The Philistines Also Came

This brief, yet sweeping, review of the early years of David's ascension to the throne of Israel is intended to provide the serious reader with an enlarged view of the vast scope of spiritual growth and advancement and the certainty of the associated challenges that will surface which characterize the life scene of this stage of the Christian Experience. Now, by no means does this small effort an attempt to be a comprehensive examination; but on the contrary, it is just a sampling...
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This brief, yet sweeping, review of the early years of David's ascension to the throne of Israel is intended to provide the serious reader with an enlarged view of the vast scope of spiritual growth and advancement and the certainty of the associated challenges that will surface which characterize the life scene of this stage of the Christian Experience. Now, by no means does this small effort an attempt to be a comprehensive examination; but on the contrary, it is just a sampling overview intended to highlight the "long" or more distant view of expected events and encounters that will eventually surface in the lives of Christ followers whose inner spirit is fervently and vibrantly aflame, and whose widened vision of aspiration seeks to more largely embrace the vastness of the grand blessings of spiritual fullness that is the bequeathed birthright that has been apportioned to all of the people of God. The only individual experiential differences that separate those who will obtain their spiritual birthrights and partake in the blessings of that attainment from those that sadly do not, is our personal inner passion to discipline and submit our lives to comply with the mandates of God's Word, and freely yield our will to the control of the Spirit of God. It is only when our hearts have been broken in full surrender to His will that He may take the fragile shell of our "earthen vessels" and fill them with His power to accomplish that which the Court of Heaven has respectively assigned to be performed through our life of spiritual service rendered to the Lord of Glory Jesus Christ. As we will observe fully shown in the instructional accounting of this key phase in the life of King David, the critical text of Philippians 2:13 soberly and equally reminds each of us: "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure."