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The Making of a Man of God by Alan Redpath The Making of a Man of God By Alan Redpath Table of Contents PART I THE MAN OF GOD: TESTED IN TRAINING ............................................................................................ 3 Chapter 1 THE BASIS OF GOD’S CHOICE (I Samuel 16:1-13) ....................................................................... 3 Chapter 2 VANQUISHING THE ENEMY (I Samuel 17:28 - 18:4) .................................................................. 8 Chapter 3 SOULS IN CONFLICT (I Samuel 16:14-23 – 18:5-12) ................................................................. 14 Chapter 4 SOULS IN HARMONY (II Samuel 1:17-27)................................................................................. 20 Chapter 5 PERSECUTED BUT NOT FORSAKEN (I Sam 19:10-11, 18; Psalm 59:1-17) ................................ 25 Chapter 6 AN ARROW FROM HEAVEN (I Samuel 20:11-42) ..................................................................... 30 Chapter 7 A GOOD MAN IN BAD COMPANY (I Samuel 21:1-13; Psalm 56:1-13) ..................................... 35 Chapter 8 THE CAPTAIN AND HIS CREW (I Samuel 22:1-23; Psalm 34:1-22) ............................................ 40 Chapter 9 LEARNING TO LOOK TO THE LORD (I Samuel 23:1-28; Psalm 27:1-14) .................................... 45 Chapter 10 LOVING YOUR ENEMIES (I Samuel 24:1-22) .......................................................................... 50 Chapter 11 HANDLING THE HIGHHANDED (I Samuel 25:4-35) ................................................................. 55 Chapter 12 A FIT OF DEPRESSION (I Samuel 27:1-12) ............................................................................... 59 Chapter 13 RETURN TO SANITY (I Samuel 29:1 – 30:10) ........................................................................... 64 Chapter 14 REVIVAL OR FUNERAL? (I Samuel 30:11-31) .......................................................................... 69 PART II THE MAN OF GOD: LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP .................................................................................. 74 Chapter 15 CORONATION DAY (II Samuel 3:1-39) .................................................................................... 74 Chapter 16 SOVEREIGNTY CONTESTED (II Samuel 5:1-25) ....................................................................... 79 Chapter 17 PREPARATION FOR SERVICE (II Samuel 6:1-23) ..................................................................... 84 Chapter 18 WHEN GOD SAYS “NO” (II Samuel 7:1-29; I Chronicles 17:1-27) .......................................... 89 Chapter 19 MORE THAN CONQUERORS (II Samuel 8:1-18) ..................................................................... 94 Chapter 20 THE EXHIBITION OF GRACE (II Samuel 9:1-13) ...................................................................... 99 Chapter 21 HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN! (II Samuel 11:1 – 12:14) .................................................. 105 Chapter 22 THE PERIL OF A DIVIDED HOUSE (II Samuel 12:10 – 14:33) ................................................. 110 Chapter 23 THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS (II Samuel 15:1-37) ................................................. 115 Chapter 24 BRING BACK THE KING (II Samuel 19:1-43) .......................................................................... 119 Chapter 25 VALIANT IN THE FIGHT (II Samuel 23:1-39) .......................................................................... 124 Chapter 26 FIRE FROM HEAVEN (I Chronicles 21:1-30) .......................................................................... 129 Chapter 27 HANDING ON THE TORCH (I Chronicles 28:1-21) ................................................................. 133 1 FORWARD The Bible never flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities. As we consider the record of Bible characters, how often we find ourselves looking into a mirror. We are humiliated by the reminder of how many times we have failed. Great has been our stubbornness but greater still has been His faithfulness. Now where is this more true than in the story of the life if David, which is the subject of these chapters. I can but testify to the fact that my own heart has been searched to its depths as I have been brought face to face with my own frailty and the abundant mercy of my Savior. It is my earnest prayer that something of the impact which the Holy Spirit made upon my own life in the preparing of this book might be make upon yours in the reading of it. The conversation of a soul is the miracle of a moment; the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime. It is the matchless marvel of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to take a life from the dunghill and set it among princes-to replace the bias of degeneration by the bias of regeneration, and to cause a man who has sunk into the depths to cry to God, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right Spirit within me… Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” May the Lord be graciously pleased to use these pages, inadequate though they may be, to help many into a deeper understanding of His marking of a man of God. I want to express my deepest appreciation to Miss Arline Harris for her skillful preparation of manuscript and to my wife for her patience in transcription. ALAN REDPATH, Moody Church Chicago, Illinois 2 PART I THE MAN OF GOD: TESTED IN TRAINING Chapter 1 THE BASIS OF GOD’S CHOICE (I Samuel 16:1-13) These are the days of immense significance to the Christian church. Any of us with discernment cannot but believe the truth of the word of God, that the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back soon to take His people home and thereafter to establish His kingdom. Yet how few of us relate our lives to this significant truth! The machinery of the church is put to very severe strain and is working overtime, but that which the machinery produces so often lacks evidence of heavenly reality. The mass production of modern industry-all kinds of good which attract the eye but have little lasting quality-is too often evident in the Christian church. In days like these I believe it is quality not quantity that is going to count. The Lord is still looking, as He did in David’s time, for a man after His own heart. I believe it to be the priority responsibility of any ministry so to proclaim God’s word that such a quality of Christian man, by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, may be the result. Not only is it such a life alone which can stand by the fiery trials that are bound increasingly to attack our Christian faith and principles, but also through the life of a Spirit-filled man of God is the fastest and most effective method of evangelism. We begin by considering the basis of God’s choice of such a man. In the selection of everyone who enters the service of the King of kings there are always two sides: on the one hand there is the election of God in eternity, accompanied by His heavenly summons in the course of time to take up the cross to follow Him; on the other hand, there is the human response in commitment of life to Jesus Christ as Lord. It is not my task or yours to guess who are among God’s elect. This is a secret hidden in the heart of God from before the foundation of the world. Yet by the preaching of the Word of God there will be unmistakable marks revealed in the lives of a great multitude which give evidence that they belong to God’s chosen people. We preach the Gospel to every creature under heaven and say,”Look unto Jesus and be saved.” That gospel is like a fan that drives away the chaff and leaves the wheat. It removes the worthless and reveals the precious. We discover before long the elect of God by their conduct and their conversation, which have been transformed by the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. You and I become assured of our own election by the witness of the Holy Spirit with our spirit that we are indeed the children of God, and we discover within ourselves a new heart, a new creation in Christ, far from perfect and yet, by His grace, hungry for the Lord. Thus we know that our names are written in the Book of Life. Concerning the principles of God’s choice, I use the illustration of the anointing of David here to point out three basic truths. In the first place, God’s choice of a man is contrary to human reason. Nobody involved in the drama that day in Bethlehem would have guessed that David, of all the family of Jesse, would be God’s chosen one. His brothers obviously despised him-you recall how scathingly Eliab greeted him when a little later he appeared to do battle against Goliath. To his family, he was only the lad who kept the sheep; the others pursued their business and pleasure in total disregard for the young stripling. They probably thought him very naïve, and quite moonstruck when he advised them to consider the heavens; they must have thought him an absolute fanatic when he meditated day and night upon the Lord. Even David’s father called him “the youngest” (1 Samuel 16:11)-and the word used in this connection, I understand, suggests something other than mere youth. It meant he was the least in his father’s estimation; so small was David in his father’s esteem that it wasn’t considered necessary to include him in 3 the family when the profit of God called them to sacrifice. Samuel himself had no idea that David was God’s chosen one. Samuel was ready to settle upon Eliab, thinking surely that this was the Lord’s anointed, and he drew upon himself the rebuke of the Lord; “…man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). Incidentally, I always think it strange that Samuel should be ready to settle for another like Saul, after all his unhappy experience with that self-willed king. How often the prophet and preacher have been wrong in their judgment of people! In my own experience, I have seen so many well-educated, intellectual, clever personalities who have turned their heel on the simplicity of the gospel; it was not refined enough for them.
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