1st.Samuel 30:11 "And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water; and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou ? and whence art thou ? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick. We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongs to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company ? And he said, Swear unto me by GOD, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company. And when he had brought him down, behold they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah. And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled. And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives. And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all. And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil."
Notice the Egyptian's captivity -- he was a servant to an Amalekite (v.13 cf. Exodus 17:8-16). The Amalekites typify the flesh and the devil -- both enslave the unsaved and leave no possible way of escape through personal effort or self-determination. It is important to notice that David inquired of this poor fellow concerning who owned him: "To whom belongest thou ?" (v.13). Other questions and concerns followed, but this was the first item of information David wanted to hear from the Egyptian's lips. So it is with JESUS CHRIST, of whom David is a type in this particular text. Before we can be saved, we must acknowledge our utterly lost condition. We belong to, and are enslaved by, the god of this world. Satan owns the right to the lost in this world who have not yet been redeemed by the ANOINTED ONE of GOD.
Notice the Egyptian's conversion -- David received him (vv.15-20). Rather than executing righteous judgement, David extended mercy and even took him along to judge his former master. David also gave him a job to do and later shared with him the spoils of victory. CHRIST not only changes our citizenship, but HE also changes our servitude. Sin no longer needs to reign in our life (Romans 5:17 - 6:7), for we now have a new Master to follow and serve. The compassion and provision demonstrated by the Egyptian's deliverer was the best a king could offer, but David's new servant now wanted assurance that his new master would not change his mind or revoke the mercy extended to him or return him to his former master, the Amalekite (v.15). David kept his word, and so does our LORD (John 10:27-29 pictured below). We have security in our SAVIOR. DWC
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie
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