2 Samuel 11-12; 1 Kings 3; 6-9; 11 Part 2 • Dr. Shon Hopkin • June 22-28 • Come, Follow Me
6/17/202656 min
Dr. Shon Hopkin continues his exploration of 2 Samuel and 1 Kings guiding through Solomon’s breathtaking temple, the universal trap of wanting something for nothing, and the Lord who waits at the window for every one of His children to return.
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TIMECODE
0:00 - Part 2 - Dr. Shon Hopkin
1:11 Leadership shortcuts
2:46 The Something for Nothing Principle
4:38 D&C 121 as the ultimate leadership manual
5:34 The temple
6:30 7 years on the temple, 13 on the palace
7:30 The molten sea and 12 oxen
9:16 God is portable
11:52 The scale of the temple
14:16 The molten sea vs. baptismal fonts
15:28 Cherubin in Solomon’s temple
16:35 Gold, grandeur, and bringing your best to the Lord
17:42 Solomon’s dedicatory prayer
21:26 Stranger and foreigner and becoming priests and priestesses
24:23 7 themes of Solomon’s dedicatory prayer
25:11 The temple as a place of sending
27:26 Nephi’s temple and echoes of Solomon’s temple
30:387 Saints as OT people
31:13 Isaiah’s Yad Vashem–a hand and a name for the forgotten
35:47 Offerings and the filled hand of Aaron
38:41 Cups as hands, catching and receiving
39:56 Dr. Hopkin’s paper: “Christ, Covenants and the Caph”
41:46 Recommended reading and the Western Wall today
42:16 Glory fills the temple
43:49 Study the OT, it is the water everything else swims in
49:45 Celebrities, athletes, and sports teams in place of God
51:00 Hesed, hesed, hesed
53:03 God never tells you, “I told you so”
56:53 End of Part 2 - Dr. Shon Hopkin
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsJohn Bytheway· Host0:00
[gentle music] Welcome to part two with Dr. Sean Hopkin, 2 Samuel and 1 Kings.
Shon Hopkin· Guest0:05
Let's move then to what I think will be the last thing that we discuss. We've already given a nod to Solomon's challenges. He's going to struggle with the same things that David struggles with, that being what the Restoration scripture warns against, which is to gratify your pride and exercise unrighteous dominion. He's going to have conscripted service. And, uh, let me just give this quick nod before we move then to talk about the temple. There is another leadership principle that Solomon ends up betraying, and that is he gets the benefits that he wants in a way that works short-term, but is gonna lay the foundation for long-term challenges and disunity in his kingdom. When he over-taxes or over-conscripts or is too demanding in a way that is unhealthy, then he's preparing his kingdom for future dissolution. And I do think we, at times, will use shortcuts to get the effects that we want. We can do this as parents. We can do this as leaders. We can do this with each other. Think the other leadership principles in Doctrine and Covenants 1:21 that we've been quoting from so often, gentleness and meekness and persuasion, love unfeigned, reproving betimes with sharpness when moved upon by the Holy Spirit, and then