We’ve seen David do some pretty questionable things.
And in the chapters ahead, we’ll watch him do even more horrible things he never intended to do in the first place.
Yet despite his many flaws and failures, David will go down in history as one of the Bible heroes we should emulate in our walk of faith.
Why?
Not because he was flawless…
Far from it…
We’ve already seen he was far from perfect.
No, we’re told to follow David because he took a stand for the Lord.
Plus, he was a man of ACTION.
He understood the true meaning of SHEMA which means to listen AND OBEY.
When David prayed, it was the precursor to a helluva lot of action.
He didn’t worry about looking bad in front of others.
He trusted God would have his back and would make things right no matter how badly he fell flat on his face.
So, on that note, let’s revisit David’s actions when the young Amalekite messenger came to him to deliver the news of Saul’s death.
After hearing the tragic news, David wanted to go over the messenger’s story one more time.
Keep in mind this boy was part of Saul’s army.
Although he was fighting as one of Saul’s soldiers, this homie wasn’t a Hebrew.
As we discussed a few days ago, he identified as an Amalekite Ger.
He was a 2nd generation foreigner living in Israel.
He was politically loyal to God’s chosen people but he didn’t wanna be counted as one of God’s chosen.
He preferred to keep his status as an uncircumcised gentile and remain a stranger to the national life of Israel.
This brings us to a takeaway that goes right to the heart of our relationship with the God of Israel through our faith in the Jewish Messiah.
What do I mean?
What I’m getting at is that there’s a connection between the nature of a GER in David’s day…
And the nature of a believer who professes salvation in Israel’s Messiah yet does NOT want to be part of Israel on any level or participate in Israel’s covenants with God.
There’s only one problem with that idea.
Both the “Old” Testament and the New Testament make it clear that such an arrangement is impossible.
It’s a logical inconsistency.
Tragically, many gentile churches affirm this nonsense…
But saying it doesn’t make it so.
Such an idea ain’t theologically plausible because the idea of a Messiah who delivers only makes sense within Israel’s covenant relationship with God.
By the way, that’s the big hole in Candace Owen’s theology who’s been in the news lately for her anti-Semitism.
She keeps weaponizing her Christian beliefs against Israel without realizing that proclaiming faith in the Jewish messiah while speaking out against God’s chosen people is a hypocrisy of gargantuan proportions.
Done.
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