that, see me immediately after the service because I will have you featured, not only here, but also on the David Letterman Show. An eye has a limited role in a telephone conversation. You see somebody pick up a telephone receiver, stick the hearing part
September 11, 2016
Galatians 5:23
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] In other words, “The only way that I could do this is if I enthrone myself and dethrone God, if I decided to worship my own desires rather than to worship the God who has preserved me and prospered me.” Contrast David and Bathsheba: he sees, he conjures
September 8, 2002
Proverbs 22:6
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and for ill. You take that child into your arms, and you look at it, and it has the potential to become Hitler, or it has the potential to become Dr. David Livingstone, the missionary explorer. It has the potential to help immensely in the course of life
September 24, 2023
John 3:1–15
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). [18] John Newton, “Amazing Grace” (1779). [19] John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955), 99–100. [20] John Calvin, The Gospel According to John: 1–10, trans. T. H. L. Parker, ed. David W. Torrance and Thomas F
for sin.’”[14] A new covenant and a new king. God had ruled through a king in the past; he’s going to do it again in the new covenant era. And the prophets build on the promise that God had made to David in 2 Samuel 7. For example, Isaiah 9—you
of calling on him, like blind Bartimaeus: “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”[28] And the hymnwriter had that refrain: Pass me not, O gentle Savior, Hear my humble cry; While on others Thou art calling, Do not pass me by.[29] You see, that’s
July 22, 2001
Ruth 2:4–13
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18:20. [4] 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12 (NIV 1984). [5] David Atkinson, The Message of Ruth: The Wings of Refuge, The Bible Speaks Today (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 1983), 64. [6] Psalm 139:1–2, 4, 7–8 (paraphrased). [7] Exodus 20:7 (KJV). [8
it clear that what we’re being told there is that David is loving and he’s kind. And that’s what that verse tells us—not that his lameness was a picture of this, and his two feet were a picture of that, and Jerusalem was a picture of this, and so
I invite you to turn with me to Ecclesiastes and chapter 1: “The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. “Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he
. Taylor, The Ministry of the Word (New York, 1876), 4, quoted in Iain Murray, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, vol. 2, The Fight of Faith: 1939–1981 (1990; repr., Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2004), 458. Murray’s quotation of Taylor differs slightly from
Iain H. Murray, David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, vol. 1, The First Forty Years, 1899–1939 (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1982), 190–91. [23] See Acts 9:25. [24] See Acts 13:50. [25] See Acts 14:5. [26] See Acts 14:19. [27] See Acts 16:23. [28] See Acts 17:5. [29
May 13, 2015
2 Timothy 4:1–5
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Jeremiah’s day. David has already said that it rings with sad and telling judgment in our native land of Scotland. It also has a telling judgment on my adopted home. The facts are clear. The charge is clear. The challenge is great. Itching ears. Lots
June 24, 2001
Ruth 1:1
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, afterwards, David as a shepherd boy would be looking after the sheep; in the same location where, afterwards, shepherds also looking after sheep would hear the words of the angels announcing the arrival of the Messiah, the Christ
September 3, 2000
Jonah 4:1–4
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of always pointing that out to us lest we should ever be tempted to forget it. Last Sunday evening, as I spoke at Shadow Mountain Community Church in San Diego for David Jeremiah, in the course of the people who came to greet me afterwards
April 10, 1994
Nehemiah 9:1–5
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saints rejoice in your goodness. O Lord God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember the great love promised to David your servant. Tremendous cry from his heart. Basically, what he’s saying is “Lord, meet with us. We’ve built this temple. We’re
June 16, 2013
Esther 2:1–4
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. But in the overruling providence of God, this is the mechanism whereby she becomes such a friend to her daughter-in-law Ruth. And then the story unfolds from there. If you think of David in his sin with Bathsheba, producing a child, and then you remember that he
December 26, 2021
Luke 2:41–52
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the children of God, even to them that believe in his name.”[15] Now, I hope that our studies in 2 Samuel will be a recurring influence on our thinking for a long time. And as you ponder this, remember the great promise that was made to David in 2 Samuel
October 16, 2016
Ephesians 3:7–8
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). [8] Philippians 3:4–9 (paraphrased). [9] 1 Corinthians 15:9 (paraphrased). [10] See Charles Dickens, David Copperfield. [11] John R. W. Stott, The Message of Ephesians: God’s New Society, The Bible Speaks Today (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic
false modesty. This is not Uriah Heap in David Copperfield. For there is a perversity about us as well when we try and make ourselves sound self-deprecating when it’s actually just another form of exaltation, when it’s another form of pride, when
June 1, 2008
Habakkuk 3:1–19
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she pledges allegiance to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?[9] God was preserving his Anointed One. What is happening when David steps out onto the battlefield before the vastness of Goliath and all the hosts of wickedness arrayed against God’s
