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2 Samuel 1 (Part 1) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  If you have a Bible in your hands, meet me in the book of
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  second, Samuel and chapter one. As we begin, a new study in a
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  new book. But I believe it's important to
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  know that although this is a fresh book that we will endeavor
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  to journey through. In the original, Hebrew
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  manuscripts, first and second, Samuel were actually one
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  combined text. It was not seen as two separate
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  books. It was seen as one book, and it
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  wasn't until there was a Greek translation done to 300 before
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  Christ, where these, these two books were were created, or at
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  least the one text was separate and divide it into two and the
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  introduction to second Samuel as you.
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  And I will see a test That reality because there seems to
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  be just the seamless flow from the last chapter in first Samuel
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  to the introduction of this new book.
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  It seems like we don't miss a beat seems like things just move
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  on just fine. And why is that important to
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  know? Because as we begin a new book,
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  we often take the time and the introduction to look at the
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  themes, or the structure, or the flow of thought or the main
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  ideas in that text. And that is not necessarily case
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  with 2nd Samuel. Because, again, originally, it
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  was just One book. So we're just continuing with
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  the same intention that we did in the beginning of 1st Samuel.
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  We're seeing that God has chosen a man to rule and Reign and
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  we're going to continue to Journey with David as he makes
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  his way towards the throne as God leads them towards the
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  throne and all the things in between that are to our benefit.
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  There are many people who are intimidated by the Old
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  Testament, or have a limited view of its value in the
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  Christians life. New Covenant.
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  And all you have to do is see the New Testament commentary on
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  the value of the Old Testament, to realize God's desire for
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  those who are in the New Covenant.
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  It's not just to find Christ as glorious as that is.
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  It's not just to understand the complete picture of Redemptive
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  history. As important as that is, Romans
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  tells us in chapter 15, that there are these things given to
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  us to encourage us, And in 1st Corinthians, we read also in
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  chapter 10 that there are these stories were real.
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  Real stories of real people, real events to warn us to warn
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  us about Sin to encourage Us in Holiness.
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  And so, we have every right according to the Bible, to
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  actually come to David story and glean spiritual principles for
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  us today as we walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And so as we do with every book as we do with every study, Why
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  don't we just pause and isil or to help us?
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  Especially as we begin a new text.
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  Can we do that? Oh Lord, we thank you for this
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  book. We thank you for how you've
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  taught us through first Samuel and Lord, we trust that you will
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  continue to guide us to know exactly what you've intended to
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  speak to us through these verses today.
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  Lord give us an attentive mind. Give us an open heart.
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  We pray that the spirit of God would rest upon the ministry of
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  the word. And so that it would be
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  delivered in power. And in Clarity and that Lord, we
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  would all leave here, edified our faith.
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  Built up. Lord that you would speak with
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  your Timeless truth into particular areas of our lives
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  today. Lord, let your voice be heard
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  and your voice alone. We submit our Wills to you.
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  We submit our preconceived ideas and we surrender to the
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  authority of the scriptures tonight O Lord.
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  May this be an impartation? I just have knowledge about of
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  Life of life, so that we can live like our master.
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  Aster we ask these things in Jesus name, amen.
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  Where we begin in second. Samuel one is exactly where we
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  left off. The first king of Israel has
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  died. He was brutally killed and War,
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  and we saw the detailed account of his death.
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  And as we're about to find out, David is going to learn of this
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  news. And what this first chapter is
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  all about is his response to the death of his sworn enemy.
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  And as you and I examined that though we won't be able to go
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  through the whole chapter. After just half of it, it will
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  surely challenge us. because the longer you serve the Lord, the
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  more dedicated you are to serving the lord, the more you
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  can assure yourself of enemies in this life Enemies, not just
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  in Satan and his minions enemies through people unfortunately.
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  And perhaps you are familiar with that reality today, perhaps
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  that is completely foreign to you regardless.
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  What we will see today will surely challenge Us in the Lord
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  in verse 1, after the death of Saul, when David had returned
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  from striking down the amalekites David remained, two
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  days and ziklag and on the third day, Behold, a man came from
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  Saul's camp with his clothes, torn, and dirt on his head.
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  And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid
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  homage David said, to him where do you come from?
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  And he said to him I have escaped from the camp of Israel
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  and David said to him how did it go tell me and he answered the
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  people fled from the battle and also many of the people have
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  fallen and are dead and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.
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  Then David said to the young men who told him, how do you know
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  that Saul and his son? Jonathan are dead.
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  Remember there was a war between Israel and the Philistines David
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  wanted to apparently join that war on the Philistine size,
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  which was extremely concerning to us.
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  But God providentially leads him away from that and he faces his
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  own issues. Because when he comes back to
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  this town called ziklag where he was staying, it was ransacked by
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  the amalekites. He goes on a rescue mission
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  after he repents before the Lord and seek his guidance God gives
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  him a victory. They rescue their wives, they
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  rescue their children and they had To Zeke lag.
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  And when we see that it comes act as a clock, we might be a
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  little bit concerned because we know ziklag is not where David
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  is supposed to be. That is in the land of the
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  Philistines brother. You're supposed to be in the
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  promised land. What are you doing there?
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  Okay, you've repented and you saw God leads you, mercifully to
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  Victory. So why are you going back to
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  ziklag? There's no reason to be
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  concerned. We have every reason to believe
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  that David is going to either recuperate or is planning to
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  rest. Remember all those days of
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  travel and battle. You can imagine that he was just
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  worn out with his men or it could be.
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  That David is simply waiting. He's waiting to receive report.
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  He's waiting for an announcement of what happened in that battle.
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  We don't know what is going on in, David's heart.
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  But all we do see, is that finally, on the third day,
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  Somebody in the Horizon who seems to be out of breath is
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  making his way towards David and the closer he gets the more
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  David realizes that whoever this messenger is or this visitor is,
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  it's not about good news because he's already showing the signs
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  of grief and of mourning because his clothes are torn.
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  There's dirt on his head and so David is already anticipating.
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  Not so good news. And finally, this man arrives.
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  And when he arrives David asked his whereabouts.
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  Where did he come from? And the man tells him I escaped
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  from the camp of Israel, and look what David says in verse 4.
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  How did it go tell me? Now if you don't have the ESV,
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  does it just say tell me? Or does he say something else?
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  Who has a translation other than the ESV.
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  What does it say? Please tell me.
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  Does it say the same and the King James pray thee?
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  Tommy, same idea. and when you see that, what you understand
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  is, a man who has great concern, David is not just asking out of
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  mere curiosity, David is asking because there is a genuine
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  desire to know the well-being of his people.
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  What a change of heart compared to a man who is willing to go to
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  war against his people. Now, his heart is obviously been
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  softened enough to be so concerned about what happened to
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  his own. And so he asks, please tell me,
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  would you just disclose to me? What has happened in that war
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  and what's so incredible about this?
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  Is that it is a display of his compassion that describes just a
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  glimpse of the quality of this man's love that made him.
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  Effective servant that he was for his God.
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  David here is saying, tell me how did it go?
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  And you're going to see his response when he realizes that
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  Israel has fallen that he obviously really loved the
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  people of God. He really did.
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  And what I appreciate about David's reaction here.
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  At least desire to know what's happening is that it was all
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  before. He was the king of Israel.
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  He's not King yet, he's not there designated leader.
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  In fact, she's a fugitive. In fact, he is, he has received
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  more mistreatment than anything else from his own people.
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  And yet, at the same time, there is this yearning to know, there
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  is this great concern in his heart.
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  And as I look at that, I realize that this man was not motivated
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  to be so concerned because of his responsibilities or his
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  position This man truly had an empathy, there is a sincere
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  interest. There is a compassion that
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  consumed him. There is this longing to have an
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  understanding of the people and their good standing. and when I
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  look at that, I also think about how this corresponds to us as
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  Servants of God, To us who do life with the people of God.
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  What goes on in our hearts? How do we feel about those who
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  belong to Christ? How do we view them?
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  How do we serve them? Not if we serve them, but how
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  because David example, here causes us to think. but if this
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  man can shows such passion as a fallen human being, he is not
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  our ultimate example. Jesus is if you're a part of
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  this church, you know, that on Sunday, we're discovering the
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  suffering servant in Jesus Christ in The Book of Mark.
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  And I am always humbled as I go through, Mark to see the type of
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  servant Jesus was not just this, the Savior that he was the
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  servant that he was and this will resonate with you.
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  My brother, my sister, if you really want to be a servant for
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  the kingdom of God, Jesus shows in so many ways how he felt not
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  just what he did, but how he felt about the people that he
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  served. Can I show you?
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  One example, it's in the New Testament.
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  You're gonna have to go there in your Bibles.
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  It's a Mark chapter 6. And verse 34 Jesus comes to a
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  crowd, a great crowd, thousands of people.
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  And when he shows up on that Shore only to see people
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  littering those Hills. There is an interesting
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  commentary of how Christ felt about these people and some of
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  you are already aware of it in verse 34 of Mark.
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  Chapter 6, when he went ashore, he saw a great crowd and he had
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  compassion on them. he had compassion on them because they
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  were like sheep without a shepherd and he began to teach
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  them many things, many things, When it says he had compassion
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  the word there is extremely intense.
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  It speaks of being moved in the bowels.
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  It's almost as though the pit of his stomach was turning.
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  And it was turning with a tenderness with, with a concern,
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  with an attentiveness, with a desire to alleviate some kind of
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  suffering or harm, that is what he felt before, he served those
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  people before him. And when I look at that, that
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  moves me that really does move me.
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  But what moves me even more is when you just zoom out a little
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  bit and understand the context when you just go back a couple
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  of verses, you see that Jesus did not come to this Shore with
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  the intent of helping thousands of people, he did not come to
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  perform some Evangelistic Crusade.
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  Actually quite the opposite. Now consider this I mean I read
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  it today and I was like Lord I'm so not like you I need you to
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  make me like, you, as I want to serve you.
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  What happens. Look at verse 30 of Mark.
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  Chapter 6, his disciples come back from a missionary journey,
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  preaching and casting out devils, and Healing The Sick,
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  and they were obviously exhausted.
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  And in verse 30, we read the apostles returned to Jesus and
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  told him all that had been done and that was taught and he said
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  to them, come away by yourselves to a desolate place.
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  And rest a while, don't you love that?
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  Come and rest. What a merciful leader, but a
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  compassionate Christ. He saw that these men served
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  them. He saw that they went out and
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  sacrifice much and he says come rest rest is important.
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  Rest is important. For those who tirelessly serve
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  the Lord, rest is important for those who are giving themselves
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  to the kingdom of God. As their first priority.
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  There is appropriate. Need to take some time to rest.
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  We are human. These are vehicles that we have
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  to take care of that. That's not the point, though.
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  He gathers, these men, he goes on a boat he wants to take him
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  on a little Retreat. And so as they go, there are
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  people on the shore that see Jesus and they see where he's
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  going. And so the word goes out and
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  they start following Jesus on the shore as they have their
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  eyes on that boat. What's happening on that boat?
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  They want to go to a desolate Place.
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  Jesus has a plan, he has a little conference set up for his
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  disciples so that they can be rejuvenated again.
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  And what's On the shore. Well, there's a different kind
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  of conference being set up by the people, they want to be
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  ministered to they want, they want to hear from this Jesus and
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  so they come. They beat him to the place and
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  as Jesus arrives. Plans are ruined.
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  Interfered. There is a interference things
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  did not go as scheduled. And you know what I love, Jesus
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  being fully human, truly human. I don't see Jesus being angry.
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  I don't see him complaining. I don't see him sighing and an
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  approaching this group and saying, okay, let's just get
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  this over with It says he had compassion on them, I want to be
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  like Jesus. You know what, I see here and
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  wanted to be like Jesus. I want to have compassion, even
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  if my plans are interrupted. Even if I have been serving the
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  lord and I need a little break. that in his Providence,
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  something happens that what might demand more energy that it
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  would just cause me to be all the more compassionate Isn't it
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  amazing how when we really study the life of Jesus that it really
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  challenges us and the smallest of details of life?
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  I don't know if I would be compassionate after a long
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  Ministry trip, just wanting to get some shut-eye in a nice
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  barbecue with some friends who serve the Lord as well to
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  stumble upon thousands of people. that are not only going
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  to hear teaching, but are going to be catered to But Jesus had
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  compassion. What A Savior, what a servant.
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  And as you think about David's life, we realize here that he is
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  an imperfect example but an example nonetheless, Because it
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  seems like he has this unusual concern for those who are
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  defenseless and lost and needy and that is something.
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  That brings us to another point and the point is this that
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  though he was not yet their designated leader, even though
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  he was a nobody at this time, the qualities of the compassion
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  that he had would make him the worthy candidate to be their
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  leader. We have every reason to believe
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  that as we approach David's life and coming to the throne that
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  God has shown us what his life was before.
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  He was promoted for many reasons, many many reasons
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  because remember God could have just fast-forward everything he
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  was anointed 10-15 years have gone by now.
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  He's on the throne. The Bible does that in First
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  Kings a lot but for some reason with David's life, it wants to
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  draw certain details. Let me give you one reason I
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  believe that. you see the qualities of a man who serve God
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  at the capacity that he was serving in before God gave him
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  more to do before you open greater doors before there was
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  further service And I believe, according to the scriptures, not
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  my own head, that God saw something in David and in seeing
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  something in David drew his heart to David so that he can
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  use them in the way that he used them.
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  Maybe you don't believe me. And so I'll show you a text.
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  It's in the book of Psalms. And it's about David, at least
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  the last part of that psalmist in Psalm 78 and I want you to
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  see something in verse 7 of Psalm 78, It's quite touching.
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  Because in this portion of this Psalm, you read that David was
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  described as a shepherd of actual sheep before he was known
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  as a shepherd of people. That's important and Psalm 78
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  verse 70. Look at this, he chose the Lord,
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  he chose David, his servant and took him from the sheepfolds
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  From following the nursing use, he brought him to Shepherd.
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  Jacob, his people. So he was shepherding the Sheep
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  folds and now he's shepherding Jacob God's people with an
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  upright heart. He shepherded them and guided
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  them with his skillful hand. Do you think David had an
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  upright heart and a skillful hand when he became king?
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  Or before he became king? I don't think it's difficult to
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  answer that. Before David had an upright
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  heart and a skillful hand as the ruler of God's people.
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  David had an upright heart and his skillful hand when he was
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  ruling over Jesse's sheep. And that's important.
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  And the reason why it's important is because even in
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  God's service, many people are only motivated to be devoted and
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  developed in their gifting, in their Ministry, in their
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  service, to the Lord. If the opportunity is right, and
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  if the recognition is to their liking, and what they fail to
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  realize is that those same people God considers us for
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  further service, when he evaluates our affection and our
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  attention to whatever he has put in our lives in the present.
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  Think about that. if you have any doubt that David had a heart
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  of Integrity in a skillful hand than you did not pay attention
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  during 1st Samuel, You see it, sprinkled everywhere.
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  Remember, when David was sent by Jesse to go and to give cheese
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  and bread to his brothers on that.
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  Battlefield against the Philistines where he met that
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  giant providentially. Remember that little detail, he
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  left someone in charge of the sheep before he left.
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  Why would the Holy Spirit? Told us that why?
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  Why is that important? This God wastes his words?
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  No. God wants to show us how he
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  managed the ministry that he had received those responsibilities
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  already had before that day. Where everything changed and his
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  future would never be the same. I know what it's like to be in a
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  place especially early. My faith with big desires and
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  longings to serve the Lord, and the opportunities not there yet.
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  but I had wise counsel, my life who gave very similar
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  instructions that God often evaluates your affection and
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  your attention to what, he's put before you now before he even
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  considers you for further service, David was such a man.
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  He had, he had compassion and concern for God's people.
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  We see that in verse 4. So we come back to our study in
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  verse 5 of chapter 1 of second Samuel.
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  Then David said to the young man, rather diverse for scuse
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  me, And he answered the people fled from Battle.
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  And also, many of the people have fallen are dead and saw and
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  his son. Jonathan are also dead.
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  Now, here's something very interesting, the messenger,
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  highlights the death of Saul and Jonathan And there's a reason
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  for that. The reason is deliberate.
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  And my question is, why do you think that is?
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  Did the Saul have more than one son?
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  He did and so why highlight just Jonathan why bring up sauce?
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  All may seem obvious. He's the king but why Jonathan?
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  When you see that you almost have an insight into this man's
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  motives and David has that kind of inclination as well.
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  So he begins to ask more questions and what we have to
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  understand is though we don't know much about this mysterious
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  messenger, perhaps he knows something about David.
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  Enough to formulate his presentation and the way that he
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  did. We have reason to believe that
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  he knew that Saul and David were enemies.
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  Enemies that wasn't just a private thing.
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  It was known, it was known and all of Israel, but not just that
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  this man, very likely believe the reason why he brings up
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  Jonathan when we asked, why do you think he did it?
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  Actually, why Jonathan. Very good.
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  Jonathan was the primary heir to the throne and so this would
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  have been very good news for for David which brings us to the
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  third point. This man, not only believed saw
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  and David were enemies, not only believed that Jonathan was the
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  primary heir to the throne, but he must have believed or at
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  least expected that David would be the next king.
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  That would sit on that throne. And with all of that taken into
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  consideration as our bird's eye view interprets.
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  The following, this is why it's important to know many portions
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  of scripture as familiar as we can get.
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  With all of scripture that David understood those things, he put
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  the pieces together, and that I'm not guessing that just go a
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  couple chapters later, go to 2nd Samuel for, and listen to what
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  David says, when he retells, the story, at least a part of it and
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  second Samuel for, he says something quite amazing and very
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  10:00. When one told me behold Saul is
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  dead and thought he was bringing good news.
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  I seized him and killed him at ziklag, which was the reward.
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  I gave him for his news. You know what the implication is
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  that this man came with the anticipation of a reward.
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  He was looking to be crowned with some kind of prize for not
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  only being the messenger of this news but also participating and
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  Saul's death. And so as he came, he came with
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  an intention that was for personal benefit and he did it
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  very, very shrewdly. Because as you read and you see
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  how he explains it, he doesn't wear.
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  It seems, as though saw was about Die anyway.
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  And so I kind of just helped him end his misery and I believe the
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  reason why he does that is. So just in case the response to
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  Saul's death wasn't taken, right that he had some kind of excuse
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  anyway, to cover himself up, but because he mentions that he did.
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  In fact, put a hand on saw, maybe maybe Dave, and we get
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  excited about that. And then, and then Adorn him
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  with some kind of gift or position.
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  And so this man is very crafty, very crafty.
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  And as he comes to David, He realizes that the reward that he
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  had thought he would get was not the reward that he thought he
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  would get. Because David's, you want to
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  reward. Here's your reward.
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  You're a dead man. You put your hand on the Lord's.
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  Anointed you touched God's chosen man.
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  You want a reward, huh? Here's your reward.
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  Execute him and they did. And as I look at that, we should
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  be suspicious of this man. And totality I, now question, if
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  that's true, if he came for the reward, I question his rent
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  garments. I questioned him, bowing before
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  David, and trying to show honor and respect to him.
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  Because it seems to be just an embellishment.
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  It just seems to be a whole thing in order for personal
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  gain, David discern, that and then David did something about
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  that. Here's what's amazing about it.
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  There's a wonderful principal here for us, Believers in our
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  service to the Lord, as we seek to serve Lord.
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  And this is so important to understand.
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  Jesus is the greatest and the Greater King.
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  He is the son of David and he is the king that we all serve.
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  He is the perfect King that no King could even come close to
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  the whole point. The main point of Samuel.
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  Second, Samuel first. King second king, is that?
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  No human King. Can rightly govern the people of
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  God, no human King can bring ultimate deliverance and
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  salvation for the people of God. And so as I paired all this, I
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  see David. Yes, but I also see him With a
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  transparency. I want to see Christ as his
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  descendant, as a fulfillment of the lineage of this dynasty
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  here, is this man who calls him. My Lord later on, here's his men
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  pretending to be someone hears. This man pretending to be in
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  service to this King. And here's what we have to
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  consider if David could see right through this guy, if David
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  can discern his true motive, his his actual plan though, he
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  disguised it with humility. Leti that we disguise it with
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  some kind of allegiance to David.
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  He couldn't fool him. He could have fooled David and I
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  read that, and I thought to myself Lord, if this man
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  couldn't fool David, do I think I can fool you Do you do, you
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  understand what I'm saying? Do I think that I can give the
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  Lord something from the external, and he doesn't have
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  X-ray vision to see the internal, he dies.
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  I can't fool God. I can't trick him.
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  No counsel can Avail against the Lord.
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  There's nothing I can do to matter how radical it may seem.
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  You don't know how radical this guy was.
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  He ran four miles, some believe, a hundred miles from the
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  battlefield to this point. That that sacrifice That's
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  serious devotion. But the Lord saw the intent, at
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  least David did, and the Lord sees our intent and all things
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  and Jesus puts an emphasis in the New Covenant, of where our
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  hearts are at. He takes it to a new level of
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  anybody ever. Tells you that the god of the
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  Old Testament is more severe than the god of the new they
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  have in read the New Testament, right?
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  He is gentle, he is lowly. But do you realize that Jesus
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  upholds, a greater standard for righteousness then how he
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  manifested the lawn? The old Adultery is when two
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  people who are not supposed to be together are intimate with
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  one another especially in there when they're in Covenant with
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  somebody else. Jesus is, if you thought about
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  it, you did it. I didn't say the Lord said it.
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  Murder. Murder, when you kill somebody
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  when you actually take their life, anger, unjust.
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  Unrighteous anger is murder in Jesus eyes.
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  And so one of the one of the ways that you and I know as
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  Believers and we praise the Lord, he brings that standard of
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  righteousness. So that every mouth would be
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  shot and that none can say, I am righteous and that we would fall
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  at the foot of the cross and receive his Mercy.
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  But also shows the heart of God. And as we grow in the New
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  Covenant, with the Lord Jesus, here's one hint that you and I
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  are in the right direction and our spiritual maturity.
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  Here it is ready. We are not concerned just about
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  the external but about the internal We Are Spiritual
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  maturity. Doesn't just say, how do people
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  see me spiritual maturity says, what do you see in me?
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  Oh, God. That makes all the difference,
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  and I hesitate sometimes to share these things because not
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  that, I'm afraid to share them, but because people can
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  misunderstand it, and then they leave here, feeling condemned
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  realize that God has given you. And I every resource to not just
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  be victorious, when people see us.
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  But when God sees us in our hearts, and our minds every
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  resource possible, But David here shows that he could not be
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  fooled. And I look at my king, my Lord,
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  my master. And if there's anything in me
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  that says I can fool a more trick him than I am greatly
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  mistaken. But, secondly, what do we see
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  here that this man clearly didn't understand who David was?
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  He didn't know who David was. He thought he did?
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  He thought he did because he thought that in this news, David
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  would celebrate and rejoice. And even maybe bless this man
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  and in fact, they put his head on a chopping block and says off
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  with his head, he clearly missed, Who David was And I'm
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  afraid that that many people who claim to know, Jesus don't
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  really know who Jesus is. Remember those Parables were
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  Jesus with the talents, especially for a man, buries his
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  talent and when the master comes and tells him what he did, he
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  says, I thought you were a severe and Hardman do you
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  remember that? Do you know what the crime of
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  that is? He did not know who his master
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  really was, he didn't. And you and I begin to do things
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  in a certain way and it all begins when we fail to really
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  understand who God is and what he requires of us and there's
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  two pitfalls in that there is legalism, there's legalism some
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  people and and some people perhaps even watching or
• 32:27
  listening today, you are living according to a standard of
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  righteousness. And I put that in quotation
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  marks, that God doesn't even demand of you.
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  And there are those who are in. Loose living, because they have
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  a different understanding of who Jesus.
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  Is this man got into a lot of trouble and it All Began by him,
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  failing to know, who David really was David was not like
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  those other kings, who would celebrate when there was any
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  obstacles removed for the opportunity of being the ruler
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  of a certain land. That was not Who David Wise, and
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  this man did not see it. And so you and I are in the
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  safest place you and I will know great, blessing, and great
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  protection. When we first understand who God
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  is in the more, we understand who he is, the more we will know
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  of his goodness in our lives. So David asked him, how do you
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  know that they died? How do you know that they were
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  slain and I want to read from verse 52 verse 10 so we can get
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  the complete picture. Listen to this.
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  Verse 6, rather, and the young man who told them said, by
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  chance, I happened to be on Mount gilboa and there was Saul
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  leaning on his Spear and behold the Chariots in the horsemen
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  were closed upon him. And when he looked behind him he
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  saw me and called to me and I answered here I am.
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  And he said to me, who are you? I answer them.
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  I am an amalekite and he said, to me stand beside me and kill
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  me for anguish, has seized me and yet my life still lingers.
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  So I Stood Beside him and killed him because I was sure that he
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  could not live after he had fallen and I took the crown that
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  was on his head and the armor that was on his arm and I have
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  brought them here to my Lord. Here's my question. how many
• 34:15
  detailed accounts are, we given in the scriptures concerning
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  Saul's death, anybody know, Somebody said, too.
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  Is there two or more? There's actually a total of
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  three including this one. The first one is in 1st Samuel
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  31, we read it last week. What happens we read, according
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  to the writer, Guided by the spirit, that's all died of
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  suicide. He died, a suicide.
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  The second telling of this same story is not in first and
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  second, Samuel is found in first Chronicles chapter 10.
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  And there is a verse there. In verse 14, that tells us
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  another angle to house, all died, and First, Chronicles
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  1014. Let me read it to you.
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  This is what we are told. He being solved did not seek
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  guidance from the Lord, therefore the Lord put him to
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  death. The Lord put him to death and
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  turn the kingdom over to David, the son of Jesse.
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  So and first Samuel. 31 Saul kills himself.
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  First, Chronicles, 1014 God. Put him to death.
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  Second, Samuel chapter 1 and amalekite.
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  Kills him. What's going on here and people?
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  Jump up, yes. Contradiction haha, your Bible
• 35:31
  is filled with errors, calm down.
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  Take a breath, relax. That's not the case at all.
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  We have to understand what's Happening Here.
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  Whenever we see two stories that are told in different ways with
• 35:46
  different details, we have to do the work to see if we can make
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  some reconciliation and what people have realized with this
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  specific incident is that it is difficult to reconcile all
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  three. It's easy to reconcile first
• 35:59
  Samuel 31 and First Chronicles 10y, well Saul died by Suicide
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  but it was ordained by God. It's as simple as that.
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  But what makes this a little bit muddy is when this amalekite
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  comes on the scene he says well I was the one who actually
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  actually All them. With that being the situation
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  before us, many have concluded that this amalekite must have
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  been what like like now. Here we are a Bible study and
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  here we are wanting to study the word.
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  And so let me ask you show me the evidence that he is lying.
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  Show me the evidence, not just the simple simple observation
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  that it's different in 1st Samuel 31 than it is here.
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  What is the evidence in the verses that we just read?
• 36:42
  What are some what are some details here?
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  That seem to put things into question concerning?
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  This man's apparent testimony and if you have something feel
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  free to lift your hand and give you the answer.
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  Yes. Okay, so he happened by chance.
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  Well, that's kind of concerning. What are you doing?
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  By chance strolling around in a war.
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  Seems kind of odd wording there. Isn't it?
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  Good observation? Yes.
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  Yeah. What are you doing in Saul's
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  Camp? You amalekite are the amalekites
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  and Saul on good terms. Well, if you knew first Samuel,
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  there would be no yes, David. David did fight the amalekites.
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  He did early on. It's true.
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  And so that is that is an important detail, but I think it
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  helps to know that there are amalekites sprinkled everywhere.
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  Not just in that particular location, but that is a good
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  observation that the amalekites should have been completely
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  destroyed and we're going to get to that point in a moment.
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  Yes. Ah, very good.
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  Did you hear it? There's another character in
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  this story, there's another character who's on the scene of
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  Saul suicide, who was it? The armour-bearer the
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  armour-bearer was there. So we're going to hold on to
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  that. Yes that's a very very important
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  clue anything else. Yes.
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  Very good. Very good.
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  Did you hear that? Saul wanted to die particular
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  death and the way he wanted to die was not by the hands or at
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  the hands of those who are the enemies of Israel.
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  And so, why would he ask an amalekite to kill him?
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  If there a reason for his suicide was that he wouldn't die
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  at the hands of the enemy very good.
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  Anything else there's still some more clues here.
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  Yes. Very good, very good.
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  And so the observation is this meant tells it as though the
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  Chariots and the men of the Philistines are right at his
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  heels. Assaults heels.
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  Here's my question. If I may take it further, If
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  that was the case, then why do we read in 1st Samuel 31 that it
• 39:23
  was the next day that the Philistines came and stumbled
• 39:25
  upon Saul's body if they were right there, if they're pursuing
• 39:29
  him right at his door? Why does it say that?
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  In the next day, the Philistines came and found the bodies of
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  Saul and his sons something's not lining up here anything
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  else. Before we move on these are
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  great observations. And so, here are the three main
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  ones. Number one, The armour-bearer,
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  the armour-bearer go back to 1st Samuel 31 and notice what
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  happens in verse 5. Remember sauce armor-bearer just
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  kill me, please kill me so that I'm not mistreated by these.
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  These uncircumcised Philistine, 's verse 5 and when his armor
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  bearers saw that Saul was what was dead.
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  He was dead. Now either this is a lie or
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  something is not lining up here. We have every reason to believe
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  that it was true. The armour-bearer saw that he
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  had died, if he had not died, Then between him not dying, this
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  apparent amalekite would have shown up and put him to death,
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  there would have been a conversation and who would have
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  been there the whole time? The armor Bearer and he wouldn't
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  have let that happen. I'm sure.
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  Now, some would say, well, maybe he thought he died and, and so
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  he killed himself, and then the amalekite happened to show up
• 40:47
  and in saw was still, you know, he was lingering there and so he
• 40:49
  asked him to be, you know, finished off.
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  But that's kind of stretching it when it says clearly he died.
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  Secondly, as we just heard the Philistines, Right there
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  apparently. That's not the case because we
• 40:59
  come to verse a what do you see the next day?
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  When the Philistines came to strip this Lane, they found Saul
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  and his three sons. If they were right, there isn't
• 41:06
  take 24 hours to find the man that you're chasing apparently,
• 41:10
  apparently so close. We heard again, if Saul suicide
• 41:15
  was caused not by wanting to be the hands of the enemy.
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  Then why would he request an amalekite to kill him?
• 41:21
  Especially with his history, with the amalekites, he failed
• 41:25
  to destroy the amalekites and now he's going to ask an
• 41:27
  amalekite to kill him. It's questionable.
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  Let me give you one more detail. Notice what the amount guy says
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  in 2nd Samuel and verse 6, by chance, I happened to be amalga
• 41:40
  ball and there was Saul leaning on his what.
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  Spear. This is a spear.
• 41:47
  Is that what happens in first? Samuel 31?
• 41:51
  What is the same first name of 31?
• 41:54
  In verse 4. Somebody said it the last part
• 41:57
  therefore saw took his own. What sword?
• 42:00
  And fell upon it. We have a case before I said,
• 42:05
  this man is not telling the truth.
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  He was not a soldier in any army that was at War.
• 42:11
  He might have been those who just kind of lurked during the
• 42:14
  war so that when there was the slain he jumped on the
• 42:17
  opportunity to take some kind of kind of possession prizes or
• 42:21
  some sort and then and get out of there before before there was
• 42:24
  that search from the The Winning Side.
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  But we also see here is that this man clearly was an
• 42:30
  opportunist. He realized who saw was he
• 42:33
  realized, he had his crown in the armlet on his arm and he had
• 42:35
  this whole scheme in his mind to come before David the soon to be
• 42:40
  king and to take advantage of the situation to be promoted of
• 42:45
  some sort. Now, if this was a lie, then
• 42:49
  think about how tragic it is that this man thought that in
• 42:53
  his deception he was going to receive some kind of award but
• 42:57
  in fact his very words would be the sentencing of his own death.
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  No matter how great the opportunity is no matter how
• 43:07
  wonderful, the door may seem no matter how easy may seem to be
• 43:11
  accessed, if you just manipulate it a little bit or lie or say
• 43:14
  something about someone that would remove them from that
• 43:17
  position and give you a greater chance.
• 43:19
  I want to tell you in the name of Jesus Christ, you will not
• 43:23
  succeed. You will not succeed.
• 43:27
  Your success will be short-lived.
• 43:31
  And your deception will eventually be exposed if not in
• 43:33
  this life. And oftentimes it does it will
• 43:35
  in the time where it will matter, most before God, and His
• 43:38
  angels, and maybe some people to Proverbs 12 tells us in, you
• 43:43
  don't have to turn there and verse 19, truthful, lips, endure
• 43:47
  forever. But lying tongue is, but for a
• 43:51
  moment, A lying tongue is for a moment.
• 43:55
  If you are a victim of somebody's lies, if you have
• 43:59
  been slandered assaulted know, this throughout the Book of
• 44:04
  Proverbs God has a special discipline for lying and he
• 44:09
  assured us that lying lips will not go unpunished.
• 44:12
  He assures us that whatever advancement was made through
• 44:17
  deception. It's only for a moment.
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  It will not know. Long-term, success, and fruit.
• 44:27
  That encourages me not to lie and that encourages me when I am
• 44:31
  a victim of people's lack of Truth concerning me.
• 44:36
  But there's something else here in the story.
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  Did you catch it? This man identifies himself and
• 44:41
  who is he He's a what an amalekite.
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  That that part is true. We have no reason to believe why
• 44:47
  this would be a lie. He was in fact an amalekite and
• 44:52
  that makes it even more questionable in our case of
• 44:54
  whether what he is saying is true or not, because the
• 44:57
  scriptures never ever, ever put the amalekites in a positive
• 45:00
  light. Always always the amalekites are
• 45:04
  identified with an Unholy people group and race.
• 45:09
  They are vicious, they are relentless.
• 45:13
  And they are the enemies of God's people not just in one
• 45:16
  generation from generation to generation and when you think
• 45:20
  about that though there is room for debate whether or not he was
• 45:23
  telling the truth or not, think about this deeper an amalekite,
• 45:30
  an amalekite came and saw Saul's dead body took the crown off his
• 45:36
  head, took the armlet off his arm and brought it before King
• 45:40
  David. He was the one who Trips.
• 45:43
  All he was the one who claimed that he had killed him, and if
• 45:47
  he was alive after this, he would have trumpeted that to his
• 45:51
  fellow, amalekites. I'm sure all to say what this
• 45:55
  is. A disgrace for song though.
• 45:57
  He wasn't alive to feel it. This was a disgrace.
• 46:01
  This is humiliating. And it carries a crucial message
• 46:06
  for us. Here's the crucial message.
• 46:08
  All of this could have been avoided for Saul.
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  If he had just done what God told them to do in first Samuel
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  15 and that was to eliminate all the amalekites He didn't.
• 46:24
  And just like this amalekite sin in our lives.
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  When God calls us to put it to death.
• 46:32
  And we failed to do. So, we fail to go to war with
• 46:35
  it, at least, and allow it to live It will come back to haunt
• 46:40
  us one day. It will that is God's law.
• 46:44
  That is just truth from old to new and it is a powerful
• 46:48
  illustration before us through this amalekite because if you
• 46:54
  study the amalekites in the Old Testament, what you will see is
• 46:58
  that the characteristics of these ancient enemies of Israel
• 47:01
  are shared with our enemy, which is the flesh.
• 47:06
  I'm telling you it's almost it's almost mirrored.
• 47:09
  When you look at the amalekites, their behavior, the
• 47:12
  characteristics that are given. We realize that at parallels
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  almost perfectly with indwelling sin, even in the life of a
• 47:22
  believer. Who remembers where the
• 47:24
  amalekites are first mentioned in the Bible.
• 47:29
  No further further ahead, but good good, good answer.
• 47:36
  Yes, when Israel left Egypt. And something happened, they
• 47:42
  were thirsty. God provided a miracle through a
• 47:45
  rock, which is a picture of Christ, and right there, out of
• 47:49
  the blue, the amalekites show up once the people experience, a
• 47:53
  great blessing from God and they did certain things.
• 47:58
  And there we are told certain things about the amalekites that
• 48:00
  says something. So powerfully about our war with
• 48:02
  sent Peter tells us that you and I as Christians war against the
• 48:06
  passions of the flesh, he says Wars against and I want you to
• 48:10
  see how the amalekites and the relationship with Israel.
• 48:12
  Just a brief example. I mean do a whole study in the
• 48:14
  amalekites and you'll be blown away but here's just one
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  snapshot of how it pertains to our sin and how we go to war
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  with a go to Exodus 17 very quickly.
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  We're almost done here in our study tonight.
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  Look at Exodus 17. Verse 16.
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  This is after Moses and Joshua had victory over the amalekites,
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  they came out of nowhere, they attacked according to
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  Deuteronomy the weak and the vulnerable that's in
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  Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy tells us that the amalekites
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  strategically came for those who are lingering at the end of the
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  line of the Israelites because that's what sin does sin comes
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  to us, most when we are weak. and when we are trailing behind,
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  But they have victory in this battle and then look what look
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  what we are told in verse 16, a hand upon the throne of the
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  Lord, the Lord will have war with amalek from generation to
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  generation. And so, though, they saw though,
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  they saw Triumph, then God assured them.
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  You're still going to battle with this.
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  The amalekites are someone that you're still going to have to
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  deal with. And when you feel like you've
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  dealt with him and one generation, a new generation
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  will rise up and there they'll be again, what a powerful
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  picture of our sin. We feel like we have Victory.
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  It's been a good week, huh? Not a good month.
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  I feel more Christian and ever. Next thing, you know.
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  Temptation comes like a flood. Obeying.
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  The Lord doing great things. In his name, great acts of faith
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  and all for a sudden this Rush of Temptation.
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  He's opportunities to disappoint.
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  The Lord to ruin your reputation for Christ from generation to
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  generation though. You and I are redeemed and
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  praise God that were Redeemed by Grace, still this flesh.
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  According to Galatians, we were told that the spirit in US goes
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  to war with this flesh that we are trapped in until we are
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  glorified forever and ever. And so know this you will go to
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  War until you go to be with Jesus.
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  That doesn't discourage as me that encourages me.
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  And that destroys one aspect of false teaching which says that
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  you can attain Perfection and this life sinless.
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  Perfectionism, where did you get that idea from People believe
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  that you can attain glorification today.
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  I'm not among those who believe that and I am not among those
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  who believe that. That means we can live in sin.
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  I believe that we can have the empowerment of the spirit to say
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  no to sin whenever it presents itself to us.
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  And there is conscious in and sometimes they're unconscious
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  things that happen in our lives. That just spring up and even
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  surprised us just to remind us that we are human.
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  But look at this. Look at verse 14 of the same
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  chapter And the Lord said to Moses, write this as a memorial
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  in a book and recited in the ears of Joshua that I will
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  utterly blot out the memory of amalek from under heaven. yes,
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  you will go to war with amalek from generation to generation,
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  my people but there is a Time coming when I will utterly blot
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  out the memory of amalek And so it is with our sin.
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  There is a day coming and I hope it comes soon.
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  Where sin will only be a memory. And I don't even think what we
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  want to remember it. When were there, not only not
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  only will sin. Be blotted out Temptation when
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  we block, what does that feel like?
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  That the suggestion to sin won't even be there at the opportunity
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  of sin won't even be there that the presence of sin will not
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  even be there. That is, that is the last and
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  final phase of our Salvation justification.
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  What does it deal with the penalty of sin sanctification?
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  We are being saved day by day. What is that deal with the power
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  of sin glorification? What does that deal with the
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  presence of sin? The presence of sin?
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  And I can't wait for the Lord to save us in that sense and he
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  will, he said it with the amalekites and he said it
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  pertaining to our sin. When the Lord Jesus Christ comes
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  to return and redeem his bride. We're almost done.
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  We come back to the last verses here in second, Samuel and verse
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  11. This man tells him about how he
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  assisted and saw suicide. And here's the response, then
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  David and verse 11 took hold of his clothes and toward them.
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  And so that all the men who are with them and they mourned and
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  wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan, his
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  son and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of
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  Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
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  I almost wanted to get into the mind of this in Malachi and
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  think. What was he anticipating when he
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  came to David with that Crown in his head and his hands and with
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  that news on his lips while we know later that he was obviously
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  anticipating some kind of reward and and maybe at least some
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  rejoicing if no reward. Then maybe some celebration
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  because anybody in their right mind would would be happy to
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  know that the person that was trying to kill you is no longer
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  able to kill you. And and perhaps even more than
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  that, that the throne that I've been promised and what I've been
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  hoping for is now more of a possibility than ever before.
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  And to our surprise and very likely to the shock of this
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  amalekite. Instead what you see is a bunch
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  of men Warriors, grown Soldiers with scars and Trauma because of
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  one man who has haunted them for years.
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  Breakdown, like little children. And they weep.
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  And they cry. And I wish I could have seen
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  that man's face in that moment. Like what is going on here?
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  What did I miss something? When I was rehearsing, what I
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  was saying like what these men are just shattered.
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  And that is convicting to me but it's also a teaching lesson for
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  us Believers. Is it not?
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  Because you and I abide by the word of God.
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  And this is our standard and because of the spirit of God
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  dwelling in us, we do not act or react in the same way that the
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  world does. We don't.
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  Christ salvation and the transforming work in US.
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  Purifies particular areas in our lives more detailed than you
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  might think. In the immediate sense.
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  We don't, we don't Rejoice for the same things that the world
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  rejoices over. We don't.
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  You heard it last week, right? This world is losing their minds
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  because they can have easy access to murder babies.
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  You and I are rejoicing and we should, we should continue to
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  pray and seek God, for a total overturn of this vicious ugly
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  demented law. You got two, contrasting
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  reactions to that news of that leak.
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  You and I don't rejoice in the same way that the world rejoices
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  you and I don't grieve in the same way that the world Grieves.
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  We don't, we have a different hope, we have a different
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  perspective. Take it further.
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  I love this. I always reference this.
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  We don't even greet. Not just not just grown and and
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  grief we don't even greet the same way that the world greets
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  didn't Jesus, teach on The Sermon on the Mount.
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  Don't just greet your brothers. The world does that?
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  And so Christ comes and infiltrates every detail of our
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  lives, and it brings him glory and it brings us blessing.
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  And what I see here is a contrast you have this amalekite
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  who was expecting something completely different and what
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  he's getting it's almost alien. It's strange.
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  And there are at least two observations from this, these
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  men grieving. And this is our closing thoughts
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  that relates to us. The obvious one, is that David
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  did not rejoice. That baffles me?
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  It absolutely just baffles me if anybody had the right to have a
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  smirk, at least try. At least you sure he's dead.
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  It was this man. I don't care how hard you've had
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  it in life. You haven't ran as a fugitive in
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  the Chicagoland area because somebody wanted to kill you.
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  If you have, I would love to hear your story.
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  This man did haunted. Mistreated slandered exhausted.
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  One would say the prime years of his life were gone because he
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  becomes king at 30 So you think to yourself how could this man
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  rejoice? And we almost think to
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  ourselves. How could he not rejoice?
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  Maybe he's just a unique character among God's people,
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  maybe he's just someone special and we can look at that.
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  Say what a Godly Man until you come to the Book of Proverbs and
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  you probably, you probably wonder did this writer have
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  David and mind when he wrote it though?
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  He was inspired by the Holy Spirit.
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  Listen to these words just in case again just in case you
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  might think that's David. No wonder.
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  He was a man after God's heart. No wonder God.
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  No wonder God made a covenant with him read and listen to
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  this. And Proverbs 24:17.
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  Do not rejoice when your enemy Falls.
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  And let not your heart be, glad when he stumbles, okay, thank
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  that. That's great.
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  But then you read on less the Lord, see it and be displeased.
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  And turn away his anger from him.
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  That's something else. That's something else.
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  The greatest men of God have had enemies.
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  Jesus had enemies. Paul had enemies, the apostles
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  had enemies, the early church had enemies and their enemies
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  were great and power Governors and emperors.
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  And yet, at the same time, we read here, that whoever your
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  enemy is who intently seeks your harm, that's an enemy when they
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  fall. When they are disciplined, when
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  they are injured, do not rejoice.
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  Do not let your heart be glad. and if God does see that if he
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  sees the sense of arrogance or the superiority, or this
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  malicious satisfaction, Listen to this.
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  If the Lord sees it, he is willing to reduce his anger on
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  the one who was wrong. as a response to our pleasure in that
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  person's discipline, that's significant what's being said
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  there because of the wrong reaction to somebody being under
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  God's Wrath and displeasure He will do something with them as a
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  rebuke to us. That's profound, that's
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  incredible. And I look at that I think well
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  my flesh doesn't like that because I want to know some kind
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  of satisfaction and knowing that you got what you deserve.
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  You've done all this to me when I didn't deserve it.
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  And I hurt you deserve that. And call a couple people and
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  tell them about it and celebrate over it.
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  When the Lord sees that he is willing, just in order to
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  correct us just in order to discipline us.
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  To deal with them a little bit more gently, and to lift his
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  hand a little bit lighter. As a way of saying, something to
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  our hearts that is incredible to me.
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  But here's a challenge, of course, because we get, we got
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  to look at the totality of scripture.
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  Then how do you reconcile, how do you, and I reconcile, the
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  Psalms were David celebrates God intervening against his enemies.
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  Well, how about Exodus 15, the the Pharaoh, and his chariots
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  drown, Under the Red Sea and there's a whole chapter
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  dedicated to a song about their defeat.
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  Help us. Because we want to walk in the
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  ways of the Lord. Anybody have an idea how we can
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  reconcile those two realities. Very good.
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  There's a fine line between rejoicing when the person
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  experiences some kind of misfortune.
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  And rejoicing in God's Deliverance.
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  That's the difference. That's why we can have a verse
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  like this in the scriptures. And then so many other verses
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  were seems to give the impression that there is
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  celebration over God coming to a man's rescue.
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  When he is surrounded by adversaries.
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  Because you're not rejoicing over what happened to that
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  person who was created in the image of God, you are rejoicing
• 1:01:35
  in the fact that God had brought about a Deliverance to you see
• 1:01:39
  the difference. It's not pleasure in the pain of
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  somebody else. It's the light in God's
• 1:01:45
  faithfulness, in your life. I heard of a Preacher, he was
• 1:01:51
  actually a friend of mine. And I saw a little bit of David
• 1:01:56
  in him when I sat with him and one afternoon.
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  I won't be long here. He had told me very briefly and
• 1:02:04
  availed way of how he had experienced great.
• 1:02:07
  Great, persecution from fellow pastors and he obviously didn't
• 1:02:11
  disclose the details because perhaps it would be too
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  unbelievable for me, if I had not experienced it myself, but
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  he told me it was enough for him to get on his knees and cry out
• 1:02:22
  to God in such a desperate ways. And this is his own words, and I
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  trust his integrity. Rhea told me he had cried out to
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  God and when he had cried out to God, for Mercy, for just wisdom
• 1:02:35
  for deliverance from this onslaught of whatever was
• 1:02:39
  happening to him. A few of those ministers
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  mysteriously died. They died.
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  In a way that didn't make sense to human understanding.
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  And I sat there as he said that he didn't even look me in the
• 1:02:56
  eyes. He looked to the floor and he
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  was staring at the floor and underneath underneath his
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  breath. He said, I didn't ask God to do
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  that. I didn't ask God to do it that
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  way. I didn't ask God, and then he
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  said, I aged two years and two weeks with that news.
• 1:03:20
  I said, well boy, I have to go and prepare for the meeting
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  tonight and he left on that note.
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  I was like I saw David in that, man.
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  God delivered him. but he did not rejoice in the fate of those
• 1:03:40
  Who harmed him? The second observation from
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  these men who rent their garments David and his fellow
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  soldiers, it's a subtle one, not as obvious as the first one, we
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  just heard a subtle one in the principle is found in the span
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  of their sorrow. Notice that we are told that
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  they wept and fasted and till the evening, until the evening,
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  though, their grief was genuine. It was not prolong.
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  See we all have different Temptations.
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  Even in our emotions. Some are some are more prone to
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  be angry. Some are more prone to be proud.
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  Someone were prone to be jealous and listen to this summer, more
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  prone to be excessively sorrowful. these men were
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  genuinely broken, but they, they stop at a certain point and
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  David stopped at the evening because he had a duty to fulfill
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  and that was to provide Justice on behalf of the king and to
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  execute this man who came to confess as a parent murderous
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  plot, or at least his happen, by chance idea, his assisted
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  suicide and that's important to understand, because with David
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  does here, and in the news of Saul's death Says something
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  about a healthy view of grieving I don't want to make too much of
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  this but I couldn't help but think about David's response to
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  Saul compared to another man whom God actually corrected when
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  he when he was been sorrowful for too long.
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  Who is that man? Very good.
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  And first Samuel, 16 one, when Samuel learned that Saul had
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  forfeited, the kingdom because of his Disobedience, Samuel goes
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  to his room and he stays there, and he just weeps.
• 1:05:19
  And he Grieves, and God comes in to speak to his prophet.
• 1:05:24
  And he told him and first, same 061, listen to this, remember
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  this, right? How long will you grieve over
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  Saul? How long will you grieve over
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  Saul since I have rejected him from being King over Israel.
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  In other words, it's too much Samuel.
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  It's too much. It's time to go.
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  And if this is something that you're interested in, come see
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  me after the Bible said, I want to recommend a resource to you.
• 1:05:52
  About when grieving becomes wrong.
• 1:05:56
  When grieving becomes unrighteous when grieving can
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  actually turn into sin. That can help us and help others
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  that we know that. I've known great pains in life.
• 1:06:07
  And let me give you two summary points before we close here, we
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  can know at least two flags that are yellow flags or red flags in
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  our sorrow one, when we begin to assault attack.
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  The character of God. Samuel should have known better.
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  Samuel is a prophet as a man of God should have known better as
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  he was grieving for Saul. Why?
• 1:06:33
  Because he had not he had not experienced this for the first
• 1:06:36
  time. He was a young man, when Eli the
• 1:06:39
  priesthood had fallen and God pronounced judgment and promised
• 1:06:44
  something else for the future concerning God's leadership, he
• 1:06:47
  had seen that and when it came to Saul for some reason, he
• 1:06:51
  doesn't remember that. And he just he just he loses
• 1:06:54
  sight of God's sovereignty, he Just sight of God's control over
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  Israel and his leadership. And so, when you and I in our
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  sorrow, in our pain, and our disturbance, When we begin to.
• 1:07:06
  Now, look at God and question his ability or question his
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  character in a way that accuses them of unfaithfulness were
• 1:07:13
  being wrong. Then, we know that our grief is
• 1:07:16
  letting us cross a certain line that we shouldn't have crossed.
• 1:07:19
  Secondly, when our grief begins to loosen our grip on service to
• 1:07:24
  God, David stop grieving because David knew he had a duty to
• 1:07:29
  fulfill and that was to deal with this amalekite and to move
• 1:07:32
  on and be that leader. That God called them to be
• 1:07:35
  Samuel. Same idea, God calls him and
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  says, Hey listen, fill your horn with oil and go, you can't stay
• 1:07:43
  like this for too long. You still have a Ministry to
• 1:07:45
  fulfill, you must get up and get moving.
• 1:07:47
  There's another king that I have in mind, and it's your job to
• 1:07:49
  find him out. Call him out, anoint him and let
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  him know that I have a plan for him.
• 1:07:55
  And there are people, I'm telling you who have known great
• 1:07:57
  grief and Christian circles, they've been harmed by fellow
• 1:08:00
  Christians so they never show up to church again.
• 1:08:03
  Leadership in churches have failed him.
• 1:08:04
  So they vowed to never ever ever, listen to a pastor sit,
• 1:08:08
  under a pastor, have anything to do with a pastor and all of
• 1:08:12
  that, no matter how sincere the song, Maybe no matter how real,
• 1:08:16
  the crime might have been Is it clear or obvious indication that
• 1:08:20
  that person's grief has turned into Disobedience or at least
• 1:08:24
  LED them into Disobedience? And so we have to be extremely
• 1:08:27
  careful of how something as real and as raw as pain as a result
• 1:08:32
  of something that we brought about in our own lives or
• 1:08:35
  somebody has caused in our own lives, we have to be very
• 1:08:37
  Vigilant where it takes us. With the time left and actually
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  no. Next week, we will cover the
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  fact that David here is going to sing a song.
• 1:08:51
  Write a song and even share this song with the people of God and
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  it is Rich it. Drips with awesome Revelation in
• 1:08:58
  so many areas of Our Lives as Believers.
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  And for now we give thanks to God for what he has taught us,
• 1:09:04
  as we've come to his word. Louis, thank you for what you've
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  taught us in the scriptures. We thank you for this
• 1:09:23
  introduction to second Samuel one though.
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  We pray that. Whatever was spoken.
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  Would have landed in good soil. and we pray O Lord that it would
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  at least if there is any consequence of this Bible study
• 1:09:38
  together that it would woo, our hearts Woo, our hearts.
• 1:09:45
  To the person of Jesus Christ. Lori want to give you all the
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  glory and thanks for this family who loves to be in your word.
• 1:09:53
  But Lord, let the word live through us.
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  Let it actually manifest in our words and our thinking, and our
• 1:09:59
  hearts, and our motives in our dealings with others.
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  Lord, we thank you that your word is for us today, we bless
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  you, hello. We want to rejoice in you in
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  song and Thanksgiving for you. Are the author of this book.
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  And you are the God who speaks and we've heard your voice
• 1:10:17
  tonight. Lord, encourage the
• 1:10:21
  faint-hearted. Convict the one who is outside
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  of your will bind our hearts together in unity.
• 1:10:29
  Help us be the people that you've called us to be and Lord
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  with all of that helped us rest in the saving work of Jesus
• 1:10:35
  Christ, that Lord all that. We've heard all the challenges
• 1:10:40
  comes from a place of being accepted at the cross and that
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  we are not living. Holy to be accepted by you.
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  We are not performing so that we can get heaven.
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  Lord, you've paid it all, and we just want to live a life of
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  gratitude in light of that great news.
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  In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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  But stand and Worship the Lord together, shall we?