Ron Gannon - David the Man - David the King

[0:00] Good morning everybody. How's everybody? Alice had a prayer request. I guess there was a bad accident and several teenagers were killed.

[0:16] It was Osmond, Dyad, and they went to the center. Okay. It's on the 16th and 14th. Okay. I guess the young girls were driving and lost control. I guess it might have been raining. Is that when it was raining? Anyway, they crashed into another SUV or the SUV crashed into them one or the other. Anyway, they lost control and they lost two young people.

[0:45] We hate to hear that. Any other prayer requests today? Okay. Let's have a word of prayer then. Father, thank you. Thank you for this time that we come together this morning, Father, to study your word, Father, and to have questions back and forth and to be able to come to a good understanding of what your word says.

[1:10] Father, most of all, to be able to take that information and use it into our life later on. So, Father, we just thank this morning of the two girls that were involved in this accident and lost their lives and we just pray for their families, Father.

[1:27] We know that's a very hard loss when we lose young ones like that. So, we just pray for the families and pray your blessings upon them and give them peace.

[1:38] And, Father, we just thank you today for your love and for your grace at the cross. We thank you for all things, Father, and we ask it in the Lord and Savior's name. Amen. Okay. Okay. Well, this morning we're going to start with chapter 13.

[1:55] We've been, Saul has been an anointed king. We saw that last week. And, uh, he's shown that he can be a military leader.

[2:10] But, uh, today we're going to see some of his faults along with some of his military actions. And then 13, uh, well, in 13, let's just start with verses 1 and 2.

[2:25] Saul reigned one year and when he had reigned two years over Israel, Saul chose for himself 3,000 men of Israel. 2,000 were with Saul in the mountains and 2,000 with Jonathan in Gilead, Benjamin.

[2:42] The rest of the people he sent away, every man to his tent. This is the first regular army for Israel. Previously, Israel only had a militia that assembled in times of national threat.

[2:57] Now, for the first time, Israel had a professional army. And, uh, this is also the first time that, uh, we hear the mention of Jonathan, which is Saul's son.

[3:09] And as far as we know, that's the only son he had. And, uh, so we're going to hear about Jonathan here. So, Jonathan had some men, the soldiers that Saul had given him.

[3:20] And the first thing Samuel does is goes out and, uh, attacks the garrison of Philistines. And, uh, all this time, the Philistines has been gathering to get around Israel.

[3:31] And they've been gathering men and all kinds of things. And it's come to a fruition here. And Jonathan decided to take the challenge and went out and attacked some of them.

[3:41] And, uh, he did so. And it was successful. And we see there in 3 and 4 that, uh, that, uh, even as he did this, Samuel took the credit for it.

[3:53] We see there in, uh, in, uh, verses 3 and 4. So, it appears that Samuel has a problem with other people taking credit. So, uh, even his own son.

[4:06] And these Philistines, uh, they were preparing their army. And it says there was 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen. Now, some of the commentaries have a problem with that number. And I'm not going to take it as, uh, a misinformation.

[4:22] Because, uh, hey, I don't know. Armies get amassed. And this seems to be what happened here. So, exact number. I don't know what the exact number is except for what the word says.

[4:33] So, we're going to take it at that. But anyway, they had a bunch of men. And they were starting to surround Israel. And, uh, so what's happening here is his men were getting scared.

[4:47] And they started hiding in rocks and caves and all kinds of different things. And Samuel was losing a good part of his army because these men were fleeing. And so, Samuel takes these things into his own hand.

[5:02] If we go to, uh, verses 8 and 9. And it says there, He waited seven days according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilead, or to Gilel.

[5:14] And the people were scattered from him. So, Saul said, Bring a burnt offering and a peace offering to me. And he offered the burnt offerings and the offerings. Uh, this seems, and all the commentaries seem to take this back to chapter 10.

[5:30] Where Saul was, hadn't even anointed him king yet, but he had anointed him. And he said, Here, wait in Gilead until I come seven days later. And I will tell you what to do.

[5:43] But I, I'm having difficulty tying that. Back to this here. Because it says here in chapter 13. That Saul's already been king for two years. So, I really don't know.

[5:56] I don't know if it was a special thing. Like, hey Saul. If you get into a very big situation. Let me come and do the burnt offering to whatever it is. But whatever the case is.

[6:07] If anybody else has any ideas on that, let me know. But, uh, Samuel did the offerings. And of course, Or Saul. Did the offerings instead of waiting on Samuel.

[6:19] And this was a thing that was not right. Because the king should not be taken the role of a priest. And that was the role of the priest.

[6:30] Was to do the offerings. So, Samuel. Or Saul went against God's ordinances. And he did the burnt offerings. And right after that, Samuel came.

[6:41] And he said, Saul, what have you done? You mean you're a foolish man. That you would do these type of things. And of course, here we're going to see that Samuel. Gets into Saul.

[6:53] And he tells him that you're probably going to lose your kingship. And Saul was set up to be king. And when God established it, The intent was a king would pass on his kingship to sons.

[7:07] To other sons. And that's how the kingship would work. As we see with David, It's a thing that goes on and on and on. But we'll see in other parts of the scripture. During the kings, How a lot of these kings did not do that.

[7:21] And they switched kings all the time. But, uh, So Saul here, Or Samuel here is telling Saul That he's probably going to lose that opportunity. To pass on his kingship.

[7:33] And, uh, He says that he's going, God is going to be looking for a man after his own heart. So with all that going on, The Philistines are still gathering around. And, uh, Saul has only got, After all the men scouting and stuff, It says here that he only had 6,000 men left.

[7:53] So it was a bad time for the Israelites. Also the, uh, The Philippines had all the equipment. They had iron because these Philistines were on the coastal areas.

[8:04] And they could, Had the trade where they could buy iron and all that kind of stuff. The Israelites did not have that. So they just had like plow, Shears and sticks, And that type of thing to go for.

[8:16] Now Saul and his, His family had the, The weapons. But that did not do much good if the whole army didn't have that kind of weapons. So the whole situation seems to be getting out of hand.

[8:29] And the Philistines had the technology. And, uh, It was bad enough to be outnumbered so badly. Now we see God allowed the Philistines to have a huge technology advantage over the filling scenes.

[8:42] The only way the Israelites would ever win was what? Trusting God. And that's what he's been trying to tell the king and all the, All the people all along.

[8:54] So now we're going to get into chapter 14. And I'm going pretty quick here because I want to get to where we actually start talking about David. And, uh, We've gone, Gone a long ways explaining all this stuff up to David.

[9:06] And it's getting pretty close now. But in chapter 14, Uh, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan, Uh, Comes up with a, An adventure. And he has a proposal.

[9:18] And it says, Now it happened on the day that Jonathan, The son of Saul, Said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, Let us go over to the Philistine garrison. That this is on the other side.

[9:29] But he did not tell his father. And Saul was sitting in the outskirts of Gileo. Under a, Um, A tree. The people were, With him were also not aware.

[9:40] The people who were with him were about 600 people. Again, Going back to that, They only had 600 people left. And, Uh, Saul said to his barrier, And, The armor barrier, Every leader had an armor barrier.

[9:56] And his purpose was to have the armor there for the king. There, For his, Uh, Master. And also, You know, A lot of times they saved their lives. Because they were there to protect him.

[10:07] And they, A lot of times their lives would be taken before the, The master would be taken because of the things that they do for them. So, Jonathan said to the young man, In verses, Uh, Six and seven, Come, Let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, That it may be that the Lord will work through us.

[10:26] For nothing retains, Restrains the Lord from saving by many, Uh, Or by few. So, His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart.

[10:37] And, Uh, For Jonathan, Uh, This was more than a reconnaissance expedition. He saw what was going on. He knew he didn't have many men. But, Uh, He wanted to see what God might do through two men.

[10:53] And this is what's going to happen. So, Jonathan knew that the need was great. Israel was hopelessly outnumbered and demoralized. Jonathan knew God wanted to use someone.

[11:05] Jonathan was willing to be the one that God would use. The odds were against Israel. Did it matter? It was a million to one or a thousand to one. Numbers of odds did not restrain God.

[11:18] For unbelief could. Jonathan never read the New Testament. But, But he had, But he had a Romans 13 heart. For God be for us, Who can be against us?

[11:30] There is a difference between Jonathan the son, And Saul the king. Jonathan is having a heart for God. And he's willing to listen to God. And he's willing to talk to him, To ask him to help.

[11:44] And that's exactly what's going to happen. So, Jonathan proposed a test with his servant, Or with his, With his man that was with him.

[11:55] And he said in verses 8 and 10, Very, Very well, Let us cross over to these men, And we will show ourselves to them. If they say to us, Wait, Until we come to you, Then we will stand still in our place, And not go up to them.

[12:11] But if he says thus, Come up to us, Then we will go up, For the Lord has delivered them into our hand, And this will be a sign for us. So, Jonathan was able and willing, To wait for a sign from God.

[12:25] And this is exactly what happened, Because they told him to come up. And Jonathan, And the, And the armor barrier, I don't know how they did it, But they killed a lot of the Philistines at that time, And they called an uproar in a Philistine camp.

[12:40] Now, You got to reimagine, These people were trying to surrender, Surround these people of Israel. And it became those, Of course, When you're in the battle, You hear noises, And all this type of things.

[12:52] Saul also heard this. And, So, They went into battle. And, Samuel was still sitting there, He still wasn't out there in the battle yet.

[13:05] So, Jonathan, Or, Saul finally went into battle, And they did some good fighting there, And they won some battles. So, They won some of these battles, And then, Saul came up with a foolish oath, And it had consequences.

[13:23] Saul compels the army of Israel under an oath, And he tells them not to eat, For the whole day, Or for however long he tells them. And this is a, You know, These people are in battle.

[13:36] And it's very difficult for them to be in battle, And not to be able to have something to eat. But, And Jonathan didn't know this, Because he was out there with these armor barrier, And, As Jonathan, And his armor barrier were going, He started to eat some of the dew, That was all the honeydew, That was on the ground.

[13:53] And we're going to see that, Finally, Saul, Somebody said, Told Saul that something happened, And he said, Somebody is not going against the oath that I said here.

[14:05] So they had drawings to see who it might be, And finally it came down to the fact that it was, Jonathan, Is the one that ate. And now Saul was in a, Was in a heap of trouble, Because he had told them, That if they found out who this person was, Then they would be put to death.

[14:26] So we're going to see here in, Verses 15 and 13. Is that where I'm at?

[14:40] Nope, I went too far. So Jonathan, Even, Talks to, Saul was shaken, He was pronounced death sentence on whoever ate, In a violation of his forced vow, Instead of admitting, That the combatant and death sentence were foolish, Saul hardened his heart foolishly, And declared, God so do, And more also, For you shall surely die, Jonathan.

[15:09] Now here's our king, And he's willing to kill his son, Rather than to humble himself, Admit that he was wrong about an oath. So we see that this is another, Bad thing about Saul, That he is just not under God's rule, And under his authority.

[15:26] But in verses 15, Or 45 to 46, The people rescued Jonathan from execution. But the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die? Who has accomplished this great deliverance?

[15:39] But the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die? He has accomplished great deliverances. Certainly not, As the Lord lives, Not a hair on his head shall fall to the ground, For he has worked with God this day.

[15:52] So happily, So happily, The people finally stood up to Saul, Foolishness. They simply would not allow Jonathan to be executed. Now we're going to turn to chapter 15, And we're going to see Saul again, Does something really stupid.

[16:08] And in verses 1 through 3, In chapter 15, Samuel also said to Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people, Over Israel.

[16:21] Samuel also said to Saul, Now therefore heed the voice of the words of the Lord, Thus says the Lord of hosts, I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, How he ambushed him on the way when he came up out of Egypt.

[16:37] Now go and attack Amalek, And utterly destroy all that he have, And do not spare them, But kill both man, woman, infant, and nursing child, Ox, and sheep, camel, and donkey.

[16:51] Like we've heard just before, didn't we? God tells them to go out and fight a battle. He said do it and do it the right way. That way you do everything. This message was from a spiritual leader of Israel To a political military leader of Israel.

[17:08] God clearly told Samuel to tell Saul To bring a total judgment against the Amalekites. Utterly destroy them. Now the Amalekites, And I think what this is going back to Is all the way back to Exodus 17.

[17:24] And that's when Israel was still, Not even in the promised land yet. Remember they got attacked before they did that? Before they were able to go into the promised land? And that was these people that did that.

[17:37] And God still remembers that. And he is telling Samuel now To tell Saul To utterly destroy these people. And that's what's going to happen.

[17:47] Now go and attack Amalek. So Saul gathered the people together And numbered them. Saul was certainly a capable military leader.

[17:59] He could gather and organize a large army. He also knew how to time his attack properly. And he laid it away in the valley for Amalek. Now he attacks them.

[18:11] Verses 7 and 9. And Saul attacked the Amalekites All the way east of Egypt. And he also took Agag, king of the Amalekites, alive.

[18:24] And utterly destroyed all the people With the edge of the sword. But Saul and the people Spared Agag, And best of the sheep, The oxen, The fatlings, The lambs, And all that was good.

[18:37] So, This was good. And he says, I was obedient to God. I destroyed the Amalekites. But what was wrong with that?

[18:48] He didn't do it all. And really, Any disobedience all Was a total disobedience. So, He kept Agag, the king, alive.

[19:03] Samuel heard God's word To Samuel. Now the word of the Lord Came to Samuel In verses 10 through 11. Saying, I greatly regret That I have set up Now the word of Or Saul is king For he has turned back From following me And has not performed My commandments.

[19:20] And it grieved Samuel And he cried out To the Lord All night. So, Samuel had God's heart. It hurt God To reject Saul And it hurt Samuel To see him Rejected See Saul rejected We are close to God When we are close To God's heart Things Grievous And the things That please God Also please us But this is not What we saw Out of Saul He was not close To God.

[19:50] Saul Greets Samuel So as Samuel Comes Saul goes out To greet him And he tells him All this great news That hey I conquered The Amalek's But we need to go Down to Verses 14 And 16 Saul explains This to Samuel Samuel said When this is The bleeding Of the sheep Of my ears And the lowing Of the ox Which I hear And Saul said They have brought Them from the Amalek's For the people Spared the beast Of the sheep And the oxen To sacrifice To the Lord Your God And the rest We have utterly Destroyed Then Samuel Said to Saul Be quiet Saul And I tell you What the Lord Said to me Last night And he said To him Speak on And here we're Going to see That Saul Is going to be Rejected And we're going To see here That Saul Offers all Kinds of excuses And he says

[20:51] Hey They brought The sheep And the animals And all that stuff Instead of saying Okay I'm the leader And we said It was okay So he's Now he's Trying to blame The people That was with him For doing this Instead of Saul Being the leader He's also trying To Include himself In the Trying to Include himself In the obedience The rest have Utility destroyed Here he's trying To say Okay Yeah we May have Saved some But we Destroyed Everything else And that Good enough And of course That's not Good enough Because Saul God already Told him To destroy All So Saul Is rejected As king We read Samuel 17 through 21 Or Samuel 15 17 through 21 The charge Against Saul And his feeble Defense So Samuel

[21:52] Said When you Were little In your own Eyes You were not Heard The tribes Of the Israel And did Not the Lord Anite you King over Israel Now the Lord Sent you On a Mission And said Go and Utterly Destroy When they Did not Obey The voice Of the Lord Why Did you Swoop Down And All The Spoiled Do Evil In The Sight Of The Lord And Samuel Said Samuel But I Have Obeyed The voice Of the Lord And Gone On the Mission On which The Lord Sent me And brought Back Amalek The king I have Utterly Destroyed The Amaleks But the People Took the Plunder The sheep And all The other Things Again He's Just Not Willing To say Hey I messed Up Saul Or Samuel So do What you Have to Do But he Wasn't Really He Wasn't Able To do That Then Samuel Said Has The Lord As Great Delight In Burt Offerings And Sacrifices As In Obeying The Voice Of The Lord Behold To Obey

[22:52] Is Better Than Sacrifice To Heed Than The Fat Of The Rams For Rebellion Is The Sin Of Witchcraft And The Stubbornness Is Equality And Idolatry Because You Have Rejected The Word Of The Lord He Also Is Rejecting You From Being King And Is Empty Religious Practice Rebellion And Stubborn God Saul Rejected God's Word God Rightly Rejected The King Of Israel So He Is Rejected And Now Samuel Tells Saul You've Been Rejected King And Now God Is Going To Be Looking For Somebody After His Own Heart And We're Going To See That Happening And Who Are We Going To See It Happening To We're Going To See It Being Happening By David So At This

[23:52] Point Samuel Says Bring Me Ahag The King The One That You Did That Destroy And Saul At That Point Destroyed Ahag The King At That Point And King We Now Know That Saul Is Not Going To Be The King Of Israel His Family Will Not Reign Forever Here's Another Point Made All This Is Happening And He's Telling Me He Will Not Be King But Saul Reigns Another 25 Years So Well God Is Putting A Thing Out There Saying You Will Not Be King In The Future But He's Not Taking Him From The Kingship That's There He's Letting Him Go Ahead And Be King And We're Going To See How That Works Out With David And The History That Goes With That So Now Let's Turn To Chapter 16 And

[24:57] Right Off The Bat One Through Three God Tells Samuel To Go And Anoint The King Over Israel Now The Lord Said To Samuel How Long Will You Born For Saul Seeing I Have Rejected Him For Reigning Over Israel Fill Your Horn With Oil And Go I Am Sending You To Jesse The Bethlehemite For I Have Provided Myself A King Among His Sons And Samuel Said How How Should I Go If Saul Hears He Will Kill Me And The Lord Said Take A Heifer With You And Say I Have Come To Sacrifice To The Lord Then Invite Jesse To The Sacrifice And I Will Show You What You Shall Do You You Shall Anoint For Me The One That I Name To You So Samuel Loves Saul And See Saul's Fair As His Own Failure But God Won't Let Him Mope Around About It He Tells Him Get Up And Do What I'm Asking You To Do Go Anoint Somebody Else And

[25:57] We See That The Anointing We Talked About The Anointing Last Week And What That Was All About He Also Instructs Samuel To Make A Sacrifice For Finding The King God Tells Samuel To Go To Bethlehem Invite Jesse To The Sacrifice And I'll Show You What To Do Wouldn't It Be Nice If God Would Just Say Ahead Of Time Hey Just Give Me The Name Who Is This Guy You Want Me To Go To But No God Has Given All These Things That He's Got To Go Through And But This Is Usually The It Works This Is God's Timing And He Uses This He Takes One Step At A Time Probably We Don't Run Ahead Of Him Probably So We Don't Run Ahead Of Him And Improvise On Our Own And That's Probably Exactly What We Do He Gives Us Something We Just Jump

[26:57] Ahead And Say Okay Well I Got And Get This Accomplished We All Like To Accomplish Things Don't We But Sometimes We Get Ahead Of God Instead Of Waiting To Find Out Exactly What He Wants So We Get To Verses 6 Through 10 So It Was When They Came That He Looked At Elab And He Said Surely The Lord This Is The First Son Anointed Is Before Him But The Lord Said To Samuel Do Not Look At His Appearance Or At The Height Of His Stature Because I Have Refused Him For The Lord Does Not See A Man As As Sees For A Man Looks At The Outward Appearance But Another One Of The Sons And He Made Him Pass Before Samuel He Said Neither Has The Lord Chosen This One And All The Sons Do The Same Thing They Come Before Samuel And The Lord Says That This Is Not The One So

[27:58] Samuel Looked At The Appearances Which Is What We Normally Do When We Have A Decision And This Is Not What God Had In Sight For Him So In Verses 16 11 As Samuel Said To Jesse Are All The Young Men Here God Sent Me Here I Just Go Through All The Sons That You Have I Know That God Has Not Led Me In The Wrong Direction Do You Have Any Other Sons There Remains Yet And Jesse Said There Remains Yet The Youngest And There He Is Keeping The Sheep And Samuel Said To Jesse Sin Bring Him For We Will Not Sit Down Until He Comes Samuel Goes Through All The Sons Without Giving Him The Eternal Go Ahead So He Is Waiting On The Right One To Come Verses 12

[29:00] Through 13 So He Sent And Brought Him Now He Was Rudy With Bright Eyes And Good Looking And The Lord Said Arise Anoint Him For He Is The One Then Samuel Took The Horn Of The Oil And Anointed Him In The Of His Brothers And The Spirit Of The Lord Came Upon David From That Day Forward So Samuel So So So Explains To Here That David Is A Handsome Man He Seems To Be The One That Would Fit The Job That God Wants Him To Do And But God Has Been Looking At His Heart Because All Along David Has Been A Shepherd And What Does A Shepherd Do He Protects He Protects The Sheep And He Also Had A Relations With God And It Doesn't Tell Us Where This Relations Came From But Where Do You Think It Might Have Came From He's

[30:04] Not It's Not Told Us How He Does It But Someone Must Have Started Him On That Path David Says Nothing Of His Father But Twice In The Palms He Refers To His Mother As A Maid Servant Of The Lord In Psalms 86 And Also Psalm 116 Probably It Was David's Good Godly Mother To Pour Her Heart And Love And Devotion Of The Lord Into Him And Gave Him The Foundation To Build On His Own Walk With The Lord And I Think That's What We See When David As That Shepherd As He's Caring For The Sheep We're Going To See That People Thinks He's Just A Little Shepherd Boy And Can't Do The Job That God Has Before Him But We're Going To Find Out Different So He Was Anointed And It Doesn't Say What The Reactions From David From David To Jesse Or To The Brothers We Can Assume That Only God And Samuel Knew Exactly

[31:05] What Happened Here And This Anointing I'm Sure They Had Questions Why Did Samuel Come Here To Anoint This Man Or This Boy And Really That's All It Was He Anointed Him And It Doesn't Even Say What Happens Afterwards He Probably Went Back To His Sheep And These Guys Are Just Sitting There Wondering What Was This All About What Was This All About So Everybody Probably Thought That Samuel Just Honored David For A No No Reason Although We Know It Is More Significant Because It Was A Spiritual Not A Political Thing That Was Going On Here And We See That But It's The Simultaneous Anointing And The Coming Of The Holy Spirit Upon David Is Also The Model For The Gift Of The Holy Spirit In New Testament And We See That In Acts But You Receive

[32:05] Power When The Holy Spirit Comes Upon You And You May Be A Witness In Jerusalem And All Judea And Samaria And To The Urns Of The Earth And That's Exactly What Happens When We Accept Jesus Christ Into Our Life The Holy Spirit Comes Into Us At That Point Second Corinthians 1 21 Says He Anointed Us Set His Seal Of Ownership Upon Us And He Put His Spirit In Our Hearts As A Deposit Guarantees What See In Ephesians Chapter 1 13 The Sealing Of The Holy Spirit And It's Different A Little Bit Different Than What It's Going To Be For These Guys Back In The Old Testament Because When We're Sealed It's Permanent And A Lot Of Times In The Old Testament Like Saul For In instance Saul Was Anointed And He Was Sealed But It Didn't Happen It Didn't Stay And A

[33:08] Specific Thing And When That Thing Was Over With They May Lose That Anointing Or The Holy Spirit And We See That's Exactly What Happened To To Paul Or Not To Paul But To Saul So The Boy Who Has Courageally Defended The Flock Against The Lion And The Bear Now Will Become The Mighty Warrior Who Defends The Country Against Giants And Philistines The Young Man Who Was The Shepherd His Father's Flock To Find Green Pastures And Still Waters In Psalm 23 Will Now Become The Shepherd Of The Nation And His King And All By The Powerful The Holy Spirit Who Has Come Upon Him First Samuel 16 14 But The Spirit Of The Lord Departed From Saul And The Distressing Spirit From The Lord Troubled him And Saul's Servants Said To Him Surely A Distressing Spirit From God Is Troubling You Let Our Master Now

[34:08] Command Your Servants Who Are Before You To Seek Out A Man Who Is A Skillful Player Of The Harp And Who Is That No Other Than Samuel Or Saul Right David David Played The Harp And He Wrote All The Psalms So Saul Said Provide Me Now A Man Who Can Play Well And Bring Him To Me So The Spirit Comes Powerfully Upon David And The Spirit Who Simitously Leaves Saul So We See That Happening There The Spirit Is Coming Into David But It's Leaving Saul Now The Spirit Has Departed Saul And An Evil Spirit From The Lord Has Now Started To Torment Him And We Talked About How That Can Happen Sometimes In The New Testament Or In The New Testament It Stays Because We Believe And God Has Given Us The Spirit And Given Us A Guarantee In The Old

[35:08] Testament They Did Not Have That Guarantee Samuel 16 18 Then One of the Servants And Answered Look I Have Seen A Son Of Jesse Who Is A Skillful And Plain A Mighty Man Of Valor A Man Of War Prudent In Speech And Handsome Person And The Lord The Lord So Saul Sent Messengers To Jesse And Said Send Your Son David Who Is With The Sheep And Jesse Took The Donkey Loaded The Bread And The Skin Of The Wine And Came To Saul So David Came To Saul And Stood Before Him And He Loved Him Greatly And He Became His Armour Barrier Then Saul Sent To Jesse Saying Please Let David Stand Before Me Upon Saul That David Would Take The Harp And Play It With His Hand Then Saul Would Become Refreshed And Well And The Distressing Spirit Would Depart

[36:08] For Him And This Seems To Be What Goes On Until We Get To The Next Chapter That Things Would Be Good For Saul For A While And They Fall Back Again And We Don't Know David Went Back To His Sheep Or But He Kept Going Back And For When Saul Wounded Him He Would Come And Play The Harp For Him And We See That's How We're Going To Close Out Chapter 16 And Get It Start Into Chapter 17 The Account Of David And Goliath This Is The Stuff Of Legend The Story Of A Young Hero Standing Against Established Power With Inadequate Resources But With Great Courage And Also Winning But We Still Got Some Time Is Any Questions Before We Get Into That About What We've Covered Today Okay If Not We'll Get Right Into Chapter 17 Verses 1

[37:10] Through 10 Now The Phil Fiends Gathered The Armies Together To Battle And Were Gathered Together It's That Whatever That Name Is Succoth And Belongs To Judah And Saul And The Men Of Israel Were Gathered Together And They Were Encapped In Another Valley And They Drew Up The Battle Area Against The Philippines The Philippines Stood On A Mountain On One Side Israel Stood On The Mountain On The Other Side And This Is A Picture Of What's Happened Goliath And The Philistines They Came In They Were On One Side The Israelites Were On The Other Side But Still They Were Outnumbered By The Philistines So A Lot Of The People From Israel Were Still Scared That What Was Going On Especially Now The Philistines Sent This Large Man Down To Stand In Line And To Harass The Israelites Every Day An Enchantment

[38:10] And It Was Recurning There In Verses Seven Through Ten Or One Through Ten And A Champion Went Out From The Camp Of The Philistines Named Goliath From Gath Who Weighed Six Cubits Of A Span He Had Bronze Helmet On His Head And He Was Armored With A Coat Of Mail And He Weighed And The Weight Of The Coat Was Five Thousand Shuckles Of Bronze And He Had Bronze Armored On His Legs And Bronze Chaplin Between His Shoulders Now The Staff Of His Spear Was Like A Weaver's Beam And His Iron Spear Head Weighed Six Hundred Shekels And A Shield Bearer Went Before Him And I Think Roger Covered This In His Study When He Was Doing The Study In Genesis And This Was From The People Of Gad And They Were Called Anakins And They Say They Were Giants But I Don't Think They Were Giants They Were Just Extremely Large People And Some Of Might Have Been Nine Feet

[39:10] Tall And That Is Pretty Large I Mean We Have Some Basketball Players And Now They're Over Seven Feet Some Of Them Getting Close To The Israelites And This Is Exactly What Was Going On There So He Was A Large Man Goliath Challenged Terrified The Israelites He Said Choose A Man And Have Him Come Down To Me If He Is Able To Fight And Kill Me We Will Become Your Subjects But If I Overcome Him And Kill Him You Will Become Our Subjects And You Will Serve Us Now This Boast Is A Way Of Telling The People And Scaring Them More Than I Don't Think The Generals Of Philistine Army Would Be Satisfied

[40:11] That If One Of The Guys From Israel Came And Defeated His People Or That Giant That They Would Just Give Up And Go Home And As We're Going To See That's Not What Happened Either So Verses 16 To 21 And The Philippines Drew Drew Near And Presented Himself Forty Days Mornings And Even This Is What That Giant Did And He Kept Tormating Those People From Israel's Side Now Here It Says Also David Rose Early In The Morning Left The Sheep And A Keeper And Took The Things And Went As Jesse Had Commanded Him And He Came To The Camp As The Army Was Going To Fight And The Shouting Of Battle For Israel And The Philippines Had Draught Up A Battle Line They Had Not Gone Into Battle Yet But They Were Getting Ready To David Isn't Of The Army But He Is The Shepherding Of His Father's Sheep However He Goes Back And For To Make Sure That The Brothers Have Food And This Is What He's Been

[41:11] Doing Now David Acts About Goliath In Verses 25 And 30 Just About That Time David Arised Goliath Appears Between The Latter Lines For One Of His Twice Daily Taunts David Is Appalled And He Hears Goliath Rants And Makes Some Of The Soldiers Tell Him What Is Going On And The Soldiers Told Him What Was Going On And Hey David Says Why Would We Let A Man Do This I'll Go Out And Fight If Nobody Else Is Will To Fight I Will Go Out And Fight So And When His Older Brother Hears

[42:12] Hears Furious So He Had An Argument There But That And Then We Go On And We See In Verses 31 To 32 Now When The Words Which David Spoke Were Heard They Reported Them To Saul And He Sent For Him Then Saban Said To Samuel Let Not A Man's Heart Fail Because Of Him Your Servant Will Go And Fight Against The Philistines You Can You Can You Can Imagine Saul And You Can You Can Imagine You Can Imagine Saul And Here This Little David Comes To Him Or This Young David I'm Not Saying Little Because I Don't Know How Big David Was But He Was Very Young I Think At This Point He Was Probably Only Probably 10 To And Saul

[43:12] Says To David Now You Are Not Able To Go Against The Philistine To Fight Him For You Are A Youth And He Is A Man Of War From His Youth But David Said To Saul Your Servant Used To Keep This Father's Sheep And When A Lion Or A Bear Came And Took A Lamb Out Of The Flock I Went After It And Struck It And Delivered From Its Mouth And When It Arose Against Me I Caught It By Its Beard And Struck And Killed It Your Servant Has Killed Both Lion And Bear And This Uncircumciled Philistine Will Be A Like One Of Them Seeing He Has Defied The Armies Of The Living God That's Quite A Statement For Samuel To Make Moreover the Lord Will Deliver Me From The Paw Of The Lion From The Hand Of This Philistine Here David Is Saying All These Things Is Going On

[44:12] This Man The Lord Will Deliver Me Here Again We See That David Had The Heart For The Lord And This Is Part Of The Calling God Was Choosing Somebody After His Own Heart So Saul Says Samuel Or David You Can't Go Out There You Are Too Young David Explains All The Exploits He's Gone Through So In Verse 37 Samuel Says The Lord Be With You David Has Inspired Spiritual Faith In The King David Has Pointed Him Toward The Power Of Yahweh Or From God So Verses 38 Through 39 Saul Proceeds To Outfit David With His Own Armor But This Is Funny I Think But Saul Stands Head And Shoulders Above The Average Israelite And Again We Go Back To Chapter 10 That When Saul Came

[45:13] On The Picture He Was A Big Large Man His Armor Doesn't Fit David David Tries It On But Can't Move Freely He's Not Used To Armor This Is A Source Of The Saying Trying To Fight In Someone Else's Armor So We Can't Do That The Armor Would Destroy David's Chief Advantage Over The Great Philistine Which Would Have Been His Ability To Get Away And To Move Very Quickly So David Took His Staff In His Hand And Chose Five Stones From The Stream And Put Them In The Pouch Of The Shepherd's Bag With His Sling In His Hand And Approached The Philistine So The Young Moir Doesn't Take Saul's Sword He Takes His Own Weapons That He Have Which Is The Slingshot And Some Stones And Now We're Going To See So The Philistine Came And Began To Draw Him Near To David And The Man Who Bore The Shield Went Before Him And When The Philistine

[46:13] Looked And Saw David He Disdained Him For He Was Only A Youth Ruddy And Good Looking So The Philistine Said To David Am I A Dog That You Would Come To Me With Sticks And The Philistine Cursed David By His Gods And The Philistine Said To David Come To Me And I Will Give Your Flesh To The Birds Of The Air And To The Beasts Of The Field And We Know What Happened The Spirote Samuel Rushes In Or David And I Guess This Has A Lot Of Philosophy When You're Doing That Especially If You Have A Fairly Heavy Stone In There And He Whirls That Thing Around And He Was A Good Shot Because He Put It Right In The Forehead And The Giant If You Call Him A Giant Fell Down And He Was Destroyed At That Point And We Find Out Here Then That David

[47:14] Gets To A Share With This Bull And He Cuts Off Goliath Head And He Takes It Back And Gives It To The King And Next Week We'll Get Into Chapter 18 Which Is Going To Describe Now Mostly How David As A Man Reacts To The Thing That's Going On In His Life Trying To Put Up With A King That's Trying To Destroy Him And We'll See That Here In Verses 18 19 And Or Not Verses But Chapters 18 19 And 20 So Any Questions About What We Covered Today Or Comments Yeah Pam Oh Yeah That Is An Interesting Thing But I Think What He Is Really Getting By He Didn't Know The Family So He Knew

[48:14] And Like I Said David Went In And Out So He May Have Forgot A Little Bit About David But I Think He Knew But He Didn't Know About His Father That Much And That Is What I Think He Was Asking Here About The Family Of David And That Would Be Jesse And The Lineage Of Jesse And All Those Types Things That He Was Asking About There Right It's Just Funny Because In 16 18 It Says I Seen The Son Of Jesse And When He Goes To Play The Harp Yeah Yeah Anybody Somebody Else Had A Question Yeah Roger Don't Worry About Speak Loud Okay Now David Was Young But He's Not A Child Don't Know Because In Verse In Chapter 16 And Verse 18 The Guy That The Guy One Of Saul's Servants Says Hey This Guy

[49:14] Is A Man Of Valor And He's A Warrior So David's Been In Battles Before It In Fact He Not Only Plays A Heart For Saul But He Becomes Saul's Armor Bearer Right So He's Been In Fights Before He's Just Going To And Fro Yeah Nevertheless Number One He's Young And Number Two He Goes Up To The Big Point Is That When He Goes To Goliath He Said You're Defying You're Defying God Right You're Mocking God And I Come In God's Name It's A Pretty Good Lesson For Me Oh Yeah It's A Lesson Of All Us I Mean All The Things That Come Into Our Life That Seems To Overwhelm Us It Will Overwhelm Us Unless We Turn It Over To God And That Seems To Be What What David Did At This

[50:14] Point Because Nobody Would Ever Dream That This Young Boy Could Have Took On This Large Man That Was Tottling The Whole Nation Of Israel At That Point And Caused His Death But He Did So Because He Relied On God And We're Going To See That As We Go On That David Has Always Got God's Heart In Mind And That's Why God Chose Him So Anything Else All Right We'll See you Next Week For Li Up