Week 5 – David & Jesus Harmony Christian Church

The central question of Christianity is why does someone dying 2,000 years ago and rising from the dead matter to you? If the answer to that question is "it doesn't" then it's all meaningless, but what if it's real?  What if God came to do something bigger than you can imagine?. Join us Sunday to dive in! EASY TO GIVE at Harmony, text any amount to (859) 459-0316 to get started (or give online @ my.harmonychurch.cc/give ). Get the fill-in-the-blank bulletins my.harmonychurch.cc/bulletins.





OPENING ILLUSTRATION:



Did you guys know there is a proper way to fold a towel?  



Look all the women are like, “Of course there is” All the men are like, “You fold towels?”



It’s really true.  The other day I was folding towels when I was done I came back in and my beautiful wife was refolding the towels, I was like, “What are you doing?”  She, with a kind look on her face said, “I appreciate you trying…”  



Lol…



I wasn’t mad though - it just means I don’t have to fold towels anymore… :)



Some of you are like, “No, it means you need to learn to fold towels correctly…”



One of the worst feelings in the world is to put your energy into something that ends up being worthless…



The other day I was having a conversation with someone who said he didn’t believe Jesus died and rose from the dead.  What he said was he couldn’t understand how someone dying 2,000 years ago and rising from the dead would do anything for anyone.



It’s a good question, right?  How does someone dying 2,000 years ago and then raising from the dead do anything for you?



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What if you put all this energy into Christianity and it all ended up being worthless?



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The even better question is, what if it’s real?



I wanted to share with you a historical account from the Story of God - if you don’t know we’ve been in a series on this looking at how God’s interaction in the world has worked.  I want to show you a story today that I think will help make sense of why Jesus’ death on the cross makes a difference for us… and then hopefully help you see that it’s worth investigating…



DAVID:



Probably one of the most famous people from the bible is King David.  David did not start off as King.  He was a shepherd boy, he’d spend his days in a field, all by himself watching over flocks and caring for these animals.  He would lay on rocks some days and other days watch as a wolf or bear prowled on his sheep and would have to fight them off.  He was a musician and a warrior - actually, he was one of the fiercest men in the scripture.  He did a lot of good things and did some hideously bad things…



One time when he was older, while all the kings normally went off to war - meaning he was home in his Kingdom with most of the women - He took for himself one of his key men's wives and hatched a murderous plot to kill her husband - one of his friends…



David did plenty wrong - but what he got right was he had a heart for what God’s heart beat for.  



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Even when he messed up, David would turn back to God…



one of the most famous stories of David was from when he was a young man before he had blood on his hands and before he’d seen enough life to know better…



You have probably heard this story before.  



David was delivering food to his brothers who were fighting in the then King's army, Saul…



Israel had drawn up battle lines with their foes, the Philistines.



You HAVE to get your mind out of the little kid books you've seen about these stories.  These fierce battles warn men.  There is dust in the air, the stench of sweat and campfires.  



One minute these guys are prodding one another on, the next they are talking about back home.  Picture any movie you’ve seen with military men waiting…  They are waiting because neither army wants to go out and attack.  The Philistines keep sending out their champion, a giant of a man - Goliath -