Our scripture reading comes to us again from the book of 1 Samuel. We're gonna read together 1 Samuel chapters 18 and 19. In this passage, we're going to see just how much God is with David, and just how much God's presence means to him. See, in the presence of David's enemies, Saul and his servants, God keeps giving David the favor of Israel, whom he leads like a shepherd. He gives him the love of Saul's own children, who end up siding with God's king over their own father. He gives him success in Israel's battles and the security of his own presence. God's presence, you see, is the source of everything that David has. The source most, particularly in this passage, the source of David's loveliness. David's loveliness. That's a peculiar word that we don't often use, particularly when describing men. But God's presence is the source of David's loveliness. Loveliness is that attribute in people or things that provokes a reaction of love. He's the source of David's loveliness, David's success, David's happiness, David's friends, but also, strangely enough, God's presence is the source or the reason behind David's opposition. See, Saul knows that the Lord is for David, and initially, he's pretty excited that he can still use God, he can still get God to do whatever he wants. Just put David in charge of the army, and he'll win all kinds of victories, regardless of what Saul does. But God's plans and purposes don't align with Saul's plans and purposes. And so before long, Saul despises David for the very thing he once loved David for, the presence and the power of God. Saul loathes David's presence, as we'll see, and makes attempt after attempt at his life, throwing spears, sending him into impossible battles, sending assassins after him. But out of all of these, the Lord delivers him. Because Saul hates the Lord, he hates David. But because David loves the Lord, he is secure nonetheless. As we read through these chapters, there are two things I want you to look out for. First, I want you to see that the secure love or the steadfast love and the sure refuge that David's Lord is for him, that our Lord is for us. See, if the Lord is on our side, nothing can touch us if he does not will it. The second thing, and the more important thing that I want you to see in the loveliness of David, I want you to see the loveliness of Christ, the loveliness of David's greater son, God's anointed, his chosen man par excellence. Let's go now to 1 Samuel 18. We're gonna start reading at verse one. This passage begins, rather, in the Valley of Elah. where David has just killed the Philistine, where David has just won this wonderful victory against God's enemies and Israel's enemies. Saul has asked him, whose son are you? David replied, I am the son of your servant, Jesse the Bethlehemite. As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father's house. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David and his armor and even his sword and his bow and his belt. And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul sent him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants. Now as they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet King Saul with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments. And the women sang to one another as they celebrated. Saul had struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands. And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, they've ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they've ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom? And Saul eyed David from that day on. The next day, a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the liar, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand, and Saul hurled his spear, for he thought, I will pin David to the wall. But David evaded him twice. Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him, but had departed from Saul. So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people. And David had success in all his undertakings for the Lord was with him. And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him. But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them. Then Saul said to David, here is my elder daughter Mereb. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the Lord's battles. For Saul thought, let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him. And David said to Saul, who am I? And who are my relatives, my father's clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king? But at the time when Mirab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel, the Meholathite, for a wife. Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. Saul thought, Let me give her to him that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, you shall now be my son-in-law. And Saul commanded his servants, speak to David in private and say, behold, the king has delight in you and all his servants love you. Now then become the king's son-in-law. And Saul's servants spoke these words in the ears of David. And David said, does it seem to you a little thing to become the king's son-in-law since I am a poor man and have no reputation? And the servants of Saul told him thus and so did David speak. And Saul said, thus shall you say to David, the king desires no bride price except 104 skins of the Philistines that he may be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. Before the time had expired, David arose and went along with his men and killed 200 of the Philistines. And David brought their four skins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife. But when Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David and that Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him, Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David's enemy continually. Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out, David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed. And Saul spoke to Jonathan, his son, and to all his servants that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. And Jonathan told David, Saul, my father seeks to kill you. Therefore, be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place, hide yourself. And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything, I'll tell you. And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul, his father, and said to him, let not the king sin against his servant David. because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you. For he took his life in his hand, and he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?" And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, as the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death. And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before. And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines, and struck them with a great blow, so that they fell before him. Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with a spear in his hand, and David was playing the liar, and Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall, and David fled and escaped that night. Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning, but Michal, David's wife, told him, if you don't escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you'll be killed. So Michal let David down through the window and he fled away and escaped. Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goat's hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, he said, he's sick. Then Saul sent the messengers to see David saying, bring him up to me in his bed that I may kill him. And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed with a pillow of goat's hair at its head. Saul said to Michal, why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go so that he's escaped? And Michal answered Saul, he said to me, let me go, why should I kill you? Now David fled and escaped and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Nioth. And it was told Saul, behold, David is at Nioph in Ramah. Then Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again a third time, and they also prophesied. Then he himself went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Sheku. And he asked, where are Samuel and David? And one said, behold, they're at Nioth in Ramah. And he went there to Nioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him also. And as he went, he prophesied until he came to Nioth in Ramah. And he too stripped off his clothes. And he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, is Saul also among the prophets? Thanks be to God for his word. Our passage begins, 1 Samuel 18. with Jonathan's love for David. Jonathan's love for David. Jonathan sees David, and as soon as he's finished speaking to Saul, his father, Jonathan recognizing that David is someone that he should be in submission to, Jonathan makes a covenant with David. This is remarkable. It's remarkable, because who is Jonathan? Jonathan is the son of the king. Jonathan is the second most powerful man in all of Israel. And yet Jonathan recognizes when he sees David, he recognizes, oh this, this is the Lord's anointed. This man will be my king. And so what does Jonathan do? Well, he strips himself of his societal trappings, he strips himself of his royal dignity, and he puts himself under David. He doesn't just say in his heart, oh, this man's gonna be king someday. No, no, he goes to David. And by giving him his royal robes, giving him his sword and his bow and his belt, he says to David, you are going to be Israel's king. I am not. Because David, we see, David is a man of such loveliness that Jonathan, as a man who knows the goodness and indeed the loveliness of God, he cannot but love and submit to him. You'll remember that when Saul wanted men to follow him, to submit to him, he needed to threaten them. He needed to grab them and attach them to himself. When Saul wanted men to follow him, he would take them from their families, as Samuel had promised, and press them into his armed forces. But David is so unlike Saul here. He leads men instead of chasing them or pulling them along. And of course, Jonathan, he's not the only person in Israel who begins to take note of David. All Israel is soon riding high on what we might call David mania. And Saul sees this. He recognizes, first of all, that David's a competent soldier. This man can fight and a competent commander. He can lead. And so he gives him an officer's commission, and David wins battles all over the place for the sake of Saul, his king. He fights Saul's battles, he fights Israel's battles, and he is victorious. And the people of Israel, they love it. They love it. And the servants of Saul, they are impressed. Wow, this David kid can fight. Perhaps they're a bit too enthusiastic, though. Because as David's star rises, his popularity begins to get under Saul's skin. And when they return from a military campaign one spring, they return to a chorus of the women of Israel shouting, Saul has killed his thousands, but David has killed tens of thousands. And Saul, he's not too keen on this. He's angry. He's displeased. I've only killed thousands? As though that were a small thing. Their words might simply have been poetic, but he's reading all he can into those words, forgetting, perhaps, that it's Saul's battles, as Jonathan points out several times, it's Saul's battles that David has been fighting. And he perceives that David, if he gains any more public support, he might be able to topple Saul and take the kingship. But David's become an indispensable part of his court. He's no longer a part-time courtier and a part-time farmer. He's a member of Saul's court permanently. So every day, Saul has David right there in front of him, getting more and more popular, being more and more successful. And so one day, he just snaps. David is playing his liar. He's distracted. He's over there by the wall. Saul's spear is right there. In a fit of jealous rage, Saul takes his spear and he throws it right at David, aiming to run him right through and pin him to the wall. But David escapes. with his skin intact, and he returns. Strangely enough, he returns to Saul's service. This does seem strange to us, but you will have to remember, Saul had a harmful spirit that plagued him from time to time, manifesting in sort of fits of insanity. He would simply lose control of himself in a blind, white-hot rage. This had happened more often. It was the reason that David had been in Saul's court in the first place, and the reason David is The reason he was retained in the first place was to be a musician, to calm Saul down, a form of musical therapy. And so David returns again. And again, Saul launches his spear at him, throws it a second time, and David escapes again. And this whole time, Saul's hatred and Saul's jealousy is just growing and growing and festering and festering. He can't stand the sight of David. He's afraid of him. He's terrified of him, so Saul sends him off, get out of here, away from his court. If he's leading armies, instead of being in Saul's court all the time, he'll be away from the seat of power, right? Well, Saul's plans don't exactly work out. David begins to take on Saul's responsibilities. The text tells us he went out and he came in before the people. That's leadership language borrowed from the world of shepherding. David began to serve as Israel's shepherd during this time, leading Israel's armies like a shepherd leads his flocks of sheep. And Israel loved David. They loved David. But Saul feared him. Now, you've seen this pattern before, of course. Any reader of the Gospels has seen this pattern before. It's a pattern that also holds true of the life of Christ. He was Israel's true king, an even truer king than David. promised a better throne that was his by birthright, but his path to the throne, like David's, was a path of suffering. Yes, like David, Christ's loveliness drew friends, disciples, followers. Psalm 45 says of Christ, He is the loveliest or the most handsome of the sons of men. The crowds thronged around him during his earthly ministry. They sang his praises, they marveled at the wonderful words that came out of his mouth, the wonderful things that he did. They sang his praises, first in hushed tones, have you seen what he's done? And then in open amazement, wow, you are, and then finally, as he was entering into Jerusalem in songs, pulled straight out of the songbook, straight out of the Psalter, because they knew that here at last was great David's greater son. But while the people loved him, Israel's leaders, like Saul, they saw this affection. And they hated Christ because of his loveliness. They hated Christ for the love with which the people loved him. And incidentally, this is a connection that the apostles drew as well in the book of Acts. Whenever somebody preaches to a Jewish audience, they'll point out how Jesus was treated the exact same way, with the exact same disdain as Moses and Joseph and David and the prophets. The people knew enough to love him. Those who love the Lord knew enough to love him, but those who wanted to keep their positions of authority unchallenged, who wanted the praise that came from men, they hated him. And we see these two tacks, even right in the house of Saul. Jonathan sees David and he recognizes, oh, this is the king. This is the king. I will give up everything for this man. So he gives up his symbols of princely power, the symbols of God's favor, and he gives them to David, Jonathan's true king. But Saul, it seems, does the opposite. He just pulls his robes tighter. Sure, he tries giving his spear to David a couple times, but definitely not with the same motives. He's in awe of David, like Jonathan was, but it's a fearful and even a hateful awe. And so just as the Pharisees responded to Jesus' popularity by scheming how they could kill him, So Saul schemes in his heart and later in his court how he might get David killed. And Saul's first scheme is a rather sly one, rather serpentine one, in fact. If you want someone killed or just out of the way, what better place to put them than the front lines? This is a tactic, by the way, that will come up again in 2 Samuel. Saul comes to David and he says to him, fight the Lord's battles and I'll give you my daughter Mirab in marriage, perhaps forgetting that he already owes David a daughter for killing Goliath. But you'll note, he doesn't say fight my battles or even fight Israel's battles, he says fight the Lord's battles. He knows that David loves the Lord and so he tries to use David's devotion to God as a way of sort of manipulating him. you're familiar with this, you've seen politicians do it your whole life. Even the most pagan politicians, the most unfaithful and most absurd, will use Christian language and will even take the pulpit sometimes on the Lord's Day in churches as a sort of campaign stop. This language does not fit Saul, but it passes without comment and David rather humbly turns down the offer, I couldn't possibly, and Mirab is given to another man to marry. But Michal's a different story. Michal is a different story. She loves David like Jonathan does, like Israel does, like the Lord does. And Saul sees that love as a trap that he can bait. David is saying, I'm a man of no reputation, and so Saul's servants at Saul's bidding, they tell David, this is how you can gain a reputation. This is how you can get into Saul's good books. All you have to do is collect 100 Philistine foreskins, kind of like collecting scalps on the frontier in the days of the Old West. So what does David do? Well, he springs the trap, and boy, does he spring that trap. He collects not 100, but 200 Philistine foreskins. And Saul, perhaps rather shocked at this point at David's success time and time again, he begrudgingly hands over his daughter. What else can he do? And David's success, of course, is rather shocking. He's like an unbeatable general. Saul keeps putting him into difficult and even impossible and deadly situations, thinking, okay, this is the one that'll get him. I've got him for sure this time. This is how I can get him killed without getting any blood on my own hands. But David keeps making it through. And once again, if we remember that David is but a picture and a pattern of his greater son to come, We'll see in David's life the pattern that is set for Christ's life. When the Pharisees and the Herodians and the Sadducees try again and again to trap the Lord in his words, he breaks through their fallacious arguments again and again and again. When people try to kill him or lynch him before his time, when the Pharisees pick up stones to stone him, when the people of Nazareth try to throw him off a cliff, he walks through their midst unscathed. Men and mobs can do him no harm because as was true of David, the Lord was with him. But though David sets the pattern, or perhaps follows the pattern, there is a difference. When David went to win a wife, how did he win her? He won her by spilling the blood of other men, 200 of them. 200 unclean men were cut off so that David might have his bride. But when Christ came to win a bride, How did the loveliest of the sons of men win his bride? Well, he won her by spilling his own blood. Not by fighting his enemies and demolishing them and freeing his bride from her tower, but by spilling his own blood. And he, made unclean as he was hoisted up on the cross, made unclean as he bore in himself the sins of the whole world, he was cut off so that he might win his bride. And again, this is not speculation or meaningless pattern drawing. The very sacrament of circumcision in the Old Testament, you'll remember, is a sacrament of the blood of Christ. It pointed forward to how Christ would be cut off for the sake of His people so that they might never be cut off. And again and again, as often as the Philistines come to fight against Israel, David goes at the head of Israel's armies, and he just demolishes them. Saul had used the term, the Lord's battles, lightly, thinking of them as more personal grudges. But David understands that he's been anointed by God's prophet for this very reason. He's God's anointed. His chosen Messiah for the sake of bringing God's people into God's kingdom, where they might live in glad and peaceful submission to God's Word. But as Saul, once again, sees David's star rising, as he sees the success that David has in leading what he perceives to be his nation, his jealousy just grows and grows and grows. He had schemed before to have the soldiers of other nations kill David, but now he's getting desperate. So he goes to his commanders, to his servants, and perhaps not knowing what had happened at the beginning of chapter 18, he even goes to Jonathan, his son, saying, hey, if you guys get the chance, off David for me. But Jonathan loves David. He knows that David is Israel's king. To kill David would not be just another murder, it'd be rebellion against the plans that God has for Israel, so Jonathan knows that he's gotta do something. And so Jonathan steps in. He intercedes between David and Saul. And so right after moving David to a safe place out of the reach of Saul, he goes to his father. Father, don't sin against David. You know it'd be sin. He has not sinned against you. Why would you sin against him? He's been risking his life fighting your battles. The Lord has been using him. Remember how you rejoiced when he killed Goliath. Remember, come on, Father. Will you sin against innocent blood by killing David? And it seems for a moment, at least, that Saul listens to David. As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death. And Jonathan tells David, and David comes back to Saul's court, and it seems like all is well, except no, it's not. David goes out again and he fights Israel's enemies, he strikes them with a great blow, but instead of rejoicing in the Lord's salvation, Saul rejects the Lord's Savior. After the campaign, David's there again in the corner playing his lyre in Saul's court, and Saul's anger is stoked and it's roaring, and he grabs his spear and he throws it at David again. Tries to run David through with it. And it's no half-hearted throw either. Saul misses David, but that spear is stuck in the wall. And so David runs. He doesn't run far, he runs home, the place Saul knows he's going, and Saul sends his assassins after David to kill him as soon as he wakes up in the morning. Saul's getting bolder and bolder and bolder, more and more desperate, more and more open in his attempts on David's life. The spear-throwing might have been chalked up to a sudden fit of insanity that happened three times, a fit of rage that comes and goes, but this is the planning of a very sane, very sly madman. and it's gonna get worse as the verses and chapters go on. So the assassins, they wait outside of David's house at the front door, but Michal, David's wife, she knows. Jonathan's a bit naive still. He doesn't think that his dad's gonna kill David, really, but Michal knows something, it seems, of Saul's scheming, of his murderous designs for David, and so she warns him, if you don't get out of here tonight, you'll be dead tomorrow. And so she lets him down out of the window. and he escapes into the night. And then she takes a statue and puts it in David's bed and puts a pillow of goat's hair as a sort of David dummy to buy him some time. And in the morning, David doesn't come out of his front door, Saul's assassins go inside and Michal tells them, David's under the weather, he's not feeling well, so he's under the blankets. And then this story gets to Saul and he says, well, I don't care, bring him here, bed and all. And so they go to the bedroom, they strip the blankets off the bed and it's just a statue, David's long gone. And Saul, by now surely in a red-hot rage, asks his daughter, why have you betrayed me? And Michal, now let's cut her some slack. Let's understand that she is likely to lose her, she knows her father's madness. She's likely to lose her life if she sides with David over her father. Michal lies. Let's not excuse her, but she lies, and she says that she did what she did under duress. But David, again, David's on the run. Jonathan had stepped between Saul and him the first time, interceding for him, speaking to his father on David's behalf. Michal had saved him the second time, running interference until he was well out of Gibeah. But who's going to save him now? Who's going to save him now? David goes to Samuel. And he tells Samuel everything that Saul has done. And he takes refuge there with the aged Samuel in the region of Ramah. But again, Saul finds out where David is and he sends his assassins once more. But now the most remarkable thing happens. David had dodged Saul's spear, had left it lodged in the wall. His friend Jonathan had argued on his behalf. His wife Michal had hidden him from Saul's assassins. But now he's left his allies behind. What man or woman will save him now? Samuel? He's ancient. Well, no, not Samuel. Let's see what happens. The first assassins, they come to Nioth and Ramah, and they see Samuel up on the high place, perhaps, and the Spirit of God overwhelms them and knocks them flat, and they begin prophesying. Well, Saul thinks that's no good. So he sends another gang of assassins, but then they, when they come, they're struck in the same way and they're prophesying too. Uh-oh, so he sends some more, but then they're struck with the same spirit. They prophesy too. So finally he thinks, well, this is just getting ridiculous. So he goes himself. But as he's reaching Nioth, as he's getting closer to David, the spirit of God seizes him as well. And you remember, don't you, that this is not the first time that Saul's been to Ramah. And it's not the first time that Saul has been filled by the power of the Spirit to prophesy. When Saul's reign began, you remember, it began in Ramah, where he was first clothed and equipped and anointed and given the power and the authority of king by the pouring out of the Spirit of God. But he comes to Ramah this time not to be crowned, not to be filled, not to be exalted as before, but very strangely to be stripped. And he too stripped off his clothes. And he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. And so it is with all those who persistently oppose God. It is a mad thing, an insane idea to think that you can stand against the Lord of hosts and remain standing. The spirit who once clothed Saul with power and authority is the same spirit who now takes it away. And here at the end of the story, the end of chapter 19, Saul is where Jonathan was at the beginning of the story, the beginning of chapter 18. Because you remember, don't you, what happened at the beginning of the story? Jonathan saw David, and he stripped himself of his royal robes. He stripped himself of his royal sword, his royal belt, his royal everything, and gave them all to David. He did it voluntarily. Because he knew that David was going to be king, not him. But when Saul realizes that David's going to be king, what does he do? Well, pretty much the opposite. He holds on tightly to that which he should have surrendered. But you see here, he was stripped of it all the same. And once again, of course, it comes back to Jesus. What is true of David is certainly true of David's greater son, the Lord Jesus. Because like all fell before David, all will fall before David's greater Son. The Bible tells us that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Plain facts, you can't argue with it. Well, you can, but you will bow all the same. This is what Scripture tells us. Before Jesus, you will bow. You will be stripped of all your pretensions against God's anointed King Jesus. Every knee will bow. So what is the only sensible thing to do? The only sensible thing to do is to do what Jonathan did, to bow to him now, to throw yourself at his feet. Tell him, you are king. You are king and I am not. My life is yours. Do with me what you wish. Call him king, not just of the universe, not just of other people's lives, but king of your own life, king of your own heart. Love this king because he's lovely. See his loveliness, the sweetness of his person, the attractiveness of his character. Realize, as Saul realized of David, that the Lord is with him. Realize, in fact, that he himself is the Lord. But don't use his might and his awesome power as an excuse to stay away from him. No, rather be drawn to him. And if you're already bowing down to him as a trust, the vast majority of you are. If your life is already being given to him, if you've already professed your faith, if you've already claimed the name of Christian, then cling to him. Cling to him. You've laid down everything for his sake, do not pick anything back up. Despite all rival affections, despite every desire to get your own way, despite every other worldly glory that whispers in your ear, cling to him. And if anything wants to get between you and him, get rid of it and say to yourself, this thing wants to come between me and my Jesus, I cannot have it. And if you still think you're the boss of yourself, despite your profession of faith, despite your claims to the contrary, despite the fact that you sing with everyone else, I belong to the Lord, I am not my own. If you still think that you are your own boss, that the things of which your life consists, your house, your job, your money, your spouse and kids, your family, if you still think that all those things exist for your sake, for your glory, to serve you, to give you a good reputation in the community, If your time is yours, if your money is yours, if your house is yours, if your car is yours, you are missing the point. You are missing the point. You have got the Christian life backwards. If you confess that your body and your soul belong to the Lord Jesus, wouldn't these lesser things belong to Him as well? And if you are withholding these lesser things from Him, You need to ask yourself, what does this say about my heart? What does this say about my soul? About my true desire to serve Him? So I'll ask you just in closing now, have you done to Christ what Jonathan did to David? Have you seen Jesus and have you known, oh, this is my King? I cannot but submit everything in my life to Him. I must obey Him. Have you? Have you given up all your glory, all of your resources, all of your wealth to Him and for Him? Because the Bible tells us that one day you will. One day your knees will bow, whether they want to or not. One day you will. So come to Him now. Amen.