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 Let's pray together.

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 Father God, we are so grateful that one greater than Solomon has come.

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 And so, Lord, as we look at his failings,

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 Father, as we look at this incident with his wives in mass idolatry,

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 Father, would it not serve to make us smug,

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 but may it serve to cling to your son even more.

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 Father, bless us and help us.

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 Teach us and change us.

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 Father, be glorified in this time, we pray.

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 Amen.

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 This is the last part of our series in Solomon's life.

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 I found it fascinating to spend these four weeks together

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 exploring Solomon's character.

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 And I think it is a definite warning

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 when giftedness doesn't match godliness.

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 And we've seen all the way through

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 that perhaps there are some difficulties brewing.

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 There are some awkward situations

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 where God's gifts are not necessarily employed in the right way.

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 And so today is the day when the wheels will finally fall off.

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 Where Solomon's sin finally comes to the surface.

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 And I think it's important as we begin to think of a word,

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 schadenfreude.

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 It's a German word, but we don't have an English equivalent.

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 So we use the German word.

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 And schadenfreude means harm joy.

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 It is endemic in our world that we take great delight

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 when we see famous people, celebrity people,

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 fall a long way.

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 Schadenfreude.

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 And as we study Solomon and his wives,

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 this is our biggest danger.

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 That we'll sit here and we'll almost laugh and poke fun

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 and feel better about ourselves on account of Solomon's fall.

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 But that would be to totally miss

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 all that we're to learn from this eerie chapter.

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 I remember being at school about 13,

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 just as that point that, you know,

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 boys start to grow at different rates.

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 And you get some boys who are 13, who are 6'2".

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 They've got hairy shoulders and kind of Barry White voices.

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 And my rugby team was quite spindly.

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 And our coach would always say,

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 the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

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 It was a complete lie on the rugby field.

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 The bigger they were, the more they hurt us.

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 But I think when it comes to Solomon,

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 we can say the bigger he is, the harder he fell.

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 And so we're going to read in 1 Kings 11,

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 the fall is catastrophic.

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 It is so enormous.

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 We're very familiar with people falling from grace.

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 It seems that the sports arena is particularly prone.

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 We all remember OJ Simpson,

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 this highly paid NFL star moving into a really lucrative movie career.

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 And then the wheels fell off.

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 Or Lance Armstrong,

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 this person who was the epitome of fighting clean

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 and fighting hard and persevering and bouncing back,

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 is then found to have taken EPO for all of his Tour de France career.

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 A massive fall from grace.

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 Who doesn't remember Tiger Woods?

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 The most prolific golfer ever to have lived,

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 whose royalties and sponsorships were bringing him

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 100 million pounds a year without even hitting a golf ball.

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 And that day that he appeared in the newspaper,

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 having wrapped his car around the tree,

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 and his marital infidelity comes to the surface.

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 Since then, he's not been able to hit a golf ball straight.

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 Or just recently, Maria Sharapova,

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 the highest paid female athlete ever.

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 And all this drug scandal that's seen her career stalled,

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 if not ended.

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 And even this week,

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 Oscar Pistori is the most famous para-athlete ever.

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 Now a man who is going to prison

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 and whose life is utterly broken.

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 The bigger they are,

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 the harder they fall.

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 And we're going to see that in Solomon's case,

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 the fall is gigantic.

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 The downfall, catastrophic.

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 And it's into a decline of deep, dark, and slipperiness.

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 That the nation never recovered from.

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 Solomon's sin spirals out and ripples out into the whole nation.

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 With terrifying consequences.

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 That it will never really bounce back from.

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 We must learn from Solomon's mistakes.

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 If Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived,

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 could be so foolish,

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 surely that means this can happen to any of us.

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 We must, unlike Solomon,

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 resist the drift and cling to Christ.

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 We must resist the drift and cling to Christ.

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 So if you've got a Bible, turn with me.

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 To 1 Kings chapter 11,

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 and we'll read the first 13 verses.

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 The chronicler writes,

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 King Solomon, however,

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 loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh's daughter.

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 Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

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 They were from the nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites,

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 you must not intermarry with them.

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 Because they will surely turn your hearts after other gods.

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 Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.

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 He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines.

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 And his wives led his heart astray.

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 As Solomon grew old,

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 his wives turned his heart after other gods.

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 And his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord,

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 his God,

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 as the heart of David,

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 his father, had been.

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 He followed Ashtaroth,

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 the goddess of the Sidonians,

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 and Molech,

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 the detestable god of the Ammonites.

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 So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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 He did not follow the Lord completely,

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 as David, his father, had done.

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 On a hill east of Jerusalem,

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 Solomon built a high place for Chemosh,

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 the detestable god of Moab,

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 and for Molech,

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 the detestable god of the Ammonites.

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 He did the same for all his foreign wives,

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 who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

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 The Lord became angry with Solomon

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 because his heart had turned away from the Lord,

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 the God of Israel,

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 who had appeared to him twice.

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 Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods,

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 Solomon did not keep the Lord's command.

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 So the Lord said to Solomon,

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 Since this is your attitude,

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 and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees,

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 which I commanded you,

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 I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you,

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 and give it to one of your subordinates.

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 Nevertheless, for the sake of David, your father,

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 I will not do it during your lifetime.

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 I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

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 Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him,

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 but will give him one tribe,

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 for the sake of David, my servant,

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 and for the sake of Jerusalem,

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 which I have chosen.

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 We've seen over this four-week series

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 that Solomon is not so much good guy gone bad

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 as complex guy turned catastrophe.

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 And this evening, the wheels finally fall off,

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 but there have been warning signs all the way through.

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 We saw in week one that wisdom is graciously given,

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 but perhaps inappropriately employed.

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 We then see worship exuberantly offered,

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 but with an air of hypocritical exhibitionism,

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 that he's doing it on such a grandiose scale.

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 It is to draw attention to himself.

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 And then we saw his wealth last week,

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 wonderfully gifted, but increasingly idolized.

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 There have been the breadcrumbs

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 that something's not been quite right

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 all the way through our series.

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 And tonight, the wheels finally fall off.

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 This evening, with Solomon's wives,

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 the dam finally bursts,

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 and everything is laid bare,

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 what's gone on in Solomon's life for many years.

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 So let's look at it together.

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 The first thing I want us to see is

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 the first four verses.

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 Solomon's sin surfaces.

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 Solomon's sin surfaces.

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 I wonder, have you ever had an ice cream headache?

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 Probably don't get them in Scotland,

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 because ice cream is probably only edible

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 for about two weeks of the year.

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 But the strange phenomenon about an ice cream headache

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 is the pain caused by the coldness in your mouth

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 presents as a splitting headache in your head.

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 It is what clinicians refer to as referred pain.

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 Similarly, if you've ever had gallstones,

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 it can quite often present as pain in your shoulder blade,

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 which is quite a long way from your gallbladder

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 where the stones are situated.

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 It's called referred pain,

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 where the symptoms are a long way from the problem.

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 And when it comes to Solomon's wives,

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 this could also be referred pain.

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 The symptoms appear as 700 wives and 300 concubines,

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 but the problem is in Solomon's heart.

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 The heart of Solomon's problem is Solomon's heart.

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 It presents as polygamy,

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 but it's really down to half-heartedness.

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 Heart is mentioned six times

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 in these 13 verses.

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 Look at verse 3.

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 He had 700 wives of royal births

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 and 300 concubines,

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 and his wives turned his heart away.

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 Look at verse 4.

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 His heart was not fully devoted

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 to the Lord his God.

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 A little bit earlier on in verse 4.

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 His wives turned his heart

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 after other gods.

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 Verse 9.

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 The Lord became angry with Solomon

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 because his heart had turned away from the Lord,

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 the God of Israel,

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 who had appeared to him twice.

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 The heart of Solomon's problem

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 is Solomon's problematic heart.

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 Solomon falls into sin,

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 his half-heartedness,

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 long before he falls into disgrace.

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 We know that to be true.

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 These big scandals that have hit these mega church pastors in America.

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 Once the scandal finally breaks,

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 they roll back the years and isolate the many different times

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 that there's been failings and faults.

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 A heart that should have been devoted to the Lord starts to drift.

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 Whole-heartedness becomes half-heartedness over a period of time.

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 And as his heart drifts away from the Lord,

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 it drifts towards foreign wives.

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 He has 700 wives.

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 That means he has pretty much two wedding anniversaries to remember every day.

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 Over a 40-year reign,

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 that means he's getting married 18 times a year.

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 I have just about recovered from the trauma of getting married once,

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 nearly eight years ago.

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 Although the text says 700 wives,

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 there's 700 wives of royal birth.

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 So he may have a few more dotted around.

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 He went from such high class.

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 Alongside, he has 300 concubines.

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 300 plus 700,

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 a thousand women in his life.

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 He would need to be the wisest man.

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 In the world to cope with that.

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 This is a scary accumulation.

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 It's scary on a number of reasons,

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 not just the numbers,

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 but it stems from disobedience.

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 So many times in the law of God,

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 God has forbidden the king particularly to marry foreign wives.

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 Exodus 34 explicitly forbids Israelites taking foreign wives

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 because they will lead them astray after their own gods.

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 Exodus 20 verse 14,

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 one of the 10 commandments,

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 if you shall not commit adultery.

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 300 concubines probably suggest you haven't taken that law that seriously.

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 Deuteronomy 17, 17,

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 particularly about the king,

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 and he shall not acquire many wives for himself,

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 lest his heart turn away,

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 nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

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 And the passage quoted here in chapter 11 of 1 Kings,

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 Deuteronomy 7, 3 and 4,

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 you shall not intermarry with them,

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 giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.

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 For they would turn away your sons from following me to serve other gods.

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 Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you,

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 and he would destroy you quickly.

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 Real warnings.

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 And this is the law that Solomon,

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 the king is supposed to have written out

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 and meditated on all the time to keep with them.

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 And yet he thinks,

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 700, that's fine.

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 That's not what I would consider to be excessive number of wives.

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 Or he just didn't believe it would happen.

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 He thought so great was his gifting that he wouldn't fall,

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 as God said,

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 that anyone would.

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 It's direct disobedience,

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 but it's also distrusting.

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 There's been a warning sign of this in 1 Kings chapter 3,

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 in verse 1,

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 where we read,

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 Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt

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 and married his daughter.

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 So this military alliance is finalized and forged

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 and ratified by Solomon marrying Pharaoh's daughter.

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 And it would seem from context

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 that many of these other royal weddings have happened

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 about shoring up Israel's borders.

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 So Israel's great enemies are the Moabites

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 and the Ammonites and the Edomites

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 and the Sidonians and the Hittites.

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 So what does Solomon do?

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 He gathers all their princesses together

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 and makes them Mrs. Solomons.

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 And why?

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 Because he trusted more in his diplomacy

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 than he did in his God to keep them safe.

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 He thought,

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 I know what?

00:15:33.059 --> 00:15:36.399
 Solomon's will get us through.

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 Rather than my trust in the God

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 who has brought us safely thus far.

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 Solomon relying on his own diplomacy

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 more than he is on the God of the universe.

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 And then there's real duplicity.

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 Because not only does he let his,

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 not only does he marry many foreign wives,

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 he lets them continue to worship their own gods.

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 There's a real pluralism going on here.

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 He lets his wives worship their gods

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 in the very city that God had chosen

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 to bear his own name.

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 The city out of all the cities of the world,

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 God said,

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 that is where I'm going to place my name.

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 And suddenly we find hymns of worship

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 raising to many foreign gods.

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 The wisest man has played the fool

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 and has drifted into difficulty

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 and opened the door to calamity.

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 Chapter 11, verse 2.

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 The end of it.

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 Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.

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 Literally, Solomon clung to them in love.

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 This language of clinging

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 usually refers to one's relationship with God.

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 How we cling to God in love.

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 How we lean on him and cleave to him.

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 It's in fact the very words

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 that have been used to describe

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 Solomon's relationship with God.

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 Solomon 3, 1 Kings 3, verse 3.

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 Solomon showed his love for the Lord

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 by walking according to the instructions

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 given him by his father.

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 It's exactly the same phrase.

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 Solomon clung.

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 He held fast to his gods.

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 What a scary contrast that has happened

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 over eight chapters.

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 The beginning of Solomon's reign.

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 He clung to his gods.

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 Solomon, 1 Kings 11, verse 2.

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 Solomon clung to his wives.

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 There's been a complete switch, a total swap.

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 The last time we heard Solomon speak

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 was at the end of his benediction

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 in chapter 8.

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 Chapter 8, verse 61.

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 This is what he prays for all his people.

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 And may your hearts

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 be fully committed to the Lord our God

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 to live by his decrees

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 and obey his commands

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 as at this time.

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 Well, he was the first person to disobey.

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 Well, he was praying for others.

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 Someone whose heart was not fully obedient.

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 Who didn't fully laugh.

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 And then look at verse 4.

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 What a warning this is for all of us.

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 As Solomon grew old.

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 As Solomon grew old,

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 his wives turned his heart

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 off to other gods.

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 It is a stark warning.

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 Aileen and I have friends

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 who are trying to sell their flat

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 in Aberdeen.

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 And it's a tenement flat

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 and all the toilet blocks

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 are on top of each other in a stack.

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 And they can't sell it

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 because for many, many years

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 there has been water ingress

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 into the toilet stack.

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 And actually,

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 the toilet stack is coming away

00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:01.859
 from the rest of the tenement

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 and is actually only braced on

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 and held by these huge metal clips.

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 Undetected.

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 Year after year,

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 drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.

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 You get the sense

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 that's exactly what's happened

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 in Solomon's life

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 with all of these wives.

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 That over time,

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 they've just worn him down.

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 That when he was old,

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 his heart turned

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 from the Lord.

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 Worn down by this swarm

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 of foreign wives.

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 You could see how it happened.

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 Oh, Solomon,

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 love,

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 will you not come to the festival

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 for my God this week?

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 Will you not come

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 to this celebration?

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 You wanted me to come

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 and be your wife.

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 Come and celebrate

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 like we used to in Sidon.

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 Come and do this ritual

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 that we used to do in Moab.

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 Come on.

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 You're always dragging me

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 off to the temple.

00:20:01.420 --> 00:20:02.080
 Now it's your turn

00:20:02.080 --> 00:20:04.259
 to come to one of my things.

00:20:05.540 --> 00:20:05.980
 Oh, Solomon,

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 can't we sacrifice some goats

00:20:07.940 --> 00:20:09.100
 on this high place today

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 as well as in the temple?

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 You could see her

00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:14.799
 when he was old.

00:20:15.860 --> 00:20:18.500
 His heart turned away.

00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.000
 He just gradually drifts away.

00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:22.720
 Gradually.

00:20:22.980 --> 00:20:24.019
 But over time,

00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:25.340
 he's pointing

00:20:25.340 --> 00:20:27.720
 in a totally different direction.

00:20:29.259 --> 00:20:30.320
 I think it's right

00:20:30.320 --> 00:20:32.160
 that we spend a lot of time

00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:33.560
 praying for young people

00:20:33.560 --> 00:20:34.720
 at Brunsfield.

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 I think it's right

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 that they would build

00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:37.519
 their lives

00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:38.820
 on the rock of Jesus Christ

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 over and against

00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:41.600
 the tide of popular culture

00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:43.000
 that comes running against them

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 at school

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 and in the media.

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 But I think

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 on the back of tonight,

00:20:49.299 --> 00:20:50.419
 we must also pray

00:20:50.419 --> 00:20:51.539
 for our older people.

00:20:51.659 --> 00:20:52.079
 We should pray

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 for all our people.

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 But particularly

00:20:54.899 --> 00:20:55.819
 our older people

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 that they wouldn't drift.

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 So we wouldn't be

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 saying about people,

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 but when they were old,

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 their hearts turned away.

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 The daily discipline

00:21:08.259 --> 00:21:09.879
 of devotion to Jesus.

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 Jesus.

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 We must pray

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 that it won't be diluted

00:21:13.120 --> 00:21:14.500
 down through the decades.

00:21:15.140 --> 00:21:15.880
 I thought Ian

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 was brilliant this morning.

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 He's talking about familiarity

00:21:21.100 --> 00:21:22.980
 and the danger that is

00:21:22.980 --> 00:21:24.300
 with how we see Jesus.

00:21:25.500 --> 00:21:26.160
 Well, that becomes

00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:27.240
 more and more dangerous

00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:28.440
 the longer we're on this road

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 that we just build

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 a familiarity

00:21:29.780 --> 00:21:31.940
 and almost immunity

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 to his grace

00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:33.840
 and his wonder

00:21:33.840 --> 00:21:34.780
 and his glory

00:21:34.780 --> 00:21:36.260
 and his goodness.

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 Is your attitude

00:21:39.019 --> 00:21:41.220
 like the elderly Caleb

00:21:41.220 --> 00:21:42.220
 who says,

00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:43.359
 give me this mountain

00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:45.180
 or has it become

00:21:45.180 --> 00:21:46.200
 like Victor Meldrew

00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:47.160
 passed me the slippers?

00:21:48.859 --> 00:21:50.420
 It's a serious question

00:21:50.420 --> 00:21:52.619
 because Solomon,

00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:53.579
 the wisest man

00:21:53.579 --> 00:21:54.500
 who had ever lived,

00:21:54.819 --> 00:21:55.619
 who knew gifts

00:21:55.619 --> 00:21:56.799
 unlike anybody

00:21:56.799 --> 00:21:57.920
 who's ever lived

00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:00.480
 and even he drifts away.

00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:03.180
 Even he drifts

00:22:03.180 --> 00:22:04.200
 to half-hearted

00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:05.880
 idolatry.

00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:07.900
 In orienteering,

00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:08.640
 another sport

00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:09.400
 we were made to play

00:22:09.400 --> 00:22:09.839
 at school,

00:22:11.360 --> 00:22:11.860
 you had to have

00:22:11.860 --> 00:22:12.380
 a compass

00:22:12.380 --> 00:22:13.039
 and a map

00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:13.640
 and you were chasing

00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:14.240
 these flags

00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:14.720
 that were never

00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:15.480
 where they were supposed

00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:15.819
 to be,

00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:17.279
 so bad is my map reading.

00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:19.220
 But if you got

00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:20.220
 the compass direction

00:22:20.220 --> 00:22:21.200
 a little bit out

00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:22.220
 after you run

00:22:22.220 --> 00:22:22.940
 in 10 minutes

00:22:22.940 --> 00:22:23.720
 that direction,

00:22:24.379 --> 00:22:25.859
 you are miles away.

00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:27.980
 So easy,

00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:28.399
 isn't it,

00:22:28.420 --> 00:22:29.019
 to drift?

00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:30.920
 So easy that

00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:32.180
 today I'm going to

00:22:32.180 --> 00:22:33.119
 line my life up

00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:33.779
 with Jesus.

00:22:35.420 --> 00:22:36.399
 Tomorrow I may be

00:22:36.399 --> 00:22:37.420
 a degree out

00:22:37.420 --> 00:22:38.619
 and I go a bit

00:22:38.619 --> 00:22:39.500
 further down the road

00:22:39.500 --> 00:22:40.480
 and then I'm

00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:41.500
 another degree out

00:22:41.500 --> 00:22:42.379
 and before we know it

00:22:42.379 --> 00:22:43.240
 the distance between

00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:43.879
 us and Jesus

00:22:43.879 --> 00:22:45.099
 is miles apart.

00:22:45.099 --> 00:22:47.179
 It's what happens

00:22:47.179 --> 00:22:47.759
 to Solomon

00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:48.980
 when he's old.

00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:51.199
 His wives

00:22:51.199 --> 00:22:52.319
 turned his heart

00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:53.579
 away,

00:22:53.699 --> 00:22:54.899
 he drifted.

00:22:56.159 --> 00:22:57.000
 We've got to

00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:58.159
 resist the drift,

00:22:58.259 --> 00:22:58.819
 we've got to

00:22:58.819 --> 00:23:00.359
 cling to Christ.

00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:02.079
 Not taking a,

00:23:02.339 --> 00:23:03.639
 not letting it slip away

00:23:03.639 --> 00:23:05.259
 but clinging to him

00:23:05.259 --> 00:23:06.879
 to daily get up

00:23:06.879 --> 00:23:07.219
 and say,

00:23:07.339 --> 00:23:07.959
 today Jesus

00:23:07.959 --> 00:23:08.919
 I love you

00:23:08.919 --> 00:23:09.839
 and I want to

00:23:09.839 --> 00:23:10.659
 follow you

00:23:10.659 --> 00:23:11.619
 that I want you

00:23:11.619 --> 00:23:12.459
 to be the number

00:23:12.459 --> 00:23:13.319
 one priority

00:23:13.319 --> 00:23:14.279
 in my life

00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:15.399
 that we do sing

00:23:15.399 --> 00:23:16.359
 I am so glad

00:23:16.359 --> 00:23:17.599
 that Jesus loves me

00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:20.319
 because the danger

00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:21.559
 is we just drift away.

00:23:22.740 --> 00:23:23.059
 It's never,

00:23:23.299 --> 00:23:24.160
 nobody ever sins

00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:24.799
 like Solomon

00:23:24.799 --> 00:23:26.440
 in one great big leap.

00:23:28.099 --> 00:23:29.119
 It's just by little

00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:30.079
 steps closer and

00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:30.899
 closer to a line

00:23:30.899 --> 00:23:31.799
 before we're miles

00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:32.220
 away

00:23:32.220 --> 00:23:34.119
 and miles away.

00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:36.039
 The Puritans

00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:36.720
 have this lovely

00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:37.519
 image that they

00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:39.460
 use over and

00:23:39.460 --> 00:23:40.039
 over again.

00:23:40.220 --> 00:23:41.000
 They describe

00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:42.500
 sin like baby

00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:43.359
 snakes.

00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:45.599
 And they appear

00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:46.940
 in our lives.

00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:49.160
 But we're so

00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:50.059
 bad at just

00:23:50.059 --> 00:23:51.460
 stamping on them

00:23:51.460 --> 00:23:52.960
 that these

00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:53.899
 little snakes

00:23:53.899 --> 00:23:54.539
 that look so

00:23:54.539 --> 00:23:55.160
 innocuous

00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:56.059
 end up growing

00:23:56.059 --> 00:23:57.680
 and becoming

00:23:57.680 --> 00:23:58.279
 poisonous

00:23:58.279 --> 00:23:59.339
 death vipers

00:23:59.339 --> 00:24:00.839
 in our lives.

00:24:01.279 --> 00:24:02.200
 Solomon is married

00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:03.079
 to 700

00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:04.399
 baby snakes

00:24:04.399 --> 00:24:06.180
 and over time

00:24:06.180 --> 00:24:06.819
 they've turned

00:24:06.819 --> 00:24:07.319
 into

00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:08.779
 an enormous

00:24:08.779 --> 00:24:10.160
 wriggling

00:24:10.160 --> 00:24:10.879
 mass

00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.600
 of poisonous

00:24:12.600 --> 00:24:14.200
 death vipers.

00:24:14.760 --> 00:24:15.480
 Instead of

00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:16.280
 killing sin

00:24:16.280 --> 00:24:16.780
 and fleeing

00:24:16.780 --> 00:24:17.560
 temptation

00:24:17.560 --> 00:24:18.900
 Solomon

00:24:18.900 --> 00:24:19.740
 caught sin

00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:20.840
 and cohabits

00:24:20.840 --> 00:24:22.320
 with temptation

00:24:22.320 --> 00:24:22.940
 on a

00:24:22.940 --> 00:24:23.920
 ginormous

00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:25.380
 700

00:24:25.380 --> 00:24:26.660
 scale.

00:24:27.660 --> 00:24:28.420
 Hebrews 2

00:24:28.420 --> 00:24:28.980
 verse 1

00:24:28.980 --> 00:24:29.400
 is something

00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:29.800
 we must

00:24:29.800 --> 00:24:30.500
 come back to.

00:24:31.340 --> 00:24:31.700
 Therefore

00:24:31.700 --> 00:24:32.840
 we must pay

00:24:32.840 --> 00:24:34.220
 much closer

00:24:34.220 --> 00:24:34.680
 attention

00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:35.240
 to what we

00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:35.860
 have heard

00:24:35.859 --> 00:24:37.339
 lest we

00:24:37.339 --> 00:24:37.939
 drift away

00:24:37.939 --> 00:24:38.639
 from it.

00:24:39.439 --> 00:24:40.000
 Lest we

00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:41.039
 drift away.

00:24:41.579 --> 00:24:42.439
 Solomon is a

00:24:42.439 --> 00:24:43.039
 case and

00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:43.679
 point of what

00:24:43.679 --> 00:24:44.219
 it means to

00:24:44.219 --> 00:24:45.479
 drift away.

00:24:45.639 --> 00:24:46.179
 Solomon got

00:24:46.179 --> 00:24:47.379
 lax

00:24:47.379 --> 00:24:48.979
 and then he

00:24:48.979 --> 00:24:49.599
 got lost.

00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:52.419
 there's nothing

00:24:52.419 --> 00:24:53.219
 sadder is there

00:24:53.219 --> 00:24:53.679
 than to see

00:24:53.679 --> 00:24:54.279
 somebody drift

00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:54.599
 away.

00:24:55.379 --> 00:24:56.119
 I think of

00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:56.639
 some people

00:24:56.639 --> 00:24:57.059
 that I was

00:24:57.059 --> 00:24:57.439
 on CU

00:24:57.439 --> 00:24:58.419
 committee with

00:24:58.419 --> 00:25:00.240
 so passionate

00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:00.879
 and ardent

00:25:00.879 --> 00:25:01.199
 for the

00:25:01.199 --> 00:25:02.139
 Lord and

00:25:02.139 --> 00:25:02.539
 at least

00:25:02.539 --> 00:25:02.899
 two of

00:25:02.899 --> 00:25:03.439
 their cases

00:25:03.439 --> 00:25:03.819
 it was

00:25:03.819 --> 00:25:04.159
 when

00:25:04.159 --> 00:25:05.259
 unbelieving

00:25:05.259 --> 00:25:06.659
 females

00:25:06.659 --> 00:25:07.240
 came into

00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:07.779
 their lives

00:25:07.779 --> 00:25:08.119
 that the

00:25:08.119 --> 00:25:08.399
 drift

00:25:08.399 --> 00:25:09.259
 catastrophically

00:25:09.259 --> 00:25:09.719
 happened.

00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:11.779
 If there's

00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:12.659
 nothing sadder

00:25:12.659 --> 00:25:13.219
 than seeing

00:25:13.219 --> 00:25:14.240
 somebody drift

00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:14.679
 away there

00:25:14.679 --> 00:25:15.139
 is nothing

00:25:15.139 --> 00:25:15.799
 more heart

00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:16.159
 warming

00:25:16.159 --> 00:25:17.579
 than to see

00:25:17.579 --> 00:25:18.179
 people still

00:25:18.179 --> 00:25:18.759
 going strong

00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:19.099
 for the

00:25:19.099 --> 00:25:19.480
 Lord.

00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:20.379
 Even in

00:25:20.379 --> 00:25:21.139
 later life.

00:25:21.579 --> 00:25:22.259
 I had the

00:25:22.259 --> 00:25:22.819
 joy last

00:25:22.819 --> 00:25:23.199
 week of

00:25:23.199 --> 00:25:23.579
 being at

00:25:23.579 --> 00:25:24.439
 the faith

00:25:24.439 --> 00:25:24.740
 mission

00:25:24.740 --> 00:25:25.279
 minister's

00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:26.839
 breakfast and

00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:27.119
 there was

00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:27.899
 John Shearer

00:25:27.899 --> 00:25:28.819
 talking about

00:25:28.819 --> 00:25:30.179
 50 years of

00:25:30.179 --> 00:25:31.119
 pastoral ministry

00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:32.779
 and at the

00:25:32.779 --> 00:25:33.619
 age of 75

00:25:33.619 --> 00:25:34.259
 he said I

00:25:34.259 --> 00:25:34.799
 love Jesus

00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:35.980
 more today

00:25:35.980 --> 00:25:36.519
 than I did

00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:36.819
 when I

00:25:36.819 --> 00:25:37.219
 started.

00:25:37.819 --> 00:25:38.319
 Isn't that a

00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:39.000
 great thing

00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:39.740
 that we

00:25:39.740 --> 00:25:40.500
 should all

00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:42.219
 be pursuing?

00:25:43.259 --> 00:25:43.659
 Now I

00:25:43.659 --> 00:25:44.339
 dare say

00:25:44.339 --> 00:25:45.419
 none of

00:25:45.419 --> 00:25:46.579
 us are

00:25:46.579 --> 00:25:47.359
 drifting away

00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:48.139
 into polygamy

00:25:48.139 --> 00:25:48.719
 at least I

00:25:48.719 --> 00:25:49.480
 hope not.

00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:52.740
 however we

00:25:52.740 --> 00:25:53.159
 can drift

00:25:53.159 --> 00:25:53.879
 away through

00:25:53.879 --> 00:25:55.859
 many things

00:25:55.859 --> 00:25:57.519
 not just

00:25:57.519 --> 00:25:58.299
 wrong things

00:25:58.299 --> 00:25:58.879
 but good

00:25:58.879 --> 00:25:59.799
 things wrongly

00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:00.919
 prioritized

00:26:00.919 --> 00:26:01.899
 where we

00:26:01.899 --> 00:26:03.199
 prioritize job

00:26:03.199 --> 00:26:04.059
 and pursue

00:26:04.059 --> 00:26:04.439
 that or

00:26:04.439 --> 00:26:05.299
 possessions or

00:26:05.299 --> 00:26:06.179
 reputation or

00:26:06.179 --> 00:26:07.299
 friendships or

00:26:07.299 --> 00:26:08.359
 family or

00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:09.500
 spouses or

00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:10.719
 hobbies or

00:26:10.719 --> 00:26:11.939
 leisure activities

00:26:11.939 --> 00:26:13.919
 all of them

00:26:13.919 --> 00:26:15.359
 can upset the

00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:16.059
 course of our

00:26:16.059 --> 00:26:16.579
 lives and

00:26:16.579 --> 00:26:17.419
 orientate our

00:26:17.419 --> 00:26:18.159
 lives away from

00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:18.480
 the Lord

00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:18.900
 Jesus.

00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:20.440
 None of

00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:20.800
 them are

00:26:20.800 --> 00:26:22.500
 bad but if

00:26:22.500 --> 00:26:23.060
 our hearts

00:26:23.060 --> 00:26:23.620
 let go of

00:26:23.620 --> 00:26:24.180
 Jesus and

00:26:24.180 --> 00:26:24.720
 start clinging

00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:25.180
 to these

00:26:25.180 --> 00:26:25.620
 more we'll

00:26:25.620 --> 00:26:25.980
 be in

00:26:25.980 --> 00:26:26.360
 desperate

00:26:26.360 --> 00:26:30.200
 danger of

00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:31.740
 drifting away.

00:26:32.740 --> 00:26:33.340
 Solomon's

00:26:33.340 --> 00:26:34.400
 sin surfaces

00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:35.060
 and that needs

00:26:35.060 --> 00:26:35.700
 to be a real

00:26:35.700 --> 00:26:36.779
 warning for us.

00:26:37.580 --> 00:26:38.800
 Think where

00:26:38.800 --> 00:26:39.980
 will you be in

00:26:39.980 --> 00:26:40.820
 your relationship

00:26:40.820 --> 00:26:42.580
 with Jesus if

00:26:42.580 --> 00:26:43.480
 you continue on

00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:43.940
 your current

00:26:43.940 --> 00:26:44.500
 trajectory?

00:26:44.500 --> 00:26:44.619
 trajectory?

00:26:45.460 --> 00:26:45.920
 Where will

00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:46.519
 you be in

00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:47.519
 a year's

00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:47.859
 time?

00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:49.420
 Five years

00:26:49.420 --> 00:26:49.740
 time?

00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:50.480
 Ten years

00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:50.920
 time?

00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:51.680
 If you

00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:52.160
 carry on

00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:52.460
 on your

00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:52.960
 current

00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:53.480
 trajectory

00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:53.980
 where will

00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:54.440
 you be?

00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:55.339
 Will you

00:26:55.339 --> 00:26:55.859
 be more

00:26:55.859 --> 00:26:56.240
 in love

00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:56.579
 with him

00:26:56.579 --> 00:26:57.059
 or less

00:26:57.059 --> 00:26:57.440
 in love

00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:57.839
 with him?

00:26:58.059 --> 00:26:58.380
 Will you

00:26:58.380 --> 00:26:58.799
 be walking

00:26:58.799 --> 00:26:59.640
 closer to

00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:00.019
 him or

00:27:00.019 --> 00:27:00.359
 will you

00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:00.880
 be miles

00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:01.279
 away?

00:27:01.460 --> 00:27:01.960
 If you

00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:02.660
 continue on

00:27:02.660 --> 00:27:03.279
 your current

00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:03.960
 trajectory

00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:05.000
 because the

00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:05.660
 way to resist

00:27:05.660 --> 00:27:06.220
 the drift is

00:27:06.220 --> 00:27:06.660
 to keep

00:27:06.660 --> 00:27:07.099
 check on

00:27:07.099 --> 00:27:07.640
 yourself.

00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:10.940
 what in

00:27:10.940 --> 00:27:11.640
 your heart

00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:12.460
 is competing

00:27:12.460 --> 00:27:13.240
 with Jesus?

00:27:14.580 --> 00:27:15.380
 What is in

00:27:15.380 --> 00:27:15.980
 danger of

00:27:15.980 --> 00:27:16.560
 you clinging

00:27:16.560 --> 00:27:17.420
 onto more

00:27:17.420 --> 00:27:17.780
 than the

00:27:17.780 --> 00:27:18.380
 Lord Jesus?

00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:19.640
 What baby

00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:21.200
 snakes are

00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:21.980
 you stroking

00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:22.340
 now that

00:27:22.340 --> 00:27:22.820
 might bite

00:27:22.820 --> 00:27:23.180
 you then

00:27:23.180 --> 00:27:23.700
 instead of

00:27:23.700 --> 00:27:24.259
 stamping on

00:27:24.259 --> 00:27:24.640
 their head

00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:25.240
 right now?

00:27:27.360 --> 00:27:27.920
 Solomon's

00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:28.460
 issue when

00:27:28.460 --> 00:27:29.400
 he was old

00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:31.400
 the sin

00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:31.780
 that he'd

00:27:31.780 --> 00:27:32.259
 been storing

00:27:32.259 --> 00:27:32.640
 up for

00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:32.980
 ages

00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:34.000
 surfaced

00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:35.560
 and manifested

00:27:35.560 --> 00:27:36.600
 as gross

00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:37.980
 idolatry.

00:27:38.099 --> 00:27:38.639
 Solomon's

00:27:38.639 --> 00:27:39.500
 sin surfaces

00:27:39.500 --> 00:27:41.740
 but it's

00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:42.219
 been bubbling

00:27:42.219 --> 00:27:42.740
 away for

00:27:42.740 --> 00:27:43.059
 ages

00:27:43.059 --> 00:27:43.379
 drip,

00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:43.639
 drip,

00:27:43.740 --> 00:27:44.019
 drip.

00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:46.539
 Then we

00:27:46.539 --> 00:27:47.319
 see Solomon's

00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:47.639
 worship

00:27:47.639 --> 00:27:48.019
 wavers

00:27:48.019 --> 00:27:48.679
 verses 4

00:27:48.679 --> 00:27:49.339
 to 8.

00:27:50.139 --> 00:27:50.779
 The true

00:27:50.779 --> 00:27:51.500
 extent of

00:27:51.500 --> 00:27:52.059
 Solomon's

00:27:52.059 --> 00:27:53.000
 half-heartedness

00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:54.899
 his duplicity

00:27:54.899 --> 00:27:55.439
 starts to

00:27:55.439 --> 00:27:56.240
 become apparent

00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:58.000
 as he sets

00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:58.779
 up shrines

00:27:58.779 --> 00:27:59.519
 and pursues

00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:00.039
 the false

00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:00.559
 gods of

00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:01.039
 his foreign

00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:01.639
 wives

00:28:01.639 --> 00:28:02.519
 and the

00:28:02.519 --> 00:28:03.019
 three that

00:28:03.019 --> 00:28:03.539
 are mentioned

00:28:03.539 --> 00:28:03.959
 are an

00:28:03.959 --> 00:28:04.519
 unholy

00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:05.199
 trinity of

00:28:05.199 --> 00:28:06.019
 foreign gods

00:28:06.019 --> 00:28:06.980
 to start

00:28:06.980 --> 00:28:07.539
 worshipping.

00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:10.220
 We get

00:28:10.220 --> 00:28:11.079
 Molech,

00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:12.619
 the detestable

00:28:12.619 --> 00:28:13.279
 god of the

00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:13.879
 Ammonites,

00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:14.879
 Ashtaroth,

00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:16.019
 the fertility

00:28:16.019 --> 00:28:16.779
 god of the

00:28:16.779 --> 00:28:17.680
 Sidonians,

00:28:17.859 --> 00:28:18.559
 Chemosh,

00:28:19.059 --> 00:28:19.839
 the abominable

00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:20.579
 god of the

00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:21.420
 Moabites.

00:28:24.420 --> 00:28:25.460
 This is not

00:28:25.460 --> 00:28:27.460
 just flirting

00:28:27.460 --> 00:28:28.339
 with idolatry,

00:28:28.420 --> 00:28:28.980
 this is jumping

00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:29.660
 in with both

00:28:29.660 --> 00:28:30.099
 feet.

00:28:31.539 --> 00:28:32.299
 Ashtaroth is

00:28:32.299 --> 00:28:32.940
 the goddess

00:28:32.940 --> 00:28:35.299
 of the

00:28:35.299 --> 00:28:36.480
 Sidonians,

00:28:37.320 --> 00:28:37.779
 whom you

00:28:37.779 --> 00:28:38.460
 worship with

00:28:38.460 --> 00:28:39.140
 your glands

00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:39.580
 for whom

00:28:39.580 --> 00:28:40.420
 sex is

00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:41.279
 the way

00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:41.860
 you worship

00:28:41.860 --> 00:28:42.440
 particularly

00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:43.019
 involving

00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:43.440
 temple

00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:44.299
 prostitutes

00:28:44.299 --> 00:28:45.740
 and rituals.

00:28:46.779 --> 00:28:47.200
 Chemosh

00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:47.980
 and Molech

00:28:47.980 --> 00:28:48.860
 are described

00:28:48.860 --> 00:28:49.740
 as detestable

00:28:49.740 --> 00:28:50.200
 gods or

00:28:50.200 --> 00:28:51.220
 abominations.

00:28:52.340 --> 00:28:52.980
 We have

00:28:52.980 --> 00:28:53.880
 loads of

00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:54.840
 evidence saying

00:28:54.840 --> 00:28:55.380
 that their

00:28:55.380 --> 00:28:56.240
 worship involved

00:28:56.240 --> 00:28:57.779
 child sacrifice.

00:28:59.779 --> 00:29:00.539
 Leviticus

00:29:00.539 --> 00:29:01.680
 18, 21,

00:29:01.859 --> 00:29:02.740
 you shall not

00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:03.579
 give any of

00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:04.420
 your children

00:29:04.420 --> 00:29:05.099
 to offer

00:29:05.099 --> 00:29:05.539
 them to

00:29:05.539 --> 00:29:06.139
 Molech,

00:29:06.259 --> 00:29:07.019
 and so

00:29:07.019 --> 00:29:07.639
 profane the

00:29:07.639 --> 00:29:08.019
 name of

00:29:08.019 --> 00:29:08.500
 your God,

00:29:08.579 --> 00:29:09.039
 I am the

00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:09.359
 Lord.

00:29:09.980 --> 00:29:10.599
 We have

00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:11.000
 extra

00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:11.359
 biblical

00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:12.099
 evidence of

00:29:12.099 --> 00:29:12.720
 what worship

00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:13.740
 of Molech

00:29:13.740 --> 00:29:14.259
 looked like.

00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:15.039
 One historian

00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:15.680
 comments,

00:29:16.139 --> 00:29:16.859
 worship of

00:29:16.859 --> 00:29:17.379
 Molech

00:29:17.379 --> 00:29:18.599
 included people

00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:19.240
 burning their

00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:20.019
 own children

00:29:20.019 --> 00:29:20.659
 to death

00:29:20.659 --> 00:29:21.379
 in fire,

00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.579
 often by

00:29:22.579 --> 00:29:23.240
 placing them

00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:23.819
 in the arms

00:29:23.819 --> 00:29:24.539
 of a hollow

00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:25.460
 metal idol

00:29:25.460 --> 00:29:26.159
 of Molech

00:29:26.159 --> 00:29:26.899
 that had

00:29:26.899 --> 00:29:27.960
 been heated

00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:28.700
 very hot

00:29:28.700 --> 00:29:29.039
 with a

00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:30.000
 fire and

00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:30.240
 they're

00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:30.539
 burnt

00:29:30.539 --> 00:29:31.080
 inside.

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:33.799
 Terrifying.

00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:36.380
 You have

00:29:36.380 --> 00:29:36.799
 to say

00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:37.100
 that on

00:29:37.100 --> 00:29:37.460
 the back

00:29:37.460 --> 00:29:38.180
 of Solomon's

00:29:38.180 --> 00:29:38.519
 prayer,

00:29:39.180 --> 00:29:39.860
 in 1 Kings

00:29:39.860 --> 00:29:40.220
 8,

00:29:40.299 --> 00:29:41.000
 verse 59,

00:29:41.140 --> 00:29:41.600
 let me read

00:29:41.600 --> 00:29:42.039
 that for

00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:42.440
 you.

00:29:44.019 --> 00:29:44.740
 And may

00:29:44.740 --> 00:29:46.180
 these words

00:29:46.180 --> 00:29:46.620
 of mine

00:29:46.620 --> 00:29:46.980
 which I

00:29:46.980 --> 00:29:47.400
 have prayed

00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:47.960
 before the

00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:48.380
 Lord,

00:29:48.900 --> 00:29:50.100
 be near

00:29:50.100 --> 00:29:50.580
 the Lord

00:29:50.580 --> 00:29:51.319
 our God

00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:52.039
 day and

00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:52.440
 night,

00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:53.220
 that he

00:29:53.220 --> 00:29:53.840
 may uphold

00:29:53.840 --> 00:29:54.319
 the cause

00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:54.640
 of his

00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:54.960
 servant

00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:55.279
 and the

00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:55.640
 cause of

00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:56.120
 his people

00:29:56.120 --> 00:29:56.460
 Israel

00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:57.039
 according to

00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:57.539
 each day's

00:29:57.539 --> 00:29:57.819
 need,

00:29:57.819 --> 00:29:58.700
 so that

00:29:58.700 --> 00:29:59.200
 all the

00:29:59.200 --> 00:29:59.799
 peoples of

00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:00.220
 the earth

00:30:00.220 --> 00:30:00.659
 may know

00:30:00.659 --> 00:30:01.079
 that the

00:30:01.079 --> 00:30:01.579
 Lord is

00:30:01.579 --> 00:30:03.119
 God and

00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:03.579
 that there

00:30:03.579 --> 00:30:04.740
 is no

00:30:04.740 --> 00:30:05.419
 other.

00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:06.359
 Terrifying.

00:30:06.939 --> 00:30:07.819
 That is his

00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:09.559
 declaration and

00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:10.200
 here we see

00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:10.659
 the Lord

00:30:10.659 --> 00:30:11.159
 Molech,

00:30:11.259 --> 00:30:12.099
 Lord Chemosh

00:30:12.099 --> 00:30:13.179
 and Lady

00:30:13.179 --> 00:30:13.960
 Ashtaroth have

00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:14.439
 moved into

00:30:14.439 --> 00:30:14.879
 town.

00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:17.859
 Notice as

00:30:17.859 --> 00:30:18.579
 well that he

00:30:18.579 --> 00:30:19.980
 erects a high

00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:21.099
 place east of

00:30:21.099 --> 00:30:21.659
 Jerusalem,

00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:23.519
 on the mountain

00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:24.119
 east of

00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:24.779
 Jerusalem on

00:30:24.779 --> 00:30:25.220
 the hill.

00:30:25.439 --> 00:30:26.039
 This would be

00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:27.419
 known later in

00:30:27.420 --> 00:30:27.980
 the Bible as

00:30:27.980 --> 00:30:28.420
 the Mount

00:30:28.420 --> 00:30:29.360
 of Olives.

00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:31.039
 That this

00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:32.180
 high place

00:30:32.180 --> 00:30:33.320
 is within

00:30:33.320 --> 00:30:34.080
 sight of the

00:30:34.080 --> 00:30:34.900
 temple mound

00:30:34.900 --> 00:30:35.500
 that Solomon

00:30:35.500 --> 00:30:36.100
 has spent

00:30:36.100 --> 00:30:36.880
 seven years

00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:37.940
 building as

00:30:37.940 --> 00:30:38.700
 a majestic

00:30:38.700 --> 00:30:39.940
 representation of

00:30:39.940 --> 00:30:40.400
 where God

00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:40.880
 dwells on

00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:41.320
 earth.

00:30:42.380 --> 00:30:43.259
 And later in

00:30:43.259 --> 00:30:43.759
 life what's he

00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:43.960
 doing?

00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:44.620
 He's building a

00:30:44.620 --> 00:30:45.560
 high place

00:30:45.560 --> 00:30:47.680
 to Chemosh

00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:48.600
 the detestable

00:30:48.600 --> 00:30:49.460
 God of

00:30:49.460 --> 00:30:50.539
 Moab and

00:30:50.539 --> 00:30:51.220
 for Molech

00:30:51.220 --> 00:30:51.960
 the detestable

00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:52.500
 God of the

00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:53.160
 Amorites.

00:30:54.160 --> 00:30:54.600
 Within the

00:30:54.599 --> 00:30:55.319
 very few

00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:56.199
 of God's

00:30:56.199 --> 00:30:57.079
 dwelling

00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:57.799
 place.

00:30:59.619 --> 00:31:00.299
 Terrifying

00:31:00.299 --> 00:31:01.179
 how far

00:31:01.179 --> 00:31:02.439
 Solomon has

00:31:02.439 --> 00:31:02.839
 fallen.

00:31:03.219 --> 00:31:03.879
 Notice as

00:31:03.879 --> 00:31:04.240
 well that

00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:04.639
 these three

00:31:04.639 --> 00:31:04.939
 are just

00:31:04.939 --> 00:31:05.299
 the tip

00:31:05.299 --> 00:31:05.559
 of the

00:31:05.559 --> 00:31:05.959
 iceberg.

00:31:06.879 --> 00:31:07.419
 Verse 8

00:31:07.419 --> 00:31:08.119
 he did

00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:09.139
 the same

00:31:09.139 --> 00:31:10.039
 for all

00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:10.539
 his foreign

00:31:10.539 --> 00:31:11.119
 wives.

00:31:12.259 --> 00:31:12.719
 Potentially

00:31:12.719 --> 00:31:13.019
 another

00:31:13.019 --> 00:31:14.179
 697

00:31:14.179 --> 00:31:15.179
 shrines

00:31:15.179 --> 00:31:16.839
 going up

00:31:16.839 --> 00:31:17.319
 around the

00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:17.859
 place.

00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:19.699
 Terrifying

00:31:19.699 --> 00:31:20.500
 how deep

00:31:20.500 --> 00:31:22.059
 in idolatry

00:31:22.059 --> 00:31:22.779
 Solomon is

00:31:22.779 --> 00:31:23.259
 falling.

00:31:23.920 --> 00:31:24.319
 Jerusalem

00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:25.119
 turns into

00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:26.000
 a smorgasbord

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:26.619
 of cult

00:31:26.619 --> 00:31:27.700
 deities and

00:31:27.700 --> 00:31:28.220
 idols.

00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:29.200
 The wheels

00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:29.660
 have fallen

00:31:29.660 --> 00:31:30.220
 off and

00:31:30.220 --> 00:31:30.440
 they've

00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:30.839
 rolled down

00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:31.220
 the hill.

00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.160
 Solomon's

00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:33.599
 poisoned

00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:34.259
 pluralistic

00:31:34.259 --> 00:31:34.819
 heart now

00:31:34.819 --> 00:31:36.279
 flows into

00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:37.200
 polytheistic

00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:37.980
 paganism.

00:31:39.059 --> 00:31:39.339
 And you

00:31:39.339 --> 00:31:39.859
 have to say

00:31:39.859 --> 00:31:40.500
 Solomon would

00:31:40.500 --> 00:31:40.900
 do quite

00:31:40.900 --> 00:31:41.319
 well in

00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:41.920
 the 21st

00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:42.319
 century.

00:31:43.740 --> 00:31:44.299
 Pluralism

00:31:44.299 --> 00:31:44.660
 is the

00:31:44.660 --> 00:31:45.099
 spirit of

00:31:45.099 --> 00:31:45.799
 the age.

00:31:46.980 --> 00:31:47.480
 A place

00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:48.000
 where anything

00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:48.640
 goes as

00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:48.940
 long as

00:31:48.940 --> 00:31:49.279
 everything

00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:49.960
 goes.

00:31:50.500 --> 00:31:51.160
 A place

00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:51.440
 where the

00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:51.779
 only thing

00:31:51.779 --> 00:31:52.180
 you cannot

00:31:52.180 --> 00:31:52.759
 claim is

00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:53.119
 that your

00:31:53.119 --> 00:31:53.559
 God is

00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:54.000
 the only

00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:54.680
 God's.

00:31:55.099 --> 00:31:55.839
 Your way

00:31:55.839 --> 00:31:56.220
 is the

00:31:56.220 --> 00:31:56.779
 only way.

00:31:56.880 --> 00:31:57.059
 Your

00:31:57.059 --> 00:31:58.519
 worship is

00:31:58.519 --> 00:31:58.880
 the only

00:31:58.880 --> 00:31:59.440
 acceptable

00:31:59.440 --> 00:31:59.900
 worship.

00:32:01.940 --> 00:32:02.180
 That

00:32:02.180 --> 00:32:02.859
 Solomon's

00:32:02.859 --> 00:32:03.339
 Jerusalem

00:32:03.339 --> 00:32:03.960
 is like

00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:04.579
 21st

00:32:04.579 --> 00:32:04.940
 century

00:32:04.940 --> 00:32:05.299
 Britain,

00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:05.720
 a place

00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:05.900
 where

00:32:05.900 --> 00:32:06.420
 tolerance,

00:32:06.660 --> 00:32:07.000
 acceptance

00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:07.259
 and

00:32:07.259 --> 00:32:08.000
 inclusivism

00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:08.240
 are

00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:08.640
 treasured

00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:08.859
 above

00:32:08.859 --> 00:32:09.299
 truth,

00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:09.759
 holiness

00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:10.079
 and

00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:10.500
 devotion.

00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:12.440
 A place

00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:13.240
 where Solomon's

00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:13.839
 actions

00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:15.619
 would be

00:32:15.619 --> 00:32:16.380
 reported as

00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:16.980
 broadening

00:32:16.980 --> 00:32:17.200
 his

00:32:17.200 --> 00:32:17.880
 horizons,

00:32:18.339 --> 00:32:19.380
 exploring

00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:20.560
 other realms

00:32:20.560 --> 00:32:20.760
 of

00:32:20.760 --> 00:32:21.660
 spirituality.

00:32:23.360 --> 00:32:23.680
 See

00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:24.060
 though what

00:32:24.060 --> 00:32:24.220
 the

00:32:24.220 --> 00:32:24.820
 chronicler

00:32:24.820 --> 00:32:25.420
 calls it

00:32:25.420 --> 00:32:25.880
 in verse

00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:26.500
 6.

00:32:28.040 --> 00:32:28.840
 This is

00:32:28.840 --> 00:32:29.420
 not open

00:32:29.420 --> 00:32:30.160
 mindedness,

00:32:30.220 --> 00:32:30.840
 this is not

00:32:30.840 --> 00:32:31.820
 inclusivism.

00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:34.620
 Solomon did

00:32:34.620 --> 00:32:37.660
 evil in the

00:32:37.660 --> 00:32:38.160
 eyes of the

00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:38.460
 Lord.

00:32:40.540 --> 00:32:41.560
 Solomon did

00:32:41.560 --> 00:32:44.240
 evil in the

00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:44.960
 eyes of the

00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:45.240
 Lord.

00:32:45.360 --> 00:32:45.960
 His drifting

00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:47.360
 from God

00:32:47.360 --> 00:32:48.000
 turns into

00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:48.700
 evil

00:32:48.700 --> 00:32:50.160
 against

00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:50.819
 God.

00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:56.180
 Resist

00:32:56.180 --> 00:32:56.819
 the drift.

00:32:58.059 --> 00:32:58.539
 Don't

00:32:58.539 --> 00:32:59.059
 accommodate.

00:33:00.400 --> 00:33:00.779
 Cling to

00:33:00.779 --> 00:33:01.259
 Christ.

00:33:01.420 --> 00:33:01.700
 Resist

00:33:01.700 --> 00:33:02.279
 the drift.

00:33:03.420 --> 00:33:03.579
 Our

00:33:03.579 --> 00:33:04.319
 culture says

00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:05.700
 don't be so

00:33:05.700 --> 00:33:07.059
 narrow-minded.

00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:09.220
 Don't be so

00:33:09.220 --> 00:33:10.460
 arrogant as to

00:33:10.460 --> 00:33:10.860
 think that

00:33:10.860 --> 00:33:11.579
 Jesus is the

00:33:11.579 --> 00:33:12.319
 only way and

00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:12.799
 you can see

00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:13.380
 how we just

00:33:13.380 --> 00:33:13.799
 start to

00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:14.160
 drift.

00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:16.000
 resist the

00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:16.440
 drift.

00:33:17.940 --> 00:33:18.420
 Don't

00:33:18.420 --> 00:33:18.880
 accommodate.

00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:19.480
 Cling to

00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:20.120
 Christ.

00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:22.779
 Well that

00:33:22.779 --> 00:33:23.220
 won't happen

00:33:23.220 --> 00:33:23.740
 to me we

00:33:23.740 --> 00:33:24.100
 say.

00:33:25.060 --> 00:33:25.640
 I'm not like

00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:25.940
 Solomon.

00:33:26.060 --> 00:33:26.600
 That's not how

00:33:26.600 --> 00:33:27.620
 Nehemiah sees it

00:33:27.620 --> 00:33:28.720
 in the end of

00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:29.420
 his writing.

00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:31.240
 He writes

00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:31.960
 this to the

00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:32.980
 Israelites who

00:33:32.980 --> 00:33:33.440
 were also

00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:33.960
 courting

00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:34.960
 foreign

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:35.960
 ladies.

00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:37.840
 Solomon

00:33:37.840 --> 00:33:38.480
 king of

00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:38.840
 Israel

00:33:38.840 --> 00:33:39.360
 sin on

00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:39.840
 account of

00:33:39.840 --> 00:33:40.079
 such

00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:40.440
 women.

00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:41.920
 Among the

00:33:41.920 --> 00:33:42.240
 many

00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:43.000
 nations there

00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:43.420
 was no

00:33:43.420 --> 00:33:44.120
 king like

00:33:44.120 --> 00:33:44.880
 him and

00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:45.259
 he was

00:33:45.259 --> 00:33:46.059
 beloved by

00:33:46.059 --> 00:33:46.660
 his God

00:33:46.660 --> 00:33:47.519
 and God

00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:47.960
 made him

00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:48.680
 king over

00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:49.460
 all Israel.

00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:50.500
 Nevertheless

00:33:50.500 --> 00:33:52.059
 foreign

00:33:52.059 --> 00:33:52.980
 women made

00:33:52.980 --> 00:33:54.440
 even him

00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:55.500
 to sin.

00:33:56.380 --> 00:33:56.840
 Nehemiah

00:33:56.840 --> 00:33:57.400
 very much

00:33:57.400 --> 00:33:57.920
 sees it that

00:33:57.920 --> 00:33:59.420
 if Solomon

00:33:59.420 --> 00:34:00.240
 is susceptible

00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:01.200
 to it then we

00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:01.900
 must be very

00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:02.400
 careful.

00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:04.000
 that if

00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:04.660
 Solomon can

00:34:04.660 --> 00:34:05.259
 fall so

00:34:05.259 --> 00:34:05.820
 drastically

00:34:05.820 --> 00:34:08.840
 be careful

00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:09.400
 if you think

00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:09.720
 you can

00:34:09.720 --> 00:34:10.180
 stand

00:34:10.180 --> 00:34:11.800
 lest you

00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:12.180
 fall.

00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:14.099
 A daily

00:34:14.099 --> 00:34:14.780
 devotion to

00:34:14.780 --> 00:34:15.360
 the Lord

00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:17.000
 getting up

00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:17.380
 each and

00:34:17.380 --> 00:34:17.840
 every day

00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:18.420
 Jesus I

00:34:18.420 --> 00:34:19.139
 love you

00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:21.039
 Jesus I

00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:21.300
 want to

00:34:21.300 --> 00:34:21.860
 walk with

00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:22.400
 you Jesus

00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:22.880
 I want to

00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:23.260
 cling to

00:34:23.260 --> 00:34:23.599
 you.

00:34:24.619 --> 00:34:25.019
 And tomorrow

00:34:25.019 --> 00:34:25.940
 just repeat

00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:27.660
 Jesus I

00:34:27.660 --> 00:34:28.320
 love you

00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:29.579
 Jesus I

00:34:29.579 --> 00:34:29.800
 want to

00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:30.300
 walk with

00:34:30.300 --> 00:34:30.860
 you Jesus

00:34:30.860 --> 00:34:32.220
 I want to

00:34:32.219 --> 00:34:32.519
 cling.

00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:33.959
 Tie up

00:34:33.959 --> 00:34:34.519
 tightly to

00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:35.179
 Christ.

00:34:36.119 --> 00:34:36.659
 Pay close

00:34:36.659 --> 00:34:37.699
 attention lest

00:34:37.699 --> 00:34:38.799
 we drift

00:34:38.799 --> 00:34:39.199
 away.

00:34:40.579 --> 00:34:41.439
 We finish

00:34:41.439 --> 00:34:41.799
 with this

00:34:41.799 --> 00:34:42.759
 Yahweh's

00:34:42.759 --> 00:34:43.119
 fury

00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:43.819
 fueled.

00:34:45.899 --> 00:34:46.539
 Verse 9

00:34:46.539 --> 00:34:47.000
 The Lord

00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:47.759
 became angry

00:34:47.759 --> 00:34:48.399
 with Solomon.

00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:49.819
 The Lord

00:34:49.819 --> 00:34:50.759
 became angry

00:34:50.759 --> 00:34:52.259
 with Solomon

00:34:52.259 --> 00:34:52.699
 as the

00:34:52.699 --> 00:34:53.339
 nauseating

00:34:53.339 --> 00:34:53.919
 smell of

00:34:53.919 --> 00:34:54.699
 idolatry

00:34:54.699 --> 00:34:55.699
 enters the

00:34:55.699 --> 00:34:56.339
 nostrils of

00:34:56.339 --> 00:34:56.579
 God.

00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:58.299
 It evokes

00:34:58.299 --> 00:34:59.219
 a visceral

00:34:59.219 --> 00:34:59.939
 reaction.

00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:01.839
 Solomon

00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:02.680
 so gifted

00:35:02.680 --> 00:35:03.460
 by God.

00:35:04.780 --> 00:35:05.640
 Solomon to

00:35:05.640 --> 00:35:06.079
 whom God

00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:06.600
 appeared

00:35:06.600 --> 00:35:07.740
 twice.

00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:08.720
 He has

00:35:08.720 --> 00:35:09.460
 loads of

00:35:09.460 --> 00:35:10.140
 evidence.

00:35:10.980 --> 00:35:11.519
 He's not

00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:12.160
 doing this

00:35:12.160 --> 00:35:12.840
 in ignorance

00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:13.519
 he's doing

00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:13.980
 it in

00:35:13.980 --> 00:35:14.960
 arrogance.

00:35:17.660 --> 00:35:18.280
 Solomon's

00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:19.079
 drifted away.

00:35:20.120 --> 00:35:20.720
 He's turned

00:35:20.720 --> 00:35:21.360
 his back on

00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:21.700
 God.

00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:22.500
 He's turned

00:35:22.500 --> 00:35:23.019
 his heart

00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:23.660
 away from

00:35:23.660 --> 00:35:24.079
 God.

00:35:24.380 --> 00:35:24.760
 And

00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:25.200
 judgment

00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:25.940
 falls.

00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:28.039
 And his

00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:28.720
 sin has

00:35:28.720 --> 00:35:29.760
 consequences.

00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:30.200
 Jesus.

00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:32.480
 This is

00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:32.700
 going to

00:35:32.700 --> 00:35:33.380
 do major

00:35:33.380 --> 00:35:34.440
 damage to

00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:35.160
 his people.

00:35:37.240 --> 00:35:37.640
 Solomon's

00:35:37.640 --> 00:35:38.500
 kingdom had

00:35:38.500 --> 00:35:38.800
 been a

00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:39.260
 place of

00:35:39.260 --> 00:35:39.840
 peace.

00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:40.640
 And it

00:35:40.640 --> 00:35:41.020
 says at

00:35:41.020 --> 00:35:41.500
 least three

00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:42.100
 times that

00:35:42.100 --> 00:35:42.820
 Solomon's

00:35:42.820 --> 00:35:43.520
 subjects were

00:35:43.520 --> 00:35:44.380
 happy.

00:35:46.040 --> 00:35:46.480
 And now

00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:47.120
 Solomon's

00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:47.660
 kingdom is

00:35:47.660 --> 00:35:48.140
 going to be

00:35:48.140 --> 00:35:49.580
 divided and

00:35:49.580 --> 00:35:50.020
 split.

00:35:50.140 --> 00:35:50.440
 It's not

00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:50.880
 going to be a

00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:51.480
 place of

00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:52.040
 peace.

00:35:53.040 --> 00:35:53.640
 It's going

00:35:53.640 --> 00:35:54.020
 to be a

00:35:54.020 --> 00:35:54.440
 place of

00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:54.900
 division.

00:35:55.900 --> 00:35:56.380
 It's not

00:35:56.380 --> 00:35:56.840
 going to be a

00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:57.640
 place of good

00:35:57.640 --> 00:35:58.160
 kings.

00:35:58.159 --> 00:35:59.719
 it's going

00:35:59.719 --> 00:36:00.059
 to be a

00:36:00.059 --> 00:36:00.559
 place of

00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:01.319
 bad kings

00:36:01.319 --> 00:36:01.679
 with the

00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:02.059
 odd

00:36:02.059 --> 00:36:03.039
 exception.

00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:03.480
 Look at

00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:04.119
 verse 11.

00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:06.500
 So the

00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:07.099
 Lord said to

00:36:07.099 --> 00:36:07.399
 Solomon,

00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:08.179
 since this is

00:36:08.179 --> 00:36:08.779
 your attitude

00:36:08.779 --> 00:36:09.279
 and you have

00:36:09.279 --> 00:36:09.859
 not kept my

00:36:09.859 --> 00:36:10.500
 covenant and

00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:11.079
 decrees,

00:36:11.319 --> 00:36:12.639
 which I

00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:13.259
 commanded you,

00:36:13.319 --> 00:36:13.940
 I will most

00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:15.599
 certainly tear

00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:16.179
 the kingdom

00:36:16.179 --> 00:36:16.960
 away from

00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:18.960
 you and

00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:19.500
 give it to

00:36:19.500 --> 00:36:19.980
 one of your

00:36:19.980 --> 00:36:20.920
 subordinates.

00:36:21.799 --> 00:36:22.059
 Solomon

00:36:22.059 --> 00:36:23.159
 clings to

00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:24.000
 his wives.

00:36:24.579 --> 00:36:24.879
 What does

00:36:24.879 --> 00:36:25.259
 God do?

00:36:25.359 --> 00:36:26.420
 He tears

00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:27.539
 the kingdom

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:28.119
 out of his

00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:28.680
 hands.

00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:30.039
 Nevertheless,

00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:30.880
 for the sake

00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:31.380
 of David,

00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:32.039
 your father,

00:36:32.240 --> 00:36:33.079
 I will not

00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:33.519
 do it in

00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:34.119
 your lifetime.

00:36:34.260 --> 00:36:34.760
 I will tear

00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:35.159
 it out of

00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:35.639
 the hand

00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:36.000
 of your

00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:36.360
 son.

00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:37.800
 Yet I

00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:38.320
 will not

00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:38.720
 tear the

00:36:38.720 --> 00:36:39.340
 whole kingdom

00:36:39.340 --> 00:36:40.000
 from him,

00:36:40.240 --> 00:36:40.680
 but will

00:36:40.680 --> 00:36:41.119
 give him

00:36:41.119 --> 00:36:41.720
 one tribe

00:36:41.720 --> 00:36:42.059
 for the

00:36:42.059 --> 00:36:42.440
 sake of

00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:42.760
 David,

00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:43.440
 my servant,

00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:44.460
 and for

00:36:44.460 --> 00:36:44.900
 the sake

00:36:44.900 --> 00:36:46.420
 of Jerusalem,

00:36:47.019 --> 00:36:47.539
 which I

00:36:47.539 --> 00:36:48.200
 have chosen.

00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:49.639
 A divided

00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:50.400
 kingdom will

00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:50.740
 be the

00:36:50.740 --> 00:36:51.500
 penalty for

00:36:51.500 --> 00:36:52.240
 Solomon's

00:36:52.240 --> 00:36:52.960
 blatant

00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:54.059
 disobedience.

00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:54.920
 The rest

00:36:54.920 --> 00:36:55.380
 of chapter

00:36:55.380 --> 00:36:55.960
 11 is

00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:56.320
 going to be

00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:56.920
 all about

00:36:56.920 --> 00:36:57.920
 these seeds

00:36:57.920 --> 00:36:58.539
 of division

00:36:58.539 --> 00:36:59.640
 being sown.

00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:01.740
 As Hadad

00:37:01.740 --> 00:37:02.620
 and Rezon

00:37:02.620 --> 00:37:03.600
 and Jeroboam

00:37:03.600 --> 00:37:04.059
 are raised

00:37:04.059 --> 00:37:04.400
 up as

00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:05.200
 adversaries,

00:37:05.660 --> 00:37:06.100
 Solomon's

00:37:06.100 --> 00:37:06.780
 know nothing

00:37:06.780 --> 00:37:07.420
 but peace

00:37:07.420 --> 00:37:07.800
 and now

00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:08.820
 adversaries

00:37:08.820 --> 00:37:10.120
 are raised

00:37:10.120 --> 00:37:10.559
 up.

00:37:11.140 --> 00:37:11.700
 Solomon's

00:37:11.700 --> 00:37:12.160
 reign that

00:37:12.160 --> 00:37:12.460
 had been

00:37:12.460 --> 00:37:13.400
 plain sailing

00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:14.100
 now has

00:37:14.100 --> 00:37:15.320
 tumultuous

00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:16.680
 storm clouds

00:37:16.680 --> 00:37:17.980
 brewing in

00:37:17.980 --> 00:37:18.960
 the distance.

00:37:20.220 --> 00:37:20.880
 Yet see,

00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:21.440
 and with this

00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:22.059
 we finish,

00:37:22.460 --> 00:37:23.460
 there's hope

00:37:23.460 --> 00:37:24.700
 even amidst

00:37:24.700 --> 00:37:25.080
 judgment.

00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:27.199
 that even

00:37:27.199 --> 00:37:27.860
 when God

00:37:27.860 --> 00:37:29.699
 is angry

00:37:29.699 --> 00:37:31.099
 because of

00:37:31.099 --> 00:37:31.739
 this evil

00:37:31.739 --> 00:37:32.340
 that Solomon

00:37:32.340 --> 00:37:33.480
 has perpetrated,

00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:35.739
 see that

00:37:35.739 --> 00:37:36.460
 there's grace

00:37:36.460 --> 00:37:37.039
 in the midst

00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:37.599
 of it.

00:37:38.319 --> 00:37:39.079
 I will not

00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:39.460
 tear the

00:37:39.460 --> 00:37:40.319
 whole kingdom

00:37:40.319 --> 00:37:40.880
 away,

00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:42.940
 but on account

00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:43.460
 of my

00:37:43.460 --> 00:37:44.360
 covenant,

00:37:45.500 --> 00:37:46.079
 God,

00:37:46.319 --> 00:37:47.039
 despite his

00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:47.299
 anger,

00:37:47.299 --> 00:37:47.940
 will remain

00:37:47.940 --> 00:37:49.000
 utterly faithful

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:49.799
 to the covenant

00:37:49.799 --> 00:37:50.860
 that he made.

00:37:50.860 --> 00:37:52.320
 that even

00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:52.920
 though Solomon

00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:53.800
 has broken

00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:54.440
 the covenant,

00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:55.280
 God will

00:37:55.280 --> 00:37:56.579
 keep the

00:37:56.579 --> 00:37:57.000
 covenant.

00:37:59.220 --> 00:38:00.120
 He will

00:38:00.120 --> 00:38:00.880
 have one

00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:01.440
 tribe.

00:38:02.579 --> 00:38:03.079
 He will

00:38:03.079 --> 00:38:03.940
 keep Judah

00:38:03.940 --> 00:38:05.140
 as it

00:38:05.140 --> 00:38:05.840
 turns out.

00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:06.780
 This is the

00:38:06.780 --> 00:38:07.380
 great hope

00:38:07.380 --> 00:38:07.780
 of the

00:38:07.780 --> 00:38:08.220
 gospel,

00:38:08.900 --> 00:38:09.440
 that our

00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:10.079
 salvation is

00:38:10.079 --> 00:38:10.820
 not dependent

00:38:10.820 --> 00:38:11.519
 on how much

00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:11.980
 we love

00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:12.200
 God,

00:38:12.260 --> 00:38:12.680
 but on how

00:38:12.680 --> 00:38:13.079
 much he

00:38:13.079 --> 00:38:13.880
 loves us.

00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:17.280
 that even

00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:17.740
 though we

00:38:17.740 --> 00:38:18.740
 break covenant

00:38:18.740 --> 00:38:19.240
 with him,

00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:19.559
 he will

00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:20.019
 keep it

00:38:20.019 --> 00:38:20.380
 forever.

00:38:22.140 --> 00:38:22.940
 That his

00:38:22.940 --> 00:38:23.500
 unfailing

00:38:23.500 --> 00:38:24.320
 love will

00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:25.800
 never fail.

00:38:28.180 --> 00:38:29.119
 One tribe

00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:29.800
 is ultimately

00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:30.420
 preserved,

00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:30.980
 the tribe

00:38:30.980 --> 00:38:31.519
 of Judah,

00:38:32.019 --> 00:38:32.760
 from which

00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:33.240
 would come

00:38:33.240 --> 00:38:33.880
 the one,

00:38:35.019 --> 00:38:35.780
 the lion

00:38:35.780 --> 00:38:36.440
 of Judah,

00:38:36.900 --> 00:38:37.680
 great David's

00:38:37.680 --> 00:38:38.539
 greater son,

00:38:38.680 --> 00:38:39.340
 greater than

00:38:39.340 --> 00:38:39.740
 Solomon,

00:38:40.019 --> 00:38:41.320
 whose undivided

00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:41.840
 heart would

00:38:41.840 --> 00:38:42.559
 be the ultimate

00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:43.460
 remedy of our

00:38:43.460 --> 00:38:44.240
 fickle faith.

00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:46.760
 One whom on

00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:47.420
 the mountain

00:38:47.420 --> 00:38:48.000
 east of

00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:49.220
 Jerusalem didn't

00:38:49.220 --> 00:38:49.960
 flirt with other

00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:51.119
 faiths,

00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:52.039
 whose half-hearted

00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:52.800
 heart didn't

00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:53.900
 build high

00:38:53.900 --> 00:38:54.820
 places for

00:38:54.820 --> 00:38:55.579
 other gods,

00:38:57.639 --> 00:38:58.420
 but this one

00:38:58.420 --> 00:38:58.860
 who lay

00:38:58.860 --> 00:38:59.780
 prostrate,

00:39:00.720 --> 00:39:01.460
 sweating drops

00:39:01.460 --> 00:39:02.519
 of blood from

00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:03.300
 a wholehearted

00:39:03.300 --> 00:39:04.019
 heart,

00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:05.860
 praying in

00:39:05.860 --> 00:39:06.340
 obedience,

00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:07.139
 not my will,

00:39:07.220 --> 00:39:07.780
 but yours be

00:39:07.780 --> 00:39:08.059
 done.

00:39:08.980 --> 00:39:09.900
 The ultimate

00:39:09.900 --> 00:39:10.619
 expression of

00:39:10.619 --> 00:39:11.240
 what it means to

00:39:11.240 --> 00:39:12.119
 be a wholehearted,

00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:13.320
 obedient,

00:39:13.460 --> 00:39:14.139
 worshipper of

00:39:14.139 --> 00:39:14.519
 God.

00:39:15.579 --> 00:39:16.260
 So there are

00:39:16.260 --> 00:39:17.019
 lessons to be

00:39:17.019 --> 00:39:17.460
 learned from

00:39:17.460 --> 00:39:17.880
 Solomon,

00:39:18.300 --> 00:39:19.380
 important lessons

00:39:19.380 --> 00:39:20.139
 that cause us

00:39:20.139 --> 00:39:21.800
 to take seriously

00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:22.559
 the command to

00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:23.800
 resist the drift

00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:25.400
 and cling each

00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:26.260
 and every day to

00:39:26.260 --> 00:39:26.860
 Christ.

00:39:27.579 --> 00:39:28.440
 We are to do

00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:29.220
 exactly what

00:39:29.220 --> 00:39:30.179
 Joshua commanded

00:39:30.179 --> 00:39:31.720
 God's people as

00:39:31.720 --> 00:39:32.840
 they enter at the

00:39:32.840 --> 00:39:33.780
 end of the

00:39:33.780 --> 00:39:34.579
 conquest of the

00:39:34.579 --> 00:39:35.059
 promised land.

00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:36.300
 Be very careful

00:39:36.300 --> 00:39:38.039
 therefore to love

00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:38.780
 the Lord your God.

00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:39.780
 Be very careful.

00:39:39.780 --> 00:39:43.100
 what Jesus says

00:39:43.100 --> 00:39:44.040
 on that night in

00:39:44.040 --> 00:39:45.519
 Gethsemane at the

00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:46.300
 Mount of Olives,

00:39:46.420 --> 00:39:48.400
 watch and pray that

00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:49.260
 you may not enter

00:39:49.260 --> 00:39:50.019
 into temptation.

00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:51.900
 Watch and pray that

00:39:51.900 --> 00:39:52.700
 you may not enter

00:39:52.700 --> 00:39:53.480
 into temptation.

00:39:54.620 --> 00:39:55.560
 1 Kings 11,

00:39:55.700 --> 00:39:56.120
 36,

00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:57.140
 I will give one

00:39:57.140 --> 00:39:58.840
 tribe to his son

00:39:58.840 --> 00:39:59.620
 so that David,

00:39:59.780 --> 00:40:00.420
 my servant,

00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:02.140
 may always have a

00:40:02.140 --> 00:40:03.080
 lamp before me in

00:40:03.080 --> 00:40:03.540
 Jerusalem,

00:40:04.300 --> 00:40:05.420
 the city where I

00:40:05.420 --> 00:40:06.240
 chose to put my

00:40:06.240 --> 00:40:06.620
 name.

00:40:06.619 --> 00:40:09.639
 that lamp that

00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:10.519
 God preserves

00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:11.460
 down the line

00:40:11.460 --> 00:40:12.079
 would grow up

00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:12.699
 into the light

00:40:12.699 --> 00:40:13.440
 of the world.

00:40:14.139 --> 00:40:14.639
 He would be

00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:15.460
 snuffed out so

00:40:15.460 --> 00:40:16.199
 his light could

00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:16.960
 shine for all

00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:18.699
 eternity on our

00:40:18.699 --> 00:40:19.159
 lives.

00:40:19.699 --> 00:40:20.279
 Let's pray.

00:40:29.940 --> 00:40:30.579
 Father God,

00:40:30.619 --> 00:40:31.159
 we pray for

00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:33.139
 ourselves and we

00:40:33.139 --> 00:40:33.920
 pray for each

00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:34.259
 other.

00:40:34.260 --> 00:40:36.240
 Father,

00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:36.860
 we want to be

00:40:36.860 --> 00:40:37.520
 wholehearted

00:40:37.520 --> 00:40:38.280
 worshippers.

00:40:39.980 --> 00:40:40.420
 Father,

00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:40.960
 we don't want to

00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:41.680
 treat faith in

00:40:41.680 --> 00:40:42.580
 you as a hobby

00:40:42.580 --> 00:40:44.220
 or something we

00:40:44.220 --> 00:40:45.060
 just do on a

00:40:45.060 --> 00:40:45.440
 Sunday.

00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:47.360
 Father,

00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:48.240
 we want to love

00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:49.120
 you and cling to

00:40:49.120 --> 00:40:49.360
 you.

00:40:49.580 --> 00:40:50.140
 We don't want to

00:40:50.140 --> 00:40:51.060
 drift from you

00:40:51.060 --> 00:40:52.200
 or turn from you

00:40:52.200 --> 00:40:53.260
 or walk away from

00:40:53.260 --> 00:40:53.540
 you.

00:40:54.700 --> 00:40:55.140
 Father,

00:40:55.220 --> 00:40:55.760
 we want to be

00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:57.640
 yours and wholly

00:40:57.640 --> 00:40:58.280
 yours.

00:40:59.640 --> 00:41:00.080
 So,

00:41:00.180 --> 00:41:00.320
 Father,

00:41:00.420 --> 00:41:00.980
 whether we're

00:41:00.980 --> 00:41:01.260
 young,

00:41:01.340 --> 00:41:02.020
 may we resist

00:41:02.020 --> 00:41:02.640
 the drift.

00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:03.100
 May we,

00:41:03.099 --> 00:41:03.659
 whether we're

00:41:03.659 --> 00:41:04.679
 middle-aged,

00:41:04.819 --> 00:41:05.079
 Lord,

00:41:05.579 --> 00:41:06.099
 keep us

00:41:06.099 --> 00:41:06.759
 clinging to

00:41:06.759 --> 00:41:07.239
 Christ.

00:41:08.420 --> 00:41:08.699
 And,

00:41:08.779 --> 00:41:08.940
 Father,

00:41:09.019 --> 00:41:09.639
 may those who

00:41:09.639 --> 00:41:10.299
 are old have

00:41:10.299 --> 00:41:11.079
 this testimony

00:41:11.079 --> 00:41:11.860
 that they love

00:41:11.860 --> 00:41:12.480
 Jesus more

00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:13.960
 today than

00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:14.679
 they ever have

00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:15.000
 in their

00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:15.539
 lives.

00:41:16.659 --> 00:41:17.099
 Father,

00:41:17.179 --> 00:41:17.719
 we pray the

00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:18.239
 same for our

00:41:18.239 --> 00:41:18.759
 church that we

00:41:18.759 --> 00:41:19.380
 would not drift

00:41:19.380 --> 00:41:19.799
 away.

00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:21.639
 But as your

00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:22.400
 body of people

00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:23.019
 in this place,

00:41:23.059 --> 00:41:23.579
 we would cling

00:41:23.579 --> 00:41:24.099
 to Christ

00:41:24.099 --> 00:41:24.559
 together.

00:41:25.279 --> 00:41:25.719
 And,

00:41:25.779 --> 00:41:25.940
 Father,

00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:26.299
 we would

00:41:26.299 --> 00:41:27.239
 encourage each

00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:27.839
 other in our

00:41:27.839 --> 00:41:29.659
 walk that we

00:41:29.659 --> 00:41:30.759
 might walk

00:41:30.759 --> 00:41:31.739
 closely to your

00:41:31.739 --> 00:41:32.339
 son Jesus,

00:41:33.439 --> 00:41:34.079
 who is the

00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:34.799
 very epitome

00:41:34.799 --> 00:41:35.279
 of what a

00:41:35.279 --> 00:41:35.799
 wholehearted

00:41:35.799 --> 00:41:37.239
 worshipper is.

00:41:38.319 --> 00:41:38.739
 And,

00:41:38.819 --> 00:41:38.899
 Lord,

00:41:38.959 --> 00:41:39.500
 because of his

00:41:39.500 --> 00:41:40.559
 wholeheartedness,

00:41:41.459 --> 00:41:42.019
 thank you that

00:41:42.019 --> 00:41:42.679
 there's forgiveness

00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:43.339
 for when we're

00:41:43.339 --> 00:41:43.899
 half-hearted.

00:41:45.179 --> 00:41:45.579
 But,

00:41:45.659 --> 00:41:45.879
 Lord,

00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:46.619
 kindle in us

00:41:46.619 --> 00:41:47.319
 such a faith

00:41:47.319 --> 00:41:47.779
 and a love

00:41:47.779 --> 00:41:48.399
 for your son

00:41:48.399 --> 00:41:49.939
 that we will

00:41:49.939 --> 00:41:50.599
 worship and

00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:51.159
 follow and

00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:51.859
 adore him

00:41:51.859 --> 00:41:53.119
 all the days

00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:53.879
 of our lives.

00:41:54.439 --> 00:41:55.259
 We pray this

00:41:55.259 --> 00:41:55.779
 not for our

00:41:55.779 --> 00:41:56.179
 safety.

00:41:57.179 --> 00:41:57.359
 Lord,

00:41:57.419 --> 00:41:57.939
 we don't pray

00:41:57.939 --> 00:41:58.599
 this for our

00:41:58.599 --> 00:41:59.179
 own fame,

00:41:59.179 --> 00:42:00.799
 but we pray

00:42:00.799 --> 00:42:01.500
 it so that

00:42:01.500 --> 00:42:02.219
 Jesus might be

00:42:02.219 --> 00:42:03.019
 glorified in

00:42:03.019 --> 00:42:03.659
 our lives

00:42:03.659 --> 00:42:04.759
 and that

00:42:04.759 --> 00:42:05.319
 people might

00:42:05.319 --> 00:42:05.819
 see that we

00:42:05.819 --> 00:42:06.339
 love him

00:42:06.339 --> 00:42:06.799
 most.

00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:07.759
 Father,

00:42:07.879 --> 00:42:08.379
 bless us and

00:42:08.379 --> 00:42:08.919
 help us in

00:42:08.919 --> 00:42:09.719
 his glorious,

00:42:10.379 --> 00:42:10.980
 all-conquering

00:42:10.980 --> 00:42:11.339
 name.

00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:12.259
 Amen.