Archive for category: GAMEtime Sharing

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 2:28-46.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Kings 2:28-35 (NIV)
28  When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.
29  King Solomon was told that Joab had fled to the tent of the LORD and was beside the altar. Then Solomon ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, “Go, strike him down!”

On verses 28-35:  For many years Joab was the ruthless commander of King David’s army.  Joab’s ruthlessness was never more manifest than when he unsuspectingly murdered two high ranking Israelite officials, Abner (in 2 Samuel 3) and Amasa (in 2 Samuel 20:9-10), possibly for fear that they would one day replace him.  Joab also killed Absalom, David’s son, specifically against David’s orders.  Yet for some reason David always spared Joab’s life.  David literally let Joab get away with murder.

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 2:1-12.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Kings 2:1-3 (NIV)
1  When the time drew near for David to die, he gave a charge to Solomon his son.
2  “I am about to go the way of all the earth,” he said. “So be strong, show yourself a man,
3  and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in his ways, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and requirements, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go,
 
On verses 1-3:  Here David is on his deathbed.  David’s last words to King Solomon his son are “be courageous, be a man, and obey God’s commands.” (v2-3)  After all the experiences David had accumulated over his lifetime — his unprecedented victories, his heartbreaking losses, and all the lessons he learned from both his successes and his mistakes —

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 1:28-40.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Kings 1:28-31 (NIV)
28 Then King David said, “Call in Bathsheba.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before him.
29 The king then took an oath: “As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered me out of every trouble,
30 I will surely carry out today what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Solomon your son shall be king after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”
31 Then Bathsheba bowed low with her face to the ground and, kneeling before the king, said, “May my lord King David live forever!” 
 
On verses 28-31:  Despite the fact that many people had already sided with Adonijah, David decides to install Solomon as the new king in place of David.  By doing this, David was fulfilling a promise he had made to his wife Bathsheba to make Solomon the next king (v29-30). In response, Bathsheba bows before David and blesses him.

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 1 Kings 1:1-14.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

1 Kings 1:1-4 (NIV) 
1 When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. 
2 So his servants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to attend the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.” 
3 Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. 
4 The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her. 

On verses 1-4:  By this time King David is almost 70 years old and is not in good health.  To help keep him warm, they find a beautiful girl called Abishag to lie beside him and to serve him as his nurse, but not to have sexual relations with him. 

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is 2 Samuel 24:10-17.  As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first.  See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below.  Let’s go! 

2 Samuel 24:10 (NIV) 
10 David was conscience-stricken after he had counted the fighting men, and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing.” 

On verse 10:  In the previous verses we looked at why David calling a census was a foolish thing to do.  Now, after the census is over, David is conscience-stricken and confesses his sin to God.  Your conscience is a great gift from God.  Without a conscience, we would persist hardheartedly in our sin and never turn back.  But when the Holy Spirit touches our conscience, as He did here with David, we can quickly confess our sin and get back on the right track.  It’s no wonder Paul tells Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:19 to hold on to a good conscience.