Category: Religion/Spirituality
We must ever remember, that, in the history of God's ways with His people, privilege and responsibility are intimately bound up together. To talk of privilege, or think of enjoying it, while neglecting the responsibility, is a gross delusion. No true lover of holiness could th...
There is a very interesting allusion to "the valley of Achor" in Hos. ii., at which we may just glance in passing, though it does not connect itself with the special line of tru...
4. viii. We have been looking at the remnant before the captivity andduring the captivity; and now we are called to look at them after the captivity; brought back, by the rich mercy of God, into their own beloved land. We shall not attempt to go...
16. CHAPTER VIIIWe are again called to follow David into the valley of humiliation--a deep valley indeed where grievous sin and its bitter fruits are fully seen. It is really wonderful to trace...
9. CHAPTER IINo sooner had the anointing oil of the Lord been poured upon David, than he was called forth from his retirement to stand before king Saul, now forsaken of God, and troubled wit...
12. CHAPTER VIn dwelling upon a history such as that now before us, which manifestly presents much failure and infirmity, it is well for us to keep in memory what we ourselves are, lest we b...
15. CHAPTER VIIThere is nothing in which the narrowness of the human heart is so manifested as in its apprehensions of divine grace. Legalism is that to which we are most prone, because it giv...
10. CHAPTER IIIFrom amid the brilliant lustre of the valley of Elah, David passed into very different scenes in the household of Saul, where envious looks and heartless attempts upon his life...
11. CHAPTER IVIt is interesting to observe, as we pass from stage to stage of David's history, how different individuals were affected toward his person, and the consequent position assumed i...
17. CHAPTER IXThe 22d chapter of 2 Samuel contains David's magnificent song, and is parallel with the 18th psalm. It is the utterance of the Spirit of Christ in David, connected with His triu...
13. CHAPTER VIWe are now called to follow David from the scenes of his exile to those of his government. Saul has passed off the stage of history, having met death by the hand of an Amalekite...
8. CHAPTER IIn looking through Scripture, we observe how wonderfully the blessed God has ever brought good out of evil. It was Israel's sin to reject their King, Jehovah, and seek to set up...
1. PART II.We must ever remember, that, in the history of God's ways with His people, privilege and responsibility are intimately bound up together. To talk of privilege, or think of enjoy...
2. PART III.It is always well for the Christian to be able to give a calm and decided answer to the objection which infidelity is sure to offer to the actings of divine government. The answ...
6. Chapter viii. In this chapter we have a very marked step towards thesetting up of a king in Israel. "And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.... And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside aft...
14. chapter xv. we read, "And David made him houses in the city of David,and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for them hath the Lord chosen to carry t...
7. Chapter xv. presents us with the final testing and setting aside ofman's king. "GO, SMITE AMALEK." This is the test which really made manifest the moral condition of Saul's heart. Had he been right before God, he would have executed God's judgm...
5. Chapter vii. Passing over much that is valuable in chapters v. andIsrael had been allowed to mourn for many a day the absence of the ark; their spirits drooped under the withering influence of idolatry; and at length their affections began to...