2 Samuel 9:1-13 Mephibosheth would never forget that day. Word quickly spread through the countryside, “King Saul and Prince Jonathan are dead and David is now King.” At the house of Jonathan this not only brought grief but panic as well. In that day it was customary that if a King took the throne he’d often eliminate the family of the King before him. Sitting playing on the floor was little Mephibosheth oblivious to it all and soon his nurse burst into the room grabs him up and heads toward the door to run for safety, but in so doing she drops him crushing his ankles crippling him for life.
a. He believed that there would never be a day that would so impact his life
and so affect his future like that day. (Destined him for destitution, to live
as a pauper instead of a prince)
b. But Mephibosheth would discover that soon would come a day that would make a far greater impact on his life and on his future. The Day he found Grace. Grace is a dirty word for the devil. It’s the wonder, distinction and power behind the gospel.
b. But Mephibosheth would discover that soon would come a day that would make a far greater impact on his life and on his future. The Day he found Grace. Grace is a dirty word for the devil. It’s the wonder, distinction and power behind the gospel.
GRACE: God’s favor that is unearned, undeserved and unrepayable-This concept is the key to the entirety of the New Testament. Too often we limit it to the work of Salvation in our lives, but Grace is power for our lives. 2 Tim. 2:1, 1 Pet. 4:10, 2 Pet. 3:18
Rev. 22:21-The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you
all. Amen.
Satan would have you leave the grace of God at the altar of salvation, but God’s grace only starts there, enriching and enabling our lives. The devil will tell you that from that point on you must pull yourself up by your bootstraps and make it in your own strength. But Grace is God’s undeserved favor on our lives.
David had just subdued his greatest enemies the Philistines, Moabites & Syrians. As he sat in his palace, looking back over his past and how he had come from a sheepfold to a throneroom – no doubt he was taken by the wonder of God’s grace on his life.I believed he began to look for a way that he could demonstrate the grace of God to someone that was just as unworthy as he was.Vs.3 “that I may show the kindness of God unto him?”
Mephibosheth would become the recipient of David’s act of grace, but there’s a deeper story here – the story of God’s grace toward us, it reveals were we can find grace.
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