LIFE LESSON FOR TODAY, 7/23/14

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TEN COMMANDMENTS






Today, I'll continue to look at people from the 
Old Testaments who disobeyed the Lord.  I'll 
share scriptures about a man named Solomon.
He is the son of King David. He was blessed by 
God with great wisdom. His downfall was that
he broke one of the Ten Commandments:

 GENESIS  20:3

 “You shall have no other gods before Me.






PAINTING: THE ANOINTING OF SOLOMON

 CORNELIS de VOS, 1630's, IN AUSTRIA
LIFE LESSON:

 SOLOMON'S FOREIGN WIVES ARE IDOL 
WORSHIPPERS. HIS HEART TURNS FROM
THE LORD.


 1 KINGS 11:1-2 , 4-8

1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, 
as well as the daughter of Pharaoh:  women of 
the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians,
and Hittites—
 2 from the nations of whom the Lord had said to
the children of  Israel,  “You  shall not intermarry 
with them, nor they with you.Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung
to these in love.

4 For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after  other gods;  and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of
the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
6 Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did 
not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David. 
7 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh 
the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east
of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of
the people of Ammon.
 8   And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, 
who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.



LIFE LESSON:

THE LORD TELLS SOLOMON WHAT HIS PUNISHMENT WILL BE.

1 KINGS 11: 11-13



11 Therefore the Lord said to Solomon,“Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes,  which  I have commanded you,  I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it 
to your servant.
12   Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for 
the sake of your father David;I will tear it out of 
the hand of your son.
13 However I will not tear away the whole kingdom;
I will give one tribe to your son for the sake  of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which 
I have chosen.”

 




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