Welcome to the Kerwin Baptist Church broadcast today. Our desire is for the Word of God to be spread throughout the world.
so that all may know Christ. Join us now for a portion of one of our services here at Kerwin Baptist Church. Located in Kernersville, North Carolina. The king is coming. Aren't you glad the king is coming?
Aren't you glad we have that hope, that we have that promise? In the middle, whatever comes, there's this reminder. That the king is coming. Last week we talked about the fact as we began this series about that, obviously, God was king through creation. And here he is through Abraham choosing the children of Israel.
They're going to be his people. He's going to be their God. There's a covenant with them. And he is their king. And he never lost a battle, took care of them.
But they started looking around at the nations and decided that they wanted a human king like the other people had a human king. And here's the issue. God had a human king for them. It just wasn't time yet.
So we've got to ask this question in the Old Testament, a king is promised.
So here's the question that we have as we go all the way through Abraham, and then the people reject God as their king, and they want Saul as their king. Let me ask you something: is God going to send the king? Or is God going to be the king? Can you answer that? And the answer is yes.
Both.
So how can God send a king? And God be the king.
Well, that means that somehow God in flesh must come Two men. to be the king. Do not forget God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. They're all God.
So God had a human king. There was a plan. Jesus the Messiah was coming. He is king of kings and lord of lords, but they wanted it faster. They wanted it in their timing.
No, we want the king now. And may I say this in 2025, you and I do the exact same thing. We get impatient. We start wanting to do things in our life the way we, and in fact, we're tired of waiting on Jesus to come and make things right. We want to start making things right every day of our life.
We want to correct people. We want to fix people. We want to fix things. We want to get what we want. And we want to do what we think is best.
And many times you and I get ahead of God and get impatient with God.
So we're going to go all the way back to the people decide they want a king and They choose King Saul. Not long after King Saul was king, he became corrupt. Started doing things that were against God. And by the way, that's always what happens when a human being. takes control.
That's what's going to happen in your life and in my life whenever we take control. When we decide we're going to be King.
So Saul becomes their first king, and in a few weeks. He's corrupt, he's full of pride. And we find in 1 Samuel, literally in chapter 15, that Samuel comes to Saul. And he says, listen, wait a minute, you defeated the Amalekites. But as you defeated them, God said, defeat them and leave them.
But after you defeated them, Saul, you went in and you got their sheep and you took their goods. And what in the world are you thinking? God said, do it this way. Why are you disobeying God? And Saul had some kind of flippant answer.
And now Saul had pride. Saul's gonna do what he wants to do. And anytime you decide you're going to be king, guess what's going to happen? You're going to do what you want to do and you're going to make a mess.
So now God in his infinite plan there must be another king. But in order to get to the rightful king one day, we We've got to keep up with God's plan on the lineage as we trace it through the scriptures. And so we find ourselves here in 1 Samuel chapter. 16. And now God sends Samuel the prophet.
To find a king that God will choose. And so God had a young man in mind, and God had already begun molding and making this young man. into a king, and that's our subject today. As we talk about that the king is coming. We've got to follow this thread through the Old Testament.
I hope that you will. When it's all said and done, I hope that you will have found this very interesting. Even last week, I had so many comments from people that, man, I didn't realize the connection to this. And listen, when you follow Jesus Christ as King through the scripture. It's a reminder of the king that we serve.
So, we're going to dig into it just a little bit today. As Brother Frank read, we come all the way down to verse 16, and here's what's happened. Saul now has. Gotten to, I guess, what you would call he's hit bottom. God realizes there needs to be another king, and God sends Samuel to go find another king.
And now an evil spirit has come upon Saul as the king, and even his servants can tell: listen, something's wrong, you've got an evil. And so they make a recommendation that, you know, and probably what was going on in Saul's life, he couldn't sleep, he probably couldn't eat, he was unsettled, he was confused, he was agitated. Does that sound like any of us? That's what happens when we become our own king. Things go downhill fast.
And so they decided, they said, Saul, what you need is somebody that can play a musical instrument, very talented. And maybe this will help soothe you and They thought that was a good idea and so Saul tells them, find me somebody. That can do it and Bring him to me.
So we pick up in verse 17, our subject today, the making. Of a king. I want you to see. How God makes a king. Out of a man.
And may I remind you, I don't know if you remember, but Um and probably many of you don't, but a good while back Brother Pat Weimer was here. This is not when he was just here for a couple months, but this is even before that, when they were here before. Brother Pat preached on a passage that I've always found interesting, and he did a great job connecting it how God wants us to act like kings. I don't know if you remember that.
So God literally, He is the king, but He is literally trying to make. Kings out of us. And he uses certain things. There are things that he allows in our life. And I want you to see through the life of this next king that God chose, I want you to see.
What God used. to make David into a king. We find our first thing in verse 17 in If you have your notes and ready to take this down, we're going to jump right into it. We're going to give them to you, and we'll let you go home today. Number one, I want you to see this, that God uses this thing of.
Withdrawing.
So what we call Solitude. God uses in your life and in my life something that is a lost art in 2025. God uses solitude, God uses getting away. From everything else. And spending time with him.
Now, I want you to notice, look at verse 17. And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man. That can play well and bring him to me. Look at verse 18. Then answered one of the servants and said, Behold, I have seen a son.
Of Jesse the Bethlehem, notice this: that is cunning in playing, that means he was accomplished. He could play a harp, and he played it very well. Look at verse 19. Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse and said, Send me David thy son. But notice this: where was David?
which is with The sheep. You see, you and I don't understand that it was on the hills of Judea with a flock of sheep. Nature as his classroom, that David learned some of the most valuable lessons of his life. Can I ask you something? Where do you think David became talented playing the harp?
Watching the sheep. tending the sheep. Do you know how lonely it is to tending the sheep. I mean, you know the hours you have to spend and the work that's involved, and you got sheep that are dumb, and stupid, and stubborn. By the way, God calls us sheep.
And here's David. Outworking Not there at the house, not with everyone else, as a young man, not out at the parties or wherever the case might be. Here he is in solitude watching sheep. He learned how to be alone with God. and himself.
David learned how to get away from the distractions and noises of others.
Now, David didn't realize this is what God was putting in his heart. David didn't realize this was going on, but God was teaching David the importance of solitude. You've got to get alone with God in order to be a king. David learned how to hear the voice of God. You know what?
You and I can't hear half of what God wants to tell us. Because our life is too busy. Because we don't ever have time for God. David learned how to commune with God. David learned how to worship God.
David learned how to be at peace with himself. And these are the kind of lessons that God taught David. You know, let me put it this way: there are many in our day that have. No idea what it is like to be alone with God. In fact, A lot of people nowadays have trouble being alone at all.
They cannot survive without noise. without activity. Without the phone. Without the computer, Without the T V. They just can't Be quiet.
And be alone. They have no idea what that's like. And can I give you a suggestion here this morning? If you have trouble being alone with yourself, and if you have trouble getting away and just thinking and praying, there might be something in your own personal life that you have trouble with, and you just don't want to face it. Because you and I need to learn what it is to get away from people, to get away from things, and get alone with God.
Amen. Let's go. By the way, Jesus Christ. The king of kings. Had to get away alone with his father.
Can I show you some of these verses? Mark 1:35, and in the morning, rising up a great while before day, before it was even close to getting daylight, he went out and departed into a Solitary place. And there prayed. Luke 4, 42, and when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place, solitary, withdrew from things. And the people sought him and came to him and stayed him that he should not depart from them.
What is here? Jesus doing, trying to get away, trying to withdraw. Luke 6, 12, and it came to pass in those days that he went out into a mountain.
So he went to a solitary place. He went to a desert place.
Now he's in a mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God. No phone needed. No iPad needed. No Facebook or Instagram needed. Look at John 6:15.
When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force. to make him a king. He departed again. Again. into a mountain himself.
Alone. Look at me. If the very Son of God needed to get alone with the Father. You and I need to get alone with the Father. Can I ask you something this morning?
Do you get alone with God? Do you ever withdraw? Do you understand God uses seasons of withdrawing, of getting out of your norm, of getting away from the noise, of getting away from the distractions, from getting away with all the demands of our comfort and luxury lives that many of us, the fact that we get meals whenever we want them and that we have entertainment and we can go do this? Do you know how many people in the world can't afford what you and I afford? But everything we have seems to be another thing to take us away from God.
Yeah. If Jesus valued the benefit of being alone with God. The father. How much more do we need it? Let me put it this way, if Jesus needed it, how much do you and I need it?
Let me say this. We shouldn't fear times of solitude. If God has you in a season of your life right now where you have been withdrawn. Don't buck against it. Enjoy it.
Be thankful for it. It's in these times of solitude that we learn to hear his still small voice.
So I'm going to give you a recommendation today on point number one, and it's one of 18, so you better listen. That's a lie. It's not 18 points. Can I give you a recommendation today? Make time.
Take time to withdraw. and get alone with God. Get away from the hustle and bustle of life. Find you a place. where you can commune with God.
in solitude. A place where you can hear his voice. without the distractions of life. Look at me way before God called David to public life. He had trained him in private life.
That's good. May I say this?
Sometimes you don't necessarily need another vacation. And another trip.
Sometimes you just need to get alone with God. God uses withdrawing To make a king. I want you to notice a second, God uses work. Look at verse 11. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children?
So now God says, Samuel, I want you to go to this man's house and we're going to anoint the next king. And so Samuel gets to meet all of Jesse's sons, Eliab and all, I mean, the bigger, the better, the stronger, the older sons, and I mean, the ones that looked like the king. And as he went one by one by one, they just weren't the choice. And now we're out of sons. And all of a sudden, Samuel looks at Jesse and he says, Are these all of them?
I love this. And he said. There remaineth yet the youngest, and behold, He keepeth the sheep. I mean that shows you the confidence of a dad, doesn't it? Let me tell you what I think about this son.
I'm not even going to put him in the lineup. Surely it's not him. Can I ask you something? Where was David? while they were in the lineup.
He was working. He was keeping the sheep. Can I show you a verse look at verse 19? Wherefore, Saul sent messengers unto Jesse and said, Send me David thy son. Which is with the sheep.
Let me tell you what's happened. This is in verse 19. David's already been anointed king, and after he gets anointed king, guess what happens? He goes right back to keeping the sheep. And now all of a sudden, here Saul needs David and he sends.
And guess what happened when Samuel showed up to get David? He was working. Guess what happened when Saul shows up to need David? He's working. And then look what happens when David comes.
Look at verse 21. And David came to Saul and stood before him and he loved him greatly. Notice this. And he became his armor bearer.
So now he is tending sheep and he's bearing armor. Everywhere David went, he worked. Let me say this: I've never seen God choose someone for his work that was not already busy at work. I have never seen God choose anyone for his work. That was not already busy at work.
Listen, we're We've heard enough words. God wants to see work. If you want God to move in your life, start working. Get busy for him. Quit sitting around talking about everything you've done.
Why don't you start doing something? Don't tell me everything you used to do. That doesn't help me right now. I can tell you everything I used to do. You know what that would mean to you?
Zip. You know what would help? is if you and I would start working now. You want to hear from God? Start working.
You want to do something special for God? Just start working. You want to see God in your life? Start working. You want to have an impact on people.
start working. keeping sheep that were not his, and David kept working. Bearing armor that wasn't his. David learned to work. David learned to serve.
And dear friend, if you and I don't learn to serve, we'll never learn to be in charge. If you can't learn how to follow, you'll never learn how to lead. It amazes me how unsubmissive people can be to leadership. And then they wonder why God's never put them in leadership. Maybe a little food for thought there.
Notice number three. God uses withdrawal. God uses work. Notice number three, God uses waiting. Look at verse 13.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren.
So here's all the bigger, older, stronger brothers. They're overlooked. I mean, now just imagine how you would feel if you're one of them. Samuel comes, looks you up and down, grabs you by the jaw, turns your face. Feels your muscles.
My lucky till my belly. He goes one by one, and when they're done, here's his. Handsome young men. One of us is going to be king. And he gets done.
He goes, Is there any others? Wow. Talk about hurt feelings. And then Jesse says, Well, I got a younger one. He's out there with the sheep.
Here comes David the youngest. And God says, Samuel, I want you to anoint him. This is him.
So Jesse takes anointing oil. Look at the verse. I love this. He anointed him in the midst of his brethren. They had to stay there and watch it.
I don't know about you, but like, hey, I'll be in the garage. No, you stay and watch this. You've been overlooked for him. Notice this, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David. You know what's wonderful now?
We don't need you and I don't need a prophet to show up at the house and look at everybody and decide who God's going to use. Do you know because the king of kings came and he died and he was buried and he rose again and he ascended back into glory and left us God the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Now God doesn't have to move upon us.
Now the Holy Spirit resides within us. And now it's not like God has to look around and see if I can find somebody to use. Look at me, dear friend. If you've been saved, God wants to use you.
So notice this. Yeah. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah. Look at verse 18. Now think about this, verse 13, he's anointed the future king.
Look at verse 18. Then one of his servants, this is Saul's servants, said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse.
Now, Saul's spirit's hurting. They need a cunning harp player. I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite. Wherefore, Saul sent messengers unto Jesse and said, Send me David thy son. Now, notice this.
David is watching the sheep. He has to leave watching the sheep, comes back to the house. The prophet Samuel says, You're going to be the next king. He anoints him with oil to be the next king. And guess what that meant for David?
Right back to the sheep. Nothing in his life changed right there. He goes right back to tending sheep. Guess what? God's called me to be king.
Guess what? Your first move is wait. Yeah, but I'm gonna be a king. Wait. Just go right back to the work you were doing.
Can I tell you folks something?
Sometimes the hardest thing to do in your life is not working, it's waiting. Waiting on what God is going to do. Wait a minute, God, you've called me to something. Hey, God, I feel like you want me to. And sometimes God just says, you need to wait right where you're at.
And then all of a sudden, the time came and Saul needed somebody. Guess what he did? He went right back to Jesse's house, and guess where David was? Right back where he's always been. With the sheep.
Now look at me. What if David had decided, I'm tired of waiting? Listen, if I'm good enough to be the king, I'm good enough to do something better than watch the sheep. What if David might not have been there? When Saul came looking for him.
But Saul and the servants knew exactly where to find. David. Because he was where He had always been. With the sheep.
You know, it might be in your life right now. God has you. Waiting. You know, before David would ever sit on the throne, and rule the nation of Israel. He would spend countless hours alone.
Unacknowledged. unappreciated even criticized by his brothers. waiting on the side of a hill. watching sheep. Day after day, David would sit on those hills of Judea.
And wait. Even after he finds out God's got a purpose. God's first step in that purpose was to go right back to the sheep. And wait. Nobody watching, nobody praising.
Nobody seeing everything that David could do. By the way, at this point, who had gotten to hear his fantastic harp playing? The sheep. Not a lot of praise there. Because even when he played good, you know what they would say?
That sounds bad. That's a horrible I'm sorry yet. I don't know where that came from Listen to me. God always trains His people in private. before he ever uses them in public.
Before Elijah stood on the power of Mount Caramel, he. Learn to walk with God faithfully in private. Before Elisha stood tall. Before Israel, as the prophet of God, he learned to serve in the background of Elijah. Before Moses was fit to lead Israel, he spent 40 years.
on Mount Horeb leading his father-in-law's sheep. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting, by the way. The same is true about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Do you know before he ever presented himself as the Messiah and the Savior of the world? There's about 30 years we don't know anything about. And you know what it was? It was waiting. He was working in dad's carpentry shop.
It was building and working and Waiting. Let me say this. You and I should never. Despise the days of waiting. We all have dreams.
We all want to be used greatly. But what God wants to do through us, He first has to do in us. God has saved his best for us. For those who go unnoticed, those who go unrecognized, those who go unacknowledged. Listen to me.
God has the best things waiting. for those who are willing to wait for him. Waiting. Some of God's greatest rewards. He's given to people.
who have labored in waiting. By the way, God will never forget what you've done. He sees everything you've done. He knows where you are. He knows your frustration.
What we fail to see oftentimes is that while we are waiting, God is working. You might not feel it, and you might not see it. But God used the monotony of watching sheep. He used that greatly. in the life of David.
Let me encourage you today. Keep praying even when it doesn't feel like he's hearing. Keep going to church even when you don't feel like anything's happening. Keep giving even when it gets tight financially. Keep living for Jesus day in and day out because God.
always honors obedience. Even when you're Waiting.
Now, some of you might not have needed that today, but I have a feeling there's a few of you that did. Which is why God led it. Number four. God uses warfare. Look at verse 18.
Then answered one of the servants and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite that is cunning and playing. But listen to this. And he is a mighty, valiant man. And a man of war. The greatest news that anyone can receive is the news of the free gift of salvation found in Jesus Christ.
It is our desire for you to know him personally. Would you take a moment to hear this today? Every man is born with the sin nature. Romans 3.23 says, For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. No matter how hard we try, We're not good enough to obtain God's glory.
or to get to heaven. Because of that, sin carries the penalty of death. Romans 6.23 says, For the wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. The wages of our sin, or the payment of our sin, only equals death and separation from God.
But it's only through God's Gift. salvation through Jesus Christ that we can accept him as our Saviour. Jesus Christ paid for your sin debt. The Bible says in Romans 5:8, But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. All you have to do is receive Christ.
by faith as your Saviour. Romans ten nine says That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Verse 13 continues, For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. It's as simple as admitting that you're a sinner believing that Jesus is the only way. and calling upon his name.
Bible says whosoever, that's any one. can call upon the name of the Lord to be saved. Have you accepted Christ as your personal Savior? There is no greater day than today to take care of this. Would you accept Christ as your Savior?
If you have any questions, please give us a call at 336-993-5192 or visit our website at Curlin Baptist Church. Dot com. or visits that person at one of our three service times. We hope you have a great rest of your day. God bless you.
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