1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,869 I've been a member here. 2 00:00:00,869 --> 00:00:03,599 I'm not a minister if you're visiting not a minister. 3 00:00:04,049 --> 00:00:07,679 Um, but I'm a member and I've been a member here since 1994. 4 00:00:08,759 --> 00:00:12,569 Uh, grew up in North Orange County and actually went to Cal State Forton. 5 00:00:12,569 --> 00:00:13,590 Who has Cal Who, who? 6 00:00:13,590 --> 00:00:18,299 Heres Cal State, ladies and gentlemen. 7 00:00:18,304 --> 00:00:19,710 Ramon Diaz is here. 8 00:00:20,849 --> 00:00:22,920 Man, I love this guy. 9 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:23,880 This has been a brother. 10 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:24,509 I, I love you. 11 00:00:24,509 --> 00:00:25,289 I'm so glad you're here. 12 00:00:25,289 --> 00:00:26,039 It's exciting. 13 00:00:26,309 --> 00:00:29,519 Um, but I graduated from Cal State in the early sixties. 14 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:34,949 I'm a little older. 15 00:00:34,949 --> 00:00:37,230 No, I graduated in the nine, late nineties. 16 00:00:37,259 --> 00:00:37,380 Okay. 17 00:00:37,384 --> 00:00:38,069 I just look old. 18 00:00:38,519 --> 00:00:44,039 Um, I'm married, been married for 19 years, almost 20, and uh, I have two dogs. 19 00:00:44,039 --> 00:00:47,879 I have a male pit bull that's about 60 pounds and a micro pit bull. 20 00:00:47,884 --> 00:00:48,839 Have you ever seen those? 21 00:00:49,169 --> 00:00:50,069 That's a female. 22 00:00:50,429 --> 00:00:51,329 Um, she's great. 23 00:00:51,329 --> 00:00:51,989 Her name's Dotty. 24 00:00:52,589 --> 00:00:53,309 Call her little Dotty. 25 00:00:53,789 --> 00:00:56,250 Um, so most of you guys are like, okay, that's great Chris. 26 00:00:56,489 --> 00:00:57,389 We just wanted to hear about Gina. 27 00:00:57,779 --> 00:00:59,429 I wanted to give you an update about Gina. 28 00:00:59,699 --> 00:01:03,239 Most of you know that she's been battling cancer for over a year now. 29 00:01:03,629 --> 00:01:04,108 Okay. 30 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,129 Had surgery, went through all her chemo, just finished her infusions and she has 31 00:01:08,134 --> 00:01:10,439 another surgery coming up this next week. 32 00:01:11,219 --> 00:01:11,699 This week? 33 00:01:11,789 --> 00:01:12,359 No, next week. 34 00:01:13,109 --> 00:01:13,499 Okay. 35 00:01:13,739 --> 00:01:15,619 So if you could pray for her, that'd be fantastic. 36 00:01:16,529 --> 00:01:18,299 Uh, some of you got a chance. 37 00:01:18,329 --> 00:01:19,619 I'm throwing out prayer requests right now. 38 00:01:19,769 --> 00:01:21,959 Some of you got a chance to meet my mom. 39 00:01:22,289 --> 00:01:26,639 Uh, my dad died last year and my mom was coming to church and, uh, some 40 00:01:26,639 --> 00:01:30,119 of you I was so grateful, invested in talking to her in relationships, 41 00:01:30,449 --> 00:01:33,979 um, and she got rushed to the er, uh, twice this past week. 42 00:01:34,755 --> 00:01:35,894 She has some heart issues. 43 00:01:35,894 --> 00:01:39,405 So if you can remember to pray for her, uh, and Gina, my 44 00:01:39,405 --> 00:01:41,054 wife, that would be fantastic. 45 00:01:41,054 --> 00:01:42,255 We'd really appreciate that. 46 00:01:42,644 --> 00:01:47,985 Um, okay, so somehow Marcel said, Hey, you can come back up and speak again. 47 00:01:48,764 --> 00:01:50,384 Uh, it was amazing, Nick. 48 00:01:50,473 --> 00:01:55,994 Uh, so last, the first time I spoke about Goliath was anybody here when we talked 49 00:01:55,994 --> 00:02:01,815 about Goliath and how Goliath's name was really the exposure and what he did was he 50 00:02:01,815 --> 00:02:07,335 exposed God's people and prevented them, their fear, whatever was in their heart. 51 00:02:07,335 --> 00:02:10,634 They would wake up and they'd pray and they'd go to battle and there's Goliath, 52 00:02:10,634 --> 00:02:12,014 and he would expose who they were. 53 00:02:12,014 --> 00:02:17,175 And they never got to the real battle that was already won, that God had already won 54 00:02:17,175 --> 00:02:20,204 for them because Goliath stood in the way and they just couldn't get through it. 55 00:02:20,210 --> 00:02:23,054 And then we talked about the next time about Noah and how 56 00:02:23,059 --> 00:02:24,855 Noah was a man after God's heart. 57 00:02:24,855 --> 00:02:26,835 He followed God, he built this arc. 58 00:02:26,835 --> 00:02:28,125 Everyone thought he was crazy. 59 00:02:28,130 --> 00:02:28,695 He's insane. 60 00:02:28,695 --> 00:02:30,045 What are you doing following this God? 61 00:02:30,045 --> 00:02:30,494 It's not gonna rain. 62 00:02:30,804 --> 00:02:33,434 Sure enough, it rains never hears from God. 63 00:02:34,168 --> 00:02:35,339 All these people die. 64 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:36,809 All his friends die. 65 00:02:36,809 --> 00:02:38,369 There's aid in all that are saved. 66 00:02:38,459 --> 00:02:43,619 He's on this boat, it's dark, it's 40 days, 40 nights, and nothing from God. 67 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:45,149 And he feels alone. 68 00:02:45,809 --> 00:02:49,289 And then suddenly the water sees, he lands. 69 00:02:49,529 --> 00:02:54,239 The first thing he does is he plants a crop and he becomes kind of a drunkard and 70 00:02:54,239 --> 00:02:58,799 he deals with the stress, if you want to call it ptsd, whatever you want to call 71 00:02:58,799 --> 00:03:05,159 it, of what he went through, feeling like God didn't care by alcohol, messes up his 72 00:03:05,159 --> 00:03:07,799 kids for a bit, and uh, it was a mess. 73 00:03:08,819 --> 00:03:13,109 The crazy part is, is in those stories, especially Noah, the apex of this 74 00:03:13,109 --> 00:03:19,349 story, the middle of these bookends is the line, but God remembered Noah, and 75 00:03:19,349 --> 00:03:25,559 there's a lot of times that we feel alone and we forget that God remembers us. 76 00:03:26,099 --> 00:03:28,709 Okay, so let's jump into this now. 77 00:03:28,709 --> 00:03:30,869 Crazy enough, you see these two, you're like, what does this have to do? 78 00:03:30,869 --> 00:03:31,260 What you're talking about? 79 00:03:31,735 --> 00:03:35,744 Now, these were two news articles that came around that I saw this past week. 80 00:03:36,134 --> 00:03:39,074 Uh, one on the left. 81 00:03:39,525 --> 00:03:42,315 Did you guys see the video of the whale that emerged and 82 00:03:42,315 --> 00:03:44,295 swallowed the two women kayakers. 83 00:03:45,795 --> 00:03:46,545 They're kayaking. 84 00:03:46,545 --> 00:03:47,625 This guy's paddle boarding. 85 00:03:47,625 --> 00:03:50,565 All these people, this whale comes up and swallows them. 86 00:03:51,344 --> 00:03:56,594 The kayak gets kicked out and they go under and then the whale spits 'em out. 87 00:03:57,224 --> 00:03:59,025 You can look online, you can watch the video. 88 00:03:59,025 --> 00:04:00,644 There's a lot of different views of the video. 89 00:04:00,644 --> 00:04:01,485 It's unbelievable. 90 00:04:01,605 --> 00:04:04,755 Now, I'm not gonna bring up Jonah, but 91 00:04:10,164 --> 00:04:11,565 okay, now they survived. 92 00:04:11,565 --> 00:04:12,344 That was good spit. 93 00:04:12,855 --> 00:04:17,445 Now, uh, the other part is the Earth water is officially older than the sun. 94 00:04:17,505 --> 00:04:18,164 Did you guys see that? 95 00:04:18,164 --> 00:04:18,675 Headlines? 96 00:04:19,425 --> 00:04:20,834 Scientists said, you know what? 97 00:04:20,834 --> 00:04:25,514 In fact, and look at these articles, Earth's water is older 98 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:27,134 than the entire solar system. 99 00:04:28,755 --> 00:04:30,795 Has anyone ever read Genesis one? 100 00:04:31,289 --> 00:04:32,369 Verses one and two. 101 00:04:35,669 --> 00:04:41,279 I'm not gonna, I'm not a, uh uh, I don't deal with uh, uh, the, the earth. 102 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:42,419 I'm not a scientist. 103 00:04:42,749 --> 00:04:45,119 Uh, I don't deal with an astrology, any of that. 104 00:04:45,179 --> 00:04:47,429 I'm not trying to insinuate anything. 105 00:04:47,609 --> 00:04:51,930 I'm just saying the knowledge that we keep coming to, sometimes it's right there 106 00:04:52,139 --> 00:04:56,609 in front of us that we're reading and there's a lot to that poetry prose, you 107 00:04:56,609 --> 00:04:58,469 know, how God, a relationship with man. 108 00:04:58,769 --> 00:05:02,039 But it is pretty amazing that scientists now say the water. 109 00:05:02,039 --> 00:05:05,219 If you could go back to Genesis one, verses one and two and see 110 00:05:05,224 --> 00:05:08,399 what it says about the earth was formless, you know, just a deep 111 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:10,259 sea and that's all that existed. 112 00:05:10,259 --> 00:05:11,799 The spirit, pretty interesting. 113 00:05:12,149 --> 00:05:12,439 Okay. 114 00:05:14,939 --> 00:05:15,629 Oh, is it not working? 115 00:05:17,309 --> 00:05:18,629 This thing was on red. 116 00:05:18,899 --> 00:05:19,259 All right. 117 00:05:19,259 --> 00:05:20,279 I like to walk around too. 118 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:21,129 Okay. 119 00:05:22,364 --> 00:05:22,994 I'm Italian. 120 00:05:22,994 --> 00:05:26,384 I use my hands, I walk around, I sweat olive oil. 121 00:05:28,784 --> 00:05:30,734 You, you guys might guy get hit in the front. 122 00:05:30,734 --> 00:05:32,234 It's just gonna come off of me. 123 00:05:32,714 --> 00:05:33,045 Okay? 124 00:05:33,045 --> 00:05:36,254 So, uh, let's talk about Solomon. 125 00:05:36,524 --> 00:05:38,204 So today I want to talk about Solomon. 126 00:05:38,204 --> 00:05:40,125 Let me see if I can keep up with my stuff here. 127 00:05:40,784 --> 00:05:41,234 Okay. 128 00:05:41,234 --> 00:05:41,954 King Solomon. 129 00:05:42,914 --> 00:05:44,384 Oh, how do we go back? 130 00:05:44,625 --> 00:05:46,815 Push the red one point here. 131 00:05:47,804 --> 00:05:48,524 Can you manually go back? 132 00:05:48,524 --> 00:05:48,884 Good. 133 00:05:49,545 --> 00:05:49,933 Thank you. 134 00:05:50,204 --> 00:05:55,664 Okay, so we wanna talk about, we wanna talk about Solomon. 135 00:05:58,145 --> 00:05:59,694 Maybe we don't wanna talk about Solomon. 136 00:06:00,014 --> 00:06:00,135 All right. 137 00:06:00,645 --> 00:06:04,545 So, uh, we're gonna stick with the Old Testament and I wanna look at Solomon. 138 00:06:04,545 --> 00:06:07,424 I wanna talk about wisdom, and I wanna talk about our lives. 139 00:06:07,964 --> 00:06:15,105 Um, you know, king Solomon, uh, was the last king of the United 140 00:06:15,105 --> 00:06:17,145 Israel, so to say, at its height. 141 00:06:17,684 --> 00:06:20,654 Who were the three kings of Israel as a United Nation? 142 00:06:21,884 --> 00:06:24,704 Who, who started as the first king Somon Saul. 143 00:06:24,704 --> 00:06:25,664 And then it went to who? 144 00:06:25,670 --> 00:06:25,965 David. 145 00:06:26,204 --> 00:06:26,715 David. 146 00:06:26,715 --> 00:06:28,215 And then it went to his son Solomon. 147 00:06:28,574 --> 00:06:29,715 David ruled about 40 years. 148 00:06:29,715 --> 00:06:30,674 Solomon ruled about 40 years. 149 00:06:30,674 --> 00:06:34,244 So under King Solomon, it's the height of Israel. 150 00:06:34,514 --> 00:06:36,465 They have the most land or the wealthiest. 151 00:06:36,465 --> 00:06:38,414 Everybody has a home in a garden, actually. 152 00:06:38,414 --> 00:06:43,545 It says, okay, uh, Solomon comes and he finishes or he builds the temple 153 00:06:43,545 --> 00:06:45,014 that David said he wanted to build. 154 00:06:45,344 --> 00:06:48,195 And he's the architect of this temple. 155 00:06:49,094 --> 00:06:52,275 Uh, it's a time when things seem so right. 156 00:06:53,025 --> 00:06:57,164 It was a realization of the promise of Abraham to Abraham, right? 157 00:06:57,315 --> 00:07:02,445 That his, his seeds would become like nations and there'd be so many of 158 00:07:02,445 --> 00:07:03,824 them in its building, in his building. 159 00:07:03,824 --> 00:07:04,454 It's under David. 160 00:07:04,545 --> 00:07:05,715 He's a man after God's own heart. 161 00:07:05,715 --> 00:07:08,355 And here's his son, Solomon, and he's the architect. 162 00:07:08,355 --> 00:07:12,105 He builds this thing and it's so right and then it just starts 163 00:07:12,585 --> 00:07:14,384 to become a disaster in decline. 164 00:07:15,914 --> 00:07:19,395 The Kingdom splits in two with his own son, Ray HaBO and Jerome. 165 00:07:20,549 --> 00:07:26,520 Uh, the loss of the United Kingdom was the end of Solomon's legacy 166 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:30,719 that resulted in Nene tearing down the temple and it being destroyed. 167 00:07:32,099 --> 00:07:36,899 And so how in the world you have this nation, you go from this height where God 168 00:07:36,899 --> 00:07:38,219 says, your kingdom's gonna endure forever. 169 00:07:38,819 --> 00:07:39,509 I'm gonna be with you. 170 00:07:39,509 --> 00:07:40,889 You're gonna do these great things. 171 00:07:41,250 --> 00:07:46,259 And then it splits amazingly enough, Israel was only a powerful 172 00:07:46,259 --> 00:07:48,959 United Nation for about 80 years. 173 00:07:50,009 --> 00:07:53,609 And if you think between David and Solomon, what four 174 00:07:53,609 --> 00:07:55,169 books of the Bible do we have? 175 00:07:56,039 --> 00:07:56,729 What did they write? 176 00:07:57,619 --> 00:08:00,509 David and Solomon, what have we got? 177 00:08:01,229 --> 00:08:08,489 Psalms, Proverbs, song of Songs and Ecclesiastes, right? 178 00:08:08,489 --> 00:08:09,479 A bunch of proverbs. 179 00:08:10,139 --> 00:08:12,000 Um, they were the glory days. 180 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,949 There was peace and there was prosperity. 181 00:08:14,939 --> 00:08:15,930 Solomon builds this thing. 182 00:08:15,935 --> 00:08:18,359 He opens up this temple and he invites the whole world. 183 00:08:19,304 --> 00:08:25,605 And he says, Hey, come worship God or God, the true God, the one, look at 184 00:08:25,605 --> 00:08:30,074 what he has given us and these people, and he opens up, it's like a global 185 00:08:30,074 --> 00:08:33,134 unity tour here to come and worship God. 186 00:08:34,334 --> 00:08:40,125 But then it all falls apart within a generation and it falls fast. 187 00:08:41,804 --> 00:08:45,944 J Bom, who was a good worker and official that was under Solomon, 188 00:08:46,185 --> 00:08:50,294 he actually comes and he accuses his son of, Hey, you've left God. 189 00:08:50,294 --> 00:08:51,314 You're not following God anymore. 190 00:08:51,319 --> 00:08:53,834 You're not sticking to what we're supposed to do, and rightly so. 191 00:08:54,134 --> 00:08:55,524 But he goes, I'm gonna go elsewhere. 192 00:08:57,424 --> 00:09:00,704 I'm gonna go out elsewhere and find a place, and to the hills, 193 00:09:00,704 --> 00:09:02,174 to the desert with our tents. 194 00:09:03,044 --> 00:09:07,364 And he goes out there and he ends up slowly drifting away himself to the point 195 00:09:07,369 --> 00:09:10,605 where he raises these golden calves and he tells these people, Hey, actually 196 00:09:10,605 --> 00:09:13,514 these are the things, these are the idols that brought you out of Egypt. 197 00:09:14,064 --> 00:09:17,084 And they worship these golden calves, right? 198 00:09:17,489 --> 00:09:22,739 Uh, Raya Bo, um, he stays and he has Jerusalem and he has two tribes. 199 00:09:22,739 --> 00:09:24,029 Your mom has 10 tribes. 200 00:09:24,389 --> 00:09:27,059 The rest of, uh, Kings and Samuels. 201 00:09:27,064 --> 00:09:30,209 All these prophets that keep coming, trying to bring people back to God. 202 00:09:30,479 --> 00:09:32,099 Remember, well, who I am. 203 00:09:32,519 --> 00:09:34,889 Remember what I told you to do? 204 00:09:35,459 --> 00:09:38,189 Remember the height from which you had fallen. 205 00:09:39,359 --> 00:09:41,309 And time and time again, the people reject him. 206 00:09:41,309 --> 00:09:42,929 The kings reject him, and they do their own thing. 207 00:09:42,929 --> 00:09:46,229 And every so often a good one comes in and they last a little 208 00:09:46,229 --> 00:09:47,339 bit, and then they're out too. 209 00:09:48,419 --> 00:09:53,639 And so this brief reign of David and Solomon with some highlights, some, some 210 00:09:53,699 --> 00:09:57,029 good highlights, some bad parts ends. 211 00:09:57,809 --> 00:10:04,199 And really it's the political demise of Israel, the United Nation of Israel. 212 00:10:04,859 --> 00:10:06,599 Now, they controlled all the trade routes. 213 00:10:06,599 --> 00:10:09,029 I mean, Solomon, I'm gonna show you a list. 214 00:10:09,029 --> 00:10:10,049 Let's see if I can get through here. 215 00:10:11,339 --> 00:10:15,509 Like, oh, by the way, I was looking up Solomon and David, and 216 00:10:15,509 --> 00:10:17,069 I don't think the one on the right. 217 00:10:19,064 --> 00:10:19,724 Was King Sol. 218 00:10:19,724 --> 00:10:22,754 I don't think they had guns and cars, but this is what comes up. 219 00:10:22,754 --> 00:10:24,494 If you look up King Solomon. 220 00:10:25,124 --> 00:10:27,164 Yeah, those, those are old school posters, right? 221 00:10:27,824 --> 00:10:28,724 I'm trying to go forward. 222 00:10:29,114 --> 00:10:31,844 Okay, so, uh, you see here is the kingdom. 223 00:10:31,849 --> 00:10:32,774 How big it was. 224 00:10:32,774 --> 00:10:34,064 I was supposed to already get to this. 225 00:10:34,184 --> 00:10:35,534 I'm just not clicking, I'm talking. 226 00:10:35,704 --> 00:10:38,204 Um, Ray Jerome goes up north 10 tribes. 227 00:10:38,204 --> 00:10:41,414 Ray Bo stays down south in Jerusalem with two tribes and it just falls 228 00:10:41,414 --> 00:10:43,484 apart divided Kingdom, okay? 229 00:10:43,634 --> 00:10:45,584 And it goes from the height all the way down. 230 00:10:46,154 --> 00:10:50,714 And I wanna show you, cuz you guys know the story of Solomon, so I 231 00:10:50,714 --> 00:10:52,124 don't wanna save this for later. 232 00:10:52,129 --> 00:10:53,144 I wanna look through these. 233 00:10:53,149 --> 00:10:57,704 You can read through these, these are some part of the accomplishments 234 00:10:57,704 --> 00:11:03,524 or the things that Solomon gained, he built, he made that God gave him. 235 00:11:05,264 --> 00:11:06,284 And I got another page. 236 00:11:09,674 --> 00:11:10,064 Thank you. 237 00:11:10,064 --> 00:11:11,024 I don't think I'm doing this right. 238 00:11:13,994 --> 00:11:14,344 I mean, imagine. 239 00:11:15,284 --> 00:11:18,525 He had kings, he had governors, he had all these people coming, 240 00:11:18,525 --> 00:11:22,154 giving gifts, large amounts of gold. 241 00:11:22,154 --> 00:11:25,304 He had a fleet of trading ships that would go out and get gold 242 00:11:25,310 --> 00:11:27,674 and animals and you name it. 243 00:11:28,005 --> 00:11:32,025 He had slaves galore that worked for him, that built most of this stuff. 244 00:11:32,974 --> 00:11:37,094 He had 1400 chariots, 12,000 horses, right? 245 00:11:37,094 --> 00:11:40,395 He was considered the wisest man that ever lived. 246 00:11:41,114 --> 00:11:44,744 He had Egyptian chariots, Egyptian horses, 700 wives. 247 00:11:48,404 --> 00:11:49,185 That's exhausting. 248 00:11:49,784 --> 00:11:54,224 I'm just gonna say that's not, I'm just gonna say 300 concubines. 249 00:11:56,295 --> 00:11:58,034 It was limitless what he had. 250 00:11:58,514 --> 00:11:59,804 God had given him everything. 251 00:12:01,094 --> 00:12:05,565 You know, you might be thinking, okay, so we have a nation, 252 00:12:06,014 --> 00:12:08,355 um, I go forward one more. 253 00:12:09,614 --> 00:12:10,185 You guys remember that? 254 00:12:10,185 --> 00:12:11,924 Toosie Pop Al, how many looks for a Tootsie Pop? 255 00:12:12,074 --> 00:12:12,465 Three. 256 00:12:12,465 --> 00:12:13,154 And then he bites it. 257 00:12:13,439 --> 00:12:17,669 Okay, so you might be thinking, okay, so we have the height of its nation. 258 00:12:17,939 --> 00:12:24,629 Um, there's turmoil within the nation and it as big as it gets and as 259 00:12:24,629 --> 00:12:26,219 glorious as it gets, it then falls. 260 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:29,369 And you think, are you talking about the United States right now? 261 00:12:30,209 --> 00:12:30,509 No. 262 00:12:30,839 --> 00:12:34,199 Some of you thinking that, but no, this is not a political, uh, thing. 263 00:12:34,319 --> 00:12:34,949 Not at all. 264 00:12:35,909 --> 00:12:38,999 You go, well, you must be talking about Christianity in general 265 00:12:40,499 --> 00:12:43,109 from the height to the downfall. 266 00:12:43,349 --> 00:12:44,309 Well, possibly. 267 00:12:45,419 --> 00:12:48,089 But if you're sitting in this room and you've been here a while, you say, I 268 00:12:48,089 --> 00:12:49,559 think you're talking about our church. 269 00:12:53,879 --> 00:12:54,389 Hmm. 270 00:12:55,859 --> 00:12:59,459 I look out in the audience and I see people have been here 30 years, 25 271 00:12:59,459 --> 00:13:04,499 years, 20 years some less, all the way down to who's our newest, maybe 272 00:13:04,739 --> 00:13:07,229 a week a month, which is incredible. 273 00:13:08,129 --> 00:13:10,439 But you say maybe this is a story. 274 00:13:11,145 --> 00:13:12,375 And then you go, you know what? 275 00:13:12,375 --> 00:13:13,125 No, I know. 276 00:13:13,125 --> 00:13:16,844 It always has to be personal with me and God because the person to my right, I love 277 00:13:16,844 --> 00:13:23,654 them, but it's about me and God, maybe this is a story of my life as a Christian 278 00:13:27,254 --> 00:13:30,194 from the height to destruction. 279 00:13:31,984 --> 00:13:32,274 Okay? 280 00:13:32,895 --> 00:13:36,314 So I wanna look at this and I want to, uh, examine Solomon. 281 00:13:36,314 --> 00:13:38,204 So let's talk a little bit about Solomon. 282 00:13:38,504 --> 00:13:42,974 Uh, David dies and in one Kings two, he puts his son in charge. 283 00:13:43,125 --> 00:13:46,814 Now they think Solomon as a child was about 12 years old at this time. 284 00:13:47,504 --> 00:13:51,044 Imagine being 12 years old and taking this on now for all of us. 285 00:13:51,044 --> 00:13:51,585 15. 286 00:13:51,674 --> 00:13:52,395 Let's say 15. 287 00:13:52,844 --> 00:13:53,835 Nobody knows the real age. 288 00:13:53,835 --> 00:13:54,494 Let's go 15. 289 00:13:55,605 --> 00:13:59,534 Imagine the difference between a 15 year old now and a 15 year old back 290 00:13:59,534 --> 00:14:02,744 then with surviving in life, right? 291 00:14:02,744 --> 00:14:04,694 They had some different skills than we have now. 292 00:14:05,145 --> 00:14:05,355 Okay? 293 00:14:05,355 --> 00:14:06,824 But let's say 12, 15 years old. 294 00:14:09,344 --> 00:14:10,844 And he has this dream. 295 00:14:12,435 --> 00:14:16,484 We got the L, he has this dream, and let's pick up in, uh, open your Bibles and 296 00:14:16,484 --> 00:14:18,435 we're gonna pick up in one Kings three. 297 00:14:19,904 --> 00:14:21,974 And as you're looking at, I'm gonna read First Kings two. 298 00:14:21,974 --> 00:14:24,974 It says, when the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge 299 00:14:24,974 --> 00:14:26,804 to Solomon his son, about 12. 300 00:14:27,435 --> 00:14:28,964 I'm about to go the way of the Earth. 301 00:14:28,964 --> 00:14:32,744 He said, be strong and act like a man and observe what the Lord your God 302 00:14:32,744 --> 00:14:36,824 requires walk in obedience to him and keep his decrees and commands his laws 303 00:14:36,824 --> 00:14:38,234 and regulations as written in the law. 304 00:14:38,234 --> 00:14:43,454 Moses, do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go. 305 00:14:44,754 --> 00:14:49,454 And so we go, okay, so, and we're gonna read Kings in a second, but 306 00:14:49,454 --> 00:14:51,105 David ends up having this dream. 307 00:14:51,134 --> 00:14:52,004 We all know this. 308 00:14:52,185 --> 00:14:53,685 And he says, I want wisdom. 309 00:14:53,744 --> 00:14:56,835 I need to figure out at 12 years old, how do I rule these people? 310 00:14:56,984 --> 00:14:58,185 How do I give justice? 311 00:14:58,634 --> 00:15:01,125 And God says, okay, I'll give you that and I'm gonna give you a bunch of other gifts. 312 00:15:01,224 --> 00:15:01,574 Right? 313 00:15:02,099 --> 00:15:02,190 Yes. 314 00:15:03,029 --> 00:15:07,259 And you think about us with Jesus and Jesus says, Hey, if you leave homes 315 00:15:07,259 --> 00:15:15,619 for me, if you leave your life for me, you will not fail to receive 100 times. 316 00:15:17,159 --> 00:15:21,339 Homes, brothers, sisters, a similar promise. 317 00:15:21,549 --> 00:15:24,869 Would you say 100 times what you have. 318 00:15:25,889 --> 00:15:29,069 And so we can identify a little bit with Solomon, right? 319 00:15:29,069 --> 00:15:30,179 As God's talking to him. 320 00:15:31,079 --> 00:15:35,460 And so Solomon wants wisdom and to apply justice, and God gives this to him. 321 00:15:36,779 --> 00:15:38,969 Except we know something Solomon didn't. 322 00:15:39,279 --> 00:15:43,110 We know that in his lifetime, in just one generation, it would 323 00:15:43,110 --> 00:15:49,619 be ripped in half, cut in two Northern Israel and Southern Judah. 324 00:15:51,569 --> 00:15:53,940 So doesn't that take away a little bit from this story? 325 00:15:53,940 --> 00:15:57,929 Like I'm reading this and I'm thinking, okay, God gives him all this wisdom and 326 00:15:57,929 --> 00:15:59,250 he gives him everything under the sun. 327 00:15:59,250 --> 00:16:00,150 You saw the list. 328 00:16:01,004 --> 00:16:04,274 And yet he knows that it's gonna be ripped in two. 329 00:16:04,274 --> 00:16:05,564 Like this isn't gonna last. 330 00:16:05,744 --> 00:16:07,694 It's like you're gonna go on a trip to Europe and they go, 331 00:16:07,694 --> 00:16:11,024 Hey, I know you got coach cuz that's all you can afford, right? 332 00:16:11,054 --> 00:16:13,874 No, all this, but I'm gonna throw you in first class. 333 00:16:15,044 --> 00:16:17,654 But they already had a briefing that the plane was gonna go down 334 00:16:17,659 --> 00:16:20,234 halfway there, or the Titanic. 335 00:16:20,294 --> 00:16:21,224 Hey, you're on the Titanic. 336 00:16:21,224 --> 00:16:21,524 Great. 337 00:16:21,524 --> 00:16:24,254 We're gonna give you the, the statesman room, whatever that is. 338 00:16:24,254 --> 00:16:25,004 I'm just making that up. 339 00:16:25,004 --> 00:16:26,504 I don't even know, right? 340 00:16:26,509 --> 00:16:31,544 It's the nicest room on the boat with a captain, but you know it's gonna 341 00:16:31,544 --> 00:16:34,064 hit an iceberg and it's gonna go down. 342 00:16:35,114 --> 00:16:40,935 I mean, is this, is this a charade or a tease with God from God? 343 00:16:42,194 --> 00:16:45,165 Let me give you all this wisdom and I'm gonna just tear it up in your lifetime. 344 00:16:47,174 --> 00:16:51,554 Hey, become a disciple, become a Christian Love God. 345 00:16:52,935 --> 00:16:55,214 But by the time you die, your heart's gonna die. 346 00:16:56,834 --> 00:16:58,695 Your kids won't follow. 347 00:17:02,144 --> 00:17:03,194 Do you see the comparison? 348 00:17:04,003 --> 00:17:04,273 Okay. 349 00:17:06,074 --> 00:17:09,164 I mean, who really cares about being smart? 350 00:17:10,154 --> 00:17:13,394 If you could be smart and you could be a botanist and you could build reservoirs 351 00:17:13,398 --> 00:17:17,324 and you construct giant structures, you could tell the Queen of Sheba 352 00:17:17,324 --> 00:17:21,763 everything she wants to know, but at the end of your life, it's destroyed. 353 00:17:21,763 --> 00:17:22,604 It's meaningless. 354 00:17:22,604 --> 00:17:24,013 And no one remembers or cares. 355 00:17:24,013 --> 00:17:25,454 And you, your children don't care. 356 00:17:25,454 --> 00:17:26,624 Nobody cares after them. 357 00:17:28,124 --> 00:17:31,004 I mean, what's the point now? 358 00:17:31,004 --> 00:17:34,394 Does God provide counsel and, and, uh, advice? 359 00:17:34,394 --> 00:17:36,854 I mean, does God go, Hey, let me counsel you on your career. 360 00:17:36,854 --> 00:17:39,614 You should choose advice on investments or political strategies. 361 00:17:41,624 --> 00:17:45,014 Well, maybe if you can apply some wisdom to that, what we're gonna talk about. 362 00:17:45,014 --> 00:17:49,064 But no, God says, Hey you. 363 00:17:49,124 --> 00:17:49,964 Here's what I supply. 364 00:17:49,995 --> 00:17:50,864 The word of life. 365 00:17:51,944 --> 00:17:52,664 The truth. 366 00:17:53,414 --> 00:17:55,574 The firm foundation we just sang about. 367 00:17:57,270 --> 00:18:00,600 Now, those other things, if you wanna learn, go take a law, a course 368 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,820 on law or political science, right? 369 00:18:02,850 --> 00:18:04,560 If you have a leak in your house, you need to re-pipe. 370 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:07,469 You go to the Bible, you might build an arc, right? 371 00:18:07,770 --> 00:18:09,060 No, go learn how to pipe, right? 372 00:18:09,060 --> 00:18:11,880 Be an electrician, go learn something and then apply it. 373 00:18:12,090 --> 00:18:15,870 Computers for dummies for me, cause I'm terrible with technology, right? 374 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,799 But God says, don't necessarily come to me with that. 375 00:18:22,469 --> 00:18:24,779 I give the word a life like the wise out. 376 00:18:25,860 --> 00:18:29,940 But God does warn Solomon, he says, look, you're gonna have to follow me because 377 00:18:29,945 --> 00:18:32,310 if you don't, it doesn't go well for you. 378 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:34,710 Obey my commands like your father did. 379 00:18:35,460 --> 00:18:36,929 And Solomon says, yeah, yeah, I'll do that. 380 00:18:36,989 --> 00:18:38,070 And he gives him this wisdom. 381 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:38,880 Okay? 382 00:18:40,889 --> 00:18:44,759 So we go, okay, you get wisdom, you get what you pray for. 383 00:18:44,759 --> 00:18:47,520 You ask for the right thing, your heart's in it. 384 00:18:48,239 --> 00:18:50,850 And we come back to this game, the charade. 385 00:18:50,850 --> 00:18:52,080 It's all pulled out for it. 386 00:18:52,350 --> 00:18:52,831 It's all no good. 387 00:18:53,219 --> 00:18:54,929 It's the rug's pulled out from underneath you. 388 00:18:55,664 --> 00:18:59,144 You think of John 10 10, what does that say? 389 00:19:01,544 --> 00:19:02,504 Life to the what? 390 00:19:04,364 --> 00:19:09,824 I'm gonna give you a hundred times and I'm gonna give you life to the full. 391 00:19:11,864 --> 00:19:13,284 Well, my life doesn't seem so full. 392 00:19:14,174 --> 00:19:17,714 It's full of things, but not full of things that I thought that I 393 00:19:17,714 --> 00:19:22,094 was gonna get or want, or need, or that God was gonna supply. 394 00:19:22,304 --> 00:19:24,524 I have a lot of hardships. 395 00:19:25,725 --> 00:19:27,584 I have some challenges with people. 396 00:19:27,794 --> 00:19:29,534 I have some challenges within my family. 397 00:19:29,534 --> 00:19:31,784 I have some challenges with relationships within the church. 398 00:19:32,594 --> 00:19:34,334 My boss doesn't treat me the best. 399 00:19:34,725 --> 00:19:36,884 I got bills, rents due. 400 00:19:37,364 --> 00:19:38,534 I lost my job. 401 00:19:38,955 --> 00:19:39,975 School is tough. 402 00:19:39,975 --> 00:19:42,495 My teacher was not fair, man. 403 00:19:42,495 --> 00:19:44,654 There's a lot of pressure at work to perform. 404 00:19:44,955 --> 00:19:48,495 I don't have the hours to put into God because I have to perform at work. 405 00:19:48,854 --> 00:19:52,394 You don't understand if I don't put in 60, 70, 80 hours, I don't feed my family. 406 00:19:55,199 --> 00:19:56,339 Would he get life to the full? 407 00:19:58,500 --> 00:20:01,290 And so Solomon, imagine a boy, he's wholehearted, and he says, 408 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:03,870 God, I just give me the guidance. 409 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,739 Let me administer justice in accordance to your law. 410 00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:13,350 And God says, Hey, I'll give you that. 411 00:20:14,759 --> 00:20:16,560 But where exactly does this occur? 412 00:20:19,589 --> 00:20:21,960 Let's read verse Kings three. 413 00:20:23,370 --> 00:20:24,569 Solomon asked for wisdom. 414 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:27,179 Verse one. 415 00:20:28,379 --> 00:20:31,440 Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh, king of Egypt to married his daughter. 416 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,020 He brought her to the city of David until he finished building his 417 00:20:34,020 --> 00:20:35,399 palace in the temple for the Lord. 418 00:20:35,399 --> 00:20:39,870 In the wall around Jerusalem, verse four, verse Kings, three, four. 419 00:20:40,199 --> 00:20:42,929 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices for that was 420 00:20:42,929 --> 00:20:44,250 the most important high place. 421 00:20:44,254 --> 00:20:47,819 And Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar at Gibeon. 422 00:20:47,819 --> 00:20:50,520 The Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God 423 00:20:50,525 --> 00:20:52,259 said, ask for whatever you want. 424 00:20:53,549 --> 00:20:55,199 Me to give you. 425 00:20:55,979 --> 00:20:56,850 Solomon answered. 426 00:20:57,089 --> 00:20:59,729 You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, 427 00:20:59,729 --> 00:21:02,850 because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. 428 00:21:02,969 --> 00:21:06,029 You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to 429 00:21:06,029 --> 00:21:07,799 sit on his throne this very day. 430 00:21:08,249 --> 00:21:11,790 Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place with my father 431 00:21:11,790 --> 00:21:17,279 David, but I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. 432 00:21:17,459 --> 00:21:20,310 Your servant is here among the people you have chosen a great people 433 00:21:20,459 --> 00:21:22,139 to numerous to count or number. 434 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,560 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and distinguish it 435 00:21:25,564 --> 00:21:29,299 between right and wrong for who is able to govern this great people of yours. 436 00:21:29,919 --> 00:21:32,549 The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. 437 00:21:32,669 --> 00:21:36,060 So God said to him, since you have asked for this and not for a long life or 438 00:21:36,060 --> 00:21:39,389 wealth or yourself, nor have you asked for the death of your enemies, but for 439 00:21:39,389 --> 00:21:43,949 the discernment in administering justice, I will do whatever you have asked. 440 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:45,810 I will give you a wise and discerning heart. 441 00:21:45,810 --> 00:21:50,100 Solomon said there you will never have been so that there will never have been 442 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:52,139 anyone like you nor will there ever be. 443 00:21:52,709 --> 00:21:55,229 Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for both wealth and 444 00:21:55,229 --> 00:21:59,249 honor, so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings, and if 445 00:21:59,249 --> 00:22:02,309 you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David the 446 00:22:02,314 --> 00:22:04,319 father did, I will give you a long life. 447 00:22:04,739 --> 00:22:07,169 Then Solomon awoke and he realized it had been a dream. 448 00:22:07,889 --> 00:22:11,369 He returned to Jerusalem, stood before the Ark of the Lord's covenant, and sacrificed 449 00:22:11,369 --> 00:22:12,929 for an offerings and fellowship offerings. 450 00:22:13,319 --> 00:22:14,999 Then he gave a feast for all his court. 451 00:22:16,649 --> 00:22:20,429 Okay, so Solomon, 452 00:22:24,299 --> 00:22:26,249 he goes, God, I need help. 453 00:22:26,609 --> 00:22:28,559 First he marries the daughter of Pharaoh. 454 00:22:28,739 --> 00:22:29,039 Really? 455 00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:30,959 He married Pharaoh, right? 456 00:22:31,619 --> 00:22:33,269 Back then it was a political alliance. 457 00:22:33,329 --> 00:22:35,099 Egypt was powerful, Pharaoh was powerful. 458 00:22:35,189 --> 00:22:38,549 I need to marry into Pharaoh, and in the course of it, he falls 459 00:22:38,549 --> 00:22:39,509 in love with Pharaoh's wife. 460 00:22:40,019 --> 00:22:40,619 Really does. 461 00:22:41,969 --> 00:22:46,139 But he says, God, I need wisdom to serve these people. 462 00:22:47,009 --> 00:22:48,119 And he asks for that. 463 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:48,599 God's impressed. 464 00:22:49,259 --> 00:22:49,719 He says, yep. 465 00:22:50,189 --> 00:22:52,049 In a matter of fact, I'm gonna give you everything else. 466 00:22:54,644 --> 00:22:56,324 He wakes, he's elated. 467 00:22:56,504 --> 00:22:58,124 He makes a huge sacrifice to God. 468 00:22:58,129 --> 00:23:00,704 He celebrates in Jerusalem, and he holds a three day great 469 00:23:00,709 --> 00:23:02,024 feast for all these people. 470 00:23:03,674 --> 00:23:06,254 And then we're gonna get into next part, which is a little strange when 471 00:23:06,254 --> 00:23:07,664 suddenly these two women show up. 472 00:23:08,504 --> 00:23:08,804 Okay? 473 00:23:09,524 --> 00:23:13,784 Um, you hear him as being, uh, one says prostitutes, one says harps. 474 00:23:14,414 --> 00:23:16,334 That's an old school word, I guess, right? 475 00:23:16,394 --> 00:23:18,224 Harz, a wise ruling. 476 00:23:18,224 --> 00:23:19,634 Let's read on verse 16. 477 00:23:20,114 --> 00:23:22,424 Now, two prostitutes came to the king and stood before em. 478 00:23:22,544 --> 00:23:24,314 One of them said, pardon me, my lord. 479 00:23:24,524 --> 00:23:27,374 This woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby 480 00:23:27,379 --> 00:23:28,904 while she was living with me. 481 00:23:29,234 --> 00:23:32,324 The third day after my child was born, this woman had a baby too. 482 00:23:32,714 --> 00:23:33,464 We were alone. 483 00:23:33,464 --> 00:23:38,444 There was no one in the house, but the two of us, okay, real quick, 484 00:23:39,344 --> 00:23:42,224 now I'm a, I'm a male, okay? 485 00:23:42,764 --> 00:23:48,364 I know women have menstrual cycles that can get onto the same cycle, right? 486 00:23:48,364 --> 00:23:49,694 You work together, live together. 487 00:23:50,399 --> 00:23:51,569 Birthing cycles. 488 00:23:51,599 --> 00:23:54,269 Has any woman in here ever ha seen that? 489 00:23:55,349 --> 00:23:57,569 Five women pregnant in this fellowship. 490 00:23:57,569 --> 00:23:59,339 Suddenly you give birth all at the same time. 491 00:24:02,099 --> 00:24:07,109 So we have two women living in the same house who suddenly get pregnant and 492 00:24:07,109 --> 00:24:08,519 get birth basically at the same time. 493 00:24:09,659 --> 00:24:11,159 Pretty, pretty amazing. 494 00:24:11,849 --> 00:24:12,929 Pretty amazing story, right? 495 00:24:12,989 --> 00:24:14,129 Okay, so let's continue on. 496 00:24:14,339 --> 00:24:17,789 Kind of weird during the night, verse 19. 497 00:24:19,139 --> 00:24:21,779 During the night this woman's son died because she laid on him. 498 00:24:22,259 --> 00:24:25,559 She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side 499 00:24:25,559 --> 00:24:28,559 while I, while your servant was asleep, she put him on her breast 500 00:24:28,559 --> 00:24:30,839 and put her dead son by my breast. 501 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:34,109 The next morning I got up to nurse my son and he was dead. 502 00:24:34,499 --> 00:24:37,469 But when I looked at him closely in the morning light, I saw that 503 00:24:37,469 --> 00:24:39,989 he wasn't the son I had born. 504 00:24:40,799 --> 00:24:44,129 The other woman said, no, the living one is my son. 505 00:24:44,129 --> 00:24:45,389 The dead one is yours. 506 00:24:46,094 --> 00:24:49,455 But the first one insisted, no, the dead one is yours. 507 00:24:49,455 --> 00:24:50,504 The living one is mine. 508 00:24:50,504 --> 00:24:51,975 And so they argued before the king. 509 00:24:52,304 --> 00:24:54,165 The king said, this one says, my son is alive. 510 00:24:54,165 --> 00:24:55,124 The other said, he's dead. 511 00:24:55,154 --> 00:24:56,834 Well, and that one says, no, your son is dead. 512 00:24:56,839 --> 00:24:57,734 Mine is alive. 513 00:24:58,034 --> 00:24:58,814 King doesn't know what to do. 514 00:24:58,814 --> 00:25:00,044 12 years old, 15 years old. 515 00:25:00,049 --> 00:25:00,915 He says, here's what we're gonna do. 516 00:25:01,034 --> 00:25:01,694 Bring me a sword. 517 00:25:02,304 --> 00:25:03,564 So they brought a sword for the king. 518 00:25:03,634 --> 00:25:08,475 Then he gave the order, cut the child in half and give half 519 00:25:08,475 --> 00:25:09,854 to one and half to the other. 520 00:25:10,665 --> 00:25:13,634 The woman whose son was alive, deeply moved out of love for her 521 00:25:13,634 --> 00:25:17,955 son, said to the king, please my Lord, give her the living baby. 522 00:25:18,254 --> 00:25:18,884 Don't kill him. 523 00:25:19,725 --> 00:25:24,524 But the other said, neither I nor you shall have him cut him in two. 524 00:25:26,205 --> 00:25:26,834 Heartless. 525 00:25:27,975 --> 00:25:31,034 Then the king gave the ruling, give the living baby to the first woman. 526 00:25:31,364 --> 00:25:32,354 Do not kill him. 527 00:25:32,534 --> 00:25:33,374 She is his mother. 528 00:25:33,794 --> 00:25:36,824 When all Israel heard the verdict, the king given, they held the king 529 00:25:36,824 --> 00:25:40,185 in awe because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice. 530 00:25:41,534 --> 00:25:41,824 Okay. 531 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,810 So two mothers come in, they have babies at the same time from the same house. 532 00:25:45,810 --> 00:25:47,339 They come to this king, he's a young king. 533 00:25:47,339 --> 00:25:52,049 You ask God just before this for wisdom, and they go in an argument. 534 00:25:52,049 --> 00:25:52,709 He says, I don't know what to do. 535 00:25:52,709 --> 00:25:53,789 Get a sword, cut 'em in half. 536 00:25:55,469 --> 00:25:55,739 Done. 537 00:25:57,569 --> 00:26:02,459 The woman in distress, who's really the mother, cries out in compassion. 538 00:26:02,459 --> 00:26:08,939 No, I'd rather my child live without me than be torn in two. 539 00:26:09,509 --> 00:26:11,249 And the other mother's cruel and heartless. 540 00:26:11,249 --> 00:26:11,819 She says, I don't care. 541 00:26:11,819 --> 00:26:14,850 She already killed her own child and then stole, kidnapped 542 00:26:15,389 --> 00:26:16,560 another child to make her own. 543 00:26:16,879 --> 00:26:17,229 Right. 544 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:20,269 It's an amazing story. 545 00:26:20,289 --> 00:26:22,620 And and he says, cut 'em in Two, they figured it out. 546 00:26:22,620 --> 00:26:24,299 And everyone says, oh wow, you're so wise. 547 00:26:24,419 --> 00:26:25,439 Like this is unbelievable. 548 00:26:25,439 --> 00:26:26,129 Look at the wisdom. 549 00:26:26,219 --> 00:26:26,969 It must be from God. 550 00:26:28,769 --> 00:26:33,089 So then we ask, God gives all these things, right? 551 00:26:33,089 --> 00:26:36,749 I see God could be like, Hey, I'm gonna give you military mind. 552 00:26:36,929 --> 00:26:39,120 And then when you go fight them, I'm gonna make them turn on each other. 553 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:39,960 Military victory. 554 00:26:40,875 --> 00:26:42,495 Hey, I'm gonna give you wealth. 555 00:26:42,764 --> 00:26:42,975 Wow. 556 00:26:42,975 --> 00:26:46,275 You walk outside and, and this truck rose by and off goes this, 557 00:26:46,395 --> 00:26:48,134 this duffle bag full of cash. 558 00:26:48,614 --> 00:26:49,574 You're like, oh, God gave me that. 559 00:26:50,355 --> 00:26:50,625 Right? 560 00:26:51,404 --> 00:26:52,275 God gave me land. 561 00:26:52,304 --> 00:26:53,174 I get an inheritance. 562 00:26:53,179 --> 00:26:57,255 God does a lot of different things, but does God just go, you're wise? 563 00:26:58,875 --> 00:26:59,895 My magic wand. 564 00:27:00,674 --> 00:27:01,304 Wisdom. 565 00:27:03,674 --> 00:27:04,514 I think we lost power. 566 00:27:04,574 --> 00:27:04,935 Oh, we're back. 567 00:27:07,065 --> 00:27:08,475 Does he just go wisdom? 568 00:27:09,105 --> 00:27:10,455 I found a little cool record here. 569 00:27:12,875 --> 00:27:14,205 Wisdom whiz. 570 00:27:14,205 --> 00:27:14,924 Solomon's dreams. 571 00:27:15,554 --> 00:27:15,855 I like records. 572 00:27:16,755 --> 00:27:22,065 All right, so anyhow, does he just say suddenly you're wise? 573 00:27:22,125 --> 00:27:23,145 How does this occur? 574 00:27:24,435 --> 00:27:27,795 And what I wanna talk about today, what I've been reading and studying about 575 00:27:27,795 --> 00:27:30,734 it made me think, how do I apply this to what's going on in our lives and 576 00:27:30,734 --> 00:27:38,384 the world in our church and with us with God is maybe this is a mechanism. 577 00:27:39,509 --> 00:27:42,480 Of how to become wise. 578 00:27:44,100 --> 00:27:44,580 And you go, what? 579 00:27:45,149 --> 00:27:45,870 What are you talking about? 580 00:27:50,279 --> 00:27:56,850 Maybe I pray for something and God gives me a scenario in my life 581 00:27:57,029 --> 00:27:58,489 about something that I prayed about. 582 00:28:01,980 --> 00:28:08,069 And then either I look back and I go, ah, based on my experience in life 583 00:28:08,580 --> 00:28:14,100 viewing through the lens of God's word, I make a decision good or bad. 584 00:28:14,549 --> 00:28:17,190 And then the next one comes along and I go, this is the same thing. 585 00:28:17,810 --> 00:28:19,560 And I reflect on my experience. 586 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,429 And then I look back on my prior decision with honesty and integrity. 587 00:28:23,850 --> 00:28:25,139 Did you handle that well? 588 00:28:26,909 --> 00:28:33,810 And so wisdom becomes the function of reflection based on experience 589 00:28:34,350 --> 00:28:35,950 and reflection with honesty. 590 00:28:37,169 --> 00:28:39,270 Of what we did well and what we didn't do so well. 591 00:28:41,219 --> 00:28:44,910 So maybe the story is about a mechanism of how to become wise and 592 00:28:44,915 --> 00:28:47,820 not necessarily two random women at the same time in the same house, had 593 00:28:47,820 --> 00:28:52,350 a kid at the same time and come before this young king who just had a prayer. 594 00:28:52,589 --> 00:28:59,549 Make me wise, God, you guys get that Because God is omnipotent. 595 00:29:00,179 --> 00:29:01,770 Some of us say omnipotent, 596 00:29:04,950 --> 00:29:07,799 but is wisdom a IQ level? 597 00:29:08,910 --> 00:29:10,110 Is wisdom an IQ level? 598 00:29:11,490 --> 00:29:14,330 Is it if someone's really smart and they have a high iq, does that make them wise? 599 00:29:15,509 --> 00:29:15,810 No. 600 00:29:16,110 --> 00:29:18,000 And we all have conversations with each other in here. 601 00:29:18,750 --> 00:29:27,839 We know there's not a lot of crazy IQs up in here except for my wife and Chad and 602 00:29:27,839 --> 00:29:31,740 John or, but it's not a function of iq. 603 00:29:32,610 --> 00:29:33,889 Is it a function of growing old? 604 00:29:36,794 --> 00:29:42,344 Well, it certainly could be if you've experienced things and reflected 605 00:29:43,514 --> 00:29:49,334 with integrity and honesty, and it's supposed to make you wise living 606 00:29:49,339 --> 00:29:52,964 longer, but it's dependent upon how active you are in your life. 607 00:29:55,034 --> 00:29:56,924 So how do we gain wisdom? 608 00:29:57,494 --> 00:30:00,494 Will we gain wisdom by experiencing things and getting involved? 609 00:30:00,674 --> 00:30:02,384 We get involved in each other's lives. 610 00:30:02,389 --> 00:30:03,734 We get involved in God's word. 611 00:30:03,734 --> 00:30:04,964 We get involved in praying. 612 00:30:05,204 --> 00:30:09,524 We don't shy away from conflict and we don't shy away from interpersonal issues. 613 00:30:10,784 --> 00:30:11,954 We face our fears. 614 00:30:11,954 --> 00:30:13,094 We chase our challenges. 615 00:30:13,094 --> 00:30:15,884 We face our sin and we call it what it is, and we're honest. 616 00:30:20,504 --> 00:30:24,524 And then we build experience and then we're honest in reflection. 617 00:30:24,854 --> 00:30:27,014 If we did right, if we did wrong. 618 00:30:29,414 --> 00:30:30,374 But the question remains. 619 00:30:32,369 --> 00:30:36,959 If Solomon in all his glory, he's God's man. 620 00:30:36,959 --> 00:30:39,839 I mean, this is the son that David bore. 621 00:30:40,319 --> 00:30:42,150 He's in a relationship with God. 622 00:30:44,549 --> 00:30:48,299 If he didn't even have enough wisdom, prevent a civil war and 623 00:30:48,299 --> 00:30:50,400 his children not be following God. 624 00:30:51,629 --> 00:30:52,799 What hope do you and I have? 625 00:30:55,679 --> 00:30:57,749 How do we make decisions about our lives? 626 00:30:59,489 --> 00:31:03,060 How do we find the right person to date, the right person to marry? 627 00:31:03,065 --> 00:31:05,999 If that's what we want to do, how do we find the right job? 628 00:31:06,029 --> 00:31:10,139 How do we figure out, man, how will I accomplish this? 629 00:31:10,139 --> 00:31:11,190 How do I finish school? 630 00:31:11,190 --> 00:31:12,749 What will I do in life? 631 00:31:13,110 --> 00:31:14,100 How do I have a new baby? 632 00:31:14,909 --> 00:31:15,959 How do I raise that baby? 633 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,669 And if Solomon, what hope do we have? 634 00:31:22,079 --> 00:31:27,150 And so I wanna jump into how wi, how this works. 635 00:31:28,365 --> 00:31:33,075 Because experiences that God puts in your life is a real relationship with God. 636 00:31:33,705 --> 00:31:35,835 It's the function at which God works in your life. 637 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,185 And he says, listen, you need this and you want this, and I'm gonna give it to you. 638 00:31:40,185 --> 00:31:43,605 It may not be the way that you thought it would be delivered, but I'm gonna 639 00:31:43,605 --> 00:31:49,575 walk with this through you if you obey my commands and you stay with me. 640 00:31:50,895 --> 00:31:53,745 And so we have this ongoing relationship with God. 641 00:31:53,745 --> 00:31:59,895 If we allow it, if we're willing in order to learn and to grow and to listen, and 642 00:31:59,895 --> 00:32:04,315 we listen in prayer and the Holy Spirit moves and we listen in people's advice and 643 00:32:04,315 --> 00:32:08,445 we get a lot of advice, and we'd listen and we debate, we look back on our lives. 644 00:32:09,525 --> 00:32:16,514 If you want wisdom, you have to jump in and be involved in relationships. 645 00:32:17,174 --> 00:32:21,585 And it says, it's interesting because all the people were in awe of what he did. 646 00:32:24,225 --> 00:32:27,945 You know, if you remain in God and you learn from God's ways, that firm 647 00:32:27,945 --> 00:32:34,575 foundation again from the song, and you obey and you learn and you grow, people 648 00:32:34,575 --> 00:32:39,134 see the difference in you and you make decisions in your life and they say 649 00:32:39,134 --> 00:32:41,054 there's something different about you. 650 00:32:42,825 --> 00:32:47,985 Why are you able to almost like see through people's hearts and see 651 00:32:47,985 --> 00:32:53,804 through people's motives and come back to the essence of what's going on? 652 00:32:54,705 --> 00:32:58,995 How do you not fall apart when tragedy strikes or catastrophe? 653 00:33:01,815 --> 00:33:04,455 And like the people that all came around Solomon and said, wow, you're so 654 00:33:04,455 --> 00:33:09,255 wise, they're gonna come around you and they're gonna think those same things. 655 00:33:09,825 --> 00:33:14,415 If you hang on to God's word, one of the things I have to watch out for 656 00:33:14,445 --> 00:33:17,745 this is personally, and, and I think it happens when we get older, is. 657 00:33:19,155 --> 00:33:23,685 We have to be aware of starting to get experience and being involved. 658 00:33:24,315 --> 00:33:29,355 And then pretty soon we're telling others how it should go. 659 00:33:30,825 --> 00:33:32,355 Oh man, this, he's not doing it right. 660 00:33:32,355 --> 00:33:33,134 She's not doing it right. 661 00:33:33,134 --> 00:33:33,915 This is how you should do it. 662 00:33:35,705 --> 00:33:39,825 But we ourselves aren't pulling in the mix. 663 00:33:41,085 --> 00:33:42,134 We're not jumping in the mix. 664 00:33:42,134 --> 00:33:44,745 We have this wisdom now and we're just gonna sit back and tell you how 665 00:33:44,745 --> 00:33:47,054 it looked, how it's supposed to look. 666 00:33:48,585 --> 00:33:49,335 And I have to watch. 667 00:33:49,335 --> 00:33:53,205 That doesn't mean I'm all, that, I'm not all that wise. 668 00:33:53,210 --> 00:33:54,165 I'm, I'm trying to learn. 669 00:33:54,165 --> 00:33:57,764 I have a lot of experiences and I need to put 'em together through God's lens. 670 00:33:58,304 --> 00:34:00,855 But I know that I can sit back sometimes and be critical 671 00:34:02,955 --> 00:34:04,304 instead of pulling my own weight. 672 00:34:07,455 --> 00:34:08,324 And that's important. 673 00:34:09,195 --> 00:34:12,445 And God expects that when he gives all this stuff. 674 00:34:13,034 --> 00:34:14,746 Okay, so let's go to the next one. 675 00:34:15,324 --> 00:34:17,415 I gotta try to hurry up cause I'm going a little long here. 676 00:34:18,014 --> 00:34:18,764 He's like, yeah, you are. 677 00:34:19,454 --> 00:34:20,293 You guys still with me? 678 00:34:21,225 --> 00:34:21,614 Okay. 679 00:34:21,614 --> 00:34:25,904 So, uh, the mothers, let's talk about the mothers. 680 00:34:26,054 --> 00:34:26,893 Uh, next one. 681 00:34:26,893 --> 00:34:27,944 Split babies. 682 00:34:29,924 --> 00:34:31,304 First thing's Kirstine three. 683 00:34:31,304 --> 00:34:32,293 We already read that. 684 00:34:32,774 --> 00:34:33,284 There we go. 685 00:34:33,404 --> 00:34:33,793 Okay. 686 00:34:34,274 --> 00:34:37,185 Uh, so, uh, the second thing I wanna talk about is the mothers in the story. 687 00:34:37,574 --> 00:34:41,685 Uh, maybe this vision and dream experience might, experiences, might give Solomon 688 00:34:41,685 --> 00:34:43,725 insight, uh, what happens in his own way. 689 00:34:43,904 --> 00:34:47,563 We know that a generation, his kingdom's gonna be torn in two on his right. 690 00:34:47,563 --> 00:34:48,643 He has a son on his left. 691 00:34:48,643 --> 00:34:51,074 He has Gerbo, one of his old officials, right? 692 00:34:51,074 --> 00:34:54,824 And sure enough, crack the, the sword comes down and divides him two. 693 00:34:55,754 --> 00:34:59,114 But what are these mothers with these opposing outlooks for? 694 00:34:59,114 --> 00:35:02,204 Solomon, obviously is the two kings vying for custody of Israel. 695 00:35:03,704 --> 00:35:06,794 For us, it's the story of God and the world. 696 00:35:09,044 --> 00:35:12,464 It's God the mother, and I don't wanna leave out fathers. 697 00:35:12,470 --> 00:35:13,614 Fathers are like mothers. 698 00:35:13,614 --> 00:35:16,394 It, they describe it as a mother because a mother's love is. 699 00:35:16,769 --> 00:35:17,459 Insane. 700 00:35:19,049 --> 00:35:19,439 Right? 701 00:35:19,799 --> 00:35:22,649 You'll, you'll dive through a fire to save your child. 702 00:35:23,279 --> 00:35:28,589 You'll go without, you'll go hungry, you'll search right, and, and hunt down 703 00:35:28,595 --> 00:35:29,909 whatever you need to to feed your kid. 704 00:35:31,409 --> 00:35:34,449 But it's us with God and the world. 705 00:35:35,819 --> 00:35:38,939 Our, our attention is pulled and divided by cries that matter, 706 00:35:38,939 --> 00:35:40,439 but have no eternal standing. 707 00:35:42,509 --> 00:35:46,529 There's no shortage or drama in the world, or brilliant way to tug you in. 708 00:35:46,979 --> 00:35:47,699 So what do I mean? 709 00:35:47,849 --> 00:35:52,139 So here's the current things I looked up, uh, green, saving the planet. 710 00:35:52,439 --> 00:35:53,089 We need to save the planet. 711 00:35:53,089 --> 00:35:54,060 Here's what we're gonna do. 712 00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:55,919 We're gonna go to do X, Y, and Z. 713 00:35:56,009 --> 00:35:57,930 And here's our thing, okay? 714 00:35:58,439 --> 00:35:58,799 Yes. 715 00:35:58,829 --> 00:35:59,309 All right, cool. 716 00:35:59,309 --> 00:35:59,879 We're gonna do that. 717 00:36:00,689 --> 00:36:00,959 Nope. 718 00:36:00,959 --> 00:36:02,369 We're gonna go March and we're gonna go do this. 719 00:36:02,369 --> 00:36:04,529 And my whole life is now I need to save this planet. 720 00:36:05,609 --> 00:36:07,889 And then I refer and, and, and stay with me. 721 00:36:07,889 --> 00:36:11,329 Here I look in first Corinthians 31, the second half it says, for this world 722 00:36:11,329 --> 00:36:13,009 and it's present form as passing away. 723 00:36:14,039 --> 00:36:15,959 So then I go, nah, we need to focus on wealth, man. 724 00:36:15,959 --> 00:36:16,440 I need wealth. 725 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:17,909 I need generational wealth to pass down. 726 00:36:17,909 --> 00:36:20,549 I need to supply a nice house for my myself and money, 727 00:36:20,549 --> 00:36:21,480 money, money in the world. 728 00:36:22,230 --> 00:36:25,109 In Mark 10 25, it says, easier for a camel to go through the eye of 729 00:36:25,109 --> 00:36:27,810 a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. 730 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,359 So I pursue richness as a disciple, even though it makes it more 731 00:36:33,364 --> 00:36:34,799 difficult for me to stay faithful. 732 00:36:35,850 --> 00:36:36,690 Politics. 733 00:36:37,140 --> 00:36:38,310 Luke 2025. 734 00:36:38,310 --> 00:36:39,869 Give the Caesar, what a Caesar to God. 735 00:36:39,869 --> 00:36:40,499 What is God? 736 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,779 But my whole life is defined by politics. 737 00:36:43,350 --> 00:36:46,140 Man, when you're not around, I talk so bad about the side you're on. 738 00:36:46,259 --> 00:36:48,480 I'm gonna tell you a million bad things about Trump, but I'm gonna tell you a 739 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,619 million bad things about Biden, and I'm only gonna hang around with people that 740 00:36:52,619 --> 00:37:02,279 think the same way like me, void of God in his love void of being indifferent 741 00:37:02,279 --> 00:37:04,529 because I don't care about that. 742 00:37:04,529 --> 00:37:06,180 I care about people's souls, 743 00:37:09,339 --> 00:37:11,129 sexual rights of all kinds. 744 00:37:11,850 --> 00:37:12,779 Romans 12, two. 745 00:37:13,169 --> 00:37:16,079 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed 746 00:37:16,079 --> 00:37:17,339 by the renewing of your mind. 747 00:37:18,029 --> 00:37:21,749 Now of course, we're supposed to be good stewards of the earth of money. 748 00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:26,879 We're supposed to love every kind of person, no matter their background, 749 00:37:26,879 --> 00:37:31,149 their race, their creed, their culture, because we're representing God. 750 00:37:32,049 --> 00:37:35,099 But the problem is, is we get enticed and there's these two mothers and 751 00:37:35,099 --> 00:37:40,109 there's God, and we're being ripped apart because we allow ourselves to still hang 752 00:37:40,109 --> 00:37:45,119 on to these things that come up from our coworkers, from the internet, from 753 00:37:45,119 --> 00:37:47,249 social media, from school, from whatever. 754 00:37:48,769 --> 00:37:51,299 And we say, yeah, but I gotta take a stand on this. 755 00:37:52,140 --> 00:37:52,859 And you can. 756 00:37:52,859 --> 00:37:56,220 You can care, but that's not your mission. 757 00:37:57,059 --> 00:37:58,349 That's not your cause. 758 00:37:58,829 --> 00:38:00,669 That's not your identity, right? 759 00:38:02,339 --> 00:38:07,669 Your mission is to be a representative for God in a world that doesn't understand. 760 00:38:08,569 --> 00:38:11,039 Nobody should be able to love like you love. 761 00:38:11,489 --> 00:38:16,259 No one should be as understanding as we should be understanding the 762 00:38:16,259 --> 00:38:22,350 complete opposite of what some of us do or we get pulled to do. 763 00:38:23,970 --> 00:38:27,479 So the good mother, God, pure, kind, concerned, heartbroken, 764 00:38:27,479 --> 00:38:28,470 she may lose her child. 765 00:38:28,709 --> 00:38:32,189 Actually, she even cries out in compassion and says, let the child live. 766 00:38:32,519 --> 00:38:37,140 I'd rather it live and one day possibly come back to me than die. 767 00:38:37,919 --> 00:38:42,720 And the cruel one, Satan, evil liar, world, whatever you want to call 768 00:38:42,725 --> 00:38:45,749 it, I don't care, rip you apart. 769 00:38:45,959 --> 00:38:46,979 Let's destroy you. 770 00:38:47,459 --> 00:38:48,869 In fact, none of us will have you. 771 00:38:52,109 --> 00:38:52,890 It's a crazy story. 772 00:38:54,810 --> 00:38:58,919 And so we become the child pulled back and forth as the world tries 773 00:38:58,919 --> 00:39:03,239 to tell us what we should think, what we should care about, and 774 00:39:03,244 --> 00:39:05,819 we must choose and we must apply. 775 00:39:05,824 --> 00:39:10,079 Experience reflecting in honesty. 776 00:39:10,814 --> 00:39:12,524 And choose which direction we're gonna go. 777 00:39:15,645 --> 00:39:19,185 In Second Samuel seven, David says, Hey, I'm gonna build you this, this 778 00:39:19,185 --> 00:39:22,814 big temple and Psalm and, and God says, I don't even care about the temple. 779 00:39:22,935 --> 00:39:23,714 I live in a tent. 780 00:39:23,774 --> 00:39:25,095 My people move around in a tent. 781 00:39:25,154 --> 00:39:25,994 I move with their people. 782 00:39:26,354 --> 00:39:27,134 You don't have to do this. 783 00:39:27,134 --> 00:39:27,914 And he says, no, I'm gonna do it. 784 00:39:27,919 --> 00:39:28,784 He says, no, you can't do it. 785 00:39:28,784 --> 00:39:29,475 Your son's gonna do it. 786 00:39:29,924 --> 00:39:30,254 Right. 787 00:39:31,454 --> 00:39:35,265 I wanna give you a quick video real quick on what the temple looked like. 788 00:39:37,634 --> 00:39:38,225 Just so you see. 789 00:40:57,709 --> 00:41:01,220 All right, so I'm gonna cut it short cuz I'm going along here on the video. 790 00:41:01,279 --> 00:41:02,239 If we can go back to that last one. 791 00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:02,600 Thank you. 792 00:41:02,989 --> 00:41:04,409 So that's the city of David now, right? 793 00:41:04,609 --> 00:41:05,119 In Jerusalem. 794 00:41:05,834 --> 00:41:08,565 Uh, so Solomon spent seven years building this temple. 795 00:41:08,745 --> 00:41:12,735 He spared no expense, the best cedar, juniper, all kinds of gold. 796 00:41:12,765 --> 00:41:16,515 He brought in bronze workers and they made a bronze sea, right? 797 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:21,584 He, he no expense, and he was on fire for God and everything was about it. 798 00:41:21,584 --> 00:41:25,785 In fact, he had so many people chiseling stones outta quarries. 799 00:41:26,025 --> 00:41:30,254 They actually had said that no chisel or hammer was heard in Jerusalem because 800 00:41:30,254 --> 00:41:32,475 they spent so much time in getting it out. 801 00:41:32,535 --> 00:41:35,685 It was perfect when they built this whole temple. 802 00:41:36,674 --> 00:41:38,294 And so he builds for seven years. 803 00:41:38,355 --> 00:41:40,905 He goes into detail, grandiose detail. 804 00:41:41,775 --> 00:41:44,445 I'm gonna build this for God and I'm gonna give this to you, God. 805 00:41:44,445 --> 00:41:45,945 Cause I want to make it great for you. 806 00:41:46,065 --> 00:41:50,685 I'm invested in you and everyone who saw his passion for God and 807 00:41:50,685 --> 00:41:51,915 what he built was astounded. 808 00:41:53,924 --> 00:41:57,105 But they usually don't put together Solomon back in the stories 809 00:41:57,105 --> 00:41:58,245 presented with these women. 810 00:41:59,084 --> 00:42:03,254 See there was a competition for his heart at the time, and it, if you want to call 811 00:42:03,254 --> 00:42:04,874 it a love triangle, who did he marry? 812 00:42:06,735 --> 00:42:12,405 He married Pharaoh's daughter and we find out how Solomon, if you keep reading, 813 00:42:12,555 --> 00:42:18,315 he built God's house for seven years and then he built his own house for 13 814 00:42:18,315 --> 00:42:25,725 years and his own house became the object of all his time and money and energy. 815 00:42:26,565 --> 00:42:32,685 And along the way we find out, oh, in First King's in, in First King seven, 816 00:42:33,825 --> 00:42:37,845 sorry, it says nine through 11 in First King, seven in verse eight, there's 817 00:42:37,850 --> 00:42:39,525 a little blur that we also find out. 818 00:42:39,525 --> 00:42:42,495 They had a third project going on at Palace for Pharaoh's daughter. 819 00:42:45,945 --> 00:42:48,855 Then Chapter nine 11 comes, he marries all these foreign wives. 820 00:42:48,855 --> 00:42:50,985 He ends up worshiping all these gods. 821 00:42:52,115 --> 00:42:56,745 Som Som Solomon aligned himself with Pharaoh because he loved Pharaoh 822 00:42:56,749 --> 00:42:57,914 and he loved that part of him. 823 00:42:58,305 --> 00:43:00,526 And what I want to get at is that two things. 824 00:43:00,530 --> 00:43:05,399 If you're young as a Christian, You gotta see if there's 825 00:43:05,399 --> 00:43:06,569 something you don't wanna let go. 826 00:43:07,619 --> 00:43:09,359 Is there something that you didn't let go? 827 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:15,839 Pride being closed, not being open relationships, romantic or not? 828 00:43:16,109 --> 00:43:19,729 Is there something that you desire that you just haven't given up, right? 829 00:43:19,999 --> 00:43:23,039 Like Pharaoh's daughter and to the older ones? 830 00:43:23,039 --> 00:43:28,470 I want to ask, when you became a Christian, you were on fire. 831 00:43:30,209 --> 00:43:35,579 We believe that we could change the world in a generation, right, Ramon? 832 00:43:36,569 --> 00:43:36,659 Yep. 833 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,589 And somewhere along there, we were building God's church. 834 00:43:43,589 --> 00:43:45,869 We were building God's church, and we were building his house and we 835 00:43:45,869 --> 00:43:47,549 were preaching Christ crucified. 836 00:43:47,699 --> 00:43:51,419 And we were excited to bring people to church and open the Bible and 837 00:43:51,419 --> 00:43:56,879 say, look, look at all I've received a hundred times forgiveness, peace, 838 00:43:56,884 --> 00:43:58,229 ability to have relationships. 839 00:43:58,229 --> 00:44:00,091 I don't feel alone when I'm in a room of other people. 840 00:44:01,439 --> 00:44:06,329 I feel alive and I have the answers to hard questions about life. 841 00:44:08,399 --> 00:44:11,489 And after seven years, somewhere along here, we became like Solomon 842 00:44:11,489 --> 00:44:15,539 and we worried about building our own lives and less about God's house. 843 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:25,739 And our time and effort went into what pleases us, what I want to do with my 844 00:44:25,739 --> 00:44:30,089 time, you know what's best for my kids. 845 00:44:30,959 --> 00:44:32,579 I'm gonna build my house. 846 00:44:33,839 --> 00:44:39,419 And our, I affection for a bull kept growing and we go back and forth and 847 00:44:39,419 --> 00:44:40,470 I'm gonna give it a lot for special. 848 00:44:40,470 --> 00:44:41,249 Cause I'm gonna do this for God. 849 00:44:41,310 --> 00:44:45,299 Oh, I'm gonna fast and I'm gonna fast because I'm gonna sway God's heart. 850 00:44:45,299 --> 00:44:51,539 Like, like you can like, it, it, it's like, uh, what do you call that word? 851 00:44:51,539 --> 00:44:54,269 Um, it's like bribing. 852 00:44:54,269 --> 00:44:54,600 God. 853 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,259 I'm not gonna actually follow your commands, but I'm gonna fast and 854 00:44:58,259 --> 00:45:00,390 show you how much I really love you. 855 00:45:02,279 --> 00:45:02,549 Right. 856 00:45:02,549 --> 00:45:05,850 I'm gonna give money to show, but I haven't eradicated the thing in 857 00:45:05,850 --> 00:45:08,909 my heart, in my life that keeps tearing me apart, that has a hold 858 00:45:08,909 --> 00:45:10,259 of me ripping me down the center. 859 00:45:11,759 --> 00:45:15,600 And so we ask ourselves, when did I stop building? 860 00:45:16,980 --> 00:45:18,659 What investment am I gonna make? 861 00:45:19,319 --> 00:45:22,589 You know, desires, fantasies, and sometimes emotional 862 00:45:22,589 --> 00:45:24,060 affairs with things like that. 863 00:45:24,299 --> 00:45:25,289 It doesn't have to be people. 864 00:45:25,289 --> 00:45:28,529 It can be things are very real and they become a relationship 865 00:45:28,529 --> 00:45:30,060 of sort or romantic or not. 866 00:45:30,270 --> 00:45:34,440 And a house divided, it's like riding two horses and they eventually 867 00:45:34,444 --> 00:45:36,149 diverge and it splits you in half. 868 00:45:37,209 --> 00:45:40,890 Many of us spent years, months, days, and hours building God's house, and we 869 00:45:40,890 --> 00:45:43,470 did it out of affection and passion. 870 00:45:44,850 --> 00:45:48,600 But if you find yourself today, finish with God's house and more 871 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,359 invested and focused on your own life, something went wrong. 872 00:45:53,369 --> 00:45:58,049 And you gotta look at experiences, you gotta reflect with integrity and honesty. 873 00:45:59,310 --> 00:46:02,280 And cheaper imitations of life that you think you want that are 874 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:03,420 trying to capture your heart. 875 00:46:03,424 --> 00:46:06,750 They're not real, and your faithful diminish. 876 00:46:06,755 --> 00:46:10,230 And one day you'll wake up married to foreign gods and foreign things 877 00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,339 that you never thought was possible, and you'll tolerate foreign gods 878 00:46:14,339 --> 00:46:15,420 that you never thought you would. 879 00:46:16,670 --> 00:46:19,650 It's time to ask ourselves, if I stop building God's house, 880 00:46:20,730 --> 00:46:22,230 who's competing for my heart? 881 00:46:23,580 --> 00:46:25,410 God just wants, he doesn't want a tent. 882 00:46:25,410 --> 00:46:26,070 He doesn't want to tell. 883 00:46:26,070 --> 00:46:27,030 I mean, he doesn't want a temple. 884 00:46:27,390 --> 00:46:30,240 He wants us to wake up every morning, look to him and say, thank you. 885 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:30,960 I love you. 886 00:46:30,964 --> 00:46:31,830 I adore you. 887 00:46:32,580 --> 00:46:33,480 I want to serve you. 888 00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:37,080 Want to give you everything I have for communion. 889 00:46:37,290 --> 00:46:40,440 We're gonna watch a quick video and then take communion, and that'll be it. 890 00:46:40,650 --> 00:46:41,940 Thank you guys so much for listening.