In the last message, we left David in the town of Zichlag that was given to him by King Akish of Philistine.

Zicklag, as I told you, is the place of compromise for any of us.

And your Zicklag and my Zicklag, I said, is totally different.

But it is nonetheless, for all of us, it is the place of compromise.

It is the place of idolatry.

It is the place of disobedience.

It is the place of ignoring the will of God.

It is Zichlag is the place of do-it-yourself Christianity.

Ziklag is the place of self-improvising.

Ziklag is the place of distrusting of God's plan for our

life. And there in Zicklag, David has hit rock bottom. In 1st Samuel chapter 29, David actually has gone so low that he wanted to join the Philistine

army to fight against the people of God, Israel, his people. That is what you call really rock bottom.

But God so graciously protected him from that bottomless pit.

God so graciously provided a way of escape from the hour of temptation.

God graciously ordered David's steps, as he himself would write later in Psalm 37,

verse 23, the steps of the godly man are ordered by the Lord. Though he fall, he shall not be

utterly cast out, for the Lord upholds him with his own hand. God, so gracious that he delivered David from the stupidity,

from that foolishness, so much so that he could write about this time in Psalm 18, 4, and 5,

the cords of death entangled me, The torus of destruction overwhelm me.

The cords of the grave coiled around me, and the snare of death confronted me.

Please listen very carefully to what I'm about to tell you, because it is relevant to every

single person at the sound of my voice.

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