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*Finishing Well*
2 Samuel 13:1-1 Kings 2:46
*Intro:*
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*What I want to say:* Life has a way of bruising us.
In order to finish life well, we need to cultivate the habits of worship in daily life that will keep us strong in every season.
“How do I finish well?,” is a question we should keep in front of us day by day.
David’s life shows us how to negotiate the dangers of life.
! I. Life has it’s difficulties
David’s second half
!! A. Solomon born (called Jedidiah) (2 Samuel 13:24-25)
!!! 1. if ever a child began with God’s blessing, it was Solomon
!! B. Family Troubles:
!!! 1. 2 years later, one son, Amnon, rapes his half sister, Tamar, and is killed by Tamar’s brother, Absalom
!!! 2. Absalom
!!!! a) Handsome and vain (1 Samuel 14:25-27) The point of his vanity was his undoing (18:9-18)
!!! 3. Absalom’s rebellion (14:1-12)
!!!! a) Established personal contact with people
!!!! b) “Your claims are valid”; “I would give justice”
!!!! c) Won people’s hearts with simple greeting
!!! 4. David flees Jerusalem (15:13-16:14)
!!!! a) In the 30th year of David’s reign Absalom led a rebellion against his father
!!!! b) David weeps on the Mount of Olives
Cp.
On the night that Jesus was rejected by Israel, he went to the Mount of Olives
!!!! c) Shimei, from Saul’s tribe of Benjamin, cursed and threw stones at David
!!!! d) Faithful friends went with David
!!!! e) Barzillai, a foreigner, remained loyal when it might have been to his advantage to go with the current winner.
!!!! f) David is restored to the throne when Absalom was killed.
!!! 5. Civil strife: Sheba’s revolt & failure
!!! 6. Israel’s pride leads to judgment (2 Samuel 24)
!!!! a) David by the threshing floor of Aruana and teaches us a valuable lesson: no sacrifice without personal cost (2 Samuel 24:24) cp 1 Chronicles 21:1
!!! 7. Another son, Adonijah, usurps the crown (1 Kgs. 1)
!!! 8. Solomon is crowned (1 Kgs. 2)
!!! 9. David dies.
Four habits that lead to a good finish to life.
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II.
Cultivate communion with God
!! A. Last words reveal depth of soul
*David’s last words to Solomon (1 Kings 2:2-4)*
to find blessing from God:
!!! 1. obey Him
!!! 2. walk in His ways
!!! 3. rely on God’s faithfulness to keep His word
ILLUS> George Mueller trusted God to care for orphans.
He began a home that eventually became 4 homes that housed, fed and educated 2,000 children.
By the time he died, more than 10,000 orphans had been cared for through God’s provision of nearly 8 million dollars.
All by trusting God.
Do you think this same God can care for you?
!!!! a) God kept His word even though those after Solomon did not
!!!! b) Jesus sits on David’s throne
!! B. Let God hear your heart
!!! 1.
In the Psalms, David cried, mourned, raged, rested and rejoiced
!!! 2. God was his audience
!!! 3. Do you record your thoughts or prayers?
When you are alone, can you talk to God?
!!! 4. e.g.
my pain when my father died
!!!! a) I was aware that God was carrying me
!!!! b) When I asked, “Why my father?”,
I received an answer from God: “Why should you be different than everyone else?”
And I was satisfied~/
!! C. Refuse to compartmentalize your life
!!! 1.
No part of David’s life was left out of God’s view.
!!! 2. Do not separate your soul from your feelings or your spiritual life from your daily life saying, “Well that is business and this is my spiritual part.”
!!! 3. The word for this is “Integrity” – all the parts fit and are firmly held together.
! III.
Hold worship as a high priority
!! A. Make worship your concern
!!! 1. David prepared the materials for the Temple
!!! 2. we call the first Temple “Solomon’s Temple” but it is really David’s Temple since David had the vision and prepared all the materials – Solomon built and added to what his father prepared
!!! 3.
You worship God with your praises, prayers, service to others.
!! B. Will your children worship God?
!!! 1.
It is the responsibility of one generation to pass on to the next a love for worship.
I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the peoples will give You thanks forever and ever.
Psalm 45:17 NASB95
And even when /I am /old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to /this /generation,
Your power to all who are to come.
Psalm 71:18
We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.
Psalm 78:4 NASB95
!!! 2. All of creation gives God glory.
!!! 3. All people of all ages will one day bow down before Jesus Christ as
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:9-11 NASB95
! IV. Use your influence for God’s glory
!! A. Power is only on loan to accomplish God’s will
!!! 1. Lust for power corrupted Absalom and Adonijah
!!! 2. Except for his attempts to cover his sin with Bathsheba, David used his power justly and was loved for it.
!! B. Everyone has influence with which to honor God
!!! 1. your friends
!!! 2. your spouse
!!! 3. your children
!!! 4. your co-workers
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