The Word for today:
1 Sam. 21:10-22:23
mark this: 22:2
While Saul--Satan's man--wears the crown, the rightful but rejected King David--God's man--is hounded by Saul and reduced to hiding in the caves, where everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. So he became captain over them. And there were about four hundred men with him. (1)
We live in the day of Jesus' rejection, when the world is ruled by the prince of this world (2). Our struggle is against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places (3).
A picture of the church in the present hour is seen here as well. Those who gather themselves to Jesus, the captain of our salvation (4), consist of the poor in spirit (5), who live their lives against the flow, against the prevailing winds of their culture. Christians do not always get along, nor go along, with the temporary world system (6).
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(1) 1 Samuel 22:2 (2) John 12:31/KJV; John 14:30/KJV; John 16:11/KJV; see also Acts 26:18; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph. 2:2; (3) Eph. 6:12/RSV (4) Hebrews 2:10; (5) Matthew 5:3; see also 1 Cor. 1:26; (6) see Romans 12:2a; 1 John 2:15
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