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Sermon Outline: David clings to the Lord's Messiah Exalting Plan Clinging to God in the midst of idols Clinging to idols in the midst of God Family Discussion Questions: Why did David not kill Saul when he had the chance? What about David's time in Philistia shows David's weak faith? What does David's loyalty in the middle of weak faith demonstrate about God? What was the difference between David's throne and Saul's? What was the difference between the Holy Spirit's work in David and in Saul? Why did Saul turn to a medium? Why should we be terrified when the church turns to pagan practices to worship and know Jesus? Why should Christians cling to Christ even when it is painful? Why can Christians not fully or finally fall away from trusting in God's Messiah-exalting plan?

Why did God choose Saul? Why three days of darkness and silence? Why send Ananias to say something that God easily could have said to him? And what did Ananias even really do that was all that significant anyway? Just listen to this story. Read Acts chapter 9 verses 1-19. All Ananias did was he walked in and said: Brother Saul, God has sent me to you. And bam! He received his sight back.

Saul was a passionate Jew. He had risen through the ranks, learned the Jewish Law by heart and was passionately pursuing God in every facet of his life. He wasn’t persuaded by these ‘stories’ of Jesus of Nazareth. The man was a heretic who had deluded Jews who should have known better and who had claimed to be the ‘Son of God’. What’s more people were claiming that Jesus who fellow Pharisees had persuaded Pilate to crucify, had come back from the dead! This movement had to be stopped!Saul had heard that this crazy cult had travelled as far as Damascus in the north. What if it kept going and made it to his home city of Tarsus, or worse yet Rome! He went to the high priest to get letters for the synagogue leaders in Damascus to warn them and unite all Jews against this dangerous superstition. The disciples called themselves ‘the Way’ but Saul would take them all the way to jail in Jerusalem where they belonged.God breaks into the lives of the most unlikely people. Drug dealers, prostitutes, fundamentalist zealots, and people like you! Sometimes he does this in dramatic and instantaneous ways and sometimes he does it in subtle and gradual ways. What the conversion of Saul shows us is that God can break the hardest heart and no one is beyond his grace. We should never see someone as a lost cause or too hard to crack. A personal encounter with Jesus can break a heart of stone and redeem it forever. Whose heart can you be praying for and speaking into today? DBQuestionsWhy do you think Saul hated Christians so much? Why did God ask Saul “Why are you persecuting me?” when he was persecuting Christians?How did you first encounter Jesus? How did this affect you? Whose heart can you be praying for and speaking into today?PrayerRisen Jesus, thank you so much that a personal encounter with you can change a heart of stone. Please break our hearts for what breaks yours and help us to see people the way you see them. Help us to bring others to encounter you and be saved. Amen!


Subject: The Life of King David Speaker or Performer: William Pope Scripture Passage(s): 1 Samuel Date of Delivery: March 10, 2019 There is probably no man who had more promise of success than the first King of Israel, King Saul. Yet, we find a man who seemingly had it all, but then managed to lose it all. Saul himself said I have played the fool. What happened to Saul?Why did he call himself a fool?This is the first sermon in a new series on the life of David.

What were David’s small mistakes that led to his big one? How does the Sermon on the Mount apply to both David and Saul? Why is lust such a big deal?