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Even the Wise Stumble

Even the Wise Stumble. 1 Kings 9-11. Even the Wise Stumble. Solomon’s Prayer and God’s Warning.

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Even the Wise Stumble

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  1. Even the Wise Stumble 1 Kings 9-11

  2. Even the Wise Stumble • Solomon’s Prayer and God’s Warning

  3. “Now it came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all that Solomon desired to do, that the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as He had appeared to him at Gibeon. The LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, which you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built by putting My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

  4. “As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’ “But if you or your sons indeed turn away from following Me, and do not keep My commandments and My statutes which I have set before you,

  5. and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples. “And this house will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be astonished and hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’

  6. “And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the LORD has brought all this adversity on them.’ ”” - 1 Kings 9:1–9, NASB95

  7. Even the Wise Stumble • Solomon’s Prayer and God’s Warning • God’s primary concern is obedience. • If you go and serve other gods… Principle 1: Obedience to God is an essential aspect of our relationship to Him.

  8. Even the Wise Stumble • Solomon’s Prayer and God’s Warning • Solomon Turns from God

  9. ““Blessed be the LORD your God who delighted in you, setting you on His throne as king for the LORD your God; because your God loved Israel establishing them forever, therefore He made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”” - 2 Chronicles 9:8, NASB95

  10. “Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,”…“For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.” - 1 Kings 11:4, NASB95

  11. Even the Wise Stumble • Solomon’s Prayer and God’s Warning • Solomon Turns from God • Solomon’s wisdom could not assure loyalty • Even the most spiritual among us can be tempted and fall into sin. Principle 2: Avoid compromising situations that can lead us to temptation.

  12. Even the Wise Stumble • Solomon’s Prayer and God’s Warning • Solomon Turns from God • The Kingdom Divided • The Kingdom will be taken from Solomon’s family.

  13. “So the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant. “Nevertheless I will not do it in your days for the sake of your father David, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. “However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”” - 1 Kings 11:11–13, NASB95

  14. Even the Wise Stumble • Solomon’s Prayer and God’s Warning • Solomon Turns from God • The Kingdom Divided • The Kingdom will be taken from Solomon’s family. • Israel pleads with Rehoboam

  15. “The king answered the people harshly, for he forsook the advice of the elders which they had given him, and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.” So the king did not listen to the people; for it was a turn of events from the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.” - 1 Kings 12:13–15, NASB95

  16. Even the Wise Stumble • Solomon’s Prayer and God’s Warning • Solomon Turns from God • The Kingdom Divided • The Kingdom will be taken from Solomon’s family. • Israel pleads with Rehoboam • Jeroboam turns from God.

  17. Principle 1: Obedience to God is an essential aspect of our relationship to Him. Principle 2: Avoid compromising situations that can lead us to temptation. Principle 3: Beware of the dangers of conforming to culture.

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