{"id":46910,"date":"2022-10-01T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/six-words-worth-heeding-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:37:08","slug":"six-words-worth-heeding-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/six-words-worth-heeding-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Words Worth Heeding &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In looking at Scripture, Ive often wondered how King Solomon might have summed up his life in <strong>six words<\/strong>. As a young man, he could have written: <strong>God has given me great wisdom<\/strong> (1 Kings 4:29-34). But in his later years, he might have said: <strong>Should have practiced what I preached<\/strong> (1 Kings 11:1-8).<\/p>\n<p>During his kingly reign, distinguished by peace and prosperity, Solomon developed spiritual heart problems. When he was old, <strong>his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David<\/strong> (1 Kings 11:4).<\/p>\n<p>The result was Gods displeasure and a sad end to a previously exemplary life (1 Kings 11:9-10).<\/p>\n<p>The many times that Solomon uses the word vanity [empty or meaningless] in Ecclesiastes, may indicate his disillusionment about life and its many challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This once-wise king who had it all, pondered it all and lost it all, ended the book with these six words:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Fear God and keep His commandments<\/strong> (Ecclesiastes 12:13).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brethren and friends, <strong>now these are six words worth heeding!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In looking at Scripture, Ive often wondered how King Solomon might have summed up his life in six words. As a young man, he could have written: God has given me great wisdom (1 Kings 4:29-34). But in his later years, he might have said: Should have practiced what I preached (1 Kings 11:1-8). During &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/six-words-worth-heeding-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Six Words Worth Heeding &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}