Solomon's Heart Turned From God
Jonathan Pennington · May 10, 2026 · 12:15 PM service
Jonathan Pennington preaches from 1 Kings 11 on the sad end of Solomon's life, showing that God loved Solomon and Solomon loved God, yet his heart was turned away when he began to love his many wives more than the Lord. He gives three things that commonly pull a believer's heart away from God: people, including spouse, family, and friends; work and career; and money and material possessions, drawing from Isaiah 2, Matthew 6, and 1 Timothy 6. He closes with the remedy, fleeing these things, drawing near to God, and remembering the joy of that first love at salvation as Christ told the church at Ephesus in Revelation 2.
“But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. …”