We wrestle wk. 2

We Wrestle

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Do you have your Bibles with you?

This is what we believe at FFM.

We believe that God’s words are the most powerful and creative force that have ever existed.

We believe the Bible is a collection of writings to us inspired by God.

In the Bible it says that we were created in the image and likeness of God.

In order to know who we are and what we should be like,

we have to know the Bible.

Here at FFM we believe in equipping God’s people in the spirit of love by any means necessary.

So let the equipping begin.

This Week’s Wisdom Vaccination

James 1:6-8 NIV

But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

Intro:

Last week we talked about the wrestling match that Eve had with Satan.

What we didn’t mention was that Adam was with her, so he lost the match as well.

If you were not here last week, we also discovered that Flip Wilson was wrong. The Devil didn’t make me, do it.

And neither the Devil nor anyone else can make me do anything.

Look at this scripture from last week.

Genesis 3:1 NIV

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

Satan didn’t defeat her physically, but he defeated her in her thought life.

We win or lose in life is based on whether or not we win or lose the wrestling match that goes on in our thoughts.

This week’s message is titled:

King David Wrestled

I want to set this narrative up for you.

This is a time in history when Saul was the King and David was his greatest military leader and best friend of his son Jonathan.

King Saul was jealous of David because the people celebrated David’s military victories more than King Saul’s.

Now, we’re going to go through some of the verses that tell this story of who David was before we get into his wrestling match.

1 Samuel 19:1-2 NIV

Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David 2 and warned him, “My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there.

David knows firsthand that King Saul is trying to kill him. And he has done nothing to deserve it.

1 Samuel 19:9-10 NIV

But an evil spirit from the Lord came on Saul as he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand. While David was playing the lyre, 10 Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear, but David eluded him as Saul drove the spear into the wall. That night David made good his escape.

David used to play anointed music that drove the evil spirits away from King Saul.

David did the Matrix and got away.

Let’s move forward in time and David has been on the run for his life even though he has done nothing to deserve the wrath of King Saul.

1 Samuel 24:3-7 NIV

He came to the sheep pens along the way; a cave was there, and Saul went in to relieve himself. David and his men were far back in the cave. 4 The men said, “This is the day the Lord spoke of when he said to you, ‘I will give your enemy into your hands for you to deal with as you wish.’” Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.

(Think about this, you have a word from the Lord that he will give your enemy into your hands and this opportunity arises.)

5 Afterward, David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe. 6 He said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, or lay my hand on him; for he is the anointed of the Lord.” 7 With these words David sharply rebuked his men and did not allow them to attack Saul. And Saul left the cave and went his way.

David has the opportunity to kill King Saul, but he doesn’t do it.

David’s character was of the highest integrity.

1 Samuel 24:8-11 NIV

Then David went out of the cave and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David bowed down and prostrated himself with his face to the ground. 9 He said to Saul, “Why do you listen when men say, ‘David is bent on harming you’? 10 This day you have seen with your own eyes how the Lord delivered you into my hands in the cave. Some urged me to kill you, but I spared you; I said, ‘I will not lay my hand on my lord, because he is the Lord’s anointed.’ 11 See, my father, look at this piece of your robe in my hand! I cut off the corner of your robe but did not kill you. See that there is nothing in my hand to indicate that I am guilty of wrongdoing or rebellion. I have not wronged you, but you are hunting me down to take my life.

Again we see David’s character is on display like none other before him.

David and Abishai caught Saul and his men sleeping in the wilderness and Saul’s spear and water jar was lying beside him.

Abishai wanted to pin Saul to the earth.

1 Samuel 26:9 NIV

But David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him! Who can lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed and be guiltless?

So, they just took his sword and water jar and left so that Saul would again know David could have killed him if he wanted to.

It was almost unbelievable the amount of character that David exuded.

Now let’s move forward in the life and time of David.

Saul is now dead, and David is King.

He has been winning battles time and time again.

2 Samuel 11: 1 NIV

In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem.

The mighty warrior who had the best reputation of leading his men in battle, stayed at home.

The King who had a history of the highest character and integrity stayed at home.

David’s wrestling match begins.

2 Samuel 11:2-3 NIV

One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

Uriah the Hittite was one of David’s officers in the military.

Come on King David! You were my character/integrity hero.

David wrestled. (David thought)

2 Samuel 11:5-6 NIV

Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

David wrestled. (David thought)

David sent for Uriah to come home from war and David thought he could get Uriah to go home and sleep with his wife.

2 Samuel 11:8-9 NIV

Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So, Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house.

Remember how honorable David used to be. Now Uriah the Hittite was the man of character and integrity.

David wrestled. (David thought)

2 Samuel 11:15-16 NIV

In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”

David had Uriah carry his own execution letter back to war.

2 Samuel 11:26-27 NIV

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27 After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord.

The big cover up.

David wrestled. (David thought)

Finally, the Lord sent Nathan to David and Nathan told David a story of a rich man who had so much and a poor man who had one little lamb.

When a traveler came to town the rich man took the one little lamb that the poor man had and cooked it for the traveler, instead of cooking one of his many.

David burned with fury when he heard the story and said the rich man who did this must be put to death.

Then Nathan said to David, you are the man.

The Lord has given you so much and would have given you more, but you take another mans wife and then have him killed and marry her.

David wrestled.

2 Samuel 12:13 NIV

Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”

David got it. It wasn’t as much about what he did to Uriah or his wife. It was what he did unto the Lord.

1 What is Holy Spirit saying to you right now?

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4-week series; week 1 Adam and Eve wrestled; week 2 King David wrestled; week 3 Apostle Paul wrestled; week 4 Jesus wrestled (In the desert and the garden)