Welcome to Worship
July 7, 2024
8:30am
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. —(Hebrews 13:15)
Welcome to Worship: Rev. Bill Archer
Worship Song: House of the Lord
Prayer: Jen Saunders
Redland Happenings and Welcome: Jen Saunders
PSC Update: Lisa Jenkins
Congregational Greeting
Worship Song: Because of Jesus
Missionary Update: Kyle Werts, YWAM, Hawaii
Musical Meditation: Don’t Stop Praying
Kenn Owens
Scripture: 1 Samuel 25:1-42
Sermon Title: Becoming Better: Humility
Rev. Kevin Freeman
Sermon Notes:
God’s will is for us to be complete, whole, well-adjusted to life. But that isn’t always the case! This 3-part series will examine how we can be complete, living out our hope in the Lord. This message reveals how David nearly sinned by seeking vengeance for his bruised ego. Only through humility can we trust God to justly lead us.
23 When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground. 24 She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant. 25 Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent. 26 Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, because the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal. 27 And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord. 28 Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live. 29 If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the LORD your God. And the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling. 30 And when the LORD has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince over Israel, 31 my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord working salvation himself. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.” 32 And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33 Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand! 34 For as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.” 35 Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition.” —1 Samuel 25:23–35 ESV
1.) Overcome
Fragility vs Humility
Are you
David reacted on impulse.
12 So David’s young men turned away and came back and told him all this. 13 And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage. —1 Samuel 25:12–13 ESV
Abigail planned a wise response.
18 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. 19 And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal. 20 And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them. —1 Samuel 25:18–20 ESV
Is your mindset
David was consumed by what he thought he deserved.
21 Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good. 22 God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.” —1 Samuel 25:21–22 ESV
Abigail knew the good that she wanted to conserve.
32 And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33 Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand! —1 Samuel 25:32–33 ESV
Are you
2.) Develop
28 Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live. —1 Samuel 25:28 ESV
3.) Exemplify
24 She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant. —1 Samuel 25:24 ESV
31 my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord working salvation himself. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.” —1 Samuel 25:31 ESV
Time of Decision and Commitment: O Come to the Altar
Benediction: Rev. Kevin Freeman