Calvary Church is dedicated to doctrine, and we want you to experience the life change that comes from knowing God's word and applying it to your life.

So we explain the Bible verse by verse, every chapter, every book. This is expound.

Let's begin with the word of prayer. Father, you know all things and you know exactly where we are at.

You know exactly what our experiences are, where we're lacking, where we need ministry, correction, exhortation, instruction. Father, we pray that you

would use the time that we spend together for your spirit to operate in the secret places of our hearts, correcting our thinking, correcting pre-suppositions

and predispositions we may have certain activities and attitudes.

We give your spirit permission and pray, Lord, that we would grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Thank you for the time we have together.

In His name we pray, amen.

Well, we're dealing with Israel's history.

And the books of Samuel, kings, and chronicles deal with a large section of about

575 years of Israel's history leading up from about 1,100 BC, leading up to 586 BC, the captivity, which is at the end of this book,

the Babylonian captivity, when the Jews are carted off to a foreign country because they have

repeatedly broken God's commandments. The monarchy, the kingdom of the 12 tribes of Israel, began with a king by the name

of Saul, followed by David, who was a man after God's own heart, followed by King Solomon,

and that is the history we are presently in. King Solomon is the one who will en masse all that David had reserved and he will build the temple in Jerusalem. And we're right in the middle of Solomon, building a temple for the Lord and bringing the Ark of the Covenant in it. When we were finishing chapter 3, we noticed

the mention of something unusual, two freestanding pillars. Josephus, the Jewish historian,

tells us these were made out of brass. They were hollow. They were about three and a

half inches thick and they stood by themselves in front of the temple. What's interesting is we find out

they are named. One is given the name Jakin, which means he establishes or God establishes.

The other is named Boaz, which means in him is strength, and I'm sure glad that they played

that little teaser this last weekend that I left off there and promised to explain that,

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