1 Sam. 16:1-13:God sends Samuel to Bethlehem to look for Israel's next ruler. Who ends up being a shepherd boy.
After King Saul who was the peoples choice dies. He sends Samuel to Bethlehem to find and anoint God's choice for the next king of Israel. After looking at 11 of Jessie's sons and finding them not God's choose. David the youngest is brought before him. God tells Samuel that that is his choose and Samuel anoints him to become king. David was a Shepherd at this time (1 Sam. 16:1-13). In doing this God made it possible for David to be the Father of the lineage that Jesus would come out of. After David becomes King he has his songs written down. One of these songs is Psalms 23. In this Psalm David is showing how God is the good shepherd.
Ps. 23:The Lord is my good shepherd who leads, provides and protects us.
Eph. 5:8-14: Ye are the children of light live as life that shows God's light through you to those around you.
John 9:1-41: Jesus tells his followers that as long as he was in the world , he was the light of the world. Then he heals a blind man to prove it.
After King Saul who was the peoples choice dies. He sends Samuel to Bethlehem to find and anoint God's choice for the next king of Israel. After looking at 11 of Jessie's sons and finding them not God's choose. David the youngest is brought before him. God tells Samuel that that is his choose and Samuel anoints him to become king. David was a Shepherd at this time (1 Sam. 16:1-13). In doing this God made it possible for David to be the Father of the lineage that Jesus would come out of. After David becomes King he has his songs written down. One of these songs is Psalms 23. In this Psalm David is showing how God is the good shepherd.
Later when Jesus had come to earth & was ministering to the world he told his followers that he was the light of the world as long as he was in the world. Then he gives sign to a man who was blind to prove it. Why because it showed as he had taken the blind man out of darkness, he could take them out of spiritual darkness. (John 9:1-41). After Jesus left the world, Paul reminds Jesus followers that they were now to be children of light.He went on to explain what that took (Eph. 5:8-14).
David was used to lay down the lineage that his son Jesus would come out of. Why? Because he understood what it was to be a leader. How? by being a shepherd of sheep when he was young. God later had him be the leader of men. We see that as we read the words he wrote in the 23rd Psalms.
Jesus came to lead his people out of the spiritual darkness they were in by being the light of the world that would lead people spiritually out of darkness while he was on earth. Before he left he told his followers that they were now to be lights to the world through him. Then Paul reminds Christians that they are now to be children of that light. When we are children we will lead people out of spiritual darkness by shinning the light to the path that leads to Jesus.
For only Jesus can lead people out of spiritual darkness.
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