01-10-2021           

KING DAVID: A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART--PART I

SERMON TITLE: WHERE DO YOU PLACE YOUR HOPE?
SERMON THEME: WHAT DO YOU DEPEND ON?
SERMON TEXT: PSALM 25:1-5

INTRODUCTION: "THERE IS NO MEDICINE LIKE HOPE, NO INCENTIVE SO GREAT, NO TONIC SO POWERFUL AS EXPECTATION OF SOMETHING BETTER TOMORROW." G.K. Chesterton

1) I SAMUEL 8: 1, 3-7, 9, 19-22

• ISRAEL PLACED THEIR HOPE IN THE WRONG KING.

I) DAVID'S CONFIDENCE IN THE LORD PROVIDED  HIM HOPE.

2) I SAMUEL 17:1-4, 7-11

• WE PLACE OUR HOPE IN WHAT AND WHOM WE DPEND ON.

3) PSALM 25:1-2

• DAVID DECLARES THAT HIS PRESENT HOPE IN THE LORD RESTS UPON WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE FOR HIM IN THE PAST.

4) ROMANS 8:24-25

II)  DAVID'S COMMITMENT TO THE LORD PROVIDED HIM HOPE.

5) I SAMUEL 17:16-19, 26, 36-37

• DAVID DECLARES HIS TOTAL DEPENDENCE ON GOD FOR THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE.

6) PSALM 25: 3-4

• DAVID LOOKS BEYOND HIMSELF AND SEES THE LIMITLESS PROVISIONS OF GOD.

7) I PETER 1:3-4

III) DAVID'S COMFORT IN THE LORD PROVIDED HIM HOPE.

8) I SAMUEL 17:38-40, 48-50

• WHEN YOU TAKE COMFORT IN THE LORD THERE IS NO NEED TO FEAR EVEN WHEN THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE AFRAID OF.

9) PSALM 25:5

• WHEN YOU HOPE IN THE LORD YOU WILL SEE CLEARLY, YOU WILL ACT CONFIDENTLY, AND YOU WILL WALK HUMBLY WITH GOD.

CONCLUSION:  DAVID COULD NOT CONTROL THE OUTCOME, BUT HE COULD
                               LEAN ON AND HAVE HOPE IN GOD.

10) HEBREWS 6:19