David the Great
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What makes David a “man after God’s own heart” compared to other biblical heroes?
What are the characteristics of your heroes? Who do you look to as being models? For your own life.
Those are interesting questions. King David was such a tale of two characters, both cautionary tale and a man after God's own heart. Hello, I'm Dave Terrio, the weekday host of Renewing Your Mind. Thank you for joining us. We tend to celebrate heroes who've excelled in sports, business, or other areas of life, but the scriptures give us heroes as well. People like Abel, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham, among others. Today we begin our study looking closely at one of Dr. R. C. Sproul's heroes from the Old Testament, as he says, Wartz and all. We're studying the series The Life of David. Just before we get started, I wanted to remind you that when you donate to the program this week, we'll send you a Renewin Your Mind journal.
You'll also receive downloadable access to this entire teaching series in the Ligonair app, so you can listen wherever you are. Just use the link in the show notes to give. But now, here's Dr. Sproll with David the Great.
In the ancient world certainly one of the most famous persons to emerge was a young man who was a student, certainly the most celebrated student of the philosopher Aristotle. This young man was the son. Of King Philip of Macedon. And I think you all know his name already, don't you? He is known through Western history by the name and the title Alexander. What? The great He's called the Great because he embarked on a military conquest through the entire region of the Mediterranean world. And he went on this endeavor not merely for military reasons, but also for scientific reasons and for cultural reasons. As a student of Aristotle, Alexander was keenly. Interested in science. And it has been said that the most heavily funded scientific expedition in all of human history until the United States space program was Alexander the Great's scientific expedition, because along with his soldiers,
He took a virtual army of scientists at the behest of Aristotle to collect samples of flora and fauna from all over the region where the armies travel. But again, Alexander was driven by a desire to bring unity to the ancient world. And he was looking for cultural unity. And so his program was called the program of Hellenization, which was the making Greek of the nations that he conquered.
How did David’s military victories expand Israel’s borders like never before?
And so he introduced the Greek language to the people that he conquered. That's why, for example, the New Testament was written in Greek, because among those peoples that were conquered by Alexander and his successors, Were the Jewish people. But what I'm interested in is this title that is given to this particular person. He is called Alexander the Great. He's called the great because of the apparently unprecedented level of achievement that he was able to accomplish. But I have a bone to pick with historians. When we go back to the ancient world and start passing out titles like this, the great, I think there is another figure, another young soldier, who deserves that title far more than Alexander could ever dream of.
And so we're going to start today looking at the life. Of a man that I'm going to call David. The great. David the King of Israel. One thing we cannot say about Alexander of Macedon was that he was called a man after God's own heart. That was reserved for David the Great. Now in our day We are a culture, I think, obsessed with heroes and idols. And what kind of people do we give our adulation? First of all, athletes. We also extol the virtues of monarchs or politicians like the President of the United States. Or we'll look at the rock musicians or those artists who reach the top of the charts in the entertainment world. We look at literary giants, all of these people with all of these accomplishments, military,
military generals and so on are elevated to the status of the hero. But where in history Can you find a single person? Who combines as much achievement and as much greatness as we find wedged together in this single life from the Old Testament. What I want to do today is just give a brief introduction.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What makes David a “man after God’s own heart” compared to other biblical heroes?
0:00–3:21
2
How did David’s military victories expand Israel’s borders like never before?
3:21–7:15
3
Why is David considered the greatest poet and author of the Psalms?
7:15–11:08
4
What role did David’s music play in calming King Saul’s madness?
11:08–14:13
5
How does Psalm 51 reveal David’s deep repentance and broken heart?
14:13–17:19
6
Why does the New Testament view Christ as the fulfillment of David’s kingdom?
17:19–20:34
7
What lessons can modern believers learn from David’s failures and sins?
20:34–22:55
8
How can studying 1 Samuel and the Psalms shape our own heroic character?
22:55–25:54