Calvary Bible Church of Kalamazoo, Michigan

29:08 minutes (13.61 MB)

We are starting a look through the Scriptures at the most written about person in the Bible. Other than God the father, Son, and Spirit, there are more chapters recorded about David's life than any other Biblical figure.

We know more about David than the New Testament church planting missionary Paul; and more than on the chief apostle Peter; and more than about father Abraham, or Daniel. God has chosen to give us David: examined from more directions, recorded in more situations, and captured in more passages than anyone else. (Read More)

53:09 minutes (24.34 MB)

There are almost three thousand biographical portraits in the Bible. In fact, the Bible is the single greatest source of biographical information from antiquity. There are more different individual from a wider scope of history recorded in God's Word than any other single source in the world. (Read More)

54:29 minutes (24.94 MB)

Last time we saw that David had a simple focus in the midst of a very complex life.

As we open to Psalm 19, look with me at the last verse. Here is the cry of David's heart, right in front of us, and on paper. David simply said, "I want my life to please YOU. Every part, seen or unseen, I want my life to please you."

14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer. (Read More)

47:05 minutes (21.56 MB)

As we open to I Samuel 16 think with me what David must have felt: So much has happened so fast. First, "King for a day" in chapter 16 we met a young shepherd boy, minding his sheep when the greatest man in Israel comes and sits in his dad's house waiting to meet him. There in front of his family, David is anointed the next King of Israel. Back to the sheep he goes, and off to the war go his brothers. (Read More)

56:50 minutes (26.02 MB)

None of us know what will be written across the pages of life tomorrow. So God invites us to cling to Him, since He already knows what lies ahead. We cling to God more and more through His promises, as we see how precarious life can get. If we don't start a habit of clinging to the promises of God, sooner or later we'll end up falling apart during times of living fear and desperation like David did. (Read More)

51:19 minutes (23.49 MB)

We have all heard of people who have gone through complete emotional or mental breakdowns, but few of us have ever actually witnessed one as it happened. The good news is that God recorded the "before, during, and after" of the emotional and physical breakdown David experienced.

This sad but instructive event is captured flawlessly and in amazing detail. As we open to I Samuel 21:13 David hit the bottom, overwhelmed by life, sinking into fear, and trapped by his choices, he melts down. (Read More)

50:58 minutes (23.33 MB)

Psalm 13 may be the very deepest of all the pits of life David endured. In this Psalm David is all alone and momentarily felt that even God had left him. Note the exact spot these events take place in the text of I Samuel 21:15-22:2:

1 Samuel 21:15-22:2 Have I need of madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?" 22:1a David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam.

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53:06 minutes (24.31 MB)

As we open to Psalm 40, David feels life's become like a horrible pit. Probably the closest public event that would mirror David's life is what the quake-struck residents of Haiti and Chile have felt, going through in the ten plus weeks since the 7.0 quake hit Haiti on 1/12/10 and less than a month ago, the much larger 8.8 quake hit in Chile 2/27/10. Since these twin events[1]: (Read More)

57:04 minutes (26.12 MB)

As we come to I Samuel 22, we find David hiding in a cave, and living on a day to day, just making it mode surrounded by troubles. His experience is mirrored in the lives of multiplied people across the world. When live reduces to being just in a survival mode.

"Survival mode" means knowing that life must go on, but you just couldn't remember why. These times of just making one day at a time is often when slowly become a vicious swirl of getting up, going to work out of the home or in the home if you're a mom; and dropping into bed exhausted at the end of the day. (Read More)

44:46 minutes (20.49 MB)

If you've ever felt trapped, imprisoned, or helplessly caught by life, then you share the emotions of David in the midst of life in the Cave of Adullam.

Things had gotten so bad that David makes a confession that is packed with meaning to us today. In the form of an urgent prayer offered to God, and captured for us on paper, David explains that his soul is in prison. The setting is so graphic, look at it with me in I Samuel 22.

David is in the midst of his life on the run, under immense stress in verses 1-4: (Read More)

56:25 minutes (25.83 MB)

As we open to I Corinthians 10:11-13, it is our reminder as we study the Life of David: following God is hard, it is not EASY!

For many years songwriter John W. Peterson (1921-2006) lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan. One song he wrote among the thousand that bear his name is titled: "It's Not an Easy Road". David, whose life we are studying, would have heartily agreed with these words:

It's not an easy road we are traveling to heaven,

For many are the thorns on the way

It's not an easy road, but the Savior is with us (Read More)

61:08 minutes (27.99 MB)

As we open to I Samuel 23 we are coming to the final stages of David's life on the run. From the desolate wastelands of Israel's geography we hear the cries of David's heart from desert where he now find that added to danger, deprivation, and despair are the twin struggles of betrayal and loneliness. (Read More)

40:03 minutes (18.34 MB)

God has given us an inspired record of over 2900 hundred different people in the Bible, for a purpose.

God through those lives captured by Him in His Word wants to show us through their lives how to live right (for doctrine), how to live wrong (for reproof), how to get right (for correction), and how to stay right (instruction in righteousness). (Read More)

46:49 minutes (21.43 MB)

As we open to I Samuel 25 we are opening to David getting the opportunity to apply all the wonderful truths he has been learning. Just like the lessons we hear in Sunday School class are wonderful, but seem so different when we are actually out on the street witnessing, or on a missions trip. (Read More)

49:36 minutes (22.71 MB)

Open with me to I Samuel 18 as walk through a few chapters to get to our passage for this evening. These chapters tonight remind us that: (Read More)