HOW TO BEHAVE IN A

CAVE

HOW TO BEHAVE IN A

CAVE

A LOOK AT GODLY DECISION MAKINGA LOOK AT GODLY DECISION MAKING

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PRACTICAL THINKING REGARDING

OUR FAITH

PRACTICAL THINKING REGARDING

OUR FAITH

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REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

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DAVID DID NOT ALLOW CIRCUMSTANCE TO BECOME HIS GUIDE

DAVID DID NOT ALLOW CIRCUMSTANCE TO BECOME HIS GUIDE

DAVID MAINTAINED A TENDER CONSCIENCEDAVID MAINTAINED A TENDER CONSCIENCE

DAVID’S DECISIONS REFLECTED AN EXTREME RESPECT FOR GODDAVID’S DECISIONS REFLECTED AN EXTREME RESPECT FOR GOD

DAVID REMOVED SELF FROM THE EQUATIONDAVID REMOVED SELF FROM THE EQUATION

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TENSION BETWEEN THEM WAS THE RESULT OF SAUL’S SINFULNESSTENSION BETWEEN THEM WAS THE RESULT OF SAUL’S SINFULNESS

DAVID SUFFERED YEARS OF ABUSE AT THE HANDS OF SAULDAVID SUFFERED YEARS OF ABUSE AT THE HANDS OF SAUL

WOULD YOU FEEL THESE CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD JUSTIFY DAVID LASHING OUT?

WOULD YOU FEEL THESE CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD JUSTIFY DAVID LASHING OUT?

CIRCUMSTANCES CANNOT DETERMINE ACTIONSCIRCUMSTANCES CANNOT DETERMINE ACTIONS

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PERHAPS THE INTENT WAS TO SUGGEST THIS WAS PROVIDENTIALPERHAPS THE INTENT WAS TO SUGGEST THIS WAS PROVIDENTIAL

“BEHOLD THIS IS THE DAY OF WHICH THE LORD SAID TO YOU…”“BEHOLD THIS IS THE DAY OF WHICH THE LORD SAID TO YOU…”

WE MUST NOT ALLOW OUR DESIRES TO ALTER THE SCRIPTURESWE MUST NOT ALLOW OUR DESIRES TO ALTER THE SCRIPTURES

CIRCUMSTANCES CANNOT DETERMINE ACTIONSCIRCUMSTANCES CANNOT DETERMINE ACTIONS

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We must be suspicious of our own judgments when a “new truth” or “new

understanding” seems to authorize a thing which seems needful in the moment to justify our own

desires

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Those temptations are most powerful which fetch their force from the pretense

of a religious obedience.

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SUCH PRESSURE IS NOT LIMITED TO THE YOUNG BUT EXISTS THROUGHOUT LIFESUCH PRESSURE IS NOT LIMITED TO THE YOUNG BUT EXISTS THROUGHOUT LIFE

DAVID’S MEN MAY NOT HAVE SHARED HIS CHARACTERDAVID’S MEN MAY NOT HAVE SHARED HIS CHARACTER

CIRCUMSTANCES CANNOT DETERMINE ACTIONSCIRCUMSTANCES CANNOT DETERMINE ACTIONS

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We must not yield even to our dearest and best friends when they desire from

us something wrong

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WE MUST ACTIVELY PROTECT OUR CONSCIENCE AGAINST EXPOSUREWE MUST ACTIVELY PROTECT OUR CONSCIENCE AGAINST EXPOSURE

DAVID MAINTAINED A TENDER CONSCIENCE DESPITE HIS HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE

DAVID MAINTAINED A TENDER CONSCIENCE DESPITE HIS HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE

THIS PROTECTION IS FOUND BY THE CONSTANT MEDITATION ON THE WORDTHIS PROTECTION IS FOUND BY THE CONSTANT MEDITATION ON THE WORD

WE MUST PROTECT OUR

CONSCIENCEWE MUST PROTECT OUR

CONSCIENCE

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15 I will meditate on Your precepts And regard Your ways. 16 I shall

delight in Your statutes; I shall not forget Your word.

Psalm 119:15–16 (NASB95)

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THIS RESPECT DICTATES OUR DECISIONS IN EVEN OUR MOST INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

THIS RESPECT DICTATES OUR DECISIONS IN EVEN OUR MOST INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

DAVID’S CONSCIENCE WAS BOTHERED BECAUSE SAUL WAS THE LORD’S ANOINTED

DAVID’S CONSCIENCE WAS BOTHERED BECAUSE SAUL WAS THE LORD’S ANOINTED

WE MUST DEVLOP A

RESPECT FOR GODWE MUST DEVLOP A

RESPECT FOR GOD

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HE TRUSTED IN THE LORDHE TRUSTED IN THE LORD

DAVID MAINTAINED THE PROPER PERSPECTIVEDAVID MAINTAINED THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE

WE MUST REMOVE

SELFWE MUST REMOVE

SELF

THE ABILITY TO MAINTAIN A GODLY PERSPECTIVE IS KEY TO MAKING GODLY DECISION IN EVERY SITUATION

THE ABILITY TO MAINTAIN A GODLY PERSPECTIVE IS KEY TO MAKING GODLY DECISION IN EVERY SITUATION