Sermon Title: Because God Said So
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This Week’s Theme: Don’t Stop Following God
This Week’s Word is Holiness: It is behavior that reflects the holy character of God himself is to be expressed in both social and personal dimensions of life.
Memory Verse: Psalm 37:23 “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And He delights in his way.”
Essence of the Text in a Sentence: Solomon is preparing to build a temple for the name of the LORD.
Sermon Objective: I want those in attendance to follow God way, Word, and Will for their life.
Sermon Text: 2 Chronicles 2:3-10
3 Then Solomon sent to Hiram king of Tyre, saying: As you have dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.
4 Behold, I am building a temple for the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to Him, to burn before Him sweet incense, for the continual showbread, for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the set feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
5 And the temple which I build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
6 But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a temple, except to burn sacrifice before Him?
7 Therefore send me at once a man skillful to work in gold and silver, in bronze and iron, in purple and crimson and blue, who has skill to engrave with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
8 Also send me cedar and cypress and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and indeed my servants will be with your servants,
9 to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the temple which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
10 And indeed I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, twenty thousand kors of ground wheat, twenty thousand kors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
INTRODUCTION:
TRANSITION:
Sermon Proposition: Let God Be Your Guide
Let God Be Your Guide
Let God Be Your Guide
I. FOLLOW HIS PATH, NOT YOURS
I. FOLLOW HIS PATH, NOT YOURS
4 Behold, I am building a temple for the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to Him, to burn before Him sweet incense, for the continual showbread, for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the set feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
I am building a temple for the name of the LORD. Here Solomon is declaring that He is following God’s path and not his. By path I mean an establish constructed direction along which someone moves. Remember the story. David wanted to build a temple for the name of the LORD, but God sent Nathan to him and told him in 1 Chron 17:4
2 Chronicles 2:4; 1 Chronicles 17:4, 11; 28:6, 9-10, 20; Matthew 7:13-14; John 14:6;
4 “Go and tell My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “You shall not build Me a house to dwell in.
11 And it shall be, when your days are fulfilled, when you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
After this God told David which son. Look at 1 Chron 28:6;
6 Now He said to me, ‘It is your son Solomon who shall build My house and My courts; for I have chosen him to be My son, and I will be his Father.
Now look at verse 10
10 Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong, and do it.”
EXPLANATION: Do you see it God set the path for Solomon. God wanted him to be king. He wanted him to build the temple. God set the path for him. Even with this David admonishes Solomon to follow God’s path. Look at how he said it in 1 Chronicles 28:9
9 “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
20 And David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and of good courage, and do it; do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God—my God—will be with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you, until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
Know Him; Serve Him, Seek Him
Jer31.34 “34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.””
APPLICATION: God doesn’t want you to get on the right road on His path. Look at Matt 7.13
13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
What is the right path?
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
If you have not
Are you saved?
Are you on God’s path which comes through Jesus Christ or your own?
Will you surrender and get on God’s path or course for living?
II. FOLLOW HIS PLANS, NOT YOURS
II. FOLLOW HIS PLANS, NOT YOURS
2 Chronicles 2:7; 1 Chronicles 28:9-13, 19-20; Isaiah 30:1; Proverbs 19:21
7 Therefore send me at once a man skillful to work in gold and silver, in bronze and iron, in purple and crimson and blue, who has skill to engrave with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
EXPLANATION: Look at the end of this verse. Solomon said, “whom David my father provided.” David provided individuals, goods, and the plan. By plan I mean an orderly arrangement of parts of an overall design or objective. Look at 1 Chron 28:11-13
11 Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the vestibule, its houses, its treasuries, its upper chambers, its inner chambers, and the place of the mercy seat;
12 and the plans for all that he had by the Spirit, of the courts of the house of the Lord, of all the chambers all around, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries for the dedicated things;
13 also for the division of the priests and the Levites, for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord, and for all the articles of service in the house of the Lord.
Look at 1 Chron 28:19
19 “All this,” said David, “the Lord made me understand in writing, by His hand upon me, all the works of these plans.”
APPLICATION: Are you following God’s plan? Listen to this word of warning from the LORD in Is 30:1
1 “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord, “Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may add sin to sin;
Proverbs teaches us that in Proverbs 19:21
21 There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand.
Are you following God’s plan of making disciple? loving your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ? (the other one anothers)? Look at 1 Thessalonians 5:14-22.
14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.
15 See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.
16 Rejoice always,
17 pray without ceasing,
18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
19 Do not quench the Spirit.
20 Do not despise prophecies.
21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
22 Abstain from every form of evil.
Are you following God’s plan for your life or your own plan?
Ask yourself the following using 1 Thess 5:14-22: Am I ____________
Will you repent (turn from) of your sins today?
Actions speak louder than words, name the Christians you will tell your sins to and those who you will look to for accountability
III. FOLLOW HIS PURPOSES, NOT YOURS
III. FOLLOW HIS PURPOSES, NOT YOURS
2 Chronicles 2:4-6; 1 Cor 6:20;
4 Behold, I am building a temple for the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to Him, to burn before Him sweet incense, for the continual showbread, for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and on the set feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
5 And the temple which I build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.
6 But who is able to build Him a temple, since heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him? Who am I then, that I should build Him a temple, except to burn sacrifice before Him?
EXPLANATION:
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Why do you do the things you do?
Are you doing those things to glorify God?
Justify your actions with God’s Word. Write out the Scriptures.
If God Word does not back up your actions? Will you repent (turn from) of your sins today?
Actions speak louder than words, name the Christians you will tell your sins to and those who you will look to for accountability
CONCLUSION