Category: Scripture Notes
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No scruple
It’s amazing to watch how Saul givens by whim instead of law and that nothing is beyond him if he so chooses. He even had accounted priests killed for helping David. Clearly he was making no attempt by then to follow the Lord
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(Dis)obedience and responsibility
When Samuel have Saul a command from the Lord Saul did something similar to what he commanded but changed the command to what seemed good to him. When Samuel came to him, Saul declared that he had been obedient. Partial obedience that declares itself as obedience is disobedience. When Samuel questioned what Saul had done…
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Reluctant
Saul was reluctant to be made king when Samuel anointed him to the point that he his when Samuel came to skinny him publicly. Similarly Samuel had been reluctant to give the people a king. Not surprising is that there were men of Israel week were reluctant to accept Saul as their king at first.…
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Essential Conversations
It is our privilege and responsibility to help our children get far enough into the gospel. Accidental conversation is not a principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. What did he want us to teach so freely among our children? The fall of Adam {and the Atonement of Christ} We should start with those first…
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Widespread ignorance
It amazes me how little the people of Israel understood about their God in the days when the Philistines had their ark of the covenant for half a year. Little wonder that they were clamoring for a king not long after that.
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Abandoned potential
James Covel had a wealth of blessings laid at his feet, but like many men, he was unable to sustain the faith which had brought forth those prognoses so that he did not get to taste the fruit offered to him.
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The role of Bishop
I like this description of the time of bishops – to look to the poor and needy and administer to their needs so that they do not suffer. How can we more accurately identify the poor and needy and more really administer to their needs?
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Blind faith
The sons of Eli were acting like the priests if strange gods, corrupting the people and living in fatness off of their offerings. It should be no wonder that when the battle was going poorly against the Philistines they would treat the ark of the covenant as if it were an idol – that their…
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What did Ruth see?
It seems clear to me that Ruth see something in the household of Naomi that made her want to stay with Naomi rather than return to her own family. I expect that she felt the spirit of the lord in her husband’s family and wanted that over what the gods of her people had ever…
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Benjamin
It is hard to fathom how wicked the men of Gibeah were and disappointing to see how the men of Benjamin insisted on defending them. It occurs to me that the priests of Noah took the solution that the people of Israel used to preserve the tribe of Benjamin as their inspiration when they kidnapped…