![]() ![]() I have no love for David therefore, David must have no love for me." This is the way we also think. Mephibosheth thought, "My grandfather was David's enemy therefore, David must hate me. Man knows that he has sinned, and he thinks that God hates him. Because man hates God, he thinks that God also hates him. Man has misunderstood God! I say again: man has misunderstood our God! Because man has devious thoughts about God, he thinks that God also has devious thoughts about him. ![]() Consider for a moment: does this not look like the picture of a sinner before God? The boy fell on the ground and became lame because she was running too fast. She thought that since both his grandfather and father were dead, David might come to avenge and kill Mephibosheth if they did not flee fast. When Saul and Jonathan were killed, Mephibosheth's nurse took him and fled quickly. Many times he persecuted David and wanted to put him to death. Please pay special attention to the fact that Mephibosheth's grandfather, Saul, was David's enemy. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. ![]() Second Samuel 4:4 says, "And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. But today I want to speak about how David graciously treated Jonathan's son, Mephibosheth, and about Mephibosheth's gratitude to David. Some secular writers also use the story of David and Jonathan as an example of love between friends. When we talk about friendship in the Bible, we often mention David and Jonathan. Most of the people sitting here have read the Bible. Today we will talk about a lame boy who was saved. In the Bible there are many wonderful stories: one tells us about a prostitute who was saved, one about a robber who was saved, one about a tax collector who was saved, and even one about a bad Pharisee who was saved. Today I want to look at a wonderful story from the Old Testament about a lame boy sitting at a king's table. ![]()
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