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A Walk Through the Bible With Bro. Bill Parker

Praise Chapel Puget Sound. A Walk Through the Bible With Bro. Bill Parker. Lesson 7 The Monarchy First and Second Kings . A Walk Through the Bible. Outline Of First Kings ● The first Book of Kings holds the secret of success in reigning over the kingdom of your own life.

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A Walk Through the Bible With Bro. Bill Parker

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  1. Praise Chapel Puget Sound A Walk Through the BibleWith Bro. Bill Parker Lesson 7 The Monarchy First and Second Kings

  2. A Walk Through the Bible • Outline Of First Kings ● The first Book of Kings holds the secret of success in reigning over the kingdom of your own life.

  3. A Walk Through the Bible ● It is the secret of learning to be submissive to the authority and dominion of God in your own life.

  4. A Walk Through the Bible • David is still king when the book opens, but he is immediately confronted by the rebellion of another one of his sons, Adonijah.

  5. A Walk Through the Bible 1. Adonijah attempts to gain control before his father dies. • David learns of the plot and moves to anoint Solomon king.

  6. A Walk Through the Bible 3. Solomon assumes the throne while David is still alive. 4. In chapters 2 and 3 we see Solomon coming to the throne.

  7. A Walk Through the Bible 5. Solomon acceded to the throne between the ages of twelve and fifteen. 6. David on his deathbed instructed Solomon to clean house.

  8. A Walk Through the Bible 7. There were a number of overdue punishments. 8. For one, Joab murdered Abner and was never punished.

  9. A Walk Through the Bible 9. David realized that unless those issues were resolved, they would come back to haunt Solomon.

  10. A Walk Through the Bible B. In chapter three we also have the seeds of defeat. 1. He does two little things that ultimately overthrow his kingdom.

  11. A Walk Through the Bible 2. Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh, King of Egypt. 3. He brings the Pharaoh’s daughter into the central life of Israel.

  12. A Walk Through the Bible 4. Here an alliance is made with the flesh (world). 5. The pagan tribes have erected altars, which were the center of idolatrous worship.

  13. A Walk Through the Bible 6. The people of Israel took over these altars and used them for sacrifices to Jehovah. 7. Solomon did not present his offerings at the altar in the Tabernacle. He was using the pagan altars.

  14. A Walk Through the Bible 8. Solomon lacked the commitment to God that his father David had.

  15. A Walk Through the Bible ● God appears to Solomon in a dream and tells him to ask for whatever he wanted. 1. Solomon, in a marvelous passage, asks not for riches or for honor, but for wisdom.

  16. A Walk Through the Bible 2. He wanted to discern between good and evil. 3. The great problem we have in our lives is to identify evil when it comes smiling at you, and offers you everything you have been looking for.

  17. A Walk Through the Bible 4. Christian maturity comes when we learn to exercise the spirit of wisdom to distinguish between good and evil.

  18. A Walk Through the Bible ● This wisdom is what Solomon asked for and God granted his request. 1. God gave Solomon this wisdom but He gave it with the circumstances that put the wisdom to the test.

  19. A Walk Through the Bible 2. God also gave Solomon riches and honor. 3. The thing that Solomon really needed was the wisdom to rule the kingdom of his own life.

  20. A Walk Through the Bible • The test was a dispute between two mothers who brought a baby to Solomon. They both had a baby, but one had died.

  21. A Walk Through the Bible 5. Both women claimed the living baby. Solomon was asked to decide whose baby it was. 6. Solomon asks for a sword and tells the women to cut the baby in half and divide it between them.

  22. A Walk Through the Bible 7. The real mother said no, let her have the baby. The second mother thought that dividing the baby was fair.

  23. A Walk Through the Bible 8. Solomon knew at once who the real mother was. Thus his wisdom was demonstrated.

  24. A Walk Through the Bible ● Chapter four verse 29, begins a commentary on how much wisdom Solomon was given.

  25. A Walk Through the Bible 1. His wisdom was beyond measure, like the sand of the seashore. 2. Solomon uttered three thousand proverbs. His songs were a thousand and five.

  26. A Walk Through the Bible ● In chapters five through eight we have the account of the glorious temple that Solomon built. 1. To build the Temple, Solomon pulled together a workforce of 183,000.

  27. A Walk Through the Bible 2. 30,000 men who worked 10,000 at a time for a month and were off two months to go home. 3. 70,000 carriers; 80,000 hewers in the mountains, and about 3,300 supervisors.

  28. A Walk Through the Bible 4. The basic design was patterned after the Tabernacle except it was twice as big, every dimension was doubled.

  29. A Walk Through the Bible 5. Instead of a single Menorah, there were 10 lampstands. Instead of one Table of Showbread there were twelve. 6. The inside of the Temple was entirely covered with gold.

  30. A Walk Through the Bible ● There were some things added that were not in the Tabernacle.

  31. A Walk Through the Bible • In front in a place we will call the Porch, there were 2 gigantic bronze pillars. One was called Jachin (in his council) and the other Boaz (in his strength).

  32. A Walk Through the Bible 2. There were storerooms for the personal effects of the priests. 3. All these features turn out to be spiritually relevant.

  33. A Walk Through the Bible 4. We look at the Tabernacle as being body, soul and spirit. 5. The Temple further refines it.

  34. A Walk Through the Bible a. The Outer Court seems to be relative to the body. b. The Inner Court is relative to the soul. c. We have the heart in the in the Holy Place.

  35. A Walk Through the Bible d. The spirit is in the Holy of Holies. The Porch is the transition period.

  36. A Walk Through the Bible 6. Everything outside the Porch is bronze. (the metal associated with fire) 7. Everything inside the Porch is gold.

  37. A Walk Through the Bible ● We have the story of the visits of the Queen of Sheba and the King of Tyreto Solomon. 1. The Queen of Sheba couldn’t believe the stories she heard about Solomon.

  38. A Walk Through the Bible 2. She is famous for saying, “The half of it was not told to me” 3. The splendor of the kingdom was staggering even by today’s standards.

  39. A Walk Through the Bible C. Then suddenly at the beginning of chapter 11 the story takes a turn in the other direction. ● We read of the results of the seeds of evil that were sown earlier in Solomon’s life.

  40. A Walk Through the Bible 1. King Solomon loved many foreign women;the daughter of the Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women. These are pagan tribes.

  41. A Walk Through the Bible • He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned away his heart. (1 Kings 11:3)

  42. A Walk Through the Bible 3. This is the same man who wrote in the book of Proverbs “He who finds a wife finds a good thing” (Proverbs 19:22)

  43. A Walk Through the Bible ● Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. 1. Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, a hideous image in which a fire was built at the height of the religious festival. Children were thrown into the fire.

  44. A Walk Through the Bible 2. He also built a place for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites (a fertility god) on the mountain east of Jerusalem. 3. The Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away….(1 Kings 11:7b-9a)

  45. A Walk Through the Bible ● Three times in rapid succession in the rest of Chapter 11 the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon.

  46. A Walk Through the Bible 1. First Hadad, the Edomite, the man of the flesh. 2. Then Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master. 3. Then in verse 26, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephramite of Zeredah (who later split the kingdom).

  47. A Walk Through the Bible D. Chapter 12 begins the second movement in this book, the degradation and breakup of the kingdom.

  48. A Walk Through the Bible ● Jeroboam split the kingdom, taking 10 tribes north to begin the Northern Kingdom. 1. Jeroboam reintroduced Israel to the awful worship of golden calves.

  49. A Walk Through the Bible ● Chapter 14 gives us the story of the invasion and defeat of Israel by Egypt. ● The Egypt out of which God had led His people.

  50. A Walk Through the Bible • Egypt is again a picture of the world and its ways. It’s wickedness, its folly, its futility and its foolishness.

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