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I want to begin with a fun document I found.
Report from the Pastor Search Committee — did you ever wonder how great Bible characters would be rated by a typical church committee?
Now, the truth can be revealed.
We do not have a happy report to give.
We have not been able to find a suitable candidate for this church, though we have one promising prospect.
ADAM: Good man but has problems with his wife.
One reference told us how he and his wife enjoyed walking nude in the woods.
NOAH: Former pastorate of 120 years with no converts.
Prone to unrealistic building projects.
MOSES: A modest and meek man, but poor communicator; even stutters at times.
Sometimes blows his stack and acts rashly in business meetings.
Some say he left an earlier church over a murder charge.
DEBORAH: One word — Female.
DAVID: The most promising leader of all until we discovered the affair he had with his neighbor’s wife.
SOLOMON: Great preacher, but serious woman problem.
JONAH: Told us he was swallowed up by a great fish.
He said the fish later spit him out on the shore near here.
We hung up.
JOHN: Says he is a Baptist, but doesn’t dress like one.
May be too Pentecostal.
Tends to lift both hands in the air to worship when he gets excited.
You know we limit to one hand.
Sleeps in the outdoors, has a weird diet, and provokes denominational leaders.
JESUS: Has had popular times, but once when his church grew to 5000, He managed to offend them all; and his church dwindled down to twelve people.
Seldom stays in one place very long.
And, of course, he is single.
Today, we’re going to look at David in comparison to Saul.
Saul
Last week, we began looking at some of the Kings of Israel.
The first king we have anointed is Saul.
And we remember that he was tall and handsome, and stood head and shoulders above the other people.
Yet, still, when he was selected and they went to find him, he was hiding in the baggage.
Still, this is the one God chose for Israel when they said, “Give us a king like the other nations around us.”
As we shall see, God did answer their prayer.
We discussed last week that in asking for a king, Israel had rejected God as their king.
Once again the people of Israel are looking horizontally rather than vertically.
Think about this: Israel is not recognizing that they are God’s chosen, and they are different from the other nations for a reason.
Instead, they demand that Samuel anoint for them a king, so that they can have a king over them like "all the nations”.
And they got Saul.
Now you may not have known a lot about king Saul in the past.
What we saw last week is that he is afraid of the people - why else would he be hiding among the luggage when it is announced he is king.
(1Sam 10:23).
This fear would be his downfall.
When he called the people to join him as the Philistines were drawn up against Israel, he became fearful because the people beginning to scatter from him.
So instead of waiting for Samuel to come and offer the sacrifice to be given prior to battle, Saul offers the sacrifice.
He is assuming the role as prophet or priest, in addition to his role as king.
This is in violation of God’s command.
For the rest of Saul’s reign we will see how his defiance of God’s commands causes God to remove his spirit from him.
The next king in Israel’s history is David.
David
Now remember how Saul was chosen, and then hid among the baggage.
Let’s listen to the difference in when David was chosen, from 1 Samuel 16:1-13.
A reading from God’s Holy Word.
Thanks be to God.
I want to focus on one verse here for just a moment.
1 Samuel 16:7 (ESV)
“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him.
For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Remember when Saul was selected, how he was head and shoulders above everyone else.
Even Samuel the prophet of Israel could give in to such things.
Yet God looks at the heart.
Now as we read through 1 Samuel, the next chapter is one of the defining moments in Scripture and in David’s life.
We’ve all heard of the battle between David and Goliath.
To this day it is a phrase that is uttered anytime someone takes on a seemingly impossible foe.
With our time frame, I’m only going to highlight some of the passage, but you can find this in your Bibles in chapter 17 of 1 Samuel.
Beginning at vs 3, 1 Sam 17:3-7 “And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.
And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels (about 125 lbs) of bronze.
And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.
The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron (about 15 lbs).
And his shield-bearer went before him.”
And it says, 1 Sam 17:11 “When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.”
So here you have your great king along with the entire Israel army cowering in fear from this one man’s (granted, a huge, behmouth of a man, but still one man’s) challenge.
So as the story continues, David has come down to bring his brothers food per his father’s instructions.
He arrives and the men of Israel are cowering and say to him, “Have you seen this man who has come up?
Surely he has come up to defy Israel,” and you have to love David’s response - not only is there confidence, but he simply recognizes Isreal’s relationship with God.
1 Samuel 17:26 (ESV)
And David said to the men who stood by him, “Who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
David’s words get to Saul, and David finally says to Saul, 1 Samuel 17:32
Now think about this.
The entire army of Israel has been shaking in their boots at this guys challenge.
Saul - the great leader Israel wanted who stands so tall.
Eliab, who even Samuel thought was going to be the next anointed king.
They’ve all be hiding, dismayed, and in fear.
Here comes this young shepherd who says, I’ll take him on.
And notice his reasoning of why he can do this in verse 36,
1 Samuel 17:36 (ESV)
Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
Saul offers David his armor, but it doesn’t fit.
So David takes with him the tools of his trade as a shepherd.
This is emphasized in the text.
So you picture this you’ve got this warrior of warriors standing out their with all of his armor and armament, and this young man with simple tools.
And David says to him, 1 Samuel 17:45-47
David declares that it is God who will give him victory over Goliath, and as we know that’s exactly what happens.
This young shepherd boy kills the great Philistine warrior with only a sling and a stone, because the LORD God is with him.
David
Now it’s easy to glorify David, but as we read through the Bible, that’s not what we’re to do.
That’s not what David sought to do.
David sought to glorify God.
Now as we go through the life of David do we see a perfect life?
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