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What’s

the Deal?           (1 Samuel 18:17-30 NKJV)

- King Saul was anointed king through the Prophet Samuel,

but has since turned into a selfish, fearful, and cowardly man, who no longer

served God, but only himself.

- The Spirit of the Lord had left Saul, and a young boy

named David was chosen by Samuel to be the next king. He stayed humble about

it, and continued in his job shepherding the flocks in the fields.

- When Israel’s army was confronted by their enemy Goliath

and the Philistines, everyone including Saul was greatly afraid, and Saul made

a deal for anyone who would be brave enough to kill Goliath.

- 1 Samuel 17:25, So the men of

Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to

defy Israel; and it shall be that

the man who kills him the king will

enrich with great riches, will give him

his daughter, and give his father’s house exemption from taxes in Israel.”

          - David, of

course, is the one who killed Goliath, but the promise wasn’t fulfilled right

away.

- Cowardly Saul continued to send courageous David out to

win his battles for him, but when he saw that the people loved and respected

David more than him, he turned on David and wanted him dead.

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Have YOU ever had a boss or family member, or someone you trusted treat

you unfairly? Someone that no matter

what you did it, it was never enough, and you could never win with them?

- Let’s look in today scriptures to see how David deals

with this situation…

Read

1 Samuel 18:17-30

1. What’s

the deal?

- Example: This

made me think of, Lucy holding the

football for Charlie Brown, but

always pulling it away right as he was about to kick it. Every time! I thought she was supposed to be his friend?

          - She would

promise him that she wouldn’t trick him this time, and would finally trust her.

          - She wanted

Charlie to fail, but I think because she was his friend, he always tried it

again.

- Saul kept holding out the prize for David, then pulling

it away like that football.

- Verse 17, Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older

daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife. Only be valiant for me, and

fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let my hand not be

against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

          - She was

already supposed to be his from Goliath, now Saul wants to make him do more?

          - He had

been fighting all of Saul’s battles already? What more does Saul expect?

- Saul just wanted David to get killed, and he gave the oldest

daughter to someone else.

- Verse 21, So Saul said, “I will give her to him, that

she maybe a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against

him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall be my son-in-law

today.”

          - Again,

Saul it trying to bait David into trusting him, only so he can betray him!

- Now Saul wants David to kill 100 Philistines and bring

back trophies of his kills as a price to marry Saul’s other daughter. “But