Title: Don’t Get Crushed
Bible Reading: 1 Kings 11:1-11 (Nkjv)
[1] But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites—
[2] from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, “You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
[3] And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
[4] For it was so, when Solomon was old, that 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.
[5] For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites
[6] Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and did not fully follow the Lord, as did his father David.
[7] Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.
[8] And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
[9] So the Lord became angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
[10] and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the Lord had commanded.
[11] Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
Message:
Sexual sin usually starts from a harmless crush, which can be described as a brief but intense infatuation for someone.
It has the ability to make you lose your sleep until you see or speak with the fellow.
When one of my sons told me that he was always excited to resume in the office every day because he would see his secretary, I knew he would soon get ‘crushed’ by that crush, so I encouraged him to cut off every form of communication with her immediately because the Bible says, “if a hand or an eye will prevent you from making it to Heaven, cut it off or pluck it out” (Matthew 5:28-30).
Thank God he listened to me, and his destiny was preserved.
King Solomon, with all his wisdom, was crushed by his lust for strange women who took his heart away from God.
In the latter days of his life, he shouted in regret, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity” (Ecclesiastes 1:2).
My dear child, don’t engage in things that will crush your future. Ignore vanities and focus on doing things that please God.
I pray that your tomorrow will be great in Jesus’ name.
Action Point:
Be wise, crush that crush now before it crushes you.
HYMN 9 – DEEPER, DEEPER IN THE LOVE OF JESUS
1 Deeper, deeper in the love of Jesus
Daily let me go;
Higher, higher in the school of wisdom,
More of grace to know.
CHORUS
O deeper yet I pray,
And higher evry day,
And wiser, blessed, Lord,
In Thy precious, holy word.
2 Deeper, deeper! blessed Holy Spirit,
Take me deeper still,
Till my life is wholly lost in Jesus
And His perfect will.
3 Deeper, deeper! thơ’ it cost hard trials,
Deeper let me go!
Rooted in the holy love of Jesus,
Let me fruitful grow.
4 Deeper, higher ev’ry day in Jesus,
Till all conflict past,
Finds me congueror, and in His own image
Perfected at last.
Bible Reading In One Year: Genesis 28:1-29:35; Matthew 9:18-38
AUTHORS: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
PASTOR MRS FOLU ADEBOYE