1 Kings 2:1-4
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When the time drew near for David to die, he
gave a charge to Solomon his son.
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“I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he
said. “So be strong, act like a man,
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and observe what the LORD your God requires:
walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees
and commands, his laws and regulations, as
written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you
may prosper in all you do and wherever you go
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and that the LORD may keep his promise to me:
‘If your descendants watch how they live, and if
they walk faithfully before me with all their heart
and soul, you will never fail to have a successor on
the throne of Israel.’
If you could have anything just by asking for it,
what would it be?
1. The “black box” of Solomon’s life shows us he did the
___________________thing.
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13 Who
is wise and understanding among you? Let them
show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility
that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy
and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about
it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come
down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there
you find disorder and every evil practice. 17 But the
wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then
peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and
good fruit, impartial and sincere. 18 Peacemakers who
sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
James 3:13-18
“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was
good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also
DESIRABLE FOR GAINING WISDOM, she took some and
ate it. She also gave some to her husband and he
ate it.”
Genesis 3:6
“The foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom and
the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”
1 Corinthians 1:25
2. The “black box” of Solomon’s life shows there came a
point in His life when he did the _____________________
thing.
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“Wisdom is the right USE of knowledge. To know is not
to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all
the greater fools for it. To know how to use knowledge
is to have wisdom.”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“King Solomon loved many foreign women besides
Pharaoh’s daughter, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about
which the Lord had told the Israelites, ‘You must not
intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your
hearts after their gods.’ Nevertheless, Solomon held fast
to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal
birth and three hundred concubines and his wives led
him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his
heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully
devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his
father had been. He followed Ashtoreth the goddess
of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of
the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of
the Lord.”
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