Acts 13:14-23 And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. 15 After the reading of the law and the prophets, the officials of the synagogue sent them a message, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, give it.” 16 So Paul stood up and with a gesture began to speak: “You Israelites, and others who fear God, listen.

17 The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 18 For about forty years he put up with[c] them in the wilderness. 19 After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance 20 for about four hundred fifty years. After that he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel. c

21 Then they asked for a king; and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty years. 22 When he had removed him, he made David their king. In his testimony about him he said, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, to be a man after my heart, who will carry out all my wishes.’ 23 Of this man’s posterity God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised

1 Samuel 13: The Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude; they came up and encamped at Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven. 6 When the Israelites saw that they were in distress (for the troops were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns.

7 Some Hebrews crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 8 He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel; but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people began to slip away from Saul. 9 So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the offerings of well-being.” And he offered the burnt offering.

10 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel arrived; and Saul went out to meet him and salute him. 11 Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul replied, “When I saw that the people were slipping away from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were mustering at Michmash,

12 I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down upon me at Gilgal, and I have not entreated the favor of the L ORD ’; so I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.” 13 Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the L ORD your God, which he commanded you. The L ORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever,

14 but now your kingdom will not continue; the L ORD has sought out a man after his own heart; and the L ORD has appointed him to be ruler over his people, because you have not kept what the L ORD commanded you.”

What’s YOUR favorite David story? Why?

David and Samuel Anointed

David and Goliath Faithful

David and Jonathan Friendship

David and Saul Honoring

David and the Ark Worship Freely

David, Bathsheba, & Uriah Repentant

David and Absalom Reconciling

David the Psalmist Love God’s Word

Person after God’s Own Heart: Anointed by the Holy Spirit Faithful Friend to God & others God Honoring Worships Freely Truly Repentant when miss the mark Seeks reconciliation Loves God’s Word – Jesus - Neighbors

Person after God’s Own Heart: Lives out redemption and reconciliation in all they do. It becomes who they are…and they are in deed willing to become even more undignified than this if it means honoring God…it is not their ‘rights’ that matter – it is their Lord!