Samuel: Jehovah’s Choice of David
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
11/23/2014 PM
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Text:
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I Samuel 16:1-13
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Psalters: |
388, 214, 220, 318 |
- Jehovah’s command.
- Samuel had been mourning (Hebrew implies a continuing activity) for 15 years “for Saul.” Why?
- Jehovah’s command answered Samuel’s grief and fears: I have “provided Me a king” from among the sons of Jesse.
- Jehovah’s choice for King of His people is one whose heart is right.
- Samuel drew an immediate choice of Eliab when Jesse came to the sacrifice and presented his oldest son.
- God instructs Samuel not to look on what the eyes can see, for Jehovah looks on the heart.
- Jesse passes his oldest seven sons before Samuel, but “neither hath Jehovah chosen this” (8-10).
- What was in David’s heart, which God saw and which qualified him for the office of king over God’s kingdom?
- So Samuel anointed him from among his brethren, and the Spirit of Jehovah came upon David from that day forward (13).
- Anointing speaks to divine selection and qualification (Psalm 89:20).
- Jehovah equipped David for difficulties and conflict.