KINGS 3 [Wisdom]
13 For he
hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within
thee.
14 He
maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
Ps. 147 [News at bottom]
https://youtu.be/OsFFErCmcuY Kings 3
ON VIDEO-
.Take a walk on the ‘wild’ side
.Mary- Agnes- Laredo streets
.Car at the shop
.Rhema word
.True legacy
.Imprecatory Psalms
.Wisdom works well
.Martha Stewart
.Mother Theresa
.Apostles
1Kings 3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king
had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was
in him, to do judgment.
NEW-
Just A few notes- I’ll add my past commentary on this
chapter below.
The scenery for this video is not as ‘nice’ as some of the
others.
I’m trying to do my ‘series’ teaching by the waterfront.
But this day I had to drop the car off at my mechanic on
Agnes [brakes- rotors were bad].
And I have been having problems with my laptops-
So- I thought I would take a day off from teaching- but
wasn’t sure.
So I taught walking down Agnes/Laredo streets.
The West side of Corpus.
I even mentioned how I like these walks because I run into
my friends.
Sure enough- if you watch the video- that happened.
One more note.
Sunday I taught the verses from Church Unlimited- Pastor Bil
spoke on Jehoshaphat the king from Chronicles.
The next day [video ‘the fellowship’] my friend Charlie also
brought up Joel chapter 3- which speaks of the valley of Jehoshaphat.
There was sort of a theme- both from the Churches [Mass-
C.U.] as well as my friends on the street.
I find it interesting how the ‘un-planned’ teachings seem to
‘allow’ the Spirit of the Lord to connect things.
Ok- thats it for now-
God bless.
ONE MORE NOTE-
In the past I used to do my own brakes- but Oscar the
mechanic always gives me a great deal.
I had the rotors and front brake pads changed on both sides
[front]- the parts were 80.
It’s about a 3-4 hour job- The labor was also 80- a regular
shop would have charged around 350- 500 for this job.
That’s why I take the car to Oscar.
For my local friends- his shop is on the corner of Port and
Agnes streets.
MY PAST TEACHINGS-
KINGS-
(1050)1st
KINGS 3:1-15 this is a prophetic chapter, Solomon goes to Gibeon
to offer on ‘the great altar’. What is the great altar? There is a remote verse
[somewhere in the Old Testament- I didn’t look it up] that says Moses
tabernacle is located at Gibeon . How it got
there we don’t know, but the picture is important. The tabernacle of Moses
represents the Old Covenant [law], during David’s rule the Ark of the covenant
that was stolen, David retrieves it and places it at Jerusalem [the tent that
he puts it under is called the Tabernacle of David- a type of the new covenant
people who have free access to God, no more veil!] So Solomon more than likely
sacrificed at Gibeon [picturing the Old
Covenant] and then has the famous dream where God appears to him and he asks
for wisdom. This ‘dream’ can be a type of death. Jesus referred to death as
‘sleeping’ Paul too. So after ‘the dream’ [death] he goes to Jerusalem and is
at the place of the Ark [a type of Gods presence, it was not in Moses
tabernacle, but under the tent that David set up] and eventually the remnants
of Moses tabernacle [at Gibeon] will be joined to the Ark [at Jerusalem] and
there will be ‘one new temple’ [Ephesians speaks of the 2 becoming one in
Christ, both Jew and Gentile]. So under Solomon’s rule [a type of Christ] we
have the joining of the Old Covenant people of God along with the Gentile
church. Jesus did not forsake his ‘people that he foreknew’ [Romans] but thru
his death he took away the ‘law of commandments contained in ordinances and
nailed them to his Cross’ [Colossians, Ephesians] thus removing the enmity and
making in himself ‘one new man’. Solomon was definitely prophetic! [see 2nd
Samuel study, chapter 7- entry 923]
(1051) 1st
KINGS 3: 16 -28 Now to the
famous story. Two women [harlots] come to Solomon with a problem. They both had
children within a few days of each other, and one night one of the babies died.
The other woman woke up and had the dead baby with her, but after she looked at
it she realized it wasn’t hers. The real mother of the dead child did a swap at
night. So as they are pleading their case to the king, they both claim that the
living child is theirs. So Solomon calls for a sword, they bring him the sword
and he tells his men ‘take the baby and divide it in two, give half to each
mom’ sounds fair enough. Of course the real mom says ‘no, don’t divide it. Give
the baby to her’ and the fake mom says ‘no, divide it!’ Ahh! Got ya. Solomon
says ‘give the child to the one who did not want to divide it, the child
belongs to her’. A few things, it just so happened that the last book we
studied was Ecclesiastes, I didn’t plan it like that, it just ‘happened’.
Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon. One of the verses I didn’t cover says
Solomon wrote on all types of subjects and put together three thousand
proverbs. Proverbs are short, concise bits/nuggets of wisdom that get the point
across in a nutshell. While there are times when you need to read large volumes
and stuff, yet wisdom allows you to cover a lot of content in a little space.
In this case Solomon used his wisdom to quickly come to a conclusion that could
not be refuted; Jesus did stuff like this with his parables. Notice also that
after the judgment was made, there really was no ‘if, ands or buts’ about it.
He was right and that settled it. I still have old preacher friends who can’t
discern the most basic stuff. Now, I don't want to be mean or condescending,
but there comes a time where things are right or wrong. Many years ago I taught
how leaders were making a serious mistake when they grasped on to the
prosperity interpretation of Jesus parable of the sower [read the chapter
‘twisting the parable of the sower’ in the book ‘house of prayer or den of
thieves’ on this site]. Basically many preachers, good men, were going around
and teaching that Jesus was speaking about getting a huge harvest of cash. In
the parable Jesus says one of the things that hinders the full harvest is ‘the
deceitfulness of riches’, so I taught how Jesus was not saying ‘the deceitfulness
of riches is holding back the cash’. Now, this is really elementary stuff, but
some preachers still can’t discern this, after 20years! There comes a time when
Solomon [Jesus] sends a judgment forth, and we ultimately become responsible
for what we do with it. In this case, one of the ladies was right the other
wrong. Solomon plainly told us who was telling the truth. [note- the other day
as I was flipping channels, I stopped at a ‘prophetic’ brother who I haven’t
watched in a while. In the past he has had some good words that were right on.
But I felt that too many ‘prophecies’ were going forth on a yearly basis that
were not really accomplishing anything ‘this year is the year of increase,
Rebuke the demon of poverty’ stuff that was being repeated over and over
hundreds of times, and yet the word of God was not being taught. Well on the
program I tuned in on, the brother was saying how all the media complaints
about Sarah Palin's expensive wardrobe were ridiculous [I agree] but then he
said that it was nothing but a ‘spirit of poverty’ that needed to be rebuked.
Are there ‘spirits/demons of poverty’ no. At least we see no cases of Jesus
casting out spirits of poverty in scripture. There comes a time when
preachers/media outlets need to return to a sober message of the Cross. I
believe in prophecy and miracles and have experienced many of these types of
things over the years, but we need to stop being silly with some of this stuff.
[parts]
VERSES-
1Kings 3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he
had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the
wall of Jerusalem round about.
1Kings 3:2 Only the people sacrificed in high places, because
there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.
1Kings 3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of
David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
1Kings 3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for
that was the great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer
upon that altar.
1Kings 3:5 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by
night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
1Kings 3:6 And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant
David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and
in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for
him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne,
as it is this day.
1Kings 3:7 And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king
instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go
out or come in.
1Kings 3:8 And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which
thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for
multitude.
1Kings 3:9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to
judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to
judge this thy so great a people?
1Kings 3:10 And the speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had
asked this thing.
1Kings 3:11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this
thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for
thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself
understanding to discern judgment;
1Kings 3:12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have
given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee
before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
1Kings 3:13 And I have also given thee that which thou hast not
asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings
like unto thee all thy days.
1Kings 3:14 And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes
and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy
days.
1Kings 3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he
came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and
offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to
all his servants.
1Kings 3:16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the
king, and stood before him.
1Kings 3:17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman
dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
1Kings 3:18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was
delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was
no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
1Kings 3:19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she
overlaid it.
1Kings 3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside
me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead
child in my bosom.
1Kings 3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck,
behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it
was not my son, which I did bear.
1Kings 3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my
son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and
the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
1Kings 3:23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that
liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the
dead, and my son is the living.
1Kings 3:24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought
a sword before the king.
1Kings 3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and
give half to the one, and half to the other.
1Kings 3:26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto
the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give
her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be
neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
1Kings 3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living
child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
1Kings 3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king
had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was
in him, to do judgment.
And I say unto you, Make
to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail,
they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Jerusalem is builded as
a city that is compact together:
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
I speak to your
shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge
between his brethren?
Wherefore, behold, I
send unto you prophets, andwise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your
synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to
all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
NEWS-
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/migrants-are-being-sold-open-slave-markets-libya-1616492 This
is the result of our actions in Libya.
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