Hello believers, how are we doing today?
And the Bible said with me,
If you love it more than God, it's turning your heart away from God. And if it's turning your heart away from God, you love it more than God.
1 Kings 11 and 1.
Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. A brother had a gang. Besides Pharaoh's daughter, one wife wasn't enough already. He married women from Moab, Ammon, Adam, Sidon, the Hittites, the Electrolytes, the Gladys Knights, all of that.
The Lord clearly instructed to the people of Israel, you must not marry them because they will turn your hearts to their gods. Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway. He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines. And in fact, they did turn his heart away from the Lord. He had a thousand women all together.
Again, it says, in fact, they did turn his heart away from the Lord. So he loved very many foreign women. And the Lord told them, do not marry them because they'll turn your hearts away from God.
Solomon insisted on loving them anyway. Then it says that it turned his heart away from the Lord. This lets me know that what I love, my heart is facing towards. And if it's turning towards what I love, it's turning away from what I need.
In this case, being the Lord. You have to watch what we allow our heart to fall in love with, because if it is not God, it is turning our hearts away from him. I gave his people specific instructions, but because Saul thought that he was above the law because he was the king, he treated God's law as if it was a suggestion instead of a command.