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Introduction
On this day that we set aside to honor our high school seniors, there are a few things I would like to charge them with.
As we do so, there is a lot of truth we can all take from God’s Word this morning.
Chances are most of us present this morning know who the Old Testament man named David is.
Whether you’ve grown up in church or this is your first time at church, chances are you know at least one thing about David.
David was a shepherd boy
David was the one who God used to defeat Goliath.
David was king of Israel
David, even he was an earthy king, knew the King.
David wrote the majority of the psalms in the book of Psalms.
David was the one that wrote the 23rd Psalm, which might be the most popular passage of Scripture.
Many of us in this sanctuary most likely know parts of .
I believe there are many truths for our lives in .
When we you think about David and his life, you know that he was a man that went through a lot in his life.
He knew what it was like to be encouraged, discouraged, in the highs and in the lows.
David was human and knew what it was like to journey through this life.
When we you think about David and his life, you know that he was a man that went through a lot in his life.
He knew what it was like to be encouraged and discouraged.
He knew what it was like to experience good days and bad days.
He knew what it was like to be exalted and knew what it was like to be humbled.
He knew what it was like to be last and he knew what it was like to be first.
In the midst of all the change in David’s life, he knew the constant in his life: God.
David knew God personally.
Because he knew God personally, it effected everything in his life.
As David journeyed through life, God meant everything to him and that is definitely communicated in .
Let’s draw our attention there at read together:
God’s Word
PRAY
There are three thing I want us to see under the umbrella of this truth: Our relationship with God is a relationship we are called to own.
As seniors transition out of high school into adulthood, the need to own their faith is crucial.
The need for all of us today to take ownership of our relationship with God is crucial.
A Christian’s relationship with Christ is not a relationship someone else does for us.
No one can walk with Jesus for you.
You must own your faith in Jesus.
You must take ownership of it.
It must become true to you.
It must become yours.
As we journey through together on this Lord’s Day, we will discover that David is our model of what it looks like to own our relationship with God.
When we own our faith, we know that,
I. God is Personal
David called God “shepherd.”
This is important.
We are going to bring the first statement of this chapter up a lot.
What’s interesting about this statement from David is that he knew what it was like to be a shepherd.
David would spend countless days and countless hours in the fields in charge of many sheep.
Don’t you think it’s interesting that when David went to describe God he used the word “shepherd.”
When it came time to think about and describe what God meant to him, he said “shepherd.”
To David, God was his shepherd.
It’s in verse 1 that we see that David most certainly took ownership of his relationship with God.
God being David’s shepherd communicates the reality that David knew God personally; knew God personally to the extent of all the benefits a shepherd provides.
Just as a shepherd provides food, water, and rest to his flock, God fills the needs of his children.
This is what David is saying!
“When I think about my God, He is my SHEPHERD!
I walk with Him daily!
I know what it’s like for God to be enough for me so I never want.
I know what it’s like for God to give me rest in the middle of chaos.
I know what it’s like for God to restore my soul.
I know what it’s like for God to lead me in the paths of righteousness.”
God was David’s shepherd, because God was personal.
David spent his days close to God, walking as God lead him.
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God is Present
The Bible communicates attributes of God; one of them is that God is all-knowing or omniscient.
Another attribute of God is all-powerful or omnipotent.
In the midst of God being beyond our finite comprehension, that same God calls us to know Him personally; and desires Himself to be known through general and special revelation.
Isn’t this reality mind-blowing?
Do you know the God of the Bible?
David did.
He knew that God was personal and knew God personally.
David’s source of knowing what God was like did not just come from others, but He knew God and His ways from first-hand experience.
David communed or abided with His God.
Isn’t that what Jesus commanded His disciples in the night before He was crucified in ?
Not only did Jesus tell His disciples to abide in Him, but that if they did then He would abide in them.
“Abide” is this idea of being as close as possible to the life source as if you are “residing” in it.
So Jesus said, “Reside in Me and I in you.”
This is good news!
God wants to know us and us to know Him.
Is your relationship with God on a first-hand basis or second-hand basis?
Have you taken ownership of your relationship with God?
One of the commentary’s I read preparing for this text said this:
One of the commentary’s I read preparing for this text said this:
“Walking ahead of his sheep and calling them to follow, the shepherd finds fresh pasture to graze and safe places to drink.
Even when the flock has to squeeze through a narrow defile, the sheep have nothing to fear.
The shepherd can haul them to safety with his staff, or beat on the rock wall with his rod to let them know he is near.
The shepherd tends his sheep in every way.
He clears the pasture of stones and levels the potholes—then stands guard while they eat.
He checks their heads for sunburn and treats their wounds with soothing oil.
When they are thirsty, he fills the drinking trough to the brim.
At night he takes them into his own home.”
*Take a minute and consider who God is to you.
David knew God as a Shepherd and because of it, He knew that God was present.
teaches us that when we own our faith, not only do we know that God is personal, we know that
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God is Present
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God is Present
The psalmist acknowledges that life will not always be characterized by green pastures and quiet waters.
He will walk through darkness.
What’s interesting is that David just got done talking about wonderful things that exists when you know that God desires to be known and when you personally know Him.
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