Al Robertson

What he's speaking into is he's speaking into it from the perspective of someone who has acquired a lot, a lot of wisdom, a lot of wise, a lot of money.

And so he's tried all these things.

And I think the main point of what we could take away from it is that if these things terminate on themselves, then they're meaningless.

If they push through as reflectors to God, they're not meaningless.

The world is not meaningless.

You know, God created the earthly world.

He created the human body.

He created wealth.

He created all these things that when they become meaningless is in an end in and of themselves.

And I think what happened with Solomon, I don't know how it's controversial.

I mean, he clearly did not end well.

1 Kings 11 says,

11, yeah, 1 Kings 11, he did not end well because he did chase after these things.

And so when primarily it was the women, the women that he went after, and the Bible says that you shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn your heart

after their gods, which is exactly what happened, the Bible says in 1 Kings 11, that Solomon's heart at the end turned away from Yahweh to the foreign gods, which is why he said he did not keep the commandment of the Lord.

This is in verse 11 of 1 Kings 11.

Therefore, the Lord said to Solomon, since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statute that I commanded you,

I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.

Uh, yet for the sake of David, your father, I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hands of your son.

So out of respect or love or at the efforts for David, he, he prolonged this, but, but think about this, that when Solomon, and this is the nature, I think that the book of James too, I think, uh, uh,