The Fugitive Years of David: David 14 with Pastor Allen Nolan

Uh, believe it or not, we're gonna be skimming over a lot of things.

But I want you to understand why we're looking at David's life.

The reason we're looking at David's life is because [sighs] he's the epitome of human nature.

We can all see ourselves within him, and we're going to be studying over the next few weeks the formative years of David, how God was forming him to be the man that He wanted him to be as king.

And there's so much to apply.

And remember, the way that we learn usually is by experience, and it's not just our successes, it's also our mistakes.

So we wanna make sure that we're learning as we're going through life.

A person that doesn't learn, um, is a person that won't succeed.

That's just the way it is.

So what we wanna do is to be a- be able to learn from our experiences, our successes and our mistakes.

But if you really wanna be wise, you want to learn from others so that you don't have to have all these years of experience.

You watch the people who have lived through things that you know in the future you'll be going through, and you wanna find out how they succeeded, but also, if they failed, why did they fail? And if you can learn from their life, you're much, much better off.

And I think that's something that God taught me early on, is that if I was to study the Bible, I was supposed to learn from these characters in the Bible.

So that's what we're doing.

We're currently in a series that's studying the life of David, and we're about halfway through the series, but only if we pick up the pace.

If I don't pick up the pace, we won't finish this series by the end of the year.

No way.

So I'm going to skim over many of the events that happened during the years that David was a fugitive.

However, from time to time, I'm gonna stop to focus on certain events that I think are very important.

Now, this is always difficult for me, because I tend to think that everything in the Bible is important, and the truth is, it is.

Everything in the Bible is very important.

However, certain things are more important than others.

Even Jesus taught that.

When He was talking to them, He said, "You tithe this and you tithe that, but you neglect the weightier matters of the law." He was implying that some things are more important than others, and the Bible teaches that.

We need to understand that.