 Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon. Hope you all are doing wonderful. Also This is the first Bible said we're doing where we're actually going to go into the Bible not a recap Not even a pop quiz. We ought to we should do a pop quiz though Shouldn't we but we're not but we're not anyway. Hope you all doing well I want to jump into it again. If you guys have any questions about what we've covered thus far Feel free to put a gigantic cue or question in front of your actual questions Remember the questions or what we're covering are going to be over all the things that we've covered thus far, which is Genesis Exodus numbers Joshua judges first and second Samuel. Now we are going into First Kings Remember, we've got the complimentary books to deal with also that will be Job Leviticus Deuteronomy Ruth as well as first and second Chronicles why first and I say first and second Chronicles because Sometimes we forget about first and second Chronicles. It's just it's just there. Oh, by the way it let me just throw this also out there because There is there can be issues with first and second Chronicles first and second Kings and first and second Samuel The reason why is because in your Bible, I don't care which Bible you have there might be some Translation not some translation errors, but some copy is errors as it relates to the numbers We'll cover that at some point in time probably Probably let well not probably definitely later on but you'll find where one says 700 and another book Accounting the same thing says maybe seven thousand or the person's age was the 18 or was he 42? You'll have those issues. It doesn't change anything about the Bible And we know the numbers the reason why those errors won't be changed in your Bible Is because one you want to make sure that you didn't change something that was right into something that was wrong But you just simply notate that in the various translations that you might be reading and and so you'll see that as it relates to first second Chronicles giving a rehash or recounting of first and second Samuel and first and second Kings but There's because it's a complimentary but we put it back on the screen because it's a complimentary book You get to see get extra detail Just like when we were in exorcism numbers We can go to Leviticus Deuteronomy and we can see extra detail and we're gonna see some of that again in first and second Chronicles We'll keep seeing that in first and second Chronicles. So that being the case before we jump and start moving into it Do you all realize or do you all understand? Are you comfortable with what we've covered thus far meaning? Do you know what's happened? Do you know what's happening? Yeah, we're right now at the point of David's death as we're gonna get into now David's death and then Subsequent subsequently Solomon, but are you guys familiar with are you comfortable with what we've covered thus far? Do you would you say that at this point in time? You're comfortable with what God has said what he's doing. You understand it. You see remember I said before there are those who would say, you know what I Want to learn how to be better at scripture memorization and I say well, that's good But the better thing was what's better than memorizing scripture is Memorizing the story. The reason why is you it helps you to understand what's happening Because better than knowing how to quote it is to give the actual message remember Jesus and the New Testament writers when they quote the Old Testament They don't quote the verbatim Old Testament for the most part. They don't quote the Hebrew texts They tend to quote the Greek Septuagint, which is a translation of the of the Hebrew Old Testament the reason is because The concern is not the verbatim The concern is the actual message. So You all understand it and there's a reason why I will go over certain things over it I mean several times because I want you guys to see what God is doing Someone said well Cory someone even asked matter of fact this week. I've heard people ask What books did you read to kind of help you to understand and see the Bible clearly? It wasn't that I read in particular books There was not one book or a set of books that I read that caused me to see the Bible clearly what what it was was understanding how We read the Bible what the Bible is what's going on what it's saying what he's trying to accomplish What he's trying to do and sometimes we get caught up in the the text I'm sorry the characters in the text versus the text Good question. Wasn't the Septuagint created created first before the Masoretic text? It was however the Masoretic text all all the Masoretic text is is Because the Jews were that's a very good question as a matter of fact because the Jews were taken into captivity Just like with any group when a group of people are taken into captivity and they begin to assimilate with different people the people that They are now captor or their captors They end up losing a lot of things a lot of their identity a lot of their culture a lot of their history But also their language and so what the Masoretic did was they would go back and take the Hebrew text And they would give these vow markings and so and put on screen Let's let's put one let's go to first Kings as a matter of fact what you guys see on the screen If you look at this as a matter of fact, I should have what I should have done was was pulled up an actual Hebrew text a couple things that you're gonna see in Hebrew. There are no vows There are no vows in Hebrew. There are vow markings, but there are no I'm sorry. They're not even vows markings as a matter of fact now and let me just say that correctly There are vows. They do have the vows sounds But they don't have the actual vows. So for example, we have a I owe you and sometimes why Those are our vows and then the rest we have the consonants. What is it? How many constants I forget anyway? Well in Hebrew all they have are consonants But they do have the vowel sounds and so what the Masoretics would what they did was they went back and they looked at The Hebrew text so that others could also read Hebrew Hebrew Biblical Hebrew or That Hebrew is different than modern Hebrew. Okay And now someone said that that Hebrew was a dead language wasn't a dead language But they came close there was a time where not a lot of people actually read and spoke Hebrew as a matter of fact When we get into first century You want to call first century Palestine or first century Israel first century Judea Judea? Whatever you want to call it Most of the Jews did not speak in I mean English. No, I'm spoke English. Most of the Jews did not speak Hebrew What do they speak? Well, most of them depend upon which region where they were located most of them will speak either Greek Greek was the lingua franca and then in certain parts you had some that spoke Aramaic Aramaic is a Semitic language as well. And so there are a lot of Similarities between the two for example, you might hear someone say In in Muslims might say in Aramaic or even Arabic they'll you hear the term ah or I key Which is my brother. What's exact same word in in Hebrew? So what happened was the Maserites would want to make sure that they that they preserved one the language But also, how do you say certain words? And so when we go back to this text, you can see certain things Certain Mark and so right below this this this why or vibe again because the language change Is this letter V with a V or why would a W? What depends on how you were taught? It kind of changes just like English changes as well. And so just like we would say We might spell theater different ways or we might say them differently like you speak to someone who speaks English in England versus someone who speaks English in South America versus some I mean South Africa versus someone who speaks English in Australia versus someone who speaks English in America United States versus someone who speaks English in Canada and there's just different dialects. So we have that but anyway This first letter is the why right below it is what's called a schwa And it determines if a person if it is it pronounced or if it's a kind of a quick try For example in this we have ha Malek, which is the king and this word here is and or can be now And so the way you pronounce is not forgetting that you have a ha Malek But is this a well hi Malek? That's kind of how you pronounce it now you can now sometimes it's silent Sometimes it's a it's a vocal like a like a like a quick like how we say because You know how we kind of just change the word because and we don't say because anymore. We say because That's kind of how that's that that's why works schwa so The point of that is to make sure that those other Jews Would maintain their history maintain their language and so yes the Maserati text is older I mean is is newer it was created afterwards, but all it is it's just it's just kind of keeping up with the old Hebrew text and so that's why we prefer the Maserati text over the Over the substitution because we such certain finds such as the Dead Sea Scrolls when we found these old Hebrew texts And we compare them to the Maserati text almost perfect. So that's why amen. Amen. Alrighty. So now let's go ahead and and jump into everything Look at you guys Your responses that's sometimes and I do it because I like to interact but sometimes I ought to just not even look at the comments because Anyway, let's go on to it. So let's jump to first Kings chapter 1 verse 1 We're gonna do some reading and we're gonna we're gonna go slow with this in the beginning now This is the very last King of Israel of The United Israel After Solomon Israel will no longer be united. We had obviously the first king Saul Then we had David then we had now we have Solomon or we're gonna have Solomon After this Israel is going to be divided in two. Okay vitally important to remember Israel is gonna be divided in two and You have to ask yourself the reason why matter of fact, let's do this Before we jump into it. Why is Israel going now granted? I'm violating rules. We haven't gotten there yet But we have kind of Why is Israel going to be violated? So now I'm asking you guys this question I'm gonna make this a little bit more interactive. So why is Israel going to be divided? anybody know and We've covered this before now Which is why I make sure that I kind of harp one and go over and over and over these things just to make sure that we are That we're solidified and so sometimes Sometimes we'll ask a question or make a statement not remembering that we've actually covered it And so if I ask a question, hey, well the answer of that question I'm asking you is probably gonna lead you or maybe may lead you to change your mind. So in the Old Testament of Kenneth Williams asked in the Old Testament that they talk more Hebrew or Aramaic Hebrew There is some Aramaic in Hebrew as a matter of fact If you were to learn the languages and all you did was learn Hebrew and you never learned Aramaic You'd be fine because when you read a lot of parts in in Hebrew I'm an Aramaic so just when you get to Daniel sometimes it is perfectly fine now There are there are some differences. There are some nuances You know, I can't tell you all the nuance because I don't know Aramaic But the parts of Aramaic that are similar to Hebrew I can I'm fine with that So but they spoke for the most part Hebrew Aramaic Hebrew Aramaic Arabic Those are all Semitic languages. So you're gonna have a lot of similarities. So anyway, let me look at some of you guys's comments as to why Christa G says the reason why is because They I'm sorry divided because Jesus's line comes from Judea. Yeah, but why is it gonna be divided? Why will why will Israel Israel's gonna be separated from the from the north and the south the north? They'll call Israel the south they'll call Judah two tribes in the south and the remainder in the north why though Why and guys the reason why I want to why a harp on this and the reason why I want you guys to to give Not just a close ballpark answer, but I want you guys to give me the exact answer The reason why is because having an exact answer Keeps you from making any sort of errors as you read scriptures going into because again When we read something in the New Testament or later on These aren't new things that are being introduced Remember when Jesus is having a conversation with Nicodemus. He says Nicodemus You're a teacher of Israel and you don't know this because he expects him to have known these things God doesn't just spring something on them all of a sudden Okay, Arsenal forces because of the land. That's one. Yep. That's that's part of it. But why? Why what about the land though? It's not just the land but the land the land issue is is important They don't remember and keep the land Sabbath so What else what why why is Israel going to be separated? Matter of fact, even more so Yes, Christopher. Yes, but I said did it have something to do with Jeroboam and I don't worry about the spelling doesn't count here because even pronunciation doesn't count here Yes, and no because we hadn't gotten him yet. What what he's gonna do. So no not not just yet. No remember guys And this is why we did the recap. This is why we did the the pop quiz This is why we spent and I and I even when I cover things in New Testament. I'll keep going back to the Old Testament certain parts of it Remember God, okay, let's let's back up even further The problem with all of them the problem with the children of Israel is The same problem that the Malachites have the Hittite the Jebusites the parasites is the same problem that The people before the law was given same problem. It's the same problem before the law was given after the flood It's the same problem before the flood after the fall that people had and it's the same problem before the fall People have a hard time Doing right consistently Fault there you go because the people are disobedient. That's it. No, look now what ends up happening is When God says when he tells Abraham what he's going to do God is not just saying that for the benefit of Abraham because Abraham Abraham. You're so wonderful. You're so awesome No, not because of Abraham, but because of God remember the two most important passages in The Bible thus far The two most important path. I didn't mean I didn't mean to go this route But it's I think it's important what what have I told you guys are the two most important passages in the Bible thus far The two let me go to one of them is as a matter of fact But what are the two most important pad? Over and over I stressed the this and there's a reason why Anola Anola with the the three pointer. Amen Genesis 315 and what's the other one? Genesis 315 and what's the other one the the other one that's just as important and all these pastors are doing they're building off If it off of each other just like we see The different covenants as you go CG Genesis 12 3 and Genesis 315 so in Genesis 315 notice This has nothing to do with any of the people This has nothing to do with what people will do or won't do in Genesis 315 says and I will put emity This is God making the statement and I will I will be the one that will put emity between you and the woman Between and he explains in the very next sentence and between your seed and her seed And he shall bruise you on the head and you shall bruise them on the hill They have no idea and nor does Satan at this moment have any idea the full ramifications of what God is speaking of They will be further revealed to us as we move through scriptures But everything everything guys is going to be built off of this this truth Amen, so and again God is not predicting anything God is not he's stating for a fact This is going to happen. He's not predicting. He didn't have to again. He's not Las Vegas. He's not laying odds He is stating this is going to be a fact and so how is he going to bruise his head How's it gonna crush him on the head? Well, we don't know then but we know now what his death on the cross does and then ultimately when he defeats Sin and death and Satan and death and everyone else is thrown to the lake of fire forever We see that and so everything is going to line up with that Nothing is going to get past Genesis 3 15 and then when we get to Genesis 12 3 12 2 and 3 12 2 says speaks about him blessing Abraham But then he says in verse 3 and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed And he's not giving Abraham Abraham any sort of requirements do this this this and this and then I will Fulfill what I'm going to tell you know he's doing all of this to fulfill what he's going to say when he said in Genesis 3 15 Why for his own goodness for his own glory when people make statements that God is doing certain things Arbitrarily or for some sort of secret reason. He's giving us the reason He's telling us He's telling us that he is doing this one for his glory and and who is Genesis 3 15 about That's important who is Genesis 3 15 about ladies and gentlemen It's about none other than the Lord the Lord God who we call Jesus and So that's why to glorify him and so we see when he's there praying Father, I've come to do what I'm supposed to do now give me back the glory that I had with you in the beginning Yeah, yeah that very same glory that no one else can share It's blasphemous because God says I will share my glory with no one else And he says there is no other God and no other Lord So all of this stuff is going to line up. It's just like I said before Just like you guys some of you are old enough to have seen the 18 not the remake. I mean the real 18 You know where you had Hannibal and you had BA and you had face and Murdoch. Yeah, that one and What did Hannibal always say at the very end his as he's lighting his cigar He'll say I love it when a plan comes together Well, let me just make it biblical God is the one who makes his plan comes together God is the one he said that's my boy. Who's your boy? What who Hannibal? Everybody will every listen every guy wanted to be a combination of the three you wanted to be Hannibal Because he was the brains of the outfit You wanted to be BA because bad attitude He's a tough guy and you wanted to be faced because he was the ladies man Nobody wanted to be Murdoch Murdoch was not really a nut But he played the part of a nut, but he was a he was a fix it genius though. Anyway, I might watch some They watch some a team today. Anyway, mr. T was a man back then Anyway, so all of this stems from that. That's why it's vitally important to remember what God is saying So now when God is telling them what he's going to do with them He makes a covenant with them. He makes a covenant. He didn't go to the children of Israel Listen, I got an idea. I got an idea You hard-headed backwards people. I got an idea Let's team up. What do you think about that? No, he didn't he didn't ask them now He comes to them. He presents the the covenant and in presenting the covenant He tells them already you're gonna break it and they break the covenant But remember and this is why we camped out in Deuteronomy 10 and Deuteronomy 30 for a reason He tells them this coming that I'm making with you and this land that I'm bringing you to Yeah, the land that I promised to give Abraham the land that I said I'm going to remember Not for anyone else's sake but for my sake and for the fact that I gave this promise to Abraham Isaac the Jacob The reason why I actually came down And fellowship with them before them face-to-face that land I'm remembering it for my sake, but that land that I'm gonna bring you into I'm gonna take you out of it So now that brings us to where we are here Where we are right now going into Do I'm sorry wrong one going into first Kings one What has not happened? He said he is going to put them out of the land. He's gonna disperse them has that happened yet That has not happened yet So all of God's promises as as as it pertains to what he's gonna do with Israel. They haven't begin to happen What do you mean God told yeah, yeah, I remember we I was I was one day reading the scrolls This is some some guy and some some some Jewish person. He's reading the scrolls Hey, you remember what God said he was gonna put us out of the land. Yeah, no, he's not No, I don't know what he's talking about. It hadn't happened yet at this point in time God has not done what he said he's gonna do as a matter of fact All he's done was defend them Even in spite of their sin Even when they were sold into into hardship and and God brought about judges He still hadn't done what he said he's gonna do So the question is for us and really for them. They're there is God going to do what he said he's gonna do Yes, he is it just hadn't happened, but after this last King We're gonna see it all come to fruition. Okay, so now let's go and jump into it Now David was old advanced in age and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm So a servant said to him, let's let them seek a young virgin my lord the king and let her attend to the king and become his nurse Don't bring some 87 year old woman in here to be David's nurse. No bring some some young fine tinderoni I Don't know who came up with that But hey apparently that was a thing that was the thing to do bring bring the young lady there So anyway, he didn't do anything to the he didn't violate the woman. There was nothing happening there But bring this shunt, which I don't understand the Bible is not too clear about why did it have to be some young woman? Why could it have been an older lady and a widow just a there's nothing gonna be anything sexual happen? Just bring her in. I don't know. Maybe Yes, he Betty Boop not Betty white. Well, I don't know. Maybe I don't know. I have no idea to just I Have no idea. I can't even I can't even speculate with a straight face. So let me continue Let them seek a young virgin verse verse 3 so they search for a beautiful girl And it's important this part right here throughout all the territory of Israel and they found Abishak, which is not a beautiful name. I'm just gonna go out on a limb and just say this I know I might have been all the Abishags of the world if your name is Abishak. I Apologize I feel for you but Abishak The shunamite and brought her to the king the girl was very beautiful and she became the king's nurse and Served him but the king did not co-habit with her now Adonis I the son of Haggoth exalted himself saying I will be king There's always going to be by the way here is the question somebody said Betty Who son this is a person who's clearly too young to know who Betty Boop is don't worry about it All throughout the scripture there's and by the way, this isn't just limited to the Old Testament in the New Testament There's always going to be and always will be Somebody who wants to be the man Somebody who wants to be the top dog The king and even dead and here's his son coming to stake this, but here's the question. Why is Adonis I Yeah, down is I why is he doing so? By the way, it's interesting that his name his name is in the Hebrew Adonis yeah, which is the Lord my God That's pretty cool though. That's a nice name. However, he didn't follow that but why is Adonis I or daddy? Ah, why is he doing this? We're gonna come back to that in a second, but I just want y'all to think about that so So he prepared it for himself chairs and horsemen with 50 men to run before him his father never crossed him at any time by asking why have you done so and He was also a very handsome man, and he was born after Absalon The Bible makes mention of all of these handsome men Okay And he was also very handsome, and he was born after Absalon And I'm sorry. He had conferred with Joe app. Joe app. Joe app is a kind of a shady character By the way, we'll deal with Joe ever just a little bit But Joe app keeps Joe app is he stays involved. I'll give him that He stays relevant the son of Zariah and with Abby a thar the priests and following a Donizai They helped him but Zadak the priest better Naya and the son of Jeho die up Nathan the prophet Shami Ray and the mighty men who belong to David were not with a Donizai so Donizai sacrificed sheep and oxen and fouling by the stone of Zohe Zohe left which is beside and Rongel and he invited all his brothers the king son and all the men of Judah and the king servant But he did not invite Nathan the prophet benaya The mighty men and Solomon's brother now a couple things y'all ever paid attention to how many kids David had The temptations had a song Papa was a rolling stone Whoever did Papa was didn't have anything on David No, and of course his son the apple didn't fall too far from the tree David had at least that we know of at least that we know of not counting the one that died But 20 kids at least at least 20 sons at least 20 sons not even knowing all the daughters I'm pretty sure he has a bunch of daughters other than tomorrow and I forget the other young lady's name. So he is Yeah, David was David was pretty busy Which brings up this point David being so busy Why Solomon? Remember Solomon is a kid born out of an unholy union a sinful union. Why Solomon? We'll come back to that in just a little bit anyway There's a reason why he didn't invite all of those people and I and he intentionally does not invite Solomon What does that tell you? David was an original player from the Himalayas. Yes. Yes before the Himalayas was that David was over there, too Why didn't a dinosaur invite Solomon? Well, because he knows Knows what well, we'll come to that in just a little bit. We'll come to that in just a little bit So now come please. I'm sorry verse 11 then Nathan spoke the best she with the mother Solomon Have you not heard that a daughter's eye the son of a hegev has become king and David our Lord does not know it So now come please. Let me give you counsel. Let me tell you what I want you to do I want you to go to David and I want you to speak to him and say such go at once David and say to him Have you not? My Lord oh king sworn to your maid servant surely Solomon your son shall be king after me and He shall sit on my throne But again, why would Solomon be the one who would sit on my throne? Why has done has a dinosaur become king behold while you are still there speaking with the king? I will come in after so after he she she is to say her part Then Nathan's gonna come in and so Nathan comes in then as she comes in and says all those things She stay saying what all a dinosaur has done then Nathan comes in verse 22 Behold while she was still speaking unto the king Nathan the prophet came in and told the king saying here Is Nathan the prophet and when he came in before the king he prostrated himself before the king With this face of the ground then Nathan said my Lord the king you have You have said down a job shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne Have you said that is that what you're saying? For he has gone down a day and has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance and has invited all the king's son and Commanders of the army, but I bet the art I'm sorry of the army and Abba a thar the priest wait a minute Abba a thar wait a second I thought you're wrong you're on David's side and Behold they are eating and drinking before him and saying long live King Adonis I but me but me even Me you're serving and Zadak the priest and ben Aniah the son of Jehovah and your servant Solomon He has not invited why and he's making his point to let know who who was not invited Has this thing been done by my Lord the king and have you not shown to your servant? Who should sit on the throne of my Lord the king after him then David said? Call Bathsheba to me I guess that she had stepped out and She came into the king's present and the king valentine said as the Lord lives who has redeemed my life from all distress Surely as I vowed to you by the Lord of God Israel saying your son Solomon shall be king after me And he shall sit on my throne in my place I will indeed do so this day then best you be about her face to the ground and Proceed herself before the king and said my king Made my Lord King David live forever now. Obviously. That's just you know Pleasantries David is not getting ready to live forever. David's getting ready to die. That's the reason why we're trying to get a new Successor in place now a couple things question ladies and gentlemen why in the world is Solomon Who was born to an unholy union a sinful union? Why is Solomon? Why is he going to be the king? Why not one of the other sons? Because it doesn't say that all the other sons were bad or anything It didn't have anything negative to say about the other sons Other than epsilon and am not and so forth and say it doesn't speak about them in the same regard Well, here's the reasons why let's go to let's put on the screen If I can find it I thought I had it I thought I had this thing Thought I did wait a second. Okay, I Have it in 2nd Samuel 12. I don't want to read all of this. I don't want to read all that This is where David is confronted about what he did with Bathsheba and Uriah And as he gives him this little riddle of this story David is upset in 2nd Samuel 12 in verse 7 Nathan said you are the man thus says the Lord God of Israel It is I who anointed you king over Israel and as I who delivered you from the hand of Saul I also gave to you your master's house and your master's wife, and I gave you the house of Israel in Judah and If that had been too little, I would have added you to many more things like these Why have you look what he says? Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in his sight? You have struck down your rival Hittite with the sword have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the sons of Ammon Now therefore the soul he says though this is important now The sword shall never depart from your house because you have despised me and Have taken taking the wife of your rival Hittite to be your wife Notice he says that you've taken your Bathsheba to be your wife That's the reason why I'm doing what I'm doing because you've done this Thus the Lord says I will raise up evil against you from your own Household so why does this keep happening and why is Adonis I? Raising up and why will other siblings after this raise up because of this? Thus says the Lord behold I will raise up evil against you from your own household I will even take your wives from before your eyes and give them to your companion And that's what he says in verse 14 However, because by this deed you have given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme The child also that is born to you shall surely die So God does not take it kindly when you blaspheme his name or you give others a reason to blaspheme his name Now I want you all to drop we're gonna drop down a little bit. I want to find this verse really briefly and Here it is After this happens after the child is dead Verse 24 then David comforted his wife Bathsheba and he went into her and lay with her And she gave birth to a son and he David named the son Solomon Now the Lord loved him now the question is though this name that Solomon has That's not the name that the Lord gave as a matter of fact. Where's it? Where am I at? Thought I had it marked. I thought for sure I had this thing marked Maybe I don't Guess I do me find it. I want to find where he names the kid You know what? I'll do it this way. I'll just type it in There it is. No, that's not it. Hold on. I want to find out what what the Lord don't go I'm sorry Give me a second guys. I want to I want to I want to read what the Lord says. Oh, there. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I'm sorry. I was right there. I don't know what I was looking at. I'm thank you, Jeff I'm sitting there looking at it and I typed in to go to 1224 and I should have went to 1225 I had had it cut off for me and the reason why I had it cut off so that I would not miss it I wouldn't go too far, but my mistake I So verse 24 again David comforted his wife and lay with her and he named him Solomon now the Lord loved him and sent We're through Nathan the prophet and he named him Jeddah for the Lord's sake. So what does that Jeddah means? It means that the Lord loves him So is made of two words One of the words that we see in Hebrew we talked about this last week about the names for God Elohim One of the words you'll see is the word. Yeah, and so Jedadiah means the Lord loves or he's loved by the Lord Why is that important? Well two reasons one he already stated that he is going to have this issue with His household there's going to be this violence is going to be the source I was gonna be this up or this upheaval within your own household not from outside All of David's problems have basically been from inside of his household and we see that now with Adonis Jai Adonis Jai and The issue with Solomon is that God has determined that he will love Solomon The question that does not get answered is why does God choose Solomon? Well, let's back up and just put it this way. God is the one whose Procatives stands first. What do we say rule number one is rule number one is above all else God is sovereign no matter what you think no matter what you want. No matter what you feel God is sovereign above all else. And so if God again, he doesn't predict doesn't lay odds He doesn't play the numbers If God determines it to be he determines it to be and it will be remember as we read before It is he who says so if he says so will it not come to be Does that mean again? Does that mean that God has determined every little single thing that happened? He determines I'll pick up this cup right now. He determines. I'll set it down No, I don't think that but the things that relate to him him him being glorified and What he has determined to happen those things will work for that end Okay, now do we know all the intricate mechanisms that go into that? We don't know he didn't tell us He didn't have to tell us one of those deals. Well, you know what? It's almost like your parents say Because I said so well God says what's gonna happen is gonna happen and he didn't he didn't fulfill us in all of the details so Going back to this let's go back to first and by the way I want to give a little bit of information on this guy Joe app in just a second But continuing where we left off verse 32 then David said Call to me Zadak the priest Nathan the prophet and Ben Anaya the son of Jodiah and Jodiah and They came to the into the king's presence and they said to the king take with you the servants of your Lord and my son Solomon right on my own mule bring him to Gihan and let Zadak the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him There as king over Israel and blow the trumpet and say long live King Solomon Then you should come upon up up after him and he shall come and sit on my throne and be king in my place where I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah but Ben Anaya and the son of Jodiah or Jada Answer the king and said amen Thus may the Lord the God of my Lord the king say as the Lord has been with my Lord the king So may he be with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my Lord King David Now remember the the prophecy in second Samuel God tells David that he'll have this son who will build a temple now We won't go into all of the details. Okay, I'll let you guys special as it relates to Solomon building his temple and the king's time in the Lord's temple as well as own palace I'll let you guys read that but first 38 so Zadak the priest Nathan the prophet Ben They went down to Solomon and had something right on the king on King David's mule and brought him to Gihon Zadak the priest then took the whore of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon Then they blew the trumpet and all the people said long live King Solomon all the people went up after him and The people were playing flutes rejoice. They were having a good time celebration now Donnie Jock and all the guests who were with him Heard it as they were finishing eating then Joab heard the sound of the trumpet. He said, why is the city making such a uproar? While he was still speaking behold Jonathan the son of Abietha the priest Then a came in then a down as I said come in for you are a valiant man and bring good news I'm not bringing good news today this time though, but Jonathan replied that down as I know our Lord King David has made Solomon King The King has also sent with him Zadak the priest Nathan the prophet Beniah the son of jail jail die jail die And they have made him ride on the King's mule Zadak the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him King And so the noise that you hear all that sound. That's the whole town. That's the whole city in an uproar celebrating him Besides verse 46 besides Solomon has even taken his seat on the throne of David So while you're sitting here Solomon is sitting over there moreover the King certain came to bless our Lord King David Say may your God make the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne and the King bowed himself on the bed So the point is the King hears this and the King says yep, that's what's going to be his name should be better than my name The King has also said thus blessed be the Lord the God of Israel who has granted one to sit on my throne today While my own eyes see it Here's the problem though, or here's what happens. Adonis eyes guests. They're terrified Y'all have you ever been somewhere? You've just felt I'm in the wrong place. I'm in the wrong place dog on I went to the wrong party That's their guests they are they were terrified and they arose each and went his own way Let me hear up and get about it here and Adonis I was afraid of Solomon and he rose and went into corn to cold the horns But alter why because this is him based on saying mercy. I'm afraid don't do to me what you probably should do to me Verse 51 now it was told behold Adonis eyes afraid of King Solomon for behold He has taken the horns of the altar saying let King Solomon swear to me today that he will not put his servant to death so All of this happens and here comes the king the real king and his brother says basically I'm scared don't kill me and So what does Solomon decide to do? Chapter 2 verse 1 as David time as David's time to die drew near he charged Solomon's son saying I want you to listen to this I Am going the way of all the earth I think when I die I think I'll say that if I if I got time if I know what's gonna happen I'm going to say Just like David. I think it's kind of a cool way to say it I'm going the way of all the earth. I'm going the way of all the earth. That's my nice way of saying I'm gonna die Keep the charge of the Lord your God to walk in his ways to keep his statutes his commandments his ordinances and His testimonies according to what was written in the law of Moses that you may succeed and all that you do in Wherever you turn so the Lord may carry out his promises Which he spoke concerning me saying if your sons are careful of their way now He's telling what God told him if the if your sons are careful of their way to walk before me in truth With all their heart and all their soul you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel now Notice this notice what he says if they continue to walk in my ways You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel now. What's missing is the word forever There's no one that will lack on the throne If you do this that is conditional They will not though. Amen. They will not now you also know what Joab the son of Zariah did to me What did that the two commanders of the way he did to the two commanders of Israel Abner the son of Nair? And to Amasa the son of Jethar whom he killed Joab is a selfish person Joab is self-interested. He cares about himself. However, the thing is Did y'all know that Joab is actually the nephew of King David? So this is his family and so maybe that's why he's always around so he really didn't really he didn't care as long as he's Serving his own need David is his nephew nephew. Let's go to 1st Chronicles 2 16 where we see this We're getting kind of the lineage of David and Jesse We got his firstborn Eliab and I've been a dab a second and Shema the third nothing else The fourth Roddy Roddy the fifth Ozem the sixth. We don't know any of these kids names. Why they're not important David the seventh whose sisters were Zariah and Abigail and the sons of Zariah Abashai and Joab Joab is his sister's son. So we got a boy. He's part of the family But what did God say that this sword this problem is going to be part of your household? Again, here's Joab who is part of the problem. He is part of his household part of his family Go down to verse 5 of say of first Kings 2 now. You also know is that I'm sorry not not verse 2 verse 6 So act according to your wisdom and do not let his gray hair go down to she all in peace. I Told him I'm not gonna kill him. I'm not gonna kill him But handle that for me, please if you don't mind, but show kindness to the sons of Barzilae The Gellarite and let him be among those who eat at your table for they assisted me when I fled after I remember wouldn't it when he was running from Absalon he goes to them and they keep him bait they they protect him Behold there is with you should mean the son of Gera the Benjamin. I remember the guy that was sitting there cursing David Now it was he who cursed me with a violent curse on the day. I went to Hanayim But when he came down to me at Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord saying I will not put you to death with the Sword now therefore do not let him go and punish. I swore I would not kill him I didn't swear you wouldn't kill him. So go kill him now Therefore do not let him go unpunished for you are you are a wise man And you will know what you ought to do to him and you will bring his gray hair down to shoot she'll she'll with blood David is getting things in order as he goes. He is getting other people's houses in order as well He's taking care of business not for him not just for him, but for them as well then verse 10 Then David slept with his father's and was buried in the city of David The days of David reign over Israel were 40 years Seven years he rang so 47 years in heaven He reigned in heaven and 33 years he reigned in Jerusalem and Solomon said on the throne of David his father and his kingdom was firmly established now It's kind of interesting story so far We went through all that and we've got the recap of the entire story of David's life There's more to be told we didn't give all the intricate details But now we're at the point to where the last king of unified Israel is on the throne And so he is going to receive his brother Adonis Jai the son of Haggith He calls for Bathsheba to come because he makes requests the request is that would you please ask for Solomon my brother if I could take This woman as my wife who is the woman? Let's let's find out Let's drop down to verse 17. Then he says please speak to Solomon the king for he will not refuse you That he may give Abishag, you know the gorgeous woman with the bad name the shooting might as my wife The one that was attending David Bathsheba said very well. I will speak to the king for you Question is that a good thing? No, not according to to Solomon. So when she goes to see Solomon She speaks to him, but Solomon is angry now Where we at after he asked her that let's go down to verse 22 he says And why are you asking Abishag the shooting might for Adonis Jai ask for him also The kingdom for he's my older brother even for him for Abietha the priest and for Joab the son of Zariah Then King Solomon swore by the Lord saying may God do to me do so do so to me and more also If Adonis Jai has not spoken this sword This word against his own life now therefore as a Lord lives who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father Surely, I don't I shall be put to death today Why what because this is what you do when you bring in now even though he had not had any sort of relationships with Abishag to do so is kind of in a front give me that Because what else we want he'll want other things and so when you see this person not being humble and going by his way The same thing was the same way that David should have done with epsilon is what Solomon is going to do with with Adonis Jai, you know what? I'm a nip it's in the bud and I'm gonna kill you today Because if I give you this wife, you're gonna want more and you're gonna want more and I can see I can see a coup coming up And so I'm gonna make sure that this never happens. Amen. So then Abietha the priest The king said to David. I'm sorry Then maybe it's other priests the king said go to Anoth to your own field For you deserve to die But I will not put you to death at this time because you carry the archival or so because of what you've done I will not kill you. Abietha are now Abietha was loyal except for one thing But still that one thing was a big thing you try to supplant what God Wanted to do and so Solomon dismissed Abietha from being priests of the Lord in order to fulfill the word of the Lord Which he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh Then and we won't read this but then later Joe Ab is also executed. I'll let you guys read that But I want to drop down to First Kings 2 36 now. He's going to finish the last thing and that is to kill Shami Now the king sent and called for Shami and said to him Build for yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there and do not go out there to any place For the day that you go go out and cross over the Brook of Kidron You will know for certain that you shall surely die your blood shall be on your own head Should me then say it to the king the word is good as my Lord the king has said so your servant will do So should me live in Jerusalem many days But it came about at the end of three years that two of his servants of Shami ran away to Akish and Maka The son of Gath and they told me saying behold your servants are in Gath and so what does he do? He leaves and he is killed so here we've got David not David Well, I guess David through Solomon Wrapping up everything tying all these neat Bows on everything and so how does this end with it all being said he says thus The kingdom was established in the hands of Solomon so everybody who had verbally Come against David or David's reign or even had a part in Solomon not becoming king. They're all gone They're all that's over and done with Okay, now for the sake of time, I'm going to just say guys go ahead You know, I can't I can't I can't we have to read this part We have to read this part We got to read two two parts of First Kings and then we'll be we'll be through with this portion of the study But it's vitally important. We got I can't I can't go by this. I can't I can't let this go Chapter 3 verse 3 now the Lord loved I'm sorry now Solomon loved the Lord walking in the statues of his father David Except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there for that was the great high place Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar in Gibeon The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night and God said ask what you wish me to give you Then Solomon said you have shown great loving kindness to your Savior servant David My father according to as he walked before you in truth in righteousness and righteousness and Uprightness of heart toward you and you have reserved for him this great loving kindness that you have given him a Son to sit on the throne now did David always well, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I've got the wrong part about thank you, Tyra Did David always walk the way that Solomon said he did No Well, here's the reason why Here's the reason or here we here's what we can glean from this. Here's what we can learn from this God has never been after perfection because he knows we're not gonna he's not gonna get it from us But David's heart was such that when David messed up when David sinned when David did those things He was also bothered by that He was grieved The lesson that we can also get out of this is that when we do wrong and you will from time to time Hopefully it's not several occasions, but when you do Your heart should be grieved to another difference between us and David is David have a spirit on him We have a spirit in us. So there should be a difference. Amen Then didn't tell me said I'm sorry verse 7 now. Oh Lord my God You have made your servant king in place of my father David yet. I am but a little child I do not know how to go out or to come in your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen So he's saying I Hear I'm here and Amongst all these people That you got you chose In other words Lord, you know how hard-headed and how difficult these people are So help help a brother out These people you have chosen a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted So give your servant an understanding heart to judge your people to discern between good and evil For who is able to judge this great people of yours? It was a please it was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing God said because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life Nor have asked for riches nor have asked for your life of your enemies But have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice behold. I have done according to your words Behold I have given you a wise and discerning heart so that there has been none like you before Nor shall one be like you arise after you. I have also given you What you have not asked both riches and honor so that there will not be any among the things like you all your days if you walk in my ways Keeping my statutes and commandments as your father David walked and I will prolong your days now The point is this though and we should understand this he's giving him knowledge. He's giving him discernment He's giving him wisdom and he's giving him riches. He's giving him protection So date David Solomon has no excuse To sin He'll know what sin is He's got all that he could ever want. He'll never he'll never have a lack of anything So when he sends It won't be for a lack of knowledge. I didn't know I didn't understand I acted ignorant. No, he cannot plead ignorance So though God bestows us upon him What do we know about man? What will he do? He'll do exactly everything that every other man has ever done to He is going to fear exactly. Nope He has no excuses Then Solomon woke and behold it was a dream and he came to Jerusalem and stood before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord and Offered burnt offerings and made peace offerings and made a feast for all of his Servants now I'll stop there I won't go into where he's actually judging all of the people or he gives this wise judgment I want to go someplace. I want to jump forward a few chapters and this is important and This is where we'll end up and then we'll end off the day and pick back up on the next time in 1st Kings 9 So let's let's follow what God is having him or what God is speaking He's going and I just titled this God's promise and warnings Why because on the on the software says God's promise morning because it is look what God promises and warns him now It came about when Solomon had finished building the house of the Lord and the king's house and All the Solomon desire to do that the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time So this is the second time the Lord comes to Solomon As he appeared to him at give in The Lord said to him I have heard your prayers and your supplications which you have made before me I have consecrated this house which you have built putting my name there forever And my eyes and my heart will be there perpetually as for you if You walk before me as your father David walk in integrity of heart and uprightness Doing according to all that I have commanded you And will keep my statues and my ordinances then look what he says guys. It's important Then why I will establish the kingdom of your throne. I'm sorry the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever Just as I promised to your father David saying you should not lack a man on the throne of Israel If you do these things Solomon I promise you That your family will have a a member on the throne forever Well, what happens look around today There is no member of david's family on the throne What throne as a matter of fact well So even if we don't read the rest of the story we know the rest of the story But if your son's indeed turn away from following me And do not keep my commandments and my statues which I have set before you and go and serve other guys 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 the peoples. Let's stop there for one second. I asked earlier Now we're coming full circle. I asked Earlier, why are we here? How did we get to this point? Remember what god promised israel to do to them? What he was going to do before they even entered the land What he stated he was going to do Now god reiterates that and we're going to see why they're going to be put out of the land going back to it He says and israel and this house will become a heap of ruins Everyone who passed by will be astonished and he has to say Why has the lord done thus to this land and to this house? And they will say because they forsook the lord their god who brought their fathers out of the land of egypt and adopted excuse me Other gods and worshiped them and served them therefore the lord has brought all of this Adversity on them and so god is going to do exactly what he said he is going to do And this is where the problems are going to begin Not only will salomon lose sight of this But also will his sons Especially his sons Especially his family and that is going to be the problem. So all that he said he's going to do If he if they observe and keep his statues, I'll bless you Does god intended follow his word sure? But if god guys If god Intends to follow his word And he makes this promise. Here's the question If god says if you guys do this then i will establish you on your throne forever and you will be in the land But if you don't then i'll put you out But god has already stated i'm going to put you out Was that an empty promise? Was that and i'm going somewhere with this Was god's promise an empty promise if you do this Then i will establish you and your family on this throne forever Well, he makes the same promise the same statement that he makes of it to salomon He also said it to the first king of israel that is to assault He told saul If you would have done these things I would have established your throne forever Was what he said to solve an empty promise? No, it was not was what he said to david or salomon And empty promise. No, it was not Why? Because again god is exactly where we are not the end He's at the and he knows what's going to happen. Oh by the way, he's also moving things These aren't just happening just because god knows the heart of his people So god understands what is taking place what will take place what will take place and he is going to Even in spite of man's sinfulness Man's waywardness. He is still going to bring about His plan to bring about his glory like as we said about Hannibal. I love it when the plan comes together That's what he's going to fulfill in these people Amen, let me go and answer some of these questions. Uh So it's a similar promise uh the god had uh Promise god has has whatever i'm i'm so is this a similar Some to the promise i'm sorry god has Abraham and kept keeping repeating with Isaac and jacob was all david and there's a there's some similarities to the promise There's a little bit difference though because God didn't really give a lot of ifs There's not a lot of conditions with Abraham in his promise Now the similarities are that he has promised to preserve his name He is going to do what he's going to do for his own namesake And when israel messes up even before israel messes up He says i'm going to remember the promise that i made With abraham isaac and jacob and he also says for my own namesake Did they have scrolls in other words? Do they have the written word of god in the old testament? During this time they had some of it all obviously they didn't have all of the written words Uh because look where we are. Let's go let's put back on the screen to see where we are We are at the time of At this time we are at Approximately a thousand years before christ shows up Give or take a few years. We're about a thousand years before christ shows up And so we have obviously moses writings We obviously have uh samuels writings as well Okay, so they have enough they don't have all they don't have obviously all of it and so Excuse me. They do have that Uh McKenzie mitchell also thank you for the super chat. Thank you so much What what do you think uh if a christian lived the way solemn lived nobody uh would think he was saved Yeah If you or i or any of us lived and did what solemn did um Yeah If you and i lived the way david did however When we examined david's heart and i think that's the issue Time out on only dealing with the old testament. Let's go forward to the new testament When paul makes a statement the things that he does the wicked wretched things that he does And he said he the word that's used there even is this this the the present act of participle this doing this practicing The differentiation between paul's act and someone else who is living in sin seemingly look the same But paul is identifying the fact that his desire his will similarly with david His desire his will is different. His heart is different And so there in lies the problem or the issue the issue is If your heart is so It it it's indicative of what's in you are you with me The person that's struggling with a certain sin Is he struggling with a sin but wants to move past that sin? Or is he struggling with a sin and indulging in that sin in other words? He wants to be a Uh a queer christian I can be queer and I can be a christian at the same time Or I don't want to be queer. I want to be a christian. I want to live this way and I'm strong There's a there's a huge difference. How big of a difference the difference between heaven and hell That's the difference All righty continuing maria Thank you for the super chat, but no i'm not buying a dallas cowboy's because you don't want to do though I'm gonna do a video one day where i'm wearing my dallas cowboy shirt Now you all need to understand though When I put that dallas cowboy shirt on Every time I put the cowboy shirt on as best as a big game Especially when it's a big game. I just want y'all know the cowboys have lost I'm not listen. I'm not I'm not into luck or superstition But when when now by the way, I don't really need to put the cowboys jersey on that often They're gonna do just fine. They're gonna mess up just fine without me But I wear that jersey so that when my son-in-law comes over I can just have the shirt on he says he's gonna wear that shirt in front of me, huh? Yep Yep Anyway So no, I'm not getting a cowboy's mug. But if someone sends me a cowboy's mug, I'll be happy to I'll be happy to drink out of that cowboy's mug. No problem. No problem And I'll put a little label on it call it cowboys tears Yeah, yeah Does the bible say anything about Solomon's relationship with adagio or epsilon after he became king where epsilon is dead um And then he kills adagio. So yeah, that's what the bible that's what the bible says about them Hey, man, um, how do I say that? Assias jones. I said assias. Okay. That's a cool name uh Is his uh his life is a is a Actually, I think you can say that really about it all of them. There are life lessons to be learned Which is what what we get from roman 15 for we says that we have these writings that we can learn from them ourselves So yeah, did moses have a speech impediment? Uh, we don't we don't know if moses had a speech impediment Because the word can be taken that he was just not eloquent He seems like moses could speak very well But he just wasn't you know, maybe he's just not an outward outward going person There's some people that can speak well, but they're just not good at it. You know what I mean? You put them on the mic and um, and they're kind of him and haul a little bit But they can speak fluently. They just so the bible doesn't say I would The funny thing is about moses. He's complaining about his speech, but then he ends up being the main mouthpiece for the people So, okay. I don't know what that was. Okay. I'll ignore that. Have I ever I don't know what you're saying. Have I ever Considered connecting historical data with the kingdoms That are spoken in the book of daniel to understand the revelations. Well Um, what we do is what I think I'm understanding what you're saying Uh, you take what the bible says You can see historically what has happened And it kind of lines up with the scripture. So if that's what you mean, and yes Yeah, that's it. He wasn't confident in speaking publicly, but he ended up speaking publicly So I can see a guy like wait a second. I made you I made the tongue shut up and get to speaking Sometimes we just just go to God. It's like you can just see God like shaking his head shaking his head Or you say to your kids do something, but I can't Yes, you can but I can't yes, you can I teach my trying to teach my little granddaughter The way this was some time ago, but how to how to dry her back off. She could not figure how to dry her back off And but I can't yes, you can but I can't yes, you can You mean tell me all of us on this planet I have to go to ask someone to dry it back off So Okay Those are all the questions that I have marked. So anyway, all right guys. So now what we're going to pick up is problems We're going to pick up problems This is a good question. We're going to come into that in in in either either next week or the week after By the way, sometimes you see the distinction of israel and juda before there's a distinction between israel and juda We started seeing a little bit of these of the distinctions When they were going into the land we saw this with with joshua and with judges We see a little bit of distinction between israel and juda and then kind of Kind of dividing themselves up And then sometimes when we hear the the distinction We're also going to see or what when we hear the distinction is because the person is writing about the distinction Is writing about the distinction after the fact and so for the benefit of us to know what we're talking about So it's going to become very vivid and all that's going to happen. It's going to send around Who is going to be the next king? The reason or the or the the impetus for the for the next for this division Is over who will be the next king after salomon? And so I don't want to get ahead of ourselves one on that on that point um Why are people so ignorant um about god after they're told because it's just what we do It's the same thing for me and you When we were kids or even adult being told what to do what not to do and we do it anyway Same thing for our children grandchildren same thing Same it's just We have just our own Wheel to go and do what we want to do and oftentimes we're not disciplined enough to not deny ourselves the things that we know We're going to bring us problems Well, I guess it would be um in the eye of the beholder now god didn't state that he was better or anything like that But they made this proclamation before david and david bowden an agreement that he that's what he wanted But god never stated that If I if if I had to choose which one I'd rather be like david or salomon, I'd much rather be like david Even though salomon was his wife as they come I would much rather be like david and and here's the thing There are people that that that fight and debate and question argue over did salomon make it in But you don't have that question really about david There's there's nothing against wearing in pebbles. There's nothing against wearing jewelry The issue about wearing jewelry has to do with how you're wearing it if you if you if you want to Um wear jewelry to look you know to stand out to continue to yourself How awesome how beautiful am I that's a problem and I think sometimes the men go a little too far too far with it They want to be seen and and That's why I think it becomes too many Uh too problematic So anyway, all right guys love you. What do you say? I love you guys to death. I will see you all on tomorrow. Well god God willing. I will see you all on here trip That was called drip. I don't It's okay. Help me out before we leave before we leave y'all help me out Best of the younger for help me out The drip is because it was called ice before I'm I'm trying listen. Help me to be a little bit hipper today before I leave So was it because it was called ice and now is is dripping is that I'm trying to figure out where this drip where the term drip comes from so I'm not gonna I should get me some how would I say it? I should get me some drip I think I better I better quit. I have no I have no idea what I'm talking about Yeah, pray for me pray for me Um, I'm gonna give me some drip I'm uh, uh, I guess not iced out because I don't I don't like the little shiny stuff Um, so anyway guys. I love you so much. Um, look forward to seeing you again. Bye. Bye