Homiletics Study - Children of the Promise
Lesson 24 Passage: 1 Kings 3-4
Content (List of Topics or Events)
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King Solomon’s Request for Wisdom (1 Kings 3:1-15)
a. Alliance with Egypt (1)
b. Solomon shows love for Lord in Sacrificing (2-4)
c. Lord appears to Solomon asking and giving request (5-9)
d. Lord provides in abundance things above what Solomon requested (10-15)
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King Solomon’s Wise Decision (1 Kings 3:16-28)
a. The prostitutes and the lost of one child (16-21)
b. The child swap described and argued before Solomon (22-23)
c. Solomon asks for sword to test love for child (24-25)
d. Mother pleads to not cut child into (26-28)
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Solomon’s Wise Leadership Organization (1 Kings 4)
a. Solomon’s leadership organization (1-19)
b. People of Judah and Israel happy under Solomon’s leadership (20-21)
c. Peace on all sides with Solomon (22-26)
d. Nothing was lacking and district governors supplied needs (27-28)
e. God gave Solomon insight and wisdom was renoun by other kings (29-34)
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Divisions (Main Blocks of Thought)
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King Solomon’s Request for Wisdom
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1 Kings 3:1-15
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King Solomon’s Wise Decision
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1 Kings 3:16-28
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Solomon’s Wise Leadership Organization
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1 Kings 4
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Subject Sentence (Summarizes the contents of the Divisions – No more than 10 words)
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Solomon blessed by God with Wisdom and Israelite people thrived
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Aim (Main Teaching Point of the Passage)
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CTATL that God blesses those abundantly who walk in accordance to His leadership for their lives
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Specific Application Questions
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1
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How do you lean on God for understanding and wisdom?
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2
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What decisions do you need to make and how will you trust God to lead you?
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3
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Where do you need to put things in order to allow God to bring peace in your life?
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Principles to Remember
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1
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God blesses those who rely on Him.
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2
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Wisdom comes from God
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3
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Peaceful happiness in found in dependence on God
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Characteristic of God
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Provides Abundantly
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Theme
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God’s wisdom brings peace and satisfaction.
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God’s Word - What’s happening?
God’s Heart – What does God care about?
Today’s World – How does this connect to what is happening in my world today?
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