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1 Kings 4: Solomon’s Government
Introduction: Wisdom is the theme of most of Solomon’s life. He has prayed for wisdom and demonstrated it in the law courts in the last chapter. Many of the chapters ahead can be thought of...
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1 Kings 3:16-28: Wise Justice
Introduction: We all love a good riddle, for example the famous one about a choice between two doors. There are two door guardians by the two doors, one always lies and one always tells the...
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1 Kings 3:1-15: Solomon, The Sinful Saint
Introduction: Sinful saints, who are a mix of belief and worship and trust and obedience; yet who are also inconsistent, disobedient, unwise and compromising are a valuable encouragement in scripture. Not only because we see...
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1 Kings 2:13-46 – Choosing a Kingdom
Introduction: Having any other king but the God-given King Christ is the heart of sin. In our day and age we don’t have real kings any more so this notion might fall on deaf ears. ...
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1 Kings 2:1-11: David’s Final Advice To Solomon
Introduction: Archibald Alexander in his classic, Thoughts on Religious Experience, gives this advice to the elderly who are approaching their deaths: ‘Let not the infirm and the aged say that they can now do nothing...
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1 Kings 1:11-53: The Crowning of Solomon
Introduction: Resistance to the true king, this is the tale of human history and the central struggle in the text before us. As usual we see sinful men used of the devil to promote themselves...
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1 Kings 1:1-10 : The Self-Exaltation of Adonijah
Introduction: Kingmaking, self-enthronement, pride, self-exaltation, these are the sins that meet us as we begin the book of 1 Kings moving from the reign of David to the reign of Solomon. We are at a...