The transmission—or copying—of the books of the Bible is a most amazing study. Prior to the creation of papyrus (the ancient equivalent of paper) and thus the ability to put all the books of Scripture into one volume, each Bible book was contained…
The Bible is full of beatitudes. The book of Revelation alone has seven in it. The greatest sermon in human history begins with an entire octave of beatitudes (Matthew 5:3-10). The very first word in the book of Psalms is “blessed”. Psalm 40:4 pronounces…
The most frequently recorded exhortation of Jesus involves using one’s ears to hear. “He who has ears to hear, let him hear” is found eight times and “He who has an ear, let him hear” is found seven times in the New Testament. …
The Bible’s objectivity eliminates the possibility of flattery or undeserved praise. Therefore, when David is described by an inspired penman as being a man after God’s own heart, a wise Bible student diligently seeks to identify and then imitate those godly characteristics he…
As the apostle Paul was tracing God’s scarlet thread of redemption from the Jewish patriarchs to Jesus while preaching in the synagogue in Antioch of Pisdia (Acts 13:14ff), he quotes God’s description of David: “a man after My own heart who will do…
Time waits for no one. The cadence of its march never increases or decreases; it is relentlessly, ruthlessly steady. It was created prior to the formation of Adam and Eve; its genesis is declared in the very first three words of Scripture. …
One Saturday night a preacher took a very long rope and laid it around the outside walls of the mammoth church auditorium. Near where he would stand the next morning, he took some bright colored yellow tape and wrapped it around three inches…
A problem which is not worth praying about is not worth discussing with others. This is at the heart of David’s counsel to Jeduthun in Psalm 39 as he tackles the question of “How do you handle yourself with wisdom when your heart…
Because of our folly and stubbornness, there are times in which the only way God can get us to look to Him is when we are lying flat on our back after being run over by the guilt and consequences of sin. It…
David is a Bible character of extreme contrasts. On the one hand, he was a man after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14); he enjoyed extraordinary, blissful, and sweet fellowship with Jehovah. On the other hand, he was also a man who experienced…
