UNEXPECTED JUDGMENT TO COME—BE READY Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. —Luke 17:26-29             Both in the days…

  GRATEFULLY SERVE KING JESUS “Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’? Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’ ” —Luke 17:7-10             You and I have the privilege to serve…

VENGEANCE BELONGS TO THE LORD ONLY In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.  And about ten days later the LORD struck Nabal, and he died. —I Samuel 25:37-38 And David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish. —I Samuel 26:10             We are told “It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon…

YOUR MASTER DETERMINES YOUR DESTINY And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.  If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the…

HE WORKS IN US TO WORK HIS WORK (Speaking of David)—“For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel.” —I Samuel 19:5             In this verse we can see both the work of God and the work of man working together.   First and always it is the Lord who works through us. Yes, David picked up five stones as he approached the Philistine, Goliath. From the human standpoint David was no match for this bulk of a man. He was close to ten feet tall. Yet the Lord put it in David’s heart what…

BE SEEKERS OF THE LOST!   Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep…

OBEY… FOR THERE IS NO OTHER WAY!  For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. —I Samuel 15:23 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.” —I Samuel 16:7 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. —Luke 14:33             Following Jesus calls for obedience. We are not to be like King Saul who was given…

BE HUMBLE AND NOT SELF-EXALTING For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. —Luke 14:11             If we want to see what humility looks like then let us look at Jesus— Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross. —Philippians 2:5-7             Jesus, God in the…

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JESUS, THE KING OF ALL NATIONS! Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. —I Samuel 8:5-7             Who do we want to truly rule over us? Who or what will be our priority trust? From whose hand do we acknowledge our needs being met? Who is ruler of our lives?…