Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro

Half Full/Sunrise or Sunset

Are you a pessimist, or an optimist?

Have you ever taken one of those crazy magazine tests?

Do you prefer Sunrises, or Sunsets?

Is this glass half full or half empty?

Some people, when something is going look around to see what bad thing is going to happen next.

It may not even be their fault.

Society may condition us to that response.

Remember the movie Jaws?

Jaws was so scary at the time that people were afraid to go swimming in the ocean for fear of a shark attack.

Then just when the fear died down, and people started to go swimming again an ad campaign for Jaws 2 swept across America.

Do you remember that?

Jaws2

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water-Jaws 2. Well I don’t about all that psycology, but I just could not get that saying out of my mind.

Because If you were here last week, we discussed , the anointing of David, by Samuel.

And Last week, I stood right here, and I said that I was rid of Saul.

And with great joy, I shook off the evil Saul, And I preached on the grace of God, as he selected David to be the the next King of Israel.

If you were here last week

Since we already discussed , David and Goliath.

I turned a few pages to 1 Samuel chapter 18, and 1 Samuel chapter 19.

And he we go.

here comes Saul again.

I should have know better.

Let me pray.

Pray

I know I can’t be the only one.

I’ll bet there are a number of you that feel this way.

Things are going good, but that just means, look out something bad is about to happen.

Do you know what I mean?

Some people call it “Waiting for the other shoe to drop” whatever that means.

Pop Psychology will say that we won’t allow ourselves to feel good, becasue we don’t deserve it

Addicts or abuse victims are used to going through crisis after crisis so they are expecting something.

We become Christians, and we are overjoyed at following the Lord Jesus Christ, we think ok, things are going to good from now on.

And they may.

The big sins in your life , the obvious sins that the Lord wants you kill may die easy at first because you are sick of them, and the problems associated with those sins may go away.

SO we are thinking ok I've trusted in Jesus now things are going to be good.

Then it happens, you lose your job.

Your receive the health diagnosis, a family member is melting down and hurling accusations and insults at you.

What is going on?

Why is this happening?

Well, let me offer this suggestion.

Maybe God has you in place similar to the one he placed David in, in .

Maybe God is actually protecting you to provide preparation, for what He has next.

Things must have seemed to be going fairly well for David.

He was anointed by Samuel, he defeated Goliath, and he was good friends with the Kings son, Johnathan.

Remember Johnathon, he ate honey, accidentally violating the king’s command to fast, Saul was going to put him to death, put the men saved him.

David seems to have similar success. 1 Samuel 18.5.

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1 sam 18.5-

Well this did not sit real well with Saul

So this jealousy in Saul’s heart burned.

He saw his kingdom slipping away and he let that thought fester.

An evil thought can give give birth to evil, like in

James 1:13-1

So with this festering thought in Saul’s mind, he should take to the Lord.

He should take it to the Lord and ask for deliverance from this temptation.

Taking every thought captive to Christ, So, if you are Saul, If you find yourself in the situation where sin is staring to be in your heart, wether it is jealuosy or haterd like Saul, or lust or greed, Take those thoughts captive to Christ, run to the cross of Jesus, place those sins on him by confessing, and trust the Jesus will cleanse your heart.

But Saul doesn’t do that, instead he throws spears.

1 sam 18

And so it begins.

Saul will try to kill David numerous times.

He will send him off to war and hope that he dies at the the hands Philistines.

Saul even uses the love his daughter has for David to try and kill him.

And the better things went for David, the more it bothered Saul

1 Sam 18.

When we turn to chapter 19, Saul is trying to build a coalition to destroy David.

Johnathon, the king’s son, knows the difference between right and wrong.

He knows Saul is off, so he warns David, the he tries to reason with Saul, to save his friend David.

1 Sam

And this seems to work.

And this seems to wok

Saul is back on the right track again.

This time I’m going to do it.

I am going to clean up on my own, I am really going to try and do the right thing.

Things are going well for David, those were probably just setbacks, right?

Now Saul is on the right page it is going to be ok.

David even goes out and wins a victory.

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1 sam 19.

He escaped, he got out of there.

Why wouldn’t you, the King is trying to kill you.

Just when things were turning around Saul promised no more, battles were won, and David is there playing his harp and whoosh!

Out of nowhere a spear comes whizzing by his head and stick to the wall bam!

Bam! the boss walks in and says they are moving the plant they will be closed by Thanksgiving.

Bam! the doctor walks in and says we need to do surgery and start Chemo right away.

Bam!

The police are on the phone!

What is going on.

I thought the God we serve is in control.

I thought the God we serve is Sovereign.

Are these things occuring outside of his control?

If we are going to believe that God is God.

If we are to believe that he really is the most supreme ultimate authority in the universe, If we really believe he is in control, then we have to believe that he somehow had to have at least permitted this thing to take place.

and that is what God’s Word says.

1 Sam 19.9

An Evil Spirit from the Lord.

And not just anytime.

But right when Saul had a spear in his hand.

and David did not.

David’s hands are full, with the harp.

Serenading the one that Has been made King, of all people.