Eagles View Church
Eagles View Church | September 17th, 2023
Pastor Bart is continuing our series David: After God's Own Heart.
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Eagles View Church
5440 W Bailey Boswell Rd, Fort Worth, TX 76179, USA
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“The David story is a plunge into the earthiness of our humanity. He is so emphatically human: David fighting, praying, loving, sinning. David conditioned by the morals and assumptions of a brutal Iron Age culture. David with his eight wives. David angry; David devious; David generous; David dancing. There’s nothing, absolutely nothing, that God can’t and doesn’t use to work His salvation and holiness into our lives. David isn’t an ideal life but an actual life… The David story, like most other Bible stories, presents us not with a polished ideal to which we aspire but with a rough-edged actuality in which we see humanity being formed. The God presence in the earth/human conditions. The David story immerses us in a reality that embraces the entire range of humanness, stretching from the deep interior of our souls to the farthest reach of our imaginations. No other Biblical story has this range to it, showing the many dimensions of height, depth, breadth, and length of human experience as a person comes alive before God – aware of God, responsive to God. We’re never more alive than when we’re dealing with God. And there is a sense in which we aren’t alive at all until we’re dealing with God. David deals with God. As an instance of humanity himself, he isn’t much. He has little wisdom to pass onto us how to live successfully. He was an unfortunate parent and an unfaithful husband… but David’s importance isn’t in his morality or his military prowess, but in his experience of and witness to God. Every event in his life was a confrontation with God.”
Eugene Patterson - Leap Over a Wall
Eugene Patterson - Leap Over a Wall
God consistently chooses the unexpected.
Character matters most to God.
God develops our character in the pasture, not the palace.
Three words that characterize David's pasture:
1. Obscurity
2. Monotony
3. Reality
Chuck Swindoll
1. Obscurity
2. Monotony
3. Reality
Chuck Swindoll
If you short-circuit the process, you short-circuit the product.