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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

So what does it mean to be a good winner?

Some of us have more practice in that than others.

But what does it mean to be a good winner?

How should you behave yourself after doing something well?

It was the European football championships and Spain were the victors over Germany.

Spain was also the first team since Germany in 1996 to win the tournament undefeated.

I don't know, you may not be aware of this, and I wish I could show you in the back, in this bottom picture here on the right is somebody from the German team.

He's being interviewed, is often done after a game, what went wrong, what went well, what could you have done differently, how did they beat you, and so forth.

And while they're doing this, Spain essentially does some kind of a Congo dance behind them with their arms around each other, and they're cheering and chanting, and da da da da hey, hey, hey, hey, and they can't even conduct the interview as it's literally right behind them, and then they circle around, they come back in.

Is that what it looks like to be a good winner?

Terry Owens, player for the 49ers, going to touchdown.

He leaves the end zone and runs all the way to the midpoint on the field.

The announcers are saying, where is he going?

He goes and stands right in the middle of the Cowboys star and then he proceeds to say, aren't I amazing?

And does his little thing there to celebrate.

Baker Owens, also there pictured, planted an Oklahoma flag in the middle of the Ohio State field after Oklahoma beat Ohio.

Is that what it means to be a good winner?

And of course, recently various football dances have become popular with young kids learning how to do them.

Justin Jefferson started the gritty, the floss is another 1, the dabbing, and we could go on and on.

You've seen this if you've watched any kind of ball at all.

When they make it into the end zone, when they do something amazing, they have to do their whole little dance.

Sometimes they just stand there, Drop the ball, I'm the 1 that did this amazing thing that you just witnessed.

So I come back to my question, what does it mean to be a good winner?

Maybe we could phrase it a different way.

We are continuing our series, David, a man after God's own heart.

And last time we looked at 1 Samuel chapter 17, perhaps the most well-known piece of the story of David.

And when we ended last time, when we were together, David had just accomplished an incredible thing, a remarkable achievement.

A young man, not yet 20 years old, who had never worn the uniform of the Israeli army, never once suited up for battle, never once known what it was to carry a sword, runs out onto the battlefield, faced a giant.

The prophet says he was 12 feet tall and killed him with 1 throw of his sling.

As a result David gained instant popularity.

Friends few people could take all that in stride, but David did.

He knew how to live with success without having it affect him.

And it's rare a person who can do that, especially at such a young age.

And so in 1 Samuel 18, we start to see the effects of what has taken place.

And it's an interesting drama that begins to unfold.

And so today, the next piece that we are looking at, it's in 1 Samuel, I hope you brought your Bibles, It begins in chapter 18, but I've entitled it The Aftermath of a Giant Killing.

And so in chapter 18 of 1 Samuel, we see several things that begin to happen.

Many of them are intertwined, and so we will begin in verse 2, if you're with me.

Chapter 18 of 1 Samuel, in verse 2, there we read, Saul took him, that's David that day, and would not let him go home to his father's house anymore.

But Saul says, no, you're not going home.

And if you let your eyes drop down to verse 5, it says, so David went out wherever Saul sent him.

Here is the champion of champions, the slayer of the giant, the 1 who saved Israel, and here it is recorded that David went wherever Saul sent.

Saul, who had recently proven himself to be the cowardice against the Philistine.

It had not been for this courageous, or had it not been for this courageous young man who went out to face him, this lad, if you will, it's very probable that Saul himself would have died.

It's very probable also to think that perhaps David could come parading into town.

Come on, come on, let's hear it, let's hear it.

And as Saul tries to continue to be the 1 in charge, to be the king, to have the authority, to have all of the trust of the people, things are starting to shift.

But notice that David went wherever Saul sent.

David acts in loyal submission to his King.

So before we go any further, I don't want us to miss that.

In fact, he or she is perhaps being very irrational.

You clearly know what needs to happen, but it's not your place.

You want to speak up, you want to go around them, you want to make something happen.

But rather than do that, we see David submitting to authority, the authority of the king that God has put in place.

And so ultimately, walking in victory here we see means to submit to God's timing.

David knows that something else is coming and it'd be easy to think this is it, the momentum is here, everything has built for this moment, let's seize the day.

David is cool-headed and he's going to submit to the timing of God.

He's going to submit to the authority of Saul and so David went wherever Saul sent.

As we continue on in our story, we see another piece intertwined here.

We're going to go back and pick up verse 1.

It says, now when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David.

We have no real idea that there's any meeting before this time in Scripture.

But somehow there is this coming together of Jonathan and David and they hit it off right from the start.

And it says the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David.

We might say he was a kindred spirit too.

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A Man After Gods Own Heart: King David

04 Aftermath of a Giant Killing

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