Title: The Wilderness of Unexpected Results
Contents
Word: 1 Samuel 22:1~2 ; 27:1-7
Whether they like it or not, everyone is sometimes thrown into the wilderness.
It is true that the wilderness is clearly difficult to live in.
However, if you listen a little in the wilderness, you can hear the voice of God.
Also, if you groan together, you will experience things that accompany people in pain.
** Living in the wilderness does not necessarily make life miserable.
In it, God teaches us how to fear God, how to renew our relationship with God, and how to renew our relationship with people.
In that sense, David's life in the wilderness was truly broad.
** David is a man who has traveled all over the wilderness.
The wilderness of Sip, the wilderness of Maon, the wilderness of En-gedi, the wilderness of Paran, etc.
It's like the same desert, barren and uninhabited, isn't it?
**Actually, if you go inside, you can see that each situation is different.
to say this again? There are no equal difficulties. Pain is different every time.
the obvious fact? It is said that David learned an attitude of faith enough to overcome his life in a positive way through his life in the wilderness.
What is unexpected? Such a life in the wilderness is not a place where people live according to their intuition.
**People live with many plans.
However, we have to let go of the illusion that all problems will be solved no matter how good a plan is.
When we look at David's life in the wilderness, it is the fact that things he never expected were "to become the best people of God."
First, it broadens the realm of fellowship.
1) While David was fleeing by Saul, a characteristic event was the exile to King Achish, the Philistine ruler of Gath, who was Saul's enemy.
** David knew that the consequences of his attitude would not be positive.
Put simply? Aghis is not going to be on his side.
2) David barely escaped death by pretending to be crazy quickly.
** David fled Achish and quickly fled to the cave of Adullam.
About 400 people began to gather around David, and from this point on, David is developing into a perfect person as a people of God.
According to 1 Samuel 22:1?
** It is said that 'the brothers and the whole family' came there.
We need to think carefully about this part.
In the process of being anointed with David, the brothers are rejected by God.
** Thinking on the other hand?
The rest of David's family, including the eldest son, Eliab, probably did not recognize David.
3) We know that the brothers did not treat David favorably even when he went to the battlefield to fight Goliath.
** Nevertheless, why did they come to David?
"Children's fights become adults' fights."
For Saul, who hated David, the image of David's family would not have been that good, and in the end he had no choice but to visit David through the suffering inflicted on his family.
** What kind of pain has your family suffered?
It served to unite the family.
4) As well as the Bible?
** Those who are oppressed, those who are afflicted with debt, and those who are grieved and injustice are also suggesting that they flocked to David's surroundings.
these people? They are the weak and marginalized who have suffered injustice in all Israeli social life.
** What was David's life in the wilderness?
It was a life in which the formation of one's personal spirituality and a close relationship with God developed, and at the same time, it was a life of eating and praying with the sick.
5) The wilderness? It brings the result of expanding the realm of embracing others along with the realm of one's own beliefs and eyesight.
** Only those who have passed through the wilderness can know the circumstances and hearts of others.
David sometimes pursued a life of surviving through madness in the wilderness?
** He was a man of prayer who thoroughly communed with God.
Who is praying? Instead of discovering God's sovereign will within themselves, develop them into people who can see and care for the weak and sick who live the same life as themselves.
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What can we learn from David and his followers who fled to the cave of Adullam?
** It broadens the realm of fellowship and at the same time makes it a worshiping community in the wilderness.
1) The church is not only a community of people with pain and suffering, but also a community of worship.
** It is a place where people gather around God and receive comfort through God, and it is a place where they feel the presence of life through the same homogeneity.
However, they lose the purpose of this church's existence, and find themselves chasing each other's affairs.
2) Who is Jesus? He said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden."
** Jesus' existence was real.
He did not ask anyone to reveal himself well and get to know him.
Although Jesus Himself was in charge of all of that, He cared for the souls of others rather than his own.
Are you sharing the right fellowship of faith in the church community?
Second, any environment is created in God's way.
1) It is true that the environment makes a person strong.
** What makes a person of faith different from people in the world?
That's adaptability. A person of faith must be a person with excellent adaptability.
It is truly shocking that a community of 600 people signed an employment contract with King Achish of Gath.
How amazing is sleeping with the enemy?
2) It is also unbelievable that he is forming an alliance with the king of the enemy, who is the main cause of Saul's jealousy and eventually wandering in the wilderness.
** From an ethical point of view, David's attitude is obviously not good.
Moreover, it is true that David won the heart of King Achish by defeating the southern provinces of Israel and taking the plunder.
King Achish delighted in this and even presented a city called 'Ziklag' to David.
3) From David's point of view, through the alliance with Achish, he escaped from the pursuit of King Saul and provided a stable life for his two wives, Abigail and Ahinoam, who were suffering from unstable wilderness life.
** For your own purposes, in any case, you will see the side of using it even to deceive others.
We see David doing his best by living in a different environment than his 'spiritual life'.
** You may wonder whether David was in such a difficult situation.
4) Here, however, what should we consider the most important?
** Even in such circumstances and life, God is carrying out His will.
the most important thing is?
What David does for God is important, but what God does for me is also important.
No matter how difficult and difficult situations and circumstances I am in, even when circumstances surround me, such as helping the unjust, God faithfully accomplishes His will.
The environment can always be good or bad.
The question is whether or not God is in the situation and is leading the way or not. This is what matters.
Third, you will have a spirituality beyond moralism and secularism.
1) David gets 'Ziklag' while working for Achish.
** What if I had to tell you the uses of siglak?
It is a military base for David, and a church community for the 600 men who followed him.
But according to those with a moralistic mindset, this could be a scene of condemnation.
because! This is because about 600 people have fallen behind in human standards.
Moralists and secularists do not pass on this fact.
It will shoot with great firepower.
2) Whether you like it or not, what is life in Ziklag?
** Along with David, 600 people would have no choice but to be criticized whether they wanted to or not.
They live in a place that is not at all suitable for them, even though they could have lived a more comfortable life.
Of course, that is not the end of the difficult wilderness.
Sometimes, whether we like it or not, we can be in a completely different place that doesn't live up to our expectations.
Of course, it can be a church, a home, or a field of life.
There is no clear reason for being condemned by the world.
You should not be ignored or ignored just because you are poor.
This is because the world is not born with the poor, the rich, and personality disorders from the beginning.
3) What is the biggest problem in the Korean church right now?
** This is an attack by moralism or secularism.
what the church is doing. - The church is the church.
ex) Sean's Confession - Konkuk University
"You are being reviled by the world for not being able to handle your Christian life. Wrong prejudice causes you to lose your Christian identity."
(Hip hop)
What are the unintended circumstances in Ziklag?
** Together with David, it resulted in strengthening the spirituality and life of the community.
How many Christians today are accused of moralism?
How many attacks do you get from secularists?
4) We must admit that we can never be left alone in the wilderness.
** Don't forget that God accomplishes His will even in our weak or lacking life.
The condemnation of the world is the standard of the world.
Spirituality towards God?
** Don't forget that moralism and secularism are a powerful force to overcome.
If there are no wounds