{"id":11700,"date":"2025-08-31T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/?post_type=ctc_sermon&p=11700"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:53:31","slug":"no-kings-but-christ-earthly-kings-will-fail-you","status":"publish","type":"ctc_sermon","link":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/sermons\/no-kings-but-christ-earthly-kings-will-fail-you\/","title":{"rendered":"No Kings But Christ – Earthly Kings Will Fail You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Even The Wisest Kings Can Fall<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh\u2019s daughter\u2014Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, \u201cYou must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.\u201d Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done.   <\/em>1 Kings 11 1-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.   <\/em>Proverbs 4:23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.   <\/em>Proverbs 14:12<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earthly Kings Build For Themselves<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.   <\/em>1 Kings 11:7-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.   <\/em>Psalm 127:1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.   <\/em>James 3:16<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only The True King Builds What Lasts<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the Lord\u2019s command. So the Lord said to Solomon, \u201cSince this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates. Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son. Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.   <\/em>1 Kings 11:9-13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock\u2026 The rain came\u2026 yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.   <\/em>Matthew 7:24\u201325<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even The Wisest Kings Can Fall King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh\u2019s daughter\u2014Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, \u201cYou must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.\u201d Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. As Solomon grew old, his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"ctc_sermon_topic":[],"ctc_sermon_book":[],"ctc_sermon_series":[],"ctc_sermon_speaker":[110],"ctc_sermon_tag":[],"class_list":["post-11700","ctc_sermon","type-ctc_sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctc_sermon_speaker-jesse-loew","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/11700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_sermon"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/11700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11702,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon\/11700\/revisions\/11702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_topic?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_book?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_series?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_speaker?post=11700"},{"taxonomy":"ctc_sermon_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_sermon_tag?post=11700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}