Category: 1 Kings 1
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On “Keeping Our Faith to Ourselves”
1 Kings 1:41 “And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, ‘What does this uproar in the city mean?’” Have you ever heard the following statement made about someone: “He keeps his faith to himself”? Maybe that’s how you think of yourself. So often when we hear this, it’s with the idea…
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Two Kinds of Joy
1 Kings 1:28-40 “So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule and brought him to Gihon. There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew…
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Intercession
1 Kings 1:11-14 “Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, ‘Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it? Now therefore come, let me give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.…
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Asking “Why?”
1 Kings 1:6 “(David) had never at any time displeased (Adonijah) by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” Sometimes the seeds of rebellion are sown at a very young age. That’s the picture we see in the verse above regarding David’s failure as a father to Adonijah. Adonijah was the son born to…
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