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Proverbs 17, Love covers up sin!

Pro 17:1, Better is a dry morsel with quietness, Than a house full of feasting with strife. 

Imagine a home filled with hatred, envy, and strife; not even the best food in the world would taste good in the mist of these people! A dry piece of bread in quietness / peace is by far more enjoyable!

Pro 15:17, Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred. 

Psa 37:16-17, A LITTLE THAT A RIGHTEOUS MAN HAS IS BETTER THAN THE RICHES OF MANY WICKED. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, BUT THE LORD UPHOLDS THE RIGHTEOUS.

Pro 17:3, The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, BUT THE LORD TESTS THE HEARTS. 

As fire refines both silver and gold, the LORD test the heart of his servants! Do we serve to glorify the LORD or ourselves? Our works will be tested by the LORD for HE seeks true faith in HIM!

1Pe 1:7, THAT THE GENUINENESS OF YOUR FAITH, BEING MUCH MORE PRECIOUS than gold that perishes, THOUGH IT IS TESTED BY FIRE, MAY BE FOUND TO PRAISE, HONOR, AND GLORY AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, 

1Co 3:13, EACH ONE’S WORK WILL BECOME CLEAR; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; AND THE FIRE WILL TEST EACH ONE’S WORK, OF WHAT SORT IT IS. 

Pro 17:9, He who covers a transgression seeks love, BUT HE WHO REPEATS A MATTER SEPARATES FRIENDS. 

What type of friend are you? Do you spread rumors of someone or do you cover/hide someone’s shame?

1Pe 4:8, And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “LOVE WILL COVER A MULTITUDE OF SINS.” 

Pro 17:27-28, He who has knowledge spares his words, And a man of understanding is of a calm spirit. Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.

I’m reminded of this quote from Abraham Lincoln, “It is better to keep your mouth shut and let them think you a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”!  SOMETIMES IT’S JUST BEST TO KEEP QUIET AND LISTEN; BE THERE FOR A SOMEONE IN THEIR TIME OF NEED!

Jas 1:19, SO THEN, MY BELOVED BRETHREN, LET EVERY MAN BE SWIFT TO HEAR, SLOW TO SPEAK, slow to wrath; 

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2Chronicles 3, Provide HIMSELF!

2Ch 3:1, NOW SOLOMON BEGAN TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AT JERUSALEM ON MOUNT MORIAH, …

On a different spot on that same hill, Mount Moriah, Isaac was offered, as a type of CHRIST, Gen 22:2, Then the LORD Jesus was offered up on that same hill!

Gen 22:8 KJV, And Abraham said, MY SON, GOD WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB FOR A BURNT OFFERING…

Abraham, speaking as the Father, said “MY SON, GOD WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF” GOD THE SON PROVIDED HIMSELF AS A BURNT OFFERING BECAUSE OF OUR SINS!

Heb 1:8, But to the SON HE SAYS: “YOUR THRONE, O GOD, IS FOREVER AND EVER; A SCEPTER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE SCEPTER OF YOUR KINGDOM. 

OUR SINS WHERE GREAT, BUT HIS LOVE FOR US WAS GREATER THAN OUR SINS!

2Ch 3:17, Then he set up the pillars before the temple, … HE CALLED THE NAME OF THE ONE ON THE RIGHT HAND JACHIN, AND THE NAME OF THE ONE ON THE LEFT BOAZ. 

Jachin means “HE SHALL ESTABLISH” AND Boaz means “IN HIM IS STRENGTH”! The house of GOD was established by GOD and built by the strength of GOD!

1Pe 2:5, YOU ALSO, AS LIVING STONES, ARE BEING BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.  The Father is building HIS temple, the church, on the ROCK, HIS SON JESUS! INDEED, JESUS HAS ESTABLISHED IN HIS STRENGTH THE WAY FOR US TO FOLLOW! TRUST IN HIM, HE IS COMING BACK FOR HIS BRIDE! SOON!!

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2Samuel 18, The death of a son!

2Sa 18:7-8, The people of Israel were overthrown there BEFORE THE SERVANTS OF DAVID, AND A GREAT SLAUGHTER OF TWENTY THOUSAND TOOK PLACE THERE THAT DAY… AND THE WOODS DEVOURED MORE PEOPLE THAT DAY THAN THE SWORD DEVOURED.

Absalom started a civil war against his own father David, but the LORD was on the side of David. More men were killed by the woods; Implies that GOD WAS ALSO HELPING DAVID!

2Sa 18:9, …ABSALOM RODE ON A MULE. The mule went under the thick boughs of a great terebinth tree, and his head caught in the terebinth; SO HE WAS LEFT HANGING BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.

Deu 21:23, … FOR HE WHO IS HANGED IS ACCURSED OF GOD

ABSALOM RODE ON A MULE AND WAS CAUGHT ON A TREE BY HIS HAIR LEAVING HIM HANGING! JESUS ALSO RODE ON A MULE AND WAS HUNG ON A TREE BUT, ABSALOM DIED FOR HIS SINS WHEREAS JESUS DIED FOR OUR SINS!

2Sa 18:33, … “O my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—IF ONLY I HAD DIED IN YOUR PLACE! O ABSALOM MY SON, MY SON!” 

IN DAVID’S CRY WE CAN SEE THE CRY OF THE FATHER CRYING FOR HIS LOST SONS. IF ONLY I HAD DIED IN YOUR PLACE!  WHERE DAVID COULD NOT DO, GOD DID! HE DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD.

Rom 5:8, BUT GOD DEMONSTRATES HIS OWN LOVE TOWARD US, IN THAT WHILE WE WERE STILL SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US. 

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2Samuel 9, At the Kings table!

2Sa 9:5-6, Then King David sent and brought HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE OF MACHIR THE SON OF AMMIEL, FROM LO DEBAR. Now when MEPHIBOSHETH THE SON OF JONATHAN, the son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his face and prostrated himself….

Mephibosheth was living in another man’s home hiding in fear of king David.

2Sa 9:7-8, So David said to him, “DO NOT FEAR, FOR I WILL SURELY SHOW YOU KINDNESS FOR JONATHAN YOUR FATHER’S SAKE, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather; and YOU SHALL EAT BREAD AT MY TABLE CONTINUALLY.” Then he bowed himself, and said, “WHAT IS YOUR SERVANT, THAT YOU SHOULD LOOK UPON SUCH A DEAD DOG AS I?”

Luk 22:30, THAT YOU MAY EAT AND DRINK AT MY TABLE IN MY KINGDOM, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” 

Before coming to CHRIST, we were poor, weak, lame and fearful. We are separated from the King because of our sins towards the KING! YET, OUR KING CAME LOOKING FOR US, BECAUSE HE LOVED US!

1Jn 4:19, WE LOVE HIM BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US. 

2Sa 9:13, SO MEPHIBOSHETH DWELT IN JERUSALEM, FOR HE ATE CONTINUALLY AT THE KING’S TABLE….

AS DAVID SEES JONATHAN IN MEPHIBOSHETH, SO DOES OUR FATHER SEE CHRIST IN US! AND WE WILL EAT AT HIS TABLE CONTINUALLY! NOT THAT WE DESERVE IT BUT BECAUSE OF HIS GREAT LOVE!

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1Samuel 18, the love of brothers!

1Sa 18:1,3-4, Now when he had finished speaking to Saul, THE SOUL OF JONATHAN WAS KNIT TO THE SOUL OF DAVID, and JONATHAN LOVED HIM AS HIS OWN SOUL. …THEN JONATHAN AND DAVID MADE A COVENANT, BECAUSE HE LOVED HIM AS HIS OWN SOUL. And Jonathan TOOK OFF THE ROBE THAT WAS ON HIM AND GAVE IT TO DAVID, WITH HIS ARMOR, EVEN TO HIS SWORD AND HIS BOW AND HIS BELT.

Jonathan and David were both men of faith.  both trusted in the LORD, both gave the glory to the LORD and BOTH KNEW THEIR GOD!  By giving his princely garments, his armor, sword Jonathan knew David would be the next king of Israel! THE LOVE THEY SHARED WAS A BROTHERLY LOVE BROUGHT TOGETHER BY THEIR LOVE FOR THE LORD!

1Jn 4:7, Beloved, let us love one another, FOR LOVE IS OF GOD; AND EVERYONE WHO LOVES IS BORN OF GOD AND KNOWS GOD.

Php 2:4-5, Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

JONATHAN WAS NOT MOTIVATED BY HIS OWN INTEREST, BUT SUBMITTED HIMSELF TO THE WILL OF GOD! HIS LOVE FOR DAVID WAS PURE, BUT HIS LOVE FOR GOD BOUND THE TWO TOGETHER! SAUL TRIED TO KILL DAVID YET, THE LORD WAS WITH HIM

1Sa 18:28, THUS SAUL SAW AND KNEW THAT THE LORD WAS WITH DAVID