S4:084 1 Kings 4-7
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Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
5 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Emma Dotter talks about 1 Kings 5 and discusses the building of the temple. Emma helps us understand the relationship between the temple and the presence of God and how, through Jesus, we are considered temples of the Holy Spirit.
Additional References:
2 Corithians 4:7; John 1:29; Hebrews 9:12; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Peter 1:3
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Watermark, Easter weekend at Watermark is right around the corner and we want to celebrate with you. |
| 0:06.2 | We're hosting a good Friday service on Friday, April 18th at 12 p.m. |
| 0:10.7 | And we will offer four Easter services this year on Saturday, April 19th at 3 and 5 p.m. |
| 0:16.4 | And on Sunday, April 20th at 9 and 1115 a.m. |
| 0:20.3 | If you remember, we'd love if you would consider attending |
| 0:22.8 | a Saturday service to make more room for guests on Sunday. We cannot wait to celebrate our risen |
| 0:28.2 | Savior with our church family. More information is available at watermark.org slash Easter. We can't |
| 0:34.5 | wait to see you there. Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey |
| 0:41.9 | podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. Today, we're reading First Kings |
| 0:48.7 | 4 through 7, but we're going to be spending our time focusing together in this episode on |
| 0:53.5 | chapters 5 through 7, starting in chapter 5. |
| 0:56.6 | First Kings 5 raises the question, what is the significance of the temple for us today? |
| 1:02.1 | Candidly, today's chapter at first glance, can seem like it's really just about lumber and isn't very significant. |
| 1:08.1 | But if that's the conclusion we draw, we're missing out on a lot. |
| 1:12.1 | The promised moment from all the way back in Second Samuel has arrived. The temple is finally going to be |
| 1:18.2 | built. Back in Second Samuel 7, David saw the need for God's dwelling place to accurately reflect God's glory. |
| 1:26.2 | Remember, at that time, God's presence was dwelling in the |
| 1:29.3 | tabernacle, which was basically a big tent. And David had genuinely hoped he would be the one to help |
| 1:35.9 | upgrade God's quote-unquote home. But he wasn't the one for the job. In today's reading, |
| 1:41.9 | we got to see the beginning of that project starting to take place as Solomon got the building supplies ready. |
| 1:48.8 | Think about it like this. Have you all heard or seen the videos, reels, or TikToks that say things like when the trip finally makes it out of the group chat? |
| 1:57.1 | And then it's all these amazing clips from people's vacations. Or maybe you've tossed an idea out to your friends to check out a new museum, a new restaurant, or a new park, but it never happened. |
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