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Recently, Natalie and I were rowing a canoe along a lake shore.
We looked up an a male American Eagle was perched high up in a tree.
This larger big looked cool and calm as we pulled up to is shore.
He looked down with no care in the world.
He was calm and confident.
This was his lake.
That was his water.
This was his turf.
The American Bald Eagle projects a calm confidence because of who he was and is.
David has had many close calls with King Saul.
The most recent, he was actually surrounded, when God made a way of escape when the Philistines came and attacked, and Saul left David to defend Israel.
David remained calm and confident in the Lord during hard times.
After the events of this Chapter, Saul does chase him again, but this is a moment in which Saul readily admits - David will be the next King.
Do any of you have the small folding military, camping, or hiking shovels?
Do you know who essentially invented those?
King Saul finds a cave to go to the “bathroom.”
Of all the caves in Isreal, in all the many caves in the hills of En-Gedi, he picks the very Cave that David is hiding in!
En-Gedi = “Spring of a Kid”
Along the dead sea, animals and people would look for natural Springs, and that is where they could camp, or establish, these are watering holes for animals, or even small settlements.
This is a wilderness area.
We Can Remain Calm and Confident in the Lord, Even in Hard Times.
3 “R’s” of Calm Confidence...
Respect Others.
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David demonstrates Respect for Saul because God had Saul anointed as the King.
David also Respects Saul as his father in law.
David Respects Saul as a person.
Respect Others.
Restrain Evil.
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He restrained evil in his life.
He restrained others from doing evil.
You have a voice.
You have influence.
You can make a difference for someone to choose not to do evil.
Thomas Edison paid a beautiful tribute to his mother when he said: “I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence that has lasted all my life.
The good effects of her early training I can never lose.
If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never have become an inventor.
I was always a careless boy, and with a mother of different mental calibre, I should have turned out badly.
But her firmness, her goodness, were potent powers to keep me in the right path.
My mother was the making of me.
The memory of her will always be a blessing.”
Respect Others.
Restrain Evil.
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Realize God.
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An ancient proverb that was common to the Hebrew culture was that “Wicked people do wickedly.”
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Where does evil come from?
Wicked people...
Jesus said:
All of us are sinners and have the capability of the most terrible sins imaginable, but we respond and react to temptation based on what we have in our heart.
If you are feeding sinful ideas to your mind, you will more than likely act out those sinful ideas in your actions.
Let God Judge.
Let God Plead Your Cause.
Let God Deliver You.
Conclusion:
We Can Remain Calm and Confident in the Lord, Even in Hard Times.
3 “R’s” of Calm Confidence...
Respect Others.
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Restrain Evil.
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Realize God.
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D and A:
Why is it important to respect our civic leaders?
Share ways to demonstrate respect, even with people with whom you disagree.
Illustrate how you can influence people away from evil.
In what ways can we give our problems or even problem people over to the Lord to allow Him to judge?
Discuss what “Calm Confidence” looks like for the faithful Christian.
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