Minister’s Message – July 28, 2024

Bible reading: 2 Samuel 11:1-17

The following spring, at the time of the year when kings usually go to war, David sent out Joab with his officers and the Israelite army; they defeated the Ammonites and besieged the city of Rabbah. David himself stayed in Jerusalem.

One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in her house. She was very beautiful. So he sent a messenger to find out who she was, and learned that she was Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite. David sent messengers to get her; they brought her to him and he made love to her. (She had just finished her monthly ritual of purification.) Then she went back home. Afterward she discovered that she was pregnant and sent a message to David to tell him.

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Minister’s Message – July 21, 2024

Bible reading: 2 Samuel 7:1-15.

When King David was settled in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from all his enemies, he said to the prophet Nathan, “See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays in a tent”. Nathan replied, “Go, do all that you have in mind; for the Lord is with you”.

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Minister’s Message – July 14, 2024

Bible reading: 2 Samuel 6:1-16.

David and all the chosen men of Israel set out and went to Baalah in Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who is enthroned on the cherubim. They carried the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, Abinadab’s sons, were driving the new cart with the ark of God; and Ahio went in front of the ark. David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the Lord with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

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Minister’s Message- July 7, 2024

Bible reading: 2 Samuel 5:1-7,9-10.

All the tribes of Israel went to David at Hebron and said to him, “We are your own flesh and blood. In the past, even when Saul was still our king, you led the people of Israel in battle, and the Lord promised you that you would lead his people and be their ruler.” So all the leaders of Israel came to King David at Hebron. He made a sacred alliance with them, they anointed him, and he became king of Israel. David was thirty years old when he became king, and he ruled for forty years. He ruled in Hebron over Judah for seven and a half years, and in Jerusalem over all Israel and Judah for thirty-three years.

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