by David Keesling | Mar 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Exodus 3:3-4 “So Moses said, ‘I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.’ When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, ‘Moses, Moses!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’”...
by David Keesling | Mar 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
1 Samuel 18:10 “An evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul.” Observation: Saul’s mental deterioration had already begun, as God had earlier lifted His anointing due to Saul’s rebellion and sin. Now, Saul’s destruction is set and certain. Application: How little I...
by David Keesling | Mar 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Matthew 2:19-22 “But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said, ‘Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel; for those who sought the child’s life are dead.’ So Joseph got up, took the...
by David Keesling | Mar 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
1 Samuel 15:3, 21 “Utterly destroy all…oxen, sheep, camels and donkeys.” . . . ‘But the people took some of the spoil.’” 1 Samuel 16:1 “’How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go!’” Matthew 1:24...
by David Keesling | Mar 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
1 Samuel 14:6 “The Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few.” Observation: The setting is this: Israel was terrified of the Philistines, they were largely disarmed, and many of them were hiding in caves. Jonathan, Saul’s son, took his armor-bearer up a rugged...
by David Keesling | Mar 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
1 Samuel 13:8, 13-14 “Now he waited seven days according to the appointed time set by Samuel…Samuel said to Saul, ‘You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God…The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the...