1 Samuel 18:1-16 How do we respond when someone else becomes more successful than us? 1 Samuel 18:1-16 highlights the danger of jealousy and pride as we compare ourselves to others, but also shows the difference that God’s presence in our lives can make.
1 Samuel 2:35 We don’t draw near to God through the cross – an object. We draw near to God through a person – Jesus our Priest, who gave himself as a sacrifice for us on the cross. If we lose sight of this then salvation becomes mechanical, when in fact it’s personal. But the theologian, John Owen, wrote, ‘There is no office of Christ that Satan labours so hard to obscure and overthrow as His priestly one.’ So this talk is designed to combat that.
1 Samuel 5:1-12; Daniel 1:1-2
