Teaching notes from Sunday, 9-13-20

Services

Saturday 6:30PM, Sunday 9:15AM & 11:00AM in Worship Center. Wednesday - Community Groups and Teaching in the Worship Center @ 6:30 pm.

 September 17, 2020

 5:00 PM

 429 Shipley Ferry Road Blountville, TN 37617

If My People

 Primary Text:  2 Chronicles 7:13-14             September 12 & 13, 2020

 1)  The First Temple

 1 Kings 6:37-38, 7:1:  The foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv.  In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications.  He had spent seven years building it.  It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace. 

 2 Chronicles 7:1-4:   When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.   The priests could not enter the temple of the LORD because the glory of the LORD filled it.  When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, "He is good; his love endures forever."  Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD. 

DQ 1) What was the significance of the temple to Israel?  How did

           it differ from temples of other nations?

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 2)  A Chosen Place

 2 Chronicles 7:11-12, 15-16:  When Solomon had finished the temple of the LORD and the royal palace, and had succeeded in carrying out all he had in mind to do in the temple of the LORD and in his own palace, the LORD appeared to him at night and said: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices."…  Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.  I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever.  My eyes and my heart will always be there.

 DQ 2) What was the primary purpose of the temple?

DQ 3) What was the layout of the temple, and what resided in the

           Holy of Holies?

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 3)  Divine Warning & Restoration

 2 Chronicles 7:13-14:  "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

 DQ 4) Explain 2 Chronicles 7:13.

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 4)  Conditional Monarchy

 2 Chronicles 7:17-22:  "As for you, if you walk before me as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, 'You shall never fail to have a man to rule over Israel.'  But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name.  I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.  And though this temple is now so imposing, all who pass by will be appalled and say, 'Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?'  People will answer, 'Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them--that is why he brought all this disaster on them.'" 

 DQ 5) Did Solomon heed God’s warnings to him?  What was the 

          result of his actions?

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 5)  A House Divided

 1 Kings 11:31-33:   Then he [Ahijah the prophet] said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'See, I am going to tear the kingdom out of Solomon's hand and give you ten tribes. But for the sake of my servant David and the city of Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, he will have one tribe.  I will do this because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molech the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in my ways, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my statutes and laws as David, Solomon's father, did."

1 Kings 12:15-20:  So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.  When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king: "What share do we have in David, what part in Jesse's son?  To your tents, O Israel!  Look after your own house, O David!"  So the Israelites went home….  So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.  When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel.  Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.

DQ 6) When was the Northern Kingdom of 10 tribes destroyed by

           a foreign enemy?

DQ 7) When was the Southern Kingdom conquered and

           Solomon’s temple destroyed?

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