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Hendersonville Seventh-day Adventist Church, NC

A Man After Gods Own Heart: King David

David Wright

01 The Nobody Nobody Noticed

02 God’s Heart, God’s Man, God’s Ways

03 Giant Lessons Worth Remembering

04 Aftermath of a Giant Killing

05 Every Crutch Removed

06 How to Lie to Your Pastor

07 I Hate To Wait

08 Is This God’s Will or Mine?

09 Living Above Retaliation

10 Lying Appearances

11 When Seeing is not Believing

12 When Your Enemy Falls

14 Pulling Down Strongholds

13 Power Grab And Civil War

16 When God Says No

17 When Grace Calls You By Name

18 A Perilous Thing to Lose Dependence On God

19 Restore To Me The Joy

15 But God Knows My Heart

So glad to be here with you this morning on this beautiful Sabbath day.

And after Saul became king, things started to be revealed.

And as we read through the pages of Scripture there in 1st Samuel, we see very clearly that Saul was selfish, oftentimes angry, hateful, mean-spirited, vengeful.

Saul is remembered most by a terrible decision to make an unlawful sacrifice.

Then Saul is remembered by a rash oath that ultimately incriminated his son.

And finally with Saul, we have open disobedience against God when he spares King Agag.

And every time Saul tried to rationalize what he had done.

Now if you brought your Bibles I want to look we are going to begin a series starting today And so we're going to be looking at the accounts here in 1st Samuel But just as a way of introducing where we're going here.

We first have to paint the stage What the situation was before David comes on to the scene And so if you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn to 1 Samuel chapter 15 and we begin reading there.

1 Samuel chapter 15 verse 24 it says, Then Saul said to Samuel, this is Saul speaking, I have sinned for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words because and notice here how he is making excuses for himself I feared the people and obeyed their voice now therefore please pardon my sin and return with me that I may worship the Lord." Can't we just get past this?

Isn't this, this really isn't that big a deal, is it?

Saul was greatly concerned, we could say, about image, about what people thought, his perception, his rating in the polls, we could say.

And so he's saying here, Samuel, why don't you just come with me?

Just return and let's worship like we've always done.

Verse 26, we read, but Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you for you have rejected the word of the Lord and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.

And as Samuel turned around to go away, Saul sees the edge of his robe and it tore.

So Samuel said to him, the Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

And also the strength of Israel, talking about God, will not lie nor relent, for he is not a man that he should relent.

Other translations say God is not mortal, he does not change his mind.

Then he, Saul, said, I have sinned, yet honor me now, please, before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me that I may worship the Lord your God.

Now can't you just come on back with me and we'll just go on as if nothing has happened.

And as we read on, by divine direction Samuel yielded to the king's request that no occasion might be given for a revolt, but he remained only as a silent witness of the service.

And then Samuel kills King Agag and returns to his home never to see Saul again.

The tragic story of Saul is that he never, ever fully repented of his sin.

His obsession with image continued until the day he died.

The people had elected Saul king, but friends, he was no longer qualified.

Israel is surrounded by enemies and they need someone to carry the scepter.

And I imagine there was a sense of panic.

And that's where we begin our new series that I will be preaching entitled David a man after God's own heart.

David's an interesting figure in Scripture and we're gonna look at a lot of stories down through, I did not realize until this past week, but of all the people written of in Scripture or mentioned in Scripture, more chapters are Dedicated to the man David than any other individual in Scripture.

I find that interesting and Fascinating and this idea that David is a man after God's own heart mentioned both in the Old and New Testament What does that mean?

We're gonna explore that a little bit was David perfect.

Well by no means Were there some things to emulate?

And today's piece is the first, and I've entitled it A Nobody Nobody Noticed.

And so as we saw here, beginning with some of these verses this morning, Israel was not doing well.

Their leader had turned away from the Lord.

Oh, he would give lip service, but it was all about image for Saul.

Samuel didn't know, the people didn't know, and there was a sense of panic.

What Samuel failed to realize, what we often fail to realize is that behind the scenes, before God even flung the stars into space, God had today in mind.

Friends, God had this very week, we could even say the last 2 weeks in mind.

And God knew exactly what he was going to do.

Friends, God is never at a loss to know what he's going to do in your or my situation.

I think it's something we need to keep in mind right now as the news as in the news we have seen the worst act of terror played out since 9-11.

The horrific acts not seen since the Holocaust and then the response to root out this terror group, even this week, Hamas blaming Israel for the bombing of a hospital when there is solid evidence from 4 different sources contrary to that.

But now everyone is getting worked up and using that as a means.

And so we're hearing about Hamas and North Korea and Iran and Lebanon, even Russia and so on.

We can see how this could escalate very, very quickly.

Many are quick to reassign as they do in any type of situation similar to this, all of the prophecies and revelation and so on and so forth.

Well, not exactly, but Could it lead to something that we've talked about and the Bible speaks of very clearly?

It surely could, and war is always horrific, filled with death and suffering and heartache and pain, uncertainty, fear, anxiety, panic.

Absolutely it does, But I think this is also a really good time to remember before God flung the stars into space, God had today in mind.

He knows exactly how this will play out and in fact prophecy reminds us of that Over and over and over God doesn't guess friends.

He knows We can trust him And not just on the world stage.

Friends, God knows what's happening in your life personally.

What you're struggling with, what you're wrestling with, what you're overwhelmed by or perplexed, anxious, what you're afraid of.

Whatever your situation, I have good news for you.

God is never at a loss to know what he's going to do in your situation.

He knows perfectly well what is best for you and for me.

And we want to know, but that's where faith comes in.

Faith is counting on Him when we do not know what tomorrow holds.

And so coming back to our story here in Scripture, It's important to remember when a man or woman of God fails, nothing of God fails.

When a man or woman of God fails, nothing of God fails.

I have a friend who has walked out of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, doesn't call himself an Adventist anymore because of how he was mistreated by church members and even some church leaders.

Now, I don't like to be mistreated by church members or church leaders either.

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A Man After Gods Own Heart: King David

01 The Nobody Nobody Noticed

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