2 Samuel 9

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• 2 Samuel 9
• David asked, "Is there anyone still left of the
  house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for
  Jonathan's sake?" Now there was a servant of
  Saul's household named Ziba. They summoned him to
  appear before David, and the king said to him,
  "Are you Ziba?" "At your service," he replied.
  The king asked, "Is there no one still left of
  the house of Saul to whom I can show God's
  kindness?" Ziba answered the king, "There is
  still a son of Jonathan he is lame in both
  feet."

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• 4 "Where is he?" the king asked. Ziba answered,
  "He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo
  Debar." So King David had him brought from Lo
  Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.
  When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of
  Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him
  honor. David said, "Mephibosheth!" "At your
  service," he replied.

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• "Don't be afraid," David said to him, "for I will
  surely show you kindness for the sake of your
  father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the
  land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and
  you will always eat at my table." Mephibosheth
  bowed down and said, "What is your servant, that
  you should notice a dead dog like me?"

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• Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul's steward, and
  said to him, "I have given your master's grandson
  everything that belonged to Saul and his family.
  You and your sons and your servants are to farm
  the land for him and bring in the crops, so that
  your master's grandson may be provided for. And
  Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will
  always eat at my table." (Now Ziba had fifteen
  sons and twenty servants.)

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• Then Ziba said to the king, "Your servant will do
  whatever my lord the king commands his servant to
  do." So Mephibosheth ate at David's table like
  one of the king's sons. Mephibosheth had a young
  son named Mika, and all the members of Ziba's
  household were servants of Mephibosheth. And
  Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he
  always ate at the king's table he was lame in
  both feet.

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• Ephesians 2
• As for you, you were dead in your transgressions
  and sins, in which you used to live when you
  followed the ways of this world and of the ruler
  of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now
  at work in those who are disobedient. All of us
  also lived among them at one time, gratifying the
  cravings of our sinful nature and following its
  desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by
  nature deserving of wrath. But because of his
  great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
  made us alive with Christ even when we were dead
  in transgressionsit is by grace you have been
  saved.

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• And God raised us up with Christ and seated us
  with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
  in order that in the coming ages he might show
  the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed
  in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is
  by grace you have been saved, through faithand
  this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of
  God not by works, so that no one can boast. For
  we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus
  to do good works, which God prepared in advance
  for us to do.

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1. Saved by Grace

• "Don't be afraid," David said to him, "for I will
  surely show you kindness for the sake of your
  father Jonathan.
• Romans 515 But the gift is not like the
  trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of
  the one man, how much more did God's grace and
  the gift that came by the grace of the one man,
  Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

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• Galatians 318 For if the inheritance depends on
  the law, then it no longer depends on the
  promise but God in his grace gave it to Abraham
  through a promise.
• Ephesians 16 To the praise of his glorious
  grace, which he has freely given us in the One he
  loves. In him we have redemption through his
  blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance
  with the riches of God's grace

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2. Gift of God. Boasting?

• 1 Corinthians 1 26 Brothers and sisters, think
  of what you were when you were called. Not many
  of you were wise by human standards not many
  were influential not many were of noble birth.
  But God chose the foolish things of the world to
  shame the wise God chose the weak things of the
  world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly
  things of this world and the despised thingsand
  the things that are notto nullify the things
  that are, so that no one may boast before him. It
  is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus,
  who has become for us wisdom from Godthat is,
  our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
  Therefore, as it is written "Let those who boast
  boast in the Lord."

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• Galatians 54
• You who are trying to be justified by the law
  have been alienated from Christ you have fallen
  away from grace.

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3. Prepared in advance

• Ephesians 210 For we are Gods workmanship,
  created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which
  God prepared in advance for us to do.
• 1 Corinthians 1510 But by the grace of God I
  am what I am, and his grace to me was not without
  effect. No, I worked harder than all of themyet
  not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

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• Ephesians 37 I became a servant of this gospel
  by the gift of God's grace given me through the
  working of his power.
• Ephesians 38 Although I am less than the least
  of all the Lord's people, this grace was given
  me to preach to the Gentiles the boundless
  riches of Christ.

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