It’s easy to do the right thing for the wrong motives. So what about David in this chapter? He’s winning these great victories, but maybe it’s just his own reputation that he cares about? There are little hints here that that’s not the case. In v4 David takes 1700 horsemen. What does he do to them? He hamstrings all the […]

What about you? Do you realise that all of history is moving towards the moment when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD? Have you bowed the knee to him? Have you acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Lord of all? Or are you still fighting against him? If so, be warned, that in the […]

Because God had promised to be with him, David’s victories in this chapter are inevitable. Just as it is with the progress of the church of Jesus Christ. The church may look doomed in this country, just like it has looked extinct in certain countries before. But we have Christ’s promise: ‘I will build my church and that gates of […]