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2 Samuel 6 (Part 3) Bible Study I Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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You're welcome. We're here.
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In the final part of second Samuel.
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But if chapter 6 of second Samuel, we've been in this
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chapter for three weeks in a row, including this week.
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And so meet me in second Samuel, chapter 6 in your Bibles, And
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where we will. Where we will start.
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As in verse 16, second Samuel, chapter 6, verse 16.
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And as you know, we've been doing this lately and it's been
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edifying. I hope it's been a defying to
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me. Want to read this section.
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You're going to follow with me. And once I conclude, you will
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raise your hand and make some observations that you think are
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important with the questions, the reflective questions that
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help us in any context to have a deeper understanding of the word
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of God. Are you with me?
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6:13. Excuse me.
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Verse 16. We read here as the Ark of the
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Lord came into the city of David Michal.
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The daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King,
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David, leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she
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despised him in her heart and they brought in the ark of the
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Lord and set it in its place. Inside the tent that David had
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pitched for it, and David offered, burnt offerings and
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peace offerings before the Lord. And when David had finished,
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offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings.
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He blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts and
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distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of
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Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat
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and a cake of raisins to each one.
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Then all the people departed each to his house and David
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returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul
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came out to meet David and said How the king of Israel honored
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himself today uncovering himself today before the eyes of his
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servants female service. As one of the vulgar velos,
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shamelessly uncovers himself, and David said to me Hall, it
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was before the Lord who chose me above your father and above all
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his house to appoint me as Prince over Israel.
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The people of the Lord and I will celebrate before the Lord,
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I will make myself yet more contemptible than this.
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And I will be a based in your eyes, but by the female Servants
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of whom you have spoken by them, I shall be held in honor.
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Anyhow the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her
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death. Lord, we ask that you open our
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eyes to this text help us sharpen.
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One another help us leave here with our our affections warmed
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in our hearts, enlarged to love you.
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The way you deserve in Jesus name we pray.
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Amen. Any observations, interesting
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conclusion to this story. Anything that sticks out to you,
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anything that you think is valuable in terms of or maybe
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even a question that maybe might answer later on.
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Yes. Yeah, the macaws resentment
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jealousy, that seems to stand out from this section of
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scripture and has a lot to tell us.
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Yes, anything else. Yes.
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Mmm. She's it, could it be?
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What brother gorky's is saying? Because could it be that the
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verbalization of her resentment, it's due to the fact that she is
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just one of many wives and all these other wives, as we read in
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the past have had children. But he, or she is not given
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children, perhaps, maybe David is withholding children from
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her, that's a possible interpretation.
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What would Eat a reason for David not to have children with
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McHale any idea. She is the what?
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Yeah, so saw gave her to David as a wife, which means what
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Succession line. So if she has a child with me,
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Hal then that can potentially cause issues in the future of
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their being division within the kingdom, because we saw what
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happened with ishka Seth, right? So, maybe David is thinking
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strategically, as cruel as it is to say, I'm not going to give
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her my children because then we can have issues going down the
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line where her children can say. Well, we come from Saul and Saul
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is the one who deserves the throne and there can be some the
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conceived, be some problems in the future.
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That could be a possible interpretation.
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Anything else? Yes.
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So that last first a majority would say this is God's judgment
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and divine intervention. Some would say this is David
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actually pulling back from her. So there's debate around that
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but the popular vote is that it was the Lord who had closed her
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womb though. It doesn't explicitly say that
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but that's a good observation as well.
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Yes, very good. Isn't that interesting?
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Why is she at home? When the entire nation is out at
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the parade? The national prayed for the
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presence of God coming into the political capital of Israel.
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That's a very good observation. Yes.
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Very good observation, David confess, and there's a
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repetition of David doing what he was doing before the Lord.
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God knew that David knew that people with discernment would
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have known that, but people who lack spiritual discernment.
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Like, his wife could not perceive that and then because
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of that had to judge of ulterior motives, right?
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Yes, King. And then Tim god-king.
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Yes. Amen.
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We're going to talk about dancing tonight.
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So I'm glad you brought that up, he has to him.
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Yeah. So you kind of say what brother
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Giza saying, there's like there's deeper issues here and
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this is just the fruit of a root issue of.
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Maybe remember what happened to me, Hal after David was exiled,
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did she end up getting married to somebody else?
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And what did David do when he became a ruler?
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You're my wife come here and so she removed him, removed her
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from her other husband, right? Could that play into it?
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I mean these are great observation.
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Someone had their hand up here. Yes.
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Yes. Yes, absolutely.
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So it makes you wonder, where is this Outburst coming from?
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Is it is it surface level? Or is there a deeper thinking
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here, maybe a couple more and then we'll move on?
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It's for the sake of time. Yes.
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So, he fed the entire nation. He fed the entire nation, which
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is pretty significant. Who did we relate David to, in
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our last study Jesus? Yes.
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But who specifically in light of Jesus?
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But a specific Ministry of Jesus Melchizedek, right?
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The priesthood of Melchizedek and we went back to Genesis to
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show, how Melchizedek was the king of Salem where Salem
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Jerusalem. Right.
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Here's David, who is acting As a priest and King of the newly
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established capital of Israel Jerusalem.
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But do you remember what else Melchizedek did to Abraham?
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Did he give him something? He gave Abraham Bread and Wine
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and then he blessed Abraham and we kind of see a parallel
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activity here, right? We see David also blessing the
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nation and giving them food to eat.
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So it's very it's a very strong mirroring of what Melchizedek
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did and we're given little information about him, so it's a
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very strong strong connection, okay?
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Maybe one more and then we'll move on here.
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Yes. Yeah.
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So he's on his way to bless his household and me how comes out
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to meet him and you can tell she was not very supportive.
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We're going to find out why. But here's what's happening in
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our text tonight. The mission of the Ark of the
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Covenant coming into its rightful place has now reached
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is its long-awaited finale, and we have hopefully learned a lot
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of things up to this point. This one chapter, some things
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were reminders for us. Other things were fresh
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practical and prophetic insight. But if there is one theme among
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many that really connects to our text from verse one down to the
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last verse, I believe it's not difficult to see that the
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subject matter of worship is very dominant worship
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appropriate. Worship inappropriate, worship,
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what pleases God, what doesn't please God and that theme is
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going to continue to weave itself in the final moments of
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this snapshot of David's life and Ministry.
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Worship worship. And when you see the stacks, and
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you consider the, the series of events, very in a very short
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period of time, we see David worshipping and the larger
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context you can say with the people of God, with the
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congregation of God. And when we see that his worship
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will only continue to smaller spheres, more intimate spheres
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in his life which is important because that's a, that's a
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principle. What true worship is.
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So as you and I come to these last versus, we're going to see
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that this is not an exhaustive study about what worship is.
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But it's an Horton element to what worship is.
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It's a, it's an instructional section of scripture one.
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That provides illustration an example because you and I have
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been created in the image of God as the Pinnacle of God's
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creation to do one specific thing and that's to worship.
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We've been created to worship and when we step outside of that
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order things go out of order in our lives.
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And so we have this High called this primary call to do what to
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and accurately who God is what he's done to affirm that truth
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with adoration within us. And then from that place
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outwardly through various means of expression to a to honor God
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and to show him through worship that we do in fact, believe who
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he is and a tribute to him all the glory that he deserves.
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So let's look at these verses and consider some instructions.
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Some ingredients about worship, true worship false worship,
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controversial, aspects of worship.
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Verse 16 as the Ark of the Lord came into the city of David
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Michal, the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw
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David King, David, leaping and dancing before the Lord and she
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despised him in her heart. I wonder what that look like.
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King David on the streets of Jerusalem, and leaping, and
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dancing and twirling for the glory of God.
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And that Portrait of a man doing such a thing has been a subject
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of much debate and people have strong feelings on either side
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of what David is doing here. So you have some people who will
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say the idea of dancing. As act of worship, is totally
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unrelated to the New Covenant Church just as much as offering
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animal sacrifices is. And so the argument goes that
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Dancing for the Lord and unto the Lord is in the same category
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of cessation as giving Bulls on an altar and burning it up in
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the name of praise and adoration Thanksgiving or a guilt
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offering. Interesting.
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Then you have others on the opposite end of the spectrum who
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will say No? In fact, if what David is doing
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here, offers anything is the possibility of how the whole man
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can be engaged in loving God and adoring God, right?
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So now Not just the spirit, not just the soul, but now, my body
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can exhibit Glory unto God. Right?
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And so, this side would say, not only should it not be
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discouraged, it should be permitted, it should be
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permitted and then they would go further from there and say to
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despise such a thing or look down, or to limit or to cancel
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that possibility wouldn't cure. The same condemnation that Mahal
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had here when she looked down on David for doing the very same
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thing, that people say we can't do.
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And so we have to come here and ask.
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What does the scripture say about this?
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What does the totality of God's word have to say about this?
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Amy seems trivial seems silly. It's like, really, we're going
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to spend a few minutes to talk about what they're dancing unto.
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The Lord is something that relates to us as Christians, but
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here's the thing, if I'm a serious worshiper, then I want
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to have Clarity on all aspects of worship.
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I don't want to be, I don't have one dark area in my life.
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I don't want to just be able to have a debatable conversation.
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I want to know if this is something that pleases God.
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And so when you come to a verse like this I want you to make
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sure because there are a lot of things in the scriptures that
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are not as didactic. Meaning, they're not, they're
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not as clear as do this. Don't do this, they're not as
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black and white, and if we're not careful, we can allow our
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convictions to be rooted in culture and not the Bible. so
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culturally, we interpret things, instead of letting the Bible
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interpret things because if I were to present this question in
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a church in the Caribbeans, I would get a totally different
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reaction than if I would teach a Bible study about this in the
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church, I don't know. In the Netherlands.
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For example, I don't know. Or here in America.
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I won't pick on any other Nation.
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So when you come to a verse like this and when you understand the
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possibility of dancing unto the Lord, Where do we go with that?
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Some would say the conversation can go further than this.
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Whatever is in a narrative. Does not mean it is normative.
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You understand the argument there, just because something is
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in a story in the Bible does not mean that it is a code of
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conduct that we must apply in our context.
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And I think that's important in different ways of interpreting.
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It's very dangerous to look at a narrative and say this is
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normative because a lot of people take narratives and make
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concrete doctrines out of things that are not as clear as we
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would like them to be. So just because it's recorded,
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does it mean that? Are we are called to certain
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behaviors or practices. I understand that, and I agree
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with that. But is this the only place where
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we see dancing unto the Lord in the Bible?
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Okay, tell me of another place. Okay, Psalm Thirty, you have the
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exact reference You turned my mourning into what dancing?
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Psalm 149. Verse 3, what is Psalm 149 verse
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3, say, let them Praise His Name.
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With what? What do you think, dancing,
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making Melody to him with tambourine and liar, okay?
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You just have to go to the next chapter of Psalm to see verse 4
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and Psalm 150, praise him with tambourine.
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And what dance, praise him with strings and pipe.
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I'll tell you how some people interpret, those verses they
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don't mind the tambourines, they don't mind the Liars, they don't
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mind the strings, they don't mind the pipe, but keep your
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dancing shoes at home. You have something else.
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That was it, right? Who else danced in the Old
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Testament other than David? Think back to our study in the
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book of Exodus Miriam, did she not dance and lead the woman in
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procession of dancing? so we have references that are
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not within the realm of narrative only, We have
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different. instances of the mention of dancing as God,
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glorifying worship. Here's the thing.
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Actually, if you really pay attention to the Bible, you will
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see that there are many, many instances, many pictures and
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various physical postures as articulations of Honor unto God
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okay. Its more common than you think.
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So you read the early chapters of the Book of Revelation.
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What do you find? You find these creatures in
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heaven and these 24 Elders that frequently did what they fell on
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their faces before God. That's that's a physical act
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communicating something from the heart that God never condemned.
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You have different moments where men of God like Moses men of God
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like Nehemiah Samuel different different men who bow down
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before their maker? As a symbol of reverence unto
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God sprinkled throughout the Psalms, and even different
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narratives, you have even the call to lift up your hands to
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the Lord. Lifting up your hands to the
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Lord, as it is, mingled with either intercession or singing
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to visualize my desperation and my surrender unto God.
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So you see different positions here, different postures, that
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engage in exhibit. The body that the Bible speaks
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about frequently And I know what you might be thinking, listen,
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brother. Lifting hands.
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I'm okay with bowing down. You're pushing it dancing.
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I don't know about dancing. And I get it but let me say
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this. It's very difficult. to convey
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from the Bible and make a Biblical case, pay attention or
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about to say that stiff stoic statue like Worship is the
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strict standard of how we most glorify God.
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And offering our adoration before him.
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Like the burden of proof is on you to prove that because there
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is a lot to say that sometimes the body is engaged in worship
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and it is the Overflow of the heart.
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I know again. What you may be thinking?
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So the common genuine concern is where do you draw the line?
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Then where do you draw the line of our motions cannot be
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distracting can and not actually do the opposite of what we would
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want to happen. And remember, I'm not speaking
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about, let me clarify. I'm not speaking about what you
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do in your bedroom in your worship.
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To God, you can do whatever you want there.
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I mean, I whatever you want but you can do a lot.
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In your room by yourself in the presence of God that you can't
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do in a setting like this. And that is not, that is not my
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rule, that's the Bible's rules. There are instructions of how
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you and I come together to worship God that all kind of
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actions and activities must submit to in order to know the
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most profitable and edifying experience of worship that we
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can have with one another and more importantly before the
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Lord. So instead of trying to nitpick
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Every single thing is this, right?
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Is this the right? Is that right?
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Is that right? Is that too far?
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As that not enough meat, we meet me in a book in the New
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Testament about worship, at least this chapter is about
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instructions of corporate worship.
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Some of you are turning already, you know, where I'm going?
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Who knows where I'm going. If you're just getting ready.
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First Corinthians chapter 14, First Corinthians chapter 14 and
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meet me in verse 26 because I think this will help this will
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help Name our convictions about different expressions of
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worship. First Corinthians Chapter 14.
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Verse 26. Here's what Paul is saying to
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the New Testament Church, not just to the church in Corinth
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but to all the churches as he says later on in this chapter he
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says, what then Brothers, when you come together, each one has
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a him, a lesson, are Revelation a tongue or an interpretation.
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Let all things be done. Done for building up.
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Different regulations for how we worship God in a congregation
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then when you're alone consecrated by yourself.
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And the rule is very clear, right?
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There is a distinction to be made and Paul knew such a
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distinction because in this in this actual context, he is
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teaching about tongues. That's another Bible study for
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another time, but he's teaching about tongues and which she says
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earlier, that that practice edifies yourself more than
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anybody else. And if it's not carefully done
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within the Gathering of the Brethren, it can have the
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opposite effect. And so in order to harness this
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and to make the most of this, what you do in private is not
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going to be the same of what you do in public.
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And so we can apply any kind of practice to the same kind of
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rule that we see here. And here's the first rule, my
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active presence in a meeting like this is completely outward
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focused. Primarily.
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Yes, I am coming to worship God but very close to that just like
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the first and second greatest commandment.
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I am here to build up edify spur on my brothers and sisters in
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Christ. I do not come in a place like
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this with the focus on me. I do not come in a place like
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this to seek attention and gratification and blessing for
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me. That's what Paul is saying.
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When you come to church, you're coming to offer something.
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When you come to the meeting, you have your brothers and
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sisters in mind and you want to know how can I build them up?
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And that motive will really help dictate behavior and action, and
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expression. And so, here's the thing.
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Your gifts, my gifts My Worship, your worship are meant to
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actually bless others. And the moment that my motive is
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centered around me, and me being blessed me being edified or me,
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receiving attention me, receiving Glory me receiving
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praise. That's where you have to
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reconsider what you're doing. Because what you have is people
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saying this, well it's blessing me and I'm doing it unto God.
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So what really matters is what God sees and what God wants,
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doesn't matter what this person thinks, it doesn't matter what
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that person thinks. And Paul knew that when he was
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teaching this when he was specifically talking about the
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gift of tongues. So you know what?
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He says, go to verse 17 early on, look what he says.
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Speaking about tongues, remember he says, I'm tongues was a form
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of worship. Praise prayer for you maybe
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giving, thanks, well enough, but the other person is not being
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built up. Listen as much as you're being
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blessed with what you're doing between you and God in this
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context. If you're not building others
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up, then that doesn't make what you're doing legitimate no
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matter how spiritual, maybe, no matter how much of a blessing,
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it is to you saying, no, you have to consider others around
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you. As you are worshipping God
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because you're not just doing this is not an individual thing.
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That's not you and God time. That's what you do at home.
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This is us and God time big difference.
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And the second rule here is very close to the first one.
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You have to come down to verse 40 of the same chapter to see
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it, really sums up everything later on, Paul says, in verse
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40, but all things, all things should be done decently and in
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order decently and in order, no matter what your spiritual gift
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is, no matter how much a blesses you, no matter how much you
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might think, it might bless others you and I do not have the
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right to exercise or manifest, anything.
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Remember, this is all things. In a way that would be
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destructive in a way that might be confusing in a way that might
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be distracting. The moment what we're doing is
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muddied and brings about things that do not bless is a moment,
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but we have to stop no matter how much you ready for this.
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You think you are being led by the spirit to do so, I remember
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I met one guy never met him after that, it was literally for
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a few moments, I was at a conference and we bumped into
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each other. So we just got talking while
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we're walking to our destination and he told me about his church
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and he told me how Spirit-filled his congregation was and I guess
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he wanted to explain how Spirit-filled his congregation
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was. So he told me, he says, art, our
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congregation is so sensitive to the holy spirit that if the Lord
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were the tell somebody during a meeting to go and paint the wall
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to go paint the wall. That's really interesting.
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I think Paul would have something to say about that.
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And so, you have to understand that a lot of Liberty has
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license behind being led by the spirit. but you know what, the
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most spiritual thing to do is do things decently and in order
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that's, Holy, Spirit, lead, when there's chaos, if people are
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jumping from one Pew, to the next, if people are running
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around the service and throwing things around, and it's not
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decent or an order, Then it's disqualified.
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It's disqualified. So keep that in mind when we
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understand what David is doing here as well, because we have to
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understand that There are rules to our worship.
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Our Praise there are boundaries, there are limitations.
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But at the same time, if there's anything that we can take out of
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David's story here, is that his enthusiasm offers us the
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inspiration that in different occasions and different contexts
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and different moments will inspire different responses.
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What? This will inspire different
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reactions to what God has done is doing?
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So there are moments, right? Because David is not in a church
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with pews here, he's on the streets, he's in a procession,
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the whole nation is there. There is a there is a huge
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parade with instruments and Loud song taking place.
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And so it was appropriate in this context for him to leap and
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to do whatever he was doing spiraling around.
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We just overflowing with joy with Knowledge of the presence
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of God being in close proximity, but it is no less of worship
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that in some settings that this place be just completely silent.
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As we reflect on something solemn, something good
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something. Holy I can't help.
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But think of our Friday night services during Easter, it's a
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very silent night. It's very quiet night because
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reflecting about what our sin has done.
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What it costs, the son of God, I don't think it would be to to
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appropriate a setting like that to be leaping and jumping around
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and clapping cymbals together. But then there are other moments
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were God can intervene and interject with such a
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supernatural sense of his glory and power, he can even perform a
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miracle where it would be. I would say appropriate that out
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of just sheer excitement to jump up and down.
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Look what God is doing in our midst.
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Look at the look at the things that he is.
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He Forming right before our eyes and it would, in fact, be
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inappropriate to do anything less.
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And so it's not as black and white, right?
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It's not, it's not as do this, don't do this.
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I think, as long as we take Paul's instructions and apply
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them to our context and to our culture's, then we are the
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safest, then we are the safest. And if we're honest with this
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tax, we must say that. There are physical acts of
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worship that are indeed permitted, not mandated, but
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permitted, as long as they build others up, as long as they are
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done decently. And in order, whatever we do may
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be done with a measure of wisdom and with the law of love, so
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that it can be a blessing, not just to God.
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But to those that God has called us to respect and edify the same
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time. And some might say, well, maybe
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David broke that rule because of the reaction of his wife and
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we'll get to that in a moment. But I don't think to be honest,
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this is just a personal observation.
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I don't think the issue. In our context and our culture
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is too much enthusiasm. Would you agree with that?
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I don't think it's too much enthusiasm.
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I think there's a great lack of it.
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You can put a Christian in almost any other setting, and
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they can find a way to be very, very passionate, and not very
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embarrassed to show their passion.
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But for some reason, when you put them in a church service,
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they're there as though Jesus didn't rise from the dead and
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it's like a funeral every week. I don't understand that.
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I don't get it. That's just that's just me
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personally. I think some Christians I love
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them. They're going to make heaven but
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they might be very uncomfortable in heaven.
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Because it's going to be very loud.
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It's gonna be a lot of singing. You're going to see a lot of
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people creatures even bowing down before God.
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Raising their voices to God. And sometimes.
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Well, that's distracting. Well, not if it's done for the
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glory of God, not if it's authentic, none of its real,
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not. If it's led by the spirit, not
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of it is done with the, the order that Paul calls for, if
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anything it can demonstrate greater glory to God.
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So, those are just my two cents in light of the word.
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So, let's come back to this text, right?
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Let's scroll down to verse 18. And when David had finished,
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offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings.
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He blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts and
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distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of
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Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of me
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and a cake of raisins to each one.
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Then all the people departed each to his house.
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So here's what's amazing. We can make the mistake of
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measuring somebody's worship. Being real and sincere solely
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upon the excitement. And the intensity of their
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praise that they display in a service or an event.
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Enthusiasm is not. The be-all and end-all.
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It's not it's a part of it and there should be enthusiasm in
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our singing in are interceding. The Bible's clear about that,
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but David is going to show that worship goes beyond that sphere
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of life, goes beyond the meeting.
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Place goes beyond the segment of time.
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During the week, that is designated for that focus.
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And the way he's going to show it here is that as a worshipper
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His his love for God. His acknowledgment of God is
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going to spill over in the way he treats other people.
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And the way he treats other people, as a rule, he felt the
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great responsibility and need to serve them in a very practical
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way to extend Grace to extend help to extend Mercy with a
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recognition of a need that's that's there and he want to meet
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that need. That's how we came out of the
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worship service, so to speak. So he who is not like many who
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failed to make a connection between a vertical adoration and
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a horizontal awareness. Some people make that disconnect
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there one thing vertically but horizontally, they're like a
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completely different person and that, that doesn't make sense in
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light of how the Bible wants to frame our worship.
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There should be if anything this channel between us and God that
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spills over and the way we minister to others.
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And here's what's happening, you have people who knows how far
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they came to meet David and the Ark into Jerusalem.
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Who knows what resources they set up.
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Our who knows what kind of time they had to.
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They had Set apart in order to come to this event and
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acknowledge God. And David realized these people
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have to go home. They have a long journey home,
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they have a trip to make and your these little kids and he's
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people have to spend so much money that the sit in traffic
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all these things. And so he felt the need with the
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resources and the power that he had to be able to nourish them
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and bless them and Supply whatever they needed.
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And so when I look at a verse I guess I realized that the the
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sequence suggest this is what true worship looks like.
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This is what true worship looks like in.
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A reminds me of a text. And first, John meet me in first
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John quickly, in chapter three. David is Young and he David is
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in his 30s here and he is already showing evidence of
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mindfulness and tenderness for others, proving that his heart
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was surely moved and influenced by serious revelation of the
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love of God. First, John three sixteen.
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Not John 3:16 first, John 3:16. By this, we know love that he
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laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for
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the brothers. Okay?
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When you hear, if you grew up in the church, you've heard this.
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When you hear the expression, the christ-centered Christ
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focused expression, laying our lives down, four brothers,
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laying our lives down for one another.
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What's the first thing that comes to mind?
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Be honest, what comes to mind? Can I tell you what comes to
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mind? A heroic Act of martyrdom?
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That's what comes to mind. The first thing that comes to
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mind is laying your life down, because, I mean, it's related to
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Jesus, he laid down his life for us, we ought to lay down our
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lives for the brothers, so, that, if the opportunity should
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arise, where I must give up my life in order to spare the life
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of a brother, I should do it. I think that's part of it.
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I don't even think that's necessarily what John is
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implying in this teaching. Laying your life down.
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For the brothers, is clarified, in the next verse, look at verse
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17. But if anyone has the world's
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goods and sees his brother in need yet, closes his heart
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against them. How does God's love abide in
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him? Do you see the relationship
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here? Verse 17, a major aspect of what
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it means to lay down my life. For my brother is not so much
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about sacrificial dying. It's more about sacrificial
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living. I think the latter is harder
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than the former because the latter sacrificial living to the
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flesh is a slow death, it's a slow death.
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You're telling me if putting the interests of others above mine,
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you're telling me to lay aside, my desires and to steam others
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more important as me. That's a slow torturous death to
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the flesh. Some would prefer they just be a
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martyr and get it all over with, and I want to get out of this
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world anyway. But when I look at a text like
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this, I understand that laying down our lives.
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For others means that I have a consideration for consideration
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for and a contribution to the interest of others even at the
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cost of my own. We need the holy spirit's help.
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We need the holy spirit's help to live this way because if I
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see a brother if I see a sister and there's a need in their life
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and my heart reaction is to be close to them to ignore it and
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neglected to imagine it's not there.
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Then then John says how can you claim that God's love is alive
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in you? The evidence that God's love it
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is alive in you, is that when you see that need, when you see
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that request, and when you see the opportunity, your heart
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opens up. It says I'm willing to do what I
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need to do. And so we see that in David's
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life to some degree, he's aware he sees it.
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He's not just caught up in this personal experience with God.
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It translate into the way he looked at people and his heart
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opened up towards them. So true worship a true living
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pure sacrifice unto God is able to act in such a way but it goes
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beyond that go back to our main text before we go there, where
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does he go next? After he serves the nation.
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Where did he go next? He goes home.
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So David went from to from church, right?
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The house of God, the big conference event and from there
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he served the people came a little bit more to Earth and he
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serve the people. And now in verse 20, we read in
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the first few words, and David returned to bless his household
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and David returned to bless his household.
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I believe that the home is the highest altar of worship.
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I believe it is the primary place that God seeks incense
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from He demonstrates what a true worshiper.
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Looks like when we are turned, when we returns home to bless
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his home proving that he didn't leave his faith at the event,
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but he brought it to his day-to-day life, he brought it
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home. It breaks my heart because I
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know that it is frequently the case where people leave that
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Faith, leave that acknowledgement of God, right at
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the door, no matter what they heard and sang about.
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It's a sad. Commentary on many people's
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lives. We see here that this man
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realized that what happened there has to happen in my house.
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It will look different, but it will not be inconsistent.
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And Paul, the Apostle seems to indicate even to us in the New
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Covenant. That if we are to demonstrate
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our godliness primarily in any place, it has to be within the
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confines of our home with our family.
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Yes, with your parents, with your siblings with your spouse.
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Household godliness. I want to show you where I get
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that idea from it's an obscure passage of scripture that we
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seem to ignore it's about widows for those who are there.
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Maybe a year and a half ago. We look through this and First
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Timothy and chapter 5 but I want you to see this because in this
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one instruction, I think you have a principal for Universal
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godliness to be applied in all aspects of Our Lives. 1st
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Timothy 5 4. Look at Paul says, but if a
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widow has children or grandchildren, let them first
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learn to show, godliness to their own household.
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Do you see that? And to make some return to their
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parents? For this is pleasing in the
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sight of God. What's pleasing in the sight of
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God, that you would first learn to show godliness home
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Unfortunately, I for some reason, it seems to be our
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reflex to primarily Shore godliness in a setting like this
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and to even extend the fruit of the spirit to unbelieving
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co-workers or friends. But when it comes to our
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husband, our wives, our children, our brothers in the
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flesh, our sisters and blood, we seem to reserve those fruits And
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we seem to extend other things. We seem to extend more fruit of
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the flesh than anything else. I don't know why that is.
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But it's often the case. And Paul says, learn first to
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show godliness at home, this is really pleasing in the sight of
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God. In fact, he goes on to say that.
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If you don't know how to do that then it really disqualifies your
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demonstration of spirituality in any other context.
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Remember what he says later on that if someone does not know
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how to provide for his own relatives, he's worse than an
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unbeliever and has denied the faith consider that let's
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consider the magnitude of that if you fail to give the
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appropriate recognition, And fulfill your responsibilities.
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As a brother or sister, or child, or parent in humanity,
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then your faith is null. and no matter what you do, and I think
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that, Paul here provides another insight.
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What happens among relatives affects the health of the
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church? In many context, what happens in
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the home, has a connection to the strength of the church.
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Go to verse 16 to prove it. If any believing woman has
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relatives, who are widows, let her care for them, let the
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church not be burdened. So that it may care for those
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who are truly widows. Don't burden the church, what is
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he applying their? What's that Vernon's financial
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burden? Which tells me another thing?
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Listen, hey, as Christians, it doesn't mean that we just give
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anything to anybody who asks, never forget that, this is not
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the point of the Bible study, just because you're a Christian,
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just because your call to generosity and sacrificial
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living, the Bible doesn't want you to blindly, extend.
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Help to anybody who asks for help.
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I know that seems controversial read 1st, Timothy 5 and you'll
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get what I'm saying. There's actually Criterion,
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there's actually a list of requirements in many settings
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before assistance is made known. I think there are a lot of
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Christians who are not wise in this area and they get hurt more
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than blessed by just blindly helping people.
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If you have more questions about that, see me after the Bible
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study, but notice what he says here, the family is in
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partnership with the church. Hey, homes those in this place
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where you have Believers within the household, you have a job to
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do that. The church is not supposed to
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do, the church is not the primary reactor to everything.
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They're not that they are not the 911 to all problems homes.
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You have a job to do. Fathers.
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You have a job do Mother's you. Siblings have a job to do.
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If you have a widow in your home you got to take care of that
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before we do. And this burden here specific is
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speaking about financial burden, right?
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But it applies across the board, consider the cycle that God has
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established that when you and I leave this place just like David
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left that event. We are to go and and be fueled
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to bless our homes even more, right?
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But just like what Paul is explaining here, what happens in
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the home, can either be a burden to the church or blessing to the
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church? And so this cycle must be
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honored must be recognized. Those are not two separate
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entities. This Ministries built upon the
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foundation of Godly homes, and if the homes are struggling, if
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marriages are struggling this ministry, will struggle And I
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think that's important for us to understand to because the church
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is not the savior of families. Either it's not the youth group
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that we're planning to have is not going to save the you that
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might help. It might supplement, but what
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goes on at home is crucial and I know it's not as easy as what
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I'm presenting because there are nuances, right?
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There are complications. What if the spouse is not a
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Godly? What if the Omni only believer?
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I get it. That's where the church comes in
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now. So the church knows when to come
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in the church know I want to be the primary help and the church
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knows when to be the secondary help.
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And in David's case, it was not easy because we heard it, right?
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He's in a go home and he's Shiri, he's filled with joy.
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He's on a spiritual High, he's skipping and dancing home.
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Only to meet a wife. That's not exactly supportive.
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Right? So let's go back to that texts.
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Many of you mentioned an observed about me, house,
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behavior and words. Let's, let's try to understand
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why she's doing, what she's doing.
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First 20, David returned to bless his household but Michal
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the daughter of Saul came out to me.
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David pause what stands out to you from that one sentence or
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one phrase. I saw your mouth moving.
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Yes, very good. Do you notice how the Holy
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Spirit refers to Mahal? Is it, is it mija all the wife
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of David should be, shouldn't it?
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so when somebody finds a spouse, they should leave their father
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and mother That's some of the holy spirit.
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Says the holy spirit says Michal the daughter of Saul.
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Why do you think that is? Because she's going to look and
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sound a lot like Saul. And what we're about to read,
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she's going to resemble her father Saul and she is going to
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show a great lack of what David has and his heart towards God.
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So she Reigns on his parade, right?
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And she Reigns on David's, personal parade with sarcasm and
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slander. She makes allegations she makes
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accusations and so vicious and impatient was her confrontation
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that we David the same again to the front door.
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She sees him from the window presumably and she runs out of
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the front door to meet him as early as possible.
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Like she is foaming out of the mouth via manly upset and
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irritated about what she saw early on in that day.
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And I look at this and I think to myself, What's her criticism
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Justified? And the way to answer that is to
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look into biblically because the Temptation is to psychoanalyze.
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Why she's doing this. The Temptation is say, well, you
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know, she had a rough pass and she might have been treated this
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way. We're tempted to do that, but I
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want to stay within the bounds of scripture and I do a study on
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whom Michal was I'm not introduced Earth for the first
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time here. I know who she is, you know, who
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she is. So maybe who she is, is all that
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we need to understand for this kind of behavior and
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confrontation. So first thing she does write
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it. She says how the king of Israel
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honored himself honored himself today.
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She's being sarcastic, uncovering himself today, before
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the eyes of this of his servants female servants, question, who
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here believes that David was half naked when he was dancing.
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because many people believe that many people have that depiction
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of David, Was David just shirtless and wearing Priestly,
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trousers is some belief. No, we learned that he was
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wearing a linen, ephod. And we learned that he was
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closed, just like the levitical priests were clothes.
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And so many people take what Mahal is saying and take it to
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heart. And literally and say, well, I
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can see why she's kind of upset because if my husband was
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dancing around barely clothed I would I would be up no matter
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what he's doing, right? Goes back to Pauls rules, it
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doesn't matter how sincere you are, you got to put on some
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clothes, right? But that's not what's happening
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here because we know that David was closed, just like the
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Levites were clothed. So why is she criticizing his
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articles of clothing? Think about it.
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What did he need to do in order to wear the linen ephod and to
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be recognized for ruining wearing the linen ephod very
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good. He had to remove his Royal
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attire. He had to remove that which
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distinguished him from the rest of the commoners.
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And that is what upset me, Hal. Humility was not a virtue to
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her. And she put a premium, she sure
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identity was caught up, just like her dad caught up and honor
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and high profile status and David in this, in this display
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of humility, says, I'm not the king of Israel.
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God is, here's his are coming to the throne.
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And so I will blend in with the rest of the nation and there's
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Michal In her a little Palace looking down with disgust.
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How could you make yourself so low in the eyes of men?
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Because that ultimately offended her to some degree.
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And so she looks at this and she realizes, I don't understand how
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you can do this, but it's more than that.
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It wasn't just his humility that she could understand.
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She could not register this, passionate display of worship So
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because we read it early on right and verse 16.
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That when she saw King, David leaping and dancing before the
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Lord, she despised him in her heart.
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This is like a deep content. This was like a bitterness and
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she looked at him dancing and leaping and she goes, that is so
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strange, that's actually ugly. For what reason?
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Was mija spiritual. Now, we can say no based on
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this. But how do you know she's not
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spiritual from our previous studies Was she a woman who had
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the sermon? Was she a woman who had genuine
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love for God. Think about think about how we
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have Clues throughout her life. That indicate that on a
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foundational level, she maybe even didn't know God, Yes.
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Kill me, she threatened me remember when the initial move
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of Saul came against David and he escapes and me how lies to
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her dad? Says look, I had I was left with
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no option. He wanted to hurt me but
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there's, that's right. But there's something even
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before that. Very good.
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Did you hear that? And first Samuel 1913 we took,
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we read here that Miguel took an image and laid it on the bed and
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put a pillow of goats hair at its head and covered it with the
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clothes. This was not even like a
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pocket-sized idol that we see in different parts of scripture.
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Like our sister just said, this is like a life-sized one in
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their home and she tucks it into bed, puts a blanket over.
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It put some goats hair. With the hope that when the men
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come Salzman come, it would delay them when they realize
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that. This is not really David.
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What's an idol doing in your house.
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What's a false god doing in your living room?
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So we have we have great Clues to see that this woman even
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early on her life early on in her marriage was not a
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God-fearing woman. So why would she marry a man?
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Like David? David was a man after God's
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heart But was that all David was?
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He was famous. He was respected in the nation.
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He was a military Warrior. He was loved.
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He was honored. He was good looking handsome,
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right? We're told that he was ready
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Country Boy. Physically fit.
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And she considered all of those things.
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And convinced herself to a degree, I can tolerate his
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spirituality. so, she thought, Let me make this point because
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eventually her lack of regard, for the things of God, would
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develop into a lack of respect for the man of God, her lack of
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regard, for the things of God, would eventually develop into a
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lack of respect for the man of God.
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So many of you had a critical point in your lives.
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Where you will make the second most important decision.
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After choosing to follow Jesus Christ as Lord, and it is to
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find a spouse that you can walk with.
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And if you want to establish a definite path of suffering in
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your life, can I tell you what to do?
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So you don't do it. Marry someone who does not share
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your joy and Delight in the things of God.
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Marry somebody who does not share your Delight or joy in the
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things of God. Because I'm telling you right
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now, they might tolerate what you have. because of other
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things that they admire about you, but when those other things
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Fade to have its compelling power and they will even though
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if they are looks You're going to have a struggle.
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And it's it's a real struggle. I know of a story of a man who
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was lukewarm for a great season and in his lukewarm season of
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life, he chose to got married. Only for his heart to be
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rekindled and for him to be passionate about God, but guess
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what? It didn't happen to the woman
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that he married. There's a lot of struggle there.
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It's difficult. now that won't pain you if you're lukewarm and
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you marry somebody else's lukewarm if your nominal
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Christian or somebody else and somebody else has a nominal
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Christian but if you're devoted to the advancement of the
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kingdom of God, if you actually take delight and pleasure and
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worshiping the Lord being with God's people being here on a
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Friday night and you choose to yoke yourself with someone who's
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willing to just tolerate that and doesn't share in that.
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Why would you enter into that kind of a covenant?
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Why would you even entertain that thought?
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But David and he called me an example to you because in verse
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22, I see I see a lesson. That's I don't think it's a
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direct lesson, but I think there's something there in
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relationship to my point. Notice what he says in verse 22,
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I'll make myself yet more contemptible than this and I
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will be a base in your eyes but by the female servers, mm whom
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you have spoken by them. I shall be held in honor.
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So we have an argument. Here we have a husband and wife
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arguing, right? And notice what he says, he goes
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yes, since you brought the female servants, right?
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The lowliest positions in the Kingdom, since you brought them
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up, let me put it this way. You might despise me because I'm
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not changing, but I'm going to be held in honor in their eyes.
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And here's the point that I make better to be with someone who is
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low in society, a based despised.
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Not famous, not successful, but who has an understanding of the
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things of God and to be with a queen who is cold and heart
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towards the things of God. These female servants they're
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going to honoree because they honor God in Me.
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And through me, you you're not, I take that to say, okay, then
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who cares who she is? Who cares what she can offer you
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in the flesh, better to be with those who are servants, but who
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love God and serve God, and those who have status in Beauty
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and success. An intellect, but stink in their
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spirituality. I hope you take that to heart.
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You know what, the best way to deal with slander to Shield your
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heart from pain that comes from false allegations.
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Look at verse 21 and David said to me haul, it was before the
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Lord. It was before God, I didn't do
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it for what you think. I did it men will judge your
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motives you want to serve God. Men will judge your motives,
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which is a something that no Christian should do no matter
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how tempted you are to. Look at someone judge their
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motives. The Bible says, don't you dare
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do it. He will do it.
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That's his job. But if you want to guard your
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heart from the slashes of slander, just be convinced of
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what you're doing and who you're doing it for.
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That's it. I know I did it before God.
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I know I'm Doing it for God. So it doesn't matter what you
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think, doesn't matter what your opinion is and also be Resolute.
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Be Concrete in your conviction, that no matter what, criticism
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you have, coming your way, no matter what kind of persecution
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arises? No matter who says what, look,
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what David says that the last part of verse 21?
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I will celebrate before the Lord.
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I ain't changing. If anything, I'm on the way to
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greater greater love for him. Be immovable.
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Sometimes, sometimes I drive. Or sometimes I watch something
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and I see like a stadium filled with people and I look at
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different news things and I see this crowd of people and I think
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to myself as much as we are created in the image of God,
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these are all Jars of Clay like they're all just particles of
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dust gathered together beautifully but in a moment and
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it just one final breath. They go back to the very dust
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that they were made from and I care about these people's
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opinions. This is who I am afraid of
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disappointing in my Pursuit Of God may it never be, may it
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never be. We're just a bunch of creative
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being stuffed in a Celestial ball and I'm more worried about
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what they have to say more than the one who created all things
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with his breath. Let me break.
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May God give us a Sanctified view of who he is and who we
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are. So what happens?
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They get into an argument. And interestingly, as we brought
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up in verse 23 and Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to
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the day of her death, you heard me say it earlier can be
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interpreted one or two ways that God was the source, the divine
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intervention, that judged her, by sealing her womb, or this was
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David saying, I refrained myself.
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I'm not going to be intimate with somebody like you and he
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could have had a strategic perspective on that.
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Which based on this I can see why like he looks at me.
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Ha and the way she responds she was, I've seen this before.
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Saul. Like like father like daughter,
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I just like it didn't change. You're not the person that I
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thought you were you're just you're spitting image of who he
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is. I don't want to spawn that.
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I don't want to reproduce that, just going to be headache.
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And so he Reserves. His participation and what can
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make reproduction possible regardless of where you stand?
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I think a spiritual lesson from this truth.
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Here it is Michal. The daughter of Saul had no
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child to the day of her death, those who Have the character of
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me, call will experience. What?
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Me call experience physically on a spiritual level?
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They will become fruitless. They will become fruitless.
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When you don't have an understanding of what true
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worship is, when you'd have no priority about pursuing worship
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of living in that kind of worship, you will have nothing
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to offer God and you will have nothing to offer your fellow
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man. So I'm very concerned about
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those who are gifted in the ability to criticize and condemn
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others. And I don't ever want to come to
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the place. I know it may cause an extreme
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example because she despised the concept of Passion worship
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altogether but she clearly lacked fervency and Zeal and
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passion and there was a connection between that and her
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not being able to have a child. There's a connection between
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that kind of an attitude and not being able to Bear good genuine,
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eternally rewarded fruit. I don't want to be fruitless I
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don't want something in me to stop the reality of Life
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spiritual life issuing from me. I hope you feel the same way.
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Let's pray. Lord, we We know that we don't
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give you the praise and worship that you always deserve.
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But we want to be worshippers not just when something
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spectacular happens from the heavens into our own world, the
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lord. When we look out to our fellow
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man, help us be worshippers help us be a Living Sacrifice and
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then we go home. Lord may we learn how to First
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be Godly in our households? We know it's not easy.
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Lord. We know that we are guard is
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down at homes. Lord, we know that we're tired.
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When we go home, we know that. It's much easier to fool others
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than to fool those that are closest to us.
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But, oh God, it's possible. And we pray that if Maranatha
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Bible Church has any role to play that it would be a
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contribution to the joy and love for you that would bring
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something of blessing to our homes and we pray that the homes
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that are represented here with a various circumstances that they
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each represent. Would return that blessing to
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this ministry as a collection of families to honor and glorify
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you. Lord, may we be true worshipers
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with our bodies with our singing with our serving. with our
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reactions with our pre-emptive plans, Lord just Cover us with
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the holy spirit's help. Empower we love you.
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Lord. And we want to be the passionate
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worshippers that you've called us to be, if David could be so
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passionate and the old Covenant, how much more us in a more
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glorious Covenant law, we give you all that praise tonight.
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In Jesus name,