October 30, 2022: "Legacy - Solomon" - Robert Green

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Sermon begins at 29:16

Come Thou Fount (Above All Else) x Shane & Shane

Firm Foundation (He Won’t) x Maverick City

Same God x Elevation Worship

Communion x Brooke Ligertwood

Every group is different. Please choose the questions that relate best to your group, and don’t feel like you have to get to every question.

Who is the wisest person you personally know?

Share an example or illustration of their wisdom.

It was said in the message, “In a race, a marriage, in life in general, what matters most is not how you start, it’s how you finish.”

Discuss the wisdom found in this.

What would you like your headstone to say?

If God said to you, “Ask for whatever you want me to give to you,” how would you respond?

Read 1 Kings 3:1-15 1 Kings 6:38-7:1 1 Kings 11:1-6

The writer of 1 Kings uses “except” (3:3) and “however” (7:1, 11:1) to highlight Solomon’s problem areas. What were those areas?

Where were the Israelites worshiping and why?

Why is it acceptable for the Israelites to worship at a place where it appears that Solomon should not? (3:3)

Describe Solomon’s commitment to obeying God as demonstrated in 1 Kings 3:4-9.

How did Solomon’s action in 1 Kings 3:1-3 foreshadow what we learn in 1 Kings 11:1-6?

What do you learn from Solomon in these passages?

What did Solomon do with the wisdom that God gave him when it came to his personal desires and appetites?

What “exceptions” or “howevers” in your life fall outside of the way of God?

How can you bring the exceptions in your life into harmony with the whole of your life, starting now?