<TITLE>05. Par 18-22</TITLE>L-18 Now, we all know that the earthly only types the heavenly. The natural only types the spiritual. The... Really, the one that He was a speaking of was Christ for the temple. But he was... Solomon, David's son in natural flesh, later, we read in I Kings (if you would like to read it), that he--he built the tabernacle that David was going to build, because Solomon was a man of peace, of wisdom. He didn't go to war like David and had a lot of bloodshed. He just was a man of peace. And God gave him wisdom. When he was asked for what he may before God, he only asked for wisdom to know how to lead his people. And he never taken the great gifts that could've been done, but he just asked for wisdom to know how to--to lead God's people to the best.

L-19 And I think we, in praying ourselves, if we would just ask for that, just for understanding for something that will be better for the children of God... I truly think that's this pastor's idea of bringing this church in here (See?), taking this old church and rededicating it today. He's trying to find a place out of the rain, and snow, and so forth, for the people of God. I think God would respect it in this boy just the same as He did in David.

L-20 Now, we find out that there lays a great spiritual application here, that I would like mainly to refer to. Now, if you read the I Kings, you'll find that in this, Solomon begin as a young man to build this temple that his father had been promised through God that he would build. You see, he stays in line with the Scripture and promises.
Now, that's what we must always do to be successful, is to stay in line with God's promises. No matter how it seems best to go this way or that way, stay lined with the Scripture. And Solomon knowed that God had promised his father, David, that he would build the temple.

L-21 Now, if you notice, the material wasn't found only in Palestine, that this temple, because it just wasn't there. He had to go to the rest of the world, known world, to find these parts that would go in this temple.
What a beautiful application that is: that God don't just cut His materials out of Jews only, or out of the white only, or out of the brown, or red, or black, or whatever colors they may be, or whatever, just out of United States only, or just out of Canada only. But He cuts His materials from all the world.

L-22 And if, while they were cutting this stone of a certain kind that was found in such a part of the country, and maybe cutting a stone over in another nation to fit this stone that was cut in the--another nation...
Now, it might have seemed very strange to the people, passerbys, that seen these odd looking stones being cut. But God in His own way was doing something. I think He's doing the same thing today to--to antitype the type that that was. He's cutting them in the way that He wishes.
Now, we find out, that the materials being cut in their own native land was peculiar to a material cut in another's native land. And we find out that they were all transported from--by ox cart, and so forth. And some of them come by sea, and some come by ox cart, and some floated down to Joppa by raft, and so forth, and then hauled in. All together they were coming to one place for one purpose, and that was to fulfill the command of God.


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