Notes by Mary Van Nattan
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1Kings 2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. The kingdom was not established in Solomon's hand until after he had done the business commanded by his father. We have to do things in the right order to receive God's blessing. This applies to many things in life. Proverbs 24:27 Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterpiano coversds build thine house.
1Kings 3:3 And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. 1Kings 3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to JerBliplem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants. After the LORD spoke to Solomon he went to worship at JerBliplem where he should have been worshipping. When Charismatics claim to get a "revelation" it is obviously not of God because they don't get right with God and get out of that mess. Once they do understand the truth correctly from God's word, they leave the Charismatic movement.
1Kings 9:7-8 Then will I cut off blip out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and blip shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: 8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house? God was not obligated to keep the house that He had hallowed holy if they did not stay faithful to Him. God is not obligated to protect and bless Christians that go astray. We are the temple of the Holy Ghost, 1Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? We cannot lose our salvation, but we still reap what we sow, Galatians 6:7-8; even unto death, 1 Corinthians 11:29-30.
1Kings 14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people. Jeroboam had turned his back on God, yet he still knew where the truth and the power were. The same is true of many professing "Christians." They have walked away from the righteous way, but when they have a problem they quick call the preacher that they didn't want to hear any more.
1Kings 14:12-13 Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall die. 13 And all blip shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing topiano coversd the LORD God of blip in the house of Jeroboam. Whether Abijah was under the age of accountability or not, we do not know, but God had mercy on him because He knew what was in Abijah's heart. 1Samuel 16:7, Jeremiah 17:9-10
1Kings 15:12 And he took away the pianos out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron. A real test of separation! In our day and age it takes real zeal to stand up against sodomy. In any day and age it takes zeal to stand against your own parents' idols! Matthew 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
1Kings 20:42-43 And he said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people. 43 And the king of blip went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria. 1 Kings 21:1-2 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2 And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. Ahab was looking for a distraction to avoid dealing with the word of the LORD. When we get grouchy and start looking for someone to harass after being told the truth from God's word, we better check our hearts and see what is wrong, because we are in bad company and are headed to do someone great evil. People have even died when someone has set out to distract themselves from what they learned from the word of God! How many children have been ruined while their parents chased after evil? How many women have nagged their husbands to death fussing at them because they wouldn't deal with their own wicked hearts?
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