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- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: November 8, 2015 | 10:00am
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SERMON SERIES:
Generations: Blessing and Honoring
This morning, we’re continuing a series of messages this stewardship season entitled Generations: Blessing and Honoring. In it, we’re looking at just a couple of the many stories from Scripture in which one generation honors the previous, and the other blesses the following generation. One of the values we have here at Wabash Presbyterian is a commitment to intergenerational worship and discipleship.
The text this morning is one you might initially wonder why it’s there. I mean, is this one of those TMI stories – Saul, taking a pit stop in a cave that happened to be where David and his men were hiding out? But in fact, what we see is a beautiful example from the life of David in which a young man acts in such a way that pays deep honor and respect to his father-in-law the King.
To bring you up to speed on what’s going on at this point in 1 Samuel, God’s people the Israelites demanded from God a King for themselves. Even the Israelites wanted to keep up with the Joneses, or more accurately the Jonesusitis. So God anoints a man named Saul, tall and handsome, domineering, the type of person you would think would be a king.
But after a series of a few bad decisions by Saul that compromise Israel’s relationship to Yahweh, along comes a young boy named David. David is a brilliant warrior, fearless in battle, a great military leader, he can do no wrong, people love David, he is Israel’s golden boy. He was so well loved that people would write songs about David. David was to be King.
Everything was going David’s way, with the exception of one big problem: King Saul—whose daughter David ends up marrying—is not so keen on the fact that people are now giving their allegiance to David over him. Over time, Saul grows pathologically jealous of David, to the point that one day he gets fed up and hurls his spear at David, and now David has to flee for his life. Because of Saul, his father-in-law, David now has to leave everything he once had, his wife, his family, his best friend Jonathan, his home, and David sets out into the wilderness to run for his life. All because Saul was unable to see through his bitterness—everyone around him saw what God was doing, but Saul.
That’s where we pick up today’s text in 1 Samuel 24.
Download the entire transcript here: 1Samuel 24 King, Cave, Moment of Honor
