Bible Study Series: God Is A Romantic, I Samuel 25

 

GOD IS A ROMANTIC

I Samuel 25: 1-42

 

GOD IS LOVE

1 John 4:16-18

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17 In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18 There is no fear in love.

For you to have a meaningful life you must have a divine purpose.

Purpose is not your job, it is not your family, it is not your goals.

Your purpose is Love. Your job, your family and your goals are the

objects by which your divine purpose is manifested. 

After God made Adam, He gave him a job; tend the Garden Of Eden.

God is a romantic, so He gave Adam a wife. 

In the middle of the Garden was the Tree Of Knowledge, of Good and Evil.

They had one command don’t eat from that tree. The day you do you will die.

The tree was a test of their love for God. They failed the test. So God

gave us the perfect example of our divine purpose. 

    

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. 

The purpose of Jesus, taking on human flesh, becoming man and dying

On the cross is His Love for us.

If your purpose is, job, family or career, what happens to you when those are

gone? A love one dies, a job ends, a career falls apart, what happens to you?

You still got love. 

God summed up the entire Bible with two commands of divine love

    

Matt 22:37-40

Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." 

This text is the difference between a divine purpose and a job.

    

1 Sam 25:1-3

Then David moved down into the Desert of Maon. 2 A certain man in Maon, who had property there at Carmel, was very wealthy. He had a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel. 3 His name was Nabal and his wife's name was Abigail. She was an intelligent and beautiful woman, but her husband, a Calebite, was surly and mean in his dealings. 

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A JOB AND DIVINE PURPOSE

NABAL                                          ABIGAIL

JOB                                           DIVINE PURPOSE

FOOL                                              THE FATHERS JOY

MEAN, EVIL                                 Beautiful , Righteous

                                                        Smart

Blessed with wealth                        Blessed with marriage

Stingy                                              Generous

Disrespectful                                   Kind

Selfish                                             Unselfish

Considered self only                       Considered the welfare of the family

Prideful                                            Humble

Sinful                                                Did what was right

Ignored the call to give back             Brought a feast as an offering to David

                                                           and his men

Had a feast fit for a king                    Asked forgiveness for the foolishness 

For himself but did not                      of Nabal. “Let his sin be on me” 

But did not share with David             Prayed for David’s Success

                                                           Accepted David as her lord.

Judged by God and died                    Released from a bad marriage

                                                           Married a man after God’s own heart

GOD IS A ROMANTIC  FULL OF LOVE