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Kings: Solomon

1 Kings 1-12

May 26, 2019 • Ben Adams • 1 Kings 1—12

Stocks and flows; Son of David; divine wisdom; Solomon's Temple and the Spirit's Temple; blessing the nations; the chiasm; apostasy; Solomon's legacy: vanity and a divided kingdom; arcs of history; the Root of David; talents.

Wisdom for Suffering

May 19, 2019 • Ben Adams, Les Sillars • Job

Wisdom Literature; Dating Job; Cycle of Dialogues; Where is Wisdom?; Elihu Speaks; I Am Speaks; Pensées; Chaos and Order; Prologue (reasons for suffering); Epilogue (natural evil); Application Questions (bad responses to suffering, etc.)

Wisdom for Worship

May 12, 2019 • Les Sillars • Psalms

Favorite Psalms (101, 8, 1); the moral component of wisdom; Forms (petition, praise, royal psalms [72], enthronement [93-99], of Zion [48], wisdom [1]); Major themes (God’s kingship, God the Creator, God the Judge; Outline of the five books of Psalms; Key passages, themes, and interpretive issues [1, 2, 3, 22, 110]); Application: another favorite Psalm

Kings: David

May 5, 2019 • Les Sillars • 2 Samuel

Definition of a King; David's Role in OT Revelation; David as a Type; Consolidation of Power; the Davidic Covenant; David's Mixed Legacy; "King of the Jews"