SPILLED OUT BEFORE THE LORD...
This is a two part lesson.
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
I would like us to ponder SPILLED OUT BEFORE THE LORD.
Definition:
Spill: --- to run out until no more, --- kill, destroy, --- cause to flow, --- waste,
--- to accidentally or unintentionally to fall from place.
--- to relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind
Object Lesson on Reactions.
Have a small glass of water setting in my hand? I fill the glass pouring from a little pitcher, I fill it to the brim with water.
Later accidentally I tap my arm and slightly shake it until some water splashes out.
When the water splashes out I say, "Oh no! I spilled some grape juice?"
Wait for a reaction.
Someone should say, "You spilled water, not grape juice."
You say, "Your exactly right, this is a whole lot like our reactions to what happens around us.
We might want to react with certain behaviors to the things that shakes our lives, but when our lives are shaken we can only spill out of our glass, whatever we have put in it."
TEXT:
11 Samuel 23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh, that one would give me a drink from the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! 16. And the three mighty brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew the water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but POURED IT out unto the Lord.
17. And David said, Be it far from me, O. Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of men that went in JEOPARDY of their lives? therefore DAVID WOULD NOT DRINK IT. These things did these three mighty men!
PREVIEW THE THREE MIGHTY MEN THAT LOVED THE KING.
GREAT MEN ARE NOT MORE THAN THE GREAT MEN THAT SERVE AS PART OF A TEAM.
1.) The Tachmonite, Adino the Eznite, ONE SPEAR AND SLEW 800 MEN AT ONE BATTLE. (2 Sam. 23: 8 -9)
2.) Eleazar, son of Dodo the Ahohite, HE STOOD AND FOUGHT UNTIL HIS HAND WAS WEARY, HIS HAND CLAVE
UNTO THE SWORD, and had a great victory. (2 Sam. 23: 10)
3. Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite, WHEN EVERY ONE ELSE RAN OFF AND LEFT, STOOD IN THE PEA
PATCH AND FOUGHT, Shammah STOOD HIS GROUND AND GOD GAVE HIM A VICTORY.... (2 Sam. 23:11-12)
I. DAVID HAD A STRONG DESIRE, CRAVING FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT LIKELY TO BE ATTAINED.
A. DAVID HAD A WISH FROM HIS HEART.
B. Restlessness, compelling need.
II. DAVID IS IN A FEARFUL TIME, SELF DOUBT AND SEEMLY ENDLESS BATTLES.
A. Some suggest this is a type of weakness expressing itself.
B. Others suggest this is HOMESICKNESS.
1. Home, young people can’t wait to get away from.
2. Mature people long to return to roots and
simplicity.
II. DAVID OFTEN DRANK FROM THIS WELL AS A YOUTH.
A. This well was near a gate where David had spent a lot of time.
B. The water from this well is symbolic of HOPE and Restoration.
IV. DAVID’S LONGING CAME OUT IN HIS WORDS.
Matthew 12:34 --- FOR OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKETH.
A. David’s men loved him so much, they heard the HEART OF THE KING...
B. LISTENING IS THE GREATEST ACT OF LOVE!
V. THE MEN LOVED AND RESPECTED THE KING.
A. His desires above ours.
B. Servant hearts make great men.
VI. THE THREE MIGHTY MEN WANTED TO PLEASE THE KING AND GIVE A LOVE GIFT.
VOLUNTEER --- WILLINGNESS TO SERVE... OFFER SELF...
A. The King had been under a lot of stress.
B. There were enemies without and enemies within.
C. You can give and not love, but you can never LOVE WITHOUT GIVING.
VII. THE THREE MIGHTY MEN KNEW THE WILL OF THE KING.
A. They listened, THEY HEARD THE WORD OF THE KING!
B. They were sensitive.
C. They wanted the Will of the King before their will.
VIII. THE THREE MIGHTY MEN KNEW THE GOD THAT REWARDED FAITHFULNESS, NOT ONLY SERVING
THE KING BUT THE KING’S GOD!
IX. WHILE THE KING SLEPT, THE THREE MIGHTY MEN WERE ON A MISSION ... AN ACT OF FAITH.
A. Mission means to be sent.
B. Assignment to do work.
X. DAVID REPENTED OF HIS FOOLISH DESIRES AND REALIZES THE PERIL AND DANGER THAT THOSE
THAT SERVED HIM HAD BEEN PLACED, AND HE MUST CORRECT THIS BY GIVING BACK...
SELF-DENIAL....
1 Cor. 15:35 THOU FOOL, THAT WHICH THOU SOWEST IS NOT QUICKENED, EXCEPT IT DIE...
XI. DAVID GIVES AN OFFERING OF HIS DESIRES AND THE PERIL OF HIS MEN BEFORE GOD.
XII. THE THREE MIGHTY MEN HAD TO HAVE GREAT UNDERSTANDING TO NOT BE ANGRY AT
THE OFFERING...
A. You mean we endangered our life to be spilled out on the ground?
B. WHAT IS AN OFFERING?
JOB WAS SPILLED OUT! EMPTY! RUN OUT SO ALL WAS LOST...
1. Job was concerned about his children and offered sacrifice on their behalf.
2. Job lost his family ...
3. Job lost his servants and animals...
4. Job lost all his material possessions...
5. Job was a very sick man ...
6. Job’s three friends didn’t always act like friends...
IN THE MIDST OF TROUBLE JOB SPILLED OUT WORSHIP AND HONOR --- WHEN HIS HEART COULDN’T
UNDERSTAND.
Job. 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and
worshipped,
21: And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath
taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.. 22: In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job 2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
Job 42:10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord
gave Job twice as much as he had before.
THE WORLD AND THE CHURCH CAN NEVER UNDERSTAND THE ACT OF BEING SPILLED OUT!
Luke 7:37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the
Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38: And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash
his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
39: Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet,
would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.
Where is He?
The shepherds found Him in the field.
Paul found Him on the Damascus Road.
Mary Magdala found Him in the garden.
The jailer found Him in the prison.
Soldiers have found Him on the battlefield.
Sailors have found Him at the sea.
Coal miners have found Him in the mines.
Mary went to the grave to find Him, he wasn’t there, but it was at the grave where she lost Him and
so she came back with a broken heart to find Him and she found Him at an empty tomb. If you’ve
lost Him you must search for what sin you sold him out for, it is there you must return and there you will find Him......
Booth.
LIFE IS VERY FULL OF PAIN, HURT, FRUSTRATIONS, STRESS, OFFENSE, MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND BITTERNESS,
A SEEMINGLY ENDLESS TRAIL OF TEARS.
WHAT WILL SPILL OUT OF YOU WHEN YOU ARE HIT BROADSIDE?
WHAT SPILLS OUT OF YOUR CUP, DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR CUP?
ARE WE FULL OF THE EMOTIONS OF FEELINGS OR FAITH AND WORD OF GOD?
Seek and ye shall find?
Luke 11:9And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall
be opened unto you. 10: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh
it shall be opened.
You can only spill what is in the cup? You will be spilled out. So spill wisely. Hot water will tell what kind of tea is in the bag!
What will you throw you rock of offense at?
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
