True and Better // A Better King // Pastor Casey Bush
What made David “a man after God’s own heart”? How does this ancient king help us understand the kind of King we actually need? In this message, Pastor Casey Bush invites us to take a deeper look at
the stories we think we know—and the questions we might not be asking. We’re going to look at how David’s rise, failures, and faith point us to something more, the true and better.

Sermon Notes
1 Samuel 8:4-5

4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, 5 and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

1 Samuel 8:7

And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

”Kingship” - A God-ordained position of leadership, authority, and servanthood under God himself.

"Anointing" - The act of applying oil to someone or something, symbolizing consecration, sanctification, or divine empowerment.

1 Samuel 13:13-14

“13 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

1 Samuel 16:1

1 Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”

1 Samuel 16:6…”Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!”

1 Samuel 16:12

Now he was ruddy, with [f]bright eyes, and good-looking. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!” 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.

Matthew 6:33

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

1. DAVID WAITED ON THE LORD

FIRST

1 Samuel 18:7

“..Saul has slain his thousands, but David his 10 thousands.”

1 Samuel 24:6

“And he says to his men, ‘The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the Lords anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord.”

2. DAVID WAS OBEDIENT TO

GOD’S AUTHORITY

Matthew 25:1

“You have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things” Gods not after your obedience to earn His love-Its about

responding to it.Disobedience doesn’t just break the rules, it breaks the relationship

1 Samuel 15:23

“Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also rejected you from being king.”

Malachi 3:6

“For I am the Lord, I do not change…”

1 Samuel 15:1-2

1 Samuel also said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you king over His people, over Israel. Now therefore, heed the voice of the words of

the Lord. 2 Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he ambushed him on the way when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them.

1 Samuel 15:7-9

7 And Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which iseast of Egypt. 8 He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword. 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them. But everything despised and worthless, they utterly destroyed.

1 Samuel 15:21

21 But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”

2 Samuel 24:10

10 And David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

3. DAVID WAS REPENTANT

Repentance - Where our heart turns away from sin and turns toward God—a genuine sorrow, confession, and a desire to walk in obedience.

A. David valued relationship over reputation

B. David feared losing God’s presence

Psalm 51:11

“Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.”

C. David was tender toward conviction

“Conviction” is not condemnation-its correction wrapped in compassion.

Numbers 32:23

“and be sure your sin will find you out.”Numbers 32:23

James 5:16

Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.

Someone or something will sit on the throne of your life. The question is, who?