_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 ]