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.
It is to those who will volunteer for Jesus that I am about to speak; and our first head is, that using the text as a parable we have here  a commendable example . It is a commendable example for men to join themselves with Christ while He is at a discount. Secondly, here is a  cautious inquiry . When David sees these men come he does not at once receive them with open arms, but there is a reserve about him till he has asked them a question or two. He wants to know who they are before he writes down their names in his muster-roll. And, thirdly, here is  a very cordial enlistment as they answer to his question, and say, “Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse; for thy God helpeth thee.”
