SOLOMON BUILT A TEMPLE YOUNG AND WORSHIPED AN IDOL OLD | Dag Heward-Mills

He opens 2 Peter 1 and reads how Peter tells believers to give "all diligence" to add virtue, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and love to their faith. His point is simple: not one of those qualities shows up on its own, every single one takes relentless, repeated effort, and that effort naturally gets harder to keep up as people get older. Then he turns to Solomon, who built the temple and wrote his great wisdom as a young man, but in old age built a shrine to an idol and let his foreign wives become his "lord." The warning lands hard: you can drift from the very faith you once poured everything into if you stop applying the effort. CHAPTERS 0:00 Solomon Built a Temple Young and Worshiped an Idol Old 0:22 No Spiritual Quality Comes Without Effort 0:52 2 Peter 1:5 - Giving All Diligence 1:52 Diligence Defined as Persistent Effort 2:52 Apply Effort to Add Virtue and Knowledge 3:52 Add Self-Control and Perseverance 4:52 2 Peter 1:10 - You Will Never Fall 5:52 Solomon Built a Temple Young, an Idol Old 6:52 Glory Belongs to Those Who Continue KEY SCRIPTURES 2 Peter 1:5 - "And besides all this, giving all diligence" 2 Peter 1:10 - "be all the more diligent to make certain about this calling and choosing you, for as long as you practice these things you will never fall" Full message:    • Видео   If this spoke to you, subscribe for more. #DagHewardMills #SolomonBuiltATempleYoung #SpiritualDiligence #NeverFall #GodlinessTraining #ChristianSermon #Sermon2026