David Playing on the Harp Before Saul.

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DAVID was one that feared God and God was going to honor him and put him on the throne instead of Saul. God had put Saul there for the time being but he disobeyed God and He sent an evil spirit upon him and when David played the harp before Saul, one clay he cast the javelin he had in his hand at David, but David escaped. 1 Sam. 18:10, 1110And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. 11And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice. (1 Samuel 18:10‑11).
How many times when the Lord Jesus was here upon earth, that people tried to take Him and to stone Him and kill Him, but He always escaped out of their hands, till His time came for Him to go to the cross, and then He gave Himself up to them and allowed them to show out all the wickedness of their hearts. And now that Christ has gone through death and is in the glory, still people show out their hatred to Jesus by desiring other things rather than Him.
Which side are you on? Do you, dear reader, take part with those who do not want Jesus? Or do you say, I love Him because He first loved me?
Saul is a picture of the unsaved people, in all their hatred to the Lord Jesus. but God’s judgment will surely come upon them. God will have all to honor the Son and if they do not honor Him now, they will honor Him later.
So Jesus could say, while here upon earth, “For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will. For the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment onto the Son: that all should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father.” So we must hear His word, and ‘He will give us life, and then He will not judge us, but if we do not hear His word, we will not get eternal life and we will be judged by Him. So in either case the Lord Jesus will be honored. “VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, HE THAT HEARETH MY WORD, AND BELIEVETH ON HIM THAT SENT ME, HATH EVERLASTING LIFE, AND SHALL NOT COME INTO CONDEMNATION; BUT IS PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE.” John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).
ML 04/08/1906