Today's gospel installment: 03/16/2025 Sermon Title: The Rock of Escape Text: 1 Samuel 23 1. We continue to explore the gospel testimony in the life of David and King Saul. 2. David seems to ever be in trouble from the king. The king wants him dead at all cost. And there are gospel themes and dimensions to this seeming endless hatred and determination. 3. But the matters cannot be understood apart from casting them in the mold of Christ Jesus. In other words, Christ Jesus is He who gives understanding of what God was preaching in these stories. 4. Previously, in 1Sam 22 David and his people had sought refuge at the Cave of Adullam, a matter that we explored in the previous message, but they had to leave again. 5. God gave David victory over the Philistines and delivered the people of Keilah, a territory of Judah. 6. But the Keilites and the Ziphites sold out David to Saul. David was being betrayed left, right and center in keeping with the testimony of the Lord Jesus. 7. But in Saul's pursuit, David and his men found themselves surrounded by the men of Saul in the desert of Maon. 8. And it is here that God worked a way of escape for David and his men and the place was called Sela Hammalekoth, the rock of escape. 9. We develop the story and connect the gospel points. AND IT IS FREE!