What Do You Want Most in Life? | The Life of Solomon | 1 Kings 3.5-9

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

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If God offered you one wish, what would you ask for? What did Solomon ask for? It wasn’t wisdom. Learn what Solomon really requested and what that means for us from https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Pastor Patrick Miller) as we continue our series on the Life of Solomon. Interested in more content like this? Check out https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/why-god-chooses-the-humble-learning-to-follow-jesus-luke-146-55/ (Why God Chooses the Humble) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/am-i-really-up-to-the-task-god-my-favorite-verses-isaiah-6-8/ (Am I Really Up to the Task, God?) Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit ourhttps://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ ( website) and follow us onhttps://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks ( Facebook),https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ ( Instagram), andhttps://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast ( Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:11.0	I'm Keith Simon.
0:12.0	And I'm Patrick Miller. Also if you want to connect with us
0:15.9	follow us on Twitter at t.m. t.b. podcast you can also check out our hashtag
0:20.6	hashtag ask t.m. B. T. B. T. T. T. hashtag, H-H-T-MB-T, where you can ask us anything and we'd love to connect with you.
0:27.3	What do you want the most in life?
0:29.7	That question has become a literary trope, Aladdin and the Genie, Dr. Faustus, the portrait of
0:35.6	Dorian Gray. Now that last one, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, remember I am a
0:39.6	former English major and big book nerd. It's one of my all-time favorites and this story is
0:45.0	about an Englishman named Dorian Gray he's living in the late 1800s and he
0:49.3	strikes a deal with the devil to get what he desires the most eternal youth. Now according to the deal
0:56.0	Dorian Gray will never age but instead a painting of himself would age so
1:01.8	Dorian he takes this painting and he hides it in a room,
1:05.6	although he frequently goes to view it. And in the painting, he not only sees his physical decay,
1:11.2	but also his moral decay.
1:13.4	As it turns out, Eternal Youth is actually a curse, because without consequences to his actions,
1:18.6	Dory and Gray quickly becomes a worse and worse man.
1:22.3	He descends into a licentious lifestyle of
1:24.9	near constant abuse. We're left with the impression that physical aging is
1:29.2	much better than damaging your character, your will, your humanity. When those things are beyond repair,
1:36.3	life is hardly worth living. Unfortunately, this is a lesson that we haven't taken to very well.
1:41.9	Today's super wealthy people, coastal elites, they are currently
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