- When you hear the word “Hero,” who or what do you think of?

- Real heroes are people whose efforts and sacrifices save lives, alter destinies or impact history.

- God works through ordinary people, regarded by the world as weak, foolish and unqualified to make an eternal difference.

- The Bible describes Abigail in a unique manner; it says she was beautiful and intelligent.

- Abigail was married to a man named Nabal.

- David sends his servants to Nabal to ask him to share from his bounty since it was sheep-shearing time.

- “Who is David? Who is this son of Jesse…” (v.10)

- David was not the kind of man to overlook something like this.

- David had good reason to be angry, but he had no right to seek revenge.

I. Abigail to the rescue

- With the stage set for a bloody massacre, Abigail enters the picture.

- She asks David to take revenge on her because she is Nabal’s wife.

- In everything she does we see her greatness.

- She gives David three reasons why he should spare her foolish husband:

1. God sent me to protect you from making a foolish mistake.

- “Let no wrongdoing be found in you as you live.” (v.28)

- This is the doctrine of the restraining grace of God.

2. God is the avenger of the wicked.

- “But the lives of your enemies He will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.” (v.29)

- If you rely on the Lord to fight your battles, you will win every time.

3. You will never regret it later.

- “My master will not have on his conscience the staggering burden of needless bloodshed or having avenged himself.” (v.31)

- Revenge feels good now but it will feel bad later.

- David praises God, blesses Abigail and sees God’s hand in her intervention.

- Abigail is an unlikely hero because she was willing to intervene in a bad situation to protect her family.

- God solved a dangerous situation because a godly woman convinced an angry man to wait for God to do His work.