God's Blessed Invites Hatred
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1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
A. Rapport for the Time
Conflict in our life comes and goes.
Will of God--God’s will is that attribute of God whereby he approves and determines to bring about every action necessary for the existence and activity of himself and all creation.
27 For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.
28 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
Jesus---for us
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Conflict will arise in our life when we desire our own way called sinning against God instead of walking in his ways. Conflict can arise from within ourselves but it can also arise from outside circumstances. That is the case in the text we find ourselves in this morning.
B. Reading of the text
C. Review of the text
What an amazing journey we have been on in the book of 1 Samuel. We began with a mother, Hannah, who desperately wanted a child and sought after God to provide for her in her time of trouble. That child would be Samuel, who we have followed for much of the book as God has used him from his youth to even appoint not only the first King, Saul, but also King David.
Now David has not seen this happen yet as we have watched David serving in the court of King Saul until last week when things took a turn for the worse for their relationship. King Saul, in whom the Spirit of God left was trying to manipulate the situations around David to get him killed. He throws spears at him while David is playing the Lyre, Saul sends David to the front line to fight philistines and David comes back victorious. The King tells David to go and defeat 100 philistines and he will allow him to marry his daughter Michal thinking this will surely kill David. David only is given more success in the hands of God as he returns having killed 200 philistines.
D. Relevance of the text
Honestly the passage today made me think of this verse.
51 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.
4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
We should walk away this morning knowing that to walk with the world is to directly opposed to the will of God. Yet if we are in the hand of God, He has broken this chain in our life and we may seek his will and even find victory in Christ in the middle of Great conflict.(3 times in this chapter we will see God deliver David his servant.)
T.S.
1. Saul's Schemes and David's Valor
1. Saul's Schemes and David's Valor
1 And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, delighted much in David.
With this verse King Saul makes it official he is set to kill David and is even willing to share that information with his servants and Jonathan who all seem to love David. Saul definitely finds himself in the minority.
2 And Jonathan told David, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.
3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything I will tell you.”
Reading the text we understand that Jonathan loves David and is not about to let his father kill him without trying to intervene in some fashion. But don’t miss the fact that God has placed Jonathan into the life of David for this very reason.
4 And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.
5 For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”
Notice how Jonathan responds to a situation of conflict vs. how we have seen Saul handle conflict or even escalate conflict. Jonathan does not have to come at Saul with anything other than just the facts. David has done nothing directly to Saul instead he has actually been nothing but a help to him. Jonathan even goes so far to call out his father and tell him that it would actually be a sin to kill David because he is innocent.
From our point of view being this far away and just reading of the event we can’t experience the anxiety that probably came along with this conversation for Jonathan. But this is a great example for you and I on how to handle what we would definitely declare is a great conflict in his life. The Lord desires that we walk in relationship with him and be directed by his standards not our own. Jonathan does not approach this conversation without the leading of God in his life.
I stopped at this verse instead of giving you the results of the conversation because Jonathan’s roll was to have the conversation and allow the Lord to handle the rest. Just like in our sharing of the Gospel.
T.S. We go from Saul’s Schemes to Saul’s sinister
2. Saul's Sinister Change of Heart
2. Saul's Sinister Change of Heart
6 And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.”
Saul listens to the voice of Jonathan and makes a vow to the God of all creation that he will not harm Saul. Now, we know the rest of the story and he doesn’t take this vow serious in any way since he will spend a lot of time trying to kill David in this chapter and in other. But in the moment Saul actually believes the words he is saying but more than likely is just trying to get Jonathan to go away and stop pointing out his sin. Make no mistake King Saul is pursuing his fleshly desires and that will always lead to selfishness and not near the heart of God.
7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.
8 And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.
Saul even allows David back into the thrown room to be around him as Jonathan brings him back.
9 Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.
10 And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.
This should sound very familiar with the last chapter.
10 The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.
11 And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.
Harmful Spirit leads Saul again and David is there to bring him comfort. I just can’t stop thinking of how amazing it is for David to still be in Saul’s presence trying to help him. The psalms of David come true in his life. Can’t you see them.
1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3 “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”
10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
This is David life there is no practice round. He is secure in who the Lord is in his life and willing to serve the Lord in any capacity he sees fit. The heart of Saul may change with the wind but the heart of David is fixed upon the Lord.
T.S. David know his deliverance is from the Lord.
3. Divine Deliverance for David
3. Divine Deliverance for David
11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.
13 Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.
14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
15 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
16 And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
17 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. Why should I kill you?’ ”
1 Samuel—Looking for a Leader Chapter 32: “… against the Lord and against His Anointed” (1 Samuel 19:1–10)
Every human will that is not aligned with Jesus being Lord of all is in conflict with the will of God.
