Open Bible Church of Kingsville Sermons

SERMON NOTES – August 9, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 18:17-30Topic: Crazy Things People Do For Love and HateAttribute: Praise Christ as the Anointed KingGOD’S DM: “Choose this day whether you will love or hate My Anointed One, but know all plots and schemes leveled against him will fail!”Notes: F____________ Marriage Proposal (vs. 17-19)1 Samuel 17:24-27A____________ Marriage Proposal (vs. 20-25)Y______ and S____________ (vs. 26-30)IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE:1) Love him or hate him?Do you really love Jesus? Anything other than your complete love, devotion, submission, faith, and trust in Him is an intentional, conscious choice to align yourself against Him and to hate Him! Psalm 2:122) The Lord’s purposes will be done!We, as the people of God, have nothing to fear or worry about! Since Jesus is enthroned as King over all for all eternity, He can and will protect us, bring us safely home, and work all things out for His glory and our good! Psalm 2:1-6

SERMON NOTES – August 2, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 18:1-16Topic: You've Got A FriendAttribute: Praise Christ as Your Savior and KingGOD’S DM: “There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother, and who gives you a Spirit that is just like his so that you might kill the jealousy that is in you and enjoy a life of true blessing.”Notes:1. The Friendship We DesireProverbs 18:24John 15:12-152. The Jealousy We HateProverbs 27:43. The Success We EnjoyIMPLICATION FOR LIFE RESPONSE:1. What a friend we have in Jesus. Do you know him as a friend who sticks closer that a brother? Do you enjoy his fellowship on a regular basis? Do you have a friend like Jonathan in your life? Are you being a friend like him to someone else? Make both of these a priority in your life.2. How is God trying to root out jealousy in your life? Are you in a difficult situation so that God might mold and make you into an instrument that can play the noblest part. Remember that God knows what he is about.3. Define success the way God defines it - knowing the Lord is with you. Recognize that God is giving you success in ways that you cannot even imagine as he works behind the scene in your life. The greatest blessing of all is Jesus with you.

SERMON NOTES – July 19, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 17:31-40Topic: The Savior (and King!) Has ComeAttribute: Praise Christ as Your Savior and KingGOD’S DM: “Knowing that I have fought for you and delivered you in the past should give you confidence that I will fight for and deliver you in the present and future!”Notes: Royal S____________ (vs. 31)1 Samuel 17:26 and 29F________ verses F________ (vs. 32-37)1 Samuel 17:8-9“In young David’s mind, all the enemies of God are reduced to the same level; they are nothing but dumb beasts. Regardless of size or strength, the Lord will provide victory over all.” - Bill ArnoldBattle P______________ (vs. 38-40)IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE:1) Don’t let your heart fail; the King has come! He has and will deliver you! King Jesus has already entered the story, won the victory, saved His people, defeated His enemies, and secured the final outcome! He has and will deliver us. We have nothing to fear. 2) Trusting in anyone or anything other than Jesus is foolishness.Repent and turn away from all the lesser things that you are prone to believe in, hope in, and trust in. There is victory and salvation in nothing and no one other than Jesus and the cross! 3) Remember God’s past acts of faithfulness and salvation in your life. Our faith is sustained through the present trials we face by remembering God’s past acts of faithfulness to us (and other Christians). Remember and remind yourself often of God’s past acts of faithfulness and salvation.

SERMON NOTES — July 12, 2026Series: 1 Samuel: Shadows of the King & His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 17:12-30Topic: The Difference MakerNotes:1. Meanwhile back at the ranch Ruth 4:21-222. The Original DoorDash3. The Difference Maker4. A Big Brother’s Snobbery Mathew 13:54-57IMPLICATION FOR LIFE RESPONSE1. What is God doing in your life right now in the place where you live?2. Remember that God is using the ordinary events in your life to position you in a place where you might be used to glorify our Savior?3. Who do you see as the Difference Maker in your life, in your world? It is the living Jesus who is the resurrection and the life. All of our hope is in him. How does this truth affect the way you view life and what is going on right now in youR life situation?4. Do not let anyone turn you aside from following Jesus. He is the way, the truth and the life.

SERMON NOTES – July 5, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 17:1-11Topic: Sizing Up the Enemy and the OddsAttribute: Praise Christ as Your Representative and KingGOD’S DM: “Don’t be too quick to judge by appearances. I am working, moving, and saving, even when things look impossibly dark. I have already provided a Representative and King to defeat your greatest enemies and save you from slavery and death!”Notes: The B____________ L_______ (vs. 1-3)1 Samuel 9:15-161 Samuel 14:30“Separating the two camps geographically was a wadi, a usually dry water bed. Separating the Israelites from the Philistines psychologically, as the following verses indicate, was a chasm of fear.”-Robert BergenThe E_________: Goliath (vs. 4-7)1 Samuel 16:7The C________________ (vs. 8-10)1 Samuel 8:18 & 12:13“Goliath is not merely the big goon from Philistia; Goliath’s blabbering dishonors Israel’s God.” - Dale Ralph DavisThe R______________ (vs. 11) Chosen - 1 Samuel 8:18 & 12:13 Tall - 1 Samuel 9:2 & 10:23 Called and Appointed - 1 Samuel 9:16 King to Go Out and Fight - 1 Samuel 8:201 Samuel 2:10IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE:1) We need a representative to fight for us and save us from certain slavery and death!Choose Jesus to be your Savior, King, and Representative, or prepare to suffer the consequences of your failure to do so! 2) Don’t be too quick to make judgements based on external appearances!Don’t be too quick to make judgements based on external appearances. Instead, learn to look at everything with eyes of faith!

SERMON NOTES – June 28, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 16:14-23Topic: The God of the UnlikelyAttribute: Praise Christ as the True King and SaviorGOD’S DM: “I choose to use unlikely individuals in unlikely ways to do what are often unlikely things.”Notes: The SourceIsaiah 45:7Job 2:10The Symptoms The SolutionZechariah 4:6Acts 1:8IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE:1) Our lives will continue to be restless until we find our rest in Jesus Christ. Come to Jesus and he will give rest to your soul.2) What is ruling our hearts is an indication of how we are doing spiritually. Are we being ruled by the Spirit of God or another spirit.3) Our anger, our pride our selfishness, our bitterness are symptoms of a deeper issue in our heart. Submit to the Spirit of God and His Word to you, for you.Realize that you are a servant of the Lord and He has you in the place He wants you. Be available to Him, ready to speak a timely word to others. God knows you by name and you are a part of God's plan and program for this time. Try not to be too surprised for how God uses your life. He is the God of the unlikely.SERMON NOTES – June 28, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 16:14-23Topic: The God of the UnlikelyAttribute: Praise Christ as the True King and SaviorGOD’S DM: “I choose to use unlikely individuals in unlikely ways to do what are often unlikely things.”Notes: The SourceIsaiah 45:7Job 2:10The Symptoms The SolutionZechariah 4:6Acts 1:8IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE:1) Our lives will continue to be restless until we find our rest in Jesus Christ. Come to Jesus and he will give rest to your soul.2) What is ruling our hearts is an indication of how we are doing spiritually. Are we being ruled by the Spirit of God or another spirit.3) Our anger, our pride our selfishness, our bitterness are symptoms of a deeper issue in our heart. Submit to the Spirit of God and His Word to you, for you.Realize that you are a servant of the Lord and He has you in the place He wants you. Be available to Him, ready to speak a timely word to others. God knows you by name and you are a part of God's plan and program for this time. Try not to be too surprised for how God uses your life. He is the God of the unlikely.

SERMON NOTES – June 21, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 16:1-13Topic: A New King AnointedAttribute: Praise Christ as the True King and SaviorGOD’S DM: “In addition to your expected obedience, you must understand that your heart is wicked, and needs to be saturated by the truth of my Word, and changing from a hard heart, which only my Spirit may work in you.”Notes: Everyone Loves a Coronation! A New C______________ to Samuel (vs. 1)1 Samuel 15:351 Samuel 15:28Bethlehem: Genesis 35:19 Micah 5:2The E___________ and Samuel (vs. 2-5)A R____________ Roll Call (vs. 6-13)Jeremiah 17:9-10Isaiah 53:2b-31 Samuel 13:14Acts 2:1-4IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE:1) You do NOT know your own heart! “…God has the superior vantage point of seeing the heart. Since we are not God, we cannot know who will answer his call and who will be effective in his service. This means both that we should be cautious about judging other people and their potential effectiveness in the kingdom of God, and also that we should not question our own abilities and gifts for service. We may feel that we do not have much to offer God - but that would be a superficial evaluation, based on our own limited perspective. If God calls, he also empowers.” - Bill Arnold2) Ask the Lord for forgiveness, and to give you a clean heart and walk according to his Word in the light of his salvation. Psalm 51:103) Only Jesus is the perfect King, and is worthy of our praise and adoration! Revelation 19:16

SERMON NOTES – June 14, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 15:12-35Topic: Obedience is Better Than SacrificeAttribute: Praise Christ as Your Sacrifice and ObedienceGOD’S DM: “I want your whole heart and life, not just cheap confessions and perfunctory sacrifices!"Notes: Saul’s C______________ and Samuel’s C______________ (vs. 12-16)Exodus 17:15-161 Samuel 15:11Samuel’s I______________, Saul’s E______________ & God’s D______________ (vs. 17-23)“To reject Yahweh’s word is to reject Yahweh himself, to reject his authority - in a word, to reject his kingship. Since Saul had rejected Yahweh reject as King over him Yahweh rejected Saul as king over his people. All the smoke and fat on Gilgal’s alter would never replace the pleasure God could have had from the living sacrifice of Saul’s will.”-Dale Ralph DavisSaul: U______________ and R______________ (vs. 24-31)1 Samuel 12:14-151 Samuel 15:11 and 35Samuel: B______________ and B______________ (vrs. 32-35)IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE:1) To obey is better than sacrifice.The Lord wants your whole heart and life. God-glorifying obedience will show up in the small, mundane, normal parts of our lives far more than it will in the big areas and grand gestures. 2) Christ’s obedience and sacrifice is better than your sacrifices and obedience!To obey is better than sacrifice, but Jesus’ sacrifice and obedience are better than anything you could ever offer and the only way to please God the Father! Hebrews 10:1-10

SERMON NOTES – June 7, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 15:1-11Topic: The Beginning of the End for King SaulAttribute: Praise Christ both Judge and SaviorGOD’S DM: “Nothing other than complete and total obedience is acceptable in the Lord’s sight, but the Judge can be your Savior!”Notes: 1 Samuel 13:13-14L_____________ to the Lord (vs. 1-3)Exodus 17:8Deuteronomy 25:17-18Exodus 17:14Deuteronomy 25:19Incomplete O________________ (vs. 4-9)Response: R___________, A__________, and T_________ (vs. 10-11)Genesis 6:5-7“This day when God’s appointed king did not listen to the sound of the voice of the Lord was like those far-off days when human wickedness came close to destroying all that God had made.” -John Woodhouse “Saul’s failure to carry out Yahweh’s orders signals something deeper than failure - ‘He has turned his back from following me.’ He would no longer be the follower or servant of the Lord.”-Dale Ralph DavisIMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE:1) Complete and Wholehearted Obedience is what God always requires.Obey the Lord immediately, completely, and wholeheartedly! See anything and everything else for what it is: sin, rebellion, and defiance against your Creator, God, and King!2) King Jesus is both Judge and Savior.You will experience and deal with King Jesus either as your Judge or Savior. Believe and trust only in Jesus and His work to rescue and save you from yourself, your sin, and God’s wrath! Acts 10:423) How do you respond to other people’s sin?Learn from and follow Samuel’s example. This is how God’s people in every age respond to the sin of other people, even great sin.

SERMON NOTES – May 31, 2026Series: 1st and 2nd Samuel: Shadows of the King and His KingdomText: 1 Samuel 14:24-52Topic: The King’s Foolishness ExposedAttribute: Praise Christ as the True King and SaviorGOD’S DM: “King Saul’s foolishness led Israel into sin and would have resulted in the death of his own son, Jonathan, if the people had not ransomed and saved him. King Jesus’ wisdom allows him to save and ransom his people from their own foolishness and the death they deserve!”Notes: Rash V_____________ (vs. 24)1 Samuel 14:6Unintended C________________ (vs. 25-35)Genesis 9:4Leviticus 7:26-27“The man who did not obey God in chapter 13 and expressed no confidence in God when faced with his enemies, who devised the crazy plan to save himself by starving his troops, now sounded so concerned about the people’s act of disobedience! He tried to put it right by playing the priest, building an altar where the animals could be slaughtered and eaten properly. But there is not the slightest suggestion that he saw how he had caused the problem.” -John Woodhouse 3All A______________ (vs. 36-46)1 Samuel 8:181 Samuel 13:111 Samuel 14:29-30S______________ of Saul’s Reign (vs. 47-52)“Although we have much more to hear about Saul, there is a sense in which the essential story has now been told. And as though to signal this, the narrative provides at this point a summary of Saul’s reign. Effectively Saul’s reign was now over.” -John Woodhouse 1 Samuel 9:161 Samuel 8:11-12IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE:1) See yourself.Take a look in the mirror and see yourself as King Saul! Learn from his sins, foolishness, failures, and consequences, so that you do not have to face them yourself! 2) See the True King and Savior!Let King Saul’s failures and foolishness in this story help you see and highlight the glories and wonders of King Jesus!