“How’s Your Love Life?”

I Samuel 17:32–50

  1. Introduction
    1. What you love most determines your action.
  2. An Affair of the Heart
    1. God is not calling us to religious belief.
      1. Many have a conversion of the head.
      2. Some move to a conversion of the hands.
    2. But God is calling us to an affair of the heart.
    3. God is passionate about you!
      John 3:16

      16“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

      1. His coming to earth in human form is called the incarnation.
    4. You are of sacred worth to God!
      1. Humanism says you are a speck in the cosmos.
      2. God says you are the crown of His creation.
  3. Faith Versus Belief
    I Samuel 16:6–7

    6 When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD's anointed stands here before the LORD.”

    7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

    1. Humans look at the outward appearance.
    2. God looks at the heart.
      1. Belief is about what we profess.
      2. Faith is about our passion.
    3. We’ve allowed our hearts to pursue other passions.
  4. David’s Passion for God
    I Samuel 17:32–33

    32 David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”

    33 Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth.”

    I Samuel 17:40–50

    40 Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.

    41 Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. 42 He looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him. 43 He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

    45 David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. 47 All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

    48 As the Philistine moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. 49 Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground.

    50 So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

    1. Israel was full of religion.
    2. David had an incredible affair of the heart.
    3. Saul had religion not passion.
  5. Conclusion
    1. How’s your love life?