ROMANS 12:6-16 What a shame when there is a spirit of envy among the members of the Body of Christ. Instead, there should be praise for the way God is using each one. One translator paraphrases Romans 12:3: “Now I have a warning for you, prompted by the divine grace...

ROMANS 12:1-5 Christ wants to live His life through us. He wants to use our eyes to behold the world situation as it is today. He wants to use our ears to hear the cry of the unsaved and the cry of those who are in need. He wants to...

2 SAMUEL 24:18-25 The Lord not only stayed the plague, but through Gad He also instructed David to build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Ornan, the Jebusite (1 Chron. 21:18). The Lord was very specific about this and left no alternative in the matter. Why...

2 SAMUEL 24:1-14; 1 CHRONICLES 21:1 This last attack of Satan upon David took place about 38 years after David had ascended the throne and about two years before his death. Satan was successful for a brief time in enticing David into sin, which should remind us all that we...

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...