Wednesday, December 20, 2017

PROPHETS & KINGS: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 4

Results of Transgression

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CUEEbnouGdA?list=PL4ByrircmXL4AIWLkRrpeoEq_A6VmA54y

Thus it was when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon. Hearing of his wisdom and of the magnificent temple he had built, she determined to prove him with hard questions 1 Kings
10:1...She talked with him of the mysteries of nature; and Solomon taught her of the God of nature, the great Creator, who dwells in the highest heaven and rules over all.
Solomon for a time honored God by reverently pointing them to the Creator....But while the pen of inspiration records his virtues, it also bears faithful witness to his downfall. Raised to pinnacle of greatness and surrounded with the gifts of fortune, Solomon became dizzy, lost his balance, and fell.
....we are to remember that the greatest talents or the most splendid services are acceptable only when self is laid upon the altar...
 The human agent had taken to himself the glory that belonged to the One higher than the highest. Ecclesiastes 5:8