Key Text: 2 Chronicles 7:14; Matthew 25:4 Passage: 2 Chronicles 7:14; Matthew 25:1–13; 1 Corinthians 10:12; Hebrews 3:17–19 When Solomon had completed the construction of the temple and finished his prayer of dedication to God, fire came down from heaven. It consumed the burnt offerings and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple. The priests could not even enter. All Israel bowed down on the pavement and worshipped (2 Chronicles 7:1–3). Seven years of con

1 Kings 6:12–13 Imagine you spent seven years pouring everything you had into something. Cedar from Lebanon. Gold from Ophir. Craftsmen from Tyre. A workforce of 183,000 men. The greatest building the world had ever seen rising before your eyes. And right in the middle of it all — whilst the hammers are still swinging — God stops and says this. "Concerning this house that you are building — if you will walk in my statutes, obey my rules, and keep all my commandments, then I w

1 Kings 3:9 — "So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?" What would you do if God appeared before you and said: "Ask for whatever you want me to give you"? This is not imagination. It actually happened. And the answer one young king gave to that question is the climax of every passage we have read today. Look at Psalm 83. Edom, Moab, Ammon, Philistia, Assyria

Psalm 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Psalms 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 When things begin to shake, what do you reach for? This question runs through all nine psalms we have read today. Psalm 12 describes a world drowning in lies. Psalm 13 cries out: "How long will you be silent, God?" Psalm 14 indicts those who have erased God from their thinking. Psalm 17 is David's prayer from the middle of a siege.

Key Verse: 1 Chronicles 29:14 "But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand." Text: 1 Chronicles 29:1–22 | 1 Kings 1 Introduction In today's passage, we witness one of the most dramatic moments of royal succession in the entire history of Israel. And yet 1 Kings 1 and 1 Chronicles 29, though they describe the same event at the same point in time, tell

1 Chronicles 28:19 "All this," David said, "I have in writing as a result of the Lord’s hand on me, and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan." [A Life of Gracious Completion] Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, one of the most challenging tasks in life is handing over a work we have begun into the hands of another. It is our natural human inclination to desire to reap the harvest ourselves and to stand in the place of glory. The passage we are looking at