1 Kings 7:1-12: The House of Solomon

Introduction: The good gifts of God given to bad hearts like ours can become snares to us.  The Giver is good and gives from good motives.  He seeks to display His generosity and kindness to us through the gifts of creation.  The gifts are also good, life, marriage, health, wealth, position, work, they are not evil in and of themselves, but good.  But we are bad.  You can give us a good gift like marriage and we turn it into an attempt to enslave another person to our wills.  God can give us a skill for work and we...

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