Saved from Himself

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The expression “caught between a rock and a hard place” aptly describes David’s predicament in 1 Samuel 29—and he had only himself to blame! On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg points out how God’s mercy remains steadfast even when we make a mess of things.

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0:00.0	The Oh, you're going to do you do.
0:13.0	Oh, do you do. You probably heard the expression being caught between a rock and a hard place.
0:29.6	That's where we find David today on Truth for Life, and he has no one to blame but himself.
0:35.0	We'll see how God's mercy remains steadfast even when we make a royal mess of
0:41.4	things.
0:42.6	Alistirbegg is teaching from chapter 29 in 1st Samuel.
0:51.8	The final conversation that took place between Saul and David is recorded for us at the end of Chapter 26.
1:00.0	And David on that occasion declared to Saul that he was confident that God would deliver him
1:08.4	from all of his troubles. He didn't know all that awaited him, but he was confident in saying that.
1:15.0	Well, of course, and then an astonishing thing happens, and that is, as we saw in Chapter 27,
1:22.0	David has a fainting fit. David has a meltdown, we might say. And it is actually
1:29.5	hard for us to believe, as we thought about it when we studied it, that what you have in chapter 27
1:36.9	is the same man who has just avowed this commitment to the delivering hand of God at the end of 26. And we saw how deliverance gave
1:47.9	way essentially to depression. That is, faith gave way to his fears and that he has gone then to seek security
1:58.9	actually in the company of the enemy.
2:02.7	And you may remember there in Chapter 27,
2:05.3	where it just simply says of David,
2:07.6	and David arose and he went over.
2:10.4	And I think as we said in passing,
2:12.1	he went over in more ways than one.
2:15.0	Achish is absolutely convinced that David has burned his bridges.
2:20.0	That what he has done, because this is what he is told, is done will have so made him a
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