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Adullam’s Cave
1 Samuel 22:1-2
READ: 1 Samuel 22:1-2
[Describe scene: David on the run – the cave – the ragtag band of
men day by day joining him.]
1.
Adullam’s Cave is a Picture of the Church
The name Adullam likely comes from a Hebrew word that means
“refuge”.
And this place for David and the men who came to him
certainly did come to be a “cave of refuge”.
Men came to him from everywhere.
400 of them at this point …
- Everyone who was IN DISTRESS
- Everyone who was IN DEBT
- Everyone who was DISCONTENTED
1 Corinthians 1:26-31
They came to the cave …
a) For protection
b) For training
c) For a cause
2.
God Wants to Turn the “Are Nots” into an Army
- Stories of David’s 400 mighty men are legendary (recount some in
brief).
- These great men started out like "the dirty dozen".
(Misfits and
outcasts) But David welded them into a fiercesome fighting force.
- This is Ezekiel’s vision!
An army comes to life.
(God taught David the leadership he would need to lead the nation
while he was here in this cave leading 400 men.)
3.
Each Man Had a Choice to Make
It was a choice to lay down the past.
a) The DISTRESSED had to move on to freedom.
The word distressed
here literally means “someone who is oppressed, particularly
oppressed by an enemy”.
The hounded came to David at Adullam’s Cave,
and he took them in.
They had a choice to make – they could keep on
running from the enemy who was pursuing them, or they could take
their stand in the Cave of Adullam with David and 400 men just like
themselves.
Now to me it doesn’t sound like a hard choice!
It’s a “no-brainer”,
right?! Who wants to live life in distress?
Who wants to be hounded
by an oppressing enemy?
But it is incredible how some people don’t
want to give up the oppressions of the enemy!
The devil has a
foothold, and if the truth be known, we like the foothold he has!
We
hold on to our sin – we prolong our bondages.
If God has delivered you from the bondage of oppression, you need to
fill your life with new things!
Godly things.
“Whatever things are
true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever
things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of
good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything
praiseworthy – meditate on these things.”
(Philippians 4:8)
The battle begins in your mind, whatever you’re dwelling on is going
to control you.
The Bible says to “take every thought captive to the
obedience of Christ.”
You’re a new creation – fill your life with
new things; new thoughts, new ways, new standards, new priorities.
If you remain idle, and hanker back after old ways, that old bondage
will return seven times stronger than before.
You’ve got to hate that oppression.
Run to God for once-and-for-all
deliverance.
No turning back.
Get away to the Cave of Adullam – be
with God’s people (in the victory camp) – let God make you into a
soldier and weld you into His army.
Choose life!
b) The INDEBTED had to trust the God of the cave.
David had nothing
to offer them, but they forged a community where each were equally
committed to one another.
They looked to God together.
Sounds an
awful lot like the church in Acts chapter 2. Listen to the
description (Acts 2:44-45): “Now all who believed were together, and
had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods and
divided them among all, as anyone had need.”
There weren’t too many
wealthy people, just common folk, they hardly had two cents to rub
together – but what they did have they used to look after each
other.
c) The DISCONTENTED had to find rest.
People came to David who were
not satisfied with the status quo of the kingdom.
Not satisfied with
serving under a king who was not hearing from God and was leading
the nation in disobedience to the direction of the Lord through
Samuel.
They came to David to find a future and a hope.
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