March 8, 2020
1 Samuel 21:1–9
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• 38:13
• ID: 3419
Is it permissible to lie when telling the truth could lead to tragedy? On the run from Saul, David lied to Ahimelech about not being alone. The priest then helped the fugitive by giving him holy bread. How did Ahimelech decide he could break
While the Lord promised to establish David’s throne forever, the kingdom was not safe in the king’s hands. After committing adultery with Bathsheba, David callously planned the death of her husband, Uriah. His heart had grown increasingly hardened
God promised that through King David, He would save Israel from the Philistines. Second Samuel 21 recounts four incidents when an older, battle-weary David relied on his mighty warriors to strike down the Philistine giants. Alistair Begg compares
November 14, 2004
1 Samuel 17:41
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• 43:32
• ID: 2411
As David charged onto the battlefield to face Goliath, he saw more than a giant: he saw that the Lord’s reputation was at stake. Drawing from 1 Samuel 17, Alistair Begg explains that proper perspective comes from knowing God through His Word
First Chronicles 20:1. “In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. AndJoab struck down Rabbah
to the same place. It was to God that David carried his sorrow: It was to God that David confessed his sin. Notice, then, we must take our sorrows to God. Even your little sorrows you may cast upon God, for He counts the hairs of your head; and your …
The task of building the Jerusalem temple was great, and King David gave wholeheartedly and generously of his wealth to provide for it. As Alistair Begg reminds us, however, the temple owed its greatness to the fact that it was not for man
as it may seem, God used their bravery as well as their deception—and even the suicide of the defector Ahithophel—to fulfill His plan for King David. As believers in Christ, we can rest on the promise that nothing, not even our sin, can thwart God’s purposes for those He loves.
the reigns of the nation’s first kings, Saul and David. Yet as memorable as these stories may be, an even greater story lies at their heart: that of the true King, “great David’s greater Son,” who would one day come to establish His throne and rule
the reigns of the nation’s first kings, Saul and David. Yet as memorable as these stories may be, an even greater story lies at their heart: that of the true King, “great David’s greater Son,” who would one day come to establish His throne and rule
October 11, 2020
2 Samuel 1:22–27
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• 43:16
• ID: 3455
David’s lament over the deaths of Saul and Jonathan invited Israel to feel their grief and provided direction for their sorrow. As Alistair Begg explains, David buried Saul’s past offenses, choosing instead to focus on the good that had been lost
October 22, 2006
Psalm 32:3–4
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• 34:52
• ID: 2540
One natural response to sin is to cover it up, assuming we will move forward without negative consequences. The example of King David, however, suggests such an approach never really works. Psalm 32 describes the physical decline and despair David
that your shelter will weather a storm—which certainly beats the alternative of coming back to a campsite and seeing that your tent has blown away! In this verse, David is responding to feeling forgotten and disappointed in life, and being unfairly
Talking trash to your opponent is a practice dating back to long before professional sports. When Goliath, for instance, was insulted by a mere boy being sent to fight him, he began the talk smack—and he “cursed David by his gods.” Goliath’s cursing
. They only watched as their future hung on the shoulders of David, who was chosen by God to be “the man in between.” David was the anointed, appointed servant of God—and in that respect, he was the prototype of Jesus. Like that of Israel’s army
God made a covenant with David, promising that his kingdom would last forever. And yet after the reign of David’s son Solomon, the kingdom was divided, and within a few hundred years both the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom were destroyed
heart. For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after
God uses all things for His glory—even as He used Absalom’s insurrection against His anointed king, David. In this sermon from 2 Samuel 16, Alistair Begg explains how Hushai the Archite, David’s loyal friend and spy, and Ahithophel, a traitor
Although the Syrians and Ammonites fled from battle before Joab and his mighty host, the Syrian army gathered again to defeat David. With all of Israel at his command, however, David destroyed them. Alistair Begg explains how the battle against
Offerings for the Temple And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the Lord God. So I have provided
