{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"A Tale of Two Kings: David","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4587,"description":"1. David had all the potential to be a great king. \n- 16:1, 5-13 = Divine blessing, confirmation, & guidance\n**notice however, humble beginning\n**notice also, God’s choice for ‘most likely to succeed’ v.7\n16:18; 17:4-11, 26, 32-37, 45-47; 18:30 = Courageous, confident, & great leader (vs Saul hiding in the luggage), giving guarantees ahead of time. \n2. David demonstrates his righteous careful character through extreme trials.\n18:10-11, 17, 19, 25, 19:6, 9-12, 18, 20:41-42, 21:13-22:2, 22:21-23 = Saul’s attempts to kill David -> Saul makes aggressive efforts to kill him, David loses one of his best friends, flees like a criminal, makes himself look insane, and Saul kills the priests in pursuing David.\n*23:1-14 = stands up to his people, seeks God’s guidance\n*24 = David’s test of sparing Saul’s life & standing up to his men. Attention to detail despite everything pointing to God’s deliverance.\n*26 = David spares him again & again stands up to his men. \n*30 = David’s own peeps talk of stoning him. Seeking God through the situation is part of being righteous.\n2Sa 1 & 4 = David continuing to respect the King’s office \n2Sa 7 = David’s covenant with God\n8:15 = justice and equity\n9:1-13 = David’s integrity\nCharacter tests = Spares Saul’s life, is pressured by his men, is under threat of being stoned, David is reliant on God, trusts God, continues to pray to God (ref Psalms)\n3. David saves his soul by submitting faithfully and quickly to God’s discipline.\n2Sa 11 = David’s complacency leads to committing serious sin.\n2Sa 12:1-25 = discipline (Psalm 51)\n*Notice that David accepts what God uses to punish him. David doesn’t mope around.\n*Ref David’s continued rapport with Nathan all the way into 1Kings\n2Sa 15-18 Absalom’s rebellion and David’s response. \nDavid ends his life with the legacy of a man after God’s own heart intact, ‘faithful in all things’, (Act 13:22; 1Kings 15:3-5)\nConcluding principles that come from comparing Saul & David’s life: \n1. What makes a man mighty...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}