So David wins against Goliath. And you'd think his life would be really easy
after that. Instead his life becomes real complicated after that. Because there's
a king on the throne who is jealous of him, and the people are praising David over Saul.
And so Saul begins to, to hunt down David. David becomes a man in exile. A man,
... and what does that show, and, and so he now goes into the wilderness.
And you know what happens in the wilderness? David writes the Psalms. The Psalms.
And this is a different kind of fight. David's a warrior you know. Most likely
you don't think of warriors as writing things like this. But he's a warrior.
But, now he's fighting a different kind of battle. It's a battle of faith. Totally.
And he's even, he's even telling his soul, soul why are you down today?
Believe again in God. He's strengthening, it says David strengthened himself.
David made ... in the desert he made the Lord his rock. ... he had, he was
totally, totally dependent on God. He wrote, the Lord is my rock. This is a guy who
was it, who was hiding in among a lot of rocks. And he says, the Lord is my rock.
He leaned on God. He hid on God. God was, the Lord is my refuge. The Lord is my shield.
David stood alone but he was really with God all the time. He's leaning on God.
And the most powerful people are not those who don't lean. They're those who lean on God.
The most ... You cannot be powerful in this world, strong, if you're not
leaning on ... We need God first. And then we can be strong. We can stand against
anything. So because David was dependent on God, he was independent of what was
around him. Same with Elijah. Elijah had that same quality. He was indepen ... He was so dependent on God,
he was getting fed by God, literally. And he became independent of the junk around him.
It speaks of the man, the two men who are building their house.
And one builds on sand and the other builds on the rock, and the one who's built
on the rock stands, because they're building their life on the rock.
On the Word of God. David, was a man of, also, integrity. He messed up. But he was
a man of integrity. He wasn't an opportunist. There's a time, when David,
on the run, sees Saul, sleeping. And he can kill him. Saul is hunting him. Trying to kill him.
He sees Saul ... he see Saul, and he could kill him ...
The men are saying basically you can kill him right now.
You'll become King. And that's when David says, no. Touch not God's anointed.
David. He turned down what could have given him advantage because of integrity.
... what is integrity? One, it means that you could have something, but you
say, no. I will not have that because I am of God. Sometimes we get in trouble
because we don't trust God and we think we have to jump and get something.
Or we're afraid we're going to lose it, so we've got to take it. And then we mess ...
we get all messed up. Some people get married that way. They're desperate.
They're not waiting for God. Or you go against your conscience. Because you want
something. But David did not take the kingship. He could have. He had it right there.
But he said, I will not do that. Because he knew that the only thing,
the only thing he could ever get from God is not what he takes, but what he receives,
that God gives him. And if he gets it from God, if it's not from God, he can't
have it anyway. And if he gets it from God nobody can
take it away from him. And that's how it is. We have to be people of integrity,
knowing that God will give you his best, if you're in his will and you're his child,
He'll give you his best. you don't have to panic ...
You don't have to, you're not going to lose what God has. God's not going to have
somebody else take what yours. I mean people can take things of the world but
they can't take what God gives you. And so therefore you don't the fear because
nobody can have what you ... you have. And you can't have ...
what's given to somebody else. There's no reason, I mean all jealousy
is gone. You know, all envy is gone. All strife is gone. It's because
... but don't panic. Be a person of integrity. You don't
have to compromise because God is in charge of giving to you what you need.
Now this next quality, key of David, more ... it goes for everybody
but it's kind of more for men. Too often men are, tend to be separate, alone, more than
women ... not as as relational. But you look at, I mean actually, I mean you can
tell this by, just look at the difference between the men's room and the women's room.
The men's room, there's no communication. If you see somebody in
the men's room you pretend that you both didn't see each other. You'll deny it
and that's it. You don't make eye contact, you try not to make eye contact. As the little
talk as possible, because the men's room you don't talk. But the women's room.
It's a club. People go in there just for conversation. Activities.
They're discussion groups. There's an activity schedule. Events, you know. You know
...you've heard this, but you know it's true ... you know women do this.
Men will never say, hey do you want to go to the bathroom together? Not happening.
But women you know because there's this different, we're made differently and
there's a relation, it's more easy to relate while men are more, are more
independent. We know that, are more solitary. But David was strong, a strong
man who could stand alone, but he was deeply relational. He had deep feelings,
deep thinking. Look at the relationship with David and Jonathan. He was caring
gave ...Paul has the same quality. Keep caring.
Man of faithfulness. David was a man after God's heart. He was a man of the heart.
He was also deeply feeling. He was passionate. He wasn't apathetic.
He wasn't half-hearted. God doesn't need apathetic people, half-hearted people.
God wants full-hearted people. Elijah. Single-minded for God. You know, Peter,
totally. I mean he, he went off ... but he was
totally all the way. Paul, same way. God would rather have twelve passionate men
than a million half-hearted men. It says, love the Lord your God with all your
heart, soul, mind, and strength. All. Total. David was a total man. He was, whatever
it was, you can't picture David being half-hearted. You can't even picture David
worshiping just giving lip service. David was full in heart.
The Bible says whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly. Whatever you do, if it's,
you're not going to do it wholeheartedly, don't do it at all. But if you're going
to do something, do it wholeheartedly. That means don't do it complaining.
Because then you're half-hearted. Then you don't want to do it. Do it totally.
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