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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