Covenant Family Church (OPC)

"Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction." (Malachi 4:4–6)

"But David's heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, 'I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.'" (2 Samuel 24:10)

A summary of the chapter about offering violence to heaven, in Thomas Watson's book, "Taking Heaven by Storm".

"These are the names of the mighty men whom David had..." (2 Samuel 23:8a)

"Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?' Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions." Malachi 3:7–8

An overview of chapters 10 and 11 of the book, "Heaven Taken by Storm", by Thomas Watson.

"When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth." 2 Samuel 23:3b–4

"For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." (Romans 8:13–14)

An overview of chapters 8 & 9 of the Thomas Watson book, "Heaven Taken by Storm".

"The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence." 2 Samuel 22:2–3

"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts." (Malachi 3:1)

"These four were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants." (2 Samuel 21:22)

"So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth." (Mal. 2:15b)

On Chapter 5 of Heaven Taken by Storm by Thomas Watson.

"Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, 'There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.'" (2 Samuel 21:1)

"For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction." (Malachi 2:7–8a)

"Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, 'We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!'" (2 Samuel 20:1)

A brief overview of the history and people of the Radical Reformation of the early to mid 16th Century.