1 Sam 16:13 Psalms 26 & 51

A MAN AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART

THE INTEGRITY OF HIS HEART

1Kings 9:4 Now if you walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,

• 1Kings 9:5

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'You shall not fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.'

The Openness of his heart• Psalm 26:1-3 Vindicate me, O LORD, For I

have walked in my integrity. I have also trusted in the LORD; I shall not slip.

• (Psa 26:2) Examine me, O LORD, and prove

me; Try my mind and my heart. • (Psa 26:3) For Your loving kindness is before

my eyes, And I have walked in Your truth.

The Brokenness of his heart

• Psalm 51:17

• The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.

The Truthfulness of his heart.

• Psalm 15:1

• LORD, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill? 15:2 He who walks uprightly, And works righteousness, And speaks the truth in his heart;

The Holiness of his Heart

• Psalm 24 ...

who may stand in his holy place? back comes the answer he who has clean hands and a pure heart"

THE MATURITY OF DAVID’S HEART

• The Perfection of his Worship

• The Perfection of his Walk

• The Perfection of his Witness

THE FIDELITY OF HIS HEART

• 1 KINGS 14:8 The Lord says of David

• My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all his heart, to do only what was right in My eyes;