Al Robertson

So 1 Kings 6, Solomon builds a temple for the Lord.

Yeah.

1 Kings 8, Solomon says, surely the Lord's not going to live in a temple built by my hands.

You see, he gets it, 1 Kings 11, verse 7, then Solomon built a high place.

So he builds a false temple.

I mean, the guy who built the temple.

If you think about Solomon's trajectory from this, I mean, the question is, okay, why did the architect of the first temple change?

end up later building a false temple and then making sacrifices to foreign gods.

Because that's kind of how the story ends with Solomon.

And then he gets, obviously, killed.

called out by the Lord.

I think it's because he failed to attend to his affections.

He let his affections trump that wisdom.

And so you think, well, what does that mean?

What does it look like?

If you go back, because he asked for discernment.

He said, give me discernment.

So it's interesting how his story ends with false sacrifices or sacrifices to false gods.

But if you think about the connection of discernment, to be able to distinguish the will of God, discern what it is, that should naturally or maybe supernaturally lead into sacrificing yourself, which is what Paul says.

And this is how Paul says this in connection to faith.