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David Guzik ( - )
Listen to freely downloadable audio sermons by the speaker David Guzik in mp3 format. David Guzik is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Santa Barbara, having come to serve that congregation in July 2010. For 7 years before that, David was the director of Calvary Chapel Bible College Germany, near Siegen, Germany. David took this position in January of 2003, after serving for 14 years as the founding and Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel of Simi Valley. He has been in pastoral ministry since 1982.
David has no formal Bible College or seminary training, but does have a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. David, his wife Inga-Lill, live in Santa Barbara, California. Their three children are grown; Aan-Sofie serves as a missionary in Ireland, Nathan lives in Los Angeles, and Jonathan lives in Santa Barbara.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (1 Samuel) A Foolish Oath and Consequences by David Guzik
Topic: Scripture(s): 1 Samuel 14:24-52 | | Description: It was critical that Israel pursued thye retreating Philistines after what the Lord had done but king Saul placed the people under a forced forced fast in order that he would appear spiritual before them, thus he did it for his own glory and not the glory of God. This day the Israelite army needed their physical strength to totally wipe out the oppresive Philistines but they had none due to Sauls fast. Jonathan however had not taken the oath to fast because he had been off fighting the Philistines with his armour bearer, so he came back and ate some honey, which was when he was challenged by one of the people, and when he heard this he said how wrong his father had been and told of how if it wasn't for his fathers fast they would have defeated the Philistines in a mighty way. Saul had sinned greatly against the Lord in this and thus when he went to enquire of the Lord what he should do the Lord would not answer him.
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| | | (1 Samuel) A Good Start for Saul by David Guzik
Topic: Scripture(s): 1 Samuel 10 | | Description: Here is the time in history of the nation of Israel when they are about to receive their first king. Samuel the prophet takes Saul, the future king, and anoints him king privately and in a way that shows how the Lord wants to anoint every believer with the Holy Ghost, how He should fill our lives. The Lord then confirms that Saul is to be made king by giving Saul 3 very specific signs. The last sign was that thje Holy Ghost would come upon Saul and change him into a new man as spiritual confirmation of the physical anointing that Saul had received. So Saul was turned into another man, Samuel gathered all the people of Israel together and revealed Saul as their future king and the people rejoiced because he 'looked the part' but Samuel knew that Saul had very little spiritual subsatnce.
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| | | (1 Samuel) A Prophet Speaks to the Nation by David Guzik
Topic: Scripture(s): 1 Samuel 12:1-12 | | Description: Samuel, the man of God, comes before the people to publically pass the torch on to Saul as the new ruler of the people of Israel. He stands before the people and asks them to declare if he has ever wronged them or defrauded them or let them down in any way, which is a challenging thing for a leader to do before their people. The people respond and say that Samuel has not wronged them at any time. By this public challenge Samuel confirmed that he was passing on a good legacy to Saul and that if the nation went downhill from their it was not Samuels fault. He declares to them all the righteous acts that the Lord has done to them how He brought them out of Egypt, raised up judges to rule over them and taught them discipline through affliction. He recalls the events that effected the nation of Israel right up to the battle with Nahash in the previous chapter and shows the people the big picture of how the Lord has been faithful to them.
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| | | (1 Samuel) Attacked, but Blessed by David Guzik
Topic: Scripture(s): 1 Samuel 18:17-30 | | Description: Saul in trying to bring about Davids death offers his daughters hand in mnarriage knowing that David will not be able to pay the dowery due to coming from a rural family. David however does not approach Saul to discuss a dowery and so Saul offers his daughter to another man in order that he might make David jelous. But David keeps a pure heart before the Lord and actually wins a victory by being submissive and humble before the Lord. David also did not suspect that Saul had ulterior motives in offering his daughter to David. Then Sauls youngest daughter Michal fell in love with David and this pleased Saul as he could again manipulate this situation for David's hurt, so Saul proposes a price for his daughter, 100 Philistine foreskins, knowing that it was highly likely that David would be killed in meeting the price, however the Lord was with David and delivered him 200 Philistine foreskins. This extra effort is straight out of the teaching of the Lord Jesus who commanded to 'go the second mile' and thus show a humility and a servants heart, which David surely had.
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| | | (1 Samuel) Blessed Sons and Wicked Sons by David Guzik
Topic: Scripture(s): 1 Samuel 2:1-21 | | Description: Hannah gave Samuel back to the Lord with a song of joy in her heart, she was full of joy even though she had to give up her 3 year old son, she praised God but also explains how we should humble ourselves before God, or He will humble us, the Lord resists the proud but gives grace to the humble and lifts them up and out of their dire situations just as he did with Hannah. She exalts the King, the Anointed One, the Messiah and was the first person to proclaim the God would be the Messiah a theme that was later shwon through all the prophets but Hannah saw it first. There isw a shift in this passage though in the form of the corrupt sons of the high priest Eli, who didn't know the Lord and by their actions were causing the people of God to hate offering to God as the people knew that the priesthood was so corrupt. Samuel however served the Lord as a small child and was dressed in priests clothes that his mother would make for him and bring to Shiloh every year, and the Lord further blessed her with 3 more sons and 2 daughters.
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| | | (1 Samuel) Blessings to a Bold Faith by David Guzik
Topic: Scripture(s): 1 Samuel 13:15-14:23 | | Description: Israel were vastly outnumber and had no adequate militray equipment to fight the Philistine army that amassed against them. However this did not concern Jonathan and his armour bearer one bit, they saw a big enemy but a bigger God and with one of the Bibles great faith exercises went up against the local philistine garrison believing that God could deliver them into their hand. Jonathan as a man of God knew that the Lord could save wether by many or by few, He was not hindered in the least by numbers. Jonathans armour bearer was loyal to his master and went all the way with him believing the Lord the same way. Jonathan just before going up to the philistines asked the Lord for one last sign that this was of Him, and he received confirmation and declared victory before even meeting his foe. This is a mighty lesson for us to learn that truelly if God is for us then who dare be against us. The Lord delivered just 20 men into their hand but the whole became afraid and started turning on each other.
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| | | (1 Samuel) Blessings to the Barren by David Guzik
Topic: Scripture(s): 1 Samuel 1 | | Description: The Bible is a real book with stories about real people and this is seen here in 1 Samuel in the life of Hannah, her husband Elkanah and Peninnah his second wife. Hannah is greived because she is barren, a situation which was possibly the worst place a woman could be in the Old Testament. Every year Elkanah and his two wives would go up to Shiloh to the feast and Peninnah would mock Hannah becasue she had not children and Peninnah did. This caused incredible sorrow in the heart of Hannah, but she did the right thing and poured out her grief before the Lord. She made a vow to the Lord that if He would give her a son she would dedicate him to the Lord in a deeper and stronger way be seperating him as a Nazerite to the Lord, the remarkable moment came when after she had grieved before the Lord her sorrow left her and her faith in God was restored, did she concieve that moment? no, but God's word was just as sure and she praised Him for it. The Lord opened her womb and she gave birth to one of the most remarkable men in the Bible, Samuel.
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| | | (1 Samuel) Bottomed Out and Starting to Rise by David Guzik
Topic: Scripture(s): 1 Samuel 29:1-30:6 | | Description: David and his men are preparing to fight a war, against Israel and with the Philistines, he was in a place where he never thought he'd be fighting against the people of God with the enemies of God, but the Philistine rulers were suspicious of him, they hadn't forgotten who David was even if he had, so they would not allow him to fight with them and wanted him to leave. David discouraged by this went, with his men, back to their home in Ziklag, but when thy get in sight of the city they see smoke coming up out of it and not smoke from cooking, so they rush home to find the city totally empty, all their families had been taken by the Amalekites, then men began to dispair and turned on David desiring that they might stone him to death. David also deeply concerned did the only thing he could do in the situation, strengthened himself in the Lord his God.
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