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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 how God’s grace is bigger than our failures, but also because we get to see how sin works in the fallen heart. Solomon is one of the bigger saints with big sins and his life is incredibly instructive.  We are early on in the reign of Solomon, and the benefit of studying the early years is because the trajectory for a person’s life is set...


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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.  But the portion before us reminds us that there are many things that we serve as kings that are not necessarily flesh and blood.  We are looking at the succession of Solomon to the throne.  David has just died, and David’s closing words to Solomon were about dealing with those subversive elements which were challenges to his reign.  The portion before us records four...


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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 for God.  They can do much; and for ought they can tell, more than they ever did in the days of their vigour.  It is a beautiful sight to see men laden with fruit, even in old age. Such fruits are generally more mature than those of earlier days; and the aged saint often enjoys a tranquillity and repose of spirit, which is...


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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 like the antichrist into the place of the true king.  We see resistance and subterfuge attempting to gather strength to overthrow God’s will to have His ruler in place.  The ruler of the people of Israel is not merely a political position, it has been identified in promise and prophecy as the seat from which the nations will be ruled and satan overcome.  It...


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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 crucial point in salvation history.  David becoming King has fulfilled an important prophecy given to Judah by Jacob, and is giving substance to the longed for deliverer promised from the foundation of the earth—the seed of the woman promised in Gen. 3:15.  Just after the fall of mankind into sin God promised a deliverer who would destroy satan and his works.  With David having...


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2 Samuel 7: The Davidic Covenant

Outline David’s promise David’s praise Introduction One of the key things the covenants of the bible do is manifest the grace of God. To a greater or lessor extent God’s glorious grace is put on display. And in this chapter we have the Davidic Covenant presented putting forward another glorious glimpse of our gracious God. This is one of the most important chapters of the bible because it is one of the major steeping stones in the lead up to the coming of Jesus as the Saviour of the world. As you move through the OT you see a...


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