by Paul Apple | Jul 24, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: DAVID CONSOLIDATES HIS RULE IN JERUSALEM AS THE LORD PROSPERS AND PROTECTS HIMINTRODUCTION:Frederick Mabie: This section of the Chronicler’s work begins and ends with statements reflecting God’s blessings on David both in Israel and in the surrounding...
by Paul Apple | Jul 23, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: DAVID’S INITIAL ATTEMPT TO TRANSFER THE ARK OF THE COVENANT TO JERUSALEM VIOLATES GOD’S HOLINESS AND ENDS IN TRAGEDYINTRODUCTION:August Konkel: The transfer of the ark is not a new topic in the narrative, as the chapter division might suggest. The attempt to...
by Paul Apple | Jul 23, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: MIGHTY WARRIORS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS RALLIED THEIR UNIFIED SUPPORT FOR DAVID AS KING IN HARMONY WITH HIS DIVINE CALLINGINTRODUCTION:Frederick Mabie: The opening chapters of David’s account (1Ch 11–12) present a clear image of unity in affirming the...
by Paul Apple | Jul 22, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE DESERVED DIVINE EXECUTION OF SAUL PAVES THE WAY FOR THE TRANSFER OF THE KINGDOM TO DAVIDINTRODUCTION:Frederick Mabie: The Chronicler’s account of Saul shows the high cost of covenantal unfaithfulness, described as rejecting the word of the Lord (v.13;...
by Paul Apple | Jul 21, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE RESETTLING OF THE EXILES FOCUSED ON ESTABLISHING TEMPLE WORSHIP IN JERUSALEM UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE PRIESTS, LEVITES AND OTHER TEMPLE SERVANTS WHILE REMEMBERING THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL’S KINGS BEGINNING WITH SAULINTRODUCTION:August Konkel:...
by Paul Apple | Jul 20, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE PARTNERSHIP OF BENJAMIN WITH JUDAH IN SUPPORTING THE DAVIDIC LINE DERIVES FROM ITS CLOSE ASSOCIATION- WITH THE SOURCE OF THE KINGDOM IN THE GENEALOGY OF SAUL AND- WITH THE PROMISED LAND OF JERUSALEMINTRODUCTION:Iain Duguid: Benjamin is given prominence...
by Paul Apple | Jul 19, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: REMEMBER THE FORMER MIGHTY MEN OF VALOR IN THE NORTHERN TRIBES AS YOU CELEBRATE GOD’S FAITHFULNESSINTRODUCTION:August Konkel: The Chronicler includes all the tribes of Israel not yet discussed. Dan is not actually named, but a comparison with the...
by Paul Apple | Jul 18, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE ADMINISTRATION OF WORSHIP UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE LEVITES ELEVATES THIS TRIBE TO A POSITION OF PROMINENCEINTRODUCTION:Frederick Mabie: The length of the Chronicler’s treatment of the tribe of Levi is second only to his survey of the line of Judah...
by Paul Apple | Jul 18, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD TO HIS COVENANT STIPULATIONS ENABLES INITIAL MILITARY SUCCESS FOR THE TRANSJORDANIAN TRIBES BUT EVENTUALLY RELEGATES THEM TO EXILE DUE TO IDOLATRYINTRODUCTION:Frederick Mabie: As part of his survey of “all Israel,” the Chronicler now...
by Paul Apple | Jul 16, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES CANNOT COMPROMISE GOD’S KINGDOM AGENDA – WHICH INCLUDES THE FORGOTTEN TRIBE OF SIMEONINTRODUCTION:Frederick Mabie: The second half of ch. 4 (vv.24–43) provides the genealogical summary of the tribe of Simeon, whose history was...
by Paul Apple | Jul 15, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE PROMINENT ROLE OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (AS FOCUSED IN KING DAVID) IN GOD’S KINGDOM AGENDA EMPHASIZEDINTRODUCTION:August Konkel: The genealogy of Judah is the longest and most complex genealogical unit in the Bible [Genealogy, p. 461]. It provides the...
by Paul Apple | Jul 13, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE CONTINUITY OF THE UNIVERSAL MISSION OF GOD’S COVENANT PEOPLE REFLECTED IN TRACING ISRAEL’S ORIGINS BACK TO ADAMINTRODUCTION:Andrew Hill: God is everywhere assumed but nowhere mentioned in genealogies. The Chronicler also takes it for granted that his...
by Paul Apple | Jun 22, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: THE END OF THE STORY SEES JOB VINDICATED AND RESTORED INTRODUCTION: Francis Andersen: The gifts at the end are gestures of grace, not rewards for virtue. It is an artistic, indeed a theological fitness, if not necessity, that Job’s vindication be not just a...
by Paul Apple | Jun 22, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: AN APPRECIATION OF GOD’S PERSON AND SOVEREIGN WORKING IN OUR LIVES (HIS POWER AND HIS WISDOM) REMOVES ALL PRESUMPTION AND PRIDE INTRODUCTION: Francis Andersen: Job is satisfied. His vision of God has been expanded beyond all previous bounds. He has a new...
by Paul Apple | Jun 22, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: ONLY THE CREATOR AND CONTROLLER OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND IMPRESSIVE CREATURES CAN DETERMINE WHAT IS JUST IN OVERALL WORLD GOVERNANCE INTRODUCTION: David Atkinson: The common factor in all the animals we have met earlier in chapters 38 and 39 is that they are...
by Paul Apple | Jun 20, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: CONFRONTED WITH HIS RELATIVE SMALLNESS, JOB IS HUMBLED AND SILENCED INTRODUCTION: Elmer Smick: Job, the challenger, in a hand-over-mouth posture that signifies his intention to remain silent (v.4), realizes how complex and mysterious God’s ways are. In other...
by Paul Apple | Jun 20, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: GOD’S AWESOME DESIGN AND PROVIDENTIAL CONTROL OF THE UNIVERSE AND ALL THAT IS IN IT SHOULD CAUSE US TO HUMBLY SUBMIT INTRODUCTION: David Atkinson: Chapter 38 tells us that God does answer Job. He does so in this world, in sovereign freedom, and in God’s...
by Paul Apple | Jun 18, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: GOD’S POWER AND WISDOM AS DISPLAYED IN NATURE REINFORCE HIS JUSTICE AND USE OF AFFLICTION FOR DISCIPLINE TO RECOVER THE WAYWARD RIGHTEOUS INTRODUCTION: David Clines: – Part 1 is introduced by the topic sentence “to ascribe justice to my Maker,” –...
by Paul Apple | Jun 17, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: DEFENDING THE JUSTICE OF GOD INVOLVES WRESTLING WITH DIFFICULT QUESTIONS INTRODUCTION: This is going to be a sermon of Questions rather than Answers. Roy Zuck: Job’s Complaint: God is unconcerned. He does not reward me for my innocence (10:7; cf. 35:3). . ....
by Paul Apple | Jun 16, 2022 | Bible-OT
BIG IDEA: BOTH THE CHARACTER AND GOVERNANCE OF GOD REFUTE ANY CHARGE OF INJUSTICE INTRODUCTION: Roy Zuck: Job’s Complaint: God is unjust; He does not relieve me of my suffering (19:6-7; 27:2; cf. 34:5-6). Francis Andersen: Elihu’s defense of the justice of God, which...
