HEBREWS 12:1-13 God’s purpose in chastening us is so that we might learn not to sin. We cannot expect forgiveness and then be turned loose to go on living in the sin that brought God’s displeasure. God fixed a gulf between sin and righteousness.This must be maintained.Absolutely no compromise is...

2 SAMUEL 12:1-10 David’s harshness and lack of pity were due to his being out of touch with God. No wonder he failed to remember the judgment prescribed by the Law. At this point the Holy Spirit gave Nathan boldness to say to David, “Thou art the man” (2 Sam....

2 SAMUEL 11:6-15 David’s scheme was to bring Uriah home on a military furlough, hoping that he would be considered the father of Bathsheba’s child. Uriah was much more righteous than David in this. He would not permit himself to relax until the war was over. David then resorted to...

2 SAMUEL 11:1-5 We have seen before that God does not gloss over the sins of His children. David, though a man after God’s own heart, was not sinlessly perfect. We come now to the darkest hour in this great man’s life. It seems that the higher the peak of...

2 SAMUEL 7:1-13 Nathan commended David for his desire to build a temple and then went to his own house. That night God spoke to the prophet, and as an obedient servant, Nathan brought the word to David. The message was no. God was not going to allow David to...

2 SAMUEL 5:1-10 So impregnable did the Jebusites think their fortress to be that they jeered at David and his men, saying that the blind and the lame could hold it against David’s army. “Nevertheless,” we are told, “David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city...

2 SAMUEL 3:1,7-18 David’s waiting on the Lord indeed paid off. At the end of seven and a half years, God began to arrange events so that David was finally crowned king of all Israel. Abner, who was general of the armies of Israel, had put Ishbosheth on the throne...

2 SAMUEL 2:1-11 Second Samuel 2 opens with these words: “And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the Lord said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go...

2 SAMUEL 1:1-16 Second Samuel opens with the account of a messenger coming to David and telling him that Saul and Jonathan and many others were dead. Thinking to gain David’s approval and possibly receive a reward from him, this messenger, who was an Amalekite, told David that it was...

1 SAMUEL 29 Now we can see how God delivered David from the dilemma sin had gotten him into in Gath. He must have been a troubled man when Achish told him that he and other Philistine princes were going against Israel. But when those princes came, they were alarmed...