Avoiding Life’s Pitfalls:

David Studies Part 3

Three Epitaphs: A Study of Contrast

March 26, 2017

Please turn in your Bibles to 1Samuel 31 (NIV)

Epitaph: what will your epitaph read?

King Saul: “I have played the fool…” 1Samuel 26:21b

“The fool says in his heart there is no God.” Psalm 14:1a, 53:1a

(also: 1Chronicles 10:13-14 (NKJV)

Analogy: Saul’s Death vs Christ’s Death

1: Death of hope (V 7)

“…we had hoped that He was the one who was going to redeem Israel.”

Luke 24:21a (also: Mark 14:51)

2: Darkness wins (V 8-10)

“From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.”

Matthew 27:45

3: Destiny repaved (ref. 1Samuel 8:6-9)

4: Doors are opened (ref. Galatians 3:26-29)

5: Dissatisfaction/failure dismantled (ref. Romans 8:3-4)

6: Display of “foolishness”

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

1Corinthians 1:18

“…the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.”

1Corinthians 1:25

What will your epitaph read?

What is God’s Spirit speaking into your life today? How must you respond?