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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

Have you ever sat out under the stars, maybe you laid down on your back, and you just look up into the night sky?

There's something spiritual about that for me.

You feel your nothingness, really, your smallness, if you will, and the vastness of God, and sometimes you can just pour out your heart to God in those moments.

Just you and the sky, the stillness of the night.

Sometimes you just thank Him for His goodness.

Thank Him for the way that He has led countless times before.

Thank Him for the ways that He answered prayers in a different way than you perhaps wanted, but you saw that it was for the best.

Just a few weeks ago we celebrated Thanksgiving.

I don't know how you celebrated or where you went or who you were with, and you may have spent some time talking about and reflecting on the things you were thankful for.

1 I don't imagine many of us mentioned, but was thinking about just the other week, how thankful I am that I don't know the future.

We know what eternity has in store, what God has in store, we know what's coming there and God can't wait to tell us that.

He tells it to us over and over and over in his word.

Behold, I am coming quickly and my reward is with me.

But as far as our future in this life, our future here on this earth, I'm thankful we don't know.

I mean, just imagine, if you will, if you knew everything that was coming down the pike and could worry about it in advance.

It's true God never changes, but we certainly do.

The places we live, people change, even friends change, jobs change.

Sometimes children are conceived unexpectedly.

Many parents are brokenhearted because 1 of their children is not walking with the Lord.

Others may be in a deep sense of sorrow this Christmas season because, well, someone's missing.

They were a big part of family traditions, and now, Well, their chair is empty.

Maybe it's a parent, a brother, sister, son, daughter, and if that's the case for you, no, it won't be the same kind of Christmas this year.

What has happened in the past 5 years and aren't you glad that you didn't know about it in advance?

Aren't you glad that we are just called to take things 1 day at a time?

And the same could be said of David, who we have been studying.

And I wonder how many people think that after killing the giant, within just a few days David waltzed in and became king of Israel and took the throne.

In fact, that's not at all how it happened.

And if David knew the day that he was anointed, what was gonna be coming down the pike?

And so we're continuing this series, David, a man after God's own heart.

And last week we looked at the aftermath of a giant killing and how at every turn, David is being lifted up because he's submitting to God.

He's submitting to his timing, his plan, he's behaving wisely it says 3 times in chapter 18.

He's determined only to do what pleases God and inversely Saul is becoming more and more angry and jealous, seeking at every turn to undercut David and it's not working.

But this week we begin to see how things start to unravel for David.

As David is led into 1 of the deepest, longest, and darkest valleys, I believe, of his entire life.

And we'll see how he goes from the highest pinnacle of popularity to running for his life to depression and despair.

And so part 5 I've entitled, Every Crutch Removed.

And so if you have your Bibles, I invite you to turn with me, and we're going to be in chapter 19.

We're gonna try and cover a fair bit of ground, but we're going to start here in chapter 19, beginning here in verse 1.

We're in 1 Samuel, chapter 19, verse 1, and I'm reading there now, Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants that they should kill David.

But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted greatly in David.

Verse 2, So Jonathan told David, saying, My father Saul seeks to kill you.

Therefore please be on your guard until morning, and stay in a secret place and hide.

Verse 3, and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are and I will speak with my father about you, David.

Verse 4, thus Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he has not sinned against you, And because his works have been very good toward you." Verse 5, for he took his life in his hands and killed the Philistine, and the Lord brought about a great deliverance for all Israel.

Why then will you sin against innocent blood to kill David without a cause?

Verse 6, So Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan, and interestingly Saul swore, As the Lord lives, he shall not be killed.

I'll make you this promise today, Jonathan.

As the Lord lives, Lord as my witness, we're not gonna touch David.

Verse 7, then Jonathan called David and Jonathan told him all these things.

So Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as in times past.

Verse 8, and there was war again and David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a mighty blow and they fled from him.

Verse 9, now the distressing spirit from the Lord came upon Saul as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand and David was playing music with his hand." And then verse 10 says, "...then Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he slipped away from Saul's presence and he drove the spear into the wall.

This isn't the first time nor is it the second time, rather this is the third time that Saul seeks to take David's life.

Now the distressing spirit from the Lord it's really that the Lord is withdrawing and allowing evil spirits to inhabit Saul.

Saul is just really all over the place at this point.

Moments later we see him throwing a spear, and so David has to flee and escape that night.

And we see very quickly Every crutch begin to be removed and the first 1, we could say his job, his financial security is taken away.

Maybe it wasn't your job, but there was some shift, a change, and all of a sudden you couldn't pay your bills.

Maybe it was a medical crisis and the mounting doctor bills and you can't apply for assistance because you have an emergency fund and so You're not eligible, but the emergency fund continues to dwindle lower and lower and lower.

1 of the leading causes of marital strife and divorce, finances.

Verse 11 continuing in our chapter, Saul also sent messengers to David's house to watch him and to kill him in the morning.

And Michael, you remember Michael, David's wife, told him, saying, somehow she gets word of this, maybe she sees the soldiers, he knows something is happening and she says to David, if you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.

So Michael let David down through a window, and he went and fled and escaped.

Certainly she was a comfort to him during this time, but now she is cut off.

We will see later that Saul will marry her off to another.

And so, he's lost his job and his financial security.

Add to that the loss of his wife and her support.

Time Magazine this year ran this article.

Losing a spouse makes men 70% more likely to die within a year.

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