Great Things through Ordinary People | David - The Making of a King | Jeff Griffin (Full Service)

[Music] what's up everybody welcome to compass online my name is jake and i'm our online pastor here and if you're observant you're gonna notice we're not in the usual location this is not the usual backdrop i'm here with rick pearson and my friend andy burns we're in the great state of utah where we've been working over the course of this week with some of our local church planning partners that we get to work with through compass national there's going to be a lot more information coming up over the next several weeks about some information of missions trips and specifically utah of what we might be able to do as compass online to partner together but me standing here i want to remind you just of a couple of really quick things the first one is being in utah to me is a great reminder to say that i am willing to travel to you for something as important as baptism no seriously no joke one of my favorite things to do is to celebrate baptisms together we get to use it as a public declaration of our faith to say the person that we used to be has been dead and buried but the new person the one that is alive in christ is the one that gets to come up out of the water if you are ready to take that step if you're ready to celebrate if you want to be baptized no matter where you are from please let us know and you can do that just by filling out an online connection card when you fill out a little bit of information you're going to see a box in there that just says baptisms if you click that box i would be honored to follow up with you over the course of this week just to talk about next steps of what it would look like for you to continue on in your faith journey in that way and you know another thing that i'm reminded about and excited about is just the fact that here at compass online it can go with you wherever you are so whether it's resources that we have available or midweek at the compass podcasts we travel with you it's a great resource to have not just for you but for you to share with your friends so be thinking about it who is somebody in your life that you can share the hope of the gospel with simply by just forwarding them a sermon link sending them a podcast link but more importantly than just that having a follow-up discussion with these people about it you know being in utah i'm reminded of the verse in psalm 89 verse 11 where it just simply says that the heavens are yours but the earth lord is also yours and everything therein is yours we get to celebrate god's goodness god's creation while we were out here but we also get to celebrate the fact that jesus has come the lion and the lamb that we get to praise god because we can be in right standing with him through what jesus has done for us [Music] oh [Music] [Music] it's coming on the clouds kings and kingdoms will bow [Music] is is [Music] [Music] knee will bow before [Music] before open up the gate make way before [Music] is [Music] our god is [Music] foreign [Music] but who can stop the lord almighty [Music] who can stop the lord [Music] [Music] [Music] oh every day [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ah delicious friends do you have the strength for bold canadian dry bold ginger ale it's got an extra kick of ginger flavor this uh concept of being bold i want to talk to you about that because we use the term bold to describe people who are courageous who live with an aggressiveness who are not intimidated by danger or challenge are you bold we're going to study boldness today because king david he was bold before we get to david there's a couple that i want to tell you about in fact i'm at their house now they were bold and their names were sheldon and harriet peck let's go inside [Music] friends sheldon and harriet peck built this house back in 1839. it's 183 years old one of the oldest houses you can find in the chicagoland area in fact it's interesting the peck family owned and the descendants lived in this house for over 150 years until 30 years ago when they gave it to the city of lombard and this home has become a museum and we're so grateful to be here together i need to tell you about the boldness that this house speaks of first of all when they moved here harriet and sheldon had been living in vermont where they were raised and they had a tiny little farm and they wanted more land and they read that there was land in the wilderness west of chicago available for relatively little money in fact you could buy 80 acres for a hundred bucks and they waited as a family we got five kids do we really want to get into a covered wagon and take off saying goodbye to everybody we know in hell heading into the the wilderness they said let's do it friends that takes boldness doesn't it well they did and they traveled all the way to this spot where they bought these 80 acres do you know that the family five little kids lived in their covered wagon for two years why while sheldon built this house can you imagine that that takes boldness here's another example of boldness while they were living in this house they had four more kids so that brings a total to nine children working a farm doing okay where sheldon said you know i want to make a career change i've been doing arts all my life selling a painting here or there what if i devoted myself full time to being a professional artist he got on his horse and he started traveling all around northeast illinois here looking for families that would commission him to paint portraits uh he he did folk art or abstract portraits and sure enough he made it he started selling these portraits and making enough money to support his family with nine kids you know to make a career change that late in life that takes boldness to fulfill a dream and though his paintings did well in his day since then friends after a hundred years sheldon peck paintings have become quite sought after people have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for his work in fact one painting was sold by sotheby's for over hundred thousand dollars and today sheldon peck works are displayed in art museums throughout the world what a what a guy what a couple moving here having a career change here's one more in 1850 the fugitive slave act was signed into law which made it illegal to protect an escaped slave up in the northern states in fact there were slave catchers that were paid by folks in the south to come up here and hunt possible fugitive slaves to capture them drag them back into the south and make them slaves again this took place between 1850 and 1861 that was the horrible season and here were the peck family with nine kids trying to make a go of raising this family but they could not look away from the evil happening all around them and they joined the underground railroad friends the underground railroad was a system of roads paths stations conductors who helped freedom seekers at this point get out of the united states and up into canada now to be a part of the underground railroad was a serious crime putting people in jeopardy of spending 20 years in prison and yet the peck family said you know what doesn't matter we've got to do it they made this house a station in the underground railroad where harriet provided warm beds and meals and shelter to these freedom seekers so that they could renew their energy and get ready for the next leg of their journey sheldon peck became a conductor which means he actually helped move them he would take one of his wagons and put the freedom seekers under a bale of hay and with his horse he would take them from this home into chicago and help them board a ship on lake michigan that would take them to canada where they would be free don't you love this family they they had a boldness demonstrated in their move here their career changed the painting and their devotion to the underground railroad their lives are extraordinary and they would have been ordinary if not for boldness friends this is why we need boldness god makes people bold in fact the pec family was probably inspired by the lord they were methodist devoted to their church sheldon was the superintendent of the sunday school class uh two other family bibles are here in the museum and god has a way of bringing about an ordinary people a boldness that they'd not ordinarily have i'll be honest with you i'm not normally a bold person my personality just isn't inclined that way but i want to learn from david as you need to as well david was bold and we're about to see it and find display and by turning to him and saying david teach us about boldness his life can help every one of us get bold in christ and get out of an ordinary existence seeing our lives become extraordinary through the utilization of this character tree called being bold [Music] well today we turn to first samuel chapter 17 and the most popular story about king david it's david and goliath you know the story of course you do there's this monster philistine he's a he's a giant named goliath and he challenges the israelite army who will come out and fight me man to man all the israelite soldiers back up in panic and refuse to step up and then comes this little teenage kid named david and david says i'll fight him and takes a stone in his sling zoom bam giants kill david chops his head off i mean what a story huh here's here's the challenge sometimes the familiarity of the story particularly among children's ministry makes it almost seem like a fable like a fairy tale is that the case or is this really historically grounded you know i was so blessed when five years ago i went to israel with a bunch of people from the compass church and one of our stops was the valley of illah which is the exact valley the scripture tells us this took place and and sure enough there's the hill on one side where the philistines were and the hill on the other side where the israelites were this valley in between where goliath came and challenged someone to come down and fight him there's a brook running through that valley because it says that david used five smooth stones out of the brook and there it is so i went down and i pulled out uh five smooth stones and these are them i mean who knows maybe one of these is the one used on goliath huh well just being there helped me realize the historicity of the event in fact let me go a little further when we were there five years ago i noticed up on the hill where the israelites camped i noticed excavations going on i'm like hey there are some people working up there and the guide said oh yeah yeah yeah they're they're excavating an ancient city that they've found it's a city that dates back to the days of king saul when when this event took place it's fortified meaning it's got a wall around it and really a fascinating dig in process well wouldn't you know the year after we went on that trip so four years ago in their excavations they discovered something that puzzled them two gates as it turns out cities from that era and of that size never have two gates always one so this is kind of unprecedented and why is that significant well when we go to the biblical count of david after he kills goliath we find that the israelite army shouts with great passion and charges the philistines and kill them in mass and there's a verse there first samuel 17 52 it says the bodies of the dead philistines were strewn all along the road from sharim so we know it's the valley of allah but there seems to be a city referred to here sharim where the dead bodies were strewn from the road going from that do you know what sharim means it's a hebrew term that means two gates turns out they have excavated and just now realized they've discovered the biblical city of sharim just showing again that this text is describing a miraculous but a historical event so let's turn to the boldness of david you know i have my bold ginger ale box here just to remind you in case you wonder mentally that we're talking about being bold okay and maybe i should clarify when i say bold i'm not talking about boldness as the world knows it you know sometimes we see people who are cocky self-confident filled with arrogance yeah swagger that kind of boldness no no no no there's a biblical boldness where you're able to be both humble and bold you say how can that be it's a boldness that comes from confidence in god not confidence in itself in fact when david was walking out to challenge goliath here's what he said he said to goliath you come against me with sword spear and javelin but i come against you in the name of the lord almighty this day the lord will deliver you into my hands you see david's boldness it's not an arrogant self-confidence he's like i know i'm just a kid i don't have the weaponry you do but i've got the lord and he will bring the victory and so keep in mind the boldness we're talking about is a humble boldness based on confidence in god here's why being bold is so important the first thing i just want to say is that boldness is necessary to see possibilities in life you know a lot of times when you're timid your fear makes you blind to possibilities the israelite army we're blind to the possibility that god could bring a great victory against goliath they didn't even think about it they were like ah no run run they didn't even see it as a potential story of god's great rescue david on the other hand he looked and he said oh wait a minute wait a minute he's big bigger than any of us but our god is bigger than him and sure enough friends bold people see what god might want to do you know when i look at life i i realize that parenting my wife is bold as a mom and she will see parenting moments and courageously step into initiating comment or conversation with our kids and i'm sometimes like ah i didn't even see that my timidity to go there you know stop me from seeing evangelism strong evangelists are bold and they see ways to bring up conversations about jesus that the timid don't even see friends i think of serving others who are in need there are some people who just see opportunities to serve others and step into them and others are like wow that thought never even crossed my mind bold people see possibilities most don't i'll give you an example the history of our church do you realize the rich history of the compass church started 70 years ago by a group of lay people there wasn't a pastor in the mix and they just said you know what what if we started a new church i'm inspired by that that was the wheaton campus of our church five years later this baby church says what if we started a church down in naperville sure enough they did friends who thinks like that bold people do and then years ago the naperville church said how about we start a church in bolingbrook it was called new song now our bowling brook campus that idea it's not even on the radar of a people who aren't bold and then the naperville church said what if we started something new down in the plainfield joliet area and that's how three rivers church came about they found clem and anne and mobilized them with a group of people to start that great church you know those precious folks some of you are here now you are in a journey of contemplating joining us and becoming a campus of our church but we recognize the history of the beautiful work god has done among you and friends it all started with boldness i i might add that then a vision a dream of starting a campus in the south naperville area came about and all this happened before i arrived i just want to be clear i had no part of any of this i am keenly aware that i stand on the shoulders of some bold christ followers who saw possibilities to do new things so we got to be bold because we'll see possibilities we got to be bold because we'll charge into those possibilities we'll attack that's what david did when david approached goliath goliath was mocking him going why do you send me a boy and david said oh yeah i'm gonna strike you down cut off your head and feed the carcasses of the philistine army to the birds and then it says in verse 48 as the philistine moved closer to attack david david ran quickly to meet him can you believe that he's trash talking this guy he's charging i mean that's bold and friends timidity when we do what god wants us to do but we're doing it timidly that doesn't work very well we've got to be bold i i had a college professor ended up going to our church which was really fun but back when i was a student he heard me preach and he pulled me aside and he says jeff you've got a timidity about you it's not serving you well he says when you preach jeff know that god is with you and you're preaching god's truth you look him in the eye you be bold and he was right and by god's grace i'm trying to grow in boldness so how do we grow in boldness well i want to point to three things out of david's example that show us how he was so bold and the first key to boldness is obedience meaning you're obeying god you you have this sense that the bold thing you're about to do is because god wants you to and that was the case with david let me read a verse david shows up at the place where goliath is taunting all the israelite army it's the first time he's heard the taunting and he turns look at verse 26 david ask the men standing near him what will be done for the man who kills the philistine in other words what reward is there they answer him and they said well the king has said anyone who will attack this goliath will get a cash reward and be free of taxes for the rest of their lives david's like i'm in now when you first hear that you think oh david was greedy for the money that's why he attacked no no no the people answering the question tell him one more thing and oh yeah they say you will get to marry the daughter of king saul that's why david said he was in friends he didn't care about the money you say well what's going on there here's the deal if you recall at the beginning of this series we learned that when david was just a boy samuel had come and anointed him saying one day you'll be the future king of israel david knew that about god's plan but david must have wondered lord how will that be how do i go from being a shepherd boy who's entirely unknown to becoming king lord i trust you'll make it happen but i can't see how that would be you know when he won the music contest and became a royal musician maybe he thought oh this is it i'm in the palace now but that kind of diminished we find that that was only a part-time job he only was called upon when saul was suffering with emotional distress and so david's like how in the world am i going to become and then he finds out i will be able to marry right into the king's family you should know that the way that succession of kingship was passed down it was a family thing it went to the king's son and david would be the son-in-law but that's getting closer at least and so what we find here is david is trying to discern god is this your will and he concludes i know what god's trying to do make me king and this is clearly a way to move in that direction friends that's so important because boldness that's not done out of obedience to god's will is reckless so our question should not be could i do it do i want to do it our question should be lord do you want me to do it lord i'm i'm i'm not interested in me impressing people with my bravery i'm interested in having the courage to obey you and so i'm going to pray about it study the word talk with friends but the question is is it the will of god if so i'll obey you and that commitment to obedience fuels boldness here's the second love of obedience and love when i say love i mean love for god the more you love god the more passionate you'll be about obeying him let me show you what david says in verse 26 who is this uncircumcised philistine that he should defy the armies of the living god do you see david's ticked he's saying this guy's making a mockery of the armies of israel but he phrases it of the armies of the living god god is being mocked by goliath and his love we know david had a fierce love for god his love for god is driving him to be brave you know some of the greatest boldness comes when one is stepping out for one they love in fact franklin delano roosevelt said courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear do you get that david says i might be afraid but this mockery of the god i love this is a bigger deal than any danger i might be in and when you really love the lord you're willing to stick your neck out there if he calls you to do so and so friends if your love for god is growing your zeal to obey him will grow with it all leading to a spiritual boldness third one and it is this practice practice boldness you say david practice boldness when he came before king saul he said i'll go attack the the philistine and saul was like how can you do it you're only a kid and david explains something i'll just read what he said in conclusion verse 37 he said the lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this philistine he explained to saul what he was talking about he's saying i'm a shepherd you know and one day this this lion mountain lion attacked one of my sheep had it in its mouth and i just rose up with my stick and i clobbered that lion on the head and he let go of the lamb but then he turned on me and i had to grab him by the hair and fight him and by god's grace i defeated a lion later it happened with a bear david says and by god's grace i defeated a bear and so by god's grace i'll defeat goliath you see how those smaller practicing boldness had made him bold for this great moment maybe we need to practice small boldness and we'll get ready for big boldness it's like when some friends and i uh last summer we went zip lining in colorado they had like 10 different zips they promised us we could go on the first one was pathetic i thought i was at a kid's playground it was like 20 feet i'm like i can't believe we paid money for this wee and then the next one was twice as long and then the next one twice as long as that and then the next one i'm like oh i see what they're doing by the end friend we were going nearly half a mile on the zip line high speeds through the mountains see what they did they said we'll get people over their fear by moving in gradually we need to do the same it may be a small act of boldness as you obey the lord in something maybe smalled others but it's a big deal for you because you're growing in trusting him in the face of fear friends i want to conclude about describing boldness for all of you friends we are at the conclusion of a journey a fundraising campaign called rise up where it's over two years ago now we felt this leading of god to build a brand new building for our south naperville campus i'm actually in that building right now and what a moment i mean i was scared i'll admit it's we needed to raise 10 million dollars and i had never been a part of a initiative with that high of a dollar amount and not only that it was an initiative where the benefit would only come to a few only our south naperville campus the vast majority of the people involved in this initiative would not be receiving any benefit and so some said you're not going to make it you can't raise money for people who won't enjoy the building well god's calling us and then little did we know that shortly after launching the campaign a worldwide pandemic would shut everything down i mean that's a recipe for disaster well how did it go friends back then we made commitments you may recall this we made commitments towards a 10 million dollar goal that would go towards construction at south naperville and blessing ministries here near and far that we partner with and we had commitments of 9.3 million dollars pretty close huh but then all the pandemic and everything happened and sure enough this marks the end so i want to tell you what the final total of actual given dollars is shall we here's what we're going to do i'm going to count down from three and then we'll share the number ready three two one [Applause] that's right baby look at that number well no some people are like what are we going to do with the extra money you should know that part of the plan was to borrow two million dollars towards the construction of this building so we're going to put that extra towards paying down that debt because the more that debt's paid down the more money there is for everyday ministry oh friends what a joy and do you realize that we would have never done it if you weren't bold i say you because it was a congregational vote to decide to pursue raising 10 million dollars people without boldness would have said no no we're fine let's just stay how we are but you trust the lord and it was demonstrated in boldness and now we are celebrating a glorious moment of kingdom victory friends god is already using the south naperville campus to reach hundreds of people where we're seeing more and more new folks coming all the time and the good news of jesus christ is going out and it will for decades because of this great win boldness we've always been a people of boldness let's never stop can we give him thanks for this great victory lord we are so so grateful that you provided ultimately we just acknowledge that all that's good comes from you including all the money we have and lord you did a work of your spirit among this group of people who rose up and courageously gave they sacrificed and look at this when thank you god we are so grateful for this sacred moment and we give you praise let this inspire us to always be bold in following you we pray this in jesus name amen friends you know back when we first started the rise up campaign we had a theme song see a victory it's time to sing it again [Music] the weapon may be formed but it won't prosper when the darkness falls it won't breathe oh my god we'll never fail no [Music] belongs [Music] a victory for the battle below [Music] there's power in the mighty name of jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] yes i know how this story i'm victory [Music] [Music] [Music] and you turn it forward you turn it forward foreign memory i [Music] foreign [Applause] users i just truly want to take a moment to say thank you for being with us we got to celebrate a really monumental moment as a church together just a few moments ago with our rise up reveal but there is more exciting news that goes along with it beyond a simple dollar amount we got to talk about things like legacy and unity and some really interesting facts you know we mentioned at the top of the service but i just want to let you know that coming up on midweek at the compass this week i'm going to be joined by our pastor of stewardship eric lichty where we're going to talk about some of the other ends of things of our rise up campaign where we have just seen god truly at work the generosity of our people united and coming together to make a permanent kingdom impact and with all that said i would be remiss not to say thank you for your partnership and your generosity through the entirety of our rise up campaign but weaken and week out the faithfulness of what you do to steward your resources here at the compass church where we get to spread the hope of the gospel here near and far in places like naperville in places like salt lake city and around the world none of that is possible without your care and your generosity and support now with all that said we are looking forward to continuing our sermon series about david the making of a king next time we're together here at compass online [Music]

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Length: 44min 20sec (2660 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 06 2022