Solomon Building the Temple
This past Sunday the sermon was from I Kings 11; how Solomon’s heart was turned by the love of foreign (or strange) women. The man who built the dwelling place for God, began building places of worship for other gods. It got me thinking about fidelity and being a one woman man. As I listened, I also thought of the injunction to love our wives as Christ loved the church.
I’ve often thought of that mostly as a sacrifical kind of love, but I began to consider something more, Christ’s fidelity. When he was tempted, Satan was offering him the “nations of the world.” I have always interpreted that as a political kind of temptation, but I wonder if Satan was really offering him another “bride.”
Instead, Christ submitted to the will of the Father to receive a remenant or bride from Him (John 10:29) which would come through his death and ressurection.
I recently did a three part series for Moody Radio on fidelity in marriage. You can listen to it here if you’d like.
From John 10:
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and My Father are one.”
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