God Protects Us And We Dont Know It

I. EXORDIUM:

Are you grateful to GOD in all things?

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To develop the attitude of gratitude in us.

IV. TEXT:

1 Samuel 23:14 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

David now stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the hill country of Ziph. Saul hunted him day after day, but God didn’t let Saul find him.

V. THESIS:

GOD is always working to protect us in the background and majority of times, He doesn't tell that to us or we are unknowledgeable of it.

VI. TITLE:

GOD Protects Us And We Dont Know It

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Authors: Samuel (Israel's last greatest judge) - some parts of it, Nathan and Gad (1 Samuel 10:25, 1 Chronicles 29:29) and some say it's Anonymous

1 Samuel 10:25 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

Then Samuel told the people what the rights and duties of a king were. He wrote them down on a scroll and placed it before the Lord. Then Samuel sent the people home again.

1 Chronicles 29:29 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

All the events of King David’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in The Record of Samuel the Seer, The Record of Nathan the Prophet, and The Record of Gad the Seer.

B. Purpose of writing: Account of the history of Israel from 12th to 10th B.C.

VIII. MAIN BODY:

A. GOD will not allow our enemies to see us.

"but God didn’t let Saul find him"

Romans 8:37 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

1 John 5:4-5 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.

And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

1 John 4:4 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.

1. We can only activate Grace by our faith. Stop fearing what men will say, start living by faith. The sight is just a sample of one of our 5 senses, if we're gonna accomplish great task for GOD, our 5 senses should be stopped or suppressed so our faith can operate. Faith can't live with doubt or logical thinking brought about by our five senses, stop using the 5 senses and use the sixth sense alone, that's our faith.

Habakkuk 2:4 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

“Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (New International Version)

We live by faith, not by sight.

Romans 1:17 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”

Galatians 3:11 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

So it is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”

Hebrews 10:38 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

And my righteous ones will live by faith. But I will take no pleasure in anyone who turns away.”

Romans 1:17 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.”

B. We need to thank GOD for unknown protection.

"David now stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the hill country of Ziph."

David don't know everytime GOD protects Him from Saul, He's hiding from Saul, by faith He does know it in the spiritual realm that GOD's Protection is always present. We only thank or even forgets to thank for ALL His goodness to us, oftentimes, it's more forget than thank Him, we always forget. Even in our meals, we forget GOD brought the food to us, it's His Providence that we are alive everyday. We thank Him for a miracle but we don't know, we are saved from this accident or this sickness we never thanked GOD for it, because we don't know. We don't know why we are led to these trials and these circumstances or events that happened in our lives, we don't know it's for our own good.

Psalms 11:1 (New Living Translation, Second Edition)

I trust in the Lord for protection. So why do you say to me, “Fly like a bird to the mountains for safety!