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Studies In The Book Of Proverbs?

How Did Solomon Ruin His Life?

Lesson 4
Part 1

How did Solomon ruin his life? As continue our study in the book of Proverbs.
What I’d like for us to read you is a verse.
How Did Solomon Ruin His Life?
We are focusing on Proverbs 12:26.
26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
This is again, one of the key themes.
There are 10 themes that we’re working through, of the probably 140 that some scholars have found
in the book of Proverbs. About 70% of the book covers these 10 themes.
We’ve seen in class one that true wisdom is salvation.
We saw that to do the will of God, to be servant hearted, is the only way to have a life
that never ends and the only way to have a life that doesn’t get burnt up.
This lesson we’re looking at being not saved, not servant hearted, but being selective in our friends.
Now look at this. How did Solomon, what’s the asterisk? The smartest, the richest, the most humanly
blessed man on Earth that’s ever lived other than our Lord Jesus Christ. How did he ruin his life?
Right here, proverbs 12:26.
26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
“The righteous,” whoa… the righteous are those who are saved. Who have wisdom from above. Who are
living for eternal gain. They’re going God’s way. They are no longer going the way they were born.
They’re not lost. They’re not living in foolishness. They’re not losing everything which is man’s way.
Verse 26, “the righteous,” the saved, the wise, “should choose his friends carefully, for the way of
the wicked leads them astray.”
Look at the answer. How did Solomon ruin his life? Proverbs 12:26, introducing that huge theme of being
selective in our friends. He didn’t select his friends God’s way. God says, verse 26, “choose your
friends carefully.” What does that mean? Proverbs is a guide. It says these are the foolish and don’t
befriend them. Don’t go their way. As a psalmist said, don’t walk or stand or sit with the ungodly and
emulate their lifestyle. Really how Solomon ruined his life is because he didn’t heed God’s path of wisdom.
He knew the Lord, but he had many foolish decisions that he made in his life.
How does Solomon ruin his life? This is a lesson of our Living Life God’s Way, as We’re Exploring the
Book of Proverbs.
The book of Proverbs has 10 main themes. We’re going to be looking at, we’re on that third one. Next time
we’ll look at being submissive to God, which is humility and how that reveals the ultimate sin of pride and
on you can go through that list of the topics.
What God says is, be selective in your friendships.
Now on the make sure you note these three verses, and then we’re
going to go through them in the scriptures together.
Proverbs 12:26
James 4:4
1 Kings 11:4.
I’ve already gave you Proverbs 12:26, “the righteous should choose his friends carefully.” Now, let me say to you,
all of us who are saved- God has something clear to say about the friends we choose.
The first thing he has to say is right here in James 4:3-4.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity
with God? whosoever* therefore will be* a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Remember, James is most likely the very first New Testament book that was written.
James tells us in chapter 4 and verse 4, “Adulterers and Adulteresses.” Now listen, “do you not know that
friendship with the world is enmity with God?”
Pause. Think about that. When we befriend the world, it causes enmity with God. That means we treat God with
hostility. Like we’re His enemy and worse than that, God acts hostile toward us. You know what the scriptures
say? He resists us. He no longer blesses us because we are acting what? Like an unsaved person. See, when a
Christian sin, when the saved who have God’s wisdom, living for Him sin, they are acting like a lost person.
It’s foolish.
Do you know what usually happens?  Some say, I just don’t think I’m a Christian. I say, did you ever think
you were a Christian? Oh yeah, yes, yes, yes.
I said, the good news is if you were ever Christian, you’re still a Christian because you can’t un-Christian
yourself. Let’s do a little diagnostic to see if maybe you’re making foolish decisions, and you’re acting like
a lost person, and you’ve lost the joy of your salvation. The Holy Spirit is grieved.
Now back to James 4:4, he explains it. “Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an
enemy of God.”
Remember 1 John chapter 2:15-17. “Love not the world nor the things in the world. […] for all that’s in the
world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life is not of the father, but as of the world.
And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; he that does the will God abides forever.”
God says be selective in your friendship.
What happened to Solomon? Let’s go to 1 Kings and make sure you tie this in your notes. 1 Kings chapter 11 and
verse 4. “For it was so, when Solomon was old that his wives…”
4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods:
 and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
Did you know that the person you marry should be your best friend? That’s one of the ways you know who you’re
supposed to marry. You find someone who you completely share life with. You share emotions with them. Your
spiritual life with them. Your physical life with them. Everything that is important to you, you share with
them. Beware of who you befriend, remember verse 4, his best friends, “his wives turned his heart after other
gods; and his heart was not loyal to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David.” Verse five,
“Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD.”
By the way, how did he do that? It’s because he began to follow his friends, his best friends, his wives, to
worship their gods. If you go to Jerusalem today and stand there, on the Mount of Olives overlooking the old
city Jerusalem, every guide will say as you’re looking at Jerusalem, right over there on the left, that’s the
Hill of Offense.
All the tourists stand there and don’t even know what it is and are embarrassed to ask. Someone
will finally say, what’s the Hill of Offense?
The guide always says, that’s where Solomon built the homes for his wives, because they were not Jews.
They were not believers and they worshiped false gods. So, he let them live on that hill with all
their false gods and their idols which they brought into Israel, into God’s people.
Let’s talk about Solomon. Solomon towers over most who’ve ever lived. What did the scripture say
about Solomon? Let’s just look at some more scriptures,
Proverbs 1:1 in your Bibles. Let me get there, it says in
Proverbs 1:1, this book first verse,
1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Now look at Proverbs 10:1,
1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Keep going to chapter 25, Proverbs 25:1. Look what it says there.
1 These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
Now, remember, we already have talked about that. That Solomon did the vast majority of the Proverbs, 513 of them
in this book. Also, there are Proverbs of the wise men, King Lemuel and others that are a part of it.
This section are the Proverbs that Solomon gave under the inspiration of God’s Spirit that Hezekiah collected.
Here’s some other verses, and I want to read those two.
1 Kings 3:12 “behold, I have done…” this is the Lord
speaking, “…according to your words: see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart.”
12 Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding
 heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
Now, this is why Solomon towers over all other Kings that have ever lived. Listen to what God said,
 “so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you.”
What does that mean? Solomon understood everything. God gave him this understanding. It says he understood animals.
 He understood plants. He understood all the things of the world. Plus, he spoke with divine wisdom.
Keep going, look at 1 Kings 4:32, “he spoke 3000 Proverbs.”
32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.
How many are in the book of Proverbs? 513, but he spoke 3000.
Above that, verse 32 says, “his songs were 1005.”
So, he actually excelled his father David, most likely because David only wrote half the psalms, songs.
Solomon wrote 1,005 psalms or songs. Now, two of them were inspired and we have those in the book of Psalms,
 but he wrote many more. It’s like this, some people have trouble with that, they say, wait a minute… how
 can someone write proverbs that aren’t in the Bible? How can you have psalms that aren’t in the Bible? Are
 we missing part of the Bible? No. Did you know, David lived a normal life, had correspondence with many people,
 but only the psalms that God inspired and only the words that God inspired were put in the Bible. The same with
 the apostle Paul. The apostle Paul wrote many letters, he talks about them, but only those that were inspired
 by the Spirit of God, make their way into the Bible.
One last verse about Solomon, 1 Kings 10:23-24. “So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the Earth
 in riches and wisdom.” It doesn’t stop there. Verse 24 says, “all the Earth sought the presence of Solomon to
 hear his wisdom,” listen, “which God had put in his heart.”
23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
24 And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

Solomon was a testament to the greatness of God and the world came to hear him.

“Only one life to live and soon is past
Only what’s done for Christ will last!”
Hoping to make the time I have left count for the glory of God.
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