{"id":715,"date":"2019-04-04T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/?p=715"},"modified":"2019-04-15T11:40:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:40:01","slug":"mid-week-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/mid-week-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Week News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SCRIPTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

13 THE KING WHO HAD IT ALL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I KINGS 10:1-7, 10, 13,\n18-27; 11:1-4, 7-13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup> When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of\nSolomon and his relationship to the LORD, she came to test Solomon with hard\nquestions. 2<\/sup> Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan\u2014with\ncamels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones\u2014she came\nto Solomon and talked with him about all that she had on her mind. 3<\/sup>\nSolomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for the king to\nexplain to her. 4<\/sup> When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of\nSolomon and the palace he had built, 5<\/sup> the food on his table, the\nseating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his\ncupbearers, and the burnt offerings he made at the temple of the LORD, she was\noverwhelmed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 6<\/sup> She said to the king, \u201cThe\nreport I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is\ntrue. 7<\/sup> But I did not believe these things wealth until I came and\nsaw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half had told me; in wisdom and wealth\nyou have far exceeded the report I heard.   10<\/sup> And she\ngave the king 120 talents of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious\nstones. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba\ngave to King Solomon.   13<\/sup> King Solomon gave the queen of\nSheba all she desired and asked for, besides what he had given her out of his\nroyal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 18<\/sup> Then the king made a\ngreat throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold. 19<\/sup> The\nthrone had six steps, and its back had a rounded top. On both sides of the seat\nwere armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them. 20<\/sup> Twelve\nlions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it\nhad ever been made for any other kingdom. 21<\/sup> All King Solomon\u2019s\ngoblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest\nof Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was\nconsidered of little value in Solomon\u2019s days. 22<\/sup> The king had a\nfleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three\nyears it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 23<\/sup> King Solomon was greater\nin riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. 24<\/sup> The\nwhole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his\nheart. 25<\/sup> Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift\u2014articles\nof silver and gold, robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.\n  26<\/sup> Solomon accumulated chariots and horses; he had\nfourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, which he kept in the\nchariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. 27<\/sup> The king made\nsilver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig\ntrees in the foothills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 1<\/sup> King Solomon, however,\nloved many foreign women besides Pharaoh\u2019s daughter\u2014Moabites, Ammonites,\nEdomites, Sidonians and Hittites. 2<\/sup> They were from nations about\nwhich the LORD had told the Israelites, \u201cYou must not intermarry with them,\nbecause they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.\u201d Nevertheless,\nSolomon held fast to them in love. 3<\/sup> He had seven hundred wives of\nroyal birth and three hundred concubines, and his wives led him astray. 4<\/sup>\nAs Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart\nwas not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had\nbeen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7<\/sup> On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites. 8<\/sup> He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.  9<\/sup> The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice. 10<\/sup> Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD\u2019s command. 11<\/sup> So the LORD said to Solomon, \u201cSince this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates. 12<\/sup> Nevertheless, for the sake of David your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. I will tear it out of the hand of your son. 13<\/sup> Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him but will give him one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOSPEL: \nJOHN 12:1-8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judas willfully misinterprets as waste\nMary\u2019s extravagant act of anointing Jesus\u2019 feet with costly perfume. Jesus\nrecognizes that her lavish gift is both an expression of love and an\nanticipation of his burial.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>Six days\nbefore the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had\nraised from the dead. 2<\/sup>There\nthey gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the\ntable with him. 3<\/sup>Mary took a pound of costly perfume made\nof pure nard, anointed Jesus\u2019 feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was\nfilled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4<\/sup>But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about\nto betray him), said, 5<\/sup>\u201cWhy was\nthis perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the\npoor?\u201d 6<\/sup>(He said this not because he cared about\nthe poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to\nsteal what was put into it.) 7<\/sup>Jesus\nsaid, \u201cLeave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of\nmy burial. 8<\/sup>You always have the poor with you, but\nyou do not always have me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCRIPTURE 13 THE KING WHO HAD IT ALL I KINGS 10:1-7, 10, 13, 18-27; 11:1-4, 7-13 1 When the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and his relationship to the LORD, she came to test Solomon with hard questions. 2 Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan\u2014with camels carrying spices, large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holytrinitymansfield.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}