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January 30 - 1 Samuel 21 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean. Here it is, Tuesday the 30th of
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  January and here we are. I hope you are going well.
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  The the summer is racing its way through, but you've only got a
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  month left and then things start to change.
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  The seasons come bring us some cool, some changing foliage and
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  the trees. Unless you're in the other half
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  of the world, in which case it's all reversed and oh that sounds
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  lovely coming into summer again. But no, we are enjoying a
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  gorgeous, gorgeous summer down here and the Tasmanian
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  Southlands, if that's even a thing.
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  We continue with this story of David and Saul and their ongoing
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  battle, and we know which way it's going to go.
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  But neither of these folks do. It is all pretty dicey as Saul
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  becomes increasingly desperate and David wonders whether he's
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  going to be able to survive. But he knows that he has God on
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  his side and saw thus the desperation knows that he does
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  not have God on his side. So let's see what happens in
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  this next chapter as we read together.
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  First Samuel, chapter 21, David went to the town of Knob
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  to see Ahimelech. The priest Ahimelech trembled
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  when he saw him. Why are you alone?
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  He asked. Why is no one with you?
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  The King has sent me on a private matter, David said.
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  He told me not to tell anyone why I am here.
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  I have told my men where to meet me later.
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  Now what is there to eat? Give me 5 loaves of bread and
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  anything else you have. We don't have any regular bread,
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  the priest replied. But there is the holy bread,
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  which you can have if you're young men have not slept with
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  any women recently. Don't worry, David replied.
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  I never allow my men to be with women when we are on a campaign.
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  And since they stay clean even on ordinary trips, how much more
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  on this one? Since there was no other food
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  available, the priest gave him the holy bread, the bread of the
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  Presence that was placed before the Lord and the Tabernacle.
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  It had just been replaced that day with fresh bread.
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  Now Doeg, the Edomite Saul's chief herdsman, was there that
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  day, having been detained before the Lord David asked Ahimelech,
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  Do you have a spear or sword? The King's business was so
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  urgent that I didn't even have time to grab a weapon.
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  I only have the sword of Goliath, the Philistine whom you
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  killed in the valley of Elah, the priest replied.
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  It is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod.
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  Take it if you want it, for there is nothing else here.
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  There is nothing like it, David replied.
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  Give it to me. So David escaped from Saul and
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  went to King Achish of Gath. But the offices of Akish were
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  unhappy about his being there. Isn't this David the king of the
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  land? They asked.
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  Isn't he the one the people honour with dances singing soul
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  has killed his thousands and David his ten thousands.
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  David heard these comments and was very afraid of what King
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  Achish of Gath might do to him, so he pretended to be insane,
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  scratching on doors and drooling down his beard.
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  Finally, King Akish said to his men, Must you bring me a madman?
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  We already have enough of them around here.
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  Why should I let someone like this?
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  Be my guest? Jesus, you break open the doors
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  and offer us access, unmediated, to God.
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  To you, our triune God, thank you that you and your sacrifice
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  is enough to present us before the throne, perfect and able to
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  be in your presence, able to be in the presence of your Father
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  and the Spirit. We certainly don't feel worthy
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  or holy enough to stand before you as we pray to you right now,
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  but that is your gift to us, and so we thank you.
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  We just shake our heads in amazement at all you have done
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  for us. Thank you for your love.
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  Thank you for making your way so that we can be with you.
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  We love you and we lift you up and place you above every other
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  name. It's in your name that we pray
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  Jesus. Amen.