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  seven hundred wives of royal birth and three  

Hebrews 2:1 hundred concubines, and his wives led him You no longer have a passionate love for God
1 We must pay more careful attention, astray. 4 As Solomon grew old, his wives or His word
therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do turned his heart after other gods, and his heart
not drift away. was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as - David not only had a passionate love for God,
 the heart of David his father had been.- King but also for his Word


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 Solomon has a problem, HE LOVED WOMEN
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 - He had to have more and more women


  - He was Greedy. Greed and lust can turn your
³Warning comes before destruction´.
which means that before God sends down
judgement to someone. He always sends a
warning as in the case of Jonah, and the city of
Nineveh.
I believe God sends us warning when we start



drifting away from Him.



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Your heart gradually changes from the things of
God to the things of this world.
Praying everyday ± every other day ± once a
week
- 1 Kings 11:1-4
1 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign
women besides Pharaoh's daughter-Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. 2
They were from nations about which the LORD
had told the Israelites, "You must not
intermarry with them, because they will surely
turn your hearts after their gods." Nevertheless,
Solomon held fast to them in love. 3 He had
- Psalms 119:11
11 I have hidden your word in my heart
heart away from God
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in
the world. If any man love the world, the love
of the Father is not in him.
 
You are more concerned about yourself than
GOD, including others
- Matthew 22:37-39
37 Jesus replied: "`Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and
greatest commandment. 39 And the second is
like it: `Love your neighbor as yourself.'
-Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be
added unto you.
 the spirit
that I might not sin against you.
- was there a time when you were so passionate
(burning, excited, zealous) about GOD and
things of GOD?
What happened to that time? Do you still have
that passionate love towards God?
 
Your lifestyle becomes more sinful
Eph 5:5
5 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean
person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater,
has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ
and God.
- Obviously, if we find ourselves sinning we
know that something is wrong
- But Paul says something very interesting,
LIVE BY THE SPIRIT
- You can¶t live by the spirit if you are far from

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Your church attendance becomes less important
to you

- Hebrews 10:25
25 Let us not give up meeting together, as
some are in the habit of doing, but let us
encourage one another-and all the more as you
see the Day approaching.

- The church should be a warm, friendly place

where we can find friendship and
encouragement

- There is a move within the church of God to

stop going to church, or to have house church

- Luke 4:16 Jesus regularly went to church on

the Sabbath day

 


You no longer respond to altar calls

- when you don¶t respond to the calling of the

Lord to get your life in order, there are signs
that you have Pride in your life

- The Bible says in Proverbs 16:18 ³Pride goes

before destruction, and a haughty spirit before
the Fall´
- When we do not respond to the Lord¶s calling
to us we say that we are fine without the Lord