Sermon Tone Analysis

New year 2019

we're going to look at David and some things that we need to do differently in the coming year I do not want you to think of them as New year's resolutions but has committing yourself to the Lord.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

The Bible is full of passages telling us not to be presumptive about how much time we have left

But the fact remains we do not know what this next year has in store for us as individuals and a church and as a nation.

We do know that not everyone will be here next year just like not every one that was here last years they are not here today.

and we know there will be other people here that are not here today.

But much of what tomorrow holds we have no Idea.

NOr should we know God designed it that way because we are to live by faith.

Many things about tomorrow I do not understand but I know who holds tomorrow and I know who holds my hand.

But the fact remains that there are things we can do this year that will change our lives for the rest of our lives.

It can be good or it can be bad.

The decisions David made at the beginning of the new year.

Haunted him for the rest of his life they messed up him his family and his kingdom.

This was a turning point in David's life.

The life before this was one of victory and conquest and becoming great

The Life after this was one of sorrow and crying heart break

Yes he was a man after God's own heart yes him and the Lord had a good relationship but it was a sad life a hard life that no one would want to endure.

God worked it together for good and we had great lessons of repentance and forgiveness that have come from it.

we have great illustrations of the consequences of sin that have come from it.

We have insights into human emotions from the Bible that we would never have without it.

We can see the long-term consequences of short-term decisions.

But no one would want to go through this.

Just read his story it all changes here.

this was the last battle that they had victory and under David.

This was where the edge of his conquest and the border of his kingdom stopped.

And you know what I do not believe David started out the year saying this is the year I am going to commit two unpardonable sins one right after another.

This is the year I will mess up my family this is the year I will mess up my life.

David what do you have planned this year.

I am going to commit adultery with my councolors granddaughter and to cover it up I will kill her husband.

Who is one of my 37 best soldiers.

The mighty men.

But he did it.

Did he not.

Now how many of you are planning on messing up your life real bad this year?

You see he made a bunch of mistakes that led to the biggest blunder of his life

If we make these mistakes we will ruin the future God has planned for us.

He Rested in the Past 2 sam 11:1

And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah.

But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

What happened to little boy that went down to the battle were goliath of gath was ?

Is there not a cause

Lion bear I will make him like one of them

Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.

What happened to the man that when he wanted to be engaged to the king's daughter

1Sa_18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.

But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

1Sa_18:27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law.

And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

He had bravely fought many battles under saul and now as the king of Israel big battles against powerful enemies.

He was clearing the land of the enemies like they were supposed to all the way back to the days of Joshua

He defeated the army of the syrians

The philistines the moabites

He was a warrior who fought many battles

But he figured it was time to hang up his guns fought long enough hard enough

I have made it to the top

Where does one go from here

I hear people say that You know I wanted to do it than I did it there was nothing left to accomplish I did it all.

Not a good way to think.

He lost his appetite for war for advancement for victory

his vision was two small he accomplished all he wanted to accomplish

he got to where he was just wanting to sit back and enjoy taking an early retirement

Listen whenever you lose your taste for victory whenever you lose your taste for growth you will just begin a decline .

After you have reached the top of the mountain no were else to go but down.

He did not feel bad about it because he was resting in past victories.

You know we can do that as a christian we can do that as a church.

Maybe we have beaten the goliath of lust

Maybe we have beaten the goliath of addiction

Maybe we have beaten the goaliath of a bad marriage.

Maybe we have beaten the goliath of depression.

But what happens to so many christians is they like David get comfortable with past victories instead of finding what else God has for you to accomplish

How do we know that the Lord has more for us to accomplish more for us to win ?

We are still living.

IF we are still breathing there is a reason a purpose for that breath.

And If we could just stop thinking we are the end

If we could stop thinking we are the goal

And just look at ourselves as soldiers in his army accomplishing his purpose.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

the point of the brick is not the brick but the house

And we have so many Christians thinking that God made the brick for the brick sake so he could set it on the pedestal and say what a wonderful brick.

They cannot conceive a life that is being part of a wall of the Lord's House.

I have had people tell me I hate that verse I don't want to be a brick.

We have bought into a Christianity that makes the end our self.

So many of us lose our way

We lose our purpose.

like David did when he started out it was so that all people may know there is a God in Israel

But because of the past victories it became so they would know there's a king in Israel

We believe God is here to make our life easier and the best testament to the Glory of God is you sitting in a big house when you die in front of a big telavsion.

Look at what God did with him.

He made him happy.

He was a happy man.

Your life is gasoline to the Lords engine.

Are you pouring self in

Or have you like david been resting in past victories

It is easy to rest in past victories because people see the past.

All they know about David is his past victories the past is more real to people than the present or the future.

if you got save to your people remember the day you got saved.

If you stood up and gave a testimony about getting victory they remember that.