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After David defeated the Philistines giant, the people loved him. And it happened after that great victory, that whenever King Saul would come to a village or a city, the women of Israel would come out singing and dancing to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and musical instruments, and the women sang as they played, “Saul has slain his thousands, but David his ten thousands.”

When Saul heard this, he became very angry, for this saying displeased him, and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?” From that moment on Saul despised David. Fear, anger, and jealousy consumed him.

The Holy Spirit had left Saul, he was no longer moving by the anointing of the Holy Spirit in his life, he was living out his human nature in all its ugliness. God rejected him as king and he found himself fighting against God, kicking against the goads. He was trying desperately to hold on to his position as king of Israel and David was standing in his way.

In fact, in chapter 20, David says, “There is hardly a step between me and death.” David was surely right; Saul was relentless in his pursuit.

Saul tried to pin David to the wall by hurling a spear at him - twice. When he heard that his daughter, Michal, loved David, he agreed to the marriage, but only because he thought it could be an opportunity for his death. Instead of a dowry, Saul asked for the life of 100 of his enemies, the Philistines. “Let the Philistines kill him,” Saul thought. What a father-in-law he would be!

That plot failed. David came back victorious after killing 200 Philistines. Saul's plots against David were backfiring. Instead of defeating David, his popularity in Israel was increasing. Saul's son, Jonathan, was David's best friend, David was still alive… and now he was married to his daughter Michal.

But Saul refused to give up. He sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, to put him to death when he came out. But David's wife let him down through a window and he fled and escaped.

David was right, there was hardly a step between him and death. And there is a sense in which this is true of every person; there is only a step between all of us and death, life is short, and no one knows how much time he has.

Therefore, we need to know what it means to spend our lives well.

I. Live Like You’re Only a Step Away

 “As the Lord lives,” David said, “there is hardly a step between me and death.”

 But when you have eternity in view, when you have heaven in your heart, it changes your perspective; it changes how you see life.

 There is no fear in death for those who know that taking that one step means being in the presence of God, your Savior…

 When Paul was arrested and held in prison, waiting to stand in judgment by Caesar, not knowing if he would live or die, he wrote…

Philippians 1:20-21, According to my earnest expectation and hope… Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

A. Our days are ordained by God

 From David’s perspective there was only one step between him and death, but he wouldn't take that step until it was ordained by God.

Psalm 139:16, In Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.

Illus - When our daughter died, she was 29 years old. Before she was born, God wrote in His book next to her name, 10,724, the number of her days. I respect God, so I respect that number.

 When you realize that God has ordained the number of your days, it makes you want to cherish each one of them.

 When a person is young, they often have a sense of immortality; they don't think much about death. But when you get older, you realize you're getting closer.

 For some, that brings fear.


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