Tag: wonderful peace

Psalms 127:1, “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”

God desires to dwell in the midst of His people.

David – “…when kings go to battle…”

• 2 Samuel 11:1-18
  • Put the Ammonite king’s crown on his head
  • Pride of life
  • Ammonite king, numbered the people not the fighting men
  • Human spirit
  • 70,000 people dead
• 1 Chronicles 20:1
  • Uriah
  • Bathsheba
  • Lust of the flesh
  • 2 people die
  • Sword never leaves the house of Davud
  • Amnon
  • Civil war

1 Corinthians 15:58, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

• Stedfast – firm, settled
• Unmoveable – not to be moved from its place. Firmly persistent.
• Always abounding – at all times, to be in excess, exceed, excel.

“…In the work of the Lord…” – “Except the Lord build the house”