1 Samuel 1631 The preserving grace of God 2 David the triumphant king 2 Samuel 110 Gods enriching grace 3 David the troubled king 2 Samuel 11 to 1 Kings 2 Gods overcoming forgiving grace ID: 778679
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The Life of David
1
David, the future king
1 Samuel 16-31
The preserving grace of God
2
David, the triumphant king
2 Samuel 1-10
God’s enriching grace
3
David, the troubled king
2 Samuel 11 to 1 Kings 2
God’s over-coming, forgiving grace
Slide2Stories of David
Samuel anointing David as the future king,
David
and
Goliath and
David
defeating the Amalekites.
Slide3Principles
All revival starts with mourning over the sin of the
people.
God sees things
differently.
Goliath was not Israel’s main problem.
The
main problem was Israel’s lack of faith in God and His promises to them
.
David backsliding from God and his life falling apart.
David
strengthened himself in the
Lord
God’s
unseen
hand
David
recognised that all he had achieved and gained was from the Lord and that he had a responsibility to share that grace with those who had not been in the battle
.
Slide42 Samuel 1
Slide52 Samuel 1
Two days
later they receive the deeply troubling news that Israel has been defeated by the Philistines and both Saul and Jonathan were
dead.
Slide62 Samuel 1
Sounds totally logical.
Saul
had spent many years hating David and trying to kill him.
David
must have hated Saul and wanted to see him dead.
This
is the way of the
world!
But David did not follow the way of the world.
The
Amalekite got it totally wrong
.
Slide7Slide8You and me?
The
Amalekite and David looked at life in very different ways.
They
represented two ways of approaching life that are very much with us today.
Slide9The Amalekite approach to
life
Self-serving expediency.
He
saw Saul’s death as a chance to get ahead, to enrich himself.
He
took the credit for something he had not done, and
leveraged
it, hoping that David would be so grateful to
him.
A
promotion, a place of influence in the new dispensation,
A reward.
Slide10The Amalekite approach to
life
There are no
absolutes.
Each
person is free to decide what is right and wrong based their own comfort and convenience.
If
I benefit from it, it must be right… right?
Slide11The Amalekite approach to
life
The results…
Moral ambiguity
Callousness
, immorality, crime, drug abuse, school
shootings.
Everyone
does what is right in their own eyes
.
Slide12David’s approach to life
There
are certain moral absolutes to guide us.
We
should not live in a self-seeking, self-advancing
manner.
His
ascension to the throne of Israel as the absolute priority in his life
.
Resentment
and hatred control and dominate
him.
But he did
not
!
Slide13David’s approach to life
How did David become like this?
How
did David become so selfless?
How
did he come to believe that there is a moral absolute governing and guiding him?
Slide14David’s approach to life
It
had been clearly revealed by God.
Leviticus
19:17-18
Deuteronomy
32
Verse 14, the anointed of the Lord must be treated with respect.
Slide15Our own
lives
Which
approach to life we are living
by?
The world is full of the Amalekite approach to
life.
We
are called to embrace David’s approach to life
.
Slide16Reasons
For our own good in this
world.
Look at what happened to the Amalekite and to David.
One day we will be called on to give an account before God for the way we have lived our
lives.
Slide17The Greatest Example
Is
not David,
But
one of his descendants,
Jesus!
Slide18Power
Power to defeat the Amalekite that lives in
all of us
Power to live
the life Jesus calls us to live
.