David went out to meet them, and answered them, If you be come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if [you be come] to betray me to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
Once more. These men came to David because  they believed that David had a great future before him. He was very poor when they came to him, an exile, as we have said, an outlaw, one who could not return to his land because the king himself had a personal feud with him. But they said, “It doth not yet appear what he shall be. This son of Jesse will be king yet, and his enemies shall beg their lives of him.” So, looking to the great future that awaited him, they determined to take shares with him in his present low estate that they might be raised with him in his exaltation. Now, I think that I can say to every one here, “I would that ye would come over to David's side--to Jesus' side--for there is a future awaiting Him, a glory, a triumph, even here on earth, such as shall make those men gnash their teeth who throw away this opportunity of enlisting in His host.” How will souls lament forever their neglect of joining themselves to Jesus! It shall be their everlasting regret that they lost the opportunity of standing straight out for truth, and right, and love, as they are seen in the person of the Son of God. Oh, it will be an endless loss to have refused to stand upon the pillory of scorn, and avow Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of God, and the Savior of men. “Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him.” Woe to those who pierced Him by refusing to believe in Him. The Lord shall reign forever and ever, and the shout of “Hallelujah, hallelujah,” shall come up from earth and descend from heaven. He shall sit upon the throne of his father David, and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Who does not desire to be with Him and to behold His glory? Cast in your lot with him, then, O ye undecided! Let His cause be as it may in the eyes of worldlings, espouse it at once right heartily; for they that are with Him in His humiliation shall be with Him in His triumph.
