That's Not Fair: When Life Hits You When You're Down (2 Samuel 21:1-7) [Audio]

LifePoint Baptist Church Pastor Jarrod Stotmeister lpforme.com Wednesday Night Sermon Title: That's Not Fair: When Life Hits You When You're Down Date: February 11, 2026 Passage: 2 Samuel 21:1-7 When life seems to pile on hardship after hardship, it's easy to cry "That's not fair!" In this message, Pastor Jarrod Stotmeister examines David's experience during a three-year famine, revealing how God sometimes brings consequences from past wrongs to light—even years later. Learn how seeking God in tough times leads to truth, repentance, and restoration rather than bitterness. 2 Samuel 21:1-7 1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites. 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) 3 Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD? 4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you. 5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel, 6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them. 7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.