He calls out to Abner and he said in verse number 14 and David cried to the people and to Abner the son of Nur
saying answer is thou not Abner then Abner answered and said who art thou that cries to the king
David said to Abner art not thou a valiant man
He's kind of talking bad about this guy and who is like to be in Israel
Wherefore then hast thou not kept by Lord the king
Where there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord
This thing is not good that that was done as the Lord liveth again. That's a pretty strong statement, isn't it?
Ye are worthy to die
Wow
Because you have not kept your master the Lord's anointed and now see where the Kings spear is in the cruise of water
That was at his bolster
Now this is a really interesting portion of this chapter here where David is rebuking Abner severely
Okay. Now here's a couple things you have to understand
First of all, that doesn't mean he hates Abner
But Abner is worthy to be strongly rebuked because he's worthy of death
He literally allowed Saul to be killed and he's by grace David was someone that wouldn't kill him
I mean if it was anybody but David Saul would have died and so would probably of Abner. Okay, and
What we have to understand is that David preserved both of their lives, you know, Abishai is like let's go
You know, I'm ready to get this guy because he's the son of Zeruiah. All right
That's a different sermon. But here's the thing you have to understand. It's very interesting about this sermon. Okay
Who's Abner?
Abner is the guy that's with Saul
Abner is Saul's right-hand man Abner is his most valiant guy
Do you know who preserves Saul's life better than Abner David?
David preserves Saul's life more
Than Abner and this is what I'm going to tell you. Yes, men are not your greatest offender
You know your greatest offender the guy who's rebuking you
The guy that telling you that you're wrong. Go through the Proverbs 27 verse 7 think about this
You know people get so mad at someone like me
I find a saved pastor and I point out him being a grievous error and
They act like I'm attacking him or hurting him
You know is attacking and hurting that guy the Abner's in his life that are the yes, men
Pretending like what they're doing is good
Allowing them to go to these battles and you know the yes, men he's not gonna tell you when you have a problem
He's not gonna tell you when you have a grievous error. He's not gonna actually preserve you look at Proverbs 27 verse 6
Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful
You know, it's better than a kiss a wound
Because if all you get is kisses from Abner he's gonna let you die
But notice the wounds from David will actually preserve you not only the David literally preserve him
But David allows Saul to realize hey Abner's sucking at his job
Abner's not doing his job. You're right in man doesn't really care about you. Look at this horrible error
He let you commit look at the horrible error
He commits, you know the guy that actually cares about you and loves you will rebuke you when you do something wrong
Bible says that you shouldn't hate your neighbor in your heart
I'm not supposed to suffer sin upon him. What are you supposed to do rebuke him?
Tell him that he's wrong and you know people get all mad. They're like, why would you rebuke a pastor?
Why would you talk negative about a man?
It's like this is like well, do you want me to be an Abner?
Abner's not really his friend
Abner's not really preserving him. I'm just gonna allow this guy to get destroyed
You know if I'm doing something wrong, please help me, you know
Why would I want a bunch of yes men to let me just walk off the cliff?
You know the guy that really preserves Saul better is David
Even when David has been pushed out even when David's not his, you know in his like current service
He's still preserving his life more than Abner
That's crazy to think about Abish. I wanted to kill him
But David preserved him and notice Abner didn't preserve him from anybody
Abner's just asleep on the wheel, you know, and you know, there's a lot of Christians that are asleep at the wheel today
They will let their master be destroyed because you know what? They're just a yes, man