Acts 13:22 (ESV Strong's)
And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
Truth: God seeks and honors those who love Him from the heart.
Paul, in this section, is preaching to the Jews in the Synagogue. He is doing a brief history to show that Israel needed a messiah and that King David was a picture the messiah. David was a prototype of Christ and was a person who God had place a love for God's will in His heart. David was a sinful man. Later, in the adultery with Bathsheba, he would demonstrate that sinfulness. Psalm 51 shows his sin AND his contrite heart for God. God had placed into David's heart a love and purpose for God. When Paul brings this to mind for the listeners he is not saying that David was without sin. He is simply saying that God set David up to be the picture of Christ. Like David delivered the Israelites in the time of the Kings, so Jesus would deliver them. Our having a heart for God is a gift of God. God places in the heart of men a love for Him. We are to pursue that love. Like David was a picture of Christ, before Christ, we are to be a picture of Christ, after His work for us.
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