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  Welcome to Love Letters. Through Welcome to Love Letters
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  from God today we're going to be reading some more about Solomon
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  and what he did and then some of the conclusions that he had at
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  the end of his life. We're going to start with the
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  Second Chronicles chapter 6. Then Solomon spoke.
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  The Lord said that he would dwell in the dark cloud.
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  I have surely built you an excellent house and a nice place
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  for you to dwell in forever. Then the king turned around and
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  blessed the whole assembly of Israel, while all the assembly
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  of Israel was standing. And he said, Blessed be the Lord
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  God of Israel, who has fulfilled with his hands what he spoke
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  with his mouth to my father David, saying, Since the day
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  that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I have chosen
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  no city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house, that
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  my name might be there. Nor did I choose any man to be a
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  ruler over my people Israel. Yet I have chosen Jerusalem that
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  my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my
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  people Israel. Now it was in the heart from my
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  father David to build a temple for the name of the Lord God of
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  Israel. And the Lord said to my father
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  David, whereas it was in your heart to build a temple for my
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  name, you did well in that. It was in your heart.
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  Nevertheless, you shall not build the temple, but your son,
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  who will come from your body, He shall build the temple in my
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  name. So the Lord has fulfilled His
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  word in which He spoke, and I have filled the position of my
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  father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel as the Lord
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  promised, And I have built the temple for the name of the Lord
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  God of Israel. And there I have put the ark, in
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  which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made with the
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  children of Israel. Then Solomon stood before the
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  altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of
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  all the assembly of Israel, and he spread out his hands.
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  For Solomon had made a bronze platform, 5 cubits long, 5
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  cubits wide, and three cubits high, and it set it in the midst
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  of the court, and he stood on it.
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  He knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of
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  Israel, and he spread out his hands toward heaven.
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  And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God in heaven or on
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  earth like you who keep your covenant and mercy with your
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  servants, who walk before you with all their hearts.
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  You have kept what you promised your servant David my Father.
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  You have both spoken with your mouth and fulfilled it with your
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  hand as it is this day. Therefore, Lord God of Israel,
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  now keep what you promised your servant David, my father,
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  saying, You shall not fail to have a man sit before me on the
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  throne of Israel only if your sons take heed to their way,
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  that they walk in My law as you have walked before me.
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  And now, O Lord God of Israel, let your word come true, which
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  you have spoken to your servant David.
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  But will God indeed dwell with men on earth?
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  Behold, heaven, and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you.
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  How much less this temple which I have built.
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  Yet regard the prayer of your servant and his supplication, Oh
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  Lord my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which your
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  servant is praying before you, that your eyes may be open
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  toward this temple day and night, toward the place where
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  you said you would put your name, that you may hear the
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  prayer which your servant makes toward this place.
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  And may you hear the supplications of your, of your
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  servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward
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  this place. Hear from Heaven your dwelling
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  place, and when you hear forgive.
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  If anyone sins against his neighbor and is forced to take
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  an oath and comes and takes an oath before your altar in this
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  temple, then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants,
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  bringing retribution on the wicked by bringing his way on
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  his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him
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  according to his righteousness. Or if your people Israel are
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  defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against you,
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  and return and confess your name and pray and make supplication
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  before you in this temple. Then you hear from heaven and
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  forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to
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  the land which you gave to them and their fathers.
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  When the heavens are shut up and there's no rain, because they
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  have sinned against you, When they pray toward this place and
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  confess your name and turn from their sin because you afflict
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  them. Then hear in heaven, and forgive
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  the sin of your servants, your people Israel, that you may
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  teach them the good way in which they should walk, and send rain
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  on your land, which you have given to your people as an
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  inheritance. When there is famine in the
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  land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers,
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  when their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities,
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  whatever plague or whatever sickness there is, whatever
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  prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone or by all your
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  people Israel, when each one knows his own burden and his own
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  grief, and spreads out his hands to the temple, then hear from
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  heaven your dwelling place, and forgive and give to everyone
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  according to all his ways, whose heart you know.
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  For you alone know the hearts of the sons of men, that they may
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  fear you to walk in your ways, as long as they live in the land
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  which you gave to your father's. Moreover, concerning a foreigner
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  who is not of your people Israel, but has come from a far
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  country, for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand
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  and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this
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  temple, then hear from heaven your dwelling place, and do
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  according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, that all
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  peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you as your
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  own people, Israel, and that they may know that this temple
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  which I have built is called by your name.
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  When your people go out to battle against their enemies
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  wherever you send them, and when they pray to you toward that
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  city which you have chosen and the temple which I have built
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  for your name, then hear from heaven their prayer and their
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  supplication, and maintain their 'cause when they sin against
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  you, for there's no one who does not sin.
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  And you become angry with them and deliver them to the enemy,
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  and they take them captive to a land far or near.
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  Yet when they come to themselves in the land where they were
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  carried captive, and repent and make supplication to you in the
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  land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done
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  wrong, and have committed wickedness.
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  And when they return to you with all their heart and with all
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  their soul, in the land of their captivity, where they have been
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  carried captive in prey, toward their land which He gave to
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  their fathers the city which you have chosen, and toward the
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  temple which I have built for your name, then hear from heaven
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  with your dwelling, place their prayer and their supplications,
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  and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have
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  sinned against you. Now, my God, I pray, let your
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  eyes be open, let your ears be attentive to the prayer made in
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  this place. Know therefore and arise, O Lord
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  God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength.
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  Let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and your
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  Saints rejoice in goodness. Lord God, do not turn away from
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  the face of your anointed. Remember the mercies of your
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  servant David. Such is the reading of Second
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  Chronicles chapter 6. As he is dedicating that temple
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  that he is made to the Lord. Let's continue in Chapter 7.
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  When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from
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  heaven and consumed the burnt offerings and the sacrifices,
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  and the glory of the Lord filled the temple, and the priest could
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  not enter the House of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord
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  had filled the Lord's house. When all the children of Israel
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  saw how the fire came down and the glory of Lord on the temple,
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  they bowed before their faces to the ground on the pavement, and
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  they worshipped and they praised the Lord, saying, For He is
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  good, for His mercy endures forever.
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  Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the
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  Lord. King Solomon offered a sacrifice
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  of 22,000 bulls and 120,000 sheep.
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  So the king of all the people dedicated the House of God, and
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  the priest attended to their services.
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  The Levites also with instruments of the music of the
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  Lord, which King David had made to praise the Lord, saying for
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  his mercy endures forever. Whenever David offered praise by
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  their ministry, the priest sounded trumpets opposite them,
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  while all Israel stood. Furthermore, Solomon consecrated
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  the temple of the court that was in front of the House of the
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  Lord, for there he offered burnt offerings and the fat of the
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  peace offering me caused. The bronze altar which Solomon
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  had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, the grain
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  offerings and the fat. At that time.
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  Solomon kept the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him a
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  very great assembly from the entrance of Hemeth to the brook
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  of Egypt. And on the 8th day they held a
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  sacred assembly, for they observed the dedication of the
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  altar 7 days and the feast 7 days.
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  On the 23rd day of the 7th month, he sent the people away
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  to their tents, joyful and glad in their hearts for the good
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  that the Lord had done for David, for Solomon, and for his
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  people. Israel.
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  I gotta turn the page here. It doesn't always like to.
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  Right to turn, but here we will get it.
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  Thus Solomon finished the House of the Lord, and the King's
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  house, and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into
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  his heart to make in the House of the Lord, and in his own
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  house. Then the Lord appeared to
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  Solomon by night, and he said to him, I have heard your prayer,
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  and I have chosen this place for myself as a House of sacrifice.
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  When I shut up heaven, and there is no rain, or command the
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  locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
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  my people who are called by My name will humble themselves and
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  pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways.
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  Then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and
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  heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my
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  ears attentive to the prayer made in this place.
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  For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that my
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  name may be there forever, and my eyes and my heart will be
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  there perpetually. As for you, if you walk before
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  me as your father David walked and do according to all that I
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  have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and my
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  judgments, then I will establish the throne of your Kingdom as I
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  covenanted with David. Your father saying you shall not
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  fail to have a man as Ruthier in Israel.
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  But if you turn away from my centuries and my commandments
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  which I have set before you, and you go and serve other gods and
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  worship them, then I will uproot them from my land which I've
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  given them. And this house which I have
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  sacrificed for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will
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  make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
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  As for this house which is exalted, everyone who passes by
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  it will be astonished and say, Why has the Lord done thus to
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  this land and this house? They then will answer, because
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  they forsook the Lord God and their fathers, who brought them
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  out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and
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  worshipped them, and served them, before He has brought all
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  this calamity upon them. And such is the reading for
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  Chapter 7 of the book of the Second Chronicles.
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  I want you to note something in verse 39 there.
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  If you have peace, you can't get it back.
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  Solomon's prayer and Israel's actual experience in any history
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  show that regaining your right standing with God and recovering
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  His people. Are possible.
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  We must never despair. There is a God in heaven, as
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  Solomon is saying right here, who hears prayer and he answers
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  it, and our peace rests upon that wonderful truth.
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  So if you goof up, that's the point.
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  If you goof up and you make mistakes, well, change them, do
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  something about it, repent, and come back to the Lord.
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  I want to read one other chapter here in the book of Ecclesiastes
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  that Solomon wrote toward the end of his life.
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  To everything there is a season. A time for every purpose under
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  heaven. A time to be born and a time to
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  die. A time to plant and a time to
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  pluck what is planted. A time to kill and a time to
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  heal. A time to breakdown and a time
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  to build up. A time to weep and a time to
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  laugh. A time to mourn and a time to
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  dance. A time to castaway stones and a
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  time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to
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  refrain from embracing. A time to gain and a time to
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  lose. A time to keep and a time to
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  throw it away. A time to tear and a time to
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  sew. A time to keep silence and a
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  time to speak. A time to love and a time to
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  hate. A time of war and a time of
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  peace. What profit has the worker from
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  that in which he laborers? I have seen the God-given task
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  with which the sons of men are to be occupied.
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  He's made everything beautiful in its time.
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  Also He has put eternity in their hearts.
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  Except that no one can find out the work that God does from
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  beginning to end. I know that nothing is better
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  for them than to rejoice and to do good in their lives, and also
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  that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all
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  his labor. It is the gift of God.
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  I know that whatever God does, it should be forever.
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  Nothing can be added to it, nothing can be taken from it.
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  God does it that men should fear before Him that which He has
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  already been, and what is to be has already been, and God
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  requires an account of what is past.
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  Moreover, I saw under the sun, in the place of judgment,
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  wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness iniquity
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  was there. And I said in my heart, God will
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  judge the righteous and the wicked, for is a time.
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  There is a time for every purpose and every good work.
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  I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men
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  contests them, that they may see that they themselves are like
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  animals. For what happens to the sons of
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  men also happens to animals. One thing befalls them.
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  As one dies, so dies the other. Surely they all have one breath.
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  Man has no advantage over animals, for all his vanity all
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  go to one place. All are from the dust, and all
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  return to dust. Who knows the spirits of the
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  sons of men, which goes upward in the spirits of the animal,
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  which goes down to the earth? So I perceive that nothing is
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  better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for
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  that is his heritage. For who can bring him to sea?
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  What will happen after him? Shall we pray?
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  Our Father in heaven, You give us time here on this earth.
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  You rejoice when we obey. You are sad when we don't.
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  Help us to do what you want. Recognized how wonderful and
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  valuable you are and discourage us from doing things that you
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  don't want. We're thankful for your Son
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  Jesus, and we pray this in his name.
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  Amen. And that's it for today.
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