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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

Today's scripture reading is found in 2 Chronicles 16, verse 9.

He was speaking to King Asa when King Asa was in a time of trouble with the country of Judah.

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him.

You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.

Well, we're gonna continue in short today, another piece from David, A Man After God's Own Heart.

And today's piece I've entitled, God's heart, God's man, God's ways.

And so this is part 2, I suppose we can call in this series.

I want to begin by just asking a simple question.

Perhaps you're buying a car, Perhaps you're buying an appliance.

I don't know about you, but for me, 1 of the first things I do is I go to Consumer Reports.

You can purchase even just 1 month subscription, which is long enough to do all the research on which vehicle, which appliance, which gets the best rating, which car is the most reliable, gets the best gas mileage and so on and so forth.

Which washing machine will get our clothes the cleanest or the quietest, maybe the cleanest and the quietest, I don't know, which 1 lasts the longest.

And I'm always amazed that when they show prices, sometimes ones that are priced really high score really poorly.

And so that's why I think I'm gonna keep coming back here to to make some of these decisions Which leaf blower is the most powerful man?

That is the only 1 we're interested in right especially this time of year If you don't know what I'm talking about come see my yard Every couple days we have to blow off some more leaves.

Do they share the same interests that you do?

Do they love the Lord with all their heart?

Do they share your same values, your same thoughts and ideas of raising a family or whatever it may be?

As we read here in 1 Samuel 8, in 1 Samuel 8, verse 7 we read, And the Lord said to Samuel, Heed the voice of the people and all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, Samuel, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

They saw all the nations around them and they had kings and we want to be like them, we need to be like them, and so in essence they rejected God's original plan that God would be their king, that they weren't going to be like everyone else.

Hosea 13 Verse 11 says, I gave you a king in my anger.

But you said, no, we want to have someone else.

Patriarchs and prophets says this, when men choose to have their own way without seeking counsel from God or in opposition to his revealed will, he often grants their desires, there it is, in order that through the bitter experience that follows they may be led to realize their folly and to repent of their sins." Do we ever do that as parents?

I think you should think about this or think about that.

And we let them do that thing in hopes that they will, in following their own ways, realize, oh, this perhaps wasn't the best idea.

The quote continues, Human pride and wisdom will prove a dangerous guide.

That which the heart desires contrary to the will of God will in the end be found a curse rather than a blessing.

Now don't answer out loud, but have you ever had an experience in your own life where you can say, yep, I can attest to that.

And that is exactly what was the result of their own decision with Saul.

They chose Saul in human pride and human wisdom because he was, well, tall, dark, handsome.

And yes, Saul had a measure of humility to begin with, but before long he became thin-skinned, hot-tempered, given to seasons of depression and even thoughts of murder.

We think it was about 10 years after Saul became king, as the people were on this long drift from God as they were becoming disillusioned with their leader that David was born.

So there's about this 50 year spread or so that we think between Saul and David.

Now if you've ever gotten your own way and it's all wrong, you may understand how it can be a most disillusioning, insecure feeling to recognize that this wasn't the best idea.

And sometimes you can't always put your finger on why.

He graciously intervenes with Samuel, and it is good news for the people, but it's bad news for Saul.

1 Samuel 13, 13, you have done a foolish thing, Samuel said.

You have not kept the command of the Lord your God gave you if you had he would Have established your kingdom over Israel for how long?

All time, but you have acted foolishly You have not kept the command of the Lord So verse 14, but now your kingdom will not endure the Lord has sought out a man after his own heart and appointed him ruler of his people because you have not kept the Lord's command.

Here we see God choosing a man and what kind of man?

Outside of the Godhead, of course, more has been written about David than any other Biblical character.

Abraham's given about 14 chapters, Joseph is given about the same, Jacob has 11, Elijah 10, but to David is dedicated 66 chapters, if my count is correct.

And that does not include some 59 references to his life in the New Testament.

And it's on 2 occasions he's called, 1 right here that we just read, a man after God's own heart.

And we are told that when he was walking in the counsel of God, that he was called a man after God's own heart.

But friends, this morning I want to ask you, when God chooses a man, When God chooses a woman, a young boy, a young girl, what does he base his choice on?

What is he longing to see in that individual?

1 Corinthians 1 Verse 26 says, consider your own call, brothers and sisters.

Not many of you were wise by human standards.

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise.

God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

God choose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so that no 1 might boast in the presence of God.

I don't know if you've heard of the new Berkeley version, but it translates these last 2 verses this way, God also has chosen the world's insignificant and despised people and nobodies in order to bring to nothing those who amount to something so that nobody may boast in the presence of God." Paul is saying to the Corinthians, look around, you'll find many impressive people, But that's not who God is looking for because he doesn't want someone to be able to boast in their abilities in their talents and so forth and That's a principle that we tend to forget Because many of us are still a lot like the Greeks or a lot like the Jews of old.

We look for role models, for heroes, to be impressed by the best and the brightest, the brilliant people, the successful people.

I mean we have to admit we are terribly enamored with what's on the surface and the superficial impresses us much more than we'd like to admit.

What gives a presidential candidate a huge advantage these days?

Well they look good on TV but I hear God saying in these verses, that's not the way I make my choices.

I take the nobodies and I turn them into somebody.

And in a nutshell, that is the story of David's life, isn't it?

God taking a nobody and God turning that nobody into a somebody.

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