Solomon Was the Richest Man Who Ever Lived — Copy These 7 Habits — Transcript

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1. 0:00The richest man who ever lived didn't
2. 0:01win a lottery. He didn't inherit an
3. 0:03empire.
4. 0:05And he didn't have a single advantage
5. 0:06you can't get your hands on right now.
6. 0:09His name was Solomon, and scripture says
7. 0:11he became so wealthy that silver stopped
8. 0:14counting as money in his kingdom. The
9. 0:16Bible literally says silver was nothing
10. 0:19accounted of in his days. Rulers
11. 0:21traveled from the ends of the earth just
12. 0:23to stand in his court and see it with
13. 0:25their own eyes.
14. 0:27But here's the part that should stop you
15. 0:28cold.
16. 0:29God didn't hand Solomon that fortune
17. 0:32because he was special.
18. 0:34He gave it to him because of seven
19. 0:35things Solomon did. Seven habits.
20. 0:39And every one of them is written down,
21. 0:41sitting in a book that's probably in
22. 0:42your house right now. You've prayed for
23. 0:44money. You fasted for a breakthrough.
24. 0:47And maybe, if you're honest, you've
25. 0:49watched someone who doesn't even fear
26. 0:51God drive past you in the exact life
27. 0:53you've been begging him for.
28. 0:56And quietly wondered if he forgot your
29. 0:57name. He didn't forget you. He already
30. 1:00answered you. He answered you in the
31. 1:02life of Solomon. You just never studied
32. 1:05the man as a blueprint. So, before you
33. 1:07whisper one more prayer about money,
34. 1:09give me these next few minutes because
35. 1:11the wealthiest man in human history left
36. 1:13you seven instructions.
37. 1:15And number two,
38. 1:17number two is the one almost every
39. 1:19believer gets completely backwards.
40. 1:22Habit one. He never lived on a single
41. 1:24stream. Start right here because this is
42. 1:26the habit most people skip, and it's the
43. 1:29reason they stay stuck.
44. 1:31Solomon never had one source of income.
45. 1:33Not one. First Kings 10:22 tells us he
46. 1:37had a merchant fleet that sailed out and
47. 1:39came back every 3 years loaded with
48. 1:41gold, ivory, and silver. He had trade
49. 1:43routes moving horses and fine linen. He
50. 1:46had vineyards, herds, tribute from other
51. 1:49kings, and tolls from every trader
52. 1:51crossing his land. So, when one stream
53. 1:54dried up, six others were still running.
54. 1:57And this wasn't luck. He wrote the
55. 1:58principle down himself. Ecclesiastes
56. 2:0011:2, "Give a portion to seven and also
57. 2:04to eight, for thou knowest not what evil
58. 2:07shall be upon the earth." Seven and also
59. 2:10to eight. That's the old Hebrew way of
60. 2:12saying don't stop at what feels like
61. 2:14enough. Spread it wider than that. And
62. 2:16why? For you don't know what evil is
63. 2:18coming. Solomon is telling you flat out
64. 2:21something is going to go wrong.
65. 2:23A job ends, a market crashes, and the
66. 2:26man who built his whole life on one
67. 2:28paycheck goes down with it. Four verses
68. 2:30later, he says it again, even plainer.
69. 2:33Ecclesiastes 11:6, "In the morning sow
70. 2:36thy seed and in the evening withhold not
71. 2:38thine hand, for thou knowest not whether
72. 2:41shall prosper this or that."
73. 2:43Plant in the morning. Plant again in the
74. 2:45evening because you don't know which
75. 2:47seed God will cause to grow. So, you
76. 2:49don't bet everything on one. Here's what
77. 2:52that means for you tonight.
78. 2:54Your job is not your income. Your job is
79. 2:56one stream. If the only money in your
80. 2:58life stops the day your boss stops
81. 3:01calling, you don't have security. You
82. 3:03have a countdown. So, start a second
83. 3:05stream this month. A skill you can sell.
84. 3:08A small thing of your own. Something
85. 3:10that doesn't die when one door closes
86. 3:13because a person with one source of
87. 3:14income is always one bad day away from
88. 3:17ruin.
89. 3:18Solomon knew that 3,000 years before
90. 3:20your landlord did.
91. 3:22Now you're waiting for number two. I'm
92. 3:24not giving it to you. Not yet.
93. 3:26Number two is the one almost every
94. 3:28believer gets backwards and it's the
95. 3:30engine underneath the other six. So, I'm
96. 3:32holding it to the very end. Keep it in
97. 3:34the back of your mind because from here
98. 3:36on every single habit is secretly
99. 3:39leaning on it. Let's keep going. Now,
100. 3:41here's where it gets practical. Solomon
101. 3:44didn't just work. He worked with
102. 3:45excellence. And excellence is what put
103. 3:48him in front of the powerful. Listen to
104. 3:50his own words in Proverbs 22:29.
105. 3:53Seest thou a man diligent in his
106. 3:55business? He shall stand before kings.
107. 3:58He shall not stand before mean men.
108. 4:00Diligent, skilled, excellent. That kind
109. 4:03of person doesn't end up in front of
110. 4:05small men, he ends up in front of kings.
111. 4:07And a few chapters earlier, Proverbs
112. 4:0910:4, the hand of the diligent maketh
113. 4:12rich.
114. 4:13Here's the chain most people miss.
115. 4:15Average work makes you invisible.
116. 4:18When you're invisible, nobody fights to
117. 4:20pay you more. You're replaceable, and
118. 4:22the market knows it. But the moment you
119. 4:24become genuinely excellent at something
120. 4:26people need, you stop competing on
121. 4:28price. You get pulled into rooms other
122. 4:31people can't buy their way into. So, for
123. 4:33you, in London, in Ohio, anywhere the
124. 4:37rent keeps climbing, stop trying to get
125. 4:39paid more for average work. Become the
126. 4:42person they can't afford to lose. Get so
127. 4:44good at one valuable skill that your
128. 4:46name is the first one spoken when the
129. 4:48big opportunity opens. Ecclesiastes 9:10
130. 4:52puts it in a single line.
131. 4:53Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it
132. 4:56with thy might. Not halfway, with your
133. 4:58might. And notice, becoming excellent
134. 5:01means knowing what's even worth
135. 5:03mastering. That's number two, already
136. 5:05whispering. Hold on, because average
137. 5:08gets you a paycheck. Mastery gets you a
138. 5:10seat at the table.
139. 5:12Habit four, he never built alone. Stay
140. 5:15with me, because this is where a lot of
141. 5:17ambitious people quietly sabotage
142. 5:19themselves. The richest man alive did
143. 5:21not build his empire by himself. When
144. 5:23Solomon built the temple, he partnered
145. 5:25with Hiram, king of Tyre, for timber,
146. 5:27gold, and skilled craftsmen he didn't
147. 5:29have. It's all there in 1 Kings chapter
148. 5:325. He brought in the skill he lacked
149. 5:34instead of pretending he had it all. And
150. 5:37he taught it. Proverbs 15:22.
151. 5:41Without counsel, purposes are
152. 5:42disappointed, but in the multitude of
153. 5:44counselors, they are established. In
154. 5:47Proverbs 11:14,
155. 5:49where no counsel is, the people fall.
156. 5:52But in the multitude of counselors,
157. 5:54there is safety. Here's the chain. When
158. 5:56you build alone, you're capped by what
159. 5:58you personally know, and worse, by what
160. 6:01you don't know you don't know.
161. 6:03Your blind spots cost you money you
162. 6:05never even see leaving.
163. 6:06But when you invite wise counsel in, you
164. 6:09borrow eyes you don't have. You see the
165. 6:11pit before you fall into it. So before
166. 6:14your next big money move, the mortgage,
167. 6:16the business, the investment, the career
168. 6:18jump, don't decide it alone in your head
169. 6:20at midnight.
170. 6:21Find people wiser than you and ask. Get
171. 6:25a mentor. Sit in rooms where people are
172. 6:2710 years ahead of you. Solomon said it
173. 6:30plainly in Ecclesiastes 4:9, "Two are
174. 6:33better than one because they have a good
175. 6:35reward for their labor." Quick, pause
176. 6:38and comment the habit that's hitting you
177. 6:39hardest so far, one through seven. I
178. 6:42read them and they tell me what to teach
179. 6:44next. And notice again, good counsel is
180. 6:47just borrowed wisdom, which is number
181. 6:49two.
182. 6:50Keep waiting for it
183. 6:52because your next level is usually
184. 6:54hiding in a conversation you haven't had
185. 6:56yet.
186. 6:57Habit five, you refused the shortcut.
187. 7:01This one cuts against everything the
188. 7:02internet is selling you right now.
189. 7:05Solomon watched people chase fast money
190. 7:07and he warned against it in the sharpest
191. 7:09terms.
192. 7:10Proverbs 13:11,
193. 7:12"Wealth gotten by vanity shall be
194. 7:14diminished, but he that gathereth by
195. 7:16labor shall increase." Money that shows
196. 7:18up fast and easy tends to vanish just as
197. 7:21fast, but money gathered bit by bit by
198. 7:23labor,
199. 7:25that money grows. In Proverbs 21:5,
200. 7:28"The thoughts of the diligent tend only
201. 7:30to plenteousness, but of everyone that
202. 7:32is hasty only to want."
203. 7:34Hasty leads to want.
204. 7:36To lack. To broke. Here's the chain
205. 7:39nobody wants to hear. When money comes
206. 7:41with no roots, no skill built, no
207. 7:43discipline formed, you're not ready to
208. 7:45hold it, so it runs through your
209. 7:46fingers. That's why so many lottery
210. 7:48winners end up bankrupt. It's why the
211. 7:50get-rich-quick crowd is always starting
212. 7:52over. The same speed that thrilled you
213. 7:55is the speed that wipes you out. So, in
214. 7:57a world of overnight crypto millionaires
215. 7:59and turn $50 into $50,000 by Friday, you
216. 8:02go the other way.
217. 8:04You build slow.
218. 8:06You save consistently.
219. 8:08You let it compound while everyone
220. 8:09chasing the shortcut burns out and
221. 8:11restarts. Boring, faithful money beats
222. 8:14exciting, reckless money every single
223. 8:17time. And patience like that is just
224. 8:18wisdom applied to time.
225. 8:20Number two again, because wealth that
226. 8:22comes fast usually leaves faster.
227. 8:26Habit six, he gave God the first, not
228. 8:28the leftovers.
229. 8:30Now, it goes deeper than money, and this
230. 8:31is the one people skip when all they
231. 8:33want is the cash. Before Solomon built
232. 8:36his own palace, he built the house of
233. 8:37God. The temple took 7 years. His own
234. 8:40palace he built after. The order
235. 8:42mattered to him. God's house first, his
236. 8:44own comfort second.
237. 8:46And he wrote the law of it in Proverbs
238. 8:483:9-10.
239. 8:50Honor the Lord with thy substance and
240. 8:52with the first fruits of all thine
241. 8:53increase, so shall thy barns be filled
242. 8:55with plenty, and thy presses shall burst
243. 8:58out with new wine. First fruits, not
244. 9:01what's left after the rent, the car
245. 9:02payment, the streaming subscriptions,
246. 9:05and the takeout.
247. 9:06The first, off the top. Here's the
248. 9:09chain. When you give God the first,
249. 9:11you're declaring he's your source, not
250. 9:13your job,
251. 9:15not your hustle. That keeps your heart
252. 9:17free. But when God only ever gets your
253. 9:19leftovers, if he gets anything at all,
254. 9:22money quietly becomes the thing you
255. 9:24actually worship. And a person who
256. 9:26worships money can never have enough of
257. 9:27it. So, decide what honoring God looks
258. 9:30like off the top of your income and do
259. 9:32it first before the lifestyle eats it.
260. 9:36Give like he's the source, because he
261. 9:38is.
262. 9:39And this is almost number two now,
263. 9:41because honoring God is where wisdom
264. 9:43itself begins. Almost there. Because how
265. 9:46you handle the first tells God whether
266. 9:48he can trust you with the rest. Habit
267. 9:51seven, he built to outlive himself.
268. 9:55Here's the last habit before the big
269. 9:57one, and it's the one that separates the
270. 9:58merely rich from the truly blessed.
271. 10:01Solomon understood something backwards
272. 10:03from how most people think. Proverbs
273. 10:0511:24-25,
274. 10:08"There is that scattereth, and yet
275. 10:09increaseth. And there is that
276. 10:11withholdeth more than is meet, but it
277. 10:13tendeth to poverty."
278. 10:15"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and
279. 10:17he that watereth shall be watered also
280. 10:19himself." Read that slowly. The one who
281. 10:22gives increases. The one who clutches
282. 10:24everything ends up with less. Generosity
283. 10:27isn't the enemy of wealth, it's part of
284. 10:29the engine. And he thought past his own
285. 10:31lifetime. Proverbs 13:22,
286. 10:34"A good man leaveth an inheritance to
287. 10:36his children's children."
288. 10:38Not just his kids, his kids' kids. Two
289. 10:41generations out. Here's the chain.
290. 10:44A hand that's always closed can't
291. 10:45receive anything new. It's full of what
292. 10:48it's strangling.
293. 10:49But an open hand gives and receives in
294. 10:52the same motion.
295. 10:53And a person who only builds for
296. 10:55themselves builds something that dies
297. 10:57when they die.
298. 10:58A person who builds for the generations
299. 11:00behind them builds something that
300. 11:02outlives the grave. So, don't just earn
301. 11:04to spend on yourself, give. It guards
302. 11:07your heart and keeps the flow moving.
303. 11:09And build something that doesn't stop at
304. 11:11your funeral. Skills, assets, and wisdom
305. 11:14you pass down. And giving like that
306. 11:16wisely for generations takes the very
307. 11:19thing I've been holding back this whole
308. 11:20time. Because a rich man fills his own
309. 11:23cup, a wise man fills his children's
310. 11:25children's. Now, it's time.
311. 11:27Number two. Habit two, he asked for
312. 11:30wisdom and wealth came looking for him.
313. 11:33This is the one I told you almost every
314. 11:35believer gets backwards.
315. 11:37Here it is.
316. 11:38Early in his reign,
317. 11:40before the gold, before the fleets,
318. 11:42before any of it, God appeared to
319. 11:44Solomon in a dream and said, "Ask what I
320. 11:45shall give thee." Anything. A blank
321. 11:48check from God.
322. 11:49Think about what most of us would ask
323. 11:51for. Money, a house, a breakthrough.
324. 11:54Solomon asked for none of it. 1 Kings
325. 11:563:9, he asked for an understanding heart
326. 11:59wisdom to lead God's people well.
327. 12:03And here's God's answer, verses 11
328. 12:05through 13.
329. 12:06"Because you asked for wisdom and not
330. 12:08riches for yourself, I have given
331. 12:09[snorts] thee a wise and an
332. 12:10understanding heart.
333. 12:12And I have also given thee that which
334. 12:14thou has not asked, both riches and
335. 12:16honor."
336. 12:17Sit with that. He asked for wisdom.
337. 12:19God gave him the wisdom, and then handed
338. 12:22him the wealth he never even asked for.
339. 12:24That's the secret running under all six
340. 12:26habits you just heard. Diversifying your
341. 12:28income takes wisdom to know where.
342. 12:31Mastery takes wisdom to know what's
343. 12:32worth mastering. Wise counsel is wisdom
344. 12:35borrowed. Refusing the shortcut is
345. 12:38wisdom applied to time.
346. 12:40Honoring God first. Proverbs 9:10 says
347. 12:43the fear of the Lord is the very
348. 12:45beginning of wisdom. Building a legacy
349. 12:47is wisdom that thinks past today. Every
350. 12:50habit runs on this one. That's why the
351. 12:52world gets it backwards. Everybody's
352. 12:54chasing the money. Solomon chased the
353. 12:56wisdom, and the money chased him.
354. 12:59His own words, Proverbs 4:7, "Wisdom is
355. 13:02the principal thing, therefore get
356. 13:05wisdom. The principal thing. The first
357. 13:07thing. Get that, and everything else
358. 13:09finally has somewhere to land. So, stop
359. 13:12praying only for the harvest. Start
360. 13:14asking God for the wisdom to plant it,
361. 13:16build it, and steward it, because wisdom
362. 13:19is the soil, and wealth is just what
363. 13:21grows in it. But, I'd be lying to you if
364. 13:23I stopped there.
365. 13:25Because there's a warning written into
366. 13:26Solomon's life, and love won't let me
367. 13:29skip it. The wisest, richest man who
368. 13:32ever lived didn't finish well. First
369. 13:35Kings 11 tells us that in his later
370. 13:37years, Solomon's heart turned away from
371. 13:39God.
372. 13:40All that wealth, all that wisdom, and he
373. 13:43still let it pull him from the very one
374. 13:45who gave it. At the end of his life, he
375. 13:48picked up a pen and wrote Ecclesiastes,
376. 13:50and over and over he called it all
377. 13:52vanity, vapor, breath, chasing the wind.
378. 13:56The richest man in history looked back
379. 13:58at everything he'd built and said,
380. 14:00"Without God at the center, none of it
381. 14:02satisfied." So, hear me. This was never
382. 14:05really about becoming rich. It's about
383. 14:07becoming the kind of person God can
384. 14:08trust with wealth without losing your
385. 14:10soul inside it.
386. 14:12The habits build the money. The fear of
387. 14:15God guards your heart while you carry
388. 14:16it. This isn't a video to make you feel
389. 14:19behind. It's a mirror. If you saw
390. 14:21yourself in the gaps, the one stream,
391. 14:23the shortcut, the closed hand, that's
392. 14:26not condemnation. That's [clears throat]
393. 14:27God showing you where he wants to meet
394. 14:29you this week. So, don't try to change
395. 14:32all seven at once. Pick one, just one,
396. 14:35the one that stung, and start it this
397. 14:37week, today if you can. If this fed you,
398. 14:41comment the number of the habit you're
399. 14:42starting with. I read them. Share it
400. 14:44with someone who's been praying for a
401. 14:46breakthrough, but has never heard it
402. 14:47broken down like this.
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406. 14:56We're building people God can trust. The
407. 14:59blueprint was never hidden. Solomon left
408. 15:01it in plain sight. Now, go and build,
409. 15:04and keep your heart while you do.