_Then Nahash the Ammonite came up._
THE IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES OF A NATIONAL REJECTION OF GOD
In the opening verses of this chapter we see the result of
disobedience. Instead of happiness for Israel; we fear that the
invasion of which we now read, is but too prophetic of those awful
retributions w... [ Continue Reading ]
_His anger was greatly kindled._
DIVINE INDIGNATION
My subject is Divine indignation--its advantage, its characteristics,
and its limitation.
I. Mark the advantage of a good, wholesome indignation. The situation
was a critical one. Only a month before, as the LXX give the date,
Saul had been anoin... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he took a yoke of oxen._
RALLYING TO THE KING’S STANDARD
Everything seems to point to this as the time when a decisive blow may
be struck. If we are only equal to the situation, we may do something
effectual in our time for the spread of the kingdom of God. I daresay
you remember that scene in... [ Continue Reading ]
_There shall not a man be put to death this day._
A MAGNANIMOUS KING
Louis XII of France is known in history as a most magnanimous prince
towards his enemies. On his accession he caused a list of these to be
drawn up, and marked against each name a black cross. This was looked
upon by them that the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Come and let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there._
THE RENEWING OF THE KINGDOM!
“Gilgal!” The word means a wheel, a revolution. And is not the
great circumference of the year, measured as it is by a few hundred
days in the poor chronicle of our lives, but by hundreds of millions
of miles i... [ Continue Reading ]