The Life Of David // Pastor Gene Pensiero

From his deathbed King David gives advice to his son and successor, Solomon (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David is old and is so cold as he lies in his sickbed that a nurse must be found who will lie next to him to keep him warm (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David foolishly orders a census of the army that results in a plague from God that takes the lives of 70,000 Israelites (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

We are given a list of the names and representative exploits of Davidʼs personal guard, called his ʻmighty menʼ (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

An aged King David writes the last of his inspired psalms (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David looked back and wrote a song about his life portraying it as a musical (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Four Philistine giants are defeated by David and his men (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

A three-year famine is ended when seven sons of Saul are executed for their sin against the Gibeonites (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Joab disembowels Amasa and leaves him wallowing in his own blood with his “entrails poured out on the ground” (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David had fled Jerusalem but is now invited back to restore his reign over the nation (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Two messengers come to David bearing what he will consider the bad news that his son was killed in the battle (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Retreating from Davidʼs men, Absalom gets stuck in a tree and Joab kills him while he is hanging there (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Davidʼs traitorous son, Absalom, marches into Jerusalem and claims the throne for himself, openly committing an act of shameful immorality (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Barefoot and tearing their clothing in anguish, David nevertheless instructs his servants as he flees for his life (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

As part of his campaign to steal the hearts of the people and ascend to his fatherʼs throne, Absalom annually cuts and weighs his plentiful hair (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Joab devises a plan to have Absalom return from banishment for having killed his brother (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Absalom gets his brother Amnon drunk at a banquet then orders his sheep shearers to murder him (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Davidʼs son Amnon deceives his step-sister Tamar into feeding him a meal so that he can sexually assault her (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David is invited by Joab to come out and finish the battle against the Ammonites (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

After his child dies David worships the Lord knowing that he will join him one day (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Nathan tells a story about a poor manʼs pet ewe lamb in order to expose Davidʼs sins of adultery and murder (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David watches Bathsheba bathing then summons her to the palace and commits adultery (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

King Davidʼs ambassadors are humiliated when the Ammonites “shave-off half of their beards…and cut-off their garments at their buttocks” (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David goes out of his way to show mercy to the grandson of his former rival (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David conquers adversary after adversary in the name of the Lord (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David wants to build a house for God but God sends Nathan to very frankly tell him “No” (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David builds a cart to bring the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem but ends-up leaving it at the house of Obed-Edom (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Not once but twice David kills many Philistines who come against Israel (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

The Jebusites and King David trade taunts as the Israelites determine to conquer Jerusalem (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David is deeply distressed when two of Ishboshethʼs captains murder him, decapitate him, and bring his head to David (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Abner comes offering King David peace but is stabbed and killed by Joab (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David amasses six wives during his seven years as king over Judah in Hebron (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Abner opposes the rightful king and we see a little similarity in our own lives in areas where we are not fully submitting to Jesus (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

King Saulʼs death opens the way for David to become Israelʼs rightful king but instead one of Saulʼs sons claims the throne (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Upon hearing of his death, David writes a stirring funeral lament for Saul that ignores his glaring failures and instead praises every redeeming quality (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Not wanting to be captured and tortured by the Philistines, a wounded King Saul falls on his own sword (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

After traveling about 100 miles round trip, Davidʼs men talk of stoning him to death when they return home to find Ziklag burning and their families taken captive (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

After David decides to leave the land of Israel to escape his trials he finds himself the friend of the world and the enemy of God (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

King Saul consults a medium and to everyoneʼs surprise ends up being confronted by Samuel (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

In a fit of spiritual fatigue, David decides to escape his many trials by moving to the Philistine city of Ziklag (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David and Abishai come out of their wilderness hiding place and walk right in to the camp of King Saul (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

On his way to slaughter Nabal and the men of his household David encounters Abigail blocking the road (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Nabal, whose name translates to fool, picks a fight with David, his future king (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Samuel dies and all Israel gathers at his funeral to lament his remarkable life (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Saul steps in to a cave to go to the bathroom and nearly gets waylayed by David and his men who were hiding there (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

With King Saul pursuing, David chooses to flee into the Wilderness of Ziph (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

David repeatedly inquires of the Lord to determine Godʼs will for he and his men (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

When King Saulʼs men refuse to kill the priests, Doeg steps in and murders eighty-five of them, along with their wives, their children and infants, their neighbors, and even their livestock (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

When David flees to the cave at Adullam, other outcasts begin to join him there and he becomes their champion (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david

Fearing King Saul, David flees to Philistine territory where he pretends to be crazy for fear of King Achish (Pastor Gene Pensiero) For video, audio and text of this series, visit calvaryhanford.com/david