Now if you would, return with
me to 1 Samuel chapter 25. A sinner coming to the Savior
King. And that's a marvelous, marvelous
work of grace, isn't it? A sinner who has the need, or
sees the need, who sees the power and glory of the Savior. And
we see that pictured here in 1 Samuel 25. In the case of David,
who is a type of Christ, and then in the case of Abigail,
the wife of a man named Nabal. Abigail, who is an illustration,
we might say, and a type of sinners coming to Christ for salvation.
Her husband Nabal, you remember his name, it either means fool
or it's a play on words, like a Hebrew word that means fool.
It doesn't really matter. Nabal was a fool. Nabal is a
type. Nabal himself personally was
an unbelieving fool, but he's a type of all unbelieving fools,
man by nature, without Christ. man by nature in his rebellion.
You know, as David was fleeing from Saul, he had about 600 men
with him, and he came upon this place in Carmel, where Nabal
lived. Nabal was a very rich, wealthy,
well-possessed man in the world's possessions. And David sent some
of his men, I think it was 10 men, just to ask Nabal for provisions. David had protected Nabal's flocks,
And his men sent men in to just ask him to help him, give him
some food, give him some provisions. And Nabal, he stubbornly and
selfishly refused not only to give David, to show David the
kindness that we're to show to those in need, no matter who
they are. And that's what we must do. Not
in order to be saved, but because God has given us everything in
Christ freely. But Nabal refused just to show
the kindnesses that a person of plenty could and should show
a person who was in need. He also refused to recognize
David as God's anointed king. He said, who is David? It's almost
like he was saying, who do you think you are to ask me to give
what's mine to you? Remember we read in that passage
where Nabal kept saying, my stuff. That was his problem there. He
said, my things. Well, the Bible tells us here
that Nabal, verse 3, he was churlish and evil in his doings. But he
was from the house of Caleb. And that's a proof that that
your ancestry, no matter how noble or how graced your ancestors
were or are, it will do you absolutely no good unless God, by his sovereign
mercy and grace, steps in and brings you to a saving knowledge
of Christ. Caleb, that faithful man, some
say the faithful dog. And that's okay, because that's
what we are. We're like that woman who just wanted the crumbs
off the table, you know. Even the dogs get to have the
crumbs. We're like old Mephibosheth,
a dead dog as I am, you see. And that's what we are. We don't
deserve anything we have or anything we get from God. We haven't earned
it at all. And Nabal, he was acting like,
well, this is mine. I worked hard for it, you see.
But let me tell you something, every good and perfect gift is
from God, the Father of Lights. And He can take it away just
like that, can't He? And yet, he was so selfish with what he
had here. Even being from the house of
Caleb didn't do him any good. And I would charge our young
people, don't depend upon the salvation of your parents. You
seek the Lord. Seek the Lord while he may be
found. And then his wife Abigail, she was a woman of good understanding.
That's what I've dealt with mainly last time, how she got that good
understanding. It's from the Lord. Any good
understanding that we have, mainly in spiritual matters, eternal
matters of the gospel and how God saves a sinner, who we are
by nature, our sinfulness, if you have a good understanding
of that, a grasp of it, And a good understanding of who God is,
holy, holy, holy, as you said in your message, thrice holy,
Father, the Son, and the Spirit, just and righteous, who cannot
look over sin, but must deal justly and rightly with sin.
That's who God is. If you have a good understanding
of that, of Him, and then mainly a good understanding of who Christ
is, the Savior, King, That's what Nabal was missing. He didn't
have a good understanding of who David really was and whom
David typified. And how that line, that royal
line of the tribe of Judah, the line of the tribe of Judah and
the scepter of Judah was coming through David and not Saul. Saul
the Benjamite, the people's choice, but through David. And Nabal
didn't have that understanding, but Abigail did. She knew who
David was, and she knew who Christ, who was to come, was. And that's
her salvation. And it's God that gave her that
understanding. And if you have a good understanding, a good
grasp of that, if I do, it's of God, isn't it? That's knowledge. That's what it means in John
6, 37. He that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh
unto me. And that's what Abigail's doing.
That's what we're going to see tonight. How she came to David. And this is an amazing story.
But let's look here. Look at 1 Samuel 25. Look down
at verse 14. Now, David, you remember now,
when Nabal refused to help David, David in his own, personally,
in his spiritual decline, he strapped on his sword and told
everybody to strap on their sword, and we're going to go wreak vengeance
upon Nabal. But that was a wrong thing to
do. And it's amazing how, you know, David is a good illustration
of how we are day to day. Back in chapter 24, you see him
suspending judgment and vengeance on Saul. And that was by the
grace of God. But here, he's going to get Nabal. Now, why didn't he act the same
way towards Nabal that he did Saul? Now, I can't tell you that.
But you know from your experience, and I know from my experience,
we don't always act the same way day to day, do we? Towards
the same people, different people. One day we may be walking examples
of God's grace and mercy in the life of a sinner. And the next
day we may act like the biggest fools that ever have come and
gone. And that's why salvation is of
the Lord now and forever. It is not of us. You say, well,
if anybody's saved, that fellow he is. That's Monday. But on
Tuesdays, you say, well, I don't see how he can be saved. That's
the way we are. But God keeps His children looking
to Christ in all situations. But here's David. He's going
to wreak vengeance. But look what happens in verse 14. Now,
listen to this. Here's a picture of a sinner
coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. But I'll show you something else
in this, too. It says, But one of the young men told Abigail,
Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of
the wilderness to salute our master. And he, that is Nabal,
railed on them. Again, Nabal had no regard for
David. No regard for Christ, whom David
typified. And that's ultimately everything
in this Old Testament. And it says in verse 15, But
the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt. And he
says, neither missed we anything. In other words, they didn't hurt
us and they didn't steal from us. In other words, if you're
not going to give me those things, David basically told his men,
don't steal. You could take them by force,
but don't do that. And he says, as long as we were conversant
with them, that is, communicated with them when we were in the
fields. They were a wall unto us both night and day, all the
while we were with them keeping the sheep. They protected us.
These men who asked us for provision, The ones whom Nabal railed on,
they protected us. You know, anytime I see a situation
like that, I think about that in our own lives. How many times
in your life and in my life has God protected us in spite of
ourselves? I was listening to a song today
where the fellow kept saying, save me from myself. That's what
I need, salvation from myself, from my sin. And that's the way
it is. This is what these men are telling
Abigail. These men, they protected us. They were a wall in us, night
and day, while we were keeping the sheep. And look at what Nabal
did. It kind of reminds you of the
situation of the prophet Hosea and his wife, Gomer, who went
out and prostituted herself. And Hosea protected her and Hosea
provided for her, but she attributed it to her lovers instead of to
the one who protected and provided. That's the way we are. We attributed
to a false god before God showed himself to us. Revealed himself. Look at verse 17. Now therefore
know and consider what thou wilt do. For evil is determined against
our master and against all his household. David's coming to
get Nabok. For he is such a son of Belial. Now that's an Old Testament way
of referring to an idolater. A son of Balaam. Now, it may
not be a carved out stone image, it could be self, and that's
probably what Mornebaugh's problem was. He worshipped himself. He
worshipped his possessions, but he was a son of Balaam. He said
that a man cannot speak to him. You can't even talk to him. You
can't reason with him. Man, by nature, without God,
without the revelation of Christ and His sinfulness, that is,
the man's sinfulness and his need of Christ by the Holy Spirit,
is spiritually insane. And so it says in verse 18, now
listen to this, Then Abigail made haste. and took two hundred
loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed,
and five measures of parched corn, and a hundred clusters
of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on Asses. And she said unto her servants,
Go on before me. Behold, I come after you. But
she told not her husband Nabal." She didn't tell Nabal. And verse
20, she's taking these provisions to David and his men. And it
was so, as she rode on the ass, that she came down by the cover
of the hill, under the cover of the hill. And, behold, David
and his men came down against her, and she met them. Now David
hath said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath
in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained
unto him. And he hath requited me for evil for good." What David
is saying there, he said, I've helped this fellow, I've protected
him, and it was for nothing. Well, it's never for nothing.
But you can see how David's thinking. He's thinking of vengeance, you
see. So he said, it was for nothing. He returned evil for my good.
And so verse 22, so and more also do God unto the enemies
of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning
light, any that pisseth against the wall. Now, the King James
translators just did not take in mind our virgin ears. Somebody asked me how I was going
to deal with that. Well, I'm going to deal with it the way it is in Scripture.
You know what he's saying there, though? Let me tell you what
he's doing. It's not just putting what some people say, a dirty
word in the Scripture. He pisses up against the wall.
What does that mean? That was an Old Testament way in that
culture. That's the way they referred to dogs. And what he's
talking about is the men. And what David is saying, it's
like he's saying that any who would come against God's anointed,
any who would come against God himself, is nothing better than
an old dog. And he said, I'm going to kill
every one of them. He's talking about the men. That's how he
refers to them. And what you see there is David's
mad. He's angry. And the translators just put
it in those terms. He's mad. He's angry. And that's
what sometimes happens when you lose your senses in anger. You
begin to talk like a ruffian, you know, cuss like a sailor,
as they say. But that's what he's doing. He's
saying, if they're no better than dogs, I'm going to kill
them all. And look at verse 23. Now listen. And when Abigail
saw David, she hasted and lied it off the ass and fell before
David on her face and bowed herself to the ground. Now, this is a
woman of good understanding. She recognized the Savior King. She recognized he's angry with
the wicked. You remember I said last Sunday
night, God will damn sinners. That's right. He will damn sinners. But God will also save sinners. Now, what's the difference? The
difference is His grace in Christ. God will damn every sinner who
doesn't have a mediator, the right mediator. The one mediator
between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus. God will damn every
sinner whose sins are imputed. That's what David in Psalm 32,
he said, Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity.
If you have sin charged to your account, God will damn you for
that sin. And rightly so. So our only hope
is to have sin not imputed to our account. But sin just doesn't
vanish in the air. Sin is not like God has a big
eraser in heaven and He just erases it off like it never happened.
He's got to punish sin. He's just. He's God. Where does
He put it? Well, you know where He put it.
He put it on Christ. He charged it to his son, and
his son died for him. So if you don't have a righteousness
that answers the demands of God's justice, God will damn you. He'll damn me if I don't have
it. How are we going to get all that? How are we going to get
the cleansing of all our sins? The non-imputation of sins, as
one of the old Puritans called it. How are we going to get the
righteousness? There's only one way. In the
Savior King. In Christ. And that's what's
being typified here. Here's David, the Savior King,
and Abigail goes to him. But I want to show you something
here now. This is one of those places where Brother Mahan used
to talk about this all the time. I didn't see it for a long time,
but I do now. The Scripture is bifocal. And
I want to show you something. Look at verse 23 again. It says, oh, verse 24 rather. Now here's Abigail on her face
before David. and said it fell at his feet,
David coming in vengeance. Now, we know personally it's
sinful in David. It's sinful, that vengeance,
because we've seen it. Vengeance is mine, saith the
Lord. In the next chapter, you're going to hear a good sermon on
how vengeance belongs to God. And you know who it's going to
come from? David. The same man right here in chapter
25 is wanting to draw his sword against this man and take personal
vengeance himself. In other words, what that shows
is that believers, we do bad things, but we know better. Don't
we? We know better. But look here,
it says, now here's David, personally it's sin, but in God, in Christ,
whom he typifies, it's justice. But look at what Abigail does,
verse 24, and fell, Abigail fell at his feet and said, upon me,
my Lord. Upon me let this iniquity be,
and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience,
and hear the words of thine handmaid. Verse 25, go on. Let not, my
Lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal, for
as his name is, so is he, Nabal is his name, and folly is with
him. But I, thine handmaid, saw not
the young men of my Lord, whom thou didst send. What is she
doing there? You know what she's doing? She's
playing the part of a mediator, an intercessor. Let it be on
me. Take it out on me. What does
that teach? Here, Abigail is a type of Christ. That's what our Savior did before
the Father, in essence. The Father coming in justice.
Think of it this way, and I'm just trying to describe this
in human terms now. But here's the Father coming
in divine, retributive, as they say, justice, to put away from
Him, to punish by death all who have sinned against Him. But
what happens? Our Savior, like Abigail, steps
up. And literally, we would say it
this way in a spiritual manner, bowing at his feet because the
Son submitted to the Father. You remember we read that in
John 6. This is the will of him that sent me, that of all which
he hath given me I should lose nothing. He submitted himself
unto the Father, like Abigail submitted herself unto David,
the Savior King, and said, put it on me. And you know what that
teaches us? knew something about the doctrine
of imputation. Because if she hadn't, that would
have been a real stupid, unreasonable request. They knew something
about it, and I'll tell you how they knew about it, because it
was taught to them by God in the sacrificial system. Sin laid
upon the innocent. And that's what she's doing.
She's playing the part of a mediator here, the intercessor. So in
this sense, it's bifocal. Not only is she personally the
sinner who's coming to the Savior, King David, who's a type of Christ,
she herself takes the part of a mediator. And you know what?
That tells us that God is intent on saturating his word with the
gospel of his grace in every way. I mean, it's everywhere
you turn in His Word. No wonder the Lord looked at
the Pharisees and said, Search the Scriptures, for in them you
think you have eternal life. They are they which testify of
me. Even Abigail, the woman of good
understanding, points us to Christ as a type. Let that iniquity
be on me. Well, now you know that no mere
human being can stand as substitute for another before a holy God.
And that's why she's a type. But she does show a compassion
here, too. And I believe that that is so
typical of our Savior. Not only is He able to save us
by His substitutionary work on the cross, He's willing. John 13 says, He loved His own
unto the end. That is, until the finishing
of the work. And you know, When those blind men asked him to
heal him, he said, do you believe that I'm able? And they said,
yes, Lord, we believe. You're able. The question then
comes, is he willing? Well, we read it in Matthew 11.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll
give you rest. No conditions, no stipulations,
no qualifications except need, if you want to call that a qualification.
I'm in need. And he meets the need. And so
here's Abigail stepping in. Look at it again, verse 24. She
fell at his feet and said, upon me, my Lord, upon me let this
iniquity be. Our Savior did that same thing
for us. He said, upon me let that iniquity
be. He was bruised for our transgressions. By his stripes we are healed. All that substitutionary satisfactory
work that he accomplished. And so she recognizes here, she
admits to David that she's married to a fool. Verse 25. There she
is. Look at verse 26. Now therefore,
my Lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing
the Lord hath withholding thee from coming to shed blood, and
from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies
and they that seek evil to my Lord be as Nabal. Be as a fool. You see, the enemies of Christ
are always fools. I'm going to speak a little bit
more of that in the next chapter. Because even old Saul, when he
stood before David in the last meeting between David and Saul,
you know what Saul told David? He said, I played the fool. Somebody
said that's man's favorite game. Playing the fool. Man's favorite
sport. Playing the fool. And we'll talk
more about that. But here's this Nabosh. He's
a fool. And Abigail is saying, don't
avenge yourself. You know that's not right. This
man's a fool. He's a fool. But listen to me.
Apart from the grace of God, apart from the power of His Spirit
to enlighten our minds and give us life, what were we? What would
we be? Fools. Fools. Every sinner who
seeks to come before God without Christ, without his blood and
righteousness, is a fool. And that's what Nabal represents.
So look at verse 27. He says, And now this blessing
which thine handmaid hath brought unto my Lord, let it even be
given unto the young men that follow my Lord. And verse 28,
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid. You see, Abigail's
not coming proudly. She'd already thrown herself
at his feet. She's not saying, let their sin
be upon me because I'm innocent and I'm perfect and pure. She
said, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid. She knew she
was a sinner. She knew she needed a Savior.
And she says, for the Lord will certainly make my Lord a sure
house. You know what she's saying? She's
saying the same thing Job said in Job 19. I know my Redeemer
liveth. She's saying the same thing that
David's going to say on his deathbed. He said, this is all my salvation. This is a covenant that is ordered
and sure in all things. She says, I, the Lord, will certainly
make my Lord a sure house. I know you're going to be king.
I know you're going to be successful. I know you're the Lord's anointed.
David is her surety here. Well, what is Christ to us? He's
our surety. He's our surety. He's our Savior
King. And there's no assurance of salvation,
no salvation at all, and no assurance of salvation without coming to
Him, like Abaham, as a sinner in need of mercy. The Lord will
certainly make my Lord a sure house. The Bible in Isaiah 55
speaks of the sure mercies of David. Do you know what the sure
mercies of David are? That is all the blessings of
salvation, mercy, grace, and forgiveness in Christ. That's the sure mercies of David.
And that's what Abigail's pleading for, first in her physical life,
but mainly in her spiritual life. And listen to what she says.
Now, here's why it's going to be short. She says, verse 28,
"...because my Lord fighteth the battles of the Lord, and
evil hath not been found in thee all thy days." Now, she's not
saying to David personally that you're a sinlessly perfect man.
If that's what she meant, why is she even coming out there
trying to stop him from engaging in personal vengeance? What she's
saying is this, that the Lord has anointed you to be king,
the savior king of this land. And that's what you're going
to be. In other words, in seeking to do what you're doing, as far
as promoting your cause and taking your men and standing in opposition
to Saul, you're not committing any sin there. Saul was committing
a great sin in trying to kill David. Because David was God's
anointed, saw he was anointed on the throne that he was going
to be taken off. And so what she's saying that
this evil has not been found in thee all thy days, you're
going to be king. Now, of course, that's a great
picture of our Savior who is sinlessly perfect within himself,
always was, is and always will be. That's one of the ways that
he's qualified to be the Savior King, the Savior of sinners.
Because he himself knew no sin. He was made sin, the Scripture
says. The Scripture never says he was
made a sinner. It says he was made sin. For
us, Christ who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. And then look at verse 29. Yet a man is risen to pursue
thee, and to seek thy soul. But the soul of my Lord shall
be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God." Let me
tell you something. If you ever want to be bound,
be bound right there in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God. That's where I want to be bundled.
How about you? Bundled up in Christ. Blessed
with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
And he says, "...in the souls of thine enemies, them shall
he sling out as out of the middle of a sling." Just like David
took a rock and slung it out of that sling into Goliath's
forehead. That's how the enemies of the
Lord are going to be slung out. They're not going to be bundled
up. You see this bundling is a tight bundling that cannot
be broken. But these are going to be slung
out. Every sinner in Christ is bundled in the bundle of life. with the Lord thy God. All else
will be slung out into utter damnation. Look at verse 30. And it shall come to pass when
the Lord shall have done to my Lord according to all the good
that he has spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed
thee ruler over Israel. You see that surety never leaves
her heart now. When you come and When you come
to your kingdom, he says in verse 31, or she says, that this shall
be no grief unto thee, there be no stumbling, no offense of
heart unto my Lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless.
In other words, what she's saying is, when you become king, you
can look back on this incident and not be shamed because you
took personal vengeance when you know it was sinful to do
so. And so she says, or that my Lord hath avenged himself.
Now listen to this, underscore this. But when the Lord shall
have dealt well with my Lord, and remember thine handmaid,
remember me. Now think about that. Here she
is, she came to David just exactly as he is. That's the way a sinner
comes to Christ, just exactly as he is, the God-man mediator,
the Savior King. She came to David as he was revealed
and identified and distinguished by the Lord's word. We as sinners
come to Christ as he's revealed and identified and distinguished
in the gospel of God's grace. Now, not all people will come
to him. Nabal didn't come to him. Saul didn't come to him. We'll see later, Abner didn't
come to him. His son, what's his son's name? Absalom didn't
come to him. But some did. Some will. What's the difference? Remember
back in John 6, verse 37, "...all that the Father giveth me shall
come to me. And him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out." The grace of God. That's it. Coming to
Christ is believing on Him and repenting of everything else.
And just like David sent out his men to go to Nabal and ask
for permission, the Lord sends out his prophets, his apostles,
his preachers to preach the gospel. Man, by nature, rejects. But some come to him. Why? Are they better than the ones
who did or who were? No, sir. There's not an ounce
of righteousness or goodness in all of us put together. including this preacher. Why
did we come to him? He said, All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. We see God's distinguishing grace,
His sovereign grace in all this, but you know, this isn't the
first time we've seen it. We saw it when He saved Abel
and He judged Cain. We saw it when he saved Isaac
and he passed by Ishmael. We saw it when he loved Jacob
and hated Esau. Remember, his vengeance against
us was settled at the cross when Christ took our sins and died
on Calvary. Same here. He saved Abigail and
he destroyed Nabal. Consider the case of Abigail.
You know she had a bad marriage, didn't you? Married to a fool. Her relationship to Nabal made
them one in the eyes of David. One flesh. Well, we had a bad
marriage too, didn't we? To Adam. And we fell in Adam. And we were one in the eyes of
God's justice in Adam in sin. And like Adam, Abigail's husband
had defied and insulted and made an enemy of the king. And the
king pronounced death on all Nabal's household, just like
he did all Adam's. For in Adam, all die. It's only in Christ shall all
be made alive. The Apostle Paul in Romans 7
used the law of God to show us the only way we can be delivered
from the responsibility for that bad marriage. for sin that we
came under when we fell in Adam. And the only way for us to be
freed from our bad marriage is the death of the Savior. We're
freed from the law by the body of Christ, it says, that we might
be married to another, Jesus Christ. Abigail came to David because
she was in a desperate, dangerous situation. That's what caused
her to seek David. What was about to take place
here? A king was approaching in judgment upon the household
of which she was a part of it. And write that and think about
it. A king is coming to bring judgment on a household of which
we by nature are a part. We're in a desperate situation
in our original state. Nabal was nothing compared to
David. Well, we're nothing compared to Christ. No defense, no righteousness,
no protection of our own. We can't muster it up. We can't
work it up. No matter how religious we try
to be, no matter how sincere we try to be, no matter how good
we try to be, we cannot do one thing towards recommending ourselves
unto God. Now it says here, Abigail was
a woman of good understanding. As I said, where did she get
that? She got it from God. What did she do? How do you know
that? She took her rightful place before David as a sinner. And
all who have been given a good understanding of who they are
and of who God is will take their rightful place in the dust before
a holy God. She called herself back here,
remember she said, thine handmaid. There was another woman in Scripture
who called herself the handmaid of the Lord. Her name was Hannah.
Samuel's mother. You know how she described salvation?
She said it was of the sovereign power of God. She said, look,
not proudly anymore. We have nothing but sin and deserving
of death. And here's how God saves a sinner,
she said in her prayer. She said he reaches down and
lifts the old beggar off the dung pile. Same thing with Abigail. You know, Christ is the king
of kings and the Lord of lords. Abigail owned David to be her
king, though he really wasn't yet made king. Christ is not
acknowledged by the world, not seen with the eye as king. But
I'm going to tell you something, he is king. And his people know
it. And are glad of it. David took compassion on Abigail. Our Savior took compassion on
us. He will not despise those of a broken and a contrite heart,
for they are His workmanship. He sent His Spirit into the world
to break our hearts. Abigail went to David begging
for mercy, and she did so by confessing her iniquity. She
didn't do as Adam did to Eve. The woman you gave me, it's her
fault, her fault, somebody else's fault, my environment. I tell you, by nature, we're
willing to confess sin generally, our imperfection, everybody else's
sin, but the one who's been made spiritually alive says, my sin,
my sin, my iniquity. And her assurance was in David.
She knew that David was God's anointed. And she said, Lord,
remember me. Just like that old thief on the
cross. When he finally realized that he deserved to be where
he was and get what he was getting, and remember how he said that?
He looked at the other thief and he said, this man that you're
railing against, he hath done nothing amiss. He doesn't deserve
to be here. He's the Lord of glory. And then
he turned to the Lord and said, Lord, remember me when you come
into your kingdom. He didn't say, Lord, remember
me if you come into your kingdom. He's just like Abigail. God's
going to establish a sure house with you. Lord, remember me when
you come into your kingdom. A sure house. And that's the
ground of our forgiveness in the Lord. Christ, our surety,
who fought our battles for us, not only in His life, but also
in His death. And He accomplished redemption
for His people. And we have redemption through
His blood. Even the forgiveness of sins,
the Scripture says. You see, every plea that Abigail
made to David was based on these things. Who he was, what he would
do, and his willingness to save. Isn't that what our pleas to
Christ are based on? Who he is, God in human flesh,
and what he did, died on the cross for our sins, and his willingness
to save. Any sinner who comes before him
begging for mercy. And then Abigail came praising
and worshiping, David as the king, not worship him in the
place of God. But she praised him, praised
him as in the office that he had. And she said, remember me. And David granted her the request
and accepted her. And peace was made. And then
later on, we'll see this next time. You know what he did? Well,
Nabal died. We're going to see that. And
he married Abigail. He married her. And that's what
the Lord of Glory does to each and every one of his people.
His bride collectively. He marries them. Makes them his
bride. He doesn't just throw them a
bone and say, now you all stay outside where I don't have to
look at you. He doesn't say, well, I'll build
you a house way out there somewhere, and if I ever want to see you,
I'll let you know. No, he married. Became his wife. And that's the
grace of God.