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Type: Sermon

Speaker: Colton Hamlett

Summary David Parting Words to Solomon

📘 Sermon Information

Course Title: Biblical Studies / Old Testament Narrative (inferred)

Instructor: Colton Hamlett

Date: 2025-09-11 Thursday Noon Sermon

Chapter/Topic: 1 Chronicles 28–29 — David’s Parting Words to Solomon; Knowing, Serving, and Seeking God (generated topic)

🧠Key Learnings

Knowledge point 1: Context and purpose of 1 Chronicles

The book of 1 Chronicles (originally combined with 2 Chronicles) was compiled—likely by Ezra—during the post-exilic return to emphasize temple worship, proper worship practices, and re-establishing the nation around God’s temple and ordinances. The chronicler retells Israel’s history with particular focus on David’s role in preparing for the temple and the transition to Solomon.

Explanation:

• Chronicles highlights genealogies, temple-related details, and liturgical/administrative arrangements, aiming to instruct a returned community about true worship and the dangers of idolatry.
• The narrative arc shows David capturing Jerusalem, securing the ark, acquiring the temple site, and ultimately commissioning Solomon to build the temple.

Knowledge point 2: David’s role as preparer, not builder

Although David desired to build the temple, God forbade him because he was a “man of war.” God chose Solomon to build the temple. David accepts the divine decision and instead prepares everything necessary—plans, materials, organization—for Solomon’s task.

Explanation:

• David’s obedience includes surrendering the personal honor of building and investing in detailed plans, materials, and organization for temple construction.
• His behavior models faithful stewardship: he neither arrogantly seizes the task nor neglectfully abandons preparation; he equips Solomon.

Knowledge point 3: The core exhortation — Know, Serve, Seek

David’s central advice to Solomon (1 Chronicles 28:9) comprises three interrelated commands:

• Know the God of your father (relational knowledge, not mere intellectual assent).
• Serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind (active, humble, obedient service).
• Seek Him (earnest, persistent pursuit; promise: if you seek Him, He will be found; conversely, abandonment brings rejection).

Explanation:

• "Know" implies intimate, experiential relationship (cf. 1 Samuel 3:7 on lacking such relational knowledge).
• "Serve" invokes the posture of king-as-servant: authority exercised through faithful obedience to God’s will and commands.
• "Seek" means diligent, wholehearted seeking—resulting in divine presence, boldness, peace, and transformation into Christlikeness.

Knowledge point 4: David’s model in prayer and praise

David’s prayer in 1 Chronicles 29 reveals his theology about God’s attributes—sovereignty, providence, goodness, and testing of hearts—and shows how knowing God produced humility, praise, and generous stewardship.

Explanation:

• David recognizes all riches, honor, and strength come from God; he praises God and acknowledges God’s testing and pleasure in righteousness.
• This theology explains David’s generous giving and motivates the leaders to follow his example in supporting the temple work.

Knowledge point 5: Practical outcomes of seeking God for leadership

David promises Solomon that seeking God brings boldness, peace, and the Lord’s presence (1 Chron. 28:20 ). Yet the account and later history show the danger of partial devotion: Solomon ultimately builds the temple but also permits high places and foreign worship, illustrating how failure to remain wholly devoted undermines legacy.

Explanation:

• The promise is conditional on sustained devotion; leadership success hinges on continued knowledge, wholehearted service, and diligent seeking of God.
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