After God's Heart | New King, New Throne | Jonathan Spencer

2 Samuel 5:1-15

1. The BEST path is rarely the FASTEST one
2. We can TRUST God at His word
3. PROSPERITY brings its own PERILS
     -Peril of Complacency
     -Peril of Worldliness
 
“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity are excellent campaigning weather [for the devil]…Prosperity knits a man to the world.  He feels he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in him.  His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work, build up in him a sense of really being at home in earth, which is just what we want.  You will note that the young are generally less unwilling to [spiritually] die than the middle aged and the old.” – CS Lewis, Screwtape