LNBC - 9:45 Service
Dr. Bobby Blanton
2 Samuel 24:15-16 CSB
(1) The ease with which large portions of the population may be wiped out.
(2) Why of those who took the disease some recovered and others did not?
(3) Why are some taken with the disease and others not?
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will sing of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in whom I trust.
For He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler,
And from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover thee with His pinions,
And under His wings shalt thou take refuge:
His truth is a shield and a buckler.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night,
Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor the pestilence that walketh in darkness,
Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
A thousand shall fall at thy side,
And ten thousand at thy right hand;
But it shall not come nigh thee. (Psalm 91)
(4) Conditions may arise in a community which justify the extraordinary exercise of powers that would not be tolerated under ordinary circumstances.
(5) How completely it has shattered the theory that skin color, race and ethnicity, entitles its possessor to better treatment than others who are different.
(6) The high estimation in which the Christian church is held in the community.
(7) While it lasted, it kept the thought of death and of eternity constantly before the people.
(8)The blessedness of the sense of security which a true, living, working faith in the Lord Jesus Christ gives one in the midst of life’s perils.
6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (2 Timothy 4:6-8)