I Kings 8:12-21: The Goodness and Faithfulness of God

Sunday, January 2, 2022

I Kings 8:12-21

The Goodness and Faithfulness of God

See also 2 Chronicles 6:1-11.

Dedications are momentous occasions.

One Temple many Sacrifices, Solomon--Calvary

Now Jesus one sacrifice

We are indeed “temples of the Holy Spirit.” [John 14:23; Romans 8:9-11; I Corinthians 3:16; Colossians 1:27; I John 4:4, 15, 16]

Solomon’s Sermon to Israel, vv. 14-16

Solomon Builder of God’s Temple, vv. 17-19; 2 Samuel 7:2; I Chronicles 17:1

Psalm 132:1-5 reveals the depth of desire in David’s heart to erect a house worthy of the Greatest of all gods, the only true God.

The story is told here as well as in 1 Chronicles 22.

Solomon Dedicates the Temple to God, vv. 20-21.

Again, the past was retained in the present. The temple would bear witness to Israel both young and old that Jehovah was their God. In the Book of Deuteronomy, the word remember was used at least 14 times. God didn’t want His people to forget the lessons of the past.