What Ever Happened to Respect?

[n david]

Originally Posted by Dichotomy Girl

My knowledge of the Bible is admittedly a bit rusty these days, but didn't David continue to show respect King Saul, even though he knew that God had anointed him to be the new King?

And what about all those foreign rulers when Israel was in exile? I seem to recall that short of being commanded to do something that violated the law, they respected and obeyed the rulers of the land.

That wasn't what was at issue with the question there, but yes David stayed in the background and waited for God to fulfill His promise.

Originally Posted by Aquila

Ah... but there are always choices with regards to God. Did God remove David from power and raise up another more righteous? (He could have.) No. God humbled him publically, allowed a temporal judgment to befall David, and then restored David to righteous relationship and service.

God didn't just humble David, there was a terrible judgement on David because of his sin. His baby died. His daughter was raped by Amnon, his son. Amnon was then murdered by David's other son, Absalom. David was not the same after.

Originally Posted by Aquila

Sadly... we had a President who had been filled with the Holy Ghost and was deep life long friends with an Apostolic pastor and we reviled him. And we rallied to elect another President who had no affiliation with the Apostolic movement who was under the direct influence of the NWO. Hmmmm... What gives?

It's true that Apostolics/Pentecostals could have been more forgiving and shown more compassion to a President who, to this day has fond memories of his time with the Pentecostals.