1. Gospel Baptist Tabernacle
781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741
www.rossvillechurch.com
Where the Love of God
abounds, everyone is
welcome.
Children’s Church taught
by Paul and Marsha Davis
during preaching.
October 13, 2013
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2. 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm 18 are the same song:
A song of praise and thanksgiving
written by David.
God likes it when we make up songs to Him
and about Him.
Psalm 98 1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for
He hath done marvelous things: His Right Hand,
and His Holy Arm, hath gotten Him the victory.
There’s Victory in Jesus.
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3. 2 Samuel 22 1 And David spake unto the LORD
the Words of this song in the day that the LORD
had delivered him out of the hand of all his
enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
Saul tried many times to kill David; he
definitely saw himself as David’s enemy.
But neither David nor the Lord viewed
Saul as the enemy of David.
David passed up opportunities to kill Saul.
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4. 2 And
he said, The LORD is my Rock, and my
Fortress, and my Deliverer; 3 The God of my Rock;
in Him will I trust: He is my Shield, and the Horn
of my Salvation, my High Tower, and my Refuge,
my Savior; Thou savest me from violence.
We praise the Lord for Who He is,
and for what He has done.
I worship Him as Savior and Lord, Healer,
Provider, Protector, Comforter.
And I thank Him for saving me, keeping me,
healing me, providing my needs, and on and on.
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5. 4I
will call on the LORD, Who is worthy to be
praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
5 When the waves of death compassed me, the
floods of ungodly men made me afraid; 6 The
sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of
death prevented (confronted) me; 7 In my distress I
called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and
He did hear my voice out of His Temple, and my
cry did enter into His Ears.
David was a courageous man of God, a man
of great faith.
Yet at times, he was afraid and in distress.
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6. What did David do when he
was afraid and in distress?
He cried out unto God Almighty:
His Rock and Fortress, his Shield and
Strength, his Refuge, and High Tower.
That needs to be the very first thing we
think of to do in times of trouble!
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7. 7 In
my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried
to my God: and He did hear my voice out of His
Temple, and my cry did enter into His Ears.
God will hear your cry and my cry
when we are in distress.
But we must cry out unto Him,
believing He will hear and answer.
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8. 8 Then
the earth shook and trembled; the
foundations of Heaven moved and shook, because
He was wroth. 9 There went up a smoke out of His
nostrils, and fire out of His mouth devoured: coals
were kindled by it. 10 He bowed the heavens also,
and came down; and darkness was under His feet.
This is a very poetic description of how David
saw God moving for him in time of trouble.
Dramatic and Powerful
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9. 11 And
He rode upon a
cherub, and did fly: and He
was seen upon the wings of
the wind. 12 And He made
darkness pavilions round
about him, dark waters, and
thick clouds of the skies.
13 Through the brightness
before Him were coals of
fire kindled.
God will send
angels when we
need them.
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10. 14 The
LORD thundered from Heaven, and the
most High uttered His Voice. 15 And he sent out
arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
discomfited them. 16 And the channels of the sea
appeared, the foundations of the world were
discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the
blast of the breath of his nostrils.
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11. 17 He
sent from above, He took me; He drew me
out of many waters; 18 He delivered me from my
strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for
they were too strong for me. 19 They prevented
(confronted) me in the day of my calamity: but the
LORD was my Stay (Protector and Support).
David knew that God used nature and the
earth to defend him from enemies.
Lightning flashed, thunder rolled, the water of
the seas rose high, and the foundations of the
earth shook with God’s anger.
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12. 20 He
brought me forth also into a large place: He
delivered me, because He delighted in me.
The Contemporary English Version says this:
“When I was fenced in, You freed and rescued me
because You love me.” Are you in a tight spot?
God loves you, and God loves me.
His philosophy toward us is simple:
“Whatever it takes.”
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13. 21 The
LORD rewarded me according to my
righteousness: according to the cleanness of my
hands hath He recompensed me. 22 For I have kept
the Ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
Rewards and blessings in this life come
according to the way we live our lives.
Don’t wickedly forsake the Lord God.
Walk in His Ways.
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14. 23 For
all His Judgments were before me: and as for
His Statutes, I did not depart from them. 24 I was
also upright before Him, and have kept myself
from mine iniquity. 25 Therefore the LORD hath
recompensed me according to my righteousness;
according to my cleanness in His Eye Sight.
Blessings come through willing obedience to God.
What matters is how does God see us.
It’s not how we see ourselves and feel about it.
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15. I want to emphasize a couple of points in closing.
22 For
I have kept the Ways of the LORD, and have
not wickedly departed from my God.
Too many folks think it a small thing to walk
away from God and live their own way.
The Bible says plainly it is wicked to walk
away from God and His Ways.
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16. Do you want the blessing of a good life?
Keep the Ways of the Lord;
Live according to His Word.
Whole
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17. 24 I
was also upright before Him, and have
kept myself from mine iniquity.
James 1 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I
am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted
with evil, neither tempteth He any man: 14 But
every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of
his own lust, and enticed.
It is by “our own lust” that we are
drawn away from God.
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18. 21 The
LORD rewarded me according to my
righteousness: according to the cleanness of my
hands hath He recompensed me. 22 For I have kept
the Ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly
departed from my God.
Know that The Lord rewards everyone
who keeps His Ways and does not
wickedly depart from Him.
Perseverance
Keep on keeping on.
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