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do you do David was anointed by God to be Israel's king. When you read books like First and Second

Samuel, it's clear God protected David and repeatedly delivered him from his enemies.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll discover how God's providential grace also protected David from himself and how others were used in that

process.

Alistairbegg is teaching from First Samuel Chapter 25. Well, we're picking up our studies at the 18th verse from which we read and I encourage you to have your Bible open so that you can

check and make sure that everything that I'm saying is actually in the Bible.

Perhaps a question to begin, who is it that stopped David from

rashly taking matters into his own hands and shedding blood? Well the answer of course is that God did, but it is also equally true to acknowledge

that although God was the one who restrained him, God did not act in a vacuum. And that is where we find this amazing

encounter involving this young lady Abigail, to whom we've been introduced

as one who is both discerning and beautiful, and yet

who at the same time is married to a man who is not so nice and tender as he ought to be.

She is clearly somebody who does not let the grass grow under her feet three times.

If you check the text, you will see that she is in a hurry.

First of all, here, she's in a hurry to meet David.

At the end of the chapter, Alma, she's in a hurry to get married to David,

and at one point in the middle of it all,

she's in a hurry to get down from her donkey.

Now we have noticed that David back in the previous chapter had refused to take matters into his own hands.

And yet here in the opening section of chapter 25,

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