The shocking thing in this chapter is that the atonement is made not by executing Saul, who’s not around anymore, but by executing seven of his sons. Don’t miss the main point that this passage is making – which is that sin has consequences, and the guilt of sin will remain until atonement is made. Just because Saul is off […]

In law, there’s such a thing as a statute of limitations. There are some crimes, where, if legal proceedings aren’t begun within a certain number of years, then it’s too late to do anything about it. But there’s no statute of limitations with God. One of the great myths we believe is that time heals sin. That if something happened […]

We have a God who doesn’t just tell us that things are bad. We could work that out for ourselves. He also tells us why they’re bad, and that’s a mercy that we shouldn’t take for granted. We see it in the passage in front of us. The chapter opens with a famine. But there’s something unusual about the famine […]