This book was written by the Apostle Peter. The one who denied Jesus three times on the night of his crucifixion. The one to whom Jesus said, “Get behind me, Satan!” and “Upon this rock I will build my church.” In chapter 1, Peter called the people to holy living. He told them not to…
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What a wonderful song of praise to the God David served his entire life. As he wrote this, he included the highs and the lows. How God delivered him from his enemies, and how he was blessed. He gave praise for who God is and how incomparable He is. He acknowledged that God was his…
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James wrote quite a lot about how powerful the tongue is. He was referring to the actual spoken word, of course. But I think it would be safe here in the 21st century to expand the thought to what we say on the internet. On Facebook, Twitter and any other of the social media. Have…
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Today I have just a couple of quick comments. You may have wondered why David put his ten concubines aside and never saw them again. Remember when Absalom ran David out? What did he do with his father’s concubines? Right. He had sex with them in such a way that everyone knew about it. They…
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The author of the book of James is not the James, the son of Zebedee, one of the 12 disciples. We know this because Herod had that James killed, as recorded in Acts 12. It is thought by some that this James was actually the half-brother of Jesus. His mother was Mary and his father…
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A lot happened in this chapter, but we have limited time, so I’m going to focus on verses 15-23. Here, King David is on his way back to Jerusalem and comes to the Jordan River, when he is met by both Simei and Ziba. Remember them? Shimei was the man who threw rocks at David…
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Alexander Maclaren wrote in his “Expositions of Holy Scripture” “The close of the book of Job must be taken in connection with its prologue in order to get the full view of its solution of the mystery of pain and suffering. Indeed the prologue is more completely the solution than the endings; for it shows…
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Remember the last chapter, where the author of this book talked about that Hall of Fame of people of great faith? Moses, Abraham, Rahab, etc? These are those who have gone before us. Those who ran the race and finished. When the author, here in the opening verse of chapter 12 refers to a large…
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As David’s army was to go out to battle Absalom and his men, he planned to go with them. Why do you suppose that is? Do you think it’s because the last time they went out and he stayed home, that’s when all the trouble began? Yeah, me too. I think he figured he’d rather…
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It’s easy to think of this scene with God’s awesome, booming voice rumbling and shaking everything around for miles as He speaks out of the storm. And maybe it did happen that way. He can be a fearsome God. But I like what the commentator F. B. Meyer wrote: “Divine power and human ignorance. When…
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