Apr 10, 2017 | Sunday Evening
As some of you may be aware, but none of you called my hand, we have NOT considered every reference to the Ark of the Covenant – despite what I mistakenly said last week. There were at least two more, and possibly more than that. The first of my oversights is found in...
Apr 3, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Tonight, let’s tie together most of the remaining references to the Ark of the Covenant. In II Samuel 11, David probably wished that the temple had been built. The lack of a temple actually thwarts one of the most wicked things that David ever did. Again, we can say...
Mar 27, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Can we say that David is a good picture of the child of God? Was he one of the Lord’s men? Assuming that to be true, we still find a man whose life fell short of God’s standards at times. David committed some terrible sins even as one of the Lord’s servants. Besides...
Mar 19, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Let’s begin with a review. David had just become king of the United Tribes of Israel. For just over three years he had been king of Judah only, but now the rest of the nation had come to recognize the plan of God and had submitted to the Lord – and to David. The new...
Mar 13, 2017 | Sunday Evening
I think that we have looked at all the references to the Ark of the Covenant through I Samuel 7. Last week we saw it being abused in Bethshemesh and then being sent to Kirjath-jearim. It was a blessing to the house of Abinadab and to the family of his son Eleazar. Now...
Mar 6, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Who can teach us more about the Ark – the Philestines, the Bethshemites, or those of Kirjath-jearim? I guess it all depends on the condition of our particular heart. We’ve already considered the Philistines and their heathenistic treatment of the Ark. Tonight let’s...
Feb 27, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Just as baptism is a picture, symbol or type of a believer’s union with the death, burial and resurrections of Christ, the Ark of the Covenant was a picture, symbol or type of Israel’s union with Jehovah through Christ. It is called “the Ark of the...
Feb 20, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Thus far, to the best of my knowledge, we have looked at all the references dealing with the history of the Ark of the Covenant. We have not looked at every passage relating to the design and construction and the Ark. But we’ve noticed them all since the completion of...
Feb 13, 2017 | Sunday Evening
I hope you’ve noticed that we’ve been studying the person of our Saviour. In our first message we simply said: “Behold the Christ.” Then we said look at Him in the guidance of His chosen people. Following that we looked at Him in our many moments of...
Feb 6, 2017 | Sunday Evening
I begin once again reminding you of the symbolical significance of the Ark of the Covenant. That beautiful chest and the Tabernacle wherein it usually rested were the most important items in Israel. They were Israel’s Smithsonian Institute; its Congressional Library...
Jan 30, 2017 | Sunday Evening
There are major events which stand above all others in history. Things like Noah’s flood and the crucifixion of Christ. There are things which are so far back in history we can hardly comprehend their importance to us today. Things like the Norman invasion of England...
Jan 22, 2017 | Sunday Evening
As you can see, this is a continuation of this morning’s message. My earlier purpose was to convey the idea that the Ark of God’s Covenant was a type of Christ Jesus. It was a picture, a figure, a foggy mirror of the Incarnate Son of God. But it would be a mistake to...
Jan 16, 2017 | Sunday Evening
I don’t hold the Day of Pentecost with the same reverence that most of our Protestant neighbors do. Acts 2 was not the day that the church of Christ originated. Neither was the baptism of the Holy Spirit which we see in the first verses the way the disciples became a...
Jan 2, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Do you read much in the way of biography? My personal reading is very eclectic. I read spiritual and devotional books, and mysteries, histories and biographies. I am currently reading about the University of Washington rowing crew in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The...
Dec 26, 2016 | Sunday Evening
Among the things Bible students must remember is that the books of the Bible are not chronological. Nor do the chapters in those books necessarily follow a logical sequence of time or even of order. The Bible may not be as mixed up as alphabet soup or scrambled eggs,...
