It Starts with the Heart (The Heart of a Giant Killer, 1)
1 Samuel 16:1-13
It’s impossible to live a great life without a godly heart.
Intellectual capacity: it perceives, understands, thinks.
Emotional capacity: joy, sorrow, bitterness, and fear.
Volitional capacity: the heart decides, chooses.
Moral capacity: can be gentle, holy, faithful, pure, clean.
2 Chronicles 16:9a
The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
Acts 13:22
After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’
1. A Surrendered Heart
1 Samuel 16:1
The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”
1 Samuel 13:13–14
And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 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.”
1 Samuel 15:23b
“… Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”
1 Samuel 15:26
And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
Acts 13:22
After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’
James 2:26b
Faith without works is dead.
2. A Servant’s Heart
1 Samuel 16:3, 5b-7
Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.” But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:8–10
Then Jesse told his son Abinadab to step forward and walk in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, “This is not the one the LORD has chosen.” Next Jesse summoned Shimea, but Samuel said, “Neither is this the one the LORD has chosen.” In the same way all seven of Jesse’s sons were presented to Samuel. But Samuel said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen any of these.” Then Samuel asked, “Are these all the sons you have?”
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
1 Samuel 16:11
“There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied. “But he’s out in the fields watching the sheep and goats.” “Send for him at once,” Samuel said. “We will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”
1 Samuel 16:12a
And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome.
If you are too big to serve, you are too small to make a difference.
Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
3. A Spirit Empowered Heart
1 Samuel 16:12b–13
And the LORD said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.” Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
When God is going to do something great through you, it will always require the Holy Spirit’s anointing on you.
1 Samuel 16:14
Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
Psalm 51:11
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 42:1
As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.
