This was his heart for God...

  

In view of what God promised David, there must be a great King coming. History shows
that God blessed all of David's descendants who followed Him faithfully—in proportion
to their obedience. Q? How do you feel when you give in to temptation?



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21 To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

Sabbaths — Had rested from the labour of the husbandman in plowing and harrowing it; the people that should have managed it being destroyed.

God saved you by his special favor when you believed.

For by the grace have you been saved in time past completely, through faith, with the result that your salvation persists through present time; and this is not from you as a source; of God it is the gift, not from a source of works