A Man after God's Own Heart Pt. 2 | Sunday Morning Service | October 4, 2026

This morning I'm gonna be preaching a follow-up to the sermon that I did on Wednesday night on a man after God's own heart

So this is part two of a man after God's own heart

And we were looking at what made David a man after God's own heart because not only is David given that title in scripture

Which is a pretty amazing and powerful title to be given

But also we see that out of all of the characters in the Bible. He has mentioned more than anyone else

He's mentioned over eleven hundred times by name

Which is more than any other person in the Bible. Moses is close with I think like

848 mentions or somewhere in that neighborhood and then it drops off down to the four hundreds two hundreds

I mean really David has a huge

Important spotlight in scripture. He's the man after God's own heart and you know

I said on Wednesday night somebody told me that they didn't like David in the Bible

They didn't like that care

I'm just like do you even like the Bible because he's mentioned so much

So we went through chapter 16 last time

I'm not going to repreach that sermon about all those attributes

But I want to look at the attributes that we see about David in chapter 17

So that we can see why he's a man after God's own heart so that we can be the same way so that we can learn

From these attributes look down to verse number 25

It says the men of Israel said have you seen this man that has come up

Surely to defy Israel is he come up and it shall be that the man who killeth him the king will enrich him with great

Riches and will give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel

So of course, you know the Philistines and the Israelites they're faced off in battle

They're sort of at a stalemate. They're kind of just there for 40 days and nobody's really winning

And so this champion Goliath comes out from the Philistine side and says, you know

Send me one man to fight me in single combat

And if I win then the Philistines win and you guys serve us and if he wins then the Israelites win

The Philistines will serve you guys. So instead of the two armies fighting

Let's just have one man fight one man to settle this

Well, nobody has the guts to face off with Goliath even King Saul himself who's had in shoulders above all the people

Doesn't believe apparently that he's any match for Goliath

Everyone's afraid everyone's hiding and so they're trying to kind of sweeten the deal for whoever will do this by saying look

If you go against Goliath, you're gonna be enriched with great riches. So you're gonna get financial reward

You're gonna get the king's daughter as your wife

So, I mean, this is pretty important because now you're the king's son-in-law

I mean you've married into the royal family now and then your father's house will be free in Israel

Which is probably referring to the fact that he's gonna be tax-free, you know, he doesn't have to pay taxes

He doesn't have to do any kind of levy of manpower or anything. His father's house is is free in Israel

Look what David responds to this in verse 26 says and David

Spake to the men that stood by him saying what shall be done to the man that killed this Philistine and

Take it the way the reproach from Israel for who is this uncircumcised

Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God. So he's interested in the rewards

He's saying like hey, tell me again what I'm gonna get in the showcase here

What am I gonna win here if I defeat Goliath?

But ultimately saying, you know, I don't like the fact that this uncircumcised

Philistine is defying the armies of the living God

so he's clearly

Contemplating getting in there doing this fight and winning the rewards for himself now

Of course, here's the funny thing we just read in the chapter that David is obviously the younger brother

His older brothers have been sent to go fight in this battle

He seems to have been considered maybe a little bit too young, you know

So he's staying back with the sheep the oldest three brothers are at an age where it's appropriate for them to go

To battle with Saul whereas David is still considered a little bit too young

So it's like what in the world out of all of these seasoned veterans and military men, you know

David the youngest the least likely who's really not even part of the army

He literally just shows up to bring food and treats to his brothers and to the captain and to just kind of check in

All of a sudden he's just like hey, let's go put me in coach. He's not even on the team

So point number one about why David was a man after God's own heart

Is that he wanted to achieve great things for God and to get the rewards that go along with that

He wanted to do something great for God and get the rewards

It made me think of the Apostle Paul saying I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in

Christ Jesus go if you would to Hebrews chapter number 11 Hebrews chapter number 11

We're gonna come back to first Samuel 17 throughout the sermon

But we're gonna look at a lot of stuff in the New Testament as well Hebrews chapter 11

Hebrews 11 · chapter mention

He wanted to do something big for God and he wanted the rewards that went along

He's present toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus

Of course Jesus Christ said at the very end of the Bible behold

I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man

According as his work shall be look at Hebrews 11 24 by faith Moses when he was come to years

Refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter

Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season a

Steaming the reproach of Christ

Greater riches than the treasures in Egypt for he had respect under the recompense of the reward

See he's thinking about the reward not on this earth, but the reward in heaven not

Temporarily being a big shot in Egypt being the son of Pharaoh's daughter

Getting all the accolades of this world and succeeding in the eyes of this world

No, he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. He said you know what?

Getting reproached for the name of Christ being criticized maligned for the name of Christ in this life is worth it

Because rejoice and be exceeding glad greater your rewards in heaven and he had respect to the recompense of the reward

He's not trying to just live for the here and now and enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season

No, he wants to do something big for God. He wants to suffer for Christ so that he could get the rewards

He esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt

But not only does God promise to reward us when he returns

Not only are we laying up for ourselves?

Treasures in heaven and not on the earth

But God also does actually reward us in this lifetime right here and now the Bible's clear on that

Go if you would to mark chapter number 10 mark the gospel of mark chapter 10 while you're turning there

Mark 10 · chapter mention

I'm going to read for you from Proverbs 11 30 it says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and

He that when its souls is wise

Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth

How much more the wicked in the center?

I mean even in this lifetime if you do right God is going to reward you God's going to bless you even with temporal blessings and

Even in this lifetime right now wicked people are going to have bad things happen to them and it's not going to go well for them

They're not going to be blessed even in this life according to Proverbs 11 31

Now while you're turning to mark 10, there's a parallel passage in Matthew 19 verse 27

Matthew 19:27

Then answered Peter and said to him behold we have forsaken all and followed the what shall we have there for so?

Peter says look we forsook everything. We're following you. What do we get for doing that?

Look at mark 10 verse 28 Peter began to say unto him low we have left all and a followed thee right?

Mark 10:28

Look what Jesus answers him verse 29 and Jesus answered and said barely

I say to you there is no man that it's left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or

children or lands for my sake in the Gospels

but he shall receive a

Hundred fold now in this time right so we're not even talking about when you get to heaven the next life

We're talking about in this time. He will receive a hundred fold

Houses brethren sisters mothers children and lands notice

He doesn't say wives because you're only allowed to have one wife

So he he can't be like hey, I'll give you a hundred fold of wives now this it's not the way it works

He says and lands for my sake in the Gospels

He says sorry at the end of verse 30. He says children and lands with

Persecutions and in the world to come eternal life. So you say like look you got eternal life coming up

You're going to heaven for all eternity. That's great

But even now in this life, I'm going to reward you a hundred fold

Whatever you give up for the cause of Christ, you're going to get a hundred fold now

This is different than the so-called prosperity gospel or the health and wealth gospel

Because they will tend to tell you that you're just going to succeed and do great and everything's going to go well for you

As long as you have faith and name it claim it

They're missing this part that says with persecutions

God's not saying everything's going to go your way. He's not saying you're not going to have serious problems

health problems relationship problems persecution maybe even prison maybe even beatings and different things that God says

Will happen to those who believe and many of these same apostles went through those things

It's not like people like Peter James and John didn't get imprisoned or martyred or whatever

So he's saying with persecutions

But what does he mean when he says I'm going to give you a hundred fold houses brother and sisters

He's saying look. Yeah, maybe physical family members will burn you and disown you

But you've got brothers and sisters in Christ, you know for every brother that burns you and forsakes you or

You know betrays you or whatever you got a hundred other brethren, you know for whatever

Guest house that you wanted to have up in the mountains and in Hawaii and on the beach or whatever houses you give up

You're gonna have as a zealous Christian a hundred different houses because you pretty much are gonna have your friends everywhere

You go your soul winning buddies your brothers and sisters in Christ

I mean think about it if you're a zealous soul winning servant of God

You pretty much go all over the country and all over the world and you got all kinds of places to stay you got houses to

Go hang out at and have dinner and spend the night because you've got a network of people that are serving God with you

And so God's got something better for you. Yeah, but I don't really own those houses. Well, who cares?

You know, it's so funny. I've noticed that little kids are obsessed with like they have to own everything

You know, it's so it'll be like hey, you can use this whenever you want. Yeah, but is it but is it mine?

Do I own it? I'm like, well, it doesn't really matter because you can use it whenever you want, you know

And and it's like, you know my son this morning

I'm swinging my son all over on the swing this morning and he's saying like hey dad

Can you get me my own swing and it's it's only just him on the swing and I'm sorry

Can I get my own swing? I'm like, well, no because I said, you know

We're not just all gonna have our own swing because then that would just be like nine swings or something

It's just too many swings. It doesn't make any sense, you know

But but but you can swing in the swing whenever you want son

But but kids are lights like no, it's got to be all mine or whatever

But but at the end of the day, that's kind of an immature attitude because at the end of the day, you know

We're gonna all lose everything eventually anyway

Everything that we see is temporal everything's temporary, you know, yeah, you own your house

But you know what some day it's gonna turn to dust

Some day it's gonna be burned up, you know at the end of the day

All that matters is that you got a nice place to stay right now

Whether you own it or rent it or whether you're just staying with somebody

Hey, if you've got a nice bed and a pillow to put your head on and climate control and good food in the fridge

Having food and rain let us be with her with content. We don't have to necessarily be the owners of all these things

Houses brother and sisters father

Mother, you know, God's gonna provide you with just amazing fellowship

That's better than whatever physical family member has, you know burned you because of the cause of Christ

If you're suffering for Christ's sake in the gospel, he's saying I'll reward you right now

And so and so David is looking at this as you know, I want to do something great for God and I want to get the rewards

You know, we want the heavenly rewards

We want the rewards on this earth and a lot of people would say like oh you're doing it for the wrong reasons

If you're doing it for the rewards really

Because the Bible seems to constantly be motivating us with rewards

Hey, my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven

Why would it be wrong to be motivated by wanting to do something great for God and earn some rewards?

It's not so that's number one about David

Let's look at point two about David back in first Samuel 1726 and

David's fake to the men that stood by him saying what shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine and

Take it the way the reproach from Israel for who is this?

Uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God

Number two is that David is personally offended by an attack on God and by an attack on the people of God

Right the reproach on Israel. He feels that personally like hey

How dare this guy speak against the people of God?

How dare this guy defy the living God and defy the armies of the living God?

Now if you want to go to John chapter 2 in the New Testament

John 2 · chapter mention

John chapter 2 in the New Testament, so we said number one he wanted to do something great for God

John 2 · chapter mention

You want to get those rewards?

Number two, he's personally offended by the attack on God and on God's people

In Psalm 69 verse 9 it says this for the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up and

Psalms 69:9

The reproaches of them that reproach thee are falling upon me. He's saying you know when people

Say something against God. He's basically said I took that personally

You know when people criticize the house of God. I took that personally, right?

He cared about the reproach of God's people

He's personally offended by the attack on God and his people look at John chapter 2 verse 13

John 2:13

And the Jews Passover was at hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem and found in the temple those that sold

Oxen and sheep and doves and the changes of money sitting and when he had made a scourge of small cords

He drove them all out of the temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers money and

Overthrew the tables and said to them that sold doves take these things hence make not my father's house and house of

merchandise he's saying look you guys have

Perverted and corrupted the house of God because you're selling things in the house of God now

There's nothing wrong with selling things. There's nothing wrong with selling sheep and doves. There's nothing wrong with changing money

But the problem is when you turn God's house into a house of merchandise, which is why nothing has ever bought or sold here at our church

It's why when we have activities

They're always free and whenever we have any things that we're giving out as far as like t-shirts and hats and

Books and CDs and DVDs those are obsolete now

But back when we did hand out a lot of DVDs and flash drives and different things, you know, it's always been free

We're not like oh you got to pay for the sermon CD. Oh

You got to buy a Bible. No, we're giving you the Bible for free. We've got the New Testament for free

I mean, I'm telling you in the old IFB you have to buy everything. I

Mean I went to an independent fundamental Baptist church and you had to buy the tracks that you use out soul winning

You'd buy a little pack of a few tracks for a buck so to go soul winning for a few hours

You're gonna spend three four bucks on the tracks. I

Mean who goes the warfare at his own charge

So what the Bible says like why would I have to pay?

For the invitations to hand out soul winning, but it's just anytime there's any food if there were doughnuts in the old

IFB it's like you got to buy those doughnuts and it's a fundraiser to send the kids to camp or blah

It's always selling you something the books are for sale

The Bibles are for sale the CDs are for sale and again

I'm not saying it's wrong to sell those things

Somewhere else and that's why Jesus's answer is take these things hence the word hence means from here

He's not saying what you're doing is bad per se. He's saying take it somewhere else

And by the way, you shouldn't come to church and go around promoting your business and peddling your wares and

Going around I mean some people just join a church just for the Tupper Party

To get the Tupperware Party and the and the pampered chef and the vitamins and stuff look

I'm glad you're doing all that stuff somewhere else

But the house of God is not a house of merchandise now Jesus is clearly mad about this

Now Jesus is not a hothead who just loses temper at the drop of hat

He's slow to anger because the Bible tells us that that's why we know that he didn't just blow up

Because he sat down and he literally

manufactured a whip

You know now I've never manufactured my own whip

But you know, I'm assuming this is gonna take some time to sit there and get the cords and make it into a scourge

And he's sitting there and making it, you know, and this is this is premeditation

This is not a crime of passion

Of course, it wasn't a crime at all because he's Jesus and what he's doing is right

But he's sitting there and premeditating this and he made a scourge of small cords

And then he goes into the house and I mean, he's clearly upset. He's flipping over the tables

He's dumping out their money. He's cracking the whip literally driving people out with a whip

swinging a whip at people and

Look at the disciples reaction to this. This is the Bible verse that pops into their mind from Psalm 69 verse 9

Psalms 69:9

It says in John 2 17 his disciples remembered that it was written the zeal of thine house had eaten me up

They're like wow, this reminds me of that Bible verse that says the zeal of thine house had eaten me up

Meaning that Jesus was just so eaten up

It made him so mad

Because he was zealous for the house of God and you know what if you are zealous as a Christian for the house of God

Then you're gonna be offended when the house of God is being corrupted

When it's being perverted when it's being corrupted and when it's being slandered and maligned

And reproached right that's what he's because he said the zeal of thine house has eaten me up and the reproaches of them

That reproached he fell on me. It's like hey

That offends me

You know you talk about the church that way you talk about God that way you talk about the Bible that way

It's like, you know, I'm personally offended by that

Do not I hate them? Oh Lord that hate thee and I'm not I grieve with them that rise up against thee

you know the zeal of God's house should eat us up and

We should be personally offended by blasphemy against God and people trashing and slandering our church and the people of God

That should offend us

So we said number two about David. He was personally offended at the reproach of God's people

But number three go back to first Samuel 17

He saw the cause of Christ as bigger than himself

So number one he wants to do great things for God and he wants to get rewards

But at the end of the day, he sees that he's part of a bigger cause than himself

He's not in it for personal glory

But rather he's a part of something bigger than himself by serving Christ look at verse number 27

The people answered him after this man are saying

so shall it be done to the man that killeth him and

Eliabah's eldest brother heard when he spake unto the man and

Eliabah's anger was kindled against David and he said why came as thou down hither and with whom as thou left those few sheep in the wilderness

I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy heart for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle and

David said what have I now done? You know it was like what in the world is there not a cause and

So David is answering here and saying look

I'm not doing this for myself. I'm not in it for myself

Isn't there a cause is there not a cause like isn't there a reason?

For me to be fired up for me to be offended for me to be saying these things

But here's what you're gonna find is that when you seek to do great things for God and earn the rewards

When you take up the cause of Christ people will frequently accuse you of just seeking personal glory

Being arrogant and this is the stupidest word on the planet. I hope I never hear it again in my life

Does everybody know what word I'm about to say the most stupid annoying word in the English language that people just can't stop using all

Day every day in 2026 America

Narcissist

Narcissist like every single woman has every ex-boyfriend is a narcissist every ex-husband is a narcissist

Every pastor's a narcissist. It's the stupidest most meaningless word on the planet

And if I never hear it again, it'll be too soon

But that's what people will do they'll look at anybody who wants to do something big for God and try to accuse them of

seeking personal glory and

That's what Eliab is saying like oh, I know you're pride. I know how proud you are

You just came down here to see the battle. You're just here for the action

You're just here for attention. You're just here because you're proud and full of yourself and David points to the cause

You know, well, isn't there a cause isn't there a reason to be fine? It's not me. I'm not the reason

What have I now done?

Isn't there a cause here something greater than ourselves?

Now go to John chapter 7 and here's the other thing people don't like it when you outdo them

John 7 · chapter mention

Or threaten to outperform them and this is so stupid because here's the thing if you actually cared about the cause

You would want the people around you to outperform you

I mean, I hope every single person in the church just gets more people saved than I do

Read the Bible more than me just doesn't like why would I want people to do less than me?

That's stupid if you actually cared about the cause of Christ if you actually cared about people getting saved

Then you'd be thinking about the cause and you wouldn't see us as being in competition

With each other and you wouldn't see us as being in competition with other good Bible believing churches

We want them to get twice as many

Salvation's is us do twice as many missions trips preach twice as good as sermons as pastor Anderson. Amen

Is there not a cause?

We want the cause of Christ to go forward

So it's about the cause not about individual personal glory

But Jesus actually got accused of this even Jesus himself

Because look what they told Jesus in verse 3 his brother in there foresaid unto him

John chapter 7 verse 3

John 7:3

Depart hence and go into Judea that the disciples also may see the works that thou doest for there's no man that do

With anything in secret and he himself watch this seeks to be known

Openly if thou do these things show thyself to the world for neither did his brother and believe in him

So Jesus brother and didn't believe in him

So they're making fun of him and saying like oh you want to be a big shot

You want to be known openly go show yourself to the world the reason they're saying this them is because there's like a

warrant out for Jesus arrest where the Jews are looking for Jesus to kill him and

If he goes to Judea openly

They're gonna kill him and his brother are just like trying to provoke him and taught him to just go to Jerusalem

Anyway, and put his life in peril of being killed now

Obviously, eventually Jesus is gonna lay down his life, but his hour has not yet come

And so he is keeping a low profile at times because it's not the right timing

But his brethren are accusing him of seeking his own glory. Oh

You just want to be known openly jump down to verse 18

He that speaketh of himself

Seeketh his own glory

But he that seeketh his glory that sent him the same is true and no unrighteousness is in him

and then he explicitly says in the next chapter look at chapter 8 verse 50 and I

Seek not my own glory

Right, so he says look I am not seeking my own glory, but they're accusing him of seeking his own glory

Right if he were in 2026 to be a narcissist, you know, you just oh, he's just so prideful

Oh, he just wants a grand eyes man and personal glory, but that's not true

Well, guess what? Whatever they said about Jesus, they're gonna say about you if you follow Jesus

If they called the master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his household?

And so if they persecuted me, they'll persecute you. That's what the Bible says and so think about David

Picturing the Lord Jesus Christ David's brethren don't believe in him

They're making fun of him. They're accusing him of seeking his own glory. Then you fast forward to Jesus

He is made fun of by his brethren and accused of seeking his own glory

Flip back a couple pages to John chapter 3

John 3 · chapter mention

You see we as Christians we should never be in it for ourselves or seeking our own glory

There's no room for ego in the Christian life for us to be out there trying to impress people and get accolades on this earth

It's about the cause David

Saw the cause of Christ as

bigger than himself

Okay, and that's how we should be to look at John chapter 3 look at John the Baptist

John 3 · chapter mention

Here's what John the Baptist said in verse 28 you yourselves bear me witness that I said I'm not the Christ

But that I am sent before him

He that hath the bride is the bridegroom

But the friend of the bridegroom which standeth and here with him

Rejoice it greatly because of the bridegroom's voice this my joy therefore is fulfilled

He must increase but I must decrease John John the Baptist saying look this is not the John the Baptist show

This is the Jesus show and I am not the bridegroom. I am not the main event here

Jesus is the main event. I'm the friend of the bridegroom. I'm

Rejoicing at the bridegroom's happiness, and I'm not trying to make it about myself. It's about him

I must decrease he must increase and that should be our attitude in the Christian life of hey

It's about the cause of Christ. It's about people getting saved. It's about the gospel going forth to the whole earth

It's about the word of God being faithfully preached

So it shouldn't matter if it's me preaching it or someone else preaching it or whoever preaching it

We want the message and the truth to get out. I

Mean go if you would do Philippians chapter 1 and you know what's funny is that all these X and I of B losers

Philippians 1 · chapter mention

They they still preach like 90 some percent of my doctrine

I mean

I could click on any of these guys sermons and I feel like I'm listening to myself verbatim for like half the sermon

You know so at the end of the day

Whether we like these people or not obviously I don't appreciate people

slandering me attacking me

Trashing me and you know ruining my good name not that I've had one for a long time

But at the end of the day though these people are still

Even if they are in it for the wrong reasons even if they're arrogant prideful

Even if they have wrong motives and even if they've shown themselves to lack character

They are still actually

Preaching tons of biblical truth that they literally learned from moi and so at the end of the day

You know God could still use

That to get the message out at the end of the day these people literally they break from us because of their ego

But then at the end of the day, they're still preaching post-trib

pre-wrath

anti-scientists same gospel same salvation, you know some of them go into heresy, but

Some of them continue to preach a lot of true things

It doesn't mean I recommend their churches because I don't doesn't mean I support them because I don't but at the end of the day

Hey, if they get people saved great if they straighten people out on the rapture great and people who hate us

And will never be friends with us. We'll probably be friends with them

You know and so therefore maybe God's got a plan and all this and we just need to just hey, whatever

Look at Philippians 1 15 some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife and some also of goodwill

The one preach Christ of contention

Not sincerely look there are people out there that are in the ministry for the wrong reasons

Preaching for the wrong reasons and look supposing to add affliction to my bonds

Not only these people in the ministry for the wrong reasons. They desire harm to come to Paul

They want to hurt Paul they want to destroy Paul

But they're still preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ even as they do this rotten activity of trying to hurt and destroy and afflict Paul

They want to add affliction to my bonds, but then he's saying other people are preaching out of love

Knowing that I'm set for the defense of the gospel other people realize that I'm a true minister of Christ Paul saying and

They're preaching the gospel out of love what then not withstanding every way whether in pretense or in truth

Christ is preached and I there and do rejoice and will rejoice

You know the apostle Paul he influenced a ton of people. He got a bunch of people saved

He founded a bunch of churches. He had a massive influence on people

But then he turns around says all they which are in Asia have turned away from me

But I guarantee all those Asia churches are still preaching all that Pauline doctrine

You know they're still preaching all the same stuff

I mean you got you got Cassandra McMurtry a couple days ago holding up a marriage license and saying

This is the consent form

This is this is consenting to sex is here's this marriage license. It's like yeah, it is

That's what I've been saying

These people can't help but have subconsciously learned some real stuff from me. I

Mean that's funny. That's hilarious. All right. I don't want to get off on that but wow

Philippians chapter 2 verse 17 flip over one page

Philippians 2:17

Yeah, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith

I joy and rejoice with you all he's saying look if I end up being a victim if I end up getting

Sacrificed if I end up getting offered for the sacrifice and service of your faith well good for y'all

I joy and rejoice with you all unfortunately. Here's the thing most people aren't going to appreciate what you do for them

Here's the thing when Jesus healed ten lepers

Nine of them didn't say thank you one of them came back to say thank you and he was a Samaritan and

Jesus is like what this one foreigner comes back to say thank you and

Where are the nine? Where is everybody else? Look we go out and get a bunch of people saved

They're not necessarily going to join the church and yoke up with us and actually get in the trenches with us and go

Soul winning with us and preach the gospel with us, you know tons of people you're gonna do stuff for them

You're gonna bless them you're gonna get them saved you're gonna disciple them

You're gonna teach them and they're gonna turn around and have zero gratitude to you

And they're gonna throw you under the bus and they're not gonna care about you or ever do anything for you

And you know what at the end of the day though, it doesn't matter

Because at the end of the day you still did that stuff for Christ those people are still saved

They're still going to heaven you got them saved. They're going to heaven if they have a weird attitude toward you

Well, I guess that'll straighten out by the time they get to heaven. I

Mean, I remember you know my parents being upset when I was growing up because they would really get into a church and

Really just give and financially give and donate their time and energy and my dad's doing electrical work on buildings

And then the churches would apostatize the churches would lame out the churches would liberal out

And it's like oh man, or you'll give a bunch of money to a missionary and then find out that the money didn't even get to the missionary

He wasn't even receiving the money because it was being skimmed off the top and embezzled locally

You know it can it can disgruntle you or you give a bunch of money to a missionary and you find out

He's he's not even working and he's preaching another gospel and he's a bozo at the end of the day

You got to do the work that you do for the Lord

For Christ and you can't expect the people that you're ministering to to always appreciate you or thank you

Sometimes you're gonna you're gonna do something for somebody you're gonna help them out and they're not gonna remember it

They're not gonna care

They're gonna turn around and hurt you and attack you and not even care that you got them saved

But at the end of the day there's you still got them saved

You did it for Christ people are still going to heaven and even these backslidden loser Christians

They still probably get somebody saved like once in a blue moon

Right. I mean even loser backslidden Christians get somebody saved every once in a while or witness to somebody every once in a while

And I'm just thankful for every person who gets saved

Every person who goes to heaven is a blessing, you know, and so at the end of the day this is life unfortunately

We are sometimes gonna have to be personally sacrificed and the cause goes forward the cause of Christ

Salvation's continue to happen. Amen. Now that doesn't mean that we should be

Disloyal rotten people with bad motives

We should be the ones serving out of love and knowing that the Apostle Paul set for the defense of the gospel

But at the end of the day, you know, it's just unfortunately the world's not a perfect place

Go to 1st Corinthians chapter 4

1st Corinthians chapter 4 because remember, what are we talking about this morning? David's a man after God's own heart

What's so great about David anyway? Well number one. He wants to do something big for God and he wants the rewards

number 2 he's personally offended by the attack on God and God's people

Number 3 he sees the cause of Christ as bigger than himself. He's not just in it for himself

It's about the nation of Israel. It's about the cause. It's about Christ. It's about the church

Because if you're serving God and you're in it for yourself, you're gonna be real disappointed

You know because if in this life only we have hope in Christ, we're of all men most miserable, you know

And if you expect to get accolades for doing right, well, that's the people in the Bible. That's not how it worked

Moses is just dealing with a bunch of stiff neck rebels. Paul is dealing with a bunch of stiff neck rebels

It's just that's just that's just people man

Look at first Corinthians 4 verse 8. This is Paul talking to the church of Corinth now. You're full now

1 Corinthians 4:8

You're rich you have reigned as kings without us

And I would God you did raid that we might also reign with you. It's Paul's attitude is like hey

I want to win win. I want you guys to thrive. I want to thrive. I want us all to be blessed. Let's all reign as kings

But unfortunately the Corinthians don't necessarily have that attitude

He said in 2nd Corinthians 12 15 stay there in 1st Corinthians 4 but in 12 15 of 2nd Corinthians

He said I will very gladly spend and be spent for you though the more abundantly. I love you the less I be loved

He's like I love you guys, but the more I love you the less you love me

That's pretty sad, but that's the way the world works many times

You know, there's a saying and I know some people hate this saying but unfortunately

It's true that no good deed goes unpunished, you know, that's sad but true

He says for I think that God had set forth us the apostles last

As it were appointed to death for we are made a spectacle under the world and to angels and to men

We are fools for christ sake. I mean we're he's saying look

We are just seen as total idiots and trash were mocked were made fun of we're a spectacle to the world

And then what's funny is that you have pastors today in

2026 that think that they can be popular and loved of the world and serve Christ at the same time

What Bible are they reading?

Because I got 1st Corinthians 4 right in front of me. You got in front of you

We're fools for christ, but you're wise in christ

We are weak, but you're strong

You're honorable, but we're despised even under this present hour

We both hunger and thirst and are naked and that's buffeted. It's not buffet. They're hungry. Okay

There's no buffet is buffeted and have no certain dwelling place

And labor working with our own hands being reviled. We bless being persecuted. We suffer it being defamed

We in treat we are made as the filth of the world

And are the off-skowering of all things under this day every time I read this verse

I think of a commercial in the 80s

That said nobody ever says I want to be a junkie when I grow up

Who saw that commercial?

All right, you know, so it says it shows this guy running and it's like I want to be a track star

And then you see he's running from the police

And it's like the cop is like putting his hand on his shoulder and he's like nobody ever says

I want to be a junkie when I grow up

And I always read this and I think I always think to myself

Nobody says I want to be the filth of the world and the off-skowering of all things when I grow up

You know, but it's like if you say I want to be a pastor when I grow up

That's basically what you're saying

I mean am I making this up or is it right in front of you in the bible right here

This is what it means to be a preacher of god's work. No, look, you could be a half-in half-out milk toast preacher

This won't apply to you

But if you want to shake things up you want to be the apostle paul you want to do something great for god

You want to be david?

Yeah, this is going to apply unfortunately

I write not these things to shame you but as my beloved sons I warn you

He's just saying look i'm just warning you

You know maybe you guys are just over there reigning as kings. We're hungry. You're full. You guys are doing awesome

We're struggling. Well. I'm just warning you that if you serve god you're next

And then he says this for though you have 10,000 instructors in christ

Yet have you not many fathers for in christ jesus i've begotten you through the gospel. He's saying look i won you guys to christ

Wherefore I beseech you be followers of me. So he's saying yeah, y'all should be following me

But at the end of the day whatever

Because you know what at the end of the day i'm serving christ

And at the end of the day a lot of people are going to turn on you and forsake you

But they're still saved and they're still

Getting people saved maybe not as much as you would like or whatever but hey, you know christ is preached

I'm at least going to rejoice in that

So david had this attitude, you know, there's a cause bigger than myself. It's not the steven anderson show

It's not the insert your name here show. It's not the john the baptist show. It's not the king david show

It's not the apostle paul show. It's the jesus christ show

And we've got to understand that he must increase we must decrease and serving god is yeah

God's going to reward you and with persecutions. He'll give you 100 fold the houses and brethren and sisters

But you know what you're also going to go through hard things and at the end of the day personal aggrandizement is not on the menu for christians, unfortunately

That's life

So go back to chapter 17 verse 30. We're going to see the fourth thing about david

Is that he doesn't let the naysayers get him down?

Right because we said number one he wants to do something big for god get the rewards number two

He is personally offended by people reproaching christ and the people of god

Number three he sees the cause of christ as bigger than himself. It's not about him

And number four he doesn't let the naysayers get him down

Right all these negative people all the people that have turned on and again

Like I said, my parents were discouraged at times when I was growing up when they

poured their life into a church and then the church went south

But at the end of the day that didn't stop them from going to the next church

And pouring themselves into the next church. It's just you know, that's life

Don't let the naysayers get you down

Don't get discouraged from serving god just because of the bozos and the ungrateful jerks

And the people who don't appreciate you. Hey, you know what at the end of the day

You just keep pushing for the cause of christ

Look at verse 30

It says and he turned from him

So he says to his brother is there not a cause and then he turned from him toward another

And watch this he spake after the same manner

So does he let his brother stop him from what he's trying to do here? No, he just turns around and just says the same thing

He spake after the same manner and the people answered again after the former manner now. Look, I like what it says here

He turned from him toward another

So if somebody is dragging you down

Just turn from that person toward another

There's plenty of fish in the sea

Focus on positive people in your life who actually and encourage you

And actually build you up and believe in you

Now obviously there are certain people that we're stuck with in our lives

Right obvious and this could be a good or bad thing. You're stuck with your spouse. Amen

You know just about oh, you know, my spouse is dragging me down. I'm out of here. No

Wrong

I don't care if we live in america or not the bottom line is you know marriage is permanent

Obviously, you're a child. You're stuck with your parents

You know for better or for worse your parents for better or for worse your spouse

But you know what lots of other people in life

You don't have to have those people in your life

And if they're constantly dragging you down

Tearing you down and this could be siblings or other people that are just

Negative and dragging you down

Just turn away from those people and focus on the people in your life that are building you up that believe in you that are encouraging you

You know and and don't let those people drag you down

And you know, it's interesting is that later

David's brethren do believe in him

And they do support him and they're on his side and same thing with jesus brother

So i'm not saying to just totally nuke these people

Because you know a lot of these people might down the road be your friends and allies

But sometimes you just need to like put people on pause

Or take a break from certain people

And just focus on people that are helping you encouraging you blessing you and possibly because i'm telling you we're all human

And if we're surrounded by negativity

It can get to us eventually no matter how strong we are

You know, and this is why i'm constantly i block people on social media any day i go on social media

There's not a day that i go on social media that i'm not blocking someone

My greatest fear is that someday it'll tell me like you've reached a limit of how many people you can block

And it's like why do you block everybody? Oh, you just want to live in an echo chip

Here's why i want to block everybody because i don't want to be surrounded by people

Trashing me and solding me and criticizing me because it's just going to put me in a bad mood

Right, it's just like i don't need the negativity in my life

Of people just i don't want any time i go on the computer or go on social media to be torn down

You know and and look i'm all for getting a diversity of opinions and seeing what people have to say

But i'm not for somebody just telling me

Your trash

F you it's just like that's just not productive

It's just not helpful or people just lying and trashing me

It's just like you know and you need to learn how to use that block button

And and just because then you just have a pleasant time and what sort of things are true

What sort of things are honest what sort of things are just what sort of things are pure what sort of things are lovely

What sort of things are a good report if there'd be any virtue and if there'd be any praise

Think on these things and look i understand there's a time to engage the enemy and fight the good fight and all that

But you can't just all day every day be surrounded by negative trash people without affecting you

You know, it's better just to stay away from people like that and obviously in real life

You just literally just turn from him to another

And by the way if there's somebody that as far as I know our church is at perfect harmony right now

But if there's someone in the church that you have a problem with just stay away from that person

You don't need to get in some big fight with the person

You don't have to make it all a bunch of drama

Just just turn away from that person and focus on someone that you get along with better

And maybe down the road y'all will see eye to eye

Because sometimes yesterday's enemies will become today's friends

So you know always keep an open mind that you can overcome evil with good

And eventually people can come over to your side

So, you know, you just got to back off from some people put them on pause put them on snooze take a break from people

That are just dragging you down even relatives family just if they're not a blessing to you

And it's just like you know find some friends that are more godly and more encouraging

And you know the the bible says in romans 8 31

What shall we then say to these things if god before us who can be against us?

If god before us who can be against us so god plus you makes a majority

Okay, so again as long as god's on your side

That should be enough for you to just push forward and keep going

And so that's the thing is that david sees that there's a cause bigger than himself

It's the cause of christ and he's not going to let the naysayers from his family relatives whatever drag him down

He's just going to turn to another guy

You know, and it's funny when i was learning how to preach and when i was at bible college

This is a tip that they gave us for preaching to a large crowd

They said find someone in each section that encourages you

So find someone on the left that encourages you find someone in the middle that encourages you find someone on the right

That encourages you and while you're preaching look at those people

Because i'm telling you sometimes when i'm preaching

There are people that i look out in the crowd and they look like they're really enjoying the sermon

And they look like they're hanging on every word. They're locked in they're enjoying it

They like it and so those are people that i tend to want to look at

Because it makes me feel good while i'm preaching and then i don't you know

lose confidence because other people are yawning

Or goofing off or just zoning out or just looking annoyed or upset

And if i look at those people then it can make me like doubt myself and be like

Is there is there something wrong with my sermon or like am i am i saying something

Is this boring, you know, you know and it bothers me

And so they said pick someone on the left middle and right

Because that way you're not just looking at one person or one part of that

You know that way you're kind of scanning the crowd

But look at people that look like they like the sermon

So you can stay positive so you can stay encouraged, but you know what that's just good advice just for life

You know just be around people

That actually seem like they care about you

And are on the same page and people that love god and people that are and i'm not talking about yes men

You know i mean i look i was on the phone with pastor shelly last night

And we're just like arguing and you know my wife's always horrified whenever she hears me talking to my friends because she's like

How do you guys talk to each other i'm like this is how men talk, okay

You know because women are just really like sensitive and careful

And men are just men just kind of like tell each other how it is

So we're past shelly and i were just like arguing about the bible for like an hour last night

And we're just like arguing and going back and forth

And we're just like

It's like it's not about being a yes man

But at the end of the day, we both love each other. We're both motivating each other

We both want each other to succeed. We're both friends. We're both for each other

It doesn't mean that we're not going to tell each other. Hey, you're wrong on this

I don't think you should preach that. I don't think your doctrine is right on this. You need to straighten this, you know

It's not about being a yes, man

It's about being someone who actually is positive and cares about you and is for you not trying to drag you down

And hinder you from serving christ

You know, it's one thing to have somebody who challenges you in a positive constructive and we all grew up with this term constructive criticism

Where somebody says and look, I've called up other of my pastor friends and said, yeah

I don't really like what you said there. I don't think you should have said that

Here's what you know because it's just like we're men and we can handle it

And you know if my pastor friends can't handle that and if I can't handle them

Criticizing me and they can't handle me criticizing them then at the end of the day

It's just like I just don't even really want to be friends with these kind of snowflake people that we can't just like

Hash out doctrine. What's even the point?

If we can't express ourselves and hash out doctrine, but here's the thing. We respect each other

We love each other. We're for each other. We're not getting up and publicly trashing each other

To the world

We're getting we're getting together and trying to help each other and iron sharpen iron and look

I'm not always right. He's not always right. My friends aren't always right. I'm not always right

It goes both ways. He's corrected me on things. I've corrected him on things

Same with other friends pastor mahiab pastor wrestle. Whoever, you know, we it's it's a symbiotic thing

Normal people who actually love their friends understand how you can have conversations

Where you challenge one another and it's done out of love

And it's done just because you care about truth. It's not about

You know tearing someone down

Right and so elai up here. Is he really offering anything constructive to david

Oh, I know how proud you are. I know the naughtiness of you. You just came to see them

It's just all slander and trash and unhelpful

Those are the kind of people you need to turn away from

Someone who actually has a constructive criticism. That's great. Amen. That works. No issue there

And so at the end of the day, I'm gonna stop there. I have tons more points

But this is this is going to be a series

On you know a man after god's on heart because we're looking at all these different attributes that david had

You know on wednesday night what we really focused on was just what a balanced character

He was how he really had the whole package of attributes that god wants us to have

But you know today the real emphasis that I want you to see here is that david is a guy

Who's interested in the work of god. He wants to do something big

He wants to get the rewards. He wants to save the nation

He's for the cause at the end of the day

I don't think david would have been offended if david would have showed up and aliyah would have gone down there and killed

Goliath, I think david would have been cheering alive on

Because I think at the end of the day david just really wants is real to win

He just really wants the philistine to get smoked. He wants that philistine's mouth to be shut. He doesn't care who shuts it

He wants god's people to win. He wants the cause of christ to go forward

He wants the gospel preach

He's willing to be offered and sacrificed and I think david would have loved to see sol kill goliath

He would have loved to see eliyah kill goliath, but sadly eliyah didn't love to see david do it

And even sol didn't love to see david do it because then sol gets jealous later and is like

Oh, what do you mean david slew his ten thousands?

Who is david slaying the ten thousands for?

for sol

He's you know what I mean? He's he's he's working under sol's kingdom. He's following sol

sol didn't see it that way

And so david is a team player and this is how we should be as christians

And this is how faithful words should be we should always want to help our other like sister churches and friends churches to succeed

You know so if we can spend money to help them succeed

If we can donate manpower to help them succeed if we can promote their events and their things help them succeed

It's like what's in it for us nothing

Because what's in it for us is we want the cause of christ to go forward

But sadly there are churches that feel like they're in competition with one another

And they don't realize that this could be a win-win

Where we all just pull together and work together for the cause of christ

It's really sad when people don't understand they think it's some zero some game where they have to tear us down

To lift themselves up instead of just saying hey, let's not make it about us at all

Let's make it about the gospel of jesus christ

Now look, obviously the bible says being slandered, you know, we entreat

You know, obviously when we're slandered a lot of times we're going to defend ourselves

And say what we need to say and and and look if people are preaching lies and false doctrine, we're going to call it out

Especially if they're enemies preaching lies and false doctrine, but at the end of the day

We want the cause of christ to succeed. We want the old ifp churches in our area that are big on soul winning

We want them to succeed. We're for them

We're not we're not somehow in competition with say valley baptist out in mesa or we're not in competition with

You know that old path baptist that started up in chandler or other

You know churches in our area that are four so we're not in competition with them

I would love to see our church and their churches grow

I would love to see every

Bible preaching soul winning king james church that actually is pastor by a pastor with integrity

That just like let's all

Succeed for christ. That's all you know, hey, we want you to reign as kings and we want to reign as kings with you

Right, but at the end of the day

Even if we personally suffer

Even if we personally don't make it if the gospel makes it

You know, that's all that matters because you know at the end of the day some of us have to be sacrificed

You know

And I mean think about if if I walked out that door today and I got killed in the parking lot or something

You know at the end of the day

You know everything I did for christ is going to is going to follow

And and it's not going anywhere anything that I did for myself is going to go away and be gone. It's all wood, hay, and stubble

Because i'm going to cease to matter because i'm not even going to be alive anymore

And the cause of christ will march forward

But whatever I did for christ anybody I got saved anybody I taught the bible to

All that stuff

Follow you know the bible says bless her the dead which dying the lord from hence forth

Yay set the spirit that they may rest from their labors and their works to follow them

So at the end of the day only one life so soon as pass only what's done for christ will last

So think about the big picture of the cause of christ

And get involved

Be a mover and a shaker be a david

Fight goliath do something big for god earn the rewards

But at the end of the day do it as a member of the team

Not for ego or for yourself. Let's bards and have a word of prayer father

We thank you so much for this story about david

And the fight with goliath lord god

I pray that you would just help us to learn what we can from the life of david

And to get involved in the greater cause the greater good

The

Help us to think about the church going forward help us to think about other good churches going forward

Help us to think about christianity being blessed lord and to see a bigger picture than just our own

lives and in jesus name we pray amen