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Welcome to episode 18 of the plan.

We are telling the story of the Bible from beginning to end, and we've been working on this since September.

And so, we're good portion of the weigh-in last week.

We told the story of David's Reign Over the Kingdom of Israel.

And what we've been finding is that the whole whole story of the Bible is driven by one plot and that plot is the is the story of God's plan, to establish a Place full of people who live out their purpose in his presence, God made the world, and he put people in it, and he wants us to rule over the Earth on his behalf.

And then he wants to live here with us and that's how things started.

And then we messed it up.

And the Bible is the story of God putting those putting that plan putting that design back into action.

And that's where we know the story is going to end at this point.

We are in the face of the Kingdom of Israel.

So this is how God's plan is working.

He is chosen one people and is giving that given them a particular place and they're supposed to rule over that place according to his law and he lives there with them and that means that other anybody else can look at Israel in there.

Doing it, right and see what's happening in Israel on the way there living, and will be able to learn about God.

Understand who got is from, what is Real's doing?

Now we left office story during the time of David and David was a, was a star that has a very good King.

He was very obedient to God much more.

So than saw the first king was he obviously committed a pretty significant sin and it it caused some significant problems in Israel.

But ultimately, David loyalty was to God.

He didn't follow any other guys and he came back when he send and he follow God.

And so God is able to use him to build his kingdom.

But Saul David is going to die and his son is going to take over Solomon.

Solomon, going to take over and Solomon has a particular Mission.

And that's the story that we're going to tell him today.

So as I read the opening section of the story, remember the coordinates that we use to keep our bearings as we read through the Bible.

First of all, people, who is the story about then we watch for place.

Where is their home?

Presence is, how were they able to meet with God and then purposes?

What has God called them to do.

We want to have those points in place before we move into the rest of the story to the first three chapters of Kings.

We're not going to read except for the very end because it starts off with Solomon's older brother tries to take over the kingdom before, it's David dies.

And so David.

Remember last, we talked about the fact that God had chosen Solomon to be the next king.

So David make Solomon King while he still alive and then he tells Solomon.

All right, once I die.

Here's the list of people.

You need to kill to hold onto power.

And so is David dies and Solomon, finds a way to kill all those people.

It's like a scene from The Godfather, kills all these people.

And then these were people who had been undermining David during his Reign people who might take power from Solomon, basically Solomon.

Well, you'll see.

So we're going to read just the last verse of that section and see the results.

The king gave the order to banaya Sanam jehoiada and he went out instruction my down and he died.

The King was not the kingdom.

Has now established in Solomon's hands.

The song is King.

Do we move into chapter 3, says the king went to give you and to offer sacrifices for.

That was the most important.

High place and Solomon.

Offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

I give you in the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream.

And God said, ask for whatever you want me to give you.

I'm going to pause there.

We're going to get our bearings.

So who is this story about?

About Solomon and the Israelites.

The Israelites are God's people.

So he's working through the Israelites.

But Solomon is the anointed king.

So he is a person chosen by God to lead them.

So he has god-given responsibility to lead the Israelites in accomplishing God's plan.

Where is there home?

The home is the Kingdom of Israel and now it is truly a kingdom in our respect David.

You remember from last week, David conquered, all of the Rebellion.

All the Canaanite cities that were still Independence in the land of Israel.

He also conquered most of the surrounding Nations and it's really an Empire that he's been able to hand Solomon, that, that is powerful.

It controls.

The major trade routes between two continents between Africa and Europe between Africa and Asia, and it's safe and it's prosperous.

It's the high-water mark for the Kingdom of Israel in terms of their prosperity and their power.

How can I meet with God?

What is heart still?

A little tricky?

Remember the ark was captured by the Philistines and when they got it back, they didn't reunited with the Tabernacle.

And the plan of the, the lot of God.

Dave says, if you can meet God's Presence at the Ark in the Tabernacle.

Well, right now, the ark is back in his right hands in Jerusalem because David brought it back.

Okay, so that is you can actually make sacrifices at the ark and have some kind of access to God's presence there.

But you may notice that when Solomon wants to have his, his first meeting with God as king, he doesn't do it in Jerusalem.

He doesn't give Ian.

Now, why does he go to give Ian?

Well, there's actually another book that tells the same stories about the Kings from another angle is called Chronicles.

And if you read the version and Chronicles, you find, the answer says Solomon.

And the whole assembly went to the high place.

I give Ian for God's tent of meeting.

Was there, which Moses the Lord's servant in made in the wilderness.

So, the ark is in Jerusalem, but the tavernacle is in gibeon.

And those are both part of God's design for how is people are supposed to be able to meet with them.

Now, they haven't been, they aren't the ark, isn't in the Tabernacle.

Like, it's supposed to be so there in two separate places, but it seems like there are there, two places where you can get kind of imperfect access to God.

Now, the last question is, what did God tell them at this point?

What did God tell Solomon to do with those three things that I want to highlight here.

The first one we've been made very clear over the last couple of sermons is that the Kings job is to obey God.

Right.

That's what we learned from Saul's Fiasco and David's victories and failures.

Is it?

The king is supposed to obey, God has a lot of things.

So I'm going to highlight two specific things that will come up for Solomon.

The first one is the specific mission that Solomon had been given by God that he spoke to David when he made the Covenant, with David at David's family, would rule over God's people forever.

He says, when your days are over, he says the David and you rest of your ancestors, I will raise up your Offspring to succeed, you your own flesh and blood and I will stab was his kingdom.

He is the one who will build a house for my name and I will stablish the Throne of his kingdom forever.