345: Max Wickham – Exhortation: Distractions

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Hey everyone, it’s Jason
Hensley.

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This week we are going to be
listening to an exhortation

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given at the San Diego Ecclesia
by brother Max Wickham.

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This exhortation is about
distractions, and it was

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actually recommended to us by
one of our younger listeners,

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which I thought was pretty cool
because it’s awesome to have

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young people like that listening
to Bible talks, thinking about

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the Bible.
And thus I really wanted to post

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it on here, thinking about the
value that this listener

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received from it.
And I also found it to be really

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helpful.
The big focus, as you can

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imagine, in this exhortation is
our ability to get distracted by

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so many things.
And it’s just a reminder to

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really focus on what really
matters.

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And I think, honestly, that’s
something we all need pretty

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frequently.
We need to be reminded of what

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matters in life and what we need
to set our mind on.

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So I hope that this exhortation
encourages you to do so, helps

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you to lay aside every weight
and to ultimately seek first

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that Kingdom.
So this is Brother Max Wickham

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exhortation given at the San
Diego Ecclesia on distractions.

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Several weeks ago a brother came
up to me after a meeting and

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said, I thought you were
supposed to speak today.

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And I said, yes, I was.
I said.

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But Brother Kent needed to
switch because he was going to

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be out of town later this month.
And so you caught a break today

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because that was a great
exhortation that he gave us.

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And it was now this morning
there will be no respite because

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this is the day I switched into
you.

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But when I saw the reading for
today in Proverbs, I was happy

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twice.
Once because it was Proverbs and

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the second time because of the
chapters, chapters 8 and 9,

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which have much about wisdom and
I just had to smile.

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I was sitting at my desk when I
started studying in my study and

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I looked on the wall and I only
have one Bible related verse on

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my wall.
It’s a plaque about that square

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and above it in script it says
wisdom.

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It’s not a quote from Proverbs
but what it says from Matthew 7

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is ask and it will be given.
Seek and you will find.

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It’s interesting, that plaque, I
found it in one of those shops

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that are sort of something
between an antique shop and a

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garage sale.
The ones that have individual

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little booze and one of them has
records and another one has

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China.
Another one has maybe biblical

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things, but not usually.
And I saw this little thing some

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years ago and I thought, you
know, that would be good.

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I’ll put that on my wall right
in front of my desk.

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And that will be a constant
reminder to me to seek God’s

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wisdom and to think about the
things of God.

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But sadly, over the years I got
used to that plaque on the wall

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and I realized how seldom I
actually think about it or even

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notice it.
It is just like some of the

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pictures on the wall in my
study.

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The other bad thing about my
study is it happens to be my

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music room and my audio room.
So although I spend really quite

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a lot of time in my study, I’m
afraid that the bulk of my time

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is probably around my music, not
around the things of wisdom and

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the things of God.
Although I do find one way to

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combine that effectively and
that’s that.

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I have found that if I put
Mozart on, I can study very

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effectively to Mozart.
So in a way that is the

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exhortation.
We are tempted by the things

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that distract us and certainly
as we read today.

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And thank you for doing that
split reading, Brother Phil.

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That was the case with Solomon.
Solomon had he had every talent,

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he had every gift that would
make him the greatest Bible

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student and the greatest man.
And yet when we read in the

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kings there what he did, how he
actually ended up on his knees

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before these idols, worshipping
them with his wives, I find that

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frankly terrifying.
How?

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How could a man that was so in
touch with God, that was beloved

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of God, that knew, knew better?
How could that happen?

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He was the man that said, in our
reading today, wisdom is better

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than Ruby’s, and all the things
that may be desired cannot be,

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cannot be compared to it.
So there is a great deal about

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wisdom in these couple of
chapters and in Proverbs in

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general.
But Solomon also wrote a good

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deal about Wisdom and
Ecclesiastes.

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And there was a verse in an
Ecclesiastes too, that just

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really puzzled me as I was
getting up this exhortation.

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Ecclesiastes, too, is a
documentation of all of the way

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that he lived his life, all of
his excesses, his thousand

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women, the way he stockpiled
gold, the way he multiplied

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horses, all of his construction
projects, the gardens, the

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buildings, everything to the
extreme.

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You know that it took the vast
majority of his time.

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Now he did write the Proverbs
and he did write Ecclesiastes.

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He was still in touch with God
at that point.

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But the verse that got me was
verse 9 of chapter 2.

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He says basically I did it all.
I had it all.

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I denied myself nothing.
I did whatever I wanted and as

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much of it as I wanted.
And he said, you know what?

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I was still as wise as ever, and
I thought, really, how could

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that be?
How could one live most of their

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life, which he did in a life of
selfishness, in a life of

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excess, and still have all the
wisdom that God gave him in the

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beginning?
How?

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How is that possible?
I think I understand it better,

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having gone back to Ecclesiastes
again and read what he says

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there about wisdom and what he
says about his lifestyle and

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what he gives by way of advice.
The thing is, Solomon never

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recommends doing what he did.
He says I’ll tell you what I

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did.
I’ll tell you how I live my

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life.
I’ll tell you how it turned out

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and how did it turn out.
He said it was all nothing.

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It was all vanity.
He basically says, I did it, I

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lived it, I had it all, I tried
it all, it was nothing.

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But he says at the end of
Ecclesiastes in that verse

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that’s quite familiar, he says
that don’t, don’t do as I did,

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do as I’m telling you.
He says the conclusion of the

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matter is this fear God and keep
his commandments.

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It’s the whole duty of man, He
said.

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That’s what it’s all about, is
about God.

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And hopefully, you know, we read
that that reading that piece of

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it in First Kings 11 and that
little piece where Phil stopped

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is about where God takes away
his peace that he had had all of

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his reign.
And he starts giving him

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affliction.
He starts giving him enemies.

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He gives him trouble.
He tells him I’m going to take

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the Kingdom away from you, but
I’m going to wait till your son,

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hopefully.
Ecclesiastes was written after

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Solomon came to his senses,
Hopefully.

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The thing that’s so interesting
about Solomon is that in many

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ways he’s an excellent picture
of Christ.

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What ways?
He’s David’s son.

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He was king in Jerusalem.
He sat on David’s throne.

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He was given wisdom by God.
He was full of the spirit.

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He was loved by his Father.
He was the King who ruled in

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peace as the Lord Jesus will.
He was instrumental in building

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the temple in Jerusalem.
So many pictures of Christ.

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And yet with all of that wisdom,
how did he go so wrong?

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And I guess more importantly for
us, what can we learn from it as

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far as what did he do wrong and
how did it go wrong?

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The easy answer is in First
Kings 11.

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There he went wrong when he
joined his wives in their

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idolatry, where he substituted
the love of God into the love of

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his wives.
It says he clung to those in

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love.
He left the love of the Lord his

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God.
But that’s an easy answer and

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it’s a right answer.
But obviously if he had 1000

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wives, he didn’t marry those
wives when he was old.

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He married those wives and his
concubines probably all the way

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through his reign.
He started early.

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He started early, and he went
through everything that God

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commanded that king should not
do.

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He ticked them off and he did
every one of them.

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Don’t multiply horses.
Well, he did.

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Don’t stack up gold, he did.
Don’t multiply wives, he did.

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Don’t marry foreign women.
Well, that’s all he had with

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foreign women, it appears.
So Solomon, in his wisdom,

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somehow he felt like he could do
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He could ignore what God said
and live the way he wanted to

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live and explore the things he
was curious about and it would

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be OK.
He must have some way

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rationalize that in his head,
and that’s very scary because

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that is a comment on how
deceitful the mind of God can

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be, even for somebody that was
as wise as Solomon.

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Distractions.
That’s really what I’d like to

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talk about because that’s what
his wives were.

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Now, anything can be a
distraction.

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One of these things can be a
huge distraction.

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Even though this isn’t very
huge, this is a smartphone, it’s

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a tiny 1.
And I can tell you truthfully,

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this phone is 0 distraction to
me with my eyesight and the size

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of this screen, I can guarantee
you I spend almost zero time on

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this phone.
That’s a fact.

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I use it as a phone and that’s
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And a lot of people complain,
well, your phone’s never on.

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And that that’s true.
I turn it on if I want to call

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somebody.
But I think for the average

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person, a smartphone, that’s a
huge distraction.

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They are set up to be a
distraction.

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They discover your interests and
they pamper to them.

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They will feed you more of what
you are consuming in ways that

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are set up to be attractive to
you and to keep you going on it.

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I’ve been in quite a few doctors
offices recently waiting and

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while Linda’s been getting her
eye treatments and that and I

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look around the.
I look around those offices and

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do a little survey.
You know how many people are on

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their phones while they’re
sitting there?

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9 out of 10 and whether if
they’re a pair, you know, like a

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husband and wife or a mom and a
son or a dad and A and a son or

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daughter, it doesn’t matter.
They’re both on their phones.

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They’re not talking to each
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So it’s a very, it’s a unique
distraction to our age, but it’s

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very powerful.
But as the apostle Paul

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observes, probably the most
forceful, the most attractive

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distraction in our lives can be
our mate.

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You know, Paul says a single
person, they can pretty much be

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devoted to the Lord if they want
to be like Paul was and

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certainly as the Lord Jesus was,
he says.

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But the married person, they’re
concerned about pleasing their

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maid.
It’s a natural thing.

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And that is what set Solomon up
for for failure.

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He had all of these wives and he
became very much in love with

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them and he pleased them.
They wanted an idol on a hill.

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Well, I’ll build you one.
You want a high place to to

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honor your God, I’ll go there
with you and we’ll set one up

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and worship it together.
He pleased his wives rather than

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his God.
So it’s it’s something to keep

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in mind.
It’s something to keep in mind

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as far as how we influence our
mate, because we do so we ought

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to try to influence them for
good.

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Distractions certainly do vary.
I, I have been very proud, you

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know, of my little smartphone.
That is no problem to me.

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Now if you want to talk to me
about my laptop, that can be a

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problem.
The advantage of a laptop is, at

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least in my case, is I never
unplug it from my desk.

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So I do use it for Bible study
as well as looking at audio

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gear.
So like a smartphone, it can be

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used for good purposes, but at
least I can’t carry it with me,

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not if I’ve got it at my desk
plugged in.

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But it is a distraction to be
sure.

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In conclusion, Solomon was a
type of Christ in many ways, but

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not in the most important ways.
And Luke, when Jesus was asked

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what are the important
commandments?

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The most important he says you,
you need to love the Lord your

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God with all your heart.
Well, Solomon was a dismal

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failure in that and your
neighbor as yourself.

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And I think there is very little
evidence that Solomon was

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focused on the needs of others.
I think about the fact that

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after his son took over and he
sent the tax collector out to

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collect taxes, they killed him.
His own people killed him.

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The queen of Sheba may have
thought that she saw something

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very wonderful.
I’m not.

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I know she saw something very
grand when she came, but it was

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tough on the folks that were
paying for it.

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Very tough.
It tells us in Isaiah about the

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Lord Jesus, that he would have a
spirit of wisdom, a spirit of

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understanding, a spirit of the
knowledge and the fear of the

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Lord.
And I love the verse out of

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Colossians that says that in
Christ are hidden all the

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treasures of wisdom and
knowledge.

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And about Jesus, as a child, he
grew and waxed strong in spirit

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and he was filled with wisdom
and the grace of God was upon

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him.
So Jesus had even more wisdom

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than Solomon, but he acted upon
his wisdom and he lived his

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wisdom.
And so instead of Solomon who

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says don’t do as I did, do like
I’m telling you, the Lord says

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follow me.
He was wise enough to live what

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he knew.
We will be distracted.

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You know we will.
You know, you are whatever it is

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you’re interested in are your
distractions.

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But we need to keep our heart
for God.

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That’s where Solomon went down.
He still had a relationship with

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God until he gave away his
heart.

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So we need to guard our heart
and keep it for the Lord.

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We come to the emblems before us
and we see unselfishness, We see

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service, we see the love of God,
the love of Jesus, brethren, the

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love of us.
Love the Lord with all your

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heart, your soul, your strength
and mind, and your neighbor as

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yourself.
That was Jesus.

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No distractions, only
dedication, self sacrifice and

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love.
And that’s what we remember this

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