Guard Your Heart: The End Time Generation’s Wake-Up Call

Dave Robbins: Previously
on “The Endtime Show.”
Dave: Now, how did he get to the
point where he could build the
first temple and then starting
building altars to other
gods, okay?
He had a wonderful move of God
in his life at one point,
and then it got to the point
where he built high places
to other gods.
How in the world
does that happen?
It’s compromises
all along the way.
Well, it can happen
to anyone today.
It can happen to even a church
or an individual
or even a nation.
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Dave: Let me dive right
back into Solomon here.
You know, Solomon didn’t
immediately turn from God.
He simply refused to guard
the influences that shaped
his heart.
And those influences began to
slowly–the slow erosion of
his devotion.
I mean, think about
Solomon’s heart is turned.
It’s unimaginable with the
downward spiral into idolatry.
The Bible’s painfully clear in
1 Kings 11:4, “His wives turned
away his heart after other gods,
and his heart was not perfect
with the Lord his God.”
Now, this is a real
turning point here.
Solomon didn’t lose
faith intellectually.
He lost it emotionally, and then
spiritually, then morally, and
finally, it was very public.
You know, from toleration
to participation.
And Scripture says Solomon went
after Ashtaroth, the goddess of
sexual fertility.
He went after Milcom, the
abomination of the Ammonites.
Built high places for
Chemosh and Molech.
“Did evil in the sight of
the Lord,” 1 Kings 11:6.
Molech was worshiped with child
sacrifice, think about that.
And imagine the man who built
the temple of the Lord.
I can’t get away from this.
And he now builds the altars
to gods associated with
unthinkable evil.
And that didn’t
happen overnight.
His wives didn’t ask him
to renounce Jehovah.
They simply wanted
their shrines built.
And Solomon, you know, wanting
their approval, he allowed it.
And then he tolerated it, and
then he honored it, and then he
participated in it.
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
no one ever leaps into
apostasy overnight.
They slide into it through
affection and driven, it’s just
one compromise after another.
To the point where, you
know, you’re drifting.
You’re just slowly drifting
to the point where you’re way
off track.
And then, of course, the
judgments of God comes to
Solomon, and his kingdom
is ripped apart.
And God responds directly.
1 Kings chapter 11, verse 9,
“And the LORD was angry with
Solomon, because his
heart was turned.”
But notice, he didn’t
say Solomon made an
intellectual mistake.
He is–he said
his heart turned.
And God then tells
Solomon in 1 Kings 11:11.
“I will surely rend the kingdom
from thee and will give it to
thy servant.”
And God began raising
adversaries: Hadad the Edomite,
Rezon of Damascus, and
Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.
And the golden age was over.
The peace was gone, the
unity was shattered.
And after Solomon’s death, the
kingdom was split into northern
Israel and southern Judah.
And Solomon’s fall didn’t just
cost him his intimacy with God.
It tore an entire nation apart.
Do you hear what I’m saying?
And that is the power of
one compromised heart.
Solomon’s final testimony, of
course, was in the–it’s in the
book of Ecclesiastes.
The Bible tells us that by the
end of his life, Solomon is no
longer that confident young boy.
He is broken, he’s weary,
he’s disillusioned.
He’s this old man, a man who
tasted everything that this
world could offer, and
he found it all empty.
And the book of Ecclesiastes in
his final sermon to the world,
in Ecclesiastes chapter 1, verse
2, he opens with a haunting cry.
He says, “Vanity of vanities,
all,” all the wives, the money,
the entertainment, the gardens,
the alcohol, all of it’s
just vanity.
And he describes life without
God as vexation of spirit, a
chasing after the wind, a life
full of sorrow and travail, an
endless loop with no meaning.
Solomon tried everything.
He had wisdom, and “much
wisdom is much grief,”
Ecclesiastes 1:18.
Pleasure.
Bible says, “He withheld not
his heart from any joy.”
He had wealth.
He had gathered gold, silver,
servants, and entertainers, and
yet he concludes, he says,
“Behold, all was vanity and
vexation of spirit.”
But the old king does not
leave us hopeless, right?
At the very end, with the
clarity that only regret can
bring, Solomon gives the
greatest conclusion in all of
the Hebrew Scriptures.
In Ecclesiastes, it’s 12, I
think it’s down maybe verse 13,
“Fear God, and keep
his commandments.”
He said, “At the end of all,
fear God, keep his commandments:
for this is the
whole duty of man.”
So, folks, this is Solomon’s
final warning to all of us.
His repentance, his last
attempt to reach us.
And listen, this message
is for our generation.
If you really pay attention
to it and look at all the
correlations, and those were
examples and stories to help us
right here before the Second
Coming of Jesus Christ.
The message for our generation,
a world that is a world loving
what Solomon loved.
What destroyed Solomon
is destroying much of
modern civilization.
The same enemy that sought
to destroy Solomon, Satan
hated Solomon.
Satan hates you and me.
He hates our–he
hates the world.
He hates people.
And so, if you think about this,
what destroyed Solomon, it’s
destroying our
modern civilization.
Moral compromise.
Celebration of pleasure.
Idolization of wealth.
The pull of foreign influence.
A heart divided between
God and the world.
Cultural pleasure overriding
biblical conviction.
In 1 John 2:15, it says,
“Love not the world.
If any man loved the world,
the love of the Father is not
in him.”
So, this was Solomon’s tragedy.
He didn’t stop
loving God suddenly.
But he simply started
loving the world more.
And in these days, the spirit
of Solomon’s compromise, it
is everywhere.
I mean, think of it like this,
modern-day churches adopting
worldly values.
Nations exalting
pleasure over the truth.
Believers blending in
instead of standing out.
The Bible says, “Come out from
among them and be ye separate.”
But you can go to some churches,
and you can’t tell that it’s a
church even.
You’d be shocked.
Hearts divided between
devotion and distraction.
When’s the last time you shut
your phone off and laid it–got
it out of the room and then
went in and prayed and had
devotions, right?
Jesus warned us in Matthew
chapter 6, verse 24, “You cannot
serve God and Mammon.”
And Solomon tried,
but he failed.
So, folks, I’m telling you
today, on “The Endtime Show,”
that we’re just prior to the
Second Coming of Jesus Christ,
and you’ve got to guard your
heart in this present world.
And, you know, the story of
Solomon is not in the Bible to
entertain us.
It is there to wake us up.
Solomon began with a clean
heart, a humble spirit.
He had a real desire
to serve God.
He–a life filled
with divine favor.
God–the Bible says, “King
David was a man after God’s
own heart.”
But King David wanted to build a
house for the Lord, and the Lord
said, “No.
You’re too battle-torn.
You’ve got blood on your–so
much blood on your hands that,
no, but I’m–”
The Lord told King David, “I’m
gonna give the construction
project to your son, Solomon,
and Solomon will build it.”
Now, imagine God
saying that about you.
“You’re gonna build my house, my
first house, the temple up on
the Temple Mount.
And so, but the problem is,
he didn’t end like that.
I mean, he ended with a divided
heart, a compromised spirit.
He ended off into idolatry,
national destruction,
spiritual regret.
And his final message
really reaches us today.
And it is, “guard your heart,
guard your influences, guard
your affections, guard
your walk with God.”
Don’t let any compromise come in
to the point where it’ll affect
your walk with God.
And you can tell, you can tell
when God will say, “Uh, uh, uh,
don’t do that,” and you’re like,
“Look, God, I can handle it.
You deal with your stuff
and I’ll deal with mine.”
That’s what you’re saying.
And God’s saying.
“Okay, but you’re
tying my hands.”
Because if Solomon, the wisest
man who ever lived, if he could
drift, then any one
of us can drift.
If Solomon could be seduced by
the world, then any nation can
be seduced.
If Solomon learned everything
the world had to offer.
I mean, wine, women, song,
wealth, you name it, he had it.
And he said–everything the
world had to offer, and he
concluded that it was
just vanity and vexation.
It’s nothing.
It’s like the chaff in the wind,
then our world, obsessed with
pleasure, power, and wealth, in
2025, now going into 2026 is
heading towards
the same collapse.
Now, thank God there is hope.
And we could repe–our
nation could repent.
God’s got a way of bringing a
nation to its knees, folks.
And for some of the things that
we’ve done, we need to repent.
There’s nothing wrong
with repenting.
And man, I repent.
I repent every day.
“God, if there’s some way in me
that shouldn’t be there, I’m
sorry, I’m turning
away from whatever.
You show me what it is.”
Because I wanna please God.
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Dave: I wanted to give everybody
kind of a warning to this
endtime generation,
just to help us all.
I’m talking to myself,
I’m talking to our world,
I’m talking to whoever
might be listening.
Maybe you’re a senator or a
congressman, or maybe you’re
somebody in a foreign
country, or just whoever.
I wanted to give a warning
and to kind of parallel it
with Solomon.
Because Solomon went from a
God-given glory to the love of
this present world.
The–and Satan is a master at
putting things in your way that
are bright and glitzy, and just,
“Oh, you know, this will bring
me some kind of
self-aggrandizement.
And man, I just–you know, I’ll
be so special and famous, and
this will satisfy me.”
Nothing can satisfy
you like the Lord can.
Nothing.
You know, again, the story
of Solomon, it’s not just
ancient history.
I mean, if we can’t apply what
happened in the Bible to us
today in some form or fashion,
then it–the book is
worthless, right?
But that’s fact–that
simply is not true.
It’s the most awesome, wonderful
book that’s ever been written.
It’s God’s Word in written form.
And so, we can apply things that
happened to these people two,
three, four thousand years ago,
apply them to our life today.
And it helps us in our
relationship with God and our
relationship with
our fellow man.
That’s the thesis of the Bible.
According to 1 Corinthians
chapter 10, verse 11, it
is prophecy.
Solomon’s life, it’s a
divine warning “written for our
admonition, upon whom the
ends of the world are come.”
What happened to Solomon
can happen to any person.
It can happen to a nation.
It can happen–it’s happening
in our world right now.
And his rise reveals what God
can do with a humble heart.
But his fall reveals what
the world can do to an
unguarded heart.
And it is this pattern, this
humility equals blessing, but
then some people would start
to compromise, and that leads to
idolatry, collapse.
It perfectly mirrors the
condition in some people’s
lives, in some nations, in some
churches, the condition of the
final generation.
I mean, for there to be some
churches today that could ordain
a member of an LGBTQ community
into their pulpits as an
ordained minister, think of the
compromise that had to have
started years to go to get to
that point in a church to where
that would happen.
And there was a time when the
church was on fire for God and
healthy, and just, you know,
sticking–abiding right by
biblical principles.
And then at some point in time,
they had to drift and making
small compromises, small
compromises, until the point
where the Bible says that it is
an abomination for–to be in an
LGBTQ lifestyle, and they’re
ordaining them in their pulpits
as pastors.
How does that happen?
I’m talking about 2025, folks.
So, number one, remember,
Solomon’s early humility.
Solomon began with a spirit
our world desperately lacks.
He said, again, “I’m
a little child.
I know, I don’t know how
to go out or come in.”
He knew that he wasn’t enough.
And because of humility, God
gave him wisdom and favor and
prosperity and influence that
no one–no king had ever seen
or ever will see again.
And today, the spirit of
humility has been replaced with
self-exaltation,
self-expression,
self-promotion, self-dependence.
“Oh, I’ve got enough education.
God, use me.”
Nah, it doesn’t work like that.
God tends to use people that
God will get the glory for
everything that happens.
Now, I’m not saying if you’re
educated, God can’t use you.
He certainly can, and we need
very educated people in these
last days for the
kingdom of God.
But you can’t let that education
get to your head to the point
where you think, “Well,
it’s me doing this.”
Because it’s never you doing
great exploits for God.
God can use human beings and
work through them to do great
things, but when–if you look
at taking the children of Israel
out of Egyptian bondage, does
anybody listening to me think
that Moses did that?
No, God used Moses as a
mouthpiece to deliver
his messages.
But God–Moses didn’t deliver
anybody out of anything.
God, the Bible says, “God bear
them up on wings of eagles.”
God is the one that delivered
the Israelites out of
Egyptian bondage.
And every mighty
work in the Bible.
I mean, David killed Goliath.
Do you really think it
was David that did that?
Uh-uh, and David knew it.
David said, “I come to you in
the name of the LORD of hosts.”
And he said, I–David knew it
was God, that there’s no way.
Goliath, what, almost 10 foot
tall, David was just some little
ruddy guy.
There’s no way but God.
And many people start out good
and humble and realizing, “Oh,
it’s God,” but then they get
up in a position of where they
might be–have a little fame and
glory, and they might, you know,
become a–maybe a little
wealthy because of that.
And then they’ll say, “Well,
look at me,” and they puff their
chest out and they say,
“Well, I built this church.”
What?
Without God, there is no church.
And–or, “I built this nation.”
No, listen.
The Bible says in Daniel chapter
2 that, “God puts kings up and
God takes them down.
Without God, we are–we would
disintegrate into thin air.
So, my whole point to all of
this today is this endtime
generation, right here before
the Second Coming of Jesus
Christ, don’t ever get puffed up
and think that you’re anything,
because you’re not.
I don’t care, it doesn’t matter
what your name is, it doesn’t
matter what you have
accomplished in this life, any
of that.
We all need to work
hard and do our best.
But at the end of the day,
you better give God credit
for everything.
Because God–if you’ll stay
humble and you’ll stay right,
God can use you to do
some amazing things.
But when you start getting
puffed up, I’m telling you, the
rug–God knows how to jerk the
rug right out from underneath
of you.
And, you know, think of it, from
these social media platforms to
political stages, pride has
become a virtue and humility has
become a weakness in their
eyes, in the world’s eyes.
“Oh, pride,” you know, pride,
“I’m proud, and he’s a–”
The world would say,
“Well, that’s a virtue.”
And somebody that is humble,
they’ll say, “Well, he’s weak.”
But that’s the opposite
in God’s eyes.
Think about that.
In humility, in your weakness
are you strong because of God.
But if you have pride, God’s
saying, “Uh-uh, nope.”
The Bible says, “God resisteth
the proud, but he gives grace to
the humble,” doesn’t he?
God has never changed.
He still blesses the
lowly, not the loud.
Number two, in this–if we look
back and reflect on Solomon’s
golden age, a foreshadowing of
the modern comforts of today.
Folks, we live–everybody here
in America lives like kings
compared to most of the world.
Under Solomon, Israel enjoyed
unmatched peace and prosperity.
No wars, no fears, no threats,
just abundance, safety, comfort.
Well, does that sound familiar?
I mean, much of the world today,
especially the Western world,
has lived spiritually asleep.
Now, not everybody, I get it.
I know some great, fabulous,
awesome, wonderful churches in
the Western world.
But many people kind of live
inside the age of ease.
You know, like Israel.
Like Israel did, we have full
tables, strong economies,
endless entertainment, peace
without prayer, prosperity
without repentance, but comfort
is often the quiet beginning
of compromise.
“I just want to be entertained.
Entertain me.
And I wanna be comfortable.”
And there’s nothing wrong with
some entertainment, there’s
nothing wrong with comfort.
But when you are obsessed with
that, and your relationship with
God is waning, then
you got a problem.
You say, “Dave, why are we
talking about this today?”
Because the Second Coming of
Jesus Christ is just around the
corner, and you don’t want to
get into the point where Solomon
had it all, but because of some
compromises, he just began
to drift.
You say, “Well, what
was the beginning of
Solomon’s downfall?”
The small compromises
were what destroyed him.
Solomon did not
fall in one moment.
He fell–think about this, he
started to drift one decision at
a time.
The same pattern
defines our generation.
Think about this.
Multiple horses
back with Solomon.
Think about trusting in military
strength, not God today.
Returning to Egypt.
Think about today, leaning
on world systems for help.
Multiplying wives.
Well, think about in modern-day
society, valuing pleasure
above purity.
Solomon multiplied
silver and gold.
And think about today,
worshiping wealth
and consumption.
If you see Solomon’s compromises
in a modern form, just look at
today’s headlines, everybody.
Nations that boast in their
weapons, not righteousness.
Culture that promotes sexual
indulgences as freedom.
You can sleep with
whoever you want.
Well, that’s not biblical.
Bible says, “Let every man have
his own wife,” doesn’t it?
You know that’s in
the Bible, right?
Entertainment replaces holiness.
Wealth, status, materialism
define success.
I’m talking about modern-day–
our modern-day world.
That person is successful
because they have a lot
of stuff.
That does not mean a
person is successful.
I’m talking about in God’s eyes.
Now, there’s nothing
wrong with having stuff.
But if your stuff has you
and you’re so consumed with
materialism and stuff and
status, then you’re gonna have
a problem.
You know, you understand that
God gave Solomon wisdom and
wealth and all
this other stuff.
And God was totally fine with
him having those things and
being wise.
There’s nothing wrong with
having a great education and
all that.
Nothing wrong with any of that.
But if you compromise and go
against God’s Word, it can
become a detriment to you.
You know, technology becomes
the new Tower of Babel.
Leaders make alliances with
darkness to gain influence.
That’s why, you know,
politics is so corrupt.
These aren’t new sins, they’re
Solomon’s sins rebranded for our
digital age.
And then, of course, the turning
of Solomon’s heart was the most
dangerous sin of all.
His wives turned his heart away
from God to the point where he
would start getting
into idol worship.
It was not his mind, not his
theology, not his doctrine,
it was his heart, folks.
He did not stop
believing in God.
He simply stopped
loving God first.
Today, millions are in that same
condition, not rebellious, not
necessarily hostile,
they’re just divided.
A divided heart is the
highway to apostasy.
Distraction replaces devotion.
Affection replaces obedience.
Culture replaces Scripture.
Convenience replaces conviction.
The greatest danger in
the endtime church is
not persecution.
It is seduction away
from the things of God.
And our generation isn’t
abandoning God in anger.
It’s drifting away from God
through affections and just
little compromises.
And Solomon’s full apostasy,
that was where compromises
always lead.
Solomon tolerated
what God rejected,
and then he justified it,
and then he embraced it.
And we see the same progression
in our culture today.
Churches adopting worldly
values, leaders bending
Scripture to fit trends.
Believers celebrating
what God calls sin.
And society calling evil
good and good evil.
Nations building altars to
modern gods, which would be
pleasure, sexuality, wealth,
power, technology, and to self,
whatever makes me happy.
And so, like Solomon, I would
say keep your heart right.
Align yourself with
the Word of God,
because we don’t want
to end up like Solomon.
I want to end up in
the arms of the Lord
when he comes back
a second time.
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