Word of Encouragement- Part 1 of Three Guest Speaker - Taylor Gillaspie

Channel: Bible Baptist EL RENO

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] hello friends at Bible Baptist greetings

[0:03] from Northwest Arkansas and they're

[0:05] coming to you from my gospel live

[0:08] Baptist Church here in Rogers and my

[0:10] name is Taylor Gillespie I know many of

[0:12] you

[0:12] but brother Pearson asked if I would

[0:15] record a few devotions and send them

[0:16] over yells away and try to be an

[0:19] encouragement to the church and so I

[0:20] said absolutely I'd love to do that and

[0:23] so I want to speak to you from First

[0:24] Samuel chapter number 16 and I've been

[0:27] studying and meditating on this passage

[0:29] so I'm gonna share a few just

[0:31] encouraging and even challenging

[0:32] thoughts from this passage that I I

[0:34] believe will be a help and encouragement

[0:36] to you and a trust you all are doing

[0:38] well and I know we've been locked down

[0:41] in quarantine for a number of weeks now

[0:43] and it's things begin to slowly return

[0:46] back to normal

[0:47] we anticipate that but while we're still

[0:50] some of us can find that home I hope the

[0:53] God's Word will be an encouragement to

[0:55] your heart so first samuel chapter

[0:56] number 16 and when you come to the

[0:59] chapter here we it opens up in verse

[1:00] number 1 with an old man that is

[1:03] mourning he's grieving he's crying in

[1:06] fact you'll find the word mourn there in

[1:08] verse number 1 and it means to mourn for

[1:10] someone who has died so this is heavy

[1:13] mourning this is deep grief and notice

[1:16] that the Bible says in chapter 16 verse

[1:19] 1 and the Lord sent unto Samuel the man

[1:21] that's mourning if Samuel you remember

[1:23] he was the last of the judges he's an

[1:25] old man now and the Lord said unto

[1:27] Samuel how long will that mourn for Saul

[1:31] seeing I have rejected him from reigning

[1:34] over Israel and here Samuel is mourning

[1:38] over Saul if you were to go back several

[1:40] chapters you'll remember how God's

[1:42] people Israel came to Samuel and so

[1:45] Samuel we want a king we want to have a

[1:47] king like everybody else we we want to

[1:50] be like all the other nations around us

[1:52] we want to be like everybody else we

[1:54] know that God is in heaven but we want a

[1:57] king that you can see here on earth we

[1:59] want a king and so Samuel goes to the

[2:02] Lord and says Lord they want a king and

[2:04] the Lord says to Samuel okay give them

[2:08] what they want and so the people chose

[2:10] for themselves a king and that first

[2:12] king was saw and saw

[2:13] was tall dark and handsome I mean he

[2:16] looked like a king he carried himself

[2:17] like a king I mean he was king material

[2:20] based on his appearance and he started

[2:23] off well he was very humble he knew how

[2:25] to rally the people together and get the

[2:28] army together but unfortunately he begin

[2:30] to rebelled against the Lord and after

[2:33] that third sin that third act of

[2:35] rebellion

[2:36] the Lord said you're done and the Lord

[2:38] rejected him from being king and in and

[2:41] and and finally you come here and of

[2:44] course it's chapter 16 verse number one

[2:46] now and and Samuel is mourning over that

[2:49] he's mourning over Saul and I think it'd

[2:51] be safe to say that Saul was a was a big

[2:54] disappointment and here he's Samuels

[2:58] mourning over of that and can I just say

[3:01] in life a disappointment is a part of

[3:03] life you're gonna be disappointed from

[3:05] time to time and most of the time our

[3:07] disappointments are with people and

[3:09] disappointment is an unmet expectation

[3:12] and you had a certain expectation and

[3:15] somebody did not meet that expectation

[3:17] and resulted in disappointment can I

[3:20] just say that people are going to

[3:22] disappoint you hey family sometimes

[3:24] we'll disappoint you friends will

[3:26] sometimes disappoint you people at

[3:28] church will disappoint us most of all

[3:30] we're going to disappoint ourselves from

[3:32] time to time and when you and I

[3:34] experience disappointments in our life

[3:36] it's normal and it's natural and it's

[3:38] even healthy to mourn and to grieve over

[3:42] those disappointments but can I say this

[3:45] we can't mourn forever and that's kind

[3:49] of what's taking place here in verse

[3:50] number one and so the Lord asked Samuel

[3:53] how long are you going to mourn over

[3:56] Saul and in other words of the the

[3:59] implication from the question is this

[4:01] Samuel you need to stop mourning and

[4:04] start moving you need to stop grieving

[4:06] and start going listen it's okay to

[4:08] mourn and grieve but we can't mourn

[4:11] forever and the Lord was about to reveal

[4:14] the Samuel he says I know that you're

[4:16] disappointed but I want you to know that

[4:18] I have a plan and Samuel is but really

[4:21] panicking and thinking well who's gonna

[4:22] lead us and who's gonna be her King and

[4:24] as Saul was not who we thought he was

[4:26] going to be

[4:27] and what in fact Israel's is even

[4:30] spiritually not in a good condition what

[4:33] are we going to do and can I say in

[4:35] spite of his disappointment God had a

[4:38] plan and today you may be facing a

[4:40] disappointment in your life you may be

[4:42] disappointed over a circumstance or a

[4:44] situation over a person in your life

[4:47] listen to me God has a plan and notice

[4:50] the last phrase in verse number 1 God

[4:52] says for I have provided me a king among

[4:56] his sons listen a man panics but God

[4:59] provides and a god tell Samuel listen

[5:03] I've already provided me a king I want

[5:05] you to grab your horn horn and fill it

[5:07] up with all I want you to go to

[5:09] Bethlehem and go to Jesse's house

[5:11] because I've already provided from me a

[5:13] son a king among one of his sons one of

[5:16] his sons will be the next king well he

[5:19] grabs the Horn of wool says okay I got

[5:21] it

[5:21] and in verse number two he says wait a

[5:23] second how can I do this

[5:25] it's as I saw catches me going to anoint

[5:29] the next king he's gonna take my lives

[5:31] and so there was great fear and so again

[5:34] he panics and so the Lord says here just

[5:37] take a heifer with you and go to

[5:39] Bethlehem and if anybody stops you along

[5:41] the way just tell him you're going to

[5:43] sacrifice in Bethlehem well finally he

[5:46] shows up in Bethlehem and even the

[5:48] people come out in verse number four and

[5:50] they say come us now peaceably I mean

[5:52] they were panicked as well there's fear

[5:54] all across the lamp and so in verse

[5:56] number five that same it says I come

[5:58] peaceably and he gathers Jesse's family

[6:01] together it says we're gonna have a

[6:02] sacrifice and so Jesse calls his sons in

[6:06] a seven of his sons and there they

[6:09] gather around the sacrifice and I can

[6:11] just imagine

[6:12] Jesse's looking at them and Samuel is

[6:14] looking at them the sons are looking at

[6:16] each other and they don't know what's

[6:19] going on I and sandals there and he

[6:22] knows he's there to anoint the next king

[6:24] but he doesn't know which of the sons is

[6:26] going to be the next king and so the

[6:29] first one comes out and it's Alya and he

[6:31] comes out and in fact notice the Bible

[6:33] says in verse 6 and it came to pass when

[6:35] they were come that he looked on a lie

[6:37] of and said surely this the Lord's

[6:40] anointed

[6:41] is before him and well he looked at a

[6:43] liar but he is the young man that's tall

[6:45] dark and handsome and he looks much like

[6:49] saw-like king material and so yeah

[6:52] samuel thanks to himself surely this is

[6:55] the next king I mean he looks like a

[6:58] king he sounds like a king he carries

[7:00] himself like a king I mean he had been

[7:02] prepared from battle in Chapter

[7:04] seventeen he's out on the battlefield

[7:06] and so single thing surely this is the

[7:09] next king of Israel but notice what God

[7:12] says in the next verse verse number

[7:14] seven but the Lord said in the same

[7:17] you'll look not on his countenance or in

[7:19] the height of his stature because I have

[7:21] refused him for the Lord saith not as

[7:24] man seeth for the man for man looketh on

[7:27] the outward appearance but the Lord

[7:29] looketh on the heart God says the Samuel

[7:33] Samuel I don't see people the way that

[7:36] you see people when I when you look at a

[7:38] man you see as height you see a stature

[7:40] you see his face you see his appearance

[7:43] you see his image but when I look on a

[7:45] man I see past the appearance and I see

[7:48] past the image and I see past the way

[7:50] that he looks and I see deeper than that

[7:53] I can see his character and I can see

[7:55] the condition of his heart and I want

[7:58] you know that Alya may look impressive

[8:00] to you and he may have appear to have a

[8:03] good image but I want you know there's

[8:05] some there's some things going on in

[8:06] Samuel that I in Alya

[8:09] and as a result of his character he's

[8:13] not the next king of Israel and in fact

[8:17] you go to chapter 17 and we find out

[8:19] that Alya was negative and he was

[8:21] critical and he looked down on David and

[8:23] so the Lord says he's not the next king

[8:26] and so the next one comes out the next

[8:28] son and that's a bit of DAB and sure

[8:29] enough a same thing a he tree was tall

[8:32] dark and handsome he looked like a king

[8:34] he carried himself like a king and once

[8:36] again Samuel thought to himself surely

[8:38] this is the Lord's anointed but then the

[8:41] Lord in fortin's young I know this is

[8:43] not the next king when he goes to the

[8:45] next time the next son of Shama and sure

[8:47] enough the same thing he looks

[8:49] impressive his appearance I looked like

[8:51] a king but and a Samuel says once again

[8:54] surely this is the Lord's anointed he

[8:57] thinks to himself and for the third time

[8:59] the Lord says no this is not the next

[9:02] king and in fact they go through all

[9:04] seven of the sons and every one the Lord

[9:07] says that's not him that's not him

[9:09] that's not he'll and finally he gets

[9:12] down to the end and Samuel is

[9:15] exasperated and he says Jesse do you

[9:18] have any more sons left and Jesse says

[9:22] well now that I think yeah I got one

[9:24] more

[9:25] but he's the youngest and he's out there

[9:27] keeping of the sheep and so listen I

[9:30] don't know if Jesse fully understood

[9:32] what was going on that day but but but

[9:35] let's say that he did and if he knew

[9:37] that Sagna was there to anoint the next

[9:39] king really what he was saying was yes I

[9:42] have one son but he is he is so if

[9:46] you're looking for a candidate to be the

[9:47] next king it's gonna be one of these

[9:49] seven sons that I have here it certainly

[9:52] won't be the one that I got out there

[9:53] keeping the Sheep I mean it certainly

[9:55] won't be my youngest son I mean out of

[9:57] all my sons that of each that could be

[10:00] the next king my youngest son the one

[10:03] out there keeping the Sheep is the most

[10:05] unlikely candidate to be the next king

[10:09] in fact when he was calling in the rest

[10:11] of the sons he said he when he called in

[10:15] his sons for the sacrifice he considered

[10:18] a David so insignificant or maybe he

[10:20] just forgot about him altogether but he

[10:23] didn't even call Jesse Jesse didn't even

[10:26] call Davidian to be a part of the

[10:28] sacrifice and so David was certainly so

[10:31] lowly estimated in the eyes of his own

[10:35] family and considered so unlikely that

[10:37] he was not even called to the sacrifice

[10:40] but Jesse was about and the rest of the

[10:43] family was about to receive the surprise

[10:45] of his life and I cannot say this about

[10:49] God's choice since when it comes to the

[10:52] people that God chooses and that's

[10:54] really what we're dealing with in this

[10:55] passage when it comes to the people that

[10:57] God chooses God's choices are surprising

[11:01] and so they call in they call in David

[11:05] someone goes to get David in fact Samuel

[11:07] said I'm not going to leave

[11:08] until I laid eyes on him somebody go get

[11:10] that young man and they ran out there

[11:12] and called out into the fields they said

[11:14] hey hey David come on inside I coming

[11:16] through the house they want you and so

[11:18] they called Davidian and he walks in of

[11:21] course just a teenage young man and

[11:23] smells like sheep but he walks into the

[11:26] house there and when samuel sees David

[11:30] the Lord says this is if this is the

[11:33] next king and he says I want you to

[11:35] anoint him

[11:36] and so the old man Samuel hobbles across

[11:39] the room and takes the old and puts it

[11:41] on pours it on just David's head and

[11:44] detects doesn't tell us but I believe

[11:46] that he leaned over to it and whispered

[11:48] in his ear David you're going to be of

[11:50] the next king well let me tell you

[11:52] something the the the the Lord's choices

[11:56] are so surprising it's surprising and

[11:59] who God chooses to use and who God

[12:01] doesn't choose to use and I tell

[12:04] teenagers I can't this all the time I'll

[12:06] say you you don't understand this now

[12:08] but sin twenty years from now you're

[12:11] gonna look back and you're gonna

[12:13] remember and think about the people you

[12:15] went to church with or you were raised

[12:17] up in the youth group with or you went

[12:18] to a Christian school with and I said

[12:20] you're gonna be surprised twenty years

[12:22] from now at who God's who God uses and

[12:25] who God doesn't use and so often we get

[12:29] a Namur about maybe a young person who

[12:31] is it was well-spoken and has a good

[12:33] appearance and carries himself well and

[12:36] and maybe spiritually we look at that

[12:39] young person and say well that boy if

[12:41] God's gonna use that for young person

[12:43] they're gonna go far forgotten God's

[12:44] gonna use them a great way I mean they

[12:46] they just appear to be a young person

[12:49] that will be used by God listen to me

[12:51] you may be surprised yet on the other

[12:54] hand there may be a young person in the

[12:56] youth group that is shy introverted and

[12:58] backwards and it doesn't have very good

[13:00] social skills and we look at that young

[13:03] person and say well well good God God

[13:05] will never use having young person will

[13:07] never do anything for God listen you may

[13:09] be surprised

[13:10] God's choices are surprising and here we

[13:14] find that God bypasses all the other

[13:16] sons and yet he chooses the most

[13:18] unlikely candidate and that young person

[13:21] was was dead

[13:22] now listen on the surface there would

[13:24] appear to be nothing impressive about

[13:26] David there was nothing that we think

[13:29] would have attracted God to humor Oh oh

[13:32] it would have been impressive to God on

[13:34] the surface but when we begin to dig

[13:36] into this passage we find and then

[13:38] there's some phrases and clues here that

[13:40] really revealed the inner qualities that

[13:43] David possess and I believe those were

[13:46] the reasons why God chose David to be

[13:48] the next king of Israel and I think when

[13:51] we look at those qualities we'll also

[13:52] answer the question what kind of people

[13:54] does God choose today what kind of

[13:57] people does God choose to use and I want

[14:00] to give you the first point in this

[14:01] video and then we'll look at the next

[14:03] two in the next two videos but the first

[14:05] reason that I believe that God chose

[14:07] David to be king was this was because he

[14:10] was spiritual he was spiritual in fact

[14:14] when you go back to chapter number 13

[14:15] and a Samuel is talking to Saul and says

[14:18] Saul you've been rejected and the next

[14:20] king that God will choose now y'all

[14:22] chose this king but the king that God

[14:25] will choose it will be a man after God's

[14:28] own heart in fact he says God is looking

[14:30] for a man that is after God's own heart

[14:34] and when you come to chapter 16 we find

[14:37] that that man that God was looking for

[14:39] was the shepherd boy David and we find

[14:42] out that David was a man after God's own

[14:45] heart you say what does that mean it

[14:47] means simply this that that when you're

[14:50] a man after a woman or a teenager after

[14:52] God's own heart

[14:53] it simply means this it means your life

[14:56] is in harmony with God it means that

[14:59] what's important to God is important to

[15:01] you what God cares about you care about

[15:03] what bothers gon bothers you it means

[15:06] when God turns right you turn right it

[15:09] means when God turns left you turn left

[15:11] when God says stop that it's wrong get

[15:13] it out of your life then you stop it and

[15:16] you get that particular sin or whatever

[15:18] it is out of your life when God says go

[15:20] a you go it means that your life is in

[15:23] harmony with God you're in sync with God

[15:25] you are in step with God that's what it

[15:28] means to be a man after God's own heart

[15:30] that's what it means to be spiritual

[15:33] you're sensitive to the to the Lord

[15:36] can ask you a question today very simply

[15:38] is your life in a harmony with God God

[15:43] uses spiritual people and listen it

[15:46] takes time to cultivate that kind of

[15:49] relationship with the Lord but the good

[15:51] news is you can have that kind of

[15:53] relationship with the Lord God chose

[15:56] David because he was spiritual and God

[16:00] chooses people today and uses people

[16:03] today that are spiritual maybe during

[16:06] this quarantine you maybe your

[16:08] relationship with the Lord

[16:09] and maybe you have you've improved it

[16:11] and maybe there this time of a downtown

[16:14] in quarantine you have really gotten

[16:16] closer to the Lord than you ever had

[16:18] before but maybe uh maybe I'm speaking

[16:21] to some people today who that wasn't the

[16:24] case that wasn't the case for you and

[16:26] maybe over these past several weeks

[16:28] instead of getting closer to the Lord

[16:30] you've gotten away from the Lord and now

[16:33] you your life is no longer in a harmony

[16:37] with the Lord well I want you to know

[16:39] I'm not beating you up I've come to

[16:41] encourage you to say listen if that's

[16:42] been the case that won't you spend some

[16:44] time today getting your your life back

[16:48] in harmony with the Lord and say Lord

[16:50] I've been out of step with you and I've

[16:52] been out of sync with you but Lord I

[16:54] want that to change today and Lord I

[16:56] want to be an individual a man a woman a

[16:58] teenager that you can use and Lord I see

[17:01] from the passage today from First Samuel

[17:03] chapter 16 that the first quality that

[17:06] you're looking for in an individual that

[17:08] you will use is they must be spiritual

[17:11] and Lord I want you to use my life so

[17:14] Lord would you help me would you help my

[17:16] life to get back into harmony with you

[17:19] for the first reason that God chose

[17:21] David to be the king I believe was this

[17:24] because he was spiritual let me

[17:26] challenge you today cultivate a heart

[17:29] for God Lord bless you I hope that this

[17:31] has been an encouragement to you I look

[17:33] forward in the next two videos and the

[17:36] next two devotions and sharing with you

[17:37] of the next two reasons well I believe

[17:39] that God chose David to be the king Lord

[17:42] bless you have a great day