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Intro:
Imagine if God told you to ask for anything you wanted to and he would give it to you.
We are beginning a new unit this morning and the next few weeks we will look at the life of King Solomon.
Here are some interesting facts about Solomon:
Solomon was the last son of David and not the natural first choice to replace David as King.
Absolom was naturally supposed to take over as King but Solomon did instead.
He was the son of David’s favorite wife: Bathsehba.
2. Solomon was a likely a teenager when he took over as King.
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He was the wisest person to live in his lifetime and and was very wealthy and powerful.
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He authored three books of wisdom in the OT: Song of Solomon, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.
This morning, we are going to look at Solomon’s request for wisdom:
We can learn a lot from Solomon at this point of his reign by the thing he requests from God.
In V. 5, God asks him what he wants and he asks for wisdom from God in leading the people he had just been appointed to.
There are four elements to Solomon’s prayer:
It acknowledges God’s past action.
Solomon points back to God’s steadfast love to his father David.
God’s steadfast love shows us what true love is because it’s never-changing.
God’s love for us is greater than anything we can experience on earth.
It asks for continuance of God’s favour.
Solomon uses language found in Deuteronomy.
Solomon asks for something only God can truly give him and that’s wisdom.
Wisdom includes intelligence, knowledge, and is something required by leaders who want to succeed.
SOlomon knew that wisdom had to come from God in order for him to become successful.
It expresses humility: I am only a child shows that Solomon recognizes he is young and incapable of leading without the help of God.
It asks for the ability to carry out his duties: The people were a heavy people or too numerous to count.
Ultimately, we see a young person trying to fill in his Dad’s shoes by taking over the throne as King and he knew he would not be successful without God’s help.
Here is a practical example of Solomon’s wisdom being put to the test.
Solomon asked for a discerning heart, and that is exactly what he needed in order to settle a dispute between two prostitutes who had no standing in society.
These women who lived in the same house each had an infant son.
When one son died in the middle of the night, his mother switched him with the living son and then claimed the living son was hers.
There were no witnesses to vouch for either woman so Solomon came up with a shocking but brilliant solution.
Cut the lving child in half and give half to one woman and half to the other.
Solomon was countint on the true mother’s maternal instinces to win out.
Sure enough, one woman had compassion for the loiving child while the other woman to the attitdue, If I can’t have them.
This was a way for him to figure out who the true mother was.
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