Pastor Allen Nolan Sermons at Cornerstone Fellowship
Aug 30, 2026 · 52 min · 9 segments
Not every open door is God’s will. In 1 Samuel 24, David is given what appears to be the perfect opportunity to kill Saul, end his years as a fugitive, and take the throne God had promised him…
Allen NolanHost
After fighting with the Philistines, Saul was told that David was hiding at En Gedi.
Now, if you read the story, you'll find out that they were referred to as choice men.
So he took 3,000 of his top military soldiers to go to En Gedi to try and capture David.
And the reason he took his top soldiers is because at this time David had about 600 men that were with him.
So he was going to make sure that he outnumbered them and that he had the best of the best.
Now when he got to En Gedi, Saul needed to relieve himself, so he went into a cave for privacy.
What he didn't know was that David and his men were hiding in the recess of the cave.
And David's men saw this as a perfect opportunity for David to kill the king, kill Saul.
In fact, they believed that God had delivered Saul into David's hands on a silver platter.
But even doing that... bothered david's conscience so david followed saul out of the cave and he held up the piece of the robe that he had cut off and he held it up in order to demonstrate that he could have killed saul in the cave but he refused to do it and he reiterated that he had no intention of killing him and this incident proved it look at verse number 10 This very day you can see with your own eyes it isn't true.
What isn't true? It isn't true what you're claiming that I'm trying to kill you, therefore you're going to kill me first.
After fighting with the Philistines, Saul was told that David was hiding at En Gedi.
Now, if you read the story, you'll find out that they were referred to as choice men.
So he took 3,000 of his top military soldiers to go to En Gedi to try and capture David.
And the reason he took his top soldiers is because at this time David had about 600 men that were with him.
So he was going to make sure that he outnumbered them and that he had the best of the best.
Now when he got to En Gedi, Saul needed to relieve himself, so he went into a cave for privacy.
What he didn't know was that David and his men were hiding in the recess of the cave.
And David's men saw this as a perfect opportunity for David to kill the king, kill Saul.
In fact, they believed that God had delivered Saul into David's hands on a silver platter.
But even doing that... bothered david's conscience so david followed saul out of the cave and he held up the piece of the robe that he had cut off and he held it up in order to demonstrate that he could have killed saul in the cave but he refused to do it and he reiterated that he had no intention of killing him and this incident proved it look at verse number 10 This very day you can see with your own eyes it isn't true.
What isn't true? It isn't true what you're claiming that I'm trying to kill you, therefore you're going to kill me first.
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