Solomon's Great Work - Frank Brancato

Without question the greatest achievement of Solomon's.

Glorious Reign was the construction of the Jerusalem

Temple. Using plans designed by David

and the expertise of Phoenician Craftsman Solomon brought into

being. What?

Surely must have been one of the great wonders of ancient

architecture and during the course of building the Temple,

you remember that? God came to Solomon with a great

promise and he did. So not directly but probably as

Scholars. Would agree maybe even through

the prophet Nathan but God comes to him and makes a promise an

inspiring promise. And that is this, that God would

confirm the promise that was spoken to David in second.

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Samuel chapter 7 and verse 12. And number two, that God would

dwell in the midst of his people.

You know. No doubt that spurred Solomon on

to continue to build as they've and attack the interior portion

of the temple and the I would say that it took about seven

years for the temple to be built.

Next was the dedication of it and because of its importance in

the history of redemption, the sacred historian devotes

considerable space to the dedication of Solomon's Temple.

Thousands of people flock to Jerusalem to share in this

Paramount. Event without question, the

dedication of Solomon's Temple was the grandest ceremony ever

performed under the Mosaic. Dispensation, And the solemn

dedicatory transaction, consisted of six acts that I

have on the board. Number one, it consisted of the

procession Solomon summoned, all leaders of the nation to share

in the dedication ceremonies and the first order of business was

none other than to transfer the Ark of the Covenant from Mount

Zion and also referred to as the city of David to its permanent

resting place in the holy of holies.

Of the temple on Mount Moriah. Interestingly, a way of note

here is originally, the term Zion was restricted to The

jebusite Fortress considered later the city of David on the

Southern and lower part of the hill on which the temple was

built in later times. The name's Ian denoted, the

Temple Hill, and then later the entire city of Jerusalem, but

let's just back up a little bit, one of the significant things.

Do you remember going back historically and we studied

about how just prior to the time that Abner was killed by joab.

You remember when David and his army was going to come into

Jerusalem and those jebusites had inhabited that territory and

you remember what David said to his army?

He said that I don't know how many were there that day or how

many of those that would be considered expert military men

but I know one man that was there and his name was joab.

Joab, listens to what David said and David said the first man

that can go and scale the wall and make his way inside the wall

and slay. The very first jebusite that man

would become commander of the entire Army and the Bible says

that the one that was successful in doing so was none other than

joab General joab. The one that David was

absolutely disgusted with just prior to this time When joab had

killed a great man, according to David, a great man named Abner

but it was joab. That scaled the wall, it was

joab that made his way in and it was joab.

That killed the very first jebusite.

Therefore, the armies of God David's armies over.

Took those jebusites in that territory and then that

territory became known as the city of David.

You know, it was there that the ark was But it had to be moved

to Mariah, you know, Mariah is also a very interesting name.

It's a very interesting place and very significant things by

way of Bible History, even in the scheme of redemption is

referred to or mentioned at Mount Moriah.

First of all, we find in Genesis chapter 22 and Old Testament

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story. Very old familiar story.

When God says to Abraham, I won't narrate the whole story.

Just set the stage here, but as God came to Abraham, I am God

said, take thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest and take

him to the land of Moriah to amount that I will tell of Thee.

The Bible says, he rose up early to be about his father's

business. He rose up early to do, what God

had instructed him to do, and he begins a three-day, that's

significant to a three-day journey to Mount Moriah to the

place that God had instructed Abraham to sacrifice, Isaac on

that altar that day. You remember, as they got to the

place that Abraham and Isaac we're going to depart from the

people that were with them that were traveling along this way

with them and they go and do so and Isaac is pictured in Our

Minds Eye as the one who's carrying the wood of all things.

The one to be sacrificed is carrying the wood that he would

be sacrificed on. Interesting, isn't it?

He's carrying what he's going to be sacrificed on.

He says to his father, he says Says, behold the wood and the

fire, but where's the lamb? And God and Abraham said, God,

my son will provide a lamb when they got there.

We all know the story that Isaac was bound there to that altar

bound there to that wood. And Abraham is about to take his

life. God stays the hand of Abraham

and what happened. It was still a place of

sacrifice, but the sacrifice was substitutionary.

There was a ram that was Caught there in the thicket and it was

that Ram. That was sacrificed on Mount

Moriah that day. We learn all the way back to

Genesis chapter 22, that in Mariah, that was a place where

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sacrifice was made and Where Mercy was shown all the way back

to Genesis chapter 22. We find that Mariah was the

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place where David built the altar.

We find. It was also a place where

Solomon now has built the temple.

We find it a place to be where sacrifice was made and mercy was

shown. Now, What's significant to you?

And I about that is, if we keep within the thousand yard Mark,

now there's something else that significant and I think you have

to use the thousand-yard mark when it comes to Mount Calvary.

Hurry when Jesus was crucified. But if you figure this, if you

figure that he was outside the city and you figure about 1,000

yards as some historians would say and Bible scholars, many

would agree that would take you 880 yards is a half of a mile.

So another 120 yards past that is about 1,000 yards and it is

said that within 1,000 yards of that very place on Mount Moriah.

Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross.

A place where sacrifice was made and Where Mercy was shown and

that sacrifice to was substitutionary, God put Jesus

on that cross. For the sins are allowed Jesus

to be crucified on that cross for our sins.

The sacrifice was indeed substitutionary, for something

you. And I should have died for

within 1,000 yards or so very significant Place Mount Moriah

because the temple house that Dark.

The newly built Temple. Enjoyed the sanctity and

National Prestige of the sanctuary in Shiloh which had

been destroyed by the Philistines about 145 years

earlier, in addition, to the princes summoned by Solomon.

All the men of Israel also came to Jerusalem to partake in the

feast, the priests rather than the Levites were the ones on

this occasion, that carried the Ark of God.

You know, we had read undone times past where the Levi B,

carried the ark, but here it's different.

This was a different occasion. This was a much more solemn

occasion. In fact, there are other places

in the Old Testament under such occasions when the priest would

carry the ark and not the Levites, but here it is.

The priests are the ones that are carrying the Ark of God, the

Levites bringing the Tabernacle, and the furniture of it to this

place. At the temple.

The Levites transported, the furniture and made a numerable

sacrifices that were offered before the ark, expressing their

grateful, joy for the temple, the priest, then deposited the

Ark in its assigned place in the holy of holies.

And the Bible says that it is placed between those two giant

cherubim and it is so big that the wingspan as they came

together. It absolutely engulfed the ark

so much so That it was Darkness under it.

So the Ark of God was placed in darkness where God was going,

the name of God was going to be, it was placed in darkness there

that day. Then something else You know,

the stage that carried the ark through the Rings.

Now I have tried to picture this in my mind and I really can't

totally picture. What exactly is happening here.

I'll tell you what I've read and I don't know that that is a

totally significant and understanding exactly how this

look but the Bible does say that.

So it does it is worth our are mention in our interest.

When the ark was placed, in its assigned place in the holy of

holies. Somehow the Bible says, they

took the staves and they pulled the staves toward the holy

place. Now we've got the veil there

that separated the holy of holies and the holy place.

But the Bible says that those staves were pulled somewhat so

that someone that standing on the other side, standing on the

holy of holies, the holy Place side, could see the staves.

Now. Some Scholars said, what that

meant was this that from time to time on the day of atonement,

when the veil was pulled back for the high priest and only the

high priest have passed through that, someone would be able to

see the staves on that occasion. Now there's also a Jewish

tradition that they, that they say that all this meant was that

the staves were pulled to a point where it was kind of

protruding. It was right up against a

curtain or the veil, you know, you can do that, you can have

something on the other side of something and pull it up next to

it and it's kind of pushing its way next to it.

You can see where it was, that's Jewish tradition.

What's the answer? I don't know, I just know that

for some reason, it's in the Bible and it was significant for

some now however it was the ark of God is placed there in the

holy of holies under the two giant wings of those cherubim

now At the time, the ark was placed in the temple.

It contained only the tables of stone it says in our narrative,

which was put there by Moses at Horeb chapter 8 and verse 9, the

golden pot of manna and Aaron's Rod as described in Hebrews 9

and 4 probably had been removed by the Philistines when they had

temporarily possessed the arc for Samuel, 6 and verse 19.

And so, as the priest withdrew from the holy of holies, the

Bible says that the Singers and trumpeters began their service

of Praise. Now picture this they begin

their service of praise. And at that, very exact moment,

the cloud, which was indicative of the divine, presence of God,

filled the house of the Lord as it did in, Exodus, chapter 40

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and verse 34. And because of this great Cloud,

the priest for a time could not continue along in there.

Ministrations verses 10 and 11 as Solomon witnessed.

This Divine manifestation, he was stirred to the very depths

of his being and that glorious Cloud.

Proved that his work of piety had been accepted in the eyes of

God and Solomon, could only turn his eyes heavenward and utter a

prayer of Declaration in which he reaffirmed his purpose in

building the ark. The structure was intended to be

a house for God, in contrast to the Portables.

Shrine of the Tabernacle chapter 8, and verses 12 and 13.

And so, he begins with the Declaration.

Solomon. Now you can just imagine is

moved any time. We do something that we think

God is pleased with. We are happy about that any time

we stand up for what is, right? We are happy about that every

time we preach the gospel and some lost soul is saved and God

gets the glory. We're happy about that.

And we know that when we take this book and we follow the

things that are found in this book, we know that God is

pleased. Now we don't take the credit for

that. We don't take the glory That we

don't take the praise for that, but make no mistake.

It causes us to feel good. And so when we feel good, we

rejoice and the very best thing to do.

When we do something that God has instructed us to do is, give

him the praise, give him the glory, given the honor and

celebrate that way in our hearts and certainly not because of our

own goodness and our own greatness.

You could just imagine, I don't know how much time had passed

from the time that the Ark of God God was sitting right there

under the cherubim and the singers, and the trumpeters

began to play and they began to rejoice and they began to

celebrate and all of that that the cloud is now full showing

the presence of God, the glory of God, the greatness of God and

the fullness of God, if that place Solomon is absolutely

overwhelmed. And he turns to the assembly.

You know, maybe he gestures to them to stand up in respect.

At that time. He greets the people, he

addresses them and the first thing that he does is he praise

God for bringing the past, what he had spoken through, Nathan,

the prophet, then Solomon, enumerated.

The circumstances which led to building the Temple here with a

circumstances. Number one, God had selected

David to rule. Israel, number two, David

desired to build. Temple and got approved that

desire, you know? Just because God did not appoint

did not allow David to build the temple does not mean that God

didn't approve of David's desire to build the temple because God

did approve of his desire to do. So of all the things that we

would do for God, our desire to do so is always good.

But God had other plans. God was not going to allow

David. Have the honor of Of doing so

that would come to someone else. But he did, and Solomon points

out that God accepted and God allowed, and God approved of

David's desire. But nevertheless, God, decreed

that David's, son would have the honor of building the Temple, or

being the temple Builder. And finally, that the Lord had

raised up Solomon and had aided him and building the Temple,

which was resting, which was the resting place.

For the arc. You know, when we talk about in

Philippians chapter 4, a pattern for prayer.

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Do you see the pattern? Where does Solomon begin?

When Paul said this in Philippians 4, when he says, be

careful for nothing. But in everything, with prayer

and supplication with Thanksgiving, let your requests

be made known unto God. That word prayer means

adoration, that's where he begins.

When we pray to God, we do so reverently you know what's well

I don't know what a better word than just disgusting to me is

when people in the world speak about God or to God in a

disrespectful manner. Thinking about what God can do

to them, thinking about what God can do to everyone thinking

about the price that was paid for our salvation.

And all we have to do is obey him and thinking about how

powerful God is and how disrespectful sometimes people

are regarding their language about God, using his name, his

great name and doing so in vain, Oh, we must speak the name of

God. Just must do it reverently

respectfully and in the right manner.

He begins in a prayer of adoration Solomon began his

Prayer by standing on a bronze platform in the courtyard of the

temple. You know, there's a

corresponding passage and you'll find that in second chronicles

6, and verse 13. Where First Kings does not point

that out his hands. No, doubt were spread before the

heavens in a gesture of Supplication.

He declared that no God on Earth.

It can be compared to you. You know, Solomon wasn't saying,

there's many gods. He was recognizing that the

world recognizes many false gods.

And what he was saying is of all of man's, quote-unquote, false

gods, you are greater than every one of them.

They're all fake. They're all false, they're all

imitation. You're the only one, you're

greater than all of them and he tells them why?

He says because you keep your Covenant 'l promise.

You keep your promise Solomon. Said you're the greatest, you're

greater than any being in the world, your greater than all,

the all of man's false gods and Concepts because you keep your

word and you keep your promise. Secondly you show Mercy to those

that. Do their very best to keep the

Covenant. Now, those are amazing things in

the world of all of the idol Gods at that time, and all the

idol Gods throughout history, your greater than every, one of

them, because you can do what, no false god can do.

You can keep your word, we can trust in you.

We can know that what you say is true and secondly, you show

Mercy where no other one could do.

A prayer of adoration taking the time and spending the time to

talk about how great the great God of heaven really is.

I think we need to spend a lot of time in doing that.

Many of you have heard my sermon on Jonah, you know, in the

second chapter. That was a desperate man.

Can you imagine a desperate, man?

Any more desperate than a man? That was in the, in a great fish

belly for three days. In the stench in the stink of

that not knowing what was going to happen to him.

You think he was desperate. I think he was the most

desperate man alive at that point.

And all the things that he had to do, what's he going to do?

You know what he does? He spends the time in adoration

to God. Read the second chapter of Jonah

in your own free time and you'll find it reads more like a Psalm,

it reads like a song, A Prayer of praise and thanksgiving.

We spend a lot of time sometimes asking God for things and maybe

not enough time, praising him, and thanking him for what he's

already done. But next, though, in this

prayer, there is supplication, and there is a time when we pour

our hearts out to God, there is a time.

But sometimes what we do is we just pray and ask for relief for

something or we just pray and ask for whatever it is that we

want. And we forget the Adoration

part, we forget reverently speaking to him and, you know,

we've all kind of brushed through a prayer quickly.

We can all get better about that, especially when we're in

our private times when we have an opportunity to Bow the knee

before, God and talk to God, we could spend time in praise and

adoration to him first and then get to our supplications and

what it is that we would request from God.

The second part of Solomon's Prayer was just The

supplications Solomon presented his supplications before the

Lord. And in these, he details, seven

specific situations which could be expected to arise in the

future and it is under the idea of if and then framework in

other words, these are possible things that could happen and

this is what he's asking of. God, these are the things after

he tells God, how great God he is and Praises him for all that

he is. All that he is.

There are seven specific things about.

If this happens, then will you please do this.

And these are the seven things, I've summarized them and I've

taken them from the text. I've summarized them, I'll read

them quickly to you. Here are the seven things that

he asks for seven petitions. One, may God hear every oath

taken before the temple Altar and then intervened to punish

the guilty. And justify the innocent.

Number two after military. Defeat may God restored it.

Israel! Those who might have been

carried away captive. Number three, may God hear the

penitent prayers of his people when they had been chastised by

drought number four, in the midst of plagues.

May God listen to the cries of his people.

Number five may God hear the prayers of a foreigners who

might come to the temple to pray.

Number 6, May God hear those who were fighting Wars, far removed

from Jerusalem who might address their petitions toward the

temple. And finally number seven in his

last petition, Solomon contemplated, the Captivity of

Israel and he prayed that God might intervene on behalf of his

people, when they finally come to their senses and when they

finally would repent, these are the seven specific things that

he asks of God in the second part of his prayer and that

being the prayer of supplications asking God, these

seven things. But, you know, at the conclusion

of this prayer Solomon rose up from his knees.

Now the Bible doesn't say he bowed before he started praying.

Maybe he was so engrossed in this prayer.

Maybe it was such a heartfelt prayer.

He's pouring his heart out, maybe he started an upright

position, it kind of alludes to the fact that he that they all

stood. So here's all these people,

perhaps standing, and here he is in this posture of prayer

praying to God and about that time as As he's pouring his

heart out, maybe it's just then that he slumps down to his

knees. Because when he gets to this

part, the Bible says, he stands up, he stands up and Rises to

his feet from his knees. And with his hand spread toward

Heaven, He blesses the congregation King Solomon summed

up. His wishes for the good of his

kingdom. In three ways.

First, he prayed that God might choose to teach Israel, his

Commandments by positive guidance, rather, than, through

Divine discipline, secondly, he prayed that God might incline,

their hearts toward the lord, so that they might obey his

Commandments. And number three, he prayed that

the words of this prayer might ever be before the Lord, that he

might Acute Justice on behalf of both the king and his people.

And finally, that Israel would be so blessed of God.

That all the people of the Earth would recognize that he alone

was God. Wouldn't it be great if we

prayed that? To ask for God's blessings that

all would know, especially spiritually.

Speaking, that all would know that he is God.

Every time a Christian does with the book says, God gets the

praise and God gets the glory. Every time we can, we can reduce

it like this every time that we behave ourself in the proper way

in the workforce and people see that.

And they know that their reason for that is not because we walk

around, like we're great, but because we profess to be

Christians, God gets the glory and God gets the praise even,

the Bible would talk about a married.

Oil. And it would talk about a wife

and the wife would have to do the right things to her,

non-believing husband, in terms of being the right kind of wife,

and just maybe when the word had not turned his heart and days

passed, just maybe when he finds out, that the reason, she's the

wife that she is is because she's a Christian, just maybe by

that, it might soften his heart to obey.

Powerful things, but when Solomon concluded, his prayer

with a brief excitation that the people continue to demonstrate

the piety and the loyalty to God, which they had demonstrated

in building the Temple for seven years, According to second

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Chronicles chapter 7 and verse 1.

At that very moment fire from heaven, came down, and consume

the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the house.

We can imagine such a celebration that took place the

king and his people celebrated, they celebrated about the

dedication of the temple with an enormous sacrifice.

Those worshippers join Solomon in a seven-day Feast of

dedication, which was in turn, followed by seven days or the

seven day Feast of Tabernacles, second chronicles 7 and verse 9.

And finally, Solomon, dismisses the multitude and the crowd

Created by saluting their king. And the next morning, the Bible

says, the people departed for their tents of dwellings full of

joy. Because of what, the Lord had

done for his servant David and his people, Israel, second

chronicles 7 and verse 10. but finally, after Solomon had

completed his building projects, God Appears to him a second

time. This time directly And he

appears to him in the same way that he did.

So, in a dream at gibeon. Solomon was now at the height of

prosperity with all the building projects completed completed.

Now the king's heart was puffed up with pride, isn't that easy

to do to get filled with pride? No wonder the Bible says Pride

goeth Before Destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall

Think about things that we could handle better were not for

Pride, think of things, we've been confronted with and days

gone by that would have gone so much better.

If we were not filled with pride, Brian and I were talking

today. About the very idea.

Of people that make mistakes for example, in professional sports.

And how it is that people have a hard time.

Just saying it was my fault. Using the proverbial expression

falling on your own sword. Taking the blame.

In a team sport. But what happens is with a world

of individuals puffed up with pride is we find that the

hardest thing sometimes to do is to be humble in all that we do

and have humility in our heart and have that humility, be that

which is guiding us. One of the hardest things in the

world to do. I know it been married, 18 years

is to say, sorry, your wife when you're mad.

That's a hard one. You got to swallow that one.

That's a hard one. when you're mad, because when you're mad,

that's when your hearts filled with things that shouldn't be

And usually when you come to your senses, it's when you stop

being mad. No wonder the Bible says be

angry and sin. Not you know why?

Because when you're angry, it's easy to sin.

That's the next step. Jesus proved though that we can

be that though and not sin. When he overturned the tables of

the moneychangers Jesus was Furious, but there was never any

sin found in Jesus in his life in anything that he ever said

anything that he ever did anything that he ever thought.

Never once was Jesus filled with sinful Pride, will you can just

picture Solomon's feeling pretty good about now, not only, can he

look to the work that he had led, not only Only can he looked

at the wisdom and the decisions that he made were good from a

construction standpoint? Not only all of that but even in

the midst of all the people in front of all the people, God

showed that he accepted what he had done.

And I would imagine that Solomon started to feel pretty good

about himself in the height of his Prosperity, with his

building projects, completed the king's heart began to be, puffed

up with pride and you know what was sad is his love for the Lord

began to wane. He had begun that spiritual

decline, which eventually led to idolatry this Divine word,

served to remind Solomon. God is reminding Solomon of the

wonderful prayer and Full devotion, which he was in danger

of losing. A little reminder.

The Lord made three points to him.

Number one, the Lord says that he pledges himself to hear the

prayer of the penitent. I'm still going to do that, he

pledges himself. The Lord said, I will hear the

prayer of the penitent. Secondly, God assures Solomon

that he had Chosen and consecrated the temple.

And thirdly, he reminded Solomon of the conditional promise made

to his father. David, you know what's just

jumping off the page to us right now?

God's doing what he said? God's going to continue to do

what he said, God has not rejected anything from any man

up until this point. Of anyone that was doing.

What? God had instructed him to do.

God, is doing his part. If that is not a picture of

people that are promised salvation through the word of

God, and the blood of Jesus Christ, and how they only have

it. When number 3, kicks in the

conditional part, you know what? He says.

He says, I'm still God, I'm still going to promise to you.

What I said I was going to do. I'm going to do but remember

this the promise to David was conditional and that was this If

the descendants were obedient to the Lord, if David's,

descendants were obedient to the Lord then and only then would

David's Sons continue to occupy the throne in Jerusalem.

Second chronicles 7, 12 through 18 The warnings against

unfaithfulness here to Solomon our Stern and uncompromising if

Solomon or any of his children, turn from following God, then

God would deprive the nation of the land.

He had given them and furthermore the Lord would

utterly reject the temple, which she had.

So, recently acknowledged, look how he went.

Look at the progression of his life.

A man that demonstrated wisdom before God gave him the

supernatural endowment of it. A man that was had humility in

his heart. He calls himself now picture.

This he goes from calling himself a child.

Meaning ill-equipped I am ill-equipped to be the king.

I need your help. Wouldn't it be great if you

would have kept the Same Heart? Wouldn't it have been great if

King Saul would have kept the Same Heart?

But something seems to happen in time because of our successes,

we tend to forget. He goes from a man that was Wise

by the question that he asked, or by the request that he asked

of God for wisdom. An understanding Discerning

heart that he would be able to better serve God and his people.

So he gets wisdom, he gets riches unnumbered, he gets honor

among men. He gets a long life conditional

on living according Heading to the statutes of his father

David. He goes from a wise man.

So wise that no one was ever more wives.

He goes and he builds the great work, the great work of his

life. God, accepts the great work of

his life. God is pleased with his work.

And we find, as Bob mentioned, think it was last Sunday

evening, or maybe the one before.

You talked about how Solomon? Falls.

Solomon now is going to go from glory to shame.

What makes a man's heart? Going in opposite direction of

God. I know one thing.

Anybody. Anybody.

Can fall. I don't care who you are and the

Bible is clear. That when we go to try to help

somebody to restore them when they Fallin, we better take some

serious stock in our life to we better, consider ourself to and

we better never have the attitude.

It could never happen to me. you know, if we just have that

attitude If I go to Ryan, I see, you know, but I can't believe

Ryan. That was just the dumbest thing

I've ever seen. I can't believe you did that.

And Ryan isn't a sin. And I have the attitude like I

am better than Ryan. I am no different.

Get this. I am no different than the

Pharisee. That Jesus said, when he left

there, he left with his sin to he was not justified.

I'm the same way. Anybody.

Anybody can fall. And I'll tell you something,

usually we fall when we're not spending enough time occupying

our minds and our lives and our activities with spiritual

things. We need God's people.

We need God's word. We need to worship God, we need

to be built up together. We need that.

I appreciated what Darryl said so much about the congregation

here. One of the things in my short

So-called career preaching of going around, I know, 30 or 40

meetings that I've held. one of the things that I have seen is

when you go different places, not everybody has congregational

teachers that can stand up and edify the body of Christ.

In fact, I'm gonna tell you this more, there are more

congregations that don't than those that do singing.

We've got as Daryl Poynter that we've got capable song leaders

that are just do a marvelous job. and I tell you, we have

great people here, too. We need to spend time together,

we need to encourage one another.

And we can grow together. One of the greatest things

though that Darrell said about this congregation this morning

was, we are at peace and brother, that is huge.

He read a passage about issuing. The King James version.

Says, evil and insu piece. We have to pursue it.

I think we do that here. Sometimes, when we get in the

Pulpit, we just correct things and we need to admonish.

That's true. We need to preach a bit about

things but sometimes we need to encourage each other to that's

why I appreciated his remarks this morning, so much, encourage

one another, with these words and let's work together and we

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