THE KINGDOM IS WHERE THE HEART IS
1 Samuel 18
David: When Faith Takes The Lead – Part 3
Matthew 10.35 “I have come to set a man against his father …” (esv)
GOD’S SAVIOR DIVIDES PEOPLE BECAUSE …
SOME FIND THEIR Hearts Are Bound To His
v. 1 “… the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.” (esv)
Deuteronomy 13.6 “… your friend who is as your own soul …” (esv)
v. 3 “… because he loved him as his own soul.” (esv)
c. 14.7 “I am with you heart and soul.” (esv)
1 Peter 1.7b-8 “… Jesus Christ. Though you have not seen him, you love him.” (esv)
OTHERS SEE THEIR Kingdom Threatened By His
v. 8 “… what more can he have but the kingdom?” (esv)
v. 29 “Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David’s enemy continually.” (esv)
vv. 20–21 “Michal loved David … Saul thought, ‘Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.’” (esv)
v. 30 “David had more success … so that his name was highly esteemed.” (esv)
Philippians 2.9–11 “Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (esv)