God's Greater Grace to a Great Sinner Like Solomon (Family Worship lesson in 1Kings 3:1–15)

Just how generous was God’s offer to Solomon? Pastor leads his family in today’s “Hopewell @Home” passage. 1Kings 3:1–15 prepares us for the first serial reading in Morning Public Worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these fifteen verses, the Holy Spirit teaches us that God chose to meet Solomon in the midst of the one thing in which He said that Solomon was NOT(!) loving Him. Not only did God heap up gifts in addition to wisdom, but the first part of the wisdom that He gave Solomon was in granting him repentance from the manmade worship at Gibeon.(click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson)