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All right, as we continue our
study through 1 Kings, we're at 1 Kings 2, verses 12 to 27,
titled this, The End of Adonai and Abiathar the Priest. And
make sure you keep your Bible handy. We'll be looking into
1 Chronicles, and then we'll be looking into 1 Samuel to see
a few things. And so keep your Bible handy. And we'll be looking at that.
And so with the scriptures I've printed off there, let's read
a couple of verses here and then we'll go to the Lord in prayer
and we'll get started with this. And so in verse 12, it says,
then sat Solomon upon the throne of David, his father, and his
kingdom was established greatly. So God had established Solomon
Greatly, that means all the people had accepted him, the people
around him had accepted him, and God had accepted him. All
right, verse 13. And Adonai, the son of Haggath,
came to Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon. And she said, comest
thou peaceably? And he said, peaceably. And we'll
stop right there and go to the Lord in prayer. Heavenly Father,
as we come to you right now in the name of Jesus, we thank you,
dear Lord, for mercy and grace. And we thank you, heavenly Father,
for this time of study tonight. We pray that you'd open our understanding,
that we might understand the scriptures. We pray, heavenly
Father, for the presence of the Holy Spirit tonight. Dear God,
if we've grieved him or vexed him in any way, we do ask for
forgiveness for that. We pray, Father, that the word
of God would speak to the hearts now of all of us. Teach us from
your word. We ask it in Jesus' name and
for his sake. Amen. Well, we know that Adoniah
was going to try to become king, and that didn't work out. And he got mercy from Solomon. Solomon said, I'm not gonna kill
you, but go home to your house. There's something about a wicked
heart. It just can't sit idle, can it? It's always going to
try to manipulate and connive and work around. There's always
something. And this passage of scripture
is gonna teach us several very interesting things. And so, as
we start off here, we find that Solomon has been established
as king. And now, Ed and I, he's still
thinking and plotting. All right? And so he said, well, I can't
do this, but let me see if I can get Solomon's mother Bathsheba
to do this. And so in verse 14, he said,
moreover, I have somewhat to say to thee. And she said, say
on. And he said, thou knowest that
the kingdom was mine. and that all Israel set their
faces on me. That's a lie that I should reign,
he says. Now that's nothing but a negatistical
lie, isn't it? He's lying to himself, he's lying
to her, okay? So the wickedness of this is
still there. All right, now he's going to
try to manipulate Bathsheba to go to Solomon and ask something,
but there's something about this. Howbeit the kingdom is turned
about and is become my brother's, for it was his from the Lord. Now stop right there, I want
to show you something. Adoniah hadn't accepted anything
about the Lord. And when you get to this point
right here, you realize that Adoniah had not accepted the
Lord's decision either. For he says, thou knowest that
the kingdom was mine and that all Israel set their faces on
me that I should reign. Howbeit, the kingdom is turned
about and become my brothers for it was from the Lord. Now
he should have just left it right there. That was it, done. This
is what God wanted. But a wicked heart that does
not consider the Lord is not going to consider the Lord in
any way. the wickedness of man is exceedingly
wicked. And for those that doubt God,
they're gonna continue to doubt him. And so now here's what he's going
to do. Let me explain this to you. Let's
read verse 16 and 17. And now I ask one, petition of
thee, deny me not, and she said unto him, say on. And he said,
speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, for he will not say
thee nay. In other words, no. That he give
me Abishag, the Shunammite, to wife. Now, who was she? Do you remember
who she was? All right, go back to chapter
one. All right, 1 Kings chapter one. And let's see what we find
in verses two, three, and four. 1 Kings chapter one, verses two,
three, and four. All right. Wherefore his servant
said unto him, let there be sought for my lord the king a young
virgin and let her stand before the king and let her cherish
him and let her lie in thy bosom that my lord the king may get
heat. So they sought for a fair damsel
throughout all the coast of Israel and found Abishag, a Shunammite. and brought her to the king.
And the damsel was very fair and cherished the king and ministered
to him, but the king knew her not." So now what we have here
is she was officially one of his wives. As we read, if we
keep on reading, we'll find out that she was officially one of
his wives, but he never knew her. And that means they never
had sexual relationships. And so, but she was there. Now,
Adonai wants King Solomon to say, okay, you can marry her.
Now, what that does in this culture is this, that would establish
him in the kingship. Okay? In other words, that would
make Adam, if he married her, all right, that would tie him
to the kingship. And so, Adoniah is still trying
to manipulate the situation. He hasn't stopped. And so, if What he was doing was hoping,
number one, that Bathsheba wouldn't recognize what he was doing.
Two, he was hoping that Solomon wouldn't recognize what he was
doing. Because if Solomon would have
recognized what he was doing, and done that, oh, then the fight
would have been on. So now, what you find is he talks
Bathsheba into doing this, And now go to verse 18. And Bathsheba said, well, I will
speak for thee unto the king. Bathsheba therefore went unto
the king, went unto King Solomon to speak unto him for Adoniah. And the king rose up to meet
her, bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and
caused a seat to be set for the king's mother, and she sat on
his right hand. Then she said, I desire one small
petition of thee. I pray thee, say me not nay,
And the king said unto her, ask on my mother, for I will not
say thee nay. In other words, I'm not going
to tell you no. Now watch what happens here. And she said, let Abishag, the
Shunammite, be given to Adonai thy brother to wife. Now, the
question comes up. Did she know what she was doing
by asking that petition? You see, either she didn't know
what she was asking or she knew what she was asking. And letting
Solomon know that Adoniah was still a snake in the grass. Do we know? No. The only thing we know is that
Solomon knew. Now, so she asked the question. Now, it's been turned loose.
Watch this now. And King Solomon answered and
said unto his mother, and why dost thou ask Solomon? Abishai, thy Shunammite, for
Adonai, ask for him the kingdom also. For he is mine elder brother,
even for him. Now watch this, and for Abiathar,
the priest, and for Joab, the son of Zeriah. The three culprits
here that Solomon's gonna deal with. And Solomon recognized
this. Now, look what Solomon says in
verse 25, 23, I mean. Then King Solomon swear by the
Lord saying, God do so to me and more also, if Adonai have
not spoken this word against his own life. Whoa. Solomon recognized what he was
trying to do. Verse 24. Now therefore, as the
Lord liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne
of David my father, who hath made me in house, and as he promised,
Adonai shall be put to death this day. Time was up. He recognized the
wickedness of Adonai. Solomon was kind enough to let
Adonai live, but Adonai was still trying to work his way around
things. He knew the culture. He knew the power he would have
if Solomon would let him marry Abishag. And so, Several things I want
you to see. One, the Bible says to the wicked,
all things are wicked. And even though Solomon granted
Adonai a life, he was still looking at conniving
on how he could become the king. Never underestimate the wickedness of the heart,
the blindness of the heart. He should have known that if
Solomon finds out about this, I'm a dead man. The other thing
is this, is when wicked people want to manipulate somebody,
they don't care who they manipulate. as long as they get what they
want. And here he was manipulating Solomon's own mother. And manipulation is a disgusting
thing, isn't it? Well, so we find here that Adonai,
he's made a terrible mistake today, hadn't he? As you read
this. He thought he could do this and
get away with it, but he didn't. So now we're going to find somebody
else here, and we're gonna find what happened to the priest.
So now let's just take the time and look at that. In verse 25,
when King Solomon was sent by the hand of Benaiah, the son
of Jehoiada, and he fell upon him and that he died. Wow. Listen, when you read about Benaiah, he's everywhere. I mean, this guy was faithful
to David. Let's do this. You got your Bible?
I want you to turn to 1 Chronicles chapter 11. 1 Chronicles chapter
11, verse 22. I want to just show you a couple
of things about this guy and we're gonna talk about him. First
of all, we've got to see who's involved here. So we understand
Adonai, he's over with, it's done. He's just a backstabbing snake,
he tried to become king with David, now he's trying to manipulate
the situation so he can become king again. So Solomon said it's over with.
Now, 1 Kings and 1 Chronicles, 11, 22, it said, Benaiah, the
son of Jehodah, the son of a valiant man of Kabziel, who had done
many acts. He slew two lion-like men of
Moab also. He went down and slew a lion
in a pit in a snowy day. And you read other things about
him. And stay right there where you're at. We're gonna go over
to chapter 18 in just a minute. But I want you to know something
about this man, Benaiah. He was born well, and he sought
to live well. He was born, if you read this
verse, Benaiah, the son of Jehudah, the son of a valiant man of Kabziel. His dad was a valiant man. And so, as Benaiah was born well,
I want you to realize something. He sought to live well, as his
father was a valiant man. He was going to become a valiant
man himself. And so you find that when you
start looking at the life of this guy, he was there. He was there for David all the
time. Now he's there for Solomon. And he was trusted. Boy, that's worth a fortune,
isn't it? He was a trusted man. His dad was a valiant man that
could be trusted and he raised a young man that could be valiant
when he was trusted and be trusted. He was a respected man. He was respected because of his
courage. He was respected because of his
bravery. He was respected because of his
ability to war. He was respected. Just think,
Benaiah started off when he was a young man. And this was a time
of war in Israel. And by the time you got to be
just any type of a middle-aged man at all, you were an old veteran.
But here you've got this young man And he was marked because
he was fearless. As it says here, that he slew
both these lion-like men of Moab, then went down and killed a lion
in a pit. No wonder him and David got along.
David killed a lion too, didn't he? But it says here that he
was the son of a valiant man. That's so important for you and
me. You see, what we find, it was
said of this when you look in the history. Why do you find
this type of history in the word of God? Because they wanted value,
valiant men to raise valiant men. And so you find these little
details stuck in the word of God. And so what you have here,
you have the son of a valiant man that is trustworthy, respectable,
fierce. And what a way this man was raised. He was born well and sought to
live well. And so he realized three things
in the Jewish history of things. Number one, you've got to be
trusted. And remember something, respect
is earned and not given. And trust is earned and not given. And so he understood this. What makes a valiant, courageous
man, a valiant, courageous man, is that when he proves that to
the people around him, he can do all kinds of things in private,
nobody ever sees it. But when he does those things
openly, That's when other people look at him and say, I respect
him. He's fearless. He's courageous. Why? Because they saw him and
they witnessed his lifestyle. They witnessed his courage. They witnessed his integrity. They witnessed his trustworthiness. And so the word of God says he
was the son of a valiant man. How did his dad get that type
of testimony? Because the people around his
dad witnessed his courage, witnessed his trustworthiness, witnessed
his fearlessness. And so this boy said, if my dad
has that type of testimony, I want that type of testimony. And so
off he goes. And so he was born well and he
sought to live well. His dad was going to make a man
out of him. And he wanted to become a man
like his dad. And so even at this point, after
he had gone through all these battles, all these fights, everything,
but David, look at him. He's still standing by Solomon
now. And without a doubt, we're gonna learn some more amazing
things about him in the next few chapters. But this guy, He was just right. Now look at this, and King Solomon's
sitting by the hand of Ben-Ananiah. Go kill him. Poof, he's gone. Solomon's daddy trusted this
man. And now Solomon trusts this man. You see, let's do this now. Turn over to 1 Chronicles 18.
1 Chronicles 18. And verse 17. And Ben-aniah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and
the Pelethites. And the sons of David were chief
about the king. You know, when you read about
those Cherethites and Pelethites, when David was running from Absalom,
who went with him? Who was part of David's 600 men
and so on? The Cherethites, the Pelethites,
and Ben-Nahar. In other words, He, King David,
had somebody around him that he could trust. And King David could trust Benaiah. And then Benaiah trusted the
Cherethites and the Pelethites, because they're always together. You see, What I see here in this
when I realize and look at every time I read in the Word of God,
there's Benaiah, he's doing something. I've got a lesson on Obed-Edom
that I'm gonna share with you. And I think you'll find that
extremely interesting. But here we find though tonight,
the heritage of courage, the heritage of integrity, the heritage
of fearlessness, the heritage of that. I was reading, you've heard me
say it before, but I was reading an old Jewish book and the Jews They had the saying, the only
thing you make a man out of is a boy. And that's why when they got a certain
age, they broke from mama, went to the field and worked and done
and learned things. A heritage. of heroes. David's mighty men. Who were they? Well, one of them was Mr. Benaiah. He was one of the three the Bible
talks about. You see, ladies and gentlemen,
When I get to this point, I want you to know something. Solomon needed somebody that
would be faithful to him without question. And so when Adonai tried to stab
Solomon in the back by saying, give me Abishag, his wife, And Job ben Ananiah, the man
that was faithful to his dad and now faithful to him, go kill
him. Worthy of death. Verse 25 is
a verse that I think I can stay and preach on it for a good hour
and a half without ever going anywhere else. Because it said,
the King Solomon was sent by the hand of Benaiah, the son
of Jehoiada, and fell upon him and he died. No questions asked. There's something about a valiant man. A valiant man understands the
rules. A valiant man lives according
to the rules. A valiant man is fearless, trustworthy,
and he has to be respected. We find that a valiant man raised
a valiant man. And so we see then the word of
God says the son of a valiant man of Kabziel. Every father should have that
type of testimony that he was a valiant man, a hardworking
man. A fearless man, a trusted man,
a respected man. Young men need that type of man
in their lives. Listen, we never compromise roughness
with softness to develop roughness in a man. We never compromise truth. Never. Even though it causes
stress. What we're doing, we're trying
to make a man out of a boy. How do we get a boy to become
fearless? How do we get a boy to become
trusted? How do we get a boy to become
a respected man? Not by compromising roughness
with softness. That happens when we deal in
truth. and the roughness of truth and
reality. When you read the history of
some of this, you realize these young men were raised up to be
defenders of the faith, defenders of the land. defenders of God. When it says that Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabziel, I want you to
know that that man had to earn that reputation. It wasn't given to him. And this this young man, his
son, understood my dad has earned that reputation. Listen, what's the value of that? You
can't place a value on it. When a young man can look at
his dad and say, my dad's earned that reputation, Then the dad can look back at
his son and say, yeah, my son has earned that reputation. The reputation you presently
have as a Christian, the reputation you presently have as a saved
person, the reputation you presently have as a father or a grandfather,
that's the reputation you've earned. So look in the mirror
and ask yourself, what type of reputation do I have? You see, what a question that
is. Some of the old writings, especially
in the Jewish world, they were almost like a monk. You look
at some of them old monks that I've been around in the Orient
and other places. It's kind of weird when you see
a monk or you see an old Buddhist sitting around looking at a skull.
Just an old dead skull cut off from a body. He's sitting there
looking at it, staring at it. And you say, why in the world
is he sitting there staring at the skull of a dead man? because it's introspect. He's thinking this, in a few
years, that's me. And so they have the habit of
looking at a skull, realizing that's me. What kind of reputation did he
have? What kind of life did he have?
What kind of life did he live? What did he leave behind? So they would sit there and observe
the skull for a while. You see, ladies and gentlemen,
listen, just because everybody pats you on the back and calls
you a friend, you better ask yourself this question. What
type of reputation do you really have? What do they really think about
me? Are you mousy or are you a man? Are you a real Christian
husband or are you just married? Are you a real Christian or are
you just acting like it? The reality of it is this with
all of us, men and women in here, boys and girls in here. Everybody
in this room's got a reputation. But a lot of people don't want
to look you in the face and tell you what kind of reputation you
have. So they lie to you by patting you on the back and saying, oh,
you're a good boy, you're a good girl, all that stuff, when you're
not. They don't want to deal in truth
because truth hurts them. We look at some people and boy,
we say, he's a coward. Buddy, when time got tough, he
took off running. He done this, he's a coward.
We look at another person and say, give him a Medal of Honor.
He's a hero. We look at people and say, man,
look at the reputation they have. I want you to realize something.
When you read about that verse, that verse 25, and then up in
1 Chronicles 11, you're looking at what God thinks
of them. They have a reputation with God. Don't you understand how you
act, what you do, how you say, how you live? You're gonna develop
some type of reputation. American Christianity's got to
the point to where they just want to have a reputation of
something, don't know what. But there's a reality to this.
And it's true. What type of reputation do you
have tonight? Men and women? Moms and dads? Grandpas and grandmas? What kind
of reputation do you have tonight? Have you thought about that?
Do you have a Christian reputation? Are you known for being a prayer
warrior? Are you known for loving the Word of God and reading the
Word of God? The reality is this. All of us, all of us have a reputation.
But what is it? What type of reputation is it?
What are you developing? Listen. Remember this, this man
was a respected man and a trusted man and a fearless man. Now, the reason I chose those
three words, because those three words are worth a fortune. Number one, trust is earned,
isn't it? I've been around some people
that I absolutely trusted. I've been around other people
that I wanted to make sure they walked in front of me. The reality of it is this, that's
the reputation they had. Trust is earned and not given. Respect. There's one thing about male
ego, and that's this. They all strive to get some type
of respect. But the reality of it is this,
respect is earned and not given. Listen, firemen earn respect
because when they fight fires, they're respected as a fearless
firefighter. Right on down the line to the
soldiers. The reality of it is this, but to be a respected Christian,
You're going to have to know the word of God, then live according
to the word of God. Do you have a reputation? Do we have a reputation of living
according to the word of God? What's our reputation? You see, that third word, fearless. To live godly in a godless world,
you've got to be fearless. Remember something, fear is one
of the best controllers of humanity there is. If the people around you can
get you to be afraid of them, they can control you. But the Bible already told us,
Jesus, if they've hated me, they'll hate you. If they've persecuted
me, they'll persecute you. You'll be hated of all men for
my name's sake. The Lord's already told us that. Well, let me ask you a question.
If you know that, do you have the courage to live that type
of life anyway? If you know that, can you live
that? That's rough. Go down to verse 26 now, 26 and
27. 1 Kings 2, 26 and 27. And unto Abiathar the priest,
said the king, get thee to Annathos unto thine own fields, for thou
art worthy of death. Now, you realize Abiathar followed
Adonai in this rebellion. But I will not at this time put
thee to death, because thou bearest the ark of the Lord God before
David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all
wherein my father was afflicted. So Solomon thrust out Abiathar
from being priest unto the Lord, that he might fulfill the word
of the Lord, which he spake concerning the house of Eli and Shiloh. Well, turn to 1 Samuel 2. Let's read verses 30 to 35. 1 Samuel 2. Now, this, the first time I ever
read this passage of Scripture and some of this, it was just
amazing to me. what took place. I'm gonna read,
I'm gonna read two passages of scripture
to you. We're gonna read this out of chapter two, and then
I'm gonna take you over to chapter three and read verse 13 and 14.
1 Samuel chapter two, starting at verse 30. Wherefore the Lord God of Israel
saith, I said indeed that thy house, talking to Eli, that thy
house and the house of thy father should walk before me forever. But now the Lord saith, be it
far from me, for them that honor me I will honor, and they that
despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Behold, the days come that I
will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that
there shall not be an old man in thine house. And thou shalt
see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall
give Israel, and there shall not be an old man in thine house
forever. He's passing this on to Eli.
And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar,
shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart, and
all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their
age. Verse 34. And this shall be a
sign unto thee that shall come upon thy two sons, and Hophni
and Phinehas. In one day they shall die, both
of them. and I will raise me up a faithful
priest that shall do according to that which is in mine heart
and in my mind, and I will build him a sure house, and he shall
walk before mine anointed forever. Now watch this. Now go to chapter
three. Let's look at verse 13 and 14. Well, let's start in verse 11.
And the Lord said to Samuel, behold, I will do a thing in
Israel at which both the ears of every man that heareth it
shall tingle. In that day, I will perform against
Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house. When I
begin, I will also make an end. Now watch this. For I have told
him that I will judge his house forever. for the iniquity which
he knoweth, because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained
them not. Get it? His sons made themselves vile
and he restrained them not. Verse 14, and therefore have
I sworn unto the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house
shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering forever. And the Lord says, you've just disgraced me. You've
cared nothing for me. You've honored your sons above
me. And so what you see here in verse
27, so Solomon thrust out Abiathar
from being priest unto the Lord. Abiathar was a relative of Eli,
that he might fulfill the word of the Lord which he spake concerning
the house of Eli and Shiloh. Wow. Listen. When God pronounces something
against an individual, a family, or a nation, it might not happen right then,
but it's gonna happen. Mark it down. It's gonna happen. You see, even the Bible addresses
the fact that we humans, we think, well, since I got away with it,
God didn't see it. And God said, you actually think
that because I haven't killed you yet, beat you up yet, that
I didn't see it and you're gonna get away with it? The answer
to that's no, you're not. Nobody gets away with it. Nobody
gets away with it. When it comes to God's judgment
of things, God has a 100% success rate because
he sees everything. He knows everything. He knows the heart of every one
of us in this building right now. Listen. You can't have truth without Christ. You can't have Christianity without Christ. You can't be a Christian without knowing the Christian
book. The reality to that is this. If we want to look it up, and
I read a verse and used it the other week. And the verse said,
if a man got a word, let him speak a word. But if the preacher's
got a word, let him preach it, right? If he has my word, let
him preach my word. But the word faithfully is stuck
in there. In other words, let him preach
my word faithfully. Do you know what that means? That means if I get up here and
preach the word of God and it makes you mad, that's your problem.
If I get up here and tell the truth and you don't like it,
that's your problem. That's between you and God. I've got the responsibility
to tell the truth and do it faithfully. You see, those three words have
put a lot of men out of the ministry. I read a book years ago, and
the title of the book was Get Out of the Ministry. And he had these three words,
and through the chapters, he took these three words. He said,
can God trust you with his word? If you can't be trustworthy with
God's word, get out of the ministry. Can you be fearless with the
word of God, even though it makes people mad and upsets them? But what do you expect worldly
people to do? To hug the word of God? No, of
course not. Compromisers don't like it. Weak,
cowardly people don't like it. Gutless men don't like it. Nobody
does. Why? Because it reveals the truth
to you. Then the last word here was respected. Guess what? Abiafar the priest, All of a sudden, look at this
now, what type of reputation did he have? He stayed with David through
all this, but boy, when we find that Adonai come on the scene,
he forsook David and followed him. So now he went from having
a reputation of following David to having a reputation as a traitor. You see that? And he was, now look at this.
He was reaping, he was reaping his family heritage. Solomon thrust out Abiathar from
being priest to the Lord that he might fulfill the word of
the Lord which is spake concerning the house of Eli and Siloam. Do you see that? What I wanted to do here is to
show you the difference between the two. On one side, I've got Benaniah,
whose daddy was a valiant man. He had a reputation. And now
his son had a reputation. of being trustworthy, respected
as so, and fearless. But on the other side, you had
Eli, who compromised the word of God, honored his sons over
God, ruined his family heritage because of it, and the people down the line, had to suffer for it. The Bible says that the sins
of the fathers goes to what? The 10th generation? Listen, this, this is no game folks. You might live in America where
you think you can go down to the cafeteria and have a cafeteria-style
religion, but I hate to tell you this, you can't. You want to pick and choose,
it don't work. No cafeteria-style religion is
accepted. Sorry. It don't work for me, it ain't
gonna work for you. A little preacher said, get up
and preach hard. Be faithful to the Word of God. They might say, well, he'll preach
it, but I don't have to be there when he does. The old preacher said this, preach
hard and you'll preach them out. He said, enjoy your small congregation,
but they'll be faithful. What a truth, huh? There's a
reality to this, folks. Now listen, Adonai was a snake,
wasn't he? And even though Solomon let him
live, Solomon knew at some point he'd show his colors again. But then Solomon knew this. Ben-Nahiah,
he was faithful to my dad. Him and the Cherithites and the
Pelethites, he was a ruler of them. Man, this was a group of
little gladiators around my dad that were fearless. And I can
still trust him. His dad was a valiant man. I can respect him and his dad. And now he's here. Go kill that lying, manipulating
scoundrel. Get him out of here. And now here's this priest. Guess what? Eli, look what Eli
did. Eli was more faithful to his
sons than he was to God, and God said so. You've honored your
sons over me. That brought a curse to the house.
Now here we go down the road a little ways, and here's Abiathar. Look at him, look at what he
does. Listen, the curse back there created a weakness in that
man up there. And the weakness was the lack
of loyalty. Abiathar was loyal to David through
a bunch of stuff. But then when David got old,
here come Adonai and Abiathar just forsook David and followed
him. Do we understand? We can create
a weakness in the people around us. It might not show up right
now, but it'll show up sometime. It always does. But his dad, but now his dad
was a valiant man. He didn't create a weakness in
his son. He created strength and fearlessness
and trustworthiness and honesty and integrity in His Son. What are we creating in the people
around us? What are we creating and the
people around us, are we creating weakness in them? Or are we creating
strength in them? It's not neutral. Compromisers always want to say,
well, I'll just be neutral in this. You can't be neutral. You
cannot be neutral with the word of God. Either you're obedient to it
or you're not. That's it. And I'm done. I have enjoyed preaching this
to you tonight. May the Holy Spirit drive it
into the hearts of every man and woman in this congregation
tonight. Because you're going to wind
up with a reputation. You surely are. Ask this question. Are you creating
strength or weakness in the people around you? You're creating something,
and you're going to have a reputation for something. Amen? All righty. Well, I've had fun with this.
Hope you learned something out of it. Let's all stand, if you
would, please. God is good. Amen? Brother Floyd, lead us
in a verse, please.
1 Kings 2=2-27
This lesson deals with the end of Adonijah & Abiathar
AND the character and integrity of Trusted respected
fearless man named Benaiah.
| Sermon ID | 3325320583261 |
| Duration | 1:00:30 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - PM |
| Bible Text | 1 Kings 2:12-27 |
| Language | English |
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