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Cave Man 1 Samuel 21-23
Losing
Security
1 Sam. 20
Losing
Integrity
1 Sam. 21:1-9
Losing
Dignity
1 Sam. 21:10-15
David left there and escaped to the
Cave of Adullam…
1 Samuel 22:1a
En Gedi
With my voice I cry to the Lord; with my voice I
make supplication to the Lord.
I pour out my complaint before him; I tell
my trouble before him.
When my spirit is faint, you know my way. In the
path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
Look on my right hand and see—there is no
one who takes notice of me; no refuge
remains to me; no one cares for me.
Psalm 142:1-4
I cry to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living.” Give heed to my cry, for I am brought very
low. Save me from my persecutors, for they
are too strong for me.
Bring me out of prison, so that I may give thanks
to your name. The righteous will surround me,
for you will deal bountifully with me.
Psalm 142:5-7
• Recovering dignity in community
David left there and escaped to the cave of
Adullam; when his brothers and all his father’s
house heard of it, they went down there to him.
Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who
was in debt, and everyone who was discontented
gathered to him; and he became captain over
them. Those who were with him numbered
about 400.
1 Sam. 22:1-2
• Recovering dignity in community
• Recovering integrity with honesty
Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests
of the Lord. David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that
day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he
would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the
lives of all your father’s house. Stay with me, and
do not be afraid; for the one who seeks my life
seeks your life; you will be safe with me.”
1 Sam. 22:21-23
• Recovering dignity in community
• Recovering integrity with honesty
• Recovering security by faith
I cry to you, O Lord,
I say, “You are my refuge!”
Psalm 142:5
David inquired of the Lord…
1 Sam. 23:2, 4, 10
Affair to Remember 2 Samuel 11
In the spring of the year, the time when
kings go out to battle, David sent Joab
with his officers and all Israel with him;
they ravaged the Ammonites, and
besieged Rabbah. But David remained at
Jerusalem.It happened, late one
afternoon, when David rose from his
couch and was walking about on the
roof of the king’s house, that he saw
from the roof a woman bathing; she was
very beautiful. David sent someone to
inquire about her. It was reported, “This
is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife
of Uriah the Hittite.” So David sent
messengers to get her, and she came to
him, and he lay with her. (Now she was
purifying herself after her period.) Then
she returned to her house.
2 Samuel 11:1-4
The Ammonite Campaign
2 Samuel 10
The woman conceived, and she sent and
told David, “I am pregnant.”
2 Samuel 11:5
Plan A: Deception (11:6-13)
Plan B: Destruction (11:14-25)
Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.
NRSV
Proverbs 16:18
First pride, then the crash—
The bigger the ego, the harder the fall.
The Message
When the wife of Uriah heard that her
husband was dead, she made
lamentation for him. When the mourning
was over, David sent and brought her to
his house, and she became his wife, and
bore him a son.
2 Samuel 11:26-27
But the thing that David had done
displeased the Lord…
“It is a story repeated with variations over and
over through the centuries. Sin stories, after a
while, tend to sound pretty much alike—
virtually all sins ring changes on the theme of
wanting to be gods ourselves, taking charge
of our own lives, asserting control over the
lives of others. Since there are only a finite
number of ways to do this, not one of us
reading this story has any difficulty finding
himself or herself in it...”
“…Nor does finding ourselves in this story,
whether in fact or imagination, surprise us.
We are sinners. The precise details of our sin
may not correspond to David’s, but the
presence and recurrence of sin does.”
Eugene Peterson First and Second Samuel
GOOD News: With God, there really are
no cover-ups.
If we confess our sins, he who is faithful
and just will forgive us our sins
and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
