Kings: How Did We Get Here? - Audio
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So we're continuing our series in Kings, a manual for dissidents. The promise of the series is that the culture is not headed in the right direction. God knows that this has happened in the past, and God has a plan away for Christians to have faithfully resist. And today we need to do a little bit of a flashback to find out how we got here. So we've been in 1 Kings 18, 19. We've been talking about Elijah, King Ahab. We need to see how we got where we are, because I think not only is it relevant for the story as a whole, but it's also relevant for where we are as a community, as a people in this nation, in this culture. And especially important on Father's Day. So let's jump right in. This is 1 Kings 9. When Solomon had finished building the temple of the Lord of Yahweh and the royal palace, and it achieved all he had desired to do, Yahweh appeared to him a second time. As he appeared to him at Gibeon. Yahweh said to him, "I have heard the prayer "and the plea you have made before me. "I have consecrated this temple, which you have built "by putting my name there forever. "My eyes and my heart will always be in this temple." As for you, if you walk before me faithfully with integrity of heart and uprightness, just as your father David did, and do all I command and observe my decrees and laws, I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever. As I promised David your father when I said, "You shall never fail to have a successor "on the throne of Israel." But, but if you or your descendants turn away from me and do not observe the commands and decrees I have given you and go up to serve other gods and worship then, then I will cut off Israel from the land I have given them. I will reject this temple that I've consecrated for my name. Israel will then become a byword and object of ridicule among all peoples. This temple, this temple, this beautiful place that you've made for me, it will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled. They'll scoff and say, "Why has Yahweh "done such a thing to this land and to this temple?" Well, here's why. Because they have forsaken Yahweh their God who brought their ancestors out of Egypt and have embraced other gods,
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The family needs a dad that leads with integrity. The church needs leaders that lead with integrity.