Samuel
Freedom Isn't Free
July 4, 2021 • Pastor Allen Bonnell
Check out Pastor Allen's next sermon in the Samuel Series: "Freedom Isn't Free" Freedom Isn’t Free 2 Samuel 12:7-14 Conceal your sins. Confess your sins. If you confess your sin, Christ will cover your sin. “He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” Proverbs 28:13 I. Repent Psalm 51:1-6 1. Acknowledge your sin, v.13 2. Ask for forgiveness, v.14a 3. Accept responsibility, v.14b “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” James 5:16 II. Receive Psalm 51:7-11 “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9 III. Restoration Psalm 51:12-17
Our Sins Will Find Us Out
June 27, 2021 • Pastor Allen Bonnell
Watch as Pastor Allen takes us through the next sermon in the Samuel Series, "Our Sins Will Find Us Out". Our Sin Will Find Us Out 2 Samuel 11 11 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 1. Sin will cost you more than you want to pay. 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” 6 So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house. 10 David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?” 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents,[ a ] and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!” 12 Then David said to him, “Stay here one more day, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next. 13 At David’s invitation, he ate and drank with him, and David made him drunk. But in the evening Uriah went out to sleep on his mat among his master’s servants; he did not go home. 2. Sin will take you further than you want to go. 14 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. 15 In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.” 16 So while Joab had the city under siege, he put Uriah at a place where he knew the strongest defenders were. 17 When the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of the men in David’s army fell; moreover, Uriah the Hittite died. 18 Joab sent David a full account of the battle. 19 He instructed the messenger: “When you have finished giving the king this account of the battle, 20 the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall? 21 Who killed Abimelek son of Jerub-Besheth[ b ]? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’” 22 The messenger set out, and when he arrived he told David everything Joab had sent him to say. 23 The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the open, but we drove them back to the entrance of the city gate. 24 Then the archers shot arrows at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s men died. Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.” 25 David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Don’t let this upset you; the sword devours one as well as another. Press the attack against the city and destroy it.’ Say this to encourage Joab.” 3. Sin will keep you longer than you want to stay. 26 When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him. 27 After the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing David had done displeased the Lord. Psalm 32:1 “Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.”
Saul vs. David
June 13, 2021 • Pastor Allen Bonnell
Saul VS David 1 Samuel 26:7-25 1. When God is for you, no one can stand against you. “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31 “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.” Psalm 23:5 2. Trusting in God brings peace. Psalm 20:7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. 3. You can never lose by showing grace. "Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you" Colossians 3:13
The Warrior King
June 6, 2021 • Pastor Allen Bonnell
The Warrior King 1 Samuel 17 1. The unrelenting attack of the enemy. Defy = blaspheme, is to speak with contempt about God or to be defiantly irreverent. 2. The unwavering courage of David. "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6 3. An undeniable picture of Christ. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me; your throne will be established forever.'" 2 Samuel 7:16 As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, crying out, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!" Matthew 9:27 All the crowds were amazed, and were saying, "This man cannot be the Son of David, can he?" Matthew 12:23 And a Canaanite woman from that region came out and began to cry out, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is cruelly demon-possessed" Matthew 15:22
The Lord Sees The Heart
May 30, 2021 • Pastor Brett Martin
“The Lord Sees the Heart” 1 SAMUEL 16:1-13 1) Saul’s heart is prideful and disobedient. 1 Samuel 13:14 - “But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” 2) Samuel’s heart is fearful but yet obedient. 3) God’s heart was for David. 4) What is the condition of your heart?
Saul - The First King
May 23, 2021 • Pastor Allen Bonnell
Saul: The First King 1. The boy who started well. Honored his father 1 Samuel 9:3 Hard worker 1 Samuel 9:4 Proverbs 14:23 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. Humble 1 Samuel 9:21 Proverbs 11: 2 “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom” Trusted 1 Samuel 10:16 Could overlook an offense 1 Samuel 10:26 Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. Proverbs 17:9 1 Samuel 12:24-25 2. The king who started what he could not finish. 1 Samuel 13:11-13 1 Samuel 15:14 1 Samuel 15:22, 24
Can You Hear Me Now?
May 16, 2021 • Pastor Allen Bonnell
Can You Hear Me Now 1 Samuel 3:1-21 1. When God is silent, keep talking, v. 1-3 “When you cannot hear God, you will find that He has trusted you in the most intimate way possible — with absolute silence, not a silence of despair, but one of pleasure, because He saw that you could withstand an even bigger revelation.” Oswald Chambers “Oh my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.” Psalm 22:2 ESV “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.” James 4:8 2. When God speaks, stop talking, v. 4-14 “He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10 3. When God calls, be available, v. 15-21 “Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.” Proverbs 27:6 “And Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh, for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh through the word of Yahweh.” 1 Samuel 3:21 Lexham English Bible