The life of King David III

A man after God’s own Heart

The life of King David III

Hope you are all doing well, enjoying this great weekend

Yesterday we had a great parade celebrating King Kamehameha the great, he was a great King, the one who was used by God to unify the Hawaiian Islands, to stop all the killing and wars happening around the Islands. Most of the pictures of wars we see around Kamehameha hotel were wars within families, cousin against cousin, uncles against uncles. Satan had a clear agenda to destroy the Hawaiian population, King Kamehameha was chosen to preserve the people and the Kingdom of Hawaii.

We are in the middle of a series on the Life of King David, he was the second King of Israel, a great King.

David was anointed by Samuel the prophet to be the king of Israel, after King Saul had been rejected by God, for his selfishness and disobedience.

During his early years David was a shepherd over his family sheep, families depended on them for food wool and sheepskin. He was about 15, 16 years old when he was anointed to be King,

the bible says in 2 Samuel 5:4 that he became a king at the age of 30. Most scholars believe it was around 15 years from the time he was anointed to the time he became King.

It was during his teenage years that God chose him because of his heart towards God

And He called him a man after his own heart

A man after God’s Heart

Let’s pray

David had not accomplished anything worthy of praises by men when God said this about him.

God loved David and He saw David’s heart way before anyone else, We don’t know what David did or shared with God as he tented the sheep by himself, but definitely caught the Lord’s attention. David is the only man in the bible called a man after God’s heart

God chose David

He knows our hearts and He loves those who’s heart are after Him, who desire to do his will.

During the time of Ezekiel God was looking for a man who would stand in the gap

Eze 22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.

Eze 22:30 And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

In the time of Ezekiel He could not find any one. But not so at this period of history. God found one, David. So Paul declares, "And God found David, a man after his own heart who would do His will."

He was not saying that David had a heart just like God’s.

Not a man who is perfect. God can’t find him; he doesn’t exist, but a man who will put God at the center of his life. And when the issue arises and the showdown comes, the man will choose the will of God over his own. A man who will do God’s will is the man after God’s heart.

"I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will."

Today I would like to talk about 3 attributes of David that helped him to be a man after God’s heart.

I believe God still looking for man and women after His own heart.

1 David Loved the Lord His God with all of His heart.

He demonstrated it by bringing the ark of God back to Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6).

Saul never thought of that. David also demonstrated his love for the LORD by desiring to build a house for Him. The LORD denied him the privilege because his hand was filled with blood. He said his child, who would succeed him, would build a house for Him (2 Samuel 7:1-17; 1 Chronicles 17:1-15).

That child, Solomon, did.

Nevertheless, as king, David prepared the building materials for the house of God (1 Chronicles 22:14-16). David, in his personal capacity, also donated generously all his private treasures of gold and silver and challenged the people to follow his example (

1 Chronicles 29:1-5). In verse 3, David said he was giving all of his own private treasures of gold and silver to help in the construction of the Temple because of his devotion to the Temple of his God.

What are we doing or building for the Lord?

How are we demonstrating our love for Him.

Are you telling your Heavenly Father how much you love Him?

Psa 18:1 To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O LORD, my strength.

Psa 18:2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psa 18:3 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

Psa 116:1 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.

Psa 116:2 Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Jesus tell us to Love the Lord our God

Mat 22:37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

Mat 22:38 This is the great and first commandment.

Mat 22:39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Mat 22:40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

We cannot be a man or women after God’s heart, unless we love him with all your heart soul and mind.

If we just keep trying to live our own lives doing what we want, we are not following God.

2 David was a worshiper

Jesus tells us that a true worshiper, worships in Spirit

Jesus was having this conversation with a woman by the well.

Joh 4:23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.

Joh 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

David was a true worshiper

David said in Psalm 5:7, “But as for me, I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy; in fear of You I will worship toward Your holy temple”

David tells us that what God desires from the sinner is not sacrifice but brokenness.

“For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart — these, O God, You will not despise” Psalm 51:16-17 .

God is more concerned about the state of the heart of the worshipper than whatever gift he is coming to offer to Him.

When David brought the ark of the LORD to Jerusalem after his first attempt failed, the Bible tells us how David worshipped the LORD to the point that Michal, his wife, despised him.

David’s answer also showed how much he revered God and the extent he could go to worship Him.

2Sa 6:14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.

2Sa 6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the horn.

Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window. She saw how David was leaping and turning before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart. Obviously, she was not a worshipper of God. How could somebody have considered as embarrassing the way David was worshipping,

3. His faith was in God.

We can see that On many occasions, David demonstrated his faith in God.

The most outstanding was when he stepped forward to confront Goliath (1 Samuel 17).

He didn’t have to risk his life, he was not enlisted in Israel’s army. He only came to Israel’s army camp to deliver his father’s message to his brothers and followed them to the battlefront. But, because of his faith in God, he took up Goliath’s challenge, and, eventually, the young shepherd boy brought down the head of the Philistines’ champion with his (Goliath’s) sword.

In many of the psalms attributed to him, such as Psalm 124, David expressed his faith in God even when he was in unfavorable circumstances.

Psa 124:1 A Song of Ascents. Of David. If it had not been the LORD who was on our side— let Israel now say—

Psa 124:2 if it had not been the LORD who was on our side when people rose up against us,

Psa 124:3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

David gave God the glory in all his victories, his faith was in God

I have talked to many people who told me, I’m a man of faith or I’m a women of faith and more you talk to them you realize, how mystical is their believe, some don’t even believe in Jesus, their faith is just a strong wish on something, wishes will let you hanging most of the time and they are disappointing, faith in Jesus, faith in your Heavenly Father will give you life, all His words are true, and they will come to pass.

Our Heavenly Father still looking for men and women after His heart

Those who

Love God with all their hearts

Worship Him in Spirit

Have faith in Him

To become a men or women after God’s own heart we need to make Jesus the Lord of our lives.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Joh 3:16

To receive Jesus we need to accept Him as God’s son, repent from our sins and a life of selfishness, and we need to ask Him to be our Lord and savior, not that we deserve it, but is a gift from God.

If this is your desire today, please repeat this prayer after me?

Heavenly Father I’m sinner,

I’m sorry for my sins,

I’m willing to turn away from my sins.

I receive Christ as my savior,

I confess him as Lord

from this moment on

I want to follow and serve him,

in the fellowship of his church,

In Jesus name. Amen!

1Co 11:23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread;

1Co 11:24 and when He had given thanks, He broke itand said, "Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me."

1Co 11:25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."

1Co 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes.

1Co 11:27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks thiscup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

Heb 9:14 dead works, acts, sins

E mau aku ka loko maika’i o ka Haku, Iesu Kristo; me ke aloha a ke Akua, a me ka launa pu ‘ana mai o ka Uhane Hemolele ia ‘olua, a me makou apau. Amene.