S2:192 1 Kings 7
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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
As we continue to learn about temple construction, today Emma Dotter shows us from 1 Kings 7 Solomon’s divided heart, and the willingness of Hiram of Tyre. Hiram used the gifts he receive from God for the building of the temple. What a correct usage of his gifts!
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Additional Scripture in this passage:
Exodus 35:30-35, Bezalel and Ohiliab
1 Corinthians 12:4-7, “Varieties of gifts”
1 Peter 4, “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another,”
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| 0:00.0 | Reading our Bibles regularly can be a challenge, but we're all on this journey together. |
| 0:05.8 | We're praying that this podcast inspires you, helps you better understand God's word, and builds your faith. |
| 0:12.2 | This is Join the Journey with your host, Emma Daughter. |
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| 0:18.5 | When we pick up in First King 7, we find ourselves neck deep in descriptions, plans, and ornate objects that must be built for the temple. |
| 0:27.3 | Solomon's gotten started on the work that needs to be done, and we're finding out more. |
| 0:30.9 | But what we also find is a subtle tell of how Solomon's heart may be divided. |
| 0:35.7 | We see a new friend with a familiar name, and hear |
| 0:38.8 | of some final acts of faithfulness from the previous king. This passage starts off explaining |
| 0:44.1 | more details about Solomon's building project, but it's not the building project expected. |
| 0:50.1 | In the first few verses, the author informs us that we actually are not hearing details about the temple, |
| 0:56.3 | rather, we're hearing details about Solomon's house. |
| 0:59.7 | What a change of topic. |
| 1:01.3 | Solomon's house took 13 years to build, and it was nicknamed House of the Forest of Lebanon. |
| 1:06.6 | Why is that? |
| 1:07.6 | Well, Solomon used so much cedar for his house that it was joked about as being its own forest. Think about this. There was so much wood imported and used that they called it a forest. That is wild. The subtle nickname for this home is pretty telling, and it's not that subtle. This fact really provokes a question. |
| 1:29.8 | Why are we reading about Solomon's house being built amidst the information about the construction |
| 1:35.0 | of the temple? The author seems to be alluding to something here. Instead of Solomon giving |
| 1:41.1 | his undivided attention to the building of the temple, he actually may have his energy split, temple and personal home construction. |
| 1:50.6 | Not only is he focused on two things, he ends up spending double the amount of time on his personal palace than he does on the temple. |
| 1:59.8 | There's an opportunity to play devil's advocate here. I mean, |
| 2:02.2 | the palace is a house that has lived in by tons of people and could be argued to be used more than the |
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