Oh man. 626 00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:25,600 That's it. 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