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Your child comes to you in tears...
What do you do?
[I] ask - WHY are you crying?
The child responds - “So-n-so YELLED at me”
What do ya do?
[I] ask - Why did they YELL at you?
The child responds - “Because I hit so-n-so”
What do ya do?
[I] respond - WHY did you HIT so-n-so?
The child responds - “Because I wanted to”
What do ya do?
[I] respond - WHY did you want to?
The child responds - “Because I was bored”
Ok - Maybe we’ve been there before - I’m sure we’ve all had SIMILAR conversations...
AND - I assume we’ve all used the same approach to GAINING information...
The INFAMOUS - (WHY) question...
WHY - is a powerful question.
It PROBES the depths/layers of - INTENT
And it HELPS US - gain understanding.
Several weeks ago now - Jon Kirlough gave us an IN-DEPTH view of the relationship between David - and Jonathan.
A relationship that was VERY strong...
Today - we’ll look at ANOTHER relationship.
The relationship between Saul and David
And within that - we’ll see WHY their relationship ended up being what it was...
LAST WEEK - we saw probably the most popular battle - in scripture.
We saw David and Goliath
And how this YOUNG - ruddy YOUTH - defeated a mountain of a man - in Battle!
So coming out of David defeating Goliath - we read this...
This here is going to be our MAIN text for the day.
It sets up what’s to come in this real life drama...
Here we see - the beginning of a RIFT between Saul and David (THIS is the relationship we’ll look at today)
And it’s interesting because - this week in Bible Study - I was looking at the material in our book - and it JUMPED out at me that the CONTENT - fits directly into what’s happening here with Saul and David.
And so MEN - those of you who were at our study this past Monday - you’re going to here some FAMILIAR terms today...
Some terms we discussed at Bible Study...
Today - we’ll see the connection between...
Relational Realities
Emotional Realities
Spiritual Realities
…in the sense that when SIN goes UNCHECKED in our lives...
a Separation in EACH of these areas occurs in our lives.
Whether its a...
Relational separation
Emotional separation
Spiritual separation
What we often SEE in life - is the RELATIONAL...
And in order to figure out - WHY a relationship IS what it IS - we would proceed to make our down to the foundation...
BUT - TODAY - I want to start with - the BASE - the FOUNDATION...
…and make our way up!
SLIDE:
The Spiritual Separation
And so - when we get to the END of today - - we’ll be able to answer the WHY questions that come when our RELATIONSHIPS go south...
BUT we start today - with the base - the foundation.
If we go back to verse 8 - we’ll see this...
So David had just defeated - Goliath…the ENEMY of Israel!
Who remembers back in 2016 - How the city of Cleveland REACTED to the LeBron James - coming back HOME...
And defeating the Goliath State Warriors to win the championship?
What was it - 1 million people (3 million?)
downtown - celebrating at the parade?
Millions of people - Screaming for their TEAM!!
NOW - did the fans like Kevin Love? sure.
Did they like Kyrie Irving?
Of course.
BUT HOW did they feel about LeBron?
WOW!
HE was the one!
Right?
Kevin Love - Kyrie Irving - SURE - they could have gotten angry with ALL the LOVE shown to LeBron…BUT...
Saul here - is ANGRY that the people ELEVATED David - seemingly OVER him!
And in DOING SO - Saul begins to READ the tea-leaves...
How does he finish this verse?
He says - “The people LOVE HIM MORE than ME - and - what more can HE have but the Kingdom!?”
He’s got the PEOPLE on his side now...
He’s taken the PRAISE I deserve - WHAT ELSE is there to take FROM ME - but the kingdom...
Saul began to see that the KINGDOM was at stake here!
Saul believed the VOICE of the people - would DICTATE who the REAL HERO is...
And so - JUST LIKE the title of our sermon said - what we see here is -
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KINGDOM WORSHIP
You may have thought that the title was a GOOD thing...
It’s NOT!
Saul here - is actually WORSHIPING the Kingdom!
It has BECOME his idol!
And what do people - ALL PEOPLE - EVEN US - do with our idols...
We - DEFEND our idols.
For the past several weeks - we’ve seen Saul really - FUMBLE the kingdom - haven’t we?
He was constantly DISOBEYING God and His commands....right?
And in doing so - he FORFEITED the Kingdom!
What’s it called when we DISOBEY God…??
It’s called - SIN
How are we called to HANDLE our sin....even as believers?
Well - first off...
Alright - so - you might think you’re awesome...
BUT - this says - you’re a sinner
Well now what?
next verse
Now you may be thinking = Ehh - I think that JUST HAS to do with Salvation...
Ok - well listen to what Christians are called to do with the sin in their lives...
In order to PUT these things to death - we must ACKNOWLEDGE these things...
Confess these things!
BUT WHAT IF WE DON’T??
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