This verse deals with building and battling (“keep the city”). These two actions describe much of our life and they certainly describe the Christian life.
Are you saved? How can you know that you are saved? God wants you to know for sure.
Many today are stopping short on the gospel. The Catholics and many others have a crucified "Jesus" (another Jesus) laying around. The problem is that even some Independent Baptists are heading the same direction. What does the Bible say about the Gospel?
The tendency of Old Testament Jews was to give God their leftovers. Our tendency is the same. What should we give God?
Not a message about one person like Gideon, but about a condition of this life. It is called despair meaning all hope is gone. The Lord has left us on our own. Throughout scripture, God gives us examples of those who seemed to be left by the Lord and thought they had been deserted by Him but later found that He hadn't left them at all.
