2 Samuel 5:18-19 – The Philistines also went and deployed themselves in the Valley of Rephaim. So David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” And the LORD said to David, “Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

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And now admonition brought to you by the Collierville Church of Christ. What should you do when you’re in danger? What should you do when you’re afraid of what someone else might do to you?

May I encourage you, begin by praying. When David is threatened by the Philistines in 2 Samuel chapter five, we read. 

So David inquired of the Lord saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines?  Will you deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said to David, Go up for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand.

Though our relationship with Lord is different today than it was in David’s day, David inquired with Lord David sought the Lord’s help. Do that for yourself when you’re in danger. 

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2 Samuel 5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “You shall not come in here; but the blind and the lame will repel you,” thinking, “David cannot come in here.”

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And now, Admonition, brought to you by the Collierville Church of Christ. 

Taunting people is a dangerous thing. Some men from the Jebusites decided to taunt David, they said, Our blind and our lame in our city of Jerusalem could keep you back from coming into our city. 

They thought they were well defended. They thought they were Impenetrable. They thought even their blind and their lame could stop David. But David will put the challenge to his army and to the one who retains that challenge and defeats the city, he says, I’ll make you chief and captain over the Army. 

Well, Joab will do exactly that because the people taunted David. David was determined to overthrow them, and he did. 

Taunting people is a dangerous thing 

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2 Samuel 4:9-11 But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all adversity, when someone told me, saying, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ thinking to have brought good news, I arrested him and had him executed in Ziklag-the one who thought I would give him a reward for his news. How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his bed? Therefore, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth?”

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And now, Admonition, brought to you by the Collierville Church of Christ. 

Assumptions are a dangerous thing. In Second Samuel Chapter 4, two men kill Saul’s son who has taken the throne of Israel, and they bring his head to David thinking because he’s David’s enemy, David will reward them. They assumed wrong. We read in second Samuel, Chapter four, 

As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life from all adversity. When someone told me saying, Look, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good news, I arrested him and had him executed in Ziklag, the one who thought I would give him a reward for his news.

How much more when wicked men have killed a righteous person in his own house on his own bed. Therefore, shall I now require his blood at your hand and remove you from the earth? 

Assumptions caused these two men to die. Be careful of your assumptions. 

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2 Samuel 3:39 – And I am weak today, though anointed king; and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are too harsh for me. The LORD shall repay the evildoer according to his wickedness.

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And now, Admonition, brought to you by the Collierville Church of Christ. 
What do you do when you can’t get justice from the law? David found himself in this situation in second Samuel Chapter three, where his commander of his army kills another man without any authority to do so. 
But it seems as though the law didn’t have a solution for the problem. Maybe because there weren’t witnesses. 
So, David, who knows who is guilty will say this, The Lord shall repay the evildoer according to his wickedness.
Sometimes men’s laws won’t provide us justice. But there’s one righteous judge who always will. Trust in the Lord.
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2 Samuel 2:8-10 – But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim; and he made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over all Israel. Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. Only the house of Judah followed David.

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And now, Admonition, brought to you by the Collierville Church of Christ. 

There’s a lesson in the Old Testament about following the influence of a person to do evil. Ishbosheth is one who is one of the sons of Saul, and at age forty he will become king over Israel when Saul dies. But how did he become king? 

He became king because one of the commanders of Saul’s army, Abner, made him king. He followed Abner’s influence to do something that was wrong. Abner had no authority to make him king, and he’ll reign as king over Israel for two years and then he’ll be murdered. 

He lost his life because he followed someone in their evil deeds.

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