GOODNESS OF GOD

PSALM 34:8-10 (NLT)

8. TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD

IS GOOD.
OH, THE JOYS OF THOSE WHO
TAKE REFUGE IN HIM!
9. FEAR THE LORD, YOU HIS
GODLY PEOPLE,
FOR THOSE WHO FEAR HIM
WILL HAVE ALL THEY NEED.
10. EVEN STRONG YOUNG LIONS
SOMETIMES GO HUNGRY, BUT
THOSE WHO TRUST IN THE LORD
WILL LACK NO GOOD THING.
 ACTS 13:22

22. AFTER REMOVING SAUL, HE MADE

DAVID THEIR KING. GOD TESTIFIED
CONCERNING HIM: ‘I HAVE FOUND
DAVID SON OF JESSE, A MAN AFTER MY
OWN HEART; HE WILL DO
EVERYTHING I WANT HIM TO DO.’
 LUKE 17:1-4

1. JESUS SAID TO HIS

DISCIPLES: “THINGS THAT CAUSE
PEOPLE TO STUMBLE ARE BOUND
TO COME, BUT WOE TO ANYONE
THROUGH WHOM THEY COME.
2. IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR
THEM TO BE THROWN INTO
THE SEA WITH A MILLSTONE
TIED AROUND THEIR NECK
THAN TO CAUSE ONE OF
THESE LITTLE ONES TO
STUMBLE.
3. SO WATCH YOURSELVES “IF
YOUR BROTHER OR
SISTER SINS AGAINST YOU,
REBUKE THEM; AND IF THEY
REPENT, FORGIVE THEM.
 4. EVEN IF THEY SIN AGAINST
YOU SEVEN TIMES IN A DAY
AND SEVEN TIMES COME BACK
TO YOU SAYING ‘I REPENT,’
YOU MUST FORGIVE THEM.”
 2 SAMUEL 16:3,4

3. THE KING THEN ASKED, “WHERE IS

YOUR MASTER’S GRANDSON?”
ZIBA SAID TO HIM, “HE IS STAYING IN
JERUSALEM, BECAUSE HE THINKS,
‘TODAY THE ISRAELITES WILL
RESTORE TO ME MY GRANDFATHER’S
 4. THEN THE KING SAID TO
ZIBA, “ALL THAT BELONGED
TO MEPHIBOSHETH IS NOW
YOURS.”
“I HUMBLY BOW,” ZIBA SAID.
“MAY I FIND FAVOR IN YOUR
EYES, MY LORD THE KING.”
 2 SAMUEL 19:24-30

24. MEPHIBOSHETH, SAUL’S GRANDSON, ALSO

WENT DOWN TO MEET THE KING. HE HAD NOT
TAKEN CARE OF HIS FEET OR TRIMMED HIS
MUSTACHE OR WASHED HIS CLOTHES FROM
THE DAY THE KING LEFT UNTIL THE DAY HE
RETURNED SAFELY.
 25. WHEN HE CAME FROM
JERUSALEM TO MEET THE
KING, THE KING ASKED HIM,
“WHY DIDN’T YOU GO WITH
ME, MEPHIBOSHETH?”
26. HE SAID, “MY LORD THE KING,
SINCE I YOUR SERVANT AM
LAME, I SAID, ‘I WILL HAVE MY
DONKEY SADDLED AND WILL RIDE
ON IT, SO I CAN GO WITH THE
KING.’ BUT ZIBA MY SERVANT
BETRAYED ME.
 27. AND HE HAS SLANDERED
YOUR SERVANT TO MY LORD
THE KING. MY LORD THE KING
IS LIKE AN ANGEL OF GOD; SO
DO WHATEVER YOU WISH.
 28. ALL MY GRANDFATHER’S
DESCENDANTS DESERVED NOTHING
BUT DEATH FROM MY LORD THE KING,
BUT YOU GAVE YOUR SERVANT A
PLACE AMONG THOSE WHO EAT AT
YOUR TABLE. SO WHAT RIGHT DO I
HAVE TO MAKE ANY MORE APPEALS
TO THE KING?”
29. THE KING SAID TO HIM,
“WHY SAY MORE? I ORDER
YOU AND ZIBA TO DIVIDE
THE LAND.”
30. MEPHIBOSHETH SAID TO
THE KING, “LET HIM TAKE
EVERYTHING, NOW THAT MY
LORD THE KING HAS
RETURNED HOME SAFELY.”
 2 SAMUEL 12:9,10

9. WHY DID YOU DESPISE THE WORD

OF THE LORD BY DOING WHAT IS EVIL
IN HIS EYES? YOU STRUCK
DOWN URIAH THE HITTITE WITH THE
SWORD AND TOOK HIS WIFE TO BE
YOUR OWN. YOU KILLED HIM WITH
THE SWORD OF THE AMMONITES.
 10. NOW, THEREFORE, THE
SWORD WILL NEVER DEPART
FROM YOUR HOUSE, BECAUSE
YOU DESPISED ME AND TOOK THE
WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE TO
BE YOUR OWN.’
 2 SAMUEL 21:15-17

15. ONCE AGAIN THERE WAS A

BATTLE BETWEEN THE
PHILISTINES AND ISRAEL. DAVID
WENT DOWN WITH HIS MEN TO
FIGHT AGAINST THE PHILISTINES,
AND HE BECAME EXHAUSTED.
 16. AND ISHBI-BENOB, ONE OF THE
DESCENDANTS OF RAPHA, WHOSE
BRONZE SPEARHEAD WEIGHED THREE
HUNDRED SHEKELS AND WHO WAS
ARMED WITH A NEW SWORD, SAID HE
WOULD KILL DAVID.
 17. BUT ABISHAI SON OF ZERUIAH
CAME TO DAVID’S RESCUE; HE
STRUCK THE PHILISTINE DOWN AND
KILLED HIM. THEN DAVID’S MEN
SWORE TO HIM, SAYING, “NEVER
AGAIN WILL YOU GO OUT WITH US TO
BATTLE, SO THAT THE LAMP OF
ISRAEL WILL NOT BE EXTINGUISHED.”
 2 SAMUEL 22:7-10

7. “IN MY DISTRESS I CALLED TO

THE LORD; I CALLED OUT TO MY
GOD.
FROM HIS TEMPLE HE HEARD MY
VOICE; MY CRY CAME TO HIS
EARS.
 8. THE EARTH TREMBLED AND
QUAKED, THE FOUNDATIONS OF
THE HEAVENS SHOOK;
THEY TREMBLED BECAUSE HE
WAS ANGRY.
 9. SMOKE ROSE FROM HIS
NOSTRILS;
CONSUMING FIRE CAME FROM
HIS MOUTH,
BURNING COALS BLAZED OUT
OF IT.
10. HE PARTED THE HEAVENS AND
CAME DOWN;
DARK CLOUDS WERE UNDER HIS
FEET.
 1 KINGS 2:1-4

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,
ACT LIKE A MAN,
 3. AND OBSERVE WHAT
THE LORD YOUR GOD REQUIRES:
WALK IN OBEDIENCE TO HIM, AND
KEEP HIS DECREES AND COMMANDS,
HIS LAWS AND REGULATIONS, AS
WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES. DO
THIS SO THAT YOU MAY PROSPER IN
ALL YOU DO AND WHEREVER YOU GO
4. AND THAT THE LORD MAY KEEP HIS
PROMISE TO ME: ‘IF YOUR
DESCENDANTS WATCH HOW THEY
LIVE, AND IF THEY WALK
FAITHFULLY BEFORE ME WITH ALL
THEIR HEART AND SOUL, YOU WILL
NEVER FAIL TO HAVE A SUCCESSOR ON
THE THRONE OF ISRAEL.’
GOD BLESS US ALL