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“So David inquired of the Lord: ‘Should I launch an attack against these Philistines?’” (I Sam. 23:2).
What courage! What audacity! What brilliance! What boldness to inquire of the Lord! Was not David a great military general? Could he not rely on his inner self to guide this plan? Didn’t David have those around him he could rely on to plan an attack on the enemy?
Yes, David could have brought a plan to fruition by his own design, or he could have relied on a strategy produced by his ...
In Matt. 5:17-19, Jesus declared that He did not come of His own accord, as a civil revolutionary or insurrectionist against the established religious order, of which Israel had been trustee and custodian for more than 1,400 years. The very message of the Law and the Prophets was to point man toward Christ for salvation from his sin: “To him give all the prophets witness, that
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