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Read 1 Kings 11:9-13
Chapter 10 of First Kings is an exaltation of the virtues God had given to Solomon.
He’s been known as the wisest man this world has ever seen.
Kings and queens, like the queen of Sheba were impressed with his wisdom.
She came all the way from Africa to check if everything she had heard about Solomon was true, and tested him with difficult questions (10:1).
Solomon answered them all!
“There was nothing the king did not explain to her”.
The queen said, “what I was told was not even the half.
Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the report which I heard.
How blessed are your men and your servants which continually hear your wisdom.”
But mainly, she said, “Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel.
to do justice and righteousness.”
(10:9)
Solomon became extremely rich!
God gave him wealth!
He had gold in abundance, horses, chariots, ships, houses, and servants.
But!!! “There is always a hair in the soup!”, states the Spanish saying.
That little thing that mess it all.
“There’s always something going wrong” would be the English equivalent.
“It is not the big things that destroy a relationship, but the little ones.”
“It is not the big things that destroy a life or a testimony, but the little ones.”
Someone said, “Take care of the little things in your life, and you will not have to worry about the big ones.”
More houses are destroyed by termites than by earthquakes!
Even the wisest man can fall!
Three things that contributed to Solomon’s fall.
Solomon fell because:
He did not control his impulses.
“But (now) Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh...” 1
Seeking his pleasure in women rather than in God.
That has meant the destruction of many!
For a few minutes of pleasure, they have lost their family, their credibility, their fortune, their freedom, and even their life.
I am quite sure that Solomon knew the story of Samson, but he did not learn from it.
For the love of women, Samson lost his friends, his strength, his eyes, and his life.
Knowing the heart of man, with wisdom and inspired by the Holy Spirit, Paul wrote:
1 Cor 7:2
Solomon played with fire and got burned!
His actions were as those expressed by the Spaniard composer Danny Daniel in his song “For the love of a woman” (popularized by Julio Iglesias):
Por el amor de una mujer
Jugué con fuego sin saber
Que era yo quien me quemaba
Bebí en las fuentes del placer
Hasta llegar a comprender
Que no era a mi a quien amaba
Por el amor de una mujer
He dado todo cuanto fui
Lo más bonito de mi vida
Mas ese tiempo que perdí
Ha de servirme alguna vez
Cuando se cure bien mi herida.
Por el amor de una mujer
Llegué a llorar y enloquecer
Mientras que ella se reía
Y en pedazos un cristal
Dejé mis venas desangrar
Pues no sabía lo que hacía.
If you do not want to be burned, seek your joy in God, not in people!
People may abandon you, deceive you, and betray you, but God never will.
Not listening to God’s warning.
God’s warning was very clear: “they will surely turn your heart away” Away from what?
From the true God, from the one who had given him all he had.
When you turn away from God, automatically to you turn closer to something else that becomes your god or gods.
Every warning God gives is for our protection.
It is like the yellow and read lights of the traffic light that I mentioned last week.
They to protect you from “crashing your life”.
He did not realize he was falling deeper and deeper.
“his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God.” 4
He was happy with his mediocre spiritual life.
He “did not follow the Lord fully,” 6
That’s exactly the sad reality of many believers that, at a moment in their life, were on fire for God, but now they are happy with just getting by.
Their spiritual fire has been quenched by the loves of this world: money, women, and fame.
As one of my friends said, “they fell for “la lana, la dama, o la fama.””
All those things are momentary and do not give true happiness:
1 john
He did the unthinkable.
Getting away from God happens little by little, it is a slippery slope that when you realize it, you have touched the bottom.
“Solomon built high places (altars) for Chemosh and Molech, the detestable idols of the Moabites and the Ammonites.”
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I have seen many believers that, because they did not listen to God’s warning, have touched bottom.
Some have ended up in jail (some for short term, others for long term), others got drunk and did and said stupid things, others got divorced, others lost their job, others went bankrupt, and so on.
“How could that happen to me?” they ask.
As Solomon, they decided not to listen the warnings.
He forgot that God was watching him.
1 kin 11:9-10
No one escapes from God’s eyes.
The wisest man on earth forgot that!
He learned through suffering that God presence is always there.
Later, he wrote: “the eyes of the Lord are in every place watching the evil ones and the good ones.”
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If we would just live aware of God’s omnipresence, that His eyes are always upon us, we would be more careful in what we do and think.
His father, David, had painfully learned that lesson and wrote:
Psa 139:7-12
The pastor might not see you, your spouse might not see you, your children, your boss, your parents might not see you, but God sees you all the time.
God is just and cannot be mocked.
“The Lord said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.”
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Solomon thought he was above the law of God; the law that he had read and written a copy for his own use.
He thought he could “get away with murder”.
But God cannot be mocked...
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In His justice, the Lord took away almost everything He had given to Solomon and gave ten tribes to Jeroboam, one of Solomon’s servants.
God can take everything away from you and give it to another employee.
Due to His mercy and because God wanted to keep the lamp of David in Jerusalem, the Lord left Solomon with one tribe, Benjamin, the littlest one of all.
I do not know for sure, but it seems that Solomon wrote the words of , after learning the life lesson:
Pro 5:3-4
Pro 5:8-14
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