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All right everybody. how to see y'all For this midweek service. Tonight we are going to talk about King Solomon again, where in 1st Kings chapter 10. 1st Kings chapter 10 end
what I've been trying to do lately.
has led by the Lord and praying about it is to just kind of approach this Wednesday night as a time to like let God's word speak for itself and let it fall in our hearts and just put it out there, you know acknowledging that the Holy Spirit lives in each and every single one of you Believers and brings things to your remembrance. Even as I'm speaking that have nothing to do with what I'm talking about and that's pretty cool cuz after service thinking about maybe we can work on my notes next week or something. Just just doing a chapter by chapter simply and letting its before self and trying to kind of scale back some of the formalized.
Academic preaching that I've gotten into the habit of on the past Wednesday night. That's not bad like that to right. So I'm just a lump of Muddy clay in his hands skin molded and shaped in growing like everybody else. So so this is our latest iteration. I hope you find it valuable and I'm relaxing and and I hope that the Lord speaks to you tonight as we approached his word as an act of worship together. Let's pray father. I thank you so much for your holy word. And we acknowledge that our understanding of it is often Limited. Can we pray father that as we continue to draw close to you as we continue to draw close to your word as we hear your word time and time again that these truths about who you are and your heart towards us and towards Humanity in your kingdom. That they become clear to us.
And I didn't love that. We grow into something that resembles you and that we would be about your business here on planet Earth. As long as you have us here father. In Jesus name amen. Hey, man, so 1st Kings chapter 10. Where we left off last week, we saw God appeared to Solomon a second time. Right and we talked about how you meet. That was how many of us go her entire life and we don't have a supernatural experience with God. We don't see a chariot of fire and with wheels and these Angelic beings and we don't hear an audible voice, you know, and we have God's work and we have the Holy Spirit and and that is sufficient for us and we have God's grace and we have Solomon who God comes to specifically someone argue supernaturally in a dream one time and and then in chapter 9 comes to him again and says, hey look I want to talk to you again. Write personally directly and we also talked about how he had all these building projects that took him 20 years. And now he was a great Statesman and a great businessman and he was just a great king all the things that God said, we're going to come to pass in his life did come to pass in his life and yet for all of that. Has Solomon ages as he matures he still he still Falls? I am going to continue to see that mixed Legacy tonight. So let's go ahead and begin in 1st Kings chapter 10 verse 1.
by the way, this roughly corresponds with 2nd Chronicles chapter 9 verse 1 says now when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord she came to test him with hard questions fun tonight or would this woman the Queen of Sheba comes to visit Solomon and there has been a much mythology that surrounds this visit and I'm not going to talk about that tonight.
Best choice I made you can go look up all that extracurricular stuff. If you'd like, I can talk about it right people like to speculate and make these wild wild ideas and theories about how this woman and Solomon related to one another and their relationship and the Ark of the Covenant involved in the country of Ethiopia and King Haile, Selassie crazy about that. We're going to talk about what the Bible says. So go do your Wikipedia research and have your good old time but I would warn you there anything else any kind of weird speculation is just that weird speculation. Okay. So this woman the Queen of Sheba years of Solomon's Fame and she comes to visit him to test him now Sheba, there are really two schools of thought on where this is located at one school of thought is that this is located in southern Arabia. Another school of thought is that's located in Ethiopia. All right.
Regardless this woman comes from quite a distance away why Solomon's famous? He's famous. So famous that people are spreading Tales of his wealth is wisdom his Fame across the world. And she decides decides that it's worth the cost worth the risk to go see for yourself. And so she doesn't fact make the trip doesn't work to she came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue with camels that more spices very much gold and precious stones and when she came to Solomon she spoke with him about all that was in her heart. So Solomon answered all her questions, there was nothing so difficult for the king that he could not explain it to her. And when the Queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon the house that he had built the food on his table the seating of his servants the service of his waders and their apparel his cupbearers and his Entry Way by which he went up to the house of the Lord. There was no more spirit in her right? So she just wounds upon seeing this Kingdom Solomon. And from her perspective Sky pretty special.
I mean, I underline all these different things that it said that she took note of his wisdom. That's the first thing. I remember Solomon's wisdom was superlative. There was nobody like him before him nor after him in regards to with you. In fact, he is an author of a couple of books in the Bible pretty amazing. That's one of the first things she sees when she sees his house that he built it took 13 years to build his house 13 years has huge state that yet. The food on his table, right? Like I was living large. He has servants waiters the clothes that they're wearing. This Entry Way by which he went up to the house of the Lord rise. This is another one of his construction projects like meant to convey a sense of wealth the sense of dignity a sense of majesty, right? And so she can't she can't resist right?
There's no more Spirit left in her. That's kind of a vape saying what does that mean? I'm going to leave it on the table for you. I didn't write let's continue on here. It says then she said to the king it was a true report, which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom. However, I did not believe the words until I came and saw with my own eyes and indeed the half was not told me your wisdom in the prosperity exceed the fame, which I heard happy are your man and happy are these your servants who stand continually before your before you and hear your wisdom. That's pause there. So Again, she's just bowled over. It's more than she thought it was going to be why she can't she can't believe what she's saying right now. Whose work is this? This is the Lord's work. This is the Lord's work and I want you to pay special attention to that because as we go on tonight, you'll notice that nothing in here notes that Solomon said this is the Lord's work. Not one time. Does he say to her? Oh wait, this isn't me. I'm just a vessel in the hands of the greatest. It doesn't say that he just continues right like yes. Yes, I am great, right.
We also see here. She's infatuated with his wisdom and let's talk about wisdom for a little bit. Right because Stalin was unique guy in that. He was really smart earlier in First Kings that he actually was kind of a science guy. He studied animals who study plants that kind of stuff. He said he study music. He pursued all these different things in his life. He's a smart guy. But more than being a smart guy. He was a wise guy and I'm not the kind like in the mafia movies it not that kind of Wiseguy. But yeah this Divine wisdom from the Lord and so have you ever thought about what's the difference between wisdom and knowledge for sure you have and I'm sure some of you have a pretty good definition of it. Does anybody want to share it?
Gummy sure, mine. Yeah, sure mine. So wisdom is the the judicious application of knowledge. Critz the right application of knowledge. Okay, so you can be smart and not have wisdom, right? But Solomon had wisdom. Now this is unique because even as we begin to see Solomon fail, even as we begin to see his decline in in moral conviction and in obedience to God's word, he still has his wisdom, but it's kind of amazing like how the Lord doesn't be like, all right. You're a dummy now. You know and that's really a picture of God's grace towards Solomon and when we consider a guy like Solomon were like, wow, this guy was supposed to be the wisest person to have lived specially blessed by God given the special gift by God. And this is it? But this is it like he has all his wisdom and he has all his majesty, but he lacks humility. And some other things we'll talk about in just a little bit. Now. I want you to look at verse say she's as happy are your men and happy are these your servant to stand continually before you and hear your with look for me? This is just a shadow of what's to come? Okay, the Queen of Sheba is impressed. But for me, when I read that verse I think about our King the one true king Jesus and we are so blessed to stand before him. We are so blessed to hear his wisdom and they're in your Bible says happy are your men and happy are these your servants write some places in the New Testament that word blessed and happy are interchangeable terms the same greed background word perhaps sometimes when you read the Beatitudes when it says blessed are the poor in spirit, etcetera, etcetera write some some translations run to that happy are the poor in spirit etcetera, etcetera. Tell remind me of Jesus's servants, right and how we stand before him the one true king and we get to hear his wisdom and really Solomon is just a shadow and imperfect shadow of what is to come we have to keep in mind when reviewing these biblical types of Christ. I think about Moses think of David think about Solomon here and these prefigure Christ. They stand us types of Christ in the Old Testament right to point us to the Messiah Jesus Christ. But ultimately every one of those guys fails their flawed one of the fellows in the American gospel film talk about how do you see how the Bible takes care to tarnish like everybody in the Bible except one person? Jesus Christ and Solomon comes like really close to being like the guy. It's a time of peace and prosperity and wisdom and just like justice in the Kingdom. It's the time of Glory. People would look at that Kingdom like the Queen of Sheba didn't be like wow. Look at what God is doing this is amazing and yet. It wasn't to be. While they would look at some and be like that was the high point in their history. Do you understand that the high point in Israel's history is still in the future. bike from today It's still in the future. God is still bringing it to fruition.
Then she says in verse 9 blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you setting you on the throne of Israel? Because the Lord has Love is Real forever. Therefore he made you King to do justice and righteousness. Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold spices in great quantity and precious stones their never again came such abundance of spices as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon and I wanted to stop there and talk about verse nine when she gives this affirmation this Blessing about God. She says blessed be the Lord your God you're delighted in you because there are few times in the Old Testament when we're confronted with foreign leaders who affirm A praise or a positive position Yahweh. Jehovah the God of the Hebrews Solomon's blood from Tire did the same thing the Queen of Sheba the same thing but this drives theologians crazy because when we redo it was like wait, is that person saved? I don't know. I don't know but is it enough to just say that thing? Blessed be the Lord your God.
Right cuz we want to know like if I just knew a little bit more about this person that I can make a judgment. Bizarre place to make that judgment right? I really that kind of reveals how we are today. I want to make judgments about everybody to come to church and everybody in America whose like hey praise the Lord right? I want to make those judgments don't have enough information. That's what my flesh has but in spiritual realm. It's not my place to make that judgment. Who am I to judge? Another man's servant, right? I want to so badly. I think maybe you do too. Maybe not. At any rate. The other thing we have to pay attention to hear is okay. So perhaps perhaps she is like converted perhaps she's like, yeah, I'm going to I'm going to follow the lord. Now. This is real. This is legit. I seen it with my own eyes K. Like I'm going to follow the lord. Perhaps that's the case. But perhaps it's the case that the Queen of Sheba. Is simply being polite? Or paying her respects to the god of Solomon. And I say that because I've said this before you and I are oftentimes put in positions to where we want to.
Play nice with others. and we want to kowtow to another's conviction or religion right in order to be seen as tolerant. Or accepting sometimes we put ourselves in the position of the Queen of Sheba and we want to say assalamualaikum and happy Rosh Hashanah and all these things when I really like we sing it. Is that our place? Is it a place to endorse other people's religions and gods? I would say probably not. prank So just something to think about right? Like are we the Queen of Sheba or are we the people like, oh, yeah. Yeah. We really don't mean it. And if we really don't mean it then why are we saying it? You know what I mean? Or on the other hand perhaps this is someone who's actually converted to our god the one true God the existing one Jehovah. Now she just dumps presents on Solomon. It's crazy. Right? It's crazy. I love how like, you know in our in our world were all about currency and we're going to talk about that in a minute, but they're really carried away here with the spices and like there were so many spices. How do you feel about that? I don't know. Maybe it would be awesome. Has anybody ever gotten a giant bag of spices for Christmas? I mean I like spices but it's just me out something. We know anything about what spices were used as currency in really really expensive back. Then now I want to talk about is all this gold that she dumped on Solomon. The River Song is already wealthy, but she brings 120 talents of gold now a talent is a weight of measurement the weight of measurement in a talent weigh between 65 and 80 lb 6580 pounds so I had to do some math to figure this out. Okay, but the mess I came up with based on how many ounces is in a pound and how much an ounce of gold is worth in today's value Talent. Is 1 between 1.9 and 2.4 million dollars. And she gave him a hundred and twenty talents of gold. So she wasn't doing too bad yourself if that's considered as like common protocol like one head of state to another head of state came to visit to see if all this was what I heard. It was it's far better than I thought it was it's so good here have a couple hundred million dollars worth of gold K. So she actually does that and this is what we're going to see that this story turns and begins to talk all about Solomon's wealth. The rest of the chapter and how rich he gets. Okay. So it says in verse 11 also the ships of Hiram remember Hiram the king of Tyre which brought gold from over brought great quantity of almog wood and precious stones from overnight. Remember that King Solomon built the Navy and he went into business with the king of Tyre Hiram and they were great seafarers and they went on these trading journey together. Okay, just to build their their Empire Central and make money until they have this this almug wood different translation know some of the other translations read algumwood either or process would its planks wooden planks that you would imagine how much effort and time it would take to plane and plankwood thousands of years ago. Priceless was really special stuff. So they brought huge quantities of this wood and precious stones from ofir K. And the King made steps of the Elmwood for the house of the Lord. And for the King's house also is why I love you get to see like King Solomon the music nerd also Harps and stringed instruments for singers there never again came such Alamo Elmwood nor has the light been seen to this day. So he's like, I'm going to make floors on the stairs. I'm going to make musical instruments out of all the special wood, right? He's just down at are making money and spending money, okay. Let's go on now King Solomon gave the Queen of Sheba all she desired. Whatever. She asked decides what Solomon had given her a cording to the Royal generosity. So she turned and went to her own country. She and her servants. Okay. This is an interesting kind of finishing this section here for a few reasons and Solomon gave her gifts above and beyond what was dictated by protocol. And he gave her whatever she desired. just want something interesting like Don't even know me that well, whatever you want. Yeah, whatever you want or whatever she was tired, and she was why so interesting guys Solomon was married. Get wife. And so when I look at this on my way second, that's kind of a red flag for me that he and his position being married. Although he's married to Pharaoh's daughter we talked about this before these are kind of the cracks. In the really beautiful animal that marked Solomon's kingdom. My dis is the mixed Legacy. This is where like Grace God's grace. And like human just like propensity for wickedness intertwine. And I can't judge him because this is our life guys. I mean like every single day we wake up in a house that we don't deserve wearing clothes. We don't deserve eating food. We don't deserve it's all by God's hand by his grace. And yet I find a way to mess it up every single day. You know and yet God does not remove his grace from us. It's crazy. But I deserve to get so much like a bug every single day. But he continues to be merciful and gracious towards us and that's the same thing. He does in Solomon's life. We have to be careful not to read these things for my horse cuz we can we can read these portions of scripture especially like when you take a look at the later failings of Solomon or when you take a look at David and Bathsheba and we can be up here at the pulpit and we can really plan our finger down at him and be like David was a sinner. How dare he But yeah, we're all Sinners man. We're also Jesus convicted every single one of us of adultery. When you said look you heard that it was said you should not commit adultery. I say to you anyone who looks on a woman with lust in his heart is already committed adultery. every single one of us right So we approached the scriptures from a position of humility and understanding light. Look Solomon's a human. But ultimately that leads us to again to Future Promise by the greatness of God's kingdom will far surpass what we're reading about here all the riches the servants the apparel the houses all that stuff was part of a man's Fallen Kingdom amazing.
Okay. Now Jesus references this woman the Queen of Sheba and Matthew chapter 12 verse 42 when he talks about how she's going to rise up in judgment against the Pharisees because the Pharisees come to Jesus novela que Jesus. Show us a sign prove it prove Who You Are. And he tells them no sign of be given to you except the sign of Jonah and then he tells them that none of us going to rise up in judgment because they saw Joan unrepentant. And he says that the Queen of Sheba is going to rise up in judgment because she came from the ends of the Earth saw Solomon and Jesus said I'm telling you right now that what you hear there's one among you who is greater than Solomon right now. about himself That's a big claim from Jesus to say I'm greater than King Solomon because when people look at Jesus and where he came from they were like, no can anything good come out of Nazareth, right? And hear Jesus is like no. I'm the one that's greater than Solomon. In fact to Eric's point about the I am the existing one over and over and over again session the gospel John Jesus uses these Trends or phrase where he says I am as matter fact. He says to them on one occasion before Abraham was I am and of course I am the bread of life. I am the light of the world these kind of things so. So he brings up the Queen of Sheba. She's really important in the story, but she goes to her home having been blessed beyond what her station required and really be on with Solomon should have blessed her with Gaelic he probably should not have behaved towards her as he did never the less he did and if we're being honest we receive so much for markings hands to 14. When you're in love this buddy. the weight of gold that came to Solomon yearly was how much was it?
601 600 And 66 talents of gold.
David guzik points out that this is the only other place in scripture where the number 666 is tied to a man. I'll just leave that right there for you.
All right. And what we see you like we just like we just determined in verse 11 is that this scripture now turns to wealth. Great Lakes from the gifts of Queen Sheba to to his alliance with Hiram right in bringing back all this wood and all this gold and now I'm 666 talents of gold per year besides that from the traveling Merchants from the income of Traders from all the kings of Arabia in from the governors of the country and King Solomon made 200 large Shields of hammered gold 600 shekels of gold went into each Shield. He also made 300 Shields of hammered gold 3, meaning of gold went into each Shield the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon and Spas are so does she starts to make wall art out of them? K u makes these gold shield to hang in this house 500 of them. Okay, these aren't for battle. These are for decoration. You can't use a gold shield in battle because everyone's too heavy whenever to is too soft. Okay, so it's purely for decoration. That's how wealthy Solomon has become. So it's not about war. It's about wealth and it's about how do I display the swells in a way the people know? I'm rich moreover the king made a great Throne of Ivory and overlaid it with pure gold the throne had six steps and the top of the throne was round at the back there were armrest on either side of the place of the sea in two lines Stood Beside the armrests 12 Lions still there one on each side of the steps. Nothing like this had been made for any other Kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were gold and all the vessels of the House of the forest of Lebanon were pure gold not one was silver for this was a counted as nothing in the days of Solomon for the king had Merchant ships at Sea with the fleet of Hiram once every three years. The merchant ships came bringing gold silver Ivory apes and monkeys. Just a brief note there where your Bible says monkeys a lot of translations render that word as peacocks. So most other translations render. This is peacocks. So it's literally a circus. Okay, right. Like there's Caravans from other countries bringing spices and gold and this huge retinue of people does Entourage coming to see Solomon. He's deck in the place out like MTV Cribs right got like Gold Everywhere golden chandeliers. I got this throw in his custom-made thrown right but I got he's got eight sand monkeys and peacocks right? It's crazy. It's a madhouse. All right. First 23 so King Solomon surpassed the kings of the Earth in riches and wisdom.
And I circled adverse because guess what? There's still one greater. We cannot drive that point home hard enough. That the Majesty the wisdom of Solomon does not hold a match to the glory of Jesus Christ and he's the one who came as a slave. Right, and he's Lord of all creation.
It's amazing to me. They're all yours. The presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom which God put in each man brought his present articles of silver and gold garments armor spices horses and mules at a set rate her by year. So here's the deal guys as Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth and people are just bringing him all those gifts don't you find it interesting that like the Richer people get the more free stuff. They get ever thought about that. I like the Richer people get seems like the more people give them free stuff and that's what happens if Solomon but here's a deal. With Solomon is as his glory increases in his kingdom gross and look it's been decades. She's been working at it's a long time. Sometimes we believe the good press. Sometimes we believe the good press. And when everybody's coming to Solomon and tell him how awesome he is and how wise he is and how he changed their life and how shrewd he is as a businessman how they want to be just like them.
I think it's fair to assume that Solomon began to to believe it. to live in a way that
Kind of embrace this idea that like yeah, I am pretty awesome. Because here's the deal. We don't see any signs of humility through any of these chapters. Not one time and not in this chapter here like to tell him and fall on his face and be like, you know, what? This isn't about me. We do not see humility instead what we see. Let's go ahead and pick up in verse 26. Is that he just continues to press into this idea of becoming wealthier first 26s. So after all that after all these princes and kings come and bring him all these gifts after all that Solomon gathered chariots and Horsemen, he had 1400 chariots and 12000 Horsemen stationed in The Chariot cities with the king of Jerusalem. The king made silver is common in Jerusalem and stones and he made cedar trees as abundant as the sycamores which are in the lowland. Also Solomon had horses imported from Egypt and Kiva the Kings Merchants bought them and keep at the current price now a chariot that was imported from Egypt cost six hundred shekels of silver and Horst 115 bus through their agents. They exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of cerium to he continues to make money to build this job. Horse Army in to sell horses and chariots in this kind of stuff right? I want you to pay attention to with all this. money won't make a person faithful. It will make a person pay for we're going to keep going chapter 11 just a little bit cuz I want to show you that money will not make a person faithful. And that's the big lie of the Prosperity Gospel. Read the big lie. The Prosperity Gospel is like God wants you to have everything like Solomon you want you to be rich, but he wants me to be rich first. So go ahead and put a couple bucks in the offering plate. And if you make me Rich then God to make you rich right and then you know, what life's going to be easy peasy.
Because you're going to have everything you need. guys Solomon was a bazillionaire Okay, do you have money? He had horses get everything you ever wanted. He had circuses. He had people like stroking his ego people love that too. That's a good sign. That's a huge sign of wealth. And he buys into it and he he fell he he actually fails in the realm of faithfulness money will not make Us Faithful if anything it makes us less faithful because we're relying on our own power on resources are on strength. Emelec I got this haven't you found out in your lives. That was the moment when you were in need where the moments that you were drawing closest to God. I don't know how we're going to make it right. We drive really close to the Lord and you know what he provides every single time. He does. So, why do we why do we want to go the other way? Why do we want to make it like no Lord, if you just make me a bazillionaire, I'll be different. Solomon the wisest King to ever live in Israel wasn't what makes us think we're different. Let's see. What happens to sound like flip over to chapter 11 just a few verses. Here's what happens to Solomon. So Solomon had it all. Chapter 11 verse 1 book King Solomon loved many foreign women. As well as the daughter of pharaoh women of the moabites ammonites edomites sidonians and Hittites from the nations of whom the Lord had said that the children of Israel you shall not intermarry with them or they with you surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods Solomon clung to these in love and he had 700 wives princesses and 300 concubines and his wife's turned away is hard. Money won't make you Faithful.
Turn with me if you will. We got a few more minutes to Deuteronomy chapter 17. Cuz I want to show you what happens in Solomon's life.
God's word is prophetic. You guys know this. as a matter of fact when the apostles write in the New Testament many of their Old Testament quotes demonstrate that they understood the prophetic nature of the scriptures. k And in Deuteronomy chapter 17 God gives Israel.
a portion of the law for kings and what we're about to read sounds like it happened was probably written after Solomon, but it was written way before Deuteronomy 17 verse 14 When you come to the land, which the Lord your God is giving you and possess it and dwell in it and say I will set a king over me like you like the nation's all around me. So this is when the Israelites choose Saul as their King, right, but this was written Generations before that, but God said when this happens Ride, this is the prophetic nature scripture. Sex first 15 you shall surely set a king over you home the Lord your God chooses one from among your brother and you just had his King over you you may not set a foreigner over you who is not your brother check this out for 16, but he shall not multiply horses for himself.
That's weird. Solomon's literally we just read about Solomon doing that right? He shall not multiply horses for himself for the Lord has said to you you shall not return that way. She's me nor causes people to return to Egypt to multiply horses for the Lord has said You shall not return that way again, that's prophetic back. And what were just reading about Solomon literally did this thing gather chariots and Horsemen, Right. He had them imported from Egypt. I mean in black and white the laws they hate don't do this. Don't go to Egypt by horses Solomon's like I don't know. Maybe we try it out.
How do you know if it's good or bad right? Okay verse 16.
Neither shall he multiply wives for himself his heart turn away.
He did that one nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself? He did that one right silver says was like stones in Israel. First 18 also is Shelby when he sits on the throne of his kingdom that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in the book from the one before the priests and Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law in these statutes that is heart may not be lifted up above his brother and that he may not turn aside from the commandant to the right hand or to the left and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom he and his children in the midst of Israel. That's insane and it is exactly what happened to Solomon. And as I Was preparing I was like just racking my brain And trying to remember if Solomon ever recorded a copy of the book of the law.
And I can't remember that he did. And I was trying to think like is there ever an example where it was again Solomon read the the words of the Lord daily, and I can't remember they did that. He wrote Proverbs. Hero Song of Solomon He wrote Ecclesiastes been at your crazy ass. He was like his end-of-life letter like man. That was terrible.
But did he obey God's word? No. fail he failed but here's the deal. So Solomon he has all these women in his life. It says he loved them.
Alan challenge you because you've been taught thousand times in your life that the word Agape means what?
Love means like this unconditional love. Well, the Septuagint the Greek version of the Old Testament uses that word for how Solomon love these women.
That's a whole discussion about semantic range of the words in that kind of stuff. But my point is In Solomon car he was justified. Right, he felt perfectly okay with it, but God's word was against it.
He was the king and he brought into the Press. And he violated God's word.
I mean like not even a little bit right like we look at guys who have affairs and we're like, wow, how dare you this dude had a thousand women.
bass line fix a mental illness level stuff, right?
But here's the deal. There's a better King. And check this out. He's in love with one life.
And who is his wife? The church just like we've been talking about on Sunday morning, and he will never leave her and he will never put his treasure out on other Brides. my spray For me, thank you for your word that it might reach those recesses of our heart that we've reserved only for ourselves.
I pray father for your blessing on these your Saints or may we walk in your joy and we walk in your peace in Jesus name? Amen. Amen.