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*Trusting God When Promises are All You Have*
1 Samuel 19-27
*Intro:*
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What keeps you going when trouble is all you see?
Where is your hope?
*What I want to say:* David’s years of difficulty equipped him for what was to come.
God always prepares His workers for His work.
ways in which God was preparing David for the task before him.
! I. God cultivates the traits of leadership
!! A. God seeks a man or woman “after God’s own heart”
!!! 1. i.e.
He or she is in tune with God.
God declared through Samuel:
“But now your kingdom shall not endure.
The Lord has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”
1 Samuel 13:14 NASB95
!!! 2. Paul wrote to Timothy:
But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women.
On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;
for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and /also /for the /life /to come.
1 Timothy 4:7-8 NASB95
But flee from these things, you man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance /and /gentleness. 1 Timothy 6:11 NASB95
!! B. Align your priorities with God’s
!!! 1. David wanted the things God wanted:
!!!! a) God’s glory
!!!! b) God’s kingdom
!!!! c) Holiness
!!!! d) God’s will accomplished (cp.
Lord’s prayer)
!!! 2. God’s will is more important than personal preference
!! C. God always equips His leaders
!!! 1.
A leader must be: just
!!!! a) courageous
!!!! b) honorable
!!!! c) above reproach
!!! 2. Moses was called by God to lead Israel out of slavery – He sent Moses into the “Desert School of Theology” for a 40 year-long course to learn of Him and His ways.
He made known His ways to Moses,
His acts to the sons of Israel.
Psalm 103:7 NASB95
!!! 3. God called another Saul to be a church planter – Saul was in training for about 14 years (Gal.
2:1) – before he was sent to launch the work God had for him.
! II.
A diary of leadership training (chapters 19-27)
There are 8 Psalms that directly relate to these chapters
*Why did David not fight Saul?*
*His confidence was in God alone and He refused to use man’s schemes to accomplish God’s will*
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!! A. Who will you trust?
(Chapter 19)
!!! 1. four attempts on David’s life
!!! 2. Why?
18:28-29 -- Saul was afraid of David
!!!! a) David was increasingly successful
!!! 3.
He told others to kill him; he attempted to kill him with his spear; sent soldiers to his house; sent soldiers to Ramah (they were “slain in the Spirit”
!!!! a) Cp.
Psalm 59 – “/of David.
When Saul had sent men to watch David’s house in order to kill him.”/
!!! 4. He was determined to kill this man!
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide!
There was no safe place for David
!! B. The value of a friend (Chapter 20)
!!! 1. David and Jonathan encouraged one another
!! C. God provides (Chapter 21)
!!! 1. David in the kingdom of Abimelech the Philistine
!!! 2. Psalm 34 - When he pretended to be insane before Abimelich, who drove him away, and he left.
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The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him,
And rescues them.
Psalm 34:7 NASB95
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!!!! a) (who did David credit with his deliverance?)
O taste and see that the Lord is good;
How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
Psalm 34:8 NASB95
!!! 3. Psalm 56 – When the Philistines had seized him in Gath
!! D. Leadership is magnetic (Chapter 22)
!!! 1. Psalm 142 – /When he was in the cave.
A prayer./
!!! 2. David was kind of like Robin Hood to the disenchanted
!!! 3. His brothers came to him
!!! 4. He took his parents to Moab – perhaps to stay with relatives of his grandmother, Ruth
!!! 5. 400 men
!!! 6. Saul’s slaughter of an Israelite town (85 priests and their families)
!!! 7. Psalm 52 – /When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech”./
!!! 8. David protects the surviving priest
!! E. A leader is a protector (Chapter 23)
!!! 1.
It was David’s habit to seek God’s will before he acted.
– contrast with Saul
In the morning, O Lord, You will hear my voice;
In the morning I will order /my prayer /to You and /eagerly /watch.
Psalm 5:3 NASB95
!!! 2. He rescues the town of Keilah from the Philistines
!!! 3. Saul is ready to slaughter the town to get David
!!! 4. David flees with 600 men to the desert strongholds and Saul follows
!!!! a) Psalm 54 – /When the Ziphites had gone to Saul and said, “Is not David hiding among us?”/
*SHOW MASADA slide*
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!! F. A leader has a God-sensitive conscience (Chapter 24)
!!! 1. Psalm 57 – /When he had fled from Saul into the cave/
!!! 2. God brought Saul into the cave but David would not kill his pursuer
!!! 3. His conscience bothered him for cutting Saul’s robe (:6)
They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
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