Download Lesson: 5.5.24 Class Notes – 2 Sam 22.1-25
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God is stronger than David’s enemies. No matter how tough things seem or how desperate they get, remember that God is stronger. God is stronger than anything you face. Make up your mind to rely wholly on Him as David did.
Download Lesson: 4.28.24 Class Notes – 2 Sam 21
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Anytime we are needing to make a decision that carries much weight and impacts many people, we should inquire of the Lord as to what he would have us do. David gives us a great example when Israel was enduring a 3-yr famine. He sought the Lord to understand why it was happening. Once he learned the answer, he knew what he had to do.
Download Lesson: 4.21.24 Class Notes – 2 Sam 20
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The pursuit of a narrow selfish agenda will always be worthless in the eyes of the Lord.
Download Lesson: 4.14.24 Class Notes – 2 Sam 19
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This entire episode of David’s rejection and return certainly illustrates the attitudes people today have toward Christ. There are the loyal few who stand by their absent King, and there are the selfish majority who prefer to rebel. But what will happen when the King comes back? And what are we, His followers, doing to hasten His return? (2 Peter 3:12)
Download Lesson: 4.7.24 Class Notes – 2 Sam 18
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David’s sorrow shows us that it isn’t enough that parents train their children to be godly; they must first train themselves in godliness. David suffered the consequences for not holding his children accountable for their wrongful actions and rebellion:
The soil came from David’s indulgent parenting.
The soil came from David’s sin with Bathsheba and murder of Uriah, after which God promised David: The sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife… I will raise up adversity against you from your own house (2 Samuel 12:10-11).
The soil came from David’s own sinful indulgence of his passions and smaller rebellions against God, which sins and weaknesses were magnified in his sons.