Freedom Christian Center : 100207 So You Want to Be King

100207 So You Want to Be King

Tim Franklin

Introduction:

Last week I shared with us from the Book of 1^st Samuel as sermon entitled: Whose Son Is This? We looked at the David the anointed youth, David the aggressive youth, and David the Affective youth.
- We looked at what the anointing on a young persons life can do if they put themselves into God’s hands to be used by Him. You could literally affect a whole nation.
- I then challenged you to heed the cry of God in your heart and to wholeheartedly give yourself to him.
I want to go back to the book of Samuel today and look at the topic of: So You Want to Be King?
- What does that look that, you becoming King?
- How do you know when it is happening?
- So let’s look at the Book of Samuel and see what we can learn.
- Lets learn how to respond to the call that God gave you last week.

David Was Raised By Sheep 16:11 David is keeping sheep; 17:28 told to return to sheep; 17:34 stories of his sheep.
1. Most of the time we think about David watching over the sheep. And he did. That is what shepherds do. But the reality is taking care of sheep was primary school for becoming King. In other words David was learning lesson of Kingship while tending sheep…and he did not even know it!!!
  1. So, while David was watching sheep…little did he know that the sheep were raising him up to be king.
  2. In other words, what David did with the sheep was preparation for what he would do with people later. So in a way, the sheep were raising David!
    1. They were not his they were his father’s. He was learning responsibility.
    2. They were at times attacked by lions and bears. He was learning to protect/lay his life down for what was not his.
    3. They were hungry and thirsty. He was learning to steward/bring increase to what was not his.
    4. They would wonder off and put themselves in danger. He was learning to keep them together for their protect.
2. The biggest thing the sheep taught David was overcoming boredom and the mundane (common, ordinary, unimaginative). Sheep are dumb. Nothing exciting about a sheep.
  1. Life is full of things we have to do over and over with no apparent result. Like, “make your bed”. What does making a bed have to do with life? That is a good question. The next time you see a soldier ask him/her what making a bed in the military taught them.
    1. One is just simple ol’ discipline.
    2. Two there is a right and wrong way of doing it.
    3. Three if you do not do it you are being irresponsible and there are consequences.
    4. Those three facts there are three facts that will save your life repeatedly if you can learn them. If you do not learn those three things quickly you are in for a whole lot of hurt.
    5. David was raised by sheep maybe you are being raised by a bed!
  2. Boredom gets people in trouble in trouble all the time. Doing the mundane gets people in trouble all the time. Now it was exciting every once in a while. But most of the time it was just sheep.
    1. It was what got the prodigal son in trouble in Luke chapter 15. The prodigal did not learn discipline, right and wrong, and consequences while at home.
    2. Boredom/mundane will make you lazy, careless, irresponsible, and angry.
      1. It happens often when we doing just fine.
      2. It happens often when we have reached a place we are no longer growing. i.e. that affects marriages too.
3. Things don’t always appear the way they are. God is training us. We are learning responsibility.
  1. You are learning while doing the mundane and the boring. Do them well and you can move on. Do them not and you will remain behind.
  2. The moral of this point. Be aware of what is teaching you. i.e. mopping, early morning chores, etc.

David Was Trained With Spears One He Admired 18:11; 19:10 Twice Saul tries to kill David.
1. On the day that David killed Goliath he was enrolled into the school of broken-ness. God wanted total dependence from David that would free him from fear and teach him to respect authority. God was after something in David. He wanted to have David’s full heart.
  1. What do I mean by that? Saul was being tormented by these evil spirits. And he would have David play his harp and sing and when he did the spirits were silenced. But David was also leading Saul’s armies out to war now and was having great success and the people began to sing of how great he was. When that happens if our heart is not developed before God he has to enter us into the school of brokenness to make sure we don’t get a big head.
  2. Saul is now angry the people sing of David and not him and God uses Saul to train David’s heart. Saul throws spears at David trying to kill him. And David just ducks. He does not try to kill Saul. After all David was the one Samuel anointed king. David had ‘rights’! But David went through school well he never learned the art of spear throwing.
  3. Do you know what kind of spears people use today? Their words and actions. We have become very skilled at hurting people with our words and actions. You know how to tell if someone has been hit with a spear—they turn a deep shade of bitter. Usually they become good at spear throwing, themselves.
2. This is another of life’s big lessons, if you want to carry the call you picked up last week. Other people’s words and attitudes make us or break us. You have to overcome them. It is about overcoming fear, growing in respect.
  1. Words can hurt. Words from one in authority hurt the most.
    1. When a parent, a teacher, best friend calls us stupid, unskilled, dumb etc. It hurts us, but even more powerful than the hurt, is that it causes us to fear each other.
    2. And we start living life so that we are never hurt again.
      1. We never trust another person again and we only let them get so close.
      2. We become the spear thrower. In other words we make sure to hurt others before they hurt us. And it all happens because we have a wounded heart and fear that either they were right or that we will be hurt again.
  2. We lose sight of respect of authority. I.e. It is natural to want to throw a spear back at someone who just tried to spear you. It was supernatural for David to keep his heart in the right place and not kill Saul. In fact, later on in the story, David sneaks into Saul tent, takes Saul’s spear and personal water bottle and he does not even try to kill Saul because Saul is still the king of Israel.
3. The words and attitudes of others can either put you down or push you up – the choice is yours. The can be your tomb stone or stepping stone—you make the choice.
4. If you are going to be all that God has called you to be you must overcome boredom. And you must overcome the words and actions of others.
David Was Made King By Misfits
1. What is a misfits?
  1. I.e. When I think of Misfits I think of the cartoon Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. When Rudolph and Yukon Cornelius, and the nerdy dentist in training.
  2. Something that fits badly, or is unable to adjust to one’s environment or circumstances.
  3. David became the leader of these misfits.
    1. 1 Samuel 22:1-2 David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. So when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him. 2 And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him. So he became captain over them. And there were about four hundred men with him. NKJV
    2. 1 Sam 22:1-2So David got away and escaped to the Cave of Adullam. … ²Not only that, but all who were down on their luck came around — losers and vagrants and misfits of all sorts. David became their leader. There were about four hundred in all. THE MESSAGE
2. Overcoming the expectations of others. Overcoming what others think of you.
  1. This is an incredibly big hurdle that you will have to learn to over come.
    1. Parents have expectations: Expectation-is the degree of probability that something will happen. I.e. I have watch line backer sized men cry because their father’s made them play sports when all they wanted to do was play music. Grown women cry because all their mother wanted them to do was be a cheerleader, and on the student counsel and all they wanted to do was be in the math club.
      1. Some are good:
        
        I do expect you to keep your room clean
        
        I do expect your bed made before you leave your room
        
        I do expect you to do your best in school
      2. Some are not good
        
        I expect you to become a pastor, a CIA agent, Miss America
        
        I expect you to be like your brother, sister, mom, etc.
3. It is one thing to overcome other people’s expectations for you but it a whole new ball game to lead all those people with expectations into a place they desire to be—a place of life.
  1. Some of your friends will expect you to disobey your parents.
  2. Some of your friends will expect you to participate in things you know are wrong.
  3. Some of your friend will expect you to cheat on your test, or help them to cheat on a test.
  4. You have to overcome that expectation and ask God for help in how to lead them into a place of integrity that is much better and life giving.

Conclusion:

Invitation:
- You struggle with boredom—boredom is selfishness wanting gratification.
- You struggle with the words of others—your heart has been hurt.
- You struggle with the expectations of others—you find your self angry.

Pastor Tim Franklin, 2/6/2010