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CRASH COURSE ON THE BIBLE PARTICIPANT’S GUIDE FOR STUDY #4

David God called David as Israel’s king because he was a man after God’s own heart.

Four hundred years after Moses, God used David to carry on his mission to restore fellowship and community with him. God promised David that he would establish his throne forever. Christ fulfilled that promise.

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with someone to keep it, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He arrived at the perimeter of the camp as the army was marching out to its battle formation shouting their battle cry. 21 Israel and the Philistines lined up in battle formation facing each other. 22 David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were.

23 While he was speaking with them, suddenly the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, came forward from the Philistine battle line and shouted his usual words, which David heard. 24 When all the Israelite men saw Goliath, they retreated from him terrified. 1 Samuel 17:20-24 (HCSB)

David said to Saul, “Don’t let anyone be discouraged by him; your servant will go and fight this Philistine!” 33 But Saul replied, “You can’t go fight this Philistine. You’re just a youth, and he’s been a warrior since he was young.” 34 David answered Saul, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep. Whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it down, and rescued [the lamb] from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.

36 Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.” 37 Then David said, “The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and may the Lord be with you.” 1 Samuel 17:32-37 (HCSB)

I will give you rest from all your enemies. “ ‘The Lord declares to you: The Lord Himself will make a house for you. 12 When your time comes and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up after you your descendant, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. 13 He will build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

14 I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to Me. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with a human rod and with blows from others. 15 But My faithful love will never leave him as I removed it from Saul; I removed him from your way. 16 Your house and kingdom will endure before Me forever, and your throne will be established forever.’ ” 2 Samuel 7:11b-16 (HCSB)

Nathan replied to David, “You are the man! This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. 8 I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more. 9 Why then have you despised the command of the Lord by doing what I consider evil? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife as

your own wife—you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword. 10 Now therefore, the sword will never leave your house because you despised Me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own wife.’ 11 “This is what the Lord says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them publicly. 12 You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’ ”

13 David responded to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” Then Nathan replied to David, “The Lord has taken away your sin; you will not die. 14 However, because you treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die.” 2 Samuel 12:7-14 (HCSB)

PART 1 Identify the Current Issue David is not only the greatest king of God’s people; he is the forefather of the ultimate savior of God’s people. David may not have dreamed that God’s promise to him would come in the form of God himself, but nonetheless that’s what happened, and we all have the redeeming hope of that promise.

PART 2 Discover the Eternal Principles Teaching point one: God wants us to courageously trust him as we battle whatever life throws at us. Teaching point two: God always has an eternal plan that was and is fulfilled in Christ. Teaching point three: God never winks at our sin.

PART 3 Apply Your Findings Action Plan: One way to understand a person’s heart is to read something that they have written. King David provided a rich legacy of thoughts in the many Psalms that he wrote.

This week read and meditate on some famous psalms of David: Psalm 23—“The Lord is my shepherd …” Psalm 51—“Have mercy on me, O God …,” written after his sin with Bathsheba Psalm 59—“Deliver me from my enemies …” Psalm 63—“My soul thirsts for you in a dry and weary land …”