solomons wisdom

[Guest Guest]

Today i hearing on charles stansons preaching king solomons having great wisdom and turn to strangely gods. i don't not understand to why solomons turning to strangely gods if jesus gave solomons goldy wisdom. how such a great man wisely can turn to strangely gods???

[Danny Carlton]

Having wisdom and using it are two different things.

[Guest Guest]

Solomon had great wisdom from God BUT he CHOSE not to use it. He knew he was not supposed to multiply wives unto himself but he did it anyway. As a result this passage which he had written warning others came to pass in his own life and destroyed his walk with the Lord because of his sin in the area of his wives.

"Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her."

Ultimately wisdom is not enough if it is not accompanied by a pure heart. Thus David due to his pure heart is held in such high regard by the Lord that he will one day be again made king of Israel, and Solomon, though he started well, has not half the honor from God that David had, now or then.

[Tassie-preacher]

Solomon forgot the one great truth he wrote. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Second to remember the instruction of the father. He got to the place that he tried to find peace in compromise ( marrying many wives to cement a relationship with another kingdom) this took him from wisdom to downfall. As others have said what God gave he did not use. We do the same!

[Madeline]

Today i hearing on charles stansons preaching king solomons having great wisdom and turn to strangely gods. i don't not understand to why solomons turning to strangely gods if jesus gave solomons goldy wisdom. how such a great man wisely can turn to strangely gods???

Plato and Platonism claims that if we really know what is good and right we will do it, so that all wrong-doing is the result of ignorance. But that absolutely runs afoul of everything the Bible has to say. Satan knew exactly what he was doing. He saw God face to face in all His glory and still chose to rebel. Eve was deceived and Adam knew it was a mistake to choose Eve instead of God, but he made the wrong choice even so. And as Christians, especially as growing or mature Christians, every time we sin aren't we doing something very similar? Of course Solomon's sinful conduct was more than a one time, or reactive sin of relatively minor consequence. He chose repeatedly over time to put his own interests and the influence of his many foreign wives over what was good and right. This only goes to show that everything we decide while here on earth is of the utmost importance. Therefore it is not what the world thinks of as important that is important; rather it is what is going on in the hearts of all God's moral creatures that is truly what is important. Every good decision we make in favor of the Lord and His truth will stand forever for His glory and our reward. Every bad and sinful decision we make will be burned up - praise God that we who are saved will not be burned up with them! Solomon did "know better", but knowing is not enough. It takes the exercise of our free will in response to God to glorify Him. Many people know what is right. Doing what is right is another thing altogether. Practically the entire human race "knows" that there is a God and "knows" that they must come to Him for eternal life, but in the history of the world the vast majority of people have chosen to spit this knowledge out and live their lives out completely apart from Him. It should therefore come as no surprise that even someone blessed to have incredible wisdom so as to be in absolutely no doubt about the horrible consequences of his folly might still pursue folly. The pressures are great to do so. But that, after all, is why we are here; that is why there is a human race in the first place: to demonstrate the justice of all that God does and has done through the choices made by the creature He has created.

Love,
Madeline