David Spares Saul Again (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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There are many Bible stories about God’s responses to the good and bad choices men and women make. Find out why David was able to continue to respond righteously even when Saul continued to behave foolishly. Study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Bible is filled with stories about people making good and bad choices, wise and foolish choices, and how God responds. |
| 0:32.0 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll find out why choices and how God responds. |
| 0:33.1 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll find out why David was able to respond |
| 0:36.3 | righteousnessly, even when King Saul made a foolish decision. |
| 0:41.3 | Alistair Begg is teaching from First Samuel, Chapter 26. He will notice, verse 9, but David said to Abbeshai, do not destroy him for who can put |
| 0:58.0 | out his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless. Notice and notice carefully. What determines his response to the |
| 1:08.8 | suggestion of Abbeshai is not his circumstances which are set up to do just such a deed but rather his |
| 1:18.3 | conviction his conviction he is a man of conviction. Do not destroy him. It is wrong. He doesn't say don't |
| 1:30.6 | destroy him because I still have a forlorn hope that he might change and become a better person. |
| 1:38.0 | No, do not destroy him. |
| 1:41.0 | Now you see that could have happened here easily but no this isn't |
| 1:46.0 | situational ethics this isn't he said no it's wrong to do and furthermore notice |
| 1:52.4 | he says as the Lord lives |
| 1:55.9 | God can be trusted to deal with Saul? |
| 1:59.1 | Now we ask the question, do you think he learned anything |
| 2:01.4 | from the incident with Nabel? Yes, I think he did. |
| 2:05.1 | Because remember, God deals with Nabel without the intervention of David. |
| 2:21.2 | And so now applying the same logic, David says here's what may well happen. There's a number of ways in which God may choose to take him out. He may |
| 2:25.7 | strike him. He may die of natural causes, that is, or his day will come to die, or he may go down into the battle and perish. |
| 2:38.0 | Well of course that was exactly what was going to happen. |
| 2:41.0 | But notice verse 11, the Lord forbid that I should put out my hand |
| 2:46.0 | against the Lord's anointed. We are not Abbeshai going to take his life, but what we are going to take, |
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