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Good morning, and I'm speaking
to you from the auditorium of the Addison Baptist Church, where
I soon pray we'll be able to meet together as a congregation,
as guests, and gather in God's house that he's built for us
here. But for now, we are unable to do that. And so I continue
the series and hope the message will be a blessing to you as
you consider God's word with me. Turn your Bibles to 2 Chronicles
3. Returning to 2 Chronicles 3,
we're looking at a series I've called Sermons on the Mount.
We've looked at Noah and the Ark on Ararat. Abraham is tested
with the sacrifice of his son on Moriah. God provides a ram
and a substitute is provided for Isaac, and Isaac's life is
spared. One of the wonderful portraits
of Christ in the Old Testament as our substitute. Moses on Sinai. Caleb on Hebron, Elijah on Mount
Carmel, Elisha on Mount Carmel, Joshua on Mount Ephraim, David
on Mount Olivet, and David on Mount Moriah. And then today,
Solomon on Mount Moriah. 2 Chronicles chapter three, verse
number one, just one verse. Then Solomon began to build the
house of the Lord at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah. where the Lord
appeared unto David his father in the place that David had prepared
in the threshing floor of Ornan, the Jebusite." Now, the word
house in the Bible is a fascinating word. It encompasses a great
deal of God's dealing with us. The tabernacle was said to be
a house of God that Moses built, Solomon's temple. Sometimes a
nation is called the house of God. Sometimes a family is called
a house. There's a sense in which each
individual is a house or a tabernacle in which our soul and spirit
dwells. Ultimately, Jesus Christ is the
house of God. He is the incarnation, God in
the flesh, God dwelling, God with us, Emmanuel. Jesus Christ
is the ultimate house. But we're gonna look today at
Solomon's temple and see some pictures and types of Jesus Christ. Also, some lessons we'll draw
from the sermon on Solomon on Mount Moriah. This mountain,
as you remember, is the place where David offered a sacrifice
and repented of his sin of numbering the people, a sin for which God
had judged both David and his nation with a terrible plague.
And when David had repented and worshiped God, God accepted his
sacrifice and his repentance and the plague was stayed. And
the site of that sacrifice was a plot of ground that David bought
from a man there on Mount Moriah. And that plot, that site, that
land will be the location of Solomon's temple. Of course,
you remember David prepared much of the material. He collected
much of the wealth to carry the key of the treasury of David
was said to be a great thing because a storehouse that he
gathered all the wealth of his kingdom, preparing, anticipating
when Solomon, his son would be allowed to build the temple.
David was not allowed to build the temple because he had been
a man of war and God reserved that honor for Solomon, So Solomon's
temple is quite famous. Solomon was blessed with incredible
wealth and incredible safety and peace in his 40-year reign. Perhaps the golden years of Israel
were under Solomon, and he begins to build this temple. Up until
that time, the Ark of the Covenant, God's dwelling place, had been
in a tent or in the tabernacle that Moses had built. and the
furniture within the tabernacle had been the place where God
designated the sacrifices to be brought and for God's dwelling
place to be recognized. But Solomon is led to build by
God a house for the Lord. In the Old Testament, this Mount
Moriah, as I told you, is a place where Abraham was tested with
Isaac, David built an altar there, a primitive altar there at the
end of the plague, and then Solomon's temple. We don't really know
what Solomon's temple looked like. I've seen many artists'
conceptions and ideas, but we know it was a staggering in splendor. Here's one artist's conception
of the outside of Solomon's temple, the courtyards and the walls
and so forth. The interior of the temple would
have been breathtakingly beautiful with the gold and the splendor
and the holy place and the most holy place and all of the things
that God instructed Solomon to build. It was a sure wonder of
the ancient world. I want to just build a simple
message on this great and glorious temple that Solomon builds. We know that it really happened. It's genuine history. Both the
historical books and the New Testament test to the building
of this temple. When you open the New Testament,
another temple is under construction. It's not Solomon's temple. It's on the site of Solomon's
temple. It was called Herod's temple.
And Herod the Great had begun construction of that. And when
Jesus walked the earth, that temple had been under construction
for about 46 years. It was never actually completed,
ultimately being destroyed in AD 70 by the Romans when the
Jewish people were scattered and destroyed by the Roman emperor. In the Old Testament, there is
another temple between Solomon's temple and Herod's temple. It
was called the Temple of the Restoration. It was built by
the captives returning from Persia. And although a wonderful, It
was nothing in comparison to the glory of Solomon's temple. But I draw a lesson here from
Solomon's work. Present always builds upon the
past. Solomon uses the material that
his father had collected. Solomon uses the place that his
father had prepared. And Solomon uses the furniture,
some of the furniture from the tabernacle. And so there's a
connection between the past and the present. We do not live unto
ourselves, not individually, nor as it comes to time. Everything we do has a past,
and Lord willing, everything we do has a future, but the present
always builds on the past. I think of that in terms of where
we are even as families and churches and a nation dealing with the
current crisis. What the future will be be determined
in a great deal by what we do in the present. And our sacrifices
now, both in our battle against this virus and our sacrifice
of public meetings, I pray that they will be a foundation upon
which we can build a better future if God would spare us, if God
would grant us reprieve, if God would grant us a new beginning. What we do now, the sacrifices
we make, the difficulties we endure, the hardships we share,
the sadnesses we share, there'll be a foundation for us to build.
God's people want to step up and speak up in the best Christ-like
ways, God-honoring ways, faithful ways, continuing to pray, continuing
to witness, continuing to give, continuing to minister as best
we can so that as we go forward these days will be a foundation
upon which we can build and nothing of which we would be ashamed
or sad that we had failed our Lord or that we had failed our
fellow man. The present always builds on
the past. Always use the present honoring
the past as best you can. I never cease to be amazed at
what God has allowed the Addison Baptist Church to view over the
120 years in which this church has ministered in this little
village of Addison from world wars and floods and flus and
epidemics and pandemics across the 20th century through the
modern times of terrorism and 9-11, and yet the ministry goes
on. And I know even as we speak here
about our difficulties, there are thousands of Christians in
other countries who are being persecuted politically, not just
battling physical difficulties, but political persecution. And
some are in prison, some life at risk because they serve the
Lord Jesus Christ. I pray that we will build upon
the past and that we'll be faithful. We'll look back to those in our
church and our churches who have been faithful to God in other
circumstances and times of stock market crashes and great depressions
and world wars, and we will see their faithfulness and we will
build on that past. Solomon built a temple because
his father had gathered materials and found a place that God approved
The present always builds on the past. Now, number two, nothing
can be built without sacrifice. The place that David buys, he
will not buy, he will not offer a sacrifice without payment.
Nothing can be built without sacrifice. I'm reminded immediately
of Jesus Christ's sacrifice for us. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission of sin, the Bible says. Nothing can be
built without sacrifice. The Old Testament, with all of
its festivals and sacrificial systems, which were all pictures
or types of the Lord Jesus Christ, yet the Old Testament is just
full of the cost of serving God, the cost of worshiping God. Now,
is there great reward? Is there great blessing for serving
the Lord? Absolutely. But nothing can be
built without sacrifice. Nothing can please God without
first a sacrifice. Coming to God in the way He prescribes,
in the manner He prescribes, the time He prescribes, nothing
can be built without sacrifice. The present always builds upon
the past. Nothing can be built without
sacrifice. And the greatest house of God
is Jesus Christ. Although we admire the tabernacle
that Moses built, And we are in awe of the masterful temple
that Solomon built and even cause to appreciate the restoration
temple after the exile. And in some way, the grandeur
of Herod's temple, where Jesus walked and upon whose steps Jesus
preached and in whose chambers the people of God met early on
in the book of Acts, we can admire and appreciate those buildings.
I think also we can appreciate the buildings God gives us. And
we're saddened we can't use those buildings right now. We remember
that the church is the people. We are an assembly of born again,
baptized believers, coveted together. And we certainly long for the
day when we can meet together again in prayer and worship and
singing. And we long pray for that. We
miss that. We cannot replace that with videos
or teleconferencing, or audio, we need to meet together. I pray
that day will soon come when we can meet together. But the
greatest house of God is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God manifest
in the flesh. Everything we need to know about
God, everything we need to hear from God, everything we need
to understand about God is revealed to us in Jesus Christ. Jesus
Christ is the God-man. We're told in Scripture that
He's the creator, that He's the sustainer, that He's the ultimate
judge of all things. So He's truly God. And yet this
God lay aside the splendor of heaven, the royal robes of glory,
and came to this earth and was born of Mary, a virgin. No human father, no Adamic sin
nature transmitted to Him, But the Holy Spirit overshadowed
a virgin named Mary, and a child was conceived in her womb. And
that miraculous virgin birth brings to us God in the flesh,
Jesus Christ. He is incarnated. He takes upon
flesh. He becomes man as though he were
not God, yet he remains God as though he were not man. It's
a great mystery, Paul says. Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh. God came to us in the flesh. Anyone who denies that Jesus
Christ is not God in the flesh is antichrist and is not of God,
cannot be saved, cannot be born again if he denies the incarnation
of Jesus Christ. The greatest house of God is
Jesus Christ. And though we long to be in physical
buildings and physical gatherings, if we are in Christ, we are accepted
by God. Ephesians says, we're accepted
in the beloved. The finest and first house that
we ought to know is the house of Jesus himself, Jesus Christ
in whom We have the forgiveness of sins, the hope of heaven,
eternal life. Let's praise Jesus Christ. He
is the greatest house of God. I must say this also to Christians
in a reflective way, in a representative way, we are also Christians. We are followers of Christ and
we also become the house of God. That is to say, when you're born
again, You become a child of God. The Holy Spirit comes in
and takes up residence in you, and you become a dwelling place
of God, a habitation of the Holy Spirit, the Bible says. And so
the individual believer is also a house of God. The Holy Spirit
dwells in you and resides in you. That's why you can pray
wherever you are. That's why you can study the
Bible wherever you are. That's why you can witness wherever
you are, because the Holy Spirit is speaking through you through
his word. Now, I know also that the church,
that is the gathering of God's saints and the collection of
saints is also the house of God, that not so much the building
I'm thinking about now, but just the believers who are set as
the Holy Spirit sees in the membership of a church, that church is a
house of God as well. It's a dwelling place of God. And though we are not able to
gather, yet we're able to minister as the hands and feet and voices
and the heart of God in our communities and doing the best we can to
pray, to help, and to be an example of what Christ would have us
to be in these days. And so individuals, saved individuals
are houses of God. Churches are houses of God, but
the Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest house of God. Are you
in that house? Are you a child of God? Have
you been translated from darkness into the kingdom of God's Son?
It's a great transaction that takes place when God puts our
sins on Jesus Christ, and puts Jesus' righteousness on us, and
counts our sins against Jesus, and he pays for them on the cross.
and then takes Jesus' righteousness and charges them to our account.
Do you know that good news? That good news of the death,
burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ? Have you trusted Him?
Have you been born again? Have you told someone about that?
Maybe by a phone call. Maybe by a text. Maybe by a media
message. Maybe by forwarding this message
to someone. Maybe by just sending them a
track. Telling them about Jesus Christ.
Though we pray that the medical providers will have success in
treating the sick and finding answers to this virus, let's
never forget that our ultimate need is to be born again. To live, be born once is to die
twice. To be born twice is to die but
once. And that is, if you know the
Lord Jesus Christ, All that death can do is take your physical
body. Your soul will be immediately
in the presence of God. It is appointed unto man once
to die. And though we exercise the best
stewardship we can and the best care we can, it's very clear
we do not know how many days, how many weeks, how many months,
no, how many hours we have to live here on this life. And we
need to be ready. And we need to warn others about
We need to invite others to go to heaven through the finished
work of Jesus Christ. The greatest house of God is
Jesus. Let us pray together. Father,
I pray that you would bless the listeners and viewers today as
we think of Solomon's temple and the wonder and the glory
of it. Yet it is surely overshadowed by Jesus Christ himself. May
we see the wondering glory of Jesus Christ and understand that
he is our Savior, that he is our Lord, that he is the captain
and finisher of our faith. And Father, may we know that
to be in Christ, we are counted, accepted in the beloved. Father,
help us to walk by faith. Help us to walk faithfully in
these days. Bless the Addison Baptist Church
individually as members and collectively as the body of Christ. and give
us wisdom and courage to know and to do your will in these
days. We pray in Jesus name, amen.
Sermons on the Mount: Solomon on Moriah
Series Sermons on the Mount
| Sermon ID | 3272023691120 |
| Duration | 20:38 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | 1 Chronicles 3:1 |
| Language | English |
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