1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 12:1-40 |Transcription: First Chronicles. Chapter twelve is a story, a list of those who are called David's Mighty Men. Those are the people that David gathered around himself that were notable and noteworthy for their bravery and the deeds that they have done. It's an important chapter for us because we often judge leaders by their accomplishments when we want to esteem how good of a leader is. We want to pass judgment on a leader and think this guy was a good l

1 Chronicles 11:1-47 |Transcription: Let me open tonight with a quote from John Piper. He describes spiritual leadership as, quote, knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means and God's power. Let me say that one more time. Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be, and then taking the initiative to get them there by God's means and God's power. Now, what kind of leader actually does that? We often think i

1 Chronicles 10:1-14 |Transcription: There is a category in literature of an anti-hero. An anti-hero is somebody who is, strangely enough, not the protagonist, but not the antagonist either. You never know quite how to judge the anti-hero. They're usually on the side of the good person. Not always, but generally on the side of the good person. But they don't have the same motivation as the good person. They're not the enemy. In fact, often when the battle comes, they are figh

1 Chronicles 9:1-44 | Transcription: The New Testament in the end of the book of Galatians concludes with this term The Israel of God. Peace be upon you and to all the Israel of God. And it's a very controversial phrase. How that is interpreted is in many ways it's not the distinction between Presbyterians and Baptists, but it is one of the many verses that are handled differently. And so I want to kind of make an argument tonight for the Baptistic understanding of that expre

1 Chronicles 8:1-40 | Transcription: First Chronicles. Chapter eight is where we are tonight, which is the study of the tribe of Benjamin. Some of the twelve tribes you've noticed have had simple lessons. Judah gives us a king and Levi teaches us redemption, of course, but the tribe of Benjamin is a more complicated endeavor. First of all, it is a shocking story. You'll have become accustomed so far to names and lists of tens of thousands of soldiers, tribes that you probably

1 Chronicles 7:20-40 | Transcription: The Book of First Chronicles begins with an overview of all of human history, so you can't accuse the chronicler of being modest. He starts his description of where Israel got how Israel got into the Promised Land, going back to creation. He really begins with Adam, but then he brings you through creation and through world history all the way. The idea is he's going present day all the way to Israel in the Promised Land. When the chronicl

1 Chronicles 7:1-19 | Transcription: The song we just sang had three stanzas to it, and each of those stanzas has its own promise, and they work progressively. And I assume you don't have your hymnals open, but I'll read you the first line of that song. The first stanza. Mine are days that God has numbered. God knows us. He has numbered our days and our time. He has made us to walk with him even in times of despair. We know that God has given us His Word to be a light for our

1 Chronicles 6:1-81 | Transcription: First Chronicles. Chapter six describes the tribe of Levi. First Chronicles. Chapter four described the tribe of Judah and taught us that the promise of salvation comes to the world through a king, that God is going to bring his redemption to the world by giving a promise. And he gives his promise to certain people, and they would pass it down, leading to the King, Jesus Christ. Chapter five taught us that that promise comes with power, bu

1 Chronicles 5:1-26 | Transcription: We often assume that one's safety is about location. If we live inside of the right borders, or we're protected by the strongest military of our defenses are secure enough than we think that we are secure. That's how nations think. You hear in the news even of the missile attacks in Israel. I'm supposed to be leading a group there in May, and it's so easy for people to think and wonder, is it safe there right now? You graph out or map out

1 Chronicles 4:1-43 | Transcription: The Word of God in one Chronicles four gives you the genealogy of Judah and Simeon. And once you hear the word genealogy. Don't fall asleep. Stay with me, because you might think it's a list of names, but if you're going through First Chronicles four, you recognize that everything in First Chronicles four is showing you the depth of the Word of God. Dave, I don't know if it's possible for us to get the the slides up. If not, don't worry. M

1 Chronicles 3:1-24 | Transcription: It is Presidents Day weekend. Amen. While it seems obvious now that our country has a president, it was not always so obvious during the era of the Founding Fathers as they were writing the Constitution and negotiating and trying to get all thirteen colonies on board. There was actually a very complicated debate on what the president would be called. The Founding Fathers had agreed on three branches of government. They agreed that one bran

1 Chronicles 2:1-55 | Transcription: First Chronicles chapter two. Just the first two verses here. These are the sons of Israel, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. You know, the world has not always been like it is right now. There was a period of time in the world where there was people but no sin. We refer to that as the age of innocence. And we looked at that. The beginning of First Chronicles. First Chronicles

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1 Chronicles 1:4-26 | Transcription: One of the oldest and most common debates in politics. And this is not just American, but going back to the the Greco-Roman world is what is the purpose of government. Generally, a more compassionate or liberal approach is that the purpose of government is to right wrongs and make the world a better place. Generally, a more conservative or right leaning approach is that the purpose of government is to do less, to stay out of the way, and

1 Chronicles 1:1-3 | Transcription: As I mentioned this morning, it's not often you hear study through first Chronicles, and perhaps that's because if you've tried to read First Chronicles, you run into a problem immediately that you don't know how to pronounce a lot of the names. And there are a lot of names and there are people you don't know. And so it becomes almost like reading somebody else's family Bible, like the the page, the dedication page, and family Bibles that h