Heart of Humility

1 Sam 18:17-30

NTRODUCTION

As we continue through Samuel and our study of Becoming God’s Person, We have looked at what type of heart it takes to be Gods person.Last week as we look into the Heart of Contentment. And learned about being content with our situations even if they are not ideal. So let continue on to learn what we re to be as Gods people. Please open to 1 Samuel Ch 18.1 have a little story for you.

After resigning his pastorate to go lead another church, a pastor was approached by an endearing older member of the congregation. She wept over the pastor’s decision to leave and said, “Things will never be the same.”The minister tried to console her by saying, “Don’t worry, I’m confident you will get a new pastor who is better than me.” She continued to sob and replied, “That’s what the last three pastors have said, but they just keep getting worse.”

BIBLE VERSE

1 Samuel 18:17-30 (ESV)

David Marries Michal

17 Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.” 18 And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father’s clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?” 19 But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.

20 Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 21 Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.” 22 And Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in private and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king’s son-in-law.’ ” 23 And Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?” 24 And the servants of Saul told him, “Thus and so did David speak.” 25 Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’ ” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the time had expired, 27 David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife. 28 But when Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him, 29 Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David’s enemy continually.

30 Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.

Humble Life

EXPLANATION

Merab was his to marry because of the Sauls promise of the one who killed Goliath.

1 Sam 17:24 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid. 25 And the men of Israel

said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man

who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel.”

I was a great insult at this time to re-bargain

Saul tries to tie this into the Lords work

But David responds humbly

Who am I for a position of such importance?

Then an even greater insult he doesn't give him his daughter.

Then Saul offers another daughter

And David responds humbly again

I am a poor man. i don't have the bride price

LLUSTRATION

D.L. Moody was the most famous evangelist in the world in the late 1800s. People came from around the world to attend his Bible Conferences in Northfield, Massachusetts. One year a large group of pastors from Europe were among the attendees. They were given rooms in the dormitory of the Bible school. As was the custom in Europe, the men put their shoes outside the door of their room, expecting them to be cleaned and polished by servants during the night.

Of course there were no servants in the American dorm, but as Moody was walking through the halls and praying for his guests, he saw the shoes and realized what had happened. He mentioned the problem to a few of his students, but none of them offered to help. Without another word, the great evangelist gathered up the shoes and took them back to his own room where he began to clean and polish each pair. Moody told no one what he had done, but a friend who interrupted him in the middle of shining the shoes and helped him finish the task later told the story of what had happened. Despite the praise and fame he received because of God’s blessing on his life and ministry, Moody remained a humble man.

APPLICATION

3  When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

4  what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

Who am I? he psalmist in Psalm 8:3-4 expresses awe at God's care and asks, "What is man that you are mindful of him?". This reflects a sense of humility and wonder at the vastness of God's love and attention to humanity. 

The psalmist's question is not one of doubt or questioning, but rather one of awe and humility, recognizing the vastness of God's power and the smallness of humanity. 

Our experience, our desires, our capabilities, our positions, our inteligence, our pride comes before destruction and a

haughty spirit before the fall.

2. Humble in the Face of Hostility

EXPLANATION

This whole time David is humbling himself before a King that desires his destruction.

Who here would be humble before a world that desires to cancel you?

Talks bad about you?

Disagrees with you?

Desires to murder you?

ILLUSTRATION

Winston Churchill exemplified integrity and respect in the face of opposition. During his last year in office, he attended an official ceremony. Two gentlemen that were seated several rows behind him began whispering, “That's Winston Churchill. They say he is getting senile. They say he should step aside and leave the running of the nation to more dynamic and capable men." When the ceremony was over, Churchill turned to the men and said, “Gentlemen, they also say he is deaf!”

APPLICATION

Who Am I vs How Dare You!

3. Humble Entry

BIBLE VERSE

Matthew 21:1-11 (ESV)

The Triumphal Entry

21 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. 3 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” 4 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,

5  “Say to the daughter of Zion,

‘Behold, your king is coming to you,

humble, and mounted on a donkey,

on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ ”

6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. 7 They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them. 8 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 9 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” 10 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?” 11 And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

EXPLANATION

Humble Beginnings

Like David Jesus had

John 6:42 English Standard Version

42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father

have come down from heaven’?”

Humbly Worship 24/7

7-11 Worship

Revelation 4:8 English Standard Version

8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and

night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

Humble in the Face of Hostility

Philippians 2:5-11 (ESV)

5Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,6who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.8And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, Hand every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father

ILLUSTRATION

After a tough and discouraging day at work, Melvin plopped himself on the couch and began wallowing in self-pity. He moaned to his wife, “Nobody cares about me. In fact, the whole world hates me.” Without even looking up from her work, Melvin’s wife replied, “That's not true, honey. The whole world couldn’t possibly hate you because most of them don’t even know you.”

APPLICATION

Prepared to worship Jesus

Jesus and David paid the price for the bride.

Both had open hostility

Be Humble because you have no right to be greater then Christ