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God’s view on David

Davidic Covenant

but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.’”

The prayer of Jabez

Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.

Themes

Correction

Divisions

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Communion = Proclaimation

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

Communion Warning

Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.

Role

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

The cross

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Purpose of Spiritual Gifts

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

Purpose of tongues

Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

Resurrection

And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.

The gospel

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

Giving

Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.

Natural man

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Don’t sue

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?

Self control

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

Flee immorality

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Lordship

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

The purpose of singleness

I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

Marriage is only in the Lord

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

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The Tests of Eternal Life

Admit sin

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Confess sin

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Don’t love the world

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Endurance is Assurance

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

Propitiation for the whole world

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Real love gives

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

God is the initiator in love

We love because he first loved us.

Love God, Love Brothers

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

The power in you

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Themes

United/Divided Kingdom

Solomon compromises

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.

Solomon asks for wisdom

Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”

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Standing Firm

Long for the word

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Christ our example in suffering

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

The church is like Israel in purpose

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Spiritual Gifts

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

Younger men submit to elders

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

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Judges to Kings

Not Fail to Pray for the Flock

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

A man after God’s own heart

But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

Obey better than sacrifice

And Samuel said,
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
and to listen than the fat of rams.

David Annointed.. The Lord looks at the heart

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Evil Spirit from the Lord on Saul

Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.

Themes

The Growth of a Baby Church

Rapture

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Sexual Purity

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

Right Attitudes

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.