LIFE ON THE RUN (5 OF 14)
Scripture: 1 Samuel 21:1-15, 1 Samuel 22:1-23
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LIFE ON THE RUN (5 of 14)
Series: A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART
Collin Wimberly
I Samuel 21-22
CIT - David finds Himself living in a cave, on the run, as Saul seeks his life.
INTRODUCTION:
Martin Luther - suffering is essential to knowing God's Word as we ought;
"For I myself . . . owe my papists many thanks for so beating, pressing, and frightening me through the devil's raging that they have turned me into a fairly good theologian, driving me to a goal I should never have reached."
John Bunyan - spent 12 years in an English prison for preaching the Gospel. He was a father of six. He writes - "The parting with my Wife and poor children hath often been to me in this place as the pulling of the flesh from my bones. . .
But listen to how he describes his suffering. "Jesus Christ was never more real and apparent than now. Here I have seen him and felt him indeed. . . I have had such sweet sights of the forgiveness of my sins in this place, and of my being with Jesus in another world. . .I ever knew what it was for God to stand by me at all times and at every offer of Satan to afflict me, as I have found since I came hither" quoted in Piper - The Hidden Smile of God, p. 76-77
In more recent times, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described his spiritual awakening in his book, "The Gulag Archipelago" , God came near. He spent eight years in the infamous Soviet Gulag camp system, and states in his book - "So, bless you prison, having been in my life." Quoted in Joseph, Swindoll, p. 41
We are about to study some of the most difficult days in David's life. But I think that later in life he would agree with Solzhenitsyn - bless you cave, for having been in my life.
This cave, the desert, is God's testing ground, his tool for polishing and sharpening and preparing David for the role of leadership that he play in the years to come.
What do we do when we find ourselves living on the run?
I) SCHEMES AND KNEE-JERK REACTIONS - chp. 21
In chp. 20 Dav ...
Series: A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART
Collin Wimberly
I Samuel 21-22
CIT - David finds Himself living in a cave, on the run, as Saul seeks his life.
INTRODUCTION:
Martin Luther - suffering is essential to knowing God's Word as we ought;
"For I myself . . . owe my papists many thanks for so beating, pressing, and frightening me through the devil's raging that they have turned me into a fairly good theologian, driving me to a goal I should never have reached."
John Bunyan - spent 12 years in an English prison for preaching the Gospel. He was a father of six. He writes - "The parting with my Wife and poor children hath often been to me in this place as the pulling of the flesh from my bones. . .
But listen to how he describes his suffering. "Jesus Christ was never more real and apparent than now. Here I have seen him and felt him indeed. . . I have had such sweet sights of the forgiveness of my sins in this place, and of my being with Jesus in another world. . .I ever knew what it was for God to stand by me at all times and at every offer of Satan to afflict me, as I have found since I came hither" quoted in Piper - The Hidden Smile of God, p. 76-77
In more recent times, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn described his spiritual awakening in his book, "The Gulag Archipelago" , God came near. He spent eight years in the infamous Soviet Gulag camp system, and states in his book - "So, bless you prison, having been in my life." Quoted in Joseph, Swindoll, p. 41
We are about to study some of the most difficult days in David's life. But I think that later in life he would agree with Solzhenitsyn - bless you cave, for having been in my life.
This cave, the desert, is God's testing ground, his tool for polishing and sharpening and preparing David for the role of leadership that he play in the years to come.
What do we do when we find ourselves living on the run?
I) SCHEMES AND KNEE-JERK REACTIONS - chp. 21
In chp. 20 Dav ...
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