Lessons from Mr. Mephiboshet Part 1.

Topic:  Lessons from Mr. Mephibosheth Part 1.

Text:    2Sam. 9:1-13.

Mini:   Pastor Chuks Nduka.

Event: Sunday Celebration Service.

Place:  Breach Repairers Assembly Lagos.

Date:   9^th Feb. 2014.

Pst. Kingsley Chuks Nduka
Snr. Pastor
Breach Repairers Assembly

Who is Mr. Mephiboshet?

      Mephiboshet was the son of Jonathan, the son of King Saul. He was lame. 2Sam. 4:4. And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame on his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

·     His father, Jonathan the son of King Saul stood with David when King Saul seeks to kill David.

1Sam. 20:16. So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord even require it at the hand of David's enemies.

1Sam. 20:42. And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

·     From the foregoing, it is obvious that Mephiboshet was of a royal blood but he has always seen himself as a no body. 2Sam.9:8. And he bowed himself, and said, what is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

·   Lessons From Mr. Mephiboshet:

1.   He was lame because the nurse who took care of him hearkened to a negative voice of reasoning rather than God’s counsel. 2Sam. 4:4b. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame.

The lesson here is that there is a difference between a good shepherd and a hireling. If the nurse was his real mother, he will not drop him. In Jesus we are protected. John 10:11-12.

2.   Your location determines your allocation. Mephiboshet was meant to remain in Jerusalem and eat at king David’s table but because his nurse heard a rumour, his destiny was relocated to Lo-debar a place of servant hood.

Lesson: The trick of the enemy is to use rumour and negative voices reasoning to make us relocate from a place of glory to a place of sorrow.

3.   Ziba, the servant of Saul enjoyed what Mephiboshet is meant to enjoy and prospered in the palace. 2Sam. 9:10c Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Lesson: That is what happens to us when we abandon our Godly location to an ungodly location due to wrong counsel. 2Sam. 16:1-4.