David Marked for Death: David 12 | Pastor Allen Nolan Sermon

Now, don't hold me to that, because of that.

I sometimes look at certain, um, things in the scripture and I says, and I say I need to spend more time on that.

So I'm gonna do my best to try and finish this series sometime in the fall.

Now, last time we finished chapter 18 in the book of 1 Samuel, so now we're ready to move on to the 19th chapter.

Now, chapter 19 represents a decisive shift in the story.

It's a very important part in the story of David.

You see, in chapter 18, Saul felt threatened by David because he was so popular.

His greatest fear was that David would capitalize on his popularity and stage an insurrection in order to seize the throne, which was very common in those days, especially if the current king was unpopular, and Saul wasn't a very popular king at this point.

So Saul felt like he had no other choice but to get rid of David permanently, kill him.

But he wa- didn't want it to look like he was responsible for David's death, so he placed David in a position where there was a high probability that he would be killed by the enemy.

He placed David in his battalion on the front line.

But instead of dying on the battlefield like Saul intended him to, it actually showcased David's leadership and wisdom as a commander.

So David's popularity grew even more, especially among the military leaders, which made Saul even more afraid of him.

Because human nature is such that if someone is more capable, a better person, a better leader, and he's very popular, usually they are going to form some type of insurrection in order to take your place.

And so Saul just knew David was going to do that.

So the things that he tried to do to get David killed didn't work, so now he had to change tactics in his attempt to get rid of David.

Therefore, he decided to use his own daughters as an incentive to get David to do something that he considered to be daring, reckless, and foolish on the battlefield, hoping that the Philistines would have a better chance of killing him if he caused David to do that, but it didn't work.

Because the Lord was with David.

So David performed every task that Saul requested of him.

In fact, he even went above and beyond what was expected of him.

If you remember, he said, "I wanna give you Michal's hand in marriage, but you don't have to pay the mohar, the bridal price.

All I expect from you is 100 foreskins of the enemy, the Philistines." Which meant that David not only had to kill 100 Philistines, but he also had to mutilate the corpse, which would make him, um, a serious enemy.

It would put a target on his back.

So instead of David bringing 100 foreskins, he brought 200 foreskins, because that was the type of person David was.

Whatever you expected of him, he went above and beyond, and he actually achieved more.